It was. Actually a grammar problem. I fixed it.

@mik said in Hey Jolly! Andouille Question: With cabbage sounds great. Can't bring the New Year without it.

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@george-k said in $taffing: @axtremus said in $taffing: Because the $10M more brings good returns to the tax payers, because the $10M more avoids costly mistakes that then spare the tax payers from having to foot the bill for the consequences later. Take the bungled COVID-19 response in first half of 2020, for example, a more competent set of White House staff could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. (Cheap) Scotch everywhere. You owe me a keyboard. My favorite part was the total lack of anything in even the same hemisphere of supporting evidence.

I'm not a follower of golf, but this match caught my eye because two bigdeal QBs are facing off. What little scuttlebutt I've redd is predicting Rodgers will win. His handicap is 3.5, Brady's is 8.2, but Rodgers thinks Brady is a better golfer than that. You'd never guess that though, from the way they're trash-talking each other, LOL.

@jolly said in "Kelo was wrong then, and it's wrong now": "The Constitution's text, the common-law background, and the early practice of eminent domain all indicate 'that the Takings Clause authorizes the taking of property only if the public has a right to it, not if the public realizes any conceivable benefit from the taking,'" Thomas wrote. "The majority in Kelo strayed from the Constitution to diminish the right to be free from private takings." Thomas is right. Urban blight can be addressed in other ways, besides seizure under eminent domain. For instance, on a small scale...The small town closest to where I live does not have overgrown, nasty vacant lots. There is a city ordinance specifying how high the grass can get, before the town sends the property owner notice that they have seven days to get it cut, Failure to cut the lot, means the city will mow it for you. And send you a bill. Not a cheap bill. What happens? Vacant lots get cut pretty regularly or the city will pile up enough charges and will seize the property for monies owed. Works pretty well...Property owners don't want to keep sinking money into something that makes them no money, but costs them money. Property either gets developed or sold. If the city seizes a piece of property for monies owed, they either try to sell it to a developer with the clause that it must be developed within a certain time frame, or for several parcels in the poorer part of town, they have partnered up with Habitat and built houses on those lots. +1. In this case I agree with Thomas and the system Jolly described works for me.

@axtremus said in The Jan 6 “nothing burger”: @horace said in The Jan 6 “nothing burger”: Could we be doing more to make an example of the Jan 6 riots? Definitely. An independent commission authorized by Congress to investigate the Jan. 6 riot, for example, is one of the things that we can and should do to make an example of the Jan. 6 riot. By all means, let the left slake its tribal blood lust. It will only be all the more laughable to watch the contrast in reaction to the next oppression olympics riots.

Lock him up

be aware that Sidewalk can only manage a speed of 80Kbps Costs for traffic wouldn't be my main concern. Theoretically, it would be possible to design such a system in a secure way, or at least as secure as your WiFi password, but one has to have a lot of trust in Amazon and there is no way to check what they are actually doing.

One of your daughter's patients? If not, he needs to be...

Which is why Dingy Harry should have been censured and made to publicly apologize. At the least.

Remaining part of Surfside condo to be demolished, mayor says Florida officials announced Friday that they plan to demolish the remaining structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium, following the partial collapse that killed at least 22 people and left more than 100 unaccounted for. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at an evening press conference that it will likely be weeks before the demolition begins. Levine Cava said Friday night that she has signed an emergency order that will allow for the building to be demolished once engineers and other officials approve. She said the remaining structure "poses a threat to public health and safety," and that crews will move quickly to demolish it once it is deemed safe to do so In a related story: Second condo tower evacuated in wake of collapse City officials in North Miami Beach called for an emergency meeting Saturday after ordering the evacuation of a condominium tower just five miles from last week's building collapse that left 22 dead and more than 120 missing. Authorities said Friday that the closing of the 156-unit Crestview Towers stems from an audit prompted by the Champlain Towers disaster in nearby Surfside. “In an abundance of caution, the City ordered the building closed immediately and the residents evacuated for their protection, while a full structural assessment is conducted and next steps are determined,” North Miami Beach City Manager Arthur H. Sorey, III said. “Nothing is more important than the safety and lives of our residents, and we will not rest until we ensure this building is 100% safe.” Raises an interesting question: Suppose you own one of the condos in the second building. Are you basically fucked? Does insurance cover any part of your loss?

I dunno. The CDC still checks on my SIL. I think she's commented quite a bit. Or, my wife who went into A-Fib might have a comment or two. Of course, the CDC would actually have to get back in touch with her or her physician, which they haven't. As I said, the system is self-reporting. I suspect that few reports are being followed up on, even the deaths. Therefore, my comment about good data.

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