Last week, I was off to yet another exotic locale.
View from my somewhat swanky, less-than-palatial first-night accommodations:
Don’t drink the water. You’ll get somebody’s revenge.
View from later accommodations that were somewhat swankier:
Of course, gotta go to the plant to get paid:
I did get a bit of sightseeing in:
Local city streets:
No hanging ten allowed:
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Where Was The Wagonburner At?
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I missed by that much!
It did take a little while to load, all the pictures?
Back to the salt mine.
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China? Singapore?
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Good morning Hamsters. Fog gathering, 61 and dampish. Forecast for Halloween still calls for rain like we had yesterday, so it will not be great for T or T’ers or parental chaperones unless umbrellas are part of the costumes. The girls could always dress as Mary Poppins. 🙂 Getting a small supply of treats we like in the unlikely event any kids come by here.
The Packers won 44-31 over the Vikings last night. Good for them. Good for the Texans to have the weekend off to get organized and rested. And healed. -
Looks like the Forbidden City in that one pic.
I’ll say Peking. -
That’s half-right. I was there the first night and the last two.
The other four were someplace else. -
6 wagonburner says:
October 28, 2013 at 7:25 am
That’s half-right. I was there the first night and the last two.
The other four were someplace else.Aw c’mon man.
There’s like a kajillion cities in Chiny, some of them are fake.
I’ll take a guess though:
Quangpoo or, Gungesuck, or Hooflungdung -
Was that “Revenge” clue just a red herring?
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No. You can’t drink the water.
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But is there such a thing as Mao’s Revenge?
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I didn’t want to find out.
In many places in Asia, you don’t get “only” an upset tummy. You get Hepatitis A. -
Ifn you drink the water you get moved to the special city Huansikpuppy.
I was gonna guess China but the air seemed way to clear and clean. . . . . -
Welcome, wagonburner!
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#12 bone
Better?
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Not no but HE!! WISSIN NO!!
HEADLINE: A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue
The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax bill.In the light of the IRS and NSA debacles, does anybody really believe that this device won’t be used to track and profile each and every American? If they track miles, they have the capacity to track location – to take their word that they will not do so simply defies reality.
The supposed reason that they claim that they need this new device, to tax us on the miles we drive in addition to the tax on the gas we buy, is because cars don’t use as much fuel as they used to….. and our highways are crumbling, etc. What have they done with the BILLIONS we have and continue to pay in fuel taxes? I would bet the farm that the money has been squandered, misappropriated, and wasted in true governmental fashion. 3.7 trillion dollars spent on welfare in the last 5 years and guess what, we are out of money. All the money spent on welfare and we have more people on welfare than ever before in raw numbers and as a percentage of the population. A reasonable person would conclude that spending huge sums on welfare does not reduce the welfare rolls and is destructive to the individuals on welfare, the economy, the country as a whole and on the people who work to pay those taxes; unfortunately reasonable people do not seem to inhabit the governmental offices at all levels of our country. -
#15: That looks like China, the land where you can cut out a chunk of the air and carry it in your pocket. The land of the perpetually broken wind.
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There is an interesting article in the dead tree version of the WSJ (page A13, below the fold) this am titled: Comparison Shopping for Knee Surgery.
In this article it deals with the Calpers self insurance program. The administrators saw that a typical knee replacement cost between $20,000 and $120,000 with no discernible difference in outcome when all factors are considered. This cause Calpers to change the game a bit: They will pay up to $30K for a knee replacement and the patient pays the rest – but the patient gets to choose the hospital and doctor. Amazingly enough, when the patient had to pick up the difference they changed they way they bought – they became more price conscious. In addition, the higher priced hospitals reduced their fees to become more competitive. What a wonderful example of the free-ish market at work. -
#16 – that horse is already OUT of the barn………………..(in most instances)
1. It’s pretty likely your car already has an EDR.
GM was the pioneer here, starting to install them in the late ’90s, and by 2005 a number of marques (GM, Ford, Isuzu, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru and Suzuki) were putting them on everything. According to the NHTSA, about 91.6% of cars currently have them. Here’s a list. Notable exceptions are Audi and Mercedes-Benz, but this new law will change that.Everything You Need To Know About The Black Boxes Coming To Your Next Car
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#20 Whiskerfish: This means that, with the complicity (the extortion of may be more precise) of the auto-makers the authoritahs can track any newish car they choose. Pick the target and then find out which vehicles are registered to that target and track them all. The cash for clunkers model is starting to make more sense now, those older cars did not have the boxes embedded in them, thus rendering them much more difficult to track ( unless they have an EZ tag). With the newer cars they can be shut down remotely via satellite, at the whim of whichever power hungry/crazed polititerd has his/hers/its/ze’s finger on the correct buttons. The horrors of 1984 are becoming a reality – HOWDY BIG BRO.
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#21 – precisely why I have every intention of making ‘Betty-the-2001-Crown-Vic-Copmobile’ last and live at least another decade (or hopefully longer)
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My 2007 Hyundai Sante Fe was not on the list, Hyundai was not listed period. I have had the car since 2008 when it only had 17k miles on the clock. Now it has 153K and still runs like it did when I bought it, does not burn any oil between changes, no major repairs – only routine maintenance, it still has the original spark plugs. The car is a cream puff, I tell ya and I fully expect to get at least 300K on the clock. I can get 22-23 mpg if I keep it under 75 which almost never happens :>)
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A darn sneaky tool for those who may suspect their wimmenzes are stepping out on them.
HEADLINE: Tweeting Bra: Sends Tweets Every Time It’s Unclasped
In this case the tweets are in Greek, and the wimminzes know that said bra is so equipped, but if one were to be sneaky and wanted to check up on his woman, well. . . . . . . .
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In this case the tweets are in Greek, and the wimminzes know that said bra is so equipped, but if one were to be sneaky and wanted to check up on his woman, well.
If’n its Greek, there won’t be too much traffic on the bra tweeters. On the undershorts tweeters, a whole bunch, but not on the bra tweeters.
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“As it becomes clear that no single leader oversaw implementation of the health law’s signature online marketplace—a complex software project that would have been difficult under the best circumstances—the accounts of more than a dozen current and former officials show how a disjointed bureaucracy led to the site’s disastrous Oct. 1 launch. Problems persisted Sunday. A federal data hub that verifies the identity and income of people applying for subsidized insurance from 14 state-run exchanges and 36 exchanges run by the federal government failed when the company hosting the hub lost its network connectivity, the administration said.”
“Divergent agency cultures, political directives that clashed with operational deadlines, a compressed timeline and dispersed geography led to the federal site’s technical failures, those people said. The glitches have locked out millions of users, left insurers to sift through flawed data and given new ammunition to Republican detractors of the health law. A White House official said its experts were involved in policy making and some interagency coordination. They were briefed on the website’s development, but relied on the technical team of CMS, as the Medicare and Medicaid agency is known, for operational decisions, the official said…”-WSJ / Politics, 10/28/13
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#24 – further evidence that PT Barnum was RIGHT
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RE Car data loggers/GPS
Indeed it IS already coming, but maybe not in the manner you think.
I am not sure of the status, but it is my understanding that the City of Sugar Land is installing some fixed cameras at “entrances” to the city. These cameras will have LPR (License Plate Recognition) capabilities similar to those cameras already mounted to police cars around the country. I attended a town hall meeting quite some time ago in which the police chief mentioned that the courts have already decided that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy while driving around.
The stated purpose of the cameras are to assist law enforcement when they have a partial description of a vehicle suspected of being used in a crime. For instance you come home to find your house has been burglarized and the neighbor when interviewed states they saw a red, S-10 pick-up earlier in the day. The video imaging is fully searchable based on full plate, partial plate, color, and get this make and model. Supposedly the make and model is not fool proof and will still require a human to help verify.
I can not believe that LA Times article Bones linked to. It said that a libertarian group was in favor of a pay per mile scheme. What makes them think the monies collected on a pay per mile basis will ACTUALLY make it into some sort of road & bridge fund? -
Katfish,
precisely why I have every intention of making ‘Betty-the-2001-Crown-Vic-Copmobile’ last and live at least another decade (or hopefully longer)
Oh… you are one of those guys!
/spits
Please for all of the couch’s sanity sake just keep riding Gracie. 🙂 -
From Shannon’s quote:
“Divergent agency cultures, political directives that clashed with operational deadlines, a compressed timeline and dispersed geography led to the federal site’s technical failures, those people said.
Does that mean Mumbai or Shanghai?
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Geography doesn’t have to be dispersed much to really have a negative impact. Often, across town may as well be the other side of the planet.
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#30 – hey I inherited the Crown Vic – never imagined owning one but I’ve grown to like it! (and since it’s also white – quite entertaining when folks slow down on the highway……………….until they see my long hair hehehehehehehehe)
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I’ll bet that Crown Vic feels like you are riding around in the living room. As I rapidly approach 54 laps around the sun, a good ride and a quiet interior increase in importance.
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As far as JugEarsCare goes, does anyone really think that this could possibly work, even under the best of circumstances with honest and intelligent people which seem to be almost non-existant in DC?
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Hmmmm Martha Stewart weren’t a bad looking gal back in the day.
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#36 Squawk: Compare that to this pic of Hillary Where’s my Face Iron Clinton.
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Wow.
I was there on Thursday. -
#31 TexMo
Does that mean Mumbai or Shanghai?
Canada, innit?
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#36 Squawkie
I thought some of them looked a bit like Ann-Margret. -
……………the term CANKLES springs to mind……………. 🙂
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the term CANKLES springs to mind
SHUDDER
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#39 mh42
Yep.
They’re near Abu Dhabi, Alberta. -
I think we have some geographical jeanousouses here on the blog.
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Gallaries, gallaries, rah, rah, rah.
Load time is vastly improved. 🙂
Oh, look, it’s China!!! -
Unintended, unforseen consequences of
outrageously bad legislationObamacare, now no longer unforseen – in fact they were known 3 years ago by the admin.HEADLINE: Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance
Amazingly enough this is an NBC story, and it goes on to state that the admin KNEW that up to 80% would lose their coverage because it did not meet up to the new Ocare standard. NBC has committed a random act of journalism and actually caught the admin in an ongoing bald faced lie.
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#30 – hey I inherited the Crown Vic
I’ve never been a big fan of Fords because up until a few years ago, I did 100% of the maintenance on all my vehicles (including rebuilding old small blocks) and GMC products not only hold up better they are also easier to work on. That said, the 2001 Crown Vic is a fine automobile and will last forever if it’s taken care of. I will add that NONE of the front wheel drive go-carts are AUTOMOBILES, they are disposable, just like a Bic lighter.
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#36
Hmmmm Martha Stewart weren’t a bad looking gal back in the day.
I for one thinks that she looks pretty good for her age now. Everyone grows old and at least she doesn’t looks like she has had umpteen plastic surgery’s.
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#47 SD:
I will add that NONE of the front wheel drive go-carts are AUTOMOBILES, they are disposable, just like a Bic lighter.
I’m a-gonna hafta beg to differ with ya bro, my front wheel drive Hyundai Sante Fe is the best car I have ever owned.Period.dot. bingo. It ain’t even close. Easy to drive, easy to get in and out of, never breaks down, reasonable mileage, reasonably quiet at 80 mph (which it will do all damn day and not break a sweat), not a race car but plenty fast enough for semi agressive driving around the city, what is not to like?
In Sept of this year I actually hauled 4-3/4″ x 4 x 8 sheets of plywood in it, had to keep the back hatch open but it worked. -
I wanna see a 4-3/4″ thick sheet of plywood.
And I wanna see you carry it.
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2000 Crown Vics and construction material haulin’ foreign cars, are we in Mexico or Houston? Oh- never mind……..
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#50 – well since you WENT “there” Brother………….I’ve not had any need to haul any plywood home (although I think Betty could with some creative rope & bungees)………….let’s talk dragging a 7 x 10 trailer with an 800 lb motorcycle (aka Gracie) loaded on it………….
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#50 Shannon
I wanna see a 4-3/4″ thick sheet of plywood.
I think he is saying 4 sheets of 3/4″ thick…
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let’s talk dragging a 7 x 10 trailer with an 800 lb motorcycle (aka Gracie) loaded on it………….
What about a lightweight (4000 Lb Gross) boat and trailer. IE, it’s not really even truck material.
The Crown Vic with it’s FULL FRAME will tow 5,000 Lbs? I’m guessin’. -
We are planning my first supper outing to a neighborhood Mexican restaurant for tomorrow night. I am walking pretty well now on the basic little walker, and it folds and stows ever so much better than my big rollator.
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#54 – I’m thinkin You’re not far off SD – although I’d not like to drag 2.5 tons very far (for the sake of the drive line & trans)
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#Shannon’sUnderwear
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#56 I should have mentioned the rear end, most of them came with 2.73- 3.08 (gas millage) gears and would need 3.73’s tow 5K lbs.
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#55 mharper42, Very good, I guess all the trips to the Gulag paid off. 😀
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I remember one day Lovely Daughter and I were going somewhere, waiting in the left turn lane near A Major Freeway, when a pickup truck driven by some Mexicans were crossing through the intersection in front of us (we were about 3 cars back). They hit some kind of bump and all of the roughly 15 sheets of plywood in the bed of the pickup with the tailgate down made a group decision to exit the aforesaid unsecured pickup truck bed. The Mexicans casually stopped the car in the intersection and began to meander to the pile of building materials piled up in everyone’s way.
After I saw how lackadaisically they were treating the situation, I said, “Come on, Lovely!” and got out of our car, ran to the intersection, squatted down (pick up with the legs, not the back) and took hold of the top piece. We rushed to the truck and set it in place, then ran back to the pile. A couple of other cars emptied out with more helpers, and the Mexicans actually picked up the pace. We had their truck reloaded within minutes and we all went on our way.
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Lovely reminds me that it was sheetrock, not plywood. I remember thinking they were all in one piece, not a single broken piece, so it must have been plywood.
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Has any President lied more than Obama? Clinton maybe?
Where is the outrage? We are living Orwell and Huxley’s visions.
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