I haven’t seen it in decades but I have caught some snippets lately of The Sand Pebbles, a 1966 Steve McQueen movie. He’s a Navy engineer on a gunboat in 1920’s China. Some critics consider it his best performance.
About time to be thinking about turning it in for the evening. Got close to 80 today, and another of my rose bushes has been fooled into putting out leaf buds. Guess for the next severe freeze I’ll just bring them inside. I hope you all have a good evening out there and don’t get scared by what you read,… Read more »
About Tucker, if you missed his show tonight at least go back and check his monologue it was pretty good.
mharper42
January 16, 2023 8:32 pm
Well, I’m confessing that I got absolutely nothing done today. Piddled around on-line, took a nice long nap, had a nice breakfast and a nice supper — no signs in the kitchen that I had lunch either before or after that nap. At least I’ve remembered to keep all my dependent critters fed.
Tucker’s story is entirely feasible. As I mentioned before, government started collecting taxes on ticket sales to upgrade the air traffic control system decades ago, but since it runs a surplus, they have not spent much of those funds – at least on air traffic control. Gets spent on other programs instead. Another trillion dollar infrastructure job that needs to… Read more »
Tucker connected those dots and he is probably right. The whole thing is scary. Being at the mercy of the Buttigiegs and Bidens of the world is outrageous.
Texpat @6:29 Amy Grant has been through this a few times in her life. The holier-than-thou holy rollers attacked her viciously years ago when she took took a foray into more secular pop music at one point in her career. Then the sinless among the holier-than-thou crowd criticized her over the divorces and remarriages around her marriage to Vince Gill. All… Read more »
Tucker Carlson just put out the theory that the FAA outage was actually the result of a ransom demand. He supposes that some hackers took down our aviation system for ransom, and of course the government will never admit that. He thinks this because first off, both Canada and the Philippines had a similar outage, I believe Canada was the… Read more »
Someone needs to tell that real estate marketer that there ain’t no Yellowstone-looking country in Fort Bend County. Or any other county in Texas, for that matter. 🙂
Oh, man, I don’t even know what to say about this. Christian singer Amy Grant has hit back at homophobic trolls who slammed her for hosting her niece’s same-sex wedding at her Hidden Trace Farm in Franklin, Tennessee, The musician, 62, who has been referred to as the Queen of Christian Pop, was hit by discriminatory comments when she revealed her intentions to… Read more »
Shannon One of the links on the Chronicle site is to this real estate listing. My regret is some developer will turn this place into one more damned subdivision and another piece of Texas history bite the dust. Tigner Family Ranch Herb Tigner was a mentor and investor with Jim Fletcher when I worked for him back in the early… Read more »
Filled up the bird feeder and the water trough. Another rose bush has decided to start putting on new leaf buds. This is their first year. so I guess they just don’t know and understand how it works out here. I’m not supposed to trim them up until valentines day, so that’s still a month away. All that would be… Read more »
I just checked back into ND to see if anyone else responded to my post, and what do I see? HPD is giving a talk on human trafficking at a local hospital.
Re: attempted kid abduction I seem to hear more of these stories lately. On Nextdoor (I checked in last night after a hiatus of many weeks) a mother reported that two men in a van were trying to get her daughter and a friend, who were walking home from school, to get close enough that they could have been grabbed. … Read more »
65 shannon I was reading the other day about this amazing technological breakthrough that allows people to see much more clearly than they ever could before. If I recall correctly, it was a small device called a “lens”. I have no idea why they chose that name or anything. The article was also unclear on how this device actually functions.… Read more »
Things are looking pretty grim on Joe’s horizon. Obama said to never underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up. It looks like somebody might be a tax cheat, and the question is whether it’s Presidentish Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden — or both. On the Schedule E portion of his 2017 tax forms, Joe Biden reported $19,800 in “rents… Read more »
I’m going to have to revise and amend some of my unspoken criticism of the layout and design of some of these websites, now that I am seeing many of them for the first time on a normal size screen.
Expensive eggs you say? Pierce says those are the things a poultry farmer can control. “When a disease you cannot control hits your farm, like the avian influenza, that can happen when there are 30,000 snow geese flying over your farm that have feces coming out. That’s when the uncertainty starts to unravel their lives and livelihoods,” he said. Pierce… Read more »
Mama bear draws down on perps. A mother drew a gun to drive off two people who were trying to abduct her son in a Des Moines skywalk outside her office, according to police reports. Shay Lindberg, manager of the Hubbell Tower Apartments, was armed when Laurie Potter, 56, and Michael Ross, 43, allegedly tried to take the child Jan.… Read more »
The vacuum in the human mind and soul created by secularism becomes filled with boredom which begets the compulsion to seek ever more extreme and bizarre experiences – sex, drugs, stupid extreme sports, gender dysphoria, etc.
Truer words have never been spoken in my lifetime.
44 wagonburner Years ago, William F. Buckley made the statement more than once that boredom in the West was a dangerous threat. I doubted him and didn’t take him seriously. Through the years, I’ve come to realize how right he was. The vacuum in the human mind and soul created by secularism becomes filled with boredom which begets the compulsion… Read more »
Konstantin Kisin is my new hero and the antidote to all things WEF. He is the Anti-Klaus Schwab. Does he have “Over 100 countries and regions represented” at his presentations, meetings, gatherings, forums? Here are the countries and companies dominating Davos Who are the participants at the 2023 World Economic Forum meeting? Is there a single controlling hand to this… Read more »
I’m trying to make myself lay down every few hours for at least 15 minutes. I’m trying to avoid the total loss of a whole day like I went through yesterday. I worked pretty much all of Saturday at my “desk” and Sunday I paid for it. I avoided taking meds this morning by just gutting it through the “sticks… Read more »
While the term MOONBAT has been around for a long time it seems to me that it really took off when it was applied to George Monbiot aka George Moonbat.
737 jump seat takeoff and St. Elmo’s Fire
Wow,
Sand Pebbles. Yeah, epic performance and I haven’t seen it in 30 years.
Thanks for the reminder.
I haven’t seen it in decades but I have caught some snippets lately of The Sand Pebbles, a 1966 Steve McQueen movie. He’s a Navy engineer on a gunboat in 1920’s China. Some critics consider it his best performance.
Rated 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I see that Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire is loving on his brand new twins.
I’ll bet those kids grow up unconfused.
God bless him and his family.
I was going to winterize my garden, but….surgery happened too fast.
It’s painful, looking at plants that I thought I’d be able use to get a jump start in the spring.
But the way I’m going, gardening may be put on hold for quite a while anyway.
Time to get the greenhouse up and put some heatlamps in it. 🙂
About time to be thinking about turning it in for the evening. Got close to 80 today, and another of my rose bushes has been fooled into putting out leaf buds. Guess for the next severe freeze I’ll just bring them inside. I hope you all have a good evening out there and don’t get scared by what you read,… Read more »
The Old Western Scrounger keeps dropping into my mail box and this one is kinda’ interesting.
Texpat anybody but that Blow-Hard Hannity.
For the first time ever, I’m watching Hannity’s show run by Pete Hegseth and I think they should fire Hannity and let Pete run the show.
About Tucker, if you missed his show tonight at least go back and check his monologue it was pretty good.
Well, I’m confessing that I got absolutely nothing done today. Piddled around on-line, took a nice long nap, had a nice breakfast and a nice supper — no signs in the kitchen that I had lunch either before or after that nap. At least I’ve remembered to keep all my dependent critters fed.
Tucker’s story is entirely feasible. As I mentioned before, government started collecting taxes on ticket sales to upgrade the air traffic control system decades ago, but since it runs a surplus, they have not spent much of those funds – at least on air traffic control. Gets spent on other programs instead. Another trillion dollar infrastructure job that needs to… Read more »
75 Tedtam
Tucker connected those dots and he is probably right. The whole thing is scary. Being at the mercy of the Buttigiegs and Bidens of the world is outrageous.
Texpat @6:29 Amy Grant has been through this a few times in her life. The holier-than-thou holy rollers attacked her viciously years ago when she took took a foray into more secular pop music at one point in her career. Then the sinless among the holier-than-thou crowd criticized her over the divorces and remarriages around her marriage to Vince Gill. All… Read more »
Tucker Carlson just put out the theory that the FAA outage was actually the result of a ransom demand. He supposes that some hackers took down our aviation system for ransom, and of course the government will never admit that. He thinks this because first off, both Canada and the Philippines had a similar outage, I believe Canada was the… Read more »
That would be sad, Textpat @6:15
Someone needs to tell that real estate marketer that there ain’t no Yellowstone-looking country in Fort Bend County. Or any other county in Texas, for that matter. 🙂
Oh, man, I don’t even know what to say about this. Christian singer Amy Grant has hit back at homophobic trolls who slammed her for hosting her niece’s same-sex wedding at her Hidden Trace Farm in Franklin, Tennessee, The musician, 62, who has been referred to as the Queen of Christian Pop, was hit by discriminatory comments when she revealed her intentions to… Read more »
Shannon One of the links on the Chronicle site is to this real estate listing. My regret is some developer will turn this place into one more damned subdivision and another piece of Texas history bite the dust. Tigner Family Ranch Herb Tigner was a mentor and investor with Jim Fletcher when I worked for him back in the early… Read more »
Filled up the bird feeder and the water trough. Another rose bush has decided to start putting on new leaf buds. This is their first year. so I guess they just don’t know and understand how it works out here. I’m not supposed to trim them up until valentines day, so that’s still a month away. All that would be… Read more »
If you’re just dying to live on Buffalo Bayou, you can pick up this cute bungalow for a cool $60 million.
“Most expensive home for sale in Texas”
https://www.chron.com/homes/article/houston-compound-lodge-hunters-creek-60-million-17226241.php
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Pointer size matters.
The trifocals are working fine. The default pointer size was for midgets. Or something.
I just checked back into ND to see if anyone else responded to my post, and what do I see? HPD is giving a talk on human trafficking at a local hospital.
Coincidence.
Re: attempted kid abduction I seem to hear more of these stories lately. On Nextdoor (I checked in last night after a hiatus of many weeks) a mother reported that two men in a van were trying to get her daughter and a friend, who were walking home from school, to get close enough that they could have been grabbed. … Read more »
65 shannon I was reading the other day about this amazing technological breakthrough that allows people to see much more clearly than they ever could before. If I recall correctly, it was a small device called a “lens”. I have no idea why they chose that name or anything. The article was also unclear on how this device actually functions.… Read more »
Small victory #127
Making the mouse/trackpad pointer five times larger than the default size.
I was going blind.
Things are looking pretty grim on Joe’s horizon. Obama said to never underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up. It looks like somebody might be a tax cheat, and the question is whether it’s Presidentish Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden — or both. On the Schedule E portion of his 2017 tax forms, Joe Biden reported $19,800 in “rents… Read more »
What Shannon looks at when not on Hambone.
You see websites and you go, oh that’s what that’s supposed to look like.
Anything in blockquotes here can be several scrolls here but only one or two lines on the PC lol.
Yeah when I rarely go to my PC I hardly recognize anything.
Shannon with his new laptop.
I’m going to have to revise and amend some of my unspoken criticism of the layout and design of some of these websites, now that I am seeing many of them for the first time on a normal size screen.
We had a whole bunch of Robins here Sunday morning.
Expensive eggs you say? Pierce says those are the things a poultry farmer can control. “When a disease you cannot control hits your farm, like the avian influenza, that can happen when there are 30,000 snow geese flying over your farm that have feces coming out. That’s when the uncertainty starts to unravel their lives and livelihoods,” he said. Pierce… Read more »
I Spent $79,000 On a Wasteland in Texas. What Is Wrong With Me?
It is 320 acres, half a section of land.
When you have a lion chasing you, your carbon emissions or wondering if you are a girl or boy don’t matter much.
We just had hundreds of birds in our yard, couldn’t get a good view of any of them, wonder if they were migrating robins?
Mama bear draws down on perps. A mother drew a gun to drive off two people who were trying to abduct her son in a Des Moines skywalk outside her office, according to police reports. Shay Lindberg, manager of the Hubbell Tower Apartments, was armed when Laurie Potter, 56, and Michael Ross, 43, allegedly tried to take the child Jan.… Read more »
Truer words have never been spoken in my lifetime.
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. So are idle minds.
44 wagonburner Years ago, William F. Buckley made the statement more than once that boredom in the West was a dangerous threat. I doubted him and didn’t take him seriously. Through the years, I’ve come to realize how right he was. The vacuum in the human mind and soul created by secularism becomes filled with boredom which begets the compulsion… Read more »
i gotta question. What happened to the vaunted red tsunami that I believe we should have experienced this last election?
Konstantin Kisin is my new hero and the antidote to all things WEF. He is the Anti-Klaus Schwab. Does he have “Over 100 countries and regions represented” at his presentations, meetings, gatherings, forums? Here are the countries and companies dominating Davos Who are the participants at the 2023 World Economic Forum meeting? Is there a single controlling hand to this… Read more »
Nice to see Sarge back.
I’m trying to make myself lay down every few hours for at least 15 minutes. I’m trying to avoid the total loss of a whole day like I went through yesterday. I worked pretty much all of Saturday at my “desk” and Sunday I paid for it. I avoided taking meds this morning by just gutting it through the “sticks… Read more »
I just realized it’s been one month since the doctor shoved something into my spine.
It seems like it’s been a lot longer than that.
While the term MOONBAT has been around for a long time it seems to me that it really took off when it was applied to George Monbiot aka George Moonbat.
Texpat – that dude was AWESOME!