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Well, there you are, El Gordo and I posted on the Friday thread, thanks Texpat.
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About the O.C. Pix, shocking but to be expected. 1984?
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What’s with these Droid phones, anyway?
With Apple, you agree to grant their technicians access to your house. They sneak in once a month to replace your battery, and sometimes take Max out for his constitutional. You should read that fine print.
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All packed, but not leaving Big D for a couple of hours. College football Saturday is upon us, so I’ll see what I can find on the radio while on the road. Back in the good old days, the Humble Oil Company sponsored all the Southwest Conference football games all across the state of Texas and you could listen to all of them just about everywhere. If you know who Kern Tips was, you are old. Now days of course it’s just all about the money. OK, more coffee coming right up.
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#4 – They really don’t need to come into your house since they already know what you have, where you go, and when – unless they find something in there they really want, like an auto vote for a Dem or something.
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#4 – They really don’t need to come into your house since they already know what you have, where you go, and when – unless they find something in there they really want, like an auto vote for a Dem or something. I’m in the Tracphone ecosystem rather than in the Apple ecosystem. It sits in my car, pretuned to AAA, and just rides around with me. Phones are generally an instrument of the devil used to spread gossip and evil thoughts, so you should really not use one without first putting on your tin foil hat.
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Discount Tire. Arrive twenty minutes before it opens. Five guys already waiting. This place is insane! 🙂
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#9 Shannon, Yup, the Boy was dreading going in yesterday, Black Friday and all, I’ve not talked to him yet to see how things are.
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SD
They emailed me an ad for the first time ever. I figured, hmmm, maybe they’re slow on Black Friday weekend.No such luck.
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Saw this on the latest produce crisis:
The Romaine Empire has fallen
Ceasar is dead
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Burton Panthers beat La Pryor 74-14!
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Did any of you see the stories on the floods on the Arabian peninsula ?
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Undefeated Sealy whacked Boerne 55-28. They play perennial 4A powerhouse Liberty Hill next week.
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LSU is a 3 point favorite at College Station.
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Wow. HEB in store coupon…$5.00 off 16pk, AA or AAA Duracell batteries.
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Dr. Who is a woman now? How long before Wonder Woman become a man?
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…perennial 4A powerhouse Liberty Hill next week.
I can remember when Liberty Hill was a 2A school. Back in the ’70s, it was practically a ghost town. The local cop had to hand out at least a dozen speeding tickets on 183 just to make sure he there was enough money to cover payroll.
They had to annex a skinny sliver down 29 to cover the intersection with 183 to gain jurisdiction over the traffic fines. Classic speed trap.
I only remember this because I got a large ticket in Liberty Hill doing about 90 down 183 coming back from Abilene at around 3 AM some 40 years ago. It was a full moon and there wasn’t another soul on the highway that night.
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Tip #2
HEB has a store brand (Texas Tough) line of sandwich bags, freezer bags, garbage bags, tin foil, etc.
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Yeah, pretty depressing to see stacks of iceberg where the Romaine used to be.
I just wonder if this is going to finish off the Romaine farming, except for some local boutique farmers…..driving up the price to unaffordable levels.
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Maybe the Israelis can figure out how to grow clean Romaine.
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From a New England sailing site posting apple pie recipes:
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
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Today is my day to box up the scarecrows and pumpkins, and decide what Christmas decor to set up on our white brick fireplace wall. The centerpiece this year is a unique Christmas train that I recently acquired from an online estate sale. I won’t even try to describe it until I have everything set up and get some pix.
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I got the upgraded plan that includes massages and oil changes.
Twenny bux?
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Twitter:
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfileThis is jaw-dropping. The Clinton Foundation’s 2017 annual report is finally online–WOW. Lots to unpack but digest this nugget:
2015 Total Contributions: $182.5M
2016 Total Contributions: $135.4M
2017 Total Contributions: $22.8M
WHEN THEY CAN’T PLAY–NOBODY WANTS TO PAY!
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Hoof Rot in camels! Who’da thunk?
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The Clintons may not be able to live as they have become accustomed.
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Hillary might have to start charging Huma for rent.
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Although camels and llamas are considered ungulates (mammals having hooves), they do not have hooves like cattle, horses or goats. These animals have soft padded feet (with two toes) that adapt well to their terrain.
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Hillary? Or camel?
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Thank you unca Shanny Perkins.
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Merkel: EU States Must Prepare to Hand National Sovereignty over to Brussels
That’s the headline and reading some of the quotes from Merkel are just mind-blowing:
Merkel condemned the fact that, in discussions over whether Germany should join a fast-growing number of nations pulling out of the agreement, “there were [politicians] who believed that they could decide when these agreements are no longer valid because they are representing The People”.
“[But] the people are individuals who are living in a country, they are not a group who define themselves as the [German] people,” she stressed.
All the cool lefties mocked Mark Steyn back when he published “America Alone”. Everything he wrote in that book is coming true.
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I am contributing to the traffic jam in Magnolia this morning. This is why I hate going to the Ren Fest.
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I went to Ren Fest the first or second year.
I’m still trying to find a reason to go back.
Not looking very hard, tho.
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This is why I hate going to the Ren Fest.
I prefer Summerfest.
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#3 Super Dave
LOL. But of course the loony lefties will holler “racism.” To them everything they don’t like is racist such that they have bastardized the word into gibberish and thereby thoroughly deflated any useful meaning it once might have had. Idiots.
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#12 Hamous
LOL
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Hamous says:
NOVEMBER 24, 2018 AT 9:24 AM
Dr. Who is a woman now? How long before Wonder Woman become a man?Via Ace:
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#33 Texpat
Ms Merkel has lost her mind. Recommend nobody help her look for it.
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#23 Texpat, to a southerner a Yankee is a Damn Yankee. 😀
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Brace yourself.
You, too, are related to Squawk.
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#26 Texpat, what a coincidence, no?
I said a long time ago that the “Clinton Crime Family Fund” was brilliant, big money for influence. Of course this would only work for a Democrat, if a conservative tired it, the media would crucify them and the FBI, CIA, IRS and all the other alphabet agencies would investigate them.
Remember all that money that was earmarked for Haiti went to Chelsea’s wedding.
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#9 – Cmonnnnn Brother CALL AHEAD fer goodness sakes!
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I had to be up there anyway.
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Breaking……Winning……
The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico’s incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team.
The agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States and escape poverty and violence. By reaching the accord, the Trump administration has also overcome Mexico’s historic reticence to deepen cooperation with the United States on an issue widely seen here as America’s problem.
-Drudge
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These things started showing up a few years ago. Biting “ladybugs”.
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Hubs & I over the last 30 years went to 2 Ren Fests. The 2nd visit had the bird-man of the carillon which made a huge impression on me. But not enough to go back just for that. Neither of us would enjoy that much walking these days. And just listening to Cast In Bronze again on this video was better than all that driving and all that walking.
The performance:
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I don’t recall ever noticing a brick façade on a football field perimeter wall like at Florida State.
The available free TV college broadcasts are pretty sorry today.
Would liked to have seen LSU/Aggies, Baylor/Tech, Ga/Ga Tech, etc.
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I’d be lost without google these days. My memory can no longer dredge up words like carillon or names like Cast in Bronze. But with google, I am able to properly describe such things, and it only takes seconds or sometimes a few minutes to refresh my memory banks.
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Come on, Auburn.
Scare ‘em, at least.
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Well, daughter just left, heading to Austin where she’ll spend the night, then get up in the morning and head to Fredericksburg to pick up Hubby at his deer lease. I think that I mentioned they were here. They went to Brenham on Friday before Thanksgiving for an annual family get together. Son-in-Law’s dad rented a 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom, house on 60 acres for the whole family. Part of the reason is to take the small kids to College Station for some sort of Christmas Light Display. They got here on Monday afternoon just in time for supper. I was great having them here for a while and having them all together for Thanksgiving.
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My #53, Son-in-Law’s hunting buddy lives in League City and they rode out to the lease early Friday morning.
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Back home in SS, and everything looks just about like it did when I left. That’s good news I guess. Rice is trying to win a football game for some reason which is a surprise to me and probably several others. Think I’ll go check out the Olde Pharts coffee to see if anyone died or anything. More football discussion later.
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Saturday Powerline Funnies.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/the-week-in-pictures-tryptophan-coma-edition.php
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Thanksgiving weekend has been blissfully quiet at our house. Since we dined at home Thursday and have a few leftovers in the fridge today according to plan, guess we can dine out tomorrow.
Black Friday out here in the open spaces north of Richmond was civilized and probably pretty quiet compared to the shopping centers in Richmond/Rosenberg or Sugar Land. Visited the family-owned furniture store on FM 359 near Richmond for its sale on Christmas items. The owners have hit upon a great idea to attract folks to the store by offering these items that are scattered throughout the showrooms, so in looking at them one also sees the furniture under them. Plus the atmosphere is homey and quite unlike most furniture stores, even the elite ones. They have good-quality furniture at reasonable prices and have been in business out here for several decades.
Bought several Christmas items and will probably go back to look at some furniture again. They have an attractive loveseat (two person) on a rocking base that I’ve never seen before. Comfy indeed. Kinda reminds one of a porch swing experience inside the house.
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Holiday chow all consumed, and now my nap fairy is whistling my song. Later, y’all — enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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Holiday chow all consumed, and now my nap fairy is whistling my song.
Appears the blog ate too much stuffing as well and nodded off.
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My blog nodded off after I turned 70.
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These bastards, they had one job and they couldn’t do that…
Anyone who uses a computer or television has enjoyed the fruits of Gil Hyatt’s labor. He has pioneered technology and computer programming used by Panasonic, Sony, Philips, and Toshiba. He poured the licensing fees back into the lab where he has continued his research for decades. But beginning in the mid-1990’s, Hyatt said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) began enforcing a blockade against his patent applications. The agency, his suit claims, went so far as to create a dedicated group of regulators committed to delaying numerous applications until the 80-year-old inventor expires.
proving when you hand a little power to petty, small-minded bureaucrats,
Hyatt’s attorney, Andrew Grossman of Baker Hostetler, said the agency has abused its discretion in violation of the inventor’s constitutional rights. Regulators had “acted in bad faith” and sat on his applications for decades, stalling tactics that deprived him of his intellectual property and his ability to seek judicial relief. He described PTO as a “rogue agency” hoping to dodge oversight.
“The idea that an agency can decide to discriminate in every way against a specific citizen and a court can’t do anything about it because the agency isn’t done discriminating against him yet is ludicrous,” Grossman said. “That’s the kind of stuff an agency argues when it cannot win on the merits.”
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Trump:
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#48, I wondered about those. Three years ago in Wharton yellow ones with black spots were everywhere. Something felt like a bite but there was just a lady bug. They sort of glued themselves in place and you had to knock them off.
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48 & 63
Notice they don’t call them gentlemen bugs. They’re called lady bugs after the more vicious gender.
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Odd story with a local angle.
The email from a federal agent in Dubai about her jet-set affair with a suspected Middle Eastern terrorist could have been torn from a supermarket paperback.
“I can’t stop thinking about…you. I haven’t slept for days,” Leatrice Malika De Bruhl-Daniels wrote, according to federal court documents. “I’m deeply attracted to you and I can’t think about you like that. Don’t worry, I will still fight for your visa situation as much as I can.”
and this,
De Bruhl-Daniels, 45, a career federal law enforcement officer from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is now facing federal charges in Houston of hampering the FBI’s counterterrorism investigation of 46-year-old Nadal Diya, and Diya has been charged with using fake travel documents. Both face a mid-December trial date that is likely to be postponed.
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These things started showing up a few years ago. Biting “ladybugs”.
I first saw them in Missouri about 20 years ago. My girlfriend’s mother spent hours a day vacuuming the little buggers up in their house.
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Meet the man with the biggest bounty and target on his back in the world. It makes you wonder if 28 billion dollars can protect you from the most predatory and murderous regime on earth.
Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui announced this week he is creating a $100 million fund to aid the victims of Chinese communist repression under current leader Xi Jinping.
Guo announced the creation of the fund, which will also be used to finance investigations into Chinese government financial activities and those of its supporters in the West, at press conference in New York City on Tuesday.
The former Chinese insider also revealed in a presentation for reporters details on the disappearance, imprisonment, or death of 56 prominent Chinese nationals, including the mysterious death in July of Wang Jian, one of China’s wealthiest business leaders.
oh, it gets better,
Guo also plans to “disclose Chinese espionage activities in United States,” according to the presentation.
Last year, Guo disclosed to the Washington Free Beacon that China operates a network of some 25,000 agents in the United States.
Guo said he has evidence of the spying activities and will use the U.S. legal system to sue companies operating as fronts.
Guo is worth an estimated $28 billion that he said was gained outside of China through overseas real estate and financial investments.
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At least the Gators ended on a high note. I think it’s been five years since they beat the Semiholes.
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That Bama v Auburn game was painful to watch.
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I’m posting the entire New York Sun editorial from Thanksgiving Day about President Trump and Chief Justice Jon Roberts. I presume Seth Lipsky won’t be upset about it.
The Trump-Roberts Spat
Editorial of The New York Sun | November 22, 2018
In the war of words between President Trump and Chief Justice Roberts, The New York Sun is on the side of the President. We understand the cataract of sanctimony that is going to cascade from the political and journalistic (and actual) pulpits in the wake of Mr. Trump’s remarks in respect of the Notorious Ninth Circuit. That only puts the President’s point into sharper relief.
This feud started when a United States district judge in California sought to block Mr. Trump’s plans to deal with a caravan of potential asylum seekers heading towards the United States. Not to be misunderstood here, the Sun favors a capacious asylum program in the spirit of the New Colossus. If Mr. Trump can sustain the jobs and growth boom in America, we’ll need more immigrants.
Yet the President, who has his own responsibilities in the current conflict, sees the caravan as portending an invasion. That puts him in a position where the Constitution would remove his discretion, giving him not just the power but also the obligation to act, whether he wants to or not. That’s because of Article 4, Section 4, which commands the United States to protect each state against invasion.
Just to mark the point. The Constitution grants to the government the power to do certain things if it wants to. It denies the government the power to do certain other things, even if it wants to. What it does in Article 4, Section 4 is lay on the government the obligation to do certain other things, whether it wants to or not. These are sometimes called the obligation clauses, binding all three branches.
Protecting against invasions, again, is one of the obligations. Besides, it was Judge Tigar who, with his injunction against the president, drew first constitutional blood. Mr. Trump promptly dismissed him as an “Obama judge.” No doubt the country is split as to whether that is a compliment or an insult. All the more startling that Chief Justice Roberts piped up with a statement.
The Chief Justice insisted that America doesn’t have “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” What we have, he added, “is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.” It’s a fair enough point, though these days even the New York Times identifies judges by the president who appointed them.
More broadly, the idea that United States judges are above criticism is a decidedly un-American conceit. Not un-American in the sense that our noble anti-communists used the word. Rather, un-American in that the prohibition on criticizing judges and courts has its roots in an England from which we declared our independence long ago. For good measure, we threw in the First Amendment.
The pecksniffs at the Brennan Center have published a guide on how to criticize a judge. It considers, say, President Obama’s denunciation of the Supreme Court’s justices to their faces for taking, in Citizens United, a broad view of the First Amendment. That happened at a State of the Union address. It was, the Brennan Center’s writer suggests, unusual less for its vitriol than its venue, where the Democratic caucus whooped and hollered.
That horrified us, by the way. In the current feud, though, Mr. Trump gave no quarter. “Justice Roberts can say what he wants,” the President twittered, “but the 9th Circuit is a complete & total disaster.” The 9th Circuit, Mr. Trump pointed out on Twitter, boasts the highest reversal rate in the country. The sweet irony is that Chief Justice Roberts had something to do with making the President’s point.
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If Mr. Trump can sustain the jobs and growth boom in America, we’ll need more immigrants.
No we won’t.
Pass the leftover turkey.
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The Chief Justice insisted that America doesn’t have “Obama judges
Yes we do.
Pass the leftover stuffing.
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In summation Justice Roberts is a God Complex dressed in a penguin suit.
Pass the leftover cranberry sauce.
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If we don’t have Obama judges or Trump judges then how come Gorsuch and Kavanaugh weren’t confirmed unanimously?
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45 and 48 lying Democrats (but I repeat myself) disagree with Roberts.
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Winter storm “Bruce” is apparently going to kill everyone in the Midwest. I thought they named all the winter storms Greek names. Is “Chaz” next?
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We finished binge watching Rake over the days surrounding the holiday. If there is anything sicker that that series (on Netflix), I haven’t found it yet. It’s rated MA and features some unusual characters and absurd situations. I really would not advise it for anyone having any moral standards. 41/2 stars.
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I watched a weird Coen brothers movie (I guess they all are) last night on Netflix. It was several stories in one movie. The first story made me think of you EG. The main character was a singing gunfighter named The San Saba Songbird.
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It’s weird rooting for USC.
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We have been watching Damnation off and on. Pretty good, no comment on it’s relevance to history.
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#80 – I have found my new hero. Thanks Hamous. Watching this may keep me busy all night.
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I wonder if all these strikes and uproars from Amazon warehouse workers in Europe are simply due to mollycoddled teasips who are not willing and able to do a day’s work for a day’s wages? I don’t see anything about warehouse work that is worse than factory work, and if you haven’t made yourself qualified for a professional or white collar job, what did you expect?
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LSU game looks pretty good. Too bad I can’t watch it.
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I had my attention directed to a CoH ordinance and I was dumbstruck by the logo of the Houston Dept of Health and Human Services. The gruberment sees the American family as a pair of same-sex partners of undeterminable gender, and an offspring that looks like a snowcone.
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Looks like a backgammon board.
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Some homo I never heard of has died and is supposed to be a Houston icon and hero.
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Aggies in 6th overtime.
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7th overtime
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Nice defense in the LSU-Aggie game.
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I saw one report that they’re going to 8th overtime. Just can’t find a live update.
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66-66
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CBS reports 72-72
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74-72 Aggies
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I’m not usually one to criticize the refs in college football, but it looks to me like overall the Aggies are benefiting quite a bit from some home cooking. Quite a game though.
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Congrats Ags!
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I’m trying to figure how you get from 72-72 to 74-72.
A safety? In overtime? You gotta be kiddin me.
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2 point conversion. LSU didn’t make the conversion when they had the ball.
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At the 3rd overtime they can’t kick field goals and have to go for two.
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Yes. Now I remember.
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the Aggies are benefiting quite a bit from some home cooking.
I only saw the last two overtimes but that last pass interference call was questionable.
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I’m not usually one to criticize the refs in college football, but it looks to me like overall the Aggies are benefiting quite a bit from some home cooking.
Yup.
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I only saw the last two overtimes but that last pass interference call was questionable.
The ref was tired and wanted to go home and he also wanted the Aggies to win.
I saw more offensive holding and push off from Aggie receivers than what it takes for 3 Aggies to install a light bulb.
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Situs Inversus
Enrique Iglesias, Catherine O’Hara, and Donny Osmond may look a lot different, but on the inside they have more in common with each other than with most of the rest of us. That’s because they’ve all got situs inversus, a 1-in-10,000 genetic disorder that puts all of your organs on the opposite side of your body. Your heart leans toward the right instead of the left, your liver is on the left instead of the right, and your spleen is where your liver should be. The thing is, your organs will probably work just fine. You might not even realize there’s a problem unless you go searching for a heartbeat with a stethoscope and can’t pin down where it’s supposed to be.
In fact, Donny Osmond had an issue that exemplifies the primary danger of situs inversus: his appendicitis nearly went undiagnosed because his doctor didn’t expect his appendix to be on the left.
https://curiosity.com/topics/some-people-are-born-with-their-organs-reversed-curiosity/
H/T some commenter at Ace
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First morning that I’ve slept late all week, up @ 6 and now coffee is ready.
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I’m up a little early this morning after staying up to the bitter end of the L, S, and You slugfest with the Agro Americans. Last play of the regular game, Tigers leading, Ags throw interception, the clock has expired, and game is over, right? Not so fast. Ref says QB was down before the pass was thrown, and to add one second back on the clock. Ags then throw TD pass to tie. Later, in OT, LSU leading, Ags complete pass, receiver is tackled and fumbles the ball, Tigers recover, game over? Not so fast, pass call incomplete. Later, Tigers rush passer for sack, flag thrown, play blown dead, Ags illegal motion – except back was moving laterally, so no penalty, no sack, just replay the down – leads to TD. Several other similar calls, but these come to mind right off the top of my head. Normally you expect the calls to even out, but not last night in Aggieland. Still a great game, and I think the players left it all on the field. Tigers need to get in shape. It’s really disappointing when the refs determine the outcome of the game rather than the players though.
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To further my questions above, assume that the QB was down before he threw the pass at the end of regulation. There would be no reason for the clock to stop at that point. The clock would stop with the incomplete pass or the interception (change of possession), but it had already expired. Why did they add time back on the clock at that point?
Here’s more – https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/lsu-vs-texas-a-m-score-how-the-aggies-won-epic-highest-scoring-game-in-fbs-history-after-7ot/ -
The lovely Patty sings Daniel Prayed.
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And yet another reason why women should not be placed into positions of responsibility:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/25/mays-betrayal-agreement-signed-britain-on-the-road-to-brexit-in-name-only/
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From my #70 last night. The unusual last name rung a bell and sure enough…
Protecting against invasions, again, is one of the obligations. Besides, it was Judge Tigar who, with his injunction against the president, drew first constitutional blood. Mr. Trump promptly dismissed him as an “Obama judge.” No doubt the country is split as to whether that is a compliment or an insult. All the more startling that Chief Justice Roberts piped up with a statement.
Michael Tigar, the judge’s father, defended Terry Nichols in the Oklahoma bombing case, defended attorney Lynne Stewart who treasonously assisted the original Blind Sheik of the WTC bombing, defended notorious communist prof Angela Davis in a murder conspiracy case and has a building named for him in Austin. Mike Tigar was the leftist attorney for the terrorist stars.
No wonder his son, Judge Jon S. Tigar, grew up to be the federal judge who did this.
A federal judge ruled recently that an inmate serving a life sentence for murder in California must receive sex-reassignment surgery at taxpayer expense.
The inmate was Rodney James Quine, 57, twice married and the father of two daughters. I write “was” because while in prison he changed his name to Shiloh Heavenly Quine. Quine began living as a woman in 2008, when prison officials authorized hormone treatments at taxpayer expense. Quine then began pushing for a sex change operation, to be paid for by California taxpayers like everything else in prison.
Enter Barack Obama. In 2013 Obama appointed Jon Tigar to the federal bench. Tigar, who evidently shares Obama’s fascination with the world of the transgendered, assigned himself to Quine’s case and appointed a team of San Francisco lawyers and the Transgender Law Center to represent Quine. The result of Tigar’s ruling in Quine’s favor is that the state of California must now provide sex reassignment surgery for prison inmates.
The Left doesn’t believe in our system of justice – they only go to law school to figure out how to game it.
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More on ATM/LSU – LSU was ranked 7th, ATM unranked. Yet the Ags were favored by the smart money in Vegas – how does that happen? And while it took a great deal of effort on the part of officials – they managed to pull it off. Now I don’t have a dog in this fight, but my initial views last night have intensified today as I watch a few replays and read others opinions. Ags definitely need to put an asterisk by this win.
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/LSU-Tigers-Texas-AM-SEC-officiating-torched-during-epic-overtime-game-125305386/
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#111 – He said Obama judge. What else do you need to know? Other than Linda Graham most likely voted to approve him.
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I don’t know if I mentioned it, but daughter brought her dog with her. My wife drove up to Brenham to pick her up Friday night. Daughter always said the her dog was crazier than mine, but I didn’t believe her, well she was right, damn thing about drove my Lil psycho dog nuts. Daughter’s
Dust Mopdog Lu Lu is, like mine, a rescue dog. Last spring a lady over in Alabama saw someone dumping a little dog over by Isaac Byrd’s place. She tried to catch her but she ran into the woods toward Bear Creek, then about two weeks later the little dog showed up at Grandniece’s house, covered with Cockle Burrs and starving. It took a couple of days putting out food to get her hands on the dog and longer to earn her respect. They cleaned her up and took her to the vet for shots and had her fixed. When my wife visited later, she talked daughter into taking her. I tried to talk her out of it but was too late so now she is part of the family. -
OK, lets try this, I tried to link the Google Map where the dog was dropped and found but it didn’t work. So try this map. Dropped off at the bottom and found at the top. FWIW: We couldn’t figure out how she managed to not get eaten by the Coyotes for two weeks.
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#87, Bob McNair?
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If you check out the map in #114 and scroll right, you can see my place. The big pond is just south of Hopeful church road and the small one is just south of George Faulk Drive. Oh and like El Gordo, my road is named after someone in my family, my grandfather.
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A very good article on a virtually unrecognized decision by the British which saved Europe from a Nazi victory, no thanks to the French.
The British did so, in the form of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), consisting of several hundred thousand troops along with tanks and aircraft. It was a wasted effort, as the British could not buttress the listless and disorganized French forces against the brilliantly trained, highly motivated German army. Germany’s blitzkrieg tactics decimated the allied formations, inflicting severe losses and taking great swaths of French territory.
Sometimes, what might seem to be a small decision at the time can have huge long-range consequences, with repercussions that last decades into the future, even to the point of altering the course of history. Such was the case in the battle for France in May of 1940. British Air Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding made the decision to not send any of Britain’s valuable Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft to France for the fight against the Germans. The Spitfire was generally regarded as the best fighter plane in the world at the time (narrowly edging out Germany’s BF-109 and Japan’s Mitsubishi Zero-Sen). Dowding correctly recognized that Britain would soon be in a one-on-one fight for survival against Germany and any hope Britain had of fighting off the German air force (the Luftwaffe) rested squarely on the shoulders of their small contingent of Spitfires.
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Good gloomy, foggy Sunday morning Hamsters. The temperate 63 this am has made it to 65 out here on the windy moors of the Brazos. Old Glory on the porch has been fluttering in the breeze all morning and likely most of the night, awaiting the front’s arrival later this morning or early afternoon. No mention of rain in the forecast, and that’s ok since our ground is still wet from earlier rains and drizzles, and there are several muddy spots near the barn where the mares hang out waiting to come in. The breeze has had no luck dispersing the fog/mist yet.
Our Drake elms in the front pasture are in full autumn dress now with gorgeous yellow/gold leaves. The pecan trees have lost most of their yellow leaves and look pretty forlorn in contrast, though we now have great views of their nut hulls, many still full and awaiting more north winds to fall open. The transition from summer to fall to winter comes at its own pace here and clearly at times ignores the calendar.
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The last betting line I saw was LSU by 3.
I reviewed videos of the worst calls this morning.
Really, really bad.
Oh, well. The bowls will still be lined up, begging LSU to play in their bowl.
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Well I’ve not heard of Tom Steyer, but apparently he is running for president, I just saw him on Meet the Depressed. FWIW: He is an idiot, he has 6.5 million signatures on a petition to get Trump impeached. He’s not mentioned why, since there is no reason other than he beat the Hildabeast.
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Illustrating why hospitals are often the places that kill you. If bad fortune finds you in a hospital, get the hell out of there as fast as you can.
From the Chron.
A year ago, several days before Thanksgiving, my mother was sent into hospice care to die. She was weak and declining by the hour. Three doctors told us that a nasty blood condition called sepsis would soon stop her heart.
then,
I couldn’t persuade a doctor to come in and see her, and I felt as if my window to help her was closing fast.
So I spun into action: I called a mobile phlebotomist (the people who stick you to take a blood sample) to come over right away to do an independent blood panel. It was the best call I ever made. We found out that my mother wasn’t dying of sepsis at all – instead, she had critically low potassium.
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Steyer is a billionaire lefty enviro-whackjob who has been financing left wing candidates for years.
The Dims could very well latch on to him in 2020.
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So Tom Steyer says what we need is a Positive Vision? I guess Trump’s low taxes and regulation reform and the increase in jobs is NOT a positive vision?
Oh, and he has his 5 rights as part of his vision;
Free Universal Healthcare
Free College Education
The Right to an Equal Vote? I’m guessing he means the right for dead people to vote
Clean Air and Water????
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The Right to an Equal Vote?
Abolition of the electoral college. IOW, mob rule.
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Bet those Cajuns are ragin’ this morning.
Terrible officiating last night. The pee wee league refs I saw this year were/are a better crew than that College Station bunch last night.
But 74-72? You score 72 in football and lose.
The Hell?Someone resurrect Vince Lombardi so he can teach these teams to play some defense.–Geeezzz.
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Well, I found what you guys can get me for Christmas, a FK Burno 7.5 X 27! It shoots a 30 caliber, 95 grain bullet @ 2000 FPS, out of a pistol. The small 27 mm round generates 50,600 PSI, that pressure is in the rifle category, a lot more than the 40,000 PSI for the 44/357 magnum and much more than the 17,000 for the 38 Special.
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#104 Shannon
Situs Inversus
Now that’s definitely some news I can use. Seriously. That is good to know.
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I was watching Motor Week and they have the new GMC Denali with the 420 HP, 6,2L engine, mated to a 10 speed transmission. 1/4 mile time 14.1, that is faster than some of the 60’s muscle cars. not bad for a big, heavy truck.
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So, Situs Inversus is real? I find that hard to believe!
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From my #127
Velocity at 100 m (110 yds): 465 m/s (1525 fps) ! Dayaam….. -
#121, when my wife had surgery a while back, she had to stay overnight in the hospital. The doctor asked her, the next day, if she was ready to go home and told her she really need to GTHO, the hospital is no place to be when you’re healing for being cut open.
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Our Johnson brothers are providing us with lots of interesting medical news this morning. Texpat’s #121 is a real heads-up. I think we’ve been lucky in Houston because there are so many really good doctors here. I think of Hubs being hospitalized for what certainly seemed to be more heart problems, 15 years after his triple bypass, but it turned out to be a genetic defect that caused tiny blood clots to form in his lungs. This is diagnosed with a DNA test looking for the bad gene. In retrospect, it seemed almost certain that this defect had caused his father’s death at age 55, although it was diagnosed at the time as respiratory disease caused by smoking.
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Here’s a Dreher article that should leave no doubt to anyone with a brain bigger than a mustard seed that “trans” is a severe mental disorder.
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The Spitfire was generally regarded as the best fighter plane in the world at the time (narrowly edging out Germany’s BF-109 and Japan’s Mitsubishi Zero-Sen).
While the author is correct in his deduction of Dowding’s reason for not sending the Spitfire to France, he is arguably wrong about the Sprifire’s superiority over the BF-109. It had slightly heavier armament than the 109 with (8) .303 MGs in contrast to the 109’s (4) 7.62’s, but the German MGs had a higher rate of fire.
Where the 109 bested the Spitfire was that it was one of the first fighter aircraft to use fuel injection. The early Merlins in the Spitfire had a tendency to cut out if the aircraft went inverted—something that occurs regularly in air combat—where the Messerschmitt’s Daimler Benz engine could keep right on chugging.
Another advantage had nothing to do with the aircraft, but with the pilots. A significant number of German pilots had already seen combat service flying earlier versions of the 109 in the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War, and of course all of them had seen combat in Poland and France. Few of the Spitfire pilots had seen any combat at all.
Thing that worked most in the Spitfire’s favor was the limited range of the 109. The would arrive over Britain with enough fuel for only a few minutes combat, whereas the British fighters were only minutes away from having just been topped off.
But the people who won the Battle of Britian for the British were the German leaders. Two critical decisions were made that led to defeat: the decision to stop bombing the radar installations on the coast, and the decision not to bomb the British airfields within range. The British always knew when they were coming and pretty much where they were going, and their fighters were always intercepting with aircraft which had essentially just taken off with full fuel tanks, and which could refuel and rearm almost immediately.
The Spitfire is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful aircraft in History, and was superior to most fighters of the age when it was introduced, but it was, at best, the equal of the 109, if not just under it.
And it must be said: the best fighter aircraft on the planet in 1939-1943 was the Zero (it had a 12-1 kill ratio). Its performance was so astounding that US was unable to field a fighter that would consistenly beat it after they captured a flying example in the Aluetians in 1942 and used what they learned from studying it to develop the Hellcat.
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The boy called and was talking about the Alabama/Auburn and the Aggie/LSU games and he said; “as someone who doesn’t have a dog in the fight, the Aggie/LSU game was stolen by the officials.” He said that in the last second, the Aggie QB spiked the ball, but the time had already ran out, also they had 5 men instead of 7 when the play started. He also mentioned something that happened earlier in the game about an 18 yard third down and they went 17 yards, called it a first down but more importantly, they didn’t review it. So, there you have it, coming from my football expert. 😉
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134 mharp
Fay has over fifty years of stories about having to clean up after osteopaths, non-traditional medicine men, Eastern medicine types, witch doctors, holistic indigenous healers….you name it.
Whatever turns your crank. But I’ll take my chances with the real physicians and specialists 🙂
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#135 Hamous
Warning to anyone interested in reading the whole thing. It is graphic, repulsive, and something that describes how it is possible to figuratively turn a brain and the mind within it into moldering mush.
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I forgot, the boy called earlier to tell me he was decorating the outside of his house for the first time, he told his wife, “Hey, I come from a two time, community association, Christmas decorator winner.”
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Texas Man Nails 3-Mile Shot to Set New Distance Record.
Using a custom rifle chambered in .408 Cheyenne Tactical, Bill Poor connected on a 3-mile shot to set what could be a new world record.
Bill Poor, of Tuscola, Texas, reportedly connected on a 3-mile shot Jan. 14, 2018 near Midland. His 5,280-yard shot breaks the unofficial record of 2.84 miles (5,000 yards) set by retired Navy SEAL Charles Melton in Sept. 2017. And, it shatters the 3,800-yard and 4,210-yard shots the Hill Country Rifle Team made in 2015 and 2016.
Poor used a custom rifle modified by Vestal’s Custom Rifles, chambered in .408 CheyTac, firing a 390-grain bullet at 3,160 feet per second. It took the bullet over 14 seconds to reach the target 3 miles away.
Specifically designed for long-distance shooting, Cheyenne Tactical cartridges are popular among long-distance marksmen. Charles Melton also used a .408 CheyTac to make his 2.8-mile shot last year, and the HCR Team used a .375 CheyTac for both of their epic shots.
It reportedly took Poor just eight attempts to hit a 53-inch-wide target when he made his 3-mile shot. -
North wind picking up, chillier.
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Shannon
Whatever turns your crank. But I’ll take my chances with the real physicians and specialists
You’ve stumped me here. Are you saying that, in your mind, DNA analysis is a crackpot medical procedure?
I think you’ve told me that you and/or Fay are seeing a cardiologist in the same group as Dr Berman, who ordered my husband’s DNA test for a blood-clotting defect.
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Here’s my daily dose of A O-C!
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The invasion of our southern border is underway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBWuqHyIcbY&feature=youtu.beI haven’t even looked to see if the MSM is carrying any of this, but I doubt they are.
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Still watching The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. It’s still weird. Right up my alley.
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I’ll probably need to cite a source, Germany was winning the air war over Britain. Some German bombers bombed London at night by mistake, the British retaliated by bombing Berlin at night, and an annoyed Hitler retaliated by shifting the focus to bombing London. London took a beating while the RAF built up. During that, an engineer who never worked on planes before made major improvements on the Merlin supercharger that made the Spitfire what it was/came to be.
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The day Moses brought the ten commandments down from Mt Sinai is the same day Herr Ferris Mueller started his investigation of the president.
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Who announced Trump made a deal about the caravan waiting in Mexico? Best I can find is a Mexican source told the Washington Post it would happen and they recanted. Did the anyone in the Trump Admin. say this happened?
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GJT is eating at Texas Mesquite Grill ….oh wait, this ain’t Facebook
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Just heard that the SEC officials for the Aggie-LSU game are direct descendants of the referees that officiated 1972 USSR-USA Olympic basketball game.
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The San Ysidro port of entry, among the largest border crossings between San Diego and Tijuana, was shut down by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents Sunday after hundreds of caravan migrants appeared to have attempted to breach a U.S.-Mexico border fence.
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I saw some translated quotes from that bunch in Tijuana, saying they weren’t going to apply for asylum. Takes too long so they just want to live illegally in the US like cockroaches.
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Fay has over fifty years of stories about having to clean up after osteopaths, non-traditional medicine men, Eastern medicine types, witch doctors, holistic indigenous healers….you name it.
Most everybody here recognizes these quacks for what they are. I’m more concerned with the physicians, medical staff and administrators who, for instance, nearly killed my friend, Alan, recently out of incompetence and callous indifference. This was at the prominent Princeton Medical Center.
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#135 RE Hamous article regarding gender dysphoria.
All I can say is Lord have mercy on those suffering and not receiving the help they need and for us (society’s) head long rush to make their dystopia our new reality.
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135 Hamous
I made it through the first two quoted paragraphs and thought: This is nihilism to the tenth power.
It didn’t take long for Dreher to say the same thing.
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#146 Gordo
Still watching The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. It’s still weird. Right up my alley.
I watched this on my flight home from London this past July. It was a strange movie, but for some reason I really enjoyed it.
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The Left has its panties in an uproar over mental health funding for deranged shooters, but couldn’t care less about providing intervention and help for these deeply troubled people who are permanently mutilating their bodies with the full cooperation of our vaunted medical elite.
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136 Sarge
I knew my comment on Dunkirk would draw you out. Good stuff.
The very first airplane model I assembled as a boy was the Messerschmitt Bf 109. It must have been from my father because I know my mother would never have bought a German or Japanese
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I can now add HVAC duct work repair to my repertoire of DIY. I went into the attic the other day to set mouse/rat traps and I discovered they had chewed through some of the duct work. Two trips to Home Depot and alot of sweat later, I was successful.
You can only buy flex duct in 25′ lengths. I probably have about 15′ of 8″ duct left over. If ya’ll need some, let me know… we can work out a great deal.
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Well, this seems to cover it. The specific article about the Merlin supercharger upgrade is probably in there.
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Two trips to Home Depot and alot of sweat later, I was successful.
Yep. And, for me anyhow, standing there in the aisle I think I should be in – looking up, left, right, behind me scratching my head. Then to the next aisle….
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Just returned home from a visit with my cousin and aunt in Lufkin. I haven’t laughed that much in a long, long time. We shared family stories, and my aunt received one of Mom’s crocheted blankets that she kept on her bed to keep her feet warm. Aunt was very touched and grateful to get it.
We had a non-agression pact to not discuss politics: my aunt is a liberal and loves, loves, loves the Wookie. I tried to stay away from politics but she began an attempt to get me to agree with her on global warming. I kept my eyes on my crochet and my mouth shut, because I love the very overweight, diabetic woman who’s on oxygen, has little left of her knees and even less of her back. She’s a heart attack waiting to happen, so why strain her? I did try to point out that the polar bears are not, in fact, lessening in numbers, but there was no stopping her. So I pointed out how cute their little dog was, when her ears were straight up that made a single point. The diversion worked and the subject was dropped.
Situs Inversus
Hubby’s mentor and second daddy didn’t just have inverted organs, some of them were vertically flipped as well. He went in for pain, the signs showed possible appendicitis but the pain was in the wrong place. They started where the appendix was supposed to be and ended up cutting diagonally across his entire torso before they finally found it.
I’ll never forget that story.
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GJT, it was like divine intervention on the second trip. I had discovered I had two different sized ducts going to my master bedroom. I needed an 8″x7″ reducer. I didn’t recall seeing them the first trip. I was prepared to go to multiple Home Depots and Lowes to find that reducer. I walked right to the correct spot and there it was right before me… like I said divine intervention.
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As a PSA, The Galveston stroll has has gone from the Strand, Merchant, Mechanic, and now to Post Office Street. Highly recommended.
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The maw-in-law was a teen in the day, we drove through Galveston and she pointed out the houses where ladies in their undies were on the porch. There is a new local book about that, yet to read it. There is some local interest in the Maceos as well. Interesting book.
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gtotracker says:
NOVEMBER 25, 2018 AT 5:13 PM
I’ll probably need to cite a source, Germany was winning the air war over Britain. Some German bombers bombed London at night by mistake, the British retaliated by bombing Berlin at night, and an annoyed Hitler retaliated by shifting the focus to bombing London. London took a beating while the RAF built up. During that, an engineer who never worked on planes before made major improvements on the Merlin supercharger that made the Spitfire what it was/came to be.The supercharger improved high altitude performance, but did not come in time to help during the BoB—the Germans mucked it up all by themselves. I forget the Historian, but I read an article about 30 years ago where he made a pretty good case that the scandal of WW2 is that it took so long to defeat the Germans. They’re post-Blitzkrieg conduct of the war was a tectbook example of how to lose a war right after you’ve won it. The biggest mistake they made as in changing the bombing of airfields, radar, and support facilities to bombing London. It guaranteed loss of that battle, and that resulted in the worlds largest aircraft carrier moored off the coast of France: the British Isles.
They could have recovered from that had they not made the second mistake: invading Russia before taking England. Had they waited they would have had secure western, northern, and southern flanks and cut Russia off from all supplies except those which could have been delivered to Pacific ports.
The only thing the Germans did right after 1941 was keeping the disaster they suffered taking Crete a secret (practically the only piece of classified information the Allies didn’t know about until after the war was over), and even that turned out bad for them as keeping it a secret led the US and British to make improvements when they established their own Airborne divisions, rather than abandon the concept as the Germans did.
136 Sarge
I knew my comment on Dunkirk would draw you out. Good stuff.
The very first airplane model I assembled as a boy was the Messerschmitt Bf 109. It must have been from my father because I know my mother would never have bought a German or Japanese
model kit for me.I bet it was the Aurora model with the pilot’s head and shoulders molded into the cockpit. Mine was the Focke Wulf. You wouldn’t beleive what they’re doing with plastic models these days.
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gtotracker says:
NOVEMBER 25, 2018 AT 7:12 PM
Well, this seems to cover it. The specific article about the Merlin supercharger upgrade is probably in there.Here’s the skinny on the Packard Merlin supercharger. They came with the production models from the beginning and were upgraded to high altitude two stafe superchargers in mid war, primarily for use in bombers, but found their way into P51s, and that’s where a legend begins—-
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There was a time when Post Office St. had that reputation. Is it overun with hipsters now?
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I’ve read up on the Coen Bros. and have discovered that one of their most highly acclaimed movies was No Country For Old Men, starring one of our locals. In the set of short stories/film of the Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Buster is a singing cowboy, a real dude, apparently a la Roy Rogers or Gene Autry vintage who calls himself the San Saba Songbird. That got me to thinking, which is always a dangerous thing, and wondering if that might be a tribute or a joke or otherwise somehow related to our local. I’ve not found anything that would indicate such anywhere that I have read, but it might be an interesting little “inside baseball” type move the Bros would pull. Just wondering. Night all.
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Guess we’re not going to make 2 hunnert tonight, even with all the skipping and hopping and jumping – might even be a little snorting or even butt chugging out there, who knows. Anyway, longing for 2 hunnert when I check in tomorrow morning.
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#162 – Heck with the extra duct!
How much ya charge to set some mousetraps in the attic?
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TWO HUNDRED
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