When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered.
Friday - January 27, 2023
Once Again, The One And Only Post
January 28, 2023
Bowling Blogging!!
We got managed and run over last night in No Longer Cheap league. We played the first place team, who has been the first place team for at least 15 weeks now, and we’re 22 weeks into the season. Ringers. Sandbaggers. They were already 8 points ahead of us, and we lost 0-7. I could not find a good line or the right throw, so I sucked; didn’t even come close to a 500 series. Major suckage. But none of us did great, and most of us did quite poorly.
And it was a mess of a night too. The pinsetter on our lane was totally messed up, dropping pins, kicking them out onto the lane, missing pins in the sets, etc. Worst I’ve ever seen. So after an extended half hour one lane practice while the staff tried to fix the pinsetter time after time, they moved us to some other pair of lanes. So we didn’t even start until 40 minutes after we should have. And the lanes were awful; having been cleaned and oiled just 3 minutes before we started using them. And whatever pattern they laid down was great for those who could throw high rev big arc hooks, but lousy for the rest of us. If you couldn’t make a really steep entry angle ( hitting the pins from the side not the front ) you didn’t stand much chance. So the 2 guys on the other team did exceptionally well - 50-70 over average per game - the rest of us suffered.
Oh well. So now they’re 15 points ahead of us with 13 weeks to go. We’re pretty much out of having a shot at first. Probably settle into 5th, as there are 2 other teams of sandbagging managers on this league, and we’ll have to play both of them at least once more each.
Although the announcement was steeped in BS, NJ is scrapping it’s Green Nude Eel plan. 5 years into it, millions spent, and not a darn thing built, plus piles of dead whales. Oh, and the offshore wind farm company can’t deliver on it’s promises either. Ooops.
Iowa comes up with a radical idea to fix their education system: Each student is allocated X dollars for their school of choice. This ought to improve the quality of teaching, reduce indoctrination, and wipe out the massive administrative overhead that sucks up 70% of the school budgets. School systems will no longer be funded by fiat, but by the number of students enrolled. Goodbye pork programs, goodbye low quality instruction. Now go tune the laws to make it easier for private schools to start up, and come up with some up to date performance tests for the kids to take, which will show the quality of the teaching they’ve been given.
[ remarkably early in the morning ... I woke up at 4am. It’s not even 6:30 yet. ]
I forgot to mention last night that we had Winter yesterday. Well, a bit of snow. It’s the Jersey way ... get some snow, and in a day or three it’s gone. This was the speedier version; it cooled off to just above the freezing point in the early afternoon, the sky was like lead, and the flakes started to fall. Several hours later than was predicted, but there ya go. And then the snow really started to fall. In a bit more than an hour we had ... a whole 1.5” of snow. And then it shifted over to rain, and by sunset what was on the ground was little more than slop. The rain continued. By around 9pm the roads were completely clear, the snow was gone, and the rain continued. Overnight it really rained, enough to wake me up for a moment. And that was that. The storm system rolled by, the winds shifted, and by the pre-dawn hours it was long over.
It’s been a very strange Winter here. I think we had a couple inches of snow at some point in November? Another In ‘n Out, Here Again Gone Again weather event. Large parts of the country are getting hammered with snow this season, and there have been major temperature drops a few times even as far south as central Florida. But for the most part, here in our Red corner of True Blue NJ, it’s been raining since around Halloween with temps in the upper 30s to low 50s. Sure, we had a week or two when it never got above freezing, and was in the single digits a few mornings. But overall this has been an exceptionally mild and rainy winter. So far. I’m glad of that, because if this had all been snow it would have been Buffalo amounts.
While I’m feeling much better, I’m still not out of the woods yet. So I picked up another bottle of Walgreen’s DM Mucinex liquid generic. Boy that stuff works, and fast. And then shuts off in almost exactly 4 hours. Took the last of my methylprednisone tonight. Still have a few days of augmentin left to go.
###############
Some project progress today; the periscope duct behind the dryer stack is done, the wall is filled in, spackled and sanded. All it needs is a coat of paint and the washer/dryer stack can be installed. They’re already hooked up and powered, but sitting out in the middle of the room for now.
In better news, I was finally able to twist the contractor’s arm to do something about the squeaky tub. Turns out (as I figured) it was unsupported underneath on the drain end. The little feet were off the concrete by less than 1/4”, but that was enough to let it flex and squeak. And eventually break. So he got a pair of locking hard nylon wedges under each of the 2 feet, then built a damn from some rolled up old insulation, then mixed up a couple gallons of Level-Qwik cement and poured that under the tub through a 2” ABS tube. Not only did that cover the wedges and lock them in place forever, it also ( I hope) filled some of the gap areas between the underside of the tub’s insulation and the concrete floor. So give it a couple days to set up really well, and see. I suppose he could always flow in another gallon or two if needed, or build a couple of support brackets under the tub’s lip by the valve wall studs. And that should do it.
Tomorrow he’ll start on the tub alcove tiles, but I want him to work from the outside in, doing the header and side panels first, which gives the Level-Qwik that much more time to dry out.
################
Bowling Blogging!!
We played Franks’ team tonight, and I was really looking forward to hanging with those guys ... most of whom I’ve been on other teams with over the years. Alas, Frank wasn’t there tonight, but Glenn and John were, so we had a good time. And our P2 was out, so we had Jamie in as a sub ... we go back years with him too. So with a sub you have to recalculate the handicap, so I asked him what his average was. 152. Say what? Jamie I remember you had a 215! Oh not any more, I can’t roll anymore. The hell you say, you’re gonna burn ‘em up tonight! Yeah Drew, you wish.
So we coached him and supported him, got him psyched up, got him to reach for his target just a little more, and by the end of the night he’d thrown a 562 series, which is a 187 average. So we woke him up and gave him back his gumption. That was good to see. Game 2 was good for the whole team, with all of us throwing near or a touch above 200.
I bowled exactly like I did Friday night: a little over in the first game, around a 200 in the second game, and then a big string of strikes in the top of the third game for an almost-250. I went 187 - 200 - 246 for a 633, which is way over the 175 average I currently have in Old Guys league.
And we won G2 and G3 plus wood, going 5-2 for the night. Which won’t hurt us in the standings either. Might not help any, but it sure won’t bring us down.
###############
Have to go back to the urologist tomorrow. Not really sure why or what for, but I have an appointment. I don’t think the shower will be ready to use yet, so it’ll be another kitchen sink clean up for me.
Well here we are again. Let’s see what’s new news out there?
• Two more mass shootings done by Asian men against other Asians. The other day it was the old guy in the hat who gunned down 20 at a club, 11 have died. Now it’s some disgruntled mushroom farm workers, 5 dead in one Bay Area farm incident and a couple more at another farm 30 miles away. Good thing that Asians count as White folks in certain statistical categories, or this would seriously damage the narrative.
• Arrested for pointing a loaded gun at someone and pulling the trigger, killer Alec Baldwin pleads Democrat. Ok, I stole that from the Babylon Bee, but it’s apt. Nothing will happen to him more than a minor fine and a couple weeks of community service. The prop lady is going to burn though.
•&nbsb; VDH writes a well thought out, detailed essay on the unworkability of slavery reparations. From the initial estimate that LBJ’s Great Society program has cost over $22 trillion, to trying to figure out who should pay, to the feasibility of such a thing in an age of bankrupt states, to looking at other put upon groups who perhaps should also get some pie, to his wonderful hypothesis that:
... blacks believe they collectively are not doing as well economically as Latinos or Asians and therefore attribute the lack of parity to the past, in order to find equity in the present that so far has not been attained?
Yeah right. You suck at life and can’t make the effort to improve, so it’s somebody else’s fault and they should fork over another truckload of money to you. No. Next.
Naturally this is completely wasted effort on VDH’s part; actual reasoning and reasonable discussion is not welcome on this issue. Because feeewings!!. So all of this will be ignored.
“Officers from the Monterey Park Police Department responded to a local business in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue in the city of Monterey Park regarding shots fired call,” Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told reporters. He said the mass shooting happened at 2222 local time.
The address of the incident area Meyer provided shows a small strip mall that includes “Star Dance Studio."
“When officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals, patrons of the location pouring out of the location, screaming,” he said. “The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims.”
Gosh, who is it who celebrates Lunar New Years?
Looks like this puts the kabosh on the All Mass Shootings Are Done By White Guys narrative. Again.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I can’t be bothered to look up the proper foreign words for “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” and “the more things change, the more they remain the same”, but here we go again, gooder and harder ...
New New Zealand PM Is Covid Lockdown Tsar
WTF you downunder sheep humping hobbits, are you really that dickless and stupid?
Lockdown Tsar Chris Hipkins to Become Next New Zealand Prime Minister
Hipkins, 44, must still garner an endorsement Sunday from his Labour Party colleagues, but that is just a formality now. An official transfer of power will come in the days to follow.
“It’s a big day for a boy from the Hutt,” Hipkins said, referring to the Hutt Valley near Wellington where he grew up. “I’m really humbled and really proud to be taking this on. It is the biggest responsibility and the biggest privilege of my life.”
Ardern shocked the nation of 5 million people on Thursday when she announced she was resigning after five-and-a-half years in the top role.
The lack of other candidates indicated party lawmakers had rallied behind Hipkins to avoid a drawn-out contest and any sign of disunity following Ardern’s departure.
Hipkins will have only a little more than eight months in the role before contesting a general election. Opinion polls have indicated that Labour is trailing its main opponent, the conservative National Party.
Hipkins rose to public prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, when he took on a kind of crisis management role. But he and other liberals have long been in the shadow of Ardern, who became a global icon of the left and exemplified a new style of leadership.
The only candidate. Uh huh. Sound like a tin pot dictatorship to you yet?
A “new style of leadership”. Yeah sure, new, circa 1939. If they had trains, she’d run them on time. I hear her nickname was “Ill douchey”.
[ I’m still sick, still busy, so not looking up all the links for you. But they’re all out there, and my take is pretty accurate. Ok, maybe the piece of land was a different size, but it’s in or near Atlanta and is wooded ]
Most of the state of Georgia is forests and farms, with little towns and a city or four in between.
So the Atlanta police are stupid, evil, racist, under trained, and need to be de-funded, at least according to Stacy Abrams and her minions in Antifa.
So the city of Atlanta decided to do something positive, and moves to convert an 89 acre parcel of wooded land they own into a police training facility.
Antifa, unwilling to accept even a small move like this to improve the situation, declares part of these woods that they don’t own as one of their “autonomous zones”, puts a sniper or two in those woods, and shoots a cop when they come to check out the site the city granted them. I do not know if the officer survived. We’re talking a planned attempted assassination, not some random drive-by.
Naturally the police go into a frenzy, and hunt down the shooter and shoot him dead in an exchange of gunfire.
The left has dubbed the project “Cop City” (akin to calling Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill “Don’t Say Gay”), and earlier this month a judge denied an injunction by protesters using environmental issues as a pretext to stop construction of the facility. Members of the group even refer to themselves as “Forest Creatures” and identify themselves as different animals.
It was a matter of time before the Antifa action would erupt in violence. On Wednesday morning, law enforcement was conducting a “clearing operation” when a state trooper got involved in a shooting match with protesters. The trooper was wounded, but one Antifa member was killed.
“An individual, without warning, shot a Georgia State Patrol trooper,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Michael Register told reporters. “Other law enforcement personnel returned fire in self-defense and evacuated the trooper to a safe area. The individual who fired upon law enforcement and shot the trooper was killed in the exchange of gunfire.”
This bit of news was almost instantly buried by the media, who switched to a “police kill environmental protestor” twist on the story.
Antifa gets it’s titties in a wringer because someone finally effectively fought back against them (how dare you!!) and goes on social media calling for revenge, for a Night Of Rage to avenge the killing of their attempted murderer. No one is arrested for publicly inciting riots or acts of violence. Many left leaning sites and social media users sympathize and help spread the word.
Night Of Rage ensues. Windows broken, looting, police cars burned, general riot situation.
Manuel Esteban Paez Teran also known as “Tortuguita,” 26, was shot and killed by police, and now his friends and comrades are wreaking havoc on local businesses in retaliation.
...
Seriously? Screw that. Get out the ditto machine and run off some flyers. Get out the bullhorns and blare the message in the street. Cite emergency powers and co-opt the local radio stations and TV channels. Post on social media. Literally read them the Riot Act ahead of their actions.
And when they riot, shoot them. Shoot them dead, in their hundreds, or even thousands. Shoot the ones stacking up bricks, shoot the ones setting off flares and breaking windows, shoot the looters. Nobody fucking cares, and most of the rest of the nation would stand up and cheer if you did so.
I am so tired of this BS. The world is inside out, insanity and infantilism rule, and mayhem and stupid ensue. And blood is the only cure for this disease.
Gun them down in piles and leave the bodies to rot. Fuck, shoot anyone who comes for the bodies. Especially reporters and lawyers coming to gawk. A couple hundred thousand corpses later, people might start to get the idea. Granted, you’d really have to make sure the trigger pullers are the forces of Right, and not let the evil Left get involved at all.
Still rather under the weather. Got some Augmentin and some methylprednisone from the doc, taking that. Living on Walgreen’s house brand of DM Mucinex liquid. It works fast, but shuts off exactly 4 hours later. I got a fair amount of sleep last night, up at 4 to pee and cough, had a hot tea, back in bed before 6, up again before 9, made coffee, went to Walmart’s pharmacy to get my pills. Back to bed a couple times, but I’ve at least had a can of soup with some stale sourdough softened up in it to eat today. Not as utterly exhausted as I was last night.
##########
Bowling Blogging!!
We won it all last night 7-0, at No Longer Cheap league, against the other Team Newbie. We had to give them 115 pins handicap, but 2 of their people can barely get the ball to the other end of the lanes, so it wasn’t an impossible situation for us. On the other hand, we won Game 2 by a single point. 1. I did real well in Game 3, starting out with 7 strikes in a row, followed by a Make The Baby split I converted, and then some more good hits, and wound up with a 244 game, which gave me a 572 for the night. A 190 average. So I’m happy. I was feeling a bit ... abandoned ... by the 8th frame, as the rest of my team was throwing garbage. Our opponents were doing pretty good, so it was me by myself keeping us close to their scores. The rest of my team finally woke up and did some good closing in the 9th and 10th frames, putting a mess of marks up on the scoreboard, so we pulled ahead. And then further ahead. Our anchor pulled a 250+ game out of somewhere in Game 3 and finished with a 612 series. So that was cool too.
This probably won’t bring us up in the standings. We’re in 2nd, as there is one other team that is bowling to win too. They’re at least 5 or 6 ahead of us, and our 2 teams are quite a way ahead of everyone else. Which is also cool. I am very competitive. Ferociously. Sure, it’s great to socialize too, but I’m there to bowl better than you and if I can do it I will.
For more than two years New Zealanders were locked out of their own country as Ardern imposed some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world.
Like many New Zealanders living overseas, I will not remember this time as a display of her trademark brand of kindness and empathy.
No, this woman turned her isolated little island nation into a prison planet. She stifled attempts of over 50,000 New Zealanders to come home, she imposed brutal lockdowns with the police arresting people left and right, she forced nearly the entire nation into a state of isolated fear. And for what? To hide from something just a little worse than the common cold, while mandating the slab jabs. And in the end, it didn’t do a damn thing, other than to break people’s spirits and destroy their economy. Which was the goal, and has always been the goal, of tyrannies everywhere.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, and WTF NZ, why didn’t you worthless pussies have a bloody revolution 27 months ago? Mindless sheep. Brainwashed cowards.
The shock announcement comes as polling indicates her Labour Party party faces a difficult path to re-election on 14 October. Ms Ardern choked up as she detailed how six “challenging” years in the job had taken a toll.
Labour MPs will vote to find her replacement on Sunday. Ms Ardern, 42, said she had taken time to consider her future over the summer break, hoping to find the heart and energy to go on in the role.
“But unfortunately I haven’t, and I would be doing a disservice to New Zealand to continue,” she told reporters on Thursday.
Ms Ardern will step down by 7 February. If no would-be successor garners the support of two-thirds of the party room, the vote will go to Labour’s lay membership.
Ms Ardern became the youngest female head of government in the world when she was elected prime minister in 2017, aged 37.
And a year later she became the second elected world leader to ever give birth while in office, after Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto in 1990.
She steered New Zealand through the Covid-19 pandemic and its ensuing recession, the Christchurch mosque shootings, and the White Island volcanic eruption.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bowling Blogging!!
We won all 3 last night at Old Guys league. We played the guys from my summer league, so it was fun hanging with them. It’s just a shame I was dead to the world, exhausted and barely able to breathe. Guess I’m still sick, or sick again.
If this latest victory doesn’t put us in 1st place, I don’t know what will. We’ve gone either 7-0 or 5-2 for at least 8 weeks now, working our way up from 14th place out of 18 teams.
Update: Ok, we’re in 2nd but we’re tied with the 1st place team. They have more scratch pins than us, so they’re ahead. And those guys are much higher average bowlers than we are. Both teams play weaker teams next week.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And I got about 2 hours near sleep in mid-morning, after blowing my nose off and coughing up enough so I could breathe for a bit.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Crap, I think I’d better go back to the doctor. I don’t think I slept more than 2 hours last night, again, in little bits and pieces, then having to get up and cough. Not cool.
Yup, still here. Once again I’ve been super busy. Or perhaps the truth is that everything takes three times as long to do as it used to, and costs at least twice as much. Seems to me that the tasks that eat up my entire day would have taken me about 90 minutes when I was 25. I look on the bright side: I managed to get a shower in this morning and put on clean clothes. Some days even the most basic functionality counts as a victory. Gosh, if a miracle occurs maybe I can get to the ATM to get some cash and put some gas in the car.
Whatevs,
Ok, the countertop measuring guys are coming to do the bathroom this afternoon. Countertop and matching threshold. So I’ve got a paper with all our choices written down. Edge style, how large a corner to put on the front corner by the toilet, backsplash edge, threshold edge. Emailed in the digital cutting template for the sink, will bring in the sink and the faucet. I want as little negative reveal on the undermount sink as we can get away with. That means the the hole they cut through the countertop is a smidge smaller than the inside edge of the sink. That maximizes the sink opening and minimizes the underlip where grubby stuff builds up. Guess I’d better give the whole room the once over before they show up.
Right. First coat of poly is drying on the trim molding I stained and rubbed last night. I’d like to let it dry, go over it lightly with 320 grit sandpaper and then some 0000 steel wool, then put on a second coat. That will make it very smooth and fully sealed. Don’t know if that will happen, or if the contractor is just going to nail it up as is.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Politics? Documentgate drama? I don’t have time for this nonsense. However we did start a tiny batch of kimchee the night before. So I have to burb the 3 little jars a couple times a day. We did the wet brining method this time, instead of the “beat the cabbage into mush with a big wood stick” method we used last time.
And I’m all caught up on laundry, so if it’s time to FINALLY move the washer upstairs, I’m ready for it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[ insert really cool, exciting, and insightful post here. Yeah, as if. ]
I splurged on a fancy expensive meal. I made quiche. Egg shortage, cream shortage. Prices way up. Cheese prices triple. Bacon more than doubled. Even frozen pie shells are at least twice what they once were.
Quiche used to be inexpensive farmhouse fare. A little dough, a few scrapes of cheese, a couple eggs from the henhouse, some squirt fresh from the cow, some herbs, onions, or mushrooms from the garden, a bit of leftover meat if you had some, and cook it up in a declining oven, slowly cooling from the morning’s bread.
Pretty sure those two quiches cost me $12 each to make. But I actually found some heavy cream in the store, so I grabbed it. $7 per quart, and it wasn’t “free range organic non-GMO” It was just regular. No point NOT buying the fancy hen eggs these days; plain-Jane factory eggs are only 80¢ less per dozen. I saw that Walmart now has the institutional pack of 60 large eggs for $20, a “mere” $4/dz for eggs that cost 89¢/dz just 3 or 4 years ago.
project update! We have flooring upstairs. We have baseboard molding in the new laundry room and in part of the hallway. I have the vanity drawers adjusted properly. Laundry room and bathroom should be 100% complete in a couple more weeks. Hallway might still need painting, not sure if we can put in another light in the hallway ceiling, and we have to figure out how to try to get the oak stairs to better match the molding color. Probably paint the risers white and put the LVP on the treads.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bowling Blogging!!
Holy katz, we didn’t win tonight, we TRAMPLED. Played our old buddy Dave’s team (we’ve bowled with him for 20+ years I think) and we were hot but they weren’t even into it. So even though we gave them 44 pins handicap, we won each game by over 100.
I threw a 622 series; 218 - 192 - 212. Low and slow, but I also finally got around to running my DV8 through the ball oven a couple times to get it clean. This is my best series so far this year I think, in either league.
Will a 7-0 night put us in 1st? Maybe. We were only 1.5 points out going into tonight. But if it doesn’t, then it gives us a broader gap between us in 2nd and whoever is in 3rd. Not sure how much, although 14 or more points is ideal. That way you can have two awful weeks and not drop any places in the standings.
The Last 10 Shut Off The One Remaining Light As They Left
Haiti no longer has any representative government
This is their problem, not ours. Do NOT send in the US Marines. Do NOT send them any aid money, food, or supplies.
Haiti left with no elected government officials as it spirals towards anarchy [ Spirals towards?? I’d say they have about half a spin left before they become completely unscrewed ]
The expiration of the officials’ terms at midnight on Monday formally concluded their time in office – and with it, the last semblance of democratic order in the beleaguered Caribbean nation.
Haiti – which is currently engulfed in gang violence and the worst malnutrition crisis in decades – now officially has no functioning parliament as the senators were the last of 30 to remain in office after successive failed efforts to hold elections.
There is now no constitutional representation at any state level, the latest sign that the country has become a failed state.
“The constitution, which until now we have been referring to as the framework for political transition, is essentially just a letter, because none of the institutional architecture that it describes is currently in place,” said Renata Segura, deputy director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Crisis Group, a peacebuilding thinktank.
Haiti is plagued by a series of acute, overlapping crises as gangs violently exploit a power vacuum to expand their control of the capital.
Every democratic institution, from Haiti’s justice system to parliament, is no longer functioning.
All local authorities’ terms expired in 2020 and when the supreme court last met in February 2022, only five of the 12 judges remained in office.
The breakdown of Haitian democracy and its institutions has made it impossible to confront warring factions, who now control an estimated two-thirds of Port-au-Prince.
Home to 12 million, Haiti has not held timely legislative elections since October 2019 and was plunged further into uncertainty when its president, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in July 2021 by Colombian mercenaries in circumstances that remain unclear.
All local and national political mandates have now expired, while questions hang over the constitutional legitimacy of the interim government which has set no dates for the next round of elections.
It was inevitable. This has been coming for nearly a century. My only hope is that it doesn’t spill over into The Dominican Republic on the other side of the island. Somehow they’ve managed to not screw things up anywhere near as bad.
You too can finally have something in common with ancient cavemen
The Green Comet will soon be visible. An extremely infrequent visitor to our end of the solar system, this chunk of ice and rock is from way out in the Oort Cloud, and last came by our planet about 50,000 years ago.
Grab your binoculars, and look up as a recently discovered comet will make an appearance in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years.
The comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers through a wide-field survey camera back in March 2022, when the comet was already inside the orbit of Jupiter.
According to NASA, the comet will make its closest approach to the sun on Jan. 12 before passing closest to the Earth on Feb. 2.
This particular comet has an orbit around the sun that passes through the outer reaches of the solar system, which is why no one in our lifetime has witnessed the green glow.
The best opportunity for Northern Hemisphere stargazers to witness the once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon will be just before midnight on Jan. 12, according to EarthSky.
According to NASA, the comet should be visible through binoculars in the morning sky but said it could become visible to the naked eye under dark skies.
For Northern Hemisphere sky-watchers, the comet will be visible for most of January, while those in the Southern Hemisphere will be able to catch a glimpse in early February.
Although the comet will be around 26 million miles away, EarthSky said observers will be able to spot it near the North Star and should be visible earlier in the evening.
Still unsure what to look for? The icy visitor from the distant outer solar system can be distinguished from stars by its streaking tails of dust along with a glowing green coma around it. As the comet passes close to the sun, the coma causes the comet’s ice to turn directly into gas, making the comet look fuzzy through a telescope.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Esoterica: A brand new discovery that’s over 2000 years old:
lime clasts key feature of ancient hot mix self-healing Roman concrete
Just another one of those How Things Work posts, that make sense if you already know a lot about whatever the subject is. In this case, this research work shows that ancient Roman concrete is “alive” and can heal itself forever.
For many years, researchers have assumed that the key to the ancient concrete’s durability was based on one ingredient: pozzolanic material such as volcanic ash from the area of Pozzuoli, on the Bay of Naples. This specific kind of ash was even shipped all across the vast Roman empire to be used in construction, and was described as a key ingredient for concrete in accounts by architects and historians at the time.
Under closer examination, these ancient samples also contain small, distinctive, millimeter-scale bright white mineral features, which have been long recognized as a ubiquitous component of Roman concretes. These white chunks, often referred to as “lime clasts,” originate from lime, another key component of the ancient concrete mix. “Ever since I first began working with ancient Roman concrete, I’ve always been fascinated by these features,” says Masic. “These are not found in modern concrete formulations, so why are they present in these ancient materials?”
Previously disregarded as merely evidence of sloppy mixing practices, or poor-quality raw materials, the new study suggests that these tiny lime clasts gave the concrete a previously unrecognized self-healing capability. “The idea that the presence of these lime clasts was simply attributed to low quality control always bothered me,” says Masic. “If the Romans put so much effort into making an outstanding construction material, following all of the detailed recipes that had been optimized over the course of many centuries, why would they put so little effort into ensuring the production of a well-mixed final product? There has to be more to this story.”
Studying samples of this ancient concrete, he and his team determined that the white inclusions were, indeed, made out of various forms of calcium carbonate. And spectroscopic examination provided clues that these had been formed at extreme temperatures, as would be expected from the exothermic reaction produced by using quicklime instead of, or in addition to, the slaked lime in the mixture. Hot mixing, the team has now concluded, was actually the key to the super-durable nature.
“The benefits of hot mixing are twofold,” Masic says. “First, when the overall concrete is heated to high temperatures, it allows chemistries that are not possible if you only used slaked lime, producing high-temperature-associated compounds that would not otherwise form. Second, this increased temperature significantly reduces curing and setting times since all the reactions are accelerated, allowing for much faster construction.”
During the hot mixing process, the lime clasts develop a characteristically brittle nanoparticulate architecture, creating an easily fractured and reactive calcium source, which, as the team proposed, could provide a critical self-healing functionality.
The hard version:
The proposed post-pozzolanic process introduced here can be compared to the autogenous healing in modern cementitious materials wherein cracks are filled by carbonation products or via the further hydration of unreacted pozzolanic particles (61, 62). It should be noted that cementitious compounds contained in the concrete can always induce some degree of natural self-healing. For example, it is generally assumed that in these types of self-healing studies, where water is pumped through a damaged structure, at relatively low–water pressure gradients and up to 10% relative movement of the crack, any crack with a width of up to 0.20 mm can naturally self-heal, while for relative movements between 10 and 20%, the crack width for natural self-healing is between 0.15 and 0.20 mm (63). However, for cracks wider than the above values (such as those used for the self-healing experiments in Fig. 5), any measured reduction in water flow through the structure induced by self-healing would imply that additional mechanisms have occurred.
The effectiveness of the pore- and crack-filling mechanism described here is predicated on the frequency of cracks intersecting the abundant highly porous and intrinsically reactive lime clasts. In support of this requisite damage mode, the optical and SEM imaging of freshly fractured ancient Roman concrete surfaces reveals that fractures predominantly propagate through the lime clasts in the architectural mortar, which are visible on both sides of the crack interface. It should be noted, however, that lime production in antiquity could lead to underburned/overburned lime that could potentially influence their surface area, subsequent reactivity, and mechanical properties. While our analyses suggest that lime clast composition in Roman mortars is relatively consistent from sample to sample, in some cases, higher-density lime clasts in ancient mortars can act as aggregate, with cracks instead propagating through the interfacial transition zone (5).
The entire self-healing mechanism suggested here occurs upon stimulation from external forces that would, otherwise, cumulatively result in material failure if left unchecked. The calcium-rich phases within the lime clasts remain stored until they are needed, thus potentially allowing the healing properties of these materials to persist over millennia. To this end, microcracks and pores induced by environmental changes (e.g., freeze-thaw cycling and acid rain) or mechanical damage (e.g., settling and seismic loads) can be filled, with water activation, once the cracks reach the lime clast particles.
In this work, we successfully demonstrate that these ancient concrete design practices could be applied for the development of modern OPC-based formulations, thus showing far-reaching implications for extended concrete design life, long-term durability, and sustainability. Whether the damage occurs within years of construction or centuries thereafter, so long as the lime clasts remain, these self-healing functionalities can persist. Inspired by the demonstrated potential of this technology, future studies will explore how such an ad hoc self-healing mechanism can be implemented in modern infrastructure, both for reinforced concrete and for unreinforced applications as are commonly used, for example, in concrete three-dimensional printing efforts
TLDR:
How about that? Roman concrete can repair itself to a great extent because it is not as heterogeneously pure as modern concrete. In simple terms, it wasn’t milled or cooked or mixed precisely, which left chunks of somewhat burnt limestone in the mix. Or these “imperfections” were added purposely. The bigger bits would work as aggregates, and the smaller bit, still being chemically reactive, would melt under high temperatures or dissolve with water contact and then later cool off / dry out and rebond to things around them. In other words, self-healing. Also, exceptionally strong, and no rebar required.
FoxNews top stories Idaho killer, yadda yadda, Senate, Football, Prince Harry, One Simple Trick, yadda yadda
CNN: Violent Revolution In Brazil JUST LIKE JANUARY 6th INSURRECTION
All the news that’s fit to ignore, bend, bias, spin, etc.
There is no reporting any longer. It’s all BS and bias, top to bottom. I quit.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
January 08, 2023
Tired now. Got about an hour’s light work done on the reno project, but it took me 3 or 4 hours of hard work to get there.
Everything is a damn cascade. To do task F you first have to do task E. To do E you have to do D. To do D you have to do C. etc etc.
I wanted to do two little things: put some JB Weld epoxy on the top edge of the bathroom wall cabinet because the end of the plywood was delaminating. We’re talking a 5 minute jog, mix the stuff up on a clean bit of cardboard, lay it in with a toothpick, then put a speedy clamp or two around things until it dries in 10 minutes. The speedy clamps were on the shelf in the back of the garage. Hoo boy.
I wanted to try and repair the gouge our ham handed contractor put in the edge of the pocket door we spent a whole weekend finishing. To do that I need to get to my saw horses, to support the door while I worked on it. They were in the back of the garage too, but in the bottom of the far back corner.
I had to move 2 bowling bags, 4 bags of topsoil, 2 bags of thinset and a pile of empty cardboard boxes out of the way first, so I could then shift about 40 pieces of drywall - whole and partial sheets - from one side of the pathway to the other. To do that .... oh never mind. But after moving a toilet in the wrong box, the box with the vanity in it, a couple bales of insulation, several boards, various electrical bits in boxes, a few hundred pounds of tile, and a gallon of paint we forgot we owned ... I got to the clamps and the sawhorses. Glued up the brand new cabinet in it’s box; the one I paid a significant premium for because it’s all furniture grade plywood, which arrived delaminated on one end. And then I could finally get around to trying to sand out the gouge that magically appeared in our pocket door. Did that, stained it, then put another coat of poly on that side of the door. Scratch is still there, but it’s dark now and sort of blended in. Good enough. And then I found a chip in the bottom edge of this door. Goddam. under the protective painter’s tape the contractor put on. So he made a special trip to the local store to get some glue this morning to fix it.
I was going to post this last night but I was so tired I forgot to hit the button. So I’ll do it now.
And now I have other issues to deal with ... another piece of damaged cabinetry.
And this morning we found that the bathroom vanity is not built the way I wanted it, the way I think I was given a price quote for, paid, and had delivered 4 months ago.
I am beginning to despise Kraft Maid. Looks real good, gorgeous finish. Too damn many short cuts in the construction and their boxing is total crap.
Actually, right now I’m sick of this entire nitwit industry. Everyone involved in it is lazy and stupid, and all the manufacturers turn out high priced junk. Nobody can get an order right, and the delivery guys are pretty careless with your stuff. Careless applies to things ordered from the big box stores as well. And the most careless of all seem to be contractors, who leave trash, mess, garbage, and your supplies anywhere and everywhere.
Not to mention that when our guy pulled up the old carpet in the laundry room, in anticipation of putting the new flooring in, he found some covered over square hole in the concrete floor. WTH? Don’t even want to know at this point what it’s from. Plumbing, floor safe, who knows? Just smooth it over with some thinset or something, and lets move forward.
Everything is a friggin disaster run by idiots. Everything. Beginning to end.
A majority of the full US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said that bump stocks were not covered by the law that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used to put the regulation in place.
“A plain reading of the statutory language, paired with close consideration of the mechanics of a semi-automatic firearm, reveals that a bump stock is excluded from the technical definition of ‘machinegun’ set forth in the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act,” Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote in the majority’s opinion.
Three judges on the circuit court dissented from the ruling.
This decision comes after the US Supreme Court declined to consider a challenge to the federal ban in October. The high court has consistently denied cases challenging the bump stock ban in recent years.
The ATF banned bump stocks in 2019. Then-President Donald Trump had ordered a review of the devices after a mass shooting in 2017 in Las Vegas, in which a shooter armed with semiautomatic weapons and bump stock devices opened fire from his hotel suite onto outdoor concertgoers, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds of others.
This was one of Trump’s biggest mistakes, and CNN is being willfully blind here. The court decision looked carefully at the 1938 Firearms Act law, which is the one that prohibits you from owning a fully automatic weapon unless you buy the special tax stamp.
In the relevant section of the Act the actual definition of a machine gun, a fully automatic firearm, is clearly laid out in simple, unambiguous terms: more than one shot can be fired for each actuation of the trigger. And that’s all there is to it. Pull once, hold down the trigger, and it keeps on shooting until all the ammo is used up. A bump stock doesn’t essentially allow continuous firing, because “continuous” comes under that “one pull, many shots” concept. What they do is to greatly speed up the firing process by reducing the lag time between trigger pulls. Nearly all semi-automatic firearms go through the fire / eject / reload / recock cycle faster than you can even see; they will shoot off the next round if you can pull the trigger quicker at the appropriate time. Bump stock devices utilize the recoil / rebound action of a weapon held essentially in a spring, ie the arms and body of the shooter, who is exerting a dual push / pull force on the weapon by pulling the trigger towards them while pushing the weapon away from them. It is that push away that actually enacts the trigger pull of subsequent shots.
If you were to hold the buttstock of a machine gun gently up against a brick wall and pull the trigger, it would start shooting round after round. Do this with a bump stock equipped weapon and it will fire only once. But CNN doesn’t want you to understand this, because they are essentially biased lazy commie hacks who don’t know diddly doodoo about guns. And they’re proud of that absence of knowledge.
In a 13-3 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), acting under “tremendous” public pressure, short-circuited the legislative process by approving a rule to define bump stocks as “machineguns,” which are heavily restricted. The court said ATF did not have the authority from Congress to do so.
In 2018, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the attorney general to regulate bump stocks, and ATF acted in accordance with the president’s order. To do so, the agency reversed its decade-old position that bump stocks were not machineguns.
Gosh, another 3 letter federal agency acting above their paygrade. Who’da thunk that could ever happen? Making a new law is the job of Congress, not the ATF. And that’s what this decision really said.
Sadly, naturally, you know what’s coming next:
The Biden administration, which defended the law in court, may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
And in truth, they may be justified in this, as this is the one court of appeals decision to throw this EO out, while several other courts have upheld it.
I swear to gosh, no legislator should be allowed to even think about gun control issues until they’ve had 100 hours of firearms training, 3 semesters worth of gun history, gun physics, wounding theory, 2 classes on the Second, and about 200 hours of instructor supervised range time. And that’s in addition to their 4 years in uniform. Authors and Hollywood types would have to take about half as many classes too. They’re nearly as benighted.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TNB.
Newport News VA: SIX YEAR OLD whips out his gun and shoots the teacher
Virginia police say 6-year-old student shot teacher at Newport News elementary school
Virginia police have taken a 6-year-old student in custody after a staff member was injured in a shooting at an elementary school in Newport News on Friday afternoon, according to Police Chief Steve Drew.
The incident unfolded at Richneck Elementary School, a school for kids ages 5-9.
Police say that the 6-year-old student was immediately taken into custody following the incident. It is unclear how the student got a gun.
Just drown the little rat. No point locking him up forever. Bad seed, bad blood. Besides, I’m sure his single parent birthing person already has at least one more on the way, and his grandmother won’t miss another place at the table.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R, CA-20) secured enough support to become the next speaker of the House in a late night voting session yesterday. His bid for speakership stretched past the fourth day as a small group of Republicans sought concessions to alter how the House is run and what legislation it prioritizes. This year’s speaker election is now the longest since 1859 (see history).
In the 15th round of voting, McCarthy garnered 216 votes after six Republicans who previously opposed him voted “present,” lowering the threshold for McCarthy to claim a majority (see 101). Minority leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D, NY-8) won 212 votes.
The breakthrough came after more than a dozen Republican holdouts flipped their votes to support McCarthy amid an emerging deal that includes reinstating a House rule to allow any single member to call a vote to oust the speaker from office, among other items.
Now watch the obstructionist “bipartisan” Democrats call for an ouster vote every single day.
Bowling Blogging, Friday Night Edition
Meh, we had an off night. The other couple on our team was out again, doing family stuff, and pre-bowled as they always do. But they didn’t do so good this time. Neither did we. Wifely was tired and I’m still weak and wobbly from being sick. Not falling over, but I have those middle ear crystal things and when I get too much congestion they mess with my balance. And make me nearly fully deaf. No fun. So I actually managed to average 3 over average, and we won the first game. But the family team we played have 3 excellent-when-necessary bowlers and a don’t-care roller to keep their team average down. Two of them are semi-professional bowling coaches. Come on. So they managed us just fine with ease.
Nothing to see here, but plenty to listen to. Raw blues from 1964, Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen doing Hesitation Blues. Power, purity, soul.
Yes, I’m feeling better. Not 100% but so much so that I did a big load of housework, but knew when to say when. At least I’m caught up on dishes, laundry, garbage, and some vacuuming. There wasn’t a clean spoon or bowl in the house. Oops.
In which we either advance or don’t. A complicated and challenging night at Old Guys league.
We played the 1st place team tonight. We went into the night as the 3rd place team. Both the 1st and 2nd place team had the same number of win points, 3 greater than us. But in bowling your team’s scratch pins (how well you’ve bowled in total without any handicap pins help) also plays a factor, and at least the 1st place team was a good amount ahead of us. Like 3000 pins ahead. So if 2 teams have the same number of won points, the team with the higher scratch pins total will be ahead in the standings.
So we got 72 pins handicap, and they bowled pretty well. And so did we, mostly. For me just getting there and being able to bowl the whole night felt like a win after this illness I’ve had. I threw my Snap Loc in Game 1, and went 24 over for a 199. We won that game, but not just because of my score. Go team!
I threw 15 under, a 160, in Game 2. We lost that game, but not by a whole lot. A shared loss. Go team!!
After the first couple frames of Game 3 I knew my hand was tired, and I was flagging. So I put away the ‘Loc and took out my lighter DV8. And proceeded to run up some strikes. So I went from way way under in frame 3 to a few over by frame 10. So on average I was on average for the night. And we won Game 3 by around 93 pins, and secured total wood too.
So we went 5-2 against the team who was up 3 on us. Which means we now have the same number of wins as they do, although they’re still up on scratch. So we might be “tied” for first, counting just the wins. Which would realistically put us in 2nd. But how did the 2nd place team do? We don’t know. If they won more than 2 then they move into 1st, forcing 1st into 2nd and we stay in 3rd via scratch. If they got stomped, they could drop a couple places. At the halfway point of the season things are really tight up at the top. So we’ll just have to wait for the standings sheet email. But it’s nice to be in that rarefied atmosphere, even only if it’s for a short while.
The good news is that in the past 5 weeks we’ve played all the top teams and beaten them all by some extent. So we’ll be facing the lesser teams for the next couple months. See what happens. Never a dull moment in Old Guys league.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Still here. Still a bit sick, but slowly getting better. Still low energy, still not much interested in outside events, although I am checking the news to see when the next vote for Speaker fails. I think they’ve gone through 4 votes now, or is it 5? What a clown show circle jerk. You know this crew of idiots is going to screw the pooch and “accidentally” let a Dem be elected Speaker. The Stupid Party is trying as hard as they possibly can to become the Party of Fail once again.
I’m alive. Whatever this damn bug is, it tried to kill me. I am not really exaggerating. Nose ran like a fire hose, no matter what pills or sprays I used. Lungs filled with thick mucus. Could barely breathe. Couldn’t cough it loose. Crawling across floor in breathless panic to find my Anoro inhaler in middle of night. Finally got out the portable nebulizer and the albuterol ampules I had from a year ago with most post-covid hospital episode from hell. And that did the trick. One 10 minute session opened my lungs up. Swear to God it saved my life. Miracle Cure Part 1. All the vitamins and supplements were not doing the trick. Time for real drugs in real amounts.
After that I could get to the doctor and got tested and antibiotics etc. He wanted to give me Z pack. I said it doesn’t work on me, give me something much stronger. And don’t go lightly on the steroids, I’m a big guy. Whatever it is, it isn’t viral. Doc didn’t bother to look further. And I don’t really care either. A big dose of doxycycline and prednisone, 10 days worth, along with some Mucinex, is pulling off Miracle Cure Part 2. It ain’t over yet, but I’m getting there. I actually got a decent night’s sleep last night, first time in 4-5 days. Coughing much less, which is great because my ribs are exhausted and painful from all the coughing I’ve been doing.
I caught this from our contractor, who is still out sick and knows he can’t come back here until he is vastly improved. Fuck the project, keep your damn killer germs out of here. Thursday I had a mild sniffle. By Sunday night I thought I was going to die. 5 hours after I got the pills Monday I knew I would make it.
120 ampules cost me $24. I did 2 treatments yesterday, will do 1 or 2 today.
Assuming you inhale all of it, 1 ampule of this is equal to 278 puffs from the 200 puff rescue inhaler.
This is why you want a tabletop nebulizer with the R BAN mouthpiece, about $140, which is what the hospitals now use. The R BAN shuts off the flow when you’re not sucking on it. No waste. Half an ampule is more than I can usually handle, and that’s with my rinky dink portable vibrating unit. Compressor units are much better.
I am sick. Headache, sinus congestion and pressure, sticky cough deep in the chest, exhausted. Been like this for several days now. Taking all the various pills and concoctions I have here, nothing seems to do the full trick. Mucinex helps, Anoro helps, Ivermectin doesn’t hurt, nor do a double handful of vitamins.
I’m up for an hour or three, carefully coughing as much as I can while on the toilet (safety first!). Eating a little canned soup, peanut butter, and whatever carb I can get my hands on. Then it’s back to bed for a another couple hours, wake up unable to breathe, and do it all over again.
About to take a very hot steamy long shower. Might do some laundry. Probably not.
Hope our contractor is not only not dead, but well enough to come to work tomorrow. I caught this from him, as I have no other life right now than this @$@#$@#$!! project. And a little bowling. So, more C, D3, B super, and multi, a couple Omegas, a couple black seed oil pills, some of those mushroom pills, and a couple NACs. Then shower and back to bed. Get a couple snorts of PVP-I nasal spray in while I’m conscious. Cats will have to take their own pills for once.
Posting will be lighter than usual until I’m better, and it’s been really suck butt the past couple months anyway. Sorry.
I will make sure I have a big glass of water, and both my inhalers handy by the bedside. Had a bad episode today, could not breathe, staggered downstairs to find the Anoro while almost blacking out. NOT GOOD.
I know, time to get a life and find something else to write about. Bowling, project (contractor is now out with the flu), bowling, project. Beyond boring. Truth is, aside from home chores, that’s about all I do. It’s too cold to garden, the holidays have come and gone. That leaves the news ... yuck. But maybe I can find some interesting stories or some positive things to write about. They did arrest a suspect for the Idaho campus murders out in Moscow. Hope they have the right guy. Uh oh, the former pope died. I can do a little on that. He was better than the commie who has the job now.
Once Again, The One And Only Post (3 total trackbacks) Tracked at diamond painting uk The Glee alum's dark cheap diamond cheap diamond painting painting locks were styled stick straight and tucke diamond painting kits d behind her diamond painting kits ears diamond painting uk… On: 03/20/21 10:12
Vietnam Homecoming (1 total trackbacks) Tracked at 广告专题配音 专业从事中文配音跟外文配音制造，北京名传天下配音公司 专业从事中文配音和外文配音制作，北京名传天下配音公司 北京名传天下专业配音公司成破于2006年12月，是专业从事中 中文配音 文配音跟外文配音的音频制造公司，幻想飞腾配音网领 配音制作 有海内外优良专业配音职员已达500多位，可供给一流的外语配音，长年服务于国内中心级各大媒体、各省市电台电视台，能满意不同客户的各种需要。电话：010-83265555 北京名传天下专业配音公司… On: 03/20/21 07:00
a small explanation (1 total trackbacks) Tracked at yerba mate gourd Find here top quality how to prepare yerba mate without a gourd that's available in addition at the best price. Get it now! On: 07/09/17 03:07
DISCLAIMER
THE SERVICES AND MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE HOSTS OF THIS SITE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS.
Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
THE INFORMATION AND OTHER CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE ARE DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS WEBSITE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALL PARTIES IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE AMERICAN COURTS. IF ANYTHING ON THIS WEBSITE IS CONSTRUED AS BEING CONTRARY TO THE LAWS APPLICABLE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, THEN THIS WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED TO BE ACCESSED BY PERSONS FROM THAT COUNTRY AND ANY PERSONS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO SUCH LAWS SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO USE OUR SERVICES UNLESS THEY CAN SATISFY US THAT SUCH USE WOULD BE LAWFUL.
Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
The Conservative American voice from a red corner of an eastern blue state
All content on this website (including text, photographs, audio files, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
You may freely use anything for non-commercial purposes as long as you attribute the source. All non-original content must be attributed to the original source. Play fair.
Fair Use
This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner or may be authorized or licensed for publication at this site only. Permission to copy, republish or reproduce such material must be obtained from the original copyright owner.
We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of political, human rights, economic, democracy, and social justice issues, etc.
We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research, educational, or satirical purposes.
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Friday - January 27, 2023 
on 01/27/2023 at 10:20 AM
•
Trackbacks(3)
Permalink • 
RSS 2.0 
Atom 
