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Photo by Super Dave’s friend, Les at Markham, Texas, October 2022

Because all Texans should know about their small towns. From the Texas State Historical Association Handbook:

MARKHAM, TX.Markham is at the junction of Farm roads 1468 and 2431, six miles northwest of Bay City in northwestern Matagorda County. The settlement was first called Cortes and from 1901 to 1903 had its own post office under that name. In 1903 the Moore-Cortes Canal Company boosted community development. That same year residents altered the name of the town to Markham, after C. H. Markham, an engineer for the Southern Pacific lines. The post office was established under the new name in 1903 and was still in operation in the early 1990s. By 1914 Markham had become a stop on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and had a population of 500. In 1925 its population was estimated at 400. Markham in 1936 had numerous dwellings and two schools, two churches, a factory, and about ten other businesses. By the 1930s Markham residents had established an independent school district. During the school year 1937–38, eight teachers instructed 278 White students through grade eleven, and two teachers instructed thirty-six Black students through grade seven.* The population of Markham was reported at 700 in 1943. By 1949 its schools had been consolidated with the Tidehaven Independent School District. Markham constructed a public school complex in 1952. In 1950 the community population had been reported as 300, and in 1965 it was 750, with seven businesses. In 1970 the population was 603, which remained the reported estimate through the 1980s. In 1990 Markham reported a population of 1,206 and ten businesses. The population was 1,138 with twenty-five businesses in 2000.

*There was a reason for Brown vs Board of Education in 1954, but I thought it was interesting the 36 black children had class sizes of 1 teacher/18 students and the white kids had a ratio of 1 teacher/34.75 students. I’m sure there were many black kids who wanted to continue school after 12 years old and black children who probably never got a chance to go to school at all. We’ve come a long, long way from those days less than a hundred years ago.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Thanks Texpat that’s pretty neat, complete with the history and all.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Democrat Charged with Attempting to Influence the Results of 2020 Election.

    Democrat consultant Damien Jones was arrested and charged with attempting to coerce a public official and influence the outcome of an election in Texas.

    Jones was caught red-handed by officials after he sent threatening text messages to then-state Rep. Gina Calann.

    Jones attempted to convince her not to seek re-election in a legislative race in Harris County, Texas.

    Just days before the 2020 filing deadline, Jones sent threatening messages in December 2019.

    After a three-day trial, Jones was found guilty and faces up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

    And;

    “This was a case of ambition that crossed the line into criminal conduct,” Levine said. “By trying to coerce a politician into resigning, he illegally sought to influence an election.”

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wow, what a cool picture.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Armed and Beltway-ish: More Federal Bureaucrats Than U.S. Marines Authorized to Pack Heat.

    When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy invoked the language of war to warn that “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.”

    A video quickly went viral racking up millions of views, purporting to show a bunch of clumsy bureaucrats receiving firearms training, prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of ordinary taxpayers. The GOP claims were widely attacked as exaggerations – since the video, though from the IRS, didn’t show official agent training – but the criticism has shed light on a growing trend: the rapid arming of the federal government.

    A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, “The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies,” found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests – more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. “One hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted),” notes the report. “Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone.”

    The watchdog reports that the Department of Health and Human Services has 1,300 guns including one shotgun, five submachine guns, and 189 automatic firearms. NASA has its own fully outfitted SWAT team, with all the attendant weaponry, including armored vehicles, submachine guns, and breeching shotguns. The Environmental Protection Agency has purchased drones, GPS trackers, radar equipment, and night vision goggles, in addition to stockpiling firearms.

    A 2018 Government Accountability Office report noted that the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in inventory at the end of 2017  – before the enforcement funding boost this year. The IRS did not respond to requests for information, though the IRS’ Criminal Investigation division does put out an annual report detailing basic information such as how many warrants the agency is executing in a given year.

    Yet more than a hundred executive agencies have armed investigators, and there doesn’t appear to be any independent authority actively monitoring or tracking the use of force across the federal government.

    RTWDT!

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It occurred to me that with all the panic, gnashing of teeth, barking of dogs and screaming of wimmin’s of late, my #4 Post may be too long if so, just let me know. At least it wasn’t “Red”  😉

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Under “Weird Baseball Contract Clauses”, I found this:

    3. Charlie Kerfeld’s tasty bonus

    After a spectacular rookie season in 1986, rotund reliever Charlie Kerfeld, who always pitched in his lucky Jetsons T-shirt, needed a new contract. Kerfeld asked for $110,037.37, matching his No. 37 jersey, to pitch in 1987. On top of that, he received 37 boxes of orange Jell-O in the deal.

    The Astros would soon regret this delicious bonus, though; Kerfeld, who was famously caught eating ribs in the dugout that season, would battle weight and injury problems and get sent down to the minors.

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Lol, I remember that as #37 was my dad’s (now my son’s) car number. 1986 was a crazy year as Mike Scott and Kerfeld would have a yuge year but never do much of anything before or after.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Yesterday or the day before there was a comment to the effect of how wimminzes go bat-guano crazy when the seat is left up.  On my first date with the lovely and soon to be Mrs. Bonecrusher, we went to her apartment afterwards.  I used her bathroom and came back to the living room.  I told her that I had neglected to lower the seat.  Her response struck me hard: “I never understood the big deal about the toilet seat, if a guy can pick it up I can easily put it down”.  We were married 4 months later.

    Yes, I recognized her value to me and jumped right in there.  It was the best decision of my life.

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    That’s as good a reason as any…

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    It’s not as much about seat up or down, do you not look before sitting down?

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Is Mrs BC a over the top toilet paper person or under? I found out too late my wife is an under toilet paper person.

    /shivers

  12. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    You all may remember Grampa Wild, Niki’s grandfather who recently passed away. We found out last night that he was touched that Janisen was having a baby. He bought her some baby diapers shortly before he passed away. Niki’s parents will be bringing them early next month when they come for Lilyan’s baby blessing. Lilyan would have been Grampa Wild’s great great grand daughter. Several of us were chocked up about the diaper story.

  13. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #10 – Not so much, GJT… In the middle of the nite, I prefer  to NOT turn on the light… But, after spending a couple years in Germany, where the porcelain throne has a different design, with water only in the “throat” of the throne, and inadvertently sitting INTO the throne when (if I remember correctly) the high for the month was 20 degrees… I DO feel to make sure.  I thought Squawk was gonna have to thaw me out of the danged thing.

  14. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #12 Darren – you can add another “choked up”  to the list, from reading that story…

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #11 GJT:  Definitely an over the top – as it should be.  She also hates to be late as do I.  We are almost never late going anywhere, usually we are the first ones there – even when the kids were small.

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I was reading about a guy who took unauthorized pictures in North Korea and I noticed this one, the caption;

    There Are a Lot of Farms in North Korea
    Rural North Korea is full of huge amounts of farmland; miles and miles of farmland. This photo is of rice fields being tended to by locals.

    I was surprised that no one knew that the locals weren’t in a Rice Field. It looks like potatoes to me but there is a Rice Paddy in the background. Don’t they edit articles anymore?

  17. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Tedtam – I thought I’d share my experience with using dehydrated egg powder to make a cake last evening. I got everything out and into the bowl except the eggs. When I went to get the eggs out of the fridge, I saw that I’d only have one egg left for breakfast if I used the 3 eggs called for in making the cake. I decided to try some of the dehydrated ones – rehydrated with really warm water, and beaten with a fork til really well combined. That cake rose so much in the center that I can’t put the lid on the cake pan because the cake rose so much, which I’ve never had happen with fresh eggs. I’d say they successfully act like fresh eggs LOL

  18. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Adam Carolla Refuses to Apologize, Insists AOC ‘Sounds Like an Idiot’

    During an interview with reporter John Stossel, Adam Carolla said that he refuses to apologize.

    Carolla said, “Apologizing just leads to more apologizing. They want you to apologize because they want dominion over you. And once you apologize, they just keep coming back.”

    “I don’t really have a choice as to what I say. It has to be the truth all the time. I’m a comedian. It’s a sacred oath I took. It’s what I do, said Carolla.

    And

    “Here’s a quick thought experiment,” Carolla said. “If AOC was fat and in her 60s, would anyone listen to another thing she ever said?”

    He said, “[S] he’s young, she’s vibrant, she’s beautiful, and everyone’s always putting a camera and a mic in her face. But her opinions are idiotic 95 percent of the time. And I don’t think, if she was a middle-aged heavy-set woman, anyone would care what she had to say.”

    😀

     

  19. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Here’s a big thank you post for Monday’s thread to those who I did not catch towards the end:

     

    Adee;

    Thank you, Ma’am. It’s a euphoric feeling still. So wonderful it kind of feels surreal.

     

    Texpat;

    Funny and sage advice there. I hope to implement them well.

     

    GJT;

    Thank you. I hope to meet you in person sometime.

     

    Bonecrusher;

    Thank you. We’ll keep that in English since i have no idea how to say it in biblical Hebrew, if they even have a word “thank you”. My understanding is that instead of thank you they would offer praise. That said, many more years of happiness to you and you lovely wife and all of yours.

     

    Squawkbox 1&2;

    After Monday my mileage increased by 20%. That was a long day for sure. Janisen and Rick are still trying to catch up on sleep. Amen with been with only one woman and, yeah, some exhaust problems. 🙂

    As for the diapers, I cannot say there were times I just did not feel like changing a diaper when it needed to so, yeah, it sagged more than it should. When finally changing it the child would be cleaned in the shower, allowed to run around a bit on the nekid side hoping he or she would not poop or pee on the floor, then a new diaper would be placed on after an application of Desitin or baby powder. Those were the days. Just a reminder to you and all that I went ten straight years having to buy diapers. I got a pause for a few years before the Good Lord blessed us with our fifth and final child.

    TexMo;

    Thank you, Sir!!!

     

    Super Dave;

    Thank you. I don’t think I’ll ever become as good a cook as you but there’s nothing wrong with being inspired by your suppers.

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Crap! My #18 I left out the Linky.

    FWIW; I just forgot to Link it. Sometimes the links don’t catch for some reason but this time it was my fault.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Re #4

    Dude, you can post a thousand lines of green of you wish. Crazy or otherwise. You’ll get no complaint from me. I can handle it.

    That is an alarming story. It is something of which we should all be uncomfortably aware.

     

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    RE: toilet seat position

    Hubby was always careful to put the toilet seat down for me, which I appreciated.  Especially after that one night where I, very sleep groggy, didn’t check and fell into the toilet.  I somehow was able to extricate myself, but it sure brought back my kindergarten days, when Mom had to haul me out of the toilet.  I was unable to wear my favorite dress to school that day, which really bummed me out.

    We pretty much use separate bathrooms now (we have…five of them in this house), so the toilet seat really isn’t much of an issue for us now.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue – glad to hear your baking won’t suffer!  Isn’t it nice to just be able to reach up on the shelf and find your backup supplies?  When I’m in a hurry, I can put together a vegetable soup like — that! /snaps fingers

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yet another double standard, mens are not allowed to pee in the dark – seat up or down.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A 2018 Government Accountability Office report noted that the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in inventory at the end of 2017  – before the enforcement funding boost this year.

    But after all these years of tax evasion on a massive scale, the IRS can’t find Hunter Biden to arrest him on multiple felony offenses.

  26. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Our youngest son had to stay with us for several days a few years ago, that’s when I finally got credit for always leaving the seat down – cause he did not. I just said – “I told you I came to you trained.” 😀

  27. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #23 – Tedtam – It really is – and I’m finally getting things sorta organized, so I know where WHAT is… and  I’ll bet you can assemble lots of different soups JUST like THAT….LOL…  And that begs another question… Have you dehydrated any meat besides hamburger??? If so, what were your results?

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Darren – your story (and congratulations again!and again and again…) reminded me of what Hubby did when we were expecting our first baby.  Sometimes it  pays off to be married to a handyman/plumber.

    The middle bedroom of our house, which was to become the nursery, was rather large.  He found a whole cabinet set – like kitchen cabinets – that would fit the room.  I gained storage space for all the baby stuff, a double sink with a sprayer, and plenty of counter space for diaper changing.  We put some small shelves over the changing space to hold the creams, diapers, etc., within arms’ reach.

    Hubby’s favorite way to change diapers was to hang Lovely Daughter over his arm and spray her bottom until clean.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    But after all these years of tax evasion on a massive scale, the IRS can’t find Hunter Biden to arrest him on multiple felony offenses.

    I beg to differ.  They *can* find him.  Truth is, they *won’t* find him.

  30. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Tree trimmer dies after falling into wood chipper, police say.

    A tree trimmer has died after falling into a wood chipper while he was working, police say.

    The incident occurred at approximately 12:53 p.m. on Tuesday in Menlo Park, California, approximately 30 miles south of San Francisco, when the Menlo Park Police Department responded to a report of an incident involving a tree trimmer who had managed to accidentally fall into a wood chipper on the 900 block of Peggy Lane while he was working, police say.

    “When police units arrived on scene, a male subject was found deceased from injuries sustained in the incident,” the Menlo Park Police Department said in a statement confirming the fatality.

    Authorities from the Menlo Park Fire Protection District and the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office also responded to the tragic accident. The street was shut down while authorities conducted their investigation but all other roads in the area were open to traffic during this period.

    The worker’s identity has not yet been released and is currently under the jurisdiction of the coroner’s office while they notify the male victim’s next of kin, authorities said. It is unclear when they will be making a further statement on the identity of the victim and the coroner’s office did not release any further details on the incident.

    Dayaam!!! That gives me the willies just thinking about it.

    🙁

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Have you dehydrated any meat besides hamburger??? If so, what were your results?

    No, I haven’t.  I’ve never been a big fan of jerky, and homemade is missing all the chemicals that make it last forever on the kitchen counter.  I’d have to make it and freeze it.  I might try it someday.  Maybe it’s softer than the store bought and won’t hurt my teeth so much.  Since I’m missing so many adult teeth and still have some baby teeth (thanks, Dad!), I do have to be careful how much “difficult” food I eat.

    Heidi on her Rain Country channel has dehydrated chicken.  I remember her saying in one of her videos that she had dehydrated chicken and found the texture quite useful.  I don’t have the link to the video, unfortunately, but she did get me interested in the possibility. 

    Rain Country videos can probably still be found on YouTube, but she moved to Rumble to get away from the totalitarian YT overlords. She does a lot of work with herbs, and for some reason, YT didn’t like some of it and she had to be very careful with what she said and how she said it.  Eventually she just said “screw it” – but not really, because she’s waaaay too Christian to say it that way – and went to Rumble.

    She got me interested in the herbals.  I purchased a few canisters at the thrift store yesterday which have been cleaned and now are ready to receive the goldenrod that I picked at the shop.  I’ve watched some other videos from other herbalists, and I never knew that goldenrod was so healthy.  I’m going to store the leaves and blossoms separately and make tea.  I didn’t know that there were so many varieties of goldenrod; one of the herbalists described the scent as “kind of beachy,” so I guess I have the same variety as she was describing.

    BTW – it’s ragweed, not goldenrod, that causes all the allergy problems.  Goldenrod is actually grown commercially in Europe, and sold as a garden flower.  Here, we take those beautiful yellow blooms for granted. 

     

  32. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Toilet Seat; Not long after we got married the wife fell in one night so I started putting the seat down out of courtesy. But I do understand the reasoning of “she puts it down and he puts it up”.  That is we lift it so as to not Pee on it and she can lower it.

    After the boy moved away he’d drop by sometimes when we weren’t home and if he had to go my wife always knew. 😀

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I worked late again last night.  Bed time was around 2:30.  I see a nap in my future….

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    5 bathrooms? 5?!?! Mercy, who cleans all of them and better yet who uses them?

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    After the boy moved away he’d drop by sometimes when we weren’t home and if he had to go my wife always knew.

    I called Hubby out on Handyman being in the house when I was out on a visit to Lovely Daughter.  I was unaware that he was going to be “in my space” while I was out.  I thought he was working outside.

    He came inside, at least once.

  36. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    BSue #14;

     

    Virtual hugs to you, Ma’am.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just remember,…..        😀

     

     

     

  38. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #34 Tedtam all the workers that were here in the summer just headed into the woods near the little pond.

  39. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    5 bathrooms? 5?!?! Mercy, who cleans all of them and better yet who uses them?

    I sleep in Handsome Son’s old bedroom, which is downstairs.  Our future master bedroom is full of…stuff. We don’t have our finished floor installed upstairs yet (it’s only been 20 years), because work has always come first.  Every time Hubby has tried to get to it, some major water tap job would come up, or our apartments would need a makeover so we could rent it and get the money coming in again, etc.  I use the bathroom attached to that room.

    Hubby uses the downstairs powder bath for most of his needs.  The one with the “Wall of Wit and Wisdom”.  He loves the huge double shower upstairs so he uses that bathroom for his showers.  I might occasionally use the tub up there, for the one or two times a year I might want to soak.  I’m not much of a soaker, but if I’m aching enough, an Epsom salt soak is helpful.  It’s also helpful that there is a TV in that room, or I’d never be able to do stay in there long enough.  Baths are boring, and I need something to keep my attention or I’d be climbing out of the tub almost as fast as I got in.

    The other bathrooms don’t really get used unless we have company (rare).

    Hubby takes care of his bathrooms, and I take care of mine.  Sometimes he cleans mine for me.  He’s sweet like that.  The others get attention when needed, which is rare.  When we get the house (finally) finished, those rooms might get used more often.  We shall see.

  40. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Tedtam #27;

    Hubby’s favorite way to change diapers was to hang Lovely Daughter over his arm and spray her bottom until clean.

    Now that’s efficiency!

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The opening to today’s C&C:

    Good morning, and happy Hump Day, C&C! Today’s roundup includes: Fetterman sits for his first live interview since his stroke, and it doesn’t go well; Trump files emergency appeal to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court issues important elections decision; Europe risks economic domination by the U.S.; Pfizer exec says they never tested whether the drugs prevent infections; video games are literally killing kids now, for some reason; basketball player blood clot; record label founder cardiac arrest; former French presidential candidate changes his mind about the jabs; Dr. Drew changes his mind about the jabs; and Governor DeSantis continues crushing the Hurricane Ian response.

    Sounds like it’s gonna be extra special today.  

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C: RE: (link) Fetterman interview – didn’t go well:

    The interview probably didn’t go quite like Fetterman’s handlers hoped it would. It’s the first time they’ve let him be interviewed since his stroke early this year. For what became obvious reasons.

    /snip

    Burns explained that Fetterman used close captioning for the interview, because he’s having problems hearing things right. His ears aren’t working. But his eyes — his reading — are better. Burns told Lester that during small talk before the interview, it felt like Fetterman had no idea what she was saying.

    /snip

    In other words, doesn’t Fetterman’s auditory processing disability suggest he should sit this one out, focus on his recovery, and THEN run for the Senate next time around after he gets better? He’s a young guy. He has plenty of time. Why do THIS?

    Etc., etc.   Fetterman isn’t up to the job, right now.  I agree with Childers – he has time to recover.

    But the dems need to run someone against Oz and keep their majority.  If they can prop up Biden, they can prop up Fetterman.

     

  43. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #30 Tedtam – thanx for the heads up about Rain Country. I’ve had a rumble account since before Mom passed – when it was first pointed out to me that YT was “going over to the dark side”… I just don’t remember to check it very often – but I’ve now subscribed to Rain Country, and will try to make more of an effort to remember to check it.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I made note that we weren’t making friends in Europe with our monetary policy.  Here’s a follow-up to yesterday’s C&C story:

     Yesterday I told you that Europe was suffering from the U.S.’s interest rate increases, which were really aimed at China and Russia, and the EU is just collateral damage. Apparently I wasn’t the only one. Yesterday, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told the assembly that “The conflict in Ukraine must not result in US economic domination and a weakening of the EU.”

    Bruno also complained about the sky-high price of American natural gas. Too bad for Europe those Nordstream pipelines suddenly and unexpectedly blew up. Good for America, though.

    By the time this administration finishes its work, we’ll have no friends anywhere.  The EU was angry at Trump for making them pay “their fair share” for NATO, etc., but I’ll bet they are missing him now.  Paying more for their own defense vs. crashing their economic systems?  I’d bet the former is better than the latter.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers goes into major snark mode here:

    A video clip from the EU Parliament went viral yesterday, after a Pfizer executive testified, admitting that the pharma company “never” tested its drug to see if it would prevent transmission of the virus. Don’t be silly.

    That’s horse hockey.

    What was the “95% effective” all about, then? 95% of WHAT? Why were all the politicians saying the mRNA drugs would “shut down the pandemic?” Why did news anchors say the drugs would make people a “viral dead end?” Were they all just making it up? Was it all just a giant misunderstanding?

    /snip

    Even more shamefully, and the part I want to focus on, the executive continued, telling the MEPs that “We had to really move at the speed of science…to really understand what is taking place in the market.”

    First, what on Earth is “the speed of science?” I’ve heard that term a few times now, and it sounds good, nice and focus-group-ey, but what does it MEAN? Is it like the speed of light? Does science go really fast? Not usually, surely. It took 48 years to discover the Higgs boson.

    Maybe that second clause helps: “to understand what is taking place in the market.” The MARKET. Marketing. Marketing is a kind of science, too, right?

    Well, the market is having its say.  Pfizer stock is dropping in value.  With all of the revelations of “excess morbidity” – what a cleansing euphemism for “we’re killing people” – myocarditis, seizures, various forms of paralysis, etc., I’m sure that someone, somewhere will figure out how to make someone, somewhere pay a price.

    But the rats will have fled the ship with their bags of gold by then.  Those rats will have paid off the political rats to keep from facing the consequences.

    And the world continues to spin…

  46. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Super Dave;

    when we weren’t home and if he had to go my wife always knew

    Haha!

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More “sudden and unexpected”:

    The story reports a new Australian study reviewing TWENTY-TWO cases where children suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed, unconscious, while playing video games. They speculate the adrenaline and excitement caused by tense experiences playing competitive multi-player war games can trigger “previously unidentified heart issues.” …

    Dr. Jonathan Skinner…, said he was “staggered” to see how widespread the issue is — and that it has led to some children dying. Weird that it’s happening just now.

    Now, I’m just spitballing here, but I wonder if the researchers looked for other common factors among the kids who collapsed. I don’t know what it could be, of course, but I wonder if they all took the same medication or something. They should probably ask. You never know.

    Children.  CHILDREN!  If video games were to cause this kind of problem, we would’ve heard about it years ago.  Nope, only now are video games causing heart failure in CHILDREN!

    That special place in Hell is being renovated to hold more people, I’m thinking.

  48. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD

    Looking for the latest hamousonian our lovely MHarper42 provided me with the funniest “prepper” comment yet.

    mharper42 #55 LurkGW

    stock up on … necessary stuff, you know, the c r e e p y kind )

    Mayonnaise? Toilet paper? KY?

     

  49. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Went to bed at 10:30 + Fell asleep after midnight + woke up at 4:30 + Fell back asleep at 7:15 + Woke up at 9:15 = Groggy State of Mind.

  50. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Izzit okay to still use the blockquotes button in our comments instead of colorizing quotes?

    Asking for a friend

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More “sudden and unexpected”:

    Basketball powerhouse Butler University got some bad news yesterday, when its forward/center Jalen Thomas was diagnosed with a rare, sudden and unexpected pulmonary embolism. He’ll be out the rest of the season. At LEAST.

    /snip

    Various media have observed how rare the condition is in healthy athletes. I wonder what could have caused this? Scientists are baffled, of course.
    snip
    Last week, Joel Morowitz, 55, co-founder of 1990’s indie label spinART Records, died suddenly and unexpectedly of cardiac arrest at his Bethesda, Maryland home.

    I’m baffled, too.  What is going on with all these athletes suddenly having major health/death problems?  Has the Gatorade been tampered with?  /spits

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Izzit okay to still use the quotes button in our comments instead of colorizing quotes?

    As mentioned before, colorizing is my preference, in an attempt to be more reader/scroller friendly.  I am attempting to be sensitive and friendly, in my own way.

    You do you, dude.

  53. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    KY for the Post Apocalyptic barter win!

  54. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    DeSantis, crushing it again:

     You almost have to see it to believe it. Mere days after Hurricane Ian washed away the Sanibel Island bridge, crews deployed by Governor DeSantis and the Department of Transportation have already fixed the bridge, restored vehicular traffic, and are sending teams of electrical workers in to get the power back on.

    All of those libs were hoping for a complete failure to handle the storm damage.  Or, at least something they could complain about.  DeSantis has failed them utterly on those counts.

    I’m running out of popcorn.

  55. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Squawk –

    Chris Salcedo was discussing eschatology this morning, and he is running some kind of report on it today on his show: Newsmax, I think either 3:00 or 4:00 our time.

    I missed most of the interview this morning, ‘cuz Hubby called me in just after it started.  And I slept an extra hour this morning, so I missed the early phone calls on his radio show.

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I believe El Gordo has his first cataract surgery today.  Praying for a great outcome, and a full and uneventful recovery.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and re bathrooms in our house:

    We were going to have a “bathroom area” in the mechanical room next to our garage.  Put in the floor drain and everything.  The idea was that when Hubby came home nasty, or we were working outdoors, we wouldn’t have to drag the dirt inside.  Having a toilet and maybe even a small shower to use without walking inside was something that we saw as useful.

    When we began installing our a/c system, however, we realized that it wasn’t going to work.  The air handler unit takes up that space now, and the drain is used for that appliance.

    So, only five bathrooms.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    49

    Heh

  59. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tedtam
    Dear lady trust me, my question about the block quotes was not aimed at you.  I sincerely apologize that you got caught in the crossfire.

    Insert my favorite Stevie Ray Vaughn song here.

  60. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #58 – Yours?

    MINE! (well one of MANY)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihoudTTcWp4

     

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Katfish

    The Dude and Hamous introduced me to Stevie Ray Vaughn way back in the LST days. SRV had been around for quite some time before that fateful day.  I was embarrassed that I had never heard of him before then.  Crossfire is my fave but I am a full tilt boogie SRV fanboi.  Lovely wife has saved me lots of money and prolly embarrassment not letting buy and wear some of his outfits.

  62. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The woodchipper story sounds fishy. I’d bet there is a wimmins involved. Wonder if he put the seat down.

  63. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just harvested

    Sweet Basil, thai basil, chocolate mint, lemon balm, ginger leaves, rosemary, two okra, and one mini sweet pepper.

    Now I gotta wash them and dry them. After watering what I have left in the garden. I see more tomatoes and one of them is blushing now.

    It’s just shy, I guess.

  64. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    File this under “holy crap”.

    Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale’s $10M bet on Astros to win World Series would cash record payout
    McIngvale would earn an estimated $75 million payout with an Astors title

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In 1976 Katfish and I were living in Austin.

    Back then, Stevie was pretty much  “Jimmy Vaughan’s less-well-known little brother” in the club scene.

    That didn’t last very long.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Can’t you just imagine Squawk in an aquamarine blue outfit with a gaucho hat?

  67. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #47

    Dunno about creepy, but I sure was crude back then…

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I could retire if I had Stevie’s turquoise jewelry collection to sell off.

  69. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue- I saw a video yesterday on YT, “Our Half Acre Homestead,” where she canned up carrots that were being sold as “deer carrots”.  She had to sort through them and toss out the bad ones, but out of the two forty pound bags, she canned/dehydrated what looks like is their whole winter supply.  She lives in Canada, so having a well stocked pantry is important for those days when they are snowed in or just don’t want to go out into the cold.

    I’ve also heard of folks using deer corn.  I can’t remember how they prepared it for home use, but their family ate it.

    And somewhere near my house is a place where I could get free potatoes if I wanted.  I see trailers of ‘taters being hauled down Airport Boulevard and Telephone Road.  Hubby says people are getting them to feed their cattle.  It seems that the railroad tracks near here have a potato place where restaurants get their spuds.  The ugly ones are discarded.

    Just some thoughts on where to get plentiful, cheap food for preserving.

  70. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oletimer Lin posted this Over Yonder…

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Fascinating medical news involving drugs that enhance the performance of insulin.  Blood sugar and insulin keep turning up as more important for other medical disorders besides diabetes.

    “Oct. 11 (UPI) — A class of Type 2 diabetes drugs called glitazones is linked to a 22% reduced risk of dementia, according to a new study led by the University of Arizona.

    The researchers said this drug class, also known as thiazolidinediones or TZDs, which helps insulin work better, may effectively prevent dementia in patients at high risk who have mild or moderate Type 2 diabetes.

    The scientists urged prioritizing their findings and conducting more clinical studies to see whether TZDs can be repurposed to fight dementia.

    Separately, Cleveland Clinic researchers said Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports Medicine that they have identified metformin, a common diabetes medication, as a possible treatment to repurpose for atrial fibrillation. The condition can lead to stroke and heart failure.”

  72. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I read somewhere that Alzheimers is sometimes referred to as Type 3 diabetes.  It is suspected that an insulin disorder may cause some mental disorders.

    Indeed, one treatment for autism and some other mental disorders is a strict keto diet.  Ketones help the brain work better, as opposed to insulin.

  73. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    In case you’re wondering GJT wins the internet today with;  The woodchipper story sounds fishy. I’d bet there is a wimmins involved. Wonder if he put the seat down. 😀

  74. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #71;

    Point #1 Wife can operate the Kubota, (it has a front-end loader).

    Point #2 Wood chipper runs off tractor PTO

    Point #3 Tractor key is locked in safe.

    😀

     

     

  75. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Point #3 Tractor key is locked in safe.

    LOL

  76. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Mayorka is beyond worthy of being impeached!

    https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/10/12/sec-mayorkas-was-told-no-migrants-had-been-whipped-before-pushing-the-narrative-at-the-white-house-n502706

  77. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #68 Tedtam – thanx for the ideas. and for the reminder of Rain Country. I’ve been watching YT, and her method of dehydrating roasted chicken looks MUCH more interesting that doing ground chicken… It looks like roasted chicken “bits” – and after watching a few “others” recommending drying canned or home canned chicken, I think I like Heidi’s method much better than taking already shelf stable commercially canned chicken, or my own home canned, dehydrating it, and still needing to store it in the freezer. The PLUS is that it looks like REAL CHICKEN when she gets done with it!

  78. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    SD

    And don’t move to Fargo!

    😀 😀

  79. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    That persistent nap fairy always seems to seek me out around this time every afternoon. I had thought about a quick run to the PetSmart out on 290, but I couldn’t get my shoes unstuck from the floor in front of the laptop…

  80. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Pachapapa is at it again.

    https://youtu.be/RPr8NhEhC84

    Return to Tradition

    How can he make a Catholic saint someone who is not Catholic? Among other things.

    Like end times things. We had Marian apparitions who warned us about this kind of stuff.

  81. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Salcedo is starting his end times discussion on Newsmax, Squawk, et al

  82. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I checked with Lovely DIL this afternoon.  She’s obviously read through the books I gave her and seems to have watched some videos as well in the few days that she’s had her own version of Fred.

    She says she is going to make some vegetable (leafy greens) powder to start; something simple to get her started.  She has also bought some fruit on sale to make a fruit leather.  She wants to make some dehydrated meals to set up as well and is going to buy some Mylar bags in which to store some of these foods.

    It’s good that she is getting started on her own stockpile.  Next up – canning!

  83. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Personally, I made some more tomato powder this afternoon.  Another batch of tomatoes is ripening on my counter and will be processed after the celery currently taking up Fred space is taken out.  All of the herbs I harvested this morning are being dried.  I’ve been busy today.

  84. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It has been hectic day but we’re rounding everything up and can relax in a bit. FWIW; I failed to mention that we’re heading to Midland in the morning to see daughter and SIL. We’re flying out of North Florida International and it’ll be the first time that I’ve flown there. I always drive and the wife has flown a few times but usually drives also. The problem with driving is that you lose one or two days getting there and back. We usually drive to Houston (10+ hours) spend the night and then it’s about 8 hours to Midland. We usually visit our friends in the Bay Area while there and on the way back we tend to tough it out and drive straight through. My wife said we ought to fly and since it was cheaper than driving (remember the motel room) we decided to take the Company Plane. Stupid as it might sound we don’t like to leave Dawg by herself for a long time even though we have a pet sitter that is the Gold Standard, comes 3 times a day and takes Dawg for a walk at least twice a day. She is pricey but well worth.  That said we’d NEVER, EVER put her in one of those doggie hotels.

  85. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #81 Tedtam – I’ve watched some YouTube “How to” vidiots… cooked brunch, iced the German Chocolate cake I baked last nite (and used a canning jar ring to hold the aluminum foil covering up out of the icing, since it rose so much the lid to the cake pan wouldn’t fit on)… and picked out the music for our Sunday song service so we can practice tonite… 😉

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Speak of Dawgs, guess who has a new one? Film at 11. I really don’t have the time to go into all the gory details but it was brutal. I’ll update later and who knows Christy may come through. 😀

  87. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    One ore thing, I’m selling my White Privilege Card since its never done a damn thing for me. 😉

  88. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #82 – SD so NO Mary’s Cafe up in Strawn eh?

  89. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The bottom just fell out! We’re finally getting some rain, ‘Bout time, it’s been a month.

    Gawd Bless!!!

  90. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #86 Katfish, I guess not but I may be able to pull it off before Thanksgiving, you never know with me. BTW; It took a minute or so for that to click but the light did come on.  😉

  91. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #83

    Canning rings.  The duck tape of the canning world.

  92. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #89 AMEN ♥♥♥

  93. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It looks like Aldi’s has a sale on mushroom and pork loin this week. Sounds like good preserving as well as dinner. I like having dried mushrooms in a jar for easy grabbing.  They tend to get slimy in the frig after a while.

  94. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #5 Super Dave,

    I don’t think those posts are too long.  It is nice to have everything on a topic posted such as those rather than having to scroll hither and yon for the rest of the story.   Something very long likely needs to be linked to unless it is something shocking such as the Martians have landed.  🙂  Now that would be front page material and as many pages as the story takes.

  95. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Whoo-hooo! I’m doing the Snoopy Happy Dance. The tumor board met today and the radiologist said I’m a good candidate for radio frequency ablation of the tumor on my liver. My surgeon was present too and she said that if I do not need chemo for awhile that she could then reverse my ileostomy.

  96. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I don’t think those posts are too long.  It is nice to have everything on a topic posted such as those rather than having to scroll hither and yon for the rest of the story. 

    I agree.  It’s nice to have the topic in front of me instead of having to constantly jump to other pages.  

  97. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    TEXMO – FANTASTIC NEWS!!!

    MUCH WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPING OVER HERE!

     

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Holy Cow.

    The Houston Chronicle has endorsed the County Judge’s opponent.

  99. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #96

    Lina H hasn’t impressed many people. Her stunt where she insisted on inserting herself into a ceremony for a fallen officer really called attention to how not-ready-for-prime-time she is.

  100. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Shannon –

    I know.  I was shocked when I heard it on the radio today.  When a Dem loses the Chronicle, you know they’re a lost cause.

  101. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s so hard to see Michael J. Fox in this condition. (link opens in new tab)

    He’ll always be the skateboarding kid in Back to the Future, or the whiz kid conservative in Family Ties.

    I feel the same way about Richard Dean Anderson.  Always MacGyver, or Col. Jack O’Neill.  I try not to think of the deteriorating condition of all my childhood TV stars.  So much of me still feels the way I did when I first saw them on TV.  As they get older, I get older.

  102. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been a little busy today.

    As far as how commenters decide to post quotes, we don’t have a style book here with a bunch of strict rules.  If you want to use blockquotes, then use them.  If you don’t, then try to come up with a visually coherent way to do it.  Legal Fair Use rules are not etched in stone for standard copyright material.  The usual rule is 3 paragraphs or maximum 30% of the text whichever is less.

    I try to stay within those bounds though I stretch them sometimes.  This site does not require subscriptions or generate any income so complainers can’t say we were using their content to make money.  There are many writers and publishers online who allow complete or partial re-publishing of articles as long as clear attribution and hyperlink are provided.  You just have to look for it.

  103. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Awesome news TexMo!

  104. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #96, 98

    Chronicle?? Wow. So what are the numbers looking like for Mealer? I see she has been getting some good money coming in, stories are saying she has been blasting the airways with ads but I haven’t been seeing them. Alls I see are Beto ads and abortion.

     

  105. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mealer ads pretty heavy on the stations that I watch.

    Saw my first Lena ad (with her personal appearance) two days ago.

  106. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    TexMo Great news! And sometimes we need to be reminded that we don’t really have any troubles at all. We are keeping you in our prayers and if anyone can beat that cancer it is you.

  107. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    TexMo – that is indeed promising sounding news… prayers continue from both Squawk and myself… PRAISE THE LORD

  108. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    TexMo, please keep us posted as you go along with your medical news!

  109. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    TexMo, what wonderful news.  Indeed, please keep us informed of what’s going on, medically or otherwise. 🙂

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