Southern California in the middle of a triple digit heat wave … and the compressor on our air conditioner dies.
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. . . but it’s a dry heat – right?
Alec
Not this time … it’s been running 50-60% humidity.
ick
Monsoonal rains in the afternoon bring the temp down to match the humidity – upper 90s
Oh, sorry to hear. We had a spot of frost on the punkin this morning.
Summer swelter sans AC? Better get used to it. Air conditioning is considered The Enemy®™, and our politicians are scheming to pull the plugs.
Blech! I feel your pain, Darleen. At least you have a pool.
Teah, wait til all the coal fired plants stop and a few million more electric cars are sold. We’ll get electricity four hours a day four days a week. In the middle of the night.
I can see the PSA’s now, like the ones for watering your yard…
Darleen, you mean it’s warmer where you are than where I live in the Central Valley? Impressive.
Anyway, we just had the fan motor on our A/C unit replaced. That was a pretty impressive bill. And after talking to the repairman, we’ve decided to replace our whole A/C unit next spring.
We’ve got our fingers crossed that our unit holds out for another 3 weeks or so and we should be good.
On a complete different subject, Senator McCain got his ass handed to him at a townhall: Link.
In part:
If I lived anywhere near this man, I would buy him a drink and possibly a week’s worth of groceries.
McCain was probably on the phone to the IRS before he got back to the limo…
“McCain was probably on the phone to the IRS before he got back to the limo…”
And the IRS probably told him that his democratic pol-op-res had already made a commercial from it to be used the next time he’s up for election, and then they said “thank you for your cooperation comrade. Say, maybe your daughter can blog this away if you can somehow tie it in with the civil right of absolute youth vagina liberty and publicly subsidized birth control or how awful it is to grow up so rich and white and young and smart in such a racist party as the GOP.”
In the video, the guy read the code that defines treason. McCain laughed the whole thing off.
Evidently, Senator McCain doesn’t care that his actions are quite clearly treasonous.
I spent three weeks in the Inland Empire in July with no air conditioning, no refrigerator and no car…….
I hope he wakes up a couple nights this week in a cold sweat because terrifying visions of Jane Fonda sitting on his face. Better, Roseanne Barr, Jane Fonda and Bob Beckel taking turns sitting on his face.
– If theres any justice in this world McOldfart will not make the cut in the next election.
– In other non-news: From the book – “Things we already knew but what the hell, its always nice to know you’re correct about how fucked the Left is.”, chapter #4312 – the list of Leftist bullshit causes.
– The link would be helpful.
– Wondered how long it would be before this happened…..
The joke that goes with the old punchlines: “Hey, you’re not black….”…..”I know but mah wife is
.”
Yeah, about McCain. The Commies were tricksier than we thought. Instead of grooming a Manchurian Candidate for the White House, they groomed a Manchurian Candidate to throw the election to a red diaper doper baby.
– The point thats become inescapable is its always one or the other of the “usual suspects”, no matter what the details are. I think though that if there is a “political class” we the voters are certainly complicit to some extent. Especially the low info nudnicks.
Darleen says September 7, 2013 at 11:01 am
Alec
Not this time … it’s been running 50-60% humidity.
ick
– See more at: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=50872#comments
Welcome to a typical summer day in the midwest.
– Yeah, sixty years ago back in Ohio we called this “Blackberry weather”. Meant the blackberries would be as big as plumbs and sweet right off the thorn bushes.
Thus the kerfuffle between Diana West and David Horowitz.
I’m waiting for geoffb’s review of Ms. West’s book before I’m tossing Horowitz and Radosh by the wayside.
Combining Diana West and “predictable” is a reasonable way to go.
You may be waiting awhile. I’ve not been able to sit down and just read it cover to cover because of the “kerfluffle.” I’ve mainly read what sections are being derided and also looked at source material from the 2086 page account 1934 “Wirt” hearings and various newspaper accounts from then. The two books I have on the “Venona files” and the “Alexander Vassiliev” notebooks which are copies from the KGB files made during a short time that these files were open to see.
What I’ve seen so far is that the attacks on her book have been attacks on strawmen which are not in the book in the way that they are depicted in the attacks. This is not to say that the book can’t be attacked but so far it is the kind of thing which works best to influence those who haven’t read it, or as newrouter said to stir up controversy to increase sales.
I do have my own thoughts on the why question but I’m not going into them as they are just my speculations. I’m more interested in the parts that are about Islamists using the same techniques as the old Communists to have agents of influence in the government.
Well Gaia has with the cooperation of the Lower Colorado River Authority killed most of my back yard this year. After the winter I guess I’ll have the same sorts of plants in my yard as flourished in the land of Mordor.
I’m patient and I trust your judgment, geoff.
I’m no expert on Soviet espionage. The complaints I have read from H&R seem to be mainly about citation being used in a misleading manner to the reader, especially in regard to the spy whose name escapes me. I have found their argument as to his identity, backed by classified documents, to be more credible than her shrill defense of her position which is turning more whiny with each response. They attacked her research methods which she is parlaying into an attack on her.
It’s a semantic game that we’ve seen before. Whether or not it’s related to ginning up sales, I have no idea.
If what you are talking about is the “is or isn’t Harry Hopkins a conscious agent of the USSR” and was he the “19” in the one Venona paper, then H & R are being more than a bit disingenuous in their own quotes and selective as to what they put forward and what they withhold IMHO.
The game is similar to what these writers played in 2009 with an event from 1934 about which much more information is available now than there was in 1934 but they write as if nothing new has turned up in the meantime because it is obscure knowledge that they figure no one will put all together.
Yes, that’s the fellow I was talking about. As I said, I don’t know enough about the events in question other than reading the various spats on the interwebs. I’ve read nearly all of H & R’s books and none of Ms. West’s, so I’ll reserve an opinion until I know more information.
it should cool off a lil today and tomorrow
I think we’ve peaked on the whole heat thing for the year
I hope so anyways I have a friend what needed halps on his electric bill
they do electric bills here every two months and his was right at $400 for his little one bedroom
a lot of it’s cause the obamawhore fascists what run California have fucked up all the electricity to where it’s super goddamn expensive here, cause it hasn’t been a super-hot summer really by any measure
Predictable . . .
. . . That The Disaster’s prescient choice in a chief diplomat, The Empty Hat, would conduct a foreign policy by means of blithering off the cuff remarks.
H&R’s attacks on DW deserve more attention than her ‘shrill’ self-defense tactics? I’m guessing DW didn’t expect such viciousness from ‘her’ side. Luckily she has a few willing to help her out.
The bigger picture I’m seeing is that a couple of ‘old dogs’ needed to protect ‘their’ turf from the ‘young bitch’, who might’ve dug up bones that fit today’s world view; a view the old dogs didn’t dare contemplate at the time. Seems the results of deep(er) communist infiltration in Merica are very evident today; these unexpected realities beg for deeper digs.
Wouldn’t surprise me what gets dug up, surprises that influenced past Progressives of ‘stature’, especially FDR.
Dig, DW, dig!
A. Codevilla (also predictable, in its way): Parting Ways With the American People
*** . . . by urging war on Syria more vehemently than Obama, the Republican Establishment may have finished off the Republican Party, as we know it. Surely it has discredited itself.” ***
To me, the matter remains a question of sovereignty in America, i.e., to whom does it properly belong?
Stanley Kurtz: Public Opinion and the Syria Strike
The opponent is the ruling class. Republican and Democrat is now a distinction without a difference.
I don’t think so, serr8d. I just took it as a critique of what they saw as sloppy scholarship.
H & R have been personas non grata for their apostasy for decades.
White House Shill: ” Important that this [was] only proposed b[e]c[ause of a] credible threat of mil[itary] action.”
And the whole wide world for a brief and flickering moment had a sense of a common human solidarity in the experience of its spontaneous and universal guffaw.
Failure during a high-stress period?
Predictable. That’s how AC repairmen make the big, big money.
Be sure to try replacing the capacitor first. I guess you probably already did, but just in case, try that. And sometimes wiring in a kick start can give a compressor on its last legs a little more life, giving you time to shop for best deal on repairs.
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