Friday Open Comments

There Y’all are! You snuck in while I wasn’t looking, I’d already signed in on Thursday’s thread.
It’s Friday!
Mornin’ Gang

Super Dave

I’ve not been watching the news all that much but I did see that the Supreme Court struck down the New York concealed carry law that was brought by the NRA and NY State Rifle Assn.
Biden and Harris expressed disappointment that the court upheld the Constitution,…not surprising but it’s not been that long ago that a President and VP wouldn’t openly reject the Constitution. That said, the gun grabbers have been emboldened since they passed the Brady Bill.

Super Dave

NRA celebrates Supreme Court striking down NY concealed handgun license law.

The NRA called the Supreme Court ruling a ‘watershed win’ after the 6-3 decision.

The National Rifle Association weighed in on the Supreme Court ruling striking down regulations in New York that made it difficult for citizens of the state to obtain a license to carry a handgun.

“Today’s ruling is a watershed win for good men and women all across America and is the result of a decades-long fight the NRA has led,” Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said in a statement Thursday. “The right to self-defense and to defend your family and loved ones should not end at your home. This ruling brings life-saving justice to law-abiding Americans who have lived under unconstitutional regimes all across our country, particularly in cities and states with revolving door criminal justice systems, no cash bail and increased harassment of law-enforcement. ”

LaPierre’s statement comes after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that New York regulations requiring citizens prove “proper cause” for seeking a concealed pistol license were unconstitutionally restrictive.

“In this case, petitioners and respondents agree that ordinary, law-abiding citizens have a similar right to carry handguns publicly for their self-defense. We too agree, and now hold, consistent with Heller and McDonald, that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home,” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the Court’s majority opinion. “Because the State of New York issues public-carry licenses only when an applicant demonstrates a special need for self-defense, we conclude that the State’s licensing regime violates the Constitution.”

Shannon

Dang.
Discount Tire store on West Cavalcade in Houston had a fire early this morning.

Abuck Syxbits

Super Dave

I don’t watch the News at all and get everything instead from places like this. Often times I’m more interested in the comments because it gives me a feel for what the true sentiment is on an issue.

The American people seem to be fully on board with the 2A Constitutional Carry law. It is just a very few that want to reject it. That in itself should make you wonder what the end game is.

Thanks to Trump and pushing his Supreme Court nominees we are seeing results. Although not all rulings make sense to me from a conservative standpoint.

Super Dave, did Big Mike show up yet?

Send pics if you get a chance too.

Gotta go feed cats!

Morning gang. It’s weigh-in Friday, and once again, I’m holding at the 220 mark, plus or minus 1 pound, for the umpteenth week in a row. But that’s OK, so long as I’m not packing it back on. The elaborate weigh-ins that I used to stage have just about faded away, but they were fun when they were needed and the loss numbers were worth talking about. Just for the record, as best as I can tell from my records, I peaked out in 2013 at about 310 pounds, so I can honestly say that I’m about 90 pounds lighter now than then. I’m five over my college playing weight, but my waist is still 6″ larger, so something has dropped. Doesn’t hurt anyone to try to keep that weight under control in our later years as it does cause a lot of pain by stressing our joints, excessive wear on cardiac system, and on and on. By just about any measure, I’d probably still show up as “obese” but not “morbidly obese” as before.

And Ammo Grrrll is up early this morning. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-434.php

Hope that you all have a great day today. We’re looking at yet another record heat day in store, so guess I’ll spend the afternoon reading. More later as it develops.

Abuck Syxbits

#6 El Gordo

And Ammo Grrrll is up early this morning.

First of all congratulations on your weight loss. That is a major accomplishment. I followed your progress last year but I must have missed the beginning and end readings.

Secondly, thanks for the Power Line link. It is a lucid deep dive into this “Red Flag Law” and the potential ramifications. Remember when Oblubber passed the “Hate Crime” law. Same deal different name.

The author also used the term “Stalinoid”. That term sums up perfectly what we are witnessing today.

A modern day Bolshevik Revolution.

Super Dave

#5 Abuck Syxbits, I don’t know if you’re keeping up, (I’m not) but I mentioned yesterday that Mike and crew put the tin roof on the pole barn but I didn’t get a chance to talk to him before he left so I’ll call in a bit. He stays so busy that he works several projects at once and invariably he takes a long time to get any job complete. He has a regular crew of 3 but subs out some work and there are always conflicting schedules to deal with. My wife gets impatient with him but I stick with him because he does good work at a reasonable price and shows up, even if sporadically. Good help is impossible to find around here. I’ve heard horror stories about work that was started but not finished and wound up being paid for twice.
Pictures? I shot this one yesterday afternoon when they were ¾ done.

Darren

Alito Takes a Blow Torch to Liberal Justices’ Dissent

First Justice Thomas, the greatest Supreme Court Justice in our nation’s history, wrote an outstanding majority decision in the Bruen case and now Justice Alito nails it on what that decision does. In his counter opinion, Alito writes:

And while the dissent seemingly thinks that the ubiquity of guns and our country’s high level of gun violence provide reasons for sustaining the New York law, the dissent appears not to understand that it is these very facts that cause law-abiding citizens to feel the need to carry a gun for self-defense.

Spot on!

Ordinary citizens frequently use firearms to protect themselves from criminal attack. According to survey data, defensive firearm use occurs up to 2.5 million times per year.

I reiterate: All that we decide in this case is that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding people to carry a gun outside the home for self-defense and that the Sullivan Law, which makes that virtually impossible for most New Yorkers, is unconstitutional.

(Bold in the original, as per ther source).

Texpat

9 Darren

I was almost ready to leave a comment about Katie Pavlich’s article on Alito. It’s a brief concise explanation of the ruling via his concurring opinion. It’s excellent.

Texpat

I didn’t realize the Second Amendment ruling by Justice Thomas was issued on his 74th birthday.

Abuck Syxbits

#8 Super Dave

Pictures? I shot this one yesterday afternoon when they were ¾ done.

Looks great! I like the Metal Trusses.

I have built several Pole Barns with fellow Carpenters on weekends, free gratis. We just enjoyed helping each other out.

On one job I brought coffee and doughnuts to the site in the morning. We hired a Hispanic guy to keep the saw horses loaded up and when we gave him a coffee and doughnut he said something I will never forget.

He said I just love this country!

He was a work horse. He worked in low gear all day but never slowed down.

Gotta go do battle at Costco.

So later folks.

Super Dave

Looks great! I like the Metal Trusses.

Yup those trusses make it possible to span a full 40′ across without any other support. AND they make longer ones.

bsue54

Morning Gang – It’s 8:50… the bane of someone’s existence (the trailer with the roofing debris in it) is gone… the plants are back on their normal table, in front of the house, and watered, and it’s just reached 80 degrees… guess they’ll need watering again tomorrow, at this rate… Gonna go get another cuppa

Back from TOK. This morning we had a visit from one of our regulars, a young man who is a Game Warden for TP&W. He’s deploying back to the border for an undetermined period of time, but he sort of filled us in on some of the inter workings of law enforcement as it relates to border jumpers, as well as the inter play between and among the numerous assorted State and Federal Agencies operating down there. Basically, at the state level, DPS is leading the operation with TP&W supplying supplemental man power and/or specifically assigned duties. Detainees are turned over to Border Patrol, and from there they are in the federal system. He’ll be riding a river boat for most of this assignment – point of the spear for some operations. New truck, and equipment lists are impressive – heavy duty cross country truck, all sorts of first aid stuff, a mini-armory, defensive equipment such as vests, gas masks, and the like, repair equipment, etc. Says it’s about at gross weight fully equipped. Always interesting to get front line reporting as opposed to the MSM filtered news.

OK, lots of reading in store today. Already too hot to get out and do much, and not much to be done out there either. You all have a great day.

OH, BTW, he reports that the Director of DPS is an absolute straight arrow, and that the reports he gives on the Uvalde situation are most likely understated as to the screw up from that wanna be police chief down there. This guy is nearing retirement, has a spotless and proud record of accomplishment during his tenure with DPS, and is not about to let his legacy and reputation be tarnished by some local incompetent police chief. I’ve got no reason to not believe that our guy is sincere in his evaluation – he seems very level headed, is not excitable, and is straight by the book, so that gives me a lot of confidence in his opinions.

SCOTUS reverses itself, overturns Roe v. Wade. News at 11.

Roe has been overturned. Let the peaceful riots begin.

Super Dave

I was just about to post that! Roe V Wade overturned! Remanded back to the states.
Say what you will but Donald Trump saved the Supreme Court.

Texpat

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/social-justice-warriors-and-their-greatest-victims-rabbi-chananya-weissman/

This is a great, insightful rant by Rabbi Chananya Weissman at Front Page. Some excellent biblical references for today.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1539672858607108097/pu/vid/478×270/otcdWAXuB1WWy5Fh.mp4?tag=14

It seems so minor to report the C&C, given the SCOTUS ruling, but here ’tis.
(Without my coffee this morning…I am trying so hard NOT to drink anything right now!)
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Friday, June 24, 2022 ☙ BRAINSTORMING

Good morning C&C, and Happy Friday! Today’s action-packed roundup includes: Biden has a brainstorm; a baffling meningitis outbreak in gay people in Florida; a less-baffling polio outbreak in London; the war against nicotine expands; more sudden and unexpected deaths for politicians, celebrities, and athletes; MSN memory-holes its article about improved hospitalization odds for unvaccinated; New England Journal of Medicine study shows better odds for unvaccinated; China finds evidence of aliens; the DOJ begins a new, wider round of J6 prosecutions, right on schedule; and the new San Fran School Board begins rolling back woke policies.

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*THE C&C ARMY POST*

I’m back in Facebook jail, again, with a 30-day sentence this time. It was on account of an early post that discussed the post-jab low-sperm study. I’ve appealed; we’ll see what happens.

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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

White House Resident and creepy whisperer Joe Biden had a brainstorm about how to get gas prices down. And it only hurt a little.

During a presser yesterday on skyrocketing gas prices, Biden got an idea! He ordered gas stations to lower their prices. He said, “My message is simple. To the companies running gas stations… bring down the price you are charging at the pump … Do it now. Do it today.”

For emphasis, he did the whole whispering thing when he instructed them to “do it now, do it today.” And he said we are “in a time of war,” which isn’t EXACTLY the same thing as saying we are “at war” but it’s pretty dang close.

How come we never thought of this before! Just order the gas stations to lower prices. He’s a genius! It’s so simple. Crisis: solved.

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Biden expanded the war against nicotine yesterday. Just yesterday I told you about Joe’s first scheme, to order cigarette makers to remove 95% of the natural drug from its products. Using agency action and NOT a democratic process, I might add. Then the story got even more interesting yesterday, with a story in Bloomberg headlined, “Juul’s Vaping Products Are Ordered Off the Market in the US.”

Yesterday, the FDA denied Juul Labs Inc.’s authorization to sell any of its current products, and announced that all Juul products now on the market must be recalled, warning darkly that if they don’t, there will be “enforcement action.”

The federal agency explained its decision was because Juul’s application lacked “sufficient evidence” showing that its products were “appropriate for the protection of public health,” and some of Juul’s application’s study findings “raised concerns due to insufficient and conflicting data.”

Insufficient and conflicting data. Huh. If only the FDA would have used the same strict reviewing criteria when it evaluated the Pfizer and Moderna applications.

Anyway, the FDA’s rationale can obviously be applied to every vaping product, so my guess is they’ll all be illegal soon. That stuff’s no good for you anyways, and who cares what you think? The good news is you have a beneficent FDA parent to create guardrails and set limits for you, since you’re too dumb to make your own decisions. But you can’t move in with them.

Thanks, FDA experts!

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Another weird, baffling outbreak struck the gay community this week. Fox News ran an alarming article yesterday headlined, “Florida meningococcal outbreak among gay and bisexual men is one of worst in US history: CDC.”

The CDC is now recommending gay people get vaccinated for meningitis — in addition to monkeypox — after discovering 24 cases and 6 deaths among gay and bisexual men in Florida. The agency didn’t say where in the state the cases came from, or what the time period was. This upcoming week will be the fourth week of Pride Month.

Twitter avatar for @NBCOUTNBC Out @NBCOUT
Health officials recommend that men in Florida who have sex with other men get a meningococcal vaccine following one of the worst outbreaks among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history.
nbcnews.to/3HKywJ8

The outbreak is historic in a couple ways. Meningitis has not previously been seen to transmit by “sexual networking.” And at 6 deaths out of 24 cases, the outbreak is the deadliest meningococcal outbreak ever recorded. That’s 25% mortality, so far.

Obviously, the useless experts are baffled, again.

Coincidentally, a study published December 27th in the Journal of Immunology is titled, “New-Onset Autoimmune Phenomena Post-COVID-19 Vaccination.”

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It’s not just meningitis. The UK Mirror ran a story this week headlined, “Polio Spreading in Britain for First Time in Decades as National Incident Declared.”

The Mirror says the UK’s Health Security Agency, Britain’s version of the CDC, has recently detected polio virus in the London sewage works, is calling on families to ensure children are fully vaccinated.

The variant that they are finding is genetically linked to an oral polio vaccine that uses a partially live virus. The samples suggest the virus has been spreading since February and has continued to mutate from the symptomless vaccine-derived form.

Dr. Vanessa Saliba, consultant epidemiologist at UKHSA, said: “Vaccine-derived poliovirus is rare and the risk to the public overall is extremely low. Vaccine-derived poliovirus has the potential to spread, particularly in communities where vaccine uptake is lower. On rare occasions it can cause paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated.”

Okay, let me see if I’ve got this right. Brits now need a vaccine to keep them from getting polio … that came from another vaccine. This is going great! Thanks, experts!

[I seem to recall some book, I can’t recall the name just now /sarc off/, that warned of plagues….]

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Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian, 58, died tragically and unexpectedly on Wednesday after a “short illness” caused him to miss a couple meetings. The other commissioners were shocked to learn that he died.

Twitter avatar for @david4floridaDavid Richardson @david4florida
Today during the later hours of our City of Miami Beach commission meeting, we learned that our friend and my colleague fellow Commissioner Mark Samuelian passed earlier in the day. We are all shocked, and I extend my heartfelt sorrow and love to his life partner Laura Dominguez.

Samuelian was also a US Chess rated master. His partner Laura Dominguez only said he died of an “unexpected illness” without any further details. No cause of death has been released.

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Irish rugby star Damian Casey, 28, died “suddenly” last Friday at a hotel in Spain, where he was a groomsman in a friend’s wedding. His post-mortem stated that the cause of death was a heart issue, which Mr. Casey suffered very suddenly, and which caused him to to fall over into a nearby pool.

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Dallas Good, singer, guitarist and co-founder of Canadian alternative rock/country band The Sadies, died unexpectedly on Thursday. He was 48. USA Today reported Good died “of natural causes while under doctor’s care for a coronary illness discovered earlier this week.”

A sudden and unexpected coronary illness. What could have caused this?

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The London Evening Standard reported yesterday that Valentin Buliga, 41, from northwest London, suffered a massive cardiac arrest near Stebbings Green at around the 49-mile mark of the 2022 RideLondon-Essex 100km charity event. Buliga never regained consciousness, and he died in the hospital on Wednesday.

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A study reported by MSN but then promptly memory-holed was conducted by the Control Group Cooperative. CGC was formed in July 2021 because the founders recognized that traditional research universities and organizations refused to do studies comparing the health of vaccinated versus non-vaccinated populations.

CGC’s study includes over 305,000 non-vaccinated study participants from 175 countries. All subject were given special ID cards identifying them as clinical subjects, and stating in bold letters that they “must not be vaccinated.” The participants completed monthly health surveys, and on June 8, CGC uploaded its initial findings on the first 20,000 subjects to ResearchGate as a preprint.

It found that its unvaccinated subjects were hospitalized at a rate of only 0.4% after getting Covid, which is 33% lower than what the CDC reports (0.6%), so the study authors concluded that unvaccinated folks appear less likely to be hospitalized after getting the virus — the exact opposite of the narrative.

Uh oh!

On June 14th, MSN republished an article on the study from Medical Daily, headlined “Severe COVID-19 ‘Rare’ In Unvaccinated People, Survey Reveals.” I blogged about the story on C&C back on June 16th, opining that corporate media would just ignore the story because it was linked to “non-traditional” medicine. I was wrong, sort of.

Instead, pro-jabby social media ghouls got to work, scolding MSN for spreading disinformation. Here’s one example by a twitterer with almost 1M followers:

Twitter avatar for @nntalebNassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
MSN is spreading another unpublished result.
Severe Covid is “Rare” in Unvaccinated People. Aside from other statistical errors, they only sampled the Unvaccinated WHO DID NOT DIE.
Evidentiary Science is hard.
msn.com/en-us/health/m…

So of course MSN yanked the story. Within 24 hours, searches for the headline turned up nothing, and links to the story now go to MSN’s home page.

Here’s the original MSN page saved in the Wayback archive: https://tinyurl.com/bdcrwt83.

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NBC affiliate KALB ran a story yesterday headlined, “Natural Immunity Offers Greater Covid Protection Than Vaccines, Study Finds.” They reported on ANOTHER study, this one from the New England Journal of Medicine, finding that natural immunity provides better protection against covid than multiple jabs.

The June 9th NEJM study is titled, “Protection and Waning of Natural and Hybrid Immunity to SARS-CoV-2.” The scientists evaluated how fast antibodies wane after infection, and found they dropped more slowly in the unvaccinated. The direction the authors went next was to argue that jabs still remain safer, because they are more predictable than infection, since you never know. This is assuming a 0% risk of jab injury of course.

I noticed something else about the study. The authors also found that jabbed people’s antibodies fall faster than unvaccinated even after EXPOSURE. Meaning, if you take two people who get covid, one jabbed, one not jabbed, something about the shots causes the jabbed person’s antibodies to wane faster. I wish the authors would have speculated about that a little.

Of course, then they’d probably never have gotten published.

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For all our C&Cers who think there must be intelligent life out there somewhere, this story is for you. On June 15th, Bloomberg ran a short article headlined, “China Says Giant Telescope May Have Detected Signals From Alien Civilizations.”

Bloomberg said that Chinese state-backed ‘Science and Technology Daily’ briefly ran an article reporting that China’s giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up “signs of alien civilizations.” Fueling conspiracy theories, the Chinese-controlled newspaper promptly memory-holed the story, and all related comments, after the report began to get attention on Chinese social media.

Just like MSN! Our U.S. corporate media is becoming indistinguishable from Chinese communist state media. An inconvenient story? Just memory-hole it, without explanation.

According to the original story before it was deleted, China’s Sky Eye is extremely sensitive in the low-frequency radio band and plays a “critical role in the search for alien civilizations,” according to Chinese scientist Zhang Tonjie. Tonjie is the chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Berkeley.

I thought it was weird that Berkeley is searching for aliens in China. There’s a good joke there somewhere. I’ll leave it to our alert commenters.

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And so it begins, just as I predicted, and right on schedule. Yesterday the Post Millenial ran a breaking story headlined, “Biden FBI Raids Trump DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark, GOP Officials, Staffers in Multiple States in ‘Alternate Electors’ Investigation.”

According to the DOJ, based on information it obtained from alertly watching the January 6th Show, it has ALREADY empaneled a grand jury and is ALREADY mass-producing criminal subpoenas to former Trump allies and other state conservative officials as part of its criminal investigation of anyone involved in considering “alternate electors” during the 2020 presidential election.

Some state Republican parties had assembled alternate presidential electors to be ready act in case legal challenges to contested election results or recounts tipped results in Trump’s favor. The January 6th Commission has described this effort as the “fake electors scheme,” and that phrase has been found in DOJ documents related to the new investigations.

A suspicious blogger might think that this is the intended endpoint for the entire J6 Commission, to disrupt the 2022 Congressional elections by charging or arresting a whole bunch of the officials and candidates in the party about to win those elections. A suspicious blogger might think this effort started right after the qualifying periods ended last week, so that it would be too late to find replacements for disqualified candidates and wreak maximum havoc.

Good thing I’m just a credulous consumer of corporate media pabulum, so I don’t have to busy my mind with that kind of nonsense. Still, the GOP might want to start getting a bunch of lawyers on retainer. Just saying.

Don’t panic! Remember: everything they do usually backfires badly.

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Remember how a couple months ago I reported that liberal San Francisco recalled three members of its seven-member, hyper-woke school board, and the mayor replaced them with new, sane liberal members? Yesterday, the National Review ran a story with the headline, “San Francisco School Board Votes to Return Elite High School to Merit-Based Admissions.”

It appears the new board is already restoring sanity. On a 4-3 vote Wednesday night, they reversed the previous board’s insane idea to eliminate merit admissions by banning the use of grades and test scores in favor of a “lottery system” that randomly admits students to the special high-performing high school, regardless of grades or test scores. Because diversity.

In the 4-3 vote, the new board ignored Superintendent Vince Matthews’ gloomy warning that he needed to keep the lottery system in place for another school year, because there would be “significant challenges” to returning to a merit-based system before the fall enrollment season. They did it anyway. Boom.

In a separate vote the same night, the new board also overrode another decision by the previous board to cover up a mural of George Washington at GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL. The First President is back!

Both Henrietta and Junior were in the back yard this morning. I told Hubby last night about Junior and his magnificent sunbathing pose, and how he’d tried to bathe in the water bowl. Hubby pointed to some plastic dish pans I had set aside for planting and suggested that I put out a bigger water bath for him.

I took one outside to the other bowl, dragging the hose behind me. Henrietta didn’t like that much and took off. Junior, however, stayed in the yard for quite a while, watching me as I watered my plants and filled their water supply. I think the noise of the water spray on the plastic tubs finally got to him and he flew off, too, though without the panicked squawking. I found that the original red bowl was bone dry; yesterday evening it was half full. Either a lot of animals are drinking from it or someone pulled it over last night and it righted itself.

I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of sauna weather this morning. It actually felt cool-ish in the shade, instead of the hot wet washcloth on the face that I’ve been dealing with for a while.

Bonecrusher

My boss likes to listen to NPR (??). I was filling one of his tires and the idjits there were asking if SCOTUS would outlaw contraception next, and what is going to happen to our right to privacy?

The lunatics control all of the institutions . . . . . for now.

squawkbox

Okay if you are thinking, “Wow Christmas is coming soon, what am I gonna get Squawk this year?” I sure would like one of these and appropriate accessories. Just sayin.

Super Dave

Have you ever noticed that the old Bags, skanks, sluts that protest about overturning Roe V Wade will NEVER EVER get pregnant? I mean not even 2 AM when all the bars close. 😉

Super Dave

Welp, the Squawkster has done it now. 😀

Pelosi is spitting mad.

She claims hypocrisy on the court, because “one day they said states can’t issue restrictions on a Constitutional right, and today they do the opposite”.

No, what they said was that abortion was never a Constitutional right, and the issue should be settled by individual state legislatures who are accountable to their voters. How can you have a “Constitutional right for 50 years”? If it was a Constitutional right, it would have been codified in the Constitution, either in the Bill of Rights or by amendment.

The word twisting is as bad as the twisting in their souls.

if SCOTUS would outlaw contraception next

Nazi Pelosi actually said that just now in her I’m-so-mad-I-can-barely-speak presser.

But then, you have to understand that these speculations come from the same group that said that there would be no slippery slope on gay issues, either. They live by the slippery slope, that’s what they understand….

Shannon

Gasoline has dropped a dime since I bought it on the 16th. To $4.69.

Darren

#19;

Say what you will but Donald Trump saved the Supreme Court.

BINGO!!!!

Darren

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/06/23/ron-perlman-says-supreme-courts-concealed-carry-decision-neglects-to-say-for-whites-only/

Ron Pearlman tried to pull the very tiring white supremacy card. Truth be told, gun *restrictions* were used to ensure the duration of slavery. Slave masters would find it quite more difficult to enslave an armed class of people/citizens. In the end, if people are armed, the government can kill them but never enslave them. At least not fully.

Shannon

Yesterday in Discount Tire I overheard a conversation about the drought.
One of the men said he had one hay meadow under irrigation.
He didn’t say how large the Center Pivot system was, but that one revolution cost $5000 in diesel.

squawkbox

ketchup-flavored popsicle?

Hmmmm might go well with my bowl of deep fried chili with beans.

bsue54

Now “sleepy Joe” has done it… Interrupted Jeopardy – I knew there was something about him I didn’t like…

squawkbox

Roe turned over

The resident of the house of white casa says it is all Trumps fault.

squawkbox

Oh boy here comes another FEDERAL LAW. Yup- just what we need is more laws.

Texpat

32 Shannon

Dang, what are round bales bringing around here now ?

Adee

Yesterday around noon I went out in our front pasture to check on the deer and see if the young one has been trying to jump over our fences. He hasn’t quite learned it since he is not big enough yet. He and Mom were far out in the pasture next to the road so it was quite a walk over lumpy ground and then, cracked dry gumbo that was more like concrete. No wonder they only laydown under trees that don’t have Gumbo around them. Bank sand is much better.

I stayed too long out there and started back to the house, feeling woozy and weak in the knees. Figured OK I’ve been out here in the sun too long. It was already in the upper 90s and I wasn’t wearing a hat. Got back inside the house and drank several glasses of water. Then crashed on the bed in our bedroom and pretty much stayed there for the rest of the day and into the night. Spouse was keeping track of how I was doing, and I said I was very tired, pretty much wiped out enough that I forgot totally about being out in the pasture. It must have been heat exhaustion, and I never want to go through that again. Yes, we are in the brutal heat time.

bsue54

#38 Miss Adee – sorry you had that experience but OH so glad you checked in to let us know you’re “OK” – relatively speaking… and yes – that does sound like heat exhaustion… on the extreme side… Prayers that you are feeling better today

mharper42

Morning on a day of turmoil. I’ve been getting all 7 of the cats switched over to the new clinic recommended by our now-retired veterinarian, and many of my neighbors. Because Lynx and his brother Matsuo are both overweight (22 and 16 lbs), it was suggested that I have some labwork done on them. On the days they were in for their checkups this month, neither of them had urine or fecal samples at the ready. So I was given sampling containers and asked to collect at home. WAAAAY harder said than done. After a week and I had nothing, plan B was bring each one in the carrier and leave him with them all day or until they had samples. They managed to get urine from Lynx that way, and also from Matsuo on a different day. But they still had me trying for a fecal sample at home. So this week, I found an old shallow litter box in storage in the garage, put some newspaper sheets in it and placed about 3′ from me and my Dell in the breakfast room. Saw a few wet samples (no longer needed) but not the other. Well, until this morning.

I was about 3 sips into my morning hot cocoa when Matsuo raced in and started tap-dancing in that shallow box, then gave me way more fecal samples than I needed, and pranced away. I jumped up, grabbed the sample tube which had its own little shovel. The label said take a sample the size of a large grape, but the plastic shovel wasn’t cutting at all, so I shoveled in a sample that would fit. Put my breakfast in the microwave to keep the cats out of it, and drove the sample tube to the clinic 2 miles from home.

mharper42

#39

Adee, I chime in with BSue that I am glad you let us know what happened, and now you are inside recuperating. Rest up, feel better, take care!

Sarge

Crap.

Had to happen sooner or later, I guess. In quick succession, I’ve been informed via email that my Instagram account (which I didn’t even know I had) was logged in from device in Nigeria, the password changed, and my Facebook account has been suspended due to a post that endangers children.

squawkbox

Sarge

Facebook account has been suspended due to a post that endangers children.

Wow they even blocked you in “Messaging”.

Sarge

Yah. I have no idea what the post was that invoked their ire, but it seems to have been a doozy. I can’t access FB here at work and this is one of those days I can’t leave early.

I believe it’s in retaliation for all of the “You’re the peopke who told us voting for Joe Biden was good idea,aren’t you?” comments I’ve been making

squawkbox

Sarge

You are prolly right. Hey btw if you have my email addy shoot me your home address, I would like to get this map i showed ya some time ago and a few other goodies into your hands. I would rather give them to someone (you) that will appreciate them than try selling them etc.

squawkbox

Sarge

Got it. Thanks. I will get it in the mail this next week.

Bonecrusher

This has been a great week from the SCOTUS; not so much for the lefty moon-bats. Great comment from over yonder:

88 So this week Democrats openly stated that the right to bear arms isn’t in the constitution, but killing babies and “separation of church and state” is. That type of complete illiteracy should make you automatically disqualified from holding office.
Posted by: Rbastid at June 24, 2022 01:35 PM (ExP60)

I couldn’t agree more.

Abuck Syxbits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/abortion-state-laws-criminalization-roe/

Here is good Map of The US showing which States will implement an Abortion Ban within 30 days and the status of the rest of the States.

Bonecrusher

#48 $1.75: That map pretty much guts the idea that wimminzes will be “unable” to ~~get and abortion~~ murder their preborn babies. Just take a drive and go to a state where murdering innocent babies is still legal.

TexMo

This is the time of year I need a second house located about 9,000′ elevation. High temps in the upper 60s to lower 70s.

Shannon

Or we could just all show up at texanadian’s house.

TexMo

Katfish is going to be out in this heat all weekend for his favorite charitable cause. Prayers for all the volunteers and Heros to stay safe, stay hydrated, and have fun.

TexMo

Texanadian might put us to work though.

Shannon

We could hide off to the side.

Send Tedtam to the door.

“Hey, Dude, I brought you a jar of dried chicken juice!”

Or whatever it is she’s making over there.

texanadian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceX5jJ5fggs

Texanadian might put us to work though.

For sure, y’all welcome. Going to be above 70 for a few days. Hope it gets the garden going.

Something else –

mharper42

How would all us Hamsters get up to texanadian’s house? A wormhole, perhaps? From the parking lot at Delmar Stadium (290 at Dacoma) to behind the chicken hutch in texanadian’s back yard… I picked that point of departure because it would be convenient for me. But yah know I gotta be back on time to feed my cats.

Abuck Syxbits

#49 Bonecrusher

Just take a drive and go to a state where murdering innocent babies is still legal.

What is going to be interesting is how the Tax Payer money paid to Planned Parenthood plays out.

We give them $500,000.00 a year now.

Will this be reduced or nullified?

Shannon

Speaking of Dooood.

?????????!?!!?!????

mharper42

#55 tex-can

That was something else, alright!

mharper42

Is Doooood on the Hambone trophy cup?

EG or Tim can check, or of course, TT has the original cup.

GJT

Yes Doood is on the cup.

Shannon

He should be if he isn’t.

Shannon

Dang it. Forgot to order the cup.

mharper42

Posted Over Yonder:

A senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he floored it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little gray hair he had left. Amazing, he thought as he flew down I-94, pushing the pedal even more.

Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a state trooper behind him, lights flashing and siren blaring. He floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120. Suddenly he thought, What am I doing? I’m too old for this, and pulled over to await the trooper’s arrival.
Pulling in behind him, the trooper walked up to the Corvette, looked at his watch, and said, “Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday. If you can give me a reason for speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.”
The old gentleman paused. Then he said, “Years ago, my wife ran off with a state trooper. I thought you were bringing her back.”
“Have a good day, sir,” replied the trooper.

Credit: Wow This is Awesome

Abuck Syxbits

My trip to Costco was not as bad as usual. Still a lot of people but not a stampede.

Mharper they are still out of Friskies Pate and The Cat Food that they do have is terrible . I used to by my bird seed there too but it is no longer available. The seed that do have has too much filler and is $28.00 a 30lbs bag. Shrink Flation taking place here. It used to be a 40lbs bag for $15.00.

Premium gas is $4.69 down a bit from last week. They must have listened to Bidet and decided to lower the price.

Hot Dog and Coke still just under a buck six bits.

squawkbox

Speaking of Dooood

Anyone heard from GJT lately?

Shannon

As a matter of fact…..

Comment 61

🙂

mharper42

#65 $1.75

When I’m at a grocery store, I look for Friskies Shreds in the cat food section, and if I find some, I take every single can. When all the lockdown/transportation problems began — and they started getting serious last year — well, I used to feel empathy for other shoppers. If there were 3 bags of “Wild Mix”, which I put out for both daytime and nighttime visitors to my patio, I’d take 2 and leave 1 for the someone-else that I was sure needed it too. Now if I see anything my critters like, I pretty much take it all.

Well, I’m back home from the butt jab and celebratory dinner after.

So no one worries, that part of my body is completely clean. Like my arteries in the MRI back in 2015. It seems that the keto diet isn’t killing me yet.

My procedure got delayed a couple of hours, and the nurses were good at keeping my spirits up: “You’re next!” “Almost time!” “Getting close!” “Soon, very soon!” The problem is, they kept telling me that for two hours past my scheduled time. I didn’t fret, though, I just prayed for whoever was in front of me. I remembered how Hubby and I were getting angry when we took Lovely Daughter in for a checkup, and the pediatrician kept us waiting almost an hour. When he finally arrived, he apologized and explained “I just had to tell a family with a daughter about your daughter’s age that she had leukemia.” Suddenly, the wait didn’t seem to be a problem. I just kept thinking that I was being delayed because something untoward was happening to the patient before me, and prayed for healing for that patient.

The worst part was the IV in the back of my hand. That sucker hurt. Then, when they woke me up, I barely had time to clear the woozies before they had me in a wheelchair and out the door to Hubby’s truck. I was actually sitting down getting dressed and still almost fell over. The nurse was very nice, though, asking if I needed help and was I having any migraine issues? I had made very sure that they understood what a thunderclap headache was (they’d never heard of it before), because I didn’t know if the anesthesia would trigger one and I really, really didn’t want any of them freaking out unnecessarily. I warned them that it could look like I was dying of some kind of brain trauma; the last thing I wanted was for them to start treating me instead of just letting me ride it out and take my meds. Fortunately, you can mark me safe from thunderclap today.

Hubby took me out to eat and we had a very nice meal. Since the restaurant was just a hop, skip, and jump from my thrift shop – actually, just a hop – he took me for a quick shopping trip for canning jars. I found one pint jar and one 30 gallon tote. The jar was $.49 and the tote $3.99. The tote had no lid (which I didn’t need) and was in good shape. One that size at the store retail would have cost me close to $30. Between the chairs and totes, I can almost double the size of my garden. I guess I need to stop accumulating and start putting seeds in the dirt.

So, I’m taking it easy for the rest of the day. No treadmill, I might put up a coupla of seeds in dirt, and some bookkeeping. Hubby has assured me that cooking dinner is not a task on my to-do list.

squawkbox

Well by golly I drove right over GJT. Sorry GJT did not see your green vest.

Abuck Syxbits

#68 mharper

When I’m at a grocery store, I look for Friskies Shreds in the cat food section, and if I find some, I take every single can.

I usually have to go to several HEBs to find enough to store up for awhile. I have thought about using an old blender and try and make my own. Maybe from dry catfood and chicken broth etc.

As for bird seed I have been buying from Tractor Supply. They have Black Oil sunflower seeds for about $26.00 40lbs bag.

Glad to see Tedham’s procedure went well.

Liked your Corvette Story.

My Wife ran off with a School Superintendent. I’m trying to figure out how I can leverage that to my advantage!

Texpat

Did y’all know Costco sells more hot dogs than any other organization in America, including MLB and NFL. Huge dog and drink for $1.50.

If y’all order a cup from https://resination-creationstx.square.site, Lovely has the list of four names to add to the cup. Be sure to remind her to include them on yours.

She’s trying to figure out how to fix mine, to add those names.

Texpat

Abuck, I don’t know if this helps.

Well, back about 20 years ago, I tried to get the superintendent of Waller ISD fired. He didn’t get fired, but he did resign at the end of the semester after I humiliated more than once at school board meetings with standing ovations.

Gotta go save a zucchini. It’s laying on its side, so I think I missed a vbm in my complacency…

GJT

Anyone heard from GJT lately?

Yes I am around, thanks for axing. Been in the hospital all week but they don’t know what’s wrong yet. Initially I was dehydrated and potassium was low, had to get those numbers up before they could continue. Came got me got me for CT Scan with dye at 3:30AM but not seen doc all day.

squawkbox

GJT

WELL darnit you get well ya here. QUICKLY

mharper42

I’ve lost track of Doooood. I think I once had him in FB as Akelas Biggins, but that doesn’t connect to anything now.

squawkbox

Mharper

Dooood left FB lock stock and barrel. I used to see his Mrs posts but she has been missing too

My birds like those black oil sunflower seeds from Tractor Supply too. Especially the white wings, but they don’t seem to like me shooting them with my pellet gun. The possums and the raccoons like the happy meals that I leave them when I do drop one of those white wings. The bird feeder with the sunflower seeds does draw a lot of different birds though. The squirrels tried to get at it for quite a while, but then they figured out it was much easier for them to just sit on the ground and eat what the white wings scattered from it.

Just polished off one more yeller skwash, and have one remaining. Think I’ll save it for a couple of days and try some other vege.

I seriously never thought I’d live long enough to see a SCOTUS with the spine to overturn Roe v Wade. If the Dems want to legalize abortion in America, then they should get off their azzez is congress and pass it in to law. Problem is they do not want to go on record for being murders, so that creates a political problem for them that they have always been able to rely on the courts to take care of for them. Congress should legislate, not the courts.

On another topic, I for one am dam sick and tired of these hired thugs being referred to as protestors. They are paid thugs and are out there to make money – they have no idea what the issues they are “protesting” about are. The press should refer to them has hired mobs, hired thugs, hired gangsters, whatever. Even our conservative talk radio folks call them protestors. Enough, they are not protestors. They are Rent-A-Mob mobsters. It’s time to get that message out there.

No college baseball tonight. The best of three series starts tomorrow for all the marbles – OU and Ole Miss. Should be some good games.

mharper42

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1130201010770661

I’ve become addicted to The Flight Channel airplane disaster stories on FB. I just watched one of the most amazing stories I’ve seen yet. Pilot Sucked Out In Flight | British Blowout. It’s about 13 minutes, FYI.

Shannon

Roe is dead.

If FB will just die soon, it’ll make my year.

Sarge

Seen elsewhere:

The irony is that tonight, Democrat cities will be burned down by Democrats in Democrat States where abortion is legal.

squawkbox

Sarge

Ain’t that the truth

Shannon

Like it or not, baby, it’s Brunette Friday.

Abuck Syxbits

#72 Texpat

Huge dog and drink for $1.50.

They say they use this as a leader item and actually don’t make money.

For all you single guys out there. Take your date to the Costco Food Court and see the reaction. I did!!!

#74 Texpat

Well, back about 20 years ago, I tried to get the superintendent of Waller ISD fired.

We used to have a running joke about Superintendents. We said let’s rotate Superintendents every 2 years and after awhile you might end up with the one you started with. Don’t let them get too entrenched.

I believe it was on this couch that was following a group of Parents that were at war with the Waller School district over CRT etc. I don’t remember seeing anything lately. Who would imagine CRT in Waller?

I could write a book about Superintendents but I better leave it alone. I spent 10 years building custom offices and furniture in The Crystal Palace at Alief ISD.

Had one Administrator suggest I use a lower quality work when building Furniture and Offices outside The Crystal Palace. I told him I only knew one way to build something. He took it in stride but I could see he wasn’t happy.

We need more people like you Texpat that are willing to push back.

School Districts are like a mini version of Washington. They have your Tax dollars and are going to use it as they see fit.

Abuck Syxbits

#81 El Gordo

On another topic, I for one am dam sick and tired of these hired thugs being referred to as protestors.

You are so right El Gordo. It shouldn’t be too difficult for the Police to follow the money and shut down the source.

Or even the FBI!!!

Somebody is saying stand down.

#83 – Most if not all of those Flight Channel things are available on You Tube as well as FB. There are others out there that are more technical and less drama, but enjoy whatever you like.

Otherwise, it’s about bed time out here for me now. You all have a good night, and more tomorrow. Nite nite

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Pilot Sucked Out In Flight |

Not to make light but that headline reminded me of this.

Abuck Syxbits

https://fb.watch/dScxuYTRAK/

#83 mharper

I’ve become addicted to The Flight Channel airplane disaster stories on FB. I just watched one of the most amazing stories I’ve seen yet. Pilot Sucked Out In Flight | British Blowout. It’s about 13 minutes, FYI.

I had trouble with the link. So I copied the link directly from the video and pasted it here. Could be operator error on my part I don’t know.

Great video. Lucky they did not just cut the Pilot lose.

Abuck Syxbits

#76 GJT

Yes I am around, thanks for axing. Been in the hospital all week but they don’t know what’s wrong yet. Initially I was dehydrated and potassium was low, had to get those numbers up before they could continue. Came got me got me for CT Scan with dye at 3:30AM but not seen doc all day

Hope you get to feeling better.

If you are at Tomball Regional and you are continued to be ignored. Move down to Methodist at Willowbrook.

I have tattooed on my chest “Don’t Take Me To Tomball Regional ” . Many stories here.

Shannon

I have tattooed on my chest “Don’t Take Me To Tomball Regional ”

Heh.

I have a similar situation with CHI St. Joseph’s.

By now every ambulance driver in Austin County has heard about that crazy dude with the booming voice and fire in his eyes who will kill you if you try to take his wife anywhere near those SOBs.

Abuck Syxbits