The House and That Man

At present we are awash in cardboard.  Fortunately recycle is picked up weekly, and the Titan Trash guys will pick up things left on the street.  Last week it was the box for the new TV and a huge box containing other large boxes.  This week the boxes aren't so large, but are more numerous.  The rate of acquisition is decreasing.

My new paradigm for posting that includes anything about the orange menace, is that I'll put it at the bottom of the post, with a warning, so that if you're sick of it, you can not look.

Here is some soothing house stuff.  We ordered batteries for the bike computers.  They came in their very own box, with paper to cushion them.

They also came with their very own warnings for bad things that could happen, and who to call if it did.  I did not know that these batteries posed such a threat.

This is a terrible picture, taken through glass and a screen.  That's a hawk in the tree.  Look at the size of him.  He's eating well, hopefully a diet of rodents.

This was taken two days ago, the light was nice, not too harsh.

Here is my new piece of art.  We got it on sale at Home Goods to cover up that TV mount that we can't get off the wall.  I have yet to get a good photo, because it's on a huge ill lighted wall with no context around it.

Ok - talking about the orange guy now.

Elon and Ramaswamy are still saying that the country "needs" two years of hardship while they dismantle the government.  How is this a popular idea among the people who voted for him?  The end of the Department of Education spells the end of special ed programs.  Those are funded federally.  No more special ed, no more working with kids on the spectrum, all that, gone.  The orange guy appears to be going along with that.

I do not understand on what planet this is a good idea, to destroy the world's strongest economy.  How does this benefit the 0.1% of the population, if we're all homeless and dying from preventable disease?

Brendan Carr, architect of the agenda for Project 2025 has been chosen to run the FCC.  His goal is the end of "censorship" that is going on in the internet.  Basically, he's opening the door to a flood of right wing lying with no fact checking.  Sort of like what we just had before the last election.

From the WAPO we learn the following.

Carr, 45, the senior Republican among the FCC’s five commissioners, has vowed in recent days to take on what he called a “censorship cartel” including Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft. Earlier this year, he laid out an aggressive agenda for the FCC in Project 2025, a conservative proposal for Trump’s second term developed by the Heritage Foundation. Carr has been a vocal supporter of billionaire Elon Musk and an advocate of tougher restrictions on China.

“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy,” Trump said in a statement Sunday evening. “He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America.”

Carr said Sunday night on X that he was “humbled and honored” to serve in the position, and that he would seek to “dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights for everyday Americans.”

I read somewhere that orange will anoint Carr as chairman of the FCC for life.  The paywalled article can be found here.

It will surprise me greatly if we ever see another Covid vaccine in our lives.  RFK Jr is on the job, suspending work on new cancer treatments, vaccines and other preventative things in the name of making America healthy again.  Here is an article about taking a break from health care research.

The Hill has an article up about Steven Miller's desire to denaturalize and deport people who are naturalized citizens.  Based on my reading of the criteria for a person to lose citizenship, Elon Musk would be a prime target. 

Ok - that's it.