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Thursday Fake News Dies Quickly Open Comments

It was on Monday that The New York Times ran an article claiming that “election deniers” had made Konnech the center of a “conspiracy theory.” The article claimed that these “election deniers” had used “threadbare evidence” to suggest that Konnech “had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government back door access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United States.”

The Times claimed that these allegations against Konnech “demonstrate how far-right election deniers are also giving more attention to new and more secondary companies and groups.”

Konnech, based in Michigan, had been contracted by Los Angeles County, and Allen County, Indiana, to work on “election logistics, such as scheduling poll workers.”

“Konnech,” the Times stated, “said none of the accusations were true. It said that all the data for its American customers were stored on services in the United States and that it had no ties to the Chinese government.”

The Times lamented the damage done to Konnech’s reputation by these “election deniers” who claimed that the company had ties to the CCP.

Yes, that was on Monday, October 3rd.  Oh, my gosh, what the hell ?

Eugene Yu, the CEO of the software firm Konnech, has been arrested in connection to the storage of data on servers in China.

“Yu, 51, was arrested early Tuesday just outside of Lansing, Mich., after prosecutors alleged he improperly stored the information on servers in China, according to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón. Yu, who is the chief executive officer of a company named Konnech, is expected to be extradited to Los Angeles in the coming days, Gascón said,” according to the LA Times.

“Konnech allegedly violated its contract by storing critical information that the workers provided on servers in China. We intend to hold all those responsible for this breach accountable,” Gascón said.

The arresting prosecutor was the hard-core leftist, Soros-backed DA of LA County, no less, making the embarrassment even more severe for the wonder boys & girls at the NYTimes.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It it fall now? 49 degrees here in south Alabama. Yesterday was perfect started out a 55 and hit 80 by 3 PM.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Morning Dave.

    Bonecrusher truism:  The greater the denial by the left, the greater the likelihood that it is true.

    Corrolary:  The greater the left insists that something is true, the more likely that it is false.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Morning Bones, I’ll add that last night while watching Fox they were talking about the possibility that the US sabotaged the Russian Pipeline and I really don’t know but when Blinkin, not Nod said it was Russian Disinformation I told the wife “well it has to be true. Anytime I here THAT talking point I KNOW IT”S A LIE.

    ~SPITS~     ~SPITS~ Again.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the Pipeline, if we did destroy it, is Biden sending us into WW III? I’m not being alarmist but wars have started on less and Putin is desperate to reunite the old USSR.

    When the left pushed, drug and finagled this doddering old fool across the finish line I knew it would be bad but I’d never have believed it could be this bad.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the cheating in the Walleye Tournament;

    Stop on out this weekend and find these Fish Tacos at any of your favorite Port Clinton restaurants. Comes with slaw, lime, and 8lbs of fresh Lake Erie sinkers. Ask your waitress for a side of shame for dipping! 😉

  6. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Waking up to 57 degrees, headed for a high in the low 90’s, and another long dry spell has no end in sight.  All these cloudless, bright sunny days just makes me more anxious to go get my new eyeballs installed, and the sooner the better.  Next Wednesday for the first one, the following Wednesday for the other one.  Worst one first – I think my vision logged in at 20/80 on it.  The bright glare from unrelenting sun causing pain is apparently one of the symptoms of cataract, and I’ve definitely got that.

    Still working on remediating the clay soil in my front flower bed in hopes that something might decide to grow there next spring.  I turned it all over about 6 weeks ago and added some organic stuff to it.  I gave my hedges their fall trim and left the clippings, so think I’ll turn it over again in the next day or so and turn that stuff under.  It’s probably a futile exercise, but it does give me something to do.  The smart thing would probably be to just dig it out about a foot and bring in some new topsoil, but I don’t have the money to do something like that, and doing it by hand would be a real chore.

    OK, I’ll be headed for TOK here in a bit.  You all have a great day.  I’ll report back in later as things develop.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The smart thing would probably be to just dig it out about a foot and bring in some new topsoil

    Don’t do that. You can create a bathtub effect and end up with a bed that never properly drains.

    Remind me to tell you about the time Texpat and I stopped the Bellville School District from doing that around the foundation perimeter at the brand new Bellville Junior High.

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Slouching Toward Endgame

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sitting on the back porch, turned around and saw two doe in the back yard. We never, ever see deer in this neighborhood, crazy. Our old house, we had deer all the time, many years the deer would keep her babies out in some bushes in the front yard. Buddy the dog had some rough experiences with deer, still has a scar on his forehead from it and learned to leave them alone. This morning he just and watched the two, remembering his experience I guess lol. That was eight years ago.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The Slouching article is: illuminating, concerning, frightening, probably truthful in many respects.  Worth reading.

    I’m hoping the dude is right about Russia just mopping up its corner of the world and refusing to partake in WWIII.

    Speaking of which, Salcedo had a guest on a few minutes ago.  If only NINE of our 55,000+ electrical nodes are taken out by EMP,  it’ll take two years to recover and 90% of our population will die.  That’s probably right.  First to go will be those who require electricity to live, like those on medical devices.  Then, we’ll be without water.  Without gas.  No communications (except maybe ham radio operators with solar backup.)  Three days without water will take out more folks.  Two days – max – and society falls apart, the vermin will swarm to loot and kill.

    How many terrorists have been allowed into our country recently?

    And our “leaders” kick the can down the road on hardening our grid.

     

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    EG – your surgery has brought back some frightful memories of my Mom’s experience.

    I was so excited for her when she could see after her first cataract surgery.  I stayed with her the first night, to watch her administer her antibiotic drops and make sure she was going to be okay.  She did fine, so I went home the next day.  Two days later, I get the dreaded phone call: “My eye feels funny.”

    I packed an ER go-bag and went to check on her.  Her eye was covered with a white film.  It looked like something out of a horror movie.  I got her into my car and spent possibly the longest night of my life as we were transported from one hospital to another, where an optical specialist scraped her eye and shot it full of antibiotics in a futile attempt to save the organ.  I took Mom home with me.

    It was then that I discovered the problem.  That first night, as I watched Mom put in her drops, she was careful not to touch her eyeball with the dropper.  When I got her to my house, I watched, horrified, as she jammed that bottle right up to her eye.  That was where the infection came from.  I warned her about what she was doing, but she denied it.  She insisted she’d been doing eye drops for years and I just needed to leave her alone.

    She ended up losing the eye, and to her dying day she claimed the doctor screwed up the surgery.  Out of charity, I quit trying to set the record straight.  After the first few times, she got really ticked off.  It wasn’t going to change things, the eye was gone.

    Just be careful with the after care, okay?

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From today’s C&C, another reason to kill the UN:

    …The Times UK ran an op-ed yesterday headlined, “Antivaxers Are a Global Menace Who Must Be Defeated.” Well. This generous and mildly-expressed sentiment is based on the terrifying fact that, as the author notes, 6.1% of British are “completely” unvaccinated…

    They REALLY don’t like the fact that about 20% of folks in the U.S. aren’t “completely” vaccinated either.

    /snip

    Anyway, Mr. Darzi — born in Baghdad, but no relation to Baghdad Bob, not that we know of — Darzi said the high-flyers will meet in Qatar this week to draft a “report that will urge the UN to create a task force to respond to the growing threat” — specifically, the growing threat of the “anti-vaccine, anti-science movement” — which, according to Mr. Darzi, “has become a global menace.”

    A global menace! Another one.

    Mr. Darzi, whose superpower is finding global menaces at the drop of a prescription pad, seems most concerned about “the pernicious impact of organized disinformation.” Organized disinformation? I wonder who he could be referring to. Darzi fretted about the loss of trust in officials (like him) and concluded the solution requires “credible, trusted information, clearly communicated.”

    The UN has become the darling hammer of totalitarians.  All in the name of “helping” us, of course.

    “We’re here from the Global Government, and we’re here to help.”  /shiver

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And this piece from C&C kinda flew under the wire for me:  Pfizer is creating an mRNA shot for the flu.

    Because the WLR shot was so safe.  But then, the real purpose may not be protecting health, it may be creating wealth.  For a select few:

    But flu virus doesn’t have spikes. Which part of the flu virus will the mRNA shots force the body to make? The article doesn’t say what part.

    But don’t worry! I’ll bet you…that the U.S. government will buy tons of Pfizer’s new flu shots, which, like the covid shots and other vaccines, enjoy broad legal liability protection.

    My old economics professor used to say, if you see a distortion in the market, look for the withered hand of government. GOVERNMENT created this runaway market for vaccines with its laws eliminating manufacturer liability. By locking in liability protection, pharma companies can now sell drugs to HEALTHY PEOPLE — the largest market there is. And the government will use taxpayer dollars to help sell those products to the taxpayers.
    Childers makes a great legal point. Legal immunity+secrecy is a bad combination. If pharma is granted legal immunity, then there should be TOTAL transparency of its records. But then, who’d be watching to be sure the hen house of transparency is complete? The foxes, of course.

  14. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    RE: Slouching Toward Endgame

    I do not understand why it is so hard for people to believe the United States did the deed,  blowing up Nord Stream II.

    Read what Monkey has compiled on the event (HATIP Abuck)

    https://www.monkeywerxus.com/blog/the-nord-stream-2-pipeline-sabotage

    Now watch his presentation.

    You can brush off everything else but NOT THIS

     

  15. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Loretta Lynn’s acceptance speech being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Whatta gal.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kE-7SE54Ls

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A quick Drive-By. I’ve already hauled off three loads of pine limbs and now getting ready to get the tractor out to move the big stuff. But about 7:30 I was in the woods behind the Farm House when I heard a horn toot twice then a minute or so later two more toots so I walked up to the house and just as I got in the front yard a doe ran across the road at the halfway mark, (this is were they always cross) and 30 seconds later her spotless yearling ran across, a minute later another doe. Oh and as I came to the house about 7 AM after taking the garbage can to the road I heard geese cackling looked up and saw about 20 Canadian Geese in Vee formation cross right over the house, low so they likely came from the small pond behind the house and were headed to Hutto’s big 7 acre pond a few hundred yards to the south. Yup Life is Good out here in the country. 😀

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We never, ever see deer in this neighborhood, crazy.

    Plant you some turnip greens this fall and you may see some, plant English Peas in the spring and you surely wll see  some. The tender stalks of the English Peas are their favorite I bet a person could eat them and they’d be good.

     

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C also discusses a new internet “disinformation” law that is up for discussion in the UK.  If this law is passed, then the government will get to decide what is “suitable” to be on the internet.  They are using a suicide by a teenager who researched methods for killing herself online.

    Childers makes the same point I’ve been trying to tell lefty people for years: This law would be a double edged sword.  You may think you are safe today, because your politically correct views are protected.  Today.  Who’s to say that tomorrow your views are unprotected?  Will you complain when your voices are shackled?

    Freedom of speech is important.  For everyone.  Today and tomorrow.  Without it science halts. Without it, a permanent ruling class is established.  Without it, freedom dies.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The FBI found 11 more people to arrest for FACE violations at abortion clinics.  (More likely, they were on their knees praying a rosary, but that’s just my take.)  They were found after the FBI combed through their social media accounts.

    Meanwhile, zero FBI raids or arrests have been made of “Jane’s Revenge” group members who firebombed a dozen pro-life pregnancy centers this summer after the Supreme Court’s decision came out.

    Sounds fair.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    10 Tedtam

    From the comments:

    The real question is how this will play out. I don’t think Mr. Putin will do anything crazy, but whatever he does will be carefully thought out (in ways that will likely be opaque to most in the West) and bring serious consequences to all and sundry. Already the frozen food industry in Germany is going bankrupt and cannot afford the energy needed to keep the frozen food frozen. It’s going down. Other things will follow.

    The EU is certainly finished. In the long (very long) run, we may find that this painful and likely prolonged interlude reinvents Europe for the better. I don’t think the recent arrivals will hang around for the cold winters and absence of the free stuff they came for. Afterwards, it’s a question of whether there is any will left in the enervated populations.

    This little episode just means that what was inevitable will happen sooner than expected.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    DeSantis is trying not to disrespect the President publicly, especially since he could use federal funds, but Childers points out that body language says quite a lot.  I like that the camo guy is trying not to break into a smile as Bidet tries to blame global warmongering for the hurricane.

    Nope, Joey, a hurricane does not end the argument.

    I’d love to see a real, live, and lively public debate on climate change. PUBLIC.  Let the science be discussed, not settled.

    EDIT: forgot the linkie
    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1577736624254885888/pu/vid/478×270/0XsBPBpMq6NolKJL.mp4?tag=12

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Okay, it was another 3:00 a.m. morning for me, so I’m going to get moving while I’m still vertical.  I have money for a bank run, so I shall spend some time foraging at the thrift shop and Aldi’s while I’m out.  Those stores are on my route back home.

    I’m going to try for another bacon session today, too.  This time, I’ll par-cook the bacon before canning.  Then I’ll do a comparison of raw vs. precooked to see which method I prefer.

    Then I’ll go to town putting bacon on the shelf.  If the world is going to end via EMP, mandated jabs, or climate change, I want to go out with bacon in my  mouth.  And prayer on my lips.

    I have Latin class this evening and Hubby has a car club meeting.  I won’t have to cook dinner if I don’t want to.  That’ll give me some extra time.  I still haven’t finished my homework, but I’ve done quite a bit.  It was a long homework assignment.  I wish I had more time to practice, but it’s hard to find folks with whom to speak ecclesiastical Latin.

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Today’s Hamousonian

    No one believes me but I had a great uncle named Demon.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And with that……. I am out of here.

  25. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Super Dave

    Plant you some turnip greens this fall and you may see some, plant English Peas in the spring and you surely wll see  some.

    While our subdivision has homes on acreage, mostly one to one and a half acres and some are half acre lots, the houses are pretty tight together and not really grounds deer could easily roam. When we do see them I assume they come from the woods surrounding our hood.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The only thing I’m left with now is how the US government could take out an international pipeline owned by allies and an enemy and do it in such an obvious way.  There were other ways this could have been done without it being so obvious even a guy like Monkeywerx wouldn’t have been able to so quickly assemble the evidence. If Monkeywerx can do that, how many intel agencies in Russia, Europe, China, Israel and across the globe had already spotted it with far more sophisticated surveillance tools than he had ?

    I’m Joe Biden, King of the World, and I can do whatever I want.

     

  27. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I just do not understand the fear based effort to scare people all the time put forth on the MSM and often even on this thread.  I simply refuse to run around living my life in fear.  Things happen – actuaries can even calculate with near certainty the frequency of certain odd events occurring which will prove to be the exception rather than the rule.  It happens in the court system, it happens on the streets of America and other countries around the world.  Things we do not talk about are the most frequent and dangerous things we do that could have life threatening consequences, yet we accept those things and do not even look twice.  What is the leading cause of death in the formerly good old USA?  Cancer, cardiac arrest, airplane crash, lightening strike, covid shot, nuclear exchange with Russia or the Norks, etc.  No, it’s automobile accidents. More people died in Ted Kennedy’s car than were killed in the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.  We sit around listing all the threats, however obscure that we can face from time to time but don’t think twice about doing the one thing that is most likely to kill us.  It just makes no sense to me all the fear mongering.

    I’m looking forward to my eye surgery, and yes there is a possibility that I could lose an eye as a result.  There was the possibility that I could lose a leg, or even die, when I had my hip and my knee replaced.  Or when I got my covid vaccines.  But the biggest risk of all was getting in my car and driving to the grocery store less than a mile away from my house and coming back home again.  So if you want to go around fear mongering all the time, go ahead.  How many of those people who went to work in the World Trade Center on 9-11 had any idea that airplanes would attack their buildings and kill them.  My guess is probably none.  But it did happen.  So should I stop going to work because I’m afraid of an airplane crashing into my building?  It just makes no sense.

    All the talk about Putin and nuclear weapons is ridiculous.  Putin’s own people would take him out before they would follow his order to use them.  All Russians are not crazy.  So just stop the talk.  We all already know that if Trump is re-elected the world will stop spinning and all the people will immediately die; at least if we listen to the media.  But I’ll vote for him anyway, knowing full well that it spells the end of the world.

    So I’m going to go outside, where the sky is crystal clear, not a cloud in sight anywhere, hope that I don’t fall down the steps going out, hope that a freak lightening storm does not blow over and strike me down, pick up my water hose and hope there is not something ground shorted to it which will electrocute me, turn the faucet on and hope the hose does not jump up my nose and drown me, and see if I can water my plants without getting killed.  Maybe my car which is parked right in front will not slip out of park and run me over while I’m standing in front of it, that I don’t accidentally spray water on the high tension wires crossing in front of my house, or trip on the steps coming back inside.  Maybe I won’t accidentally open the refrigerator for a drink and fall inside and be suffocated.  Maybe my roof won’t fall down and crush me.  But we never know.  I’ll take my chances – odds are in my favor since I already safely went to the grocery store and made it back.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We had deer on our street here all summer and I live in an urban/suburban densely populated region.  We have more skunks, badgers, groundhogs, rabbits, chipmunks, foxes, possums and other wildlife than I did in several places I lived in Texas.  We had a red fox running through the backyard Wednesday night.

  29. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Texpat at 10:18 – Like so many things, everyone out there (us, the Russians, the Brits, NATO, the Israelis, et al) all know exactly what happened to that pipeline and who did it, and even how they did it.  But no one can tell without divulging their own sources and methods.  So they just continue to point fingers and make accusations, knowing full well that no one is willing to tell the truth.

    Remember that jet liner that went missing in Indonesia a couple of years ago that CNN said got taken up in a black hole?  do you think for one minute that our military does not know what happened to that plane?  Of course they do, but they cannot divulge the information without making disclosures they do not want to make.  Information is power, but if everyone know about it, it’s no longer valuable.  That’s how blackmail works.
    @10:23 – I’ve only seen 1 red fox out here, but I have two grey fox pups that are still coming by every evening to check out the cat food bowl. They are pretty cute.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    26 El Gordo

    Great Rant on Cost/Benefit Risk Analysis by the Sage of San Saba.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    27 El Gordo

    Remember that jet liner that went missing in Indonesia a couple of years ago that CNN said got taken up in a black hole?  do you think for one minute that our military does not know what happened to that plane?  Of course they do, but they cannot divulge the information without making disclosures they do not want to make.  Information is power, but if everyone know about it, it’s no longer valuable.  That’s how blackmail works.

    I’ve always believed that.

  32. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We hear reports of fox sightings out here, coyotes and even bobcats but rare. We’ve always had lots of rabbits but not so much this year for some reason, squirrel activity is down too. Raccoons and possum are regular visitors, moles constantly tearing up my yard, made worse by Buddy the Dog trying to dig them up.

    Squirrel and rabbit activity being down this year are a subject of the neighborhood FB page conspiracy theorists.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Environmental Fraud – Case File #93,457

    A company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.

    Drax runs Britain’s biggest power station, which burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets – which is classed as renewable energy.

    The BBC has discovered some of the wood comes from primary forests in Canada.

    The company says it only uses sawdust and waste wood.

    Panorama analysed satellite images, traced logging licences and used drone filming to prove its findings. Reporter Joe Crowley also followed a truck from a Drax mill to verify it was picking up whole logs from an area of precious forest.

    Ecologist Michelle Connolly told Panorama the company was destroying forests that had taken thousands of years to develop.

    The Brits and Germans have converted productive coal plants to wood pellet burners. The UK and the Poles* have a lot of natural gas available through fracking, but choose instead “moral exhibitionism” by destroying forests in the Canada and the US instead of burning abundant, cheap coal.

    They even have the cojones to call this scam “renewable energy”.

    How many people in North America even know this ?  How many MSM outlets have been publicizing this ?

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    EG

    Sorry about the”fear mongering”. I was expressing concern about your recovery. My mother thought she was doing everything right and look at what happened.

    You do you, dude. As always. And I will continue to hope that your surgery is a great success, both during and after.

  35. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, fellow Couch Critters. Some very thought-provoking entries here today.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Last Cape Horners; The End Of The Great Sailing Ship Era

    (70 minutes)

     

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From Michael Shellenberger at substack.

    • The Financial Times reported that “hurricane frequency is on the rise.”
    • The New York Times claimed, “strong storms are becoming more common in the Atlantic Ocean.”
    • The Washington Post said, “climate change is rapidly fueling super hurricanes.”
    • ABC News declared, “Here’s how climate change intensifies hurricanes.”
    • Both the FT and N.Y. Times showed graphs purporting to show rising hurricane frequency using data from the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

    All of those claims are false.

    Enjoy this blunt honesty from our own National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration:

    Claims that hurricanes are becoming more frequent are similarly wrong. “After adjusting for a likely under-count of hurricanes in the pre-satellite era,” writes NOAA, “there is essentially no long-term trend in hurricane counts. The evidence for an upward trend is even weaker if we look at U.S. landfalling hurricanes, which even show a slight negative trend beginning from 1900 or from the late 1800s.” What’s more, NOAA expects a 25% decline in hurricane frequency in the future.

    What about intensity? Same story. Explains NOAA, “after adjusting for changes in observing capabilities (limited ship observations) in the pre-satellite era, there is no significant long-term trend (since the 1880s) in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes.“

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Texpat 1157:

    Your post confirms Bonecrusher Truism in #2 above.

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m going to my final GIP board meeting tonight. Greater Inwood Partnership was responsible for virtually all of the trees, shrubs, and flowers planted on the esplanades in near northwest Houston since the 1990’s. The aging of the leadership was already affecting the group, even before Covid dealt it the knock-out punch. So, we were down to a membership of 6, and in the process of closing it down with the state of Texas, when…

    Employees of the Near Northwest Management District, who have their offices in the White Oak Conference Center — in the heart of Inwood — decided they would take over the 30 year+ civic organization. The handoff will take place at WOCC tonight.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: Bright sun effects on poor eyes

    I haven’t been to my ophthalmologist in a few years. I really need to remedy that situation.

    Twenty-five feet from my living room north-facing window sits my 16 x 20’ storage building. It is light grey in color, but might as well be white this time of year.

    The sun, in its fall/winter path, casts blinding reflected light off of that building, such that by noon I must close the curtain for the rest of the day.

    I told the rubber plant that sits in front of that window, sorry, it’s time for you to go dormant early, Buddy.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good grief.

    Three weeks from right this minute, I will have been in New Jersey for several hours already.

  42. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I wasn’t seeking an apology or pointing fingers in my rant above.  I’m simply making a declarative statement that I refuse to live in constant fear.  Happy, joyous, and free.  That does not mean that I will not try to be prudent, but having my life revolving around all the things that might go wrong is simply not for me.  And trying to organize around things are are likely to happen as opposed to more rare events that could happen leads me to take what are hopefully the most logical precautions rather than ignoring those things and preparing for the least likely disastrous events.

    Back before the unfortunate boating accident, I went on a precious metals binge.  And staying away from safe deposit boxes, paper metals, and the like – physical possession only.  I figured an ounce of silver would always buy a loaf of bread somewhere.  Until the cartels explained that lead, in the proper form, could be much more valuable and could allow one to acquire all the silver they desired with only small amounts of lead.  So since I was not planning to build a vault, I got out of the metals business with what I could find after the boating accident.

    Yesterday, I heard a call on the local police scanner.  Some person out in the western part of the county was receiving incoming rifle fire.  The dispatcher put the sheriff right on it, and 30 minutes later, a deputy actually showed up at the scene.  The reporting person was OK, but the shooter was gone.  Left no casings.  Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.  If the victim was to shoot back, I’ll bet the battle would have been much shorter.  Investigation – ha.  Description of the shooter’s vehicle – white Chebby truck.  Not but about 4 out of 5 vehicles in the county match that description.

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Ron DeSantis: Illegal Alien Looters Should Be ‘Sent Back to Their Home Country’

    Scroll down a bit for the video.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/05/ron-desantis-illegal-alien-looters-should-be-sent-back-to-their-home-country/

  44. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Description of the shooter’s vehicle – white Chebby truck.  Not but about 4 out of 5 vehicles in the county match that description.

    Any minivans?

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ft. Worth Police Department recruiting video

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    40

    The old cop at the end imitating an inflatable dancing stick man is pretty funny.

  47. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    What a hoot!

  48. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #39 Shannon

    That’s the best thing I’ve seen in awhile. Pretty darn funny.

  49. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    When he started talking about horses, I thought he would segway into horsepower aka Mustangs, Cameros, or Challengers. I didn’t thing about the one horsepower mounted patrol. 🙂

  50. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Stole it and shared it. That’s danged funny!

    Edit: I had no idea what the last cop was doing. Now I see you ‘stained he was an inflatable dancing stick. Ha!

  51. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I got a ticket going to my son’s house in Plantersville last Thursday. On a danged county road too! County Road 302, right at the RV entrance at the back of the Renaissance. Screw you Todd Mission Police! Try to go 35 on that road you will be run over or shot at!

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just made a pass through the back yard and collected: icicle plant (tastes like curry), divine smelling ginger leaves, two small sweet peppers (I may have a third one in my basket), amaranth seeds and leaves, a coupla pods of okra, and some purslane.  Along with some shrimp and cabbage, I may have the makings of a stir fry.

    I’d forgotten how good ginger smells.  I think I’m going to dry some leaves.  I have more ginger than I’ll probably use, but I’m going to let it keep going.  I can process it later and give it away as gifts, especially if it grows like it did this summer.

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    How bout that SD, kilt it for 2 hours!

  54. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Oh hey Tedtam, didn’t see you there….

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I guess The Uvalde ISD got themselves in a pickle hiring a former  DPS person who was there on the day of the shooting.

  56. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    My wife was cleaning out her office and ran across some old gift cards, one was Willie G’s. I’ve never been there so I did some surfing on their reviews. Here’s one –

    Racist

    willie g is racist…don’t waste your money nor time! The manager there disrespected some ladies while I was dining and I had to get up and leave! Something needs to be done about the management

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I forgot that I put one of those tiny little red peppers in the dish.  I bit down once and my entire head got cleaned out and my mouth was on fire.  Fortunately, I just broke the skin of the thing and was able to extricate it before I did any permanent damage.

    But I’ll remember the next time.  I wish I could remember the name of the pepper.  Maybe the tag is still in the dirt somewhere.

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Man, I’ve been out and busy, but there is whole lot of stuff going on in this world.

    Later.

  59. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Tedtam was it Szechuan??? Those are the hottest things I’ve ever been brave enough to try in Chinese food – I cook it with them, then fish the pepper out and toss it out

  60. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Moe and Joe are coming to 2929 Roadhouse the 22nd. Looked at getting tickets but, I don’t know, $150 TTL for a two seat table seems a bit much to watch a 78 and 79 year old men waddle around mumbling mimicking they old selves. Sorry not sorry.

  61. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Not bed time yet.  I’m watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before for some reason.  Anyway, couple that with me being over here posting and see if there is a connection.  More later before bedtime.

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How bout that SD, kilt it for 2 hours!

    You’re just a piker. 😀

  63. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Checking in, it’s been another busy day but we had left over chili for supper and it was much better than the first go around, or the second. 😉

  64. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #55

    yeah I don’t want to mess with the pro. 😀

  65. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Bedtime out here.  You all have a good evening.  Nite nite.

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I was present for yet another milestone for the GIP. The last 6 still standing from the original GIP, turned everything over to the new GIP board of 6 that will try to get it out of the Covid ditch and carry on from there. For sure, if there is still to be a Spring plant sale associated with Treesearch Farms, I’ll be there as a volunteer.

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