Hambone v3.0

Monday – ummmm – WEDNESDAY Open Comments

NOTE: This was scheduled as a Monday thread, but due to some scheduling snafu, we ended up with two Monday OC threads. So this one has been reset for Wednesday, since there was already one for Tuesday when I checked. If you see “Monday” posts, that is why. You are not imagining things.

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At least two states are pressing forward with legislation that would allow trained school teachers to carry firearms on public school grounds in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

While arming teachers has faced widespread hostility from gun control organizations and national teachers unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools was among the recommendations made by several school safety commissions formed in the aftermath of school shootings in 2018.

Arming teachers has had mixed results in the past due to varying levels of participation. A 2020 report from the RAND Corporation found that 28 states already permit armed teachers under certain circumstances, while others, including Texas and Florida, have passed laws specifically encouraging the practice.

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Ohio

A bill allowing teachers in Ohio to carry firearms is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has indicated he will sign it.
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Louisiana

In Louisiana, GOP state Sen. Eddie Lambert likewise proposed legislation that would allow teachers to be armed on school grounds. The bill would require teachers to undergo specialized training before they are permitted to carry a firearm on school property.
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Texas

The state where the Robb Elementary shooting took place has had a law on the books allowing teachers to sign up as “marshals” and carry firearms on campus since 2013.

But across the Lone Star State, less than 300 teachers statewide have taken part in the program, Politico reported . The state also maintains a so-called guardian program that is less regulated than the registered teacher marshals, but participation in that program is also fairly low.
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Florida

In the aftermath of the 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, the state government enacted the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which established the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program to arm teachers and staff on school grounds.

According to the Florida Department of Education, 45 counties currently participate in the program, which provides funding to county sheriff’s offices to train and screen school employees interested in participating in the program. Participants are also provided a stipend.

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I am sure there are people upset that Uvalde has triggered a focus on hardening the schools by increasing armed security, rather than weakening the populace by removing one of their rights.

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92 responses to “Monday – ummmm – WEDNESDAY Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Wow, is this really ME? Posting at 7:30am? Yep.

     

  3. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wow! Syringes already arrived. I ordered them last night.

    I can finish injecting my squash plants now.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Monday is back but on Wednesday! Very Good.
    Mornin’ Gang

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Colin Kaepernick Transitions In Order To Make Carolina Panthers Cheer Squad. 😀

    CHARLOTTE, NC—Colin Kaepernick has made his way back into the NFL as a cheerleader for the Carolina Panthers. He will be the team’s first African American Transgender Poly-Bi Cheerleader and will be joining the team on road games.

    “I’m excited to be on the team!” said Kaepernick, weakened by a series of surgeries and hormone injections. “After I insulted the organization and called all the fans racist, I wasn’t sure I’d be welcomed back, but I was finally able to contort my body into such a victimized form that they had no choice but to hire me.”

    “It’s a dream come true!”

    Panthers coach Matt Rhule was not part of the decision-making process that brought Kaepernick into the cheerleading fold, but he is reportedly enthusiastic about the former quarterback’s role on the squad.

    “I think he’ll be a great distraction when we lose games,” he said, sighing wistfully. “And believe me, we’re going to lose some games.”

    ESPN commentator Jaina Winterwoman asked Kaepernick about the audition process. The interview, which will appear on a future episode of NFL Primetime, revealed that Kaepernick doesn’t know how to dance.

    “Girl, with an identity like this you don’t have to do a thing,” Kaepernick told the sports journalist. “I don’t think anyone’s going to be watching me for my dance moves.”

    The 2022 NFL season is scheduled to begin on September 8th. Ratings for Panthers games are expected to spike early on and then plummet, destroying the franchise.

  7. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Boy, I started reading the comments and I’m more confused about what time it is and what day it than I usually am, and I’m usually pretty confused.  Another heat advisory already posted by the NWS for today.  This is going to be one of those long, hot summers that they used to talk about it looks like to me.

    Going back to the topic of getting my mower to generate a spark for just a moment, I’ve recently discovered just how much of a spark old people can still generate, and it’s quite surprising, even to me.  You would think the people in their mid-70’s would be immune from that kind of stuff, but personal experience says that’s not necessarily so.  There are some really attractive and passionate little old granny ladies out there, or at least one that I know of.   Jus sayin’.

    In other news, nothing on the radar so far.  I’ll have a lot more after I get back from the TOK.  Meanwhile, you all have a good day.

  8. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Good morning gang… I am pleased to report that, after complete cooling, all 8 pints of roast beef I canned last evening sealed properly… Gives me hope for variety in our diet, should… well… we need something to eat besides MRE’s… Thanx again, Tedtam, for sparking my interest in getting back into food preservation

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m not longer a Dodge fan but I do love an old Power Wagon.
    That’s a late 40’s early 50’s model, I think.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #9 SD: Tat is a great looking ride but definitely not suitable for a daily driver.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I think that I need a Magnum Research Snubby in .45-70 Gov’t.
    You recon it’d kick much? 😉

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    7
    Sounds like ELG is easing back into the game. Cruising Main Street, flirting with chicks.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue

    Quite welcome. It IS a nice feeling to put food on the shelf, isn’t it?

    I’m just pondering my moves should we get a big storm our way. I’ll be putting water into containers… From our taps, not stampeding the stores. I have food and other necessities. Our biggest problem will be gasoline and getting the generator. For the most part I can sit back and watch the show.

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #11 SD: That thing would prolly shoot a fireball 6 feet in diameter and be loud enough to hear in the next zip code. And kick a lot.

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It IS a nice feeling to put food on the shelf, isn’t it?

    I get that same feeling when I put a gallon on the shelf to age.

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Suicide by Cop.
    SHP Rodney Cook Edited Unedited.
    FWIW; I have NO sympathy for the idiot with the Weapon, I’m just glad the Officer is OK, this could have been very bad. The video is very good, the first part is edited and chopped up so you can see exactly what happened then they show the whole thing. I assume the punk was dead at the scene since the Ambulance wasn’t in a hurry to leave.
    BTW; I was surprised that they didn’t bring in a K-9 unit to look for the other punk that ran.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    While watering yesterday, I found the teeniest little bell pepper on one of my plants. It couldn’t have been bigger 1.5 inches. I added it to my dinner salad.

    Hey, I’m counting anything I get as a success. I have a few tomatoes that’ll go into my next salad.

    I found some more herbs at Lowe’s yesterday. I have lemon thyme, so I got some English thyme. It has almost a sweetish flavor. I snipped some of that, some Thai basil, and some Genovese (sweet) basil, and added it to my salad as well.

    I must say, I’m enjoying my salads more these days.

    OH – and I watched a video on growing lettuce year round. I thought I’d have to give it up during the summer, but it turns out romaine types do well in heat, especially if given shade. (I have some going to seed right now.) I need to plant some more. Leafy types, especially if red tinged, do exceptionally well in the winter. I picked up some Red Sails seeds yesterday as well. I do remember growing lettuce all winter, under a cover.

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Democrat Representative David Cicilline explains his party’s position on Second Amendment rights:

    And there is more.

    (LANGUAGE WARNING).

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The “Gender-Variant Universe”. A consortium of publicly subsidized nonprofits wants to “decolonize gender” and normalize male genitalia as a form of authentic womanhood.

    and

    Norwegian Feminist Faces Three Years In Prison For Saying Biological Men Can’t Be Lesbians

  20. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning, Hamsters

    We managed to sink to a low of 75 early this morning, just after sun-up.  Partly cloudy and breezy again with some stronger intervals.  Weather folks sadly tell us to hang in strong to hot and no rain for the next week.  This seems quite unusual for early June, and we hope it is not a sign of worse to come.

    Purrscilla kitty seems very attracted to sheets of paper on the desk and wants to sample the corners.

  21. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Back from TOK.  Very light crowd this morning, and no news to report.  #12 – it’s complicated.  Something about old flames and the like.  I’ll get the whole story out there one of these days.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I guess that I missed this; San Francisco voters oust DA Chesa Boudin over soft-on-crime policies.

    Fed-up San Francisco voters ousted their progressive district attorney on Tuesday in a recall election that rejected his soft-on-crime policies following surges in shameless shoplifting, car break-ins and rampant, open-air drug dealing.

    The recall effort against Chesa Boudin, a former public defender and the son of convicted Weather Underground terrorists, was supported by 61% of voters in early returns, according to NBC.

    Tuesday’s recall election, Proposition H on the ballot, could prove a bellwether of voter sentiment across the US, including in New York City, where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has faced widespread criticism since enacting a slew of progressive policies after taking office in January.

    “Around the country, we have seen the rise of the so-called progressive DAs,” Richie Greenberg, a former Republican mayoral candidate and spokesman for the recall effort, told The Post before Tuesday’s vote.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Squawk –

    Signs of the End. I just keep praying – for the world, for my church, for my bio family, for my church families, for all y’all. I pray for those who need it most – sinners, the spiritually lost, those drowning in evil and confusion.

    Right now, my rosary and my prayers are the only weapons I have against the growing insanity.

    Wasn’t corruption and this kind of sexual perversion some of the reasons that Rome fell? No one said America was so special that we couldn’t fall, either.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tedtam

    Right now, my rosary and my prayers are the only weapons I have against the growing insanity.

    Best weapons God has ever created.

    Romans 1 talking about sin in the end of days tells what God will do and I believe has done.

    24 Therefore God gave them overin the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

    26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

    Again I say, people can call me crazy and that is okay.  I can present evidence I am right according to the Bible……. prove me wrong.  I do not consider anything about me.  I would like people to read and study for themselves.

  25. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hysteria generator set on “maximum.”

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, June 8, 2022 ☙ PIVOTING AND RECASTING

    Good morning C&C, and Happy Wednesday! Are you excited for the January 6th spectacular tomorrow? I bet you are. Today’s roundup: a few encouraging words about being happy although the world is chaotic; the FDA is poised to approve a fourth covid vaccine aimed at hesitant people; more sudden and unexpected injuries and deaths; the boosted hold their top slot for covid infections; DOJ charges Proud Boys with sedition; the New York Times accurately describes the J6 Committee hearings; Biden lets lefty rioters off the hook; and the World Bank issues a stinky economic forecast.

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    *THE C&C ARMY POST*

    The world is looking increasingly chaotic and unpredictable, and it’s stressing some folks out. It that describes you, stop it! Things are NOT terrible, even if we do dream up all sorts of gloomy scenarios. Don’t fall for it. We could just as easily dream up all sorts of GREAT possibilities. It’s just that we don’t think or talk about hopeful possibilities much.

    Try this thought experiment: If you went on a media diet for a month, would you notice anything particular wrong with the world as you live your day-to-day life? Aside from high prices for everything, so far there’re no evident real-world problems. So things aren’t REALLY terrible. They’re fine. Our grandparents survived real problems during World War II, and the world kept on spinning. We can also do it, if we have to.

    In fact, things could get a lot worse here and we’d STILL be fine, or maybe even better than fine. Tough times make strong citizens. It might be good for us to eat a ‘tough times hoagie’ every once in a while.

    Oddly, the parts everything happening these days that freak you out the most are probably the parts you can’t see: diseases and conspiracies. I won’t even try to talk everyone out of their favorite theories, but I suggest also spending a little time visualizing the millions of awakened people out there who are just like you and me, who are paying attention, who are highly-motivated, and who are pushing back. True, our enemies have a lot of money and resources, but we have NUMBERS. Expect miracles.

    I taught a bible study class for almost seven years. My favorite topic to teach on was the sin of fear and worry. [Boy, do I need to take that class!] I know everything the Bible says on that topic. My Christian brothers and sisters: you should never feel stressed out. Faith and fear are mutually exclusive. Faith forces out fear. Focus on your faith and you’ll overcome all your worries and concerns. “You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.” John 26:33b (HCSB).

    Fear and worry are sinful because they show trust in something other than God. If you trust Him, then you have nothing to worry about, do you?

    For my secular friends: You don’t have to look too far back in history to find examples of much more difficult periods of time in this country, from the Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis (both including the assassination of a sitting president). Contrast where we are now — where are ARE; not where we MIGHT be — to those prior historical periods, and you should feel reassured and encouraged. We can do this.

    Things are FINE. We just have some work to do, is all.

    On with the roundup!

    [I really needed to hear this message this morning. The swirling was getting to me.]

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    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    ABC News ran a story yesterday headlined, “FDA Advisers Vote in Favor of Authorizing Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine [21-0].” If approved, it will become the fourth EUA covid vaccine available in the US.

    According to the story, the main reason the committee approved the new drug was to reach “vaccine hesitant” people who don’t want any high-tech drug. Reinforcing the point, the story describes a lot of blah-blah between committee members and presenting Novavax reps about reaching unvaccinated people.

    The technology used to make the drug is not like smallpox or polio vaccines. ABC calls the drug “a more traditional protein vaccine that has been used for decades” on things like hepatitis B, shingles, and unnamed “other diseases.” The New York Times’ story explained the drug maker scrapes covid spike proteins off engineered moth cells and clumps the harvested spike into nanoparticles, or bunches, which they inject into the shoulder muscle along with an adjuvant, or immune stimulant.

    The drug will come with a myocarditis warning. ABC reported that within 20 days after dosing, there were 20 cases of myocarditis among the 40,000 trial participants, mostly in young men. And Novavax did not test its drug against Omicron since the trials were completed by January.

    Oh, I almost forgot. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave Novavax an $89 million dollar grant in 2015. Novavax stock is currently trading at $47 a share, down from a 6-month peak of $217 in December, and is trending downwards this week. Personally, I don’t think “vaccine hesitant” people are going to be much interested in ANY kind of vaccine at this point, especially if they’ve already recovered from covid. It’s more like a “horse is already out of the barn” kind of situation now.

    Take your spike protein!

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    WJHG Pensacola reported yesterday that Florida Blue Devils pitcher Hayden Revels is recovering from surgery.     He noticed that his arm was swollen and discolored during a game. He finished the game but didn’t pitch. Later the hospital diagnosed Revels with a blood clot requiring immediate surgery, including removal of his first rib, for some reason.

    Revels will miss the rest of the season, including the team’s title run, but is expected to make a full recovery. His doctors are baffled about what could have caused the clot.

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    Sadly, former NFL running back Marion Barber, 38, was found dead in his apartment a week ago by police making a welfare check. No cause of death has been released.

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    Walgreen’s covid report as of June 4th continues to show boosted folks having the highest rates of covid infections, with the highest cohort being those having 3 jabs over five months ago. Those folks are showing positive tests almost 40% of the time, nearly double the unvaccinated rate.

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    CBS reported yesterday that the DOJ just charged five members of the Proud Boys with seditious conspiracy for their alleged roles in the January 6 Capitol riots. The serious charge of sedition was previously considered too difficult to prove, but the Justice Department has discovered that DC juries will find J6 defendants guilty on laser-thin evidence.

    My guess is the Proud Boys’ lawyers will recommend they plead guilty to avoid a jury trial, and take some prison time on a negotiated plea. Four of them are veterans of US military service.

    The timing of charges this week has nothing whatsoever to do with the J6 Committee’s gala public hearings also beginning this week, so don’t even start.

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    Well, looky here. The New York Times ran a story yesterday headlined, “Jan. 6 Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message.” I guess it’s that obvious.

    ‘Recast’ their message? Recast? Oh, they mean, “change the subject.”

    The article explains, “With their control of Congress hanging in the balance, Democrats plan to use made-for-television moments and a carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings to remind the public of the magnitude of Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the election, and to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it.”

    According to the Times, excited Representative and Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), gleefully promised the hearings will “blow the roof off the House.” And — get this — the article says “a significant portion of the first hearing on Thursday evening will focus on the Proud Boys.” Oh.

    How weird. It’s almost like they already knew about the new Proud Boys charges after all. What an odd coincidence. Just lucky for democrats I guess.

    The NYT reported that mood democrats have scheduled more than 90 celebrations, I mean ‘watch events,’ in various states, including a ‘flagship’ event at the Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon in Washington, where democrats will set up a Jumbotron and dish up free ice cream to attendees. That’s not a joke.

    This frenzied push to change the trajectory of the elections will fail, because democrats mistakenly believe people can forget about gas prices, bungled military operations, arming terrorists, the border, inflation, and reckless warmongering just to “punish” Republicans for doing something that never gets punished when leftists do it.

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    Look no further than this story. This week the Biden administration also quietly reduced the already plea-bargained sentence of two white-shoe lawyers who threw a Molotov cocktail into a police car during the 2020 summer riots in Brooklyn. The two lawyers pleaded guilty last year to one count of possessing and making an explosive device, a charge that carries up to ten years in prison, but DOJ lawyers have now retroactively offered to reduce the charges to ones carrying a maximum of only 18 to 24 months.

    Not one single J6 defendant threw explosives anywhere. Just saying.

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    *THE MINORITY REPORT*

    Reuters ran a gloomy story yesterday headlined, “World Bank Slashes Global Growth Forecast to 2.9%, Warns of ‘Stagflation’ Risk.” Uh oh!

    In its Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank predicted that the global economy is entering “a protracted period of feeble growth and elevated inflation.” That doesn’t sound too good. But the World Bank also warned things could get even worse.

    “The danger of stagflation is considerable today,” the report begins. Stagflation! Last seen under democrat one-termer Jimmy Carter, who coincidentally employed many of the same economic policies that White House resident Joe Biden does. Odd.

    I know what you’re thinking, but the problems have nothing to do with Joe. [snuffle snort!] The World Bank says its covid plus Russia, which equals stagflation. Their suggestions for managing the crisis include working on reducing climate change. In other words, nothing is going to change until we get a different Administration here in the US. So buckle up.

    The good news is much of the economic damage can easily and quickly be reversed. Just look how fast the energy sector turned around after the disastrous Obama presidency when President Trump opened the fracking fields.

    It will happen. We just have to hang in there for a little while.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I still keep track of my mileage on each tank of gas, just for fun.

    A year ago I paid $40.48 for 15 gallons gas. Friday I paid $67.48.

  28. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #13 Tedtam – we’ve accumulated a fair stock of gallon-ish sized water bottles because I refuse to use anything but bottled water in our Keurig… Whole lot less expensive than replacing the Keurig every year… We don’t save an refill ALL we use, but a good portion – and when we get a good sized pile, I water plants with them, and refill with fresh… Prolly not ideal but it’s a start – and we have a couple of 5 gallon cooler jugs we fill when a storm is on the way. Our “community well” has decent but NOT great water – and often there’s a pressure loss, which leads to a boil water notice and we just started staying more prepared…

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees.  I need to be making a shopping list for Kroger, and I tried to look at their online digital coupons. They’ve changed it up so I can’t figure out how to use it now. Made it geared to delivery instead of in-store shopping. Eh, I’ll skip their coupons.

     

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I keep at least a hundred bottles of water on hand all the time. And a 30 gallon trash can in the useless garden tub….for filling when the time comes.

  31. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Went out and picked up a couple of prescription renewals, and since there were no cars at the barber shop, I stopped in for a hair cut while I was out.  Now it’s time to begin disassembling my non=sparking lawnmower and figure out what’s wrong.  Sunshine is already too bright and it’s already getting unbearably hot, so say nothing of the gnats swarming all over.

  32. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Shannon – there’s also recent acquisition of a 350 gallon water tank that we plan to set up a water capture system for, if it EVER looks like rain around here

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just made a quick pass through the garden. I didn’t see any new vbm eggs (though I wasn’t examining closely-that’ll come later when I won’t roast so much under the sun). I didn’t see any live ‘pillars, so I guess the Bt worked. I did see the grub inside the siamese squash fruit through the enlarged entry hole, so I got some spinosad and sprayed it into the hole. Take a bath, you vermin.

    Here’s hoping that I’ve survived this emergence of the vbm. Let’s see if I can get some squash before the next hatch. Living in a subtropical climate has its drawbacks, one of them being the insect life. Normally, it would only be the mosquitoes that really bothered me, but now since I’m trying to grow food, that list has also grown.

    I am seeing more cucumbers, so I might get enough to pickle. Maybe. Like a pint or two. But, hey, it’s a start!

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Shannon – there’s also recent acquisition of a 350 gallon water tank that we plan to set up a water capture system for, if it EVER looks like rain around here

    /jealous

    I’ve told Hubby I want a rain capture system. It would certainly help with the garden watering, if nothing else.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue, Shannon, and all you preppers (any level thereof):

    Berkey is the gold standard in water filtration, but a new system is hundreds of dollars. Here is how to make an affordable homemade version. I’ve also see this done with stock pots.
    [Here’s a video of such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPSKwg6BO9U ]

    Because, if I have to get water from the bayou….

  36. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I still keep track of my mileage on each tank of gas, just for fun.

    A year ago I paid $40.48 for 15 gallons gas. Friday I paid $67.48.

    I used to do that, but stopped many years ago. Since my Camry has the whiz-bang computer in it, I informally track mileage, but not spend.

    I get about 27-29 mpg in “normal” day-to-day driving.

    On the trip to SA last weekend I got around 37-38. At those speeds, small differences in speed make for pretty substantial changes in mileage. I set cruise control on 78 for this trip. If I go around 74-75 I get 39-40. If I drive like I usually do I get 33-34.

    How does your minivan do?

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Uncle in Kerrville has been capturing rainwater for many years. I don’t remember how many thousand gallons his two tanks hold, but they are huge.

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    My garden is slow going but hopefully will be producing more here shortly. So far, I have one zucchini, two squash and one deformed tomato. Several baby squashes coming along and four tomatoes. Jalapeno plants are being taken over by the squash and zucchini plants, they are yuge, so probably won’t be doing anything though there are several blooms, but they’ve been there for quite some time. Okra never did anything. I’m not anal enough to go spying for eggs and such, let nature do its thing.  I do have a soapy water spray bottle I keep in hand for flying things that I see.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    How does your minivan do?

    90% of my driving in this hybrid is on two-lane blacktops with 60mph speed limits. The rest is 75mph state highways or Interstate.

    I average 34-35mpg with my normal driving.

    Last week I really worked at it and managed 38.4mpg. But driving like that really tests my patience.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Can’t believe y’all haven’t commented on the assassination attempt on Kavanaugh.

    By another lefty with a gun.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve been on the treadmill for almost the last hour, getting my two miles in. I’ve watched the birds at my bowl of water, and one of those beautiful gray egrets with the pretty heads on them. Name escapes me at the moment. She’s been hunting in my back yard for over an hour now, and being successful, from what I’ve seen. I hope she’s eating all the bad guys.

  42. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Can’t believe y’all haven’t commented on the assassination attempt on Kavanaugh.

    What?!?

    Haven’t heard or seen anything.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    40

    Didn’t know about the assassination attempt.

    I must be getting pretty successful at withdrawing from the world.

    I don’t even check CitizenFreePress but perhaps once a day, instead of hourly.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If the apocalypse comes, it may have to knock on my door to let me know it has arrived.

  45. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #42 –
    ARMED MAN CAPTURED LURKING OUTSIDE HOME OF BRETT KAVANAUGH, STATES HIS INTENTION IS TO KILL THE JUSTICE
    —Ace

     

    RTWDT

     

    https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=399494

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Clay & Buck have been discussing it quite a bit; perp was caught outside of K’s house with gun, knife, pepper spray. He wanted to kill Kavanaugh in an attempt to prevent Roe decision from being made official.

    Most of these gun attacks seem to be from liberals. Gun hating liberals. Maybe we should just ban liberals from owning guns. According to the Dem party apparatus, gun bans are supposed to work.

  47. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Maybe we should just ban liberals from owning guns.

    FIFY

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I was not aware of the assassination attempt either. Checking the news I see a few  GOP congressman have called for the president to condemn the attempt. Now FJB has condemned the action, so all is well.

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The rapidity of the response from the so-called president over the assassination attempt surely gives me great comfort.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Cotton starting to bloom in south Austin County.

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m not anal enough to go spying for eggs and such, let nature do its thing. I do have a soapy water spray bottle I keep in hand for flying things that I see.

    I was only anal because I was being threatened with losing every squash plant I had. At the peak, it wasn’t unusual to find around 20 eggs on each squash plant. When it only takes one….

  52. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wow, are they on the back side of the leaves?

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Cotton flowers start out as pink buds and fade to white.

  54. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wow, are they on the back side of the leaves?

    This moth is not particular about where she lays her eggs, one at a time. They are NOT laid together, but separately. I’ve seen videos where the gardener is showing vbm eggs in a “raft” on the underside of a leaf. Nope, those are squash bug eggs. Another squash killer, but easier to find and control.

    Look for strawberry seed sized, copper/brown colored spots. You may find them on leaves, top and/or bottom. Anywhere on the stem, from near the leaf to underneath next to the dirt, at the base. Even on the flower buds. Even on the fruit.
    Almost every video or reference I see focuses on the base of the plant. WHY?! In my experience, those worms will happily bore into any leaf stem and start eating, and working their way from the leaf stem to the plant base is just as likely as completing their life cycle where they started. If you look at the stem with the sun behind it, you can see the shadow of the vermin and know where it is. That’s how I figure out what I need to bag up for trash and what I can compost.

    The eggs can be hard to see, especially near the base of the plant and close to the dirt. Sometimes the eggs are laid in the dirt near the plant. This is why I started injecting my squash stems. It takes time, but I am able to catch any grubs – starting out or established – before they can wander down to squash central and take out the whole plant by eating the main source of water and nutrients to the plant. I inject each stem and multiple places at the base. I’ve learned not to assume that the fluid will flow from one hollow stem throughout the base of the plant.

    Bug from hell. Stealthy, sneaky, uses its victim as its protection, and then doesn’t even leave the plant alive in gratitude.

    I need to remember to turn my soil in my squash totes. I may put it out on some large cardboard and let the birds peck through it before using it again. Get those pupae before they attack my next crop.

  55. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More Hunter Biden files extracted from the laptop from hell.

    And it seems some of these recovered documents involve LGB.

  56. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tedtam

    I done scheduled a Thursday open missives.  Just so yanno don’t yanno

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #56
    😀

  58. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Got the cover off my mower after giving in and watching a YT video.  Sure enough, I did not replace the coil last year, and it’s all rusted out and everything, so it’s just simple to replace it, right.  Well, first I had to locate the model number of the mower, as well as brand name and such.  But it seems that B&S engines that power these things have their own model numbers, inconveniently stamped in hard to get to places.  So I had to get the carb cleaner out and start cleaning the engine, and there I finally found the engine number.  Seems of course that several manufacturers of lawn mowers used this same engine model number to power their units as well.  But anyway, now we’re off on the B&S site trying to find a blow up of that engine model in order to locate the ignition coil.  Well, the engine ignition coil is not located in the parts diagram where you would think it might be, in fact there is not even a section on the ignition system.  So then we begin to scan the diagram looking for an ignition coil, and there it is with the notation 851A.  Well, 851A is not a part number, but it does lead you to a parts page where the part is shown and is accompanied by a part number.  Now we’re getting somewhere.  Don’t forget that every time I reach a new level in this extended video game of hide and seek, I’ve got to get up, go back outside, hunt all over for more numbers, get all hot and sweaty again and half blind from the bright sunlight.  But anyway, the original equipment is $60+ which is more than I could get selling it right now with a new carb, new plug, and new blade already in place.  So I take the part number, as well as all the obsolete part numbers this is supposed to replace over to Amazon in search of a Chinese knock off part.  I finally found one that should be here Friday for $14.  That’s more like it.

    So anyway, I think I’ve done about all I can do today on that project, and it’s too dam hot outside anyway to do any more, so it’s break time.  I can leave everything outside just as it is since I don’t think rain will be a problem.  And after all that, I should be getting a spark and that thing (the mower, not that other thing) should fire right up again.  By then my yard should need mowing again anyway.  So that’s what I’ve been up to.

  59. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I heard the Kavanaugh story on the radio during my drive back from Kroger. Today was the first time I really noticed prices had gone up on most of my standard items. While I don’t like that, my bigger concern is what will I do to keep my critters fed if it gets much harder to find what they want?

  60. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    MH – I agree, we finally got Buddy’s preferred dog food that has been missing on all the local shelves. They weren’t well stocked at the Dollar Store but at least they had some back on the shelf. At first, I thought it was a Dollar Store thing, yanno, in a cart somewhere in the store, probly aisle 5, not unloaded yet or still in the back. But we couldn’t find it at HEB or Brookshire Bros either.

  61. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It seems like gas prices took a sharp jump this past week or so. Was like $4.19 at the local Walmart neighborhood market a week ago. Now I’m regularly seeing like $4.59.

    Did something happen that I missed?

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    For the anti-free-speech left, the most dangerous man in America today is Greg Lukianoff. The president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for the past 16 years, the free-speech attorney has now decided to guide the organization, previously focused on free-speech battles within academia, into the broader territory of free-speech battles across the nation. FIRE has been rebranded as the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and Lukianoff intends to take it into space once occupied by free-speech stalwarts like the ACLU. He has a massive new investment from supporters to the tune of $75 million.

    Lukianoff is part of a generation of new Gen X leaders for the conservative movement in America, though he thinks of himself less as a conservative and more as a classical liberal. The arrival of this new broadened agenda is something long planned but now accelerated.

    Continued…..

    https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-man-taking-on-the-anti-free-speech-left/

  63. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    60 timtom
    Does chewy.com carry it?

  64. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #58 ELG

    I finally got a little bit organized and started keeping a drawer for each of my yard tools – mower, chainsaw, etc – also wrote down all the model and part numbers needed and put that in each of the drawers.

  65. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #63 Wagonburner

    I never got desperate enough to check. They probably had it at the big box pet stores but I never looked. He sufficed with another brand, flavor and seemed ok with it.

  66. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Did something happen that I missed?

    Skewls out is always a good fallback excuse for whoever mans the controls.

  67. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #61: Just ask FJB.

    Economics 101: Artificially constrict the crude oil supply and increase the money supply at the same time and price inflation will happen every time.

    The dramatic price increases in fuel are by design; part of JugEars ‘fundamental transformation’ of the USA. This is no accident.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Austin County needs a new communications tower in Wallis.

    They’re ready to go with construction but they need “approval from 13 Indian nations” before proceeding.

    The Sheriff’s Deputy coordinating the project thinks the Shoshone tribe (based in Utah) may hold out for a $20-30,000 donation.

    Sounds like extortion to me.

    The county didn’t build in bribe money to the project budget, either.

  69. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #68 – How do they ever expect to get anything done without a discretionary incidental walking around money fund.  They just don’t want to part with it themselves, the fund is in there, the pols just don’t want to share it with outsiders.

    #64 – That’s a good idea, but I’m just too lazy to go to all that effort. Can’t have me getting all efficient and stuff you know.

  70. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Might not matter to most folks, but Robert Utley has passed. Pissibly a more important Popular Historian than Steven Ambrose. Utley wrote extensively on the Indian Wars in an honest “warts and all” style that frustrated revisionists because he revealed that there really were no Good Guys.

  71. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    15000 more headed to the border and I bet Abbott let’s every single one of them in.

    Looks as though he’s graduated from matchbox cars to a whole 17 miles of razor wire and flex seal.

    Yep that’ll stop all those millions of illegals because they’ve never heard of wire cutters.

    Abbott does everything but the things he could and should do to actually secure the border.
    Same with that other WEF rino Vampyre guv in Arizona.

    More smoke and mirrors from the governor who may win in Nov but will lose Texas in the long run forever.

    He won’t be getting my vote and neither will that psycho commie Beat Off o’dork.

  72. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I’m confused that a psycho totalitariancrat, so called lib, would try to take out the drunk, kangarooed penguin skcotus judge who always votes with the rest of the totalitariancrat skcotus kangarooed penguins anyway.

  73. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #64

    I just got through updating some documents pertaining to our IRAs and other accounts.

    I keep it all in a spreadsheet with a very vague name. Years ago, when we were applying for loans at the bank, I found it less tedious to create a look alike form in a spreadsheet, and just have background data in related pages to feed the main form. It took a long time to format, but now all I have to do is update the numbers on the supplemental forms and print it off.

    It looks dang near identical to the bank form, but I’ll be they’ve changed it since I created it. It still provides all the details, should we ever need it.

    But the info is organized.

    I also have a document in Evernote, a cloud storage system, and LD has my password. If I die, it has all the info she needs to contact our policy holders, bank accounts, funeral requests, etc. I need to print some of it off for Hubby, too, and put it with our trust documents.

    Keeping it organized is a tedious task, but I do it as stuff comes in. Sending off some updated numbers that I just received to our CPA, and updating it in the spreadsheet.

    Next on the to do list…

  74. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and I started a household binder, too. All of our appliance manuals are stored in it, in plastic sheet protector pages. Our boiler sometimes requires an electrical panel to be replaced, and I store a copy of an invoice from the supplier there with the manual. Our washing machine had a glitch, and the repairman showed me the code to enter via the dials to reset everything. I made sure I noted that in the binder as well. If/when this house is sold, I can just hand over the binder and of the maintenance notes, quirks of the house, are included in there for the new owners. Since it’s an unusual house, with unusual heating system and two nontraditionally ducted a/c systems…yeah, the new owners might appreciate that.

  75. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Just a snippet on Robert Utley:

    When did you know you wanted to be a historian?
    I didn’t think of it as being a historian, but when I was a seasonal ranger-historian at Custer Battlefield National Monument, during my college summers (1947–52), I wanted to write history and did, although it was completely amateurish. A visitor to the battlefield loaned me $500. I wrote a pamphlet about Custer’s Last Stand, designed it myself and had it printed. In a brazen conflict of interest the woman who ran the souvenir shop near the battlefield sold it for 75 cents a copy and informed all customers it was written by the “battlefield boy” at the top of the hill. All 600 copies sold out, and the loan paid. Find one now and it will cost you several hundred dollars.

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    69
    Federally-sponsored extortion. Period.

  77. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wow. I learned something from learning about certain curse words.

    Some phrases are not as casual as you think.

    Not using the Lord’s name in vain is a good practice. I cringe when I hear my kids using some of these phrases. And Hubby. /sigh

  78. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oyster Stew, it’s what’s fer supper. I must say that my White Sauce was about as good as it gets. Oh and I think I ate too much. 😉

  79. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Is it just me or are some of the avatars kinda’ weird? I’m talking Bsue, Bones and GJT. Also they are different now than this morning.

  80. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Izzat like the chowder of clam?

  81. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Izzat like the chowder of clam?

    More like saute of phlegm.

  82. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The avatars are being randomly assigned if there is not one on file, it seems.
    I changed email addresses quite some time ago and I lost the ability to change mine. It was a yellow bench vise, if I recall.

  83. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I managed to keep my Queen. It’s as close as I can get to the real thing.

    If only….I think even EG would agree that me, as Queen, could run things better than this bib using meat puppet could do.

  84. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Personally, I would think one of mh’s cats could do as well as the current administration.

  85. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Who is the bib using meat puppet, izzat biden?

     

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, at least my favorite raccoon Frowny from the turn of this century is still my avatar.

     

  87. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Izzat like the chowder of clam?

    Pretty much, white sauce, onions, garlic and boiled oysters. Very good eating and easy to make.

  88. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We’ve had some mist/dust hanging around near the ground most of today and yesterday, though today’s sky early on had some blue patches showing amongst mostly white fluffy clouds.   As day wore on they have morphed into a high cloud cover with not much sky showing anywhere and a masked sun barely able to break through it.

    David Paul on the 6pm weather news said it was desert dust again from north Africa.  That as well as the high heat can make folks with breathing or heart issues have problems if they are outside very long.  He advised it is best to stay inside in the a/c d until we have clear skies again.  You can smell the dust outside.

    And the avatars are quite a surprise.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Adee avatar with a monocle.

    Heh.

  90. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I went outside this evening, after my yard was shaded as the sun set to finish some gardening chores. First, I went after the trimming and found one of those bugs from hell caught in my mustard plant tulle again. I tried to spray it, but I don’t know it got away or dropped dead. Tomorrow morning is my intended injection day, but I can put off until Friday if necessary. I guess I need to check for eggs again. /sigh/ just when I thought I was done.

    I finished cutting off the questionable leaves. I was dripping sweat just doing that. Harvested two grape tomatoes and two serrano peppers. I have a coupla cukes that I may pull tomorrow. I had purchased some herbs (stevia, English thyme, lemon balm, and a purslane), so I planted those. Dripped more sweat. Then I set up some new seeds. By then I was a puddle.

    So, showered and catching up. Now, for Latin. Class is tomorrow and guess who hasn’t cracked Chapter Nine yet?

  91. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Getting close to bedtime again out here.  Not certain of the plans for tomorrow.  It’s a travel day for my lawn mower parts, so nothing I can do on it tomorrow.  Probably need to work a little bit in my flower bed and do some weeding.  So far the flowers are holding their own against the deer and the heat and the wind, but it’s obviously a constant battle.  The lawn is still green from recent rains, but it’s not really showing getting all thick and healthy.  We need another round of water to accomplish something like that I guess.

    OK, you all have a good evening.  I’ll catch up with you again tomorrow.  Nite nite.

  92. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching Pierce Brosnan in “Love Punch” and a bunch of nuns just walked in front of him and his ex-wife. Made me smile.

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