Thursday Open Comments

 

Everything involves the Jews and suddenly, or eventually, everything bad is their fault.  Everybody says so.

Of course, it is because they are so mystically powerful they control every single thing in the world.

There are approximately 7,884,000,000 people on earth, nearly eight billion humans.  There are approximately 15,166,200 Jews on the entire face of the earth.

One percent of the world’s population is 78,840,000 people.  Jews comprise a tiny fraction, about 0.19% or less than one/fifth OF ONE PERCENT of all the humans on this planet.

Jews have more superpowers than all the superheroes in all the comic books and animated movies in mankind’s history.  It’s undeniable considering all the numerical data provided above.

There has to be an explanation why Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Susan Rice, Robert Malley, Samantha Power and the whole current pageant of Israel and Jew hating federal officials have spent so much of their careers undermining the tiny nation of Israel.

The purpose of the Biden team’s anti-Israel smear campaign is not just to make the Israelis look like they sympathize with a tyrant while offering to hide the blood money of their Russian co-religionists. That part is just ugly propaganda. The strategic purpose of the administration’s campaign is to force Jerusalem into an error that would give Putin reason to move against Israel, and thereby further limit its ability to strike Iran or its allies. As with Obama, Biden’s moves against Israel are keyed to the Iran deal.

If there has been any doubt in your mind about the object and intentions of the Obama and Biden administrations, let Lee Smith set you straight.

Biden’s position has thus become difficult, even with a captive media eager to read from a script in which the president of the United States bravely rallies NATO to do something, while in fact doing as close to nothing as politically possible. Luckily, the White House has a playbook for situations in which the contradictions between appearance and reality threaten to overwhelm the ever-changing storylines about who is responsible for, say, $6 per gallon gas. The playbook, like the Iran deal, is a legacy of the Obama administration, and a variation on an age-old incantation: “Blame the Jews.”

In the case of Ukraine, blaming the Jews might seem like a stretch—the Jewish state is a regional power in a region far from Ukraine. But senior Capitol Hill sources told Tablet that the Biden administration is trying to put Israel in the line of fire by pushing Jerusalem to mediate between Kyiv and Moscow. The point is to position Israel to catch the blame if Putin doesn’t relent, or the stubborn Ukrainians prove unwilling to surrender enough territory to end the war on terms that the Russian president finds acceptable.

Sources explain that the Israelis have reluctantly relayed messages between the two states but don’t want to get further involved, for two reasons: First, with Russian forces on their Syrian border, the Israelis don’t want trouble with Putin; second, they see that the White House is setting them up for failure by forcing them into taking a stand against Putin.

This story made international rounds and it was, as I believed upon hearing it, a huge lie originating within the Biden administration.

The coordinated operation to embroil Israel culminated in a story last week pushed out by the White House’s communications infrastructure inside Israel, whose lead publicist, Axios reporter Barak Ravid, proved his value during the Obama years. The story, which quickly went global, claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Putin’s terms of surrender.

If you don’t already hate the US foreign policy behemoth, you should after reading this.

The hypocrisy, gaslighting, and attempt to blame Israel for Russian depredations started more than a decade ago with the onset of the Syrian war. Putin stood behind Moscow’s Cold War-era ally and its only remaining regional partner, the regime Bashar Assad inherited from his father, Hafez. The Russians armed the Syrian government and represented it in international forums like the United Nations, where they regularly blocked action against Assad. When Obama’s U.N. Ambassadors Susan Rice and Samantha Power complained about the Russians’ immoral support for Assad, their shrill protests appeared designed to underscore American impotence. In fact, it disguised the disturbing reality that Obama was on the Russians’ side.

That’s because by defending Assad, Moscow was also defending the nuclear deal with Assad’s other patron, Iran. Instead of owning up to a policy that put the United States on the side of tyrants in Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran, the Obama team claimed that the fault lay with its regional allies, especially Israel, which was said to be pleading to keep the Russian-backed strongman in power. The idea then, as now, was to make the Israelis take the blame for what was in fact the American position: supporting despotic and anti-American regimes.

The aims and goals of American foreign affairs officials and advisors since at least 2008 have been laser focused on boxing in and trapping Israel until they will have no choice but to fight to the death or surrender the nation to save its people. It began with the Clinton era, faded during the Bush wars, but returned full force as soon as Obama took office.  The goal is the incremental, slow death of Israel.

 

 


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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Morning Super Dave.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ texanadian, how’s the weather up there? The cold front came through here last night so it was only 52 here this morning but we’ll hit the high 70’s later.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The left is filled with Jew-hating, devil worshipping (figuratively for some, literally for most), freedom hating, power hungry, megalomaniacs.

    Remember what THE CREATOR said in reference to Israel: ‘I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.’

    Those on the left are ruled by the evil one, therefore they hate Israel and will wind up bringing down destruction on all of us.

  5. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    19F  heading to about 45 later in the day. Looking a lot like spring finally.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #5 That’s down right warm huh?

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This just dropped into the mail box;

    Navy Arms owner, Val Forgett, has purchased a large collection of sporting long arms from Europe including European side by side shotguns, .22 target rifles from Anschutz, Walther and BSA, (Including Martini cadets and Internationls, with sights!) as well as other models too numerous to list here!

    All of the guns will be listed on the OWScrounger website, we have about half of the guns on the site now, with more being listed every day. (Hey, its a big job!…) We list each gun individually so you can see multiple photos of the actual gun listed to choose the exact gun you want. It takes a lot longer to list, but we want our customers to be able to hand-select every gun themselves.

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Lol. We get “down to” 45, texanadian gets “up to” 45.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Thursday C&C

    Feedback on yesterday’s multiplier; a new C&C Army Assignment by popular request; British Airways modifies its mask mandate; UF is cleared of charges of falsifying Covid data; several sudden and unexpected deaths; a UK investigation admits a Covid death; and the CDC says it needs a perpetual state of emergency to do its job.

    *THE C&C ARMY POST*
    OPERATION MULTIPLIER: We did it! Yesterday, C&C multiplied candidate and Florida Representative Joe Harding, who sponsored the Parents’ Rights in Education bill that bans sex ed below fourth grade. Around mid-morning yesterday Mr. Harding called my office to personally thank us for (now) over $55,000 in donations from over 3,000 Coffee & Covid army members. That is a SIGNIFICANT amount for a state house campaign AND it’s a record-breaking event.

    Harding told me that at first, when the donations began flooding in, they thought they were being hacked, which tells you a lot about where their heads are at these days. He said their Facebook page has been blown out with hateful posts — almost all of which are outside his district — and that they’ve been getting nonstop phone calls from deranged people foaming at the mouth and screaming “Gay!” at his staff.

    Harding told me that our effort was a huge encouragement to him and his team at a dark time, and he is sustained by his faith.

    I have three observations. Point one: The leftists tried to cancel one of our folks standing up for parents’ rights, and we multiplied him. We’ll keep doing it until they get the message.

    Two: we also sent a message to our side. Do the right thing, and we’ll have your back when they come for you. And it’s not just the money we raised for Harding yesterday. Harding can now fund raise off our support, since in politics, success breeds success. He can show other potential donors how many people have already donated to and are supporting his campaign — numbers that dwarf most other candidates.

    Three: this is the power of the army! None of us individually could have given him $55K. But working together, making affordable individual donations, taking less than two minutes each, we easily blew it out in ONE DAY. I am SO proud of all of you. Our teamwork didn’t just encourage Harding. We are also encouraging ourselves. Doesn’t it feel great?

    If for whatever reason you missed your chance to help out yesterday, here’s the link again: https://secure.anedot.com/joe-harding-campaign/donate. Do it right now, in an amount ending in a ‘2’, like $2, $12, $22, or even $22.22. You can also leave a note of encouragement and thanks on Harding’s campaign web page, which I am sure his team would appreciate: https://joeharding.net.

    Reckless dog owner Mit Romney was the only GOP senator voting to KEEP airplane masking this week. So gross. I made an offhand remark yesterday in my post that caught fire in the comments, so I bow to the will of the army and am issuing new orders. Collect all your leftover masks — go to the shopping center parking lot and pick up discarded ones if you have to — and ship them to Mr. Romney, since he loves masks so much. Let’s bless him with masks, so he never runs out.

    Here’s the physical address for his Salt Lake City office: Senator Mit Romney, 125 S. State Street, Suite 8402, Salt Lake City, UT 84138. Please have them mailed no later than this Monday, March 21st. Feel free to post pics of your shipment before it goes out!

    I’ll let my media contacts know about the C&C mass mask mailer so they can follow up with Romney’s office next week and see how well he’s enjoying them and if they fit his giant fat face and stuff.

    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
    It’s happening! One down. British Airways announced yesterday that it will drop its mask mandate effective yesterday, so long as destination requirements don’t mandate masks. Meaning, BA flights into the US will still be masked. You know. It’s complicated. The science varies from place to place. It’s a quantum effect. Don’t try to understand it.

    BA’s twitter announcement features an attractive stewardess doing a “big reveal” by dramatically pulling off her mask. But her eyes are pleading, please don’t make me the anti-masking poster girl.

    British Airways
    @British_Airways
    From 16 March, our face mask policy is changing.

    Where we’re clear the destination you’re travelling to doesn’t require a face mask on board, it will become optional ✈️

    Please continue to respect fellow passengers’ mask preferences in these instances.

    #BritishAirways

    March 15th 2022

    3,947 Retweets20,738 Likes
    Thank goodness, it’s finally been settled. The Miami Herald, of all places, ran an article yesterday headlined, “UF Investigation Finds No Merit To Allegations Covid-19 Data Were Suppressed.” Whew.

    So here’s how it started. Somebody “anonymously” reported that the University of Florida was involved in a vast right-wing conspiracy to fraudulently falsify the state’s Covid data in order to make Governor DeSantis look good, or spread misinformation, or kill grandma, or something. They were a little fuzzy on the details.

    Anyway, a cartoonish marxist front-group at UF called the “UF Faculty Senate” somehow — “somehow” — got hold of the “anonymous” allegations and liberally reprinted them in Soviet-style reports excreted from its ironically-named “Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Freedom.” Who cares if it’s true! It’s PROBABLY true! And it advances the narrative!

    So UF had to start an investigation, which was immediately derailed when, as the Herald reports, “the UF staffers who made the accusation refused to cooperate with the investigation.” So the investigation was off to a terrible start and it already seemed super sketchy and just like the communists, if you ask me. They like to eat the dinner but always scurry away on their insectile legs when it comes time to pay the bill.

    “When the anonymous complaint occurred, it wasn’t clear what the problem was,” UF Vice President for Research David Norton said. “Without testimony the committee couldn’t zero in on what [the allegation] would be … We would have benefited if those persons would have come forward to explain specifically what instances caused them to feel that way.”

    Let me translate that for you. Norton is saying, delicately, that the anonymous staffers were located and asked to explain HOW the University was supposedly hiding or falsifying the Covid data, at which point they clammed up. Without knowing HOW the University was supposed to be hiding Covid data, it was hard to figure out exactly where to start looking.

    The Herald reported, again generically, that “UF investigators concluded that the allegations made in December 2021 likely stemmed from a state health department official who expressed concerns in October 2020 about the university’s use and management of Florida’s COVID-19 data.”

    A “state health department official.” Hahahaha! You know who they’re talking about? The disgruntled and disgraced ex-employee Rebekah Jones, if that’s her real name. The one with the extended criminal history and well-publicized mental-health problems. The one who was arrested for unauthorized access into the state’s computer system after she was fired. That one.

    So. Now we can put the whole story together. Here’s what happened: some idiot on the Faculty Senate read one of Rebekah Jones’ deranged tweets and “reported it” to the “Ad Hoc Committee” which started parroting it IN PRINT as revealed wisdom. Marxists so love their committees. And remember, these are the same loony people teaching our kids even though they aren’t qualified to run a boiled peanut stand, much less hold overpaid tenured academic positions. Somebody PLEASE figure out how to demarxify the universities. Or let’s create a parallel system. Something.

    And, to you dummies on the Ad Hoc Committee: You realize you’ll be the first ones up against the wall if the marxists ever actually get control, right? PLEASE try to think. I know it’s hard. Just TRY.

    The Daily Mail UK reported yesterday that a 9-year old Utah boy suddenly and unexpectedly died in his sleep Saturday. This week’s autopsy found no cause of death. It just happened. No reason. Life is weird and tragic sometimes. Our prayers are with the family, who are dealing with a loss inconceivable to most modern minds.

    The Mail reports that young Logan’s family is Mormon. The Mormon church in Utah has a vaccine mandate for its members, so we know they took every precaution to protect him from Covid. So we can rule Covid out, at least.

    The Baltimore Sun ran an article this week headlined, “Kobe Young, a Towson football running back with infectious smile, dies at 23: ‘He just lit up a room’.”

    “The biggest thing for me was, every time you would leave him, he would give you a handshake and say, ‘I love you’ … There was never a frown on his face,” said friend and defensive tackle Vinnie Shaffer. Tigers coach Rob Ambrose said he remembered Kobe for his infectious optimism. “Kobe was just one of those guys where if you saw Kobe, he would put a smile on your face … He was a real positive guy.” he said.

    Kobe would’ve graduated in May with a bachelor’s in health care management and a minor in business administration.

    The long article describes Kobe’s wonderful, happy personality and amazing life prospects, tragically cut short. The world is worse off without him. But the Sun does NOT mention a cause of death, at all, or whether he was protected from Covid by the safe and effective vaccine. It’s just another one of those great mysteries; we’ll find out in the next life.

    The Knoxville News reported last week that 28-year old Knoxville teacher Eric Robertson died “suddenly and unexpectedly” Monday night while playing basketball. I guess it WAS unexpected or he wouldn’t have been playing basketball, would he?

    Robertson was a well-liked, happy and optimistic teacher. “He had a wonderful smile, that’s the thing that I think all of us came back to,” Powell High School principal Chad Smith said. “He always would talk to anyone and everyone and it’s the smile. He reached students in ways that others could not.”

    No word on a cause of death. Maybe it was too cold. Or maybe he ate too much junk food. Bad genetics. No way to tell, really. It’s affecting younger and younger people these days. It’s definitely not the safe and effective vaccine.

    Robertson left behind a beautiful young wife and child. Here’s a GoFundMe for him set up by the residents of the Department of Medicine: https://tinyurl.com/2p886a5p.

    BBC News reported yesterday that a year-long official investigation has finally found that 34-year-old Kim Lockwood of South Yorkshire died from a catastrophic brain bleed caused by her safe and effective Covid vaccine. The official diagnosis was Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia, and her death was recorded as an unlucky accident, or “misadventure” as the brits say.

    In fact, South Yorkshire Coroner Nicola Mundy was quoted saying, Mrs Lockwood had been “extremely unlucky”. You don’t say! That’s exactly what I’VE been doing for the last year; I’ve been trying to avoid becoming unlucky like Mrs Lockwood.

    Lockwood was also unlucky in that she lives in a country with socialized healthcare, as the investigation noted that (1) she initially had to leave the ER because the wait was too long and she wasn’t properly triaged, (2) although should could not complete a full sentence and was throwing up from her headaches, she was never given an MRI, and (3) the hospital did not provide pain management although Lockwood’s final words were the pain from the “headache is actually killing me.”

    So. Let’s NOT do the single-payer thing, mmmkay? Is it too much to ask?

    The BBC article ends saying “the government has repeatedly stated that the benefits of vaccines outweigh the risks in the majority of people.” Hmm. So, I might get a virus with a 99.97% survival rate, or take the shot and possibly die in agony. How do you calculate odds like that? Do you think Kim Lockwood would agree the benefits outweigh the risks? Wish I could ask her.

    The Epoch Times ran an article yesterday headlined, “CDC Warns Agency Would Lose Access to Key Data If Emergency Declaration Ends.”

    It’s something about how the state of emergency provides mechanisms for the CDC to receive information from the states or something. The idea being, if we end the state of emergency there is NO WAY the CDC could get the information any other way. They tried to think of a way but … nothing. They came up empty. No way to do it. It’s hopeless.

    “If people want CDC to be responsible, to be able to report in a timely fashion, in a quick fashion, we have to have the authority to collect those data,” Dr. Walensky told CBS’s 60 Minutes.

    Let me translate for you. The CDC will lose all its magical powers to tell cruise ships and airlines and kindergartners what to do if the state of emergency ends. And what government bureaucracy likes surrendering power? The goofy scientists at the CDC have a taste for it now and they aren’t giving it up easily. We’re going to have to pry it out of their clammy hands along with all those sweaty needles.

    Dr. Walensky, here’s the thing. We don’t WANT the CDC to be responsible for this anymore. You failed the first time and every subsequent time. Earn the trust back before you ask for more.

    Have a terrific Thursday! I’ll see ya’ll back here tomorrow for more.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My # 7, I’m really liking this one; Czech BRNO Model 2 Bolt Action Rifle .22 RF Cal.

  11. Katfish Avatar

    #10 – SD I don’t think I’ve heard of “.22RF”

    (rimfire?)

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #11 Katfish, yes 22’s are often referred to as RF (rimfire). They do this because there are at least a dozen 22 centerfire calibers. Looking back at #10 I should have said 22 Cal RF.

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #11 SD: Shoot some sub-sonics out of that .22 and it will be very quiet.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #13 Bones Yup 22 shorts would be a lot quieter than my 1200 FPS .177 squirrel assassinator.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Apparently, the guys who filmed the Apollo 11 moon landing in a warehouse in the Mojave Desert have developed some super-duper software to create your own realistic war zone battlefield.

    It’s pretty cool stuff.  Hollywood has had this ability for ages, but now you can create fabulous conspiracy theories backed up with fake evidence just like they do.

    Order now and rewrite history according to your wild imagination !!!

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Quote of the day

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    #15

    It is called Adobe After Effects.  One can download a subscription for about $21 a month.

    EXPERT TIP:

    For the absolute best experience creating your Oscar winning film use on a Mac.

  18. El Gordo Avatar

    Good morning Troubadours.  Another bright, sunny, and windy day out here on the hilltop in centex.  Big fire hazard alert, very low humidity, and wind gusts to 40 mph all contributing.  I’d like to go out to the side of my house and oxidize some of the bee brush and cactus, but next thing I know it would engulf thousands of acres, so guess I’ll leave it alone.

    I’m considering another rose bush for outside, maybe in a big clay pot.  The two that I’ve planted so far are not growing aggressively yet, presumably the nights need to be a little warmer, and the strong, dry winds have tinged the leaves a bit and even broken a couple of the small branches, but I do expect them to take off any time now as the sunshine and warmer nights are coming together.  Still not planting tomatoes outside until April 1, but they have been sitting outside in pots night and day for the past few days without and harm.  Got to watch out for the strong winds today though.

    Think I mentioned that I got all the indoor ivy re-potted, given nice haircuts, and reinstated to their respective perches where they should stay for the next couple of years or so.  I’ve got several longer trailers rooting in water, ans they should be ready for potting in a couple weeks or so if they root as fast as the last batch did.

    The grass is showing just a little greening down at the base, but it’s just too dry right now to expect it to green up rapidly.  An good rain would certainly be welcome for the lawns as well as the oat fields which are sprouting right now.  I’d like to maybe fertilize my yard with high nitrogen, but until we get some rain prospects I’m afraid it would just burn it.  Wind is blowing too hard to start up irrigation system – it just would all evaporate before it could sink in.

    OK, that’s the farm report from centex this morning.  Hope you all have a great day, and more later as it develops.

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    The aims and goals of American foreign affairs officials and advisors since at least 2008 have been laser focused on boxing in and trapping Israel until they will have no choice but to fight to the death or surrender the nation to save its people. It began with the Clinton era, faded during the Bush wars, but returned full force as soon as Obama took office.  The goal is the incremental, slow death of Israel.

    Ezekiel 38/39 has prophesied this 2600 years ago.

    • Russia (strong evidence suggests Putin) will lead a confederation Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia Libya to name a few to come against Israel
    • They will attack over the Golan Heights
    • No one will come to their aid
    • They will come to “take a spoil”
    • The Bible describes the attack  like a cloud and storm a cloud to cover the land
    • The world reaction will be voiced by Saudi Arabia who says to Russia “Have you come to take a spoil”.
    • GOD will defend Israel
    • God will destroy the enemy with
      • an earth quake so powerful it will flatten hills mountains and walls
      • He will cause Israels enemies to turn their “swords” against themselves
      • there will be pestilence used against them
      • Ginormous hail stones, fire and brimstone
    • And God shall do this thing so all the earth will know he is GOD.

    I do not know when this is going to occur but all the signs pointing to this event are rapidly falling into place.  As for this country the USA, God promised Abraham “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”  I do not hold out much hope for the USA.

     

  20. Sarge Avatar

    I’m amazed at the advances in amateur video editing in the five years since I made my last video. In the process of re-starting my YouTube channel I had to find new software as I lost the previous one I’d bought when my Windows 7 computer finally died.  I found a free download of an app called Shotcut. I am now trying to unlearn the work arounds and editing process I’d gotten used to because this free program allows me to do so much.

    One of the things it allows me to do is load the file as both a video file and an audio file, so now I can do voice overs on stills by editing only the video track to add them in the middle. With the old program I had to talk about the still, then show it, then keep talking. But the creative juices began to flow last week. I’m just about to finish editing on a video about old backpacking stoves and as a humor element I’m portraying myself as being afflicted with “Stovism”, a compulsion to collect stoves. I say “Hi, my name is Sarge, and I’m a Stovie.”  I didn’t think that was quite enough and wanted to interject the common 12 Step Meeting response “Hi Sarge!” Inspiration hit and I did a short clip of me saying “Hi Sarge” in several different voices, then edited each as a separate clip, made 8 separate video tracks and placed them so they overlap in the same place. Its not perfect, but it does sound like about 10 folks were sitting in the room with me saying “Hi Sarge”.

    There’s a learning curve, and I’m just scratching the surface but there’s video on YouTube that walks you through all of it. A guy edited a video about editing video which he edited with the editing software to show you how to edit with the editing software.

    I tried Green Screen, but the lighting in my elaborate office studio picks my beard and hair up as green……

     

     

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sarge

    I  tried Green Screen, but the lighting in my elaborate office studio picks my beard and hair up as green……

    Are you sire you might not need a better decongestant?

     

  22. El Gordo Avatar

    BTW, I would have expected to see a hummingbird or two by now, but so far nothing.  Any sightings to report on out there?

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. I was stunned yesterday when my next door neighbors, a black family that has been retired for about 5 years, had the largest oak tree in the neighborhood cut down. Back in December, when I had tree trimming done to remove branches that overhung my roof, I had some of that tree taken off, with their approval, of course. But it was still a huge, healthy, attractive tree, I’d guess 7-8′ diameter at ground level. The neighbor on the other side of them just had her ancient crepe myrtles chopped off like people do in Houston, so the Big Oak owners decided for some reason to hire the same company to get rid of that marvelous tree.

     

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I just happened to notice a juvenile possum trying to climb down head-first in the crepe myrtle up against the fence in the backyard. It was having trouble and I thought I might go out and see if I could help, but I course I’d probably just scare it and cause it to fall. The next time I looked, I didn’t see it so I think it made it down Ok. It wouldn’t have far to go to reach an entrance to the area under the old deck out there, so that is probably where it is.

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good afternoon Hamsters,

    First off is to give TexMo info he requested about the arborists we have been using for years.

    Arbor Care, Inc. (tree care specialists)  713-694-8898  or  800-TREE-SERVICE,

    336 McFarland, Houston TX 77060.  Certified arborists on staff.

     

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The geniuses populating the hedge funds on Wall Street are all woke little squirrels following Jack Fink at Black Rock.

    What do smart people do to enhance the value of their shareholders’ value ?

    But that caution appears to be misplaced yet again (no surprise considering the “smart money” has been dead wrong about energy for the past two years), given the tectonic shift in the petroleum market caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions.

    And while most 22-year-old portfolio managers have that deer in headlight looks when given the choice of buying XOM or AAPL, look no further than the Oracle of Omaha himself, who likes to get greedy when others are being too fearful: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it raised its stake in Occidental Petroleum to 14.6% with purchases of 18.1 million more shares this week, according to a filing released late Wednesday.

    Berkshire has drilled even deeper into Occidental’s stock as surging oil prices buoy the U.S. shale driller. A few weeks ago, Berkshire disclosed that it had built up a common stock investment in the oil giant in addition to its preferred stock holding, a little less than two years after Berkshire exited what was then a modest common stock holding in Occidental. Buffett told CNBC in March 2021 that he started buying the stock after one of Occidental’s earnings calls.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon linked earlier to a video about the Evergreen shipping vessel, Ever Forward, running aground in Chesapeake Bay the other day.

    This is an explanation and update.  Why the master and pilot of this ship failed to stay in lane of the channel is kind of mind-boggling.  Conditions were calm and clear.  You can see what they did between the 18:00 to 24:00 minute segment of the video.

    Evergreen is the same Hong Kong company whose container ship, Ever Given, ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal almost exactly one year ago.

    Talk about bad luck.

     

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    19 Squawk

    And God shall do this thing so all the earth will know he is GOD.

    As my old Oilpatch friend, Bill, from the UK used to say when he didn’t know when something inevitable was going to happen, “In the fullness of time, my friend, in the fullness of time.”

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This guy writes under the pseudonym, Dr. Benjamin Braddock, the name of the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the film, The Graduate.  It’s the rant of the month.  I don’t agree with every assertion he makes, but he gets off some great lines, nuggets of golden truth and blinding insults.

    The Architects of Our Present Disaster

    The center is not holding, things are falling apart. We have moved on from mass psychosis over vaccines to mass psychosis over the urgent need to go to war with Russia.

    The sanctions are bad enough; the early economic fallout from them is already causing pain for working and middle-class Americans. But we did sanctions last week, the public demands more. Do something, even if that thing is horrifying in its implications. Two years of pent-up dissociated rage is being channeled and redirected at an external target by the same people responsible for the response to COVID-19, among the worst atrocities in American history.

    An anarchic, chaotic Russia was to Bill Clinton’s friends what Ukraine was to Hunter Biden.

    Wayne Merry, a U.S. official at the embassy in Moscow in the 1990s said later: “We created a virtual open shop for thievery at a national level and for capital flight in terms of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the raping of natural resources and industries on a scale which I doubt has ever taken place in human history.” It was against this backdrop that Putin rose to power. Funny enough, when Boris Yeltsin picked Putin as his presidential successor, he called Bill Clinton to get approval. Putin came to power with one burning desire: to Make Russia Great Again, and to keep it from ever being humiliated the way it was in its lost decade.

    plus this,

    These are people who think they’re clever enough to deal with powerful foreign countries run by sane people. They’re not, and those foreign powers have taken note of that fact. The kind of Americans the world fears or respects have been put out of government and military leadership and replaced by a menagerie of nursing home patients, human resources ladies, affirmative action hires, sexual degenerates, and obese four-star generals angling for board seats on the next Theranos start-up. The day of reckoning has arrived. Leaders like Putin, Xi, and Mohammed bin Salman are no longer amenable to being pushed around and morally browbeaten by the circus freaks that constitute the United States Government.

     

  30. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It was having trouble and I thought I might go out and see if I could help

    You know what I’ve never seen? The skeleton of a cat, possum, raccoon, or any other varmint in a tree, on a roof, or in some other difficult place because the (former) owner of the skeleton really couldn’t figure out how to get out of the mess it got itself into.

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #32

    Pyro, you are right! The half-grown possum did get itself out of the crape myrtle.

     

  32. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    If you see a possum skeleton at the base of a tree, how did it die?

    •Fell

    •Starved and fell over

    •Jab

  33. El Gordo Avatar

    This is another of my airplane pilot guys, who happens to be ex-military fighter pilot.  He’s got a reasonable take on the tactics and options remaining open on the Ukrainian situation.  Not some TV general, actually knowledgeable.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TvLHmJ6xaA

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Love it.

    Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar sent letters to 19 financial firms Wednesday afternoon to determine whether they were violating a new state law that prohibits companies from “boycotting” fossil fuel companies.

    Senate Bill 13, which went into effect in September, prohibits the state from contracting with or investing in companies that divest from oil, natural gas and coal companies. The law defines divestment as refusing to do business with a fossil fuel company because that company does not commit to environmental standards higher than expected by federal and state law.

    Firms that received a letter include U.S.-based companies, like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Company, and foreign companies like Jupiter Fund Management PLC and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.

    – Texas Tribune

  35. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hmmmm

    I found a picture of a dead possum in a tree.  Course a python is pulling it up.  But hey it could not figure out how to get out of the mess it was in.

    Oh wait.  Here is a dead raccoon stuck in a tree.  Yup he could not figure out how to get out of that tree.

    I’ll skip the dead cat entry.  Way too gross even for my sick sense of humor.

    But this guy…….. ohhhhhhhhhhh

  36. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Play this short video: Rocket City Mindy does her Kamala Harris impression! Woo hoo!

     

  37. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #38 Squawk

    Hmmm…

    But this guy…….. ohhhhhhhhhhh

    Hey, I got:

    Zoinks! You’ve taken a wrong turn.
     

  38. El Gordo Avatar

    Dang, it’s showing 87 degrees out there this afternoon, and it feels every bit of it with the bright sun.  Low down to 43 tonight according to weather guesser, but think I’ll leave my plants outside up next to the house and they should be warm enough.  Harden them up a little.  A nice rain would sure help out about now.

  39. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’m trying really hard now to mentally stay in the game regarding work. I so want to flip that switch.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m starting a GoGiveMe account to raise funds to pay for the freight to ship a truckload of Texas pinto beans up here.  Seriously, these people desperately need to know what genuine Tex-Mex beans taste like.

  41. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    #44

    HAH you are trying to strike fear and confusion in us who love CHILI WITH BEANS by reducing the availability of those precious legumes.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk

    I’m cornering the pinto bean market like the Hunt brothers commandeered the silver market.  I’ll be the George Soros of beans.

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I see no need to be capitalizing CHILI WITH BEANS.

  44. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    THATS JUST TAUNTING.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    CHILI WITH BEANS.

    CHILI WITH BEANS.

    CHILI WITH BEANS.

  46. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

     

    WICK FOWLER CHILI WITH BEANS

  47. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Can you put corn in chili? Asking for a friend.

  48. Sarge Avatar

     texanadian says:
    MARCH 17, 2022 AT 7:29 PM

    Can you put corn in chili? Asking for a friend.

    I’ve seen things on the trail that suggests this is possible.

     

     

  49. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    If you gonna put beans in why not? Got’ny kale? Nutmeg?

  50. El Gordo Avatar

    Fritos (corn chips) or corn tortillas are perfectly acceptable with chili – either on the side or mixed in.  Unless you are a keto person.  I just put my country style pork ribs in the vacuum bag  and then into the Sous Vide at 150 to soak for about 20 hours.  That will be dinner tomorrow night, and probably a couple of more meals after that.

    I planted some Serrano pepper seeds a couple of weeks ago when I made meat loaf, and a few of them have sprouted.  So I put them into larger clay pots, but they need to grow a litttle more in protected conditions before moving them outside.  They look like bean sprouts and I’d like for them to get established a little better.  I might just wind up growing the peppers in pots this year anyway rather than planting them in the ground,.

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    51 texanadian

    texanadian says:

    Can you put corn in chili? Asking for a friend.

    Yes, you could, but just because can doesn’t mean you won’t anger the Chili Gods.

     

  52. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Wick Fowler turns over in his grave every time I make chili.

    Chili without beans is nothing but hot dog sauce.

  53. El Gordo Avatar

    Who is Wick Fowler.  If you have to use a chili mix, use Williams.  It’s the only one head and shoulders above the rest.  With or without beans or corn.

  54. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Squawk, thanks for making me laugh today. The squirrel caught by his nads made me LOL.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Of course the history books mainly reflect on Wick’s role in the Texas chili game. Advertisements for Fowler’s 2 Alarm Chili mix first began appearing in Texas newspapers in 1964. Ever the salesman, when the Texas Legislature returned for their new session in January of 1965 each senator had a Fowler chili kit sitting on his desk.

    A month later Wick had shipped his first order to Paris, France.

    Wick Fowler was the chief cook for Dallas-based Chili Appreciation Society International, when his old buddy Frank X. Tolbert called him for a favor back in 1967. Frank wanted Wick to wade into battle in a chili shootout versus northern humorist H. Allen Smith. The proving grounds would be Terlingua, Texas, population 10.

    A flight was chartered out of Dallas for the occasion, and a rumor floated across the Lone Star state that one Elizabeth Taylor was going to be a judge for the affair.

    Texas newspapers reported that Fowler went into training in September for the October 21st battle. For his part the six foot, 200 pound cook claimed that he didn’t need any training as “you can’t improve on 2 Alarm.”

    When you manage to get to heaven, Squawk, Wick Fowler and Frank X. Tolbert are gonna spank you like a rented mule.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I admit to using a few Wick Fowler mixes decades ago out of curiosity and when I was in a hurry.  I don’t use Williams or any other prefab mix.

    I buy my own meat, onions, garlic, hot chili powder, ancho chili powder, sharp paprika, cumin, salt and tellicherry black pepper.  My chili is made totally from scratch.

  57. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    El Gordo

    Everything you cared to never know about wick fowler

    Here is the impotunt stuff. oh and he swore chili should never have beans.  In Terlingua chili competition beans is instant disqualification

    In 1964 Fowler started his chili company, called Wick Fowler’s Two-Alarm Chili. The renowned chili competition at Terlingua began in 1967 when a humorist from Mount Kisco, New York, named H. Allen Smith, challenged Francis Tolbert of the Dallas Morning News to a cook-off. Smith claimed that no one in Texas could make proper chili. A reader suggested that Fowler answer the challenge, which he did. Two-hundred fifty persons attended the first contest, which ended in a tie. Fowler was in his element at an event like this; he arrived wearing a huge sombrero and carrying his chili secrets in a crumpled paper bag.

     

  58. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    In heaven all chili has beans.

  59. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texmo

    My pleasure to give the giggle.

  60. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #61 Texpat

    My chili is made totally from scratch.

    So is mine. Conagra Brands in Ft Worth acquires all the ingredients for their Wolfe Brand Chili, makes it, ships it, and I buy it at Kroger. Yum, yum!

  61. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Squirrels are among my favorite yard critters. Those that graze the Wild Mix that I put out on the patio know that I have peanuts in the shell. Anytime I pass by the big picture window looking out on the patio and the old backyard deck, any squirrels that see me come running in my direction. They stand up and put their front paws in a begging position. When I then open the back door, they run closer and pounce on any peanuts I toss their way. Most will clutch the peanut shell in their mouth and run to a spot where they can start chewing off the shell to get to the nuts.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    51
    Sure, might as well add some macaroni, too.

  63. El Gordo Avatar

    I remember all the hoop-la about the annual Terlingua chili cookoffs.  I was going to fly down there one year with a friend and camp out under the airplane wing which seemed to be a thing at the time, but I never made it.  Tolbert’s son opened a chili joint on the west end of downtown Dallas but I don’t think it really ever caught on.

    OK, bedtime for Bozo out here.  You all have a good night, and more later as it develops.

    The sous vide is still running – only 18 hours to go. I’ll refill it to the top with water which should last until morning.

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