Cynicism Wednesday. Feel the Cultural Reflux Syndrome.
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Good morning all. A brisk 23 degrees reporting this morning as I arise and begin preparation for today’s leg of the road trip. I’ll probably wait until the sun comes up and the temperature gets above freezing before I actually head out. Seems a little early in the year for temps this cold – this is more like Feb temps. Anyway.
Now as to Darren’s issues with Geo Engineering, I fail to see what the problem is. Everybody knows that Geo Engineering is just another Trump initiative designed to destroy the world – what’s wrong with that. I mean he was sent here by aliens to begin with and has been in training for 70 years to do this. But, if that still bothers you, I would recommend any one of the selections of fine, high quality tin foil hats that are readily available on the internet, or believe this or not, you can even make your own functioning headpiece. There are even hats in here for mh to help her furry friends. I pretty sure they can easily be modified for possums.
https://mcphee.com/products/tin-foil-hat-for-catsBTW, these things don’t protect from spy ducks though. You have to wrap their heads with duck tape to provide that level of protection.
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Nice, brisk 35 and calm here by the Bay.
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The Women’s Initiative refused to provide comment about Board of Directors member Juan Manuel Granados who allegedly attacked Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s daughter with vulgar language in a country club in October.
The women’s group refused to respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s multiple phone and email requests for comment, electing to remain silent following the allegations that Granados called Carlson‘s 19-year-old daughter a “whore” and a “f**king c**t” at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia.“Sorry, we don’t speak to reporters,” said a Women’s Initiative employee who answered TheDCNF’s first phone call requesting comment about its position regarding Granados and the alleged incident. Elizabeth answered the phone next, saying only, “We’re not offering comment.” She then hung up on TheDCNF.
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Nice, brisk 35 and calm here by the Bay.
Same temperature here by the Hudson.
But we’re supposed to get 5 inches of snow tomorrow.
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Dang, the OC picture is disgusting, but it does depict some of our less than stellar folks. 🙁
The Boy recommended “Making a Murder” on Netflex, a series, there’s two seasons. It’s a true story about the Steven Avery case. Has anyone here watched it? I’m surprised that he’d watch Netflix since he has one of those satellite dishes that gets everything. -
35? Yesterday, at this time it was 41, windy with a little rain and it was FREEZING! This morning, it is 35, clear, calm and no wind but it’s not really cold if you have on a jacket. The high wind and humidity yesterday, was BRUTAL!
I’d already figured that we were in for a cold winter, but it is starting early, what happened to “Global Warming”? 😉 -
Not only is it too early to dig up tropical plants it is also too early to close off the vents to my master bedroom. I baked last night and that is with the thermostat set at 69F. I know I am going to close them off tonight and by next week when I run my A/C again the master bedroom will be too hot.
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Be careful out there, people.
I slipped and very nearly went down on an unseen icy spot. -
Earliest Houston freeze in 19 years!
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#6 SC – Now you of all people should know that the scientists behind the global warming
scam scareresearch have explained time and time again that global warming often leads to colder temperatures. You just have to trust them because it’s too complicated to explain to the common layman and the great unwashed. -
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35?
We started out at 28.
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I’m all the way up to 24 degrees now that the sun has come up. Lots of frost on the punkin out there this morning.
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But the main question is is there a tin foil snood available?
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No frost here, dry and cold, I guess the front blew all the humidity out of here.
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Die mosquitoes, die!
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Good frosty morning Hamsters. We had 28 at 6 and a frost blanket everywhere other than near the house where the lawn is still green instead of silver. Roofs are silver and so are fence rails. Sunlight will evaporate it soon. Nice to have the wind gone at last. It was a quick trip out to the barn to feed the mares and a brisk walk to the road to fetch the paper.
We have Pella double-pane windows with argon gas between the panes that insulate very well be it heat or cold to be kept out of the house. They were our best house investment made 10+ years ago. This brand has been used in the Midwest for decades, and its home is Pella, Iowa. Andersen windows are comparable and also widely used in the frozen north. They are pricey but pay for themselves in diminished heating/cooling bills.
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A tin foil snood would be difficult, as I don’t think the proper tension could be maintained as the foil would not slide well between the fingers.
Unless I wore some kind of metal glove. That would prevent bleeding on the project, which is always a problem (it’s actually a “thing” in quilting: “Don’t bleed on the quilt!”).
If’n you want a tin foil snood, you’ll have to make it by forming it yourself. Sorry.
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I got a text from Eldest yesterday. It seems that Hubby and I, and daughter/SIL/grandkids will be attending at her home.
Holiday meals used to be a big thing with our family. Huge. I remember counting 70 souls for one Christmas, and they were all family.
She traditionally has done a Thanksgiving meal for our big family. Dad was always the food guy, and the family always gathered with Dad for the holidays. (Mom divorced him in ’82, and she didn’t want to do big meals anymore, having done them daily for her twelve kids for over 20 years. We’d see her the day before, in small visits.)
Now, with Dad gone, it’s harder to get the family together. Thanksgiving has become the “other family” time, where our siblings and their offspring would see the in-laws, but there was usually a few that would show at Eldest’s house. I took over Christmas, but I moved it to the Saturday after Christmas, since it was becoming so difficult for nieces and nephews to make it to parents’ and in-laws’ homes in one day. Last year, not a single niece/nephew made it to my house for Christmas, and even some of my siblings didn’t show.
I doubt that the Harpies would come – that’s four of the twelve right there.
Hubby and I are going to invite some friends in lieu. I’ll be inviting some of our cousins, whom we’ve seen lately due to the number of funerals involved. Church friends. Hubby’s car show buddies.
It’s sad that our family seems to be drifting so apart that we can’t even get together one or two days a year.
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Earliest Houston freeze in 19 years!
I remember that year. The coldest temperature ever recorded at IAH was 7 °F on December 23, 1989. I had to go bail my girlfriend’s brother out of the Reisner jail that night for PI. I remember sliding around on the Pierce Elevated at 03:00. Then he smarted off to the cop bringing him down so they threw him back in the cell. I talked the cop into letting me go talk to him, read him the riot act, and got him released just about the time the sun was rising. He never paid me back that bail money.
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We also had Hurricane Jerry hit Houston in October 1989.
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A Florida school district allowed a self-described transgender female student regular access to the boys’ locker room, with no advance warning to the boys or their parents. The first time she walked in, she caught “boys (literally) with their pants down, causing them embarrassment and concern by the fact that they had been observed changing by an obvious girl,” says a complaint letter to Pasco County School District from Liberty Counsel, a pro-bono constitutional law firm.
With a “gag order,” school administrators forbade teachers from talking about the change, and ordered a male P.E. teacher to supervise the potentially undressed girl in the Chasco Middle School locker room, the letter says. When he refused to “knowingly place himself in a position to observe a minor female in the nude or otherwise in a state of undress,” administrators told him “he will be transferred to another school as discipline for ‘not doing your job in the locker room.’”
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#22 Hamous, see my #8.
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Bored, I switched to sports talk radio yesterday and they were reporting on a sports book who set the spread on a potential match between Alabama and each NFL team.
Even the horrific Buffalo Bills were an almost thirty point favorite.
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#22 (and edit) 8 😀
The weaves we spin.
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#24
Didn’t they used to do that in the old days, pro team vs a college team, at the end of the season? It’s sounds intriguing but no way it would be a close match.
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Coaches are sadists.
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Did you break out in a cold sweat hearing those words?:)
Was that a short Johnny Cash standing on the Oilers sideline?
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It’s how they find their future quarterbacks because there was always one freshman who could take out a senior with a well-placed cross shot to the face.
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Ah, those were the good old days.
That Alonzo Highsmith looked like one big dude.
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Football trivia.
Hey unca Shanny, who said this in the 80s?
“Loosen up Sandy baby?”
No cheating now.
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Hint.
It wasn’t this liberal.
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It was nice to see some sunshine for a change this morning!
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Facebook participated in human trafficking.
I guess their algorithms aren’t designed to pick up on the phrase “my virgin daughter to the highest bidder”. But don’t you dare use the words “Second Amendment rights”!
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Hey unca Shanny, who said this in the 80s?
“Loosen up Sandy baby?”
I don’t recall. But it made me think of NSA Sandy Burgler stuffing classified documents in his socks at the National Archives.
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Here’s your answer unca Grasshoppah.
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Everyone who knows me is rolling on the floor with convulsive laughter at that remark.
E.g. today I drove the 25 miles to The Falls.
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The dark slide into dementia can be entertaining. And the people I buy gas from love it.
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“It was Sam [Donaldson]. He was so boring. I couldn’t take it,— Riggins said. “I went down like a chunk when he was talking.—
Now that’s a great line.
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………………Um……….er…………………uh…………..would would know (or CARE) about some random flippant remark John Riggins made?
………………..passing the Hammyworld hat to reach out and get Phil a part time job! (or 2 or 3!) 🙂
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Spoilsport.:)
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I’m just anxiously awaiting that day when I suddenly return to reality and find myself having driven to Rockport/Port A.
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Just kissed off another problem customer. This lady runs an irrigation system company, yet she’s giving Hubby crap about her getting her own PVB, or vacuum breaker permit. [Vacuum breakers protect the city water supply by preventing water from backflowing into the city mains. Every irrigation system has to have one.]
Every other irrigator pulls their own. This job was bid several months ago, and all the sudden she’s in a hurry. She told Hubby “I have licensed plumbers who work for me!” Yet none of them can pull her PVB?
Hubby smells trouble, so I just emailed her that our schedule was such that we wouldn’t be able to service her job properly. I also hinted that we would have to rebid the job at a higher price, since we reserve the right to re-bid every 30 days.
Dodging bullets – it’s part of the job.
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Dodging bullets – it’s part of the job.
And the best thing about being your own little company, every once and a while you can just decide to fire one
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Way back when, when I was doing therapy full time, I had to fire a couple of clients. . . . .one of the best decisions I ever made. There are those who are just not worth the trouble and aggravation.
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making the rounds on social media:
New Mexican word of the day: AcostaNow Jim gotta do the news from acosta street
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We fired one yesterday, or at least we mutually agreed to part ways – after we charged him $324 for the privlege. Said we were trying to gouge him with all the stuff we found wrong with his machine. I told him it was our findings when we did an inspection on his unit, a service we always provide. It clearly stated in the estimate the items were recommendations. The next guy would complain it was just in our shop and why didn’t we fix all the things wrong with it. Can’t make any of ‘em happy.
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Football Trivia II.
Hey unca Shanny I got an easier one for you.
Which 80s NFL coach used to leave tickets at will-call for Elvis?
Hint: Dressed like Johnny Cash.
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Crazy Jerry
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Right.
OK last one.
The rubber match.Which NFL broadcaster used to sing “turn out the lights, the party’s over?”
😉
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Who was the QB for the 1968 L.A. Rams?
Someone?
Anyone?
Ferris?I have to keep my mind off politics today.
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#52 Phil: Dandy Don Meridith.
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#53: Roman Gabriel?
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Give that man a chicken nugget.
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Who was known as the nastiest player in the NFL in the 70s?
Someone?
Anyone?
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Social media should be re branded to Uncivilized Media for Anti-Socials and Socialists.
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Oops I slipped.
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#48 Bone
Now Jim gotta do the news from acosta street
LOLOL!
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#57 Phil the Inquisitor:
Izzit Dick Butkis:
Lyle Alzado?
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Hey I’m a little under the weather so I’m passing the time.
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Izzit Dick Butkis:
Lyle Alzado?
Nope.
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Was tempted to go run but don’t want to press my luck and hit a whammy.
Been feasting on Cold-Eeze and orange juice and hot tea.
Hot soup tonight.
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How about Lawrence Taylor?
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Nope
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Hint
Uniform was red and white.
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Ken Houston
OR
Ronnie Lott?
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Conrad Dobler
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Last one.
A bonus.
Who sucker punched Roger Staubach in the locker room then fled the scene like a big coward.
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Dirty Danny White
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Tom Landry
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Dom DeLouise
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Michelle Obama
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Don’t know that one. I hated all things Cowboys.
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Clint Longley.
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Hmm, for folks who seem to despise the NFL these days, the history of the league appears to hold great interest. Just sayin’ 🙂
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Not the NFL anymore.
That’s why I had to harken back.
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And cold medicines do strange things to me.
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I didn’t really hate the Cowboys.
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#metoo Growing up in West Texas I was a Cowboys fan, Landry days. I learnt to despise them cause of their fans after we moved here in the early 70’s.
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“No journalist has a First Amendment right to enter the White House,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.
“The president and White House possess the same broad discretion to regulate access to the White House for journalists (and other members of the public) that they possess to select which journalists receive interviews, or which journalists they acknowledge at press conferences,” the lawyers continued.
On the specific case of CNN’s reporter, Jim Acosta, the DoJ says that “it is far from clear that Mr. Acosta or CNN has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in Mr. Acosta’s access to the White House complex.” The filing argues that even with Acosta barred from the White House grounds, CNN still has 50 reporters with White House press passes and that CNN’s situation is “far from dire.”
What a waste of time. Screw CNN. And Fox, too, for joining the suit.
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This is no longer the only FB page devoted to meme-thumping on A O-C. But it has some good ‘uns.
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Seems to my mini mind, one pool reporter to pass on any press conference announcements satisfies “Freedom of the Press” concerns. Besides, where in the constitution does it say the Whitehouse has to give press briefings at all?
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Hey Hamous Billy Jack is coming on TCM at 9:15PM.:)
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J Glanville dressed like Johnny Cash and acted like Billy Jack in post game interviews after the Oilers took another beating in a playoff game.
How bout dem Cowboys?!
Of the late 60s, the 70s and 90s that is.
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North Dallas Forty.
Excellent novel.–Movie was pretty good.
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Got a disturbing phone call earlier from LD. Sunshine suffered a concussion today on the playground- went down without catching herself properly. Dazed and confused for a bit, then threw up in the nurse’s office. LD took her to their doctor, and she threw up again. Doc said take her home and watch her, and if she showed any more symptoms to take her to the ER. Sunshine was improving throughout the afternoon.
As a matter of fact, when Daddy came home, LD was putting on her shoes to pick up the other daughter to gymnastics. She and Sunshine were on the third step of their stairway, talking to Daddy, and Sunshine said “Daddy! Watch me jump!”
There was a concerted NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! and they both jumped to stop her.
When LD called me, Sunshine and her Daddy were getting cuddle time on the couch together. Wish I was there to cuddle her, too. Dang, I miss them. So much.
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Hey Hamous Billy Jack is coming on TCM at 9:15PM.:)
Go ahead and hate your neighbor
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I’m watching it.
Too bad Glanville didn’t wear a Billly Jack hat with his Johnny Cash britches on the sideline. -
North Dallas Forty.
Excellent novel.–Movie was pretty good.Yes, but the movie hasn’t held up very well over the years.
I liked The Longest Yard (1974).
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Dang.
The Trial of Billy Jack and Billy Jack Goes to Washington are up after this.Wonder why they never made a sequel to Mitchell which came out in 1975 but I first saw it here in 1993.
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I watched Billy Jack a few months ago. It surely drags along slowly.
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He just beat up about 15 people in a park.
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Billy Jack Goes to Washington may turn out to be a modern day, futuristic and sublime parallel documentary of Donald Trump Goes to Washington.
I think I’ll record it.
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And in other Cowboys news…
Former Cowboys linebacker Jeff Rohrer comes out as gay, set to marry Sunday
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He was a pretty good linebacker in those 80s years. The 80s Cowboys could be called The Cowboys: The Lost Episodes.
Three years in a row to the NFC champ game and three losses.–All downhill from there until the 90s.–Most people don’t know Tom Landry was the one who drafted Michael Irvin in 1988.
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Ninety Nine?
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