While at the quilt show this year, I found this interesting quilt item. I did not know this before.
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Shannon – the bottom line is all solutions discussed require either a hard wire or wifi connection to the internet in order to stream content. Since you already have Amazon Prime I would recommend their Fire TV (can be hard wired; can act as a DVR) or Fire Stick (wifi only). Both offer connections to the same services such as Netflix and Hulu. But again, you must have a connection to the internet.
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Good rainy, cold, miserable morning Hamsters. Missed the T-storm passing by us but close enough to wake us up around 4 am. Ummm, it can stop any time now.
Can’t see the rain gauge on the way to fetch the Chron at 5:40—it was there—as the puddle in front of it is huge and one spot in the driveway is totally puddle covered. We are awash with still more to come before it all passes NE.
Off to feed the mares and explain to them why they can’t go out until maybe later today, presuming it stops by afternoon and the paddock has drained. The pastures will stay too wet for a day or so. But I can put up the Christmas wreaths in the barn and the sleigh bells that will add some cheer, except the girls will not be impressed if they can’t go out. -
I haven’t really been following Mike McCaul, but this is not good in light of his consideration for DHS head.
One of the frontrunners is said to be Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas. In my view, McCaul would be a bad choice.
It isn’t just that outgoing DHS head Jeh Johnson has basically endorsed McCaul, though this raises an obvious red flag. The main objection — and the reason, presumably, for the Johnson endorsement — is McCaul’s record on immigration.
Brendan Kirby of PoliZette points out that McCaul was one of just 19 House Republicans who signed then-Speaker John Boehner’s statement of immigration principles, which, in effect, embraced amnesty. McCaul also voted for President Obama’s budgets allowing for the implementation of executive actions shielding certain classes of immigrants from deportation. -
The olive-green vehicle, which carried the dead communist dictator’s ashes, broke down and required the assistance of at least three soldiers, according to photos of the moment.
The Associated Press photo caption reads, “Soldiers push the jeep and trailer carrying the ashes of the late Fidel Castro after the jeep briefly stopped working during Castro’s funeral procession near Moncada Fort in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.One wit on Twitter responded: The only thing working in Cuba are the prostitutes.
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#4 – The Power Line folks have not been Trumpsters from the get go, but they do seem to be warming to him after watching him in action. I think the McCaul article is still a knee jerk on something not likely to come to fruition. Trump has entertained people whose opinions differ from his (think Romney for State) on several occasions. I think these meetings are designed to support the inclusion of the Never Trump group of eReps, while never resulting in an actual appointment (at least to anything substantive). Actually I think it’s pretty smart to publically advertise all these high profile meetings to show that due diligence is actually occurring and that the Cabinet appointments are not just a list of cronies waiting to lap at the trough. McCaul will never get close to an appointment, but he did get a high profile interview with the “President” (hey constituents, the President knows my name) which he can capitalize on politically.
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Maria was 19 and a medical student. She volunteered at a center for immigrant refugees.
Maria Ladenburger, the daughter of a high-ranking EU official, was returning from a party in the university city of Freiburg in Germany when she was assaulted on a cycle path.
She was raped and then drowned before her body was found in the River Dreisam.
The shocking incident happened on October 16 but details have only been released after an arrest on Friday.
The suspect, an Afghan migrant, was caught after police found DNA on a scarf near the path.
The scarf reportedly belonged to Maria.
They also found a strand of hair on a nearby blackberry bush. -
The subject for the segment in question on F&F this morning was sanctuary cities. The pro-illegal alien invasion advocate slipped in a line about Trump not paying taxes for 20 years. I anticipate that they will be very creative in slipping in this gross misstatement of fact at every turn.
I would hope that in the future, the other side would blast the D for misrepresenting the truth. -
Morning, Couch friends. I’ll be heading to my dentist for the beginning of some major work today. I’m having a problem that I guess I should be glad I lived long enough to encounter. This is something that — initially at least — usually only shows up on X-ray, so it was caught during my routine checkup. I have 2 molars that had root canals done decades ago, which are failing. While it is possible to remove the crowns and redo the root canals, this is a specialized area of dentistry only done by an orthodontist with specialized tools for calcified root canals.
Had this happened 10 years ago, I might have gone for the possibility of “saving those teeth”. Nearing 73, I have instead decided to pull those 2 teeth and have a lower partial denture made to replace them. As a diabetic, I can’t mess around with weenie teeth that could cause gum infections. This morning, I’ll have impressions taken, and one of the teeth will be pulled and the hole filled with Jawbone Helper.
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#9 mharper42
Best wishes for success today and an uneventful recovery at home. Let us know how it goes when you’re up to it. -
Mharper
I hope your tooth extraction goes better than mine!
Either way, I wish you a speedy recovery. -
Ouch.
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Imagine this. You are feeling under the weather. You pull out your smartphone and click the Rx app. A nurse arrives in 20 minutes at your home. He gives you a blood test and recommends to the doctor that she prescribe a treatment. It is sent to the CVS down the street, which delivers it to your door in 20 minutes. The entire event costs $20.
Sounds nuts? Not so much. Not if health care were a competitive industry. As it is, medical care prices are up 105% in the last 20 years. This contrasts with the television industry, which is selling products that have fallen 96% in the same period.
Take a look at this chart assembled by AEI. It reveals two important points. First, there is no such thing as an aggregate price level, or, rather what we call the price level is a statistical fiction. Second, it shows that competitive industries offer goods and services that are falling in price due to market pressure. In contrast monopolized industries can extract ever higher rents from people based on restriction. -
Lots of talk about the Trump/Carrier Air Conditioning deal that Carrier got favorable tax credits for agreeing to keep the American plant open. The Trump critics seem to be saying that this is crony capitalism, favoritism, etc. But, let’s examine why companies are moving overseas in the first place – they cite excessive regulation and excessive taxation – which the press dutifully reports as cheaper labor overseas. Skilled labor capable of assembling cars, computers, or whatever, still have to be skilled and earn more money than non-skilled workers, but that’s another story. Simply put, Trump’s promise to reduce taxes and lower the regulatory burden on all businesses will keep American workers employed at home. Tacking on an import fee for foreign produced goods will favor those who did not move out. That’s just for domestic companies. Dealing with the overall trade issues with other countries is another case as well. The point is, the Carrier deal is a small example of what can be done with relatively small adjustments to tax policy and regulatory oversight to keep American factories running at home.
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Blinky Pelousi wants to make it clear to everybody that she has lost touch with reality. It’s a cry for help.
HEADLINE: PELOSI: ‘I DON’T THINK THAT PEOPLE WANT A NEW DIRECTION’
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that despite Democrats losing the House, Senate, and almost two-thirds of state houses, the American people don’t want a new direction.
The California congressman appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday and instead said the issue facing Democrats is simply a failure of communication.Yeah, that must be it. They have all the LSM + the education mafia + the entertainment mafia all parroting the same line, yet the message still ain’t getting through. I wonder if she will ever admit that WE THE PEOPLE don’t wanna buy what she is selling?
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The percent of older US adults with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, declined from 11.6 percent in 2000 to 8.8 percent in 2012, a decrease of nearly a quarter, scientists reported on Monday.
Why it matters:
It had been thought that the baby boomers’ march toward old age would triple the number of Alzheimer’s patients by 2050. These new numbers not only portend a lesser burden on the health care system (and families) but also suggest that something has changed over the generations — and identifying that change could drive down dementia rates even further. -
It had been thought that the baby boomers’ march toward old age would triple the number of Alzheimer’s patients by 2050. These new numbers not only portend a lesser burden on the health care system (and families) but also suggest that something has changed over the generations — and identifying that change could drive down dementia rates even further.
I could be all the psychedelics, man.
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Thanks.
I have the internet connection and wifi.
I am leaning towards the FireTV since I already have the Amazon relationship. -
#19 – As previously noted, I have the Amazon TV Fire Stick that I believe has a better picture and 5.1 audio for my home theater than the Roku. I don’t know why anyone would want their set-top device which probably has a DVR, but why would you want to DVR something that has all the content available on demand anyway? You can start watching a movie, pause it and go away for a year, and come back to the place you left off if you want to. And you can manage your device from your computer which is much easier than trying to chase that little bug around the screen on the simulated keyboard they post up on the TV screen. I see that Amazon’s new model now even has voice activated features. You can ask for a movie and it will show you where that movies is available such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or where ever – and you just click your selection and play. It’s still pretty amazing to me what all they can jam into one of those little devices and how easy they’ve made it to use.
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With all the hoo-rah over judges weighing in on recounts, etc., especially the Federal ones, it’s about time conservatives in Congress piped up about its power to impeach Federal judges as well as confirm them…. And then pick out a few flagrant violators of the Constitution and start proceedings. States ought to have legislative or citizen recall powers to correct behavior of errant state judges. 🙂
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I am back home, minus the 2 teeth and not just the bigger one. In spite of lower jaw being totally numb, when I heard the dentist ask the technician to hand her a tool, I managed to squawk out, “Did you say SPOON???” First time I ever had an extraction that revealed visible infection underneath. But that’s still a yucky term for their cleanup tool.
It appears I made a great decision in not trying to patch up that big old crowned molar any longer. That was based on a new x-ray and discussion with my periodontist. -
Anti-vaccine nuts think they have an ally in Trump.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/30/donald-trump-vaccines-policy/ -
Shannon
Did you finally get cable service out there or are you using satellite service ? -
Democrats prepare to Bork Dr. Tom Price
HEADLINE: Trump’s excellent pick for HHS secretary is about to catch Hell.
Until a week ago, the adjectives most frequently applied to Georgia Rep. Tom Price were “mild-mannered” and “low-key.” This isn’t surprising. Like his father and his grandfather, he is a physician and thus trained to approach problems in a calm, analytical fashion. However, now that President-elect Trump has picked Price to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Democrats and their accomplices in the media have suddenly discovered that he is a wild-eyed radical, an extremist who will use HHS to launch a “war on seniors,” escalate the “war on women,” and declare “war on the poor.”
They have accused Price of planning so many “wars” on so many fronts that one could be forgiven for thinking that Trump has asked him to be Secretary of Defense. The palpable fear behind all these trite military metaphors is, of course, that Price will work closely with Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare. As Democrat Senator Ron Wyden put it, “Given Chairman Price’s past health proposals, I have grave concerns with what his policies would do to Americans.” What Senator Wyden and his fellow Democrats are really worried about is the loss of their iron grip on our health care system. -
The global left is getting their collective panties in a wad over Trump accepting a congratulatory phone call from the President of Taiwan; funny, they didn’t have much to say about all the crap from Cankles (who will never be POTUS) or the JugEared Jackass and how they ran fast and loose with our laws.
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There is so much wrong with this, I don’t even know where to begin.
HEADLINE: US tech giants not acting fast enough on hate speech, EU charges
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are not acting quickly enough to tackle hate speech, according to the European Commission, which has told the companies to get their act together.
If the Silicon Valley companies do not speed up their response to tackling illegal hate speech on their platforms, they will be be held accountable under European law, the Commission said Sunday.
Back in May, the companies all voluntarily signed up to a code of conduct, in which they promised to remove hate speech within 24 hours of it being posted and to promote counter-narratives. The code arose from concerns about a proliferation of hate speech on the platforms following a spate of terror attacks in Europe and amid the refugee crisis.
Signing the code was an alternative to the EU drawing up laws on the matter. But now the EU Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jourova, has said that the Commission may be forced to enact laws after all, as only 40 percent of posts are being removed within the time frame.The first question I have is: Who gets to determine what is hate speech?
The thought police all across the globe need to self-insert a grenade suppository and pull the pin. . . . -
Where were all the demands for recounts when Hussein the Destroyer won twice?
Where were all those computer forensic experts theorizing about hacked machines and possible voter fraud?
Where was Jill the Shill then? Why wasn’t she filing in federal courts demanding recounts in states that only Hussein the D won even though the state deadlines had passed?
This is really all just a case of Dr Jill the Shill feeding her Clintonstein masters and her psycho proglibdyte freaks while collecting a ton of cash.
Impeach that federal Captain Kangaroo judge that allowed the recount in Michigan to proceed.
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but also suggest that something has changed over the generations
Could be us baby boomers drove our parents crazy.
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No cable. No satellite. I get about 75 free HD digital TV stations with an antenna on a pole.
Internet is pretty good broadband out of Cat Spring. That company has numerous repeaters installed around Howard’s park. -
Sunshine just broke through over here.
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If you delete the PentaBaptist, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese stations I probably have 40 Anglo stations. Two of those are actually all black movie stations.
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Bush actually received the Taiwan president back in the day.
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The bed wetting, Fake Streamed Media keep weeping and wailing and gnashing their collective teeth over the Taiwan call but when Hussein paid his billion dollar ransom to Iran, eh, no big deal.
Our Hussein
Who art in DC
Shallowness is thy name
Thy ransom came
Thy ransom was paid
On proglibdyte earth
Oh heavens!
Give us this day our daily Fake News
As we deliver Fake News in order to protect you
And lead us not to the truth
But instead deliver us to Jill Stein
For you are our false messiah
Now and forever
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Despite strong opposition from China, the Obama administration authorized a $1.83 billion weapons sale to Taiwan Wednesday, marking the first U.S. arms shipment to the island in four years.
Ho hum. Obama sells them $1.83B worth of weapons. Trump takes a call from the Taiwanese president and “progressives” freak out.
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Mharper, from over yonder, Big Jolly says;
Hey Grandpa, what’s for supper? Pot roast with Yukon Gold potatoes, carrots and steamed asparagus. Plus a modified version of croissant gravy. I had to up my presentation game because “Grandpa Super Dave” has been knocking it out of the park lately!
😀
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DOOOOOODE: You will really dig this bass player.
https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMJ3XWuSrOH0&h=YAQEPo-N2&enc=AZNvnq66TUQe5g5TaaQzkwkm_jKLaRsamQE0s_rUusBqn5Cb3rFv3NtIb6yLNUmOCh61160O8qFZEdbysOo7kKbXLDKpfMfZcL3_gYHxtGih3lKHUz0jaV1C6ZsdXUEHEoIqGDypQ-DNdGJQJ-DHUQL5aoqguf-5rca-grG8IsPpB5C_58WvyhNEemyIBydplFY1eqTiN5FgNeZUCMHt1s7wFl3EhH6hKbV1GpUjLHUpE6VbxY2i-vea_BJeyC7gUrwURJvg8zUSUxGE-jDLfInTAO0bMsmb5TiUBXlAVuQgSPSsilRSn3wxx3Y1a0IxuTg&s=1 -
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Thanks, Davey, I just saw it. Looked yummy, and here I am sipping broth to take it easy on my lower jaw.
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How to guarantee that Trump, should he decide to run again in 2020, will win again.
HEADLINE: Joe Biden says he might run for president in 2020
Oh, that would be just nifty.
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Joe Biden done kilt the blog.
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Tuesday?
Mornin’ Gang
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