Mariel, 1953 – by Paolo Monti (1908 – 1982), Italian
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Another cold morning here, 32 degrees Brrr but it’ll warm up nicely by about noon. Weather guesser Gal says high 60’s I can deal with that.
Mornin’ Gang -
Shannon mention a mouse vs trackpad, I’ve always liked a mouse better and have always used one with my laptops. My first laptop had a trackball and it was fast, touch that dang thing and the pointer would sail off the screen. I did like the pad better but I much prefer a mouse. I guess the “Old Dog” applies here.
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Nepal plane crash – Doomed passengers’ final moments seen in Facebook live cabin video as plane’s black box found.
Looking at the video the ATR 72 was in a nose up attitude so it may have stalled. It did fall off on one wing, typical of a stall. That said, he was making an abrupt turn at low speed and altitude.
Prayers for the families.
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Morning, Super Dave… and whoever else is out there trying to wake up 😉
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Bsue I actually slept past 5 AM but Lil’ Dawg decided it was time for me to get and go out on the front porch. Not a fun thing to do this morning. 😉
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SD, I don’t wanna rub it in but… the tv says it’s 6:03am and 68 degrees… however it’s 62 out here in the woods.
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SD, I don’t wanna rub it in but… As she grabs the box of Morton Salt,….. 😀
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I’d gladly take cooler weather, if you’d take this danged mountain cedar pollen that has me barking like a dog
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Morning gang. Yes, I woke up coughing this morning too. Showing 55 degrees out here with a projected high in the high 70’s. My poor little almost dead confused rose bush has just decided to bud out all over. No freezing weather in the 10 day forecast. Guess I’ll just leave it alone but bring it inside if it looks like we may get some freezing weather. February isn’t here yet, and that’s our cold month it seems. No TOK this morning, so I’ll be drinking my own coffee. My animals must have feasted last night. I put my chicken leg bones out on the patio that were left from the soup making project and the food dish is licked shiny clean this morning. I’ll wait until daylight before I go out there and retrieve it.
Not certain what the rest of the day holds in store just yet. We will just play the cards as they are dealt I guess. You all have a great day, and more later.
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I can’t remember if I posted the blancolirio take on the Nepal air disaster, so here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnuVPUsz9VE Sorry if it’s a duplicate.
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#10 Yup, too low and too slow.
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I’m hoping that “things” settle a bit now that I’m up. I can’t afford to sleep my day away like the meds made me do yesterday. But things hurt.
If I’d known it was going to be this bad, I would’ve reconsidered my decision.
But I woke up, which is more than some people today, and I have friends to hang out with, even if it’s virtual. I have so many blessings, that counting them helps me put things into perspective.
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Today is some kind of federal holiday, ain’t it?
I looked – it’s MLK Day. You know, the guy with the phallic statue.
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EXTENSIVELY REVIEWED ☙ Monday, January 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning happy people, it is Monday, time to start the new week off right! Your C&C roundup today includes: results of my Sunday poll about CDC trustworthiness; FDA retracts CDCs stroke signal; another top cardiologist called for jabs to be suspended; U.S. Senator calls vaccines a fraud; traffic accidents seem to be oddly increasing; the WEF starts today without Schwab or Soros; excess deaths makes the mainstream in the U.K.; Jikkyleaks finds suspicious data in the Aussie VAERS system; McCarthy floats Trump expungement; and a little energy boost for your day.
Looks like Mr. Childers has been busy. Don’t know how he does this while lawyering and helping with legislation. He gives the Energizer bunny a run for his money. Onward…
First up, CDC. He has his poll about trust in the CDC, and an appropriately /sarc on/ remark. Further down:
Here’s the timeline. Friday afternoon, the CDC announced that it had diligently found a faint safety signal showing a potential link between ischemic strokes in 65+ and the Pfizer bivalent booster. By Friday evening, when reports of the original signal were still being drafted, the FDA promptly announced it had concluded an “extensive” albeit rapid review and — fortunately — found no link whatsoever. None.
In this case, the “speed of science” was too fast and TPTB didn’t like the message sent by announcing the possibility of jab strokes.
See? They ran a database query and phoned a friend. There you go. Feel better now? Look how fast they move to protect pharma, sorry, I mean us. And you didn’t trust the health agencies. Shame on you.
I’m gonna hafta buy more spit from Amazon. I’m fresh out.
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From what I can tell, the overwhelming majority of modern “art” over the last 40 years simply isn’t . . . . . . . art; it is more accurately described as “crap.”
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Tedtam, back before I retired this was listed on our company calendar as “Embracing Diversity Day” – gag…
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Next up – another cardiologist, Saudi Arabian professor, Dr. Abdullah Alabdulgader, speaks out against the jab. He thinks it should be suspended. I’m sure he’ll get plenty of coverage.
Then Sen. Ron Johnson speaks up:
The Senator told the Fox team that, “We all wanted these vaccines to end the pandemic, but they didn’t… and nobody will admit it. The body count is way too high… we completely mishandled this… Quite honestly, people who got the vaccine don’t want to know there may be some real issues with this.”
Senator Johnson called for “transparency and honesty,” sooner rather than later. He might as well have also called for world peace.
He says the “covid cartel” won’t admit they’re wrong. What an appropriate term: Covid cartel.
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The World Economic Forum kicks off its swanky annual meeting today in Davos, Switzerland, where private-plane loads of taxpayer-funded politicians gobble up crudités and mediocre champagne while talking nonsense about how vexing individual rights can be. Normally I don’t bother running stories about Clown Schwab, sorry, I mean Klaus, of course, easy mistake to make, anyone could do it.
Anyway, this appeared in my feed and caught my eye for some reason:
A couple of thoughts pass swiftly through my coffee enhanced mind: (1) couldn’t happen to a nicer guy /sarc off; and (2) please let it be a jab stroke/heart attack; and (3) I don’t like wishing ill will on any one, but I can’t help but think how much better this world would be if…It also seems that George Soros will be missing the soiree, but never fear, Gates and Chris Wray will be there for the hobnobbing.
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More C&C:
The truth continued seeping out this weekend as UK’s Sky News ran a segment on all the recent mysterious, baffling excess deaths. Sky announced there have been over 30,000 excess deaths in England and Wales over the last six months.
The world has provided a lot of lab rats for this science experiment. Unfortunately.
But Sky News stops short of connecting the dots. They have no idea what might be causing these deaths. At least publicly. I have a strong suspicion that water cooler talkers have figured it out, but they like their jobs.
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And over in Australia, which has been running a close second to China in its fanaticism about lockdowns and removal of human rights in the pursuit of “winning” over the WLR:
Independent mouse researcher and Team Reality member Jikkyleaks was digging around in Australian VAERS and says there have been ZERO death reports linked to the special batches of the Pfizer jab that were reserved for its employees.
People are dropping dead all over the globe. Except in Australia’s “Pfizer group” who got a “special batch” of the juice.
Tom Clancy wrote a book, I believe it was “Rainbow Six,” which featured an elite group of anti-terrorist specialists from various countries. The villains in the book was a company run by a group of extreme environmentalists, who had plans to depopulate the world by creating a pandemic using a deadly virus that they created. (Sounding familiar?) In the book, they planned to “solve” the pandemic crisis by creating a vaccine for the disease, which they would jab into the arms of nearly everyone in the world as a “solution”. They planned to inject the disease, which would be in the “A” vials to be delivered worldwide for the general population. The “B” vial, which was the actual vaccine, would be reserved for the elite environmentalists, who would survive to enjoy the newly depopulated, natural world.
Clancy also wrote “Executive Orders,” about a plane crashing into the Capitol.
The man was prescient.
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More giggly good news:
You have to hand it to Kevin McCarthy. Right on the heels of torturing corporate media reporters by saying he was considering releasing the full, unedited January 6th security videos, the Hill ran a story Friday headlined, “McCarthy Says He Will Look at Expunging Trump Impeachment.”
Hahaha! Hearing this, lefty reporters were writhing like electric mixers.
According to the Hill, the new Speaker said on Thursday that he would consider expunging one or even both of President Trump’s impeachments. Responding to a reporter’s question, before listing several other key priorities for House Republicans, McCarthy explained, “I would understand why members would want to bring that forward, and we’d look at it.”
Democrats say: “Why yes, yes, we will look at the situation again. We are about to get pantsed in public, and we’d really like to avoid that.”
I want ALL of the J6 issues to be brought out into public, the illegally incarcerated to be released and their stories told, and heads to roll. Let ’em roll like a bunch of really bad bowlers in their first league play.
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NY Post is calling out the naked emperor:
Inflation finally easing hides true toll of Bidenomics — it’s up 13.7% since he took office
The truth hurts.
Overall, inflation is up a hideous 13.7% since Biden took office. (Compare that to 3.6% over the same period in the first Trump term.) It has stayed at or above 5% for 20 straight months.
But Biden math says he’s doing just fine.
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WEF at Davos – The Super Bowl of High Class Prostitution
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Says here Monster Energy is coming out with. 6.0 alcoholic beverage. I can’t come up with a reason why this is a bad idea, other than energy drinks have got to be a bad idea in general, but just seems weird.
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The greenists are going to do all they can to destroy the planet.
Headline:
Corporates Have Begun ‘Geoengineering’ The Climate, With Basically No One’s Consent.It is way past time for the boot of sanity to be firmly and repeatedly applied to the face of these greenist terrorists.
READ THE WHOLE DANGED THING!
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Hopefully McCarthy will put a real effort in looking into the J6 BS. Trump impeachment, however, just an appeasement.
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My dinky little smart phone’s memory is full, so I need to graduate to a phone with more memory. The cards do not work to expand memory in the operating systems of a phone I discovered. They only work to serve as storage, but you cannot use the stored data as part of the operating system without retrieving it first – which you cannot do if you are out of internal memory. So since I’m smartening up my house, I’m needing to add apps to assist with the management and installation of these devices. So I’m stepping up a notch to see if that will solve my issues. It’s complicated out here since we have ATT service but no Verizon service; but the stuff does work on the internet. Maybe this will work.
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Bones:
I’m hoping that someday, somewhere, there can be a live debate on the warming/cooling/climate issue, with a fair distribution of pro- and con- scientists who are QUALIFIED to make their arguments.
We have yet see that, since most of ’em are shut down by the same crowd that insisted folks get the jab or else.
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23 timtom
Vodka and Red Bull has been a thing for many years now (>10). I had a sip of one once (once!).
Blecch! It combines the worst of prescription cough medicine with the one-two punch of alcohol and caffeine.
You end up with a wide awake drunk who might spew a bright red fountain at any moment.
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Here is the latest and greatest new and improved next thing to save us all:
HEADLINE:
Vaccine for Honeybees Approved for Use by USDA
Based on the Cluster F&%# of the Covid “vaccines” the very last thing I want is for the USDA or any other gov’t agency to have anything whatsoever to do with bees. Leave the care of bees to the beekeepers, who actually know what they are doing, so that the bees can live, reproduce, pollinate, and make the honey from which Honeyshine is produced.
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And on a happier note
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WB
I figured I was late to the party. Yeah, wide awake drunk was what came to mind.
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#30
Ha! My ‘66 Goat was right there among them, all stock though except for glass packs.
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JOKE OF THE DAY:
A man asked his wife what she’d like for her birthday. “I’d love to be six again,” she replied. On the morning of her birthday, he got her up bright and early and off they went to a local theme park. What a day! He put her on every ride in the park: the Death Slide, the Screaming Loop, the Wall of Fear, everything there was! Wow!
Five hours later she staggered out of the theme park, her head reeling and her stomach upside down. Right to a McDonald’s they went, where her husband ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a refreshing chocolate shake. Then it was off to a movie, the latest Star Wars epic, a hot dog, popcorn, soda, and M&Ms. What a fabulous adventure!Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed. He leaned over and lovingly asked, “Well, dear, what was it like being six again?”
One eye opened. “
What you idiot, I meant my dress size.”
The moral of this story: Even when the man is listening and lovingly trying to comply, he’s still gonna get it wrong.
😀
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#33 – LMAO! 🙂
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This professor has it right.
The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.
Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media and culture like to depict it, but rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.
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Texpat:
Nailed. It.
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Texas Supreme Court rules that TEA can intervene in underperforming HISD schools
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Bones
From your #24
In her new book, Nomad Century, WEF-approved author Gaia Vince claims that more or less the entire population of the Third World should be deliberately relocated to the West in advance of climate change making large swathes of the planet uninhabitable. This “planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken” would require the creation of new megacities across the Global North, the adoption of a global plant-based “sustainable” diet, and the dissolution of all existing forms of identity and political affiliation.
Even if Gaia Vince’s plan does not come to fruition, it’s clear that climate change will be a tool for intensifying social and political change across the West. Precedents for so-called “climate migration” have already been set in international law, and the West’s moral responsibility for causing climate change, and to atone for it, has already been accepted on the political stage, as witnessed by the response to proposals for “climate reparations” at the latest COP 27 conference.
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Behold Sheila Jackson Lee’s new House bill she just introduced.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023”.
SEC. 2. WHITE SUPREMACY INSPIRED HATE CRIME.
(a) In General.—A person engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.
(b) Conspiracy.—A conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime shall be determined to exist—
(1) between two or more persons engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate crime; or…
It’s good for a laugh, but the bill is DOA.
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Today’s Hamousonian
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How did we get from elections to grilled cheese sammiches edition
Perry/Rubio in 2012. You heard it here first.#42 HamousPerry/Rubio in 2012.
I’d vote for that ticket in a heartbeat.
Of course, I’d vote for the ubiquitous grilled cheese sammich, too. (pan fried only – toaster and microwave GCS are poseurs).
I must speak up on this grilled cheese sammich conversation. A GCS made in a frying pan is a fried cheese sammich, like a fried egg. To get a real GCS you put in on a cookie tray or similiar flat object and grill it under a broiler. That is a real GCS.Of course, I’d vote for the ubiquitous grilled cheese sammich, too. (pan fried only – toaster and microwave GCS are poseurs).
Well, then– You’d be voting for a pan fried cheese sammich, wouldn’t you? WOULDN’T YOU?
Of course, I’d vote for the ubiquitous grilled cheese sammich, too. (pan fried only – toaster and microwave GCS are poseurs).
I’d vote for a poseur “grilled” “imitation processed cheese food” sammich before I’d vote for Passion Fingers.
My fears are confirmed.
Canadians are clueless about grilled cheese sandwiches, too. Probably puts noodles in his chili, too.Actually, the “grilled” in GCS is the result of them being grilled on a big griddle like they have in pancake houses. They are not fried, because the oil/butter is used as a lubricant, not as the cooking medium. Fried food is cooked by being at least partially surrounded by hot oil. A skillet is substitute for the wide expanse of a griddle.Food cooked by/in a broiler is “broiled” not grilled.Actually, the “grilled” in GCS is the result of them being grilled on a big griddle like they have in pancake houses
A mere technicality as it is therefore a “griddled” cheese sammich. Cuz I got a grill in my back yard and that’s where I get my grilled burgers and chicken from.
Pedanticalness. Every recipe you can find for a grilled cheese sandwich (except those freaky ones y’all invent yourselves involving toasters, microwaves and such) calls for cooking it in a skillet or griddle. Regardless of what you call “grilling”, a cheese sandwich fried in a skillet with gobs of butter is a grilled cheese sandwich. Go into any diner and order a grilled cheese sandwich and see what you get. It may not make any sense. Personally I think its silly that you park in a driveway and drive on a parkway but it is what it is.Y’all crack me up. From here the GCS controversy broke down to fried/grilled chicken. -
I believe the GCS debate originated from my statement that I’d rather have/vote for a GCS over certain politicians because a GCS was safer in office.
I mentioned GCS and it took off from there.
We Hamsters do engage in stream-of-consciousness discussions at times.
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One thing you gotta say about those Johnson brothers – they provide comic relief for each other in #37 and the next – at least, I wish they were kidding
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I vaguely remember a lot of arguing over cooking methods that used to pop up on The Couch. I always pitched for the microwave as being the least hassle to get almost any food ready to eat.
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37 Shannon
This Gaia Vince woman is a completely unhinged lunatic. She has the lefty elite arts crowd in the UK enthralled with her superficial nonsense. Vince is a big fan of George Monbiot, the high priest of Commie Climate Religion.
The guy who wrote the article is a pretty weird character himself, Raw Egg Nationalist. Take a look.
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Texpat
His eyes look like that due to chronic salmonella from eating raw eggs all the time.
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texpat 10:34
It’s a similar idea to the reason you see all the relatively rich wastrel young people that go off and do all those daredevil stunts such as when they glide through ravines in the mountains wearing those flying squirrel suits.
They’re trying to find something that brings some sense of meaning to their lives – in this case the possibility of getting dead.
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I thought Hamous made up the word, pedanticalness, but some people say it’s legit.
I actually like it.
overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.
Of course, most everything is legit at the Urban Dictionary.
Pedanticism is a practised by people so focused on errors that they sometimes end up missing the errors of their own.
Pendanticism is related to perfectionism in the fashion that the individual practicing this form of perfectionism always are experiencing the need to correct ‘faults’ until absolute ‘perfection’.
If this person spots an error, they have to correct it, even if it would be deemed unneccessary by other individuals.
Sometimes the error they feel the urge to correct the errors that are not even there. This often leads to conflicts, where a more immature person might start peckering even further about inexistant errors.
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Konstantin Kisin is my new hero and the antidote to all things WEF. He is the Anti-Klaus Schwab.
Please watch this 7 minute video of his speech at the Oxford Debating Society.
It will make your day, if not your month.
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I always pitched for the microwave as being the least hassle to get almost any food ready to eat.
“Ready to eat” means different things on different contexts. If I’m making a quick lunch, I might not care how appetizing something is. Microwaves are good at making things hot; they’re not necessarily that good about making things have appetizing textures and flavor combinations. There are a few workarounds, for example the packaging in some of the microwave frozen lunches has a material that can brown the product being prepared.
There are actually some recipes that work better in a microwave than in other methods. Most don’t work very well. They can reheat a slice or two of pizza, but it’s not that good. A skillet is actually quicker and way better. Forget freedom fries.
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Texpat – that dude was AWESOME!
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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.
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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.
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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 through my hips” feeling I had for about a hour after getting up. Once everything kinda settled into place, I’m just left with “generally uncomfortable”.
I keep telling myself “this will pass”. Maybe like a kidney stone, but it will pass.
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Nice to see Sarge back.
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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 headlong tumble we are experiencing for one world governance? I do not know of a single hand but when one considers that the numbers of participants in Davos are echoed in other world functions and forums it comes as no surprise to me why we are looking more like a socialist world nation rather than the great Republic we once were.
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i gotta question. What happened to the vaunted red tsunami that I believe we should have experienced this last election?
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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 to seek ever more extreme and bizarre experiences – sex, drugs, stupid extreme sports, gender dysphoria, etc.
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Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. So are idle minds.
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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.
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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. 5.
According to an incident report, the incident occurred at 904 Walnut St. in downtown Des Moines, where the skywalk passes through the Hubbell Tower Apartments building. Potter and Ross are charged with felony child stealing.
Lindberg did not know Potter and Ross, who are homeless, according to a report. She was in her office getting ready to leave when she saw Potter and Ross walking back and forth in front of her door. Potter was waving at her son.
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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?
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When you have a lion chasing you, your carbon emissions or wondering if you are a girl or boy don’t matter much.
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I Spent $79,000 On a Wasteland in Texas. What Is Wrong With Me?
It is 320 acres, half a section of land.
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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 also points to neighbors’ bird feeders and bird baths or homesteaders or families who purchase chickens to save money who don’t take the same stringent precautions as farmers do. These can inadvertently become a spreading source of the avian flu.
Pierce said having to isolate from everyone has devastated many of these farmers who rely on community and social gatherings such as church services, school functions, and festivals as part of their emotional well-being. The measures these farmers take are so drastic that many of them refuse to leave their farms for fear of picking up a particle on the tread of their tires or their shoes and then bringing it back to their farms and infecting their flocks.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/avian-flu-is-crushing-farmers
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We had a whole bunch of Robins here Sunday morning.
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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.
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Shannon with his new laptop.
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Yeah when I rarely go to my PC I hardly recognize anything.
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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.
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What Shannon looks at when not on Hambone.
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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 received,” and none in 2018, according to information reported on Sunday by Breitbart’s Wendell Husebø.
But when filling out a background check, Hunter Biden claimed to pay a specific $49,910 rent each month to his dad from March 2017 to February 2018. This is the same home where classified documents were recently found stacked in the garage. Biden the Younger spent about a year — during part of his drugged-out times — renting (?) Biden the Elder’s Wilmington, Del., home following his divorce from Kathleen Biden.
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Small victory #127
Making the mouse/trackpad pointer five times larger than the default size.
I was going blind.
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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.
I’m pretty sure it’s magic.
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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. When the girls refused, the two moved on to another girl. The first two girls raised a ruckus and the van drove off.
I’ve read several of those reports in the last six months or so.
My granddaughters now walk home from school. Part of me is “Yay! They’re growing up!” and another part of me says “They are two young white girls, perfect for sex slavery”.
Of course there was the usual pile of “did you call the police?” and “despicable (in various forms)” and “we need to watch our kids”. Yes, yes, yes. But my contribution was to encourage the parents to get their kids a storm whistle from Duluth Trading. I have one, and it will make me temporarily deaf if I don’t cover my ears. Screaming kids don’t get much attention. Whistles do. Really, really loud whistles get more.
Bad guys don’t want the attention. Young 8 and 9 year old girls can’t fight off a fully grown adult who really wants to grab them. Their best bet if caught alone in danger is to try to scare off the attacker.
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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.
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The trifocals are working fine. The default pointer size was for midgets. Or something.
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Pointer size matters.
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Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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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
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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 fine if we don’t get another hard freeze, but I’m predicting a rough, cold February. We need precip out here whether it’s frozen or liquid.
Now I’m inclined to address another issue that seems to keep coming back no matter what. As a matter of practice, the Dems and many Reps know that the way to keep them people from running them down with dogs, torches, and pitch forks is to keep them scared and thinking that only government can protect them from all the evil that is out there. Their willing accomplices in the media are more than happy to play along and create more alarmism – if it bleeds it ledes. Do yourself a favor – if watching the news or listening to the radio causes you to be afraid or anything other than our government, turn it off. There is no need to live in fear. Take responsibility for your own safety to the extent you are able. If someone is bothering you, deal with it yourself – the legal system to totally corrupted and will never make anyone happy, nor does it serve justice, so that avenue is just not open to regular people. If you go to the doctor with a problem, listen to him/her and follow instructions. If you do not believe what they are saying, go find a doctor that you trust, Self medication, self diagnosis, and very importantly, what your friend heard about her cousin or whatever is no substitute for sound medical advice – please note that government people for the most part are not medical doctors. Neither are talk show hosts or late night comedians. I could go on, but I think you get the drift. Live a happy, joyous, and fear free life.
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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.
Herb Tigner was a mentor and investor with Jim Fletcher when I worked for him back in the early 1980s. I met Mr. Tigner several times and he was a gentleman among gentlemen.
This is your chance to live your own Yellowstone dream right here in Texas. The Tigner Ranch, just 30 minutes from Houston, is on the market for $8,880,570 after being owned by the same family for 147 years.
The Tigner family is a vital part of Houston’s history. One member of the family, Hugh Parnell, was one of the five who signed the charter for the city of Houston. Another individual, Herbert Tigner, was considered so accomplished that a Texas State Senate Proclamation of Mourning was issued at his death.
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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 host her first ‘bride and bride wedding’ in December, but said she brushed off trolls’ comments online.
She told People: ‘I never chase any of those rabbits down the rabbit hole. I love my family, I love those brides. They’re wonderful, our family is better, and you should be able to be who you are with your family, and be loved by them.
The Grammy winner revealed her niece and wife got married on the same hillside where she tied the knot with husband Vince Gill in 2000.
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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. 🙂
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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 day after ours. He also said that these ransoms are usually paid in Bitcoin so the cost of bitcoin would go up if the government had purchased large amounts of Bitcoin to pay off their ransom. Sure enough, the price of Bitcoin went up about 20%. Interesting food for thought.
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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 I’ll say about the gay niece wedding thing is….count yourself a blessed Christian if you haven’t had to negotiate the rocky road that is dealing with a loved family member who is homosexual.
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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.
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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 be done.
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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.
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About Tucker, if you missed his show tonight at least go back and check his monologue it was pretty good.
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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.
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Texpat anybody but that Blow-Hard Hannity.
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The Old Western Scrounger keeps dropping into my mail box and this one is kinda’ interesting.
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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, see, or hear. More later. Nite nite.
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Time to get the greenhouse up and put some heatlamps in it. 🙂
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wow,
Sand Pebbles. Yeah, epic performance and I haven’t seen it in 30 years.
Thanks for the reminder.
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