Hambone v3.0

Wednesday Open Comments

https://youtu.be/eoxD8fhERFA

In Moorhead, Minnesota, Melissa Evans the owner of She Said Butcher Shop was blissfully doing the Lord’s work selling meat to the local carnivores, when a terroristic deer burst through the front door of her shop.

At first Evans thought a pot had fallen or maybe a car had crashed into the front of the store, but when she came around the corner, there was the wild-eyed vegetarian smashing up the place.

“When I came around the corner the deer was the last thing I would have imagined it was chaos to say the least,” Evans recalled. “Just complete pandemonium. My kid was screaming, ‘why is there a deer in here; why is there a deer in here?’”

“Other than a smashed door, a hole in the wall and a few broken plants, everything else came out unscathed and I am thankful, because it could have been so much worse, not only with damages, but potentially could have seriously hurt someone.”

And then just like the deer left, but I think the message was clear.

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92 responses to “Wednesday Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    HA! I remember when a deer smashed through the plate glass window at Sakowitz in Nassau Bay, they called him Rudolf because he blooded his nose on the way through.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Interesting morning for the travelers out there as all flights are grounded.  Computer glitch I’m told.

    No other news bubbling up to the surface so far.  I’m off to the TOK for coffee this morning.  Later I may take a trip to Brownwood to the Walmart and also to check out my new glasses.  It’s probably too early to draw any conclusions, but I think I should have a second pair anyway, and there are some discounts on a second pair to be harvested.

    You all have a great day out there, and I hope you are not stuck in an airport somewhere.  More later.

  3. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Super Dave missed his chance…

  4. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I wonder if this FAA outage is actually cover for “we discovered a terrorist plot to fly more planes into buildings”. I think this administration could probably weather another accusation of incompetence rather than “we let a terrorist into the country to kill people.”

    I mean, they can’t shut the border down until they’ve imported more future voters.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is the way it’s supposed to be.

    (GILMER COUNTY, Ga.) — Not one, but three armed citizens were able to disarm a robbery suspect attempting to hold up a gas station at gunpoint in North Georgia.

    When a customer saw 39-year-old Shawn Sutton pull a gun on the clerk at the Ideal Mart in Ellijay, he pulled his own weapon. A second customer then retrieved his gun from his vehicle to assist, and both were able to disarm Sutton. When he tried to escape, a third customer pumping gas came inside with his gun and all three were able to hold him until police arrived.

    Ellijay Police Chief Edward Lacey says an East Ellijay Police officer and one of his own officers arrived within six minutes.

    “Six minutes can be forever, and these citizens that we have here are self-reliant and decided they’re not going to be victims. And fortunately, they were able to assist us and help us in a way that didn’t put anybody in danger,” he tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish.

  6. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning Hamsters,

    It is overcast, breezy, and holding at 68 on the banks of the Brazos at Richmond.  Another cold front is supposed to be on the way pushing rain ahead of it.  After all it is January despite yo-yoing between winter and spring. Soon enough winter will take over. With a roar.

    #2 El Gordo,

    Yes it is wise to have two pair of your glasses, just in case you need a backup if one breaks or the lenses get badly scratched.

    Definitely progessive lenses are for me much better than bifocal or trifocal lenses since with the progressives you need only to move your eyes looking through them for the correct near or far or in between vision rather than slightly moving your head up or down as with the bi or trifocals.  And for me, depth perception is better with them.  They also have a UV filter so I rarely need my sunglasses, and the filter is very helpful in night driving with headlights coming at you as they greatly lessen the oncoming glare.

     

     

    I have two pair of regular prescription glasses and a pair of prescription sunglasses

     

  7. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Where is everybody?

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yo

  9. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #6 – Stuck at the airport somewhere.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    :waves:

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Here iz Mr. Squawkie Tooter.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is how they report it in New York.

    Everything’s bigger in Texas.

    The state’s bean counters have recorded a historic $33 billion surplus in tax revenue this year — about the same amount as the combined annual budgets of Connecticut ($20B) Delaware ($5B) and Vermont ($8B).

    “The increase is a direct result of vigorous economic growth since the end of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, spikes in energy prices and, unfortunately, the highest rate of general price inflation in 40 years,” said Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Monday.

    The Lone Star state — frequently cited as one of the most popular places to move in the US — now boasts a population of some 30 million people and recorded the largest population growth of any state from 2021 to 2022 with 470,000 new residents, meaning more people paying into its tax system.

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Classic barn find in the year 2035

    1975 AMC Pacer

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    A poll was taken by California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office which asked whether people who live in California think Illegal immigration is a serious problem:

    29% of respondents answered: “Yes, It is a serious problem.”

    71% of respondents answered: “No es una problema seriosa.”

  15. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Texpat @ 9:47

    And each homeowner will receive $47.56, politicians will proclaim property tax reform is done, for the people!

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox
    This is your “lucky” day.

    Rants self deleted…………………………

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. I need to pay some bills today. Otherwise, I don’t think I have any plans.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Thanks, George.

    New Jersey Judge Halts State’s New Gun-control Law, Dismantles State’s Arguments Supporting It

    In her issuing of a temporary restraining order (TRO) against implementation of New Jersey’s attempt to nullify the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen, George W. Bush appointee U.S. District Court Judge Renee Marie Bumb took the defendants to the cleaners…

    she writes,

    The State may regulate conduct squarely protected by the Second Amendment only if supported by a historical tradition of firearm regulation.

    Here, Plaintiffs have shown that Defendants will not be able to demonstrate a history of firearm regulation to support any of the challenged provisions.

    The deprivation of Plaintiffs’ Second Amendment rights, as the holders of valid permits from the State to conceal carry handguns, constitutes irreparable injury, and neither the State nor the public has an interest in enforcing unconstitutional laws.

    Accordingly, good cause exists, and the Court will grant the motion for temporary restraints.

    and,

    Plaintiffs have submitted sworn statements that the challenged regulations are so broad that they severely impact their ability to even leave their own home and property with their firearms, notwithstanding the fact that they were previously permitted by the State to freely do so, without fear of severe criminal penalty.

    This has substantially impacted their ability to carry a handgun at all within the State.

    plus,

    Lastly, at oral argument, this Court specifically pressed the State whether it had empirical evidence to suggest that concealed carry permit holders are responsible for gun crimes or an increase in gun crimes in New Jersey, which they cite as justification for the law.

    However, the State had no such evidence.

    Boom, State of New Jersey look like doofuses.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shockingly, I’m going to agree with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and say I think Texas should spend some of the surplus to seriously beef up the gas turbine generation capacity of ERCOT with some of the surplus.

    I would also like to see Ken Paxton sue the federal government for requiring all the pipeline lift station standby generators be converted from natural gas fired units.  They should all be returned to natgas fueled gensets wholly independent of the electrical grid.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s 2006 and we’re talking about Sandy Berger’s underwear full of classified documents.

    But Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., outgoing chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said he’s not convinced that the Archives can account for all the documents taken by Berger. Davis said working papers of National Security Council staff members are not inventoried by the Archives.

    “There is absolutely no way to determine if Berger swiped any of these original documents. Consequently, there is no way to ever know if the 9/11 Commission received all required materials,” Davis said.

    Berger pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents. He was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.

    Officials told The Associated Press at the time of the thefts that the documents were highly classified and included critical assessments about the Clinton administration’s handling of the millennium terror threats as well as identification of America’s terror vulnerabilities at airports and seaports.

    Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that National Archives employees spotted Berger bending down and fiddling with something white around his ankles.

    Did a SWAT team raid Berger’s home ?  Did the MSM demand he be shot in front of a firing squad ?  Was there a special counsel appointed to investigate Berger’s Hanes boxer short collection ?

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It looks ridiculous for Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation to be ranting and pontificating about Southwest Airlines’ shoddy computer software programs when they can’t keep their own crummy system running.

  22. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Went to the grocery store to see just how much everything has gone up since my last visit a week ago.  Answer:  quite a bit.  Sun is out shining brightly, and temps are on the rise.  No other news to report on for now.  More later.

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Shockingly, I’m going to agree with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and say I think Texas should spend some of the surplus to seriously beef up the gas turbine generation capacity of ERCOT with some of the surplus.

    Oh good.  One more step to socialism.  Last I checked ERCOT is a government watchdog and the power plants are privately owned entities.  I do not want to see any government building, improving, creating, any business what so ever.  I got a better idea.  Texas should just flip the bird to the Fed, roll back Perry’s disastrous wind program and get off the backs of private enterprises willing to make a buck providing us electricity.

  24. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    TP et al. – Congress loves a program that runs a surplus because when it is folded into the master budget, the true deficit is reduced by the amount of surplus in those few programs that are in the black.  Several years ago, Congress passed an airline ticket tax whose stated purpose was to upgrade the ATC systems, including radar, communications, automation, and so forth in order to accommodate a rapidly growing demand for air travel and expanding airline routes.  The tax went in to effect immediately upon passage while there were no plans on the drawing board to implement such system upgrades.  To date, there are still no such plans, but the tax continues to grow the fund to put the upgrades in place.  And no plans will ever be developed because congress sees this as a surplus account to offset spending in other areas.  Social security used to be off balance sheet, but since it was also running a huge surplus, it was folded into the general budget for the same reasons and congress discovered that it could spend those monies on other things.  So here we are, an incompetent Dem administration more concerned with diversity and inclusion than actually providing a safe and efficient air traffic control system – what could possibly go wrong.

  25. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Wow, another of my literary masterpieces just disappeared into the ether when I hit the post button.  Are we being censored these days over here? No bad words, no links – but some criticism of government.

  26. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I don’t expect the complete surplus should go towards property owners but a substantial decrease is possible. But we won’t see crap. Bettencourt has a FB post just this morning touting the decreases he has pushed through. I ain’t seen jack.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Project Veritas jumped into the debate over vaccine mandates with an undercover video that shows two Pfizer scientists agreeing that naturally acquired immunity offers more protection than vaccination from the novel coronavirus.

    The 10-minute video released late Monday featured three men identified as scientists at Pfizer, maker of the widely used two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

    A man identified as Pfizer biochemist Nick Karl was shown explaining that after recovering from COVID-19, “your antibodies are probably better at that point than the vaccination.”

    “When somebody is naturally immune, like, they got COVID, they probably have better – not better, but more antibodies against the virus,” says Mr. Karl in the hidden-camera footage. “Because what the vaccine is, like I said, that protein that’s just on the outside, so it’s one antibody against one specific part of the virus.”

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    17 Squawk

    I was unclear.  I don’t endorse in any way the State of Texas actually building, owning or investing in any electrical generation installations.  That would be stupid, but if there is any way funds could be used to make ERCOT more effective and less vulnerable to the whims of the EPA, I think it should be considered, even if it’s simply funding the legal costs of fighting the DC Leviathan.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    El Gordo

    RE: Your #18 at 11:16 AM

    Your comment didn’t go to “pending” or “spam” files.  It went straight to “trash”.  I have no idea why, but it has been restored.

    Nobody is being censored here. That’s ridiculous.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat @11:34

    Even with that I have some mixed emotions.  But yeah i guess, if we have to, maybe, or maybe not.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Late to the game, as I’ve been collating information for Hubby. He’s finally come around to the decision to sell our Bryan TX tri-plex.  When he told his folks he *considering* Texas A&M for college, his parent bought the property.  So, he went to A&M.  And I followed, to protect my interests.

    It proved to be a good investment.  Hubby managed it while attending university, and did most of the management afterwards, as far as maintenance issues.  It’s been a pretty good cash cow for his mom, but she milked it in her last years.  Between age, distance, and cancer, she just got as much money as possible and letting a lot of things go.

    When she passed, we installed new HVAC units and got a new roof on it. (The roof was DESPERATELY needed.) We’ve practically rebuilt some of the kitchens and done various other upgrades.  It’s in the best condition now than it’s been in about 20 years.

    Hubby insists on him doing the maintenance; he thinks everyone else would screw him.  Therefore, he has been running back and forth for the last week or so since we have a vacancy.  Fortunately, our handyman is pretty laid back and doesn’t mind sleeping on an air mattress in our vacant units while working on them.  He loves to cook and this allows him to cook his meals while out of town.  He’s getting close to applying for SS, though, and he may not want to work so much.

    So, it looks like we’re putting it on the market.  I had try to find comps and organize the data for Hubby.  I called the wholesalers who sold our Montrose property for us.  They got us our asking price even though it was a tough process for them.  Ty is excited about working with us again.

    Since our kids show little to no interest in helping with the properties, we are going to liquidate yet one more and invest the proceeds with my lender friend.  We’ll keep our Houston properties for the indefinite future.  They will be easier to maintain than our out of town properties.

    This is a good thing.  We have no reason to be interested in the Bryan market any more.  Lovely Daughter & Family no longer live there. This will simplify our lives and take some of the mental and physical stress off of Hubby.  At one time we was considering moving there and buying more investment properties, but Hubby loves the Dome, so here we stay.

     

  32. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP @ 10:46 – From the ‘win a few LOSE a few’ department……

    SEMIAUTOMATIC WEAPONS BAN: Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday banning the sale and distribution of semiautomatic weapons, high-capacity magazines, and switches in his state.

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/guns-ban-second-amendment/2023/01/10/id/1103884/

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I haven’t even read my beloved C&C yet….here I go!

    MRNA PIPELINES ☙ Wednesday, January 11, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Your roundup today includes: Moderna announces scads of new mRNA drugs for newly-common health problems; study “counterintuitively” says that kids actually prevent serious covid; dems try to differentiate Biden’s documents and we find out more about what Biden was hanging on to; the Times dunks on DeSantis for ignoring them; The FTC proposes to end non-compete contracts; the price of eggs; Twitter survives despite dire predictions of demise; short-staffed hospitals; Biden improves the border; CTV finds reason for excess deaths flying around the field; and good news from the House.

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    PLEASE DO NOT GET MAD AT US FOR AKISMETS FALSE POSITIVES.  WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER IT.  NO I AM NOT REMOVING AKISMET.  THE BLOG WOULD BECOME UNREADABLE AFTER ABOUT A WEEK WITH SPAM.

    NO ONE HERE IS CENSORING ANYONE.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From C&C:

    …Moderna issued a press release yesterday announcing it has made oodles of progress on its other, non-covid mRNA drugs, titled “Moderna Announces Advances Across MRNA Pipeline and Provides Business Update.”

    /snip

    Messenger-RNA is the new pharma firm’s bread basket; the term is right in its name (if you haven’t noticed): ModeRNA. Two standouts now in trials are its drugs for repairing heart damage and for treating melanoma.

    I know, I know! I don’t want to talk about where all the heart damage and melanoma is coming from today.

    Having observed this current giant covid mRNA experiment, I question whether mRNA drugs can ever work at all. The great promise of mRNA is that it can deliver a payload directly to the heart muscle, and cause your own cells to start producing a growth hormone or something. Sounds nice in theory, but now we know they lack any concept of how to practically control the process.

    There’s something immoral, though not legal, of a company benefitting from the misery and death it inflicted on people.  There are laws that prevent criminals from benefitting from their crimes – how/can we do this with Big Pharma?

    The big problem with mRNA:

    …the mRNA does NOT stay at the injection site. It travels….

    The injection is like an artificial virus, infecting cells, hijacking them, and tricking them into producing something they don’t normally make. But the immune system isn’t cool with cells that acting weird. The immune system tries hard to destroy the hijacked cells. And when the immune system wrongly attacks its own cells, that’s called “autoimmune disregulation.”

    /snip

    Furthermore, it’s now painfully obvious to the meanest intelligence that the mRNA does NOT shut itself off after a few hours or days after all, like the useless imbeciles at the FDA credulously believed.

    /snip

    And don’t even get me started about the reverse-transcription problem where the mRNA could be permanently encoded into DNA…

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Invest with care.

  37. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Sorry I wasn’t more clear about the censoring comment.  I know that this group is not doing so, but I figured the big government censor in the higher levels of internet control are reviewing and disapproving of certain comments.  Let’s face it, those Twitter censors had to go somewhere,.

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    EL GORDO

    I get as frustrated as you do.  Thanks for your patience.  What makes me really angry is that it seems Akismet focuses on one or two commenters, you and Super Dave, and I will be hanged if I can figure why.  SIGH I dunno

  39. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Then Childers reports on a study that shows that being around kids actually helps protect against the WLR.  One theory being that being exposed to more germs help develop immune systems.

    [I’ve always professed that kids should ingest their weight in dirt by the time they’re five to have a healthy immune system.]

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Re: investing

    We don’t trust the stock market, having lost half of our retirement income during one of the bear markets.

    We invest in real estate – tangible assets which can be foreclosed upon and rarely go to zero or negative value.  The only way that would happen would be if someone dumped hazardous waste on it, or some such.  My friend is in the mortgage/lending business, and he vets the borrower for us, using very conservative rations to qualify the loan, and papers the heck out of each loan.  He’s developed a stable of house flippers and developers that he trusts and that have a good track record of paying their loans.

    I don’t have to invest the time and energy in developing my network of borrowers and doing all of the lawyering and keeping up with lending laws.  Paul does that for me. He keeps a few percentage points of the loan for him and his business, and the lion’s share comes back to me.  At the end of the loan period, I get all of my principle back.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

    So, we’re careful.  Paul loves the heck outta me (and vice versa), and has moved me to the front of the line whenever I have money to invest.  If there’s legal action to take, Paul does all of that.

    As I told him, I hope I’m making him rich.   I have no problem with him making money off of me because I’m getting what I want out of it.  All of the work, risk, sweat, and investment that Hubby and I have made is now paying off, when we need it most.

    So, it’s all good.

  41. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Boom, State of New Jersey look like doofuses.

    Like this is a new development or some kind of divine revelation?

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Back to the C&C, Childers puts on his lawyer hat:

    In what should be much bigger news, yesterday the Federal Trade Commission published a proposed new rule…The new rule would essentially ban all employee non-compete contracts. It’s hard to imagine how this could ever squeak past big corporation lobbyists, but it is interesting.

    …The best argument for non-competes is that an employer has invested a lot of time and money developing the employee’s skills. The worst arguments for non-competes surround low-skill jobs, or jobs where a professional begins work already having the required skillset.

    I have mixed feelings about the proposed rule. As a federalist, I think it should be left to the states, which already have a wide variety of different approaches to non-competes. But if there will be a federal rule, my opinion is it should only protect highly-skilled positions where the employer invests a lot in the employee.

    The new rule would be a giant federal power grab over the states who’ve historically managed their own employer-employee relationships. I think it’s telegraphing that the Biden Administration is trying to goose wages, which are always “sticky” in an inflationary economy. Biden officials probably believe that, if employers lose the protection of non-compete provisions, they’ll have to immediately offer more money to hold on to their good employees.

    I’m not sure how I feel about this, too.  I do think that this should be a state issue, not a federal issue.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Remember yesterday, when C&C reported on a Canadian TV reporter that seemed to stroking out on camera, and shortly after shut down all comments on their/her social media accounts?  Well, here’s one possible explanation (snort snuffle):

    CTV News, which just had a stroking reporter problem, ran an informative story yesterday headlined, “Loss of Pollinators Causing More Than 400,000 Early Deaths a Year: Study.”

    It’s the bees.

    Because we’re losing pollinators (and I’ve heard differing views on that story), there’s a 3-5%  reduction of healthy foods, so people are being forced to eat junk food.

    Forced. 

    And I thought everything bad was caused by Orange Man Bad.  Or climate change.  Or Republicans.  

     

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Gotta see this video.  Especially if you have a medical coincidence.

    “Hey, we got another coincidence over here!”  [guffaw]

    And if you type in Kaufmancoincidence.com in your search engine, you get sent here.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The State could certainly encourage more generation capacity by providing low interest loans to these companies and other entities building the attendant infrastructure.

  46. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I would also like to see Ken Paxton sue the federal government for requiring all the pipeline lift station standby generators be converted from natural gas fired units.  They should all be returned to natgas fueled gensets wholly independent of the electrical grid.

    THIS. EXACTLY.

    We need this because having the lift stations not solely relying on the electrical grid actually serves to protect that very grid.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just saw something in the C&C comments, regarding the vaccine acquired immune system failure.

    “VAIDS”

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s both sad and infuriating to read the C&C comments.  So many folks are reporting what they call “turbo cancer”.  Get a clean bill of health, go on trip, come back with stage 4 cancer everywhere.  Pancreatic cancer faster growing than the Road Runner.  Wake up one morning and in hospice by the end of the week.

    Frightening.

    Then there was a link multiple times that GMO foods may include the mRNA tech.  I don’t know if that’s actually true, nor do I know that it would work being ingested orally.

    What frightens me is that I wouldn’t put it past our government to try it.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My #35

    The State (and Feds) have been doing this in the Drinking Water and Wastewater sector for many years.

  50. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #28 – Maybe it’s because Akismet know that we are aholes.

    Now it’s nice to learn that since SAT or ACT scores are no longer required for admission to Rice, erectile dysfunction has stepped in to take its place.  https://www.ricethresher.org/article/2023/01/rice-adds-486-students-to-the-class-of-2027-through-ed

  51. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Has anyone here ever paid their Harris County property tax using their online “E-Check” method? I wanted to do that, got all the needed data ready to enter on their website, but haven’t been able to find the Pay Online button to initiate the actual process.

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    39 Shannon

    Yep, since the Reagan administration.

  53. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s a lonesome little 42…

    There, there, little one…

  54. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Here’s out go to guy on all things aviation, Juan Browne at blancolirio, on today’s NOTAM disruption.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib79qWWMOcc

  55. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The State could certainly encourage more generation capacity by providing low interest loans to these companies and other entities building the attendant infrastructure.

    Another bad idea.  considering that it is MY money they are loaning what happens to MY money if the loan is defaulted on?  I do not like the idea of any government entity providing subsidies to anyone I aure ain’t gonna approve of loans.  The government at all levels could help by stopping the over regulation of industries.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    34 Tedtam

    Great stuff.  I especially liked the Klaus record album ad.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got an update on my grand-nephew, the one with Burkitt’s Lymphoma.

    The chemo is kicking his butt, seriously kicking his butt to the point of a medical scare, but it seems to be working.  The tumor’s size is down.

    Also, no cancer in the spine. That they can find, anyway.

    I’ll keep up the prayers for him and his doctors.

    Praise God for good news.

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Stephen Green at PJMedia on the FAA shutdown.

    Speaking anonymously, a trusted source told PJ Media that Wednesday’s belly flop “doesn’t sound like it is an infrastructure issue” because they doubt the FAA has “a single point of failure in the design anywhere.”

    Critical systems are designed to be robust because, well, they’re critical.

    “Which indicates malice, or a botched update,” PJ Media was told.

    and,

    PJ Media’s anonymous source’s other possibility, “a botched update” of the FAA critical computer systems, is exactly the kind of thing that happens when the boss prizes diversity and equity over competence.

    The thing to remember about computer systems is that, like sex (or “gender,” to use the postmodern, incorrect parlance), they’re binary. They operate on a series of ones and zeroes, on or off, working correctly or working incorrectly — if at all.

    There’s nothing diverse, there’s no equity, and there’s no room for the inclusion of anything other than what works.

    Take your eye off that ball and, eventually, something will go disastrously wrong.

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    El Gordo

    Stephen Green’s source for info on the FAA operations agrees with Juan Browne on it being most likely some kind of software screwup.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    44 Squawk

    How about if the State of Texas simply buy down the interest rate on a private lender’s rate for a loan to a private generating outfit ?  Texas wouldn’t loan the principal and be on the hook for it.

    Or perhaps the state could create a municipal bond fund to sell lower interest bonds to fund a select amount of generating projects.  If default insurance were included in the package, nobody would get burned.

  61. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    If a generating project is commercially viable, the private sector will do it in a second.  No need for government involvement.  Only thing the government needs to do is to promise to stay out of the way, now and in the future.

  62. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    eg

    That is the remedy for so many of our ills.

  63. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #41 – MH – I’ve paid Harris Co. prop tax online via ‘e-check option’ for approx 20 years

    *note* their web pages are quite crowded and somewhat confusing every year – just have to lQQk closely

  64. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    46 El Gordo

    I’m all for the government staying out of people’s business.  I am concerned about this movement in the banking industry to starve the oil & gas industry of financial support.  I’m just kicking around ideas about how the State of Texas could help if loan money really is drying up for traditional projects.  If the State doesn’t need to be involved as a source of support, then, by all means, they shouldn’t.

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Breaking news…

    Aides to President Biden have discovered a second trove of classified documents in a different location from the last set, a person familiar told NBC News.

    The classification level, number and exact location of the documents is still unclear.

    The source said that since the first discovery of classified materials in November Biden aides have been searching for additional secret documents that need to be returned to the National Archives.

  66. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    What makes me really angry is that it seems Akismet focuses on one or two commenters, you and Super Dave, and I will be hanged if I can figure why. SIGH I dunno.

    I think El Gordo may have a point;

    #28 – Maybe it’s because Akismet know that we are aholes.

    😀

     

  67. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Aides to President Biden have discovered a second trove of classified documents in a different location from the last set, a person familiar told NBC News.

    So I now have NO DOUBT that the FBI Armed Jack Booted Thugs will execute a search warrant on all of Biden’s properties AND the White House….. Yea Right!!!!

  68. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    The reason the energy industry is in dire straights for getting loans is because the banks have become climate change woke among other reasons.  Other reasons include Washington DC lunacy i.e. bidens declaration to industry the coal industry.  contrary to the headline is not an attack on child health.  This is the first shot at doing away with natural gas.

    Green/Greener Living <<<<Well looky here<<<<<<
    US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears
    The US Consumer Product Safety Commission will move to regulate gas stoves as new research links them to childhood asthma.

    I can make an exception for the state to do bonds, I do not like it, but even I understand.  But here is the greater conundrum there is an all out attack of “fossil fuels” that includes natural gas.  Texas has plenty of nat gas to fuel power plants but the costs will go through the roof just to cook your burger on your stove.  Coal fired plants are soon to go by the way of dinosaurs because of Washington DC.  Can you imagine the EPA court fights Texas will have from environmentalists?  These are just my off the cuff thoughts.  What do I know?

  69. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #49 Super Dave – for some reason, your comment reminded me of something that happened when I was in nursing school…  I was doing my student rotation in ICU, where the policy was to place a large card with the patient’s primary diagnosis on it on the wall above the head of the patient’s bed… We had a patient that had emphysema, “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” or COPD – his primary complaint was “shortness of breath” which was abbreviated “SOB”…  This little old lady walked up to me in my “susie student nurse uniform,” took my hand and very soberly said, “Honey – you know what he is, and I know what he is… but do we really have to announce it to every person that walks thru the door???”  😉

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Far-left Politico appears to have fired one of their left-wing hacks after said hack described the recently deceased Pope Benedict XVI as a “Homophobic pedophile protector and Hitler Youth alumnus.”

    Good.  This Geller asshat has been around way too long.

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Personally, given the immediate, hard blowback, I don’t believe there will be any ban on gas stoves.  This whole thing was a trial balloon pushed by the WEF.  Their cover has been blown.  Read this article from Redstate:

    Good luck finding much support for Scott Wiener and Max Kennedy’s claims that gas stoves are “toxic” and cause asthma. Yes, a search will produce a random study or two, but there’s been no landmark research regarding gas stoves proving they are a major health risk, much less is there anything that begins to justify federal government intervention.

    What makes this even dumber is that all the Democrats currently pushing for a ban on gas stoves apparently have them. If they are so dangerous, why didn’t Elizabeth Warren, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, and others get rid of their gas stoves years ago? Could it be because this entire discussion is completely manufactured?

    Regardless, it’s worth asking where this is all coming from, right? Why did Democrats all start moving in lockstep to ban gas stoves, seemingly with no prior concern at all? And sure enough, with a little digging, it’s been revealed that this isn’t just idle science taking place.

    The company behind the study is called “Carbon-Free Buildings.” That company is a partner of the World Economic Forum and has a true-believer CEO who wants to rid the world of all carbon emissions (which is impossible and would lead to mass extinction).

    Lefty pols are being mocked for this all over the internet.

  72. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I wonder who planted the classified docs on the wooden dummy?
    I take it they’re ready to get rid of him and install the brainless cackler.
    whatever happens the Goebbels media will cover for him and mr potato head will still feast on mako shark sushi on his morning mr potato head show

    in 24 hours time the WEF Davos climate change gang of elite gangsters has determined all gas stoves and heating is bad.

    amazing.

    beanie weenies and crickets will now have to be eaten cold.

    sieg heil

    sieg heil

    seig heil

    the almighty Ernst Stavro Klaus schlob Blofeld.
    52 heads of state and 600 ceos will attend the davos/WEF affair to be instructed on how they can all come together and rule the world.

  73. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Where’s Bond when you need him?

  74. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    The sec of transportation Pete bootyjudge at work.

  75. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    52 Bsue

    Best thing I read all day.  I’ve been laughing about it ever since.

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    R.I.P. Jeff Beck

  77. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Sun is going down on another beautiful yet windy day out here.  Uneventful though.  My cheap but effective TP Link One Mesh network is working very well although I have yet to figure out why I thought I needed all this power in the first place.  Supposed to cool off some tomorrow.  I fixed up a batch of chili this afternoon, and it’s pretty tasty, at least according to my sample.  I put it all into containers in the fridge for future use and finished up a couple of baby back ribs I had left over for dinner.  Looks like football is over now for one more season.  Oh well, not that long until spring training, off for the summer, and then back again next fall.  Can get started on my gardening here in another 6 weeks or so.  Still have not set up the greenhouse since it’s too early to plant seeds yet.  We need rain.  More later,

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Speaking of GFCI outlets, I found one in my kitchen that needs replacing. I never use this one and tried to do so yesterday. It won’t test/reset.

  79. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #48 Katfish

    Thank you, Big Guy! I’ll take another look at it tomorrow.

     

  80. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This is about as evil as it gets:

    210 Democrats vote against bill requiring medical care for babies born alive after abortion attempt

    Democrats said the bill would interfere with families’ medical decisions

    I’m sorry, but if a baby is born alive, it is not only immoral and sickening to deprive it of medical care, but it is also unconstitutional.  Aren’t all entitled to “life, liberty, etc. etc.,”?

    The bill requiring medical care passed the House, but:

    The bill passed 220-210, and all 210 of the “no” votes came from Democrats. Only one Democrat voted for the bill — Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas — and one other Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, voted “present.”

    Pardon me while I go puke and then say a rosary for all of those lost souls.

  81. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #52 bsue 😀

  82. Abuck Syxbits Avatar
    Abuck Syxbits

     mharper42 says:
    January 11, 2023 at 1:31 pm

    Has anyone here ever paid their Harris County property tax using their online “E-Check” method? I wanted to do that, got all the needed data ready to enter on their website, but haven’t been able to find the Pay Online button to initiate the actual process.

    I’m late checking Hambone today. 🙁

    I think Katfish answered your question? If not I can walk you through the process via Email and screen shots. If needed.

    I believe one of the Moderators said they could make Emails available upon request? If permission was granted?

    I believe Squawkbox has my Email and maybe EG.

    I should be around tomorrow and by the computer.

    It has been a hectic two days with Tree Guys cutting down 6 large trees on my property.

    Things should be back to normal tomorrow.

    A big thank you, to Coy for the referral. Your Tree guy did a great job!

  83. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We are getting spotty information but sounds like a 21 yr old boyfriend killed his girlfriend just up the street. You know how neighborhood rumors go but it was an awful lot of LEO’s were here and crime scene tape all around now.

  84. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    No hope for these psychos.

    https://dailytrojan.com/2023/01/11/dworak-peck-language-change-draws-mixed-reaction/

  85. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #64 – linky no worky

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #62 Abuck

    Most people here are my FB friends, and can contact me any time.

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’ll probably be my downfall, but I bought a folding, 2-step step stool/ladder. It has oversized, non-skid treads. The back two legs are actually connected at the bottom, theoretically making it more stable.

    We had a a single-step plastic step stool that I threw away six months ago. Nasty old dangerous thing that Fay wouldn’t let me get rid of.

  88. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    65

    i just tried it. Took it about 3 minutes to load.
    must be getting heavy traffic.
    It loaded quicker when I first posted it.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    64 phil

    Lunatics.

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Monday I had a small job to do outside that was just out of my reach. And I wasn’t going to drag out my heavy 8 foot fiberglass step ladder to do the job. Hooray for Amazon.

  91. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Beddy bye time out here.  Still getting used to these new glasses, but today is better than yesterday, so I’ve got that going for me.  Hope you all have a great evening now.  More tomorrow.  Nite nite.

  92. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    There did end up being one more, final episode of George and Tammy. I thought they did a really good job with the series. We enjoyed it.

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