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Houston Cops Need Budget Cut
This woman applied for an apartment and was denied. She arrived at the management company’s offices with no fewer than four cops in tow, demanding that the police force them to rent her an apartment. Four cops over a denied rental application, which proves that the Houston police have too much time on their hands and probably need a significant budget cut.
She comes in demanding an apartment, saying that they are in violation of the “disabilities act, 206” and that the woman needs to give her the keys to the apartment “I need you to underlay for me, OK?” She even sounds stupid in Spanish.
It turns out that she was denied the apartment because she submitted paystubs that she had typed up and printed herself. The management company wouldn’t accept those and asked for three months of paystubs in order to verify income. The woman replied that paystubs are unavailable because they are evidence in an upcoming criminal case against some people who had robbed her.
The management company was a lot nicer than I would have been. When the cops asked for copies of her file, I would have told all of them to leave. There is no evidence here of a crime, and if they want the files they can talk to my attorney. Also, would you mind writing a trespassing notice to this woman? She is not allowed back in this office. Ever.
Also notice that some black woman talk with an annoying cadence while using big words salted with legal terms that they are clueless to the meaning of when they are attempting to sound smarter than they are? Don’t do that, it just makes you look stupid.
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Delicious
Donald Trump is Time magazine’s 2024 person of the year and will be ringing the NYSE opening bell this morning.
This is the third time Trump has been on the cover of Time this year. He went from McDonald’s employee to person of the year in only three months!
Anti American left
Turning Up The Knob
I don’t think that a day goes by where someone from the party of love, fun, and inclusiveness doesn’t either wish me dead or directly threaten to kill me.
Today’s threat was because I said it’s wrong to take away my money in order to give free shit to someone else.
It used to be that they merely tried to silence me. Then they called us names like Hitler, racist, or deplorable.
Now they wish to kill us. Is anyone else noticing the increase in violent intensity?
How long before they try to follow through? When does the switch get flipped?
Anti American left
Bring It On
This is what some retard just posted on social media:
I’m also fine with Biden telling the Senate to fuck off by just appointing 10 liberal justices instantly to the Supreme Court.
John Roberts: “You can’t do that.”
Biden: “Fuck you I can’t. I’m assuming all the powers that you gave me in the Trump case.” “And the Court
is meeting today to determine whether I can annull the Nov election and call a new one – using ONLY paper ballots. Care to join?”
I dare him to try. That is the moment that 80 million citizens who collectively own 600 million firearms and several billion rounds of ammunition will enter the chat.
That would be the signal that the Civil War has begun, and those of us who care about the Constitution will start by shooting every fucking person who had a Harris/Biden sign in their yard, followed by any cop who tries to enforce this stupid edict, then working our way up to any lawmakers or government officials who support it.
I would bet that millions would die before President’s Day.
You guys keep lists? So do we.
The powers that be know this, and that is why it will never happen. The Second Amendment is the protection that we the citizens put in place to ensure that no would be dictator ever has the ability or desire to carry out such a plan.
Self Defense
Self Defense Experts
There are morons on the Internet who are claiming the shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealth was self defense, because it is violence to refuse to pay for medical expenses.
These morons are claiming that New York, the state that just tried to prosecute Daniel Penny for holding a man down, authorizes you to shoot someone in the back if they are in charge of a company that won’t pay for your health care.
The claim here is actually a scary one. The left wants to use force against anyone who does anything that they don’t like. Remember that they thing speech is violence. They thing refusing to use their preferred pronouns is violence. They think refusing to give them anything that they want is violence.
This is the attitude that makes a Civil War inevitable.
economics
Surge Pricing Comes to Orlando
In a string of poor decisions from Central Florida government, the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) is announcing a new surge pricing plan called Peak Shifting. Under the plan, electric rates will be higher during the hours of 2pm through 8 pm. This is an idea that OUC first proposed back in March.
The plan, according to OUC, will be to charge more for electricity use between the hours of 2-8 p.m and decrease rates during other hours. This is where a Powerwall, either with or without solar, can be a good thing to have. You program the Powerwall to charge during off peak hours, and power the house during peak times.
Another part of the plan is called Truenet Solar. Under this plan, the 10,000 people in OUC’s area who have solar systems would see the amount paid for their excess solar generation reduced from 10.7 cents per kWh to 4.6 cents kWh. Customers who are already part of the program on June 30, 2025 are grandfathered in for 20 years.
This plan would merely make me add more Powerwalls, because it no longer is worth it to send power back to the grid when you are buying it at 10.7 cents, but can only sell it back at 4.6 cents. Picture that I send solar power into the grid during the day, selling it at 4.6 cents. Then when the sun goes down, I have to buy that power back at 10.7 cents. I am better off storing it in my Powerwall and not sending it to you at all.
Remember that the price of 6.1 cents is the starting point. It will get higher.
I am not part of OUC’s service area, but this is a great bellwether of things to come. Electric rates are going to climb, and I think that Florida will begin to see more and more of this peak pricing. I also see those of us who are on solar will be under siege because there are enough of us to be cutting into electric utility profits, especially the ones that are run by government such as OUC.
Florida Guardian Program
Guardians
Some of the cops who are acting as SROs in Orange county schools are demanding raises. This will result in $18 million in costs to the county for police coverage in schools located in 5 different Orange county cities. The school district says that they can’t afford it, so they are going to transition to using Guardians.
Don’t get excited. That doesn’t mean that teachers and other staff who want to carry concealed weapons will be permitted to do so. No, I have already posted on how the Guardian program is being misused because school administrators are leftists who only want guns in the hands of their friends.
Mom’s Demand Action is demanding that the schools simply find the money somehow.
It’s a little scary that our children’s safety can be negotiated, especially based on dollars
Yep, that’s the left- there is no tax to high, no gun control too onerous, no Constitutional right that is off limits, nor government spending that is too much when it comes to doing what they want done.
Keep in mind that cops who are charged with defending students have claimed in court that they don’t have to do anything, and the court has agreed.
Orange county was not previously a participant in the Guardian program. They would rather squander tens of millions of dollars each year in paying cops to arrest and hassle kids, but then hide in the parking lot when God forbid there IS an actual shooter.
When the Guardian program was first announced, I bought a new handgun just for what I thought it was going to be- armed teachers. I practiced with that firearm until I could exceed the minimum standards on the course of fire for Federal Air Marshals. Then the program was actually put in place, and what do you know- only cops and people who were politically connected were allowed to be part of it. May issue ALWAYS becomes a grift for leftists to steal more money from the public trough. It isn’t that the left is antigun, they are just only in favor of guns for other leftists.
Cops
Automatic Money Generators
Osceola county is installing cameras at schools that will issue speeding tickets to drivers who exceed the speed limit in front of schools. The county claims that a law enforcement officer will verify each infraction before a citation is issued.
We all know how that really works. About a decade ago, 2,000 Baltimore red light camera traffic citations which require a police officer to swear that he or she has reviewed the photos as showing a traffic violation when it was discovered that all the verification signatures on the citations issued were from an officer that had died a year before the citations were issued.
Me
It’s My Money
No post yesterday because I was arguing with a bank. We decided to eliminate some debts. One of them was a loan with a small regional bank, let’s call them creditor bank, who we had requested a payoff quote from. The quote was for $41,800. We signed an authorization for them to perform an ACH from our checking account for that amount. That transfer cleared on Friday.
This morning, I get a notice from my bank that my checking account is overdrawn by more than $30,000. Of course, I call immediately to see what the problem is. It turns out that the creditor bank performed a second transfer in the amount of $41,300. The transfer was pending, so it hadn’t officially cleared yet. I paid $35 to put an immediate stop payment on that transfer.
Multiple calls to Creditor bank eventually wound up in an account representative, myself, and the manager on a three way call. The story they gave me was too crazy to make up. According to them, the amount of the payoff that I was quoted was incorrect. The payoff was actually $41,300, which was $500 less than what they had originally quoted me. Instead of simply mailing me a check for the overpayment, the bank thought that it would be a good idea to go ahead and take the correct amount out of my bank as a second ACH transfer, then the plan was that they would refund the original ACH payment back to me in 10 business days.
My response was: “And you think that is a good idea?” They thought that it was.
Ok, dummies. Wouldn’t it be easier to simply refund the $500 overpayment, rather than perform an ACH transfer that you weren’t authorized to withdraw, and then have to go back and refund more than $40,000? You do know that what you did was called stealing? Did you think that I wouldn’t miss the money?
No, they responded, because we were not intending to keep the money, we intended to refund the incorrect amount all along.
My answer to that was, “Well, I had to sign an authorization for you to perform the original transfer. Where is the signed authorization for the second transfer?” Crickets.
How can a bank, people whose job it is to handle money be so monumentally obtuse? I am not intimately familiar with banking regulations, but I am betting that what they did was not legal, and if it is, then one has to wonder why.
It took me most of the day playing phone tag to get it straightened out.