Kate is going to be hospitalized for 10-14 days. Supposedly the surgery was "successful" and is not cancer-related. Perhaps @bachophile can chime in, but there are precious few abdominal procedures that require hospitalization for that long after surgery.

The interesting part was at the end. Supposedly, Russia has 6-7 of these AWACS-like planes. However, only 2 are airworthy at the moment, and you have to wonder if they want to put them online considering the risk. There are rumors that a high-positioned general was on the airplane when it became a submarine.

@Doctor-Phibes Yes, there’s a chance…. So what is dimethyl sulfide? It's an organic compound that you may have smelled if you've ever cooked cabbage. ….that there may be cooking cabbage present. That just means the Russians got there first.

They told me this would happen if I voted for Mr. Trump. And here it is.

From Wiki: Preston pleaded guilty to "wrongful appropriation and breach of the peace" in the plea bargain at his court-martial. He was sentenced to one year in prison, six months of which was time served, and a fine of US$2,400 (equivalent to $14,241 in 2022). After his release, Preston received a general discharge from the army, then lived a quiet life, married, and died of cancer in 2009. Not much of a sentence for that antic. I loved that he was laughing.

I stopped using Outlook years ago, as it kept refusing to see my Verizon account mails after they got taken over by everybody's favourite provider, AOL. Hopefully, somebody gets assigned the job of reading my work email, so I won't have to.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nfl-peacock-game-loses-over-10-million-viewers/ar-AA1n78V8?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=614474b0ffe947d99e3e1971b2266bd6&ei=28

Until the money runs out.

No golf tomorrow. The temperature will be below freezing until at least noon. They won't allow play if there is frost. It's about the same on Thursday. This is bad, 2 days in a row, and I broke 80 today, wearing a lot of wool and down.

They need the money.

Attic rain after acute chinooks. Common problem here. We’ve multiple assessments & real problems costing us lots improving flow. The attic is not easily accessible to check for leaks with the vapor barrier. Insulation is adequate. I made a stupid decision buying this house, even though I had it inspected. It has ceiling speakers throughout. Vaulted 2nd floor. Crap 2005 Tyvek wrap under stucco on 3 sides.

In other news, the Saints fired Pete Carmichael today. The next OC might be...Drumroll puhleez....John Gruden.

@George-K I had hoped DeSantis was above that sort of cheap shot.

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@Mik said in I'm finally going to be allowed to vote!: There goes the neighborhood. I think I'll be eligible to vote in North Wales, so that can only improve things, he said sheepishly.

I was once in Costco, at the checkout line, and a young father was throwing his toddler daughter 10 feet in the air and catching her. He did this five times. Of course everybody was watching the spectacle, and he had to have been doing it for that reason. I figured there was something wrong with him in his head. Maybe his own father had done that and missed. This guy's excuse is split second instinct, more understandable.

@Jolly said in ‘Dictatorial ways’: Not on January 6th. Trump offered them to Pelosi before the rally, but Pelosi had other plans... Desegregating schools

More: https://thesovereignmind.substack.com/p/house-of-horrors-an-exclusive-in This crazy story got even crazier when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said there was no sign the lab was illegally in possession of the materials or had select agents or toxins that could be used as bioweapons. “CDC has taken no further action in this matter,” the agency said in an email to The Associated Press, referring further questions to county and state officials. (Apparently the CDC deems it completely legal for illegal labs operating without building permits, licenses or laboratory certification to dump toxic biohazard waste into regular waste bins and to experiment on highly infectious bacteria and viruses that can be transformed bioweapons. Who knew?) The Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party published its investigative report on this most peculiar affair on Nov 15, 2023. According to this report, not only did the lab have specimens of infectious agents, but there were bags labeled "MDMA," “cocaine,” “methamphetamine,” and “THC..." This report claims local officials spent months repeatedly trying to obtain assistance from the CDC and on a number of occasions the CDC hung up on them mid-conversation. Ultimately, local officials contacted their local Member of Congress, Representative Jim Costa, who then got the CDC to inspect the Reedley biolab. Here is the complete pathogen list as enumerated by the CDC’s own report. (CDC made this list of based solely on the labels. The CDC did not test these samples to assess whether the listed labels were correct). When it came time for local officials to start dismantling the Reedley lab, they set about to review every freezer for evidence of potential pathogens that they needed to destroy. While doing so, local officials and contractors reported that they found a freezer labeled “Ebola” with silver sealed bags inside. They wrote to the CDC “when you are going through and looking for select agents, do the containers need to be labeled individually with what is in it to count as one? We are doing the abatement here in Reedley and a fridge [freezer] had a label on it and one of the words in English was Ebola,” while noting that the containers within were not expressly labeled “Ebola.” The CDC official responded by stating, “Yes, we would typically look for the vial to be labeled as Ebola” and noted that they did not recall seeing the Ebola label. He did not cite any CDC policy when making this pronouncement. You’d think the country’s foremost public health agency would’ve leapt to action at the mere possibility of Ebola virus being handled at an illegal unlicensed lab instead of coming up with the harebrained notion that unlabeled bags were unworthy of their consideration. To add to the depravity of it all, this lab was being massively subsidized, and in effect funded, using California tax credits under the “Go-Biz” program (more on this later)

What a kroc of Krugman...