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Monday Open Comment

I think this headline just about says it all..

Joe Biden Welcomes Foreign Population at Southern Border Greater than 15 States

As Breitbart News reported, Biden’s DHS has overseen the largest inflow of illegal immigration in a single fiscal year with more than 2.2 million border crossers and illegal aliens having arrived at the southern border from October 1, 2021, to September 20, 2022.

“We have simply never seen these numbers before in our history, and the Biden open-borders policies are the reason,” former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Mark Morgan, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said in a statement.

“As bad as it has gotten, things will only get worse, and I fear what major catastrophe could come next,” Morgan continued.

The record-breaking level of illegal immigration indicates that in fiscal year 2022, Biden’s DHS welcomed a foreign population to the U.S. that exceeds the resident populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, West Virginia, Idaho, Nebraska, and New Mexico.

/snip

…. former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan, also a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said:

This is a shameful episode in our history, and the ones who are suffering are not the elites in their gated and secured Beltway communities. It’s the Border Patrol agents being overwhelmed on a daily basis. It’s the families who have been ripped apart losing a loved one to fentanyl or other drugs. And it’s the migrants themselves, who are worthless to the cartels once they’ve been paid. The next Congress better do something about it. [Emphasis added]

As quickly as border crossers and illegal aliens have been arriving at the southern border, Biden’s DHS has been just as quickly releasing most of them into American communities.

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The Republicans should be shouting this fact from the rooftops.  Ads every half hour.  Hammer this home.

That, and the fact that the Dems plan to give each and every one of these: food, housing, health care, and education – all funded by taxpayers.  AND THEIR CHILDREN.

And — the right to vote.

Wanna collapse a society?  This is how it’s done.  Overwhelm the system, make the populace so miserable that they’ll beg for the government to take control of something – anything – and then you get a real totalitarian regime.  That will control – everything.

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101 responses to “Monday Open Comment”

  1. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    A little middle of the night insomnia strikes again. I went to bed during the 6th inning. I usually do not pick up my phone while I’m trying to fall back asleep, however, I just had to know if the Stros sealed the deal. Super glad they did.

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Second!

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Third!

    It’s Monday again. How about them Astros?

    Mornin’ Gang

  4. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Astros to the World Series, and this time it’s all legal.  And sweeping the Yankees is no small feat.  GF lives in Philly but is not a sports fan, but even she was at least aware that there was a Worle Series of Baseball and that the teams would be her former home town Astros and what ever they call the Philly team these days.

    You all have a great day.

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    This time it’s all legal?

    The Astros have been to two World Series since 2017 and this will be the third. How many times do they need to be in the show to prove this era of Astros teams is pretty damned good? By the way, they beat the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium twice in the 2017 WS. Tired of this.

  6. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    One wonders (well this one) if Aaron Judge can hit a golf ball any better than a baseball?

    BwaaaaaaahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I admire excellent players as much as anybody, but the cult worship following Aaron Judge around has been ridiculous generated by a New City sports media that has to be the worst in the nation.  They all act like 12 year old fanboys whether it’s A-Rod or Derek Jeter or Aaron Judge.

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I figured Judge would be getting roared today.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Her Highness has a new prescription for her Atorvastatin.  She brought one of the new and one of the old tablets to me to identify and confirm.  They are similar shape, but have different letters/numbers stamped into them.  The bottle labels indicate two different manufacturers so it never hurts to check.

    I go into the National Drug Codes List website and discover there are – well, I quit counting at 288 – hundreds of manufacturers of that one statin drug. Dang !

    NDC List is a good website to have for reference if only to confirm your pharmacy has given you the correct drug.  Mistakes have happened and some of them have been life threatening.  On the whole though, the pharmacy profession is probably more accurate and professional than most others, especially these days among health pros.

    NDC List Pill Identifier Page

    NDC List Drug Index

    Bonus link for the veterinary drug index

     

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    8 GJT

    Aaron Judge may be for all I know.  I try to avoid the local sports press when possible.  They give me a headache.  The sports media in NYC is just as likely to destroy some player’s reputation as it is to idolize them like teenage girls and rock stars.

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Texpat

    I’ve been taking Synthroid for years, sometimes I will get Levothyroxine, sometimes Synthroid. New general doctor I have says make sure they fill the subscription with one or the other but don’t switch them up.

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    From my Texas state senator, Lois Kolkhorst:

    Today I’m asking you to vote Republican from the top of the ticket to the bottom.

    On Friday night at 11 pm Eastern, while most of us were asleep or coming home from a Friday night football game, the Biden Administration’s CBP quietly released the September border numbers, revealing 227,547 illegal immigrant encounters, the highest September in the history of the Dept. of Homeland Security!  The fiscal year ‘22 ended in September with 2,378,944 encounters, also the HIGHEST ever in our nation’s history and that doesn’t even include any “got-aways.”  They released this late on a Friday night because they didn’t want any of us to know. Shocking and terrible.

     

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wow, it turns out that there was a bonus C&C on Sunday!

    I won’t make certain people suffer through two of my breakdowns of the contents, but…it’s good.  Very, very good.

    Good morning, and Happy Sunday, C&C supporters! Your bonus roundup today includes: a Covid Summit report; college boys have found a way to get all the way into the sorority; Washington State University drops mandates for staff but not students; Rochelle gets symptomatic covid after her fifth new-and-improved booster shot; new covid variants seem to prefer recently jabbed people; Geert Vanden Bossche predicts the end of civilization, again; Alberta’s premier apologizes to unjabbed; Miami Herald unintentionally argues for re-electing Governor DeSantis while trying to endorse goofy Charlie Crist; and a funny jab compilation to make you chuckle.

     

    The beareded sorority “sister” and the end of civilization are bookmarks to the whole societal madness.  IMHO.

    I’ll just hope some of you go to get the news over there, while I trot off to get today’s info.  Carefully, I have my coffee in hand.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Heads Up on the newest fake news abortion denial story !  It is a scam and not even a very good one.

    Megan Fox at PJMedia is a pit bull on her investigative articles:

    ” Now activists are doing it again in Missouri! Gannett-owned paper The Springfield News-Leader dropped a scary story on Oct. 13 about Mylissa Farmer, a self-described “pro-life Christian” whose water broke at seventeen weeks, and who then began cramping and bleeding. Farmer claimed she went to a hospital in Joplin where she was told her baby was terminal and she might die without an abortion. But, she says, they turned her away and refused to do it, supposedly because of Missouri’s abortion laws, and forced her to go out of state for the procedure. “

    and,

    ” Farmer’s condition met every legal requirement. PJ Media spoke with Rep. Nick Schroer, the author of the abortion law in Missouri, and he agreed. “It’s leftist propaganda. I have no idea what kind of practitioner would just toss their hands up and hypothetically let a woman die when we have protections in the law that everyone, even the governor, myself, and the Attorney General have reiterated time and time again,” he said. “

    and this,

    ” Her Twitter followers are also interesting, along with whom she follows, which I have archived. They’re all blue-checked Missouri Democrats or political operatives. One of them, Alex Witt, the campaign manager for AG Shmitt’s opponent Trudy Busch Valentine (who also follows Farmer), is followed by Hillary Clinton herself. Farmer looks less like a “pro-life Christian” and more like a Democrat political operative. “

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C NEWS ☙ Monday, October 24, 2022 ☙ THE SUBJECT

    First up – and I won’t even drag Childers’ edited quotes over – the BBC hosted a live show and a trans-guy/girl? decided to stand up during his/her performance and rip away clothing to expose hermaphroditic body parts, and play one note on the keyboard with the male part.

    This crap has got to stop.  Live TV?  Where kids may be watching?  This wasn’t about being “accepted,” this was about 15 minutes of fame for someone who obviously feels irrelevant in his/her world.

    On a slightly saner note:

     I’m not sure when this even occurred, but an interesting academic exchange made the viral rounds this weekend suggesting how tightly U.S. intelligence is controlling media and the academy. In the clip, the moderator immediately clamped down on Columbia University Professor and economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs when he suggested that the most violent country on Earth is the United States.

    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1584065307512954882/pu/vid/640×360/onwCGsSyC2Of4o39.mp4?tag=12

    /snip

    Before that moment, Sachs had warmed up by criticizing the British Empire for the same alleged conduct during the 19th century, and there was no problem whatsoever. It was literally as soon as he started criticizing the U.S. that he got shut down.

    /snip

    If Trump were in office, Sachs would have been allowed to go on and on about how awful and militaristic America is, …. Sachs is no lightweight gasbag, the majority of his practical experience has been in advising former communist governments how to set up market systems, including Poland and Russia.

    Anyway. Only the RIGHT kind of expert is allowed talk about world affairs just now. Just like how only the right kind of expert was allowed to talk about covid.

    Free speech is free speech.  Whether I agree with the dude or not, he has a right to his opinion, especially in a forum where his opinion has been requested.  How are we going to “understand each other” or “learn about others” (favorite liberal mantras) if we don’t allow opposing views to be discussed?

    Iron sharpens iron.  It doesn’t work if it’s just “iron…”

    I wonder:  is suppression of opposing views an attempt to force societal change, or is more that liberals can’t emotionally handle opposition?  I rarely hear about conservatives backing away from legitimate discussions in public.  Maybe they do and I just don’t hear about it – but I do see a lot of crawdadding away from sensitive topics or the slapping down of dissent from the liberal narrative from the left.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers also reports:

    In the old days, back when there was a Constitution, Congress had to VOTE on declaring war….

    This weekend, for the first time since the end of the Second World War, just in time for the Third, the 19,000-man 101st American Airborne Division has been deployed in Europe in an operational capacity. Coincidentally, just a few miles from Ukraine’s border.

    /snip

    To be clear, Congress has not authorized a war, not of any kind. The official explanation for the deployment of large numbers of U.S. troops into an active war zone is that they’re there for ‘training.’

    Uh-huh. I get it, sometimes you have to run an “exercise” on a border somewhere to make a point to a potential enemy. But if that’s what they’re doing, they should SAY SO. All these lies corrode whatever trust in government the public has left. [emphasis mine]

    So, Biden edges us ever closer to a nuclear war.  My only consolation is that should the bombs start dropping, I’m in a hot spot and my suffering will hopefully be a split second.  Unfortunately, Lovely Daughter and Family also live in a “first target” area according to a map I saw.  Even my town isn’t on the first target map, though I’m sure I’m a close second.  So, our entire family will get wiped out within seconds of each other.  Hopefully, I’ll see them again after the flash.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And along those lines:

    Late last week, Russia claimed it had intel that Ukraine planned to use a dirty bomb in a false flag operation as a pretext to drag NATO into the war. Within the last two days, Defense Minister Shoigu has called Turkey, France, the UK, and now the U.S. to talk about Ukraine’s alleged plan.

    Leading Western governments have rejected the Russian information, calling it “false,” and labeling it a gambit by Russia to create a pretext to escalate its war operation.

    /snip

    What’s clear is the Russians are reaching out. This would be a good time to broker a peace deal. Somebody wake up Joe.

    Yes, please, let’s de-escalate.  But a war might be seen to benefit the Democrats in the elections – “we’re in the middle of a war, we can’t change administrations” mind set that I’ve heard before.

    I call bullwiss on that.  We’ve done it before, and we certainly can – and should – do it again, if we end up in a war.

    Hubby said he heard a lady recently who was complaining about life right now, but proudly said she voted for Biden before, and would happily do it again.  I told Hubby, “Not only did she admit she was stupid, she admitted that she’s insane.”  There are way too many of those people with voter ID running around.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    There was more in the C&C, but I’m skipping it.  But the first comment is:

    I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or start drinking heavily after reading your highly anticipated daily updates. I think Mankind needs the Second Coming fairly soon. Our governments are truly suicidal and I believe the elites are totally Bat S*** Crazy. Add some down home stupidity that would make the Three Stooges blush and there you have my commentary for the day.

    I feel your pain, dude, I feel your pain.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Harsh weather is forecast for our area tonight, including high winds and possible tornadoes.  I put out tulle in my garden last night to protect seeds and seedlings from Fatso and his cousins.

    I wonder if it will be there tomorrow?

    Hubby had to get a new tire for his truck, and He and Handyman will be here soon to move the rainwater tank back up against the house.  It’s not hooked up yet and doesn’t have any water in it to weigh it down.  It would suck if that thing was rolled over our garden.  Being up against the house – and if I know Hubby, strapped down – it will be protected from the worst of the wind.  We hope.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I wonder:  is suppression of opposing views an attempt to force societal change, or is more that liberals can’t emotionally handle opposition?

    Limbaugh discussed a form of this several years ago.  He said that on TV, a talented, good looking reporter can make people believe all sorts of things, the reason being is that the eyes tend to overwhelm the ears and critical thinking suffers.  Radio does not do this.  When one hears contradictory BS or outright lies on the radio – it screams at them; there is no visually pleasing offset for the spoken word so the ugly truth comes out.  The subject forum in the quote above was not visually engaging, so people were really listening and using a different part of the brain.  The truth of what the “moderated” speaker was saying was detrimental to the leftist cause and the truth was leaking out, therefore he had to be silenced.

    This same thing happens in almost every university classroom in the US today.  For the totalitarian, the truth is whatever furthers the goals of those in power right now.  Tomorrow, the truth may be different and a new truth must be told and strictly enforced.  The actual, objective truth, ie, that which is real, is totally irrelevant.

    A kingdom built on lies will never stand.  The entire leftist agenda is built on lies and that is why it can not stand the test of time and also why its adherents are so vehement in suppressing any dissent.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An hour away from here in Connecticut, people are scrambling for heating oil for the winter.

    ” Bloomberg’s data matches what former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, told radio talk show host Howie Carr this week, in that the heating oil shortage situation in the Northeast is beyond frightening and a genuine cause for concern. LePage essentially begged current Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills to do something, anything, to bring attention to the situation before it’s too late and people start dying, while also blaming Biden for not properly addressing the issue.

    “Today, just about an hour ago, we got information from a local oil dealer… oil right now, tonight at five o’clock, is $5.69. Kerosene is $6.69 a gallon. This is what we’re facing right now,” LePage said during the interview Friday. “

    and get this,

    ” At current prices — and keep in mind, these prices are guaranteed to rise in the coming months as demand increases and supply decreases, probably significantly — the cost to fill the typical 275-gallon residential heating oil tank is about $1,567.

    That amount of heating oil, according to Shipley Energy, lasts the average home about 56 days — less than two months, but let’s call it two months. Folks, that’s $783 per month for heating oil alone, and that’s at the current rate, which will probably soon seem cheap. And that’s if you can find it. “

    A home with only a 275 gallon oil tank is a small house, most likely around 900 to 1,200 square feet.  The average home in this region has a 500 gallon tank and some can have as large as 1,000 gallons.

    What will happen is millions of people will be buying electric space heaters for their homes and overloading the already strained regional grid leading to brownouts and blackouts in the frigid, life-threatening winter weather.

    This administration is going to kill people.

     

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat – that is truly frightening.  There are going to be people who die because they can’t keep warm.

    Heads should roll.  *Should* doesn’t mean “will”.

    But it’s all Trump’s fault.  Somehow.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Another comment quoted from the C&C:
    “Our” governments are “suicidal”? How about ??? I’d actually like if they were suicidal.

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE:

    Lawsuit reveals vast censorship scheme by Big Tech and the federal government

    The left can not stand up to the truth, this is why they must lie and censor the truth at all costs.

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #14 Bones Limbaugh stayed on the radio after quitting TV because radio required you to think analyticalally without any visual distraction. The 1960 Kennedy/Nixon debate it a good example of this, folks that watched it on TV said Kennedy won but the folks that listened on the radio thought Nixon had won.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More from C&C comments:

    We are living out the modern day Pharaoh and we live in Egypt (no matter where in the world you live) The only parting of the Red Sea I see in our future is a taking up into the sky/heavens for those that chose to believe in Jesus. THAT is our deliverance. This whole fiasco is too far gone. It’s too deep and too wide to purge the evil from among us. They have infiltrated every aspect of society from one end of the earth to the other. We need a savior. And a Savior won’t come from a flawed human. It comes from a perfect sacrifice. And the sacrifice was already made. The parting of the Red Sea is coming. Past time for us to get on our knees.

    I believe Squawk and I have made this point repeatedly.

    Oh I am not giving up. The Bible seems clear to me that we are never to give up on any front. I’m just stating what I see. And while it’s discouraging, I also know good people are fighting and we will keep pushing back. I am also very aware of the book of Revelation, and I know how it ends. So there is also a reality piece to all this.

    ****

    If the first two stories don’t confirm what Jonathan Cahn writes in his latest book “The Return of the Gods” (that our world is under the control of demonic principalities), then I don’t know what else to say.

    Y’all know I like to listen to interviews of exorcists, especially Fr. Ripperger.  That man is an intellectual giant as well as knowledgeable about the bad side of the spiritual world.  He stated in an interview, paraphrased as best I can from memory:

    “From what I (Ripperger) learned, exorcisms used to be easier.  Most were completed with one or two sessions.  Now, the demons are stronger and more entrenched, and it can take years to liberate someone.  And we’re seeing more cases now than ever before.

    The efficacy of exorcisms is reflected by the state of the Church.  The better the state of the Church, the more effective our prayers are.  Something happened in the early sixties, and exorcists report that it has become steadily more difficult to exorcise the demons.” 

    Gee, I wonder what happened in the sixties?  And since we have a pope that is promoting idol worship (pacham*** idols in the Vatican chapels and in rituals in the garden), has broken his Jesuit vows regarding not seeking higher office, is known to be a Freemason (and F*masonry has a dedicated goal of destroying the Church), has defied known doctrines of the Church (promoting divorced and remarried couples to receive Eucharist, for example), and has his bestie Fr. James Martin promoting gay marriage in the Church.   Homosexual behavior (NOT homosexual people – there is a difference!) is a “sin crying out to Heaven”.  Along with abortion/birth control, which pachapapa also seems to have no problem with accepting.

    The state of the Church is in crisis, but a majority of Catholics are asleep at the wheel.  Just like many Americans have been happy to do the ‘head in the sand’ thing because it’s easier than caring.

     

  27. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD

    Russia discusses Ukraine in string of calls with NATO defense chiefs

    and

    Russia says it has evidence Ukraine plans to use dirty bomb; US rejects claim: 

    and

    Ukraine demands compliance with paragraph 4 of the Budapest Memorandum, given Russia’s nuclear blackmail.

    Somebody is gonna, I am not seeing any indication of cooler heads prevailing.  Putin has warned about him using nukes.  Biden has rebuffed and threatened . Zelenskyy has requested Biden nuke Moscow.  You do the math.

    AND the US is preparing to enter the fray. 1st Time In 80 Years, US Army Deploys ‘Screaming Eagles’ 101st Airborne Division Just Miles Away From Ukraine

    The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne is practicing for war with Russia just miles from Ukraine’s border

     

  28. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #18 – WHOA – ‘warming up’ the Screaming Eagles is NOT a good sign – not one BIT!

  29. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I went to town to vote at the court house a few minutes ago.   I went to high school with both of the women managing the polling station.  There sere quite a few (maybe up to 15) people either voting or waiting to sign in to vote when I left, and for out here, that is quite a few.  The court house in SS is the only polling station in the county for early voting.  Despite my brand new eyeballs, the print on the ballot was so small that it appeared as nothing but a blur wven with my cheater glasses on, but one of the poll attendants was kind enough to lend me her magnifying glass and it was good enough to allow me to read the names and check the right boxes.  Btw, we still use paper ballots out here.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Whooo Hooooo an El Gordo sighting!

    You may need to get a new pair of cheaters.  How is your distance vision after surgery?

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The current federal government is homicidal – not suicidal.

    From 900+ human beings drowning in the Rio Grande, dying of heat stroke in South Texas, killed by suicide bombers in Afghanistan to untold people freezing to death in the Northeast, this is an obvious homicidal regime.

  32. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Today’s Hamousonian

    That our president doesn’t view or act in that fashion only confirms that he is more about appearances than he is about substance.

    With each passing day of our long national nightmare known as “The Obama Experiment” I become more convinced his actions are deliberate and calculated – he wants to end America as we know it. But hey, at least we’ve collectively eased our white guilt.

    AND

    Let’s elect a supremely unqualified woman next so we can get that monkey off our backs too.
    AND
    Dave – Shrillary actually has some experience. We would need to elect a woman as unqualified as our current Moron-in-Chief to assuage our collective misogynistic guilt.
  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I was really busy this weekend and did not get through all the weekend commentary.

    This may have already been posted, but I am posting it because it is important.

    China’s Last Leader Hu Jintao Physically Removed From Chinese Communist Party Congress

    There is a video link at the link above.  Of note is the expression on Chairman XI Winnie the Pooh’s face as his predecessor is removed.  Pooh can be trusted to do things that further his own power; the cost to the Chinese people or anyone else is irrelevant.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I feel sorry for these young sorority girls in Wyoming.  The national and local leadership shoved this whole situation down their throats with malice.

    ” Earlier that day, KKG held a meeting to discuss Langford’s candidacy. Chapter leaders, including the president and membership chair, dismissed the concerns of members who felt deeply uncomfortable with a male being accepted into their sisterhood, a KKG woman tells National Review. The senior women effectively pressured them to usher in Langford, she said. “

    and,

    ” The bylaws were changed to allow female-identifying men in 2022. To go with the revisions, KKG headquarters published a “Guide for Supporting Our LGBTQIA+ Members.” It noted that new member selection will apply to ‘women and individuals who identify as women whose governing documents do not discriminate in membership selection except by requiring good scholarship and ethical character.’ “

  35. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #21 et al – Vision is improving overall.  Left eye was the “bad” eye and was done first.  There was irritation and some low level pain associated with that procedure for about 4 days.  When covering my right eye and looking at the clock in my kitchen, I could see the clock but could not make out the time.  Now I can tell the time, but the clock hands are still fuzzy.  The right eye done a week later gave me almost no irritation or pain, and the vision improved almost overnight.  I could make out the clock hands pretty clearly the day after surgery.  As it stands today, for some reason the right eye is a little bit irritated and vision is fuzzy, and the left eye is not irritated but vision is still fuzzy.  My lenses are designed for focus further out and I will still need cheaters to read with.  There is some macular degeneration (https://www.macular.org/about-macular-degeneration/what-is-macular-degeneration, and the doc said that the premium lenses would amplify the effects of the MD and not solve the up close reading issue, so just stick with the basic lenses which made sense to me.

    I got out in the wind a little bit yesterday, and today my vision is all around blurry and some irritants must have gotten in there.  I’m still treating both eyes with the assorted eye drops which will continue for another 3 weeks or so.  Two steps forward, one step back.  Overall I’m pleased with the results and am promised that it will continue to improve over time.  Thanks for asking.  BTW, the procedure itself is short, painless, and the only problem is finding a driver since you are impaired by some light anesthesia.

  36. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good morning, gang. I need to go run some errands and I’d like to get ’em done before 12 noon.

  37. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    SEC Shorts hits another home run as the teams go to therapy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZ7sw7lIYk

     

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    One of the best is leaving

    Ted Oberg Leaving KTRK in Houston for WRC in Washington, D.C.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have been trying to find out the specific details on the 101st Airborne story that has been all over the internet the last few days.

    First, the US has had the 82nd Airborne deployed in Europe since at least 6 months before Russia invaded Ukraine.  They are primarily stationed in Poland.

    The recent deployment of the 101st Airborne is 4,700 troops (not 19,000) and they set up in Romania near the Ukrainian border working with Romanian military in artillery exercises.  Romania is a member of NATO and technically NATO forces are obligated by treaty help defend their nation.

    I want to know why it’s always America that has to do this ?  Where are the other NATO forces from European countries when we need them ?  Why can’t Germany or France or Netherlands send 4,700 soldiers there ?

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #26 Shannon says:

    October 22, 2022 at 3:07 pm

    Super Dave

    I just received my Chili Queens At The Alamo print from Copano Bay Press.

    I’m impressed.

    I just got mine in the mail and it looks better in real life than on the website.  Duly impressed.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #18 Squawk

    All of your fearmongering confirms/repeats what Childers posted in his C&C.

    But how many people outside of our circle (and the C&C) are paying attention?

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tedtam

    But how many people outside of our circle (and the C&C) are paying attention?

    Those of us that delve into looking at the world through the lens of Bible prophecy and those who listen to us are a substantial group,  Then there are the preppers (of whom some I follow) and their followers is another substantial group.  BUT sadly the majority of Amerikuhns have absolutely no idea of what is going on.  To most they just consider us as FEAR MONGERS.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #25 Texpat

    From the C&C, ‘this beared guy who’s not even trying’ has the right to use the girls’ bathrooms, run around in underwear, see the other girls in their underwear, join in their pillow fights, etc.

    What could go wrong?

    And the girls are told to use the other bathroom if it bothers them.  To be nice and welcoming.

    A&M didn’t allow sororities until long after I graduated, thank goodness.  We were all Aggies first, foremost, and always.  We may have been an “Aggie in the Camera Club” or an “Aggie in the Corps” or an “Aggie senior,” but we were always Aggies first.  And it didn’t cost us anything financially or emotionally to be part of that huge club.  I could be – and was – a member of different clubs and organizations, and I could drop out or move from one to the other freely and without recrimination of any kind.  There were no subdivisions of the student population except by activity or interest.

    Lovely Daughter joined a sorority when she went to her university, else she would have been a bit of social leper.  I remember reading a story about a journalist going to China, and was not given a hotel room until some group claimed him. Hotel rooms were handed out to groups, not individuals.   IMHO, LD’s experience was like that.  Everyone had to belong to some group to be fully accepted. Putting all that information and experience together, these girls are kinda trapped. They are probably financially and emotionally invested in their sorority.  Their social status is attached to their sorority.  Yes, they could move to another sorority, maybe, but at what cost?

    When I heard about Greeks being allowed at A&M, I regarded that as the beginning of the end.  I don’t know what it’s like on campus today, but I know that the administration is moving further left.  A&M as a bastion of conservatism is on its way out.  I quit getting the Battalion (student newspaper) updates on FB.  They were getting too depressing.  Granted, A&M is probably still more conservative than most universities today, but hearing about “Draggieland” performances was more than I wanted to know.

     

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, I got my goldenrod leaves all blendered down and put into an airtight container for later tea use.  I watched a video on making a salve out of the blossoms, which is supposed to be good for muscle cramps.  I may do some of that  with the blossoms.

    After I got that big bowl emptied, I loaded Fred with some veggies that really needed to be preserved before becoming compost-pile-worthy.  My tomatoes were ripening up, so most of them went into Fred, along with some celery and green bell peppers.

    I just finished washing dishes, and my canner is sitting there and the frig is full with some meat I purchased.  I think I’m going to run a canning session for my pork roast and my sausage, maybe some ground beef if I need to fill the canner.  I’ve washed my pint jars from my last run, and they are awaiting labeling (pork and butternut squash) and movement to storage upstairs.

    So, busy, busy, busy…just washed one load of dishes and am about to make another….

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hmmm….just had a thought.  I can make some marinara sauce.  Christmas is coming, and I know I’m gonna hafta make lasagna….

    Why not get some of the work out of the way?

  46. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I donno’ there is just something about that girl; Dana Delany           😉

    H/T Classic TV Beauties.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Woof.

  48. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tedtam @ 12:02 pm

    Yes, they could move to another sorority, maybe, but at what cost?

    Negative there Tedtam. Once you are initiated into a fraternity/sorority, you are in it for life. You can of course renounce your membership, but you can never join a different Greek organization.

    When my daughter moved back to Houston from Missouri, she found out that U of H does not have a local chapter of her sorority Kappa Delta. She was told she could not join a different sorority. Supposedly there is some sort of national database that is cross checked.

    I still receive the quarterly magazine from my fraternity, but I could care less. I’ve never given a dime of my money to either the local chapter or national since I’ve graduated and I never will due to how I was treated.

  49. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Squawk & Texpat

    I know you guys use Nord VPN. What type of download speeds do y’all get? When I had DSL, my typical download speed was 75 Mbps over wifi. It did not matter if I had my Express VPN turned on or off.

    We dumped our DSL and switched to Xfinity in April of this year. We’ve been paying for a package with download speeds north of 400 Mbps. All I could ever get was about 125 Mbps down. I then went back into the hospital and I haven’t thought of it since.

    Now I have both the modem’s wifi signal and a separate mesh network. I kept the mesh network because I didn’t want to have to reconnect all my Internet of Things hooked up to my network.

    I have contractors in my house today making a racket so I moved myself back upstairs to my home office. My work laptop has been connected to the mesh network. I decided to connect it to the modem’s wifi signal. I then did a speed test and got 685 Mbps down on my laptop. I then ran a speed test on my phone and got 125 Mbps down. I then turned off my Express VPN and got close to the 685 Mbps down.

    I had no idea my VPN was throttling my download speed that much. 125 Mbps down is a respectable number. However if y’all tell me you can get higher download speeds through Nord, I will consider switching VPN providers.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #35 Texmo

    Wow.  So those girls really are trapped in their sorority, and can’t even vote what goes on in their house about the half-trans in their midst.

    That’s gotta suck.

    On a canning note – I decided to go halfway marinara, just ground beef and some tomato product.  I have to keep the combination loose enough to allow the canning process to complete.  I filled five quart jars, and decided not to start cutting the pork roast without being able to can all of it.  So, porky is in the frig, waiting his turn.

    And the second round of dishes is complete, canner coming up to pressure.  Now is the time for me to get my treadmill time in.  I can see the canner gauge from the treadmill.

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby just called.  We’ve been trying to get a tree trimming service to cut down a huge tree on one of our properties.  It’s dead and needs to be removed before someone or something gets hurt.  Hubby’s called the services that I found online, but has been having real trouble getting anyone to call him back or give him a quote.

    He found the contact info for the little old guy who cut down a similar tree on our river property years ago.  He went with Hubby to look at the tree and asked if $675 would be a good price.

    Why, yes, it would be a quite acceptable price.  He’s probably about half of what other services would quote.  Hubby’s gonna buy him lunch and Hubby and Handyman will help with the labor.  Hubby’s going to take the backhoe so that the dead wood can be loaded into the bucket and dumped at a nearby curb that for some reason has become the neighborhood dump site.  (Thanks to the neighbor behind us, who decided that our backyard was a good place to put all of their renovation trash – now everyone dumps there, all the wissing time.)

    I worry about the storm tonight, but there’s not much we can do about that except pray for mercy that a limb doesn’t come crashing down on the neighbor’s or our property.  Work on tree removal starts tomorrow at 7:30 a.m.

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #30 Texpat

    I want to know why it’s always America that has to do this ?  Where are the other NATO forces from European countries when we need them ?  Why can’t Germany or France or Netherlands send 4,700 soldiers there ?

    Because we’ve been the nice guys for so long that the world expects us to be the sucker in every negotiation.

    Because we’ve had such a powerful economy and generated so much wealth that the needy of the world just want our efforts redistributed.  And there’s more of them, if you count them, than of us.

    Rush said this years ago, and I think he’s right: We don’t need to export our wealth, we need to export more capitalism.

    John Stossel did a story on Hong Kong years ago, and I remember his statements that HK was basically a rock, with little in the way of natural resources, but they were one of the most capitalist countries on the earth.  One piece of paper allowed Stossel to open a store where he sold paraphernalia from his network.  India, on the other hand, has lots of natural resources yet is nowhere near its potential, wealth wise.  India’s government is a huge bureaucracy, decisions take forever, and it’s who you know instead of what you can do that determines if you are allowed to run a business.

    Getting government out of the way is the best way to allow a market, and therefore the economy, to flourish.  

  53. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texmo

    With any modern day VPN you should not lose more than a small percentage of speed.  My package is for 200mbps.  With out VPN I average 300Mbps with VPN 280Mbps.  You mentioned you use a mesh network.  Remember every item on that network and even a straight wifi network is going to draw down your speed.  Express VPN is the other gooder  VPN that I recommend.  I have yet to see any complaints about speed that can be linked to it.

    Makeuseof has a good article on how to track down what is using bandwidth and how much.  to lose that much speed I am wondering if you might have a bandwidth thief on your network.  I had a gamer that was logged onto my network.    I ran into that back in my DSL days. I DDOSed his PS4 with pings and shut him down.  My fault because I did not secure my router.  Wired has a good article on securing your router.  LMK what you find, but Express prolly is not your problem,

    .

  54. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just saw a video of a guy holding what appears to be a small UV light to his arm.  The spot where he got his second shot, as well as a vein on the back of his hand, are GLOWING under the light.  Nowhere else on his arm.

    Yet.

    Update: Upon reflection, I’m waiting to see if this video is proven or disproven to be true. It’s possible that the guy used some UV sensitive ink on his skin.

  55. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I didn’t get going till 1 pm. The bank was still busy judging by no place to park. But there was not a single person at the ATM next to the front door. Which was what I wanted, even if I had needed to wait in line for it.

    Next, I wanted to go to Bettencourt’s property tax protest company on North Post Oak, regarding a mailed document they had sent me for signature. I don’t have a working GPS so I had a hand-drawn map getting me there without getting on the Loop. As soon as I was on the Hempstead Highway and  committed, I could see the whole area was under road construction. I decided to back out, but easier said than done. Eventually I saw a sign for N. Post Oak, but it was just dumb luck at that point.

    What I learned was that CoH had removed Bettencourt’s company from the list of property tax protesters, so every existing customer had to sign a complex document stating that was the protester you wanted, in order to keep them. A pox on our Dem-run city.

    I had a short shopping list with me, but drove home before I got lost again.

     

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I saw this headline and had to guffaw:

    Liz Cheney Boasts, They Won’t Allow Trump To Turn Jan. 6 Testimony Into a ‘Circus’

    Well, based on the headline alone, I’d have to say that train left the station quite a long time ago.

  57. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Tedtam, the only thing missing is the little car – all the clowns are running around like they are the center ring attraction

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    38

    I didn’t think City of Houston was a target for tax protests.

    Are you saying that the Harris County Appraisal District has essentially put Bettencourt out of business?

  59. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Imagine having the money and connections to up and decide – I think I want to run a top fuel dragster.

    Tony Stewart going to run a top fuel dragster this weekend in Las Vegas.

    https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2022/oct/24/tony-stewart-to-make-drag-racing-debut-in-las-vega/

  60. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    NWS has come out with a thunderstorm warning with overnight winds up to 50 mph with hail and such.  So I went out an took down my hanging basket (north side of house) so that it would not smash my patio sliding glass door out.  It’s a heavy clay pot with ivy dragging the ground now, and it would act about like an old fashioned cannon ball with a strong north wind.  I don’t care what it does if it is accompanied by some rain.  supposed to be pretty cool in the morning.

    I went to the grocery store, but I was trying to read some labels.  The print was too fine for me to make anything out, so I left empty handed.  I guess when this is all over I may need to get some stronger cheaters.  Eveything else remains a little bit fuzzy, but it still continues to improve over time.

  61. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Re: My #41

    Reading closer I see it’s Top Alcohol not Too Fuel. Looks like that’s one level down from the top division. Still 280mph.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Old man clearly addicted to speed.

  63. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    West Harris County polling report:

    Parking lot – FULL (I still found a spot on the 1st lap)

    Polling room – FULL (As the Lady said ‘I can check you in here’ – I said “Wait a second – I want to take in this BEAUTIFUL VIEW!” as in FULL)

    She replied “This is nothing – line has been out into the parking lot ALL DAY”

    Smooth & seamless voting process – I was in, done, and out in 10 minutes or so.

    I’ve been voting for 46 years and I’ve N E V E R seen the turnout I saw TODAY!

    cue up the Band Doctor!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM

  64. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I need to print up the ballot for Hubby.  He always needs a cheat sheet from me.

    And I want to vote tomorrow as well.  I want to vote early, so I can avoid showing on Election Day and find out that someone has stolen my vote.

    Oh, and I need to check the voter rolls to make sure my parents – in-laws – aren’t voting from the grave.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Do y’all really believe that the Harris County Judge race is a dead heat?

    Or are they trying to scare the Dems into turning out?

    Mattress Mac has never been so publicly involved in a race before. What do you think the impact of this could be?

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #40 Shannon

    Bettencourt is still in business, but the customer has to select him on a document labelled Appointment of Agent for Property Tax Matters. The fact that I had been using  him for 10+ years already did not count. I have no idea if this was done to all property tax agents.

  67. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, voting for individual offices should be easy enough, but there are a lot bond requests and other special items to vote for on the ballot as well.  It looks like the city and/or county is trying to annex an area called “McNair”.  I wonder if this is something the folks in McNair want.  I’m thinking about leaving that blank and hope the McNair folks can get enough votes for what they want.

    An awful lot of bonds and money they want to tax us, to pay for all kinds of buildings, parks, roads, facilities, etc., but they are all awful vague about where the money will be applied, so….nope.  I don’t trust ’em with any more of my hard earned money.  Let’s see them live within a budget first.

  68. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mattress Mac has never been so publicly involved in a race before. What do you think the impact of this could be?

    Mac is highly respected in this town.  His endorsement probably helped.

    If he wins that $75M payout on the Astros, I’m hoping he makes a huuuge donation towards the parking garage our church wants to build. I see him between masses on many a Sunday, and I suspect he was the “anonymous parishioner” who made such a huge donation to get our organ repaired.

  69. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I hope Houston still gets some rain! The prediction has been moved to past midnight. I’ve gotten to where I prefer potential rough weather during daylight.

     

  70. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    They’re still saying midnight – 1:00AM out here, and that’s what radar looks like. We’ve had light showers on and off all day.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well, I guess I’ll just remain confused about who did what to Paul Bettencourt’s company.

  72. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The house creaked, the windows and doors rattled as they adjusted, and the cold front just blew in.  First real front of the season.  Funny how you can feel it the instant that it happens.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Like Big Jolly says,

    Lina Hidalgo has Hanoi Jane Fonda. Alex Mealer has Mattress Mac.

    https://bigjolly.com/mattress-mac-vs-hanoi-jane/

     

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

  75. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well I don’t know how much business Mac is risking to come out like this but it has to be potentially a bunch. We owe him a debt of gratitude.

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I think Mackinvale is certainly spending some of his good will on politics for the first time.

    But I think this man is so universally loved and appreciated that he’s probably risking little.

    Very powerful ads on crime and government corruption that he has made.

     

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    Here is a Texas Scorecard report on a poll by a conservative group on the Hidalgo/Mealer race.  It is from 20 days ago.

    ” A new poll released by Defend Texas Liberty PAC shows Republican candidate Alex Mealer with a four-point lead over Democrat incumbent Lina Hidalgo in the contentious race for Harris County judge.

    The poll, which surveyed nearly 1,000 likely election voters, has Mealer leading 48 percent to Hidalgo’s 44 percent.

    Among the top issues defining the race in the state’s most populous county have been Hidalgo’s efforts on so-called “bail reform,” which have led to dangerous criminals being released into the streets. Fifty-three percent of those surveyed said they believed the reform was leading to higher crime, while only 19 percent disagreed.

    Mealer has made the issue of public safety a centerpiece of her campaign, highlighting that Harris County’s total crime is up by 132 percent, with violent crime 224 percent above the national average. “

    Poll PDF Here.

    The polling company description:

    ” CWS Research, LLC is a veteran-owned general consulting and data analytics firm founded by Chris Sacia in November 2021. CWS Research, LLC’s mission is to provide quality data and insights to conservative candidates and organizations throughout Texas. CWS Research, LLC polling has been notably featured on the FiveThirtyEight averages.”

     

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yes. I heard about the 4 point lead.

    A Hidalgo loss will be a huge story.

    statewide and nation wide.

    Im scared to get too confident about kicking out a whole bunch of those judges down there. But it’s getting exciting right about now.

     

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    54 GJT

    Years ago, I was at an oilpatch charity golf tournament and one of the holes had a “Hole In One” prize of something like $25,000.  Some guy actually made it and I notice the charity officials all whoopin’ and hollerin’.  I finally asked one of them about how the charity could be so happy about losing $25,000 and he said, “Oh, we didn’t lose anything.  We bought an insurance policy before the tournament that pays the winner.  it didn’t cost much at all and we got a sponsor to pay for the premium.”

    I’m sure all of Mattress Mac’s bets are likewise insured.  Those high risk insurance guys are like Vegas high-end gamblers.  They will bet on anything.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    An old Taj Majal piece.

    The “Katy” is a reference to the old MKT (Katy) rail train.

    These guys are from New Zealand, apparently.

     

  81. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    59

    Well, my baby she’s long, my baby she’s tall
    She sleeps with her head in the kitchen and her big feet out in the hall

  82. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mattress Mac does should carry a lot of good will but I’m not as optimistic as he is that it won’t hurt him going full out political. The left sure knows how to gin up those narratives and make them stick. Even without all that, he is potentially turning off a percentage of his customer base. Now most can’t afford to buy furniture but there are many lefties that can.

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    NWS issues Tornado Watch for Washington Grimes Walker Counties.

    Austin County, among others, would be next in line.

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam @ 6:29 PM

    Just remember Hamous’ Ironclad Rule:

    Never, ever vote yes for a bond issue.  Force them to pay for it some other way. 

    Municipal bonds are a way to make your children and grandchildren pay for your mistakes.

  85. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “Well, Hell. I turned $5000 into $200 million.

    Might as well help save the country before I go to that big leather recliner in the sky.”

    – Jim Mackinvale

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Seems appropriate VOTE FOR ME from the album Songs for A Dying Planet

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    65
    Very nice.

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Radar shows the line from San Antone to east Dallas.

    Haulin’ ass this way, just as predicted.

  88. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yeah that wall ain’t got no chance of missing us.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Of course it has 50mph winds. The whole system is moving at 50mph.

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Slightly Hung Over You

  91. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I never saw this before.

    Raul Malo of The Mavericks with the great Augie Myers and David Guerra onstage last year at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes, Tx singing “Volver, Volver”  (Come Back, Come Back).

    It is a great place to be on a clear, starry night in the spring or fall.

  92. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Who knew Augie Myers was still earthbound.

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So good.

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey, phil.

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Raining somewhat fiercely hereabouts.

  96. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    All we’ve gotten, so far, is an amazing lightening show

     

  97. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hope I wake up to a wet yard!

     

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Not much wind.

    But the rain is so impressive that I opened the front door and propped open the storm door, so I could watch it run off the porch roof.

    And feel the cool breeze blowing.

  99. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Spoke too soon – for a couple minutes the front porch was like spin cycle in a washing machine… Thank You, Lord – we need the rain

  100. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    oyay unckyay

    unckyay oyay.

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