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Between the National Weather Service and the for-profit The Weather Channel - NWS had today's high at 30°F, TWC at 32°F - high air temp here today? 32°F
NWS is calling for snow and 26°F, TWC is calling for Cloudy and 21°F - it is now (7:30PM) with a very thin and high overcast and 18.0°F. TWC gets the nod for being closest but neither of them are doing well on nighttime temperatures.
The ground is always moving in a lot of places in our County. Here is a big rock that came down onto I-5 around Christmas eve. It was found to be loose so the DOT brought in some machinery to help it along. From the WA State Department of Transportation Flickr feed:
Said by George Santayana - a wise man.
Here are two such examples
From October 17, 2002 - Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets to Stop Reagan
and March 10, 2015 - Ted Kennedy Secretly Asked The Soviets To Intervene In The 1984 Elections
And once again, all sorts of links pointing to corroborating data - this is not a narrative, this really happened.
For context, watch this first: Buster the Boxer from the John Lewis department store in London, England:
And then this parody - from JOE.co.uk:
Delightful bit of video.
From The Daily Caller:
Report: Clinton Mulling NYC Mayoral Run
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is “talking about” running for New York City mayor, Newsmax reports.
It has only been 57 days since President-elect Donald Trump defeated Clinton. During the election slog, Clinton, 69, collapsed getting into a Secret Service van, had multiple coughing fits during speeches and seemed to have trouble walking up steps at a rally in Lake Worth, Fla.
“If she ran, she’d win,” a Newsmax source said.
She was a New York senator from 2001 to 2009. During that time, her popularity peaked at 60 percent in 2001 and ping-ponged from as low as 47 percent in December 2002 to 57 percent in 2005 and then back down to 48 percent in May 2008 when she conceded the Democratic nomination to then-Sen. Barack Obama.
Well, on the upside, it would get Komrade De Blasio out of office which is an improvement right there.
I do time-lapse photography but only for periods of an hour or so - cloud movement, sunrises/sunsets, etc... A lot of times, when a new building is going up, the owners will want a time-lapse video of the process spanning several months. From Digital Photography Review:
Enlaps Tikee time-lapse camera packs two lenses and a solar panel
Tikee by French company Enlaps aims to simplify time-lapse photography by combining a 4.5W solar panel, wireless connectivity and a pair of lenses into a single capture device. The device itself is described as completely self-sufficient, weatherproof and accessible via a Web application.
The idea behind Enlaps is that long duration time-lapse photography can be difficult depending on location due to potential power source and weather issues. Tikee and its more sophisticated counterpart, Tikee Pro, solve this by providing everything necessary for time-lapse photography in a single wireless and weatherproof product.
Very clever - they do not have to worry about replacing the battery every so often and with the two lenses, you get up to 220° of panoramic vision. $750 for the Standard and $900 for the Pro (adds digital RAW files, GPS and 4G modem) - if I was putting up a building, this would be pocket change for a very wonderful resource.
I would love to know the backstory - was this a sellers drop for someone to pick up? From the London Daily Mail:
Walker finds two guns in a violin case along Potomac River in Washington D.C. - leading cops to locate even more weapons nearby
A number of weapons, including two guns in a violin case, have been found stashed along the Potomac River in Washington D.C.
U.S. Park Police said a woman walking in the woods near the C&O Canal, which runs along the river, found the case on Wednesday.
When police arrived they found more guns and ammunition stashed in pails and garbage bags nearby.
And where they were found?
'Nobody ever hikes on that side of the canal' where the violin case was found, Saffir said. 'People walk on the towpath.'
She added that the area is 'normally super quiet.'
D.C. has draconian gun laws - Dick Heller was a security guard and was licensed to carry firearms at work. He wanted to have a gun for his home protection but the D.C. authorities said no. He took it all the way to the Supreme Court and won. More: District of Columbia v. Heller
Why would someone be stashing that quantity of weapons - were they planning something for the inauguration? Our friends the Amish Muslims? A bit of a pity they didn't just hang back and see who came to retrieve them...
From The Times of London:
Britain has world’s top economy
Britain ended last year as the strongest of the world’s advanced economies with growth accelerating in the six months after the Brexit vote, it was revealed yesterday.
Business activity hit a 17-month high last month, meaning that the economy grew by 2.2 per cent last year — more than the six other leading nations, including the US, Germany and Japan.
Far from slowing after the referendum in June, as predicted by the Treasury and Bank of England, growth appeared to have improved. GDP grew at 0.3 per cent and 0.6 per cent in the first two quarters of last year, compared with 0.6 per cent and an estimated 0.5 per cent in the final period.
as predicted by the Treasury and Bank of England - sounds like they need to get some new management over there. The low-level clerks are probably fine but the top-level management seems to not be able to see the forest for the trees. Someone needs to be there who doesn't live in a bubble. The data was there, they just chose to ignore it.
Time for the rest of Europe to follow and let those un-elected bureaucrats in Brussels go back to making chocolate and cheese.
Nobody on the left is telling the truth these days - from The Daily Beast:
The Media’s Favorite ‘Millennial’ Is 55 Years Old
Last week, it happened again. This time it was Forbes, smack dab in the headline.
“Millennial Dan Nainan Left Intel To Make His Millions Entertaining Others With Comedy.”
Millennial Dan Nainan has been the go-to millennial in a whole lot of news stories in the past year. He was 35 in an AP story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune about undecided voters on Nov. 6, two days before the election. A few weeks later, he was 35 in a Vocativ story about Obama voters who wound up voting for Donald Trump.
“I think people who felt like an underdog might have identified with Trump more, because he was being picked on so much,” Nainan said. “I felt it was very liberating to vote for him and thumb my nose at everybody.”
A bit of his life's story:
Just ask Forbes. Nainan left his career as a senior engineer at Intel to travel the world and tell jokes. Twenty-eight countries and a Tesla, all by the age of 35.
He’s performed for Donald Trump. He’s met Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama endorsed him in a four-second YouTube video.
And on Sept. 11, 2001, while at Intel, Nainan “was able to watch both towers fall from his corner in Manhattan, NYC,”according to Business Insider in 2011.
“After watching so many people die right in front of him, he realized that he needed a change. He left his job to pursue comedy full time,” Business Insider’s Personal Branding Blog wrote.
Oopsie:
Then, there it is on paper: a Maryland traffic court case from last year. “Failure to display registration card upon demand by police officer.” Daniel Nainan of New York City. Date of birth: May 1961.
Turns out someone even put up a website: ComedianDanNainanIsOver50YearsOldAndHisFollowersAreFake.com
Much more at the site - why does this guy have to lie so much.
Take this with a grain of salt but it does make perfect sense - from The New American:
New Report Exposes Rockefeller Dynasty's Role in “Climate” Scam
An unfathomably wealthy banking and oil dynasty has been hijacking governments, media organs, universities, non-profits, and other power centers to expand its control over the economy and the energy sector in particular, according to a recently released investigation by a watchdog group. That dynasty, of course, is the Rockefeller family. In essence, they have largely created, bankrolled, and weaponized what is known as the “green” movement “as a means to expand their empire over the past three decades,” the report found.
Under the guise of fighting alleged “man-made global-warming,” the Rockefeller family and its billions have been bankrolling everything from “climate” journalism (propaganda) efforts, politicians, and “academia” to politically motivated “investigations” of energy companies and non-profit organizations by government officials. Billionaire extremist George Soros also helped fund the efforts, according to the report by the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) entitled The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert “Climate Change” Plan.
The billionaires' goal, according to the report, was to crush the oil and gas industry, using government power as the weapon of choice, to ultimately gain greater control over the energy sector once again. “Not surprisingly, the Rockefellers are heavily invested in renewable energy,” the report explains, offering examples. But Rockefellers are no strangers to underhanded machinations to gain market share. Using extremely shady tactics, the report also details how John D. Rockefeller Sr., the founding patriarch of the Rockefeller dynasty, gained a virtual monopoly over the U.S. energy industry by the 1880s — at least until the feds broke it up into smaller companies.
It would be easy to dismiss this as 90% conspiracy theory but the author provides a lot of links and outlines the timetable that the Rockefeller's used. Interesting to see how it dovetails with the growth of the AGW business. There is a lot of money in climate change - interesting to see where it comes from and why.
There are a lot of so-called sanctuary cities out there - cities where if someone is arrested, their immigration status is not questioned and ICE does not get called in. Schools and churches are doing this too - even Whatcom County is a sanctuary county. This is all well and good but what with all the well-meaning hard workers coming across the Mexican border, there are also a lot of criminals.
Looks like times could get interesting for the Sanctuary Schools - from Breitbart:
Federal Proposal Would Strip Funds from Sanctuary Campuses
A U.S. representative from California has introduced a bill to block Title IV funds to colleges and universities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced the No Funding for Sanctuary Campuses Act in late December to define “sanctuary campus” and create financial penalties for any “institutions of higher education that violates immigration laws.” The bill, H.R. 6530, was co-sponsored by Representatives Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Lou Barletta (R-PA).
“It’s by no means unreasonable to expect the nation’s higher learning institutions to follow the law the same way we expect states and localities to abide by the law,” Hunter told the Washington Examiner in an interview published on Tuesday. “If a school wants federal money, an open declaration that it’s a sanctuary should disqualify it for federal support.
“It’s free to do that, of course, but there should be a consequence in the form of withheld federal funding — it’s that simple,” the California congressman stated.
Heh - I love it. You are free to Virtue Signal all you want but you will be doing it on your own dime.
A little too much water and a bit too chewy but I had assembled it last night. I will do another one before I head out for coffee this morning and see if the extra ten hours makes a difference.
Back when i was working a real job in Seattle, this would have been perfect for my morning snack.
Water is flowing nicely as I left the sink running at a pretty heavy flow rate. NWS is calling for a high of 30°F while The Weather Channel is calling for 32°F - we will see.
Heading outside to take care of the critters, back in for breakfast and then out for coffee and back home again.
Trying overnight oatmeal - one part steel-cut oats, two parts water and pinch of salt in a mason jar and keep in the fridge overnight. Nuke and eat. Will see how that works. Beats spending fifteen minutes cooking it and watching that it doesn't stick.
Heading upstairs with the dogs - got a cat around here somewhere too.
Rocky the horse and the three llamas - Pancho, Lefty and Willie - are all doing well. Not liking it but their appetites are good and they are drinking a good bit of water every day so they are healthy. The critter barn gives them shelter from the wind and they all have great layers of fur and fat.
Working around the farm tomorrow and then heading into town Friday for a bit. Lulu is coming out Saturday.
Here is the current wind-chill data from the US National Weather Service Grand Forks North Dakota
From Breitbart:
President Obama Awards Himself Distinguished Public Service Medal
On Wednesday, President Obama added another prestigious medal to his Nobel Prize collection when he had Defense Secretary Ash Carter award him with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
Secretary Carter awarded his boss with the medal on January 4 during the Armed Forces Full Honor Farewell Review for the President held at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia.
Carter is good people - I would hate to think of what he has to go through dealing with Barry's petulance and narcissism.
From Chicago's FOX affiliate:
4 in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live
Chicago investigators are questioning four African-Americans after a Facebook Live video shows a group of people torturing a white mentally disabled man while someone yelled "F*** Trump!" and "F*** white people!"
I do not care what race anyone was - this is just heinous and absolutly feral behaviour. LBJ's Great Society has done more to disrupt black lives in America than any other policy. And we still keep it lurching along under terms like "War on Poverty" and the various entitlement programs. We can not just yank the rug out from under them, but we do need to make education and job training a major focus and provide financial incenties for the father to remain with the family he created.
Only this time, they are betting with (and losing) other people's money - from The Wall Street Journal:
Hedge Fund Horseman Capital Suffered Huge Loss on Trump Victory
The flagship hedge fund at Horseman Capital Management Ltd. was one of the world’s worst-performing hedge funds last year, posting a big loss in the wake of Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory.
London-based Horseman runs about $2 billion in assets. Its main $1.7 billion Global strategy fund lost 24% through Dec. 28, according to numbers sent to investors in an email and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
And their strategy?
Global strategy fund manager Russell Clark had been running huge bets against stocks, according to letters to investors, and was hit by the sharp rally in markets fueled by Mr. Trump’s victory.
The fund’s largest bet was against U.S. stocks, while it was also positioned for eurozone and Japanese stocks to fall, according to the fund’s latest letter to investors.
Last year’s loss, to Dec. 28, is one of the biggest in percentage terms chalked up by a hedge fund in 2016, according to data seen by the Journal. Hedge funds on average were up 2.5% last year to Dec. 29, according to data group HFR. The fund had been a top performer globally in 2015 and during the credit crisis, according to performance numbers seen by the Journal.
Horseman didn’t respond to requests for comment.
didn’t respond to requests for comment - no shit Sherlock. I would be crawling under the rug if I did not see that coming. They should have had a heads up with the Brexit vote. The people outside their boardrooms are fed up and they are making their displeasure known loudly. I wonder if anyone at the firm saw the coming Trump presidency and tried to warn the bubble-dwellers.
Kind of fun. As I said earlier today, NWS had it getting up to 29°F today, weather.com up to 31°F - winner? The Weather Channel - it got up to 32.0°F this afternoon. 32.0°F is a very "sticky" temperature as I had mentioned earlier.
Forecast for tonight is NWS at 22°F and The Weather Channel at 17°F - current temperature is 15.8 - winner? The Weather Channel. Both are calling for clear which it is - hence the low temperature.
In an earlier post, I said that the damage to Thunderbunny would probably be around $3,000 - the quote from the body shop is for $2,804.03. Going to take about ten business days but they have a loaner available.
Got a bite to eat in town and picked up a few things at Costco. Working at home tomorrow and then a memorial service for a good local friend.
Time to feed the critters (both Bear and Grace came into town with me) and then surf for a bit. Bear has discovered that books are great things to chew on. Lost one old one but no real sentimental value. The spine of a photographic "art" book got nibbled on before I caught him. More squeaky toys have been strewn throughout the household.
Heading in to get an estimate for Thunderbunny's damage - maybe get a bite to eat in town but that is uncertain, see how long it takes to get the estimate.
Most do not. Part three (Part One, Part Two) of Kevin Alexander's excellent series at Thrillist:
THERE'S A MASSIVE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY BUBBLE, AND IT'S ABOUT TO BURST
AS SOON AS HE WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR, Matt Semmelhack knew it was over. He'd been away from his San Francisco restaurant AQ for less than a week, but when he got back, it just felt different. It went beyond the usual concerns of the modern restaurateur. "I wasn't worried the lights were properly dim, or the regulars were in the right booths," he says. Instead, Semmelhack was just looking at his staff -- people he hangs out with on weekends, people whose livelihoods he supplies, some of his closest friends -- and all he could see was the money each one of them was costing him, flashing in front of him like a video-game score. "I knew right then," he says, "we had to shut it all down."
Semmelhack is not the only restaurateur looking to duck and cover. The American restaurant business is a bubble, and that bubble is bursting. I've arrived at this conclusion after spending a year traveling around the country and talking to chefs, restaurant owners, and other industry folk for this series. In part one, I talked about how the Good Food Revival Movement™ created colonies of similar, hip restaurants in cities all over the country. In the series' second story, I discussed how a shortage of cooks -- driven by a combination of the restaurant bubble, shifts in immigration, and a surge of millennials -- is permanently altering the way a restaurant's back of the house has to operate in order to survive.
This, the final story, is simple: I want you to understand why America's Golden Age of Restaurants is coming to an end.
So true - Bellingham has a high churn rate when it comes to dining. Lots of franchises and most of these have decent track record but the cool little hole-in-the-wall places are opening and closing all the time. Reading our local business journal is pretty depressing.
How do you make a million dollars in food service? Start with ten million and open a restaurant.
Got coffee and while getting Bear into the back seat, I knocked over the mug spilling a few ounces on my pants.
Went to the store and was backing out of the parking lot when I heard a loud crash. There was a delivery truck (20' box) with a liftgate and I had backed right into the support column for the liftgate. There was a little bit of paint transfer on the liftgate but no damage. Thunderbunny on the other hand:
Entirely my own damned fault - I knew the truck was there and just did not pay close enough attention while backing up. Back home to change my pants (I love the smell of coffee but not on my clothing), clean out the bed of the truck (broken glass) and to take the radio and first aid crates out for safekeeping and then in to town to get a quote. I am betting around $3,000 or so. Money I was not planning to spend but that is why they call it an "accident".
Obama is throwing a temper tantrum. There is no other word that fits. From the England's The Sun:
US sends special forces to RUSSIAN BORDER as Nato is poised to strike back against Vladimir Putin’s ‘aggression’
Tensions between Washington and the Kremlin have reached Cold War levels amid reports Vladimir Putin is deploying nuke-ready missiles in the Russian province of Kaliningrad – which borders Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.
Why now - why not just wait the 15 days and 21 hours (I love this site) until we get a real leader.
It got down to 10.5°F last night so both forecasts were way off - too high.
NWS has it getting up to 29°F today - outside air temp is already 28.9°F so this is too low. Weather Channel has it for 31°F - more in line with what is actually happening.
Both agencies have it sunny today with clouds moving in tomorrow and precipitation on Friday. We will see...
An update to this post from 6:30PM - it is now 11:00PM and 13.1°F - the coldest temps come just before sunrise so we will see what it gets down to.
Bedtime for this kid...
Looks like the botox injections must have gone into her brain. I almost feel sorry for her. Almost. From Breitbart:
Pelosi: Can’t Let Our Democracy Be ‘Subverted By the Dark Operations of a Foreign Regime’
During a speech before the House of Representatives on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that we can’t allow our democracy “to be subverted by the dark operations of a foreign regime.”
The only dark operations here were in the Hillary camp. Read the Wikileaks emails.
I love this guy - from The Washington Post:
Trump takes aim at House Republicans, and they run for cover
The Trump effect has landed forcefully on Capitol Hill.
Less than two hours after President-elect Donald Trump criticized House Republicans — in a tweet, of course — for trying to gut an ethics investigative unit on the first day of business in the new Congress, those plans lay in shambles in the Republican conference’s meeting room.
The immediate outcome was to keep intact the independent Office of Congressional Ethics — exactly the status quo that House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and his leadership team had hoped to protect. That result, however, appeared largely to be the result of Trump’s intervention rather than Ryan’s maneuvering.
There was a broader outcome, too: The unruly Republican caucus that has wreaked havoc in the House for the entirety of Ryan’s tenure fell in line. And there were signs, judging from Tuesday’s drama, that they might continue doing so this year.
The Trump Presidency will be studied in history books for many many years. I think that he is just what we needed at this point in time. Hillary would have been an abject disaster.
Growing like gangbusters - from the Danish Meteorological Institute:
Current Surface Mass Budget of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Here you can follow the daily surface mass balance on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The snow and ice model from one of DMI’s climate models is driven every six hours with snowfall, sunlight and other parameters from a research weather model for Greenland, Hirlam-Newsnow. We can thereby calculate the melting energy, refreezing of melt water and sublimation (snow that evaporates without melting first). The result of this is a change in the snow and ice from one day to the next and this change is shown below. All numbers are in water equivalent, that is, the amount of water the snow and ice would correspond to if it was melted.
The model has been updated in 2014 to better account for meltwater refreezing in the snow, and again in 2015 to account for the lower reflectivity of sunlight in bare ice than in snow. The update means that the new maps, values and curves will deviate from the previous ones. Everything shown on this site, however, is calculated with this new model, so that all curves and values are comparable.
Here is a chart that shows the growth and compares it to #1) - the last few years and #2) - the average from 1990 to 2013. Blue is this year:
Top: The total daily contribution to the surface mass balance from the entire ice sheet (blue line, Gt/day). Bottom: The accumulated surface mass balance from September 1st to now (blue line, Gt) and the season 2011-12 (red) which had very high summer melt in Greenland. For comparison, the mean curve from the period 1990-2013 is shown (dark grey). The same calendar day in each of the 24 years (in the period 1990-2013) will have its own value. These differences from year to year are illustrated by the light grey band. For each calendar day, however, the lowest and highest values of the 24 years have been left out.
More people die from excessive cold than from excessive heat. How much more data like this will people have to see to recognize Anthropogenic Global Warming for the political fraud that it is.
From The Washington Free Beacon:
Congress to Freeze State Department Funds Until U.S. Embassy Moves to Jerusalem
A delegation of Republican senators is moving forward with an effort to freeze some funding to the State Department until the U.S. embassy in Israel is formally moved to Jerusalem, according to new legislation.
The legislation comes as the Obama administration continues to face criticism over its behind-the-scenes effort to forward a United Nations resolution condemning Israel.
A bit more:
The effort is being spearheaded by Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), and Dean Heller (R., Nev.), all of whom support efforts by the incoming Trump administration to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem after years of debate.
“Jerusalem is the eternal and undivided capital of Israel,” Cruz said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the Obama administration’s vendetta against the Jewish state has been so vicious that to even utter this simple truth—let alone the reality that Jerusalem is the appropriate venue for the American embassy in Israel—is shocking in some circles.”
“But it is finally time to cut through the double-speak and broken promises and do what Congress said we should do in 1995: formally move our embassy to the capital of our great ally Israel,” Cruz said.
The legislation orders the White House to identify Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, which the Obama administration has refused to do. The bill will freeze a significant portion of the State Department’s funding until it completes the relocation.
The depths of the Obama administration's egregiousness:
In the past, the Obama White House has been caught scrubbing captions on official photographs that labeled Jerusalem as part of Israel. The administration also was entangled in a Supreme Court case when it refused to permit an American family to list its child’s birthplace as “Jerusalem, Israel.”
Good - it is time to recognize our friends and allies and to soundly trounce those who would stand in their way. Gutting the State Department's funding is an excellent tactic. Put their balls in a vice and their hearts and minds will soon follow.
I have always used the National Weather Service for short-term forecasting. Sure, it is always off by a bit but I figure that that is just the algorithm they are using and they generally get the big picture correct.
My Front of House manager is also a weather-nut and she turned me on to The Weather Channel's forecasts. She pointed me to a mention that Cliff Mass (local weather guru) made in his blog a few days ago:
The latest weather.com forecast (which is generally excellent) is going for cold and sunny early next week as the cold, arctic air spreads south. Is there a chance of snow as the cold air moves in? The answer is yes...but the uncertainties are too large to speculate on that now.
Last night I looked and the NWS said minimum temp was going to be 17°F and TWC said 14°F. It was 14°F
Tonight, NWS is forecasting a minimum of 22°F - it is 6:30PM and the outside air temp is 19.4°F - The Weather Channel is forecasting 16°F. We shall see how close they come.
Here is the home page for The Weather Channel so you can set your own location and parameters. I find it great to note that one of the two Weather Channel founders is an outspoken Global Warming skeptic - from Infogalactic: John Coleman
Coleman says he became an "outspoken skeptic" of global warming in 2007 after watching NBC's 'Green is Universal' week, where the studio lights were cut for portions of Sunday Night Football's pre-game and half-time shows.
He has called climate change the "greatest scam in history". He claimed "The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are increasing in number."
Critics of Coleman have questioned his lack of academic credentials, and note that he has not conducted actual research in the area of climate change.
The other founder was Frank Batten - a newspaper and media magnate. Coleman came to him with the idea, he liked it and it took off.
From The Bellingham Herald:
Canadians recover 68 pounds of meth in bust at Lynden border crossing
A commercial driver was arrested when he tried to smuggle 68 pounds of methamphetamine into Canada through the Lynden border crossing in December, the Canada Border Services Agency announced Tuesday.
The northbound driver was taken into secondary inspection Dec. 11. Canadian border officers on the Aldergrove side of the crossing found a black suitcase in his vehicle, with 68 pounds of meth inside, according to a news release.
He was arrested and turned over to Langley Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Talk about stupid - to have it in a suitcase in his cab. If it was hidden in the cargo, he could at least claim plausible deniability. This way? No.
Got down to 14.7°F last night - cold by anyone's standards and unusual for this area. Got some snow forecast to move in Friday with rain through the weekend and more snow starting next Tuesday. Fun fun fun.
Critters fed and checked their water (stock tank with an electric heater). Truck is warming up. Finishing off some breakfast and heading out for coffee and doing a town run today.
Air temp is now 15.4°F - not as bad as the 4.6°F from December 17 but still well below the freezing level (I get concerned when the temp gets down to 18°F) . I had cold water then as I had left the tap running in the kitchen but the feed pipe to the water heater froze in the garage. I now have heat tape and insulation on them so things should be just fine.
The dogs are alternating between being light-speed hyper and industrial-strength napping.
Watching some YouTube videos on blacksmithing, antenna building for ham radio and machine shop techniques - in other words, porn, porn and more porn.
She blew her lines lip-syncing and blamed it on a faulty monitor - the sound company has been doing this gig for many years and they say everything was running fine. Here is the real reason - the Russian's hacked her:
From The Register:
Trio charged with $4m insider trading by hacking merger lawyers
US prosecutors have charged three Chinese men with making more than $4m (£3.2m) by allegedly trading on information obtained from hacking top merger and acquisition law firms.
The defendants are charged with targeting at least seven top international law firms with offices in New York, which advised companies on corporate mergers and acquisitions.
The men are alleged to have successfully obtained inside information from at least two firms by hacking their networks and servers. Once they obtained access to the law firms’ networks, they targeted email accounts of law firm partners who worked on high-profile M&A transactions.
That information was used to purchase stock in five companies before the public announcements were made. By purchasing shares before the public announcements were made, they made $4m.
In addition, the defendants are alleged to have repeatedly attempted unauthorized access to the networks and servers of five other firms. Between March and September 2015, they attempted to cause unauthorized access on more than 100,000 occasions.
Very clever - go to the source of the information. WHomever thought of this has a good mind albeit a criminal one.
Great - from The Times of Israel:
Congressional Republicans push to condemn anti-settlement UN vote
Republicans in both chambers of Congress are moving quickly to condemn the United Nations for passing a Security Council resolution last week that said Israeli settlements had “no legal validity” and constitute “a flagrant violation under international law.”
Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran (R) and Florida Rep. Dennis Ross (R) both indicated that they are planning to introduce separate measures of disapproval over UNSC Resolution 2334 once Capitol Hill lawmakers reconvene next week.
More than 100 Members of Congress have issued statements opposing the resolution, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The resolution, which passed by a vote of 14-0 following a US abstention, calls for a complete end to all construction in areas Israel gained after the 1967 Six Day War, territory that includes the Old City, with the Temple Mount and Western Wall.
Furthermore, the text calls on all states “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967.” Israel fears such language will lead to an uptick in boycott and sanctions efforts, and Israeli officials have warned it will provide “a tailwind for terror.”
Good - people need to email their congresscritters and get them on board with this. Doing nothing sends a horrible message. To do this, go here: whoismyrepresentative.com - you will see the list and when you click on the link, you will see a link to their contact website. Good resource.
Changed my mind: Heating up some of yesterday's pea soup - came out really well. Microwaving up some Costco roti chicken and making a pot of rice and bok choy for dinner. Do that and a salad. Been doing a couple projects in the radio room but it's time to slack off for the day...
Temp is down to 22.3°F with drop-dead clear skies - going to be a cold night.
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