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Well, there y’all are! We made it to Hump Day.
What a great picture, thanks, Texpat!
Mornin’ Gang -
Oh and texanadian, do pop in again.
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Good morning Hamsters. Gloomy and 52 here at 6 and 7, and we are enjoying a warmish day before we plunge down into the depths of the oncoming cold front by the weekend. Winter with all its teeth shall visit here.
The Chron staff can’t decide what’s happening in the energy sector here so we’ve had a recent article touting the booming Permian oil and gas production even with a kink in delivery of same to port by not having enough pipelines, and today they have a headline “Energy sector outlook guarded.”
Duh, don’t the Chron reporters/ writers read their own paper???? Or is it wishful thinking? Because, you know, petroleum is so dirty and natural gas has to also be dirty because its linked to petroleum production. Freeze a Yankee in the dark comes to mind. 🙂
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I don’t like to judge nor make fun of anyone’s appearance (unless it’s from really bad choices or they are obviously courting attention), but Castro’s mug looks weird. Fake. Wax. That smile doesn’t look natural.
Madame Toussad would be proud.
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I’m going in for selective surgery at noon today to remove bone spurs in my left foot. It’s outpatient, but full, general anesthetic. And again, I’ll be pretty much homebound for at least two weeks. At least I’m doing this when the weather is crappy outside.
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Sooo…you’ll have time to create those awesome posts we all admire so much?
/ducking and running
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Surely he’ll be recuperated enough for our Friday offering.
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John Hinderaker at Powerline posted this to illustrate how far the mighty have fallen.
Gillette used to be a huge sponsor of sports programming for decades beginning in the 1940s. Their musical theme, the Look Sharp March, was so popular school marching bands played it.
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Gillette started their nose dive when I stopped shaving in 1981. It was sad getting those come back we miss you cards
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Note that most of those on the bridge are fleeing.
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Who will shovel the snow this weekend?
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My liquor store got sold.
The only retail stores in town not owned by Middle Easterners/Asians are the two Dollar Stores and Brookshire Brothers. -
And the other liquor store.
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And the furriners haven’t taken over the antique stores. Or Poffenberger’s meat market.
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Shannon
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Most of those leaving at night are going to Brooklyn and Queens because they can’t afford to live in Manhattan. Now, Brooklyn and parts of Queens have become unaffordable. They are killing the middle class.11
It looks like we’re going to have a few inches of snow followed by 12 hours of rain so it’ll wash it away. -
Shannon, hope you didn’t steer me wrong with the $12.86 roast beef with Ranch/Au Jus in the crock pot. Will know for sure in 7 hours
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16 CFree
Had the same, day before yesterday.
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Morning gang. I see where Nancy has disinvited the President from presenting the State of the Union in the people’s House. These people’s egos are completely out of control. The members of the House have been selected to represent the people who live in their districts, those people have in turn selected one of their members to oversee their operations. But, for some reason probably related to gender, the Speaker deems herself to be operating on the same plane as the President, who is elected by all the people through the electoral college. Trump has to figure out a way to bench slap her back to reality and to accept her inferior station in life. Who knows what he will do, but he will do something. Subtlety will not work – it must be something completely and totally humiliating, so should be interesting.
https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorialfiles/2019/01/16/Letter%20to%20President%20Trump%20-%20SOTU.pdfMeanwhile, Dems are expecting Trump and the Reps to cave on the shutdown any minute now. Why, you ask. Because the Reps always cave – always have, always will. The Dems don’t know why the Reps have not already caved, but they expect it to happen any time now. (So do I eventually – because they always do). Meanwhile, Nobody seems to mind too much. I see where some food places are trying to make a little hay by offering free meals to government workers – Killens BBQ for one. I’m really disappointed in these places – they never offered free meals for plant workers who get laid off, petroleum field workers who get laid off, etc. I always thought that BBQ place was OK, but no mas. Hopefully the striking TSA and other workers will be shown the door ala Ronald Reagan. The bill has already been signed that guarantees back pay for all these people, and government will reopen one day.
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I found the article quoted yesterday (or day before) about a 30 day shutdown allowing RIF procedures to start, allowing Trump to slim down the bloated bureaucracy and eliminating the Deep State wissholes, to be an interesting scenario.
Looking forward to it. Maybe we should send a bunch of those libs into the desert, where they can water the ground with their liberal tears.
Because we’ve had enough rain for a while, where I live.
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Yet vitamin D supplementation has failed spectacularly in clinical trials. Five years ago, researchers were already warning that it showed zero benefit, and the evidence has only grown stronger. In November, one of the largest and most rigorous trials of the vitamin ever conducted—in which 25,871 participants received high doses for five years—found no impact on cancer, heart disease, or stroke.
How did we get it so wrong? How could people with low vitamin D levels clearly suffer higher rates of so many diseases and yet not be helped by supplementation?
As it turns out, a rogue band of researchers has had an explanation all along. And if they’re right, it means that once again we have been epically misled.
These rebels argue that what made the people with high vitamin D levels so healthy was not the vitamin itself. That was just a marker. Their vitamin D levels were high because they were getting plenty of exposure to the thing that was really responsible for their good health—that big orange ball shining down from above.https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science
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#20 Shannon
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Note that most of those on the bridge are fleeing.
I think that’s just the normal evening commute out of Manhattan.
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I’m caught up in the idea of Speaker Nancy rescinding her SOTU invitation to Trump. This opens up several opportunities for Trump, recognizing of course that the Dims have realized giving Trump the platform so soon after he yanked the rug out from under them once before on this issue, is not really a good idea. There are several jabs regarding Nancy’s concern over security issues in the nation’s capitol building, culminating in the Dims failure to provide security for the nation’s citizens. But I digress. Trump should send over a one or two page report on the SOTU to Congress as require, but he should hold one of his patented rallies somewhere to deliver the address. Imagine 20 or 30 thousand people listening to the SOTU in a basketball area somewhere while the Dims are frolicking in Puerto Rico (pictures being shown on the big screen while the speech is going on) and the government is shut down. I think he could be a huge success with this format.
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#18 EG:. I think Trumpenfuehrer should request airtime from the networks and deliver the SOTU address from the oval office. This would not require any special effort or security measures. It would also have the effect of going around Nanzi once again.
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If you think we have a political mess on our hands, you should watch a little of the Brits Parliment no confidence debate over Teresa May. It’s a hoot.
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I’m tellin ya, they’re fleeing.
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#24 – I prefer the roaring, unruly crowd to the somber oval office setting. Just a personal preference I think, but Trump seems to optimize his theatrical talents in the larger setting. And no Dems there to boo him as he talks about the wall and whatever else he wants to do. This wall charade is the best political act ever cooked up by anyone, and he should keep riding it all the way into 2020 if he can.
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“We have tons of white- and blacklists that humans manually curate,” said the employee. “Hopefully this isn’t surprising or particularly controversial.”
Nah… Google manipulating search results on YouTube is not a big concern to me.
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……………..meanwhile up in The People’s Republic of Boulder Colorado…….
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…but Castro’s mug looks weird.
I’m tellin’ ya, his head got caught in a trash compactor.
…or… if Charlie Chan and Alan Colmes had a baby.
/let that image sink in and take up residence in yer peanut
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Which Castro?
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Either one. They’re twins. But I think she’s talking about Julian, the one running for president.
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…or… if Charlie Chan and Alan Colmes had a baby.
/let that image sink in and take up residence in yer peanut,…..
I’d rather not.
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I can’t wait to see the election night returns of a Florida election with a guy named Castro on the ballot.
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Last night my wife was sitting on he couch,, pecking on her phone and suddenly started laughing,..then she showed me This, from over yonder. 😀
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I’m back from the abattoir and they didn’t screw up and kill me. Her Highness is bring me a big thin crust pizza tonight because I haven’t eaten in 20 hours.
By the way, what is the recipe for this crockpot ranch/au jus roast ? My problem is finding a decent quality roast around here. These people have no idea what a good brisket or roast is supposed to look like.
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King Arthur best pay heed.
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Texpat
I’m back from the abattoir and they didn’t screw up and kill me.
Good thing you are not a horse. Hurt feet and legs mean ya woulda been shot and then we would have to beat ya for a few months.
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When I was in college I had a professor accuse me of plagiarism.
His words, not mine.
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Why doesn’t the conversion to dog years change as human life expectancy increases?
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#40 – in order for the conversion rate to change, it is the dog’s life expectancy that must increase, not the human. Some sort of math formula I think.
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#5 Texpat
Hope you are home now and starting a speedy recovery.
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#12, The Vietnamese who had the convenience store down the street lost the lease. To Indians, dots not feathers. Seems like all the stores in San Leon and Baycliff are now Indian. Kind of ironic, I remember when the Vietnamese showed up and 4% government loans enabled them to leverage out the locals when everybody else in the Carter years were facing 20% plus interest.
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My office computer died, rather than build one I just bought one. Don’t need much to just use spread sheets and word processors. Which meant dealing with Windows 10. On an HP pavilion. Took almost an hour to get to the point where I could get the thing to reboot so I could load kubuntu. Start a Microsoft account, password (f.u.m.s. did not work). One of the reasons it took so long is I read the screens. HP, MS, and some others want to send adds and read everything you do. Even though I click ‘no’ or skip on everything, I doubt it matters. New to me anyway, I reckon this is not news to others.
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It’s a very complex recipe.
3lbs Chuck Roast.
1 envelope Hidden Valley Ranch DIP mix
1 envelope Au Jus mix
(Reduce the normal amount of salt when seasoning meat. Pepper as usual.)
Cook.
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in order for the conversion rate to change, it is the dog’s life expectancy that must increase, not the human. Some sort of math formula I think.
It’s a ratio. For it to stay the same the life expectancy of both would have to change at the same rate. I bet the multiplier is about 10 by now.
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“the ogler”?
New guy on The Couch? Everybody, scooch over and make some room!
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Or is that El Gordo?
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Oh, wait…confused San Saba with San Leon.
All those sans look the same to me.
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Max is probably 12 years old now.
Still reasonably spry with the help of Cosequin and a prescription anti inflammatory.
Sleeps more than before….if that is even possible.
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I’m just glad we have another ogler around here. We need to keep up the ratio.
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I’m not the ogler, but welcome ogler. I moved from San Leon to San Saba, not the other way around. I’ve been 100% Microsoft free for a couple of years now using Cinnamon Mint and am entirely happy with it. I’m virtually Google free except I do watch some stuff on You Tube periodically. Duck Duck Go is my friend. Why anyone would even try to put up with Microsoft 10 is beyond me – it’s not just worthless, but it’s confusing in addition. My older machines like the Mint programs. They run faster and are much happier and they let me know. What’s for dinner Granpa? Looking like George Foreman grilled pok chop out here with a side of microwave fresh broccoli.
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Quickbooks doesn’t run in Linux, I believe. I’m not sure Wine would help. The software, not the libation. I have to use Windows.
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#53, nope. You still get hosed for their yearly payroll subscription as well. Hence my learning #10. They are going to drop #7 as well.
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You eat late for a guy who is 700 years old in dog years.
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Leftover chili for me tonight.
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I see rEgressiveWood is coming out with a propaganda film about RBG called On the Basis of Sex.
It never ends.
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Memory Lane, Mr. Katfish.
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I may be 700 dog years old, but I don’t eat dog and I don’t rent pigs.
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#50 Shannon
Speaking of senior pets, our senior mare Contessa will be 27 in early May and be the oldest horse we’ve ever had. The previous oldest mare Mara died at 25 a couple of years ago.
Contessa’s companion Ruby will probably be 17 later this year, for we have not yet tracked down her history or pedigree if that can be obtained from the Registry records of the Arabian Horse Ass’n in Denver. We hope that can be accomplished by sending a blood sample to the Registry for analysis and comparison to the blood samples on file to find a match with her parents. There is always the outside possibility Ruby was never registered, as I have not been able to find her in the Arabian Datasource online, by her supposed birthdate or by fragments of her name as we know it.
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I wonder if this ogler is here because he’s heard about Texpat’s Friday porn pix?
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Well, given his screen name…..quite possibly.
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pr0n.
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Late to the party, I am. But with a good ‘un from Ann Coulter.
https://vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-white-supremacists-ate-my-homeworkThe whole concept is bogus. In my life, I’ve encountered a number of white people—some of them are my best friends. I’ve never heard any of them suggest that whites should rule over other races. None of them has argued that a substandard white person should get a job over a more competent person just because he’s white—you know, what every other group openly advocates for itself.
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I’ve always found it ironic that the courts’ solution to politicians efforts at gerrymandering districts is for them to gerrymander the districts.
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A little Robert Duvall for a bedtime dream maker.
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The speech before the fight, about all that he’s been through, reminded me just a bit of my next door neighbor, 78-y.o. retired army colonel, with a koi pond in his back yard and some raccoons in his attic, here lately. -
Tis a bit long, interesting article on a largely forgotten bit of history.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/the-americans-soldiers-of-the-spanish-civil-war
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Now that was good, El Gordo.
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just gto. Thought it was funny, almost everybody has administrative access and figured it would be mentioned.
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