Looking Ahead Friday Open Comments
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Hey we have a Friday thread! Thanks Squawk.
Mornin’ Gang, again.
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Posted over yonder; My NC cousin Ronnie, wife Sharron and all their kids/grandkids having Thanksgiving at youngest daughter’s house. A blessed event for sure.
FWIW; He’s at the head of the table with the HUK fishing shirt on, oh and check out the kiddie table in the background,….I remember those days. 😉
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Good lookin group right there Super Dave.
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We worked so hard yesterday cooking and cleaning house for the Thanksgiving dinner, last night my eyes were bothering me so bad I couldn’t handle looking at a screen anymore. This morning, I slept in and my hands & wrists were so stiff I couldn’t type for a good while.
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Yikes Texpat
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This is a good corrective to the fake history peddled by American education for generations about Thanksgiving. It has been a sly fabrication that early pilgrims established a socialist collective on the shores of the New World. It was all a lie. You’ve most likely read other versions, but this is a concise piece by Richard J. Maybury.
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hard-working or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.
In his History of Plymouth Plantation, the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years because they refused to work in the field. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with “corruption,” and with “confusion and discontent.” The crops were small because “much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable.”
In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, “all had their hungry bellies filled,” but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first “Thanksgiving” was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.
But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, “instead of famine now God gave them plenty,” Bradford wrote, “and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God.” Thereafter, he wrote, “any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.” In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn.
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Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same terrible results. At Jamestown, established in 1607, out of every shipload of settlers that arrived, less than half would survive their first twelve months in America. Most of the work was being done by only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609–10, called “The Starving Time,” the population fell from five-hundred to sixty. Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free market, and the results were every bit as dramatic as those at Plymouth.
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Squawk
I have several doctors now working on some kind of effective treatment for this psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis. All of these Big Pharma companies with new drugs offer all kinds of coupons and vouchers to bring the cost down to a low level for patients….unless you are on Medicare and then you are exempt. Medicare and supplemental policy insurers cover very few to none of these drugs. They can run from $1,500 a month to $40,000 a year and you don’t know if they are going to work or not. And if they don’t work, they aren’t going to give you your money back.
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Well, the new comments section dropped while I was posting on the old one, so I feel compelled to check in here as well. As to the commentary, I think that for many if not most of us, our opportunity to change the world and provide a better place for our heritage is back in the rear view mirror. I personally can hold true to my own principles developed over the years. I can share my thoughts with the younger folks, and sometimes they may understand what I’m talking about and at other times they cannot. I’ve tried to support political candidates who I though stood for my views, but they have mostly let me down, yet there seems to be no penalty for those liars and thieves once they reach office – whether local or national – at least until some unimaginable disaster occurs that costs a lot of lives.
But I’ll say this, in keeping with my experiences once again. I’ve managed to influence a couple of young people who I believe will become good young men and good citizens. They grew up in dysfunctional settings and had the opportunity to go over to the dark side, but hopefully they have put that in their pasts. Gotta go now.,
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Well, we got a credit card canceled/replaced. It seems that a $1.00 test charge to change.org triggered the credit card company to lock down our cards.
Because that is an unusual charge for us.
I’m listening to Fr. Ripperger talk about spiritual warfare. One of the points he makes is that many of our problems today are because men are not men. They don’t put themselves out there for their wives, and they are reluctant to suffer and sacrifice. Too many abdicate their places as spiritual protectors and leaders of their homes. I see that. Everywhere.
There are things he says about women and their place in things, too. The Latin word originally used when God brought Eve to Adam not only means “to lead to” but also means “to hire”. “Interesting choice of words,” Fr. Ripperger noted.
I learn so much from this man.
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Well, this should trigger a massive poop fest on the left:
Elon Musk promises ‘all internal discussions’ over censorship of NY Post’s Hunter Biden story will be made transparent
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Since it’s Thanksgiving Weekend a lot of the Fox News regulars are off so today Harris Faulkner was replaced by a Auburn haired blue eyed lady that seems to be as smart as Faulkner and certainly as pretty. 😀
BTW; She is Molly Line, and sometimes shows up on the weekend.
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President Trump Ruins Biden’s And Democrat’s Thanksgiving. 😀
Watch it while you can it was erased from two different sites I visited.
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This is some great stuff. The Federalist writes up the often banned YouTuber, Orfalea.
Perhaps this is why Orfalea’s videos are so effective. Amassing hundreds of thousands of views, and in some cases, millions, the filmmaker’s work consists of crisply edited mash-ups of politicians and corporate media figures making complete fools of themselves — without any commentary from Orfalea himself. One such mashup shows politicians and media decrying the Wuhan lab leak theory as a baseless conspiracy, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary. Another shows the media’s hypocrisy surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop (and their quest to characterize the story as Russian disinformation — an actually baseless claim).
Excellent videos and links at the article.
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Good Afternoon Hamsters,
Weather folk tell us we shall have rain this afternoon and a good chance for some rocking thunderstorms tonight before we get some sunshine and can dismiss bad dreams about being jolted out of bed in the middle of the night.
Kitty Purrscilla disappeared for a few hours this morning after breakfast, so the hunt was on all over the house and even out on the back and front porches for a half hour before we thought to look under our bed. Nothing noisy going on inside or outside we could find, no thunder in the distance, nada that should have alarmed her. And there she was sound asleep under the bed. She perhaps can sense weather changes coming that we mere humans can’t detect far off. So just now there was a lightning crackle on the radio….
She is asleep on a chair in the living room (which has morphed into an office of sorts) because we hardly ever go in there other than to use the computer and check stuff on the desk. I understand that new homes these days sometimes do not have living rooms since really important business seems to be discussed in other rooms or kitchens. But then our house is 42 years old, and lots of things have come and gone in habits in vogue.
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A former Twitter content moderator was featured in an NBC News segment Monday, and the individual’s identity has shed some light on why many thousands of people, mostly women, have been suspended from Twitter in recent years for stating the most basic and obvious facts about human existence.
Melissa Ingle was one of the many contract content moderators to be fired when Elon Musk took over, and Ingle’s trans-identified male identity has sent precisely zero shockwaves through the gender-critical feminist community on Twitter.
Meet the tranny who who ran political content moderation at Twitter who was fired by Musk. NBC feels sorry for him.
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Looks like Bellville is getting a solid, hard rain today and tonight.
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“Morning”, chickadees! I did get up this morning, put down 7 bowls of kibble to feed the cats, then went back to bed. This afternoon, I opened a can of wet food and again put down 7 bowls. Then I had my usual breakfast: cottage cheese with fruit and a small bowl of oat squares. Now I’m going back to bed, and we’ll see if I get up again today.
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The story on the guy who took down the Colorado Springs gay club shooter. He is a retired US Army major and was awarded 2 Bronze Stars in Iraq & Afghanistan.
COLORADO SPRINGS — Richard M. Fierro said he was at a table in Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show, when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub. His instincts from four combat deployments as an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan instantly kicked in. Fight back, he told himself.
In an interview at his house, where his wife and daughter were still recovering from injuries, Mr. Fierro, 45, who left the Army in 2013 as a major, according to military records, described charging through the chaos at the club, tackling the gunman and beating him bloody with the gunman’s own gun.
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I swear it feels like we are living in a reality show version of Ripley’s Believe it or Not!!
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#18 Katfish, you got that right… Last nite, we heard noises outside, and went to see what was going on, and found some guys had run off the road into the drainage ditch that borders our acre on 2 sides… They were trying their best to pull this pickup out with another pickup and a rope, and had little to no success… They finally said something like, this ain’t gonna work and all piled into the pickup still on the road, and left (we assumed to get more assistance – since this is NOT the first vehicle we’ve seen miss that corner and wind up in the ditch).
Squawk decided to do his civic duty, and called the Sheriff’s office when nobody came back – and while he was on the phone with them, they said “we need more information because we literally have someone on another line reporting the theft of a vehicle which matches that description.” A few SO units arrived pretty rapidly – and so did the owner, who’d been over in this neck of the woods for Turkey Day, and his truck got stolen from where he’d parked it while visiting. After the guy proved it was, indeed, his truck, and that he did not want them to dispatch a tow truck to pull it out (he said he couldn’t pay for it)… some friends of his arrived, and spent quite a while trying to pull it out using the chain Squawk loaned them, with no success… Mind you, it was now almost midnite – and before long, a bunch of guys had gathered, all with various ideas… But one went and got his neighbor – who is a trucker and has a winch on his truck… He pulled the guy’s pickup out of the ditch, and the owner got in and headed back to his house – somewhere over around Magnolia… Like you said “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” – you just can’t make this stuff up…
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A few years ago I was at a 4-way stop not far from my house and not far from a local school. To my left was an SUV, also stopped. Just as I was about to start moving, there was a screeching sound, a crash, and the SUV moved forward towards the intersection. I got out of my car to find 5 black teenagers, one of whom had a magnificent head of braids and a slender young man kind of “whoo whooing” behind is hand as he giggled at the mess. The teacher who was driving the SUV wasn’t moving very quickly. Two of the girls seemed to be really upset and I put them in my car as we waited for the police.
While I checked on the teacher, the five took off walking down the street. I couldn’t exactly tackle them, so all I could do was watch those braids sway off down the street.
After the police arrived, another young black teenager arrived with her – grandmother, I think. She was in tears and horribly distraught. Turns out she worked at the McDonalds from where the car was stolen by the boys in the car. She had saved up to buy that beater by doing the right thing and working hard.
I don’t know if I’ve ever been more angry or more upset for someone else. If I had the money, I would’ve bought her another car myself.
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It still feels like morning to me. I really wore myself out with the festivities yesterday. I’ve been having a problem with my right leg for about 10 days. When I am walking and shift to the right leg, the calf on that side sometimes hurts — briefly, but bad enough to make me holler. Then the next step is Ok. Because it is so unpredictable, I have no idea what doc to call. The pain site is far below the knee, but I still may call the orthopedic surgeon who did my new knees 10 years ago.
Since I ate a small breakfast at 2 pm, I think it’s time for a small lunch — T-day leftovers, of course!
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#21 MHarper42 – the pain is in the calf? Is the calf warm, red or tender to the touch? If so – I’d call my internist/general practitioner – and if it’s REALLY bad, I might not wait til Monday…
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What she said. /worried
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#s 22 & 23 AMEN!
MHarper go get that checked out forthwith – even if it means an ER visit
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Thanks, ladies, but this week was not a good time to try for a doctor’s appointment.
Those occasional pains do not show anything on the surface of the skin, and there is nothing specific to associate with when a step on the right leg will include that pain, and when it won’t.
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I just had a supper of reheated T-Day chow, and it sure was good! Hope everyone else had yummy leftovers to wind down the holiday.
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Cycle #2 of canning almost done – flame off.
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MHarper – no redness, not hot to the touch, and NOT tender to the touch????? If none of those, OK… IF any of those, NOT ok… OK??? 😉
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#28 BSue
The sensation is all inside the calf. No redness, no heat, no pain from my hand touching the back of the calf. And no idea how or why that occasional sharp pain comes and goes, except that when it hurts, it’s always when I took a step. But most steps don’t elicit that sharp pain.
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About bedtime out here. One of the crew members has to get back to Houston tomorrow, so the crew will be leaving in the morning. We went out tonight and saw the Christmas lights put up at the Mill Pond Park, and for this little dinky town, it’s very impressive. You listen to a music broadcast on the radio and the lights all around the lake and other part of the park are all dancing to the rhythm of the music. As I said, very nice especially for a little town like this to put on.
Things are winding down otherwise, and the young ones have gone out to investigate the night life here in SS. It will be interesting to hear a report on that. For now, think I’ll go take a break from kitchen patrol duties and sit in the big chair. More later maybe..
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#29 OK mharper42… You had me really concerned before. This sounds like some kind of fasciitis – inflammation in the membrane that surrounds a muscle “clump” (how’s that for medical terminology???)… My only suggestions, without you having seen a Doc is alternating heat and cold… but since the pain is so sporadic, not sure you’d be able to tell whether there was any improvement… Also you might try anti-inflammatories – like Advil or Aleve, or even LOW dose aspirin. But my main suggestion is to see a doc – prolly your primary care, and let him decide what specialist, or meds to try…
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mharper42 – that sounds more like inflammation of the membrane over a muscle bundle… (fasciitis)… I’d prolly try my primary and see what he thinks of trying some anti-inflammatory meds – then if that doesn’t help, try for specialist… but that’s just me
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You let us know if you need a ride, mharper. Or anything else.
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Thanks, BSue, today was a day I slept in and laid around the house, so I had very little occurrence of the pain in the calf. I can’t get to either my PCP or the Orthopedic guy till Monday, so my plan is to lay low over the weekend.
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mharper42 – Sounds like a plan – with the rain we’ve had most of today, that’s what we did as well….
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#32 Shannon
Thank you, kind sir. I’ll take my cane with me if I go out. I hadn’t used it since 2013 when there was a week during my PhyEd after knee replacement. We had to get a cane, a rolling chair — can’t remember what that was called, and some other equipment to get trained on. I had not used any of those things since I had the other knee replaced in 2014.
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There was a time when Dinner Theaters were a big thing.
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Raining cats and dogs out here. For the umpteenth time today.
Three times today there have been the weirdest thunderclaps I have ever heard in my life. The first one was so scary and long….I thought, this is it. That crazy basturd in North Korea really pulled the trigger on the big one.
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Never heard anything like it ever before.
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Boyfriend/Hubby took me to see “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”. He took me to a mystery theater production, too, and I got called on stage to participate. (I think it was my birthday, or something.) I was supposed to answer a phone call onstage for the detective in the play.
The phone rang and I picked it up, and a male voice told me to tell the detective that “Peter the butler is polishing his silver.”
For some reason, that struck me as incredibly funny and I absolutely *lost*it* onstage. I was laughing so hard I could barely repeat it out loud. I remember looking at the actor, who managed to keep his stage face going as I tried several times to get the phrase out between cackling laughs. I can still see him sweating through his stage make-up, wondering why I couldn’t do my one job.
I still smile when I think about that moment.
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Caught up with today’s happenings amongst the Hamsters. Now off to bed while the rain continues, bit is not a loud storm that scares you enough to get out of bed to look outside to see how wild it is. G’Night All.
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