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I love Ted Nugent, Gotta’ Kill Em Before Ya Grill Em. I hope I have time to check it out.
A much warmer 56 here today and shooting for the mid 70’s.
Mornin” Gang
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Great interview with Nugent.
Woke up uncomfortable. Gonna go back and try again for a few more hours. Wish me luck.
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Harriet Tubman Honored With Statue Of Her Left Big Toe.
AUBURN, NY — Following the new tradition of erecting disturbing modern-art monuments for prominent historical figures, the city of Auburn has unveiled a bronze statue of abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman’s left big toe.
“We felt that this was a fitting tribute for the great Harriet Tubman,” said Brandon Quezada, chairman of the city’s Artistic Initiatives Committee. “Knowing that Boston was unveiling the unspeakably creepy ‘The Embrace’ statue for Dr. Martin Luther King that bears a striking resemblance to various human organs mashed together in an ungodly chimeric abomination from the pit of hell, creating a monument depicting Ms. Tubman’s left big toe and nothing else for some cryptic reason seemed like the right move.”
The city, which became home to Ms. Tubman and her family following the Civil War and also serves as her final resting place, was expecting a large influx of tourists this summer due to the presence of the new statue. Already considering re-branding the city’s official nickname to “Toe Town,” officials were excited to take full advantage of the publicity the monument was sure to attract.
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Ok, I’ll say it out loud. Love Ted Nugent but I just not get through an interview with him his voice is so annoying.
Mornin!
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Morning gang. I happened to run across this story while surfing around this morning. It talks about the decay of the justice system and the possibility that the people may resort to street justice and makes several good points, so you might want to check it out. https://www.laughingwolf.net/2023/01/16/texas-follow-up/
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In other news, 46 degrees at opening out here, headed for near 80 or more by day’s end. It is time to stop ducking around and put up the greenhouse, so guess I’ll do it. But now, time for a quick shower, shave, and trip to the TOK. You all have a great one. More later.
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Love Ted Nugent but I just not get through an interview with him his voice is so annoying.
Yup, I just wish he’d say what is on his mind no beating around the bush. 😀
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#5 ELG
Great piece, love that guy. The pendulum will swing at some point. The constant release of prisoners in the 70’s and 80’s due to “overcrowding” of our prisons resulted in a tremendous amount of prisons, detention facilities getting built. I remember when I was a field mechanic working on rental equipment through the 9o’s, most of my jobs were on these construction sites in Dayton, Beaumont, Bryan and many others.
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The meat of the interview is in the first couple minutes.
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I was reading yesterday about the crash in Nepal. A couple thoughts came up.
The amount of time between apparently normal flying from the passenger perspective to crash was a very few seconds.
Watching those people laughing and excited, knowing they were living their last few seconds was disturbing.
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Good grief. They just had a story on the morning show that MSG is making a comeback.
I’ll tell you one thing, if you have arrhythmia problems you best eliminate MSG from your diet – immediately.
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Never looked into MSG, we should since my wife evidently has arrhythmia. Looks like it’s everywhere, how the heck do you avoid it?
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I have little to no allergies – cow milk, cedar pollen – but MSG is something I cannot tolerate. I have a mild (so far) anaphylactic reaction wherein my tongue and throat begin to swell. I had a couple of Chinese restaurants in Houston where I would eat because they used no MSG as a policy and guaranteed it writing on the menu, but up here I eat no Chinese food. They use MSG in and on everything.
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#10 GJT – about the only way, for sure, is to pretty much eliminate “prepared” foods from your diet.
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but MSG is something I cannot tolerate
Yeah I cannot stand Madison Square Garden either. I hate the Celtics too.
Huh? Whut? You aren’t talking about Madison Square Garden? Never mind.
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Back from TOK just brimming with local knowledge now. Friend who had a stroke 6 months ago and has been in nursing home since made an appearance, so it was good to seem him out just for a couple of hours if nothing else. He’s lost 60 pounds and does not look good. Getting around a little bit using a walker, but he can’t go home because there is no one there that can pick him up if he falls, which he apparently still does frequently.
My cheap azzed smart phone has run out of internal memory, so I have a new (to me) phone that should come today. That should be fun trying to switch everything over from the old one to the new one. I’m pretty good with computers, but phones are still a mystery to me, so that will be a new learning experience for me. Probably means that I’ll be without phone service for a few days until I figure it all out. Usually, things that someone else can do in 5 minutes takes me a few days to get done.
OK, you all have a good one. More later.
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I may have to get Hulu so that I can watch Mel Brooks History of the World part II.
I am thrilled that Mel Brooks has chosen to do at least one more movie. Blazing Saddles was one of the best comedies of all time.
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Well, I’ve had my morning hello call from Hubby. I explained I had bit of a rough night and am just getting up. So, we’ve shared “love you” sentiments and I have coffee in hand, so here goes…
Before I start with the C&C, I see that “Return to Tradition” headlines that a priest in Italy is calling Francis out as a heretic and demanding he resign. Oh, how I hope Don Floriano Pellegrini the leading edge of a movement! Anyway, onwards I go…
POSSIBLY COMPROMISED ☙ Tuesday, January 17, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup today includes: CDC’s transportation mask mandate case is tee’d up for oral arguments in Miami; New York court ends healthcare jab mandate; pretty young pharmacist kicks the bucket then her dad has a heart attack; Damar Hamlin released from the hospital but not back on the field, and uplifting reports of how people reacted to his injury; pop-eyed Adam Schiff surprisingly suggests Biden might have compromised national security; media counter-attacks Malhotra interview; and a nice little spirit-boosting video to start your day.
First off, Biden is appealing the unmasking of airplane passengers. Really? I thought that was settled. Childers says the oral arguments are public, and provides a link: https://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/oral-argument-calendars
I wonder what data Biden’s group is going to present as a “need” for masks.
Next up is New York’s jab mandate for public workers:
The court held the New York Department of Health “blatantly violated” its authority by imposing the mandate, since that power is reserved to the state legislature. The court also found that the mandate was “arbitrary and capricious” since the shots don’t stop transmission (imagine that), beggaring any rational basis for a mandate in the first place.
In fact, the judge underlined, italicized, and boldfaced the words in his order:
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the judicial emphasis applied quite so forcefully. Boldface, yes, italic, yes, underlined, yes. But all three together might be a record. The text formatting seems to be screaming “how many times do we have to say it??”
Then the judge added this next line:
A term which is defined at the whim of an entity, subject to change without a moment’s notice contains all the hallmarks of “absurdity” and is no definition at all.
I think I have a favorite judge now. Childers, with his usual wit, asks the judge to take on the term “vaccine” next. /snuffle, snort
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I was trying to read a CBS News article on MSG and they can’t discuss any subject anymore without turning it into a racial/ethnic/political issue. These things are true:
– A lot of restaurants use MSG, but Chinese places use a lot more of it.
– MSG occurs naturally in many foods like certain cheeses, especially Parmesan, tomatoes and corn, but the amounts are so small people don’t normally have a reaction.
– Most people love Chinese with all the MSG and have no problems with it. Some of us still like Chinese but can’t tolerate the amounts of MSG they dump into food so we avoid it altogether. It does not mean we hate Chinese people, with the exception of members or admirers of the CCP.
– CBS News is populated by fatuous imbeciles and morons.
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Oh, heckfahr! Anthony Stein (“Return to Tradition”) is reading this letter from the priest to the pope. Priest actually called Francis a Mason to his face! A globalist! Collaborating with Big Pharma and globalists! With groups with Satanic inspiration! Awesome! Among other smackdowns.
I think I have a new favorite priest, too. This guy has brass ones. Big ones. Especially when I remember he is in the Diocese of Rome, so Francis is his bishop and has full reign over this guy’s future.
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From the “Suddenly and Unexpectedly” Department:
Five days before Christmas, Dr. Lindsay Heck, 25, new U. Pitt. pharmacist, summa cum laude and former valedictorian, expired suddenly and unexpectedly from a baffling “unknown cause.” According to her obituary, Ms. Heck enjoyed helping people, and ran “multiple vaccine clinics.”
Her picture shows a vibrant, beautiful young woman. What a loss. But wait! There’s more!
But there’s a wrinkle. According to Lindsay’s co-workers’ GoFundMe page, tragically, Lindsay’s father Carl Heck’s heart broke about a week after Lindsay died, when he suffered a sudden and unexpected aortic dissection and was rushed to the ICU. I couldn’t find any more recent update about Carl’s condition.
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Carl Heck’s part of the story reminded me of this completely unrelated autopsy case report, published on PubMed back on September 29th:
The case report doctors described finding a thick, fibrous pericardium (the membrane surrounding the heart):
The heart showed a white villous surface, and the pericardium was fibrously thick. Microscopic examination revealed pericarditis with predominantly macrophage and lymphocyte infiltration. These histological findings were compatible with those of post-vaccination myocarditis.
So sad for the family. Childers didn’t know if the father survived or not, but either way, this is a double tragedy for the family. Prayers for them all, and all who love them. This has to be a rough time.
Lots of good news about Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who was released from the hospital this weekend and is now “resting comfortably” at home. There is no news at all about whether he’ll rejoin the team anytime soon. If ever.
One good outcome of Mr. Hamlin’s tragedy is that the quarterback of his team has become a stronger Christian. It is true that tragedies bring out the best or the worst in people. It seems to be the best in this case, God bless.
Breitbart reported Josh’s interview on ESPN’s ‘Kyle Brandt’s Basement,’ where he confided how profoundly Hamlin’s medical emergency affected him. “I’ll be the first to admit, I haven’t been the most devoted Christ-follower in my life, and I’ve had my different beliefs and thoughts and ideas … but something got hold of me there, and it was [something] extremely powerful that … I couldn’t deny,” the Bill’s quarterback explained.
Josh described the incident as a spiritual awakening: “[It was] just kind of kind of a spiritual awakening really for me,…
[PS: I’m now listening to one of my favorite priests, Fr. Chad Ripperger, who’s an exorcist. He calmly mentions in the flow of his speech that “Beelzebub admitted to me that…” My psyche just went “whoa!” He name drops like this so calmly and matter of factly…speaking of brass ones…]
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Next up, Childers takes on the Biden documents:
The Hill ran an eye-popping story Sunday headlined, “Schiff Says It’s Possible National Security Was Jeopardized With Biden Documents.”
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The Hill described Biden’s lost documents problem as a ‘conundrum’ for democrats:
The discovery of Biden’s classified documents in unauthorized locations has placed Democrats in the middle of a political conundrum. They have for months blasted former President Trump for his handling of classified documents, which resulted in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
I could say a lot about the Hill’s inoffensive neutered wording. Imagine if it was Republicans instead of democrats who had the document hypocrisy problem. But I digress.
True dat. IMHO, the fact that Pencil Neck made that comment does not bode well for Biden finishing out his term.
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Now, media censorship:
Last week I reported that Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British anti-vaccine cardiologist, spoke eloquently for several minutes on the BBC about vaccine injuries, and called for suspension of that country’s vaccination program. Well, on Friday, corporate media launched its counter-attack.
The Guardian UK ran a story headlined, “BBC Criticised for Letting Cardiologist ‘Hijack’ Interview With False Covid Jab Claim.” The article is a long character-assassination hit piece on Dr. Malhotra, including quotes by the entire battalion of compliant covid experts reflexively accusing the cardiologist of having “extreme fringe views,” fretting how “deeply dangerous” he is, and arrogantly claiming the doctor has no cardiology practice “to speak of.”
But the good doctor responded to the attempt of his cancellation:
For his part, Dr. Malhotra apparently embraced the Guardian’s request for comment on his own character-assassination, and turned the tables. The antagonistic article ends with Dr. Malhotra’s spirited response:
Malhotra told the Guardian: “Medical science is ever-evolving – discussing new developments openly is hard because the complicit media wants to only frame mRNA as right or wrong, to conflate mRNA vaccine debate as an entire attack on all vaccines, and to politicise views as left or right.
“I’ve promoted vaccines my entire career, including Covid vaccines on Good Morning Britain in early 2021. Labelling individuals who flag mRNA vaccine concerns as anti-vaxxers – pursuing personal attacks rather than analysing the latest data (with now overwhelming evidence of serious and common cardiac harms) and who funds it – sows public distrust and leads to a dangerous fall in safe vaccine uptake.”
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Childers closes with this example of real humanity.
Have tissues at the ready. God blesses us with the right people in our lives.
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I saw, somewhere, in a straight up news report that Republicans, who are not interested in the Trump government documents, are all over Biden’s top secret docs. Well, a big part of it why hasn’t the Biden residence been invaded by fifty FBI agents.
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Well, a big part of it why hasn’t the Biden residence been invaded by fifty heavily armed FBI agents.
Insert dreaded acronym here. 😉
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21 Tedtam
Dr. Aseem Malhotra may have a legal option in the UK given their very different slander and libel laws. It’s much easier to sue a media organization or individual over there.
He has a fairly popular book out called the Pioppi Diet that is a very low-carb, higher fat Mediterranean regimen. He’s been attacked relentlessly by the government run health establishment and their running dog lackeys, the BBC and print media.
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I got a lot of chuckles out of this tragicomedy about old hippies growing pot in Northern California.
Not long ago, Garberville could have held the title of California’s busiest town without a stoplight. Thousands of tourists filled this small town’s restaurants and bars after spending the day craning their necks at the towering redwood trees of the nearby Avenue of the Giants. And hundreds of cannabis farms in the surrounding hills of Humboldt County brought millions of dollars to the local economy.
But today, the town is on life support. California’s cannabis legalization has killed many of those pot farms, leaving empty storefronts and a cratered Garberville economy in its wake. Overproduction has dropped the wholesale price of cannabis in California by as much as 95%. That’s made pot cheaper for consumers, but it’s also made it impossible for many farms to stay alive.
“The economy here has crashed,” said Laura Lasseter, the director of operations for the Southern Humboldt Business and Visitors Bureau. “… The economy in Southern Humboldt is in crisis mode, and 90% of that crisis mode is because of the cannabis industry.”
They cried for legalization for decades and ended up demonstrating a gargantuan example of be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
Lasseter, of the visitors bureau, estimated that Humboldt County is on track to lose 50% to 70% of its cannabis farms. She said the biggest problem for the region’s farmers has been the state government’s allowance of massive pot farms. Originally, California voters approved a legalization plan that limited cannabis farms to only 1 acre for the first five years of legalization. But in 2017, the state created a loophole for companies to infinitely “stack” smaller licenses so they could expand their pot farms to more than a million square feet.
In Economics 101, the first rule is “Supply and Demand” and the second rule is “The Government Will Ruin Everything”. These old hippies were too busy getting stoned to study Adam Smith and Milton Friedman.
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Morning, gang. Say, did any of you Boss Guys send my email address to Abuck? He was going to school me on where the GO button can be found for the online method of paying Harris County property taxes. I haven’t even seen him online since we had that Couch Crash that had us all dead in the water for a day or so…
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Mharper
Say, did any of you Boss Guys send my email address to Abuck?
I done did it right now.
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College football is over for this season. Now it’s time for the results, at least for the SEC Shorts folks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYQ8PLNcorI
I don’t know where they found that girl actress, but she is excellent in every production that I’ve seen, and this one is no exception.
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I was somewhat stunned when I read this back on the New Year weekend.
A LinkedIn posting by HR&A Advisors, the TriBeCa-based real estate consultancy, asked applicants for the $121,668- to $138,432-a-year position to remove “all undergraduate and graduate school name references” from their résumés and only cite the degree itself. A quick spin through a few other HR&A job postings confirmed that this policy extends company-wide as part of their “ongoing work to build a hiring system that is free from bias and based on candidate merit and performance.”
The first conclusion to draw from this is school prestige has suddenly become worthless. A finance degree from Sam Houston State and Harvard suddenly have the same value in the job market ? The folks in Huntsville might be happy, but how is Harvard going to sell it’s $76,963 per year undergrad program ? Why not go to Sam Houston for $9,000 a year plus room and board ?
Today, at least two-thirds of higher education institutions, including Harvard and Stanford, don’t require the SAT for admission. The American Bar Association recently announced it will drop the LSAT as an admissions requirement for law school. And now, some are calling for the prestigious MCAT to be scrapped as the gold standard for medical school admissions — all in the name of racial equity.
But standards really aren’t “based on candidate merit and performance, are they ?
Beware, do not hire a lawyer, go to a doctor or select a CPA who is under the age of 50.
Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds published the following in the NY Post under this headline…
How the wokeness it pushes could destroy higher education
“Get woke, go broke.” It’s a phrase people coined to describe the failure of Hollywood’s recent politics-drenched efforts at blockbuster films, from which viewers stayed away in droves. But now it applies to another field: higher education.
College enrollment fell by a staggering 650,000 in the single school year of 2021-2022. Hmmm.
But wait, there’s more. The Gartner consulting firm recently recommended its 15,000 clients, in the name of equity, consider hiring people without degrees at all. The focus on degrees is bad for “underrepresented candidates” because they’re less likely to have attended, or finished, college. Gartner suggests employers instead focus on “assessing candidates solely on their ability to perform in the role,” rather than on their “formal education and experience.”
Far be it from me to criticize hiring people based on their ability to do the job instead of the polish of their résumés, but this is a huge departure from the past, and it spells bad news for the people who’ve been selling the polish. If employees are no longer hired based on credentials, the market for credentials is going to head south.
Who sells credentials in America ? Higher education, expensive prep schools and elite, private primary/secondary schools.
They have cooked their goose.
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I watched a video of Peter Doocy asking Katrina (mumblemumble, whatever the WH press sec’s name is) about the documents in Biden’s garage. She yammered on about how his lawyers immediately “did the right thing” after they were discovered and that “the president takes handling of classified documents very seriously”.
He followed up a few times trying to ask her why the documents were where they were and why their discovery only became know a couple months later (either he or on of a couple others getting in on it actually asked how much the impending election has to do with that delay), only to be given the same answer.
I desperately wanted him to ask, “If the president takes the handling of classified documents so very seriously, then why were they found in very obviously insecure places completely unattended, which is something that would cause any military, intelligence, or foreign service officer to lose their clearance and quite possibly face prosecution? Furthermore, if the president indeed does take the handling of classified documents so seriously, then why was it such a surprise to him that the documents were where they were? Did he not know where they were?
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Data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission shows that only three abortions occurred in the state in August of 2022, each of which was deemed “medically necessary,” Fox News reported on Sunday.
“Compared with the 2,596 abortions recorded in the state in June 2022, the number in August represents a decrease of nearly 99 percent. Sixty-eight abortions were performed in July,” according to the report. Statistics from September through the end of 2022 have not been released yet.
Texas Right to Life celebrated the substantial drop in abortion in a tweet in early January and estimated that as many as 50,000 unborn babies have been saved from abortion in Texas since September — though the pro-life group noted that there is still a lot to be done to combat illegal abortions and the trafficking of abortion pills.
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#31 – Rice has gone full in on this woke business, and I’ve been howling about them being nothing but a Potemkin Village with regard to all the top, elite school rankings for some time now. If you are accepted for admission and enroll, you are going to get out with a degree if you hang around no matter what. Merit scholarships are a long ago relic of times gone by at Rice – now financial aid is based exclusively on skin color and economic status. Most of the kids who go there are rich kids who pay almost full freight; the remainder are there to serve as research subjects themselves so that the rich kids can get a glimpse of how most of America lives, and particularly how black people see the world. The students themselves are the subject of the research. One of these days the whole house of cards will be tumbling down and everyone will be standing around looking at each other and wondering how this could happen. Maybe not in my lifetime, but it will happen. Secondly, once you get past that first job, most employers do not care where you went to school – you have a track record of your work to look at in making hiring decisions.
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As to Biden’s records being discovered by his attorneys and not by law enforcement – 2 words; attorney/client privilege. Congress will not be able to subpoena these records. Same as when hiliary gave her bathroom computer to her attorneys.
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CORRECTION ALERT
The story about Hunter paying Joe $50K a month for rent is apparently not true.
Breitbart blew it on this one. It was a security deposit for an office in DC.
Hunter Biden never paid his dad 49,910 for rent. The form was dated late 2018. His security deposit and time of lease (3/2017 to 2/2018) at “House of Sweden” match the the amount listed: 49,910. This was for his business Owasco. On purpose or not, he filled the form out wrong.
The security deposit is equal to the first quarter rental payment which was also $49,910 for the Washington DC office space.
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The #1 cash crop in Humboldt (and Mendocino, iirc) forever has been the Holy Herb, even beating out lumber, despite being quite illegal until recently. Growing the wheed, especially when it was quite illegal also caused immense environmental damage to the forested areas in which it was grown. It seems that the hippies/wheed enthusiasts/herbal entrepreneurs who protest providing water to actual food crop farms so the delta smelt can do whatever they do, either don’t know and/or don’t care about all of this damage.
n.b. If you have never had the misfortune of seeing how these friends of Mother Gaia actually live, picture some of squack’s most rustic relatives in their broken-down house in the piney woods. That would be a huge upgrade for the wheed wranglers. Typical for them is a decrepit old school bus for a domicile, an ancient VW something or Honda Civic that barely runs (and likely pollutes much more than a current model semi truck), trash and crap everywhere, a latrine over a hole or a pipe going from the bus to somewhere downhill & downwind from the bus. Totally not the image they want to think they have.
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Good early afternoon Hamsters,
I have joined the ailing Hamster list this morning having seriously wrenched my left hip and also the replaced knee below it. Both had been ornery off and on for about 2 weeks but not necessarily at the same time. Walking with my cane helped most of the time before the incident but not completely. I likely did it turning an ankle some, but that at least is not injured. Limped to the medecine cabinet for 2 Tylenol and have been sitting down at the computer ever since.
Unfortunately spouse was out of the house when it happened but returned home about 30 minutes later. He just got back from being out again at the grocery store bringing lunch home and the items on the list. I think my mobility will be compromised a bit the rest of the day.
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On Twitter:Catturd ™@catturd2Just when you think Joe Biden can’t get any dumber – the next day happens.He has 1.3 million followers.
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I graduated with a BBA degree in Management, and a pretty good GPA. What I ended up doing for many years had nothing to do with my degree. I remember getting one programming job because I had a degree, which I thought was infinitely stoopid, since all of my skills in that area were self-learned after I graduated.
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I will admit, once class I had to take was very useful: Organizational Behavior. I still remember the textbook name: The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know.
The class centered on behavior that ran the workplace, from things as mundane as upper management gets the bigger offices to what to expect from a supervisor. As I began my career in the corporate world, I recognized circumstances and events from that book as they played out in front of me.
One particular story that I remember from the book involved a new employee on the shop floor, reading through his employee manual for the equipment for which he was going to be responsible. His boss sat down at the cafeteria table and asked what he was doing. When he heard what his newbie was doing, the boss grabbed the book and began wrinkling and dog earing pages, took his coffee cup and left some coffee rings on the cover, etc. He handed the book back to the new guy and said, “Forget what’s in that book. You’ll learn what’s important when you’re out on the floor. But the manager will think you’ve spent hours reading that book.”
Yep, I landed in similar situations in the office environment, too.
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I remember getting one programming job because I had a degree, which I thought was infinitely stoopid
I have a degree in Theoretical Mathematics (still have no idea why).
My first two jobs were Geophysicist.
Figure that one out.
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Love Catturd.
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And as a programmer, I learned to program for the lowest common denominator.
Every program I wrote was documented to the max with comment statements. I had the ill luck to inherit some very complicated programs that had no documentation at all, and I swore I’d never do that to anyone else. Particularly since I was known as a “pit bull” when it came to solving difficult problems. I wasn’t handed the easy stuff.
I also made sure that any systems for the end users had easy to read screens, with instructions on how to properly fill out that screen ON THE SAME SCREEN, as well as in an accompanying “how to” document in hard- and soft-copy. Any paper documents for data collection were done the same way. Every application had a manual to go with it, hard- and soft-copy.
Because I learned that skipping those ropes meant that (1) I’d have frustrated users, especially dimmer bulbs that manage to get promoted above their pay grade, and (2) not providing that much documentation would hurt my reputation and my career.
Every boss I worked with loved my work. And if I finished projects early, I helped with other tasks. One place I worked at sent out paychecks via FedEx on Thursdays, to 700 field locations. It was imperative that those envelopes all got stuffed, stuffed correctly, and on time. So, even though I was getting paid a higher wage as a programmer, I dropped everything to help the clerical staff to get those envelopes out. My boss appreciated that. As far as I was concerned, she was paying for my time so she got to say what I needed to do during those hours.
I met with the programmer taking over for me when my contract ran out, and she couldn’t believe I would do that. “You’re not getting paid to stuff envelopes,” she said.
Well, in my world, yes. Yes, I was. I’m not too proud to do what needed to be done.
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I am pleasantly surprised to be in the low-to-no pain category today. SHOCKER! I was hurting a bit when I first got up, but after moving around a bit I started feeling better. Without meds.
So well, in fact, I did a mile on the treadmill. Not a terribly fast-paced mile, but a mile. The doctor encourages that.
Still can’t bend, twist, or stretch, and that is driving me slightly nuts, but it is nice to want to whimper.
I’m hoping this is permanent. We’ll see what the evening brings. I tend to sundown a bit with the discomfort.
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WARNING: POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD THAT MAY HARSH YOUR MELLOW
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCERoomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
An MIT Technology Review investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media. iRobot said it had consent to collect this kind of data from inside homes—but participants say otherwise.
Remember the good old days when we all got incensed about the city of houston putting cameras on the street? Now we willingly allow external surveillance into our homes.
Alexa
Ring door bells
Siri
Even the camera on your computer.
cameras outside our homes
Cameras inside our homes.
We are willingly surrendering our privacy.
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Thank you, Squawkman, for giving Abuck my contact info, and thank you, Abuck, for contacting me.
At this point, I invite everyone to bust a gut laughing at me. I had lost a page of noted numbers that I thought I would need in order to pay Prop Tax online. I gave up looking for the notes and ran the tax system thinking I’d go see what numbers I had probably written down.
Up comes Harris County Tax Office, and right there at the top of the initial page is the Pay Online button.
Filling out the form, the only numbers I had to enter both came from my checkbook. Everything else was looked up automatically just based on my name as the home owner.
Should I go out and treat myself to lunch?
(Thanks, Squawk and Abuck.)
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All of my computers have paper over the camera.
We don’t have wireless cameras or doorbells, but I’m considering an off-brand that I’m hoping won’t be hooked into the Ring network. Maybe.
Never want to have an “intelligent” device in my home. I’m not too lazy to get up to change the thermostat
I do have a smart phone, so that’s one breach of my privacy.
I will recommend once again, that y’all read the sci-fi story “With Folded Hands”.
Making life “easier” is how you lose control.
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Remember when I called Davos the Super Bowl of High Class Prostitution ?
The euro is weak against the US dollar so Americans are getting currency discounts on their escapades.
She told Bild she regularly sees an American who visits Switzerland multiple times a year and is among the 2,700 conference attendees.
The manager of one escort service in Aargau, 100 miles away from the summit, says she has already received 11 bookings and 25 inquiries – and expects many more to follow this week.
She told 20 Minuten: ‘Some also book escorts for themselves and their employees to party in the hotel suite.’
Salome Balthus, a sex worker and writer, posted on Twitter: ‘Date in Switzerland during #WWF means looking at the gun muzzles of security guards in the hotel corridor at 2 a.m. – and then sharing the giveaway chocolates from the restaurant with them and gossiping about the rich… #Davos #WEF.’
The 36-year-old is staying at a hotel near Davos throughout the summit but refused to reveal who the influential clients are.
She cautioned: ‘Believe me, you don’t want to get into litigation with them.’
In 2020, an investigation by The Times found at least 100 prostitutes travel to Davos for the summit according to a Swiss police officer.
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There are no cameras inside or outside this house and no cameras on the computers. There are no Alexas, Siris, Ring or otherwise internet connected security devices in this house. There are no Rhomba vacuums, no smart thermostats or smart appliances. We do have a couple of smartasses in the house.
I realize our computers, ipads, iPhones and routers are being used to constantly surveil us, but I’m not going to add a bunch of stuff that makes it easier for Klaus Schwab and his oily friends to steal our privacy.
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Another harsh your mellow bomb. Warning may be fear mongering.
RTWDT /WTV
Embedded veedeeoh is well worth the time to watch if you are not freaked out already.
what-smart-devices-know-share-about-you
Smart speakers that can use various functions just by talking to you, and smart devices that can operate home keys and air conditioners via the Internet have been adopted one after another in people’s lives. On the other hand, TED ‘s presentation movie which tells about the aspect that should not be forgotten that “the user is being monitored” behind it is on the other hand.
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Tedtam and Texpat’s mellow is not harshed. So everyone should be okay reading my missives. They are my canaries in the tunnel for such things. I am surveilling their reactions on the blog.
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If Schwab, Bloomberg, Gates and Soros aren’t attacking in a frontal assault, the damned Chicoms are firing away on our flanks.
Rocky Mountain Institute partnered with China to implement ‘economy-wide transformation’ away from oil and gas
Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, which published the December study that attributes 13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use, is hardly staffed by an objective group of scientists.
The organization is demanding “systemic change and economy-wide transformation” to address a climate crisis it says we must go to great lengths to avoid. In 2013, for example, the Rocky Mountain Institute joined forces with China’s National Development and Reform Commission—the government agency tasked with planning the communist nation’s economy—to produce a report that advised China to replace existing appliances and generators with “clean energy technologies.” The commission went on to set climate goals that included energy reduction targets. When local provinces in 2021 failed to meet those targets, the commission pushed them to implement electricity rations, prompting “dimmed traffic lights that cause chaos” and “half-cooked rice in rice cookers.”
and,
Also included among those board members is Wei Ding, the founder and chairman of the Chinese private equity firm Broad River Capital. Ding started the firm after serving as chairman of the China International Capital Corporation (CICC), a partially state-owned investment bank. Former CICC executives include Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s vice president and right-hand man, Wang Qishan, while the corporation’s website highlights its “deep participation in China’s economic reforms and development” and goal to “serve the nation.” The Rocky Mountain Institute also sits on the China Clean Transportation Partnership, a Chinese green energy nonprofit whose founding members include China’s National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Transport.
The whole scam to ban gas stoves in the USA is a barely translucent Chinese Communist psyops operation.
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Central-Bank Digital Currencies Are Coming—Whether Countries Are Ready or Not
Debates about the necessity, utility and potential pros and cons of digital currencies are often confusing, and confused, in part because every country rolling out a digital currency is doing it in its own way.
Generally, however, CBDCs can be roughly divided into two types: those designed for use by financial institutions and those designed for use by the general public.
plus this,
The first type is just a new way for central banks to transfer money to commercial banks.
and the evil version,
The second type of CBDC is a digital version of fiat money made available to the general public through accounts held by a central bank or a commercial bank.
Really !? this guy must be a genius,
“Throughout history, I think you see many examples where you see tech that seems very benign get perverted into much more malign uses,” says Dr. Prasad.
this is our only hope,
The U.S. is studying the issue and has run trials of various technologies to enable a digital currency, although Fed chair Jerome Powell has indicated the U.S. central bank has no plans to create one, and won’t do so without direction from Congress.
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I do have two Ring Doorbells – one on front the other on back door, and we do have smartphones. I’m not smart enough to do a camera on my PC but realize it could still be watching me so I should tape over it (once I figure out where it is). My wife does online classes and meetings all the time on hers but turns the camera around when not in use. Past Christmas’ and birthdays the kids have given us a Nest and one of those remote front door locks that I just can’t bring myself to install.
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Texpat
C’mon man you are harshing my mellow.
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Texpat
Fed chair Jerome Powell has indicated the U.S. central bank has no plans to create one, and won’t do so without direction from Congress.
He is lying. There is plenty evidence on the web to indicate otherwise.
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Graphic found with story: National Guard soldier suffers two heart attacks after Vaccine…
[Edited by Texpat]
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54 Squawkbox
Jerome Powell lying ? How dare you insult a man of such eloquent perfidiousness.
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MHarper
That graphic is a hoax.
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Texpat
#56
Yeah I know. Terrible of me to say such a thing.
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57 Squawk
I don’t anything about that young woman or her story. So it’s all BS ?
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I’m confuzzed.
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Texpat
The girl and her story is legit but MHarper had a link to the picture below which is a hoax
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I had to run out to return the PEX tubing nailer and accompanying staples. They were the right size but the screws/nails refused to go deeply enough into the wood to hold the staple in place. I found the customer service number but Hubby didn’t get any help from them, so back they go.
I’ve been doing pretty well today, but I think putting the nail gun in the box caught me a little off balance because it was heavier than I thought. Ever since then I’ve had a niggling little reminder of what could come if I don’t mind myself. I did go to the store and restricted myself (mostly) to the few items on my shopping list, so I was able to keep everything at the top of the basket (no bending) and loaded into multiple bags (no heavy weight). I felt a little spasm while shopping, enough for a reminder.
I have an invitation to join my Carmel Light friends for fellowship and fun tonight, so I’ll be heading there in a bit. It feels good to feel good enough to do this. But I will wear my back brace to remind me to behave.
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squawkbox says:
January 17, 2023 at 11:42 amMharper
Say, did any of you Boss Guys send my email address to Abuck?
I done did it right now.
Thanks Squawk for getting that info over to Mharper. We connected and before I could get back from Columbus she had it figured out. That is the kind of problem I like!
I have been burning up the highway between here and Columbus quite a bit since Step Dad died and I really don’t see any end in sight yet.
As all of you can probably identify with this? It is a real struggle sorting through all the stuff and deciding what to keep. It has been a wake up call for me though, and I have decided to start giving my stuff away now, (except tools) and when I’m called home it won’t be so difficult for my Heirs.
Even going to restructure my Will to be more streamlined and to the point. Step Dad made a major snafu in his, and it has really complicated things, in the process creating discord among the Co-Heirs.
All fun and games.
I still keep up with Hambone, but really can’t contribute. For awhile anyways. 🙂
Tedham, I’m about to subscribe to C&C because I really believe he is at the forefront of being a foundation for all future Lawsuits from the Covid Debacle. Thanks for the summary everyday. Sometimes your Cliff Notes version is all I have time for.
Later Folks
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Good evening gang. Well, while all of you are running from your smart azzed devices, I just brought another one into the house. My cheap, reconditioned smart phone got so smart that it ran out of memory, so I got another not quite as cheap recon phone that has double the internal memory that was delivered earlier this afternoon. Getting everything transferred over from the old to the new was not as much of a hassle as it could have been, there is still a bit of a learning curve and set up required for the new one. It’s the same brand and everything but a tad larger which is good. And when I got it all set up, there is still room for more on the internal memory now. I’ve loaded up on Alexa Echo devices in every room, smart lights, switches, and plugs everywhere that I can. My smart TV wants me to control it via Echo device or phone, but I’m sticking to the remote for it right now. I was visiting with my brother earlier and Alexa interrupted and asked us to repeat a couple of statements and speak more clearly, but that was no problem. My external camera system is free standing and wired, so it has a hard time transmitting pictures outside my own video monitor, and it will not connect to the net with a linux system – it requires a hard wired Winders system to be on line. Last time I had it on line, lightening struck the internet wire and blew up my router and everything attached by wire, including the recorder for the camera systems, so I’m sticking to wireless as much as I can even though I know that black suburban sitting down the hill from my house is sniffing everything I do and every place I go, but that just goes with the territory I guess. I’m getting messages and ads on my phone and computer for exotic coffees while at the same time from medical people telling my I drink too much coffee, so I don’t know who to believe.
If you keep your money in a bank or use a plastic card, the feds and everyone else who is interested already knows everything about you, so what difference does it make? If you have a toll tag on your car, they pretty well know. Allstate just sent an app for my phone that I installed which offers me a 10% discount on my insurance just for installing it. It also tracks my driving on every trip I take if I have my phone with me – including mileage, speed, stops, and everything else. But hey, I wanted that 10% discount.
Anyway, I think it’s pretty foolish to try to hide from all that stuff. If the government wants to get you, and they don’t have the necessary facts to support their contention, they’ll just make it up anyway, so why bother. I ain’t gonna be askert except for the government.
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Abuck –
May the discord in the family be resolved. Having been through the deaths of five elders in the span of under three years, I am well aware of the stress involved.
Like you, I’ve also decided to start decluttering at some point. If I get diagnosed with cancer or some other terminal illness, that’s when it starts. Otherwise, I guess I’ll just have to pick a date. I do like my books and stuff, so making that decision will be a challenge.
Going through the sorting of stuff and removal of excess is always sad. It’s what’s left of someone’s life, and I remember looking at stuff in a dumpster once and thinking “That xxx was important to him, but it means nothing to anyone else.” I believe I called it the “flotsam and jetsam of someone’s life”. For some reason, that made me very sad.
MIL was a bit of a hoarder of things she considered antique, though we learned that very little of it was of any real value. It would have upset her (and Hubby, had he realized how cheaply I was letting stuff go) to be a spectator of the garage sale I had in her house for months after her death.
And the Couch has had a front row seat of sorts to the family insanity that can arise.
So, God bless and good luck. Closing out someone’s life is never easy nor pleasant.
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Hey ya, Abuck.
I can sympathize.
Im still trying my best to make it the least complicated for those who will be left behind.
Its a very slow, frustrating process.
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Yep, the younger ones have no interest in our “stuff”, much less the stuff we have ended up from our elders. I’m trying to weed it out but, yeah.
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Double-black-pepper smoked sausage, Spicy Charro Beans, and a nice garden salad, Grandpa.
Texas Keto.
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Yummy supper tonight – I hadn’t made “hamburger steaks” recently, had thawed some ground beef to make taco meat for nachos but forgot that I didn’t have any taco seasoning mixed up, and no handy packets, so made hamburger steaks instead… topped with mushroom/brown gravy, mashed taters and “husband pleasin’ Ranch Style Beans” – nothing healthy about it, except the brown gravy mix was low sodium <VBG>
My Mama was a genetic pack rat, having grown up on a red-dirt farm during the deepest part of the “Great Depression” and had learned to never throw anything away because you might need it to make a “make-do repair/replacement” for something that broke… So trying to get thru her belongings when she no longer was using them was a long labor of love. I still remember one day when her baby sister and I were clearing out from the freezer all the margarine tubs of leftovers, with just enough mashed potatoes for her for one meal – seasoned just the way she liked them, while taking out the latest lawn and leaf bag to the dumpster we rented, it started pouring rain, and my aunt and I decided that was her older sisters crying up in heaven because of all the perfectly good “STUFF” we were throwing away… And I try to not give in to that genetic “hoarding” gene, when I look at things we may soon not be able to purchase anymore, and toss the things that are broken out instead of hiding them away to fix “someday” – it can be a full time job… But thanx for the reminder that we really do need to get over to see our lawyer buddy and get that will made… JIC…
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Tucker spent his whole opening monologue on Sheila Jackson Lee and the fabulous “white supremacy” bill she filed in the House.
I can’t stop laughing.
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I still have two sewing machines I need to deliver to the Dome, darn it.
Waiting for it to get cold enough to just keep on heading south to the big water after I drop them off.
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Yum supper you had there Shannon
But my BSue made a hamburger steak with brown gravy mushrooms, mashed taters and ranch beans. It is okay to have ranch beans with hamburger steak ain’t it?
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There seem to have always been ranch beans. Is there such a thing as farm beans ? Barn beans ? Shop beans ? Warehouse beans ? Pasture beans ?
Office beans sounds pretty awful.
God bless the saint who came up with Charro Beans,
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I’m going to assume the best that they weren’t Ranch Style brand beans.
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Shannon – I don’t know of any other brand that says “Husband Pleasin’ ” on the label besides the Ranch Style Brand… One of these days I might get brave and try the charro beans on him; but, some husbands don’t take well to change
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My wife would just shorten that to:
…but, some husbands just don’t take
If I bickered with what she cooked up. 😀
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I have been married long enough to have learned
“Thou shalt not complain about what is put before you to eat lest you wanna go to bed hungry.”
The book of Squawk, Chapter Food, verses 1&2
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Here’s blancolirio’s take on what could have been the most deadly air traffic accident in US history at JFK a couple of days ago. This is the kind of stuff that scares me – women and other affirmative action pilots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81zsojuCGRk
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As usual I’m late checking in but since Shannon and Squawk mentioned super we had a Cartuse? Chartuse? Chartreuse? well a dang plate with three cheeses, Bambi Summer Sausage and a couple of brands of crackers. I also fixed some crab dip from a recipe that I got from an old NASA buddy. The jury is still out on that though, kinda’ bland but don’t tell her, she meant well. I guess I should have made spinach salad that’s always a winner.
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BSue & SQK
Be not surprised if I show up at your door with some proper beans and sausage one of these days. That way you can blame me if he doesn’t like them.
🙂
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This is horrifying news from Townhall.
This is Part 1 of a four-part investigative series.
Content Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is advised.
A months-long Townhall investigation reveals disturbing new details about the affluent LGBTQ-activist couple accused of sodomizing their young adopted sons—now ages 9 and 11—and distributing “homemade” child pornography of the sexual abuse. Half a year after the shocking story made national news, Townhall is the only outlet following up on the criminal case in Georgia that has since seen zero headlines written about it. We’ve found that it’s far, far worse than what was first reported.
The local Georgia and national news media have smothered this story with a pillow.
Prepare yourself for the sick, demented facts of this story.
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We just finished up watching Tucker after viewing a crazy movie on Amazon. FWIT; There are some Bat Shickle Crazy movies being made these days.
Oh and Lil’ Dawg got her rabies shot today and as usual her face swelled up to the size of a baseball but the steroid shot the Vet gave her seemed to help a lot. She scarfed down a big supper and is already in the sack. And she only has a little swelling under her jaw now.
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Well I made the mistake of clicking on Texpat’s #83. MERCY! It’s too late to process this kind of evil so I’ll check it out tomorrow. That said; there will be a special place in Hell for those people. 🙁
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OMG, those poor kids.
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I’ll take your word for it.
Dont need any more details.
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Kinda like I never needed to watch video evidence of Muslims cutting the heads off of infidels, either.
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About bedtime out here. You all have a good evening. Nite nite, and have no fear – the spy ducks will always look out for you.
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Someone please let us know that the deviants who adopted some helpless boys are in JAIL!!! I don’t want to read it.
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RE: My #83
These freaks in Georgia are supposedly facing 9 life sentences. Let’s face it, their lives are going to end shortly after they get to prison.
It wasn’t my goal to shock people here but the fact this story has been buried by the media to protect the LGBT blah, blah, blah sector of society is the most outrageous angle of all. Let’s not publicize this because then no one will want deviants to adopt children anymore.
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Mom was a very accomplished artist and had a shop in Town at one time selling her Art and crafts.
There has been a bit of a tug-a-war around her Art. She was a book collector as well and has maybe 1,000 books. All good but the younger generation has no interest and rest of us don’t want anymore. There will be an Estate sale and I hope the books find a good home. Otherwise it will be off to the Dumpster.
The emotional drain is the hardest part for me because each item has a memory.
Thanks for all of you that have chimed in and more importantly recognizing that this world is just temporary and all we have accumulated is just stuff. 🙁
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#s 83 & 91 – ……….and B.A.C.A. rides………… *sniffle*
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George Soros, Klaus Schwab and now Bill Gates have declined to participate in Davos 2023.
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Correction: It appears Klaus showed up 9 hours late and rumors were he was ill. So far, he’s delivered one speech.
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