Tariffs
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| This seemed like a good time to order a small, centrifugal pump. 1/2 hp. Suitable for transferring fluids from one IBC to another or as a booster pump. Made in China. Currently costing between $35 and $40 a unit. |
Flexible agriculture
Southern Belle is unfamiliar with movable building technologies. Technologies like concrete piers, skids and even "chicken tractors"
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| The base for a shed built on skids |
Sometimes there are tax advantages to having "movable" buildings because they cannot be assessed as a permanent part of the property and therefore cannot be increase your property taxes.
D.O.G.E. and the Supreme Court
DOGE faced a reversal in the Supreme Court. According to the "news", the SC said that DOGE does not have the authority cancel contracts (i.e. the payment of) after the goods had been invoiced as "delivered". At least that is how my brain interpreted the news articles. It was spun as a failure for the Trump Administration because it limited the powers of DOGE.
At the risk of angering some of my readers, I think the Supreme Court decision was proper. I don't think the Government has any business coming in after-the-fact and disrupting business contracts where there is no crime and is no victim.
"Contracts" are "sacred" and legal decisions that weaken contracts or make them easy to break has a chilling effect on investment and the willingness of enterprises to explore new technologies.
As a historical reminder, the aggressive court rulings made during the City of Detroit's bankruptcy resulted in a rewriting of a hundred years of prior case law when the "rights" of the employees were given priority over the rights of the bond-holders. That resulted in much less enthusiasm regarding investors purchasing Muni bonds.
In a similar way, the rights of the employees were also given priory over bond-holders during the GM bankruptcy hearings. Holders of GMAC Demand Notes were "stiffed" while hourly employee pensions were untouched. That ruling had a chilling effect on industry being able to raise funds in the bond market and undoubtedly accelerated the "Pension De-risking" trends of the 20-teens.
Viewed through this lens, the rulings of Judge Juan Merchan will be ruled null-and-void. His court "pried" in on private business transactions that both parties found totally satisfactory (the assessment of some collateral) and ruled it to be felony fraud.
The iggles are back in the nest
By the time you read this, both of my traveling children should be back in the mid-Michigan area. All matters of business (personal and otherwise) were satisfactorily concluded.
Interrupted sleep
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My alarm clock phone blew-up with texts last night.
A Communist Wealth Redistribution Comrade crashed a stolen car into a cop-car and then fled the scene. One of my siblings lives in the neighborhood where this happened and three more live a bit east of there.
One of my sibs was following the chase with a police scanner app and was keeping the rest of us updated. His last reported sighting was in an old golf course east of where the vehicle crashed.
I would make snide comments about "living in the city" but those kinds of things happen every place there are people. That is why I have steel, exterior and bedroom doors and they have high-quality deadbolt locks. I have "hurricane film" over the windows. I also have security cameras and motion-activated, exterior lights and a German Shepherd sleeping in the living-room. It is not paranoia to make my house unattractive to home-invaders, nor is it a sign that I lack faith in God.
From the comments on yesterday's post
"We sort what we can use (some times there a half dozen jars of peanut butter between the three boxes )etc and pass the rest to a family with eight kids and are part of a home school network so nothing goes to waste!!"
That was too good to leave buried at the bottom of a long list of great comments.
My perception of modern "home-schoolers" is that they are great at networking and sharing. And if they are home-schooling, then it is likely that they are a single-income family and money might be tight.
While I agree that legitimate contracts should be honored, if I am the producer of a gay porn comic book being marketed to teens in Peru perhaps I shouldn't be surprised when the gravy train suddenly comes to an end. We have all read about the bogus contracts let out by USAID, has this organization contracted out ANYTHING that is legit? Also, the thought that any Xiden appointed pissant judge can derail our president is astonishing to me. IMHO, President Trump should swat these people down like the gnats that they are and forge ahead full steam.
ReplyDeleteTariffs - I am sure they would impact me, but I am nit sure how. I lead a pretty simple life.
ReplyDeleteI had a water pump to provide pressure for the attic shower. Due to infrequent use and not buying a stainless steel one, it froze solid with rust.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, the judges said that ALL contacts had to be honored, could not be cancelled. Finished or not.
ReplyDeleteThis is not the same thing as you discussed above.
Yes. That is very different.
DeleteDoes that make it illegal to change the repayment conditions on any student loans?
DeleteJust curious
A friend has motion tracking exterior security lights. Yes, the follow you around. Creepy as all get out!
ReplyDeleteI think chicken tractors sometimes require 2 people to move them, I guess depending on size.
ReplyDeleteI read in Backwoods Home, years ago, about making a combo garden and chicken run.
Fence out a large area, then run a fence down the middle. Put the coop in the middle of that fence.
Garden on one side, chickens run and poop on the other side. The following year, garden where the chickens were, and let the birds out in the old garden area. The hens will fertilize and de-bug everything.
Sounds good, no idea how it actually works out.
Southern NH
We used that system when I was a kid in the 60's, it worked great.
DeleteThe double garden with the hen house in the middle works very well indeed.
DeleteIn addition to the fertilizing advantage, it clears out the bugs eggs and larvae. I've never (knock on wood) had squash bugs and Potatoe beetles be a problem.
I am seriously thinking about adding a 3rd garden fenced in as like a T formation.
Chicken tractors work well to give you rich YELLOW Yoked eggs, happy hens and such.
They are predator RESISTANT. My Hen house is their nighttime roost, and I have a "airlock" style set up to get them shuffled into and out of the tractor.
A CCI quiet sighted chicken carbine is always ready when the tractor is out. The Semi-auto 45 grain 22 LR Quiet really thumps a stray dog hard.
A small shake tin of cracked corn makes them move right along.
The shake can is useful whenever they escape, or a storm is rolling in and you want them in the Chicken house NOW.
I seem to recall a certain pipeline getting cancelled about four years ago. I'm sure there were a lot of lucrative contracts there that were cancelled. If you go for a ride with the crocodile you better prepare to be eaten.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with paying for contracts that are already billed but not another nickel for an agency that doesn't exist anymore.
ReplyDeleteBy definition, one Congress cannot bind the next to a given expenditure. That's why gov't contracts are written the way they are. The .mil contracts I worked on in a former life were subject to being pulled with no notice, with the potential of unpaid invoices.
ReplyDeleteSo I have no sympathy for those whose contracts were not completed before the new administration, and, for the most part, any that were not completed prior to the election, when everyone got notice that the people wanted the country going in a different direction.
Rather much enjoyed the explanation given by
ReplyDeleteCoffee and Covid guy here:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/little-red-hens-thursday-march-6
Kinda like SIX of the supreeems agreed to disagree, and setup the squirrelly district judge in a fashion that appears to support the narrative, appearing anti-golden golem, but put judge squirrelly-pants in a dangerous pincer.
Milton
Yes...the money earmarked for work actually done should be paid. Id
ReplyDeletePay for what was done, but nothing further... agreed!
ReplyDeleteT4C…termination for convenience, every federal contract contains that clause and it is used all the time.
ReplyDeleteWe used to call those "skid shacks" in Alaska.
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