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We have a February Oneth, thread. Thanks, Texpat.
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BTW; If you want to head off into an Parallel Universe, go back and read Hamous’ #105, from last night. The Krugman Book reviewer, was trying to explain why Krugman was so angry and all through it, the reviewer was fawning all over Krugman and saying how he was right about this or that and everything he said was 180 from the truth. It was so stunningly inaccurate, that I kept thinking about Ronald Reagan’s Quote about Liberals; “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t true”.
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The panic at DNC-HQ begins to heat up. The Democrats have finally admitted to themselves Joe is non compos mentis, Liz is a ridiculous caricature of herself while the rest of the pack serve as unpaid extras on the big stage production. The Democratic primaries are getting less media attention than any in recent memory except at DNC-HQ where they are horrified by the fact Big Bern will steal the show and relegate the Democratic Party to 40 years of wandering in the wilderness.
On Friday, the DNC eased requirements to qualify for future debates, despite a crowded primary field. Continetti said the gambit shows that the party is looking to the billionaire as Plan B if former vice president Joe Biden continues to struggle.
“If Bernie wins Iowa, he’s already very well positioned in New Hampshire. That will set the Democratic party on fire,” Continetti said during Fox News’s Special Report. “And that’s why I think you’ve had this rule changed to allow Mike Bloomberg into the debates. This is their insurance policy if the Biden campaign collapses.”
The DNC is so tranparently corrupt only people surviving on life support can’t see it. Even a woman as dumb as Elizabeth Warren can see the game being played especially when she’s being edged off the field by the blue referees.
“The DNC didn’t change the rules to ensure good, diverse candidates could remain on the debate stage,” Warren said in a tweet. “They shouldn’t change the rules to let a billionaire on. Billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to play by different rules—on the debate stage, in our democracy, or in our government.”
Barack Obama is in an uncomfortable position as most recent Democratic president and effective leader of the Party. His left wing has hauled the organization out on a limb without the least thought of electoral strategy. If he comes out and condemns Sanders, the Party will erupt in open civil war and guarantee Bernie supporters will stay home in November. Obama has to work the levers in the back room clandestinely so as not to lose his fading grip as the ultimate power broker on the Left.
RELATED: What Ever Happened to the Democratic Primary ?
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Morning gang. Another bright sunshine day developing out there, following a cloud free, cold night (just below freezing). The decisions to wait a few days to complete the impeachment trial pizzez me off, but in truth, it’s probably the best way to go to preserve the individual Senator’s rights to speak their piece about it. Politicians do like to talk, even when they have nothing to say. That means that the President will still be under an impeachment cloud when he delivers the SOTU message, but I don’t think that really means all that much. We the People know what is going on with the Dems, and the Dems are now only playing for how the history books will remember this event. That seems to be their goal now, just to leave a smudge somewhere on the Trump presidency All the good things that he is doing for the country, after being told for decades we could not do them, cannot be allowed to stand by the establishment. It would (maybe even “will”) destroy them.
The more this goes on, the more important it is for people to recognize that just winning the vote against these people is not good enough. Our system of government is designed to protect the rights of the “minority” or as DeToqueville put it, to prevent “tyranny of the majority.” The Dems know this and are now trying to capitalize on it. They must be crushed as a party. Called out, humiliated, belittled, whatever. People who are generally conservative tend to also be polite; however, pointing out the obvious must be done. Mark Levin does it, Trump does it; most of the rest of us are too polite to do it. The PC culture has arisen to virtually criminalize free speech which points out oddballs. But the left has forced out hand, so we must stand up to protect our own interests. Just my $.02.
Meanwhile, you all have a great day and enjoy it to the fullest. More later.
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I read through one of the Zero Hedge links from last night about Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding and his claim that the coronavirus is man-made with portions of the HIV virus inserted.
I’m not smart enough to evaluate the scientific validity of such a claim but I did find something interesting in my brief journey down the rabbit hole.
Feigl-Ding, a “Health Economist”, is a fellow at the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans:
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, founded by Paul Soros and Daisy Soros, is a merit-based United States postgraduate fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants.
Paul Soros was the older brother of George Soros, a man who at any other time in history would have been executed or deported for high treason.
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The Week In Pictures is up, this time celebrating the successful Brexit strategy pulled off by Great Britain’s very own BoJo. BoJo may be Trump’s brother, even twins possibly. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-week-in-pictures-celebrexit-edition.php
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3. Texpat
Liz is a ridiculous caricature of herself
Personally, I’m leaning towards Reptilian Shape-Shifter. I’m trying to track down Phil Gramm for confirmation since he himself is reptilian.
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Texpat, from one of your links;
The Iowa caucus will be held in a matter of days. New Hampshire votes a week after that. Twelve Democrats are still in the race. Nobody cares.
Maybe that’s harsh. No doubt the candidates’ mothers are paying attention. Yet in two decades of serious observation of politics I have not seen a presidential primary that exerts less of a hold on the nation’s attention than this one. Why?
The obvious answer is impeachment. It is all Washington cares about. The trial of President Trump hasn’t just overshadowed the campaign. It’s stopped it. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Klobuchar, who are in the game in Iowa, as well as Michael Bennet, who is not, have been strapped to their chairs. Think of all the selfies Warren has missed out on. She must be despondent.
And therein lies the problem, the only people in the country that cares about impeachment, are the Deep Stater’s on both sides of the aisle, and a small group of rabid leftwing radicals. Flyover country doesn’t.
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Sanders would like the public to believe, as an AP story put it, that “democratic socialism [is] the economic philosophy that has guided his political career.” But that has not always been the case. In 1977, he left the tiny left-wing Liberty Union Party of Vermont that he’d co-founded, and in 1980 instead aligned himself with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the self-proclaimed Trotskyist revolutionary party, became its presidential elector in Vermont, and campaigned for its candidates and platform that defended the Iranian hostage seizure.
In fact, the SWP’s position on Iran is part of what distinguishes it from democratic socialist groups. When its presidential candidate, Andrew Pulley, came to speak at the University of Vermont in October 1980, Sanders chaired the meeting. Pulley attracted only 40 students to his rally, where he concentrated, according to the SWP’s newspaper The Militant, “on the Iran-Iraq war,” and condemned “anti-Iranian hysteria around the U.S. hostages.” Military action against Iran was not at that point theoretical—Pulley’s speech came six months after the attempt to free the hostages in Operation Eagle Claw had failed.
this is the truth and the DNC knows it,
If Sanders were to become the Democratic presidential nominee, all this will come pouring out in Trump ads on television and social media. Voters will see TV clips of the American hostages, blindfolded and abused, alongside Sanders as the Trotskyist elector supporting the Iranian kidnappers. Rest assured, Trump will make absolutely sure that it is Sanders’ own past that will bury him and perhaps the Democratic Party.
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4. El Gordo
but in truth, it’s probably the best way to go to preserve the individual Senator’s rights to speak their piece about it.
That could have been done this weekend, with the vote coming Monday instead of Wednesday. But then Bernie, Warren, and Klochubar wouldn’t be in Iowa this weekend in preparation for the caucuses. McConnell caved and threw them a bone, instead of making them live with the consequences of this absurd farce.
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Katfish is out welcoming a new HERO today in case you missed the tail end of yesterday’s thread.
I’m out replacing some decrepit T12 fluorescent light fixtures in our Scout shack where we meet every week. LEDs are really cheap now. I bought a 10-pack and I think we will only install eight of them lest we all need to wear sunglasses inside.
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MHarper please do post a pic of the Arabian mare.
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12 TexMo
If we wait until the mare is delivered and with Ruby, Adee can send me some photos and I’ll post them in a header here.
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#10 – Don’t forget the super bowl – they all have to be seen at the SB. Nobody goes for the game, but they do go to be seen by others, and if they are lucky, even a cameo on nationwide TV, or at least the stadium jumbotron. Not even impeachment could keep these publicity hounds away from the super bowl.
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Meanwhile, over at Southern Catfishing, we have a Noodler, with a nice catch.
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Contemporary Christian music isn’t my bag, but these folks are good.
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I hate to keep harping about the Brexit deal, but the fact is, it is a very big deal. The voters spoke in 2016, but no body that got elected could ever seem to get the exit formula right. All of a sudden, BoJo got elected, and with a few short months, they are out. No ties whatsoever. No lingering adjustment period, no one piece at a time withdrawal, no promise to do it next year – just out. The other reason it is a big deal is that with the Brits reclaiming their own sovereignty, their economy will boom as the remaining countries watch in envy. Their citizens will see what is happening, demand their own sovereignty, and the EU will collapse. Or, the EU could return to it original plan of just serving as a sort of clearing house, provide a common currency, open borders among its members, free trade among its members, and a few other conveniences and do away with its socialistic dictatorial government that has to approve everything. Either way, the EU is finished. Just like Sears, it may take them 25 years to eventually fail, but they will fail.
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The Super Bowl ads go for $5.6M, for a 30 minute spot! AND, it was sold out by November, earliest sellout ever. Trump economy?…NAW, couldn’t be,……
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#17 El Gordo, yes! I was a big deal.
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Mitt Romney Is ‘Formally Not Invited’ To CPAC.
Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was notified Friday by a tweet from Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chair Matt Schlapp that he was “not invited” to the annual conference after being one of two Republicans in the Senate to vote to call additional witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
“The ‘extreme conservative’ and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, @SenatorRomney is formally NOT invited to #CPAC2020,” Schlapp tweeted.
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14. Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
I’m cautiously optimistic that this election is turning into a repeat of 1972, or at least 1988. I can’t wait to see the ads of Bernie honeymooning in the Soviet Union and supporting Iranian hostages. Then there’s the “bread lines are a good thing” and “the American dream is more apt to be realized in Venezuela”.
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Hamous
RE: Coronavirus, HIV and Zero Hedge
I’m the linking to an extended post last night by Ed Driscoll on the subject. Apparently, the whole drama started when Zero Hedge quoted/linked to a report by some researchers from India speculating HIV had been inserted into the coronavirus on purpose. It turns out they were wrong, don’t know what they’re talking about, but Zero Hedge got banned for life from Twitter just for linking to the report.
There are some Twitter comments from Silvana Konerman, a neuroscientist and bio-engineer at Stanford and the Salk Institute. She implies the Indians don’t seem to understand the genetic sequencing in viruses. Other info from a guy who is an epidemiologist and geneticist.
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#12 TexMo
MHarper please do post a pic of the Arabian mare.
I’m waiting to see if Adee is Ok with it! After all, this will soon be her horse.
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Shannon, here Ya’ go.
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No lingering adjustment period
I think I read there is a one year period where the existing trade agreement with the EU remains in effect while they negotiate new deals.
The Scottish and North of Ireland questions will be interesting. I think the Scots will grumble and moan until they see how much better the UK does and will forget about their threat to leave. North of Ireland is harder to get a read on. Do they remain in the UK without the EU or do they rejoin the Republic of Ireland to stay in the EU? In the end I think they hate Catholics more than they love the EU and will remain in the UK.
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CNN: White Men Stopping Spread of Virus is a Really Bad
If you wonder how infected the left is with social justice, then here’s an eye-opening example for you. CNN is currently angry that Trump’s Coronavirus task force is primarily made up of white men.
While many organizations, including education boards in the UK and Canada, as well as the World Health Organization, have all warned against xenophobia, stigmas, and racism as a result of the Coronavirus, CNN is taking it to a whole new level by actively attacking the people trying to stop the spread.
Repsonses to CNN’s diversity tweet were brutal.
Carpe Donktum@CarpeDonktumThis needs to be fixed immediately.
When I lay dying of bat soup fever, I want to be able to say that the task force may not have been the most qualified, but goddamn they were a diverse bunch.
In response, Yale has decided to take a stunning and brave stand against white males by striking all medicine discovered by white males from its med school curriculum. This has been lauded as a much-needed stand for diversity at Yale, especially by current med students who will now have much more time to deal with the stress of med school by watching Netflix.
“Yes, many people will get sick and die because of this, but it will be worth it for the woke points,” one professor said. “We will now only teach medicine discovered by brave, oppressed, trans people of color.”
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Trump bought 2 of those SB ads, and Bloomberg bought one or two as well. Speaking of which, I see the Dems have modified their debate rules to allow Bloomberg in since despite not having any grass roots support he is both (1) rich and (2) not Bernie. Those that got aced out earlier on debates due to the old rules were told to shut up. Even with the Trump ads, I probably won’t be watching the SB. Crime rates (except for wife beating which is exempt from the law on SB Sunday) should be down, so if you are a criminal and don’t care about football, there is less competition out there for the good stuff. That right there should tell you all you need to know about the SB.
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Oh, and in case you might be interested, here is a story outlining the Senate’s agenda to wrap up the impeachment. https://nypost.com/2020/01/31/trump-impeachment-whats-next-now-that-no-witnesses-will-be-called/
Of course, the next dirty tricks will be sprung even as the Senate is cleaning up this one.
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Brexit is an event comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall in terms of continuing geopolitical fallout. I think the election of Trump gave the British people the confidence to believe they could stand up and beat the elitist Remain bastards.
Poland and Italy next ?
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15 SD
You can sneak in a pic of Hannah anytime.
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We have known for quite some time that the Ds detest the concept of free and fair elections; they simply don’t trust We The People, they think we are stupid, lazy, and incapable of making a reasonable decision – about anything. In their sick, twisted, mindset they and only they need to control every aspect of our lives for our own good because we are simply not capable. They and their ilk are a cancer on humanity, much like islime and should be minimized to the greatest degree possible. Those stupid, self-worshipping, jerks can’t even manage their own individual lives, why would any sane person think they can effectively manage another’s?
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#29 Hamous, that is just too neat!
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Rashida Tlaib leading the crowd in booing Hillary at an Iowa meeting last night.
Historically, Democrats have been extremely slick in concealing their internecine warfare, but they won’t be able to hide it this time, not with these idiots.
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What a shot.
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34 Texpat
The crowd sounds like the same one I fought at the Silver Wings Ballroom when I saw George Strait (pre-superstar days).
Thousands of screaming girls.I wasn’t happy. I couldn’t hear him sing. Every time he flashed that million dollar smile, pandemonium ensued. It felt like an Elvis or Beatles concert.
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Burnie is an out and out communist.
Hope they attack him as such when the time comes.
Food lines are a good thing to get a piece of bread and a lemon for supper as long as he doesn’t have to line up for his food.
Never got a paycheck until he was 40 and then it was a government paycheck.
Over 100 million people dead because of communist regimes.
Take the gloves off and knock him out come election time.
Feel the Bernout 2020.
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**except illegal aliens, the Clintons and totalitariancrats.
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I pay extra for pasture raised eggs. When I can, I get Kens Hens eggs. (That is FB page link; I don’t think he has a standalone website.) The ladies are not only pastured hens, but they get moved to new pastures every week or so, and they pastured in Santa Fe, just south of Houston. I find them at HEB.
When I can’t get to HEB, I buy Vital Farms. What I think is kinda cool with them is that you can go online and punch in their farm code on the carton to see where the hens live and lay. I put the volume on to see the 360 view of Buckskin Farms.
I forgot how loud those hens can get, when you get them all in one place.
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From 22 link:
from Trevor Bradford tweet: No reason to conclude HIV
And no reason not to conclude it either.
After all our government of liars and blood money sucking Vampyres and the Chinese government of blood money sucking liars and Vampyres wouldn’t lie to us now would they?
Epstein committed suicide: Right. 😉
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We eat too many eggs to afford anything but tortured-chicken eggs.
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Without intervention, Bernie could be the legitimate nominee.
Nothing else demonstrates better the state of the Democrat electorate.
Pretty damn scary if you ask me.
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
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HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice words to live by:
When the Deep State says something is a conspiracy theory that’s when you know it isn’t.
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I forgot how loud those hens can get, when you get them all in one place.
I’m reminded every time I go into the office on Monday morning 😉
/hauls butt
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#44
I almost added a similar comment, but then deleted it.
You know, just to be safe.
You are a brave man.
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#39, Ya’but, but are the hens diversified, Sherry’s Mixed Bag.
Oh and you can see the henhouse beside the farm house, at the edge of the garden. They free-range all around the house, halfway to the pond. -
#38 Hair Sniffer:
I think Tulsi’s agents should attach the service to a brick and throw it through a window where Felonia is standing, hitting her in the head in the process – totally accidentally dontchaknow? -
I’ve thought about getting some chickens. Our backyard is big enough, but we have no fence, so they’d wander the neighborhood. I have memories of our !%!@# neighbor’s dogs hunting another neighbor’s chickens in my back yard.
But then, what to do with the hen when she stops laying? I’m not a butcher, so that’s a problem…I could just let them roam around, eating bugs, which isn’t a bad thing. I have a compost pile that would keep them happy. They could be kinda like an intruder alert system.
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Nice to see a Dominicker. Seems like they aren’t around like they used to be. Supposedly they’re the oldest American breed.
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10 Hamous
I just confirmed all senators have to be present Monday and Tuesday for closing arguments and Wednesday for the final vote and SOTUS. The only thing Warren, Sanders, Klobuchar and Bennet can do is fly out today and come back tomorrow night from Iowa. The bone wasn’t that big.
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50 Texpat
That’s good to know.
Bennett is still in the race?
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#23 mharper42
By all means, post the mare’s picture. 🙂 -
That’s the only breed we ever had.
Except for the little black Bantam rooster that someone gave us. He was pretty entertaining.
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I just talked to ST, she’s in Midland, heading for Phoenix, Arizona. She wants to get some of that Injun jewelry while she’s there.
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#18 Super Dave
I think that $3M has to be for a 3-minute spot rather than 30-minute one.
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When I was in junior high we had a mean as hell Dominicker rooster that would attack my baby sister. One day he came at me and I drop-kicked him. Must have hit him just right because I killed him dead.
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Yahoo is evil. My confirmation leader uses it to coordinate our meetings and such, but I keep getting a box telling me that I qualify for an “upgrade” and to click OK to start the supposed “upgrade”. What it does is make Yahoo my browser and default search engine. They give me a place to click to cancel the process — but it’s just a placebo. That window remains on top of everything and refuses to give focus to any other window. I had to do a hard reboot to clear it.
Now on to a malware scrubber to get crap off this computer.
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Grandpa make you eat it?
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It’s a true freak of nature how brainwashed totalitariancrats are.
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I remember being attacked by our Rhode Island Red rooster as a child.
To this day, I can still see that claw coming at me.
BCS had chickens, and she asked me to tend to them once when she was out of town. She had a mean as hell rooster, and warned me about him. She had a stick next to the coop gate. I took that stick with me, fended off the rooster to gather the eggs and check the water, and used it again on my way out. Fortunately, the rooster was ticked off at the stick and attacked it rather than my person, but I remember being surprised at how strong he was.
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Grandpa make you eat it?
Heh heh. Nah, I did that on my own.
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Old but still funny considering he sided with the totalitariancrats on witness vote.
Pierre De Loser liked his own tweets.
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I wonder if Pewee Defecto has any inkling of just how reviled he is by the overwhelming majority of Rs and genuine conservatives; not to mention the contempt he is held in by the Ds?
COME ON UTAH, KICK THIS GARBAGE TO THE CURB!
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The U.S. Department of Defense suppressed a press release that would have announced the death of Asim Umar, the emir of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, because it “would complicate future negotiations with the Taliban,” military officials have told FDD’s Long War Journal.
The U.S. military killed Umar in the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala in Helmand province, Afghanistan on Sept. 23, 2019. Umar was killed just two weeks after President Donald Trump canceled a possible deal between the U.S. and the Taliban. As part of that accord, the U.S. was willing to accept the Taliban’s supposed counterterrorism assurances.
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I hear that the citizens of Utah are trying to come up with a way to recall Pee-Air Defecto. Old Pee-Air may have just outsmarted himself by exposing his Never Trumper (NT) bona fides on this deal. Of course, that won’t change anything, and in fact, any one paying attention knew that he was that way going in. I knew he was a weak candidate when he was nominated for President, but I did not know just how detestable he really is. Oh well, there used to be a lot more NTs up there than there are now. It just takes a while to drain the swamp. Sometime I think the Swamp Creatures may be reproducing faster than they are being taken out. I can’t think of any other individual who could have stood up to the onslaught heaped upon Trump and survived. They all would have at best cowed back in their corner if not just resigned. That’s another reminder why we can never give an inch. Nothing. Show no mercy, no quarter. They will do the same to you.
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#52 Adee says:
FEBRUARY 1, 2020 AT 11:13 AM#23 mharper42
By all means, post the mare’s picture.Ok, here she is! Adee said her registered name is Jessica James, but the rescue told me they call her Jessie.
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#55 Adee, Ooops, that would be 30 seconds! Sorry,….
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Some merit to this story, even if it did not come from Politico. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/23/globalists-gone-wild-103156?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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And Mark Steyn weighs in on the history of Brexit. See if you notice any similarities with the way the Dems view voters in the US. https://www.steynonline.com/10025/the-eleventh-hour
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Saw a “save the polar bear” commercial yesterday, 11 bucks a month and you too can save the polar bear. I thought that had ran its course, guess not. They just pocketing that money. I suppose it’s well deserving people getting robbed though, so no biggie.
On the same note. They are getting ready to add some new lanes on FM-1488 out this way clearing the woods 60 foot or so I’d say. I saw a neighborhood post this morning decrying the loss of the woods, what are the wild life to do, where will they go? Move over 60 foot I guess. BTW, you know your house was once woods, right? You should level it and plant some trees. The more posts in went, each one showing they cared more than the last, it boiled down to feeling sad for each and every tree lost.
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I’m getting birthday requests from my dead cousin’s FB page today. Only thing weirder than getting them would be to unfriend him, caint do it. Take it down!
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Everyone predicted Epstein would be Arkancided while in jail except the DOJ.
And warden Lemon Dye gets a new and cushy promotion for a job well done.
Precisely why I have no faith in the Lowered Barr.
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Before I quit FB (a year now!) I finally, quietly, unfriended some cousins, high school friends, and a couple of old LSTers who passed. I figured their families just didn’t know the password. One cousin’s page was up 10 years after she died. Prolly still up.
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Being an election year, I’m really tempted to turn FB on again just to troll. I can’t remember, can you prohibit comments on your posts but still have them visible? That would be fun!
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72 GJT
If you’re having trouble deciding what to symbolically adopt might I suggest the topic of the day: Free range chickens
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Think about the polar bears! They running around on a tiny little ice cap!
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Which reminds me JJ Watt is guest host tonight on SNL.
I hope they came up with some good skits for him.
Maybe he’ll surprise them and take his shirt off and have Trump 2020 tattooed on his chest.
Nah. I think he’s smart enough to protect his brand and not alienate half of the country.
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I hate bears. Let ‘em drown.
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Damn bears are depleting the fish stocks.
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Interesting that a lot of the big name golfers skipped the Phoenix Open.
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SNL is still on? Who knew. Polar bears do keep the seal population in check, and I guess the seals eat the fish, so the bears might be good for the fish. BTW, does anyone remember where the term “So long and thanks for all the fish” was the end of the story?
OK, I just got up from my nap and I’m still a little groggy, but it’s looking nice outside. More later.
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Perhaps there is a quiet boycott of turning a PGA tour event into a combination of a soccer stadium crowd and a 1:50am bar crowd.
SO, I never, ever watch a golf tournament. But, when Tiger Woods made his comeback, I watched some of it and was appalled at the conduct of the crowd! Golf was the ONE PLACE, where you generally had Gentlemen and Ladies, behind the ropes, but not anymore…..SIGH,….
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Beautiful out today.
Showboat Drive In never has anything but kid movies showing so we never go. They got 1917 playing now, think we may go.
Note: I know nothing about the movie or it’s historical correctness! It’s got guns and bombs and stuff and hopefully not much kissing or polar bears!
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My #84, I wasn’t a big Tiger Woods fan, but when he came on the scene, I was impressed with his awesome talent and his behavior as a true gentleman. Then, after SHTF, less so. But when he came back, I thought that was a good thing. Not too many years ago I’d have wrote him off as another stupid kid that got rich too quickly. BUT, I’ve mellowed in my old age, over the years, I changed my option of Kobe Bryant, as well.
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#85, GJT, good deal, ST went to a drive-inn in Midland last night. Who knew that they had one?
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#83 El Gordo:
does anyone remember where the term “So long and thanks for all the fish” was the end of the story?
That comes from the book and also movie Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe and it is uttered by dolphins.
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SD
You may have been watching the Masters win by Tiger a couple of years ago.No one predicted that he could have done it again after five back surgeries.
For that particular crowd on that particular day, I give the fans a waiver.
Under normal circumstances, that bunch in Georgia would have shut down play until sanity was restored.
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Anybody know what’s going on near the Galleria today? I saw a sign that said 610 was closed at 59, but Yellow Hair said there were many Very Earnest people petitioning the government for redress of grievances and generally trying to have an open and very frank discussion with the general population of topics that are of particular interest to them.
She said they were waving flags that were green, black, & white.
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#87 SD
#85, GJT, good deal, ST went to a drive-inn in Midland last night. Who knew that they had one?
Whut??? Have you never heard of Bob’s Better Burger, the finest burger in Texas? It was what I grew up on in Midland. Decades later, O&G people that I knew here in Houston, anyone who had ever been to Midland, were still talking about that eatery.
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Word is out that the main lanes of West Loop near the 59/69 intersection will be closed in both directions during some heavy work there. I assume maybe the frontage lanes might still be open. I don’t have any plans to be down there, so I haven’t kept any notes on WHEN.
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88, Douglas Adams also wrote a couple of Tom Baker Dr Who serials.
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A high school friend of ST’s, who happens to live one street over from me, has just posted the following, over yonder:
If you ask me, That nursery rhyme “Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub”? Sounds kind of inappropriate to me
🙂
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It’s Sat evening, and every other week I have to make up my two week daily supply of old man meds. It’s kind of a pain to do this since after two weeks, I can’t remember what pill goes under what tab, but I can usually figure it out. It’s also sometimes hard to remember that a week actually begins on Sunday, so that makes Saturday the last day of the week, and these little pill boxes are set up to match the calendar. Nothing’s easy any more. I remember when if I needed to take a pill for a few days, I could just remember it, but now days it this pill for that and that pill for this. They ought to just come up with one pill that says “remember” and one that says “forget.” I’d sometimes like to take a few more of those forget pill than the remember pills, but that’s life too I guess.
OK, the sun is setting behind the mesquite trees and cactus plants out here on the centex hill as we speak. I was going to watch something on fox News via You Tube, but they are all in on the Super bowl – is it on Fox this year or something? All the glitteratti and important people seem to be there this week. I’d probably go but I’d bet they are out of parking spaces at the airport for my private jet. Hookers are padding up their 401(k) retirement plans tonight. There are probably lines forming around some of their “offices.”
I’m always pleased to keep up with the retired horse stories, and I’m really glad that the story on this blog is working out. Someone should write a book. Mark Levin wrote a best seller about one of his rescue dogs a while back named Sprite (he names his dogs after soft drinks for what ever reason). I’d just bet a horse, or multiple horse stories, talking about their challenges, their personalities, their attachments, and even their sad passings – in the hands of an author who paints a picture of her setting every morning in words for all of us to enjoy – would recapture enough money to take care of multiple horses in perpetuity. There are a lot of horse lovers out there still.
OK, more as it develops.
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I just bought a big 28 x 16″ cast iron griddle I added the 3 piece accessory kit. I should be able to cook at least 10 big ribeyes at the same time on it.
I have a 3 burner, 26″, propane fuel, portable stove top on a heavy duty table outside and this will fit nicely on that unit.
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Wow. Nothing cooks like cast iron. And you leave the iron stuff to your favorites in your will otherwise the smart ones will fight over it.
I just read elsewhere that now that the impeachment phase is over, the Dems will no longer have a need to keep Quid Pro Joe in the race, so he will plummet to gone status shortly. The only reason they were keeping him in was to support their impeachment claim. Then of course, they can blame Trump for kicking him out of the race while they are the ones doing it. Another win, win if you are a Dem.
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88, 83, Looked it up, Pirate Planet. One of the best Tom Baker Dr Who serials.
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The West Loop is closed in both directions, at 59, every weekend in February for construction.
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As for the people with flags, Westheimer @ Post Oak is a favorite hangout of grievance-mongers du jour.
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Well, yeah.
But what particular grievances are being petitioned? And by whom?
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I missed this when it happened, apparently 2 days ago, but saw it posted on FB by Bongino today.
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And as for the drive-in in Midland, I thought they were talking about a drive-in movie.
Does anyone call a burger joint a drive-in, anymore?
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Probably protesting the lack of left-handed hammers.Those lefties are always bitching about something.
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Apparently the “Houston Center for Peace and Justice” have some serious grievances for which they are petitioning redress.
Their grievances revolve around President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “Deal of the Century” in which the so-called “Palestinians” were not participants due to their continued anti-social and generally uncivilized behavior.
It appears the cold, wet towel of reality has popped them in their collective a$$es, then slapped them upside their collective heads. They have become very accustomed to everyone else giving them more and more in return for them “coming to the table”.
T&B have decided on a new approach in which the “Palestinians” get no concessions and no invitation to discuss their desires until they start acting like actual humans.
I applaud this new approach.
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In unrelated news, whiskey made from a mash dominated by rye is pretty tasty. Less sweet than bourbon, less smoky than scotch, and MUCH less medicinal than the island scotches, with a total lack of iodine, ashtray, kerosene, and kelp.
thatisall
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Hmmmm. Sounds tasty.
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Sounds to me like some boozers must like all that iodine, ashtray, kerosene, and kelp… Otherwise, how would anyone even know those flavors (contaminants?) are possible in your booze?
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Let me confess that I have never been to a Buc-ees. I have rarely been very far outside Harris County since I moved to Houston in 1981. But I liked this story about the bathrooms at that chain. I’ve seen some hi-rise parking garages down on Main across the street from the Medical Center that use that red light/green light system to show you where the available spots are.
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Let me confess that I have never been to a Buc-ees.
I can assure you, you’ve never seen anything like it. It’s almost like a micro mall. Every square inch has some kind of merchandise.
Sensory overload, the first visit.
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Those people on the weekend shift work their behinds off.
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Buc-ees started with the concept that travelers would appreciate clean restrooms more than anything else when making a rest/refuel stop. I’d say that they guess right about that. The line exiting in Madisonville usually slows freeway traffic at least a mile before the exit, and they must have over 100 gas pumps at that location. Same on 290. Amazing what a simple idea can turn in to. And yes, their rest rooms are spotless, night and day.
I think it’s now required to stop at a Buc-ees at least once on any trip between Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. To quote Donny Baker – State Law. If you don’t know who Donnie Baker is, Google is your friend.
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#91 #103, Of course it was a Drive Inn Movie!? So they have “Bob’s Better Burger” at the Drive Inn in Midland?!? I’m soo confused.
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Oh and Douglas Adams was a genius. The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy is a masterpiece…Oh and ask mharper42 where the 42 comes from. Also, how many of you folks remember the other LST’er that had 42 in his/her handle?
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I don’t stop at Madisonville Buc-ees anymore, even though it’s on the way to see LD & Family. About a half-hour to an hour either side of the store are two very clean and well kept county rest stops. I can make it from Denton to the Dome on one tank of gas, but if I need fuel there are plenty of places to get it other than the Beaver stop.
That Madisonville store is busy and so crowded that I’d rather go to the rest stops instead. It’s a flippin’ madhouse. The last time I stopped there I was coming from Green Cousin’s house on my way to the Bryan Courthouse. It was about six in the morning, I’d seen a gorgeous sunrise, and the Buc-ees wasn’t elbow to elbow. I stopped there to empty one tank, fill another, an get coffee.
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In unrelated news, whiskey made from a mash dominated by rye is pretty tasty.
Ain’t that what I tole you?
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I have a timeshare in a Buc-ees toilet room.
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Well, it’s ground hog day, waiting to see if Mr Possum sees his shadow.
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Calling a burger joint a drive-ink Ind of sounds familiar but I can’t place ever using it or hearing it. If it was a Midland thing it had to have been in Lubbock as well.
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You drive in, order from the speaker thingie and they bring you food out on a tray that used to hang on your window. And the cute car hop on skates would give you change back dispensed from one of these.
There aren’t many drive-in burger joints left anymore. Only ones I can think of are Sonic.
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The drive-in in Kissimmee was the Freezette. Aunt Quetta was a car hop there when I was a youngun. It was like a scene from American Graffiti.
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Or Porky’s
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When I was growing up in SS, our drive in was Tippy’s. Greasy french fries were a quarter, the burgers started as meat balls and were hand smashed. Some reported that if the cook/owner did not like you, the meat balls were smashed flat in her arm pit rather than on the table. You know, roll the meatball up there, then rapidly pull your arm down to your side. No A/C of course, and a hot kitchen – no extra salt required.
We also had a DQ but it was clean and quiet so none of the kids liked to hang out there. Old folks only back then.
Oh, and good morning to all. No doubt about the groundhog seeing his shadow out here this morning. Bright sun and not a cloud to be seen anywhere. Winter seems to have moved on, but I’m still expecting that surprise polar vortex one of these days that wipes out all the early blooming plants. Won’t be long until the bluebonnets start showing up, but they usually seem to enjoy a good icy hard freeze just before coming out for good.
Nothing important on the schedule for today just yet, so I’ll stir around and see what I can get into. You all have a great day.
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I’ve not got any insider information on DQ’s, but IMHO they are one of the under rated drive in establishments, at least in Texas. Virtually every little town has one, and I’ve seen some out in a pasture where there really was not even a little town. And it would always have two or three old pickum up trucks parked around it no matter what the time of day. And the burgers are not bad at all. Around here is Taco Tuesday at DQ, where tacos are $1 each, and the line forming about 5PM is down the block and around the corner. They are good enough that I frequently join in on Tuesdays. It’s the place to go to see and be seen on Tuesdays in SS.
We also have a Sonic, and from time to time, Sonic is OK. The younger crowd seems to enjoy Sonic more than I do, but its reliable and generally gets things right.
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I just saw Buckwheat on Upchuck Todd’s show, man, he is incredibly stupid. Doesn’t he have a PHD?…The poster Child for Affirmative Action.
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Happy Groundhog Day, Hamsters.
The groundhog could see his shadow here. Didn’t actually see him, but his moment of great notoriety is over for a year so I suppose that doesn’t matter.
In the dark of this morning the pink tinge on the eastern horizon was most welcome. The march down the driveway to fetch the Chron after feeding Ruby about 6:15 was still in the dark, but that pink tinge arrives earlier now. A northerly breeze makes Old Glory sway on the front porch. Started out at 46 and already have made it to 60. It’s a nice winter day.
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Dairy Queen is the first chain type place we had in our one horse town. Before it arrived, we had Snellgrove’s Dairy Delite, out on Rucker Road, not far from the base. Later a local opened what was called Dairy King and it is still here and still has the best chicken anywhere. I found out that when the Dairy Queen moved out to the Federal Hiway and followed the chain’s menu more closely, they stopped making fired chicken and sold their three Chicken Broasters to Dairy King. Not many of those left and Dairy Queen had a monopoly on them. At one time
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Cars aren’t made for drive-in theaters anymore. My wife has a Hyundai Sonata, first we had to figure out how to get the headlights off auto, then the interior lights. The sound is over an FM station so the car radio must be on, the car has push button start which does have an accessories position but the radio/GPS display on the dash stays lit up, figure out how to get the display to turn off but the start button stays lit up, bright. The car does not like sitting there with accessories turned on. And it tells you so, really brightly. Then it warns you, more frequently, just as brightly. Then it says fine, I’m shutting down, turns everything off. So we start the car to make it happy, push the brake to start – brake lights. And instrument panel lights up, never did figure out how to turn it off.
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#126 Super Dave
Who is this Buckwheat person?
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Later a local opened what was called Dairy King and it is still here and still has the best chicken anywhere.
There was a Dairy King in Perry, about halfway between our house and my grandparents. That was where we stopped for lunch on the way up. Last time I went through there in July I noticed it had shut down.
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My new Tacoma is the first pushbutton start I’ve owned. There is a way to turn on just accessories but I’d have to get the manual out every time I wanted to do it.
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Interesting side-bar to my, #128; We had one Jewish family here in town that ran a dry goods store, on the square. The family was from New York City and travels by train up there sometimes. One of the sons even spent a Summer in the Adirondacks, courting a lady that he was introduced to in the city. He later married her and brought her down here. But I digress, the younger brother of the shopkeeper, went to NYC, in the late 50’s and purchased two Chicken Broasters from a distributor that promised him, he not sell another one to anyone within 100 miles of his place in Alabama. He opened Eunice’s Chicken House in 59, I think. It was a small place where most people came in and picked up their order, but it did have a few tables to sit. That was the best fried chicken that I’ve ever had and it was the first place that I saw them serve fresh honey with the chicken, they also had the finest southern style biscuits…. Now that I’ve
set this up, veered off into the weeds, DQ, moved in about 1969 and unbeknownst to old Eunice, they had purchased exclusive rights to the Broasters and was in direct competition with him. He wound up filing a Lawsuit, since he had assigned contract, against DQ. The lawsuit was first filed in Dale County, but it had to be filed up in Yankee land where DQ was headquartered, Chicago, I think. The lawsuit went on for years and I don’t know what happened but I’m guessing the high powered lawyers, tried to delay, delay, delay, until he gave up. I hope that he got some sort of settlement but I don’t know. -
#126 Super Dave
Who is this Buckwheat person?
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New fangled vehicles would freak out with the doors wide open and stereo blaring while e’body hanging out drinkin’.
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Well, Mr. Possum didn’t see his shadow, only because he overslept. So summer is on it’s way! He had a hangover after eating all those fermented persimmons last night. 😉
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I always had my under dash stereos wired where you didn’t have to have the key on.
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The local Dairy Queen has a good cook right now, so it’s pretty good. Over the last forty years their quality and service has wildly fluctuated.
The local Sonic is okay. But it’s 50/50 if you get hot fries or not – a pet peeve of mine.
DQ seems to have better beef and gets a griddle char on it that improves the flavor.
The Hill is the best, but not fast. Sometimes you just don’t have time to deal with it. Some purists do not like their krinkle-cut fries, but I do because they are cooked to absolute perfection.
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The wife’s new Tahoe has a key exactly like my 2016 GMC, I hate the push button start. daughter’s Vette had the button starter and no key lock on the door. It has a fob that opens the door. Well, when she moved from Richmond to Midland they left the Vette in her MIL’s garage and she was to start it and drive it occasionally. Well daughter lived in an apartment for 6 months or so waiting for her house to be built and when they went to get the Vette the battery was dead, no way to open the door or hood! Can you say stupid? It took some research but come to find out it has an emergency key that fits in the trunk door.
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A while back I read an interesting story on WSJ, about small town DQ’s going out of business. I Googled it and came up with; A Farewell to Dairy Queens, Texas Monthly
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#134 Super Dave
Aha, so he is a political backstage supporter for the Dems and presumably the liberal majority of them since they’ve succeeded in driving off most of the normally sensible old-timer Dems. Had not heard of him.
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since he had assigned contract
Since he had a signed contract….I hate spell check….
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The lady who ran Tippys had a big potato slicer mounted on the side of her cooking table that looked like a can crusher. When someone ordered french fries, she would grab a tater out of her tater sack (she did wash them off, but not peeled), smash it through that big slicer that had a handle on it that looked like it had come off an indoor water well pump, toss them in the hot grease and stand back until the water cooked out of them and they quit frothing, put them in a little paper serving dish, and out they went. Now those were some good french fries.
As to DQs surviving, I would not be surprised that if they were to return some of those stores to local ownership, they could survive. Even companies like Boeing are now finding out what happens when the bean counters start to run everything.
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#141 Adee, you probably don’t watch a lot of the news programs, and I can’t blame you, he used to be on Fox a lot but I’ve not seen him there lately. Now he is more likely to show up on one of the alphabet networks and is treated like a super star, even though he is dumb as a post. That said; he tells them what they want/need to hear. Star/Echo Chambers they are.
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Chick Todd is such a dip.
He was appalled that interviewee Lamar Alexander would consider a vote to acquit without an apology from Trump during the State of the Union speech.
An apology?
From what planet is this moron?
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I just saw this. Tomorrow will be 02/02/2020. Don’t axe me why I find that interesting or why I am posting it at 2:02 o’clock or 2:20 o’clock tomorrow.
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Corn, barley, and rye all need to be used to make a proper whiskey.
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#137 – didn’t everyone?? 🙂
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Personally, I am looking forward to upcoming pix of mare Ruby and her new companion mare Jessica/Jessie, after the black beauty arrives and meets her new family.
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I’m thinking of trying to get a copy of this ordinance to see if I can get the city fathers here in SS to pass something similar. I just don’t think we should store nukes in that empty tin shed of a warehouse down by the train tracks. BTW, I hear rumors that Karl Rove’s weather machine is still stored down there anyway. https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/the-city-councils-mad-meltdown-over-keeping-nuclear-weapons-out-of-nyc/
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When I was a boy in the 1950s, a “drive-in” was most often a hamburger joint with carhops and trays that fit on the driver’s side window. Usually, a person would say they were going to the “drive-in movies” to distinguish the two.
There was the big Texan Drive-In on the northside of Hempstead Highway near 34th Street. We went there as little kids, when we lived in Oak Forest, and it was still open until at least 1970. The Texan was very popular with the sprocket jockeys, grease monkeys and guys whose only reason to live was to race their cars. Late on Friday and Saturday nights, guys would organize races at the drive-in to run out on Hempstead Hwy., on that stretch between Pinemont and North Houston-Rosslyn Rd. It was out in the country, straight as a laser and pitch dark. The races would last until the inevitable arrival of the Harris County Sheriff’s Dept.
There was, of course, the famous Prince’s Drive-Ins that were all over town. I remember one drive-in on Long Point in Spring Branch that closed back in the 60s and North Shepherd had at least 2 drive-ins between 11th and 34th St.
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#147 –
I just saw this.
Tomorrow will beTODAY is 02/02/2020.insert dreaded acronym here………… 🙂
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BTW, I hear that the SB officiating crew will have 5 black people on it, apparently to prove diversity or something. Don’t know about female refs yet. I can remember when the officiating crew was determined by picking the best of the crews from all around the league. My guess is that their research shows that the black ones are easier to control when being told what calls to make to ensure the proper outcome. Seriously, I know absolutely nothing about the teams playing, their personnel, their records, etc. But I do know that the city of SF looks and smells like a pair of Jerry Nadler’s 5 day old underwear, that Nancy is in desperate need of a win given her track record against Trump, and that KC is located in fly-over country that no one knows or cares about at all. What more do you need to know to place the proper bet?
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I want to vote for Bernie on Super Tuesday but not sure that I can sleep with that black mark on my permanent voting record.
“Voted in the 2020 Democrat Primary”
Besides, we get enough damn poli mail without getting it from the Commies, too.
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I think there’s something more fundamental that will determine the outcome of the game.
That would be how many minutes the 49er rush spends in the KC backfield.
It could get very ugly.
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The drive-in movie we all went to in the 1960s was the Thunderbird Drive-In Theater out on Clay Road at Hollister. That was way out in the country in those days. I think it was $3 a carload on Monday nights and kids would see how many people they could cram into a car. Other nights, kids would hide in the trunks or under a tarp in the back of a pickup. It was a wide open criminal conspiracy.
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I had not given any thought to the Super Bowl. Even if I was an NFL fan, I’d have no interest in either of these teams, but El Gordo’s comments have me fired up and I’ll be rooting for KC just to hand Pelosi and her voters another defeat.
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As to DQs surviving, I would not be surprised that if they were to return some of those stores to local ownership, they could survive.
Yup, in the article, they said one company had bought 69 Texas DQ’s that were of course. once owned by locals. Apparently, the big problem was logistics, getting the fresh meat & produce to these scattered stores. With the profit margin so slim they decide to just hang it up. Oh and 99% of the DQ’s aren’t owned by the parent company, that’s not to say that groups of them aren’t owned by big companies. If I remember right, DQ owns 2 stores up in Yankee country.
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Other nights, kids would hide in the trunks or under a tarp in the back of a pickup. It was a wide open criminal conspiracy.
I remember those days.
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#154 #158, Yup, I too am now a KC fan.
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The title says it all. Who would want to align with the Dimocrats, just as they turn into outright Socialists?
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There was a story recently Hugh Hewitt was going to vote in the Virginia Democratic primary for Bernie Sanders to help make sure he gets nominated. I thought Hewitt lived in California, but I guess he has maintained a Virginia residence all these years.
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Especially for any native Houstonians, this is a very cool website about the history of movie theaters in Houston over the last 100 years or so.
Karl Hoblitzelle’s 1923 Majestic.
Loew’s State.
The Metropolitan.This trio of theatres represented the zenith of opulence in movie theatre design during the twenties. Whereas the Metropolitan went for an over-the-top Egyptian theme, the State was more restrained, yet ornate, with lobby antique furniture brought in from the Vanderbuilt estate.
Then there was the Majestic, the third such theatre that Hoblitzelle built in Houston, and is rightly considered to be the greatest movie theatre ever built in the city. Credit for this largely rests with the vision of architect John Eberson, whose design was not of a theatre interior at all, but an outdoor garden of some exotic, far-away locale with a starlit sky overhead — set within the conventional indoor auditorium. The Mediterranean blue ceiling, inset with twinkling lights, featured clouds that floated lazily over the heads of the audience. This was the world’s first “atmospheric” movie theatre.
Of course, there were other grand movie houses in the city. Across the street from the Metropolitan and Loew’s State, one block down, was the Kirby Theatre. Other tdowntown theatres included the Ritz, Rialto, Texan, Iris, Isis, Liberty, Cozy, and Queen.
Most all of these theatres are now gone, excepting the Ritz/Majestic Metro. Remnants of the original Isis theatre still remain, although the theatre itself is no longer there.
I saw movies in all three of the theaters listed at the top. I saw Breakfast at Tiffany’s with my mother at the incredible Majestic Theater on Main Street. Shannon and I saw Hatari ! with Red Buttons and John Wayne at the Metropolitan.
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Eldest boy is 17 today so that means this happened 17 years ago yesterday.
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re: Days getting longer
To observe the change, I have the movement of the early morning shadow cast by a 150ft tall water storage tank.
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#147 –
I just saw this.
Tomorrow will beTODAY is 02/02/2020.insert dreaded acronym here…………
Oops! In my defense, the post I copied did say tomorrow. 😀
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Djokovic wins his 8th Aussie Open in 5 sets over Thiem.
17th major title.
Way to go.
Federer-20
Nadal-19
Djokovic-17
much better than watching the NFsMell.
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Spent many Monday nights at the The Thunderbird Drive In. Good days.
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Switching to Accessory mode isn’t as hard as I thought. Press the start button without a foot on the brake and it cycles through Off, Accessory, Ignition On.
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people died.
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When I was in Texas back 2013, I stopped to fill up the rent car in New Braunfels on I-35 at the then brand new Buc-ee’s. I counted 148 fuel pumps there and I took photos to show these yankees up here. They just couldn’t believe it.
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173 Yup.
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New fangled vehicles would freak out with the doors wide open and stereo blaring while e’body hanging out drinkin’.
Just wait till Hamous tries to move that new Tacoma without his seatbelt fastened. Our 4-Runner literally screams at you after about 15 seconds.
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There’s also a mechanical key hidden in the Fob to open the front doors, unlike Dave’s daughter’s vette.
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These guys that do radio sales for Purity Products vitamin supplements are so polished.
They could sell a supplement made from Johnson Grass and dirt.
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The changes proposed by the FBI to address the profound failures in its secret surveillance applications are insufficient, according to the court-appointed expert overseeing the bureau’s reforms.
David Kris, the expert appointed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), made the conclusion in a filing (pdf) with the court on Jan. 15. In addition to recommending measures in areas the FBI already explored, he proposed a set of broader changes necessary to restore the bureau’s “organizational culture of individual responsibility for rigorous accuracy” with the FISC, he said.
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Just wait till Hamous tries to move that new Tacoma without his seatbelt fastened. Our 4-Runner literally screams at you after about 15 seconds.
I gave up my civil disobedience protest years ago after my fifth or sixth citation.
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I had not given any thought to the Super Bowl. Even if I was an NFL fan, I’d have no interest in either of these teams, but El Gordo’s comments have me fired up and I’ll be rooting for KC just to hand Pelosi and her voters another defeat.
The only reason I’ll chear for KC is because I lived in Missouri for five years. I do not have any NFL gear so my Missouri School of Mines/University of Missouri-Rolla/Missouri University of Science and Technology t-shirt will have to do for today.
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after my fifth or sixth citation.
Wow. That looks expensive.
Im in and out of the truck a million times a day, so im not much of a seatbelt wearer, especially out here in the country.
I recently resolved to change, but haven’t been very successful.
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I once thought about attending the Colorado School of Mines.
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Well, it’s about time;
1942 GMC CC100 1/2 ton Campbell Highlander
The late Vern Sessler Sr. of Waterloo NY lived near where these wood body upfits were manufactured by the Mid-States Body Company.
Vern Sr. acquired his 1942 GMC Woodie in 1998. He grew up near the Elizabeth Street plant and had these memories:“When I was a kid, …I’d see them being driven by, day after day after day. I’d see them come one way, and all they’d be was the chassis with a windshield and, literally, an orange crate. Then I’d see them coming back the other way with the body on.”
Sessler’s car has a small metal tag documenting that it was body number 6837 built at the Waterloo plant. Sessler was instrumental in initiating the display of Woodies as part of the special Memorial Day weekend festivities in Waterloo. The event helps to keep alive the special memories of several years of operation of the successor businesses to the Waterloo Wagon Co.
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My #184, FB has been jacking with the Old GMC Truck page, so I often don’t even see them, not sure why.
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That has to be the finest woodie I’ve ever seen.
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I always wear my seatbelt when I’m actually going somewhere. I’ve got 4 vehicles and two motorcycles in the driveway and garage so I’m always playing musical cars.
When I have to move the 4-Runner, I will not fasten the seatbelts and during that super short trip to the end of the block and the cul-de-sac to turn around, it will go crazy.
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Im a sucker for those pointy-nose hood lines of the period. Especially the big trucks.
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Just wait till Hamous tries to move that new Tacoma without his seatbelt fastened. Our 4-Runner literally screams at you after about 15 seconds.
I gave up my civil disobedience protest years ago after my fifth or sixth citation.
I find myself buckling my seatbelt just moving a car in the driveway.
It’s habit now.
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Switching to Accessory mode isn’t as hard as I thought. Press the start button without a foot on the brake and it cycles through Off, Accessory, Ignition On.
Thats the way her’s is. She was in the driver’s seat (I know, I know), during several rounds of of trying to keep the damn car happy I was trying to get back to accessories and she’d keep putting her foot on the brake and the car would start. And we would argue…
Poor people behind us.
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I’ll soon be headed into the mouth of the beast – HEB on a Sunday afternoon.
Max’s annual vet visit screwed up my typical Saturday shopping. Sundays at HEB are not for the faint-hearted.$250 vet bill.
…and the hits just keep on coming.
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Us too. My wife has turned into her Grandma, gotta go grocery shopping every week whether we need anything or not. Got to have stuff on hand!
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I’m imagining the wasteland after all the Super Bowl shoppers.
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DQ: When I was a freshman in band, we started learning how to march in July. July. In Texas. It was hot. We’d march from 9 a.m. to 11:30 or noon, break for lunch, then go inside for a few hours to learn our music, then back out to march for a few hours before going home.
I got a heckuva tan. Having olive skin from my daddy’s side of the family, I kept that tan for years. Hubby thought he was dating a Mexican for months, because of my dark hair and eyes, the deep seemingly-permanent skin coloring, and the fact that my last name was often mistaken for a Hispanic name and not Italian.
Anyway, when we were released for lunch, a lot of us headed for the DQ across the busy street. I had very little money, so it was fortunate for me that my favorite lunch meal was a fried bean burrito and a root beer float. The total for those back then was $1.49. I remember because I had to make sure I had at least that much every Monday through Friday so I could eat with the others.
The meal of marching champions, it was.
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Hubby invited Handsome Son and Lovely DIL over to watch the Super Bowl this evening. I hadn’t thought of who I’d cheer for, since football isn’t a religion for me, but after reading previous comments, I’m KC all the way. I hope they stick a knife in Pelosi’s hopes to claim that she won the game. After all, she tried to claim credit for Trump’s trade deal. /spits
I’m watching PD Cam. Amazing what these cops have to deal with. Those idiots who claim the cops are abusing their power have no idea the split second decisions they have to make. I saw a guy get tazed twice – no effect. Another suspect just pulled a gun on a cop, right next to him. A lady being detained at an auto parts store without proper ID refused to exit her vehicle and tried to run two cops over, destroying the front of the store in the process.
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Gotta go finish up the deviled eggs. Hubby’s learning how to shop for avocados today. One store had ’em 4/$1.00 – I asked if they were too soft or too hard. “At that price, they’re either not ripe enough to eat or too rotten.” His reply, “I don’t know. I want you to look at them.”
Fortunately, they aren’t ripe yet, so we’re going to leave them out for a day or two. I’ll freeze what I can’t use in time. I showed him how to gently squeeze and/or check the stem tip for ripeness.
On our way to breakfast, I also discussed how to properly hard boil eggs (put salt in the water to facilitate peeling, how long to boil, how to cool?), where to find the mixes to make dips with sour cream, etc.
Hubby used to help in the kitchen a lot. I guess he’s ready to dive back in, now that he’s more relaxed and has a more relaxed schedule.
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By the way, Fr. Ed Wade has made his Ring of Fire FB page public now.
Folks here would like him. A lot.
I think he used to be a Marine.
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She would never admit it, but stopping daily at the grocery store may be what Fay misses most about being homebound.
Her new job is to peruse the Sale circulars of the two grocery stores and create an actual list.
Now if I could just get her to organize the list in the proper order.
Oh, well, you can’t have everything. 🙂
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Milk
Lettuce
Eggs
Coffee
Butter
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#163 Texpat
Hewitt used to have an afternoon radio show, but there was a shakeup at Salem Radio Network when they decided to dump Michael Medved because of his dislike of Trump. Hewitt took a crack-o-dawn spot (airs 5-7 a.m. in Houston) and Sebastian Gorka took the afternoon show. I think that was why HH moved to the East Coast.
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We’re pulling for Kansas City. Discovered much to our astonishment when the finalists for the SB won that KC had not been to the SB since 1970. San Fran has been there many times and relatively recently compared to KC, good grief.
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I just bought a big 28 x 16″ cast iron griddle I added the 3 piece accessory kit.
Pictures, we need pictures.
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Two Hunnerd N Six?!?! Dang, someone has been busy.
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#197, after looking at your link, I was reminded that these little guys are the only Avocados , I allow in my house, none of the big slick green ones with little taste.
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As is our Super Bowl habit, we sang Dropkick Me Jesus last night at church.
The 49er’s world class receiver Emmanuel Sanders is a native of Bellville.
Our leader wrote a clever new verse in support of Sanders, but at my suggestion he announced we were not choosing sides, simply supporting a native son. 🙂
Bobby Bare sings the song:
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Sanders offered to pay for the unbelievably expensive installation of the newest, superduper, high-tech playing field at our football stadium.
But in exchange, he wanted the field re-named for him.The local powers-that-be decided, “Thanks, but no thanks”, the field will forever be known as the Bellville Brahmas Pasture Of Pain.
…and the booster club raised the money themselves.
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I’ve got some bacon wrapped jalapenos on the grill. The wife apparently bought a regular tray with just cream cheese stuffing and the other one is stuffed with seafood. That should be interesting.
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Hubby brought home avocados. He obviously didn’t listen. They were all so soft that I thought he totally wasted his money.
Fortunately, only one of them was a total goner. The others were remarkably usable.
Glad I caught them in that 15 minute window.
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We’ve got hot dogs and shrimp cocktail.
After all, we are upwardly mobile trailer trash.
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Her Highness has a few things she cooks really well and one of them is her homemade meatballs. We have a huge pot full of meatballs ready for tonight.
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Hubby’s about to put the ribs on. There’s sausage. I have corn on the cob ready put on the grill as well. Dips are ready to go. Deviled eggs are made. There’s a possibility of some grilled veggies, too, but I’m deliberating. The grill is gonna be a little full.
I was going to make some cole slaw, but Hubby asked me why???
He’s right. I’ll do that another night.
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I’m convinced that avocado judging can never be truly mastered.
My HEB sells truckloads of store-made guacamole. So, the available whole fruit selection in the produce department runs decidedly ripe to over ripe.
Unless you pick up entire trays of the display to – hopefully- find a couple that will last a couple of days.
Nothing more frustrating than opening one up to find it unusable.
We’ll just have to watch and see if the cartels can run the industry successfully.
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Yeah, what’s up with their made guacamole dip lasts for days, but an avocado has like Ms TT says, 15 minute window.
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This is a highly partisan pro-Kansas City crowd in Miami.
It’s like a home game for them.
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217 Shannon
It’s all those rich, ethanol corn farmers in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. They all go down to Florida in the winter and live on their big boats in the fancy marinas on the west coast. If you think I’m kidding, I’m not.
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DQ comments, have noticed a few new ones here and there. Stopped at one on Hwy 6 just east of 288 on the way home. The wife liked the burger a lot, the tacos were not so greasy that the shells survived long enough to eat the third one. So a bit better than Taco Bell. Anyone noticing Whataburger patties changing? Last trips by and the patties don’t make it from one side of the bun to the other. And they started putting ketchup on them. Maybe just the one we frequent.
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How did Bloomberg shut down over half the coal plants in the country?
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The Hitchhiker Trilogy went on a bit past that. Douglas Adams; “The [first, second, third, fourth] book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Trilogy”.
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It’s all those rich, ethanol corn farmers in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. They all go down to Florida
Corn Cartel vs. Nor Easters in a death match for Florida.
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Without question, one of the most entertaining first half’s that I’ve seen in a long time.
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I know we supposed to be rooting for the Chiefs but my Lubbock clan has such a silly love fest going for Mahomes I just can’t do it.
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The most absurd, terrible array of SB commercials I have ever seen. They all seem to be produced for 12 year olds.
i thought the last 2 or 3 years were bad. This year is down the drain. I can’t believe the money wasted.
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I agree.
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I agree. 😛
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Ah man.
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Hey, Grampaw, what’s fer supper? Well, the wife picked up some fresh vegetables that she wanted for supper and I had to decide what sort of meat we needed to go with it. Since we’ve been talking about Dairy King’s Broasted chicken, I cheated a little, and picked up an 8 piece box, then, I put some cornbread in the oven, stir fired some string beans, boiled some new potatoes and steamed a couple of ears of sweet corn…Dang, it was some good eating. And for the folks that know me, and they’re wondering why it wasn’t a meal for about 6+ people, well,….I’m learning to cook for two, not easy but I’m trying.
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The Hitchhiker Trilogy went on a bit past that. Douglas Adams; “The [first, second, third, fourth] book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Trilogy”.
Yup, I read them all and the last book was “So long and thanks for all the fish”.
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Must conclude that a 10-10 score tie at the half means that both teams have very good defenses. Or are incredibly clumsy.
Regarding the commercials, I must admit the afternoon nap lasted well into the second quarter, and spouse was watching something else when I woke up. So I’ve only had a brief opportunity to assess the commercials thus far.
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RE Half Time Show:
I’m glad Shakira at 43 and Jennifer Lopez at 50 can still move like that. I think I’d hurt myself.
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Commercials have been rather ordinary. Only a couple have been “Super Bowl” quality.
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I didn’t think most of the commercials were even coherent. Several I didn’t even know what they were actually selling. If you are going to spend $8 million on a 30 second commercial and pay somebody $1 million to produce it, the complete focus should be to convey your brand name from beginning to end. You don’t make a 28 second bit of vague, feel-good, squishy blather and then flash your company name for 2 seconds at the end of it. I never saw such incomprehensible crap in my life.
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I thought the Shkira extravaganza was as X-rated as I’ve ever seen for family programing.
Pretty nasty.
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Excuse my bias against J-Lo. I’ve never liked her or most of the other, pretentious, obnoxious, narcissistic divas like her or Beyonce. I’ve made an exception for Shakira who seems to evince a genuine innocence and honesty I detect in very few celebrities. Sofia Vergara is another one. I may be wrong, but so far I have no reason to think so.
Oh, and J-Lo could never compete with Shakira on a real dance floor for the job or the money.
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235 Shannon
Shakira has been doing those same dance routines on American TV for about 20 years.
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I made a similar content about the half time shows becoming less family friendly.
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They all gots cooties.
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#235 Texpat
I chalk it up to not being in tune with pop culture. I think some of the people featured are well known in pop culture, and we are supposed to be wowed by their appearance.
Otherwise I completely agree with you.
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Bite me, Pelousey.
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Andy got him a ring.
Bravo.
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Excuse my bias against J-Lo. I’ve never liked her or most of the other, pretentious, obnoxious, narcissistic divas like her or Beyonce. I’ve made an exception for Shakira who seems to evince a genuine innocence and honesty I detect in very few celebrities. Sofia Vergara is another one. I may be wrong, but so far I have no reason to think so.
Oh, and J-Lo could never compete with Shakira on a real dance floor for the job or the money.
Say what?
Let the record show that Texpat hates J-lo so much that he’s defending prime time Shakira porn.
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243 Shannon
I don’t like any of it frankly and these fake music/cheap dance productions are just crap. No, I don’t like Jennifer Lopez. Yes, I do like Shakira and I wish she would do more serious music and a lot less soft porn stage work. She has the talent and voice for it, but I figure she has a huge overhead these days to cover.
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I didn’t think most of the commercials were even coherent. Several I didn’t even know what they were actually selling
Yup, I seldom knew what they were selling.
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Pretty nasty.
To say the least.
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I’m so proud that I wrongly predicted the winner.
Elgordo has been a fine mentor.
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Probably the first time the game was better than the commercials.
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I’ve got no idea who these people are, and I further strongly suspect that I don’t care either. If they want to prance around out there in public without their clothes on, it’s their business; and if other people want to watch, that their business too.
Looks like my record of picking sports winners remains unblemished – still batting 100% wrong. Poor Nancy, I thought for sure the NFL would toss her a bone given what she’s been through. I saw the second Trump commercial, and it’s apparent that he’s going after the black vote. Word is that the SOTU will emphasize that theme as well.
OK, you all have a great evening. I’ll let you know if I discover any developing news.
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The only thing that matters is that no team from Cali or NY wins.
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I was drinking during half time, so no clue what any complaints about what happened there.
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Ok, I never ever watch pro-football but I started at the half and first I’d like to say that I think, the best team won, but the next to the last KC touchdown was obviously NOT A TOUCHDOWN! I could tell before the replay….I guess El Gordo was right all along….SIGH
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Oh and the QB for KC was unbelievable! The boy said he was from Texas Tech.
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Raileans Tequila, worth the trip to San Leon to get it.
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I can remember when dumb rubes like me, watched the Super Bowl for the commercials and the half time show, but most of the commercials were incoherent and the half time show was,.. well just nasty AND it was in Spanglish! WTH is that all about?
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I hope KC’s fifty year pursuit of a championship isn’t tainted by a cheating scandal or something.
Bitter, you ask?
Yes. I am.
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Well… it is called a Half Time Show and not the Half Time Musical Interlude. I doubt we’ll ever go back to something as mundane as a singer sitting on a stool belting out a ballad.
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They were stealing Garoppolo’s calls.
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Anybody know what this is all about??
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gtotracker says:
FEBRUARY 2, 2020 AT 9:28 PM EDIT
I was drinking during half time, so no clue what any complaints about what happened there.I’m glad that y’all found something more exciting to do.
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MHarper, it’s probably a good thing they didn’t run that ad. I might have gotten up and turned the tv off at that point.
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The ad invokes images of Kaepernick’s actions taking a knee during the playing of our national anthem before football games. That is bad enough. Conflating that with PETA is 1000x worse.
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Good night all. 0500 will be here before I know it.
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I didn’t watch half-time or any other time, but I’ve always though that a couple of frisbee dogs would be more entertaining and exciting than whatever they stage out there.
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Deliberately did not watch the halftime show. So glad I didn’t. Congrats to Kansas City.
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Was there a football game on last night? Was it the Fido Kaniners vs the Catsup Meow Mix Lickers?
Did the refs end up in the litter box?
Switch to tennis. Much more entertaining.
Best sport going.
One on one competition at it’s best.
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