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Larry-Lambert

 

 

 

Yes, it’s New Year’s Eve, the most over-played holiday of the year, and the end of Kwanzaa. Put your black candles away until next year.

 

We could look back on 2023, but why bother?

 

Bullet Points:

** If you must remove the most popular candidate from the ballot to win, you are what we say you are.

** Jules had to go out because she felt like she was becoming a toxic mass of dribbling forgetfulness. (PS – I keep ketchup in the refrigerator – and it may speak volumes to my mental state)

** Hogmanay in Scotland – I can attest that the Scots are able to throw down an impressive New Year’s Eve debauch that lasts for a week or more. It makes Tailhook look like a high school prom.

** Doggerland – 9,000 years ago, it connected Britain to continental Europe through marshes, swamps, wooded valleys, and hills. It was likely inhabited by humans during the Mesolithic period and served as a hunting ground.

However, ice melted, sea levels rose, and Doggerland submerged, cutting off the British peninsula from Europe around 7,000 BC. Today, Doggerland is a productive fishing bank, with fishermen dredging up hand-made bone artifacts, textile fragments, paddles, canoes, fish traps, 13,000-year-old human remains, and a woolly mammoth skull.

Some wonder whether or not the coming ice age will expose this turf again.

** (h/t Claudio) Vladimir Putin has been told to ‘go to the frontline yourself – and die‘ by the wives and girlfriends of mobilized Russian soldiers. As you might expect. Vlad isn’t planning to do that.

We don’t settle contests that way today. Then again, I don’t know how often that happened. David v Goliath…maybe others.

** Batteries not included?

After spending a few days on the road, I’ve witnessed a number of panicked Tesla drivers at gas stations on interstate highways searching for a place to plug in. I laugh, drop a few gallons in the ride, and I’m on my way.

** What accent?

** The presidential electoral history of Pedo Joe: 1988, 1%; 2008, 1.4%; 2020 – He was the most popular president in US history, and he didn’t even need to campaign.

** “A new ‘space race’ is heating up between the US and China in space exploration, and Lagrange points are emerging as a battleground. Named after the astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange, they are locations in interplanetary space where the gravitational pull of two celestial bodies (like the Earth and the Sun) balances the centripetal force needed for a smaller object to orbit steadily between them.

There are five different Lagrange points in the Sun and Earth-Moon system, labeled L1 to L5, that result from these unique points of interaction with gravity. L4 and L5 are nestled at fixed positions 60 degrees ahead and behind Earth (plus the Moon) on its orbital path around the Sun. This stability makes them ideal ‘parking’ spots for satellites and telescopes.

Spacecraft can stay at these zones for a long time without needing much fuel to adjust their position, offering a continuous view of our planet and its natural satellite and an ideal point for observing Earth’s weather patterns.”

** Turquoise and Variscite 

I love turquoise. I just do.

**

Identify the Aircraft

1

It’s one aircraft

2

Try to be exact.

3

Yes, it was a warplane.

4

Not a P-38

 

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47 thoughts on “123123”

  1. Identify the Aircraft:
    1. He 111Z Zwilling
    2. East German MiG-23UB Flogger-C
    3. TBD
    4. Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning

  2. Fully agree about electric cars. I carry at least two Jerry cans when remote traveling (750 miles in theory). Can’t do that with electricity.

    Friend was talking to me about getting one a few months ago as go to town car and I said NO as he is on semi remote, acreage and no charging stations in his area. Plus the car only had mini spare tire.

    They lost power on Xmas eve and might it back in February.

    1. In some circumstances, electric cars make sense – but the cost of replacement batteries is often higher than the value of the used/formerly owned car. The grid has to be robust, and you shouldn’t have a long trip in mind in cold weather.

      One day, maybe when the power storage problem is solved and the grid comprises many thousands of small modular reactors/generators.

      I doubt that I will live that long. Maybe my grandchildren or great-grandchildren will see it if we don’t blow ourselves off the planet or a comet doesn’t reduce us to the stone age.

      1. In town areas for short trips maybe for taxis etc. The best estimate I’ve seen says 10 years to break even on cost of EV vs combustion. For short city driving more like 15 years and as you said the battery costs more than the vehicle.

        I’ve done two hunting trips this year where the nearest power line would be about 80 miles away. A couple of trips in more remote areas it would be over 300 miles. Can’t imagine there ever being charging stations in a lot of rural Australia unless they are mini nuclear along the lines of thorium.

        1. Taxis can’t afford lost fares while charging.
          There’s a Tesla dealership near here where the cars are parked next to each other and we were talking at lunch about what might happen if one burst into flames. Would they chain react?

  3. I’m no genius on such things, others have posited multiple speculations for the EV push sales job (aka edict)…control being the top one…yet none of this makes any rational sense, especially with an intentionally weakening grid. Regardless what politicians want to believe, Americans operate on Supply and Demand. Period. If people hate a product, it goes away. If they like it (even the Pet Rock), it stays. If it needs improving, a smart manufacturer listens. Yet here we are, EV’s sitting unsold because the automakers bent themselves into pretzels wrecking their business models for something 98% people simply do not want, so now stock is sitting in lots catching mice and bird droppings….all…I believe, due to their K Street unions thugs who are in bed with the demented few.

    Take, for instance, the Smart Car. I love this little thing. If I lived in town, especially a European town, I’d prefer that over my Ram 2500 pickup. And it has the same headroom. Plus I think it looks cool for a runabout. Great solution.

    Now apply that to the Not-A-Vax…which instead of merely driving some deal the government is demanding, this one gets injected into your body to do God knows what (still under no liability EUA despite VAERS data being exponentially off the charts that would pull any other drug from use).

    Something royally smells. Hence my current position to defund the Federal government until they start gettin’ right with God and We The People, resetting back to basics.

    Might need to rewatch Troy.

    1. It was either an F 350 or Ram I saw with a Smart Car hood ornament this week in the German settled tourist town of Fredericksburg, Texas. Smart Car probably driven into town from Austin and became hood ornament in Main Street traffic.
      Happy New Year or Frohes neues Jahr!

      1. Neighbor has a Semi he bought from a guy who custom outfitted it to drag a Montana fifth-wheel camper…removed the forward axle, then built an aluminum rail deck with ramps and winch, etc. for a Smart Car to sit sideways (fits within the 12ft). Uses the little thing to tool around in after reaching whatever destination. Brilliant.

          1. They bought it from a guy in Lake Havasu, no CDL required because it’s labeled “For Recreational Use Only”. Was in town when I saw it driving around, thought, “Now that guy is a genius.” Turned out it was my rancher neighbor taking it for the VIN Verification. Head over to their place for a get together and see it sitting by the barn!…That was you?!…and now a rancher owns a Smart Car. heh

          4. One thing for sure, the Smart Car could be used to herd cattle, maybe not better than a horse but certainly has better accoutrements than an ATV, like the Dem dredded AC or heat and cupholders.

    2. The spear fight between Paris and Achilles is one of the best shield and spear fights ever filmed. There’s things you can do with a spear, which is basically a knife on a stick, that you can’t do with a sword or other shorter weapon.

      Brad Pitt worked his arse off to learn the choreography for that fight. Amazing fight. Pretty good movie overall.

      1. Agreed. Pitt was excellent.

        In Jason Bourne he does the one punch fight scene. Have a plan and do not hesitate.

    1. x2…and whether 2024 appears to be a fright train heading straight for us or not, let’s make it the best one we can.

    4. In discussing electric cars with leftist, facts on practicality are a waste of time. Pictures of little. negroes mining lithium and cobalt . The tons of earth that must be dug for one battery. The gozillionaires that get even richer selling the e cars. That is how u reach a leftist.

    1. Pretty damning. Proves that Biden and a few others (maybe more than a few) are wholly owned subsidiaries of China. That looks like treason to me.

      Time For A Reset (TM)

      2. It’s only Treason if you don’t get away with it.

        They can’t charge or convict you if you control them.

        The winner writes and rewrites history.

  6. Smart Cars. Speaking from the selling/servicing side, dealers didn’t make much selling them (at least in the beginning) and the service departments hated them. We took two in on trade in 1996. I appraised them at $500 ACV (actual cash value) and wholesaled them for $700 or so if memory serves. IMO they are adult toys.

  7. I’ve always felt that anyone who truly loves doo tl’ izh ii would have to have some Dine’ blood.
    I heard only two accents in NDak: Norwegian in the northeast part of the state and German (sort of) in the rest – tho’ I only spent two years there courtesy USAF.
    I think the decerebrate elite have confused the concept of golf carts (very convenient and far better than a bicycle when running to Publix or Detwiler’s, but not quite the thing on 75 or 95) with the idea of EVs (though neither require carrying a gas can for longer trips; only an extension cord and trickler for the former).
    BTW: the other day I noticed a horde of hamsters herded together in a grassy field and what appeared to be a thousand or more exercise wheels connnected in series-parallel just behind an EV charging station; several golden eagles displaying their aerobatic skills appeared interested. Do you think this will catch on?
    Looking forward to seeing (uh! reading) you on the other side of ’24.

    1. You could bring your own hamster herd with you to recharge your EV. Maybe keep them in a trailer. They could run around the exercise wheels endlessly as you feed them some methamphetamine blended with their food. When they expire, replace them with another hamster. The breeding and birthing area could be in a different part of the trailer you haul.

      Happy New Year.

  8. Battery powered cars may have their place in the midst of a city where any driving is measured in single digit miles but that is about it and that is more than the existing power generation infrastructure can support. As LL says, we need a “grid comprises many thousands of small modular reactors/generators.” Otherwise they will remain toys. I do wish all the subsidies electric vehicles get on the government (read taxpayers) dime would go away though. Let the free market determine whether electric cars and trucks are such a great idea.

    Happy New Year everyone. I am not optimistic but hope everyone has a damn fine 2024.

  10. Several Ice Ages on Earth have locked up varying amounts of ocean water in ice and lasted for different periods. Between the last and now, there have been mini-ice ages. Nobody knows for sure what caused them. There are theories, but none relate to human activity as a causation. Volcanism plays a part. Dust that the solar system may pass through in space may cause less light to arrive from the Sun.

    Floods from melting ice caps had a great deal to do with the rise of cities in Mesopotamia. Abundant water was diverted to irrigate crops, which allowed for more reliable food (like the Nile floods) and supported larger populations.

  11. EV’s just aren’t ready for prime time. The charging infrastructure is spotty, they still require specialized maintenance, battery cost can exceed the vehicle’s value, and the estimated range can take a huge hit in cold weather, or if towing something. They are NOT flyover country vehicles, even if you carry a generator and fuel. We already know all this, but TPTB, in their Hive Cities and with their heads firmly up their rear-ends, chose to ignore this.

    I’d say they “Ignore it at their own peril”, but until we have an uprising, they’re just going to keep cramming this garbage down our throats.

    1. X2…exactly what rational thinking people know for certain, takes a special demented brain stem with an agenda to believe otherwise. Same with Socialism.

  13. EV’s are the inevitable outcome of the government believing that they can legislate impossibilities, and trust that clever engineers will find workarounds before the mandatory date comes due. They’ve gotten away with its so many times before, with all the costs hidden and the benefits immediately obtained out of looking like they were Doing Something. This is why they love their 20 Year Plans: it’s far enough out that they don’t have to deal with the logistics or the second-order consequences, but close enough that it seems feasible.

    Any privilege granted long enough becomes an assumed right. And anything people get away with enough times, they assume they can pull off every time.

    But what can’t go on, won’t. And this time, the costs are too large, and too diffuse, and the technology really isn’t there. When the time runs out on the Grand Twenty/Fifteen/Ten Year Plan, it’s still not going to happen. They’ll still keep yanking the legislative lever and the subsidy levers, though, because they don’t know what else to do… because admitting failure and taking responsibility for the mess they made along the way are anathema.

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