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So How’s Yer Monday Open Comments

Look out folks.  Covid while still a pest has pretty much run its course to get us ready for the changes that are coming.  In a word, the changes that are coming will effect every aspect of our lives as we are controlled by the government which is controlled by the elites.The elites need something to further their agenda.  HEY I KNOW.  Why not climate change.  Yeah, yeah that is the ticket.

Car-free Sundays? IEA sets out 10-point plan to reduce global oil demand

Energy watchdog says measures could help cut oil usage by 2.7m barrels a day within four months

  1.  Reduce speed limits on highways by at least 10 km/h
  2. Work from home up to three days a week where possible
  3. Car-free Sundays in cities
  4. Make public transport cheaper and incentivise walking and cycling
  5. Alternate private car access to roads in large cities (eg every other day)
  6. Increase car sharing and adopt practices to reduce fuel use
  7. Promote efficient driving for freight trucks and delivery of goods
  8. Using high-speed and night trains instead of planes
  9. Avoid business air travel where alternative options exist
  10. Reinforce the adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles

Most of the proposed actions in the 10-Point Plan would require changes in the behaviour of consumers, supported by government measures. How and if these actions are implemented is subject to each country’s own circumstances – in terms of their energy markets, transport infrastructure, social and political dynamics and other aspects.

And that is the target, consumer behavior.  The loss of our personal freedoms I believe were kicked into high gear with things like the Patriot Act.  The laws are in place, now it is time to whip us into conformity.  Everyone of these points have been tried at one time or another.  I suppose now is the time to codify them into law.

As I read the news releases in various publications it was evident that “Russia is to blame”, we have to cut consumption to reduce supply shortages.

“As a result of Russia’s appalling aggression against Ukraine, the world may well be facing its biggest oil supply shock in decades, with huge implications for our economies and societies,” said the IEA’s executive director, Fatih Birol.

Reducing oil use must not remain a temporary measure, the report noted.

“Sustained reductions are important not only to improve countries’ energy security but also to tackle climate change and reduce air pollution,”

Wait!!  Last I checked there was a world glut of oil when Trump policies were implemented.  Why not return to those policies?   This is not an anti-Trump move, it is to destroy our economy, subjugate the citizenry and destroy the fossil fuel industry.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So we’re back to ridiculously low speed limits, car pooling and driving even bans?
    Idiocy at it’s best.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This fits the O.C. tread perfectly.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My, how far we’ve come.

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time.

    The PDP-11 was introduced in 1970, a time when most computing was done on expensive GE, CDC, and IBM mainframes that few people had access to. There were no laptops, desktops, or personal computers. Programming was done by only a few companies, mostly in assembly, COBOL, and FORTRAN. Input was done on punched cards, and programs ran in non-interactive batch runs.

    Although the first PDP-11 was modest, it laid the groundwork for an invasion of minicomputers that would make a new generation of computers more readily available, essentially creating a revolution in computing. The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures. During the 22-year lifespan of the PDP-11—a tenure unheard of by today’s standards—more than 600,000 PDP-11s were sold.

    Early PDP-11 models were not overly impressive. The first PDP-11 11/20 cost $20,000, but it shipped with only about 4KB of RAM. It used paper tape as storage and had an ASR-33 teletype printer console that printed 10 characters per second. But it also had an amazing orthogonal 16-bit architecture, eight registers, 65KB of address space, a 1.25 MHz cycle time, and a flexible UNIBUS hardware bus that would support future hardware peripherals. This was a winning combination for its creator, Digital Equipment Corporation.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was never impressed with AG Ken Paxton, but he has done some things that have impressed me in the past year.  This is a very serious case and I promise you it has the full, undivided attention of Silicon Valley and all the other Tech drones scattered around.

    When you have the expressed support of the greatest living American playwright, you will command the public eye.  I can only hope the Texas AG’s office enlisted the help of Austin attorney Jonathan Mitchell to write this bill. He is the same lawyer who wrote the SB 8 abortion bill that frustrated even the “geniuses” on SCOTUS and they said so.

    The Galileo Society:

     In 2021, Texas passed an anti-censorship law, known as HB 20. It bars the dominant social media platforms from discriminating against their users on the basis of viewpoint. And it requires them to provide information about the censorship.

    • The statute was carefully written to comply with the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It finds that the dominant social media platforms are common carriers–in other words, that they are information conduits with nondiscrimination duties to the public. 

    • Common carrier law has long been the foundation of American anti-discrimination law. For centuries, it has been applied to communications common carriers without being thought to conflict with the First Amendment. On the contrary, it protects  freedom of speech.

    From their press release:

    The statute protects the free speech of Americans without limiting the free speech of the tech companies:

    • The companies are common carriers, which provide conduits for the speech of others. So, when this statute bars them from viewpoint discrimination, it is only preventing them from censoring the speech of others. It is not limiting them in their own speech.

    • This sort of anti-discrimination restriction on common carriers was traditionally imposed by both common law and statute. It has been applied to communications common carriers since the 19th century, without any question about its compatibility with the First Amendment.

    Nonetheless, the social media companies successfully argued to Obama-appointee District Court Judge Robert Pitman that the Texas bill violated the First Amendment. In an opinion that completely ignored controlling common carrier law, Pitman ruled that, under Supreme Court precedents Tornillo and Hurley, social media platforms most closely resemble newspapers or parades. He distinguished Turner and Rumsfeld, the most relevant Supreme Court precedents, with a footnote each. Put succinctly, he treated the social media platforms as publishers, whereas in fact they are platforms for the speech of others.

    The State of Texas appealed to the Fifth Circuit, and expedited oral argument is scheduled for the first week of May. Unlike Florida’s hastily drafted law, this social media statute was carefully framed to avoid constitutional difficulties. And unlike the Florida law, it has attracted strong support from a surprising coalition of amici. They include some small conservative think tanks (Center for Renewing America, Claremont Institute, Heartland Institute, and American Principles Project); a prominent constitutional law scholar, Philip Hamburger; Dr. Donald W. Landry—a Columbia University medical school professor and one of the country’s foremost nephrologists; the libertarian Institute for Free Speech; a group of students against censorship; and the renowned dramatist, David Mamet.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #4 cont’d.

    The Babylon Bee submitted their own amicus brief to the Fifth Circuit in favor of Paxton in this case.

  6. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The New York Times Doesn’t Care If You Know That Big Tech Helped Rig Joe Biden’s Election

    On March 17, 2022, The New York Times stated it had verified the authenticity of a laptop and its data as belonging to the president’s son, Hunter Biden. This was the same laptop holding information that Twitter, Facebook, and other corporate media immediately suppressed when The New York Post, a right-leaning competitor of The New York Times, reported on it three weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

    If they had known about one of the Biden family scandals, such as the Hunter Biden laptop information, 17 percent of Joe Biden’s voters wouldn’t have voted for him, found a 2020 post-election poll. This means big tech’s suppression of this story likely made enough difference to tip Joe Biden into his low-margin win in the Electoral College.

    /snip

    The same presidential administration that benefitted from Big Tech hiding damning true information is openly colluding with Big Tech to maintain and expand these information operations. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in July 2021, “We’re flagging posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.” Soon after, Psaki confirmed, “We’re in regular touch with social media platforms…about areas where we have concern.” You might call it a public-private partnership.

    Democrats have demanded that the Biden administration create a task force to suppress “misinformation” and “disinformation.” What did corporate media and big tech call the laptop information they suppressed in 2020, only for The New York Times to confirm in 2022? That’s right: “Disinformation.” In fact, as Greenwald notes, intelligence operatives immediately enacted a real disinformation campaign against the New York Post reporting in 2020, pushing the false narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop was “disinformation.”

    That’s called projection, and you should assume that’s one of the things going on every time the media runs some wild news cycle—such as accusing the Republican president of treasonous collusion with Russia when it’s actually the Democrat presidential candidate who did that.

    /snip

    Just like requiring only the hired help and those under the thumb of government agencies to wear masks while their masters wine and dine mask-free, The New York Times openly revealing that corporate media including itself, Twitter, and Facebook lied and got away with it is a hierarchy flex. It’s a display of their power. They are saying, “We can lie to Americans and get away with it.”

    They’re also flexing their power to say things they won’t allow their political opponents to say. Again, Covid is another clear example, as when Trump advisors such as Scott Atlas faced vicious media smears for pointing out facts that The New York Times finally acknowledged months later, such as that kids don’t need to wear masks and it’s perfectly safe for them to go to school. In the intervening time, children needlessly suffered, but The New York Times doesn’t care. They owned the rubes, and that matters more to them than truth or children’s suffering.

    For starters, these media outlets should be recognized as providing campaign in-kind donations and the appropriate fines, jail terms (a la D’Souza) to follow.

    For starters.

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am in the market for a new mobile phone. Mine is a Motorola V5 (or some such number) that I have had for at least 5 years. Yesterday it got stuck in the start up menu for about 5 cycles, I have noticed increasing difficulty getting it to connect via bluetooth to the system in my truck, the battery life is plummeting to barely making it through the day. I have A BUNCH OF MEMES stored on my phone in addition to lots of unorganized pictures.
    In short, I need the following for my next phone:
    * A really nice and capable camera
    * Lots of storage
    * Long battery life: 5000 mAH or greater battery size.
    * A big screen 6.7 x 3 or greater.
    * I am anti-Apple, just because.
    * I keep a phone (and a vehicle for that matter) for a long time and am willing to spend a bit more to get what I want and need.

    Any suggestions?

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Coffee & Covid ☙ Monday, March 21, 2022 ☙ WRONG AGAIN

    I couldn’t leave you guys empty-handed, so here’s a quick roundup for you today: the pandemic might be over, but the NYT plans to keep the trappings; U.S. House is ON IT and is keeping its priorities straight; Hong Kong starts rolling back restrictions, but why?; the WSJ supports Florida — not the CDC — in an op-ed; experts were wrong about closing schools; a UK expert tells all in a new book explaining that, don’t be too shocked, the experts were wrong.

    /snip

    *******************

    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    On Friday, the New York Times published a column headlined, “6 Things We’ll Keep From Pandemic Life.” I was instantly suspicious, just reading the headline. It got worse.

    In sum, the Times’ columnist claims these six pandemic innovations are so fantastically wonderful that they are here to stay:

    — Masks. They might not stop Covid but they have so many uses! They’re especially helpful to keep men from telling women to smile. You can frown all you want under the mask and nobody cares. Problem solved! I’m not sure where all these men ordering angry feminists to smile are, but I guess it’s a thing now.

    — Remote work! You can work in your underwear and never shave anything. And you can do home chores like laundry while you’re supposed to be in a meeting. It’s great.

    — Biking! I don’t know what this has to do with the pandemic. But apparently New York added lots of shared bikes during the pandemic to stop global warming or something. And this columnist thinks people love it.

    — The Urban Wild! In other words, eating outside. The tent restaurants, in which unfortunate restaurants were forced by wacky ineffective Covid regulations to build new mini-restaurants right outside their old restaurants, in the street. Maybe that’s why they needed more bikes so much, they were using the streets for outdoor dining in the Urban Wild instead of vehicle traffic.

    — Workers’ rights. Again, I’m not sure what this category has to do with the pandemic, which resulted in tons of people being laid off, which doesn’t seem like a huge development for workers’ rights to me. But the columnist mentioned something about how food delivery workers can now use customer bathrooms. I didn’t know that was a problem, but thank goodness it’s been solved. Hurray workers!

    — New York City! The columnist seems to think now that the pandemic’s over, people will stop fleeing the City and will re-discover their appreciation for all its museums, shows, restaurants, night clubs, and cool happening things to do. In other words, she thinks people will stop leaving now. No evidence, of course, but who needs evidence when you have magical thinking?

    I don’t know about you, but I could live very happily without masks, remote work, tent restaurants, free bikes, and New York City, at least, in its current condition. Thanks but no thanks. I LIKE smiles, and if I ever meet this columnist, I will be sure to encourage her to smile, too. Should I add, “babe?”

    ***************************

    In the midst of a waning late pandemic and on the brink of nuclear world war, the U.S. House of Representatives took time last Friday to pass the so-called “CROWN Act.” It passed 235 to 189 on a largely party-line vote. It’s a new law so important they gave it one of those clever acronym names: “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” or CROWN. Get it? Your hair is on the top of your head. A crown. I guess it’s not really that clever.

    So, they’ve finally gotten this critical piece of civil rights legislation done. Thank goodness! The era of racial discrimination against HAIR is coming to an end at last. No more unreasonable prejudice against sick dreads or even 1970’s-style afros. Employers are going to have to suck it up and let beautiful hairstyles have their full expression, and not be all tied up in a binding hairsack where they can’t breathe and stuff.

    The dumb Republicans objected to the bill, arguing that federal law already covers this kind of discrimination and that Democrats should be focusing on other issues, like inflation and high gas prices. But we have to have priorities! Hair has been far waiting too long for justice. Free the hair.

    *************************

    Bizarrely, even though Hong Kong is in the midst of a wild record-setting Covid surge and is also busy setting the record for the highest rate of deaths in the world, it is nevertheless easing its Covid restrictions, for some reason. The “Covid-zero” city announced last week that its bans on flights from most countries will soon be lifted, and the mandatory traveler quarantine period halved. Social distancing and business restrictions will also be rolled back, slowly, beginning April 21st.

    They’re not setting the world on fire with their slow-motion rollbacks or anything, and I wouldn’t have bothered reporting on it except for one thing. The interesting thing is that the announcement of rollbacks is completely disconnected from what is happening in that country. When Covid cases were flat, they imposed draconian restrictions. Now that cases are skyrocketing, they are rolling the restrictions back. How does that make sense?

    It’s almost like the rollbacks are happening just because. Because somebody said so.

    ******************************

    The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed over the weekend supporting Florida’s new position as the only state opposing Covid vaccination for healthy kids, which was headlined “Healthy Children Don’t Need Covid Vaccines.” The article’s subhead explains “Florida is right. Especially for kids under 12, the risks are trivial. And most have natural antibodies.”

    What’s most amazing is this is a controversial position at all.

    Florida’s recent announcement instantly triggered a lot of unthinking CDC-followers. The American Academy of Pediatrics called the Sunshine State’s recommendation “irresponsible.” The Infectious Diseases Society of America accused Dr. Ladapo of putting “politics over the health and safety of children.” Jen Psaki whined, “It’s deeply disturbing that there are politicians peddling conspiracy theories out there and casting doubt on vaccinations.”

    Casting doubt! How could they.

    The article points out the extremely difficult fact that “vaccine efficacy turned negative during the Omicron surge a month after kids were inoculated (-10%) and declined even more after six weeks (-41%). This means vaccinated children were significantly MORE likely to catch Covid than the unvaccinated.” Whoops.

    Of course, we all know about these facts. But again, the most curious feature of the op-ed is its existence at all: apparently, the corporate media now has a green light to publish articles critical of the jabs. Is the Trusted News Initiative over? What gives?

    **************************

    The UK Express ran a much-appreciated but belated story this weekend headlined, “Banning Children From School in Pandemic Was a Mistake, Says [UK Education Secretary] Zahawi.”

    Britain’s Secretary of Education Nadhim Zahawi told reporters “I suspect one thing we won’t need an inquiry to tell us is it was a mistake to go to home learning.” You don’t say. The Express noted that “the full impact of the disruption may not be apparent for years but experts are convinced it will be significant.”

    My gosh! This must be so bitter for parents in Great Britain who’ve been screaming about this for two years now, and whose children will never ever recover all that lost development time. Once again, thanks experts! What would we do without your mistakes?

    ***************************

    SAGE is the scientific advisory group that guided the British government’s response to the pandemic. British SAGE Member Mark Woolhouse just published his new book, “The Year the World Went Mad,” which refreshingly admits that more or less everything Woolhouse and his colleagues suggested and the British government did was WRONG. Of course. Woolhouse gives his “insider’s view” describing how the pandemic-response train so quickly skewed off the tracks, rolled over, caught fire, and exploded.

    Now, I’ve been warning against these “experts” since early in the pandemic, and I have the receipts, because it’s all there in my daily blogs. Folks, we’re just getting started with these confessions. A lot of deluded academics are starting to wake up and are going to be writing about it, to try to claw back their respectability and purge their guilty consciences. Just wait. You thought “expertise” was already dead? It’s only comatose. There’s a LOT of dying left to do.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I can see the logic in this:
    GOP launches voter registration initiative at gas stations amid surging pain at the pump

    The Republican National Committee told Fox News that its voter initiative began on Saturday and involved staff and volunteers registering people to vote at gas stations in the Phoenix and Scottsdale area of Arizona where gas prices have soared to over $4.50 per gallon.

    “Arizonans are frustrated with paying the record-high gas prices we’ve seen recently, this is an issue that affects almost every single Arizonan,” The RNC’s Arizona Communications Director Ben Petersen told Fox News in a statement. “There’s no doubt that everyone is feeling the pain at the pump, so a gas station right now may be the very best possible place for one of our volunteers to have a conversation with someone and get someone signed up to vote.”

  10. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bonecrusher

    RE:Bluetooth truck and cell phone

    Ummmm buying a new phone may not solve that problem.  Depending on the age of your truck a new phone may be unable to pair with the truck due to “upgrades”.  Not all Bluetooth is backwards compatible.  Take your truck to the dealer (or call) and see if they can upgrade the firmware/software of your truck radiot.

    Yes I am an Apple faboi, as much as I hate to admit it Apple is the worst for pairing with vehicles.  It can be done but not without a major anger breakdown sometime in the pairing process.  I will not bore you with my woes only to say I FINALLY got my iphone to pair after an hour of aggravation.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Re: CDC & Covid

    I can’t wait for all the ‘numbers’ to come to light.

    The real ones. The ones that have been hinted at. The ones that have been kept from public view. The ones used to manipulate the narrative and sucker lots of good folks into taking the jab, aka “feeding big pharma”.

    In the past, I’ve been a somewhat lukewarm supporter of big pharma. They do a lot of good, providing medications that are needed. They do the R&D that I’m not able to do. They provide a much needed service.

    But this whole China flu event, where the push to jab every bipedal homo sapien on the planet in an incestuous design with the Democrat party to transfer vast, vast sums of wealth from taxpayers (who paid for all those jabs??) to their coffers and from there to campaign contributions, has left a very sour taste in my mouth.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    H/T ACE:
    Creativity with cardboard.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I failed to send out my Pic of the Day while I was on vacation last week. A friend I saw at the rosary last night told me (again) how much they enjoyed those daily pictures.

    I guess I better take care of that task for the day.

    I never thought that sharing all of those internet scrounged pics would mean so much to so many.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #12

    That was great!

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #10 Squawkster: The difficulty in pairing has only come up in the last few months; same phone, same truck, new problems.

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bones #15

    It is a software problem.  Very rare that it is hardware problem.  Could be but low probability.  Did you have operating system upgrades in the cell phone?  That is when bluetooth is usually upgraded or shortly there after..  Did you change bluetooth settings in the truck or your phone/  Prolly not because that is an area most people do not fool with.

    My main concern is a new phone may not work with the “older truck”.  That is why I suggested taking the truck to the dealer to see about upgrading its software.

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I mentioned that I murdered a big 5′ Timber Rattler along the Bear Creek Trail on Saturday. I removed his head with the 20 Ga pump loaded with high brass #6’s, blew it smooth off, nowhere to be found. He had 9 rattles and a button. In the picture you can see him rattling his rattles even though his head is missing. FWIW; I don’t like murdering them but we just have too many around here.

  18. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Misty out here, but we desperately need rain, more than just the wet fog that currently exists.  To our north and west, where the fires are the worst, I understand that they are getting a little more relief from the weather.  The winds have died down a little, but are still brisk – just not like yesterday’s.  Hopefully they can get a handle on some of this today before things return to normal tomorrow.

    I’m going to look at some options for my front of the house large outdoor clay pots this morning.  Maybe I can make up my feeble mind as to what might look best out there, while keeping in mind that we get bright, unbearably hot summer sun which will be arriving in just a few short weeks.

    Question:  does anyone anywhere really care whether some guy won a women’s sporting event?  If that is an issue, then we have resolved a lot more of our problems than I thought we had.  First, other than parents, who pays attention to women’s sports to begin with?  Even the concept of calling women’s events “sports” is questionable – sort of like picking the prettiest sow in the pen.  So my advice is to let those freak shows go on and run their course since (1) they are meaningless to begin with; and (2) no one really cares anyway.

    In other news, Fauci reports that the newest, latest and greatest version of COVID has been released into the wild, Russia is committing atrocities in Ukraine, people in Africa are starving, pets are being abandoned, children are being trafficked and abused, and so on.  And don’t forget about the greatest scourge of all, Climate Change.  Seriously, why would anyone even turn on the news these days?

    OK, that’s all for now.  Chinese 737 crashed by the way.  More later.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    (2) no one really cares anyway.

    Unless you’re a female who has worked her butt off to qualify for scholarships based on athletic ability who now has all of her hard work stolen by some guy in panties.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No problems pairing my iPhone with new vehicle.

    And with iPhone, you can live in a Google-free world.

    Perhaps the shutting down of 3g screwed up your phone?

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I understand everyone in the world these days wants to display how supremely virtuous they are, but it seems no one has the ability to think through their plans and analyze the potential ramifications of their actions.

    Two weeks ago, the node.ipc author pushed a new version of the library that sabotaged computers in Russia and Belarus, the countries invading Ukraine and providing support for the invasion, respectively. The new release added a function that checked the IP address of developers who used the node.ipc in their own projects. When an IP address geolocated to either Russia or Belarus, the new version wiped files from the machine and replaced them with a heart emoji.

    To conceal the malice, node.ipc author Brandon Nozaki Miller base-64-encoded the changes to make things harder for users who wanted to visually inspect them to check for problems.

    If you sabotage via open source software, who is going to trust it anymore ?  It only stands to strengthen the position of large software companies who will charge you money for what used to be free.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wagonburner – if you don’t listen to the podast “Return to Tradition,” you should.

    The Pope is up to his usual tricks, and it up to changing how the Church is structured and operates. Again.
    Francis Bestows Upon Himself Bizarre New Title In Latest Decree

    This Pope has been working at destroying the functions and beliefs of the church for years, and most Catholics are, at best ignorant, at worst uncaring.

  23. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Turns out that the plant nursery place is closed on Sunday and Monday, so I’ll have one more day to contemplate my outdoor landscape options.

    #19 – My point exactly.  What is the likelihood that some promising female athlete who is paying attention is going to continue the pursuit of excellence when she realized that the system is stacked against her – she won’t.  How the liberals have done an about face and are now proving that men make better women than women do, especially when it comes to Title IX, sort of defeats the purpose of Title IX to begin with. Even Time Magazine realizes that by making an man “Woman of the Year.” That sort of proves that the liberals now believe that the biological females should return to the kitchen and hone their culinary skills.

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I don’t know why anyone would disparage a pretty sow.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From C&C comments:

    “ So, they’ve finally gotten this critical piece of civil rights legislation done. ”

    No doubt, slipped into the fine print, was $2.7 billion for studying the effect of 9th century lesbian dance theory on climate change.

    I think climate change theory is responsible for lesbian dance.

    so let me get this straight. the house bill means that even if i put plastic thingys in my dreads like manny ramirez used to do, i keep my job. but if i don’t take a shot, i get fired. boy i really feel protected now. thanks, dems.

    Cases skyrocketing here in little Britain where many believe we must do as we are told. Most cases triple jabbed among the hundred or so we know. They want to start the foutlrth jab asap. Can’t wait to see that sh.. show.

    The covid scamdemic immensely helped the Chicoms and the Democrat party:

    – allowed the Hong Kong protests to be crushed (stopping a major threat to the CCP)

    – stopped the rosy US economy (screwing Trump’s reelection) and allowed mail-in voting (easy vote manipulation).

  26. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We have no water in our section of the subdivision this morning, I noticed low pressure last night. Everyone on our street lost water so at least happy it’s not on my end. Amazing the things you need water for. At least we had enough to make coffee.

  27. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #6 Tedtam,

    “For starters” nails it.  So much more rotting garbage to be discovered and dealt with, severely.

  28. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #6 Tedtam,

    “For starters” nails it.  So much more rotting garbage to be discovered and dealt with, severely.

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    GJT

    At least we had enough to make coffee.

    OOOOOOO no coffee in my house results in mutual destruction.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If there was no water here in the morning, I would be pouring out bottles of Her Highness’ water into the coffeemaker.  There’s always a couple of cases of that around.  I now realize it’s good for something.

  31. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We don’t use bottled water much but we usually have some on hand. Not so much today, got a case now from the dollar store. They have a mini excavator down the street digging, so I guess they found the problem. Nobody around I right now so must be on lunch break. Must be union workers.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    ???

    Her Highness wants to buy an outdoor wildlife camera mainly to spy on the birds here.  I was looking at this small one and wondering if anybody had experience with a similar model.

  33. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    This is not an anti-Trump move, it is to destroy our economy, subjugate the citizenry and destroy the fossil fuel industry.

    Well the last couple of years have brought a lot more attention to it, but this seems to have been in the works for quite a while before the coof or Trump came into the picture.  Both were just convenient launch points for what they have been wanting to implement anyway.  Can’t have us little folks experiencing liberty.  We might get used to it.

  34. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Y’all have me thinking about investing in one of those liquid totes for water storage. I have some smaller capacity storage (5 gallon) but would be nice to have bigger capacity.

  35. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #34 – LARGE (new) trash cans work well – fill them and keep them in a bath tub

    And – larger water bladders (bath tub size) also available online

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Does anybody in the Kremlin look at weather data before trying to invade some place ?  It’s the rainy/snow melt season in Ukraine and the whole nation is a mud pit.  Tanks and other mobile equipment can’t travel overland so they are confined to the roads making them sitting ducks for Ukrainian fighters and saboteurs.  Also add in disintegrating, flat and flaming Chinese tires and you got problems.

    HT: Glenn Reynolds

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    35 Katfish

    What if somebody wants to take a bath or shower ?

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    What if somebody wants to take a bath or shower ?

    Hes a biker, remember?

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is the Andrew Bolt show on Sky News in Australia.  He and his guest try to translate Pelosi’s press conference from last week.  The Aussies are merely saying what everybody else in the world is thinking.

    It would be hilarious if she were not third in line to the White House.

  40. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

     Texpat says:
    MARCH 21, 2022 AT 12:28 PM

    35 Katfish

    What if somebody wants to take a bath or shower ?

     

    Tell them its a First World problem and you’re temporarily in a Third World situation.

    Or if that puts the continuation of you remaining a sentient being walking this earth in doubt, try this.

  41. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #39 – If the Republicans had listened to me last time around nominated AOC to oppose Nancy as Speaker, AOC would have peeled off enough Dems to allow the Reps to elect her.  Couldn’t be any worse than it is now, and think of the fun we would all be having watching AOC try to herd those cats.  Republican politicians just are not very smart.  The Dems in Austin are smart enough to pick the Texas House Speaker even though they are in the minority.  If a Texas Democrat is smart enough to figure that out, why can’t a Washington Republican?

    Off and on clouds still coming over, but no precip hitting the ground, and yes, since you asked, the wind is still blowing pretty strong.  But since there is some humidity in the air today, it doesn’t seem to be taking its toll on the fragile plant leaves quite so much today.

  42. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #3 Car-free Sundays in cities

    Don’t worry about me walking 17 miles to church on Sunday while wearing my Sunday Best during a Houston summer. I’m sure I will not overheat on the trek in which will have to start at 4am to arrive by 10am. I can save time by eating lunch and walking at the same time on the way back which would be from 1pm – 7pm. Like I said don’t worry about me.  I’ll manage.

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

    Vaxxxed.

    Although he was scorned by the totalitarian Aussie government and the propagandist media it looks as though Djokovic was smart and right.

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

    Oh boy lowering the speed limit again so it’ll take 7 hours to drive to Kerrville instead of 4.

    Isn’t the great reset and the NWO great?!?

    Cheeseburgers in paradise and all that isn’t included in the Great Deceitset.

  45. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #37 – Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllll we have two Bath/Showers @ Casa de PezGato

     

    😉

  46. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Ermuhgerd, I have spent 3 hours doing docusign on my 2 investment accounts that are being shuffled around to try to do better in a LGB economy.

     

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s terrifying.

    He’s back.

  48. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Little nap helped, and a little shower came through.  Spotted clouds but still no measurable rainfall.  And still windy, relentlessly windy.  Reports are that the rainfall to our north and west has been enough to help with the numerous and huge range fires, but it would take a gully washer to actually put them out.  Certainly better than nothing though. As a side note, the fire that did major damage in the town of Ranger was reportedly arson and unrelated to the range fires.  I did hear that state fire investigators were here investigating a rash of house fires recently up in one of the drug infested areas of town.  A year or so ago one of the local druggies murdered his girlfriend and her parents up in there, and after 3 tries, that murder house finally burned to the ground.  Oh well, it is what it is.

  49. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #46 – what is that thing?

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    what is that thing?

    I think it’s a Great Southwestern Weird Duck.

  51. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’m just jealous of that head of hair and beard.

  52. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The Bee strikes a hard blow against women using performance enhancing body parts.  https://babylonbee.com/news/ncaa-swimming-champ-caught-in-possession-of-performance-enhancing-testicles

  53. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    46 shannon
    He looks like Santa.

  54. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Ho Frikkin Ho

    Coal in yer stockin fer sher

  55. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Well tomorrow is THE big day. I’ll be out of pocket for a couple of days. I hope the weather guessers are wrong about potential street flooding. I do not want any O.R. docs or nurses arriving late to my surgery. Mrs. TexMo will text Katfish and Tedtam so look for updates from them.

    GJT I’ll want my seat when I come back and don’t even think about stealing my throw pillow.

  56. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Power Line’s Geek In Pictures is pretty informative today.  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/the-geek-in-pictures-inflated-claims-edition.php

  57. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Y’all just wait. The next four videos are on sleeping bags

     

  58. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texmo, I am praying for your surgery and recovery to be successful in every possible way. God bless you and your doctors. May their eyes be sharp, hands steady, and their stitchery a piece of art.

  59. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    GJT I’ll want my seat when I come back and don’t even think about stealing my throw pillow.

    But I can have your leftover beer though right, I’m sure the docs will have you on the wagon for awhile. 😀

    God Bless you buddy, you will continue to be in my prayers.

  60. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The next four videos are on sleeping bags

    Sounds like a complete snooze fest.

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon

    (and everyone else)

    Y’all hunker down.  A tornado just missed my brother in Round Rock and checking my Radar Scope app, stuff is winding up bad heading toward all of us.

    As for me and my lovely BSue

  62. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Can y’all back me up with my wife. We will be fine!! Don’t worry!!

  63. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texmo

    No wheel chair races dangit.  You just fixed up and get back here.  Oh BTW BSue and I are prayin for ya.  2 thumbs up man.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: OC

    Car free Sundays was pushed by teh gays. So they can finish off finishing off the churches.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    SQK

    Yep.
    See it coming.
    No TV reception tonite, once it arrives.
    Hopefully the WiFi keeps working.
    🙂

  66. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    TexMo, good luck with those docs.  I’ve got no idea what they might have planned for rehab, but look out for the female physical therapists – they don’t feel any of your pain.  Enjoy the rest for the day or so off, because it’s back to work once the anesthesia wears off.  Good luck.

  67. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #54 – Kneemails are UP from all points Brother!

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Godspeed Texmo.

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

    Godspeed Texmo.

    Ditto.

  70. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #54 Texmo

    Well tomorrow is THE big day.

    I’m sure we will all be thinking about your surgery tomorrow, and hope all goes well.

  71. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    TexMo, prayers for your successful surgery tomorrow and a speedy recovery.  We shall miss your posts until you are up to visiting us again.  Soon we hope.

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Wow, all the sudden I am banned from Babylon Bee because of…

    What happened?

    The owner of this website (babylonbee.com) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (9009) from accessing this website.

    I don’t know what this means or if perhaps Babylon Bee is undergoing a denial of service (DNS) attack.

  73. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    TexMo

    Go down there, get the job done and don’t take any crap off the smartass crews in the OR rooms.  Give it right back to them.  I know how they are.

  74. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Looks like the Bee banned not only you but a whole slew of people that operate under that IP address block.  I’d bet someone within 2-5 miles of you prolly attacked the bee.  So the Bee stopped the attack by blocking an entire block of IP addresses.

  75. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    73 Squawk

    I’m absolutely surrounded by these psychotic imbeciles who all belong in institutions.  Life’s not fair, I’m telling you.  I wish I had the skills to hunt the local culprit down and take ’em out. I would enjoy that.

    Sorry Ralph, you’ve been permanently deleted from the human race.  Return to your cave.  Take your ugly wife and bratty kids with you.  Throw your laptop, driver’s license and SS card into the fire.  You won’t need them anymore.

  76. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Step 1—- Get a list of IP addresses used in your block.  It will prolly be about 5000+-

    Step 2— Download the sniffer I can guide you to.

    Step 3—- Install it and run it

    Step 4—You take the top 10 percent

    Oh wait we have to bullet proof your computer with a military grade VPN otherwise you will have the FBI knocking on your door.

    It ain’t that hard to find the critter and it is even less difficult to infect their computer once you find their private IP address.

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    74 Squawk

    Just got off the phone with my son-in-law 10 miles west of here and he can get on Babylon Bee.

  78. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Thank you all for the prayers and well wishes. It truly does mean alot to me.

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    75 Squawk

    I’d stay up all night hunting these weasels down, but I have an early, long day tomorrow.  Next time.

    Oh, and I have Nord and Tor.

  80. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Are running Nord or Tor now?  Your IP address that I can see puts you 5 miles North of Jersey.

  81. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Which is not unusual.

  82. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    TexMo, We’ll keep you in our prayers, hoping for a successful outcome.

  83. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don’t have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.

    Jeffery Deaver

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    79 Squawk

    I always run Nord on computers and phone.  I had no reason to use Tor tonight.

    I’m in far northeastern New Jersey, Bergen County and about 6 miles due west of NYC.

  85. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Y’all’d’ve

    Ex: We were all fixin’ to go together if y’all’d’ve waited.

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #32 Texpat That one looks fine to me and it’s fairly inexpensive. I have three cameras but only one is wireless and I’ve not used that function since I really don’t need it. With the modern technology I doubt that that you could get a bad game camera but you need to check the features to see what you need/want. My first camera’s used a flash and therefore would use up the batteries before too long but all mine now are infrared so the nighttime pictures aren’t in color BUT I can get several thousand pictures in one night and the batteries last forever.

  87. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    That would be just about right for where the geolocator has you.  That is the cheap identifier.  Get your IP address and plug it in to most geolocators and usually you are five miles off target.  The system is designed that way for privacy.  BUT I have a little tool that can triangulate and get within  3 or 4 blocks form where you are.    Then you ping the IP addy you want with another tool and i can drive right to your front door.  Just like peeling an onion.

  88. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    85 GJT

    I just had to translate “Y’all’d’ve” to Her Highness.  She got it, but just barely.

  89. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texans don’t believe in using more letters than necessary.

  90. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    About to cut off power to our river property. I gave the info to the buyer for the meters, and told them to transfer the power into their name. “Yes, ma’am,” he said, grateful for the info.

    I just received a bill. It’s under $2 because it’s for the “management” needs, such as running the water well and the septic system for the two down units. The well doesn’t take much.

    But it’s about to go dead. I’m sure that when the tenant calls her new owners they’ll have to do the changeout. They’ve had a coupla months to do this…so, sorry not sorry.

  91. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    hard core truth about the ‘rona and the gov’t response to it. SPOILER ALERT: the govt ain’t on your side.

  92. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #88

    Lol. Makes perfect sense with just a glance but I’m not sure I could translate it to the unknowing. 😀

  93. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #92 Tim

    Makes perfect sense if you mouth each syllable, then you know you’ve used that phrase before!

  94. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Beddy bye time out here.  You all have a great evening.  Nite all.

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

    Texpat goes weasel hunting in Jersey.:)

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change

    https://youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    via Instapundit…

    WE WILL DELETE YOU: “A deeper concern is what happens when private institutions like corporations, universities, and media exercise the same power without even the pretense of accountability. If the large financial institutions want to, they can act as gatekeepers to society and would be held accountable only by the market, to which they also hold the keys.”

    Hang a few executives or burn them at the stake and they’ll feel differently. The market is, in the end, not the only thing that can hold people accountable. It’s unwise to forget that.

    People and institutions want to practice social alchemy, but there’s only one universal solvent. Anyone with a reasonable knowledge of history would know that, but our elites are poorly educated.
    11:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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

    96
    How’s the weather out your way unckola?

  99. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’ll tee this one up for any Hamster staying up later than me tonight…

  100. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Challenge taken.

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