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Well it’s Friday again and not only that this is the first day of July! Where do the days go?
BTW: GJT hoping the surgery goes well we’re praying for you buddy.
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HA! I just caught Squawkster’s MAGA Tin-Foil hat. 😀
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Good morning gang. Friday the 1st of July can only mean one or two things, but I can’t remember any of them. Today’s weigh in was better than it has been lately, and I seem to have temporarily broken through the 220 pound barrier (again), at 217.8. My playing weight at Rice was 216, and that’s sort of one of my targets, but my waist is still 5 or 6 inches larger than it was back then – can’t imagine where that comes from. And I still sport a goodly set of moobs. Working on getting myself in shape for my movie date in Dallas at the end of the month. Never know what might happen with a couple of old geezers out for a night on the town.
Heat is scheduled to return this week. Ad I do like the MAGA tin foil hat idea. Off to TOK here shortly. Have a good day everyone. More later.
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Oh, Ammo Grrrll just showed up. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-433.php
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HA! I just caught Squawkster’s MAGA Tin-Foil hat.
I thought he was trying to be cute by dressing up as a Hershey kiss.
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Slocomb Termaters;
Do this. Get a tomato. Not just any tomato. A Slocomb, Alabama, tomato. Make sure the tomato is firecracker-red and softer than the hindcheeks of a 2-month-old. Find a serrated knife. Cut said tomato into thick slices about the width of the unabridged edition of “Shogun.”
Tomatoes from Geneva County, Alabama, are different from common varieties. They are superior tomatoes.
In fact, top archaeology scholars at Columbia University now believe that the original Garden of Eden was located just north of Highway 52 in Geneva County. And most experts agree that the forbidden fruit consumed by Adam and Eve was originally purchased from the Hendrix Farm Produce tomato stand.
Next, find two slices of Sunbeam bread. In a pinch, you can use Bunny Bread, Wonderbread, or Colonial bread. But stay away from any bread with packaging labels that read something like, “59 whole grains and seeds!” or “3,234 grams of dietary fiber!” This isn’t real bread but an abrasive material meant for sanding boat hulls.
Consequently, if all you have in your pantry is “gluten-free” or “keto” bread, please stop reading here and go back to California.
Once you have your white, floppy, flaccid, tasteless bread ready, open a jar of Duke’s mayonnaise. Duke’s is the brand with the canary-yellow lid, manufactured and packaged by real evangelical seminary graduates so you know it’s sacred, mostly.
If you don’t have any Duke’s, you’re not totally out of luck. Blue Plate mayonnaise will also work nicely. Bama mayonnaise is also a winner.
Hellmann’s, however, isn’t fit for consumption by a golden retriever. Similarly, Miracle Whip is neither a “miracle,” nor a “whip,” but the brainchild of communists sympathizers who don’t love the Lord. And Kraft mayo is industrial doorknob lubricant.
It bears mentioning, if all you have in your refrigerator is a kind of mayonnaise labeled “light” or “low fat” please forfeit your tomato to someone who will use it correctly and resume doing Crossfit until your buttocks turn into tiny shriveled prunes.
Next, use a No. 8 masonry trowel to apply approximately one gallon of approved mayonnaise onto your limp, lifeless, nutrition-free bread. If the bread is still visible after mayonnaise application, you did it wrong.
Step Four. Carefully place slices of tomato onto your prepared bread. If, by chance, your bread has already absorbed too much mayonnaise and tomato juices and is now disintegrating into a papier-mache-like puddle on your kitchen counter, and it no longer resembles bread, congratulations, you’re on the right track.
Salt and pepper to taste.
If you discover that you are tempted to add cheese or onions or lettuce or something else weird to your sandwich, thereby violating the Holy Trinity of tomatoes, mayo and bread, please step away from the cutting board. Take deep breaths, open a can of Natural Light and start sipping until the urge passes.
Next, place both segments of your sandwich together slowly and softly. Warning: Do not compress sandwich. Do not cut sandwich in half. Do not even blink or your sandwich will fall apart.
Now, gently lift your sandwich—very gently—as though you are assisting in a heart transplant operation. Walk across the kitchen and stand over the sink. Say grace silently.
Go ahead, we’ll wait.
To eat sandwich, open mouth wide, place one corner into mouth and bite firmly. Your tomato wedges should slip from between the pieces of bread, shooting forward, falling directly into your sink, leaving you with two naked pieces of bread. If this does not happen you did not use enough mayonnaise.
Retrieve tomato hunks from the basin of your nasty, crud-covered, salmonella-encrusted sink while cussing liberally.
Replace mangled remains of tomato onto sandwich and attempt to eat sandwich a second time, making sure to mash your soggy, glutenous, snot-like bread pieces together until they are indistinguishable from lumps of Elmer’s Glue.
After the third or fourth bite, the front of your shirt should be stained red, covered in tiny seeds and your kitchen should look like a hog killing has recently been performed on the linoleum.
When your sandwich expenditure is finished, you can slap yourself heartily on the shoulder because you have just eaten a proper tomato sandwich. You may now recite the ceremonial benediction uttered by Alabamians statewide every summer:
“Thank you, Lord, for bananas,
“Granny Smiths and Tropicana,
“But most of all, for all the ‘maters,
“Raised in Slocomb, Alabama.”
Amen.FWIW; I agree with his assessment except for the White bread, gummy nasty stuff, my wife refuses to eat since that is all she had growing up. We didn’t eat a lot of store bread and only used it for sammaches or toast and it was always Roman Meal wheat bread…I wonder if it is still around? Also I highlighted my favorite lines. 😉
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I do pity the poor folks that can’t get Mrs. Baird’s bread, even though I can’t eat bread any longer. But those mater sandwiches are pretty darn good.
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Replace mangled remains of tomato onto sandwich and attempt to eat sandwich a second time, making sure to mash your soggy, glutenous, snot-like bread pieces together until they are indistinguishable from lumps of Elmer’s Glue.
A pretty accurate description of white bread. That stuff is nastier than a sack of dogs butt holes.
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I’ve heard that Mrs. Baird has great buns. 😀
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Aw, come on.
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Supper Dave:
Bringing this over from last night.
Abuck Syxbits says:
JUNE 30, 2022 AT 8:19 PMOK Super Dave.
Need you to weigh in on what Monkey Werx just said about NASA and DARPA.
It is right at the beginning of presentation so you won’t have to wait too long.
https://www.monkeywerxus.com/video-player
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Shannon thanks for the link to The Moody Blues track.
Back in the late 60s and early 70s they were always in the top 10.
One of their Albums, I believe Dark Side Of The Moon? Had a track in Gaelic. Of course word got out that it had a subliminal meaning. We spent many nights trying to unravel that mystery.
With the help of a little (very illegal) Marachaouchie we attemped to find the hidden meaning.
Never did but had a great time trying.
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Dark Side of the Moon is Pink Floyd.
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That sandwich recipe turned quite a phrase. Mom used white bread when we were kids. It was cheap, for one thing. She actually preferred it, as I found when I took her shopping in her later years.
When I could buy own bread I shied away from that stuff. The only food that cleave to the roof of my mouth should be peanut butter. White bread is nasty.
Mom, being highly diabetic, on meds for years and losing her kidneys, eyesight, mobility, and hearing, started adjusting her diet. No more pineapple or potatoes and such, because of the sugar. But she ate white bread freely, along with Kool Aid and macaroni. I tried to explain that her white bread was a straight shot of sugar but she wouldn’t listen. I remember so angry at her last nursing home when I found on her lunch tray:
*Two pieces of white bread with just the barely a thought of tuna fish between them. Seriously, I could see the bread THROUGH the “protein”.
*A bowl of canned mixed fruit
*Mac and cheese
*Kool Aid, sweet
*Tea, sweetI think that they just wanted her dead. Who would feed a diabetic food like that? There not enough insulin in the world to manage that bolus of sugar.
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#12 Abuck Syxbits, I’ll try to check that out later, right now I have a date with a Stihl chainsaw and a Gumby Dammit wood chipper hooked up to my trusty Kubota. AND I’m burning daylight…..Later, Gang
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#15 Shannon
I’m getting Senile. I think?
Dark Side Of the Moon was pink Floyd!
I will try and look up the Moody Blue Album later.
Yes or biggest concern should be Election Integrity.
The Dems have been emboldened buy their successful victory in 2020 and now have a Template to use in November.
The same bad actors are still in place and are just waiting for instructions.
Some deep Tin Foil Hat Stuff here but they are being way too complacent and doubling down on legislation that would normally doom an upcoming Election.
MSM keeps echoing this gloom and doom to the Dems but they just smile and quietly say “Don’t worry we got this under control “.
My friend Jack says “We have the best Government money can buy”.
The deep pockets are still operating behind the scenes and if the truth be known a lot of that Stimulus money was siphoned off to the DNC.
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#17 Shannon
Thanks no rush.
Bottom line Monkey Werks has a document going back to 1957 that links Nazi Doctors to the founding of NASA and DARPA.
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While we all should give thanks that Trump’s court overturned Roe V. Wade, a ruling made yesterday may have an even greater impact.
The principal complaint of Conservatives vis a vis the conduct of government is the decades long practice of Democrats and Leftists (but I repeat myself) to create government Boards, Agencies, or Departments and give them loosely defined missions that are then used to create regulations that are remarkably free of legislative input or direction.
Those days are coming to an end, that is the impact of West Virginia vs EPA. The precedent established is that Departments and agencies can’t change their mission or create regulations that enable them to do things they can’t get done through elections and legislation.
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Happy belated birthday to Dr. Thomas Sowell who turned 92 yesterday.
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Back from TOK, but I don’t think I really learned anything new.
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<span;>All this talk about bread brings back fond memories.
<span;>My brother and I lived with our Grandparents for for awhile in the early 60s. Grandma did not have the gift of cooking like Super Dave but she did make bread that was out of this world.
<span;>Houses up in Ohio stay closed up about 8 months of the year and Grandma would do her baking during this time.
<span;>The smell of fresh baked bread would linger for quite awhile.
<span;>Great memories, except for Grandma’s Liver and Onions!
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Maybe it’s becoming the TOG – Table Of Gossip.
Next thing you know, the wimmins gonna start barging in.
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All this talk about bread brings back fond memories.
My brother and I lived with our Grandparents for for awhile in the early 60s. Grandma did not have the gift of cooking like Super Dave but she did make bread that was out of this world.
Houses up in Ohio stay closed up about 8 months of the year and Grandma would do her baking during this time.
The smell of fresh baked bread would linger for quite awhile.
Great memories, except for Grandma’s Liver and Onions!
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The only Moody Blues album I remember the name of was “Days of Future Passed” – that, and Led Zeppelin 2 were about the only albums I owned…
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#23 Wagonburner
Maybe it’s becoming the TOG – Table Of Gossip.
Next thing you know, the wimmins gonna start barging in.
At our TOK The Wimmins gladly sit way down at the end of the table away from our Tin Foil Hat banter.
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#25 Bsue
The only Moody Blues album I remember the name of was “Days of Future Passed” – that, and Led Zeppelin 2 were about the only albums I owned…
The only Albums I owned were given to me as Christmas Gifts.
Chicago
Crosby, Stills,Nash and Young
They were too expensive for me too.
I did buy a lot of 45s.
Wish I had them today.
When Mom fired Husband 3.0 I had already left for Texas and my Brother was in College at Kent State.
She sold everything in the House and then the House. Told my brother he was on his own.
He came down here to live with me and make Abuck Syxbts ($1.75) an hour. We were living high off the Hog!
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Abuck
Here is a good beginning of that thread ypu are pulling. Google Darpa
Disclaimer—– Is it real? I dunno.
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TOK has always welcomed the wimmen folk, so long as they know their place, appreciate the courtesies being extended to them, and keep their mouths shut (except for a couple of them who may be gender fluid to begin with). And it’s always been the TOG in reality – gossip passes as news in a small town. For people like me at my age, it’s a lot harder to get in trouble than it used to be.
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VERY STRANGE – I did not type that comment.
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#28 Shannon
Abuck
Here is a good beginning of that thread ypu are pulling. Google Darpa
Disclaimer—– Is it real? I dunno
Monkey Werks referenced everything contained in your link but he went back to the inception of NASA and DARPA and made some pretty compelling assertions.
I know Bsue said the other day he gives out some pretty interesting nuggets of truth.
He has a back page with more info but I believe you have to sign up for that.
I know several of you follow Monkey Werks and might be able to add to this.
I have only followed him him for about 2 months.
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#30 Shannon
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VERY STRANGE – I did not type that comment
I clicked on the link and followed it.
Should I be concerned?
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Shannon
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VERY STRANGE – I did not type that comment.
Yeah I typed that. I did not mess with anything yet WORDPRESS said you was me me or I was you.
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Abuck #32
No need to be concerned. WORDPRESS hiccuped. That was my comment.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Friday, July 1, 2022 ☙ LIFELIKE
Welcome to July! Today is — this time — Friday, the last day of the week and the first day of the new month. And I have a great roundup for you: the Supreme Court slaps the EPA’s kooky climate change rules; Florida crushes education; Zelenko succumbs to cancer; Tallahassee judge enjoins Florida’s new 15-week abortion limit; PA senate passes Don’t Say Gay bill; Abbott labs still closed, for some reason; the single craziest story I’ve EVER reported; the US announces new forces and bases in Europe; NATO goes after China; the US will sell Turkey F16s for its vote to admit Finland and Sweden; and I do some rough calculations of our odds.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*The Supreme Court issued another 6-3 ruling yesterday, this time finding that the Biden’s new EPA rules about “climate change” are an unconstitutional power grab. The EPA cannot legislate, that’s Congress’ job.
In its opinion, the Court aptly described the goals of the new rules as being to “compel the transfer of power generating capacity from existing sources to wind and solar.” With emphasis on the word, “compel.” But the Court said if they want to shut down coal and force the country to somehow run on wind and solar, they need to vote for it, not casually slip it into the agency’s rulebook.
Reactions were mixed. Leftists thought the decision was the worst possible thing that ever could have happened, ever. Worse than dropping the airplane mask mandate! Racial-advantage grifter and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren hysterically tweeted that the world was on fire:
Apparently it didn’t occur to SENATOR Warren that the Supreme Court just said it’s up to HER — the legislature — to fix climate change, if that’s what they want to do so badly. Congress already gets the last word, dummy. But maybe Congress is facing a legitimacy crisis too.
Pugnacious Paul Krugman saw Warren’s “world on fire” tweet and upped the ante all the way to total civilizational collapse:
Yawn.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced yesterday that, unlike most other states, Florida’s literacy rates have been steadily increasing since he became governor — despite the pandemic. I wonder what the difference could be? Do you think open schools might have had something to do with it? Just spitballing.
Statewide, about 75% of students scored at or above Level 3 in Civics in 2022, an increase of +5% over 2021. African American students had the largest increases in both social studies and science, and increased +8% in Civics and +4% in U.S. History. Nice.
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Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko, the man who discovered and implemented the early treatment for covid that literally saved millions of lives worldwide, passed away yesterday after a four-year battle with a rare cancer. Born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1973, he was 48 when he passed.
Zelenko had an unshakeable faith, and often described his cancer as a divine gift. Once he described it like this:
“My cancer is what prepared me for the COVID-19 pandemic. Without it, I would not have developed my passion for searching for answers that others said couldn’t be found, and without it I could not have held to the persecution and ridicule I received for daring to treat patients. I have looked death in the eye and I have been made ready to meet God. I fear nothing on this earth.”
I know just how he felt. And you’d be surprised how many of the heroes of the pandemic who I’ve met told me something similar.
Zelenko believed until the end that God had created a special mission for him on this earth, and that the prayers of millions had kept him alive long enough to fulfill that mission.
Godspeed, Dr. Zev.Twitter avatar for @TexasLindsayTexasLindsay™ @TexasLindsay
Message from Dr. Zelenko 3 weeks ago. ❤️
June 30th 2022
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In a hearing yesterday, Judge Cooper in Tallahassee — who has struck down several of the Governor’s orders and favored laws, only to see them reinstated by the First District Court of Appeal — ruled in court yesterday that he will enjoin Florida’s 15-week abortion limit. Media complained that because it will take the judge a few days to write the opinion, he won’t get it out before the law takes effect today (Friday), and abortions will be limited for a few days.
DeSantis told reporters the state would appeal, of course.
I fully expected this to happen; I became a narrow subject-matter expert on Florida’s constitutional right of privacy back when I was litigating the mask mandate. In fact, most of the recent decisions under the right to privacy were about abortion restrictions. For example, in the “Gainesville Woman Care” case, which I relied on heavily in my briefing, the Supreme Court struck down a 24-hour waiting period to get an abortion.In my briefs, I argued if the right to privacy stops government from making you wait one single day for an abortion — “an inconvenience” — then it should also stop the government from imposing the “inconvenience” of mandatory masking. That language came from the County’s briefs, where they had always characterized masking as a “mere inconvenience.”
The First District Court of Appeal agreed with me, sort of. The written opinion betrays an undercurrent of criticism of Florida’s Supreme Court for “correcting” the First on its ruling in Gainesville Woman Care. The First DCA had allowed the 24-hour waiting period, finding it was legally justified, but the Supreme Court reversed them, saying they’d applied the wrong standard, and sent the decision back down for a new ruling.
In other words, the First DCA struck the mask mandate essentially explaining, “look, you made us do this. We tried to tell you that the right to privacy wasn’t absolute but you guys said we couldn’t even save a 24-hour waiting period, so the mask mandate has to go. Nothing we could do, sorry!”
But my mask decision also includes a strong concurrence by Judge Long complaining about the right to privacy and laying out the bones of a solution. I’m paraphrasing badly, but he said the right to privacy needs some balance. Taken to an extreme, nearly ANY law could be struck by a court because it interferes with citizens’ “right to be let alone” somehow.
So the exciting thing is, my mask decision is likely to be featured in the new briefs about the 15-week law, by both sides. The pro-choice team will use it to show a recent example of how strong the right to privacy is and how it’s recently been applied; the pro-life team will use Judge Long’s concurrence to argue the Supreme Court should create some guardrails for courts applying the right to privacy.
Maybe I should submit an amicus brief.
Currently, Florida’s supreme court is described as the MOST CONSERVATIVE state supreme court in the country. Every single justice has been appointed by a Republican governor. This should be interesting!
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The Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill banning gender identity and sexual orientation instruction in pre-K through fifth grade — similar to the Florida law. Progress.
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Six months later, that Abbott baby formula lab in Sturgis, Michigan is still closed. First it closed due to a murky FDA order that was later rescinded after public outcry. Then the plant was restarted for about ten minutes but before the FDA could sign off, it got flooded during a thunderstorm or something, so it closed “for cleaning.” That was three weeks ago.
They must be cleaning it REALLY well. And whenever it opens, it still has to be re-certified by the FDA.*********************************
The simulation is failing. To fully convince you we are now about halfway through the first third of the Book of Revelations, the New York Post ran an article yesterday headlined, “Vegan Burger Hyped for Tasting Like ‘Human Meat’ Wins Award.”
There is SO MUCH wrong with that headline.
Last week, the Cannes Festival of Creativity gave some kind of award to Swedish plant-based food company “Oumph!”, which offered ravenous judges a human flesh-flavored burger. A company spokesperson said it did its very best to make sure the burger was “as lifelike as possible.”
I can’t even.
The sinister burger’s alleged ingredients include soya, mushrooms and wheat protein, plus plant-based fats and “a mysterious spice mix.”
Hmmm.
“I am incredibly proud of this award and the great teamwork behind it. Our mission is to change how people eat, and it is our duty to use creativity as a tool to make this change happen,” bragged macabre Henrik Åkerman, global brand leader at Oumph!.
Yes, but change how we eat HOW? Into WHAT?
This is the quote that really got me: “We developed this burger in no time as soon as we knew what taste and texture we were after,” creepy co-founder Anders Linden explained.
Wait. HOW did they know what taste and texture they were after? How did they find out? Who did the taste and texture comparisons? And, more importantly, WHY??
Finally, here is Oumph!’s October 30, 2021 cannibal-burger ad, in case you needed any other reason to avoid eating plant burgers:
https://youtu.be/CPdmWTLh45oI wish I were making this story up. The other thing I’m wondering is, what’s next? A beast with ten heads rising from the ocean with a harlot on its back?
[Are we beginning the process of desensitization? ]
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*THE MINORITY REPORT*
Joe Biden slowly read a teleprompter at a NATO summit in Madrid Wednesday, announcing that the U.S. is ramping up its forces and equipment all across Europe, and will build a new permanent military base in Poland due to ‘potential’ Russian threats.
Poland has been Europe’s punching bag for a long time, and not surprisingly, welcomed the news. They’ve been looking to host an American military base for a long time. In 2018 they offered to name the base after President Trump if he’d agree to build one.
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As if our semi-hot war with Russia just isn’t good enough, the Biden Administration is now gunning for China, too. An article in The Washington Post yesterday was headlined, “Companies in China Are Aiding Russia’s Military, U.S. Alleges.” The sub-headline should have been the real headline. It explains, “Commerce Department adds [Chinese] firms to a trade blacklist, saying their contracts to supply Russia violate export controls.”
In other words, we’re starting to sanction China now, too.
Why not just sanction everybody? Oh, wait: “Today’s action sends a powerful message to entities and individuals across the globe that if they seek to support Russia, the United States will cut them off as well,” undersecretary of commerce Alan Estevez said in a statement.
It’s a good thing we don’t get much of our stuff from China, right? And it’s not like they hold a boatload of US treasury bonds or anything.
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It’s not just itty-bitty sanctions, either. At the NATO summit in Madrid Wednesday, for the first time in history, NATO declared China to be a “strategic threat” to the West. Fox News reported the story in an article headlined, “NATO Cites China as Top Threat, Beijing Cries ‘Ideological Prejudices’.”
President Trump’s laughter could be heard up to 300 miles north of Palm Beach on I95. I guess corporate media will finally start running anti-China stories now that the narrative has pivoted. I wonder if Disney will have to stop editing the LGBTQ++ scenes out of its Chinese kids programming? And I wonder, what kind of social media banners we should be putting on our profiles now?
Anyway, in a contemporaneous report, NATO’s Atlantic Council said “the likelihood of imposing secondary sanctions against China is now at an all-time high.” Uh huh. Told you.
Twitter avatar for @BenjaminNortonBenjamin Norton @BenjaminNorton
The US-NATO imperialist bloc is threatening to expand its economic war on Russia into one on China tooNATO’s Atlantic Council, which is funded by the US and other Western governments, says “the likelihood of imposing secondary sanctions against China is now at an all-time high”
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Joe Biden was super busy at the Madrid summit. He personally thanked Turkish president Erdogan on Wednesday for dropping Turkey’s veto to the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO, by agreeing with Turkey’s request to buy F-16 warplanes.
I told you Turkey would be in a strong bargaining position with this NATO vote thing. Have you ever tried to haggle over a Turkish rug? Joe is completely out of his depth, which is kiddie-pool depth anyway.
Oh, I almost forgot. The US State Department says the agreement to supply the F16s has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Turkey’s NATO vote, it’s merely coincidental.
Erdogan said he feels satisfied with how things worked out for everybody at the Madrid summit. “Thanks to our efforts, we believe that we will be able to go back to our countries with our hands full and with full satisfaction,” he said.Russia is not going to be happy about Finland and Sweden joining NATO, not one little bit, and which is going to happen any minute now.
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I’ve been doing some math, which is dangerous, because I’m a lawyer, not a mathematician, but it seems to be that we’re a little on the outnumbered side.
First of all, there are currently 2.3 million soldiers in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and another 800,000 in its Armed Police Force, so the total number of active personnel in China is 4.1 million. That seems poor odds for us, if numbers mean anything.
And, there are like 3.2 BILLION people in the BRICS countries. So, if there’s 3.2 billion people in BRICS, out of a total world population of 7.9 billion, then the five BRICS countries alone account for about 40% of the world’s total population. Meanwhile, the G7 countries total population is only about 777 million. So there’s THAT.
And, don’t take this the wrong way, but the G7 group is led by feckless sub-par politicians like Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, and Justin Trudeau. The BRICS leaders seem somewhat, well, more manly or lively or something. At least they seem to be able to talk without detailed instructions. Just saying.Now again, I’m only a lawyer, not an international expert, but it seems a little, well, RISKY to go to war with BRICS, even it’s just cold war or economic sanctions war. If the Simulation wasn’t on the fritz, I would expect Congress to be up in arms about this. Who is Joe Biden to get us into this mess? Nobody voted for NATO to label China a stinky persona non-grata, right in the middle of a worldwide conflict with Russia.
I mean, what am I missing here? Plus, at this point, it seems inevitable that India will shortly find itself on the naughty list, too. Who’ve we got? Canada? Germany?
Maybe — try to follow me here — maybe if we’re so keen on beating Russia in this Ukraine deal, MAYBE we shouldn’t be alienating everybody else right now. I mean, shouldn’t we TALK about this or something? I realize I’m not an expert or anything but it seems like common sense, which is in super short supply these days.
Senators? Congressmen? What say you? Remember, you are ONE THIRD of the government. Do you guys actually DO anything, or just hold UFO hearings now? People, PLEASE.
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Here is the address of the link that was in Shannon’s #28 mystery post
I stripped the https://
qz.com/author/jeffnesbit/
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#34 Squawk
Thanks
Bidet said something about King MAGA
the other day. Is that you?
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Well I have frittered away part of my morning here so I really need to go to Costco.
I’m like mharper I don’t like weekend crowds.
Especially 4th of July weekend hysteria.
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Friday music fest kicking off early w some country
NOT many (any?) rock&roll bands can pull this off!
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There’s a fairly disturbing commercial in my Pandora rotation.
Voice of a woman:
“They say raising children is a full time job. But I already have one of those.”
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What a load of bovine processed hay:
A group of educators has suggested to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery be taught as “involuntary relocation” in the second-grade curriculum.
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I got up very late, even for me — and haven’t finished my li’l breakfast yet. Having a very hard time getting Millie to eat very much this morning. I start with a can of Friskies Shreds that every cat gets some of in a separate bowl. Millie eats that, then immediately starts looking for something else. But I am out of her favorite little fancy foods. The ThreeBers — the 3 brothers we adopted 15 years ago — love it when Millie snoots her not-quite-right fancy chow, because then they get to eat it. The remaining 3 cats do not get even a bite from Millie’s rejected foods, as they are all fat as it is.
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They say raising a house full of cats is a full time job. See #40 above.
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BSue
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The only Moody Blues album I remember the name of was “Days of Future Passed” – that, and Led Zeppelin 2 were about the only albums I owned…
But what about all those Earth Wind and Fire albums? Hmmmmmm?
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#45 Squawk – you know I never OWNED any E,W&F – it was just my standard answer to any music trivia question for which I didn’t have a clue.
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I noticed we had a light rain before I got up, based on the patio being wet, but not under the breezeway to the garage. Even a medium rain all flows a bit eastward in my neck of the woods. I was very glad to see even a light rain, as there are parts of the front yard that are hard for me to water either by hand or with a sprinkler.
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They say raising a house full of cats is a full time job.
Don’t know about that, but it’s a reliable indicator of crazy.
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Note to self:
Do not invest in a gold mining endeavor in the desert with no steady source of water.
/Lovely BSue says good move
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41 Bsue
Do you have a link for that quote?
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I tried to share the link but I guess “it” doesn’t like it – it’s a story on ABC 13 by Shelley Childers with this title
Houston Federation of Teachers president wants to stop ‘attempt to whitewash’ classrooms
https://abc13.com/texas-education-agency-involuntary-relocation-slavery-board-of-second-grade-curriculum/12007624/ -
ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHH
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Abuck
DARPA nee ARPA as you may know is credited with creating the interweb. See ARPANET. What folks do not realize is the things that made the web work was, well….
ARPANET and the subsequent computer networks leading to the internet were not the product of a single individual or organization, nor were they formed at one time. Instead, the ideas and initial research work of many people over years of time was used to form the basis of ARPANET and to build it to become the forerunner of the internet.
DARPA has been around since the SPUTNIK days. One thing I discovered is DARPA teams up/combines with individuals, corporations and the government for research and development. DARPA did not create NASA, that came from Eisenhower whp wanted a civilian space agency. But NASA benefited greatly form DARPA research. DARPA did the research and transferred the technology to NASA.
And that is what DARPA does. They prove a concept with the helpof civilians, corporations their own experts and then they transfer the tech to companies. I am not going to post all the links but I have pulled the threads to discover how things like Facebook, Elon musk and so many other industries have benefited from DARPAS work. but just like the Devil, you take his “gifts” you owe the devil your soul.
The web is dang full of stories of DARPA influence. Following links on DARPA’s website is an interesting journey too. I can see how and why Monkey made his declaration. DARPA Magazine Darpa at 60
Gotta go I got three guys in black suits and sunglasses knocking at my door.
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You KNOW what kinda EYES She got!
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51 Bsue
This is the stupid story. The curriculum task force in Austin was kicking around vernacular struggling to come with a way to teach the history of slavery to 7 year old second graders.
Second graders, for heaven’s sake ! They can’t read and comprehend enough to begin to understand.
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#53 Squawk
Gotta go I got three guys in black suits and sunglasses knocking at my door.
Al Gore sent them over to remind you he invented the Internet.
Monkey said NASA came first and then DARPA followed 4 months later.
He was pretty cagey about his revelation. Perhaps he doesn’t want a visit from Guido either.
His main point was why did the powers at be make Nazi transplants fresh off the Battlefield the foundation for NASA.
From what I saw on Monkey Werks Wednesday was he has a Top Secrete document in pdf on his site outlining the specifics.
Later today I will root around on his site and join if I have to, just to access that document.
I’m sure once Super Dave gets back from murdering Alabama vegetation he will add to this.
Wait until the Tree Huggers find out Dave is eradicating all the Bradford Pear Trees.
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His main point was why did the powers at be make Nazi transplants fresh off the Battlefield the foundation for NASA.
Because they had a very advanced (for the time) missile program. At the end of the war, the West and the Soviets were running around practically kidnapping German scientists.
See:
Operation Paperclip
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Did you know that a coupla student-types actually “ran” the IP protocol over pigeons?It was designed to be technologically agnostic.
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#58 Wagonburner
See:
Operation Paperclip
VonBraun, WernerMonkey Werks referenced that too.
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El Gordo:
Black Oil Sunflower Seed in the 40lbs bag is now $33.00 per bag at Tractor Supply. Waller Texas
Before Bidet it was $14.00 a bag.
How about in San Saba?
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Yes, we were sneaking German scientists out of the Third Reich as fast as we could during and after the war. It’s never been a secret and is well documented in history.
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How FAR is Heaven? (Lord can you tell me?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkzoqQ5Oak&list=RDMM&index=4
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#51
They were tasked with adding the topic of slavery into second-grade curriculum where it is currently deficient, but the group was also working under parameters from new Texas legislation, Senate Bill 3, that states slavery cannot be taught as the true founding of the United States.
“I’m sure that they were trying to work in the confines of the law, but then there’s something wrong with the law that would require someone to do that in the first place,” said Anderson.
How hard is it to teach a 7/8 year old that this country was founded by those seeking to practice their faith freely in a new world? Slavery here was a terrible idea we imported from Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.
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62 Katfish
Thumbs up.
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Successful grocery run, came back with 10 cans of Millie’s #1 tuna pate. I set her up with a good helping of it as soon as I got home. She cleaned her bowl.
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Werner Von Braun was a Nazi recruited by the Americans to develop missiles which translated to the Saturn 1V. Check out Operation Paperclip for more info.
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As Gordo says, simple projects tend to balloon in scope. I finally found a drop in replacement for my water softener. Key words “drop in” equals EASY. My BIL agreed to install it. He has been here since 10 am and has already gone to Home Depot, Moore’s plumbing Supply in Stafford, another location off 290, and now he is racing back to the one in Stafford before it closes at 5pm.
The water softener was connected to the house copper pipe by a flex hose. It looked liked it had leaked at one point and the corrosion had sealed it back up. No evidence of water damage to the wall. Anyway one of the flex hoses finally cracked and that is what BIL is looking for at the store. The copper flex hose is 3/4″. He found a 1″ stainless that has turned out to be too long.
We are filling a 5 gal bucket at our neighbor’s outside spigot so we can flush toilets.
I really do not want to call a plumber at night, weekend, or holiday.
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Happy early 4th of July.
Courtesy of Moore Supply
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Texmo
God love ya man. All that time in the hosp only to come home to plumbing problems.
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#1
Ha!
Great hat Brother Squawk.I proudly wear mine.
Tinfoil on antennas and the cerebrally minded always makes the signal come in clearer.
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Brother Phil
the lovely BSue was not amused that i wasted her baking foil. But hey it is no waste to me because THEY LIVE
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Yup.
Great B sci-fi flick with Rowdy Roddy that has become somewhat prophetic.Hell Comes to Frogtown was and still is one of my fave B Sci-fi flicks.
It may not be far off the mark either as Klaus Schwab could be easily cast as the lead Toad in 2022.
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Brother Phil
Have not seen that in years. Tubi has it for free so guess what is on the agenda after BSue goes to sleep? Whoohoo frog legs. I love B-movies like crazy. Some of the best entertainment going.
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#66 Squawk
P. O. Box 1142
That is exactly what Monkey was referring to.
A lot of info here so it I will take me awhile to Wade through it.
Monkey Werks will post again today and maybe he will talk about it again.
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#60 – I think it was $28.00. My cheap-o cat food that I put out for the ferals and other varmits went from $11 to $18 since March.
#73 – Thanks for the tip. That looks like an awesome movie.
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Abuck
The top secret document you alluded to is the first link I posted. Exactly what Monkey had on the screen.
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Well, rats, I had hoped for a bit of rain while I took a long nap.
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Good Evening Hamsters,
Catching up with the wisdom of Hamsters today on hamous.net. The new arrangement seems to be working out well enough for me so far, not too fancy to make commenting a frustrating experience. Appreciate that. Hope there are no radical changes needed any time soon.
The deer population in our neighborhood seems to be a little larger. We just saw a doe with twins out in the back yard and then in the front yard. She can’t be the first doe who moved in several weeks ago with her new fawn. Since they all look alike it is only possible to identify them when the group is here. So we have a doe with one fawn, now a doe with twins, and a solo doe as an early resident, though maybe she is no longer solo. They seem to be comfortable hanging around here.
The one with twins was over in the neighbor’s yard where a sprinkler was on, and they seemed to be interested in that. This is the home of the dear neighbor who has been in a very fine assisted living place since before Christmas. Her daughter, son-in-law, and grandson are steadily working on the house, the pasture, and the tractor barn to bring it up to date with intention to sell it. The home is 43 years old and very well built and always has been well cared for, just perhaps dated a bit now. We keep an eye on it and bring in the trash can if no one has come over there after trash day. Someone casually driving through there could not be aware it is empty.
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Texpat says:
JULY 1, 2022 AT 2:51 PMYes, we were sneaking German scientists out of the Third Reich as fast as we could during and after the war. It’s never been a secret and is well documented in history.
It was well known as early as 1946 when an El Paso newspaper printed an article about Von Braun’s Chief Engineer while he and his team were at Fort Bliss titled “German Scientist Says American Cooking Tasteless; Dislikes Rubberized Chicken”. Disney took some heat when he hired Von Braun to advise on three TV movies he produced on space travel in 1957, and the concept of “Tommorrowland” at the original Disneyland came about in part through a collaboration between Disney and Von Braun.
Paperclip didn’t stay a Secret for very long, in fact it was a huge propaganda victory for the US. It was pretty much common knowledge among the science community by 1947, and the US wanted to let scientists behind the Iron Curtain or in hiding elsewhere that they had a safe place for them to come and work.
Kurt Jurgens plays him in a movie made in 1960 about the whole thing that you can watch for free on YouTube. A number of movies on the Space Program have featured him as a character.
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From Gail, 2 hours ago:
Tim is out of surgery!!!! Everything is good!!!!!!
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Abuck
here ya go Resistance Factors and Special forces areas
Looks like a chapter in a standard Army Area Handbook. There’s one written for every country on the planet as part of contingency planning. As an Aviation Unit, we had a couple shelves of them in the S3 bookcase.
If you want to invade Brazil, <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/123875652567?hash=item1cd79073d7:g:xG8AAOSw4gNdVXQiyou can get your handbook here, although its a little dated.
But if you’re interested in more potential hotspot like Cyprus, you can get that one, too.
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#82 Sarge
Looks like a chapter in a standard Army Area Handbook.
Thanks for the info.
What caught my attention about the Doc sent by Squawk was Ukraine was the Title.
I haven’t had a chance to read it through yet but will start tomorrow.
I might have to borrow Squawks Tin Foil Hat Though.
If it turns out to be a primer on how to invade Ukraine it will be old news to me.
Lots of stuff to speculate on.
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#81 – G R EA T news!!
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#80 Sarge
Kurt Jurgens plays him in a movie made in 1960 about the whole thing that you can watch for free on YouTube. A number of movies on the Space Program have featured him as a character.
Thanks for this link too. I will certainly watch it. If for nothing else a little bit of entertainment.
Hollywood has a tendency to misconstrue facts to fit the narrative but I enjoy a good story line.
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Well I’m Baack and My #17, It looks like Squawk #53, wagonburner #57 and Texpat #61 pretty much have answered your question. Since I was low on the Totem Pole I didn’t have access to the inside scoop but I did know about Wernher von Braun from high school. That said, I did work with a mechanical engineer in the Structures and Mechanics Lab B 13 @ NASA/JSC that was a German U-Boat Captain in WW II.
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#81 Tedtam Great news!
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Good to hear about Tim!
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I think I’ll give Sarge’s link in #80 a try tomorrow. I’m interested to see how Hollywood compares to the info in all the links provided here today.
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Well, it has been a long day for me, I finished up my fence-line and helped the wife with unloading her trailer after she worked on the road beside the farm house. So, since we’ve been hard at it all week I decided it would be a good time to visit the Oyster House in Troy. We got there early about 5 PM and I had a dozen oysters on the half shell, wife peel em eat em shrimp and we both had blackened Mahi Mahi Taco’s with Red Beans N Rice. Dang that was good eating and when we left we took the back roads and crossed the Pea River at the old Johnson’s bridge near Old El Bethel Church. Good memories in these parts. Rumor has it that kids would skip school and spend the day at the old trestle bridge located on a lonely dirt road to skinny dip. I don’t know anything about that but it is an interesting story going back 50 years or so. 😀
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A good but hot day out here today. Got outdoor chores done early and spent the rest of the day reading. I’ll be checking out here in a little bit, so think I’ll go ahead and sign off here for the evening. Great news for Tim. Night night.
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Thanks for this link too. I will certainly watch it. If for nothing else a little bit of entertainment.
Hollywood has a tendency to misconstrue facts to fit the narrative but I enjoy a good story line.
Definitely a little bit of whitewash there. Von Braun was important to both the nascent Space Program and Defense programs centered on rockets, both battlefield and strategic ICBMs. With such a high profile, his image needed a bit of burnishing to minimize his membership in the Nazi Party. But he was by no means the only one, and science was by no means the only area where former Party members were accepted.
But jeebers. He appeared next to Walt on the Wide World of Disney three Sundays in a row…
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It is good to hear that Tim’s surgery went well. I checked Gail’s page several times earlier today, but there was never any news until after I conked out for my nap.
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#68 Texmo
As Gordo says, simple projects tend to balloon in scope. I finally found a drop in replacement for my water softener. Key words “drop in” equals EASY. My BIL agreed to install it. He has been here since 10 am and has already gone to Home Depot, Moore’s plumbing Supply in Stafford, another location off 290, and now he is racing back to the one in Stafford before it closes at 5pm.
Where did you land on your Plumbing problem?
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Great news about GJT – prayers continuing
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#94 Abux
Bother in law got it all sorted out and installed. I’ve got water to the house again. Hopefully I’ll start seeing the results of the soft water in a few a weeks. I should notice the effects during hand washing or bath time within a day or so.
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#96 Texmo
Bother in law got it all sorted out and installed.
Good news!
It is an unwritten law that plumbing fails on Sunday or a Holiday weekend when supplies are scarce.
Every Plumbing repair requires at least 3 trips to the Plumbing Supply house as well.
I’m about 80% done with my replumb of my house. I had to stop work in the attic when it got too hot.
What I did do as I put in the new Uponor Pex was add shut off valves in key areas of the house. This enables me to isolate areas as the future plumbing repair is being made. You can keep a bathroom functional as well as other areas of the house as you are waiting for parts or a plumber to show.
If you are going to live in your house for any length of time it is something to consider. At least add one shut off to isolate half the house.
I have a feeling as the Nude Green Eel starts to impact our grid more often. Cold weather with frozen pipes are going to be more common.
Texas has enjoyed uninterrupted heat while Cold Fronts came through. But from the looks of things that is changing.
All commercial buildings incorporated the plumbing shut off stations described above. But residential as been slow to embrace it. Goes with the Water Heater in the attic as an example.
I had the privilege of car pooling with 2 Master Plumbers 2 hours a day.
About 3 times a week we would verbally build the perfect house while sitting in traffic.
I wish I would have taken notes.
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Good night David
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#98 Shannon
Good night Chet
What a gift Elvis had.
I guess we will never know why he went down the path he did.
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Don’t look now, but Sarge stumbled into a barber shop.!!
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