The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, November 17, 1967
Here are the rest of the expert prognostications over the last 55 years.
Wednesday’s 55 Years of Precise Predictions Open Commentary
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You know what they say about experts, an Ex is a has-been and a spurt is a drip under pressure. But from the coming Ice Age to acid rain to global warming, that they had to change to climate change they finally getting that one to stick. I guess by dumbing down the schools, (indoctrinating the kids from early on) and repeating the lie until it is accepted as the truth. SIGH It is going to be hard to turn around but we sure need to try. Just present the facts, like the doctored up charts we saw here last week and not be shouted down.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. Looking toward the 70 degree mark today. My neighbor lady called last evening about 10 to ask if my water was off. I checked and it was, so she called and they were working somewhere back down the line and had it shut off for about an hour. I turned on water this morning morning and the water hammer was a surprise to my sleepy head. So I went around and opened the faucets and let some of the air hiss out of them. I’ll get outside later this morning when it warms up a little and make certain that everything is running properly. Hope it didn’t blow up some of my fragile plumbing somewhere.
In other news, I just don’t have anything to report so far. Tomorrow I need to remember to go to Marble Falls to the eye doctor. You all have a great day out there now. More later.
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Good Morning – it’s a balmy 38 here in the woods with bright blue skies and lots of cotton ball clouds sailing past at a good clip… Was only 34 when I got up, but such a treat to wake up with running water 😉
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My old digital thermometer got where it wouldn’t read below 59, new one came in yesterday- 40 with 80% humidity out on the back porch.
Mornin!
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Yesterday I was telling my Sweetie about being down at the local hardware store last Thursday morning and there were four men, separately, purchasing big bundles of that foam pipe insulation – “and the hard freeze was coming that afternoon!” She says, “I know, these people that put everything off till the last minute…”
I don’t know what she meant by that.
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Then I got to imaginin they were probably helping their little old lady neighbors preparing for the weather and I felt bad for judging…
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Chicago is set to host the first NASCAR street race in the 2023 season
The streets were scanned by iRacing, an online racing simulator. NASCAR officials then tried various formats in a digital world to come up with the final layout of the street circuit.
I don’t really watch Woke NASCAR anymore, and I never did care for the road races which they are adding more and more. Now they are going street racing on city streets and plan on more of them. But what I found interesting is that they utilize the technology from iRacing, an online racing simulator, to draw out the circuits. Must be the real deal.
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Michelle Haas of Copano Bay Press recently created the Texas History Trust to help fight the relentless lunatics who are trying to rewrite Texas history to fit their narrative.
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This is a most appropriate opening line for a current news article.
Until the Mayo Clinic starts using the Novichok nerve agent in place of anesthesia, Southwest Airlines will retain the corporate award for the most rapid and catastrophic self-destruction of its brand.
They had some hiccups over the last decade, but once the mass psychosis of COVID began, Southwest Airlines shifted into flaming self-immolation on a near daily basis.
You would think Kanye West was running the LUV airline, screaming “Mayday, Mayday” as he plunges the whole fleet into the ground.
Herb Kelleher’s children and grandchildren must be disappointed and saddened by the way these people have trashed his legacy.
I know I am.
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From last night:
Texpat says:
December 27, 2022 at 9:23 pmThe last two houses I renovated I created a nice homeowner binder that included every manual/warranty for every appliance and device, interior & exterior, in the house. Included were all the manuals for the HVAC. It also had the manufacturer and specs for all the tiles, wallpaper and every paint color in the house.
Also included was a copy of the labeling of every circuit in the main breaker panel with descriptions of each circuit’s components – switches and receptacles, for example. I even included floor plan drawings and a copy of the land survey. I don’t know of anybody providing that on an old house and I was proud of it.
My late custom home builder friend did this on every house he constructed or rehabbed. It is the right, decent and honorable thing to do and really should be “code.” This is also known as ‘integrity.’
/ Tips the hat to Texpat and my late friend Ronnie G., men of integrity.
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7 GJT
So how fast can a stock car go after it’s been made bullet-proof ? The morons running NASCAR had to pick Chicago ? They couldn’t find any other city to do this in ?
Have an event in the murder capital of America to draw your fans there so can be robbed, raped and murdered. It’s so intelligent and inspiring.
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Texpat – yes that’s the most common comment on any article regarding the Chicago race. Southwest Airlines and NASCAR plummeting to their graves.
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Texpat
Beth is stranded in Seminole, FLA.
They were supposed to fly back today. It’ll probably be Friday at the earliest.
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re: residential construction, doing it with dirt.
There are a whole lot of really good concepts contained in this video.
If you build the structure with dirt, the fire won’t burn it, the bugs won’t eat it, and the cost of primary materials is relatively low. It prolly doesn’t work so well in earthquake zones, so that has to be a consideration in design and build. Some areas are prolly a hard no. Most areas, particularly in low population density areas, would do very well with the techniques.
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Herb Kelleher’s children and grandchildren must be disappointed and saddened by the way these people have trashed his legacy.
Yup after seeing some of this on Tucker’s Show last night I told the wife that Herb Keller was spinning in his grave. We’ve always loved SW and they’ve made it easy and cheap to travel to Californian and Midland but they are now getting iffy. FWIW; Tulsi Gabbard was hosting Tucker’s Show last night.
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As with the Las Vegas strip or resorts in Mexico, you don’t venture off the main streets. Can you imagine how many “backstreets” in Chicago fans attending the NASCAR street race will have to be walking to view the race? Crazy.
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I was checking back in to comment on the SWA situation. SWA was one of my hero organizations for their employee morale, their ability to take care of the customer, their ability to make the cattle car operation fun to fly on, and any number of hilarious stunts pulled by former management – Kellerher in particular. The employees at all levels loved working there, and everyone seemed happy in spite of the huge passenger loads, lack of reserved seating, and so forth. But they seem to have lost their way under current management. It’s obvious that they need a complete overhaul in the executive suite. Get woke, go broke. Remember that the sole purpose that they exist is to get people from point A to point B as quickly and efficiently as possible. Like most situations, the cause of their problems is not the winter storm – the winter storm merely exposed their problems. Overhaul management, overhaul systems and algorithms, and get this thing back on track quickly. The airline business is highly competitive, and SWA was winning the race – but they ran out of gas, and frankly, I’m not sure they will recover. And all those Boeing orders may suffer eventually as well. This is a big deal, and screwing up bad enough to get the government involved is about as bad as it can get. Now they have to start paying attorneys, lobbyists, politicians, and greasing all other sorts of palms along the way – all of which means higher ticket prices and worse service. So long SWA, if was quite a ride while it lasted.
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#8 Shannon
Do you have a link to the Michelle Haas letter? I’d like to share it but I can’t seem to find it on Copano Bay Press.
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When Clark Gable left the Army in June 1944, Ronald Reagan signed his discharge papers.
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#8 Shannon…. the video linked in that article is one of the most bone-chilling things I’ve ever watched. I believe now that my BFF from elementary school, who died unexpectedly after being retired less than a year from being an elementary school teacher, died of a broken heart over this.
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GJT
That is a live link in my #8. You should be able to copy and paste the URL when the letter opens up.
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It wasn’t Southwest – it was British Airways.
They used to have the second best airline food & drink service after Air France, but who knows anymore ?
The family, who was moving from London to Tennessee, discovered the shocking snafu when they arrived at the Nashville International Airport and were given the wrong dog, according to a new report.
“They said she wasn’t in Nashville, and they said their best guess was she was in Saudi Arabia,” Madison Miller told WSMV, referring to her beloved 5-year-old rescue pup named Bluebell.
After about an hour, airport staff sent her a photo of Bluebell locked in her crate, confirming that she was in the middle eastern kingdom.
Apparently, Bluebell is still traumatized by this experience.
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RE: Texpat and Household Binder
I have one of those. Besides user manuals and info on the appliances, it includes instructions on the seasonal turn-on of the boiler for heating: how to add water to completely fill the system, bleed the lines, etc. I have a receipt from the purchase of an electrical component that we were told may have to be replaced every so often, so the new owners (whenever that may be) will know where to go to find said component and have the part number. When we pass this house on, I will probably include some pics of when we put in the foundation, so they can see how we put the tubing in the floor. I guess I need to do the same for the upstairs, when Hubby gets back to doing the floor up there.
Like you, I just feel like it’s the right thing to do.
Maybe I should include the dirt on which neighbors to be wary of, as well.
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Remember the story I linked to yesterday about the kidnapped 5-month old baby in the abandoned car ? The two cops spotted the car in the parking lot when they returned to sit in their car and eat. The kidnapper woman was not there. How did she get caught ? Selling the baby toys elsewhere that had been in the car it seems.
Two young mothers were buying the toys, got suspicious and decided to catch the evil woman themselves. When they called the Indianapolis PD, the cops didn’t believe them.
Is this not one of the wildest stories ?
The pair say they set up a plan to get Jackson in their vehicle, working with police to pull them over so they could arrest her.
This plan was extremely difficult to accomplish due to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department not believing them or taking them seriously, the woman said. The pair consistently rotated between Columbus Police, who were listening to them but telling them to call IMPD, and IMPD who either didn’t answer or didn’t believe them, they added.
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Handsome Son was supposed to join Lovely DIL and her sister in Disney in Florida today, via SWA. Hubby told me last night that their flights were canceled. LDIL (who loves, loves, loves Disneyworld) took turns and drove all night to catch up to their luggage.
I was confused – their luggage went to Florida on the cancelled flight? Mystery.
Anyway, Handsome won’t be able to join them now and so is taking his vacation at home after telling his boss that he was available for emergencies if necessary.
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The message is that the only way for a woman to be successful is if she is actually a man.
Yeah, that is the message indeed. Read this if your morning hasn’t already been totally ruined.
That’s right. Louisa May Alcott didn’t accomplish anything because she was a woman. All of her accomplishments were because she was a man trapped in a woman’s body (who Peyton repeatedly calls “Lou”).
The opinion piece also erases the main character Jo, who girls have loved for over a hundred years, by suggesting that she too was a trans man.
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Breaking news this morning, and discussed on this Return to Traditions podcast.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI may be in his last days, his health is failing. I don’t know what this bodes for my beloved Church, but the focus must be on Benedict at this moment.
As Anthony Stein says, saints and exorcists tell us that it is in our last moments that Satan expends extraordinary effort to claim that soul. We need to pray for Benedict – indeed, all we know who are struggling in extremis – for their salvation.
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Here is Klaus Schwab of the WEF making exactly Michelle Haas’ point, flat out, the secret part loud and clear.
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#4 Tim
– 40 with 80% humidity out on the back porch.
Hmmm, I read that as “minus 40″…
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HAPPY DRAGMAS ☙ Wednesday, December 28, 2022 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning C&C, it’s the last Wednesday of 2022! Today’s packed roundup includes: the IgG4 study is making waves; bad news for Moderna’s covid treatment drug in two new studies; Canadian study shows no benefit over natural infection offered by five shots; teenage St. Paul hockey player dies from rare brain clots; social media influencer shades the intelligence community; sick Fort Lauderdale Christmas drag show now under investigation; the military mandate finally falls; and TV doctor surprisingly supports military mandate repeal, citing vaxx injuries.
I posted recently news from Childers about how the jab screws up the immune system by turning on the wrong parts and turning off the right parts:
The study we reviewed on Monday about the IgG4 antibody shift is spreading widely. In just two days, most of the usual covid commenters have written about the story, and even rabidly pro-jab folks have noticed:
Here’s one doctor’s notice:
Those with only two jabs may not be in the danger zone. The more boosted you are, however, the more screwed you are.
This is scary:
Next, tolerance would explain both why boosted people are getting reinfected so often and also why their infections may appear mild. Their infections appear mild because the body is suppressing its systemic immune response: no fever, no headache, no congestion, no coughing. But their infection is raging away invisibly.
So, your immune system is telling your body to take it easy and just chill, while the virus is running rampant and doing its damage. Kinda like watching an apartment building burn while sitting in your lounge chair and drinking beer.
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And Moderna is also in trouble:
These researchers studied outcomes of patients with and without Moderna’s covid treatment Molnupiravir (its version of Paxlovid), and found that Molupiravir doesn’t work:
I’m sure that Moderna was counting on the armfuls of cash to be made off of the medication made necessary from their jab.
The researchers also studied Moderna’s covid treatment Molnupiravir, which is supposed to reduce viral replication by scrambling covid’s genome. Nothing could go wrong with that plan.
Researchers looking into the meds say this:
Within days of treatment, we detected a large number of low-frequency mutations in patients and that these new mutations could persist and, in some cases, were fixed in the virus population … This commonly used class of antivirals has the capability to supercharge SARS-CoV-2 evolution, and uncontrolled use may generate new variants with a transmission advantage that prolongs the pandemic and makes other therapeutics less effective.
So, not only doesn’t the drug work — it does NOT reduce serious covid infections or deaths — but it “supercharges” the evolution of new covid variants by DELIBERATELY randomly mutating the covid gene.
The FDA approved that drug. You really can’t make this stuff up.
The urge to go live in a cave gets stronger and stronger.
I wonder how many sheeple will just take these pills because the FDA signed off on them?
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One analyst said SWA simply hasn’t been doing timely upgrades to their systems across the board. Throw in the Covid nightmare, the loss of pilots and other staff, and the fact that perhaps 15% of the former American workforce has decided to sit on their couch and take government money….this was the perfect storm. Pun intended.
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A 16 year old Canadian hockey player died of a blood vessel disorder in the brain. This disorder was actually listed as a side effect of the jab.
The hockey league locked down their Twitter account shortly after the story was reported.
I wonder why?
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Texpat
Beth update….
They got checked in at Tampa airport! Boarding at 2pm!
Fingers crossed.
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Then there’s the story of the “family friendly” drag queen show. A guy shows up, verifies that the show is not child-friendly, protests, and gets thrown out.
Can the parents be sued for child endangerment? Contributing to the delinquency of a minor? Plain stupidity?
I’m not sure which part of the story is more remarkable: the fact that people actually take their kids to see this stuff (why??), that the show could fill a large South Florida auditorium (ugh), or that Florida is actually pushing back (hooray!).
Hat tip to Chaya Raichik, the one-woman genius behind the mega-influential Libs of TikTok account, who made the drag show story viral. After being doxxed, Chaya was invited by Governor DeSantis to stay at the Governor’s mansion anytime she needs to for security.
There are more stories, but you have the link.
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28 Shannon
I hope they don’t end up in Saudi Arabia.
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From the C&C comments (emphasis mine):
Regarding IgG4 it’s not just repeated shots but the very nature of the mRNA vaxxes themselves. The artificial mRNA has been stabilized using pseudouridine so it isn’t naturally broken down in a few hours like natural mRNA. Studies have shown it’s detectable for at least 60 days if not far longer.
So unlike catching covid or a traditional non-mRNA vax, the spike protein antigen is present within the body for months on end. Now add periodic boosting and it’s looks like it’s always present. Our amazing immune system “knows” viruses don’t act this way so it shifts into IgG4 mode to treat it as an harmless allergen rather than a pathogen.
It’s the same old story since the fall of Adam and Eve of man thinking he’s smarter than God. I guess we’ll never learn.
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NO vax no way no how!
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More C&C comments:
The biggest twitter files are coming next week. The fauci files. They are starting to change the narrative because of ALL the files dropped this week and the big ones next week!
Well, if true, that should make life more interesting.
Here’s one that Squawk might find interesting:
Who likes ancient history like me? (I didn’t mean ‘me’, I’m only 72)
https://jabalmaqla.com/israelites-red-sea-crossing-location/
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Okay, gonna go lay down now. I did a slow quarter mile on the treadmill, and the back is feeling a little strained sitting in this chair…
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When most of the country was having to get up and out everyday throughout the WLR Panic, flight crews, firemen, cops, plumbers, electricians, EMTs, utility workers, garbage workers, doctors, nurses, truck drivers…these useless lardasses sat around in their palatial mansions sucking down booze and eating donuts while they voted by proxy and held meetings via Zoom. I hate the vast majority of these people. They don’t even have the respect for the institution and the American people to show up in person when they condemn their future with trillion dollar budget bills.
The jig is up for House members who have become accustomed to staying at home in their districts and casting their floor votes via proxy. With Republicans set to take control of the House next week, they have indicated they will do away with the COVID-era Nancy Pelosi rule that allowed members to have a colleague cast a vote in their name.
Kevin McCarthy, presumed next Speaker of the House and part of a select group that have never voted by proxy, tweeted his intentions last week after the omnibus monstrosity was passed without a quorum of members being present on the floor for the vote.
Less than half of lawmakers were present on the floor for the omnibus vote, with 134 Democrats and 92 Republicans opting to vote via proxy. House members have enjoyed the privilege of staying home and phoning it in for nearly three years, with Pelosi enacting the proxy measure back in March of 2020, citing health concerns around COVID-19. She recently extended the proxy vote option through the end of of the 117th Congress.
The decision by Republicans to have the House join the rest of America in going back to work is sure to rankle some lawmakers who have enjoyed the luxury of not showing up to do their job. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), whose northern Virginia congressional district is a stone’s throw from DC, seemed to have been kept quite busy by some of his Democrat colleagues, having bragged earlier this year that he had cast proxy votes 2,252 times and voted to impeach Donald Trump six times. Beyer told Insider, “It’s been an honor. I think I could say I voted more than any other member of the House in the last eight years.”
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mharper
– 40 with 80% humidity out on the back porch.
Hmmm, I read that as “minus 40″…
Me too but I knew he couldn’t mean -40.
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19 Shannon
Michelle and Mark at Copano Bay Press are using an email marketing service app called Robly to manage their subscriber base. That is why their urls always look that way.
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Must’ve just been a cold streak on my street. 😀
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JJ Watt retiring after this year. Like Earl Campbell, the body just could’nt endure the savage play, long term.
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Today’s Hamousonian
Climate prognosticators (OBAMA) edition:
Latest idiocy from the Climate Astrologists. Climate change causes mental illness.Hamous says:The man who really discovered Manbearpig is desperate. Why won’t anybody listen to him???
GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.”
If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.
If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5 million years ago, when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is now. That level of heat-trapping gases would assure that the disintegration of the ice sheets would accelerate out of control. Sea levels would rise and destroy coastal cities. Global temperatures would become intolerable. Twenty to 50 percent of the planet’s species would be driven to extinction. Civilization would be at risk.
That is the long-term outlook. But near-term, things will be bad enough. Over the next several decades, the Western United States and the semi-arid region from North Dakota to Texas will develop semi-permanent drought, with rain, when it does come, occurring in extreme events with heavy flooding. Economic losses would be incalculable. More and more of the Midwest would be a dust bowl. California’s Central Valley could no longer be irrigated. Food prices would rise to unprecedented levels.
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The global warming signal is now louder than the noise of random weather, as I predicted would happen by now in the journal Science in 1981. Extremely hot summers have increased noticeably. We can say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were caused by human-induced climate change.Excelsior!
Hamous says:
The Best Presidential Address on Climate Change Ever
He’s super-stoked! Excelsior!The Obama Administration releaseda new report on
global cooling global warmingclimate change this week, and its findings and recommendations are about what you’d expect: conservatives are stupidheads who hate Science™, so give us eleventy trillion dollars.I’ll see your “95 percent of scientists believe in global warming” talking point and raise you a “95 percent of reality thinks your climate models are garbage.” According to that chart of actual satellite and surface temperature observations vs. what was predicted by 90 different climate models, 95 percent of models overestimated actual temperatures. Nothing says Science™ like predicting stuff incorrectly over and over and over again.
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Thank God, he did NOT mean “-40”
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Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents – those infants under 2 years who were massacred by Herod in his quest to kill Jesus.
This is the day we pray for the end to all abortion and infanticide.
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GJT and Sweetie checked in at PF Chang’s – Coatless! In shorts!
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I just bot back from the grocery store wearing my old shorts, a tshirt, and crocks. Feels good outside except it’s pretty windy. But 2 slabs of on sale baby back ribs in the sous vide at 165 degrees for the next 12 hours. Will freeze one on completion and finish the other one tomorrow for dinner for a couple of days. Par boiled pork ribs – it’s what’s for dinner.
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First Liberty Institute’s “No Better Letter” Starring Tom Jefferson
By Kelly Shackleford and the First Liberty Institute
On the front page now ! Hear Ye, Hear Ye ! Read all about it !
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Setting around in a speedo and t-shirt smoking a fine Cuban cigar enjoying this fine weather.
Yes Super Dave life is indeed good.
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I also published Michelle Haas’ excellent video on the front page for lurker’s and others to find.
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Enough of these damned negative stories.
The Cabrera home is not a “one and done” holiday gift. Several homes like it have been built and more are coming.
Dan Wallrath with Operation Finally Home told those at the celebration these homecomings never get old for him. Wallrath’s group was the lead organization for the Cabrera home project and has built, or renovated more than 400 homes across the nation for veterans and first responders since 2005.
“The American dream is homeownership, and so many of our veterans they’ve given so much for our country, they’ll never be able to have one, so we are just trying to make their lives a little better,” said Wallrath.
The Cabrera home is the 39th that HEB has been involved in. The grocery chain has four more homes in progress and should have close to 50 built by next summer.
God Bless HEB and the Operation Finally Home folks.
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Stephen Green at Instapundit posted this earlier. It’s a very nice article on Admiral Chester Nimitz from the U.S. Naval Institute.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Areas Theater during World War II, but his contributions to victory have been obscured by his modest leadership style. An “accommodating” and “nurturing” nature—well described by historians Craig L. Symonds and E. B. Potter—meant that Nimitz was content to see his subordinates receive accolades for battlefield successes while he remained in the background.1 But Nimitz’s style belied the extent of his skills. He used an aggressive theory of combat to overcome the inherent uncertainty of war and shape the conflict in the Pacific. Nimitz had an artistic ability to seize emerging opportunities, impose his command’s will on the enemy, and bring the war to a successful, and surprisingly rapid, conclusion.
and,
Nimitz was building his own trap. He packed Midway with planes, positioned submarines in an arc to the northwest of the atoll, and placed his carriers to the northeast, at “Point Luck.” Nimitz ordered Fletcher—commanding the carriers because Halsey was too ill— to “inflict maximum damage on the enemy” through “strong attrition tactics” and avoid “decisive action.” However, by 2 June, it was clear that the Japanese were coming. Nimitz instructed Fletcher to move west so that the carriers would be ready to strike immediately once the Kidō Butai was sighted.16
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Enough of these damned negative stories.
i guess I better not tell my sad tale of woe how I got a hole in my brand new Christmas speedo. RATS.
/Dang it is drafty now.
/BSue stop laughing so hard.
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#42 Squawk:
i guess I better not tell my sad tale of woe how I got a hole in my brand new Christmas speedo.
Did you drop a see-gar ash on your speedo? That would make in an ash hole.
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LOL
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I was gonna axe if the cigar cherry fell off.
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Oh man, I am so glad Hamous isn’t here to listen to this. He and I shared a bitter distaste for bad actors faking southern and Texas accents.
The Kansas-born star plays outcast entrepreneur Andi, who is believed to have been murdered.
However, although being from a southern state, Janelle has been chastised on the social media platform for her deep south accent.
While some people loved her and believed her to carry the film, others remained unconvinced and outraged over her accent.
However, it was still Daniel Craig that received the most criticism for his Louisiana accent.
The article is written by some British woman who clearly knows nothing about Kansas and thinks it is a Southern state. Really ? She actually believes Monae’s accent sounds like she’s from Alabama.
Daniel Craig’s fake accent is every bit as bad as your imagination can make it. Who thought it was a good idea to have him play this role ? Why not re-write the script and have him as a guy from the UK ?
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Lol. We watched most of the Glass Onion a couple days ago, you have to be way more up on current culture and celebs than we are to understand a quarter of the jokes. All I knew was the billionaire putting on the party and murder mystery was supposed to be Elon Musk and one of them was a Kardashian. Yes, the detective’s accent must have been really bad, I did not recognize it as supposedly Louisiana. If anything I thought it was an over emphasized Georgia accent.
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We did a Showtime free trial and have been watching the mini series “George and Tammy”. Last night I was looking around the web on George Jones. This is some sections on Wiki:
“By February 1979, he was homeless, deranged, and destitute, living in his car and barely able to digest the junk food on which he subsisted. He weighed under a hundred pounds, and his condition was so bad that it took him more than two years to complete My Very Special Guests, an album on which Willie Nelson, Linda Rontadt, Elvis Costello, and other famous fans came to his vocal aid and support.
In June 1979, he appeared with Waylon Jennings on Ralph Emery’s syndicated radio program, and at one point Jennings cracked, “It’s lonely at the top.” A laughing Jones replied, “It’s lonely at the bottom, too! It’s real, real lonely, Waylon.”
😀 😀
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One of my favorite TV shows is Friday nite’s “Forged in Fire” – it’s amazing watching those guys and gals take whatever is pulled out of the junk pile for them to make a knife with, and make some amazing blades (and some not so amazing blades LOL)… Not that I’d ever be able to even think of doing the same, it takes me back to my Nannie’s farm, where my uncle had a small forge to make “something from nothing” to fix a tractor or wagon or whatever was broke. I still have a ring that he made for my mother – might’ve been made from a tin can – not sure what kind of metal it is but it’s one of my favorite pieces in my jewelry box filled with priceless treasures from Kresges, TG&Y, and Gibson’s…
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Making blades just seems like a reasonable thing to do, IMHO. The trick is to reduce the work load to the greatest possible degree while producing a superior product. There is no such thing as the perfect knife as there are too many different tasks to be done with a similar tool. Even though I have disassembled a deer with the knife I carry and use every day, there are better blades for the task.
There is something primal about moving the metal until the metal move you.
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When my youngest son and his galfriend went on a Tennessee trip this summer they went to a forging shop in Pigeon Forge where they teach you to make your own knife. I’m sure that’s common knowledge but it was the first I’d heard of it. Looked fun.
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I had three “sodbuster” slip joint pocketknives I carried over the last 20 years and lost them to TSA checkpoints. It was stupid on my part. They were from A.G. Russell knife company and were a model Mr. Russell had made in a special forging outfit in China. The new Sodbuster HH gave me this week is an original Case knife made in the USA and I have to be careful because it’s surgically sharp. It’ll take a finger right off.
My self inspection includes wallet, watch, keys and pocketknife before I walk out the door.
*** The good thing about that is if you pass inspection, you know you have your pants on and you don’t end up walking around outside in your underwear like Squawkbox. ***
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I forgot to add, if anyone else is curious or doesn’t know about “Forged In Fire” – it’s on DEFY TV
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52 bsue54
They have filmed “Forged In Fire” episodes right there in the old blacksmith shop Mr. Mewis owned for a century on Main Street in Bellville.
Ask Shannon about it.
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Where is mharper42 ?
Yoo hoo ?!
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Most of this year, I was watching episodes of old favorites that we had as DVD sets. One I especially enjoyed was Jewel in the Crown from Masterpiece Theatre.
But to show how truly unhip I am, I haven’t watched much of anything else this year, aside from one daytime soap opera on TV for a very long time. It is Days of Our Lives, which I have watched since sometime in the 1970’s. It just recently departed from NBC and now runs online on Peacock. I watch it on my laptop, which means 20-y.o. kitty Millie is not getting her nap hour in my lap.
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Texpat 6:23 pm
Sorry, I’ve been getting my notes & exhibits regarding the bum leg, ready to go to the doc tomorrow noonish. They are going to x-ray me before the appointment.
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Tedtam – I don’t know if you’d have the same “luck” but we happened on a pile of ham slices reduced for quick sale at Krogers, for 85% off… I don’t mind paying $2-3 for a ham slice but would never have paid the original price
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MHarper you need a lesson from Gordo to hook up a Roku or some other smart device to your TV. That way you can watch Peacock TV on your large den tv and have room for Millie in your lap.
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All signs point to an escape tomorrow. I’ve had another issue come up, but hopefully that will not preclude me from going home.
I still haven’t eaten since Dec 11th. I’ll go home on TPN iv nutrition. Probably another 2 – 3 weeks before we phase in real food.
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Dang
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Hope you get to go home at least.
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TexMo – just click your heels together, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, and say “there’s no place like home… there’s NO place LIKE home… there’s NO PLACE LIKE HOME” and WHOOSH… Seriously, prayin’ you do get to sleep under your own roof tomorrow 🙂
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Eldest Sis released info to the family today. I’ve known for several weeks but promised I’d remain mum until she was ready.
She has one daughter who had 3 sons. One survived leukemia in childhood, and now her 30 year old oldest son had been diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma. From her message…
He had a swelling on one side of his neck that appeared before Christmas, which has been diagnosed as stage 2, Burkitts Lymphoma, it is an aggressive and uncommon Lymphoma cancer. Fortunately, he is still young enough to take the chemo better, healthy, and caught it early, another blessing. This will require a very harsh, nasty chemo treatment called hyper-CVAD chemo plan, which he was told a 95% success treatment plan. He has to be hospitalized for chemo doses with a 5 day stay. Four chemo treatments in 6 months. Fingers crossed that is all. A lot of side affects. He will be getting his port put in on the 5th, possible earlier, and begins treatment the next day.
So, y’all keep Andrew in your prayers please.
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Getting about bedtime out here. I do feel for all the infirm out there, many with these awful diseases. I hope that all of you have a good evening now. I’m off to the eye doc early in the AM, but I’ll try to post a wake up message before I leave if I have time.
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#61 Tedtam – prayers up and Andrew will remain in my prayers, as will his mother, and all who know and love him
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#56 TexMo
David probably has a ROKU or some such on his much-more elaborate system in his much-more exhaustive media room upstairs. Dunno what to do with it, though…
Night, y’all. I’ma try to get to sleep much earlier than usual so I can peel outa here way earlier than usual for me.
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#61 Tedtam,
Prayers said for Andrew and for his family.
Texpat 
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