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It’s yet another Monday and we’re heading to Thanksgiving at warp speed. I’m loving this beautiful weather, since it’s been unseasonably warm the last few days. The grass don’t need attention but I may get out and rearrange the leaves with the big mower. It mulches them up so I can blow them into the woods.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. Looks like I’m going to have to skip the Astros parade today. I’m sure things will be slow here on the couch while everyone is downtown. Have a nice day.
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If you missed it, you have to see TexMo’s #105 from yesterday, the Daylight Saving Time Trailer. 😀
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Dang I missed National Redhead Day. 😉
Sean Dietrich Nov 5, 2022
Today is National Redhead Day. I’ll bet you didn’t know we redheads have our own holiday, but we do. And it’s an important day.
Because countless redheads throughout history fought so that we, as a nation, could observe this holiday in freedom. Our ginger ancestors died protecting precious rights that many of us redheads enjoy today.
Such as the right to wear orange or burgundy; the right to be cast as the little orphan Annie in the school musical production of “Annie”; and the right to get free beer on Saint Patrick’s Day.
You probably know a redhead in your life. And speaking as a genetic minority, we ruddy complected persons could use your support right now.
Because redheads are disappearing.
That’s right. Modern research shows that the number of those carrying the recessive gene causing red hair are declining.
The percentage of redheads has dropped steeply within the last few years. At one time, the earth’s population of redheads was about 19 percent. Today it’s down to 2 percent. That’s barely enough to form a jayvee basketball team.
We are diminishing in huge numbers each year. And each time we die, we take our genetics with us.
If this trend continues, by the year 2100 there will be approximately 3 redheads left including Willie Nelson.Growing up redhead was difficult. Discrimination starts early for gingers. If you’re a ginger, you were likely freckled and it looked like your mother had rolled you around in paprika.
You were always being shown impartiality by your friends during games of makebelieve. “No!” the other kids would shout, “you CAN’T play Superman, you have RED HAIR!” “No, way! You can’t be the Lone Ranger, you’re a GINGER!”
So a redhead’s playtime roles were mostly restricted to playing Archie, Little Orphan Annie, Opie Taylor, Danny Partridge, or Judy Jetson.
But behold. I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all redheads. For on this day, right here in America, scientists are discovering new, incredible facts about redheads which they did not know before.
Recent studies at McGill University investigated whether redheads experience pain differently. Results suggested that redheads are less susceptible to pain.
The same study found that redheads could tolerate more electric shocks in sensitive regions of their body than persons with different colored hair.But somewhere in my life I finally realized that being a redhead wasn’t a curse. It was a gift.
If you are a ginger child, I want you to know that being born a redhead makes you part of a worldwide fraternity. We are a special group of persons who have something truly unique to offer this world. Something incredibly exceptional and uncommon. Wilma Flintstone is only one example.So happy National Redhead Day to all my brothers and sisters. We will take our free beers now, please.
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Lol, that’s hilarious SD.
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So was TexMo’s #105 from yesterday, the Daylight Saving Time Trailer. I had forgot to go back and watch it last night.
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The Gangsta Mattress Mack theme will no doubt be present in the parade.
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Elon Musk Confirms — Twitter employees were secretly selling Bluechecks for $15,000 each…
The details haven’t spilled out yet, but you can be sure there are ex-Twitter employees involved who are looking at countries without extradition treaties with the US.
Between millions of fake bot accounts, millions of fake followers, East German Stasi censorship, the whole Twitter project was riddled with fraud and fakery.
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Today and tomorrow should be the last days of election ads for a while, thank you. Yesterday I completed my 63rd lap around the sun and got to celebrate the event with my lovely bride of 28 years and both my parents with a nice meal at Benihana’s. As SuperDave likes to say ‘Yup, life is good’
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Happy Late Birthday Bones!
We need to put you on the The Couch calendar.
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9 Bonecrusher
Congratulations. You’re lucky to be 63 and be able to still have a birthday dinner with your parents. I was 48 when my father died and 54 when my mother passed away. Count your blessings.
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So Kathy Griffin got permanently suspended from Twitter for impersonating Musk, even with a blue check. Musk responded, She was actually suspended for impersonating a comedian. Lol.
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The legions of Astros haters tried hard to make this a cheating controversy, but fortunately it didn’t get any traction.
” Major League Baseball forced Houston Astros catcher Martín Maldonado to stop using an illegal maple bat after Game 1 of the World Series on Friday, reports the New York Post. The bat was deemed illegal for safety reasons and not competitive reasons — the specific type of maple bat Maldonado used is more likely to splinter into multiple pieces.
Maldonado was given the illegal maple bats by Albert Pujols, his former teammate with the 2017-18 Los Angeles Angels. These maple bats were grandfathered in for players who started their careers prior to 2011, like Pujols, but not those who came up after the rule change, like Maldonado, who made his big league debut in September 2011. Maple bats are still used league-wide, though with updated standards and specifications. “
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12 GJT
Now Griffin is using her dead mother’s Twitter account. Bloody decapitated Trump heads, using her dead mother’s account after she kicked the bucket 2-1/2 years ago…there is something ghoulish and sick about this woman.
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#11 TP: I am truly blessed at 63 to still have both my parents alive and well. Dad drove he and mom to the restaurant and he still drives himself to the office most days. In April of 23, all of my parents 6 children will be in their 60s. My parents brood of 6 children, 23 natural grandchildren, and about 18 great grand children (and counting) is a testament to fertility and commitment. Out of the above group, there has been 2 divorces and one suicide. Overall, I would rate our family as a very successful venture and a model for the rebuilding of civilization after the damage done by the ds.
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This link includes a James Woods tweet with a hilarious photo. Look at how they spelled the name of their employer.
I’m not going to post this photo on this site because it contains vulgar language, but it shouldn’t be missed.
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I actually felt like one of my thunderclap headaches might hit this morning. I keep the sample “fast” meds by my bed, more in the kitchen (from the prescription). With the thundercloud sitting on my forehead, waiting to strike, I struggled to get the sample med pack by the bed open. Fortunately my crochet bag was nearby and I was able to get scissors to cut the wissing thing open. No way I could’ve gotten to them during an attack.
The first one was empty. Astonished, I cut open the second foil. Empty as well.
These are meds that are designed to dissolve under the tongue. Maybe sublingual meds air dissolve inside those packets? It’s been two years, after all. I made it to the kitchen and got the other meds, and they were still intact inside of their foils, so I was able to fend off the worst of it. The sublinguals are what I call my “fast” pills – they take effect quickly, but the effect isn’t long lasting. I have another type of medication I take that is slower to act, but which hangs in there longer in controlling the headache. Or so I’m told.
I let myself lay abed until 8:30, which I needed as I didn’t sleep well this past weekend and…headache! I can’t stay there all day, so I’m finally up and the coffee is brewing. I’m hoping the caffeine will quell the rest of this threat that I can still feel in my head. I may take my “slow” pill here in a bit to help it along.
I’ve been blessed that I haven’t had any major episodes in almost two years. This caught me by surprise. Hubby, too. He’s very concerned for my well being. He’d probably tell me to go back to bed. Resting through the attacks is what got me through the first six months of this mess, until they went down. Seeing me wailing and holding my head is not how either of us want any day to start, and they seem to be worse in the morning. I’m hoping that the worst of it is over. Fortunately, thunderclaps scare the living daylights out of me (and Hubby) and they feel death defying in pain level, but they are over in minutes. I talked to a lady this weekend who has migraines that last for 3-4 days. God bless her. Seriously, God bless her.
I may be napping, or at least laying down, today. We’ll see what the day brings.
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You may not be interested in administrative law judges, but they are always interested in you. You may not be interested in all the details, but you should be aware this case is being argued before the Supreme Court today and the Texas woman who fought this case is a heroine of the first order.
This is a huge case and along with striking down the “Chevron deference” could mean a huge victory in the war against the federal Deep Swamp. These administrative law judges have wielded extraordinary powers outside the realm of our constitutionally authorized court system for far too long.
It’s time these little kangaroo courts were stopped.
” James Madison once said that the concentration of all government powers in one branch is “the very definition of tyranny.” Yet, today, administrative agencies regularly exercise all three of those powers. They issue rules with the force of law. They enforce laws. And they prosecute people through a system of administrative proceedings before administrative law judges or ALJs, who are hired by the agency prosecuting you.
NCLA client Michelle Cochran fell prey to this system in 2016, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused her of violating federal accounting standards. Ms. Cochran, a Texas CPA, had worked as an auditor with a small accounting firm until 2013. A single mother, Ms. Cochran started as a part-time employee to make ends meet. Three years after she left the firm, the SEC brought an enforcement action against the firm and named her as a defendant, claiming that she aided and abetted the firm’s alleged rule violations.
Representing herself pro se, Ms. Cochran fought the allegations against her in a proceeding before an ALJ hired by the SEC to hear the case. At the time, SEC ALJs were not appointed by the president like normal judges. They were hired by the prosecuting agency like any other civil servant. Not surprisingly, ALJs rule for the SEC in most cases. In fact, the ALJ assigned to Ms. Cochran’s case often warned defendants that he never ruled against the SEC in enforcement proceedings. “
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Coffee in hand, I go to the C&C and get this opening:
Today’s jam-packed roundup includes: a terrific multiplier assignment, get ready!; SNL mocks Biden; Trump endorses DeSantis and other Republican candidates; Nikki Fried is a loser; Florida Republicans crush early voting; Michigan Muslims are getting sick and tired of democrats; Florida arrests fraudulent multiple-state voters; Florida’s Board of Medicine outlaws “gender affirming” medical procedures; loony leftist Kathy Griffin gets suspended from Twitter; CDC says we’re in a flu emergency and you’ll never guess which areas are hardest hit; the Federalist pans Oster’s pandemic amnesty; new Qatar study shows no statistical benefit from jabs for kids; and a second, funnier SNL clip for you showing the covid narrative is probably completely deflated now.
Today is also Florida’s very first “Victims of Communism Day,” brought to you by the Florida Legislature and Governor DeSantis. Please take a moment to reflect on the hundreds of millions of people murdered over the last 80 years by that particularly reprehensible ideology.
Seriously, that last paragraph. Realize that this is where the Democrats want to take us.
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#17 Texpat
Yes. Yes. And Yes.
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C&C Army has a new multiplier – for Kari Lake. If’n you want to join in, submit a donation amount ending “2”:
If you already know the drill, here’s the link (remember to end your donation in a $2).
https://secure.winred.com/kari-lake-for-arizona/win-arizonaIf you haven’t joined a multiplier before, here’s how it works. Just click on the link and donate any affordable amount — no matter how small — as long as it ends in a ‘2’. You can do $2, $12, $22, $202, $222, or even $0.22. It only takes a minute. The ‘2’ is a flag alerting the candidate it came from us, because we support covid accountability.
We’ll flood their donations with amounts ending in a ‘2’.
Because Mrs. Lake is rejecting Covid amnesty and is pushing for Covid accountability – including all those teachers, et al, that caused so much damage during the mass hysteria.
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SEC Shorts hits another home run after this weekends games are analyzed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2o9B_8U7BQ
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Predicting 1 million people crowding into downtown for the parade. Anyone believe that. About like the million man march in DC which gathered maybe 100,000. A thousand, a million, a billion – whatever. They said there would be no math.
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C&C Florida news: Trump endorses DeSantis for governor, then this:
Of interest, Trump endorsed a slate of Florida candidates in attendance, including former Senate President Wilton Simpson for Agriculture Commissioner.
Simpson is running to replace odious pot-merchant Nikki Fried. The office is especially important to Floridians, not least because Florida is an agriculture-heavy state, but also because the Ag Commissioner issues concealed weapons permits, for some reason.
Ms. Fried had a major setback late last week when a Florida court dismissed her loopy lawsuit seeking to override a federal law preventing pot smokers (anyone “who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance”) from getting concealed weapons permits.
I had not heard about this little brouhaha in Florida over the gun laws. I also didn’t know that the Ag Commissioner was in charge of concealed weapons permits. Perhaps that’s a holdover from when farmers had to protect their property and livestock? Oh, well, this lady sounds like a nut case, and she needs to go.
But this line: The judge noted that no state can decriminalize marijuana while it remains illegal under federal law.
Colorado?
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#19 El G
Exactly the conversation Hubby had with me this morning. The maths don’t work.
And he can’t believe the schools are shutting down for this. I pointed out that kids can’t get to school without their parents (or at least a good chunk of them). We had the same problem with our church programs on Superbowl Sunday. The parents were too busy drinking beer and grilling meat to get their kids to their two hour faith formation classes, so we had to scrap them for that day.
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More from Childers:
Yesterday I reported how formerly deep-blue Miami Dade is trending Republican in early voting, probably showing that the democrats have permanently lost Cubanos.
I never understood why ex-Cubans would vote Democrat to begin with, but there ya’ go.
Now, it’s starting to look like CRT and trans-education issues have also woken up Michigan Muslims.
Muslims are more understandable – Islam and Democrats both like authoritarian, totalitarian governments.
Here’s a link of one well-spoken Muslim man expressing his feelings about his vote – and he makes the point for not only his belief system, but for Christians as well.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1588971650309029890/pu/vid/480×852/0pXsH7bSWpPYuO36.mp4?tag=12
That man in the above video probably wouldn’t like this news, either:
Michigan Muslims probably won’t be too happy that Dana Nessel, Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General would like to install a drag queen in every public school in Michigan. In the clip below, she shouts, “Drag queens make everything better! Drag queens are fun! Drag queens are entertainment! … A drag queen for every school! That is what would be fun for kids and lift them up when they are having emotional issues.”
Drag queens are not like aspirin – they don’t cure a multitude of ills. They ARE a multitude of ills, or at least the expression thereof. Why parents subject their kids to this mental mistreatment is beyond me. The parents are probably ill, as well. But that’s a whole ‘nother topic.
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Then the C&C discusses voting shenanigans – and finally, finally, someone – somewhere! is doing something about it:
Over the weekend, Florida announced more election-violation arrests, this time including Cheryl Ann Leslie, who stands accused of voting in multiple states during the 2016, 2018, and 2020 elections.
Yep, it was always in favor of the
DamnDem party. But for tomorrow:Get ready for a possible whole new crop of democrat election integrity complainers to sprout after tomorrow’s results. Remember, if they deny the election results, they are ELECTION DENIERS, SEDITIONERS, and INSURRECTIONISTS!
I don’t know about y’all but when I hear the word “insurrection” or “denier” I have the same reaction as when I hear “racist!” and “fascist!”
I do a mental fist pump and think “Yeah! Won that argument!” It’s all the left has when facts and reason don’t support their narrative.
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#9 – Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny Happy returns BC!
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More sanity from Florida:
On Friday, Florida’s Board of Medicine accepted its committee’s recommendation and voted to ban “gender affirming” procedures in Florida as acceptable medical practices. Doctors who violate the policy can lose their medical license.
Failed gasbag and democrat gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist responded to the announcement by attacking — for some reason — Florida’s highly-credentialed Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, calling him a “hack.”
Crist is confused, again. Dr. Ladapo does not run the Board of Medicine. He’s also a Harvard-trained doctor. CRIST is a hack.
As I keep saying – let kids be kids. Puberty is tough enough without some idiot parent wanting to be socially acceptable and politically virtuous sacrificing their kid’s future on the altar of “trophy kid syndrome”. Let them work through adulthood before chopping parts off.
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Get ready for the next plandemic:
The CDC announced flu hospitalizations are higher than they’ve been at this point since 2011’s flu season. For some baffling reason, the country is seeing a resurgence of non-covid respiratory illnesses like flu, RSV, rhinovirus, and enterovirus.
It’s almost like instead of an epidemic of random respiratory viruses, there’s an epidemic of immune suppression, or something. And you’ll never guess where it’s hitting hardest.
Of course, where the vaccines were hardest pushed is where these illnesses are surging hardest. Go figger.
TPTB may be deploying troops and ventilators, Childers says.
Fortune was careful to mention many times that it is NOT COVID, it’s all the bugs that disappeared during the pandemic. Because if it were covid, that would be crazy, since we’ve double-jabbed 75% of Americans.
Historically, flu usually affects kids the LEAST. Thanks, experts!
It’s one more thing to add to the accountability list…
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And, going back to the C&C Army donating to Kari Lake, just because she had this stance:
Last week, the Federalist ran a terrific op-ed by Justin Hart headlined, “Public Health Elites Who Pushed Anti-Science Policies Deserve Accountability, Not ‘Amnesty’.”
Check out this deliciously-worded sub-headline, “Fear-mongering virus prophets that prided themselves on public health damaged public trust more than anything else.”
Fear-mongering virus prophets! That might be even better than whitecoat pretenders.
/snip
but the most interesting aspect was that it was published at all, in a mainstream outlet, even if a conservative one.
Progress.
The dam is breaking, folks. It’s becoming more acceptable to point out what these “folks” have done to us. Globally. Gonna be a lot of petard hoisting in our future. I hope.
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And a new study from Qatar also rejects the narrative of “effectivene vaccines”. Childers found the rather hard to locate link:
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And more on the narrative breaking down, there are a couple of clips of SNL mocking the lefties running for office (and Biden), and of the jabs.
Way overdue for comedy to catch up with reality.
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And, Bonecrusher, congrats on the milestone!
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Well, the headache threat has receded, so I guess I can get brave and start moving around.
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Morning, chickadees. I’m going to try again today to get the vacuum cleaner bag properly installed so I can do the rugs downstairs. I’m getting the house tidied up for the central air systems to get their Fall checkup.
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Ya gotta hate it when your lapdog punks you on national TV. Oh wait that is MSNBC regional TV.
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle challenges Gov. Hochul on crime: ‘We don’t feel safe’
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The same study found that redheads could tolerate more electric shocks in sensitive regions of their body than persons with different colored hair.
Say what?????
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Tedtam. glad to hear it. I used to have mind-blowing migraines that would confine me to bed for days at a time. Had a visit with a new family doctor, who called the neurologist he was sending me to (seizure disorder since high school) and discussed what BP med he should put me on… They chose a beta blocker – which I’ve been on for 30+ years, and, while I’ve had a few doozies since being on it, none that lasted even a whole day… and rarely have one at all anymore. My prayers are with you.
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This is the first time I’ve taken a good look at that New York Governor.She’s the scariest looking woman since Nurse Ratched.
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Bsue – yeah, but it’s trying to creep back in.
I got up and started processing my tomatoes that I had in Fred. I powder and run through one last 30 minute cycle to make sure the powder is as dry as possible, then vacuum seal. While separating the pieces from the tray the headache tried sneaking in the back door.
I’ll probably be laying down between tasks today. Hubby told me to take it easy, and for once, he’s right. 😉
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Today’s 2fer Hamousonian
I’m tired of listening to drought coverage almost as much as this manufactured “debt crisis”. It does absolutely no good to talk about how we’re 17″ behind in rain. If we got 40″ tomorrow and not another drop the rest of the year we would be “caught up” mathematically but we’d still be in a drought. We can’t go back and make it rain in June. You can’t catch up on past rainfall just like you can’t catch up on missed sleep. It’s gone. The only thing that ends a drought is rainfall rates getting back to normal levels for an extended period of time.ANDShannon hates polar bears.
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I didn’t know that Shannon hates Polar bears…. 😀
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Shannon has a preference for bears of color. He takes his brunette bias to the extreme, I think.
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Good Early Afternoon Hamsters,
#9 Bonecrusher,
Happy Birthday and many more trips around our Sun. After a while your age is just numbers that do not necessarily agree with how old you feel. 🙂
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We don’t need any bears.
They all need to go.
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‘Specially the ones in clown suits.
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Speaking of…when’s the last time we heard from WB?
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Yea for the Astros and all the fans who stuck with them for the long haul.
Spouse has a t-shirt in Astros orange and blue he got from the Houston Blood Center for donating again in September. Hope the parade attracted a giant crowd of civilized and very happy folks.
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Tedtam – I pray that it let’s you out of its evil head-shattering clutches soon… Question – how do you keep powders from flying off the trays when you dehydrate after powdering? And do you do that to all powders? I’ve never thought about that before now…. but I have another batch of eggs in Nellie now…
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The powders don’t move inside Fred. The air flow isn’t that strong. I do it to all of my powders, just as a safeguard. An extra half hour is usually what I do for that last dry cycle. Especially if I don’t empty the trays as soon as the original cycle is finished – as the food sits there, it can absorb a little humidity from the air.
Especially where we live.
But powdered, there’s more surface area for the warm air to hit, and I’ve never had a problem with drying the powdered product for 30 minutes.
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I just dumped some more stuff on my compost pile, and something is sprouting up. Probably squash. I’ll just let it do its thing and see what happens.
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Tedtam – thanks… Mine have all been conditioned – and I haven’t run into any clumping… but will try it with this batch of eggs… sometime tomorrow LOL
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Speaking of…when’s the last time we heard from WB?
Now that you mention it, he has been MIA.
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Please, just let him be on vacay or something…
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Wagonburner was laid off from his job, but said he got several job offers and went back to work for another outfit. I figure he’s been extra busy with the new gig.
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Last we heard, WB was okay, just super busy.
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Just a thought.
As mad as I get at Houston I am really proud of the city today. How many times have we seen a city burn down because the sports team won a championship. Houston partied after the win and then had a peaceful good willed Astros Parade. Good on Houston and congrats Astros once again.
/hopefully the good will hangs on after tomorrow.
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#39 Squawk, someone once said that Houston is the “biggest” small town in the country and there is a lot of truth in that.
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FWIW; My wife’s new Vette has pretty much blown up FB. BTW; She still has Texas plates.
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SD
My son and his galfriend got back from their trip to the Smokey Mountains and North Carolina in his new to him 2015 Vette, whatever “C” version that is. Always draws attention when making pit stops and such, he said #1 question was – “what year is it?”
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Tomorrow, November 8th, is not only the full moon, but also the election witching hour. May all the worst nightmares of Democrats come true to haunt them in their beds as they lie awake terrified.
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Enjoyed watching the parade. I was hoping Mattress Mack would be wearing the gangsta T-shirt but he was not. He was on the fire truck with the players though. Very cool.
Old man has a lot of energy, as far as I know he attended every game – there and here, then going to the parade today. I’m just now recouping from watching them on TV.
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Some commentator on WABC tonight was asking another guy what he thought the reaction of Democrats would be to a blowout and all I could think of was the moment I turned on the TV in the November of 2010 morning after the Tea Party election massacre and….
Peter Jennings came on at his anchor desk and said, “Yesterday, American voters threw a temper tantrum.”
WARNING: You will see a tsunami of election deniers like never before in history come Wednesday morning.
Pay them no mind at all.
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Geography trivia.
Pennsylvania is only 46,000 square miles. I thought it was larger. It only had 9,090,962 certified registered voters in 2020.
Texas is 268,596 square miles.
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Back from a nap that was certainly refreshing, Now I’m ready to see the national news folks convulse over the early voter turnout thus far. This is an omen they can’t ignore no matter how hard they try. Reminds me of the whacking we Tea Party folks gave the libs. Big turnouts are not really secret, the Tea Party still exists in the hearts and minds in legions of conservatives now. Just satisfaction of sorts to say to the libs, “So you thought we were gone, eh?”
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In 2020, Arizona had 3,926,649 registered voters.
As of March of this year, Nevada has 2.12 million voters.
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Heck Shannon – there’s that many in Houston, aren’t there? Maybe not certified but certifiable…..
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Official Houston high temp 88 degrees today. “Feels Like” well into the 90’s.
You can have it Super Dave. Just come over here and take it away with you.
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So Lina Hidalgo closes out her campaign with ads featuring her giving her crime-fighting bones fides.
And really gussied up, looking hot.
Pathetic little thing she is.
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Shannon
Re:Lina
I hope this does not hurt her pole dancing career.
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I just found out yesterday that Fay’s youngest great-granddaughter, Ruby Fay, is getting baptized in Fredericksburg this weekend.
So I’m going, by God.
Will discreetly investigate why the hell they waited for five years.
Probably had something to do with the loser ex-husband father of the child.
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Court Orders Release of True the Vote Leaders From Jail
Engelbrecht and Phillips were sent to jail on Oct. 31 by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt, a Reagan appointee, who found them in contempt of court for not revealing the identities of people who allegedly accessed information from Konnech, a Michigan-based election management software company whose founder was recently arrested for allegedly stealing poll worker data and hosting the information on servers in China.
The order for confinement was to be in place until the defendants “fully comply” with an order that they reveal certain information, including the identities, Hoyt said.
Engelbrecht and Phillips say they passed on information that was legally obtained from Konnech to the FBI. … Both the individuals are FBI informants, Phillips asserted during one hearing.
“Those who thought that imprisoning Gregg and I would weaken our resolve have gravely miscalculated. It is stronger than ever,” Engelbrecht said in a statement. “The right to free and fair elections without interference is more important than our own discomforts and even this detention, now reversed by a higher court.
“We are profoundly grateful for that. We will continue to protect and defend those who do the vital work of election integrity, and we will make sure that their findings become a matter of public record.”
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Brave woman.
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And Goople has been found to flip votes on a “massive scale,” using “ephemeral experiences”.
Think something like subliminal messaging. There and gone. No trace of it.
Jail time. On a massive scale.
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“Carefully crafted search suggestions that flash at you while you are typing a search term can turn a 50/50 split among undecided voters into a 90/10 split with no one knowing they have been manipulated,” Epstein writes.“A single question-and-answer interaction on a digital personal assistant can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by more than 40 percent.”
Ahead of the 2022 election, “a high level of liberal bias” is being seen in Google search results in swing states like Arizona, Florida, and Wisconsin, Epstein wrote. Search results from Bing did not indicate such bias.
In multiple swing states, liberal news sources make up 92 percent of auto-play videos being sent to YouTube users, which can potentially shift “hundreds of thousands of votes” on Election Day, he warned.
In 2020, Epstein and his team collected 1.5 million ephemeral experiences from 1,735 field agents who were “sufficient, in theory,” to shift over 6 million votes to Joe Biden’s favor. Epstein had supported Biden at the time, he said.
He found that Google sent more voting reminders to moderates and liberals than conservatives, which Epstein calls a “brazen and powerful manipulation.”
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People are always shocked up here in New Jersey when I tell them you can fit thirty-seven and a half New Jerseys into the state of Texas.
They get this blank look on their faces and simply can’t comprehend the size of Texas. Then I tell them if you leave the southeastern corner in Beaumont on I-10 and drive to El Paso in the western corner, you are halfway to Los Angeles, it blows their minds.
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High temps this weekend for Fredericksburg, Texas:
Sat/Sun…..52/58
yeeehaaa
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Texpat, once upon a time I worked at a camping resort in Rockport… There was a fellow being sent from a “sister resort” in southeastern Washington state, who called when he reached El Paso, saying “I’ve made it to Texas, see you all soon” He arrived mid afternoon, the following day and said “Why didn’t someone tell me that I still had as far to drive as I had already driven????” The unanimous reply was “we thought you were kidding”
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GJT “what year is it?” 2008
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Tedtam – silly question to be asking now… but… do you turn your eggs over to get the bottom side dry? Just wondering. This time, I turned half and left the other 2 – to see if they will eventually get dry all the way thru, without the mess of turning….
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Bsue
In Rockport, did you know anyone on the nearby Lamar Peninsula?
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Shannon, no I didn’t – I spent a summer at American Adventure… then high-tailed it back to Bandera county…
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do you turn your eggs over to get the bottom side dry?
In the thicker areas, yes. It’s messy, so I try to use a fork as much as I can. If it’s cycle end, I’ll remove all the dry stuff and put the non-dry stuff back in to finish drying.
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Tedtam – thanx… I use a thing that looks kinda like a wide paint scrapper, only it’s made for dough… Slide it under the edge and flip… but you are right – it IS messy… I use a stick blender to whip the eggs before pouring into the edge trays, getting them almost foamy… but they still only seem to dry on one side – but, like I said – I left 2 un-turned to see if they would get less messy, this time, as an experiment.
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I’m still adjusting to the time change. So while it’s still early, it seems later than it is. I’ll fight it for as long as I can, but it’s looking like early bedtime out here again. We did have a few nice showers here today – probably less than 1/10th combined, but every little bit helps. Night all if I don’t get back this evening.
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Texpat and I figured out there isn’t a single photo of us together on the recent trip.
Should’ve brought Squawk along as contract still photographer, I guess. Or Super Dave.
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Tedtam @ 6:39 PM
I am always a little amazed how online media ends up writing about what somebody else writes about some other website’s original material….ad infinitum. It seems to be the nature of the beast these days.
Here is the original story by Robert Epstein, former managing editor of Psychology Today, liberal Democrat and Biden supporter. He is honest, straight and furious about the manipulation happening online. Epstein not only understands, but freely admits this manipulation can work in the other political direction. I wrote about him and his work in 2020 here on this site, maybe even in 2016.
” My research team is currently monitoring online political content being sent to voters in swing states through more than 2,500 computers owned by a politically-diverse group of registered voters (our “field agents”), and we are concerned about what we’re seeing.
We are aggregating and analyzing search results on the Google and Bing search engines, messages displayed on Google’s home page, autoplay videos suggested on YouTube, tweets sent to users by the Twitter company (as opposed to tweets sent by other users), email suppression on Gmail, and more.
We have so far preserved more than 1.9 million “ephemeral experiences” – exposure to short-lived content that impacts people and then disappears, leaving no trace – that Google and other companies are able to use to shift opinions and voting preferences, and we expect to have captured more than 2.5 million by Election Day.
In emails leaked from Google to The Wall Street Journal in 2018, Googlers (that’s what they call themselves) discussed how they might be able to use “ephemeral experiences” to change people’s views about Trump’s travel ban. The company later denied that this plan was ever implemented, but leaked content (including multiple blacklists) and startling revelations by Tristan Harris, Zach Vorhies, and other whistleblowers show that Google is indeed out to remake the world in its own image. As the company’s CFO, Ruth Porat, said in a November 11th, 2016 video that leaked in 2018, “we will use the great strength and resources and reach we have” to advance Google’s values. “
Google is a deeply evil organization. Do whatever you can to remove it from your life.
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I’m fairly confident that Super Dave was gifted a camera at a very young age and has documented at least six decades of his daily life.
🙂
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“Dave. With the first frog he ever gigged”
etc.
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“Dave. With his first Erector Set project”
(An entire nuclear power plant.)
(Fully wired.)
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Super Dave with his first bowl of grits.
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#45 Texpat, I remember that well all the smart people couldn’t believe that the masses might have their own opinion.
Shannon, high tomorrow in the mid 80’s Wednesday & Thursday low 70’s. That said, we’re hoping that tropical storm Nicole will drift to the west when/if it crosses Florida and give us some much needed rain.
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Dang Shannon and Texpat aren’t that far off. 😀
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”Dave. 8 years old. Next to the first trannie he ever rebuilt.”
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BTW; did anyone make it to the Houston Astros championship parade? looking at the pictures a whole bunch of folks did.
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Can someone explain to me why Waller County ballots are delivered to NRG stadium for counting?????????????????
Oh, never mind.
It’s Waller County. County seat is Hempstead.‘Nuff said.
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The fear-mongering weather fairies are surely excited about our newest weather crisis.
Its a SUB-tropical storm.
Everyone in Florida is going to die.
Especially Ron DeSanctimonious.
…….Trump calling DeSantis ‘DeSanctimonious.’
How rich.
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It’s Tuesday, Nov 8, polls open a 7 AM.
Mornin’ Gang
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