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Good morning fellow couch critters.
FIRSTICUS!
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I like spiders, they take care of the bugs.
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Here’s Why Dodge Rams are Crap.
I just wish this Scotty fellow tell us how he really feels, you know, don’t hold back. 😉
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You Should Be Eating More Canned Fish.
Think of it as oceanic charcuterie.
Whenever I bring up my love of canned fish, my friends and colleagues morph into picky children.
Canned seafood has a bad reputation in the United States, and it’s not just anecdotal: On an annual basis, the average American consumes about 3.5 pounds of canned seafood, a number that’s been steadily falling over the last three decades. Meanwhile, the average Spaniard polishes off nearly three times that.
I wasn’t always a canned fish lover. A friend of mine recommended sardines during one of my sporadic efforts to work out often and eat well. He raved about the health benefits, cost-effectiveness, and convenience of these protein-packed little cans. I tried them out, and, well, I liked them. I didn’t love them, but I liked them enough that they became part of my diet.
It wasn’t until I went on a trip through Southern Europe that my love story began.
People in Spain and Portugal love canned seafood, or conservas. I knew this prior to visiting, but I didn’t quite understand the extent to which conservas were appreciated. At a tiny tapas bar in Barcelona called Quimet & Quimet, it all began to make sense. The only options for food and drink were wine, spirits, and canned seafood.
It wasn’t just sardines and anchovies, but razor clams, stuffed baby squid, mussels, and more. Each fish and mollusk was handled and plated with expert care. I was hooked.
Feel free to make fun of me for being a stereotypical millennial, but one of my favorite preparations is drained sardines or mackerel on top avocado toast with lemon, cracked black pepper, and pickled red onions.
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Texpat: Have you read this?
HEADLINE: G-d Is Testing American Jews. They Are Failing.
I have often marveled at the love affair that many Jews have with the left. It is no different than a love affair with poison.
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Feel free to make fun of me for being a stereotypical millennial, but one of my favorite preparations is drained sardines or mackerel on top avocado toast with lemon, cracked black pepper, and pickled red onions.
This sounds absolutely delicious! The only thing that could possibly make this better is a poached egg.
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HEADLINE: Trump’s EPA Makes Big Changes To Rule Banning ‘Secret Science,’ Obama-Era Officials Rage
The louder the lefties rage, the more correct the rule changes seem to be. The article could be expanded to read: The USA will no longer make policy based on junk science – regardless of how much the America Hating Left screams.
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I see Das Kouch is off to a slow start. Well, so am I. Looks like Squawk will have a bird’s eye view of the blue jay nest.
30-some-odd years ago, I was working a contract to port an application to a different operating system — I think it was DEC to Unix — and the building had just gone to No Smoking in the offices. But we could smoke at designated spots in the halls. So the hall with a big ash-can closest to my project was at a huge 2nd floor window overlooking the manicured grounds. Right below the window was a large tree with a bird nest occupied by a mockingbird. So for about a month we were able to watch as the eggs hatched and the baby birds were being fed by both parents.
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Posted on Michael Yon’s FB page, from his continuing coverage of COVid-19 in the Far East: A sign on now-empty shelves in a store in Victoria, Australia.
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Morning gang. Again the OC pictures are great this morning and serve as notice that spring is here. My bluebonnet patch has 4 little blossoms open as of this morning, and I saw somewhere that it’s already time for me to load my hummingbird feeders and hang them outside again. My mesquite tree has been trying to show some buds, but the pecan tree is still bare – pecan trees are a lot smarter than mesquite trees I’ve decided.
I’m still catching a lot of heat for commenting locally about the embarrassing incompetence on full display by county vote counting officials. Like everything else, about half of them are related to the county clerk, and like any good clan or tribe, they all stick together. They are as territorial as a tom cat and don’t think they are accountable to anyone, failing to recognize that state officials can squish them like bugs whenever they like. (I’m not a state official). Anyway, now that they put out some numbers that the establishment is satisfied with showing the right people won the election, it has just about gone away and no one will ever know what the real vote was, and their assumption is that no one will care – and most likely they will be right.
In other news, there is nothing yet to report for the day. I hope those bluebonnets hurry up, because I sure do need to mow my yard, but I can’t mow until I see where they are to avoid mowing them under. My ultimate goal is to have a big old bluebonnet patch for a yard eventually. Have a great day you all.
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5 BC
Yes, I’ve read it. There is nothing new there and if I had a dollar for every opinion piece saying the same things, I’d have a large pile of money. Nobody has offered any solutions to the problem though.
It’s easy to write about the problem. It’s hard to come up with a plan to fix it.
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Meanwhile, they’re going to be making DeLoreans out there near Squawk’s swankienda.
The Speciality Equipment Market Association, better known as SEMA, finally got the feds to kick things into gear after the group filed a lawsuit this past October. Now, NHTSA has released guidelines for the law.
There are still a few hurdles, but DeLorean is closer than ever, the company’s Vice President James Espey told Hagerty. There’s a 30-day comment period companies need to wait out, and then things need to go through the Office of Management and Budget for a review.
DeLorean’s Espey told Roadshow that “Realistically, I wouldn’t expect to see production begin until at the earliest this time next year.” He added summer or fall of 2021 is an even better timeframe for when we’ll see the “new” cars hit the road. Sorting through the public comment period for the regulations and OMB review will likely take the entire year, especially with an election on the horizon, Espey also noted.
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Well Fauxahontas is out! And rumor has it that she was smoking peace pipe with Crazy Bernie last night.
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Great photos, Squawk, even though I’m not a big blue jay fan. They come in my backyard, push away all the other birds – sparrows, wrens, cardinals, finches – from the feeder and then knock a bunch of food on the ground. Every once in while, the mockingbirds will get fed up and a bunch of them will attack and drive the blue jays away.
It’s like a street gang war. The blue jays have to be the biggest bullies, though, and have a reputation as nest burglars and baby murderers. But you don’t have a choice of subject, so if criminals camp outside your window, you gotta take ’em as they come.
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It’s quite a sight to see 3 or 4 blue jays hogging the feeder, not paying attention, when suddenly up high out of the sky comes a squadron of 6 or 7 mockingbirds dive bombing the blue jays. Screeching and beating the jays with their wings and making a helluva racket. They do leave for 2 or 3 days and all the little birds go back to eating.
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Thanks for the compliments. I had to grab these when opportunity came. Dang cloudy skies with flat light mutes the bright blue of the jays. I will be gettin more.
Texpat
I never thought of it that way but yeah you are right about them being the gangbangers of the bird world.
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There was a small bush/tree next to the restroom window at our church center for a while. One year, some doves built a nest right next to the glass. We could watch their business as we took care of our business.
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I still think fondly of the bluejay babies I saved. It was fun watching them grow up. I was sad the day I became an empty nester.
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mharper
No Smoking in the offices. But we could smoke at designated spots in the halls. So the hall with a big ash-can closest to my project was at a huge 2nd floor window overlooking the manicured grounds.
So you were a smoker?! You don’t strike me as a smoker, but you are a little older than me. My generation didn’t smoke and I was surprised to find that the generation that came right after me did.
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I think that my wife has figured out just why I’m not fond of black vehicles. It’s not that I don’t like them, I love them just don’t like washing them every other day.
I’ll give her credit though, she got out Monday morning while I was at the grocery store and washed her Tahoe all by herself, did a fine job also. Got the little step stool out to get the hood and part of the roofline. She used some sort of magical one bucket wash, made by Mother’s and it did a fine job. Of course she has one of those suede shammy, thinghy’s that dries it off right now. Of course, with the soft water, (it doesn’t spot) and the fact that black dries quickly, she got it dried off in no time. Next time, I’ll get the step ladder to do the top real good. -
The Bellville Times could only report Early Voting Totals because of deadlines to get it to the printers.
Here are the Austin County Democrat Early Voting totals:
124 – Bloomberg
114 – Biden
76 – Sanders2,301 Republicans voted Early.
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Warm and cloudless sky this morning, so I’m outside on a roll. I made up a gallon jug of hummingbird nectar(4 cups sugar, fill with water, and with no food coloring), got out my two feeders, cleaned them up, loaded them up, and hung them in their regular spots outside. Then I got the ant bait out of the storeroom and treated a few beds in my yard, and while I was at it, treated several that have popped up in my neighbor’s yard (the one whose husband passed away yesterday). There were quite a few big ones over there, so maybe it will run them in some direction than back over to my yard. So there, I actually got something accomplished today.
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Blue Jays may be the gangbangers but they are the most uncoordinated, dorky flyers of the bunch.
Our local mockingbirds won’t put up with them.
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Bird wars are fun to watch. But my neighbor has a couple of old outdoor cats who have one of their trails cutting through my back yard enroute to the great outdoors. There’s no tree or other structure for cover, and the jays and mockingbirds make soft nests out of that cat fur. I almost feel sorry for the cats – they’re so old they don’t even fight back, they just run for cover fast as they can, which isn’t very fast. The birds really seem to enjoy catching cats out in the open.
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We really only have mocking birds around here.
And cardinals.
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When we lived in Pearland, our home had a shed in the backyard, in which we kept our lawn mower and some yard tools. Jemimah, the matriarch kitty and queen rat and bird killer, had her litter of kittens there one year. Some mockingbirds also decided to make that shed their residence as well.
I remember watching her carry her kittens in her mouth across the yard to the tall weeds over our leach field, being dive bombed by the mockingbirds.
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Wow, Shannon is a redbird racist, cardinal hater. Who knew ?
Her Highness is going to be upset about this revelation.
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America’s Newspaper of Record, the Babylon Bee, tracks down the sad return of Elizabeth Warren to her roots. https://babylonbee.com/news/warren-returns-to-tribe-in-shame-after-failing-to-retake-land-from-the-white-man
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#19 SD
I started smoking as a senior in HS. Smoked from 17-50. When I was growing up, it seemed like everyone smoked. I disdained it, until I started, myself. In 1994, the company I worked for (on a drilling application that was bought out by Schlumberger 5 years later, and me along with the app) — decided no smoking in the building, period. Going outside to smoke didn’t appeal to me, so I quit cold turkey over a weekend. By the following Monday when the new rule went into effect, I was a former smoker.
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Her Highness is going to be upset about this revelation.
Dittos, my wife. 😉
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Her Highness predicted back in December Biden would win the nomination and select Michelle Obama as his VP running mate. I disagreed.
Now, I’m not so sure.
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I started smoking after I got out of college and started working. Most others that I worked with smoked as well. Once it became a liberal talking point, in my infinite wisdom, decided that smoking was all good since libs did not like it. So let’s say from about age 22 until 55 or so, I smoked, and I liked it. What I didn’t like was when it started costing $300-$400 a month to smoke, so I quit mostly out of greed. I figured I could find a better vice like fishing or something to spend that 3 or 4 hundred on every month. I don’t miss it at all, and in retrospect, I can’t believe that I smoked all those years. My BFF is still a smoker, and it doesn’t bother me to be around others who smoke, but I’ve got no desire to pick them up again.
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#31 – Don’t discount hiliary lurking around back there. If the establishment has worked out this plan to get rid of Bernie and prop Joe up for the time being, it’s a little too early. Joe is going to fall down or start babbling incoherently just before the convention, and there will not be a nominee apparent – until hiliary comes riding in to the convention like Lady Godiva on her white horse and offers herself up to sacrifice for the good of the party, blah, blah, blah. I’m still thinking hiliary.
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“I did speak to Pete Buttigieg a couple of days ago to encouraged him to stay engaged because he has enormous talent and I indicated to him that if I became the nominee I’d be coming to ask him to be a part of an administration to be engaged in moving things forward,” Biden said.
Joe Biden gave KHOU an interview Monday on the Texas Southern campus and essentially confessed to breaking federal law.
That would make the offer of a job in his administration illegal.
18 U.S. Code § 599 is pretty clear on this. “Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
Las Vegas odds are 1 in 843,000 that Biden will be charged.
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I love cardinals.
They can’t help that they’re retarded.
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This is a transcript from a late November 2019 Tucker Carlson show. Emphasis, as usual, is mine unless otherwise noted.
TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: [Mike Bloomberg] is too old, too rich, too pale for the modern Democratic party. That doesn’t mean there aren’t surprises on the way. There are and if you are wondering who the Democratic nominee will be — don’t bet against Michelle Obama.
Last week she issued a statement saying she has no interest in being president. That’s what she claimed there are signs that’s not true, actually. For example, David Axelrod who is one of the Obamas’ closest and most loyal advisors has been raising a scorched earth campaign against Joe Biden for months. What’s the point of this? Political consultants always have a point. Presumably, the point is designed to weaken Biden, who is apparently the frontrunner. Biden has taken big hits from Axelrod. He has called him a liar, a coward, all but accused him of having dementia. Would David Axelrod be doing all of that without the consent of the Obamas? No. There is no chance.
You’ve got to wonder what is really going on between Biden camp and the Obamas. Would the Obamas risk Biden’s viability just to get him to come begging in the summer for help ? And then they offer Michelle to save his campaign ? Politics are ugly, but that may be the most cynical strategy I have ever seen, if true.
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Well, this is in the news over here in Alabama; Alabama inmate set to die for slayings of 3 police officers.
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I spend innumerable hours driving 30,000 miles a year, much of it on brush-lined rural roads and highways.
Of the entire Avifauna, only the Retarded Reds consistently fly back and forth at truck grill height.
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The next time I come to Texas I’m going to get Shannon and we’re going to drive down to Rockport and meet Mark Pusateri and the great folks at Copano Bay Press.
This is a very nice reproduction of the Republic of Texas map handed out in 1844 to all of the senators of the US Senate on the eve of Texas becoming a part of the USA.
Apart from being the most accurate depiction of Texas produced during the Republic era, this map also served as a political pronouncement in two ways.
First, it recognized Texas as a separate political entity. No US government map had done that before.
Second, it shows that the United States assumed that if Texas became a state, it would do so with boundaries as defined by the first Congress of the Republic of Texas in December of 1836.
Those boundaries remained in place until the Compromise of 1850, when in return for paying off $10 million of the former Lone Star Republic’s debt, Texas gave up to the Federal Government her claims to the Eastern half of New Mexico, a third of Colorado, and portions of Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming. That’s about twelve cents an acre.
So here is Texas at her grandest extent, before setting her star in the American constellation and being whittled by compromise.
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Biden would win the nomination and select Michelle Obama as his VP running mate.
So, lemme see here, in the event of a 25th Amendment scenario, the Shaved Wookie would then be POTUS, right? This is assuming the highly unlikely event that a BiteMe/Wookie ticket would beat the Trump/Pence ticket.
Biden was impeachment/assassination insurance for JugEars; I wouldn’t give a wooden nickel for his chances at finishing his term if The Wookie were the VP. -
Fay finally wore out her mother’s walker, so I picked up a new one today.
You have no idea how hard it is to cut into a tennis ball, even with a brand new razor knife.
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Ha! I remember having my walker tennis balls opened up by a PT at the NW Memm-H gym, when I was starting there for my first bionic knee.
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#41 Shannon:. Like everything else, technique is key.
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You have no idea how hard it is to cut into a tennis ball, even with a brand new razor knife.
Actually, I do. I have a tennis ball on my car antenna – you’d be surprised how helpful it is in finding my car in a parking lot filled with similar (or even not-similar) cars. Even in its very worn, very grayed-out, and balding condition.
It’s in such a state because I remember how difficult it was to cut the darn thing the first time. But even in its “naturalized” state it still stands out and saves me time.
MIL laughed at me at first, when I put the tennis ball on my car – until the day she got into a stranger’s car….then I laughed every time I drove by her house and saw the tennis ball on her car antenna.
Hers actually was stolen one day in a parking lot. I guess the thief couldn’t/wouldn’t get his own.
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https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/george-bush-grandson-loses-in-spectacular-fashion/
Pierce Bush’s loss in the congressional Republican primary serves as the first time a Bush family member lost a bid for Congress since 1978. Since 1978, the Bushes have won races for governor, president, and even state land commissioner.
Bush reportedly advocated for a “comparatively hardline position on immigration” compared to the Bush families’ previous pushes for amnesty for illegal immigration.
Houston political scientists said that Bush’s loss on Tuesday, and the family’s waning position in the Republican Party, signifies that “compassionate conservatism” has also declined in the party in favor of President Donald Trump’s national populism.
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From my observations of the bird world, Bluejays are the noisiest but mockingbirds are straight up gangstas. I’ve had several of my windows bloodied up by cardinals fighting their own reflection. Woodpeckers are the clumsiest. They fly like they’re falling.
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There used to be a mockingbird that kept attacking itself in a window at church.
That went on for a few weeks.
It was funny.
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39 Texpat
Copano Bay Press opened a store in Corpus.
I’m scared to go in there, they have so much stuff I’d like to have.
Number one on the list is this print:
The Bloody Arm of Defiance
Months before independence was declared at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Captain Philip Dimmitt’s men, along with the citizens of Goliad, drew up their own Declaration of Independence from Mexico. It was signed at Presidio la Bahia on the altar of the chapel of Our Lady of Loreto.
This is the flag they raised outside the chapel in celebration and defiance, heavy on the latter. They had previously rechristened the presidio as Fort Defiance.
https://copanobaypress-gallery.com/collections/all-prints/products/flag-2
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The 10 propositions on the recent Republican primary ballot all passed, with the LOWEST % being No. 2. Texas should reject restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. Passed with 85 percent.
8 of them passed with 90% or higher. It sure would be informative to see just how Dimocrats would have rated these same ideas.
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I once saw a couple of feral kittens practicing their hunting skills on a fledgling mockingbird. It was an anti-Sophie’s choice moment for me. I couldn’t decide which one I wanted to lose.
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Prolly city slickers. Wimmins. Vermonters?
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Also shopped a couple of places in Brenham for power lift recliners for Fay.
There are lot of cheesey cheapo’s out there – but we had a bad experience with one of those that her mother had.
The price range is $350 – $1650+.
Sheesh.
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Her Highness predicted back in December Biden would win the nomination and select Michelle Obama as his VP running mate. I disagreed.
Now, I’m not so sure.
Back in December, nobody on the planet, including Biden’s handlers thought that he had a snow balls chance in hell of being the nominee. The only reason that he is being propped up now is to save the Democrat Party from Crazy Bernie.
Rush’s theory, that I agree with, is that the Democrats have already wrote off the Presidential election but don’t want to lose down ballot votes. That will surely happen with Bernie but not Biden, so Biden is the sacrificial candidate and is expendable since he’ll no longer be electable after this time around, hell, he’s not electable now! The Gay Blade and the Librarian were bought off with some sort of offer in the next administration to pave the way for the biggest loser to ever run for President. Biden makes Dukakis and Mondale look electable. -
The good news is when Biden loses, after a couple of months, he’ll remember that he was president for eight years.
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Tucker and Mark Steyn covered Biden well, saying something to the extent that Biden has coveted being the Dem nominee for President for his entire life. Too bad he’s not around to enjoy it when it happens.
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Steyn also commented about just how well the Dems had choreographed the exits of the other candidates. Each one just at the perfect time to work best for Joe and put the screws to Bernie. I just don’t seen how they can drag biden over the finish line though.
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50 mharper
“Texans should protect and preserve all historical monuments, artifacts, and buildings, such as the Alamo Cenotaph and our beloved Alamo, and should oppose any reimagining of the Alamo site.”
Passed with 97 percent.
Amen.
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Here’s proof hiliary fully intends to be the nominee. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/hilarious-hillary-2.php
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Run, Hillary, run.
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Yikes! Bluebonnets on the Gammagrass Road Right-of-Way, in front of my mother-in-law’s birthplace.
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Principals of privately-held Gojo Industries, maker of Purell, seen at the Bentley Maserati dealership.
/insert Muttley Laugh here.
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Rice University is feeling great as its world class ranking is going up. It’s reporting its very own coronavirus case. https://www.ricethresher.org/page/covid19updates
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Amazon deletes over one million items due to suspicious claims about corona virus. Or suspected price gouging.
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My first bluebonnets, if I can figure out how to post the FB link. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2618103538512661&set=pcb.2618103741845974&type=3&__tn__=HH-R&eid=ARCz9Ff1DCHLm5bx81RIvORfVwtq8WvaAYuxvrFfIJ0Dt2ZaXttQIrUat196NGRr_yKK6rqV4FllqCKL
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And this ties in with my #60 regarding Bill’s explanation of Monica. https://pjmedia.com/trending/bill-clinton-i-had-affair-with-monica-lewinsky-to-manage-my-anxieties/
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“I promise. I only messed with teenagers after Monica.
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Amazon deletes over one million items due to suspicious claims about corona virus. Or suspected price gouging.
I saw a seller charging $60 shipping for 2 small boxes of Cold-eeze.
Gouger.
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Every single Republican who gets caught in flagrante delicto till the end of time has now been exonerated by William Jefferson Clinton.
Manage your anxiety. Seduce everything in sight – by whatever means.
The 19 year old receptionist, the 16 year old tranny son of a donor, the alcoholic sister-in-law, the illegal alien cleaning lady, the nanny living next door…
…it is open season, no license, no bag limit !
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Has the border been shut down yet?
Then I guess the corollavirus ain’t all that serious.
Ask the NY Mayo Stain if the border should be closed.
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Wonder if those 27 trips on the Lolita Express with underage girls aboard was really just some form of therapy to help reduce Slick Willy#27’s anxiety.?.
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“Hey, darlin’, slide on over here, I need to manage some of my anxiety. It’s all right, I’ll tell your mama we’re going down to the library.”
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Dating underage girls is NOT pedophilia. Pedophilia is attraction to pre-pubescent children. After puberty, laws vary as to age of consent. I’ve read that age of consent in Mehico is 12. Also, age of puberty is generally years younger in girls living in or coming from tropical countries.
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Senate approves 8.3 Billion package to fight the corollavirus including reducing the spread of it.
Border is still wide open.
Any questions about what the definition of irony is?
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I guess irony is the Dims in charge of the House, where $ bills must originate?
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An extremely hungry grizzly bear is in your backyard.
The front door is locked but the back door is wide open and you’re looking out the front window to see where it is.
What happens next?
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Everyone sits down for porridge?
Just a guess.
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I just saw this report that Dan Patrick is taking the Alamo project away from G.P. Bush. (Who I was thrilled to see is out on his bum whenever the term of Tx Land Commissioner expires.)
“There is no disagreement that the Cenotaph needs repair, but there has been substantial disagreement on its final location. I have yet to hear a good explanation of why the Cenotaph must be moved. In the Republican Primary on Tuesday, nearly 98% of voters supported Proposition 7, which would prohibit the removal of historic monuments in Texas, including the Cenotaph. This issue now seems to be settled.”
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Quarantine the cruise ships.
Leave the borders wide open.
Any questions about what the definition of irony is?
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Any questions about what the definition of irony is?
No.
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Dims love immigrants from failed cultures. No irony there. Overwhelm, outnumber, obliterate.
Illegals don’t cruise in, they wade across the river. I thought everyone knew that!
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Don’t know how to wear my hair anymore.
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Got the dishwasher started late tonight, but it has finally finished, so I’ll say Nitey-nite to anyone still up…
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Oldie but a goodie. Night all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gFe8IY9H0Q&feature=emb_logo
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