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Scintillating Tuesday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: Poor Mini-B. did his entire group's project and got embedded after midnight, exhausted wee man man. We made sure of his embedding and got less zzz than he did, lousy HSM man. Miu exceptionally active and needy, active needy miu man. Breakfasted Mini-B. & T-B.-mobiled him to skool, drizzling rain outside man. Breakfast for us was the leftover pulled pork from din-din, ingest we man. A 2-hour siesta was then taken, not solidly restful but acceptable zzz man. Rousted our carcass by 1 p.m., self-roust we man. Made P.O. drop, barely retrieved Uncle T-B.'s Rx, & groceried for Uncle T-B., hat trick we man. Delivered stuff to Uncle T-B., grateful senior he man man. His apartment was very close to Many00 degrees F., beyond sweltering man. He had his A/C unit set on heat, man. His soft pills were melting, serious man. He had hosed his pill-caddy, reconstruct correct meds we man. We went through his mail to tell him what it was, mail man we man man. We noticed that he has $Many,000 in "cash sweep" in a brokerage account, 0.01% interest man. We must fix this for him if we ever get time and if he remembers his account password, man. Rooted through recycle bins at Uncle T-B.'s place without great expectation, root we man. We found Arby's coupons and (drum roll, si man) Subway coupons, oh heavenly occurrence man. It has literally been Many months -- si man, Many months -- since this fortuitous serendipity, man. While T-B.-mobiling back, we were called by an aysheep Mama T-B., aysheep senior she man man. "I just got a court summons on e-mail, si man!" aysheeped senior she man man. At the casa, we inspected this, see we man. Summonses aren't e-mailed, her name wasn't named, & return e-mail was a spammer's, explain we man. Mama T-B. somewhat mollified but busted our chops about other stuff, man. Just then, Mini-B. arrived, de-skooled wee man man. He'd gotten only a Many on his solo group project, we man but understandable man. Things should be much lighter for him now, hope we man. Din-din was chicken enchiladas (Sam's), tater tots (Aldi), & r'b'r, ingest Two Guys man. Movie night was The Shootist, watch John Wayne Two Guys man. Mini-B. finally receptive to Westerns after he played a video game with that theme, new movie vistas man. Mini-B. already embedded, up-catch on zzz wee man man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. Supposed to storm through the night, rain already started man. Must visit Mama T-B. on Wednesday, mandatory man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

Do you agree with VDH? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon One American view of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued astonishing levels of food production, ship construction, and industrial output. In this pessimistic view, China will soon replace America as the world's predominant power. We are, supposedly, like an exhausted British Empire circa 1945, and China is the new version of the postwar American powerhouse. Yet even Beijing's miraculous 30-year leap out of poverty into first-world affluence and Westernized power is hardly the same as parity with the US. In truth, Trump held almost all the cards at the current summit and will do so again when Xi Jinping visits the US this autumn. According to nearly every historical measure of power, the US leads China by sizable margins—in wealth, economic output, fuel, food, and military strength. China has roughly four times the population of the US, but [...] https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/19/america-the-real-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon/

In another "thank God" occurrence: In KY-4, Ed Gallrein has been called (86% of vote in) as having ousted the traitorous Thomas Massie. Bye, RINOs!

We can hope. Would like to see him crush Cornyn first, and decisively. I don't know a single person who's voting for Cornyn. --- In TX 18, which was condensed, new Congressman Christian Menefee (recently elected to fill a vacant seat) faces the infamous Al Green. Green has been totally invisible. I wonder if he sees the writing on the wall. Menefee, as before, has run some actually very good TV commercials. Menefee would be merely a younger version of Green, sadly. And he's endorsed by (drum roll) Jasmine Crockett.

Uh-oh... Boiler is infected with NB disease. Recover soon, friend.

Yep -- you'll soon be a Colonist.

About time, and VERY wise move. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trump Endorses Paxton [...] Ken Paxton has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next United States Senator from the Great State of Texas [...] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116602192066577324

Fascinating analysis, and not boring. Thoughts? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Will 2026 Be a Normal Midterm? Although much can change before November and a great deal depends on the resolution of the Iran War, as matters now stand, conventional wisdom and early polling have it that Republicans will lose a significant number of seats and their slim House majority in the midterm. Substantial in-party midterm losses are the rule (averaging 21 seats in recent midterms), but there are exceptions. In three of the 28 post-1912 midterms, the president's party actually gained some seats (fewer than 10) and in another five the losses were minor (also fewer than 10). The rare seat-gain midterms are Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal realignment midterm of 1934 with a soaring Depression-recovery economy (GDP up 10.8% in 1934), Bill Clinton's post-impeachment midterm in 1998 (with GDP up 4.5%) and George W. Bush's 2002 midterm a year after 9/11. More on the 1934 midterm later. The five midterms with minor losses for the president's party are [...] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/19/will_2026_be_a_normal_midterm.html

This story seems to end in the middle, but worth our reaction nevertheless. I don't like such cameras one bit, and these were installed without approval. Unless their city council approves them, I think that they should come down -- not just be deactivated. And the mayor has some nerve declaring a state of emergency. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency TROY, N.Y. — The civic uproar began quietly, when a mom walking her newborn spotted a strange black contraption at the end of her block: a camera topped with a solar panel. Dierdre Shea researched the camera and learned that it was an artificial-intelligence-assisted license plate reader — the type that have caused privacy concerns across the country in recent months, leading to laws limiting their use in more than a dozen states. She emailed her neighbors, sparking fierce debate in this town of 52,000 overlooking the Hudson River. Citizens called for the devices to be taken off the streets, and the Republican mayor, who supports the cameras, clashed with the Democratic city council, which tried to halt funding for them. [...] https://archive.is/0NDBO#selection-469.0-485.295

Very nice, O ma'am! Go back to Canadia with your superfluous u letters, eh, O ma'am!

Very nice, LS ma'am! Very nice, Y ma'am!

Yes. Keep the faith.

Thanks for your comprehensive writeup, which should serve to help others.

Great news! Come back to tell us how smoothly (or not) it went, plus any other necessary steps.

Great point. If I were her, I'd suppress my entitlement and shut up about it.