Pont d’Argenteuil, 1885, by Gustave Caillebotte
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Never mind. It was in Belgium, not the Hobby area.
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Ahhhhh, Texas.
Where the little thermostat slider bounces back and forth between Heat and Cool.
At least once a day.
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Oh. Good morning.
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Re: OC photo
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A much cooler 48 here this morning but it’ll hit the mid 60’s by noon, beats mid 30’s.
Mornin’ Gang
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Texpat from last night; Tucker Carlson just raked Eyepatch McCain over the coals in front of the entire nation. Crenshaw looked like a complete jackass.
And;
Tucker didn’t let it pass without calling Dan Crenshaw a “Neocon Buffoon” before the show was over. I laughed out loud.
Yup, Tucker generally hits the nail on the head and I rarely miss his show and yes, I caught it last night.
Oh and Tucker ended the show with a snippet about RINO Adam Kinzinger being hired by CNN as their “Senior Political Commentator” BAWHAHAHA!! You can’t make this stuff up! I guess he’ll be their token Republican I.E. RINO to pretend they’re unbiased. He certainly fit the bill since he’s not only a back stabbing weasel, he’s a never Trumper and has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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The only other way I know to watch Tucker is to subscribe to FoxNation, the streaming channel for Fox News.
I get Fox News on Dish Network.
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I posted something and it just disappeared so I retyped it as best I could and poof! It was gone also. Oh well….
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My #6
CNN hires just-retired GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
How is it that these Clowns always fail upwards.
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Shannon wins the innernet already for the day, made me literally lol.
Those Belgian wimmins I tell ya, ‘Whatsoever is that thing, I’ve never seen one before!’
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Hobby wimmins be like, “When your done investigating that thing can you put it this box so I can return to Amazon?”
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Whaaaat???? Randy Lemmon of Houston Garden Line on the radiot died of a stroke last night???? at age 61????
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Morning gang. At tok. More later
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Oh wow! I listened to him quite often over the years. Attempt to follow his fertilizing schedule but it never works out. RIP Randy Lemon.
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How did Lemon always put it when everyone cuts back their crape myrtles in the spring – “The great crape myrtle massacre?” Something like that, he hated that.
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Wow, he’s been around for as long as I can remember.
RIP.
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Salcedo is teasing about news on the expansion of his program. He referenced Rush’s 600 radio stations earlier, as well as commenting on the reach of his live program on Rumble and Gettr.
Wonder if he’s growing both the radio and streaming reach.
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I enjoyed Texpat’s
January 4, 2023 at 9:19 pmPaula Bolyard, editor of PJMedia
The piece wasn’t earth shattering but it is so true. The Republican Deep Staters are wringing their hands and getting the vapors about the House Speaker position when in reality it’ll all be over in a few days, things will go back to normal (a bad thing BTW) and the Hill will do K Street’s bidding while the Serf masses gets the hind tit. They only need us “Little People” every 2 years, the rest of the Fuggetaboutit. 🙁
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Scott Johnson at Powerline wrote a column unfavorable to the Republican renegades in the house.
Wow, did he ever get blowback. There are 647 comments. I waded through a couple of hundred and saw maybe 2 or 3 “agrees” to overwhelming “disagees”. The “fringe Republicans”, as Scott calls them, have some very broad support out there across this country, a lot more than I thought they would have.
I think the disgust for Congress in general after this $1.7 trillion debacle is much deeper than anyone realizes.
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Looking at the OC picture I could not believe it was an 1885 painting. I thought it was a picture of a FORD pickup dragging a chevy out of flood waters on HWY59.
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This is unprecedented. Instapundit has been down since shortly before midnight. I’ve never seen that site down for more than minutes in 22 years. It has to be either a cyber attack that corrupted the site software or their ISP had a server or power meltdown.
UPDATE: Instapundit never went down. It’s something strange going on with my end of things. Crap.
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I thought it was a picture of a FORD pickup dragging a chevy out of flood waters on HWY59.
HaHa! Surely you jest! Chevy been dragging Fords since 1885.
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HaHa! Surely you jest! Chevy been dragging Fords since 1885.
Yup, just ask my boy about his little half ton 4X4 on 33’s yanking 1 ton Ford Dually 4X4’s out of the mud at 2 AM. 😀
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Now for the C&C:
FAKERS ☙ Thursday, January 5, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning C&C, it’s Thursday! Today’s roundup includes: a fake doctor twitter network is exposed, showing how fake pro-covid support probably is; Trump doesn’t break with McCarthy for Speaker; Florida asks for a DEI accounting from state universities; and Greta is the victim of new mental illnesses.
Now that the roundup is done…
The San Francisco Standard ran a quiet mini-Twitter files story last month, headlined “These Doctors Pushed Masking, Covid Lockdowns on Twitter. Turns Out, They Don’t Exist.” Can you believe that?…
As always these days, it wasn’t corporate media’s crack squad of highly motivated investigative reporters who broke the story. It began with — of course — an independent researcher, an LGBT+ ally of some kind, who came across a trans pro-lockdown doctor who has been very vocal during the pandemic and has BOTH a trans flag and a Ukraine flag in his bio picture.
Childers goes on, with his usual flair, to describe this fake “Dr. Honeyman,” who was a transgender with a keen interest in poetry. There was a picture of the dude, which turned out to be a slightly modified stock photo. This “doctor” had not one, but TWO WLR tragedies, one of which took out his “husband”. Twitter followers were appropriately concerned and supportive. All 12K+ of them.
But as bad as they were, those weren’t Doctor Honeyman’s only tragedies this year. In July, he tweeted about his debilitating monkeypox infection, saying “Don’t believe what the media have been sharing… it’s a horrible disease that has had me bed ridden.” Then in October, he claimed to have been the victim of a transphobic attack.
Suffering stacked on suffering. How much can one keen poetry lover take?
Dr. Honeyman’s “husband” had a picture that was also stolen online. So the fake doctor had a matching fake husband. I wonder how that salesman from Indiana felt after discovering he’d been married to a gay, transgender fake doctor, and that he himself had died?
According to the Standard, the two fake doctors, whose accounts constantly urge extreme covid caution, are part of an interconnected network of AT LEAST four fake accounts all touting their ties to the LGBTQ+ community, vocally advocating mask-wearing, jabbing, and social distancing, and dishing out generous helpings of criticism to folks they felt are not taking the pandemic seriously enough.
Childers goes on to document how these fake doctors tweeted support for one another, and tried to build up their followers by recounting the horrible treatment they received since they were all gender confused or some such. Their fake anger against the anti-alphabet folks escalated as their tweets fed off each other.
There’s a lot more and I could go on and on and on, but I have to stop someplace. Here’s the thing: after what’s recently been exposed in the Twitter files, what are the odds this little fake-doctor network exposed by the San Francisco Standard is really a military/intelligence psyop to keep fearful liberals believing in the pandemic and advocating for covid restrictions?
Back in the Cold War, communist agents used a similar ‘network building’ technique to promote journalists and professors. They would startup a dozen spies with entry-level jobs as local reporters or academic writers, and then over the next months and years the group would reference and promote each other, until at least one of them landed a prominent job at a major newspaper or university.
As I’ve often said of Democrats who bend rules and break election laws: When you can’t win in the arena of ideas, cheat.
But they went too far, and now it’s exposed. How many other fake accounts are out there, trying to gin up support for causes unable to get their own real traction?
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Texpat Thanks for rescuing my earlier post. I guess I shouldn’t have copied and pasted the January 4, 2023 at 9:19 pm timestamp?
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Oh and I really liked the Scott Johnson piece from Powerline especially all the comments. I guess the author is just another Deep State Swamp Rat that has NO CLUE what the real conservative base wants and that’s NOT Democrat Lite.
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Childers also has a rather long discussion about Hamlin and his injury; the swirling discussion of the vaxx and the timing of the political discussion that naturally came to the fore; and the disappearance of the commitio medical issue.
I do agree with his last comment on this story: “We are praying for Mr. Hamlin’s rapid and complete recovery. He’s not the story. He’s the victim.”
Well said.
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Then Childers begins the discussion of universities and “diversity”:
People ask me all the time if the universities are a lost cause. Well, I told you to strap in. Governor DeSantis’ Budget Director sent a memo to state officials last week, asking for a detailed accounting of money spent on “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs, along with lists of personnel employed in those areas. Uh oh!
/snip
My confidential source embedded in the woke skunkworks of a major Florida public university administration seemed skeptical that the university would reply honestly. But I think it would be terrific if the administrators lied, because that would be sufficient cause for their termination.
One lefty commenter sarcastically complained about how conservatives yammer about the “free market” all the time, but then do this kind of stuff. Um. Dear commenter: Public universities ARE government. They AREN’T the “free market.” The “free market” is the part that ISN’T government run.
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Where’s the Governor going with this? I bet all the university administrators are asking themselves that question, if they haven’t already concluded he’s looking to scalpel away the burgeoning grievance industry.
DeSantis for President, some time in the future.
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Continuing on …
t’s not new. Governor DeSantis started working on the higher education problem during last year’s legislative session, when the Board of Governors modified the tenure rules to allow for five-year reviews of professors, effectively ending permanent tenure.
[insert headline reporting that professors were censoring some of their “racial” classes, and lo! how the students suffer!]
According to the Atlantic, brave tenured professors in Florida are now finding it “harder to resist laws,” now that they might be fired when they break the law. It’s making criminality SO much “harder.”
Hahahaha! They can still break the law, but it’s harder now! Dang that wily racal DeSantis! And don’t forget the poor students, who “suffer” — very badly! — from the absence of professorial lawlessness.
I’ve never been a fan of tenure. It allows way too much lunacy to evolve. Why should any employee be guaranteed a job? That’s never been a recipe for success.
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Texpat Thanks for rescuing my earlier post. I guess I shouldn’t have copied and pasted the January 4, 2023 at 9:19 pm timestamp?WHAT?? Huh? Oh never mind.
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I will be so glad when +_+_+_+_ gets his own blog.
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HaHa! Surely you jest! Chevy been dragging Fords since 1885.
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Well, breakfast, coffee, and C&C has me down to the last 39 minutes of my BGS session.
Planning on going to confession today. I may not stay for mass, because it’s hard on my back. Tomorrow is the feast of the Epiphany, so I’m planning on gutting it up for mass tomorrow and getting my Epiphany water.
Then Saturday morning to finish my Five First Saturday devotion, as per Our Lady of Fatima’s request.
Then, Sunday morning, my Sunday Obligation. Another mass.
But it’s not a burden, it’s a privilege.
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Found this in the C&C comments:
Curious… Anyone here that is on Twitter viewing Dan Crenshaw AKA Eyepatch McCain’s account?
I saw several posts on Telegram that said he is getting 100% slammed for his comments against his colleagues who are not voting for RINO McCarthy. I think he called them terrorists or some such terminology. I hope they expose Crenshaw for the traitor he is.
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I will be so glad when +_+_+_+_ gets his own blog.
Directed at me I guess? I don’t mean to be a pain. 😉
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Today’s HamousonianWhy did the aspiring Robin Hood think it was a good idea to get naked in the driveway?
Why did the aspiring Robin Hood think it was a good idea to get naked in the driveway?
He was probably from Alabama 🙂
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Beans in chili
Janet or Chrissy
Ginger or Mary Ann
Rose or Blanche
Chevy or Ford
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Well, I’m listening to M. Berry on the internet this morning, and to his credit, Berry is smashing his old buddy EP McCain. So good for him.
I figure *_*_*_*_ is not Super Dave.
OK, I’m figuring the Reps have about worked out their issues and we will be sold down the river on the first vote this morning.
Nothing else to report for right now. You all have a good day now.
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Victor Davis Hanson has some questions that need answering.
There needs to be strong penalties, including long prison sentences and rope stretching.
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Super Dave
I didn’t rescue your earlier comment. It was probably Squawk.
You should’ve realized by now that WordPress has a problem at 4 or 5 AM with any comment that contains links since you are almost always first and have the same problem over and over. Maybe being the first to comment has something to do with it. I don’t know. We don’t really have a solution for that so for the time being it’s an unavoidable annoyance. Cutting and pasting a comment from the day before should not be a problem.
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Capital Tractor just picked up my trusty Kubota, she’s going in for some elective surgery, adding the third function hydraulic valve for the new Lane Shark mower. 😉
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Thanks, Texpat and Squawk, since Texpat posted about the time my post came up I assumed he rescued my post. BTW; My post didn’t have a link per-say but I copied the timestamp and it comes up like link so I should have used the exploding paper clip to de-link it. That’s what I did in my #23.
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Thoughts out for tractor going in for surgery.
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I saw a link about Byron Donalds of Florida being nominated by the Republicans for Speaker.
I’ve been very impressed with Congressman Donalds so far. He is intelligent and very articulate.
Here is Byron Donalds on the House Oversight Committee in a hearing on universal background checks.
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bsue54 says:
January 5, 2023 at 7:10 amWhaaaat???? Randy Lemmon of Houston Garden Line on the radiot died of a stroke last night???? at age 61????
Yall too quick for me!
Randy was in our Men’s Bible Study at the Chamber for many years and they made the announcement this morning.
A close friend in the group said he died in NY city on vacation and his family is frantically trying to gather there.
My new prayer is I don’t die in NY city!
As a side bar Randy grew up around Westhiemer and Beltway 8 and we had many conversations about that area over breakfast a couple of times.
One or more of the Couch members if I recall grew up a little bit north of there?
Randy was about 10 years younger than us though.
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On another topic, the national championship game is coming up soon. And just in the nick of time, Hope has returned to Georgia. Now for those of you who are not SEC Shorts regulars, Hope seems to always show up just in time to let everyone down. She’s returning from a stint with the Aggies this season, who for the record, had high hopes that just didn’t work out. So now she’s back in Georgia. Enjoy.
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I will be so glad when +_+_+_+_ gets his own blog.
Has nothing to do with anyone here,
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4 Shannon
I was going to add a Caillebotte biography last night to the OC, but my eyes were giving me fits and I didn’t do it. He was a figure early in the Impressionist scene in Paris although Gustave never totally fit into the mold. He painted with different styles at times and frustrated the exhibition juries about whether he qualified as an Impressionist or not.
I’ve been a fan because he was such an interesting character. He inherited wealth at a young age and kept many of the starving Impressionist painters alive by purchasing their artwork and then donating it to museums. He was an autodidact who spent a lot of time and money in landscape design on his large property on the Seine River. He also anchored a large pontoon work barge at his dock he used as a studio and mainly as a workshop designing and building racing yachts. He has a reputation in French boat design history.
About 10 or 11 years ago, I made the trip across the Hudson and New York to the Brooklyn Museum to see a large Caillebotte exhibit. A significant part of the show were the collections of his boat design drawings and tools and boat components he made from his shop. It was pretty fascinating.
In 1876, Caillebotte presented his first paintings to the public in the second impressionist exhibition. For the third exhibition, later in the same year, Caillebotte unveiled “The Floor Scrapers,” one of his best-known pieces. The Salon of 1875, the official show of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, had previously rejected the painting. They complained that the depiction of common laborers planing a floor was “vulgar.” Fanciful images of peasants painted by the well-respected Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot were acceptable, but realistic depictions were not.
The Floor Scrapers is one of my all-time favorite paintings,
The most celebrated of Caillebotte’s paintings focus on urban Paris. Many observers consider “Paris Street, Rainy Day,” painted in 1875, to be his masterpiece. It is executed in a flat, almost photo-realistic style. The painting convinced Emile Zola that Caillebotte was a young painter of “courage” in depicting modern subjects. Although it was exhibited with the impressionists, some historians consider “Paris Street, Rainy Day” as evidence that Gustave Caillebotte should be identified as a realist painter instead of an impressionist.
Caillebotte’s use of novel viewpoints and perspectives frustrated critics of the era. His 1875 painting “Young Man at His Window” showed the subject from the back while positioning the viewer on the balcony with the subject looking over the scene below him. The cropping of people at the edge of a painting like in “Paris Street, Rainy Day” also infuriated some viewers.
In France, everybody is an art critic.
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Happiness is:
Driving a FORD pickup
Flying a LSU flag
Towing a Chevy pickup
While eating chili with beans
listening to Van Roth
Fantasizing about Mary Ann, Betty, Janet and Rose wearing Daisy dukes
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We are not alone.
Conservative politicians everywhere are frequently blithering idiots. Maybe the Polish Law and Justice Party has been taking lessons from the RNC establishment.
For years, Polish conservative commentators have complained about the Americanization of Polish and European culture, lamenting how changing views on Catholicism and traditional values have eroded the social fabric of the country.
Now, the conservative Polish government is being criticized after it reportedly paid €1 million to the U.S. pop-rap group Black Eyed Peas for them to perform during a New Year’s live special, “New Year’s Eve of Dreams,” which ran on Polish public broadcaster TVP in the mountain resort of Zakopane. The rap group took the opportunity to mock the Law and Justice (PiS) party, imply it was hateful, and sport LGBT armbands during a performance watched by over 8 million Poles.
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In fact, the state-run channel turned to the Black Eyed Peas only after ex-Spice Girl Melanie C pulled out of the gig after citing “issues that do not align with the communities I support,” a clear reference to the government’s conservative stance on a range of social issues.
When viewed from a purely political perspective, many conservatives are wondering why the state-run network paid the Black Eyed Peas a million euros for what basically amounted to a commercial for the Polish left-wing opposition, the same opposition that has tarred the PiS as “anti-LGBT” and “hateful.”
At least the Spice Girl had the integrity to turn down a million bucks because she didn’t agree with the Polish rules. The Black Eyed Peas humiliated the Poles and have now embarrassed America by being a bunch of lying grifters.
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I was going to type “Morning, gang”, but then I misread the time and thought it was too late for that.
So for now I’ll just say “Hi!”
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I have pulled both Chevy and Ford 4×4 trucks out of the mud or sand with my 2-wheel drive F-350 Ford. I’ve watched hotshot truck owners bury their trucks with 4-wheel drive over and over again. A lot of them don’t understand when and how to use all wheel drive. The type of tires they are running and the type of soil they are in are big factors. A guy in a 4×4 with mudgrips can bury his truck to the axles in sand in less than a minute if he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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Texpat
A guy in a 4×4 with mudgrips can bury his truck to the axles in sand in less than a minute if he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Yabbut if he is in a Ford he looks good doing it, In a Chevy, well it is just ugly.
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RE: Blank spaces in comments
If anybody is wondering how all those dead, blank spaces in people’s comments disappear during the day, it’s because I go through and remove the “space” code from their comments. It’s to try and keep things tight and eliminate the frustrating scrolling time for those using cellphones.
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46 Squawk
Most definitely.
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24 Super Dave
I guess the author is just another Deep State Swamp Rat that has NO CLUE what the real conservative base wants and that’s NOT Democrat Lite.
Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker are attorneys (now retired) who have run an invaluable blog for many years. They were the ones who blew open the Dan Rather scandal about the Texas National Guard and got Rather fired from CBS. The nation will always owe them a debt for that work.
They have exposed other Democratic frauds and supported some excellent candidates in the past. I don’t always agree with them, but they are solid, serious, intellectually honest conservatives. They have organized a conservative think tank in their home state of Wisconsin and created a news organization, Alpha News, that is doing honest journalism and first-rate work for the Right.
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For what it’s worth, McCarthy has already lost his current vote to become speaker. What remains to be seen is how many, if any, dissenters he was able to peel off overnight and who he has left to deal with. Hannity last night tried to destroy my new girlfriend Boebart, but he merely exposed himself to be over the hill and willing to go along to get along, presumably at the request of the McCarty camp. Is there anyone at all anywhere in politics or who reports on politics who is honest anymore. Apparently not.
PS – Oh my, my brand new supply of free Covid tests arrived today. I can’t wait to stack them in there with the ones I got last year. BTW, I did take one of the tests a couple of days ago since I was feeling a scratchy throat and a little bit grouchy, but it said negative. Surprisingly, this one does not say right up front “Made in China” like the old ones do, but it does state clearly that it has not been approved by the FDA.
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Hannity is a Rhinublican shill.
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#43 1/2 Texpat says:
January 5, 2023 at 10:38 am
4 Shannon
The Floor Scrapers is one of my all-time favorite paintings,
https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/2Uy3RudZWnplTjoTTlFRcNz_IvA=/1500×0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/caillebotte-floor-scrapers-7eab1f5a3d664ffd84b6d67835a30e68.jpg
That painting has always bothered me from a professional standpoint.
The man in the middle is technically the only one using a scaper to scrape the floor and he is using it wrong. A cabinet scraper is flexed between your fingers and the curved metal does the actual scrapping.
The man on the right is using a Scrub Plane that also has a curved iron to do the same.
The man on the left is trimming the high parts of the stubborn varnish.
It is a great painting representing arduous labor but not so good on actual technique.
BTW to sharpen a Cabinet Scraper is no easy task either and would have to be done numerous times a day.
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams:
We received over 30,000 asylum seekers that are in need of not only shelter, but food, education for children, health care and some of the basic items that are needed. Now, we were notified yesterday that the governor of Colorado has now stated that they are going to be sending migrants to places like New York and Chicago. This is just unfair for local governments to have to take on this national obligation. We’ve done our job. There’s no more room at the inn. This has really impacted on the quality of life in New York, and our ability to provide everyday long-term New Yorkers on the needs that they have during this difficult time. So this must be addressed.
Adams wants a billion dollars from American taxpayers for 30,000 illegal aliens.
I say, “Great !”
At $33,333 per head and Texas being overrun daily with thousands of illegals, the feds can send One Billion Dollars a day to the state of Texas if NYC is going to establish the going rate. 365 billion dollars a year ought to cover it and we can build our own damned wall.
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Abuck
It is a great painting representing of arduous labor but not so good on actual technique.
Maybe Caillebotte chose a crew of scrapers who didn’t know what they were doing for models.
My other theory is the guy on the right is telling the middle guy, “You moron, don’t you know how to use that tool properly?”.
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Nope! THIS is the greatest country and western song of all time.
Oh wait maybe this is the best country and western song of all time.
But then again this might could be the best country and western song of all time.
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And yet, the documentary itself proves that a laughable lie. First, whatever regulation rollbacks there were did not make what Madoff did legal. Secondly, how can Henriques claim the SEC was understaffed when the SEC investigated Madoff on at least four occasions? The SEC had plenty of staff. The problem is that the SEC, like all of the bloated federal government agencies, is either lazy, corrupt, incompetent, or all three.
Without getting into spoilers, was it staff shortages, budget cuts, and deregulation that stopped the SEC from making the two measly phone calls that would have blown Madoff’s con wide open? Here’s a guy mailing out thousands of statements every month claiming to do millions of stock trades, and not once did the SEC call the party he claimed to be trading with to confirm the trades. That’s all the SEC had to do, and the SEC didn’t.
Yeah, but it’s all Ronald Reagan’s fault. And by all means, let’s pour more money and bureaucrats into an institution so broken it didn’t make two phone calls. Great idea.
To be fair, the overall documentary does place the blame where it belongs, and that’s at the feet of Madoff and the SEC. They are the villains here.
John Nolte reviews the new four-part Netflix documentary, Madoff: the Monster of Wall Street, and gives it high praise.
If there’s a takeaway from this fascinating and tragic story, it’s that our government sucks. It’s all so broken, so corrupt that for two decades, a world-famous man said he was investing billions of dollars, didn’t invest even one red cent, and got away with it. Even after a portfolio manager named Harry Markopolos laid it all out for them on some five occasions, the SEC let Madoff get away with it.
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Now in to the eighth round of voting, and I’m still surprised that the dissidents have not caved. Each one of these votes makes McCarthy weaker, and I understand that he wanted to call for a recess after the last vote, but that his counters advised him that he would lose that vote for a recess too, so there he is stuck in the mud. The Dems and the media think this is great to watch the Reps in disarray, but it’s actually democracy in action and an open debate to the extent that is possible. Obviously something has to give. McCarty’s thugs have tried threats, strong arming, leaking information, and other intimidation techniques, and they have all failed and strengthened the resolve of the hold out. I think he has gone as far as he can go and that someone is going to have to emerge and take charge of the situation and either nominate or become the new Speaker. Donalds is a great guy, but he’s not Speaker material in my opinion. Neither is McCarthy, and the harder he tries, the more undesirable he becomes. It’s time for him to step aside. Even Donald Trump received a vote last time around. don’t have a nominee in mind, but certainly there is someone up there who could do the job. They have to be strong enough to command respect yet soft enough to show compassion when required. This may have to play out a little longer despite what Hannity and Rove and the other eReps want to see.
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Personally, I never thought there was any question this is the best country and western song in history.
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TP – what Madoff did was peanuts when compared with what our politicians do to us every day in CD. It’s absolutely the same scam operated on an exponentially grander scale. I’d turn Madoff loose in a minute. The guy that embezzles millions from the bank gets 5 years probation, they guy who steals from the liquor store gets 30 years. Same principle.
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McCarthy has already lost this round too unless the Dems start voting for him. He’ll surely want to call for recess and head for the exits, but I don’t think the Dems and the dissidents are ready to turn him loose yet. Let the flogging continue until he drops out. that’s most likely the plan.
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People also need to realize most of the House members don’t really want to be Speaker. It’s an extremely demanding and difficult job that comes with broad power and little thanks. Half the members hate your guts and the half on your side of the aisle are plotting to undermine you or flatter you for some transactional reward. They may praise you in the press while they’re stabbing you in the back. They don’t call the Speaker’s enforcer the House Whip for nothing. Most of the members in the House, Republican or Democrat, would fail spectacularly at the job.
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52 EG
Agreed, but I’m not ever going to turn a Madoff loose. That’s a cockeyed statement.
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Michael Berry posted an interview he just had with Chip Roy, one of the 20 holdouts. It’s very disheartening to see so many in the comments blasting him and the other reps standing strong, very disheartening.
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Well, no priest showed up for confession today. I guess Monsignor had other things to do or wasn’t feeling well. I stayed for mass.
Low mass is so different from a high mass. But it’s all good. It was also good to come home and get the brace off for a while.
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Rick Moran this morning at 9:34 EST:
The concessions McCarthy is offering are staggering. One senior Republican aide told Politico, “He’s essentially given away all the power of the speakership. He’s making it to where these Freedom Caucus guys can stop anything they want,” the aide told us. “It’s a vanity project. This majority is going to be miserable. It’s just absurd what he’s given away to these guys just to be speaker when I’m sure there’s somebody in this conference that the Freedom Caucus would have accepted as speaker and not demanded all of these crazy changes.”
and,
With all these concessions, McCarthy must now worry about his left flank. He’s already proposed eviscerating the speakership just to get the job. What he seems to have forgotten is that a sizable number of Republican House members resent the tactics of the Freedom Caucus and fear they could set a dangerous precedent.
But most members simply want the ordeal to end.
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I. Want. To. Stretch!!!!!
ARRRRGGGHHHH! This whole “make your body a brick” thing is hard to enforce. I am dying to get a good stretch in, but it’s verboten for four more weeks at least.
I want to twist and have that satisfying feeling of joints resettling where they want to be. Also verboten.
I just have to keep telling myself it’ll all be worth it.
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54 GJT
Does Michael Berry have a regular website or is he only on Fakebook ?
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But most members simply want the ordeal to end.
And there in lies the biggest danger. People start throwing up their hands and saying “chuck it” and vote Mackarddy just to get off the reruns.
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Michael Berry podcasts on iheart. no login just click and listen.
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Just found out from over yonder that another classmate has passed on.
Kevin was one of the “super smart trio” in our class. I had him in the AP math and english classes for years, along with band and other classes, like the occasional history class.
He will always be around 17 years old in my memories.
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You can easily listen to his podcasts, not sure if you would see any comments though. That was my main point. Just hard to read, we are losing, bad.
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RE: Michael Berry
Maybe I was unclear. Most radio hosts like Mark Levin, Mike Gallagher or Dennis Prager have their own websites separate from social media where they link to articles they like as well as books, videos or podcasts.
Does Berry have such a site or is it limited to iHeart linked podcasts ?
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GJT
Where are these comments you are reading ?
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Try this but I think most of Berry’s stuff is limited to KTRH and iheart
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#49.66 Texpat says:
January 5, 2023 at 12:18 pm
Abuck
Maybe Caillebotte chose a crew of scrapers who didn’t know what they were doing for models.
My other theory is the guy on the right is telling the middle guy, “You moron, don’t you know how to use that tool properly?”.
Had to laugh at your take because they are both very plausible.
The middle guy is probably at “Helper Status” and he just got back with the left handed scraper they sent him after, and he is giving it all he’s got. By the look of things he is doing pretty good but working twice as hard.Another take is, the Wine bottle to the right is now empty and nobody cares anymore.
Great pic and the Artist accomplished his goal.
People still reflect on his work years after he is gone.
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Shannon, if you are lurking?
Got that Breville oven hooked up and so far it looks really good. 🙂 It is a solid, well built machine.
Although I think I can launch one of SDs Rockets from the control panel.
Any Do’s and Dont’s you want to pass along before my trial run?
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Given the comments I read around the web like those at Powerline sure seem to reflect a lot more support for the renegades in Congress than the media want you to believe.
A new poll from his organization in partnership with the Trafalgar Group supports Meckler’s thesis. They are angry at the Republican Party and Congressional leadership, and more than 60% feel that party leadership was ineffective at getting GOP candidates elected. About one-third see the groups as somewhat effective, while another third see them as very ineffective. Only 8.2% think the party and congressional leaders were very effective during the 2022 cycle.
and,
An even bigger majority of respondents want to replace Ronna McDaniel as Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Only 5.6% of GOP voters said they want her to stay, while 73.5% want her replaced. This trends very closely with the 68% who believe the RNC was ineffective in getting Republican candidates elected in the 2022 midterm. Less than one in three think the RNC did an adequate job. Almost one in four say the party was very ineffective.
and this,
In similar numbers, Republican voters seem willing to use their wallets to make a point. A 44% plurality say they are less inclined to donate money to the Republican Party or Republican candidates after 2022.
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Texpat –
The comments I refer to are to his post on FB. Like Squawk says, he doesn’t have a website really, just the iHeart and KTRH.
The comments all pretty much people petrified a Dem will be elected speaker, not recognizing the end game here. You know, people who get skeered their SS is gonna get taken from them.
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Katfish #65
LOL
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Wow.
Look at this open letter published yesterday from the Conservative Action Project. There are some serious signatories here in support of the anti-McCarthy rebel Republicans.
Conservative organizations and the millions of grassroots conservatives we represent are united in our support of the 20 courageous members of Congress seeking to change the status quo in Washington.
Over the past decade, the House has grown increasingly autocratic. Rank and file members are routinely denied a chance to participate in the legislative process, committees are ignored, deals and loopholes for interests abound, and there is virtually no amendment process for any bills, large or small. The outcome reflects the process: bills that cater to a handful of members in leadership and K street lobbyists, but ignore the priorities of the voters.
Months ago, these members made clear that this established way of doing things was no longer acceptable. They made public a series of proposed reforms designed to democratize the House – to engage the broader membership in legislating, and bring accountability back to the People’s House.
Rather than engage them in a good faith negotiation, Rep. Kevin McCarthy has instead maligned both the requests and the messengers. He has publicly and through proxies leveled attacks against members of his own party, including threatening to deny committee assignments for those who continue to oppose him. Moreover, he has failed to answer for, or commit to halting, his coordinated efforts in the 2022 elections to promote moderate Republican candidates over conservatives.
*bold emphasis added
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I agree with Katfish!
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TP @ 3:21 – Send that CERTIFIED over to RINO Hannity!!!
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They are voting once again with the same group of players. McCarthy is sitting there all polished up and tanned, fresh haircut, just waiting to be crowned and has already moved into the Speaker’s office. The longer he is there losing, the weaker he gets. If the Dems are smart, they will not allow the House to adjourn and keep flogging McCarthy all night long. CSPAN has been keeping a score card and nothing is different on this the 10th vote. We’ll see where it goes from here.
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I never listen to Hannity but had to tune in while I was out running errands just to see what his deal is. I knew just a few minutes was all I’d need as he repeats over and over and over his points. He got the memo, same spew as the rest of em.
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Just caught the tail end of Crenshaw McCain lying like the dirtiest rug on the planet during an interview on Ksev.
what a bunch of psychos.
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I nominate old man Crenshaw to be speaker of the house of louses.
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I’ve quit listening to Hannity, except to hear guests. Sooooo, lately I’ve missed most of the guests because H just wears me out. Everything is about him. “Tenth vote for speaker? I tell you, it’s like my martial arts class where it took me over ten times to learn how to fall correctly.” “Overspending the budget? They’ll want to raise taxes. I am the most audited person in America, I tell you, so I know about taxes. I have to send my returns through TWO accountants.”
Then he repeats his latest mantra. Over and over and over. Despite what the topic is. They could be discussing moon rocks and Hannity will suddenly start repeating his latest list of whatevers. He doesn’t listen to his guests, and y’all are right, he often talks over them.
And Bill O’Reilly just turns me off. He must pay for the full hour he gets each week on Hannity’s show. I’ve never like BR, and if I hear his voice on any station, I turn it off.
And Chris X on KSEV in the afternoons – well, he seems to agree with everyone in the end. I do admit, he can be more interesting than Hannity, any day of the week. I do like KSEV in the morning, and I like when Bettencourt comes on to give state updates. And the Amigos show on Friday I turn on more often than not.
But Hannity – no mas.
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I’m writing out property tax payment checks.
Y’all are very welcome.
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Just make the WEF-CCP owned Kentucky Swamp Turtle speaker of the louses too and make the coup complete.
no borders
no sovereignty
police-Stasi West state
no country.
I heard the Wooden Dummy really enjoyed dry humping the Kentucky Swamp Turtle’s shell during their grab your ankles everyone tour touting the successful passage of their satanic ominous bill.
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I don’t care what anybody says. Hannity is a buffoon and I was shocked to discover Trump’s inner circle was taking advice from him daily in the last days of his administration, especially towards the end of the campaign and in the turmoil after the election.
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#76 TT
I haven’t received the 2023 property tax bill, so I’m wondering if you use services that get some or all of yours early for you? Or do some of your properties in various counties get attention earlier?
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Completed the 11th vote for Speaker with no change. Motion to adjourn was shouted down, and now they are recording the vote for that. Rumor is that McCarthy will do anything to get the job, so the dissenters are asking for everything. No one other than McCarthy would even consider some of the things they want. The way I see it, McCarthy is damaged goods even if he wins. The Dems know that, and they would like another weak Rep leader. Watching the sausage being made is kind of interesting. Problem with the Reps is that they do not have a strong leader apparently able and willing to step up and take the reins. When this is over we will most likely have a RINO Speaker, but the blame is not on the dissidents – it’s on the limp ducks who put him up in the first place.
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#79 – You should have received it a couple of months ago. It’s due Jan 31 whether you received it or not.
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I had to go to the county property tax sites to print a few of them off. They may have gotten misplaced in my pre-surgery move downstairs. Sometimes I don’t get them until further into January.
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Watching a really important TV program….. BATTLEBOTS. on Discovery
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#79 Mhaper42
Go to this site and put in your property tax number or address to pull up your current Property Tax for 2022.
https://www.hctax.net/Property/PropertyTax
Harris County is notorious for not sending them out on time or just losing them.
I choose the pay on line option using an e-check thus bypassing a processing fee.
If you have a problem let me know.
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#79 M42: We have gotten almost all of them; MUD, CFISD, State, etc.
My Lovely and Gracious Mr. Bonecrusher handles all of those details. I really love that woman.
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Do Not Depend On the United States Postal Service anymore.
We recently ordered a pre-loaded gift card from AMEX back in early November. It didn’t show up after nearly 30 days. We assumed it was lost or stolen and called AMEX to cancel. They said it would take at least 14 days to “process” the credit to the account.
In the meantime, almost 6 weeks after it was mailed, it showed up here, about 8 miles from where it was sent. I was more shocked some postal worker hadn’t stolen it.
A friend who lives in the area has recently had 4 pieces of mail lost or stolen. It is completely unsafe to put your mail in a mailbox in this whole region these days. The theft is out of control and now I read the new thing is to rob postal trucks in broad daylight in DC.
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BATTLEBOTS
That’s more important than neck marmot wars?
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Well, I guess I’m glad, our mail system is not the only one. It is a constant problem out here. Through the dealings with my aunt’s affairs we had some pretty significant documents and checks that I just was petrified we wouldn’t receive.
We lucked out and never had an issue.
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87 GJT
Don’t worry, GJT. Biden is going to spend billions to buy new electric USPS vehicles to save the planet. Delivering your mail is an irritating distraction from the important things in life.
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I forgot about that. Yes!
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It’s been a long time since I trusted the USPS with any important documents unless I sent them certified mail with signature required. I usually spend the money to send Fed-Ex. The nightmares are not worth it.
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Texpat;
Conservative organizations and the millions of grassroots conservatives we represent are united in our support of the 20 courageous members of Congress seeking to change the status quo in Washington.
That is an impressive list, especially if I know of several of them.
BTW; I’ve never been impressed with Hannity he got his radio start repeating Rush’s show every day after Rush signed off. I noticed early on that his show was always an exact duplicate of Rush’s but deiced that maybe it was just news cycle driven until one day Rush hit on a topic that everyone missed and low and behold Hannity had it on also.
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Another peeve about Hannity: “I’m the only one talking about this topic.”
After I’d heard every show earlier in the day bring it up.
When he finally passes on, there will be a major shift that ever person on the globe will feel. It will be the result of the earth returning to its regular orbit instead of revolving around the blowhard.
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About property Tax, this year is the first time my Homestead Exemption over rode my taxes so, $0 taxes on this house + 11 acres of land but I still had to shell out $576 for the farm house and the other 45 acres of land. 😉
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Hey Super Dave
Wanted to reassure ya my rant about +_+_ etc getting a blog was not aimed at anyone here. Ya still love your humble RETIRED moderator and all round nice guy? Besides I am not gonna jeopardize Super Dave Cafe business relationship. LOL
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wagon
That’s more important than neck marmot wars?
It was either BATTLEBOTS or pickleball. I was drawn to the opportunity of seeing wanton violence and destruction.
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Been watching an Amazon detective story set in Canada called Three Pines. I may wind up liking it, not sure yet. Check it out and let me know if it’s any good before I start making up my own mind.
In other news, it’s getting close to bedtime. Time I finish the current Episode, bedtime will be here. Nite nite all.
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#s 79 & 81 – MH I just rcvd my prop tax invoice 2-3 days ago (the latest that has arrived in several years)
And it’s the tax bill for 2022 btw – we’ll get the 2023 bill next December.
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#84 Abuck
Thank you! I see an error in my record with Harris County that may account for why I had not received a bill for it this year. I’ll call HCAD tomorrow and see if I can get them to fix the error, without me going in with documents.
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It’s been a long time since I trusted the USPS with any important documents
We didn’t when we had a choice in the matter. Example, when we sold the farm it was a sale through the buyers attorney. The checks were regular hand written, sent regular mail! The three of us actually received them, no issue. Couldn’t believe it.
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Texpat 8:13 pm
I’ll be paying online, so won’t have to sweat USPS delivery capability. On the rare occasion that I have to send paper mail, I drive it to the P.O. in Oak Forest and drop it in the interior outgoing slot.
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