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Weekend Open Comments

Remember when right after the November 2016 election Donald Trump came out and stated in no uncertain terms that his campaign headquarters in Trump Tower was bugged ?  That his phones were tapped ?

The media howled and said it proved he was paranoid and unfit for the presidency.  President -elect Trump was mocked and pilloried for making this claim.  How did he know and why ?  Like virtually every other seemingly outlandish claim Trump has made, he has been proven right.

I once posted about an Obama administration official who actually had integrity, a man who noticed that something was amiss and acted. It was this man who traveled to Trump Tower on November 17, 2016, to brief then-President-elect Donald Trump that communications from the building were being tapped. He did not notify his superior, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, beforehand. This man’s name is Mike Rogers. He served as the head of the National Security Agency (NSA).

But Rogers’ role went beyond informing Trump about the surveillance being conducted at Trump Tower.

and this,

On that same day, the Trump transition team abruptly announced they were leaving Trump Tower and moving their operations to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Two days later, the Washington Post reported that James Clapper and Defense Secretary Ash Carter had recommended the removal of Mike Rogers from his NSA position. That didn’t happen, but Rogers announced his retirement on January 5, 2018…after heading the National Security Agency for nearly four years.

Although they say honesty and integrity are their own reward, I would like to see Mike Rogers receive special recognition for what he did in service to the nation.  It is a travesty there are not more men and women like Admiral Michael Rogers in the federal government.

RTWDT and the links.

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127 responses to “Weekend Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang!

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees.

     

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From the link;

    The reason that critics of the law are so upset is that the program essentially gives law enforcement agencies a “backdoor” to search Americans’ data without having to get a warrant. Under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. Law enforcement officials typically have to go to court and ask a judge to issue a search warrant. They must show probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime will be found.

    I’ve been saying this since W Bush enacted the NSA, under the guise of “National Security” from terrorists.
    I doubt, very seriously, that anyone will be prosecuted for illegally, spying on Trump, but I can hope.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Also;

    The implication being, the Trump Dossier was not created to allow for spying on the Trump Campaign. The Dossier was created to obtain a FISA Warrant to cover surveillance activity that had already taken place.

    That may well have been the origin of the Trump Dossier creation — to create a rationale for previous illegal surveillance activity. But heroic actions taken by Admiral Mike Rogers stopped the plan from being implemented. The FISA Court had been warned.

    Our entire intelligence apparatus was weaponized to alter a Presidential Election,” it concludes. “The chain of activity may rise all the way to the top. How does a nation prepare itself to deal with that level of criminality?

    Like the mans said, RTWDT.

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I saw reports that Rogers is being interviewed and is cooperating with the Durham investigation.

  6. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    As the impeachment farce falls apart I expect one of the key figures to get whacked and a “racist, right-wing nutjob”, who will be suicided, will take the fall. The Deep State is angry. Someone must pay.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Trench warfare in the suburbs.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/20/women-donald-trump-suburbs-houston/

  8. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning troubadours.

  9. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I saw an interesting segment on one show yesterday. The idea was that if the Republicans take back the House next year they could vote to expunge the impeachment with a simple majority. That would be hilarious. It would be like pimp-slapping Adam Schiff. In front of his mama.

  10. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    No rel news from up here.  I was not feeling real chipper yesterday, but then I remembered that I had that shingles vaccine shot, so I think that’s what had my dobber down in the dirt a little.  Feeling better today.

    Trying to keep up with the times, I’m investigating the brand new (to me) world of bluetooth.  I’m thinking I can add bluetooth to the old Maggie and she might play some more modern tunes than what she has in stock on vinyl right now.  She really does produce a much better sound than my home theater system with surround sound and all that stuff.   But first, I have to investigate all the ins and outs of bluetooth.  And expert opinions are welcome.  You all have a great day.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Iffin’ Y’all are undecided on what to get ole Dave for Christmas. This may work; Yote Scope.

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Political Disney World
    Caution, naughty language.

    I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts in the 80s and 90s. Newton back then was a pretty diverse place—a 90,000-person suburb with a wide range of ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. To live in Newton, there were only two requirements: you had to be a Red Sox fan and you had to be a Democrat. I was both, so things were chill.

    When I was six, my second-grade classroom voted on the 1988 presidential election by circling either “Michael Dukakis” or “George Bush” on a little sheet of paper, folding it, and placing it into a shoebox on the teacher’s desk. It was the first time I had been sentient for a big political event. Later that day, the teacher revealed the results:

    Dukakis 20, Bush 1

    Duh. Dukakis was the nice good guy candidate and Bush was the bad guy candidate. I still don’t know who the one sick **** was who voted for the bad guy, but other than that, the results made sense. Pretty boring.

    Then the actual election happened and—somehow—Bush won.

    I was floored. What kind of medieval s#!t did my country just pull? How could so many people have gotten it so obviously wrong?

    I assumed when I was older and understood the world better, it would make more sense.

    But I got older, and the storyline stayed the same. There was the Obviously Good Party, who cared about poor people and black people and flowers and smiles—and the Obviously Bad Party, who were all these two men, teaching their sons about offshore bank accounts.

    And every election, the vote would split very near 50/50. I figured there really just were a lot of bad people in my country. Shame.

    Then I went to college. It was 2000. Bush-Gore year. While everyone I grew up with was obviously rooting as hard as possible for Gore to win, it began to dawn on me that I had made a very strange group of new friends in college. Some of them were rooting for Gore, but they hated certain things about his beliefs. Others disliked both candidates. And some of them were fervently rooting for Bush, even though they had previously seemed like reasonable people.

    I knew exactly where I stood, of course, and made my opinion clear. When I explained that I was unquestionably voting for Gore, instead of giving me a high five, my friends asked me why. I had all kinds of explanations, but when they’d push me to talk in specifics, I’d run into a problem.

    I didn’t really know the specifics.

    I knew Gore was the better choice, just like I knew the Democratic Party was the better party—but when pressed about my underlying reasons for liking any specific policy of Gore’s, I’d end up in an uncomfortable place.

  13. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    There are two people who go by the name of Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente on the Texas presidential ballot. The Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente running in the Democratic primary is the son of the Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente Guerra running in the Republican primary.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Why air travelers are subjected to Clown News Network agitprop in America.  Here’s how it works.

    One reason airports are happy to retain CNN is the cash it’s willing to shell out. Public documents indicate CNN offered the Miami-Dade International Airport $150,000 annually for its most recent contract, which will expire in 2024. Documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution indicated CNN is paying $225,000 each year for rights to the airport in Atlanta, where CNN is headquartered. It also provides LCD monitors, as well as the equipment to install them.

    At more than $100,000 per contract, it’s safe to estimate CNN is shelling out well over $6 million annually to retain its 58-airport presence.

    That’s before accounting for the number of staff members needed to produce CNN Airport Network, the specialized operation responsible for ensuring airport viewers only see “appropriate” content. If an air-travel accident takes place, for instance, the network promises to scrub the incident from airport televisions to avoid unsettling travelers.

  15. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    10 El Gordo

    Assuming Maggie has audio inputs (like the old RCA red and white jacks) there are hundreds of choices for you. Just plug and play. If she doesn’t, it can still be done, you’ll just have to do a little wiring.

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Darwin is a rotter.

    Young Eduardo De La Dancefloor decided that this was, indeed, an insult too great to be borne so he allegedly pulled out what seems to have been a chromed Raven Arms .25ACP, pointed it at the Kings, and engaged in what must have been a truly inspired Alpha Male Display.

    The Kings chose (for once) the better part of valor and hauled butt out the side door of the club.

    Young Eduardo then turned in triumph to his little pack, and in a manner calculated to cause swooning in any brainless girl-child desperate (or stupid) enough to hang out with Mexicano gangsters, whirls the little silver auto around his shootin’ finger, flips it back the other way, then back again, and proceeds to, err … manfully … thrust it home into the front of his waistband.

    Ahem.

    Gentle Readers, the Four Rules of Shooting are not just Rules, they are a damned fine idea. Let us ponder, in this case, the wisdom of: “Don’t Point The Barrel At Anything You’re Not Willing To Destroy” and “Keep Your Booger Hook Off Of The Bang Switch”.

    Yeah. Whoo. I believe that my readers of the male persuasion probably have an inkling of what happened.

    My friends, I have seen the impossible. I have proof of a one shot stop utilizing a single, lonesome .25ACP FMJ.

    Sweet Shivering Shiva.

    Ahem. Anyhoo, apparently the finale of this testosterone preen involved Young Eduardo staggering back a step, raising a paw to his buddies, stumbling a bit and then according to eyewitnesses, his eyes just “kinda rolled back” and Eddie ploughed nose first into the parquet dancefloor.

    I shall never sniff disdainfully at those who choose to carry a .25 ACP again.

    Apparently he blew the left one into hamburger, air-conditioned Mr. Happy, and the combination of muzzle-flash and hydrostatic shock(?!) bruised the right one to the point that it’s probably “not going to be viable”. Medically speaking.

    Oh, and the round drilled into his left thigh and snuggled in contentedly about an inch or so from the femur.

    Gawd.

  17. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    On the back of my project console there is a bar with various input and output jacks. You can buy a bluetooth module that just plugs in.

  18. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Inside – and yes, that’s an 8 track.

  19. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The only somewhat interesting bowl today looks to be the Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl

    SMU vs Florida Atlantic

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    California passed and the governor signed a bill written and flogged by Secretary of State Lorena Gonzalez.  The bill destroys the independent gig economy and is now putting tens of thousands (millions ?) out of work or substantial extra income.  It is creating chaos in the tech and entertainment industries.  Companies across America are terminating contracts with California residents because the law would force them hire these contractors as employees with all the obligations and headaches that involves.  Most of all, it denies the individual the freedom and liberty to enter into any economic activity with whomever they choose based upon mutually agreeable terms.

    So Secretary Sanchez has a Twitter account that has been the target of quite a bit of criticism recently.  And then she just lost it one day when she realized her authoritarian jackassery was not being recognized by the peasants as a golden unicorn humanitarian effort.

    To view a perfect example of the extraordinary arrogance and pomposity of the elite Left, have a look at this Twitter exchange.

    LANGUAGE WARNING 

    Jennifer Van Laar’s Redstate article on this debacle can be found here.

  21. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    In Maggie’s switching options, there is one labeled AUX.  However, the only exterl RCA jacks are for external speakers.  On the inside, there are 2 rows of RCA jacks, one of which connects the turntable, so I’m presuming the other row is AUX.  But what I don’t know is what kind of bluetooth – they seem to come out with new versions all the time.  I’m assuming that cheap will work fine for my purposes.  Who knows, I might just set the computer on top of the unit and connect the 3.5mm jack directly into the RCA stuff underneath.  Decisions, decisions.

  22. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I would go with the most recent bluetooth version available. The receiver modules can be had for less than $30. Of course, if you’re going to use that mini pc you just need an adapter to go from its mini stereo jack to Maggie’s RCA jacks and plug it into the aux.

  23. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    But that doesn’t sound nearly as cool as saying it has bluetooth.  And of course, there is the matter of a monitor.  But my little netbook would probably work.  I’ve at least managed to get all my computers pretty well synced, so I’ve got several available sources.
    Basically just turning it into a high powered sound bar.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tecxpat #20

    It seems New Jorky is considering similar “Gig Economy” laws.

  25. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If you want a screen I would get the bluetooth receiver and a cheap Amazon fire tablet that you connect to the bluetooth. Then you can stream from the tablet.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The House,….The Senate

  27. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #18 Hamous, I like it! Does the 8 track work?

  28. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    27 Yup. The heads need cleaned. I even still have some tapes. I just don’t have one of those head cleaning cartridges 😉

    I wonder if Radio Shack still carries them?

  29. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #26 SD: They say a picture can say a thousand words. That lovely image proves the rule. Brilliant.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The world was horrified at the brutality rapes of Iraqi, Kurdish and Yazidi women and girls in the past decade by ISIS.  Now, we have a massive rape campaign not just sanctioned by the Chinese government, but created and managed by the same.

    In November, various Western media outlets reported that Han Chinese men had been assigned to monitor the homes of Uighur women whose husbands had been detained in prison camps.

    The reports came out after an anonymous Chinese official gave an interview with Radio Free Asia, confirming the program but denying there was anything sinister about it.

    As part of the “Pair Up and Become Family” program, Han Chinese men stay with and sleep in the same beds as Uighur women.

    According to the Chinese Government, the program is designed to “promote ethnic unity”.

    But to Rushan Abbas, a Uighur activist whose family members have been detained in the Xinjiang camps for more than a year, it’s nothing more than systemised rape – part of the Government’s brutal ongoing crackdown against the country’s ethnic minority.

    “This is mass rape,” she told news.com.au. “The Government is offering money, housing and jobs to Han people to come and marry Uighur people.

    “Neither the girls nor their families can reject such a marriage because they will be viewed (by Chinese authorities) as Islamic extremists for not wanting to marry atheist Han Chinese. They have no choice but to marry them.

    “(The Han Chinese) have been raping Uighur women in the name of marriage for years. It took more than a year for the media to pick that up.”

    and this,

    Even from her home in Virginia, US, Ms Abbas says she feels unsafe. “There’s always that concern. But we all live once and we all die someday. If I only think about my own safety and my own life, who will do the right thing and speak up about this atrocity? If my sister is sitting in some cell block facing torture and abuse, I’m sure she is hoping that I will be doing something to save her and other millions of Uighurs, so I have to keep doing what I’m doing.”

    I don’t blame Ms. Abbas for believing her life might be in danger.

    I told this story in the past so I’ll make it brief.  My childhood friend was assisting sympathetic Chinese-American fellow grad students in California during the Tiananmen Square rebellion in China.  He had several phone lines and fax machines in his apartment in Southern California the Chinese activists were using to communicate with people in China active in the protests.  They were using the fax lines to get out uncensored news reports that would be forwarded to wire services and newspapers in the US.

    Once the protests were crushed, it wasn’t long before several FBI agents knocked on his door. They told him it was a courtesy call and they knew everything he had been doing.  The reason for the visit was to warn him his life was in danger and he would be well advised to disappear for a while.  The feds said there were a number of murders on the West Coast of Chinese immigrants and expats they knew were committed by agents of the Chinese government.  My friend left and went to live with different friends in another state for a year or two.

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This is all you need to know about Lorena Gonzales; Two faces of pure evil.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    24 Squawk

    It gets worse.  New Jersey just passed a law allowing illegal immigrants to get drivers’ licenses and now they are planning to outlaw ALL plastic bags and paper bags at retail stores.  They are also considering a bill in Trenton like California’s employment law, but much worse.

  33. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat  32

    I just do not see any end to the insanity.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice for all you pagans out there.  The length of the day is 9 hours and 13 minutes.  That is 14 hours and 47 minutes of darkness.

    Starting Monday, thank God, the days will start getting longer again.  It’s almost dark at 4:15 PM up here on latitude 41° N.

    CORRECTION: Houston at latitude 29.760427 N. has an entire extra hour of daylight tomorrow – 10 hours and 13 minutes.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #16 Super Dave

    Quite a tale that anyone with a reasonably functional A + B + C = disaster line of thinking would know the result would be utter destruction. All that was unknown until the end was the catalog of tissue damage, and how many units of blood were required. The idiot who self-castrated was not a prime procreation candidate from the get-go obviously. Definitely in the stupid category. Fortunately apparently nobody else was injured.

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    33 Squawk

    New Yorkers are such dullard sheep anymore I don’t see much hope for them.  The conservatives who used to provide pushback in New York almost all left the state.

    I still hold a little hope for New Jersey in that there are serious numbers of conservatives here – just not enough to win where it counts.  I think many minds may change in NJ once the people on the street begin to see the results of a totally dominated, out of control state government.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Lil Sister is having a final Christmas Sale in her store in Enterprise.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There’s terrorism going on in my backyard caused by this big Sharp Shinned Hawk showing up.  Her Highness feeds a lot of birds and squirrels and they are raising hell out there.  The squirrels have all gathered under my big granite dining table on the patio for protection.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    35 Adee

    The idiot who self-castrated was not a prime procreation candidate from the get-go obviously.

    Perfectly written.

  40. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    day is 9 hours and 13 minutes

    What is this daylight you speak of?

    Sunrise 8:47

    Sunset 4.28

    Lat 52.22.59

    Temp 30 F

     

    I hate winter

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    40 texanadian

    One of the things that took me a long time to get used to up here was the sun barely arcing over the southern sky in the dead of winter.  It was almost disorienting to not have the sun clearly rise and fall east to west.

  42. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The lack of daylight in January and February in the northern states frequently leads to the highest suicide rates of the year from the depression its lack causes. Lots of folks compensate by leaving lights on in their homes that mimic daylight.

    Glad to be this far south for that extra hour of daylight here. It can be bleak enough here on gray overcast days. Imagine going 3 straight weeks without seeing the Sun, as happened several winters when we lived in Madison. Lots of depressed folks during that stretch and for even a week or two without the seeing the Sun.

  43. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I have a couple of grow lights, full UV, I use in my office to supplement and try to banish the winter blues. I think they work somewhat.

  44. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The days get shorter more quickly the further you go north. Aberdeen at 57.15N has an even shorter day – sunrise 8:47; sunset 15:27.

    Most people don’t realize how far north Europe is. Houston is roughly the same latitude as Cairo.

  45. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I was in Amsterdam in early July a few years back. There was no night. Just a weird dusk for a few hours.

  46. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Scotland in Dec/Jan is similar. “Daytime” is very similar to when there’s a solar eclipse. It’s daytime, but the sun is very weak.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nice story on Alan Jackson and his wife of 40 years.

    Before long, Jackson was a country music star and a household name. Arguably, the singer owes his big break into the country music scene to his industrious wife.

    According to Wide Open Country, Denise ran into singer and producer Glen Campbell while working as a flight attendant and told him about her talented, ambitious husband. Campbell’s interest was piqued; he offered Jackson a record deal with Arista Records.

    and,

    In order to put a down-payment on their first home, Jackson was forced to sell the car in which he and Denise had embarked upon their very first date, a 1955 Thunderbird. Years later, Denise tracked the car down and gifted it to her husband as a Christmas present.

  48. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    So for lunch today I made quesadillas with gouda cheese and ham slices. I know I’m guilty of cultural appropriation, I just want to know whether I need to fel guilty about appropriating one culture or more than one, or does mixing them negate the need for guilt.

    Thanks in advance.

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The people of Kentucky are being screwed royally by the outgoing jerk who is a Republican and the new governor who is a Democrat.

    It’s no wonder people hate politicians.

    Before he left office, Gov. Matt Bevins did this…

    Some of the people on the governor’s list of pardons include Blake Walker, who was convicted in 2003 of killing his parents; Kurt Smith, who as a teenager was found guilty of murdering his 6-week old son; Delmar Partin, who was convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her in a barrel; Kathy Ann Harless, who left her newborn baby to die in an outhouse; Dayton Jones, who was convicted in 2016 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy; Patrick Baker, who convicted of reckless homicide in 2017; Paul Donel Hurt, who was serving a life sentence for sexually abusing and sodomizing a 6-year-old girl; Doug Phelps, who pleaded guilty to child porn, and Micah Schoettle, convicted last year of raping a child and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

    and the new Democrat governor has done this,

    Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday to restore voting rights to nearly 140,000 convicted felons, making good on an inaugural promise he made just days ago after being sworn in.

    The order applies to Kentuckians who have committed non-violent offenses and have completed their sentences and does not include sex offenders, rapists or murderers, Beshear, a Democrat, said to a group of voting rights supporters.

  50. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Here’s the Week In Pictures  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/the-week-in-pictures-sham-wow-mockery-travesty-edition.php

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice for all you pagans out there.

    Damn.
    Summer is coming.
    Bummer.

  52. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    It gets worse.  New Jersey just passed a law allowing illegal immigrants to get drivers’ licenses

    No one is above the law except illegal aliens, totalitarincrats, corrupt Vampyres, corrupt FIB agents and the Newspeak Media propagandists.

  53. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    Against the law.

  54. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    Savatage

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yes, yes, I know.

    I wasn’t ever going back to Walmart.

    But I forgot to get set up with Harry’s to start sending me razors.

    So while I was buying razors I stupidly decided to buy a bottle of Harry’s Post-Shave Balm. It was sealed, so I couldn’t give it a sniff test.

    But I trusted them and brought it home.

    OMG!! It smells like Axe Body Spray!!!!

    Millennial Body Odor In A Bottle!!!!

    RETCHING. RETCHING. RETCHING.

    You’re welcome to it. Just let me know.

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Yea for the Texans winning this afternoon. Spouse records the Packers and Texans games for later viewing just in case something else might interfere with watching them live. Also he usually skips watching them if they lose. I watch them live for the most part unless something else is going on. As Packers shareholders I think it is disloyal to skip some of their recorded games we didn’t see live. Pretty much the same for skipping the recorded Texans games.

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #50 EG

    Well, I love the Huge Turtle Crossing! 

  58. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    55 shannon
    Hamous could apply it to his melon so’s it’s as soft as squackberg’s hands.

  59. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #55 Shannon

    Several previous references to this Axe stuff and the one above raises several questions. It sounds like it is some sort of noxious potion masquerading as a gentleman’s scent. Never heard of it before. Does it also work to repel mosquitoes, skunks, chiggers, and dangerous wildlife? And perhaps human beings?

  60. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #50

    And another! I GOT IT!!!

  61. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #59, What Adee said, what exactly is the Axe smell? I heard ya’ll talking about it the other day.

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My wife is down at the farm house and since it is raining a little, she saw a couple of does at the far end of the turnip patch. She snapped this picture after one ambled off into the trees. It’s not all that good but they do like the turnips, but mustard better.

  63. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    A 1.4 trillion dollar lump of coal in Orwellicas stocking for Christmas.

    Whatever happened to “I’ll never sign another one?”

    I guess if it has the word military in it Trump jumps on it like a cat on catnip.

    Ike was so prophetic.

  64. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    Lump of coal.

  65. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    We got a Space Force now but no border security.

    Scotty Beam me up some illegal aliens and give them driver’s licenses.

    Live Long and Prosper off the taxpayers back.

    Everything’s free for you, the illegal, in the land of milk, honey and BMSV money for there is no justice in the land of two tier justice.

  66. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I think Fox News is trying to disprove the infinite monkey theorem with this article. Either that or it’s the world’s largest word jumble. My head hurts.

    I award you no points.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat
    Have you noticed that the busy-bodies have yet to hound the PowerLine blog into ceasing and desisting with the “hot woman” picture every week?

  68. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #66

    Lol, I know the complete story due to my wife’s fascination with it (see Lifetime Network), but I didn’t recognize it reading that article. 😀

  69. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    It started with the very first sentence…

    A close friend of a Texas mom whose body was found dead …

    … and went downhill from there.

  70. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    66 Hammie

    The author, Paulina Dedaj, is actually an algorithm running on an old Windows Vista machine in a storage closet at Fox.

  71. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    Time for a glass unca Shanny.

    Ever sing this song at choir practice?

  72. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    71
    Thanks. I just noticed mine is empty.

  73. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    66 Hamous

    I’m just thinking about the junior high and high school, even elementary, teachers I had and imagining the looks on their faces after they read that story.

    It would be sad.  It would be punitive.

    It definitely would be scary if you were sitting in their classrooms, especially if you were the one who wrote it and turned it in.

    It’s devastatingly bad.

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    68 GJT
    Dangdest story I’ve ever heard.

    Well, since the last wacko Texas murder story that the whole world followed.

  75. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    I have a glass of this with the name unca Shanny stamped on it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQZIhFQjUfE

  76. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’ve heard of moms being killed by other women in order to steal their babies, but for an old friend to do it, almost unbelievable. This gal should pay with her own life for this evil deed.

     

  77. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    People that think Trump has been impeached and will now be removed from office….

  78. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #77 mharper42
    Guessing that’s because only private schools teach civics these days. The public school kids aren’t taught much if any of that. At least if they’ve gotten some semblance of civics, they don’t act like it. Pathetic.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you Dominican Nuns of Sinsinawa in Wisconsin long ago who taught in the Edgewood Campus and High Schools in Madison where I and my classmates learned about civics, about how the local, state, and Federal governments function according to the laws that govern them, the Separation of Powers in the Federal Government and what each branch does and the checks and balances on each that the two others hold. Good stuff that I’m afraid would send most current teachers reeling because they themselves have not been schooled in such vital subjects. More’s the pity.

    Regrettably still dumb and dumber with no clue that they are dumb and dumber.

  79. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    “Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.” —Rachel Wolchin

    My mother turns 100 n January 5th. We are making a scrap book for her and I found the above quote.

     

  80. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Since Eddie Murphy is on SNL for the first time since 1984 I decided to watch it for old time’s sake. I don’t think I’ve watched it in at least 15 years. I figured there’s no way they’d do any of his old characters, especially Buckwheat. Danged if they didn’t do it!

  81. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    And Gumby, damn it!

  82. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Cold and wet here.
    Mornin’ Gang

  83. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #80 Hamous, what a coincidence, I recorded it but haven’t watched it yet. I don’t remember the last time I saw the show, but it has not been good in years. Last night, my wife had the local news on, trying to catch the weather, and as I I scrolled through the evening shows, I noticed SNL and decided to record it since I’ve been seeing some of their good political skits popping up and thought I’d see if it was any good. It’ll be neat seeing Eddie Murphy on there again.

  84. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    1972 Chevrolet Cheyenne Super with a ZZ572 Big Block, 727 HP @ 6300 RPM, well, that ought to do it. 😉

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We went out Friday to cut down a Christmas tree and my old Red Mule, rolled over 3000 hours. I love that old workhorse, it still runs like a champ.

  86. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Apparently flip phones have become nostalgic. And that nostalgia will cost you $1500.

  87. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And Gumby, damn it!

    But did he wear his “Glitter Shoes”?

  88. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #86 Hammie

    Does this mean I don’t have to be ashamed of my flip phone any more?

     

  89. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #86, Hey, I still have a Flip Phone, it’s kinda’ dated.
    There is no way, I’d purchase that phone, even if it was reasonably priced. The folding display couldn’t last two foggy mornings.

  90. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #86 Hammie

    Does this mean I don’t have to be ashamed of my flip phone any more?

    Yup. You’re now a hipstress!

  91. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Our mothers prayed we’d find our way
    and our hearts would fly through Heaven’s gate.

    Kevin Costner’s daughter, Lily, sings:

    https://youtu.be/9bCI3AI2qJc

  92. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Still holed up here in Big D.  think that shingles shot left me with some side effects,  but feeling pretty good today.  Bright, sunny, and cold.  You all have a great one.

  93. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I bought that 25,000 mAh battery pack to carry with my phone.  I started out just using it to recharge several times a day, then went to leaving it plugged in all the time.  Finally, on Thursday I made a short phone call when it was 60% charged and when I hung up, the phone went to zero and died.

    We stopped at Verizon on the way to the Apple store and the young lady who waited on us said the reason iPhone users’ batteries are dying in the older phones is the size of the ongoing software updates.  She said the old phones can’t handle them and the batteries end up burning out.  Replacing batteries is pretty much wasting your money.  Apple doesn’t care because it forces people to buy new phones…like me.

    I bought an Apple XS iPhone and if I bought the new, large iPad for $360 (list: $400), my phone would come with a $400 discount (list: $899).   Her Highness gets the iPad for her work and she bought the Apple XS Max iPhone. My new phone is costing me less than $22 a month.

  94. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    79 Texanadian

    Give your mother my best wishes and congratulations.

  95. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Meanwhile @ Yeahaw Junction, a semi didn’t quite make the turn. 😉

  96. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It got down to 20 degrees here this morning, but it’s going to be in the low 50s on Monday.  There will be guys walking around in t-shirts and shorts.  No kidding.

  97. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    79 Texanadian

    Give your mother my best wishes and congratulations.

    Thank you.

     

    1 F right now, high of 21 F

    I wish winter would hang himself.

  98. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Ninety Eight! Teeing her up, who’ll it be?,….

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Question for my Catholic friends.

    A big deal with the Catholics up here is the placing of large wreaths at Christmas on loved ones’ graves and they call them “grave blankets”.

    I don’t recall ever seeing or hearing of these in my 50 years in Texas.  Is this some Yankee thing or did I somehow miss this all those years ?

  100. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    First Lady? No this is a First Lady. Oh and Hunnerd! I posted without updating, so I didn’t know.

  101. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I saw this incredibly stupid, Neanderthal on Fox a few minutes ago, unbelievable, I have no idea why they bring this Clown on, he brings nothing of substance to the table…..SIGH,…..

  102. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #97 Texanadian

    A Happy Birthday to your Mom.

  103. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Reaching 100 years is still fairly rare. All birthdays are celebrations, but the HUGE 1-0-0 is really special. Is it in the maternal family line, TexCan?

     

  104. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    A myth-busting analysis , found on Dan Bongino’s new site, on whether the rich once paid a 90% tax rate. The simple answer is that there’s a world of difference between your tax bracket and what you actually pay. Extra credits for the dollar bill with P. Krugman portrait…

  105. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    95 dave
    Where’s the turn? II don’t see one, besides Florida roads are pretty straight.

    100 dave2
    This is a First Lady:

    (regardless of what you might think of her husband)

  106. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Meanwhile @ Yeahaw Junction, a semi didn’t quite make the turn.

    Yeehaw Junction is the ancestral home of Granny Hamous’s fambly. There, and Holopaw.

  107. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    From a equipment mechanic FB group I’m a member of –

    Are we still using tranny fluid or is it gender neutral shift juice now?

  108. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

     Is it in the maternal family line,

    Well, it is my mother.

    The Paternal side made 97.

    Her parents got the cancer when they were in their 70’s.

    Dad’s mom died a month after child birth because the doctor had an infection. And his Dad fell out a third story window.

    7 kids, wives kids grandkids and the only funeral in the direct line was one sister in law. We’re a healthy bunch

  109. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well, it is my mother.

    *coff coff* I didn’t catch that 😛

  110. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    In my family, it was the paternal line. Dad lived to 91, his mother to 94. On my maternal side, many of my aunts died of various things rather young.  My mother did better than most in her family and made it to 86. Me, I’m hoping to make it to 91 so  I don’t orphan any of the cats. Although JoJo the youngest may not live a super long life due to her first 2 years being at least some of the time an outdoor cat.

  111. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    100 dave2
    This is a First Lady:

    No argument from me.
    And Texanadian, Happy Birthday to your Mom, 100, that is really something.

  112. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Hamous

    Did you see my #99 ?

  113. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fay got her eggnog and Jack, early.

    I can remember when a big bottle of Jack Old No.7 was less than $20.

    Sheesh. It’s over $35 now. At Spec’s!

    Having been allergic to milk from birth, I damn sure never developed a taste for eggnog. Too rich and creamy for me. She can have the whole bottle.

    But I might steal snort or two of the Old No.7.

  114. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess anyone who grew up operating a butter churn on the porch can be forgiven a love for eggnog.

    She and her mother would load up butter and eggs to sell and trade in town on Saturday mornings in the 1940’s.

  115. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Our son found an old rotary phone in a box of stuff. Cleaned out the in-laws place after the last one left a while back. Must be 60’s or earlier phone. Hard wired, doesn’t have the plug. Cloth covered wire inside but still red/green black/yellow inside. Dialed him up on his smart phone and it still works. Wasn’t sure if they still did. Had not heard that ring in quite some time.

  116. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    Bet the snowflakes in the audience weren’t quite sure how to react to this skit.

    Most are probably just like the white couple in the skit.

    r3gr3ssiv3ly woke and stupid.

  117. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Princess phones were a big deal when they debuted.

    https://tinyurl.com/wyuqpme

  118. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    99 texpat
    I have never seen or heard of those.

    Anywhere. (except for maybe right after the funeral)

  119. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    #117, I might still have a two channel push button phone floating around, would work since I still have a phone line for faxes. Municipal work is still bid that way.

  120. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Today is a bad day, so had to put my cat, Shofar, down today. She has crossed the rainbow bridge. Heart failure, asthma, and diabetes; she was doing pretty well on Thursday at 14 plus years old. Saturday not good and Sunday she went to the emergency hospital. The end would be the same if we had taken her in 3 weeks ago. She had a very good life.
    Needless to say we are very sad.

  121. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    121
    Always tough.

  122. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We finished Season 2 of Yellowstone and missed SNL Eddie Murphy.

    Some videos are starting to show up .

    Funny stuff.

  123. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Shofar was a genuine hermaphrodite; one ovary and one testicle. I was her human and she was my cat. She would jump on the table when I would work on a client so she could comfort the client by getting pet.
    She was a very good cat except for when she was bad which was almost never.

  124. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Condolences on the loss of your cat, Bones.

     

  125. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    112 Texpat

    I’ve never heard of grave blankets. Must be a Yankee thing. We had family reunions at the old family cemetery, which I always thought was weird.

  126. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’ve heard of those. Usually it’s thinly veiled conscription for cemetery cleanup.

  127. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Apparently it’s a real thing, even if most of us never heard of it. Google shows the big box stores sell these. Here it is at Lowe’s.

    https://www.lowes.com/pd/Fresh-Christmas-Cemetery-Blanket/3510164

     

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