8-5-26

 W:  315.0          BS:  94

Lower back is screaming this morning despite a muscle relaxer last night and this morning.  What gets done gets done.  That may not be much.

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Congresscritters and hot dogs....

What would you say are the most favorable reasons to vote for a senator or congressman?

Yes, I know there are constitutional guidelines, but they really are nothing but minimum qualifiers.  It's like.... BarS hot dogs.  Sure, they are 'Hot Dogs', but are they anything you want to eat while sober?

A few points I'd like to see in candidates:

• 30-40 years old, or older, but hard cap at 70.  Long enough to possibly have gained perspective on life.
• Has had some form of meaningful career, either working for someone or having people working for them.  A military career that involves managing people counts.  Bonus points for a service career as well as a civilian career meeting a payroll.
• Is able to *demonstrate* a history of respecting our form of government.  Wanting to work on it is okay.  Wanting to destroy it is not okay.
• An understanding that morality and legality have no intersection.
• Is able to pass weekly drug tests, and no signs of excessive recreational drug/alcohol use.
• Demonstrates an ability to discuss without animosity, an ability to define what their words mean, and a willingness to hear and consider other opinions besides their own.
• Does not owe any allegiance to any other nation or group over that of the citizens they want to represent.

I understand all this is unreasonable to expect from any modern politician.  Still, a man can dream.

8-4-26

 W: 315.0            BS: 110

Back spasms.  What must be done will be done.  Yay Ibuprofen!

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Random thought.  Fauci has an Autopen pardon that protects him from federal prosecution for all his crimes up to a certain date.  But, probably not from state prosecutions. I imagine that would be a major slugfest.

But... what about civil suits?  With the evidence of his diary in hand, can people significantly wronged go after his millions as compensation?  Think... all those doctors, nurses, military personnel, government employees,  all fired for refusing an experimental drug that Fauci now admits the truth about.

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From Fauci's diary we learn he was good friends with CNN's Tapper and Bash, two key news anchors that covered him and his work. 'Going out to dinner and texting jokes about Republicans' kind of friends.

My question today is, should CNN, Tapper, or Bash have revealed that when they reported on Fauci?

Should any network or news anchor reveal their personal relationships with people they report on as a matter of ethics?

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8-3-26

 W: 317.0        BS: 104

Little sleep, much hurt, much to do. Make it work.

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That Lodge griddle I polished and seasoned well.   Seems to have done it some good.

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8-2-26, with cast iron goodness

 W: 316.6  :-(        BS: 148    BP: 135/78

Remember back when I began going over the cast iron pans and such?  Most are done now, and being seasoned/used every day.  Here is the Lodge griddle after the initial sanding, showing the pits and roughness.

I sanded and scrubbed multiple times.  Then seasoned six times.  Then a final 'dry' season in the oven while I was baking bread.  Now I simply use it.  Sandwiches, tortillas, things like that.  So far clean-up is nothing but a paper towel wipe.

8-1-26, Meme dump to clear my desktop

 W: 314.2        BS: 84        BP: 110/58

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The squash plant that ate Pequea

 

In the foreground are two healthy zucchini squash plants.  In the background are tomatoes and peppers and beans and cucumbers.

Everything else there is Butternut squash.  I planted just TWO SEEDS in a mound of mushroom soil and wood chips.  Now they are headed into the driveway and across the road. I'm 'trimming' the squash plant with a riding mower, and little touch of fear.  I mean... what if it reaches up and grabs me?

Let the ignorance shine!

 

This is completely out of touch with reality.  Only an ignorant fool* would try to make this happen.

10%?  Most grocery stores operate with a profit margin under 3%.  The only way New York grocery stores could survive this would be an across the board price increase of at least 10%.

*GROK:

Yes. New York Assembly Bill A11501, introduced on May 28, 2026, by Assemblywoman Nikki Lucas (D-Brooklyn), would require food retail establishments (supermarkets, grocery stores, or other food retailers) that offer self-service checkout to reduce the price of any goods purchased through a self-checkout kiosk by 10%.

The bill amends the General Business Law and defines a self-service checkout as an automated process allowing a customer to scan, bag, and pay without human assistance. It applies to goods bought via those kiosks at qualifying food retailers (which can include stores like Target or Walmart that sell food). It was referred to the Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee but did not advance before the legislative session ended; it would need reintroduction and passage in a future session to become law.

Lucas’s stated rationale is that self-checkout shifts traditional employee work (scanning, bagging, payment) onto customers, generating savings for retailers that should be shared with shoppers for fairness. Coverage from outlets including the New York Post, Forbes, and others confirms the details of the proposal. It is not a statewide mandate on every retailer or every item outside the defined food retail context, and it has not been enacted.

Ayup.

7-31-26

 W: 314.4   313.0        BS: 104

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I slept good, and so did Herself for a change. I woke refreshed, but here a couple hours later the energy tank is bouncing on empty.  Not sure why, besides the heart thing. I need to examine what factors I can and be proactive about this.

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I was fixing to send someone a slew of passages from the Fauci confessions, pursuant to a discussion we were having.  Then, I adulted at myself and realized she can look it up herself if she is interested, and there is no profit in me being pedantic.

Sometimes it's difficult to understand not everyone is interested in what I'm interested in.  I mean, they should be of course, but they aren't.  Inexplicable, but real.

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The California high speed rail line was authorized in 2008. After 18 years and 16 billion dollars spent, the rail line is now two decades behind schedule, zero rail has been laid, and the costs are now estimated to be 230 billion dollars.

Meanwhile the original company planning the California HSR, who dropped the project saying California politics are too dysfunctional to even flush a toilet, went to Morocco to build their 2nd high speed rail system. In only 8 years it's first section is in operation, and they only spent 10 billion dollars.

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Ceuta, a tina separate bit of Spain for about 600 years, has been overrun by tens of thousands (60k) military age men flooding in from Morocco over the last few days.  This is why belt fed weapons were invented.  Spain's total lacks of balls is why Ceuta no longer belongs to them.  

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Fauci 'Took the 5th' more than 100 times before a congressional committee. A great many people think he can't do that since he has a blanket presidential pardon. Can't be prosecuted, can't take the 5th, right? I was one of the people who thought this.

Florida just opened an investigation into Fauci's actions regarding Covid to determine if state law was broken. They are the first of 17 states that expressed an interest in doing this.

A federal pardon apparently does not work for crimes at the state level.

I now think the little man had every interest in taking the 5th since he is very much under the treat of prosecution. Having his personal diary (which he kept on government owned computers!!) released has already put him in a very, very bad situation. Why should he keep digging a hole that's already way over his head?

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7-30-26

 W: 316.0        BS: 140

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The woman, she eats well. Sliced vine ripened Tie-Dye tomato with a drizzle of balsamic glaze and garnished with fresh picked Genovese basil. Fresh picked cucumbers, sliced thin lengthwise, and rolled with a bit of salami.

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