The Death of Caesar, by Vincenzo Camuccini, 1805
@BradWilcoxIFSMarried men broke Republican by 20 ptsMarried women broke R by 14 ptsUnmarried men broke R by 7 ptsBut *unmarried women* broke D “by whopping 37 pts” ~
Thursday’s Ides of November Open Comments
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It’s Thursday and we’re hoping for some rain out of Nicole. On Tuesday our rain chances were about 20% because she was predicted to go into central Georgia, yesterday morning the track was near the AL/GA/FL corner so the rain was at 70%, 6 PM 90%. So, we’ll see but in any case we really need the rain. Not sure what I’ll be up to this morning but the rain should be here this afternoon.
Mornin’ Gang
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Yesterday Texpat said this; Long Island is much more ideologically conservative than any of the 5 boroughs of NYC.
I’ve know for a long time that upstate NY was conservative but if you had asked me how many of the 29 districts were Republican, I’d have said 3 maybe 4 but last night on Tucker’s show they said that 10 of the 29 were now republican. They had a real neat map showing all the red districts but I can’t find one on-line. The funny part is that the Hildabeast and George Soros lives in a red district near the Hudson.
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Harris County is still counting votes.
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Arizona will be counting until after Christmas.
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My son had to call me yesterday to tell me he got pulled over in Todd Mission doing 66 in a 55, but only got a warning. Those Grimes County people all stick together I guess, they weren’t so kind to me. He was in his Vette, said the cop told him I know you’re not gonna put one on but I gotta give you a warning for no front plate too. Guy was more interested in the car than he was writing him up, I asked him – did he axe what year it is? “Yep.” Lol
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Son said he told the cop when they were leaving he was gonna call his dad to tell him he only got a warning – you wrote him up a few weeks ago! 😀
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2 Super Dave
Long Island flipped all four of their US House seats to Republican. You can see how conservative New Yorkers are by these interactive maps included on this election page from the New York Post. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany are the urban areas where blue votes come from outside of New York City.
It is endlessly frustrating being a rural or suburban upstate New Yorker and having the fools in cities run your life. They overwhelmingly favor drilling, fracking and pipelines because NY state sits on a gigantic reserve of natural gas. There are counties where, for instance, Chuck Schumer, drew less than 30% of the vote.
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We had a brief discussion on the Roman calendar in my class, and it’s confusing. “Ides” actually refers to a date (or two days?) in the middle of the month, like the fifteenth, IIRC. There was also a name for the ninth and another for later in the month. They did calendar dates like “3 days before Ides of January”.
Glad we have today’s calendar.
Caesar (pronounced KI-zar in classical Latin, like the German title Kaiser), was killed in the middle of the month. Growing up, I thought “ides of March” was more like a mood that was culminating in March. Nope, it was an actual date.
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Morning gang. I slept in a little this morning for a change. Weather front expected tomorrow, and just like that the weather is supposed to turn cold. Just in time for Thanksgiving. Might even get to freezing overnight next week. Guess I’d better get my running around done today.
BTW SD, have you got plenty of batteries and bottled water? You’ll probably get wiped out by that harrycaine anyway, but it never hurts to be prepared.
Brother called yesterday all depressed. He had to give his dog away because it would not get along with another of their dogs and they fought all the time. I asked him why he didn’t give the other dog away instead, and he said that was his wife’s dog. So his dog had to go, not the wife’s dog. Funny how that works.
You all have a good day. I’ll check back in later after all the dust and hubbub settles.
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I was in the office until past midnight last night, so here I am, with coffee in hand…it’s CoffeeaandCovid.com time:
There’s a giant anti-Trump narrative deploying, apparently intended to discourage him from even announcing his 2024 run. One of the most obvious indications is corporate media’s nonstop reporting that “Trump candidates lost badly” in the elections Tuesday.
I was waiting for that to happen. It was mentioned here that Trump’s “kingmaker status” had taken a hit.
Frankly, I believe there was cheating. I mean, who in heckfahr voted for Fetterman?! I think some of that cheating was to not only salvage what was possible for the D party, but also to hurt Trump.
I’m listening to Salcedo, and it’s come up several times that the best thing Trump can do is to suspend his campaign announcement and spend his remaining time stumping for Walker in Georgia. I totally agree with that. I don’t know that Trump can put his ego aside to do that, though.
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BTW SD, have you got plenty of batteries and bottled water?
If beer counts, yes! 😉
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Before leaving that topic, Childers agrees with me, and I agree with him on this:
Editor’s note: I have not yet disclosed my opinion on 2024, or even hinted at it. So don’t assume because I praise or criticize either Trump or DeSantis that means I’ve taken a side. I like them both. I also think it would be a horrible mistake for conservatives to go to war over this. We need to work it out somehow without giving democrats a chance to make it a wedge issue.
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Kari Lake: she’s optimistic, but I don’t underestimate the power of the D’s to cheat.
Just as independent analysts predicted, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s chances continued to improve throughout the day yesterday, as Arizona’s Secretary of State — run by Lake’s opponent, Katie Hobbs — diligently and meticulously continued counting votes at glacial speeds. In other words, NOT at the speed of science, whatever THAT is.
/snip
There are still 650,000 uncounted votes — nearly a quarter of the total. And, Lake says those uncounted votes include Election Day ballots and heavily-Republican drop-off ballots. Soundig a smidge fed up, Kari assured Tucker, “Day one, I’m going to take my hand off the Bible. We’re issuing a declaration of invasion at the border, and [then] I’m getting the legislators to a special session to change our elections so that they are fair, honest, and transparent.”
Tucker and Kari agreed the solution includes having just one election DAY instead of an entire election SEASON, along with paper ballots, of course. Kari also said the state needs to move back to using small precincts (like Florida) instead of these large voting centers where it’s easy to have problems.
I agree with all of that. It’s still possible to cheat with paper ballots, but it *is* a smidgen harder to do. And smaller centers would help because it’s harder to force hundreds or thousands of extra votes in a small precinct or vote counting center than in one big one. “What? This area with a maximum of 2000 voters has 5000 votes?” kind of thing. All of the heads of those centers would have to be corrupted (not so hard in Pennsylvania or California) and keeping that a secret is harder with more people involved in the secret.
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Beer has water!
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It looks like Nevada has a Republican governor – SHOCKER! – but then there’s this:
As of last evening, Nevada Republican candidate Adam Laxalt was feeling very confident that he would win the Nevada Senate seat, displacing democrat incumbent Cortez Masto. But overnight mail-in ballot dumps have considerably closed Laxalt’s lead.
Why is it always the mail-in ballots that seem to cause problems?
Oh, wait…
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Perusing the Harris County races is sad, top to bottom in every race but one went Dem. I know it’s not new, but dang.
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I have seen a lot of chatter about potential cheating in the high profile races, especially in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania. There might have been cheating, who knows, it would sure explain bizarre results like Pennsylvanians electing a brain-damaged man to represent them in the Senate without one scrap of proof from a doctor suggesting he can do the job.
Like me, you may have seen alarming looking charts of sudden vote spikes, like this one from the Walker-Warnock race: [insert chart here, showing sudden uptick in vote count – like instantaneous spike in the count]
Childers suggests that Walker demand details on the reason for the spike. Childers says “we” can’t know for sure if there was cheating, and puts together a primer to explain the details of the process. Essentially, mail-in ballots are the first to be counted, as each precinct performs its in-person voting. The in-person votes trickle in after the polls close. Precincts can send in their reports via wi-fi or hand-transported memory cards to a supervisory office, where these batches of votes are tabulated. Harris County uses memory cards, IIRC.
Because of the electronic machines, votes come in to the supervisor’s office in precinct-level batches. So a large heavily-democrat precinct can cause an apparent ‘spike’ in votes.. You’d want to see a smaller spike for the Republican candidate too in that case.
Cheaters know this too, so the existence of any large spike probably requires explanation, even if everything else looks right. It’s the candidate’s job to ask those questions in real time. …
On the other hand, a spike like the one shown above could signal something more problematic, like a tardy batch of mailed-in ballots, which would raise serious questions like why weren’t they already counted at the beginning of the evening?
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The ’spike’ might have come from a well-known heavily-blue precinct and could have been expected, saving a lot of speculation.
/snip
That said, early voting and — especially — mail-in voting pose problems, because there are just too many opportunities for bad actors to manipulate the system and too few ways to double-check the data.
Yes. That last line. Yes.
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Childers goes on to describe a ballot harvesting procedure that was uncovered in Florida. He then says this, which I believe is a Bonecrusher mantra:
The solution is same-day voting using serialized, watermarked paper ballots that are counted by hand.
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On to other commentary:
Oddly, right after Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht were released from prison, yesterday the New York Times ran a story headlined, “L.A. Drops Criminal Charges Against Election Software Executive.” The sub-headline explained, “Eugene Yu was accused of illegally sending data about poll workers to China, in a case that became fodder for election deniers.”
Childers then goes into the legal concerns and notes about this case being dropped so unceremoniously.
Short story: this is extremely fishy. He ends up by suggesting we all learn to speak Chinese.
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Of all places, the Miami Herald ran a vaccine-skeptical story last week, headlined, “COVID Booster May Lower Protection Against Omicron Reinfection, Study Finds. Here’s Why.” The fact that a science-loving liberal newspaper like the Miami Herald could deny vaccine science like this is ten times worse than the horrors of climate change.
The Miami Herald quoted the Qatar study that Childers had reported a day or two ago. The fact that a left leaning outlet like the Herald could even report the study is…highly unexpected. Let’s just put it that way. To continue:
Researchers concluded the higher risk of reinfection occurred because “the immune response against the primary omicron infection was compromised by differential immune imprinting in those who received a third booster dose, consistent with emerging laboratory science data.”
…“immune imprinting” occurs when exposure to part of a virus through vaccination subsequently suppresses a person’s immune response against future new variants. The notion is that the immune system can get “locked in” to a specific past variant by a vaccine, becoming ineffective at countering new variant types.
This happens mostly when the virus is a type that quickly evolves. Like coronaviruses. They’ve known about immune imprinting for a long time. Some people even warned it could happen with covid jabs.
Yes, we were all warned. But the warnings were muted by all the masks. Can we call those folks deniers of any kind? Like “reality deniers”?
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Republicans are getting good at dodging bullets like this. https://babylonbee.com/news/republican-party-staves-off-red-wave
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I saw this post from somewhere in California:
In October my husband and I shut off our heat to be in communion with the Ukranian people. Here’s a photo of me on one of the colder mornings. Our gas bill for October was, $6.70, cost mostly for our oven. Felt good as a side effect. In November, we have used the heat but sparing. Every time I go to the thermostat, I think of what they are going through and it makes me send love and awareness that my action could help others. The best feeling ever! [Image of her all bundled up, smiling]
To what purpose? Because feelings are so much more important that actual action. /facepalm
This woman deserves all the mocking the public can give her.
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Dan Gelernter and the Unigovernment World
On the front page now and always remember…RTWDT.
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RANT ON:
Heard on the radiot.
I hate Greg Abbot, can’t stand him but I voted for Abbot to vote against Beto.
Nice. This was said earlier last week.
Michael Berry who should I vote for in XYZ race>
STOP RIGHT THERE. You go down the ballot and vote for anyone with an “R” behind their name.
And people wonder why I went on a skip the vote campaign years ago.
- Remember folks the time for change is in the primaries.
- But we never see change.
- We will have to hold XYZ guy’s feet to the fire.
- Hey why you gripin about XYZ guy? What are you doing to hold his feet to the fire?
- I ain’t got time for that.
You go down the ballot and vote for anyone with an “R” behind their name.
Nice
RANT OFF
/OUT
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Morning, gang. I’m up but not feeling very lively. I never did get back to using the video I found online for putting a new bag into the Panasonic vacuum cleaner. In the meantime, my appointment for the Fall checkup on the central heat got set for Nov 21, so I guess that eased the pressure to get the house spiffed up…
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The “I forgot how to change the bag” excuse is pretty enticing.
But changing the bag in my ancient Oreck XL is just too simple.
Pretty sure we bought it before we got married. Still runs like a champ after 35 years.
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3 words
Horizontal quickdraw fly
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Jayme Chandler Franklin@jaymechandler16The Democrats’ radical abortion and LGBTQ agenda coupled with their negligent governance of our cities makes perfect sense when you realize the destruction of the nuclear family and dependence on government welfare keeps the Democratic Party in power.Quote TweetMollie@MZHemingwayOne of the fascinating things about our ongoing political realignment is the massive political incentive Democrats have to keep women unmarried.and this from Twitter:Brad Wilcox
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Hubby and I were still using the same washing machine we bought when, shortly after our move into our current address a year after our marriage, I told Hubby some half toothless guy was hitting on me at the washateria.
Sears washing machine was in place only a few days later.
We used that washing machine until my second to last OH. I started smelling a weird, strong odor when I washed Hubby’s work shirts at first, and then on other clothes. I remember discussing it here, thinking maybe it was some kind of lubricant leaking from the machine. It was decades old, after all. We agreed to buy a new one, and I gave the old one to OH, whose family had no washing machine and were probably spending a small fortune at the laundromat. I asked later about the odor, and she looked puzzled and said, no, they didn’t notice anything.
I kept smelling the odor. I realized then that Hubby was probably spilling some of his backhoe fluids on the shirts or something. I refuse to wash his shirts with any other laundry to this day.
That washing machine we gave away will probably work until we all get nuked. It will survive, along with the cockroaches and the foundation of our house. The one I’m using now, though, sounds like something is slipping during its cycle. Whatever is happening, it’s a loud noise and makes me jump every time.
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Brandon Drey at the Daily Wire:
Other notable figures from CNN’s exit poll data show that 72% of women between 18 and 29 voted Democrat. However, only 48% of women age 65 or older support the party.
Inez Stepman, a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Forum, called the statistic a political force on Twitter.
“On the right, we love to mock and complain about this, but Millennials will have the highest proportion of unmarried and childless women hitting 40, probably in all of human history,” Stephman wrote. “And they will vote to ruin your life.”
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I just paid $5.50 for a head of iceberg lettuce! Thank you Joe Brandon! Oh and thanks to those brave Republicans in El Gordo’s #20. ~SPITS~
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Ballpark Angus Beef Hot Dogs, $4.99 pre-COVID, $5.99 right after, $6. 49 last I checked.
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MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggests Fetterman could run for president: ‘Makes you wonder about his future’
Rules of politics #1, It is out there it does not go away.
/Have a nice day
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#24 Shannon
I can attest that it is entirely possible to put the bag in wrong on the Panasonic. I thought I was ready to rock, but I could see the clumps of cat fur were being blown away, not sucked in.
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I went to pick up some things at Costco this morning. Ground beef (excellent quality BTW) is still holding at $3.99/lb up only 50¢ over the last 2 years. I have to compliment them on their beef prices. They’ve tried very hard to hold the prices down more than most outfits I’ve seen.
The bulk chicken thighs I’ve always bought to boil and chop up for the dogs have gone from $0.99/lb to $2.99/lb in less than 6 months.
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I went back to read EG’s #20 and saw this on the edge of his Babylon Bee item:
Fox News Calls Arizona For Stacey Abrams
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I have worked in the petrochem and refining industries for the majority of the last 25 years. It has always been very cyclical and almost like clockwork every 2 – 3 years I worry about whether I’ll have another project to go to when the current one ends. So I know very well the feeling of facing an impending layoff.
I should have some empathy for the tech workers at Alphabet/Google, Meta/Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, & Twitter as they face layoffs. I just can’t bring myself to it though.
These are the people that debase me and my industry continuously. Blame me for climate change. Blame me for polluting the environment. Laugh at our misfortune when we get laid off and tell us to go find a “green” job. Bemoan the fact that oil companies are currently making record profits while conveniently forgetting that those same companies were in the red just two short years ago to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. They call for extra taxes on the companies that still produce an overwhelming percentage of our energy because they say the companies are price gouging. All while conveniently forgetting that their own tech companies were making billions and billions in profits during the plandemic.
All I can muster is a double one fingered salute and say don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
/getting off soap box now.
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So I did a DDG search: “Is Katy Tur the dumbest woman on television ?”
Many think so, but Joy Reid would probably get more votes. Personally, I think the other Joy, you know, Joy Behar, is not only the dumbest woman on TV, she may be the dumbest woman in at least nine states.
Back to Katy though. Becket Adams at the Washington Examiner regularly reports on the dossier he keeps on Tur.
On Friday, Tur, who became media-famous in 2016 after then-GOP candidate Donald Trump was mean to her, asked a guest whether gerrymandering could be used to break up Republican control of the U.S. Senate.
“Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation? How does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate, or even in the House?” she asked.
Senate races are not influenced by gerrymandered districts as there is no such thing as a Senate district. The races are statewide. That a political journalist would not know this is absurd. That the anchor of a politics news show would not know this is something far beyond absurd. I am not sure if there is even a word for it.
Here’s another one.
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I’ve never watched Katy Tur, but photos indicate she is, um, well-endowed and likes to show off her cleavage in revealing dresses on air. It makes no difference to me, but she apparently likes to be outraged if anyone either complains or compliments her about it. The whole fake prude/sexist righteous indignation routine.
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If were wondering why the people of New Hampshire returned the mind-numbingly woke Maggie Hassan back to the Senate instead of electing a good man like Don Bolduc, then look no further than this…
Libs of TikTok:
A biological male won “Miss Greater Derry” which is a beauty pageant in New Hampshire under the “Miss America” organization.
It’s a doozy. Wear your woke-repellent glasses when you click the link.
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I guess sex really does sell. I’m looking at fireplace tool sets on Amazon. One of them has a video of a woman using the tools to clean the fireplace, pick up logs, and turn logs, etc.
Why does she have to be dressed in yoga pants that leave little to the imagination and a sports bra? I mean I wouldn’t want a hot ember to land on her bare chest or one to land on those polyester/lycra yoga pants and burn a hole or something. 🙂
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Texpat @ 1:05 pm
The woke crowd definitely has a different concept of feminine beauty than I do.
Unbelievable!
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I just paid $5.50 for a head of iceberg lettuce! Thank you Joe Brandon!
I actually have some lettuce growing. Well, today, anyway. Until the varmints get it. And I have plenty of radish greens that I mix in with the lettuce. It’s a lot easier to grow radish greens that lettuce. The leaves are hardier and once I get past the spring, fewer creepy crawlies on ’em, too. Letting the radishes just grow big results in a huge sprawling stem with lots of leaves.
The flavor of the greens really isn’t remarkable; not sharp at all. It’s like eating sturdier lettuce. A little prickly but once it’s washed and cut up, the tiny prickles are gone. I like the darker color, too. I feel like I’m getting more nutrients than from the paler varieties of raw greens. BTW – foragers look for wild lettuce, which has a row of tiny thorns/prickles up the main stem. Domesticated lettuce varieties have that bred out of them.
Hubby hasn’t noticed a difference. He eats it all without comments. But then, he’ll eat anything without comment, if it’s smothered in ranch dressing.
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Speaking of creepy crawlies, I have a couple of different lizard types in my garden. There’s the green variety, which are collectively named “Earl” and a smaller, brown, smoother skinned type of lizard. It looks something like this little guy. They are usually 3-4 inches long, very slender, and very fast.
I wear Croc-type shoes out in the garden, and I was leaning over to look at my tomato plant. The skink must’ve taken that moment to sneak into my shoe as my heel came up. I took two steps away and felt something smooth and squiggly under my foot. Thank goodness my reflexes are good. I did my girl scream and kicked off my shoe, to see the little guy rush out of it just as scared as I was.
I was telling Hubby about it this morning, and he commented that at least I didn’t squish it. I told him that if I had, I’d still be puking in the back yard. I am NOT a squisher. Except for mosquitoes.
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Texpat
Re:Katy Tur
Focusing on whether she is an idiot or not (and she is) completely misses the point. That was a trial balloon. Is the country ready to elect a lobotomized, midget wrestler transvestite cabbage?
There should have been such a HUGE RED SUNAMI it negated any chicanery the democrats pulled. Yet here we are. Lina Hidalgo won? Fetterman won? Abrams won? You kidding me. this country is going to bovine processed hay the democrats should have been run out on a rail. They should have been run out in 2020 when our country was on the “right track” economically. I would submit the Democrats actually won this round with the help of the feckless republicans.
Tur floated a trial balloon to see just how far this country will go. There is no ab libbing on MSNBC.
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We Are World Champions!!! We?!?! WE?!?!?
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An oldie and NOT a goody (but darned TRUE)
https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/nikita-khrushchev-82468.jpg
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Divers came across a piece of the Challenger Shuttle off FLA on the ocean floor.
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37 Squawk
Abrams won?
She just lost to Kemp 53.4% to 45.9%.
Anyway, the people of Pennsylvania just reelected a US congressman with 85% of the vote and the guy has been dead for over a month. What do they care whether Fetterman can speak whole sentences ? Maybe they sent Fetterman to Washington so Biden wouldn’t look like the most mentally, intellectually and morally disabled figure in town.
I got your point – didn’t miss it all. I’m just agreeing to disagree. If I am a Democratic strategist, the last person anywhere I will choose to send up a trial balloon, especially about a future presidential candidate, is Katy Tur. Nobody takes her seriously, just like nobody really watches MSNBC. She’s an idiot and even the Dems know that, but for them she’s useful to talk to the small viewership of dimwitted, weak-minded fools who sit gobsmacked in front of the tube mesmerized by Tur and her conga line of insane clown colleagues.
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I am beginning to think the Pennsylvanians are on to something. Frankly, how much damage can a dead politician do in Washington DC ?
Maybe we should all vote for more of them.
Democrat Anthony “Tony” DeLuca died Oct. 9 “after a brief battle with lymphoma, a disease he twice previously beat. He was 85,” the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus wrote.
DeLuca was Pennsylvania’s longest-serving state rep, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Nobody disenfranchises voters more and better than the totalitariancrats.
Election of 2020 and now 2022.
Arizona
Nevada
Pennsylvania
Harris County Texas.—Dora didn’t win.
Anybody see any clips of those smug baystards in Arizona?
Pathetic.if I were King for a day I’d arrest everyone of those sorry mofos and throw them in prison for life.
Freaking unacceptable hogwash.
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It’s ironic we can vote but we can’t watch them count the votes.
It’s top secret.
Can’t ask tough questions.
Not even allowed near the place lest they sic the corrupt sheriffs on you like they did a couple journalists who weren’t of the Totalitariancrat Media.Happened in the Maricopa County Banana Republic today.
Pathetic.
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*burp* The taco truck in Hempstead is still the BOMB!
(taco biz must be booming – they are paving the parking lot!
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Dora, the Lump, Warnock: None of them won.
Purge all voter rolls
Make everyone re-register with valid state issued photo id
Everyone must present above id to vote
NO MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS unless serving in the armed forces overseas
all ballots must be serialized and watermarked
the ballot total must match the signature total
no more than 2000 registered voters per precinct
po boxes are not an acceptable address
If the above takes place, Nation wide, the overwhelming majority of shenanigans of voter fraud simply goes away. The Ds will fight against this with all they have because they will never win major elections again – and they know it. When one considers that they know they are only in power due to fraud, their behavior makes more sense. It is still evil, but more logical.
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In retrospect, I think Squawk could be right. The Democrats will always outsmart us, seriously. The Katy Tur tactic may be a subterfuge I never thought of, but…
Dead House members.
Non compos mentis Senators.
Biden set the stage for all future incomprehensible Democrat presidents. All Democratic presidential candidates here on out will be either in a basement, a locked down rehab center or high security mental institution for the entire campaign season. They will only appear in public in the last 10 days before election after millions of imbeciles have already cast mail-in sympathy votes just like that woman Tedtam wrote about who is living without heat to be in sympathy with the Ukrainians. She and her husband will be found frozen to death this winter, but it doesn’t matter because truly compassionate left wingers keep voting into eternity. Ballot harvesting right from the cemetery.
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Altuve and Yordan won Silver Slugger awards.
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Well we’re getting some much needed rain out of the storm, almost an inch since around 6 and some wind. It’s rained hard a few times but mostly just slow soaking rain. Oh and the highest wind I’ve seen is about 25 MPH. In any case I’m happy for what I can get.
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Here we are at 8 pm and the hoo-rah over the election has just begun, as it will be a long, long-term topic for totally inexplicable reasons set forth by totally unhinged persons from every walk of life. Some of them in the news media. 🙂
Grateful we live in Texas instead of someplace else.
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I’ve been saving this one for Shannon.
It’s only 46 years old but it is a classic. Levon and Paul.
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Once upon a time, I had every album Paul Butterfield ever recorded. I was a big Chicago blues fan.
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I got my jars loaded, the canner set up, finished the ten minute steam cycle — and couldn’t find my regulator weight. I keep it on the shelf next to the canner, always. Not there. Here I am, a canning cycle started and I can’t finish it. I’d have to shut down the canner, let the jars cool, then shove ’em all into the fridge, and do it all over again when I found the weight.
Fortunately, I have a pressure canner with the same size weight, which I showed to Hubby and told him to keep an eye out for it. I also have a ten pound weight for the canner, for when my pressure gauge goes kerflooey (that’s a technical term). So, I’m using the ten pounder tonight and I’ll keep looking around for the other weight. I’ll give it a coupla days before ordering a replacement.
That reminds me, I need to get my gauge tested, too. It’s been right at a year since I started canning.
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I kinda like the ten weight better than the gauge. I can hear it as it does its little hula dance as it rocks back and forth and it doesn’t stress me out like the pressure gauge. I think it regulates the pressure better, too. I’ve been keeping an eye on the gauge and it’s been rock steady the whole time.
There’s a video that shows how to calculate how much weight to add to get a 12 pound pressure weight. Canning instructions for Houston are 11 pounds if using a pressure gauge, 10 pounds if using a canner weight (they come in 5, 10, 15 pound pieces). So, if I wanted make sure I was always over 11 pounds, I could add another washer to make me use a little more pressure.
Ahhhh…timer just went off, and so did the flame. Now for the cool-down cycle. And Latin. My class was canceled, but I do need to practice. I haven’t done that for a coupla days. Can’t learn a language if I don’t put in the work.
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In retrospect, I think Squawk could be right. The Democrats will always outsmart us, seriously
yup. The republicant’s are always willing to take a fraudulent arse beating and like it too.
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@ 8:17
🙂
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Tedtam – I believe the canner I have was one that J-Nine gave me… And all it has is the hula dancing weight… and the sound it makes is very comforting, letting me know all is right in the canning world
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Morning gang. Up a little early this morning for some reason. Hope that SD is surviving the harrycaine OK and that all those batteries and water bottles (or beer) are sufficient for him to be hunkering down for a few days.
Cold front is on the way, and they are now issuing a freeze warning for tomorrow night – the first freeze of the season. I’ve got one big ivy plant that I can’t figure out what to do with. I’ve had it out on the patio in the shade all summer thinking the heat would kill it, but it thrived and has tentacles growing reaching the ground. Guess I’ll bring it inside for the winter but don’t know where to put it. I hate to clip all that stuff off, but I may have to. I started my ivy collection with a few cuttings from deceased BFF cuttings when she was trimming up her 40+ year old plants, and they have seemed very happy living here in SS. But now I’ve got more of the dam stuff than I have places to put it. Last spring I determined that everything I had was root bound so I cut it all back and repotted and such, and of course it took off like a wildfire again. Next time one of you decides to stop in a visit me here in SS be prepared to take some ivy home with you.
OK, I’m going to file a report on my ongoing efforts to smarten up my home a little bit a little later. It’s not nearly as difficult as I might have though it would be, and it’s sort of fun to play with. For my simple needs, it’s worked out well, but I’ll share the details later. Meanwhile, you all have a great day.
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Dang no Friday. Well it’s Amristice Day;
Today at 11:00 local time take a moment to observe Armistice Day (Veterans Day). Today commemorates the signing of the Armistice between Germany and the Allies calling for peace and the end of WWI that took place in Campienge, France at 11:00 on November 11, 1918. In 1954, The United States combine Armistice Day with Veterans Day as a day to recognize all who previously wore the uniform of the armed forces in war, Cold War, or in times of peace.
And;
11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month
Captain Daniel W. Strickland, in his book Connecticut Fights: the Story of the 102nd Regiment noted that, on the night of November 10, 1918 “an unusually large amount of ammunition” was issued to all the artillery batteries supporting 102nd, which was then located east of the town of Beaumont, France. An infantry attack was planned for 9:30 on the morning of the 11th, and the extra ammunition would be expended in an “intense bombardment” of the German lines and a “rolling barrage” to cover the advancing infantrymen of the 102nd. Early on the morning of the 11th, “the batteries opened and worked to the maximum gun capacity.” But, at 9:00 “orders were received that the attack would not be made and that, at 11:00 all firing would cease from Belgium to the Swiss border because the armistice would then become effective. The artillery continued its heavy firing until the eleventh hour, when the great calm fell upon the whole area.”
At 10:43 on the morning of the 11th, Captain Michael A. Connor, a Hartford native and a Regimental Supply Officer assigned to the 102nd Infantry Regiment, received word that combat would end in 17 minutes. Connor received this momentous news via a handwritten U.S. Army Field Message, delivered by a runner, from Lt. Col. Evan E. Lewis, Commander of the 102nd Infantry. Lewis’ message, dictated at 10:24, stated: “Hostilities cease at Eleven o’clock. Notify all. Attack to continue until eleven. This is to confirm my verbal orders sent by 2 officers. LEWIS.”
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Dang, I forgot the Link, oh well, this is Thursday thread.
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God bless our veterans.
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