Wednesday’s “When You’re the Mark” – Open Commentary

Michael Walsh is a journalist, author, and screenwriter. He was for 16 years the music critic and a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine. His works include the novels As Time Goes By, And All the Saints, and the bestselling “Devlin” series of NSA thrillers; as well as the nonfiction bestseller, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and its sequel, The Fiery Angel.

Walsh has been telling it like it is for decades.  His best-selling book, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, was an eloquent warning to America about the advance of Critical Race Theory in schools, the academy and our justice system well before Donald Trump was inaugurated.  I could not recommend it more highly.  Meanwhile, read this column from his work at The Pipeline.

If you knowingly sit down at a fixed poker game and lose your entire stash, would you also complain that some of the other players also cheated? If it was a friend who brought you into the game, would you then go to another one with him? And having lost all your money when you bet the farm, would you re-mortgage it and bet it all again on the chance that this time things would be different? If you’re a Republican, the answer is: of course you would, because you just did and you’re about to do it again.

If the national elections of 2018, 2020, and 2022 didn’t teach the GOP a lesson or three, what will? From Donald Trump’s surprise (though not a surprise to me) win in 2016, it’s been mostly all downhill for the party of Lincoln, which has been thrice set back on its heels and sent to the power poorhouse.

and,

It’s not like there was no warning. Once the Democrats miraculously cleaned out the GOP in formerly red Orange County, Calif., in 2018 it should have been clear even to such notable dummies as Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy that the game was no longer being played on Game Day, but weeks and even months before, plus a few days after the polls had “closed.” Early voting, “harvested” voting, “absentee” voting was a Tammany wet dream come to life: who doesn’t like their chances on Election Day when more than half the votes are already in the bag and you know to an absolute certainty where they went? Add to this the unconstitutional changes to the voting laws rammed through in blue states during the Covid hoax, and the Dems were in the catbird seat long before Nov. 8.

plus,

Thus, as I mentioned last week, there’s no need for “cheating.” Thanks to Tammany Hall’s centuries-long perfection of electoral chicanery and the Republicans’ willful blindness, the system has become the steal. Typical con men, the Democrats preach the “sanctity” of the vote when what they really lust after is the roundheels of the ballot. There are no virgins in this whorehouse, just the soiled doves of the media who gussy them up for the traveling salesmen and visiting firemen, and then collect their pimp money in the back alley from the bankers and the lawyers who like the system just fine the way it is.

Here is a PJTV Stephen Kruiser interview of Michael Walsh from 2017 talking about the The Devil’s Pleasure Palace.


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  1. Katfish Avatar

    Up early – gotta make sure a stepdeck operator with 40′ high cube on board meets up with our customer for crane offloading in Miami around 0630 EDT.

    Cmonnnnnnnnnnn coffee!

  2. Katfish Avatar

    Signor Walsh NAILS it!

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Katfish is up early and we have more required reading. Since it’s Michael Walsh I know it will be good.

    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Katfish Avatar

    Good stuff – our customer, mobile crane and out stepdeck operator all onsite aok

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    An real work of art;

    New Westley Richards  .505 Gibbs Magazine Rifle

    Robert Wilson, Hemingway’s professional hunter character in ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ carried perhaps the second best known rifle in the story. First place goes to Mrs Macomber’s 6.5 Mannlicher, with which she dispatched her unfortunate husband during a buffalo charge. 😉

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the OC topic, be sure to RTWDT.

    From the comments;

    The GOP, with a few exceptions, is part of this fraud. They’re owned by the Left and do what they’re told. In return, they are given more power, more wealth and nifty vacation spots like Epstein’s Rape Island. Neither McConnell nor McCarthy were surprised, as well as many others in the GOP.

  7. bsue54 Avatar

    Good Morning, Gang… today I am grateful that when I turned everything on this morning, EVERYTHING worked, so that I am able to say “GOOD MORNING HAMSTERS”… I pray that ya’ll got all your Thanksgiving prep shopping finished off, and are, like me, relaxing on the sofa with a fresh hot cup of coffee with friends (albeit, the friends are all on their own sofas – or phones – or wherever)…

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Absolutely beautiful, one of my all time favorites;

    Lockheed Super Constellation
    Historical Aircraft Restoration Society
    Wings Over Illawarra 2022

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I stood out at Goffle Farm yesterday for an hour in line waiting to pick up my turkey and extra breasts.  There are hundreds of people picking up orders plus off-duty cops and others directing traffic.  They must have 65-70 mostly temporary employees for the Thanksgiving season.  Seven people to sign in customers and 14 cashiers, dozen or more parking guys and at least 35 order pullers.

    This doesn’t count regular employees supplying & delivering premium turkeys to more upscale grocery stores in the area.

    They gave me a 24 lb bird that looks like it 28 lbs.  It just barely fit into the brining bags and is in the outside refrigerator waiting to be cooked late this afternoon.  I’m cooking the breasts on Friday to be sliced up for sandwiches for the next week.  After that, I’ll be sick of turkey until next November.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    After that, I’ll be sick of turkey until next November.

    Just about everybody I know except my wife. Isn’t that the strangest phenomenon, we don’t want anything to do with it all year but look so forward to it and the leftover this week?

  11. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Morning all, 27 F this AM heading to 39F. This is considered a good day for this time of year.

    More later

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    At 7:59 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 19, Captain Patrick Ford collapsed at the controls of his American Eagle Embraer 175 – only seconds after the 76-seat jet had left the runway in Chicago.

    Ford was speaking to an air traffic controller at Chicago O’Hare, one of the world’s busiest airports, when his voice abruptly stopped, a publicly available recording of the incidents show.

    “Can I help you?” the controller anxiously asked, seconds later.

    “We need to return, captain is incapacitated,” Ford’s copilot coolly reported.

    The jet, bound for Columbus, Ohio, had barely reached 2,000 feet of altitude. Any mistake could have led it to crash within seconds.

    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/a-newly-hired-american-airlines-regional?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Texanadian, dayaam you’re having a heat wave. 55 and sunny here shooting for the low 70’s. 😉

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #12 Shannon, from the piece;

    Among pilots who resisted mRNA Covid vaccines – a small but vocal minority – Ford’s death has also thrown into question possible cardiac side effects from the shots. American and Envoy declined to disclose if Ford had been vaccinated or boosted. But most pilots are vaccinated, following heavy government and airline pressure in the summer and fall of 2021.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Even the alt Right MAGA murderers are going non-binary !

    The public defenders for the suspect in the mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub said in a Tuesday night court filing obtained by a New York Times reporter that their client is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.

    The big picture: The suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is facing multiple murder and hate crime charges over the shooting at Club Q last weekend that killed five people, per Max D’Onofrio, a city spokesperson.

    • Aldrich was injured during the shooting but released from a local hospital and “booked into the El Paso County Jail,” earlier on Tuesday, per the Denver Post.

    What we’re watching: Aldrich was due to make their first court appearance via video link from jail Wednesday, according to the Denver Post.

  16. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Six to ten inches of snow expected in the Texas Panhandle Thursday thru Saturday.

  17. bsue54 Avatar

    #15 BRRRRRRRR….. I moved to Canyon/Amarillo area a lifetime ago, and was quickly brought up to speed on the legend that says that, every year it will snow in October… and whatever that date is, there will be that many separate snowfalls that winter… The year I moved there, it snowed on October 16… and sure enough, it snowed 16 different times that winter… The following October it snowed on Halloween – and I moved to Houston

  18. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Smart phone peoples – type “I stuff my turkey with-“ and use the middle recommended word until you have a sentence.

  19. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The following October it snowed on Halloween – and I moved to Houston

    Lol, good decision!

    I lived in Lubbock then Hereford, we moved down here when I was eleven. I don’t remember much snow.

  20. Katfish Avatar

    TP @ 8:25 – I’ll wager that ‘Bubba’ in Florence SuperMAX won’t give a darn what his pronouns are!

  21. bsue54 Avatar

    GJT, the cousin I moved in with when I first moved to the panhandle lived in Canyon at that time (and, speaking of snow, we got towed back into Amarillo during a “blizzard” by a snowplow in her Pontiac Astre one night) … She was living in Hereford when I moved to Houston – and that was one of the most truly Texan towns I ever experienced. Of course, it was during the late 70’s

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Gay club shooter drama continues to unfold…

    Meanwhile, in another bizarre twist, Aldrich’s estranged father has been identified as an ex-con former MMA fighter-turned-porn star, it was revealed Tuesday

    Aaron Franklin Brink, 51, entered the mixed martial arts cage in the ’90s, clocking up 21 victories over the 10 years of his fighting career — including during appearances with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting, MMA Junkie wrote in a profile.

    Brink also took up porn acting at age 27 under the name Dick Delaware, the Denver Gazette reported.

    and,

    It was also revealed that the suspected shooter’s name was changed more than six years ago after filing a legal petition in Texas seeking to “protect himself” from a dad with a criminal history.

    Aldrich was known as Nicholas Franklin Brink until 2016, when a petition was submitted on Brink’s behalf by their* grandparents, who were their* legal guardians at the time.

    “Minor wishes to protect himself and his future from any connections to birth father and his criminal history. Father has had no contact with minor for several years,” the petition stated.

    * I find it very irritating the New York Post insists on complying with morons’ silly pronoun choices, as if pronouns can be chosen.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Dick Delaware ?!

    I bet he knows CornPop and Blue Collar Joe Biden.

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hereford has two feed lots on either end of town, didn’t matter which way the wind blew, you got healthy doses of them. But that was my dad’s business – building mechanisms for feed lots, so it was the smell of money.

  25. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Never knew CornPop was a porn star lol. That sounds like a country song line.

  26. Tedtam Avatar

    I’m running late getting going this morning.  I did *not* feel well last night, and had a hard time getting comfortable.  Between my arm and my head, it took quite a while to fall asleep.  While I was waiting for the Bag Monster (Aggie term for “sandman”) to come get me, I watched the documentary mentioned last night titled “Died Suddenly”.  It reported everything that I and Childers have been screaming about – the blood “clots” that are killing people, the delayed death schedule due to said clots which means a lot of deaths are not getting reports as vaccine murders, and the plummeting birth rates.  Yes, babies are having heart attacks in the womb – I hadn’t heard that report.

    So, I’ve unloaded all of those jars I bought yesterday, and the first load is in the dishwasher. (I’m still a little giggly over my haul yesterday.)  Another thing I checked up on last night were the jars I left behind.  BSue – there’s a new player in the canning jar market called Orchard Hill.  I left them yesterday because I had not heard of them and my cart was about to overflow and leave broken glass on the floor.  I looked up “Orchard Hill” last night while not sleeping, and found out that they are quality jars for canning. So, if you see them, pick ’em up.  The lids weren’t so great in the review, but the jars were as thick or thicker than Ball and canned well.  So, if they’re still there, I’m picking them up today when I return the boxes and packing paper to the thrift shop so they can reuse them.  I’ve returned packing material to them before, and they’re always grateful – and they have a huge sale day on Friday.  They’ll need them.

    I also have a prescription for $10 at Walmart, instead of the shocking $1000.  So, I have errands for this morning, before stuff shuts down: bank, thrift shop, Aldi (is their butter on sale?), Walmart, and back home.  But before I go, there’s the C&C…

  27. Tedtam Avatar

    C&C NEWS ☙ Wednesday, November 23, 2022 ☙ PERSISTENT MORTALITY

    ood morning, C&C, happy Wednesday, and best wishes for your Thanksgiving eve. May you get all your errands done today, with plenty of time left to spare. [backatcha, dude]

    /snip

    In today’s final pre-Thanksgiving roundup: things I’m grateful for; Fauci’s first deposition; covid coordinator talks out of his butt; Fauci gives his last covid briefing; AI robots with frickin’ lasers on their heads; Walt Disney’s new family friendly male-stripper show; Elon Musk is sick of negotiating with leftists; more covid data we need to capture; UConn coach collapses at game; high school coach is SADS; middle-school principal is SADS; and a high-profile study exposes excess heart attack in younger people.

  28. Tedtam Avatar

    Childers starts out with a long list of thankfulness, to which I agree and add my own, then this:

    On the bright side, one pandemic innovation I AM grateful for, and which I’d like to keep, although I’m not completely one hundred percent sure it’s good for me, is carryout adult beverages.

    Don’t cancel me!

    I’m sure some of you guys are thankful for this as well. 😉

    On to some news:

    Yesterday, the White House’s so-called ‘Covid Coordinator,’ Ashish Jha, if that’s his real name, held a covid press briefing….

    Oh! And one more. According to CDC statistics, only about 11% of people aged 5 and older have gotten the new-and-improved bivalent booster….

    The interesting part was that, while lovingly describing the amazing benefits of triple, quadruple, or quintuple servings of mRNA spike protein, Jha said, and I am not making this up, that if every American took a booster shot, it would “prevent essentially every covid death.”

    What?

    First of all, we now see why they hired Jha. He’s an expert at weasel words. “Essentially every” covid death is not quite the same thing as “every” covid death, is it? And it’s not the first time Jha has played this lizard-lipped game:

    What’s that answer to the question “How do you know they’re lying?”  “Their lips are moving.”

    And that’s not the worst of it, not even close. Jha is talking out of his lower aperture. There’s no reliable clinical data….suggesting that taking a booster “almost definitely” prevents “essentially every” at-risk person from dying of a serious covid infection. Not a scrap.

    In fact, the data we do have suggests the exact opposite. Boosters appear to make folks more likely to catch covid…

    Jha then dropped this little chestnut: “The real leaders of American medicine are out there telling you that you need to go get a vaccine. You can decide to trust America’s physicians or you can trust some random dude on Twitter.”….

    I’m going with the random dude on Twitter.

     

  29. bsue54 Avatar

    #23 Tedtam – good luck at Wallyworld today… I made my pilgrimage yesterday and the Conroe store was insanely busy, many empty shelves, but the people there (other shoppers) were all being neighborly and helping short people (like me) by reaching things waaaaay back on upper shelves.  I guess the store was emptying out stuff so they can spend the nights getting all their “Black Friday” junk, I mean displays set up…

    Are the Orchard Hills jars stand sized? I guess what I’m asking is “do they use regularly sized lids? Not sure that I’ve ever run across that brand. (And, after googling them – are they Orchard ROAD canning? Google didn’t like Orchard Hill…)

  30. El Gordo Avatar

    Morning gang.  Tooke an extended coffee break this morning, so a little late checking in.  Talked to one of the boys about coming out today, and all is still on target it would seem.  Looking at some rain the next couple of days, so who knows what may eventually come out of that, but it’s not supposed to freeze, so it should not really be a problem.

    Think everything around here is about as good as it’s going to get.  I’ve done what I can and they can fend for themselves after this.  I got in the habit the past few years of just bringing my own food with me when I went to visit since I’ve become such a picky eater, and I’ve noticed that they do similar things – especially with snack foods, drinks, and the like.  House full of coolers, but my ice maker does a pretty good job of keeping up,.  I guess I could put some things into a cooler as well and relieve the refrig space.  I’ve got a big fridge, and then a mini for the water and drinks.

    OK, you all have a great day.  More later as it develops.

  31. Tedtam Avatar

    For an amusing yet prescient story:

    The New Scientist ran a thought-provoking story last month headlined, “AI-Controlled Robotic Laser Can Target and Kill Cockroaches.” Haha, by “cockroaches” they don’t mean covid experts…..

    Researchers have created a device that uses machine vision to spot cockroaches and zap them with a laser. They say the method could offer a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to insecticides.

    …the New Scientist quoted one of the developers, who was like, for heaven’s sake, don’t put this thing in your house.

    Project lead Ildar Rakhmatulin explained, “It’ll never be absolutely safe,”…“It’s my opinion that it cannot be used for home applications.”

    Of course, one assumes that the scientists’ warnings will be completely ignored and the laser-equipped pest-destroying robots will be in everyone’s home in five years, and then the revolution can begin.

    Seriously. Is it just me, or does it sometimes feel like we’re living in the opening act of a horror movie?

    Will El Gordo hook this up to his smart devices?  Or maybe he’ll hook it up outside and zap white wings with it.  Or skunks.  That would be some kind of fun.

  32. Tedtam Avatar

    BSue – here’s the review I found last night.

    https://www.simplycanning.com/orchard-road-canning/

    Yes, they use standard canning jar lids, so you’re all good there.

  33. bsue54 Avatar

    #29 Tedtam – thanx… I have Simply Canning’s website bookmarked already 😉

  34. Tedtam Avatar

    Childers also reports:

    Disney takes another dive into wokeism:  a “family friendly” show about the start-up of Chippendales.

    Not the furniture company.  The male strip joint.

    Family friendly by ever-lovin’ butt.  So glad I never signed up for the Disney channel.

     

  35. Tedtam Avatar

    After more news on Elon fighting the left on Twitter, Childers reports more “sudden and unexpected”:

    Lubbock, Texas head high school football coach Matthew Hoover, 38, was found dead in his home this week. Hoover was described as a proud “girl dad” of four now-fatherless daughters.

    Wake County Middle School Principal Karen Sinders closed her books for the last time when she died suddenly and unexpectedly AT SCHOOL on Monday.

    RIP for these two, and prayers of comfort and strength for their families.

  36. Tedtam Avatar

    And, along the lines of the documentary “Died Suddenly,” there’s this:

    ….the Journal of Medical Virology quietly ran a shocking new study titled “Excess Risk for Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The team of researchers from Cedars-Sinai looked at excess post-pandemic mortality associated with heart attacks….

    [insert excerpt from report here]

    See that? The youngest age cohorts saw the most excess deaths from fatal heart attacks. That fact cannot possibly be explained by hand-waving about “deferred medical care.” Young people don’t get preventative medical care, especially not for cardiac issues.

    /snip

    Ominously, the researchers also noted that the trend of excess mortality has persisted “even through the recent Omicron surge.” Without actually saying so, they’re really saying that whatever is causing the heart attacks in young people is not related to covid infections. Nor is it going away.

    We’re getting there. Accountability is coming.

    I’m glad Childers is on our side.

  37. Tedtam Avatar

    Saw this story elsewhere: A family is shopping at a store, wife walks away from Hubby, who is holding their daughter (who has a special gift – she can puke on command, this is important).  Crazy lady walks up to Hubby and starts hitting on him, trying to get him to leave Wife and go home with her.  Daughter tells crazy lady to go away and hugs her daddy.  Daughter warns daughter that she’ll puke on Crazy Lady if she doesn’t leave her daddy alone.  Hubby displays wedding ring and tells CL to leave him alone.  CL ramps up her attack.  Wife approaches, hugs her husband, tells CL they are happily married and to go away.  This just motivates CL to get more excited.

    At some point, CL leans over and Daughter pukes on her, making sure to aim it where it will run down the inside of her shirt.  Once security shows up, the issue is resolved, CL is taken away, Daughter is cleaned up, and the family leaves.

    When I asked my daughter why she thought she needed to puke on the lady, her reaction was legendary. 

    My daughter told me that we had already spent enough time talking and it CLEARLY wasn’t going anywhere. So she ended it.

    My daughter has always had a way of cutting through the garbage in life. OH, and Daddy bought Daughter ice cream on the way home.

    We need more pukers in life.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Heather Wallace’s oldest son, 8-year-old Aiden, was driving his two brothers crazy in the car as they all returned from karate one afternoon in October 2021. Wallace asked Aiden to walk the rest of the way home—half a mile in quiet, suburban Waco, Texas—so that he could calm down.

    For this she was arrested, handcuffed, and thrown in jail.

    She was charged with endangering a child, a felony carrying a mandatory minimum of two years in prison.

    “It really brought us into deep trauma,” says Wallace.

    and this,

    Aiden agreed to walk home; after all, it was something he had done many times. There are sidewalks the entire way, and practically zero traffic.

    But 15 minutes later, two cops knocked on Wallace’s door. Her son was in their patrol car. Another officer was parked across the street.

    A woman one block away had called the cops to report a boy walking outside alone. That lady had actually asked Aiden where he lived, verified that it was just down the street, and proceeded to call nonetheless. The cops picked up Aiden on his own block.

    not outrageous enough for you ?,

    Unfortunately, HB567 amended only family law, not criminal law. This meant the cops were still free to punish Wallace.

    She obtained a lawyer, who told her that if she admitted guilt, she could participate in a pretrial diversion program that would close the case. On the other hand, if she went to trial and lost, she faced a minimum of two years behind bars and a maximum of 20. So she took the plea deal.

    First, once again the Texas legislature does half-assed by only addressing half the problem and leaving the discretion of whether to arrest this woman to some stupid cop who thinks it’s dangerous for a kid to walk half a mile home in a nice residential neighborhood.

    If this were the case where I grew up in Texas, the cops would’ve had to bring a paddy wagon to arrest all the mothers in the neighborhood.  Texas legislators repaired the civil law, but neglected to change the criminal law regarding parenting decisions.

    Second, I wouldn’t live in Waco or McClennan County as it appears whomever serves as DA there is just as stupid as the earlier DA who prosecuted all the ambushed bikers back a few years ago.  There is no reason on earth this case should not have been dropped.  The family is now broke, in debt and the mother has lost her ability to work as a schoolteacher because of this outrageous injustice.

  39. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Speaking of sudden death here is a British version

    https://www.oraclefilms.com/safeandeffective

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Alabama’s Secretary of State-elect Wes Allen has announced that he will withdraw the state from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a voter-roll management system with politically compromised ties.

    “I made a promise that I would withdraw Alabama from ERIC and I am keeping that promise,” Allen said in a statement. “I have informed them, via certified letter, that upon my inauguration on January 16, 2023, Alabama will immediately and permanently cease to transmit any information regarding any citizen in the State of Alabama to their organization and that we will no longer participate in any aspect of the ERIC program.”

    and,

    However, member states may not realize ERIC was started by far-left political activist David Becker, who has dedicated his life to attacking conservatives and advancing left-wing policies. Becker also started the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), one of two leftist groups that funneled $419 million in grants from Mark Zuckerberg to mostly blue counties of swing states, funding Democratic get-out-the-vote operations from government election offices in 2020. ERIC shares voter roll data – including records of unregistered citizens – with CEIR, which then reportedly creates targeted mailing lists for unregistered but likely Democrat voters and sends them back to the states for voter registration outreach.

    Louisiana stopped participating in these programs in January of 2022.

    Why the hell is the state of Texas still a participating member ?

    People should be pointedly asking Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott this question and asking the same thing of their senators and House representatives.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There’s been some bad juju in McClennan County, TX for a long, long time.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    35 texanadian

    Thank you.

    Not having any luck easily connecting to the other one. I refuse to jump through any hoops to watch it.

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. While there are many ways to show how much is collected in taxes by state governments, the Index is designed to show how well states structure their tax systems and provides a road map for improvement.

    Wyoming #1, South Dakota #2 and Florida #4.  Texas didn’t make the top 10, but it did rank #13.

    Alabama not looking good at #41, but it beats California #49 and New York #48. 

    Guess who is rock bottom last ?  Yep, New Jersey #50.

  44. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #37 Shannon

    If you are referring to the Died Suddenly documentary, do a search for the title at Rumble.com and it will show up. I originally clicked on that link Tedtam provided yesterday via the C&C, and I couldn’t find it at that website.

    I do not like Rumble because it does not have some of the features YouTube has such as fast forward and rewind. You also cannot cast it to a TV via a smart TV, Roku, Firestick, Chromecast, etc. Yesterday I even broke down and downloaded the app to my phone. It immediately forces you to set up an account. It asks for your birthday (which I always give a fake date) but you could not enter the month, day, and year directly. It started off with yesterday’s date and you could only scroll backwards one month at a time. I sure as heck wasn’t going to scroll back to the 70s so I stopped at the year 2000. After I entered the last bit of info, some error message popped up and said try again later. I was peeved at that point and gave up. Also, note that some fool has usurped my name. If you ever see TexMo on Rumble, it isn’t me.

    So to make a short story longer my mom looked up Roku channels and saw that you can add the Rumble Channel to your Roku home screen. It worked and I was able to watch the documentary on the big screen.

  45. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Y’all know I haven’t driven much at all during the past 8 months. On Monday I borrowed my daughter’s boyfriend’s 1982 Ford F150 to go pick up a half cord of firewood in Rosharon. Everything was manual. Manual door locks, windows, headlights, transmission, and the wipers only had low and high. No intermittent. It was raining that day. I had a load of fun shifting gears while simultaneously turning the wipers on/off. On the way back, I even took a call from my surgeon’s nurse. I had the phone up in the crook of my neck while shifting gears.

    Ahhhh… the good ol’ days. 🙂

  46. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I missed this last week

    Jay Leno has suffered serious burns to his face after a car erupted into flames in a horror accident.

    The comedian, 72, is “doing ok” and recovering in a burn centre after a fire broke out in a vehicle in a Los Angeles garage where he keeps his fleet of luxury cars on Sunday

    I wish him a speedy recovery.

  47. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tedtam I too was surprised at the statement in the documentary when they said babies in the womb were suffering heart attacks.

     

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    38 Texmo

    I completely understand what you went through with Rumble.

    There are several conservative sites to which I truly want access. And some other non-political sites too.

    But they can all shove their apps. I don’t trust them.

    If they want my personal information, the basturds can go on Google and the dark web to get it like everyone else.

     

  49. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I feel bad for one of my aunts (Aunt #1). Her grandkids have colds and can’t go to visit her for Thanksgiving. She will have her step son and sister in law on Thanksgiving day. Her sister (Aunt #2) lives in the same town and all her kids and grandkids will be visiting her. They can’t celebrate together because Aunt #1’s SIL is extremely prejudiced against gay people. Aunt #2’s son is gay. So because of one person’s bigotry Aunt #1 can’t enjoy her niece,  nephew, and her own sister’s company on Thanksgiving day.

    BTW, Aunt #1’s husband’s family is all Church of Christ and extremely conservative. You are not supposed to smoke, drink, or curse around these people. Her husband’s father was a Church of Christ preacher. Sounds more Baptist to me.

    Life is too damn short to get caught up it such petty B.S.

  50. Katfish Avatar

    TP @ 1:20 – Barb & I just watched it on my 24″ PC screen – not as large as my 55″ Vizio of course but plenty big enough for 68 minutes.

    Pretty much confirms what I already believed.  *NO SMILEY*

  51. Tedtam Avatar

    Just finished my errands:

    • I met my CPA lady, who had backed up my Quickbooks file on a drive that I’d left there before.  I need to restore her file over mine so I can incorporate her changes.  The QB internet file exchange that Intuit has for this purpose keeps blowing on us, alternately.  Weird.
    • The remaining jars I left yesterday have been snapped up.  I’m sure they went to a home where they’ll be appreciated and used.  Just glad I got there first! 😉
    • Aldi had butter on sale, for the price that was the regular last year: $2.49/pound, limit 6.  Wal-mart had butter for $5.00+.  I’ll be going back to Aldi to get some more later.  Ghee time, since I have no freezer room for butter.
    • Wal-mart surprised me with some beef on sale.  Jars, meet meat.  Meat, jars.  I also bought some prediced chicken breast so I can make that chicken curry recipe again.  The precut meat will take some of the load off of the elbow.
    • Speaking of elbow, the meds I picked up were a steroid pack, which I’ll start tomorrow.  I asked about the cream replacement, and the pharmacist looked it up on the computer (I had a tech yesterday), and told me there was an OTC ointment that did the same thing.  He actually walked me out and handed me a box of Volparen(?).  Really good customer service.
    • While at Wal-mart, this terribly obese woman walked by me in the frozen food area, followed by her friend a few paces back, pushing a basket.  BTW, there are just some fashion choices that don’t look good on the body once you get past a certain BMI, but I digress.  There was about an inch of make-up on her face, maybe to try to distract passers by from the show going on below the neck.  As I passed her  – and she didn’t even acknowledge my presence, much less give me the right of way – I realized why her friend was several paces behind her.  Holy molee, I wanted to take her outside and hose her down.  Later, as I was on my way to checkout, I saw the two of them walking out the exit, without going through the checkout lanes.  Train Wreck lady was eating a cookie, part of the package in her hand.  I hate thieves, and I don’t care if it’s a snack pack of cookies, an apple for your kid, a $50 steak, or a $500 tool – it’s all shoplifting and it’s morally wrong.  On top of that, it’s shrinkage that the store has to include in its prices to the public.  It’s an (unneeded) expense that has to be covered, so everyone ends up paying for the laziness and moral deficiencies of those who think their little theft doesn’t matter.  /slow burn/  I have to pay for your moral deficiencies, you lazy wisser.

    Okay, soapbox is back in the corner.  I gotta get my QB file restored and do payroll for Handyman.

  52. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Citizen’s Free Press has a link to Died Suddenly about a third of the way down.

  53. El Gordo Avatar

    Got a big old pork butt in the oven and just finished peeling a bunch of taters for smashed taters later.  Put some store bought frozen rolls out to thaw and rise, and I’ll have some cornbread too.  Crew should be arriving between 5 or 6 this evening, so I’ll have something for them to eat with plenty of left overs o the next couple of days.  And all the desserts are sitting out (except the ice cream) so I expect them to all be full as ticks by bedtime.  We always eat good when the boys get together, except of course I can’t dive in to all that good stuff – pork roast and green beans for me it looks like.

    Think I’ll take a break and go get my shower.  Everything seems to be under control for the time being, so it’s just hurry up and wait.

  54. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Five years ago I spent Thanksgiving in Dubai. Some of the architecture is quite impressive.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I bought a bag of cranberries to prepare for myself. That will be the entirety of my holiday cooking.

    Fay and I would always bring them since no one else in the family likes them.

    I just don’t understand what’s wrong with some people. 🙂

     

  56. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Hey I like cranberry juice and dried cranberries in trail mix.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey I like the canned stuff, too.
    But the real thing is nice this time of year.

  58. El Gordo Avatar

    I think they used to make a cranberry juice and vodka drink called sex on the beach, but I didn’t even like that.  And I would drink anything back then.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just as I suspected…..

    The stuff in the can is mostly corn syrup.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    46 texanadian

    The link I posted from Rumble is the link directly from their video page.  There are several links related the documentary, but this is the full length video version.  It should work for everyone.

  61. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m the only one that eats cranberry sauce, it’s always forgotten with the grocery list so I have to get it myself. I actually prefer it in the can.

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texmo, F 150, three on the tree or floor shifter? BTW; That sounds like my kind of truck. 😉

    El Gordo, where the hell is/was my invitation?  😀

    Shannon, you need to tell us how to make your famous cranberries.  I love cranberries in most any form but on Thanksgiving I like the Libby whole cranberries in a can, it does a good job of curbing the grease in the turkey and giblet gravy much like honey with chicken.

  63. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was planning on taking a pie to 80-YO’s event tomorrow, but I talked to him on the phone today and he already had 3 pies. I figure I may as well try a slice of a new pie flavor, so I didn’t go out today. I’m having a problem with my right leg being a bit gimpy for a week or so, and the thought of lurching through Kroger today did not appeal. On Friday, I’ll see if I can get an appointment with the guy who did my new knees 10 years ago.

  64. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    We just pulled upto the Inn of the Hills in Kerrville after leaving glorious Copperfield at noon.  I counted 4 deer sleeping on the side of the road, one buck.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have never had “whole cranberries out of a can”, only the jellied stuff.

    As far as the fresh, whole, Ocean Spray cranberries go, they are available virtually year-round in a plastic bag in the produce section of your grocery store.

    The recipe for cooking is on the bag.

    1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, 3 cups Fresh or frozen berries.

    Bring water and sugar to a boil, Add cranberries and return to a boil, reduce heat and boil gently for 10 minutes. Pour into a bowl and chill.

    Even an Aggie could do it.

  66. bsue54 Avatar

    #55 Super Dave – I ain’t Shannon, but I think my cranberry sauce recipe is world famous (because it’s on the Ocean Spray cranberry bag)… Simple enough –

    1 Cup water

    1 Cup Sugar

    3 cups (I use the whole bag) of Ocean Spray Cranberries

    Rinse berries with cold water (you can do as I do, and keep them in the freezer)…

    Bring water and sugar to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add berries and return to a boil. Reduce heat and boil gently for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

    Pour sauce into a bow, cover and cool completely at room temperature. Refrigerate until serving time.

    Makes 2 1/4 cups.

     

    I hunted thru Wally World yesterday for canned whole berry sauce, and whilst they had a tower of jellied sauce at the end of several aisles, I couldn’t find a can of whole berry sauce anywhere… So I bought a couple bags, tossed 1 in the freezer, and the other in the fridge. Just now, whilst looking for shake-n-bake for pork in the pantry, I found a can of whole berry sauce left from last year – so I put the other bag of berries in the freezer.

    Anyway – that’s how I’ve been making cranberry sauce for almost the whole time Squawk and I have been married… I think I picked up the can of sauce last year, since it would be our first Thanksgiving without Mama Squawk – and somehow it got overlooked all this time.

     

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fay may have used a little more sugar, I just don’t know. But I’m getting ready to find out…. following the recipe as printed this first time.

  68. bsue54 Avatar

    Shannon, I don’t know about Fay – but I have always followed the instructions on the bag, and we like it that way… but, your mileage may vary.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bsue

    I figured there were sophisticated, real-cranberry-loving folks in Cut N Shoot.

  70. Katfish Avatar

    #57 – Yo BC if Yall are there until Friday morning………..

    Mary’s breakfast tacos are the BOMB!

    1616 Broadway Kerrville 780289

  71. bsue54 Avatar

    #62 – Shannon, you must remember that 2 members of the extended Squawk family are/were native Mainiacs… I mean Mainers… and I do believe they have a few berry bogs up they-ah… you know…

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

    Yo Brother Squawk.
    your #61 yesterday.

    good stuff:)

    here’s that song’s cousin.

  73. bsue54 Avatar

    My contributions to Thanksgiving dinner when Squawk’s folks were still hosting were cranberry sauce and “punkin stuff” – that’s a real sophisticated version of a “dump cake.” You mix the spices and sugar into the “pumpkin puree” and pour it into a 9×13 pan, sprinkle a dry cake mix over the pumpkin stuff, and cube/slice up a stick of butter, add it to the top and bake it (just like any dump cake, I suppose – but I didn’t know what a dump cake was back then)… I made it on a lark one year, after chatting in my on-line quilting guild with someone who swore by it… and I have not made a “real” pumpkin pie since. One year I didn’t make it and I had one niece who pouted all day long. My other holiday “have-to-have” is “Aunt Lora’s Green Stuff” which is a concoction of canned pineapple, heated to a boil then a pack of dry Lime jello is stirred in, then  you stir in a cup of cottage cheese, and fold in a bowl of semi-frozen cool whip after you stir in a cup of mini-marshmallows – stir until everything is melted and mixed, and fold in some chopped pecans and pour it in a bowl and refrigerate it til firm (I usually do over-night)… If you even sorta like pineapple, and pecans, and lime,  and sweet – it’s magical… Not super sweet – and light enough to have for dessert, if you’re too full from other stuff… Aunt Lora got the recipe from a potluck at the Timex factory where they traded recipes – and, since we had a couple of pecan trees in our backyard… it became a staple of every holiday meal – although, back in the day we used a powdered thing called “Dream Whip” before they invented Cool Whip 😉

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    OMG, Texpat!!

    Bsue makes the GREEN JUNK!!

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ll go to my grave feeling guilty for how we young boys reacted with relentless negativity to Mom’s green junk. 🙂

    She was disappointed, I believe.

  76. bsue54 Avatar

    ROTFLOL Shannon – don’t feel bad… My brother felt the same way about it… For me, it’s like having holiday meals with my family – none of which are still alive (well – my brother doesn’t count since he ain’t spoke to me in 25 years…) I even have the pyrex “refrigerator” dishes that Mama always used for the green stuff…

  77. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I have to draw the line at the green stuff.

  78. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I started Thanksgiving a day early. I cut me a slice of the apple pie we picked up from Costco. Mmmmm good.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I was going to do it tomorrow, but I struggled hard this evening.

    Went to my office, grabbed the 13 gallon kitchen trash bag, gently pulled it out, did some re-shaping, re-hung some ornaments, placed the skirt, and plugged it in.

    I have my tree up, folks. Merry Christmas.

    I’m completely worn out. 🙂

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Eighteen inch tall, pre-lit Christmas tree is the only way to go, Dude.

  81. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I have to draw the line at putting up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving.

  82. El Gordo Avatar

    Boys should be here any time, but I couldn’t wait any longer with all the good aromas, so I ate a little bit of pork butt which is really the only part of the meal I can eat anyway.  Over cooked it a little bit, but actually hving a little crust on the outside added to the juicy tenderness of the rest of it.  I took the roast out of the dutch oven and sprinkled a little flour into it on top of the stove and made gravy with the drippings.  Couldn’t taste it, but it looks pretty good.  Same with the smashed taters – I ran the mixer with sour cream and milk and butter in there, and they whipped up real nice and fluffy looking – could not even like the mixer parts, just washed the off good.  This is tough, but I’m going to make it through without too much agony.  Got the desserts in the oven just to warm them up a bit so that the ice cream will melt just right – not too fast, but just a little.  Meanwhile, while they are all devouring this stuff, I can have a cup of coffee and stay up all night.  Did I mention that we always try to eat good while they are here.

    And a late invitation to Brother Dave – no worry if you are late, there will be plenty of leftovers.

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    64 Bsue

    Cranberry farming has always been one of the most interesting processes in agriculture.

    I’ve seen two reports lately that real climate change is forcing those in the most southern reaches of cranberry production to give it up or move farther north.

    Same thing goes for peaches. Peach tree varieties require a certain number of chilling hours each year to produce. Chilling hours are generally defined as the number of hours each winter between 32-45°F. There are old peach varieties that are no longer suitable for the state of Georgia.

    Some peach trees require as many as 1400 chilling hours….some as few as 50.

     

  84. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanksgiving is 6 hours away. So, whip me.

  85. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I would like to wish all y’all a very happy Thanksgiving. Ours is in October.

  86. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sittin on the patio frying a turkey sipping on suds, in a T-shirt. Ain’t nuthin better, “Life is good” someone says.

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    67 & 68 Shannon

    The one year we named it the “Green Junk” and teased her unmercifully, we were maybe 12 and 9 or 13 and 10, but we made Mom cry, seriously.  I’ve never gotten over the guilt.

    Therefore I kept my mouth shut about the Green Bean Casserole w/ Canned Fried Onions.  I always dutifully ate a serving even as it grossed me out.  However, it’s always been forbidden in my house.

  88. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I think y’all done got BSue over there sobbing in the corner. Tell her you’re sorry!

  89. Tedtam Avatar

    I found meat on sale today, so the canner is full.  I’m putting those jars to use.  I got enough chicken to make some more chicken curry tomorrow, and I have more meat that I can process.  Fred is full with some veggies I bought at the store, also going into some of those jars I bought.

    I bought some more cranberries and finished drying the last of my last cranberry purchase.  I’m thinking I might make some keto cheesecakes and make a cranberry topping with some Swerve.  I have some dried strawberries and might use them the same.

    We’ll be having ham tomorrow, so I might make some cranberry sauce using the Swerve again for that. It may not have the same texture as using sugar, though.  As I told my kids when they were younger, “life is tough, learn to adapt.”

  90. Tedtam Avatar

    When I went back to the thrift shop today, I brought back the boxes and packing paper they’d used for my recent purchases. They are always happy when I do that, as sometimes they run low on the packing supplies, but they were particularly grateful today.  They have crazy sale day on Friday and every little bit will be needed.

    I won’t be there, though.  I wished them luck on sale day and said I’d see them next week.

  91. bsue54 Avatar

    I went to WallyWorld yesterday for the few things we needed – did NOT want to get caught up in the insanity of day before Turkey Day shoppers. It was crazy enough yesterday… Tedtam, when you dehydrate cranberries, do you get “cransins”?  I’ve put my 2 bags in the freezer – never crossed my mind to dehydrate them (DUH!!!!)

  92. Tedtam Avatar

    I always overdry my berries, so I don’t get “craisins,” I get “red pebbles”. I blanched them to craze the skins, but some of them didn’t split. I had to go in twice and poke the remaining berries with a knife.

  93. Tedtam Avatar

    Bsue –  For Jars is having a 30% sale on their lids (not already bundled).  Additional 10% is available by using promo code “halfacre”.

    See the Half Acre Homestead video at the two minute mark for the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4Ixbj-rH8&t=190s

    Nov 24 – 28th:  See detail from the video description below:

    https://forjars.co?sca_ref=1912719.hHhQxLv4Zo HALFACRE for 10% Off! Free shipping within the USA for orders over $50!

  94. bsue54 Avatar

    Never thought about that – maybe I’ll find some “on sale” after the holidays… cranberries, I mean

  95. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang y’all are busy. Shannon and B Sue thanks, I’ll check that out and FWIW; I’ve not seen the fresh Ocean Spray cranberries but I’ll be on the lookout for them. We’ve always use the whole cranberries in the can, much better than the jellied crap.

  96. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And a late invitation to Brother Dave – no worry if you are late, there will be plenty of leftovers.

    Thanks, El Gordo and I know that you meant it. 😉

  97. bsue54 Avatar

    Tedtam – thanx for the head’s up about the For Jars sale… I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t see it when I went to their site – then watch 1/2 Acre and saw that it doesn’t start til tomorrow evening. I’m wondering if I can order thru the For Jars page on Amazon, or if I have to order directly from them.  Guess I’ll find out when the sale starts 😉

  98. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My huge turkey is almost done.

    I’m at 160° and heading to 180°.

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

    My huge turkey is almost done.

    I’m at 160° and heading to 180°.

    Which hoi polloi wine goes best with turkey?;)

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

    paging El Gordo

    Another totalitariancrat wins their senate race.
    see no fraud
    hear no fraud
    speak no fraud.
    See no Kentucky Swamp Turtles
    Hear no Kentucky Swamp Turtles
    Speak no Kentucky Swamp Turtles.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/lisa-murkowski-is-losing-but-with-ranked-choice-voting-who-knows/

  101. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Dr. phil Good

    I would be having a Pinot Noir, but I’m out.  I’ll have to see if I can scare some up tomorrow.  I had a favorite vineyard, but they disappeared on me.  I guess they ran out of grapes.

    I’m not a white wine drinker.

  102. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Goodnight, gang, hope everyone has a fabulous Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow.

     

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

    I would be having a Pinot Noir

    good choice.
    or maybe a Zinfandel.

  104. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    G’night one and all.  Turkey Day tomorrow, with the bird as a prime component 0f the feast.  Everything else is simply in a supporting role, except the pumpkin pie is the other prime component.

    Hope the rain holds off until the parade is through tomorrow morning.

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