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First! Second time today.
38 and frost on the pumpkin this morning.
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1952 GMC 101-22 1/2 ton Pickup.
Owned by Phillip Pierce of Roanoke, VA, this is a beautifully restored truck and great color! Phillip’s in the auto body business and the quality of work on his truck sure shows it. Phillip was bitten hard by the GMC bug and he has a number of other GMCs including 1927 Chevy Capital 1 Ton truck, a 1941 Chevy Suburban , a 1949 GMC Suburban, a 1945 GMC half ton truck , and a 1946 Chevy COE.
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The impeachment garbage in the House is a cover-up attempt to protect the Deep State conspirators.
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Hamsters sell for $10 now ? I might start a hamster ranch.
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This is beautiful! A woman in Newtown, CT calls out Beta O’Dork on guns. Speaking truth to a gun grabbing butthead.
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From yesterday;
# 47 Hamous says:
October 31, 2019 at 1:38 pmTwo Dems voted against impeachment proceedings. In a rare show of consensus among Republicans (even the spineless ones), all of them voted nay.
I commented on this but I wanted to add that I was real glad that ALL the Republican’s voted against the bill, that really surprised me, but it does show that this crap is totally partisan and we also know it is a witch hunt. The two Democrats that voted against it was icing on the cake, I just hopped more of the 2016, swing state Representatives would have voted no. So, do any of y’all think a voter for Impeachment will ever reach the House Floor? I really don’t, unless they can move the needle on the polls.
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So, Texpat, how’s the weather up there, still warm? It is sunny and chilly here, high should be about 62, unseasonably cool for here.
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As a rule, we don’t get a hard freeze until mid December, but I;m betting that we’ll have one before Thanksgiving. I hope not, my turnip patch is just stating to look good.
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OleTimerLin posted a neat article on the REA this morning.
Burnet County powers up
November 01,1939This is a great picture, taken long before there was an OSHA.
On this day in 1939, the first section of the Pedernales Electric Cooperative’s many miles of transmission lines was energized at Bertram in Burnet County, and the first of several thousand rural Hill Country families received electricity. During the 1930s farmers and ranchers across the Lone Star State banded together to form nonprofit electric cooperatives to apply for funds from the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). With money from the REA, they constructed their own power lines and repaid the loans from sales of electricity. The Pedernales Electric Cooperative included a network that spanned parts of Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Llano, and Mason counties. Their initial REA loan of over $1.3 million for more than 1,700 miles of electric lines was the most money and longest mileage ever granted in a single approval, but the effort brought modern conveniences to thousands of thankful folks.
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Yesterday morning was cold at 26 degrees, but this morning is even colder at 22. No clouds to blanket the radiant heat from yesterday’s warm-up, so off the heat went into outer space. The Trumps have officially relocated from New York to Flarada, so next time around maybe we can say that we are electing Flarada Man to the presidency. I’m pretty sure that New Yark is going to fight tooth and nail to try to salvage their tax revenues from him. rush moved to Flarada years ago and is still being audited every year by the state of NY for taxes that he may owe – he refuses to even set foot in New York any more. Even stopping over in the private jet triggers a tax.
It’s high school football Friday, and I think the home town team is out of town this week, but I’ll tune in on the local radio station and try to decipher down and distance and score, etc from the mush mouths that do the local broadcasts. Trump is holding a rally somewhere tonight too, so I’ll be watching that on You Tube or CBSN or something. Fox News continues to thin the herd as Katherine Herrige (not certain of the spelling) who has been there since the beginning as a straight news reporter (and a good one) is shuffling over to CBS. Fox is turning liberal just as fast as it can so the Murdock boys can join the insiders at the club and become a part of the group.
Somewhere I think it will be Flarada Man Friday also, so if I’m able to find something like that I’ll post it too. Meanwhile, crank up that heater, stay warm, and have a good day.
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#9 – That is some neat stuff. Bringing electricity to the farm was a big deal in America.
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The Boy goes trick or treating; When your oldest daughter asks you to be Olaf for Halloween…..YOU BE OLAF!!Not sure who “Olaf” is but he looks like a cross between a rabbit and a bird. 😉
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While it was in the 30s and windy in Texas, Her Highness is regaling me with the news it’s in the 70s up here in New Jersey. I didn’t take anything but a windbreaker to Texas and I was freezing there the last couple of days.
We had a strong southwest tailwind from Texas last night and the plane could’ve just glided to NJ without power so we got up here early, but the inbounds stacked up at Newark and we had to slow way down and kill time before clearance for landing. It added another 45 minutes to the flight. It was so rough for the last hour from unrelenting turbulence, women and children were screaming in the plane. It was pretty bad and we hit the tarmac on the single starboard landing gear. I thought the flight deck was going to roll that bird on the runway before they could get the other two gear on the ground. It was a real rodeo for a solid hour.
It was the second worst flight of my life.
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Bringing electricity to the farm was a big deal in America.
Yup, it made it to the Farm House in 47 and my grandmother got herself a Generous Electric refrigerator. After she passed away my Dad kept it in the barn and used it to store seeds, it lasted well into this century.
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Ammo Grrrll is on fire today. It’s a nice short read about the good old days. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-296.php
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This is what happens when you have a city run by Marxists. – The President of the United States of America just thumbed his nose at his life-long home state, announcing on Twitter yesterday that he and his family are officially changing their residence to Palm Beach, Florida…
This really is a huge story. It knocks a big hole in New York state and city tax revenues when you consider the whole family and all their tax bills.
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Issues & Insights editorial board:
But that story, from the headline down, reeks of liberal bias. The reporter, Steven Nelson, spends the second paragraph of the story attacking Sperry, calling him “a partisan pro-Trump figure who … critics accuse of trading in disinformation and conspiracy theories.”
Well, we know Paul Sperry. He worked for Investor’s Business Daily for years, where the Issues & Insights team was before striking out on its own. (He’s written for us, as well.) Paul is a diligent reporter who has broken more stories than Steve Nelson could dream of. To brazenly malign Sperry using leftist tropes is journalistic malpractice at its worst.
Even more bizarrely, Nelson claims to have found “at least one significant factual inaccuracy in the report,” but never reveals what it is. This is the sort of sloppy, biased journalism we expect from the New York Times or the Washington Post or CNN.
That aside, there’s another reason the mainstream press won’t touch Sperry’s story. If it did, it would have to admit that it’s known the “whistleblower’s” identity all along. And that it knows his biases. And that it’s under no obligation to protect his identity. And, finally, that it covered up his identity to keep the impeachment train rolling.
The Washington Examiner has always had one of the most irritating and frustrating websites just from a user point of view. Lately, they have been swerving Left and have seemingly joined the Beltway Swamp full of Hacks. Texan Mark Tapscott ran the WE for years and it was a solid conservative source, but ever since he left it’s been swirling around the drain.
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Can you say hypocrisy?
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During the 1930s farmers and ranchers across the Lone Star State banded together to form nonprofit electric cooperatives to apply for funds from the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).
House Speaker Sam Rayburn (Sherman, TX) and a young congressman named Lyndon Johnson rammed the REA through the Congress and it was probably the best thing they ever did for Texas. The Lower Colorado River Authority and Highland Lakes projects turned out to be good things, but they sure were riddled with corruption in the early days with LBJ and his cronies as beneficiaries.
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I find it weird at this point in time that Fox News, Washington Examiner and Drudge all seem to be in a leftward drift at the same time.
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RE: My #16
These blue states in the Northeast have become so dependent on fleecing the very wealthy that when just one billionaire and his family leave the state to escape the tax burden, they start freaking out. Connecticut dangerously relies on a group of less than 100 billionaire families to provide most of their tax revenue. Several have left for Florida and every one of them got personal calls from the governor begging them not to leave.
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#1 0 – HEAT??
no heat turned on here (yet)
Still in the 60s inside this house and I have p l e n t y of already PAID for warm clothes!!
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Wagonburner was right all along about those Lutheran terrorists.
Pacific Lutheran University Professor of Nordic Studies Troy Storfjell was recently interviewed by a Seattle Times columnist regarding his membership to a group called Emerald City Supporters, a band of local Major League Soccer fans who recently won a battle with the league for the right to display the Iron Front Symbol at matches.
“I don’t have a problem with it…”The symbol, which is regarded widely as a symbol of “anti-fascism” and as such has been co-opted by Antifa groups, was banned from stadiums as it was deemed to violate a policy against political imagery, but the ECS claimed the image is not political in nature, and simply stands for inclusion.
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I got an actual newspaper in the mail yesterday that I’ve never heard of.
The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 by John Tang and other Chinese Americans associated with the spiritual practice Falun Gong. The founders said they were responding to censorship inside China and a lack of international understanding about the Chinese government’s repression of Falun Gong. In May 2000, the paper was first published in the Chinese language in New York, with the web launch in August 2000.
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Some folks around here have linked to Epoch Times articles before.
I’ve seen some ads from them preceding YouTube videos.
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Must be Michael’s time of the month.
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#22 Katfish
So you are voluntarily freezing yourself??? At Chez Harp, the downstairs heat did not come on the first time it was asked to do so, about a week ago. I think this is the 3rd year in a row that there was dust in the igniter (or something like that) that prevented the gas heat from firing up. This morning it was 62 in the kitchen, so I went ahead and scheduled our fall checkup, to get that heater going up in the attic before we have our first freeze.
When we bought this house, it had a screwy “heat-exchanger” system that worked for the cooling, but the heat was basically 2 special spectrum LIGHTS that came on in front of the 2 blowers. We survived a couple of years using electric space heaters, before we scrapped all that stuff in the attic and had good equipment installed. The problem with the dusty igniter has never happened on the upstairs system, only the downstairs. I’m surviving downstairs — you guessed it — with electric space heaters.
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Temperatures already up to the mid 50’s by noon, starting at about 22 at daylight.
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We turned on our floor night before last, for the first heating session of the season. It’s always a crap shoot, because there’s a circuit panel that we’ve been warned will need replacing every several seasons, but this is year four for this particular board, IIRC.
I take a warm floor for granted, until I step onto a spot where the tubing doesn’t run. Yep, there’s a difference. On nights cooler than about 45 degrees, I might leave the boiler on all night and turn it off first thing in the morning. That floor’ll radiate heat all day and into the evening. If the temps aren’t that cool, we’ll turn it on for about four or five hours in the evening and turn it off.
I love my warm floors. Quiet, even, efficient heat.
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This may actually be my engagement ring. It’s snagging all my clothes.
Nah, the more I look at it, the more I think it’s just a close replica. There’s on particular difference – we’d cut the basket on the bottom of the setting so it would sit closer to my wedding band. This ring’s basket is intact.
Still having a jeweler look at it, though. I may use it in place of until the original decides to make its appearance.
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I need to relocate my modem to another wall so my primary node of my mesh network has better communication with the other two nodes in the house. Since my daughter has moved back in, the modem is unfortunately in her room. She keeps piling stuff around the main node lately and the internet keeps dropping as the two downstairs nodes lose communication with the primary node upstairs.
Since the phone company bumped me up to 75 Mbps, they had to run a dedicated line to the modem. This means I can’t use any of the other phone jacks in the house for the modem and it is stuck in what is now my daughter’s bedroom.
I went to Fry’s to pick up a 25′ phone line. I haven’t been there in quite some time. There were barely any customers in there and it is a huge store. I saw two sales associates on the entire floor. In the past you couldn’t walk 20′ without being asked if you required assistance from any one of the multitude of commissioned sales associates. Additionally many of the shelves were empty. Even their warehouse shelves were completely bare. I asked the lady at check out if the store was relocating or closing and she no that it was just slow. I think Fry’s Electronics will go the way of Radio Shack.
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So when the woman loses a wedding band or engagement ring, the world keeps spinning, but if the man makes the same mistake all hell breaks loose.
I know.
I’ve been there and done that.
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#27 – Neighbor you may have forgotten(?) – I semi-regularly ride my motorcycle in Winter temps down into the TEENS.
60 (or more) degrees in my house is not the least bit uncomfortable – I’m wearing jean shorts and a long sleeve t-shirt. These clothes were paid for MANY years ago. The natural gas$$ I’m saving helps keep me warm too!
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I actually turned on the heat last night for my wife. Yesterday morning it was 65F in my kitchen and it made it up to 67F by the time I got home. I figured if I didn’t turn on the heat that it would drop to about 60F overnight and we wouldn’t gain too much heat today.
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I went to my parish this morning to pray the rosary, attend mass, and prayed the Memorare afterwards as part of a novena call I found on the ‘net last night. Some of the school students had dressed up as saints for All Saints Day (today, also a holy day of obligation). Representative students from each of the classes were brought up to show their costumes and read a (fortunately) brief synopsis of their chosen saint. While I praise their effort and applaud the school for reinforcing holy role models, I refrained from clapping during the presentations. Clapping in church isn’t appropriate, IMHO. We’re there for Jesus, and usually clapping is recognizing something non-Jesus. Proud of you kids, but not clapping during mass.
Praying for vocations and holiness for the Church. I veiled at my parish for the first time, too. I’ve worn scarves before, as head wraps, but this is the first time I brought out my new chapel veil. I saw some hats, but that could be from the cold.
Working on some spirituality.
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So, every time I see a police chase going on the first thing that always pops in my mind is if it were me trying to run from the PoPo I would immediately run up on construction, wreck or just heavy traffic in general and I’d be had. This morning while getting ready I watched one going on, guy was going Eastex Frwy from Humble area down to I10 East to Waco St I believe and took thru a neighborhood. 6:15 in the morning rush running 70 to 90 mph the whole time. I think he ended getting caught on foot not sure I had to go.
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So when the woman loses a wedding band or engagement ring, the world keeps spinning, but if the man makes the same mistake all hell breaks loose.
Actually, Hubby commented after I “found my engagement ring” that he had no idea where his wedding band is. Shortly after our marriage, he took it off as a safety measure so his finger would remain a permanent appendage, even while operating some of his equipment. It sat on top of his dresser for years. Now, it’s gone.
I’m not worried. That ring in his nose is good enough for me. 😀
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GJT I’m in the same boat as you. I’d probably get 10 yrs to life for stealing a pack of chewing gum too.
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After lunch I’m going to have to back my motorcycles out of the garage and cut a hole in the ceiling of my garage to find a water leak from a bathtub above. I’m not looking forward to that. I really do not like working on things like that above my head much less while on a ladder.
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I just realized I missed my chance to put on my Halloween shirt. I made it years ago, when the kids were little and LD and I used to make shirts together.
It’s a white t-shirt, with a big old-fashioned broom on the front. The text around the broom says “Spook softly and carry a big stick”.
It still cracks me up.
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#39 – Bummer on the honeyDO list for sure!
Especially since leaking water can ‘travel’ quite a distance laterally before making it’s appearance on the ceiling sheetrock below……….
I’ll run out to the garage and HUG my “Little Giant” ladder – it can be configured several different ways including ‘scaffold style’ – small wonder why these are seen hanging on fire trucks!
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I never wore my rings(s) neither, for the same reasons and I work around battery packs a lot. Those things will get cherry red like quick if you get it caught between the wrench and ground. I do have it one my key ring tho. My finger one not the nose one.
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They make rings out of elastomers now for people like Hubby and GJT. I’ve seen guys switch to them so they can safely wear one at work.
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Shhhh
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My exx was HIGHLY allergic to all metals (except for platinum)
She had to apply fingernail polish even to the inside of her jean’s buttons to avoid a nasty rash
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#40
I have a black t-shirt that says in big bright block letters “This is my Halloween costume”. I don’t recall ever wearing it to a Halloween event, but I had a Physical Therapy day on Halloween morning in 2013, so I wore it then. It was a big hit with the other patients and their family members sitting in the waiting area when I arrived.
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I pushed a lot of wire through a mig welder for eleven years. The rings I wore back then would end up with miniscule bb’s of slag on them.
Yeah, yeah, I know. “Why weren’t you wearing your left glove?”
I don’t have a legitimate response.
I was in a hurry.
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When we bought this house, it had a screwy “heat-exchanger” system that worked for the cooling, but the heat was basically 2 special spectrum LIGHTS that came on in front of the 2 blowers.
I’ve never heard of something so bizarre, are you sure it wasn’t a heat pump? When my dad finally got around to installing central heat N air, he got a heat pump without asking me. He wanted a natural gas furnace but the gas lines didn’t come this far out, at that time. In the past we had propane space heaters and stove but that stuff is dirty. Anyway, if you didn’t know it heat pumps SUX!! they only work down to about 50 degrees and then the strip heaters kick in, I.E. they tie two 220 wires together and they get hot, basically just electric heat. To make a short story long, the folks that installed the heat pump disabled all the reverse valves so the damn A/C would work and he had electric heat until he passed away. They did supplement it with a wood burning stove that was replaced with a LP gas space heater after SNG ran gas lines out here. Before my mom passed away, I had the WDT replaced with a new A/C and a LP gas furnace and it works like a champ.
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My #48, the space heater in the den did feel pretty good this morning when it was 38, it is great for warming up a small area, without using the central air.
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About rings, working with electronics for all my years, I knew the hazards of rings and even watches. A buddy mine, who knew better, had to go to the emergency room to get his wide, wedding ring cut off his finger after a mishap with a wrench and a 12 V battery in his 70 Chevelle. The ring melted into his finger and he almost lost it, it was NASTY! 🙁
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Hubby’s worry was getting the ring caught in a cable and having his finger ripped off. He chastised more than one employee who wore necklaces while leaning over the sewer cable as it was running.
Stoopid. It’s easy to overlook, but oh, how dangerous. It’s better to go completely jewelry free when doing hands on type of work.
I’d rather he lose his ring than lose a finger.
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I always wanted to wear the wedding ring.
Good cougar repellent.
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True conversation.
“Here’s to beer: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”
What? Squawk you would say that?
Sure, why not?
But but you don’t drink.
I do drink, I drink water, soda waters, tea, lemonade, coffee, lots and lots of coffee.
Alcohol you a__ h___
But I do drink alcohol. One of the best remedies for cold relief is NyQuil which has alcohol in it.
GAHHHHHHHH you are such a jerk.
C’mon I will buy you a beer and explain it to you.
GAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
/HEH HEH HEH I love life
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I always wanted to wear the wedding ring.
Good cougar repellent.
Yeah you need it. With all that gray hair well yanno they go after the weak ones.
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Just happened upon this article on demonology and exorcism.
I like that he emphasizes – as I’ve heard all exorcists do – that the afflicted must first be proven to be free of “normal” reasons for their behavior, such as mental illness, etc.
Excerpts from his interview:
There are roughly one to four possession cases going in a major city at any time. Most exorcists are doing an exorcism monthly, weekly, or more often. It’s usually best to have sessions weekly for each person.
Historically there is a wave of intense exorcism activity as Christianity first enters a culture, for about fifty years, then it settles down. [Interesting] I think we are seeing an increase in our generation for the opposite reason: because people are leaving Christianity, and the demons have freer rein to play their cons on people now.
Which is more dangerous: dismissing the devil’s involvement in the world or attributing too much to the work of the devil?
The important thing is to focus on human free will and our relationship with God. The demons are not central players here; we give them sway in the world only through our choices. Their job is to tempt us, but we make the decisions to follow those promptings. So, in a sense, they are behind all the evil, but it is we who allow evil to manifest.
Demons usually start with a con game. They may pretend to be a dead loved one, a holy angel, the spirit of a child in distress, or another spirit. After they lure the person into communication, they usually offer success, power, money, protection, or something the person thinks he needs.
Later, when the person is getting in too deep, the demons stop acting like a harmless servant and start dictating what the person can and cannot do. As the relationship deepens, it becomes torture, with the only out proposed either possession or suicide. Demons never give what they promise, not really, and it’s all taken away once the person is in too deep to back out on their own.
Is the person who experiences demonic obsession or possession incapable of helping himself, of warding off the demon alone?
The person usually has invited the relationship because they don’t know it’s a demon. … The person who has been conned can usually back out and repent if things have not gone far. Once it becomes oppression—… like an abusive spouse who controls someone through fear and suffering—it may be hard to get out on your own. With possession it almost always requires the rite of solemn exorcism.
I’ve always wondered about fear during an exorcism:
I’ve never felt fear. I think God just removes that as part of a calling to be involved in this. I’ve seen that with most priests and team members called into this ministry. As time goes on and it becomes clearer that Satan and the demons are limited, fallen creatures on a leash—and that Jesus holds the leash—the drama is even less scary. As the Bible says, don’t fear him who can destroy the body but him who can destroy the body and the soul. Our souls are God’s, and God alone judges us and determines where we go.
I don’t really have any stress or concerns from this work because I follow the advice that was given to me: no wife, no kids, and no pets. This is because the demons will take revenge on people close to us if those people are vulnerable.
Toward the end, they [demons] are often screaming they want to leave, sometimes offering the priest “anything” if he will just stop. I could write a book about the funny quotes I’ve heard demons say, but I won’t.
Never thought of this:
They have to cooperate with the grace Jesus is giving them in so many ways. He wants them to be free, but he frees them in stages, as much change as they can handle and adapt to at a time. Remember, most possessions have been going on for ten years or a lifetime. If the demons are all ripped out at once, the person feels like they don’t know who they are, it’s too much of a shock to their psyche, and they usually relapse.
I was watching some “Ghost Hunter” episodes recently, then stopped – just for this reason, which made me very uncomfortable:
The demons commonly pretend to be a dead person to lure the living into communication and relationship. Remember, necromancy—calling the dead to talk with them—is strongly forbidden in the Bible. It is a First Commandment issue, because you are seeking information or comfort from a spirit other than God. The poor souls will say yes only to prayer or nothing at all. The demons will want to have a conversation. If it wants to have a conversation, it’s a trick.
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Yeah. At our ages, cougars are not what they used to be. They are getting easier to catch though…
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Yeah you need it. With all that gray hair well yanno they go after the weak ones.
With a couple of exciting breaks in between, I’ve been wearing one since I was sixteen. Untold thousands were warded off.
Not 100% effective, but pretty close.
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Not 100% effective, but pretty close.
More drastic measures were occasionally required.Effective, you say? I’d say it wasn’t very effective at all seeing as how the cougar still caught you.
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Yeh, let’s impeach the Bastard! Record 158,510,000 Americans Employed in October; 23rd Record for Trump.
A record 158,510,000 Americans are now working, the 23rd such record since President Donald Trump took office.
The nation’s labor force participation rate also set a Trump-era high of 63.3 percent. This number is explained in greater detail below, but the higher, the better. Payroll taxes from people who work help support programs for those who don’t.
The economy added 128,000 jobs in October, higher than economists expected, given the General Motors strike that began on Sept. 15 and lasted six weeks.
Notable job gains occurred in food services and drinking places, social assistance, and financial activities,the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
The unemployment rate, which set a 50 year low of 3.5 percent last month, ticked up a tenth of a point to 3.6 percent.
But the unemployment rate for black Americans, 5.4 percent in October, has never been this low.
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Y’all will not believe this but even ole Dave has seen the cougar phenomenon, it started with me in my 50’s, I guess it is my boyish physique. Ducks and hauls it outta’ here. 😉
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When she caught me, I wasn’t wearing one.
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I just got back from the big pond where I was surveying, just where, I’m putting my new dock. I wanted to put it at the end of the dirt pier @ the head of the pond but there is a spot on the south side, where we never used to fish, that looks promising. The huge canopy of trees has shaded a big spot that is almost completely clear. Like I really need another project, but dang, this one is important. The water is low now but will most likely come up a lot in the early spring. I should have started this in September during the drought.
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Well who knew that today is the start of deer season. San Saba’s two lane main street looks like the Gulf Freeway today. My brother tells me that their deer hunters pay for the entire year’s operation of their ranch, so I’m guessing deer hunting is a real boon for the local economy. I even saw the police with a stopped car (out of towner of course) so I figure even the City get to take a cut of the booming economic pie. And there is a football game in town tonight too – I thought it was an away game but actually it’s a home game. That should bring in a few more cars. So, things are hopping around this little town tonight.
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In other news, Flarada Man Friday finally showed up, and the headline reflects my thoughts from this morning. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/florida-man-friday-are-you-ready-for-president-florida-man/
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Well who knew that today is the start of deer season
Yup, first Saturday in November, Corrigan, Diboll and Lufkin will make half of their year’s budget this weekend, writing tickets, starting on Friday morning. hell, even a few State Troopers will help them out.
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In truth, it took months to convince her.
Unknown to me were a couple of close advisors who told her I was a good one and she better do it…and screw the age thing.
Now, on her worst days she still has to say, “I told you so.”
The best response she gets is, “Pfffffth!”
Best 32 years of our lives.
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And there is a football game in town tonight too – I thought it was an away game but actually it’s a home game.
Believe it or don’t, but I actually thought about going to the local game tonight but they’re playing in Ashford. FWIW: when I was growing up we never played Ashford, I think they were a 1-A school, but they have been swallowed up by the Dothan metroplex and my be a damn 5-A now. Who knows?
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I was worried she was going to pull out right up until the ‘I do’s’.
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Like I really need another project, but dang,
Once again, Super Dave is the only one on the Couch that didn’t know.
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Just do it, SD.
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Hell I have been so out of circulation I would not know what a “cougar” looks like anymore.
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#73, Shannon, Dayaaam, that ought to do it, I wonder if they have a pile driver attachment to go with it, digging them holes SUX! 😉
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Besides cougars go after younger guys in Birkenstocks and skinny jeans. they would take a look at me with the hair and beard and know I am just an old escapee form the hippy days.
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Well, I need to go see if I can get the hens back in, it will not be easy since it’s not dark yet. I can usually get all but 2 or 3, the problem hens. Phyllis Diller is the worst, I’ve left her out overnight before but she flys over the fence before I get back there in the morning.
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So it’s 12:45 AM this morning and I arrive at the huge United Airlines gondola area in baggage pickup at Newark airport. There are a few people around because I got there before the crowd and this pretty, attractive middle-aged blond is waiting for luggage. She’s antsy, pacing up and down, in a very classy dress and heels outfitted far above the vast army of slobs in airline passengers these days, and I realize she looks familiar. She came over by me and then I snapped to who it was…
Kelli Giddish from Law and Order
I’m almost certain I was the only person there to recognize her. And as beautiful as she appears on TV, it was clear the makeup artists at Law & Order are extraordinarily talented. Kelli looks considerably older in person than on the show although, she is still pretty hot. The other striking thing, of course, was how petite she really is. TV adds weight and stature and every TV or movie figure I ever met turned out to be thinner and shorter in person.
Kelli is definitely worth a dangerous cougar alert, though.
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74 SQK
Eyes gettin’ bad, huh?
I can still see ‘em. Evawhar.
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Well, we won’t have Baytoe to kick around anymore.
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Squawkbox, et al – Got a camera / film question… I have a Minolta Six with Coronar Anastigmat Nippon 80mm f/5.6 lens in Crown shutter that was my Dad’s from late 40’s – 50’s? Anywho, we found about 10 rolls of the 120 film that was used in the camera. Some are used and about 6-7 are unopened. I called Cameraworld off Richmond and they just said to find someone online to send them to for processing. Any recommendations on who to send it to? Also, might want to get it cleaned/refreshed, etc. to perhaps use it again. It’s in good condition overall. Just would be interested to see what pictures might be on the rolls from the late 60’s (I saw a year of 1968).
Your idea’s and recommendations would be appreciated.
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73 Shannon
Just do it, SD.
No.
The first thing Super Dave has to do is buy a big mule. It’s not ethical for a man to grow turnips and not own a mule. And the mule has to have an Old Testament name.
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It is clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully.
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And the mule has to have an Old Testament name.
I’d go with Shadrach, Meshach, or Obednego.
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Or get a mule and two donkeys for company and use all three names.
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Or just get one and name him Nebuchadnezzar.
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Well, the Trump rally in Mississippi starts in about an hour, and the SS Armadillos kick off at 7:30. I can still tune one ear on one station and the other ear to the second. I guess Baytoe’s father in law decided it was time for him to come home and start spending more time with the family and gather up the family guns than to keep spending money on a presidential campaign. Hope he doesn’t decide to run against Cornholio, ’cause as worthless as I think he is, I might still vote for him in that case.
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CFree
#81 For developing I used https://www.dwaynesphoto.com years ago. They have been around for years. I would not have any problem sending them my film.
For repair you might wanna check with KEH. I have done business with them for quite a few years fair pricing and great service. They deal primarily in used cameras of all eras and they can prolly clean up your equipment at a decent price.
Film is going to cost you at least your first born child. You have to be careful that while there are still films manufactured new most of what you find on Amazon is new OLD stock, You can trust these guys with all your film needs B&H Photo
Hope this helps. Let me know how things go.
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Heh. The lyrics in 83 really do sum up Baytoe’s campaign.
The last to know, party’s over and we won’t go
No one to laugh at our jokes anymore
There’s the door, don’t forget your hat.
The stores are all closed, couldn’t buy a break anyway
Saint Jude he couldn’t save you or me, I supposeMore miles than money, look at out lives and it’s so funny
More miles than money, we fall in love and it’s never funny
We’re the last, very last to know.Last to know, we play the jokers in this minstrel show
Cause no one cares in this showbiz crowd anymore.
Got another cigarette, I’m not quite through with this story yet,
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There’s a matched pair of mules near Washington-on-the-Brazos. Prettiest thing you ever saw. The owners would work them out on the rural roads prior to appearing in various local parades. I would park and eat lunch nearby just to look at them in the pasture. Red with white manes/tails.
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I early voted this afternoon. My city council district H had four candidates and all of them blithering, abortion-loving “progressive” women. Gladly skipped that one. I also skipped the city controller race. Not gonna vote for Charlie McCarthy. Wouldn’t be prudent.
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Check out these beautiful girls:
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kamala-harris-lays-off-entire-new-hampshire-field-team-amid-dozens-of-staff-cuts Looking like high profile slut and presidential candidate Kamel-Toe Harris is suffering a little financial distress herself.
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I’m surprised that ankles-up Harris didn’t catch on better.
Racist Democrats.
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She’s already blamed it on racism and sexism. Meanwhile, back on earth…
Harris is polling 7% among women Democrats and 1% with black Democrats.
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Squawk, thanks for the info. I’ll peruse these sites and let you know in a month or so. Interesting about the new ‘old’ film for sale. Always a market for everything.
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B B B B B B BAYTOAD BAILED. He wanted to grab all the guns because he can’t legally own one. I’m really amazed that he lasted as long as he did.
The delusion is strong with that one.
When Joe “The D!p $#!t” Bidet drops out will Felonia von Thundershart jump in ‘for the good of the country?”. Will Slow Joe face corruption charge. Stay tuned.
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Tucker just roasted Beta.
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SS football has its hands full tonight. The Crawford Pirates, yes, the same Crawford where the Bush 43 ranch is located, and giving them a tough time. They scored a TD, the second of the year scored against SS, already, and we’re just in the 2nd quarter. I’ll update scores later cause I know you all are waiting to hear the outcome.
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#78 – Well Big Bruddah didja say Howdy or merely OGLE? 🙂
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yes, the same Crawford where the Bush 43 ranch is
I thought that place was known for Cindy Sheehan.
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100 Katfish
No, unlike the West Coast, it’s bad form to reveal you’ve recognized any public person or celebrity on the East Coast. It is why so many of them leave California to live in New York. They can walk down the street or eat in a restaurant without being approached or hassled. Nobody gives a damn up here.
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#82 #85, I’d love to have a mule but I really don’t have a pasture for it, and I don’t really need one. I would love to have a couple of donkeys but it’s the pasture thing again. If I live long enough, I’ll hire Danny Williams to clear out the 20 acres behind the barn, since it would take me a lifetime to do it without a Cat, fence it and use it for something,….think Granddaughters here, and maybe a donkey.
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Never heard of her. I remember Angie Harmon and Mariska Hargitay.
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#92 Shannon, Percheron’s are my second favorite, behind Morgan’s. Not long ago, I envisioned getting a Morgan and an real, Amish wagon, when I retired, but now, not so much, too busy with other things. But wouldn’t that be neat.
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Angie Harmon yummmmm she can Cougar me anytime she wants,
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When I was about 14, and already had a horse, that I paid for, I bought a donkey at the sale, cost me $20 bucks, my dad told me I was nuts, but he fell in love with her and kept her for years after I moved away. Norma Gene N Willard, FWIW: Willard, the goat, was in love with Norma Gene and followed us we went riding, he’d get on his hind legs and head butt any horse that got near his girl. I didn’t want to take him, but he was an escape artist and there was no fence, not even electric, that could keep him in.
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My #107, I just noticed the Sorghum patch that I planted behind the barn. A lot of work cutting that with a sickle bar mower, raking it up and taking it to the Hammer Mill to make sweet feed.
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SS 34 – Crawford 21 end of 3rd quarter. This is turning into a barnburner of a high school football game.
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#74 Squawks
Hell I have been so out of circulation I would not know what a “cougar” looks like anymore.
Hmmm… I think cougars are after young guys…
Woops, you realized that yourself just moments later…
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Final Score: SS 48 – Crawford 28. A lot tougher game than the score indicates, but SS remains undefeated this season.
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