ShopTalk Sunday: Lightning Recovery, Woodswork

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Things are nearly back to normal here in the Outback.  After a wild lightning storm this week which set me back about 2-kilobocks, in repair/replacement costs, we have all the parts needed for repair. From here, things should go well and there’s cool weather ahead.

One of Elaine’s boys (quickly approaching retirement himself) will be visiting from the PNW this week.  He’s bringing “Seattle weather” with him. Highs of only low 80s come mid-week.

Diagnosing the Inverter Failure

A number of readers have asked me “Why don’t you use microinverters instead of the real big, heavy duty (and dated) big ones?”  Simple answer is liability and dependability.

Liability is something people who don’t design serious DC power systems often overlook.  But there’s a requirement that if a powerline on the grid side while you’re selling renewable energy system goes down, your system must disconnect almost instantly and automatically.

This is not to be confused with National Electrical Code 690:

NEC 690.13 states: “Means shall be provided to disconnect all current- carrying conductors of a photovoltaic power source from all other conductors in a building or other structure.” In addition, the switches must be permanently marked to identify them as PV system disconnects.

Section 1741-SA is closer, but the intent – all around – is to prevent back feeding a downed line.

The REAL liability hole is located in backfeed prevention rules. Imagine you have a solar system (like ours that can sell 4-5 kilowatts under ideal conditions) or even a big UPS hung on your computer.  In either case, there is an international rule that says if the grid drops, you have to turn off your solar/UPS automatically.  If you didn’t, some power company lineman perhaps 5-miles down the road, could be working on downed lines and be zapped by your power.

“The international standard IEC 62040-1 on ‘General and safety requirements for UPS’ requires that the UPS device shall prevent all hazardous voltage and energy from being transferred to the UPS input terminals after the input power has been interrupted.”

Lightning doesn’t care. This is a sound reason not to use cheap UPS and geid-interactive gear.  I also keep a “test log” so that I can demonstration (if it’s not in writing, it doesn’t count) that I have regularly tested (and documented) failsafe disconnection functionality.

In our case, this week’s damaging lightning was likely a ground strike. What happened was one of the two inverters lost its “brain” and as a result, here comes a replacement (*late next week).  Meanwhile, our selling to the grid is reduced to about 2 kilowatts of sell, and on only one leg of our power.

Prevention Plan

I don’t take kindly to spending a couple of thousand on an inverter to have it smoked.  So, I figured out a switching system which will allow me to wire up a switch (single pole, double throw, or as illustrated, a double-pole, double-throw to remove the inverter’s connection to the hot side of the grid by simply turning off the inverters (with 2 switches) when lightning is expected.  The HOT side only is shown. The wiring will be duplicated on the neutral side such than when the switches are thrown, both legs will be totally isolated from the grid – which functions like a big EMP antenna. Normal surge protectors were not enough.

In one position, the Inverter/charger gets power (and thus, will figure out that it’s OK to sell to the grid).  In the other position, the switch takes the hot side of the leg of the inverter input.  I’m tinkering with this – but seems like if you’re going to have an EMP resistant (lightning is a good tester, huh?) why not put in the EMP switch and isolation switching now, instead of waiting until the world leaves in a flash?

There will be an update to this drawing because – after thinking about this approach – while the output side will support line voltage, why not remove it from both sides of the inverter – you know, just to be super safe.

Woodsworking

We did have some big trees fall down in our storm this week. Neighbor up the hill got most of this one removed from the road up to his driveway using a chainsaw and a 4-wheel drive truck with some chain.  (You do carry these things, right?)  People who live in the “city services bubble” seem to forget that in big sections of America, if you have a problem, the only person around to call is?  You.

To a “slicker” a 4-by-4 seems like poison-testosterone madness.  Out here, it looks pretty reasonable.  Study this picture closely.  Down just above road level on the right is where 20-feet of the bottom of an 85-foot tree is left to be grappled up and off to a burn pile.  The big top has been cut into grapple sized chunks and pushed up on the left right of the road.

This is a “messy tree” that had split trunks about 10-feet off the ground. Each was about 16-inches in diameter, so not a tiny sapling, by any stretch.

While I was out tractor-backing, I started to eye the clean-up from that treetop that took down power in the right-of-way up to his place.

I swear, sometimes I feel blessed and cursed all at the same time.  Day after the big storm I get a postcard from the power company that they will have crews doing right-of-way cleanup.  Let’s see what they do with my brush pile, shall we?  Meantime, odd that Universe wouldn’t let me cancel that chainsaw order, a couple of weeks back, either.  Odd, I tell you. Almost Andy-like.

From there it was off to the gun range.  Seems every time the wind blew last year, something fell out here: (shooting table stays cleaner when not if use if you tip ’em over) This is about 400-feet from the little target that G2 shoulder shoots and nails every time.  I hit it once in a while…lol.

After the Friday survey of work – we do inspections before going to work on thins in order to calculate how much alcohol will be needed to replace sweat, right? – we have a fair idea of how the rest of the weekend will turn out.

Then it was on to mowing the fuel breaks:

This is not a “fire break” per se.  It’s just a well maintained almost bare area you can drive a woodland firefighting rig down.  Hopefully slowing down any grass fire across this point. A real fire break would be 1-1/2 times the height of the tallest trees and even then, flying embers (this is tall pines, remember) would have to be considered. If we did that, we’d only have a handful of trees left.  Because when you cut and clear 150-feet inside the property line all the way around, that’s a lot of naked land!

When Elaine and I first moved out here, why people trimmed up their trees 10-12 feet up didn’t make sense.  It was a lot of work.  Were people just after maximum grazing land, or what?  After G2 explained a bit about how wildfires look for “fuel jackpots” so they can climb into the crowns of trees, the work made a lot more sense.

By scalping all the lower limbs and underbrush 12-feet up from ground level, the odds of fire finding a way to get up into the crown of the tree is reduced. Now you know why in the spring there’s so much in the way of brush pile burning going on in the tall pines of East Texas.  Fire prevention.

Oh – and a lifetime supply of firewood, lol. I have plans to use the abundant small wood to make rustic furniture.  The tool slut in me has a new woodworking bench.  There are two new draw knives (and an old one). A chainsaw (several, but let’s not go there).  Big new woodworking table for out in the tractorport is under slow-motion construction.  And I have the tenon cutter bits.  If you don’t know what one of these is, click over to here.  Have a fire extinguisher ready in case your head spontaneously combusts at the price.

I am planning to reduce my writing and web workload come my 76th birthday.  Peoplenomics will survive, but ShopTalk Sunday and Friday columns may fall by the wayside.  This will give me more time to focus on ham radio repair (tube type gear, mainly) and on woodworking and making a “designer-looking home” – all of which takes time.

All about allocation of time and effort, isn’t it?  Off to get the tractor out so I can throw the riding mower up in the sky on the bucket (with a safety chain, of course) and slap on a new set of (3) blades.  A quick refill off the blue handled “non-ethanol-laced” gasoline and back on the Bermuda Clipper circuit.  With rain coming – and company – plus an inverter to replace and program and a new Dell power supply, and the deck work…promises to be busier than a one-arm paperhanger around here this week.  There’s always “mow work than time.”

Have a great time and have a dandy weekend,

George@Ure.net

52 thoughts on “ShopTalk Sunday: Lightning Recovery, Woodswork”

  2. Looks like ol pedo joe extended his beach house stay another three days , hmmmm. You think maybe hunter and the pedo tying up loose ends on all the ill gotten loot?

    • Or planning their new retirement home in a country that doesn’t allow extradition..
      I’m pretty sure that congress has the paper that was on his laptop that says they have quite a bit hidden in offshore accounts..when they come back in three months I’m pretty sure they will bring that up..
      I am frankly surprised that more members of the political elite..have not been moving their families at least away from country.
      everyone knows how politicians were treated in countries where we placed puppet regimes.. do they think if they allowed an enemy army to get settled and supported by our administration would be more compassionate to the leaders of our country than we were to theirs?

    • or make plans for a quick getaway..
      as congress obtains more evidence leaning towards the big T crimes.. it sure wouldn’t surprise me to see the whole group move to areas more favorable..
      as things erode and possible WW3 with an army ushered in by the open border policy and what historically happens to political leaders..I wouldn’t be surprised to see many of them moving either their families at least..
      during ww2 and nazi it was political leaders and the wealthy that was the main targets.. during the weimar depression it was the wealthy..the same with all the rest.. as soon as leaders fail the citizens then it changes..the let them eat cake attitude doesn’t go over very well..
      Adolph Hitler in his second book goes over it real well..by providing to the average the necessity they gain the support of them..
      from what my view point of the situation. is there was a total disregard for the needs of the taxpayers instead they focused on their own path of their ambitious greed and decided to set aside the needs of the taxpayers for their own gain and welfare.. it’s starting to come to a peak now..I think there’s been substantial damage to the whole country the economy and destruction if the fiat currencies that it truly won’t make a difference at this juncture.. the correction will have to happen..

  3. I’ve been having lightning storms regularly just as you have. One morning I woke up and heard this weird sound outside, so I went out and localized it to one of my cars. It was like a failing horn on the car. Then it stopped after a going off for a few minutes. The car had an alarm way before I owned it, but that was removed. The horn buttons never worked, and I never bothered with it. There were no footprints nearby(they would have shown), and all I can figure is that lightning struck nearby and triggered a horn relay that got stuck on for a bit. I checked out the rest of the car – it started and ran perfectly without any other glitches I didn’t already know about. Another car nearby was unaffected, but the van had a dead battery – probably unrelated. Lightning is weird, and seems to have a mind of its own. No other damage that I’m aware of, but this area is getting lots or rain this year, mostly from thunderstorms.

    Good luck with fixing the solar stuff!

  5. Pedo joe going out the door , que up a few pardons. And executive orders, probably all unconstitutional. The knives will come out , except hildibeast will bring a gun.

    • “except hildibeast will bring a gun.”

      Sulfuric acid.

      Foster left too bad a taste in too many people’s mouths. It’s time for an untraceable brake failure…

      • was he the one that hung himself destroyed his documents then shot himself with two separate shotguns then hid them LOL LOL LOL
        aren’t these the same investigators investigating the laptop that investigating the suicides on every one that was going to give testimony.. LOL

        • Shot himself with a pistol, with his left hand, behind his right ear, shortly after flying back to D.C. from Spain (I believe) with the Clintons, on AF-1. He was right-handed, and the bullet entered at an impossible angle…

  6. WASHINGTON ? President Joe Biden said he is ending his bid for reelection amid intense pressure from Democratic leaders sounding the alarm that his path to beat former President Donald Trump in November has vanished.

    The president’s historic withdrawal throws the 2024 race ? already roiled by a shocking attempt on Trump’s life ? into uncertain territory, with Vice President Kamala Harris seen as the Democrat best placed to take Biden’s place atop the party’s ticket. Biden did not immediately endorse a successor.

  7. It should be noted – that in the last couple of articles I have read on Harris – very few democrats want her as their Candidate for President.
    One Senator called her a “cackling hamster.” Another stated that., “When her record from California hits the lime light, she will be hounded.”

    • The reason I’ve said Kammy loves pedos and hates Black Americans of African descent:

      When Harris became AG she was handed a cut & dried, airtight case against ~3000 priests in Cali who’d been swept up for sex crimes with children. After meeting with representatives from the Vatican (who’d originally come to LA to negotiate prison terms with her), every single case was flushed, and the State’s evidence wiped. Zero charges, zero convictions, everybody walked, and Kammy’s offshore fortune received a considerable boost.

      Harris is one of few living U.S. Citizens who’s actually met and hung out with slaves. She frolicked with the indentured help on her grandfather’s plantation in Jamaica, when she was a kid. Kammy is half-Jamaican (who, although they originally came to the New World as slaves, often renounce their African ancestry) and half Indian. I believe this background is the source of her hatred of “Black African Americans.” When one examines her record as both Prosecutor and AG, they will note that whenever possible, when her office would prosecute a Black (especially, but not exclusively) male, especially on a drug charge, the defendant would receive an “enhanced” sentence, sending him to the slam for months, sometimes years longer than his crime warranted. She famously joked about locking up n____s for years, for burning a single joint, at one of Willy’s parties, while smoking a doobie, herself.

      There’s more. LOTS more. For those who don’t want to dig for themselves, I would guess either John Solomon or Peter Schweitzer would be the best source for the Cliff’s Notes version of her personality. I will tell y’all, it ain’t pretty…

    • (“very few democrats want her as their Candidate for President.
      One Senator called her a “cackling hamster.”)

      I get that..I use to think how bad could she be then i heard her speak and thought OMG what the hell is that..and seriously.. the rumors explained her escape from neighborhood

  8. my post made on 04/16/2016,

    “I don’t really care if you belive me or not. It has simply been pushed back 4 years. That is all. The economic collapse has been pushed 4 years into the future. A choice was given. A choice was made. It was to “buy time”. Everything has been postponed.

    Japan has entered negative interest rates. Japan will collapse first, as the 3rd largest economy in the world it will create an economic tsunami. It doesnt take a Time Traveler to see that.

    ->There is also a reason Vice President Biden didn’t run even though he would have won the Democratic party.<-

    Trump will win and be left holding the bag. For now, the next 4 years will be "apear" prosperous. Trump will look like a savior and the solution. The democrsts will say they did it. And there will be some tit for tat. By the end of Trumps first term the economic collaps will be well under way.

    The economic prosperity has un fold first. Even now, housing prices are about to sky rocket in the next 6 months.

    The plan is to leave a 1%'er holding the bag. Trump is a 1 % er. This in effect will create the revolution in the US "they" desire. If you rememeber correctly the animosity against the top 1% richest people from the economic collaps of 2008.

    Currently you are witnessing a weeding out of those who oppose this plan with the Panama papers. That was a warning. They have bigger stuff on the top elite. That was a "call to attentoon. " because the original plan was to at first start a proxy war in syria which lead to a full on WWIII. However, a choice was given and a choice was made"

    https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1566198/pg79#56268871

    this is still in play. once President Trump begins his second first term, things will begin moving forward again.

    i am also unsure how one single post looped and reoccured. i did see that Trump Mentioned Panama in his tucker interview and noted that this was still in motion.

    hmmm.

  9. (“Liability is something people who don’t design serious DC power systems often overlook. But there’s a requirement that if a powerline on the grid side while you’re selling renewable energy system goes down, your system must disconnect almost instantly and automatically.”)

    that is why I love the enphase inverters.. they disconnect the minute the line goes down..their new one can be turned on to work as an off grid inverter once you’ve disconnected from the grid so back feeding isn’t an issue.
    they weren’t available in string version until sunny boy made one in I believe 96 ..for that one you had to hook a switch up to it and once you disconnected from the grid you could go flip the switch..
    what I love about the individual inverters is similar to the reason I am not a fan of the 3mw wind turbines.. the big wind have many generators in a loop.. but if one goes down the whole system goes down..your string inverter just showed you the down side of string.. the inverter goes down..you lost the string..using enphase you lose one you have the remainder to still keep working. put a whole house spike disconnect will save that..in an EMP the instant spike from the pulse burns out the inverters and the motors and sensitive circuitry..
    a gentleman put in a fifty kW big wind.. I debated it..his cost was just shy a half million.. I told him its more affordable to put up fifty kW of small wind than the big one. maintenance and the odds of catastrophic failure along with the huge expenses associated with repairs.. his system was up maybe five years..then it broke down..his half million dollar investment taken down and in a junk pile.. where for twenty five thousand he could of had the same fifty kW wind and if one breaks down you have the remaining to rely upon…
    for almost fifty years I have been telling my rant.. hand out solar grid tie systems to anyone willing to have one installed on their home.. build solar towers at every substation starting at the furthest point from the power plant and work backwards. each solar tower would not only be cheaper to build than the 3 billion dollar wind turbine but the power company already has the sub stations so they would save the money expended on leasing the area to put the wind turbine.
    for ten million and the cost of the tower you would have a solar tower that would have nine mw of power potential.
    this along with the amount of towers that could be put up would give a 3 gigawatt power potential instead of a 3 megawatt power potential.. by handing out grid tie they would have a similar output potential..
    and it would almost make the grid bulletproof along with not costing the huge a.mounts that the present costs are..
    they frown on this because it doesn’t fit the business model that they presently have..what it would do is give the country’s stronger national security..
    and it would cut down on fossil fuel use as we slowly transition from fossil fuel use to the future energy needs..
    the problem is the business model..once the country decides to strengthen the national security rather than someone jar in their back yards..until then we will face cataclysmic loss of power in a catastrophe..
    of course everyone knows that this is my main bitch along with medical accessibility to everyone.. green scaping our cities and air wells for arid regions

    • All good points, LOOB. But we have 30 panels and more than 150 Amps at 35 V
      The enphase units would be problematic – it would be a big string of ’em.
      I am looking at a couple of these for the next gen of power (if we live that long)
      https://amzn.to/3y33kVf but I need to ask about auto disconnect anti-islanding…

      • that is true.. I have 12 enphase .. I like how they work .. the three 3 kW string inverters are nice .. when I can I want to convert them to enphase.. but I have three backup inverters to plop in their place.. the individual inverters were not approved for many years after we had ours put in..
        I am trying to talk the wife into another setup..
        https://www.santansolar.com/product/eg4-12kw-w-eg4-ll-s-20-48kw-battery-kit/
        for under ten grand..they have an enphase system but its only grid tie and 8 kw..

        https://www.santansolar.com/product/8-2kw-solarever-410w-w-8a-enphase-microinverter-grid-tie-kit/

        what it doesn’t have is the battery backup..I do know an engineer that works on the electrical controls of the govt. systems that did his house with these..he stacked them tier fashion..

        https://www.amazon.com/Xantrex-PH1800-GFP-PH-1800-GFP-PowerHub/dp/B000NONM94/ref=sr_1_1?
        how he did it was the power up direct wired one just for the air one just for the dryer and three for his regular circuits.. they have a forklift plug on each of the units.. that hooks onto his battery bank..
        I traded him a wind turbine for one of his power hubs..
        if I could I would build the solar tower.. just to show the head of the power company how much more efficient it is.. wind you have Togo up 30 feet at least to get into the wind.. gull wing blades the best..I have been trying to get mwands.com to make a screw turbine with the directional wind catcher..but they can’t see the image I see in my mind and I am a really artist lol so like the solar tower they can’t see the idea I have..
        Oh wow…someone is thinking about the screw turbine.. the only thing they are missing is the wind directional condenser..

        https://youtu.be/PNddursxCFE?si=XUcv5qF_RGciFS_e

        it would take less wind to generate power ..I had thought rove vent power.. using roof vents as the generator.. a dual purpose one it pumps the hot air from the roof.. and generates power for the house..

        • Real test as far as we are concerned is whether you you loose grid and then still bring up AC power. IUf you can’t do that then after emp of hard grid down you’ll be in the dark like everyone else.So kill the grid at the service entrace and let us know how the enphase works. Got power:

      • https://www.amazon.com/Fenglesha-Surge-Protection-Device-Replace/dp/B0D2XKPB99/ref=sr_1_30?

        I have surge protectors on everything the dryer and fridge the furnace fan mirror and circuit board..
        I have surge protectors on each string inverter and combined box.. overkill.. but after I had to buy a new freezer, television, cable box, computer and furnace getting a new board.. the cost was close to twenty thousand dollars all because of a transformer going out.. I just got that paid off last fall..it was money well spent to put them in so I don’t have to replace all of that again.. the daughter ended up losing a bunch of her appliances as well and asked me what I did she to invested in them..
        better to be safe than sorry.. the units on the inverters is more expensive than the whole house circuit box unit..I believe I paid a couple hundred for each of them..hard wired to the inverter in the event of a spike..
        https://youtu.be/r7U2GU5e5oM?si=drIu2Fuezo_C9XsU

      • Again… I am not a part of the USA. Item says:
        “This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Please choose a different delivery location. ”
        I get that a lot… out here at the end of the supply chain.

    • (“Real test as far as we are concerned is whether you you loose grid and then still bring up AC power. IUf you can’t do that then after emp of hard grid down you’ll be in the dark”)

      exactly a year ago last February the power company had a meeting one of the things was to promote and suggested to every one of their customers was to have a backup generator.. I dont have a backup battery system so.. it was get a couple tesla walls or get a backup generator.. the price was high but still better than the backup battery system.. we went and got on the list in less than a week every electrician was booked we were I believe 29.. it took them till late November to install it.. 2 days afterwards the power company needed to do line work cut the juice.. our freezer didn’t turn back on and we lost a thousand pounds of beef and 60 lbs of chicken.. and a freezer.. the unit never did kick on.. I bitched and moaned and they finally got to it in april..until that time I had to babysit the dumb thing.. they put in a new fuel regulator valve and it hasn’t failed since. what the loss if the years supply of beef did..was showed me the weakest link in that backup..
      so ..since I gave my old backup generator to the kids..the grand kids are still scared of the dark.. I wasn’t going to ask them for it back.. so I picked up a backup to the backup tri fuel 14kw. as dependent on modern conveniences as I am power has to be available..my grandsoninlaw is going to put up a generator shed for it.. a disconnect switch is in and I can make fuel easy enough..
      when I can afford it..I am planning to get a battery backup to assist.. with the generator working the solar kicks in and the generator doesn’t actually have to produce anything more than a stable electric presence to turn on the solar panels.. we actually produce all the electricity we use most of it goes to the power com0any to sell to everyone else. we have to pay for the energy we use after dark and the hookup fee that you will always have to pay..which is how I believe it should be.. get one hooked up then the utility company gets the overflow if you insist on being paid then you pay any increased energy costs if they get it to sell then the home owners energy rates should be frozen for a ten year period..
      work together for the security of the nation and company.. I want to put up a small backup with battery’s.. that would kick the rest on and the batteries would sustain overnights…
      I have 2 IBF totes to.. to make a biofuel generator..but I almost need a cow..otherwise you wouldn’t make much gas..the dairy farm that I told them what a chicken farmer did..did that he makes more money off of the gas than he does off of the milk and cheese..over 2 billion feet of gas a year is pumped into the natural gas lines plus he uses it on all his buildings and equipment.. like hydrogen and lpg it has to be cooled down which it is when it gets into the natural gas pipelines..

  10. “Things are nearly back to normal here in the Outback.”

    Define ‘Normal’… as in: “Thank God I’m normal, but the rest of the world is F**Ked up!”
    LOL. I don’t think I could ever define things as ‘normal’ here at the Volcano Ranch. Things are more like a daily adventure. I’ve been paying attention to the dangers of this political season and prepping things for ‘island isolation’ should things mushroom out of control. What really rankles me is the relatively new USPS shipping category of ‘Ground Advantage’. True to government naming protocol, it is anything but ‘advantageous’. On eBay, the shipping description is obfuscated into the “standard shipping” category, which USED to mean ‘First Class’. Here’s what happens: ‘Ground Advantage’ will make it to the West coast in a few days, where it collects until USPS has a container full. Tracking stops at the west coast ‘distribution center’ and is replaced by ‘In Transit’ marks for the next MONTH or more while the container fills and gets put on a slow boat to the islands before being casually unloaded and never rescanned until it finally arrives at my local PO and is scanned “out for delivery”. This can be one or two months after initial shipment from the mainland. Then the aggregate orders for the last month all arrive in one or two day clusters that makes the local carrier grumble as he tosses packages over the fence in piles. Makes it really difficult to obtain critical parts in a timely fashion. I look for specific ‘First Class’ or ‘Priority’ mail designators when buying, but not all sellers offer this option. Such is life at the end of the supply chain.

    I ordered a carbide tipped chain for my little 14” Stihl chainsaw some nine months back from the dealer. Ran across the receipt this week and stopped in at the dealer to find out where it was. Poor gal spent 20 minutes sorting thru paperwork to tell me that it was still backordered from Stihl with no estimated delivery time. She asked “does it have to be a Stihl part? I can get you one from Oregon in maybe two weeks.” Yes, please. Such is life at the end of the supply chain.

    • back ordered chain…hmm time to buy a thousand feet roll or two and the tools to make the chains..otherwise.. your chainsaw may end up to be a doorstop.. not sure what shipping would be amazon can get the chain here in two days the same with the chain making tools..

        • sure you can..they sell the chain with them on it.. one of my original ideas was to sharpen saw blades.. big cabinet shops have a constant flow for sharpening. I got the system that had the teeth to be replaced..
          as far as chainsaw blades jyst get a thousand foot roll of the carbide chain..
          a hundred foot roll of the carbide on Amazon is 3 hundred and change the tools are another 300 … I am not sure what they cost there.. but here you would have thirty to forty blades for the cost of five.. included with the tools expense added to it.. or five times the value my father had a table with a yardstic on it and labeled distances for each of his saws.. he could whip up a saw chain in five minutes..he had a blade sharpener to..considering the possible shortage…

  11. Yo G Dawg, I told a friend two weeks ago that we are seeing the self inflicted fatal destruction of the Demo party. Today ices it for me. This has been fun to watch, the chickens have come to roost. Whats next? Hillary jumps back in, big Mike gets the nod? Interesting times we live in…..

  12. re: Trumped
    feat: X marks the spot

    Folks,

    All things must pass. Two days after surplus office space at the “X” hq building in San Fran was put up for sub-lease, President Biden’s letter about his withdrawal from the 2024 race was dropped on the platform.

  14. OK.., now that we have this brand new distraction going on., what’s slipping out the back door ?

    • Jill will tell him sit down be quiet and eat your… checkers… or hand him an ice cream cone.. he’s close to the stage where you can sit him in front of a mirror to have a conversation with the man he’s looking at..
      gossip is he has serious anger issues along with his perversions of exposinghimself to the women security..over entitlement..

    • Best pose of all that I’VE READ TODAY ;-).
      Btw. It makes little difference who will
      be going to be POTUS, take it from me.

      • Mr C:
        I thought that way until Mr O’s 2nd term, when all the available decent jobs I was qualified for began being filled by foreign national cousins and brother-in-laws being flown in in-mass on jumbo jets. I threatened to change my name to Patel just to get interviews. The drama at the border was just a smokescreen to cover what the corporate brown shirts were doing in the major international airports. Once Trump came to office, I was able to get work doing triage and repair of the damage being done by foreign scabs and consultants to a small American business. This onslaught has slowed somewhat, but not stopped. Even the woke corporates catch on they are being played for fools, but not before they give away fortunes to hate monger grifters whose goal is to screw Americans for fun and profit. I have had a lot of skin in the game, and what I have witnessed wasn’t something I read about, it was what I lived through. Obama was about anything but American workers. I was figuring things would turn ugly in Joe’s second term, when there would be no incentive for the progressives to do anything other than pillage and destroy like in Mr O’s second term. Good riddance to the progressive vermin.

  16. you remember my jewish friend said to me, “You have the strength of 10 men.”

    He is actually a Jew who was born in Kiev. He is a really good friend. He strongly dispizes Zalensky. His father made a vast fortune doing what you guys do on the stock market. running shorts and puts.

    i knew that was a scripture. i found it this morning. he speaks alot in scriptures.

    ECCLESIASTES 7:19

    “Wisdom strengthens the wise more than 10 mighty men which are in the city.”

    duly noted,
    its not physical stength, even though i am extremely physically strong. its by Wisdom i have the strength of 10 men.

    it is important for me, as well as others to know exactly where is my source of strength comes from.

    today is a new day. the demincratic party is scrambling to shore up their crumpling house built on sand. i am sure many of them in private are having the epiphany that, God will not be mocked.

    there will be a flury of fresh head lines and i have trains to clear and important doccuments to sign.

    have a wonderful day.

    see ya in the future!

    ~ La Dolce Vita ~

  17. fyi: all the jews i know are hard line trunp supporters. all of them. every single one. espeically the russian jews.

    • The problem, my friend, is you know no New York Jews. They are a more-reliable Democrat voting bloc than NY Blacks, and I’ve never understood why, in either case…

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