Finally we got someone at the park that Lily will play with. Unfortunately while she’s fine on the trail her behavior in the park is becoming too aggressive. I’ll probably have to stop bringing her in there if there are strange dogs. I should have enough video for at least two columns.
Rustic reminds of how Lily was at his age, though he’s more of a sumo wrestler while Lily prefers sambo
The stars and cards have a severe disagreement as to how important this week is. The skies just say it’s going to be unstable or full of news and that Friday is a good date night.
Solinari, Lunitari, Nuitari
According to the cards it’s going to be a staggeringly, monumentally, cataclysmically important week, and mostly bad. EIGHT Majors? This goes beyond “wear a helmet” into “don’t leave the bunker” territory.
Aquarius: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news. Also indecision and instability.
Pisces: Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
Aries: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Taurus: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Gemini: Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.
Cancer: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality.
Leo: The Fool reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Virgo: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Libra: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Scorpio: The Chariot – Succor, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.
Sagittarius: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues. And you got one of the better cards.
Capricorn: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption.
How can you not like snow?
Accurate, but for the material happiness part. I’m seriously thinking about looking into @groat scotum/commodius spittoon’s profession.
Onlyfans?
Look. I could make a lot of money on OF with one particular … feature. Alas. I’m not that trashy.
Go on…
Sagittarius: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues. And you got one of the better cards.
I’m pretty good at contrary and difficult. Some people find me intriguing (used to, anyway).
sufficiently shitty
Aries: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Maybe I should redouble my career change efforts, which are fairly casual at present.
I love the world.
/Spares audience the link to recent concert footage. Who are these geezers?!
Cause, or effect?
Trump’s appearance at the Superdome in New Orleans to watch the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles follows the NFL’s decision to remove the “End Racism” slogans that have been stenciled on the end zones since 2021.
Notoriously racist NFL, where no black man ever got a fair shake.
OFFS. Hit piece disguised as “news”. Never change, The AP.
If it’s any consolation, I think a solid plurality, if not majority, have had it with this shit.
Trump signed an order last week that is intended to block transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports by targeting federal funding for schools that fail to comply.
Alvin Tillery, a politics professor and diversity expert at Northwestern University, said in an interview that the NFL’s decision to remove “End Racism” slogans was “shameful” given that the league “makes tens of billions of dollars largely on the bodies of Black men.”
He said the NFL should explain who it was aiming to please. The NFL said it was stenciling “Choose Love” in one of the end zones for the Super Bowl to encourage the country after a series of tragedies so far this year, including a New Year’s Day truck attack in the host city of New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured dozens more.
Tillery wasn’t convinced. “I think they removed it because Trump’s coming,” he said.
He bestrides the narrow world like a colossus.
“Diversity expert.” Give me a fucking break.
Maybe they should paint “End Trucks” in the endzone?
So, Endependent? Not Tracker?
This framing is important. It’s the funding that is the problem: eliminate government schools and all the access and control problems evaporate. The challenge is not protecting women from trannies: it’s protecting taxpayers from funding other people’s obligations and entertainments.
This model is largely true in all other things. I wish there were a way to naturally couch all these national struggles in terms of public-vs-private sector instead of left/right identity. There should be private places where both the left and the right can be as stupid and selfish as they wish, a place where none of my money goes unless I agree with their particular brand of stupidity and selfishness.
LOL good luck with that. If there is anything that unites every Dem and a huge chunk of the GOP it’s the existence of government-run everything.
Can they paint something that won’t convince me to watch something else?
“Drink your Ovaltine”
“Taxation is Theft!”
The challenge is not protecting women from trannies: it’s protecting taxpayers from funding other people’s obligations and entertainments.
Oddly enough, I was just reading a thing about how Trump is putting up “roadblocks” to building EV charging stations in Colorado. Has he issued a ban on building these facilities? Well, not exactly, but he says the federal government won’t pay for them. Nobody wants to spend their own money on these desperately needed things.
has DOGE jumped on eliminating EV subsidies and NASA yet?
I will throw Trump a bone: the net effect his planned measures could be the best step forward (backward?) in federal policy in my lifetime
I only wish it all were built on a base of public discourse: first principles and reason. Things won by identity politics, impulse, and autocratic thrusting can be lost by identity politics, impulse, and autocratic thrusting.
Do you think there is any possibility of winning on first principles or reason? You have to persuade enough people to get elected, then you have to somehow persuade enough legislators to put aside the personal and familial benefits that accrue from siding with the bureaucracy, academic establishment, media, and globalists. People tend to be persuaded by emotion, then use reason, if at all, to rationalize arguments allowing them to get something for nothing, and to avoid their obligations. I do agree with you that it would be best to have a majority of the populace recognize reality and see the long term benefits of a principled, scrupulously limited Republic. I am not arguing that your ideal is wrong, just that it is utopian and I see no path to it ever happening. The Founding Fathers probably came closest in all of human history, but even they kicked the slavery can down the road and abandoned the Articles of Confederation as soon as they ran into resistance.
As Brooks alludes to below, you cannot just go all “First Principal and [your version of]Reason” and expect anything other that getting dumped unceremoniously at the next election. You have to gradually convince people that the direction you want to go is correct and beneficial.
It’s like stalking a deer; if you move to suddenly, you will spook him.
I’ll vote for Donald’s third term if that happens, especially the former.
If OMB kills biden’s funding of charging stations and indirectly mandating EV manufacture in excess of actual demand the EV issue will largely fix itself. The fact that charging stations companies aren’t attracting sufficient capital to build out the system strongly suggests the demand is not, and will not be there.
Are the Feds still (?) giving tax breaks to wealthy EV owners? I know my state does, with a side helping of “eat shit, chump”.
“ Cancer: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality.”
Sounds like a good time.
😈
I will throw Trump a bone: the net effect his planned measures could be the best step forward (backward?) in federal policy in my lifetime
If he can bring more people to ask where all the money actually goes, instead of just blindly accepting the conventional establishment wisdom about the necessity of blindly spending trillions on policies based on “good intentions”, it will be an improvement.
^^ This. Dragging it into the light should be a net positive.
…If he can bring more people to ask where all the money actually goes”…
And where it comes from. Everything you buy or pay for includes the taxes of everyone previously in the chain. The banana you bought has to pay the grower/shipper/retailer income tax and everyone else that has touched the product. If you resell it for a mark up it has to include your taxes as well.
While the taxes per individual are minuscule they are there nonetheless.
I was just bitching about that when I read a local piece about DeWine’s budget, which includes doubling taxes on nicotine, marijuana, and sports gambling. The line that really made me rage:
The money just comes from the companies, who get it from the ether. The customers don’t give it to them…
The lady at my liquor store is still selling her family’s eggs under the table. Just saved a couple bucks versus Big Grocery.
Who could have predicted that local governments would grow to be dependent on the vices they claim to want to protect you from?
“Taurus: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.”
Well, I certainly hope so. Taking a bold step today: Going to a Superb Owl get-together with a Singles Group I found on FB in Carmel. First time doing such. Just feel like I need to get out of the house and *attempt* to socialize. It should be MIGHTY interesting. (I’ll make it so!) Mostly concerned cuz I had that seizure on Friday and some cuts and bruises are still visible. They aren’t at all standoutish, but still. Mentally, I’m back to ‘normal’ but still jostled by the recency of the haphazard. (Has a tendency to ‘stay’ on your mind.)
Past that, I’m also gonna go into my most-likely-next employer’s place tomorrow to nail that down. I very well may see if any of these folk can assist.
Curiosity, She Wrote.
Going to a Superb Owl get-together with a Singles Group I found on FB in Carmel.
Spoiler: It’s actually a key party.
If one of the girls’ FB pics are accurate, I wouldn’t mind spoiling her key with my party, IYKWIM. We shall see.
Just now, I was really nervous realizing that a currently unemployed person who lives with his parents is not exactly a high bar, but I’m also just there to meet people. Preferably my own age. I also have the advantage of having an interesting history and personality, if I may say so m’self. Should be quite interesting. (Yes, my constantly present inner-anxiety is currently aflame. Who are these fucks?! (Ev, ya’ve done far crazier.))
Voxplaining the California fires
5 approaches that experts say are our best shot at surviving future wildfires
A policy wish list, according to water, engineering, and legislative experts.
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There were indeed decisions that did make the fires more destructive than they needed to be. Wildfires are a natural part of the landscape in Southern California, but as more people move into vulnerable areas, the risk of sparking a fire and the scale of the ensuing destruction grow. And as average temperatures rise due to climate change, the Golden State is likely to experience more of the weather sequences that created the fuel for the recent wildfires.
tl;dr- Needs more top down collectivist authoritarianism.
Don’t worry. Gavin has it all figured out and some out of towner greenie will tell them how and what they can build. *click here to donate to Newsome*
I’m all for Trump revamping the ATC systems but God damn…get some advisors that understand where we are at today and not your pilots who have the latest and greatest.
ADSB put a lot of GA out of pocket – any futlrther advancements requiring GA to purchase or upgrade will make flying only truly for corps and governments.
I think I sort of understand what you’re saying, but I’m unsure if I have it.
As I read it there is a directive to revamp the air traffic control system to new technology, but it has been paired with a cost shifting directive that puts the load on the airlines and thus the customers – am I correct?
Yes. Since the FAA at its core is just a regulatory body, it’s no different than NHTSA making recommendations anf thus regulations, that vehicles need X and Y to be on the road.
So if Trump/Musk push forward with pie in the sky technologies, it will box out a lot of people who fly.
They like to knock ‘WWII’ technologies but a radar is a radar and a radio is a radio.
Also I am yet to learn of this fantastical system Trump utilizes on his private aircraft that the US doesn’t employ but he uses it in the….US?
https://time.com/7213433/what-is-osha-republicans-disband/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Insurance, professor; if you’d ever created a job or ran a real company, you would know who hands out the real spankings in business.
Solid tort law would easily replace OSHA. Hell, a lot of OSHA relies on industry standards and practices. It’s oversight is burdensome and redundant.
absolutely: tort law is where loss is learned; insurance is where loss is remembered
OSHA standards become both a minimum and a maximum. OSHA doesn’t require X, too bad.
I’m reminded of the “public wi-fi” that the left is always wetting themselves over.
“John” from TOS claimed (without evidence) that safety incidents actually increased after OSHA took effect. Something like helmets increase the number of bicycle accidents or something. Make sense, sorta. If workers think that all the safety stuff is taken care of then they will relax their awareness of hazards.
As we all know, business owners sit in smoke filled rooms all night coming up with new and creative ways to injure and kill their employees. Only the FedGov can stop it.
Re: the Bentley posted towards the end of the dead thread. I had a customer that bought a Bently Continental Coupe with that W12 twin turbo. It was glorious to drive, but 3 months after she bought it, a check engine light popped on and it started stuttering while she drove it. Apparently, she was between Houston and Austin when this occurred and she continued on to Austin like this. It ended up being an ignition coil. Of course it was one of the VW coils notorious for failing if you so much as mentioned water in it’s vicinity. Long and short of it, she was also overdue on spark plugs. $1,600 later, it was good again. A week later the light popped back on. This time it was a code for the catalyst on the side where the coil failed. I tried cleaning it to no avail, she had driven it too far with the failed coil for that to work. $18k later (50% of what she paid for the car 3 months earlier) that was fixed. I couldn’t repair it, Bentley had to. You need a special jig to lower the subframe with the powertrain to even see the catalytic converters on these cars. The upside is, the converters can’t be readily stolen out of these cars. Long and short of it, they are great cars if someone else is paying the repair bills.
When I worked for the auto electrician, it was really clear that 1) first owners went to the dealer and had things fixed under warranty. 2) Second owners went to the dealer or us (and we often did specialist work for dealers) and paid cash unless it was too expensive to bother with 3) Third owners brought them to us and paid cash unless it was too expensive to bother with and 4) everyone else did work on their own cars and/or drove them into the ground.
Hey!
I resemble that remark.
The upside is, the converters can’t be readily stolen out of these cars. Long and short of it, they are great cars if someone else is paying the repair bills.
A car like that should come with a lifetime unlimited bumper to bumper warranty; transferrable, of course.
*That car sold for ~$20k.
I’m always amused when a customer tells me how they “stole” a Range Rover or some other such car from the previous owner for such a cheap price. I always imagine the seller telling a neighbor how they found a sucker who bought their problems. Sadly, I yearn for and will probably one day buy an Arnage, despite knowing better.
No one ever sold a car because it was getting too good of gas mileage or a cow because she was giving too much milk.
I sold a car because it bored me.
Devil’s advocate: no matter how hot she is, some guy somewhere is sick of her shit.
For Gender Traitor, from the dead thread:
Yes, my copy has the minstrel scene.
THGY is a perfect ending to the series—for a set of children’s books—in my opinion. You’ve been with the family through years of struggle and hardship, and now, finally, everything seems to have leveled off for them in their favor. In fact, I started reading them after reading an excerpt from the last chapter of These Happy Golden Years in my sixth grade school book, where it describes Laura exploring the house that Almanzo built for her.
I told my daughter that I would not go on to read The First Four Years because it’s very much a downer book.
I, instead, am going back to read Farmer Boy to her, now that she has an idea who this “Almanzo” guy is.
By the way, I think it’s in The Little Town on the Prairie that Almanzo explains where his name came from. Family lore was that the Wilders had an ancestor who went on one of the Crusades, and was rescued by an Arab at some point, so the family has ever since made sure to have one son named after this fellow.
I’m looking at the 1994 box set on amazon – and from what I can tell, it shouldn’t have any “modern” edits. Not a bad price to be fair if I wind up giving it away.
I always imagine the seller telling a neighbor how they found a sucker who bought their problems.
Exactly.
That Car Wizard dope had a thing (before I stopped falling for his clickbait bullshit) about some customer’s Bentley. I can’t remember what the problem was; something engine or ecu related, but he deemed it “not worth fixing”. I couldn’t help thinking you could put a Coyote (because DOHC) and a five speed in it, with coilovers for less than fixing whatever the problem was, and come out ahead.
Hate crime
The Loveland Police Department said it’s investigating the incident at 1606 North Lincoln Avenue as an act of vandalism and attempted arson that occurred around midnight on Thursday night or Friday morning.
“Various vehicles and the Tesla building were vandalized with graffiti, some of which were offensive and hateful in nature,” the Loveland Police Department said in a statement. Similar incidents occurred at the dealership on Jan. 29 and Feb. 2, “however, these incidents were of lesser magnitude than today’s,” the department said.
“Go back to Africa”?
We allowed that goal post to move…offensive and hateful.
That’s the best Antifa can come up with?!
Jeez… try harder, commies.
Let’s so how the Repubs and news play this out
On one hand, quitting or firing FedGov employees will mean death and destruction..but shutdowns are noble.
On the other, stupid party will cave
President Elon would say: “Well, DOGE staff and I aren’t getting paid anyway so this just means there are fewer people around to throw roadblocks in the way. Bring it on!”
I have a feeling President DGAF ain’t gonna care either this time around.
Soooo….did anyone post this info yet? Just saw it on my feed. Absolutely insane.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888484555092312466?mx=2
Good follow-up to this one: https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/08/the-us-treasury-spent-how-much-illegally-now-you-know-why-the-left-wants-to-stop-doge-n2185365
Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated
Well, duh. How else are illegal workers going complete their employment paperwork so employers can pretend the workers are all legit? The fraud is that the government is collecting taxes for all of those duplicate SSNs and not asking any questions as long as the money is rolling in. At least the illegals using the duplicate SSNs are nominally productive, with paying jobs.
Nice and appropriate pic of Darth Chuck there. I can practically see the spittle flying out of his mouth as he complains about Elon taking his grift away.
Speaking of mar-a-gaza (discussion yesterday morning) – now we’re starting to get into Tom Clancy territory…this is when we start negotiating with the vatican to provide swiss guards to protect holy sites in Palestinian territory, etc…
It took me a minute, but now I’m in favor of Mar-al-Rio as the name of the new Gaza casino and resort.
For those who don’t comprende espanol, that translates as Sea to the River.
To date, 453.7 million different numbers have been issued.
I am really trying to wrap that around my head since the program started in 1936.
1 billion is the combination of SSNs.
Yeah…but nothing stopping folks from duplicating the existing numbers…
RC Dean might have mentioned this yesterday too – but this really breaks down the stupidity of the current Treasury court injunction: https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/02/09/tom-renz-thread-judge-blocking-doge-treasury-n2408064
While perusing for Chiefs vs. Eagles cheesecake to mark the occasion, I got flooded with AI-generated Taylor Swift-themed smut, none more interesting than this.
https://tinyurl.com/4wehh3hs
NSFW.
I think I’ll stick to regular Page 3-type stuff.
https://archive.is/UmBGs/a17558a460ff7b042824970bced6135eef9da125.jpg
Also NSFW.
No pig ears?
Hegseth on the morning show. Secretary of Male Escorts.
“He asked me if I wanted to be a mother and whether I wanted to have children with him. I told him that because of my work I perhaps didn’t want to be”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/iker-casillas-claudia-bavel-adult-34605434
I’ll give her credit.
I read an interesting article this week about how to kill the climate change agreement nonsense this week.
To avoid TL:DR I shall sum it up thusly- The Paris Treaty was never ratified by the Senate so Obama signed a treaty which he knew would not be ratified. To side step that he called it an “executive agreement” and he and his minions treated like a treaty. OMB 1.0 withdrew. PPP went back in. The article’s recommendation was to have the OMB 2.0 legal team say “Nope. It is a treaty.” and send it over to the Senate for ratification. So far, easy. The hard part? The Senate leadership needs to force a vote before 2026 elections to kill it dead, dead, DEAD.
Huge KPI right now
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
“Look. I could make a lot of money on OF with one particular … feature. Alas. I’m not that trashy.”
Inverted nipples.
https://archive.is/jAVql/d0c812c9b444fbb214ff93f11cd04d4e8e51f0d8.jpg
NSFW.
My girl Cecilia made the big time in the U.S.!
https://youtu.be/caDPVhtGEaM?si=z2sfBx6APNEMHsv-
My cunty aunts don’t seem to have 1 IQ point between them. I am so done with their shit.
Mom: “They’re not THAT bad.”
Me: [explains what happened]
Mom: “Oh.”
Glad to hear your mom is doing better.
Oh, she’s happy as a clam, now that she’s in skilled nursing where she can get strong (relatively) again.
Hooray for the good news, Moge.