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Wednesday Open Comments

I should have posted this earlier, but JP is always good.

“They’re not mathematicians, so they can’t add it up…” heh heh heh

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Last night mharper mentioned TexMo, do we have an update?
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Mornin Dave

  3. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My, aren’t we the CHatty Cathy’s this morning?

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    People are busy.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #4: I think you are right.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Do these people to whom American taxpayers pay huge salaries ever, ever get anything right ?  The American intelligence establishment has blundered through decades of disasters and nobody ever gets fired.

    Putin’s campaign has gone so unexpectedly poorly that U.S. officials have begun reviewing their own intelligence assessments to determine how they could have so badly misjudged the strength of the Russian military. Despite pouring billions of dollars into modernizing Russia’s military, Putin’s forces have been saddled with poor equipment, communications and morale — all leading to, so far, a stalemate against a much smaller and overmatched foe.

    To that point, one U.S. official bluntly said: “The Russians really f***ed this up.”

    Even weather forecasters are right more often than CIA analysts.

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is an interesting article by Larry Elder.

    HEADLINE: Ukraine: The Politics Behind Biden’s Reluctance to ‘Do More’
    /SNIP
    A 2021 AP-NORC poll found that 62% of Americans say the war in Afghanistan was “not worth fighting,” and 63% say the same thing about the war in Iraq. American public opinion initially supports war, even the Vietnam War. But approval morphs into not only opposition, but into questioning the “true motive” for engaging in war.

    I think that we Americans will support a war with clear and righteous objectives; in the case of Afghanistan the objective was to destroy Al Quaeda and kill or capture Osama bin Laden. What it morphed into was nation building and a flood of wokeist BS that cost a fortune and managed to turn the bulk of the civilian populace against us.
    The last war we actually fought to win, with the exception of the Grenada mission, was WWII. Korea and Vietnam were almost designed to feed the defense contractors and enrich some DC politicians at the expense of tremendous loss of American blood and huge amounts of money from the tax payers.
    The degree to which DC politicians are willing gamble with the lives and livelihoods of We The People, all for the sake of politics and accrual of personal power is nothing short of appalling. Surely there is a special place in Hell for these people.
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    /and stop calling me Shirley

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    As America descends into oligarchy, conglomerates and their affiliated political stooges manipulate markets and public policy to centralize power and disenfranchise the historic drivers of social cohesion in America, especially vibrant churches, prosperous small businesses, and thriving families. Regarding families, a pillar of family formation and lasting generational strength in America long revolved around private property, the creation and sustenance of ownership over single-family housing.

    and,

    As the chart depicts, the recent vault in mortgage rates is historic and, frankly, jaw-dropping. As Axios reports, just in this month of March, mortgage rates rose over a full percentage point, from 3.76% to 4.95%, the fastest ascent since the 1980s. To put a dollar figure on those percentages, a $2,000 monthly mortgage payment could have financed a $424,000 mortgage at the beginning of March and can now only sustain a $375,000 loan…in a span of just four weeks.

    The Fed is still buying mortgage-backed bonds in the overheated housing market.  It is insane.  Residential real estate needs a correction, but not all at once in a crash and that’s what could happen.

  9. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  That big storm that was headed our way last night did just like all the others.  It broke up just about 15 miles west of here, and my brand new rain gauge wound up registering 1/2 of 1/10th of an inch – I guess that would be about 1/20th of an inch.  Barely enough to settle the dust.  Now don’t misunderstand, I’m grateful for that, but I saw a picture of my yard one year ago at this time.  All lush and green and full of blooming bluebonnets versus this year all still brown and a few spotted bluebonnets – very few.  They are blooming now though.

    Larry’s was back open this morning – he had a water heater go out yesterday so was closed to get that repaired.  Tomorrow is the trip to Marble Falls for doctor check ups, then to Dallas on Friday.

    OK, you all have a great day.  More later as it develops.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I just looked at the Zillow.com page for my mother’s old house in Bellville.

    $280,200.

    I’m pretty sure she paid $36,000 for it in 1972 or 1973.  Inflation Calculator:

    What cost $36000 in 1973 would cost $227498.64 in 2021.

    Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2021 and 1973,
    they would cost you $36000 and $5728.92 respectively.

  11. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TexMo *update*

     

    sorry for the slow update. I actually went back to work this week and I’m working from the hospital so I haven’t been that good about responding to text or email. Shannon is doing better. She is moving around and he’s eating. They are trying to control the pain. If all goes well they may release him by Friday

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was up very late last night. I was canning some chicken stock and one jar of chicken legs. The book says 6 drumsticks in a quart jar, but these were so freakin’ big that I could only get four in. So, I baked the other four legs in the air fryer/multifunction appliance and began the canning process with my other four jars. I got started later than planned because I had to run out quickly and sign paperwork with a new tenant.

    So, most times when canning, I can get the flame locked in at the right intensity to maintain the appropriate temperature/pressure inside the canner. For some reason, last night was not one of those nights. The plan was for me to get some bookkeeping done downstairs while the canning process was going on. I didn’t. I had to keep getting up every few minutes and making minute adjustments to the flame to keep it from getting too hot or dropping below pressure. I finally thought I had it dialed in, the pressure was steady, so I went to the couch and started working on some stuff. I got engrossed, and after a while went back to check to make sure my canner hadn’t gotten beyond the 11 psi and jumped to 15, which it kept trying to do.

    The canning cycle, btw, is 90 minutes. If you drop below 11 psi (or 10 psi, when using a weighted gauge instead of a dial gauge), the whole 90 minute cycle must be started over once the 11 psi is achieved again. At this point, I had only 20 minutes left in the cycle.

    You know where this is going.

    The pressure was at 8 psi, and I have no idea how long it had been there. I turned off the flame and as the canner dropped pressure, boiled some water. When I could open the lid I added the boiling water to replace what had been lost during the canning cycle, and started the whole thing over again. I mean, I don’t want to kill Hubby – or anyone else – by not following the safety rules.

    This time, I got a book and sat next to the canner, and for the next 90 minutes was constantly resetting the flame. I was successful in completing the cycle, but as I was removing one of the jars of stock, it actually sprayed a bit as I lifted it with the lifter. I think it was trying to seal right at that moment that I was squeezing the top with the lifer. The others sealed just fine, but that one jar I put into the frig.

    So, today, I’m going to reduce that one jar of stock and then put it into the dehydrator. Fred will have to run for quite a while, but in the end I’ll end up with a flaky residue that I can return to chicken stock later.

    But it was 2:00 a.m. before I went to bed.

  13. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bonecrusher #7

    (Warning I will be repeating your spot on observation somewhat)

    I will not support the US going into the Ukraine.  This war stinks too high heaven with Wag The Dog.  This country has not “won” a war since WWII.  No we did not “win” anything with Papa Bush’s incursion in the mideast.  There is nothing righteous about Bidenco, aka Flashbang,

    Right now NATO and the US have stationed men and equipment strategically around the Ukraine and MidEast.  I will be doing a post about my rock solid sources and how you can follow them too.  They have not been wrong.  The United States is positioned to go into full war, forget any peace keeping role.  Will we go to war?  I do not know.  What I do know is if we do the best that can come of it is us withdrawing yet again after spilling our treasure in yet another land.

     

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, March 30, 2022 ☙ NOT A SECRET

    Good morning C&C! It’s Wednesday, and I’m on the road with early meetings today. So we have three quick stories in today’s roundup: Florida and 20 other states sue the federal government over mask mandates; the House J6 Committee faces a critical disclosure; and a leaker gives us some insight into Disney top management, and it’s uglier than something pale, squishy, and fat stuck to the bottom of a rotten log.

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    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    Yesterday, Florida and 20 other states sued the CDC (and others) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, to shut down the federal government’s infinite transportation mandate, including mask mandates on airplanes and school buses.     “President Biden’s shortsighted, heavy-handed, and unlawful travel policies are frustrating travelers and causing chaos on public transportation,” Florida attorney general Ashley Moody explained during yesterday’s press conference.

    Governor DeSantis chimed in, pointing out how dumb and unscientific the mandates are: “[The mandate is] not something that’s grounded in any science,” he said. “If you have somebody sitting in the window seat and they’re nibbling on peanuts for two and a half hours, they can have their mask down. [But] You have the person in the middle seat that is not eating, and if they just want to read a magazine without their mask, then somehow that would be a big problem.”

    Among other things, Florida’s complaint argues that the CDC has no authority to issue broad, economy-wide mandates, and that this mandate is irrational. The complaint points out the government requires masks on local school buses in Gainesville but never explains how that possibly helps stop Covid from spreading between states. The lawsuit also dings the CDC for not requiring the masks during the first 9 months of the pandemic, which shows the mandate is irrational.

    Now, if we lived in a rational world, the CDC would respond to the lawsuit by dropping the mandates. That would moot the whole thing. NOBODY except flight attendants’ unions and deranged never-unmaskers want the mask mandates: not the airlines, the passengers, the pilots, the bus riders, or the school kids. So the rational thing to do would be to give in and let the mandates go. Just let them go.

    But we don’t live in a rational world, do we? So. All bets are off!

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    ️‍♂️ Ruh-roh! It looks like a nice pot of trouble, and not just a little k-cup of trouble, might be brewing for the House January 6 Committee. But first a little background.

    The January 6th saga involves a bizarre character named Ray Epps that intrepid independent researchers identified from J6 videos.     Ray is a reclusive Texan. Numerous videos from J6 show Epps wandering around by himself repeatedly urging protestors to breach the Capitol. I mean, he did it a LOT, practically yelling at people to get inside. Other videos show Epps standing at the barricades and helping move them aside while calling for other people to follow him into the Capitol.

    Dispute all that evidence, Epps has never been charged, arrested or even investigated — while almost 800 other people have been, including people who didn’t even go to Washington DC on January 6th.

    Attorneys defending J6 folks have been pressing the government to say one way or the other whether Epps was a fed. Because if he was, it would look a lot like the government entrapped people and attacked its own Capitol. Talk about the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing. Anyway, this dispute has been going on for almost a YEAR now, as attorneys for defendants keep asking “the most transparent administration in history” to just say YES OR NO if Epps was an agent provocateur; but the government keeps playing hard to get.

    You know, it’s the old, “we can’t disclose our sources and methods,” and “that information isn’t relevant,” and “blah blah blah privileges and confidential security stuff blah blah.” And, of course, the corporate media is completely disinterested, referring to the notion that Epps might have been working with the government as just another fact-checked conspiracy theory.

    Still, even though media might be disinterested in him, Epps’ name has percolated to the highest levels of the discussion, like in a January 2022 video that is now famous among J6-circles, where Senator Ted Cruz bluntly asks the FBI’s assistant director during a Senate hearing whether Epps was a double agent or not. But the government, well, they just couldn’t say:

    SEN. TED CRUZ: “Miss Sanborn, was Ray Epps a fed?”

    ASS. DIR. JILL SANBORN: “Sir, I cannot answer that question.”

    How can they be expected to answer a question like that? It’s so hard to keep track! Apparently the FBI has wound up SO MANY nutjobs and sent them off to help normal people to do lawless things and attack stuff that it is starting to forget about some of them.

    Or, the government is just obfuscating and hiding stuff again. I know you find that hard to believe.

    Anyway, it’s taken a long time, but a federal judge has now ordered the government to turn over whatever it has about Epps’ connections to law enforcement, if any. At a court hearing yesterday, the judge asked the government why it hasn’t complied yet. The government’s fascinating answer was, “What I can … tell the court is that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has been working on a disclosure pertaining to Mr. Epps,” government attorney Karen Rochlin said, adding that she expected it to take, “another week or two” for the information to become available.

    “A disclosure.” They’re going to disclose something about Epps. But what? Again with the demure word games. It seems fair to conclude that if they were going to just deny that Epps was connected to law enforcement, they wouldn’t need a “disclosure.” Because you don’t need a disclosure to deny something. A disclosure is a release of information pursuant to a duty to do so.

    If they are finally forced to disclose that Epps was, in fact, a federal stooge, I will mercilessly mock them. For several posts. At least.

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

    Disney is run by awful people.     [I repeat: Disney is run by awful people.] I don’t just mean that in a general or categorical way. I mean literally, the people running Disney are the worst. They’re gross and disgusting. Let me explain.

    Recently some top Disney execs jumped on an “emergency” zoom meeting to jabber about how to respond to the new Florida law banning sexual instruction in K-3rd grades. And apparently Disney has a righteous mole or leaker, because yesterday the video was leaked, and it’s out there now.     And it is truly revolting, stomach turning, and nauseating. It’s hard to imagine that people really think and talk like this.

    It’s even harder to imagine how these people got put in charge of the Disney corporation.

    First up is Karey Burke, the president of Disney General Entertainment Content. In her clip, Burke can be seen bragging and virtue signaling that she is “the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child.” So, that’s weird. How exactly does that happen? But her not-so-private family details aren’t really the story. Burke goes on to say she supports having “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories” and — get this — she wants a minimum of FIFTY PERCENT of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities.
    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1508926254958919684/pu/vid/338×270/Duy7y61lxezj8Kf3.mp4?tag=14

    Next, Disney’s diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware spoke about changes they’ve made to the theme parks to promote transsexual lifestyles, but in subtle and subconscious ways. Ware offers an example of how, during pandemic shutdowns, they eliminated all mention in its theme parks of “ladies,” “gentlemen,” “boys,” and “girls” to create “that magical moment” for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles.
    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1508936091616829456/pu/vid/900×720/gbPDdMT3ZIhN_D1a.mp4?tag=14

    Ms. Ware, who speaks in a surprisingly deep voice, just saying, thinks it’s a magical moment when a child encounters gender dysphoria. Why on Earth? She mentions more, like they are trying to figure out how to stage-manage words like “princess,” because according to Ware, not all kids who “identify as female” want to be referred to by gendered words. So these idiots are busily trying to “engineer” new words to replace those offensive old words.

    Finally, Disney’s executive producer Latoya Raveneau explains she was shocked back when she first started work at Disney because there wasn’t more queer programming. Latoya admits that, wherever she could, she started inserting queerness into Disney videos, like having two same-sex characters kissing in the background, and she brags that no one was trying to stop her. Since then, she explains her entire team has implemented a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and is regularly “adding queerness” to children’s programming.
    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1508911192399613960/pu/vid/1352×1080/_lSEAZh72rJfZg43.mp4?tag=14

    So basically, Disney is run by a pack of wild groomers. Maybe they could make an animated version of how Disney was occupied by woke gay activists. Also, where are the men? Do they have any real men left at Disney? I’d like to hear from people who look like the guys who used to run the company, to get their views on turning Walt Disney World into a queer-friendly, non-gendered, trans-safe space. Which all sounds great except it doesn’t sound too safe for normal kids.

    I don’t think this leak is going to be good for business over at the Giant Mouse House.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby just called. He was aware of my very late night, and didn’t want to call too early.

    He’s in Bryan. He went there to check on the roof, since there was some heavy storms there recently, but the rain hasn’t stopped yet. He has some things he can do and be productive while waiting for the rain to stop.

    I have homework: I need to go to Lowe’s and see what they have available for appliances for our new tenant. There’s a sale going on in Bryan, and Hubby doesn’t know if it’s going on in this area or not, so off I go shortly to shop.

    This tenant is one we’ve rented to before. She has divorced her husband (which is good news) and will be living alone. She takes care of business and the apartment. Where she is living now is horrendous. She said it’s going to be such a relief to not have to sleep with a gun by her bed. Wow. Just wow. She loves the upgrades to the completely rebuilt unit, and I think she’ll be a good first tenant that won’t take it for granted and trash the place. “It’s my home,” she said, “Why wouldn’t I take care of it?” I wish more tenants had that attitude.

    She was literally dancing around, she was so excited. I wasn’t supposed to sign a lease until next week, but she didn’t want to wait, hence the rush out yesterday evening to meet with her. Fortunately, I had already prepared the paperwork. She paid the security deposit and TWO months’ rent.

    She wanted to move in badly. Lights are already turned on. She must’ve done that as soon as we left last night.

  16. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #15 TT: Good for her and y’all.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees. Glad to hear that TexMo is doing Ok.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sun shining out here, now.

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    So I was going to buy my replacement Highlander today.  I was looking forward to doing something I have never done before, paying cash for a NEW car.  Finally received a substantial amount for my wrecked Highlander and what does Bank of America do?  Place a hold till next Tuesday on my deposit.

    It has been a battle to get this far since the wreck.  Now it might seem that insurance company has jacked me around but they haven’t, My obstinate personality and willingness to wait resulted in a higher payout.  It has been all business.

  20. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good rainy morning, Hamsters

    Light rain started here about 9:30, and we are hoping to get half an inch before it stops.  Clearing from the west is coming on fast however.

     

    Hope Biden’s handlers keep him occupied with something other than Ukraine.  Perhaps a trip to the zoo would do the trick. The real zoo that is, the one with all species of animals.  And not to forget the ice cream cone before coming home to pizza for lunch.

  21. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Happy for the good news on TexMo.

  22. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Wow, I’m in a weather watch zone for severe thunderstorm, wind up to 60 mph, and hail this morning.

     

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    doing something I have never done before, paying cash for a NEW car.

    I’ve done it seven times. Maybe eight.

    You’ll be fine. The short term stress will be balanced out by the bliss of knowing that your vehicle probably won’t break down for at least five years.

    You’ll live longer for it. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh wait. I meant “bought a new car”.

    Ain’t never paid cash for one.

    Although I put half down on this one.
    Depleting my meager savings on a depreciating asset. I never claimed to be smart.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We recently warned that Europe is about to be hit with an unprecedented shortage of diesel, as gas stations run dry of the vital liquid (according to the CEOs of the world’s largest independent energy merchants), but little did we know that the first actual crisis would hit in America’s own back yard and not just anywhere but the state synonymous with commodity extraction: on Monday, airport officials in Austin, Texas warned of an impending jet-fuel shortage amid a surge in travel to and from the state’s capital city.

    Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, which is ranked No. 29 in the U.S. based on 2021 passenger traffic, issued a fuel-shortage alert on Monday and urged airlines to carry extra fuel or send in more supplies via tankers, said Sam Haynes, a spokesperson.

    The problem is the “experts” who run the Austin airport have never bothered to expand the jet fuel capacity since the airport first opened in 1999.  Yes, you read that right.  In 23 years of outlandish growth in the Austin area and commensurate air traffic, it never occurred to anyone in that airport to add some more fuel tanks.

    There is no shortage of jet fuel.  There is a major shortage of brainpower and common sense.  The airport in Austin has been jam-packed since the day it opened and has been every time I’ve been in it.

  26. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Hello All,

    I am fully disconnected from all tubes, drains, IV meds, etc. I’m in more pain today because they are transitioning me to oral meds.

    A Thursday discharge looks to be in my future.

    Still a long way to go but it will be nice to be at home.

     

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A Texmo sighting! Hallelujah!

    Glad to hear that progress is being made. May it never stop.

  28. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texmo

    Ah man that is such good news.  Good to see your smiling face.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Two related articles.

    John & Nisha Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute:

    Humilitainment: How to Control the Citizenry Through Reality TV Distractions

    “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.”

    —Professor Neil Postman

    and,

    “Humilitainment” largely explains not only why American TV watchers are so fixated on reality TV programming but how American citizens, largely insulated from what is really happening in the world around them by layers of technology, entertainment, and other distractions, are being programmed to accept the government’s brutality, surveillance and dehumanizing treatment as things happening to other people.

    There are several recent American medical studies directly linking the amount of time watching television with the onset of dementia and Alzheimers.  Is it any wonder this has grown into a crisis in America ?

    Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch—and I would posit that it’s all reality TV, entertainment news included—the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.

    “We the people” are watching a lot of TV.

    On average, Americans spend five hours a day watching television. By the time we reach age 65, we’re watching more than 50 hours of television a week, and that number increases as we get older. And reality TV programming consistently captures the largest percentage of TV watchers every season by an almost 2-1 ratio.

    I can’t even comprehend watching TV 50 hours a week.  I couldn’t begin to do it.  I watch 3 one-hour episodes a week of shows I enjoy each week.  We might watch a 90 minute movie on the weekend.  Her Highness watches more than I do.  When she went to Disney World last fall with the kids, I was alone here for 7 days and watched one show for an hour.  I can go days without even thinking about a television.

    Stella Morabito at The Federalist:

    Meanwhile, they keep pushing the envelope to get us to say things we know are false and to do things against our own interests. Demonizing those who hesitate to comply fosters a mob mindset that protects their narratives. Hence, people with different views feel alone and tend to be intimidated into silence. This is how resistance to tyranny is eroded.

    Demonization campaigns are key to this process. Suddenly, you’re a bigot if you don’t celebrate men invading women’s sports. Or you’re an “insurrectionist” if you don’t applaud punishing people with 24/7 solitary confinement (without a trial date) for “parading” around the Capitol for a few hours on January 6, 2021.

    plus,

    A lot of the research on conformity was the result of scholars asking how small groups of fanatics could take over whole societies — e.g., Bolsheviks in Russia and Nazis in Germany — resulting in millions killed while the vast majority of the population sat back in silence and fear.

    In the 1950s psychologist Solomon Asch conducted his famous experiments on the conformity impulse. At least 37 percent of the time people would deny the evidence of their own eyes — about the obvious fact of a line’s length — if everyone else gave an incorrect answer. The experiment has been replicated thousands of times with the same or worse results. Here’s a video of that experiment conducted in the 1970s:

    This is a must read and do watch the videos.

     

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon

    Like you I have acquired several vehicles over the years.  Man the best feeling is when I bought the cars and then when I  paid them off.  I had my Tundra for 430K over a 12 year time span.  My Highlander was paid off by the time BSue retired.  BSue and I decided to pull the strings on this one and pay cash for a loaded vehicle with all the bells and whistles.  I can’t wait for it to get cold again and try out the heated seats.  Whoohoo i am gonna get butt nekkid and try the seats out…………………….. in the dark………………….about midnight.

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Well now that kilded the blog

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Welcome back.

  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Clouds are breaking to the west coupled with a nice drop in temp.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #30 Squawk: Does your new rig have cooled seats as well? Cooled seats in Houston are almost a necessity.

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    ^^^^Wahoo TexMo!!!^^^

    Good to see you man!

    When Katfish posted quoting your wife I thought he was quoting you saying you were back at work, working  from the hospital. Well I was getting ready to load up and go talk to that company of yours! Continued progress brother, still praying for you.

  36. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TexMO: Glad to read that you are up and about and posting for yourself again. Speedy recovery to you.

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TexPat: Is it snowing at your house now?

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have heated seats. I think I know where the button is, but I’ll never use it.

    I think the last time I had a cold butt I was on skis standing on top of a mountain in Austria.

    Unfortunately, I don’t have cooled seats.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The sun roof is another frivolity in Texas.
    It was several months before I looked up and decided that I better make sure it works.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    37 BC

    It’s 44° and a slight drizzle.  No snow in sight and none predicted.  Humidity, oddly, is only 25%.

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An exposed sunroof in Texas in August turns your vehicle into a large microwave.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m running the eastbound feeder on I-10.
    An 18 wheeler over on the freeway is even with me and has a blowout on the other side of his hopper bottom trailer. He was the equivalent of about four lanes away from me.

    It was LOUD. I swear I felt the shockwave.

    Another first for me.

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I can only see a few clouds low on the horizon to the east. Brilliant clear blue skies. The rain was timely in that it washed a bunch of pollen out of the air and off the trees.

  44. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Good news TexMo! I know it’ll be good to get home. I guess after being split open the pain is expected. I hope it gets better soon, the human body heals at an incredible rate.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Nope no cooled seats.  That is $5K more than I want to pay for in the top top of the bling bling range.  Will be getting the “moon roof”.  It comes with the package I want. I do not care about that but BSue would like it.  Happy wife, happy life.

    We were going to buy a used box truck ambulance to go camping.  I have a friend that has one and it is his daily driver too.  HOWEVER, our minds got changed when the cost of diesel soared and 12mpg is not very inviting.  So BSue and I settled on the Highlander.  Ours got 30mpg highway.  We can tow this to satify our camping desires.

  46. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    What would a good punching bag be? I need something portable but mainly durable.

  47. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    JP is great!!!

  48. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Another of my masterpiece postings just disappeared into the ether.  I’ll try to get the points made again – bullet point style:

    * Glad to hear from TexMo about progress

    * Took a nap early since I was up late last night

    *Winds from NW 20-30 vs past few days SE 20-30.  Temp 66 vs 90s past few days.

    *More later.

     

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    There is a “new” spate of terror attacks in Israel.  7 shootings in different cities that I have counted.  The Palestinians have declared that this year Israel will be gone by June 7th.  So what does the Prime Minister of Israel do?  

    He instituted a gun buy back program!!!

    Nah I’m kidding.

    Israel’s PM urges citizens to arm themselves after Tel Aviv attack

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Bruce Willis has aphasia, a brain disorder, and has retired from acting.

    I liked the characters he played.

  51. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’d rather have cooled seats here in the south rather than a sun/moon roof combo. The wife opens the sunroof all the time when I’m not in the 4Runner. She absolutely loves it.

  52. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Bruce Willis could have sat on his laurels many years ago. Instead he chose to play some really bizarre roles and for some strange reason I liked most of them.

  53. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Whoa – Yippee-kai-yay kilt the bog?

  54. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Infanticide now legal in Maryland.  No wonder our country is going down the tubes.  Gruesome stuff.  https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2022/03/30/death-is-in-the-details-of-maryland-abortion-bill-n1585573

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    46 Darren
    What would a good punching bag be? I need something portable but mainly durable.

    My first choice would be this guy:

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Sunny and breezy at 5 pm, banners on the front porch are swinging with the breeze.  One of them has slipped off a hook holding it and is going sideways.  The other hook is still connected so it hangs on by that.  But this is springtime with all its energy and vigor so such things do happen.  Have to get spouse to reconnect it when he has time since he can reach up far enough without needing a stool to stand on.

    Overnight we seem to have gotten a lot more leaves down off the trees, as if some elves were busy shaking the branches.  Pollen count is still way up so an antihistamine is called for.

    And Purrscia kitty is still on the hunt for the stuffed girl bunny that is now safely on a wall shelf far enough from anyplace she can jump to get it.  At least for now, anyhow.  Never doubt the cleverness of a cat to solve problems.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    55

    You wouldn’t object to me using a short length of half inch rebar instead of my fist, would you?

  58. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    On this date in 1911, the US Army accepted the last decent pistol design into its inventory.

    Happy Birthday M1911 Colt. May you have many, many more

  59. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    So, in Maryland it will become legal to commit premeditated murder of a newborn child when the Democrat Legislature overrules the Republican Governor’s veto of the bill.  And it is premeditated murder regardless of whatever softening name is ascribed to it.  For shame, Maryland.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat
    On the road leading to the campground is a tiny patch of those old fashioned bluebonnets like Mom had all over her yard – virtually no white on them, simply blue.

  61. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Declaration of Independence: …We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,…..

    Not endowed by government, but emdowed by God.

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From El Gordo’s link in #54:

    Just when I think the Left has finally hit bottom in American politics, Maryland’s Democratic majority in the state legislature is moving to legalize the murder-by-neglect of newborn infants as much as 28 days after their birth.

    Read that again: The murder-by-neglect of newborn infants up to 28 days after their delivery into our world from their mother’s womb.

    I can hardly believe it even as I write these words. Surely this cannot happen, could never happen, in America. But it is, in Maryland Senate Bill 669, the chief sponsor of which is state senator Will Smith.

    Under Senate Bill 669, no person can be investigated or charged for “experiencing a miscarriage, perinatal death related to failure to act, or stillbirth.” The perinatal period consists of “the period shortly before and after birth, from the 20th to 29th week of gestation to one to four weeks after birth.”

    In other words, it’s anywhere up to four weeks after the birth of the child you and your sexual partner conceived, and you decide you really don’t want the child, hey, no problem, just don’t feed it, don’t get medical care, don’t do a thing. Eventually, the child will die.

    If this provision becomes law — and it almost certainly will be passed by the Maryland legislature’s Democratic majority over the veto of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan — every citizen of this state will become, willingly or unwillingly, an accessory to legalized infant genocide.

    Know this.  The CDC collects data from the 50 states and territories on all medical procedures including abortion to which it devotes a substantial amount of space.

    The state of Maryland has decided their records and statistics are none of the business of the federal government. Yes….none of their business…even though American taxpayers pour millions of dollars into that state for Medicaid, Medicare and all kinds of programs for healthcare for its residents.

    The Maryland state senator who wrote and sponsored this bill is named, beyond all irony, Will Smith.  Has anybody asked Will Smith how many black babies are murdered in the womb each year in Baltimore ? in Maryland ?

     

     

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Baltimore
    One of the oldest festering pustules on the U.S. map.

  64. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    A problem with the murders of newborn children in the US….they are Citizens of the US at birth within the territory of the US, never mind that citizenship of the parents might be of another country, in which case the children would have dual citizenship.  That right there ought to be a big problem for the ghouls should any US legal authority be moved to take that up.

  65. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #63 Shannon

    Lord Baltimore is spinning in his grave.

  66. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    If they are going to authorize the after birth killings of infants and call them “justified” – and per the citizenship question above – does that nullify birthright citizenship for the US?

    Or does crossing the border without permission disallow legal requirements of all kinds?

  67. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    This is why I love the guy.

     

  68. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Scott Perdue over at Flywire has posted update #4 on the Ukraine war situation.  He seem rational and logical to me.  Check it out.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS61y29KTG0

  69. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Man the wind is up here, 15 gusting to 22 according to my weather station. Since we got the new tin roof the wind really howls above about 10 MPH.BTW; That nasty front is due here about 3 AM in the morning so if we all get kilt, it was nice knowing y’all. 😀

  70. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We kilt da blog, not da Dave.

  71. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A conversion story during the filming of The Chosen.

    That series is having such an impact on so many people.

  72. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    “Demoralized Russian soldiers in Ukraine have accidentally shot down their own aircraft, sabotaged their own kit and refused to carry out orders,” Sky News reporter Deborah Haynes tweeted. “The @GCHQ director will also say Wagner, the Russian private military company, is understood to be prepared to ‘send large numbers of personnel into Ukraine to fight alongside Russians.’ They will likely be used as ‘cannon fodder’ to try to limit Russian military losses.”

  73. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    *after Midnight!*

    https://youtu.be/XKnOMguj5CU

  74. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Well, I finally got put in Facebook Jail.

    Apparently our serpent masters feel that calling  Bobby O’Rourke a Gringo Pendejo is Hate Speech.

  75. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Oh, so Bobby O’Rourke is still around on the web?  Just not on ours?  That makes communication kinda hard, if’n one wants to do that either way.

  76. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #74 – BRAVO Sarge!

  77. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I promise to use this power for good, for Truth, Justice, and The American Way.

  78. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    “[Y]ou’ve got to wonder, like, why is the hill to die on to have transgenderism injected into kindergarten classrooms, or woke gender ideology injected into second-grade classrooms? Why is that the hill to die on? Meanwhile, if we had done a bill that prohibited talking about the abuse of Uyghurs in China, Disney would’ve supported that legislation. Because they don’t want to say a word about that. So, it’s just an odd manifestation of their corporate values that they actually do Disney cruises, Tucker, to the nation of Dominica, which criminalizes homosexuality. So, they’re fine doing that and lining their pockets. 

     

     

  79. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Apparently our serpent masters feel that calling Bobby O’Rourke a Gringo Pendejo is Hate Speech.

    Is it hate speech if it’s true?

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