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David @dburnette.com · 22/08/2026

I scrolled a long way and never saw it, but I believe this also belongs here. High school me also recommends System of a Down’s Toxicity.

Florence + the Machine - Lungs album cover

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David @dburnette.com · 05/08/2026

Best win since Mike Hunt was elected Aiken County sheriff.

Election sign in my hometown for Mike Hunt for Aiken County (SC) Sheriff.

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David @dburnette.com · 04/07/2026

I had the good fortune to see Patti Smith in Cincinnati a couple years ago and she absolutely rocked.

Patti Smith and her band performaing an outdoor music stage in Cincinnati, OH in September 2023.

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David @dburnette.com · 28/05/2026

NPS is also losing money by not staffing some places. I went to Badlands National Park this weekend and the entrance was station was not staffed and instead had a sign asking visitors to instead pay the entry fee by QR code.

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.

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David @dburnette.com · 22/04/2026

Uhhh... were they doing a lot of business in Tehran or something???

Breaking headline from CNBC stating that ServiceNow lost subscription revenue due to the Iran war??? Definitely not AI... For sure the war.

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David @dburnette.com · 27/03/2026

Cincinnatus mentioned!

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David @dburnette.com · 12/03/2026

Sun dogs (rainbows??) this morning in south Lincoln. @rustywx.bsky.social

Morning sun with rainbow spots at the 9, 12, and 3 o’clock positions. Partially cloudy.

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David @dburnette.com · 10/03/2026

We’ll always have the 2017 men’s final four.

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.

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David @dburnette.com · 01/02/2026

Industry there produces just 10% of what it used to. Largely due to disease like you said. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...

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/

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David @dburnette.com · 27/01/2026

Weird, the baltic dirty tanker index is at a multi-year high.

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.

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David @dburnette.com · 23/12/2025

Big time. Further consolidation in an already tight industry just makes the supply chain more fragile and hurts ranchers and consumers. Chart is as of 2019 from a story about a KS plant fire affecting the industry. It’s probably further consolidated now.

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

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David @dburnette.com · 14/12/2025

Trust me when I say you gotta get the red top hot and spicy version.

Blenheim Ginger Ale with a red cap denoting it is the hot version. An SC institution!

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David @dburnette.com · 11/12/2025

Honestly, I thought this from last year was the top.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, signing a fan's bra.

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David @dburnette.com · 18/11/2025

I am the actual bluesky stereotypical 38 year-old and my parents were in school during integration, this is not ancient history! The middle school I went to was the old black school in town, it even had (has?) an old championship banner in the gym from the pre-1970 teams.

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

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David @dburnette.com · 24/10/2025

In case anyone is still wondering, this is also an ADA violation. You cannot augment an appropriation without valid statutory authority to do so.

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.”

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David @dburnette.com · 19/10/2025

New year, new version of the same underlying problem.

Mark Renton’s monologue at the end of Trainspotting.

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David @dburnette.com · 18/10/2025

Video from higher up.

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David @dburnette.com · 18/10/2025

Lincoln turnout this morning. #NoKings #LNK

Photo of Nebraska State Capitol filled with protestors.

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David @dburnette.com · 18/10/2025

Part of the inspiration for my sign today.

Sign reading:
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
FREEDOM OF WORSHIP
FREEDOM FROM WANT
FREEDOM FROM FEAR

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David @dburnette.com · 15/10/2025

Today is a good day to not violate 13 USC 1341, lest you be subject to the penalties of section 1350.

31 U.S. Code § 1341 - Limitations on expending and obligating amounts

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(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;

31 U.S. Code § 1350 - Criminal penalty

An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government knowingly and willfully violating section 1341(a) or 1342 of this title shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.

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David @dburnette.com · 28/09/2025

Me and the family went to downtown Chicago over Labor Day weekend. We walked the streets, played in parks, and rode public transportation the whole time. Never felt unsafe or even uncomfortable. The city was absolutely beautiful and we had a great time.

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.

My family and friends standing under an awning on the train platform waiting for the train. It is clean and bright outside.

Children play in a public fountain in Millenium Park in downtown Chicago.

Street corner will cool theater sign and near old clock. Unrelated aside I saw Hamilton in this theater back in November 2016, it was fantastic.

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David @dburnette.com · 22/09/2025

The ol' Aubrey McClendon method.

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]"

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David @dburnette.com · 05/09/2025

Continued hangover from 2008, things were still bad. Here is the same data set going further back.

FRED chart of unemployment rate for 20-24 yr olds.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000036

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David @dburnette.com · 29/08/2025

I was born and raised less than 30 minutes from there and never knew about the Hamburg Massacre until long after I finished college. Same thing for the lynching of 8 black men in Barnwell in 1889.

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/

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David @dburnette.com · 06/07/2025

It is hard sometimes! The first time I saw this sign it absolutely confused me.

Green street sign with an arrow that points right and reads "Germans From Russia Museum"

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David @dburnette.com · 03/04/2025

How you know you’re doing a great job:

Screenshot of CNBC showing red for all the major averages. Nasdaq 100 down 4.6%! 😬

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David @dburnette.com · 24/03/2025

I use the rolled biscuits recipe here with butter. I do 1.5x the written amounts in it for a bigger batch. Plus this time I put in a little whipping cream in the milk, it made them a little fluffier. The height just comes from the folding/layers and not rolling the dough out too thin.

Photo of the Rolled Biscuit recipe from the Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer.

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David @dburnette.com · 06/03/2025

Savannah River Site right now:

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David @dburnette.com · 27/11/2024

Canada should actually annex Point Roberts. Total historical accident that is the US and not Canada.

Map of the Pacific Northwest showing Point Roberts, Washington, a peninsula attached to Vancouver, Canada with no land border to the United States.

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