Humans are fickle creatures. A month ago I was delighted and happy at the speed with which the administration was fixing things.
I’m still happy. I’m also very tired, though that might have to do with just having come back from a con and still being on the edge of con crud.
The thing is that little dissatisfaction points have crept in. I don’t like the labor pick. I am ambivalent over the whole thing with Ukraine, but willing to accept Trump is doing the best he can with the situation and that it’s not entirely in his control. (He’s not magic.) I’m frustrated with judges who make rulings that should be beyond their reach, and which the Supreme Court, inexplicably, decided to tolerate.
This post is as much to you — I’m sure some of the rest of you will need to hear it, not just me — as to myself: Possess your soul in patience. It’s less than a month and a half from inauguration. Yes, Trump is governing like someone who knows his life, as well as our country, depends on this. But he’s not magical, and he’s certainly not a king or a dictator.
Looked at one way, we’ve been on this road towards an European style “managed” republic for a hundred years or so. It can’t be undone with a magical wand, or in a minute. it’s going to take work, and there’s going to be wins and losses. Sometimes it will be two steps forward and one step back. Sometimes the wins will be alloyed with loss and irritation. We will be muttering and cursing, and hoping.
And Trump is not magical either. He’s going to do things I disagree with. Look, anyone will. Even if I were president, I’d be forced into things I didn’t like or, considering how often I’ve made mistakes in life, do things that didn’t play the way I wanted.
The thing is just we tend to attribute magical powers of imposing their view on everyone in power. And the opposition has been driving us to such a bad, illiberal, “you’ll eat the bugs and be thankful” place, and we got such a miracle with the election win, against the cheating and the spending and what felt like a scripted loss. So, of course, we feel like Trump should have a magical reset button. But this doesn’t exist in reality.
And we can’t do much of anything, except work the culture side. Now as a year ago, our job is conquering hearts and minds to liberty. And perhaps percolating a few suggestions upward, as seems to happen sometimes.
Take a deep breath. Eat properly. Try to sleep. And…
Possess your soul in patience. This fight we’re in is not easy, and it will never be over. We might win big and have some breathing time and a time of prosperity, but the statists will come back. If not here, then somewhere else. If not on the national, then on the regional or local level.
The fight goes on. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.
In the mean time, take care of yourself. Celebrate the wins. Endure the losses. Shrug and keep going.
Possess your soul in patience.
Remember, patience is a virtue. So is fortitude. And we’ll get a chance to practice both a lot.
Patience. Keep going.
According To Hoyt 
March 6th is always a good day to practice patience and realize the struggle ahead may yet hold a hope of victory, no matter how FUBAR things may look today. On this day in 1836, the Alamo defenders fell to an attack by Santa Ana’s Mexican army. Texas would ultimately triumph at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, after a long campaign of retreat. With “Remember the Alamo” as their battle cry, the Texians defeated Santa Anna in fight lasting 18 minutes.
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Talking of Ukraine. It is not impossible that Trump simply wants Europe to step up and get serious about defense. If Europe is in fact serious about supporting Ukraine now is their chance to prove it and it seems like they may be doing so. In which case just maybe this failure to agree with Zelenskyy was part of a plan to get those NATO deadbeats to stop being such
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I have been having trouble sleeping and feeling rested since mid January. Yesterday I remembered something I read years ago: prey animals tend to sleep in short bursts and a shorter period of time. Predators tend to sleep more deeply and much longer.
I believe the rapid changes have awakened my sense of danger and so my body refuses to sleep for longer stretches and spends more time in REM sleep trying to figure out what to do.
I’m now wondering if others are feeling the same symptoms?
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For most humans, all change is stressful. Good news, bad news, it is a stress.
And we often make more of it than is warranted. “What if I do not handle this good news right?” “What if…” “What if….”
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just … be.
One can reduce stress through laughter. Find the funny in any situation and laugh at it. (Now you may understand why Infantry have such a dark sense of humor. Dookie happens. Laugh at it. Oh, wait, something good happened? laugh, because its likely a fluke.)
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Laughter or at least smiles go a long way to relieve stress (sometimes inadvertently). When my Dad was dying, the doctor called my family to another room, somberly telling us there was nothing he could do and asked if there were any questions. My dear old Auntie (his sister) piped up that she was not feeling good herself and worrying about pains and her heart and asking his advice. The morbid tension was broken.
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As my sister was expiring in ICU, I might have done a mimic of her voice saying “I’m not dead yet!”
Also riffs on “the machine that goes ‘PING'”.
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Miss you.
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Yes.
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That actually makes a sort of sense. I normally sleep like the dead, but since the inauguration I’ve been sleeping for shorter stretches and remembering my dreams, which I usually only do when I’m sick, which I’m not. My sleep is broken, I sometimes wake for a few minutes at a time, then drop off again. But once I only slept about an hour in total, and that has never happened before unless I did it deliberately.
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The lamentation of their non-binaries is starting to get on my nerves. My only serious concern about the Trump administration is his love of tariffs. I’m not sure trade wars will be good for the economy and a bad economy may be catastrophic at the midterms.
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I think at least part of Trump’s interest in tariffs is that pretty much everyone else is imposing them on our goods. So we might as well impose some of our own.
Also, Trump seems to be looking toward bringing strategically important industries to the US, so if we need to be self-reliant, we can. For example, while steel-making in the US isn’t cheap, it’s something we might not be able to.import if there’s an international emergency. Etc…
Trump seems spooked by something, and many of his actions seem focused on turning North America into a self-reliant fortress capable of withstanding any siege.
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The alternative to “self-reliant fortress” is “global policeman” to keep the supply chains flowing. We’ve been doing the latter for 80 years and no one seems to appreciate it, let alone help pay for it.
While I know it’s not entirely practical, I’ve been in the “self-reliant fortress” camp for some decades, now. Is coffee even grown in America? We need coffee. The single plant in my window is not sufficient for my needs.
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Coffee is grown commercially in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. There have been some attempts in California and a few other spots, insignificant quantities. It is further explored as a “shade crop” for under solar panel farm cultivation. Coffee is very dependent on soil chemistry, temperature, and altitude, so -good- stuff usually requires mountains, preferably volcanic.
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There are plenty of volcanic mountains right here! *casts a glance over one shoulder towards Mount St. Helens* While a lot of them are too far north for coffee, surely SOME of them fall into that Goldilocks zone for coffee cultivation.
And you CAN grow tea here. I had a plant in a pot for many years and then I oopsed and left it out during a hard frost.
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I keep hoping for a smart genetic engineer to figure out how to splice cold-tolerant coffee and cocoa crops! American chocolate; the time has come!
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It looks like we’ll need to keep Brazil and Colombia safe for you coffee drinkers. Fortunately, another needed foreign foodstuff, cocoa (for chocolate), is commonly grown in Mexico.
As for the tea imbibers?
Well…
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Worst case, we all switch to yaupon holly, I guess.
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Canada = States 51 – 63 (10 provinces and 3 territories)
Mexico = #64
Columbia = #65
Puerto Rico = #66
Panama = #67
Sure some cartel and corruption cleanup required. Solves the problem.
In other news:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/06/bombshell-discovery-could-make-all-of-bidens-presidential-actions-null-and-void-n4937648
I think the headline should be: “Was VP Harris cheated out of being President?” But what do I know. FYI. That answer is “Duh! Thank you Jesus!”
But it does bring up is everything auto signed with Biden’s signature void? If so, how does that change President Trump and his cabinet’s strategies?
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I saw that thing about the Biden* auto-pen, but that opens a giant-can-of-worms.
Does that mean that every bill that Biden* apparently signed via auto-pen is Null-And-Void?
Does that mean that every judicial choice made by Biden* is Null-And-Void?
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Yes to all. The Good and the Bad. Including that giant-can-of-worms.
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That giant can of worms is why I predict SCOTUS will overrule any attempt to do that.
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Somebody said (as a joke) that the Democrats might attempt to bar Trump’s Second Term by claiming/admitting that Trump actually won against Biden.
Besides the problems of the Democrats ADMITTED the Fraud, the biggest Can Of Worms was that anything Biden had done as President would be Null-And-Void.
And yes, if that Claim had reached SCOTUS, IMO they would have rejected it because it would have made Biden’s actions as President Null-And-Void.
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There’s also the inconvenient (to them) fact that the person who is sworn in is the President. All you have to do is point out Rutherford B. Hayes.
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That was me. (grin) I figured they were desperate enough to roll the dice on that one.
I am actually kinda flabbergasted at the Donks seeming collapse. It is like stepping into a bout, busting the other guy in the mouth, only to see him cross eyes and collapse. “That’s it? Hmph…”
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Won’t happen; acceptance (fait accompli) sets a strong precedent. If you don’t think so, check out the existence of West Virginia (violation of Article IV, Section 3; Virginia didn’t vote to allow it) and the 16th Amendment (arguably, with evidence, never ratified in accordance with the requirements in Article V). And there are others, although these are the most egregious.
Once it happens and is accepted it will not be overturned.
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Are we going to void anything not signed with a goose quill and dipped berry ink? (hm… hmmmmmmm…)
If Biden doesn’t repudiate the signings, hard to argue he didn’t sign them. Of course, if Biden is now a houseplant, hard to get a viable answer. I wonder how many additional auto-pen signed pardons are going to pop up over the next year.
Gripping hand, at some point, “Biden Bombshells” will resemble an Arclight strike.
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And if Biden was really doped to the gills, his signature, manual or auto, would potentially not be valid under all sorts of standing precedent for incapacity.
But I agree SCOTUS isn’t going to go there, baring some really bad discovery of a signed YGBFSM document, or someone admitting to the fraud/doping in a way impossible to ignore..
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It could happen. Democrats are really close to eating their own, as the saying goes. Then there is Biden Jr. You know the one whose paintings aren’t selling? The one who now can’t get speaking engagements? The one who has no import now that daddy isn’t in power anymore. The one that mama Jill doesn’t care a wit about? The minute Hunter feels he needs to throw daddy brain dead under the bus, it will happen. Then we’ll be saying “Hunter didn’t commit suicide” because if he can, he’ll be singing like a canary.
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Concur. With all of that.
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Pretty much as I see it. Stare decisis, while a legal term, applies to more than legal precedent; it also usually informs decisions about questionable acts by elected officials in the absence of hard evidence, especially if a correction would cause multiple additional problems. As noted, the related fait accompli is a frequent determinant. Ideally it shouldn’t be, but the real world is messy.
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Kenya.
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One aspect of tariffs that does not get a lot of attention is that, as part of the executive branch’s foreign policy portfolio, tariffs can be switched on and off by POTUS. This is not the case with, say, the income tax, or corporate taxes, or pretty much any other tax.
This gives yuge flexibility to do basically what he’s doing – putting tariffs in place by order, announcing them, and then suspending them temporarily as a foreign policy negotiation hammer as negotiations proceed.
The “experts” can go on about how they are “self defeating” because of tariff retaliation (which curiously somehow does not self defeat foreign tariffs on U.S. goods when we won’t retaliate because of the deep mythology of free trade), but as a negotiating tool with the weight of the U.S. economy wielding it, it’s really hard to beat. (Okay, beating a hammer? Yeah, I know – what is the term for a backwards metaphor?)
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Which is how Trump is using them.
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/03/06/trump-removes-tariffs-on-anything-under-usmca-agreement-with-mexico-until-april-2nd-n2409438
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Once you ponder the concept that tariffs are being used as a negotiating tool, to be discarded when the objective is achieved, much of the criticism becomes risible.
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Much of the criticisms I have read hinge on U.S.-first tariffs which get retaliatory foreign counter-tariffs and are thus “self defeating”, but the exact same purist free trade economists also say U.S. retaliatory tariffs in response to foreign originated tariffs are bad as well, because apparently anything the U.S. does is bad?
I say, the U.S. funded effectively the entire (admittedly much smaller – a feature not a bug) government up through the tricksy imposition of the Income Tax as a temporary wartime applies to the super rich only measure during WWI, so let’s have some tariffs, dude.
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It’s not that “anything the US does is bad”. It’s that tariff’s economically speaking, are bad, period. They do economic harm to both sides. On one side, they reduce availability of markets. The tariff makes their goods less competitive so they sell less. On the other side, they increase the cost of goods. So, just looking at the economics of the situation if the other guy imposes tariffs, putting your own tariff’s in place doesn’t “level the playing field”. Rather it doubles down on the trouble. But, most people don’t understand economics so “retaliatory tariffs” are an easy sell politically and gives the impression of “doing something” which is politically profitable.
On the flip side, the threat of tariffs can be a very useful tool in geopolitics. It depends a lot on the relative vulnerability of the nations involved to the economic harm or, even more so, the perception of vulnerability. Trump, in his first term, used them very effectively to wring concessions from other nations.
On the standing-on-edge side all taxes cause economic harm. They interfere with trade and reduce the total wealth of society (as defined by the sum total of goods and services available within that society). Whether tariffs are better or worse than other forms of taxation for raising the revenue necessary for essential government functions is above my expertise level. Others will have to figure that out.
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How else.are we going to persuade Canada to return to being a good neighbor? Do the critics think tariffs are worse than military action?
We’re not the only party who has responsibility for that border, and Canada needs to do their part.
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The lamentation of their non-binaries is starting to get on my nerves. My only serious concern about the Trump administration is his love of tariffs. I’m not sure trade wars will be good for the economy and a bad economy may be catastrophic at the midterms.
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I am not against tit-for-tat tariffs. If there is a 25% tariff put on autos into Germany? Should be a 25% tariff on German made autos. Tariff’s on China for what China pulls? Better than a physical war. China is going to lose. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada? It depends. Tariff for Tariff, yes. Penalty tariff I have a bigger problem with. OTOH using tariff to get Canada and Mexico’s attention on drug trafficking, and border control, …. It is that or say “Clean it up. Or we will come, physically, and do it for you.” That is bad too. So …. Yes, it is complicated.
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“Clean it up. Or we will come, physically, and do it for you.”
Wouldn’t be the first time; see Pancho Villa and Pershing. Authorized by Wilson (may he rot), but even a blind squirrel finds the occasional nut.
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Yes. Historically it has happened. Not a something these days that should be done. Threatened? Yes. Done. Not really.
I actually like how President Trump is “getting Panama canal back”. Or at least the critical aspects back from the Chinese. In American not China’s ownership.
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We didn’t do very well the last time we went into Mexico. Pancho Villa basically led us on a near fruitless merry chase to no conclusion. Hm. Sounds like another more recent war…) We need to have very clear and realistic goals, and understand that some of the opposition will be much, much more ruthless than Hamassholes, and Machismo is a whole different sort of pride to overcome. Also, they have -way- more money than Iran doles out, and we cannot easily cut it off. We will have to be Jacksonian and vicious. Ruthless.
A US real drug war in Mexico had best be short, extremely violent, and crushingly decisive quickly, or it will almost certainly become a total flustercluck. Our team is still all gefukhed from the last 20 years of mindless victory-avoidance. We ahve some serious hard-asses led by politicalized nincompoops, often spinless. Trump and Hegseth need at least a couple years to root out the rot and get training and doctrine back into shape. They can do it, but we mustn’t rush it. In a hurry.
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The best process would be a joint military effort by the US and Mexico to do exactly that – destroy the cartels completely. And it is a military problem requiring a military solution, no matter how many times US officials try to make it a police matter. If they can’t figure out how, just ask the Israelis. You don’t arrest terrorists, you eliminate them. And IIRC since they’re not recognized military forces, the Geneva/Hague Conventions don’t apply. :twisted:
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I very much suspect Mr Trump is thinking along those lines, with IDF versus Hamas as a starting point, but without the concerns for collateral damage.
Given the wipeout of the late caliphate/”Islamic state”, he might be planning to notionally comply with the war powers act by reporting the near extermination of certain cartel orgs.
Joint effort with MexGov, it’s feasible. Although I wouldn’t be optimistic about “short”.
But if we go in with the kind of ROE we used in the 19th century, it might work.
Would he dare call it Operation Wipeout?
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The lamentation of their non-binaries is starting to get on my nerves. My only serious concern about the Trump administration is his love of tariffs. I’m not sure trade wars will be good for the economy and a bad economy may be catastrophic at the midterms.
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Depends on what else there is that trumps the economy. There is plenty to choose from.
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Celebrate the wins. They have been frequent and in some cases -epic-.
Be forgiving of missteps, as you would like to be forgiven for yours. Unsure ? Err on the side of forgiveness.
Laugh freely and often. Its good for you. It annoys the crap out of our foes.
Practice calm. Find your personal “chill” button and ensure it gets used.
One way to cultivate calm and patience is to do positive things in the face of setbacks and adversity. A huge “to do” list around the house is major opportunity to divert from sulking or depression. “Well, at least I vacuumed the floors.” “Hah. Fixed that dang drippy sink.” Always have some accomplishment fresh in memory, and another one upcoming, even if it seems trivial.
Never quit.
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My last range day was my most consistent, yet. Been zeroing in on 10 yards for a while. 5 has been way too easy. Now that things are getting a bit more sane, indoor seed dispenser skills may be less needful, but it is always better to be ready and not need it, than to be unready when you do. Other to do lists around the house have been mostly caught up for a while, but the regular tasks are always there.
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For what (little) it’s worth, the squishes at Powerline think that the Supreme Court’s action on the USAID issue is just the opening salvo in a long battle over the executive authority. I found it interesting that they are not going all black (nor dark gray) pilled over this.
OTOH, the Department of mal-Education is now slated to be gone. I suppose the next scene will be some judge in Hawaii trying to put a stop to the stop.
February has been way too interesting a month at home (major snowstorm, lots of damage to trees, the dog kennel, and the barn’s chimney), not to mention Murphy taking out a couple of appliances for me to worry about setbacks in DC. Ain’t much I can do about that, but there’s a lot I can do for the problems right here, right now. I’ve also learned the truism that some problems are best dealt with by writing a check. :) (And my lungs are mostly recovered from pleuritis-fun. I can breathe without drama again.)
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Yay on the breathing. Breathing is good .
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Breathe. Everything else is optional.
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The squishes are staying on Trump’s side, which SHOCKS the heck out of me.
Yesterday we were telling the plumber EVERYHING that broke in the last five months…. we might be cursed?
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Weird things happen. I’m looking forward to the conversation with the electrician about why turning the lights on in the sauna blows the supposedly unrelated circuit breaker on the hot tub. Yes, I’m spoiled.
I’m waiting to call him until there is a path through the garage. Our “professional” garage door installation resulted in the opener being plugged into an extension cord that runs to an outlet. That needs rewiring, but there are too many boxes and overflow furniture in the way, now (three years after moving in).
Meanwhile, I just reset the circuit breaker.
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Is the hot tub breaker GFI? It should be. If so, and if the light circuit has a minor fault, or is improperly wired to the hot tub, turning it on might cause enough ground current to trip the breaker. That could happen just from having the cables run close together over a long enough distance to induce current into the ground wire when the lights are on.
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Sometimes it’s cascading issues. My car had asthma for a while (that’s what I call it, though it’s actually more like reflux.) $50 part on the engine outflow side was closing inappropriately. That was diagnosed half a year after it (probably) killed the fuel pump, shortly before we had to replace the catalytic converter tens of thousands of miles too early, and a fair bit before the mass oxygen airflow sensor choked my car at freeway speeds.
There’s no proof, but since these components were all interacting I am very sure that the stupid little valve damaged everything else. So maybe not cursed, maybe it’s the fact that when your ankle goes out, your opposite knee is next as you compensate.
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February and March have seen “Revenge of the Murphy Factor”. The major snowstorm at the beginning of Feb took out several things; enough big branches to stock much of next winter’s firewood, the fence-roofed dog kennel (snow bridged, and was way too heavy), plus the barn’s chimney.
Now, it’s appliances and such. The backup propane heater suffered a failed gas valve (I did failure analysis–a coil wire was rubbing against the case and broke). The small inverter in the tiny garage solar system died. No idea why yet, but I have a usable backup. The barn’s smokestack got pulled down when ice&snow on the roof yanked the braces out of their place.
The oven stopped heating. We got the appliance tech out (actually a DIY job, but too much going on with the previous issues), and a new ignitor fixed that. The water under the range was new, though. Seems the dishwasher’s feed hose had a gasket die, and the spray corroded a downstream brass fitting. Major disaster averted, and all on one service call (just coming out is $140. Rural life has issues occasionally).
Of course, now my internet doesn’t want to work when the ground warms up. Pretty sure the cable got clobbered by rocks and subsequent water incursion in the very shallow trench done for the install. (It’s well below freezing this morning. It died just as the ground warmed up yesterday. Tech due this morning. Sigh.)
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Ukraine is Europe’s fsking problem now despite the fact that “our” neocons and TLAs caused most of the mess. The Euro-tards elites want to talk and act big while they destroy their economies and oppress their people, but they still want Uncle Sugar to bail them out, again.
I’ve lost 3 family members to Europe’s hubris over the last century, while they treat their descents into hell like temporary hangovers and their rescuers like poop on their shoe to be scraped off.
And the idiots in the UK will probably give their nation and it’s nukes to the Islamists. FTMF, especially the Anglo-twat elite and the WEF scum.
Military recruiting is up now that Trump won, but no one in my circles is encouraging our younger generation to join up. Too much trust has been lost to throw any more people into the grinder for more MIC profits and graft in losing foreign wars.
In the meantime life goes on. There is work, weather, spring cleaning, family gatherings, dogs to train, and hobbies to distract me from these very interesting times.
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One of the problems with the process of negotiation as an observer is that the negotiator would be stupid to be totally open about his goals and the meaning of particular actions, so until we see how it ends, there’s probably not a lot of point to obsessing about each drama.
I do think that it’s become really clear that there is corruption *everywhere* in the Ukrainian fiasco. Corruption in heaps and piles in Washington DC. Corruption in Zelensky and his cronies. Corruption everywhere you look. These people are sociopaths, because killing hundreds of thousands of people in order to maintain your gravy train is flat out evil.
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Evil, yes. And on most of Planet Earth, its Thursday.
USA is remarkably clean, but not spotless. Most of the rest is sewer.
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They don’t care about anything but their own liberal lackeys and their on pocketbook, so yes they are evil.
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When I took a dive into Facebook yesterday, all the liberal feeds that are coming to prominence focused, not quite lockstep, but close, on the littlest nit-picky thing. The new thing I’m seeing now is “Trump is going to kill cancer research because he doesn’t understand the difference between “transgenic” and “transgender”!!!!” They can’t argue Trump isn’t popular because conservatives cherry picked “the one poll that shows his numbers are good” after the CNN &CBS polls post speech. They can’t argue Trump is rude and crude after the Dems actions at the speech. They can’t argue “Trump is sending us towards WWIII because he ruined talks with Zelenskyy” (not now Zelenskyy is crawling back. So they nitpick his words which experts who are crafting the policy behind his words are going to clarify.
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Yesterday Zelensky walked back his walk back of his walk back on signing the agreement (translation – he’s once again saying he won’t sign). The guy flip-flops more than one of those giant inflatable stick men in a hurricane.
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The Zelensky Moonwalk as he walks it back again. (grin)
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I’m wary of when the swamp collects itself and fights back. They’ve been shocked and awed by the Trump team, but they’re not out of it quite yet. I know I want arrests and perp walks and convictions, but not because I thirst for the wails and lamentations of my enemies. Well, I kinda do, but mostly I want the swamp to be afraid. Don’t just forcibly retire the pedophile-supporting FBI director in New York. Arrest him, charge him, convict him, and put him in prison. That will make these monsters consider their next actions.
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If an enemy has no safe way to quit, they wont quit. It is often far less work to get someone to quit if they can see some sort of acceptable post-quit state. This may lack ultimate earthly justice, but may allow more time to get more/other poop-heads to quit, while also holding down your own costs and casualties.
“Never press a beaten foe too hard” – Sun Tzu, the Art of War
The alternative is “Annihilation”, a valid principle of war, which does tend to ensure you never fight the same foe twice. Achieving this can be -very- costly, but if the opportunity presents for a cheap wipeout, it might be worthwhile.
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The problem is when your enemy has decided that getting everything is reasonable and refuses to accept anything less.
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That is one reason why we issue bayonets.
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Yeah, I’m a little bit nervous myself, for when the Swamp fights back. When they do, it will be dirty, so I hope Trump and his people have something in their back pocket to retaliate with.
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Yep. that’s a concern. Knew going in that going after the money would cause conniptions on a scale that makes Godzilla stomping Tokyo flat look like a toddler having a temper tantrum.
There’s a lot of folks worried, panicked, and frightened. That kind of folk are about likely to do bloody anything. Even stupid stuff. Most of it will be ineffectual. Identifying the signal from the noise will be key.
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I finally decided to see myself as a leader in this revolution, leader of my own life at least.
In order to sleep, I had to/have to say to myself “It is safe to sleep deeply” over and over again, plus wear swimmers ear plugs and a siesta mask.
I couldn’t watch the speech to congress because I’d already stressed out for the day.
Mind, body, spirit must operate as a team otherwise nobody’s going to enjoy even the small victories.
Trouble is, all this is so very important.
Great post.
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You need the gizmo that my wife got me last year. It’s a Bluetooth-enabled sleep mask, little speakers over the ears. So you can fall asleep to white noise or an audiobook or whatever if you want. The only downside is that it’s not terribly comfortable pushing into your ears if you’re a side sleeper.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll keep it in mind.
I used to listen to audiobooks to fall asleep. Now, the earplugs and mask along with the mantra seem to be working.
I expect sleep to get much better when the stress of the move is over. Next week, by this time, I’ll be almost there.
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I have one of those, and it helps, but alas I’m a side sleeper, so it gets pulled off a fair bit of the time .
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Mine is Musicozy, which is a Chinese company but seems to do okay work. The little speakers inside the sleep mask are flat, and so you can sleep on your side comfortably. The sound is pretty localized unless you turn the volume way up, so you can wake up with the speakers slightly off from your ear and be unable to hear it at all. Other people will not be able to hear the speakers unless they are literally right next to you.
The newer Musicozy sleep masks charge pretty quickly.
The main problem with sleep masks is that sometimes I will take them off in my sleep, and apparently this means that I will drop or fling them somewhere. Not the same place.
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They’re having a seasonal sale on Amazon right now, apparently.
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Thanks, do you have a model number?
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They don’t have a model number in the Amazon listing but I think they may only have the one model. $30 on sale. They also make a sports headband apparently, if you want that ’80s aerobic instructor look. :)
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Same as mine, Musicozy. I can tell it’s Chinese from the way the little synthesized voice says “power ong” when you turn it on. Works great. Not comfortable on my side, maybe my pillow is too flat.
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They also have a new product. It’s a hijab with the same tiny built-in flat speakers, so that Muslim women can listen to tunes on the sly while being oppressed.
I don’t know whether to be impressed or offended. I mean, I guess Musicozy believes in picking up money off the table, wherever that money can be found, and it’s a darned clever bit of resistance.
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I want a little speaker or three inside the pillow case so I can listen without disturbing my hubby
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“Lord, give me patience. RIGHT NOW!” [Crazy Grin]
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Yep.
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And St. Augustine’s variant, “Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.”
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as you know, i’ve been waiting for lefty defections before I start to believe something durable might be in play. News today is that Gavin Newsome seems to be getting wobbly on the boys acting as girls thing. Since Newsome is the farce repeat of Talleyrand, this might be an early sign of cracks in the facade.
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That tells you that 1) Newsome is going to run 2) He can read the tea leaves slightly better than the rest of the democrat party. Will it help him? Newsome got reamed out debating DeSantis, debate against Vance and he’d look like over processed hamburger. The only thing that will help the Dems is if the Tariff Wars really heat up and slow growth beyond what 4 years of the turnip in chief did to us.
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It tells me that of all the Dem positions, that one focus-grouped as the most positive with likely voters outside California and least negative inside California.
There ain’t nuthin he does publicly now that is not in service of his run for the Dem Presidential nomination in 2028.
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And that Newsome has mush for principles.
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Polis is Temu Newsome, so….
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He is a current generation Democrat. Quod Erat Demostrandum.
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Won’t help in California since the Dems have super majorities in both houses. So he can safely posture all he wants with no threat of actually doing something substantial.
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They are like that M-113 creature “Great Salt Vampire”, in that they can pretend to be almost anyone. (Then they suck the hope/life/money/etc out of you via space-hickeys.)
Any number of RINOs are playing along, because they plan to outlast Trump and go back to snarfing the trough.
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It’s on a podcast that these new words issued forth from beneath the hair gel. Actions speak louder than words, especially in the one-party-to-rule-them-all California Legislature, where any stupid thing the Dems want to do, they in fact do do, sending such for signature by the hair-gel-encrusted pen on the “Irredeemable ” desk in the Governors office in Sac.
I look forward, while not holding my breath, to his veto of the next twelve outies-pretending-to-be-innies-so-as-to-humiliate-little-girls bill to cross said blotter.
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Ain’t good to challenge Himself like that. He does answer prayers. Can be a bit rough on the one doing the praying, betimes.
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Cheer up Mrs. Hoyt. A capable lawyer who, as you point out, regularly takes the time to patiently await reliable information confirmed the sandtrap awaiting the DC’s more DIE federal judge: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/little-red-hens-thursday-march-6?publication_id=463409&post_id=158516513&isFreemail=true&r=kiqe7&triedRedirect=true
Enjoy, and get well.
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Oh. Dear.
So, to prevail the lower court judge has to publicly issue orders on what must be paid and why? Politically? Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
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And his initial deadline first being put on hold by Roberts and now in the past, is mooted, so currently while there still is an order, there’s absolutely no deadline.
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I had to admire that. Legal 3D chess. But in essence, they whispered in his ear.
“Bite the pillow, B(HONK!)”
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Always good to wait and see. The supremes have done stuff like this before. I’ll check back in on it in a couple of weeks, probably. Might see some clarity by then. We’ll see.
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From what I can tell from Alex the Chick’s writing on Twitter the ruling was an attempt to dodge the entire issue.
Roberts rules that since the deadline has passed, and no sanction has been imposed, there is nothing to rule on. And directed the judge to come back with a clearer order of they want to resume this. I think he is hoping the judge will drop to matter and it will all go away without him having to rule on anything.
It’s basically the equivalent of resolving two kids fighting over one kid’s ice-cream by saying that the first kid are it already so there’s nothing to fight about now.
All he has done is guarantee a far bigger and uglier fight in the courts, decreased the respect for the court and increased the likelihood of a serious Constitutional Crisis on his watch.
Also there’s a growing suspicion that ACB is being influenced by threats to her children.
Ah well, there never was such a thing as a short victorious war.
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The Coffee and COVID post, at the link overgrownhobbit posted above, seems sound and thorough. The Supremes are not neophytes – they know there’s political impacts to rulings like this, so his close sentence-by-sentence read makes sense, and his assessment that they put the new guy in a hole while avoiding getting into the entire minor-judge-issues-galactic-jurisdiction-TRO issue seems legit as well.
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I certainly hope so. We shall see.
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Seems like many/most Supremes get mushy over time.
Maybe we should turn down their thermostat, so they keep better.
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Some of us have been saying that ever since both Barrett and Kavanaugh were confirmed, and especially since the Dobbs leak brought mobs outside their houses.
There are federal laws against that. FICUS wouldn’t enforce them. Maryland and Virginia have the same laws at the state level. Their “Republican” governors wouldn’t enforce them, either.
What angers me is the large number of scum who are saying that because ACB is concerned for her family she’s morally unfit to be a judge, and so are all women.
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I’m more reminded of the danegeld and the old saw that what one rewards, one gets more of.
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Patience is a virtue few understand or practice today. Years of neglect will not be fixed overnght.
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Wait two weeks and check the news again. Repeat as necessary. In the mean time, keep on keepin’ on.
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A hearty Amen in fellow feeling. We had the lightning blitz of EO’s and appointments, but lasting change takes a while. The opening gate was “so much winning” that some stumbles from Trump’s cracker jack team seems huge. And no, I’m not a fan of tariffs either and the Ukrainian stuff makes me uneasy.
However, I would rather make a mistake through action rather than inaction. The Trump Presidency is an act of desperation by the Republic. “The Way Things Were Done Before” was inaction, letting everything slide into oblivion because it was too hard to do something new. I am willing to give Trump credit to try something new because a two-state solution with Marxism isn’t working.
I expected we would hit the slows, but I think that EOs are magnesium and appointments are the tinder and the real fire is gaining ground.
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I just keep enjoying the Liberal tears and caterwauling, and notice they are doing the same thing they have always done, run to judges to try and enslave the american people. I pray they wake up before they realize that sooner or later the american people will tire of this mess and take matters in their own hands. Not my call but theirs, sometimes you have to let things happen and hope and pray.
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with the Supremes my understanding is that they sent it back to the judge to determine what work had already been completed and they would be fine with paying that … (pretty sure Trump is fine paying that, work done you get paid …)
With Ukraine the nonsense about “Russia wants to invade Europe” is really total BS … Russia barely had enough manpower to go into Ukraine … almost any other EU country would be much much hard and Putin has no reason to go after anyone in NATO or anyone else really …
Putin did have reasons to go into Ukraine … we gave him several with our insistance of pushing the NATO borders to his doorstep … a promise Russia was given decades ago that it WOULD NOT HAPPEN … then the Minsk accords were torn up by the western signators and Ukraine itself … then there was Obama letting him re-claim the Crimea (which should never have been part of Ukraine) …
I don’t think Putin is a nice guy but he has no reason to invade Europe … they are ALL his cutomers for gas and oil … he quite happy to take their money …
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Reasons? The reason was that Vladimir Putin thought invading Ukraine would be an easy way to make Russia bigger and richer at someone else’s expense (and the human-shaped sacks of excrement sitting in the Oval Office at the time helped convince him that there was no time like the present). Everything else is just an excuse.
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Why not dig deeper and come up with some real reasons. Some questions may help…
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Who was force relocated to the area when Ukraine was part of the USSR, after the USSR forced out the original residents?
Do any survivors, their children, and grandchildren, want to be part of Russia, again?
Whose side are they fighting on now? By all reports, not Mother Russia.
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“We live here now, but we’re originally from [other place] and were driven from home to settle here or starve or worse.” Yeah, not a lot to inspire loyalty to Moscow in that memory, if it remains fresh.
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And why was eastern Ukraine empty, so Russians could be ‘resettled’ there? Because Stalin starved 20 million Ukrainians to death, that’s why. Stalin had a bigger mustache than that other guy, too.
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Those are all factors, yes…and they all distill down to the one big thing: the people in charge in Russia deciding the time was right to take somebody else’s stuff.
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Yes, Putin had reasons to invade Ukraine. Just as Japan had reasons to invade China and Germany had reasons to invade Poland.
The fact they have reasons does not make them valid reasons.
Maybe if Russia/Soviet Union hadn’t been such barbarian putzes when they invaded and subjugated Eastern Europe in the the 40s (and in 56 and 68), and that Nekulturniy Chekist Putin wasn’t so blatant about wanting to recreate the Soviet Empire, with or without the consent of the former vassals, those countries wouldn’t have felt the need to join NATO.
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Dude! He drove -Finland- into NATO.
Finland just peeled the swastikas off their aircraft in the last few years. They were the only Axis country the western allies (now known as NATO) never occupied.
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Earlier in this century, Putin threatened the Polish president that Russia could be in Warsaw in two weeks. The last three years – including the Polish military build-up – suggest otherwise. But what’s important is that Putin *has* issued explicit threats against nations that were not part of the USSR.
Now having said that, I suspect that a cease-fire coupled with a non-threatening (i.e. not explicitly NATO) tripwire should hold. The Russians have lost a lot of people, after all, and I expect Putin is not eager to dive into another bloodbath.
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Yeah, no. The Formerly Red Army used to have a reputation, but that’s rep is gone. They could likely beat the German Army, but so could Portugal. And given the Brits only have like thirty seven soldiers anymore, they’d likely be in trouble. But the Poles? Yeah, no.
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Russia had the manpower and materials to overrun most of western Europe, if we stayed out.
They failed to maintain their gear, or train properly for the mission, so they wound up squandering it in Ukraine.
Putin will go down in history for this bungle, and it won’t be complimentary.
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In Trump’s first term I rated him a C+ up until Covid, dropping down to a D based on his allowing Fauci et al. to run rampant. That sounds harsh, but since no one else since Reagan scored above an F- in my book, it really isn’t. So far this term I’d rate him B+ to A-, which is so much better than I ever imagined I’d see that I won’t complain about things I find stupid or counter productive. Well except for the idea of a ‘dividend’, we are far too deeply in debt to mail out checks, even leaving aside the fact that mailing out checks is morally repugnant.
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And here I was thinking I was a tough grader.
Awful as our debt is and much as I agree that we need to plug the holes below the waterline fast, I can see my way clear to a modest proportion of DOGE savings being disbursed as rebates. Sending out a mere tenth of the clawbacks as a token of what’s been done would have a bracing effect beyond its size, letting people feel a direct benefit and putting them more strongly behind continued efforts. That added support could pay for itself in future savings. Call it the Laffer Curve of waste reduction.
And why that exact fraction? Because of how much fun Trump would have giving out “10% for the Little Guy.”
Republica restituendae, et, Hamas delenda est.
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I agree that it is effective political theater to give the ‘rebate’, but it is still a wealth transfer being used to buy votes unless it is done as a straight percentage of taxes paid, with net recipients of tax dollars required to pay back the same percentage of their previous receipts.
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As they taught us in SERE School, savor the small victories.
And the .mil philosophy of FIDO: F*** It and Drive On
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You want to do something good?
Write a letter or e-mail to President Trump. Tell him what you’re happy about. Tell him he’s doing a great job and to keep it up. Send a copy of that letter to your senators and congresscritters.
If necessary, write a second letter or e-mail telling him what you aren’t happy with, and at least one suggestion on how to improve each of the things you’re not happy with. If you’re really in a bad mood, you can send a copy of that to your senators and congresscritters too.
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there fixed it.
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He’s still got people going through confirmation hearings fer criminy’s sake: Jay Bhattacharya’s was just this week. Relax. Go touch grass. Good things are happening.
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Patience H-ll. I wanna …
Oops, sorry, wrong meme. My bad!
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FYI…Starship test flight 8 just launched. They caught the booster, but Starship itself went out of control near the end of the ascent burn 140+ km up, and it looks like they either blew it up or it broke up. The booster catch was perfect even though one or two of the engines didn’t fire on the return.
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Failure is a teacher. Sometimes you learn little from success, but much from failure. I would much rather an engineer, pilot, mechanic, or doctor who knows failure and knows how to recover from it or prevent it happening in the first place.
You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed when doing things that, I imagine. Learning from failure is very closely aligned with the basic tenets of the scientific method. Test, refine, test, refine, and submit your hypothesis so others can tear it apart if they can. Or see if Mother Nature and Old Man Gravity with an assist from Brother Physics can smash a rocket in re-entry, as it were.
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Their automatic flight termination system, which fires the light termination charges to breaqk apart the vehicle autonomously if it strays from nominal flight, did its job on Starship test flight 7 and looks to have done it again on flight 8.
The AFTS on Starship is a big deal as SpaceX can push the envelope harder with that as a backstop, with confidence that if things go wrong it will make itself into small bits even if they lose contact with the vehicle. You will never see an unterminated booster with fuel and oxidizer (or worse, monoprop) still on board dropping onto a town, as happens with some regularity in The Middle Kingdom.
It’s called a test flight program, not a demonstrate engineering infallibility flight program. They are learning the things that go wrong to figure out how to do it right.
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Yeah, the videos of debris re-entering the atmosphere were pretty spectacular. Fortunately all in small burnable bits.
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Once again the ubiquity of video cameras yields amazing video.
I would not want to be flying something with jet engines through that falling debris field even after most bits of it burned up, but that’s what the expanded flight exclusion safety zones the FAA put up in the Caribbean are for.
And this also points to my main question about the UFO stuff: Where did all the flying saucers go after the iPhone came out in late June 2008?
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Dude, there’s a lot of weird shit that does get caught. And it’s not swamp gas.
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Sure, fuzzy and at a distance. If one plots resolution of cameras on all the phones everyone carries now vs. number and quality of UFO images by time, you get the first an accelerating curve upward while the second has stayed flat.
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That being said, I do have a bit of a foil hat on this one’ as I think something is being upcovered – after some actually odd vids became known about the “drones” in New Jersey, the zone was absolutely flooded with obviously-airplane-lights vids, effectively obscuring anything else. That is not something that consistently happens randomly.
Whether it’s mil testing (over New Jersey?) or the Greys!I have no idea, but it all smelled of Denmark.
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Oh you missed the update: it was known drone testing. The Brandonites were just too incompetent / shitstirring to say anything.
After that the fact that humans are not capable of accurately identifying anything in the air at night took over.
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They were the Fair Folk all along. When the iPhone came out, they decided it was No Fun Anymore.
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Or, they turned up the glamour and started posting on TickTock.
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That’s a switch because the old ways were No Fun Anymore
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The thing that would be truly revolutionary, if Trump and company can engineer a way to do it, would be to reverse the ratchet effect.
All my life, no matter who was in charge of what, the ratchet effect has been at work toward totalitarianism. One more rule. Two more regulations. Ten more bureaucrats to bow down before, or else.
If Trump and company can make the ratchet toward liberty stick (the requirement to cut ten regulations for every new one passed, e.g.), that will be an amazing accomplishment.
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Never gonna happen. There’s no graft to be had in letting people be free.
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I said it would be revolutionary, not that I actually expected it to manifest.
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The Vatican actually got around to condemning Maria Valtorta’s Poem of the Man-God.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/under-new-norms-ddf-weighs-in-on
Oh, excuse me. Not condemning. Nope, just determining that it had no supernatural origin, and that anything Valtorta said she’d been told personally by Jesus or Mary was just an artistic statement and was made up, in a totally natural manner.
Good. Because it’s creepy, and frankly none of the Valtorta devotees online have favorably impressed me.
Sandra Miesel has been reporting the creepiness for a long time, so that’s a win for her.
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I’d never heard of her. That’s quite a weirdness.
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Have you been following or watching some of the trad Catholic You Tubers lately? Some of them I like — I’ve recently started watching Joe McClane’s A Catholic Take show most mornings (AFAIK, he’s no relation to John McClane :-) — but there are others that are really (for lack of a better term) black pilled and preaching heavy duty wrath of God type stuff.
I saw one dude yesterday, he’s from Canada, who says that while he likes Trump he believes the globalists and Satan will strike back with a vengeance and Trump “will not be allowed to succeed”, that Russia will end up being an “instrument of chastisement” to the entire world, that the U.S. and the West are the Babylon of Revelation and will eventually fall, and he even got a message he THINKS was from Jesus saying that millions of our (American) sons will die in battle to atone for the millions of babies killed by abortion.
Well, talk about harshing one’s mellow, — yes, I understand we can’t be complacent and just rely on Trump to fix things, and I understand Trump is not our savior, and we need to keep praying and fasting and doing good works — but when I hear talk like this, I start thinking “what if they’re right and everything we’ve done is for nothing?” and all my emotional fuses start blowing at once in a combination of fear and rage. I literally have to stop myself from having an autistic style meltdown. Maybe I should just give up those videos for Lent too :-)
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Those people are not…. well…. Despair is a sin. I’d say oikophobia is too. And they’re drinking Russian propaganda from a hose.
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I had to look up what “oikophobia” meant even though I’ve been seeing it a lot lately (it means fear/hatred of your OWN culture; the opposite of xenophobia).
Another trigger, though not quite as bad: it might be time to give up Instapundit for Lent as well because literally EVERY thread that mentions crazy leftist women, such as those who take part in pro-Gaza protests and sit-ins or the pink clad Dem congresscritters, eventually devolves into calls to repeal the 19th Amendment (i.e. stop allowing women to vote) and/or endless repetition of Orwell’s “it was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party” quote, or Jack Nicholson in “As Good As It Gets” saying that he creates female literary characters by imagining a man and “taking away all reason and accountability”.
This gets under my skin because I have spent my entire life trying very hard NOT to be one of “those” women who is overly emotional and can’t think rationally and refuses to admit they are wrong — I don’t LIKE admitting I’m wrong, but I can and will do it when warranted — but if the screaming purple haired abortionistas are going to ruin it for us, what was the point?
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I always try to remember, nobody is born that stupid; they have to be taught, and then they have to work at it. If that wasn’t the original purpose of Jimmeh’s Department Of Education, it sure as hell is the result.
Of course, once the stupid is on them, it’s just about impossible to remove.
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Oh, and I JUST found out that my glucose and A1C are well into the diabetic range (so I’m probably going to be urged to get on Ozempic or Zepbound since one metformin a day wasn’t enough, and start taking statins, which I’ve resisted so far because I don’t want my constant muscle soreness to get any worse), that my Vitamin D is in the “deficient” range, and my magnesium is at the very bottom end of normal, which might explain at least some of the constant soreness, mood swings, fluctuating energy levels, etc.
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Have you been tested for Sleep Apnea? Even mild sleep apnea can disrupt sleep enough to cause the constant soreness, high BP, high cholesterol, etc. Been there.
My BP is up now, again. Suspect I’m going to be on meds for that. It is triggering interesting heart reactions. I’ve picked up a Kardia to track it. Not frequent, i.e. almost guarantied no medical test will detect anything while in for testing, but still happening.
A1C I’m tackling via OTC CGM now that available. Mine A1C is two fold. My A1C is just below per-diabetic. But only because the super highs are countered by super low. That makes taking medication a gamble. Causing drop in glucose on the high end, good. Causing a drop on the low end? Bad.
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I was tested and found to have “mild” sleep apnea about 7-8 years ago, got a CPAP machine and used it juuust long enough to fulfill the requirements for insurance, then dropped it like a hot potato. I still have the device and all the accoutrements packed away, probably needs new mask and hose, etc. by now. The funny thing is that at that time I was generally sleeping about 6 hours per night, now I’m sleeping about 7 hours a night or longer when I’m not getting woke up by leg cramps (2-3 times a week). Thinking the magnesium and vitamin D might have something to do with the leg cramps.
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USE IT. You’re not sleeping deeply enough is my guess. JUST USE IT.
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Agreed. Not sleeping deeply long enough, and probably not actually dreaming.
I wasn’t. I was shocked once I started the treatment and started having dreams. Did not realize I hadn’t had any for years.
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Right. Same.
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What she said. I have severe apnea and I won’t even lay down for a nap without mine, so messed up I am when I get up after not using it.
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This!
I am so messed up after just closing my eyes for a second just sitting upright (ish, I am in a recliner) if I do not have my mouth piece in, keeping my airway open, that I do not do this.
My dad and maternal grandfather should have been on CPAPs. When they fell asleep after holiday dinners (OMG camping trips), they raised the roof, loudly*. I honestly don’t remember it being that bad when I was a child living at home. Mom says “yes, it was”. I suspect two multi-part, I was a child, was used to it, it did worse after I left home. When I came home for the holidays, OTOH …. I don’t know how mom lived with it for over 50 years. She said the house was too quiet after dad died.
(*) Bill Cosby (yes, sleaze but still was funny) routine on his dad’s snoring. So loud that when stop breathing everyone within hearing stops breathing to the point “start breathing already!” Worse? Dad and grandpa were in sync.
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Same and it’s insidious. you think you’re fine as you spiral down.
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Leg cramps, you want to equalize your potassium and magnesium to the correct levels. Not too much potassium and not too little. Vitamin D and Vitamin C both help muscles also, and all sorts of other things. Make sure you’re not getting too much or too little of the B vitamins and Vitamin A and Vitamin E. Vitamin K also helps to calm and to have good blood stuff.
And you need to have iron and potassium balancing any B12 use, because B12 by itself will up your blood volume, and thus make it look like you have high blood pressure.
All this stuff works together, and middle-aged women tend to have processing/production of certain vitamins become less efficient. And then you feel like crud for “no reason,” except that there really is a reason after all.
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And don’t skip the calcium, either. It’s not going to load up your bones, but if your bloodstream doesn’t have enough, your body will yoink it from your muscles.
It’s actually taking calcium that minimizes my cramps. Much easier than doing the magnesium/potassium balancing act for sure.
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I was “sleeping” 8 or 9 hours. But with frequent unknown wake ups, as well as the bathroom and dog breaks. Does not help that I turn over. Diagnosis, mild sleep apnea. I chose the mouth piece option. On my second one, different from the first version which broke 3x’s in 18 months. Current one I’ve had 5 years now. My stats (using Fitbit) are a lot better, still a lot of little wake ups, but a lot fewer. Bathroom breaks, that is age. Dog? It depends. Not helpful that she wakes me up if my BS drops in the low 70s. She also wakes me if, without the device I nap and stop breathing. She has also started waking me up if my heart, for no reason my heart starts racing. She is a lifeline. I do not take a nap unless I have the device in. She’s retired now from PA, but she is trained on the BS alert, even though it, the sleep apnea, and now the heart, she alerted naturally.
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I’ve started keeping a roll-on version of Theraworx Muscle Cramp relief on my nightstand. It knocks the cramp right out without any residual pain and I can get back to sleep without having to stand up and walk it off.
Might be worth a try. YMMV
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Happily Vitamin D is a cheap supplement, and while the best (read: most bio-available) magnesium supplements aren’t as cheap, they are readily available.
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Don’t read the comments. I don’t. We have a ton of paid trolls and agents provocateurs. Don’t read the comments.
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I don’t blame you for never reading those comments. There are some very articulate and knowledgeable commenters at Insty but there are several who are, shall we say, a couple of tacos short of a combo plate.
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It’s mostly the same guy, Jimmy Crack Corn and his aliases. There’s a couple of other trolls who also join in.
What you do is you block those suckers, or you report and then block.
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lolwut? What exactly are they going to do? Mass die-off and the rotting bodies spawn a disease or something?
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“what exactly are they going to do”
Start WWIII, I presume.
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If they could they’d have done it…. well…. around the 90s at least, maybe earlier.
Unlike 11-B I don’t think they ever could, though they put up a good front. Well, good enough to fool the CIA.
They definitely can’t NOW.
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How?
War’s aren’t something you just say “ok all y’all need to be fighting” and that’s that.
You need weapons. And people. And the ability to get those people and weapons where you want to fight.
So please; explain how this WW3 thing is supposed to work beyond the ravings and MS Paint diagrams of @truthseeker42069 after he took a really long puff on the crackpipe.
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I know that it’s going to take time, it’s not going to happen all at once. And any magic that could make it happen all at once could also make it not happen all at once.
I’m just tired of being told to wait, to keep banging my head against a brick wall, to play by rules that don’t seem to work anymore (yet nobody will let me play by the new rules). And people that should know better are not understanding that this correction has been at least forty years in the making and it’s going to be painful-but very necessary.
…but seeing most of the people in DC turned into frogs would make me smile, I will admit.
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I’m not losing sleep over it, but my personal “shoe,” is to wonder if all these flaming incompetents are meant to distract us and mislead us into thinking they’re harmless. Don’t want to get up and discover brave, patriotic generals (who were all about to be demoted or removed) have joined with true patriots of the Party to “honor” their oath to the Constitution and save Our Democracy from the Forces of Reaction.
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Saw the most hysterical comment: “Al Green was too butthurt to sit down.” :-D
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