December 31, 2018
Coshatte Ranch Sunset
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Sorry.
Screwed up the auto post time.
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That sunset picture was worth waiting for – good morning
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A week or so ago some D-Bag hit Headcrusher’s car and totalled it. The police refused to come and now her insurance company has denied responsibility. Now he has a car payment to deal with for his new-to-him-ride.
Last night Heartcrusher got T-Boned and her car is totalled. Fortunately, my grandson, Maximus, was not in the vehicle. She went to the E-Room after a couple of hours in substantial pain. The other driver got the ticket.What the heck, over?
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Shannon, I live in that glass house, so no stones being thrown here.
I’m glad I checked the time before moving mine again.
Lovely pic.
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Is there like, a big magnet in their cars that attracts other cars?
I can imagine that would make getting places difficult, having to constantly unattach themselves from lightposts, utility boxes….
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I use the 24 hour clock in my work every day and still screwed up. Had it set for 13:30.
Getting old ain’t for sissies, my mother-in-law always said.
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Holy cow, Bones.
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I decided to garden before getting coffee, watering and such before it gets too hot. Had to Bt the whole garden. I see caterpillar damage, but can’t see the crawlies, except on my lamb’s ear. Those poor babies are getting chewed up. Bt’d the heck outta them.
I mentioned my siamese white squash yesterday, but something bored into one of them. I’m afraid to cut it off, as it that would leave the remaining one with a wide open scar and I don’t know if it would develop. So, I can leave it and hope for the best, or cut off and wait for the next one. I’m going to hope for the best for now, and keep a watchful eye.
I need to get some seedlings ready and prep a new tote. I found another chair yesterday. Folks throw out perfectly good, if dirty outdoor chairs. My totes don’t care how sanitary or new the chair looks, so I picked it up.
Off to the C&C….
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Mornin!
So shoot me.
No need for that, tar and feather will suffice.
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the police refused to come
Living in a third world sh*thole sucks.
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Oh, btw – I met with a friend of mine, an out of work computer/math teacher. She’s going through some kind of grant process to work at “Meta,” the FB company.
I told her that if she gets sucked into that woke, evil culture I was personally going to slap some sense into her. She cracked up laughing and said she knew that already.
Let’s just say that the interview and orientation process was….different. She is just going to avoid personal interaction – since almost everything we consider normal conversation is “unacceptable” – and just focus on her work. As much as possible. Hopefully something better will come along some day and she can exit that hellhole as soon as possible. Right now, she needs the work – her husband has cancer surgery on Friday, her whole family is freaking out and putting all kinds of expectations on her, and she needs her own income and personal space to block that insanity out. This job will allow her to work from home and be with her husband, if the family will just leave her alone so she can take care of business, personal and work.
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My left hip get-along is still preventing much activity, got a doc appointment this afternoon. But I had to limp out to get some watering done this morning before all my hard work in the yard is ruined. Kind of like misting hot asphalt I know, but gotta try.
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#12 GJT “like misting hot asphalt” – isn’t that called steam cleaning??? You should have a shiny clean yard… prayers that the hip get-along will “get-along-down-the road” soon
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Got my plastic lawnmower wheel fixed with some washers for spacers to replace the broken part, and now all the other wheels want one, but I told them they would have to break before I do anything with them. Then I completed mowing the back 40, or as complete as I’m going to get. Found a few more new bee brush plants that need to be grubbed out, so I’ll go back out and take care of that as soon as I cool off a little bit. Also mowed the little section of front that I skipped when the fawn took over that little nook a coupler of days ago. Got the other mower loaded up into my wagon so that I can work on it without having to stoop over, but the sun is so bright and it’s already getting so hot that I’ll wait until morning to start taking it apart.
So anyway, for now I’m taking a sweat and hydration break. Might even have breakfast before I go back out, or I may not. More later.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Tuesday, June 7, 2022 ☙ EPIC TV
Good morning and Happy Tuesday, C&C! In today’s roundup: multiple studies link the most horrible jab injury yet; Canadian TV demands mandatory boosters; the J6 Committee premiers its epic TV spectacular; the IAEA admits Iran WILL cross the uranium threshold; and Joe Biden solves the energy crisis.**************************************
*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*On Friday the Epoch Times ran a story headlined, “Studies Link Incurable Prion Disease With COVID-19 Vaccine.”
According to Epoch, multiple studies have now linked a new, more aggressive type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to the jabs. You might have heard of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by its common name, “mad cow disease.” It’s incurable and almost always fatal. There is no treatment for mad cow disease; the best they can do is give people painkillers and try to alleviate victims’ incredible suffering.
They call it a “prion disease” because it either affects or creates a type of rogue protein called a prion. Prions occur naturally in the brain and are usually harmless, but when they become diseased or misfolded, they somehow trigger nearby prions to also become misshapen, leading to a cascade of deteriorating brain tissue and ultimately, death. Once a single prion becomes infected, it inexorably spreads to other prions. We have nothing that can stop this progression.
Three studies now have linked mad cow to the jabs: a U.S. study, a French study, and a peer-reviewed Turkish study. (Sorry, a peer-reviewed Turkiye-ish study.)
The Turkish and French studies both identified mad cow cases that suddenly and unexpectedly appeared after people got the safe and effective Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines, suggesting links between getting spike-protein vaccines and being infected with mad cow. Since unstable mRNA can sometimes be erroneously transcribed within cells, the U.S. study speculated that a misfolded spike protein could create a misfolded “prion region” which injures healthy prions, leading to mad cow disease.
The French study found mad cow symptoms started within 11 days of being vaccinated; the Turkish study found symptoms appearing the next day after vaccination. Of the 26 patients involved in the French study, all of them — 100% — died. On average, death occurred five months after receiving the safe and effective jabs. [So, if you survived for half a year after the jab, heave a sigh of relief. Until the next bad news.]
The pre-jab form of mad cow used to take years to kill folks. The researchers describe this vaccine-induced form of mad cow disease as “radically different” due to its progression, which is faster than anything they’ve ever seen before in a prion disease. Here are links to the three studies for you link junkies:
French study: [Towards the emergence of a new form of the neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Twenty six cases of CJD declared a few days after a COVID-19 “vaccine” Jab]
Turkish study: [Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease After the COVID-19 Vaccination | Jour. Intensive Care]
U.S. study: [Prion-like Domains in Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Differ across Its Variants and Enable Changes in Affinity to ACE2 | Microorganisms 2022]
I also found at least one February 2021 study predicting that the jabs could cause prion damage: [COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease | Biology]. In this study, the researchers evaluated Pfizer for potential to cause prion diseases. Their conclusion:
“Analysis of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 identified two potential risk factors for inducing prion disease in humans. The RNA sequence in the vaccine contains sequences believed to induce TDP-43 and FUS to aggregate in their prion based conformation leading to the development of common neurodegerative diseases.”
Accelerated mad cow is a horrible way to die. I wouldn’t wish it on Vladimir Putin. But it also looks like the neurodegenerative effects of prions might cause subclinical injuries short of full-blown mad cow, injuries which might escape diagnosis because the victims are high-functioning.
Safe and effective!
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Yesterday I reported that the Toronto Sun’s editorial miraculously called for Canada to end its covid restrictions, and stop discriminating against unjabbed people. Well, apparently that charitable feeling isn’t entirely unanimous in Canada, because yesterday CTV News struck back, with a news story headlined, “It’s ‘High Time’ That Authorities Revise Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’: Experts.”
Now, I want to stop briefly to point out the corporate media sleight-of-hand. Instead of writing an editorial like the Sun, CTV morphed their editorial into a straight news story just by quoting experts’ opinions. Sure, they cherry-picked the experts, but it’s not like THEY are saying it.
Anyway, CTV’s cherry-picked experts said that since the jabs don’t work, sorry, I mean because they wear off so fast, it’s a “mistake” to call people “fully vaccinated” unless they’ve also had their boosters. One of CTV’s expert explained, “’fully vaccinated’ no longer works, in my mind, as a definition of being up-to-date on the vaccine doses that you need to get … I think it is high time that we [change] that.”
I agree it’s high time we change SOMETHING.
This is a big deal in Canada, where citizens aren’t allowed to travel unless they are “fully vaccinated.” So if the definition does expand, it will affect a lot of folks, since the booster business in Canada is about as pitiful as everywhere else. It seems that, when the jabs are voluntary, they aren’t too popular. Even though they’re “free.”
Which I think is what the experts are getting at. They just want the boosters to be mandatory. They want to force people to take them, because we’re too stupid to do it ourselves. The expert complained, “Vaccine mandates worked in terms of actually getting people who are eligible to get a second dose. But when governments started to pull back those public health measures and vaccine mandate measures, I think people really lost that incentive.”
Is it too soon to say the use of experts may be dangerous to our health?
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It’s going to be epic. The Democrat J6 Committee has hired James Goldston to help “produce” the Committee’s “public hearings” on the January 6th Capitol riot. Shady former ABC president Goldston, described as a “master storyteller” who ran Nightline and Good Morning America, was last in the news as the exec who ordered ABC reporters to stand down the Jeffrey Epstein story after two years of investigative work. Now he’s back.
The J6 Committee is ready to make its committee hearings into a TV super-spectacular event, having spent the last year and a half browbeating “witnesses,” subpoenaing citizens’ text messages and bank statements, taking depositions, and generally making a nuisance of itself.So instead of a serious government inquiry, on Thursday evening starting at 8pm EST, we’ll be treated to Episode One of a gala, high-production-value, produced-for-television special event, a show of shows, a once-in-a-lifetime spectacular!
I’m just spitballing here, and spoiler alert, but my guess is it’s going to describe democrats as superheroes and “prove” President Trump was literally a million times worse than Benedict Arnold, may he rot in Hades. But I doubt it will make TV history.
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*THE MINORITY REPORT*The Jerusalem Post ran a story yesterday headlined, “Iran Crossing Nuke Uranium Enrichment Threshold ‘Cannot Be Avoided’ – IAEA.”
Reassuring nobody, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is responsible for making sure rogue nations do not develop nuclear capability, just admitted it is inevitable that Iran will enrich enough uranium to make a bomb; but don’t worry, they said, because that’s not the same thing as having a fully assembled bomb, even though enriched uranium is the only hard-to-get ingredient.
Yesterday, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi tried to reassure everybody, saying, “Having a significant quantity [crossing the uranium enrichment threshold] does not mean having a bomb,” but then he admitted that “this idea of crossing the line, it’s going to happen. They are very close. It cannot be avoided.”Well, I could think of at least one way it could be avoided, but it involves military drones and mayhem.
Along that line, Israel has quite rationally pledged to attack Iran, if that’s needed to stop it from developing a nuclear weapon. Yesterday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned, “Israel prefers the diplomatic route to rule out any possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapon. But [Israel] maintains the right to act against Iran to defend itself and stop its nuclear program if the international community fails to do so within a relevant amount of time.”
The hope of avoiding what seems to be inevitable armed conflict seems to be the notion that the UN might reimpose harsh sanctions against Iran until and unless it complies with IAEA rules and stops racing toward the bomb. But it’s going to be difficult to sanction Iran, given the Russia sanctions already in place; first of all, the world needs Iranian oil. Second, because Russia is mad about being sanctioned, it obviously won’t support sanctions against Iran. And China, which is friendly to both Russia and Iran, may not support sanctions against Iran either.
But don’t worry. Joe Biden is in the process of negotiating a new nuclear deal with Iran since Iran won’t follow the one Obama already negotiated. He’s failed at everything else, but he’s GOT THIS. He’s going to bribe them with your money.
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It’s a solar spending spree to the rescue! Walmart-greeter-impersonator, Chinese business expert and former Vice President Joe Biden is ON TOP of the energy crisis. Yesterday he invoked the Defense Production Act, which provides him with emergency authority to override laws and order private companies to make whatever the government tells them to, because emergency, and don’t stop to ask questions.
The White House released a statement yesterday saying, “Today, President Biden is taking action to: Authorize use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate domestic production of clean energy technologies, including solar panel parts; [and] put the full power of federal procurement to work spurring additional domestic solar manufacturing capacity by directing the development of master supply agreements, including ‘super preference’ status.”
“Super-preference status” means that they’ll be awarding giant no-bid contracts to whoever they want to, thank you very much. This time, Solyndra is going to get it right. You’ll see.
It’s genius! We’ll just FORCE companies to make better solar products! Why didn’t we think of this before. Joe Stalin used to use this technique all the time. It can’t fail. Throw a few executives into gulag, I mean jail, and see how fast the rest get cracking.
That’s great and everything, but exactly how this will possibly help reduce high gas prices wasn’t perfectly clear. Neither was it clear how solar research is an emergency, unless climate change is now the new replacement emergency. Just ask Al Gore.
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Very nice sky shot at sunset, Shannon.
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Good morning Hamsters,
Spouse is outside doing the lawn mowing before things really get hot. The last lot the developer or his family owns is the first one on the left as you enter the subdivision. They occasionally have it mowed, much to all the neighborhood’s appreciation. However in the meantime the ditch in front of it is likewise overgrown, and Fort Bend County that is supposed to take care of the ditches because they now have control of them, aren’t doing it.
So property owners take care of the ditches in front of their homes, and most of the other folks who have not built on theirs take care of mowing their lots and ditches. But some don’t. Spouse mows the ditch in front of the first lot when he mows our lot, so the entrance at least looks cared for. We think there are only two lots in the subdivision not regularly cared for, and the neighborhood committee is pretty good about looking into it. At the last homeowners meeting I suggested the committee take care of the mowing and send the owners the bills, and if they don’t pay them, the committee whose permission is required will not approve any building plans until it is done.
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This is a very interesting Near Death Experience re-telling. At the end, you will understand that ‘no person is an island.’
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So shoot me.
OK just hold still, my running shots aren’t what they used to be. 😀
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Since my wife is about to embark on a Road Trip to Midland, Lubbock, Clear Lake and San Leon, I got out and spit shinned Black Beauty, dang she looks good all cleaned up. 😉
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The Black Beauty sure has a purple hue in that light. Or with that camera.
Must be the sky reflection.
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After getting up at 6:45 a.m. yesterday, so I could be out front to be sure the tree whackers knew what to cut — well, I did oversleep a wee bit today. Complaining cats finally forced me to head to the kitchen. 19-y.o. Millie had 4 bowls of her special breakfast slurps this morning.
Woops, she just came back to the breakfast room, crying for another bowl, which of course I gave her.
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Aaaannnddd, Millie came back for her 6th bowl of chow. Didn’t quite clean the bowl this time, so hopefully she is finally full, and will take a long nap.
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Look out if you’ve said something bad about hiliary. https://babylonbee.com/news/is-hillary-clinton-sending-hitmen-after-you-look-for-these-troubling-signs
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#20 – She’s always welcome to make a pit stop at the man cave in SS, and I’m sure she would like the Olive Oil Shoppe. I think they still take car titles for collateral.
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Don’t complain about your situation. If you have the will and the drive you can succeed.
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Heh
‘Ben Shapiro has more followers than NYT and CNN. That is a problem for democracy.’
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/morning-joe-ben-shapiro-is-a-problem-for-democracy/
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The Black Beauty sure has a purple hue in that light
I thought the same thing, it’s my new cheap flip phone, new and improved doncha’ know. The camera isn’t as good as my old one…SIGH
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#27: I think we are in dire need for a clear definition of terms and conditions.
1) WE are not a democracy, we are a representative republic (if we can keep it).
2) FREEDOM dictates that there is no “danger” when people can watch what they choose and get their information from other sources than leftist MSM.
3) HONEST JOURNALISM provides ALL THE FACTS and the opinions of the “journalists” are not supposed to come into play at all. When some pertinent facts are omitted and others are skewed, this is not journalism – it is propaganda./thatisall
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HOPE???
“I’m sorry, the old conservative movement can’t come to the phone right now,” says Clark. “Why? Because it’s dead!”
Clark set the tone and the message was clear. Strong conservative women are on the rise and they wouldn’t be shamed, silenced, and walked on. They dare you to try. This isn’t the passive group of women the left had dealt with decades ago. Clark was right. The old movement is dead. This is something different.
It was shocking, but I don’t use that word in a negative sense. It was shocking because I realized I hadn’t seen women openly advocating for things like gun ownership, Christianity, and motherhood for some time. It really made me realize how inundated I was with leftist messaging. Abortion, feminism, anti-gun propaganda, and the denigration of the nuclear family are my day-to-day norm when it comes to interactions with society.
Here, the women were proudly defying the leftist messaging. They wanted to embrace their femininity. They weren’t confused about their gender. They weren’t denying who they were in order to fit into some pop-delusion being pushed on their sex. They were proud Christians, gun owners, and believers of the American dream. You were just as likely to hear about how women could be the future CEO of their own company as about them being future stay-at-home moms, and both occupations were treated with equal respect, without caveat.
Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit Was Not What I Expected and I Loved It
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Ugghhh. I just discovered that when those Centerpoint/DigCo apes were messing up my yard laying new pipe for new gas service, and blew up my city water line, but repaired it… Well, it looks like the idiots turned off my meter. I noticed I hadn’t received my June water bill online, so logged in to my account. Everything is currently 0. I used the CoH online report system to let the water folks know they will have to come out and figure it out. Me, I’m not touching it.
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Hot hot hot out there. With the relentless wind and the hot temps, all that nicer rain we got last week is already gone. May be a long time before we see any more though.
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I’m confused.
If your meter is off, where have you been getting your water?
Or do you have a separate irrigation meter?
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Very hot in the asphalt parking lot just now.
Didja hear the one about the Aggie that thought asphalt was rectum trouble?
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Breaking:
Watson met at least 66 women for massages over a 17-month period, far more than previously known. He had help from the Houston Texans, including nondisclosure agreements, in making appointments.
NY Times
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35 GJT
From what I can read, the new allegation is that he was not only seeking the services of professional therapists but also from random women on social media.
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He was a busy dude. But, as I always ask, we are talking about his past, what has he been up to the past year?
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I guess he had to buy one of those fancy massage chairs.
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Cornholio addresses some of his plan to screw over his Texas constituents – does not get his expected standing O. https://thehill.com/news/senate/3514823-cornyn-says-gun-reform-negotiations-prompted-a-lot-of-chin-stroking-in-gop/ Even the dimmest bulbs in the GOP know that Cornholio is a snake in the grass.
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Well there y’all are! I’ve been getting; 504 Gateway Time-out
nginx/1.19.10?
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It was 100F on 290 just a little while ago according to my truck thermometer.
It is June. In Houston. If it ain’t hot, there is something very wrong.
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Finally got 3 of the roasts I got yesterday cubed up, and put in the fridge – then went on a scavenger hunt for my canning tools (I could find the funnel, and the jar lifter – but not the magnetic lid lifter, or measuring tool/debubbler)… then I could only find 3 wide-mouth jar rings… (I KNOW I have about 60-70 if not more – but I could only find 3?????)… After searching dishwasher (storage rack), storage ROOM outside, storage room INSIDE, the dark depths of the kitchen cabinets, I finally found 5… but I have 8 pints to put rings on… Then I looked down as I was coming out of the fabric dungeon and saw the pretty magnetic lidded box I got for Christmas one year from DD, and low and behold, it was so stuffed full of canning rings the lid wouldn’t close… Funniest part is the reason I went in there was to get my sneakers so I could break down and go to the store to buy more… But now I’m sitting here watching the canner vent so I can put the weight on it and start timing the “canning”…. Remind me not to wait 10 years before I do this again (SIGH)
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Good late afternoon, Hamsters
Hmm, 94 on the thermometer in the back yard in full sun, 91 on the front porch thermometer not in direct sun. A light breeze has been with us most of the day, and that helps a lot.
Hannity’s program is now just about all current news with some commentary, and if you want to know what is going on nationally, tune into his show. This afternoon he interviewed an Illinois farmer about the hard times the folks who feed us and a good part of the world are having with higher and higher farming supply costs, some poor weather in the Midwest (too much rain), maintaining farm equipment parts and problems finding new parts that are affordable, so current ones have to be fixed instead. Many are selling off cattle because there isn’t enough hay to feed them properly. Certainly the Midwest is not the only area affected to various degrees, but it has long been the breadbasket of the country…. And has a large dairy industry….
The farmer said that local grocery prices are increasing fast, amazingly so. Thanks to Joe Biden for all the blindly socialistic garbage he has pushed through. If he wonders what is wrong, look in the mirror, along with everybody else in the socialist administration.
We are again fortunate to live in Texas, if we can keep it.
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Doctor said my hip/leg problem is the shingles. Don’t really have any bumps are sores but do have couple that I didn’t realize. Got relief coming with meds hopefully soon. Damn chiropractor cost me $$$ and many days of pain, he should have caught that. I’m afraid of the vaccine but I guess I need to do it, this stuff hurts like crazy.
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GJT – sincere and heartfelt prayers for relief… been there – done that – only mine started on my side and went up between shoulder blades, and around to navel… for some reason they follow a nerve – or mine did – and that is likely the reason they are so dad-gum painful. Barely warm baths with Aveeno in the water helped some…
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I’m afraid of the vaccine but I guess I need to do it, this stuff hurts like crazy.
You already have the shingles, I don’t think the vaccine is going to help at this point and it could cause more problems. You may just have to take dope/pain meds and gut this thing out.
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bsue – yes it follows the nerves, mad at myself for not recognizing the symptoms myself since I just had it in my lower back last year. Strange, I always thought shingles caused the skin to break out severely.
Bones – they said get the vaccine after this round is cleared up, you still think it would do no good?
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It is June. In Houston. If it ain’t hot, there is something very wrong.
Yeah, but…
Average June high temp at Hobby for the last eleven years has been in the low 90’s.
This May was the second hottest in history.
Just saying.
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#47 – mine did BUT I had “post-herpetic neuralgia” really badly 6 – 8 months or so afterwards – and there was no outward sign… Dr tested everything I had and said that was the only conclusion he could come to
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44 GJT
That is unreal. Never heard of such.
After my second round of shingles in the last four years, I am going to get the vax. I’m only waiting because it is suggested to wait a few months once you are completely over it.
It’s not an mRNA phony Frankenstein vax, like the Covid scam.
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But, of course, if you’ve had the Frankenstein vax, nobody knows the implications of putting anything in your body, now.
From my ongoing scientific study, wine seems to be okay.
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#47 Ralph:
Bones – they said get the vaccine after this round is cleared up, you still think it would do no good?
I was under the impression that you were going to get the vax while still under “the plague”. I am genuinely surprised that you can get the shingles more than once; (cue: Johnny Carson voice) I did not know that. It seems that you are vulnerable to the shingles, so yes, after this bout has cleared, by all means, get the shot.
I learnt sumptin today.
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I can’t believe no one has commented on my #26?!? Very inspirational.
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#52 Bones
Good deal, just checking if you knew something different. Yes I’m pretty sure that they told me last year it would likely come back frequently without taking the vaccine.
I know the vaccine is a real vaccine, so not afraid in that regard, just that I react badly to flu shot or pneumonia shot so, don’t know how I would react to this one. But I ain’t going through this again.
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I had shingles when in high school, and it is not only a disease of older folks. However younger folks do not usually get shingles, as it not a childhood disease per se, though it is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. Once you have chicken pox, the virus goes dormant and hides in the spine, likely for years, as many elderly folks come down with it when something triggers it. Such as being exposed to a young person who has active chicken pox. Or for no apparent reason at all.
It strikes from one side of the spine through a nerve coming from that side, thus the one-sided pain and rash. The red rash usually shows up first with a small start and spreads such that it can even wrap around one side front to back. When it really gets going, it is quite painful to the touch, including the slightest touch of clothing no matter how light the fabric. So the victim tries to avoid touching that side with anything no matter how light. Sleeping can be miserable trying to stay off that side. Anything accidentally touching it day or night can be very painful.
Definitely it is wise to consult your doctor for medications that could help reduce the misery and give info on how long it is likely to last. The rash eventually fades and with it the pain fades.
Thus it is in the category of what you’d reserve for your worst enemy. 🙂
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I’ve been so fortunate.
1.5” x 4” lesion on the belt line, twice.Although the doc and I both were surprised this last one was dead center.
It typically stays on one side of the centerline of the body.
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Miss Adee – I would agree whole-heartedly, about reserving it for your worst enemy… I thought I had a ringworm, to begin with… was told if I’d never had chicken pox that I could NOT have shingles – but I did – Doc’s theory was that I had such a mild case of chicken pox that nobody noticed but there was nothing mild about the swath of “caviar” like blisters I had with shingleback in the 80’s when steroids and pain pills was all they could offer… The weirdest part was when new blisters were popping out, it felt like someone had inserted a line of cactus needles, and thumped the end one – and the sensation rippled up and down from the spot on my side….
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#33 Shannon
Beats me — who knew you could still be getting water as usual, but usage isn’t being recorded?
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I have had 2 vaccines for shingles as an adult. The 2nd one was the new Shingrix vax and I was told that it was greatly more effective than the shot I’d had previously. I’m pretty sure I had chickenpox as a child, and I’ve never had shingles. A friend did, in her 60’s, and her description of it is what motivated me to get the original vaccine. As I recall, you have to get 2 doses of Shingrix to be fully immune. I do not know if you eventually need a refresher jab.
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Yep.
Shingrix is two shots.
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For the utter misery shingles causes, the price of Shingrix x 2 is worth it even if you have to take out a loan to buy it.
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GJT Dang sorry about that! I’ve not had shingles but my sister did at 58 and from her description of it, I got my first shot when I turned 60. Later I heard that they had anew and improved shot, (2 separate ones) so last year I got one in February and the next one in March. That costs me about $400 bucks total and I figured it was well worth it.
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#60 #61 YES!
And Ms Adee is right;For the utter misery shingles causes, the price of Shingrix x 2 is worth it even if you have to take out a loan to buy it.
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Hey Dr phil
Come on back. It’s been long enuff.
While temporary bachelor, I’m enjoying some sippin’ reds.
Stepson left a bottle of Cab from a winery in Comfort, TX last year. It’s okay, but a less bold finish than I like.
Went well with quiche, but just couldn’t have held up against a big ol’ ribeye.
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My #62, The first shot was $165 second one $187, and I have no idea why they weren’t both the same price.
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Arkanside?
Clinton Advisor Found Hanging From Tree With Shotgun Blast to Chest.
59-year-old Mark Middleton, prominently known as an advisor to the Clintons, was discovered hanging from a tree with an extension cord around his neck.
Middleton also had a shotgun wound to the chest. His death was classified as a suicide.
Despite the fact a family lawsuit claims he “died by suicide,” there are major questions circulating about his death.
It’s rumored that Middleton played a key role in strengthening the friendship between Clinton and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Middleton was found dead about 30 miles away from his home.
In the 1990s, he served as a special assistant to former President Bill Clinton. Middleton reportedly helped admit Epstein into the White House on at least seven of the 17 occasions Epstein visited during Clinton’s tenure.
Middleton had flown in Epstein’s private jet, referred to as the “Lolita Express.”
“The investigation is still open, I can’t say anything more,” Perry County Sheriff Scott Montgomery said.
“He died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the chest,” Montgomery said.
“He found a tree and he pulled a table over there, and he got on that table, and he took an extension cord and put it around a limb, put it around his neck and he shot himself in the chest with a shotgun.”
“It was very evident that the shotgun worked because there was not a lot of blood or anything on the scene. You can tell the shotgun blast was on his chest, you can tell that because there is a hole in the chest and pellets came out the back of his back.”
“It was definitely self-inflicted, in our opinion.”
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#66 SD: Consider my BS-O-METER pegged out.
Did they find the gun at the scene?This just seems like loose ends getting tied up.
Ahab’s wife, Jezebel, was not as evil as Hitlery.
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Shotgun blast to the chest but not a lot of blood??? In my 28 years as a paramedic, it was my experience that people who are already dead don’t bleed a lot
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I don’t hang myself often, but when I do, I shoot myself in the chest first.
😀
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Oh, and Tom Jones turned 82 today. Just a few months ahead of Fay.
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Another day just about gone out here. Got the things done that needed to get done, so that’s OK. Tomorrow I’ll get to work on finding out why my mower is not generating a spark. It worked fine all last year and even started right up this spring, so it may just need to have the coil gapped or something simple like that. I’ll just go ahead and sign off for the evening here now, so you all have a good one. More later in the manana. Nite nite.
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#42 Bsue
I laugh because I relate.
And I may be one of the few who know that venting is not only important, but necessary. And it can be done without saying a word. 😉
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Re the Arkancide:
Who commits suicide with TWO methods of demise? Did he really think he needed the noose because the shotgun blast to the chest wouldn’t get the job done?
smh
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#71
Tomorrow I’ll get to work on finding out why my mower is not generating a spark. It worked fine all last year and even started right up this spring, so it may just need to have the coil gapped or something simple like that.
There’s a joke in there about old men, but….nah.
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I got a spider bite near my right armpit. I was in the yard and I saw the itty bitty gray thing run up my arm, pausing ever so slightly to sink his little mandibles into my skin before I knocked him off.
It’s bugging the crap outta me.
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#72 – Tedtam, don’t you know it LOL… but when all was said and done, I found all my canning toys, got 8 pints of roast beast canned and cooling, and still have some cubes plus a whole roast left to do… And HEB has pork loins for $1.27/lb and chicken breasts (not boneless – dang it) for $0.99/lb starting tomorrow…
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Sounds like HEB will have a customer tomorrow morning. 🙂
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77 – LOL – probably not until Thursday… although it’s tempting… I’d forgotten how much I enjoy putting up food for future consumption, knowing what’s in it… and it’s only stuff I can spell…
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Dude could’ve saved himself some money on extension cord and just swallowed the shotgun.
Just say’n.
Sounds like a message hit to me.
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I think it was some kids out shooting road signs.
“Hey lookit a dead guy hangin in the tree”.
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Oh and Hillary Clinton still isn’t President.
Heh.
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G’night all. Whatever tomorrow brings I’m sure we can all manage things here.
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