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Well, we made it to Saturday. I’ve never to Thailand, but seen hundreds of pictures and I’d know it instantly. The ancient eroded rock formations are distinct.
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When they asked the citizens of New York City to vote on which women in the city’s history to memorialize with statues across town in public places, this one received the most votes.
On March 31, 1889, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a tiny, frail nun, daughter of a Lombard farmer, arrived in New York with six’ members of the order she had formed, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII had sent her to work among the Italian immigrants who were finding neither a welcome nor prosperity in the New World, and worse, in the eyes of the Church, were losing their faith and piety.
Mother Cabrini and her six set to work in the New York slums. To support their first orphanage they begged their way through the squalor of Little Italy, later managed to set up a tiny, ill-equipped hospital for the Italian poor. Though funds came mostly in small change, Mother Cabrini‘s masterful will again & again overcame obstacles that seemed insuperable. For the next 28 years she traveled indefatigably, setting up schools, hospitals, orphanages and novitiates in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver and other U.S. cities. … She was an American after America’s heart, and in 1909, in her 59th year, she became a U.S. citizen.
Mayor DiBlasio’s wife and crew declined to honor her memory. They did choose to recognize two male transvestites and a pioneering abortion advocate.
And, while there’s no guarantee that a statue of Mother Cabrini will be put up, the city appears to be backtracking after the angry backlash that has been virtually continuous since the announcement that the public arts campaign headed by New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray and operating under the auspices of the city’s Economic Development Corporation wasn’t going to honor the beloved saint.
Following an open call for nominations that, the She Built NYC website said, “drew over 2,000 nominations from the public,” the saint received 219 votes, considerably more than the second vote-getter, urban advocate Jane Jacobs, who received 93 votes, and also was passed over.
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Here is a picture that I’ve seen a dozen times, Thailand Boats with their goofy outboards that may have a car engines on them.
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The daughter of a close friend here just arrived, pregnant, along with her new husband in Bangkok for a two to four year tour of duty. He is a captain in the US Army and is now the chief weapons officer to the Thai government for the Pentagon. Quite a gig.
She managed to maintain her law partnership in DC and is setting up a satellite office for them in Thailand. Her father kinda flipped out over her going and we had to have some interventions to talk him back from the ledge. He’s okay now and is completely distracted by his new border collie puppy.
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A couple of years ago you may remember there were three spring pro football leagues announced.
1. Alliance of American Football actually started playing the week after Superbowl this year. I was unaware of that. Apparently so was everyone. They lasted two months and declared bankruptcy.
2. XFL is a reboot of the league pro rasslin’ mogul Vince McMahon tried and failed at 20 years ago. It looks to be a league for washed up former NFL players (Kap?). Houston has a team, the Roughnecks, that will play in UH stadium. This one might make a full season before folding. Play is scheduled to commence in February. With an average salary of $55,000 don’t expect the cream of the crop.
3. Freedom Football League, started by Ricky Williams, is woke football. Teams like Oakland Panthers (because that’s where the Black Panthers were formed) and Portland Progress (because “Portland has long been a bastion of free speech, a right which has been stolen from pro football players”). They have yet to announce a schedule. I predict it never gets off the ground.
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Another reason why Trump is President. He just has a knack for knowing what sells to the general public. The Little League World Series winners were in DC, and he finds out they are from Louisiana, so he says “Hey, I’m going to Louisiana tonight for a rally. Do you kids want to ride on my plane?” Then at the rally he calls them all up by name and the crowd is going wild. Now what other President could pull of something like that without 6 months notice and screening and planning and scheming and focus group testing, etc. https://www.espn.com/llws/story/_/id/27823925/little-league-world-series-champs-were-invited-president-donald-trump-fly-home-louisiana-air-force-one
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Two transvestite males are honored as women who built the city? A pretzel would be jealous of the twists these people take.
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I caught that part last night. That one pitcher is yuge!
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Oh, and good morning to all. It’s college football Saturday, with some good games on tap. fortunately Rice has an off week today, so that should help me keep my BP under control and preclude any afib incidents. As to wake up weather this morning, a brisk 49 degrees and cloudy, but clouds seem to be clearing and it’s supposed to warm up. What little rain we had the past day or so was nice and appreciated. OK, I’m off to the races, so you all have a great day.
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And since it’s Saturday, let’s not forget to browse the Pictures of the Week. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/the-week-in-pictures-bolifornia-edition.php
BTW, did you notice that the President gave a big shout out to Scott Johnson of Powerline Blog at the Minneapolis rally for his work on the fraud Omar? That’s kind of a big deal.
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Here’s my favorite picture of the week: https://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/201606120723.aspx
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This is neat; Little League World Series champs fly back to Louisiana on Air Force.
WASHINGTON, DC – President Trump gave the Little League World Champion Eastbank Little League Team a surprise ride back to Louisiana on Air Force One.
The team traveled to Washington to meet with the president today in the White House.
At the meeting, Trump reportedly asked the team members’ parents if the team could hop on Air Force One for the ride back to Louisiana since Trump was already headed to the state for a campaign rally.
The team met the president on the tarmac outside of Air Force One this afternoon, and they all ascended onto the plane together.
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ELG
I see they had you depicted as Mr Potato Head. 😀
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DAMN! Disregard my #12, I teed it up in the #4 slot, this morning and somehow it didn’t take, so when I got back from town, I hit the go button without scrolling up to El Gordo’s #6.
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Morning, y’all. Our plumber(s) did not quite finish up last night. By 6 pm, we had 3 plumbers here, after 2 colleagues had finished their day’s work but were solicited by the company to swing by and help our one guy. So they finally got the main problem of replacing the pipes for an upstairs shower finished. It was a difficult job being mostly worked on from a stepladder on the ground floor, up through a hole in the ceiling that had started out from the leak. We were going to have to do some sheet-rock repair anyway, so had agreed to let them enlarge that hole. There were still some things that couldn’t be reached, so they also had to go in through the cabinet wall that is behind the room that has Hubs’ bathtub. (And the toilet that gained fame on this site when I used a Texpat-recommended tiny hacksaw to cut through a jammed wingnut.)
So here we are for the THIRD day waiting to get an on-our-way phone call.
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Ole Timer Lin posted the funniest cartoon I have seen in some time
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Now that Super Dave’s trail is cleared, neighbors have been using it and discover Super Dave out for a jog.
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Guess what Kalifornians are finding out about solar panels – they don’t work if the power grid is down. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3785617/posts
Also, a building under construction in Naw Awleans collapses for unknown reasons. I promise I have not made any comments on story, but if you read the comments, you might think I had: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3785615/posts -
#13 – Yep, that’s me all right.
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1954 GMC 150 Series 3/4 ton Three window Standard Cab Pickup clears final inspection in Pontiac MI
The “Z series” light duty GMCs were the only year to get black GMC painted hubcap centers. Previous years were painted red. The 3/4 and 1 ton GMCs also had the split rim outside ring painted silver. This GMC is painted in Chrome Yellow with Cascade White bumper, hubcaps, grille, and park-light bezels. You can tell the photo is staged because the shoes and pants the “inspectors” are wearing are not work shoes – they are too well dressed. GMC used models and actors for most of the product photos and they had a height restriction because they always wanted the trucks to appear larger when people were near them.
Behind the yellow 3/4 ton comes a two tone DeLuxe Cab 1/2 ton and the chrome hubcaps on that one have white painted GMC center letters.
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Janice Smyth’s parents purchased some land in Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1975, hoping to one day build a retirement home there. Unfortunately, they died before they could commence building and the land passed to Janice. For 40 years, the land has been zoned residential and either Janice or her parents paid property taxes. Janice herself paid $70,000 to various professionals to prepare plans and applications to develop the property.
The city of Falmouth had different ideas, however. Being a coastal community, the city passed the Falmouth Wetlands Protection Bylaw in 1998, creating various “no disturbance zones” around wetlands and coastal banks. In 2008, the city strengthened its bylaw and, as a result, the only developable part of Mrs. Smyth’s land is a 115 square foot section in the northwest corner. Mrs. Smyth applied for variances and even agreed to build a house half the size of the original plan, but the city wouldn’t budge. Her property that had been worth $700,000 was assessed at $60,000, a 91.5 percent reduction in value.
From Cato:
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied the appeal, so Mrs. Smyth has appealed to the Supreme Court. Cato has joined the Mountain States Legal Foundation in filing a brief supporting Mrs. Smyth’s petition. We argue that, rather than using the ad hoc balancing test of the Penn Central decision—a notoriously convoluted multi-part test—the Supreme Court should recognize that Mrs. Smyth incurred a “total taking” under the case of Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council.
No certiorari yet from SCOTUS, but it should get accepted based on the clarity of the case.
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This is a huge Second Amendment development lost in the fog of fake news this last week.
On August 13, 2019, we wrote about an extraordinary Amicus Brief filed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on behalf of himself and several other Democrat Senators.
The Brief was extraordinary because it threatened the Justices with a potential restructuring of the Court if the Justices didn’t dismiss as “moot” the first big 2nd Amendment case the Court has taken in a decade. The Brief was panned by right, left, and center as a thinly-veiled and inappropriate threat.
Earlier Jacobson wrote:
It had been almost a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court took a major 2nd Amendment case, something Justice Clarence Thomas lamented in a dissent from the Court’s refusal to hear an appeal from a 9th Circuit decision upholding California’s 10-day waiting period even for those who already owned guns legally and had gone through the permitting and background check….
So when the Court, in January 2019, agreed to take a major 2nd Amendment case, it was a big deal, We wrote, Supreme Court agrees to hear 2d Amendment case involving NYC firearm transport restrictions…
Bottom line: SCOTUS tells Sheldon Whitehouse to pound sand and takes the case onto the docket. Orals will take place on December 2.
New York tried to scramble and amend their unconstitutional laws to avoid a Supreme Court confrontation, but the Court says they’re taking it anyway.
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Plumber busy at work upstairs replacing a leaky faucet. I need to run some errands, but I’ll wait till he finishes.
Enjoyed the PowerLine cartoons today.
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OU is running through Texas defense like crap through a goose, except when OU gets into the red zone. Then they can’t seem to find the end zone, allowing Texas to keep it much closer than it should be. Of course, with Tom Herman at the helm of the Texas crew, they can never be counted out. I’m about the furthest thing from a Texas fan as you can get, but Tom Herman will keep them in the hunt and in the rankings because he’s an excellent football coach. Tech plays Baylor which should be a good game, and things are always exciting in Aggieville when the number 1 Alabama team pays a visit. LS&U plays Flarada later too, so several good games on tap. And I don’t have a Rice game to get me all stirred up today, so I can just relax and enjoy them all.
And then there are the Yankees in town for the Asstros to contend with. All we need to complete the show is a SJL 10 minute monologue.
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Is America Entering a Dark Age?
By Victor Davis Hanson 2019-10-10 T00:15:40I saw Victor Davis Hanson on FOX the other night talking about this and sadly, it is so true.
Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that originated after the fall of the lost palatial civilizations of the Mycenaean Greeks.
Dark Age Greeks tried to make sense of the massive ruins of their forgotten forbearers’ monumental palaces that were still standing around. As illiterates, they were curious about occasional clay tablets they plowed up in their fields with incomprehensible ancient Linear B inscriptions.
We of the 21st century are beginning to look back at our own lost epic times and wonder about these now-nameless giants who left behind monuments that we cannot replicate, but instead merely use or even mock.
Does anyone believe that contemporary Americans could build another transcontinental railroad in six years?
Californians tried to build a high-speed rail line. But after more than a decade of government incompetence, lawsuits, cost overruns and constant bureaucratic squabbling, they have all but given up. The result is a half-built overpass over the skyline of Fresno — and not yet a foot of track laid.
Who were those giants of the 1960s responsible for building our interstate highway system?
California’s roads now are mostly the same as we inherited them, although the state population has tripled. We have added little to our freeway network, either because we forgot how to build good roads or would prefer to spend the money on redistributive entitlements.
When California had to replace a quarter section of the earthquake-damaged San Francisco Bay Bridge, it turned into a near-disaster, with 11 years of acrimony, fighting, cost overruns — and a commentary on our decline into Dark Ages primitivism. Yet 82 years ago, our ancestors built four times the length of our singe replacement span in less than four years. It took them just two years to design the entire Bay Bridge and award the contracts.
Our generation required five years just to plan to replace a single section. In inflation-adjusted dollars, we spent six times the money on one quarter of the length of the bridge and required 13 agencies to grant approval. In 1936, just one agency oversaw the entire bridge project.
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Tokyo is getting their version of Hurricane Harvey.
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I have a brief statement.
*** INHALE ***
Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner*** INHALE ***
I’m a Sooner born
A Sooner bred
And when I die
I’ll be a Sooner deadBoomer Sooner
Boomer SoonerGo OU!!!
Thank you. Please continue with your previous activities.
Thatisall
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25 Super Dave
You have to admit living in California would make anybody pessimistic. I take Hanson’s warnings seriously, but at least we have Texas where you can still get some things done.
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The Israeli biotech startup Betalin Therapeutics created an artificial pancreas that will help diabetic patients deal with insulin dependency by reprogramming the current pancreas to function correctly.
The pancreas – located in the abdomen – is a vital organ crucial to the digestive process and doesn’t produce enough insulin in diabetic patients, causing the amount of sugars to increase in the bloodstream, leading to symptoms such as nausea and shortness of breath.
Betalin’s new artificial pancreas will not only help monitor sugar levels in the body but will also detect the amount of insulin that each patient needs and release it into the patient’s bloodstream.
Current or recent contributions to medicine from Islamic countries could not be found in internet searches.
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Roll Tide!
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28 Texpat
but at least we have Texas where you can still get some things done.In Austin County alone there have been hundreds of workers for the last three years building electrical power and oil/gas infrastructure.
Ol’ Howard (owner of Howard’s RV & Trailer Trash Extravaganza) has had to bring in forty foot containers to store his cash.
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and things are always exciting in Aggieville when the number 1 Alabama team pays a visit.
Well, the Ags do seem to be having fun being at the top of the third tier of the SEC.
I’ll keep rooting for them against all but the Tigers.
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Who needs fake journalists to lie to you when the government does a better job ?
Ramsden, of the National Institutes of Health, unearthed raw data from a 40-year-old study, which challenges the dogma that eating vegetable fats instead of animal fats is good for the heart. The study, the largest gold-standard experiment testing that idea, found the opposite, Ramsden and his colleagues reported on Tuesday in BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal).
plus,
It was also one of the most rigorous. Participants were randomly assigned either to the group eating the then-standard diet, which was high in animal fats and margarines, or to a group in which vegetable oil and corn oil margarine replaced about half of those saturated fats. Such a randomized controlled trial is considered less likely to produce misleading results than observational studies, in which volunteers eat whatever they choose. Observational studies are weaker than randomized ones because people who eat one way, rather than another, might have characteristics that benefit their heart health.
And because the Minnesota participants were in institutions that prepared all their meals and kept records, the scientists knew exactly what they ate for up to 56 months. Many nutrition studies have foundered because people misremember, or lie about, what they ate.
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Looks like LSU vs Fla is pay TV only.
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Good grief.
Astros/Yankees game will be shown on local Fox26 free TV.7pm.
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Lots of channel switching for me tonight.
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rayciss
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Tanaka pitching for the Yankers.
I sure remember him from last time.
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Go Astros!
Beat the Yankers and CutNShoot!!
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Triple Heh.:)
You beat me to it.
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UT can no longer win big games.
Time to join the WAC.
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These announcers have some kind of Yankers fetish.
May all the Astros be infused with the grit of J.R. Richard and Craig Biggio.
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Texas Teasippers – losers; Agro Americans – losers; Cougeros – losers. Baylor winner over TT. Geaux Tigers; Geaux Asstros
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Pregame announcers notwithstanding,
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Baseball is rigged.
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But unlike rasseling and the NFL, baseball still makes an effort to hide it. And NBA is in the news lately – who knew they were still around. And they don’t have female umpires yet who base their calls on how they are feeling that day or what feels right or who they are mad at or what they believe is fair.
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The series will go 7 games so the league can make lots of cash.
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Bregman. Mr. Cool.
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Can anyone in football (pro, college) make a play anymore without folding their arms, bad attitudes dripping, and preening for the camera as if the earth would no longer exist without them?
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The guy with the most fun job in America is Dean Winters.
He gets paid about a million bucks a year to destroy things.
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I need a Bregman jersey to wear around town here. I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces.
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Tanaka should be fined heavily for delay of game.
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That. Was. So. Good.
Soooo gooooood.
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I don’t think Tanaka should be allowed to call his wife between pitches.
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Yankees swing and hit Greinke’s first pitch fastball right over the plate.
Astros just watch Tanaka’s perfect first pitch go by. It’s so predictable. What’s up with that ?
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Asstros not looking so good so far. They better pick it up if they want their season to go much longer.
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Shirley Q. Liquor would say that theyz some mens on that Yanker team.
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Is it too late for a post like this: https://www.lifezette.com/2019/10/math-racist-seattle-public-schools-ethnic-studies-advisory/
Oh well, even if it is, it’ll still be there for Sunday morning. Y’all can read it while I do my sudoku puzzle, n’est pas?
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What did I tell ya ?
That was at least the third homer hit off the first pitch for the Yankees.
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Washington, Oregon, and California should be offered to Canada in swap for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Our three Pacific Coast states would go so well with British Columbia. 😉
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Speaking as a non-professional baseball person, but it looks like the Astros are not playing at the level needed to secure advancing to the World Series.
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Louisiana jungle primary results
John Bel Edwards (I) (D) 560,063 (46%)
Eddie Rispone (R) 331,192 (27%)
Ralph Abraham (R) 291,171 (24%)
Patrick Landry (R) 9,975 (1%)
Oscar Dantzler (D) 9,920 (1%)
Gary Landrieu (IND) 9,103 (1%)Looks like Republicans should take back that governorship in the runoff.
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According to the findings of a new Hill-HarrisX poll, a shocking 32 percent of black male voters would prefer to vote for Donald Trump over a generic Democrat opponent in the 2020 presidential election.
The Hill reported the data deceptively by claiming that an “overwhelming majority of black voters” would support a Democrat in 2020 over President Trump. The fake news did not mention Trump’s impressive support among black male voters in their report about the poll.
While 32 percent of black males support the President against a Democratic challenger, only seven percent of black females would support him over the generic Democrat. The black community may be split on gender lines over Trump, but he has undoubtedly amassed an impressive level of support from the men for a Republican contender.
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This deal over in Louisiana is looking like a virtual sweep for the R’s. The R’s will now hold a supermajority in the legislature, and the Dem governator is getting less than 50% which should ensure a runoff with a R majority. Maybe dem CAs is figuring it out.
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It’s 62 here this morning, no rain yet but we have a 30% chance today, not expecting much.
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Wait! Stop the Presses!
According to the findings of a new Hill-HarrisX poll, a shocking 32 percent of black male voters would prefer to vote for Donald Trump over a generic Democrat opponent in the 2020 presidential election.
SHOCKING is putting it mildly, if true, that is monumental! Republicans usually get about 9% of the total black vote and it has been this way for decades.And THIS is so typical;
The Hill reported the data deceptively by claiming that an “overwhelming majority of black voters” would support a Democrat in 2020 over President Trump. The fake news did not mention Trump’s impressive support among black male voters in their report about the poll.
I don’t have time to look it up, but didn’t trump carry a substantial amount of Black and Hispanic voters? More than the Republicans usually get?
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Well, coffee is ready and old cat is starving,…as usual, almost time for her 6 AM stabbing.
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Fixxin to be eastbound for more young HEROs
Yall enJOY!
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Good morning Hamsters. Friday the 13th came yesterday for the Astros.
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It was worth posting twice.
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😛 😛
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This is the SNL skit on the Democrats’ LGBTQ Town Hall. It’s pretty good. The Elizabeth Warren character is excellent.
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Blacks that I know I don’t believe give a rip about gays, trans, multi gender crap and I know they are not for open borders so I don’t get why they stay dem.
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Morning gang. Still cool this morning, but clear skies and some warming promised. I still suffering from my sports hangover a bit this morning, but not nearly as bad a hangover as the Asstros must be having. They’ve got today to redeem themselves, or I may declare them officially dead for the season, which would probably help them come back and win it all given my track record in sports and political projections. Nothing much to talk about yet today, but I expect something may happen that is noteworthy before the day is done. Meanwhile, you all have a great one.
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Question for Hamous, the management of this superb blog.
This appeared overnight under the heading Logged in as Adee. Log out? red print line.
Below that there is a box with a camera and music notes and ” Add Media”. Then far right on the same level are Visual or Text boxes. And below that starting on the left side is a long list of items to choose from in their own little boxes to use for composing comments.Am I the only one this appears to? My comments appear online like they always do, but this new stuff was quite a surprise.
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And a happy Sunday to all.
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As seen over yonder; I’m not a very smart Man…..
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Morning, chickadoodles! I was out in the cold front last night, at an annual event for the HOA. So, Fall has definitely fallen here. I need to bring out some sweat suits and bandannas so I can dress warmly.
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That should have been what you’ve seen for the last few months, since an upgrade broke everything for a day or two.
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Hey I don’t have any music symbols!
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I’ve posted a number of things here about the state of New York’s war on natural gas and the utility company’s endless warnings about inadequate supply since Cuomo and Friends killed the Williams Pipeline to New York from New Jersey.
Cuomo is accusing National Grid of “acting in bad faith” and crowing about their public responsibility to provide reliable service. But he’s simultaneously reiterating his opposition to the Williams Pipeline.
Does this guy understand what he’s asking for here? We’re also left wondering if he understands why the utility stopped authorizing new gas lines in the first place. Does he think that National Grid was simply tired of making money? Obviously they want to sign up new customers so they can begin billing them.
But there isn’t enough natural gas in the existing pipeline to keep adding more service points. If they continue to hook up new customers, you’re going to see the backpressure in the lines start dropping during peak demand hours. If you look at the configuration of a typical gas furnace installation you’ll note that if the incoming gas pressure drops too low, the furnace will simply shut down for safety reasons until the pressure is restored. The same is true for many other appliances that use natural gas or propane.
Since peak demand typically hits during a severe cold snap in the winter, what Cuomo is ordering could result in a lot of people suddenly going without heat, most likely near the furthest extreme of the gas lines. And at that point, complaining to National Grid and issuing more orders isn’t going to make the heat come back on.
Cuomo is going full California and you never want to go full California in the dead of winter up here. People will die. Just watch.
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Not only does Trump out raise his putative opponents, he saves untold millions by not having to fight in 50 state primaries, but most of all, these oblivious hyenas on the Left just keep on scripting his campaign commercials for FREE.
Should it be a crime to knowingly expose someone to HIV without disclosing it?
Most sane people would say yes. But a widely panned Vox article published this week said that state laws making it a crime to not disclose your HIV status “have only increased stigma and abuse.” And apparently, many 2020 Democrats agree with this ludicrous, insane point of view.
This was a common theme at Thursday night’s CNN town hall focused on gay and transgender issues, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign. Host Anderson Cooper, for example, called laws criminalizing HIV nondisclosure “antiquated” and based on “old science.” Presidential contender Pete Buttigieg agreed, saying, “It’s not fair and it needs to change.” And both on the CNN stage and in her new LGBT issues platform, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed decriminalizing HIV transmission as well.
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This is as good as it gets for intelligent information about what is really going on with Turkey/Kurds/Syria. There has been a lot of ignorance driven criticism of the Trump administration, particularly by virtue-signaling Republicans. Mike Huckabee made a complete fool of himself (he’s had practice) slamming Trump for “abandoning our loyal allies, the Kurds. It’s simply not true.
An interview at the Daily Signal with ME expert James Carafano is below. He spent the whole show on Friday with Sebastian Gorka. I listened to most of it.
When President Trump came in office, he actually expanded the U.S. footprint in Syria, because military advisers made the argument that … you couldn’t take down the caliphate—in other words, destroy the physical state that the terrorist had—if we didn’t actually have forces in there working with indigenous groups that were fighting ISIS, chief among them, the YPG, which is a armed Kurdish group.
And so President Trump actually increased the U.S. footprint in Syria. Then subsequent to that, after the caliphate was destroyed, the president wanted to withdraw U.S. troops. The military advisers and several allies, including Israel, said, “Well, look, there’s still concerns that need to be addressed.” So we’ve maintained a small footprint in Syria for the last year or so.
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So our concerns are, No. 1: We don’t want another caliphate. The last thing we would want is that the terrorist groups would be able to coalesce, build a state-like group in Syria like they had before, or like we saw in Afghanistan before 9/11, where they couldn’t … just not attract thousands of foreign fighters from around the world to build up an army of transnational Islamist terrorists, but where they could direct and raise money and focus operations aimed at attacking the United States like we saw happen on 9/11, like we saw ISIS tried to do against the United States.
We don’t want a return to the caliphate, that’s No. 1. We don’t want an organized terrorist group sitting in the middle of the Middle East.
No. 2: … We want the problems of Syria to stay in Syria. If you remember a couple of years ago, we had millions of refugees flooding into Western Europe destabilizing our key allies, flooding into the region. Destabilizing important countries like Jordan and flooding them with … terrorists actually infiltrating in the refugee flows to these other countries in those refugee flows trying to sneak into the United States.
So, we don’t want more of that. We don’t want mass refugee flows. We want the war in Syria to remain contained in Syria.
The third [thing] is we don’t want Iran to be able to establish a platform in Syria that they can really use to threaten Israel, which is our closest ally in the Middle East.
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Hey I don’t have any music symbols!
Well…
Maybe on account of you can’t sing?
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Yeah, I want more symbols and icons that I have no idea what they mean or how to use them on my posts too. I’m sure it’s a symbol of status of some kind or another, much like the keys to the executive washroom.
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I’m sure it’s a symbol of status of some kind or another, much like the keys to the executive washroom.
Ok Ms Adee, you’re on. We need music and photos! 😀
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Oh and WB, you been talking to my shower head?
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Nap time at 1st floor Chez Harp. Later, y’all.
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I still have a rusty key to the executive washroom and I’ve never seen any “musical symbols”.
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Must be an iPhone thing.
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Another Windows Vista machine has been given new life and serviceability saved from the dump/
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Ok Hamous and the gang, that answered my question. The new stuff is legitimate and not some sort of hack.
Next request is how to go about using it in posting comments since not using any of it did not affect posting a comment, otherwise my question would not have made on Hambone.
For those who don’t have it yet, the typeface is not the boldface type that appears in the comments posted. It is smaller typeface and therefore a bit harder to read, which is what threw me off when I first saw it.
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Hmmmm i got an old iMac that i can install ubuntu and call it a frankenmac.
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The only difference I see is the “Add Media” button. And the Visual or Text option.
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Long live Ubuntu and Linux. My newest computer is 10 years old and held together with duct tape and runs faster than it ever did with Winders. Boot up takes less than 20 seconds rather than the old way of turning it on, going to make a pot of coffee, making a pit stop, getting the coffee, and then sitting down to wait for it to finish booting. Did I mention that there is no need to try to find some anti-virus program that is not itself a virus program – none required.
OK, I’m starting to put my game face on for the Asstros here shortly. Hope they are doing the same. Yankees did not get here because they are lucky, they got here because they are good – so Asstros are going to have to be good too in order to beat them. Go Stros. Go here and push the right button to hear the authentic Go Astros soundbite that went around the world. https://www.soundboard.com/sb/michaelberryshow
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A democratic visual of democrats
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Like i said, I have always liked Linux. Apple used to be as solid as linux then Jobs died. Mac OS has become clunky and the “new” hardware is old unless you pay the uber premium for the new line of pro models. that is crappola. As soon as my iMac dies I will divorce myself from Mac desktops and laptops altogether. I’ll build my own winders machine because i need a race horse for my fotos. If Adobe would port photoshop to linux I would just do it with Linux. I am not a fan of Gimp.
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Yeah, Gimp is pretty clunky.
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About a year ago had to buy a new computer. Only the guys at Micro Center showed me a hard drive could be added to a computer they had. Spent an hour going through Windows 10 registration stuff on that just get to the point where I could reboot the computer. Loaded Kubunto and have not been back to Windows since, though it is still there. I could retrieve all the files on the old hard drive with this. We only keep a Windows machine because we use Quickbooks.
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As I recall, apple moved their OS to a unix based system a decade or so ago. It would be easy to port Photoshop.
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Doood, still out there? What’cha playing?
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Gto
Seems to me Quickbooks is in Microsoft’s pocket. I never could get the Mac version to work. Kept a winlaptop just for that.
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Apple did the Unix thing bout 2001. They did a Unix server in 1999. Gimp is a pain in the neck to use. There is nothing intuitive about it. I do have to say that the healing function beet than ps, but that is not enough for me to keep it on the desktop.
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Seems to me Quickbooks is in Microsoft’s pocket.
Yes they are. Or someone. They bill you for about $400.00 a year to use their payroll updates to use the rest of the program.
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OK, I’ve got this Insta-Pot electric pressure cooker thingy, and I’ve pretty well mastered chili and soup in it, but I figure it’s got to be good for something else. I don’t do a dozen boiled eggs or stuff like that, but any helpful hints floating around out there would be appreciated.
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GTO.
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yikes, $400. Mins was just personal banking. I never got that sting. Income tax is where it shined for me,
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I don’t have one but it’s got to do a good roast, right?
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I’ve done roasts in the slow cooker with onions, carrots, potatoes, etc. but I haven’t tried one in the Insta-Pot. Probably would work pretty well. I did do a pot of pintos that could not have come out any better, and that was from opening the bag, cooking about 35 minutes under pressure, and then letting them sit until the pressure dissipated on its on, so say about another 45 minutes. They were perfect, with no overnight soaking or anything. Maybe I’ll try my split pea with ham soup in there sometime – that’s usually an all day deal.
Astros need to step it up a notch.
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#113 GJT
We’ve done a roast in an Instapot before. It went from frozen to the table in about 45 min.
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Did anybody else notice last night how some of Greinke’s breaking sliders didn’t just turn down at the last minute, but they had this weird spiral effect at the same time ? I don’t know how anybody could hit that.
I haven’t seen any of the other pitchers from either team pull that off.
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OK, it’s off to extra innings with a 2-2 score at the bottom of the 9th.
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I have turn in. I hope it ends well.
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OK, I’m fading out here too. I’ll probably hear them interrupt Coast to Coast if they win.
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And just like that, at the stroke of midnight, Astros win 3-2. Night all.
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