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Another reason I’m glad I live here and not in a blue state:

Washington State Democrats Push Bill Reducing Penalties for Drive-By Shootings

Washington state Reps. Tarra Simmons (D) and David Hackney (D) are pushing legislation to remove drive-by shootings from the list of crimes that elevate first degree to murder to a higher degree of murder carrying a mandatory life sentence.

… “drive-by shootings were added to the list of aggravating factors for murder charges in 1995.” At the time, drive-by shootings were one of a number of crimes that would elevate charges and Simmons and Hackney are now working to remove such shootings from the list.

The 1995 language that Simmons and Hackney want to specifically strike from the aggravating factors list says: “The murder was committed during the course of or as a result of a shooting where the discharge of the firearm… is either from a motor vehicle or from the immediate area of a motor vehicle that was used to transport the shooter or the firearm.” [emphasis mine]

Simmons says she believes the language surrounding drive-by shootings “was targeted at gangs that were predominantly young and Black.”

Okay, ‘splain to me please where shooting someone from a car immediately targets a group defined by pigment or age? I mean, are young black men the only ones who drive cars? Or shoot guns?

She added, “I believe in a society that believes in the power of redemption. Murder is murder no matter where the bullet comes from but locking young people up and throwing away the key is not the answer.”

I’m sorry – well, not really – but if my husband or child were to be shot by any person of any age, of any color, whether in a car or not, I would want that person prosecuted fully.

The swirling is getting stronger…

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  1. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. Except I’m headed to bed. A great day to be an airplane pilot https://twitter.com/heliski777/status/1449570458697830407 For those of you who don’t know, 121.5 is the frequency reserved for emergency communications. You all have a good night or morning or whatever it is.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #1 HA! 121.5 and 243 (Military) is indeed used only in an emergency, that is the frequency the ELT transmits on, all Control Towers monitor it 24-7. I found that hilarious but the Feds frown on that and it is technically illegal.
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Jury finds Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of sex trafficking a minor for Jeffrey Epstein and four other charges.

    So, after all this we didn’t get to see the little black book, amazing. How could it and the thousands of video tapes be kept out of the proceedings? Oh I forget the flight logs of the Lolita Express had the names of prominent well connected perverts. Bill, “I didn’t have sex with that woman”, Clinton was only on the list 32 times.
    But I still don’t understand the legality of all this, did murdering Epstein just exonerate him and all the others and leave Maxwell holding the bag? I know that is what they pulled off but what do they say to normal people about this gross miscarriage of justice?………I’m SO naive, they don’t give a damn what anyone thinks since they’re all above the law. Can you say Turd World Country? ~SPITS~

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From #3

    “The road to justice has been far too long. But, today, justice has been done,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in a statement about the verdict.

    I don’t know Damian Williams but he is an EVIL SOB since he protected all the perverts in this. There is a special place in hell for him.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Meanwhile over at the Choke Canyon State Park.

  6. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    What’s the frequency, Kenneth?

  7. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hamous, SO! You also wear a Tin-Foil Hat? 😀
    Still, this is all so amazing. A complete coverup to save the connected perverts. BUTT they don’t care, whacha’ gonna; do about it?

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The 81 we had yesterday was a record and we’ll break another one today. This is the mildest December we’ve had in years. I’m planning on taking down all the Christmas decorations today, I’ve put if off long enough. We still have both trees up, not too long ago they’d be gone before dawn December 26. We were married for 35 years before the first time my wife left the tree up after Christmas.
    Since I have two 100′ extension cords and a 12 footer running down to the side gate, I think I’ll put my smart charger on the gate battery. It can’t hurt to top it off and it’ll be interesting to see what the charge is before I hook it up. I’ve not had any issues with a low battery since I lopped off a bunch of pine limbs in the way of the solar panel. I really need to take out about 20 big pines along the south fence row but dang that’s a lot of work. Cutting them is easy disposing of them not so much.

  10. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    SD, I have no doubt that they are in possession of mountains of evidence that would send dozens of very high profile people to prison. But it will never see the light of day.

  11. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #6

    Tager claimed to be a time-traveller from the year 2265—a convicted felon who was sent on a highly-experimental mission back in time in exchange for his eventual freedom.

    This sounds like the plot to the 1995 movie 12 Monkeys with Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeleine Stowe.

  12. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tedtam, I echo what Texpat said last night about keeping your business open for personal liability protection from any legal issue that may arise from your husband’s consulting and pulling permits.

    I am sure the people he works with are competent, but it only takes one mistake. What if this other company mistakenly taps a natural gas line instead of a water line and it goes boom?

    Lines in the ground all tend to look the same. A Sugar Land Public Works guy once told me he was on a crew excavating around a 30″ water line. Something didn’t feel right. The guy eventually realized it was natural gas and told them to fill in the hole.

    This is not related to your line of work, but there are plenty of stories of mishaps and close calls inside of 100 year old refineries and chemical plants. Lines get abandoned in place and drawings do not get updated. I would think this is not too much of an issue in Houston, but I’ve heard of similar issues in older east coast cities such as Boston and New York.

  13. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Time to go squirrel hunting in the back yard before I close out the year with a short work day.

  14. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    This sounds like the plot to the 1995 movie 12 Monkeys

    That’s exactly what I thought.

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Seen over yonder “Ports”

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    ICYMI

    blancolrilio’s coverage of the Martinaire/paraglider midair collision in Fort Bend County.

  17. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I wonder if KHOU ran their shoddy report through their own “Verify” fact-check?

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    6 Hamous

    I think it’s fascinating Donald Barthelme, who certainly knew Rather, would make a cryptic reference to old Dan by describing him as pompous and naming him Lather.

    There are other stories around about Rather and his personal life.  My father let slip about one he knew well, but I only got pieces of the story.  When I pressed him about it, he told me he was sworn to secrecy by the Houston woman involved.

  19. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Good morning again Troubadours. Slept in a little late this morning, but that’s OK. Nothing serious to get done today, at least so far as BFF is not up yet. A little cooler here this morning at 46 versus the mid 60’s the past few days. I find those mini-nuke plants to be fascinating. After all, they’ve been using them on ships for years. Every little town could have one or two buried somewhere and go off the grid, but the politicians would never allow that because it would cost them control of another portion of our lives. That’s what it’s all about in the first place.

    You all have a fine day. Hope you have all your NYE celebration stuff in order and are squeezing the very last drops out of that mash or whatever you call it these days. More later as it develops.

  20. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I normally power wash and water seal my porches in the spring. But with the weather so nice I got the power washing done yesterday and I’m off to Home Despot to get some water seal.

  21. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I bagged three squirrels this morning within 10 min. Since the weather is nice, I’ll probably prune some crepe myrtle and ligustrums that the squirrels use to gain access to my roof.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I made sure I took melatonin before turning in last night, and I turned off my alarm.

    Head is – so far – better today. Got my coffee in hand….time for today’s snark…
    *****************************
    Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, December 30, 2021 ☙ TOLERABLE
    It’s Thursday, the second-to-last day of the year. After tomorrow, 2021 will be history. If 2020 was the year of confusion, and 2021 was the year of frustration, what will 2022 be? This year we watched the Narrative get shredded into slaw, and saw the timely arrival of a game-changing variant. What gifts will 2022 bring?

    Today’s C&C news roundup includes: Dr. Malone gets kicked off Twitter; FOUR major CDC admissions: the CDC admits what we already knew about how Covid policies are calibrated, the CDC admits a major error about Omicron, without explanation, of course, Walensky admits Covid hospitalization figures are overstated for kids, and she admits that PCR tests are too sensitive; CMS reactivates the “vaccinated or terminate” mandate for healthcare workers in half the states — during a spike in hospitalizations; and we check in on rising hospitalization data in Florida — what does it mean?
    ********************************
    /snip
    ********************************
    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    Canceled! Yesterday, Twitter permanently banned Dr. Robert W. Malone, the inventor of mRNA technology, for a tweet critical of his invention’s use in vaccines. There probably aren’t many people the world who know more about mRNA vaccines than Robert Malone. At least, nobody at Twitter knows more about mRNA vaccines than Dr. Malone does, that’s for sure.

    So … somehow … a tweet from Malone that linked to a site critical of the mRNA vaccines was “misinformation” — even though the link came from one of the world’s foremost experts on the subjec    t — a subject very few people understand in any kind of detail.

    Malone’s tweet — the one that got him immediately suspended without warning — shared a link to Canadian doctor’s group that analyzed the Pfizer FDA-approval data and argued that the data shows the injections cause more harm than good.     The article is summarized in a video, https://tinyurl.com/2crdc4sw, and a PDF, https://tinyurl.com/h8mnwjza.

    But … was it misinformation? Really? The data came directly from Pfizer. The doctor’s group summarized Pfizer’s data into a nice presentation and then expressed an informed opinion about it. Dr. Malone, who knows more about mRNA vaccines than almost any other independent commenter, tweeted a link to the presentation. What’s the misinformation?

    Obviously, it WASN’T misinformation. But that doesn’t matter any more.

    Twitter should just say, “our rule is, non-government actors can’t say anything critical about the injections, true or not.” That would be more honest than the self-aggrandizing word salad Twitter uses instead, to loftily describe its rule as “preventing dangerous misinformation from spreading” or whatever. Liars.

    Still, the controversy might have the opposite effect and actually help promote the scientist. Already, Joe Rogan is interviewing Dr. Malone today. We can expect to see that interview in a few days. I’ll let you know when it comes out.

    I’ve met Dr. Malone several times now. He’s smart (of course), polite, quiet, and pretty intense one-on-one. His presentations at live events are always the ones you want to be fully caffeinated for, because he definitely doesn’t water down the science.

    *******************************

    Boom. A gigantic admission emerged yesterday, when CNN interviewed Rochelle Walensky, asking her to say why the CDC shortened the isolation period from 10 days to 5 days for asymptomatic cases. The CDC’s director caused a twitter firestorm when she answered, “It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate.”

    Science!

    I bet you already knew that pandemic policy was always based on what they thought we would tolerate. That’s why pushing back against the masks last year was so important: had we waited, the U.S. might look a lot more like Australia or Austria right now. Or even worse … Canada!

    Or maybe … instead of “people” … it was based on what the NFL and Delta Airlines could tolerate. Just saying.

    *****************************

    That’s not all! The CDC admitted a huge blunder yesterday, when the agency issued a rare “correction,” reducing its estimated proportion of Omicron variant cases. A few days ago, the CDC said 73% — three quarters — of new cases were Omicron. But yesterday, the agency revised that figure. Now, the CDC says only 22% of new cases are Omicron. In one day it went from MOST cases are from Omicron to only a FEW cases are from Omicron.

    Whoops! That’s kind of a big mistake. But why? How’d they get it so wrong? Don’t count on getting an answer anytime soon. They’re baffled.

    Reporting on the story, the Hill quoted former FDA Commissioner and Pfizer executive Scott Gottlieb making the obvious point. “Set[] aside the question of how the initial estimate was so inaccurate, ” Gottlieb mused. He’s setting “the question” aside because there’s no answer. But, do we HAVE to set that question aside? Don’t you think it would be helpful to know how the CDC got it so wrong?

    Oh well. Apparently the CDC doesn’t have to explain itself. The gold standard IS the standard. Even if it changes around. Deal with it.

    ******************

    But wait, there’s more: the CDC admitted Covid hospitalizations are overstated! Yesterday, Walensky made ANOTHER announcement, this one even more interesting than the thing about what we’ll tolerate. She was commenting on a small increase in Covid hospitalizations in kids, and she actually went out of her way to DOWNPLAY the numbers, pointing out that many of them are admissions WITH Covid and not FOR Covid.

    “Many of them are actually coming in for another reason. But they happen to be tested when they come in and they’re found incidentally to have COVID,” Walensky told MSNBC.

    Wow! You mean, the hospitals are counting patients as “Covid patients” just because they tested positive — and even if they aren’t actually sick WITH Covid? This is shocking. Shocking and appalling.

    And if that didn’t reassure you, Walensky ALSO pointed out that it’s cold and flu season, so naturally you expect kids to be passing stuff around. So just relax already.

    Then, on the Today show, vaccine expert and FDA advisory panel member Paul Offit did the exact same thing, downplaying the increased figures for kids, blaming increased numbers on testing. “We test anybody who’s admitted to the hospital for whatever reason to see whether or not they have COVID, and we’re definitely seeing an increase in cases. However, we’re really not seeing an increase in children who are hospitalized for COVID or in the intensive care unit for COVID,” Offit said.

    So.

    The closer you’ve been paying attention, the more remarkable these statements seem. Kids have ALWAYS been weaponized as a fear tactic. The CDC has never before admitted that hospitalization figures are overstated. The fact that the officials — in what appears to be coordinated fashion — seem to be switching to “reassure” mode from “scarify” mode is significant.

    *********************

    In the same interview, Walensky also admitted that the PCR tests are TOO SENSITIVE. She was justifying the new 5-day quarantine rule, explaining that someone can stay positive for 14 weeks on a PCR test. In other words, tests don’t really help much. ”So we would have people in isolation for a very long time if we were relying on PCRs,” Walensky said.

    Gosh, the CDC is making a lot of new discoveries lately. It’s too bad they didn’t figure this out earlier. It could have saved a lot of people unnecessary quarantines.

    ***********************

    Do you think all these admissions are designed to help protect the injections? I mean, the CDC has a big problem on their hands: -whether or not to outright redefine the terms “Covid hospitalizations” and “Covid deaths”.

    If they don’t, folks may start thinking that the injections are a huge failure.

    If they do, a lot of folks will start to realize they have been lied to for almost a year now.

    What to do?

    *******************************

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in another policy reversal, announced Tuesday that it will start re-enforcing its vaccine mandate in half the U.S. states where the mandate hasn’t been judicially enjoined. CMS set a new thirty-day deadline, conditioning hospital Medicare funding on whether employees receive their first shot within the next 30 days — that is, no later than January 27.

    Great timing, don’t you think? While hospitalizations are spiking in New York and other states, CMS is forcing hospitals to fire up the layoff engine again. Makes perfect sense. Big government at its best.

    Hopefully the Supreme Court can weigh in before the new deadline arrives.

    *************************

    Hospitalizations in Florida continued creeping up, with HHS reporting about 3,800 patients in Florida today, and with 7.22% of beds in use for Covid patients. That’s still very low, but it’s rising.

    The good news is, hospitalizations aren’t rising anywhere near as fast as cases. The RATIO of cases to hospitalizations and ICUs keeps falling, and fast. So, even though there are more folks overall admitted to the hospital, the RATE of admission is plummeting. Just last month, 14% of cases resulted in hospitalization, and 17% of hospitalizations resulted in an ICU case. But the most recent data suggests cases to hospitalizations is down around 2%, and only 9% of hospitalizations are becoming ICUs.

    That’s not all. The latest data shows the average length of stay (ALS) for a Covid patient is dropping fast, too. In September 2020, the ALS was about 8 days. That’s been cut in half in the most recent data to only about 4 days, and is still trending down sharply. This is a great sign relative to mortality, too.

    **********************

    But in New York, hospitalizations are still spiking. While still well below the spring peak, they are about double Florida’s hospitalizations and headed up rapidly, with no sign of stopping.

    ***************************

    Finally, even though the CDC now says only 22% of new cases are Omicron, the Biden Administration is withholding monoclonal antibody treatments from Florida — explaining they don’t work against Omicron. So…

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This is the episode of Blancolirio immediately prior to the Martinaire collision.

    He once again covers the always fascinating subject of wake turbulence.

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The information in today’s C&C is just mind boggling.

    Every one of those CDC people should be fired.

    CMS, too.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I watched most of this Taylor Marshall podcast last night. I think that even non-Catholics would be offended by what happened for Christmas “mass” in Chicago under the ultra-liberal, liberation theology loving “priest” Fr. Phleger. (I think that’s how he spells it. I spell it “v-o-m-i-t”.)

    If you don’t have the stomach for it, the “mass” was over 2 hours long, based on the timeline at the bottom of the screen. The first hour seemed to be full of how racist and evil our world is today, and how Jesus was given to us to combat this evil. ‘scuze me, didn’t Jesus enter the world over 2,000 years ago? Then there was all of the light show, dancing, more hate whitey speeches…and when they actually started the mass, it was just as bad. I couldn’t watch the whole thing, it turned my stomach.

    Traditional Latin mass, celebrated for hundreds and hundreds of years, is bad. Gregorian chant is evil and divisive. But this atrocity is celebrated? I saw clips of another mass that included what looked like shamans dancing in front of the altar.

    The ape of the church is here.

  26. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

  27. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Our Lady of the Flowers
    What a cool story. I love that the Catholic mind is open to miracles like this.
    **************
    Christmas miracles do happen. One took place during the 12 days of Christmas 682 years ago — a miracle that has repeated every year since then except for the merest fraction of times. With the event came another title for our Blessed Mother — Our Lady of the Flowers.

    To be exact, the miracle took place on the evening of Dec. 29, 1336. The place: on the outskirts of Bra, Italy, which is on the road to Turin, where the Shroud of Turin is housed, 27 miles to the north.

    A young wife named Egidia Mathis, who was expecting the couple’s first child, was walking home that winter evening. As she approached one of the pillars on the road on which was frescoed a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, she spotted two mercenaries nearby. Egidia was frightened by their threatening glares and instinctively sensed the intent of these hired soldiers was to harm her. She ran to Our Lady pictured on the pillar — a Mother who gave birth to the Christ Child at this time of year — and pleaded for help.

    A light shone from the pillar, as Our Lady appeared. As Mary looked at the foreign mercenaries and waved them off, they quickly ran away, frightened. Our Lady then smiled at Egidia and comforted her, one Mother to her child who was soon to be a mother herself — sooner than expected, in fact. The stress and emotional intensity of the scary situation caused the young woman to give birth to her baby immediately.

    The vision and birth were not the only happy happenings. A nearby hedgerow of leafless blackthorn bushes circling the area around the pillar were clothed in ice — until the hedgerow burst into bloom, covered in white flowers, thousands of them, as if the bushes were heralding two events — the celebration of new life from Mother and mother.

    Egidia ran home with her newborn child, excited to tell everyone what had just happened. She described the event to her husband, and he told their relative and friends; everyone shared the amazing story of the appearance of our Blessed Mother and of the miracle of the blackthorn bushes with their neighbors, and the whole town ran out to see the miracle of Madonna dei Fiori (Our Lady of the Flowers).

    Every year since, the blackthorns at this same location flower between Dec. 25 and Jan. 15. Exceptionally rare exceptions were 1914 and 1939, the years both World Wars began, as if heaven were telling the world through the miraculous bushes that a winter of war was coming.

    Since then, the yearly blooming, out of season, has left scientists and botanists scratching their heads, as the old saying goes. The first examinations of the blackthorns began in 1700 and continued on through the years, including experts from the Botanical Garden of the University of Turin.

    The studies have revealed that the blackthorn, a form of wild plum, is supposed to have only one flowering, always in the spring, sometime between March and April; the soil where these miraculous blooms occur is the same quality as other areas, so no abnormal underground or other causes have been detected.

    Here is something else to think about: The blackthorn’s botanic family name is Rosaceae. In other words, it’s of the rose family, which has long been associated with Our Lady.

    ***************

    We need a miracle to save our Church.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    27

    I WILL NOT COMPLY.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Jack Posobiec Latin cross
    @JackPosobiec

    Now you know why Comey’s daughter was named to head the Ghislaine Maxwell trial

    Nobody leaks

    Nobody talks

    Nobody walks
    4:18 PM · Dec 29, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #19 EG:

    Every little town could have one or two buried somewhere and go off the grid, but the politicians would never allow that because it would cost them control of another portion of our lives. That’s what it’s all about in the first place.

    DING DING DING Give that man a thick ribeye steak (cooked medium rare of course)! Control of the people is the driving force behind all of the evil in our world on a human scale. It is the reason for being for all tyrants. It is this type of evil that pulls those so inclined into government in the first place.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Victor Davis Hanson asks 17 questions.

  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I just got a text from my friend, the heart transplant patient. He says that he feels great, but his lungs are now toast and is probably going to need a lung transplant. His doctors admit that ivermectin would have knocked all of this out.
    He did not phrase it quite this way, but it is the medical mafia that is in control and they are the human version of walking evil.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    2021 & 2022 F-150 Recall

    Fractured Aluminum driveshafts????

    Aluminum driveshafts?????

    Aluminum driveshafts?????

    Drivers of the affected vehicles “may observe a loose underbody insulator, or they may hear a rattling, clicking or clunking noise due to a loose underbody insulator contacting the driveshaft,” according to a Ford recall report that identifies Lydall Thermal/Acoustical Inc. as the component manufacturer. “Marking or scoring of the driveshaft may be visible in the area of underbody insulator contact.”

    https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2021/12/28/ford-recalls-nearly-185-000-f-150-trucks-over-driveshaft-issue/9033644002/

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I saw where the CDC recommends:
    o beans in chili
    o milk in the bowl before cereal
    o socks in the shower

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    34

    Aluminum driveshafts?????

    So, I’m a guy who works on a ranch or a vet who calls on ranches.

    And I spend the better part of my day riding around in pastures checking cows, where I can pickup a piece of wire (pronounced war) or other debris that can wrap around my driveshaft? And over time, the debris scores my aluminum driveshaft?

    Then later, I’m doing 75 down the Katy freeway and the driveshaft breaks in half and I take out six other cars or trucks?

    Got it.

  37. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    What cha got against progress?

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A “safety walkaround” your vehicle ain’t gonna cut it anymore. Now you gotta check your driveshaft, too.

  39. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I couldn’t match up the LED recess lights with confidence to replace several that are flickering or just went out in the living room and bath so I took the chance on some from Home Depot that have selectable brightness/color. Received them a little earlier and I am very happy with the color match but the dang things are about a quarter inch too small on the outer diameter! Fits perfectly in the 4” hole, just OD is smaller. I may regret it but I’m staying with them so I can get it done. I have ceiling paint on hand I’ll just have to touch up. Nuthin’s ever easy in the first world worrying about LEDs and driveshafts and such.

  40. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m sure the geniuses at Ford will come up with a great fix: like bolting a steel plate over the drive shaft to protect it.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I like words, and words “out of fashion” can be particularly fun.

    But if we are pessimists at heart, it has never stopped us having a laugh. Some of our happiest words are such because they make us smile, and often involve a bit of fun at our own expense. Who can resist such nicknames as “cacklefarts” for eggs, or “bags of mystery” for sausages (because you never quite know what’s in them)? Even the prudish Victorians knew hankies as “snottingers”, and umbrellas as “bumbershoots”.

    Okay, I just had a hard-boiled cacklefart and am planning on some Italian bags of mystery for dinner. I never travel without a snottinger in my purse and I have a bumbershoot in my car because…Texas weather.

    Lots of other good stuff in the article, but that is, by far, the best paragraph.

  42. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Driveshafts are going the way of buggy whips at Ford anyways.

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Ha! True.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #39

    We are doing a complete renovation on our duplex, working on the downstairs now. Hubby and I picked out the stain for the cabinets and tile for the backsplash. We discussed the height of the cabinets and then I mentioned that it would be nice to have some under cabinet LED strip lighting. Hubby liked the idea, and he’s wired up a switch instead of hard wiring it to the wall switch.

    These were the first units we bought after we got married, and they’ve had some rough years. The place is getting all new drywall, new bathroom, updated plumbimg, new kitchen – the works. Yes, we will be raising rent. We are getting a nice formica countertop, though. Stone options would be over improving for the neighborhood.

    Then, we have to deal with the upstairs unit. It looks like the tenants are moving out, on time. Getting rid of that dog pee smell is going to be a challenge, and we have to rebuild the balcony that the dog pee helped rot out….time for the elastic plastic…

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    40
    They can make it cover the catalytic converter, too.

  46. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    …but Mitchell airport in Milwaukee has gloriously provided its passengers with a “recombobulation area” in which to release some of the tension of air travel.

    😉 I think I mentioned this a couple of years ago.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Much the same goes for irritability – we can be curmudgeonly, mumpish, crumpsy, nettlish, porcupinal and spleenical as well as just plain narky or tetchy. And insults abound – anyone looking to criticise covertly may well enjoy “ultracrepidarian” or “cacafuego” (one who loves to pass comment on subjects they know nothing about and a blustering braggart – literally a “fire-s***ter” – respectively). Distinctly lacking are synonyms for love, happiness and kindness.

    Okay, we now have a new word to describe many of our Dear Leaders: cacafuego.

    Let’s go, Cacafuego!

  48. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Yup

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and Hubby brought over the base for my new flip-down canning table. It’s going to be attached the outside of my bar, using chains to hold it up when in use. It’s going to be wide enough for two rows of canning jars, and the length will be more than enough for the jars, which will provide me some room for a few tools as well. We have extra tile in our garage, left over from some project, so it will be used for the top of the table. We both agreed that matching the bead board on the outside of our peninsula would be best for the bottom side, which will be visible when the table is flipped up when not in use.

    This is the space I’m using now for my canning. When I can, there is one burner that I use, as it allows me the best control of the pressure. It is also near my canning center, where I have my canning supplies. Right now, I have an old card table (one of my rehab projects on my to-do list) upon which I lay a piece of scrap plywood. I need the plywood because the table needs…well, rehab. Over that I put an old sheet, for hygiene purposes. It’s a large work area and intrudes into the traffic path.

    The new flip-down will not intrude nearly as much, and the tile top will be easy to clean up. I am very excited about this. Putting up and taking down that card table mess is a royal PITA, but necessary.

    Hubby is being so supportive.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Did y’all know Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the most segregated major city in America according to US Census and real estate data ?  The racial divide of living quarters and neighborhoods there is apparently very stark unlike Houston metro region which has been the most racially integrated major US city for years.

  51. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I can’t tell y’all how often I’ve found myself wishing for a special area where I could recombobulate. As long as you don’t do it too frequently you won’t go blind.

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    One of my homesteading channels informed me that there was a company that made gaskets for canning lids, that would allow the lids to be reused safely. I ordered some.

    A long time ago. Like, months ago.

    I was informed that they’d been overwhelmed with orders (obviously, I wasn’t the only one), and that they would fill orders as quickly as they could. I received this email today:

    Harvest Guard Reusable Canning Lids Customer,

    I am contacting you regarding the status of your order for Harvest Guard Reusable Canning Lids.

    In my last customer correspondence from October, I communicated about the imminent delivery of a large amount of product from our new gasket supplier. We received that shipment in late November, and subsequently packed and shipped a very large number of back-orders, but are now again at the point we don’t have enough gaskets to complete our backorders until our next delivery in late January. Quite unfortunately, the quantity of gaskets we recently received was still short of what we need to fulfill all backorders.

    The good news is, our new gasket supplier continues production and we are scheduled to receive another delivery in late January, 2022, of enough gaskets to fulfill ALL outstanding backorders.

    The fact that most of you receiving this letter have waited a very long time for your order doesn’t elude me, and again I can’t thank you enough for your patience. I also realize there is a bit of a déjà vu aspect to this, to which I can only reply “don’t I know it”. There is nothing remotely close to normal about the supply chain and US manufacturing over the past 2 years, and in many cases things have gotten worse rather than better. As frustrating as this has all been, we’re very near to clearing our backlog and closing the door on 2021. That said, the reality is, by the time we receive the next gasket shipment and package and process everything, it will likely take us until mid-February 2022 to finally complete everything.

    I sincerely appreciate your continued understanding. As always, if you feel the wait has been too long, you may contact us at [email protected] and arrange for cancellation.

    Very sincerely,

    Nah. I’ve waited this long, I can wait a little bit longer.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One of the big stories in 2021 was the record crime across the country. Here in Houston, the numbers were at near record highs, but for all the wrong reasons.

    The problem? Liberal judges in Harris County, letting violent criminals out on bail to commit more crime. It’s that simple.

    “It just can’t get worse than this” said the Harris County GOP Chair Cindy Siegel, “What we see going on downtown in the Harris County court system, the Democrat activist criminal court judges are just releasing violent criminals back out on the street with little or no bail.”

    As a result, a ‘red wave’ of conservative judges is set to hit the ballot in 2022, with over 60 alone, just here in Harris County.

    “We’re thrilled to say that we actually have a full slate of Republican candidates” Siegel told KTRH. It’s a group that has been put together by a special committee. A full slate should translate well, for Republicans.

    Perhaps y’all finally have a good GOP Chair down there?

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    53 Shannon

    I was unaware, but it looks as if HCRP has been overhauled and the old crowd is out.  I vaguely recognize one or two of the names on these lists not counting Felicia Cravens who is HCRP parliamentarian.  Pretty much anything is better than what was going on down there in the past.  They claim to have recruited 60 candidates for 2022 judicial races in the county.

    Harris County Republican Party Officers & Committees

  55. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Who’d’a thunk it?

    Drunk hamsters.

    The designated drivers of the rodent world.

  56. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I still think crypto currency is a bubble waiting to burst but this is funny as hell and I hope it works out for him. Poor kid didn’t ask to be the foundation of the biggest meme of 2021 and the sponsors who dropped him should be shunned and shamed.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Got this from my Latin teacher:

    We had hoped to have a review class for those folks able to make it, but it seems that it is I who cannot make it. I seem to have gotten more than Christmas presents from my children and grandchildren. In their generosity, they not only shared glad tidings, but apparently a cold as well.

    Next class will be January 13th, so make sure you review.

    Sense of humor. Like it.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I didn’t know Brandon had lost sponsors.
    What a shame.

    Whether you’re riding bulls or driving cars or golf balls, the best policy with fickle sponsors is to smile big and say Thank You when they hand you that big check.

    And don’t count on there being another one next year.

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    56 Hamous

    There are very few people I think are truly honest, living geniuses on this earth and Nassim Taleb is one of them.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb has reversed his stance on bitcoin.

    The author of “The Black Swan” said in a recent paper that the largest cryptocurrency by market cap has failed to satisfy the notions of it as a currency without government, as a hedge against inflation and as a safe haven investment.

    “Few assets in financial history have been more fragile than bitcoin,” he said.
    and,
    In his recent paper, “Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility,” published in late June, Taleb, a probability researcher and former longtime quantitative trader, says bitcoin is worth “exactly zero” partly because it requires a sustained amount of interest to maintain it.

    By contrast, “gold and other precious metals are largely maintenance free, do not degrade over an historical horizon, and do not require maintenance to refresh their physical properties over time,” he said.

  60. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I don’t understand half of what this guy is saying or doing, but the last ten minutes or so….shady mechanic.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Now California may run out of bacon?!

    Glad I live in Texas.

  62. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Yup

  63. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #56

    I saw an article the other day talking about Brandon Brown and the difficulty they were having finding sponsors. He said even if he lost his ride and had a regular job he would still be known as the Let’s Go Brandon guy. Well it’s for sure it will be stuck with him now lol.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He might need to change his name.

    To James.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I remember watching it. (‘64-‘66)

    Shindig! replaced the folk music show Hootenanny.

    Folk was dying out and replaced with rock.

    Shindig!’s premiere episode was actually the second pilot, and featured Sam Cooke, The Everly Brothers, and The Righteous Brothers. Later shows were taped in Britain with The Beatles as the guests. The series featured other “British invasion” bands and performers including The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Cilla Black. Shindig! continued to broadcast episodes from London throughout its run.[2]

    Many other popular performers of the day played on Shindig! including Tina Turner, Lesley Gore, Bo Diddley,[5] Sonny and Cher, The Beach Boys, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, The Supremes, and The Ronettes.

    https://youtu.be/hMoEXGbdyc0

    Dancin’ girls!

  66. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Slow Happy Boys

  67. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Please Be With Me

  68. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Church Militant has moved to its own platform.

    You know, because they don’t want to Parler’d and shut down by the Tech Overlords.

    Because, you know, anti-abortion, anti-vaxx, anti-just-about-everything-the-media-loves is what they discuss on a regular basis.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    67 Hamous

    Released date: 01/01/71 (51 years ago come Saturday)

    Now you got me wondering if that was recorded in Muscle Shoals or was Duane Allman still doing studio work on dobro in LA in late ’71 ?

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My son-in-law just sent me the entire file and video published by the group of Canadian doctors who went through the entire Pfizer test documents thousands upon thousand of pages), analyzed and recorded every single shortcut, mistake and intentional fakery in them.  This is the massive report posted to Twitter by Dr. Robert Malone that got him a lifetime ban.

  71. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    69. I have the vinyl. Recorded at Muscle Shoals with Duane on dobro. Capricorn Records.

  72. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I think beginning January 1st, no January 6th, I’m going to stop linking to twatter.

  73. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Uh oh, NASCAR has not approved LGB sponsorship.
    https://racingnews.co/2021/12/30/nascar-hasnt-yet-approved-lets-go-brandon-sponsor/

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    72 Hamous

    I’m on board the Twitter ban.  01/06/22

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    72

    You mean this is gonna be a Twat Free Zone??

    Oh. Wait.

  76. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Marines speak out – “it feels like a political purge.”
    Just read it.

    “There’s something fundamentally wrong at this point with our nation’s leadership. We are facing an unconstitutional edict that I think is very targeted as a political purge, taking out some of the best and brightest soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians from the Space Force,” one major with 17 years of service under his belt told Fox News.

    Others said that the Marine Corps appeared to be making examples of those who pushed back, saying, “the louder I speak the tighter the screws are turned against me.”

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Uh oh, NASCAR has not approved LGB sponsorship.

    How interesting. Here’s where NASCAR fails or putters along for a while longer.

  78. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I won’t make it a Blog Monkey rule but, personally, I’m no longer going to link.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I can’t remember the rule, but I think 12 mind-blowing sneezes in a 90 second period requires me to give notice that it was a pleasure knowing you.

    Help.

  80. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Serendipity! Speaking of the devil, Rather twatted this out yesterday:

    #LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans ‘You can’t handle the truth’

    He was roundly mocked.

  81. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Get off your lazy butts, get out there and catch some Omicrons !

    A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in South Africa has found evidence that suggests people who have been infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant may be less susceptible to infection from the Delta variant. The team has written a paper describing their work.

    As the global pandemic has progressed, variants have emerged—some more resilient than others. Thus far, the Delta variant has proven to be the hardiest and because of that has overtaken the original virus as the most widespread of the variants infecting people around the world. More recently, the Omicron variant has emerged, first in South Africa, then all around the world. Initial reports indicate that the new variant is much more easily spread than Delta but is less harmful to those infected—also, there has been some evidence that the booster shots given for the original and Delta variants may last for as little as ten weeks against Omicron. In this new effort, the researchers in South Africa have found some evidence of Omicron infections giving people some degree of immunity from Delta infections.

    This is exactly as every intelligent, informed doctor and researcher has predicted whether they are banned from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter or not.  Every viral epidemic in history has evolved and faded this way.

  82. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    79. Wow. My record, often tied, is six. The norm (95% confidence interval) is three.

  83. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Hamous

    I won’t make it a Blog Monkey rule but, personally, I’m no longer going to link.

    Hambone – “All ‘Rona, all the time” and “Mandate Free !”

  84. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Wouldn’t it be hilarious if Twitter saw a substantial drop on January 6th?

  85. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Has anyone checked on MHarper? Her last post was two days ago and was about her throwing up.

  86. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m hoping her ‘coons didn’t go all batwiss crazy on her.

  87. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching “The Hunt for Red October”.

    Sean Connery makes Alec Baldwin bearable.

  88. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #85 Hammy

    Thanks for remembering me! I’ve been in bed for a couple of days. Just now had a cold tea, and a blueberry muffin. Hope to be feeling better tomorrow.

     

     

  89. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    MHarper hasn’t posted anything in a couple days on FB, I just messaged her.

  90. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well hell.

  91. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    88. Starting to get worried! You don’t have the rona, do you?

  92. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Dan Bongino is like cheap toilet paper. He doesn’t take crap off anyone.

    The email was made public on Twitter by The Washington Post’s Jeremy Barr on Tuesday. The post referred to an alleged December 20 email from Bongino that read:

    Are you a dips*** all the time, or just on weekdays? Do you even listen to my show where I explained what’s going on? Or is your oddly shaped head so far up your a** that you can’t hear? Given that you’re a chump, and a coward, who has never stood for a single thing in your entire sorry life, I’m not surprised you left out all of the relevant details of the story. Lose my email, and don’t bother contacting me again. Thanks, and have a Merry Christmas. Off to the spam file labeled “media dips***s” you go.

  93. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Proving once again we are all talking in a vacuum here as no one reads anyone else’s posts. 🙂

    TexMo says:
    DECEMBER 29, 2021 AT 21:50
    Yesterday MHarper posted that she tossed her cookies the night before last and she hasn’t posted anything today.

    Someone should check over yonder to make sure the Coons haven’t unionized to demand better food and living conditions. I’ve been picturing this today except with a squadron of racoons.

  94. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #88 – send up a flare so the youngsters don’t get sweaty!    🙂

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    93 Texmo

    I remember.

  96. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Does Dan Bongino still post at Parler? I must still have an account with them because I get spam from them, but I haven’t logged in since the site came back up.

  97. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I always knew Shannon had my back.

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Harper caught the Galloping Pi Ghytis.

    Mom used to talk about it.

  99. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    noventa y nueve ??

    *drum rollllllll*

  100. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dr. Phil

    https://youtu.be/TggO5QroDW0

  101. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I don’t think I checked on Das Couch for a while, just trying to be sure I give the cats what they need, and the raccoons enough to get by on until I feel better. I don’t think the symptoms I have key out to ‘rona.

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    100

    Keith Moon fully engaged.

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Moon certainly deserves equal billing with Bonham.

  104. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #101

    Any symptom = ‘rona

    Haven’t you been paying attention?

  105. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Glad to find out mharper42 is feeling better today.

    And good night all, hope for a great day going into the weekend and engaging the new year.

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