A little levity in place of the usual politics. Honestly, I don’t know how they managed to put a show together. Possibly the funniest cast ever put together.
Make sure you watch to the end.
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NW bound then NE bound to meet more new HEROs
no less than 8 adoptions in Texas this weekend
Yall enJOY your Satiddy!
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Competent Gentlemen.
https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2018/07/18/competent-gentlemen/#more-7859
h/t Instapundit
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It’s the weekend.
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There’s no more juicier gossip than Rich Folks gossip.
http://amp.si.com/nfl/2018/07/16/nfl-succession-family-ownership-bowlen-benson-adams-mccaskey
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Originating in Scotland, Sports Reminiscing Therapy for men with dementia shows promise and is gaining ground in the U.S.
https://sports.good.is/articles/baseball-dementia-study
Here is a video about the original Scotland program:
https://sports.good.is/articles/baseball-dementia-study
Clemson has also started a program:
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Good morning Hamsters. Mostly overcast for openers, now drifting into partly cloudy, breezy, and 80 already in the front yard. Forecast said it was supposed to be clear, but maybe over here we have the clouds.
Am in recovery from watching the best of Carol Burnette Show bloopers. It appears there are other segments also available. Shall have to explore them as well. Have not laughed so hard or continuously in a very long time. Sure miss that show.
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Apparently, Fort Sill nostalgia can be quite therapeutic as well.
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#7 GJT
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Morning, everyone. I am the volunteer note-taker for this morning’s HOA deed restriction drive-through. We start at 10 a.m. so I knew I needed to get up in time to feed the cats, have my own breakfast, and charge up my small digital voice recorder. So when I finally sat up on the edge of the bed and peered at the bedside clock, I thought it showed almost 9 o’clock. So I’m thinking rats, rats, rats while splashing water on my face: It’ll be a hassle but I can still be ready to go on time. Then I get to the kitchen where all the clocks are showing 8 o’clock. I couldn’t believe it, and went to several other rooms to see what their clocks had to say. Yep, I was actually afraid to believe the kitchen clocks.
So now I’ve had a leisurely breakfast and still plenty of time to dawdle. I actually watched all 13 minutes of the Carol Burnet video. 🙂
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Here’s a surprise – it’s hot and dry out here in centex. Yard is a lost cause until it rains or cools off, or both. Had three nice (very nice) bucks show up for water yesterday evening. I took some pictures, but they all turned out to be too fuzzy to keep, so I’ll try again next time they show up. Still only one little fawn running around and pestering all the adults and zipping around all over the place. Be careful out there, the HOA biddies are on the prowl looking for violations to cite. No one is safe when they are at large. Have a great day you all.
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Short but must-read. Explains the new Dimocrat slogan FTP.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/maga_vs_ftp_let_me_help_the_democrats_say_what_they_mean.html -
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Yes, the rich have problems too.
When you think “gentrification,” Barbara Shaheen’s story is not what you’re picturing, guaranteed.
She isn’t poor, black or Latino, or being pushed out of an affordable inner-city neighborhood turned “cool” by mostly white hipsters with their expensive juice bars, galleries, and heavier wallets made out of recycled ocean plastic and organic fibers.
In fact, Shaheen is white and grew up lounging on one of the most exclusive private beaches in South Florida. The town where she has lived for 70 years prohibits juice bars — or any other commercial enterprise. And her family’s waterfront property is currently worth $3.6 million, give or take.
Still, Shaheen and some other long-term residents of Golden Beach say they aren’t welcome in the small city anymore. Some left when they couldn’t afford their homes, others when their neighbors, and Golden Beach lost its “small town” feel. Still others, like Shaheen, decided to stay despite the changes. But that hasn’t been easy.
Shaheen says she’s the victim of a decades-long effort by city officials to use “bogus code violations” to push her out of her waterfront home to make way for something bigger, newer and a lot more expensive.
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Americans get a patriotic feeling when they donate to charities that help military veterans and current service members – a sentiment dozens of charities across the U.S. have exploited to scam millions of dollars in donations, a government watchdog agency says.
A major offender, officials say, was Help the Vets, which had a nationwide operation, soliciting donations for its funding of veterans’ medical care, including breast cancer treatment, a suicide prevention program, retreats for recuperating from stress and veterans fighting breast cancer.
“But for thousands of disabled veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, giving an arm and a leg isn’t simply a figure of speech – it’s a harsh reality,” read one of the Orlando, Florida-based organization’s solicitation letters, written by charity founder Neil Paulson. “Your $10 gift will mean so much to a disabled veteran.”
My question is this. Guidestar, a well known charity rating outfit, carried Help the Vets with a Gold rating on their profile, even as the founder was pocketing most of the $20 million he raised from Americans. The article states this, but makes no effort to explain why or even provide a response from Guidestar.
and this,
The charity, which took in about $20 million from 2014 to 2017, must pay its remaining assets, at least $72,122.36 to one or more court-approved legitimate veterans charities. Help the Vets founder Paulson, identified as a retired U.S. Army captain on the group’s GuideStar page, will also pay $1.75 million to one or more charities.
So this Paulson gets to keep all the millions he obtained through fraud. Where are the criminal charges ? Where’s the other $18 million ?
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I often get notices from Easton Press, hawking books and this latest one is pretty neat; Ansel Adams, 400 Pictures.
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The wife has been watching the granddaughters all week while the boy and his bride are @ Lake Tahoe. The other granny came over this morning to give wife a break and let her run some errands, so she came by to see the dawg, and me, I guess. The kids will be back tonight so she’ll be able to come home. She has really enjoyed keeping them and it wasn’t nearly as bad as she thought it might be, the girls behaved very good and the oldest one is about 95% potty trained so all went well. My wife don’t think the other granny can handle both of them.
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I was going through some old NASA photos and came across the Orion Capsule that we tested in the Anechoic Chamber, back in the summer of 2009. I also found a picture of Intelsat IV, in the same chamber in 1972, could you have guessed the year?
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I also found a picture of Intelsat IV, in the same chamber in 1972, could you have guessed the year?
I would have been pretty close, just from the dresses.
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I would have been pretty close, just from the dresses.
I’d have guessed 1965, partially because of the mini skirts and that was about the time of the first communications satellite.
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I’d have said 69 or 70. Dresses right off of Laugh In.
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I rode my bicycle several miles east to the Lantern Lane shopping center on Memorial Drive where there was a tiny record shop to buy that 45 rpm record for $1. I was making 25 cents an hour so it took me four hours of hard work to buy one 45. It took 33 soda water bottles collected out of the ditches and returned to buy one single.
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Texpat
I think i spent all my soda water bottle money at Ketchum’s on Vine Street in Kissimmee buying candy or those big dill pickles in a jar on the counter right next to the pickled pigs feet.
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As a kid, i never had to buy any records. My dad listened to some pretty cool music.
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As a kid, I didn’t buy any records because I wasn’t all that interested in them. But when I worked at the TV shop, I put a Pioneer 8 Track in my old Nova and just about went broke buying tapes for the dayaam thang.
From the time I was 15 until 19, I installed pretty much all the 8 tracks that we sold in the store, and I HATED that work! I also installed 90% of the antenna towers in those years, including 50′-60′ stacked towers. BTW; I put them up without a Gin Pole, I just manhandled them up and stacked them on. I would pull the tower section up past me and hold the bottom with it straight up in the air until I could get it into place. Of course, if I were to let it get a little off center there would be no way that I could keep it upright and it would fall. That never happened though. -
BTW; When I started at the TV shop, I made $10 a day, no matter the hours, we worked from 8 AM until dark, so in the summer the days could be pretty long. The 8 Tracks were about $6 bucks each!
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#28 mharper, if that is true, it explains a lot, and makes the whole Clinton/Trump thing even much more scary.
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When I was in the 2nd through 5th grades, we lived in Sweetwater, 6 blocks from the elementary school. It was 3 blocks south and 3 blocks west, through a small residential area with alleys between the streets. I often walked to and from school, and varied my route to check the alleys for discarded Coke bottles. When I had several bottles, I would make my next route to go past a small 7-11 type store where I could sell the bottles and buy penny candy.
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Next time you do a crock pot beef roast. Dump in one envelope of Au Jus mix and one envelope of Hidden Valley Ranch DIP mix. Reduce the usual amount of salt/pepper when seasoning meat.Try it just once.
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I saved the coke bottle money I got from the 7th Grade until High School Graduation. It was finacial planning for when I I would be assigned to Fort Sill.
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#31 Shannon, sounds good to me, my huntin’ buddy’s wife (she is a real Cajun) gave me a simple, quick etouffee recipe using butter, onions, cream of mushroom soup, tomato paste and Tony Chachere, Cajun seasoning. She said to just add the seasoning until it was spicy enough for you. Well, the etoufee was pretty good but too dang salty, so I looked at the label and sure enough, the first ingredient was salt, that meant that it had more salt than anything else!? Why do they do that? Anyway, I now use my own spices and my etoufee is much better.
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FWIW; I do pretty well in the kitchen, but I don’t mind making things quick and easy as long as it comes out good. My food critic, (the skinny blonde that I’m married to)
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Tony Chachere is way too salty.
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My current truck, and most of the trucks I’ve owned, have been manual transmission. When you have those acquaintances who ask “Hey, you think I can borrow your truck Saturday?” it makes it nice to be able to ask “Can you drive a stick?”
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Big Brother? I texted the boy to find out when he’d be home and he said they’d just went through security at Reno and would be at Intergaltic at 7 PM. I wondered if it was a flight with a layover but he said no, United straight through. SO, I Googled United Airlines” and the first thing that popped up was RNO > IAH, depart 1:00 PM, arrive 6:42 PM, then it showed my boy and his wife’s ticket!?!?!
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It showed their tickets? Online?
WTF?Big Brother knows that he is my boy, scary, huh?
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Duck Duck Go
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Judicial Watch sent us a solicitation. Perhaps you received one, too.
It has a nice 49 page magazine covering their efforts versus the Deep State since January, 2017.
This event caught my eye:
Records sought by JW regarding NSA Advisor Susan Rice’s unmasking activities “have been removed to the Obama Library” and may not be available to the public for five years.” -
While trying to recover from grocery shopping, I’m watching the World Cup Women’s Rugby competition. It’s very entertaining.
Any one of those gals could whip any man on The Couch. I promise ya. 🙂
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“Hey, you think I can borrow your truck Saturday?” it makes it nice to be able to ask “Can you drive a stick?”
Which brings up my favorite Bumper Sticker, as seen in an apartment complex.
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Any one of those gals could whip any man on The Couch. I promise ya.
And they’d enjoy it! 😈
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What’s disappointing is they used to be called “standard transmissions”. I had to special order my last one.
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You can’t even get a manual transmission on a full size truck in the US.
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What’s disappointing is they used to be called “standard transmissions”. I had to special order my last one.
A buddy of mine wanted a 78, Z 28, with a 4 speed, he had to special order it and wait 6 months for it to come in!! A Z 28 with an automatic tranny?! IN 1978?..R U KIDDING ME?!?!
FWIW; It came with a mild 350, but with the 3:73 rear end it did pretty good. Another guy I knew got a 79 automatic and it only came with the anemic 305 and wimpy 2.73 gears and he couldn’t understand why the other one would blow his doors off! -
Fifty!! FWIW; we’re not doing too well.
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Even some of those big blocks, like the 455 Trans Am, barely cracked 200 hp in he mid to late ’70s. For a frame of reference, the 2018 Mustang with an Eco-boost 4 cylinder is 310 hp.
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One thing about rugby……(Watching the men, right now.)
These people bang the the crap out of each other – no pads.And not a single one of them roll around on the field crying after a hang nail, like soccer pussies do.
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Amazon Prime has a series called All or Nothing. Usually it’s an NFL team so I don’t watch. They have a new one on the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team that’s pretty good. You’re right, those dudes are tough.
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One of Fay’s favorite nephews played baseball (3A State Champions) and football at Bellville High School.
He couldn’t make the baseball team as a walk on at Sam Houston.
So he played rugby.
His third year playing rugby he suffered a catastrophic wrist/hand injury. It took several surgeries by one of the best in Houston to rebuild it. Needless to say his athletic career was over.
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The other nephew is in the Sam Houston hall of fame as a punter in football.
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Back in June I was with a bunch of corporate coworkers. One of my Scottish colleagues and I were out drinking beer one night and he congratulated me on the recent US win against a highly ranked Scottish rugby team. I had to admit I had no idea what he was talking about. Even more embarrassing was the match was held in Houston at BBVA Compass Stadium on June 16th.
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They played together on the State Champion baseball team.
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If you’re gonna be an INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSMAN, you’re just going to have to start paying attention to this stuff.
But I’m pretty sure you can get away with faking it and never having to attend a soccer game.
For a while, anyway.
🙂
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I may go to the next rugby game at Compass.
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I used to work a guy from Ireland. He played rugby. He laughed at our NFL players.
He told me that after a player was down, it wouldn’t be unusual for him to “get cleated” – run over by the opposing players – before he got up.
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You sure he’s just a INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSMAN?
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Incompetent pilot wastes a good airplane in nearby Burnet. What a shame.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3672771/postsThis is a better view. Pilot never lifted the tailwheel off the ground. Push wheel forward to gain airspeed, then pull back to lift off. Guess no one ever told him (or her) about driving tail draggers.
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#63 El Gordo, What an idiot! I’ve only flown a tail dragger once, a Cessna 185, with the Continental IO-520-D, 300 hp engine. What a rocket ship, it wasn’t a STOL aircraft but with the huge wing, awesome horsepower and barn door flaps, it was a pretty good short field aircraft. The only problem I had was, since it didn’t a have a training wheel, I.E. front tricycle gear, I taxied all over the place, couldn’t get used to using the toe brakes for steering.
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BTW; The 185 was owned by the state of Georgia, Wildlife Department and the young, Ex-Vietnam Vet loved it. Their other airplane was a Cessna 337,Push-Me-Pull-Me and since he was the boss, he got the 185 and his sidekick got the flying pig.
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Watched the video and am not convinced its pilot error. A whole lot can go wrong in an aircraft that’s 80 years old.
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#66, OK, but it looked to me like he didn’t have enough airspeed to get the tail off the ground and the yawing back and forth is a classic stall attitude. I’ve never flown a big airplane but have been told by experienced pilots that the DC 3 is an awful lot like a Cessna 172, if you do you job right it’s really hard to screw it up.
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Dang Rip VW woke up but for the wrong reason.
Some Swamp Creature must have the mayo stained goods on him.
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My #68, the “N” number is PK = Indonesia?!…. I had to look that one up.
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Back in another life I worked at a small commuter airline and we had, at various times, 8 Beech B-99’s, 3 Fairchild F-27’s, , 13 DC-3’s and 3 Martin 404’s.
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My #71, luckily, the pictures of all of these aircraft were ours and all the pictures except the DC 3 were taken in Hotlanta, the DC 3, at Saint Simons Island Georgia…. I do miss those days, great times. You’ve not lived until you drive a Jeep across the flight line in Hotlanta dodging the fuel, food, service trucks and the A/C tugs, what a zoo!! Of course, in those days it was every man for himself. 😀
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SO,….Ole Dave Been Done Kilt the Blog??…… figgers!
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Just slipped below 87 out in out front yard with 73% humidity and no breeze at all. Highest we had was 95 today, currently 91 in the back yard and 71% humidity.
Spouse is in the paddock spraying the mares with cool water to wash off sweat and dried sap from the devilish Dallis grass. He mowed the pastures earlier this week, and in some places the Dallis grass has already produced spikes with more sap. We can’t recall how long the blooming season is for this pest of a plant.
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Chances for rain any time soon keep evaporating, even the standard small 20% in the next few days looks to be entirely optimistic. On the other hand, we did have 13″ in 13 hours years ago when the chance was 20% in the dead of summer.
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My favorite was the Cessna 182 and 182RG. The T210 was something I could have fallen in love with, but pocketbook limitations. That 210 would outrun a Doctor Killer (Bonanza), and if you could shut the doors, it would not be over weight. I wanted to try to start a freight business way back with DC3’s since they were so cheap to buy, but it was highly competitive and most of the routes were one-way only, and deadhead back without revenue. I still miss flying, but eyes are gone and couldn’t pass the physical I imagine. I love the airplane porn though.
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I surely don’t recall Super Dave ever mentioned the airplane part of his life before. Wonder what other surprises he is holding back?
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#76 El Gordo, I do love all of Beechcraft’s products, but I’ve always said that ANY Cessna, will do the job better and faster than Beech or Piper and does it for less money. The 210 is a hidden jewel, it will blow the doors off the beloved Bonanza and haul 4 passengers with all their luggage or 6 without. A Bonanza is a 4 place airplane at best. The Insurance agent that my wife worked for in Clear Lake bought a 210 with a turbo and even though it wasn’t pressurized, he’d fly it at 15,000′ using the supplied oxygen masks. He took me to Alabama once to pick up an automobile and the wife and kids another time. He had family in Mobile and would go the extra couple of hundred miles just t be nice.
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My #78, when the Duke brought his 210 from Scottsdale to HBY, he flew at 19K and with a slight tailwind, made 210 MPH, ground speed!
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I was running late for my appointed rounds Friday morning but being a crane fan boy I just had to stop and watch these guys…about three miles up the road from me:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/lyireqZyXyc6hm9mSEnSdYptcoZq5CXN5pnNXahvmua
Here they are after successfully stabbing it on. The ground guy on the rope was just starting to pull the rope off:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/Kwr8ze0xUBx63MX75nBu0FGzyLbPOG9ZvCiUJ9RwSF5
Earlier in the week they drilled the hole and poured this concrete pier for the base. It is about 8 feet across and 16 feet deep. It was an impressive auger that drilled that hole.
That is a 0.5 liter water bottle lying on top, right of center.https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/sWw8En8CUaIIeVseA6wubfi001iThLz5i8F0a3mppC2
We don’t do anything exciting like flying taildraggers around here.
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I surely don’t recall Super Dave ever mentioned the airplane part of his life before. Wonder what other surprises he is holding back?
He owns the concessions at every military gate in the country, including the one at Fort Sill.
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#76 El Gordo
Doctor Killer (Bonanza)
BAWHAHAHA! Yup, the old joke was; “Why did Beechcraft invent the Bonanza?
Answer; so we wouldn’t have too many doctors! There NOTHING more scary than a doctor with 200 hours under his belt, he is fearless and probably has not had the “Pucker Factor” moment yet, and when it comes, he’ll either live or die. If he is flying a Cessna, he can likely turn loose of the yoke and it’ll just fly itself out of the situation. If flying a Bonanza, it is so slick, if it gets in a nose down attitude and the airspeed gets much over 200 he is history. -
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OK, just for El Gordo, the ultimate DC 3 A/C porn; a DC 3 on Floats, don’t get no better than that.
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That’s pretty slick. There’s nothing you can’t do on a DC-3. Now I’ve deployed my trusty spies, who I refer to as Mueller and Rosenstein, to investigate the Burnet crash further. My speculation is that we will eventually turn up the fact that the pilot is a woman, but I can’t back that up just yet. What I can report though is that the airfield in Burnet is named after a woman, and a person representing herself to be the mayor of Burnet is a woman, so odds are that poor airplane never stood a chance to begin with. Here’s my spies report, laundered through the press just like the big boys in DC do.
https://www.burnetbulletin.com/articles/2018/07/21/bluebonnet-belle-crashes-all-14-aboard-survive -
A toast to the Deep State.
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The Dizzy Crawford Cowboy could never quite get the lyrics right.
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Good morning Hamsters. It was overcast and 77 at 6, humidity hangs in at 99% but no rain, just ground mist. At least that’s some moisture for the pastures.
July is flying by. But then the older you get, the faster time goes. Or seems to.
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Funny headstones.
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Banjo on fire.
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That’s a lame TP job. Two rolls? Nice drone though.
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I’ve had some close calls out on the water in both motorized craft and sail boats. Until you’ve been through it, you have no idea how fast the weather can get very ugly out on the water, especially along the coast. Racing a blue/black squall line to the dock can get a little exciting when 15 minutes ago there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.
This duckboat operator had a National Weather Service Severe Thunderstorm Watch 8 hours before the boat incident and a NWS Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30 minutes prior to capsizing. There is no excuse for this incompetence and negligence. Criminal charges should be brought.
The first thing the Coast Guard teaches in marine safety is weather forecasts are only good for 4 hours maximum out on the water and they can always be wrong.
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If it can be proven that the captain of the duckboat told the passengers not to bother to put on life jackets, that company is DRT.
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I’ve been out in gulf, 80 miles out and on lakes from Georgia to Kansas, down to Texas but the worst storm that I’ve ever been in was on Lake Livingston when a norther blew through. Coming back in I had to run my little Glastron almost flat out, jumping from wave top to wave top. If I slowed down the waves would crash over in to the boat. When I first turned around the bow of my boat disappeared under a huge wave. The weather changed in a matter of minutes.
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I just sat through this YouTube video of a guy testing the most common epoxy adhesives.
Gorilla
Devcon
JB Weld Original
JB Weld KwikWeld
JB Weld Extreme Heat
LoctiteThe guy is a little windy so I’ll save you the trouble of sitting through it.
The only two worth buying are JB Weld Original and Devcon. The rest are worthless and a waste of money.
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We use Devcon at NASA and I’ve used JB Weld many times, both are very good. I’ve not seen Devcon in stores, I wonder where you can get it.
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I tested Devcon for shear strength a long time ago. I lap spliced two pieces of aluminum together, the splice was exactly 1″ square. I put them in one of our Instron Load Frames and pulled it until it came apart. It let loose at 987 Lbs.
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Ninety Nine!!! Teeing her up,………
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I am going to be in a group of four off to the land of the Squawk Box, Cut n Shoot. I hear tell that here is a flea market there and the last time someone went there they found YUUUUUUUUUUGGE mangos there and they were delicious. Perhaps we can get some more.
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Well, I’ve never heard of Max Boot, but he is an imbecile; WaPo Conservative: I Miss Obama And Would Take Him Back In A Nanosecond.
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
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#s 96 & 97 – My M/C wrench uses Loctite brand super glue gel – stuff sets amazingly fast
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JB Weld gets the same bad rap as bailing wire and duck tape, but the slow curing stuff is just like welded. One of the rear hubs on my golf cart stripped the splines, I JB welded it for temporary fix but it’s still holding strong six years later.
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A Chelsea art gallery owner hit the jackpot when he took a $15,000 gamble on a storage locker and discovered that its contents held a half-dozen paintings believed to be by famed artist Willem de Kooning — that could fetch tens of millions of dollars.
David Killen, the owner of an eponymous gallery on 25th Street, didn’t exactly jump at the chance to buy a storage unit’s worth of abandoned paintings.
but then this,
“What they showed me is a bunch of junk, basically,” Killen told The Post. “I didn’t see anything good.”
Still, he plunked down $15,000 last year for the 200 works of art, figuring he could eventually sell them at his bimonthly auctions.
But when he started to load the paintings from the Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, locker in his truck, he was blown away.
“I see these huge boxes that say de Kooning on them,” he said. “What are the odds of finding a de Kooning in a storage unit? It’s unheard of!”
That storage facility is a short drive from my home. Nobody called me to come look. If there were 200 pieces and you averaged $75 each, you could at least get your money back.
or,
De Kooning paintings can bring anywhere from $30,000 to tens of millions of dollars, Killen said. The artist’s Untitled XXV fetched a staggering $66.3 million at a 2016 auction. And a Klee sold for a $6.8 million in 2011.
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The first sitting American president to come from Kenya so says the Kenyan.
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What the hell was she wearing? Hillary Clinton Looks Like Hell at OzyFest – Wrapped in a Drape.
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Looks like a hospital gown. DON’T look at the backside!
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Near Burleigh, TX, Brazos River bottom.
The finest stand of cotton I’ve ever seen. Tall!!
It’s just beginning to bloom.
A camera phone just cannot do justice to this 600 acres of perfectly uniform cotton.Bring your drone, Sarge.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/hHLTPxSRXXGhETdJDCrLbCeKtdCpzzu2qwg46qp82mf
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I ordered this mandoline for the kitchen since my old one broke and it was a pain to use. It arrived Saturday and I’m pretty pleased with it. Instead of a bunch of different blades to keep up with, it has a single dial blade feature – paper thin to 9 mm.
$36 list on Amazon now for $23.97 Prime.
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Yep, my thoughts, too. A size 6XXX hospital gown. Prolly selected to cover all the hardware strapped to her body. Without any protruding shapes that might help to identify what all braces and IV feeds are hooked up to her. -
the flea market trip has concluded. We bought mangos, avocados and cilantro. I got a hat and bought 2 folding knives for the Mrs. one for purse and one for desk.
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Chung’s Egg Rolls.
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I’ve been moving 3 swiveling sprinklers since 10 a.m. It is now 97 degrees out there. I’ve shut down the 2 in the front yard and will kill the back yard one as soon as I finish my late lunch.
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More World Cup Rugby today.
This is an entertaining game.
Two 45 minute halves.
Action throughout. Very little clock stoppage. What the referee says, goes.
NO WHINERS!!!
We may have a game that Americans can appreciate once the NFL collapses.
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#106 Super Dave
Where/what is this gathering she attended? Wearing a drape or sheet or tent?
When Carol Burnett came down the stairs of a southern mansion in a skit on her show wearing the draperies, it was hilarious.
This in contrast is not hilarious or even funny, but just plain ghastly. She looks physically ill and pale, pretty much minus makeup. Or if there is makeup, it can’t help much.
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#115 Adee, sorry, I didn’t put in the link, but from the story; New York – Twice-failed presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton spoke at Ozyfest, a two-day festival in Central Park, on Saturday and she looked terrible.
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Well, Shannon’s #31 triggered my #33, so I’m fixin’ Shrimp Etoufee fer supper, along with rice, slaw and Texas Toast.
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LQQks like Shannon is $#!7ing in tail cotton. 😀
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But first, let’s take a look at when Houston normally sees its first front. There are many ways we could define the first front, such as days with multiple consecutive hours of northerly winds over 10 or 15 mph, but a lot of these ways have flaws. For example, days with thunderstorm outflows might be erroneously flagged.
So I chose a simple metric: the day after September 1 on which Houston recorded its first overnight temperature of 65 degrees or below. Thanks for Brian Brettschneider for crunching the numbers in the graphic below.
Historically we can see that Houston’s first front has come, on average, by Sept. 18.
But then we all know that traditionally September sucks as bad as August around here.
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Yet we still anticipate relief in September. Every. Year.
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Texpat says:
JULY 22, 2018 AT 2:01 PM
I ordered this mandoline for the kitchen since my old one broke and it was a pain to use. It arrived Saturday and I’m pretty pleased with it. Instead of a bunch of different blades to keep up with, it has a single dial blade feature – paper thin to 9 mm.$36 list on Amazon now for $23.97 Prime.
I think you got ripped off.
That thing doesn’t look like it would sound even as good as a ukelele.
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😛 😛
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Sitting at 110 degrees here in centex, but there is still a chance it might twist up a couple more degrees before sunset. Those of you wondering where hiliary had her covering fitted, I have it on good authority it’s from the parachute division of the Army/Navy Surplus store in Mineral Wells. My spies can find out anything, except of course who was piloting the doomed DC-3 in Burnet yesterday – everybody has gone to the lake today and will return tomorrow. Too hot to go outside, so nothing else to report for today.
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What the hell was she wearing?
Looks like she’s finally ditched the Mao Jackets and moved on to the muʻumuʻu.
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Shannon says:
JULY 22, 2018 AT 3:09 PM
More World Cup Rugby today.This is an entertaining game.
Two 45 minute halves.
Action throughout. Very little clock stoppage. What the referee says, goes.
NO WHINERS!!!
We may have a game that Americans can appreciate once the NFL collapses.
Two 45 minute periods is an hour and a half. So, techincally, they’re not halves, they’re three quarters.
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They’re halves of the whole 90 minute game.
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I was surprised to see a 97 on my outdoor-report display. I was in and out moving sprinklers, didn’t feel that bad to me. But they were brief trips.
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Not a muʻumuʻu.
A freakin’ tent, that’s what it is. I think I’ve seen less fabric on a full bolt at Hobby Lobby.
I notice also that she’s wearing some kind of geriatric sneaker shoe, and that she is sitting down while talking. Most politicians stand when addressing their audiences, unless it’s a panel discussion in a studio session where everyone is sitting.
Add on top of that the 90 year old hag look she’s got going on….
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It could always be worse.
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I think Shoofly Pie-Hole Schumer is up underneath that thing with her doing what he does best.
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#129
She must be in Texas, they are melting!
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#131
I thought about posting that one but I didn’t wanna get whupped.
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Saw a new fawn yesterday, bringing the total number to 2. Today, I think there was another one out there traveling with its Mama but not with the rest of the herd. Tiny, so must be just a few days old. If so, that will make 3 this year. Last year I had two sets of twins and one solo for a total of 5, of which I think 2 are still alive (one from each set of twins). Another doe came along while new junior was at the water trough and acted curious, and Mama Doe rared up on her hind legs and chased her off – she didn’t want anyone messing with her baby. Nothing else to report for now. Have a nice evening you all.
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Listen to this with your morning coffee unca Shanny and you’ll not be sleepy-eyed.
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