Easter Weekend Open Comments
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There Y’all are!
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The rain is gone already with a grand total of .10″ but it’s going to be off and on through Monday morning.
Posted earlier;
Super Dave says:
April 16, 2022 at 5:31 amIs it Saturday? I woke up to Thunder Boomers this morning but no rain yet. I hope we get a little rain this time, the last front brought a whooping .12″.
Mornin’ GangSuper Dave says:
April 16, 2022 at 5:44 amThe rain is coming down pretty good now with a nice light show.
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Democrat Megadonor Ed Buck Sentenced to 30 Years for Fatally Drugging Two Men.
In the latest story for the mainstream media to gloss over, the former Democrat megadonor Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday for the overdose deaths of two men.
Buck was sentenced for both deaths and for supplying drugs and “enticing travel” across state lines for the purpose of sex.
At age 67, the 30-year sentence amounts to a life sentence.
Buck was convicted in July of last year by a federal jury of two counts of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death, four counts of distribution of methamphetamine, one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, and two counts of enticement to travel in interstate commerce for prostitution. 26-year-old Gemmel Moore and 55-year-old Timothy Dean died of meth overdoses at Ed Buck’s Hollywood residence.
Prosecutors said Buck had a very specific fetish that exploited the “unhoused and destitute,” and that injecting large quantities of meth into people played into that.
Even on the day of his sentencing, Ed Buck didn’t believe he was responsible for the deaths of the two men. “Their deaths were tragic but I did not cause their deaths,” he told the judge
Beyond supporting Hillary Clinton, Ed was a central patron in the California politics scene. The Department of Justice said that “[Buck] exploited the wealth and power balance between himself and his victims by offering them money to use drugs.”
Beyond supporting Hillary Clinton, Ed was a central patron in the California politics scene.
Yup, he IS their people, a typical slimy Democrat. ~SPITS~
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What happened on Easter Saturday?
For good reason the Gospels devote a great deal of space to the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion on Thursday and Friday of Passover week, as well as Jesus’ glorious resurrection on Sunday, the “Lord’s Day.”
Yet little space is given in the Gospels to the day between “Good Friday” and Easter Sunday, sometimes known as “Holy Saturday.” None of the Gospels records any of the activities of the disciples on the Sabbath after his burial and prior to his resurrection, except for Luke, who simply writes, “On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment” (Luke 23:56, ESVOpen in Logos Bible Software (if available)). However, this passing reference to the disciples’ Sabbath rest may veil the considerable inner turmoil they were likely experiencing. It is probable that Jesus’ followers were doing on Saturday what they were doing on Sunday when Jesus appeared in their midst: meeting together behind closed doors for fear of the Jewish leaders. Their hopes and expectations had been crushed. The one they hoped was the Messiah had been killed as a criminal. They hadn’t understood Jesus’ predictions about suffering and dying before the crucifixion took place (Matt. 16:21–23Open in Logos Bible Software (if available); 17:22–23Open in Logos Bible Software (if available); 20:17–19Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) and parallels), and it would not be until Jesus appeared among them the following day as the risen Victor and conqueror of death that they would begin to understand. Most likely, they were concerned, if not anxious or even terrified, that what had happened to their leader would now happen to them as well.
Only Matthew gives any concrete details as to what took place that day behind the scenes while activity was limited due to the Sabbath.
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He descended into Hell……
Harrowing Of HellThe authors of the Apostles’ Creed and the Athanasian Creed, however, refer to this day as “The Harrowing of Hell,” when after his death, Christ descended into hell to free all the souls who had died since the beginning of the world and allow the trapped righteous souls to reach heaven.
“Then the Lord stretching forth his hand, made the sign of the cross upon Adam, and upon all his saints. And taking hold of Adam by his right hand, he ascended from hell, and all the saints of God followed him.” Gospel of Nicodemus 19:11–12
A brief summary of Catholic and other Christian traditions around Holy Saturday.
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David Burge
@iowahawkblog
I don’t hope Elon Musk welcomes back banned accounts, I hope he goes Red Wedding and disappears all you mentally ill blue checks
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First off, I looked at the WIP, which EG posted in last night’s post. When I got to the Star Wars pics, I had to LOL. A lot.
Second, my tendonitis is flaring up again, so I may not be able to be on the computer much today. I’m going to have to find projects where I don’t have to aggravate my hand. ICE!
Third, Taylor Marshall had a whole video on the Harrowing of Hell. Actually, Sheol, which is the out layer of Hell (which is where God is not). This outer layer was also called Limbo, alternatively, Paradise. It was a place for the not-evil souls to be, a place of contentment and happiness, but not for souls experiencing the beatific vision.
Jesus did not descend to the domain of the damned. That would not make any sense.
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Shannon, did you see this?
Texas History Clippings.
I came across an article claiming that experts using facial recognition software have determined that John Wilkes Booth escaped after killing President Lincoln, and lived until 1903 in Texas and Oklahoma. ….Read it here.
That brought to mind the article below, which appeared in the Cleburne Enterprise in 1909. I came across it several years ago and thought it was interesting, but unprovable. Guess I was wrong.
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Jesus did not descend to the domain of the damned. That would not make any sense.
Hey, I’m just a consolidator of interesting links on the subject of Holy Saturday, which I dare say doesn’t get much press.
All of the mysteries not specifically addressed in the Gospels will be made clear some time down the road.
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True dat.
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WIP;
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Posted in comments of WIP; It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. – Voltaire
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, April 16, 2022 ☙ BONUS EASTER EDITION
There’s too much going on, so you get a bonus pre-Easter post. It’s a pea-soup foggy morning here at the beach, perfect for writings and musings. Today: Musk’s battle with Twitter heats up; what Hunter Biden and Merrick Garland have in common; an Easter message about hope over fear; and a surprising visitor in Tallahassee./snip
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
The federal apparatus is now been fully activated to stop Elon Musk from buying Twitter. We’ll leave the “why?” aside for the moment. First, the “what.”
On Thursday, there were two significant developments in the opposition to Musk’s buyout. First, investment goliath Vanguard increased its holdings to just above Elon’s, so Musk would no longer be the top shareholder, and therefore can’t swing his “largest owner” weight around. Second, and more materially, Twitter’s board voted in some corporate rule changes that make it a lot harder for Musk to buy the company.
Specifically, the board passed a rule providing that if any single owner ever gets over 15% of the company, then all the other shareholders may buy brand new shares for half price, which would immediately tank the value of the stock, making it extremely expensive for anyone to buy more than 15%. It’s the corporate equivalent of squatting in somebody else’s house and shouting at oncoming police, “don’t come any closer or I’ll burn it down!”
This move put the board squarely in the crosshairs of thousands of lawyers itching to bring shareholder derivative suits against the individual board members for breaching their fiduciary duties in not selling to Musk. So something else had to be done to protect them.Late yesterday, multiple media sources breathlessly announced that the DOJ and the SEC were both SEPARATELY investigating Musk over his attempt to buy Twitter. Gosh. It’s almost like the federal government has some kind of vested interest in the social media company that it has to protect. But don’t think about it too hard, it’ll be a right-wing extremist conspiracy theory in about ten seconds.
What we know for sure is, in the government’s view, Musk is now just as dangerous as angry soccer moms who harshly criticize school boards. Maybe even more dangerous. Welcome to the war, Elon.
Charles Gasparino of Fox Business News broke the story. He reported:
“Both the DOJ and the SEC are clearly … monitoring and scrutinizing this entire issue, whether he filed the right forms, whether there’s a stock manipulation case here, whether he’s making public statements that he probably shouldn’t make. … What we do know is that he’s stirred up a regulatory hornets’ nest. DOJ, SEC, I’m getting this from lawyers who deal with them.”
The investigations probably give the board perfect legal cover for rejecting of Musk’s offer. They now have a good reason to reject him: he’s under DOJ and SEC investigation. This makes shareholder lawsuits against board members much harder to win. Lawyers would probably have to show coordination between the board and the Biden Administration. Something like a phone call from a board member to the White House.
The problem is, you don’t get that kind of discovery until AFTER your lawsuit survives a motion to dismiss. Absent a lion-hearted whistleblower, those shareholder lawsuits will probably never get off the launch pad now.
The last time the SEC “investigated” Elon over a single tweet about taking Tesla private, he was forced to settle by stepping down as Chairman and paying $40M in fines, as he put it, “to save Tesla’s life.” So the SEC investigation is a serious threat. I hate to say it, but if I were Elon’s lawyer, I’d be telling him to stop messing with Twitter. But it may be too late anyway. Elon’s only way to get through this thing unscathed might just be to push through and get control of the company.
I have a couple thoughts.
First, and least significant, because we all knew it anyway, is that at minimum Musk has exposed the charade that is Twitter. It isn’t a private company anymore. It’s an arm of the federal government and a tool that the government is using for some very important purpose. My guess is that purpose is “controlling the narrative.”Why do I say that? Plenty of reasons. For one example, a couple years back in 2017, Mika Brzezinski (MSNBC) had a “whoops” moment when she accidentally told the truth while she was complaining about Trump’s tweets:
“Well, and I think that uh, the dangerous edges here is he’s trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts … he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control, uh, exactly what people think. And that is OUR JOB.”
Hahaha! Thanks Mika! So now, in 2022, since MSNBC’s credibility is completely shot, it seems like it’s Twitter’s job to “control exactly what people think.” Working for the federal government, of course, just like MSNBC. We should thank Musk for making it so painfully clear.
My second thought has more to do with what Hunter Biden and Merrick Garland have in common. And that goes right to the heart of the problem, the decay driving us toward civilizational collapse, and what we will have to do to fix it.**********************
What do Hunter Biden and Merrick Garland have in common?
I first started to get it when I learned Merrick Garland’s kids were running a profitable side business hawking CRT training materials to schools. That seemed, not only like a conflict, but just downright odd. Garland is a former Supreme Court nominee and now head of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world. He’s white as snow. Garland’s kids are the very definition of privileged, connected white people.
What on Earth were these most unlikely folks doing getting rich via the Critical Race Theory educational industry?
For his part, Hunter Biden — in truth, the whole Biden extended family, it looks like — have famously been enriching themselves via government-connected industries too. In the genteel language of the sycophantic progressive corporate media, they’ve been “trading on the Biden name.” Which, up until the time Biden infested the White House, was a name that never really seemed that valuable to me. But apparently it was worth something, quite a bit of something, actually, to lots of foreign and domestic companies seeking to “trade” with the US federal government.
“Trading” means, “doing business.” Making money.
You’ll recall, I’m sure, the recent story reported here about all the angst over congressmen making money trading stocks like Pfizer and Raytheon in industries they are simultaneously passing laws and regulations about. I was implying that it would be hard to get rid of mandates when so many lawmakers were invested in the very same company selling the so-called vaccines. To the government. But there’s a yet bigger issue.
[THIS!!!!!] Here’s our REAL problem: government has now become a surer path to wealth than private enterprise in this country.You could throw a bunch of other examples in here too. Clinton, Obama, Fauci, Peter Daszak, and more. All folks who got rich through government. Even lots of billionaires. What did Bill Gates leave Microsoft to do? Invest in politics. What’s George Soros up to? Investing in politics, all over the place.
Which of these guarantees you a swankier vacation: an invitation to the Cannes film festival, or an invitation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland? Find me an example of a posher time than an invite to the WEF, I dare you. Recently I reported that Los Angeles protested our new law protecting kids by cancelling all their employees’ “conferences” in Florida. Those weren’t conferences. They were taxpayer-financed vacations for people who could never have afforded it outside of government. Those of us in private life don’t get benefits like that. We pay for them instead. You’re welcome!
Consider the six trillion dollars in “Covid relief” that has wrecked the dollar and spurred historic levels of inflation. Where’d all that money go? I suggest to you there are a lot of connected people soaking up those “pandemic dollars” and getting rich. That six trillion dollars was a once-in-three-generations wealth transfer, from people who lack government connections to everybody WITH government connections.
The government has itself become a market. When government becomes the easiest way to make lots of money, rational actors will focus their time and energy on that market. It’s basic economics.
And that’s our problem. It’s all about the money. It’s grift, top to bottom. Grift connects Hunter Biden to Merrick Garland, both grifters. It’s why government keeps getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster. It’s why big corporations have such an intimate relationship with the federal government — that’s where all the money is. The bigger government gets, the more folks decide they also want a piece of the action, which then makes government bigger, ad infinitum.
In order to pitch projects to government, a grant request has to have a political frame, by definition. It has to solve some sort of government-approved problem. So folks are always making up “new” political movements to create the opportunities. Last year it was “equity and inclusion” and climate change. This year it’s critical race theory and trans rights. Next year it will be something even dumber than those ideas. We’ve disconnected from requiring results for government expenditures. For some reason we now allow government largesse just for good INTENTIONS.
The mushrooming federal government trends left because the left is where you find unquenchable dissatisfaction with the status quo, a child-like belief in the possibility of utopian outcomes, and a complete disconnect from accountability, which makes things a LOT easier. On the other hand, conservatives want to control budgets, measure results, and keep things the same. So conservatism isn’t a good recipe for government growth, which is why you don’t see AS MUCH grift on the right.
We could stop this train if we could shut down unearned government handouts, from welfare to defined retirement benefits, from grants to corrupt “no bid” emergency pandemic purchasing practices bypassing normal protections. I’m beginning to think solving this problem should be job number one. The federal government needs to go on an extreme financial diet. Something like a governmental gastric bypass, or maybe just sewing its lips shut.I know you’re thinking it’s too late. But remember the message of Easter! Salvation can be right around the corner just when things look like they’re at their absolute worst.
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Which brings us to some thoughts about Faith and the Pandemic, and it seems like the day before Easter is a good time to delve into them.
One thing that has struck me, and others, is how many of the truth-telling heroes of the pandemic have been devout Christians. Docs like Cole, Littell, and McCullough, for example. Or stand-out churches that were among the first to push back against lockdown restrictions in California. Back on April 5th, 2021, the New York Times even blamed evangelical Christians for the US’s poor vaccination rates in an alarming article headlined, “Millions of white evangelicals do not intend to get vaccinated.”
(The headline was especially hilarious given low vaccination rates among black Americans, including evangelical ones, but I digress.) The Times reported — as straight news — that “the sheer size of the [evangelical] community poses a major problem for the country.” The christians were a major problem all right.
The religious exemption to vaccination has proved to be the most difficult barrier for the federal government in achieving Biden’s stated “100%” vaccination target. Where even serious medical objections have been blithely denied, many folks subject to mandates have still succeeded in asserting their good-faith religious beliefs as a barrier to injection. And the pro-life argument — that the vaccines rely on aborted human tissues — has been the most convincing argument to courts in upholding religious exemptions to vaccination.
Among others defying mandates, christians have braved backlash, job loss, and cancellation, and it’s not surprising given the tenets of that faith. Christians believe they answer to a higher power than the government, and that all trials and suffering in this life are small parts of a glorious plan that ultimately works for complete good. And they believe that, if they die from Covid, it was part of God’s original plan for this flawed world, and they will be resurrected in an indestructible new body on a perfect new Earth.In other words, Christians’ faith is an antidote to FEAR, the psyops weapon primarily relied on by the government to “nudge” our compliance with the jabs. If you think about it, faith and fear are mutually exclusive. You can’t hold them both in your mind at the same time. Each pushes out the other. If you have faith, what is there to be afraid of? “Do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul,” Jesus advised.
As an agnostic intellectual who came to faith later in life, I totally understand the skepticism that many folks have about preposterous-seeming religious claims to an afterlife. It sounds a lot like wishful thinking. Karl Marx famously claimed that Christian theology is just the opium of the masses, a mind-drug deployed by powerful forces to keep people from rebelling against their difficult economic conditions. Of course, Marx was insane, and a terrible economist, so there’s THAT.
As Marx showed, Christian theology can be made to appear anti-intellectual, as it is “faith based” and relies on an unprovable belief in an afterlife. But I can tell you from personal experience that studying “real” theology — not the media-hyped straw arguments — has been a profoundly intellectually rewarding pursuit. Try reading some Augustine or Kierkegaard sometime.
There is no such thing as a purely-objective, non-faith-based worldview. Everybody, even hardcore atheists, takes the universe, and their place in it, on faith. For example, to be a good atheist these days, you must faithfully accept that a “multiverse” exists, which makes for an entertaining Spiderman movie but is just as unprovable as life after death.
So it all comes down to a decision about WHAT to take on faith. If you have to choose SOMETHING, isn’t it better to decide to believe in the thing that wipes away fear, explains suffering, erases guilt, and fills you with hope no matter how dark things in the world seem to appear? The multiverse can’t help too much with that. But Easter can.
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Finally, some terrifically-understated news for the pandemic. Governor DeSantis didn’t officially acknowledge the meeting, but some folks online reported that the Governor lunched with Dr. Vladimir Zelenko this week to discuss Covid issues.
To many, Zelenko is a hero of the pandemic, having suggested alternative treatments to Covid from the earliest days, and having controversially been rabidly and consistently anti-jab. He recently announced on Gettr he’d had the meeting with DeSantis (and he’s also moved to Florida), but then quickly deleted the post without explanation. Given a picture of the two men and the hastily-removed post, it seems likely the meeting occurred.
Just because the men met does NOT mean that DeSantis necessarily endorses anything Zelenko says or suggests, just like my speaking events next week with a variety of Covid docs doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree with each of their particular views. But it DOES mean that DeSantis remains willing to consider any and all information on Covid treatment prevention.
Governor DeSantis is a smart guy who makes his own decisions. It’s terrific news that he is still seeking out and listening to as many ideas as possible to handle this pandemic, which clearly won’t be over till we pry it out of Fauci’s withered digits. So this meeting is terrific news, showing Governor DeSantis is still in the fight and is still leading on Covid. -
The worst industrial accident in American history happened 75 years ago today in Texas City. While docked, a mid-morning fire on the SS Grandcamp ignited its lethal cargo of ammonia nitrate. At least 581 died. Only one member of the Texas City Fire Department lived. The 2 ton anchor was thrown almost two miles way.
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Don’t buy Rheem water heaters.
I had one fail in 2018 and flood the basement. It failed at 8 years into a 10 year tank warranty.
I bought another 10-year tank warranty, 50 gallon unit about this time 4 years ago to replace it. I woke up at 4 AM and heard this high-pitched sound and wasn’t sure what it was. I finally realized it was the water leak alarm in the basement and water heater tank was starting to leak. There was about a half gallon of water on the floor so I shutoff inbound and outbound water, turned off the gas and drained the tank.
It is a premium model 10-year tank warranty and the tank started leaking at 4 years. The trap I’m in is I can’t get credit on the warranty unless I take the leaky one back and buy another one at Home Depot.
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Jesus did not descend to the domain of the damned. That would not make any sense.
No it would not make sense. In fact one need only read what Jesus said to the thief on the cross. Jesus told him precisely where “they” were going and by default Jesus told those who are redeemed by his blood where we will go immediately after death.
Luke 23:42-43
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” 43 And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
I realize my Catholic brothers and sisters believe in a place called purgatory. I have no desire to enter into a discussion whether that is a true place or not. I am quite comfortable with what the Master said to the thief, I know when I die I will be with Jesus in paradise.
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PMSNBC Warns of ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Allows Free Speech.
Talk about a hair-on-fire reaction. During her show on Thursday, PMSNBC host Katy Tur was frantic in her warning against allowing Elon Musk to purchase Twitter. Her shrill declarations ranged from claiming he was going to charge for access to “real and devastating” plus “life and globe-altering consequences” if Musk obtained the site and allowed free speech to flourish.
Without evidence, Tur began the segment by suggesting if Musk “gets his way” he was going to make Twitter a pay-to-access service. “Will you soon have to pay to use Twitter? If Elon Musk gets his way, maybe. He’s trying to buy the platform,” she declared.
And despite announcing “here’s what he said about it just moments ago,” the soundbite she played had nothing about a subscription model or anything that would indicate Musk would charge to use Twitter.
Elon Musk:
Twitter has become effectually the de facto town square. So – It’s really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they’re able to speak freely, within the bounds of the law, and so one of the things I believe Twitter should do is open source the algorithm.
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Morning, chickadees. I just got invited to Easter lunch at the 80 y.o. neighbor’s house tomorrow. Now I need to go to Kroger’s before their bakery is all sold out.
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mHarper
Morning, chickadees. I just got invited to Easter lunch at the 80 y.o. neighbor’s house tomorrow.
Oh to be a
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Dedicated to all couch crawlers.
Joey Ramone is that you?
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Hey Brother Phil is back. Whoohoo
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It looks like A.O. Smith, Rheem, and Bradford White are the three biggest water heater manufacturers, together accounting for 90% of the business.
And A.O. Smith doesn’t sell to the public.
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Heh. Back at you Brother Squawk.
I just got back from my part-time job of drivin’ illegals to D C for Governor Stack the Matchbox Cars.
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Dang, phil.
Welcome back.
You look a little rough.
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That was the day the bus had a flat in a rain storm near the Rio Grande.:) -
It’s all over now
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I realize my Catholic brothers and sisters believe in a place called purgatory. I have no desire to enter into a discussion whether that is a true place or not. I am quite comfortable with what the Master said to the thief, I know when I die I will be with Jesus in paradise.
The whole “descended to Hell” on the same day the thief would “be with me in Paradise” confused me until I heard Marshall’s explanation. Then it all made perfect sense.
This hunt and peck typing with an ice pack strapped to my hand sucks.
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#28. Nice tune unckola.
#30. Now that’s funny Bro Squawk.
Is that CletusBox?
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Brother Phil
That is Snow Box short for Snake Oil Willie
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That saw about arguing with an idiot intent on being an idiot?
I had a problem with a mail carrier, and a lady jumped in and blamed the “Republican running the post office”. This lady – and one other – are quick to blame a Republican for every woe and stubbed toe in life.
She has even blamed Trump – somehow mixing up the mail in ballot fiasco and “running a business” and Trump appointed this Postmaster General???
Makes. No. Sense. I highly doubt Trump was behind whatever mail-in ballot mess she’s talking about. Leaving her to her own convoluted thinking. That’s a dark and confusing maze that I don’t need to be stepping into.
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I came home from Kroger with a LARGE cherry pie. My favorite is pecan pie, but they didn’t have a large one on display. I expect there will be at least 4 people at the table tomorrow, so I want enough pie to get everyone stuffed — self included.
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I think I have finished my 1040, but I need to check it one more time. I am also filing a Form 709, which is how you tell Unca Sugar that you have made a taxfree gift to someone to put against your current lifetime limit of 11 million bucks.
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We are bout to go to full scale war.
Second warning y’all.
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Good middle of the afternoon, Hamsters.
The overcast sky seems right for Holy Saturday’s reminders of Good Friday and the glory of Easter Sunday to come. Mostly quiet and subdued today around our neighborhood with only a couple of families having small children who will excitedly greet what The Bunny hides for them to find on Sunday. Some homes in the area have decorations on front lawns or porches to welcome and brighten the season.
We now have a growing canopy of green leaves on many of our trees, and even the pecans are showing buds and new leaves ready to join in. Despite the lack of rain here the pastures are still bright green and full of primroses in large clumps. Unfortunately the soil is still rock hard and bumpy. The sprinklers in the yards keep the lawns emerald green, and the flowerbeds with freeze-surviving valiant pansies are coming to life again. It is still a bit early to plant summer flowers that can take the heat to come.
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Sadly amusing is the 180 many libs are taking once they have discovered Mr. Musk is not one of them at all, never mind his wealth that could insulate him and his family from just about any misfortune. Hope he is able to buy out all of Twitter and return it to what it was supposed to have been from the get-go instead of the current protect-at-all-costs the liberal/socialist view of everything known to man or beast. The libs are clearly delusional at best, insane at worst, and totally blind to what their socialist engineering has already done to injure our nation at every turn.
But failing that venture, Mr. Musk is perfectly capable of starting his own Twitter-like organization. Umm, chew on that, socialists.
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It’s becoming hard to find the canned cat food that my cat herd has lived their whole lives on: Friskies Shreds, once found in 8 or 10 flavors. There have been NO cans of Shreds on the shelves at my Kroger store for almost a month. A week ago, I lucked out and there was one box of 24 cans, which I was glad to get even though 2 of the 3 flavors included were not among their favorites. In 10 days or so, I will have to try other stores to see if they have some, OR see if the Puds will eat some other label of canned food. Their dry food is still easy to find, even if their favorite is approaching 2X what it used to cost.
I assume everyone may be having trouble finding something that they always bought on trips to their grocery stores.
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#40 – Might try Amazon…………….
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24 Shannon
Rheem – Home Depot
AO Smith – Lowes
Bradford White – This is the company that sells only to plumbing contractors and is extra pricey. Contractors get a hefty discount off the retail price which why so many use them. There’s a Bradford White showroom and distribution center near here and I walked in and bought one for old customers who were in a real jam. I replaced the bad BW heater with the new one, took me three hours and I made $750*. I still don’t know why the Bradford White people didn’t ask me for a plumbers’ license.
Their regular plumber wanted to charge them $1,150 for labor.
PS. I got $510 credit on the Rheem 50 gallon water heater today that was 4 years old. I paid $579 for it so I used that new unit for 4 years at $17.25 per year.
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Caretta Benedetta and her man.
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Monica Bellucci made this film, Malena, in 2000 at 36 years old. She was in her prime as a young movie star. The film wasn’t the most popular among critics, but the public loved it and it received raves for cinematography and set direction. It begins in a small, coastal Italian village at the beginning of WWII in 1940. The art and set direction are great for a period film like this. There are weeks and months of work that go into the planning and execution of these scenes,.
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#41 KF
I once, years ago, ordered some canned cat food that was delivered to the house. Several cans were mangled and dripping on the cans below them on the pallet. Was not a pleasant experience.
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I might have experienced something similar to Texpat’s shoulder injury today. While making up our bed this morning I slightly lifted the mattress edge to tuck the bottom sheet under it. Immediately I had considerable sharp pain in my left shoulder simultaneous with a sharp pop/snap noise. At first I thought I might have dislocated my arm from the socket, but that was not the case as I could move it in some directions with no pain but not in others.
Spouse was not at home then, being out doing ham radio license proctoring this morning, and kitty Purrscilla looked worried but obviously couldn’t do anything to help. Managed to maneuver my arm enough to finish the bed and then had to sit down until I figured out how I could move my shoulder without so much pain. Then I managed to get to the Tylenol bottle in the bathroom and take a couple of capsules before having to sit down again.
Spouse got home an hour later and knew immediately what was injured since he had the same thing happen several years ago. It was a likely torn shoulder tendon. Spouse’s tendon was completely torn. Possibly mine is only partly torn. And I have the strangest bruise in my upper arm just below the shoulder, same as he had. It is greenish yellow, no blood in it, probably lubricating fluid.
Am much better tonight after a second dose of Tylenol, but there is some swelling now, which spouse also had. Will have to make an appointment with the orthopedist on Monday. Meantime caution is required although my range of motion in it has improved.
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So what Y’all doing? Oh wait, Texpat is trying to break my heart with his #43. 😀
And Squawkster is up to his usual pranks.
I’ve had a good day in spite of the rain off and on and somehow we squeezed out a little over a ¼” before daylight and in the early morning but there is more to come.
So,…I have that going for me.
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Texpat, I have a question, do you think that the water heater problem is due to poor quality control or poor engineering? The reason I ask is that they’ve been making water heaters for over a hundred years and it’s real easy to make one last, (short of poor water quality) so I can’t imagine that the heater would be engineered to last only a a few years BUTT we are in a complete new world…..HE!! I really want to replace my three and a half year old, fancy Coffee Pot but I’m afraid that the new one would be a POS!
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Adee – you be careful and take care of yourself!
Sometimes, it’s the slightest movement that causes damage. Amazing.
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Brother Phil
Since I do not have Hamous to bounce this off of…….tag you’re it.
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I still cuss the Cuisinart toaster every morning.
I don’t know why I haven’t taken it out and shot it.
Been going on for a couple years now.
It’s some kind of sickness, I guess.
And the $10 ones at Walmart are probably now $20.
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#46 – The worst I ever hurt my back was when I was trying to make up the bed and lifted the mattress. Down to the floor I went, and since that time I have never made my bed up again.
About bedtime out here. You all have a good night.
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About to go to bed and see if I can find a way to lie down and not be hurting. While I’m awake, no problem. But when asleep it might be another matter. Two more Tylenol and I’m off to bed.
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Had Texpat written this song it would’ve been called Mon-i-ca.
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Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang, and Brother Dave. Looking at a nice Easter morning out here, high in the high 80’s, some wind protection for my plants as it’s coming from the NNW today. Not certain what might be on the agenda for today, but I’ll stir up something. BTW, I may have mentioned that I’m being over run with ivy plants which started with some cuttings when BFF trimmed her’s back a few years ago. I brought them home, rooted them in water, planted them in pots, and they found a happy spot and just exploded. This year I noticed that the leaves were dying off, long stalks were developing, etc. I finally took out plant outside to inspect it and there was hardly a drop of soil left – it was completely root bound. So I replanted all of them in larger pots, gave them all good haircuts, but then I decided to root some of the clippings and make pots for them as well. With no good place to put them. Anyway, while in Dallas, BFF had one old scraggly ivy plant in her bedroom that had been there for a couple of months unattended, was starved for light, and was mostly dead. So I brought it back to SS, cleaned it up, repotted it in a larger pot, and it seems to be responding nicely. I had just left it outside since I did not have a place for it inside. So when I got yesterday’s invitation to go visit my brother, I took that opportunity to offload that monstrosity on them. His wife has flower beds galore and potted flowering plants everywhere, so no doubt it will find a happy home out there, or they can off load it on to one of their kids. I have no doubt that it will explode where ever it lands. I believe BFF told me that original was one of her wedding gifts close to 50 years ago. So that’s my Easter story for this morning. It’s all about the resurrection.
Happy Easter to all. More later.
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Happy Easter to all! He is risen!
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I remember hearing some years ago a story from an acquaintance who had toured the Holy Land. Their tour guide was Jewish, but had been taught about the Christian faith so he could do his job. My friend’s tour was taken to the two sites which vie for the honor of being the tomb of Jesus. They were allowed to poke their heads in and the following exchange occurred:
Tour member: “But there’s nothing there!”
Tour guide: “If I understand your religion correctly, isn’t that the point?”Still makes me chuckle when I think about it.
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I mentioned before that Friday night was NOT a good sleeping night. Hubby and I both fell asleep after dinner last night, and I was chuckling about Old Folks and their sleeping patterns changing. Hubby is up and down all night for pain reasons, and is always up by 5:00 a.m. to start his day – so he always falls asleep in his chair right after dinner. Me – it all depends on if I sleep well the night before, but I am more of a night owl and sleep later in the morning than he does.
Anyway, after having my short nap, I went to work on a cover for my missal. I have an older one, and I had to glue a spot together where the front cover was tearing loose from the body of the book. I found a pretty paper at Hobby Lobby and made a new front end page that I glued on yesterday, to help hold it together.
But all of that didn’t solve my ribbon problem: the ribbons that were part of the missal were tiny, faded, had worn short, and were practically useless. I had tried to fuse new ribbon over the old, but the new ribbons were coming loose. So, I wanted a new cover that had its own ribbons sewn into it, handles so I could carry it easier (over my wrist if wanted), and a pocket into which I could tuck prayer books, bulletins, etc.
I decided that last night was the night, so after my short nap I stayed up to work on it. It was confusing, since I had so many pieces. “Dry fitting” the parts with pins was problematic, but helpful. I still sewed some seams out of order, which made later seams a problem, but I got ‘er done. About midnight I went to bed, tired because I was still behind on my sleep, and about 20 minutes after closing my eyes my brain went on full PERK! Oh, hails no! I got some melatonin down and finally fell asleep.
I hate when my brain wakes up when my body obviously needs its rest.
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He is risen indeed!
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Adee
It sounds to me like you have a tendon tear in your shoulder. I didn’t realize until my injury that the human shoulder only has 4 small tendons to hold all those muscles together in the most complex joint in the body. They usually measure the tears in millimeters.
Good Luck !
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After weeks of dredging (84,000 cu.yds) and planning, and two previous failed attempts, the grounded container ship Ever Forward has been re-floated today in Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake Bay doesn’t get much of a tidal change, but the highest tide of the month (1.6 feet) was at 6:45am this morning and that’s when they started the pulling and pushing.
They changed plans and decided to move her south to anchor near Annapolis (instead of back to Baltimore), where deeper, clearer water will facilitate hull inspection and possibly further offloading.
Not finding any video from local media. This being Easter, they’re probably running skeleton crews.
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Professor Mercogliano explores WW2 Expeditionary Logistics and Support in the Pacific theater and the implications for future Pacific wars.
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We’re getting a little overcast today, pleasant temps, and some relief from the wind (it’s blowing from the north and blocked by the house, not that it has actually gone away), and it could be described as just “real nice” out there today. I’ve not seen the need to water the plants today since they appear to be still moist and have some relief from the drying winds and higher temps.
My neighbor lady’s new boyfriend has started making eggs with some new laying hens. I eat a lot of eggs and normally buy them in 5 dozen boxes at Wallyworld when I go, so I donated several egg cartons and a couple of the boxes with the cardboard egg waffles to the cause. She brought me an 18 pack yesterday. The hens just started laying, and the eggs are very small and brown to tan in color. She said she is already looking for more cartons, so sounds like the girls are just laying away. Anyway, my careful analysis determined that I should eat 4 of these eggs where I would eat 2 normal sized eggs. 2 of the 4 eggs I cracked were double yolked, so I scored a big bonus on that. And there is just no comparison between them and store bought eggs. Problem is that an 18 pack is only good for 4 or 5 meals, but they are savory meals for sure.
Nothing else to report for now. Rice baseball at 1PM. More later.
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Morning, chickadees, and Happy Easter to all. My email this morning includes a USPS Informed Delivery that sez I have a package arriving today. That would be unbelievable for an ordinary Sunday, but today?
My 19 y.o. Millie has been ravenous this morning. I got up late (even for me!) and all the cats were very hungry, but Millie has come to me at this keyboard 6 times since she had her bowl of regular breakfast, wanting more chow. Our current deal is: she tells me she is still hungry and I fetch her another small bowl of fancy cat food — AND here she comes again! Me, I had gotten up so late (10:15 a.m.!) that I have skipped my own breakfast. The Easter meal next door at 1 pm is earlier than I usually eat at “lunchtime”, so I hope to be suitably hungry by then.
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Happy Easter or Happy Passover as is appropriate today. Not sunny here as hoped for early this morning, but the overcast is slowly getting lighter. Anyway the Bunny has good night vision as do his “helpers”. Neighborhood is quiet as usual on a Sunday, though we’ve had our neighbor driving his mini horse and cart through the subdivision. Perhaps there was a bunny surrounded with decorated eggs riding in the cart that we couldn’t see. 🙂
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I rolled up to Tomball in hopes of catching the raw honey vendor I’ve patronized for 10 – 15 years at least.
Alas He was obviously taking Easter off – at least I got a nice, albeit short, cruise in!
HE is Risen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Got the small electric pressure washer out and washed around where all the plants have been being worked on, where the wind has snow drift type piles of leaves, and generally just cleaned the entry to the front of the house. I’m pretty sure that all the leaves will be back in a day or two, but it looks pretty good for right now. Went ahead and washed my filthy toaster van while i was at it. May be the first time I’ve ever actually sprayed water on it with the intention of washing the dust off. Dusty road out to brother’s house. Got pressure washer all broken down and put away again. Probably be at least a year before I get it out again.
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Went ahead and washed my filthy toaster van while i was at it. May be the first time I’ve ever actually sprayed water on it with the intention of washing the dust off. Dusty road out to brother’s house.
I can’t decide if he pressured washed his toaster oven or his vehicle.
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#71 Same here.
Well, it’s trying to start raining here again, thunder rumbling to the west and I’m hoping for a good rain. We got .33″ yesterday but this rain is supposed to be better.
In other news, my wife went to fetch my sister since she doesn’t want to drive with her bum shoulder. I put some Bambi Backstraps in the oven about 1 PM. I cut them up, stuffed them in poblano pepper halves and wrapped them with bacon. They are real good this way. -
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Me three. I did not know he had a van,,,or a toaster.
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It’s a van that looks like a toaster.
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I’m a bit more concerned about this sentence construction:
My neighbor lady’s new boyfriend has started making eggs with some new laying hens.
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#75 Sarge,
Yes, that could be cause for concern. 🙂
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I report, you decide.
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A yummy meal was had next door. My 80 y.o. neighbor Ken is a good cook, and he had prepared a fancy green salad, baked yam slices, ham, fresh baked biscuits, and some sort of shelled peas the diameter of pennies. Dessert was the cherry pie I brought. Everything was delicious and I know I overate.
The other guest was his friend who is a fellow retired military officer — a lovely ex-Marine in her 80s who administers his meds and keeps an eye on him. His live-in major domo Kenny had gone to some suburb of Houston for his mother’s Easter meal, but came back before I had gone home. Because Ken is often in the hospital, his man Kenny keeps the house, yard, 2 indoor doggies, and 2 fish-and-turtle ponds in the back yard going.
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Easter Supper. My sister came over so I fixed some Bambi Backstraps wrapped in Bacon with Poblano, turnip greens, rice, broccoli N carrots, biscuits and gravy. I also had three jalapeno deviled eggs left over and my sister loves them so we finished them off. Life is Good.
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I love this picture because you can see the big Red Oak behind me, the chicken house between us and the old pump house on the right.
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Left over sirloin steak, left over home grown asparagus spears wrapped in bacon, fresh steamed but still a little crunchy cauliflower. Not a bad keto dinner out here.
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We now know NOT to bet against Jordan Spieth coming out of a sand trap!!
Wow!
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We finally got a sunny late afternoon despite all the clouds hanging around at the edges. Still quiet out here so whoever might be having company over certainly has kept it a secret.
Hoping our neighbor now in assisted living was over at her daughter’s home today and had a good time. Her house looks as though she’s still there, and it is well kept up by the family. Yard lights come on as usual and back and front door lights also. Some of our neighbors did not know she wasn’t there, so it must look absolutely normal.
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#83 – We need a physical condition update. Pain level, range of motion, all that stuff.
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Eighty Six!
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Handsome Son was invited to dinner. Lovely DIL is out of town, and Handsome stayed behind to do some major yard debris clearance for heavy trash pickup this week.
I pulled out my 87 cents/pound ham, cooked up some brussels sprouts, my backyard salad, and a pasta side (for them). We all got pretty full.
Handsome asked for some ham to take home for his wife. I’m betting it won’t last long enough for her to make it home.
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FWIW; Today is the first time I’ve seen sister since her shoulder mishap on Tuesday. Her shoulder was dislocated but she also has a fracture of her humerus about midway up from her elbow. She has her arm in a sling and had to go to a bone specialist because the ER doctor thought she might need surgery. But fortunately the fracture is small and will heal just fine if she takes care of it and doesn’t stress it. She said it was getting better and only hurts when she tries to sleep since there is no way to get comfortable. The last thing I told her today was that whatever she does don’t take the damn sling off when it starts to feel better, wait until the doctor says it’s OK. I also told her that the reason I’m saying this is that it is what I might do and she is a whole lot like me.
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Spent Easter at Surfside.
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Hubby said a car club member ran into Ted Cruz in Galveston. They were both picking up clean laundry from the same place. I guess Cruz is vacationing in Galveston.
And picks up his own laundry.
Something I’m sure Maxine Waters hasn’t done in years.
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Had a good day today. Got some exercise, did not over do it, had a good dinner, and pleasant conversations with friends via Messenger and/or phone (even though I still think the phone is an instrument of the devil). Family dinner last night was also nice.
Gonna stay up for another few minutes and get to bed on time. You all have a good evening, and I’ll report back later if anything develops. Nite nite all.
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#90 TT
“Ran into” meaning “encountered”? I was alarmed by that sentence on first reading.
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Encountered. They were inside the establishment.
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I discounted this email from the Post Office when I saw it this morning:
“USPS Informed Delivery:
Arriving Today Sunday, Apr 17
PURITY PRODUCTS / UPS
92612924911615551056348155”But I did have a package in my curbside mailbox when I checked at about 7 pm! I had looked both before and after going to the Easter luncheon next door, and never actually believed I would have a USPS delivery today — until I saw it with my own 2 aging eyeballs.
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G’night all. Hope everybody had an enjoyable day.
Tomorrow beckons with rain in the forecast for the Houston area, and I hope it is more than a drizzle for everybody.
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