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What a great shot!
Well not only is it Friday it’s April 1, Aprils Fools day.
Mornin’ Gang -
I just saw a doe in the far corner of the little pasture across the road. She was eating the spring weeds that grow along the back side but sadly I’ll be whacking them down this morning. The grass doesn’t need mowing but some of the weeds do.
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IT’S FRIDAY!!!! No foolin.
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Morning gang. Up an at ’em for another travel day. No wildflower displays to write home about yesterday going south, so today going north we’ll see if it’s any better. Probably be my last trip to Dallas for a good while since I’ve got no reason to go up there any more. Working on another prospect, but she lives in Philadelphia, so it would be hard to make that trip every 4 to 6 weeks. And I’m getting kinda old for these road trips anyway. Oh well, we’ll just have to see what comes along.
All my doctor visits yesterday turned out OK, and I’ve got no return visits for another year, except for one doc who was tied up in surgery, and some tests to be run early next year before the next round of doc visits. I said something to the lady scheduler at the cardiologists and I said well, guess I’ll see you in a year unless something bad happens – and she said “we just don’t talk about that – I’ll see you in a year.”
OK getting the car loaded. Don’t have to take a weeks worth of stuff either – only be gone 2 nights. You all have a great day, and I’ll report back in later if they haven’t turned off the internet yet up there. More later.
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Here’s Ammo Grrrlll: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-421.php
Don’t fall for the April Fool jokes.
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I finally got around to bluing my Duluth Best Made felling axe. I’d already rubbed about 5 coats of boiled linseed oil into the hickory handle. I wanted to give the blade some extra protection in this climate. This is a fine, old school axe made in upstate New York, some of the best made. Expen$ive but worth it.
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While my wife was in Kalifornia they went to Underwood Family Farms in Camarillo and since she knows how much I like Huy Fong Sriracha Sauce, she got me some of their Underwood Ranches Sriracha Sauce. I hope it’s as good or better than Huy Fong, it should be, I think.
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This is interesting;
Sriracha Showdown! Underwood Ranches Sriracha VS Huy Fong Foods Sriracha!
Underwood Ranches until recently was the sole provider of Red Jalapeno peppers for Huy Fong Foods widly popular products. Now Underwood Ranches has created their own line of sauces including their very own Sriracha. How does it stack up against Huy Fong?
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If anyone thinks that this particular debate involving both transgender policy and medical procedures is going away any time soon, allow me to assure you that it isn’t. The latest tale of this type comes to us from the Richard J Kinsella Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut. A school nurse by the name of Kathleen Cataford who was working there was discovered to have answered some questions about the school from inquiring parents on Facebook. Part of the information she revealed about her school was that there were a number of children who were identified as being “non-binary” and at least one 11-year-old female student was on puberty blockers. She claimed that in many cases, the children’s parents were unaware of their child’s “non-binary” status and the information was being deliberately withheld from them. She further described the school administration as being “gender confused.”
Once this information came to light, complaints were made, but not about the intrusive and secretive nature of the school’s administration. Instead, complaints were lodged against the nurse for discussing it. She was promptly suspended as a result and may be facing termination.
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Well, the big Hustler Zero Turn Mower is waiting for me, Later.
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Buhwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I was so far ahead of the curve I was lapping everyone. Michael Berry (who I like btw) has been arguing against republican detritus for some time now. A darn sight more than he had in the past. The sucker sounds just like I did. Well with the exception of my skip the vote campaign he has been arguing against Dan Crenshaw and how he has been turned to the dark side and defending Ken Paxton. BTW I said before Crenshaw was elected he was a Trojan horse.
As I listen to Berry I was not shocked that many of his callers argued how “oh how we HAVE to reelect Crenshaw”. [Insert nincumbutt argument here.]. And the arguments against Ken Paxton? I have not heard one original thought from the the Paxton detractors. It all sounds like page 1 of the Chronicle.
And do not get me started on Trump.
I have never been sought out for my advice on who to vote for and that is okay. I do not need my ego stroked. So from the high cliff I sit and observe I just got one observation about the American voters. They are a dyslexic, myopic, purblind bunch that operates on fear and willing to accept an ounce of lies over a pound of truth. Example to make my point: Nobody has yet to explain to me how voting for a third party is like giving the Democrats my vote or at the least the Democrats get half a vote. Yet Republicans never get even a quarter of a vote if a Democrat votes off the reservation. I cannot count how many times in the course of a
discussion. argument I have been told the vote lie.And the saddest lie I have heard about re-electing the same old jetsam, flotsam is well “this time” we will hold his feet to the fire. I have yet to see that happen.
So here is to you Michael Berry. I have been down the road you are traveling trying to learn these people sumptin. Maybe you will some good fortune since you have a radiot microphone or maybe you too can be elected to some Texas seat in Austin.
Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
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I worked ’til midnight last night, and after this long string of late nights, I allowed myself to lay in bed until 8:30. I made some myself some eggs, with seasoning that included some of the wild onions I gathered last night before Hubby mowed ’em down. Yum. I love the little bitey crunchies.
At least I got stuff done last night. I seem to be more productive in the evening – no interruptions and my focus is better.
EG – be safe on the road!
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Of all the birds I have posted this was Hammie’s favorite.
Glad y’all are here.
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This is a normal teleprompter used by modern presidents. It’s the size of a 17″ laptop screen.
This is a photo from yesterday of Biden’s “teleprompter” at a press conference.
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Some of the cultural problems in America are the differences between the Left and the Right. Conservatives are, by nature, people who want to be left alone to live their lives as they see fit. Politics do not consume their thoughts and lives day and night. They believe Americans should be working, creating, building, inventing and spending time with their families and in their houses of worship.
Leftists, on the other hand, are obsessed with politicians, socialist ideologies, politics in general and making governments at all levels bigger and more intrusive. They want legislatures and Congress in session writing bills and regulations 24/7/365. Democrats discovered in the 1960s you can transform a free republic into a socialist autocratic gulag by changing the culture, the people populating it and letting the political system marinate in the resultant cesspool.
As much as I despise Pat Buchanan, I give him credit for beating the culture war drums in the 1980s. Andrew Breitbart defined it in a way that spoke to younger generations. The obstacle is getting the Right to stay focused on auditing the performance of their representatives in Austin and Washington. They’re usually busy trying to keep the country running. They are not natural political geeks like some of us are.
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Texpat
Conservatives are, by nature, people who want to be left alone to live their lives as they see fit. Politics do not consume their thoughts and lives day and night.
And you started off so well. There was a time when that was true. With the loss of our freedoms and our country slowly slipping into the abyss, politics has become the all consuming beast to all of us. But not me. LOL
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Squawk
RE: #16
I didn’t mean to say politics doesn’t affect conservatives. It does whether they are paying attention or not.
To put it in other words…
You may not care about Politics all the time, but Politics cares about you all the time.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Friday, April 1, 2022 ☙ ENTHUSIASM GAPS
Happy Friday C&C family! I thought for a long time last night about how to tell you all this, but short and plain is the best way: Coffee & Covid has been purchased by Twitter. I can’t discuss the details, because confidentiality and so forth, but they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Don’t worry though, everything will stay the same, except better! We’ll have some new guest bloggers coming in, including — and I know you won’t believe this — America’s top doc, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Once you hear his side, you’ll have a whole different outlook on the whole pandemic thing.
Hahahaha! April Fool’s! Just kidding! Don’t panic. I would never sell, not interested, at any price, even Zuckerbuck money. And I wouldn’t let Fauci’s gross, chocolate-stained fingers touch my blog for anything. Ew. I can’t believe you thought that was real.
We have a great roundup for you today with extra commentary: a discussion of what censorship means; why Florida’s controversial new bill is anti-marxist, not anti-gay; the Dems developing enthusiasm gap; Biden goes to war for trans rights; and Biden orders a historic release of oil from our strategic reserves to prop up political chances.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
Two of yesterday’s comments about the effort to clean up school libraries stuck out. The first commenter accused me of hypocrisy for supporting removal of harmful pornographic textbooks from schools while also being critical of Facebook and Twitter for canceling people and throwing users in social media jail. The second was a heartfelt comment explaining that being a gay teen in school can be difficult and socially isolating, and having some pro-gay material around can lessen the psychological damage.
I briefly replied to both of the comments. But they are both important issues deserving more thoughtful responses, and both raise questions that you guys might also need to answer at some point. So let’s dig into both issues a little. It won’t take long.
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Is it hypocritical to favor removing pornographic and obscene material from school libraries on the one hand, but to complain about Facebook censorship on the other hand? No. The two are easily reconciled and supported by common values. It’s easy as shooting beagle puppies in a barrel. (Dog lovers: that was a sarcastic reference to the puppy-torturer-in-chief, our highest paid U.S. government employee. Don’t cancel me.)
Let’s focus on the core principle: FREE SPEECH, a CONSTITUTIONAL right. It comes from our Constitution, which by the grace of God is the strongest and best constitution ever designed and has survived over 200 years of constant attack and chipping away. The Constitution limits what GOVERNMENT can do, not what INDIVIDUALS can do (with a couple noteworthy exceptions). The Constitution doesn’t limit private companies either (same). The Constitution stops the government from doing crazy tyrannical things, which governments always eventually do unless prevented somehow.
The nature of man is to devolve into absolute tyranny. Period, full stop. It’s human nature. The U.S. Constitution is a bulwark against human nature, forcing us to adhere to higher virtues as we govern ourselves, and to govern ourselves in the inefficient, longer, messier, more virtuous way. By designing this system, the Founders look like geniuses — and some of them probably were — but they were also much closer to absolute tyranny and knew just what its furious apelike face looks like.So here’s the simple answer to the original question: children enjoy LIMITED Constitutional rights. They are subject to dictatorial adults, their parents, who exercise kids’ rights for them. The Supreme Court has said kids have PARTIAL Constitutional rights when in school. For example, school officials can search kids’ lockers. Kids may NOT hotly criticize teachers during class, but adults MAY hotly criticize school board members at public meetings or on officials’ public Facebook pages.
Kids don’t get to pick what they can read. Adults can limit kids’ First Amendment rights. The question is, WHICH adults get to exercise kids’ First Amendment rights? Twenty-two year old woke school librarians? Or parents? The new Florida law says PARENTS get to pick what the kids read. Government is involved, since the public school enforces the parents’ choices. But since kids lack complete First Amendment rights, the school is within Constitutional boundaries when excluding material that isn’t age-appropriate.Can you see the difference? A public library may not censor material in the ADULT section of the library. But we protect kids, and don’t let them have full access to their rights until they are adults. That’s what parents are for. So schools can and should curate, censor, materials in school libraries consistent with parents’ rights.
Now, what about Facebook censorship? Well, first of all, Facebook has been censoring ADULTS, not school kids, so it’s apples and oranges. But the First Amendment doesn’t protect people from Facebook anyway. Facebook is a private company. So what’s everyone’s beef about Facebook censorship? It’s simple. It’s still government action that violates the Constitution.How? Facebook, Twitter, Medium and the rest are only censoring people because the federal government is illegally pressuring them to exclude “misinformation,” which is information that happens to be POLITICALLY inconvenient to the government. So when they censor folks, Facebook and Twitter are acting as “instrumentalities” of the government, restricting political speech, and thereby in fact violating the Bill of Rights.
Facebook’s censorship isn’t objectionable per se. Some censorship is welcome. Everybody is happy that Facebook excludes child pornography and snuff videos. But when Facebook acts in concert with the government to help government violate the Constitution by censoring POLITICAL speech, which the government may not do by itself, Facebook is also breaking the law along with the government. Think about it this way. Could the federal government pay newspapers not to print certain articles? Of course not. The federal government also may not influence media in other ways to censor speech, such as by threatening anti-trust action.
For a great example of the legal details related to this type of indirect censorship, here’s a lawsuit filed this week against Facebook and the government for this precise type of indirect violation of First Amendment rights:
So, it is NOT hypocritical to support removing obscene material from school libraries and also complain about Facebook jail. Both complaints are fully consistent with Constitutional values.**************************
Now, does the controversial new Florida law punish innocent gay people, or does it even ACCIDENTALLY hurt confused, isolated gay teenagers? Again, the answer is NO.
Let’s first properly identify the problem. Leftists are trying to re-frame the issue as hetero parents wanting to remove gayness from schools through their “tyranny of the majority,” because homophobia or something. But that’s not even close to what the bill is for, it is an intentionally slanderous mischaracterization.There is a world of difference between merely mentioning the existence of gay people and gay relationships, and of trying to convince children that they ARE gay, or should be or could be gay, or training them in sexual methods and practices, which should be completely reserved to parents, however badly parents might do it.
The current drive toward sexualization of school children is part of a marxist effort to destroy the family. That sounds extreme but it is actually very simple. By teaching kids about six hundred pronouns, and teaching them about words like “pansexual,” the marxists are driving a wedge between kids and their parents, who never heard of any of that nonsense.
Woke teachers are instructing kids that people who don’t embrace all these bizarre pronouns are bigots. Since their parents don’t embrace all these bizarre pronouns, the teachers are de facto teaching kids that their parents are bigots. And for some reason, parents don’t seem to like that. Woke sex ed manufactures artificial conflicts between parents and their own kids. They don’t send their kids to school to become alienated. They thought they were sending their kids to school to learn about math and stuff.
[ I am providing this link to a list of the Communist goals, listed in 1963. For this discussion, please see items 24-27. It’s scary, how many of these goals have been or are close to being accomplished. I pray for my children and grandchildren.]
https://citizensentinelsnetwork.com/editorial/the-45-communist-goals-1963/
But worse, these woke teachers are making kids feel guilty about being unwitting accomplices to the bigotry, and offering them a simple way out: don’t be a bigot, become part of the victim group, by identifying as gay or pansexual or whatever bizarre perverted nonsense that is making the rounds of woke academic journals that week. And they are enticing kids with “forbidden knowledge,” like how to perform oral sex on each other [“secret knowledge” is a well-known grooming behavior for pedophiles]:LINK TO IMAGE OF BOOK BEING MADE AVAILABLE TO KIDS – BLURRED, BUT EXPLICIT
The above pic is from an actual school library book that parents are trying to remove from Florida schools. The images aren’t blurred in the original. (Facebook users: I can’t include the image on Facebook because the post would be — properly — jailed. It’s two pages from a graphic novel illustrating a straight young man learning how to perform fellatio on his new boyfriend and navigating the logistical problems that come up. With explicit images.)
So by offering kids redemption from the manufactured guilt of being unknowingly bigoted, like their parents, woke teachers are intentionally pushing kids toward identifying as gay or bi or pansexual et cetera, ad infinitum. And parents object to that. It’s a level of sex ed that no rational parents want. And because their leaders are promoting this wacky rubbish, dems are losing their base.It seems uncontroversial that kids in grades K-3rd don’t need to hear about these issues AT ALL. Let them have their childhood,[THIS!!!] and let parents decide when and to what extent they discuss these issues with their kids. Maybe TEENS can handle this stuff, but then we still need to have a discussion about just how much porn should be available to teens in school libraries. Just because porn is readily available on the internet doesn’t mean it should be officially promoted at school.
Least controversially of all, when teachers invest a class session explaining nonsensical new non-gendered pronouns like “xi, xir, and xer,” or whatever, that’s one fewer class session spent on reading, writing, and arithmetic. And at this point, given how our educational system is scraping the bottom, we can’t afford to lose any more class sessions.
So, is the new law designed to hurt gay people and stop hysterical gay teachers from ever mentioning their partners? No. It is intended to prevent woke teachers from destroying families by manufacturing inter-family conflicts, and from grooming kids for alternative lifestyles, neither of which has any place in public school.
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Politico ran an article yesterday headlined, “‘We’ve got to stop fooling ourselves’: Enthusiasm gap keeps getting worse for Dems.” I wonder why.
The political magazine explained that at the end of October, Republicans held an 11-percentage-point advantage in voter enthusiasm. By January, that margin ticked up to 14 points. Now, according to the most recent NBC News poll, it has mushroomed to 17 points — a massive advantage historically foreshadowing devastating losses in Congress. Worse, there is no reason to think the gap isn’t continuing to widen.
In the NBC poll, two-thirds of Republicans said they have a high level of interest in the midterm elections, compared to only half of Democrats. Worse, more than SEVENTY PERCENT of Americans say the nation is generally on the wrong track. The party’s current enthusiasm deficit is a stunning reversal from just two years ago in 2018, when Democrats retook the House. Talk about wasted opportunities.
Politico mentions what happened in Virginia last November as a bellwether example. Republicans swept the state, taking the deep blue state’s Governorship and nearly all its state offices. What was the driving issue in Virginia last November? Woke schools. It turns out everybody hates woke schools, not just Republicans. Because woke schools are insanely destructive.
Politico mentions several issues that it suggests could turn it around. Inflation could ease. The January 6th Committee could unearth more material with which to damage Republicans. A Supreme Court rollback of Roe v. Wade could trigger a spike in Democrat enthusiasm. Maybe. But even Politico didn’t seem convinced. Why would that be?
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The Administration seems intent on doubling-down on everything that isn’t working. A Daily Mail UK article yesterday features the headline, “Biden Goes to War With GOP States With Trans ‘Equality’ Plan Pushing More Teaching in Schools.”
Apparently in response to the Florida law, and to a new Arizona law banning “gender-reassignment surgery” (castration) for kids, the Biden Administration has announced a wide-ranging package of new woke policies it intends to push out asap. It includes items like gender-neutral airport scanners, whatever that is, ‘X’ gender options on passports and airline tickets, and promoting sex change therapies to kids.
The White House is also launching a new website with resources for LGBTQI+ children and their parents to circumvent states that “have removed critical information about mental health resources for LGBTQI+ youth from official state websites.” The Mail pointed out that Florida’s Department of Education removed “LGBTQ-inclusive antibullying resources” from its web pages in December.
Apparently referencing Florida, Biden explained, “Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation’s values.” Oh, the humanity.
Florida isn’t sitting still. Florida House Representative Spencer Roach (R) tweeted on Wednesday that lawmakers held two meetings this week to discuss revoking the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which “allows Disney to act as its own government.” Rep. Spencer explained, “If Disney wants to embrace woke ideology, it seems fitting that they should be regulated by Orange County.” Touché. Maybe Disney moved too fast canceling all those donations.
Oh well!
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The Houston Chronicle ran a story yesterday headlined, “Biden Approves Historic Release of 1M Gallons Per Day as Gas Prices Continue to Surge.” According to the Chronicle, Biden announced that the U.S. will release 1 MILLION barrels a day from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the next six months in an attempt to control rising energy prices.
Largely due to fracking successes and making the U.S. oil independent for the first time in history, President Trump filled up the Reserve after it had been depleted by the previous administration. But after promising during his campaign that he would NOT interfere with the fracking revolution, Biden promptly shut it down by executive order on his first day in office.Biden’s new Strategic Reserve release is the largest in history. This is Biden’s second release from the petroleum reserve since November.
Representative Garret Graves (R-La), said yesterday that if Biden wants to lower energy prices he should lift environmental regulations that drive up drilling costs. “The gasoline and electricity prices that all Americans are paying right now aren’t the fault of the bonehead in Russia, but the boneheads running our federal government’s energy policies,” Graves said. “Tapping energy reserves is not a long-term solution to solving the skyrocketing prices at the pump.”No, because the “solution” runs out when the reserve runs out.
But Joe Biden has a kooky different idea about how to get out of the slough of dependence on foreign oil. He said, “We and the whole world need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels altogether.” In other words, Bien plans on inventing a magical new energy technology fast enough to prevent economic destruction, somehow. How does that old expression about wishing in one hand go?
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#12 Squawk
You know I’ve always been right there with the skip/don’t vote theme to direct the ship. The only lesser of two evils vote I made, will make in November, this go round is for gubna. I think the left with all their tricks have a dangerously close chance of winning (taking) the Texas governor race. I believe Texas and Florida are our only chances of keeping our country from completely falling off the cliff. Though I know it’s only stalling the inevitable, I must hold my nose and pull that lever for Abbot.
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Dang I didn’t mean to yell.
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Okay – I thought I fixed it. Diving back in on the admin side…
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Okay, I’ve learned I can’t use certain characters for emphasis that confuse the HTML.
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I’m glad we’re here, too, Squawks. Bad as it was, losing Hammy under horrifying circumstances — it would have been a thousand times worse if The Couch was just completely gone as well.
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Big Comfy Couch cushions are seats of sanity.
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GJT
That is the toughest thing for me to overcome in voting, voting for the lesser of two evils. Crenshaw is not the honorable man he wants us to believe. I cannot bring myself to hang my chad for the guy. And man let me tell you i catch grief for that stance, yet the same people that will give me down the river will argue that just because he is the incomebutt we gotta vote for him even in the primaries. I worked my arse off in the primary for good people to replace Crenshaw. I spoke with many people and it amazed me how many people don’t trust or like Crenshaw insisted we have to vote for him.
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
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Texpat
“Conservatives” have gone from anger to fear. That fear is heading to abject hopelessness. Think of this for a moment. Historically conservatives have not marched on Washington like we have seen in the pst 10 years. Truckers, Bikers, gun advocates, Tea Party are some of the newcomers we have seen. Visible protests are still far from the norm and may have run its course since this last sabotaged march in Washington. I do not know how many times i heard “Conservatives do not have time to march because they have jobs”. I am not sure we are seeing a sea change but it is interesting that conservatives have decided that marching is a good thing. It ain’t because the visual effect only lasts so long.
I abandoned politics because it is hopeless to put trust in man. They can and will let you down.
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bunsonburner
Yeah that is Moe Caracara.
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Seems to be the Crested Caracara. The rug is permanent.
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There is still some justice in this world.
On November 10, 2020, the Court heard oral argument on (1) the appeal byOberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimando seeking to overturn the compensatory and punitive damage awards totalling, after reduction under Ohio tort reform law, $25 million, plus over $6 million in attorney’s fees, bringing the judgment to over $32 million, and (2) the cross-appeal by Gibson’s Bakery and two members of the Gibson family (including the widow of the late David Gibson) seeking to restore the full $33 million punitive damages award, arguing the tort reform reduction was unconstitutional, which would add back about $15 million to the judgment.
The Gibson family has won the full judgment on appeal.
{¶1} Appellants, Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, Meredith Raimondo (collectively “Oberlin” or individually “the college” or “Raimondo”), appeal from a judgment of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas that entered judgment against them and awarded compensatory and punitive damages to Gibson Brothers, Inc., Allyn W. Gibson, and David R. Gibson1 (collectively “the Gibsons”). The Gibsons cross-appealed the trial court’s reduction of damages that the jury had originally awarded them. This Court affirms.
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Some more good news.
The Middle Eastern Studies Association is a hive of Jew and Israel hating academics and a leading institutional advocate of the BDS sanctions against Israel. They have never officially endorsed BDS…until now.
These schools have resigned their membership because of it.
1. Boston College
2. Brandeis University
3. Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies
4. Florida State University
5. Marquette University
6. University of Arizona
7. University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignHere is the list of schools remaining as members, but the University of California campuses will probably also withdraw from MESA.
No Texas schools are members, but individual faculty members still have memberships.
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35 years of warmongering globalist, NWO, Vampyre republicant’s of this type have laid waste to the late great USA.
You no longer live in a country but just a mass of land without borders run by a large gang of quasi oligarch communists and corporate communists, including the media, that worship at the alter of blood money, endless wars, unsustainable immigration, both legal and illegal, along with every fruitcake group under the sun and they’ve succeeded in carving up this mass of land like a hot cherry pie.
Red states should band together and secede but that will never happen so we’ll continue to elect WEF Governors like Abbott or idiots like skateboard Judas, who just give happy talk speeches about border security while 1000s a day continue pour across the imaginary Texas border.
Then once in the interior they’re provided with taxpayer funded flights all over this big glob of land.
Abbott could use the US constitution and the Texas Constitution to secure the border but he won’t and never will.
The only thing the republicant’s can run on is the ‘we’re not the other guy’ stupid human trick but in reality 90% of them really are the other guy.
So in summation I reckon that puts me in the not gonna hang my chad there category too.
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The GBI has been operating outside the law for far too long, it is past time to dissolve the agency.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/31/more-scandals-envelop-the-scandalous-fbi/
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This is what can happen when the UKEs and the Rooskies work together.
Great CHICAGO cover band
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Above I said
“Conservatives” have gone from anger to fear. That fear is heading to abject hopelessness.
I agree a person can look and find any source they want to agree with their assertion. I did not go looking but I did find this in my perusal of youtube porn
15 Signs That The Americans Have Begun Freaking Out About The State Of The Economy
It is a 12 minute video that makes my point or one could say i have made its point, but no, it makes my point. WTWDT……D
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My #33 should be the FBI, not GBI.
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#36 – Good stuff!!
The best / most accurate shooter I know N E V E R brings a hand gun up to his eyes – strictly ‘point & shoot’ – it’s all excessive practice and repetition to develop the geometric triangulation between your eyes, hands, and target. Developing that type of ‘muscle memory’ is no different than swinging a golf club or baseball bat.
He DOES aim long guns but never a hand gun.
And He points and shoots far more accurately than the next 1000 folks that AIM!
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This happened today, no foolin.
HEADLINE: House passes legislation decriminalizing marijuana
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who vowed to make marijuana legislation a priority, is working on a separate bill with Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., that is expected to be introduced in April but would need all Democrats and at least 10 Republicans to pass the Senate.The war on drugs has been as successful as every war we have fought since WWII.
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FBI ? Corruption ? Fraudulent manipulation of the courts ? Appalling violations of citizens’ constitutional rights ?
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Judiciary Ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote letters Monday pressing the Department of Justice for answers after an internal FBI audit found that agents violated rules at least hundreds of times over a year and a half.
A 2019 report published by The Washington Times earlier this month shows that of the 353 sensitive FBI cases audited, there were 747 “compliance errors,” making it a ratio of slightly more than two problems per case.
Errors included agents’ failure to get approval from FBI officials to begin an investigation and failure to communicate with prosecutors and create the proper pre-investigation documentation. The investigations targeted political candidates and religious and political groups, among others.
“These widespread and apparently systemic violations of approval and notification requirements make clear that the FBI has failed to rigorously adhere to the DIOG,” or the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, Durbin and Grassley wrote in their letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“The sheer number of FBI investigations that failed to comply with the DIOG’s rules suggests a pattern and practice of evading the rules, which consequently opens the door for political and other improper considerations to infect the investigative decision-making process,” they said.
I don’t expect Inspector Horowitz to do anything more than he’s done in the past. He’s a joke. Wray is an out and out thug who only reason to exist is to protect his fellow thug cops in all of their criminal enterprises.
The US Congress is the only institution with the authority to ream out that whole agency, but I’m not very confident right now.
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What will Klaus Abbott and the red states do?
My guess is nothing but let the invasion continue to the tune of about another 6 to 8 million by November 2022.
And after an additional 15 million have illegally crossed into the late not so great USA since the Wooden Dummy was installed the propagandist media will still say an estimated 11 million are in the country.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/04/01/joe-biden-to-open-the-border-on-may-23/
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I released on personal recognizance bail Tedtam’s Coffee & Covid comment posted at 10:18 AM this morning. It’s at #19.
You’re welcome.
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I don’t care who you are….. this is F U N N Y
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42 Bonecrusher
They may have testicles, but they don’t have any brains. That was really stupid and whoever placed those mines in the middle of a freeway to supposedly stop Russian military traffic was a real idiot. Like the Russians weren’t going to see them.
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#45 TP: There is another video here where it shows the Ukrainian soldiers kicking/sliding the mines with the foot; they called it Ukrainian curling.
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That was really stupid and whoever placed those mines in the middle of a freeway to supposedly stop Russian military traffic was a real idiot. Like the Russians weren’t going to see them.
Of course they would see them, that is the whole point. Some poor schlub would have to get out of the armored vehicle to move them and then get picked off by the snipers. It would cause the column to stop, making it easier to hit them with a hand held anti-tank missile.
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I thought mines was funny from every angle.
5 years from now we will be called racist for laughing at it.
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28 Squawk
“Conservatives” have gone from anger to fear. That fear is heading to abject hopelessness.
I’m not sure how to respond to this. I can’t say I agree or disagree since I am not sure what the evidence to back it up may be. Perhaps you are right, but it’s not jumping out at me.
We’ve had periodic Marches for Life in DC since 1974. The first Tea Party march was 13 years ago in March of 2009. There was another, larger march on September 12 of 2009 with 1.5 to 2 million people. It was a stunning congregation of Americans, but what effect did it really have on the politicians in DC ? The real change came in the 2010 midterm elections.
The Left has always loved protest marches, disruptions of public life and the self-centered attention-whoring that goes along with it. They will never give it up although social media has assumed the forum for much of their hissyfits.
Ultimately, there haven’t been many public demonstrations that fomented any sustainable change in American political history. I’m open to hearing the exceptions to that assertion because there are a few. Personally, I’ve never thought there was much point in sign and flag waving that lasts past a few days.
The BRICK WALL Americans keep running headlong into is the Deep State. They don’t understand why their representatives can’t somehow change the tide. Hence the public disapproval of Congress below virtually everyone and everything.
That which cannot continue…won’t. Something will give.
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47 BC
You are right. I didn’t give it enough thought.
The thing I learned today was that the entire Russian army has no internal, secure communications system. They carried cellphones into Ukraine fully expecting to use the Ukrainian cellular system for military comms. They have no secure system or frequency on which to talk to each other.
When I first heard this weeks ago I thought it was a joke or bad information. Who could possibly be this stupid ? And then I look at Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris and Jennifer Granholm and I go…Oh, I get it now.
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#s 47 & 50 – Guerrilla Ops at it’s finest!
1R or 2?
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Texpat
Okay I missed the marches timeline by what? 5 years. But the number and frequency has increased/decreased. Dude the anger at our government is building. And yes you are correct, they have yet to bring about the “changes” people want. My point is the republican electorate is trying something they are not known for. That bit of information is quite revealing as to the desperation they are feeling.
Tjhe frustration that Trump lost the election through theft is evident. Just listen to what is said on “talk radio” when the subject does come up. People are pissed because they have no outlet to vent their frustration but through the vote. I am not predicting a Republican landslide midterm but lets say it happens. The deep state is still entrenched and they are not going anywhere. We have seen a republican controlled senate and congress and what have we gotten for paying our dues? More of the same.
Evidence? I listen. i listen at places, I listen at talk radio. i listen to what the Dems tell me in the news. People are scared because we are at a tipping point in this country. The deep state and hidden hands have moved us closer to what they want. they are not going to stop their process anytime soon. Our country is primed for collapse and the folks know it. And here is what is most disturbing. The country has gotten a taste of uncle sugars teet when bad stuff happens and they like it. We ARE looking at fuel interuptions, we ARE looking at food shortages, we ARE looking at going to war in the Ukraine, we ARE looking at a whole slew of climate laws to control us, we ARE looking at more censorship. we ARE looking at more lock downs. We ARE looking at losing out country and it is happening quickly and the people know it and they are scared.
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I think it is way past time to start impeaching federal judges. The bar to impeach a federal judge simply can not be higher than that which is required for POTUS. The Constitution only requires that the judge serve a lifetime appointment, while in good behavior. Who gets to determine what constitutes “good behavior”? I would suggest that it is 50% + 1 vote in the House and no more than 55 in the Senate. Failure to apply Original Intent to interpreting the Constitution constitutes “bad behavior”.
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Made it to Big D just fine. Been busy all day and just plum tuckered out. I’d like to join in the conversation and add some comments, but just too tired today. More manana.
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Nice to know El G is safe and sound.
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OK, this is twitter, but its funny.
A guy promised that for every 100 like his tweet got, he would make the Gringo Pendejo’s front teeth bigger.
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Was notified about one group of tests.
Corotids and aorta look like the Tube across the English Channel. Free and clear of all but the expected scattered calcifications.
Yippee. Two down.
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#56
That was hilarious! LOLOLOLOLOL!
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#57
When those ultrasound companies come around, I like to get tested. Aortic aneurysms run in the family – got paternal grandpa and one of my uncles.
The sad thing about Uncle Joe is that he was scared of the surgery and put it off for years, finally agreeing it was time, and scheduled the surgery.
He died from the aneurysm the week before his surgery. Aunt Millie found him slumped over the ottoman when she got up. The only blessing is that the internal bleeding happened so fast that he didn’t suffer much. They said it was a matter of seconds.
So, yeah, I get checked. It’s been a few years since my last test, so I guess I need to be on the lookout for the next time they’re close by.
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I get the feeling that Gringo Pendeho is going to stick.
Big Time.
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Rhymes with Ringo Pin Dayo
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Ringo Pin Dayo was a little known Mexican border bandit. Nobody liked him. Turned out he was a gringo in bandit disguise.
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63
With Frank Gorshin providing the voices of Daffy and Foghorn.
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Never seen so many cops murdered in Houston area.
Don’t remember a time when HPD loses a vehicle five nights a week in a wide array of crashes.
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Late to the party again, but I sure am enjoying the posts of Hamsters today.
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Have been missing a good part of yesterday and today until around 2pm when rescue arrived in the form of computer expert help around 2 this afternoon, as spouse had done as much as he could to find the cause of no connection to the net. Turns out the buried cable running to the house was damaged such that it failed. Likely started happening because it had been mostly shredded by our gardening help moving some plants to next to the house from farther out toward the edge of the bed. Digging new holes for the transplanting broke up the cable that finally croaked.
Spouse had thought the router was to blame and ordered another one that led to the intermittent and then failed connection to the net thanks to the wounded cable. So the rescue help today discovered what was doing it, replaced the cable coming to the house but not buried this time, and it all is working now. Turns out the router spouse had bought didn’t work, but the repairman had one that does work. So the one spouse got gets sent back for a refund.
And that is how I am able to post stuff again. 🙂
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