David

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Accountant, twin dad, windmill enthusiast, ultimate frisbee retiree, Gamecock. Former artillery officer. Lincoln, NE by way of SC.

Patti Smith and her band performaing an outdoor music stage in Cincinnati, OH in September 2023.
NPS entrance station at the Interior, SD entrance to Badlands National Park on Sunday May 24th. It is closed and not accepting payments in person. It is not visible in the photo, but the cost for every private vehicle to enter the park is $30. There were tons of cars there, I have no idea how many paid.
Breaking headline from CNBC stating that ServiceNow lost subscription revenue due to the Iran war??? Definitely not AI... For sure the war.
Statue of Cincinattus in Cincinatti!
Morning sun with rainbow spots at the 9, 12, and 3 o’clock positions. Partially cloudy.
Photo from the absolute top of the 2017 Final Four stadium in Phoenix, AZ. A South Carolina player is visible on the big screen in the center.
Chart of FL citrus industry production showing a 93% over the past 20 years. https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/
12-month chart of baltic dirty tanker index, from Reuter's Japanese site, because for some reason their US version doesn't chart BAID anymore. https://jp.reuters.com/markets/quote/.BAID/ Related, getting good charts of BAID is unnecessarily difficult for those of us without a Terminal or other paid subscriptions, even CNBC and others don't track it well or at all anymore.
Chart of meatpacking market share showing 3 companies controlling >75% of the capacity. From the farm bureau: https://www.fb.org/market-intel/impacts-of-the-packing-plant-fire-in-kansas
Blenheim Ginger Ale with a red cap denoting it is the hot version. An SC institution!
Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, signing a fan's bra.
Prior to integration of schools in 1970, Guinyard-Butler Middle School was originally Barnwell’s school for colored people. The existing building on Allen Street was built in 1953 specifically for the colored children of Barnwell 45. In Barnwell, the public school for colored people was created and organized under Reverend Watson. Professor Butler served as the second principal and later the school was named in his honor. Professor Solomon A. Guinyard served as principal from 1930 until school integration in 1970. In 1967, Butler School was renamed Guinyard-Butler School in honor of Professor Guinyard’s 37 years as principal. After the integration of schools in 1970, the school on Allen street was named Guinyard-Butler Middle school and housed grades 6-8 until the opening of Barnwell Elementary School in 2005. Currently, Guinyard-Butler Middle School is home to grades 7-8 and boasts an enrollment of approximately 350 students. https://gbms.bcsd.net/about-us/our-school
Another type of potential Anti-deficiency Act violation is the augmentation of funds, wherein a Federal agency supplements its appropriations from outside sources without specific statutory authority. This augmentation prohibition rule is derived from several enactments of Congress rather than a specific statute. As explained in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Red Book, “the objective of the rule against augmentation is to prevent a government agency from undercutting the congressional power of the purse by circuitously exceeding the amount Congress has appropriated for that activity.” In addition, Title 31, US Code, Section 1301(a), states that “appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law.”
Mark Renton’s monologue at the end of Trainspotting.
Front steps of the Capitol. Cars honking, people cheering.
Photo of No Kings protest 10-18-2025
Sign reading: “FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION”
31 U.S. Code § 1341 - Limitations on expending and obligating amounts (a) (1)Except as specified in this subchapter or any other provision of law, an officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not— (A)make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding an amount available in an appropriation or fund for the expenditure or obligation;
Tweet from Geert Wilders, well known far right fascist Dutch politician and all around jerk, reading "We hebben een serieus probleem". This tweet made rounds as a meme several years back due to how ridiculous it sounds to an American reader.
Photo of Chicago River from a bridge. A large boat filled with tourists passes alongside a single kayaker. Tall building stand on either side of the river.
Screenshot from Wikipedia reading "On March 1, 2016, McClendon was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring "to rig bids for the purchase of oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma".[2][3] He died the following day in a single-vehicle collision.[4]"
FRED chart of unemployment rate for 20-24 yr olds. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000036
South Carolina was the site of one of the largest lynchings. On December 28, 1889, in Barnwell County eight African American men were accused of murdering a local merchant. A mob broke them out of jail, tied them to trees, and then shot them. In 1926 Aiken was the site of the Lowman family lynching. A sheriff and his deputies, all members of the Ku Klux Klan, arrived to arrest one of the Lowman sons. Upon hearing that the boy was gone, the sheriff attacked his sister. The resulting scuffle ended with mother Lowman shot by the sheriff, who in turn was killed by a stray bullet. The remaining Lowmans were arrested and tried. When one brother was acquitted, a Klan-led mob stormed the jail, dragged them out, and shot them. https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/lynching/
Green street sign with an arrow that points right and reads "Germans From Russia Museum"
Anakin meme making a joke that capital gains tax is zero in 2025 due to losses.
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE April 3, 2025 SUBJECT: Evaluation of the Secretary of Defense's Reported Use of a Commercially Available Messaging Application for Official Business (Project No. D2025-DEVOPC-0095.000) The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject evaluation. We are conducting this evaluation in response to a March 26, 2025 letter I received from the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requesting that I conduct an inquiry into recent public reporting on the Secretary of Defense's use of an unclassified commercially available messaging application to discuss information pertaining to military actions in Yemen in March 2025.1 The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business. Additionally, we will review compliance with classification and records retention requirements. We may revise the objective as the evaluation proceeds. We plan to perform this evaluation in accordance with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency "Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation." We will perform the evaluation in Washington, D.C. and at the U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Tampa, Florida. We may identify additional locations during the evaluation.
Screenshot of CNBC showing red for all the major averages. Nasdaq 100 down 4.6%! 😬
Photo of the Rolled Biscuit recipe from the Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer.
10 homemade biscuits spaced in a disorderly fashion on parchment paper on a baking sheet.
Map of the Pacific Northwest showing Point Roberts, Washington, a peninsula attached to Vancouver, Canada with no land border to the United States.