Getting bedtime out here for sure now. I’ll go see if I can stay up a little bit longer, but looks like I’ll make the bed covers before 10 no matter what. Nite nite you all. Come and wake me up if you need any free advice.
Salena Zito has written a very nice story on Mike Rowe and his family. It’s a cool story and it involves whiskey. All of us, in some way, try to keep alive the memories of the people who came before us who led remarkable lives just by doing unremarkable things. What mattered was the way they loved and cared for us, what they taught us, the examples of duty and hard work they lived by, and the humility in all the ways they practiced it. Television host, narrator, and champion of the working class Mike Rowe is no exception. Nearly… Read more »
The media/entertainment industry assault on American children continues unabated. The first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards took place over the weekend in Los Angeles to honor TV programming geared towards children up to the age of 15. But the ceremony ended up being dominated by LGBTQ messaging and talent, including co-host JoJo Siwa — the YouTube star who identifies as “pansexual” and “queer.” Early in the show, Siwa referred to herself as “a gay icon,” according to a MRC Newsbusters report, while the Emmys tweeted out a photo of Siwa wearing rainbow-themed apparel to promote the show. and, Another winner was Kristi Reed… Read more »
The world’s first methane-fueled rocket to be launched toward orbit has failed to reach its goal.
The Zhuque-2 rocket, developed by Beijing-based company Landspace, lifted off Wednesday (Dec. 14) on the first-ever orbital mission of a methane-fueled launcher and China’s first liftoff of a commercially developed liquid propellant rocket. Despite the high hopes for the historic mission, it appears that Zhuque-2 failed to reach orbit and lost the 14 satellites it carried.
This was almost 40 years ago, and it has been repaved only once and is still holding up well. That sold the county folk to use the new paving method.
I wish you could get the Fort Bend Road & Bridge folks to come up here and teach the people in New Jersey how to lay down an asphalt road. They’re still using the same old methods I saw as a boy in Texas and that’s why New Jersey ranks year after year as having the worst roads in America. Yes, worse than Mississippi or Arkansas.
The physical therapist was here yesterday, and we walked up and down the driveway about 15 times before I got a bit tired. We have a long driveway. She said since I’m doing so well there will only be two more sessions before I am discharged from needing their help. Therapy sessions originally were to continue into January. I am to keep on walking around the driveway until after Christmas and then try walking on our road with spouse. Our small subdivision has only two roads, and the view from them is quite good to see any vehicle coming from… Read more »
Been watching me some Clint Eastwood on TV this evening. Taking a soup break again for now. Did not get a nap in this afternoon, so as soon as I talk to GF in Philly this evening I’ll be turning in. Dang, the cooler it gets outside, the better this spicy soup tastes. I may add the sour cream in the future as a standard ingredient. It makes for a pretty tasty whatever you call the liquid part of soup.
This is not the best written article and in fact it is poorly done. However there are discernible facts in there that you probably won’t see anywhere else. The politics, censorship, government corruption aside, Twitter was a flaming disaster management wise and was constantly teetering on the knife-edge of disaster. There seems to have been virtually no controls over technological and production and security was amazingly non-existent. There were 7,500 employees and 5,000 of them had complete access to the operational array of production on Twitter. There were no security controls over individual employees, any of whom could walk in… Read more »
I will agree that the non-weather people on the local newscasts gleefully fear-monger about potential weather catastrophes and minor weather damage/events.
I guess Hubby is going to get with the electrician while he’s at home caring for me, so we can finish getting our generator hooked up. We were waiting for his busy season to not be so busy, then we had a vacancy in Bryan.
So, this would be the perfect time to get it done – between surgery and Christmas cold.
From TexMo’s wife……Saw my babe today. More awake. Shannon is doing better. Rosy cheeks. He feels better.
And he said to make sure to tell y’all – I’m doing better. Hi.
Well, I did enjoy my prayer time outside today. I decided to take some real slow time to be with God today. The weather was gorgeous, I got to move around and enjoy nature, and was able to quiet my spirit.
Because I’ve not been very quiet lately, with everything going on.
And if the weather turns, it may be the last time I get to enjoy being outside for a while.
#36-39 Most importantly, it makes for good scary forecasts to let everyone know that theey will probably freeze to death unless they watch tv or listen to radio. And of course, there’s always to climate change to deal with too. It gets cold in the winter – how about that?
BTW, what has our Republican state government done to beef up the grid since the great freezing power outage? Nothing substantive that I’ve seen – just shuffled the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Currently “only” 66 out here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond. What a nice change. And it is sunny but quite windy. Much more December here. One more place left to decorate in the family room is the place that hosts the Nativity scene, and then Christmas will be ready to be enjoyed. I have looked at numerous boxes of Christmas things in two closets that will not be opened this year. Fortunately several years ago I labeled what was in each of the many boxes. Enough is out already, and some are winter decorations that can stay… Read more »
Dave on KHOU started talking last week about the possibilities. He’s a maniac about monitoring and predicting those jet stream movements. And it makes good graphics. :).
I just heard on the radio we could be in the twenties on Christmas morning?
That’s why, day-before-yesterday, I brought up Denver possibly hitting their all-time low of -29° on Christmas Eve. If that big Artic mass gets that far south, we’re possibly in for some really cold air.
I just heard on the radio we could be in the twenties on Christmas morning?
I’m gonna hafta send Hubby out before then to collect all my green ‘maters. I just checked and I have a few more starting to blush. The others better hurry the heck up, or I’m going to have to find some green ‘mater recipes.
Soup’s on. I decided to go ahead and sample a cup. I added a little too much serrano peppers I think. It’s got more of a bite than I intended – certainly well within tolerances though. Maybe the thought of Colorado blizzards and the like subconsciously caused me to drop in too much peppers. Oh well, I’ll be eating on this batch quite a while since I made about a wash tub full.
Global Warming A friend of mine who used to live here and now lives in Palm Desert, CA. just called me to cancel the dinner we were supposed to have tonight in New Jersey. He was supposed to take an early commuter flight from Palm Springs to Phoenix and then connect to a direct flight to Newark. When he arrived in Palm Springs the flight was delayed for a couple of hours because it rained, sleeted, froze last night and the plane was covered with ice. It took them forever to de-ice the aircraft because they don’t even know what… Read more »
Speaking of walking around money… Looks like Mr Barnes above has either done a lot of that or has pictures of several local “leaders” in compromising situations involving barnyard animals. it seems that the crime is a slam dunk to prove. They know when the daughter was born, they know how old the mother was, they’ve got both a paternity test AND not only the father’s admission he’s the father, but his very vocal announcement of it, culminating in the award of child support and custody. Shouldn’t he also be on the hook for 16 years of child support plus… Read more »
BTW, did anyone ever wonder why the crypto freak got hisself arrested in the Bahamas just in time to preclude his testimony in front of a Congressional committee? What a coincidence that he was muted that way.
You and I think alike on that topic. That was the first thing that ran through my piddly liddle bwain.
It is usually the father who gets hosed in family courts around the country, but this is the other side of the story involving a judge who ought to be thrown off the bench. A Louisiana mother who claims she was raped at 16 by a 30-year-old-man has been ordered to give up custody of their daughter sixteen years later – and pay him child support in a cruel legal twist. Crysta Abelseth, now 32, claims that John Barnes, now 46, raped her in 2005 after she accepted a ride home from him from a bar where she had been drinking with friends. She was 16… Read more »
BTW, did anyone ever wonder why the crypto freak got hisself arrested in the Bahamas just in time to preclude his testimony in front of a Congressional committee? What a coincidence that he was muted that way.
Got the cabbage soup simmering on the stove for a while. In addition to the usual veges and the boned chicken legs, I found about half a thing of sour cream in the refrig left over from T’giving, so I melted that into the mix as well. A quick taste of the liquid did tell me that it altered the taste somewhat, but for the better rather than the worse. Soup is always there to mix up all the leftovers anyway, isn’t it?
I fixed a couple of Mater Sammaches for lunch and man were they good. Simple and good, the wife loves these and so do I. Just a little Dukes Mayo, maters, a little salt and lots of black pepper.
Tedtam; “As a man, you are supposed to see the sexual parade while pretending it doesn’t exist (not looking at them).” That is exactly what I thought you meant. I think about this often when you see a Gal dressed to show off whatever attributes she has or thinks she has and then feigns a disgusted look as in; “What you looking at?!” When if she didn’t want you to look she would have dressed more modestly. Besides, often times her dress or outfit wouldn’t be all comfortable. This goes especially to high heels with their toes stuffed/cramped into their… Read more »
mharper42
December 14, 2022 11:29 am
Morning, chickadees. I really didn’t want to roll out from under the covers this morning. But I finally did. Cats were hungry.
More C&C: Now let’s discuss some implications of all this. Over a month ago, I promised there WOULD be accountability, and I outlined a four-phase timeline for getting to “real” accountability for the pandemic. /snip So Coffee & Covid and a couple dozen plucky volunteers started working on the Covid Accountability Project, to help gather all the evidence together in one easily-searchable location. As I write these words, that project is well underway. That’s Phase Two. What I did not expect — I doubt anyone expected this — was for Phase Three to begin so quickly. Because, make no mistake,… Read more »
More from C&C: Dr. Fraiman also noted that none of the agencies or pharma companies have ever provided “patient-level data.” Meaning, researchers can’t tell who is being injured by age, race, pre-existing medical conditions, and so forth. Those are pretty important facts. It looks like the guv and his experts are going to do it, doing the work that our “experts” refused to do. The petition for a grand jury can be found here. The petition lists the “promises” of the “vaccine,” etc. So much fraud. Jury pool candidates are requested to be pulled from central Florida counties. Perhaps someone… Read more »
Well, the bag of 15 beans has been par-boiled with baking soda (as my Mama taught me for ALL dried beans), rinsed and placed in the crockpot liner with onion, a can of chopped tomatoes, beef broth and a “hoop & 1/2” of sausage cut in thickish slices… After it’s had a chance to turn to soup, we’ll figure out if it needs anything else, and what 😉
Today’s C&C: INFLECTION ☙ Wednesday, December 14, 2022 ☙ C&C NEWS Childers is all giddy over DeSantis finally beginning to call for accountability. I suppose all of those volunteer C&Cers helping him create that database will finally see their had work being used. Today might be the most important day since the pandemic leaked out of the Wuhan lab. Florida just shifted Covid Accountability into high gear. It’s here! Today is the day we’ve spent two years praying for. I couldn’t possibly exaggerate the significance of what happened in Florida yesterday. /snip In case you missed all the hoopla yesterday,… Read more »
After Fay’s dad passed we were still living in his house. I’ll never forget the three winter weeks that we used a very cold PortaCan while I rehabbed the ancient sewer system.
Texpat I’m making a cultural and moral observation about the state of our society. I don’t understand what “looking without looking at them” means or has to do with what I wrote.
I was commenting on the fact that they parade around, wanting folks to look at them while acting offended that people are looking at them (objectifying them).
As a man, you are supposed to see the sexual parade while pretending it doesn’t exist (not looking at them).
I’m leaving to go back up to Ramapo Mountain and oversee the plumbing project this afternoon. Hopefully, they’ll finish it up by the end of the day because tomorrow and Friday are rain, sleet and maybe a little snow.
I saw that link early this morning and refused to click on it. Since she first showed up, I considered Madonna to be a serious moral nuisance. I’m no prude and unapologetically admire a beautiful woman like any normal, heterosexual man, but Madonna took white trash bad taste and turned into a mini-industry. She’s just disgusting. I don’t have any patience for entertainers who build their careers on trashing and mocking their own family’s religion.
Bedtime beckons as the temp drops tonight. We should have a low in the 40s by tomorrow morning.
G’night all.
Getting bedtime out here for sure now. I’ll go see if I can stay up a little bit longer, but looks like I’ll make the bed covers before 10 no matter what. Nite nite you all. Come and wake me up if you need any free advice.
Salena Zito has written a very nice story on Mike Rowe and his family. It’s a cool story and it involves whiskey. All of us, in some way, try to keep alive the memories of the people who came before us who led remarkable lives just by doing unremarkable things. What mattered was the way they loved and cared for us, what they taught us, the examples of duty and hard work they lived by, and the humility in all the ways they practiced it. Television host, narrator, and champion of the working class Mike Rowe is no exception. Nearly… Read more »
The media/entertainment industry assault on American children continues unabated. The first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards took place over the weekend in Los Angeles to honor TV programming geared towards children up to the age of 15. But the ceremony ended up being dominated by LGBTQ messaging and talent, including co-host JoJo Siwa — the YouTube star who identifies as “pansexual” and “queer.” Early in the show, Siwa referred to herself as “a gay icon,” according to a MRC Newsbusters report, while the Emmys tweeted out a photo of Siwa wearing rainbow-themed apparel to promote the show. and, Another winner was Kristi Reed… Read more »
Methane ?!!!
Are they capturing off-gassing from hog farm manure piles for rocket fuel ? They lost 14 satellites doing this.
Sheesh.
Adee
I wish you could get the Fort Bend Road & Bridge folks to come up here and teach the people in New Jersey how to lay down an asphalt road. They’re still using the same old methods I saw as a boy in Texas and that’s why New Jersey ranks year after year as having the worst roads in America. Yes, worse than Mississippi or Arkansas.
The physical therapist was here yesterday, and we walked up and down the driveway about 15 times before I got a bit tired. We have a long driveway. She said since I’m doing so well there will only be two more sessions before I am discharged from needing their help. Therapy sessions originally were to continue into January. I am to keep on walking around the driveway until after Christmas and then try walking on our road with spouse. Our small subdivision has only two roads, and the view from them is quite good to see any vehicle coming from… Read more »
Been watching me some Clint Eastwood on TV this evening. Taking a soup break again for now. Did not get a nap in this afternoon, so as soon as I talk to GF in Philly this evening I’ll be turning in. Dang, the cooler it gets outside, the better this spicy soup tastes. I may add the sour cream in the future as a standard ingredient. It makes for a pretty tasty whatever you call the liquid part of soup.
HERO Dog on patrol!
https://www.11alive.com/article/life/animals/herd-dog-kills-8-coyotes-to-save-sheep-decatur-neighborhood/85-4197e55d-d611-4047-a6c6-f7cbe34e43d5
This is not the best written article and in fact it is poorly done. However there are discernible facts in there that you probably won’t see anywhere else. The politics, censorship, government corruption aside, Twitter was a flaming disaster management wise and was constantly teetering on the knife-edge of disaster. There seems to have been virtually no controls over technological and production and security was amazingly non-existent. There were 7,500 employees and 5,000 of them had complete access to the operational array of production on Twitter. There were no security controls over individual employees, any of whom could walk in… Read more »
Texpat
Global
WarmingI text the boy about 4 PM CST and he said that he had ice on his windshield this morning, first time ever.
Katfish Thanks good to hear.
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Thanks for the update, whiskerfish.
I will agree that the non-weather people on the local newscasts gleefully fear-monger about potential weather catastrophes and minor weather damage/events.
I guess Hubby is going to get with the electrician while he’s at home caring for me, so we can finish getting our generator hooked up. We were waiting for his busy season to not be so busy, then we had a vacancy in Bryan.
So, this would be the perfect time to get it done – between surgery and Christmas cold.
Actually, Dave Paul isn’t a fear-monger. He does it pretty straight up with the known facts and forecasting to the best of his knowledge.
In fact, the guys on the other Houston stations are pretty straight up, too.
It’s the national network people that insist on making everything an Armageddon.
What are the odds a small little website like this would have two men named Shannon on it and neither one are Irish ?
*UPDATE*
Well, I did enjoy my prayer time outside today. I decided to take some real slow time to be with God today. The weather was gorgeous, I got to move around and enjoy nature, and was able to quiet my spirit.
Because I’ve not been very quiet lately, with everything going on.
And if the weather turns, it may be the last time I get to enjoy being outside for a while.
#36-39 Most importantly, it makes for good scary forecasts to let everyone know that theey will probably freeze to death unless they watch tv or listen to radio. And of course, there’s always to climate change to deal with too. It gets cold in the winter – how about that?
BTW, what has our Republican state government done to beef up the grid since the great freezing power outage? Nothing substantive that I’ve seen – just shuffled the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Currently “only” 66 out here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond. What a nice change. And it is sunny but quite windy. Much more December here. One more place left to decorate in the family room is the place that hosts the Nativity scene, and then Christmas will be ready to be enjoyed. I have looked at numerous boxes of Christmas things in two closets that will not be opened this year. Fortunately several years ago I labeled what was in each of the many boxes. Enough is out already, and some are winter decorations that can stay… Read more »
Dave on KHOU started talking last week about the possibilities. He’s a maniac about monitoring and predicting those jet stream movements. And it makes good graphics. :).
It all depends the jet stream.
And as always, the opposing Gulf air mass.
That’s why, day-before-yesterday, I brought up Denver possibly hitting their all-time low of -29° on Christmas Eve. If that big Artic mass gets that far south, we’re possibly in for some really cold air.
I just heard on the radio we could be in the twenties on Christmas morning?
I’m gonna hafta send Hubby out before then to collect all my green ‘maters. I just checked and I have a few more starting to blush. The others better hurry the heck up, or I’m going to have to find some green ‘mater recipes.
#3 bsue
As one guy on KTRK just said, one nice thing about it is that Carlos Correa can now be a pain in the Dodger’s ass for 13 years.
Soup’s on. I decided to go ahead and sample a cup. I added a little too much serrano peppers I think. It’s got more of a bite than I intended – certainly well within tolerances though. Maybe the thought of Colorado blizzards and the like subconsciously caused me to drop in too much peppers. Oh well, I’ll be eating on this batch quite a while since I made about a wash tub full.
U.S. surface temperature map from 10:00 am this morning.
https://www.weather-forecast.com/maps/United-States?hr=3&symbols=none&type=lapse
Global Warming A friend of mine who used to live here and now lives in Palm Desert, CA. just called me to cancel the dinner we were supposed to have tonight in New Jersey. He was supposed to take an early commuter flight from Palm Springs to Phoenix and then connect to a direct flight to Newark. When he arrived in Palm Springs the flight was delayed for a couple of hours because it rained, sleeted, froze last night and the plane was covered with ice. It took them forever to de-ice the aircraft because they don’t even know what… Read more »
Speaking of walking around money… Looks like Mr Barnes above has either done a lot of that or has pictures of several local “leaders” in compromising situations involving barnyard animals. it seems that the crime is a slam dunk to prove. They know when the daughter was born, they know how old the mother was, they’ve got both a paternity test AND not only the father’s admission he’s the father, but his very vocal announcement of it, culminating in the award of child support and custody. Shouldn’t he also be on the hook for 16 years of child support plus… Read more »
EG
BTW, did anyone ever wonder why the crypto freak got hisself arrested in the Bahamas just in time to preclude his testimony in front of a Congressional committee? What a coincidence that he was muted that way.
You and I think alike on that topic. That was the first thing that ran through my piddly liddle bwain.
It is usually the father who gets hosed in family courts around the country, but this is the other side of the story involving a judge who ought to be thrown off the bench. A Louisiana mother who claims she was raped at 16 by a 30-year-old-man has been ordered to give up custody of their daughter sixteen years later – and pay him child support in a cruel legal twist. Crysta Abelseth, now 32, claims that John Barnes, now 46, raped her in 2005 after she accepted a ride home from him from a bar where she had been drinking with friends. She was 16… Read more »
Apparently having that guy arrested was a bi-partisan affair – neither side wanted us to hear out loud how much money he was spreading around DC.
Guess we’re all about to find out if he spread enough walking around money among the Bahamian constabulary to avoid extradition.
BTW, did anyone ever wonder why the crypto freak got hisself arrested in the Bahamas just in time to preclude his testimony in front of a Congressional committee? What a coincidence that he was muted that way.
Got the cabbage soup simmering on the stove for a while. In addition to the usual veges and the boned chicken legs, I found about half a thing of sour cream in the refrig left over from T’giving, so I melted that into the mix as well. A quick taste of the liquid did tell me that it altered the taste somewhat, but for the better rather than the worse. Soup is always there to mix up all the leftovers anyway, isn’t it?
This is a must read article. We all knew this crap was happening, but it is nice to see it so clearly laid out.
Sounds like great news out of Florida, I sure hope it lives up to the hype.
I fixed a couple of Mater Sammaches for lunch and man were they good. Simple and good, the wife loves these and so do I. Just a little Dukes Mayo, maters, a little salt and lots of black pepper.
Tedtam; “As a man, you are supposed to see the sexual parade while pretending it doesn’t exist (not looking at them).” That is exactly what I thought you meant. I think about this often when you see a Gal dressed to show off whatever attributes she has or thinks she has and then feigns a disgusted look as in; “What you looking at?!” When if she didn’t want you to look she would have dressed more modestly. Besides, often times her dress or outfit wouldn’t be all comfortable. This goes especially to high heels with their toes stuffed/cramped into their… Read more »
Morning, chickadees. I really didn’t want to roll out from under the covers this morning. But I finally did. Cats were hungry.
More C&C: Now let’s discuss some implications of all this. Over a month ago, I promised there WOULD be accountability, and I outlined a four-phase timeline for getting to “real” accountability for the pandemic. /snip So Coffee & Covid and a couple dozen plucky volunteers started working on the Covid Accountability Project, to help gather all the evidence together in one easily-searchable location. As I write these words, that project is well underway. That’s Phase Two. What I did not expect — I doubt anyone expected this — was for Phase Three to begin so quickly. Because, make no mistake,… Read more »
More from C&C: Dr. Fraiman also noted that none of the agencies or pharma companies have ever provided “patient-level data.” Meaning, researchers can’t tell who is being injured by age, race, pre-existing medical conditions, and so forth. Those are pretty important facts. It looks like the guv and his experts are going to do it, doing the work that our “experts” refused to do. The petition for a grand jury can be found here. The petition lists the “promises” of the “vaccine,” etc. So much fraud. Jury pool candidates are requested to be pulled from central Florida counties. Perhaps someone… Read more »
Well, the bag of 15 beans has been par-boiled with baking soda (as my Mama taught me for ALL dried beans), rinsed and placed in the crockpot liner with onion, a can of chopped tomatoes, beef broth and a “hoop & 1/2” of sausage cut in thickish slices… After it’s had a chance to turn to soup, we’ll figure out if it needs anything else, and what 😉
Today’s C&C: INFLECTION ☙ Wednesday, December 14, 2022 ☙ C&C NEWS Childers is all giddy over DeSantis finally beginning to call for accountability. I suppose all of those volunteer C&Cers helping him create that database will finally see their had work being used. Today might be the most important day since the pandemic leaked out of the Wuhan lab. Florida just shifted Covid Accountability into high gear. It’s here! Today is the day we’ve spent two years praying for. I couldn’t possibly exaggerate the significance of what happened in Florida yesterday. /snip In case you missed all the hoopla yesterday,… Read more »
I still haven’t started the new Yellowstone season. How many episodes have already been shown? Do they come out weekly?
I used to wait for the DVD to come out four months later.
After Fay’s dad passed we were still living in his house. I’ll never forget the three winter weeks that we used a very cold PortaCan while I rehabbed the ancient sewer system.
Texpat
I’m making a cultural and moral observation about the state of our society. I don’t understand what “looking without looking at them” means or has to do with what I wrote.
I was commenting on the fact that they parade around, wanting folks to look at them while acting offended that people are looking at them (objectifying them).
As a man, you are supposed to see the sexual parade while pretending it doesn’t exist (not looking at them).
I’m leaving to go back up to Ramapo Mountain and oversee the plumbing project this afternoon. Hopefully, they’ll finish it up by the end of the day because tomorrow and Friday are rain, sleet and maybe a little snow.
Later.
12 Squawk
I saw that link early this morning and refused to click on it. Since she first showed up, I considered Madonna to be a serious moral nuisance. I’m no prude and unapologetically admire a beautiful woman like any normal, heterosexual man, but Madonna took white trash bad taste and turned into a mini-industry. She’s just disgusting. I don’t have any patience for entertainers who build their careers on trashing and mocking their own family’s religion.