“Always drink upstream from the herd.”
– Will Rogers, The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers
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Responding to a message about his weekly NR column this morning, Andrew McCarthy wrote me: “Have a look at this thread. I don’t know who is behind this Undercover Huber account, but he clearly knows what he’s doing, and how FBI/DOJ work — gotta be some former or current fed prosecutor.” Here is the first tweet in the thread that can be accessed by clicking on the link or the tweet itself. Take a look.
There’s another player in the scandal at the FBI. This guy on Twitter says Peter Strozk has been flipped by the Inspector General and is spilling his guts on the huge amount of info he has.
One of the reasons the FBI and DOJ have been so evasive is because they are terrified of the other employees who were not playing their game who will be subpoenaed to testify about they saw and heard.
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I recently had a little argument that started with someone — no, I’m not going to say who, except to say a respected scientist who may have been in Boulder too long — announced that if people really knew how meat was produced, they’d think twice about eating it.
That struck me both arrogant and odd. I grew up on a cattle ranch; later in life, I cut meat for money. I’m pretty clear on the process from bull covering cow, to bull calf, to steer, to feedlot, to abattoir, to butcher. So my immediate reaction was “heh, city folks.”
My second reaction, almost as immediate, was to be annoyed.
The truth is that the people who actually do know from childhood how meat is produced are the least likely to have qualms about it. It’s the people who grow up thinking meat comes from the meat factory on a styrofoam tray, already wrapped in cling film, who never thought about the connection between steer on the hoof and steak on the table.
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About Will Rogers, If you’re ever up near Tulsa Oklahoma, you owe it to yourself to see the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore. And while you’re there, you can stop by the J. M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum,where you can see thousands of guns, from exotic to everyday shooters. I really enjoyed my trip up there a few years ago.
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Oops, I left off my favorite part of the trip, a visit to Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch, (Dog-Iron), on Lake Claremore in Oologah Oklahoma.
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Does anyone else find this sentence absurd?
Roseanne also tweeted early on Wednesday morning ‘I mistakenly thought she [Jarrett] was white’ and ‘I honestly thought she was Jewish and Persian’.
Jarrett was born in Iran to African-American parents and her great-grandfather was the first credited African American architect.
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Bare knuckles fighting to return to legal US status after 130 years.
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Morning gang. Hot, clear, and dry here again today, but that’s nothing new. Now outrageous items to report today just yet, but I’ll keep searching. I heard that Trump was in Nashville, and I’m looking for a video of his performance there. Apparently the crowd had a chance to show its appreciation for some of the local politicios but booing them roundly, but no details yet. You all have a safe day, and if you’re going outdoors, better do it early.
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One nice thing about a rural hospital is that you can do the paper work, write the check, get your blood drawn, and drive away in 19 minutes.
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My Spanish Word of the Day: celose (jealous)
Ne te pongas celoso del éxito de los demás. ¡Mejor ponte a trabajar!
Don’t get jealous of other people’s success. Instead, get to work!
I may have to embroider that on a pillow or a wall hanging for some liberal friend.
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So, here’s my healthcare plan. It’s called cash.
* $130.00 annual visit to PCP Internist (50% cash discount)
* $260.00 two annual visits to cardiac arrhythmia specialist (130 x 2) (50% cash discount)
* $282.00 annual blood work up (50% cash discount)
* Total: $672.00
$7800.00. Cost if I had been paying for health insurance (12 x $650.00) during the same period
Now granted, if I have to be hospitalized I’m in deep you know what.
I’m just going to have to be lucky for the next 25 months, after which I will hit Medicare age.
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In the future Orwellian AmeriKa trials will be conducted via Tw(e)itter.
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I need to add in my drug costs.
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Hubby and I met with a contractor for our Sweeny/riverfront properties yesterday. We really like this guy, and not just because he’s a vet. He’s very much attuned to renovating rental v. homestead properties, and his prices were very much at or below our expected budget. Hubby kept asking if he’d do this or that, and he responded “I’ll clean your toilets if I can make money at it!” At that point I hugged him. He’ll do the remaining demolition and has great ideas for materials to use in the reno.
He also provides an emergency 24 hour handyman number – he’ll run over and turn off the water in the middle of the night if we have a leak, for example. “I’ll come back the next day and we can figure out the problem.”
We may even hire his crew to maintain the lawn. The giant ragweed are starting to take over again. We’ll see how that goes…
I love entrepreneurs.
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Like hell.
Netflix Exec: Productions From the Obamas Will Not Have a ‘Political Slant’I don’t even have to read the article to know it’s full of wiss.
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Insurance, as originally conceived, was intended to assist people who suffered catastrophic events, not to pay for every little bit and piece of life’s ups and downs. Somewhere, the politicos convinced the masses that insurance means free health care for life for everything. The courts assisted by insisting that all kinds of unnecessary tests be run at every doc visit, and since it’s “free”, who cares about the costs. If you can put a little aside to cover health care needs as they arise, go for it. I hear that several docs are going to all cash practices only so they don’t have to deal with insurance stuff. Another reminder, that any time you have an opportunity to get government out of something, take it. It works ever time it’s tried.
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$7800 – 2672 = $5128 amount saved
….which allows me to eat during the year. Which I enjoy.
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Rosanne insulted one of the protected class.
She must be punished by all the virtue signaling, holier than thou totalitarians.
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Good morning Hamsters. Off to another hot day way too early in the year. Can’t stop it, so just have to prepare for it. Our relatively coolish 73 vanished long ago and jumped to–gasp–84 now as proclaimed by two thermometers around our place.
#6 bonecrusher
Yes, it is absurd. With all the trimmings. 🙂
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Here’s one good thing about possums! I miss all those baby possums we had last year. 🙁
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I made barbecue on Monday. It was dang good. So good, that I pigged out a little too much.
I finally felt like eating a meal last night. I could have skipped it, but Hubby and I were talking business after meeting the contractor, and it was seafood. Bacon wrapped shrimp. So I ate.
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They figured out 12,000 years later that we’ve been building boats upside down.
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#22 Shannon, that is interesting but did you notice that not one picture was representative of a typical day in the North Atlantic? I’d like to see the boat in 100′ waves. 😀
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Well the next time Texpat takes off on a business trip to Singapore, he’ll be able to fly non-stop….19 hours?!?!
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SuperDave kilt the blog. . . . . . . .again!
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Super Dave
When the waves are 100’, nobody is willing to take a videographer out there in a helicopter.
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Holed up in New Jersey for going on twelve years, he’d probably give up a family jewel to go to Singapore right now.
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By the way, there is a rare phenomenon happening in Galveston causing clear, blue water at the beaches. I may have to quit my job for a day and go see.
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I’ve never blue water on the beaches here but I did see it about 500 yards out once. I know it happens once in a while.
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How much is that swamp critter in the window?
The one with the rooster cropped hair.
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Apparently there is an unusual clockwise Gulf current keeping the silt from the Big Muddy heading straight to Galveston as is usually the case….plus less spring flow of silt from the big Texas rivers.
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The greatest, most catastrophic rain event in American history washes a bazillion cubic yards of Texas silt into the Gulf of Mexico.
One year later, we have blue water at Galveston.
Funny how Gaia keeps everything in balance.
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Johnny Winter plays about Mother Earth, too.
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I believe the Harvey silt was landing on the beaches of Venezuela for a little while.
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…If you’re ever up near Tulsa Oklahoma ….
Coincidentally that’s where I am right now.
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Took my Florida sister to Freeport around Thanksgiving. I forewarned her to be somewhere between unimpressed and disgusted. We drove on the beach halfway to San Luis pass and the water was blue the entire way. I’ve seen it like that once before in 37 years. It’s still like that? Inconceivable!
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The Alligator station just showed some aerial shots of the beach.
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I think I saw a pair of trunks on the bottom that I lost a few years ago.
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I’m not sure my trunks have ever been
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Mr. Happy doesn’t like to get muddied either.
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Ok. That gets a ROFLMAO.
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The Gulf
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It actually takes quite a bit to make me really LOL.
Hammy, congratulations. You win the Tedtam Really LOL’d Award.
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Everybody laughing at Hammy’s pee pee. Hee Hee.
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#29 #38, I said that I’ve never seen blue water here, Galveston, Bolivar or San Luis Pass, but I did see blue water in Port Aransas a couple of years ago, I think I have a picture someplace.
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#43 #44 #46 #47,….I was in the pool!!! I was in the Pool!!! The water was cold!!!
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I just weeded the 2 front flower beds and planted 20 vincas. It is still frigging hot out there.
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Hammie declares to the couch he’s strictly a front door man.
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Saw the view of that gorgeous blue water on Ch. 11 at 6 pm. What a shame it can’t be blue more often than muddy brown. There’s a yuck factor in wading into that brown soup vs clear blue water.
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Southwest now let’s you deboard the plane at Tulsa from the rear exit too. Haven’t seen that before.
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I found a picture that I took from the pier at Port Aransas, in April 2016, looking back toward the bathhouse. Beautiful, looks like the Florida Gulf Coast.
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And no, Dave can’t do selfies, taken the same day. 😀
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Hammie breaking new ground.
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Grammie Hammie must be dozing on the porch.
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But they really do use the rear exit!
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Can you move your head out of the way so I can see the water?
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Once we get rolling, those Ace geeks ain’t got nothin on us.
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As a West Texan at heart, I have no love for the seashore. No matter what color the water is.
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But they really do use the rear exit!
All the tobacco smoke smell finally went away in the rear of the planes. .
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61 mharp
That’s pretty interesting. Can’t imagine it.
Well, I don’t have any longing for the blowing dirt plain either. Although both have their own romantic attraction in song and verse.
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I have no love for the seashore.
Not wishing to be rude but that’s Blasphemy.
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I mean you have to have a measure of respect (or wonder) for that unique group of our Texas ancestors who made it as far west as Midland and decided that it was the promised land.
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I bet every big ship seaman in the world has their application in.
…just had a flashback to a joke a classmate in high school liked to tell:
“Shipwreck at sea. Twelve seamen dead, twenty-four feared pregnant.”
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I mean you have to have a measure of respect (or wonder) for that unique group of our Texas ancestors who made it as far west as Midland and decided that it was the promised land.
All of my paternal kinfolk live or grew up on farmland in Crosbyton, Tx, not far from Lubbock. My great-great grandpa moved his clan from Tennessee and settled there in the late 1800’s. My cousin always axed, what made him stop here?? 😀
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There would be no Texas without the heroic contributions of some badass Tennesseans.
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OK, I was born and raised 100 miles from the Florida seashore. My first real job was at Eglin AFB and I lived in Fort Walton, then I moved to Saint Simons Island Georgia, then Savannah Georgia, then Wichita Kansas. It was in Wichita that I realized that I had to be close to the water, never knew that before. I was so glad to land in Clear Lake.
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My cousin always axed, what made him stop here??
The axle on his wagon broke?…Think about it, every ranch in west Texas has wagon wheels by the gate. 😀
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My great-great grandpa moved his clan from Tennessee and settled there in the late 1800’s.
Sometimes you just get fed up with vegetation.
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There would be no Texas without the heroic contributions of some badass Tennesseans.
That would be the truth, right there.
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I’ve never lived more than an hour’s drive from the coast – Gulf, West or East. I can’t even imagine not being by the ocean even if I don’t get there often. I just have to know it’s there.
I was born in a port city and have to be near there all the time. And the closer the better.
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I lived in Oklahoma for a while.
I recommend living closer to the ocean.
Or, at least, far from Oklahoma.
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I couldn’t live for long in a landlocked state, even if i dont get in the water.
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Oklahoma is a nice place to visit.
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…as my plane circles around Hobby looking for a gate to park.
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I lived in Oklahoma for a while.
I recommend living closer to the ocean.
Or, at least, far from Oklahoma.
Didja hear about the Aggie who moved to Oklahoma and raised the IQ level of both states?
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Hamous says:
MAY 30, 2018 AT 9:39 PM
Oklahoma is a nice place to visit.NH is a great place to be from.
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#64 Davey
I am no stranger to being thought BLASPHEMOUS!!
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I have seen the GOM, I have been in and on the GOM. I get seasick, so I would be a beachcomber at best. I have seen the Pacific. Meh. I have been in lakes, rivers, and creeks. No big deal. I do enjoy living close to White Oak Bayou, mostly because of the ingress it provides for critters.
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#80 Iron Mary, you do know that it was a joke?
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Well, it is clear that most think I am nuts to be indifferent to the seaside. 🙂
Or maybe: think I am nuts to admit to my oddball opinions?
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I was born in Chicago which is on the shore of Lake Michigan, lived in Minneapolis during part of WWII that has many of MN’s 10,000 lakes, then moved to Madison, WI, that is surrounded by 4 lakes. Living near fresh water was the norm until we moved here, but the Gulf does not hold the charm for us that lakes do.
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The lakes up there are so big you might as well be next to the ocean. Without the salt.
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People from the Great Plains have a peculiar tendency to grow corn and wheat and have a far away look in their eyes.
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Yep. Cant resist.
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I used to shoot possums. Then grandpappy would drive me down to the quarters so’s I could sell ’em for two bucks apiece. Dat was good money for a nine year old.
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#86 Shannon
Yes, the Great Lakes are sometimes referred to inland seas, just fresh water. The biggie is Lake Superior that dwarfs the others and was not formed in the same fashion that the others were. It results from glacial activity and is deeper than the rest. Winter storms on the lakes can be legendary, especially on Superior that rarely completely freezes over in winter. In fact they can be worse than storms in the North Sea.
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Benghazi survivor schools cameraHogg
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/30/army-ranger-who-survived-benghazi-mocks-david-hoggs-gun-control-tweet/Benghazi survivor schools CameraHogg
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I heard this guy on the way to New Braunfels last week.
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I’ve heard you’re better off living on the Great Lakes than east of there.
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My 91 is a bad link.
Just trust me.
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Yup, thought so. Tweren’t your fault.
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I had to become a real Perry Masonophile before I realized how many times the police commissioner from Batman appeared on the show.
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But I fell in Iove with Della Street over fifty years ago.
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One of my banker buddies once told me that the blue water was in close to the shore. He then asked if I knew what it means when the blue water is in? Told him no I didn’t, and the explained that it doesn’t matter what you are doing or how important you think it might be, you drop it and go fishing. So we did.
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Hunnerd!!
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