Thursday &#8211; On the Road to Hell and Nothing&#8217;s Changed Thread

July 1983, I do remember all that. Fauci told everyone to not worry because Aids was a gay problem but then he was attacked by the then new “Gay Mafia” and then he started saying that we were all going to die if we couldn’t find a cure for it.
Mornin’ Gang

Super Dave

It took me a while to decipher the address on the flyer;

Mr J Patterson
Whistle Stop Road
Henning Mn 56551

Good morning gang. Up a little early for me this morning for some reason. Checked out the weather in hopes of hearing that the winds might subside, but no such luck. Over 30 today, tomorrow, and Saturday. Maybe some rain by Sunday. I guess I should be grateful that I’m not a plant that someone just put out to face the brunt of it. It’s too early to head out for coffee, so I’m having to brew my own first and second cups here this morning.

Many of the city faithful held a prayer vigil on the courthouse steps yesterday asking the almighty to send some rain.

Since I’ve gotten serious about my dietary habits again after packing on about 10 pounds during the winter season, you will all be happy to know that the Friday weigh-in events have also been reinstated. So that should give you something to look forward to for tomorrow – right up there with Ammo Grrrll I expect. Meanwhile, you all have a great day. More later.

Shannon

ElGordo

I’m curious about your reversal.
Have events – such as being out of town a lot – conspired to keep you from following your strict diet?

Shannon

Or are you actually a normal human, cheating by eating some bread here and there……or maybe three kolaches when no one was looking?
🙂

Super Dave

Yesterday, about 5 PM we headed down to the pond so wife could see the progress and passing by the west 40, I spotted a couple of turkeys about a 100 yards away along the treeline on the north side. We eased ahead so we could see them head into the woods on the west side. There was one Tom and his harem of 6 hens. My wife asked me how I spotted them so far away and I told that I’ve been a hunter since I was 6 and my eyes are always looking for something different about the field of view. In this case, I happened to see their long, ostrich-like necks peeking over the rye grass to see what was making all the racket, (the Mule). On the way back we went to where they were and they’d been stripping the rye in the field, digging form grubs in the oak leaves and taking dust baths in the sandy soil.

Super Dave

#4 #5 Shannon I’m guessing a pot of beans with cornbread.

GJT

Be a hard decision to make. You could cheat one day a year, anything you want.

Super Dave

A guy over at the Kubota page, beefed up his brush guard to help protect the grill and it is pretty neat.

Before.

After.

GJT

Guess that’s be the same decision for your last meal before a hangin.

Super Dave

My #9, This is the reason for the modification.

GJT

#11

Ouch!

Texpat

Wow. Take a quick look at this graph.

As we outlined last week, the amount of vacant office space in San Francisco has ticked up to a pandemic high of 18.7 million square feet versus under 5 million square feet prior to the pandemic.

Guess what ? They aren’t coming back.

Texpat

11 Super Dave

Why didn’t he use grating across the whole guard instead of the expanded metal ? I would have done it that way. That post could go through that expanded metal with enough force or at least tear it up.

squawkbox

MonkeyWerx MilSpec Ops

Super Dave

#14 Texpat, I guess he figured that the metal grating in the center would be enough and I’m not sure what he was protecting the grill against. The picture in #11 isn’t his tractor but from someone commenting about the guard. I guess I should have mentioned that. BTW; The guard in the before picture is exactly like mine.

Texpat

I’m sad Hamous isn’t here to see DeSantis go to battle against Disney. The revocation of Disney’s special treatment may very well not become law given the immediate financial upheaval it would cause for local governments and taxpayers. Disney’s problems won’t end even if that happens. There will be a continuing price for them to pay.

Texpat

If you think things are bad here, you should watch this rant from a guy in Sweden.

He’s disgusted and angry so there is some profanity.

Bonecrusher

I’m not sure of the property tax laws in FL. Do they have property tax? If yes, the value of all those rides and 40 square miles of land is immense. If I understand correctly, Disney was able to keep all the property taxes it would have paid to use for expansion and maintenance of their facilities. With that protection gone, the counties could be in for a windfall of tax dollars from Disney.

Tedtam

If today’s C&C doesn’t appear soon, I won’t be able to post it.

I’m sure that breaks some hearts around here.

College Buddy’s aunt has asked us to attend Muster with her, to honor his passing. We’ll be heading out soon.

Bonecrusher

TT: When it shows up in my inbox, I will post if for you.

Texpat says:
APRIL 21, 2022 AT 7:41 AM

I’m sad Hamous isn’t here to see DeSantis go to battle against Disney. The revocation of Disney’s special treatment may very well not become law given the immediate financial upheaval it would cause for local governments and taxpayers. Disney’s problems won’t end even if that happens. There will be a continuing price for them to pay.

I think about that every time I read the stories. The only real upheavals would be the assumption of debt. Property tax evaluation would take on most of it, and would likely be a boon to the taxpayer. A special county sales tax would take care of the debt payment problem, and Disney couldn’t really complain about any effect on ticket prices as debt payment is already rolled in to the ticket price. Just collect taxes from them in the amount that they would have paid as debt payments and Bob’s your uncle.

I think Hammie would cheer about this one, too.

DeSantis is doing everything I’d want him to do as President. All the ballzes, none of the baggage.

Tedtam

#18

That rant was awesome. Facts, figures, truth, and reason.

squawkbox

Here it comes

Super Dave

Well, I need to sharpen the chain on the Stihl and get to work. That big cedar I whacked down yesterday did a number on it. Later,…

Tedtam

Well, the C&C is up, but I don’t have time highlight anything, so here goes:

Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, April 21, 2022 ☙ TOO CUTE

Good morning and Happy Thursday, C&C! I am writing you from the car, toodling along Florida’s most mind-numbing stretch of highway, Interstate 10 in the state’s “pan handle.” Today’s briefing runs a little shorter and a little later thanks to a combination of my attendance at an off-the-chain land planning committee meeting that ended around 11:00pm last night, combined with having to get on the road early this morning for Destin, where I’ll be speaking this afternoon. Whew!
*THE C&C ARMY POST*

Yesterday, a federal judge entered an order dismissing former woke school board member Diyonne McGraw’s lawsuit against me and Governor DeSantis for allegedly conspiring to remove her from her unlawfully-occupied school board seat. The judge wrote, “As currently pleaded, McGraw did not allege any … facts plausibly showing a conspiracy between the Governor and the other Defendants [including Childers and his law firm.]”

While the judge gave McGraw a chance to amend her complaint to plead a legal claim, if she can, his order seemed skeptical she could truthfully do it. So it looks like she’s about out of runway and the legal plane is going into the ditch. Unfortunately, these types of lawsuits are part of a standard playbook designed to punish successful litigation and threaten lawyers; the message to the lawyers is, if you win, you’ll become a defendant in the next lawsuit, even if it’s completely frivolous.

This kind of thing can be very punishing for small law firms like mine. It takes time away from working for paying clients and the best practice is to get your own counsel (“a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client”). So if you don’t have good insurance, you’ll be forced to pay for your own defense, which is especially challenging if you were working for free in the lawsuit that got you sued.

In other words, litigating political cases is risky. For this reason, combined with the risk of cancellation, lawyers taking these political cases are VERY courageous.

In recognition of that, and to encourage other lawyers to get in the game, tomorrow we’ll be multiplying the activist group and the courageous lawyers who got our masks off airplanes.

/snip

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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

✈️ After pivoting, pivoting back, and re-pivoting, the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice appealed Monday’s decision lifting the transportation mandate. However, DOJ has not (yet) sought an emergency stay, so TSA is still not enforcing the CDC’s mask mandate on airplanes. The government’s prospects for an emergency stay aren’t good anyway, especially in light of the pending expiration of the mandate in a couple weeks.

The official explanation from the Biden Administration is that the appeal seeks to preserve the CDC’s authority to re-impose masks in the future, and have not mentioned enforcing the current mandate. So, tentatively, for now, planes remain mask-free. I’ll keep you posted as things develop.

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What’s a police state again? I can never remember. Anyway, the Daily Mail UK reported a breaking story yesterday headlined, “USPS Admits it IS Spying on Americans: Law Enforcement Arm Is Snooping on Social Media Posts and ‘Working With Other Agencies’ in Covert Operation.”

That’s the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, the guys with the tall socks and funny shorts who deliver the mail. Like Newman. According to new disclosures, for some reason, they have an “intelligence arm” called iCOP, or the Internet Covert Operations Program. Covert operations. The POST OFFICE? Does the Post Office REALLY need a “Covert Operations” branch? Does every big federal agency have a covert ops team now? What on Earth is going on up there?

I suppose, if you’re going to staff a dark department to spy on Americans, at least you want a cute, harmless-sounding name for it. They’re just iCOPs. They probably thought that was cute, harkening back to 2003 with its iPods, iToasters, iCarly, and so on. Well, this IS the Postal Service we’re talking about. They’re USUALLY running behind.

The Daily Mail reported that Yahoo News got hold of some documents about iCOP, including a description of an operation where iCOPs searched social media sites for ‘inflammatory’ posts, including posts about planned protests. You might be thinking they’re looking for people dropping off pallets of bricks and plotting to take over downtown Portland and stuff. But no.

The newly-disclosed iCOP bulletin, which describes just ONE operation, focuses on a March 20, 2021 protest: the World Wide Rally for Freedom and Democracy, protesting COVID LOCKDOWNS. Maybe the USPS needs to spend less time on the computer and more time on reliably and quickly delivering the mail? Is that unreasonable?

Here’s a hot take for you: if the USPS has enough extra money to create covert ops teams to monitor peaceful conservatives protesting the government, its budget might be too high. Just saying.
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Florida Agriculture Commissioner and lockdown advocate Nikki Fried, who must have just relaxed with an especially gnarly strain, posted two tweets yesterday that set the lefty world on FIRE, and which tell you everything you need to know about where the politicians think things are headed in this country. Tell me if you think Fried was copus mentis when she tweeted these. The first post was about the lifting of the airplane mask mandate:
Twitter avatar for @NikkiFriedNikki Fried @NikkiFried
Peace out to the TSA mask mandate, but also peace and respect to others, whether wearing a mask or not.
———insert tweet here —————-

For Facebook users, it’s a selfie of Fried in a plane, maskless, grinning like a rhesus monkey bargaining for a banana, and saying, “Peace out to the TSA mask mandate, but also peace and respect to others, whether wearing a mask or not.”

In other words, Fried, who’s running against Governor DeSantis this year, was CELEBRATING the lifting of the mask mandate.

Hahahaha! You should see the comments from the lefty pro-maskers. They aren’t too happy with Fried, not at all. The betrayal! The ingratitude! The arrogance! The unsympathy! Doesn’t she know people are DYING IN DROVES?? What about all the newly-immuno-compromised folks, like the ones who had a bad dental cleaning last year??

But you have to give her credit. Fried ignored all the hate from her OWN SUPPORTERS and doubled-down in the comments, tweeting later, “I’ll read all your takes, but the mandates are dropped, vaccines are working, things are getting back to normal, and it’s okay for a Democrat to say it — because we made it possible. I love y’all. ❤️”

It’s a pivot; she’s pivoting! Stand back!

Fried is joining all the government-connected corporate doctors who’re newly against masking, further evidencing that the pro-maskers represent a loud but increasingly diminished and ineffective minority.

But then it got even better. Apparently on a roll of some kind, maybe because it was worldwide pot day (4/20), Fried followed her mask post up with another one even FURTHER outraging dems:
Twitter avatar for @NikkiFriedNikki Fried @NikkiFried
I’m suing the Biden Administration because people’s rights are being limited. Medical marijuana is legal. Guns are legal.

This is about people’s rights and their freedoms to responsibly have both.

——–insert tweet here ————

In this second tweet, Fried announced, “I’m suing the Biden Administration because people’s rights are being limited. Medical marijuana is legal. Guns are legal. This is about people’s rights and their freedoms to responsibly have both.”

Freedom and guns! And she’s suing JOE BIDEN! What? Is this bizarro world? Are we ACTUALLY living in the simulation like Elon Musk thinks? I had to double-check the date to make sure that it was actually April 20th and not April 1st. And Fried — a Democrat — is suing the Biden Administration! Just like Governor DeSantis!

You can imagine how her dem supporters responded. They were spitting red hot nails like they’d swallowed malfunctioning nail guns. I struggle for words to explain it; the closest I can get is maniacal livid outrage. They’re mad. How dare Nikki think for herself! She canceled!

Oh, man, this is all so fabulously hilarious. You can’t pay for entertainment like this, not these days. At least, not on streaming services.

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Completely unrelated, I’m sure, Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that she supports Charlie Christ over Nikki Fried in the dems’ Florida gubernatorial primary, which sealed Fried’s fate — she almost certainly couldn’t overcome that political obstacle. That was the day before Nikki’s two tweets yesterday. Totally coincidental. A new centrist strategy for the Ag Commissioner?
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After running a psychotic bit of pedophile eye-candy called “Cuties” and announcing a whole new SERIES about how hard life can be for pregnant MEN, Netflix’s stock crashed yesterday. For some reason. It might also have something to do with the fact you can spend an hour scrolling through the listings without finding anything worth watching.

The Guardian UK ran an article about the streaming company’s problems headlined, “US Hedge Fund Billionaire Sells Netflix Stake at Huge Loss.” The article explains billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman dumped all his shares in Netflix — at a loss of about $400m — after the company reported losing 200,000 subscribers. Apparently, the New York-based investor just bought more than $1 BILLION in Netflix shares in January. Buh bye.

In a memo to fund investors, Ackman explained, “one of our learnings from past mistakes is to act promptly when we discover new information about an investment that is inconsistent with our original thesis. That is why we did so here.”

Get woke … go broke!

I have a serious suggestion for Netflix. Give us a setting called “Woke Filter.” If you turn it on, it filters out all the woke nonsense, like series about trans relationships, gay superheroes, and pregnant men, not to mention softcore porn and stuff like “Cuties,” whatever that category is called. They might also consider making a few movies and series designed to entertain us with what we WANT to watch instead of trying to convince us to endorse loony far-left political social experiments. Is that too crazy of an idea?

Probably!
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Speaking of self-inflicted woke wounds, yesterday during Florida’s special legislative session, the Senate voted 23-16 to dissolve the special taxing district that allows Walt Disney World to self-govern its theme park area and avoid state taxes. There was a lot of drama, of course, and my favorite clip so far recites the following hilarious self-own in the House:

REP JOSEPH (D): We have talked about the permitting process, you talked about how they [Disney] can do their own permitting. Yes. That has resulted in permits being very quickly approved and processed, and projects being immediately given a green light to move forward, with good paying union jobs being immediately deployed into those areas to facilitate those projects. So what is the overall economic impact on this proposal [to end the special Reedy Creek taxing district]?

CHAIR: You’re recognized by [garbled].

REP RANDY FINE (R): Thank you Mr. Chairman. It’s refreshing to hear talk about the value of de-regulation in government, and getting out of the way with red tape might be something that we do in other areas as well, outside of just [Disney’s] Reedy Creek. …

As Representative Fine continued speaking along those lines, putting Rep. Joseph even further into his self-dug grave, Joseph’s face cratered and became more and more crestfallen, as he realized his awful blunder. Meanwhile Representative Fine continued, with a delightful exposition on the value of getting government out of the way, just like in Reedy Creek.

Enjoy it yourself! Here’s the clip, along with fun background music:
Twitter avatar for @RationalRyanRyan @RationalRyan
@VoteRandyFine @RAlexAndradeFL I don’t think this line of questioning went as well as they thought it would
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1516794409332973574/pu/vid/720×900/-ApG6jhnFFDkFDpZ.mp4?tag=12

Bonecrusher

HEADLINE: Jen Psaki Must Be Investigated for ‘Conflict of Interest’: Watchdog
/snip
Under federal law, it is a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison to willfully participate in any ‘particular matter’ in which an organization an employee is negotiating or has an arrangement regarding future employment has a financial interest,” the group said in a letter (pdf) to the White House, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, and the Department of Justice on Monday.

The letter also referenced a podcast in which Psaki appeared on April 14 when she was asked about Fox News reporter Peter Doocy and disparaged Fox News.

Everything that comes from the Freckled Fraud is a lie; she’s a perfect fit for PMSNBC. Nothing will come from her blatant disregard for professional ethics or the clear letter of the law violations.

Texpat

I have to get serious about purging gmail from my life.

A new study found that Google’s Gmail favors liberal candidates, allowing the vast majority of emails from left-wing politicians to land in the user’s inbox while more than two-thirds of messages from conservative candidates are marked as spam.

North Carolina State University’s Department of Computer Science published, “A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020,” last week in order to determine if spam filtering algorithms (SFAs) are biased toward a particular political party or ideology. The extensive study took place over a course of five months, from July 1, 2020 to November 30, 2020 on Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo. They created 102 email accounts and subscribed to two Presidential, 78 Senate, and 156 House candidates.

Texpat

Since food isn’t expensive enough now, let’s make it cost even more…

Ceres, however, also knows how tough it will be for companies to calculate supply chain emissions from its own campaign focusing on the food industry. The industry is the perfect target. It produces a third of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, according to a UN agency. For many of these companies, the supply chain generates about 80% of their total emissions.

Last year, Boston-based Ceres organized more than 30 institutional investors, including giants such as Allianz Global Investors, to press 50 food companies to report Scope 3 emissions. Ceres used the same reporting requirements – called the Greenhouse Gas Protocol – as the SEC proposes in its rules.

The protocol covers 15 reporting categories from the beginning of a product’s creation to the end of its life. McDonald’s, for instance, would have to account for emissions from the production of beef it buys from many countries. The disclosures would include processing and transporting the ingredients, packaging the products, disposing of waste and burning energy along the way. Then there are emissions from business offices, the commuting of 200,000 employees and the operations of 40,000 restaurants globally.

I can’t begin to describe how completely insane this whole thing is.

Gensler is a liar and is gaslighting the American public.

SEC head Gary Gensler says shareholders are demanding climate risk disclosures to make smarter investment decisions and hold companies accountable for “greenwashing” their operations. The regulations will also provide investors in the Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) movement more leverage in their ongoing campaigns to pressure companies to reduce their carbon footprints.

Texpat

This is an article about more than the costs of air ambulance flights. There are actual bipartisan bills in Congress.

With the nearest hospital ill equipped to handle the required surgery, she was loaded onto a small plane and flown 300 miles south over the Sierra Nevada mountain range to Loma Linda, where she underwent 12 hours of surgery to replace the vertebra with a metal implant. The phone call, which the Hoechlins received less than a day after the surgery, was from the air-ambulance provider, Guardian Flight, informing them that the plane ride had cost $97,269.

and,

Within a few hours, I was strapped to a gurney with tubes in my nose, flying over Lake Tahoe in a small plane while two paramedics sat nearby, ready to administer nitroglycerin in case my chest pain flared up again. The air-ambulance provider, REACH Air Medical Services, sent me a letter two months later saying the flight had cost me $86,184.

Despite previous bipartisan support for the No Surprises Act, the arbitration issue has since divided Congress. Last October, the top Democrat and top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee co-wrote a letter accusing the Biden administration of undermining Congress’s intent by “tipping the scales” of the arbitration process. The Democrat, Representative Richard Neal, told me the administration needs to “implement a fair system of dispute resolution for health-care providers and insurance companies that doesn’t have negative downstream impacts on patients.” Subsequently, 150 representatives in the House — split roughly evenly between Democrats and Republicans — issued a similar letter, as did a separate group of Republican senators. Despite pressure from providers, other lawmakers haven’t bent, including Senator Murray and Representative Frank Pallone, who co-authored the original House legislation and believes the Biden administration’s interpretation of it is consistent with congressional intent.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

The Kentucky Swamp Turtle celebrates giving 7 million to the Murkykowski re-election bid.

I do believe the US government(CCP West) is the most corrupt in the world right alongside its parent company the CCP.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/border-patrol-union-abbott-should-absolutely-use-constitutional-invasion-powers-border

I guess matchbox car stacker and WEF member Abbott hasn’t figured out that it’s an invasion.

15000 a month – 400 a week being sent to dc = 14600 in Texas.

Bonecrusher

#29 TP: I want the eco-terds to be forced to prove that the burning of fossil fuels actually has any measurable effect on anything. We know that the raw data (East Anglia Climate Institute or some such thing in England) is flawed and that the owners will not allow access to that data set. The “science” has never been proven that emissions from man made sources has any effect on global warming, cooling, intensity and frequency of storms, drought, or anything else. Why izzit that this lack of science is still being allowed to dictate horribly flawed policy?

Texpat

If it makes you feel any better…

31 Dr phil Good

Conducted from March 14 to March 16, the survey of 500 likely voters in Alaska’s November general election found Tshibaka in the first round with a huge lead of more than double digits over Murkowski. On that first choice on the ballot, Tshibaka comes in with 45.4 percent and Murkowski at just 28.7 percent—with a generic Democrat close behind Murkowski and a libertarian candidate in fourth place. The poll’s margin of error is 4.21 percent.

The only reason Murkowski has a chance is because her cronies managed to get Alaska to change their voting to a “ranked choice” system. It was to protect her from having to run in a Republican primary which she would certainly lose.

Murkowski, for the record, has never reached 50 percent in any of her general election wins for the U.S. Senate. She was nearly defeated in 2010, losing in the GOP primary to Joe Miller, but then she mounted a successful general election write-in bid to save her seat that year.

This is how “ranked choice” works with the pros & cons.

This is the Heritage Foundation on why it’s a terrible idea.

Texpat

The luck of the draw could not have been worse for Murkowski to have to run for reelection in the midterms of Joe Biden.

Bonecrusher

Elon Musk has secured the funding to buy Twitter.The Twit Board can no longer hide behind the fig leaf that Musk is not serious about buying the company. IF they decide to sell, they will almost certainly lose their board seats, if they refuse they will almost certainly be sued on a personal level for violating their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. I think this pretty much defines being between the rock and the hard place.

Texpat

33 BC

Why izzit that this lack of science is still being allowed to dictate horribly flawed policy?

Lack of science ?! Flawed policy ?!

Have you looked around at the USA for the last 2+ years ?

Texpat

Investors who own Twitter stock cheap will be happy with a buyout/payday and may sue the board anyway.

Investors who own Twitter on the high end will be appreciative to get bailed out of a bad investment and still may sue the board.

I think the board is screwed no matter what they do now. One thing is for sure – they’re gonna miss that $300,000 a year for meeting a few times a year.

#4,5,8 et al – Let’s just say that I packed on a few pounds over the winter months due to a combination of factors – at least as best as I could determine. First, lack of discipline – I quit doing the regular weigh ins and paying attention. Second, portion control – being relatively inactive and adding a meal or snacks in between meals probably contributed. I’d call it boredom to some extent as well. At no time did I actually sneak in any prohibited foodstuffs. There is no way I can cheat on this keto stuff for just one day or one meal. Carbs and sugar are addictive, at least to me, and once they start coming, they don’t stop. So no, I did not consume any prohibited substances, probably just too much and too often. So, the real question is, what am I doing about it.

First, no more peanuts or pork rinds for the time being. That basically eliminates the snacks. Back to 2 meals per day – 10AM and around 5PM. No more just before bedtime scrambled eggs with cheese or something like that – more what I consider portion control. And adding back in some outdoor exercise what with my little gardening effort and such. Lastly and most importantly, stepping back up on the scales twice daily and charting the results – a form of discipline if you will. Back on the straight and narrow before the weight gets out of hand. I think this will be sufficient to return myself to a more desirable weight over the next few weeks with really no sacrifice. Even on the keto thing, you can’t just sit around and eat all the time and expect nothing to happen.

As an added bonus, BFF2 was looking for a weight loss buddy to drop about 10 or her winter padding, so we are working out the rules right now. I think it’s supposed to be more of a mutual support exercise rather than a competition, so after almost 2 years of issuing weight loss challenges, I finally found a taker.

Lastly, the scales are sitting right out in front here in the kitchen. While they are not supposed to be talking scales, they remind me just by their very presence that they are watching me and they will tell on me if I mess up. That’s pretty intimidating by itself.

Texpat

I’m not sure “ranked choice” voting is even constitutional. Why hasn’t somebody filed a suit over it yet ?

Shannon

https://tinyurl.com/4za6xuc8

In other news……..

Florida House has passed the FU Dusney bill and its now on its way to DeSantis’ desk for signing.

They told him he’d better not sign the Anti Groomer bill, and hecsaid hide and watch. I think the pen is already in his hand.

Texpat

An alien from outer space landing here would think the American MSM is having a collective nervous breakdown with the unhinged way they are talking and acting.

Musk vs Twitter

DeSantis vs Disney

Libs of TikTok vs WaPo

Media Facemasking vs American people

Ironic that its Conservatives delivering on free speech and reining in Corporate self governance, things the Left has promised for years.

Super Dave

The Nimatron.

The world’s first video game made its debut at the Westinghouse pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.

Dreamed up as an emotional and financial antidote to the Depression, the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair built a futuristic paradise on the site of a former ash dump in Queens, and labeled it “The World of Tomorrow.” A sprawling fairground, with more than a passing resemblance to Walt Disney’s eventual dream Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), the Fair was wildly popular and offered a wide range of attractions and amusements for more than forty million visitors over two seasons.

Westinghouse had worked hard to become a marquee name at the Fair. It was only in the 1930s that the Pittsburgh firm, tired of playing second fiddle to the likes of General Electric and DuPont in corporate industrial research, decided to throw solid weight behind its internal research program. The company hired Princeton physicist Edward Condon in 1937 and turned him loose on projects ranging from microwave technology and high-voltage electricity to mass spectrometry. But it was not all sober science: Condon noticed that many of his employees liked to play a math game known as “Nim” at lunch, and that got him thinking.

Traditionally, Nim is played by setting up piles of coins or tokens. There are two players, and each takes a turn by removing some number of coins from a single pile. There are two versions of Nim, and the object (depending on which you’re playing) is to either take the last move, leaving no coins behind, or to avoid being the player who moves last. For the math-minded player Nim is an easy game, because its course can be predicted from the first move. Condon and his Westinghouse colleagues, who were very much math-minded players, decided to build themselves a mechanical opponent.

This opponent, a sturdy chrome-edged cabinet topped with rows of light bulbs representing the game tokens, was dubbed “The Nimatron.” A non-programmable digital computer, the Nimatron stood eight feet tall, weighed a ton and involved 116 electrical relays threaded with two miles of copper wire. Unlike other technologies on display throughout the Fair, the eight-foot-tall Nimatron served “no other useful purpose than to entertain.” Wildly popular and a real attention-getter, Westinghouse invited any and all comers at the Fair to take a shot at beating the machine. According to Science magazine, the Nimatron was a quick and brutal adversary: “players at the Fair were exasperated by the diabolical rapidity and sureness of the machine, and noisy delays were added to the monster so that human players–still usually defeated–could have the satisfaction of making the Nimatron grunt and heave appropriately.” Any human player who could manage to best the Nimatron received a commemorative coin labeled “Nim Champ,” but most of the machine’s defeats were said to be at the hands of staff members, who conducted demonstrations to assure crowds that the game wasn’t a gaff.

Bonecrusher

Lack of science ?! Flawed policy ?!

Have you looked around at the USA for the last 2+ years ?

Climate change:
In the 20s it was global warming, in the 70s it was global cooling, in the 80s it was global warming again, in the oughts it became global climate change and remains so. Climate change is soooo much easier because any storm or whatever unusual weather event becomes evidence – or so the liars say.
Covid, masks, shutdowns, and the clot shot:
The “schmaht” people practically outlawed proven, safe and effective treatments for the WLR; Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, in favor of the unsafe, unproven, ineffective mRNA shot. How many people have died as a direct result of taking the shot? How many people died because they were denied the drugs mentioned above? Masks have been proven ineffective at stopping airborne viruses such as influenza, yet they, Fauci et al, insist that they are effective against WLR – where is the evidence?
Sweden did not shut down as most of Europe did, yet they suffered no more or less infection and death than the rest of Europe did. Ditto masks. Neither masks nor the shut downs nor the clot shot did anything but kill and destroy.
2020 election:
Not one judge would allow any evidence to be presented, not one would even allow a case to be brought. Every judge that dismissed these cases needs to be disbarred.

Yes, there is no such thing as truth or justice or rule of law in this country at this time. Can such things be restored? Perhaps, but a lot of blood will have to be spilled.

The earth is rocking back and forth like a drunk and all the Biblical Signs are in place for the 2nd coming. I don’t think things are going to get better before Messiah returns.

mharper42

Once again, I forgot to post after reading down through the 10 a.m. posts of others… Well, I needed to go to the store, so I hurried through breakfast then rushed out with my list.

GOOD AFTERNOON, HAMSTERS!

I also live that Chris Wallace us re-evaluating career decisions today.

Super Dave

#47 mharper WHAT?!?! 😀

mharper42

#49

Davey, I ‘fessed up!

Just more wind out here to report on. That’s about it.

Katfish

#51 – My stretch flatbed operator feels your pain EG

He’s currently under DOT mandated STOP order up on I-40 at Gallup NM for high winds.

Leaves me scratching my head a bit – this load is a longgggggggggggggggggggggg Yacht mast – not “high profile” at all

Shannon

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2791253?guestAccessKey=b76ffbb1-d5c4-4f00-add1-a30d0dce45e7

A huge new study shows mRNA shots sharply raised the risk of dangerous heart damage in Scandinavians who received them last year, and that Moderna’s 100-microgram shot was significantly more dangerous than Pfizer’s 30-microgram dose.

For young men, who are at particularly high risk of post-jab heart inflammation, the gap was especially significant.

Data from the study, published in a peer-reviewed journal called JAMA Cardiology, show that giving 1 million men aged 16-24 two doses of Moderna’s vaccine would lead to almost 300 hospitalizations for myocarditis and a related illness called pericarditis. Most would come after the second dose. Using Pfizer’s shot instead would lead to about 100 hospitalizations. – Alex Berenson at Substack

My version of keto tuna salad for this evening’s main course. Diced onion, diced store bought tomatoes, 1 finely diced ceranno pepper, 4 hard boiled eggs using the 5-5-5 method in the instapot, tuna of course, with a dab of mayo and seasoned to taste. Not bad for a change of pace on a warm day. I typically add salsa, but it has a little carbs and a little sugar in it, so I just substituted the pepper, and it actually turned out just right. No complaints, but I may have to sneak in a piece of real meat before the day is done.

Did anybody mention San Jacinto Day yet? If so, I forgot; if not, happy San Jacinto Day.

Texpat

We have a local fish market here in town with a small restaurant attached. This guy goes down to the Fulton Fish Market in NYC every morning (actually 3 or 4 AM) and buys fresh off the boat fish. He always, everyday, brings back fresh tuna and they cook it and make tuna salad every morning with celery, onion and seasoning.

Once I started eating his tuna I couldn’t even smell. much less eat, canned tuna fish. Don’t get me wrong, it ain’t cheap, but once you’ve had it…well, it’s a delicacy around here and you’ll never look at a can of Starkist again.

I got spoiled like that about fish when living down there. If I didn’t catch it, most likely I won’t eat it. Exceptions for getting it at the Seabrook fish markets. I can’t really tell much difference between the canned tuna and the canned chicken breast when it comes to making a salad. I’ve had fresh tuna, but never made into tuna salad I believe.

Wow, no one even drifting by to say good night. Oh well, maybe tomorrow. Nite nite you all.

Adee