For some reason, I just enjoy watching this lady try things from various stores.
I give her five Vivian Heads.
WARNING: She drops a few NSFW words every now and then, especially if she’s been drinking. I think this one is clean. Enough.
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Mornin’ Gang
It’s 36 here and I’m off to chase Bambi again, y’all carry on. -
Morning gang. I’m up early this morning for some reason, so that means that I’d better plan a time out for a nap sometime during the day. As I’m planning my agenda, perhaps I should go ahead and pencil that in first. Other than that, there is nothing of serious import going on right now. You all have a great day, and I’ll keep you posted as the day goes on.
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I wanted to point out this morning one thing no one has included when they declare Biden will appoint Kamala to SCOTUS. Nobody even considers if she wants the job. Being a justice is an often solitary, intensely intellectual job involving massive amounts of reading and research.
Kamala Harris’ former employees complained she refused to read her daily briefings from various departments and wouldn’t study the preparatory briefs from her own staff before appearances. Does anybody think she would even accept the offer ? Really ?
I can’t think of a position better designed to completely embarrass a lightweight butterfly like Harris and the president who nominated her. I cannot imagine Harris sequestered away in the Supreme Court building researching historical judicial minutiae day in and day out. If Harris ever had the ambition to be a judge, she would have sought that role and been at least considered on somebody’s short list. It’s never happened to my knowledge.
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I wanted to point out this morning one thing no one has included when they declare Biden will appoint Kamala to SCOTUS. Nobody even considers if she wants the job. Being a justice is an often solitary, intensely intellectual job involving massive amounts of reading and research.
It won’t be Veep Throat. Her vote would be the tiebreaker for her nomination and I doubt even the Democrats would like the optics on that one.
There’s also talk that a vote won’t even happen until after the elections in November. The Democrats want the issue so that they can energize a demoralized base, and there’s this:
“But the nuclear option can go into motion only if the Judiciary Committee reports the nomination to the floor, a procedural move that says whether a majority on the committee recommends the full Senate consider the pick,” TIME Magazine reported. “Well, in a little-noticed backroom deal that took more than a month to hammer out, McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to a power-sharing plan in February that splits committee membership, staffs and budgets in half.”
“If all 11 Republican members of the Judiciary Committee oppose Biden’s pick and all 11 Democrats back her, the nomination goes inert. The nomination doesn’t die, but it does get parked until a lawmaker—historically, the Leader of the party—brings it to the floor for four hours of debate,” the report added. “A majority of the Senate—51 votes, typically—can then put debate about the issue on the calendar for the next day. But that’s the last easy part. When the potential pick comes to the floor again, it’s not as a nomination. At that point, it’s a motion to discharge, a cloture motion that requires 60 votes. In other words, 10 Republicans would have to resurrect the nomination of someone already blocked in the Judiciary Committee.”
But I want to see the hearings. I want the People to see the ideology of the person that Brandon would nominate. In the atmosphere we’re in now, the further left that nominee is, the better the chances for a veto-proof majority in the Senate becomes.
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“While the vice president has the power to cast a tiebreaking vote to pass a bill, the Constitution does not give him [or her] the power to break ties when it comes to the Senate’s “Advice and Consent” role in approving presidential appointments to the Supreme Court,” he wrote.
It just might so happen that SCOTUS would have to rule on whether the process used to confirm a SCOTUS nomination was Constitutional if there’s a tie and Veep Throat casts a vote to break it. The outcome would be interesting.
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WARNING: She drops a few NSFW words every now and then, especially if she’s been drinking.
A lady after my own heart!
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Fauci, et al, have been named at the International Criminal Court for numerous crimes including crimes against humanity.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cI5bgwcOTfP3E3nmacf4vp3wtx6n61wc/view
This happened in December, why izzit that none of the LSM have spoken of it?
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#9 BC,
You know as well as I do why we’re just now hearing about it. I made it a point to download the .pdf to my phone so I have a local copy. Will save it in other locations once I get home.
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https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244966
I don’t have the technical prowess to understand this at the level Karl does, but I have enough to understand that things are likely to get very interesting soon. Y’all be careful out there.
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Just to show how out-of-touch many Americans, especially those on the left, are in terms of the reality regarding police killings of unarmed blacks, more than 50 percent of Americans who self-identify as “very liberal” believe police officers killed 1,000 or more unarmed black men in 2019.
Even more disturbing, 14 percent of those who call themselves “very liberal” said about 10,000 unarmed black men were killed by cops in 2019 while 8 percent said more than 10,000.
but,
Consider. In 2021, 73 police officers were killed due to felonious activity, a nearly 60 percent increase from one year ago. What’s more, among the 73 officers killed in the line of duty last year, 24 were killed in unprovoked attacks.
In other words, in 2021, just one year after the George Floyd riots, unprovoked attacks on police officers increased to the highest number on record. For comparison sake, in 2019, seven police officers were killed in unprovoked attacks. In 2020, the number was 10.
Even more shocking, in 2021, eight additional officers were killed during “premediated ambushes,” which means 32 law enforcement officers were basically executed last year.
Here is the currently maintained and updated Fatal Force database of the Washington Post. It’s worth bookmarking for reference. Ignore the biased commentary – enjoy the facts.
The answer to the question:
For instance, in 2021, four unarmed black Americans were shot and killed by police. That same year, seven unarmed white Americans were shot and killed by police.
Police shootings (per million population) in 2015 to 2022:
Texas – 22
Florida – 22
New Mexico – 67
Oklahoma – 50
California – 26
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Back from coffee and brimming over with knowledge or coffee or something. I’m still taking the “who cares” position on Brandon’s nominee to the SCOTUS. Easing Kameltoe out might be a consideration as she can be made to fit in the box check category, and Brandon’s already made it clear that the last thing he is interested in for a nominee is intellect, work ethic, the constitution or the like – just being female and black is all it takes.
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9 Bonecrusher
Conveniently for the MSM, the USA does not recognize the legitimacy or authority of the International Criminal Court whose primary preoccupation is harassing Israel, its diplomats and military. The ICC has also threatened to charge American military officers with high crimes. The goons in the press can say it doesn’t matter.
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My contention is Kamala has never wanted to be a judge, has no temperament or intellect for the job, knows she would embarrass herself in the job and even she realizes it would be humiliating to break a tie vote on her nomination.
Kammy’s a narcissist, a political animal who loves the limelight and attention. Being a Supreme Court Justice is too subdued and cerebral for her.
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Seems like we’re far enough along in the degradation of our society that the ICC thing matters about as much as Brandon’s SCOTUS choice. Talk about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, January 27, 2022 ☙ GETTING PERSPECTIVE
There’s a TON of good news in the roundup, but it’s going to have to wait until tomorrow. I need to do a little housekeeping today. Some of you aren’t quite getting the message about how well things are going, despite all the remaining challenges. So today I will recap just how far we’ve come, how significant the victories have been, how much we have to be grateful for, and why you should be very optimistic.
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*A 2022 PERSPECTIVE*
Some of the comments yesterday suggested that some of you are feeling MORE anxious about how things are going. Poppycock. Don’t be anxious! Do not worry! Things are going great. We are winning. Even Chicken Little has stopped clucking and racing around in circles and shedding feathers. Believe me, it’s not even close. So, let’s recap, shall we, to remind ourselves about everything that’s going well.
Compare where we are now to the summer of 2020, which was peak Covid crazy-time. We were locked down, masked up, confused and dispirited. Day after day, every day was doomsday. Even Florida was shuttered, with restaurants open only for takeout, and all the “non-essential” businesses forbidden by law from operating. Mask compliance was near 100% — and this is an important one, since the mask mandates were a warmup for the injection mandates. We’re nowhere close to that kind of crazy.
We’ve come a long way since then! Let’s look at just three areas: politics, policies, and possibilities.*******************
PoliticsFirst, politics. In late 2020, Republicans endured a painfully devastating loss of the presidency, the House, and the Senate. But since that moment, the political landscape has continued tilting irresistibly toward real conservatism, maybe permanently:
— Florida is now a political “free state,” a beacon to the world, and despite everyone’s fears about the explosion of new citizens, it has shifted to a clear majority of republican voter registrations for the first time IN HISTORY. The long, distressing period of Florida trending purple is now, suddenly, reversed.
— In November, in Virginia — where a republican had a better chance of being prescribed ivermectin in a hospital than getting elected to state or local office — democrats were swept out of nearly every office up for election. Conservatives pulled it off DESPITE “voting irregularities,” which they were fully prepared for and met head on.
— Many other states experienced red waves, including traditionally-blue states like New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Dems didn’t sweep ANYTHING. Not even the floor. They might not be talking abut it much, but you can hear Nancy Pelosi vomiting up gourmet gelato as far away as Boise.
— Parents — especially moms — have now been politically activated in a historic way that has never happened before in our lifetimes. It’s going to bear fruit, and who knows how much? Probably a lot. The school boards are so terrified of hearing “mom voice” they called out the DOJ. I kind of feel sorry for them. Mom voice can be harsh.
— The political trends might be even more profound than they look. Last week, Forbes published an article headlined, “Republicans Overtook Democrats In 2021 As Share Of Americans Identifying With GOP Shot Up, Poll Finds.” According to the poll, we began 2021 with 49% of US adults registered as democrats, compared to only 40% who said they were Republicans. In other words, Republicans were -9%, which has probably been true for decades. But by the fourth quarter of 2021, polling showed a stark reversal: 47% now identify as Republicans and only 42% said they were democrats: Republicans are now +5%. In one year.
It will take some time for the political benefits to trickle all the way up, but they will. And immediate benefits will rush out in an increasingly unstoppable wave. We may be looking at a GENERATIONAL shift in political preferences, the kinds of changes that only wars and national trauma can produce.
True, totalitarian-minded liberals have had a field day in the meantime, at enormous expense. Many people are already dead, and who knows what the harvest will ultimately be as long-term side effects from the injections pile up? It turns out it was EASY to slide into a biomedical police state, but we are slowly but surely clawing our way out.**************************
PoliciesNext, how about policies? While there are many things that are “still” problems, consider just how far we’ve come — in only a few recent months:
— Most of the national injection mandates have been stayed or defeated. They never reached 100% injection compliance, not even close, and they likely never will. Only a couple national injection mandates remain, which makes it that much easier to focus on them.
— It was painful, but they’ve finally admitted the truth: cloth masks don’t work. Sure, there are a lot of mentally-ill people who are still clinging to the masks, and loony pro-maskers who think everybody will happily switch to N95’s, but let’s face it: mask mandates have been fatally injured. They’re crawling around, bleeding out. It’s only a matter of time.— For example, masks are slowly but steadily coming off of our kids. It’s taking a while, it’s happening in fits and starts, but everyone can see that is the inevitable direction, despite the best efforts of evil administrators and unions. (https://tinyurl.com/2c663h57, https://tinyurl.com/53mk9krh).
— The injection plan is being miniaturized. They are now talking about annual injections, in an Afghanistan-like retreat from the insane idea of requiring multiple annual boosters to be “fully vaccinated.” (https://tinyurl.com/4tk8h8md).
— They haven’t yet gotten the jabs onto school vaccine schedules, and they’ll have to do it state-by-state. It won’t be easy, and I bet it never happens — except possibly in a couple of moronic states where they also think it’s a good idea to let people shoplift, deal drugs, and steal parts of downtown for independent utopian shantytown “communities.”— The media is now constantly blabbering about optimism and the end of the pandemic and Covid becoming endemic. That’s different. They can’t keep up a pandemic and talk optimism at the same time.
— Some media and some scientists are starting to speak out, where they used to be too afraid of being cancelled. And a dream-team of doctors and scientists is forming without any real opposition. Who is the anti-Malone? The anti-McCullough? And what about Rogan? Who are the comparable voices on the pro-mandate side? There aren’t any.— Schools are mostly open and nobody who is sane is still talking about widespread closures anymore. (https://tinyurl.com/5n7x8d5t). Closing schools is quickly becoming a historical artifact.
— Don’t forget Europe, where mandates are disappearing faster than undercover FBI agents when the rally is over, or if you like, cockroaches when the kitchen light comes on. (https://tinyurl.com/2p8mscxj).
— Incontestable data is steadily trickling out and undermining the narrative. Life insurance claim spikes, Department of Defense whistleblowers, breakthrough data, and independent inquiries into Covid’s origins are starting, all together, to paint an undeniable portrait of abject failure. It’s getting ugly for the injections, which just can’t seem to catch a break. There’s ZERO good news for the injections anywhere, not in any country, not in any form.
— Courts and lawyers are — finally! — showing up and pushing back against government overreach. New laws are trickling out and giving the legal system more and more tools to deal with these problems. Old legal problems have been resolving easier than anyone could have imagined, without fanfare; everything from widespread constitutional carry laws to new pro-life protections.
PossibilitiesThird, let’s look at the possibilities: the potential BENEFITS of the Covid experience, as difficult as that is to imagine.
— An entrepreneurial explosion. Most of the top dynamic and valuable companies and entrepreneurs in the country have voted with their corporate feet and U-hauled to red states, where they are now unshackled from loony woke regulations and state taxes. Silicon Valley and Wall Street will never again monopolize tech and finance. Current problems — like supply chain issues — are minting new opportunities. And once these refugee entrepreneurs get settled into their new homes, their businesses are going to take off like Space-X rockets. It is not hard to imagine that a historic period of energy and re-vitalization is on the horizon.
— The lid is blown off the pressure-cooker, and we have new transparency into existing problems. A lot of stinky stuff that was oozing around under the rotting floorboards has now been exposed to disinfecting sunlight. For example, the CRT wars are a byproduct of parents who gained visibility into awful teacher-led political agendas. It only happened because alert parents could see it in real time during remote school.
And, we now know a lot more about serious problems with our corporate healthcare model, like how federal purse-strings are being misused to interfere with patient treatment through medicare reimbursements. We can now see the death panels that we were warned about. Absent Covid, we probably wouldn’t have found out about all this stuff till it was too late. These stealthy schemes were never even opposed before. Now, it is on like Donkey Kong.
— Emergency executive authority, which has always been a lurking disaster, now finds itself on the ropes. We have learned — the hard way — that giving executives unlimited authority during emergencies is an incredibly bad idea. Virtually the entire pandemic has been powered by executive edict. The people’s representatives never VOTED for lockdowns. Everyone can see that now.
States are starting to respond to the problem and things are shifting all the right ways. In Florida, for example, the legislature removed much emergency authority from the Governor (with his blessing), and imposed strict new limits on local governments during emergencies, even over democrats’ hysterical and insane objections like, and I am not making this up, hypothetical invasions of radioactive alligators. Nobody anywhere is EXPANDING executive authority.
— A social re-alignment. Many people have now completed painful re-configurations of their family lives, their employment, and their closest friends. People have learned that their bosses, relatives, and even some of their closest friends do not share their values — fundamentally important values. It is possible that, for many people, their social lives will be much richer and more rewarding post-Covid, because the pandemic has shown folks who their real friends are.
Now, I get it. It’s true. We still have a LOT of work to do. A lot of people are still suffering under these mandates. We aren’t all the way back yet. It’s been expensive in blood and treasure to get THIS far. And they have lots of tricks left and they won’t give up without a fight. But some — maybe a lot — of these problems pre-dated Covid, and they are now only visible because Covid uncovered them. Take a moment to reflect on what the Forbes poll means. It evidences that the majority of people in this country do NOT agree with the Agenda. And unless the government starts doing something completely different and better, the majority of opposition will only get bigger and more influential and more of a majority.
There’s a LOT to be grateful for and optimistic about. The glass is WAY more than half full. Find your purpose and meaning in the struggle. Purpose and meaning are the most valuable and most important determiners of a happy, fulfilled life.
I bet I’ve forgotten about or left out a LOT of good news developments. Remind me in the comments. What’d I miss?
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From C&C comments:
For me the silver lining was finally learning that I should stop going into the city (Philadelphia) for any reason, not for culture, not for music, not for dining – nothing. They don’t want me there, they don’t want my money or custom. Oh and they hate me and my family. It was finally indisputably shown, out in the open, especially now with the vaccine passport system in town. And every business owner I know in town LOVES the mandate.
I’m close to retirement and we had considered actually moving back to town after we retired. THAT Is definitely not happening now! Whew! I also had a small rental property that I am very glad to say I sold for a nice profit. Done! No ties to the city any longer.
They will do fine on their own, I’m sure, without me and others like me. All those fancy restaurants that HATE those of us who live outside the city can just serve hipster food to fellow hipsters. I’m sure they can afford it just fine. The museums etc are much happier taking federal “relief” funds and not having any visitors. They won’t miss all the icky suburban kids coming in (they won’t; the city is unsafe). They’re happier with things nice and quiet, other than the gunfire, of course.
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Related to the point that we now know who our friends are, we now have a better view of which churches truly believe that Christ is king. The ones that went along with masking and/or closed their doors, are suspect. Those that are still doing it or, worse, are segregating people based upon vax status or masks are showing that they worship an idol.
Agreed. Makes one wonder: if all the churches stood against the unlawful order to shut their doors from the very beginning, would any of this have happened? Once their doors closed, churches were instantly deemed “non-essential” and those with only a surface faith have never returned.
As you said though, now we know where truth really lives.
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I’m really trying to be positive but suffering in a blue state (WA) that’s further cracking down makes this difficult. Our state is currently in process of passing a law making fake vac cards a felony–this same state doesn’t let cops chase down crooks anymore. What’s sad is this is a beautiful state and its one-party iron-fisted rule at all levels of power (including the state supreme court) is running the state into the ground. I see the same sad state of affairs in many other gorgeous states such as Hawaii, California, Colorado and Oregon. I don’t want to hear from the smug red-state folks that were already able to move–we are in process but not all of us can uproot that quickly with tight real-estate market–but even those in the free red states should be alarmed — the cancer of leftist control spreads.
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Hi. So I get it there is a lot of good news. But there is still Biden and his puppet master Obama who are not going quietly into the night. I’m also frustrated Bc although there is evidence of no need to test asymptomatic and vaccine doesn’t work I am still being asked to test, head doctor is still saying IVM doesn’t work and those that got two jabs now need three.
Also there is a coworker had a little girl seven months ago. Her Gyno have old her to get vaccine third trimester. She got it. baby was born she seemed healthy. I thought thank you god maybe vaccine doesn’t affect baby whne mother takes. Just hear baby got a UTI and has a growth in her kidney. Will probably need surgery for testing or lord knows what I don’t know.
No one talks about elephant in room, vaccine third trimester may not be good. The mother is overwhelmed with sadness. I wonder how she did that? Take that vaccine third trimester? She is healthy in her 30s was close to birth of child. Like why?
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I know there is a lot to celebrate lately but I have to tell you – I’m skeptical about the upcoming elections. Pelosi was planning to retire and now she has changed her mind. Why? The Dems are VERY devious and smart. When I heard Pelosi respond to a reporter asking her about the then upcoming Jan. 6 electoral college votes, she said something to the effect of “they had it under control and she wasn’t worried.” It’s my opinion that she was behind the Jan. 6 mess and there were operatives in place to make sure. Anyhow, fast forward to the upcoming elections – why would she now consider to run again? My guess is the fix is in AGAIN. Conservatives have always taken the high road with conflict and dems take advantage of that attitude. Times have changed and their gloves are off. I hope we are ready.
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Comment I saw over yonder regarding the Neil Young/Spotify story:
Everyone under 30: Who’s Neil Young?
Everyone 31-60: I thought Neil Young was dead
Everyone 60+: What’s a spotify?
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Everyone 31-60: I thought Neil Young was dead
To be fair, he probably is dead to a lot of us in that age range. LOL
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I read comments on the Ticker guy. Now I understand (a little) better what he was talking about.
Going off-grid, or being ready to be off-grid, is looking better and better.
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My contention is Kamala has never wanted to be a judge, has no temperament or intellect for the job, knows she would embarrass herself in the job and even she realizes it would be humiliating to break a tie vote on her nomination.
I’ll agree. Besides, the Wise Latina is already occupying the “I’m willing to embarrass myself in the job by displaying my lack of knowledge.” lane.
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Confederate Rose (it’s actually not a rose)
Nope it’s a type of Hibiscus, my wife has one of those.
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Digging through the old Cigar Box of Alabama pictures and stumbled across one of my uncle Henry Harris with a big ole bass, taken in 1948. I wish I knew the story behind this picture, did you notice the bream hanging out of the bass’ mouth?
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#23 GJT 😀
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Sarge, I’m not sure which route you take when you leave your house to head north. I just read that Johnson Development has wrapped up underground work on Cross Creek West which be north of Fulshear between FM 359 and Jordan Rd. They plan on 3,000 homes at completion with about 400 homes being built by the end of this year.
I have often used FM 1093 to FM 359 to avoid the utter mess and gridlock that is the Grand Parkway through Katy between FM 1093 and I-10 during rush hour. Hopefully the state is widening that intersection of 359 at 10 with its revamp of I-10.
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Morning, gang. I glanced out the back window yesterday and saw a hawk, probably a Cooper’s hawk based on its smallish size. It was sitting on the old deck, watching 2 squirrels that were working the Wild Mix seeds on the patio. There were no birds in sight, but I don’t like hawks so I went out the back door to roust it outa my yard.
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It didn’t help up here that Teaneck, a nearby town, became USA’s ground zero for COVID cases and deaths in early 2020. They traced the original spreader to a Jewish guy from Teaneck who had been at a conference in New Rochelle, NY. The conference was ironically about biotechnology and viral epidemics, if memory serves. There were a bunch of attendees there from Europe and Asia and it’s believed he caught it from one of them.
He came back and infected a bunch of people at his local synagogue. It was pretty bad and involved a number cases and deaths at a point when the medical people weren’t even sure what they were dealing with. The reaction, of course, was massive overreaction. Every thing was shut down – every school, church, synagogue, restaurant, bar, club, etc. The only places left open were grocery stores and big discounters. Churches and synagogues are still closed around here. They’re too afraid to open back up. It is beyond sad.
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How about a Dodge Power Wagon with a snow plow? Dang that’s neat.
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Besides, the Wise Latina is already occupying the “I’m willing to embarrass myself in the job by displaying my lack of knowledge.” lane.
I had the very same thought.
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I know when the hawks are hanging around, especially this time of year. Normally, during the day the birds, squirrels and rabbits are having a field day in the back yard. If walk by a window and see nothing moving, I know the creatures have ducked for cover.
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The nursery industry renamed them “Hardy Hibiscus” because they figured Yankees and wokesters wouldn’t buy anything named Confederate. I have about 6 of them.
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When hawks show up here I know because the whole backyard erupts in bird squawking.
We have a lot of bluejays and mockingbirds, and I’ve seen them hound a hawk out of the area. I can hear them chasing him across to the next block, sometimes.
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We have a close friend whose adult daughter and son both have multiple sclerosis and Her Highness has a cousin with it. I know of two or three others with MS. This is a huge discovery or at least a huge confirmation.
It has long been suspected that the common Epstein-Barr virus can trigger multiple sclerosis (MS). Now, a study of 10 million military personnel in the US has shown that virtually every case of MS is preceded by infection with the virus. The finding suggests a vaccine against the Epstein-Barr virus could greatly reduce the incidence of MS.
“This is really a turning point,” says Alberto Ascherio at Harvard University. It should lead to better ways to treat MS as well as help to prevent it, he says.
MS is caused by the immune system attacking the protective sheath that wraps around nerves, leading to symptoms such as difficulty walking that worsen over time.
The Epstein-Barr virus is a kind of herpes virus that spreads mainly via saliva, for instance by kissing or drinking from the same glass. It is the cause of mononucleosis, sometimes known as glandular fever. Initial infections may cause few, if any, symptoms, but once the virus gets into immune cells called B cells, it lurks in them permanently. It can reactivate and cause issues later in life, including various cancers.
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#36 Texpat, I remember that, I have a friend that was born and raised here in Podunk but spent most of his adult life in Missouri, somehow winding up in Nebraska. He was asking me if I knew if the Confederate Rose would grow up there but I wasn’t sure until you mentioned it. He planted 4 of them, I’ll have to check with him and see how well they’re doing.
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Sarge, I’m not sure which route you take when you leave your house to head north.Going north, I’m usually going on 99 to 290 until I get to TX14. But coming home, I generally try to avoid inbound Sunday traffic on 290 by heading south on 359 or 362. I have noted the increased residential construction creating confustication and making hash of my carefully laid out plans. …
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I saw a big Coopers Hawk yesterday morning while hunting and again this morning. He likes to sit at the tree line of the fields and wait for Mr Squirrel to scamper out of the woods. If you’re wondering, I’ve seen about a hundred squirrels in the last couple of days but no Bambi. Oddly enough I’ve yet to see a Turkey and there are at least 2 dozen of them feeding in the west 40, pretty much every day.
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I told the story here a few years ago when mockingbirds had strangely decided to nest in the top of the tallest (est. 120′) tree in the neighborhood. Mockingbirds usually nest at much lower levels. It was spring and I’m sure the nest(s) were full of eggs when this big old hawk showed up and decided to take over the top of the tree. The much smaller mockingbirds were having none of it and recruited some help. The most epic 90 minute to 2 hour aerial dogfight broke out in the sky around that tree. I had my binoculars out and it pretty spectacular, like watching one of the WWI air ace movies. Anyway, it was at least half a dozen mockers and one huge hawk. The mockingbirds finally ran him off for good.
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This is the coldest winter I can recall up here. It’s keeps dipping down to single digits. It will definitely be the test for the hardy hibiscus. They’ve been perennial so far, but I don’t how much they can tolerate.
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I’d support a vaccine for MS.
Granted, of course, that it was developed properly, thoroughly tested, proven safe, and was actually effective.
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….and voluntary.
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I’ve been out of the business for decades but in this part of the country perennial hibiscus with the single-style flowers (see Dave’s #27) were simply called Mallow Hibiscus. And the ones with with the fancy double-style flowers (https://tinyurl.com/2p8ja23d) were called Confederate Rose.
I tend to prefer old-fashioned single type flowers, like the older styles of zinnias:
https://tinyurl.com/yuturdb6Many of the antique true roses are singles too.
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A few years ago Mrs. had been telling me she had seen an American Eagle close to our neighborhood. I didn’t exactly disbelieve her, but was skeptical. A few months later we were out (her driving) and we saw it flying over the bayous / retention ponds near us. So yeah, she was right. They are fairly unmistakable, given their size and the white head. Quite the sight to behold.
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#42 – Mockingbirds that far north eh?
My Pop had a daily battle w Mockers trying to protect his cherry tomatoes.
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If Texas had a Bald Eagle capital, Houston would be it. Eagle numbers are higher in the greater Houston area than anywhere else in the state. There’s plenty of water sources for hunting fish, and plenty of big trees for perching and nesting.
In no particular order, here are seven of the best places to see eagles around Houston:
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There’s been a bald Eagle roost north of old Katy for as long as I can remember.
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Very cool. We like to camp at Martin Dies, Jr. State Park a lot. There is a nesting pair they say lives there, but the times I have tried to get a look they weren’t around. I just have bad timing I guess.
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We laid to rest our friend and brother-in-law yesterday and a fine send off it was.
The visitation/viewing was held at the church in the hour prior to the funeral service. Well over a hundred overflowed the church and annex and were treated to an hour of songs he had recorded over the years in different friends’ recording studios.
The service was a classic Lutheran celebration that featured the Music Director and our Interim pastor giving an account of their significant, if short, friendship with this gentle man of inspiring faith.
Some volunteers had made sure the Millheim Cemetery stood witness in all its glorious beauty.Well done, good and faithful servant. See you on the other side.
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I remember driving north on Barker-Cypress due west of the then new Copperfield development. All the sudden two bald eagles swooped across the road and I almost ran off in the ditch looking at them. Back in the 1980s, everything west of Copperfield was open and rural. There was a big retention pond left over from rice farming days not far off the road in a pasture and it was surrounded by thick trees. It made the perfect gathering place for eagles. I knew I wasn’t crazy and soon afterwards one of the local TV stations did a big feature on it. There must have been a couple hundred baldies living in there, all the while the feds were claiming they were almost extinct.
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We have a local Assistant DA who really should quit and become a bluegrass country gospel singing star. She has occasionally joined our group on special occasions over the years.
I held up pretty well yesterday until she closed the service with Vince Gill’s Go Rest High On That Mountain which he wrote after his brother had died.
After the first three piano notes, I thought, oh no. Please don’t. 🙂
Pretty much lost it, then.
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Fay tells me Biden had a press conference earlier and Breyer was with him.
I cannot believe it.
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Pontiac Porn; 1962 Catalina 421 Super Duty Mercy!
1962 Catalina 421 Super Duty in a color called Aquamarine. This was the original Motor Trend Test Car driven by Jim Wangers, sold new by Royal Pontiac in Royal Oak, MI. This car has the original header dumps, 4.30 rear gear, 4-speed Close Ratio trans, and rare 8-lug simulated knock-off wheels.
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Hat Tip – ACE RTWDT !
There is no critical theory being taught, except for all the critical theory.
Are we ever going to actually debate the proposition that “It is now officially legal and proper to discriminate against white people (and white children) on the basis of their race,” or are we just going to keep doing it while we officially pretend it’s not going on?
Every single politician and government official should be demanded to answer this question — including Republicans, many of whom would like to continue pretending that that this isn’t going on, because they don’t want to “make trouble” and be called a racist by objecting to it.
But it can no longer be ignored. The government is now imposing, via law, a racial caste system.
And this is called, incredibly enough: “Anti-racism!”
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397509
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#47
Mine will be the double flower Confederate Rose.
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I’ve seen bald eagles around the Dome, since we are near Sims Bayou and all the (sometimes mutantly huge) critters we have here.
We have at least one coyote skulking around, too. I’ve seen it several times, it gets reported on ND as well. Usually followed by, “Well, I guess that’s what happened to my little dog….”
I haven’t seen those five foot long owls, though, since my broken leg event. That was about fifteen years ago. Nor have I seen that Great Dane sized raccoon – that would have been closer to 20 years ago.
Seems like just yesterday…
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Shannon
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Well, I’ve picked up LD’s HEB cravings (they don’t have one in her area…yet), gone to the bank, followed by the thrift store, then a shopping trip for me, checked mail at the shop, and then back home.
I’ll be seeing LD & Fam, leaving tomorrow, and my car has been dirty for waaaaay too long. I decided to get the vacuum cleaner after the inside and clear it out some. Before doing that, I loaded up into the dishwasher the mother lode of cheap canning jars I found at the thrift store. (They didn’t have any the last time I went, but they made up for it today: 20 half pints, 6 pints, and 3 quart jars – all priced to sell.) The half pints are going to be perfect for gifts later on this year. Or storing sewing notions. Or…well, you get the idea.
Cleaning the car took me several hours. I wanted to get it done before the weather got bad, and I have my Latin class tonight, and packing. I need to cook dinner soon, too.
I have yet to do anything at my desk today. It may not happen. It’s good to be the boss.
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BTW – sleeping has been difficult for me the last 3-4 nights. The last two were difficult due to the same nightmare. I rarely remember my dreams, much less know if I repeat a dream, but this one just left me really anxious and depressed upon waking.
I’m sure it’s been triggered by all the bad news we’ve had lately.
I live in a house, in a neighborhood, and the power goes out. We try to live our lives in the dark, helping each other, but people and places start disappearing. As they disappear, the world shrinks in. There are no holes where a house or a building was, that space just disappears. There’s nothing we can do to stop it, and we never know who’s next. The idea of an ever shrinking world is terrifying, and not knowing if your friends – or you – are going to be next just adds to the anxiety.
I think it’s pretty self explanatory.
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Out here the scissor tail birds like to chase off the raptors. I don’t see as many scissor tails as I used to, but they would nip at the hawks when they came around. I had a spate of mice getting in the house about 6 weeks ago, and over a period of about a week I was catching 1 every night. The traps have been set for some time now, but no new mice in them. BTW, the feral cats still like those mouse happy meals when they do come around. But anyway, I guess with all the animals out in the cold weather searching for food, those field mice have become a pretty valuable asset, so they never make it this far any more. Even saw a big rat snake a couple of months ago and couldn’t figure out what he was doing out this time of year. The wintering cardinals and other resident song birds are still frequenting the bird feeder, but they are not greedy and the feeder only need filling about once weekly. I’m still not feeding corn to the deer and the axis, but they do come around and drink from the water trough out back, so I get to see them. My neighbor has put out a couple of mineral blocks for the deer, so I haven’t put one out this year.
I’m about ready for spring, but I suspect we will have February to deal with. I’m prepared with plenty of propane and gasoline and generators and lithium batteries and coffee, so bring it on. A little light on ammo though.
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You Confederate Rose Lovers are Waycist!
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Straight from Prez Pudingkopf’s Twitter:
The person I nominate to replace Justice Breyer will be someone with extraordinary qualifications. Character, experience, and integrity.
And they will be the first Black woman nominated to the United States Supreme Court.
Gee… I never would have guessed.
Purposefully leaving off the link this time. I do not want to inflate his ego with more views.
Heaven forbid if we ever hire or appoint anyone based on merit ever again. That is sane thinking/talking right there.
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Three more HPD officers shot in Third Ward. Apparently open season on LEO’s.
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67 El Gordo
Looking at the street view of the neighborhood, it’s not the old Third Ward you and I used to know. Lots of upscale new construction, condos, hipster duplexes, etc. Apparently, even the neighborhood murderers are upscale, driving Mercedes getaway cars these days.
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#69
Old habits die hard. U of H is in the 3rd Ward and I insist my daughter’s boyfriend accompany her to her night classes on campus. It is not worth his time to drive back home to Richmond just to go back later in the day. He has alot of dead time from about 2pm – 8:30pm.
I really like that boy. There is a very strong chance they will get married one day.
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Been watching the live action on TV. I expect the suspect is dead inside one of those houses but they don’t want to go blasting in just yet. Of course, there was Queen Shelia hogging and mugging for the camera at the press conference.She’ll probably go to the perp’s funeral as well. But for her, it seems to work, so don’t expect any changes there.
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Speaking of Queen Sheila, does anyone remember if Hamous was zoned out of her district?
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He is now. And darn happy about it, I’m sure.
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74 Tedtam
Excellent point !
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Texmo
I have a very important young man (37) sniffing around Eastern Orthodox.
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Texmo
He’s been listening to Hank Hanegraaff’s podcast and is more than intrigued. -
So I got caught up in a conversation with a guy on the Kubota page that lives in Wayneburg, PA and in the middle of it my best friend from Reeltown Alabama started up so I was caught in the crossfire. My buddy from Reeltown is my second oldest friend, I’ve know him since 1966. He’s a trucker and is buying more equipment he can’t keep up.
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I want autonomous drones with lasers to shoot squirrels out of my trees. Then I want another autonomous rover drone to pick up the thing and dispose of it.
The local squirrel population knows there are some housing vacancies in my backyard due to my culling a few weeks ago. They insist upon re-occupying. I bagged another one last weekend. There is one and possibly two that are still back there.
I can still walk out my front door and see a half dozen or so in the late afternoon having a great confab on the grass. I am positive they are plotting against me. They are working on their attic invasion plans. I am now at the point of chopping down the crepe myrtal next to the house in the front yard. My pruning exercise a few weeks ago was not adequate. The boy has seen them jumping from the crepe myrtal onto the roof. This means the bastiges can probably jump from the the ligustrums in the back onto the roof.
I really need to get my gutters repaired and then covered with a leaf guard. I know the squirrels like to stash their nuts in the gutters. I watch them do that all the time on my neighbor’s roof when I look out my window during the middle of the day.
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Shannon I tried to post my #79 while at my boy’s cello lesson. That neighborhood is an AT&T dead zone so I couldn’t post. I just got home and I’m going to call it a day.
Is this person new to Christianity or are they the opposite and they are a hard core Bible thumper that knows scripture backwards and forwards? Just trying to gauge what to recommend.
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Raised full blown conservative Missouri Synod Lutheran. Has drifted from church in the last decade or so not the least due to multiple relocations. And then Covidmania. He has access to an Orthodox Church in Fredericksburg.
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In other words, not new to Christianity. Knows his stuff.
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If you by some miracle know the right person up there (whatever that means) perhaps we could figure out a way to get them together.
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He’s a single man. Never married. Kinda tough for a lot of people to find themselves walking into a strange church.
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Getting close to beddy bye time out here again. I wound up watching a basketball game rather than War and Remembrance, but I’ll get started on that tomorrow most likely. Talked to BFF for a while, and that’s about the extent of my activities today. You all have a good night now, and let’s reconvene sometime tomorrow. Nite nite all.
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Perhaps nothing will come of it.
From what I’ve read, seeking is always a good thing.
😉
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