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It’s the weekend!
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There Ya’ are, I’ve been lurking.
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Morning gang. 29 degrees out here in centex this morning, with clear skies and no wind. Nothing new to report on that I know of. I hear the new and improved XFL is going to start playing this weekend somewhere, somehow. I figure this new league will not make it through the first season unless they have a big TV contract of some kind, since TV contracts are the life blood of professional sports. I tried to watch the Dems debate last night, but I couldn’t get through 2 minutes. The stuff they are talking about is completely foreign to anything I care about. The one thing I can tell you for sure is that when/if the Dems ever get control of the real levers of power again, we are in bad shape. Virginia is a good example of what can happen when the Dems take charge – they are trying to remake that state overnight. Hopefully West Virginia will take over most of the rural counties of Va. so the citizens there can continue to live in peace. Eventually, the urban areas are going to control all the politics of the country, and we are then in trouble. Colorado is a good example there.
Anyway, I see where DT Jr. sent out a tweet thanking Adam Shifft for exposing a number of those never Trumpers in government who needed to be fired.
You all have a great day.
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44 here, up from 38, with frost, at daylight, shooting for the low 60’s, bright and sunny.
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From El Gordo’s #89, yesterday;
I’m thinking the Bolton book story was the sting to out the NSA leaker, who turned out to be Vindman #2. I think that #1 and #2 were tag teaming information releases and providing back up to each other’s stories as needed. I suspect that Bolton was recruited to provide the story to which each of them bought in to and leaked to the press. It’s entirely plausible that Bolton would be mad at Trump for firing him, but maybe that was part of the deal as well. So, maybe Bolton is not a bad guy after all. And the Sting to out the leakers worked to perfection. That’s my best guess.
Vindman #2, being the book censor has been discussed several times on various News shows, since the story broke. I’m sure that he leaked the Bolton BS, and yes, I’m betting that it was BS!
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So, we know the News Media is biased and have been trying to drag poor old BiteMe across the finish line, with little luck but yesterday, I flipped the Sat radio over to CNN and the breaking news was that Buttajug and Crazy Bernie were tied for first and BiteMe third, Fauxahontas, fourth and Krowbar fifth? WHUT??
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The last, semi-sane man left in the Democratic Party – James Carville.
From Twitter by a NYT writer and editorial board member.
Binyamin Appelbaum
Jan 13, 2020
LSU cancelled all classes, for everyone, for two days, because its football team is playing for the national championship.
Obviously LSU’s professional football players aren’t there for the classes, but this is some next-level stuff.
lsureveille.com/news/lsu-board-of-supervisors-offically-cancels-classes-on-monday-tuesday/article_b46fc938-33dd-11ea-80de-4bcaaa18da57.html …Do the Warren/Sanders “free public college” proposals include LSU, or would it only apply to actual schools?
Jan 13, 2020
James Carville unleashes a righteous tirade on Binyamin Appelbaum:
“You know how f—–g patronizing that is to people in the South or in the middle of the country? First, LSU has an unusually high graduation rate, but that’s not the point. It’s the goddamn smugness. This is from a guy who lives in New York and serves on the Times editorial board and there’s not a single person he knows that doesn’t pat him on the back for that kind of tweet. He’s so f—–g smart.”
“[Binyamin] Appelbaum doesn’t speak for the Democratic Party, but he does represent the urbanist mindset,” he said. “We can’t win the Senate by looking down at people. The Democratic Party has to drive a narrative that doesn’t give off vapors that we’re smarter than everyone or culturally arrogant.”
RTWDT.
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Astronomers from around the world have long been fascinated by the mysterious radio signals bombarding our planet from deep in outer space, with some onlookers linking them to a possible extraterrestrial intelligence.
A new study by an international team of scientists led by astronomers at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB) in British Columbia has discovered that a mystery radio source in a galaxy some 500 million lightyears from our solar system is sending out fast radio bursts like clockwork in 16.35 day cycles, including 1-2 bursts per hour over a four day period and then 12 days of silence before starting up again.
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#8 – There are obviously turning points in the life of political parties which can hardly be detected at the time they are happening but are quite apparent in retrospect. JFK for example was considered a liberal in his time, yet he would be identified as a conservative Rep today. His party has turned that far to the left. But just how far left has it turned in the past 20 years or so. Look no further. When the Ragin’ Cajun James Carville is being considered as the last of the sane Dems, you know they are completely off the rails. Carville was viewed as a wild eyed crazy in his day, and I don’t think he has changed a bit. His party has even left him in the dust once it turned up Crazy Lane and floored the accelerator. Another tectonic shift for the Dem party.
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BTW, I re-posted a video over yonder that I’m pretty sure was SD in his younger days growing up on the farm. If not, it’s probably one of his kids or grandkids. If you watch it, I think you will agree that there is a good chance of that kid turning out good when he grows up. If I could figure out how to bring it over here I would.
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The last, semi-sane man left in the Democratic Party – James Carville.
Yup, hard to believe isn’t it?
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WOW! Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian, was hit and killed by a car in Los Angeles, authorities said. He was 91.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office confirmed Bean’s Friday night death, saying it was being investigated as a “traffic-related” fatality. The coroner’s office provided the location where Bean was found, which matched reports from local news outlets.
A man was walking in the Venice neighborhood when he was clipped by a vehicle and fell, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Brian Wendling initially told local stations. A second driver then struck him in what police say was the fatal collision. Both drivers remained on the scene. Police were investigating and didn’t identify the pedestrian to local outlets, which named Bean based on eyewitness accounts.
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Carville whining about the state of the Democrat Party is like the guy who murders his parents then pleads for leniency on account of he’s an orphan. You built this, Gollum.
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A hundred years ago, a swindler fooled a Texas city. The results still stand
Have you heard the story of the world’s ‘littlest’ skyscraper?
Enter J.D. McMahon, supposedly from Philadelphia, who came to town to cash in like everyone else. In a story that has been passed down for a hundred years, he offered to build a skyscraper that was to be 40 stories tall, forever altering the city skyline and putting Wichita Falls into the big time.
Desperate for both much-needed office space and ways to make money, the people of Wichita Falls listened when McMahon offered them a chance to invest in his new landmark office building.
In that mass of confusion and greed, he sold $200,000 worth of stock (worth $3 million in today’s dollars) and brought his own crew in to put it up. It didn’t take long.
A small four-story brick building only 10 feet wide and 18 feet long, sprang up with only one room per floor.
Now wait a minute. What happened to the rest of it?
Legend has it that the investors took the matter to court, but a local judge threw the case out. Seems that when the judge looked at the building plans he noticed that the specs were done in inches, not feet.
McMahon had built the exact sized building everyone had signed off on. Nobody noticed that the plans were in inches.
The building was one-twelfth of its expected size! It was 480” (inches) and not 480’ (feet).
The building is officially known as the McMahon Building, a great honor to the alleged scammer. But an honor he never got to celebrate.
McMahon fled town.
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#14 AMEN!! 😀
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I don’t remember Orson Bean as an actor but I do know he was Breitbart’s father-in-law.
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Mrs. Breitbart has had a lot of heartbreak in her life. God bless her.
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Dropped into mailbox;
The Beaumont Police Officers Association (BPOA) recognizes Lloyd White’s unparalleled leadership and supports him in his bid for State Senate
So who is Lloyd White?
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#11 EG
Here’s the URL for your video but I don’t know if it will work for everyone.
https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.londo/videos/10213371948208033/?t=0
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14 Hamous
Even seemingly reasonable leftists become psychoneurotic and blinded to the fact the Yellow Brick Road of socialism is actually a cold, dark plunge off of a steep cliff. This fatal flaw of mankind is buried deep in the psyche, well below any capacity for logic and reason.
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20 mharper42
Very cute video. That young momma cow doesn’t have any milk in her bag. You can tell by the size. The calf is weak and kind of struggling on that calf manna, but she should be alright.
Corrrection: The calf is named Bucky so I suppose it’s a boy.
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Good morning Hamsters. Sun is out and then in for a while, comes out again between cloudbanks and casts some shadows, then disappears. The steady breeze from last night became intermittent several hours ago. But when it’s back it makes itself known pushing branches into swinging, Old glory to flutter on the porch, leaves on the lawn to skitter along, ever-smiling pansies in the flowerbeds to sway a bit, and leaves the definite feeling that winter is not done yet. By a long shot.
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I’ll be in winter next week
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#14 Hamous
That duo pic is one for the ages! Too funny simultaneously too true.
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#22 Texpat
Yabbut what about EG’s premise that the lad was a young Super Dave? Tooling around in a vehicle with his doggy sidekick…
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25. Adee
Yes, definitely a classic.
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#20 mharper42 and #22 Texpat
Unfortunately the picture didn’t appear for me, but thanks to Texpat I got the
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#9 SD:
Columbia has discovered that a mystery radio source in a galaxy some 500 million lightyears from our solar system is sending out fast radio bursts like clockwork in 16.35 day cycles
Even if there was an intelligent alien species capable of creating such a transmitter, the info is 500 million years old, who knows if any traces of these entities still exist? I would suspect that it is some sort of pulsar that has long since met its final demise.
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A little late today, but here is PL’s Week In Pictures: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-week-in-pictures-mega-trumpy-edition.php
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Mississauga, Ontario
Egads ! Better you than me.
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#30 Texpat, yes, most likely, that is usually the case but this one wasn’t random but they also explained how it could be a natural occurrence. Alos, the problem with any electronic pulses that they receive, they will have been emitted millions of years ago.
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Now this is neat, I’d kinda’ like to have one. Goat, what about you?
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This crazy, pansexual woman does deserve some props, even if the crazy people of Arizona elected her to the Senate.
It’s so rare to see a Democrat break from the groupthink and lockstep marching orders issued by Nasty Nancy (or are we calling her Petty Pelosi now? It’s hard to keep up). But the Democrat Senator from Arizona, Kristen Sinema, showed them what bipartisanship is supposed to look like at the State of the Union address. Instead of joining the White Witches from the Trump Derangement Syndrome nuthouse, Sinema donned a beautiful, patriotic blue gown and stood alone clapping for America. She even stood up for Rush Limbaugh when he received his Presidential Medal of Honor. I don’t know about you, but I appreciate the courage it takes to do this. Sinema will surely not be invited to sit at the cool kids’ table after this, but there’s something about her that tells me she doesn’t care.
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My #34 They also have one for Mr. Tedtam. 😉
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Before we opened up this morning I was checking out yesterday’s thread and saw hamous’ link about the old sows on the View and it said something about McCain. Did you know that Senator McCain’s daughter was a regular on the sty?
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#34 Bones N Pyro
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#38 SD: Major cool.
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Michael doing what he does best.
Stirring up racial division from his 98% white neighborhood in the Hamptons.
Wonder if he and The Kenyan had a bathhouse installed at their new mansion?.?
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Democrats, you know, the ones who produced a commercial showing Paul Ryan pushing Granny in a wheelchair off a cliff, are demanding twitter ban the video.
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This about sums it up: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1225553117929988097?s=20
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Ok, I can understand if I linked to it way up the thread, but right above? 😉
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Kind of strange I have to login to see updated comments on my Ipad
Number at top says 43 but when I refresh not logged in only shows 40.
Possible SpyDuck infiltration?
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#41 #42 #43 HA!! I’ve said it before, NOBODY reads the damn links!!! In all fairness, I also miss a bunch of them. But in my defense, I’m often, out of pocket. 😉
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Well, Bambi is still being held hostage at the Deer Processing place. Friday, a week ago, (Feb 31) I got a call, telling me that there was not enough meat left to make 10 Lbs of sausage and 10 Lbs of Summer Sausage and have any Bambi Burger left over. So, I opted for the sausage. Then I asked if it would be another week, since I knew that they had to smoke the sausage. They gut said, no, it’ll be ready in a few days. I’d think, 3-4 days? Anyway, I called this morning and the lady said, I tried to call you yesterday, then looked up the invoice, couldn’t find it and said she’d call me back. After about 45 minutes, I just drove on down, figuring that they would have found my order. But when I got there, she said that she had me mixed up with someone else. OK, then she asked if I ordered Jerky or Summer sausage and I told her yes, and she said that they only do that every other day and that the meat would be ready in the middle of next week. She apologized but dang, I knew how busy that they have been and with the season over on Monday they’re not taking in any more deer. BTW; there were a dozen ice chests, parked just outside the door when I drove up.
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#34 Katfish
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My question is how much longer are we going to let the twatter twats ru(i)n the world?
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The Bee takes a swipe at Brother Dave. https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1225932306835177474
Another version: https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-omar-accused-of-appropriating-southern-culture-by-marrying-relative
As to 41, 42, 43, sometimes when something is a hot item, I tend to go post it first so I don’t forget about it, and then I go back and read the prior posts since my last visit. Anyway, nothing wrong with looking at that one twice – it’s that good. So good in fact that the Dems are trying to get Twatter to take it down, claiming that it unfairly represents what actually happened. So, it would not surprise me if it’s gone before tomorrow.
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You know what I think? I think that the batteries in my Atomic Clock must be weak, for the second day in a row, it started spinning around all the way through 12 hours only to land in the same place that it was.
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El Gordo; Ilhan Omar Accused Of Appropriating
AlabamaArkansas Culture By Marrying Relative.
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Food Fight!! 😀 I’m sorry, but I do love that ridiculous scene.
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He’s always been a moron but Biden has become an insufferable moron.
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Listening to Public Radio, it seems the Spook Community is outraged by the Friday Night Massacree.
Then, they had an “expert” on, who was overwrought that Trump and “the Government “ had differing Ukraine policy objectives.
Outrageous that a president would work at odds with The Government on foreign policy.
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I mentioned earlier that something is wrong.
Missing posts. Even after refreshing the page.
Nobody but Max reads my comments.
That’s good enough for me.
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I always read your posts. Who’s Max?
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Ha!
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Watching a little bit of the XFL game. On kick offs, neither line moves until the receiver catches the ball. Looks weird.
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#56 GJT
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I always read your posts. Who’s Max?
BAWHAHAHA! That is funny right there! I don’t care who you are. 😀
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#55 Shannon
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Dang how did I miss this? Shannon
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#62
LOL SD, whatever those charts you been posting are called, my FB is full of them now. 😀
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#54 Shannon
Very brave of you to tune in on National Public Radio or whatever it’s currently called.Presume that sipping an adult beverage makes it bearable long enough to figure out just what in their parallel universe is going on. Such information is required to assess just how far around the bend they have gone. Definitely not research for the faint of heart.
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Re: XFL
They show the monitor and the replay review official and his communication with officials on the field.
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Nobody but Max reads my comments.
Lil’ Bit does! 😉
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Ouch. Gar takes a dude on a Nantucket sleigh ride, without a boat.
http://seabreezenews.com/issues/2020%20issues/0220%20-%20February%202020/Page_01c.pdf
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I actually don’t know what NCAA or NFL rules are for this, but I’ve never seen this before. Houston was kicking a field goal with one second on the clock before the half, center did not snap the ball the second the official blew the whistle and time was up, they did not get to run the play.
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Robert Conrad.
Good villain in Columbo episode Exercise in Fatality.
Milo Janus.
Killed his boss and made it look like a weight lifting accident.
I think Arkancide Inc used that script too.
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From gto’s #67
Life is always exciting down on the Bay.
Prater quickly beached the kayak and attempted to help the man by offering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but the man became very argumentative. He shouted obscenities at his rescuer, stating that Prater owed him for the cast net and berating him for allowing the fish to escape. At one point it appeared he would physically attack his rescuer, but then he noticed that Prater was still holding his knife, and elected to back off instead, retreating to the nearby parking area.
and then,
The kayaker was later able to rescue the gar from the illegal net with the assistance of a game warden. The fish was released, and appeared to have escaped serious injury.
Police have checked local emergency rooms, but the man apparently did not seek treatment. He is described as Hispanic, late 30s to early 40s, with graying hair, a moustache, and large protruding ears. The vehicle is described as a 1990s red Ford F-100 pickup with a Hilary Clinton bumper sticker on the tailgate. No charges have been filed, but the incident is under investigation by Texas Parks and Wildlife.
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Also, another story from gtotracker’s #67. An outrageous story of a stalker and a 911 operator:
Tragically, the couple was holding Ghose at gunpoint, when
the 9-1-1 operator told them to put down their guns and wait
for police to arrive. When they obeyed this instruction and put
down their weapons, Ghose pulled out a pistol of his own and
started shooting. Mr. Harris was shot 7 times, and his wife
was shot twice. She survived the attack, but he didn’t.All this in front of the couple’s 11 year old daughter.
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Well, just to top it off, the former judge and attorney accused of whatever relating to messing with teen age girls noted in the Seabreeze article was a customer of mine. He was always running for one office or another and was a part time policeman for various municipalities around the area. Something about living near the water seems to attract the best kind of fun people.
I caught one of those big alligator gars on a deep sea rig right there in the canal that runs into Clear Lake by the Seabrook Cafe. I had a home made gaff with a big hook attached to a long piece of 2″ Schedule 40 PVC pipe. I put steel leaders on the line and cut up a mullet to bait the line of hooks that I had arranged on the leader – probably about 5 or 6 hooks. Eventually, my line started to get tight and was feeling like I had latched it on to the back of a small tractor. I gave the rod a big pull, and that darn gar came straight up out of the water, and he wasn’t happy. We fought for a while, and he finally got tired so I reeled him up to the side of the dock. The dock was too high to reach with a hand, so I hit him with that gaff in a big swinging motion to heave him up on the shore, and he came back to life and wasn’t happy again. A few other people were gathering, and I asked one of the Meskins if they wanted him, which they did. He did straighten out all the hooks on my line. But that was my experience with an alligator gar. And I had already quit drinking when I dreamed up that idea of catching one of those gars.
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Kim Ogg needs to be removed from office ASAP.
She’s a real danger letting all the criminals go free then they go on to murder others while out on bail.
Scum bag woman should be held liable and put in prison herself.
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Late in commenting on the OC pic that is quite something to behold. The optical illusion is really eye popping. And it surely keeps folks from running down that hallway. Maybe even walking down it.
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72 El Gordo
Well, just to top it off, the former judge and attorney accused of whatever relating to messing with teen age girls noted in the Seabreeze article was a customer of mine.
Oh, so you picked some of your clients from the same genetic cesspool that I did.
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He was always running for one office or another and was a part time policeman for various municipalities around the area.
Those part time policemen have always been such an inspiration.
Right Katfish?
🙂
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“The basic premise of the book is that we’re in the age of the Anthropocene, humanity has caused mass problems and one of them is creating this hierarchal world where white, male, heterosexual and able-bodied people are succeeding, and people of different races, genders, sexualities and those with disabilities are struggling to get that.”
“This is where the idea of dismantling identity politics comes in – they deserve rights not because of what they are, but because they are.
“The book also argues that we need to dismantle religion, and other overriding powers like the church of capitalism or the cult of self, as it makes people act upon enforced rules rather than respond thoughtfully to the situations in front of them.”
The central argument in The Ahuman Manifesto can be boiled down to this: mankind is already enslaved to the point of “zombiedom” by capitalism, and because of the damage this has caused, phasing out reproduction is the only way to repair the damage done to the world.
and,
It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the “ahuman”. An alternative to “posthuman” thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn’t dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning.
McCormack’s most immediate, unspoken but implied solution is for human beings to stop reproducing, abort any unborn children mistakenly concieved and to kill themselves.
I say: Hey, go ahead, you first, bitch.
Professor Patricia McCormack, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Patricia is a researcher who has published in the areas of continental philosophy (especially Deleuze, Guattari, Serres, Irigaray, Lyotard, Kristeva, Blanchot, Ranciere), feminism, queer theory, posthuman theory, horror film, body modification, animal rights/abolitionism, cinesexuality and ethics.
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Sorry. Not sorry.
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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, economics major and graduate of Boston University lectures on her favorite economist.
Milton Keynes
Put your coffee down as you follow the Twitter responses in the thread.
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Sorry. Not sorry.
I’m not losing any sleep over the corona virus.Neither am I unca Shanny but I do have some face masks.
Hard to drink wine through them though.
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There is a big ole moon, hanging low in the northwestern sky, this morning.
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LOL SD, whatever those charts you been posting are called, my FB is full of them now.
You’re welcome. 😉
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#81, On Alexandra Cortez, Twatter;
Obviously she meant Milton Bradley, or John Maynard G Krebs, ~ David Durge, Iowahawk. 😀
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Yesterday, DIL went to Long Beach with friends so the boy took his girls out to lunch @ Malibu.
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Trump’s resilience causes Democrats to sound the alarm.
Robert Costa and Philip Rucker, The Washington Post.FWIW; I want to highlight several paragraphs but there are just too many good ones. If you read the piece, notice how they call the President a racist and that he says racists things as if it is common knowledge. Trump hasn’t said anything racist, but since he doesn’t like just anybody, wandering across the boarder, he is a racist. So, he doesn’t like Illegal Aliens + most of them are brown = RACIST!
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Morning gang. A bit cloudy by a balmy 65 degrees out here today, different from the mid 20’s a couple of days ago. No substantive news to report for now. I think the Dems decided to take the weekend off and go lick their wounds suffered last week in all the beatdowns they took. Amazingly, all those wounds were essentially sefl-inflicted, but it doesn’t mean they will give up on the Wile E. Coyote playbook and ordering from the Acme catalogue.
It was so bad that I had to take a break on the Roku and go back and find some Roadrunner cartoons to watch to remind me. I guess those cartoons are too violent for today’s chillens, but I still find them outrageously funny. Not only does the original plan fail miserably, but it always sets in motion secondary and tertiary backlashes – and that’s where the Dems seems to be.
OK, you all have a great day, use protection, and stay out of trouble.
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BTW, does anyone remember why the Reps lost the House at the last mid-terms? Well, you may recall that the Rep Speaker was one Paul Ryan, about as worthless a POS and never Trumper as was out there at the time (meaning before Pee-Air claimed the mantle). Yes, the Reps had the house and gave it up to the Dems by resisting Trump and doing basically nothing – almost ceding it by design. I’ve always been concerned that our second in command, Scalice (who was shot at the baseball game), was another clone of Ryan, and that if the Reps take it back, it’s just same old, same old. Well, apparently Saclice finally saw the evil side of the Dems when they sent someone out to blow his azz off, and he now appears to be solidly in the Trump camp. If that is true, and if the Reps can reclaim the House, elect Scalice as Speaker, retain the Senate, and re elect Trump, imagine what this country can do. So, continue to drain the Swamp Mr. President, and hopefully help is on the way.
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Since it’s Sunday, maybe some of you have a little more time for in depth reading and studying than normal, and today the good folks at Power tine take a look at the goings on in Israel and their political outlook. Take a look, and if you have time, click on the URL and read the entire article. We are not the only ones who have a left wing bent on destroying our country. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/netanyahu-unbound.php
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87 Super Dave
If it makes you feel any better, that article has been online for 19 hours and not a single soul has made a comment.
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89 EG
If only the Republicans wouldn’t blow the whole thing like they have before with control of the House, Senate and White House. In 2007, we had a Republican president and majority control of the House and Senate. One year later, Barack Obama was elected president.
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This is very good. Michael Walsh and esteemed scholar, John O’Sullivan, advisor and speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher have started a new website, The Pipeline.
He is famous for declaring O’Sullivan’s First Law:
“All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.”
Diesel Populism Driving French Protests
Populism has proved a perplexing topic for our enlightened commentariat, unused as they are to taking seriously the views of anyone who doesn’t already agree with them. And so many (though not all) have decided that, instead of trying to understand the concerns of people who didn’t major in Grievance Studies at Brown, it is just easier to assume that all of those Americans who voted for Donald Trump, all of those Brits who voted for independence, all the Frenchmen in their yellow vests, the Albertans talking about secession, and the Italians, Poles, and Hungarians who are making Angela Merkel sad are just, you know, bigots.
Which is unfortunate, because, really, while populism has many facets, it isn’t that difficult a topic to understand. It is simply the result of a lot of regular people throughout the western world coming to accept, at long last, that the ruling class doesn’t have their interests at heart. They were working away, just like their parents and grandparents before them, trying to make a better life for their children, and then they woke up one day and realized that the people with real power in their countries don’t care a fig for them or their children, and think nothing of making their lives harder if it will get them some notice from the Davos set or an invite to a conference on Our Sustainable Future.
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WARNING: CAST IRON PORN
I just bought one of these for $30.00 – delivered.
I’m going to use it for corn bread muffins.
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This is not the Babylon Bee.
Please see my #77 for further understanding of the depths of Democrat derangement. These are the results of a poll of 400 New Hampshire Democrats and Independents.
No wonder Sarge left. These people are really insane.
Instead of rounding up all the Leftists in the country into re-education camps, we may have to start building larger facilities to house and sedate these people before they hurt themsleves.
The University of Massachusetts-Lowell Center for Public Opinion surveyed Democratic primary voters at the end of January and found nearly two-thirds would rather a meteor hit the earth, “extinguishing all human life,” than President Trump win re-election on Nov. 3.
That’s a serious poll result.
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About the Republicans losing the House in 2018, the main reason is that about 40-50 Weasels on the right, retired, didn’t like Trump I guess, couple that with voter apathy on the right but not the left. The right didn’t show up since they’d already elected Trump and the left was P!$$ed that Trump won. BUT, the fact is, that if all those Republicans hadn’t just quit, we’d still have the House, AND THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO IMPEACHMENT!
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Her Highness flat out refuses to believe the poll in #95. She thinks it’s an elaborate hoax.
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My #96, I have no idea if we can take back the House this time, but there will be strong turnout for Trump and a lot of them will be P!$$ed about the Impeachment, so we may just have a chance.
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Ninety Nine! Teeing her up! 😉
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Dang, is there a car chase on TV or something? Everybody just got up and left.
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Exiled Chinese Billionaire Claims 1.5 Million Infected With Coronavirus, 50,000 Dead
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You can’t scare me with these pandemic stories. And besides, who would miss 50,000 Chinese. I always heard that they could march 10 abreast into the sea forever and we would still never get rid of all of them.
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let everyone in even the illegal Chinese coming across.
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Dang, is there a car chase on TV or something? Everybody just got up and left.
Except for a couple of us the blog’s naptime is 11am-5pm.
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I was attending a conference here in Houston over the weekend. On the way home last night, about five miles from my driveway, something started to feel different with my car. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but then my check engine light came on. The off. Then back on. Then off. I was just getting off the freeway and about to tackle the surface streets to my home when the engine started to shudder. At stop lights I was afraid it would die on me. I was thanking myself for having signed up for AAA years ago and I was preparing to call for a tow truck. The check engine light stayed off but I crawled the car home.
It was late, so I left Hubby a note. Since I figgered I wouldn’t be attending the last sessions this morning, I allowed myself to stay up late. I had attended mass at another church near the hotel last night, so I didn’t have to worry about attending mass and I planned on sleeping in.
To my surprise, Dear Hubby knocked on my door this morning asking if I was ready to leave. He drove me to the conference, and was ready to pick me up later. (A friend drove me home.) When I got home, we talked a bit, and then he took my car to get it analyzed.
I’m a quart low on oil and firing on two cylinders. I guess I have some kind of leak, spark plug issues, and am burning oil. Hubby has put everything else aside to take care of my car today.
It’s good to have a husband who loves me and wants to take care of me. And my car.
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This is not the Babylon Bee.
Please see my #77 for further understanding of the depths of Democrat derangement. These are the results of a poll of 400 New Hampshire Democrats and Independents.
No wonder Sarge left. These people are really insane.
Instead of rounding up all the Leftists in the country into re-education camps, we may have to start building larger facilities to house and sedate these people before they hurt themsleves.
The University of Massachusetts-Lowell Center for Public Opinion surveyed Democratic primary voters at the end of January and found nearly two-thirds would rather a meteor hit the earth, “extinguishing all human life,” than President Trump win re-election on Nov. 3.
That’s a serious poll result.
Poll PDF Here
Texpat says:
FEBRUARY 9, 2020 AT 10:55 AM
Her Highness flat out refuses to believe the poll in #95. She thinks it’s an elaborate hoax.Tell her its dead serious legit, and that somer of the usual family member suspects have been posting to their pages as “proof” that “everybody” hates Trump, not realizing how barschizzle crazy it makes them look. A couple have taken it down after I started posting comments those posts just howe bad it makes them look, a couple have doubled down on it.
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Lurking.
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This song, “Burn the Ships,” has been running through my head. I didn’t realize it was about addiction – I was hearing about leaving bad things in the past behind and moving forward.
Maybe I missed something in the lyrics.
But I like the song.
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I’m a quart low on oil and firing on two cylinders. I guess I have some kind of leak, spark plug issues, and am burning oil. Hubby has put everything else aside to take care of my car today.
Good grief! How many cylinders do you have, 4? Not to be rude, but what kind of vehicle is that? It’d have to have 300K-400K miles on it to use oil.
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Lots of good stuff in today’s posts, and all worth reading the links.
However make sure you’ve had lunch first so you aren’t tempted to jump up for snacks and derail the train of thought these posting inspire.Bleak, overcast, and a bit windy today, temp hovering at 70 out here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond. Some interludes of heavy mist/light rain have passed through late this morning and earlier this afternoon, only staying long enough to barely wet the sidewalk. Not looking for a deluge of course, but a little more would be nice especially since spouse mowed the pastures yesterday to encourage the winter grass and discourage all the clover the horses mostly ignore.
Ruby and Jessica continue to get along nicely in the pasture and going out to graze and coming in for the night and dinner. Jessica is getting used to the routine and seems comfortable and interested in exploring the pastures. She’s made friends with the horses next door who are curious about her. Ruby knows the trio over there and occasionally visits with them when they all happen to be near our common fence line.
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BTW; When we traded in the old 2009 Tahoe, with 190K on it, the salesman said that they’d wholesale it, (I asked). Well, after a few days, it was on the lot for sale, I looked it up and they are asking $10,300, for it! But they’ve not sold it yet, after about 30 days, so it may be heading to the auction anyway. They often do this, keep them to sell and if they can’t get rid of it, wholesale it.
That said; It was in great shape, like new, except for some wear on the leather drivers seat and of course, the engine was fine, never used any oil, like most newer vehicles, that last hundreds of thousand miles. The back two rows of seats, might have been used, maybe a dozen times. It has hauled a lot of junk though but the heavy duty floor matt in the back protected the interior. -
Oh, and I almost forgot; one for Adee.
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My #114, when I sold my 12 year old Chevy Truck, with almost 200K on it I got $5K for it and the kid was real happy, the Blue Book Retail was $4500-$7500 so I thought that we both got a good deal.
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Where did all the red dust come from the last couple of days. Usually it comes from Africa but that happens in the summer.
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Red dust from Mexico.
And whatever happened to my car, it’s bad juju.
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#106 phil
Except for a couple of us the blog’s naptime is 11am-5pm.
I had an early nap today. I was afraid it would rain, and I had just got my HOA newsletter back from the neighborhood printer, so I ran my route early and then sacked out for a couple of hours.
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So, looks like I kilt the blog?
I guess it was my turn.
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You know how you can tell that the demographics of Fort Bend County has changed?
Its when this gets posted on Nextdoor:
Cows
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No red dust seen here on stuff outside. Vehicles were in the garage with the door closed. Nothing on the outside of the garage door or on the front porch.
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I know Hamous was heading out of town to the Arctic Circle so I don’t know if he’s checking in here. I wanted to let him know about this website.
I found this very nicely produced website called The Bitter Southerner. I was disappointed to find the folks that run it are too lefty for my taste, but they do publish some nice stuff and they have some pretty cool merchandise in their store.
Don’t deprive yourself of some fine writing and interesting insights because the site isn’t necessarily de rigueur conservative. The theme of the site is not overtly political and is strikingly, beautifully edited.
They like John Prine and Jason Bell so they can’t be all bad over there.
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#122
Now that’s just downright sad! Next thing you know residents will be calling for the firing of cattle guards.
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Of course we are out here in Redneckville, USA and people are calling for the halt of cutting down trees.
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#122 Sarge
Cows are in the Smith Ranch pastures going west on 90A from Sugar Land toward Richmond and can be seen if they’re close to the road and not down near the Brazos. Also there are cows in smaller pastures on FM 359 going north from 90A on the right hand side in pastures before you get to the Pecan Grove entrance.Hope this helps the Nextdoor inquirer.
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One of the things I was most struck by in my trip to Texas in October was the lack of cattle. I know Texas between Houston and San Antonio and Austin like the back of my hand, the little towns, cattle auctions, old ranches and back roads. I drove through there twice while I was home and the scarcity of cattle and calves was striking. I haven’t been there in six years so it was much more noticeable for me than a local.
For many decades, the 18-20 counties north and south along I-10 between Houston and San Antonio produced almost 75% of the calf crop to feedlots in north Texas and the midwest to feed the entire nation.
Where are they coming from now ? The amount of cattle grazing land I saw paved over and developed while I was in Texas was more than shocking.
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124 Texpat
I’m still here. Fly out in the morning.
The Myakka story looks interesting. I’ll check it out when I get a chance.
As to Leftist southerners, I have no patience with them or any other Leftist. They’re self-loathers just like the rest of them. There’s a whole movement of Red Southerners. They’re straight up commies, a redneck Antifa.
John Prine is a blithering Leftie, but I still love his older music. Isbell isn’t overtly political in his music (Prine is now) but I’d imagine he is too. He was in The Drive By Truckers and they have become overtly political. The guys at that blog reference another member of DBTs, Patterson Hood, as a fellow traveler. Hood is the son of David Hood, one of the founders of the Muscle Shoals Swampers. Fine musical pedigree, no doubt, and I enjoy their earlier music. Just can’t listen to their newer stuff. All I want is for them to Shut up ‘n play yer guitar.
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Good research here:
Won’t be a cover-up for BootyJug like there was for Obummer.
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A look at Trump’s budget plans for next year:
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No need to cover it up. They’re all out and proud now. Every debate they have (what is it, a dozen now?) yields 5 or six Trump commercials on each potential nominee.
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I guess everyone is watching the Oscars.
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Mrs. Biden, for the love of all that is holy, tell him it’s over and bring him home.
After a New Hampshire voter asks @JoeBiden why they should trust he can turn his campaign around, he asks if she’s ever been to a caucus before; when she says yes, Biden snaps: “No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier.”
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I see cows every week at the grocery store… or at least what’s left of them.
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I can’t remember the last time I watched the Oscars. I’m probably coming up on 30 years now.
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Buenos Noches,,
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As to Leftist southerners, I have no patience with them or any other Leftist. They’re self-loathers just like the rest of them. There’s a whole movement of Red Southerners. They’re straight up commies, a redneck Antifa.
Yeah, I know.
I wish I had the time and resources right now to startup a website of that quality and appreciation for fine writing with a philosophically conservative perspective. It was a momentary lapse in lamenting the distance between my expectations and realizations.
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Need to see cows?
Four County Auction Center
10 miles W of Bellville on FM 159Sale every Tuesday at noon
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#138 TexMo
I may beat that, as the last time I recall watching the Oscars it was because a movie I liked, A Passage to India, was a contender but didn’t win. I had to look that up: 1984. 36 years. Along those lines, I was going to say that the last movie I went to see at a theater was Wag the Dog (1997) — but then I remembered Hubs and I went to see a so-so sci-fi movie Elysium (2013). So I guess I am now a boomer?
Actually not: Boomers were born 1946 to 1964, and I am 2 years older than a boomer.
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And right up the road in Hungerford, TX is Hudgins Cattle Co. – raising purebred Brahman cattle for over 100 years.
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#134 – That was so good I had to watch it twice. Nothing quite like a cat fight in the jungle.
Santelli says the arrests start tomorrow. Someone is always trying to create hope. Believe it when I see it. Night all.
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They have some beautiful cattle down on the Hudgins place. When I was cutting through there headed south I used to pull off onto the side of the road and just watch their herds.
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And a mile from my front door are about forty of the nicest Brahman cows you’ll ever see.
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My Wife Thinks You’re Dead
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