Monday Mourning Looking Down Open Thread
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Monday again? It’s cooler here after the rain, 45 and it’ll only be in the mid 50’s.
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Same exact deal here.
Going to be a rough one this week, half staffed and three big jobs with deadlines before the end of the year. But Thursday is my last day until 2022! Wahoo!
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Manchin has killed Brandon’s Broke Back Better Boondoggle and the Goebbels Wing of the democrat party has a new talking point that will be used incessantly for the next month: “Democracy is dying!”
But what caught my eye was that Fox described CNN & MSNBC as “STATE TV”.
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Things could be worse. At least it isn’t Monday.
Oh, wait.
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Yeah I need it to be a slow week, work fast paced and Thursday to hurry and get here
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I’m off next week so this won’t be a slow week for me. And the first week of January will be a nightmare.
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Joe Manchin.
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“Democracy is dying!”
Democrats: The Henny Pennys of American politics for the last 150 years. I will never understand the perpetual “The Sky Is Falling” mentality.
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I suppose that when you’ve worked for the same company for forty years, getting Christmas week off is a given.
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I would have taken off all of this week and next week like I normally do every year. However, my company is still short changing me on my PTO. They have had my employment status as Modified Full Time since February which means I accrue vacation at half my normal rate.
I’d love to win the lotto and then resign and tell them off in a Johnny Paycheck manner. It’s been two years since the merger/acquisition and apparently HR is still not firing on all cylinders. Numerous emails have not been answered. The only consolation I have had is that some if the overtime I’ve worked this year has been paid at 1.5X.
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It’s been two years since the merger/acquisition and apparently HR is still not firing on all cylinders.
Ah, yes.
HR – The U.S. government of company divisions.
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I’ve had privileged senior status many years, I always take off the week between Christmas and New Years. Depending how it falls, counting weekends I get around nine-ten days off for three days vaca.
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Okay, I haven’t done my hang time in a coupla days. Lifted a few bags of gifts yesterday for the gift giveaway. When I got home, I found four heavy boxes had been delivered (should have been five, Hubby’s got some phone calls to make; or someone walked off with one of them), and I moved them out of sight from the street.
As careful as I was, the back was very…challenging this morning.
So, I’ve hung – briefly – but here’s hoping the brief upside down is the upside for my morning. Pain pill ingested, coffee in hand, and I’m sitting in my magic back chair as I wait for things to settle into place and the pain to recede some more.
After that, I can go about my day. I’ll try to treadmill after that.
Getting old ain’t for the fainthearted.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Monday, December 20, 2021 ☙ FAILURE
It’s the Monday before Christmas and Omicron is our present. Today’s roundup is (almost) all about what they used to call “vaccine failure” but now euphemistically refer to as “breakthrough cases.” Even three jabs doesn’t seem to stop the new, milder variant. So the Administration is going to “pivot” to a “new strategy” tomorrow, and I bet I can guess what it is. Enjoy.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*Merry Christmas! Joe Biden held an “all hands on deck” meeting with his Covid team late last week and gave a press conference where he said, if you’re uninjected, you’re going to overwhelm the hospitals and then all of you are going to die, and you’re going to take out all your relatives when you go. So. They even reprinted these dire comments on the White House’s website. You probably think I’m making it up or at least exaggerating, but here is exactly what Biden said:
“For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death… for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm.”
It’s an emergency! Again.
For some reason, Biden didn’t take ANY questions at the emergency press conference. He didn’t walk himself out, either. Instead, staffers hustled the reporters out — while Biden sat there, blinking and looking confused, ignoring questions shouted at him by the reporters being shooed towards the doors. Not a good look.
Anyway, Biden also announced that he would be making ANOTHER SUPER IMPORTANT announcement about Omicron four days later on TUESDAY (now tomorrow). You have to wait for the super important news! It’s like Christmas!
Except it’s the opposite of a fun waiting game for most of us. And, I guess we already knew it, but Biden’s one of THOSE kinds of people. You know, the ones who say, “hey Jeff, I really need to talk to you about something,” and you say “okay, go ahead,” and then they say “I’ll tell you when we meet up next Friday.”
Oh, thanks. SO annoying. Thanks for giving me something to wonder about and dread for a week. You couldn’t have just kept it to yourself till we got together, could you, Joe?
In other words, if it’s so damnably important, lives are at stake and so forth, why not just tell us right NOW? Maybe that super vital, critical information could be helpful to somebody today. If in fact it is so vitally essential, or whatever.
Instead, he wants to wait until four days before Christmas to give us the bad news? More lockdowns? More forced medical treatments? More disastrous economic policy? Are we giving Taiwan to the Russians this time, because Covid? What’s on your mind, Joe?
Here’s the thing. If we really have to wait, why not just keep it to yourself? Just tell us whatever it is on Tuesday. Why tell us that you’re GOING TO tell us? It’s almost like he doesn’t know what he’s going to say yet, but he just wants some attention or needs some more time or something.
Conspicuous by its absence from Biden’s remarks was any mention of TREATMENT for Covid. Paging Dr. McCullough.
I’ll let you know if he actually says anything important tomorrow.
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The White House is leaking like Doctor Fauci’s adult diapers after a long day of Covid interviews. The gist is that various administration officials and anonymous leakers are suggesting a shift, or “pivot,” from counting cases to measuring severity of illness.
If they can pull it off — which is doubtful — it would be super convenient for the administration, which is facing surging case numbers in highly-injected blue states, and where Omicron is mostly infecting injected people. In fact, the CDC’s latest weekly report, released last week, disclosed that out of all the Omicron cases detected so far, EIGHTY PERCENT (80%) of them are in the double- and triple-injected. So.
Biden put all his chips on the injections. If THEY fail, he fails. The new policy leaks suggest an evolving strategy for the embattled Administration, perhaps to be deployed by its surrogates…*************
And just like that, on Saturday — one day after the leaked policy pivot — the National Football League sent a memo to teams saying it was “tweaking” its Covid policy after the league was forced to postpone several games due to a rise in cases.
In what the NFL calls a “more targeted testing program,” vaccinated players no longer have to get tested. That makes sense, right? In a statement, the league even SAYS it’s because of Omicron, which clearly infects injected people: “The NFL and NFLPA have been engaged with our medical advisors to address the emergence of the new Omicron variant and how to stop the spread,” the league’s spokesman said.
See? You stop the spread by NOT TESTING the people most likely to spread the virus. It’s simple. Science! SHUT UP.
According to the Epoch Times, under the league’s original Covid-19 rules, vaccinated staff and players had to be tested weekly. The new rule deletes the testing requirement. Except for uninjected players, for whom there is no change in the NFL’s protocol: they will still have to be tested DAILY.
Makes sense.
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Meanwhile, in California, Gavin Newsom — giving a press conference in a former Soviet-bloc-style mafia track suit — Omicron cases are also hitting the fully-injected, apparently, and blasting the state back to the mask age. “The overwhelming majority [of Omicron cases] have been fully vaccinated. That’s why masking becomes even more important in this environment,” Newsom said.
He also calls it, “Omni-cron.”
Newsom answered an angry reporter who demanded to know why there weren’t more severe punishments for people who don’t wear their masks. Newsom said, “I have more faith than you do in the capacity of people to do the right thing.”
Ouch!
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️ Mega-cruise line Royal Caribbean, which requires negative tests AND a vaccine passport from customers in order to board its ships, and has ignored Florida’s vaccine-passport ban for months, just reported a super-spreader event on one of its cruises. According to the Hill, the cruise line confirmed that 44 passengers and crew members tested positive on the cruise that ended in Miami on Saturday.
USA Today reported that the 44 Covid-positive passengers were found through contact tracing after a single guest tested positive and was then quickly quarantined. The first guest’s case “was identified as Omicron,” Royal Caribbean’s spokesman said.
So, that’s 44 MORE cases of Omicron infecting fully-injected folks. All the cases were described as “asymptomatic.”
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A few feathers dropped out of Elizabeth Warren’s headdress this weekend after she announced testing positive for Covid — despite being triple-jabbed. Still, Warren gave thanks to the Mighty Earth Mother for her jabs without which it would have been so much worse. Probably. Apparently, she tested positive after trading for some old blankets with a couple guys who were dressed as US Calvary.
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In yet another report of vaccine failure, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) also announced over the weekend that, despite his three jabs, he’s now Covid positive. The healthy senator in good shape is grateful for the shots because he’s 100% “certain” that his case would have been much much more serious otherwise. Probably fatal. Or worse.
That’s TWO triple-jabbed senators with vaccine failures in one weekend. Out of fifty (guessing that the D’s are all 3x-jabbed). So.
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The Jerusalem Post reported on a new Israeli study concluding that three Pfizer shots are four times less effective against Omicron — or Omni-cron, whichever — than they are for Delta.
Two shots are DEFINITELY useless. According to the article, lab tests conducted in South Africa last week showed that antibodies from two shots of the Pfizer vaccine may be up to FORTY (40) TIMES less effective against the Omicron variant.So now, I guess boosters are out, too. Still, four times less effective is — I guess — better than 40x less effective.
But the researchers noted that “it is still unclear” whether the effectiveness of the booster shot will also decrease over time. Who knows? Well, I know what I’d put MY money on.**************
Over the weekend, highly-injected New York City reported its highest-ever single day of new Covid cases with more than 21,000 new positives. They should probably think about putting in mask mandates and maybe a vaccine passport system or municipal injection mandates or something.
Oh, wait. Never mind!
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Another 100% injected Ivy League school — Georgetown, this time — has shuttered for the season due to vaccine failure. But it’s going to work, this time. Science promises.
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A federal judge rejected a proposed settlement between the government and opioid-pushing Purdue Pharma. The judge was troubled because the settlement would have immunized the Sackler family — who own Purdue — from any civil lawsuits by victims and their families.
The settlement would also have allowed Purdue to continue selling opioids to victims, while siphoning the victims’ money to the government, which would then use part of the money to help the victims cope with their addictions, which would continue to fuel the settlement. In other words, it would have put the government in the opioid business.Hey! I have an idea. Maybe if mandatory Covid injections hold up, the government can mandate we all take its opioids too. That would be great for business.
If you haven’t seen it, season three of Amazon Prime’s series “Goliath” starring Billy Bob Thornton is a thinly-veiled reimagining of this case. It’s terrific and I recommend it.
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Finally, Biden’s blockbuster Build Back Better bill bottomed-out in the Senate over the weekend after West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin — the swing vote — declined to support the fantastically expensive pork package. Merry Christmas! -
Getting old ain’t for the fainthearted.
All of that standing at the stove to make chili has me completely crippled this morning.
Going to be a challenging day.
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How about a nice forest green 53 GMC, complete with sunshade, chrome grill and white sidewall tires…..I’ll take it. 😉
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A few feathers dropped out of Elizabeth Warren’s headdress this weekend after she announced testing positive for Covid — despite being triple-jabbed. Still, Warren gave thanks to the Mighty Earth Mother for her jabs without which it would have been so much worse. Probably. Apparently, she tested positive after trading for some old blankets with a couple guys who were dressed as US Calvary.
Now that’s funny.
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Okay, time to get moving around. I’ll try some stretches first…
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Not all the apparatchiks of the Deep State are crafty and clever. Some of them are stupid and incompetent and may be the most dangerous.
They called these scientists and doctors “three fringe epidemiologists”.
New emails released by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed that last year, outgoing National Institutes of Health Dir. Dr. Francis Collins instructed Dr. Anthony Fauci to carry out a “quick and devastating” takedown of The Great Barrington Declaration, a document authored by experts who advocated for herd immunity to stop the pandemic, and “focused protection” for the most vulnerable populations over universal lockdowns.
According to the declaration, “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health” that will lead to “greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. ”
“Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed,” states the declaration.
and this,
The declaration was written by Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University, and, according to its website, more than 15,000 medical & public health scientists and over 45,000 medical practitioners have signed onto it.
“So now I know what it feels like to be the subject of a propaganda attack by my own government,” Bhattacharya tweeted after the release of the emails. “Discussion and engagement would have been a better path.”
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Morning gang. Slept in a little and then went to coffee. Have now tuned in the trial that I’ve been watching which starts with closing arguments this morning. The State is going first with their closing, and they for some reason selected their female prostitutor to give the statement. To consider this smug, ugly woman anything short of the C word would be an understatement as to what she really is. Her voice is grating and irritating, her efforts at dramatization of the sequence of events is over the top. Under normal conditions, I would merely tune her out like just about any other female politician, but in this case I still need to pay attention just to see how the defense responds.
Here’s hoping that you all have a great day. No need to panic if everything is not ready for the big event. My experience is that if you just get most of it right that’s good enough. I’ll be hanging around here until Friday most likely, but if I get a wild hair and decide to get my act and the rest of my stuff together, I might go a little earlier. You never know what irrational people like me might do next. Meanwhile, you all have a great one. More later.
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The undead really do roam the earth.
dR Nosferatu Fraudci has Risen from the Grave.
Here’s to hoping Santa stuffs his stocking with some garlic, a crucifix and a wooden stake.
Sheeeezzz!
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Spotted over yonder;
Kelly Tshibaka, who is challenging longtime Senate incumbent Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for the Republican nomination: “With Mitch McConnell in leadership, we don’t really need Democrats. He is a Democrat, and he’s supporting the Democrats.”
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I suppose that when you’ve worked for the same company for forty years, getting Christmas week off is a given.
That’s certainly part of it but a large part of our customer base shuts down the last two weeks of the year. But yeah, I haven’t gotten any push back for at least 20 years.
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Fauci looks like he could be Dr. Kevorkian’s midget brother.
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A chilly Good Morning to all you Couch Critters. I find myself stiff and sore after too much exercise at the Santa event yesterday. My plan had been to go buy some bananas before I drove home, but I didn’t have it written down anywhere so it simply didn’t cross my mind yesterday. Now here I am having a granola bar for my breakfast.
I did make a short but proper grocery list last night, so I’ll get out sometime today. Right now, I’m thinking I may go back to bed — didn’t sleep well and don’t feel rested.
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Fauci also said that it would be even better if people conducted tests at their family gatherings.
I think a flaming bag of dog poop on the front stoop would be a suitable response to such a request.
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RE: my #19 Fauci & Collins
Our old friend from LST, Phil Magness, and his colleagues at the American Institute for Economic Research are responsible for obtaining the Collins/Fauci/NIH emails through a FOIA request. They were the original organizers of the Great Barrington Declaration conference.
So why was Dr. Collins so intent on impugning these three scientists? It’s hard to know exactly, mostly because any scientist worth his salt should have been happy to see further research being done. That is, after all, how ignorance is replaced by knowledge. But Collins was clearly in no mood to replace his own possible ignorance with any kind of knowledge. He was pretty sure he knew all he had to know; and this is one of the most dangerous positions a scientist can take.
In an email obtained by AIER through a Freedom of Information Act request, Collins told Anthony Fauci, CCing Lawrence Tabak, Deputy Ethics Counselor at NIH, that he wanted “a quick and devastating published take down (sic)” of the Great Barrington Declaration’s premises.
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Freddie deBoer is an old time Marxist having written prolifically for all the leftist rags from The Nation, The New Republic to Foreign Policy. He writes frequently about education and you might be surprised to find he makes points entirely agreeable to conservatives.
I don’t have any hope of deBoer getting red-pilled, but he does rattle the cages of the smug, pretentious Left. Freddie is a leftist I could sit and have a beer or two with.
This is a substack.com article and there is some profanity involved.
Here is what I want to say to you: at the end of this process, no matter how you change it, no matter how many statements the schools put out about diversity, no matter how many thumbs you put on all the scales to select for a certain kind of student, at the end of this process are self-serving institutions of limitless greed and an army of apparatchiks who are employed only to protect their interests. That’s it. You can’t make college admissions fair by getting rid of the SAT because colleges admissions can’t be “fair.” College admissions exist to serve the schools. Period. End of story. They always have, they always will. College admissions departments functioned as one big anti-Semitic conspiracy for decades because that was in the best interest of the institution. Guys who the schools know will never graduate but who run a 4.5 40 jump the line because admissions serves the institution. Absolute f**king dullards whose parents can pay – and listen, guys, it’s cute that you think legacies are somehow the extent of that dynamic, like they won’t let in the idiot son of a wealthy guy who didn’t go there – get in because admissions serves the institution. Some cornfed doofus from Wyoming with a so-so application gets in over a far more qualified kid from Connecticut because the marketing department gets to say they have students from 44 states in the incoming class instead of 43 that way, because admissions serves the institution. How do you people look at this world and conclude that the problem is the SAT?
oh and this rant,
The whole selection process for elite schools is to skim a band of truly gifted students from the top, then admit a bunch of kids with identical resumes whose parents will collectively buy the crew team a new boathouse, and then you find a kid whose parents moved to the states from Nigeria two years before he was born and whose family owns a mining company and you call that affirmative action. And if you look at all this, and you take to Twitter to complain about the SAT instead of identifying the root corruption at the schools themselves, you’re a f**king mark, a patsy. You’ve been worked, you’ve been took. You’re doing the bidding of some of the wealthiest, most elitist, most despicable institutions on earth. You think Harvard gives a single merciful f**k about poor Black teenagers? Are you out of your goddamned minds?
deBoer lists all his related articles about higher education at the beginning of the article. It’s entertaining stuff.
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Yeah, what the heck is goin’ on over there in Alabama ? First the crazed, racist judge and now this.
An Alabama man who gained widespread notoriety after being accused of feeding methamphetamine to what authorities called his ‘attack squirrel’ has now been charged with a state wildlife offense.
Court records indicate 35-year-old Mickey Joel Paulk has been hit with a count of illegal possession of wildlife.
Paulk has not denied having a pet squirrel he named Deez Nuts, which is illegal under state law. But he has denied police allegations that he fed meth to the squirrel to make it aggressive.
I think Super Dave better have his water analyzed. There might be something in it.
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The commission failed to gather enough evidence to support other allegations against Brocton, including that the judge was using drugs, was mentally unstable and made an inappropriate campaign contribution to a Birmingham mayoral candidate.
If you read the article, I believe the “mentally unstable” charge is pretty obvious.
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I like the squirrel’s name: Deeznuts
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Republicans’ lack of trust is evident in the overall number of 70% who lack faith in Fauci, with 22% saying they have little faith and a sizeable 48% plurality saying they have none.
Independents, once again, split the difference between the two major parties. Just 16% say they grant Fauci a lot of trust, and 20% award him “quite a bit,” for a total of 36%.
And, like the Republicans, the independents, and “other” voters mostly don’t trust Fauci, with 49% giving him negative trust responses, with 23% saying “little trust” and 26% saying “no trust.”
but here’s the fascinating part,
An equally intriguing gap exists between men and women. Just 37% of women trust Fauci, while 45% don’t. Among men, 55% trust him, just 37% don’t.
Race is another fissure in the public’s opinion of Fauci. Blacks and Hispanics are nearly statistically identical, and together 51% of these two key demographic groups say they trust Fauci, while 35% say they don’t.
Whites, meanwhile, break nearly even, with 45% saying they trust Fauci, and 44% saying they don’t.
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Public education is a wonderful thing.
A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended after making third-grade children reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including getting them to pretend to dig mass graves and shoot victims, and telling them the Germans were angry “because the Jews ruined Christmas,” parents and officials said Sunday.
The incident occurred Friday at the Watkins Elementary School in the US capital, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing an email from school principal MScott Berkowitz.
The children had been in a library class working on a self-directed project, when the staff member, who was not identified, made them reenact scenes from the Holocaust. It was not clear what prompted her to do so.
“There was a lot of sobbing and crying and distress and then momentarily we got an email to say that the children had reenacted the Holocaust,” one parent told the Fox5DC TV station. “This included the trains, dying in gas chambers, playing Hitler and mass graves.”
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Dora raised us back to level Ernie. The Winter of Death is upon us! Wrap your pipes.
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don’t. Among men, 55% trust him, just 37% don’t.
I call bs on that fishing poll.
No one trusts that freaking dr Fraudci the walking undead Vampire.
Even the lying propagandist media doesn’t trust him they just have too much invested in him to admit that they don’t.
Robert Kennedy jrs new book should be required reading for the propagandist media.
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Re: The Potter trial. I’m not an attorney nor a judge, but I am qualified to be a juror, so I have decided to self appoint myself to represent the Couch on the jury. This is a tough call – female officer makes a deadly mistake while under stress, shoots and kills a black guy who was trying to flee from an arrest warrant while high on mj, had gun warrants outstanding, was traveling with an unknown woman while under a restraining order from a woman. Car had expired plates, illegal item on windshield obstructing view. What, you ask, could ever be the reason for stopping a black guy under these conditions? Well, according to the DA up there, this is entirely normal and the police should never have made the traffic stop. But having made the traffic stop, when the black guy decided he did not want to go to jail and decided to flee instead, the police should just let him go and pick him up later sometime when he is in a better frame of mind about going to jail. Unknown to the jury of course, is that this guy has been arrested numerous times, but it seems that he doesn’t like going to court any more than he likes going to jail, so his busy schedule has resulted in bench warrants for no show court dates.
So fundamentally, we have an American black guy just living the black life in the black hood and the white female cop decides to drive through and stir things up. So given that it’s a black guy living the black life in the black hood, it should be obvious to all concerned that this white woman police officer had no business being in there in the first place, unless she was there to buy some drugs or otherwise stimulate the local economy, much less to blow some poor black guy who was just minding his own dam business away. Were it not for the press hyping this up, I’d be tempted to convict the police officer under the pretext that a female police officer should never happen in the first place because they choke under pressure and will always shoot you before engaging in a physical altercation because they tend to be undersized. But in this case, this officer appears to have been qualified, well trained, level headed, conscientious, and did not cut corners. So my verdict is not guilty despite my prejudices against women in positions of responsibility. Tough case though.
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I failed to comment on other factors: This is the same team of prostitutors who put Officer Chauvin away for killing George Floyd. The judge is a Chinese woman who, recognizing that this is a made for TV trial, senses the opportunity to become a rock star among up and coming judges, so she is acting out her part for the benefit of the audience, smiling and courteous while backstabbing whoever necessary at the same time to get ahead in the judicial system. One of the most evil smiles I’ve ever seen. The defense team is is good, but old and out matched by the state’s unlimited resources. The defense put on a much better case than did the state, but the TV cameras are rolling and the jurors are going home and night and watching what’s going on. I predict a guilty verdict from them, much like in the Chauvin trial, where they decided to convict as quickly a possible and get the heck out of Dodge City. And don’t forget that Christmas is right around the corner.
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Yeah, what the heck is goin’ on over there in Alabama ? First the crazed, racist judge and now this.
All I know izzat none of this stuff was going on as long as Dave was locked in that Shake Shack at NASA….
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I think Super Dave better have his water analyzed. There might be something in it.
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All I know izzat none of this stuff was going on as long as Dave was locked in that Shake Shack at NASA….
😀
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OK, how about a sweet, 1947 Mercury Panel Truck?
Who knew that they even built a Mercury Panel Truck? 😉For some reason, I’m really liking the color of that truck.
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That is a gorgeous shade of white, I’m loviyit as well. I did not know Mercury ever made panel trucks either.
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I didn’t fare well at Kroger. Wanted to stock up in the animal food aisle, but the shelves were largely bare. Did get some tiny cans of fancy food for the 18-y.o. cat. Regular cans for all the other cats, didn’t get any at all. We’re not completely out at home, but the only new cans I could have bought today were flavors they don’t like. The fact that canned turkey shreds were still available suggests that most cats don’t like it, either.
For the night crew, there was not a single bag of the for-all-ages dry kibbles type I prefer. I’m not completely out, so I’ll try again in a day or so. I need to take some items to the Oak Forest post office, so that should motivate me to get those things ready, and go out again maybe tomorrow.
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I think Mercury trucks were unique to Canada.
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Y’all making country music songs in my head.
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Did you know Vince Gill is also a scratch golfer ?
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Tomorrow, the sun will be so low on the southern horizon up here on the 41st latitude, there will be very little sunlight and to make it worse we are going to have 70% cloud cover.
The Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice is just one day away.
The shortest day of this year of 2021 will occur on Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 10:59 a.m. ET, and 7:59 a.m. PT.
It’s the official start of what’s called the astronomical winter.
On the winter solstice, we have the fewest hours of sunlight in the whole year.
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Good stuff.
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Boy howdy. The Democrats really want Joe Manchin to be a Republican, don’t they?
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Here’s a little astronomical quirk I noticed a few years ago. While daylight hours begin increasing on December 22, in Houston, sunrise actually comes later in the morning until January 17 before it starts reversing. But sunset comes later in evening at a faster pace so the days get longer.
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The Democrats really want Joe Manchin to be a Republican, don’t they?
HA! On my way back from the Pig I got tired of pushing buttons on the radio and switched over to
PMSNBCthe alternate universe to see what the Loony Tune Folks had to say. They were vilifying Joe Manchin and calling for his head. They had an AOC clip where she was basically saying the Joe Brandon needs to be more forceful, because his being President was more than enough to sway Joe Manchin. I must say it was enjoyable to listen to REAL comedy for a change.,,,These people are clueless and of course totally INSANE! 😉 -
I wouldn’t be surprised if Manchin switches parties before the year’s out. He’s up for reelection in 2024 and only won by three points in 2018. Trump won WV by 30 points in 2020.
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OK the little Honda is neat but it’s NOT in the same class as a Weatherby Mark V, not even close, but it was a cute ad.
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One of my cousins had a Trail 70. That was a neat little bike.
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#53 – I’m old enough now to virtually notice the difference when the days start getting longer. Since I now office in my kitchen, and since I face virtually 270 degrees out my west window, I can daily measure the angle of the sun as it comes in. That usually does not account for leap years or the Earth’s wobble, but it’s close enough.
For those of you interested in inertial navigation, which is used by virtually all commercial airliners and ocean going ships, it’s based on knowing where you are when you start. It tracks all your movements, pitch, roll, and yaw, the time, your speed, your altitude, everything – so if you just know where you started, you will know where you are after all those maneuvers. But that first measurement, determining where you are when you start, includes determining the earth’s rotation and your precise location at the exact time you depart. Amazingly accurate too. And based on the same technology lodged in your inner ear. Ask Brother Dave, I’ll bet he know something about it.
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Local news finally gets what they wanted -a local Omicron-related death.
Whatever the hell that is.
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#60 – I really doubt it. It’s some other cause of death who had the O variety. But it doesn’t really matter – according to Brandon we’ll all be dead after New Years’ Day anyway.
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It was a real struggle, but I pulled my 18” tall Christmas tree out of its kitchen trash bag and plugged it in yesterday.
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Captain’s in the chart room
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In a headline below the story, I read that the vaccine can keep you from becoming fully immunized if you get the infection later. So instead of getting infected and getting full natural immunity, the vaccine may even be preventing you from acquiring your natural full immunity. I don’t have time to read the story but I do want to go back and catch that one.
I jumped on the Nextdoor app briefly today and there were, once again, people claiming they knew everything because they are trusting the government, and calling everyone else idiots and wanting them to be canceled. You can get the vaccine if you want. I have no problem with it. I think it’s not for me, because I don’t believe the data upholds it. I think there are side effects that are being hidden. But it is totally your choice. Yet we have these fascist idiots, the next door karens, that think that if you don’t agree with them as they swallow everything the government tells them, that you should be canceled and sent away to a gulag somewhere. I don’t know whether to be angry, fearful, or sad.
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I wonder how long its going to take Sleepy Joe to stop saying “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated” and starts saying “Donald Trump’s vaccines don’t work.”
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67. About halfway through the winter of death
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Yet we have these fascist idiots, the next door karens, that think that if you don’t agree with them as they swallow everything the government tells them, that you should be canceled and sent away to a gulag somewhere.
For what it’s worth, there are quite a few on the other side saying the same thing about the vaccinated. I see that a lot in the CFP comments.
I’m tryna stay outta the comments.
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Looking like it will be good travel weather later this week. If I could just get my act together. Some of my rose bush cutting are are putting out little green shoots, but from what I read they often have sufficient energy in the stem to start putting on leaves, so that does not necessarily mean that they are also putting on roots in any measurable amounts. I think I mentioned that I replanted and relocated several cuttings, and they were not doing all that well where they were. They will get a little more direct sunlight in the west window, but it still won’t be a whole lot since the sun is so low on the horizon. But enough for now I’m hoping. They haven’t been here for a full month yet, and with Jan and Feb yet to go I think we’ll have a pretty good idea of who is rooting out and who is not by then. Probably Feb they can move to larger pots, and then by April, move outdoors. My plan is to keep them all in pots this summer – some large outdoor pots, but still in pots with good soil. After experimenting over the summer with locations, I should be in a position to decide on some permanent placements should I desire to go that direction. Anyway, that’s the long range plan for now. More later.
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So instead of getting infected and getting full natural immunity, the vaccine may even be preventing you from acquiring your natural full immunity.
Yes. That has been floating around for a couple of months.
Unfortunately we’ll have to depend on foreign sources for final confirmation.
I don’t think there is one single federal government institution that can be trusted anymore.
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Yep. Houston really is going to have an 83F Christmas Day.
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There few things in life that can beat day old cornbread drowned in day old chili.
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90 Something minutes of Billy Strings playing at Austin City Limits.
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One of my cousins had a Trail 70. That was a neat little bike.
Well Honda brought back the original Trail 50, with the half N half painted gas tank, only it’s now a 125 and real dang expensive. Last year I went by Beasley’s Honda to get something for the wife’s Kawasaki Mule and spotted one on the show room floor. The tank was blue and white JUST like the one’s in the middle 60’s…And I can’t lie, I really wanted one and would have bought one if the boy hadn’t got his girls a Honda Dirt bike, complete with training wheels. FWIW; They both can drive it now but the youngest one has no fear.
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My #75, I’ve been wanting a Rokon 2 wheel drive bike ever since I first saw them in Popular Mechanics and Outdoor Life in the early 60’s. They’d ford 34″ of water and ifin’ it got too deep, you just shut off the fuel-cock, flipped it over on it’s side and floated it across on the big air filled tires. Oh and you could actually store water in the dang tires. Well,,,,,we were still drinkin’ out of the garden hose….. 😀
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There few things in life that can beat day old cornbread drowned in day old chili.
YUP, A man after my own heart. Daughter and SIL will arrive on Thursday night and I’ll have a big pot of Bambi N Sausage Chili waiting for them with some baked cornbread, Fritos’ and Cheddar cheese. 😉
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We’ve been busy today so I warmed up the leftover tater soup for the wife and I had sardines on toast with cream cheese, KO Brisling Sardines, Jalapeno’s, Cheddar N Provolone Cheese. Dang that was good eating!
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Seventy Nine?! Can Y’all pull it off? Welp I’m outta’ here…..Later,….
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I’m convinced the Walrus does not exist and never has existed.
Goo goo ga joob.
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Darn, seems like it’s got to be near midnight out here, but alas, only 9:30. Watched that big old yaller moon rise again tonight just after sunset, but lost sight of it after it got above the treetops. Last night the moon was bright white, tonight cheddar cheese yaller. You never know I guess. I’ll try to fool around here just a bit longer before heading off to bed. Meanwhile, you all have a good night. Mananna.
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Good night El Gordo, good night John-boy.
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Good night Jim-bob.
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#81 EG
I’d forgotten that I glimpsed that huge yellow full moon low on the horizon around 7 pm. I participated in the Christmas yard decorations judging here in the ‘hood last night, then went out tonight to take pix of the 7 winners. I generally can’t see the moon from Chez Harp until the moon is high overhead; the surrounding houses and especially the 50 y.o.+ trees in almost all yards have it hidden. But I’ve noticed that being out soon after dusk and driving east on several wide streets around here can reveal a gigantic moon low on the horizon. I can’t stop on the wide street to get a pic of the moon, and by the time I get home, it’s not visible.
Now it’s high overhead, but very pale yellow.
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