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Weekend March For Life 2020 Open Comments
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Well, we made it to the weekend, it’s shaping up to be a fine day here, 38 and warming up to the low 60’s, not as warm as yesterday, but we’ll take it.
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So, trump was the first President, ever, to speak at the Pro-Life Rally. I listened to some of that on Sat Radio, and he was well received.
BTW; I saw Trump, on Fox, with the LSU Football team the other day and switched over to the Lame stream Media and not a single channel was airing the event, they, of course, ignored the Pro-Life Rally, this was on principle, doncha’ know. -
The media can, shame and badmouth the President all they want, but he really is a people person and makes everyone around him feel special and that he is real glad to meet them. At the White House, with the LSU Tigers, he was praising them, by name and shaking their hands. When it was over, he told the coach, that if any of the players wanted to come to the Oval Office for pictures with him, to bring them on.
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Daughter hires a lot of people, mostly guys, sometimes 40-50 in one week. Yesterday, she sent me a screen shot of a Gals resume and one of her jobs was “Director of First Impressions” this translates to, “I’m a Receptionist”. 😀
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This 1953 photo documents the largest load of logs ever hauled to the Feather River Pine Mills at Feather Falls, Ca. This is a Peterbilt truck and it carried 40,000 board feet of logs. The lumber trucks ran on butane with Hall-Scott engines. No way I would stand next to this thing.
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Morning gang. Some high clouds this morning, but should be warming up nicely. I’ve seen this old weather trick several times before, but it’s getting tempting to start going outside and prepping everything for spring and getting a little jump start on growing some stuff, only to have it wiped out with severe February freezes, and then again get tricked later in the year only to have it happen once more. So this time around I’m going to fight the urge to go outside and do anything.
Still no college football Saturday, but I watched the WH visit by the LS&U Tigers last week, and I think I mentioned that I was impressed by what a fine looking and acting group of gentlemen they were. I’m pretty sure that those individual Oval Office photos will be lifetime treasures for those young men as they move on to face the real world in the future.
Now as for today’s scheduled events, there aren’t any just yet, but I’ll get getting to that “todo” list here any minute now. Some of you may wonder, “does he ever actually do anything on those todo lists, or does he just spend all day thing up stuff to add to the todo list?” Well, I can assure you that different people have different ideas of what actually doing something really means. I haven’t gotten anything done by levitation yet, but if it is actually possible, I should be the first one to find out how to make it work. So far though, no luck- I still have to walk over and physically make something move. But if I could master that levitation idea, I’d be much more productive – let’s just leave it at that.
OK, you all have a great one, and more later as it develops.
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No way I would stand next to this thing.
Yeah, me either. I count three very undersized wire ropes.
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Oh, and Happy Birthday! mharper!
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7 Hamous
I wonder how much longer the pickup driver lived. Short life expectancy is a hazard for people that dumb.
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This is a CNN article so all caveats, as with Wikipedia, apply and the risk of it being fake news is a 50/50 proposition.
The first person diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus in the United States is being treated by a few medical workers and a robot.
The robot, equipped with a stethoscope, is helping doctors take the man’s vitals and communicate with him through a large screen, said Dr. George Diaz, chief of the infectious disease division at the Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington. -
Morning, Hamsters. Have a happy Year of the Rat.
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Oh, here are the Power Line Week in Pictures for your entertainment pleasure. I couldn’t understand one of them. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/the-week-in-pictures-groundhog-day-edition-4.php
Oh, I also noticed that mh is celebrating her 29th or 39th birthday, the message was a little blurred. Let’s hope she’s keeping that menagerie of wild animals to keep the Google New Year representatives away. Make it a great one.
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Happy birthday, MHarper! May you always have kitties to love!
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I am proudly 76 years old today. Woke up cold and still sleepy. No big plans for the day. Well, I had thought I’d go down to TC Jester Park and pitch in for the tree planting that CoH is doing today. But I saw 42F on the weather gadget and changed my mind about being outside this morning. Even bundled up, it didn’t appeal to me. Safer at home, no Wutan Flu if I stay home and indoors till Spring.
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Have a Happy Birthday, mharper42.
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42F is a sign to rest! Happy Birthday MHarper!
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Hispanic Police Captain Suspended After Saying He Identifies As Black At Meeting in Wild Video
Let’s see, the guy claims to be black, white, white Hispanic and half Jewish. That is a lot of DNA crowded into one room.
You really need to watch this. He is a shoo-in for Florida Man next week.
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Super Dave says:
January 24, 2020 at 8:27 pm
guess what I picked up off the side of the road today?….
You guys came up with some fine answers, but didn’t hit the mark. Believe or not, the boy came closest to what I thought the answer might be,….Possum, ST, just rolled her eyes and didn’t hazard a guess, but it was really only an REA Spool, you can’t have too many of them…But DAYAAM, that thing was heavy, I had a hell of a time getting it into the back of the truck. Brand new, BTW, still had a small piece of aluminum wire on it. I picked it up on Dillard Station Road, where the REA is replacing poles and stringing new wire.
When I was just a yute in my single digits I found one of those things. I wound up standing on the axle and walking it around the neighborhood. I figure it was 3′ or so across the wheel. Mom and Dad weren’t so happy when I walked it into the yard.
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This is a relatively new phenomenon but it seems the perpetrators are usually women. I think this is her poop face.
This is an old phenomenon. When I was a teen I worked as pin chaser and janitor at the local bowling alley. About twice a month some jack honkey (women and men) would leave a gift for me in front of the toilet. And on other days “poop face” would leave a package in the parking lot. Happened at the base swimming pool too. I hated my job.
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Look my heart goes out to these folks whose homes were damaged/destroyed in that blast but where in the world did they get the idea that the city of Houston should help them rebuild? I know that they are in for the long haul with insurance and suing the company, but still…. it is not governments job to fix this stuff.
Yeah yeah I am a heartless bastidge.
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RE: #19
And let us not forget that in California it is legal for homeless to crap on the street. Maybe that woman got confused about where she was.
It’s Sick Out There and Getting Sicker
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The trannies are getting more and more violent or at least threatening it.
A feminist professor at Oxford University was given two security guards to protect her from potentially violent transgender activists furious over some of the things she wrote on her website, according to a report Friday.
Selina Todd, a historian who focuses on the lives of working-class women, received threats after writing that trans people sometimes “harm the rights of women,” according to the UK Telegraph.
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Happy birthday mharper!
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#18 Bones, yup it is a small one 3′ in diameter, just like the one I use for a workbench in the Tractor Shed. I’m looking for a standard sized, one 6′. We had one that we used as our fine dinning table up to the Deer Camp. It looked good with our “Dance Floor”. 😉
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#13 TT
Thank you, Sister T! (How could I ever NOT have kitties??)
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Thank you for the bday wishes: Tim, Texpat and Shannon.
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Happy B-day MHarpsicord42 and many more to your possum loving self.
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Dish network is not pro choice for they don’t give the consumer the choice of dumping the newspeak channels.
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#28 philHarmonica
Thanks, O Weird One, I’ll leave extra rations out for the possums tonight, in honor of your recognition that I do love possums, raccoons, snakes, baby lizards, et al.
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Just finished watching Trump’s team take a hatchet to the Pile of Schiff. Two hours and they finished their opening arguments. The senators were grateful to be leaving early instead of listening to repetitive statements, dragging out the trial.
After the opening statements, I don’t know what else there is to say, but I guess we’ll find out on Monday.
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#28 philHarmonica
I like it.:)
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I watched a bit of Jay Sekulow’s presentation and counted over 1/2 billion in aid to just Afghanistan, Pakistan and Lebanon alone.
Between that and supporting the 44 million illegal aliens in the country it’s no wonder we’re broke and deep in debt.
It’s also no wonder why the BMSVs want endless wars to continue.
I wonder how much of the 1/2 billion gets funneled back into their pockets.
Primary the Texas Conholio in March 2020.
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I also noticed the feed, which was from NewspeakBC, had “The Trial of Donald J Trump” in the silver bar on the screen.
That bar isn’t even necessary and if they’re going to put it there you would think the word President would be in front of the name Donald.
But Newspeakers are going to Newspeak.
They can’t help their propagandist selves.
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U.S.—The Babylon Bee has been the world’s best satire site for thousands of years, spawning dozens of secular knock-offs that just aren’t quite as good.
The site announced a new acquisition this week, one that immediately made the site the largest satirical site on the planet: a purchase of competing satire site CNN for $12 billion. The move more than quadrupled the site’s catalog of hilarious, satirical articles.“We’ve long admired CNN’s ability to parody leftist media organizations so effortlessly, and we’re thrilled to have them under The Babylon Bee’s umbrella,” said site CEO Seth Dillon. “When you can’t compete with hilarious satire like CNN, you obviously look for ways to get them on your team, and an acquisition seemed to make the most sense.”
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Righteous
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A Deep State bus must’ve hit the blog.
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38 Shannon
Talkin’ about the soundtrack of my life.
The Brothers are in the top five players.
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Here are some gruesome details. I read that infected snakes in the Chinese live meat markets were top suspect in the Wutan Flu.
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I want to ask El G-Man how crunchy he would estimate skid mark Nads BVDs might be after only one day’s use?
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#42 Phil or whatever: That is rather disgusting!
I approve.
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#41 M42: When one reads this and then ponders that which is written in Leviticus, suddenly it all makes sense; eat that which is permitted and do not eat that which is not. It makes for a healthy human population and protects the rare animals.
Eat stupid $#!t win stupid prizes!
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#42 – No crunch at all. It’s where they got the idea for Slick 50. When the mouth opens up, the vacuum seal is released, and it permeates the clothes, the seat cushions, drips on the floor, down both legs and into the shoes. Nothing can stop it.
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mharper MANY Happy returns!!
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#5 – I’ll betcha that’s over 100,000 lbs of soon to be lumber!
I’d even hate to try and passim on the highway……much less park next to it!
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Florida man killed by rooster? Well no but it coulda been.Indian man killed by rooster on their way to a cockfight
Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao, 50, was hit in the neck with a blade tied to the rooster’s claw on January 15. The father of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke.
HoW would you like to be his son going to school and telling everyone that his Dad was killed by his ……. errrrr….. ummmmmm rooster.
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I am sampling that which was produced 06Oct1999 and I have to say it is quite nice:>) 110 proof and very smooth with a nice long, pleasant, finish.
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LOL!
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#46 Katfish
Thank you, kind sir!
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MHarper, Many Years!
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#52 TM
Is that a wish, or just a statement of fact? 🙂
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#5 – I’ll betcha that’s over 100,000 lbs of soon to be lumber!
It said 40,000 board feet! Not sure how much that weighs but Dayaam, it is a lot.
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Is that a wish, or just a statement of fact?
E), all of the above.
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#54 – I meant the gross weight of the raw logs………………
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OK, I know better,…But,…
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#56 Katfish, I actually thought about that, I mean, I was wondering how much 40,000 board feet of lumber weighed and also thought that it would be much lighter after it was dried.
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RE: #5
I was driving a big new company Cadillac limo with my boss in the passenger seat at about 2 AM on Hwy. 59 headed south to Houston after having an auction up near Shreveport. I was about 25 years old and a low altitude flyer. There was no, I mean none, traffic on the road. It was dark, misting and foggy when I rounded a curve between Timpson and Tenaha and came face to face with a rogue lumber-bootlegger 18 wheeler that had just pulled onto the two lane highway from a dirt road hauling a huge load of stolen logs probably 45 feet long and…
…he was running dark with no lights…on purpose.
There was a physics problem involved here because I was traveling at about 80 mph and the pine log thief was moving away from me at about 20 mph. This section of the road had no shoulders so the only escape route was into and around in the oncoming lane which was occupied suddenly by another 18 wheel flatbed loaded with steel.
I managed to whip around one truck, dodge the other with a few feet to spare and live to tell you about this today, but it’s one of several reasons I have always hated East Texas. That close call still haunts me. I know it’s not fair, but I just can’t tolerate the Piney Woods.
Sorry Squawk.
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Texpat
in the oncoming lane which was occupied suddenly by another 18 wheel flatbed loaded with steel.
So that was you huh? 🙂
No need to apologize to me. I hated driving up that way, still do Even in a four wheeler. I have seen a lot of what I call stupid accidents up there. If it was anywhere else the accident would never happen.
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#53 MHarper,
The complete saying we Orthodox Christians utilized to wish someone a happy birthday is, “May God grant you many years”.
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Oh and I have run dark……. on purpose. Some days a trucker just wants to be left alone.
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Hubby invited me to drive to Livingston to have dinner at a seafood place he’d heard mentioned on the radio. It was a good day to drive, and since I work from home and don’t get outside much, I jumped at the opportunity to get out. We had our meal (I had to really settle since most everything was breaded or used a flour roux or was over rice or…
I ended up with shrimp and grilled veggies. I decided to take the scenic route home, which ended up being a much longer route than I thought it would be. I added at least an hour to my drive. At least. I was driving back roads as per my GPS in the dark.
I had no problems (except the possible motorcycle cop on the dark shoulder) and it wasn’t until I was a half mile from the house that some idiot in a pickup truck dang near took off my front fender cutting between me and another too-close vehicle.
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What I usually wish someone is Happy Birthday, and many more to come!
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Another Super Dave aware winning dinner presentation prospect: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7927747/Asian-man-dips-baby-mouse-bowl-sauce-eating-ALIVE.html
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63 Squawk
I bet you didn’t do it in a way to endanger anybody else’s life.
Those deep East Texas lumber thieves are on par with the cedar hackers in the Hill Country. They are serious throwbacks. They make the guys in Deliverance look downright friendly.
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Happy Birthday mharper42. Celebrate with vigor and have a wonderful time that can linger over the rest of the weekend.
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circa 1978
Another time on a Sunday night I was flying down I-10 eastbound in the same big Cadillac. It was about 10 or 11 on a clear summer night when I came through Brookshire at the roadside park just past Peach Ridge Road. I-10 was empty that night and I was probably doing about 100 mph when I realized there was an old, rusty 18 wheel semi rig drifting along about 30 mph in the outside lane with no lights. I slowed down as I passed and the old guy driving the truck had his arm hanging out the open window holding a big bottle of Jack Daniels.
The things you see on the open road.
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Still kickin’?
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Cheap Trick heats things up at Daryl’s House.
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Fade To Light
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Laura Ingraham wraps up several days of top notch investigation.
Do watch it.
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36 and frost here this morning.
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Morning gang. Went to bed early, so I’m up early. That’s just how it works these days I guess. A little froggy outside this morning, but not too cold. Faux spring is going to be tricking some of the trees into budding out here soon I think. My old half dead mesquite looks like it’s trying to put out some buds, but the sturdy old pecans are remaining dormant. I always thought a pecan tree was a lot smarter than a mesquite anyway.
I watched the President’s lawyers tee off on the Dems for a couple of hours yesterday, and it was pretty impressive to say the least. Simply pointing out the lies of both commission and of omission takes quite a while, and pointing out the requirement to jump to some of the conclusions that they reached requires even more incredulity. The one thing that continues to be obvious is just how wide and deep the swamp is, and every day should be revealing another hand in the till. And while I’d like to blame it all on the Dems, I’m sure the Reps are taking their share along the way as well. Same old deal whether at home or abroad – want a million dollar grant, cost you $150,000, etc. Why should you care if your public servant is accepting a bribe from you, because you are merely sharing government money anyway – it doesn’t cost you a dime out of pocket. And once you understand the program and get on the gravy train, you might find that it makes a lot of stops but hands out a lot of money too.
Nothing new to report this morning, so you all have a great day, and there will be more later as it develops. Now where is that todo list that I started yesterday?
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From early in our nation’s history, America’s intellectuals have mostly looked down on their own country and yearned for it to be like someplace else–someplace more sophisticated, and more in tune with “modern” intellectual currents, whatever they might be at the moment. That is a long history, which I will skip over. In our own time, American intellectuals have claimed that Soviet Russia, Germany and Japan were harbingers of the future that the U.S. needed to imitate. In each case, the point was that we had to shed our archaic freedoms and enter the brave new world of central planning under the control–benign, of course!–of intellectuals and bureaucrats. Strangely, however, American free enterprise has managed to outlast and surpass all of those supposedly more advanced challengers.
Most recently, China has been the favored nation of the future. It has the advantage over Germany and Japan of being straightforwardly authoritarian (if no longer exactly Communist), which endeared it to anti-democratic liberals like Tom Friedman. Thus, liberals have eagerly calculated the future time when China’s GDP–or alleged GDP, as dictatorships have always been better at producing statistics than goods and services–would surpass ours. Given that China has three times our population, that would not seem to be a signal accomplishment. Nevertheless, liberals looked forward to it.
There was always something a little half-hearted about China adulation, however. When I was a kid, China was synonymous with poverty. Mothers really did say: “Eat your brussels sprouts! There are lots of starving children in China who would love to have them.” In 1979, China opened itself to foreign investment, and thousands of American companies built factories there over the succeeding decades, drawn mainly by the lure of cheap labor.
And,
Which brings us to the current coronavirus outbreak. Once again, China is the source of a rather bizarre viral illness. It arose, apparently, in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The source of the virus is believed to be either bats or snakes that were bought for consumption in the Wuhan market in a “warm” state–that is, freshly slaughtered. The virus apparently mutated and jumped from bats or snakes to humans.
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#76, El Gordo, I too, watched a lot of the President’s men, pointing out simple facts and showing witnesses saying, they didn’t see trump commit an impeachable offence. My favorite one was when the incredulous, European Ambassador, Sondland, admitted that Trump told him that he wanted nothing from the Ukrainians.
So, now we have the question, how many Democrats do you think will vote no to Impeachment? Will any Republicans vote for it? I ask because even though most of these people, on both sides of the aisle, are weasels and vote for their own hide first. BUT, everyone one on the planet, except for a few, maybe 30%, of the totally deranged Bat Schitzle crazy, left wing wacko’s, knows Trump is not guilty. Do you think any of the Democrats can vote their conscience, assuming, of course, they actually have one? -
Dems always accuse the Reps of doing whatever it is that the Dems are really doing. So, when Bugeyes tells the Senators that their heads will be on a pike if they don’t vote against impeachment of the President, what he is really saying is that if a Dems votes against impeachment, it will be that Dems head on a pike. There’s no doubt that the Bidens are up to their areola with corruption in Ukraine, so the logical thing to do is to accuse the President of corruption in Ukraine. Manchin might vote with the Reps, but as all things in DC, this is not about right and wrong – it’s about power, who has it, who wants it, and what lengths are they willing to go to get it. The obvious answer is there is no limit. Once this impeachment is over, the Dems will just go back to the dirty tricks bag and pull out something else. Meanwhile, you can expect to see “new evidence” appearing every day, if not every hour, until the final vote is taken.
Two things that have no conscience (1) a politician and (2) a hard ……
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Our pseudo Senator, Doug Jones, recently said that he might vote for one article and oppose the other. I’m not sure if he is trying to straddle the fence or he already knows that he is history. If he votes that way, he IS HISTORY! That said. I don’t think he has a snowball’s chance in the next election.
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I’ve not, decided/researched just who I’ll be voting for in the primary but it will NOT BE, Moore or Sessions.
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I think that we will have a runoff election with Sessions and one of the dozen other’s, but not Moore.
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In our House Congressional race, I’ll probably vote for that guy with all the pretty Ladies in his life; Jeff Coleman,…..Did you know he was in the Moving Business? If he wins, it will be because there are about a Kagillion signs and posters everywhere and his ads run 24-7 on the tube. He has painted his Mug and Propaganda on a bunch of his Box vans and parked them everywhere. From Dothan to Montgomery and Eufaula to Andalusia.
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Texpat, the early days,…..
1936 GMC T-14 (sans radiator mascot) with optional one horsepower spare.
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No Three Squeaks breakfast for me this morning, thank you very much.
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Assumptions:
* The wood in question is old growth redwood
* moisture content is 50%40,000 board feet = ~120,000 lbs
Moisture content of wood is not calculated as you would expect:
The amount of water in a given piece of wood is expressed as a percentage of the weight of the water as compared to its ovendry weight. Some species of trees, when they are initially felled, may contain more water by weight than actual wood fiber, resulting in a moisture content (MC) over 100%.
Moisture Content % = (weight of water / ovendry weight of wood) x 100
I just guessed at 50%.
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Pompeo blasts ‘shameful’ NPR reporter, claims she broke agreement reached before interview.
Who knew that NPR was still around? Which reminds me, did you know that Brian Williams in on the cable network now? PMSNBC, I think, I guess that’s about right, just another lying
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Good miserable, dripping morning Hamsters. Real winter is upon us, wet and not too cold in the lower 60s. Rumor (the weather forecast) has it that clearing by afternoon will occur. Only a quarter of an inch in the gauge this morning, but there are puddles here and there reinforced by last night’s addition. Perhaps it’s wishful thinking, but there seems to be a slightly lighter patch in the clouds to the west. Bring on the sun.
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#86 Hamous, that’s pretty neat, it’s actually heavier than I’d have thought, but I have a hard time visualizing 40,000 Bd Ft of lumber.
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Meanwhile, over on the Chevy truck page, Brian Box has hisself a new Chevy Pick-Um-Up. So, Squwak, is that Cletus’ cousin that lives over in Gun Barrel City?
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Manchin might vote with the Reps, but as all things in DC, this is not about right and wrong – it’s about power, who has it, who wants it, and what lengths are they willing to go to get it.
I think Manchin will vote with the GOP as a precursor to November. He knows Trump’s chances in November are looking pretty good. He also knows chances are good that the GOP holds the senate and takes the House (thanks to Stan Schiff and Oliver Nadler’s bombed Vaudeville act). Come December Manchin switches parties.
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and takes the House
GAWD, I hope so!! I not holding my breath though. Remember, had about 40, Spineless, Republicans, NOT left the House after Trump was elected, we’d STILL have the House! ~SPITS~
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I bought me a new Tacoma yesterday. Relatively low mileage (40,800) on a four year old truck gave me a good trade-in value and they gave me a decent deal on the 2020. Got the 6′ bed this time instead of the 5′. Didn’t feel like waiting for a special order to get a manual transmission so this one is an auto.
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Today’s task is to find out if my Lock’er Down console safe from the 2016 will fit the 2020.
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Nice looking truck! V6? HP?
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Ninety Six! Teeing her up,……
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95 yup. 278 hp
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Sixes have plenty of power, especially if it is a Toyota,…AND Tacoma’s are Xpen$ive, but that’s good for resale.
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They’ve got a new color this year on the Tacomas. Army Green. I really like the color but it only comes on the TRD Pro. I ain’t spending $50k on a Tacoma.
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Why would anyone want to or agree to an off the record conversation with any reporter much less one at NPR?? Are you new???
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Hamous – The six foot bed proportions well on the new Tacoma.
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Hamous the front quarter of the Tacoma looks remarkable like the front quarter of our ’18 4-Runner. The wife has indicated that I can start modifying it in about another year. Maybe by then I will be able to get rid of my Excursion.
We only have one other dad with a vehicle that can tow the Scout trailer. Actually we do have a brand new boy whose father drives a Tundra, but he didn’t go on his boy’s first camp out with the Troop last weekend so the jury is still out on him.
Last year there was one camp out where both myself and the other truck owner couldn’t make it so they couldn’t tow the trailer. The other parents had to spend an extra 45 min playing Tetris with everyone’s personal gear AND all the Troop gear.
Speaking of Scouts, the boy that broke his tibia and fibula had surgery on Friday. Fortunately he did not have to have plates. The surgeon used traction and some other methods to straighten everything out. It was an outpatient procedure and he went home in a soft cast. After the swelling goes down he will be fitted with a hard cast this Thursday.
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They probably didn’t even have to wash your old truck before it was out the door.
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I’d like to eventually add a dual battery system to the 4-Runner so that I can run a DC powered fridge. They draw about 2 amp-hours so you can feasibly run an entire weekend off one 100 Amp-hour deep cycle battery. Of course that is not enough time so I know I’ll add a solar provision to keep the battery topped off.
I’d also like to add a mild lift, replace the front bumper with provisions for a winch, replace the rear bumper with one that can swing out to accommodate extra storage such as Jerry cans for water, fuel, and recovery gear.
All that stuff is cool to have, but since Texas is mostly privately owned there is not many places to use it. I could be like my BIL and make trips down to may-hee-co, but I’d probably head out west to tackle trails out there. I live vicariously through several You-Tubers. I am simply in awe at the remoteness of some areas of our western states.
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They probably didn’t even have to wash your old truck before it was out the door.
I am sure that is correct. I’ve known several Toyota owners that do what Hamous just did. The trade in values are quite impressive.
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I’m not watching the Idiots on the Sunday morning shows, but the tube was on a n muted when I walked by, near the end of Chuck Todd’s show, so I listened for a minute and he said something to the effect of, Do you wonder why even the democrats aren’t storming the Capital? And the resident Bull Dyke, yes, isn’t it the saddest thing! Then they went to a break but dang, I wonder what theyw ere talking about?…. 😉
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Why would anyone want to or agree to an off the record conversation with any reporter much less one at NPR?? Are you new???
I thought the same thing, that is one of many reasons Trump didn’t tell the Communists in the House/Senate, or their Lamestream Cheerleaders about blowing up the Rag-Head.
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I still can’t decide what to get next time. It’ll be some kind of SUV/crossover.
I really like the Outback Onyx XT with turbos.
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Quick read, makes several good points.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/the-china-myth-exposed.php
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#105
TexMo
Back in the oil boom days the company I worked for had a couple guys transferred from Wyoming, we became friends and one year we planned a boating/camping trip on Lake Travis. I was having a hard time reserving a good spot for us ahead of time. They were astonished you couldn’t just find a spot and setup camp. 😀
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111 GJT
…one year we planned a boating/camping trip on Lake Travis.
That reminded me of one of the funniest things I’ve seen while camping. It was at the LCRA campground at the Lake Travis dam circa 1984. We used to camp there and go diving. We were up cooking breakfast and heard some dude screaming at the top of his lungs. About that time a tire and wheel comes flying past us down the hill with the dude hot on its heels. I don’t know if he expected someone to catch it but the entire campground was laughing in unison. It bounced and rolled all the way to the lake.
Was that you? 😉
I’d be surprised if that campground is even there now.
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Friends Along The Way looks like a good one.
Featuring Guests: Van Morrison, Taj Mahal, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, Ruthie Foster, Joe Louis Walker, Maria Muldaur, Cyril Neville, Marcia Ball, John Hammond, Kenny Neal, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker and more…
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Still there although Travis County runs it now and only SCUBA groups can camp.
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I think that Trump should prove the point that the House leadership simply can not be trusted. He should advise them of an impending strike, which he has no intention of making, and just see how long it takes for it to leak. When it leaks and we all know that it will, Trump should then request air time to bust the House leadership for leaking the news and potentially putting our armed forces at unnecessary risk for nothing more than their own supposed political gain.
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Lol. I remember Mansfield Dam but never went there. That’s something one of those Wyoming boys would do though. Seems like the place we went to most was Paleface Park but I’d have to think on it.
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Listening to Nuri Nuri on KPFT this morning for the first time in a long time.
Apparently Jew Don Boney has stepped in as Interim General Manager over there.
I can’t hear Jew Don without thinking about Clarence Brandley and the 1980 rape and murder of Bellville High School student Cheryl Ferguson while she attended a volleyball tournament in Conroe.
Montgomery County justice has had a well-earned bad reputation my whole life. This case is the premier, colossal example of it.
Cheryl Ferguson never got justice.
The Crime and Details as covered by Wiki:
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My #111 – I guess you didn’t reserve spots but rather locating (pre-innernet days) a decent spot that was handy for boating and not all packed in. At any rate my buddies were mortified the freedom lost here in this so- called “great state of Texas”. Lol.
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The morning fog and overcast have burned off out here now and it’s approaching 70 degrees with bright sunshine. Looks like a nice spring day now. Tomorrow is another travel day to Marble Falls for another round of tests and Doc visits. So I’ll also figure out my Walmart staples needs and take that list with me as well.
Think I’ll go visit the Olde Pharts this afternoon and catch up on the local gossip. In the mean time, you all keep on chuggin’ the road to happy destiny.
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118 GJT
Texas was a nicer place to live when it only had 15 million residents.
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can we trust the Wikipedia account of what happened?
didn’t they edit out Slick Willy’s 27 trips on the Lolita Express?
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He’s not a real Mormon but he plays one during election time.
no wonder his best friend was and is a rat.
et tu Willard Pierre?.
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And remember.
Leave the borders and ports wide open.
let everyone in.
no coronavirus carrier is illegal lest you be called a racist.https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/third-us-coronavirus-case-confirmed-orange-county
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can we trust the Wikipedia account of what happened?
Probably can’t trust anyone, anywhere, anytime. But it looks like a fair presentation.
You can only trust me.
And I’m telling you that Montgomery County screwed up this case. Royally.
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Outfits like Montgomery County had it a lot easier before DNA testing.
Just grab the closest black man and send his ass to Huntsville.
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I believe ya unca Shanny I believe ya
but Wikipedia.
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Everyone knows Wiki has problems.
If you can direct me to a purer reference for lazy people like me, I’ll take it.
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Hey unca Shanny!
this is one question you’ll never have to ask me. 🍷
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93 hamous
How useful do you find the rear seat? That was the big thing that made me decide against it. We already have a 4-Runner I can tow a trailer with.I’ve heard of many people who lease a Tacoma/4-Runner, buy it when it comes off lease, then sell it at a profit, then lease another.
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I think I read somewhere that the Utah Rat has a son who was involved with Burisma; if this were true, one would think that he would keep his cake hole shut about this.
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127 squack
More like assumed helicopter wreckage temperature.If you ever get famous stay away from small flying machines.
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129 Philippe
Late at night, under the covers, listening to KILT on my transistor radio in 1962, this was the version I grew up with:
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My link was to a Kiss original.
Written by Paul Stanley and Bob Ezrin.
Great song.
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130 WB
How useful do you find the rear seat?
It’s tight. I usually let the person with the longest legs ride shotgun and slide the seat up as much as they can and be comfortable. Probably wouldn’t be good on a long trip.
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RE: Texpat’s 18 wheeler observations nee rants
iIgot a few rules about 18 wheelers that I follow and you would do well to follow also.
- Never never never ride closer than 6 car lengths behind a tractor trailer. I do not care if you are in bumper to bumper traffic 6 car lengths minimum. If you cannot see a trucker mirrors he cannot see you. At speed you should stay 6 car lengths behind, better yet 1 car length per 10 mph., that is a fair distance for the trucker to spy you . 6 car lengths is the minimum distance I know of that you can see the mirrors.
- Never never never pass or ride on the right side of a tractor trailer. Passing on the right is illegal and any trucker worth his salt if confronted with a split decision emergency will always pull right to escape. Shoulders are generally on the right side as well as grssy medians in the city. The right side is a huge blind spot as far as I am concerned. It is damn hard to see a four wheeler driving on the right side.
- If you are in front a tractor trailer GET AWAY. If you get a jerk off that tailgates swallow your pride and let him by or jump on the pedal and pull away. If you are caught either side of a tractor trailer get out of those positions. If the trucker needs to escape, and braking does not appear to be an answer to keep from running into someone he is going to go left or right and if you are there you gonna get squashed. In mass traffic a trucker will rear end the guy in front if he sees no escape. STAY AWAY FROM HEAVY TRUCKS IS THE SIMPLEST RULE OF THUMB. Do whatever it takes to get away and put distance between you and him.
- Not all truckers are sweet, lovable, courteous drivers like me.
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Hammie
Nice truck. I wish I still had my 450K Tundra. BSue and I love our Highlander but damn I messed up letting that get away considering I only got about a monthly payment worth for trade in. Sigh
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2. Never never never pass or ride on the right side of a tractor trailer. Passing on the right is illegal and any trucker worth his salt if confronted with a split decision emergency will always pull right to escape.
Riding in the left lane below the speed limit creating a rolling roadblock is also illegal. More and more truckers do that these days. Sometimes the only way to get around them is to find a gap on the right.
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Hillary Clinton said in an interview over the weekend that Mark Zuckerberg’s embrace of misinformation on his Facebook platform was “authoritarian.”
Clinton also told The Atlantic that there’s a good reason to believe Zuckerberg’s Facebook is “not just going to reelect Trump, but intend[s] to reelect Trump.”
The old hag is as delusional as Corn Pop’s swim buddy.
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139 Hammie
Correctamundo.
I try my best to stay away from them. But sometimes there is no choice. If I’m forced to pass on the right I make sure he’s got clear sailing ahead of him and no apparent hazards.
Spend any time on I-10 within forty miles of Houston and and some of these rules simply don’t apply. Other than stay the heck away from them whenever possible.
There are lots of idiots out there. And that includes gravel haulers out of Colorado County doing 50-70mph in the inside lane on I-10 – through a 16 mile long construction zone.
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Hammie #139
And I also said…
- Not all truckers are sweet, lovable, courteous drivers like me.
- STAY AWAY FROM HEAVY TRUCKS IS THE SIMPLEST RULE OF THUMB
No one is forced to pass on the right for any reason save the normal jostle in bumper to bumper traffic. If traffic sucks back off. Let others go around you and put them in front of you as a buffer. I prefer tractor trailers to be in front of me so to speak. If crap breaks loose at speed and that guy is gonna rear end someone at speed he is gonna push cars up into you. If I am far enough behind him I get to watch the show.
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I refuse to put myself in a position to get hurt. I can say I have passed only one truck at speed in 40 years and it was stupid when I did. Not even an option
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I *always* give truckers ROW when I see their blinkers come on. And if I need to get their lane I remember why my driver’s ed teacher taught us: “Don’t move into that lane until you can see their grill in your rear view mirror, make sure you’re at a good speed, and be sure to use your blinkers.”
They’ve got enough problems in our traffic justin find space, not to mention the idiots who cut them off and ignore the laws of physics. I swear, some of the four wheelers on the road must assume their guardian angels will protect them from stupidity.
I pass on the right when it looks like I can clear the area rapidly. I don’t like being next to a truck and now I know why.
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I just came from church. We were doing some confirmation training ‘n stuff. One of the catechists (she is a former student, and confided in me that it’s because of me that she’s a catechist now /warm fuzzies/) told me about some family problems she’s been having. The issues surround her father and step family, and his bad health. She was really disturbed. We talked a bit and I shared highlights of my crappy family story and told her I understood. I gave her a hug, and told her to call me if she wanted to talk.
This afternoon I was working with the team, there were about three different projects going on. I heard a noise and turned around to find this sweet girl crying. She’d just gotten word that her father had passed. She never got any resolution on the issues she was dealing with. We prayed over her and I got to her in the hallway on her way out. I gave her a big hug and whispered in her ear to call on me, as I was her patron saint of death, dying, and crappy families.
Made her laugh. I was glad I got to do that for her. God bless her.
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We haven’t heard much from Katfish this afternoon. I guess he’s busy getting bugs in his teeth.
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I just had a fantastic nap. A 2-cat nap: JoJo and the only other cat that likes JoJo.
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Many thanks to mharper42 who has taken up our cause in finding a companion for Ruby now that Contessa is in endless green pastures. And right off the bat she has come up with a wonderful lead that likely will result very soon in a new companion for Ruby. 🙂
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#143 – Squawkster I’m betting you’d agree………..
Truckers for Heaven’s sake IF you CAN’T successfully / safely PASS another truck in ONE MILE or LESS then STAY where the HELL you are at!!!!!
Attempting to pass another driver when Yall’s 2 collective fuel systems are ‘governed’ only a quarter mph apart – resulting in You blocking the fast lane from Luling to Seguin………..You should be shot, drawn & quartered, and shot again!!
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#148
Oh Adee, I do hope that works out! (BRAG: A beautiful black Arabian mare…)
But I wasn’t specifically tryna find you another horse! When I’m online, I get lots of animal rescue posts, but it’s a bit rare for me to hear from a horse rescue.
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#149 Katfish
You should be shot, drawn & quartered, and shot again!!
I bet you mean shot 4 more times, once for each piece of you laying on the ground.
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Katfish
#149
Whole heartedly agree. I have been out of trucking for some time now and several old friends of mine still trucking have said they are more afraid of todays batch of truckers than D.O.T. These guys are not trained very well and that is because the trucking industry need drivers bad, so they take pretty much anything with a CDL and put them on the road. Yeah I ran several books, overweight and skipped chicken shacks but I sure did not endanger other drivers on the road.
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I’ve spent some interesting times on Lake Travis over a 32 year period from 1968 to 2000. This is the wildest experience.
One perfect summer Sunday, my friend, Robin, and I decided to go down to Lake Travis across from Lakeway where Siesta Shores is now. There was a small marina where we could put in a boat and a place we could set up a day camp to eat and drink.
Just as we were backing the boat trailer down to the ramp, we heard all this screaming and commotion. Suddenly a good sized ski boat comes roaring by, right in front of us, with a couple of guys and a bunch of girls in bikinis in it. There is nothing unusual about that except they were towing a tall, stunningly beautiful blonde on water skis who was buck nekkid and she was laughing hysterically. The boat was being chased by at least half a dozen drunken frat boys on jet skis who were out of control. Shortly behind them came a couple of Travis County Sheriff’s Dept. boats in hot pursuit with lights and sirens and PA systems blaring. They all disappeared around the bend and we never did get to see the final ending to that circus act.
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148 Adee
Just don’t let Harper bring over any of her possums or raccoons in the deal.
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I only know about this kind of trucking.
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How could anyone think I’d want to dump my possums and raccoons?
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Texpat #153
I found a video of that event and got a screen capture.
Your gorgeous blonde is a dog
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#156 mharper42
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Re Big rigs:
If I ever pass a truck on the right, I make darn sure the coast is clear. I don’t make it a habit, but I have done it.
I’ve owned big trucks/SUVs and little cars. I know in my Excursion that I can “lose” a small sporty car that is right up on my right side. I can definitely imagine the same effect with a big rig.
For some reason, I didn’t extrapolate that concept out to motorcycling. I have never passed a big rig on the right, but I have taken my time passing on the left. Several months ago, I rode with Katfish up towards Dallas and I saw how he and our chapter president pass big rigs. When it is safe to do so, they gunned it up to 20 – 30 mph faster than the big rig so that we were only beside it for the absolutely briefest period of time. I’ve taken that lesson to heart.
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157 Squawk
Fortunately, I just finished my supper when I saw that one.
I could’ve choked to death laughing.
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Some of these Couch Critters are projecting. If THEY had a possum, they’d want to get rid of it. So they can’t believe that I go to some lengths to make the possums happy so they will live under my old deck, and have their babies in the safety of my back yard.
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Oh no, we believe it.
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Many years ago in the pre-internet days, a guy, a trucking owner-operator, with a voice deeper than Sam Elliot called in to one of the talk shows in Houston and said this very wise thing:
When you’re driving and you pull up alongside an 18 wheel rig, there are at least 10 things that can happen and 9 of them are bad.
I’ve never forgotten that man’s voice.
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Who was Kobe Bryant?
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Texmo
Man I worry bout bikers. I would much rather see a long line of bikers than a solo. Seriously, when I drove I took extra looks when changing lanes for bikers. I am not being critical here but from the cab those guys are hard to see.
I saw the results of car passing on the right of a semi. The trucker cleared to the rear but the car was in that blind spot between the cab and trailer. What is really sad is there was no traffic on a 6 lane interstate and the trucker was moving from center to exit. I know it sounds stupid but in the same situation I go to the center lane to inside lane to go around a trucker.
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Ever heard of a fogbow? Here it is.
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Just to be clear, when I pass a truck on the right it’s because he has no intention of moving over, as he has been over there for the last 20 freaking miles driving 60 in a 75 and has had multiple opportunities to move over. Not sorry.
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My #164. Apparently he was a helicopter pilot but not IRF capable. Entering Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) when you are only Visual Flight Rules (VFR) rated often does not turn out well, as this case demonstrates. The reverences to Special VFR means that he got trapped on top of the clouds and has no was to come down without entering them (creating IFR conditions). Like flying inside a ping pong ball, absolutely no outside references and easy to get disoriented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0pQfgi9ZqU I feel for his family and the loss of his daughter as well as several other people.
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This is absolutely brilliant.
Donald Trump speaks on behalf of Delta House.
Starring DJT, Melania, Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., Schumer, Pelosi, Schiff, Ivanka, Hannity and a cast of dozens.
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Riding in the left lane below the speed limit creating a rolling roadblock is also illegal. More and more truckers do that these days. Sometimes the only way to get around them is to find a gap on the right.
There are lots of idiots out there. And that includes gravel haulers out of Colorado County doing 50-70mph in the inside lane on I-10 – through a 16 mile long construction zone.
I make a trip once a week 59S, 10 spur, 36, and I 10 from Sealy to Columbus. And back.
They are not creating a roadblock, they are just jerks. They see you coming, they are going to pass the other 18 wheeler at +.5 mph faster than than the driver in front of them, and pull into the left lane just as you approach their bumper.
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Just don’t say Los Angeles Knakers.
Queue the fake rage machine.
I can’t stand NewspeakMSNBC but I listened closely with headphones and she said knakers.
Merely a slip of the tongue but she will be crucified by the fake rage machine on twatter.
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Hwhy is erryone at Teh Grammiez acting like Kobe Bryant was their actual brother/father?
I don’t think people got this shook up when Kennedy got whacked.
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Death toll now at in helicopter crash – I can’t tell how many on board versus some on the ground.
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I-10 is only going to get worse. There are plans to turn it into a “freight corridor” from Long Beach to Jacksonville. Mercifully, my days of traveling back and forth on I-10 will be over long before that project comes to fruition.
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One can exit at Bernardo and get back on, going west, without passing through any stops to pass and get back on. Pavement is a little rough there last pass through.
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SCOTT@SCOTT7680995
Breaking news
: The Katyusha missile attack that hit the US embassy in Baghdad two hours ago killed one American soldier and wounded five American civilian employees working at the embassy. The wounded will be transferred to Kuwait.
There will be hell to pay here.
An embassy or consulate is considered equivalent to any other property within the boundaries of the relevant sovereign nation via longstanding treaties signed at Geneva in 1961 and 1963.
I would expect there to be an ominous period of silence before we respond. Just like the Israelis do it. Let them build up their fear and paranoia. Let them stew in the fright never knowing when or how or who.
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173 Wagonburner
The better question is why are you watching that brain-rot garbage ?
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I was wondering the same thing but didn’t have the cajones to bring it up.
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https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8062&context=nwc-review
New to me, may be old to others.
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RE: 178
WB, did you see the huge scandal and lawsuit filed this week by the recently fired CEO of the non-profit that runs the Grammys ? Outrageous stuff.
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John Albotelli, baseball coach at Orange Coast College for 29 years, was a victim in the helicopter crash along with his wife and daughter. Albotelli played baseball for the UofH and finished college there.
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Yellow Hair has Teh Grammiez on. I know who hardly any of those people are. They’re all weepy about the crash. Makes me wanna barf.
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White guilt makes white r3gr3ssiv3 celebrities grovel and want to appear as if they really care when they don’t.
They care about as much as Pelozi and the Schifty Schitter care about the truth and their districts.
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177 texpat
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And they also think it will help them sell more of their music.
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Didn’t Kobe rape some girl? The media tore her up. Black superstar billionaire trumps white hotel concierge every time.
#poundmetoo
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177 Texpat
I can’t find any other reports of this.
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Now they’re coming out.
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#189
WTH, fourth down already below Kobe stuff on Fox website.
SMH
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I don’t use google but an hour ago searching under news with a filter for past day there was nothing on DDG. About about a 1/2 hour ago they started showing up.
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Searching the four local broadcast channels with news operations, not a single one has broken in with Iraq embassy attack.
Twenty minutes into the evening news on Fox26 – nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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Now they have.
At 22 minutes.After Kobe news.
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Well, recon we’ll make that magic 200 number tonight. I’ve done my share, but I might lurk a few more minutes before calling it a day. Gotta get on the road again tomorrow for the Doc visits.
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Learned some stuff. Fr. Ripperger is an exorcist, and since demons are fallen angels, he’s learned a lot about how they work through his exorcism work.
I’m praying to my guardian angel more often now.
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#187 –
Didn’t Kobe rape
someSEVERAL girls?YEP – all ignored / buried by our elite masters aka Lamestream media
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Latest report I can find says nine dead in the copter crash. Since there were reportedly 5 on board, that would mean some fatalities on the ground, but the photos look like it is out in the pasture somewhere. Apparently there have been numerous reports, all in error, speculating on who and how many may have been involved. One reporter starts a rumor, and the rest of them run with it, until someone else starts a new one, then they run with that for a while.
I saw somewhere earlier that there was a reported fatality in the Iraq attack, but the latest report that I’ve seen says none, so there’s another story that has to be discounted. If there are fatalities, Trump must respond quickly, if none, he can take his time.
OK, night all. Sweet dreams.
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Nobody wants 199.
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over the hump
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I’ll say good night now that Tedtam made the 200 mark.
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202? Man y’all were on it yesterday.
Mornin’ Gang -
Morning gang. Off on a road trip later this morning to see the Docs in Marble Falls. Should be another beautiful spring day out here in centex. Maybe up to 75 degrees this afternoon. I’m going to miss some of the impeachment talk today while traveling. Maybe someone will record it for me – like You Tube maybe. Kobe’s helicopter crash may have finished off whatever hopes of TV publicity the impeachment hoax intended to create anyway. Heck, watching the weeds grow has been better than that Schifft Show anyway.
Anyway, you all have a great day, and I’ll report back later when I get a chance.
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You might want to take a quick look at this 1 1/2 minute video of trump versus Deam Wormer, played by UpchuckSchumer. Pretty funny. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/trump-versus-dean-wormer.php
Florida man killed by rooster? 
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