A couple days listening to NPR have transformed my life. I sat in the Chestnut Tree Café while CNN played on the video screen. A shrill trumpet-call had pierced the air. It was the bulletin about Ukraine! Victory! It always meant victory when a trumpet-call preceded the news. A sort of electric drill ran through the café. Even the waiters had started and pricked up their ears. The trumpet-call had let loose an enormous volume of noise. Already an excited voice was gabbling from the video screen, but even as it started it was almost drowned by a roar of cheering from outside. The news had run round the streets like magic. I could hear just enough of what was issuing from the video screen to realize that it had all happened, as I had foreseen; a vast artillery and missile regiment had secretly assembled a sudden blow in Putin’s rear, the white arrow tearing across the tail of the black. Fragments of triumphant phrases pushed themselves through the din: ‘Vast strategic maneuver — perfect co-ordination — utter rout — half a million prisoners — complete demoralization — control of the whole of Russia — bring the war within measurable distance of its end victory — greatest victory in human history — victory, victory, victory!’
Under the table my feet made convulsive movements. I had not stirred from my seat, but in my mind I was running, swiftly running, I was with the crowds outside, cheering myself deaf. I looked up again at the portrait of Joe and Kamala. The colossus that bestrode the world! The rock against which the hordes of Russia dashed themselves in vain! I thought how ten minutes ago — yes, only ten minutes — there had still been equivocation in my heart as I wondered whether the news from Ukraine would be of victory or defeat. Ah, it was more than a Russian army that had perished! Much had changed in me since that first day among the Democrats, but the final, indispensable, healing change had never happened, until this moment.
The voice from the video screen was still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter, but the shouting outside had died down a little. The waiters were turning back to their work. One of them approached with the wine bottle. I, sitting in a blissful dream, paid no attention as my glass was filled up.
I gazed up at the enormous wrinkled faces. Two years it had taken me to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dementia-ridden visage. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two wine-scented tears trickled down the sides of my Hebraic nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. I had won the victory over myself. I loved Joe Biden.
And I loved birthdays, including a guy who beat Darwin; a guy who actually didn’t kill his wife; the guy who wrote my favorite math book; a woman who added “sped redn” to the English lexicon; a guy who got Van Johnson acquitted; a funny guy who had outlived Betty White, Forrest Tucker, and Ken Berry; another career leeching piece of shit; another Very Serious TV Journalist; a guy who sold a few records; a guy who continued to get laughs post-mortem (in a famous group interview); some dude in a wheelchair not named Ironside; a talented freakshow; and a guy with a remarkable bladder.
Now let’s see what wonderful things are in the news that has thoughtfully been curated and explained to us.
“We’re going to keep this going forever. Longer, if need be.”
“Colonialism and climate change.”
“Won’t anyone think about the children???”
The Old Man admits it- he loves shit like this.
Now that Eastasia is defeated, when do we return to our regularly scheduled two minutes of hate against Trump?
We’ve always been at war with MAGA Country.
Reading this I have to say you’re not wrong there. Friction between the urban elites that don’t give a crap about the needs of the rest of the country and ignored rural economies getting taxed without seeing the benefits isn’t at all new to recent times.
No! TRUMP is unprecedented!!! When he goes away everyone will believe in OUR program!!!!!! muwha, muwhahaha, muwhaahahahahahahahahahaha
Watching all of the solemn rememberance of the sacred day of January 6 has been bizarre. They retell the tale like olaywrites retelling the tales of the Olympic gods… Reworking and reinventing on the fly. The last few days the emphasis was on the murderous crowd, killing five police officers now.
All of the leading Democrats repeated that lie, without a single ounce of pushback from the press.
You think “Twitter files” changed anything?
They all still take marching orders, and they all still keep time to the drumbeat.
GlennGreenwals went on an epic, hour-long rant about the lies being told about January 6. He had a couple of tests about a new Church commission.
I hate to burst his bubble, but nobody is going to do anything. If revealing that the propaganda machine and censorship regime we have been complaining about is being run out of the unelected bureaucracy of the security state, beyond the control of elected officials and outside of any legal authority at all failed to inspire even the libertarian press to be curious, you got no shot.
We kinda already knew this with Barr and Durham looking into the crimes of russia-gate. The state protects the state. That is all.
Yes kinda like the big reveal that the NSA and other alphabet agencies were all spying on us and *poof* nothing happened.
Nothing excepting outrage at those who revealed the truth. Nobody really even complained that the director of the CIA purgered himself in congressional testimony.
Meanwhile, nobody republican gadflies rot in prison for inconsequential “misleading statements” that amounted to braggadocio and nothing more.
“ Mandi Tembo, a menstrual health PhD candidate”
Gynecology is so last century.
TOO
MUCH
NPR
PLEASE
STOP
No one reads the links.
Not those, no — hovering gives me the gist when it comes to NPR.
Not today. Yikes!
OK, I read the Turkey one. I think we have a contender for stupidest story 2023 already.
Stupidest would definitely include making me have to spell your country with umlauts and an ending e that means people will pronounce it toork-eye.
If he suffered, we must suffer with him?
That NPR article was an incoherent mess.
I don’t mean just intellectually,but the narrative. The author lost the thread several times. I think they kinda intended to call the left to the carpet, but halfway through they decided that the most important thing was to prove that Republicans really don’t like black people and black people really don’t like Republicans.
A sort of electric drill ran through the café.
Cordless?
a guy who actually didn’t kill his wife;
Happy birthday Robert Wagner?
a funny guy who had outlived Betty White, Forrest Tucker, and Ken Berry;
Um, it’s not my birthday today.
It isn’t Mel Brooks birthday either.
happy unbirthday
a guy who continued to get laughs post-mortem
Dick Shawn?
Saddam Hussein?
Achmed the Dead Terrorist.
Shut up! I keel you!!
Francisco Franco?
Lou Reed?
“Won’t anyone think about the children???”
Sue the government schools for destroying children’s mental health.
If there are any big tech companies left in Seattle, this should just about run off the rest of them.
Jive Turkiye
Except now it’s Jeeeeeeev Turkiye.
You messed up the ü, bigots.
A couple days listening to NPR have transformed my life.
I’ll continue to sleep alone, if that’s the price of “companionship”.
Some things just aren’t worth enduring.
NPR and CNN are two of them.
You had me going with the dialog, OM, until I realized there are too few people that can find Ukraine (and Iraq and Afghanistan) on a map. The important stuff will be decided on the fields of battle today and televised live (in between commercials)
It was really wonderful satire. And terrifyingly on-point.
Remember, Russia was losing 10,000 soldiers a week. Last fall headlines screamed that the US military assessed that Russia has “100,000 killed or injured”….and notably declined to offer anything to back that up or any breakdown of the details.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/10/number-russian-troops-killed-injured-ukraine/
10,000 a week always sounded.. not just implausible, but downright impossible.
So I searched and found a Newsweek fact check. They include Ukrainian Government figures of 66,000 Russian soldiers killed as a part of their analysis. But then they turn to Russia.
“The latest official Russian tally came on September 21, when Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed. This was the first official figure since March 25 when it said 1,351 had died.
On October 7, the outlet Mediazona along with the BBC, said that there were 7,184 verified Russian military deaths, though it said the number “does not reflect the real level of losses,” only public and media reports of losses.”
So an order of magnitude less. And note the spin from every western news agency. “But that doesn’t reflect the real losses”.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-putin-troops-dead-us-wars-60-years-1753530
It is very much of the same genre as our OM parody here, except not offered as parody.
When your real reporting reads as if it were approved by the ministry of truth in a novel written 100 years ago by a dystopian author, perhaps you should rethink your strategy.
In the opening weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all of the reporting and commentary I saw said Russia was losing 10,000 soldiers a week. This is a number that does not pass the giggle test. I mean, it is theoretically possible, I suppose, but that is a number so great that one would expect some actual reporting to try to verify. One certainly would not expect such a fictitious sounding claim to be repeated as fact all over the press. But it was.
So… Parody… But not really.
So being with NPR lady is like being strapped to a chair with ravenous rats about to devour your face?
It’s the Clockwork Orange treatment.
That would’ve been a perfect comment if he had given us some Beethoven for the morning music.
Good morning, Old Man, Scruffy, Sean, SDF-7, Grumble, Ted’S, Roat, Brooksie, 4(20), and JI!
No one’s even pretending any more that parents have any role in their children’s upbringing, are they? ::breathes yet another sigh of relief for having skipped both parenthood and a teaching career::
It takes all the village idiots to raise your children!
Not in Seattle
Mom and dad are too busy putting backdoors in Windows code for the Feds.
Meant to add – Old Man music is magnificent.
😎
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
Though Roy began his nomination by noting how Donalds is a “dear friend” and “solid conservative,” he quickly moved to center race: “for the first time in history, there have been two Black Americans placed into nomination for speaker of the House.”
“However, we do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin, but rather, the content of their character,” he continued, invoking the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Copycat! Copycat!
That “color of their skin” line is just a red herring. Everybody knows Republicans hate black people just as much as black people hate Republicans.
a guy with a remarkable bladder
George Murdock?
“‘It’s the most rewarding work we’ve ever done’: Canadian doctor who’s euthanized 400 people proudly shares how she helped kill man deemed incapable of choosing assisted suicide – as another physician says she’s helped 300 die”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11611095/Canadian-doctor-whos-euthanized-400-says-helped-kill-man-deemed-incapable-choosing-suicide.html
WTF, Canada?
“ One woman said the mental anguish from loneliness and poverty outweighed her physical pain from chronic leukemia in her decision to want to die”
You know, there’s other answers to loneliness and poverty than death. One might think that the oh so caring Canadians would realize that.
Big brother loves you, Big Sister Loves You to Death
It’s really a natural consequence of a religion that treats abortion as a sacrament and views humanity as a cancer destroying Mother Gaia.
Where is the national leaderboard posted?
Party foul…. That link is Daily Mail, not NPR. We need to find the NPR link that explains why she is a hero.
👿🤡🌎
So being with NPR lady is like being strapped to a chair with ravenous rats about to devour your face?
Strapped to the embalmer’s table for total blood replacement therapy.
The clots are to make it easier to pull the old stuff out?
So did he compose this on a laptop while he was (is) still in Buffalo, or did he wait until he was safely back in Glibs Gulch? I can imagine the former, and as she strolls up behind to ask what he’s working on he slams the laptop shut like a 14 year old caught looking at porn.
“The world’s 15 most isolated homes: From Australian mountain retreat to Georgian villa on top of a limestone monolith and Icelandic bolthole where your only neighbours are puffins”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-11602223/The-worlds-15-isolated-homes-Australia-Iceland.html
I read that as “butthole”.
You found my house wish list.
If any of the countries involved are worth a damn with respect to personal freedom, I’d nominate the respective homes for Glibs Gulch. (#9 in Scotland is especially appealing.) Any signs of improvement in Italy with their new PM?
Nah man… just your budhole.
*now regrets never having anal sex with a hot Icelandic girl before getting hitched*
#6 Is no shit my stomping grounds. It has been a few dozen years, but been there.
The town in Greenland only accessible by helicopter
there’s a boat right there in the picture of the place.
…for nine months of the year
Still calling bullshit, it might be difficult, requiring multiple means of travel. snow mobile, canoe, hovercraft etc.. but I’d wager I could get there without a helicopter in any month of the year.
Weird hill to die on, but I support your war effort
This is the internet. Pedantry and picking at nits is more than just a pastime, it is a civil right.. nay, a calling.
‘Orning ‘ordles — Meh on the starter round, decent enough on the second.
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“I think what has been interesting over the course of this debate is how both the Democrats and the Republicans have invoked descriptive representation,” said Professor Andra Gillespie, a political science professor and director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference at Emory University. “When the Republicans have invoked it, they are touting the gains that they have made in descriptive representation which are real … But I think it’s obvious if you just look at the makeup of the room and you look at who is standing up on each side that one side certainly has more descriptive diversity than the other.”
Emory? Shouldn’t you just stick to worrying about what makes airplanes fly?
“Descriptive diversity”
Oh great, another bullshit term with which to beat me over the head..
“Institute for Race and Difference”
Oh, fuck off.
LOL, Emory. On a road trip with some frat bros in 1973 we paid a visit to the Emory chapter. It was like a re-enactment of a scene from “Gone with the Wind”. Lily white rich kids having meals served by an all-black kitchen staff. I wonder when the reparations will commence.
In other news, Cambodia will henceforth be known as ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា.
“More than 60 years since decolonization in the area, nations like Barbados still struggle, Moffett said. And yet, he said, most European nations refuse to apologize, atone or offer any kind of reparations for the past.”
This is absolute poison and will be the end of Western Civilization. Hope you all have been brushing up on your Mandarin.
Guess I should re-binge watch Firefly a few times to get the key phrases,
🎵 Take my love, take my land, Take me where I cannot stand. I don’t care, I’m still free, You can’t take the sky from…🎵
“What’s that? We still don’t have the technology available for regular schlubs to fly off this 狒狒的屁眼 of a planet? Well, shit.”
This is Haiti’s problem. It has only been 200 years since they threw off the French, they should be seeking reparations. No nation can really get its act together and overcome colonialism in that span of time.
Most excellent opening Old Man. Seriously though, stop listening to NPR. It is warping your mind.
BTW: Thanks for cancer from the links; this is light years worse than Tonio’s nut punches. Dunno if this is driven by your new lady friend, but I’m not sure any pussy is worth putting yourself through this.
Further:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjwPm38STvw
No, not watching.
Awww, thanks Q.
Slutty Sunday cleavage attack!
https://archive.ph/tF0tO
The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.
The government schools have been in charge of destroying children’s mental health for decades, and they won’t surrender that job without a fight.
It certainly is tech companies’ fault. Locking children indoors at home for nearly two years cannot possibly have had any effect.
To be fair, they have a point – that shit is ruining a generation.
I wonder where the parents are.
You mean the sperm donor and incubator?
Cispenis and ciswombs are so yesterday.
So, basically, pretty much like America.
I think I mentioned this here already, but for the R primary my House district (Federal, not state) race there were 3 black people (2 men, 1 woman), 2 Vietnamese (1M, 1W) and one white guy. I wanted the Vietnamese guy to win. He hardly ever talked about God. I don’t have a problem voting for a devout Christian (or most other religions), I just don’t wanna hear about it all that much. He talked about business. One of the Black guys won. I voted for him in the general, but I live in one of the few BLUE zones in Florida, so he lost. I blame D voter racism, myself. If they can do it, so can I.
IMMUTABLE SUPERFICIAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT MATTER
No, they also think having their brand of brainwashing is important, too.
Locking children indoors at home for nearly two years cannot possibly have had any effect.
Don’t forget “alone”. Depriving pack animals of the ability to learn about social structure and hierarchies can only lead to long term strife.
Bravo, Old Man! That was very well done.
This working weekends is nonsense. Good Morning folks
Good morning, OBE! Are you working by necessity or by choice?
Choice, but could have turned it down. Figured why not, I might actually get work done.
Have to sneak that real work in on the weekends so his fellow govt employees don’t give him shit.
^^^This! Can’t make it look like I actually work
Always one of my favorites.
lolololol
“…plus a supply clerk who was hanging around because she’s letting Sgt. Terrell fingerbang her”
Stereotypes matter
#6 Is no shit my stomping grounds. It has been a few dozen years, but been there.
I’ve been to Marble. It’s a beautiful place.
Yep.
Yesterday, I had a couple of errands to do. After, I stopped in this little “Chinese” restaurant I have been wanting to try. Hot and sour soup and beef chow mein (for some unknown reason). It’s kind of a hole in the wall place, and the owners obviously knew everybody who came through the door except me, which I take as a good sign. I’ll go back there for more hot and sour soup, for sure.
Sometimes you wanna go where everybody orders chow mein?
Ahhhhhhh-woooooooooooooo
The school district is asking the court to order the companies to stop creating the public nuisance, to award damages, and to pay for prevention education and treatment for excessive and problematic use of social media.
Jackpot!
I’m sure all of the parents in that district are looking forward to the money they will receive in the settlement.
What’s that – that’s not who is going to get the money? Hmmm.
The parents will be sued next for not properly preparing their children for indoctrination.
Dammit “Prince of the North Tower” is longer than I remember.
Back to editing it.
Odd name for Minneapolis, but whatever.
What nonsense are you babbling?
Ok, so apparently Chanhassen — but close enough.
You’re still not making any sense.
None of that has anything to do with the book.
Were you dreaming when you wrote it?
When we said sanctuary, we didn’t mean for just anybody
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot demanded Saturday that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis stop busing asylum seekers to their cities, saying they are “over capacity.”
“We respectfully demand that you cease and desist sending migrants to New York City and Chicago,” Adams and Lightfoot wrote in a letter to Polis. “Since December of 2022, Chicago and New York City have received hundreds of individuals from Colorado.”
Since Aug. 31, Chicago has seen 3,854 asylum seekers arrive from Texas and other states including Colorado, according to the letter. New York City has seen 36,400 asylum seekers arrive as of Jan. 4, the letter states.
The two mayors wrote that they wanted to work with Polis in pressing the federal government for a national solution.
“You must stop busing migrants to Chicago and New York City,” the mayors wrote. “In the case of family reunification, let us work together to ensure that people are reconnected with their loved ones, however sending migrants to our cities whose systems are over capacity, where they may struggle to find shelter and other services is wrong and further victimizes these most vulnerable individuals.”
The letter comes days after Adams laced into the federal government and Polis over the number of asylum seekers arriving in the city.
Chicago and New York should ship those people to Cuba, where they can be taken care of properly.
By those people you mean Eric Adams and Lori Lightfoot?
Stop believing what we say!
Didn’t New York’s governor just spend her inaugural speech begging people to move to New York… You know, since they are down hundreds of thousands of residents from the peak?
I strongly suspect that NYC and Chicago have absorbed far less than their pro rata share of the 3 – 4MM illegals that have come over in the last couple of years.
LOL sure they do.
National solution is to keep them on the border states duh or to ‘red’ states.
Of course. A national solution of sending them to Texas, Florida and the deep south. Maybe a few select other red states.
So close… 🙂
When it is that easy to read their intent, of course all satire will look the same.
Polis, the most libertarian governor ever.
According to the yard signs I see around town, immigrants are a blessing not a burden. They should be begging for more blessings.
Detroit has entire sections of town that are being bulldozed. Not sure what they would do for work, but plenty of housing is available.
Blue-on-blue political shenanigans!
Word of the TMITE today is “chaos.”. For most of us, that means “extreme confusion and disorder.”. If the McCarthy election had been for a Democrat speaker, it would of course been characterized as “a healthy example of our democracy in action demonstrating our party’s reverence for opposing views and constructive debate.”
Relevant #1
Relevant #2
The latter highlights that the job the media has given itself is to cheer-lead for The Narrative, thus debate and dissent are both express violations of non-belief.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1612083675117621248
LOLDORABLE
I feel the same way
Heh…love the kid that grabs his chip and puts it back in the bowl.
This is Haiti’s problem. It has only been 200 years since they threw off the French, they should be seeking reparations. No nation can really get its act together and overcome colonialism in that span of time.
People who have been down there tell you can see the line of demarcation between Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the air. Haiti is that much of a shithole.
It’s whitey’s fault.
A part of their problem is that the French left… But demanded payment of a huge debt.
The other part is that they were left with french governance and french ideas as their legacy.
They should have told the debt collectors to pound sand.. and at any point in their many times overthrowing governments, they should have chosen “not corrupt” as a priority.
But as you said – French ideas (and morals).
The massacre didn’t help – that kind of thing kills the soul. Dessalines was also a horrible human being in general.
It’s because Haiti is landlocked. If only they had control of the whole island things would have worked out. Or they could have learned Spanish
Word of the TMITE today is “chaos.”. For most of us, that means “extreme confusion and disorder.”. If the McCarthy election had been for a Democrat speaker, it would of course been characterized as “a healthy example of our democracy in action demonstrating our party’s reverence for opposing views and constructive debate.”
Remember when Will Rogers said, “I’m not a member of an organized political party, I’m a Democrat”?
Switcheroo.
To be fair “the parties switched sides” is cannon for the intervening years. Gotta whitewash that racist history.
From Juris’ link 1:
Notably, what has unnerved so many in Washington is that this speakership debate was not just largely public but also unscripted. It was an actual deliberation, conducted in front of the American people. While repellent to many, it just might be something that voters could get accustomed to.
NO FIGHTING IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN!
If any of yous scour GSA for test equipment for sale…some items will be going up in a month or so…so I have heard
8563A Spec An, 436 Peak Power Meter and some ancient microwave counter…
Sounds like someone should set up a pirate TRACON station.
Well I am the systems specialist for radar and the automation so I can over look external connections..radios are just VHF, so yeah, lets stand up a mobile TRACON!
I don’t know why we did it, but it had to be done!
I’m old enough to have bought 8563A’s new.
*sigh*
Somebody redubbed McCarthy to sound even more foolish. Linking to the bad Chinese site that steals your soul:
https://www.tiktok.com/@badlip_reader/video/7186127403842833669?_t=8YrLJm2A0s7&_r=1
That is a-list funny.
Also… I have been mostly ignoring this as theater that will accomplish nothing… So could someone clue me in as to what the actual fight was? You rarely see faces get grabbed like that.
Mostly about undoing the Pelosi power consolidation. She basically made it impossible to challenge the speaker and that is part of why legislation has just been rammed through over the past few years.
Yes, Goetz (sp) voted no again and McCarthy lost his cool. Remember McCarthy was born for this job and Goetz is in his way. It is God’s will that McCarthy be speaker. His fury is righteous.
Also Goetz is a better man than me. I would have head butted, for starters, then testicle stomped.
Oh, you were asking about hat particular interaction.
Back to the coffee pot for me.
Dude got his face grabbed. Usually I am saying some pretty spicy stuff when that happens.
Anyone know of a good site on which to find U.S.-made (or at least “Not China”) genuine leather mobile phone cases? Amazon is not really helping, as they seem to think “PU leather” is close enough and often conveniently forget to list the country of origin. I have a relatively obscure model of phone and prefer a wallet-style case.
Gucci?
Oh, US made. Sorry. I was gonna go Ralph Loren or Tommy Hilfiger for a second round of good, but they don’t make anything here any more.
Etsy. The real answer is hand crafted Etsy stuff.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1074528799/handmade-leather-smartphone-case-fathers
Not sure it is at all helpful, but they do have some fine craftsmanship.
This one completely customizes the case for your phone and the tooling you want. Giant link because I suck.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1297893954/custom-tooled-leather-phone-case-branded?click_key=c96e110690f78588500056e9a52bfb441c1415b7%3A1297893954&click_sum=7d00750b&ref=shop_home_recs_1&crt=1
Here ya go… Prada!
It isn’t leather, but it is a tan color that resembles leather. A bargain at $575.
https://www.prada.com/us/en/women/accessories/high-tech_accessories_and_keychains/products.iPhone_13_Pro_case.1ZH149_2AWL_F0522.html?utm_campaign=GoogleShopping_US&utm_medium=CPC&utm_source=Google&utm_content=PMax&s_kwcid=AL!8549!3!!!!x!!&gclid=CjwKCAiA8OmdBhAgEiwAShr40w5hXLcsGumlOUDuA8KENKBnpbPoZqjzp93DQs8v0By6C4WKIXm1gBoCTUkQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Bonus, my link is even longer.
Might find something at Etsy, but even their search function is somehow translating “LG Stylo 6” (I told you it was obscure!) to “iPhone.” 🙁
I wonder how much Apple is paying them to do that….
Etsy? Maybe some local leatherworker can be found to make a custom one?
Do they make those?
Let me know when you find one. Perhaps try Cavendars or something?
From Juris’ link 2:
Madison believed that without the time needed for passions to dissipate and deliberation to take place, legislative bodies would make rash decisions, as opposed to employing reason when taking action.
That may have been fine in the horse and buggy days, but not now.
We need answers, and we need them now.
Amazon is not really helping
Whaaaa?
Amazon’s “search” feature is so utterly useless it can’t possibly be accidental.
Needed some resistors yesterday. Found a cheap package with free overnight deliver on my prime account.
Went through checkout.
$3 bucks for overnight. Ok, pay the three.
Check my order. Be here in 2 days. Cancel.
Find another with “free delivery by 11 am tomorrow.”. Decide not to hold my breath.
Check order? “This item cannot be displayed”.
Screw it. Roll the dice and see if it comes
Depressing. Even in big cities it is getting hard to find a good place for electrical components. Used to be Radio Shack was great for basic stuff, and there was always some hobbyist shop with cardboard bins and lots of options. Not any more.
I miss Tanner’s. Don’t know if you ever went there (you’re in DFW right?) but it was like an electronics candy store.
This was the biggest loss of Fry’s electronics (or Radio Shack for that matter) of going out of business. We still do some component level maintenance and we used to just drop into Fry’s, get what we need and fix it. Now its an adventure like you are experiencing.
See also: Google.
*remembers fondly when query syntax for things like “must contain this word” and “must not contain that word” used to work*
My dad is in the Panama Canal for the 2nd time in 3 months!
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:264386/zoom:10
https://multimedia.panama-canal.com/Webcams/cerro-luisa.html
About to go through?
Looks to be in those locks in less than an hour or so – the Marine Traffic link shows the tracking
Camera is pointed south toward Bridge of the Americas
Cool!
Supposedly (around 11:30 in the video if you don’t want to watch the whole thing) it used to be illegal to film in the Canal.
My sister and her husband might be on the same ship. Small world.
GT-
Is there a saddle shop or some kind of leather goods place locally who might be able to make you one?
Anarchy! Chaos! DOOOOOM!
House Republican Kevin McCarthy’s numerous concessions to the most right-wing members of his conference risk setting the House of Representatives and Congress up for a series of crises over the next two years.
At the top of the list is the US debt ceiling, which far-right lawmakers may hold hostage to extract policy concessions and spending cuts, while endangering the full faith and credit of the US and global economy.
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“They’re going to say that unless they have very steep spending cuts in domestic programs, they won’t, they won’t vote for it,” Democratic Representative Jerry Nadler of New York warned of a looming debt ceiling fight. “That’s the only thing. That’s the blackmail.”
Representative-elect Maxwell Frost of Florida told The Independent that it could lead to dangerous cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
“That’s the goal of the Freedom Caucus and that’s why they’ve been holding this hostage,” Mr Frost said.
Grandma is a goner.
Its progress when we stuff pork into bills but terrorism to demand bills be clean and specific. Don’t you American politics?
We’re 31 Trillion in debt but demanding spending cuts is “blackmail” and a “crisis”.
I can only get so hard.
RIP Adam Rich
I guess he’s no longer spending his days like bright and shiny new dimes. 🙁
Wow.
On the lighter side – Yoel & Mari & beekeeping in southern AZ. With Africanized honey bees!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tce24qL_5AE
Ancient alien technology
Future concrete buildings could be made more durable — and environmentally friendly — using the long-lost building techniques of ancient Rome, a new study has found.
Use of an ancient Roman concrete-mixing technique called “hot mixing” created blocks that could heal themselves when cracked, according to the paper published in Science Advances.
Such self-healing blocks allowed the Romans to build structures like aqueducts, monuments and stadiums that have survived for millennia amid wars, earthquakes and everyday urban pollution and chaos.
Researchers said blocks treated with the method — in which concrete was mixed with reactive quicklime under continuous heat — knit themselves back together within a few weeks after being fractured.
Their ability to self-heal came from chemical flecks left by that hot quicklime — which combined with rainfall from natural limestone and sealed cracks in the concrete.
Cracks in blocks that had been made without lime, by contrast — as all modern concrete is — never healed, the MIT team found.
Eco-Naysayers in 3, 2…
The process of producing quicklime generates a large amount of CO2…
Good morning, Old Man.
Spending that much time with the dark forces is dangerous. You should have an amulet of pure iron made for those forays. We can’t afford to lose any more good people to the demons.
Old Guy Music is fantastic!