The photos were taken at 6:06 a.m., which was also the actual sunrise time. I'm surprised how nice these looked, considering the sky was almost completely clouded. And I got caught in the rain:
August 17, 2020
At the Monday Night Café...
... feel free to write about anything except the convention (which you should talk about in the comments to the previous post).
The photos were taken at 6:06 a.m., which was also the actual sunrise time. I'm surprised how nice these looked, considering the sky was almost completely clouded. And I got caught in the rain:
The photos were taken at 6:06 a.m., which was also the actual sunrise time. I'm surprised how nice these looked, considering the sky was almost completely clouded. And I got caught in the rain:
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"Is the Moon drifting away from Earth?" Can you blame it?
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/is-the-moon-drifting-away-from-earth-laser-beams-unravel-a-new-mystery-120081600252_1.html
Number 2 is very painterly...the impressionists would be proud...
There are some people in Milwaukee tonight who I wish would take a long walk on that pier. Present company excluded, of course.
So, I heard that California might pass a 'wealth tax', a tax on assets. And if you move out of the state, they can come after you for taxes on assets accrued in California. Granted, this is proposed only for a very high income level but it is the camel's nose under the tent. Thank God I've never lived in the 'cereal state' [fruits, nuts and flakes] but we should be asking how many times we can be taxed on the same resources???
Correction: I meant high level of assets, not high income level.
Clouds always add interest to sunrise/sunset photos.
If course the moon is drifting away. It was noticeably closer just 2000 years ago.
Or so I've read.
"So, I heard that California might pass a 'wealth tax', a tax on assets.”
Reminds me of my favorite of all of my poetic efforts
“Lizzie Warren took a tax
and gave your paycheck 40 whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave your checkbook 41.”
Canada is looking at something similar. Comparing home equity to lottery winnings.
"but we should be asking how many times we can be taxed on the same resources???”
I’m sick of these golden eggs! Tonight we are having goose!
I never liked the late summer seaweed algae scum. But they are nice pictures.
Mockturtle :
Even if the threshold for a wealth tax is high, the taxing authority can make every taxpayer tell them exactly what assets they own in order to prove they are under the threshold
...and mockturtle you can bet they won't index that tax for inflation, so as time passes they will snare more and more households. It won't take long before the middle class is hit...
"History is written by the winners...except on Wikipedia" --Eloi Musk
So, I heard that California might pass a 'wealth tax', a tax on assets
Good. Give it to them hard and good. This is what they want, let them have it. And I live the idea of reaching out and taking the assets from all the Cali assholes who thought they could flee to Texas or Colorado after they fucked up their own state.
Take it all from Gates and all the silicone valley billionaires.
"Is the Moon drifting away from Earth?" Can you blame it?
The Moon started moving away from Earth and into Space in 1999.
With Moonbase Alpha, its like a spaceship, except its an entire moon.
Prof is master of the morning shot.
Have you seen Venus?
Narr
Mistress of the morning shot sounds kinky
MN Governor Quietly Reverses Course on Hydroxychloroquine
Ala space 1999?
Ala space 1999?
The acting was more natural in Anderson's previous series.
Bill, RoT: not to quibble with your main point, but Bill Gates made his money in Redmond, WA. As far as I know, he and it are still there.
A college buddy of mine is stopping by for a visit over the Labor Day weekend.
Thought it would be fun to head into the mountains a few miles north for some plinking. Plenty of time to get some 30-30, 9 mil, and .223.
As if.
Everyone is out of everything.
Hmmm. Wonder why.
Bill, Republic of Texas said...
So, I heard that California might pass a 'wealth tax', a tax on assets
Good. Give it to them hard and good. This is what they want, let them have it. And I live the idea of reaching out and taking the assets from all the Cali assholes who thought they could flee to Texas or Colorado after they fucked up their own state.
Take it all from Gates and all the silicone valley billionaires.
8/17/20, 9:05 PM
I’m always amazed to read sentiments like this on here, which are very similar to what I read on some very far-left radical blogs. And I’m seeing it happen all the time these days. I know the right and left fundamentally disagree, but ever since the Donald arrived I sense that they have more in common than they think.
Mockturtle :
Even if the threshold for a wealth tax is high, the taxing authority can make every taxpayer tell them exactly what assets they own in order to prove they are under the threshold
Exactly, Lucien!
When they came for the billionaires, I didn't worry because I wasn't a billionaire.
Then they came for the millionaires. I didn't worry because I wasn't a millionaire. Etc., etc.
Socialists are pulling the economic rug out from under us with nary a whimper from its victims.
And yes, Bill. Californians should be kept in California for the good of the rest of us.
"So, I heard that California might pass a 'wealth tax', a tax on assets. And if you move out of the state, they can come after you for taxes on assets accrued in California. Granted, this is proposed only for a very high income level but it is the camel's nose under the tent."
Remember the AMT alternative minimum tax was at the time of it's passing applied only to a very high income level. Without indexing, there's nothing inflation can't do.
And there is nothing wrong with being a billionaire.
Because he feeds the beast in equal measure, that was the lesson he learned from the 90s and he really is the lex luthor character from bvs
I thought Gates started his company in his family's garage in California. Anyway it won't be long before WA follows CA is confiscating the money of the super rich.
I don't understand Kay's point. Why should not support them in getting what they want. Why should the working and middle class bear the burden of socialist programs. Let the super rich feel the pain of their ideas for once.
I also support taxing university endowments and heavy handed government mandates, rules and regulations on what can be taught. The universities want socialism let's give it to them.
How does California expect to collect from people who leave? It's not like other states are going to help them.
And being thats hes xis minime,
"The Senator made a very moving and eloquent speech as a son of the Confederacy acknowledging that is was time to change and yield to a position that Senator Carol Mosely Braun raised on the floor of the Senate not granting a federal charter to a [sic] organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag as a symbol and the charter was to give them the right..the " impriratur" [sic] (imprimatur?) of the federal government to do that."
--Joe Biden
https://twitter.com/mad_liberals/status/1295458616821121031
Yes, Joe "Confederate flag wavers are very fine people" Biden.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
No wonder Dementia Joe picked someone from a slave holding family as his running mate!
Gee, I wonder if this video will make it into a campaign ad or two?
Hmm
https://mobile.twitter.com/GrahamNeary/status/1294645063985836032
Given the Democrats' desire for vote fraud with their push for universal mail in balloting and their tolerance of the violence by the "mostly peaceful" protesters, rioters, looters, and assorted thugs, one wonders how much "mostly peaceful" election day violence at the polls they have planned.
Blogger Hey Skipper said...
A college buddy of mine is stopping by for a visit over the Labor Day weekend...
Plenty of time to get some 30-30, 9 mil, and .223.
As if.
Everyone is out of everything.
Hmmm. Wonder why.
Because you people think lead is a cure for impotence.
Speaking about California, lost in the hooplah over the start of the Democrats’ convention was Governor Newsom admitting that his energy policy, emphasizing solar and renewable and doing everything to block nuclear and fossil fuels, has been a bust. This as tens of millions of Californians face rolling blackouts for the next several weeks.
Oh, and it appears that they’re finally ready to cancel the bullet train from nowhere to nowhere. Whar’s left will be a conventional passenger service with top speeds of 60-80 mph (whether Californians can even build that is questionable to my mind). FWIW Amtrack already has such a service connecting LA to San Francisco (and on up to Seattle).
“"History is written by the winners...except on Wikipedia" --Eloi Musk”
Yesterday I was doing a bit of quick research for my ramblings about the NYT’s attempted whitewash of their fake reporting on SpyGate, that won them an Oscar, in regards to the Clinesmith charging. Whoops. Not Oscar but Pulitzer. Should almost be opposites, but here appear almost the same. The really whitewashed Wikipedia entry was for Joseph Mifsud, the typically missing Maltese academic and spy craft instructor who apparently told Papadopoulis that the Russians had Crooked Hillary’s missing emails, and was maybe willing to give them to the Trump campaign. The Wikipedia article had been edited so heavily, that the inescapable conclusion from reading it is that Mifsud was a Russian spy. You have to do a lot more before you find the more accurate information showing that he was Western intelligence, and not a Russian asset.
Because you people think lead is a cure for impotence.
Careful Howard. Your people want wild west rules and I can attest some of these geezers are REALLY good shots...
“Everyone is out of everything.”
“Hmmm. Wonder why.”
An awful lot of new gun owners around right now, who need a couple boxes to go with their new gun. But I expect that it is more like the hoarding that went on with TP a couple months ago, except the the TP shortage issue turns out to have been mostly a supply chain issue. Two different supply chains: business and consumer. People who aren’t going to work aren’t going to the bathroom there, which means not using the TP there. Meanwhile, they were using more than expected at home, and thus the supply in the grocery stores (etc) was wiped out. Then everyone panicked, and started panic buying.
With all the Marxist AntiFA and BLM violence, and the new gun buyers, the ammunition supply got tight. But it was the ammunition getting somewhat tight that caused the hoarding, that made it impossible to get much of anything useful. And it was the gun owners who have owned guns for some time who are doing the hoarding. Most of the new gun owners are content with a box (50) or two for their new guns. I remember when I was that way. But eventually, I started stockpiling a bit, as many do. Ammo doesn’t go bad that easily, so you might as well stock up a bit when you can. Typically I shoot a couple boxes a week. Maybe a little more. In the past, it was mostly 9mm, but with .40 and 10 mm when I could find it cheap. Maybe some .223/5.56 too. But with the ammunition shortage, I bought a .22 LR Glock G44, which has the same dimensions as their 9 mm G19. A couple weeks ago, in Coeur d’Alene, I couldn’t find any 9 mm or .40 S&W, but there was plenty of .22 in 100 round boxes, still dirt cheap. In three store visits, I walked away with 1,500 rounds for not much above $100.
Two of us have .300 AAC Blackout AR-15 pistols (I.e. with short barrels and stabilizer braces instead of the usual stocks) and the barrels for another build. Could find a couple boxes of 20 in the stores, but not in bulk anywhere. That friend found a couple 350 packs online, after a lot of searching and waiting, and grabbed them. Cost maybe double what they would have six months ago. I was only able to buy only 300 rounds, 100 at a time, in those three store visits. But I did pick up 500 rounds of .223. He sent me pictures of his 700 rounds of .300 Blackout when it arrived. I reciprocated with pictures of what I had picked up. I call it competitive hoarding. And then you find some ammunition cans stashed behind something with another 1,000 rounds of 9 mm that you had forgotten about.
The problem is that it takes time and money to seriously expand the ammunition supply in the market. The smaller manufacturers can more easily ramp up production because their manufacturing equipment is significantly less expensive. But the bulk of the market for popular calibers is supplied by a small handful of companies that produce billions of rounds each a year. Their equipment is much more expensive, and inevitably have to build new buildings first, get QC up to standard, etc, and it takes up to 5 years to get a new production line fully operational and up to speed, and another 5 years to pay it off. And what happens to that investment if Biden/Harris, along with 3-l4 new Dem Senate candidates win this November, and enact their platform of Gun Control? What happens if the CA system of controlling ammunition sales is imposed nationwide?
“Because you people think lead is a cure for impotence.”
Cute. But very likely wishful thinking. There is decent correlation with males between sex drive and testosterone levels, and the latter with adrenaline and aggression. Which is to say that the alternative hypothesis, controlling for age and other factors, it is probably more likely true, that it is the gun owners who have the higher testosterone levels and sex drive.
Is the Moon drifting away from Earth?" Can you blame it?
I blame the moon for stealing our angular momentum; we should be trying to conserve it.
@Howard:
“ Because you people think lead is a cure for impotence.”
That’s exactly the kind of blinkered, philistine, pig ignorance I have long since have come to expect from you.
Because you people think lead is a cure for impotence.
Howard reminds me of a guy who cam in with multiple GSW when I was a resident. One of his wounds was in his penis and the bullet was there, leading to speculation about the state of the penis when shot. If I remember the case after all these years, the pimp shot him. I forget why.
Howard, were you a pimp in your younger days ?
LOL! Howard, a pimp? Howard was the hooker.
I love your photos. Thanks, Ann.
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