Time to check in with JP. It’s been a while…
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Well, it’s almost 2:00 a.m. and I think I need to stop and go to bed…see y’all later in the morning…
I hate to stop working when I’m in the zone, but there’s the back to consider…
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Is it Friday already, Friday the Thirteenth? Cooler here after the front rolled through, 47 and breezy, winds around 10 MPH. We got almost a half inch or rain, .39″ so that’ll have to do.
Mornin’ Gang
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How in the world did it get to be Friday the 13th already??? Mornin’ Gang…
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Permission to come aboard?
I see peoples weee blogging right along last night but I could not get in, tried till about 10. MHarper messaged me and I told her no not just you. Oh well, we’re back, thanks to the blog Santas that keep us patched up.
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Achoo… Permission granted, I’m sure LOL…. Strangely enough, when the weather prognosticator gave the morning update, he let me know that the “tree pollen/cedar levels are very high”… as if my machine-gun sneezing hadn’t already clued me in
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BSue, no wonder my sinuses are acting up. Did not know that.
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FWIW; I couldn’t get in last night on Firefox but got in on Microsoft after getting “Warning Danger Will Robinson” but proceed if you want to just don’t blame us. They both mentioned time/date stamps and I figured my computer was remembering that Hamous.org wasn’t safe earlier and would likely be OK after midninght, if not I’d reboot and give it a lobotomy but I got up this morning and it’s just fine so mharper should be OK
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Saw a post from one of those new moms, videos of her 58 month old? One response was “you have a one year old, deal with it and move on.”
I had to tell my 372 month old about it.
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LIsa Marie Pressley died yesterday. There was no cause of death mentioned in any report that I read. I wonder if she had a sudden, no previous indication, heart condition? Did she take the jab(s)?
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Wife and all her Elvis buds are heartbroken over Lisa Marie, they have followed her since birth and considered her family kinda.
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It is really hard to believe, but the Air Force may be forced to accept a very simple solution to solve very expensive problems.
HEADLINE:
Simplicity has a value in warfare
One of the keys to the military’s success has been the venerable C-130, a transport aircraft that is nearly 70 years old. First deployed in 1954, it has gone through many iterations, but like the DC-3 it is a proven platform that has served reliably for decades and adapted to the needs of its users. It has outlasted nearly everything the military has developed, and as with the B-52 you can expect it to outlast aircraft that are on the drawing boards.
The Air Force has found a new use for the platform: the Rapid Dragon weapons program, which will soon turn American and allied transports into bombers able to deliver swarms of cruise missiles and potentially JDAMS to the battlefield. Not intended to enter contested airspace as fighters and strategic bombers do, the Rapid Dragon system can rapidly turn C-130s into bomb trucks that can threaten adversary targets including anti-aircraft systems from a distance, cheaply.
Rapid Dragon is a palletized weapons delivery system; Rather than putting weapons on the wings or inside a bomb bay, cruise missiles are installed in a pallet that gets air dropped out the back of the transport aircraft. The pallets are configurable, have their own control boxes linked to a control networks (meaning that the aircraft is a “dumb” delivery system for “smart” weapons). It is the realization of an idea with a 50-year history: the bomb truck.
A reasonable person might conclude that given the enormous success of the AK47, due to it’s simplicity in manufacture and construction, and robustness in action compared to the AR platforms, that the same mindset should carry over to other systems. Yes, the AK is not known for incredible accuracy; it is known for its ability to always go bang when there is a round in the chamber – regardless of the cleanliness of the gun.
Using ‘dumb’ aircraft to deliver a huge amount of ‘smart’ bombs from a safe distance makes a whole lot of sense to me.
The article speculates why there will be resistance to further adoption of the principle; there is not as much opportunity for graft.
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Well Pooof!! Lost another one dang it! I’m not going to try to replicate it but Lisa Marie Pressley died of a heart attack.
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SD, I’ve not been listening closely but I heard them say cardiac arrest which they said is different than a heart attack? If their diagnosis doesn’t make sense, I think the jab.
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#10 BC
That makes perfect sense, and lethal!
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I didn’t see a link, wonder how many “pallets” the C130 can carry?
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Bones I saw on the news something about her being rushed to the hospital for a heart issue.
I found this; On January 10, 2023, Presley underwent cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, California. Her heart was restarted after cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered en route to a hospital, but she died later that day at the age of 54.
I’ll not jump to conclusions because I don’t know but since I/we can no longer believe what we see or hear from the medical establishment/government complex, I get suspicious.
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#12 GJT – in the simplest terms, a heart attack is when a something blocks an artery that ‘feeds’ the heart muscle… And cardiac arrest is when it stops having “perfusing contractions” – or stops beating… at least stops beating in an effective manner – resulting in oxygenated blood moving thru the circulatory system
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Kinda like all thumbs are digits but not all digits are thumbs.
But they all live on the hand.
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Morning gang. Much cooler out here this morning, but still not a cloud in sight and bright, bright sunshine. May head out to Brownwood here shortly to get some glasses and a few grocery items while I’m at it. Cedar pollen has my eyes watering, some sneezing, and a little headache, so allergy season is certainly upon us. Hope to see mh being able to log in today. You all have a good day now. More later.
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Worked until 2:00, into bed by 2:30 after all of the pre-bed rituals were observed. Between sciatic pain down my left leg, that lump I kept feeling inside my right buttock, and the feeling that I was getting poked from inside around the surgical site (which alarms me somewhat, but I have x-rays scheduled for the 31st), I couldn’t get to sleep despite the muscle relaxant which was supposed to alleviate most of those symptoms.
Got up just after 5:00 a.m. to take a pain pill, gave Hubby a kiss as he was washing dishes, and crawled back into bed. The pain pill worked and I was off into oblivion. Woke up around 7, slept some more, finally crawled out of bed at 8:30.
I got a TON of work done while I was in the zone last night, but I’m paying the price today. It looks like what I call “poopy diaper” day as I roam around with ice packs shoved into my shorts.
I may move my work area to the couch. I think the couch is easier for me sit on for long periods of time without straining my lower back.
But today is going to be an errands day, bank and a little bit of shopping. It will be nice to be out for a while.
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The Catholic Church lost another defender of the faith. Cardinal Pell warned about the evil in the Church before he died. He called for the end of Francis’ “Synod of Synodality” movement (which is a cover for a overhaul of the Church into a secular juggernaut against the traditional values). He called the atmosphere around Francis “toxic”.
He will be missed.
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I have my coffee in hand, with my daily “Return to Tradition” podcast on Youtube. Stein is discussing Cardinal Pell. So I’m going to see what the C&C has to say….ahhh, it’s not up yet. Surprising.
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If their diagnosis doesn’t make sense, I think the jab.
I don’t blame you see my #15. Oh thanks Mr Moderator, Squawk?
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Bsue –
My oiled eggs are still dead sinkers in the water freshness test. Just an fyi. It’s been about a month not refrigerated.
And today is a non-meat day for me today. I went over to my shelf and pulled down my spinach and tomato powders to add to my scrambled eggs, for flavor and additional nutrition. Powerful stuff.
I watched a video yesterday from “The Purposeful Pantry,” and she keeps a big jar of powdered greens handy and drops some into almost everything she cooks, even brownies. Greens are powerhouses of nutrition so she just drops a little bit here and there for her family’s well-being. When listing greens, she included “weeds from your yard,” which made me smile. I wander my yard while praying my rosary and just to move around, and I see the plantain, cleavers, wood sorrel….but I can’t bend down to harvest them. /sigh
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And thanks to the Squawkmaster, for saving us from internet oblivion last night.
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Democrats push to amend Constitution so 16-year-olds can vote
I remember teaching a bunch of high schoolers at church during the year that Romney was running for president.
There was a group of girls that actually believed that Romney was going to ban feminine hygiene items, because some celebrity had tossed that into the political discussion.
That was so stupid that I set aside theology for one week. I put together a listing of potential candidates: A candidate had a business background, B candidate was charismatic, and C candidate had family history from Mexico. Most of them had origins south of the border, and would vote based on racism.
When I pointed out that they just voted for Romney, they were aghast. I then went on to discuss rational thinking, searching for truth, and just not being an idiot in general.
Demoncrats count on stoopid for their voters.
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THE MIRAGE OF JUSTICE ☙ Friday, January 13, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning C&C, it is Friday the Thirteenth! I got some pushback yesterday in the comments, and it’s a teachable moment, so I have drafted an essay on the ethics of joking about dead people.
Then, we finish up with a roundup of breaking news: sudden and unexpected SADS celebrity deaths; anti-vaxx doctor makes corporate media; breaking news on the Biden document problem; and a new UFO report comes out.
First off, he discusses the blowback about some of his comments on a celebrity that suffered from SADS. He comments on the issues, the pandemic coverage, the shepherding of popular thought, etc.
My “What the Church Needs to Know” article was pretty blunt. Among other things, I said I was SICK AND TIRED of hearing covid policy pushed from the pulpit. And worse, I was horrified hearing pastors call covid deaths in their churches “tragedies.” I called it heretical. Christians don’t view death as ‘a tragedy,’ especially when it’s one of our own brothers or sisters. “I have fought the good fight,” said the Apostle Paul, facing his impending martyrdom; “I have finished the race.”
Paul taught that “to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Gain, not tragedy. From a theological perspective, my article was inarguably right. Christians believe GOD is in control. Not covid. Not Fauci. Not Klaus. And God’s choices are, by definition, not tragic. He works all things together for good, for those who are called according to His purposes.
He ends with this truth:
One thing has always been crystal clear to me. Our enemies — whoever they are — want us to be in a permanent, sustained state of anxiety and depression, if not outright terror. It is a core part of their strategy. And one funny coincidence — among a lengthy list of ‘coincidences’ — was that for the last six years I’d been teaching a bible study class and one of my favorite topics was the dual sins of worry and fear.
That’s right. The Bible teaches that worrying and being fearful are sinful.
That is very true. Anger, fear, anxiety – all are works of the Devil. They are tools in the hands of those that would wreak havoc upon others in their quest for power.
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Childers continues on with his discussion of faith and fear. It’s a very good essay. Excerpt:
Here’s the thing: we cannot afford to lose our souls when people die, which WILL keep happening. One of our enemies’ main tactics is psychological fear and despair. And for ourselves and our children, we MUST defeat them.
Faith is the personal antidote to fear. The public antidote to fear, for those without faith or whose faith isn’t strong enough yet, is humor. And humor helps even the faithful resist the temptation to fear.
Humor is my main weapon against the joyless, grey criminals waging war on us.
I really appreciate his humor. It’s hard to be scared or angry when laughing.
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Besides the report on the early, sudden, and unexpected demise of Lisa Marie Presley, there is more on the SADS front:
TikTok star Taylor Brice LeJeune, 33, well-known by his handle “Waffler69”, died yesterday after a sudden and unexpected “presumed heart attack.” Over the years, Taylor gathered nearly 2 million followers on TikTok, by posting videos of himself testing unlikely foods, things like octopus spaghetti, spicy coffee, and giant fruit loops.
The picture on the C&C sure looks like a happy person. I’m sure this is a loss to the happy hearted of the world. RIP to them both.
Onward…
The BBC ran a straight news piece yesterday including an interview with Dr. Aseem Malhotra, the mild, well-spoken British cardiologist who flipped to being a vaccine denier earlier this year. During the 7-minute segment, the state media giant actually allowed Dr. Malhotra to say, “In my opinion, the likely cause of his death was two doses of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine.”
Holy forbidden language, Batman.
/snip
As Dr. Malhotra noted in his tweet, this may be the very first time an anti-vaccine doctor has been allowed to opine about jab side effects on any major media platform without being immediately slandered as a quack or fringe scientist. Think about that.
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Childers opines on the Biden docs mess:
[discussion of Garland and his choices for the investigation, etc.]
I don’t know about you, but this whole thing is starting to seem very off to me. For one thing, I am shocked that Merrick Garland is responding so quickly when he has so many other options.
I can’t help thinking about the fact that we are now in the “safe harbor” period for Joe to step down. Before the first of this month, if Kamala had taken over, her time in the White House would’ve counted as a full term, giving her only one more electable term. But now, Kamala could serve the next two years, then EIGHT more years after that.
And if Biden resigned because of his classified documents problem, then what would that say about what Trump “should” do? Or, Lord help us, what if the Democrats participated in impeaching Biden?
That WOULD be interesting, wouldn’t it? And I suspected that they were keeping Joe in office long enough for the idiot VP to claim her full two terms. Because….elections are sooooo fair these days.
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This dropped into the mail box yesterday from Linked In; Congratulate Mark Tipton for 42 years at Element Materials Technology. 🙁
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Tedtam @ 10:06 AM
As Dr. Malhotra noted in his tweet, this may be the very first time an anti-vaccine doctor has been allowed to opine about jab side effects on any major media platform without being immediately slandered as a quack or fringe scientist. Think about that.
That may apply to the UK, but I don’t think it holds true for the USA.
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All porterhouses are T-Bones, but not all T-Bones are porterhouse.
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Amazingly, The Couch looks 100% normal this morning. I had system error messages up last night that made me fear my laptop would have to be erased and everything reinstalled.
Morning, gang.
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It is a lie to call the mRNA injections “vaccines”. They never prevented transmission of the virus and didn’t pretend to do so, but government officials and their lackey doctors continue to this day to tell the lie.
Vaccines Never Prevented the Transmission of COVID
Across parts of the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe, unvaccinated people were fired from their jobs, excluded from higher education, banned from many sectors of public life, denied organ transplants, and even punished by judges in probation hearings and child custody cases. Meanwhile, COVID cases continued to rise in many highly vaccinated countries with vaccine passports and other restrictions in place.
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Simply put, the reason many people believed the vaccines stopped transmission was because government officials and media outlets across the Western world were either careless with their words or did not tell the truth. In 2021, for instance, Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Rochelle Walensky claimed that vaccinated people “do not carry the virus,” and Dr. Anthony Fauci said they would become “dead ends” for the virus. Any speculation that the vaccines significantly reduced transmission was based on limited results from independent studies and the false assumption that the vaccine would prevent infection. Without adequate evidence, vaccination campaigns called on people to get vaccinated not just for their own protection, but to help “protect others” and “save lives.”
This is a good recap of the “vaccine” lie. It is easily the largest, global lie ever told.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
We had two robins and a cardinal in the front yard a few minutes ago, rummaging through the lawn looking for late breakfast or early lunch. They stayed for about 15 minutes or so and got along very well ignoring each other so there must have been a good selection of things to eat. They were the first robins we’ve seen this year. The cardinals are regular residents. Does this mean an early spring? Or is it merely a Friday the 13th that shows up every so often?
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One of the last things Mark talked about was wanting to retire before a certain secretary did because she was the longest serving employee and he didn’t want to take her place. He wanted to retire before she did and that’s why he was planning on retiring before the end of 2022.
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Which is the biggest lie?
The Jab or Global cooling/warming/change?
Which has been the most expensive?
Which has killed the most people?
Which has been the most useful in creating an environment of authoritarianism?
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From the article linked in my #25
Do you think a single judge in America, Canada or the UK bothered to read this before they allowed people to be fired, blacklisted and humiliated ?
During the Dec. 10, 2020, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting when the first mRNA vaccines were authorized, FDA adviser Dr. Patrick Moore stated, “Pfizer has presented no evidence in its data today that the vaccine has any effect on virus carriage or shedding, which is the fundamental basis for herd immunity.” Despite the data presented for individual efficacy, he continued, “we really, as of right now, do not have any evidence that it will have an impact, social-wide, on the epidemic.” The FDA EUA press release from December 2020 also confirms that there was no “evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-COV-2 from person to person.”
The truth has been there from the very beginning.
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Tedtam @ 11:00 AM
A very good question.
I did read recently that nations around the world have spent over 4 trillion dollars in the last 30 years to install solar and wind power generation plants and have managed to only replace about 2% of the world’s fossil fuel usage.
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Do you think a single judge in America, Canada or the UK bothered to read this before they allowed people to be fired, blacklisted and humiliated ?
Goes to the Jeff Childers line I’ll never forget (paraphrased):
It’s almost like it was a single phone call.
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JP is awesome.
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This is a great discovery and deciphering!!!
Researchers have verified with a considerable degree of certainty that the Mesha Stele – a basalt stone slab discovered in 1868 east of the Dead Sea – contains explicit references to King David.
Also named the Moabite Stone, it has provided historians and linguists with the largest source of the Moabite language to date – an extinct dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest Semitic languages formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab, or modern-day western Jordan, in the early 1st millennium BC.
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Good friend neighbor just came by a little earlier, just needing to talk. He was great friends with the parents of the kid who killed his wife the other night, his son and that kid were best friends growing up. Dad said didn’t know what happened, of course they are just destroyed, home is a gruesome mess, beyond anything reported or imagined. Neighbor claims though the other kids dabbled in drugs, this guy did not. All he could say was he was a red head, maybe jealousy? Of course he is biased, but claims the kid never did the normal red flag stuff – killing animals and such – all the boys were Boy Scouts, good job, good worker.
Just beyond sad.
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Should someone this dumb be the Special Counsel investigating Biden’s stolen classified documents?
He was Rosenstein’s lawyer during the Russiagate probe and used his office to block the so-called Nunes memo that described the corrupt law enforcement and Democrat campaign against Trump, according to a guy who should know, Kash Patel, Nunes’s top investigator. Patel says Hur should be the first subpoena issued by Jim Jordan’s committee, which will look into government corruption.
How dumb do you have to be to take the pee tape whopper at face value without supporting evidence? And then support that information for a warrant to spy on a private citizen, Trump’s campaign, and presidency? And then do nothing as that lie was repeated multiple times when he knew it was false. Unless he’s that dumb.
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It is such a good feeling to see my “to do” list shrink as I work through my bookkeeping backlog. I was excited to tell my CPA that I’m on the downhill side of 2022 now. I just sent her the latest accountant’s file, in which I was able to do some cleanup before getting it to her so she can work on the payroll tax reports for me.
I was telling Hubby how excited I am, and I did a very modified version of my happy dance.
Dancing is verboten for me right now. Dangit.
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Also exciting is hearing Hubby and Handyman beginning to work on completing the floor upstairs. I am eager to get the house finished, and the upstairs has been a construction site for the last mmmph years.
Finally, Hubby has time to work on his own home.
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Here is a nice thing to see: dogs being reunited with their humans.
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Reminds me of the time I smuggled Max into a rehab facility in Katy to see Fay.
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This is an excellent article about facts, logic and empirical evidence and the appalling lack of attention paid to it in America. It was published in August of 2021 so the references to election fraud are inaccurate given so much discovered evidence in the interim so a reader can ignore those.
The Assault on Empiricism
From crime to climate change, the hostility of ‘movements’ to data is making it impossible to address real-world problems
It is simply not debatable that the claims of many popular modern movements are far removed from reality. BLM’s contentions about a near-genocide of African Americans directed by police may be the best example of this. To give only two famous examples out of dozens, Black Trans Lives Matter activist Cherno Biko stated on prime-time television in 2015 that an innocent Black person is “murdered” by American police “every 28 hours,” while star attorney Benjamin Crump hinted at an even higher total in a 2019 book he titled Open Season: The Legalized Genocide of Colored People.
These sorts of claims have become conventional wisdom on the political left. A well-run and large-N study from the Skeptic Research Center in February 2021 found that 54% of Americans who “identify as very liberal” believe that the average number of unarmed Black men killed annually by U.S. police is somewhere between “about 1,000” and “more than 10,000.” A major empirical survey conducted by the political scientist Eric Kaufman in April 2021 found that 80% of African Americans and 60% of educated white liberals believe that more young Black men die annually at the hands of police than in car wrecks.
OK. The actual number of unarmed Black men killed by police last year was 17. Given the grave importance of this issue, it’s worth repeating that number—17—across the tens of millions of annual police-citizen interactions.
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If arguments on the left or right, or within a specific field such as education, seem nonsensical to you, they probably are. Second, academic credentials are useful as signals of probable IQ, but are very often—outside a few specialized fields like medicine—no more than that. Experts are no more immune than anyone else to extreme political bias or irrationality, and it is worth remembering that there are many experts, and they disagree about everything. Finally, most factual, primary-source information is rather easy to find. If you are curious about whether the media is overhyping the national crime rate, simply search the phrase “BJS NCVS national crime data,” or pull the same report out of a local archive, and see it for yourself.
The search icon in your browser is definitely your friend.
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Sgt. Mom is the pseudonym of a historical novelist who writes about Texas history. She lives in the suburbs of San Antonio and has been a contributor at the Chicagoboyz site as long as I can remember.
It looks as if charges are going to be brought against the taco restaurant patron who decided that a proper response was to take out the robber, fatally. We’ll see how far that goes. Andrew Branca at Legal Insurrection lays out the bones of the case, here*.
Because ordinary people have gotten tired of this. In sort-of-red areas – it seems that they are beginning to shoot back. Regular, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens have gotten tired of being victimized, robbed, and generally abused by a criminal sub-class who doesn’t appear to grasp how very, very, tired their usual victims are of being robbed and threatened by the local scum of the earth … especially as said scum being swiftly freed by the local Sorosbot DA or activist judge to go right back out and offend again … if said criminal were even inconvenienced by being arrested and charged to begin with. Talk about adding insult to the original injury.
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My local NextDoor used to feature complaints about barking dogs, missing and found dogs, inconveniently parked vehicles, and complaints about neighbors with disintegrating fences and overhanging tree limbs. Now it’s concerns about unexplained strangers apparently canvassing houses, inquiries regarding ‘what happened at such-and-such a location, the police-fire-ambulance was seen there and what was going on’ added to pleas for any neighbor with doorbell camera footage on such and such a street showing evidence of some kind of criminal activity. To recoin and slightly paraphrase a cliché – “Stuff is getting real”, out here in Flyoverlandia.
I’ve been saying for years now if the Left continues to corrupt law enforcement and the justice system, we are going to have a vigilante response from Americans.
*Andrew Branca is a firearms and self-defense expert attorney. He goes to great length here to explain how the taqueria shooting in Houston will be analyzed and presented to a grand jury. If you are a Texas resident and carry a firearm, it would be a good idea to save this article for reference.
BASICS OF LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR USE OF DEADLY FORCE UNDER TEXAS LAW
Shooting someone dead is, of course, normally a crime. Under Texas law, and the law of every other state, however, the use of deadly force upon another might be legally justified, and not a crime, if it meets the conditions for deadly force defense of persons—meaning either defense of self or defense of others.
Additionally, and unique to the Lone Star state, the use of deadly force upon another might be legally justified even in defense of mere personal property—again, if the required legal conditions have been met.
Importantly, the legal conditions for justification must be met for each individual use of deadly force in the encounter—meaning, in this case, for each round fired by the shooter–and that’s where we arrive at the “yes, maybe, and almost certainly not” nature of whether this shooting is lawful.
The bottom line, of the nine rounds fired by the shooter at Washington, the first four were almost certainly legally justified, the second four may be legally justified, and the ninth and final shot almost certainly was not justified, based upon the only evidence currently available to us, which is the surveillance video of the encounter.
Do read the entire article.
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We have Bambi Smoked Summer Sausage! 12 Lbs to be exact. BTW; B&B Processing in Clayhatchee Alabama makes some of the best that I’ve had, just ask El Gordo. 😉
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RE: Bonecrusher’s #10
The Rapid Dragon Missile System
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What was that saying about price of eggs in China? Maybe we need to know now?
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I guess if we can hold the military from using the $10,000 toilet seat cover and use it to make $10,000 pallets we can be in great shape.
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I wondered about that last shot after watching the video. By that time, the perp was on the floor, bleeding out.
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TP @ 2:10
DEFINITELY a fine resource for those that carry (darned good insurance as well)
https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Gun-Law-Educated-2021-2023/dp/173334327X
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I never saw the full, unedited video.
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P.S. I’m hoping if Joe Horn got”no-billed” this fine stand up citizen might as well.
(of course this area was not quite as LIBtarded then as it is today!)
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45 Katfish
Thanks, I was trying to remember the name of that book.
Here is the website for U.S. LawShield gunowners’ insurance.
They claim 700,000 insured.
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#48 – I AM one of those 700,000
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At one time that book was FREE for TX/US Law Shield members
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As I previously noted, all parties know that no jury in the world outside Washington DC would consider a conviction for killing the perp too dead. Once he’s dead, a few more plugs don’t make any difference. The punishment will be the charges and the cost to defend. They will try to get a settlement and plea to some lesser offense and all the attendant punishments, ruin him financially and emotionally, and finally walk away saying oh well, sorry we couldn’t make the case. Since the prosecutors know that the charges would be unpopular to begin with, they buck it to the grand jury who hears hundreds of presentations every day where they can slip it in under the radar, and then they blame the charges on the grand jury as if they had nothing to do with it. And if they don’t get what they want from one grand jury, they can bring it back around to the next one, and so on. Crooks top to bottom. This case will never see the light of day in a cour room, and the poor shooter will be harassed the rest of his life. He should be able to sleep easy knowing that he did the right thing though.
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My periodic reminder to honor the memory of all those 19th century officials of the Republic of Texas, starting with Sam Houston, who never gave in to demands of the American government for Texas to turn over lands to the federal government.
Because of this solid position, Texas’ only federal parks, forests and wildlife refuges are those the state of Texas decided to convey to the federal government.
There is no such thing as a Bureau of Land Management office in the state of Texas and the federal government controls no land-based mineral rights in the state. The FEDS own 63% of Utah, 36% of Colorado, 80% of Nevada, 45% of California, 39% of Arizona and 1.9% of Texas.
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Amen, brother.
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I don’t think I told this story yet, so if I did, sorry. I made my way to the vision center in Brownwood today, with the intent of acquiring a second pair of glasses with progressive lenses rather than the bifocals I currently have. The girl I spoke with this time was somewhat hesitant to sell me the progressive lenses since I’m already using bifocals – or let’s just say she was not enthusiastic about it. I’m doing better with the bifocals as I learn and train my eyes how to operate with them. The top half, for distance viewing, works to offer some slight improvement when I’m say watching TV, while the up close portions works great for reading and close in work. However, working with the computer screen at a distance of a little more than 2 feet remains problematic. I think I was using my readers, leaning forward quite a bit, and squinting to read the computer screen before I got the new glasses. So now I’m sitting more or less upright, but reading the print is still not optimal and somewhat difficult. I had theorized that if I had progressive lenses that mid-distance might be blended in there somewhere. But anyway, I decided that I’ll make my way back to the ophthalmologist in March along with my other doctor visits, get another eye check, and discuss the various lenses, including tri-focals with them at that time. Meanwhile, I’ll just muddle on through with these existing glasses.
But, I did manage to prowl the grocery aisles and blow $100. Eggs seem to be the hot item these days, and people were hovering around the egg rack complaining about the prices. An 18 pack at Walmart was around $8 – it’s about $11 here at our local store. I did score some bonus 6 pack Atkins diet shakes, but they used to be $5 and are now $8. Thanks Joe Biteme.
Anyway, that was my excitement for the day. Sun is going down and it’s cooling rapidly. More later.
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EG
But, I did manage to prowl the grocery aisles and blow $100.
Everybody I talk to these days says the exact same thing. HH went to the local market today and spent over $100. Egads, at least she brought home 4 small bags of groceries. The same amount used to be about $40-45.
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For appetizer….fresh 3-cheese tortellini with spicy marinara.
Muwah.
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I had to get a few essentials for the weekend but not enough for an HEB trip so went to Brookshire Brothers expecting to get walloped on eggs, but they were eight bucks for eighteen, not bad according to the extremes I’ve heard about. So, Go Brandon!
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Spicy marinara washed down with a fine Malbec wine.
Then followed up with a small piece of Dark Chocolate.
Life is fully acceptable.
🙂
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Since the new HEB has opened only about 7 miles away there’s been all the catcalls about that will shut BBros down, I maintain that they’ve been surviving as the local “pickup what you need now” supplier for years and will continue as such. Seems they are doing ok, they have installed all new coolers in the back since I’ve been there last.
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The ATC audio for the horrific crash at the Dallas Commemorative Air Force show a couple of months ago has been released as you may have heard by now. Here is our good friend Juan Browne at blancolirio with the transcripts and clearly demonstrating what happened and why. Facial and body actions seem to indicate his disgust with this Ariboss and not following the script. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFgbDIM8M5s
The Airboss really did make a mess of this and took the lives of several good pilots and good men.
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I bought a dozen eggs a couple of months ago, all of which I still have. I rarely eat breakfast because I’m told that I’m too surly in the morning to cook.
I just checked and they have today’s date on them.
I guess they’ll still be good for another month?
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Brenham has an HEB.
The ancient Brenham Brookshire Brothers seems to be doing fine.
There’s no ‘splanation for it, Lucy.
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In fact, the HEB is expanding once again, swallowing up the entire old JC Penney store next door.
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My wife claims people still do full bore grocery shopping at BBros, I’ve not really seen it, by a lot any how.
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I see everyone has checked in but Texnadian and Texmo so I take it everything has worked as it should. Everything that went awry with Hamous has now officially happened to us. I miss that character. He and I learned bunches from each other about web pages and stuff. Anyway all seems well for now.
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Thank you Mr. Squawkster Dude for taking care of things.
Kroger had a 24 count carton Egglands Large for $9.99. I bought 2. It will last a couple of weeks.
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65 Squawk
Much gratitude. Words are never enough.
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I hate Brookshire Brothers. It’s a crappy grocery store and the only reason they have ever survived is because they exploit locations where they have zero competition.
People can make the argument all day long they provide a service to neglected rural areas, but that doesn’t fly with me. Not one bit.
Sam Walton started out doing the same thing and still managed to compete with himself and up his game. He continued to service his rural customers in an ever improving way and then conquered American suburbs.
Unfortunately, his spoiled heirs have let the company run into the ground.
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#65 Squawk
Thank you for fixing that problem on Hambone yesterday! It used the scariest error messages I personally have ever faced down. (I exaggerate: I ran and hid until I saw it was working again this morning.)
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Sorry, Old Magnolia was never going to get a Walmart.
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The skill of this girl is off the charts.
The instrument is a gayageum. The artist is Luna Lee. She is one with her instrument and it is magical.
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I’ll take Brookshire Bros over Walmart any day. Last I checked their prices while a bit higher than everyone else BUT they were competitive. Vendors are not going to offer them the same purchase contracts as the larger chains so yeah they are a bit more expensive. I think their business model is good…… go where no one else goes. I have watched several large chains close or sell out meanwhile little old Brookshire Brothers keeps chugging right along. Ain’t nuttin wrong with that.
Brookshire Brothers, is an employee-owned American supermarket chain headquartered in Lufkin, Texas, founded in 1921 by brothers Austin and Tom Brookshire. Brookshire Brothers is a private corporation that is wholly owned by employees. Brookshire Brother’s operates stores in three Southern United States; Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The companies assets today include a family of more than 110 retail outlets incorporating grocery stores and convenience stores, as well as free-standing pharmacy, tobacco, and gasoline locations.
Brookshire Brothers Company is now owned entirely by its 7,000 employees; Brookshire’s Food and Pharmacy has stayed in the family but is a separate chain
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Bones, thanx for the head’s up about the eggs at Kroger. My allergies have been driving me crazy so I haven’t done my normal “due diligence” with the sales papers LOL
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#65
I still live. Nothing interesting to report. Dealing with life. Fairly warm today, almost made 32F. Sigh. Waiting on spring.
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Good to hear from you texanadian. AMEN on spring.
Now we need a Texmo sighting.
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Brookshire Brothers has been raping little towns like Bellville for years. There is absolutely no justification for their pricing.
A little bit higher? Horse hockey.
I will give them a LOT of credit for their support of the community with untold man hours, money, food and anything else needed by local fundraisers and charitable groups.
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I was at Kroger earlier today, and just as I was making my first turn around the end of some shelves, this girl about 9 years old comes running by, pushing a cart. She came within inches of knocking me down.
That would not have been good, despite the fact that I had a back brace on. I can’t even imagine the pain of being knocked to the ground.
Later, she was running around again and another woman had a similar complaint about her behavior.
I saw them at checkout. She and her sister were practically wrestling each other while standing in the grocery cart while their much younger brother was shrieking loudly.
Some parents just won’t parent.
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It’s early, but I’m going to be turning in by 10 if I can make it that long. Nothing new on TV so I might surf around to see if there is an old movie I’m interest in or something. I really enjoyed my time there for several days researching mesh networks and stringing together my modest mesh from assorted parts. BTW, if you are looking for routers and extenders and the like, TP-Link brand has proved to be the best for the buck as far as I’m concerned. And while I’m now up at the 100 Mbps, their older models will handle speeds in that range with one hand tied behind their back, so you don’t have to shell out for the latest and greatest unless you are looking at gigabit speeds for your home. Even at my speed, all my tests show that it would comfortably handle 4K and 8K TV if necessary, and while I’ve got a 4K TV now, I don’t have any material that comes in at anywhere close to that speed. I suppose that over time everyone will enjoy that kind of clarity and demand higher speed internet to accommodate it, and it currently stands, I’d think I’m in good shape for at least 5 years and probably longer unless something really blows up – in other words, it will most likely outlast me.
OK, you all have a great evening, and unless something is very interesting, I’ll probably sign off now. Nite nite.
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Speaking of grocery stores, out here we have a company that serves only rural areas called Lowes. They are headquartered out around Lubbock but have several stores in nearby states and other small towns. They are our only grocery store that has a complete meat market, fresh produce, adequate stock of just about anything you could want; but their prices are much higher than say Walmart. My eggs at Walmart were $8 for an 18 pack, here that same 18 pack is $10 – just a for instance of how much higher they are. Now I would estimate the poverty level in SS county is pretty high percentage, and most of those people use food stamps, so they don’t care at all how much something costs, they just zip their Lone Star card and are on their way. I have to pay my own way though, so pricing does matter to me – my $100 at Walmart today would be about $135 at home, so my trip is paid for even at today’s gas prices.
Now here’s the rub. You may recall that a couple of years ago, their store burned to the ground and smoldered for days, leaving us without a local grocer. Within 2 days, that little company had located an empty building on the town square, negotiated a handshake lease with the owner for as long as they needed it. In cooperation with the City electric department, they added the necessary power, brought in all new coolers and freezers, stocked that place, and had it back up and running. They parked a reefer trailer on the side of the building to use as a butcher shop, and they had fresh meats in addition to everything else and were up and running in 2 weeks. I was impressed. And those employees were shipped off to other stores so no one missed a paycheck during that time as well. It took them a lot longer than anticipated to get the permits to rebuild on the fire site due to contamination issues, and they wound up having to remove the foundation and dig down about 8′ to remove the contaminated soil before pouring a new foundation, etc. But they did reopen about a year ago, and they have a nice store for this this little town. For those reasons, I don’t begrudge them some higher prices because they could have just taken their insurance check and left town and it would have been much easier and cheaper for them. Anyway, there’s the short version of that story.
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All good here.
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#79
TexMo, thanks for letting us know that you are Ok.
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UNofficial #99 goimg for it!
*NEXT*?
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Good to catch up with the gang tonight.
Randalls is the grocery store closest to us and always has been a good place to shop. Their prices have been steadily increasing but so have the other grocery stores. Sometimes when management spies a lower wholesale price on a regular item, they will lower the price for that item as long as it lasts (which is not long). There are several apartment complexes in the area catering to retired folks who usually shop in the mornings when there is plenty of time to meet other neighbors also shopping and have a coffee break at the deli area dining place. And those folks definitely prefer the atmosphere there than elsewhere
There is a huge HEB not as close to us that has everything you can think of, and I used to shop there sometimes after it was built. But the Randalls is only a mile or so away and has always been well kept up with a staff that has many folks who have been with them a long time. And new staff rapidly adopts the efficient and neighborly spirit of management. It is obviously a good place to work.
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