A little levity to start the day. This is one of my favorite comediennes.
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We’re loading up for a short Road Trip to north Alabama. Going to check out the small Sound Studio Museum in Muscle Shoals and then check out Helen Keller’s birthplace nextdoor in Tuscumbia. Also on the way up I have to see the Coon Dog Cemetery in Cherokee.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning – it’s raining here in the woods… does that mean that it’ll be be nicer weather in Philly for baseball???
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Morning gang. Might see a little rain out here today, but so far just a comfortable 55 degrees and clear skies. You all have a great day now.
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We’ll be heading out in a bit and ifin’ you’re wondering, the run from near SE Alabama to the far NW corner is not a long drive, less than 5 hours so we don’t have to be in a big hurry, besides if we leave too soon we’ll be early for check-in at our VRBO on the Tennessee River….. Later Gang,….. 😉
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SD – Have a safe trip and a nice time
TexMo – I started studying that IFTTT business, and it looks pretty nifty for consolidating every imaginable smart device under one control system. Way more sophisticated that what I’m doing – I’m barely in the beginner’s class. Since I’m in the Amazon ecosystem, it looks like they will own my soul before long and I won’t be able to do anything without their approval. Being able to turn lights on and off from opposite ends of the house is pretty nice though, and the Echo Dots pretty well eliminate the need for my Kindle units. It’s still fun to play around with these things to just discover some of the capabilities, and I’m pretty sure that I’m utilizing less than 5% of them. I’m hesitant to incorporate electronics (TVs, computers, home theater, etc.) into the equation for controlling just the on/off functions since I don’t know what the actual shut down routines are on some of these things and just chopping the power seems problematic. But it is nice to get up in the morning while it’s still dark and instruct Echo to light my way to the kitchen so that I don’t fall down or step on something. I’ll probably keep studying this smart stuff.
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C&C NEWS ☙ Tuesday, November 1, 2022 ☙ PREVENTION
Only seven more days till the elections, hang in there…
Welcome to November, C&C, and good morning! Today’s awesome roundup includes: SADS strikes again; negative vaccine efficacy; I debunk Pfizer’s new claim it never tested for preventing infections; CDC director Walensky gets covid, again, after 5 jabs and paxlovid; Brazil in massive protests after election results; and True the Vote activists spend a day in jail after refusing to turn over their whistleblower.
I heard about the True the Vote arrests yesterday. Nah, there’s no intimidation in the voting process, just move along…
/spits
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A little worse for wear, but I’m present.
And home.
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Anybody understand what this is all about? First I’ve heard of it I believe.
Two leaders of True the Vote jailed by federal judge for contempt of court
Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were escorted away by marshals after refusing to disclose the name of a mystery man who supposedly helped them investigate election software company Konnech, which is suing them for defamation.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/31/true-the-vote-leaders-jailed/
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Tedtam @ 8:19
Should have refreshed, sorry.
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C&C, another ‘sudden and unexpected’ health issue:
Please keep videogame studio director J. E. Sawyer in your thoughts today, as he’s struggling with baffling, sudden and unexpected blood clots throughout his body. The good news though is that, since he’s alway been a cheerleader for the jabs, he’s protected from covid. Probably.
I saw a number yesterday – and I can’t remember the exact numbers, so these may be wrong – of over 100 athletes who died and IIRC, over 400 that have suffered serious health issues like palsy, seizures, heart attacks, etc.
I expect a few to drop in any year, but fewer than the non-athlete population. Duh. Things happen. But hundreds? And if this is happening to celebrities/athletes in these numbers, what must be happening in the general population?
Speaking of general population, I wonder what’s happening inside prisons. I’m sure those folks were forced or at least strongly encouraged to take the jab, since they are in a situation where they are close together constantly.
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Kurt Schlichter dumps on Pelosi.
HEADLINE: Everyone Is Laughing at the Ridiculous Pelosi Big Lie
How dare you reject the Official Approved Narrative™ parroted by the regime media about the weird Schiff that went down at Casa de Pelosi the other night. There’s only one possible explanation, according to experts, licensed journalists, and our betters – an underwear-clad MAGA assassin from a hippie commune in Berkeley who is best known for his nudist activism broke into the oddly unguarded mansion of the Speaker of the House, a wealthy woman who has her police force and has not been shy about expounding on the perilous peril she faces from murderous insurrectionists, carrying a hammer and encountered the wide-awake Paul Pelosi, also in his skivvies, who the intruder then let go off and call the cops wherein Mr. Pelosi referred to the guy as his friend.
There is more brilliant prose at the link. The “official line” is obviously disinformation. We will probably never know what really happened; we can be assured that listening to Nanzi will not shed light on the truth.
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More “sudden and unexpected” events:
Pro golfer Luis Vega, 26, recently woke up paralyzed from the waist down, recently had a sudden and unexpected blood clot that formed along his spine, pressing on his nerves.
His Mount Sinai doctors are baffled….
Fortunately, Vega’s emergency spinal surgery seems to have gone well and he’s back to playing golf.
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Doctor Lauren Gilstrap, 38, a cardiac expert, died suddenly and unexpectedly last week. No cause of death has been released. Lauren worked for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, which mandated covid shots in 2021, for safety.
I’m glad Vega has recovered from his blood clot. He’s one of the lucky ones. Dr. Gilstrap was not one of those, may she rest in peace. I feel for her family. She was 38 years old. 38! Just think of all the people she could have saved in her lifetime. What a loss.
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#6 – Welcome HOME Brother!
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#10 – Amen… and Shannon – thanx for dragging some of that rain behind your plane when you came back 😉
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This makes sense as a side effect, because we now know that the spike protein likes the women’s reproductive organs:
CTV News ran a story yesterday headlined, “EU Regulator Recommends Adding Heavy Periods to Side Effects of mRNA Covid Shots.”
The European Medicines Agency defined “heavy periods” as bleeding characterized by increased volume and/or duration that interferes with the quality of life. At this point, the EMA allows there is at least a “reasonable possibility” that heavy periods are causally associated with the mRNA vaccines….
This is only a year late. But remember, and repeat after me, the CDC promises that the shots have no adverse effect…
I wonder if we’re going to be able to increase automation to make up for the loss of human souls. Our societies require a certain amount of human capital to run our businesses.
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After processing, the new Americans – as many as five thousand a day – were ferried to the train station – my favorite building from this trip.
There are a dozen rail platforms from which the freedom-seekers could fan out across America by train, as far away as St.Louis.
This is where you buy your ticket for the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and/or Ellis Island.
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Ever since Pfizer’s executive… claimed that the vaccine maker never tested its shots for efficacy at preventing covid-19 infections, because of the “speed of science” or something, I’ve been wanting to do a deeper dive on that questionable premise…
The Ethical Skeptic, an independent data analyst collecting and charting covid data since the beginning of the pandemic, updated a chart that I reported on a couple weeks ago….
But now, just two weeks later, covid’s preference for recently-jabbed folks appears to have nearly doubled, to 7:1.
[insert charts]
The good news is that the recently-jabbed are the very smallest group. The repeat jabbers seem to be real gluttons for punishment, not only enduring the “transient” side effects from the shots, but also voluntarily encountering the highest risk for covid infection.
When a vaccine makes it more likely that you’ll catch the targeted disease, that’s called “negative efficacy,” which, apart from killing you with blood clots and strokes, is about the LAST thing you want your vaccine to do.
But, they were traveling “at the speed of science,” so it’s all good.
Childers does a dive into published numbers and press releases from Pfizer to prove that they were lying about their numbers and their intent in testing. Way too much to put here, obviously, but it’s nice to have someone with an analytical mind break it down into digestible formats for those of us who are other other-side-of-brain folks.
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Great pics, Shannon. Be safe on your trip.
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And, coming to a country near you:
Brazil is lit right now, after conservative presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro lost the election to committed socialist Lula da Silva yesterday.
Bolsonaro won every part of the country except one: the Nordeste region, where the gangs and drug cartels operate. In one sense, the gangs and drug cartels just picked Brazil’s next president.
We have a crime syndicate trying to do the same thing here. It’s called the Democrat party.
Didn’t I hear recently about a huge number of ballots sent out without following rules in one or two major cities? Pennsylvania? California? I wish I could remember the story, but I had to breeze over it quickly yesterday.
See the opening story about True the Vote. Nah, just move along, nothing to see here…
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I’m home, baby.
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Welcome home Shannon. I expected you’d be there longer.
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Not sure either of us would’ve survived a longer visit.
We pushed pretty hard for five days.
Two old crippled guys barely survived the 3/4 mile walk back to the car from the train station pictured above. Not kidding. 🙁
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More on Brazil:
The Brazilian people seem skeptical of the results for a variety of reasons, and are now engaged in widespread protests.
/snip, snip, snip
Last year, in 2021, Brazilians protested demanding an “auditable vote,” because they feared there would be cheating this year (in 2022). But the Brazilian Supreme Court blocked an auditable vote.
Gee, that sounds familiar…
Oh, here’s the TtV story:
Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, the True the Vote activists who exposed Konnech’s election software’s data privacy problems, have been ordered by Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt to spend the day in jail, for contempt, for failing to disclose the name of the whistleblower who originally put them onto the fact that the Chinese-connected software was in use in a large number of U.S. voting precincts.
Gee, what could go wrong?
Phillips and Engelbrecht are defendants in Konnech’s civil defamation action. Konnech argues they can’t prove the tech company is controlled by China, so they shouldn’t have gone around telling everybody Konnech was a Chinese plant, and trying to convince supervisors of elections around the country to dump the company’s software. Oh. And, anti-China racism.
According to the Texas Tribune…, Phillips and Engelbrecht have repeatedly claimed Konnech president Eugene Yu was a Chinese communist party secret agent. Yu was recently arrested in… for a criminal privacy violation of his software contract with the county.
It seems obvious that the fact of Yu’s arrest should slow Judge Hoyt’s roll a little, but the old-school judge appears determined to enforce his courtroom rules. Unless their lawyers can get the Fifth Circuit to stop Judge Hoyt, Phillips and Engelbrecht will probably have to choose between revealing their confidential source or staying in jail for a while.
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I don’t think you’d have a community organizer fly the plane neither.
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Most tourists ferry over from Manhattan’s Battery Park.
We caught the ferry on the New Jersey side and perhaps had 90 people on board, both trips. We had the upper deck almost to ourselves.
Those ferries from New York were crammed in shoulder to shoulder like sardines.
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Another shot of the train station.
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A derelict I picked up at the station.
(Freedom Tower in background)
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Who takes a picture of the backside of the Statue?
I do.
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I got all excited, thinking Junior had returned.
Nope, just a tree branch in the grass.
So disappointed.
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#5 EG
Well, one definite benefit of getting up at 9 a.m. is the sun has always gotten up before I did! So I never stumble through to the kitchen in the dark…
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Picked up my mail at the Post Office, which included my newest book:
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Shannon’s visit up here was great and long overdue. The Mavericks concert across the Hudson River in Tarrytown was fabulous and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. I’ve just about given up on live performances after several big disappointments up here, but this made up for them.
We were pretty pathetic looking finally walking back to the parking area after the Ellis Island Museum. I have intermittent arthritis attacks in one of my feet that almost render me non-ambulatory. I thought I was going to have to get Shannon to go get the car and come pick me up at one point.
The museum was an endlessly fascinating experience and the place was full of European tourists and a few Indian/Sri Lankan families. It felt like we were the only ones speaking English there – lots of French, German and Dutch people. If you ever go, allow the whole day to really take in the whole museum and all its exhibits.
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Who knew that the much vaunted “B” water filter thing-y was going to require a degree in engineering, and mechanical building to assemble??? After the proper priming, and filtering of water with which to prime the filter, of course. 😉
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thing-y done KILT the ole blog yikes! 😉
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Well, thing-y finally got where the water comes out… so RAVE ON 😉
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And the water ain’t half-bad, either
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I sure hope BSue is talking about the DIY clay pot water filter similar to Tedtam’s. I do no trust water that come out of a “thingy”.
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Well, with my two left handedness… and penchant for breaking things… we got the metal Berkey… thingy… With the multiple gallons of bottled water we go thru weekly, just with our coffee maker, we decided this thingy would pay for itself fairly quickly, as well as eliminate a BUNCH of plastic bottles from our trash.
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Jeremy Peña and Kyle Tucker win gold gloves.
Peña is first rookie shortstop ever ti to win a gold glove.
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First Astros rookie, or first MLB??? We were distracted by some guy chasing cows down the road behind our place, and missed that part of the news LOL
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Never mind – I re-read it… first rookie SS ever…
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It was on Facebook, so it’s twue.
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I’m about ready to go look out back and see if the cows are still out there
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Did everybody break their fingers while I on a little sabbatical for my brother’s visit ?
It’s like a damned ghost town around here.
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Whew – I thought it was just me
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Archery is a particular passion. This is exquisite in that vein.
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There’s nothing going on in the world, but…
Apparently, Netanyahu won for a third time sending all the left wing Jews in America into nervous breakdowns and the Democrats haven’t even been wiped out yet.
Saudi Arabian, Gulf Allies, American and Israeli forces are on DefCon alert because the Iranian mullahs are threatening to attack Saudi Arabia and Iraq with missiles, planes and who knows what else..
SCOTUS arguments on the death of collegiate affirmative action took place today. The amicus curiae briefs are enough to either send you into fits of endless laughter or make you want to cry.
Patty Murray, long voted the “dumbest person in the Senate” by all Senate staffers is in serious danger of losing her job.
Gays Against Groomers is Going to War Against the Trans Thugs.
But, hey, I know y’all are really busy.
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I always vehemently disagreed with the Joe Buck haters.
He is sorely missed after listening to these drab, wooden broadcasters.
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Well, we’re here at the headwaters of Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River in Tuscumbia Alabama. The VRBO we’re staying at is really neat, a 2 bedroom 1 bath house on the water. The front isn’t much to look at but the backside is great. A huge screened back porch, overlooking a couple of patios stepping down to the water. I’ve taken some pictures but I’m just now getting them off my camera and will post a couple in the morning. On the way up we stopped off at the Coon Dog Graveyard in Cherokee and dang it was in the middle of nowhere, way out in the woods and I know those Hound’s spirits are running all over those woods. Troop was the first Coon Hound laid to rest there in September 1937 and there have been many more. I saw several headstones of dogs from Tennessee and Mississippi but also one from Michigan and one New York State. FWIW; I really enjoyed seeing it and I’m probably in the minority but not only am I a dog lover, I loved my coon hounds.
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Oh and Shannon, welcome back I figured you’d stay at least a week but I know how it is you can only visit so long. Also I’m guessing that you packed a lot in a short trip.
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Bones – amazing!!! Much more interesting than this cursed baseball game
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Night all. Sweet dreams.
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Sad Astros game tonight. Hope for recovery and a better showing in game #4.
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