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T N A’s I love it! It’s the weekend!
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Must’ve left the terlet lid up again.
Slid in right under me. Second!
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Morning all.
Coffee
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Up early, so I can have breakfast with Hubby and Handsome Son…and C&C is up early as well.
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Coffee and Covid
Happy Saturday, C&C family! As cool Fall weather languidly drifts into North Florida, we roundup some news about CDC’s latest word games, which is actually great news for a lot of employees facing vaccine mandates, the CDC’s approval of booster injections over its advisory panel’s recommendation against them, Ozzies see record numbers of cases in spite of record lockdowns, for some reason, Experts strike at kids again, Biden thinks up an awesome new plan to tax the rich to pay for all these Covid emergency handouts to well-connected political types, and terrific news about Covid performance in Florida, including a report on Miami hospitals and new weekly data from the state to analyze.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*Fox News reported yesterday that on August 5, the CDC sneakily deleted all its official guidance about how schools can transition out of Covid-19 mitigation. The previous guidance told school administrators to lift mask and distancing requirements whenever community spread of the virus is low and vaccination rates were acceptable. But now, that language has been removed. Erased. Memory holed. It never happened.
Perma-pandemic!
So according to the CDC, there is no way out now. No “off ramp.” They’ll let us know when we can stop all this Covid theater nonsense.
Totally unconnected with anything in the report above, here’s a link to a neat website showing how mad dictator Stalin erased his former friends from photos whenever they became “enemies of the people:” [How Stalin’s propaganda machine erased people from photographs, 1922-1953 – Rare Historical Photos](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1922-1953/).
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Not satisfied with its “update” of the guidance for “off ramping” Covid mitigation measures, the CDC also mutated its long-standing definitions of the words “vaccine” and “vaccination” on its website earlier this month.Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” was, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection:” “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection to a specific disease.”
Well, that just got a lot easier. I guess getting one of the current Covid injections that doesn’t produce any immunity can still be vaccination. Alrighty then. See how easy that is?
The term “vaccine” also got a marxist-style wordplay update. The CDC changed its definition from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to: “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”
This is so great! Now, employees can legally attest that they are “vaccinated” as long as they are taking Vitamin D and zinc supplements, since those supplements are “preparations” that are “used to stimulate the body’s immune response against” Covid-19. It is completely legal, now, under the CDC’s new definition, to say you are “fully vaccinated” against Covid-19 as long as you take your supplements. So. Thanks, CDC!
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The New York Times published an article yesterday headlined, “C.D.C. Chief Overrules Agency Panel and Recommends Pfizer-BioNTech Boosters for Workers at Risk.” The article reports that CDC director Rochelle Walensky overruled the near-unanimous recommendation of the FDA’s advisory panel that had refused to endorse booster shots of the Pfizer Covid injection for frontline workers.
The Times calls it “a highly unusual move” for the director. That’s one way of putting it. The decision concerned many scientists. “I am surprised that Dr. Walensky overturned one of the four A.C.I.P. votes today, and I believe others will be as well,” said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, an infectious disease expert at Stanford and the American Academy of Pediatrics liaison to the committee.
But don’t worry. Politics had everything to do with it. Even the Times reported that experts outside the C.D.C. said Dr. Walensky may have had “no choice” but to ignore the recommendation. “There’s a complexity here, because Dr. Walensky was part of the White House announcement” on boosters, noted Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
A complexity. So that’s what they’re calling it now.
It it weren’t for ridiculous wordplay, what would these people actually have left, at the end of the day?
The members of the advisory committee recommending against the boosters had said there was little evidence to suggest that vaccinated teachers or health care workers were at any significant risk of repeated exposure to the virus. Their decision reflected their fears that a broad booster recommendation would throw the doors open to an all-adults booster campaign.
“My sense was that the committee felt that that was sort of a hole that you could drive a truck through,” Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the F.D.A.’s vaccine advisory panel, told reporters at an online briefing on Thursday.
The Times noted that “it was not clear how long additional protection from a booster would last, raising the prospect that boosters would need to be given repeatedly.” You don’t say. Great reason for using them then, I guess. Me: I wonder when someone will follow the money and figure out who Big Pharma has bought off. Unending boosters = unending money stream, paid for by the taxpayers.]
Currently, only people who have already received two doses of the Pfizer injection will qualify for the booster shots. But the Times said that “Moderna’s booster authorization may arrive in a few days to weeks.“ So. Get ready! Needles away.
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Victoria, Australia officially became the most locked-down place on Earth, at the exact same time that Victoria Health announced its highest Covid case numbers since the beginning of the pandemic. Case numbers have been rising sharply in Victoria since the latest lockdown was declared. A similar situation is happening in New South Wales where extremely strict lockdowns are NOT stopping the spread of Delta. So.
Melbourne — the capital of Victoria — is the most-locked down city in the world, having been under lockdowns now for 234 days. Its current sixth consecutive lockdown won’t end until late October.
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The BBC published an article yesterday headlined, “COVID: Children may be more susceptible to common illnesses this winter.” The gist is that kids aren’t getting exposed to common childhood illness, plus Covid is “getting in the way” of dealing with a “huge backlog” of non-Covid treatments, as hospitals continue trying to catch up with a lot of routine patient care that was put on hold during the UK’s lockdowns.
A doctor who advises the UK government said that “We may have stacked up some immunity debt in the system where children have not been mixing with friends, and so they may be more susceptible to some of the illnesses that we traditionally see.”
Gosh. Who could have seen this coming? Kids may actually be SICKER because of Covid lockdowns. Thanks again, experts!**********************
CBS Miami published an article Thursday headlined, “Dramatic Drop In COVID Patients At South Florida Hospitals.” How about that? Who could have seen this coming? Because a lot of local Covid panic peddlers in the state and even here in Gainesville PROMISED that the hospitals in Florida were about to be completely overrun by Covid patients, any minute now. Fact check: Five Pinnochios.
There should be SOME kind of penalty for lying to the public like that, right?
CBS4’s Peter D’Oench (yes, I spelled that right) reported that the number of Covid patients at Jackson Health System hospitals were 189 this Thursday, compared with a summer peak of 445 on August 23, and an all-time peak of 485 patients on July 27 of 2020. So.
This reduction comes about a month after Governor DeSantis stood up statewide monoclonal antibody treatment sites that are 70% effective at keeping patients with serious cases of Covid out of the hospitals. Out of the hospitals where they can’t get monoclonal antibody treatments or ivermectin. But they do have a bunch of ventilators.
The article also reported that there is a nursing shortage. For some reason. ”I am also concerned that we have had a large turnover of nurses, some of whom have gone on to temporary jobs where they can actually go around the country and earn more money than permanent jobs or some are leaving the profession altogether or retiring,” he said. “That means the ones here who are meant to be working three shifts a week are sometimes working four to five shifts a week and that is very tiring and the burnout rate is very high.”
Now, why would they be leaving the profession altogether like that? What would make a bunch of nurses retire? Why are the nurses are going other places? Could the other places be spots where they aren’t required to take the Covid injections? Just asking. It would be great if some smart expert could figure this out for us lay people. Maybe ask the nurses?
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From yesterday;
… and the part of Greta Thunberg is played by Michael J. Pollard
That’s funny right there! 😀
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GJT posted about CNN’s Chris Cuomo was being accused of sexually harassing female producer while at ABC News and yesterday on the 5 they were taliking about it and said that Chris Cuomo said that the grabbing of the buttocks wasn’t sexual!!! Really?! Then Gutfeld said something like; was it like a doctor’s exam, checking out what was going on down there? LMAO! 😀
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Morning, animal lovers!
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Ah. We have something to discuss this morning.
There are better ways to spend $1500 on emergency solar power.
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Morning gang. Slept in this morning until about daylight. Guess I was tired from playing football last night, and then I’ve got another game to play this afternoon. Store room stuff stayed out overnight, but no rain so no problem. Got it all washed down and most of the dust and dirt removed, so today I’ll try to figure out how to get it all back in there. Plus I still have the hole in the wall project to deal with. And I might bring you up to day with my cell phone project which has turned out to be more aggravating and just about anything I’ve dealt with in several years. It’s not all Tracfone’s fault, but a lot of it is; they sell phones now locked into the Verizon ecosystem, but I only have ATT service available here locally, so I had to drive about 20 miles over to the neighboring town which has a Verizon tower nearby to set it all up. And it involved changing phone numbers as well. And a bunch of other stuff. When we finally get things working I’ll write a novel about the experience.
So, lots to do today, including football. It remains to be see if any of it will get started, much less get completed before the day is done. I’m off now to search for the Week In Pictures. More later. PS – and you all have a great day.
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And here they are, the WIP. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/the-week-in-pictures-fib-edition.php
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Designed and built by engineer William B. Stout, the Scarab’s shape not only resembled the beetle for which it was named, but it also aptly represented what Egyptians believe about the winged insect—that it symbolizes rebirth and renewal. Appropriately enough, Bill Stout did a whole lot of rebirthing and renewing in his day, both before and after the Scarab.
Long before creating the futuristic vehicle, which was produced from 1934–39, Stout’s resume included work as chief engineer for the Schurmeir Motor Truck Company, automobile and aviation editor for the Chicago Tribune, and chief engineer at Scripps-Booth Automobile Company. In 1916, Stout was lured away from Scripps-Booth by Packard Motor Car Company President Alvan Macauley, who named him chief engineer of Packard’s aviation division. Three years later, Stout left to start his own engineering company in Dearborn, Michigan.
Considered the “father of modern aviation,” Stout was the first to endorse an all-metal airplane as a superior alternative to the standard construction of early 20th century aircraft, in which fabric was stretched over a wood frame. He also founded America’s first scheduled airline, Stout Air Service, which later became United Airlines. And he created the successful Ford Trimotor commercial airplane, improving upon his own early designs.
Although Stout loved aviation, he became frustrated by the overall lack of innovation in the industry and turned his attention to other forms of commercial transportation. That led to a very different and definitely innovative vehicle: the Scarab.
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11 Hamous
Fascinating.
I read where only 9 units of the hand built Scarab were produced and there are 5 still in existence, probably in museums.
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#11: Major cool.
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If you get hit by a tornado or wiped out by a hurricane you can always rebuild. What do you do when something like this happens ? There’s not going to be a whole lot of reconstruction going on. Lava flows up to 20 feet high.
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The Canary Islanders were the first European settlers in Texas, brought to the San Antonio de Bexar area by the King of Spain.
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Texpat says:
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 AT 12:11 PM
If you get hit by a tornado or wiped out by a hurricane you can always rebuild. What do you do when something like this happens ? There’s not going to be a whole lot of reconstruction going on. Lava flows up to 20 feet high.La Palma eruption.
An episode of Homestead Rescue actually shows how you rebuild a homestead after a Hawaiian lava flow destroys your farm.
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How long will it be until the moonbats blame man made global climate change?
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I mowed the back yard and then used the edger along a portion of the driveway where asian jasmine vine had colonized. That hadn’t been trimmed in maybe 2 years and it was awful. Parallel to the driveway is a walkway along the side of the house, leading to a hose bib. Between that walkway and the driveway is a raised hump of ground with 50-y.o. trees including a huge elm and 2 huge pines. The leaf-and-needle clutter hadn’t been properly removed for those same 2 years, and I was stunned to find the jasmine had turned into a carpet hidden under the leaves. I gave up on the edger and just used hand-held clippers to cut away the big mats of jasmine. Filled up the black trash bin.
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Hubby found a buyer for his VW Bus (van, for you non-VW folks). We’ve been talking about getting an older, dependable, and easy-to-work-on-and-find-parts-for car. My Kia Soul had been mostly dependable. I drive a lot of miles, so it stands to reason that things are going to go wrong eventually. It’s getting harder and harder to find parts for the car, or just about any of the newer cars, these days.
The guy wanting to buy the Bus has a 2006 Suburban in pristine condition and only 140,000 miles on it. He recently had the front end redone, so all that should be good. We may need to upgrade the radio as I’ve gotten quite spoiled being able to bluetooth with my phone – something we’re going to check.
Hubby thinks it’ll be easier to repair and find parts for. The guy takes extremely good care of all of his cars, and he really, really wants the Bus. He’s willing to swap titles. We’ll sell my car, which is running well right now.
We had talked about getting me a sedan of some kind, but I’ve always had something I could haul things in. I don’t drive as many miles as I used to, at least for now, so I’m not sure if the mileage difference will make a dent in my budget.
Really thinking about it…we can swap titles or he’ll pay cash for the bus. Hmmmmmmmmmm……
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TT: There is a website called Rock Auto, has parts for darn near anything, is cheap and reliable.
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Watching “America’s Top Dog” which is a competition of police trained dogs. The dogs and handlers have to go through a series of obstacles.
Poor dog – the last time Aiko had issues with swimming across a pool. The handler had to jump in and swim with the dog to get it across. This time (it’s a final competition of season’s winners) when they came to that obstacle, Aiko ran off and refused to come back.
The handler was so upset. The dog was being petted by the set crew after the buzzer went off. Handler actually wore shorts so she could more easily maneuver through the pool.
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2006 Suburban
11mpg combined city/highway.
Yikes.
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I had a ‘burban before, and I think I got better mileage than that.
But still….I do like having a small car that I can park just about anywhere.
But a big car on the freeway has its appeal, too – like when the idiot in the pickup truck tried to push me into the 18 wheeler…
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Fr. Parker is one of the canceled priests under Bp. Malloy in Illinois. He has a following in his parish and online. He continues to minister to his parishioners – local and online – and there is a FB page dedicated to him. This was posted today:
I hope this is okay to post this here but I wanted to let everyone know of what I consider a miracle that is associated with Fr. Parker. My son, George, was scheduled to go to Ft. Benning this summer for AIT (Advanced Infintry Training) and leave mid-June. A few days before he shipped off, Fr. Parker was having one of his wonderful Blessings of our Holy Articles at church. I wanted George to have something with him that he would be able to keep on himself throughout the day, but they don’t really let you wear holy medals. So I brought his boots to get blessed by Fr. Parker! Last week I picked my son up from Ft. Benning, and he told me the most amazing story. These soldiers are outside daily in the muggy Georgia summer weather, where it rains in buckets, and then just gets hot and humid. They spend days, sometimes up to a full week at a time, marching outside and not returning to their barracks. They trudge through bogs, streams, forest floor, you name it. George said that most days everyone’s socks and feet were sopping wet before the morning was even over! Every single soldier suffered from some foot malady: foot fungus, ingrown toenails, you name it. But not George. His feet NEVER EVEN GOT WET! EVER! He said he could feel the temperature change on his feet, they would get cold when he walked through water, and hot when it was dry out, but his socks and feet were never wet! His feet stayed dry! Same boots as every other soldier had, except George had boots blessed by Fr. Parker. Thank you, Fr. Parker, for your powerful blessings! ❤
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Second the Rock Auto suggestion.
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Guy in the hood posted a free lean to, just have to disassemble it and haul away. I’ve been needing something to shelter my trailer, Club Car UTV, my pull around smoker and an old golf cart I have. Got my son to help me go tear it down this morning. It’s about 12 x 20 I think, didn’t measure it. Anyway I’ve been stashing away bits and pieces that I can add to it, I’ll leave it on my trailer till I can get the area cleared of brush.
I think I got old man disease though, I was kind of surveying it all and got my tape measure to check the length of the roof panels to see if they would cover the length of my trailer…while they were laying IN my trailer lol.
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Hamsters are a smart bunch!
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Since I pulled all my gasoline powered tools out of the shed yesterday and rinsed the floor off with the water hose, I left everything outside overnight. I started putting a few things back inside, and moving a few other things inside that don’t stink or leak oil since I do have a few empty closets. I decided it was time to winterize everything, since the last time I had the generator and pressure washer out was this spring, so I hooked up a shop light (old one with a hook on it just to make a little load) to the generator and put about a quarter tank of gas in and let it run until it ran out. I changed the oil this spring, and it wasn’t even dirty. It probably ran for close to an hour, so it got heated up nicely and all the oil joints with a fresh supply of oil coating. Engines that don’t get run often start getting corrosion just because of the humidity in the atmosphere.
While the generator was sitting over to the side running, I hooked everything up and started the pressure washer with about a quarter tank of gas in it – oil there was still clean from this spring too. Pressure washer engines are air cooled, but the water pump portion is water cooled by the water flowing through it, so you don’t want to sit there and let it run for an hour without spraying water, so I pressure washed the back patio, most of the back of the house, pressure watered a good portion of the back yard, pressure washed the cat food bowl, the lawn mower collection I got going, and finally after about an hour that thing finally ran out of gas. That wore me out, so it was then time to come inside. Everything is outside cooling down now, and I’m inside cooling down. I’ll go back later and put some things away, or I may just leave it all outside for one more night. I’ve decided on a few more things that can move inside as well. My extension cords, my hoses, my propane accessories (but not the bottles) like hoses and flame throwers, all that stuff can come inside.
The real problem with the limited space in the store room is that there are 2 hospital beds and all sorts of walkers and handicap gear stored out there. I’ve offered them to the church, but no one really seems to want them. (that reminds me when we were cleaning out the old man’s garage that there was a good wheel chair in almost new condition out there, and it took us forever to finally find someone who would take it – I thought there would be a strong demand for a good wheelchair). I know the day after I finally get rid of all that handicap equipment out there that I’ll turn around and need it for myself. Way things go I guess.
Anyway, I’m going to find some football to watch. Rice plays Texas Southern at 5:30 and the point spread is now up to 37 – in Rice’s favor. Now I don’t think Rice could score 37 points against its own scout team, but I’m not a gambler. Plus I’ve watched TSU play two games on TV, and they are absolutely horrible – even worse than Rice. I expect Rice to run up the score as best they can so coach can pad his stats at least a little for contract negotiations.
More later.
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Dem Aggies ain’t doing so good today.
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Quickie interview about song in #24.
See drummer speak at the end. 🙂
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Just scanning some football scores. Most impressive overall is SMU rising from the dead and defeating TCU today. If SMU can recover from the death penalty, Rice should be able to recover from its self-imposed death penalty. Texas opened up a brand new can of Whoop-Azz and spread it all over Texas Tech. That’s a little bit surprising. Baylor leading 14th ranked Iowa, but it’s only the second quarter. This is my scoreboard that I go to to keep current on everything in case you are interested. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/scoreboard/
And yes, the Agro-Americans need to get it in gear if they are going to stay in this one.
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That figures. A rodent knows more about crypto currency than me.
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Granddaughter Shelby Rose hit a home run in softball today. Looked like a legit double then errors allowed her to keep going.
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Talk to me slowly now and be gentle, what will happen to photos on a Samsung gallery when they take them away? Looks like her storage won’t be able to handle them.
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Minnesota nurses claim hospitals mistreat COVID patients
Alpha news is where I first saw Fr. Altman.
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#36 GJT: Download all of them to the puter and delete everything else except the must show from the phone. Do, It. Now.
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Emporer Palpatine worked with John McCain
I don’t care what kind of military service he had….
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I think the deadline has passed for Samsung’s cloud storage. I got a notice that everything would be deleted July 1st. Since I have Amazon Prime I use their cloud storage. Another option is Microsoft OneDrive.
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Border Agents:Biden just started a war
“Would you go to work and do your best knowing that if you do your boss is going to ‘make you pay?’” one agent said. “I’m dumbfounded and don’t know what to say.”
“Is the president threatening to throw us in prison?” he asked.
Another agent said, “I see the administration wants to fry our agents. He just started a war with Border Patrol.”
“If President Biden wasn’t the president right now, I would arrest him for aiding and abetting,” Judd later said.
“I’ve been patrolling the borders since Clinton was the president and I can tell you personally, that the policies that have been in place were by far the best under President Trump and President Biden completely and totally dismantled all of those policies,” Judd said in an interview on Fox News. “And when you look at our Border Patrol agents, when they are sent down there to that job, and by the way, Mayorkas was down on the border, and he saw the horses, he knew the horses were out there, and now he’s making, doing a 180.”
“But when our agents are out there trying to patrol the border, do their job to the best of their ability, then they’re vilified by the president,” he continued. “You know, we feel like why even go out there and do it? Why put on that uniform? Why care about the American public? That’s why we do it; we put on that uniform because we care about the American public; we want to go out there and we want to protect them. And Joe Biden is trying to break that down.”
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Amazon is a better option than Google I assume? Is 5gb video storage sufficient?
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It’s Saturday, and college football stadiums across the land are again filling with rabid students and fans eager to cheer their teams on. But there is one side that neither side want to cheer for. And yet the sounds continue to echo across the fruited plain. https://twitter.com/OldRowSports/status/1441846723203125248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1441846723203125248%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Finstapundit%2F
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If you don’t think there are some lunatic judges out there on the federal bench, this will cure you of that myth right quick.
Institute for Justice newsletter:
Residents of L.A.’s Skid Row neighborhood, tired of homeless encampments, bring suit against the county and city. The district court finds that L.A.’s homelessness crisis is the result of structural racism and issues a “sweeping” preliminary injunction, requiring, among other things, “the escrow of $1 billion to address the homelessness crisis, offers of shelter or housing to all unhoused individuals in Skid Row within 180 days, and numerous audits and reports.” Ninth Circuit: That’s a problem because none of the plaintiffs’ claims was based on racial discrimination, “and the district court’s order is largely based on unpled claims and theories.” Injunction vacated.
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42. They’re probably about the same. I use Amazon because the storage comes with Prime. As far as space, 5gb for pics would work for me, but I’m not a big picture taker.
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#43
I hear ole Joe is thrilled they chanting his name.
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#45
Thanks, I’m sure she can purchase more video storage if needed. She has way more than normal photos, not sure about video.
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Shannon says:
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 AT 2:38 PM
2006 Suburban
11mpg combined city/highway.
Yikes.
Say what? My ’05 Tahoe got 20 mpg on the hwy and 14 mpg in the city.
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I finally rigged up my extra battery to my solar generator. The ferrule that came with the Anderson quick disconnect for the 2 ga wire was almost too big for my crimper. I actually had to go two sizes up to crimp the first time while my dad held the wire in place. Then I went down one size and crimped it again. The terminal connection for the battery was a cinch in comparison.
I also pulled the generator outside and hooked up the cord to the the new box the electrician installed. For some reason the generator does not want to start with the electric start, however, it starts right up with a single pull of the cord. After it warmed up, I flipped the breaker to feed power to the panel. I walked in and out several times to verify which circuits powered the kitchen fridge, the extra fridge in the utility room, and the freezer. I did not bother to unplug all the miscellaneous things plugged into the various outlets. I only pulled about 675W with various clocks, computers, ceiling fans, lights, and the aforementioned fridge/freezers on. Overall this was a resounding success. Additionally I could barely hear this inverter generator from my front door. It was about 65 dB on the side of my house about 35′ – 40′ away and 75 dB within about 10′ away.
Come on you feckless ERCOT bureaucrats! I’m ready for your stupidity now.
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#49 – sounds like great minds are thinking alike here today. I did not get to the installation phase of my project which requires holes in the brick. Don’t want to have any interruptions when I start on that phase of the project.
Rice is running through TSU like crap thru a goose. Not unexpectedly. This game should never have been on the Rice schedule regardless of how desperate they are for a win. Lamar High school might be more of a challenge.
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What are these trilling insects that wake up and start trilling at dusk? They’re up in the trees everywhere, which means Chez Harp is surrounded by their hummmmm.
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Dan Bongino dropped this:
The sweet smell of success. It’s been an INCREDIBLE week. You’ll see what I mean soon.
I wonder what he means.
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The Agro-Americans took one on the chin today, and Baylor upset a ranked Iowa team of some kind. More scores to come later. Not many surprises, but always a few.
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What are these trilling insects that wake up and start trilling at dusk? They’re up in the trees everywhere,
It’s the little known Texas Triller Bug.
They hatch out every 17 years just to get on your nerves.
Another sign of the apocalypse.
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#51 MHarper
I’ve been hearing cicadas all day every day all summer long.
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Saw this over yonder, and I was reminded of a thread I found of nurses describing near death/death/ghostly experiences at work. The most horrific one was of a heavily tattooed biker, obviously one who led a difficult life by his description and that of the police who brought him in. The nurse said he coded, they thought he was gone, but he woke up screaming in horror something like “DON’T LET THEM TAKE ME! HELP ME!” That nurse said she’ll never forget the look of utter horror on his face as he died a second time.
FAMOUS ATHEISTS’ LAST WORDS BEFORE DEATH
1. CAESAR BORGIA—Italian nobleman, politician, and cardinal: “While I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared to die.”
2. THOMAS HOBBS—Political philosopher: “I say again, if I had the whole world at my disposal, I would give it to live one day. I am about to take a leap into the dark.”
3. THOMAS PAYNE—The leading atheistic writer in American colonies: “Stay with me, for God’s sake; I cannot bear to be left alone , O Lord, help me! O God, what have I done to suffer so much? What will become of me hereafter? I would give worlds if I had them, that The Age of Reason had never been published. 0 Lord, help me! Christ, help me! No, don’t leave; stay with me! Send even a child to stay with me; for I am on the edge of hell here alone. If ever the Devil had an agent, I have been that one.”
4. SIR THOMAS SCOTT—Chancellor of England: “Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty.”
5. VOLTAIRE—famous anti-christian atheist: “I have swallowed nothing but smoke. I have intoxicated myself with the incense that turned my head. I am abandoned by God and man.” He said to his physician, Dr. Fochin: “I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months of life.” When he was told this was not possible, he said “Then I shall die and go to hell!” His nurse said: “For all the money in Europe I wouldn’t want to see another unbeliever die! All night long he cried for forgiveness.”
6. ROBERT INGERSOLL—American writer and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought: “O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!” Some say it was said this way: “Oh God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul, from hell, if there be a hell!
7. DAVID HUME—Atheist philosopher famous for his philosophy of empiricism and skepticism of religion: He cried loud on his death bed “I am in flames!” It is said his desperation was a horrible scene.
8. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE—French emperor who, like Adolf Hitler, brought death to millions to satisfy his greedy, power-mad, selfish ambitions for world conquest: “I die before my time, and my body will be given back to the earth. Such is the fate of him who has been called the great Napoleon. What an abyss between my deep misery and the eternal kingdom of Christ!”
9. SIR FRANCIS NEWPORT—Head of an English Atheist club, to those gathered around his deathbed: “You need not tell me there is no God, for I know there is one, and that I am in his presence! You need not tell me there is no hell. I feel myself already slipping. Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost forever! Oh, that fire! Oh, the insufferable pangs of hell! Oh, that I could lie for a thousand years upon the fire that is never quenched, to purchase the favor of God and be united to Him again. But it is a fruitless wish. Millions and millions of years will bring me no nearer the end of my torments than one poor hour. Oh, eternity, eternity forever and forever! Oh, the insufferable pangs of Hell!”
10. CHARLES IX—The French king. Urged on by his mother, he gave the order for the massacre of the French Huguenots, in which 15,000 souls were slaughtered in Paris alone and 100,000 in other sections of France, for no other reason than that they loved Christ. The guilty king suffered miserably for years after that event. He finally died, bathed in blood bursting from his veins. To his physicians, he said in his last hours: “Asleep or awake, I see the mangled forms of the Huguenots passing before me. They drop with blood. They point at their open wounds. Oh! That I had spared at least the little infants at the bosom! What blood! I know not where I am. How will all this end? What shall I do? I am lost forever! I know it. Oh, I have done wrong.”
11. DAVID STRAUSS—Leading representative of German rationalism, after spending a lifetime erasing belief in God from the minds of others: “My philosophy leaves me utterly forlorn! I feel like one caught in the merciless jaws of an automatic machine, not knowing at what time one of its great hammers may crush me!”
12. JOSEF STALIN—Soviet Georgian revolutionary and politician. In a Newsweek interview with Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Josef Stalin, she told of her father’s death: “My father died a difficult and terrible death. . .God grants an easy death only to the just. At what seemed the very last moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and cast a glance over everyone in the room. It was a terrible glance, insane or perhaps angry. His left hand was raised, as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. The gesture was full of menace. . .the next moment he was dead.”
13. ANTON LEVEY—Author of the Satanic Bible and high priest of the religion dedicated to the worship of Satan. One of his famous quotes was: “There is a beast in man that needs to be exercised, not exorcised”. His dying words were: “Oh my, oh my, what have I done, there is something very wrong. . . there is something very wrong.”
14. GANDHI—At his death, he said, “For the first time in 50 years, I find myself in the slough of despond. All about me is darkness. . .I am praying for light.”
BELOVED, compare these last words from atheists, with these last words, from these saints of God:
THE APOSTLE PAUL: “O death, where is thy sting?”
KING DAVID: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no Evil.”
AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY (1710-1778): Toplady will ever be famous as the author of one of the most evangelical hymns of the eighteenth century, “Rock of Ages,” which was first published in 1776.
During the final illness, Toplady was greatly supported by the consolations of the gospel: “The consolations of God, to so unworthy a wretch, are so abundant that he leaves me nothing to pray for but their continuance.”
Near his last, awaking from a sleep, he said: “Oh, what delights! Who can fathom the joy of the third heaven? The sky is clear, there is no cloud; come Lord Jesus, come quickly!” He died saying:”No mortal man can live after the glories which God has manifested to my soul.” -
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler
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How do you live in Texas all your life and not know anything about cicadas and the noises they make ?
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She’s been focusing on the furry critters.
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56 Tedtam
I wish those were all true. Hopefully, that was what was in their black hearted souls.
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Went out just before dark and put everything that stays outside back in the4 storeroom. Still have 3 lawnmowers left over that won’t fit. I brought a bunch of stuff inside and put in the closets, and once I put the remaining stuff back into the storeroom, it’s still full. How does that happen? Anyway, I skipped my nap today, and I’ma getting tarred. Still going to try to stay up until 10, but if I don’t come back tonight, I’m still OK.
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61 Shannon
And the woman who wrote that song is Mary Gauthier, born in 1962.
Gauthier was born in 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a mother who gave her to St Vincent’s Women and Infants Asylum (since demolished), where she spent the first year of her life. In adulthood, Mary spoke to her biological mother once by phone, but there was no further contact between them. She was adopted by an Italian Catholic couple from Thibodaux, Louisiana. Her father was an alcoholic. Struggling with a variety of issues, Gauthier abused drugs and alcohol, as did her brother, who was three years younger and also adopted. He was later jailed for armed robbery. Mary says she had drunk herself unconscious on sloe gin by the time she was twelve. When she was fifteen she ran away from home, recalling that “I was a gay kid, and back then, that just didn’t fly. Back then, gay kids were taking their own lives. It was horrible, and I just wanted to get away.” Mary spent the next several years in drug rehabilitation, halfway houses, and living with friends; she spent her eighteenth birthday in a jail cell. These experiences provided fodder for her songwriting later on. Spurred on by friends, she enrolled at Louisiana State University as a philosophy major, dropping out during her senior year. After attending the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, and working in an upmarket restaurant, she got financial backing to open a Cajun restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, calling it Dixie Kitchen. On opening night, 12 July 1990, she was arrested for drunk driving and has been sober ever since. “I eventually got sober when I was twenty seven years old… I started writing songs in earnest at around thirty two years of age”, she says. After achieving sobriety from “[mainly] alcohol, cocaine and heroin”, Mary continued to manage, and cook at, the restaurant but was increasingly driven to dedicate herself to songwriting.
If anybody deserves a little mercy, then Mary Gauthier does. God bless her. And as far as mercy goes, may everybody get their share.
Nice find, Shannon.
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62 ElGordo
Lawnmowers in the closet.
Sounds like a helluva country song to me.
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Sloe gin is a British[1] red liqueur made with gin and sloes. Sloes are the fruit (drupe) of Prunus spinosa, a relative of the plum. Sloe gin has an alcohol content between 15 and 30 percent by volume. However, the European Union has established a minimum of 25% ABV for sloe gin to be named as such. Sloe gin is technically a gin-based liqueur, but due to historical prevalence at the time of writing the EU spirit drink regulations, the colloquial name ‘sloe gin’ was included in the legal definitions and as such is the only gin-based liqueur that can legally be called gin without the liqueur suffix.
Huh?
There’s a reason G-d diverted us away from the Engrish.
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We had no cicadas in West Texas. The insect invasions I can remember from when I lived in Austin were crickets. Billions of crickets everywhere, jumping on you from the sidewalks, getting crushed by the millions in the streets. Now I occasionally see a thing I believe to be a left-behind cicada husk, usually poised on something like a shrub. But this is a dusk-initiated, very loud droning, from above and seems to come from every tree.
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We had two years of cricket invasions at A&M. It was disgusting. You couldn’t walk down the halls of some of the buildings without stepping on them.
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There is a movie on TV right now, starring Nipsey Russell, Car 54 – Where are You?.
I kid you not, it’ss much worse than the original TV series.
But I’m not sure how many in this audience remember the original.
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Even Hammie wouldn’t like this one.
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Hammie we finally got around to checking out the Adriatic Italian Cafe in Tomball tonight. It was very good. Sat outside on a very nice evening. Only complaint I had was they brought the dang meal out before we’d had two bites of our salad. Yuge pet peeve of mine.
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Regarding cicadas and 17 year cycle, I have always thought that the entire population would not be on the same schedule. So something like 1/17th of all the cicadas would come out of hibernation each year. But I’ve never bothered to look it up to see if that is how it works or not.
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You can have this gem for a hunnert and siddy bux.
Or
You could get a piece of plate steel and 4 cinder blocks.
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Boy.
I bet Texpat regrets doing that bathroom remodel instead of waiting for this thing.
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Mornin’ Gang
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Regarding cicadas and 17 year cycle, I have always thought that the entire population would not be on the same schedule. So something like 1/17th of all the cicadas would come out of hibernation each year.
The majority of cicadas are on a 17 or 13 year cycle but over the eons some got misplaced so you usually see them every year. This year is not on the 17 year cycle, that was a few years ago. We’ve had a the normal amount this year not the hordes that show up in the cycle. On Friday I was mowing down near the barn and noticed something on my left shoulder and it was a grey cicada. Most of them are green but we have a lot of grey ones here in Alabama. I guess because of all the trees the grey is camouflage on tree bark.
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73 Sarge
There is no end to the ways evil people will go to steal your privacy.
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Last night at the Alabama/Southern Miss game they honored Wilbur Jackson and showed the mural here in Podunk Alabama. I couldn’t find the video on-line but I found the dedication of the mural back in August. They painted on the side of the old Dale Theater on North Merrick just off the square.
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I do hope that Sarge’s #73 is a joke, is there anyway this could be real? Well in today’s world who knows?
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And a happy good morning to all of you this morning. I was restless sleeping last night, and I’m pretty sure that nap is in the works today. 55 degrees outside this morning with bright sunshine coming up over the horizon.
Today is going to be dedicated to the hole in the wall project, and hopefully I can get it done from start to finish without interruption. That’s a pretty lofty goal for a DIY duffer like me, but we’ll give it the old college try. Hope the whole dam thing don’t come tumbling down – if there is a magic demolition spot incorporated into that wall somewhere, I’m pretty likely to find it.
OK, you all have a good one. Nothing new so far today. More later.
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Project Veritas tracked down their FDA economist target and asked him if he wanted to discuss his previous comments. The chubby, effeminate doughboy ran away.
It’s funny and disgusting this is an example of the people our government hires today.
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78 Super Dave
I do hope that Sarge’s #73 is a joke…
If it is it won’t be for long because some deranged freak will actually start building them.
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Don’t look now, but there is a Tropical Depression named after one of our own… Teresa.
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I’m listening to Fr. Ripperger give a presentation on “Virtue of Mortification”. In this discussion he speaks about the virtue of mortification and the grace of suffering. Sometimes God sends us suffering to allow us to develop the grace mortification, the acceptance of sin, to learn how to be closer to him.
One reason why I don’t fight these headaches I have. I figger I’m going to learn some kind of grace if I submit (except on the really bad days) if I accept what’s been sent to me and offer it up. “Taking the edge off” in order to fulfill my duties is totally acceptable, according to Fr. R.
I love listening to his talks on Sensus Fidelium. Such a knowledgeable priest.
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#82
Don’t worry – it’s all talk and no real damage being done.
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I bet it’ll get really windy.
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Is it a hurricane or Tasmanian Devil.
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Only complaint I had was they brought the dang meal out before we’d had two bites of our salad. Yuge pet peeve of mine.
I’m kinda weird. I prefer to eat my salad last. I don’t know, it cleanses the palate or something. So the problem I have is the waiter keeps wanting to grab my salad plate thinking I just don’t eat salad.
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Must be a lot of you then, restaurant’s are increasingly bad about bringing the meal out right after the salad. I usually instruct the waiter/waitress not to beforehand but I forget.
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77. SD
Nice story. I remember reading something years ago about Bryant wanting to integrate Alabama football but the alumni were having none of it. Bryant purposely scheduled and paid USC, which had been integrated for a while, to come to Alabama. I think the game was played in Birmingham. They kicked the Tide’s butt and the alumni and politicians backed off.
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I’m wondering whether this passenger train derailment in Montana is a result of ecoterrorist sabotage.
Here’s a new headline of something by the editor of the New Yorker magazine. I couldn’t access it:
Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?
and courtesy of Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, we also have this link to the resolutely Leftist rag, The New Republic, to a May 2021 article:
The Climate Case for Property Destruction
Andreas Malm’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” urges activists to turn to tougher tactics.
What, then, is to be done? The main argument of How to Blow Up a Pipeline is simple: The climate movement should itself enact, through direct action, that prohibition on new fossil fuel infrastructure, and that dismantling of existing pipelines and power plants, which governments have so far refused to take on. Only if such equipment is damaged often and badly enough as to make its continued operation unprofitable does the stabilization of the climate stand a chance. For climate activists to confine themselves to peaceful protest is meanwhile to watch the earth become less and less hospitable to human life. Plenty of readers will react (as I did) with a sort of instinctive skepticism to Malm’s case that only widespread property destruction can forestall civilizational suicide, but his case deserves a hearing.
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87 Hamous
I prefer to eat my salad last. I don’t know, it cleanses the palate or something.
That’s an old continental European custom. Salad after the main course, especially in France. They say it’s better for digestion.
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Restaurants just want to turn tables as quickly as possible. It’s really a passive aggressive tactic to get you to hurry your butt up, eat your food, and leave all while the waitstaff give you a big ol’ smile.
We never really order appetizers, but when we do I specifically order just the appetizer and not the meal simultaneously. The only thing worse than having your meal come out after you’ve only taken two bites of salad is to have your appetizer, salad, and meal on the table at the same time.
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Eating the fiber/roughage after the heavy, slow moving protein and fat portion of the meal, tends to ‘push things along’. I like the palette cleansing aspect of the salad after the main course.
As far as private property destruction by the
climate activistsMarxist luddites goes, I think they have signed their own death warrant. They have made it clear that YOUR private property rights are meaningless because THEY think you are destroying the planet. They can not be reasoned with and need to be treated as if they were rabid, wild animals. -
Currently, part of it could be because restaurants are desperate for help and are hiring inexperienced people as waitstaff.
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I prefer a brandy or a port as a digestif. Y’all can keep your rabbit food to “cleanse your palette”.
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There’s a very good, young but experienced waitress in our town who said she’s constantly getting calls from other restaurants to see if she’s available to hire.
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Whew. Let me tell you that this house is built with dam fine brick. Of course, the fact that I’m using el cheapo 2″ drill bit is probably not helping. A good one could be done in 5 minutes. For what it’s worth, the brick is definitely oven fired, hard, 3″ brick – none of that cheap Mexican stuff. But I took my time – BTW, the drill bit looks just like a keyhole saw except for the abrasive front cutting edge, but it’s only 2″ deep – while the brick is 3″ deep. So I wound up punching a hole in the center of the area to be removed and then just sort of chipped away with a hammer and chisel to finally permit the bit to go all the way through. Easy does it though – keep it wet with a spray bottle of water, run the drill at slow RPM, run, stop, water, run, stop, water – you get the idea. Finally got it cut out and the plug removed. After the brick, the rest of the hole only needs to be large enough to permit the wire to pass through, so that drilled out easily. Of course, I had the wire already connected to the outdoor plug with the intent of just pulling it inside and doing the inside portion last. But logistics dictate that I do the inside portion first and the outside portion last – so I disassembled what I had already put together, ran the wire through the hole, and then went to work on the interior – but I’ve been at this for a couple of hours and I’m ready for a break. The last thing I need to do is to get tired, get frustrated trying to hook the wiring together, and then do a half azzed job which would short out the first time I tried it. So, easy does it. I’ll get hole one completed by day’s end, and then I’ll have a project for tomorrow – that being hole #2.
Hole #2 should go a little quicker since I will know what I’m doing by then and have all the proper tools at the ready. It’s a good thing I live alone. If I had a wife or something they would be screaming at me about cutting holes in the walls and in the brick and making matters worse at every turn.
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Happy Birthday Squawkster! Ifin’ you’re lurking. 😉
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#97
I don’t know how you do it without “the instructor” watching over your shoulder.
Teeing it up…
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Dear Christians: why is the Department of Homeland Security filing patents for FUSION PROTEINS CONTAINING LUCIFERASE? https://freepatentsonline.com/20200002707.pdf
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1442115310086131714
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87 Hammie
I spent most of my life eschewing any kind of desserts. Never was much for sweets except for an occasional slice of pie. That all changed about seven years ago for some reason.
Salad was my dessert and I usually ate it last.
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Happy Birthday Squawk!
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Eating the fiber/roughage after the heavy, slow moving protein and fat portion of the meal, tends to ‘push things along’. I like the palette cleansing aspect of the salad after the main course.
Soon we’ll have a terlit that will be able to tell in which order you ate the salad. Perhaps it will send you a text message letting you know if you’re doing it right.
The device also has some positive applications we haven’t thought of yet. A Fired posted this in response to my posting it over yonder (slightly edited for Granny):
This will be very useful in congress. We can finally identify which azzole is coming up with this sh*t.
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#102 One of my favorite pictures, does this purse make my butt look big? 😀
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Morning, gang. There was an unusually difficult sudoku waiting for me this morning, of the type that was labelled “Evil” in the online source I used while learning how to work the things back in the day. I am an old-fashioned puzzle worker, printing out an enlarged puzzle, penciling everything in that looks possible, and then erasing digits that get eliminated as time goes by. I usually spend about 45 minutes on the puzzle that arrives in my Sunday HouChron.
So today’s puzzle took me 1 hour and 50 minutes, with almost all of the extra time spent on finding which one of the numerous squares where 8 or even 9 of the digits were possibles, could be simplified. It had obviously been way too long since I faced an Evil puzzle. I’d like to have one of those maybe 6 times a year.
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Hole project #1 is virtually complete. I decided I need a waterproof backing on the outside plug, so I orders some rubber which I can cut out to fit. Once all the holes and scars are covered up, it doesn’t look bad unless you get up close and study it. I still think I’ll do hole #2 tomorrow. That turned out to be a little more of a taxing job that I expected. Once the brick is drilled, it moves along pretty well though. Now for a rest. I didn’t have breakfast this morning since I was busy, so now I’ll probably just wait until later this afternoon and have an early dinner.
I’ve just about recovered from my addiction to those dam Adkins shakes and switched almost entirely to coffee in the morning and water the rest of the day. All of a sudden, I’m noticing that the pounds (well ounces that eventually lead to pounds) are starting to come off again. I knew that that Adkins stuff was not good for you, but I thought the shakes were OK. But, fact is, they taste sweet, and anything that tastes sweet, even if it has no sugar in it, is going to slow your weight loss. There’s just no way of getting around that fact.
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I mixed one gallon, 12 lbs, of honey to 5 gallons of water and fermented it. It had potential as a simple mead. I am going to render approx 1 gallon of 100 proof from the above. The taste right off the pipe is very interesting. When doing the corn barley rye mixture, there is a “cotton candy” phase near the end of the run; haven’t noticed that one yet. This run is being very orderly and smooth; constant heat input, temp gradually rising at the exhaust, and alcohol concentration noticeably decreasing. The corn barley rye mix is not as smooth of a curve.
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My lovely Mrs. is pan frying some chicken thighs; the crispy skin with no batter – just seasoning – is sublime. A hot, greasy, salty chicken chip.
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Some very good news.
(LifeSiteNews) — While progressive elites in North America have accepted the diktats of gender ideology as dogma, Europeans appear far more willing to push back. In the U.K., the High Court ruled that minors could not consent to puberty blockers — that case was recently overturned by an appeals court but will likely end up at the Supreme Court. Finland’s medical guidelines are almost entirely opposed to puberty blockers and sex changes for minors. And as I’ve noted before in this space, a prominent Swedish hospital has also ended the use of puberty blockers.
French clinicians are also now taking a stand. In an open letter published four days ago on the L’Express website (and covered almost nowhere in the international press), over fifty medical professionals and prominent academics, including doctors, legal experts, educational experts, philosophers, sociologists, psychiatrists, judges, and psychoanalysts excoriated transgender ideology and condemned “sex reassignment” in children. Published in association with the Observatory of Ideological Discourses on Children and Adolescents, the letter is worth reading in full.
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#109
I wonder if the liberals here will eventually decide to follow the “enlightend” Europeans like they typically do on so many other topics.
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Right in texanadian’s neighborhood…
ALBERTA (LifeSiteNews) – An emergency room physician from Alberta has claimed that the hospital capacity crisis in his province was “created,” is nothing new, and is not from COVID-19 patients.
“We have a crisis, and we have a crisis because we have no staff, because our staff quit, because they’re burned out, they’re not burnt out from COVID,” said Dr. Gary Davidson who works as an emergency doctor in Red Deer.
“So, it has nothing to do with COVID, it’s been going on for six years, and it was created.”
and,
“And the day before I lockdown, I texted one of my political friends and I said, we [Alberta] must be heading into lockdown because the numbers are starting to droop,” Davidson said in the video.
“As soon they droop, they put us in lockdown, so it looks like a lockdown fixed everything, and they’ve done this every time,” he continued. “I know, because I see the numbers. And so, you know that if you’re into one and a half days or two days into a droop, you’re going to have a lockdown because it gets better then, of course, it fixed it.”
The whole hospital COVID crisis hysteria is a fraud.
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Here is a good education news aggregator site to keep up with the assault on our children.
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#108 – and totally keto.
OK, nap is done. Would have liked to stay a little longer, but it’s bright and hot and not really ideal sleeping weather right now.
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The movie “I Can Only Imagine” goes off Tubi in a few days. Watching it again.
What a story.
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From #113:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make crazy. And higher education has become objectively crazy. It’s not a shock that taxpayers think their money might be better spent elsewhere than on subsidizing enclaves of insanity. It’s especially true when universities spend so much of their time attacking so many of the Americans who pay taxes to support them, from Trump voters, to Christians, to gun owners and businesspeople. It takes a lot of chutzpah to slap someone in the face and then put your hand out for money, but that’s what universities have been doing for decades and with special force over the past few years.
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does this purse make my butt look big?
It’s a European man-bag.
It was a gift.
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Texpat – what’s the name of that spice place you’re so high on?
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wagonburner says:
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021 AT 5:22 PM
Texpat – what’s the name of that spice place you’re so high on?Arrakis
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How much more frightening will this conspiracy get? Now, according to court documents reported by JusttheNews.com, we learn that The Dark Lord himself, George Soros, paid for his own investigator to work for the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to plant the fake Trump-Russia story–and that then-Senator John McCain let him do it.
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118 wb
Spice House of Chicago
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thehouseofspice.com
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#120
I think I linked to that story a day or two ago.
I believe I called Soros Emperor Palpatine, so maybe it slid under the radar.
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I was not surprised at Soros’s involvement. McCain probably shouldn’t have surprised me but it did. He wasn’t just an inept politician, he was evil.
As I look back on my history of presidential votes (Reagan twice, Bush twice, Dole, Shrub twice, McCain, Romney, and Trump twice) I regret all of them but Reagan and Trump. That’s a pretty sad statement on the Republican Party.
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Meet the founder of Brave Search Engine and Brave Browser. I’m using both in addition to Duck Duck Go.
“Zuckerberg, like Thiel, had stuck it in the eye of his politically correct peers when he’d hacked Harvard’s online directory to create FaceMash.” At college in the ’80s, Thiel had launched a conservative monthly called The Stanford Review, which fearlessly mocked liberals on campus.
When Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, first brought Thiel into the fold as an investor in 2004, he warned Zuckerberg against the financier’s “dirty tricks.”
But Zuckerberg said he found Thiel’s tactics inspiring, and would even use them to drive his friend and co-founder Eduardo Saverin out of Facebook the next year.
“I learned it from him,” Zuckerberg replied to Parker in an instant-message exchange.
“And I’ll do it to Eduardo.”
and,
Two years later, Thiel sold PayPal to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
After that, Thiel used his PayPal profits to invest in everything from hedge funds to new technologies like Palantir, a big data analysis company, and a new social networking site called The Facebook. In 2004, Thiel became the company’s first angel investor, laying down $500,000 for a 10 percent stake and giving Zuckerberg one piece of advice: “Just don’t f–k it up.” Thiel eventually walked away with a billion dollars for his investment.
plus,
That same year, Thiel became one of the few major figures in Silicon Valley to back Donald Trump in the presidential election. Though they were in many ways polar opposites — he was no fan of Trump the “libidinous New Yorker incapable of preserving an inner monologue,” Chafkin writes — Trump was also a candidate willing to say the unsayable, “and for this, Thiel would love him.”
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124 Hamous
I regret all of them but Reagan and Trump.
It mirrors my history.
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Greg Abbott keeps showing up in the news. I don’t care. If that SOB doesn’t do something about the child abuse and mutilation of children in the name of transgenderism, I’m going to come to Texas next year and go to door-to-door to campaign against him.
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My jaw dropped at at about 25:20.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, though.
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The guy who runs that site, Michel Chossudovsky, is pretty sketchy.
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I wasn’t too enthused about the other subject matter. As a matter of fact, I quit watching after the hospital count methods were mentioned.
But I believe that part. I mean, didn’t the flu numbers practically disappear?
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130 Tedtam
I really like your Coffee&Covid lawyer’s daily newsletter, but some of these other folks are too weird.
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I’m sure many flu cases were counted as rona. But school closings, drastically reduced travel, business closures, etc. certainly contributed to lower flu cases.
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