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Friday Before Thanksgiving Open Comments

Giving thanks will cost more this year:

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Last year set the record for the most expensive Thanksgiving on record – and on Joe Biden’s watch, that record is set to be eclipsed once again this year.

/snip

In fact, prices have increased so much for that for the first-time ever it will be cheaper to dine out for Thanksgiving, as Wells Fargo food and agribusiness analyst Brad Rubin calculated.

Back in the early days of the Biden administration, they tried to preempt inflation concerns by assuring the American public that the price of a Fourth of July cookout had declined an entire sixteen cents in 2021 from the year before in a widely-mocked tweet.

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I will never be convinced a majority of this country is dumb enough to vote for a candidate that never left his basement and was startled to learn he’d “won”.

We started paying the price for his – and his party’s – corruption a long time ago, and it continues today.  Enjoy your turkey and stuffing (or tamales, or whatever your tradition is) this year.  We’ll see what’s available and affordable next year.

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100 responses to “Friday Before Thanksgiving Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Brrr it’s cold here on the farm, 28 degrees, too cold for me! We usually don’t get a freeze until after Christmas I hope this isn’t just the start of winter. So we had a BOT attack last night? I guess those things are armed and just go about looking for any unprotected site. OK I’m off to grab my first cup of coffee, carry on,…that is if you get out of the warm bed.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    “Last year set the record for the most expensive Thanksgiving on record – and on Joe Biden’s watch, that record is set to be eclipsed once again this year.

    Insert dreaded acronym here. 😉

  3. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #2 – Ya beat me tewit SD!                      😉

  4. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    G’Morning, Gang… I was just thinking we should have roasted bot instead of turkey for Thanksgiving dinner… Then I remembered – I don’t remember seeing that on the menu at Kelley’s  😉

  5. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I have only eaten Thanksgiving dinner out twice and both of those were when I was still in college. The first Thanksgiving while in college I flew back to Houston. The second I spent with a fraternity brother’s family in Kansas City. The third Thanksgiving I spent with friends in Rolla. The last two Thanksgivings I went out to the Sirloin Stockade with my lovely fianceé.

    We have had one catered Thanksgiving dinner. As y’all know, my daughter was born with a severe congenital heart defect. She spent over a 100 days of her first year of life at TCH. She had her 2nd of three open heart surgeries when she was seven months old. After that surgery, she was discharged on Thanksgiving day.

    I didn’t want mom to cook so we catered from Sally Joe’s BBQ in Alief. Sally Joe’s was located on Bellaire at Boone and was literally one of the last American owned eateries and businesses along that stretch of Bellaire. Chinatown had already taken over everything else by the time it closed. Actually it would be more fitting to call it Little Saigon.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s chaotic here this morning. The street is blocked off and crammed with vehicles and front-end loaders and dump trucks.  The gas company has been here now for 3 days installing all new lines to every house.  They’re going to increase the gas pressure from less than 1 psi to 15 psi to allow anyone who wants a standby generator to have the volume required.  They wanted to tear up the yard and move my gas line to the other side of the house and I objected.  We finally came to a compromise and they’ll leave the meter where it is.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Good news for RCs.

    The nation’s Catholic bishops have elected a new chairman of their pro-life committee who supported denying Nancy Pelosi communion because she is a radical abortion activist.

    The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops elected Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia as the new chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee. According to a CNA report, they chose Burbidge over Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, by a vote of 174-63.

    Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore was previously chair of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities and the nation’s bishops elected him yesterday as their new vice president.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat
    I am unfamiliar with Adderall and don’t know anyone who has taken it.
    By the time Michael Kenneally found himself pacing outside a CVS drugstore in Cambridge, Mass., this summer, he was on a first-name basis with the pharmacist. Mr. Kenneally, 48, had been told multiple times that his Adderall prescription couldn’t be filled. For 25 days, he continued to check by phone and in person.
    Mr. Kenneally had been on the medication to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., for 25 years. “It’s been so long for me that I’ve been on it that it’s difficult to function without it,” he said.
    That day at the pharmacy was the first time he felt like a drug addict though, he said. “What am I doing here?” he remembered thinking as he looped back and forth in front of the glass doors.
  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Adderall was one of those drugs that they started giving normal but active kids 30 or 40 years ago. Tucker talked about it on his Wednesday show.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and Texpat thanks for the information about the population of Houston and Galveston. I thought that Houston didn’t really start growing big until after they completed the ship channel. I do know that Galveston was the largest city in Texas in the 1800’s. New York, San Francisco and Galveston were all the entry points for immigrants in the 1800’s.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Sam Bankman-Fried is the spawn of an evil woman, Barbara Fried.

    Nine years ago, when crypto-fraudster @SBF_FTX was 19, his mother, a Stanford professor, wrote a very long article making the case that free will is a myth and that we should not blame people for committing crimes.

    Michael Shellenberger writes:

    “[O]ur worldviews, aspirations, temperaments, conduct, and achievements—everything we conventionally think of as “us”—are in significant part determined by accidents of biology and circumstance,” she wrote in 2013.
    “[S]uppose that Smith grew up in a neighborhood where drug dealing was the most common form of gainful employment. He was raised by a single mother who was a cocaine addict, and by the time he was twelve was supporting his family by selling drugs…
    “When he was seventeen, he got caught up in a drug deal gone bad, and in the altercation that ensued, he shot and killed the buyer.

    How should we think about Smith’s level of moral responsibility?”

    She adds, “parental income and education are the most powerful predictors of whether a three-year-old will end up in the boardroom or in prison…”

    According to Fried’s own argument, we should hold her son *more* responsible for his fraud, given his rich, educated parents.

    I don’t know who this Substack author is, but this is some interesting information on Fried.

    The co-founder and operator of two nationwide, controversial and definitely ILLEGAL leftist super PAC and “sister organizations” is none other than Sam Bankman-Fried’s MOTHER!

    Barbara Fried broke IRS and election laws while sending millions of partially filled ballots to harvest votes and steal elections in the United States in 2020 and 2022.

    Public records show that Barbara Bankman-Fried is the co-founder and primary operator of TWO notorious ballot harvesting “sister organizations”, which have strong connections to the Clinton and Obama Administrations, John Podesta, former Clinton Administration staffer Page Gardiner and former Nevada Senator Harry Reid.

    Vox hax published a feature story on Barbara Bankman-Fried’s dark money group of election stealing criminals back in January 2020.

  12. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Texpat – I believe the answer to your question of “when” is “when” many parents attributed many of the bad behaviors of their “little darlings” to A.D.D.  instead of attributing it to their lack of teaching their children what appropriate behavior looks like – and holding them to that standard, and disciplining them appropriately when they do not behave. Not saying that “A.D.D. with hyperactivity” is not real – nor that it should not be treated… but…

    Back in the dark ages when I was a nurse, we were taught that “speed”-type drugs worked in reverse in kids (then the drug of choice was Ritalin)- helping them to focus on one thought-train instead of jumping from thought to thought and exhibiting behavior that is not acceptable.  And long term use of that type of medication makes it less and less effective – but the body has grown so used to having it as part of the chemical make-up that it reacts badly to having it withdrawn – especially suddenly.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Still can’t beat the Far Side; That Jane Goodall Tramp.   😀

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    JOKE OF THE DAY:

    A marriage counselor was asking a woman about her state of mind: “Did you wake up grumpy this morning?”

    She said, “No, I let him sleep.”

  15. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Being a critic of Putin looks to be even worse than one of Hillary!.

  16. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Guess I need some of that Adderall stuff – I woulda sworn that Super Dave’s #13 said “That Jane Goodall TRUMP” ;(

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    My Latin class went until ten last night.  Well, class ended a little before nine.  We discussed the new curriculum/tool we’re going to move to. (I intend to buy my own set of materials instead of relying on the online classroom setting).  Then, just as magister was going to end class, one of our members congratulated him on finally getting Artemis off the ground.

    That spurred a whole new, hour long discussion of the space program; hydrogen and helium and their uses and problems with storage, etc.

    I did not realize that helium is acquired through natural gas harvesting.  According to magister, it used to be law that gas producers were required to collect the helium.  We are suffering a helium shortage (it’s so light it escapes containment easily).  Helium is used in a lot of industrial processes, including the space program. So, the greenies are creating an industrial helium crisis.

    I had no idea of that connection.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    15 wagonburner

    Dan Rapoport’s family emigrated from Latvia to Houston in 1980 when he was 10 years old.  He graduated from the U of H before he received a MBA in London.

    One of Russians’ favorite ways to commit murder is to throw people off high-rise balconies.

  19. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Tedtam – did ya’ll discuss the Helium Monument in Amarillo, Tx??? One of the few “attractions” with which I was able to entertain visitors during the century I lived there, one year…

    https://heliumtimecapsule.wordpress.com/helium-monument-history/

  20. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Got up a little late this cool morning so I rushed out to not be late for coffee.  Supposed to have the prospect of a winter storm blowing through later today, so I’m going out to get my chores done soon.  Here’s Ammo Grrrll to help you start your day:  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-454.php

    You all have a great day now.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching Jesse Romero on his “Armor of God” radio show on his Virgin Most Powerful channel.

    There is a group called “Satanists and Witches For Biden”.  That ‘splains a lot.

    Jesse makes a point of calling it the “demon-crap” party, too.  I really like him.  Warrior for God, he is.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #18

    No, we didn’t.  We were more into the uses and problems with using helium.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C NEWS ☙ Friday, November 18, 2022 ☙ VITAL STATISTICS

    And … it’s Friday, C&Cers! Tons of great news that will make your day brighter, your coffee creamier, and your outlook rosier. Stand by for today’s roundup: Lauren Boebert is back; the House Republicans start investigating things, like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, the DOJ, and January 6th; Hawley roasts Wray; Kari Lake does not concede; Pennsylvania Republicans yank a Soros DA; the missile fragments weren’t even Russian; alarming vital statistics from Australia; government forms an FTX committee to get to the bottom of things; and the Mar-a-Lago raid story is, sadly, dying.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    In Republican news:

     Fiery Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has declared victory in what will probably be described as a dramatic come-from-behind story,…Her narrow margin of victory requires a recount under Colorado law, but Ms. Boebert says the margin is still big enough to ensure a win…

    The House Republicans are hitting the ground running, going at around 90 mph. Their committees have already begun new investigations. Yesterday, House Oversight Chair James Comer announced his committee will begin investigating Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

    Let’s hope the Swamp Monster doesn’t drag their attempts into the muck, where it will disappear with a quiet but definite sucking sound.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    A few years ago when the helium shortage became dire once the act of Congress in 2013 led to the shutdown of the huge helium facility and reserve at Amarillo, Party City announced they were on the verge of bankruptcy due to the unavailability of helium for their balloon business.  I had no idea Party City made so much money off of balloons.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More from C&C:

    Outside the House, yesterday’s highlights included this testy exchange, where Senator Josh Hawley roasted FBI Director Christopher Wray.  From Hawley’s tweet:

    Watch FBI Director Chris Wray admit to me he skipped out on a Senate oversight hearing in order to take a personal vacation in the Adirondacks. On a government jet, no less

    There’s video.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And good news from Arizona.  The odds (and media, and PTB) against her, but:

     Kari Lake is not conceding, and she’s assembling a legal team to contest the election, what she called “the best and brightest legal team.” I know that she has some smart people helping her, who’ve been working on election integrity since the 2020 elections.

    Even if she doesn’t overcome, let’s hope that she at least initiates change, so she can win the next time ’round.

    If she hasn’t been arkancided by then.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And something good coming out of Pennsylvania politics???

    American Greatness ran a story yesterday headlined, “Pennsylvania State House Votes to Impeach Soros-Funded Philadelphia D.A.” On Wednesday, Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives voted to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — who’d been primarily backed by Bond-villain billionaire George Soros.

    /snip

    … passed 7 articles of impeachment against Krasner during its final legislative session before Republicans will lose the majority. The marxist district attorney will now face trial in the State Senate — which is also controlled by Republicans.

    /snip

    For his part, Krasner didn’t dispute that crime had skyrocketed, but whined that the impeachment articles were passed “without presenting a single shred of evidence connecting our policies to any uptick in crime.” And then — without any evidence of his own — the lily-white DA called his impeachment an act of … racism!

    Because, when all else fails – racism!

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And this makes Gates, et al, very happy:

     Shocking the experts, who promised people the jabs had no affect on fertility whatsoever — they were perfectly safe and effective — but not surprising many others who predicted this would happen, Australian fertility has fallen off a cliff.

    /snip

    But then in November the bottom fell out. …. represented a drop of another 21% under the previous recent record low set in October.

    We’re talking about thousands and thousands of Australians that should have been, but will never be born. November was very bad, very alarming.

    But then, the numbers got even worse.

    The December 2021 figures …clocked in at a minuscule 6,659, which at first seemed like it must have been a mistake. I thought, there’s no way that could be right. The December report was literally one quarter (25%) of the average monthly births during the last ten years — a low figure that is far below anything on record. In other words, a 75% drop in births.

    I don’t like to include images here, but this is one you HAVE to see to believe:

    Childers then discusses the evilness of the media, trying to cover this up. /spits

    Australia also reports that 72% of all citizens (all ages) have received at least three doses of the mRNA jabs. That is a very, very close match with the loss of 74% of births.

    In other words, I wonder how many of the 6,659 live births in Australia in 2021 were born to unjabbed mothers. The currently unanswered question is: will this trend continue? Or did births recover in 2022? Australia’s survival as a nation may depend on the answer to that question.

    That is an alarming question.  Is this repeated elsewhere?  Are we going to suffer a global birth shortage?

    That special place in Hell is being renovated and enlarged to accommodate all the guilty of this crime against humanity.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Ah, dangit.  I can’t see the chart once posted.  Please go to the C&C and look at it.

    Frightening.  Absolutely stunning in its depiction of what has happened down under.

    Here is the link to the chart (hope this works):
    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a62412-2d6e-476b-ab43-73c7bf8211b4_1468x956.jpeg

    CRAP! Now I see the dang chart! Ah, well, you have the link, just in case.

  31. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I wound up watching local wanna be actor T. L. Jones on freevee in something called “The Homesman” yesterday.  It’s a western but unlike anything I’ve seen before.  It’s a unique story, pretty straight forward about the tough life on America’s frontier.  And of course, of great interest to me, incorporates 3 crazy women into the story as well as one tough woman.  And it includes a somewhat all star cast, particularly for a movie of this type.  Anyway, that’s my movie review, and as Joe Bob Briggs (which also happens to be the last name of the Jones character, or at least the name he uses)  would say – Check it out.

  32. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH I hate Madison Reed commercials.  We listen to that ignorant a## Michael Berry on iHeart radio.  It seems they have a limited catalogue of commercials so we end up hearing the same commercials over and over again.  For some reason my little brain zooms right in on that commercial and it plays at least 5 times an hour.

    Advertising sells you things you don’t need and can’t afford, that are over priced and don’t work. And they do it by exploiting your fears and insecurities. And if you don’t have any, they’ll be glad to give you a few.

    – George Carlin

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: Philly DA Krasner Impeachment

    As I said yesterday, there are 50 members of the Pennsylvania Senate, 29 Republicans, 21 Democrats.  Those numbers drop to 28 Rs to 22 Ds come January 2023.  It will take all the Republicans and at least 4, if not 5, of the Democrats to convict on impeachment charges.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    22 Squawk

    Random voices on the internet…

    Madison reed commercials… Should’ve hired a voice actor.

    Good Christ that old hag has the most uninviting voice ever. I might be sensitive since I work in audio production but f***ing hell… worse than the cat litter guy imo

    and,

    The Madison Reed commercials sound like they are cornering the 50 year old bull dyke from Detroit who’s going grey market.

    I’ve been blessed in that I’ve never heard a Madison Reed commercial.

  35. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’ve been blessed in that I’ve never heard a Madison Reed commercial.

    She is all over Sat Radio and just horrible but nothing, I mean nothing can beat “One Eight Hundred Cars For kids” when that crap pops up I’m pushing buttons or cranking down the volume.  Oh and don’t get me started on the “My Pillow Guy” I have no idea if his product is worth a damn but I’ll NEVER, EVER purchase anything from him after hearing his commercials 24-7 on regular TV, Dish and Sat Radio. Mercy he is worse than Baby Shark!

  36. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat et Super Dave

    That woman’s voice is grating, grinding and anything elese that can get on my nerves.  SD makes a point for me in that many commercials are so obnoxious if not down right offensive that I will not buy their product even if my life depends on it.

  37. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    And no back back back back back order slip.

  38. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #23 – As they like to say, the process is the punishment.  The process of defending a lawsuit or impeachment is costly in terms of cash and political capital as well.  Many places will fire you if you have been indited, regardless of the final outcome years later of the trial verdict.  So the process itself is the punishment.  Look at the efforts they have plowed into punishing Trump and his associates.  They often know that they do not have a case, but after years of harassment, they say sorry, there wasn’t anything there.  So it goes with impeachments.  It’s a political process, not a criminal or judicial process.  They have no intent of even trying to convince, merely to indict.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In May of this year, 57 Democrat members of the US House signed a letter demanding our government investigate the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist killed during a gunfight in Jenin, West Bank, Israel.  The exchange of gunfire and the death of Abu Akleh occurred on May 11th.

    The Israeli government conducted a lengthy, in-depth investigation and so far concluded the bullet that killed the journalist was probably from an Israeli weapon and was an accident.  Palestinian authorities refuse to turn over the round removed by their doctors so Israel can conduct final, conclusive testing.

    The US State Department and Defense Department accepted the report and its conclusions.  However, the letter from House members was addressed to SecState Blinken and FBI thug Christopher Wray.  With the obvious permission of the White House and AG Garland, Christopher Wray announced the FBI would open a major investigation into Abu Akleh’s death in Jenin.

    Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz just told Wray and the FBI to go pound sand.  No member of the IDF would ever be subject to interrogation by the FBI.

    This is a huge, blundering insult to Israel and an outrageous attempt to violate her sovereignty.

    The 57 House members who signed the letter are a roster of the lunatic wing of the Democrats.  Swallwell, Jackson Lee, Tlaib, Omar, Pressley, Bush, Lofgren, Speier, Kaptur, AOC and so on.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Everyone here who has seen spam calls to their home and/or cellphone drop in the last 18 months since Congress promised to put all those robocallers out of business…

    RAISE YOUR HAND !

  41. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #29 Texpat,

    I guess that the dingbat Dems who signed that letter will never be welcomed to visit Israel and would be turned away at every entry port.  On second thought, perhaps calling them dingbats is too kind and an insult to dingbats everywhere.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The elbow is extremely tender this morning.  It was hurting last night, too.  I had hoped it would be better this morning, but…no.

    So, Hubby was nice and retrieved eggs from the outside cooler for me. While I waited on him to arrive and perform this function for me, so I didn’t have to reach, grab, and lift with the arm, I unloaded Fred.  Those eggs are now ground up and in a jar. I carefully reloaded Fred and put the eggshells in my lower oven to cook before I grind them up.   Old shells ground and stored for use in my garden.  Powdered some asparagus that I dried last night, and it’s sealed up for future use in eggs, soup, etc.

    Amazingly, I was able to get most of it done without extending the arm or putting pressure on it.  Yay me!  But I will *not* be canning today.  Period.

    Since this is a no-meat day for me today, I had some more asparagus (it was on sale) with my eggs this morning.  I’m debating whether I should treadmill or not – it can be hard on the arm if I’m not careful.

    I think I’m going to tackle some bookkeeping.  It is also hard on the arm, but there are things I need to do, and if I’m going to immobilize the arm later, I need to get those done.   I’m sure Handyman would like to get paid today.

    Dang employees. Always wanting to get paid.

    I’ll do what I can left handed, but I don’t want to be at my desk forever, either. /sigh

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I don’t find the Madison Reed lady’s voice uncomfortable, though I do get tired of the repetitive commercials.

    Now that I’ve cycled through “The Closer” and “Major Crimes” several times and have seen every episode (I think), I’m going to find something else to watch during that time frame now.

    Because I’m beginning to have nightmares about Shriner’s Hospital.  I noticed yesterday that they’ve finally come up with some new commercials, using different kids. There’s that, anyway.  I wonder if they’re about to retire their spokesman after all these years. But still, 50 jillion commercials in a 3 hour period?

    Overload.

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, Hamsterville. For about a month now, I leave the doors into my bedroom open at bedtime so any of the other 6 cats that want to can come in and sleep on my bed, or in any of the cat beds in there. Except for JoJo’s little bed which is behind and under some stuff, which gives her a hideaway. JoJo herself now sleeps on the people bed at night, as do 2 or 3 of the older cats. I’m finding it very hard to get up, but hungry cats do make a pretty good alarm clock.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tried to find out who this Madison Reed is and it turns out to be a hair coloring company.

  46. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I typically do not watch much TV, particularly during the day.  Rather, I got into the habit of listening to the radio when Rush was alive, and the other people who came later were OK but not outstanding.  I’ve been trying to listen to Bongino – don’t know if you get him in Houston or not, but today he’s got a fill in woman and as far as I’m concerned, there is no place in talk radio for women.  Those 2 guys who took rush’s spot in Houston do not excite me much either, but they are still better than a replacement woman on the radio.  I may have to go sit down and try to find some sort of old movie on the free movie channels or something.  The good news out of all this is that I seldom have commercials that last longer than 5 or 10 seconds.  Back when Mary was alive, I would go visit for the holidays and there would be commercials that I had never seen before and really had no idea of what they were trying to sell.  Nothing wrong with being ignorant of commercials I suppose.

  47. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #33 – I thought Madison Reed was that cheaters web site that would hook married people up.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    With my crack investigative skills I find that Madison Reed is half-sister to another nobody named Victoria Justice.

    Clearly I am not in the target demographic to have learned who these people are.

  49. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Just for the heck of it, I thought I might give you all a little update on my efforts to make my house a little smarter with some of those electronic voice activated light bulbs and switches.  Overall, I’m very pleased, and everything has been unbelievably easy to set up.  I’ve got one light in the hallway that I expect to replace with a smart bulb when the kids come for thanksgiving since it requires climbing up a ladder to get to it, but everything else that I’ve done is working properly and I believe has made this a safer place for me to be by me not wandering around in the dark hoping I didn’t forget to move something out of the way.  My backyard can be fully lighted by voice commands, my front porch light can be turned on or off by voice commands from inside the house or by speaking into my phone.  Inside, the den is lighted and my bedroom is lighted, both of which can be activated by voice commands back in the bedroom or in the kitchen.  The planned hallway light should fundamentally complete that project.

    I see the smart wall sockets, but I cannot honestly think of anything that I need to operate via the wall socket.  I’d rather operate my appliances directly with a switch, and I’ve developed the habit of unplugging anything that I am not using to prevent accidental unintentional burning or ;such.  I think a smart plug would further complicate the matter rather than simplify it.  I think these smart devices operate on a toggle system, so if I tell it to turn something on that is already on, it will turn it off and vice versa.  So I could inadvertently turn something on that was already off which I’m entirely capable;e of doing.  And many devices default to off if there is a power disruption such as being unplugged or something, so even if I turned the plug on, the device would still require manual restarting.

    Anyway, so far I’m pretty happy with the smart set up.  I’ll be replacing the kitchen AC system soon and will probably go with a mini-split system which will include a smart thermostat.  My sous vide heater has a smart thermostat which connects to and can be controlled by the phone, but it does not operate by voice command and is not a part of the lighting system.   These things will probably be running the world here before long, so better get busy learning how to operate them.

    Nap time is coming soon.

  50. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    As the result of my having commuted to Houston one too many times, I am well aware that Madison Reed is a hair color process, founded by Amy Errett, and named after her daughter “Madison Reed”… I have many commercials that were playing during the morning and evening commute talk shows over the years forever seared into my ear drums and brain… And can sing the “donate to Junk For Joy” jingle after hearing the first note…  I know… TMI.. TMI… (I forgot to share – it’s supposed to be a kinder, gentler hair color process, with more natural looking results 😉 )

  51. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #30- Spam calls DECREASED?????????????????

    WHEN and on WHICH Planet???

    I field more SPAMMER calls than I make or receive WORK calls darn near EVERY DAY!

    *NO SMILEY*

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just shared the “Return to Tradition” link with my Carmel Light group, and have run up against what we see in the political realm – those that refuse the information because it doesn’t match their ingrained liberal beliefs.

    No, it isn’t “trash talking” if there’s proof, no matter how shattering it may be to your sheeple inclinations.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The most annoying ad person for my demographic is the Progressive Insurance lady.

    Now that’s someone I’d like to put on an antifreeze regimen.

  54. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    EG, I guess I’m anti-up-to-date, but I don’t need all those controls. Night-time lighting downstairs is no biggie, because I have several low-wattage night lights plugged directly into sockets in rooms where the cats need to see to get to their litter boxes, water bowls, or favorite snoozing spots. During daylight, those bulbs turn themselves off. I have little reason to go upstairs lately, but if I do, the stairway is the only way to get there, and if it’s dark, the light switch is right there on the first step. Enough light goes on up the stairwell to illuminate the open “library” space which occupies about one half of the upstairs. As for outside, I leave a light on the patio on all night, but that’s for the critters seeking food and a big water tub in the back yard. If I were going out there after dark myself, I’d flip on a bigger light at the back door.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The fighting war for liberty and freedom never ends.  Get ready for this.

    Mark Tapscott at PJMedia

    The occasion for this teachable moment is the “Respect for Marriage Act” now before the Senate. Democrats claim the proposal is required to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide, even though the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in 2015 did precisely that.

    The House passed a similar bill last summer, so there are some differences between the two chambers’ versions that will have to be ironed out, but that will happen quickly and President Joe Biden will sign the measure into the law.

    A dozen Republican senators voted with all of the Democrats to advance the proposal. Had this dozen GOP lawmakers voted against advancing the bill, it would still be tied up in the Senate, with an excellent chance of not going any further before the 118th Congress convenes. There’s no guarantee, however, that the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives would block the proposal.

    and,

    That enforcement is the second element here that commands attention. The bill includes provisions that authorize the IRS to jerk the tax exemption of any church or non-profit that opposes same-sex marriage. The bill also encourages litigation to be brought against those same institutions in the court system to enforce the right to same-sex marriage.

    Here’s what that means: Soon after Biden signs the bill into law, there will begin to be same-sex couples demanding to be married in evangelical churches they know to be opposed to the practice.

    If the pastor refuses to perform the ceremony, the church will be sued and it will lose in court. That litigation will then be used by the IRS as justification for ending the church’s tax-exempt status, as well as the tax-deductibility of congregants’ tithes and contributions.

    This doesn’t pass constitutional muster, but it’s going to take a lot of unnecessary time, money and guts to destroy this legislation.

  56. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    And can sing the “donate to Junk For Joy” jingle after hearing the first note…  I know… TMI.. TMI…

    Don’t forget “diarr-I ahhh”

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6oVJUWB54I

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There is a story out there about a patient being rejected by Methodist Hospital in Houston’s Transplant Center for a lung transplant because the patient is not vaccinated.

    And then we have this from The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation:

    COVID-19 Vaccine Triggered Rejection in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Case Series

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: my #42

    These are the twelve Republican senators who betrayed conservatism and the rights of religious freedom for Americans by voting for the ridiculously named “Respect for Marriage Act”:

    Susan Collins of Maine

    Rob Portman of Ohio

    Thom Tillis of North Carolina

    Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

    Mitt Romney of Utah

    Roy Blunt of Missouri

    Richard Burr of North Carolina

    Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia

    Joni Ernst of Iowa

    Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming

    Dan Sullivan of Alaska

    Todd Young of Indiana

  59. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Joni Ernst of Iowa

     

    What a disappointment she is; almost as bad as Eyepatch McCain.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: my #44

    Remember the scandal when Methodist Hospital’s lung transplant program had all kinds of problems and received bad publicity nationwide:

    There was a reason Biscamp’s doctors initially sent him to Methodist. A year earlier, in 2012, the hospital performed a staggering 143 lung transplants, making it the busiest program in America. The hospital’s willingness to travel farther for donor lungs, to treat sicker patients and to attempt new and unconventional surgical techniques drew national media attention.

    But as the program was growing, so was its rate of poor outcomes.

    Between the beginning of 2012 and the middle of 2014, about a quarter the 289 patients who received new lungs at Methodist had their transplants fail in less than a year, a rate significantly higher than the national average and worse than expected based on its own patient and donor characteristics, according to data compiled and analyzed by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Okay man when I come up I will stop by and visit.  We gotta make trip to Keens Steakhouse, home of over 90,000 clay pipes.  I’ll flip ya to see who buys lunch.

    Ms Nicola White mudlarks the River Thames and collects pipes she finds in the mud.  Anyway she visited New York and Keens.  Here is a really nice vid she made.  Lot’s of history of Keen’s contained there in.  I just want a membership and sample their mutton.

  62. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #42 – Potential “workaround”?

    Churches can cease performing ANY marriages! (on church property at least)

    Pastor’s, Priests etc could make clandestine arrangements w happy couples to hitch ’em in their own homes in private………………I know pretty outlandish and if ANYONE has loose lips it wouldn’t work for long of course…

  63. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #48 – Your steakhouse linky resulted in:

    An error occurred during a connection to http://www.keens.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

    Tried DDG search and no luck there either

  64. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Re: Marriage act

    Reading Katfish comment #49 really is quite revealing.  This marriage act is a direct attack on the church.  There are still churches (I will not say denominations) that stand for traditional marriage and will not bend.  We know what is coming, every conservative church in the US will be targets for the “Bakers Delight” lawsuits we have seen in the past.  This also goes to a deeper spiritual war in that kings of this earth want to make man choose between God and them..

  65. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Katfish

    Which link.  They all work for me.

  66. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Sort of had a little nap-ette.  Never actually dozed off but floated around in never never land for about 15 minutes.  About got all my T’giving supplies in place.  I’d like to start cooking a little bit, but I’m still afraid that I might decide to sample some of the output, and that would not be a god thing.  I’m having an afternoon cup of hot coffee just to stave off the afternoon snack craving since I’ll be doing dinner here in a couple of hours anyway.  Being cooped up inside with cooking to be done just runs counter to my history of trying to do everything and getting worn out doing it.

    College football starts late this evening.  I enjoy watching these teams in the middle of the week that are not playing on the big stage TV nets on Saturday.  Last night’s game featured 21st ranked Tulane – that’s right, Tulane is ranked – destroying SMU.  Ran through them like crap through a goose.  First time I’ve seen Tulane this year, and let me tell you, they are a team to watch.

    I started watching The Philadelphia Experiment.  A little too sci-fi for my tastes, but since I started I guess I’ll finish it.  More later.

  67. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #52 – Actually tried all of them – the 1st try you saw the result above

    the rest ‘TIMED out’

  68. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Quick Drive-By; Here is a particularity disgusting commercial that showed up a while back;  Colace 

    FWIW; It’s on TV and when it first started my wife couldn’t believe they’d put out something that gross on TV…Oh and you’re welcome. 😀

  69. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #s 52 & 54 – NOW it works! Friggin interwebs!

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Keen’s Steakhouse link worked fine for me on the first click.

    Squawk, sounds like a deal to me.

  71. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Watching the tube, so who is Taylor Swift and why should I care?

  72. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #58

    so who is Taylor Swift and why should I care?

    Don’t worry SuperDave. She’s just another liberal singer with all of the liberal baggage. I actually like some of her music, however, I do not go out of my way to find her stuff on Spotify nor do I keep up with her.

  73. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    That Keens in NYC sounds like a tremendous dining experience.

  74. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #60 – All except for being in NYC aka the San Francisco of the East!

  75. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’ve suffered some minor bouts of insomnia this week and I’m tired. However, for some reason I couldn’t fall back asleep after my 6am alarm to take some medication so I climbed out of bed at 7am.

    Our house is a wreck with all the remodeling going on. We started cleaning this morning to make it livable again. We made good progress today but we still have a ways to go to get it spic and span clean for our company that arrives next week.

  76. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’ve skimmed the manual for the wood burning stove several times, but I haven’t read it. Now I have to read it to understand the dampers and their position for start up, how to open it up to make it burn hotter, or close it down to cool it down.

    I’ll do my first test burn tomorrow morning. I’ll have to do four over the weekend. The subcontractor will come Tuesday to custom build the mantle on site and install it. Then they’ll stain it and fix the sheetrock that had to be cut out the other day on Wednesday.

    The wife is trying to get ahold of the painter who said there was plenty of paint left over to touch up the sheetrock repairs. Unfortunately I accidentally let him leave with the paint when he was done yesterday morning.

  77. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I just love recruiters that reach out to me with opportunities that pay 25% less than my current salary.

  78. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’m still enjoying the knashing of teeth by the Dems and liberals over everything going on a Twitter right now.

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    61 Katfish

    Actually, NYC isn’t a good comparison to San Fransicko.

    On the West Coast, it’s all about dodging urine, feces and comatose, stoned trannies in the street.

    On the East Coast, it’s about stabbings, shootings and carjackings by gangbangers in broad daylight.

    Choose your poison and your weapons !

  80. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #66 – I fully ‘get’ my analogy was a s t r e t c h at best

    All I had on short notice!     🙂

    I don’t want to be in either of those wastelands!

  81. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    64 TexMo

    My son-in-law has been shopping for a new job.  His problem is he’s a stock analyst on Wall Street, fairly high profile, and as he says, “Analysts are all overpaid for what we do.”  He’s in a trough where lots of people want to hire him, but nobody wants to match or exceed his salary and plenty want to offer half.  He’s at a point where he has to up his game to jump into the C-suite as a CFO or take a big risk and do something very different like venture capital work.  He’s only 40, but he’s pretty burned out where he is.  If he were a bigger risk taker, there would be many more opportunities.

  82. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I need a little Fanny.  Lead singer sounds a little like Geddy Lee.  The drummer style reminds me of  Ginger Baker but that is about where that ends.

  83. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Had my usual dinner of cheese burger patty and some sliced mater.  Topped it all off with a dab of left over chili which is good for a cold and dreary day.  Possible sleet and/or snow here tonight, but I’m betting against it.  Now if I could just go tune in a football game I’d be just fine, but the first game does not start until 8PM.  I’m usually starting to think about how to stay up until 10 before going to bed at 8PM.  Should be some good games starting tomorrow, so I’ve got that to look forward to.

    Still haven’t started my holiday baking, but I think I’ve got everything I need and I think I can overcome temptation to sample some of it.  Maybe start tomorrow, but it would be better to watch football tomorrow and start Sunday.  Never know what I might do or when though.

  84. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Got up from my nap and it was almost dark already outside. Plus was drizzly and cold. So after I got the backyard critters set for their supper, I came in and made a cup of hot cocoa. Warmed me up and slightly delayed when I’d be hungry.

  85. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Aldi had celery and cranberries on sale.  Cranberries can be worked into a keto diet, carefully, so I bought some.  They’re in the fridge and the celery has been loaded into the oven to dry.

    We had salmon, brussels sprouts roasted and then cooked in a cream sauce, and asparagus for dinner.  Hubby doesn’t normally go for the sprouts, but cooked that way he likes them.  Eldest sis taught me to do that, but she has bacon in the sauce, which I had to forego because it’s Friday.

    So with all the pans and the blanching pots and strainers, then add the crock pot ghee paraphernalia – my kitchen is a bit of a war zone.  We’re going to Crockett early in the morning, since tomorrow is a car show there and they have a concurrent craft show.  I need to start my annual Santa hunt.  Hopefully I can get in the mood.  I just don’t have the urge yet.

    We’ll be back tomorrow night.  It’ll be a long day.  I guess I shouldn’t leave that big a mess for Hubby.  Especially since he plays Jenga with the washed dishes as he stacks them next to the sink.  I hate that.  I pull one thing out with eyes closed, hoping his pyramid doesn’t come crashing down.  I’ll wash and put away tonight.

    Because….Hubby.

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    48

    Lillie frikin Langtry? Really?

    Well I’ll be.

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I can assure you that I have nothing against mutton (unless it is served cold).

    But if I go to anyplace claiming to be a steak house, I ain’t ordering no sheep, Bubba.

  88. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The last of of the cast from “Hogan’s Heroes” has passed away.  Robert Clary portrayed Cpl. Louis LeBeau on “Hogan’s Heroes.”  The little Frenchman who could win the war with his cooking.

    I guess it’s the end of another era.  I grew up watching HH, with a crush on Bob Crane, then Richard Dawson.  Just one more reminder…oh, never mind.

    I was surprised to learn how many cast members were Jewish survivors of WWII.  Even Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz, their German captors on the show, were Jews who fled Nazi persecution.

    RIP Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon, Richard Dawson, Larry Hovis, Werner Klemperer, and John Banner.  You made me laugh when I was a child, and again as I watched your reruns when I grew up.  I guess all of you have escaped now.

    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/robert-clary-hogans-heroes-star-dead-96

  89. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Tedtam – I grew up in a one horse town that only had 2 TV stations… There were lots of programs I never saw until I went away to college because they were on the network we didn’t have. Howdy Doody, Combat, Hogan’s Heroes just to name a few… Which was actually a blessing – Hogan’s Heroes was one of the programs that we used to watch before I went to sleep when I was still working…. And I was fascinated when I heard an interview about the Jewish actors in the program – who agreed to play Nazis, just as long as they could make them look like the clowns they did. RIP to them all – and thanx for all the laughs.

  90. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A friend tagged me in FB, and FB covered the post with a “sensitive content, you may not want to see this” cover on it.

    It was a script: “Be still and know that I am God.”

    Hoe. Lee. Crap.

  91. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Only broccoli stinks up the house worse than Brussels sprouts, but they are neck and neck.

    There’s a Verboten sign on both of my entry doors.

     

  92. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    It was a script: “Be still and know that I am God.”

    I’ll bet the following would not get slapped with a “sensitive” content label by FB.

    It was a script: “Be still and know that I am God Allah.”

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So when did college football start playing on week days?

  94. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #77 – When ESPN said they would pay for a week night broadcast.

    In other news, I got stir crazy waiting on the football game to start, so I checked out my recipe, gathered up all the stuff, and popped an easy buttermilk pie into the oven.  Even washed up all the measuring cups and such.  Ziggy (my Alexa Echo) was instructed to give me an alarm in 45 minutes, so now I can go back in and sit down and see how it turns out.  I used to make these buttermilk pies all the time because they are so easy, and they taste good too although I won’t be able to sample it.  So now I’ve pierced the veil for cooking desserts, and I can stop worrying about it and just do it.

    I’ll check back in before bedtime if I get around to it.

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    ESPN has always been a tool of Satan.

  96. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Man, I could use a big hot piece of homemade pecan pie with some Blue Bell vanilla on it right now.

  97. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wife just picked up a bunch of pies to pass out to clients from Flying Saucer today, got us a cheesecake man is it tasty. Garage fridge is full of them it’s going to take courage to leave them alone.

  98. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    My buttermilk pie came out of the over all pretty and just the right shade of brown on top.  Smells good too.  But my willpower will just have to prevail.  Ball game is going ok, but I think it’s actually bedtime.  You all have a good evening now.  Hope we get some of that sleet and snow we’ve been promised.

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I still occasionally make my great-grandmother Sadie’s spice pie.  It is essentially the same recipe as buttermilk pie, but with more cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice.

  100. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I didn’t see a “balanced meal” in the fridge, so I decided to just put together several things: a corndog, a helping of sweet potatoes, and a small garden salad that just needed a few grape “maters” sliced onto it.  I liked it! So I’ll have to try unconventional pairings like that one more often.

     

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