Monday Open Comments

Interesting picture.
The rain should be moving out this morning and we got a little over 2″ in the last 2 days. 2.33″ to be exact. We’ll take it.
Mornin’ Gang

Super Dave

Never heard of Broccolini? Me neither but it’s a hybrid of broccoli that has long stems and small florets. The skinny stems are better tasting than the coarse stalk on regular broccoli. FWIW; One of the Appalachian Cooks, ladies posted a picture of it and dang it looks good. 😉

GJT

You killing’ it Davey! 😛

Texpat

Kicking a$$ in Florida…

The Florida Department of Education announced on Friday that after a recent review, 41% of proposed K-12 mathematics books intended for use during the 2022-2023 public school year did not meet state academic standards due to their apparent inclusion of Critical Race Theory principles and other controversial approaches to education.

“Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,” Florida’s Department of Education said in a statement.

“The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies,” Florida’s D.O.E. added.

Texpat

The World Wildlife Fund is run by the worst and dumbest enviromorons.

Apple launched its 2022 Earth Day initiative Thursday with $1 for every Apple Pay transaction until the environmental holiday on April 22 donated to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an explicitly anti-nuclear group.

“WWF has a vision for the future which phases out the use of fossil fuel and nuclear in the share of energy use across the globe,” reads a 2003 position paper from the non-profit outlining a stance maintained nearly 20 years later.

The WWF promotion was highlighted by energy author Alex Epstein on Twitter as merely the latest example of Apple promoting an anti-nuclear agenda. The company deceptively promotes its operations as run entirely on renewable energy, which excludes nuclear power, with the purchase of green credits from other consumers on local power grids to provide a cover for its use of reliable coal and natural gas.

Super Dave

You killing’ it Davey!

YUP! Thanks for pulling her out of that Flat Spin! 😀

Can anyone ‘splain the colors in the OC pic?

Texpat

No words for this…

Two local diversity advocates in Arizona are taking heat after calling a school district racist for hiring a DJ to perform in blackface — but it turns out the DJ was black.

Stuart Rhoden and Jill Lassen — who specialize in diversity, equity and inclusion — lambasted the Scottsdale Unified School District’s Hopi Elementary PTA for its decision to hire Kim Koko Hunter, 56, a local black DJ, at a charity event.

Both Rhoden and Lassen, who are involved in diversity work in the school district, slammed the school after seeing a picture of Hunter, only to later learn his race, according to the Arizona Daily Independent.

Coffee & Covid ☙ Monday, April 18, 2022 ☙ FACT CHECKING

Happy Monday, C&Cers; I hope everyone enjoyed a joyful and rewarding Easter weekend. It’s Tax Day, again, time to fund some more illicit gain-of-function research and stuff. Apart from an encounter with a snapping turtle with Hillary Clinton’s personality, our holiday was restful and recharging. Starting Thursday, I’ll be traveling, on the road for a four-day medical freedom speaking tour in North and Central Florida.

Today’s roundup includes some good news from the airlines, and I fact-check all the original claims about the jabs. You’ll never guess how it turned out.

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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

✈️ First, good news for Delta employees. Last week, Delta announced it was ending its hated monthly $200 “health” surcharge levied against unvaccinated employees. According to CNBC, Delta president Ed Bastian announced in a call that “any employees that haven’t been vaccinated will not be paying extra insurance costs going forward.”

He also said Delta wants the airline mask mandate to be lifted and that once the mandate officially ends, Delta does not plan to impose its own mandate.

CNBC also noted in the article that United Airlines announced last month it would allow unvaccinated workers who’d received an exemption to return to their regular jobs from unpaid leave, citing dropping Covid cases.

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The censorship dam preventing discussion about negative vaccine effects is beginning to break, and we are learning a LOT more information about the precise mechanisms of injury, when they occur. I decided to organize the most current information for you in a “fact check,” comparing what was originally claimed about the jabs to what we know now.

This is not a jeremiad against the jabs. I’m not suggesting that folks who’ve been jabbed are done for. My only goal is to help inform your decision about taking the next booster, and expose the big fat liars who convinced a lot of people to take these medicines without informed consent. I’m making a wild guess that some people might have chosen differently had they known how LITTLE the public health experts truly understood the risks — however rare — of these novel treatments.

1. We were assured the jabs would shut down infections and achieve herd immunity. “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” Joe Biden famously promised the nation.

Fact check: False. The jabs never provided sterilizing immunity, and now the best data shows negative efficacy, meaning that triple-vaccinated folks appear MORE likely to be infected. You don’t need a link for this one, but if you want a reference, just look to the UK’s March report, which includes a nice table summarizing the current state of affairs.

2. They promised us that the safe and effective mRNA would stay put, captured in the shoulder muscle where it was injected. “It’s safe because it doesn’t travel around the body. All the stimulus your body needs to make antibodies happens right in the shoulder.”

Fact check: False. Studies in animals and more recently in human autopsies have shown mRNA can migrate all over the body. What’s the long-term effect of this? Who knows. It wasn’t studied, Pfizer told everyone the novel therapeutic could not escape the injection site. Worse, FOIA documents obtained in Japan showed that Pfizer DID do preliminary biodistribution studies; at the time they were telling us it didn’t, they knew perfectly well that mRNA did travel.

Even worse, it has now become clear that LOTS of jabs are being administered by incompetent staff who fail to “aspirate” the needle before injecting to make sure they aren’t accidentally shooting mRNA directly into a vein. Mainlined mRNA travels throughout the body even faster, maybe in minutes or hours, and could be the reason why some folks experience sudden and serious adverse events after getting the shots.

3. We were ASSURED that mRNA decayed quickly, within hours. “It’s safe because it is an unstable molecule, and disappears quickly after it’s done its job.”

Fact check: Super false. Studies are finding mRNA in the body up to TWO MONTHS post-injection. While it’s true that mRNA is usually unstable, Pfizer and Moderna “stabilized” their versions using a variety of techniques so that the delicate molecules could survive shipping and storage. They overshot the mark, and the mRNA is NOT disappearing quickly. Remember, mRNA is the thing that teaches cells to make spike protein. It literally infects cells, like a virus, and reprograms them to become spike factories.

Significantly, this is VERY different from a normal Covid-19 infection, where natural spike usually clears after a few DAYS. In the words of one study: “The observed extended presence of vaccine mRNA and spike protein in vaccinee [lymph node germinal centers] for up to 2 months after vaccination was in contrast to rare foci of viral spike protein in COVID-19 patient [lymph nodes]”.

Link: [Immune imprinting, breadth of variant recognition, and germinal center response in human SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination – ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867422000769)

4. They promised us that mRNA was safe because it only targeted the shoulder muscle cells and couldn’t possibly infect organ cells or lymph nodes or other tissues.

Fact check: Totally false, not even close. To trick cells into accepting the mRNA payloads, Pfizer and Moderna encased the molecules in a tiny dab of fat, called a “lipid nanoparticle” (LNP). The LNPs make the tiny mRNAs “promiscuous,” meaning they can infect virtually ANY type of cell, such as the inner lining of veins, called the endothelium.

The big problem with this is that a cell infected by mRNA and shooting out spike proteins will be targeted by the body for destruction, just like any other kind of viral infection. The body doesn’t like cells that aren’t acting right and it targets them for destruction with extreme prejudice. Worse, in order to protect the mRNA from immediate termination by the immune system, the mRNA particles were combined with immuno-suppressant drugs called adjuvants. So for about the first week, while the adjuvants are suppressing your immune response, the mRNA has free rein to infect your cells, whichever ones it can get to.

So the end result is that jabbed people have lots of cells “infected” with mRNA and the body tries to destroy all those cells, which the CDC euphemistically calls “clearing them from the body.” Unlike natural Covid spike that only targets a few types of cells (those with ACE-2 receptors), mRNA payloads can infect ANY type of cell. At that point, the body has a HUGE job to “clear” itself of all these mRNA-infected cells, which may explain increased levels of autoimmune problems we’re seeing in some vaccine recipients.

5. Fauci et al promised us that it was CONCLUSIVELY DETERMINED that the mRNA would NOT infect reproductive organs. They said it was COMPLETELY SAFE for expectant mothers and couples who wanted kids. No possible way it could affect reproduction, they said.

Fact check: 100% false. There is now evidence finding LNPs, mRNA and vaccine-induced spike in ovaries, testes, and most other organs and systems involved in reproduction. Recently-disclosed Pfizer documents (the Japan FOIA) provide evidence that the company knew this during its preliminary animal studies: “Also, mainly the liver, spleen, adrenal glands and distribution to the ovaries was observed, and the highest radioactivity concentration in these tissues was 8 to 48 after administration.”

Late last year, after repeated denials, the NIH was forced to admit that many women were experiencing changes in their menstrual cycles post-vaccination, and has issued millions in grants to study the problem.

What’s the short or long-term effect of this on human fertility? Unknown. But according to some commenters, any other drug showing these effects on reproductive tissues would have been pulled by now.

6. They promised us that IN NO EVENT could the mRNA enter the cell’s nucleus or modify DNA. It’s not a gene therapy!, they insisted. The CDC still insists, “mRNA never enters the nucleus of the cell where our DNA is located, so it cannot change or influence our genes.”

Fact check: Probably FALSE. At least one in vitro study has found the spike protein instructions being incorporated into cells’ own DNA in a process called “reverse transcription.” The authors reported “BNT162b2 mRNA is reverse transcribed intracellularly into DNA in as fast as 6 h[ours] upon BNT162b2 exposure.”

The possibilities are staggering. A re-wired cell could produce spike protein forever, which could explain “long Covid,” where people appear to permanently test positive for Covid. Or, if the body treats these rewired cells as cancerous, it could trigger autoimmune diseases. Finally, modified sperm or egg cells could pass the mutated DNA into ALL children’s cells.

Link: [Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line](https://www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/44/3/73/htm)

7. Okay, so maybe it travels around a little, but they promised, FOR SURE, the mRNA cannot pass the blood brain barrier and infect brain cells, which would be VERY bad. It can’t happen, don’t worry, they said. There’s no reason to think that.

Fact check: Again, false. The same Pfizer biodistribution animal study obtained from the Japanese FOIA shows mRNA LNPs were found in rodent brains. This isn’t new; it’s been known since at least 2018 when LNPs were touted as a way to deliver drugs directly to the brain (Shankar, et al, 2018).

Furthermore, multiple studies have now confirmed that spike protein itself can cross the blood-brain barrier. While this is a problem both for natural spike as well as vaccine-induced spike, it is a more serious problem for vaccine-induced spike, because natural spike clears from the body in days in most cases, whereas mRNA-infected cells can continue to produce spike for months, or even longer with repeated booster shots.

Link: [The S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier in mice | Nature Neuroscience](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00771-8)

8. We were told the spike proteins induced by the vaccine mRNA were modified from the natural spike to be “safe” and they couldn’t possibly hurt us. It would be madness to give people a “vaccine” that created a toxic spike, so OF COURSE the artificial spike was tailored to be harmless.

Fact check: False. Studies, more and more of them, are suggesting that the vaccine-induced spike itself is dangerous to human tissue. A December 2021 study concluded, “The potential implications of S-protein amyloidogenesis in COVID-19 disease associated pathogenesis and consequences following S-protein based vaccines should be addressed in understanding … vaccine side effects.”

A more recent study (April 15th) asserts the mRNA-induced spikes are themselves toxic.

The authors wrote:

In this paper, we present evidence that vaccination induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health. Immune cells that have taken up the vaccine nanoparticles release into circulation large numbers of exosomes containing spike protein along with critical microRNAs that induce a signaling response in recipient cells at distant sites. We also identify potential profound disturbances in regulatory control of protein synthesis and cancer surveillance. These disturbances potentially have a causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell’s palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, impaired DNA damage response and tumorigenesis.

Link: [Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs – ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X)

9. We were told that kids experiencing myocarditis would be fine, it was ‘mild’ and they’d recover quickly.

Fact check: False. A new study concluded that 3-8 months after an initial diagnosis of post-jab myocarditis in teenagers, a large majority persistently show abnormal markers associated with a worse prognosis of present and future heart function, despite improvement in other cardiac markers. The authors noted, “In a cohort of adolescents with COVID-19 mRNA vaccine-related myopericarditis, a large portion have persistent LGE abnormalities, raising concerns for potential longer-term effects … LGE is a predictor of all cause death, cardiovascular death, cardiac transplant, rehospitalization, recurrent acute myocarditis and requirement for mechanical circulatory support.”

So, the bottom line is that there is very little that we were originally told about the shots that was true. Charitably, maybe public health officials were just being optimistic when they touted the universal safety of the shots, and didn’t MEAN to mislead anyone. It doesn’t matter. Their most important job was to be precise and thorough. They weren’t.

The silver lining is that apparently the embargo on information critical of the shots has been lifted. We’re not where we need to be yet, but the momentum is building. We need to keep up the pressure and continue the search for truth. It’s working!

#4 is probably why morticians are seeing so many of those weird, extremely long clots in their “clients”. I believe I linked to an article some weeks ago where a mortician was seeing an incredibly high number of his clients with fibrous (not blood) clots in their bodies. A picture of one such clot, shown next to the victim’s leg, was a long, white, fibrous clot almost the length of the leg it came from. It had to be removed before the mortician could finish processing the body.

If those clots are in the heart, brain, or lungs as well….

I found a link to only one such article:

Board-certified funeral directors and embalmers are coming forward to tell tales of horror featuring vaccinated bodies with veins and arteries clogged with strange, rubbery, worm-like clots.

Richard Hirschman, a funeral director and embalmer from Alabama, with over twenty years of experience in the field, has said in recent interviews that he had never seen anything like it until around the middle of 2021, after the mass injections of the experimental COVID vaccines began. He says his colleagues in the field are seeing the same thing, and the numbers are increasing.

Earlier this month, Hirschman told Steve Kirsch, the Executive Director of the Vaccine Research Center, that in Jan 2022, 37 out of 57 bodies (65 percent) had these suspicious clots.

He also noted that he has only seen the strange clots in one unvaccinated case—in a person who had received a blood transfusion—the implications of which are terrifying.

I remember being asked when I last gave blood, if I’d taken the jab. I was able to give whole blood. What are the implications for our blood supply?

From C&C comments:

In my inner-pilot circles, Im being told that jabbed pilots from various airlines are suffering from heart issues in-flight. This is a concern because its being kept quiet.

I wonder if after a certain point in the future a new jab will be offered to “neutralize” the current destructive path of the Mrna series. After the Oops factor is widely accepted.

[There was a Clancy novel, “Rainbow 6,” where a similar tactic was going to be used by a group of depopulation scientists. Clancy was almost clairvoyant in some of his books.]

No wonder they did not want this information released. It confirmed what a friend said about pregnant women having more miscarriages and stillbirths. She works at a pregnancy center.

Fact check, vaccines never stopped any disease

How diseases disappeared before vaccines were out

https://odysee.com/@MartaGB:2/RomanBystrianky:d?r=9oBWtY68fYUdnMY2gt9dCdazJ4Py3mVo

[Not sure about that one: smallpox, polio anyone?]

The inimitable Igor Chudov has an excellent article today (first in a series) on the advanced mind control techniques that were / are used to push the jab. https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/vaccine-skeptics-are-the-true-critical?r=wwaub&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

So where does this lead to regarding legal liability? These problems that we are now permitted to discuss have been known for a long time. Some since before they started jabbing.

Shannon

Even worse, it has now become clear that LOTS of jabs are being administered by incompetent staff who fail to “aspirate” the needle before injecting to make sure they aren’t accidentally shooting mRNA directly into a vein. Mainlined mRNA travels throughout the body even faster, maybe in minutes or hours, and could be the reason why some folks experience sudden and serious adverse events after getting the shots.

Fay has been screaming at the TV for two years about it.

Shannon

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Morons just stabbing and pushing instead of pulling back on the plunger to check for blood.

Good morning gang. All is well down at Larry’s Table of Knowledge, and we have a north wind and cooler temps – mid 80’s rather than mid 90’s. My poor little wind ravaged plants get a break since they are protected from the northerly winds, so they get a chance to grow and re nourish their leaves. Still no rain in the foreseeable forecast around here, and the transition from winter brown to summer brown landscapes is moving right along. Livestock are still being fed, and the stock tanks are running dry, so people will begin selling soon if it doesn’t rain. We may have to wait until harrycaine season and hope something comes up this far from the Gulf coast to recharge our water supplies.

Not certain what the day has in store just yet, but I’ll figure out something to do here before long. You all have a great day. More later.

Super Dave

Teen killed while friends were taking turns shooting one another in bulletproof vest, police say.

Cleaning up the gene pool?

What IDIOTS! And yes it was in Flarada.

BELLEVIEW, Fla. – A Florida boy, 16, was killed this week after he and at least two others took turns shooting one another while wearing body armor, officials said.

Joshua Vining and Colton Whitler, both 17, were arrested Thursday and are being tried as adults in connection with the shooting incident Sunday in Belleview (about 70 miles northwest of Orlando), where Christopher Leroy Broad Jr. was killed, according to the Belleview Police Department.

Officers said they responded to a dispatch call where they found the boy in the residence with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital where he later died, police said.

Super Dave

Alyssa Milano Is Mad At Strong, Masculine, Care-taking Fathers. Because,… Of Course She Is.

No Hope. 🙁

FWIW; I have NO IDEA who this A$$clown is.

Imagine being a person who thinks it’s a BAD THING when a father says to his son, ‘Take care of your mom while I’m gone.” Just imagine making that a negative thing.

But y’all know Alyssa. If there’s something positive that a man is doing, then by golly she’s gonna figure out a way to emasculate him and portray him as a sexist, toxic, a-hole. LEAVE IT TO ALYSSA.

No, Alyssa, you absolute hosebeast – it is NOT insinuating that women can’t take care of themselves. It’s a father fulfilling his role as protector and provider for his family, which is a GOOD THING. It should be applauded and celebrated and replicated in perpetuity. Strong fathers and husbands are necessary and valuable and we need to encourage them, not tear them down.

I know I’ve asked you to imagine being someone as ridiculous as Alyssa Milano in this post, but NOW just imagine being the pathetic a$$hat who voluntarily MARRIED Alyssa Milano, had kids with her, and continues to be married to her even after she tweets crap like this. Can you even comprehend the amount of self-loathing it requires to be that man? Holy crap.

Thought about going back out to the nursery this morning for a couple more flowing plants, but then remembers that she is closed on Mondays, and this being the Monday after Easter, I’m pretty certain that she is for sure closed. One of my rose bushes actually has a couple of buds developing on it which the two that are in the ground continue to struggle but are also showing signs of getting stronger. I suspect that the best thing for me to do at this stage of dealing with the plants is to just give them a good leaving alone and let them do their thing without me meddling in it. Sometimes just doing nothing is the right thing to do.

The animal water troughs are full, the bird feeder is full, the ant beds are treated – all we need is some rain. Inside, things are in total disarray, but that to me makes it a real man cave, and besides the weather is just too nice for indoor work, even if I’m going to be indoors for it. How’s that for lazy man’s logic?

Not certain what to do next, so think I’ll take a break and study my options for a while. More later.

Found some cheap flowers at the grocery store, those little 6 pack starter things, for $2.75, so I picked up a couple of them and brought them home. Mainly added them to existing pots that had some bare spots to sort of just fill in, and planted a few free standing. So not I’ve taken care of getting out and doing something today, even if it wasn’t very much. And I think they will look good pretty quickly.

Texpat

I went to the orthopedic surgeon today for a follow-up to last summer’s shoulder surgery. After I told him about the discomfort and arm and hand numbness in that shoulder and arm, he took a bunch of x-rays of my neck. I have three compressed, almost bone to bone vertebrae in the cervical area. His comment: “Man, your neck is loaded with arthritis.” Now I have to go to some other specialist after I get another MRI.

At the beginning of 2021, at 68, I had one primary care doctor. Now, 16 months later, I have 6 doctors. It’s no wonder Medicare is constantly going broke.

Adee

Tedtam # 9 & 10

Thank you for these fabulous finds that freeze your blood upon reading them. As more folks see articles like these, the hopes of the jabs being readily sought out in boosters when offered to the public shall shrink dramatically among the drug companies.

Expect such damning information to rapidly increase business for all kinds of lawyers for the rightfully alarmed general population. Class action lawsuits, anyone?

Adee

#19 Texpat,

Good grief, what an awful diagnosis. Perfectly understandable that you now have a herd of doctors in your phone directory.

Texpat

In all the years I spent in and on the Texas Gulf Coast waters, I don’t recall ever seeing one of these blue dragons. It seems they prefer deep water, but current unusual conditions have them along the beaches. I’ve been stung by Portuguese man o’ war probably 6 times.

GALVESTON, Texas – Venomous sea slugs, known as blue dragons, have been washing up on beaches along the Texas coast for the last week.

The sea slugs are only about 1 or 2 inches in size, but their sting can be very painful.

“If you get stung by one of these, we say take it easy,” said Jace Tunnel from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute. “The sting is very similar to a [Portuguese man o’ war. They feed on man o’ war. It gets their neurotoxin and holds it in there. If you have an allergic reaction, or if the pain is too much to bear, we recommend going to the hospital.”

Did some gardening after Hubby told me how delightful it was outside. I replanted my elephant bush into a larger pot, since I expect it will need it later. Went and got some free dirt from the shop and mixed in some live and dead organics in my compost pile. Used some of that in various pots that got planted today.

I’m almost out of the planting window for some of my seeds, but I have some set up in shade to see if I can start and/or extend those harvests. I think I overestimated the amount of shade over my okra – I wanted to slow production, not starve the plants. I have some vining plants so I may experiment with moving the okra into the sun and use those stems as supports. Kinda like what the Indians did with their corn.

Berries are forming on the ratty old fence, so I am keeping a sharp eye on them.

Shannon

I’m pretty sure I can still get under my desk. Getting back up is the problem.

Shannon

Okra won’t thrive in much of anything but full blazing sun. Throw in some poor soil and complete indifference to its plight and it will produce abundantly.

Shannon

My father-in-law would disc up a short stretch, off to side of the peanut field. There, he would plant okra, maybe some cantaloupe, a few watermelons. It was root hog or die – only God was doing any watering out there.

The okra always did fine. I don’t know why he didn’t want them in the garden at house.

Super Dave

Okra is very drought resistant and loves dry sandy soil you can plant it anywhere that the land is well drained and it will produce all summer, AS LONG as you keep it cut. Also you have to cut it before it gets too big because it gets pithy and unfit to eat.

GJT

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-blocks-mask-mandate-for-public-transportation

Federal judge blocks mask mandate for public transportation

GJT

SD

Okra is very drought resistant and loves dry sandy soil you can plant it anywhere that the land is well drained and it will produce all summer, AS LONG as you keep it cut.

How’s the best way to cut, I assume you mean prune an okra plant. City boy here with only my second garden ever.

Bonecrusher

#28 GJT: It’s about danged time!

Bonecrusher

Ds engage in sleazy, dirty tricks to keep the R front runner in PA Gov race off the ballot; AKA business as usual for Ds.

Has anyone ever proved insurrection with respect to the J6 event? I would strongly suggest that those who insist on using that inflammatory slur be forced to prove it or get sued for defamation and slander.

wagonburner

How’s the best way to cut, I assume you mean prune an okra plant.

In this context, “cut” = cut pods off the plant. (For me the best “cut” would be chop that vile vegetable down and salt the earth where it once stood) You gotta do that damn near every day (at least every other) once it gets going. If you don’t, the pods get big and tough. You want 4” or so MAX. 3-4” is ideal apparently. Ideal for me is in somebody else’s garden.

If you plant some, plant them FAR apart so you can get between them without rubbing your back on the opposite row. The leaves are very irritating.

squawkbox

Dunno if this is a bad day or good day video? Pilot lands plane on railroad track. well watch the video.

Good day. Any landing you can walk away from or in this case dragged away from is a good one.

GJT

In this context, “cut” = cut pods off the plant.

Oh ok, a trip thru YouTube did show a guy stripping the lower branches off so I thought maybe that’s what he meant. I knowed you had to remove the okra before it got very big, the one time I planted them before I would get one, one pod every couple days so it was a PITA. Hoping it goes better than that.

squawkbox

MonkyWerx MilSpec Ops

A car club friend has a mother who inherited dozens of canning jars. She had no idea what to do with them.

My car rattles now.

SE dry winds have returned this afternoon. Bright sun for the foreseeable future. I can remember it being dry and rainless for this long in the past out here, but I don’t remember the relentless winds like this. Still no logic in trying to water the yard as it would mostly evaporate before it even hit the ground, so no yards to be mowed anytime soon.

Flowers are coming along pretty well though, except for the rose bushes which are having a little harder time getting started.

Katfish

#33 – Dangggggggggggggg!

Who knew the angels that fly with me ‘moonlight’ for other folks in immediate need?

squawkbox

Katfish

That man was absolutely fortunate. I have dodged some bullets in my day but nuttin like that.

That plane crash survivor was something else. He must be a cat person because he used up some of those 9 lives in that exercise. Would be a bad deal to survive a plane crash and get run over by a train – might be a country and western song in that story.

Guess I’ll go take a break and see what’s on TV. I might start watching something on Amazon about Old Knives Out or something like that. An Amazon production with the proper amount black people in responsible positions, inter racial relationships, etc., but the plot involved opening up an investigation into an old airliner hijacking where the CIA or FBI or whoever was compromised and the perp discovered to have been feeding insider info to the hijackers. I’ll see how it goes – I’m still stuck in about 20 minutes per segment ADD mode these days. But I’ll give a report if it turn good or if it goes all PC from start to finish.

Shannon

19 Texpat

Wow.

The amount of moderate to severe arthritis in my lumbar spine was noted – among all the other bad things – in the last MRI I had.

That was in 2009.

Bonecrusher

HEY TEXPAT!

Please check out one of these therapists for your arthritis. Also try and find a chiropractor who will use traction/spinal decompression and adjustments with ACTIVATOR ONLY!

Arthritis is a form of auto-immune disease, rheumatoid – absolutely; worn out hip joints, not so much. With neck issues, the arthritis is being laid down by the body to fuse the joint because the brain (via the proprioceptive neurological system) instability is detected. The inter-vertebral foramen, that spot/hole between the vertebras where the nerve exits the spinal column, is damned small. Increasing the opening the diameter of a human hair can have dramatic positive results. Traction works very well to increase the size of the nerve pathway and it feels good. On a personal level, I have a conditioned response to traction: I take a 20 minute nap.
The other part; the long=term, living with it routine, involves strengthening the neck muscles to assist in supporting the neck. There are trashed ligaments in your neck that allow too much range of motion in your neck; this triggers the neurological alarms to register INSTABILITY! which activates the splinting (tight muscles which really hurt and make you not want to do anything) response and the concretion/arthritis response to limit range of motion.
While traction will increase, to a small degree range of motion, the primary benefit is to increase the size of the nerve hole such that the pain/inflammation/splinting syndrome does not take place. Too much traction aggravates the problem; too little and the problem does not get fixed. There is a balance that is best approached in small steps.
This condition did not get there with an event – it was a long term process. The solution is similar in that it is a process and not an event.
The acupuncture side also helps to clear the electrical channels so that the sensory and motor nerves work and play well with each other and the rest of the bodily systems.

Shannon

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/05/hope-among-the-ruins

Rage and despair: These are the two dominant flavors of the zeitgeist. Both are rancid. Not that we’ve nothing to stoke our ire; much of observable reality these days is grim. But people of faith have a better, infallible source of renewable energy—hope.

Just how does it work? Walk into a bar and say you feel optimistic about the future, and you may be asked to leave on account of already appearing inebriated. Hope—the real thing, not the cheap knock-off politicos use to paper over their ill intentions—is neither simple nor Pollyannaish. It’s a complicated spiritual virtue, and never has it been more lucidly displayed than in the old Talmudic story about Rabbi Akiva and the fox.….

Texpat

43 Shannon

Dang. I read that little essay from Liel Liebovitz to Her Highness at dinner last night out of the new issue of First Things you always renew for me. Liel is a real treasure.

One of my heroes is Rabbi Akiva, so you know.

Great minds…

Shannon

Re: traction

Fay has had a traction setup hanging off a closet door (bag of sand, rope, pulleys, head harness) since I’ve known her.

(Fractured her neck in a diving accident at sixteen.)

Texpat

Veteran blogger Lawrence Person of Austin at Battleswarm talking about Houston and the Galleria.

In Houston, the Galleria (located centrally just outside the 610 loop at Westheimer) has long been the ne plus ultra of retail shopping, filled with high-end shops for designer clothing, jewelry, etc. While other malls built out, the Galleria built up, with four floors around a large open atrium and an ice rink. The Galleria was where rich people shopped.

My most vivid memory of the Galleria was my family taking us there to see Star Wars, where it was playing in one of only 50 theaters nationwide, right after a rave write-up in Time magazine.

We got there in the early afternoon, and not only was the next showing sold out, the line for tickets stretched all the way around the ice rink and halfway up the other side. It turned out that all showings until midnight were already sold out.

What brought back all these mall memories was the fact that there was a shooting outside the Galleria yesterday. Video below. (Language warning of the “black people talking about other black people” variety.)

Old time Houston residents in the comments.

Super Dave

How’s the best way to cut, I assume you mean prune an okra plant. City boy here with only my second garden ever.

What he said;

In this context, “cut” = cut pods off the plant.

Apparently wagonburner doesn’t like okra and that is fine with me but I was only pointing out that the plants produce all summer here in the south BUT you have to keep the “Pods” cut off so it will continue to produce. Also he said “The leaves are very irritating”. That is true if not an understatement, the leaves/sap are nasty and will cause your skin to break out and itch but I’m smart enough to wear long sleeves and was my hands after cutting.
I’ll end with this; okra is very easy to grow and is tasty to a lot of folks so it’s worth the effort for folks like me. 😉

Texpat

47 Super Dave

You know how Wagonburner is. He’s from Oklahoma and you just gotta cut him some slack. Sometimes you have to be merciful toward folks opposed to fine dining like fried okra. We can’t all be gourmets.

Super Dave

#48 Texpat 😀 I know and I wasn’t trying to be rude but if I say that,…..
In other news, Liz from across the creek has blessed us, and or the wife with a beautiful Rhode Island Red/Buff Orpington rooster to replace Thomas that the Bobcat devoured. She also gave us a Rhode Island Red Hen with 10 chicks, half brown and half black so who knows who their daddy is. 😀
FWIW; you should see the menagerie at her house, a half dozen Spanish milk goats, umpteen chickens, including Banty’s and about a hundred rabbits.

Super Dave

OK, I know it’s early but I’ve had a busy day and I’m hitting the sack, later gang.

Texpat

49 SD

Does she milk those nannies ?

Super Dave

Oh and I don’t know nuttin’ about a Trans Am. 😀

Super Dave

Does she milk those nannies ?

No that was the first thing I asked her but none of them were heavy or swollen but they did get rid of the Billy last year so I guess they don’t need regular milking?

squawkbox

I like okra in my chili with beans.

Super Dave

#54 Squawk,….Trouble maker. 😉 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Super Dave

Why am I thinking about making a big pot of Gumbo? 😉

squawkbox

Super Dave

But I do not like beans in my gumbo.

Shannon

I’m telling ya. He puts noodles and corn in there, too.

Disgusting.

Iowa chili.

Shannon

That reminds me.
That experiment with Zatarain’s gumbo in a box turned out pretty good. There were no leftovers.

Texpat

Super Dave

Sometimes you have to be merciful toward folks opposed to fine dining like fried okra. We can’t all be gourmets.

You do realize the above applies to this as well…

I like okra in my chili with beans.

/shudders

You can’t cut them any slack either.

squawkbox

Shannon

Walmart carries this brand also. The gumbo is pretty darn good. Not as good as my homemade gumbo but for a fast meal or potluck dinners at church, not bad at all.

Give er a shot.

squawkbox

Texpat

Now wait a dang minute. I love fried okra. One of my first solid foods as a babay was fried okra and fried egg plant.

Texpat

62 Squawk

Yeah, but your life starting going in the wrong direction early when they let you throw the okra and eggplant into the chili pot right out of your highchair. It shoulda been a signal right then to rein you in tight.

squawkbox

Texpat

I AM A COONA$$ DANGIT. We do that. Ya gotta fill the stock pot and to do that there are those times you have to go to extreme measures. Cooking a half full stock pot is a waste of time around my bunch.

squawkbox

One time Cletus was a little short in what he was cooking. So he took himself down to the bayou grabbed a nutria skinned and gutted him and threw it into the pot. Plenty of good eatin for everyone

Shannon

Will give it a try.

The shrimp looked good at HEB, but they didn’t have any browns.

I just loaded the first of what will be many loads in my dishwasher of the canning jars I picked up today. I saw some unusual sizes – I need to research them. I have two large, squarish jars, and upon closer inspection (carefully – these jars have been sitting up for years and went through Harvey), they were used for coffee. I’ll clean ’em up and store herbs or dried items in them. I don’t think they were intended for canning, but they shore look purdy.

The 123A size (I think that’s what I saw on the bottom) is a new one on me. I’m gonna hafta do some research.

The nasty boxes they were in are outside and/or in the garbage can. The ones that didn’t fit in the dishwasher are soaking in some water with a concentrated cleaner in it. One of those jars was caked with what I guess is flood mud. It needs soakin’. Bugs and bug parts all over the place, along with decades of dust and debris.

But it’s hundreds of dollars worth of jars, so I’m not complaining. Not one bit.