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Wednesday Open Thread

The Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company (PAT) was an oil company founded in 1916 by the American oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny after he had made a huge oil strike in Mexico. Pan American profited from fuel demand during World War I, and from the subsequent growth in use of automobiles. For several years Pan American was the largest American oil company, with holdings in the United States, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. In 1924 Pan American was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal over irregularities in the award of a U.S. government oil concession. Standard Oil of Indiana obtained a majority stake in 1925. The company sold its foreign properties to Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1932. What was left of Pan American was merged with Standard Oil of Indiana in 1954 to form Amoco.

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The Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company was incorporated by Doheny in Delaware in 1916 as the holding company for his Mexican Petroleum Company, Huasteca Petroleum Company and California oil properties.  World War I drove up demand for oil-fueled transport, and Doheny responded by expanding pumps, tanks and loading sites in Tampico. By July 1917 Pan American had a fleet of 31 tankers. The company paid $1.1 million in dividends in 1917 and $3.1 million in dividends on its common stock in 1918. 1918 revenues were $17 million and net profits were almost $7 million.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Is it Wednesday already? Time is moving on. That is a great picture BTW.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Looking at the picture, notice that the attendant is filling a quart oil container with oil and judging from the engine the automobile is a Ford Model T. I knew it wasn’t a Model A since there was not intake heater over the exhaust. I don’t know when the picture was taken but the Model A came out in 1927. BTW; The pumps were state of the art for the time since they had dials to measure the amount of gas. Most pumps of that era had a big fishbowl on top that you pumped up to the gallon level and then dumped it into your tank.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin!

    You know, I was thinking watching Tucker Carlson’s show last night, Joe Biden had to have been shaking in his boots when the Democrats started all the Ukraine crap on Trump. I think otherwise it would have been just some obscure story no one would have interest in.

  4. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Shannon’s #94 from last night.

    Hillary Clinton isn’t President and didn’t pick three Supreme Court justices.

    🙂

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat says:
    October 27, 2020 at 11:25 am

    30 Super Dave

    I see Kimber is moving all of their gun company to their new Troy, Alabama location from New York. They just built a fancy new plant there.

    Adios, Cuomo.

    I forgot to comment on that but it was big news around here a couple of years ago when they built the manufacturing plant. Actually Alabama has done a good job of attracting business to the state.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Tuberville must have that race wrapped up. Media isn’t even talking about that Republican pick up. And no polling to speak of.

    Tuberville up by 12 points last I checked and he’s spent about $8 million, Doug Jones about $27 million. This sets a new record for the most money ever spent on a Senate race in Alabama.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I was reading an American Rifleman article about gun manufactures moving south and they had this Map. Not all locations are correctly positioned on the map and it was made before Kimber moved to Troy Alabama in 2018.

    1) Ashbury Precision Ordnance, Ruckersville, VA

    2) Sturm, Ruger, Mayodan, NC

    3) Para USA, Pineville, NC

    4) FNH USA/Winchester, Columbia, SC

    5) Ithaca Gun, Aynor, SC

    6) PTR, Aynor, SC

    7) Daniel Defense, Ridgeland, SC

    8) Daniel Defense, Black Creek, GA

    9) MasterPiece Arms, Comer, GA

    10) Lothar Walthar Precision, Cumming, GA

    11) Knight’s Armament, Titusville, FL

    12) Kel-Tec, Cocoa, FL

    13) Diamondback, Cocoa, FL

    14) Taurus/Rossi, Miami, FL

    15) Heritage Manf., Miami, FL

    16) Doublestar, Winchester, KY

    17) Remington/Marlin, Mayfield, KY

    18) Beretta, Gallatin, TN

    19) Barrett, Murfreesboro, TN

    20) Remington, Huntsville, AL

    21) Steyr Arms, Bessemer, AL

    22) Wilson Combat, Berryville, AR

    23) Daisy Manf., Rogers, AR

    24) Bond Arms, Granbury, TX

    25) American Derringer, Waco, TX

    26) STI Int’l, Georgetown, TX

    27) High Standard/AMT, Houston, TX

    28) Mossberg, Eagle Pass, TX

    29) BPI Outdoors, Duluth, GA

    30) Walther Arms, Fort Smith, AR

    31) Nighthawk Custom, Berryville, AR

    32) Surgeon Arms, Prague, OK

    33) Shield/Texas Black Rifle, Shiner, TX

    34) Alexander Arms, Radford, VA

    35) Jarrett Rifles, Jackson, SC

    36) American Tactical, Summerville, SC

    37) Glock, Smyrna, GA

    38) Core Rifle Systems, Ocala, FL

    39) SCCY, Daytona Beach, FL

    40) Ares Defense, Melbourne, FL

    41) Serbu, Tampa, FL

    42) Colt Competition, Breckenridge, TX

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s National Chocolate Day.

    Proceed accordingly.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon, did you miss my #59 from yesterday;

    So I was stumbling around in the Publix Store in Enterprise and I scored a bag of Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps Dark Chocolate, eat your heart out wagonburner & Shannon.

    First time that I’ve had them and they are pretty good.

  10. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cold front do what this one did yesterday…moving west to East, it basically stopped at I-45 for a day, leaving the East side of Houston hot and muggy while we westerners were chilly all day.

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So, LA got two championships but no news of rioting. Whatever would be going on?

    a) Riots happening but no one cares

    b) Rioters bored of rioting

    c) Messicans don’t like sports

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Tucker Carlson Makes History with Achievement Never Before Seen in Cable News.

    Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show broke records in October as Fox stomped the competition, according to ratings data compiled by Nielsen.

    Fox’s showing made it 226 consecutive months that the network has been the top-rated cable news channel in total day and prime-time viewers.

    Fox had four of the five top-rated cable shows in October, according to Forbes.

    Carlson’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” led the way with 5.359 million average viewers. That total set a record for the “highest-rated monthly viewership of any program in the history of cable news,” the network said in a media release.

    Sean Hannity was right behind Carlson with 5.119 million viewers. The Fox show “The Five” was third with 4.102 million viewers and Laura Ingraham’s “The Ingraham Angle was fourth with 4.065 million viewers.

    MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” at 3.696 million viewers, was the only non-Fox show in the top five.

    “In the A25-54 demographic, Tucker Carlson Tonight hit yet another milestone as the first primetime program to reach 1 million viewers in the 25-54 demo since September 2008,” Fox News’ media release said.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    1954 Chevy Suburban and 1952 GMC 100 Series sit in Macungie PA for our BBQ following the Macungie show about 10 years ago.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    12 Super Dave

    I’m waiting to see what the ratings are for Carlson’s show last night.

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I want one!!!

    GM Just Delivered The First Badass, ZR-2 Based Infantry Squad Vehicle.

    This June, the U.S. Army awarded GM a $214.4 million contract to build 649 small, versatile, agile transports, meant to ferry nine soldiers and their gear. This is the finished product: the Infantry Squad Vehicle, based on the architecture of Chevy’s ZR-2 pickup.

    GM delivered the first ISV today, 120 days since the Army awarded the contract. The subsidiary of GM that builds the rigs, GM Defense LLC, says the ISV is built 90 percent off-the-shelf parts, with a few goodies from Chevy Performance thrown in for good measure.

    And;

    GM notes this 5,000-lb. rig is light enough that a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter can carry one into battle. If the mental image of an twin-engine helicopter hauling a ZR-2 war rig doesn’t bring a Bald Eagle Tear streaming down your cheek, well, you’re no friend of ours. 😀

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    12 Super Dave

    I’m waiting to see what the ratings are for Carlson’s show last night.

    Ditto, I found this when I was looking for last night’s ratings but I guess that is too early. FWIW; I almost never miss Tucker’s show and his is by far the best on the Cable Networks. Watching Watter’s on the Five, he’ll be the next really good TV Host.

  17. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Thanksgiving must be interesting in the Hegar household.

    “I know her personally and she is not a good person,” Heiman wrote. “I know that sounds like a spiteful mother-in-law but I speak on behalf of my son’s three other children that they do not see.”

    Heiman wrote that Hegar and her own son took no action to help her three grandchildren after a fire burned down their home along with all their belongings in January. “His other children’s house burned to the ground last January,” Heiman wrote. “And they gave nothing, I mean nothing to help them out. MJ is only in it for herself. If she can’t help her stepchildren’s situation out, how do you think she’s going to help Texans out.”

    “They didn’t say let me take the kids for a weekend and give you a break while you get things together,” Pike said.

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: Left’s Post-Election Agenda: More Riots, ‘Truth Commissions,’ Other Punishment For Their Foes — That Means You

    RTWDT

    The left has chosen to be unreasonable, totalitarian, tyrants – by definition. There is a solution and it isn’t comforting, but the left seems to be pushing for it at every turn – prolonged, violent confrontation. The blood will run in the streets.
    The concept of Texas leaving the union was floated a couple of years ago; it may be happening afterall, depending on what the left actually does vs. what they say they will do.

    WOE to those who spread strife.

  19. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. Watched Tucker last night after the baseball game. Michael Berry is replaying the entire interview this morning on his show. Somehow the word might leak out. I even saw where it has not been pulled down from You Tube yet. Looks like the Chinese own Joe lock, stock and barrel, just like they now own Rice University. Trump is right – if Joe gets elected, they will own America. And I’m pretty sure they are going to steal it away.

    It’s supposed to be a travel day today, but first BFF wants to run errands that could have been done any time the past week…sigh. Still cold up here.

    You all have a great day, and more later as it develops.

  20. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #17

    I don’t know, I bet the anti Mother-In-Law vote may be substantial.

  21. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good misty moisty and cold morning, Hamsters.

    We were greeted by 47 on the thermometer at 6am, windy with spitting rain. Needed my winter jacket on to go chugging down the driveway to fetch the Chron. Definitely a major switch in the weather overnight. That wind has teeth galore, and it’s been a long time since the last manifestation of this way back in January. Gray overcast and generally miserable outside would seem to be our fate today.

    #18 Bonecrusher’s post has a warning to the average bear (citizen) to pay attention, prompt attention so as not to be caught flat-footed if/when any of the nastiness breaks out anywhere in the nation. There will be consequences of course, something the rioter wanna-be undoubtedly have not thought through to the conclusion. Said conclusion will not be good for them, and a not so faint hint of what President Trump was said to be contemplating to protect voters on November 3rd should be taken most seriously as available if need be thereafter.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: Scientists Against the COVID Internment
    [Subhead: Liberty and compassion vs. slavery and cruelty.]

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    On this day in 1835, Texans and Mexicans skirmished near San Antonio at the battle of Concepción, the opening engagement in the siege of Bexar. Some ninety Texans under the command of James Bowie and James W. Fannin, Jr., defeated a force of 275 Mexican soldiers and two cannons. Mexican losses included fourteen killed and thirty-­nine wounded, some of whom died later. Texas losses included one killed and one wounded. -TSHA

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Woe be to the poor shmucks who marry Hegar’s kids.

    Now that’s Mother-in-law terror.

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Temp here has dropped to 45 now, wind is stronger, but the misty rain has stopped. Winter is at the doorstep all of a sudden. Winter clothes that did not get fully put away last spring are conveniently reached now.

    Purrscilla kitty is really wired this morning, dashing around the house and looking out various windows to spy anything moving outside–animal or vegetable.

  26. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #24 Shannon

    Aha, I knew that somewhere there might be evidence to confirm my thoughts that this woman was gonna be a problem—for the Democrats. Cranky does not adequately describe her. Self-destructing does seem to be much more accurate.

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: ‘Can I Change My Vote’ Surges On Google Post-Debate. Here’s Where You Can.

    In some states you can if you have voted absentee by mail. Before the absentee ballot is opened, a check of the voter rolls is done and if there is a vote by that person, the absentee vote is discarded.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  28. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    /’;………………………………..

    I just got up to put my breakfast dishes in the sink, and when I got back to my laptop, I found that Matsuo had typed the message above for me. I think he was trying to get himself into my office-style chair, but I had pushed it in so the seat was under the table. So he was frustrated.

    Morning, Couch Critters.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Susan Collins is within the margin of error in Maine polling.

    Perdue is tied in Georgia.

    Tillis is now +2 in North Carolina.

    John James needs some help in Michigan and so does McSally in Arizona.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m wondering how accurate the polls are.
    But we shouldn’t get comfortable.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I saw on Newsmax this morning pics of an 85 mile long Trump caravan in New York. I think I saw “Long Island” in the caption.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From Stephen Green aka Vodkapundit:

    Insanity Wrap spent years making ever-more complicated Bloody Marys, until one Christmas morning we were serving up what seemed like gazpacho with vodka in it.

    The muddled cucumber turned out to be a bridge too far.

    After that, we pared our Bloody Mary recipe down to the purest and tastiest minimum:

    • 2 ounces decent-quality vodka
    • 4 ounces Low Sodium V-8
    • 1/4-ounce each of lemon and lime juice
    • 2 dashes (or more) of Worcestershire and Tabasco
    • Garnish of your choice (celery, bacon, pickle, etc.)

    Today’s garnish, should you choose to imbibe: Progressive tears.

  33. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    RIP Billy Joe Shaver.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Once you get past Queens County in the far western end of Long Island next to NYC, there are two larger counties, Nassau and Suffolk, comprising the island.  Both went for Trump in 2016.

    Nassau County:  51.3 to 45.9

    Suffolk County:  52.5 to 44.3

    It’s going to be much larger this time.

    Look at these results for counties in New York state for 2016.  You’ll be surprised how many voted 2 to 1 for Trump.

    Note:  Kings County is Manhattan.  Here is a county map of the state for reference.

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: American Airstrikes Take Down 12 al-Qaeda and Taliban Operators

    More rehabilitation of terrorists in the ME.

  36. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Is it weird I understood Matsuo‘s ramblings better than some of y’all’s?

  37. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m assuming Matsuo is one of the cats and not a horny toad or some other wild beast over for free food.

  38. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Garnish of your choice (celery, bacon, pickle, etc.)

    ¿Porque no los todos?

    The muddled cucumber turned out to be a bridge too far.

    Brings to mind the screaming viking.
    2oz vodka
    1oz dry vermouth
    1oz lime juice
    Celery stalk
    Cucumber spear

    Mix liquids over ice in a tall glass, stir vigorously until very cold.

    Garnish with celery and spear cut from a seedless cucumber (optionally bruised).

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Remember the event when Jeffrey Toobin “outed” himself? Why would different news agencies be scenario gaming the outcome of the election? This, to me, represents collusion to lie to the people. This represents and industry wide in-kind donation to democrats. Remember “Journolist”? Wasn’t that the same thing; having all the news media reporting the same spin on the same stories even using the same words, like gravitas? As distasteful as it is; I think it is past time to bring RICO charges against ABC, NBC, CBS, PMSNBC, CNN, NY Times among others. The charges are conspiring to defraud the American people of a fair election, libel, and slander.
    Global warming, Covid, Trump/Russia, censorship by Facebook, Google, Twitter; and the beat goes on.

  40. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #38 – You might consider a bottle of Maalox on the side?

     

    🙂

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RIP Billy Joe Shaver.

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    42 and lots of room left…

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Pretty chilly and wet out there, so I decided to try this HEB brand Chorizo & Black Bean Soup.

    Meh.

    Too much chili powder. It’s like some of the bad chili I’ve had in my time.

    As with garlic, some people fail to grasp that chili powder is a spice to be used judiciously and not a separate food group.

  44. Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls Avatar
    Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls

    Here’s a great poll.

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036517/posts

    As my dad and grandad used to say poles are for fishing.

  45. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Self-Righteous Pumpkin strikes again on another Black Lives Matter sign.

    HT:  Mollie Hemingway

  46. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

     

    #43 – You just touched on “bachelor seasoning practices” when trying to make canned goods slightly more desirable……………  🙂

  47. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well how about that? I get back from the grocery store and there is a big box on the front porch. Turns out it is my order of Texas Tamales from Fort worth. They arrived absolutely frozen solid and they left Arlington @ 5:30 PM on Monday. They came in the usual Ice Chest but they didn’t use Dry Ice, just 6 sheets of an Australian water based ice product. I don’t know how good they’ll be but the pork ones are huge. FWIW; the information popped up on my computer and I figured they might be worth a try, I got the Big Tex Super Pack – 32 Individual 5 oz. Pork Tamales for $95 Bucks and it said that I could get free shipping if the order was over $100 bucks so I got a dozen Beef Tamales for $25 bucks, clicked on a coupon and added the code, 44 tamales $107 bucks, tax title and license delivered to my porch. I put them in the chest freezer and I’ll report on them at a later date since I’m by myself now and I’m having Beer Brats for supper.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sunshine and 98% clear blue sky over here, folks.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    44 phil

    Best fisherman I ever saw was Billy Pustejowski.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here’s Billy.
    Went to high school with him.

    http://www.matagordabay.com/guides/Pustejovsky.htm

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A real fishin’ Pole.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One day several of us were at a friend’s bass pond, drinking beer and communing with nature, so to speak, and Billy grabbed a rod from behind the truck seat. He made one trip around the pond and had a bucket of bass.
    Our friend made him stop – had to leave some fish in there for his grandpa.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Billy catches fish when nobody within five miles is catching fish.

  54. Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls Avatar
    Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls

    Bon Jovi endorsed the little girl Groping CCP candidate.

    Slippery when Corrupt.

  55. Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls Avatar
    Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls

    53 unca S.

    When I was little my dad took me and my brother to a catfish farm to fish one day and we were catching them left and right.

    This one man was casting all around us and kept moving closer and closer to us and couldn’t get a bite. We could hear him telling the woman he was with that “those boys must be fishin’ in some deep whole where all the fish are.”

    My dad told us afterward the proprietor of farm told him the fishing ponds were only 5 feet deep.

    Heh.

  56. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Successfully navigated my way back from Big D to SS without incident. It was cold and rainy in Dallas when I left, after moving all the cat food and cat litter inside in the rain following our trip to Petsmart before I could get out of town this morning. By the time I got to about Cleburne, the skies were clearing, and it warmed to the mid 50’s or so. Here in SS it’s the usual clear skies, but it may have rained some since the ground seems a little soft. My birds, deer, and other assorted unknown nocturnal critters will be glad to have their food and water dishes refreshed.

    Obviously I didn’t get my nap in today, but I’m going to try to fight my way through it until bed time tonight. It’s obviously time to start bringing out the winter bedding, so I’ll do that also. Meanwhile, get out and vote if you haven’t already done so. There’s a lot riding on this one. More later.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m seeing a rally sign behind Trump that I’ve never seen before: “Assyrians for Trump”.

    In Arizona.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So I was on an automobile website and scrolled upon a re-elect Stan Stewart For Harris County Clerk ad. It has VOTE FOR LAW AND ORDER emblazoned across it.

    Huh?

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    55
    If you can’t catch fish at a catfish farm….
    Well, I just don’t know what that makes you.

  60. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I just watched that dude Rachel Maddow say that Republicans were suppressing the early vote.

    Meanwhile … back on Earth …

    As of yesterday, roughly 70 million ballots had already been cast nationwide — more than 50 percent of the overall turnout in 2016. Since about half of respondents in national polls have said that they plan to vote early, and there’s still another week to go of early voting, these totals appear to augur a big increase in turnout.

    Republicans SUCK at voter suppression!

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    They generally suck at everything else, why not voter suppression?

  62. Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls Avatar
    Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls

    Has hairycane supercalifragilisticexpialidociousbaytoekappagammazeta hit San Saba yet?

  63. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #55, 59

    My wife’s brother, Uncle Bubba lives and breathes fishing and hunting. When my youngest was probably around six Uncle Bubba wanted to take him fishing so they went to the catfish farm out on 290, he was hauling them in just about every cast and UB was having such a good time watching he couldn’t not stop him. Cost him a hunnerd bucks lol

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It would really be something if we took that Lizzie Fletcher seat back.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    63 GJT
    Bwaaahahahahahahah

  66. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That twitter dude looks like the unabomber.

  67. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I know it’s all a show but Ted Cruz gave him a good grilling.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I haven’t seen the Twitter dude yet.
    But I did hear a clip on the radio of Ted Cruz reaming him out.
    Unseen, the guy sounded mentally challenged.

  69. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So the wife tells me there was some Dodger championship rioting going on last night. I don’t know how you would distinguish between them and the regular rioters, different uniforms?

  70. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Those people in Louisiana have been so screwed this year.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Our Dad had a brother who worked for Tennessee Gas/Tenneco for many years and spent his later years often traveling to D.C. testifying before/lobbying Congress.

    Uncle Jolly was man of great presence and intellect.

    The guys from Big Tech? Not so much.

  72. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Tucker’s doing a follow-up to last night’s interview.

    Believe it or not, the bad guys were worried that the media would expose them.

    They never thought that the media would cover for them.

    Reality is stranger than fiction.

  73. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Fishing, we have a pond here on the place that is about 3½ acres and when we were having it dug out my dad asked the guy how much it would cost to root out a small pond behind the house. Just a dam, no stand-pipe but a spillway. FWIW; there was a small boiling spring there that flowed about 9 months out of the year. The guy looked at it and said hell that’ll not cost any more, we can root that out in about 4 hours. So we have the “Little Pond” about ½ acre, just a deep bowl, it has never been stocked with fish but my dad would catch bass and bream at the big pond and dump them into the small one. Often when we’d come to visit my dad would take the kids fishing. If he knew that they weren’t biting he’d take them to the little pond instead of the big one and toss Catfish food out and the young-uns could catch bream as long as they tossed the bait into the water. Here is one of my favorite pictures of my Baby girl and my dad after one of those trips to the “Little Pond”. And yes, those bream were delicious, fried up with hush puppy’s N taters. 😉

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Uncle Jolly was a Navy man and raised his first two boys to sail.

    As far as I remember, the last boat they had was this one:

    https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/columbia-24-challenger

  75. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #68 = Brother the video is available over on ACE

  76. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    This is one of the craziest stories out of Chicago that I’ve run across. Some people just need to be separated from the rest of the population.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/security-guard-stabbed-face-mask-snipes-chicago-store/

  77. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s Dorsey the Twitter CEO.

    Is that a ring in his nose?

     

  78. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

  79. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Yes, that’s a nose ring.

  80. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #62 – Still anxiously peering out my window and waiting.

    #73 – Back in the good old days, our family friend had inherited quite a bit of property in SS County. His Dad had dug 2 stock tanks on the place, a large one and a smaller one some distance away. When it was done, the old timer Dad declared “that was the silliest dam thing he had ever done,” and the smaller one was the second silliest. So, from that point forward, the larger stock tank was known as Big Silly and the smaller one as Little Silly. They would have parties out there with all the kids running around, and the invitation would always give the address simply as Big Silly or Little Silly. In fact, they are still called that today by the now adult owners who were kids when I was.

  81. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The Democrat final complete campaign commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UvavR4AhLk&feature=emb_logo

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Really?

    A previously undiscovered coral reef taller than the Empire State Building off the coast of Australia?

    https://tinyurl.com/y29fwh6n

  83. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was going to make some green chili tonight, since I had some leftover pork. The recipe went a little sideways.

    I couldn’t find tomatillos at the store, so I got a big jug of salsa verde, which is almost the same thing. I was supposed to buy 2 jalapenos, but I’m not a big fan of them, so I got one big anaheim pepper to go with the poblano pepper in the recipe. There were jalapenos in the salsa verde, so I ended up with some in the recipe anyway. I sauteed the peppers and some onion, then cooked them covered until soft and added them to the salsa in the big pot, already simmering. I cut up the pork, and added some leftover beef (not part of the original recipe). Cilantro on its way out was thrown in, some garlic. I cooked it all up for a bit, but added four packets of Sazon Goya seasoning, which made it more of a red green chili.

    It was still good, served with a sprinkling of shredded cheese and a dollop of sour cream.

  84. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #81

    Already stolen and posted on Spreely and over yonder. Next up: MeWe.

  85. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #83 – And keto?

  86. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Yes, keto, too.

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    SCOTUS rules NC gets nine days to count ballots.  Roberts and Kavanaugh caved to vote with Spreyer, Kagan and Sotomayor. 5-3.

  88. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It cleared the sinuses a bit, too.

  89. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I can understand people wanting to mail ballots in, but why shouldn’t they be counted on election day?

    I mean, we have to pay out bills on time, right?

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    81 ELG

    I can’t imagine that they could have found a more appropriate actress.

    Perfect.

  91. Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls Avatar
    Quid-Pro-QuoJoe likes to gRope&sNiff little girls

    “those boys must be fishin’ in some deep whole where all the fish are.”

  92. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Well, I like to stay up and see who claims the 1 hunnert spot on tonight’s thread, but since I skipped my nap today due to driving and decided to fight off the nap monster until bedtime, bedtime has arrived. So, night all and have good dreams. Manana.

  93. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Ninety Three?!

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    94

  95. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #95

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    95

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No fair. Texanadian is in some weird western time zone.

  98. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #78 Hammy

    Headline seen Over Yonder:

    Jack Dorsey Hires Homeless Man Off Streets Of San Francisco To Fill In For Him At Hearings

    It’s Da Bee, natchurally…

     

  99. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texandian

    Them chickens big enough, now?, Or what?

    🙂

  100. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Stop wasting perfectly good post #s!

     

  101. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Did you know that there are so many hipster chicken farms in Hammie’s neighborhood that he’s put his house on the market?

  102. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Due to problems with exposure to covid TW and I find ourselves in the position of having to deal with all these forkin chickens ourselves. 20 a day for the next four days.  We did 20 today.   Fork!

  103. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Backdoor neighbors had a few hens for a while but they’re gone now. Either someone turned them in for deed restriction violation or the pack of raccoons the other neighbor feeds wanted a late night snack.

  104. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One of my favorite Twilight Zones on tonight.

    With a young Don Rickles.

  105. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Early to bed, early to rise. Morning gang. A little warmer out here this morning clocking in at 43 degrees. Did that harrycaine get past Brother Dave’s place without tearing everything up? Who ever heard of having harrycaines in the middle of the winter anyway? It’s been freezing out here for the past couple of months or so hasn’t it?

    Now to the latest mystery. How in the world did someone get to FedEx and open TuCa’s package and steal the contents undetected? Trying to piece together bits and pieces, they seem to be working on the idea that the package was opened at the processing center in Memphis. But how in the world would they know which package to get and open? Those packages all look the same when they are traveling. So, at least to me, that means someone had the tracking number to permit them to select the exact package to rob. How to get the tracking number – either the delivery boy at Fox who dropped it off at Fed Ex, the sexretary who prepared the packaging and labeling, or someone was able to hack FedEx. Since this is not US Mail, I can see no federal crime, so it will be up to private sector investigators to determine what happened. FedEx can’t figure it out, and I’m really wondering if the Fox people are as trustworthy as their management might hope. I’m betting on an inside job at Fox, but I’m first to admit that it’s all speculation on my part. The only solution is to fire everyone who came in contact with that package, Fox and FedEx alike. Someone will start squealing. Surely (1) they retained copies of the documents, which of course would not be admissible in court; or (2) they retained the originals and mailed copies to begin with, which would seem to have been the logical thing to do. I guess only the shadow knows. I might even be smelling a sting operation playing out.

    OK, you all have a good day, and more as it develops. I’ll come back after someone sets off the alarm clock.

  106. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hunnerd N SiX!
    Mornin’ Gang,….. El Gordo

  107. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and the storm plowed through here about 2 AM, dropped ½” of rain and was gone by the time I let Dawg out a 3:30. It was breezy not any high wind but did knock over a flowerpot on the front porch no limbs down in the yard but I’ll check later after sunup.

  108. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Who or what is a TuCa, DDG don’t know what you’re talking about.

  109. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #108 – TuCa= Tucker Carlson.

  110. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Who or what is a TuCa,

    Tucker Carlson, I guess, he had a package sent from DC to LA where he was doing an interview Tony Bobulinski and it arrived opened. I’ll comment on it after everybody wakes up.

  111. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #109 What he said. Too bad that we don’t have the keys,…no wait!

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