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Wednesday Expose Open Comments

I know you will find this shocking, but back when Squawk was a trucking tycoon, in his spare time, he had a side gig as a locally, sort of regionally, semi-famous country singer/songwriter.  No one suspected this incognito persona, this heretofore unknown talent, because Squawk always appeared publicly as a sequined, glitter boy, big hair, rock & roll aficionado.

In spite of all the best efforts to whitewash his past, this innocent citizen, the one-hit-wonder of Cut & Shoot has been secretly discovered by Rachel Maddow and Joy Behar of The View, whose cumulative deceits know no depths.  Since it is always better to be one step ahead of all the thugs, witches and demons of the Left, as a preemptive tactic to protect Squawk’s reputation, I am publishing this now to blunt the scandal before it explodes across international media.

May all these Leftist, depraved devils reside in Hell forever.

You’re welcome.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    HA! We got almost a quarter inch of rain late last night, .21″ to be exact. The front roared through here pretty quickly and provided a pretty good light show for a short time. Not much rain but we’ll take it as it was much needed. Just enough to water my new sod so I’ll not have to. I’ve been watering it about every 5 days and it’s looking pretty good.

    Is it hump day? Thanksgiving is just around the corner.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Posted this morning without any issues, thanks Squawk you are a gentleman and a scholar I don’t know what we’d do without you.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Lol. All our kids came from your side of the family anyway!

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Poor BSue.

  5. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Blurry eyesight this morning, so please ignore typos.  Cool at 41 degrees but headed up to around 80.  No rain.  You all have a great day.

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    44 lovely degrees out here in God’s country.

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The weather bug on my phone said it was 48, but when I got in my wife’s car the dashboard thermometer said it was 55.  Either way, it’s a right purty day.

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It is loverly to not hear the a/c running because the weather is so nice.

    Do NOT let your liberal Yankee friends visit at this time. They’ll want to stay.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An interesting essay on the decline of breastfeeding in America while the nation suffers through a baby formula shortage.  The feminist movement either never thought of the effect on infants or regarded the elimination of nursing as some kind of liberation.  But then feminism never was about the welfare of children in the first place.

    ” The solution is at hand, or rather, at breast. Because breast is in fact best; best for the health of the infant, best for the self-sufficiency of the mother and child. Fewer and fewer mothers, however, consider breastfeeding a first choice, or any choice at all. Women’s participation in the workplace conflicts with the rhythms and bodily demands of nursing. It’s awkward enough for professional women, but low-wage work makes nursing impossible. Amazon warehouses and Burger King franchises do not provide the privacy or time necessary to do the pumping routines that maintain lactation. And for all women, social revulsion, the absence of intergenerational support networks, and a lack of encouragement from most medical professionals create a climate where only the most determined and well-resourced will manage to meet the AAP-recommended benchmark of six months of exclusive breastfeeding. Not to mention that in a cultural environment where maternity has been displaced by “birthing parents,” and where surrogacy is widespread and normalized, many believe it is not “inclusive” to advocate nursing, and not “kind” to point out that breastfeeding is far superior to formula, by every measure. “

    On a related subject, I wouldn’t be the first to point out the dramatic economic and social effects of requiring children to be in expensive restraining seats for years in automobiles.  As vehicles became smaller and the space and cost of simply transporting children skyrocketed, the size of families has shrunk in America.  How many kids can you fit in the backseat of a Camry ? The popularity of the Suburban sized SUV in Texas and the industry-wide explosion of the mini-van class of vehicle were a direct result of these federal regulations.

    It is obvious now, after decades, incalculable young lives have been saved by car seats.  I doubt any of the women of my generation protesting to advance feminism 40 and 50 years ago were thinking about the fact their grandchildren might be deprived of the important newborn milk from their daughters.  My intent here is to illustrate the rules of unintended consequences in social, cultural movements and seemingly harmless safety regulations.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We’re running low on eggs, so I may make an eggery run this morning.  Before I go, I prolly otta start drying all those bell peppers I bought yesterday.  Gotta unload Fred first, to make room.

    I worked on my Latin homework last night, but I’ve gotten to a point where I’m lost without my charts.  It would be nice if I could practice it more often, but there’s no one nearby who speaks Ecclesiastical Latin with which to practice.  Once I slog through my textbook, I should go to my other resources which use a story type method of teaching.  Learning through stories is easier than rote memorization of declension and conjugation charts.  My missal is a good resource, too.  I had time before mass last week to start working through the prose, looking up words and word forms on my phone before mass.

    Those word endings are mighty important in Latin – they define the word.  Increasingly here in America, I hear people use adjectives instead of adverbs.  It drives me nuts.  Is “-ly” really such a chore?

    Drive slowLY, not drive slow.

    Speak loudLY, not speak loud.

    Etc.

    Do that in Latin, and you’d end up eating your dog’s meat instead of your dog eating meat.

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This week, Front page, Bellville Times:

    The local Methodist Church votes by 96% to disaffiliate with the United Method Church and join up with the new Global Methodist Church.

    The Great Schism over sodomy continues across the many Protestant denominations.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And I’m perusing the C&C opening, coffee at hand:

    Good morning C&C, and Happy Tuesday! We have a terrific roundup for you this morning, including: new Canadian Premier drops the WEF like a hot needle; New York City forced to hire unjabbed workers back; Biden gets his fifth shot and hawks boosters; drag brunches and Satanism; UK’s NHS cancels trans procedures for kids; Fetterman craters in the debate; DeSantis crushes Crist in debate; radio host dies mid-broadcast; Britney Griner loses her appeal and starts 9-year sentence; and a new study debunks the “reduced transmission” lie.

    I heard on the radio this morning that Fetterman/Oz debate was “charitably described as a dumpster fire for the Democrats”.  Moving on…

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Here is the link to the Covid summit video in which Childers participated recently.  He says the audio improves after the 30 minute mark.  He discussed this summit and his participation in it over the past few weeks, but I didn’t cover it due to restrictions.  I’d love to see what everyone said and what they are doing, so maybe I’ll pull it up later and listen while I work. During Hannity, probably.

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    How did I miss this?

    The commie Chinese have opened a “police station” in New York City, allegedly to “monitor” Chinese citizens.   Read the article, it shows some level of depravity and complete disregard for our national sovereignty.

    /Not enough spit in the world to accurately express my thoughts on the matter.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    One sane voice from the Great White North:

    In the first bit of terrific news, yesterday newly-elected Canadian Premier Danielle Smith, who recently apologized to unvaccinated people, courageously announced that the province of Alberta will “disconnect” from the World Economic Forum. She explained, “Until that organization stops bragging about how much control they have over political leaders, I have no interest in being involved with them.”

    /snip

    “I must tell you, I believe that Alberta Health Services is the source of a lot of the problems that we’ve had. They signed some kind of partnership with the World Economic Forum right in the middle of the pandemic. We’ve got to address that. Why in the world would we have anything to do with the World Economic forum? That’s got to end.”

    [As always, in an attempt to make things easier for y’all, my links are drawn from the actual, individual web pages and not through/from Childers’ blog, to make sure they at least load on my computer.  Also, I also try to make sure the “open in new tab” setting is selected to make your navigation easier.]

    I agree that finally having an openly anti-WEF politician speaking out is a great sign. Childers asks us to remember this as he gets ready to post his “roadmap to Nuremberg” on Friday.  That should be interesting.

    My question is: How long before she gets Arkancided?

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ll gloss over/pass over some of the legal points that Childers discusses regarding the NY decision reversing the firing of unvaxxed employees.  He makes some great points along the way, citing the decision itself.  Then he makes this point:

    Every time another decision like this comes down, the body of available case law grows. Every time another decision like this comes down, lawyers get more tools to use against the mandates. Every time another decision like this comes down, it gets easier to beat future mandates.

    True dat.  It’s a shame that folks had to die or suffer to get to this point.  I still thank my guardian angel for giving me such a strong gut reaction to the jab.  I’ve NEVER had such a bad feeling about anything like that.  I sincerely feel that I wouldn’t be here if I’d submitted.  And I thank God for sending me migraines, which gave me a good reason to reject the jab when the doctor was pushing me to take it.

    The original theory behind the vaccine liability shields was to encourage companies to make vaccines. It’s now time to have a conversation about whether the shields are still needed, about what ‘unanticipated’ problems have arisen, and about how vaccine injured people have been left twisting in the wind.

    True dat, too.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Then there’s more alphabet lunacy:

    LibsOfTikTok exposed a North Carolina brewery — why is it always North Carolina lately? — that scheduled a “Disney themed drag brunch” for the day before Halloween.

    As far as we know, Disney has no problem with these folks using its trademarked name and images for promoting sexually-perverted content. Using “Disney” means the drag show organizers were aiming at KIDS.

    Why is it always kids? These gross drag shows and story hours are never aimed at lawyers or doctors or steel workers or accountants. Just kids.

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, one of the performing cross-dressers’ bios explains he was “inspired by Satanism.” With a capital “S.” I am not making that up.

    I find this child abuse disgusting.  What parents would bring their kids to a sexually oriented, adult performance?  Is it to make a point of how “tolerant” they are?  Turning their kids into politically correct trophy kids?

    This is not spit worthy.  It’s vomit worthy.

    And Childers ends with this:

    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

    — Isaiah 5:20

    Yes, yes, and yes.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And a slight semblance of sanity, now from across the pond:

    The UK Telegraph ran a story yesterday headlined, “Most children who think they’re transgender are just going through a ‘phase’, says NHS.” The sub-headline explained, “Doctors told not to encourage young people to change their names and pronouns.”

    How about that? Progress! Or reversion, depending on how you look at it.

    You mean kids going through all kinds of body changes might easily get confused?  Go figger!

    The health agency said it plans to replace the therapists and hormone specialists who currently run the UK’s gender program with medical doctors, including experts “in paediatric medicine, autism, neurodisability and mental health.”

    The new guidance calls for a “wait and see” approach, explaining that research “reflects evidence that in most cases gender incongruence does not persist into adolescence” and doctors should be mindful this might be a “transient phase.”

    A phase. You don’t say.

    Some years ago, I remember reading a story written by a woman who was extremely tomboyish as a girl.  Played with the boys.  Wanted to help her dad swing hammers and such.  She grew up into a beautiful woman and married a man who is quite at home with her version of femininity.  She wears make up and dresses, but is quite willing and able to still swing hammers and work on engines.  She is very glad to be a woman.

    Nowadays, her parents would change her pronouns and her genitalia.

    I think of her story every time I hear about all of these kids being pushed to go trans.  Let them grow up first, for goodness’ sake, and let them figure out for themselves who and what they are.

    Just let kids be kids.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Re the Pennsylvania debate:

    Words are inadequate to describe how cringe it was. It played like an SNL cold open that went too far. The debate rules were modified to help prop up Fetterman’s flagging cognition:

    /snip

    It didn’t help Fetterman. Instead of describing the train wreck, I’ll just include Fetterman’s quotes. He got off to a bad start.

    FETTERMAN (his very first words): “Hi. Good night everybody.”

    FETTERMAN: “I don’t ever recall in the Statue of Liberty did they say you know take our tired huddled masses and put them on a bus and use cheap political stunts about them. I believe we have to develop a comprehensive and bipartisan solution for immigration here and our nation.”

    FETTERMAN (after moderator asks, “why won’t you release your medical records”): “My doctors believe I am ready to be served.” (Question repeated) “My doctor believes I am fit to be serving and I believe that is where I am standing.”  [and there’s more]

    This is just sad.  It’s as bad as Dr. Jill propping up her demented husband for office.  Whoever is propping up Fetterman should be publicly flogged.  This is criminal abuse of a cognitively impaired individual.  If/when he ever fully recovers, he can run for office then.  He is not capable now.

    At least Oz got one debate performance, and it exposed his opponent’s mental state.  Hopefully the news gets out that the lumpy neck guy is just not ready for prime time.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Another “sudden and unexpected” event:

    Suffolk, UK radio host Tim Gough, 55, was an hour into his radio program “GenX” when the music suddenly and unexpectedly stopped playing halfway through Grey Day by Madness.

    Tim had a fatal heart attack. In the middle of his show.

    /snip

    Go ahead, corporate media, keep pretending like nothing unusual’s going on. Maybe Tim just had too many potato chips, or too many hot showers, or too many cold showers, or something.

    Or, maybe it was something with a sharp point on one end.

    Mic drop.

    May he rest in peace, him and all of the others – named and unnamed – who have ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’ passed on.

    BTW – have y’all seen the Katie Perry video where she’s trying to perform and one eyelid just keeps dropping closed on her?  She looked like a dysfunctional doll.  Justin Bieber had something similar happen to him.  And that Canadian actress discussed some weeks back.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the C&C ends with this:

    A clever new study was published this month in the National Bureau of Economic Research, titled “Direct and Indirect Effects of Vaccines: Evidence from COVID-19 in Schools.” The researchers compared covid transmission rates in middle school, where more kids are vaccinated, to transmission rates in elementary school, where very few kids are vaccinated.

    Guess what they found? That’s right! ZERO difference between the two groups. In other words, it appears the jabs don’t even REDUCE transmission rates. Not even a little.

    Of course, they never SAID that it would reduce transmission rates. Oh, wait…

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think the eggery will have to wait until next week.  I’m out of town this coming weekend, and having fifteen dozen eggs to process, sitting around in coolers…

    …it’s better if I wait until Monday or Tuesday.

    Hubby sent me a pic of the tree guy, still working on taking down our oak tree.  He is 68 years old, climbing trees and cutting limbs high up in the air.  We’re paying him an extra $100 for his efforts.  The guy is earning it.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And Handyman sent me this text this morning:

    “Americans must be a lot stronger now than they used to be.  It used to take 2 people to carry a 100 dollars’ worth of groceries.  Now, a five year can do it.”

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yeah, I’ve always liked that Isaiah fella.

  25. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Now that is funny right there.

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Today’s Hamousonian

    What we need is a mayor who is a dwarf lesbian quadriplegic post-op transsexual of Hispanic descent with an Arabic surname. THEN we’d be a world class city!
  27. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh and Texpat

    You do know that I will not let this front page pass without a “reply”.  Maybe not today or even this week.  Definitely not while Shannon is visitin, but I will respond.

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #25 Squawk

    Biden has just about got the Hamous prediction filled on the national level.

  29. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The scum bag murderer Darrell Brooks, Christmas Parade SUV murderer, has been found guilty on all charges.  Those charges include 6 counts of intentional first degree, premeditated murder.

    He will never breathe free air again.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    13 Bonecrusher

    Chinese police stations ?  That’s nothing compared to the hit squads.

    ” China watchers believe that Beijing has created a global network of spies and assassins, under the cloak of diplomacy, to silence critics and dissidents in different parts of the world.

    The network is similar to the network run by Pakistan with its intelligence agency deploying mercenaries and staff to hunt down activists and journalists who have been critical of the state, especially the army. It is not publicly known how deep is the collaboration between the Chinese and Pakistani global network but the possibility cannot be ruled out.

    This global dragnet is run by the Ministry of State Security (MSS), Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and is believed to be present in over 44 countries.

    Although these operations have been in place for a few years, the US Justice Department for the first time, in early July this year, made public the indictment of one former and another current homeland security officials for aiding the Chinese government-run `transnational repression` plan, a lame euphemism for a global hit team. The Justice Department noted that the operation’s objective is to  “silence, harass, discredit and spy“ on  Chinese nationals living in the US. “

    And this,

    ” The suspects, whose mission was allegedly sanctioned by the People’s Republic of China, worked for more than three years as part of a campaign known as “Operation Fox Hunt” to coerce Chinese nationals living in the United States to return to China, where they were wanted for various government offenses, said John Demers, chief of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. 

    In many instances, Demers said, the “hunted are opponents of Communist Party Chairman Xi (Jinping), political rivals, dissidents and critics.” Demers said the suspects operated far outside the normal diplomatic channels.

    Five of the suspects, including a New Jersey private investigator who allegedly assisted with surveillance, were arrested earlier Wednesday and charged as illegal agents of the PRC. The three others are believed to be living in China. “

    Over the years, I’ve told the story at LST and here of my childhood friend living in California and his experience with being warned by the FBI about Chinese death squads in the US after the Tiananmen Square massacre.  He disappeared and moved from the LA area to a tiny, reclusive town in rural California for several years.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I thought Hubby had my weekends off, off.  He did.  I’m in town this weekend, so maybe the eggery is something I could do tomorrow.

    I’ll see if Lovely DIL wants to buy some from me when I return.

  32. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bonez #28

    He will never breathe free air again.

    One can hope that is so.  I can see a scenario where he is handed the keys to the city and made a hero and elected to president shortly thereafter.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The Chinese hit squads sounds like something out of a Clancy novel.  It’s frightening to think they are here in our midst, probably driving important congress critters around and listening in on their phone calls.  Or being a staffer for some puppet administration.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The federal government has never allowed the Chinese government to reopen the consulate in Houston.  It was the intelligence and surveillance HQ for the Chicoms in the USA.

    And another thing, the State Department spokesperson today is this wimpy, skinny, little, gay guy.

    When Donald Trump was president, our State Department spokeswoman looked like this.

  35. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I mentioned that the boy is at the Las Vegas International Speedway for the “Pit Crew Challenge” and he texted me earlier; Driving Lambo’s, Porche’s and Ferrari’s today.

    Then; NASACR Ride Alongs.

    It’s a tough job but somebody’s got to do it.  😀

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m basically packed and ready to roll.

    Swung by the car wash and gave the van the once-over……To provide the catalytic converter thieves a nicer work environment, I guess.

    Emptied the van of my big tool bag and two large storage boxes. I’ll probably gain 5 mpg.

    I’m still impressed with this Invisible Glass product that I found at O’Reilly’s. It truly cuts through the scum on the windshield interior and is streak-free using a microfiber towel.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    With the purchase of a second bag, my carry-on isn’t full.

    Is that legal?

    I guess I’ll have to buy some stuff up there to fill it up. Maybe at the cigar store. Or perhaps some pastrami from the “greatest pastrami store on the planet”. I wish that the discount bed pillow store hadn’t closed down. My goose down pillows are so ancient that they’re only about two inches thick now.

    Or shoes. My black square toed dress shoes are woefully out of style. Need some new Johnson & Murphy’s, Texpat.

  38. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Shannon, if you need new pillows, get some MY PILLOWs. They are fab.

     

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Not to be snooty, but, poly fiber fill pillows really suck.

    Geese must be sacrificed for my true comfort.

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

     

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sneaking out to do my afternoon well-checks very early.

    I’m going to eat lunch about 4pm and supper about 10pm. And squeeze in a nap somewhere in between.

    Take a shower at midnight and hit the road at 2am.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Driving at night has always been my job.  Frankly, it’s nice that there’s less traffic, but one does have to watch out for high beams and deer.

    Hubby’s never been a good night driver.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    At 3 in the morning, 99 is pretty empty.  They’re probably doing 120 mph at that time of the night.

    The first time I was on 99 heading west from I-45 around to FM 529, it was about 9 PM and I was doing 85 in the outside lane and everybody was blowing by me like I was standing still.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m still impressed with this Invisible Glass product that I found at O’Reilly’s. It truly cuts through the scum on the windshield interior and is streak-free using a microfiber towel.

    An RV’er turned me on to Invisible Glass some years ago when we were both gassing up our vehicles.  I get mine at Wal-mart.  

    He had a nice scooter.  I’ve toyed with the idea of getting one for tooling around on for fun or for local trips.  I can’t do motorcycles ever since that 3 day weekend when Hubby and I biked up into northwest Arkansas and back with some friends.  I almost couldn’t walk when we got back, and my pelvis has never been the same since.   I know now I have a congenital, probably hereditary, birth defect in one hip bone.  I guess 12 hours a day for 3 days in a row aggravated it.

    But scooters, because my knees would be angled forward and not off to the side – I can probably do that without hurting myself.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat –

    Hubby and I were visiting College Buddy in Abilene in my period BC (before children).  Hubby got us past Austin, turned the wheel over to me, and said “stay on this road until we get to Abilene and then wake me up”.

    I won’t say how fast I was going, but when I woke him up he looked at the time and exclaimed “how fast were you going?!”  I was driving his pet car at the time, so I fudged a bit.

    College Buddy wasn’t expecting us so soon.  Hubby got us into his driveway and we kicked back and closed our eyes.  It wasn’t long before we heard a knocking on the window.  CB asked how long we’d been there and we tried to prank him and say we’d been waiting for an hour.  His face disappeared and then reappeared. He told us we were full of s**t, that the tailpipe was still warm, and we should get our bags and come inside.

    Looking back, I am grateful I didn’t hit some cow or something along the way.  We were out in the middle of BFE, no one for miles.  If we’d had a wreck, no one would’ve found us for quite a while.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Insert evil laugh here

  46. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I ride a Vespa 150 fairly regularly as part of my duties here at the office.  Gotta keep the battery charged, fuel fresh, tires from dry rotting, seals lubricated, etc.

     

    /Tough job but someone has to do it.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    An old friend of mine from West Texas flipped a VW bug out there when they hit a deer in the middle of the night.  They were college kids and he said the car rolled like a bowling ball, but never caved in.  That was back when they made VW bugs like tanks.  I know because I had one.

    Also, I have a whole group of friends up here who all ride Can-Am three-wheelers because their backs and other parts are shot these days and can’t take the two-wheeler ride anymore.

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Take a shower at midnight and hit the road at 2am.

    Sudden flashback:

    I was “on call” for baby #2 (L’il Darlin, LD2).  For a week I’d kept my “go bag” packed and ready to go at a moment’s notice, as I was supposed to drive from Houston to Bryan when Lovely Daughter went into labor.  My job was to care for Sunshine while Mom and Dad were otherwise occupied.

    I had been trying to make sure I was always rested, just in case.  One night, I had a list of things I stayed up late to take care of, “just in case”.  Things that Hubby couldn’t (or shouldn’t) do.  I had piled into bed around 1:00 a.m. – and my phone rang at 2:00.  Yep, it was time.  Forunately, since I had prepped, I was on the road within minutes.

    I arrived in Bryan around 4:30ish in the morning.  They had a friend in the house for the interim period before I arrived.  I tried to sleep, but alarm clocks kept going off.  Hubby called me. At 7:00 I had to get up and take Sunshine to day care and drop off the family friend.  I went back to the house and tried to crash on the couch, but Aggie Beau came home, and then there were other interruptions.  As y’all know, I’m not a good day napper to begin with.  Finally, I was able to gather Sunshine and take her to the hospital to meet her new sister.

    As I am wont to say, “I was dragging a$$ so badly I had carpet burns on my butt.” Needless to say, I slept like a rock the next night.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Aw, come on Texpat.

    You know I am my father’s son.

    Although he always did 5 mph under the speed limit, I will at least do 5 over the speed limit.

    If they’re doing 120, I’ll be in the right lane doing 75.

    I want to be on time for check in.

    Not standing on the side of the road with some jerk HPD or Constable at 3  o’clock in the morning.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I think Daddy loved his old company VW microbus because it maxed out at 46 mph.

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Harris County Deputy Sheriff to his partner:

    Hey, Leroy, see that guy in the minivan doing 7 miles over the limit in the outside lane.  Let’s stop him because otherwise we’ll be halfway to Freeport before we can catch up to these guys doing 130.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I should leave town more often.

    The kitchen is spotless. The sink(s) are empty. The dishwasher is running.

    The living room has been vacuumed. No. That’s a lie.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Can’t you just see Tedtam on a scooter, hauling cast-off plastic chairs and storage containers for the garden? With a box of Mason jars on her lap?

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Wisconsin Christmas Parade Killer guilty on 76 counts.

    No thanks are due the absolutely useless judge in the case.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    47

    She’ll look like one of those scooter guys in India or Cambodia.

    /insert video here

     

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #47

    If I know Hubby, he’d make me a little trailer for all that stuff.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nationwide shortage of ADHD medication.

    Let’s go, Brandon!

  58. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #51

    Soon to be followed by just about every other product…

    I haven’t heard any updates of the diesel shortage.  Are we still counting down on our days before our economy comes to a screeching halt?

  59. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #52

    I’ve already shut down my work laptop for the day. I’ve pulled up some statistics from the Oil & Gas Journal regarding gasoline and diesel stockpiles. I do not remember the exact number so I’ll wait till tomorrow to comment here, but the diesel is definitely down.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    Here you go…

    Oilprice.com, October 26, 2022:

    ” A shortage of diesel fuel is spreading across the United States, with one company launching an emergency delivery protocol, requesting a 72-hour advance notice from clients to be able to make the delivery.

    Per a Bloomberg report, fuel supplier Mansfield Energy wrote in a note to its clients that “conditions are rapidly devolving” and “At times, carriers are having to visit multiple terminals to find supply, which delays deliveries and strains local trucking capacity.”

    U.S. diesel fuel stocks have been on a stable decline for months, reaching the lowest level since 2008 as of October. Currently, the United States only has 25 days of diesel supply in reserve.

    Bloomberg noted in its report that the Colonial Pipeline has been fully booked to carry diesel fuel and other distillates to the East Coast, which should ease the supply pressure but it will take a while, with the first deliveries expected in early November. “

     

     

  61. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    SuperDave excuse me while I mop up my drool from the floor after reading about your son’s driving expeditions today.

    I’ve thought about renting an Italian super car, but I’ve just never pulled the trigger. It is something ridiculous like $250 for only two or three hours of rental time. I’ve also heard the Lamborghini Club of Dallas occasionally let’s people do ride alongs at a local track.

  62. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Why is that Republicans are usually characterized as crazy, violent, bigoted, intolerant, etc., when it’s so often the left that is BSC?

    Rubio canvasser attack: 2nd suspect arrested, police say he confronted victim for being Republican

    According to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital, Jonathan Alexander Casanova joined Javier Lopez in attacking the canvasser. The document also noted that the canvasser told police that Casanova told him he could not pass through the area because he was a Republican.

    Now, THAT’S what I call ‘red lining’!

  63. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I do remember one stat. The refinery utilization rate is currently 89.2%. The utilization rate typically runs between 89% and 92% capacity. So this is good news that refineries are still producing distillates. Typically after the summer driving season refineries switch from producing more gasoline to more diesel products.

  64. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    And now the most ironic, hilarious and crazy energy news of the day…

    ” A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy.  

    The dismantling of at least one wind turbine at the wind farm close to the German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy giant RWE, has already started. RWE says that lignite, or brown coal, has been mined from the Garzweiler coalfields for over 100 years.

    RWE also said at the end of September that three of its lignite-fired coal units that were previously on standby would return to the electricity market on schedule in October.

    “The three lignite units each have a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW). With their deployment, they contribute to strengthening the security of supply in Germany during the energy crisis and to saving natural gas in electricity generation,” RWE said last month.

    Now the company is expanding the lignite mine at Garzweiler after a court in Münster in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled in favor of the energy group in a land dispute in March this year to expand the lignite mine. “

  65. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat

    I wonder how much money was sunk into the green boondoggle?

    You can’t make this stuff up.

  66. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Texpat @ 6:08 pm

    I’ve got you beat. It’s another Oil & Gas Journal article that I’ll post tomorrow. The cliff notes version is that natural gas spot prices at a hub in either Texas or Oklahoma went negative today.

  67. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More insanity hypocrisy from the left:

    Mayra Flores Prevented From Joining the Congressional Hispanic Caucus

    The function of the Caucus is to serve as a forum for the Hispanic Members of Congress to coalesce around a collective legislative agenda.”

    The website does not state in its “About” section that only Democrats can join the organization.

    “As the first Mexican-born Congresswoman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, I thought joining the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would be a constructive way to build bridges and work in a bipartisan manner on behalf of our constituents. I was wrong. This denial once again proves a bias towards conservative Latinas that don’t fit their narrative or ideology,” Flores told Townhall.

  68. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Along the lines of “you can’t make this stuff up” – again!

    Fauci’s NIAID lab in Maryland moves to create severe monkeypox strain

    The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, directed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, is conducting research involving the creation of a more severe strain of monkeypox in an effort to help develop better vaccines for humans, the organization said.

    Like we didn’t learn from his last experiment????

  69. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Fauci has been way too long an oxygen thief.  His evil puts Joseph Mengele to shame.

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    58 TexMo

    At the Henry Hub in Louisiana today the spot price has fallen below $6 per 1 million BTU or mcf.

    It’s dropping like a rock.

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    MAJOR CORRECTION

    The imbeciles at TMZ swallowed a fake tip Jerry Lee Lewis died.  It’s not true.

    The larger problem is dozens of news media orgs bought it hook, line and sinker. That is what they get for trusting that of bunch of weird crackheads at TMZ.

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: My comment at 6:35 PM

    You know, if you want natural gas, those amazing guys in the Texas Oilpatch will give you so much they will end up having to pay you to take it.

    Meanwhile, Euros are paying hundreds of dollars for the exact same thing and we could be exporting it to them way cheaper than what they pay now.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Jerry Lee Lewis isn’t dead?

    Well I’ll be.

  74. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I notice that people online have started referring to Fetterman as Fetterneck…

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sing it, son.

  76. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #63 M42:  I think “Lumpy” works better.

    Dr. Oz was outnumbered in the debate: It was the moderator, plus Fetterman, plus the lump, against Oz, and Oz still won.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    74

    Lord, it’s not her heart, it’s her mind

  78. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    64 Shannon

    A great memory I have.

    A night in the mid-1970s in Pasadena at Gilley’s with two grand pianos on the stage and Jerry Lee Lewis dueling it out on the keys with his cousin, Mickey all night long.  Once in a lifetime.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    65

    They keep talking’ about that old boy’s neck.

    Let me tell ya, with a normal neck that’s the weirdest-looking dude I evah saw.

  80. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Speaking of Jerry Lee Lewis.

    By the way, anybody who has lived through so many scandals, consumed so much whiskey, snorted so much coke, done that much speed and still got sober ought to get some kind of award for still being alive at 87 years old.

  81. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Jerry Lee – best hair in the business.

    🙂

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Jonathan Winters roasts Frank Sinatra 

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    $275,000,000

    A half a billion dollars in school bonds, including a 275 Million Dollar High School?

  84. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    New Jersey State Song

    Texas State Song

  85. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Nite all.

  86. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    70 Shannon

    I can’t even…I am speechless.  I remember visiting my friends in Dripping Springs many times back when they had one red light and one gas station.

  87. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP – no joke! Drippin Springs used to be sho nuff BFE!

  88. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    A quote I’d have bet a paycheck that I’d never see – much less be able to POST!

    “Capitalism is a wild beast. We need to tame it,” Bono said. “But globalization has brought more people out of poverty than any other -ism. If somebody comes to me with a better idea, I’ll sign up. I didn’t grow up to like the idea that we’ve made heroes out of businesspeople, but if you’re bringing jobs to a community and treating people well, then you are a hero. That’s where I’ve ended up.”

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/bono-poverty-capitalism-commerce-jobs

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Cougar High opened a medical school today.

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