Leave While You Still Can

7/28/24 NBC News:

"A Denver-area web designer who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that said the right to free speech allows some businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings has asked a judge in Colorado to award her nearly $2 million in legal fees."

You may recall Colorado is who tried to destroy a cake baker over a,similar issue.  If you stay in fascist states, you will never be left alone.  Starve thr Blue States.  Leave.

A New Scam

Caller with a Boise phone number claimed to be a Caldwell police officer calling because I failed to show up for a federal trial.  First clue,: a federal officer would have called.

I could see the windup to paying the citation by credit card.

Caldwell police said this is a common scam from overseas.

FCC needs to shut down rhe foreign exchange services that allow businesses in other nations to make it appear they have a North American phone number.  This is an invitation to fraud.

Just For a Moment, It Is 1966!

The madness was just starting,  I was 10 and I could enjoy XLNT tamales.   They are a Southern California brand but they now sell interstate foe those of wanting a taste of a good time, long, long ago.

I used to cook them wrong.  I took the paper wrapper off and put the plastic wrapped tamale in boiling water for 35 minutes.   They turned okay anyway 

Microwave instructions say 4-5 minutes.   5 browns the ends too much: 4 minutes next time.

We now return you to a time when medieval antisemitism is the sign of being a student at America's elite universities. 

Aren't You Glad Racism is Only a Republican Thing?

If this was from a medieval European event, I would not be surprised but in America with the active support of thr political party that controls the White House and is heavily backed by American Jews?

I am horrified.  Horns. Blood dropping from fangs?  Where is St. Hugh of Lincoln?  From Soiked.

I am increasingly wondering if the First Amendment broad interpretation (one that some Framers disputed) might need some revisions.   Yes, I know much of this blood libel stuff is from privileged elite kids but without the large Muslim communities,  Democrats would not be ignoring this whoring after their votes. 

As Jim Nabots Used to Say, "Surprise, surprise."

7/24/24 Gab:

"Today Gab learned that Thomas Crooks, the deranged Joe Biden supporter who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, may have had an account on our platform. We are unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged to him, but have reason to believe it does after receiving an emergency disclosure request from a law enforcement agency.

"The account was last active on the site in 2021. As far as we are aware, the account did not use the site to send any direct messages. He posted on the site nine (9) times total."

A Very Long Day

All of it spent in a deposition for Guardian Arms v. Washington.   As I explained to the Washington Assistant Attorney-General,  the only thing worse I have to look forward to is open heart surgery next month.

He was sharp and helped me identify some errors in my mass murder data base.  I need to write some queries to look for out of range and inconsistent data.

To my surprise,  when I articulated the insurrectionary theory of the Second Amendment advanced by James Madison, he treated the idea with more respect than I expected.  Opening the discussion with tattooed concentration camp survivor of my youth probably made it more realistic.

These are tough things to do.

Chirping Smoke Alarms

One of our smoke alarms is chirping.   That means low battery.   They are so loud it took seversl minutes to Identify the culprit.   What frustrates me is that these units have a 9V battery as backup to the house current. 

Why?  Is the idea that you might have a fire during a power failure?  Why not use rechargeable batteries for backup?

I am alone today (Rhonda was called to jury duty). I could probably reach it but if I fell I would never hear the end of it 

Actually,  it was q CO detector that has followed us from the last two houses.   I wish that had distinctive sounds.