MikeW285

We woke up with no hot water this morning. Re-set the breaker, still nothing. First call was to our plumber. He set hit the Re-Set button inside the panel on the front of the hot water heater. Boom— hot water’s back! He’d installed this water heater 10 years ago and if it was dead I would have been on his waiting-list for new one (or he’d say…[Read more]

Biden always hides behind Beau or his first wife when he’s in a corner. I’m glad Mr. Schmitz finally called him out on it …though I hate the circumstances under which he had to.

@ Gryneos — I think you’re from down there? Be safe.

The NHC currently forecasts GNO and DTB /down the bayou / Bayou Lafourche (where my wife is from) being on the dirty side. NHC now forecasts surge at 10-15 feet Morgan City east to the mouth of the Mississippi. I hope Port Fourchon doesn’t become unrecognizable.  Stay safe, all.

A coworker of mine from when we lived in north Florida 20 years ago is in the ICU, on a ventilator down there, now. It’s not looking good.

I keep harking back to Sen. Biden’s yes vote back in 2001/2002. Now that he has hobbled his way into the presidency, he just wants to be able to tout getting us out before the 20th anniversary of 9/11… I can already imagine the media and dog & pony shows they’ll gin up on September 11th, 2021 and in the days before. All while throwing Afghans…[Read more]

Electric cars are almost totally green in Norway: hydro and wind power generate almost all of their power, if not all.

But in the U.S., we still use something like 40 percent or alot more Coal or Natural Gas (I wonder if they call it natural so it’ll sound naturey and green, as opposed to fracked) generator powerplants. So electric cars,…[Read more]

Ahhh, he just needed to take a quick leak.     Aww, Come on, maaaaaaaaaan!!!!!

Well stated, @OB. I’m comparing apples to kiwis here, but my only choice in 2020’s presidential race was voting for Howie. Even though I knew he couldn’t win, I wasn’t about to participate in the big establishment’s b.s. game once more= vote for Us because They are worse… I’m just not having it anymore. Hopefully during my currently…[Read more]

A buddy of mine just told me about the time the gas pedal linkage on his old International ( Harvester) Scout broke. He rigged a rope to the throttle linkage on the carbeurator, up through a hole he drilled in the dash, and controlled the throttle by hand. Well played.

I’m working on-location with a colleague who’s getting over a bad cold (flu-ish), and, in the place we’re working, masks are Required indoors. I’m feeling glad we’re both wearing masks.   I mean, I’m glad she’s over the hump/recovering from the cold, but I’m pretty sure us both being masked in close quarters could prevent me from picking a…[Read more]

David Doel over at the Rational National just showed two of Nina’s new ads. The second one was really good.

@GZeusH  agree.

A friend of mine died of covid last fall and he was in the ICU for 8 Weeks. The shoe still hasn’t dropped on his widow, yet (so far, haven’t heard that his insurance refused to pay anything)… I hope it stays that way for her, but wouldn’t surprise me to if they denied one of the myriad tests various specialists ordered while…[Read more]

Hell no!

PS, Obomber getting the Nobel months after his inauguration cheapened the Nobel as an award, IMO. I wonder if any physicists, scientists, et al who actually earned a Nobel Prize were like, WTH?!?!

” She added that if Russia doesn’t take action against cyber criminals residing there, “we will.”  “

I’m a skeptic… Right now I feel like unless we can bomb the living crap out of it (see, the greater Middle East), it’s way harder to fight against. I think that’s part of why Dubya destroyed Iraq: because it’s actually on a world map. Al-Qai…[Read more]

The Presidency is appearing more and more to me like window dressing. Money, the MIC and oligarchy really run the show.

15 years is a long time. I wonder if his solitary confinement guards (see, J. Epstein) could “fall asleep” … one can wonder.

@OB   yep, Disney World was being built circa 1969 to opening day Oct. 1, 1971… and a retired General who worked on the Panama Canal was an engineer on the building of Disney World… so they knew what to look for.   Yeah, here in North Carolina ya gotta wonder about structures on the Outer Banks (sand bar) and all.

Meanwhile, just about everywhere else in Florida you have, of course, sinkholes and unstable ground. When Walt Disney World was being built, there were plans for three other hotel towers around the lagoon near the Magic Kingdom (in addition to the opening-day Polynesian and the Contemporary)…the Persian, Venetian and Asian.  Disney did…[Read more]

On our two lane roads here in exurb/rural North Carolina, I treat US postal service vehicles that’re stopped at a mailbox, and bicycles the same: I slow way down as I approach them from behind, and if I can’t safely pass them (needing to go a little bit into the on-coming lane), I come to a near-halt if needed til it’s safe to pass without coming…[Read more]

This is good. Now make Election Day a national holiday…paid day off for all Americans  …. not holding my breath.