Spring is coming soon. A few harbingers of my favorite time of the year. Places to travel, bobbin robins, and of course alligator and turtle love.
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Hey, we have Squawkster pictures, very nice.
It’s a mild 56 here in south Alabama, and we’re headed to the mid 70’s by noon. So, it’s Monday, time to lick start the week.
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72° here in the Bayou City.
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Splittin’ the difference out here in centex opening up at 66. Here it is Monday already. I’ve previously reported that my bluebonnet plants are up and growing, but no buds or any signs of blooms started this early. We had some cold weather, but we really need a good solid freezing azz ice storm to really wake them up. In other news, I’m assuming that the Dems took off for their bunker and huddled up over the weekend and plan to come out blazing with new allegations of some kind or another against Trump today.
Looks like I’ll be traveling later this week. BFF is turning 70 this weekend. I’ve been having trouble keeping up with these younger women here lately, but I’m still trying.
Meanwhile, you all have a great day and enjoy all of God’s glory. I’m thinking we need to fund a world wide photography tour sort of like Google Earth for squawk to send beautiful pics from all over. Problem is, he could photograph the goings on around Galveston Bay for the rest of his (our) lives and never go the same place twice. Anyway, keep it up; they are beautiful. More later.
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Flight to Detroit delayed two hours so I’d be missing my connecting flight to Toronto. They rebooked me on flights that get me to Toronto 2 1/2 hours earlier than originally. And the flight is about 25% full.
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So you are saying sometimes bad news is really good news, huh?
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BREAKING: Giuliani Says He Found The ‘Smoking Gun’ In Hunter Biden Case.
Giuliani confirmed that he has “what I used to call when I was U.S. attorney, the smoking gun.”
Giuliani said, “We’ve got the documents… This is a money laundering transaction.”
“It’s about $14.6 million,” Giuliani continued. “It’s a notice from the Latvian government to the Ukrainian government that Hunter Biden is under investigation for corruption.”
“I’ll simplify it. $14.8 million goes from Ukraine to a company in Latvia, disguised as a loan,” Giuliani said.
“Then it goes from Latvia to another company disguised as another loan, in Cyprus. And then it goes to the U.S. where we lose track of it because when [former Ukraine prosecutor Viktor] Shokin gets it, just about the day he’s fired…”
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72° here in the Bayou City.
So you home? I thought that you were up in the frozen north?
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Great stuff, Squawk.
Love the turtle and gator shot.
Second photo: Where was this photo taken exactly and what am I seeing in the far distance on the right horizon ?
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I’m linking, not posting, this photo of Howard Cosell because it contains a four letter word. Otherwise, it is funny as hell.
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#9 Texpat! HA!! 😀
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Spring is almost here. Should the President get serious about his housecleaning? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3815161/posts
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I usually try to keep up and think I know generally what’s going on in the world. However, I was shocked to discover this morning that Meghan McCain is married to, of all people, Ben Domenech, founder of The Federalist, among other things. WTH?
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I just got through reading Texpat’s #128,from yesterday; Keeping the country and it was a fine long read, 5 different stories relating to the Myakka River and the ranches/land, being lost to development. If you have the time, check it out and the website has lots of stories That I’ll be checking out as time permits.
Also, I agree with Texpat’s;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.
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Oh and my #13, check out these beautiful shots from Myakka river, area.
Myakka River B&W.
Jackie Brothers and her children in the woods near their home, only, about 7 miles inland from the concrete jungle of Venice Florida.
Florida Cowboys, modern day Crackers.
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It’s getting cooler rather than warmer as the sun comes up out here. Now down to around 50. What’s up with that?
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Oh and there is this from mharper’s #130, yesterday about BootyJug.
In his award-winning essay, Buttigieg swoons over his hero Rep. Sanders, writing:
Sanders’ courage is evident in the first word he uses to describe himself: “Socialist”. In a country where Communism is still the dirtiest of ideological dirty words, in a climate where even liberalism is considered radical, and Socialism is immediately and perhaps willfully confused with Communism, a politician dares to call himself a socialist? He does indeed. Here is someone who has “looked into his own soul” and expressed an ideology, the endorsement of which, in today’s political atmosphere, is analogous to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Even though he has lived through a time in which an admitted socialist could not act in a film, let alone hold a Congressional seat, Sanders is not afraid to be candid about his political persuasion.
“Liberalism is considered radical, and Socialism is immediately and perhaps willfully confused with Communism”! WHUT?!?!
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Texpat
The picture of the one lane “tunnel” was taken on hi-way 390 near Gay Hill (I think) if not it is on the hiway to Warrenton past Brenham. The Gulf shot is of a mile to mile and half long jetty on Bolivar. That is the bow of an oil tanker to the right coming into the frame. Get off the ferry and make a right on 17th street and there you are. Zoom in on the map and you can see the jetty
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Thanks y’all for the compliments.
El Gordo said
Meanwhile, you all have a great day and enjoy all of God’s glory.
And that is precisely why I do what I do. He provides the scenes. I just push the button.
Psalm 19
A psalm of David.
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.Y’all have a great day. I am gonna be out of pocket for awhile as we are on the doctor visits treadmill with my Mom.
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#1 SD:
So, it’s Monday, time to lick start the week.
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#17 Squawkster, thanks for the info on RR Overpass, I’ve been racking my brain since 5, trying to remember where it was, since I’ve been there. I knew it was in east Texas and thought it was just outside of Brenham, but I Google Mapped the area around there and couldn’t find a road that wasn’t turned into a bypass. It’s just past Wolf Creek road on 390, in gay Hill.
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#19 Bones, Dang, Oops, missed that one, but at least it was a typo, not a Smell Check….Oh and Spell Check, I’m really getting tired of this shirt! 😀
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Super Dave
Love the BWs of the river. Kewl
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#22, Squawk, I though that they were stunning. It is a shame that real B&W photography is likely gone for good. Using all the different color filters, to accentuate, the Blacks to greys and adding contrast. I tired B&W for a few years, but never really got the hang of it, you have to teach your brain how B&W will look before you fire the shutter.
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Super Dave #20
Thanks for the confirm. I’ll be hanged if I could remember. One of these days I need to get a GPS for my camera. Unless I annotate I forget
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Super Dave
Digital is all good and stuff and I can do a pretty fair job photoshopping to BW, but film there is a quality that digital falls just short of. The absolute main secret to good photography is learning how light works. Because of that I have seen some absolutely gorgeous pictures taken with the cheapest of cameras.
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#21 SD: I guess I could have just said “PHRASING!”
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Over on Drudge, I was reminded just why I quit watching the Oscars years ago;
When did they become politicians? Joaquin Phoenix lectures Oscars audience about animal rights while Brad Pitt slams impeachment trial for not calling John Bolton – and Obama documentary director quotes Karl Marx urging ‘workers of the world unite’
•Joaquin Phoenix launched a passionate speech about animal rights, veganism and Speciesism while accepting his Best Actor award for Joker
•Brad Pitt slammed Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in his Oscars speech
•He joked that his 45 seconds of speech time was more than the Senate gave former National Security Adviser John Bolton
•Hair Love creator Matthew Cherry advocated for the Crown Act, a California law that prohibits discrimination based on hair style or texture, in his speech
•American Factory co-director Julia Reichert gave Karl Marx a shout out during her acceptance speech by quoting The Communist Manifesto
•Janelle Monae opened the show by delcaring hersefl a “proud, black queer artist telling stories”SIGH,….. 🙁
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Squawk
Top OC photo is right here with a map and coordinates. It’s on 390, a little less than a mile west of Hwy. 36.
Bridgehunter.com – a very cool website of all the bridges (or most of them) in the lower 48.
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I knew it was in east Texas and thought it was just outside of Brenham…
Brenham might be in eastern Texas, but it ain’t in East Texas. (<;
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17 Squawk
My question was about the object(s) on the horizon, just left of the tanker bow in the far distance. Not the other tanker, but between the two. It’s either an island with a bunch of buildings on it or it’s a group of large boats.
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#29, HA! Dang, I can’t get that right, I’ll have to gid out my Winnie Graham book, to rediscover the “Pinto Bean/Black-Eyed Pea Divide”
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#30 Texpat, could it be the Selma?
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32 Super Dave
Maybe, but it appears to be much larger. Perspective and depth perception are very different on wide open water like the Gulf.
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The Kung Fu Flu could really start to make things bad on a global basis.
HEADLINE: Wuhan Virus Kills 89 in One Day as Death Toll Tops SARS
I read an article over the weekend that claimed the death toll in China is over 50K and that the Chinese officials are burning the bodies to hide the evidence. When it comes to infectious diseases I get very concerned; particularly when those bugs could be bio-engineered. This part of the article has me scratching my head:
There certainly is very little chance of a global pandemic unless the virus mutates and becomes resistant to antibiotics or worse, changes its morphology so that it can be spread much more easily from human to human.
Anti-biotics don’t work on viruses, they work on bacteria. Using them to treat viruses is what causes anti-biotic resistant strains of bacteria to come forth. This is not a complicated bit of analysis, why is it that the “journalist” made this mistake and further, that it got past the editor?!? How much of the rest of the article is absolute BS?
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Looks like some kind of plant.
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This is just too cool!
1955 GMC 101 1/2 ton pulling a vintage Airstream. This was pulling into the Macungie show about 10 years ago. I used to see this guy frequently at East Coast Truck Shows but not so much in recent years. Nice combo!
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Wait. That isn’t Old Glory.
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The Week When Trump Was Reelected
February 10, 2020By Brian C. Joondeph
Last week’s festivities started with “Republican strategist” Rick Wilson and sidekick stooge Don Lemon on CNN calling 63 million Trump supporters, “credulous boomer rubes” and laughing uproariously over their cleverness. As a strategy, it was brilliant, but not in their intended way, energizing the Trump base by insulting them.
Then came the Iowa caucuses. The party that wants to nationalize and run healthcare and energy can’t count 170,000 votes in a relatively small state and provide prompt results. Where’s the Democrat enthusiasm against the reprobate Trump? In 2008, 240,000 turned out to caucus for the Democrats.
Was this incompetence? If so, then Democrats should not be put in charge of anything larger than a yard sale.
If it was deliberate, they are trying to screw Bernie Sanders out of the nomination again. The Des Moines Register scrapped their pre-caucus poll for sketchy reasons, raising suspicion it reflected a Bernie surge. Their establishment can’t have that, pinning their 2020 hopes on a hard-core socialist who honeymooned in the USSR and recently suffered a heart attack.
And then;
What did the great unwashed in flyover country think of the SOTU address? A CBS News poll reported 76 percent overall approval among speech watchers. Worse for Democrats is that 30 percent of Democrats watching the speech approved, and a whopping 82% of those precious independents, courted in every election, approved of what they heard from the President.
What else do the polls say last week? Gallup followed the money and found Americans bullish on the MAGA economy.
59% in U.S. say they are now better off financially than last year.
74% say they will be better off financially in a year.
These viewsalign with President Donald Trump’s contention that Americans are doing better under his presidency, and with his use of the economy and job growth as key selling points for his reelection. -
This is an article about sun spot activity.
It must be remembered that the uncertainties in this field of science remain gigantic. No one really understands why the Sun’s magnetic dynamo goes through these cycles and flips in polarity. No one really understands why it produces sunspots as it does. And no one for sure yet knows exactly how the Sun’s cyclical behavior directly effects the climate. We only have circumstantial evidence, some of which can be legitimately questioned.
What is certain is that we don’t know very much, and are always in error when we forget this fact. Remember this always when some politician or scientist claims the science is settled or certain, and they know without doubt what is going to happen. They are either lying, fooling themselves, or are simply fools. In any case, such certainty in science should never be trusted.
The Gorebullwarmongers are nothing but crooked scheisters on a global scale. The environmental claims are all BS are represent nothing but a vehicle to control the world, the goal of mega-maniacal psychopaths from the beginning of time. I think the first recorded human afflicted with this insanity was Nimrod.
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As one commenter said: “Don’t feed the stray cat, Timmy, or it’ll never go away.”
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Texpat
Re: your “my question”
Whoops. Those are tankers on the horizon. There is also a buoy. Hey it is Monday I am not prepared for these deep probing questions. LOL
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Squawks, I have to say the photo of the turtle with the alligator makes me nervous. I can easily imagine the alligator deciding to harm the turtle.
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Texpat
#30
love me some of the bridgehunter.com. Great resource right there I tell you whut.
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It occurs to me that I haven’t been on that ferry or Bolivar since I was in my twenties.
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#43 mharper42
it is strange but I have never seen a gator go after a turtle. I did not want to bore y’all with a constant barrage of gator, turtle pictures, I have many scenes of the two groups living side by side. The turtles will crawl up to the gators like there is no danger at all. I watched these two for 10 minutes or so. Gators will open their mouth as a means to cool off much like a dog panting there is no aggression here at all. In this case the gator eased up to rest and just stopped. Turtles will dive out of site when we walk up on them but not when the gators arrive.
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Gators eat hairy photographers.
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First time in La Guardia. It’s an ugly airport.
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And very disorganized.
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Wow. A budget with a section devoted to CUTTING SPENDING?!
WHAT A CONCEPT!
The Trump administration’s budget for fiscal year 2021 will take steps to curb what it calls “wasteful” government spending, including cutting funds for, and in some cases outright eliminating, dozens of federal programs, grants and endowments, documents reviewed by the Daily Caller show.
For the first time, the budget features an entire chapter devoted to saving taxpayers’ money and defines five clear categories of waste requiring attention.
The administration used new guidelines to identify fiscally inefficient programs. The cuts will target agencies with overlapping and similar goals, agencies that provide similar or identical services to the same group of recipients, programs without a clearly defined federal role, federal programs that mirror state-level initiatives and erroneous payments.
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First time in La Guardia. It’s an ugly airport.
Ewwwwwww I been there and it ain’t got no better huh? Whaddaya expect from an airport built by named after a pro-New Deal liberal progressive Republican FDR supporter?
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Gators eat hairy photographers.
I wonder if they suffer after eating hairy photographers?
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#28 Texpat, see my #20. 😉
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The stuff on the horizon is several ships, one behind the other at various distances. Its what a submarine commander would call “overlapping targets” just before calling to fire tubes 1 through 6.
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Brenham might be in eastern Texas, but it ain’t in East Texas. (<;
What’d you call me?? 😀
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#28 Texpat, see my #20.
Yeah, but you didn’t have Bridgehunter.com in there so it doesn’t count.
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Tailwind?…No that’s a tailwind; BA flight breaks New York to London speed record as it reaches 825mph in ‘Storm of the Century’.
The Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825mph at 35,000ft as it was carried on a jet stream boosted by Storm Ciara – which has been battering the UK.
BA Flight 112 took just four hours and 56 minutes for the transatlantic trip and touched down at Heathrow Airport 80 minutes ahead of schedule.
According to Flightradar24 – an online tracking service – it beat a previous record of five hours 13 minutes held by Norwegian Airways.
Experts say the average flight time for the journey is around six hours and 13 minutes.
The pilot was apparently able to utilise wind speeds topping 250mph in the jet stream, a band of air currents pilots ride to increase their speed.
Flightradar24 tweeted: ‘Fastest across the Atlantic tonight from New York to London so far is #BA112 at 4hr56m.
‘If we’re not mistaken, BA now retakes the fastest subsonic NY-London crossing from Norwegian.’
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Young Mo does Country.
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If you are really in to this plane stuff dealing with crosswinds and landings, there was some guy out at Heathrow yesterday fliming these guys coming in to land. You can see the degree of crabbing they are having to do to fight the crosswind, then at the last minute dip that up wind wing and kick the opposite rudder to straighten it out at touchdown. Of course, there are some go arounds too, and the guy doing this is narrating all the time and is pretty entertaining himself. No need to start before the 30 minute mark when they switch runways. They called the storm Ciara. Same one that led that BA record crossing time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gln7T-xxE4k
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Brenham might be in eastern Texas, but it ain’t in East Texas.
All vehicles are inspected at the Washington County line to make sure no one is trying to smuggle in pine trees.
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I am going to vein doc this afternoon for a treatment to “flabby vein” in left calf. Done with local anaesthesia. Then tomorrow, I get it done in right leg. This may ease up on some charlie horse pains I’ve been having.
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The Bee is really putting a sting on Nancy today. glen Reynolds has now declared the Bee to be the newspaper of record, replacing the NY Times. The reason is that the Bee seems to enjoy more accurate reporting than the Times even though it is a parody site. This one is above average, even for the Bee. https://babylonbee.com/news/trumps-power-doubles-after-absorbing-impeachment-attack
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#57 – WOW!
REAL Country might just survive!!
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If y’all haven’t looked at my link in #40, you should.
Warren’s awkwardest moment. I’ve never seen so many averted eyes in my life.
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No eye contact.
Well, it is New Hampshire.
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Not too bad up here for the next couple days. Thursdays forecast has been revised downward since I last looked.
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The Oscars had record low ratings.
No doubt because of two straight years of hand-wringing over the lack of votes for deserving aggrieved parties.
I’m quite certain that they will eventually do away with the voting altogether to guarantee a properly woke outcome.
It will prepare the country for when they do away with elections of any sort, nationwide.
The technocrats must be allowed to decide things instead of you, the unwashed.
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I’m quite certain that they will eventually do away with the voting altogether to guarantee a properly woke outcome.
I hear the Royal Woke Ginger is looking for a new gig.
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Trump is holding another rally in New Hampshire this evening. I sure that it’s merely a coincidence that tomorrow is the Dem primary. On the other hand, I assume that he is up there just to rub their noses in it. I also hear there may be significant reductions in the proposed budget for EPA.
I’ll probably watch the rally and get all excited again. Meanwhile, the snakes are lurking in the grass no doubt. More house cleaning on the way.
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SO, I come in from outside and happen to catch some of the news and just for grins, I flipped over to the Parallel Universe, were Chuck Todd was talking to an IDIOT from Colorado, Mike Bennet, who is or was running for President along with several hundred others. You’re NOT GOING TO BELIEEVE This, but he actually said that President Trump was the first President ever to take the insurance away form 80 million people, and that is why the Democrats took over the House in 2018!!! WHUT?!?!? I’ll not even go into the fact that 40 or 50 Republicans retired, BUTT UNDER OBAMA I LOST MY INSURANCE!!!! I’ve had good, affordable insurance all my adult life, then @ 62, I could no longer afford my policy, I had to get a catastrophic policy that had a $8500 dollar deductible AND it cost 80% of my old policy AND the next year it cost 110% of my old policy!!!! I was screaming at the TV, glad the wife wasn’t here, she hates that…. That is all,… Rant over!
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I wonder if they suffer after eating hairy photographers?
Those probably look like a larger indigestible turtle to them, bet one would be safe.
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Coincidentally, I’ve been in Canada for a couple hours and already seen a half dozen commercials for private insurance to cover all the things government run health care doesn’t cover.
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The Selma is just east of Galveston island, closer to the island than the channel. I have not been on the ferry in close to twenty years. Our son was with us when we stopped by Ft Travis last, so I can remember a bit of the time line. From Squack’s link the park looks like it has been improved since.
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Last night I watched a couple episodes of Alaska PD. Let me just say, if an unbiased study is ever done, Florida Man has nothing on Alaska Man.
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link in #40
Someone should’ve asked her why she hates white folks so much and why she always sides with illegal aliens over American citizens.
#NocoROnaViRUscArRierISiLLegal
https://www.independentsentinel.com/elizabeth-warren-calls-half-nation-racist/
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You NEVER make eye contact with a reptilian Shape-Shifter. Never.
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Getting chilly. Front just passed.
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Back when we had cable, I sometimes watched a couple of Alaska law enforcement shows.
Lotsa addicts, poachers, and general lowlifes.
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If I lived in Alaska I would always be armed.
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No permit required to carry in Alaska.
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The crushingly irresistible Church Sisters.
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“Very distracting. Very distracting,” Trump continued. “I’m speaking, and a woman is mumbling terribly behind me. Angry. We’re the ones who should be angry, not them.”
The usual political comment here is Trump is playing the dems like a violin. He is slapping the snot out of them on bass.
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My niece reports that she saw these guys last weekend and a good time was had by all.
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Coincidentally, I’ve been in Canada for a couple hours and already seen a half dozen commercials for private insurance to cover all the things government run health care doesn’t cover.
The much vaunted free health care is not all it’s crapped up to be. Don’t believe the pols when you hear them say we have the best health care in the world. Got a problem, wait six months for testing. Oh, you died waiting? Sucks to be you, can we have your working organs. Thanks. If it wasn’t for the warmth I’d hate this place.
Oh, wait? What?
Maybe more later.
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My former next door neighbor now living in Arizona has the daughter and son-in-law stationed in Alaska. He’s the Marine Recon guy. The first thing he did was take her to the range and start training her for gun safety and how to use weapons for self defense. She is now an excellent marksman.
When they moved to Alaska they got a place out in the country on a few acres. The husband has to leave for assignments for days at a time so she is alone a lot. A couple of months after they moved in and he left, she noticed an old truck driving back and forth on the road and kinda hanging around the area.
One late night, her dogs started barking and she looked out to see the truck and these two guys walking around the house. Then they started banging against the door. She grabbed her loaded shotgun and a big pistol, raised the blind in the window so they could see her and in no uncertain terms told them they would be dead if they weren’t gone in a matter of seconds. She had already called 911 so the sheriff deputies caught them before they could get very far. It seems the word got out and she hasn’t had any more problems, but she is armed at all times wherever she is in Alaska.
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Here’s one for you, Phillipe.
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Led Zeppelin should sue.
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Vindman’s new posting (well, should be): https://www.peterson.af.mil/units/821st-air-base-group/ Read the New Comers information for some unusual suggestions.
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I read early this morning the White House has sent back to their original agencies or fired at least 70 members of the National Security Council staff who were Obama employees. There is supposed to be more to come.
Now I can’t find the story.
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Shannon, I know you missed it, but you have to watch this.
These people are so incredibly stupid I honestly don’t know how they even remember their lines for these movies.
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Yeah, I heard about it.
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Unfortunately Trump can’t slash about a thousand from the State Department.
But he has proposed slashing their foreign aid slush fund by 21%.
I assume they all fainted and are fighting over who gets to go on TV and freak out about it.
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“Maybe I’ll Vote Democrat Again”
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#86–u. S.
Did the Geek Squad form a band?
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I realize you prefer guys with painted faces and lace-up jack boots, but I couldn’t find any.
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96 u. S.
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100k
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Hunnerd N Two? Dang, Y’all did good.
A warm 70 here but it is supposed to rain .
Mornin’ Gang
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