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Oh yeah and
Ewwwwwwwwwwww nasty
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Second!
70 and rainy here, it is supposed to rain off and on all day.
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Cloudy and cool here this morning. There is a bona fide freeze warning in effect for tomorrow, so I need to get out and shut down the irrigation system I guess. I might even put the lectric blanket on the bed in case it gets too cold.
When it gets cold like this and I don’t get outside too much, my idle mind goes to work. I’ve recently come across some discussion about the dark web and the deep web where all the nefarious activity takes place, so naturally I’ve taken an interest. Seem that Tor is the jumping off place, and there is something out there known as TAILS that loads on to a flash drive that allows you to just plug in where ever you want to, and once you leave, there are no tracks that you were ever there. Maybe some of you wizards know more about this, but it does sound all mysterious with secret codes and secret hand shakes and the like. I’ll be looking in to this, so if you see black helicopters hovering over my house you will know that I found it.
OK, I’m off to do something. You all have a great day, and this time for sure, wrap your pets and bring in your pipes because the blue norther freeze is on the way. More later.
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Oh, I forgot to ask. Do you think the fact that the Gnat fans roundly booed the President on Sunday will blow back on the Gnats when they take the field tonight? Like in for form of loud boos? I’m generally of the opinion that the visiting team is a guest in our house, whatever the sport and where ever the venue, and as such, I don’t typically get all riled up opposing them. But I was jus wondering if there was some way the Houston fans might want to express their displeasure for the lack of respect the Gnat fans displayed the President on Sunday. I don’t know how else they could do it except to roundly boo them. Any thoughts?
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1953 GMC 450 Series w/the new inline 302 gasoline engine.
Come down to the fairgrounds and see the new GMCs!
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I need to get out and shut down the irrigation system I guess.
Don’t to forget to drain your pipe. 😉
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How to pick up chicks in Calif – http://ace.mu.nu/archives/IMG_2167.jpg
The tired old joke: What did Californians use for light back before they had candles? Drum roll please – electricity.
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#5 I have mixed emotions about that one, and even though I am the president of the local Curmudgeon Chapter, I’d say to not boo, just don’t get down to their level. The one thing I always liked about Houston is that it was the biggest small town I’ve ever seen, unlike most big cities. It somehow retained all or most of it’s southern charm.
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Environmental whackos are going after your streaming p0rn… and Netflix, Hulu, etc.
“For energy consumption to stay flat for the next five to 10 years, significant improvement in IT equipment and data centre energy performance must be made or our appetite for computations must diminish,”
These nut jobs can an issue with anything that uses electricity!
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#5 & #9
They could put a pic of Trump up on the Jumbotron. I’m sure the fans would cheer instead of boo.
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Now this is interesting, well maybe only to GJT and I, but I was looking at a diagram of a GMC 302, inline 6 and noticed that it had a PCV Valve!(E under the carburetor). My 63 and 67 Chevy Nova’s both had a crankcase breather on the rear of the engine that just dumped into the atmosphere. I’m pretty sure that 1968 was the first year for the government mandated PVC’s and the diagram/picture is not dated but the 302 was only used from 1952 until 1960….Interesting,….
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#11, TexMo, Ding, ding, ding,…we have a winner, that is a very good idea and if some Yankee boos, us southern gentlemen would have the right, no, the duty to beat the living crap outta’ them. I like it! 😀
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4 El Gordo
I’ve mentioned the Brave browser here before. It was started by Firefox founder Brendan Eich after the borg got him fired for straying from groupthink.
Anyway, he has Tor built in. From the menu you can open a “Private window with Tor” that makes your browsing history untraceable even to your ISP. I’ve been askeered to venture into the dark web though. Not even sure how to do that. Or why.
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My great Horned owl is a hooting up a storm this morning.
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My great Horned owl is a hooting up a storm this morning.
What a coincidence, mine was this weekend. . .oh wait, you are talking about a bird. . . . .NEVER MIND!
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In Gnatville, it’s OK to boo and disrespect the President, but you best not lift your top too high. Maybe the proper retaliation would be for all the old fat men sitting on the first two rows behind home plate to lift their tops and expose their saggy man boobs. Or better yet, all of the people on those two rows. Just a thought. https://www.wate.com/sports/2-women-who-flashed-breasts-at-world-series-banned-by-mlb/
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If you’re already used to Linux OS then Tails won’t be foreign to you.
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/26/privacy-and-anonymity-focused-linux-distro-tails-4-0-released/
I have an older version than the one in that link, but have used it a few times. Truthfully though, I’m like Hamsta-man on this: why would I need it? Not like I’m into drug distribution or human trafficking via the interwebz.
Edit to add: you can run it from a flash drive as EG says or you can run it from a DVD. Point is it boots from there and never has to access your hard drive.
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Boob flashing beats a dangling streaker any day.
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I just love a story with a happy ending.
HEADLINE: CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER DIES AFTER BEING BEATEN IN JAIL CELL
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HEADLINE: Joe Biden denied Communion at Mass because of abortion stance
This needs to happen to all the “Catholic” Ds and Rs who promote abortion. You can’t have it both ways.
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#21
What he said.
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Only thing about PVC’s is – rattle good, no rattle bad.
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102 years ago today, the Austrailian Light Horse Infantry made one of the most daring charges in history in an effort to capture Abraham’s Well in Beersheba. They had ridden thier horse for 48 hours to gain a position 5 kilometers from the town and were now without water. If they did not take the town and the well, or prevent its destruction, military disaster was in the offing.
Stick with this, a 5 kilometer charge takes a bit, and the director took pains to get the authenticity and action just right. Keep in mind, this is Infantry, not Cavalry. They are equipped with long bayonets, not swords. The scene is from the movie The Lighthorsemen. The Youtuber has edited the original down and added music. He took out some of the dialog, but kept the best parts. The Austrailians do a good job of making WW1 movies. Austrailia gained its national identity during the conflict, and doing a bad WW1 movie could be a hanging offense.
Two things are in operation here. First, the Turks had identified the unit as the Light Horse and expected them to fight as Horse Infantry: riding close to the combat then dismount and fight as infantry, but the Commanders decided to attack with Charge on Horseback, one of the last in the history of mounted combat. The intention was to get as many men inside the range of the Turkish artillery (getting “under the guns”) as quickly as possible. The second is that early in the charge, Turkish Commanders ordered their machine gunners and riflemen to change the settings on thier sights to maximum range and then, in the excitement, never told them to change the settings.
I do recommend the movie highly. Once you’re done with that, you can watch Gallipoli.
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Sleepy Joe’s lack of communion with the Church is not up for debate. Every time he presents himself to receive Holy Communion he adds to his extensive litany of grave sins.
The ones who should be concerned with their eternal lives are the priests who allow him (or any other politician) to receive Holy Communion while having knowledge of their untenable position on abortion.
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#21 😉
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Kinda cool and drizzly in the barrio this morning.
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The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the First one doesn’t work out.
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Morning, Hamsters. EG, I don’t see a freeze in the Houston forecast, which is fine with me because I’m not ready for a freeze. I am thrilled to see that the rain chance for my zip code has moved mostly into tomorrow. I have been too busy with various things to get to Kroger except in fly-by mode, so I am planning a major stock-up trip this morning. That is no fun on a rainy day. This afternoon, I take Hubs to NW Mem-H for a C-T scan. We won’t be outside at all, so I don’t care if it rains then.
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Judging by the OC pic, the only requirement for the young hipster is MUST have a beard. Actually, I’ve been noticing lately that pix of former co-workers, many of whom are nearing retirement age themselves, well… Just about every man I know has a beard these days.
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Not me!! Alls I can grow is mustache and goatee. My 27 yr old son keeps a full beard since 20, he looks like one of those guys. I tell him he must not be mine. 😀
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The one with the porkpie hat
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Alls I can grow is mustache and goatee.
I’m in the same boat.
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#19 et al – I already run Linux Mint, and I have a bootable Mint drive that can be used autonomously on any computer, presumably not leaving any tracks. From what the big boys say, you can go to the dark web to buy child porn, drugs, hitmen, and such. I currently am not in need of any of those products, but in case of emergency where I might need say a hit man for instance, it would be nice to know where to go since I can’t find one on Amazon. Anyway from what I’m reading, it takes a couple of hours to create the TAILS thumb drive, so that’s too much time. I’ll have to find something else to do.
No beard for me.
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I feel sorry for you babuh faces that will never enjoy the benefits of a full beard. Shame really. Not having a full beard only entitles you to 3 quarters man card. A genetic happenstance can come with some disappointing consequences
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Michael Berry is talking about some priest refusing communion to Joe Biden and making it like it’s a controversial subject. That would seem to be a subject between the Church and Mr. Biden and not a subject of debate. You either accept the Church’s doctrine, or you don’t. It’s that simple.
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Now ya don’t have to grow a full beard to have. 100% man card, just the ability.
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Relax folks.
The series is going 7 games because BB is rigged.
The home team not winning a game will continue tonight.
In other news.
Sold more records than Elvis and the Beatles.
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Front just ran through Bellville. We got hammered pretty hard. Lots of thunder and lightning. It’s headed your way.
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I currently am not in need of any of those products, but in case of emergency where I might need say a hit man for instance, it would be nice to know where to go since I can’t find one on Amazon.
I hear tell there’s a cheerleader mom out Channelview way what might could hook you up 8^).
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I made one errand run this morning. Maybe I should go to the bank before the front gets here. I can work inside after that.
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Remember when the Newspeak Media was all giddy about Gaddafi’s death?
Someone?
Anyone?
Ferris?upChuck Toad rated it 5 ribbits.
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We’re getting another hard band through here. I’m trying to leave for Kerrville, but it’s brutal right now.
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Looking like nuthin gonna happen in Magnolia or here in Tomball.
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Hang on. It’s going thru Perry View now.
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I keep waiting for the hipsters to figure out that the beard is the reason they can’t get a date.
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Dems suddenly walk back impeachment vote.
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Guess the future radar thing was wrong.
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Had to sacrifice today and take the rest of the Saturday’s ribeye for lunch before it went bad. It’s a ruff life.
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I just can’t pass up a Warthog story. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/air-force-to-test-lighter-cheaper-planes-to-supplement-the-a-10/
I seem to be addicted to those things.
FWIW, it’s a cool, drizzly, miserable day out here. Just perfect for me. Gonna get cold tonight though.
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#48 – I thought the beards were the girly boys way to get a date.
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Front is just passing over in Katy……………..lQQkin forward to opening the windows again!
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Saw it on FB so I know it’s true, the guy who blocked the home run ball while holding on to his two beers is coming to game 6 courtesy of Budweiser. Got his face on a shirt too. I knew I saw the same guy close to another home run ball by Soto a little while later but never saw any mention of it. Story I read said it was him.
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%6 – I’m assuming you saw this post yesterday. You never know when your about to become a superstar overnight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHKkV5NN440&fbclid=IwAR2XbDz9TfjX5lMlZboFdcYbC2zwzFP4acnqvhQEGuvQGT6IGOWZ6F7My0M
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Wet and chilly 59 in Brenham.
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October 23, 1948 – “Smart Pig” advances Pipeline Inspection
Northern Natural Gas Company recorded the first use of an X-ray machine for internal testing of petroleum pipeline welds. The company examined a 20-inch diameter pipe north of its Clifton, Kansas, compressor station. The device – today known as a “smart pig” – traveled up to 1,800 feet inside the pipe, imaging each weld.
As early as 1926, U.S. Navy researchers had investigated the use of gamma-ray radiation to detect flaws in welded steel. In 1944, Cormack Boucher patented a “radiographic apparatus” suitable for large pipelines. Modern inspection tools employ magnetic particle, ultrasonic, eddy current, and other methods to verify pipeline and weld integrity.https://aoghs.org/this-week-in-petroleum-history/this-week-in-petroleum-history-october-24/
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It’s raining hard now at Chez Harp, but forecast shows it should be moved on through by the time I head out to take Hubs to his appointment. The weather radar shows this storm moving through Houston from south-west to north-east, so it doesn’t appear to a Canadian cold front.
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It still sposeta rain tomorrow?
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Raining hard here at Westheimer and Buffalo Speedway.
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#60 – Radar truly doesn’t show the actual front…………….merely the rain’s progress
I’d say these predicted temps came from Canada!!
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/katy/77494/daily-weather-forecast/2103521
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The inevitable other shoe has dropped on Californicatia.
HEADLINE: Insurers drop fire coverage for 350,000 California residents
bWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, the stupid; it burrrrrrns!
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El Gordo #53
#48 – I thought the beards were the girly boys way to get a date.
Well if that is true, just call me Squawkeriana. I am not sure if it was the beard or not, (certainly was not my money), but my Lovely BSue likes it.. Oh wait that is because she hates my 5 o’clock shadow scratching her face, that was a contributing reason to my growing a beard. I hate shaving so I would go days without shaving and BSue threw down and told me either shave everyday or grow a beard if I wanted to get near her at all..
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I finally got the barbecue pit fire going. Ribs are on. I was going to cook ’em Sunday but didn’t. Today seems like a good day to do it, since I’m through running errands. The pit is on our covered porch (the roof is really high, so it’s not a fire hazard), so I can keep the smoke goin’ even during a rain.
Doesn’t mean I won’t get wet, if’n it’s hard enough with wind, but if it gets too bad I’ll just yank ’em and finish them in the oven.
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Lil Darlin’ broke her leg recently, if y’all remember. I sent her a card, sympathizing with her leg and telling her about when I broke my leg. I reassured her that this was only temporary and that she would get better soon, and that Nona loved her soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
Lovely Daughter told me that LD2 is now walking on her booted appendage, which means she’s healing well. I asked if LD2 got my card. She said that Sunshine reads it to her every morning.
Not enough warm fuzzies in the world. Not nearly enough. I miss them so much. It makes me feel good that I can still grandmother them from a distance.
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And I got Eldest Sis’ gift in the mail to her today. Her birthday is either today or tomorrow. My Viking inspired cloak closure pin arrived yesterday, so I was able to send it out today. It was going to be a Christmas gift until I realized how much cold weather could occur between now and Christmas, so I sent her neck warmer for her birthday.
I hope she likes it.
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Oh wait that is because she hates my 5 o’clock shadow scratching her face
Men will never know how painful that can be. It’s like rough grit sandpaper.
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just call me Squawkeriana
Squawkella
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Oh wait that is because she hates my 5 o’clock shadow scratching her face
Men will never know how painful that can be. It’s like rough grit sandpaper.
I correct myself. You know those wire brushes you use to clean your barbecue grill? Yep. That’s what it feels like.
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#65- I was talking about those dudes in the OC, not real he men like yourself.
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Just think of all that greenhouse gas being produced by California wildfires. There’s only one solution – we must ban California! They’re an existential threat to the earth.
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🙁
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#33 Alls I can grow is mustache and goatee.
I’m in the same boat.
I third that, I’ve never really wanted a beard, but I’ve had a mustache since I was 18. When we lived on the
Frozen TundraKansas, my bride wanted me to grow a beard, and it was wimpy, I do a great Goatee, that I can’t stand, BTW, but not much on the Sides. -
We need to get you some blockquoting lessons.
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The person who testified at Schiff’s kangaroo court today said he shared classified information on the Ukraine phone call with others. When Republicans asked who he shared it with Schiff shut it down and wouldn’t let him answer. Unbelievable.
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Could make an interesting 7th inning stretch song though.
Could upset the #metooscammers also.
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We need to get you some blockquoting lessons
Hey, it came out better than I thought it would, not what I wanted but close. 😉
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I knew that I had a picture somewhere, Dave, with my lovely Bride, in Wichita Kansas, February 1980. At first I couldn’t figure out where we were, since the fireplace was joke, but this was in the apartment that we rented, for 6 months before we bought the house.
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Danged fickle front! (must be a female!)
it’s actually backed up to Sealy and gone stationary ARGH
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#80 – DANG SD – you’re resembling either Ginger Baker or Stevie Winwood a bit there……………are you musical at all?
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FWIW; The fireplace in the house in Wichita was the neatest one that we’ve every had. It was made with real stones imported from Arkansas, and you could still see some of the moss growing on the stones. The fireplace in Texas was exactly like it, but it was made of fake rock, made out of concrete.
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#80 – DANG SD – you’re resembling either Ginger Baker or Stevie Winwood a bit there……………are you musical at all?
I don’t know who those guys are and no, sadly, I couldn’t carry a tune in a slop jar…tone deaf @ birth, remind me to tell you about trying to tune the guitar that my grandmother got me….Hopeless!
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My #84, I’ll have to find my “Dr. Red Duke”, picture, taken on the day daughter was born, I was in blue scrubs, with a mask and everybody said that I looked just like him. 😉
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Hey, it came out better than I thought it would, not what I wanted but close.
Because I fixed it
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#84 – Ginger Baker = recently deceased absolute MASTER rock drummer
Stevie Winwood = still with us – virtuoso song writer, keyboardist, guitarist, singer and who knows how many other instruments…………
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OK, I just stumbled across “Fake News” at it’s best; The GOP’s nightmare scenario.
I call the BS flag on this one and I haven’t even read it….But it is from AXIOS, the millennial, coddling website,……pitiful, just pitiful.
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#86 BAWHAHAHA! Why am I NOT surprised? Maybe I should be banned from using them. 😀
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#57 El Gordo
Fan who got hit by home run ball is coming to Game 6 – thanks to Bud Light
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#90 – Heroes aren’t born that way. They are just ordinary people doing extraordinary things. I heard that somewhere sometime. https://www.purposefairy.com/76787/heroes-are-just-ordinary-people-who-do-extraordinary-things/
BTW, it’s not too early to start getting your game face on for tonight’s contest. It’s dollar taco night at the DQ, and if I go now, I’ll want to eat them as soon as I get back. If I wait until closer to game time, they might run out. Decisions, decisions.
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#91 – continued: I just remembered that it’s also buy one get two cheeseburgers and the Sonic tonight, so that does offer some back up protection if DQ runs out of tacos. But tacos seem much more basebally than cheeseburgers.
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Maybe I should be banned from using them.
Heh heh. Nah, if I haven’t banned Sarge for his 100% fail rate on the “i before e except after c” rule, you’re safe.
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Tacos it was. They had some new kid up there making the tacos (yes, there was a line) who didn’t know what he was doing, so he was just heaping the meat on there, lettuce and tomatoes running out the top and sides, and piling on the cheese on top of all that. Hopefully the boss didn’t see him making tacos that way so he can keep it up. Definitely a complete meal tonight. Now where are those Astros, I’m ready to play.
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That state will start emptying out quick if homeowners insurance is unavailable.
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I really enjoy Dr. Taylor Marshall’s videos.
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Whoa, found thah blog stone dead cold. Wha’ happen? Oh I guess it could be the sports thing tonight, amiright?
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I couldn’t carry a tune in a slop jar…
Heh!
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Emergency mid-week edition of Pictures of the Week – Bad Dog Edition – https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/mid-week-in-pictures-hero-dog-edition.php
Somehow this photo didn’t make the cut, but it’s one of my favorites – https://imgur.com/L9q6lvQ
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I bet those dogs are very well-loved.
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#99, My favorite, K9 Paratrooper’s.
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Astro’s are going to have to step it up a bit if they want to close it out tonight. Nat’s have come to stay alive. Gotta luv the final game or two of the WS.
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I guess Katie Hill knew how to capitalize on the swinger vote.
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Glad to see the Doood. Watching your youtube channel what are you playing? Looks like a Fender Jazzmaster headstock but only two nobs on the body. Marshall cab stage left, just when you thought the guitars were expensive. If your once one in two out policy out is still in effect, might one be a Dan Electro Longhorn?
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I just finished making a rosary for a friend. I think I have an extra scriptural rosary book that I can give her. I think I’ll crochet a little bag to carry it all in.
Hoping it help her. She needs something to calm herself down, and praying the rosary is very good way to do it. She’s not Catholic, but I told her that, as a Christian, it would still be a good thing to meditate on the life of Jesus and Mary.
I haven’t made a rosary in a long time. I actually had to look for my beads, since I’ve moved everything since I used to make them. I found stuff that I forgot I had.
I have enough beads to supply rosaries to half of my parish.
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And the umps make their play to make a difference.
Rigged.
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Yep. Bad call IMO. Nats made them pay. A call that shouldn’t have been made. Astros have had some calls go their way.
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Well folks, tune in tomorrow, same time, same station, for the exciting conclusion of 2019 Major League Baseball. Meanwhile, sleep tight, and throw an extra blanket on the bed.
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The Nats pitcher has an oc pic type beard.
Maybe there’s some sandpaper in it.
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Heh
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