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Abuck
I have tattooed on my chest “Don’t Take Me To Tomball Regional ”
Lol. I’m at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands off I45. We have had yumongous billing issues at Tomball.
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Good morning gangsters and gangsterettes. Yet another hot day in store, so I’ll be staying in most of the afternoon. Need to clean out my car this morning before it gets too hot. Not hearing all that much from the paid thugs hired by the Dems to destroy our cities last night, but I’m sure there should be some mischief out there. I honestly never thought the SCOTUS would have the cajones to actually do something with R v W, but somehow they did. Thanks President Trump. Of course, John Roberts is in a snit since he was unable to be the swing vote which is what he wanted to be, but Trump nixed him out of that position with Barrett. That’s the best part of all – watching John Roberts floundering around trying to remain relevant. Now he’s relegated to just being another liberal who from time to time votes with the majority conservatives.
I hope that you all have a great day out there. More later as it develops. BTW, love the OC picture today.
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It’s the weekend and I’m late checking in. GJT, get better quickly and get OUT of that hospital.
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That is a great picture BTW.
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Matt Lanza over at Space City Weather:
The most common questions we have been getting of late are two-fold: “How similar is this summer to 2011?” (the epic drought summer), and “Does a hot June portend a hot July and August?” Let’s start with the 2011 comparison.
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GJT – praying for a rapid, complete, and painless recovery.
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We may get some much needed rain later in the day and the high is projected to be 89?!?! I’ll see it when I believe it. 😉
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I saw something on Taylor Marshall’s channel the other day that just made my jaw drop.
First off, I don’t hate gays. They are people, worthy of respect and dignity as children of God. I have a favorite cousin who is gay, and used to have a confidant at my parish who is gay. But, there are definite boundaries, especially in my Catholic faith, regarding their lifestyle choices.
As I say, “We all have our crosses. Some we are born with, some we give birth to, and others we marry.” Tongue in cheek of course, but it acknowledges the fact that life deals us a hand and we have to deal with the hand we are dealt. My church friend? He dedicated his life to service to God, remaining celibate. He lived in an area with gay friends because he found relief if being with people “who understand me.” But he did not compromise his faith. I admired him for that. “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
I found the contrast of how he lived his life really brought into focus what I saw happen in a church in Chicago. The priest at this parish brought up a gay male couple to give a homily on Father’s Day, celebrating their relationship and praising the parish for being so gay couple friendly. Afterwards, the priest and congregation gave them an enthusiastic standing ovation.
So. Much. Wrong.
First off, no one is supposed to give the homily (sermon for our non-Catholic friends) but the priest. No. One.
Second, for a Catholic church to openly promote and praise gay marriage is just…just so wrong. But then, gay is all the rage at the Vatican and this IS a Chicago Catholic parish, so why am I surprised that Scripture and years of doctrine are being thrown out the window?
Third, there should never be clapping during mass. Or even after mass for things about mass. I used to get so perturbed at my old parish that folks would applaud the choir. The choir is not there for our entertainment, they are there to serve God. I hear from a friend in my previous parish that the Spanish mass folks applaud the pastor after his homilies, and he gives a huge smile as he trots back to his chair. That’s pride – one of the seven deadly sins. If there are announcements after mass for anniversaries or birthdays, separate from the mass, then I have no problem with that. But everything in the mass should point to Jesus only. We are there to worship, not be recognized.
Last, I marvel at the lack of catechesis for the whole congregation, who celebrate gay relationships instead of supporting the gays as singles.
I mourn for my Church, and pray we can make it through this mess.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, June 25, 2022 ☙ STRATEGIC HOPE
Happy Saturday, C&C! The big news yesterday was the decision overturning Roe, but I’m dividing my comments in half. At the top of the post, I’ll discuss how Roe and covid are tied together. At the very end of the post, I’ll discuss some of the political fallout, which C&C readers who are unhappy about the decision can just skip. I’m asking everyone to be kind in the comments, and remember that persuasion happens through trust and relationship, never through conflict.
Apart from that, I have a packed Minority Report roundup for you today: How covid led to the decision overturning Roe; Ron Johnson asks Birx a tough question and gets a surprising answer; Ukraine democratically deletes its opposition party; Ukraine democratically arrests YouTubers for treason; Biden asks a rhetorical question about Ukraine and I answer; Ecuador is in flames; the Times reports on Lithuania and makes some interesting comments; and final thoughts on the politics of the decision overturning Roe.
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*THE C&C ARMY POST*
OPERATION MULTIPLIER UPDATE: Our Dr. McCullough multiplier is now above $300,000! It appears that a lot of folks read their C&C a day or more late, but dutifully join the operation and do their part when they get around to reading the post. Great work!
It’s really something to read through Dr. McCullough’s GiveSendGo page, scrolling through the donations and comments, which continue trickling in, even this morning. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2DR5.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
Protests broke out in the nation’s largest cities yesterday after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a 6-3 decision, sending the issue of regulation of abortion back to the states. I predicted this would happen last summer after the Supreme Court first declined emergency appellate review of lower-court decisions upholding New York’s various vaccine mandates.
Since some of the conservative justices signed the orders declining review, people asked me if I thought they’d changed sides or defected or something. I answered that I thought the justices were protecting something we don’t know about; they wouldn’t want to rely on bodily integrity rights if they were about to do something big like overturn Roe. Then in January when the court issued its pair of mandate decisions, one supporting the CMS mandate, neither opinion mentioning bodily integrity rights or Roe a single time, I was pretty sure this was coming.
I studied this issue closely when I litigated the mask case through appeal. I won that case — the only appellate case in the country finding mandatory masking presumptively unconstitutional — on the strength of Florida’s explicit right to privacy and medical autonomy, which had been well-developed mostly by abortion cases, particularly the ‘Gainesville Woman Care’ case.
Florida’s constitutional right to privacy is relatively new; it was passed in the 80’s during a nationwide push at the state-level related to Roe. Many states passed bodily integrity laws at that time as a result of the Roe decision and the swirling criticisms about the poor reasoning of that case. Even many pro-choice constitutional scholars agreed that Roe had a shaky foundation, so then, as is happening now, states rushed to pass laws and amend state constitutions to protect those rights.
As a result — quite ironically given the politics — the states best equipped to resist mandates during the pandemic were the ones with the strongest local protections for bodily integrity resulting from the abortion battles of the 70’s and 80’s. It’s funny how things work out.
My theory — as I’ve discussed before — is that Roe would never have been overturned without covid.
Many pro-abortion political groups, which had for decades adorned themselves in the morally-praiseworthy robes of personal bodily autonomy, were exposed as hypocrites when they shredded those values in the name of forcing their friends, co-workers, and neighbors to accept a preferred medical treatment. “My body, my choice” instantly flipped, becoming the right’s ironic new slogan, now effectively weaponized AGAINST Roe.
At that point it was just a matter of time. For how, if bodily autonomy is NOT sacrosanct when it comes to experimental vaccines, can it be of any utility when it comes to other personal autonomy issues like abortion? In other words, the “my body, my choice” argument was neutralized, sacrificed for vaccine mandates, and was shown to be not so much a ‘right’ as a benefit to be whimsically parceled out on a treatment-by-treatment basis at the arbitrary preference of whoever is making the rules at the time.
A thin principle of convenience cannot sustain the massive weight of an implied constitution right; the vaccine mandates ultimately cracked the hard shell of Roe’s implied right of privacy and the entire edifice fell away.
I have no idea how all this will shake out. But make no mistake: this Supreme Court decision is just the latest and the most obvious example of how the government’s pandemic overreach has badly backfired. And the backfiring isn’t done yet — not even close.
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This week Senator Ron Johnson — who we recently multiplied — interviewed former Covid Task Force member Deborah Birx in a Senate hearing this week, and finally asked her one of the questions that we would all like answered. Here’s a short transcript and then a link to the video.
SEN. JORDAN: When the government told us that the vaccinated couldn’t transmit it [the virus], was that a lie? Or was that a guess?
DR. BIRX: I think it was /hope/ that the vaccine would work in that way. That’s why I think scientists and public health leaders always have to be at the table, being very clear what we know and what we don’t know…
SEN. JORDAN: This is important for the country to know. So when I asked the question, when the government told us that the vaccinated couldn’t get it, and I asked you if it was a guess or a lie, you said you don’t know, you said you think it was hope. So what we do know is, it wasn’t the truth. So they were either guessing, lying, or hoping, and communicating that information to the citizens of this country.
https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1540405939584614400?s=20&t=_pjiHomZw4v3WNj4JAE7SA
These are the folks who
– censored us
– coerced most humans to take the vax
– fired / banished those who refused
– were behind lockdowns and masksSomeone once said that hope is not a strategy. But that obscures things; the fact is, when the government said that the vaccinated were protected from catching covid, that was a LIE. You can’t call it anything else. We can argue about the government’s intent, whether it had good intent or malicious intent, whether the lie arose from incompetence or bad faith, whether it meant well or meant to harm, but you can’t argue that the government wasn’t LYING.
And you can’t hide behind “they made a mistake.” First of all, even THEY aren’t claiming to have made a mistake. But even if they WERE just wrong, it was still a lie when they said it. If it was based on error, then it was just an incompetent lie. But, to be honest, it seems less like incompetence because there were other experts at the time who WERE telling the truth, and were either ignored or cancelled.
Another principle that I believe is beyond argument is that a lying government does not deserve to remain in power. It should be removed. Whether it is incompetent or it is malevolent — both justify prompt removal before it can do even more damage.
Prove me wrong.
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*THE MINORITY REPORT*
Last week, Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice announced an official ban on the country’s main opposition party and seized all its assets. Because democracy. The now-defunct party was the second largest political party in Ukraine, following President Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, which is named after his popular TV series.
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This week, Ukraine requested extradition of a YouTuber living in Spain on treason charges. He was arrested in May, and EuroWeekly News ran a story on the arrest headlined, “Popular Pro-Russian blogger Anatoly Shariy Detained in Spain.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522123082734972929?s=20&t=1NhqPUztaB17Oju4x4nWGwThe controversial Ukrainian blogger was detained in Spain on May 4, the Security Service of Ukraine said.
Ukrainian authorities suspect Shariy of high treason.
Shariy, a popular Ukrainian YouTuber with 3M followers, was arrested in Spain after Ukraine charged him for “high treason.” Apparently Shariy had been posting videos critical of President Zelensky and his policies.
Ukraine is looking less and less like a shining example of democracy and freedom, and more and more like a dictatorial hellhole. Given the fact that, if you criticize the government you can get arrested, even if you live in an EU country, apparently, how can we trust that all Ukrainian voices are being heard?**************************
Question asked! This week, at a presser on Ukraine, Joe Biden asked these rhetorical questions:
“So for all those Republicans in Congress criticizing me for high gas prices in America, are you now saying we were wrong to support Ukraine? Are you saying we were wrong to stand up to Putin? Are you SAYING that we would rather have lower gas prices in America than Putin’s iron fist in Europe? I don’t believe that.”
Why not? What’s so hard to believe about that? Even if the cause were just, it’s a different thing to ask if we’d help Ukraine to the point of harming ourselves and damaging our economy, maybe for decades, and stumbling to the brink of World War III.
My answer is: yes.
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Ecuador is joining Sri-Lanka in the race to become the first post-pandemic failed state. Corporate media is blacking out the gigantic story about Ecuadorians rising up against inflation and food shortages. I don’t think corporate media wants the idea to spread around.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1539733508255584265/pu/vid/320×560/xiEbYCj__17QGC7l.mp4?tag=12Twitter avatar for @JamesMelvilleJames Melville @JamesMelville
Ecuador
The economy has collapsed. The public are taking to the streets to protest against the cost of living crisis – cost of lockdowns crisis.https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1540544518361161730/pu/vid/492×270/EDLLE6ZcSSUQqBgZ.mp4?tag=12
ECUADOR ERUPTS!
THE PEOPLE TAKE OVER GOVERNMENT BUILDINGFuel cost and higher cost of living cause clashes between police and protesters in Ecuador…leading in to the 12th day of unrest…
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If it wasn’t for social media, you might not have any idea that Ecuador is toppling. Corporate media is concealing what’s going on behind bland headlines like this one from the Washington Post yesterday: “Indigenous Protesters Are Paralyzing Ecuador. Here’s Why.”
Maybe they meant “mostly-peaceful protestors.” WaPo ironically blames the DEMONSTRATORS for food and fuel shortages, reporting that “Demonstrators have marched through Quito, clashed with police and blocked highways across the country, causing shortages of food and fuel.”
Please.
Remember: the covid experts caused this with their lockdowns. But the big question is: are Sri Lanka and Ecuador evidence of some kind of trend? Are they falling dominoes or outliers? Next, surely all the major powers are preparing to install puppet governments once the dust clears. Will China and Russia allow the U.S. to take the lead?
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The New York Times gave its take on the Lithuanian crisis yesterday, in an article it advertised on Twitter like this:“Russia made unfounded claims that Lithuania, a NATO member, was choking off the flow of goods to Kaliningrad as part of sanctions over the Ukraine war. ‘Nobody wanted or expected any of this,’ said the chairman of Lithuania’s defense and security committee.”
Unfounded claims? What? The Times ran the story under this innocuous-sounding headline: “A Sleepy Baltic Rail Line Gets a Geopolitical Wakeup Call.” The headline makes the dispute sound like a contractual argument over the cost per pound to ship raw steel or something. Still, the article more or less gets into the details of the conflict, and makes some interesting comments, including this one:
“On Wednesday, Lithuanian ministers and legislators gathered in a secure underground conference room to game out possible Russian responses and discuss how the dry minutia of European sanctions had set off a rush of unintended and possibly dangerous consequences.”
A rush of unintended and possibly dangerous consequences? You mean, in other words, they recklessly failed to think through the sanctions and now a lot of bad stuff is happening? But… but… they are experts! How could this happen?The Times’ article explains that the experts now think Russia already used up most of its conventional weapons in its Ukrainian invasion. So now, it has extremely limited military options regarding Lithuania, besides making empty threats. “We are tracking what they do, not what they say,” a NATO colonel told the Times.
Having dismissed the threat of actual Russian action against Ukraine, the Times then reported that NATO and the U.S. have been sending soldiers to Lithuania: “The United States… has boosted NATO forces in Lithuania, with around 700 American soldiers now on rotation in the country to supplement a regular contingent of 1,150 German, 250 Dutch and 200 Norwegian troops.”
So which is it? Are the Russians toothless, having used up all their conventional arms in Ukraine? Or IS THERE a real military threat, that requires OUR troops deployed to Lithuania? The Times doesn’t explain.
It’s getting harder and harder to find a coherent story, even within the same newspaper article. I THINK this is a sign that the narrative is about to collapse. We’ll see.
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️ *POST-ROE PANDEMIC POLITICS* ️(Trigger warning for my pro-Roe friends!)
For my entire adult life, for as long as I can remember, abortion rights have been political footballs in every single presidential race. Every time, the democrats darkly predict that the Republican candidate “will overturn Roe!” It’s never happened, at least, not until now, and under a democrat, to boot.
There were two sine qua non for the decision: the pandemic and President Trump.
You have to hand it to President Trump. He’s delivered the ultimate prize from his massive campaign promise to appoint pro-life judges to the Supreme Court. Trump may now hold the record for fulfilled promises, especially in contrast with so many others like Biden, who has repeatedly ‘pivoted’ and delivered the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he promised as a candidate.
Roe’s original holding on privacy and bodily integrity will disappear. Sure, the states will all grapple with the issue, since the Supreme Court has said it’s up to them. But the one thing they won’t do is reproduce Roe’s holding, because it interferes with mandatory vaccination. So the beloved law will be killed, not by conservatives, but by blue-state liberals who claimed to treasure it.
I predict the blue states will pass laws specifically guaranteeing abortion rights but won’t wade into the lofty ideals of integrity of a woman’s body, or even get anywhere close to that. After all, what is a woman anyway? For woke leftists, ‘values’ are merely tools of convenience, to be discarded when they are no longer useful, like the cheap screwdriver that comes in the box with the assemble-it-yourself tricycle.
And since they’re not principled, and can’t hide behind the constitution, those laws will be changed and chipped-away by sustained local activism.
The next thing to consider is the downstream effect. There are a lot of laws, like gay marriage and striking down of anti-sodomy laws, that depended on Roe. Expect challenges to begin as various lawsuits start challenging Roe’s orphaned children.
Yesterday was a great day for life! Maybe there’s something to this “post-pandemic revival” theory, after all. I told you things would get really interesting.
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Pop Quiz: According to Guy Clark, what are the only two things that money can’t buy?
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GJT, prayers for proper diagnosis, treatment, and speedy recovery.
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true love and homegrown tomatoes
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#10 El Gordo
Pop Quiz: According to Guy Clark, what are the only two things that money can’t buy?
Correct Answers to Wife Questions
1. Do these Blue Jeans make me look fat?
2. Is it OK if My Mother comes to live with us?
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no one is supposed to give the homily (sermon for our non-Catholic friends) but the priest. No. One.
I’ve seen deacons give the homily many time in pretty conservative parishes. I believe that’s legitimate.
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Pop Quiz: According to Guy Clark, what are the only two things that money can’t buy?
FWIW, this is the song that proves that Guy was one of the best songwriters to grace the planet. The structure, tone, pace, and the wat the words are strung together are actually pretty amazing.
Of course, this is the guy that said, “love is a gift that’s truly home made“, so it should be no surprise.
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Post in the bucket. Two links—and they’re Guy Clark tunes. Is there a commie in the background?
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#15
You’re right. A deacon, with the permission of the priest, can give homilies.
But it’s not the norm. I’ve seen visiting nuns on some fund raising trip being offered the homily to ask for their Guatemalan mission or some such, too. That I think should be given time at the end of mass. It’s not focused on the Scripture readings.
But lay people…never.
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WooHoo! Rumble has monetized the videos I posted and I’m seeing views.
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https://greatgameindia.com/covid-vaccine-reactivates-chickenpox-virus/
I guess that explains the return of my shingles.
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Morning, crew! Just barely, according to my clock. I had planned to mow the front yard today, but such a late start might rule it out. Millie the 20 y.o. cat was at my feet crying for another helping of her Meow Mix pate, so I reached down to pick up her empty bowl. It slowly sank in that she had been eating from one of the bowls I put my breakfast cottage-cheese-with-fruit in. I looked back to the table alongside the computer, and saw my breakfast was in one of Millie’s small bowls. Oh well, all the bowls do get washed every night.
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#22
That’s funny. I knew you were a cat lady, but…
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Taylor Marshall had an interesting comment about the Roe decision yesterday:
“If you are possessed by a demon, you are having a bad day. The demons are having a bad day. They thought they had Roe locked up.”
So, those possessed by evil are having a really bad day. Watching some of the pro-abortionist protestors, I can see the evil. It’s blatant. Watching that lady stomp those baby dolls in front of a cheering crowd turned my stomach. That was evil.
A commenter on that post said she’d had an abortion, was really confused about it but was peer-pressured into it, and regrets it to this day and mourns that lost child. She said that for years she was one of those screaming pro-aborts, taking her anger out on the pro-lifers. She suggested that we pray for those women, as many of them are post-abortion sufferers, who don’t know what to do with their emotions and can’t admit to themselves what they’ve done.
I think both of them are right.
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As Fay would say, “hotter than a flitter”.
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My endangered squash vine is upright today, thank goodness. I put more dirt around the base of the plant and some others that needed some protection, and watered everything. Harvested a few more okra pods and peppers, plus two more cucumbers. Think I’ll pickle those this afternoon. I can water bath in a smaller pot, do some smaller jars.
Then I really need to get on my Latin and bookkeeping. And see if that last chair that I couldn’t fit in my car is still sitting on the side of the road.
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On the White House lawn, we need to hold a funeral service for the words “discretionary income.”
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#13 – we have a winner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tj4wIKMqEE
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I don’t know who is more fun to watch, Dancing Trump or Celebrating Babies.
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Still lurking.
Made it to HEB for the first time in a month.
Pretty much finished me for the day.I guess the exhaustion is going to linger for a while.
🙂
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Hang in there, big guy.
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Here’s the late arriving WIP – https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/the-week-in-pictures-liberal-hubris-edition.php
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Made it back from Columbus.
Love those back roads.
#8 Tedtam
I saw something on Taylor Marshall’s channel the other day that just made my jaw drop.
Great summary of the current attack on The Church!
Yes we are called to love the Sinner but not the Sin. But like you noted this is being twisted and manipulated to destroy The Church Tenets.
We need to continue to pray for our Church leaders and leadership. They are under attack daily by the evil one.
For your Church. The Vatican needs to formulate a plan to address this issue rather than pandering to them.
Like most leadership today, they prefer to lead from behind and that leaves the Clergy with no clear path to victory.
SBC is no better with their litany of bad decisions and bad leadership.
The Church Body as a whole is fragmented on so many issues and that is Satan’s goal, to divide and conquer.
Thanks again for standing up for true Doctrine.
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FM2187:
Between Sealy and Cat Springs had many fields with lots of hay bailed up and ready to go.
Most all of the Stock ponds still had a good deal of water in them.
The Cattle all seemed to have found shade to get out of the blistering sun.
Even saw some Rye grass freshly planted closer to home here.
By contrast in 2010 & 2011
Almost all the stock ponds had dried up and nothing was growing.
Cattle was being sold off to cut losses etc.
I was the PM for a Church expansion here in Tomball and when it came time to dig the grade beams for the slab, a jackhammer was used. In my 45 years of construction I never saw that before.
For the Utility Ditches the Ditch Witch boom would just jump up and down trying to get a grip on the concrete like soil.
Hopefully we won’t see that again!
Supposed to get rain next week.
I’m like Super Dave seeing is believing.
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They nominated an unqualified woman for the Skcotus, a woman who doesn’t even know what a woman is, and now the psychos harpies are screaming for women’s rights.
Totalitarianism is a mental disorder.
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31 Tedtam
Big guy?
I’ll have you know that I lost and regained 3 lbs. in the last few weeks.
🙂
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For the Utility Ditches the Ditch Witch boom would just jump up and down trying to get a grip on the concrete like soil.
Been there, done that.
Or digging with a backhoe and breaking off teeth.
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I’ve lost almost 7 lbs since I got here.
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#7 Super Dave -John 20:29
We may get some much needed rain later in the day and the high is projected to be 89?!?! I’ll see it when I believe it.
“Because you have seen Me, have you now believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”
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Texpat! Are you still at Shannon’s?
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#37 Shannon
Been there, done that.
Or digging with a backhoe and breaking off teeth.
When the rain finally came I buried the Front End Loader-Backhoe in about 2 feet of mud. Had to use a Bulldozer and chain to get out.
Usually you can grab solid ground with the backhoe and pull yourself out. Not this time!
Fun times in construction.
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Abuck
We need to continue to pray for our Church leaders and leadership. They are under attack daily by the evil one.
For your Church. The Vatican needs to formulate a plan to address this issue rather than pandering to them.
Like most leadership today, they prefer to lead from behind and that leaves the Clergy with no clear path to victory.
Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately, the rot in my church comes from the head. This Pope has enthusiastically shut down convents, monasteries, and has forced acceptance of heresy on numberous bishops and priests. He embraces the gay theology of his bestie, Fr. James Martin, who wants gay marriages celebrated in the Church. As a matter of fact, there have been several pseudo-marriages of this type and the Pope has done nothing to those priests. One of the latest was in Italy, where a gay couple got their civil marriage at the courthouse and walked across the street to a Catholic Church, where a “blessing mass” was held for their union. It was a nuptial ceremony except that they didn’t use the word “matrimony”. None of those bishops or priests have been sanctioned, corrected, nor punished.
He has violated the charters of more than a few traditional orders, or attempted to, by forcing them to do things that go against their core values of their founding. He is a tyrant and many think he is forming the “ape of the church” that we’ve been warned about.
There are many Catholics, myself included, who are refusing to send money for Peter’s Pence, which has become a slush fund for the Vatican to abuse and misuse, nor to our bishops who cowtow to this heretic. Well, I can’t call him a heretic, only the College of Cardinals can make that determination, but they won’t because so man of them are cut from the same cloth as Francis.
Many years ago, forces of evil infiltrated the Church by contaminating the seminaries with tons of homosexual priests, which would normally have been screened out. Currently there are a ton of scandals about bishops using young seminarians as their sex toys, and kicking out those future priests who don’t want to be corrupted. Those that stay can be blackmailed, or be used. I don’t have the link right off hand, but there was a public revelation of this plan by a woman involved in the scheme. I want to say her name was Dodd, but I’m probably confusing her with the big court case. Taylor Marshall wrote a book, “Infiltration,” which describes all of this. He provides the documentation as well.
I just keep believing that Jesus will sort this all out at some point. I pray for my Church daily. Jesus promised that the Gates of Hell would not prevail, but he never promised us perfect leaders, or even good ones. Just Him.
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40 mh42
Of course, I keep telling y’all I’m here till the 30th.
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Well, we got a trace of rain not enough to make any difference and we still have a chance between now and daylight but I’m not holding my breath. At least it wasn’t so dang hot.
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41 Abuck
You’ve never heard the Austin County Guinness Book of Records about Shannon burying equipment out at Millheim.
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I spent 2 1/2 hrs watering the yard: front & back, trees, grass, shrubs, using a 15 minute timer to move the 3 hoses/sprinklers around. It was tiring, but I don’t want anything to die this summer.
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#43 Texpat
I have not seen that, missed it somehow. I’m sure it is good for Shannonigans to have you around at this point in his life.
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Hubby said we’re supposed to get rain next week. A lot of it.
My water bill will see some relief.
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#45 Texpat
You’ve never heard the Austin County Guinness Book of Records about Shannon burying equipment out at Millheim.
My Step Dad in Ohio owned a Sewer Contracting company and he would start all us on a Backhoe at 6 years old. We could work the joy sticks but could not reach any of the pedals. He said when we got older he would make operators out us. Never got that far. Close as we got, was filling and putting out smudge pots at night and greasing the equipment. Mom traded him in for another model, so half the boys went with him and my brother and I with Mother. I learned just enough on a backhoe to be dangerous. I could get the job done but it wasn’t pretty.
My younger Step Brother would go on to buy he business from Step Dad and work it until his back gave out.
Step Dad and I remained friends all the way to the end of his life 2 years ago.
He taught us a lot.
Tedtham, tell your husband sewer pipe used to be orange clay that was fired . Each section was 3 -4 feet. No PVC back then.
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Getting close to bed time here again. Another hot day, and a few more to come it looks like. Watched a little of the CWS baseball game, and Ole Miss looking sharp while OU committing errors. No other real news to speak of today. Ole Miss final wins 10-3. Have a good night you all.
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#42 Tedtam
Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately, the rot in my church comes from the head.
Wife 3.0 was converting me to Catholicism before her death from Breast Cancer. I remained in the RCIOA program until completion 6 months later. We used to go to Saint John Vianney in Memorial. My wife could not receive the host because of the divorce that was not of her doing. She remained in the church hoping things would get better. They did not.
I completed the Catholic, one year indoctrination process but was told the only way I could join the Church would be to send $14,000.00 to the Pope and have my previous marriages annulled.
I became a Baptist for free!
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The moment Shannon announced Fay’s passing, I started posting in comments my travel plans – June 16th through the 30th. I think I’ve mentioned it several times, but maybe I’m wrong.
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You should know that nobody reads those things.
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Good night, Couch Critters.
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Good morning gang. It’s Sunday, but that does not mean that the heat is showing any signs of letting up. No TOK diversions today, so I have to prepare and drink my own dam coffee, which is OK I guess. I’m planning to clean out my car today – got the shop vac out and everything. Going to try to get to it early before it gets too hot.
CWS baseball at 2PM today. Ole Miss rolled over OU yesterday with ease, including one back to back to back homer series which will certainly leave a mark on the OU pitching staff and coaches. I expect OU to fold up like a cheap suit today, but I’ll watch a little of it anyway. Of course, in college baseball, no lead is safe until the final out is recorded.
To all our friends here on the couch who are suffering physical and/or emotional pain, just know that’s what we are here for and all about. Each of us can help carry just a little bit of that burden for you. We’re not getting any younger, and we all need to take care of ourselves health wise, both physically and mentally, and we can help each other there too. Just thought I’d get that out there since it’s on my mind this morning. I hope that all of you have a great day, and more later as it develops.
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Texpat’s daughter tested positive back in Oregon.
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The moment Shannon announced Fay’s passing, I started posting in comments my travel plans – June 16th through the 30th. I think I’ve mentioned it several times, but maybe I’m wrong.
I saw that and I miss a lot.
You should know that nobody reads those things.
HA!! What he said!
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Oh Wait!
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Dr. McCullough has written about the importance of oral rinses and gargling with a dilution of Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide early in the infection.
Funny……After hearing the doctor on the Berry podcast, I ordered some from Amazon just to keep around.
It is to be delivered today.Over in Ghana, before there was a vaxx, medical personnel used the peroxide oral/nasal rinse as a preventative and not one of them caught the Covid.
McCullough also encourages doing nasal flushes with the same product.
Buy the 3% version of the product and use a 50/50 dilution.
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We were discussing battery sprayers a while back starting with Shannon’s Ryobi. I thought about getting one for my wife to use attacking Poison Ivy and GJT mentioned that hs’d only have to get the sprayer since he already had several batteries so the light came on. My wife has a 12″ Stihl chain saw, weed whacker and leaf blower that use the same 2 AH battery so she has three of them so I went to the Stihl website and looked for a sprayer but the only one they had was a professional job with a different expen$ive battery, 7.2 AH, $250 bucks and that didn’t include the sprayer! I can’t believe that they don’t make a model in homeowner series I’d think they’d sell a bunch of them.
SO! To make a short story long I went to amazon and bought a sprayer with a built in battery for $65 bucks, free shipping. It arrived on Thursday and even though the quality was good SS/brass wand, heavy plastic bucket, it had been repackaged. It had heavy shipping tape on the box but had strips of Scotch tape underneath, red flags go off and then a knob was missing so I sent the damn thing back. On Friday I had to go to Enterprise to drop it off at UPS so I meandered over to Harbor Freight. They had a Bauer 1 gallon sprayer with a telescoping SS wand, brass fittings and a choice of 1,2 and 3 AH batteries, (it doesn’t come with a battery) for $60 bucks. I could have got a 1 AH battery for $30 but chose the 2 AH for $45 since it’ll fit my Skill Saw. So I spent a little over a hundred bucks and the wife is happy. -
The group from my old parish, the ones that keep in touch and share prayer requests and info, call ourselves the Carmel Lights. (The Carmelite order founded the parish.)
One of the Carmel Lights has a son who’s a firefighter, and she reported that Sacco’s burned yesterday. Sacco’s is THE Catholic store in Houston. Not the only one, but the biggest and oldest. They not only supplied books, rosaries, and statues, but I would go there to buy rosary making supplies. They supplied vestments and altar items used in mass. I saw boxes of palms that were being supplied to parishes for Palm Sunday. If it was Catholic, they sold it. Saccos was THE place to go to buy anything Catholic.
I don’t know yet if it was arson, but I can certainly see some crazy pro-baby killer burning it since the churches were probably being protected. But who thinks about the Catholic stores?
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In my #61 I mentioned my Bauer Battery Powered Skill Saw. I love that thing, smooth as silk and high RPM. I purchased it several months ago to build my target frame at the pond. I really wanted a Milwaukee but saw, battery and charger was $450. I generally but quality tools but I couldn’t see spending that much far a saw I’d use a couple of times a year. When I noticed that the saw was $60 Bucks I thought dang yes but no battery or charger,…SO. Saw $60, battery $45, charger $30, and blade $12. That’s right at $150 Bucks OTD but it was money well spent. FWIW; I could have got the Bauer blade for $8 but choose a Diablo for $12 because they make better blades. 😉
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I just saw a coffee mug that I’d love to have – but I have enough coffee receptacles already. But I love this one: “Hail Mary, full of grace / Punch the Devil in the face”.
Made me LOL.
Mary and Joseph both have the title “Terror of Demons”. Exorcists often tell that when the demon/s being exorcised start complaining about “her” or “the woman” – because they hate to say her name, it hurts them – the exorcism is about over. Mary shows up and kicks their butt.
It all goes back to Genesis “…and she will strike at your head”. Jesus gave his Momma power over the demons.
So, this coffee mug just cracks me up.
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Democrat cities; Detroit, 1882 & 2017. 🙁
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White Privilege; Coal mining dad with his children, 1945.
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You should know that nobody reads those things.
read what?
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More White Privilege; Young Cotton Mill Girls, Mississippi, 1913.
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A couple of good quotes I came across this morning.
The New Testament assumes a missionary situation in which the Church is a small evangelizing movement in a pagan society. – Leslie Newbigin
Once the “it is finished” message is the song that runs in the background of your life, then the disciplines of the Christian life will breathe with life and joy. It’s not moral progress that makes you a Christian, but God’s love. Start then by resting in God’s approval of you. This is your new identity. You are His beloved and He sings over you with gladness! — Chuck Collins
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Pride month huh?
Makes me wonder….. if………and we know god’s words is true………
Proverbs 16:1818 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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Yep and yep.
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#61 Super Dave
We were discussing battery sprayers a while back starting with Shannon’s Ryobi. I thought about getting one for my wife to use attacking Poison Ivy.
What is a good product to spray on Poison Ivy?
I like that little hand held sprayer you linked here. It is something I need to go take a look at that.
But I’m locked into Dewalt 20V tools right now and a little bit leary about introducing another battery type.
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#56 Shannon
Thanks. That was a good one.
#57
I hope you guys stay healthy.
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Good scripture references for this Sunday.
I read proverbs every day and by the end of the month start over. Isn’t it convenient that God gave us a new bit of wisdom for every day of the month?
Squawk, Pride Month to me is the ultimate insult to everything that is right and yes I pray Proverbs 16:18 is fulfilled.
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After viewing the White Privilege Pics it reminded me of the FEMA Organizational Chart Squawk posted a few days ago. There is a lot of people sucking on hind teet there.
Every time there is a national disaster in certain areas. The response from the locals is “We are waiting for our FEMA check.
Others areas people have already started to clear debris and render aid well before the Government shows up.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Some day I will talk about the Mission Trip we took to East Texas after Ike Hit.
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I needed a COVID test, but if you look online it looks as though there are none to be found anywhere in town. So I made an appointment to get one a the CVS. When I get there, there’s a sign on the door saying they have them available at the register.
So I go to the register and ask. They had a few different one for about $10 per test. So I asked for two of them. Then I see another sign saying you can likely use your healthcare plan for them, so I ask. Dude said for that you gotta go back to the pharmacy. Off I went.
I ask the pharmacist who said they can indeed use health insurance for those so I asked for a couple. After they call BCBS, the tech comes back and says they only pay if I get 5(!). Alrighty, gimme 5 then.
I go to pay, expecting to pay like $15-20 for them. The register shows no charge(!).
Go figure. I could pay $20 for two or nothing for 5.
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btw – I tested positive for almost 2 weeks. Symptoms were gone after about 6-7 days.
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Wagonburner the Superspreader!
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Good info, WB. Thanks.
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What is a good product to spray on Poison Ivy?
Cross Bow is the best I’ve found, it’ll kill Kudzu, Round-Up will not. It’s expensive, $66 a gallon but that mix out to 100 gallons, enough to fill my big sprayer tank 4 times. That said you can get it in pint containers but I’ve not priced that.
But I’m locked into Dewalt 20V tools right now and a little bit leary about introducing another battery type.
I understand, I was locked into Dewalt NiCads for a long time until I switched to Ridgid L-Ion. I’m guessing that Dewalt uses L-Ions now. Dewalt is a fine tool but I think Ridgid is a little better and Milwaukee the best. Big Mike uses Milwaukee exclusively. He has at least 2 rotary battery saws, a Sawsall and several drills/hammer drills.
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Go figure. I could pay $20 for two or nothing for 5.
Gotta’ be a Gub’Ment program in there somewhere. 😀
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A Fire Truck just drove by without lights. I guess that they’re flushing the Fire Hydrants again, but on a Sunday? I know they work 24-7 but wouldn’t have thought that. I’ll jump on the Mule and check it out they might just be sightseeing. 😉
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#80 Super Dave
Cross Bow is the best I’ve found, it’ll kill Kudzu, Round-Up will not. It’s expensive, $66 a gallon but that mix out to 100 gallons, enough to fill my big sprayer tank 4 times. That said you can get it in pint containers but I’ve not priced that.
Thanks Super Dave I will go buy some and that little spayer.
Poison Ivy is taking over, in my little acre out here in Rosehill and when my cat rubs against my bare leg I get it.
I’m too deep in Dewalt to change gears this late in life. So I’m stuck.
I did see a video the other day about an entrepreneur that is making an adapter that enables you to use Proprietary Batteries with different tools.
That could end up on the shelf with the 100 mpg carburetor?
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Good Sunday morning Hamsters,
This morning’s 6am low here was 70, and I had to check it several times to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. Just checked it now and it was reading 90. Wow. And of course, when you look out the window the scene is tranquil and could easily be a springtime day. Of course it isn’t. It isn’t supposed to be this hot in June, so we wonder how miserable July and August will be.
Our internet service had a problem two days ago and was offline for bigtime repairs. It didn’t come back until sometime last evening. Hambone v2.0 wasn’t available yesterday or the late afternoon the day before. Felt so isolated without it.
The Roe v. Wade opinion from the 6-3 Supremes was as it should have been when the tenuous approval it received was originally overstepping the Constitution. Those who pushed it legally should have known or refused to acknowledge that it was the province of the States to accept or reject it, not the Feds. The current ruling gives notice of several other laws that require examination for having also overstepped the power of the States. Thank you, Mr.Trump, well done with your selection of Supreme Court nominations. You can hear the great roaring of teeth gnashing coming from the lefty Dems.
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By the way, we’re both positive.
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Visitation/Funeral must have been a Super Spreader Event.
🙂Heads up to those who attended.
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Sorry to hear that we have Couch Critters who’ve just contracted the dreaded Covid. When — if ever — will that be a thing of the past?
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Tedtam needs to break out the Costco sized Lysol pack to spray down the couch.
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#88
I think Tedtam went to the Saturday gathering for Fay, so she may be spreader now herself. Who else went from The Couch? Might want to get tested…
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When — if ever — will that be a thing of the past?
That’s simple, as long as a test is provided positives, true or false will be reported as positive,….SIGH…. It’s all about control doncha’ know AND the mid-terms are coming up.
FWIW; I’ve not been tested and I don’t plan to get tested. Back when I had the COVID, February 2020, it was a real new thing and with all the scare tactics already being talked about I decided that there was NO WAY I’d tell a doctor about it unless I was dying. I just took aspirin every 4 hours to keep my fever below 100 and toughed it out for a week. The highest my fever got to was 101.9 and that was before I started with the aspirin. I/we haven’t got the jab either I figure I’m immune and since the wife is the only one in the family that hasn’t had the dreaded disease, we’ll just play it by ear. Too many problems reported about the vaccine and we’re both real healthy. BUT to each his own, anybody that got the jab or is still thinking about getting it, go for it, it’s personal decision that requires you to see if your known health condition might require it. -
I had a case of the Omicron version 1.0 in Dec/Jan and fully recovered. I am unjabbed. I am not worried.
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When I took my shower this morning I had to break out another Big AZZ Bar of Soap; Duke Cannon Illegally Cut Pine. 😉
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My #92, you’ll notice that the Griswold’s Family Truckster is on the box, along with the Griswold Family Christmas Tree on top. 😀
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FWIW; I’ve not been tested and I don’t plan to get tested. Back when I had the COVID, February 2020, it was a real new thing and with all the scare tactics already being talked about I decided that there was NO WAY I’d tell a doctor about it unless I was dying. I just took aspirin every 4 hours to keep my fever below 100 and toughed it out for a week. The highest my fever got to was 101.9 and that was before I started with the aspirin.
Its been said here before that the best way not to show positive for COVID is to not be tested for COVID. I figure I’ve had it at least once. This thing is following the track of the Spanish Flu. That one kept having variants, each on more contagious, but less virulent. No vaccines or treatments ever existed for it, it just died out as more people caught less lethal strains and became immune. I got the jab early on, mostly to please the woman in my life. When people who had been jabbed caught the damting, I knew I’d not get another one.
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Spouse picked up 5 test packages of Floflex Clovid-19 Antigen Home Test at the Randall’s pharmacy on 359 yesterday as we’d almost gone through the stock we had. This brand gives you instant results and was not free. Much better than having to send it in for the results.
He tested positive on Wednesday morning and I tested negative that morning, but today I also tested positive and he was still positive but feeling better. I had some symptoms of it a couple of days ago, not all at once but slowly adding more symptoms to the pile. Brain fog seems to be the most inconvenient, but so is essential loss of appetite, and when you are a little hungry, the food doesn’t taste right. Also fatigue gets worse as it progresses (or at least for us).
Fortunately I had stocked up on canned and frozen foods and plenty of things to drink besides milk and orange juice. A&W Diet root beer tastes like real root beer and so far is the best thing for me and spouse. Iced tea is also good. If it wasn’t for Blue Bell ice cream I would not be eating much at all.
Hope this news is not discouraging, as we are not discouraged but anxious to have this mess past on elsewhere. 🙂
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Oh dear, I had an iron-clad shopping list for about 10 things I needed and was completely out of. Everything on the list was available at the Food Town, much closer than my Kroger, so there I went, 10 minutes in and out. After I put the things away, I realized I hadn’t got the gallon of milk I wanted. It was on the list but maybe I’ll have some other errand coming up soon. I won’t make a trip just for that.
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I just had whatever flavor is going around. It was worse than a cold, but nowhere close to the flu. First day was cough & scratchy throat. Second & third days were the worst. Fourth day was significantly better; fifth onward was practically nothing. All gone by day 7.
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Ninety Eight?!?!? Dayaam, teeing her up, who’ll it be? I just stumbled in and caught that. 😉
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I just had whatever flavor is going around. It was worse than a cold, but nowhere close to the flu. First day was cough & scratchy throat. Second & third days were the worst. Fourth day was significantly better; fifth onward was practically nothing. All gone by day 7.
Almost Exactly what I had. First day, high fever felt like crap, dry cough that kept me awake at night. Nothing like the Flu where I’ll be in the sack and my body feels like somebody beat me with a ball bat. With the COVID I spent some time in my recliner but I could go take care of the hens and the girls, (Dawg and Damn Cat). It started on Monday and by Friday I could function pretty good but the dry cough stayed for a couple of weeks total.
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I don’t even want to talk about it LOL
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Two words for scratchy throat with dry cough:
Chloroseptic spray (also lozenges)
Numbs the back of your throat so you can avoid starting to cough better. Available in just about any grocery store & pharmacy.
Gargling bourbon works too.
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Gargling bourbon works too.
As long as you don’t spit it out afterwards, because. . . . . . . that would be alcohol abuse.
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Just drove thru the Brazos bottom to Raccoon Bend…….
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#103 Shannon
Just drove thru the Brazos bottom to Raccoon Bend…….
Janis is another one that died too soon.
Loved hern “Me and Bobby Magee” and “Half Moon”.
She did a duet with Tom Jones once and the expression on his face was like I can’t keep up.
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When I arrived here, I immediately started having a sinus irritation that has now turned into an infection separate from the Covid. I’m on an antibiotic and cough suppressant. With the Covid fatigue and inability to sleep restfully, I feel pretty lousy. No fever though. I blame the sinus irritation on the Sahara dust.
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Chloroseptic, dude.
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Sorry to hear that we have Couch Critters who’ve just contracted the dreaded Covid. When — if ever — will that be a thing of the past?
You’ll notice dKtr Faucinstein has been quiet lately. He’s probably down in his dungeon right now mixing and concocting his midterm election variant to be released late September 2022.
It won’t matter though because the Vampyre Joined@thehip slimo rinos don’t want to win anyhoo.
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I had the brain probe COVID test on Monday, negative.
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I’d kinda forgotten about Chloroseptic.
Haven’t needed it in years.When I have a sinus/throat problem I keep sugar-free mega-mentholated cough drops handy. I buy ‘em in one pound bags.
There is something in the sanctuary at St. John which attacks me about 60% of the time. Bad news for a singer.
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CWS final – Ole Miss wins national championship by defeating OU 4-2 today.
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It is 101 out here on the moores of the Brazos at Richmond, with a light intermittent breeze, and trees swaying some. Of course, no rain despite the hint that there might be some starting around this time. Will believe it when we see it.
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Home from the world’s largest outdoor water fight aka BACA Texas annual Kid’s camp out.
FanTAStic time had by all
creek was JUST the right level for cooling off / no danger
fishing hole found LOTS of fish being caught
dunking booth was active and rocking – kids throw a ball @ a target to dunk the BACA member – after 3 tries if they don’t throw so well they get to run up to the target and give it a smack – SPLOOOSH!
Plenty of au naturale EMPOWERMENT had by all!
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Something along the lines of 60 – 70 watermelons donated by some generous farmer in Hempstead + a refrigerated truck to haul them.
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I have a prescription for Benzonatate pills. It works great for the cough. Supposedly, it suppresses the cough reflex.
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Hey GramPaw, What’s fer supper? Well my sister, brought over some fresh butter beans and okra from the farmers market along with a small rotisserie fryer from Publix. So while the womenfolks went over to clean up around my grandpaw N grandmaw’s grave at Hopefull church, I put the butter beans on and fried up the okra in cornmeal, started the rice with chicken broth and when it all came together I put some store boughten rolls in the oven. Dang we had a feast. Nothing like a good old southern meal even if we did cheat a little with the fryer….Did I tell you that Life was Good in my World? 😉
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. . . . . . that would be alcohol abuse.
That is what my Huntin’ buddy says if somebody spills a beer. 😀
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#115 SD – sounds like a wonderful meal, and a little of that kind of cheating is probably something that made ya’ll able to relax and visit instead of… you know…not cheating with a fryer… We’re having jambalaya – starts with mix from the Cajun Spoon… and ends with happy cooks, tickled tongues and full bellies… and not a lot of leftovers, which is a good thing too
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Katfish, I’m glad those little kids had big kids to play with. Sounds like a blast.
As for cooking, tonight we had CORN – Clean Out The Refrigerator Night.
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Just saw this over yonder, going to look for more indepth:
BREAKING: Leaked Call With Prison Inmate Reveals SC Democrat State Rep & Senate Candidate Krystal Matthews Calling For “#SecretSleepers” to Infiltrate South Carolina GOP; Advocates For ILLEGALLY Funding Campaign with “Dope Money”
“We can flip some sh*t from the inside out.”
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Katfish/Tedtam -I’m glad about the big kids, being there for the little kids, too… I’ll bet they had a wonderful time… big and small alike…
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We’re having jambalaya –
Now that’ll work, I do love me some jambalaya!
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Clean energy is all well and good until it cuts through your backyard. A bunch of Mainers have the case of the NIMBYs.
Also, “Mainers want to protect its environment and way of life,” Howard told CNBC. If the power line were to be constructed, “there would be a dramatic impact to Maine’s natural resources, scenic character, economic impact to Maine’s four-season recreational tourism industry,” she said.
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I raked up 2 big bags of magnolia tree leaves, so I’d have something I could point to for accomplishment today. Of course, I also did all that lawn watering yesterday, and in fact the grass does look happier today. Now it needs to be mowed (sad face).
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Ate the last of the yeller skwash tonight. Dang that stuff is good. Looks like it’s back to green beans and broccoli for a while now.
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#115 Super Dave
Hey GramPaw, What’s fer supper?
Super Dave your dinners always look so good!
Any chance you can share how you make your Deviled Eggs with candied Jalapeños.
We have a Lady in our Sunday School class that makes the best Deviled Eggs and I always hurt myself when she brings them.
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I just came in from the garden. Tied up some sagging plants and killed some juvenile leaf footed bugs that got away from me the other day. The air feels different out there; maybe we will get some rain.
I separated the two water bowls. Junior likes to hang out for long periods of time by the water, and it keeps the bluejays and cardinals from getting their baths and hydration. I’m hoping the distance will allow all of the fowl to enjoy the water, especially during this heat. And keep them away from my tomatoes.
Speaking of hydration, I’m going to have to drench myself in Off! every time I go out there. I’m a bug magnet, and I can feel every bite of those bloodsuckers on me right now. If we get any rain, it’s just going to get worse.
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Oh, and Hubby gave me the green light to go on a pilgrimage tour with Fr. Felix in October. I worry about our tax returns (still trying to get the late ones filed) and finances, etc., but he said that it’s a chance I may never have again and I should go for it.
The price is pretty good – the price per person was locked in some months ago, and it’s good until July 5th, so my window is closing. We had a meeting today about the overseas Wuhan Flu concerns and such, and it sounds like we’ll be okay. The restrictions have been relaxed or removed, and no one is required to get the jab. All of us in the room were adamant about that. I’ll be bringing the Ivermectin that I have, just in case.
The lady helping to put it together runs a creative literacy/writing program, and there is an adult track. I told her that I dabble a bit, and want to eventually publish a devotional of sorts. She liked the idea as I explained it to her, and said that she’d look over a submission and talk to me for free – once. She does get paid for what she does, after all. It’s her living. But since I’m a Catholic and part of her parish, she’ll give me a freebie. Nice.
The tour will include the Vatican (just don’t get me near Francis, or I may embarrass the group), San Gandolfo, Siena, Florence, Rome, and the Tuscany area. We’ll be looking at art and journaling and writing to unpack what we experience. It’ll be a group no larger than 30, which means we’ll get to know each other a bit. Our pastor is coming with us, so we’ll get mass every day and confessions throughout the trip.
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RE: Yeller Squash
I have one baby yeller squash coming along – slowly. For dinner tonight I sliced and sauteed one of my white squash. I much prefer the texture and flavor of the white scallop squashes, and I am pleased that I have one more in the frig and one on the vine.
If I can keep the borers from taking it out. Dang bugs from hell.
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Buck seventy five, I’ll tell you about my Deviled Eggs with candied Jalapeños recipe in the morning but it’s nothing special, just made with candied Jalapeños instead of Bread N Butter pickles.
Yeller Squash; The best way to cook it is to slice it up with a medium onion and fry it up in P-Nut oil in a cast iron skillet. I fried up some a week ago. That said; you can slice the big ones, batter them with cornmeal and fry em. Growing up, my mom would get the first batch, (tiny ones) out of the garden and bake them whole in the oven with a cheese sauce and dang they were good also.
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My #129, When daughter was in FFA they often had Pot-Luck suppers and the first time I brought fried yeller squash n onions. The ladies there had a fit and asked me what my recipe was? Recipe?! I don’t have a recipe, just slice em up and fry em in P-Nut oil. 😉
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This is from a bestie of PachaPapa, the gay marriage promoting priest that has huge influence in the Vatican. And now he’s promoting abortion?!
Oh my word, where is my rosary and knee pad?
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Bedtime comes around once again. I hope you all have a great night and wake up all refreshed and rarin’ to go in the morning. Nite nite,.
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One more thing for the Police to worry about!
Man in Vermont uses a piece of heavy equipment to keep son from being arrested.
Strange times folks.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1541132075406721026
Goodnight Chet
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Good night David.
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Good job Shanon
I did that closing with a Millennial and he had to Google it.
Still didn’t appreciate it.
That was when news was news.
Although the jury is still out on Walter Cronkite
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Good morning Hamsters,
Today is supposed to be rainy, and here all we have are high clouds/overcast. Rain is desperately needed here. Tried having kitty Purrscilla do a rain dance,that did not bring any rain but instead a dizzy cat after her performance. She was beautiful. Now she’s napping, probably well into the afternoon. Extra treats for her today for all the effort.
Have only glanced at the Chron so far other than reading the headlines and looking at the pictures. It seems the expected frenzy on the abortion side is indeed there and growing, whereas the pro-life folks mostly are discussing something of great importance is to at last be celebrated.
Kudos to President Biden for righting a 50-year-old wrong that had allowed sacrificing human babies to the whims of women and men with little regard for the sanctity of life. He shall have cheers and jeers as a result. He is up to weathering such a situation.
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