Wednesday Open Comments

https://rumble.com/vtamrn-covid-19-a-second-opinion-shorter-highlight-video.html

Good morning.

Below is an important link which contains information that could save your life or the life of your loved one.

It is a shortened, highlight version of a 5+ hour hearing held by Senator Ron Johnson.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244953

We’ve ignored this for long enough now that a medical system crash is a question of when and not if. The best favor you can do yourself going forward is to require the medical system as little as possible.

re: the video in #1

The lady’s testimony concerning her father starting ~5:35… staggering to think about how many times that has happened over the last two years. I was going to say it’s tragic, but it’s much more than that. It’s morally reprehensible. We’ve allowed hundreds of thousands of American people to be murdered because we couldn’t say no to pharmaceutical greed.

Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, January 26, 2022 ☙ LIMIT THE SPREAD
Happy Wednesday, C&C! Today’s roundup includes: bad news for the media; DeSantis issues a strongly-worded statement about the FDA’s cancellation of the single most effective approved treatment for Covid; after New Yorkers had a one-day taste of face-freedom, masks are back on; an ancient fossil runs for speaker of the House; Surgeon General Murthy shows he’s out of ideas; American Airlines’ CEO and I agree on something; a bill pending in New Hampshire pushes horse dewormer; and Narrative 2.0 arrives in Israel.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

Great job, Media! Rasmussen reported a new poll finding that a clear majority of American’s consider the media to be “the enemy of the people.” Here is the breakdown:

Question: “Do you agree or disagree with this statement: The media are “truly the enemy of the people”?”

√ AGREE:

As you can see, only one group [DEMS] of those surveyed disagrees in majority that the media is the enemy of the people. Only one, and that group is no surprise, since it benefits from the media’s misbehavior the most. But, possibly the most problematic sign for the media is the fact that over a third of DEMS believe the media is our enemy. So.

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Monday, Governor DeSantis called for the FDA to reverse its decision abruptly cancelling the EUA for safe and effective monoclonal antibody treatments. In his statement, the Governor said:

“Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law. This indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism — Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president.’’

We need medical freedom, stat! In light of the crisis created by the federal government, Florida’s Department of Health should issue an emergency order authorizing doctors to prescribe ANY effective treatment that they believe — in their informed, independent judgment — will be effective for Covid. Let’s do this.

Later, some reporter asked fiesty press secretary Jen Psaki about DeSantis’ comments. In a passable imitation of a frenzied snapping turtle, Psaki called the Governor crazy, saying “Well, let’s just take a step back here just to realize how crazy this is. These treatments — the ones that they are fighting over, that the governor’s fighting over — do not work against omicron, and they have side effects. That is what the scientists are saying.”

Crazy? Are you sure, Peppermint Patty? DeSantis called you out, arguing there was NO CLINICAL EVIDENCE to support withdrawing the mABs. Your move would have been to cite the CLINICAL EVIDENCE and prove the Governor wrong. You didn’t. So, we can all see that you’ve got nothing but gaslighting gobbledygook. Try again.

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New York continued its on-again, off-again romance with mandatory masking yesterday, after an appeals court judge stayed Monday’s injunction that would have canceled the mask ban. The stay — and the mask mandate — will now continue in effect while the appeals court considers the state’s challenge to Judge Rademaker’s order. This development is not a super fantastic sign for the appeal. By granting a stay, the appeals court has effectively concluded that it is “likely” the state will win its challenge to the injunction order.

Another bad sign was the language in the stay requiring everybody to wear a mask while reading it. Haha, just kidding. Mostly.

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Yesterday, OSHA formally withdrew its emergency “vaccinate or test” mandate, ending the lawsuit, but there’s a catch. The catch is that OSHA says it will still move forward with the rule, just on a “non-emergency” basis. I think OSHA is saying that since one of the problems the Supreme Court found with the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) was that there was no “emergency,” and the rule was passed quickly without a public opportunity for comment and stuff, then by doing it the long way as a set of permanent Covid rules, with a full notice and comment period, OSHA can work around the Court’s decision.

I don’t think that is going to work. I checked the opinion, and the Court specifically rejected OSHA’s authority to implement any Covid restrictions, at all, without Congress’ explicit approval. Here’s what the Court said in NFIB v. OSHA:

“Although COVID–19 is a risk that occurs in many workplaces, it is not an occupational hazard in most. COVID–19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting events, and everywhere else that people gather. That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases. Permitting OSHA to regulate the hazards of daily life—simply because most Americans have jobs and face those same risks while on the clock—would significantly expand OSHA’s regulatory authority without clear congressional authorization.”

So, let’s assume that OSHA knows this as well as I do. What could the agency be doing? Maybe pursuing the permanent rule is just temporary political cover for withdrawing the ETS rule, designed to please pro-mandate types so they won’t complain about OSHA giving up on the ETS. Or, it could just be another high idea that the Biden Administration came up with after sniffing glue or something.

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In terrific news for the botox industry, 106-year-old Nancy Pelosi said she will run, again, for Speaker of the House, vexing many because she had reportedly said she would hang up the gavel after NINETEEN previous terms as Speaker. The antique lawmaker probably thinks it’s only a matter of minutes before the Speaker will be tapped for president, for various reasons that you can easily imagine. She could still make it!

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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy swerved out of his lane, again, announcing this week that CENSORSHIP is the tool that will end the pandemic: “It’s not just about what government can do … we [must] use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation; that’s going to be a critical part of how we get through this pandemic.”

The scary thing about Murthy’s ideas is not so much that he’s a wanna-be 1984-style biomedical security-state dictator, but that he is clearly out of any ideas for how SCIENCE or MEDICINE can end the pandemic. Look, Murthy, you aren’t a propaganda expert. You’re supposed to be a scientist or a doctor or something. Get back in your lane. Stat!

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A prominent op-ed published in — of all places — the Jerusalem Post this week called for an end to mandates. Headlined “Amid Omicron, Israel must move beyond COVID-19 Green Pass,” the Post’s editorial board observed that some Israeli scientists now think the country’s vaccine passport — euphemistically called the “Green Pass” — is “no longer necessary or effective in its current form.” How about that.

The editors encouraged Israel’s government to move beyond mandates to incentives, saying vaccination “should not be coerced. Instead of punishing those unwilling to be vaccinated, we should be encouraging those who do the right thing and vaccinate.” [There’s that “we’re not going to quit pushing the jab, just trying a different technique, hoping the resistant will just wander into the jab corral all by themselves.”]

So … Narrative 2.0 has now arrived in Israel, the beating heart of injection mandates. Is the J-Post editorial a political trial balloon to see how the public reacts? Or was it a grassroots organic expression of the editors’ developing skepticism about mandates and their new-found freedom from safetyism? Either way, it shows that the new Narrative has even made its way to Pfizer’s test lab, I mean Israel. Who’s giving odds on whether Israel will make an official announcement rolling back mandates before March 1, when Joe Biden will give his State of the Union?

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✈️ Yesterday, while reporting on my trip to DC to speak at the March for Freedom, I noted that all the airports and airplanes were only half-full. The trip conjured impressions of a ghost town. I speculated that the pilot’s mask-mandate rant might have had something to do with it.

Well guess what? Yesterday, the airline industry news blog ‘Live and Let’s Fly’ ran an article with this headline: “American Airlines Ceo Blames Masks for Stagnant Business Travel. Is He Correct?” Ironically, I flew American to and from DC this weekend.

The article reports that during a call with investors last Thursday, American’s CEO Doug Parker said masks were suppressing business travel:

“We need business travel to get back to where it was. It wants to…every time it starts to look like the world’s going to get back to normal, business travel starts ticking up and it starts ticking up pretty quickly – as it did in July, as it started to do in November.

What happens though is anything that gets people to where we all have to wear a mask again, and for companies that have not yet brought people back to work, they delay that. It’s been delayed yet again for a lot of companies around the United States. It’ll come back, and when it does business will return, and [we’ll be profitable].”

You may recall that I previously reported that CEO Parker told a House committee last month that masks aren’t needed on airplanes because cabin air filtration is so good. He got a lot of pushback, and — of course — later walked his mask comments back.

In any event, American’s CEO does not appear to be a huge mask fan, and — like me — thinks they are suppressing travel. Seems like a no brainer.

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Newsweek reported late last week that “New Hampshire Pharmacies Could Soon Dispense Ivermectin Without Doctor Approval.” A proposed law (House Bill 1022) is working its way through the state legislature, and would allow pharmacists to dispense the safe and effective horse dewormer — without need for a prescription from a doctor. Republican State Rep. Leah Cushman, a sponsor of the bill and a registered nurse, told Newsweek that she wanted to make sure folks “have options for treatment of Covid-19.”

HB 1022 is currently in committee, but a full House vote is expected within a few weeks.

#3

re: the video in #1

The lady’s testimony concerning her father starting ~5:35… staggering to think about how many times that has happened over the last two years. I was going to say it’s tragic, but it’s much more than that. It’s morally reprehensible. We’ve allowed hundreds of thousands of American people to be murdered because we couldn’t say no to pharmaceutical greed.

What he said.

My biggest fear right now is that a well meaning family member will send me to the hospital. Until we have medical freedom, as the C&C recommends, I see hospitals as death traps for Covid patients. Doctors need to be free to be doctors, instead of pharma reps and marionette dispensers of profitable stocks with their strings tied to the hands of politicians.

Bonecrusher

The medical mafia is real and just as, if not more dangerous than the one depicted in The Godfather. Corrupted bureaucrats getting purchased by unscrupulous Big Pharma who then go on to mandate specific treatments with which the Doctors must comply.
We are and have been in the direct fire of a blistering barrage of lying BS from the govt, LSM, medical, and the education industries. The commie long march through the institutions has succeeded. How much longer until we face the horror of large scale violence?

Texpat

1 Shannon

That is some powerful stuff on that video. It’s definitely a keeper.

#2

That column is frighteningly true. And you’re right – trying not to be in a position to need medical care is our best protection against the juggernaut.

TexMo

#117 Sarge from last night

Poor poor Heidi Harmon. I can’t believe anyone would be so stupid to not have a charging station at her house. Even if she lives in an apartment without a charging station, she obviously didn’t keep track of her car battery’s state of charge. You would think if that is her case that she would check to make sure she has enough juice to make it across the Bay Area.

Oops, she must have forgotten that charging infrastructure falls just a little short of gasoline infrastructure. This all sounds like a publicity stunt and it just makes you look more like a fruit cake.

TexMo

I needed the chuckle from Sarge’s post from last night after reading this.

According to the US Department of Justice, Tariq was arrested last September at Camp Upshur in Quantico after Marines observed him fondling the girl above her clothes on her private parts. Marines also said that the girl was not related to him.

“According to court papers, Tariq tried to explain through interpreters that his conduct was acceptable in his culture. Efforts to have his statements suppressed were rejected by the judge,” local news reports.

Little boys, goats, and the occasional little girl. I am all for learning from other cultures, however, some cultures just need to be thrown into the trash bin of history.

TexMo

LINK for #10

#9

You mean you can’t just go get a can of electricity when your car runs out of juice?

In Sen. Johnson’s Rumble video from #1, at the 15.43 mark, the doctor explains why the N-95 mask is useless.

“N” stands for non-oil resistant.
95 stands for 95 % reduction in airborne infiltration.

Since the virus is encapsulated in an oil (lipid), it passes right through the mask. “It’s like peeing in a pool”.

I didn’t know that. So all of these masks that our government is buying/pushing is simply making money for the companies which make them.

I think Fred is done with my chicken stock, so I need to go unload it and put it into my stock jar.

Stock comes out really oily, so I have to work at keeping it from sticking to my fingers.

I’m still amazed at the reduction in needed storage space for dried foods. I did some red onions yesterday. I have a quart jar almost full, and I must have well over a dozen onions in there.

Some day I’d like to have a freeze dryer. Some foods do better freeze dried than dehydrated. Stock is one of those.

But dried still works.

Sarge

#117 Sarge from last night

Poor poor Heidi Harmon. I can’t believe anyone would be so stupid to not have a charging station at her house. Even if she lives in an apartment without a charging station, she obviously didn’t keep track of her car battery’s state of charge. You would think if that is her case that she would check to make sure she has enough juice to make it across the Bay Area.

Actually, that’s not what happened. She left her house to travel to another city to go to a Climate Rally some distance away that was at the edge of her car’s range. She missed the rally because she couldn’t find a charging station and then when she did, it was going to take a few hours to charge her car.

And that’s the problem with EVs. If Gramma lives 300 miles away and the range on your 2022 Virtue Signal is 200 miles, be prepared to stay at a hotel or sleep in your car 2/3 of the way there, and then again on the way back home (and please give Gramma some money for the electric bill after you’ve charged your car at her place). IOW, what would be a four day round trip to Gramma’s for the weekend in your Tundra turns into a six day round trip in your 2022 Virtue Signal. Doing anything normal other than a daily commute in an EV is expecting too much of the technology.

This, however, is exactly how internal combustion engines started. It took 50 years to go from horses and wagons to sedans and pickups, even though the buggy whip and tack industries fought it. If they’d just let it happen naturally, it will happen.

TexMo

I may have the omigod variant of the Rona. Yesterday I developed a scratchy throat. By bedtime I had muscle aches. Overnight I spiked a fever and drenched the sheets. I did not take my temp overnight. This morning I am at 98.6F which is normal for me. The throat is a little scratchy but not like yesterday. No body aches this morning either.

Sarge

I figure that I’ve had it at least twice. Everybody in the office has tested positive—more than once. At least that’s what they said when they called to say they were working from home.

Darren

https://nypost.com/2022/01/26/peter-robbins-original-charlie-brown-voice-actor-dead-at-65/

This makes me sad. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is still my favorite Christmas special. Mental health issues are no joke.

Wow, Texmo, I was worrying about that very thing happening to you.

Glad you got over whatever it was.

Darren

Texmo #10

I am all for learning from other cultures, however, some cultures just need to be thrown into the trash bin of history.

I personally love other cultures. I would say certain aspects of all cultures need to be put into the trash bin. Regarding the sex perv culture, I do not know how true that is but I have no doubt it is more pervasive in his culture (Afghanistan) tan it is ours.

wagonburner

14 granny
Do you remove the schmaltz from your stock before you try to dry it?

Chicken schmaltz is a great cooking fat.

Also really good on a piece of sourdough toast and to make garlic bread with.

Darren

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/01/26/quebec–unvaccinated-shoppers-have-to-be-escorted-n2602383

Government coercion and shaming are two of the things I have despised the most during the pandemic. Here’s from Canada:

Beginning this week, Quebec began requiring vaccine passports to enter large stores, 16,000 square feet or bigger, meaning the unvaccinated cannot shop at places like Walmart or Costco.

There is an exemption, however, for accessing pharmacies and food inside those stores, but there’s a catch. The unvaccinated wishing to do so must be accompanied by a store employee to ensure they do not make any other purchases.

“The hope is making shopping more difficult will push more holdouts to get the jab,” reported CBC’s Valeria Cori-Manocchio.

(Bold mine)

All I do is boil it on the stove to reduce it, so Fred doesn’t have to work so hard. I don’t strain it or take anything out of it.

If it’s good enough in the raw before, it’ll be good enough when I rehydrate it.

Morning gang. Been to coffee and all full of Knowledge this morning. Local politics seemed to be then main topic this morning as they apparently held some sort of town hall meeting last evening and we are looking at a new County Judge out here among other things. Some state reps also up due to redistricting. Anyway, I missed it, but I feel all caught up now just from listening to the discussions. Nothing else to report on for now, so you all have a great day. More later as it develops.

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Hat Tip – Joe over on ACE

You’re happy to have a referendum on how you’ve handled the economy, Brandon? You want to run on your economic performance? Are you sure about that? Because if you’re running on that, your prospects are about as good as the Wermacht’s were around, say, April of 1945.

mharper42

Morning, chickadees. I quit wearing a mask last year. I go to my 5 or 6 stores fairly often, and none of them are still requiring masks. Aside from a nasal congestion issue that I came down with on Christmas day, while having XMAS lunch with an old friend and her son at his condo in Montrose, I’ve been quite healthy.

Breyer is retiring?

Pass the popcorn…

The unvaccinated wishing to do so must be accompanied by a store employee to ensure they do not make any other purchases.

I say the unvaxxed form a group and all go shopping, buying one thing at a time. Keep the store staff busy escorting shoppers and make them pay for the privilege of being the tool of the Branch Covidians.

…and shop slowly, looking at all the other products and saying “I wish I could buy that, too bad I can’t.”

…and I can see online pics up, showing purchases, with the caption “I bought this at Mom & Pop store, but not at BigBox Store. (followed by snark comment of choice)”

Darren

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/01/26/biden-sending-taxpayer-dollars-to-taliban-to-save-afghan-salamanders-n2602385

Another win for Never Trumpers!

Darren

TT

#28; Yup!
29-31 Absolutely! Make life miserable for the stores. They have much more political clout than the unvaxed.

texanadian

Quebec has always been a bit crazy. I have a number of friends from there (out here) and they are not going back to see family until this madness ends. They are wizzed off at Quebec.

Darren

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/cameronarcand/2022/01/26/breaking-supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyer-is-retiring-n1553213

Judge Breyer retiring is another win for Never Trumpers.

I missed my opportunity to show my narcissism by setting up a camera in my car and then working myself into a frenzy, screaming into my windshield, asking “Why couldn’t Breyer die before Trump left office!!!!!”

Texpat

I finally got my new glasses last night after putting off the ophthalmologist for 6 or 7 years. The most amazing difference is I’m able to wear my glasses while reading a computer screen.

I guess I have fully joined the geezer class since I am now off to see one last doctor. I’m getting pretty sick of all these doctors’ offices.

Super Dave

Quick Drive By!
Worst case scenario, Justice Stephen Breyer is stepping down to give the Wooden Dummy a SCOTUS pick. Lawd Have mercy! 🙁

Super Dave

Here ya’ go;
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment.

Dr phil Good

The only thing most so called conservatives in congress care about is conserving their power and the swamp.

Open invasion on the southern border and they’re nowhere to be found.
But they can’t wait to sink their fangs into more blood money if we’re stupid enough to go to war with Russia over the Ukrainian border.

Abbott too.

Abbott is going to lose Texas by his all hat no cattle approach concerning our border.
He’s a closet Bushie and that’s why I’ll be voting for Col West in the primary.

Texas Constitution

Article 4, Sec. 7. GOVERNOR AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF MILITARY FORCES. He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into actual service of the United States. He shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions.

Super Dave

Remember Obama wanted to appoint this Evil Slimy Prick back in 2016.
Of course Biden’s handlers pick him for the United States Attorney General and he named parents of school kids Domestic Terrorists for complaining at school board meetings…….. ~SPITS~

Let’s be honest here.

It won’t be a Biden appointment. It’ll be an Obama appointment.

Super Dave

Attention! Just in case you’re wondering, it’s 16 degrees in Waynesburg PA right now.
FWIW: I’ve been talking with a guy on the Kubota page.

Super Dave

$42 Tedtam

It won’t be a Biden appointment. It’ll be an Obama appointment.

Ding, Ding, Ding,…… we have a winner! Don Pardo, tell Ms Tedtam what she’s won! 😉

Re: Breyer – makes no difference who does the appointment or who the appointee is. It will not change the direction of the court, so it’s no big deal. This is another diversion from something else going on, possibly war in Ukraine or China moving forward toward Taiwan or Iran getting a nuke or something. Otherwise, it’s a nothing burger.

In other news, my brother stopped by and we fiddled with the kitchen light that is intermittent. We reset the bulb, and it’s been on now for about 30 minutes. Just as I was prepared to come over here and declare that problem resolved, it flickered again. The wiring looked ok on the surface. Could be a faulty tombstone. Who knows these days.

squawkbox

A note on the Ukraine.

Putin/Russia have no fear about nothin. Putin does not want the Ukraine to join NATO so that alone is cause enough for him to do what he is doing now. Listening closely to Flahbang (Biden) I am noticing all kinds of openings for Flashbang Co to capitulate to Putin. I can see a scenario where the US bargains off the Ukraines sovereinty and Russia is allowed to just waltz right on in and take over the big “U”. Ukraine wants full membership to NATO but I think they will be denied. Ukraine is not a full member of NATO.

On 12 June 2020, Ukraine joined NATO’s enhanced opportunity partner interoperability program. According to an official, NATO statement the new status “does not prejudge any decisions on NATO membership.”

I am not sure war is on the horizon. I think we will know in about 2 weeks. Putin does not know it YET but this is all a set up for Russia to invade Israel. See Ezekiel 38-39.This is all going by the book.

This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

mharper42

I finally got around to putting the 01/2022 state inspection sticker on the windshield of the 2013 Corolla. Well within the time constraint. I had to back it out in the driveway to have enough light to see if I had got all the gunk from last year’s sticker removed. It was surprisingly cold and windy out there, so I didn’t look around for other outdoor chores for today.

Texpat

I’ve been eating 3 or 4 eggs for breakfast at least 6 days a week for 10 years. In 2012, my cholesterol count was about 210. My cholesterol this week is 141 with an LDL count of 66. It used to be that any LDL lower than 70 was considered excellent. Now my cardiologist wants me to be below 60. Why do I get the feeling these guys would tell you to lower your cholesterol no matter how good the numbers looked ? Just like with blood pressure levels, they’re always moving the goalposts.

Oh, and the cardiologist wants me to stop eating eggs too. Don’t believe that will happen.

#49 – NO eggs?

Just shoot me now!

Texpat

If eggs are supposedly deadly cholesterol bombs, then why has my number gone from at least 210 to 141 in the period I’ve been on a 3 or 4 egg a day diet ?

Just like with blood pressure levels, they’re always moving the goalposts.

Throw A1C in that same category. No doubt there is a diabetic problem in the population (due in no small part to encouraging us to eat fast carbs for decades) but I think they just like to try to scare people into doing what they want them to do by that moving goalpost thing. I’m with you. No reason to give up eggs. They’re good for you and delicious.

Bonecrusher

Does your new cardiologist still think the food pyramid is a good diet?
Your numbers are excellent, don’t change a thing.

Shannon

Now my cardiologist wants me to be below 60.

When pigs fly, Doc. And no statins.

I eat lots of eggs, with sausage, bacon, and cheese or whatever else kind of meat I might have around. Everything looking OK for me so far.

wagonburner

They are wizzed off at Quebec.

Isn’t that true of pretty much everybody in Canadia?

TexMo

#56

Isn’t that true of pretty much everybody in Canadia?

Heh… I read that as candida the yeast that keeps on giving.

Or did you mean to write candida and you just have a typo?

TexMo

An Obama appointee cancels another pipeline project.

The 303-mile, 2-bcfd Mountain Valley pipeline is more than 90% complete and Equitrans had hoped to put it in service during 2022, already 4 years later than originally planned.

The kerfuffle is over 3.5 miles of the 303 mile long pipeline that crosses part of a National Forrest. Hopefully, Equitrans can appeal. If they lose, hopefully a route around the National Forest will not cause a major redesign such as adding another compressor station (very bad) or adding a larger wheel to existing compressors (if it fits, only bad. If it does not fit, very bad).

TexMo

#58 LINK

Dang, twice in one day I forget to add the link. I know I could probably edit my comment and get it in there, but I always forget the proper HTML syntax to make it work correctly. I like the easy buttons that WordPress provides.

Super Dave

How about that? Big Mike showed up about 3 to install the new window in the bathroom.
He was supposed to be here Monday, then Tuesday so I’m happy. If you were keeping score the bathroom was finished up about the first of December except for the window that was to be here before Thanksgiving, then December 17, then,…who knows? It showed up last Tuesday, finally.

Youtube has permanently banned Dan Bongino.

Truth hurts.

Get butt hurt enough, and canceling is the only option.

Dan reported that he has been after You Tube for a long time to take down his You Tube account. So apparently they finally got around to doing so.

Sarge

Sorry Neil, we’re moving in with Joe.

You can keep the waterbed.

I didn’t get much of a nap today, but I did get at least a cat nap. I planted some tomato seeds in my little K-cup coffee filters (I make my own cups and don’t use those plastic pre-made things that cost a fortune). So I put about 15 seeds in 15 separate coffee filters with a little dirt, but them in the back room on a table where they will get a little sunlight, stretched some clear saran wrap over the top to create a greenhouse effect, and we will see in a couple weeks how many if any actually sprout. The coffee filters are paper and will degrade, so at replanting time, I can just put the entire little thing in a larger pot or in the ground and they should just root right through them. It’s a little early, and it seems that every year we start having nice spring weather and I put my plants outside and then the last freeze sneaks up on them and wipes them out. I’m staying mobile this year, using pots that I can move in and out until the last chance for a freeze is finally gone. Then I’ll have to deal with the deer problem, but we’ll do that when the time comes.

#64 – My Dearly departed Pop always waited until 15th of Feb had passed by for tomatoes.

He had an absolutely prolific pair of cherry tomato vines – and reaped around 3,000 per year (after fighting off the mockingbirds)

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Hat Tip – ACE

Only leftwing voices can be heard. Period.

It’s so Soviet. Straight-up Soviet, except that those at the top are making millions off it.

Wait a sec– that’s exactly how the Soviet Union worked too…

I think our last freeze is somewhere around April 15, but we always start getting nice, warmer weather after the February deep freeze. Bluebonnets start popping out about then, and everyone (including me) always gets excited and wants to get started on the garden – and just like Lucy with Charlie Brown’s football, it always comes a freeze in the first or second week of April. So this year I’m gonna be ready to move my stuff indoors on short notice and not put it in the ground until after April 15.

I saw some videos of a woman who gardens in plastic totes, and composts in place. I like the compost in place idea. I’m thinking about trying it.

Poor plants.

Handyman just dropped off his time card, and he loves to garden. He wants to turn my back yard into his green thumb playground. I’m tempted to let him. I showed him my planters, where I have a Confederate Rose (it’s actually not a rose) waiting to get plopped into the ground this spring. I have some green onions growing around the base of the “rose,” where I shoved the bulbs after harvesting the green tops. They are doing well.

So far.

I also had some red onions start sprouting on me, and I had another pot where another plant had passed, so I put them in there. While prepping some garlic the other night, I found some of those sprouting, too, so now the red onions share a pot with the garlic. We’ll see how they do.

I also put out some pepper seeds from dinner the other night: some small sweet peppers that Handyman gave me, from a poblano pepper, and from some colored bells. I dropped around the compost pile edge, inspired by the tiny little pepper plant I see struggling to put out a pepper there already. He’s doing better than if I messed with him, so he’s on his own little self.

It’s sink or swim with me, dirtwise.

wagonburner

How does “composting in place” differ from old-style composting?

Old-style usually involves some kind of pile that gets turned. The turning exposes material to the air and invigorates the microbes. Actually, I’ve achieved the same effect by putting some PVC pipe into the pile, allowing air inside.

This lady does stuff like have one container growing vegetables, and plopped on top of the dirt is a second container (think plastic coffee tub) and cuts a hole in the lid of the smaller one. Inside that lid hole gets plopped another small container with a plant in it, like a 4″ pot. As she collects her kitchen scraps, she lifts up the 4″ pot, revealing the hole, and puts her scraps in it. Replaces the pot to cover the hole. As she waters the garden, the water filters through the coffee tub and holes in the bottom allow the nutrient rich water to feed the veggies in the big tub.

She also puts her compostable scraps in the bottom of her big tubs as she builds them. Or just puts scraps into buckets to be added to something else later. She never turns compost.

I’ve also heard of post-hole composting, which works great for soils that are nutrient poor or hard to work. Think desert or gumbo clay. Dig a hole, dump in the scraps, plant something, cover with a layer of soil. Keep doing that and before long, you have a nicely composted garden.

Something else I’ve heard of is straw (not hay) bale gardening. Get some bales, put in some seeds, and let ’em go. Encourage every guy you know to pee on the straw bales. They’ll break down.

Or, as they do in some area of the world with little rain, create piles of wood. I wanted to do that in my yard, but just never got around to it. We were cutting down some trees, and they would have been perfect.

Cut some trees, and pile them up. I’ve heard of them being six feet high. Between the large pieces, put in smaller pieces. When the pile of wood is complete, cover it with dirt.

Not much will grow the first year, as the decomposing wood will suck nutrients (nitrogen?) out of the dirt, but come the second year, I hear the yields can be amazing. The wood by then has become spongy and holds water. The wood has reached a point in its decomposition that it is now giving up nutrients to the soil. The plants can put their roots right into the wood and get water and nutrients all they want. Very little, if any, watering is needed.

Still messing with that kitchen light bulb. I may have to take down the fixture again, but I think I’ll first try to replace the tombstone where it sits now. That may be the problem. It’s been working just fine since I rewired it and installed LEDs a couple years ago. So who knows what happens with this stuff to cause it to go haywire.

Think I’ll go start watching War and Remembrance for a while. It’s hard to find on Amazon, so watch it while it’s available.

Shannon

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And if you get in a hurry to burn somebody at the stake you’re pretty much ready to go.

Bonecrusher

#70, 71 TT: Very efficient and a nice way to suck the maximum value from the space and vegetable material available. We should all think along those lines: get the maximum value from what you have. It takes thought, creativity, and work – but worth it for the intellectual exercise if nothing else.

Texpat

71 & 74 Tedtam

I’m still trying to recall the details of the story of the landscaper in Houston years ago who decided to save his client a bunch of money and mulch an office building complex with fresh, shredded wood pulp instead of aged, composted pine bark mulch. Every single tree and shrub died on the entire multi-building property. Raw fresh wood sucks all the nitrogen out of the soil. It’s like poison.

Count on the Bee to sneak a peek at the SCOTUS short list left on Brandon’s desk. https://babylonbee.com/news/exclusive-the-babylon-bee-has-obtained-bidens-list-of-possible-scotus-nominees

Texpat

I helped a girlfriend’s parents years ago in Bellville who were getting older but insisted on continuing to garden. I built four long raised beds that were 3 feet tall, 3-1/2 feet wide and 16 feet long. I called an old dump truck guy, Jesse Villa, and had him bring about 25 yards of loamy, topsoil dug out from Colbert Mewis’ old feedlot. Cattle had been, ahem, composting out there for decades.

The following spring when the old folks plantings started exploding it looked like one of those silly, old fertilizer ads with vegetables the size of watermelons. It was pretty amazing and people would stop me in town and ask what I did to make those raised garden beds so special. My only reply was, “Old bull***t”.

The following spring when the old folks plantings started exploding it looked like one of those silly, old fertilizer ads with vegetables the size of watermelons. It was pretty amazing and people would stop me in town and ask what I did to make those raised garden beds so special. My only reply was, “Old bull***t”.

Well, that makes the gardeners around the Capitol and White House jobs easier.

ONE MORE REASON NOT TO TRUST THEM!

Project Veritas has a whistleblower blowing the whistle on botched testing for the jab.

Nursing staff told to “YouTube it” when asking how to mix the COVID-19 Vaccine.

Nursing staff on video: “wrong mixture could cancel out [the protection of the vaccine] or have adverse effects.”

A pediatric nurse came to Project Veritas to blow the whistle on New York contracted healthcare provider DocGo, and their subsidiary Ambulnz, who may have jeopardized the safety of thousands of people, including young children, through negligent administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Recordings from the whistleblower show fellow medical staff acknowledging mistakes of improperly mixing and administering the Pfizer children’s vaccine with the wrong diluent (bacteriostatic water), lack of proper training, lack of incident reporting.

Pfizer, the CDC, and the FDA are all very clear: the COVID-19 vaccine should only be administered with the proper saline solution; bacteriostatic water is NOT to be used.

Project Veritas reached out to Pfizer, multiple doctors, and scientists. None were able to state with certainty what the adverse effects are on children getting the wrong mixture, or adults getting overdosed with the COVID-19 vaccine.

The potential risk to children who received the botched mixture was so significant that a nurse with DocGo/Ambulnz said she felt compelled to reach out to Project Veritas. “These are little kids, these are babies,” said the whistleblower during an emotional interview with Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe.

Guy Banks, a supervisor with DocGo/Ambulnz can be heard attempting to instruct staff on how to properly vaccinate patients over the phone. “Make sure it’s the right one, because some people got the wrong one,” Banks is heard saying, in reference to the diluents paired with COVID-19 vaccines.

The whistleblower’s recollection of the lack of training is astonishing. “On my first day there were no instructions about mixing the vaccine. I called the supervisor and asked, ‘how do I dilute this vaccine?’ He told me to ‘YouTube it.’ We were never given an in-service,” said the whistleblower. Proper in-service training is mandatory standard operating procedure in the medical field.

Project Veritas reached out to DocGo for comment spoke with President Anthony Capone who touted the training of DocGo medical staff and denied the possibility that patients received the wrong vaccine mixture. “We have no circumstances in company history when bacteriostatic water was used in diluting vaccine,” Capone said. He added that the footage could be describing “wrong stuff pulled from the shelves” but ultimately replaced before vaccines were administered.

We already know that the VAERS reporting is botched, and missing lots of data. Doctors on hidden camera have admitted it. Nurses have made public announcements about this.

Pfizer wanted what – 75 years? – to disclose their data? But they could turn on a dime to get “results” for evaluation and approval when it benefited them.

The death numbers have been so skewed as to be totally incomprehensible. Like a two year old making art for the Louvre. Just incomprehensible.

Etc., etc.

Bedtime creeping up again out here in centex. You all have a good evening and we’ll do it all over again tomorrow. Nite nite.

mharper42