Dude, you mean to tell me they leaked my friend Sammy’s Roe v Wade draft ?!!!
Our day is coming, just you wait, people. Our day is coming.
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I hope that you’re right and it does seem that the Left-Wing Whack are in a panic. This after they poked the Bear, (moms N dads) at the school boards.
FWIW; Tucker has been on a roll lately and his monologue last night was one of his best.
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We’re supposed to get started on the footing for the foundation of the Pole Barn today and the weather is going to be great for the next couple of days.
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Good morning gang. Up a little bit early this morning, so my coffee has not kicked in just yet. Just before dusk last evening, another white wing ventured too close to the bird feeder and unfortunately did not survive the event. I’m getting to be a pretty good shot with the BB gun, especially up close. Anyway, I left the happy meal where it dropped and turned the outside lights on to see who might come along and luck in to the free dinner. Pogo Possum and Pepe Lepew are foraging the same area and both visit the cat food bowl to see if they can score free food virtually every evening. Occasionally they get in to disputes and wrestle around. Anyway, they both spied the happy meal out in the yard about the same time and were making a bee line for it from opposite directions. Pogo attacked from the flank while Pepe was seemingly preparing for a chemical attack. Anyway, the chemical attack failed to deploy and Pogo kicked Pepe’s azz out of the yard then proceeded to go collect the happy meal and take it away. Later I got telltale signs that an already PO’ed Pepe had visited his chemical attack somewhere else, so maybe they had another encounter out in the woods or something. I’ve been tolerant allowing Pepe to come in to the yard every night, but it may be about time to get the trap or the .22 and dispatch him. He’s started showing up before it gets completely dark, so I might be able to see him well enough to take him out while he is still behind the back fence.
You all have a great day. More later as it develops.
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Mornin folks. I have a different take on the leak of the SCOTUS decision.
The decision has been general knowledge among our lizard overlords and the media (but I repeat myself) for a couple weeks as Texpat mentioned the other day. I think one of the bigger lizards realized that not one dam thing that they toss out there as a reason not to vote them out of their phony baloney jobs is sticking. SCOTUS clerks don’t go un-noticed among the lizard class and is generally viewed as a path to career success in the lizard field. I’m thinking that one of the little clerk lizards was given instructions from the bigger lizards to release that draft decision, with a promise of a cushy job with a six-figure salary for doing a Sandy Berger with a copy of the draft. They knew what the decision was going to be, but they also knew that it wasn’t going to be announced until it was too late to be an issue in November.
The bad news is, I think this will keep them from losing enough seats in November for a Veto proof majority for the Republicans, which was why they took such a desperate step, and may likely keep the Senate as divided as it is now, albeit with a tiny Republican majority this time. The issue is going to bring out some of the despondent Democrats who would stay home and cry in their beer rather than go vote this go round. This is going to make some of the districts and states that have been growing purpler by the minute into at least a lighter shed of purple, maybe light enough for the cheating to work.
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HEADLINE: Durham Alerts Judge to Federal Ruling Against Hillary Clinton, DNC
Durham is being very methodical and very damn slow. Hopefully he will be able to formally charge Cankles with multiple felonies before the statute of limitations runs out.
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Our day is coming, just you wait, people. Our day is coming.
It’s just not a good week for the left and the RINO’s, JD Vance easily wins the Ohio Republican Primary. FWIW; His poll numbers flipped when Trump endorsed him. I need to check the Libtards on the alphabet networks fop heads asploding. 😀
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Michael Berry poses this will cause us to lose a big number of women, Republican women who are closeted pro choice. If my FB feed is any indication, it is true. But as Berry says, it is the right thing to do.
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Just think about how future elections and nomination dynamics will change without Roe v Wade as an issue. Besides saving babies, this will be a great turning point in politics.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, May 4, 2022 ☙ ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
It’s Wednesday! Good morning, C&C. Today’s roundup includes: the CDC’s new plan to track you, for your own good; A Trump-endorsed first-time candidate wins his primary; a mini-roundup of news about the Roe Draft; Pfizer makes historic money; Surgeon General Murthy rues the lack of transparent discussion over pandemic responses; a bill to help vaccine injured; Florida’s DOE approves revised textbooks; a supply chain update and a suggestion; a new MedRxIV study could fuel conspiracy theories; and a theory about bloodless secession.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
️ The CDC is keeping a friendly eye on you! Vice News ran an article yesterday headlined, “CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.”
According to the article, Vice’s FOIA request uncovered that the CDC paid controversial data broker SafeGraph $420,000 last year for access to a year of Americans’ “anonymized” cell phone location data. The documents “show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more general CDC purposes.”
SafeGraph’s cellular location data tracks where people live, work, and shows wherever they go. It also, for example, supplied the cell phone data used to create Dinesh D’Souza’s upcoming movie about voter fraud, “2000 Mules.”
While the CDC initially said it “urgently” needed the expedited data for pandemic tracking, such as checking how well people complied with lockdown orders and curfews, and how often they visited vaccinated sites, the documents obtained by Vice showed at least 21 OTHER ways the CDC wanted to use the data, including “tracking patterns of those visiting K-12 schools by the school,” “visits to parks, gyms, or weight management businesses,” “population migration,” and bizarrely, “examination of the effectiveness of public policy on [the] Navajo Nation.”
Why the CDC is so fascinated with Navajo public policy remains a mystery. Probably something to do with fake-Indian Elizabeth Warren.
To check how “anonymous” the data really is, Vice bought a small set of the “anonymized” data from SafeGraph and gave it to their data specialist to review. The specialist concluded that “in my opinion the SafeGraph data is way beyond any safe thresholds [around anonymity].” Weird.
The CDC seems completely uninterested in tracking adverse vaccine events for the biggest vaccine rollout in its history, happy to rely on the antiquated VAERS system, but it DOES want to track YOU using the latest and greatest technology. Public health at its finest!
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Trump-endorsed candidate J.D. Vance won his Ohio primary yesterday and is now that state’s Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.
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A mini-roundup on the developing Roe Draft story:
— Keep in mind that a draft decision is NOT a final order and can change, even substantially.
— Some drifting democrats disgusted by their former party’s pandemic overreach and jab mandates are now feeling politically homeless in the wake of the Roe Draft. To them, I would say: remember that the Supreme Court also didn’t find that mandatory vaccination was unconstitutional. Don’t be surprised that the same Court didn’t find that preventing states from legislating about abortion is unconstitutional. The Court is being consistent.
We’re going to have to claw our bodily autonomy back for ourselves. In the short and maybe medium terms, that effort is only happening on the right.
— The Roe issue is just what the Democrat party was looking for. Based on the near-hysterical messaging during the last 24 hours, it’s clear that the Democrat party will use the abortion issue to invigorate its lethargic base for the 2022 midterm elections. The developing argument seems to be that since Congress needs to pass a federal law protecting abortion, Democrats need an even bigger majority to pass that law.
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SEE THIS: Failed presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren in MELTDOWN mode!
[You really don’t want to see this, but here it is:]https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1521518266723807233/pu/vid/320×568/Fg2Bkz8gIIEczOWL.mp4?tag=12
If that happens, if the Dems do expand their majority, you can expect a federal vaccine mandate in about ten seconds, followed quickly by permanent mask mandates.
— Get ready for another summer of mostly-peaceful Antifa protests over abortion.
— The Supreme Court issued a statement yesterday in which Chief Justice Roberts confirmed the Roe Draft’s authenticity, and ordered an investigation into the identity of the leaker.
— I’ve been working through the Roe Draft. It’s nearly 100 pages long, making it more of a small book than a traditional legal opinion. It probably needed to be that long given the weight of the decision and the fact the Court is reversing itself after only 50 years. The length could be why so many pundits and politicians are misstating what the decision actually says. Shockingly, a lot of people seem to feel free to forcefully opine about the draft decision even though they haven’t actually read the damned thing.
For example, Joe Biden and many “experts” are claiming that the decision “affects a wide range of other rights,” such as same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. This is clearly wrong since the decision explicitly says:
And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to case doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.
The actual gist of the decision is: usually, whenever the Court finds a new IMPLIED right in the Constitution, as opposed to an explicit right, it is very careful and cautious. Normally, decisions finding implied rights look back through history to prove that the particular right has always been recognized to exist under the common law. But in Roe v. Wade, the Court bypassed that traditional analysis and blithely overlooked the fact that a right to abortion has never been historically recognized; in fact, just the opposite, it’s generally been criminalized.
So, Roe v. Wade essentially did the OPPOSITE of what the Court always carefully does when finding an implied right. Instead of merely recognizing a long-observed right, the original Roe decision REVERSED an historic antipathy toward abortion. In other words, the draft decision explains that Roe v. Wade created a brand-new right, which is not the Court’s role, but should have been reserved to Congress.
Ultimately all the Roe Draft would do is defer the decision over abortion to the federal government and the states. Since Dems control the White House and the House of Representatives, and narrowly control the Senate, they could conceivably pass a new law anytime. The vaccine mandates prove the Biden Administration is not shy about issuing questionable executive orders, so Biden could possibly order an abortion mandate pre-empting state laws anytime he wants.If you are strongly pro-choice, remember that Democrats COULD pass federal abortion protections anytime — they could’ve already done it — but, I predict they will NOT pass any such law, because they prefer to use the issue as a political catalyst. Instead, they’ll complain about Republican obstructionism and whine that voters need to give them even bigger majorities in Congress.
Let’s see if I’m right.
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According to an article yesterday in the UK Guardian, Pfizer has earned nearly $26 billion dollars in the first three months of this year. The drugmaker’s revenues doubled last year, shooting past $81 billion in annual income. It projects 2022 revenues over $100 billion, with over half of that total from its covid products.
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivec Murthy appeared in a live-streamed blog yesterday titled “How to Prioritize Mental Health (With Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy)” on the In Pursuit of Happiness Youtube channel.
The Surgeon General complained that the U.S. could have been more transparent and deliberate in its COVID response “about the benefits and downsides of the many precautions we were taking.” As an example, he cited “school closures, for instance.”He seemed to regret that “in retrospect, a couple things, I think, we would have perhaps approached differently. One is a more transparent and deliberate conversation about the benefits and also downsides about the measures we were taking.” Using the school closure example, he asked, “well, when does the balance shift towards harming kids?” He said “if I had my druthers, we could have those conversations in a more robust way, a more transparent way.”
But … Mr. Murthy, WHY didn’t we have a “more robust” and “more transparent” and “more deliberate” conversation? Do you think maybe it had something to do with the “misinformation” labeling? Asking for a friend.
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House Representative Marjorie Taylor Green has sponsored HR 7308, the “Justice for Vaccine Victims Act of 2022,” which would require investigation of all VAERS Covid vaccine reports, and would remove certain liability protections allowing people to seek damages. It’ll never pass this Congress, for some reason, but it makes sense.
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♂️ After Florida’s Department of Education rejected a slew of textbooks for containing “inappropriate” material related to CRT and sexual issues, publishers resubmitted updated textbooks, of which 19 have so far been approved.
I’m old enough to remember when people said the whole “CRT and inappropriate sexual materials in textbooks” thing was completely made up. I guess the publishers removed nothing.
Anyway, other states! Pay attention! This is how you do it.
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There are a WHOLE LOT of ships anchored offshore, waiting to dock in China, due to that country’s lunatic Zero-Covid policy. The supply chain problems are probably going to get a whole lot worse before they get better.
My thought is that this will ultimately be another self-inflicted injury, spurring a new renaissance in U.S. manufacturing industries. It will take time to spin up, but I’ll bet you a lot of U.S.-based entrepreneurial types are already putting domestic manufacturing plans together. Local regulations encouraging manufacturing and transportation would be very helpful right about now. For example, red counties should be passing ordinances expediting permits for new manufacturing operations.If you want to do something to help locally, lobby your county commission to pass new rules encouraging manufacturing and transportation industries.
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A fascinating new study just published in MedRxIV suggests a potential revolution in the way we understand the covid vaccines, and possible evidence for the widely-suspected “shedding” phenomenon. It’s titled, “Evidence for Aerosol Transfer of SARS-CoV2-specific Humoral Immunity.”
Is another “conspiracy theory” about to move into the “we always knew that” category?
The study first reports that covid-specific antibodies were found in some surgical masks worn by vaccinated lab workers. But even more interesting, they also found that unvaccinated children of vaccinated adults had covid antibodies, whereas children of unvaccinated adults did NOT have the antibodies. The researchers theorized that the jabbed parents must be EXHALING the antibodies in aerosols.
The researchers noted that nothing like this has ever been seen before, concluding: “The data we show provides evidence for a new mechanism by which herd immunity may be manifested, the aerosol transfer of antibodies between immune and non-immune hosts.”
The researchers did NOT investigate whether the children’s antibodies could be the result of spike protein shedding by jabbed parents. Nor did their conclusion explain how antibodies could be aerosolized when it is well-known that the jabs do not create mucosal antibodies.
But it’s also not true that nothing like this has ever been seen before.
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This seems like a good place to point out an interesting March 18, 2022 article in National Geographic headlined, “The Controversial Quest To Make A ‘Contagious’ Vaccine.” The article’s first paragraph reads:
Imagine a cure that’s as contagious as the disease it fights—a vaccine that could replicate in a host’s body and spread to others nearby, quickly and easily protecting a whole population from microbial attacks. That’s the goal of several teams around the world who are reviving controversial research to develop self-spreading vaccines.
Hmm.
The article describes a 1999 field test of a self-spreading vaccine conducted on Isla del Aire off the Spanish coast. The results showed that 56 percent of unvaccinated wild rabbits had vaccine antibodies, presumably received from exposure to vaccinated rabbits that had been captured, jabbed, and released. In other words, the contagious vaccine worked. In 1999.
National Geographic said “renewed interest and funding for the technology popped up [again] around 2016.” The article explained that “each of these [contagious] vaccines uses a cytomegalovirus, or CMVs, a group that belongs to the herpes family.”
The herpes family. Which, coincidentally, includes shingles. Just saying.
The article ends by quoting Alec Redwood, a principal research fellow at the University of Western Australia who has been working on contagious vaccines. He said, “the way that I like to think about it is that it may never be used, but it’s better to have something in the cupboard that can be used and is mature if we need it. And to say, ‘Let’s just not do this research because it’s too dangerous,’ to me, that makes no sense at all.”
Also coincidentally, it was an Australian lab that first announced they’d isolated the covid virus, which allowed Pfizer and Moderna to start work on their injections.
Nothing could go wrong with a “contagious vaccine” plan! Thanks, experts.
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Finally, I’ll share another one of my crazy theories. As you know, the pandemic response widened a significant political divide between the red states and the blue states, not to mention a massive political migration, and the abortion issue will split the two groups of states even further apart, in a way we possibly haven’t seen since the Civil War. As an amateur Civil War historian, I’ve thought about that conflict and its politics a lot.One of my pet theories is that the rebellious blue states might have successfully seceded from the United States without any war if they had just been a little more patient, and had only waited an election cycle or two until they had control of the federal government. If they’d done that, and then moved to secede with a Democrat president in the White House, there would have been no need for war. And if they’d controlled Congress, they could have just passed a law authorizing blue slave states to withdraw from the Union.
In other words, it is possible to have secession without civil war. Could it happen now? Of course, the problem is nobody likes to wait for anything in these days of twitter hot-takes and same-day deliveries. If they couldn’t wait in 1860…
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Putting my nose to the grindstone – may be invisible for a while.
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This may be one of the most poorly written articles, grammatically speaking, that I have ever read. Here is an example:
The lake has been shrinking since 2000, and is now so low the unique water consumption was uncovered final week. The regional water utility, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, has been so involved that it spent $1.5 billion over a decade constructing a a lot deeper consumption and a brand new pumping station, lately put into operation, so it could possibly take water whilst the extent continues to drop.
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GJT says:
MAY 4, 2022 AT 8:17 AM#4
Michael Berry poses this will cause us to lose a big number of women, Republican women who are closeted pro choice. If my FB feed is any indication, it is true. But as Berry says, it is the right thing to do.
The Dems were hemorrhaging suburban women with kids due to the grooming issue, they had to do something to staunch the flow and motivate women without kids to go vote.
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This is good material to use to defend overturning Roe v Wade:
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RE: THe SCOTUS LEAK; The Ds, once again, prove that they are not afraid of drilling holes in the life boat if they think it serves their agenda.
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Our day is coming, just you wait, people. Our day is coming.
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Michael Berry poses this will cause us to lose a big number of women, Republican women who are closeted pro choice.
Jeremiah 30:15
Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.Too little too late.
Oh our day is coming alright. But it ain’t gonna be purdy. I really want to say we are on the road to recovery but the signs and events suggest otherwise. One would be better served turning their faith to the one true God and trusting him for everything.
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#4 – I don’t see anything different in your opinion that what I believe, but it may be different than the corporate news media people’s minds. The leak is clearly just another political act designed to take the focus off Biden’s failures in Afghanistan, Ukraine, inflation, gas prices, food prices, supply line backups, and on ad infinitum. The racism card has just about played out, so let’s bring abortion back up on the table. Remember when Roberts was all set to vote to end Obamacare, and the Dems blackmailed him about the illegal adoption of his children causing him to collapse and side with the libs? Same thing happening here. Try to intimidate someone to flip, but at the same time get the issue all over the front page and push all the Biden failures to the back.
In other news, nothing else for now. May have to eat breakfast soon.
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Dr. Naomi Wolf has some thoughts to read here.
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#16 El Gordo:
All valid points. The left has no level to which they will not stoop in order to achieve, maintain, and increase their power. Bribery, blackmail, murder, lies, destruction of the economy, and ruining other people’s lives is all on the table for this bunch. They are truly evil. -
I have tomatoes popping up! Squash and zucchini are blooming like crazy! Wahoo I am a farmer!!
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Okra not so much.
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Mornin’, chickadees. Speaking of small birds, I saw a handful of those tiny spice finches eating bird seed on my patio yesterday. Along with all the other birds that fly by to see if there is anything to eat.
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Somebody else agrees with my # 16 – https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/03/john-roberts-cowardice-on-obamacare-is-why-the-left-thinks-it-can-bully-and-extort-scotus/
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This country does not need a roll back in horrific policies. This country needs a change of heart.
Michael Berry poses this will cause us to lose a big number of women, Republican women who are closeted pro choice.
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BTW
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Hmmmm. Finally snapped to why the innanet is full of Star Wars stuff today…
Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You -
My new dual fuel power generator just arrived, and the delivery guys set it right out front of my door. Here’s my first observation – this dam thing is heavy. Got the dolly and had to get the neighbor lady to give me a lift assist to get it up the steps and into the house. Now that I’m opening the box and removing some of the stuff, it’s getting a little easier to manipulate. It came complete with a cage and wheels, so once I get that stuff all assembled it should be a lot easier to maneuver around.
This one is a DuroMax XP4850EH if you want to look it up on Amazon. The price seems to bounce back and forth between $400 and $600; peak 4850 watts/running 3850 watts; about 3250 if running on propane. My plan is that I’ll be able to use propane exclusively and not have to deal with gasoline for it. The other two are smaller generators, and they both use gasoline, so I’ll still have to stock both during power outage season.
Think it’s going to suit my needs just fine though.
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See, great minds think alike, eh Squawks??
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Poll taken May 3rd / 1000 likely voters
Some of these percentages contradict themselves. Some voters are more confused about how they actually stand on abortion. There is a portion of voters who will tell you they believe abortion is very wrong but a pregnant woman should be able to make the choice. This is holding two diametrically opposed principles simultaneously and why people give conflicting answers on abortion. Who knows how they actually vote in that polling booth ? I’ve met any number of moderate Democrats and unaffiliated voters like this over the years and even a few Republicans.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of Republicans would approve of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, as would 33% of Democrats and 48% of unaffiliated voters. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats would disapprove of Roe v. Wade being overturned, as would 27% of Republicans and 44% of unaffiliated voters.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of GOP voters, 31% of Democrats and 46% of unaffiliated voters agree with Alito’s draft opinion that Roe v. Wade “was egregiously wrong from the start.” Sixty-two percent (62%) of Democrats, 29% of Republicans and 46% of unaffiliated voters disagree with Alito’s opinion.
Eighty-five percent (85%) of Democrats, 38% of Republicans and 55% of unaffiliated voters agree with Biden’s statement that ““a woman’s right to choose is fundamental.”
Fifty-two percent (52%) of men and 45% of women would approve of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Voters under 40 are more likely than their elders to approve of a decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
More whites (54%) than Black voters (49%) or other minorities (41%) consider themselves generally pro-choice on the abortion issue. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Black voters and other minorities, but only 43% of whites, would approve of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
I believe the hysteria over the SCOTUS decision will die down even though the Democrats will do their best to keep it stirred up. Once these morons realize abortion has not been banned in America and they can fly to New York or New Jersey, a lot of the bluster will dissipate. In October, when gasoline is $6 a gallon, milk at $7 and a loaf of bread is $8, most women, especially married mothers, will be voting their pocketbook/kitchen table and not their womb on election day.
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Tedtam
I never received an email from you for Saturday stuff. Does it list foods people are bringing or potluck? Also need address and time. You can hit me on messenger if easier.
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Okra not so much.
It took me 3 tries. This time, they’re in pots so I can’t stomp ’em to death.
Just coming for a quick breath, about to dive back in again…
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TT: I got your reply, thanks.
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Got it. Any Facebookers out there needing the information for Saturday I’ve got it to pass on.
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Really wish that I could be there. Take lots of pictures.
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Generator assembly. As expected, instructions are somewhat limited, but they came with pictures that are black and white (mostly black) which must have been Xeroxed 500 times and are not legible to these old worn out eyes. But after a couple of attempts, I sorted out how to put the feet on and how to add the wheel assembly. Then to add the handles, except the brackets for the handles were on the wrong end of the machine once I turned it upright. So as is the case with most things, anything worth doing is worth doing twice – so I turned it back over, removed the wheels and the stands, and installed them on the opposite ends. So now when I lift the handle, it rides on the tires instead of the stands. Got it turned upright again. It appears level and is not wobbly. I’m needing a break, so I’ll flip the page of the instruction booklet and get back at it in a few minutes.
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#s 36 & 37 – Ah yes reading the “destructions” – seems to be the male option of last resort eh? 🙂
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Men not reading instructions is a BS stereotype. I like reading the instructions.
The joke is that sometimes it doesn’t matter.
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Quick breather, seen over yonder: “They leaked the draft of the SCOTUS ruling because they love to kill things prematurely.”
back to work…
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OMG the STUPID it BURNS!!
May 04, 2022
So A Guy Tries To Rob a Concealed Carry Class…
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So the supreme kangaroo court of the USA is up in arms and embarrassed about a probably planned totalitariancrat leak that makes them look bad and all of a sudden they care about the law and process but when it comes to stolen presidential elections, decades of busted open borders and a derelict congress they say pffffftttt that.
No standing.
The three termite infested branches don’t care about anything but blood money sucking, power and anything that makes them look bad.
Get phubaked losers.
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I’ll take one cold Italian pizza, one lemon squeezer and a kilt blog to go.
Super Dave can’t always carry the load.
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Tim, you have something on Messenger Over Yonder…
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Ok but we have to quit meeting like that. 😛
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Man, y’all have been really lazy today.
Anyhow…
- The CRT scandals in the schools public uproar
- The insane transgendered curriculum parental backlash
- Disney coming to the gunfight with a pocketknife
- Roe v Wade overturned
Oh, Hamous, why couldn’t you have hung around a little longer ?
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Hammy is pulling the levers now!
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I am on the LAST board of a once thriving organization named Greater Inwood Partnership. I was active in GIP twice during the 25-plus-years I have lived in near northwest Houston. The first time was mostly because I thrived on the esplanade beautification projects that GIP handled so wonderfully. The esplanades on a half-mile or so of Tidwell running through my neighborhood were my first experience with turning an almost barren section of roadway into a much more pleasant area with all sorts of trees, trees that are now mature. I’ve planted other trees, and worked on a couple of esplanades that we turned into rose bush territory. I’ve helped out at a community garden. When the women (older than me) who had made GIP what it was began to drop out, the projects faded away. The last project I worked on (for years) was not even a GIP project: the butterfly garden on the grounds of the former Inwood Forest country club, purchased by city of Houston and operated as White Oak Conference Center.
The Covid lockdown has finally and totally killed GIP. No projects were doable, even monthly meetings were not doable. The GIP board dwindled down from 12 people to just 6. We have not met even once this year, but tomorrow we are having the final meeting. Topic: closing down this organization. The final chore is discussing how to close out the treasury and donate whatever is left in it to some worthy cause in the area.
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Speaking of plants, I happened to notice today that the hummingbird plant in my back yard has put up some new stems. I was pretty sure the cold spell we had sometime this last winter had done it in, but I’m happy to see I was wrong. I do need to cut out all the dead stalks just to make it look happier.
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Good night gang.
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Back in the old days – back when we had two newspapers – and Houston wasn’t the Goliath that it is now – your community story might be featured.
Well done.
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Photo # 19 is captioned “Clint Eastwood with Three Beauties in London for the promotion of A Fistful Of Dollars, 1967”
He appears to be well lubricated.
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One on the right looks too much like Joy Behar. Yuck.
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I don’t know how you got past the standing split.
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