55 thoughts on “Fresh – Scary – Housing Data / Pari-Mutuel Future”

1. For those who have been following along here … we’ve talked about Iran and we’ve talked about Turkey with (potential) glimpses into the near future. So like me, read this considering the increased probability of the possibility that our war assumptions might be right on track.

   Putin visits Iran on first trip outside former Soviet Union since Ukraine war
   https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-visits-iran-first-trip-outside-former-ussr-since-ukraine-war-2022-07-18/

   Cue Let’s Dance

   https://youtu.be/320-6jGwiUU

   • P.S.

     Wonder what Iran got for the drones, weapons and stuff?

     Kinda like watching the horses at The Derby jockeying are into position …

     https://www.todayonline.com/world/iran-ready-export-military-equipment-and-weapons-yjc-1947991

     • PB wrote:
       “Wonder what Iran got for the drones, weapons and stuff?”

       Plans and schematics would be my first guess. Always helps when you are building something to have a good set of PROVEN building plans to work off of.

       Can make a lot of complex metal stuff by hand, just ask any old Tool and Die guy, though in today’s world CNC machines tend to be the items of choice when doing precision machining. Faster and less chance of mistakes which require a Re-Do.

2. The other day a for sale sign popped-up on a house two doors down. I’ll let you know when the sold sign is out there.

   I bought my house 8 years ago and it’s more than doubled based on what the neighbor houses have sold fork, so far.

   • Out of work Steve
     July 19, 2022 at 08:28 I bought my house 8 years ago and it’s more than doubled based on what the neighbor houses have sold for, so far.
     _______________________________________________________________________
     Here in the Phoenix area it was the same. Now, as the economy finishes crashing, the fat profit numbers are slowing. All this buy low and sell high works pretty good until it doesn’t.
     People that held out for MORE and missed the boat may become the group that holds mortgages they can no longer afford. Where are the jobs that produce enough monthly income to live beyond their means.
     Don’t get trapped and have to walk away while waiting for even more, “hit the jackpot” profits.
     If you take your profits and go looking for a better home, you will have to generate even more money to afford it.
     Big numbers can be impressive until one realizes which side of the decimal point the zeros are on. More is not necessarily ‘better.’

     • You are correct if one sells high, and takes the money to try to do it again, they just might get stuck holding the hot potato or in a mortgage they cannot afford.

       However, one can still sell high, and go look and buy a less expensive home in another area. Always leave that option open for a mortgage free and reduced expenses home.

3. “Already, though, my O2 overnight is hovering in the low 90s for a change instead of “dropouts” down into the low 80s. And the pulse rate which had been dipping to 42 is now averaging almost 10 points higher with less variability.”

   G. Please keep us updated on this journey and how it impacts your lucid dreams. I am doing my own experimentation here and find this fascinating. There is definitely a connection between hypoxia and the dream state and out of body experiences. This is pioneer stuff.

4. George
   Reading your tribulations tracks very close to my own, so if you would allow me, I’ll describe some of my practices that have gotten me into a normal range when in a doctors office. Severe White Coat syndrome probably drives as much of my treatments as any HBP problem. Overcoming that has got the doctor (and Mrs. Brown, who works in the Heart-Lung Transplant ICU) off my back.
   First is I work 10 hr. days at a computer work station, and figure you spend a good deal of time there as well. One thing I have had to consciously train myself away from is what I call “Larry King Suspender shoulders.” This is sitting at work hunched up with all muscles from the bottom of the rib cage up literally clenched, including neck and jaw, upper arms, forearms and hands.
   I have to sit and go through a relaxation routine to loosen all of the upper body and feel it drop into relaxation state to get a good reading.
   The next is “puppy dog breathing” which is also “opera-singer breathing.” (Did you know that at the age of 20 Big Art in Huntsville and myself sang at Carnegie Hall? Long story but true.)
   This is breathing with the abdominals and diaphragm while the chest and upper body, and again neck and face, remain relaxed. I find this works especially at night when I turn on the CPAP, and breath with the abdominals, I will pass out in no time. What I read is this massages the Vagus nerve that runs through the abdomen. This relaxes and lowers pulse rate etc. Relaxing the neck muscles is also part of this as the nerve runs down the right side of the neck. I have tried one med after another but these two actions have me reading in a much more normal range (High 120s-low 130s over 60, rate about 70.) which for me (6’1″/250) is excellent. Give it a try and good luck.

5. As usual Stu is spot on….Old time local in the area which he speaks. Dropped my first boar and 6 pointer in the general area. Mind you that was over 50 years ago. The ” Good old Boy” network which has ran Florida for years, has not really changed. Just gone corporate. Sad they took what was once paradise and turned it into Condos and Town homes.
   The amount of contamination between Pratt, the US Military during World War 2, and old cattle de ticking pits will never be held accountable. Too much money in turning the land over to the next new Floridian.

   • I loved the quote from John D. MacDonald author of the Travis McGee mystery novels: “The closest thing Florida has to an official religion is Real Estate”.

     George may not want to hear this (but I’m just quoting others who are knowledgeable in these things), in Texas the closest thing to an official state religion is Football.

     • If you can “marshall enough fans for a longview” of the friday nights

     • From Yellowstone;
       There are 3 Gods in Texas. 1. The Almighty himself. 2. Buster Welch. 3. George Straight.

   • Mmmm Summer sausage and venison jerky.

     A six-pointer in the Corbett Area? There’s J.C.’s mutated giant.

     • Nostradamus Quatrain VIII-65
       Tyrant cruel in giving way to one worse.

       Kissinger described the proxy war with Russia as “a battle the West cannot afford to lose”.

       Stu, you and ol’ Hank there do not give one much reason for solace. I hope “one worse” is not VP Harris…

       I just bought your new book. ‘Hope it reads as succinctly as “Age of Mars…”

6. Speaking of plutonium, I’m surprised there are no 50 foot tall giants walking around down there in Florida yet.

   Remember what happened to Lt. Col. Glenn Manning in The Amazing Colossal Man?

   ‘Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast at Camp Desert Rock. Though burned over 90% of his body, he survives, and begins to grow in size. As he grows, his heart and circulatory system fail to keep pace with his growth, and he is gradually losing his mind as a result of reduced blood supply to his brain. He reaches 50 feet tall before his growth is stopped. By this time he has become insane. He escapes and wreaks havoc upon Las Vegas before he is finally stopped.’

   https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0050118/

7. Just an FYI: My usage of metoprolol caused side effects of “sore legs” like I had stood/walked/hiked all day. I love to hike, but his medicine just made my legs ache all day. Even if I rested for days the aching wouldn’t go away. Exhaustive, Vivid dreams of Constant feats of physical prowess. (Running, jumping, climbing, searching, crawling, swinging from poles etc..). But the worst was anxiety and panic attacks. It took me months to figure out this medicine was bad news for me and months to get over the side effects once I stopped taking it. I hope you fare much better than I.

   • Thanks for the warning – eyes wide open here

     • I take metoprolol and have zero side effects from it have been taking it for 3 yrs now. 25 mg twice a day. By. The way since I read the problems you’ve had with it I know I have developed a psychological problem thinking I have leg pains ,leg cramps and panic attacks reminded of the movie Bandits and Billy Bob Thornton. I smell burning feathers. Lol

   • Thanks for the tip on Metoprolol. Thought was just old age causing lower leg pain. Going to see heart doc this week

8. Choices are entirely ours! Selective assassinations (worldwide!!) or eventual extinction? of the human race. Choices are ours — but, who has the balls?
   So, stop complaining all together, IMHO, of course.

9. Thank you for directing us over to Stu’s site. Everyone should read his article. These lines caught my attention.

   “Law is a necessity to form a cohesive society. I liked the theory, but today the practice is an apostasy to real justice, because the Legal Industry has become a soulless machine.”

   As DAs in Blue States repeatedly put hardened criminals back out on the street to destroy America, we are watching the lawlessness end game.

   • It is so shameful because most average income people cannot afford a lawyer defense.

     I have a D-I-V-O-R-C-E story. I will try to keep it short and sweet.

     A friend files for divorce. She hires who she thinks is an expert female divorce attorney. Her estranged husband hires another female divorce attorney.

     Those 2 lawyers ‘collude.’

     Behind the scenes, in databases, even with personal info revealed to them, they are able to get access to all checking/savings accounts, all assets including equity in homes, all debts, etc., and then those 2 lawyers decide how much money they want to get from these 2 victims who have decided to divorce.

     Due to their ‘fancy speak/communication and lack of communication/language/contracts, etc.), they are able to pit these 2 against each other, and drag the divorce out.

     Do you know how hard it is to divorce a divorce attorney that you already in to the tune of $5k, $10k plus?

     You know all of them are in tight with the judges?

     What a nightmare, going on 2 years, as it turns out, the friend hired a CRAPPY lawyer, who was so well connected her reputation remained stellar, but her work sucked and no one is brave enough to announce it so the next victims line right up to get the same crappy representation.

     I could go on, however, I am sure you get the picture.

     My prediction is the ex who managed to steal from my friend for many years of the marriage including an inheritance (NOTE: inheritance is NOT community property until YOU put it in a joint account.) will end up giving up over half of what is left because neither attorney is for her, and the judge will examine the divorce decree and revert back to community property edicts while ignoring the friend’s detailed chronicling and proof of the con artist in their midst.

     Meantime, the con artist soon to be ex is more like the divorce lawyers in thoughts, word, and deed.

     Birds of a feather, flock together.

     • I’ve seen this and it can be beaten, but only by making the job of the liar lawyers impossible. I won’t share this in public, but there are ways to get the other party to fire their lawyer. At that point there’s a possibility for a semi-amicable divorce, although it’s already cost too much in retainers.

       Divorce planning starts before the marriage. I don’t like this approach, but it’s become necessary for many, and you won’t know until too late. Don’t trust any lawyer to advise you on this.

       Keep assets separated and preferably undisclosed. Keep them that way permanently until disclosed in an end of life document. Write a prenup that declares that all assets and income belong separately to each spouse unless explicitly merged in a joint account or joint names. Own all real estate and other valuable registered items in separate entities and pay rent to the entity that owns the marital residence(unless both parties actually contribute to it). Plan on losing everything in plain sight in the likely divorce. The prenup will get disputed in court at your expense, but when you get the spouse to fire the lawyer and wonder about his/her own legal problems, the doors are open to a somewhat fair settlement. Nobody in the “family” law circle can be trusted at all. They all play golf together.

       George has expressed other thoughts that might be valid elsewhere, but the marital law situation in the USA is so corrupt that there’s no alternative to a hard ass approach. Living together without “benefit” of marriage is no big deal except in cases of an overseas spouse or tax free transactions between spouses(spice?). It also helps when one spouse might be compelled to testify against the other. Marriage has become a legal nightmare – especially for guys. I’ve not even mentioned the complications if there are minor children!

       I believe in love as the basis of a bond between partners, but the legal framework of marriage in our country no longer works if there’s even a possibility of dissolution! I truly wish there was a way for a couple to vow allegiance to each other per the actual intention of marriage without confounding it all with merged assets. The current “domestic violence” laws are being improperly used to initiate divorce these days even with no violence at all. That only works for women, but it’s become a legal tactic endorsed by both lawyers and “social service” agencies.

       George, your approach is different and worked very well for you and Elaine. I wish you both many years of peace and happiness together!

10. George, just to be aware, not medical advice, beta blockers as well as statins can cause diabetes in some individuals.
    There are other meds that can as well. A double whammy would to be on both of these meds usually post MI. The other thing, these two meds also decrease the body’s ability to produce coQ10 and it’s suspected can contribute to heart failure. Supplementing might be a good idea. As a side note, I believe Boron 3mg daily can also help improve cardiac function (especially post MI) but folks would have to do some research on that.

    • Thanks for the heads up – no MI and not sign of CHF – just missing beats and that runs in the family.
      {Patiently waiting to see how CPAP does…)

      • George,
        After an MI, statins and Metoprolol and Sartan drugs were prescribed and in no time I began to have leg cramping that I had to get out of bed and walk off due to the pain.
        I asked my, at the time, cardiologist what to do. He just said take more potassium for the cramps. I did supplement potassium for a couple months. The cramps kept on. I added a bit more Potassium until I awoke with PVC’s that wouldn’t stop.
        Since, I have learned that one of the meds used at the prison to stop the hearts of the condemned to die prisoners is the first big shot of POTASSIUM. Other things are in the additional syringes to forestall any pain and put the mind to sleep. But too much potassium will hurt you badly.
        Cramping is likely linked to the Metoprolol rather that the potassium. Still experimenting and learning.
        But in the rudest sense, too much potassium will eliminate leg muscle cramping… and everything else too.

        • https://www.healthline.com/health/foot-cramps-at-night#nutrient-deficiency

11. I’ve never been a GOOD chess player, but way back when my chess mentor advised to always ask yourself, “What comes next? — …and then, What comes after that? — as far ahead as you can see or imagine.” I’m not very good at this, but good chess players are.

    While kinda Captain Obvious, it IS true, and very good advice. It requires a blend of things you just know in your gut — which may seem crazy; and total self-honesty — as best you can manage even with all your biases and bents.

    If you’re paying attention, you Know what’s coming. You don’t like it: it seems painful or deadly; and most folks in common daily verbal discourse will laugh at it, and dismiss it. But you Know JUST what it is, and that it’s extremely close aboard now.

    Your gut and brain are screaming at you.

    Listen.

12. 8-10

    8-10

    8-10

    Oh Shit! Ka man ala as president!? rutrow G

    ? Long SPY Putz? Long bullets/bombs/biologics/chemicals/laserz – Yes
    Long Ag/OIL/Coal/ moar AG…? BTC?

    Got Corn ? really? wanna wager on delivery odds?

    Sayz here NATO will initiate nukes, they are being destroyed and have nothing to stop PooterZ..smelling like desperation.

    look up – its a bird, its a plane, its the same alignment peeps saw in 1855 in the USof A.

    -now ask Ureself what was going on politically in USA in 1855…lil foggy but seem to remember something bout f-ed up elections..might be time to “rhyme”

    what was the name of the town in rehobeth beach Delaware that slo feel off his bike in ? Gold Star to for persons who said – Brandon Falls.

13. Random thoughts re: Street-level economics? Move thousands of homeless people into landmark L.A. Sears building?

    Narrator:
    In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: once you go in, you don’t come out.

    Bob Hauk:
    There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.

    Snake Plissken:
    The president of what?

    Scorcher here in the heartland of Middle Earth. If the AC goes out I’ll take a swim. If the AC doesn’t go out? I’ll take a swim.

    Write when you get wet,
    Egor

    ps – still looks like wave 4 Ure Longwave-ness

    • Ure only got lunch on the long side trade today, oh well. burned a daytrader strike to do it…hmm

14. George , you mentioned EMP’s.

    Something has been gnawing at me about the whole EMP issue.

    First , I do believe that it is a real threat.

    I woke up from a hard sleep the other night with this scenario burning in my brain.

    Everybody talks about the effects an EMP will have on the ground below. Undeniable.

    Will the effects only be felt on Earth ?

    What about the area ABOVE a detonation ? I have yet to see any conversation about that.

    Wouldnt that pulse also take out every single satellite in orbit within sight of the pulse ? What if ISS was in a direct line. Webb , Hubble , GPS etc etc.

    …and it seems bydoing some simple geometry that the area affected on the ground would be much less than what would be knocked out in space.

    Are the powers really going to let this happen ?

    If theres something that Im missing , please say so. Anybody !

    Thanks

    • Ure recommends https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101836391830566X#:~:text=The%20radiated%20EMP%20can%20affect,degradation%20of%20components%20and%20systems.

    • https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2022/07/08/starfish-prime-the-first-accidental-geomagnetic-storm/

    • heres one to @Dave…
      https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg80856/html/CHRG-112hhrg80856.htm

      and another one..

      https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20080721_RL32544_9e6f2375816d0968cb1a62fe43056072492ded0a.pdf

      what an interesting thought.. would there be a wave.. in space..I doubt the radiation would be an issue but what about the shock wave..
      I beleive there would be shockwaves but not of the intensity as detonated in atmosphere where the inverse square law takes over.I think that because of the absence of an atmosphere in a burst in outer space,thinking about a asteroid blows up and the blast has every indication and disappears completely, so I believe that you would just looking at a gamma ray burst, .. basically a mini supernova but only in a symmetrically flare.
      Now considering the thermal radiation, It to disappears. there has to be an atmosphere for the blast wave to heat and much higher frequency radiation is emitted.. Now how would that super nova affect ELE asteroids close to home.. gotta think the wave could cause some issues on trajectories of space debris

15. I read the article by Stu carefully. I tend to avoid that site since I can’t make head nor tail of the Nostradamus stuff. I believe that understanding is a gift, and appreciate when it’s distilled down to simple modern English. Leo starts in a few days, so it’s time to be ready. The thought of the current VEEP getting a promotion is rather terrifying. What on earth does she know of economics, war, strategy, tactics, and de-escalation? Other than cackling and bedroom skills, what does she know of anything? Of course, decrepit Joe doesn’t know much that’s helpful either.

    For info, the flashing animations of other article links to the right on screen made the given article very difficult to read. I actually had to hold a piece of paper over the animated links so as to read what mattered. Many sites do this and I find them to be a real problem. I’m sure others do too.

    There’s a place for art, but dynamic art next to a text article doesn’t play well for many of us.

    • “What on earth does she know of economics, war, strategy, tactics, and de-escalation? Other than cackling and bedroom skills, what does she know of anything? ”

      that is the exact same issues that we are having with the administration now.. He has absolutely no skills in any of that and because he has only known manipulation and politics is the biggest reason he is making such stupid decisions and mistakes now.. He only only knows manipulation to get what he wants when he wants…. he has never had to actually go out and deal with the complexities of daily l iving.. his life has all been in the bubble.. except from what he has seen with his parents struggles.. he has never really faced any of them himself.. and with the family business mindset.. its all about one thing.. well if you take in the perv angle.. two things.. a person that lives in one area of society has no clue about the struggles of those below them.. they don’t exist..

16. I imagine Google and similar entities receive some sort of cyrillic script pari-mutuel betting 101 primer at the Welcome to Russia arrivals desk at Sheremetyevo airport. Sure, bring a large stack for the buy in to play at Mr. Putin’s Big Table.

    Multiple Western msm have sourced Russia’s “Kommersant” (The Businessman) about the repaired turbine being flown from Canada to Europe for NordStream1 reactivation. Kommersant is owned by a Putin-favored oligarch worth $19 billion. The “repaired turbines” (plural) story is a good one. The Nordstream1 scheduled restart July 21st precedes the repaired turbine installation date. Molotov and Ribbentrop would be high-fiving at this pact.
    https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/5468944?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    By the way, in other Kommersant stories, congratulations are in order to Mr. Zelensky’s recently dismissed Prosecutor General who may now be awarded the ambassadorship to Switzerland? The house must be holding a get-to-know-your-banker wine & cheese?

    And the Russian “Duma” has submitted a bill to ban propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations”.

    Are we or are we not living in a bi-polar world?

17. Report energy expended for Crypto. I would say Bitcoin has more societal value then does, facebook, twitter, ESPN, football, basketball, video games, etc. Not sure why Democrats want to target crypto, other then their fear citizens might finally be looking for options to protect themselves from the print, borrow and spend cycles that corrupt our currency. No doubt proof of work expends electricity, but so does your legacy radios, your air conditioning, your receivers. Pretty soon democrats will require our carbon footprint to be part of our social credit scores. Don’t like Bitcoin, don’t use it..problem solved if enough people agree the use will stop and no more proof of work with be necessary.

    • Follow the money Joe Dish. It’s all about the next business model that us capable of pumping the the carbon trading market.

18. The Kommersant link above doesn’t appear to be scaling The Great Firewall of America via ‘Urban? Oh, well. Carry on.

19. https://youtu.be/9P15Ns-BDs8

    On the Way to $50K

    U looked oh so very pretty, when met in Bitcoin city
    like something oh so easy to adore
    I sang this little ditty, on our way to Bitcoin city
    heading south along New Jersey shore.

    On the way $50k
    I fell in love with you
    On the way to $50k
    I saw my dreams come true

    I was taken in by Ure smile
    as we drifted by flea isle
    My heart was really gone
    when we reached Avalon (cooler by a mile)

    On the way to $50k
    Stoned Harbor’s skies were blue
    We were naming the day when $25k came into view

    If Ure gonna be my money,
    we better head to that coinbase bank
    on the way to $50k
    on the way to $50k
    Or has the dollar gone Lake Mead and become a Dead Pool?

    Ice cream cones anyone ? B&W swirl, nilla “dipped”- wit nuts/witout, chocolate, preludes and cream, mint chip….

    https://youtu.be/bqORgRYf454

20. Got VPN? Jester. ?

21. I was once on a calcium-channel blocker for my BP. Did not do well. Numb feet. Could not step off a curb without risking losing my balance. The feet did not do what I was commanding them to do. Took a nasty fall off a bottom stair step for the worst sprain of my life. Turns out that the single most common ‘side effect’ of BP meds is…. FALLS! Beware.

    I take small supplements of potassium as it is good ache relief for arthritis, but the big one for leg cramps is Magnesium Citrate… the most absorbable kind. Cheap magnesium oxide is poorly absorbed and dependent upon acid conversion in the stomach. Magnesium Citrate is good for cramps and muscle soreness from exertion.

    • Citrate, orotate, or other organic salt of Mg will absorb better than the inorganic versions. If you can take a bath with Epsom salts or even soak your feet in a solution of it, it will absorb better than most oral Mg supplements.

22. George,

    Glad to hear that you may soon be on the way to a much longer and healthier life. I hope that you will indeed get to come off Beta Blocker in the near future.
    Got a friend ( even if he is a democrat) that is 5’8″ and weighs 317 pounds. Takes a total of 12 medications per day, but refuses to change lifestyle away from fatty foods, etc. He uses a CPAP machine which probably all that keeps him going.

    Myself, the COVID finally found me on my farm. Tested positive Monday and they decided I was a likely test subject for Paxlovid. I will say it seems to help. Only downside to Paxlovid I have found is that it leaves a taste in you mouth like a handful of pennies. Just one day after starting new medication and feel better already. I attribute that to the vitamin/supplement course I have been on to improve my immune response.

    Hope CPAP works for you, my brother-in-law swears by his. Best of luck.
    Regards,
    Lloyd Snider

23. File this under : Everything you suspected you knew, but couldn’t quite fill in the connecting parts. At least in Kyiv, Victoria got pass out cookies, perhaps, as part of a kinder gentler operation.

    Of course, if you don’t have the empirical evidence that Trump derangement syndrome is a disease that leads to death by treason. You are as dense as the Black Forrest. Or you’re living in one very co-opted two rule set cast system.

    If this isn’t a whole company of Russain nesting dolls of a company operation what is [double entendre]? Who’s a double? Who’s a triple? Who’s a White Hat posing as a Black Hat? Vice Versa? Who at WHO?

    Perhaps gee zing ping and the Pooh team will be presenting more evidence of matters run afoul of the black budget? Why they call it that? the timing is the curious part, perhaps the big reveal is near?
    One would pray that this is all part of the self correcting cleansing of the system coming along right about now.

    I expect something desperate as a distraction right about now. Eyes wide open and check your preps.

    If a self correction does not ensue, expect the larger conflagration outcome executed by the Pooh team as next. There is a foul chi in the air.

    LOL this is all humor of course.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-belatedly-calls-out-john-boltons-coup-planning-admission

24. I notice 2x4s at Menards are down to $5.19 for “premium construction” eight-footers ($4.62 after their store-wide “11% Rebate.”)

    Menards’ (and Lowe’s) “premium construction” lumber is “USDA Select.” The USDA grades untreated construction lumber the same way they grade beef: “Select” is one grade lower than “good,” (2 grades lower than “choice”). I generally find one board which meets my standards, out of every seven, and it doesn’t matter if the bundle is GP or Canfor, ’cause the Canucks use the same grading standards. The box stores’ “standard construction lumber” is the stuff my local mom & pop lumberyards (when they existed) threw away, and I shouldn’t be surprised if it’s the crap from which new construction is now made.

25. “So with Biden likely to have gotten some promise from the Saudis to turn on the oil taps a bit more”

    The Saudis may talk, Biden may brag, but I believe you’ll find the Arabians’ spigot is already open as wide as it can be.

26. G,
    I was prescribed metoprolol. It made me approximately a zombie.
    Walking problems, balance problems, brain fog.
    Obviously affects some very differently.Just pay attention and be aware.

    CPAP has helped me sleep much better. More awake and rested in the AM. Not sure about dreaming.
    You commented about recall on the CPAP- from what I have read, some of the so called cleaners emitted ozone which degraded the linings on the machine and tubings to give the trial lawyers free range to go after these machines. If LOOB sent you a new one I think you have nothing to worry about.

    • Yes that unit I believe was only used once.. on a trip.. and I knew about ozone cleaners and ozone years ago and never use anything like that on any of my equipment.. and when I sterilize the air.. the rooms are shut up and then degassed…. no cleaners ever were used on that system at all and no pure oxygen hoses either….. I am way positive that the seals are all intact and ready to go..

27. Victims of the Vaccine

    Wednesday’s Mark Steyn Show was a special edition devoted to a topic Mark has focused on particularly in the last six months – the devastating damage done around the world to millions of hitherto healthy persons by the Covid “vaccines”.

    https://www.steynonline.com/12641/victims-of-the-vaccine

28. Police identify 3 victims, their killer and ‘hero’ bystander in Indiana mall shooting

    Authorities identified the three victims killed in an Indiana mall shooting Sunday, their disturbed killer and the hero bystander who shot him dead — and likely saved countless others from being gunned down.

    A husband and wife from Indianapolis identified as Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37, as well as Victor Gomez, 30, were fatally wounded when Jonathan Sapirman opened fire on shoppers inside the Greenwood Park Mall shortly before 6 p.m., police and the local coroner announced Monday.

    Sapirman, 20, was also killed when he was shot by a legally armed man who was at the mall shopping with his girlfriend at the time, Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said at a press conference.

    That shopper, 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, of Seymour, shot and killed Sapirman with a pistol two minutes after the shooting began.

    https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/elisjsha-dicken-killed-indiana-mall-shooter-jonathan-sapirman/

    Actually, Dicken shot Sapirman 15 seconds after Sapirman opened fire. There’s a time-stamped mall security vid now floating around which shows Dicken getting those around him [the hell outta there] then once they were relatively safe, going Matt Dillon on Sapirman’s ass.

    Cool-headed kid…

    • that kid deserves a medal like the mother that went out and dragged her kid out of a BLM riot she smacked his ass all the way home and deserved a medal.. instead the stories I heard was child abuse…. instead he will get condemnation. just like she did…

29. Hope yah go to 27000 tonite . Then your gone !!! I’m not short but I hope yah go to hell alien 4×2 . No mortgage !!!! Oh wow I’ll give yah a grand for your little ranch !!!!! Or a speck of gold !!!! Yeehhha your gone hafra moose

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