Tetonia, Idaho by Kurtis Minster
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Beautiful shot.
Good morning.
Our friend George spent a decade or more going up to Montana for the wheat harvest for six weeks. He soon refused to operate the combines, in favor of driving the transport 18 wheelers. The combines are a very boring job because they are completely digitized/computerized, even making the the turn-row turns without operator assist.
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I always wanted to go with him but someone had to stay home and run the water business.
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Other than spending a week in California and a few days in Colorado and Utah, I’ve never been to the Western states of the big sky country.
One of these days…
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At this insane hour of the morning on Channel 20.2 they are showing the 1951 film Scrooge, a retelling of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. It is a delightful black-and-white masterpiece. Scrooge is portrayed in a comically sinister way. This is the version I grew up watching.
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For well over a year, on a near daily basis, I have been following the salvage operation of the collosal RORO ship (car carrier) Golden Ray which capsized off the coast of Georgia over two years ago.
They cut the ship into eight sections and transported the pieces by barge to Gibson, Louisiana for processing by the M.A.R.S. Corporation – a ship and oilfield salvage company.
However, the last two pieces were so heavily damaged that they couldn’t safely secure them for sea transport, so they have been cutting them up into smaller pieces which can be stacked on barges and safely secured.
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Dang Shannon is up early. It’s hump day.
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Between the dog and Fay, I have discovered that sleep is overrated. -
But I have learned to catnap occasionally during the day. Which is a real change for me.
I’ve hated naps from the beginning, but don’t have much choice these days. -
I woke up at 6:30pm at the Cat Spring well the other evening. That nap was over an hour long!
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#1 That big Case IH 9240 Row Tractor is something else. My dad and his brothers couldn’t believe the equipment and technology they have today. A while back, TexPat posted a picture of my uncle in 1938, hitching up the mules.
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Attention! Dr Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director, is a Poopy Head! That is all………..
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Note the two boom lifts they are using, look to be either 135 or 150 footers. We have four 135s on our yard right now.
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I have always been amazed at those types of heavy lifts. Crackers and distillation columns are typically the most impressive due to the size of the equipment.
I designed a cold box (5 heat exchangers literally in a box filled with perlite) for an olefins plant. We, the engineering contractor, were hoping to watch the lift. The client denied the request because they had to lift the box over a unit that was still operating. They did not want extra personnel in the area if something went sideways. They scheduled the lift for the middle of the night due to calm winds. Fortunately the client did record the lift and we were able to see the video a couple of days later.
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My wife got in trouble because she worked during Thanksgiving week even though she told everyone she would take PTO. Everyone else is off today and I can hear her tapping away at her work laptop. Usually in our business things slow down this time of year typically because our clients have use it or lose it vacation policies.
I guess the recyclable plastic industry is not like the real plastic industry.
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Patiently awaiting a text that gives me my two hour window for the tech to install and test our new modem.
I need to find out if there is a way to force my phone to use 4G LTE instead of 5G. 5G has a nasty habit of losing speed rapidly the further away from the source you get. Typically at my house I could always get 10 – 15 Mbps download speeds on 4G LTE. I’m only getting 5 via the 5G signal.
I really don’t know how Shannon put up with these slow speeds all those extra years. I feel like I am in Internet Data Speed Purgatory.
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They had the Thor crane up here on the Hudson River when they were rebuilding the old Tappan Zee Bridge. Andrew Cuomo was robbing all kinds of state government accounts to come up with the cash to pay contractors. The environmentalists sued him for stealing $39 million from the account dedicated to cleaning up chemicals out of the Hudson. I wanted to take the boat up there with my friend, Jeff, to look at Thor but it never worked out.
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8 Shannon
Just make sure you aren’t catnapping while you’re driving.
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Well, woke up with a headache and back pain. I needed – and got – a pretty good adjustment in my lower back yesterday, so I figgered today would be a recuperative day. No treadmill today!
So, I’ve stuffed more cold poopy-diaper feeling stuff in my shorts, and I have coffee in hand…and since I have coffee, I guess I need to find today’s C&C.
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I found an app called Samsung Band Selection to force my phone onto a 4GLTE signal. It works great and I now have speeds between 25 – 30. I call that success!
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, December 22, 2021 ☙ DON’T PANIC
Happy Wednesday! Everything you need to know about Biden’s Big Announcement; Omicron hospitalizations appear to be a fraction of Delta’s; London Breed proves why local emergency powers are idiotic; and the Supreme Court sets a briefing schedule for the injection mandate appeals./snip
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*“We should all be concerned about Omicron, but not panic … this is not March of 2020 … we just have to stay focused.” Biden built back a better announcement yesterday, at his Botox-faced animatronic best, slowly swaying rhythmically — hypnotically — side to side, coughing repeatedly from time to time … nothing to do with that Covid-positive staffer meeting Friday … clearing his throat, stumbling over the words on the teleprompter, repeatedly chastising the un-injected, emphasizing words awkwardly and wincing emphatically to make a point.
It took Biden twenty minutes to explain his three-point plan: 500 million new, free at-home test kits — about 1.5 tests per American, new “pop-up” booster injection sites, and extra support for overwhelmed hospitals from military doctors.He hit all the progressive talking points: dangerous online misinformation, more testing sites, masking, boosters, a pandemic of selfish unvaccinated people, and something called “PPP”, which Biden explained was “gowns, gloves, masks, and ventilators.” Ventilators are back!
FEMA is going to build some more temporary hospitals and stage ambulances in the big blue cities to move patients from overwhelmed hospitals to other nearby hospitals.
There was some good news for citizens in blue states. Biden said there’d be no closing of businesses — no lockdowns — or closing of schools. “K-12 schools should be open,” he said. “Covid-19 is scary but the science is clear: kids are as safe at school as anywhere.” He referenced the CDC’s recent change in policy, obviously timed with his announcement, to stop quarantining healthy kids. Just like in Florida! Except that contact-traced kids will have to test at least twice a week.
After conceding that the injections can’t stop infections, Biden plugged his mandates. “I know vaccination requirements aren’t popular … they’re not to control your life, but to SAVE your life.” Oh, thanks. He ended on a hopeful note: “Look, I know you’re tired and frustrated … but this is the critical moment … we’ll get through this. Let’s keep the faith … there’s no challenge too big for America … we can do this together, I guarantee it.”
He didn’t mention treatment options. At all. Not even the new Merck and Pfizer pills.
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Here’s my take. First of all, there was no reason why Biden couldn’t have said all this stuff LAST Thursday when he announced that he would be making an announcement. So I conclude they just weren’t ready last week. They didn’t have the plan yet.
The plan is basically just a surge plan: more testing and increased hospital capacity. That’s it. But he had to fill up a lot of time to make it sound bigger and better, and to pacify liberals who want lockdowns, more mandates, and school closures by criticizing the un-injected, pushing masks and boosters, and condemning “dangerous peddlers of misinformation on cable tv.” I guess he means Tucker.
In fact, if anything, Biden’s announcement signaled a RELAXING of restrictions. There were no new lockdowns or closures, and he stressed the brand-new non-quarantine and non-closing policy for schools.
In other words, the White House decided NOT to over-react to Omicron. Telling people NOT to panic? Biden actually said people should celebrate Christmas, because it’s not March 2020. But they still had to sell the non-over-reaction to the worried, anxious progressive base. So the plan was served up as a surge plan, heavily garnished with the demonization of uninjected people, and a helping of “misinformation alerts” and plugs for booster shots.It was interesting. It’s too soon to say whether this signals any kind of new direction or a new contingent in control of the White House’s Covid strategy, but it makes you wonder.
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Florida appears to be holding steady on low hospitalization rates even while cases are increasing into the seasonal winter wave. In prior waves, increased hospitalizations have closely tracked increased cases, with a very short lag time in reporting. We are past that now. It appears — appears — that cases and hospitalizations may have “decoupled” — a sign of the holy grail of herd immunity.
Governor DeSantis told Fox News yesterday that Florida isn’t seeing the hospitalization rates that the northern states are experiencing. He stressed that Florida is NOT going to lock down or close anything, and is going to keep emphasizing early treatment.
It’s still early — and I may regret writing this — but it is starting to look like the winter wave could be categorically different from prior seasonal Covid waves.
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Reuters reported yesterday that, even though Denmark logged a record number of Covid cases in the previous 24 hours, hospitalizations actually went DOWN. Denmark reached a peak of 13,558 new cases in 24 hours, while the number of Covid patients in hospitals fell by 27 to 554. Daily hospital admissions and deaths remain below levels from last December’s wave.
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According to the CDC’s data tracker, 95% of all Covid cases in Tennessee last week were estimated to be the Omicron variant. Two weeks ago, Omicron was estimated at only 1%. In other words, Omicron appears to quickly be displacing prior variants.
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A new study published yesterday in MedRxIV is titled, “Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in South Africa.” The researchers looked at Omicron hospitalizations in South Africa, and concluded that hospitalization rates for the new variant are EIGHTY PERCENT (80%) LOWER than they were for the Delta variant. So.
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Unlikely-named San Francisco mayor London Breed declared a new state of emergency in the city, but this time it’s not Covid. This time, it’s the downtown drug epidemic. She said in a tweet that the declaration of emergency will make things easier for her to get things done fast: “We showed under the COVID State of Emergency what can get done when we can move quickly.”
In case that wasn’t clear enough for you, she made it even more plain, spelling it out for the meanest intelligence: “We can’t wait another 6 to 9 months to go through the regular bureaucratic process. We need to act with urgency to provide the services and treatment options that this public health crisis demands.”
The “regular bureaucratic process.” She’s talking about representative democracy, which is just TOO SLOW. Old-fashioned. Clunky. Representative democracy is like dial-up internet. And it often interferes with executives doing whatever they want, as opposed to places like China, where they can get things done at fiber speeds.
See, folks? THIS is why it was so important this summer that Florida’s legislature stripped most emergency powers from local governments. They have a taste for human flesh now, and nobody’s safe.*****************
⚖️ So this is different. Justice Kavanaugh ordered a response from the federal government in the OSHA vaccine mandate case by 4:00 p.m. on December 30. Happy holidays, lawyers!
On his Fox News interview yesterday, Governor DeSantis — like me — criticized the Sixth Circuit’s overturning of the injunction, calling it a “terrible decision.” He pointed out, as I did, that the decision was a 2-1 ruling from a three-judge panel, and predicted it would have been overturned by the entire court. I think he’s exactly right.
Justice Kavanaugh also ordered responses from the various state attorneys general regarding Biden’s appeals of the CMS Mandate stays — due on the same date.
The Supreme Court could have tossed out the emergency appeals and left the lower rulings in place, as they have done with the previous mandate appeals. So this briefing schedule is a pretty good sign that the previous denials of injunction appeals might not predict the outcome, this time.
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1) I would imagine that they needed an almost dead calm on the wind to even attempt such a lift.
2) The process of lifting the section, even if it didn’t have a dangling deck, is not completely straight forward: as the section is lifted the barge moves up in the water column due to the weight being removed – buoyancy and all that junk.
3) Back in the 80s, when I was selling ocean freight, I would sometimes get to board the ships. The car carriers, AKA floating parking garages, were, without question, THE CLEANEST DARNED SHIPS ON THE SEA. There was barely a spec of dust anywhere. The only fouling was from the longshoremen who came aboard to drive the cars off. Some of those nasty bastiges would spit a big wad of tobacco on the deck and just throw other trash on the decks. The disrespect was appalling. -
It’s good to know the Europeans are just as incapable as Texas when it comes to managing energy resources and electric grids.
Europe’s energy crisis got even worse on Tuesday as a shortage of natural gas, nuclear outages, declining wind power output, and cold weather boosted prices.
The gas price at the Dutch TTF hub, the benchmark gas price for Europe, soared 10% to a new record high of 165 euros per megawatt-hour after gas entering Germany at the Mallnow compressor station plunged to zero. Flows were diverted eastward to Poland.
European gas prices hit a record high.
For some context, European NatGas is trading at an oil-barrel-equivalent price of $340
They have delayed the Nord pipeline. The idiotic Germans have already shut down their perfectly good nuclear reactors due to what happened in Japan. The French have found a maintenance issue at one of their reactors so they shut down several more to inspect them. Meanwhile Putin diverts gas from western Europe to Poland. Now they have had to fire up older fuel oil burning plants to keep the lights on but it is not enough to keep energy prices from being 2X – 4X higher than what we pay here.
Pretty soon the authoritahs will tell all the good Euros to set their thermostats at 55F just like the Soviets during the cold war.
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Pachapapa has gone all tyrannical on his flock.
Not. Enough. Spit.
Spit isn’t good enough.
From comments:
I would put anything past PF. He may put conservatives and trads under interdict but he won’t do the same for those that promote the SF lifestyle or those who find new ways to distort church teaching.
The audacity of that Bergoglian Canon is truly stunning. Jorge says, “no one in the church may criticize publicly ANYTHING I DO”. His narcissism is beyond belief. I guess I should anticipate my Bergoglian interdict now…
You hit the nail on the head when you noted the whiff of desperation in everything coming from Rome, culminating in the introduction of canon code 1373. The modernists want a clear run, with no awkward Trads throwing a spanner in the works. In the words of Bishop Grossetestes, we will disobey, contradict and rebel. Bullying tactics will only increase the determination of the faithful to be obedient to Tradition. Either we stand with Christ or we deny Him. With the help of God, we will not submit!
Such a thing is evil, tyrannical, and desperate.
Tired of the mandates and now threats for speaking out in defense of our way of worshipping our Savior. I do not like threats. As a lay person I have every right to seek the truth and now that I have found it, I will not go back. Shut the doors on me and I’ll follow my Missal (1962) and receive the Sacrament spiritually. You, Pope Francis are not the Christ and have no authority over me. Praying God the Father touches your mind and soul.
…and on and on….
Keep my focus on the One above the supposed vicar of Christ. And wait out the insanity and evil.
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I’ve told Hubby that, should he die, I am seriously considering turning our large house into a church, or at least a refuge for canceled priests. I could easily live in the upstairs, and the downstairs could be turned into living space for a few priests. I’m sure we could set up an altar in the dining room and have room for a small congregation to attend downstairs, once I clear all the clutter. We’d have two downstairs bedrooms available, and maybe even some extra space upstairs for another. Hubby and I were actually planning on having a small kitchenette upstairs for cocooning weekends, and I have washer/dryer hookups as well. The upstairs could easily become my personal apartment, and the gentlemen priests could have run of the downstairs for their ministry efforts and mass.
Hopefully, it won’t come to that. And I’m not planning on Hubby leaving me any time soon. But I’d be honored to provide that space if needed.
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In the words of Bishop Grossetestes, we will disobey, contradict and rebel. Bullying tactics will only increase the determination of the faithful to be obedient to Tradition.
The Bishop is named appropriately! The current Pope is really the anti-pope.
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Wow. A Russian helping the Poles.
Things really are upside down.
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Don’t you need a city permit for that?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>scram>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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But hey, you wouldn’t have to pay taxes!!!
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I’ve considered the use issues with restrictions for our neighborhood. But if the priests are living here, it could be considered a residence still. I guess I’ll figure all that out if I have to.
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She’d have to take down the John Cornyn posters though.
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These idiots are beyond tone-deaf.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/21/bidens-impossible-task-omicron-edition-525859
Public health officials have to plan for the worst; it’s their job. But when the worst doesn’t happen, instead of thanking our collective lucky stars, too many people just decide that public health experts are fools or liars.
No, we didn’t “just decide.” We’ve observed a decades long pattern of arrogance and responded accordingly. Maybe these “experts” really aren’t.
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There were no new lockdowns or closures, and he stressed the brand-new non-quarantine and non-closing policy for schools.
Biden can only make this suggestion.
The teachers union will decide. And nary a single Democrat will cross them.
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Heh heh… yep. Nice corner they’ve painted themselves into, eh?
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Governmental malfeasance, with respect to the alleged kidnapping plot against Wretched Whitmer, is readily apparent. The F Bee Eye was the driver of the whole thing. Those responsible need to spend about 49 years in the general population of a maximum security prison with Cleetus and Bubba. The agency really needs to be flushed, along with the CIA and a major re-set instituted.
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Morning gang. Went to coffee this morning, and the people who used to live here are all coming back for Christmas, so it was good to see some old friends who have moved away. Nothing much has changed out there though, except everything costs a lot more and the economy is tanking regardless of what Peppermint Patty says about it. It’s travel day eve here, so I finally have to get serious about gathering up my stuff, especially since I plan to be gone a few extra days this time. Watering plants and hoping the rose cuttings can make it over a week without more water, but too much water and they will rot, so trying to balance that just right. The outside animals who have become accustomed to robbing the cat food bowl will be back on their own until I return it looks like. Bird feeder is full, water troughs are full, so that should last for a while.
I may be getting close to reaching a solution to the ISP/router issue that has been driving me nuts these past few days. Much like my earlier “energy” audit following the February freeze out, I’ve tried to do the same thing with my internet devices. Who knew how dependent upon the internet even and olde phart like me has become on internet devices, and I’m not even anywhere close to the smart appliances or anything like that. I did however leave the sous vide machine off my list originally, but it works through an app on the SA phone, so it’s added in there now. But at least I’m developing some comprehension about the role of the ISP to deliver bandwidth to my house versus the router’s role of managing that bandwidth among the devices once it is inside the house. One of the cheap router sites stated that if your receiving less than 100 Mbps from your ISP that it would work just fine. Well, I just upped my service from 4 Mbps to 10 Mbps, so I’m still a long way off from the 100 Mbps speed. In other words, I probably do not need a new router just yet. I may have solved the problem with the range extender as well. I moved it from one of the back bedrooms to a spot about half way between my router location and my bedroom. So the signal that it is picking up and rebroadcasting is much stronger than it was located further in the back, and the rebroadcast reception in my bedroom is very good. Now if I could just get it to broadcast in 5 ghz rather than only 2.4 ghz I would be just fine, but for now I can live with what I’ve got. I still might go with a faster router at some point, but for now, it all looks OK. BTW, I’m a real believer in keeping these old, obsolete machines running, so despite the latest and greatest whizz bang gadgets on the market out there, none of my equipment can use it anyway. That’s the main reason that I use Linux on my machines rather than that bloated Winders stuff. Just like the Limu Emu, you only get what you use with Linux and not all that other stuff.
OK, it’s about time for me to start gathering stuff for the trip. You all have a great day, and buckle up your chin strap for the insanity that is about to be unleashed as families across the land get together once again so see who will win the drunk prize, the most obnoxious new wife or girlfriend prize, the most snotty nosed new kids prize, and so on. More later,.
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Okay, not for the squeamish, but I occasionally watch videos from “The Institute of Human Anatomy”. These two doctors use human cadavers to discuss the function of the human body. They do it for the lay man, in terms non-doctors can understand.
https://www.youtube.com/c/InstituteofHumanAnatomy
I’ve learned how ibuprofen works, and its effects on the human body. Last night, I caught one on why drinking water is so important.
Yeah, looking at those yellowish body parts takes some getting used to, but I do like to learn stuff.
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You can almost see the blood dripping from Count Fraudcila’s fangs.
Here’s to hoping the ghosts of beagle’s past will be visiting the blood thirsty Count soon.
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Yes, it was actually a topic.
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Morning, gang. I am a bit annoyed that a package that the USPS tracking system had told me would be delivered yesterday did not arrive. Well, it wasn’t in the mailbox along with some sales ads, and I didn’t get the email to say it had been delivered. But it has also disappeared from the PO’s online announcing system. I do despise the PO above the average gubmint gang.
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Think it might’ve been stolen? I’ve had a package disappear.
Porch pirates. I hate thieves.
Sometimes they follow the delivery vehicles and watch for packages.
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Looks like there may be a Benadryl and milk shortage coming soon.
Count Fraudciula won’t be happy about this study.
He will push to outlaw milk and Benadryl.
I heard the Count administered his vaxxine to all the personnel at MessyNbc and CenemaNN by biting them in the neck and injecting them with his fangs.
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WTI is up to $72.08/bbl.
Yesterday – with a straight face – a local newsie said Biden was taking credit for a 12 cent drop in gasoline.
By releasing a day’s worth of oil from the Reserve.
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Everybody needs a laugh today so here is a great one from Elon Musk being interviewed by the Babylon Bee guys.
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I heard the Count administered his vaxxine to all the personnel at MessyNbc and CenemaNN by biting them in the neck and injecting them with his fangs.
Yup. That would explain why all of their propagandist news anchors look and sound like the undead.
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I also saw that there are spot shortages of imported pet food because it’s sitting in ships off the coast of Los Angeles.
Who knew mharper was feeding her cats Chinese food?
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I posted in comments about this woman in the last couple of days. She is a real winner.
Kimberlynn Jurkowski was placed on leave this week after parents complained to Watkins Elementary School that she made students role-play the Holocaust, assigning students to be Jews and pretend to die in gas chambers and dig mass graves, according to the Washington Post. One student was assigned to be Adolf Hitler, who carried out the Holocaust, Jurkowski told the students, “because the Jews ruined Christmas.” A Washington Free Beacon investigation found that Jurkowski was hired by the D.C. public school after a scandalous tenure as a librarian in New Jersey, where she ran in 2010 for a local school board as a Democrat, according to an image posted to her Twitter account.
plus this one,
Jurkowski’s legal problems continued in 2019 when she faced four charges of animal cruelty for leaving her dogs out in the cold. According to coverage at the time from Pet Rescue Report, Jurkowski left five dogs behind to survive frigid temperatures in a dilapidated environment. Body camera footage from police officers called to the site shows “the entire property was completely run down,” with “dogs in pens with sheets of plywood leaning against a fence to act as shelter.”
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Until one of their trucks parked next to me just now, I never noticed the Ditch Witch logo.
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Like diphenhydramine, lactoferrin is available without a prescription.
Oh good.
I thought you were going to make me take my Benadryl with milk.
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There was a huge line just now at the popup rona testing tent on the corner of 45 and Cavalcade. People trying to get gas at the Exxon couldn’t get to the pumps. Pandemic panic porn works.
It’s stupid to keep pushing testing for everyone, whether they have symptoms or not.
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Great video of a meat cleaver build. Beautiful artwork in damascus steel, wrought iron, and curly maple.
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I think they are talking about capturing and testing all the deer, too, since they also get it.
What do ya bet Ivermectin works on them, too?
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The closer it gets to Christmas and New Years, and the more people just ignore TPTB about family and friends gathering together for religious and/or medicinal alcohol consumption events, the louder and more shrill the gubment has to howl and inject the fear factor. Can’t have these people running around doing as they dam well please – that just won’t fly with the bureaucrats and demoncrats. Sorry, but I don’t believe a thing they are saying, I’m not going anywhere that requires a mask, and if I get sick and die, that’s God’s will, not mine. Does anyone anywhere actually believe that those face diapers are going to stop the spread of anything. What suckers we are being played for. But where there is fear, panic, and chaos, there is opportunity. Now if you can loan me your van, I’ll make up a testing sign $10 each, immediate results available, and we’ll go into business right on the side of the road. Just declare about every 10th one positive, and it will be as accurate or more so than the gubment funded vans.
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BTW, I see that the Agro Americans are pulling out of the Gator Bowl citing COVUD. Wake Forest is looking for someone else to play.
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Pandemic panic porn works.
That’s the aspect of all this insanity which astounds me the most. It doesn’t surprise me that politicians manipulate people for their own ends. We have many years of history which shows that. What astounds me is how easily manipulated people are, despite all the evidence of it happening. I can only conclude that most people don’t really care to be responsible for themselves. It’s just easier to let someone else have control. I suppose hypnosis only truly works on the willing.
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I thought you were going to make me take my Benadryl with milk.
Shannon, she is waiting for you.
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Keith Richards is 78 today.
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I’m still trying to figure out how they make that all-wheel-drive motorcycle that SD showed the other day.
It was pretty obvious that the front wheel chain attached somewhere up by the head tube (where the handle bars are), but attached to what?
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I didn’t save that site, if you would post it again.
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The idea of wheels used as spinning fuel tanks seems a little freaky.
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From this week in the 1921 Bellville Times:
Fritz Rogge was at
Damon’s Mound last Sunday, and there he witnessed a spectacular phenomenon. A well which is being drilled there for oil came in as a monster dry gas well, the roaring of which may be heard for seven miles. Mr. Rogge says that one can no go nearer than about 300 feet, owing to the fact that the earth around the well quivers violently, and a large amounts of rock are being thrown up high into the air from the well. The gas may be seen rising above the top of the derrick. The noise is so great that when within 300 feet of the well, it is not possible for people to hear each other. No way has been yet found to shut off the gas. -
Keith Richards is 78 today.
Did you miss a digit?
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This is a smallish plastic bag that holds a month’s supply of Relief Factor, an anti-inflammatory that I’ve been taking for a couple of years now. I had used it in 2013 and 2014 when I had my knee replacements done; it helped ease me off the opioid meds that are not prescribed for very long after surgery.
The bag fits in the mailbox at the curb. We’ve never had any package stolen from our font steps because that area isn’t visible from the street, due to a dense hedge.
When a USPS package delivery works properly, there is an email to indicate that the delivery has occurred. When they’ve goofed it up, it has always (so far) turned up eventually.
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Floatation – Hollow drum wheels can provide floatation or space for up to 2.5 gallons of extra fuel or water.
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Dec 6, 2021 — Friskies is made in multiple Purina-owned facilities in the United States. The company sources ingredients primarily from the United States.
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Naptime! Forsooth.
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Bellville’s hotshot running back, Richard Reese, officially committed to the Baylor Bears last week.
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Dead Beat student loan holders have been offered an extension.
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#70 – LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Keith Richards is 78 today.
Here’s to Keef.
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Seems like Keith Richards is about a month older than Yours Truly. So how come he looks 30 years older than I do? Oh, more mileage. In all regards… Yeah, makes sense.
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Do not miss Ghislaine: Daddy’s Girl
H/T Citizen Free Press.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/12/investigative-reports/meet-ghislaine-daddys-girl/
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I don’t know how tire rubber reacts with gasoline over time, but it doesn’t seem like a good idea.
If we just had a chemistry guy around here.
Never mind. Just ask Super Dave. He’ll know.
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I don’t think gas is in contact with the tire. Something to do with the “hollow drum wheel”.
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Still. Spinning gas. Leak. Gas sprayed all over the rider. Internal combustion engine. Kaboom!
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I read the whole thing earlier. I’m very skeptical about the veracity of this article and complete lack of sourcing or references. There are others who aren’t even sure this writer is a real person. She claims to have been a journalist since 2016*, lived in Chile, moved to London…yada, yada, yada.
There are articles supposedly by her all over the internet defending Iran and the mullahs. The serious Jew & Israel haters love her because according to her stories concocted from cutting and pasting from various sources always seem to make Israeli intelligence the bad guys.
I don’t even think she’s a real person.
Note to the wise: Citizen Free Press is careless about who they link to at times and Revolver News has a real anti-Jewish slant to their links. I’m just noting this.
*Really, 2016 ? Give me break.
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Note to the wise: Citizen Free Press is careless about who they link to at times and Revolver News has a real anti-Jewish slant to their links.
When Kane first started CFP I got on him regularly for allowing some of the outlandish anti-Semitism of some of his commenters’ comments. I guess he eventually banned them. Some are still there, but wallow around in their own sewage just below the surface, keeping a low profile.
I rarely read the commenters there because, conservative or not, many of them are clearly recent escapees from junior high school.
But CFP is still an invaluable resource.
Thanks for the heads up on the article to which I linked.
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I’m still trying to figure out how they make that all-wheel-drive motorcycle that SD showed the other day.
Hamous posted a link but there is a drive shaft that goes up to the yoke and a gear sends the power down by a chain. About the fuel/water storage, the wheels are hollow so the fuel or water doesn’t touch the tire.
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Your link the other day was the first time I’d heard of Rokon.But then, their target market wasn’t me, a fifteen year old in 1970 wanting some kind of dirt/mini bike.
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The first ad I saw for the Rokon said something about it being able to ford 36″ of water but if it got too deep you just shut off the fuel petcock, flipped it over on it’s side and floated it across. The ads were in Outdoor Life and Popular Mechanics. Oh and they were mail order, shipped FOB, no dealers back then.
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I don’t know if y’all watched the fiddle player on one of Kane’s post today. His name is Philip Bowen. Most of his videos are him playing fiddle over another song, like this classic from Vince Gill. The guy is just enjoys playing so much! He also has a few originals.
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Been a busy day here but we’re about ready for daughter and SIL to show up tomorrow. I just have to get the chili started about noon. Wife is just about finished up with the decorating and the Farm House is spic N span. We have been running a bit late this year but I’ll get some pictures of “Christmas on the Farm” tomorrow.
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Just about got everything together that I need for tomorrow’s travel day. I’ve also figured out the ideal in house network that will meet all my internet needs for now and well into the future, with sufficient capacity to accommodate just about any number of guests who might show up as well. And I should be able to get it done (aDIY system of course to keep it cheap) for under $600. So obviously that’s out of the question. But I think I can maintain my existing system, which is only a couple of years old, add a $25 dollar dual frequency range extender, and I’ll be well set for the immediate forseeable future. So I think I’ll go with the $25 fix rather than trying to future proof my system. I learned a few things studying along the way, but probably just enough to be dangerous. So when I get back, I’ll order the part that I need to complete the fix, spend half a day on something that should take about 10 minutes setting it up, and be done with it.
Planning to turn in a little early tonight. I don’t like to drive out here after dark or before dawn, so if I do get up early I’ll just have some coffee until it starts getting light. If I don’t make it back tonight, you all have a great evening. Even if I do get back before bed time, you all can have a great evening anyway.
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To save up the money to buy that Honda MiniTrail 70, I spent an entire summer working for my Dad, running one of the world’s earliest pill-counting robots in his drug warehouse.
He actually took me to buy the bike the following Fall.
And he always wondered why I wanted the MiniTrail instead of the more traditional style Honda 100 dirt bike.In retrospect, I do too.
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#89 Yes but that Trail 70 was really neat. I never had nuttin’ like that. 😉
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Ninety One? OK we need to step it up.
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My dear friend Scott Campbell called, he was in ICU. He is a heart transplant recipient. “The Protocol” is no HCQ, no ivermectin, must get the clot shot. THE BASTARDS created the bug that is killing my dear friend. They created the protocol that friggen guarantees that, if he get the bug, he dies. He told me that the call I received may be the last one he makes. He is very dear to me, and I to him. The potential loss of such an incredible soul, all for the sake of making a buck or gaining power, grieves and enrages me to the marrow of my bones. There will be a price to be paid in this life or the next.
Prayers are greatly appreciated.
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We were too poor for the Trail 70. I had one of those sears minibikes with the briggs & stratton lawnmower engine 😉
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Bonecrusher –
I also am enraged. Prayers for your friend. May he give them all the medical middle finger and survive their non-treatment.
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Well, step one towards officially closing our plumbing company is done. The sales tax number has been shut down.
Working with our cpa on the rest. Should be closing the bank account within the next week, and then we have to wait until next year to file the last franchise statement and final closing of the books.
Feels weird. Delightfully weird.
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I did have one of these. I think I paid $50 of lawnmowing money for it.
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The warehouse was attached to his busiest pharmacy – on Westheimer, next to the 2K Restaurant and Sakowitz, across from what would become the Galleria.
My Mom worked at that store and it was the first time I was was old enough to watch her in action at work and realize how brutal it was and how hard she worked. I was certain by the end of that summer that I was never going to be a pharmacist. 🙂
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Has the Hippocratic oath been suspended too by the vile and undead Count Fraudcila?
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Why would they give a “vaccine” shot to a patient already in ICU ? That alone makes no sense.
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You should call Dr Stella Immanuel on your friend’s behalf.
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I read Revolver news for the fantastic job they’re doing exposing the Deep State player’s production of the Jan 6 it was an inside job insurrection.
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I had at least two men pharmacists, including our father’s long time partner, tell me our mother was the best pharmacist they had ever seen in their lives. She was an amazing hard worker. I also don’t know how many lives she saved catching fatally contraindicated drug prescriptions from different doctors for the same patient.
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I read CFP and Revolver everyday. I’m just aware of their shortcomings and faults.
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Looks like SCOTUS will hear oral arguments on the vax mandates.
FWIW, both our company lawyer and outside counsel are confident the mandates will be ruled unconstitutional.
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#s 89, 90 – Brutha that lil rig was ***** bulletproof!!
By the tme it retired it had vice grips for a shifter 🙂
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As my sage old grandpa used to say never trust 9 Kangarooed lawyers dressed up in penguin suits.
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