[Well, the old year is going out like a lion. The whole county got plastered with its biggest snow storm in years, and there's more to come. Power went out 1215 this morning, and our new 24KW powerbox has been humming along ever since. Everybody will be ordering propane. Time to hunker down, stay warm, and pray for RAIN. gjr]

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194 responses to “Sandbox – 27dec21”
” probably the wrong kind of soap.”
an odd thing, that. The Proctor & Gambles of the world have convinced everyone they need many many kinds of soap. Hand, shampoo, mechanics, bar, laundry, dish, dishwasher, maybe stuff for the car. All with special secret ingredients that makes it pH balanced, fresh and fragrant and non-fragrant. Bed Bath and Beyond is always the last to close in a dead mall, the cockroach of the retail world.
Thank God the Land O’ Lakes Lady is gone. You’d sure hate to see a cute Native American chick on a product, it causes impure thoughts. Team Blue needs to keep their Precious Bodily Fluids in check so removing beauty from the world is a Prime Directive.
There’s something to be said for the last generation of electricityless lifestyle appliances. A well-made wringer washer isn’t so bad (the van lifers have their own versions), the dryer is simplicity itself, and having lived in houses equipped for it, wood heat only and wood cooking stoves (good ones) work a treat. If I were to purposefully go off-grid, the house would be built around availability of burning stuff and low need for power (lights, TV, computer). Spending $50k on panels/batteries for a thing that operates for 1-2 days on cloudy days is a no-go. I’d like to see a water system here based on catchment rather than a well, it isn’t like there’s a real shortage.
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lmfao If they didn’t have bad luck, they’d have no luck at all department.
From the yubanet field reports
“Having to use our truck battery to run the low battery on Generic which has a design flaw that only charges battery when PG&E is on. ”
whoa. wait a minute. So this sounds like they have an installed generator that the autostart doesn’t work on now. gotta jump start the thing. (I’m assuming ‘Generic’ is ‘Generac’, although with the Chinesium content, they’re probably all from the same factory with the same components, maybe Generic is the right name).
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The worst flop ever, now that’s saying get woke go broke like nothing before, spiderman made a billion bucks just sayin’ –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/01/03/nolte-spielbergs-west-side-story-is-a-bigger-flop-than-cats/
😉
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Scenes re: the death of the sweet maiden in a field of flowers. Kinda of old Walt Disneyesque.
This is my take. To entertain white educated Lefties, they done erased the Red Man. Friggin libs. Got rid of Land-o-Lakes young maiden and then done flushed Chief Wahoo down the toilet. That one hurt. Like a knife in the chest. White Man erasing us. Lake o Lakes had nice bright artwork…. for a butter package….drawn by a Native America. But, Chief Wahoo! The face everyone loved. His face said, ”Let’s play ball!” He was the face of the American Baseball Fan. Beloved whether one was a Cleveland fan or not.
I miss the bright shining face of Aunt Jemima smiling back at me from the cupboard. If she can’t put a smile on your face, then….ah, fiddlesticks to the barber.
Saw a great interview during the erasing of Uncle Ben and the Land O’Lakes girl…than Tear Down The Statues frenzy. Odd fad.
Anyway, they were interviews some native Navajo out in the desert and they said they would love to have their name on a sports team. They all nodded and agreed that that would kinda cool. Yeah, that would be cool. It would be cool people wearing Arizona Navajo jerseys. All upside, when you think about it.
Shapiro said if they ever come up with a team called the New York Jews…heck yes, he would be wearing his New York Jews jerseys in all his travels. That would be cool, he thought about with a twinkle in his eye….just like the Navajo did when interviewed.
Anybody want to play shirts and skins? Now, that a nice fad.
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Link just because and for no particular reason.
‘Who Could Have Predicted This?’: CNN Mocked For Report On Study Linking Obesity To COVID Deaths’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-could-have-predicted-this-cnn-mocked-for-report-on-study-linking-obesity-to-covid-deaths
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Too funny all the socialist dems being cozy in freedom land FLA –
“If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I’d be a pretty doggone wealthy man, let me tell you,” DeSantis joked. “I mean, congresspeople, mayors, governors, I mean you name it.”
“It’s interesting the reception that some of these folks will get in Florida,” the governor continued, “because I think a lot of Floridians say wait a minute you’re bashing us because we’re not doing your draconian policies, and yet we’re the first place you want to flee to, to basically to be able to enjoy life.”
DeSantis specifically pointed to governors of states with strict policies who had spent time in the Sunshine State.
“There are probably about a half dozen governors who had restrictions on their people and then were spotted at various points in Florida. Some of it’s been public, some of it‘s not been public, but you know people tell me these things,” he said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-jokes-about-dems-from-strict-states-visiting-fl-after-aoc-spotted-maskless-in-miami
😉
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Re: A good scout is always prepared.
What have we learned from this recent snowfall? Some have learned that it is best to do a little routine maintenance in the summer or early fall. Charge up those AC or Marine batteries and get them ready, change spark plugs, change oil and clean filters on 4cycle old portable (and loud) generators if you got one, test firing , run it for a half hour or so and make sure that baby starts by the 3rd pull next time. Lol. Not a good idea to have to dig it out from the side of the house in a snowstorm only to find it not working. No start, no workie.
That little generator my guests bought (6,000 watts) was so small and light and fired right up and they are singing it’s praise. Got em’ through til power came on….think they said it will be today. Sounds like they made a good one for half the size. Found it at the 5th place they looked….in Yuba City…and a lower price that I would expect.
Scenes. You almost gave me a heart attack. It’s the big one, Elizabeth. 50k for two days of power? Are for friggin nuts? One should take that 50k and buy himself a good……. 🙂
“Tesla Powerwalls and $50k worth of panels that don’t work when….” Full stop. I barely had the strength to read beyond that. Whew. Let me catch my breath. Imagine people sending 50k for two days of power.
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Here is advice I hold back on because some idiot might read this and burn the whole place down or die of monoxide poisoning. Or take a big swig off the Clorox jug. A nice long pull.
Once, when a big tree brough came crashing down on my little trailer in the woods, breaking windows in the middle of a big snowstorm and walking out (the bough landed in right in front of the truck and was as high as the hood….a widow maker for sure…I shared my tale of wow with a true old-timer. He said take a metal coffee can, turn it on its side, put a small candle in there and point the can at you. It will radiate heat towards you. Did and it worked. Took the edge off of the freezing you ass off.
Disclaimer: this was in a very well ventilated place (to say the least) and the Coffey can was placed on a good hard flat surface on a ceramic plate with no curtains or paper around pointing towards my noggin. Worked in a pinch. 50k??? lol.
Hey, where is jon jon Oz wiggly bragging about his super duper power wall this year?
May we never boast like that. Too many witnesses. Paul seems grumpy lately. Oh well, that will pass.
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“Tesla Powerwalls and $50k worth of panels that don’t work when….” Full stop.”
I slightly misstated. I meant $50k worth of Tesla Powerwall and panels.
The panels obviously aren’t worth much when covered with snow (I can’t say that I like the idea of a roof mount anyhow) or when you get a day of cloudystormyrainy weather…or two…or a week.
I don’t doubt that people can limp along if it’s sunny every other day and they keep their usage down.
Average daily use in CA is what? 20kWh? Roughly two new Powerwalls if you build in some slack since, no doubt, you don’t want to run them down to 0%. Call it $17k (I think) installed. That’s one day. Of course, you still need a power source. Like PGE, or a bunch of panels/mounts/wires/magic boxes, or a Harbor Freight generator.
I might be offbase on all this, but it looks hard to avoid the issue of .5 – $1 per watt hour for storage. You need a pretty big buffer to deal with the vagaries of weather and PGE.
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George. I saw an amazing podcast related to mass formation by Dr. Mattias Desmet from Ghent (see below). It is long but fascinating. Desmet’s conclusions line up with manipulated mass formation as discussed by Yuri Bezmenov about whom we have discussed previously. Would like to talk to you about this at some point.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IqPJiM5Ir3A
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Don’t get me wrong, I really like the idea of battery-based backup power for a house. Keep it full with a generator that runs only part of the day if needed during an outage, you don’t need as much peak capacity in the generator. It’s just that batteries are still a bit expensive. Same problem with cars.
Keeping the house going at full ‘lectric goodness is hard. The slave to Reddy Kilowatt is tracking down roughly 5 gallons of gas per day or slurping up quite a lot of propane or natgas with a great roaring machine running the whole time…or hooking up a small Honda inverter unit to their freezer and TV and calling it good.
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A gift for “no voter fraud” Emery.
“Update: Audit principal
@JovanHPulitzer
podcast confirms last night counterfeit ballot issue is substantial & under active AZ AG investigation. Canadian specialty ballot paper manufacturer assisting. Counterfeits apparently used in AZ to “fill in” for vote shortfalls.
Quote Tweet
Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
· Dec 29, 2021
Update Arizona – Silence of The @GeneralBrnovich :
If all legal “counted ballots” are to be on 1 specific secure ballot paper – but 10 types of paper are identified in the forensic ballot examination, what might that imply?”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/az-auditor-found-substantial-counterfeit-balloting/
So Emery,, do you support cheating to win?
This is the kind of voting your Lefties are trying to protect. Just ask Schumer.
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Catlink satellite dish
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0173/8204/7844/articles/20220102_150251_1024x1024.jpg?v=1641157410
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“Catlink satellite dish”
lol. great pic.
Which reminds me, how much power does a Starlink setup use?
Is there a good way to determine if you have adequate visibility of their satellites?
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A bunch more than DSL… am thinking of getting a deep discharge marine lead acid battery to bolster my inverter.
It is what it is.
If you have an iPhone or Android, there is a free Starlink app to help survey your property for good spots.
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re: Starlink.
Google is telling me 100 watts. I wonder if that’s true when it’s inactive, maybe shut it down when not in use. 100 Ah deep cycle battery gives you six hours or so.
Isn’t that what a bicycle generator can make? I’ll tell Paul that Trump is a bastard if he’ll pedal while I browse the web.
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Creepy grampa joe has a long history of being on the wrong side of history –
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/01/04/establishment-media-ignore-joe-bidens-involvement-theranos/
😉
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Is that the ponytail of ignorance in drag? –
‘The View’ co-host Ana Navarro: Trump wasn’t legitimately elected in 2016, he got ‘help from the Russians’
The CNN commentator worked for Joe Biden’s Latino outreach in Florida in 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-trump-wasnt-legitimately-elected-2016-russians
😉
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They really are evil at their core those wokesters –
Liberal New York Magazine writer roasted for mocking conservative group’s efforts to help stranded motorists
https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-new-york-magazine-writer-roasted
😉
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Follow the science they say ya right –
MSNBC anchor says his family was denied entry into NYC restaurant because 4-year-old daughter was unvaccinated
Ayman Mohyeldin argued the CDC has no guidance on vaccinating kids under 5, ‘but the restaurant didn’t care’
😉
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They dont hold him to any standards other than a drooling bib and pudding cups –
Biden ripped for continued COVID failures after presser: ‘Imagine if Trump told us to Google test sites’
Biden told Americans on Tuesday to Google ‘COVID tests near me’ to find the nearest site where they can get a test.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-ripped-continued-covid-failures-after-presser
😉
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CHINA’S CYBER-AGGRESSION AND THE U.S. CAPITALISTS WHO ABET IT
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/chinas-cyber-aggression-and-the-u-s-capitalists-who-abet-it.php
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Life in the Big Apple Part XXVII
https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-to-stop-seeking-prison-in-some-cases/
“Armed robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons to stick up stores and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor, provided no victims were seriously injured and there’s no “genuine risk of physical harm” to anyone.”
Putting aside the laughable language (armed with a gun but no ‘genuine’ risk of physical harm), what cop in his right mind would try to arrest some one known to be armed if it’s only for a slap on the hand misdemeanor?
Well – the good people of Manhattan will either put up with this or they won’t. We’ll see.
And you thought the Crazy Scale only went to 11.
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No wonder the Lefties want to control elections from D.C.
More illegal election rule breaking comes bubbling up.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/04/georgia-authorities-initiate-probe-into-possible-illegal-ballot-harvesting-in-2020-election/
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What the Lefties like to call “the big lie” is starting to turn out to be the “real ugly truth”.
“Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
True the Vote Makes Raffensperger An Offer He (Finally) Can’t Refuse
(He’ll try to kill the process anyway.)
Georgia opens investigation into possible illegal ballot harvesting in 2020 election”
First news from AZ.,, now GA.
Hey Emery!! News you won’t get from CNN. (Criminal News Network)
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re: J.K. Rowling
Been following the writer ever single she came under an attack for liking a comment of a FB post….written by a TERF!! She weathered than as a one off mistake. Had to be 8 years ago and I must say I like her grit. She’s standing up to them. Good for her. They are the most vicious and violent of the entire bunch. No group comes close. She ain’t no TERF, aka trans-exclusionary radical feminist, aka, “gender critical feminist”. Ok, she is a gender critical feminist. After you threatened to rape her, kill, and firebomb her repeatedly and destroy her career, she ain’t afraid of you no more.
“You have been raped by a penised woman.” J K Rowling
Poll: Most Americans Agree With J. K. Rowling, There are Only Two Genders
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/poll-most-americans-agree-j-k-rowling-there-are-only-two-genders
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not a bad piece. surprising quotes. Malcohm X was right. The biggest danger to the Black Community is the liberal supremacist. The wolf in sheep’s clothing.
‘Black Americans Contributing to Biden’s Tanking Poll Numbers’
Their net approval remains 10 points lower than where it stood over the summer.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/85261?
Jill Biden will be with you shortly. Joe is currently unavailable to have that chat, but we really need to have that dialogue, lol
peel off a few here, a 1/4 point there and after awhile it begins to add up.
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‘Black Americans Contributing to Biden’s Tanking Poll Numbers’
Assuming there’s some sort of hivemind there, that doesn’t automatically imply newly minted Republicans..whatever a ‘Republican’ is anymore in the party’s shift from Chamber of Commerce big business to working stiff traditionalist.
Short of dressing up like Zwarte Piet or Al Jolson and doing some channeling, along with the inevitable hate mail, I can’t tell what that part of the electorate really responds to. Nevada County is out of the loop.
. Some sort of in-group pride thing? Replace The Big Guy with Hank Johnson?
. Direct payments/revenge for all injustice, real and imagined?
. Self-government?
. Color-blind hiring and legal system (on the outs right now, but could come back)?
The grift level is so high on all tribally based politics, for any ethnic or religious group, that it’s hard to tell what the average person is after.
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Scenes @ 7:45 am
Very astute.
“Assuming there’s some sort of hivemind there, that doesn’t automatically imply newly minted Republicans..whatever a ‘Republican’ is anymore in the party’s shift from Chamber of Commerce big business to working stiff traditionalist.”
That’s the part I left out and posted before ending with the disclaimer that Black dissatisfaction with Biden does not necessarily translate into more black votes for Republicans. Still, you peel off a few here and there….
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Let’s hear from NBC Nightly News’s business consultant.
‘Economic Dunce Ruhle Spins Millions Leaving Jobs As ‘Sign of Strength,’ Admits Inflation’s Bad’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/01/04/economic-dunce-ruhle-spins-millions-leaving-jobs-sign-strength
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If not for double standards they would have none –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/eric-swalwell-spotted-maskless-mandate-free-florida
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😉
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So woke and now broke and ignored –
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/01/05/nolte-cnns-4th-quarter-primetime-viewership-collapses-73-to-just-642k/
😉
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Nope the FBI can’t be trusted.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/05/civil-war-gold-paradas-fbi/
Files? what files,,,,?? Oh… THOSE files?
“The FBI initially claimed it had no files about the investigation. Later, the FBI said its records were exempt from public disclosure. Now, the FBI says it has located 2,400 pages of records and 17 video files that it could potentially turn over — but that it would take years to do so.”
What would those treasure hunter do with a few tons of gold?
Uncle SAM really doesn’t like to share, especially when someone has already don the hard part of finding it.
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Walt: I see your FBI story and raise you a Seattle Police story. CHOP CITY, USA.
Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-police-improperly-faked-radio-chatter-about-proud-boys-as-chop-formed-in-2020-investigation-finds/
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Bumper dude. Had to jump back in a hurry, eh? Watch our for that slush shower. It isn’t the cars fault if there is still a bunch of ice melt on the road and it’s not the cars fault that you are in the road. Enjoy walking the mutt.
MISS (from reader Rich Howell): To the self-absorbed drivers who feel entitled to fly down narrowed local roads, heedless of pedestrians and pets forced onto the streets by piles of snow.
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Forced. Forced, I say, I was forced.
“forced onto the streets by piles of snow.”
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“Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds”
Oh well, it’s just part of a national trend.
When you consider the amount of ginned-up fear about essentially non-existent groups by Blue Mob politicians and Blue Mob run media over the last few years, there should be no surprise. People believe any old thing.
Of course, if you question the notion of RIGHTWINGWHITESUPREMACIST revolutionaries, you are steered to a photogenic shot of some guys with torches in Charleston, the Mother Of All Challengers (MOAC), or Buffalo Horn Guy.
That’s the beauty of raw footage from folks-with-cameras. I can actually see firebombing of federal courthouses, widespread looting, buildings on fire, attacks on normal citizens. Hitler Youth? Not so much. Let youtube be your guide.
No doubt ‘The Big Guy’ is going to work the Jan 6 attack-on-our-sacred-institutions angle today, maybe he can kneel with a dashiki. Hopefully that one guy returned the podium after the near fatal attack on the Republic.
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“forced onto the streets by piles of snow.”
Surprisingly, I’ve seen citizens with shovels clearing public sidewalks.
Good on ’em.
You’d think that a snow storm would be the perfect time to let out the more trustable perps from Wayne’s World for a bit of cleanup. You’ll get a remarkable amount of work out of someone for a combination of fresh air, coffee, and donuts. No doubt there would be immediate uproar over chain gangs and the turnkeys just don’t want to hear it.
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Posted by: scenes | 06 January 2022 at 07:31 AM
No doubt ‘The Big Guy’ is going to work the Jan 6 attack-on-our-sacred-institutions angle today…
Indeed…..the pseudo tough guy angle is already being widely mocked on the tubez! I confess that I do enjoy Brandon doing his Ferdinand Marcos impersonation though.
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Scenes. In many cities to our northeast and north east east, it is the law that one must shovel the sidewalk/pathway in front of the house…your house. If not, you will get a citation. Get on it you sluggard.
The real reason one should clear the snow off quickly and repeatedly in breaks is because after then snow gets trampled down by passerbys walking their dogs is because once it starts going through the freeze, melt, freeze melt cycle….it’s all a layer of hard hard smashed down ice under the white stuff and that is hard to get off. The shovel becomes an ice pick with little pieces breaking off a small piece at a time. Much easier to just to push the snow off and toss in in your front yard or up the sides of the driveway. Because it you wait too long, temps will be dropping to 6 degrees tonight without a cloud in the sky. Black ice baby and the slickest spot is that place where the refugees of the storm have trod on…trudged through, trodded(?):
That is why God made ice melt and/or tons of sand. All for that bottom layer which is much more dangerous to step on than snow.
Then, there is always the Newbie who comes up to help the folks or enjoy his first Winter Wonderland in Nevada County, fires up the new snow blower, and proceeds to clear the driveway by blowing all that white stuff into the middle of the street. Ass hat.
Many moons ago I was coming down from the top of Banner, driving slowly because I was in a cargo van unchained and was making my way slowly down the hill with the automatic in 2nd and breaking only in critical spots like dry spots under trees and finally I (seemed like forever) made it out of the deep snow and just above Gayle Lane I came around a curve where some newbies had blown all snow into the street and as I came around the blind curve, I hit that pile the snow on the previously plowed road and as they used to say, “got sideways”. . Their driveway was cleared and the spin outs in front of their house and cars smashing into the trees….well, what did they care. Probably inside making hot toddies in blissful ignorance. Not only did the chap clear his driveway, hen also blew all the snow from the front yard into the street. Uncool.
The forced one does not sound like he has a sidewalk in front nor the desire to pick up the ole scoop shovel. Slow down! There’s old men and dogs on this street!
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My recent guests, after leaving, went over to an elderly neighbors house and with shovels, dug the lady’s car out, which was parked next to the garage. Dug the car out and cleared the steep driveway to the street with one their neighbors also helping dig out rich woman on the hill. Not the whole driveway, but a path to get out.
She paid them 600 bucks! Easy come, easy go. She must be po folk :). If there were not some young teenagers out there walking down the road without snow shovels, they just missed out on some spending money. College fund money or X-Box money. Fufu creamer money.
I don’t know how much folks pay a kids to shovel out their driveways nowadays, but I was shocked to find out one guy (with friend) were making 60 bucks a driveway back in the way. The going rate then was about 20- 30 bucks.
One lady paid them $75.00 dollars with tip! You get 3 teenagers knocking on doors of the unshoveled (sticks out like a sore thumb) and the young and virile and can knock out 4-5 driveways by 3 o’clock. Better life lesson that remote learning.
The worse story I have heard so far is a tree on a house, residents unharmed yet in need to get the tree off the house ASAP. Roof repair needed now, power (even if on) cannot go back up until tree is cleared off the roof. They were charged $5,200 just to get that tree cut up and off the roof. Clean up of limbs and tree not included in price. Homeowners responsibility, later gator. We got ourselves a Class 1 emergency doing on. Wonder how much their homeowners will got went after filing that claim. Insurance will cover it, lol.
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Just let the kiddies run amok with guns in school says team soros –
Seattle-area prosecutor defends light-on-crime approach for teens wielding guns at school: ‘Get used to this’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-area-prosecutor-juvenile-restorative-justice-program-guns-school
😉
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“with nearly 1 in 4 medical centers reporting this week they have a “critical” staffing shortage, the highest proportion of the pandemic.”
So – firing all those right-wing unvaxxed Trumpiacs really worked out well, huh?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-the-nation-s-hospitals-this-covid-wave-is-different/ar-AASvF91?ocid=uxbndlbing
Because getting covid from the vaxxed is way better than getting from the unvaxxed.
Or something.
Wife and I just returned from our annual multi-week Christmas trip to Texas and back, going through 7 states by private motor car. (love that term) Meaning stops in all sorts of rural and large towns. We saw no more than 15% wearing masks or bothering with distancing.
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Excellent.
The first image has been received from the James Webb telescope.
https://i.redd.it/2w64rw9otz781.jpg
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LOL Scenes. Musk has a rocket ready to go to fix the problem.
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Wow. I must admit that I did not see this one coming. I should have. Women’s swimming is, after all, a very competitive sport.
‘Record-Setting Transgender Swimmer Bested in Meet by Another Transgender Swimmer’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/record-setting-transgender-swimmer-bested-in-meet-by-another-transgender-swimmer/
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Matt Walsh on getting suspended from Twitter. He is so sorry now.
https://fb.watch/aqzJhja_UE/
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Look Emery, you anti war dude,, you may just get your wish about fighting the enemy in our own streets.
The enemy bring the war here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taliban-threatened-us-2000-suicide-bombers-washington-dc
“A recent report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – which monitors and tracks global jihadist communications via open source intelligence collection methods – has detailed that last year the Taliban threatened the Biden administration with “a battalion of suicide bombers” sent to Washington D.C.”
Who are you going to whine to now?
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