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BAWHAHAHA!!! I love it!
We have a weekend thread! Thanks, Texpat.
Mornin’ Gang -
I met Her Highness on a blind date and I’m still being held in captivity, 16 years later.
I’m tellin ya it’s always a woman no matter the question.
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#2 GJT Amen! 😀
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Happy Robert E. Lee Day!
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So, over yonder, OleTimerLin posted a picture that said “Your GPS is wrong turn around” So I posted that several years ago I was in north central Alabama, Oxford, to be exact and I was trying to get to Cheaha Mountain via 281 and my trusty GPS sent me down a gravel road that turned into a pig trail and ended at a gate, private property. 😉
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My GPS will argue for miles if you try and take a side road.
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A mite brisk out there.
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My GPS will argue for miles if you try and take a side road
The kids and I were going to Arkansas on vacation years ago. (Hubby was going to join us after a few days, due to work.) My “lady in the box” didn’t like the fact that I chose to travel hwy 59 instead of 45, and for miles kept telling me to U turn or turn left. I kept sassing her back. For some reason, my children thought it was hilarious. For miles. Made the trip fun.
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I always said, the one female I control in my life is the GPS woman, and she’s on permanent mute.
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Morning gang. Looks like Nancy skipped town anyway, but her travel load looks a lot lighter
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/speaker-pelosi-spotted-at-reagan-airport-as-president-trump-stays-in-d-c-during-govt-shutdown/The President is to make a speech today at 2PM our time. Wonder if he will point out that Nancy was in Hawaii, the Dems went on another adult vacation to Puerto Rico in early January, Nancy was planning to skip for a week long junket in Europe, Middle East, and then she actually did skip town for parts unknown. Meanwhile, Trump sits in the WH for Christmas, issues several invitations to the Dems for negotiations which have been ignored, was criticized for not visiting troops at Christmas while he was visiting troops at Christmas, is now being criticized for visiting troops at Christmas, and is maintaining an open door policy for negotiators to appear at any time. Hopefully some of this will be highlighted in his speech, maybe with an empty chair beside him. May be interesting.
Nancy seems to be keeping as much distance as is possible between herself and the Trump negotiating table.
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Man, those pintos are still decompressing. Think I’ll have a few more with a piece of cornbread for breakfast. Hair of the dog kinda thing….
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The press just can’t get it right
https://www.click2houston.com/news/homeowner-fatally-shoots-3-men-during-home-invasion-police-saidThe misleading headline might make you think that the homeowner shot 3 men. Not exactly. He shot 5 of them, killing 3. Now that’s a pretty good night, I don’t care who you are (assuming that there were only 5 involved in the break-in to begin with).
Chanel 13 headline writer does better
https://abc13.com/4-shot-and-3-dead-after-home-invasion-in-east-houston/5097015/Looking at the brass left behind, someone needs to work on their marksmanship.
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I second happy Robert E Lee day.
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It was a really stupid show but it did give us a classic fashion term.
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I noticed some of the Dems have quietly backed out of the pu**y hat march this year. How many proud Dem Jew-haters showed up?
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Good windy morning Hamsters. Sun showed up briefly and now is blocked by clouds. Wind was strong enough about 6:30 this morning to push me around a bit going down the driveway to fetch the Chron. Still blowing a gale as the temp steadily drops from the 55 it was at 6 to 46 now and surely on the way to a freeze tonight.
Trees other than live oaks are finally losing the rest of their leaves in all this, and the landscape in the neighborhood looks rather skeletal despite quite a few live oaks in yards near the houses.
We could use some good news from Mr. Trump’s announcement this afternoon.
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Can i get one of you math geniuses or engineers to check my math on this problem? Thanks in advance.
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Ha! That’s a good one.
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Who says there is no perfection on earth?
It was invented in 1899. It hasn’t been improved upon since.
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No I am not picking on engineers……………
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Seriously, I am not picking on engineers
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Power Line’s This Week In Pictures is outstanding, a cut above it’s normally very good lineup.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/the-week-in-pictures-house-of-carbs-edition.php -
It was a really stupid show but it did give us a classic fashion term.
Boss Hogg was the Shakespearean Billy Bobspeare in Dukes.
My personal favorite was the dog Flash.
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#20 Squawks
Hmmm. I have used both WD-40 and duct tape within the last 48 hrs to solve some problem.I really liked the paperclip article.
But I hated Clippy.
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But I hated Clippy.
Clippy is proof positive that the heart of man is unfathomably evil.
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Life is too short to safely remove the USB device.
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Intrigued by the headlines in 22…
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Man, those pintos are still decompressing.
😀
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The Maps app lady that comes with the iPhone doesn’t seem to care. She refigures the best route from wherever you deviate and doesn’t get too excited that you’ve overruled her. She still won’t grab me a beer, though.
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So this bUzzfeed story was complete propaganda.
I saw a clip of jEffrey tUbesteak on another site and he was lamenting the fact that the story made the Newspeak Media of the Mobs look bad because they reported it with such lust and vigor and now they’ve lost some credibility.
Uh, hey jEff.
You Newspeakers of the Mobs lost your credibility back in the late 60s covering the Vietnam War and it’s been downhill ever since morphing into the full blown Newspeak 1984 propagandists that you’ve ALL become.
Like an alcoholic you need to break clean.
Newspeakers Anonymous.
Yes my name is jEffrey tUbesteak and I’ve been a propagandist for 20 years.
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When Skeet’s wife, Brooke, mentioned getting an old truck and fixing it up, he didn’t ask any questions. He just started looking for the “neatest, coolest, oldest truck out there,” which turned out to be a 1948 GMC. Now they have six GMCs in all.
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Looking at the brass left behind, someone needs to work on their marksmanship.
Everybody’s a critic,
Nothing wrong with walking about and putting three or four extra in each one of them. 🙂
Besides, that brass may belong to the bad guys.
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27 Hammie
But recently, some flycatchers have arrived to find their nesting sites occupied by haughty, territorial great tits.
There is a wide range of strongly-held opinions on what constitutes great tits.
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The Maps app lady is pretty patient, she sits quietly by until you get back on course. Sometimes you can hear her tapping her foot and a slight sigh though.
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SD
Texpat’s BFF, now deceased, was called Skeet. I hadn’t thought about him in a while.Nice collection of trucks!
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My turn to be lay reader has rolled around again.
1Corinthians 12:1-11
1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.
4Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses. -
After I got my Garman GPS, I got tired of the whinny lady and while updating, online, I discovered Dr. Doom and loaded him on the GPS. FWIW; He too, gets annoying and I usually just mute the dayaam thang.
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There is a wide range of strongly-held opinions on what constitutes great tits.
Then there are some who are more laissez faire.
/NSFW
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37 SD
That’s pretty cool.I need to find a Lauren Bacall for mine.
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38 Hammie
So typical.
There is a small minority who have a different view.And we are an oppressed, ridiculed minority.
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Looks like the skank march is ruling the news today even though there are not many actual skanks showing up. I tuned in for the President’s announcement, but he’s apparently backed it up an hour or so. The Dems don’t know what the offer is, but they are rejecting it anyway; except that Nancy is still trying to get TSA to let her fly out of DC and is not available to negotiate. She’s totally afraid of getting anywhere near Trump because she knows that he will shuck the socks off her. Maybe her airport appearance was just a ruse to allow here to join her fellow skanks though.
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#40: Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own ✋
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41 ELG
Thanks for the update. We’ve been looking for it and assumed the Fifth Column decided to not carry it.
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I’m always leery of “major announcements”. They rarely live up to the hype.
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So nice to be able to watch some golf, even if it is LPGA.
One thing about 21st century pro women golfers….few are built like Roseanne, as they used to be.
One wonders how these tiny Asian women can produce such powerful drives.
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Where’s Wall Dough?
Encore!
Great stuff!
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But with Trump there’s always a possibility that it will be entertaining. Or ridiculous. Or even brilliant.
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Donald Trump Laments Media’s “Lost Credibility” Over BuzzFeed Story
🙂 😉 🙂
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4109 illegals will come across the border today and get free everything the rest of their lives.
And that’s not counting the ones with anchor babies waiting to drop.
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Has the Crawford Cowboy voulnteered his ranch as a holding place yet.
Didn’t think so.
We gotta stay true to our values right Dizz?
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After 33 years of the Goops and the rEdOops doing nothing but slopping off the CoC pig trough, if the Wall isn’t competed by yesterday, it’s going to be awful hard to plug a 100 foot section of the dam with just some silly putty and a two inch trowel.
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I’ll find out the big surprise after my nap. Better NOT be DACA!!!
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You’re gonna have nightmares.
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Now this Saturday announcement makes a little more sense. Trump came out with a reasonable compromise offer, reasonable enough to make people like me upset, knowing full well the Dems will reject it. It’s just the set-up to be able to say, “well, I tried being reasonable but the Dems just won’t go along” while at the same time declaring the border problem an emergency and ordering troops to build the wall. Expect to see that before the end of next week. I think that was his last offer, and Nancy doesn’t even want to be anywhere close to Washington DC to be asked to negotiate, so that was the final warning shot. CBS got a statement from Nancy, but no one really knows where she is. Anyway, that’s why it was held on Saturday when no one would be watching anyway.
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Big DACA compromise.
Read Jared Kushner’s fingerprints and the Turtle’s shell prints are all over that compromise.
Kushner is super rich so DACA will never be an issue for him or the Turtle.
Losing.
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Lol. They ain’t the president.
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Trump agreed to a DACA compromise months ago.
Nothing to see here.
And we’re walking.
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In my next life I want to be either an illegal alien or an H1B visa.
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No you don’t. You want to be a real American, no matter what.
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Looking at the brass left behind, someone needs to work on their marksmanship.
Just being thorough.
If you’re gonna shoot someone, you gotta make sure they stay shot.
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20/21 squack
I think the Navy says “If it moves, grease it. If it doesn’t move, paint it. “ -
The Trump family’s new duds.
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Playing the DACA card again is pretty shrewd.
It’s a tip of the hat to the recent spike in his popularity among Latinos and possibly forces the Dems to publicly abandon the DACA kids for the second time in a year. -
Cool. Lights went off after a tree branch landed on the power line. Generac generator kicked right on. Neighborhood is dark but I GOTS LIGHT and power to the house. Not bragging, just sayin.
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Frenchy’s Gumbo Base turned out to be very good. We added a half pound of fresh shrimp, a can of crab, and some white fish we had lying around.
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I don’t have a problem with “spicy”, but in this case they could have accomplished the same thing with less cayenne and allowed that incomparable gumbo roux flavor to bloom a little brighter.
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Evening couch kritters!! Y’all missed Trumps real point so have a read and then chat amoungst y’alls selves. RIF’s a comin in 3…2…1…
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#69 CbR
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Hey there Cbr.
Oh yes. I have been reading this week about the subject.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
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This has gotta hurt Chuck ‘n Nanzy!
Latinos are increasingly rallying for President Trump, according to data from a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
The poll notes that 50 percent of Latinos surveyed approve of the job Trump is doing, a 19-point increase from December of last year.
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Did I miss the super duper blood werewolf moon?
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It got cancelled due to the government shutdown.
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Ok Shannon wins the weekend. Y’all don’t even try and be funny you will look silly in contrast. 😀 😀
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Burrr, 33 degrees here, BUTT the humidity is 45%!
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1952 GMC 520 Series.
Original GMC Factory Product Photograph.With much of the northern US entombed in ice over snow today, I thought I’d share this Proving Grounds photo from GMC. Hard to guess whether this slid off like this or was backed into this spot to demonstrate the tandem suspension, but this is about what it looks like outside of my window today; major ice storm.
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Good freezing morning Hamsters. It was 33 at 6 when I fed the mares and went out to fetch the Chron. The gorgeous red moon was huge as she was setting. Temp slid to 32 before I got back in the house just at sunrise, and it’s still hanging in there.
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We will reach our high today at 1 PM of 41 degrees and then the temperature will start falling until it hits 8 degrees at 9 AM tomorrow morning rising to a high of 15. Low on Tuesday morning will be 13 and soar all the way to 30 tomorrow afternoon.
The monster snowstorm went north of us into New England so all we’ve had is rain and a light shower of ice pellets. The ice tomorrow will be really bad here and thankfully it is a holiday.
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The super werewolf bloody moon is tonight.
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I could have really been cold out there this morning if we didn’t have global warming to help us out. Not much news on the immigration front, but I’m taking the position that Trump made those offers to the Dems knowing they would turn down the whole deal, and further exposing themselves to be the party of open borders. This is all about 2020, not next week or next month. Nancy is on the run, junketeering from place to place so as to be unavailable for negotiations, and expect that to continue even though Trump has cancelled her Air Force pass. That’s got to be humiliating to have to breeze through the public airports, smell the great unwashed standing in TSA lines (I’m pretty sure she gets a pass there still; those are her union people you know), having to sit next to someone in first class – why that’s no better than SJL travels – how humiliating.
The snake in pile of course is McConnell. He doesn’t want a border fence interrupting the flow of his oriental cocaine coming across the southern border either. There will be tricks played along the way, as he is also making every effort to stay out of the fray and keep it strictly between Nancy and The Donald. Of course, being a female, Nancy can’t do this on her own and needs to have a male figure standing next to her, so that’s where Schumer comes in. He’s minority leader of the Senate, but his stature is enhanced with the appearance that he and Nancy are running the country. OK, more later. Have a great day you all.
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Morning, chickadees. I’m up early (for me) and having breakfast. It is HOA Nazi day and we’re off to take pix and addresses. Bwa HaHa Ha!
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HEADLINE: Scientists ID another possible threat to orcas: pink salmon
Pink salmon have a 2 year life cycle. In odd years they return to the inland streams to spawn and die. In even years they are out in the Pacific in much greater numbers than the preferred salmon of the orca: the chinook, by about 50:1. It is an interesting and short article.
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If Trump is just playing Nanzy and KNOWS she won’t take the deal, then I hope Ann Coulter is playing along when she says:
Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!
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I used to enjoy reading Ann, but just like most if not all other women opinion writers, she let her feelings get out in front of logic. Then, her feelings took her around the bend. Somewhere about the same time that she fell in love with that fat guy from New Jersey who turned out to be a flake and let her down again. Don’t misunderstand, Ann has a unique writing and speaking style that I can appreciate, acid tipped pen and acid tipped tongue. But she tends to fly off the handle with a more shallow viewpoint that she used to. Maybe Trump is paying her for this analysis thinking that the Dems will grab on to it and get shown up once again, I don’t know. Ann just needs to find herself a manly man who can corral and tame that no longer so young filly and put her brain (or something) to good use.
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#85 EG: That is some world class snark right there!
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Off topic here, but I have a friend that plays for the Blue Jays so I keep up with their news feeds and such. They are having their winter tour where they take a few players out on the road as stage events for fans, etc. I think all the teams do something like this. Anyway, the star of this show is a little kid who makes it his job to announce the players. It starts about the 3:20 mark
https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/video/blue-jays-winter-tour-day-1/c-2522108283?tid=8877962 -
I loved Richie Havens from the first time I heard him and I did get to see him live once. He was as unique as an artist can be and never deviated from who he was. Scott Johnson at Powerline has a tribute to Havens in honor of what would have been his 78th birthday tomorrow.
Mr. Havens played many songs written by Mr. Dylan, and he spent three days learning his epic “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” A man who heard him practicing it stopped him on the stairs as he headed for the dressing room of a nightclub, and told him it was the best he’d ever heard the song sung.
“That’s how I first met Bob Dylan,” Mr. Havens said
I think you can hear what Dylan heard in his version of “Just Like a Woman.”
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Houston, Texas, USA
Total lunar eclipse visible
Magnitude: 1.1953
Duration:
5 hours, 11 minutes, 33 seconds
Duration of totality:
1 hour, 1 minute, 58 seconds
Penumbral begins:
Jan 20 at 8:36:29 pm
Partial begins:
Jan 20 at 9:33:54 pm
Full begins:
Jan 20 at 10:41:17 pm
Maximum:
Jan 20 at 11:12:14 pm
Full ends:
Jan 20 at 11:43:15 pm
Partial ends:
Jan 21 at 12:50:39 am
Penumbral ends:
Jan 21 at 1:48:02 am
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No wonder Trump was making threats about invading Venezuela. You don’t see any of this news in the American press.
From the American version of the British mag, The Spectator.
In lawless ports like Guiria in the Venezuelan state of Sucre, the pirates operate with near impunity, kidnapping Trinidadian fishermen and holding them for ransom. They also smuggle boatloads of cocaine and guns into Trinidad. Guns and coke are two commodities still widely available in Venezuela. On the return run, the pirates bring back the ordinary provisions that are in desperately short supply in their home country: nappies, rice and cooking oil. Think Narcos with speedboats and packets of Pampers.
and,
Today, nearly half of all cocaine shipments bound for Europe come through Venezuela. In the past five years, Washington has sanctioned numerous alleged cartel members on suspicion of drug-trafficking, including the heads of the National Guard, the former head of military intelligence, and an ex-vice president. In 2017, two nephews of President Nicolás Maduro’s wife were also jailed in New York for a $20 million trafficking plot, allegedly aimed at keeping the first family in power. The whole thing is reminiscent of Colombia in the days of Pablo Escobar, only this time the traffickers are in government.
If most of Venezuela’s cocaine goes to the West, its black-market weapons are a different story. They tend to stay in the region, supplying not just Trinidad but the whole of the Caribbean and Latin America. Thanks to Chávez, there is a near-limitless supply.
In 2006, at the height of his paranoia about a US invasion, Chávez signed a deal with Russia to create a Kalashnikov manufacturing plant in Venezuela, and also bought 100,000 brand-new Kalashnikovs — far more than his armed forces needed. Vast quantities of guns have since been distributed to pro-Chavista colectivos militias, ostensibly to defend la revolución from a Yankee-backed overthrow.
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How much lower can they drop the threshold for insane behavior ?
Given this, could any reasonable person think autism is not an affliction? Could any caring person try to prevent sufferers seeking a cure? Common sense dictates the answer should be no. The reality is that identity politics has become so deranged that there is a group of people who seek to prevent autistic people getting help, on the nonsensical grounds that it’s insulting to suggest they need it.
The movement is called the ‘neurodiversity movement’ and its tenets state that autism is not a disease or disorder of the brain, but is rather an alternative form of brain wiring. Advocates of ‘neurodiversity’ believe that to be autistic is just to be different — like being black as opposed to being white, being a woman rather than a man, or being gay instead of heterosexual. Ergo the term ‘neurodiversity’. The movement opposes a cure for autism because why would you need to cure something that’s just another valid way of being human?
Some proponents of the neurodiversity movement do not believe that autism is a disability at all. Others acknowledge that autism is a disability, but differentiate between the medical model of disability and the social model of disability. The medical model of disability states that people are disabled because they have an intrinsic medical condition. The social model of disability states that people are disabled because society does not accommodate them well enough. For example, there may be a lack of wheelchair ramps, or notices not in braille.
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Oh boy a lunar eclipse tonight.
What would Buck Rogers do?
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Why does a lunar eclipse only happen during a full moon? Are there going to be moon howling parties happening across the land? Does a supermoon lunar eclipse change the betting odds on NFL football games as many of the players go into hydrophobic slobbering and howling fits rendering them unable to remember the plays? Will AOC be able to find enough street drugs to keep her high throughout the event? Will RBG rise up from her crypt and resume her seat on the SCOTUS? If the international space station passes through the eclipsed moon view, will it be mistaken for hiliary on a broom? Will Nancy be able to recover her sense of smell after having to walk through National Airport last week? So many questions, so little time.
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93 EG
If the international space station passes through the eclipsed moon view, will it be mistaken for hiliary on a broom?
Yes.
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Why can we not have just a regular boring old lunar eclipse? Why are they all now called (Insert animal name here) Bloody Mary Moon on the Rocks with a side order of raw oysters and horse radish lunar eclipses? And the rank hysteria of these end of the worlders is disgusting. The signs in the heavens these idiots ascribe these lunar eclipse to will occur during the last 7 years of earth history, not now.
WARNING IT IS A GIRLS BUTT IN THE LINK
Just for Texpat and anyone else that wants to take a peek…….
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Our musical tastes generally coincide. I think we’ve found an exception to possibly rival the Squawk/Hamous MTB divergence. I have always found Richie Havens to be a no-singing, talentless hack. His Woodstock performance has to be one of the most celebrated displays of cacophonous claptrap ever witnessed. My ears are aching just thinking about it.
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#93 #94, makes me thing of one of my favorite photos; SOLAR TRANSIT OF ISS AND ATLANTIS – LAST MISSION OF ATLANTIS.
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Well, I made it out of the Pasadena Gun Show with my wallet intact, but I tried, one of the items I’ve been looking for is another Bond Arms 45/410 Derringer and there was one, just one in the whole place but it had a 3 inch barrel so only 2 1/2″ 410’s could be used in it. I have to have the 4″ version so it will hold 3″ shells.
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Ninety Nine??….Teeing her up, who’s it gonna’ be? Bones, mharper, GJT?
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I was just thinking of Elvira, and the 00 part of 100 just seemed appropriate. Didn’t they used to bring her out on TV and show scary movies on those things or something during weird events like Howling At the Eclipsed Moon and stuff?
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I was just thinking of Elvira, and the 00 part of 100 just seemed appropriate.
You’re BAAAD! But Davey likes it. 😀
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Cleaning out the freezer, I put a brisket on the grill this morning and now I need to decide on beans. I’m gonna’ cheat and just open a few cans of Bush’s Beans, probably one each of Pinto, Kidney and Black Beans, seasoned up ole Dave’s special secret ingredients.
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He was as unique as an artist can be and never deviated from who he was.
Yeah? So was Gary Glitter and I did not like him either.
You want an artist from the Woodstock era that was unique and never deviated from who he was?
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Richie Havens*
No Beans in Chili
No Tattoos/No Tramps*When I was posting #88, I thought, “I bet Hamous is a Havens-hater”. (<;
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103 Squawk
I don’t disagree. (I have no idea who Gary Glitter is.)
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Thanks for the timeline, Texpat. I was outside last night about 10:30 and noticed the moon was directly overhead. My neighborhood is full of huge trees, so the higher up the celestial event, the better my chances of seeing it from somewhere in my yard. -
#98 – SD………………FOUR inch shotgun shells????
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#98 – SD………………FOUR inch shotgun shells????
Oops, nope, 3″ shells 4″ inch barrel, and I edited it just for you.
Hey I remember when they came out with 3 1/2″ 12 gauge shells. Since the steel shot really, really SUX, Mossberg thought a 3 1/2″ 12 gauge would help, but it didn’t, shot string long but with steel shot, it still didn’t hit as hard as lead. -
Outdoor and work clothes companies have become crappier and highly irritating with their universal, global sizing charts. “Let’s try to size everything to fit 5’3″, 130 lb. Asian men and 6’3″ 220 lb. North American guys. It”ll be easy.”
The fabric sucks and everything shrinks after the 4th or 5th washing. If you’re 6’1″ and 198 lbs., you now have to buy 2XXL or 3XXXL just to get waist and arm length to fit when Large used to be just fine. And everything is inconsistent from one brand to the next.
I live near the retail Mecca of Paramus, New Jersey where just about everybody has a store. Many of them are on the verge of closing. But, to prove a contrarian point, if a company makes really durable, non-shrink, American-sized clothing, it can thrive in this climate.
Duluth Trading Company just opened it’s first NJ store in Ramsey, just north of Paramus, near the New York state border. I haven’t been yet, but my friends tell me the place is packed 6 days a week and they’re doing a land office business. People will pay for quality and are sick of cheap crap being shoved on them, especially men. Maybe I’ll hobble up there this week.
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BTW; that ole moon combined with the hellacious north wind that blew a lot of water out of the bay, Clear Lake is still there, just real low.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Awaiting the eclipse tonight in living color. Please no clouds.
Wonder what if anything is going in the corridor outside Madam Pelosi’s offices and has the luggage been put back inside?
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#109 Texpat
Indeed something insidious has been happening to clothing sizes for everybody over the past decade. I suspect it’s companies saving $$ by the fragments of an inch shrinkage of garments so that sizes that fit 10 years ago do not exist despite carrying the same size labels. 🙁 And the makers don’t think we’ll catch on.
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110 Super Dave
The high and low tides are going to be more radical with the moon this close to the earth.
Don’t worry, we aren’t all going to die, though. NOAA is here to protect us !
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High Tide at 01:48 CST, 01/21/19
Clear Lake Tidal Chart – Current – It’s pretty danged low right now.
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98 still don’t look right.
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Don’t worry, we aren’t all going to die, though.
The polar vortex already killed us last night.
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#s 107 & 108 – WHEW I thought I was going to learn something very VERY new!
I’ve seen 1 3/4, 2 1/2, 3, & 3 1/2 shells.
Aguila makes multiple loads & shot sizes of the 1 3/4 types (slug, buckshot, & #7 ) that work really well in the Mossberg Shockwave when combined with the small hard rubber ‘chamber insert’ that some Vet Gent in Texas manufactures.
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#116 Katfish, so you have a Mossberg Shockwave? I have one also, I was torn between the 870, TAC 14 and the Shockwave, but I really like the Mossberg’s “trench gun” like forearm and the fact that it held one more round than the Remington. I also like the thumb safety better than the trigger guard safety on the Remington.
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#114 Hamous,…thanks!
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That north wind yesterday brought in a bunch of stuff that my allergies perked right up and responded to, culminating in waking me up about 2AM with a ripping headache that has continued throughout the day. I don’t suffer pain as easily as I used to, and it tends to make me grouchy and aggravating. So I was thinking that if mh would invited me along on her expedition to do some homeowner bashing and harassment of the little people it might make me feel a little better about myself. There’s bound to be a few of them that need some abusive treatment.
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Indeed something insidious has been happening to clothing sizes for everybody over the past decade.
Our Chinese and Bangladeshi suppliers don’t care. And
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Spyduckus for dinner
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#109 Texpat, I’ve been dealing with Lands End for a while now and our Engineering group has a logo patch registered with them. The logo patch is $8 bucks!, but they often have offers for free ones, so I order several polo shirts when they do this. I like the polo shirts because they’re real heavy and well made but last Summer I stumbled across the Duluth polo’s and they’re even better, I now have several. My longtime sidekick at NASA has been wearing their jeans for years and I don’t think anyone makes tougher jeans. He started wearing them when he worked in the oil patch.
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#118 – check out this ingenious little insert to accommodate the 1 3/4″ Aguila ammo
This little jewel installs in 5 – 10 seconds easy peasy!
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I remember George Banks and Mike Condray. My friends and I used to hang out at Jubilee Hall at the corner of Bagby and McGowen. We were too young to get in most of the time, but I especially remember summer nights when we stood outside the old open windows of the German-style wooden dance hall and watched John Mayall and his band and Canned Heat. I did get to sneak into a Tracy Nelson/Bonnie Raitt gig there one night. Later, we would hang out for jam sessions at the all-night Family Hand restaurant across the street.
Here’s a Facebook page for Liberty Hall and it’s forerunners, Jubilee Hall and The Family Hand.
In the late 60’s, George Banks and Mike Condray opened a psychedelic music venue called Jubilee Hall. The building was an old church that had been the La Maison de Cafe. That effort morphed into another location called the Family Hand Restaurant, an eating establishment with live night-time entertainment.
From there, Liberty Hall was founded in 1971 by Ryan Trimble, Mike Condray and Lynda Herrera. It was Herrera that came up with the name. After investing in some of the first shows, Roberto Gonzales became a partner along with another Golden Triangle refugee and friend of Condray named Ken Fontenot. The building was located at 1610 Chenevert on the east side of downtown HOUSTON near the current Toyota Center and had originally been built in the 1940’s as a church. When Condray and Trimble leased the building, it was the American Legion, Post 391.
Liberty Hall, with 450 seats, opened on March 4, 1971 with THE EARL OF RUSTIN “a rock opry”. The original stage show was scripted by and starred Ragan and C. C. Courtney. The show was such a smash with Houston audiences and newspaper and TV critics that it garnered financing in Houston for a Broadway opening in New York City.This is early Houston history rock scene stuff. I spent a lot of time down at Liberty Hall in the 1970s. Great memories.
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We’re at 17 degrees and falling.
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#35 Shannon
Not long before he died, Skeet mailed (yes, mailed via USPS) this album to me and it arrived, amazingly, unscathed.
Skeet, in his late 30s, had finally received his masters degree in architecture from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his wife gave him a new Harley as a graduation gift. He took it out a few nights later in the mountains on a rainy night and bought that farm.
Skeet Fuller was one of my compadres down at Jubilee and Liberty Halls back in the day.
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I’m beginning to wonder if ELG is right.
The worst pass interference non-call in the history of the game cost Drew Brees a trip to the Super Bowl.
Sickening.
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I’m here with the girls and I think the most amusing and astounding thing are all the adult phrases and words that just come tumbling out of those little mouths.
For example, LD was playing fetch with their pretty sturdy little dog. This dog must be part basset, part lab: sturdy chest, thick legs, and per square inch must have the density of lead. LD was throwing a ball towards the front door, and the dog was sliding into the front door in pursuit of the tennis ball. Suddenly, the door opens and LD2 (who turned four just a few days ago) pops her head in and asks: “Is everything okay in here?”
Like an adult checking on kids. Adult attitude and everything.
I spend a lot of time watching and laughing, when I’m not cuddling or chasing them around the house.
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The grandpas are probably serving some big-time-fancy victuals.
Highly Modified Frozen Grocery Store (RedBaron Extra Thin Crust) pizza for us.
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#128 – I didn’t know that football season was still open, much less know that anyone would watch it if it was. But I click on Fakebook and everyone is howling about a last second call/non call that decided the game, and they all seemed to be surprised. How many of these things do you have to watch come down to the last play and the refs make the decision. In this case, I still haven’t seen it, but I tend to favor allowing the players determine the winner rather than the refs. Just to be fair, the league office will come out with some statement later that may absolve the ref for making a mistake but will not change the outcome of the game, the winning gamblers will count their money, less the cost of the ref of course, and the losers will pay up. And no one else will care or remember by this time tomorrow except those gamblers who are a little short.
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I didn’t know that football season was still open, much less know that anyone would watch it if it was.
I’m a contrarian who rarely gets caught up in fads.
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#120
The DR drive-through went well this morning. We normally drive on Saturday, not Sunday, and a whole different set of people noticed a big pickup with 3 people inside, driving slowly, looking at and occasionally pointing a camera at some of the houses. We were accosted & questioned several times by people who wanted to know who we were. The DR chairman does a good job of explaining us, and people generally are glad to hear that the HOA is doing its job. Some of you — heck, maybe all of you — may find that hard to believe. But when people live close to a badly unkempt property, it gets annoying. -
Time to put a protein on top of a bowl of salad starter, then dressing plus a beverage, and I am watching part 2 of a The Equalizer Season 3 story in the complete set on DVD. Later I will load the dishwasher and see if I can stay awake till mid-eclipse.
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133 mharper42
Do the drive-by, hit-and-run HOA enforcers stop to shoot photos and videos of errant, possum, skunk and raccoon enablers in the neighborhood ?
Just think – you too could be on a Wanted Poster down in the local Post Office.
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I linked to the NOAA Tides Chart for Clear Lake today and tomorrow in #113 which was about an 18″ to 24″ swing from low to high tide.
Looking at the NOAA Tides Chart for the Hudson River near the mouth at Manhattan, it’s an unbelievable SIX FOOT swing from low to high tides. Usually, we see about 2 to 3 feet maximum at the marina on the Jersey side.
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Drudge must be drinking tonight. He reports score at 14-6. NFL scoreboard says 17-7. Not that it matters.
I’m a little disappointed that the HOA armored vehicle cruiser didn’t stir up a little more dust. See, had I been there, I could have told those people to mind their own dam business, go indoors, clean their yards faster, stop talking so loud to their neighbors, etc. and threatening them with a painting fine or something if they were recalcitrant. Sounds like that place needs a little discipline to me, what with those homeowners acting like they own the place or something. Shape ’em up or ship ’em out – that’s my motto.
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#136 – I don’t think the NOAA charts account for the wind direction and speed very well do they?
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138 EG
Those guys are pretty good, usually. I think they try to factor in that data. I don’t know how accurate they are over the long term.
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Nice response to Gillette’s Toxic Stupidity.
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Texpat:
Do the drive-by, hit-and-run HOA enforcers stop to shoot photos and videos of errant, possum, skunk and raccoon enablers in the neighborhood ?
No skunks yet. I did feed a wild rabbit for a couple of years.
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What about the cats. You can’t forget the cats.
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The ruling in the field is the Rams and Patriots are going to the Superbowl.
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It’s the Chiefs. They had to get the Rams in since they moved back to LA – largest TV audience. Second team doesn’t matter, but Patriots have been too many time and they don’t like Belachik. So, gotta be Chiefs. And for good measure, NFL has already said the Rams don’t deserve to go because of bad calls, but they are going anyway because that’s what we want to happen – just like everything else that happens in the NFL. So shut up and place your bets.
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Y’all take pics of the eclipse for me. I’m about to call it a day.
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You’re not taking into account the Gillette Factor. Patriots win because virtue signaling.
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Not sure what all the fuss about tides is. The Norther blew the water out of the bay. Our spot on Factory Bayou is just mud, exposing the secret oyster strip where the wife catches big reds. On clothing sizes, men want to big, women want to be small. I was once a medium, now an XL. I weigh less than then. Wimmins have gone below negative. They have sizes below zero. All in the brand, I wear a size “X” in that.
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Tole you.
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I meant to say You’re right Hamous, but it came out wrong.
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Plus the chiefs are wayciss.
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Wait, I may have meant to say that you are wrong and I am right.
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Anybody looking at the eclipse? It’s too overcast out here to see anything.
I think they postponed it until the football game is over. Everything now says it starts at 9:30 our time rather than what I thought was 8:30 earlier.
Might try here a little later. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/1/11/how-to-watch-the-only-total-lunar-eclipse-of-2019-plus-a-supermoon/Maybe it the Patriots after all.
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Eclipse has started
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It’s going to be almost straight overhead at the maximum, out here.
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Sky is clear here, but too cold to be worthwhile until about 11 pm.
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No team named Chiefs or Redskins will ever play in a Super Bowl again.
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I see the mystery ogler has become an oogler instead.
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Well, I can’t find a live stream anywhere. Anyone got a linkey?
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A good thing about being indifferent to Sports with a capital S is how you never get all wrapped around an axle over stuff that has no real bearing on your life.
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12 degrees.
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Well, I can’t find a live stream anywhere. Anyone got a linkey?
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EG, you’ll be watching it live from Morocco! You’ll see it be over while us Texans are still in the middle of it happening. The very fabric of time and space may well be ruptured!!
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I don’t know where on earth that view is, but it doesn’t look anything like what I am seeing.
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That’s because
eclipse stream from July 27-28, 2018.
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I think the plan is to capture the entire eclipse as it travels around the earth. It seems to be starting in Morocco. Looks like the site could be crashing from time to time as well. But, it’s best I can find for now.
#164 – nope, this is the live one. https://www.timeanddate.com/live/ They have a couple of people describing the events interjecting themselves from time to time as well.
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It’s about 1/4 blocked here in the barrio.
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Not a hint of red.
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The red doesn’t start till totality or close to it. Moon is 1/2 obscured over my house right now. Cold out!!
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Here are some pictures from the skank march. Some pretty strong intellectual messages they are sending. Some may find the language offensive; some may find the whole thing offensive.
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Clear on Lake Conroe, just over half to 2/3 cover. I can watch it through the winder.
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Best guess ole Luna is approx 60% (or a bit more) in shadow
If one looks closely – the red tint is visible near the moving shadow line……..
And as Sha-Na-Na advises she is darn near straight UP as viewed from here in Katy
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#170 Lake Conroe?
Your *papers please!* 🙂
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Moon is about 60% covered here, but 12 o’clock high and fairly small. It’s not like the huge moon we’ve had in the past in the eastern sky. A rather subdued performance.
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Papers? We don’t need no stink’n papers.
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#174 – Welcome back to Texas!!!
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Almost done. No red. Looks just like every other lunar eclipse I’ve seen. I’m going to bed.
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Getting a thin cloud or mist cover moving in. I went out with binocs to see if I could see a red rim like Katfish described, but couldn’t get a sharp focus. I took over a lawn chair to try to lean back and look straight up. Nothing was helping. Rechecked weather for my zip code, now saying “mostly clear” for now till 2 a.m. I still plan to look out at 11:12 to see if there is any red tinge, but no longer expecting much.
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I stayed up
I took pictures
the moon went darkish
I took pictures
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Looked slightly red from where I am at, nothing to spectacular.
Yes, in response to questions, TW and I have relocated for the winter months to Texas. Will be here until end of March when we head back for spring planting. It’s good to be back.
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Just took a quick break from bookkeeping to peek at the moon. It’s definitely got a red tinge to it, and I can clearly see the eclipse coming.
Am I gonna die?
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