These squirrels need a 12 step program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0so5er4X3dc
This is a weekend where many decide to party hearty. Be careful, y’all, especially if you’re going on the road.
And Monday is Memorial Day.
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Apparently we had a tornado just west of me about an hour ago. I saw the emergency equipment running around and blocking the highway in front of my house. I hear there was some damage, but not much news until I get to the Old Pharts coffee club meeting in the AM. One sad story. The local animal control officer, a nice young man with 3 young children, lost his wife day before yesterday in a head on traffic crash just outside of town. He and his kids were staying with a relative while trying to get her buried, and tonight’s storm blew the windows out of the house where they were staying. Prayers.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212139770913780&set=a.1291686216515.2037632.1361062813&type=3And another story
http://www.kxan.com/news/local/hill-country/live-large-tornado-reported-on-the-ground-in-san-saba-county/1199859539I was headed to bed, but I decided to pull these late posts forward so you would not have to be switching all around to find them. No need to thank me for this.
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My go to weather man, Frankie MacDonald, is on top of that illegal storm brewing out in the gulf. Here’s his report in its entirety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJsyUjQKsk&feature=shareIf you pay attention, he includes everything you need to know about dealing with this storm.
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HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 18681. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, “of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion.” What can aid more to assure this result than cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.
If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.
Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from hishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation’s gratitude, the soldier’s and sailor’s widow and orphan.
2. It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to lend its friendly aid in bringing to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.
3. Department commanders will use efforts to make this order effective.
By order of
JOHN A. LOGAN,
Commander-in-ChiefN.P. CHIPMAN,
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Coffee brewing.
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That’s one ugly cloud, ELG.
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Houston Oilers – recalling the fun years:
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John McClain recalls all the love between the Oilers and the Houston media.
Great stuff.
A nationally publicized incident involved Oilers quarterback Dan Pastorini and then-Post beat writer Dale Robertson before a playoff game. Bum Phillips was telling national reporters what a good relationship his team had with the local media when a door flew open and Robertson came flying through it with Pastorini on top of him.
https://m.chron.com/sports/texans/article/Sports-figures-have-had-share-of-media-blowups-1801371.php
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One of my favorite sports writers of the period was Ed Fowler. Digging around the Internet I discovered that he ultimately attended seminary and became a pastor in the Reformed Episcopal Church.
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The only time I liked Lad Herzeg was the time he invited Fran Blineberry to lunch at Tony’s and punched him out.
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The beast is still taunting me. Talked to a couple of guys on kayaks this morning. ‘Seen a stray popping cork floating around. Yep. Got a 3/0 circle hook with it? Yep.’ Then he tosses the wife’s rig to me. That fish is out there, somehow, someday…
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Remember this one in Buffalo in 1987 ?
Ladd Herzeg, the general manager of the Houston Oilers, was arrested Saturday night on a misdemeanor assault charge after a fight with a man who was attending a wedding reception at the Oilers’ hotel, the police reported.
Herzeg, who was with the Oilers for their game against the Buffalo Bills today, was released on $100 bail.
Herzeg, 41 years old, who also is executive vice president of the Oilers, punched James McDonald, the brother of the bride, in the mouth, said Police Sgt. E. Leahy. McDonald suffered from bleeding and swelling of the mouth as well as a bruised eye, according to the police.
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Ole Timer Lin posted this over yonder;
Missing a friend tonight. Bob Donnelly, owner of The Live Oak Grill, my favorite eating place passed away last week and tonight we went to eat supper there. This was out in the entryway. Sure kinda’ slaps you in the face with the reality that someone is gone forever. He and I would sit around the restaurant drinking coffee and swapping deer hunting stories and growing up in the 50’s and 60’s.
Did any of Y’all know him or eat at The Live Oak Grill? We went there once with daughter and her hubby, when they lived in Richmond.
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I’d heard that too.
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Enjoyed those Luv ya Blue stories. That was back when you could still do stuff in Houston, and there seemed to be no limits as to what could be done. Building the Astrodome, going to the moon – just another day in Houston waiting for a bigger dream to show itself. Alas, no mas. Government, social justice warriors, school administrators, and no end in sight for bureaucratic bungling. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
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I don’t know if it’s the same group but there’s a live oak grill on Hempstead hwy. Went there once for lunch. I ordered the daily special. I’m still waiting for it. I’ll never step foot in that place again. Some friends went there a few years later (I declined) and had an identical experience.
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Morning chickadoodles. I have things to do today. Starting now! Check y’all later.
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Gto
I can see KHOU covering the story…
Giant Prehistoric Flounder Devours Couple!!
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Building the Astrodome….
Oh we can still build stadiums. The coffers are never empty.
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Good morning Hamsters. Partly cloudy and breezy now after a sunny early morning. Wondering what awaits regarding rain today since we had a surprise shower around 7 last night and that wonderful rainbow with it. Weather wizards say the heavy rainy stuff is headed from Nawlins east to Florida. At least that’s the guesstimate.
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#20 – The Astrodome was an engineering marvel at the time and set the standard for covered stadiums. It was the engineering feat that I was impressed with, not the fact that they could build a stadium. They can still shoot rockets into space too, but back then it was uncharted territory.
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Now, all we have to look forward to is the first transgender in space.
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Yeah I get it. But today we would regard the Dome project and the moon program as politicians wanting new toys and using our money to do it. Just because everyone was for it back then doesn’t mean there wasn’t some truth to that.
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And it was a politicians play house. Today we would have screamed to the high heavens.
Now filled with nothing but cobwebs, the Houston Astrodome was once considered a palace for football and baseball fans. Less well known was the palace that the Dome’s visionary Roy Hofheinz built for himself inside the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Time Life photos show the apartment’s whimsical style, highlighted by red carpet that covered the floor and walls of a conference room, which also featured zebra-print chairs and chalices in front of each seat. Psychedelic wallpaper covered the salon, while Asian dragon statues flanked the massive desk in Hofheinz’ office.
The apartment also featured a putting green, a shooting gallery, a puppet theater and a bowling alley, while a private terrace overlooked the playing field.
The décor in the apartment was gaudy enough to make Elvis blush. Its flamboyant style was described as “early King Farouk” by Bob Hope, according to the LA Times, and “early whorehouse,” according to Sports Illustrated. However, the quarters reflected their designer. -
“This was a student led design-build project and the sign stands for Prairie Acre Ribbon Classroom (P.A.R.C.),” the tweet says. “The photograph shown is not the intended vantage point, nor is it the message of our project.”
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When I listen to her answer the only thing I can say is…..
The Hell??
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I talked to the boy last night and he had a record day on Friday, $43K, 25 minute average wait times until 2 PM and then the fecal matter hit the rotating instrument, so they finished up with a respectable 37 minute average wait time. He was running 9 men in the bays. His AVP stopped by about 10 AM, during a lull, and said, man y’all are dead so he showed him the 100+ units they sold in two hours. 😉
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Yesterday, I was having and relaxed catch up day, ready to cruise into the long weekend when our Chinese midget said Day-Vid, Day-Vid, you go, go help Bob instrument the Orion capsule with thermocouples. CRAP, I knew that this would translate to Dave go do the dayaam work and hoping Bob would help out a little. What a ZOO! People in the way QA, QE and project mangers in the way and I had to work in cramped quarters, standing on my head, working around wires panels and people. We got the first six complete that were on the bottom, inside skin and will be used to see how hot the skin gets on reentry, on the outside there will be heat resistant, silica tiles.
This job would have been easy if we’d have been able to do the work BEFORE the assembled the interior but one of the guys told me that the whole project has been this way, they don’t have time to do it right but they do have time to do it over…Oh and I installed 5 thermocouples and Bob one…… -
Oh and I installed 5 thermocouples and Bob one……
And this is why we told MIL that no, we didn’t want to share ownership in her rental properties with my BIL.
She gave him his inheritance in the form of a boatload of insurance payoffs. We got her properties.
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Does anyone remember how much the taxpayers helped out Judge Hofheinz?
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I saw a video yesterday of a Trump motorcade entering a back parking lot area of some event. The phone video was from one of the many LEO’s and geared up firefighters who were on standby duty. First the lead patrol cars and motorcycle cops, then one black SUV with flashing lights in the windshield pull into the fence…
….then the second SUV stops and Secret Service start exiting the vehicle, take a look around, and open the back door…
….and out comes Trump. He shook every hand, thanking them for their duty, laughed with them and took selfies.
I don’t remember seeing Obama or Clinton (either one of either couple) doing anything like that.
I may not like Trump’s style, but I do appreciate stuff like that.
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I’m definitely NOT a gum chewer.
As one commenter said, this may be impossible for some Democrats.
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Does anyone remember how much the taxpayers helped out Judge Hofheinz?
I wasn’t around these parts then and couldn’t tell you the history with pure accuracy. If the judge paid for it out of his pocket I stand corrected and apologize.
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I was always proud of Texas and Houston for those early accomplishments, I blame my now jaded view when we were are all ticked at Obama for shutting down the shuttle program and scaling back the Space Center and Hamous brought up the only reason we had it in the first place was because LBJ and politics. I’d never thought of it that way before.
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Kennedy decided we were going to the moon.
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We sent LBJ to Washington to bring home the bacon, by gar, not pass out proclamations and medals.
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NASA in Texas only exists because LBJ was vice president. Much of the real work was done in Alabama anyway.
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Listening to Billy Joel, and these lyrics caught my ear:
“You can speak your own mind,
But not on my time.”NFL
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Teeing her up, where are you Iron Mary?
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Yeah, we had to import Alabamans to keep the damn thing running for the last few years.
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Was thinking about going to the gym, but now I’m listening to The Cars.
Maybe I’ll just dance around like a madwoman. The way I dance, it is quite a workout.
As long as I don’t hurt myself.
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The Old Man
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Change Your Life
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They really shouldn’t allow her to sing this one.
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It’s just that it’s hard for an old heart to take.
😉
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Well, dang.
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Shannon says:
MAY 26, 2018 AT 11:13 AM EDIT
Does anyone remember how much the taxpayers helped out Judge Hofheinz?Financing
The Houston Astrodome was completed in April 1965, at a cost of approximately $35 million. Additionally, property owners contributed some $4 million of rights-of-way for roadways and freeway, and HSA spent $6 million for restaurants, skybox suites, a scoreboard, and the like. The total cost for all development expenses was slightly greater than $45 million.There were four bond issues made to finance the stadium. The first, in the amount of $15 million, a second for $3 million, and a third for $4 million were issued in 1961. The fourth issued, of $9.6 million, was made in 1963. Thus, the total bond issues came to $31.6 million. Almost $1.4 million was accumulated through interest payments received while the bond funds were on deposit. Thus, the total available funds approximated $33 million. Additional expenses relating to off-site improvements were absorbed by the city and state.
The original rental agreement between the Astrodomain Corporation and Harris County is $750,000 per year for 20 years, with the rental figures reportedly based on % percent of the initial 1961 bonds issued ($15 million). Harris County is paying the debt service and costs on the other bonds.
The Houston Oilers committed to a 10-year lease arrangement with HSA ending in 1997. Terms of the lease included agreements by HSA to increase the stadium’s regular seating capacity by 10,000 persons making seatable for 65, 000 in the football configuration and to build 72 luxury box suites.
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Anybody remember why they had to invent astroturf?
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#52 Of course, the dang grass wouldn’t grow with the sunshine filtered through the skylights. FWIW; I was in Alabama in the mid 60’s and was not a fan of professional sports, but I do remember Astroturf, it might be because I was enamored with the Space Program. 😀
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ATTENTION K MART SHOPPERS,……….IT,…..IS,…. HOT!!!!
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#42 😀
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I’ve been out putting flyers for Memorial Day event in my neighborhood, in everyone’s mailbox. Hot, hot, hot. If it weren’t for my discovery that 74 is the new 65, I wouldn’t be able to sit up and hit the keys like I’m doing right now.
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#53 – Just another reminder that when Houston needed or wanted to get something done, there were no excuses – it just got done. Compare that to today when our politicians constantly remind us of why they can’t do anything – at least in the pre-Trump era. The “can-do” attitude that used to pervade the environment was lost somewhere along the way. Can you imagine the Astrodome being built for $35 million – what was the cost of the last stadium built in Houston? NGR stadium was probably $400 million or so. Nobody marveled at the engineering involved there. Once the ngrs are through with their shenanigans, it’ll probably just be another eyesore like the dome.
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Found my old dance/exercise CD. Only hurt myself a little bit.
Hang time.
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Wild, Wild West time.
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Anyone seen squack lately?
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Herman and George Brown used to keep a suite in the old Lamar Hotel in downtown Houston. It was a place where Houston power brokers and politicians cut deals and were known as the “8F Crowd” after the room number. Legend has it George Brown would, during meetings, send LBJ out to get coffee and sandwiches like an errand boy.
Once Lyndon became VP and the push was on for NASA, the Brown brothers and their cohorts had LBJ use his considerable connections and fabled network in the Senate and House to have the Manned Spacecraft Center built in Houston.
Once they began to look for a site, Brown & Root had property out in the Clear Lake area, but the large area they really needed was thousand of acres of swampy land owned by an old German Jewish immigrant named Nathan Klein, a friend of our family. They bought all the land Mr. Klein had out there for a huge price and that became NASA in Houston.
My father once asked Mr. Klein why he bought all that nasty, swampy land out there in Clear Lake in the 1930s and 1940s. His response was: It was the only land I could afford to buy.
Mr. Klein used some of that money to buy the land around Post Oak and Westheimer from R.E “Bob” Smith where he built the store for the Sakowitz family on the northwest corner. Along the western edge of that property was a row of retail stores and the end location housed our parents main drugstore for many years. Nathan Klein and his wife opened a fancy, Victorian style ice cream parlour called 2K’s Ice Cream Parlour where Shannon and I would get to go on rare occasions.
He sold the other parcels for Joske’s, the Galleria and other retail development.
When I was in my twenties, Nathan Klein came into my company’s office on Washington Avenue because he knew my boss. He told me he needed a walking cane and was admiring a collection of antique ones in the corner when I offered him one for 5 dollars. He thought it over and decided it was too expensive.
Later, Mr. Klein told me the only job he could find when he came to Houston in the late 1920s was driving a team of four mules with a big wagon out North Shepherd Drive and back everyday picking up cow hides from all the slaughterhouses out there.
The rendering comapny gave him a nickel a day which would buy 2 hamburgers. He would eat one and save the other for the next day and save the extra 10 cents at the end of the week.
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Well, today was my typical Saturday, running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off. This morning, I went to the bank, credit union and then out to NASA to get something out of my desk, I left NASA and headed to Chick-Fil-A to get a spicy chicken sammich. Later, I went to the hardware store and Pets’ Mart. Then I realized that I was out of coffee beans, so I headed to Sam’s to get coffee, leaving there I headed down to Harbor Freight to get a cheap tarp and moving blanket to wrap up the library table that I’m taking home next week when I head to the beach. Next, I go by the cleaners since it’s close by then over to O’ Reilley’s to get new wiper blades for the truck.
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I’m hearing some thunder bumpers down here by the Bay, we may just get some much needed rain.
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#62 Texpat, I thought that the land came from the West Ranch?
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And my wife wonders what I do
Imagine that.
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Yeah, the West Ranch was a big part of the deal, but so was Klein’s land. Klein also made a fortune off of all the refineries built up and down 225 much of which was built or developed by Brown and Root. Klein owned all kinds of parcels up and down 146 from La Porte and all around Red Bluff Road.
Klein also owned the old mansion near the Houston Yacht Club in La Porte that is/was a replica of the White House. He kept a big white quarter horse there that he used to ride up and down 146 (Main Street) in La Porte (down the median divider) much to the aggravation of the local PD. He was in his 80s then.
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And my wife wonders what I do
Wives only admit their husbands are doing something if they witness it with their own eyes and, sometimes, even then they deny it.
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Play it Billy!
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These Brothers sure are in sync!
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Sing it Danielle!!!
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Shannon says:
MAY 26, 2018 AT 5:54 PM
There’s hope.
Sarge found Sam Fish.Sez the guy who didn’t know who this was until I hipped him to her.
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Then there was this gal here.
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Someone can check the deed records, but somewhere along the line in the NASA property deal, Rice University served as a cut-out by purchasing the land from Humble Oil for $1 and gifting it to NASA in return for NASA establishing a space science program at Rice. Of course, they had to put the manned space program somewhere, and LBJ delivered it to Texas.
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If only Moe were the Senate majority leader right now.
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#75 El Gordo, right you are, when the Gub’ment started into the Manned Space Program, there were several stipulations as to the location. One was that it had to have water, (barge) access so the rockets that were built at the space center could be transported to the launch site. Another stipulation was that the site had to be owned by a University so that when the space program spooled down, it would become a research facility. Of course the no one knew just how tenacious the Congress Critters were and how much they wanted to have any part of the space program in their district. That is why NASA wound up spread across the country. If memory serves, San Diego was a serious competitor for the Manned Space Center until LBJ got involved and since the launch site needed to be as close to the equator as possible it went to Florida,…But it almost went to Brownsville Texas. I’d like to know about all the deal making and back slapping that went on in those years.
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My #77, you may or may not have noticed the small couple of acres of land on NASA 1 near Space Center that has a barge landing owned by NASA, but in the early 60’s they cut a channel off Clear Creek for the access. The fake Space Shuttle was delivered to Space Center Houston at that dock. Possibly the only (NASA) item to ever arrive there.
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Dang, we’re have a serious rain complete with thunder boomers and light show down here. It came up all of a sudden and is pouring now.
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Quite a light show with hail here at the Dome.
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Heavy rain and blinked out power. Thunder that made me jump more than once.
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I watched when they barged that fake space shuttle through the Kemah Channel and then parked it over there at their pier by the Hilton. Clearance through the channel looked like about 6 inches on each side, but the barge pilot had the throttle to the firewall all the way. Well, after further review, maybe it wasn’t quite so dramatic.
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Just got an automated message from the City of Houston.
Now, as the storm passes and abates, I get a warning about a severe thunderstorm.
No s**t, Sherlock.
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We got some rain, but it wasn’t pounding rain. It was enough to put an end of a loud outdoor party over my backyard fence. 20+ years ago, the sons of this black family were very respectable, now the grandchildren come for weekend pool parties with rap music.
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Here I am at 1AM and Rice baseball is still fighting for it’s life in the conference tournament in Biloxi. Between storm delays, the tournament has been playing games. There are 4 teams remaining in contention, and each has one loss, so tonight’s game is a “loser goes home” contest. Since it’s been announced that Rice’s coach of 27 years will not have his contract renewed, a loss means his last game. If they stay alive, they play again tomorrow in another death match to determine who would move on to NCAA playoffs. He has generated well over 20 consecutive appearances at the NCAA level, and it would be a shame to go out by breaking that chain of appearance. Anyway, lots of tension right now over a stupid baseball game still going on after 1AM. I’d go to bed now, but I’d just have to get up and keep checking the score, so I’ll just try to stay up a little longer.
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Now in to extra innings.
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Rice 8 – Florida Atlantic – 9, in 10 innings
The 2017 baseball championship was the program’s 21st league title, all earned on coach Graham’s watch. He closes out his Rice tenure with 1,173 wins and a .689 win percentage that is the best in school history. Another way of looking at the .689 win percentage is that it is the equivalent of a major league team winning 111 games in a single year — except Graham maintained that eye-opening pace for 27 seasons on South Main.
Graham’s team was fighting until the end. Rice regained the lead with three-run third and the teams exchanged scoring runs in the middle frames. FAU was threatening for a big inning in the bottom of the sixth, but the Blue & Gray turned and electric round-the-horn 5-4-3 triple play to send it to the seventh. FAU tied the score, 8-8, with three runs in the eighth and pushed across the winning run in the bottom of the tenth.
What a shame.
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– The difference [between what Tommy Robinson did and any reporter] is that the BBC and other mainstream media are determined to give as little coverage as possible to the mass Muslim rape of infidel girls.
– These same cops arrested Tommy Robinson on Friday not because he did anything wrong, but because he was drawing attention to Muslim crimes that they would rather see ignored – and drawing attention, too, by extension, to their own genuinely criminal failure to defend innocent children from what was essentially jihadist torture.
– Within hours, according to some sources, Robinson was tried and sentenced to thirteen months in prison. Even in Islam-appeasing Britain, this seems inconceivable. It sounds like Soviet or Nazi “justice,” not like British jurisprudence.
This is incredible, even for the failing British system of justice. The prisons in Britain are full of violent Arab criminals and Muslim fanatics. This is probably a death sentence for Robinson.
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Coffee is Good! We only got about 1/4″ of rain last night, quite a light show however.
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Paul, my shorts are too tight, Bettencourt is on local Fox 26 news.
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Daughter sent me a picture of her new steel toe work boots, the brand is Ariat and I’m not familiar with them. I’ve owned Iron Age, Justin, Wolverine, Rhino, Timberland and Red Wing. I keep going back to Red Wing since they are by far and away better than the other brands. Not only do they last twice as long they’re real comfortable, you can wear them for 10 hours straight.
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Good morning Hamsters. We missed the rains last night but must have gotten the benefit of some cooling from them in the area. Was 67 here at 6, and what a lovely surprise that is.
Sorry that Rice lost yesterday/this am. It would have been very nice for Coach Graham to retire with a big win, and I’m sure his players were working hard to give it to him.
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#91 Super Dave
Ariat makes high quality riding boots, and several friends who ride prefer them to other brands.
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The lace-up, highly comfortable Red Wing work boots I like run $250 a pair and are worth every penny. They last forever and when the soles get worn, you can send them to Minnesota and they will resole and refurbish the boots to look like new for $99.
Otherwise, I used to wear Justin, Nocona, Rios of Mercedes and Lucchese.
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Well, I’m up and about. I’m forecasting a strong nap in my future today due to my late night last night. To those noting Coach Graham’s departure, it was quite a run. What’s a real shame about all this is how poorly it has been handled by Rice. I’m sure that after the fact they will make some effort to bestow some sort of lasting recognition honor, but it’s a little too late for that. I suspect that Rice’s days as a recognized elite baseball program are over, and I further suspect that’s how the Rice administration wants it. But don’t get me started on that. You all have a great day. Looks like it’s going to be a hot one out here.
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Chick-fil-A restaurants honors veterans and active-duty service members with a “Missing Man Table.”
The letter reads:
“This table is reserved to honor our missing comrades in arms. The tablecloth is white — symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call of duty. The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the life of each of the missing and their loved ones and friends of these Americans who keep the faith, awaiting answers. The vase is tied with a red ribbon, symbol of our continued determination to account for our missing. A pinch of salt symbolizes the tears endured by those missing and their families who seek answers. The Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God. The glass is inverted — to symbolize their inability to share this evening’s toast. The chair is empty — they are missing.” -
#97 Texpat, yup my last pair of Red Wing ropers cost about $180, my first pair was $125. I also have some new Justin Ropers that I like a lot @ $100, they’re a pretty good deal but there is no way they’ll last as long as my Red Wings.
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This is a very cool story out of Dallas by Joe Pappalardo at Popular Mechanics.
The ornate floral decorations on the stairwell have worn down. The paint on the railing mottled. When the Texas Theatre opened in 1931, patrons climbed these stairs to the now-defunct balcony as part of an entertainment experience meant to offer cutting-edge technology in an elegant setting. This was the largest suburban movie theater in Dallas and the first in the area with air conditioning. The building has modern chillers on the roof, but still uses the original fan and ventilation system.
On their pilgrimage to their seats, the patrons would pass a thick, locked door that was sealed for their safety. Here was the domain of the projectionist. It was a dangerous job. Early film used photosensitive chemicals placed on a nitrate base, which made the film extremely flammable. Even worse, the combustion process of nitrates produces oxygen, which only feeds a fire once it starts.
“Up until the 1930s it really was the Wild West in theaters,” Epstein says. And so the projectionist room at the Texas Theatre is build with fire suppression in mind. The entire room could be sealed from the rest of the theater in moments. Chains still dangle where metal screens could slam down to seal any openings—trapping the projectionist inside if necessary.
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One of our water utility supply houses sells the heck out of Ariat work boots.
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Fixin to be westbound – the Memorial for our beloved fallen Brother ‘Koop’ happens in Kerrville today.
GBNF Brother! We LOVE You!!
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Safe travels Katfish!
Hunnerd n one
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Must read article by Lee Smith, one of the most honest and smartest people writing out there today.
How The Code Name ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Undermines The FBI’s Russia Story
That portions of the American national security apparatus would put their considerable powers—surveillance, spying, legal pressure—at the service of a partisan political campaign is a sign that something very big is broken in Washington. Our Founding Fathers would not be surprised to learn that the post-9/11 surveillance and spying apparatus built to protect Americans from al-Qaeda has now become a political tool that targets Americans for partisan purposes. That the rest of us are surprised is a sign that we have stopped taking the U.S. Constitution as seriously as we should.
The damage done to the American press is equally large. Since the November 2016 presidential election, a financially imperiled media industry gambled its remaining prestige on Russiagate. Yet after nearly a year and a half filled with thousands of stories feeding the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy, last week still represented a landmark moment in American journalism. The New York Times, which proudly published the Pentagon Papers, provided cover for an espionage operation against a presidential campaign.
The New York Times, which proudly published the Pentagon Papers, provided cover for an espionage operation against a presidential campaign.
There are significant errors and misrepresentations in the article that the Times could’ve easily checked, if it weren’t in such a hurry to hide the FBI and DOJ’s crimes and abuses. Perhaps most significantly, the Times avoided asking the key questions that the article raised with its revelation that “at least one government informant” met with Trump campaign figures.
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The strongest man in the Orient
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I’m neading off to Florida Via Alabama at the end of the week so I thought I’d take the old Library Table home and as usual, take whatever small stuff I can on this trip. I’m in the process of
downsizingthrowing away useless crap and I went through my chest O drawers since it has a door on one side filled with “Pocket Junk”. I pretty much emptied it out and put a small amount of stuff in a couple of Tupperware containers to take home. I did throw away a lot ofstuffjunk.I found 27 pocket knives, from expensive ones to the giveaway’s, of them, I’ve got 6 little, Airline Swiss Army knives and 3 big full sized ones, the rest, Schrade, Old Timer, Buck and even a SOG. I’ll of course keep the pocket knives but I don’t think I’ll need the spare key to my 84 GMC Truck, my 82 Yamaha 650 or my old FT 500 Honda. I also tossed a half dozen universal remote manuals, one remote, about 10 AC/DC power supplies, adapters and 4 VHS tapes. 😀 -
The neatest thing I found was my dad’s old English/Chinese translator book he got in WW II. So, penciled in the front cover is “How Much”? Doo Son. Hummm, what do I make of that? 😯
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Day-Vid, those are some spiffy boots! Doesn’t your daughter have a managerial desk job in HR? Or does she need work boots and a huge truck to get her job done? In either case, WELL DONE! -
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#106 Iron Mary, I posted Daughter’s new company car last week; Ford F-150 4X4. She’ll be out in the field a lot so her wardrobe will have to change,….oh and bought her a Hardhat.
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I know, the hardhat is generic but I couldn’t find an Oil Filed Hat with the proper logo.
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I’m hoping to get a picture of daughter in her blue jeans, boots and hardhat.
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Daverino, I understand you don’t wear your office duds in the oilfield, but my curiosity is piqued by why the HR Manager needs to be “out in the field a lot”. That is what needs an explanation. Or perhaps I just didn’t get, or didn’t understand, the memo on what her exciting new job is?
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Doesn’t your daughter have a managerial
desk jobin HR?Why yes, she does, but she is the only HR west of the Woodlands for now. BTW; She got a $15K pay raise.
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mharper42, She is setting up the HR Office in Midland since they haven’t had one in the past. The company is growing so fast, they thought they needed a someone out there. They are planning to hire her a helper in the fall. She is going to have to make a lot of contacts out in the field. She’ll be working out of a trailer, in the Lay-Down yard.
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Good grief. Name brand butter is $5/lb at Brookshire Brothers. It was “on sale” for 3.48, which is cheaper than the store brand I usually buy.
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She needs a big truck to haul the terminated to the bus station.
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Watched the French Open tennis for a bit.
They actually have a quiet woman on tour who doesn’t bark like a dog on every hit.
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Back in the day, these boots would last about a year before the steel started to show in the toe. I wore out two pair, then went back to school.
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I never knew any of that.
My dad worked as a projectionist at the Thunderbird Drive-In in Lubbock around the mid fifties, my mom worked there in the concession. That is where they met.
My grandparents worked for several drive in theaters in Lubbock doing clean up on Saturdays, my grandmother cleaned up the concession area and grandpa cleaned up the grounds. As kids they would take us and any number of other cousins to help, best part was grandma would give us cups of syrupy fountain drinks and grandpa handing out poke sticks to pick up trash.
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#96 Super Dave
What a lovely tribute.
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On this day [May 26] in 1837, the executor of William Barret Travis’s estate placed a notice offering fifty dollars for the return of an escaped slave named Joe in the Telegraph and Texas Register. Joe, born about 1813, was one of the few survivors of the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, in which his master was killed. Accounts of Joe’s departure from the Alamo differ, but he later joined Susanna W. Dickinson on the way to Gen. Sam Houston’s camp at Gonzales. Joe was brought before the Texas Cabinet and questioned about events at the Alamo. He was then returned to Travis’s estate near Columbia, where he remained until April 21, the first anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto. On that day, accompanied by an unidentified Mexican man and taking two fully equipped horses with him, he escaped. Presumably Joe’s escape was successful, for the notice in the Telegraph and Texas Register ran three months before it was discontinued. Joe was last reported in Austin in 1875.
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Decades ago, the Ivy League colleges thought they had a problem: too many Jews. These recent immigrants, from a culture that prized education and academic achievement, had an unfortunate characteristic: They worked harder, studied longer and cared more about school. In short, they had all the attributes required for success in the Ivy League.
and now,
But while the quotas for Jews are gone, the Ivy League now, by all accounts, has quotas for Asian students. They are seen as people who study too hard, boring grinds who aren’t much fun — and, of course, their parents aren’t as rich and connected. And though the numbers of highly qualified Asian applicants have grown dramatically, the number of Asians admitted stays pretty much the same every year.
Now the Asian students are suing. In a lawsuit against Harvard, they are claiming that Harvard demands higher qualifications from Asian students than from others, and that it uses “racial classifications to engage in the same brand of invidious discrimination against Asian Americans that it formerly used to limit the number of Jewish students in its student body.”
At least the Asian students have the guts to sue the Ivy League. The Jews never did.
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This is an interesting business idea. It ought to go over big in Texas.
When I first heard about the concept of having somebody come to my home to clean my guns, I thought, “Well, that’s a nice idea for rich folks with more guns than time.” But when High Caliber Weapons Detailing showed up to my apartment, I realized there’s a lot more to it than that.
I’m not necessarily a man who hates cleaning his guns. I absolutely love the smell of Hoppe’s 9. My BoreSnakes and Rem Cloth keep my guns in good shape with a nice sheen between deep cleans.
Like any honest gun owner, however, I can admit that I don’t do a deep clean of all my guns as often as I would like. If I’m being completely honest, I’ve never stiped my Ruger 10/22 or my Remington 870 Express to do a deep clean. And, like most gun owners, I’ve had my guns get dirty enough to affect their function.
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#123 Texpat, That is a very good idea, It’s one thing to clean your weapons but almost nobody really deep cleans them. I’ve only done it few times and depending on the gun, tearing it down can be a problem. I did pay the guys at the Arms Room to clean my Dad’s old Browning Auto-5 after he passed away. He never, ever put his guns away without cleaning them but in his old age, he used too much oil and gummed up the works so the bolt wouldn’t always close. I used Hoppe’s #9 on it but decided it really needed a strip-down and thorough cleaning. The Arms room only charged $25 bucks so I thought it was a great deal. Maybe I’ll get them to do all of mine,….I wonder how much it’ll cost to clean 40+ guns? 😀
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#88 Texpat
– The difference [between what Tommy Robinson did and any reporter] is that the BBC and other mainstream media are determined to give as little coverage as possible to the mass Muslim rape of infidel girls.
– These same cops arrested Tommy Robinson on Friday not because he did anything wrong, but because he was drawing attention to Muslim crimes that they would rather see ignored – and drawing attention, too, by extension, to their own genuinely criminal failure to defend innocent children from what was essentially jihadist torture.
– Within hours, according to some sources, Robinson was tried and sentenced to thirteen months in prison. Even in Islam-appeasing Britain, this seems inconceivable. It sounds like Soviet or Nazi “justice,” not like British jurisprudence.
This is incredible, even for the failing British system of justice. The prisons in Britain are full of violent Arab criminals and Muslim fanatics. This is probably a death sentence for Robinson.
Dang scary.
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And I love the Chik-Fil-A memorial.
It ain’t just about barbecue.
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You betcha and there are plenty of people in this country who believe that’s just a fine thing to do.
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Some good musings in this collection…
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The Nap Fairies are playing my tune… I cannot resist…
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At A&M, we called it the “Bag Monster”. As in, “I pulled an all nighter for my chemistry test and now the Bag Monster is beating me to death.”
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Nap time here, too. Mariposa will join in as she always does, never mind that she’s been sleeping most of the afternoon already.
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I thought you grew up in Abilene.
Daverino, I understand you don’t wear your office duds in the oilfield, but my curiosity is piqued by why the HR Manager needs to be “out in the field a lot”. That is what needs an explanation. Or perhaps I just didn’t get, or didn’t understand, the memo on what her exciting new job is?
When you’re the HR herd boss over a bunch of West Texas drilling crews scattered across a dozen huge counties and hundreds of miles, your job doesn’t look like an HR administrator in downtown Houston. A lot of those rig hands may never see the main yard or Midland office.
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Hey GramPaw, what’s fer supper? Well, I BBQed some baby Back Ribs and served them with baked taters, BBQ beans and garlic bread. Mmm, Mmm!
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#133 Texpat Yup, FWIW; She’ll be covering Texas from south of Midland up to Lubbock and over to eastern New Mexico.
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SD, there are still some characters out there living straight out of a Larry McMurtry novel. I’m assuming that you trained her well and that she doesn’t mind open carry one bit. Never know what kind of varmit or critter will pop out from behind the scrub brush out there, homo sapien or otherwise.
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Seemingly a very brief shower is passing through, just enough to cool things down a bit to 81 and barely get the sidewalk wet. Clouds have moved on.
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5:30 news on Ch. 11 has it that George HW Bush is hospitalized again, this time at his summer home in Maine. Prayers that it is precautionary and nothing serious.
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WATER CHESTNUT
A knobby edible tuber of a water plant indigenous to Southeast Asia. The water chestnut’s brownish-black paper-like skin resembles that of a true chestnut, but its flesh is white, crunchy and juicy. The flavor is bland with a hint of sweetness. These are a staple in Chinese cooking. Although the name refers to them as a nut, they are not a nut at all; they are a vegetable that is grown in the marshes. The reason they are called water chestnuts is because they resemble the chestnut in shape and color.
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#133 Texpat
I thought you grew up in Abilene.
I was born in Abilene but never lived there. Lived in tiny town Sylvester, first couple of years due to father being in Europe WWII, with mother and her parents. Lived in Sweetwater ages 3-11. Lived in Midland ages 12-20. Lived in Big Spring ages 21-23. Have not lived in or been in West Texas since 1967.
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I don’t think Midland, the Permian Basin, or West Texas in general were as **totally hot** for the petroleum industry back in the 60’s-70’s when I was there. At any rate, no one in my family or friends’ families were working in the oil patch. Midland was the headquarters/office city for petroleum, while Odessa was the blue-collar side of it.
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Oh wait, my father-in-law in Big Spring was a pilot for Cosden. But no one I knew in Midland was working for an oil company back then.
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Nice story. But the Yahoo writer is just another in a long line of smug bastidges who need to be slapped around.
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Now here is a cautionary tale, captured over Yonder Way.
Big Jolly: Whoo hoo! Shoreacres is getting some rain!!
Super Day-Vid: Clear Lake also!
Theo Kaht: It woke me from my nap.
Me: Sounds to me like Bobo42 is back in Texas. 🙁
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On the news tonight, President George HW Bush’s hospitalization is for low blood pressure and fatigue. That sounds fixable.
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A lot of those rig hands may never see the main yard or Midland office.
I always said there are people out there on those rigs you just don’t see in everyday life. Not even in Walmart. 😀
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Mornin’ Gang
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High pressure camped over us opens the day with cloudless skies and elevated temps. The water trough that I’ve set out for the animals has been being emptied every night lately – normally 1/3 to 1/2 empty is a big night. Summer is here, it’s just that simple. You all have a great day now.
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Volokh:
In 2016, the FDA promulgated a 499-page “Deeming Rule” for cigars, which, among other things, bars new products from the market without prior FDA approval, which is costly and cumbersome to obtain and will, plaintiffs say, effectively bar smaller manufacturers from the field. District court: No need to address that, as the new Administration may revoke the requirement. But a separate provision requiring health warning labels on cigar boxes and advertisements does not violate the First Amendment.
It’s about time. At least the Trump administration is on top of some of the smaller problems.
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Morning! Last night I caught the PBS National Memorial Day Concert with Gary Sinise – quite moving with actors portraying those military men & Women who earned Cong.Medal of Honors, Silver Star etc. Another reminder of the sacrifices that have been given for our freedom.
And regarding the Ariat, Red Wings – about a month ago, I risked it and bought a pair of Tecovas Lizard boots online(the Nolan). Very well made, not to Lucchese standards, but much better than the regular store quality. Only drawback is that I need to take them and have the left boot stretched a bit. A bit difficult with the on/off. Next pair will be a Roper style with lower shaft.
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#151 CFree, I came across that by accident and really enjoyed it.
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Still the weekend, eh? As I turned on the laptop, I was thinking how grateful I am for Texpat providing so much grist for our mills, even on Friday Soft Porn Day. And of course this had to be the one morning that he overslept.
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Wow, Drudge sure is late to the party on the Tommy Robinson story.
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New thread is up.
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