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52 and breezy here in south Alabama.
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Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell.
The passage of bills she voted against is not the worst thing for which Warren has tried to claim undeserved credit (Native American heritage). Anti-capitalist filmmaker Michael Moore said on his podcast that Warren has a propensity to “embellish the truth” with half-truths and exaggerations for political gain.
Warren is hardly the first Democrat in the Trump era to claim credit for legislation she voted against. In late December, celebrity freshman representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) applauded the House’s passage of a bill that included debt relief for her native Somalia, despite being one of the 75 Democrats who voted against the legislation.
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If you missed it, be sure to go back and read Shannon’s #51 from last night.
Noah Berlatsky Trump voters motivated by racism may be violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped?Rush is out with the flu and yesterday his guest host, (don’t know him) said something about the new “Talking Points” for the Democrats and Lamestream Media is RACIAM!!! Although this has never stuck, since it is a total lie, they’re trying to resurrect it, because it’s all they have.
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My #3, it amazes me that the Talking Heads, say things about trump being a racist, as if it were a fact and everyone knows it. Of course when they get a group of so called experts on the tube, they all nod in agreement on anything “Trump Bad” Pitiful,…..
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#2 I’m sure that everyone has heard Elizabeth Warren telling Bernie that he called her a lair on national TV. HA! She lied about being an Injun to get a prestigious position at Harvard Law School, denying a real “Person of Color” the position. Several times, on the campaign trail she lied about getting fired for being pregnant, she lied about her kids going to public school and she said something about protecting the environment from big, dirty oil companies when in fact she was doing the bidding for them as a highly paid lawyer. Give me a break.
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This will likely be interesting to no one, but I thought that it was. We all know that CNN is being force-fed to everybody in every airport on the planet, well, last week I checked into the Flea Bag Hilton over in Nassau Bay. When I turned on the TV, it was on CNN, and I thought, how odd, usually the TV would be on some mindless channel that no one with an I.Q. over 80 could watch, OR the Mesican network, this is of course, because it was left on whatever channel the last person watching it. So, I’m not really a conspiracy nut, but I put the TV on Fox and turned it off, when I turned it back on, it came up on CNN! Every time I turned the damn thing on, it was on CNN! …..Now where did I put my Tin Foil Hat?
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Felipe has some extras.
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GMC 302 inline six engine with cross-flow head.
Punching out 100 HP per hole, this worked over GMC 302 from the 50s powers the Iocona dragster impressively. The 302 has a 4″ bore and 4″ stroke – same as a big block Chevy but two less cylinders and it’s a truck engine.
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Felipe has some extras.
Whut?!?!
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It’s a balmy 20 degrees with 4-6 inches of snow forecast. Our high today will be 32.
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#11, Oh who/what is Felipe?
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…but I put the TV on Fox and turned it off, when I turned it back on, it came up on CNN!
Observations from the field:
Having lived in hotels more than I’ve lived in my house for the last 18 months I can add some real world data.
95% of the time hotels have their TVs set to a default channel. 99% of that time that default channel is 0 and is usually a hotel version of the Weather Channel or occasionally a rolling version of something like Entertainment Tonight celebrity gossip. The other 5% of the time it starts up on the last channel watched.
If the default is celebrity gossip I usually go into the settings and change it to last channel watched. I’ve never seen one default to CNN or any other specific channel other than the two mentioned above. My guess is a previous TDS-infected guest figured out you can reset the default behavior or maybe the hotel manager has a severe case of TDS.
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Time to revoke HEB’s Texas Card.
No Gebhardt Chili Powder for weeks.
A man could get shot bringing home any other brand.
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11, Oh who/what is Felipe?
Phil
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If the Spanish version of Paul is Pablo how come the English version of Raul isn’t Rablo?
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I hate to let my secret out, but Williams Chili Mix in the silver foil packet is far and away the best you can find. Never bothered to see where it comes from, but I’ve been using it exclusively for years. All that other packaged chili mix is crap but Williams is excellent.
Now, back to impeachment. You too can now get your very own souvenir to memorialize the occasion. Check it out. https://babylonbee.com/news/pelosi-releases-limited-edition-replica-of-dentures-she-was-wearing-during-trump-impeachment
Have a great day now you all. Seems like a good day to argue about chili and other important issues that sometimes get overlooked in the daily hub bub these days.
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#3 SD & Shannon
I didn’t know NBC would publish such rubbish!
Over the last decade, an increasingly conservative Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act and upheld racist gerrymandering.
Upheld?? Is a BAD THING?? Sheesh, the racial gerrymandering that I am aware of is the sort that keeps Shirley Jackson Lee perpetually re-elected.
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And then we have the Week In Pictures to review as well. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/the-week-in-pictures-habemus-impeachmus-edition.php
Who knows, we might even strike up an argument about who the best baseball player or the best college QB ever was before the day is out.
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18 mharp
I got about halfway through it, and thought, surely this is a Joke posting.
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#19 El Gordo, one of my favorites is Warren saying; “Growing up Chinese in south Detroit I struggled as an African American Jewish Boy”. HA!!!
Oh, and the next to last picture was real neat and I really liked the last one.
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Hmmm. Maybe I’ll start setting the default channel to OAN if it’s available or alternatively to Fox News.
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Who knows, we might even strike up an argument about who the best baseball player or the best college QB ever was before the day is out.
As, I believe, the only resident college football player here, I’d be interested in your opinion on the best college QB. The tricky part is disassociating their pro career from their college career. Seems like very few of the greats in college have success in the pros.
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#23 – Joe Burrow is probably the best college QB ever. He seems able to thread the needle every throw and escape blitzes and rushes more often than most. You never know how these guys will turn out as pros because the games are so different. Over the years there have been great college QB that I have seen, and probably more that were before my time. For instance, I never saw Slingin’ Sammy Baugh play, but I did get to meet him once. King Hill was a first round draft pick as he could pass, run, kick, and make interceptions on defense. The usuals such as Montana, Namath, Plunkett, and many others. The best I ever saw at reading defenses and finding the open receiver is Major Applewhite. I guess I could go on forever and never get all the good ones listed. Right now, Burrow is the best ever IMHO.
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Best college football team ever – this year’s LS&U Tigers. It was pretty awesome when the band is playing Neck and they are taking a knee inside the defending national champion Clemson 5 just to keep from running up the score. What else could you have done in a college football game to exhibit your clear superiority?
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Burrow is scary.
He can place that ball for a double-covered receiver as well as Watson.
Then there’s everything else he can do.
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In case you didn’t see Trump welcome the Tigers to the WH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWoOU56bGiw
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Hard to get out of HEB this morning. They were playing my life soundtrack.
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Good list. The problem with comparing Burrow is there’s only one year to look at. Most of the historical greats had at least three.
I would throw in Staubach, Flutie, Tebow, Elway, and even Vince Young. Deshaun Watson was great.
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You’ll get no argument from me with those picks.
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Girl Scouts and their cookies are on my Black List.
But she was so cute.
And said that they’re set up to send them to our heroes serving overseas.
She got me.
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Biggest busts, among many – Vince Young, Vinny Testaverde…
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I beat the front and the rain home with the groceries.
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I wonder if that front is stalling.
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unca Shanny misses me.
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Guaranteed to fit.
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President Trump and the Chicago Spice War
I’m very picky about my spices and after discovering Penzy’s shortly before they opened their store in the Heights around 2001, I started buying all my spices there. Superb quality at prices significantly lower than those tiny little bottles in the grocery stores.
For over 15 years, I ordered all my spices online from them in Chicago….until Donald Trump ran for the White House and the owner, Bill Penzey, completely flipped out. He began writing anti-Trump diatribes on his website, e-mailing anti-Trump rants to his customers and insulting people all over the place who challenged his asininity.
Penzeys Spices has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars this fall promoting Facebook ads — long stream-of-consciousness missives — supporting impeachment of Trump or railing against the Republican Party and Fox News. After the 2016 election, Penzey sent an email blast to customers, saying if they voted for Trump they had “just committed the biggest act of racism in American history since Wallace stood in the schoolhouse doorway 53 years ago,” referring to the segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
Fortunately, I discovered his sister and her husband run a competing spice company called The Spice House. They welcomed all the insulted customers and Trump supporters who moved their business to them and promised not to involve politics in their passion for their company.
I think The Spice House products are even better than the brother’s goods. I always order the large quantities because it’s an even better deal.
Apparently, the sister and brother were raised together in their parent’s spice store, but no longer have anything to do with one another. The brother, obviously, is a world class jackass.
When I make my chili, I use these Spice House ingredients:
Black Pepper, Indian Tellicherry**
*Man, this is seriously great chili powder.
** Once you use this pepper, you’ll never go back to that McCormick crap.
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Trump should file a multi-billion dollar lawsuit and make the Newspeak enemamedia prove he’s a racist.
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Who is that snarling she-wolf that’s always at the podium with Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler?
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I always keep a good quantity of the Indian Tellicherry Black Pepper, Extra Coarse for salads, steaks, fish and my eggs every morning. The stuff is highly addictive and I use a whole lot of it.
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36 Felipe
I swear that I don’t remember that one.
But, then, I don’t remember much from 1974 – just bits and pieces from my graduation party.Interesting stuff from Wiki about the song:
“Fingerprint File” is the closing track from the Rolling Stones’ 1974 album It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll. It is one of their first attempts to branch out into dance or electronic music, and the song resembles music by Sly and the Family Stone. Key ingredients of the song are the rhythm guitar played by Mick Jagger, which features heavy phasing due to the use of the MXR Phase 100 effects pedal, and the highly jazz/funk-oriented bass guitar played by Mick Taylor. Keith Richards uses the wah-wah pedal for his guitar part. Bill Wyman is on synthesiser, Charlie Watts on drums, Billy Preston on clavinet, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Charlie Jolly Kunjappu is featured on the tabla.
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The swarm of starlings flying by over head must’ve been at least a mile long. It was over me and Max the entire time we were outside.
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Mick was a 1974 prophet for 2020
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Was unca Shanny in a haze in 1974?
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My favorite funky Rolling Stones song.
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Re: Mobile Phone Cases
Otterbox’s got so bulky, I switched years ago to Lifeproof brand (waterproof version).
They’re pretty pricey, but very streamlined and I’ve dropped it on concrete from four feet with no breakage.
I’m still trying to figure out how the sound gets out of there (so successfully) with the phone being completely sealed inside.
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Nice tune.
Obscure.
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That album wasn’t very successful commercially. One of my favorites. Hard to beat Preston on piano.
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The constipated Rock press didn’t like it.
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Girls liked it because it was danceable.
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That may be a slightly cooler, WNW-erly breeze trying to get started here.
So, I’m going to declare that the front which was supposed to be in Houston by noon is just now arriving in Austin County.
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Our rain ahead of the front, a whole 0.02″ so far, barely wet the pavement and left a few tiny puddles in the low spots. Wind out of the northwest now ripples Old Glory on the front porch. As the sky gets lighter to the NW some rain falls with more vigor and wets the pavement under trees. This is not a rainfall bonanza. Temp slowly fell to 69 from the high of 70. Started out at 67 at 6am.
This front is not in a hurry.
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Temp proceeds downward at a snail’s pace, now 69.3. Old Glory is barely swaying.
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All these comments about NW-erly made me look at the Harris County weather radar. I chuckled when I started the animation and saw cloud masses moving toward the NE, then that whole system started getting pushed to the SE. Definitely some unseen force pressing in from the NW.
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Struggling to get to 35F today, it’s 26F at Texpat’s place.
I don’t think they’re gonna make it.
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Hope the front is not too strong. The last one that blew in from the Hill Country wreaked havoc with my sinuses. After four days in Lafayette I’m just about back to normal.
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We’re supposed to break out above freezing around 7 PM. I hope there’s enough rain this evening to wash away this annoying slippery 2 or 3 inches of slimy snow on the ground. It’s supposed to reach to 40 tomorrow and melt this stuff away.
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#56 – 35???????
what frosty planet did Austin County get teleported to?
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Morning gang. Just got up from my little nap. Wait, it’s not morning any more. One of my baseball player friends says that there is a reason that no players were punished in the great baseball sign heist; nor were any owners punished. Seems the owners have their own cartel, and the players have the players union, or cartel, if you will. He projects that sign stealing will reach an even higher pitch now that the players know they are immune from punishment, and that they will be smart enough not to tell anyone else about it. Now I certainly question that smart part referencing baseball players, but it does sort of make sense to me.
Then, that same guy told me that he goes to the women’s march every year because there is no other place on earth where he can fill his emptiness and need for total and complete immersion into insanity from time to time. That also makes sense to me, since he actually is pretty crazy. I’m beginning to understand, and that’s sort of scary in itself.
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The swarm of starlings flying by over head must’ve been at least a mile long. It was over me and Max the entire time we were outside.
I think I’ve told the story of the flock of birds I experienced with my neighbor. We wondered what that speck was…then it got bigger….and bigger…and we realized it was a ginormous flock of birds. They flew directly overhead for a ridiculous amount of time. At one point we couldn’t see either end of this ribbon of birds which were flying with razor straight edges.
The sound of all of those wind was like a gentle massage on our ears.
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60 EG
If the owners have their Cosa Nostra and the players their own mob, it looks like managers and coaches are innocent bystanders in a never ending crossfire since MLB league executives are the toady lackeys of the owners.
When California defied all known data about human nature and decriminalized retail theft, well, retail theft skyrocketed throughout the state. You can’t cure ignorance in stupid people. It simply can’t be done so more sign stealing now.
As rich as baseball players are now they can hire their own surveillance satellites, camera drones that look like insects in the stadium, cameras in the buttons of the second baseman, microscopic earpieces in the batters’ ears – the possibilities are endless as the managers and coaches keep getting fired.
The United States of America…What a Country !
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Speaking of magnificent ignorance, this post by Glenn Reynolds is simply too absurd to not share. If ever there was a perfect example of the failure of modern American education, it is this Facebook post in a discussion of the wisdom of vaccinating children.
Glenn Reynolds: “Congratulations, you’ve just invented the vaccine.”
Original article linked below.
Guy Suspicious Of Vaccines Comes Up With Replacement That’s Just…Vaccines
It’s getting scary out there, folks. Somebody opened a huge can of dumbass and it somehow mutated into an aggressive virus sweeping across mankind.
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My #62:
I met Jim Crane back when he was first running Eagle Air Freight. I became friends with the woman who was his first employee and office manager. She was a top flight professional in that industry and when she resigned, he went out of his way to try and destroy her career. I followed her and took my business wherever she landed because she was that good.
I’ll say no more because it would be hearsay here. I just know what kind of business person he is and I wouldn’t do any deals with him.
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#63 Texpat
Boggle, boggle, boggle the magnificently ignorant accidental creation of a vaccine.
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I realize that you aren’t accustomed to being at home on the weekends, instead of riding a thousand miles to support young heroes.
But I was talking about the weather in New Jersey.
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Katfish
While not totally down playing your Virginia gun alarm, I owe you an apology for down playing it at all. Dude you are spot on about watching what goes on that day.
- The governor of Virginia is a nut and he has taken steps to actually incite even more problems than he has already created.
- The state police has made comments that are disparaging against 2nd Amendment proponents
- Antifa is set to go in and cause problems
- 2nd Amendment folks are going armed to the teeth and after reading some back channel forums from those groups they are prepared for war.
- And then you add the all “other” groups that are planning to attend……….
This is quickly turning into a volatile situation and I do not think cooler heads are going to prevail so to speak.
YES WE WOULD DO WELL TO WATCH.
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You should get whole peppercorns and grind as needed. They keep their flavor longer. -
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Whole peppercorns
I have those too.
I go through a lot of pepper around here so there’s not much shelf time for the pre-ground. Besides, I’m starting to get some aggravating arthritis in my hands and wrists so I’m not so enthusiastic about the grinder anymore.
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And finally before I depart. Saw some photos from the Women’s March. Why is it that most of the women that had signs that said something like “Hands off my body” I just can’t imagine any man wanting to put their hands on that body. EWWWWWWWWW
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This Virginia thing might be fun to watch. First of all, if there is a bunch of gun totin’ bible thumpin’ people showing up there, you can bet they are not the 2A supporters – they are the Dem plants sent in there to start some agitation. Secondly, if any members of the Virginia political scene plan to even be around for the event, they are fools. This will merely turn into another demonstration for the perpetually outraged to burn some cars and break some windows while the 2A folks are holding some reasonable sort of event somewhere else. So let the fights begin, surely the media can rustle up a small mob to shout obscenities and scuffle with the police or someone. Then blame it all on Trump. Meanwhile, I’m hearing that half or more of the Va counties are petitioning to join West Va and leaving Va – and apparently it is entirely legal to do so. Maybe I’m all wrong about this, but I expect another big nothingburger.
#71 – Thanks for checking out those women’s march photos so the rest of us don’t have to. I hope that insanity isn’t contagious.
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Im so far out of the loop, I didn’t know they had a Womens March this weekend. I thought they already did that a few years ago.
I feel real bad about it.
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Was I supposed to wear a pussy hat today?
Dang. I’m sorry.
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69 texpat
Get one of these.OXO Good Grips Lewis Pepper Mill https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003L0OOQM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_o85iEbMH89JSD
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When they were young.
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75 WB
Thanks, I’ll try it.
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75 Wagonburner
I have a drawerful of OXO products. They are unmatched.
The first one I bought years ago was a can opener for Fay and her poor Rheumatoid Arthritic hands.
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They have anything for an 1 1/4” wrench? 😀
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She drove a pickup, green and blue..
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As earlier promised:
No time
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As promised:
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Grace plays organ well.
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If Republicans ever get back in power in Virginia they should start retro-retrocession of the original land given to DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Alexandria.
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58 and rainy here, but it should be over before nine.
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Spotted by Instapundit on Facebook:
A governor whose medical school yearbook photo is him wearing a Klan hood has *cages* put up several hundred feet from a Virginia civil rights monument ON Martin Luther King Jr Day to contain citizens trying to exercise their freedoms of speech and assembly…
And the liberal masses still support him.
You can’t make this up.
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86 Shannon
The amazing thing about that video is that it happened at all. Ginger Baker’s hatred for Jack Bruce is legendary. It must have taken some world class diplomacy by Clapton to make that concert happen.
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I want that bass.
Real bad.
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Turned on the TV and an episode of Archie Bunker’s Place is on.
Absolutely hilarious. Carter is President, and the “energy crisis” is on.
Fertile ground for great comedy.
They’re living in the dark because Edith keeps running around turning the lights off.
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Morning troubadours. Somehow I managed to survive a Satrday without college football, but I did watch Miss State introducing Mike Leach and some of his interviews, etc. around the state. He was on his good behavior and did not really crack any profound insults. Also, he was sporting a brand new suit apparently obtained with the help of a alum who is in the business as it looked like some of the alterations were just pinned together for now – but he advised the crowd not to get used to seeing him wearing a suit. I further assume that this deal came together so fast that he did not have time to go home and pack any clothes for his trip from Pullman to Starksville. Anyway, looks like he will hit the ground running and start to assemble a staff as spring training starts in just a few weeks. He said the new system would take a week to instal, but it might take 2 weeks for it to really start to hum – again tongue in cheek I assume.
Out here it was 24 degrees when I got up, but bright sun and no clouds should lead to a nice warm up before long. The rain from the past couple of days has forced the fire ants to the surface, so I’m treating the mounds with Spectracide. looks like spring has sprung around here, but we will have some hard freezes before Easter, so those plants better get ready and not but out too soon.
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BTW, I gave up on the Sunday political shows long ago, but lately I’ve been catching Maria’s (the Money Honey) Sunday Futures show. It’s far and away the best one of all, and who would have ever known that she’s smart, asks good question, and takes no BS, even from the friendly side. Check it out if you can.
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Jennifer Nettles
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I remember that the first trip I drove, after the 55mph speed limit became law, was to Kerrville/Ingram.
I thought I was going to die.
Brutal, I tell ya, brutal.
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97 Shannon
Wow. I’d forgotten what a magnificent voice Jennifer Nettles has. Great tribute to Neil Diamond.
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Wake up, Mama.
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My across the street neighbor is unable to let leaves sit on his lawn. He’s got one tree in his front yard, a pecan. During the fall he mows up the leaves at least three times a week.
This morning there are about 10 Central American monkey men making quick work of the pecan tree.
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Cut down the tree ‘cause he hates the leaves?
Must be a Democrat.
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High quality cover.
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Wisconsin girl and now prominent attorney, Clarice Feldman, is always entertaining at American Thinker:
As you may recall Schrodinger’s cat is a quantum physics paradox in which hypothetically a cat may be both alive and dead at the same time. My online friend “The Infamous Ignatz” offers up, quite rightly in my opinion, there is “The Universal Quantum Trump-Grabbed Schrodinger’s Pussy Theory. He is not only the cause of all known phenomena in the universe but the cause of all potential phenomena as well.”
and this,
How will the Senate now handle this? Will it dismiss these deficient articles out of hand or allow this game to continue? Arguing for impeachment will be Congressional “stars” Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, and Zoe Lofgren. Arguing against will be White House Counsel Pat Cippalone, Jay Sekulow, Ken Starr, Pam Bondi, Robert Ray, and Alan Dershowitz.
This is as if Pelosi were sending her neighborhood Little League team out to play the Houston Astros. It’s going to be a humiliating defeat for the Dems. Just the optics are bad enough. Schiff and Nadler look like some old, Vaudeville comedy act.
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Cippolone, Sekulow, Starr and Ray are super litigators with years of trial experience. The Dems are acting like they want to lose and look ridiculous.
Is Nancy Pelosi a one-woman sleeper cell planted in the Democratic Party by GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone decades ago ?
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I got up to some good news this morning. Yesterday, I spoke to a woman who was walking down my street with a schnauzer on a leash, calling out the name of her other dog who had been missing since Jan 3. She had been told that her dog might have been spotted in my neighborhood, although the dog had gone missing from half a mile north of us. I took her flyer and posted everywhere online in lost pet sites of near northwest Houston. Late last night, she had posted on her FB page that her pooch came home by herself, dirty and lost some weight, but basically Ok.
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Breakdown.
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I caught some of the new All in the Family show with Woody Harrelson(?) as Archie Bunker, couldn’t watch it, just not the same. Funny though, I never realized Edith ran or walked real fast everywhere she went, the old Edith made it flow where you didn’t notice it. It is very distracting with the new Edith.
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Singing and dancing on the canned vegetable aisle at HEB.I just couldn’t help myself.
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There’s been a lot of them over the years, but I’ve decided that there’s no one in the media I’d more enjoy squeezing the throat of than Chuck Todd.
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Schiff and Nadler look like some old, Vaudeville comedy act.
Never thought about it but, yeah. Laurel and Hardy to be precise.
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Dang, y’all have already surpassed a Hunnerd!
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There’s been a lot of them over the years, but I’ve decided that there’s no one in the media I’d more enjoy squeezing the throat of than Chuck Todd.
As they say in the world of microbiology, TNTC for me.
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Kacey serenades John Prine.
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Well, I’ve been busy this morning, changing the ice/water in the 55 Qt ice chest, Bambi is resting comfortably in there, thank you. I pretty much managed to clean up the murder scene out in the Tractor Shed and the rain overnight helped out. By the time I started the skinning, it was already drizzling. I’m still scrubbing/scraping tallow off my hands though. I got the Tikka 30-06 and the old 20 Ga, cleaned up and now, I’ll hit the shower, dang it is late for that.
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TNTC
Too numerous to countLab medicine
A popular abbreviation for a ‘lawn’ of bacteria on a culture plate that may be seen in UTIs–confluent growth is equal to ±105 coloniesMedtalk
An abbreviation facetiously used for a hypochondriac PT’s list of complaints.🙂
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102 Shannon
To be fair, it wasn’t a very good specimen. It was a volunteer that just wouldn’t succumb to the mower so they let it start growing about 25 years ago. The powerlines are on that side of the street so it’s been butchered by Centerpoint on numerous occasions. Squirrels devour or bury every pecan before they hit the ground in this neighborhood. Too close to the street to provide meaningful shade.
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Shannon posted a link Friday night to this Noah Berlatsky op-ed column for NBC News and Super Dave highlighted it yesterday morning. It is already being named, a bit prematurely I believe, the worst column of 2020.
Mike LaChance at Legal Insurrection writes:
It’s still very early in 2020, but when it comes to stupid political columns, we may already have a winner. A recent op-ed published by NBC News suggests that voting for Trump is not only racist and unethical, it violates the Constitution.
I started to respond here yesterday, but didn’t and Byron York eventually tweeted what I intended to write about Berlatsky:
Byron York✔@ByronYorkTo be fair, the author of the NBC racist-voters-violated-Constitution-by-voting-for-Trump piece is a ‘comics expert’ and ‘cultural critic’ whose works include ‘Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948.’http://ow.ly/woEs50xYzG2331Noah Berlatsky writes about comic books, for crying out loud and NBC thinks this is serious commentary.A commenter warns though:
Olinser | January 19, 2020 at 10:09 am
It’s not stupid. Stop calling it stupid.
It’s malicious.
It’s not designed to convince anybody. It’s designed to start bringing leftists around to the idea that they can strip rights away from conservatives as long as they declare them racist. As long as you have the Right Reasons, you can ignore little things like the Constitution.
Stop calling them stupid and listen to what they’re telling you. They’re telling you that you are not ALLOWED to vote for anybody they don’t approve of.
If the Left ever takes power again they will never, EVER give it up willingly.
Act accordingly.
He is absolutely right.
And for those who say “Oh, this is just an opinion piece” —
1, it’s an opinion piece pushed by a billion-dollar corporation. They’ve moved the Overton Window to the point where this now fair grist for consideration.
2, The opinion they’re pushing is an official government apartheid, but with a target class selected by the antifa left.
3, the extremism of their demands is accelerating. Only recently they started agitating to repeal the First Amendment’s right to free speech; that is now in peril, and restricted where it still exists. Now they’re upping the ante to say that the right to vote must also be limited — and preserved only for the right people, who vote the “right way.”
4, the last opinion they pushed — which the “reasonable” fake conservatives told me wasn’t anything to worry about — was the idea that a man could wake up one day and declare himself a woman, and that I would be under legal compulsion to agree with his delusion.
And now that’s a fact of daily life.
These are not just hot takes. These are previews of coming attractions.
This will not end well.
But it will end.
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Then, on the frozen food aisle, they hit me with this one…
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I have an old pecan tree that was beautiful. It lost 50% of its canopy during Ike. It probably should have been taken down but I thought it might fill back in. No new growth after 12 years. Still can’t bring myself to cut it down.
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119 Shannon
Can’t you see the subliminal mind-control the HEB manipulators are exercising over you ? You’ve been suckered into buying stuff you don’t need while spacing out in the aisles like some old Boomer hippie.
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I checked out and left the store.
Before I got arrested.
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118 Texpat
I watched all of the talking heads this morning.
Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t a joke.
It is dangerous Mass Hysteria.
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I guess Shannon forgot he posted these same videos just yesterday 😉
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I just figured that his Saturday night binge was carrying on over until Sunday and that he would be crashing here pretty soon anyway. Never know for sure, I’ve heard of people going on benders for several days.
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Shoulder Pillow required, Super Dave.
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#101 Hammy
This morning there are about 10 Central American monkey men making quick work of the pecan tree.
Can you draw us a picture of what this means?
OH — or simple English words to explain it?
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I’m pretty sure those are all English words. But I’ll try and further explain: the tree removal business has been dominated by Central Americans, mainly Salvadorians and Hondurans, for 30 years. They are renowned for their agility in trees while wielding a chain saw. They move around the tree … well … like a monkey.
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This is why dogs are infinitely superior to cats…
…in one simple video.
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Arborists, they’re not. They can butcher a tree and make it look like broccoli. I’m pretty sure they invented the Crepe Myrtle murder that plagues Texas every spring.
But if you need a tree disappeared they’re your guys.
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Esta mañana hay unos 10 hombres changos centroamericanos haciendo un trabajo rápido del árbol de nueces.
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The reason why both Dem and Rep politicians do not like Trump is because for decades, they have told us about all these problems that we as a nation have, and that just can’t be fixed over night. We must re-elect them over and over if we ever hope to see any progress toward solving these problems, most of which are the result of their actions to begin with. Zero told us we could not drill our way out of the energy problem, that manufacturing jobs were gone for good, America was a mature nation and in natural decline, and on and on. We could not fix the VA to keep our promise to our Vets, we could not keep from getting ripped off by our trading partners. We were just a moribund nation just riding it out until the end it seemed.
Well, Trump came into office, and with virtually no help from either the Republican Congress or the now Dem led House, has reversed all these trends virtually single-handedly, and embarrassed the heck out of the do nothing political weasels and leaches that have been roaming the halls of our government for decades. He has proved that it could have been done any time someone decided to do it, but they would rather have the problem kicked on down the road to further their own political ambitions than to actually take steps to solve it.
They have been exposed, and they don’t like it one bit. The only thing standing between Trump and the exit is we, the people. We, the people, must take care of our civic duty to vote for responsible government. At all levels. And if someone is not doing their job, at whatever level of government, and of whatever party, kick them out. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen our choices o clearly polarized that we could tell the difference. The primaries are coming up in just a few weeks, so educate yourself on the candidates, talk to your friends and neighbors, find out what’s going on, and vote. Just my $.02
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Nice commentary.
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I got in the mood to smoke sumpthin so yesterday got a couple slabs of ribs from HEB and prepared the with Memphis Dry Rub, they been in the fridge overnight. Got my smoker out of winter storage and cleaned up, almost to temp now to throw those suckers on.
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I watched a good bit of the Netflix show on Aaron Hernandez last night. Still hard to believe all that happened. Bizarre.
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Good afternoon Hamsters.
Back to winter we are, greeted by a delightfully chilly 45 this morning and only 57 now. Nice and very windy in spurts, acorns still bouncing off the garden room metal roof occasionally.#135 Hamous
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#134 El Gordo
Well put.
Donald Trump has not only overturned Obama’s legislative legacy, he has proven the entire Barack Obama narrative for the demise of the American Dream to be a monumental lie before all the eyes of history.
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#134 EG
Yep, looks like you won the Couch Contest for today! That was very well reasoned and written.
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137 GJT
I watched that a couple weeks ago. Definitely one of the more bizarre sports stories I’ve seen.
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Trump repealing the Wookie’s school lunch rules, on her birthday, will go down in history as one of the greatest acts of trollage in the history of trolling.
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#135, #138, #139, and #141 Dittos all, very well put and of course, Spot On!
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Decided to cook some gumbo today. I forgot how much I dislike making roux.
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Shoulder Pillow required, Super Dave.
I don’t own a 45-70, but I’ve always kinda’ wanted one, not real powerful by today’s standards, but a tried and proven round, even on Buffalo. The 45-110 was the Buffalo round of choice but the old 45-70 wasn’t far behind.
FWIW; I do have a beautiful, Browning 1871, in 348 and it is quite a thumper, Big Medicine, as Teddy Roosevelt, called it. But my new favorite is my Savage 99, in 358 Winchester, a much more modern weapon. For you folks in Rio Linda, a 358 is a 308 necked up to 35 caliber. It is not nearly as popular as the 308, necked down to 24 caliber, that would be the 243, Winchester.
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Decided to cook some gumbo today. I forgot how much I dislike making roux.
Patience, patience, my friend. As you know the secret is HOT oil and stirring constantly, just when you think you’ve burned it, it is ready. I don’t mind making it but hey, I make white sauce, which is easier, I admit.
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Since you asked, I’m having beer brats with sauerkraut! Daughter brought me some sauerkraut from Fredericksburg, supposedly, the hot German type, we’ll see and I’ll let you know.
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BTW; What’s in your Gumbo, and what time do I need to be there, and, do I need to bring beer?
Classic chicken and sausage gumbo using andouille. An old coonass taught me shortly after I moved here. He said, “Make chicken & sausage or make seafood gumbo. Don’t done mix ’em up.”
About an hour. ALWAYS bring beer!
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ALWAYS bring beer!
Well, the only fancy beer I have is some local stuff that I got for the kids, Folklore, Front Porch and Snipe Hunt. The Boy found Snipe Hunt when he was here for Christmas 2015, both my kids/spouses were here then…Dang 2015?!
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I’ve never made Gumbo with chicken, always crawfish, shrimp, and sausage, sometimes crab. I only learned, a few years ago, that Gumbo wasn’t seafood, it could be anything and everything.
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My #150, to get the year right, I had to go back and fins a picture, I had forgot that Luke and was wife home. Griswold Family Christmas, 2015. 😉
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It appears that Kansas City is going to the Super Bowl, as the Chiefs are
defeating the Oilers’ successors the Titans 35-17 in the 4th quarter. And it
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I ain’t picky. I’ll drink most anything except Coors Light or Michelob Ultra. If that’s what you drink, Topo Chico is fine 😉
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Correction, now it’s Kansas City 35 Titans 24 with about 3 minutes left.
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Meanwhile in Fredericksburg, SIL, and his buddy’s boys have bagged a Hawg.
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of all the wimmins reporting sports, Erin Andrews is the best.
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Yeah, and that hog in the picture above was the prettiest one in the sty too. Same logic.
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I had a lot of bird seed out on the patio that got soaked in recent rains, and was germinating in place. Just went out with a utility dustpan/scoop and scraped it all up and dumped into large plastic dog food sacks. Shame that we are not getting the number of hungry birds we used to. Pigeons in particular rarely come any more. Could be the large rottweiller (or similar breed) next door. That neighbor’s grown son has returned to live with his parents for the 2nd time due to aftermath of being ill. Bringing his 80 lb dog. Poor thing is currently on a short chain in the back yard. I guess the parents finally absorbed the message everyone on the block gave them the last time that dog was living in their back yard and got out a number of times. It was very aggressive with strangers. On several occasions before, it knocked boards out of the fence between us and got into our back yard. We were unable to go out our back door until they could come and retrieve him.
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You feed pigeons too???
/smh
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Sad!
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In my ongoing effort to soften the blow of withdrawal from my college football addiction, I was wheeling around the You Tube videos and ran across the LSU Tigers visit to the WH with the President. And by gosh, I’m now even more proud of the Tigers. What a handsome and well behaved, and even well spoken, group of young men. Of course, Coach Eaux could probably still whip all but the linemen and hold them in line, but they all appeared to be acting voluntarily. Representing their team, their school, and the entire State of Louisiana, they presented themselves very well. So that’s my one more shout out to the Tigers for another job well done.
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I’m trying hard not to be a homer with the Astros cheating stuff, they did it, it ain’t fair. If the Patriots did something similar, I’d be PO’ed. But I’m not buying the buzzer stuff, the only evidence they got is Altuve not wanting to take his shirt off. And it’s settled the cheating was simply the garbage can banging if it was an offspeed pitch. Some nutjob on the radio saying they knew details, like fastball inside or out. I don’t think it’s possible for a hitter to take in and react to that much detail within just a few seconds.
Please don’t make me feel the Patriots pain!
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I feel your pain. My company has locations in many baseball cities. The phone rings, I see the internal number and know why they’re calling. I just sigh, pick up the phone, and take the medicine. Dodger fans are the worst.
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Dodgers, Angels, Padres, Mariners, Rockies, Twins, Brewers, Reds, White Sox, Cubs, Blue Jays, Indians, Rangers, Tigers, Marlins, Phillies. We don’t have an office in New York but there are Yankees fans everywhere. I think the only place I haven’t heard from is Toronto. I think they’re just too nice.
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Hey! If I knew what snakes and lizards eat, I’d be feeding the reptiles in my back yard!
As long as it wasn’t live baby mice…
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In my ongoing effort to soften the blow of withdrawal from my college football addiction…
Only 66 days until Opening Day!
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I haven’t received my new voter registration card. Theys tryna disenfranchise me!
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Hey! If I knew what snakes and lizards eat, I’d be feeding the reptiles in my back yard!
As long as it wasn’t live baby mice…
Well, they don’t eat quinoa.
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The Packers of Green Bay need to figure out exactly what they’re trying to accomplish out there.
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Things are not going well at all for Green Bay, sadly.
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#169
OMG! I hadn’t even thought of that. I wonder if anyone has the 2020-2021 card yet?
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I checked harrisvotes.org and I’m registered thru 12/31/21. Just haven’t received the card.
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And I have a special election to vote in on the 28th. I assume I just have to show my DL.
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Speaking of
pigeonsflying rats, I guess that y’all knew Cedar Waxwings love Juniper berries? There were only about 6,000 in the huge Cedar by the house today, they tried to paint my truck yesterday but it was just far enough away that they only bombed it few times. The Cedar is absolutely covered with the dang berries.
FWIW; I’ve never made Moonshine, but if I ever take it up, I’m gonna’ make Gin,..and yes it is NASTY but, I figure that since I’ve cornered the market on Juniper Berries, that would be the thing to make. 😉 -
I assume I just have to show my DL.
The last few times that I have voted, they ONLY wanted my DL, but then I was at Freeman Library, not my precinct, I don’t remember the last time that I didn’t vote early. Oh, and the DL secret decoder code is embedded into your license,….can you say 1984? 666?? One more thing, while I’m on a roll, I’m guessing that Y’all have the star on your DL and that is part of the Homeland Security BS and you can’t fly without it…Dayaam, I did have to leave my Tin-Foil Hat at the cleaners, and they’re closed today. 😀
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Well the Beer Brats N Sauerkraut were outstanding and the German Hot Kruat was pretty dang good.
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One hunnerd eighty?! Y’all gonna’ do it? Cuz I’m not, I have few things to do and then I’m gone. I stayed up too late last night.
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Sorry about those Packers, Adee.
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#175 Hammy
I went there to check and although it recognizes me, it just tells me this:
Special Runoff Election to fill a Vacancy State Representative District 148
But doesn’t tell me when my registration expires. Plus that isn’t the district I’m in anyway. So I have no idea what’s up with my registration.
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Sorry, you can check your registration here:
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Stumbled across this, and found it fabulous!
What a cool character! Loved his footwear, revealed toward the end of the video.
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1984? 666?? One more thing, while I’m on a roll, I’m guessing that Y’all have the star on your DL and that is part of the Homeland Security BS and you can’t fly without it…Dayaam, I did have to leave my Tin-Foil Hat at the cleaners, and they’re closed today.
Wear the tinfoil hat proudly.
I do.
They scoffed at Pythagoras and Aristotle too.
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