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Turkey Day Open Comments

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Turkey wild

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Turkey cooked

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Things I am thankful for (in no particular order):
God – For life and salvation, a future of hope
Husband – he ain’t perfect, but he loves me and does what he can to care for me
Family – even those that bug the ever-loving crap out of me
Blogger family – y’all keep me sane
Health – everything works, ‘ceptin a few aches and pains
Friends – there are actually people who put up with me on a regular basis, God bless ’em
Church helpers – Couldn’t do what I do without my faithful entourage helping me manage my class
Students – Seeing the light bulbs go off over their heads is truly fulfilling. And they amuse me.
Shelter – I have a roof over my head, there are those who don’t
Vehicle – I have the ability to move and go whenever and wherever I wish. There are those who can’t.
Appliances – I live in a house with all sorts of machines that make my life easier, and it’s easy to take it for granted
Job – I have something to do, and I have money to manage. On good days.
Clothing – I can keep warm in the cold weather. I don’t have to pick them out of a trash dump or donation pile
Leisure – I can take some down time to feed my soul and be creative.

This is only part of what I am thankful for. Please feel free to add your own.

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129 responses to “Turkey Day Open Comments”

  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Thankful for a loving wife
    Thankful our two boys didn’t turn out liberal, keep good jobs and are hard working productive citizens (but I repeat)
    Thankful for two healthy happy grandkids
    Thankful for our families
    Thankful for a great job and a great friend as my boss
    Thank the Good Lord for the great fortune to have been born in the greatest state of the greatest country in this world

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Oh, and an extra special thanks for my super secret membership to the Hambone Club and its members (even though we’ve lost contact with our leaders)

  3. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    An absolutely incredible wife and life partner.
    A successful wedding of Heartcrusher.
    Being able to care for a great guy, WWII and Korea vet, for the last 11 years.
    Headcrusher finally (I hope) making the transition to productive adulthood.
    Both parents alive, active and in good health.
    Loving bunch of siblings, inlaws, and a plethora of nieces and nephews.
    Having multiple copies of HIS WORD written down so that I can study, change my ways and be a better man in HIS EYES.

    I could go on. . . . .

  4. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Thanksgiving morning Hamsters. Moist out and 70 at 6 but thus far not smothering, the view of the morning was a full Moon veiled in clouds but her soft light shining through.

    Thank you, Lord, for the reassuring constancy of Your creation when just about everything down here seems to be falling into ruin. Thank you for more and more of our countrymen and women gaining the will and awareness to believe they are not helpless victims of corrupt ideas and their ever-growing resolve to act on that belief.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Good Mornin’ Gang
    Happy Turkey Day!
    I hope everyone has a happy and blessed day. I have way too many things to be thankful, to make a list.
    Thank you Lord for the great life that I’ve lived so far and for all the blessings.

  6. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Happy Thanksgiving to all. Too many blessings to count. Keep it safe. Out here in Central Texas everyone is armed for protection against those evil deer and wild turkeys, and I suspect anything or anyone else who might decide to cause harm. Plus it looks like it may rain.

  7. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I am thankful for a long line of ancestors in Europe, the British Isles, America, and Texas. At every point on the timeline, said ancestors made good decisions that led to me being born in the best place on planet Earth. Ditto for my husband’s ancestors. Their decisions led to him also being born in West Texas, and made possible our eventual meeting about 50 years ago. We’re not perfect — who is? — but we know how good it is to be Americans and Texans.

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanks for the Couch, Hammie. We miss ya.

    You, too, SoonerMan.

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanks to all of you for hanging around here.
    Keeps me off the evil FB. 🙂

  10. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Looks as though we shall be dining at home today, thanks to the recent brisk norther that brought tons of cedar pollen with it. Sneezing and stuffed heads would make us not very welcome dining companions at Luby’s, plus yesterday I got the fixings for a modest turkey dinner at home just in case. We can always dine out later this weekend.

    Squirrels had a late breakfast in the pumpkin section of the patio. Four of them this time, two of which were newcomers who were not welcome and barely got a bite. So much for Thanksgiving hospitality out there.

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Bird needled up and seasoned

    Peanut oil at 225* and rising….

  12. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    THANKS for all Y’all!!

    (try not to eat yourselves into a tummy ache)

  13. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I am thankful I don’t have any hay fever allergies! And commiserate with those of you who do!

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Super Duper Cornbread dressing this year. Mmmmmmm.

  15. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The good old days:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

  16. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I knew WKRP would come up sometime today. 😀

    2 minutes…

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #15 #16 A Classic! I’ve posted it several times in several places. Still worth repeating,…the day “Pinedale Mall” was bombed with turkeys,…. 😀

  18. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Dinner is over, we are pleasantly full, the dishwasher commands almost all the dishes and glassware, there are at least two more meals’ worth of leftover bread stuffing snoozing in the fridge, and clearly we made the right choice to dine at home today. Spouse is conked out in his recliner, Mariposa is also conked out in her bed, the horses are coasting along in conference with the neighboring horses, and I’m about to nap also.

    Look out below for that turkey blitz.

  19. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    We’re just back from Luby’s, stuffed, and with enough leftovers for another delicious big meal tomorrow. I don’t remember the T&D holiday platter including a dessert, but once we were told it did, of course we had to have some pie.

    Hope everyone else is having their favorites today.

  20. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Rain is about to overtake us from the SW, and the breeze is picking up. Fortunately the two flowerbeds we’d planned to plant for winter got planted in pansies yesterday, a couple of days after we mixed pelleted fungicide and iron into the soil. Last winter was a disaster with fungus in the beds from the summer before. So we tried something to eradicate that for this winter and only planted two rather than four beds.
    We shall see.

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

  22. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Is that SJL?

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    That was a real Alka Seltzer commercial. There was a whole series of the “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” meme
    (If the question is directed at moi)

  24. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I tried my hand at smoking a Prime Rib with cherry wood. This is only the second prime rib I have ever attempted to cook. When they say to take it out at an internal temperature of 130F, wrap in foil, and let rest to provide a medium rare piece of meat at serving time… THEY ARE WRONG.

    That piece of beef was way too rare for just about everyone at the table. We cut both ends off and served that immediately. We took the second cuts from both ends and had to microwave them with wet paper towels over them. I wrapped what was left in foil and placed into the oven for another 30 min at 300F. When it came out, some folks said they were full. I insisted that they have seconds firsts.

    By the way, this was a 4-rib 10 pounder. I can say that smoking it was well worth the effort. It will probably be awhile before I attempt prime rib again, but I think I will take it to 150F internal temperature.

    What am I thankful for? A family that can handle my culinary experiments and of course the big guy upstairs.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Homeland Security finally nailed Wagonburner. They caught him with 12 bottles of moonshine strapped to his body…the Comanche version of a Molotov Cocktail suicide vest.

    He tried to tell ’em it was just a hot toddy for his family’s Thanksgiving dinner, but they weren’t buying it.

  26. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #25

    I think bail on that one might be a little on the steep side. I’m not too sure if we can all pony up the benjamins to save Wagonburner.

  27. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I got a quarter.

  28. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    My wife does not let me carry any folding money

  29. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    At Green Bay for the Packers/Bears game it is raining and 35 degrees. Possible freezing rain/sleet and maybe snow before the game is over.

  30. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #24
    TexMo

    I never tried to do one but I’ve always wanted to. I wonder if it would make a difference putting it in an ice chest to continue to cook.

  31. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Cowboy fans at the house today. It’s no fun they are so bad you don’t feel right delighting in their misery.

  32. phil Avatar
    phil

    Great Thanksgiving today. Ran 4 miles this morning to make room for the great feast the wife cooked up today and I got also to sample some of the neighbors goodies.

    Just now about to finish it off with a slice a pecan pie topped with a scoop a Cool Whip and a scoop of vanilla.

    Then tomorrow, 4 more miles to make room for some more.

    Groundhog Day is a good thing during Thanksgiving.

  33. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Only 30 more looting days until Christmas.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just got back from a lovely day at my eldest sister’s house. I managed to supply coms cauliflower mash, roasted green beans, two cheesecakes, and a zucchini-and-carrot cake. Got to see the look on Sunshine’s face when she first laid eyes on me. That always fills my heart. Between Sunshine and L’il Darlin’, I barely had time to eat, but that was okay, I was filling something other than my tummy today.

    I got to see a good friend, too, on top of the family time. I made a few minutes for my Mom before heading up. Came home to find the a/c still not working and my back is tired, but I’m grateful that I have ice packs in a working freezer, so I’m good.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Packers lost to the Bears 17-13, and they shouldn’t have. McCarthy is still not calling the plays.

    But on the good side, the retirement of Brett Favre’s number took place to thunderous applause, and he was congratulated by Bart Starr, who is in his 80s and is recovering from two strokes suffered some time ago. He made it to the game and also received a thunderous ovation longer than Brett’s. 🙂

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    First!

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Secondarian!

  38. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Third for Black Friday and good morning Hamsters. Dampish 70 and gray skies, not conducive to energetic activities outside unless you absolutely must.

    We intend to stay away from retail establishments other than the hardware store and the grocery store today. Presume those places will not be crazy. Also restaurants should be reasonably sane places. Much to do switching out fall decorations for Christmas ones outside while the rain holds off.

  39. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The Lion in Winter is a 1968 vintage Christmas tale about a somewhat dysfunctional family in early England. It’s still one of my favorites.
    http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Winter-Peter-OToole/dp/B0089H7996/ref=sr_1_1/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=the%20lion%20in%20winter&qid=1448628664&sr=8-1

  40. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    Good morning all from the land of the Hutto Hippo’s. Great day yesterday with family. Down side was the too tight stomach from all the food, Of course, final few minutes of the Packers game didn’t exactly help either.

    Other excitement was sister found another 33 inch Rattlesnake about 3 ft from where my brother was standing by the garage door last night. The 2nd one in a week and between her neighbor and her – they’ve killed about six so far this year. Baby rattler hit neighbors dog in Sept. -antivenom is not cheap for dogs!
    Every year it’s always 6-8 or more.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: rattlesnakes

    In talking to one of my new co-workers I was quite surprised to hear that Matagorda is infested with them. He operates the water and wastewater systems down there and regularly wears leggings when tromping around in the field.

  42. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The food was great for the t day bash at Casa Bonecrusher. I did not over eat or drink and I feel good today. Sitting at LePeep while the boss has breakfast and will take him to specs later for big champagne purchase.

  43. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    Shannon – yep. That’s my home county. Matagorda Island is infested with them.

  44. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    Oh yes – I’ve heard that the sand, etc. keeps the rattles worn off, so there is less warning 🙁

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good morning, y’all. No Black Friday for me. I went to one of those sales maybe 15 years ago. Found exactly what I wanted, and at a great price. But then I realized I didn’t want to stand in line for maybe an hour to get checked out. Put my item back on the table and left.

  46. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My new son in law cleaned and organized my garage/workshop last night. I really liked him before that, life just keeps getting better :>).

  47. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/261368-obama-syrian-refugees-are-like-pilgrims-on-the-mayflower
    There is so much wrong with the flatus coming from the mouth of the POTUS that I will simply say: the man and his followers are insane.

  48. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    Just asked my boys why the Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower – 6th graders more knowledgeable about history than your President

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally getting my act together. I came home and iced by lower back down after taking some pain killers, and finally went to bed sleeping on a cold pack. Was doing a little better this morning, but I’m certainly going to skip the gym today. Got some hang time in, fixed breakfast, more cold packs, and I’m in the office. Hubby said he got the downstairs A/C unit working, so we won’t feel so wet now. The humidity was making the house very clammy and uncomfortable. I’m just glad this wasn’t August!

    I downloaded the pictures I took yesterday. There’s one of Sunshine that just captures her personality perfectly, the little goof! I sent them off to LD and AB. I took Sunshine for a walk yesterday, and she got all excited about a butterfly that let us get within 2 feet before it flew off. We kept walking and Sunshine was calling out “O-weee, ware awre you?” I thought she was calling their dog, but then I realized she was looking up in the air, trying to call the butterfly back. So cute.

    LD2 spent most of her day being passed from person to person. She herself was reaching for people, wanting to be the human ping pong ball. The cat toys were a big hit with her and the other little ones there. LD2 was in my lap outside and she was shaking the cat toy, making it rattle and driving kitty a little nuts. When she dropped it, the cat pounced on it and tried to get away with it. LD2 promptly let loose with the waterworks. We retrieved the toy from the poor kitty cat, LD came outside to check on her kid, and I calmed the young ‘un down by returning the toy and loving on her. Poor kitty. Yesterday was rough.

    Lacy, my sister’s long haired dachshund, freaked out Sunshine. Sweet dog, but Sunshine got a little to aggressive or something and Lacy reacted. After that, I had to keep Sunshine out of eyesight of the dog, which was hard because for a while, Lacy was following me looking for affection. Hence, the walk outside!

    I brought my toddler table and chairs, along with some paper, markers, and books. I’m glad I did. It was put to use by several of the kids, but mostly by Sunshine. I always feel sorry for the toddlers at these family gatherings. It seems they always get overlooked in planning the big day. It’s dang near impossible for a small child to have a good time at these big family reunions. Sunshine and I spent hours during the day at her table, reading and coloring.

    Good times.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    48 CFree
    They came over here ’cause English cuisine sucks.

  51. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #All Fridays Matter – I like it.

  52. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I now understand why Hamous hate hipsters

    Hipster Happy Thanksgiving

  53. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/261252-gop-in-panic-over-trump

    Suck on it you GOPe, loser, terd nozzles. If you would stop fighting against conservatism harder than socialist big govt failure, you might have some support. The GOPe has lied too wissin many time to be trusted anymore, a pox on their fargin houses.

  54. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Squawk : I actually watched the whole thing. Now I feel less intelligent for the effort, thanks dude.
    I don’t think I could last 5 mins in a group like that.

  55. phil Avatar
    phil

    A new #hastag campaign for the propagandist American Goebbels Media to use in their quest to get the HillydeBeest or some worthless eRINO elected.

    #BLVM
    Brainwashed Lives Votes Matter.

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    KENYA FIGHTS BACK!

    In Kenya a bunch of Islamic terrorists boarded a bus full of Christians. They were forcing them to recite the Shahada, the Islamic creed. Those that told them they would not do it or did not have a clue as to what it was were executed. That was pretty much all of them. Afterwards, word got back to the Kenyan government and retaliation was swift and brutal. The original group of terrorists were hunted down and dispatched to hell immediately. Then the government imposed a four-fold policy… for every Christian you just killed, we will take out four of yours and they proceeded to do so. No coddling, justifications or political correctness. Just executions – something these barbarians understand.
    /snip
    First, they identified the group responsible for killing the Christians, tracked them down and delivered a quick dose of street justice – in other words, those particular Islamic thugs won’t be carrying out any more Christian killings.

    But it didn’t stop there.

    Kenya is apparently experimenting with a four-to-one approach in dealing with jihadist murders. Kill twenty-five of theirs; they kill one hundred of yours.

    The Kenyan military actually fired up a few fighter jets, and sent them on a mission to attack a nearby camp where known jihadist terrorists lived and dropped a few final reminders to ninety-five of their friends, killing them all.

    Kenyan gunships and ground troops put the icing on the cake by taking out another twenty jihadist murders for good measure.

    This may seem extreme for some, but it’s the only language that makes sense to these violent, psychotic jihadists. If you don’t deal with their attacks with a swift, deadly response, the killings just keep happening.

    Kenya’s defense ministry obviously has a plan and they’re sticking to it.

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    ISIS the Cat and Barack the Grey Mouse in 1943 with the American people as the brown mice.

    Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

    NB: Tex Avery was a young animator with the Leon Schlesinger cartoon outfit when they were bought out by Warner Bros. in 1944. He went on to create Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck under Chuck Jones’ leadership thereby establishing himself in the pantheon of American cultural heroes.

    Avery was born and raised in Taylor, Texas before graduating from high school in Dallas where a common greeting among the students there in the ’20s was, “What’s up, doc ?”. You know the rest.

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Looking at the headlines on Drudge, it appears that Black Friday is becoming a day of shame. Outlet stores having to call in the SWAT team to control the mobs. /smh

  59. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Any Walmart riots yet?

  60. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Something for your mental edification

    Ever wonder why toilet seats in public restrooms have an open front?

    MYSTERY SOLVED
    But as usual I think there is another reason. It is so the seat does not fall down and injure the necks of drunks, thus reducing the risk of lawsuits to the business.
    and you must be wondering what would cause me to ponder this mystery. Hey!!! It is how my mind works.

  61. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #Black Toilet Seats Matter

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have an old friend whose first job out of Texas A&M (late 50s, early 60s) was managing a large ranch for an estate down in Matagorda. He told me when they were working cattle or during roundups out in the coastal brush they would have to wrap the legs on their horses to protect against the rattlers and he said they lost several dogs to snake bites in those days. Normally the cowdogs would be on guard for the rattlers, but during roundups, the dogs were too distracted herding cattle to be careful.

    He told me the best news he ever got was receiving a job offer to take over a cattle operation in Tomball. He said the post-war Matagorda ranch house he lived in was built out of concrete because the previous ones had rotted out from the humidity and relentless termites.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I cooked 2 turkeys that came out great. The 14 pounder was a hen and it turned slightly drier than I would prefer, but the 25 lb. tom came out of the oven perfectly. I find it easier to cook the larger birds than the smaller ones. We only had 10 people this year so it was an easier project than when we see 16 or 17 guests.

  64. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Message to GOP Establishment:

    Want Trump out?

    Tell Yeb, Kasich, and Fatso that they need to quit.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just got home and watching the Houston/Navy game. Houston so decimated by injuries that a starting defensive back is playing running back for the first time since he was in high school. Pretty good too.

    Dontcha know he’s having a blast?

  66. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Trump is not going to drop out. He is in for the long haul to and through the nomination to getting elected resident of the white house.

    in short he is not going to to just quit.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    60 SQK

    I’ve never known why but have always thought it was a better design.

    One of these days I’ll change mine out for that.

    Or at least for a longer bowl.

    I’ll leave it to you to figure out why.

  68. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m trying not to let this get me too excited, but Hubby’s fixing, and fixing to install, the last skylight in the Dome. It’s placed inside the large double shower that is part of the future master suite, and it needs to be installed before we can begin the final plumbing and tile installation.

    And our balcony and stair rails are undergoing fabrication, and should be installed by Christmas. That’s the plan anyway.

    It’s nice to see movement on finishing the house, finally. I guess Hubby’s decided that no matter how tired or how much pain he’s in, it won’t get any better and it’s time to just make it happen.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Houston vs Navy

    The Middies are going down baby

  70. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Trump is not going to drop out. He is in for the long haul to and through the nomination to getting elected resident of the white house.

    in short he is not going to to just quit.

    I didn’t say that was the way to get him to quit.

    I said it was the way to get rid of him.

    Get rid of the reasons why folks are saying they will vote for Trump when the pollsters come by, and they will look at the real, honest to goodness, viable candidates that aren’t Trump.

  71. phil Avatar
    phil

    I agree. Plus Trump has no experience.

    Vote instead for the experienced 25 year career politician who says they’ll fix the Gawd awful mess they helped get us in while in office the last 25 years.

  72. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I had leftover lunch, got stuffed all over again, now desperately need nap. Later, chickadees.

  73. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And my statement stands and as long as Trump is in he will be hovering around the top even if Yeb, Kasich, and Fatso drop out.

    You are under the mistaken impression that Trump followers are just rebelling against Yeb, Kasich, and Fatso (and their ilk). On the contrary the Trumpettes like Trump because he is saying what they feel. He is a mirror of their “feelings”. When Trump got in the fray I pointed out I did not understandwhy all the flap about Trump from the electorate. He was/is saying and doing all the things “conservatives” have wanted to see/hear in a candidate. He is brash, he hits back, he shoots form the hip, he is hitting on some really hot buttons that the establishment wishes we would ignore and those are the top reasons the Trumpettes like him. Oh and he ain’t affiliated with Washington as far as having sat in an elected seat. If he was a senator, governor or even some state elected position he would have been gone by now.

  74. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #73 – Agree. Our enemies fear an insane President. The Ruskies thought Reagan was insane, and they capitulated because they feared him. Same with others who might wish to do us harm. With Casper Milk Toast in office, they know they can get by with whatever they want without repercussion, but with a swashbuckling crazy in office who is completely unpredictable, who knows what he might do. This idea of reprisal commensurate with the offense might just go right out the window, and the idea of America actually winning a conflict might just re-emerge – of course, the left fears that outcome just as much as our other enemies. So, who knows what the voting public may decide, but if the options are an insane male versus a bitter old woman, I know who I’m picking.

  75. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Myself Gordo.

    Right now my stance is Cruz or I stay home. However, the more I look at Hillary I could be, COULD BE swayed to go ahead and vote for Trump.

    And frankly I have no problem with someone, that does not have any government experience, which I think is a red herring. We have had nothing but people with government experience as the POTUS since my first experience voting and look where that has got us.

  76. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And count on this……………….. if we get Jeb well then we get Hillary cause I will not hang my chad for that piece to toilet flotsam.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    OMG.

    I,m with SQK and ELGORDO in this debate.

    Trump is in for the long haul.

    He’s in until the end, unless and until the primary voters send him packing.

  78. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    He’s in until the end, unless and until the primary voters send him packing.

    GITZIT

  79. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    62-the cattle drives were well known during the 60’s/70’s when they swam the cattle. Still several old names in the ranching business around the Matagorda area. Your friend probably is also appreciative of not having to deal with the marsh mosquitoes . Sounded like a jet taking off at sunset in the marshes.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    However, the more I look at Hillary I could be, COULD BE swayed to go ahead and vote for Trump.

    Duh.

    I’ll do pretty much anything to keep her out…….which is the difference between you and me, SQK.

  81. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Jeb or Hillary?

    MEH

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey I don’t disagree.

    But I’ll do
    anything legal
    To keep her out.

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If only to keep from looking at that snotty bitch every day for four years.

  84. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My father in law spoke of cattle being driven south from Austin County all the way to the Salt Grass during the droughts of the 30s and 50s.
    That’s a long damn way to save a bunch of scrawny longhorn-dominant cows.

  85. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I understand. I hate Jeb Bush because he is worse than his brother and he is being backed by Karl (Marx) Rove. So we are looking at more fluffy “R”ism which to me is worse than liberalism cause it is a slower death. I know what Hill is going to do, but these damn lying republicans, once they get in they are not much different and we are stuck like chuck.

  86. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m not making predictions about nobody and nothin’ on this earth. The Amurrican Peeple learned me that lesson.

    I’m just grateful and glad I wake up each day and are once again surprised to see the sun rise and set.

  87. phil Avatar
    phil

    Ditto on Jebbuh the Bush and the same goes for Ru-Ru-Rubio whom I like about as much as I like this tune which is zu-zu-zero.

  88. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I saw a FB post the other day from a black wimminz (she had her picture) who stated emphatically that anyone who supported T could not be her friend. She went on to spew about how he was a racist and wanted to bring back slavery and some other such nonsense. From my perspective, race relations between black and white have not been this bad since the 1960s. Way to go JugEars, you set us back 50 years.
    JUGEARS FOR PRISON, HILLARY FOR PRISON!

  89. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I really don’t think that JEB! will make it past the first 5 primaries. Ditto that for Kasich, Fatso, Gilmore, Ptaki and the rest of the perpetual undercard. I figure after the first 5 there will be about 5 left in the race.
    T
    Cruz
    Rubio
    Carson
    Mebbe Fiorina

  90. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Heh I have been unfriended so many times for my views I lost count. There for a while for every 1 I lost I was getting two new people. Trumps is no racist.

  91. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This here turkey and cornbread dressing drowned in gravy is better than it was yesterday..

    Lawsy mercy.

  92. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Someday I’ll release the hate mail I got as LST moderator. If I could some of things I was told to do to myself 1. I would be a world class circus clown 2. I would not need female companionship for the more ummmm uhhhh well you know reasons.

  93. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    CNN is already calling the Planned Parenthood shooter a terrist. Unbelievable.

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Another crazy gunman in Colorado.

    The media are
    So
    Excited.

    It’s high time we rescinded the second amendment.

  95. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Whoa my lovely wife’s ambulance company is there in mass

  96. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    BTW CBS news is calling them Reproductive Clinics.

    /HEAD FAKE

  97. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sweetie still goes to CNN when there is news breaking. Old habits you know. I go with the flow and use it as teaching moments on biased reporting.

  98. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m not going to decide who I will OR absolutely won’t vote for until we get to the convention. I dunno what’s going to happen between now and then. Sure, I prefer Cruz because he is intelligence personified, while Trump is just Trump personified. But let’s see what happens.

  99. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sweetie is listening to the police radio in Colorado, they have the suspect and are taking him to a transport vehicle. CNN has no clue. 😀

  100. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh Harper, we know you’ll decide on the way to the booth.

  101. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Reporting to you live from Magnolia, suspect is in custody.

  102. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I think he is in the Sheriff transporter that just passed by their cameras! 😀

  103. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Dang, Sweetie posted it on FB, they musta saw it.

  104. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I decided this morning to put some dried pintos in the pot to soak. Normally I soak them overnight, but I wanted to see if they were ready to cook this evening, so I looked on the internet to see just how long beans should soak before they were ready to cook. Well, as you might imagine, there are hundreds of suggestions on there about how to properly soak and cook beans so as to reduce or eliminate the gas problem often associated with consumption of same, but that got me to thinking – where do you look to find out how to increase the amount of gas production. After all, why would you eat pintos at all unless you could anticipate some lasting pleasure from it. Who would want to eat beans and then just be stuck with a little popcorn popping sound? If you’re going to do that, do one that you can be proud of; one that rattles the windows and wakes the dog up. That’s what beans are really for – in college it was a competitive sport.

  105. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Gordo #104

    That has to be one the funniest observations I have read in quite some time. I even showed the Missus. That only happens once in a blue moon.

  106. phil Avatar
    phil

    92
    Bro Squawk–Lol

  107. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    https://next.ft.com/content/982798ec-94e9-11e5-b190-291e94b77c8f
    Massive cloning of food animals, what could possibly go wrong? Could this be the vector through which wide spread pestilence and or famine occurs as is prophesied?

  108. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    http://www.amazon.com/The-I-Love-Fart-Cookbook/dp/0943084040
    I would imagine the above is in a prominent spot in El Gordo’s kitchen.

  109. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Black Lives Matter? Unless and until they stop murdering each other with such appalling frequency, why should anybody believe it?

  110. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Great. Now I’ll be getting fart book pop-up ads for the next two weeks.

  111. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The Federal govt will obviously fail miserably on their part of vetting, but the states will have to comply to the letter or face consequences.
    This kind of crap will almost guarantee an Article 5 convention. The commencement of which could cause JugEars to suspend the Constitution.

  112. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Micheal Bloomberg endorses Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.

    At least in my book, this is a recommendation that voting for either one of them is a good idea.

  113. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is real bad journalism.

    HEADLINE: Scientists capture black hole eating a star and then vomiting it back out

    No video presentations, no photos, just a cartoon, yet the headline says the images were “captured”. They have previously said that nothing can escape a black hole, not even light. Now stuff escapes when a black hole eats a star and it is called a jet. The jet escapes at right angles to the accretion disk. IMHO, that there is an observable accretion disk tells me that there is powerful rotation and north and south poles to a black hole.

  114. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #112: Great link. I love this quote:

    “You’ve got a guy like Ted Cruz — who I think Dershowitz said was the smartest law student he ever had — and he says some of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard,” Bloomberg said. “The only explanation — the only explanation — is he doesn’t believe it; he’s just saying it.”

    There is another explanation: Bloomers is a troglodite progressive who will lie, cheat and do anything to add more billions to his portfolio, even if it sinks the country. He is a commie koolaide drinking scumbag whose counsel merits no consideration.

  115. phil Avatar
    phil

    114
    You forgot the golden rule of the American Goebbels Media School of Propaganda 101.

    Conservatives = Always stupid. A complete blithering dolt.
    Oppressive Fascist Liberals = Always highly intelligent and more enlightened than Gawd himself.

  116. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Rain began a few minutes ago out here and isn’t supposed to be monsoon strength going into tomorrow. It would be nice, and the newly planted pansies would appreciate it. But the forecast for the coming week looks to be gloomy, wet off and on, and in the 50s. That is supposed to be the hallmark of El Nino in winter. Not wonderful and gets old fast.

  117. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The front arrived here about 15 minutes ago, and it’s already down to 64.

  118. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It’s rained here several time tonight (so far) but been very gentle rain, it will make for good sound sleeping. After the current quilt fundraiser wraps at midnight.

  119. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #100

    Oh Harper, we know you’ll decide on the way to the booth.

    Nope. If I can’t find out enough to decide beforehand and put on my written list, I may skip that office. That surely will not happen with President. Good lord, do I seem like I’m nuts?

  120. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey what’s the name of those hot dogs, again?
    I’m going to order some.

  121. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    119
    I can’t stop laughing.

  122. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Crazy as a bed bug.

  123. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mom used to say that.

  124. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    “Certified” comes to mind. 😛

  125. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Don’t look now but Rick Perry’s coming back to save our ass.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2015/11/26/new-super-pac-wants-perry-back-presidential-race/

  126. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Do people have money to just light up? C’mon, I’m a much better cause, and I would do so much better good with it I promise!

  127. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good morning.
    Time to go check the water plants.

  128. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the Obama administration’s health-policy architect, says he has no desire to live beyond 75, so he’s forgoing all treatment, including PSA tests. He’s entitled.

    But the rest of us who value life, including our own, need to know the facts. The Obama administration’s war on PSA tests is, in Williams’ opinion, “a cold-hearted decision based on cost.” It’s a war on men.

    http://nypost.com/2015/11/24/obamas-new-cancer-rx-is-a-war-on-men/

  129. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    New OC is up.

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