Evolutionary Friday
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A nice 64 here this morning. Hey we have a wagonburner post, post, it has been a while, thanks.
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Wagonburner manages to resuscitate Darwin’s theory, after all.
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I have been having way too much fun around here. I’ve been working on the trail to the creek this week and even though I got rained out Monday and Tuesday, the next two days I/we, made it about 1oo yards ( say this because my wife has helped a lot). Yesterday, I needed to push up a big lightered knot stump, so I got my new Bad Orange Machine and rooted it out of the ground. And, no, this Kubota isn’t big enough to root out a green tree trunk with a 4′ diameter root base, but this was an old stump where all of the tree decayed except for the heart that turned into fat Lightered. Often times you can just kick them over with your boot and wrestle them out of the ground. But those would be considerably, smaller. This one was huge and the old rotting taproot still had about a 6″ diameter piece holding it at the bottom. I pushed one direction and then the other, back wheels digging small holes in the sandy dirt, before I rooted it out. I’ve also been using it to smooth out the trail some, I’ll probably be doing a lot of that after I get the trail all the way down to the bluff over the creek….Did I ever tell you that I loved my Kubota?
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My #3, in the picture, if you look closely, you can see the big hole, in front of the left front wheel, that the stump just came out of, right after this shot, I ran the left front off into the whole, and with the tractor tilted, I couldn’t pull it out. The left front and right rear were spinning, both, barely touching the ground. So, I held the right brake and used the bucket to lift the wheel out of the hole and the left rear pulled her right out…Neat huh? 😉
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This is in front of the paywall at the NY Times for the moment.
Like a colonoscopy, the project involved some special prep. I had to install a version of the Firefox web browser that was created by privacy researchers to monitor how websites track users’ data. For several days this spring, I lived my life through this Invasive Firefox, which logged every site I visited, all the advertising tracking servers that were watching my surfing and all the data they obtained. Then I uploaded the data to my colleagues at The Times, who reconstructed my web sessions into the gloriously invasive picture of my digital life you see here. (The project brought us all very close; among other things, they could see my physical location and my passwords, which I’ve since changed.)
What did we find? The big story is as you’d expect: that everything you do online is logged in obscene detail, that you have no privacy. And yet, even expecting this, I was bowled over by the scale and detail of the tracking; even for short stints on the web, when I logged into Invasive Firefox just to check facts and catch up on the news, the amount of information collected about my endeavors was staggering.
The author is a widely published tech writer, no novice to the internet.
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And law enforcement leadership wonders why the general public doesn’t trust them and is skeptical of their competence.
An identity theft suspect gave birth alone on a mattress in her Denver jail cell — and no one provided medical attention, even though she writhed and screamed in pain, according to video and a lawsuit.
Diana Sanchez told Denver Sheriff’s Department deputies around 5 a.m. July 31, 2018, that she was in labor, local station FOX 31 reported. Her water broke around 9:45 a.m., and she appeared to be in agony as she delivered the baby about an hour later — with no one by her side, the video shows.
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The investigation determined that the deputies “took the appropriate actions under the circumstances and followed the relevant policies and procedures,” according to the spokeswoman.
But since the incident, she said, the policy has been clarified to state that when an inmate is in labor, an emergency ambulance will be called.”
Do these people, authorized to take your freedom away or to use deadly force against you, have the slightest idea how stupid they sound ?
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Has the Sugar Land Botox Bandit been apprehended yet ? We don’t need criminals like that running around in Adee’s neck of the woods.
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I saw Keith Neilsen recently, who’s running for County GOP Chair. I mentioned him in an earlier post; he, who has chosen to live in a neighborhood full of minorities in order to (a) learn from them, what they are saying and what they want, and (2) make “Republican” a more acceptable word in their community. His wife hosts a meetup Keto group. Both of them are great folks.
Keith has lost SO MUCH weight since the last time I saw him. He looks fanstastic. The guy is like 7’5″ (well, exaggerating slightly), so with his new physique he looks even taller. It must be a certain challenge that God gave women, this difficulty to lose and keep lost fat. Eve really screwed us over…
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Heading out for Grandma duty…./keeping a watchful eye on the Dome and the Blog for infractions of societal etiquette
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Ilhan Omar is denying everything despite her extensive travels with her new boytoy. Obviously, all the lurid details are true and I know El Gordo is anxiously awaiting the inevitable celebrity sex tape from Omar.
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I found my new TDL, as suspected it was in one of the wife’s stacks of stuff. So I am legal again, with a gold star!! I am sufficiently compliant now!
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From last night #81 Tedtam
I have a different perspective on that one. If by Indian you mean a person from the country of India. I deal with people from Mumbai at work all the time. Some of those people have eight syllable first names and 10 syllable last names. Most of the time I haven’t got a clue as to what sex they are unless I actually talk to them or have a Skype video call with them.
I can see an Indian person who is always called or referred to as mister or sir and who is actually a woman want to clarify the miss or Mrs.
Now if first contact was via phone and it was pretty obvious this is a man and yet he actually lists out his preferred pronouns as she/her, then I might have my suspicions too.
Indians are a suprising immigrant group like many others. Most that I know are fairly conservative in nature. They value family. In fact they typically live two or three generations in one home. They are religious too. They are self sufficient. Many are highly educated and have advanced degrees. In fact many came over here on student visas to earn a masters degree in their respective field. If they can find a company to sponsor their H1B visas, they’ll stick around here. I’ve never heard of an Indian on welfare. However many seem to vote Democratic
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Morning chickadoodles. I have somehow been up for an hour already but am not making much progress. I need to snap to, for I have errands to run!
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This is an interesting article, and should be particularly so for the Catholics here on the couch.
HEADLINE: Vatican’s Amazon Synod Uses Third World As Totems Of Marxist Revival
I will refrain from commentary.
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#12 – Only MY personal experiences………..
You left out: they are so CHEAP they squeak when they walk!!!
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ok everyone, the annygray has eftlay to hang with the cute pre-wimmens she adores.
Who has the grill & the beer cooler?
Who can pick up some beer & ice?
Gonna need some charcoal, weenies, & burgers too. We can prolly raid her fridge for mustard, &c.
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There’s a dome we can raid…
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I was figuring we could have a domeapalooza.
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Oh I get it, I thought you were baching it this weekend ready for a party. Doh..
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Epstein was a sick, sick man with a massive organization to recruit underage girls for his enjoyment.
From the NYT.
I hope prosecutors in Manhattan can find a way to take down some of these women. The trouble is that many of them started out as victims themselves.
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Since my wife had to run into the Chevron tower for some IT support, I am dutifully sitting in front of 1500 Louisiana in my SUV with the engine idling, A/C running, and radio playing.
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Just chunk your plastic water bottles and straws out the window while you’re sitting there idling. Makes the libs feel useful.
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#22 – LMAO 🙂
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Even with Dorian out there lurking, it’s still Flarada Man Friday https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/florida-man-friday-man-jumps-the-shark-gets-bitten/
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If you didn’t see Mark Steyn on Tucker last night, it’s a classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=etEC6MdSOpA
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Washington DC—After months of growing trade tensions between the US and China leading to an impending global recession, along with mounting strife in China’s Hong Kong province prompting dissidents to wave American flags, US President Donald Trump has negotiated quite possibly the biggest deal of his life.
The US will trade the entire state of California for Hong Kong in a flat exchange.
“Basically everyone in California wants to be commies and Hong Kong wants to be American, so we did what we call a win-win-win and traded the two in a tremendous deal,” Trump said in a press conference announcing the unprecedented deal.
Markets responded with a complete turnaround from recent declines and posted record numbers.
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This is incredibly difficult for me to do but I feel that it’s necessary to come forward and expose the type of person that Trump will select for the Supreme Court of the great country.
I was raped by whoever Trump selects to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Supreme Court.
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BREAKING: Epstein’s prison guard was tragically killed in auto accident tomorrow
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Back from my errands, got everything I went out for, but I was just following a list. I still don’t feel organized.
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Hope the Couch comes back to life while I nap…
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Has the Sugar Land Botox Bandit been apprehended yet ?
Dang. Channel 13 says she hit another location last night.
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Hope the Couch comes back to life while I nap…
Well y’all don’t laugh at Texpat’s jokes so why wouldn’t it die! It’s the end of the month so I was busy closing out, y’all just let the poor guy hang out there! Good stuff Texpat, I loved it.
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WAYCISS!!! WHITE NATIONALIST!!!
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Asked my sister if she was leaving the island. Her response
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I appreciate just about everything I read here, even if I don’t comment that I do.
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32 GJT
I know who my real friend(s) is (are) around here. Loyalty counts for a lot, GJT.
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#32 – Jokes?
what jokes?
I was fearful my elder Brudda had gone off His meds! 🙂
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Rice has a chance of winning their first game!
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26, 27, 28….
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Well, maybe not.
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FOXNews reporting that hurricane Dorian upgraded to Cat. 4; moving west @ 10 mph. Eyewall is well defined.
How long can it stay this strong, 2-3 days max, maybe? Don’t they usually “spin-out” and suck a lot of the cyclone sustaining energy out of the
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Did I mention that forty-one is not my favorite number?
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