Let’s lighten things up a bit for the weekend:
Weekend Open Comments Funnies
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Texpat says:
Only a handful of people know this is the true identity of Dr. phil Good. Almost everyone assumes he’s some kind of weird hair band aficionado and mild-mannered tech-geek when, in actuality, he’s a Superstar…
Yup.
I still gots it.
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64 here in Midland, much warmer than yesterday but we may get some rain tomorrow, rain in Midland? Yup most of the lawns here are green because of recent rains.
Edited, the cartoons finally loaded.
Mornin’ Gang
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I thought federal officials were just now talking about the “speed of science”.
” Ronald Reagan was president and James Wyngaarden was director of the National Institutes of Health when a division of the agency found 10 papers describing trials of psychiatric drugs it had funded had fake data or other serious issues.
Thirty-five years later, one of those articles has finally been retracted.
A 1987 report by the National Institute of Mental Health found that Stephen Breuning, then an assistant professor of child psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, had made up results in 10 papers purportedly describing research funded by two grants the institute had funded. “
There is still nine papers left to retract. What’s the hurry ?
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BTW; Having a great time here, daughter wanted me to make Rubens last night and afterwards she made some sort of Bundt Pineapple Upside Down Cake, served hot with Blue Belle Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. Dang I hurt myself. My tongue beating me up about my eyebrows to get it all…Not sure why it’s not in a Bundt pan though. 😉
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” For some reason, for the past few days, Twitter has been promoting this celebrity incident really hard…
…and it’s like, why? What for? I mean, Jamie Lee Curtis is a fine actress and has done excellent work. But why should we care that she “walked the red carpet” at the premier of the 13th entry in a worn-out, boring, 44-year-old horror movie franchise? Why is that worth multiple days on Twitter’s highly lucrative “Trending” lineup? “
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Texpat, your, #4 I have the answer but you already knew that.
[Curtis and husband Christopher Guest] have two adopted daughters: Annie, born in 1986, and Ruby, born in 1996; Ruby is transgender.
FWIW; When I saw this, it was about Jamie Lee Curtis posing nude at 63 and her gay daughter was of course mentioned.
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I finally figured out what a tree barber chairing means when you are cutting it down. I see this warned about many times on my tractor pages when people use their tractor to push on the tree, intending to fell it in a certain direction. Been guilty of this myself.
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Just got back from breakfast with Hubby and cruising by some garage sales. Catching up on posts from last night:
Bsue- I’ll try it in a different browser and see if I can get past the virus checker.
Shannon – stop it, you’re making me blush.
Adee – yeppers, hoping the ‘stros make it all the way this year!
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The WIP are great this week.
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I’m watching James Garner in ‘Maverick’. It’s good to see Mr. Garner, he was always one of my favorite TV actors.
In a few moments: canning, drying, etc., to begin. I made up a double batch of one of the seasoning blends for pork that I listed last night. I used up all of my home-grown, dried oregano, so I guess I need to go harvest some more. Add that to my to-do list….
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The University of Houston needed this sign on their campus this week since Matt Walsh paid them a visit.
(Pic from WIP)
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Thanks, TexMo! I think I like this the best but it is a difficult choice; Does this,……….. 😀
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Coffee and Covid this weekend.
Happy Saturday, C&C! Welcome to the Weekend Edition. Today’s roundup includes: Judge jails mask objector; study shows Pfizer’s covid drug can be dangerous; CDC hired same PR firm as Pfizer, Moderna; Biden destroys Chinese chipmaking industry overnight; EU prosecutor confirms it is investigating the jabs; Epstein was working for the FBI; FBI arrests senior sitters; Stanford doc compares “her testicles” to her appendix; and corporate media discovers Hurricane Ian’s most tragic victim.
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Tucker had this guy on last night. He’s a victim of a power-hungry authoritarian judge using masking as a way to encourage a man to turn into a sheeple:
But, after confirming that Hahn would not wear a mask if ordered, the judge promptly sentenced the luckless potential juror to a day in jail, for contempt of court. On his way out, escorted by the bailiff, Hahn told the judge he was a single dad and needed to make a call to arrange child care. The judge refused to let him call. Hahn then asked if he could just be released from juror duty instead of spending a day in jail.
The judge said, “I could do that, but I’m not going to.”
It was a mask-optional environment, but the judge insisted on throwing this father into jail because he wouldn’t bow to the judge’s personal wishes. In this case, Bob42 would be quite right to rail against authoritarianism.
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C&C:
Uh-oh! This isn’t going to be good for business. The Daily Mail UK ran a story yesterday headlined, “Pfizer’s Covid Drug Paxlovid – Which Was Used to Treat Biden – Can Cause Deadly Blood Clots, Study Warns.”
Blood clots. Again!
The study’s gist was, researchers from Harvard Medical School found Paxlovid can cause serious health problems — including blood clots — when coupled with very common heart disease medication, like statins and blood thinners. It can also cause irregular heartbeat when taken along with drugs for heart pain, and when taken with statins can be toxic to the liver. When taken with immunosuppressants, Paxlovid can lead to toxic levels of blood plasma.
Is this another must-get-it-out-before-it-is-fully-tested medical treatment? Is the emergency use application procedure being abused? Yes, and Yes, it seems.
The speed of science!
WHOOOOSH. “What was that?”
“That was science, mate.”
“What was it doing?”
“It just stole your pocketbook, silly.”
/snip
Not only does Paxlovid give you a worse covid infection as a “rebound,” but it can also kill you. Sounds familiar, just like another medicine that Pfizer makes. Weird coincidence.
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And Childers also reports on shenanigans with the CDC and a PR firm:
I have lots of questions. First of all, WHY DOES THE CDC NEED A PR FIRM? Fifty million dollars worth? Second of all, why does the CDC need a PR firm that specializes in DRUG PROMOTION? I didn’t know the CDC was a pharma company, but in hindsight, I guess it makes sense. Third, and I can’t believe I even have to ask this question, what about Weber Shandwick’s CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
I mean, what happens if the jabs aren’t working so good? The CDC, and its agent, Weber, would have a manifest duty to publish negative information about the jabs — but it would hurt Weber’s other clients, Moderna and Pfizer. So …?
The worst thing about this story is it shows how hopelessly intertwined government regulatory agencies are with the drug companies they are supposed to be regulating.
If you want more details, here’s the link to Thacker’s Substack article.
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And Biden/China/Chips:
Foreign Policy ran a story this week headlined, “Biden Is Now All-In on Taking Out China.” The sub-head explains, “The U.S. president has committed to rapid decoupling, whatever the consequences.”
‘Whatever the consequences’ seems to be Joe’s normal operating mode.
The news comes amid reports that the U.S. has been “evacuating” computer chip makers from Taiwan, due to fears that the Chinese could effectively blockade the island nation using “military exercises.”
A massive computer-chip war has quietly started, without us noticing.
FP’s article reports that last Friday, in a dense regulatory filing, a little-known federal agency called the Bureau of Industry and Security deployed new limits banning exports to China of advanced semiconductors, chip-making equipment, and supercomputer components. The filing placed new criminal penalties on Americans helping Chinese chipmakers.
The BIS’s filing hit the chipmaking industry like electric shock treatment. Americans working in China dropped everything, hastily accessing Word’s “resignation letter” wizard, and swamping airlines’ websites buying up tickets to get back home.
I had no idea this had taken place. I’d just assumed that Beijing Biden was going to let China take over Taiwan and all those chip manufacturers.
In a followup tweet, China analyst Jordan Schneider said, “Every American executive and engineer working in China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry resigned yesterday, paralyzing Chinese manufacturing overnight.” Continuing, he said bleakly, “This is what annihilation looks like: China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry was reduced to zero overnight. Complete collapse. No chance of survival.”
Other analysts aren’t quite so dire, saying China will soon replace the American workers from other countries, and be back in business before you know it. But either way, it’s a body blow to a critical Chinese high-tech industry.
This is going to be interesting.
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And then there’s this:
Yesterday, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office announced it is investigating the “acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines in the European Union.” Wisely, it is not releasing any more details.
Childers isn’t sure if this is huge, or a pressure play to get out of Pfizer contracts.
Either way, it’s good news. For all of us. More dominoes falling. Hopefully on top of the right heads.
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And Childers has Epstein news:
Twitterers pounced on newly released FBI forms suggesting that the most prolific pedophile in history, Jeffrey Epstein, might also have been an FBI informant.
/snip
This form — one of many, apparently — raises the question of whether the FBI knew about — and ignored — Epstein’s continuing human trafficking operation, wherein he arranged for large numbers of young girls to be raped by famous people…
Despite having Epstein’s cooperation, the FBI was never able to find any of the child rapists, not one single one… Don’t judge, they are super busy rounding up abortion-clinic blockers.
Well, there’s a reason why Epstein didn’t kill himself. We all know how absolutely honest the FBI has been.
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Chris Rufo got hold of a clip showing that, during a recent TED Talk, a Stanford University doctor excitedly bragged that “demand for transgender surgery has increased” 500%. In the clip, she wonders whether adolescents should be allowed to consent to transgender surgery, comparing removal of the testicles to removal of the appendix, suggesting both organs are useless, unnecessary, and just get in the way.
Sick, sick, sick people.
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Morning, chickadees.
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comparing removal of the testicles to removal of the appendix, suggesting both organs are useless, unnecessary, and just get in the way.
Really?!?!…… I think my son and daughter would disagree with that statement.
Sick, sick, sick people.
No doubt!
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Helped out with Meals On Wheels this morning.
These folks usually don’t get deliveries on weekends but the choir I used to sing in teams up with Brookshire Bros. one Saturday a month.
Got hung up with a lady who went to school with Fay.
”A beautiful lady. Inside and out. But then you knew that.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
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Greetings from beautiful downtown Texarkana Arkansas! (Texas is across the street)
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I’m about ready for a nap, so I can be awake for a 4-8 pm event at the neighborhood pool & playground. Key word: Food trucks…
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#14 Shannon
<3
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I get to go to my nephew’s baby shower. Used to be, wimmins gathered at the things and henned about as the mens stayed home watching football. Not so much anymore. Beer is involved so I’ll survive.
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I filled Fred with mushrooms and my oven is drying chicken. I cooked a bag of leg quarters, so I picked out the drumsticks and used that meat for drying, since Hubby and I are both partial to chicken thighs. I ground up some of my herbs, but still need to check some of the others to see if they’re ready to grind; and check my garden for what else I can harvest.
I may mosey on down to the thrift shop, just to get out for a bit.
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I get to go to my nephew’s baby shower. Used to be, wimmins gathered at the things and henned about as the mens stayed home watching football. Not so much anymore.
Way back when my kids were toddlers, I worked at computer consulting firm, Andersen Consulting, sister company to one of the big accounting firms, Arthur Andersen. (Whole ‘nother story about how they died, but not now.)
The modus operandi of those big accounting/consulting firms was to hire the cream of the crop out of college and indoctrinate into their highly proceduralized method of handling their jobs, then work them long hours and ship them off everywhere at the drop of a hat. Literally, a guy I knew returned from a week’s vacation to find an message on his answering machine that he was expected in Jakarta, Indonesia. Like…the next day. As a result, family life was not a priority in the firm. There was an article in the company newsletter about a partner who ever so successfully managed to balance her work life and family life – by hiring a nanny. Like the consultants and managers made enough to do that. But it was a glowing article, intended to make AC look more family friendly. I guess they’d taken a PR hit somewhere, and they decided that the rosy description was going to make someone, somewhere feel better about working there.
I was hired as a “special resource group” person because of my experience with FOCUS, the programming language that was specified for a big project. (Another story….)
As a result, I got to work with some of the most intelligent intellectually but clueless in certain life skills group of people. They were awesome on the business consulting stuff, but when it came to home life and kids, not so much. One of those was my immediate manager, a woman with the last name of Hale. When she became pregnant, she came to me (since I was the only mother on the whole floor, I think). I was supposed to teach her how to use a cloth diaper, but she brought me a stuffed Shamu the Whale on which to demonstrate. I managed to turn a fin into a leg and make it work.
Then there was the baby shower. The guys on the project wanted to come, having never been to one before. I arranged for a conference room, set up the “you bring this” list, got a few games ready – they asked for the full treatment, right? Then we ordered the cake from Foley’s bakery downtown. When I ordered the cake, the lady had me repeat it to her to make sure she had it right. She did.
Come baby shower day, everyone was excited. The consultants and their gifts made their way into the conference room. I had picked up the cake – and the lady made me check it again, because what I asked for was…different – earlier in the day. So everyone trooped in, here comes Momma Hale, all excited and smiling. When it came time to open the cake box, I made sure there was a camera ready.
So there was everyone, watching as I opened the box, and Momma Hale and the gang cracked up laughing. On the cake was a traditional picture of a stork carrying a baby in a sling, and above it was the phrase “Here comes the baby from Hale!”
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No Muzak at Brenham HEB. No, sir.
A lady and I had an impromptu sing-a-long and head-bob on Aisle 5 to this one.
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Tennessee came to play today.
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Tennessee came to play today.
Yes,..yes they did.
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No luck with jars at the thrift store, so I swung by Aldi’s to get some more on sale meat and a few other things. While walking past the produce, I heard a wife ask her husband if he saw any beets. I piped up (of course) and said they didn’t carry beets. She then started asking about eating the greens, which prompted me to ask if they were keto like me…we ended up talking for at least a half hour food preservation (they just bought a freeze dryer), where I bought my eggs (she wants to start drying some eggs), gardening, canning, rainwater harvesting, my clay pot water filter…everything. Her hubby is handy like my hubby, so he’s going to make some vacuum sealing chambers like mine, took down some info on the water tank, etc. Turns out he knew my dad and they’re pretty sure they attended school with one or two of my siblings, but can’t remember which one(s). We ended up exchanging phone numbers. A few aisles over I was reminded of something and since she had just come around the corner, we had another ten minute talk about making crock pot ghee…They are a lovely couple and excited about starting to save up food.
Then I went to Wal-Mart, to get some more of the wide mouth jars (before they sell out – I think I may have gotten the last case) and some more pint size jars so I don’t run out tonight. I picked up some more ground beef and a few other things, and as I was checking out, the lady behind me asked what I was canning. “Everything!” I replied, and ended up with a quick convo about how to can ground beef. She said she was going to start canning, too.
More people are doing it. I guess prices are getting painful enough to make ’em notice, and the future too depressing to count on it getting better.
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Speaking of canning, I better get started or I’ll be up until midnight, watching my timers….
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A lady and I had an impromptu sing-a-long and head-bob on Aisle 5 to this one.
I did some SERIOUS car dancing myself.
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I am glad the IHeart app can connect to my wifi speakers.
Still 0 – 0 at the top of the 6th gets underway.
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yo Bruddah Squawk.
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yo Texpat.
Texpat yo.
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#21 TexMo,
I am also trying to watch the Astros/Mariners game, but with it zero to zero this long one might conclude that the teams are so well matched as to make for a boring game, unless of course one is into the tactics of the game. Hope the Astros win.
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yo all the rest of you hosers.
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back when a young Texpat played bass and sported the best sideburns in glam rock history.
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Every time I look away somebody scores a TD in this Tenn. game.
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Astros on the radio and Tenn/Bama on the tube.
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Hey, stranger.
BTW, back in those days, there wasn’t enough hair straightener on the planet to make Texpat look like that.
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Up top it reads 47 comments but I only see 31.
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Okay, 3+ pork loins later, I have a full canner on the flame. I have a few minutes to rest. Wait, no, I wanted to pull some oregano and basil before it gets dark…
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Not sure that I have ever seen a scrambler as good as Bryce Young.
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Must be fuzzy math syndrome.
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Tedtam was today’s Contributor so her comments are not numbered.
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unck #34 or whatever.
oh yeah.
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Dr. phil Good
We haven’t figured why, but the contributor who posts the front page thread like “Open Comments” doesn’t get their comments numbered.
Tedtam has 13 regular comment entries today – unnumbered – thus the screwed up comment count.
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Oh, in case anybody missed it…
Only a handful of people know this is the true identity of Dr. phil Good. Almost everyone assumes he’s some kind of weird hair band aficionado and mild-mannered tech-geek when, in actuality, he’s a Superstar…Dr. phil Good…Live and in Person !
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Unbelievable!
0 – 0 through 9 full innings.
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We started listening to the game at McFadden NWR south of Port Arthur… Now we are home, and it’s still 0-0… 10.5 innings later… But my 1/2 gallon canning jars got safely delivered by a nice young Amazon lady… So, after conditioning, I can consolidate some more dehydrated food into 1/2 gallons for long term storage… At this rate, this game will still be going, although I’m in no rush for that to happen, as long as our ‘Stros come out on top <3
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I also hear it.
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Willie and Millie got married last fall…
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A good time was had by all at the neighborhood election event! The food truck was BBQ and oh man, reach into the tall box containing your beef sandwich, grasp the bun and pull your hand out with red sauce up to the wrist. Messy but yummy!
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I dozed off some time in the 11th inning. Just woke up.
Cannot believe they’re headed to the 17th.
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I’ve got a black cat’s bone…
I gotta mojo tooth…
I’ve got a black cat’s bone, I’ve got a mojo tooth, I’ve got a John the Conqueroo, I’m gonna mess with you …
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Home Run Jeremy Pena Hooray…
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Squawk’s Dad would have had a cow had he just heard the radio announcer say…. “Now the Mariners are up to bat, and it’s JUST a 1 run lead…” (I can hear him say… “Jeez Louise… it took them 18 inning to get that!!!!”)
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We had been watching TV programs on another channel when spouse walked in to say the game was still going!!! That has to be an all-time record game for the ages. By this time the reserve players must be carrying on and the TV channel folks must be scrambling to reschedule stuff that was supposed to be on now. Everybody has to be near collapse by now.
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Bottom of the 18th?!?! REALLY????
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Wow! What a game! 1 – 0 Stros in 18 innings.
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You’ve broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You’re out there running just to be on the run
Well I got a heart that burns with a fever
And I got a worried and a jealous mind
How can a love that’ll last forever
Get left so far behind…
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We watched/listened to the game here, at the Mexican Restaurant then on the way to the Wagner Noel Center then after the show was over we listened on the way home, finished up here a few minutes ago. DAYAAM!!!
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The game went on the length of two entire games. This has to be a record for one game. Yea for the Astros, may they sleep on the plane all the way home.
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Take the good along with the bad…
Sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad,
Hey, you’re just a fool, you know you’re in love…
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One last summer day, tomorrow.
Rain Monday.
Then chilly for a while.
Yeehaw.
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#52 – IIRC the Astros & Mets did TWENTY TWO innings quite a while back…….
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#61
Yessir, in the ‘86 playoffs. That was the game before they lost the series correct?
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I never ate supper tonight.
I guess I didn’t need it.
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This is undoubtedly my favorite SRV solo. My only complaint is he didn’t give Angela Strehli more time to sing, although she didn’t seem to mind. Kim Wilson was stunning as always, but having big brother Jimmie hanging around in the background was kind of weird. But then I’ve always thought Jimmie Vaughan is a little weird.
The thing Stevie Ray does from 5:44 to 6:40 is, umm… it can’t be described in mere musical terms.
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I can’t believe that I slept until 6:30 this morning but I didn’t get to bed until 11 PM. WE had some serious thunder boomers come through here last night but we only got a trace of rain out of it, typical.
Mornin’ Gang
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Wow, I bet these Dominion slander & libel lawsuits are going to get a lot more interesting.
” In a podcast episode released last week Thursday, David Cross and Kevin Moncla of the Election Oversight Group reveal that open records request from 64 of 66 Georgia counties show the same security error “QR code signature mismatch” and warning message “Ballot format or id is unrecognizable” that caused seven scanners to miscount hundreds of ballots in Williamson County, Tennessee.
The “Tennessee Error” is an “anomaly” discovered on Dominion’s Image Cast Precinct (ICP) Tabulators (also referred to as “scanners”) that occurred during a Williamson County election held on October 26, 2021.
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) defines an anomaly as “an irregular or inconsistent action or response from the voting system or the system component, which resulted in the system or component not functioning as intended or expected.”
In Williamson County, an election worker tallying votes on a post-it note realized that hundreds of ballots removed from a tabulator did not get counted.
Even though that tabulator never signaled that a problem occurred. “
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I’m surprised some enterprising lawyers haven’t organized a class action suit over this kind of incompetence.
” For almost two years, Microsoft officials botched a key Windows defense, an unexplained lapse that left customers open to a malware infection technique that has been especially effective in recent months.
Microsoft officials have steadfastly asserted that Windows Update will automatically add new software drivers to a blocklist designed to thwart a well-known trick in the malware infection playbook. The malware technique—known as BYOVD, short for “bring your own vulnerable driver”—makes it easy for an attacker with administrative control to bypass Windows kernel protections. Rather than writing an exploit from scratch, the attacker simply installs any one of dozens of third-party drivers with known vulnerabilities. Then the attacker exploits those vulnerabilities to gain instant access to some of the most fortified regions of Windows.
It turns out, however, that Windows was not properly downloading and applying updates to the driver blocklist, leaving users vulnerable to new BYOVD attacks. “
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This slimy, Swamp lizard named Scott Gottlieb is a dangerous lying bastard.
From Alex Berenson:
(Bold type in the original text)
” Thus Gottlieb — whom Pfizer pays almost $400,000 a year to serve on its board, including its highest-level “executive committee” — began the final act in a secret months-long conspiracy to suppress my basic American right to free speech.
The conspirators included corporate, private, and federal actors.
They wanted to block my reporting about the failure of the mRNA Covid vaccines. They wanted to suppress debate about the necessity for vaccine boosters or mandates.
They wanted Twitter, the most important global platform for journalism, to ban me, even though Twitter had repeatedly found my posts did not violate its rules. They wanted to soil my reputation as a reporter and damage me and my family financially.
For a time, they succeeded.
It should go without saying that my Substack piece about “Tony” did not threaten or harass him in any way. It merely called him “arrogant” and a “skilled courtier” and mocked his infamous comment that criticizing him was “attacking science.” “
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” A public university is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Biden administration’s fraud infested COVID relief fund to study how traditional grading in college perpetuates systemic inequalities toward nontraditional and rural students. “Common classroom practices, such as grading and the use of grades to assess knowledge and performance, may have unintended consequences on students who invariably derive an awareness of their own academic abilities from the results of those grading structures,” according to the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is doling out the money. ‘In fact, these traditional practices may inadvertently create and promote inequities among different student groups, particularly in large enrollment courses, but these issues have largely been unexplored.’ “
There is no science taking place at the National Science Foundation. It’s a trough to feed money to the hogs. Shut it down.
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#69 Texpat
I’m going to have to start borrowing spit.
I’m curious as to whether there will be an outcry of outrage when the data becomes fully public.
Will folks – moms, dads, sons, and daughters – be outraged over the damage and death done to their children or parents? Will there be pitchforks and torches? Will heads roll?
Or will there be a general “fool me once, shame on you” attitude? Maybe since so many went along with the farce, maybe forcing the vaccine on their vulnerable family members who later died or suffered serious debilitating illnesses? Will their guilt (if any) for participating in the mass psychosis cause them to keep quiet?
And I don’t include those normally level headed folks who were “shown the data” and made what they thought was a rational decision. We know they lied about the “data”. I’m talking about the shrieking, codepended Karens and Kens who never even looked at data but just went along with the narrative and insisted everyone else hysterically follow the crowd.
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I’m watching a commercial, and the actor is “picking” tomatoes.
1. That’s not a tomato plant, but the leaves are pretty.
2. The plant doesn’t move as he “picks” the ‘maters. That’s quite a feat.
But then, it’s a commercial.
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We went to see Jerry Seinfeld @ the Wagner Noel Center last night and had a great time. I know, he is a liberal but I went because he has said that he’s against all the Woke BS and thinks it’s ruining comedy and he’s right. He did put on a good show and he may have been more careful in his topics but I really couldn’t tell. Apparently he is back on the road after a 2 year hiatus and daughter said that he may have chosen this small (2000 seat) venue to hone his act and that kinda’ made sense. I was a little surprised at how short he was but this happens a lot with celebrities, they’re always made to look taller on TV. Daughter N Me @ the Wagner Noel Center. 😉
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I had never heard of these saints before: The Forty Martyrs.
In 320 AD, a group of soldiers in a Roman legion called “Armed with Lightning” suffered persecution for their Catholic Faith under Roman emperor Licinius.
After openly confessing themselves to be Catholic, they were condemned death by freezing.
They were made to strip and lay down in a near-frozen pond. If they renounced their faith, a warm bath awaited them.
One of the soldiers did renounce his faith, and after getting into the warm bath went into shock and died immediately.
Seeing this, a Roman guard who was standing watch over the condemned men professed his own faith and went into the waters himself. Once again, 40 remained in the pond.
Nowadays, if the priest’s homily goes over 20 minutes, folks get restless.
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” Just days after an investigation into a general officer ignited fierce debate over the Army’s ability to engage on social media, service leaders walked a tightrope on Monday by encouraging leaders to engage with the broader public but discouraging them from debating anything that could be perceived as political.
During a press conference on Monday at the annual Association of the U.S. Army meeting in Washington, D.C., Army Secretary Christine Wormuth stated that general officers should be present on social media but avoid getting pulled into “the inflammatory kind of environment that, frankly, Twitter really lends itself to.”
“One of the things I think that’s most important to [Army Chief of Staff] Gen. [James] McConville and I is keeping the Army apolitical and keeping it out of the culture wars,” she said. ‘Because frankly, we have got to be able to have a broad appeal. When only 9% of kids are interested in serving, we have got to make sure that we are careful about not alienating wide swaths of the American public to the Army.’ “
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#69, Texpat, Tucker had Alex Berenson on the other night explaining all that but it was at the end of the show and they didn’t have much time. Remember Berenson was fired from some big publication early on for reporting facts based on actual numbers from various sources. He’s been on Fox a lot in the last few years and is now somebody. No one would have known who he was if he hadn’t been canned but more importantly didn’t give up. You just know it galls the Bastards that fired him.
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69 TP
”skilled courtier”
Filing that one away to steal some day.
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I didn’t get my exercise in yesterday, but I just finished two miles, in time to get my shower and get dressed for mass.
When Hubby’s out of town, my whole schedule changes.
PS: I did wear the safety line while on the treadmill (as always), because waking up in the morning is a challenge. Working out this early was a big “if” for me, that I had to consider carefully. But I have things I want to do this afternoon, so getting the body going early today was worth it.
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I was wrong about one of the 1986 playoff games Astros vs Mets going 22 innings. Game 5 went 12 innings and game 6, the Mets series clinching game, went 16 innings.
Game 5, October 14
Houston Astros 1
New York Mets
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Jesse Orosco (2-0)L
Charlie Kerfeld (0-1)Game 6, October 15
Houston Astros
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We went to the Tkilaz Mexican Restaurant last night and had some really good Tex-Mex but if you go, watch for that pickled concoction with the carrots in it. It will light you up! Hottest dang thing I’ve found in a Tex-Mex and the only thing that I’ve had hotter was at an antithetic Chinese place on the west side of Houston. 😉
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Good Morning Hamsters,
I bet some baseball fans who stayed up until the Astros won and enjoyed celebrating afterwards have slept in later than usual. It’s hard to get to sleep when an event like that keeps folks in suspended animation for hours. The Chron just arrived and has the victory in large print on the front page of the first section, above the fold, titled EXTRA-ORDINARY! Presume the only news that would trump that would be the Martians Have Landed.
Celebrating with a cup of hot chocolate (there is no season for hot chocolate) while I read the comics section first.
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#75
Thanks moderator for freeing up my screw up. Link-
https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1986_NLCS.shtml
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Just got off the phone with Hubby, who’s at a VW car show in the Austin area today. I could hear his grin through the phone – “I’m in my zone, baby!”
He said he’s told some of his friends about my canning, and the consensus is “That’s a great idea, I should look into it myself.” That and, “My grandmother used to do that!” Everyone he has talked to has agreed that it’s a really good idea, especially now. Hubby said one of his friends grilled him on my egg dehydrating procedure, really interested in doing it himself.
But how many will actually take the time to learn and do it?
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Time to clean up my outside so I can go to mass and feed my inside…
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Nolan Ryan and Mike. Scott pitched two games that series, Scott had 19 strikeouts and Ryan had 17. Those were the days.
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I was talking to this guy yesterday at the baby shower, we were all reminiscing about the Astro games in the past. He said, Man I wish I could have watched Nolan Ryan pitch but I wasn’t born yet. O.M.G. am I old or what!
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Then I realized my son was only two years old…
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O.M.G. am I old or what!
Why yes,….yes you are. 😈
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President Biden Lies About How His Son Died.
During a speech in Colorado to designate Camp Hale as a national monument on Wednesday, President Biden said his late son, Beau, “lost his life in Iraq.”
“I say this as a father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” Biden said.
While Beau Biden did serve in Iraq, he died of brain cancer in 2015.
Yawn, I guess this stupid Bastard has been lying so long that it just comes natural to him. AND he knows the Lame Stream Media will not call him out on it.
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#64 – WOW Big Brudda!
TOP shelf tune!
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Super Dave says:
October 16, 2022 at 10:07 amO.M.G. am I old or what!
Why yes,….yes you are.
Note there was no question mark in the quotation, therefore no verification was requested!! 😀
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Today’s Hamousonian
If the Astros win the World series it will be because they earned their epistemic authority through their co-constitution with colonization and slavery, and therefore relies on a colonial and racialized form of power
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Morning, Hamsterville! (I think I used to start with that salutation every day!)
Aced the sudoku and now working on breakfast. I don’t seem to have any plans for today, so as soon as I finish my Oat Squares, I may just go lie down again. I woke up and got up before the alarm even went off. Would have gone off: If I get up “early”, no need to let the alarm go off at the usual 9 a.m.
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Has anyone seen this person? He turned up missing recently.
He may be traveling under an alias and/or in disguise. Our investigations have uncovered some possible identities the subject may be using to evade recognition. We have enlisted the assistance of some very highly-paid artists to provide approximations of what he may look like when moving about incognito.
Ethel, the spinster librarian who lives with 43 cats and hasn’t had a date since that ill-fated lake excursion in 1975:
Neville, the shut-in geek bookworm:
Finally, there’s that crafty cracker, the dandy from Deltona, the lad from Leesburg, the man from Macclenny, Ocala Oscar:
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#86 “Today’s Hamousonian”
I don’t watch any sports, but I’m under the strong impression that all the “colonial and racialized” athletes are currently able to knock themselves out in any sport of their choosing…
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I just got back from mass:
1. I’m getting better at decoding the Latin, so yay me! The classes are paying off.
2. I met Little Elizabeth’s parents before going in. They went to the previous mass and had kids in faith formation class and were waiting for them to get out. A lot of parents were. We had a nice talk. Mom told Dad about the “gorgeous veil” I made for Elizabeth. Dad told me that Elizabeth continues to pray for my arm. Every night. We talked a bit more before I went in for mass. We talked a bit about business. Dad has a brother in New York who has a very small business renovating kitchens and such. It seems that between New York, IRS, et al, he’s gotten raked over the coals because obviously he’s hiding money since he didn’t report much income. “Why am I being treated like I’m funding Al Quaeda?” was a phrase used. I may borrow that line. We had a good convo. Good folks.
3. I found Little E before I went into mass, and she almost hurt herself running to me. I gave her a hug and thanked her for continuing to pray for my arm, because it still hurts and still needs help. Her next words: “Did you bring me something today?” Oh my word! She’s expecting Christmas every week! Little kids have no filter. 😀 I reminded her that my elbow still hurts, and she said, “Oh…” I said maybe for Christmas; her favorite color is pink. I’m thinking I’ll make another little girl purse, but her ideas were a mermaid blanket, or maybe a cuddly animal as big as she is. (Envision a little girl sweeping both arms as she says this.) I laughed and told her I’d see what I can do. Another hug and we parted ways.
4. Because of #2, the parking lot and surrounding parking were more full than normal. A lot of folks who would’ve normally left were still there. Bob, the Elder Gent who sits behind me each week, said he had a hard time finding a space and thought his car might be towed when mass was over. I thought I’d be spending my afternoon helping him retrieve his vehicle, but fortunately, it was right where he left it. Good news.
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I think I have mentioned that one of Texpat’s high school buddies lives in my neighborhood and has been fighting cancer for years.
This morning I took him to his church. I had never been to a Cowboy church before. It was different and a blessing.
Good preaching and good music, too. They had a guest fiddler from near Turkey, Texas.
Everyone else in the band (including the pastor) are semi-retired professional musicians.
It was the pastor’s 82nd birthday. He was an All Around Champion Cowboy in his day and looks to me like he could still be doing it.
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We’re doing the major fall outdoor cleanup preparation for winter this weekend. I think I have about 25 extra large paper leaf bags to put out for recycle pickup tomorrow.
It’s always a little depressing to have to uproot all the annuals and take all the color out of the beds.
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Shannon
Is Sonny Rice still married to Bobby Finger’s* ex-wife ?
*Yeah, that Bobby Finger, of Finger’s Furniture.
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Her name is Gloria. Not sure of her family background.
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I saw this on my veiling page over yonder, and this man says it so well, I had to share.
I have seen several posts from women talking about this topic. Before my conversion, I would never say anything on a topic that concerned women. Mainly because society teaches men to stay silent on topics that don’t concern them.My Catholic faith says that we should speak truth in all situations and this is the case here. I was so intimidated by these veils the first time I walked into Mater Misericordiae in Phoenix. Everyone was dressed formally and all the women wore veils. I thought it was so strange and made me feel like I shouldn’t be there. I sat all of that aside and ventured in. The beauty of it all enveloped me from the first utterance of the Asperges Me. I felt like I needed to hold my breath as my soul was elevated to every word that I could scarcely understand. At the end of Mass, with tears in my eyes I spoke to another man there outside. He could tell I was new. I told him the experience was so beautiful and that there was so much I didn’t understand. I asked one simple question. What was up with all the veils? The man gave me the most profound answer, he said, “Everything that is considered Holy in the Catholic Church is veiled, the Tabernacle, the Chalice, the Mystery of Faith, the beauty of a woman…etc.”This penetrated my ignorance and in that simple statement, I saw the beauty of it all. So for all of you women who veil at Mass, your faith increases mine. I finally understood that we are BOTH standing before the throne of Almighty God at Mass. The angels cover or veil their faces as a sign of reverence before God’s glorious power and majesty; they are under His authority. By your submission to that same power and majesty, you help me understand exactly where we are.Thank you for doing this, you teach men to revere women for the beauty and glory that God created you to be, and that same God created us.Society tells women that they should degrade themselves and show off all of their bodies. If they are unhappy with anything, mutilate and change it. Your testimony is that you were intimately and intricately made and the beauty and glory of God reflects off of your face. This simple act of humility and obedience certainly makes me understand that we have an obligation to serve God how he wants to be served and not how we “feel”. It’s not about us but about God. May God bless you for this. Thank you for strengthening the Body of Christ!Pax Domini,John -
WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD
WOKE CRT
Woke pledge replaces Hippocratic oath: Minnesota medical students vow to ‘honor all Indigenous ways of healing historically marginalized by Western medicine’ and fight ‘white supremacy, colonialism, gender binary, ableism and all forms of oppression’
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I took my compost tea and spread it out amongst some of my totes. I tore out one tub of my beans and added it to the composting material after I refilled the bucket. Oh, the flies! I went back and gave a quick watering to keep that particular plague down. I was able to pull a few things now, and I’ll probably go back later for some greens to make a salad for dinner.
So, now I need to get some more herbs on the drying rack and prep for my next canning session. And some other things I’m going to try to get in before dinner time.
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I got a bag of frozen stir fry type veggies separated into big chunks and small chunks.. bigger broccoli on one tray, bigger cauliflower on another, carrot slices on 2 trays, and small pieces of the others on other trays… On at 145 for now in order to finish the thawing, and then I’ll turn down to 125 and let them go til dry… Maybe by then the big bag of mixed veggies will be thawed in the fridge – or not… I’ve done them from fully frozen before… And my gallon mason jars came from Amazon last evening during the Astros game – so I’ve got what I hope is plenty of storage… for these, anyway.
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The weather here was spectacularly beautiful today.
What a wonderful world He gave to us.
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Sigh, no joy in Green Bay today. A loss to the Jets that should not have happened, but did.
Otherwise it is a beautiful day, 88 with 50% humidity that was 83% this morning. Weather guessers still insist that we are on the cusp of a cold front and a nice week ahead until the cool stuff moves out and what we’ve been having moves back in.
We can understand what Texpat and wife are going through getting their yard and flowerbeds ready for winter. And it is indeed sad to pull up the spring and summer flowers that still look good, but fickle winter can shove some freezing temps ahead of its arrival to stay. Mulch on the beds the perennials are in is a must as is preparing the coverings that will be needed if a hard freeze that is forecast does show up. Much better to put the coverings on and not need them than to not put them on and have things get colder than expected.
Our most astounding experience with stealthy temps horning in quite unannounced was when we planned to go to Devil’s Lake, a Wisconsin state park, about 35-40 miles from Madison. Mind you this was the 4th of July…. When we got up that morning the thermometer said 32 degrees! It read that outside and not accidentally in the refrigerator. We didn’t need reservations as the park is large and has many trails and picnic tables throughout. We thought things would warm up once the sun was out for a while, so we drove up there. Umm, no sun shining there and cold enough and breezy to require a jacket or big sweater. We had those and could have used gloves too but didn’t have them along. Kept thinking this can’t possibly be real.
After walking several trails around the lake, we came back to the car and got out the picnic basket and beverage cooler and went back to a place that had a picnic table off the trail. The temp might have made it to the high 40s or low 50s by then, still overcast and now looking like rain was somewhere around. We decided to have the picnic regardless of the cold, so we quickly ate the sandwiches and chips and cake. Coke cans were uncomfortably cold to hold in bare hands for long, and cold chips did not taste quite the same as in a warmer atmosphere. It was so nice to get back into the car and warm up on the way home. The TV weather person that night said that day’s really unusual temp was quite remarkable. No explanation for it other than it was a real norther.
Now of course there were no climate change disciples/ idiots hanging around there to insist this meant the climate was changing to cold, and we’re all gonna die.
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WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD
Buccaneers’ Tom Brady purchases Major League Pickleball expansion team
Brady is the latest in a growing line of professional athletes to purchase a pickleball team
Pickleball has become known as the fastest-growing sport in America.
LEBRON JAMES AMONG NBA ALL-STARS BUYING MAJOR LEAGUE PICKLEBALL TEAM
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I have no earthly idea what pickle all is.
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Here ya’ go Squawk; Dangers of the Last Days
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Pickle Ball is a less strenuous tennis-type game.
Getting very popular.
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Super Dave #102
Two things odd about you posting that particular Bible verse(s).
1. I think of that Bible verse pretty frequently when reading the news.
2. Just as you were posting that I was watching this Tucker Carlson story.
When I look at the world through the lens of the Bible……. well it just fits.
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They converted the ancient, unused tennis courts at the old high school to pickle ball. Then added more. Now they’re going to add more.
You have to reserve a court these days in Bellville, so I’ve heard.
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I could get interested in pickleball if it became a full contact sport
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Pickle Ball, allegedly, was “born” in the Pacific Northwest, where folks waiting for the ferry from the island on which they lived to the mainland at Seattle where they worked got rackets out of their trunks and started batting a whiffle ball around… they made up their own set of rules, and it was just gaining popularity when I was still working at Thousand Trails back in the late 80’s/early 90’s (likely because TT was also born in the Pacific NW)… The court is the same as that for badminton… The kids at Thousand Trails said “Oh – it’s ping pong for old people” I was never any good at ping pong, and not much better at the “old people” version.
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Trying to get my jars filled so I can maximize the canner space. The two remaining pork loins filled the bottom layer, so I’m running out of pint jars to put a layer of ground beef on top.
Then I can start chopping to fill Fred – peppers or celery, I’m not sure. I unloaded his load of mushrooms earlier.
And at some point I have to fix dinner. Hubby hasn’t made it back yet, but I’m expecting him any time.
BTW – I watched/listened to Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman?” Highly recommended.
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Tedtam @ 7:55am
I had never heard of these saints before: The Forty Martyrs.
There is an Orthodox parish named 40 Holy Martyrs about two miles from my house. It is part of the Antiochian Archdiocese just like my parish St. Joseph. It is predominantly Syrian immigrants that attend 40 Holy Martyrs. When we were in the process of converting to Orthodoxy, we visited a few times. We just never felt welcomed there. I’m really glad we found St. Joseph as they have always welcomed converts.
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El Gordo posted this over yonder;
Cataract surgery update. Last Wednesday’s procedure results are improving daily, but it is a little more uncomfortable than I had expected, and the vision is not improving as quickly as expected. I suppose my expectations were somewhat inflated. I started today on the prep for next Wed’s right lens replacement. So, based on my experience so far, this is going to take a little longer than I had anticipated, and for once in my life, I’m following doctor’s orders when it comes to follow up treatment and the like. So the summary is that I’m doing just fine, but I’m staying inside out of the wind and dust and pollen, not lifting stuff, and not bending over for a while. I’ll keep you all updated as noteworthy events occur.
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#95 Shannon,
This is a great article that should give folks a view to how important the Mississippi River is to this country’s wellbeing. It starts in Minnesota, the Land of 10,oo0 Lakes (that’s on their license plates), in one of those lakes. I believe that is Lake Itaska in the north central portion of the state. All those lakes resulted from glaciers melting at the end of the Ice Age. (Wisconsin only has 9,000 lakes.) The Missouri River is its largest tributary. The Mississippi and its tributaries drain an enormous part of the US.
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It starts in Minnesota, the Land of 10,oo0 Lakes (that’s on their license plates), in one of those lakes.
I remember them well during the invasion in the late 70’s. 😛 😛
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That’s 10,000 Lakes in my “110. Easy for me to get the zero and the o keys mixed up since they are so close to each other.
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Good to know that El Gordo is doing well with the first lens implant. It takes time for everything to settle down as spouse learned when he had bilateral cataract surgeries several months ago. His were 2 weeks apart, and he was faithful to the letter of the postop instructions regarding eyedrops and wearing the eyepatch on the operated eye at night even though everything seemed to be ok. The incision for the surgery is small, but it does have to close and heal, thus the instructions and eyedrops. Boring but necessary stuff. And at least the number of eyedrops postop get fewer as healing progresses.
It isn’t a case of “shazam” and everything is perfect instantly, but vision should be better than it was before surgery, even the day after. If there are questions, absolutely call the doctor’s office and speak with a nurse first to describe the situation and get answers for you.
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GJT; Can you do this? FWIW; I can’t, I scored 100% on my welding test in High School BUT I butt welded two pieces of steel on a flat surface. You never, ever have a job that easy.
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SD
No I can’t pass no purdy test but I have passed a welding test. As you say, in the real world you never had a job that easy. I’m my days in the oilfield we had a guy that had all the certifications to weld piping in a nucular plants at one time and man he could put some pretty beads down on manifolds.
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My domestic duties are almost done. I just turned off the canner, Fred is full, he dishes are washed, and the kitchen is clean. I didn’t get around to some vacuum storage that I had planned, but there is always tomorrow.
I hope I’m not too tired for Latin.
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114 Super Dave
I had to do welds like that on a flat surface, on a vertical wall and directly overhead back when I qualified for Coast Guard and Navy certifications. It was all stick rod work in those days. I couldn’t begin to do it today, especially the overhead stuff.
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Nite All
Oh btw I was a fair welder, Mig/Tig and stick.. Flat, up and down. Overhead forget it. But I was a better helper than anything else. Ran the pattern machine like a pro. 2 years later I graduated to trucking.
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My favorite John Wayne movie is on.
Big Jake
“I thought you were dead.”
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