At Anchor in the Bay for the Night
Monday Open Comments
by
Tags:
Comments
42 responses to “Monday Open Comments”
-
Beautiful sailboat.
Mornin’ Gang -
Selficide has reached epidemic levels! When will Congress act??? They hate millennials! Ban assault cameras now!
-
Good morning Hamsters.
Does this beautiful sailboat belong to a Hamster?
Today’s Chron front page above the fold headline, “In West Texas County, a ‘Sanctuary’ for Guns.” Complete with picture of a landowner with rifle.
Subheading reads: “Citing ‘brutal attacks’ on the right to bear arms, trio pushes plan—and stands by it after El Paso mass shooting.” It’s Presidio County (a Democrat county according to the article). And the citizens promoting this firearms sanctuary were not previously active in politics. They are now.
Anybody recall the saying about awaking a sleeping giant? Anybody recall the “Come and take it” of Texas lore? We live in interesting times.
-
Morning gang. Hot, dry, and crystal clear yet once again out here, with daily highs hovering around 105 for several weeks now. The Dems, having failed in all their other attempts to dislodge the President, and knowing that the booming economy should propel him easily to a second term, have decided to stoke fear of a looming recession as their latest tactic. They know that they can’t claim recession right now while things are booming, so, just like they do with global warming, they claim something just over the horizon will devastate the economy and wreck our capitalistic way of living – with their security net of socialism being the only recourse to keep you alive.
Rice likes to promote its “exclusivity” as one of its selling points – last year admitting fewer than 1000 freshmen out of an applicant pool of over 28,000. So somebody commented that they were unable to get into SMU because they didn’t have the wardrobe. Sounds about right.
In other news, nothing much is going on. You all have a great day.
-
#3
OMG! Presidio County is right on the Mexican border! What a stupid place to think people don’t need their guns! Especially rural landowners where illegals are tromping right on through…
-
Does this beautiful sailboat belong to a Hamster?
Super Dave finally bought something without blades.
-
Out there spending his kids inheritance.
-
In my case out-spending my kids inheritance.
-
I just don’t see Dave buying a boat with sheets instead of a V-8.
-
Oh that would be the troll motor.
-
The week seems to be off to a slow start…
Me included.
-
Michael Yon encourages Hong Kong to continue its RESISTANCE to the takeover by Communist China. Hope they get the moral support they need from the few free places on our planet.
Hong Kong needs Political, Moral, and other Support: I ask kindly that people who have suffered under communism in Cuba, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, East Germany, and so many other places that are now free…please offer advice and words of strength to Hong Kongers.
Main rules for defeating the communists:
1) Never quit.
2) Make them pay for every breath of air. Zero is free. No breaks. No time outs.
3) If we burn, you burn. Hong Kongers already are saying this and acting on it.
4) Overseas Hong Kongers must work to enlighten people in the Americas, Europe, Australia, everywhere.
This is Hong Kong’s moment of truth. That rare time when a people can change the world in a positive way, and massive respect for facing odds that seem insurmountable, and winning.
Massively important. Cracking the Chinese Communist Party solves countless problems with one cut. Tibet could really be free. The Uighurs released from concentration camps. Taiwan free from threat. Etcetera, etcetera, and many more etceteras.
Hong Kong is an aggressive tumor on the brain of Communist China. Hong Kongers, at this rate, will one day be known as morphing from mall shoppers to world heroes.
Every day I go to protests with Hong Kongers, my respect deepens. They know the odds. They know the severe dangers. But they go anyway.
Thais would say, SU SU!
China is hard but brittle. If China punches Hong Kong, China will punch with a glass fist that will shatter.
Never quit.
-
Did I jinx The Couch?
-
Takin’ Office Help down memory lane today, playing Holst’s “Jupiter” while working. Now on a recording of my band playing “Scottish Dances”.
Told her the story of the trombone section’s hijacked Christmas tree.
Those were the days. /sigh
-
Prager is suing Youtube/Google.
You go, dude. I hope he gets wissing rich off of ’em.
-
One of Hammie’s girlfriends resigns.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/08/16/Jessica-Farrar-retire-Texas-House/
-
23 Texas Cities suffer coordinated Ransomware attack
The department declined to name the specific cities that were attacked, but said the majority were smaller local governments.
-
#9 Shannon & #10 GJT, yep, I think that y’all know me.
I have had a fine day, started about 7, working on the south 40, (literally) trail from the Kudzu Patch to the bluff above Bear Creek. Our land borders the 60, acre, Harris pasture but all of our land is heavily wooded, with a canopy that shades out most undergrowth. This makes the trail work fairly easy except for the first 100 feet of jungle. I made about 100 yards and cut down several trees that were in the way and then got the Orange Monster to push up a couple of lightered knot stumps that were just holding on by a thread, most of them, I could kick over and wrestle out of the hole. Kinda’ went downhill from there as I tackled several different projects with the tractor, including mowing behind the barn. About 2 PM, after I put the tractor up and headed home on the mule, the bottom fell out and we got about a ½” of rain in 30 minutes. With the ¼” we got late yesterday, we’re doing OK….Oh and Shannon will be happy to know that the tractor was washed down and spit-shined before being put in the barn and covered with a tarp. 😉 Mowing is nasty, dusty work! After I got the tractor cleaned up, I drove it to the barn and got the dang seat dirty/dusty, off the back of my tee shirt. -
My time in public service has provided me the opportunity to serve my state and community in ways for which I will forever be grateful.
Grateful for all the baby-killins I was able to help with.
…and said her constituents “will always be deep in my heart.”
But cept for babies, exspecially the little unborn ones. Damn I hate them little bastards!
While I will be stepping back from public office, be assured that I will continue being involved when the cause is good and just.
Like killin’ babies. Good and just.
During the 2017 legislative session, Farrar gained widespread attention after authoring a bill that would have penalized men $100 for masturbating
Cuz killin babies is just like killin sperms!
Farrar “always spoke up, always spoke out, and always fought for what was right, no matter the odds.”
Like killin babies – it’s as right as rain. Damn but I hate those bastards!
-
It has started raining again, coming down pretty good.
-
Had my six month cancer checkup today. I can’t go in there without getting something sliced off. Today it was a little crusty area on my temple that freezing didn’t get rid of six months ago. Didn’t look anything like the melanoma last year so I’m hoping the biopsy comes back good. That’ll be a full year cancer free. And I got bumped up to nine month checkups.
-
Great news!
-
Amen.
-
Got a check from the IRS for $1.02.
WTF?
-
Amen, Hamous
-
#26 Shannon
I got a check for 1 penny from the IRS last year. You should have seen the look on the teller’s face when I presented it for deposit. Great amusement. She said she’s seen tiny amounts like that from the Feds from time to time during the year and knows it costs a lot more than that just to write the check and handle its deposit and accounting. But the Feds do want to return whatever is owed and will see to it to keep their books in balance.
-
#18 – Too much to ask ’em to simply LIST the cities?
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT
-
#26 – FRAME that suckah and never deposit or cash it!!!
-
When I wanted to pay off my house, I called in to get the payoff amount and to find out how long that amount was good for before interest bumped up the amount. I made sure the last payment got there in time. About 6 weeks later I received a check from the mortgage company for $1.23. I never deposited it.
-
Hamous congrats on the good news from the butcher doctor.
-
My CPA is going to catch hell for screwing up my tax filing.
(We went to high school together.)
-
We got something about a month ago, around two bucks from and old Suntrust loan due to us from them getting in trouble with the Feds. It came FedEx, way out here in the woods.
-
Vanderluen recently posted three versions
of the song Radar Love.Here’s one of the responses that made me smile.
My brother and I were sitting in my 70′ Camaro eating sub sando’s and slurpin suds at lunchtime in a dirt parking lot at the German American club on Pine Island road. We had just roasted a stout bomber before sauntering into the bar next door and grabbing the grub. It was about noon on that mid June day in the 100 degree screamin’ heat while working for Pulte Construction pouring concrete tie-beams the old fashioned way on this 2 story building. The concrete truck shot the mud into a wheel barrow and one of us wheeled it to the side of the building, dipped a 2.5 gal steel bucket into it then hoisted to the other guy up on the scaffold who then held the bucket over head and dumped it into the concrete block cavities, slowly filling them. Know how much a bucket like that full of concrete weighs? Me neither but they get pretty heavy after you do a few hundred of them in a row, and there was no end in site. I was 19 and my brother was 18 and we were both tired of this s**t. Surely there had to be something else to do.
So we sat in my ride with that buzz on and now our bellies were full and after a spell I looked at my brother and said, “F’ this s**t.” I fired up the SS and threw up a rooster fishtailing out onto Pine Island road headin’ for the house down in Iona. Radar Love was playing LOUD on the Pioneer “high power” cassette player through bi-amped Jensen tri-axles. 2 days later I was the best man at my best friends wedding and 2 days after that I shipped out to this mans army not to return for 4 years. I didn’t even collect my last paycheck, I already moved on. My brother stole some stuff and went to jail for a few years. This song always makes me think of that time period. Just by hearing it 45 years can vanish just like that. Amazing how that happens idn’t it?
-
Several years ago I was working on a Saturday with a few others. The song “American Pie” came on the boom box we had.
The guy I was working with (a former Marine Gunny) asked me where I was when that song came out. I told him I was in elementary school. So I returned the question. He was shipping off to basic training.
One of the VP’s happened by about them so he got the same question.
“We were driving through Pennsylvania on acid trying to find Baltimore.”
-
Though she loves music, Fay has always found my ties to it a curiosity.
It’s always there, in the background in my mind. It’s the soundtrack. It always has been.
I’ll eventually lose all memory of the circumstances but the soundtrack will keep playing.
Just set me in the corner in the beanbag. I’ll be fine.
🙂 -
Hey look! There’s Shannon over in the corner!
-
Candace Owens hits a homer, again.
-
Candace is rapidly moving up on my list of exceptions to the rule. Fantastic answer. You all have a good night.
-
#40 El Gordo
Yes, Candace is quite the lady.
-
Good night last night. 42!
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.