November 3, 2024

A morning walk in the rain.

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94 comments:

Original Mike said...

After approximately 3 inches of rain over the last few days it appears (knock on wood) my rubber roof repairs on three corners were successful. Next year, I get to do several more corners.

Iman said...

Peanut’n Freddie’s Dead
Hey, hey
Love, love
Yeah, yeah
Ah, ha
Peanut and Freddie’s dead
That's what I said
And teh Man rapped a plan said he'd raid that home
But their hope was a rope and they should've known

It's hard not to consider
There was love in these critters
I'm sure all would agree
That their misery loved company
Peanut and Freddie's dead
That's what I said

Powers that be misused ‘em
Euthanized and abused ‘em
Another fucked up plan
Lost their lives to the Man
A terrible blow but that's how it goes
Peanut’n Freddie’s at teh coroner now
They killed a squirrel and a raccoon, wow
Peanut’n Freddie’s dead
We're all built up with progress
But sometimes I must confess
We can deal with rockets and dreams
But a yokel like Hochul
She won’t come clean
Ain't nothing said
Peanut and Freddie’s dead

h/t Curtis Mayfield “Freddie’s Dead”

MadisonMan said...

Difficult day to get the dog out to do dog stuff.

tcrosse said...

Do I see a trail of breadcrumbs?

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

The time change appears to have disrupted the Amazon flow enough so that I only delivered 2 packages this morning. They still pay the full promised amount when these kinds of glitches happen.

pacwest said...

I just talked to my son who said his student loans show zero balance. He still owed 200k. His yearly income is 700k.

mongo said...

What is this “rain” of which you speak? Where I live in Maryland we have not had measurable rainfall since October 3.

Iman said...

So … most of us turned our clocks back. I have a feeling we’ll soon discover that an extra hour in 2024 is like a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album.

Dave Begley said...

Mark Steyn reads the Althouse blog. He cited a comment that Peanut the squirrel was a J6’er.

Heartless Aztec said...

A claret, some Peter, Paul and Mary on guitar
A' Solin' - we perform with mediocrity. And then a lovely sunset over the St Johns River. Life is good.

Dixcus said...

Over on Instapundit, there's a post at the top now that says: Trump's Closing Ad

It's a little 60 second ad that almost nobody will see.

And it's sad that people think that Tuesday, it will all just be ... over.

It's not going to be.

It's not going to be ... over.

It's all going to ... start.

The Real Andrew said...

David Begley beat me to it. Very cool to see Althouse get attention from Steyn.

https://www.steynonline.com/14740/election-day-minus-two

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Reddit: Nothing is left to chance..

“Kamala's handlers direct everything — even the reporters to whom she's allowed to speak. Every single thing she does is methodical and scripted…”

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Oh maybe I should mention I went ahead and voted on Friday the last day I could vote early here in Georgia. I was convinced by the argument that what if something went wrong on Election Day and I couldn’t make it. Better to be safe than sorry.

narciso said...

Lol to the 4th power

Original Mike said...

Water falls from the sky, causes your receivers to drop all the balls thrown to them.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Trump is live from Macon Georgia. He’s wearing a black MAGA hat like Elon.

Kakistocracy said...

At a rally in North Carolina, Trump appeared to believe he was in Pennsylvania, campaigning for Dave McCormick. It is high time for Joe Biden to submit to a complete cognitive exam.

Kakistocracy said...

Independents are breaking for Harris in every battleground state and Iowa, which is now in play.

North Carolina will go for Harris in one of the first states reporting results and that will an early indication of a Harris win--a comfortable one in the electoral college.

Yancey Ward said...

That was me.

Jerry said...

Sure, because they LOVE higher prices and those 'angels' who occupy apartment complexes. And they want more of it.

WK said...

Sincerely curious. Who do you think he is voting for?

Yancey Ward said...

Well, at least we know Bich swallows.

Jersey Fled said...

Which alternative reality do you get your information from?

Kakistocracy said...

Trump had one job in the final days: talk about the economy/border and tie Harris to Biden. And he's really talking about is Puerto Rico and water fluoridation?

gadfly said...

Unlike Donald Trump in 2020, President Lincoln made a solemn vow for a peaceful transfer of power in 1864.

Kakistocracy said...

When Trump loses, the dumbest political era ended in the dumbest way possible.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Was there massive fraud in 1864?

Disparity of Cult said...

J Ann Selzer, show us your crosstabs!!

rastajenk said...

I have a hard enough time making it to the nightly Instapundit Open thread. Tonight's a no-hoper.

Iman said...

And with that, ‘fly made a pinpoint landing on a generous fecal donation from teh Greatest of Danes.

Drago said...

"Independents are breaking for Harris in every battleground state and Iowa, which is now in play."

LOL

No. They aren't, and no, Iowa isn't in play. Ann Selzer has decided to go down with the New Soviet Democratical ship. Her own poll crosstabs put the lie to her "conclusions" (wink wink) which she just so happened to release early....to the New Soviet Democraticals to create the weekend fake news push to keep the Democraticals close enough in the narrative in case the Cheat Machine can pull it off.

Seriously, this has been the absolute most pathetic and failed New Soviet Democratical attempted "week prior to election" voter demoralization effort anyone has ever seen.

The New Soviet Democraticals didn't just lose a "couple of MPH off their fastball", their "fastball" has become a soft pitch whiffleball.

Every single fundamental that has been tracked for decades has been rolling strongly in Trump' favor. Every attempt by the New Soviet Democraticals to engage in their usual Cheat Machine activities is being called out in real time, even if some of the New Soviet Democratical judges are allowing some of these cheats in with the biggest danger being these out of state registrations created by New Soviet Democratical firms and then shipped to swing states.

And isn't it funny that every state in the union can process their ballots quickly EXCEPT for swing states where the New Soviet Democraticals control the process and/or compromised the fake republicans (Richer in AZ and Raffensberger in GA).

But you keep doing you LLR-democratical and Abacus Boy Rich. At this point I'm guessing you are being paid by the pixel.....though it should be admitted that your performance level, if you were being ethical, would qualify as a "refund to your employer" scenario.

pacwest said...

Trump. He was laughing at the idiosity and unfairness of it. He's not a big Trump fan, but realizes there is no other choice. He has 4 young children.

Drago said...

My God. You're actually becoming even less effective! I didn't think it was possible. Surely, I thought, you latest missives had hit rock bottom in failure and fecklessness!

But you keep surprising! It's just the same nonsense over and over again on a loop!

I can't wait to see how long you try and keep that up. Its hilarious!

Drago said...

Jersey Fled to the ever name-changing LLR-democratical Rich: "Which alternative reality do you get your information from?"

Its basically straight out of the New Soviet Democratical Party Politburo. As always.

Each morning, all you have to do is wander over to the DNC or Media Matters and you'll know EXACTLY what LLR-democratical Rich and LLR-democratical lonejustice will be writing about that day.

For gadly its right off of Maddow's blog feeds and the lunatics at Democratic Underground. For Dinky Dau its whatever he is muttering about in his Urban Outhouse at the Rehab Center.

Mason G said...

I'm sure the guys who pick up his trash understand the unfairness of it all and will be happy to pay their fair share of his education expenses.

Dave Begley said...

Epic comment, Yancey.

Iman said...

“Kamala did what Kamala always does. She put her head down and went to work.”

—— Doug Emhoff

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1853190866200109088

Drago said...

It really cannot be stated enough: the "quality" of LLR-democratical Rich's trolling has truly settled in at the moronic Facebook level, a level where comments such as his reach a much broader and far less informed crew.

What's amazing is that after the utter failure of LLR-democratical Chuck to get the Althouse commentariat on board his idiotic fakecon rantings over several years, that these democraticals thought LLR-democratical Rich and LLR-democratical lonejustice would be more successful.

I guess good help in the age of word salad flipper-flopper commie kamala, Stolen Valor Walz and Showers-with-adolescent-daughters joey B is simply hard to find.

Drago said...

“Kamala did what Kamala always does. She put her head down and went to work.” - Doug Emhoff

Hard to argue with Doug's hot take on precisely how kamala-la-la-la-la "made it" to the "top".

Narr said...

Lovely pics--looks cool. It's too warm here for early November.

Jury duty tomorrow morning--got to be downtown early, and will probably not check in here until late afternoon or evening.

Had to buy some books to take with me--Brunt's "The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel" and Garfield's "All the Knowledge in the World" about the EB and other encyclopedias.


Gerda Sprinchorn said...

Nice!

Iman said...

Got a feeling Kamala gonna slap the smirk off of Dougie’s face.

Drago said...

How do we know he wouldn't enjoy that?

Dixcus said...

NYTimes: "Weary, troubled and nervous ... Democrats head to the polls."

You're.

God.

Damned.

Right.

Mason G said...

On X...

CoffeeBlackMD: "I hope you are all aware that the squirrel was in that home illegally."

Suzy Redd: "So are a third of the residents of NYC."

https://twitter.com/KellyLMcCarty/status/1852774565396807796

robother said...

Democrat name of Booth had other ideas, Gadfly. As do a number of Democrats today.

pacwest said...

As I said he is well aware of the unfairness of it and all of the debt the government is taking on. It's not every day the government writes you a check for 200k.

To cut to the chase - The only way to refuse the gift would be to write a check to them. I doubt he plans on that. I sure as hell wouldn't.

Mason G said...

That's not the only way. There are charities that could help people who are more in need than someone earning $700k/year. What would I do if I were in a similar situation? I don't know- it's never happened to me.

Drago said...

Strange new technology news from the New Soviet Democraticals allies and biden crime family funders: Chinese launch startup Cosmoleap secures funding for rocket featuring chopstick recovery system

I term this news "strange" since we were all assured months and months ago by technology ignoramuses gadfly, LLR-democratical Rich and Dumb Lefty Mark that what SpaceX was doing was dumb at best, and incredibly stupid at worst.

Only to find out now, as always, and always will be inevitable, that the modern Lefty Luddites, who themselves understand nothing at all when it comes to the tech side, were completely wrong regarding SpaceX development strategy, visioning and proceeding from first principles, and the means by which production strategy and tactics utilized by Tesla could be harnessed for these very purposes.

It's really amazing when you think about it. For gadfly, Dumb Lefty Mark, LLR-democratical Rich and the rest of the lefty brigade, you almost have to will yourself into a stupor of stupidity to keep pushing the talking points that they have been pushing for years now.

James K said...

Not to nitpick, but in fact the owner had submitted the required papers (why there should be any is a separate question), so the squirrel was legal.

pacwest said...

He is fairly generous with his money and volunteers his time, but takes care of himself first. His joking good natured laughter was made about wondering whether he should have voted for Harris because Trump would probably reinstate the loans. So he won't be writing that check anytime soon. I don't expect it will withstand the assault it will be under when Trump takes office. Orange Man Bad as planned. Til I heard it from him I didn't even know it had taken place. Both of our reactions boiled down to WTF?

FullMoon said...

Here we go:

"SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Mask mandates are returning to the Bay Area beginning Friday. The mandates will only be for the flu season and only for some areas within Contra Costa, Alameda, Napa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

The mask mandates mostly apply to healthcare workers, but there are a few counties extending the requirement to visitors and patients.

Starting Friday, face masks must be worn by workers in hospitals, other health care facilities and skilled nursing homes to prevent the spread of the flu and coronavirus. In San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, visitors must also wear masks. In Santa Clara County, patients will also be required to mask up during their stay.:

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/mask-mandates-return-to-sf-bay-area/

Drago said...
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Drago said...

ChiCom Virus II, Electric Boogaloo is coming too late to help the New Soviet Democraticals in their quest to turn the United States into the Venezuelan People's Republic of Cuba by Way of Beijng.

But again, all those clearly corrupted "new" "voter" "registrations" being dumped in PA and Maricopa County at the very last minute by corrupted New Soviet Democratical operative firms from out of state as part of the New Soviet Democratical Cheat Machine is concerning.

But what does that sort of action tell one?

It tells us the LLR-democratical Rich's of the world know they are losing and the "Break Glass In Case of Lack Of Voters Emergency" action has to be initiated now.

Will it be enough to cheat kamala-la-la-la-la over the top the way all the massive Cheat Machine machinations and corrupted court rulings was able to deliver for the dems in 2020?

I guess we're going to find out.

Iman said...

Yes it is!

Iman said...

Dat squirrel was legal AND somewhat regal…and a social media sensation.
Now Peanut’n Freddie’s dead.
That’s what I said

Aggie said...

There was no notification at all of this, no letter in the mail, no bureaucratic proof that his outstanding obligation was liquidated? He just happened to go online to check, and found his balance at zero ?

Aggie said...

Yes, the photos are lovely. There's something very special, unique about November walks in the rain, on the paths strewn with fallen leaves. I can almost smell the pictures.

Gospace said...

And Lincoln got a similar peaceful transfer of power that Trump got in 2016.

Yancey Ward said...

Wow, Gadfly, what an epic own-goal you scored. By the way, Gadfly, how was the play?

Mason G said...

I'm not trying to give your son (or you) any crap over this, just chalk it up to the frustrations of a guy who needed nearly four years (peak earnings) to make $200k. And who, annually, beats himself up over the value estimate of the stuff he donates to the local charity- is that stuff *really* worth $350, or should it be less? And whose taxes will be going towards making up for the windfall others are now receiving.

Has anyone ever seen an explanation from the government about why, if it's such a hardship for those who've taken out loans to repay them, that those who didn't take them out should pay instead?

walter said...

Right. Hard to believe a lot of back-patting buildup notification wouldn't have preceded such largesse.

Inga said...
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walter said...

The very sciency folks in healthcare like the virtue signalling. We deal with serious shit. Just look at us!

Jim at said...

When Trump loses, the dumbest political era ended in the dumbest way possible.

And if he wins, will you shut the fuck up, go away and never return?

Kakistocracy said...

Do they pay you by the word or number of characters....

Kakistocracy said...

I sense Drago will be squirting tears when the election is called....😢

Kakistocracy said...

And claiming election fraud.... 🤥

Gospace said...

This from Legal Insurrection:
Roanoke College Women’s Swim Team Endorses Trump as He Pledges to End ‘Gender Insanity’
“Our experience was an emotional rollercoaster ride that I don’t want any girl to ever go through. … We felt unheard and unseen by the NCAA, our school, and lawmakers who told us that we had to deal with it ourselves.”


So unlike older AWFLs who are never going to need one, younger woman have other more important things to worry about then abortion.

And after 21 years on USN active duty, and being married 46 years, Dictator Hochul said both my wife and I are anti-American and anti-woman... Won't make us change our mind about who we're voting for Tuesday. I believe in Election Day, not election month or weeks. Her insult also encompasses my sons who served or are serving now, including one currently deployed to Poland. Unlike Tampon Tim, we all made it to all our scheduled deployments, no matter how inconvenient it might be. And none of us compromised ourselves by sleeping with children of Communist Party officials. I don't think enough emphasis has been placed on how that makes Tampon Tim a security risk. He should be nowhere near any classified material, especially that a VP has access to.

I find it hard to believe that there are still undecided voters out there. I suspect most of them will stay home. If they do make a decision, it's likely going to be made on emotion, not logic. And demoncRATs in the last week have given us lots of ammo to work with. Photomemes are especially good short easy to understand propaganda. (and the left can't meme) I've posted about 20 so far today on Facebook, the only social media I'm on. I also know I'm being shadow banned- I've checked with some friends- they're not seeing my political posts in their feeds. Whatever media you're on, steal some memes and post them. One of many good sources:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/11/03/sunday-smiles-for-peanut-and-fred-n3796632

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pacwest said...

No he didn't apply for it that I know of. He discovered it when making a payment. No prior notification. He just saw that his balance was zero.

It was a surprise to him as much as me. I didn't know that anything was finalized about this. And yes no public "look what we just did for you" seems strange. Hard to believe it wouldn't make the news, conservative or liberal. I'll find out more when I next talk to him.

Iman said...

Can’t be certain, but that is highly likely.

walter said...

What does Richweed look forward to in the Harris administration?

Consuelo Speranza said...

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wendybar said...

How many stops does he make a day?? Quite a few. How many stops is Miss SNL Harris doing today??? 1 in Michigan. Even Walz has 3 different states that he is visiting. She must be too tired from looking at herself in the mirror. She wants to lose as badly as Hillary, or she would at least attempt to make an effort. She's lazy.

wendybar said...

Getting aborted for an illegal??

Drago said...

As others have noted, gee, there's "nothing sketchy" (wink wink) about 90,000 ballots (40K of them damaged, 10's of thousands more with inadequate information needed to show citizenship) arriving on the last day from shady democratical third-party groups in one of tthe most controversial counties in a critical swing state...which will cause large scale confusion and significant delays at the polls and under an already proven corrupted set of New Soviet Democratical judges.

Yep, nothing sketchy at all...

gadfly said...


The point I made here is that Lincoln made his pledge while the Civil War was in full bloom in 1864. The fraud on the part of Donald Trump since 2016 could hardly be as monstrous as it was when we killed our own in the 19th century.

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether'.” ~ Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Our greatest president's assassination by a nobody named John Wilkes Booth (not Boothe) didn't occur until April 14, 1865. You folks don't even live up to Trump's low IQ.

Heartless Aztec said...

Beautiful Wisconsin...

Political Junkie said...

Is there anyone on this lovely blog that has not voted yet? Go vote, whether R or troll, go vote.

rehajm said...

tomorrow…

Jaq said...

I don't want the trolls to vote. They don't think, they just feel, and feelings are totally susceptible to control by propagandists. Let them stay home.

Jersey Fled said...

Check out the cross tabs on Inga’s favorite Iowa poll.

First number is the sample in the poll. Second number is 2020 exit poll number

Here’s a sample: current poll sample Senior Women D+35/2020 exit poll D+8

https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1853218979088662623?s=61

Dr Weevil said...

Ctrl-F tells me that no one here has called John Wilkes Booth 'Boothe', so gadfly's "You folks" is misaimed, to put it kindly. And only a "low IQ" person could possibly call Booth a "nobody". He was one of the best, and best-paid, actors in the entire nation, north and south. And he wasn't a bitter has-been: his last stage appearance was at Ford's Theatre a month before he killed Lincoln there.

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Peachy said...

The Soviets are working hard to buy votes.

pacwest said...

Haven't talked to my son yet, but I can't find anything on the internet to explain his cancelation of debt. It looks like it is tied up in the courts. Items of note: It looks like there have been some forgiveness already made. There was a recent declared expansion to 170b for the program covering public servants (teachers, nurses, etc. My son is a surgeon.). You need to have made 120 payments, which fits exactly with him. Something is screwy.

@Mason G. If this is what it appears to be you should be pissed. We all should be.

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rehajm said...

Holy carp! That’s not bias that’s just straight manipulation

Drago said...

The Selzer poll has already been dragged for all the obvious manipulation that is manifest when you look at the crosstabs (its embarrassing really) and clear intent to simply provide some weekend cannon fodder for the every-4-year weekend prior to the election BS pushed by the dems and their Pravda allies.

Its really quite tedious.

Rusty said...

Iowa 10.5 Trump. Wisconsin usually follows Iowa in voting. We'll see.

wendybar said...


Zachary Levi
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What the what?? You’re running for PRESIDENT and you’re unwilling to tell the American people what you stand for?? This. Is. CRAZY!!!
Alex Thompson
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Harris dodges if she voted for CA’s prop 36–a measure to up crime/drug penalties.

"I am not gonna talk about the vote on that because, honestly, it's the Sunday before the election and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or the other”

Jersey Fled said...

Seltzer doesn’t even seem familiar with her own cross tabs, which makes you wonder who really did the poll.