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“Some monster, eh?”
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Good coffee this morning, imported from San Antonio. You can beat those old 50’s B Movies.
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Morning gang. Hard to believe that the Christmas travel season is almost upon us. I’ll probably leave out of here Thursday for my holiday road tour of north and east Texas, coupled with my football watching tour. I previewed some of the bowl games, and there are a few of them that might actually be good games to watch, but the fact is that all the excitement that used to accompany trips to football bowl games has lost its luster since the system has been revamped to a “final four” format. It’s cooled down out here this morning to about 39 degrees, so I guess another little cold front has passed through. Looks like winter will be here in a day or two, then spring, then winter, then spring. We hit 90 yesterday. If I recall, Jan and Feb tend to be our coldest months around here.
OK, I’m gonna go get my second cup of coffee which usually serves to both wake me up and break up that abdominal log jam. You all have a great day, and Santa will be here before you know it. I’m still looking forward to that Christmas story from all you ladies with bionic knees now.
PS. You can still watch those Sci-Fi movies on the Sci-Fi channel on Roku. I still think that’s the source of all the Algore scare tactics he uses about global warming – pending doom from a supernatural event of some kind, local college professor studies the problem, bright young big busted female student comes up with a solution, the world is saved at the last minute, only to be staring down an even bigger catastrophic event coming up next.
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1945 GMC CC 350 Series Dump Truck
More snow moves again across the US and much of the Northeast today so yet another GMC in the snow photo to start our Monday. Don’t make this mistake of thinking this is a driveway ornament; this GMC works for a living!
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A buddy of mine from Baytown, posted a picture of his boy and a west Texas monster, this is in Pearsall Texas.
I’ve not seen him in a few years, looks like he’s going for the Sasquatch Look.
Oh and the strange looking AR, is an AAC Blackout .300 with 9″ Barrel, and suppressor…..9″ barrel?! -
5 Super Dave
I know it’s west of Houston, but then most everything in Texas is. However, Pearsall has always been in South Texas. I’ve been there a few times on my way to Laredo.
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Texpat, You may not believe it, but I first put down, “south Texas” but changed it because of what several of my Texas friends, call that neck of the woods.
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I think that if you follow I-10 from Beaumont to El Paso, everything south of it is South Texas. Realistically, you should carve out the Houston area, so the line actually starts in Corpus Christi along that interstate that runs to San Antonio and connects to I-10 there. I’ve often thought that if the Mexicans decided to reclaim that portion of Texas that the US would offer very limited opposition. They would probably treat it about like Obama giving the Russians free reign to take over the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
Sort of like the Texans who all know when you are talking about L. A. you are referring to Lower Alabama; without the periods, Louisiana. Gotta know the difference. No one would ever consider some place in Calif.
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I remember Forbidden Planet, but I doubt if I saw it at age 12. I’m sure I saw it at a theater, just not sure when or where. It was the first sci-fi movie I ever saw. Later I believe I saw it again on TV.
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Well it’s in the mid 50’s and warming up quickly so I’m going to get out and have some fun. I’m firing up the Gumbi Dammit Mower and rearranging the leaves in both yards, one last time. I may hit the right of way too, lots of leaves between here and the Farm House. Y’all behave. 😉
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Democrats line up to take on President Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkccqolaVGg
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-11 F here this AM. Coffee …
More later
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Started at 39 degrees this morning. Now down to 36 as the son is up. Cloudy and north winds. You might think a front was coming through or something.
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First scifi movie I recall seeing was at the Arcade Theater in Kissimmee. Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
Colored folksPeople of Color still had to sit in the balcony at that time. -
The one that gave me nightmares was “The Man With the Atom Brain” There was an almost unlimited number of scary films preying on ignorant people (myself included) who knew nothing about the relative new research going on into the field of atomic energy and all the evil that split atoms could foist on the world. They (split atoms) created mutants of all kinds, attracted aliens from all parts of the universe who were interested in watching our research or stealing our technology, killed live people, brought dead people back to life, and provided virtually unlimited sources of innovative fear mongering. Algore, among others, seems to have captured the essence of these movies in promoting the evils of climate change – even the scripts seems to have originated in these old Sci-Fi films. What a great time to be a kid with a vivid imagination.
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Chilly North breeze moving in.
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Wow, the next 3 mornings are forecast to be in the mid-30’s at Chez Harp zip code. Now that’s more like it should be in the “winter”. Of course, I enjoy not enriching Centerpoint quite so much during mild weather.
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I just dropped off the payments our confirmation team collected over the weekend directly to the parish treasurer, since we can’t depend on our DRE to handle cash appropriately. While there, we both commented on our lack of Christmas spirit, the warm weather being a factor.
It should be at least cool for Christmas. I’d have the hardest time living in Australia – I don’t know if I could handle summer weather on December 25th.
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The front just blew by the hogan in beautiful unincorporated northwest Harris County. The temp dropped about 10-15 deg in about 2 minutes.
The environment on the veranda went from warmish to chilly.
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HOUSTON, TX- Much like Democratic presidential hopefuls, who want to disband the electoral college so that liberals in metropolitan areas get to dictate the political landscape, there are those who would have you believe that big city police chiefs want to abolish the 2ndAmendment and their opinions are more valid than other chiefs and sheriffs that are pro-2A.
and this I didn’t know,
There was a group in the background supporting Bloomberg’s push to overturn Tiahrt.
The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) is a DC-based “think tank.” It is made up of police chiefs from large cities and has long taken an anti-gun stance. The chiefs that make up this group tend to be from cities that are pro-criminal, anti-cop and anti-2nd Amendment.
And just for an extra kick in the teeth, PERF is a tax-funded group.
Between 2001 and 2017, PERF has received a combined $35.2 million in funding from federal, state and local governments in the form of grants and contracts.
Additionally, PERF receives millions more annually from fees charged for training ($9500 per officer for a 3-week course) and conference registrations ($3.3 million in 2018 alone).
Nothing better than seeing our tax- payer dollars being used to attempt to indoctrinate members of law enforcement with unconstitutional ideology.
Read the rest for coverage and commentary on Houston’s own Art Acevedo.
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I hear thunder northwest of myself, and I see it on weather radar — a thunderstorm now in Jersey Village.
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I was comfortable leaving the house this morning. I may be chilly on the way home. Oh well.
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I like pie.
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The front has reached the Dome.
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I’m hearing an ad repeating about how to eat over the holidays. Of course, all the recommendations are completely opposite of the healthy keto diet. I have this voice in my head jeering the commercial every time it comes on.
BTW – if you have Amazon Prime or iTunes, there’s a new documentary called: “Fat, A Documentary”. Gary Taubes and some other fitness gurus and such discuss how the fallacy of the current diet guidelines started, and how a high fat, low carb diet is optimal. One researcher talks about his study of the Intuit and how much healthier he got on their completely carnivore diet of caribou and fish. Also mentioned is the ridicule that the food powers-that-be put him under so his message would not get out. Particularly touching is the story of a young boy with severe epileptic seizures as a child who’s parents stood up to the medical community and put their kid on a keto diet.
His seizures stopped. He was weaned off his meds. The child that they thought would be retarded and helpless his whole life is now a teacher, plays the piano, and has a pretty normal life.
And I didn’t know that veganism was started with a Seventh Day Adventist woman who had visions – one of which prohibited eating meat.
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In spring things grow.
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7th Day Adventists are pretty out there. No caffeine, no leavened bread or bread-like foods.
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Well, I got all the leaves rearranged, both yards and the right-of-way, looking good, I finished about 12:30 and went down a pulled up a mess O turnips and some broadleaf mustard. I got the greens washed and trimmed up and made a quick run to the grocery store to get a beef roast. I gonna’ toss it into the Crock Pot in the morning,…well, that is IF we survive! The local, weather Chick says: We’re DOOMED!!!! Rain, thunder, lightening, and 60 MPH winds, then the bottom is going to drop out and it will be freezing.
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What a great day, I always have fun on my mower. And, while I was out and about, my wife piddled around, in the yards and flower beds, every now and then, I’d see her and Dawg buzzing around in her Mule, she hauled off leaves, limbs and moved some of her topsoil pile around to the beds. We both like to be outside and today and yesterday, was the warmest it has been in a while. When I left for town, she took the greens, scraps down to her hens and now, she is at the creek with Dawg.
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Birds of a feather flock in cold weather.
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DNC doesn’t want racial quotas applied to their upcoming debates. Now they’re being accused of wayciss. Hilarious.
“So, our polling threshold and our thresholds for our debates, to say that they are somehow leaving people of color off this stage is not only wrong, but it’s insulting,” Hinojosa said.
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I had a shortened nap, and it got COLD while I snoozed. 20 degrees cooler than when I conked out. I turned up the heat as soon as I got up. I got up before my nap timer buzzzzzed off. My 12 y.o. Tyler had come in to nap with me, but JoJo — who is living in my room until the 2 Gypsy Boy cats get over their urge to — gasp! — kill her… Well, JoJo is sorta rough herself, and she plays rough with Tyler. Chase him up to the highest bed in the cat tree, then jump in with him and attack him again and again. I think it’s her idea of convivial fun. The several times the two of them stampeded across the bed made me decide to just get up.
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Chilly out here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond since about 10am when the front first hit. Hanging in at 48 and only slightly less windy than this afternoon, and I suppose tonight will be close to freezing if the wind dies down. Talk about a big change from this morning, but that’s the way things happen in winter in Texas.
But it does bring out the Christmas spirit a lot more than 80 degrees.
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Now this exposure of Harlem residents bad-mouthing the college girl who was killed by non-white teens is really hard to take.
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They’re The Government, they don’t have to follow the law…
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On the moon there’s a trip.
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34 mharper42
The Harlem residents who are complaining at your link are not people who live in that neighborhood. The assholes here are the New York Times, the quoted (and unquoted) members of the NYC Council and the local activists with some fame or fortune to gain.
Trust me – none of these jackasses give a damn about that dead girl. The black, brown and white people who DO HAVE to live there are just as angry, outraged and concerned about their children as any of us would be. Read some of the other articles to be informed.
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#25 Tedtam
And I didn’t know that veganism was started with a Seventh Day Adventist woman who had visions – one of which prohibited eating meat.
Did you mean vegetarianism instead of veganism? The Orthodox fast is basically veganism. I’m pretty sure the Orthodox have been around longer than the Seventh Day Adventist. 🙂
The rules of abstinence prescribed by the Church to follow during the Christmas Fast are similar to those prescribed during the Apostles’ Fast. It is clear that during the Fast we must abstain from meat and dairy products. Besides that, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of the Nativity Fast consumption of fish, oil and wine is prohibited. On the other weekdays—Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays—food with vegetable oil is allowed. During the Nativity Fast, it is permitted to eat fish on Saturdays, Sundays and on Great Feast Days—for example on the Presentation of the Mother of God—patron saints’ days, and saint’s days that are celebrated with a polyeleos service if these feasts fall on Tuesdays or Thursdays. If they fall on Wednesdays or Fridays, only wine and oil are allowed. During the week preceding Christmas Eve the fast become stricter; we abstain from fish even on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Flying toasters are pretty.
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Who knew that nanner pudding is somewhat like chili – it’s better the second day than the first. Getting close to beddy bye time. See you in the funny papers.
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Nitey night, Hamsterville. ™
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Flying toasters, there was a page where Opus the penguin was taking them on the wing. Dark something. Anyway, waiting to finish the online test.
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Morning gang. 28 degrees out here just before dawn but no precip noticed anywhere. Gotta start prepping for my Thursday road trip. Wash a few clothes, Since it’s Texas we have to pack sunscreen, swimsuit, and parka all for the same one week trip. Not much else to get ready for right now. Looks like impeachment is moving forward. I’m in the camp that is hoping this move will set the Dems back nationwide, but it seems the Dems are as dug in to their position as I am in mine, so who knows.
Anyway, you all have a great day today, and I’m pretty sure I will have more wisdom to impart once I wake up and the day gets rolling.
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