Boy on a Bicycle in Illinois in 1946 by Bernard Hoffman
Bonus points if you are the first to tell me what he has clutched in his right hand.
Weekend Open Comments
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I know what it is. But it would almost be like cheatin’ if I told.
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Although, I guess it could be the root system from a boxwood with a really bad case of nematodes. 🙂
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Sarge says:
MARCH 9, 2018 AT 11:09 PM
Come on Shannon. Slabs and sheets of steel are stored in warehouses all over, as are copper, aluminum, and other forged materials.Ummmmm–
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Shannon’s mention of “Just in time delivery.” describes the central dilemma of my professional life since the early 1980s.
It was discovered back then that if you had your raw materials delivered at exactly the right moment, you could take space you used to use for warehousing that material and turn it in to production space. The very first thing we do on a project is determine the amounts and types of steel required and order them—because all of our warehouse space was converted to production space decades ago. I quit my last job because they were low folks on the totem pole as far as delivery and the pressure to get those pre-purchases out was insane. The main client for the folks I work for now is a vertically integrated company that makes a lot of the steel coil that other manufacturers (even the competition) uses to fabricate the various steel shapes used in the buildings we make. IOW, they are at the top of the totem pole as far as delivery is concerned.
One of the reasons most of the structural steel and pre-engineered steel manufacturers n this country are concentrated in the South is the proximity to port cities. The only real warehousing done these days is on the docks. A good deal of the steel we use comes to us directly from the Port of Houston–or to one of the component companies our client owns. It would likely take about a week for any steel in warehouses waiting on delivery to empty out and be filled with new, higher priced steel—and it would be higher priced because it comes off the docks where the tariff is imposed.
Indeed. Go visit any machine shop in Houston. You won’t see months worth of raw material conveniently laying around.
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3 Shannon
Another thing. Manufacturers and distributors will store their inventories at in-bond customs broker facilities near the ports. Any duties and tariffs are not due until it leaves that building/yard therefore the importer doesn’t have to pay those fees until they are ready to use or resell it.
It’s cheaper these days to do that than fill up your own place with goods and tie up capital in something you won’t use for weeks or months.
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Looks like peanuts to me.
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I forgot to mention in the header that Shannon is disqualified from the Quiz.
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Yup, P-Nuts.
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If the peanuts are ready to harvest, it’s probably September at the latest up in Illinois. The boy just stopped and pulled up some peanuts at the edge of a field on his way home from school.
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#3 #4
Yup. Toyota got the ball rolling full steam in lean manufacturing and became the world’s largest automaker in the process with their TPS. They got the idea from Henry Ford but took it to another level. It’s now impossible to walk into a successful industry and not find a strong 5S/Kaizen/Six Sigma program. An integral part of the process is JIT. Even a service industry like my company, whose “product” is a test report, had to embrace these concepts. All of the raw materials and finished products we test are a part of the JIT concept. How do I know? When an order is placed we have days or in many cases hours to test them for compliance to specifications so material can ship to the next step in the chain. If the stuff was warehoused we would have already tested it months ago and it could ship whenever. The work we get in usually goes directly from the manufacturer to us to the end user. In a lot of cases we are literally testing the material as it comes off the production line and it’s shipped out to the end user that day. For example, with finished products we have Nondestructive Testing crews I never see because they provide inspection services at the client’s facilities as components for the oil field roll off the line.
So yeah, the cost of raw materials is a part of this “just in time” concept.
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Super Dave and I probably should have been disqualified as well. Peanuts are in the top five crops grown in the Deep South.
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Possible landmark discovery of what causes auto-immune diseases. This could really be huge.
The reaction, discovered in 2017 after four years of research in mice, has been described as a “runaway train” where one error leads the body to develop a very efficient way of attacking itself.
The study focussed on B cells gone rogue. Ordinarily these cells produce antibodies and program the immune cells to attack unwanted antigens (or foreign substances), but scientists found an ‘override switch’ in mouse B cells that distorted this behaviour and caused autoimmune attacks.
“Once your body’s tolerance for its own tissues is lost, the chain reaction is like a runaway train,” said one of the team, Michael Carroll from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School (HMS).
“The immune response against your own body’s proteins, or antigens, looks exactly like it’s responding to a foreign pathogen.”
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This popped up in ads today. The interwebs know too much about me. That is way too much detailed knowledge.
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#10 Yup, right before they were harvested, my uncle would boil some of the Spanish P-Nuts to sell in town. I’ve pulled N picked bushels of them for $.50 cents a gallon. Out in the field, in the hot sun, pilling them up and leaving the vines there to be raked up later. And don’t get me started on loading hay bales and being paid with some of the hay. BTW; peanuts are legumes and the hay from the vines are very good for cattle feed.
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Oh we’ll be alright.
We haven’t had a nice run of nasty inflation in a long time.
It’ll be great.
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We haven’t had a nice run of nasty inflation in a long time.
LastOnly time I remember was during, speaking of peanuts, Jimmah’s reign as president. I was too young and poor to buy a house but I remember family and coworkers with 15-20% interest rate mortgages. Ah, those were the good old days. -
We’ll be okay.
We have the Magic Man at the helm. -
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We’ll be okay.
We have the Magic Man at the helm.Besides, if we get inflation, it will be just another part of his wily plan on the path to winning bigly. He’s got ’em right where we want ’em.
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I had a house in Clear Lake in the early 80’s with a 17% mortgage.
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#11 Texpat
And I just read a few days ago about a totally different breakthrough study on what causes autoimmune diseases. Of course, there is no rule that says there can be only one cause.
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TexpatThat is interesting, I’ll have to dig into it when I have more time. I have rheumatoid arthritis/colitis that is really just a auto immune disease. Enbrel and Methrotrexate keeps it at bay but I hate taking it because it knocks me down so bad and without assistance, no way I could afford Enbrel.
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When I bought this house, in 82, it had 13.75% mortgage and I was glad to get it.
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Fay has been taking Methotrexate for years. It’s kinda run it’s course for her but she’s still taking it.
Her doc gave her a one month bottle of Xeljanj ($2500) a few years ago and it worked like a miracle.
Too bad we couldn’t afford it.
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ShannonEnbrel injections run somewhere around sixteen hundred bucks for a one month supply. Insurance won’t cover it but I qualify for Enbrel Support so it;s just a $10 co-pay for me. I don’t know how they get paid but somewhere down the line you guys are paying for it. Thank you!
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New this year, Enbrel provides you with a debit card. My first order was $5,000, I just whupped out my debit card. lol
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Texas City cops owe some explanations. Probably the only place this will see print.
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Shannon
Here’s the link for the Xeljanz Financial Help page. I don’t know if you tried to qualify Fay for this or not.
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NOAA continues to falsify weather temperature records, making the past look colder so the present looks even hotter.
Right in the face of a Republican White House, Senate and House.
We’re in such good hands.
These people should be charged with falsifying government documents. Where is the Inspector General for the Commerce Department and NOAA ? Where is Secretary Wilbur Ross ? Nodding off in another meeting somewhere ?
By JAMES DELINGPOLE 20 Feb 2018
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has yet again been caught exaggerating ‘global warming’ by fiddling with the raw temperature data. This time, that data concerns the recent record-breaking cold across the northeastern U.S. which NOAA is trying to erase from history.
If you believe NOAA’s charts, there was nothing particularly unusual about this winter’s cold weather which caused sharks to freeze in the ocean and iguanas to drop out of trees.
Here is NOAA’s January 2018 chart for Northeast U.S. – an area which includes New England along with NY, PA, NJ, DE and MD.
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Back from the Barber Shop, I don’t know if I mentioned it but my Barber had to close down her shop off El Camino, in the shopping center where the old Piggly Wiggly used to be. There is an Aldi store, (whatever that is?) moving in next door to the shop and the owners decided that the rent should be raised dramatically and since she, (my Barber) isn’t getting any younger, she wasn’t sure she wanted to move. The good news is that one of the guys that works there and his grandson that also works with them, opened up a shop by Kroger’s, where a barber was retiring. FWIW; The older guy is about mid 50’s and the kid is 20 something, so the younger one will have his own place in about 10-15 years.
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#26 gto
Thanks for letting us read that ridiculous crime story. Wow. That is an outright shame. Maybe Gov Abbott will give him a pardon. I can’t imagine cops arriving in a tank and destroying a house. That sounds like the Branch Davidian assault. -
Oh and the OC picture sure is neat.
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#26 GTO: .03 grams is is like one grain of salt. Behind someone else’s locked door. There should be some jail time involved, and it should be the Texas City POPO behind bars. This is the kind of crap that gets people so mad that they get revenge against innocent cops. It seems pretty obvious what happened, there are cops that need prison time and to be barred from ever serving in a public capacity again. In the least, the guy that got sent to prison needs a new house to be built and paid for by the Texas City PD.
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Good late morning Hamsters. Well the 67 we started out with at 6 has limped up to 74. Overcast and very breezy out of the SW now. Only got enough rain during the night to wet the sidewalk, and probably barely wet the bottom of the rain gauge. Fine with us as we don’t need any more rain for a bit.
We must have gotten the mortgage to build this house in late 1979 just as interest rates were starting to go nuts. Got 11 & 1/8th % and felt like we had won the lottery as rates were zooming upward so fast after that it made everyone dizzy. Refinanced it twice for lower rates, the first for 9% and the second for 7% before it was paid off. Compared to rates right now or a year ago, 7% is outrageous. Only if you are an investor is that return great.
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When Fay was home from rehab following her liver laceration fall, she did qualify for some home health rehab for a short period. Those people referred to us a social worker with the State of Texas. This was a really smart, interesting, and dedicated guy who could have been making a lot more money in his previous career. About forty years old. One of his chosen specialties was dealing with Pharma assistance programs. You may recall I was unemployed at that time. Taking a list of all of our meds, he returned a few weeks later with a stack of forms. In the end we qualified for none.
Too recently employed and too much emergency funds in the bank, I suppose.
Kinda like trying to get on SS Disabilty. You must have been unemployable for a long, long time to get it.
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BenShapiro ran this on his FB page:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28075/williams-hidden-agenda-or-ignorance-walter-e-williams
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Here are Power Line’s photos of the week. There are a couple that are outstanding. Enjoy.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/03/the-week-in-pictures-intl-womens-day-edition.php -
We have 6 cats loose in the house today. Matsuo was given his first chance to get beyond the airlock and go anywhere he wanted. He rushed around looking at everything. Touched noses with several of the resident cats, then rushed on to look at more amazing things. The only thing that hasn’t worked was Lunchie Crunchies, an event when I call out that phrase and all the cats run to the kitchen. I sprinkle dry kibble into bowls and then place them on the floor for each cat. Lynx gobbled up all his and then advanced on Matsuo, who surrendered his bowl and ran away. So I fed him separately in my room.
There has been some chasing, but it seems like fun and not aggression. Matsuo is as likely to be the chaser as the bait cat.
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Prior to making it to Medicare age Fay had to stop working for almost two years due to her bad knee. Being a clinical nurse, she had no health insurance. Family practice physicians never provided that benefit. She had been paying into an exhorbitant private disability policy for years. She also manage to get on SS Disability but it was reduced substantially due to her private coverage for the first twelve months. But every 50 dollars helped!
The process for getting disability in Texas is interesting, to say the least. Regardless of what your doctors say, you have to go see their doctor to sign off on the application. I guess the govt does this to cut down on fraud. The one for this area is in Wharton. Fay said it’s like cattle going through the chute. She decided to show up in a nurse’s uniform, which may have helped. She limped in there with a walker. (She really was in bad shape) He took one look and signed the paper and then they talked shop for five minutes. 🙂
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Having bad knees is bad enough alone, but throw in Rheumatoid Arthritis on top of that and it’s no fun.
Pounding the basketball court all those years didn’t help.
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I’m late to the story about this OK policeman Daniel Holtzclaw, sentenced to 263 years in prison on charges of raping several dozen black women with criminal records. Michelle Malkin is one of his best-known defenders. I know the name rang a bell, but I simply wasn’t aware that there is a big uproar over his conviction, and the secrecy surrounding it. The man is visibly part-Asian, and in googling for info on the Holtzclaw case, I found a lot of racist commentary about that.
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Shannon, I have a friend in her 60’s who had a hip replacement last year and is reporting some pain on that side when she walks a lot. She says she probably needs to get the other hip done too. El Gordo, I seem to recall you’ve had at least one hip and one knee replaced — are they on same or different sides?
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Fay‘s new knee never was absolutely pain free. But with these autoimmune diseases you never know the outcome of any procedure.
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Or to rephrase, doubt about the success of any procedure is always lurking.
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That Fay recovered from major trauma liver surgery is nothing less than a miracle.
Someone decided Max really needed her.
Or she’s just that mean.
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#41 – I had a hip on the left side and a knee on the right side. I’ve been pain free with both the hip and the knee, and I was virtually bedridden before the surgeries. I had them six months apart. I’m sorry to hear that your friend is having some pain and assume that she is checking with her doc because that really shouldn’t be happening. Hip replacement recovery is easy peasy compared to knee.
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Hey GramPaw, what’s fer supper, well, I fixed a 6 pound fryer, shot-up with Creole Butter, in the crockpot. Butter beans, steamed broccoli, cauliflower N carrots, homemade Mac N Cheese, and biscuits and gravy. My wife made the smashed taters since she likes to do that and does a good job at it. Mmm Mmm.
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After reading several of the comments I’m suddenly sore all over.
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Give me steel, give me steel,
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Phil got him a new gravatar there.
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Since a milestone birthday I get lots of mail for prearranged funerals. Today I got one for dentures and implants.
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#45 EG
She says she thinks the pain in her hip replacement comes from where there is a rod extending down into her femur. But her gait has changed since the operation, so she thinks that may be the cause. I’m sure she has reported this to her surgeon. She does an OTC pain med if it’s hurtful enough. Surgery was about 4 months ago. -
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I’ve had a rough day dealing with people. Various relatives are driving me crazy. But in such a way that I’d feel rude saying “go away”. Aunt D is finally packing her car, for example, and I’m hoping she actually drives back home tomorrow. She’s been “helping” me with MIL’s house and I feel weird with her there. I feel like I have to supervise her, and I feel like she’s supervising me as I sell items out of the house. I asked her earlier when she was going home; she said she didn’t know. I felt encouraged when she said she was packing her car. We thought she’d come into town for a doctor appointment, but then she said she didn’t have one. I think she came here to get away from her kids, given our dinner conversation.
I think I’m putting on a stupid, banal movie. Or maybe read a book.
And not answering the phone.
PS: I asked her how she was getting all her stuff from MIL’s house to her RV trailer in East Texas, where she lives. “A little at a time,” she replied. HAILS NO. Handsome Son wants to get moving on preparing his new home with his wife. I don’t want to deal with multiple annoying visits from Aunt D, no matter how fondly I think of her. And if we sell the bed she usually sleeps in, she’s going to assume she can stay with us. I see rocky roads ahead as the family adjusts to a new normal.
I may be planning a road trip soon, carting all the crap up there.
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Deep State Media circa 1998.
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Man, I need to get to the coast.
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Not everyone is happy to hear that North Korea wants to summit with the USA.
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Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama
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Went out for a nice supper with friends at Texas Roadhouse in Rosenberg Town Center. They make a great cheeseburger that is really big, as in half of mine came home in a box along with at least half the huge french-fries. The place was packed at 5:20 or so but we managed to get a booth for 4 in a relatively out of the way area where the crowd noise was not so loud and conversation muffling.
A pleasant evening and lunch already taken care of for tomorrow.
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#51 – Sometimes I can tell where that rod is that runs down the center of my femur from pressure, but never have I had any pain associated with it. She certainly needs to check up with the doc on this. After 4 months she should be pretty well pain free. And yes, it does change you balance and your gait which requires all the other muscles to make adjustments that they are not accustomed to. Good luck to her.
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“phil who?“
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Big Brother is always watching.
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Great good first day of DST morning Hamsters. The time difference will likely show up more come evening. My computer has not yet discovered the time change. Maybe I need a new one.
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This is a WSJ op-ed* from lawprof Philip Hamburger on a very important case before SCOTUS.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to take up an important property-rights case, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Unless the justices repudiate the lower courts in Starr International Co. v. U.S., the case will lay down a strange principle: that the government may unlawfully deprive shareholders of their ownership and control of a company as long as it does not formally seize their shares.
Starr International and its co-plaintiffs are shareholders of American International Group ,an insurance company that was bailed out after the 2008 financial crisis. The shareholders claim that in the course of propping up AIG with a massive loan, the government—in violation of federal statute—demanded nearly 80% of equity in the company. The issuance of new shares to the government diluted the voting power and long-term value held by the shareholders, even as they retained the same number of shares.
and this,
Why have both the trial and the appellate courts so persistently avoided giving a remedy? The trial judge noted that the government “publicly singled out AIG as the poster child for causing the September 2008 economic crisis.” AIG’s shareholders may therefore seem distinctly undeserving. But the judge also noted that “the evidence supports a conclusion that AIG actually was less responsible for the crisis than other major institutions.” It thus seems important to state bluntly that unpopularity, including unpopularity stirred up by government officials, is not a lawful reason to deny legal recourse to anybody.
Hank Greenberg built AIG from scratch into the largest insurance company in the world. They insured everything, including about 80% of the world’s commercial airliners. Squawk and I debated whether AIG should have been bailed out and I thought it had to be or air traffic around the world would be grounded.
When the financial crisis blew up in 2008, the feds and much of the media made AIG out to be the bad guy. Actually, AIG became the vehicle through which Goldman Sachs and others managed to suck billions of dollars out of taxpayer’s wallets. They all bet against AIG, screamed bloody murder to the White House and collected money like a giant winner’s slot machine. They looked like vultures feeding on a carcass and the clueless press bought the story.
From the beginning, I thought the AIG deal was a scam. Hopefully, SCOTUS will correct this.
*This site has reprinted the op-ed in full, but I don’t see a notation of permission. I hope they don’t get in trouble over it.
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If this man were my father, I would consider applying to the court for intervention as his guardian over financial affairs before he blows the whole family fortune.
He glimpsed the $350,000 work up close for the first time Wednesday in the booth of Kayne Griffin Corcoran gallery at the Armory Show, the largest modern and contemporary art fair in New York.
“Normally, we’d put it on reserve, come here, see it and then buy it,” said Yamamoto, 69, who began collecting art with his wife seven years ago. “We were a little afraid that if we didn’t commit to it, it would go away.”
Such is the competitive nature of the global art market, with demand from new collectors, especially in Asia, driving up prices. As certain areas of the market become overheated, dealers and collectors are looking for value — and finding it among overlooked artists, many of whom are women.
It’s highway striping paint, for heaven’s sake.
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64 Bad link ?
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So tell me again why DST is good?
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#64 Linky =
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Might want to fix that link, Texpat—
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O.M.G. the link went to the wrong article!!
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Link in #64.
For some reason, WordPress says there is no such link – to two different stories on the subject. Won’t work for me for some reason. One is at Bloomberg and the other is the Jakarta Post.
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So it seems that Elizabeth Warren is making up a new story. She was on two different talking head shows this morning saying that her daddy married an Injun in Oklahoma! This is the first I’ve heard of this, so she claims to be 1/4 Injun?! She has never mentioned it before and once said that she only claimed to be part Injun because someone at her school suggested it. She also denied that she was running for President. She was on two shows, (so far) so I guess that they had their Democrat talking points because both interviews were exactly the same and nobody in Fly-Over country have even thought of this idiot lately.
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Why is it that Dems seem to have so much trouble with their heritage and their country of origin? Wind shifted to the north today and not so warm as yesterday, so old man winter hasn’t given up yet, but his potency is waning. Nothing much to report on yet today. I’m about ready for baseball season, but they’ve got 3 more weeks of spring training left before that starts in earnest. It’s time for another spot of rain out here already, but looks like the summer dry season may have already set it. El Nino or global warming or something is keeping the weather patterns patterns about the same as they have always been out here, but everybody always thinks that sometime things will get better. My guess is that they never have and never will. OK, I’m off to get smarter by reading some stories on the internet this morning. More later.
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Jane Walker makes her debut in the marketing world.
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So it seems that Elizabeth Warren is making up a new story. She was on two different talking head shows this morning saying that her daddy married an Injun in Oklahoma! This is the first I’ve heard of this, so she claims to be 1/4 Injun?! She has never mentioned it before and once said that she only claimed to be part Injun because someone at her school suggested it. She also denied that she was running for President. She was on two shows, (so far) so I guess that they had their Democrat talking points because both interviews were exactly the same and nobody in Fly-Over country have even thought of this idiot lately.
I’m having great fun on FB comparing Beto O’Rourke to Pocahantas Warren saying that its a common theme for Democrats.
They flip right the Hell out when I call him Bobby O’Rourke.
Try it sometime. Fun as all get out.
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They flip right the Hell out when I call him Bobby O’Rourke.
Try it sometime. Fun as all get out.
Another fun thing to try: ask them how they can celebrate International Women’s Day if gender is a social construct?
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I for one, being the unselfish, sharing, and caring person that I am, am more than happy to grant one day to the wimmenz folk. But they must remember, it’s only one day. The rest of them still belong to me.
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Pssst. They’ve already claimed the whole month of March.
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That’s the way they are. You try to be considerate and toss them a bone and the next thing you know, they are demanding more. Where have we seen this behavior before?
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‘Tis been said for years that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Just a thought.
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This looks like the art link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/collector-chases-painting-around-world-after-seeing-just-a-photo
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Sheesh, those are nothing but monochrome rectangles! Shades of the BS “art” on display at the Rothko Chapel.
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That’s the way they are. You try to be considerate and toss them a bone and the next thing you know, they are demanding more. Where have we seen this behavior before?
I know what you mean. You unchain them from the bed and give them a pair of rubber boots to wear in the fields, and alluva sudden they start wanting to go to a damn shoe store.
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I finally got around to reading the art article.
Holy crap, if they’ve got that much money to throw around on stupid, I’ll give ’em my bank account so they can throw some my way.
Trust me, I’ll put it to much better use.
Holy cow.
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The bovine population has doubled in the last ten days around here. Baby cows hitting the ground like Spring rain.
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#85
Makes me happy just thinking about those baby cows!
They are so cute! Until they grow up to become hamburger.
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I’m watching “Forged in Fire”. Why do I find this so fascinating?
Manly men doing manly things.
“This, sir, will kill.” Something every forger wants to hear.
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One of the best quotes I’ve heard, especially on Forged in Fire:
From one of the contestants, who said he likes to make his own steel for his blades:
“Basically, what I do is alchemy. I take base ingredients and turn them into things that are…pointy and stabby.”
Yes, yes you do, sir.
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No question that it was the first vehicle I ever drove…sitting on Daddy’s lap.
He used one to transfer drugs between his pharmacies.
Pon saw and fell in love with the utilitarian work trucklets the company used around the factory, which were based on the same rear-engined chassis configuration as the Beetle. He sketched a van version on a piece of paper. It looked like an overgrown loaf of bread, but VW executives were impressed by what they saw and created the microbus, building it on Beetle mechanicals including the rear-mounted air-cooled flat four-cylinder engine. In 1950, it officially greeted the world as the Type 2 Transporter (the VW Beetle was Type 1).
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/trucks/a26207/volkswagen-microbus-vw-bus/
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They are so cute! Until they grow up to become hamburger.
I don’t know, those sliders are kinda cute, if there is enough of them.
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The abrupt time switch has both of us rather groggy and bereft of ambition to do more than mindless things requiring little concentration today, i.e., donkey work. 🙂
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I first saw the word “embiggen” on Power Line this morning when it was prompting me to click on something to make it larger and easier to read. I thought it was a lawyer joke or something using a word that did not exist. Well, turns out that I was wrong. The word does exist. Read here to check out its origin
https://nypost.com/2018/03/07/word-invented-by-the-simpsons-added-to-the-dictionary/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_2653631 -
For all you single guys, the local feed store sign indicates that chicks are arriving every Thurs.
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For all you single guys, the local feed store sign indicates that chicks are arriving every Thurs.
YUP, I do remember those days, always started in early March. The Chicks weren’t sexed, so you kept the hens and ate the roosters. 😀
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They even offer some fine colored chicks, most years.
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I had previously mentioned my dear friend who recently lost her husband of many years who had been in decline for several years and then suffered through a terminal disease that had not responded long to the available meds. The couple had adopted an essentially unadoptable aged collie that had serious food allergies and arthritis as well who was being cared for in a foster home having several other dogs. All of the others could eat normal dog food, and the collie’s specialty food was expensive and essentially unaffordable for the fostering family, so he languished and was on the cusp of being put down when this couple adopted him.
He was and is grateful for the rescue, the proper food, the care, the love extended, and the forever home. He has returned it many times in his response to the stress of illness the husband and now widow endured and who now copes without her husband. This dog, named Blue for his coloring, understood perfectly what was happening to his family throughout the difficult months and provides companionship and support that has been so comforting all the while. He’s more than earned his keeping, and their kindness in taking him in has been validated a hundredfold.
All goes to show that not all jewels are shiny and bright when first seen. 🙂
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97 Adee
Dogs are the real proof God loves us.
Ben Franklin only had it partially right about the beer.
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99!!! Teeing it up!!
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Weren’t P Bettencourt and the rest of the conservative thinkers supposed to end this clock changing charade once and for all?
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101 Phil
A determination has been made that you are inappropriately unenthusiastic about government directed clock setting. You will immediately report to Camp 447, Bldg. 6E, Gillette, Arkansas.
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Home of the annual raccoon supper.
Hope they smoke crawdads too.
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#98 Texpat
“Whatsoever you do for the least of My brothers you do for Me.” Sayeth the Lord.
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Sold some more stuff from MIL’s house today. It’s sad, in its way, but Handsome Son is getting impatient. The next generation is chomping at the bit to get moved in.
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It’s been fun, though, to see the smiles on the faces of people who are excited about getting their stuff. MIL has real wood furniture, made well. The consignment shop was interested in poring over her collection of globally acquired musical instruments, but it seems that people coming to by a table want one or more of the instruments as well. Out of about ten or so she had hanging on her wall, only half are left.
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Damn. Just saw a blade – make that TWO blades – stab all the way through a pig carcass and then cut it in half like cutting through butter.
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It’s a little late for a backyard hog killin’ but sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta due.
Can I have the ribs? -
There is something most melancholy about dispersing a deceased person’s belongings, though much less so when they go to kin or good friends who regard them as mementos of a pleasant relationship. Harder to see to the dispersal to strangers who did not know the person at all and regard the items as mere things of some utility.
It is not easy being an estate executor.
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#109 Adee
Yes, it is. Hubby has finally realized that the value of the items are what people will pay for them, and not what he’d love to sell them for. They are special mementos of his mother and to him, they are priceless.
Fortunately, everyone I’ve met so far has been especially thrilled with their items, and seem to regard them as special. I’ve met some really neat people so far. They all intend to keep them and use them in their homes, and not turn around and resell them. That makes it easier.
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So we all made it through the first day of DST? It’s much easier to survive when one is retired, I must say. But I still hate it. Night all.
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