Thursday Post-Impressionist Open Forum in Which We Return to the Arts
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Heh.
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Fall asleep early in your chair, you wake up early in your chair, in that mysterious Morningland where grumpy old Akismet doesn’t like to be bothered with links. 🙂
Good morning.
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CNN Host Chris Wallace Utterly Humiliated As New Show’s Ratings Come In – Even Worse Than Imagined.
TV host Chris Wallace is having a rough start at CNN after abruptly leaving Fox News after 18 years.
While at Fox News, viewers criticized Wallace’s obvious and blatant bias on a number of occasions. Without evidence, he once accused Trump of “stoking racial divisions” among Americans.
Wallace also criticized Tucker Carlson’s reporting of the January 6th capitol riot while celebrating the inauguration of Joe Biden, claiming he delivered “the best inaugural address” since John F. Kennedy’s “Ask not” speech in 1961.
At CNN, his new show is called “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” but it seems even left-wing viewers aren’t tuning in to watch.
Sources say the show is failing to reach half a million viewers. According to Nielsen ratings, Wallace’s program received only 462,000 viewers in its desirable 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern time slot.
HA! The stupid Bastard didn’t know how good he had it on Fox. The shear volume of Fox listeners always propped him up. It’s funny that when he switched to the Communist News Network he was all giddy and just proud to be there, he was coming home. 😀
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I’m not believing that, I just slipped a Link past the Goalie and it’s not even 6 AM yet. 😉
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#3
Maybe it’s just the format doesn’t work well with a phone, but that is a strange website.
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Re: #7
I see now, the CFP website didn’t load the video correctly on my phone earlier so that took me to the Rebel News site. That site is laid out weird.
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Shhh, y’all be very quiet, wife has a stress test this morning so NO coffee but she is still sleeping. This is going to be scary.
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In a perfect scenario, I could scoop her up, still sleeping, take her to Tomball and lay her down on the examination table. I don’t imagine that will work.
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Roast in it’s hot water bath looks happy this morning.
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Roast you say? I’m about to brown a bottom round roast and put it in the crock pot. It’s just shy of 4 Lbs, prefect for the two of us. I’ll smash some taters, make gravy and fix some sort of veggies for supper. Oh and Kelly’s frozen biscuits also. FWIW; After COVID it’s hard to find a roast at the Pig that’s more than about 2+ pounds and that’s not big enough so I sometimes ask for a larger one, assuming the butcher is on duty.
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#3 SD: The upper management and the Board of Pfizer all should be indicted for crimes against humanity, fraud, and prolly a whole host of other things. They should not ever breathe free air again and they need a date with the hangman.
/no smiley
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Well, it’s awake now… We’ll see how this goes…So far so good.
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Jacinda Ardern To Resign As Prime Minister Of New Zealand
What a toxic, totalitarian, tyrannical witch she is. Ditto Wretched Whitmer and Kathy Hochul. What izzit about wimminzes when they attain power?!? Perhaps El Gordo will opine when he gets back from the Table of Knowledge.
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#14 GJT: Don’t speak unless you are spoken to.
/Just a safety precaution
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The Rebel News guys verbal beatdown of the Pfizer CEO was the last thing I saw before I went to sleep. I slept very well knowing those Canadians were on the job.
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15 BC
Let me translate Lucinda Ahern’s [Correction: Jacinda Ardern] announcement from her native language:
“I know what this job takes. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple.”
In English, this means: So many people now hate me in New Zealand, I can’t possibly get reelected.
“I am human, politicians are human. We give all that we can for as long as we can. And then it’s time. And for me, it’s time.”
In English, this means: I’ve accumulated enough money, connections and influence now I can become fabulously wealthy flying around on my private jet and giving vacuous speeches to boring people in interesting places and I no longer have to pretend to care about the peasant class.
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#18 TP: She needs to be elevated to the ‘lamp post decoration’ class.
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GOOD MORNING MRS TIMTOM!!!
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#19 Bones…. Aw HE_ _ to the NAHHHHHHH
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Quiet ride to the doc. Tread mill coming up momentarily…
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Now how many eggs did that snake lay in the walls?
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If New Zealand kept her in office all this time, I wouldn’t be optimistic on her replacement.
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After two relatively pain free days, the sciatica is back, but only at Tylenol level, not street drug level. Progress!
Hubby popped in. He and Handyman were busy nailing and sawing yesterday, and finished laying down the tubing for the radiant heat in the balcony area that overlooks the living room. Next up, pull old flooring out of the old house (from the 1930’s) and clean it up on the front porch, then bring it into the Dome to let it acclimate to the inside climate before laying it down.
After it’s been laid down, we get to tackle moving all of our crap around to clear out the master bedroom to repeat the process. Then we get to the future “kitchenette” area between the MB and my office. Since it’s been a few decades since it was planned out and built, it’s become a storage area. Mostly crafts and food.
The office is also full of years old boxes of records that I have to retain for the IRS, office supplies and equipment.
It’s gonna be a long haul, moving stuff around to lay flooring. But at least it’s finally getting done.
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Morning gang. Back from TOK, and temps have returned to more moderate levels. Looking for highs in the mid 50s today versus the low 80s here recently. Not entirely certain what all the day holds in store just yet, but now I should be able to sit down and work it out. Got the final bids on a new AC system for my kitchen area, and it still looks like the mini-split is the way to go. So I’ll be getting the details on that ironed out here shortly and putting that on the schedule. Meanwhile you all have a good day now. More later.
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Coffee in hand and the ever-so-sexy BGS strapped around me, let’s see if the C&C has any hiccups for me today:
NO EVIDENCE ☙ Thursday, January 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, and Happy Thursday! Hellz-a-poppin’, as reflected in today’s packed roundup: DeSantis aims to let hospital liability shield die on the political vine; Kiwi prime minister gracelessly bows out; new CNN hit job on Biden over Hunter’s business schemes; White House accidentally announces the NEW president; kooky Joe kneels for basketball pic and Kalama flees; 11th Circuit judges somewhat skeptical of CDC mask mandate; SADS celebrity deaths; and Rolling Stone aims to discredit the Republican congress and all their kooky new conspiracy committees.
That’s your roundup.
First up, it seems DeSantis is looking at legislation to remove Covid immunity from hospitals.
Link: EXCLUSIVE: Florida’s DeSantis Hopes to Let Hospital Immunity Related to COVID Die, Insider Says.
The ‘leak’ signals to Florida legislators that DeSantis would not sign a bill extending the much-hated law. Hopefully they take the hint. If necessary, we’ll help them remember.
I predict that, if the liability shield expires, hospital covid patients will suddenly and unexpectedly start having much better outcomes.
Gee, ya’ think? When people start facing the consequences of their actions, suddenly their actions change.
Childers touched on the NZ Prime Minister’s decision to leave her post. Today, there’s this:
Yesterday, the Guardian ran a story simply headlined, “Jacinda Ardern Resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand.” Curiously, the article spent several paragraphs glowingly recounting Ardern’s skillful early handling of a terrorist incident, but completely omitted any reference to her action-packed, three-year pandemic reign of terror, which will surely define her professional career.
It’s like glowingly describing Hitler’s fascinating painting hobby without mentioning World War II.
I’m glad I don’t read The Guardian. Then, this:
The second headline above says Ardern “knew her time was up.” I wonder who told her?
Indeed. Given the suddenness of her departure, no replacement in place before her announcement…I wonder what was going on behind the scenes?
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In a shocking development that will fuel theories the deep state is prompting Joe Biden to also resign, yesterday CNN actually reported that, while he was vice-president, Joe Biden DID have connections to some of Hunter’s business “associates.” My goodness.
And while it doesn’t come right out and say it, CNN hinted that Burisma wasn’t paying Hunter for business advice, and sort of set the table for “quid pro quo.”
When the left loses its mouthpiece, there should be some concern. Should be. Unless you’ve lived your whole political being untouchable and believing that you are some sort of demigod gracing the peons with your presence.
Let’s see. Right after the new year started, Joe’s classified document problem popped into existence, literally out of nowhere, and now THIS sleepy three-year-old story stands up on previously-concealed legs and terrifies the help. Up until five minutes ago, all these topics would’ve been strictly forbidden on state-controlled corporate media.
Is it just me, or is all this starting to resemble Andrew Cuomo’s final few months in office before he stumbled down the memory hole?
But Joe’s not worried. Unless his handlers tell him to be. Just shut up and pass the oatmeal.
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Is KJP prepping us for the inevitable?
Before I show you this next clip, I want you to know you are NOT crazy. It’s not you, it’s THEM. Now that’s clear, yesterday super double-diverse White House press lady Karine Jean-Pierre was uncharacteristically bragging about Kamala Harris’ calendar, and confused the press pool by referring to Kamala as “the President.”
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1615804949417365533/vid/480×270/YbYcnc7Mq9alpmgW.mp4?tag=16
I think that clip speaks for itself. Then Childers points this out:
Note that under the 25th Amendment, if the president leaves office, the new vice-president must be confirmed by a majority of both the House and the Senate. Just saying.
I didn’t know about the majority approval thing. I thought the VP automatically moved up. This could be interesting.
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I didn’t know about the majority approval thing. I thought the VP automatically moved up. This could be interesting.
I didn’t either, LBJ and Ford went through this process? I didn’t remember.
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This falls into Childers’ legal bailiwick – the CDC mask mandate:
ZeroHedge reported on the 11th Circuit mask appeal arguments yesterday in an article headlined, “Biden Administration Urges Judges To Lift Stay On CDC’s Airplane Mask Mandate.”
The questioning was mixed. One of the judges asked the lawyers “if the CDC doesn’t have the power to order measures like masks in the middle of a pandemic, what power does it have?”
My answer would have been: exactly! The CDC doesn’t have ANY ‘powers.’ The CDC was created to advise and recommend. Not boss us around based on their goofy psuedo-scientific theories about what might work. The CDC isn’t a replacement government that kicks in during health emergencies.
Based on the questions, if I had to guess, the panel will split 2-1 and avoid the more difficult authority question by finding that the CDC failed to give proper public notice before it issued the rule.
This whole CDC defining our rights thing needs to be adjudicated and punishments meted out.
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From the “Suddenly and Unexpectedly” department:
Earlier, child star from “Eight is Enough” was reported dead at home. Family reported “mental illness,” but details of the actual death were not released. There are tweets from Adam, happily reporting his jabs. So, quite possibly but not for sure. Either way, prayers for the repose of his soul.
American Idol star C.J. Harris, 31, suddenly and unexpectedly kicked the bucket this week of “an apparent heart attack.”
He died at home. He overcame a less than ideal childhood. Possible causes of death are climate change and/or gas stoves. We’ll never know.
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Childers wraps up with Rolling Stone’s hand wringing over the GOP’s efforts to investigate the origins of the WLR. Because evidence and science weren’t exactly what Rolling Stone was following when they were pushing the jabs.
It’s an interesting but long read, so I’ll leave that to you to follow up for yourself. You know where to go.
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Just to clarify, if the President leaves office, the VP becomes President. The part that requires congressional approval is the selection of a replacement to fill the office of VP, not the office of President.
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By george I think we are going to get out of this alive.
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In honor of todays open comments picture….. ALL TOGETHER NOW,
annuh one annuh two annuh three
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#34
Ah. I read that wrong.
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Geez Tucker tell us how You REALLY feel! (about the WEF that is)
https://rumble.com/v267iga-tucker-carlson-goes-to-town-roasting-the-wef.html
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What do you call a mischievous egg? ———A practical yolker!
If you think your chicken coop is haunted you better call the eggs-orcist!
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And, as always, I find the comments just as interesting and funny as Childers’ actual column:
I’ve noticed absolutely no side effects from refusing any of der wunder shots……except a higher sensitivity to extreme medical quackassery. My skin actually begins to crawl.
I break out in hives now at the term MODERNA.
“Modify/Everyones/Ribo/Nucleic/Messenger/Acids”!
Don’t even get me started on The Great Pfizer and those payouts for punatives and damages.
I think you’re onto something here! I like to refer to them as “Murderna.”
And Dyizer lol
I see a trend going on in all this Covid Shots deaths and it is the fact that everybody dies suddenly, unexpectedly and “from unknown causes”, my question here is, What happened to all the medical examiners in this country, did they all quit? no more autopsies are performed on death people here? Just asking for a friend.
Hey I feel’ya. Aunt had a stroke, BIL a mild heart attack, Mom collapsed and smashed her head and now wife getting screened for possible bone marrow cancer.
Sadness is a luxury for later though…
I still think that this sudden discovery of classified documents is being planted to make Biden a no-show to run again in 24 (no way poor gramps could run again anyway in my humble opinion). I don’t necessarily think it’s to push Kamala as the president, she’s also not polling well anyway and her trying to run on 24 would probably be a disaster for the DNC.
And how were these docs suddenly discovered? The cleaning lady was dusting the Biden library bookshelf when her duster suddenly made a folder that said “classified top secret” fall out of a shelf?
Trump doubles down on Operation Warp Speed. If true, screw him…
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-he-saved-100-million-lives-covid-vaccines-1774178
Mrna vaccines were being worked on years before covid hit but they didn’t pass muster in trials. In fact, the results were pretty bad. To me, when Trump brags about operation warp speed and crediting himself for lifting a bunch of “regulations” to allow quick production of a vaccine, what I really hear him say is that all the traditional testing, all of which are necessary steps to ensure effectiveness & safety BEFORE rolling out to the masses, were mostly thrown out the window.
Based on the work of Katherine Watt and Sasha Latypova, I would posit that a program like Operation Warp Speed would have been implemented no matter who was President.
I agree. Hypothetically, I can’t imagine any modern president not approving OWS. Easiest sell in the world to a president. “You can do something definitive about the pandemic and save lives with the magical power of vaccines and modern pharmaceutical technology” What D.C. politician is going to turn that offer down coming from a bunch of medical “experts”?
I think the Dems/RINOs screwed Trump permanently with the Covid plandemic. No way for Trump to get that stink off him.
I can’t see how he can win 2024, even if voting was fair.
Biden has become an embarrassment and a liability. He’s definitely on his way out.
Dan Bongino is particularly adept at connecting the dots. His podcast yesterday (available on Rumble) was illuminating. He connected Biden, Ukraine, the major players in Russiagate, etc. His background in law enforcement and the Secret Service is invaluable.
So Jacinda got on her broom and took flight.
Bye scarecrow witch your country despises you.
Fact check: true
I actually gave my husband a prediction about 2 months ago. I told him “Joe Biden is going to “DIE” of SIDS or he will be taken out of office around the 1st 2 years he’s been in office; and when that happens Kamala Harris will step into his shoes and become a New Face; as well ask the FIRST BLACK WOMAN to become president! It’s starting! Watch!
That way they can start phase 2 of this insane depolulation agenda and trust me when I say, things will get MUCH WORSE
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I’ll stop there, but there are a ton of interesting links in the comments.
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What happens to chickens who misbehave at school? ————They get eggs-pelled!
Did you know chickens make great musicians? ———–They have their own drumsticks!
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These puns are egggscruciating
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#41 – Bama-BelleBarb reading over my shoulder……
“Squawkster must be egg-cited!” 🙂
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Why is your chicken’s coop smelly?———– The fowl odor!
What do chickens order for dessert? ————–Coop-cakes!
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I fear the fear of the fear mongering more than the fear mongering itself
What does a chicken need to lay an egg every day? ———Hen-durance!
Everyone is a comedi-hen around here!
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I can’t look it up right now, but I assume Congressional approval on succession only applies in the case of Presidential removal by the 25th Amendment – not when a President dies. Which makes a whole lot of sense, if you think about it.
25th Amendment removal could theoretically entail some kind of conspiracy or coup.
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So, if Heels-up Harris fails to get Congressional approval, I guess McCarthy is in.
🙂
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#47 – No, the VP assumes the role of President, even temporarily, in the absence of the President. That’s because the VP is considered to be an elected individual even they both ran together. The replacement VP requires congressional approval. So if Bidet is shown the door, as appears to be happening as we speak, Heels Up takes the slot, and she can select her replacement VP subject to congressional approval. Time frame is not mentioned though. And of course, the Dems don’t have to play by the rules unless they work in their favor anyway, so there is always that to consider. And the Dems also control the Judiciary which would eventually have to rule at virtually all levels except the SCOTUS, so the litigation could go on for quite a while. The one thing that should be obvious to all is that the Dems are not happy with Bidet, and Heels Up smells blood in the water.
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Nothing says commitment to diversity like removing one race from the picture.
From El gordos link:
The university reported it had removed “the predominantly white male photos of [the] graduating class prominently displayed on the entrance” to the school in response to a question asking schools if they had changed their branding and communications to remove elements that could be viewed as “noninclusive,” the Examiner reported.
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My #46
Nope. The succession to the Presidency by the Vice President is automatic.
But the Congress must approve his selection of a new Vice President by majority vote.
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Kamala Harris’s speech writer had been revealed.
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Stop the fear mongering———– tell chicken jokes
Where will you find a chicken letter? ————In a hen-velope
Hey, my beautiful BSue. I can’t stop chicken you out!
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Why are there so many cockfights?
The hens keep egging them on.
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Auburn Buc-ee’s, Alabama’s fourth location, is opening soon.
Buc-ee’s is planning to open its Auburn location in April.
That’s according to the Opelika-Auburn News, citing the chain’s public relations firm.
It’s the Texas-based convenience store chain’s fourth location in Alabama, following Athens, which opened in November, Leeds and Robertsdale.
Several jobs are currently posted for the Auburn location, including managerial, stocker, cashier and other positions.
The $45 million travel center, with 120 gas pumps and the usual rollcall of Buc-ee’s treats, broke ground in November 2021 with a projected opening date of one year later.
Buc-ee’s is expected to generate up to $2.6 million in revenue annually for Auburn in city taxes. It’s also an important addition at exit 50 off Interstate 85.
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Today’s hamousonian
Fearmongering chickens edition:
Hamous Choosy Douchebags and Hipsters alike choose this dog, and there isn’t any grain present in their food. They use Quinoa grown in sustainable collectives created through cultural placemaking and, of course, free range chickens fed on a diet of reclaimed yeast from the brewing of PBR. Hamous
The jig is up. The game is rigged. The horse has left the barn. The chickens flew the coop. It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine, because my give-a-damn’s busted. Now I’m just waiting for the end of the world
Did you hear about the chicken who graduated high school? She got a hen-ourable mention.
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I’ve been meaning to tell y’all about my wife’s chicken dilemma but haven’t had the time. It begin back in the spring when the electric fence wire broke and the bobcat made off with 3 hens and my wife’s prized Rhode Island Red rooster. Since the cat was scaling the fence I added a line along the top and that was when I discovered the wire to the bottom was broke. Lizz, the crazy blonde from across the creek gave my wife a Rhode Island Red hen with several chicks and and old ancient rooster (mixed game bird). When the little ones started getting bigger I discovered that we had 3 roosters in the bunch and I told my wife that’d never do, one would likely kill or injure the others and he might not fair so well himself. I told her to pick out her favorite and we’d put the other 2 in the freezer. But she was having none of that and set out to find them homes. FFW to a few months ago and the new Rhode Island Red and Buff Buff Orpington ganged up on the Game rooster and murdered him, old rooster had passed away due to natural causes. By now my sister had got tired of her Dominique Rooster attacking her every time she went inside the yard and sold him to a lady that wanted him for breeding stock, (he was gorgeous) so we gave her the Buff Orpington so he now has his own Harem. He’s already got two of the hens lined up but he’s having trouble getting the 4 four others away from the old Matriarchal Guinea Hen.
Life on the farm. 😀
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Texmo
Now that was funny right there.
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My#57 I should mention that the two roosters had worked out a compromise, The Rhode Island Red was the Cock O the Walk and the Buff Orpington was to leave all the hens alone lest he tote another Azz whooping. It was funny to watch them outside. The alpha rooster and his small harem would be digging about around the tree roots and the other rooster was 10-20 feet away, always.
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The late, great comedian Lewis Grizzard had a whole chicken monologue that included a line about a boneless chicken farm where the poor birds couldn’t even stand up.
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Lewis Grizzard was one of the all time greats, I think that I have all his books. Sadly he left us way too early. I think he was only about 50 when he died. 🙁
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I didn’t know that Squawk was an eggspert on chickens…
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Back when BCS and I were good friends, I had to tend to her chickens when she was out of town. She warned me about the rooster, and had left a thick pole by the gate. Thank goodness.
That sucker was STRONG. I got inside and did what I needed, all while he was going all gamecock on me, feather and wings outstretched. I kept pushing him away with that pole. He finally attacked – the pole. Dang near knocked it out of my hands. It took both arms to keep that pole between us as he kept trying to spur it. I’m glad he focused on the pole and not me, he could’ve done some serious damage.
That was the last time I volunteered for that duty.
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I remember when our Rhode Island Red rooster attacked me. My mom actually ran over, horrified, and save me from serious injury. I was about….7? years old at the time.
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61 Super Dave
Grizzard was a comic genius, but his personal life was a depressing disaster. He ruined his marriages and sacrificed all his friendships because of his chronic alcoholism. Everyone who knew him tried to save him, but none succeeded and Lewis finally drove them all away. His life was as sad as his professional work was crazy funny.
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Super Dave
You need to turn those stories into a soap opera and we can incorporate that into a dinner theater section of Super Daves Tractor Emporium and Cafe. We could be the thespian destination of Alabama tuh boot.
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Jeff Bezos’ parents insisted on investing $250K to buy stock in his “highly risky” business idea back in 1995 and now they’re worth $30 billion. He warned them he might fail. Bezos wanted though to make sure if he did lose all their money he could still come home for Thanksgiving.
Hah.
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STOP THE PRESSES !
The dumbest woman in America has been revealed in the New York Times.
No, it’s not Sheila Jackson Lee or Joy Behar. It’s not even Joy Reid or even Maxine Waters.
An American fashion designer who spent 16 years in Shanghai has published an essay in the New York Times highlighting the virtues of raising her children under the watchful and authoritarian eye of the Chinese government.
and,
Kaye acknowledged the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party would insert itself into family life, be it by controlling what her kids ate or by dictating the number of hours they should sleep at night.
‘In China, government co-parenting begins in the womb,’ she wrote, referring to the limits on how many children parents were allowed, which have since been relaxed.
She added that not long after enrolling her kids in state-run schools it started controlling how they should live.
plus,
Kaye saw merit in Chinese censorship too. ‘Raising kids in China was a plus in other ways — such as the heavy censorship,’ she wrote.
The government imposed limits on how much time her kids could spend playing video games and it saved them from accessing problematic material on the internet.
Not only that, the state’s supervision would keep her daughters safe as they navigated the sprawling but relatively safe Shanghai subway.
This Kaye woman and her husband were too busy with their own lives to actually raise their own children and were perfectly happy to let a murderous, totalitarian government do it for them.
Liz Wolfe at Reason.com writes the following:
“We sometimes felt as if our children were on loan to us for evenings and weekends, to be delivered back to school each weekday,” writes Kaye. “At times, our girls would repeat propaganda,” she admits, but she thinks the benefits reaped by their traditional Chinese schooling—respect for elders, obedience, morning calisthenics—were worth it.
What Kaye doesn’t mention is that all this can be accomplished in the U.S. (minus the parroting of CCP propaganda) via a mixture of healthy discipline and free-range parenting. Parental controls that block a kid’s access to certain sites are freely available for purchase, and parents can supervise their children’s web access and screen time.
Why is it so many “fashion designers” seem to be such idiots ?
And even if Chinese children are safer from freelance criminals looking to shove them into unmarked vans and cart them off, the government’s own unmarked vans are a bigger threat to kids who deviate from the party line.
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Did anybody here watch the video clips of Al Gore and John Kerry speaking at Davos ? They were both so pathetic in their individual ways. Gore seemed completely unhinged and Kerry was incoherent.
I can’t recommend enough Tucker’s monologue from last night.
Go watch it at Katfish’s #38 link.
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My son-in-law, John Baumgartner, stirred up investors on Wall Street a couple of days ago with his “buy” recommendation for Oatly stock, a Swedish company that makes oat-based non-dairy alternatives. Their stock shot up 17% so CNBC called him for an interview but he was with clients in Boston yesterday.
He did do a Yahoo Finance online interview this morning.
John is very quick on his feet and articulate.
You also get to here his opinions on Beyond Meat, the plant based crap. John has backed off his short-term optimism about the fake meat company most likely because of my relentless teasing him about promoting, well, uh…fake meat.
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A man runs to the psychiatrist and says, “Doctor, you’ve got to help me. My wife thinks she’s a chicken!”
The psychiatrist asks, “How long has she had this condition?”
“Two years,” says the man.
“Then why did it take you so long to come and see me?” asked the psychiatrist.
The man shrugs his shoulders and replies, “We needed the eggs.”
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500 dolla please, I remove straw.
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I had a customer complain about a rental machine beeping and out of hydraulic fluid when driving up a ramp. I asked him to show me, he went up the ramp, alarm beeps, fluid not showing on gauge. “See, alarm goes off because no hydraulic fluid.”
Diagnosis: Beeping was out of level alarm and fluid disappearing from sight gauge with machine at an incline.
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CBDCs Who has rolled them out at some level and who is looking.
Behind a pay wall the Washington Post said they were coming ready or not or like them or not.
Here is a good alternative. to the WSJ story
Back to our chicken joke programming
What’s a great place for a chicken to sight see? ———-Stone-hen-ge.
I know I know I am just a regular comedi-hen.
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Too funny. I couldn’t quit watching.
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Curry vehicle must’ve been a drug car.
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I guess my favorite is the guy who cut out a piece of the frame to install a power steering pump.
And the guy who wanted a trailer hitch installed.
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The guy who filled his headlights with washer fluid?!? Some people need to simply sell their car and use Uber.
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The exhaust system installed by friend had me on the floor. It looked like the guy used a mig. Wrong wire. Or he didn’t turn on the gas. And just kept popping little pieces of wire on it.
I really was laughing out loud.
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Governments Stealing People’s Property
Tyler has spent the last several years fighting the government from an assisted living facility after falling $2,300 behind on her property taxes. No one disputes that she owed a debt. What is in dispute is if the government acted constitutionally when, to collect that debt, it seized her home, sold it, and kept the profit.
If that sounds like robbery, it’s because, in some sense, it is. But it’s currently legal in at least 12 states across the country, so long as the government is doing the robbing.
In 2010, Tyler moved out of her Minneapolis condo, which she owned, in response to a series of local incidents that made her feel unsafe. That included a nearby shooting. She relocated to an apartment in a different neighborhood but struggled to afford both her rent and the property taxes on her condo, accruing that $2,300 sum.
The vast majority of what Tyler ended up owing, however, was not the property tax itself. It was the additional $13,000 in penalties, interests, and fees added by the government, upping her total to about $15,000—more than a 550 percent increase.
Minneapolis seized this lady’s home, demanded $15K in payment, sold the $93K condo for $40K and kept the $25,000 equity. Ms. Tyler lost locally in court and appealed to the Eighth Circuit where she again lost wherein the opinion was written by a G.W. Bush appointee, Judge Steve Colloton.
For the last several years, it has been unclear if Tyler will see an end to her case or if her legal challenge—with the bureaucratic hurdles that prolong such disputes for years—will outlive the 94-year-old.
She got closer on Friday, when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear her appeal, giving the highest rung of the judiciary the opportunity to end home equity theft for everyone.
“This case identifies a pressing national problem that has festered for decades in the lower courts,” reads her petition. “This Court should put the controversy to rest.”
There are 12 states that still allow this legalized theft of property. Hopefully, SCOTUS will finally put an end to this.
In a different and yet similar suit argued in the Sixth Circuit, Judge Raymond Kethledge ruled opposite of Colloton and struck down the practice the states covered by the Sixth Circuit.
“The Michigan statute is not only self-dealing: it is also an aberration from some 300 years of decisions by English and American courts, which barred precisely the action that Oakland County took here,” wrote Judge Raymond Kethledge. “The government may not decline to recognize long-established interests in property as a device to take them.“
When Anthony Kennedy retired and left his seat open, Trump came down to a very short list for nominees. The three names were Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge.
I understand Trump wanted to hold Barrett for the Ginsburg seat, but I have a strong feeling we would have been better served by having Judge Kethledge on the Court.
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My thrift shop lady just texted me that they got a lot of canning jars in. I told her to go ahead and put them out, since I was trying not to drive too much. It was sweet of her to think of me.
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The Tyler lady story was on one of the radio shows yesterday afternoon. The lawyer did the interview. She is pursuing the case because “while she’s (victim) not in danger of being homeless, there are countless others who will be if this practice isn’t stopped”.
God bless Mrs. Tyler, for expending her time, money, and energy into this case. I’m guessing she has either plenty of money or plenty of friends with money.
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Just got to see a good cat fight – with real cats, and it was a real territorial fight, not one of those mating rituals. I keep a little cat food out on the patio every morning, and the regulars stop by for a bite or two, sometimes more, on their way out to do their daily chores. Well, a tabby dropped by and was eating. Meanwhile, waiting in the wings, was my neighbor’s calico who like to come by every day on her hunting rounds. Now I’ve got a big tom who used to go by the name of Crispy Too until he disappeared in the winter freeze of ’21, but he’s been back for a few months now. He is the tamest of the ferals and will let me touch him but that’s about all. When he shows up to an empty bowl, he sits out there looking in the window until I come along and put out food, which he eats a bit and then goes off marking everything in his path from the food bowl, the water trough, the weeds that grow out back, and anything else he feeling inclined to mark – so I just assume that he is top cat in my neighborhood – but I digress. Feral Tabby is eating away and Calico comes flying out of nowhere with a full on flying take down tackle that Fritz Von Eric or one of his kind would approve of. They lock up with teeth and claws, both screeching like you would not believe, fur flying in all directions, and rolling around. I got up to take a look, and they rolled around a bit more – then the feral tabby saw me inside and took off running for the fence. Calico stood up, dusted herself off, and sat there giving the tabby the stink eye until she disappeared into the woods. Calico has been around for years, so I suppose she has a claim on this property too between my house and my neighbor who actually owns her. After a few minutes, she drifted off back to minding her own business.
So the along comes Crispy Too, the tom. I guess cats much give off some scents when they fight because he was all interested in smelling the ground around where the two had tussled, and he was meowing loudly all the while. I got up and got him a little food to refill the food bowl, and he came over and sniffed at it, but then went back to exploring the battlefield and meowing – I guess he was sorry that he missed the fight or something. After a few minutes, he came up to the food bowl, had a few bites, then went over to the place where the fight had been and sprayed it all down real good. Then he headed back to the woods too.
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Hey Texpat
Speaking of Kissinger. Do you remember Harvard Lampoon’s lampooning of Kissman back in the 70s’?
Somebody else says it’s only Kissinger’s face “on the body of a cab driver we met near Central Park.”
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This is not good
Poszar Was Right: Saudis Confirm Non-Dollar Oil Trade Plans In Davos
Earlier this month, former NY Fed repo guru Zoltan Pozsar wrote one of his most important reports of 2022, in which he described how Putin could unleash hell on the Western financial system by demanding that instead of dollars, Russian oil exporters are paid in gold, effectively pegging oil to gold and launching Petrogold.
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Here’s an article outlining how the Dems are able to use a Republican as Speaker of the Texas House to control the agenda. Happens time and time again, and the Republicans still can’t seem to figure it out. https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-gop-speaker-dade-phelan-is-teaming-up-with-democrats-to-kill-priorities/
Once again you have to ask yourself why even bother to vote Republican. -
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76 Squawk
I cut and pasted the WSJ article I linked to here that no one could open apparently. I sent it to you via email since obviously I can’t post the whole thing here.
If anybody else wants a copy, let me know.
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86 Squawk
Kissinger is 99 years old now and that photo came out nearly 50 years ago. I can’t believe I’m old enough to remember that craziness.
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Texpat
#91
I dunno what triggered that memory into my little brain. BSue is calling my therapist as I type to get me an appointment.
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88 El Gordo
If you think that’s bad, this really infuriates me.
An alliance of 18 urban and suburban mayors from across Texas is promoting a policy agenda for this year’s legislative session that emphasizes “local control,” a term often used by elected officials to describe policies that benefit local governments, not local citizens.
Texas’ Big City Mayors is a “bipartisan coalition” of mayors from the state’s most populous cities, representing nearly one-third of Texas residents.
While some of the mayors identify as Democrats and others as Republicans, their agenda shows unified support for policies that empower government at the expense of citizens.
and,
Arlington Mayor Jim Ross said mayors would oppose “any legislation that tries to take local control away from us.”
Ross also hit on another popular theme among the mayors, saying, “We need to have legitimate gun control enacted in this state.”
Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio said he appreciated comments by Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan during his swearing-in that “opened the door for some responsible conversations” on gun control.
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Hey, I remember the nude photo of Burt Reynolds. I don’t recall what magazine it was in, but I was working for the US Geological Survey in Austin back then — 1969-1974 and the photo was 1972. Most of the chemists in that lab were women, and got a kick out of the photo being passed around. So that was 50 years ago!
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#94 MHarper 42 – IIRC, it was Cosmopolitan. I had a friend who worked at the public library in the periodicals department. We looked and decided he looked mostly like a grizzly bear…
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Shannon, we had to make a quick stop at HEB to pick up guac to go on the nachos we’re having for supper tonite, and, low and behold, whilst picking up an extra can of black olive slices to go on them, a can of the much vaunted Charro Beans jumped into our basket. Won’t be doing a review tonite – didn’t want to have to mash the suckers and re-fry them <VBG>
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Ro-tel tomatoes, onion and what is that smell good herb Mexicans use? Yeah, some of that, mix in the charro beans and he’ll love you for life.
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97 GJT – if it’s cilantro, it doesn’t come into our home. I’m one of those “freaks of nature” to whom the flavor of cilantro is way too reminiscent of soap…
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No, no, no – don’t mash and refry Charro Beans. They have to be savored the first time just as they are right out of the can.
Personally, I don’t add anything to them. I suppose you could after a while.
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David Crosby died. Guy was a giant basshole but a dang great musician and vocalist.
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Hope you bought the spicy version. I’ve never had the plain.
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97 GJT – if it’s cilantro, it doesn’t come into our home.
Of course it’s one of those homes… 😛
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Hey GramPaw what’s fer supper? Well I’ve been a little remiss in fixing a real supper lately and I’ve been wanting to fix a Beef Pot Roast so when I found a nice roast at the Pig yesterday I just had to get it. I put it in the Crock Pot this morning and them about 4 PM I smashed some taters, made gravy, biscuits, and warmed up some green peas and mixed veggies. Some kind of good eating right there. 😉
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Cilantro haters are ubiquitous. It’s very scary.
The Texas Commission On Taking Away Your Texan Card has been warring over the issue for years.
That Commission occupies the former office of the No Beans In Chili guys. But, of course, that was settled decades ago.
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Super Dave @103
You are killing me here. Reading your chicken story above I can see us turning that into a soap opera and present it in the Super Dave Tractor Emporium Cafe and Dinner Theater. We could have a running story and take Alabama by storm. Man i see shameless amount of gross profits rolling in.
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During the last Legislature, we at least passed a law stating that if you publicly admit to hating cilantro, it’s perfectly legal and required that the rest of us look at you with a very intense side-eye.
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105 SQK
I have dibs on the Chicken Petting Zoo concession.
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I love cilantro…… lovely wife is the problem child
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I decided I had to go to Kroger and get some of the 20 lb bags of dry dog chow that is the main thing I put out for the raccoons and possums. Was very disappointed that there wasn’t a single 20 lb bag of that brand on the empty shelves. It’s been a year since I had to take a 50 lb bag of it, but that’s what was available today. Fortunately there was a big guy filling phone-in orders in the pet food aisle, and he put a 50 lb bag on the bottom of my cart. As I completed my list, I was keeping an eye out for any of the bag boys I know but didn’t see any of them. But the unfamiliar guy who was sacking my purchases was over 6 feet tall and agreeable to go with me to my car to get the 50 lb bag into the trunk. It was worth a $1 tip to get it on board. Once I get home, I have a hand cart on which I am able to move the 50 lb bag into the utility room.
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I finally gave in and did an intense thirty minute dive into the study of Sous Vide.
It sounds very interesting and almost….uh..logical.
But yet, I still have one major question.
WHY?
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After my shopping trip, I was conflicted between a late lunch and an early nap. Went through my canned food shelves and picked a microwavable Wolf Brand chili meal-for-one, plus a handful of tortilla chips, washed down with chilled green tea. Good fast meal. Then burrowed in for my nap, with 2 purring cats.
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#109 – Amazon is your friend and will leave that 50# bag of dog food on your front porch. Walmart and most larger stores will do the same thing now. Given that you are still recovering from some lower extremity problem to begin with, I’m going to chastise you, gently this first time, for not taking advantage of these services. Former BFF was hard headed the same way, but get those people to bring their stuff to you. Easy peasy.
#110 – More on the sous vide from my limited experience. The slow cooker and the Instapot will both make cheaper cuts of meat tender, but in both cases, the meat can become stringy, falls off the bone but has not texture. The sous vide will take that same tough cut and make it tender, but it will retain its texture and can be sliced however you like it. I equate it to more like eating steak than pulled beef or pork. That’s the main difference that I see. A lot of people do steaks in the sous vide, but it seems like a waste of time to me since you can grill a steak and have a tender cut without all the hassle. Butt, I have done the sous vide on some thick cut sirloins which tend to be a little tougher, and I was very pleased with the outcome there. Sirloin is my favorite for taste, but it does tend to be chewy – the sous vide takes care of that problem and still leaves a medium rare steak behind which is both tasty and tender.
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I understand, EL Gordo.
It just seems to be a lot of extra effort for a very narrow improvement of results.
Keep in mind that though I love great food, I generally consider cooking and cleanup to be a royal pain in the ass. (Quite literally, at times)
And the more time I spend on my feet, the less payoff there is.
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The Sous Vide roast experiment is over. Very good but not worth the hassle. As ELG said, roast did retain its texture, not stringy but very tender. Had good flavor but not wildly better than crockpot or oven. So – did ribeyes Sunday (as ELG said) absolutely waste of time for a good cut of beef, roast so-so. Glad I only borrowed it lol.
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Cilantro is like garlic and maybe curry, a little goes a long way. My dad loved garlic and put it on everything and sometimes it was just too overpowering. That said I love garlic and cilantro but I try to be careful not to over do it.
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Bring on the Soylent Green wafers!
So I can quit dreaming about cooking on a gas stove.
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FWIW; We have wild garlic that has been growing around the Farm house for as long as I can remember and my dad brought some up here and planted them along the chicken yard fence. The fence and chicken house is long gone but the garlic is still there. My wife tends to it but I tell her that’s not necessary you can’t kill it.
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Cleanup to be a royal pain in the ass.
Yup, we loaded up the dishwasher for the first time in a while. With the the crock pot and the dishes for the gravy and meat the dishwasher takes care of the grease.
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One more thing before I go, if you missed Tucker tonight you have to look up his monologue, one of the best ever.
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Tucker rarely disappoints.
Had the first Latin class of this reboot session. As soon as I could, I put the Tucker replay on the TV.
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Dolly Parton turned 77 years old today.
And you think you’ve got back problems.
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#112
EG, today was a good example of why I will always do my shopping in person. I went there wanting to get 3 of the 20 lb bags of dog chow. But I rarely shop with a list, I am there to see what is on the shelves that appeals to me. If I can’t get what I wanted, I’ll figure out what will work until my next trip. I don’t regard this as a defect, that’s who I am and how I do it.
My damaged calf muscle is fully recuperated. Who knew — I sure didn’t! — that any damaged muscle, much less one that is needed for a biped to live its life, was able to repair itself. I haven’t needed or used the cane at all this month.
Thank you for your suggestions.
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So I can quit dreaming about cooking on a gas stove.
Didn’t think of that! Score one for the Sous Vide!
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I know someone reported on the gay male couple sexually abusing their two adopted boys a few days ago.
I just read the story on Townhall. These…these…pond scum were actually trying to prostitute their kids and distribute porn involving the kids.
Yeah, nine life sentences, consecutively. In general population.
And lots and lots of therapy for those two little boys. Traumatized for life.
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I been trying to save this for an opportune time but I won’t remember it when it does.
Does a bear poo in the woods?
Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?
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Well that was unfortunate timing.
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Yes, little pa’dnah, many years ago we lived in a time when thousands recrossed our southern border to go back home for Christmas.
December 2022 saw a minimum 250,000 illegals cross north.
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Night all. More tomorrow.
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The border has been eggstinguished by our usurping political eggheads.
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Re: Today’s OC
I’m considering printing it and hanging it on the wall.
A very famous, old, and possibly dark painting.
With a chicken face slipped in.
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It’s a home run, WB.
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Hasn’t it occurred to Texans that the reason the French came up with “Sous Vide” cooking is because they have been eating rotten, horrible beef for centuries ?
Why does anyone think the French came up with all those sauces and heavy herbal marinades ?
It’s all about hiding the texture and taste of worst beef in the world.
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Yes, indeed.
The best Tucker I have seen to date.
God bless him.
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I never saw anybody boil meat until I married a Yankee.
Very strange.
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Even Mom never tried to pulled that.
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Not beef, anyway.
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Ok ok ok. Thought I was getting all hip. At least I didn’t buy one.
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I do like french fries, toast and dip though I don’t care what y’all say.
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And dressing.
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