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There you are! Thanks Texpat.
Mornin’ Gang Again
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That’s not far off at all.
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Only in Alabama, I just overheard my wife talking to my sister and they were discussing the Lane Shark,…. it don’t take much to excite a couple of farm girls. 😀
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Listen closely she ain’t discussing yer low gpm! 😀
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Thanks for putting up the thread, Texpat. I was plumb tahrred last night and forgot to check to make sure there was couch for us to land on today.
Just got out of bed. I’ve brushed my hair, which is always a challenge first thing in the morning, but I’ve corralled the crazy and have my coffee in hand. Waking up is next. So is “Maverick”. I’ve come to really look forward to James Garner on Saturday mornings.
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I also woke up to clues that my crock pot runneth over during the night. Poor Hubby had to clean it up. By the much lower liquid level, I gather it was a small flood. I guess once it started to siphon out…
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#4 GJT 😀
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I’ve been seeing references to “Babel X” and FBI whistleblowers recently, but just now found out that it’s about the FBI monitoring social media accounts for “election misinformation”.
More proof that the FBI/DOJ has become a putrid mass of corruption.
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Media gets trolled by pranksters pretending to be victims of Twitter layoffs:
A pair of pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees tricked multiple media outlets Friday as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Elon Musk had begun axing staffers.
CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa interviewed two people who identified themselves as Twitter employees and were seen near the company’s San Francisco headquarters carrying cardboard boxes.
Skepticism immediately emerged on social media. One of the pranksters said his name was “Rahul Ligma” — a reference to a popular internet meme — and held a copy of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” aloft while speaking to reporters.
/snip
CNBC, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail and NBC were among the outlets that reported layoffs were underway after the duo spoke to the media.
“It’s happening,” CNBC’s Bosa tweeted. Entire team of data engineers let go. These are two of them.”
“They are visibly shaken,” Bosa added. “Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn’t know how he’s going to make payments.”
After the hoax was revealed, there was crawdadding on the story by the suckered outlets.
“Quite ironic that a major news outlet failed to do basic diligence and fell for a crisis actor prank, resulting in the spread of misinfo, on the first day of new ownership,” Lee tweeted. “All you had to do was ask to see a badge or look for bird-themed stuff in the boxes. Also we don’t use Zoom.”
Basic diligence. I don’t think today’s mainstream media even knows what that is.
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As I was typing last night about the conveniences of stockpiling, I also got to thinking – if this diesel crisis really exists, we have enough here to last until the crisis is hopefully resolved. Hubby and I were talking about this the other night, and as he pointed out, we could stretch our stores by skipping a few meals. “It’s not like we can’t afford to,” he laughed as he rubbed his belly. Unfortunately, that is too true.
I’m shooting for multiple years of food supplies. I like the LDS requirement of at least two years. That will take a while. But we have enough of the basics for something like the diesel issue. I would hope that something like that would jump start some common sense and a few impeachments.
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Now there are reports of eye problems related to the jab.
The problems manifesting after the Covid shots just keep piling up. I’ve already written about myocarditis, Lewy body dementia, rubbery blood clots, skin necrosis, infertility, and the loss of smell.
… The UK equivalent of VAERS (MHRA) had 132 cases of blindness and 6,682 reports of eye disorders after COVID19 shots.
The ‘ocular manifestations’ occurred on the eyelid, cornea, conjunctiva or internally on the retina, uvea, nerve, and vessel. The abnormalities were found to occur up to 42 days after vaccination. Vaccine-induced immunologic response could be the cause.
Heads should roll.
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We’ve had contractors at the house all week working on the wood burning stove remodel. I couldn’t get away to go vote. I can go today, but the Mrs. has taken our youngest deer hunting this weekend. Mrs. TexMo runs around like Tedtam. They both manage to run 12 cylinders in a V8. She will always go vote if I accompany her. I’ll have to be after her all this next week to go vote because I know her. Her plate is always full and she’ll find an excuse not to go.
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Like being able to use color in Adobe? In order to do so, now you get to pay a monthly subscription fee to Pantone for the privilege.
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The C&C has finally arrived:
C&C NEWS ☙ Saturday, October 29, 2022 ☙ PHARMA CLOWNS
Here’s the roundup in case I skip something that looks interesting to you:
Good morning, C&C, and welcome to the Weekend Edition! Your jam-packed roundup today: Florida investigates a massive democrat ballot-buying organization; Twitter holdouts continue censorship mission like stranded Japanese soldiers after World War II; Musk forms a moderation committee; Biden ships more nukes to Europe; Russia presents its biolab case to the United Nations; the Senate releases an interim report on the Wuhan lab; Vanity Fair publishes a massive recap of the lab-leak scandal; Italy drops punishments on unjabbed; Paul Pelosi — what we know; Florida Board of medicine votes to ban trans treatments for kids; corporate media gets trolled by pranskter programmers; Supreme Court gives prayerful high school coach his job back; and an independent comedian single-handedly destroys big pharma.
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Well, I’ve been very busy getting ready for Shannon’s visit. We’ve been running around, seeing people and trying to cover all bases. Tonight we miss the game because we’re going to the historic, 19th century Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York to see The Mavericks in concert.
Y’all behave yourselves.
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First up,DeSantis goes after election fraud:
On Thursday, Just the News reported that Florida Governor DeSantis’ new election crimes unit recommended the state police open a full criminal investigation into an alleged long-running, widespread ballot harvesting operation in politically important, central-Florida African-American communities. The investigation arose from a Democrat whistleblower’s detailed complaint describing the harvesting scheme, which describes specific details, names names, lists amounts paid for ballots ($10 each), and so forth.
But…but….but….I thought there was NO election fraud, that the past elections were clean as the wind driven snow, that NO WAY could elections be rigged! Well, as long as liberals got elected, anyway.
Video of one encounter with ballot harvester.
Within an hour of the Just the News story hitting Twitter, Twitter added a “Safety Flag” warning to the post, so that people who clicked the link to the ballot harvesting article would see THIS scary advice: [Insert “this link may be unsafe” warning]
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Three takeaways. First, it’s no surprise that Musk has a lot of work to do to clean up Twitter. Hopefully he’ll find whoever did this and fire them. Second, the holdouts inside Twitter don’t seem to know the war is over; they’re like those goofy stranded Pacific island soldiers after World War II. Third, corporate media REALLY wishes this story would just go away.
“Ballots for dollars” is ugly. I will say it: this is EXPLICITLY vote buying. The breaking story threatens corporate media’s beloved “cleanest election in history” narrative.
The lefty activists are only in triage mode with this “safety warning.” Believe me, they’re busy working on a counter narrative right now. I predict it’ll be that the investigation is “racist” or transphobic or socially unjust or something.
Yes, Musk has a LOT of work to do. So does DeSantis. And Abbott. And every other governor in the country.
Vote. As in the C&C post from yesterday, one of the things we HAVE to do to recover from all this madness is to vote in people with principles and backbone. The hard part is finding those folks and getting them to run for office.
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More from C&C:
After hearing five hours of public and expert comment, Florida’s Board of Medicine voted yesterday to recommend BANNING trans medicines and surgeries for kids. The gist seems to be that the risk posed by irreversible treatments for gender dysphoria outweigh the uncertain benefits.
Several “de-transitioners” spoke to the Board of Medicine about the horror of their experiences.
These speakers included a very brave young lady, Chloe Cole, 18, shown above at the left, a courageous survivor of teenaged testosterone treatments and top surgery. “Why is a mental health epidemic not being addressed with mental health treatment to get at the root causes for why female adolescents like me want to reject their bodies?” Cole asked the panel.
Perzackly.
And if she’s 18 now, her parents must’ve approved the mutilation of her body. The parents are just as deranged as she was.
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And then Childers takes on Russia’s claim against US bioweapons research:
Although this story has been COMPLETELY embargoed by corporate media, on Thursday Russia presented its dossier of evidence against the United States at the U.N. Security Council.
The only place I could find any official report was on the Russian government’s website, which simply reproduced its official statement to the United Nations….
The statement… is worth reading in full. Essentially, it summarizes extensive evidence of the Pentagon’s involvement in Ukraine’s expansive network of biolabs, including documents referencing multiple strains of dangerous pathogens…The statement refers to multiple documents and recovered drone parts evidencing a U.S./Ukraine scheme to use drones, insects, birds, and bats to carry infectious agents against military troops.
The Russians say that neither the U.S. or Ukraine have ever answered its claims in any meaningful way, except to dismiss the hard evidence as “disinformation” and “propaganda.” Nor am I aware of any substantive response by the United States to these serious allegations.
And then this point is made, and I think it’s legit: Why just the military?
The Russian delegation said the smoking gun was the Pentagon’s involvement. If the biological cooperation between the two countries was purely for “community health,” why are all the involved American agencies military, and not health-related?
Of course, the US and allies are fighting any real investigation of the claims.
Link to the Russian statement.
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Morning, gang. Chilly at last! I hated to get out from under the covers, but 20-y.o. Millie came in looking for me and bleating for her breakfast. So I had to get up. Until about a week ago, I’ve had the hall door to my room closed overnight to keep the 2 Big Boys from coming in and scaring JoJo. It’s taken them 3 years to accept the fact that the little orange girl lives here.
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For my Catholic friends, here is an important reminder about the month of November.
When I leave this mortal realm, I would appreciate your prayers for me. I shall remember you.
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TexMo;
but the Mrs. has taken our youngest deer hunting this weekend.
Very good, bless her, where are they going? I’m guessing that this is normally your job? BTW; For you folks in Rio Linda next weekend is opening day for deer season in Texas, (first Saturday in November) but this weekend is the special youth hunt only weekend.
One of my Hunting Buddy’s took his boys hunting this weekend but they didn’t miss the Astros game last night. Also my SIL will be hunting with the oldest boy and James one of the middle boys, he only has 4 boys, oldest might be 10 by now.
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The Couch seems to be abandoned today…
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We’re just being lazy. At least, where posting is concerned. The weather is actually comfortable, and I’m about to run some errands. Hang in there, Mharper – I anticipate that we’ll all be back in a few more hours.
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I’m going to have make some keto-inspired popcorn alternatives for snacking on during election night.
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I went to vote at my local public library. Apparently Ft. Bend County has moved away from paper and pen signatures. You now sign on a tablet with a fat faced disposable stylus that makes your signature virtually illegible. I’m not happy with that. They also had new voting machines. Fortunately they kept the feature that prints out your ballot. You then take it to another machine that scans it and then deposits it into a lock box so they have both an electronic record and a paper back up. I did double check my paper ballot after it printed and all was well with it.
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SuperDave, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept allows you to put your children’s name into a lottery for deer hunts. They have a ton of locations throughout the state with dates running from two weeks before the season opens all the way till the end of the season. I think there are even some extra dates in January outside of the season. You select your location and date and hope you get picked. They have a similar system for adults too.
We have a friend who’s daughter bagged a deer last weekend at Brazos Bend State Park. They process their own deer so after field dressing it they hauled it home to Sugar Land. The girl’s mom invited my wife and boy over to watch her butcher it to make sure my boy didn’t have any issues with the sight or smell. He didn’t.
The girl’s mom is an A&M graduate with a degree in Animal Sciences. She has butcherd all sorts of animals.
They drove up towards Nacogdoches early this morning to check in. They can hunt Sat afternoon/evening and then Sun morning/afternoon/evening.
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Shannon & Texpat y’all have fun tonight!
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Well we chose correctly on the camo pattern. Wife just sent this pic. You can see his torso because he has on hunters orange and he has a backpack. But those legs just blend right into the foliage on the ground.
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Thanks.
Go Astros!
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#23 TT
Aw shucks, I just took a nap…
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I didn’t get much done today, since the elbow has flared up again. Dangit. I think it was a combination of trying to lift something from the fridge, not realizing it was jammed up against something else. My elbow felt perfectly fine until it met that resistance. Dangit. Then last night I was carving up the pork roast for canning.
I did get out to Half Price Books, because I wanted to get out of the house. I found some Latin resources and a puzzle for Eldest Sis. She like puzzles, and this one is Shakespearean insults. I think she’ll find it amusing.
And since I shouldn’t be cutting any more stuff tonight, I’m taking the pork veggie stock from the crock pot and adding some of my ever so convenient dried food stuffs on my shelf, and we’re having soup tonight. No cutting involved.
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I heard through the grapevine that unck brought his bongos with him to New Jersey and he and Texpat had a big bash last night.
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I was just asked to “click on each picture that contains a duck”.
Now, why did that make me chuckle?
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BTW – I passed a polling place today, and I was surprised to see how many Democrats were running red-colored signs.
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FBI Now Wants 66 Years Before Releasing Information On Seth Rich
Reminds me of Pfizer wanting 75 years before releasing their records. What is it with this generational delay of transparency?
Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer when he was killed on a street in Washington in mid-2016. No person has ever been arrested in connection to the murder.
U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant, an Obama appointee, ruled in September that the bureau must hand over information from the computer to Brian Huddleston, a Texas man who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the info.
In case y’all forgot, he was a Democrat staffer that had connections to Hillary, who was mugged by someone who failed to take his valuables in the mugging. Except maybe the computer he may have had with him.
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#35 TT: It is definitely a cover-up and the 60 years is to guarantee that all those involved will be dead before the evidence comes out.
In my view, the request for delay is an admission of guilt.
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Astros are starting out extremely well. First inning and we’re up by two, no outs.
Let’s hope we keep the momentum going.
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Dangit. I should’ve kept my mouth shut. One out.
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We just stole third base because Phillies overthrew the ball.
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And now they missed an easy out at first because the first baseman dropped the ball.
Holy cow, somebody missed their Wheaties this morning.
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Thank God it wasn’t our guys, this time.
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#26 TexMo, that’s great! I just found out that my one of my hunting buddies, boy got a big doe this afternoon. I’ve not seen the picture yet but I’ll post it if I can.
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About bedtime ut here. Some good football today, some terrible football today. Just can’t seem to get in the right frame of mind for it today for some reason. More later.
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Late to the party, just checking in after we returned home from a Tuesday to Saturday visit with spouse’s brother and wife who live in De Forest, a suburb of Madison, the capital city of WI. WI is definitely on the further repair of the state to remove a senile Dem Governor imported from MN who “won” it last time. Plenty of Rs in the state are really, really annoyed as are former Dems who have split with that destroyed party. Fortunately the Legislature is R and will gain even more R members who can start to untangle the mess the Dems have made over the past 4 years.
More tomorrow. Go Astros!
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The Astros pulled it off, I watched the game until the top of the eighth and went to bed. In other news the front that was to bring rain just after midnight sort of fell apart and we only got a trace (.02″) of rain. Looking at the radar, we may have a slight chance of weather coming out of the gulf but it looks like most of the rain will be in north Florida. We’re hoping that we get a little bit because we really need it.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. Perusing football scores this morning. Some shake-ups and upsets up and down the line, but the top teams managed to stay pretty well in tact. And the Stros rally to win the second game of the WS. The most noteworthy under performance by a D1 college football team had to be the Rice Owls playing in front of the home coming crowd of hundreds at Rice Stadium. They were hosting the Charlotte team which is ranked 131 in the group of D! football teams – the group consists of `131 teams. Meaning they are ranked as the absolute dead last, worst D1 football team in America. Rice on the other hand has won a couple of games in which they were under dogs in an effort to regain some sort of respectability in college athletic circles, and even as pathetic as Rice has been lately, they were 16-17 point favorites. Well long story short, Charlotte kicked Rice’s ass up one side of the Rice Stadium turf and back down the other. Rice did not appear to care one bit. Their football coach is paid $1 million per year, has been there 5 years now, and just this year reached double digit wins against D! opponents – Prairie View and Texas Southern are no D1 opponents. Rice coach has publicly stated that he does not need this job since he has plenty of money and a hot wife, and it shows that he does not care on whit about it. I cannot describe to you and conceivable reason the administration continues to support these losers. It’s a national embarrassment and a disgrace.
Have a good day.
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If Brother Dave decided to build a swimming pool at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfLmIVm8P88
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#47 El Gordo that guy is insane! He takes my OCD Overkill work to another level. That said; I’d have designed a plane just like his if I could. About the pool though, it’s neat and all but why go that far? I guess, because you can?
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SD
That was my thought, cool but, why?
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He apparently applied to his local municipality to put a free standing pool in his back yard. His application was denied because he is too close to a stream or river or something. So he decided that under his local code, he could add on to his house and meet the local code, so that’s what he is doing. He also wants to have his kids do scuba diving, so the pool is deep enough to do all that kind of stuff too. And as he said, once you are tired of swimming, the bottom of the pool can come up and turn in to a dance floor, or you can set the bottom at whatever depth you want it to be. He and his twin brother developed all the engineering for electric cars and sold their company for buku millions. Brother makes Best Tugs for airplanes which is very successful while this guy works on waste water reclamation projects for a regular job and builds airplanes in his spare time. They initially developed Best Tugs because one of the wives wasn’t flying because she found it too hard to take her plane in and out of the hanger – and like everything else they do, the tug will not only tow your plane, it will check the battery charge, air up the tires, and who knows whatever else. Of course, they cost about the same as a small plane too.
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And now the Paul Pelosi story begins to make some sense – thanks to the new Chief Twit at Twitter. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4104702/posts
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More to the story although most of it seems to have evaporated into the ether. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4104700/posts
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We made it to the Tarrytown Music Hall last night and that was a bizarre, wild experience of municipal incompetence taken to a never before level in history. That story is for later.
However, the concert in the old hall with The Mavericks was just as fun and incredible as I thought it would be. What a show these guys put on. It did make the pain of confiscatory ticket pricing easier to endure. I would do it again, but somewhere other than Tarrytown, New York.
There is a reason Washington Irving lived there and wrote a story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. He must have been writing about real, local residents.
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I read several things on Twitter and other places yesterday that make me question the initial account of what actually occurred at the Pelosi residence.
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Speaking of Twitter, I have definitely noticed a change in my news feed over the past 48 hours. The algorithms have started to change and I see more conservatives in my feed.
I have also seen many conservatives leaning posters comment that they have gained 5000, 10000, or even 15000 followers in just one day. Then you go down into the comments of those posts and people say something like “I didn’t even know you were still on Twitter. I haven’t seen anything from you in over a year.”
More proof that the old Twitter limited the reach of conservative commenters and posters.
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I know five people from two separate families that went to the Astros game last night. Try as I might, I never saw them on TV. 🙂
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I just found out my boys’ godmother passed away last night. Memory Eternal Mary Anne.
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A friend of my wife claims she has been banned from twitter since the Trump days but miraculously has access again.
I re-signed back up on twitter but I need to learn how it works, very chaotic to me.
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I will say the artwork posted in my header for this Weekend OC is appropriate for the absurd, current San Francisco story.
If you want a window into the life and mind of the Pelosi attacker, paste this (oxane taub san francisco) into your search engine search bar, click on images and then follow the nude protester/nude marriage links to the different news stories.
Oxane Taub is the decades long girlfriend/wife? of the attacker, Paul DePape, and man, she is one certifiable lunatic. She’s famous in San Francsico for walking around the streets nude protesting one thing or another.
There is obviously nudity involved in this story in case you missed that part.
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How do we know that Mr. Pelosi was not the attacker and the weird other guy was not the intended victim. These people can get into some really bizarre behavior you know. When will we get to hear the 911 call? Who else was there at the time? Police Chief is having a hard time getting the script written on this one.
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I know five people from two separate families that went to the Astros game last night. Try as I might, I never saw them on TV.
One of our old LST friends was caught on camera on national TV, you might remember her as Emmiekelly.
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I’m surprised how long it took for the “rumors” of the gay tryst at the Pelosi house to reach me.
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We had balcony seats. I spent most of the concert on my feet and dancing on the lower level where it was much cooler.
Already having some calf muscle strain from walking on ever-present inclines, standing, and climbing stairs ten times more than I do at home——- dancing for a couple hours almost finished off my poor calves. Spent the morning with my feet up on the couch and applying Biofreeze topical pain relief.
All very well worth it.
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The West Point Academy visit may have to be postponed until the next visit since it involves quite a bit of walking…..on inclines.
I’m still hell bent on doing the new Ellis Island museum tomorrow morning. But we’ll just have to see.
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Good Afternoon Hamsters,
Nice to be back home and temporarily put away the jackets.
Good to see many red background political signs all over, including in my kin’s Madison suburb. Kinfolk have two blue and one red sign in their yard. The red one is for a local contest I think. I did not mention any of those, as the wife leans left without realizing that’s what she’s doing, and the brother-in-law is mostly conservative. (He’s an Air Force veteran.) The farther you go from Madison in the county, the more red signs you see and far, far few blue ones. Presume that it is major red throughout the rest of the state. Except Milwaukee that is royal blue along with a few suburbs.
I did some shopping one day with sister-in-law as is customary when we visit. WI has definitely been hurt economically but thankfully not as bad as Biden’s Depression has damaged some states. There were empty stores here and there, some of them businesses I had frequented in earlier trips. That was sad to see. I bought things at three of my favorite places, all in the suburban downtown. Those stores were each staffed by several persons. This was on Wednesday afternoon, and at one store we were the only shoppers. At the others there were maybe two more. At two stores I could not resist some items that could not be carried on the plane, so they are being sent home by UPS.
Grocery stores there have in general raised prices more than we have here. Suspect we aren’t far behind on that. Restaurants might also have, but not being a customer at both places, I don’t know by how much. Though the kinfolk mentioned some grocery stores in particular having increases, and they expect more to come. They will come through this all right, having had parents who taught them about money, how to save it through Piggy Banks at an early age and more ways as they got older. Their house is paid for as are their vehicles.
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Adee – watch out for those red signs. As noted above, I saw quite a few Dems appropriating Republican colors for their signs.
If you can’t win, cheat. Of sorts.
Confuse the weak minded.
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Okay, Grandpa.
It’s perfectly executed Chicken Portabello in an unbelievably exquisite brown sauce with dried marinated tomatoes, shallots and fresh mixed julienned veggies properly al dente, and red potatoes to
diekill for.Great wine. Great scenery.
A special treat at a neighborhood restaurant.
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I get a Gold Star for not eating any pasta while I’m up here in Italian Central, right?
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OK Shannon, you may have me beat with all that ambience and stuff but sister came over and I fixed some Bambi Backstraps wrapped in poblano peppers and bacon, cooked in my new Lodge Dutch oven. I also made Charro Beans, rice, real Mac N Cheese, gravy and yeast rolls. Mmm Mmm. Good Stuff Maynard. Yup, Life is Good in my world. 😉
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Oh and Shannon That looks real fine for sure. 😉
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Venison back strap wrapped in bacon and poblano? On fancy-pants rooster plates?
You win.
Slappin’ me around like a red-headed step child.
I forgive you.
🙂
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#69 Shannon, Wait I’m the red-headed stepchild! 😀
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Off to bed a little early tonight. Night all.
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/hanging head down
Costco ready made pull pork sammiches.
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GLORIOUS fall day for a cruise!
And UNcharacteristically a smooth FAST fast lane w no lollygaggers alla way from Giddings to Hempstead!
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70 SD
Heh.
Been waiting for years for the perfect opportunity to use that one on you.
🙂
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Anyone interested, look up the final lap at the NASCAR race at Martinsville today. I didn’t watch the race but it’s everywhere. Ross Chastain took a risk and it paid off, big time.
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10 raccoons showed up for cool-weather chow on the patio tonight.
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Dog sitting for our son is over tonight, she is a good dog and minds well but it’s good to be back to normal. Her and Buddy get along ok but he is enjoying his peace and quiet we can tell lol.
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I didn’t think she’d ever leave… Jus’ kidding I love my sister but it was my wife that made that statement. For you folks in Rio Linda that was a joke and wife and sister have been friends since before I managed to get my wife to notice me.
Well I’m done, later Gang.
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Married his sister’s best friend.
Hey, dude, whatever works for ya.
Lol
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