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Nestled near the end of a suburban cul-de-sac in Alexandria, Virginia, is one of the most profitable media buying agencies in the 2016 primary race for the White House.

The unassuming two-story, single family home at 4507 Penwood Drive, is the registered address for Old Towne Media LLC — the media buying company that purchased more than $82 million in TV ad time for Bernie Sanders’ Democratic presidential campaign, Federal Election Commission reports through May show.

Old Towne’s income from the Sanders campaign has not been disclosed, but the industry standard for ad buy commissions is 15 percent. Based on that formula, the firm could have made $12 million.

The ad agency, established in 2014, has almost exclusively served the Sanders campaign, and the company keeps a low profile. It has no website and no listed phone number. A full list of principals isn’t publicly available.

and this,

Questions about the relationship between Old Towne and Jane Sanders have been met with silence from the Sanders campaign. At an event Tuesday in New Hampshire where Bernie Sanders endorsed rival Hillary Clinton, a spokesman declined to discuss the ad company and pointed to mandatory federal income disclosures for the couple.

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100 responses to “Wednesday Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hump Day!
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Looking over yesterday’s comments, can anyone tell me what the hell was in Shannon’s #35? MERCY!!!

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    1949 GMC Light and Medium Duty Trucks nearing the end as they roll down the Pontiac Michigan assembly line.

    Original GMC Factory product image.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    George Zimmerman Sues Warren and Buttigieg, Claims They Branded Him as Racist in Trayvon Martin Tribute to Garner Black Votes.

  5. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Bleak best describes the morning here, gloomy gray overcast with 57 at 6 and slowly sinking, now 56. Rain on the way, just hasn’t arrived here yet.

    Jessica the solo mare seems to be handling her situation rather well so far, eating everything put in front of her in the stall and grazing well in the pasture. Gratefully, the horse trio across the fence keep visiting with her. Yesterday she ventured into the middle of the back pasture to graze for a long time while her friends were away from the fence on their side. We haven’t seen her take any interest in Ruby’s grave in the front pasture near the fence between pastures, though we haven’t been watching that much so maybe she has. With previous burials we’ve seen horses visit the site and sniff around it but not walk on it.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon linked to this article late last night and it is definitely worth bumping forward to today.

    A very enlightening insight into Mikey Bloomberg’s operation.

    In 2012, I was working toward a Ph.D. in sociology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and my husband, Michael Forsythe, was a lead writer on a Bloomberg News article about the vast accumulation of wealth by relatives of Chinese President Xi Jinping, part of an award-winning “Revolution to Riches” series about Chinese leaders.

    Soon after Bloomberg published the article on Xi’s family wealth in June 2012, my husband received death threats conveyed by a woman who told him she represented a relative of Xi. The woman conveying the threats specifically mentioned the danger to our whole family; our two children were 6 and 8 years old at the time. The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos reports a similar encounter in his award-winning book, “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China,” when the same woman told Osnos’s wife: “He [Forsythe] and his family can’t stay in China. It’s no longer safe,” she said. “Something will happen. It will look like an accident. Nobody will know what happened. He’ll just be found dead.”

    The fact it appears in The Intercept, a leftist website, is disappointing because it won’t get the exposure it needs.  The author unfortunately is a Warren supporter, but her story is important nonetheless.

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The hubris of the Ds knows no bounds, to say nothing of their collective lack of civics knowledge.

    HEADLINE: Senate Democrats Hope To Limit President’s Powers To Recall Ambassadors
    /snip
    OANN reports Senate Democrats are working on a number of proposals to limit the president’s powers to recall ambassadors. According to reports, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is drafting new rules aimed at limiting the president’s power over the State Department, including one which would grant Congress more authority to question the president over their decision to recall ambassadors.
    This comes amid speculation President Trump recalled former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovich last year after she was suspected of impeding an investigation into corruption in Ukraine. Democrats have argued this constitutes an abuse of power by President Trump. They have also alleged he kicked Yovanovitch out for political gain.

    I guess the Ds simply do not understand The Constitution nor the concept of Separation of Powers, while an R holds the presidency.
    So the Ds make a ridiculous attempt like this and in the next breath speak of the rule of law and respect for the Constitution?!?
    /not enough hands for an appropriate face-palm

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #6 Texpat

    Shannon linked to this article late last night and it is definitely worth bumping forward to today.

    I’ll say! By all means, RTWDT!

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Well, this explains a lot and confirms our suspicions that The Rat is, well, a slimy rat.

    HEADLINE: Mitt Romney Caught Taking Big Money Donations from George Soros Org
    Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has been caught taking large donations from globalist billionaire George Soros’ organization, Soros Fund Management, financial records have revealed.
    Political figures who have received money from Soros include Democrat powerhouses such as former President Barack Obama, Sen. Chuck Schumer, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and others.
    Disturbingly, back in 2012, George Soros said he saw little difference between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, and it has now been revealed that Romney is on George Soros’ payroll.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #5

    We haven’t seen her take any interest in Ruby’s grave in the front pasture near the fence between pastures, though we haven’t been watching that much so maybe she has. With previous burials we’ve seen horses visit the site and sniff around it but not walk on it.

    We acquired our first dog, Sheba, and she was my baby for years. When I became pregnant, I realized that I would no longer be able to spend as much time with her as she was used to, so we got another pound puppy, named Aggie. (That was her name before we brought her home.) At first they played together, and they looked almost like twins. After a while, they seemed to become mere nodding acquaintances. I didn’t see them together much, but then I was busy with work and children.

    Aggie and I spent about two hours together one evening. I sat down on the ground and she put her head in my lap while I combed her fur, pet her, and whispered sweet doggie nothings to her. I was so glad I spent that time with her, for my husband called me the next morning to tell me that had curled up and died in the back of our yard during the night.

    He buried Aggie back there, in her spot.

    And Sheba slept on top of her grave for three days. It broke my heart.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m not sold on the soundness of the pardons granted by Trump yesterday, but there is one man who deserved it and was the object of an outrageous persecution by the DOJ and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, Rudy Giuliani.  America would not be what it is today without Michael Milken.  He is a genuine hero of capitalism and economic liberty.

    Milken financing and job creation. Milken’s financial revolution helped build this nation’s current industrial and commercial infrastructure. He financed more than 3,000 companies that became engines of job creation starting with his very first deal, in 1969, which helped assure Boeing’s market leadership through the rest of the century.

    Milken built many industry-leading companies through his financing. He helped transform entire sectors where smaller players simply did not have access to capital until he provided it. In home building, which employs millions of people directly and through subcontracting, he financed KB Homes, now the largest company in the industry, as well as Toll Brothers, MDC Homes, Hovnanian Enterprises, Oriole Homes, U.S. Home and many others. These are companies that literally built the American dream, and Milken drove their industry.

    In entertainment, MGM, News Corp., Viacom and AOL Time Warner were all Milken-financed. In the toy industry: Toys-R-Us, Mattel and Hasbro. In hospitality: Hilton, Days Inn, Holiday Inns and others. Convenience stores: 7-11 and Circle K.

    Safeway is a company with 200,000 employees in almost 1,800 stores across the U.S. and Canada. Those employees can thank Milken for helping build the company that provides their paychecks. His financing was crucial to Chrysler when it most needed funding to stay in business and grow. The cable television industry would not be in anywhere close to four-fifths of American homes if Milken hadn’t financed several major provider companies. Occidental Petroleum wouldn’t have jobs for its 8,000 current employees without Milken.

    Cellphones are in just about everyone’s pockets today. The industry started in the early 1980s when Milken financed a small company called McCaw Cellular Communications. That company became AT&T Wireless, which served 22 million subscribers and employed 31,000 people producing more than $16 billion in sales before its acquisition by Cingular Wireless.

    Another way to look at the impact Milken has had is to consider just one U.S. state. Nevada, one of the fastest-growing states in the nation, had its economy kick-started when Milken financed its casinos, newspapers and homebuilders. The rule of thumb in the gaming industry is that every job created within the industry creates more than three additional jobs in the local economy. By that measure, his financing of MGM Mirage, Mandalay Resorts, Harrah’s Entertainment and Park Place accounts for some 600,000 jobs.

    Other names among the companies Milken financed include: AMC Entertainment, Bally Manufacturing, Bally’s, Barnes & Noble, Beatrice, Cablevision, Caesars World, Calvin Klein, Chiquita Brands, Duracell, Filene’s Basement, GAF Corp., General Host Corp., Hasbro, Kay Jewelers, Knoll Int’l., MCI, Medco, Mellon Bank, Metromedia, Philadelphia Electric, Playtex, Southland Corp., Sunshine Mining, TCI, Uniroyal Goodrich and Telemundo. Milken was a sparkplug who helped ignite an economic boom. His financial innovations created millions of jobs.

    Giuliani was under tremendous pressure from the old guard on Wall Street to do something to stop these new, young players who defied their authority and status quo prestige.  When Ivan Boesky, who was a crook, got busted and offered to hand over Milken for leniency in his conviction, Rudy bought the bait hook, line and sinker.

    What Milken did was so complex and so successful, they not only didn’t understand it, but they had to make up violations for which no one had ever been sent to prison.  They finally broke Milken inducing him to agree to a plea.

    Rudy Giuliani has since apologized to Michael Milken for what he did to him.

    NOTE:  Everybody thought the young Fred Smith was crazy with his MBA thesis plan to create an overnight package delivery company in America until Mike Milken stepped in and saved Federal Express with “junk bonds”.  The people who bought those bonds surely didn’t call them junk when they sold them later.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today is going to be a long day. For those who missed my posts yesterday, the utility locate for the entire state of Texas is on the fritz. They didn’t have a backup, so they are scrambling.

    I talked to Hubby last night – I can imagine all kinds of lawsuits. Markings not being made, construction projects being held up…it’s a wissing nightmare.

    I had phoned in my locate request, and that’s when I found out that it wasn’t just the internet interface that was toast, it was their whole computer system. I got a phone call last night for an emergency dig up in Rockdale – not my call! The poor marking tech had no idea why he was getting emails instead of the regular notices, nor why my name was showing up on a locate request that wasn’t mine. When I told him the magnitude of the situation, he was floored. We processed my negation of the request, and I eventually went to bed.

    I struggled to go to sleep, and had drifted off just as my phone began to ring. It was 1:00 a.m.! I received three emergency dig up calls from marking techs between 1:00 and 1:30. Those poor guys were running crazy trying to take care of business. I talked to one of them, and he told me he’d gotten slammed with emergency calls. “I’m on hour 45 and no end in sight,” he told me. Bless his ever-lovin’ heart. He also told me he’d had three other situations like mine.

    It’s a mess out there in the construction world right now. This FUBAR is going to ripple for days. This backlog is going to take a while to straighten out.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and at 3:00 a.m. something loud fell off my wall.

    And I’m going to try to make an appointment to sign a lease in Bryan today, so that’s easily three hours on the road on three hours of sleep.

    Long day.

    I can sleep at Buc-ees.

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Hopefully thinking people will look at this and decide that Medicare for all is a disaster in waiting.

    HEADLINE: The UK’s National Health Service Can Refuse To Treat Homophobic Or Sexist Patients Under New Rules

    As practiced here if the Ds ever gain control: ‘So I see that you voted in the last 4 R primaries. . . . .you aren’t going to get your broken leg set for 3 days’

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    I would think this would be an important news story.  I can’t find a single news report on the Texas One Call system being down.

  16. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. Apparently lots going on today in the political world as well as the real world. Trump continues to work overtime to drive the libs around the bend and over the edge to join the several who are already there. I’m really enjoying seeing a Rep President who is willing to fight back, and slowly but surely I think he may be making headway. If nothing else, he’s certainly picking the scab off the festering wound and exposing what is really underneath it in our corrupt government.

    I haven’t been able to piece together the meaning of all these commutations and pardons, but on the surface it appears that each of these individuals spent time in lock up, were non-violent offenders, and were prosecuted by some offshoots of Mueller and Comey, et al. Next we get to see what the corrupt judge does to Roger Stone.

    Barr has a tough job to do, and he must be getting close as the Dems are calling for him to resign. So, if he resigns, they will immediately turn on Trump and blame him for tweeting to cause the resignation. Funny how that works. The DOJ septic system must be scrubbed out with toothbrushes if necessary, and that is a big job. I would expect Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulo (sp?) to be in line for the job if Barr throws in the towel. There is simply no way to negotiate in good faith if both parties are not operating in good faith, and the Dems are not, so the gentlemanly negotiations will not be fruitful. Seems that a two by four across the head is the only thing the Dems understand – so go for it.

    OK, you all have a great day.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I would think this would be an important news story. I can’t find a single news report on the Texas One Call system being down.

    I just went to Texas811.org and they have a notice that their system is now “in a functional state” but they are still testing and the staff is working to get to 100% functionality. And stay tuned.

    I’ll bet there are a lot of all-nighters being pulled. And heads will roll, I’m sure.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t think Barr will resign, at least not from pressure exerted by a bunch of whiny Democrats and former disgruntled DOJ employees.  He knew it was going to get this bad and worse when he agreed to take the job.

    I noticed this sanctimonious demand he resign from George H.W. Bush’s Deputy AG Donald Ayers.  The name rang a bell with a bad connotation.  I looked him up and he resigned his position after 6 months and a fight with AG Thornburgh over authority.  Guess who took his place ?  William Barr.

    One of the biggest obstacles for Barr in cleaning out The Swamp are the courts in DC where cases are tried.  It has become extremely difficult to convict anybody who is a Democrat in that town.  The jury pool is made up almost exclusively of anti-Trump Deep State employees.

    I think we need to have Congress create a new court for federal government employees only outside of the District of Columbia.  San Saba County, Texas might be a good place.

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I wish John bolton would take a powder.  He has gotten a bug up his butt and become a disappointment to me.

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, the boy is getting all fancy and going Hollywood. He hired some professional landscaping outfit to fix up his patio and put in an outside kitchen, complete with a BBQ, Pizza Oven and a Fire Pit. In the front, he’s getting a brick and wrought Iron Fence.

  21. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Slept in late, trying to put together a grocery list and get headed to Kroger before afternoon rain in H-town.

     

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The bill, which would treat the offense of plural marriage as a simple infraction on par with a parking ticket, now moves to the Utah House of Representatives, where it is likely to face greater resistance.

    The bill swiftly cleared the Republican-controlled Senate on a vote of 29-0 with little discussion.

    Under current law, polygamy – typically involving a man who cohabitates with and purports to marry more than one wife – is classified as a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

    Does this mean we can kick Utah out of the Union ?  The other 44 states wouldn’t let them in back in the 1800s because they were polygamists and demanded they prohibit polygamy in their new state constitution before they could join the USA.

    We could could get rid of Mitt too.

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Super Dave #20

    C’mon man.  You can tell us the truth.  That is the beginnings of your new kitchen in your new restaurant,

    SUPER DAVES HOME COOKING EATS, CHEVY TRUCK MUSEUM AND TRACTOR REPAIR,

    It has got to be.  A couple weeks ago you were trying to throw us off the trail with hints like super secret don’t ask business meetings,  denial denials about becoming a Rocket Ranch consultant and other odd things.  There just ain’t no way i can see you wasting your talent for creating tempting culinary delights

     

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The bill swiftly cleared the Republican-controlled Senate on a vote of 29-0 with little discussion.

    We finally found the one, single thing Republicans and Democrats can be bipartisan about.

    A house full of wives.

    YIKES !!!

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #23 Squawkster HA!

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I just fired up the A/C, @ 75, in the Living Room, it wasn’t too bad but the humidity is killing me. Last week we ran the A/C for the first time since November. I can’t believe we didn’t need it in December.

  27. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Ok, all you birdsters, this red-shouldered hawk popped up in my memory thread Over Yonder.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Federal judge dismisses downstream Harvey claims stemming from reservoir releases, says Army Corps is not liable

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Federal-judge-dismisses-downstream-Hurricane-15065979.php

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    MHarp #27

    nice!!

     

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    This is a messier than a can of worms poured into a blender.

    LANDOWNERS REQUEST PERJURY INVESTIGATION OF TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY TESTIMONY IN 86TH LEGISLATURE

    I just might be there.

    NOTE-THERE WILL BE A MEETING TONIGHT IN NAVASOTA WITH CONGRESSMAN KEVIN BRADY ON THE HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND THE FIGHT AGAINST IT

    6PM-GRIMES COUNTY EXPO CENTER

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Drone footage of wall building here.

  32. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    President Trump should put together an ad stating Burnie’s form of communism (same as Stalin’s) will confiscate all of the SJW’s apples devices and androids so no one can tweet or twat nary a bad word about Bolshevik Burnie and his gang of totalitarians.

    There will also be latte shortages and long latte lines at Starbuck’s.–“but dat’s a good ting.”

    And hair extensions and fake nails will be forced to go black market.

    Game over.

     

  33. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Burnie’s new ad.

    https://tenor.com/view/stalin-gulag-gif-14227987

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    We are in real trouble folks.  The Box family ducks have grown man buns.

    Crested ducks

     
    Taken in Rockport Maine

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Ryan Newman has been released from the hospital after the big Daytona 500 crash. Very little news has been coming out about his condition other than being critical but not life threatening, even now. But he is walking and talking with all his appendages. Thank you Lord.

  36. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    House full of wives.

    /shudder

  37. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Looks more like two SpyDucks donning Alexa eavesdropping gear.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    31
    Quite an operation.

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #34

    Heh. Cute ducks.

     

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    36 GJT
    I’ve never understood how it can possibly work. The way women generally treat each other, wouldn’t you have to keep them isolated from one another?

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    40
    I suppose the head of household needs to be a strong, Patton-type. And carry a select Peach switch to enforce the peace.

  42. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #40

    They would have a common enemy.

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Same with those guys that live double lives. Why?

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    43
    Those guys are craaaaaaaaaaaazzzy.

  45. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #34 – Squawkster I can tolerate those idiotic top knots on a duck…….

    On a human?                    *puke*

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    At least the ducks aren’t wearing saggy pants.

  47. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    How do you know? That part of those ducks is under water…..

  48. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Katfish

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

     

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Years ago when we all met on LST I did not care

    But now

    Don’t make old people mad. The older they get the less life in prison means to them.

  50. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Good news from the government. https://babylonbee.com/news/reminder-you-no-longer-need-a-color-tv-to-watch-the-democratic-debate

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, it looks like we’re renewing our business for a bit longer.

    We have a big job for a big customer, who’s gotten screwed by another contractor. His permit runner went MIA and there’s paperwork to be processed. There’s no way it’ll get done by end of month, and we don’t want to leave them stranded. It just ain’t right.

    The customer will be billed for a good chunk of our much reduced insurance bill. It’s much lower because our sales have gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy down, so it’s not bad. It’ll still be cheaper than them trying to get someone else in to finish the work. If Hubby does one or two irrigation meters a month it’ll pay for the monthly insurance payment and leave a little change. We may cancel the policy in a few months, or keep it ’til November when our bonds expire.

    I wonder if the permit runner is about to lose her biggest client???

    Oh, and Texas811.org has a new announcement – the “dial 811” won’t work now, so folks have to call in on a regular 800 number. Speaking of losing jobs….

  52. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #51 Tedtam
    Such situations have an unbelievable habit of popping up just as you are gathering all loose ends in a bundle prior to retirement/other significant change of lifestyle.

    And of course it involves good people you’ve worked with before who’ve been left with a mess not of their own making. To the rescue once again, and darn it, this is the last time. One hopes. 🙂

  53. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We have a couple of irrigations system companies that we can work for exclusively. They are fun folks and we know all of their meters will be in-and-out jobs without those pesky street cut permits, etc.

    And one or two homebuilders for whom we’ll just say “short taps only” if they want to use us.

    Until we throw in the towel.

  54. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tomorrow I go in to have my remaining wisdom teeth extracted.

    Not gonna be fun. The one I had taken out in college was a bear and that dentist struggled for close to an hour to get one tooth out. I couldn’t sleep for two days. Whatever he gave me for pain did virtually nothing. In other words, I was plain miserable.

    This time I’m going to an oral surgeon and I told him I want to be knocked out. He says he can extract the other three in 30 – 45 min. I hope he’s right!

    Prayers for a speedy recovery are appreciated.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just amazing that Ryan Newman walked out of the hospital today.
    When that second car knocked him airborne, his car was upside down, with him at the point of impact.
    The more times you see it the more unbelievable it is.

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    TexMo

    I wish my wisdom teeth had come in. I have plenty of room.

    Given my four hour molar extraction experience, I literally feel your pain. I hour it goes well.

    I remember when Hubby-then-fiance was going to have all 4 pulled at once. He wanted to drive himself in his car, insisting that he was going to drive himself home after. MIL and I looked askance at each other and went with him, making sure he was a passenger. IIRC, we were both holding him up getting him to and into the car. Good thing he weighed a lot less back then.

  57. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I had all my wisdom teeth pulled at once in my late twenties I guess it was, yep I told them I wanted to be out while he did it. He said when he pulled my lower left one, fluid just poured out. I had for years dealt with sinus and ear issues that immediately cleared up after that. And that was not the reason I had to get them pulled.

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I had mine pulled at age 28 or so. Can’t remember why it was done, but I was anesthetized. I think I did drive myself home afterwards.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I never got around to getting the last one pulled. It hasn’t given me any trouble.

    But I am a little long in that tooth.

    🙂

  60. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    He said when he pulled my lower left one, fluid just poured out. I had for years dealt with sinus and ear issues that immediately cleared up after that.

    GJT, that is very strange indeed. I would have thought perhaps removing an upper tooth close to the sinus cavity could possibly do something like that. Maybe I’ll get lucky like that too!

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Singing of the stormy South.
    The storm clips make you feel right at home.

    https://youtu.be/I_RL5pqD-V8

  62. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    If I start posting incomprehensible gibberish around 11 am tomorrow morning, just ignore me.

    BTW I apologize in advance. 🙂

  63. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    My two bottom w teeth came in but the one of the left was crooked.

    I was thinking about getting it out when I bit down on a carrot one night and it broke right off.

    No pain no bleeding and the hole closed up after a few months.

    I guess that’s why rabbits have great eye site and never have to visit the dentist.

    Amazing.

  64. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m gonna see how long I can listen to the democraps debate tonight.

    Because this day just hasn’t been hard enough….

  65. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    the debate will be

    we hate Trump

    we hate Trump

    we hate Trump.

    White people are all evil white supremacists.

    White people are all evil white supremacists.

    White people are all evil white supremacists.

    The end.

  66. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wow, Warren has jumped out front with the jumping on.

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s wisdom tooth night at Hamous.org.

    When I was 16, a wisdom tooth became impacted and my mother took me to her dentist.  His name was Dr. John Poindexter, the first, and highly respected, black professor at the University of Texas School of Dentistry in the Texas Medical Center.  When he wasn’t being a professor, he ran a practice in an old building out on Almeda Road just south of 610 servicing the black community.  It was bleak and the parking lot was Parker Bros. oyster shell with plenty of dust.

    My mother, born with the same chronic dental problems as me, had been going to an old Jewish dentist in the Fifth Ward who was a friend of a friend.  This woman, Dr. Sarah Levin, had devoted her life to providing dental care to poor folks in the ghetto and was a close friend of Dr. Poindexter.  They sold excellent dental service at a cheap price to poor people.

    Dr. Poindexter was a tall, handsome bigger than life kind of guy, looked like and reminded me of Bill Cosby.  The system at his office was typical of the ‘hood, no appointments – first come, first served.  This was because the clientele was at the mercy of the Houston bus services, taxis, family or friends providing rides and who knows when any would show up.

    So I sat there for an hour or two being the only white person in the large, packed waiting room.  I was called in and Dr. Poindexter looked at my X-rays and asked, “Son, why do you want to take out just one wisdom tooth ?”  I told him I didn’t have a good answer.  He said you might as well take all four out now and have the pain once instead of four times.  I agreed, they knocked me out with sodium pentothal, pulled all four and the next thing I knew I was at home out on Britt Moore Road.

    The total bill was $75 in 1968.  I was in pain for that evening and up and running the next afternoon.

  68. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It both cracks me up and infuriates me when these jacka$$es decry billionaires.

    Not millionaires. Not any more. Because they’re all millionaires. So billionaires are evil.

    The hypocrisy is puke worthy.

  69. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Biden looks lively. For now.

  70. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bernie, if you’re not making a nickel more than you were 45 years ago, maybe it’s not the system that keeps you there.

  71. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bernie decries and denounces those on his campaign and among his supporters who are mean to union leaders.

    What about those on his campaign that want to put non-socialists into gulags?

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I just tried to watch the Democratic debates and lasted about 5 minutes.  I honestly cannot take them anymore.

  73. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Funny you should mention Wisdom Teeth, I didn’t get mine until I was in my early 30’s and there were only two of them on the right side, I still have them, they were never a problem. Now, I have one on the upper left breaking through the skin! I first noticed it just last month,…who’d a thunk it?!

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ben Domenech commenting on the debate:

    “This is all so terrible”

  75. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    It’s wisdom tooth night at Hamous.org.

    Occasionally I try to fit in.

  76. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bloomberg just got snippy with Biden trying to interrupt him. Biden didn’t like that at all.

    Where’s my popcorn.

  77. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Biden looks lively. For now.

    Probably thinking about girl caressing and sniffing.

  78. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Biden’s gonna wear himself out at this rate. His battery doesn’t last that long.

    Bloomberg is apologizing for stop and frisk. Again. But the others aren’t accepting it.

  79. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    As much as I enjoy watching Biden’s eyes pop open, I think I’d rather watch a Taylor Marshall video on Catholic theology.

    At least he ain’t lyin’ to me.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We couldn’t bear to watch at all.

  81. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    It’s wisdom tooth night at Hamous.org.

    And this

    I just tried to watch the Democratic debates and lasted about 5 minutes. I honestly cannot take them anymore.

    Yep, I’d rather read about y’alls teeth problems than watch that debate.

    Thanks Tedtam for some highlights.

    BTW, thanks to Dave for giving us snippets of the day time talking heads on MSM.

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Create In Me

    https://youtu.be/noUeQQ64Q1I

  83. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Is there any single person on that stage you can imagine in any realm of imagination as the President of the United States of America ?

    Honestly, I wouldn’t hire any of them to do anything.

  84. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Can we segway into discussions about colitis or Irritable Bowel Syndrome? I’m sure that is more interesting than the Dem debate too.

  85. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was surprised that I ended up watching the SOTU speech on C-SPAN. I usually don’t.

    But ain’t no way I am watching these Dim monkey debates.

     

  86. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    But ain’t no way I am watching these Dim monkey debates.

    Don’t insult monkeys.

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    1-9-20 A former U.S. government agent has admitted participating in the illegal government surveillance on then-CBS New investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson. The insider has identified former U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein as the person responsible for the project.

    https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/01/former-govt-agent-admits-illegally-spying-on-sharyl-attkisson/

  88. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #84 = YIKES!

    (here’s hoping BC is already asleep PLEASE Lord!)          🙂

  89. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’ll jump on the wisdom tooth train. Mine started coming in when I was in my early 20s. Every six months or so I would get tremendous aches for a couple of days. At about 30 I’d had enough and went to an oral surgeon. All four were impacted. He knocked me out, took all four out at once, and sent me home with percodan script. To the amazement of my girlfriend and friends I ate a t-bone steak that night.

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Darren J. Beattie
    @DarrenJBeattie

    Bloomberg’s weak, stuttering debate performance teaches important lesson:

    There is no amount of money in the world that can buy you a set of balls.

  91. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Ah wisdom toofs!

    I had 3 extracted around age 18 – completely uneventful……..

    THEN(!) on the very day before my wedding at age 25………here’s comes number 4 on it’s excruciating mission – Man oh MAN I was a hurting unit!

    We found an “urgent care” Dentist over on SW Freeway – little did I know that #4 was only a tiny ‘pearl’ with NO root. Took that dentist only one tiny tap of a hammer and I was on my way pain free – what struck me the most – from the time I walked through his office door until my exit was ONLY FOURTEEN MINUTES

    for $75 !!

  92. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t think even the DNC at its most corrupt could pull Bloomberg over the finish line after tonight.

    It’s just one night, sure, but it’s been a bad one for Bloomberg.

    -Stephen Green

  93. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is it.

    James Taranto

  94. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    He must’ve watched the Totalitariancrat “debate.”

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    https://youtu.be/yR0CQ5huacY

  96. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    My fave – Bloomburg paid a billion dollars to get beat up by a dementia patient and a fake Indian.

  97. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #96 – LMAO!

    couldn’t happen to a more ignorant midget!

  98. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    98..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNjH8rEJjDc

  99. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    99…

    Never knew they sang together.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCLZnCiH_k0

  100. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hunnerd?! Dang,…Wake Up Slackers! We’re burning daylight.
    Mornin’ Gang

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