I found this in the comments of the Coffee and Covid site. This was one of my favorite dancing songs way back when. I think this is one of the better parodies I’ve seen:
Weekend Ear Worm Open Comments
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We’ve made the weekend and we’ll soon have January in the rear view mirror. Not sure what I’ll be up to today, yesterday I finished up a large shelf (11′ X 3′) in the new Pole Barn and I’m not sure exactly where I might put the next one.
Mornin’ Gang
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Slowly suiting up to roll north for more new HEROs.
Yall enjOY!
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Posted without comment;
Longtime Fox News Channel Executive Dead At 47.
Fox News Senior Vice President of News & Politics Alan Komissaroff died in his home.
He suffered a heart attack at 47 years old.
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Morning Gang… and Super Dave #3 – OUCH
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From Lawrence Person up in Austin:
“Carte blanche public pronouncements by district attorneys that laws we have on the books will be ignored renders the authority of the Legislature to determine what is and isn’t a crime, moot,” state Rep. David Cook (R-Mansfield) said in a statement provided to The Texan. “It is my intention to rein in renegade district attorneys and ensure the rule of law is respected in Texas.”
Cook’s House Bill (HB) 1350 — with an identical version filed in the Senate by Sen. Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) — would forbid district or county attorneys with criminal jurisdiction to “adopt or enforce a policy under which the prosecuting attorney prohibits or materially limits the enforcement of any criminal offense … [or] as demonstrated by pattern or practice, prohibit or materially limit the enforcement of any criminal offense.”
The comments get interesting on the possible unintended consequences of this bill.
Endorse with care — Gov. Pritzker in Illinois would love a law like this that would allow him to remove the county sheriffs and states attorneys who refuse to enforce the new idiotic gun law and the new even more idiotic no bail law.
plus,
Not that Boss Ogg is a model DA, but she’s hardly the problem in Harris County when compared to judges like Hill. This distinction is important, because it will be nearly impossible to do, as Kirk suggests above, hold judges accountable by removing qualified immunity. You have to impeach them, and that’s not easy.
Also, a problem is lack of jail space. The officers I talk to in Harris County talk about spending entire shifts at Harris County intake that they are reluctant to arrest for anything not yet violent.
and,
The removal from office provision sounds good, but as a commentator points out, what happens if the Gov is of the other political party? The Texas governor’s office under the post-Reconstruction Constitution of 1877 is weak by design, and that’s served the state well. I’d be loathe to change that.
The more measured approach would be to allow the AG to cite and fine rogue DA’s who refuse to enforce the law, *and* for the AG’s office (including special prosecutors appointed by the AG) to be able to take over prosecutions that the DA’s office refuses to undertake (with the bill for such prosecutions deducted from the County’s sales tax collections [which are collected by the state Comptroller’s office]). I.e., “if you won’t do it, AG will appoint someone who will, and the cost will comes out of YOUR budget.”
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Morning gang. Here’s the WIP: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/the-week-in-pictures-hot-stove-edition.php
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WIP, this one made me giggle. Not sure why. 😉
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Emily Foxhall on January 19 at the Texas Tribune.
Public power generation and systems are not simple subjects given the stakes for both suppliers and end-users. However, it seems to me two years is ample time to come up with a plan to reform ERCOT. What the hell have they been doing for the last 23 months ? Second question, is the PUC some kind of private fiefdom who will ” will let the Legislature review its plan” before they hand down their ex cathedra declarations to the peasant masses ?
The Public Utility Commission voted Thursday to make a substantial change to the state’s electricity market in a controversial effort to get the whole system to be more reliable. The agency said it will let the Legislature review its plan before moving forward with putting it in place.
The idea, known as the “performance credit mechanism,” is a first-of-its-kind proposal. It’s meant to help produce enough power when extreme heat or cold drives up demand and electricity production drops for various reasons — such as a lack of sun or wind to produce renewable energy or equipment breakdowns at gas- or coal-fired power plants.
Under the new concept, which still has many details to work out, companies such as NRG Energy would commit to being available to produce more energy during those tight times. The companies would sell credits to electricity retailers such as Gexa Energy, municipal utilities and co-ops that sell power to homes and businesses.
A first read indicates the only solid supporters of this plan are electric generation companies. Others are skeptical or opposed.
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Super Dave #7
Sheesh if it ain’t Hal or Akismet messing with you it is WIP. I got Error 1011nd when I clicked your link.
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Hubby went to Tomball to participate in his annual continuing ed to keep his master license legit. He just called me – the class is next week. He was going to show our vacancy in Bryan tomorrow, but he called the prospective tenant and they’re going to meet up today. Making lemonade, since he was halfway there already.
I actually made some breakfast to go with my coffee. Many mornings, it’s just coffee and then brunch or even lunch.
So breakfast is eaten, just sipping on my coffee now…gonna check out El Gordo’s wip after
MISPLACED ☙ Saturday, January 21, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
It’s a longer roundup than normal:
Today we learn ‘her’ private parts are always in the last place you look. It’s Saturday! Welcome to the Weekend Edition. Your roundup includes: a dramatic new trend of vaccine regret; a Monkeypox update; asymptomatic, negative-testing covid is killing Australians in droves; a Washington state medical board hit on covid doc Ryan Cole; NPR unintentionally gives evidence for vaccine-induced viral escape; what ‘rare’ really means, in the context of side-effects; Ukraine is winning so good we’re scrambling to send them more and deadlier weapons, including Senator Lindsey Graham; Pentagon loses a wallet with $220 million dollars in it; Scottish Sun headline editors wrestle with their greatest headline-drafting challenge yet; and your dose of comedy to get you through the weekend.
Now for the news:
First off, growing jab regret. The first is “Israeli professor Schmuel Shapira, MD, MPH, whose bio includes this self-description: “Physician, scientist, Head of Israel Institute for Biological Research for 8 years, Colonel (Ret) Terrorism, Risk and Crisis Management.” ” He explains that despite his bona fides, he was swayed by public pressure which overcame his professional reluctance. “…he was a victim of the government’s military-grade psyops campaign”.
Imagine the pressure felt by “regular folk”. I don’t blame those that succumbed to the lies about the numbers. I’m not even angry at the folks that swallowed the bait about “safe” jabs – the psyop was strong and unrelenting. (Ben Shapiro also stars as a jab regretter in the C&C). My anger is reserved for those who tried to punish, oppose, and impose upon others who didn’t follow the agenda, and for those who actually knew better and yet continued the pressure. Those latter folks deserve, at the minimum, many years of jail time and huge, huge, huge fines.
Lastly, Elon Musk reported concerning side effects from his second jab, and reported that he lost a cousin to the juice.
RIP, all those who are no longer with us.
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I know what the problem is, but no one wants to deal with the solution.
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Childers reports that the monkeypox pandemic is over, at least here in the states. The side effect of that is that
“festivals” have made a comeback.Nope, not talking about your local church function. These “festivals” are definitely not family friendly. [Insert disturbing picture here.]
NEXT UP: Aussie news outlets are finally starting to report the spike in deaths. 17% of heart attack deaths, to be exact. But it’s not the jabs – it’s the effects of the lockdown.
The LOCKDOWN. Like staying inside your home is going to make your heart give out?
The reporter cited a STUDY which helpfully reinforced the fact that you can’t blame anyone:
The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, found that hospitalisations of people with myocarditis and pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, heart attacks, and stroke were significantly more frequent after Covid. ‘The estimated risk of myocarditis or pericarditis after SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is 18–21 times as high as for uninfected people,’ the study stated.
The researchers didn’t leave anything to chance. They say they checked the jabs, and guess what? Among all their other mysterious, untested advantages, the jabs are good for stopping strokes! Especially the kind caused by blood clots:
The study also found that vaccination can reduce the risk of non‐respiratory complications of Covid, including ischaemic stroke.
It’s nice about the clot strokes, if you believe that, but what about the heart attacks? Was there any link between jab status — which they obviously checked — and heart attacks? The Mail didn’t say.
All Ozzies are recommended to get a full heart evaluation. ALL of them. So get Kraken.
So glad I’m not an Australian these days. Or Chinese.
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Onward to prosecuting (not just persecuting) doctors who were treating their patients to the best of their ability. Prepare for a slow burn.
Medpage Today ran a story Thursday … “Pathologist Ryan Cole, MD, is facing discipline for negligence, spreading false statements.”
Idaho doc Ryan Cole is a hero. He is one of the original and most active warriors against the military-pharmaceutical complex’s jab operation. Cole is courageous, charismatic, and well-spoken, effective not just in getting hard information out during the entirety of covid censorship, but in successfully treating hundreds or thousands of covid patients.
Now a bunch of drooling morons on the Washington state Medical Commission … has sent Dr. Cole a nasty letter giving him one chance to explain himself before taking “disciplinary action” related to his Washington state medical license.
The gist of their two main complaints is that Dr. Cole was negligent, because he (successfully) prescribed ivermectin to his patients instead of Remdesivir and the ventilator, and second that he “injure[d] the public health” by telling people about alternative treatments and running down the vaccines.
They especially seem chuffed that Dr. Cole called the jabs “clot shots.”
/snip
So. Two can play at this game.
I am hereby giving the Washington Medical Commission one chance to explain itself for negligently spreading false information about the safety and efficacy of the mRNA injections. …They are $2,500-a-night WEF “consultants” for big pharma. They probably wasted the whole weekend at the puppy convention in D.C…. They are drunken chimpanzees playing with needles.
I would go so far as to say, using my best professional judgment, that the Commission’s ‘doctors’ are even more dangerous than a two-year-old with a permanent marker.
Speaking to the permanent marker, I remember visiting with my first child care giver, who was a nurse who was staying at home to raise her 3 daughters and was taking in a few kids to earn some money. As I sat with Joanne, her 3 year old got hold of a marker and in the space of maybe ten minutes, managed to color the walls all the way down their hallway, stopping only to fill in the window sills with more dense images. She made it into their bedroom where she proceeded to drastically change the appearance of their plastic slide and some of their walls. She was utterly amazing in her range of destruction.
So, when Childers mentions the damage range of a young kid with a marker, I have a stark visualization of what he means.
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Next in the C&C, more (baffling) science:
Thursday, NPR ran … “Is it time for a reality check on rapid COVID tests?” Well, yes, but that’s not the article’s point. They buried the lede.
Ostensibly, the article explains how rapid tests work about as well as low-energy dishwashers, often giving false negatives so you wind up infecting your entire dinner party, but you should still buy them anyways. Because science.
That’s great and all, but here’s the one line from the article that caught my eye:
[A]s the virus evolves, scientists are mainly seeing changes in its spike protein, which is what the virus uses to attack and enter healthy cells.
In what must be a baffling, bizarre coincidence, the same part of the virus that is mainly evolving is not its nucleocapsid body but the exact same part of the virus that the mRNA jabs force people’s cells to make. … the virus is rapidly evolving around the vaccines, which is just what a lot of Team Reality scientists predicted would happen.
So, buy a useless test, take a jab that no longer works but will take out your reproductive ability, and put more money and power into those who lust for those things. Because…science!
/spits
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After skipping stories on Ukraine and the Pentagon losing $220B, Childers reports a story about a transgender women raping two other women with her penis.
/head swimming/
One imagines how tortured the Sun’s headline editors must have felt trying to navigate that sticky wicket of woke landmines before they threw up their hands in despair and ran with this final bizarre, mind-bending version.
Apropos of the headline, and for your comic relief, I offer you Ricky Gervais’ priceless, hilarious, and Cassandra-like standup bit on gender pronouns. It is definitely adults-only, but the shocking language analogizes the shocking social trend.
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I understand government agencies should be lean and mean, but this is a little ridiculous. If they need more money for payroll, I think they should fire every single diversity/inclusion/equity employee at every single campus of state, or locally, funded colleges and universities in Texas. The savings would be more than enough to pay new PUC employees who would be significantly more productive and constructive members of Texas.
The PUC has lacked enough resources for more than a decade and struggled to retain institutional knowledge, according to the Sunset staff report. Then legislators gave the agency significantly more work after the near-collapse of the state’s electric grid in February 2021, when days of freezing weather caused system failures that left millions of Texans without power or heat and hundreds of people died.
The beleaguered agency, which had around 200 full-time employees at the end of last year and also regulates the telecommunications industry, was given responsibility to regulate water and wastewater utilities in 2013. The Sunset staff report says the PUC didn’t receive appropriate funding when its mission was expanded.
The PUC oversees regulation of the electrical grid, telecommunications industry and water/wastewater industries. With 29,945,493 people living across 268, 597 square miles, there is no way 200 people can do that job.
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The WIP:
Like the about the corvette flipping over.
The Kamala daydream of flipping The Big Guy over the cliff, a la the past Dem ad about Republicans throwing old folks over a cliff.
The assault gas stove. The big one.
Meteorite on Davos. I can dream.
The t-shirt with the “F” in communism standing for “food”.
Star Trek: “The best diplomat is a fully activated phaser bank.”
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FB popped up a “you may know” list last night which included one of Hubby’s cousins. I won’t go into details, but we pretty much cut off relations with them. The cousin’s mother is MIL’s last remaining sibling. Aunt D has also caused some emotional rifts with us, but she is at heart, a nice lady.
For some reason, I clicked on the cousin’s page and found out that Aunt D suffered a stroke on Christmas Day is a about to leave rehab after recovering enough use of her left side. I’m glad she’s doing better. It seems like her kids are actually taking care of her, which is good.
But I don’t think we’re going up for a visit.
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The weather here is overcast and depressing. I hope Katfish stays safe on the road today.
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In a more perfect world, the members of Hambone.net would get one of these permits and have our own camphouse on an island down on the Intracoastal somewhere between Matagorda and Laguna Madre. We could have some nice parties down there.
CORPUS CHRISTI — Bill and Gail Mullinax’s island retreat, a 720-square-foot cabin accessible only by boat, is about a 10-minute ride from the nearest marina in Corpus Christi, where the couple live. From their deck, they can spot only three other cabins: two stand among the reeds on islands to either side of theirs, and one, in front, floats in the long, shallow bay known as the Laguna Madre. It is a great spot for fishing.
While drinking coffee on his porch last week, Bill Mullinax spotted some redfish. He walked to the water and cast his line three times before catching one, which he and his wife ate for dinner.
“We much prefer being out there,” said Gail Mullinax, who enjoys photographing tugboats that motor past their front door. “Where else can you walk around and see water 360 degrees?”
The couple built the structure and a pier through a permit granted through a nearly 40-year-old cabin program run by the Texas General Land Office. There are 407 such cabins on state-owned islands, mostly in Brazoria County and between Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Rent, at 60 cents per square foot, has changed little since the program began, but now some legislators wonder if the state should charge more.
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Morning, crew of The Invincible! I liked The Jab song. I’ve been pleased that my Primary Care Physician has stopped asking me if I’ve had a booster.
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How do you spell “STUPID” with only three letters ?
GOP, of course.
Republican congressman Patrick McHenry (N.C.), now the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, announced earlier this month that there would be six subcommittees—and all of them will count advancing “diversity and inclusion” as one of their top priorities, according to the committee’s announcement.
The Subcommittee on Capital Markets, led by Republican Ann Wagner of Missouri, for example, will identify “best practices and policies that continue to strengthen diversity and inclusion in the capital markets industry.” And the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, led by Republican Bill Huizenga of Michigan, is tasked with making sure there is “agency and programmatic commitment to diversity and inclusion policies.” No other specific oversight focuses were listed.
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They, whoever they are, now wonder whether Tom Brady’s new girlfriend is Jewish.
Who said it:
Curious Twitter users, lovelorn Patriots fans, the Free Beacon interns. The rumor mill started turning in December, when Newsweek reported the newly divorced Bucs quarterback was dating Rajek, a Miss Slovakia finalist who claims Instagram once deleted her account because she was too hot to be real.
Why it matters:
Brady recently un-retired from football and then un-married supermodel Gisele Bündchen, whose Germanic name and Brazilian heritage have us wondering what her grandfather was doing during the Battle of the Bulge. Other than winning his eighth Super Bowl, dating a Zionist smokeshow would be the ultimate rebuke to the vegan shiksa who tried to ruin his life. Maybe Veronika will even let him eat a cheeseburger.
There is photographic evidence, but I’m warning GJT to not hit the link.
No wonder Brady lost 12 games this year. He’s too old for pro ball or a 26 year old trophy wife.
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Just got a call from the company that set up our trust after MIL passed away. Her trust was well done and it really helped with the transition of ownership from her to us. So, we agreed to set one up with the same firm as well. They offer estate reviews every year or two, more to try to sell us one of their insurance or annuity products, but also to fine tune the trust if needed, including wills, etc.
I don’t know if y’all remember, but I went through all kinds of heck with the new lawyer that had just stepped in to take over from the lawyer who did MIL’s trust, recently retired. DS, the lawyer, was a wissing train wreck. I’m not a lawyer and I could have done a better job, blindfolded and both hands tied behind my back. It literally took him nine months to create new deeds and get the distribution within the trust done correctly. His first “trust” was only five pages long and covered about zilch that we needed. I was glad I had seen MIL’s trust and knew what to expect.
So, the new agent called to see if we wanted to set up an appointment for a review, and mentioned DS as our lawyer. I proceeded to make it EXCEEDINGLY clear that I was never going near that disaster ever again. Agent asked for the story and I gave him the condensed version of what I went through for nine months. And that DS never solved all the problems, his new paralegal did. In one day. And how that ended my emotional distress over all the frustration DS caused.
So….I’m guessing that the name of that lawyer won’t be coming up in our files every again.
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Mike Patey’s latest installment on his house build.
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#17 – I just finished watching that Patey build as I have all it’s predecessors. I’m pretty sure that he is just a Super Dave wannabe – ha. That’s what you do when you literally have too much money to know what to do with. He’s got more concrete in that swimming pool than there is in Rice Stadium. Pretty amazing stuff.
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12 Squawk
Back when the music was good.
Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge & Claudia Lennear on backup, Jim Keltner on drums.
According to the liner notes, Cocker needed to put together a band quickly for a U.S. tour that his management had organized. He was informed only on 12 March 1970 about the tour which would start on 20 March. Russell recruited the musicians, many from his prior association with Delaney and Bonnie (Rita Coolidge, Carl Radle, Jim Price, Jim Horn, Jim Keltner and Jim Gordon). Chris Stainton was held over from Cocker’s Grease Band and Cocker’s producer Denny Cordell was part of the backing vocalists.
Somewhere in the middle of this total chaos, somebody decided to film the tour which was eventually made into a documentary.
Unfortunately, we won’t see and hear music like that again. We lived through a golden era and didn’t realize it at the time. Everything will be artificial intelligence generated in the future. If musicians thought synthesizers, digital tracking, computer generated orchestral sounds and sophisticated high-tech audio systems were making them obsolete, they haven’t seen anything yet. The fake studio generated “music” of hip hop was just a warning.
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This is how free speech ends. And the gubnent has nothing to do with it.
Heard about this on Michael Berry
Conroe brewery receives flood of threats, harassment after canceling Kyle Rittenhouse event
The CEO of Southern Star Brewery said the cancellation was prompted primarily by concerns from local patrons rather than pressure from a “woke mob” or distributors such as H-E-B.
So why did you host the event in the first place? From a previous story.
A Conroe brewery said Friday that it has canceled an upcoming “Rally Against Censorship” featuring Kyle Rittenhouse, who was famously acquitted of fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
On Twitter, Southern Star Brewery, which had been listed as the event host said it “is an apolitical organization, but we feel that this event doesn’t reflect our own values and we could not in good faith continue to rent out space for the event. … We don’t do rallies, we make beer for people who like beer.”
It gets really convoluted from here. The owner says
- they are an inclusive business, why we even serve tun ghey community
- they are pro flag patriotic rah rah rah go Mericuh, pro military, pro law enforcement pro free speech
- indicated that HEB their #1 distributor of their beers did influence their decision to cancel
- but the main reason they canceled was well read it for yourself
Rather, he said, it was primarily concerns from local patrons that led to the decision. Fougeron described himself as apolitical,and said his brewery, which produces well-known local craft beers such as Bombshell Blonde, strives to be a place that’s welcoming to all.
“Our place is super inclusive,” he said. “We are super pro-veteran, super pro-law enforcement. We’re trying to be good people in the community. We’re friends with our firefighters, with our police department. … We have a lot of gay patrons who come in because it’s a place of inclusivity. It’s crazy that we’re getting threats from people.”
After listening to the owner get interviewed by Michael Berry I am convinced that
- HEB did strongly suggest he cancel the event
- Apparently the local patrons are not as inclusive as he claims to be
- If you sell beer or make beer for people that like beer and that is your focus then do not step outside that business model for your business
But no matter what canceling an event simply because people gripe, that is censoring. Deciding not to host an event in the first place is a business decision. This country is progressing (regressing?) to the point where only one voice is going to be heard because a small segment of our population has decided that the free exchange of information or ideas is no longer acceptable. yup the brewery is inclusive till people gripe.
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Texpat
It seems to me that back in them days when the music was good from the music to the lyrics there was life in the music. I do not care what genre in modern music I listen to if is just mot the same. Even yesterdays personalities seem more real to me.
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I don’t know why at this stage of my life, having spent all of it since childhood as a news and political junkie, I am still shocked at the constitutional ignorance and jaw-dropping stupidity of members of the Senate and House.
Joe Manchin did a couple of things right and most everything else wrong. He is supposedly running for a third term next year. This poll from a few days ago says he’s wasting his time.
Governor Jim Justice (R) Job Approval:
Approve: 64%
Disapprove: 31%
Net: +33%Senator Joe Manchin (D) Job Approval:
Approve: 40%
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I don’t think Tom Brady can hold a candle to Buzz Aldrin.
The second man on the moon has married for a fourth time, with astronaut legend Buzz Aldrin announcing he’d wed his longtime girlfriend on his birthday.
Mr Aldrin, who turned 93 on Friday and was part of the historic first-ever moon landing mission, made the sweet announcement to his new bride, who is 30 years his junior, on his Twitter account.
‘On my 93rd birthday & the day I will also be honored by Living Legends of Aviation I am pleased to announce that my longtime love Dr. Anca Faur & I have tied the knot. We were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles & are as excited as eloping teenagers.’
Dr Faur, 63, currently works as the Executive Vice President of Buzz Aldrin Ventures LLC, with her LinkedIn page listing her as having worked for the company since 2019.
That time 72 year old Buzz punched out some whacko claiming his moon landing was all faked by NASA.
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There is photographic evidence, but I’m warning GJT to not hit the link.
Hey, I may be 50 miles from no where but I my eye out!
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20 Squawk
Supposedly this Conroe brewery has sponsored Pride Parades and held LGBT events at its facility. You mean to tell me there were no complaints from the residents of Montgomery County ? All those white nationalist, homophobic, bible thumping hillbillies in the Piney Woods said nary a word ?
Then all the sudden a massive outpouring of righteous indignation over Kyle Rittenhouse in a county where there’s probably more guns than people ? I’m not buying it. This whole thing is orchestrated just like it was in Las Vegas when Rittenhouse’s event was canceled up there. It was the same modus operandi and there are people following this kid around the country to try and shut him down. I suspect it is a cabal of anti-Second Amendment groups funded by Bloomberg. Local patrons, my a$$.
The owners of this place are weak-minded losers and all they’ve done is advance the cancel culture another step. If they had any integrity, they would stay apolitical and keep their name out of any controversial events or sponsorships.
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“Have you ever seen a cloud like this?” I sure haven’t!
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I dunno but Aldrin and Brady’s women looking skanky plastic rode hard abd out up wet, .
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bible thumping hillbillies
I beg your pardon.
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Bible Thumping Hillbillies kilt the blog.
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yo unck
unck yo
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yo Bruddah Squawk
bruddah squawk yo
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Hey – I have no problem with the hillbilly tag – after all, some folks have heard of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud… but I don’t thump my Bible – the one I use most is on my iPad, and I don’t wanna break it – just sayin’
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bruddah Squawk yo
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yo Texpat
texpat yo
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yo all the rest of you fellow hosers.
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Our go to aviation expert Juan Browne at blancolirio takes us on a tour of northern California flood zones and talks about the lakes and dams in the area. Juan got his real start on YT flying over the Oroville Lake and reporting on the flooding and the destruction of the over flow channel back years ago which got picked up by TV folks. Anyway, I found it interesting, so maybe you will too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIv5-Y_8ZAE
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Is Iowahawk still active on Twitter?
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The weather here is overcast and depressing.
For me, it would’ve been a perfect day to be at the beach.
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Bacon-wrapped chicken breasts stuffed with spinach and Parmesan. Green beans. Cheesy rice with broccoli.
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Is it too early in the year to start planting seeds for the spring garden? I was going to start in the middle of February, but I might just go ahead and begin.
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This is a quiet Saturday so far for Hambone so it appears that many in the gang are engaged in other projects or travel hither and yon. Laundry has kept me busy, as overnight some little creature must have been adding to the things in the clothes hamper so that today I couldn’t ignore it. Purrscilla kitty is not guilty as she can’t open the hamper lid, and at any rate she is the night watch cat and she takes that job seriously. It has been dreary overcast here all day, with a little rain early in the morning more like heavy mist that barely left any moisture.
We attended spouse’s ham radio club’s annual awards dinner on Friday night. The dinner itself was very good and nicely presented, not at all like so many ho-hum ordinary and rather blah food selections for a large group. We had a choice of fish filet or chicken as the meat selection, lightly seasoned mashed potatoes, thin green beans with an interesting sauce, small thin carrots, and several chopped lettuce varieties with mini tomato pieces, and a choice of dressings. Dessert was a generous tall slice of cheesecake with chocolate drizzled on top and a really large ripe strawberry on the side. The caterer has been the same one for several years, and his recipes are wonderfully different and discreetly flavored. And hooray for chopping up the lettuce varieties into fork-size pieces so you don’t have to wrestle with cutting large greens.
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#40 Shannon – we had baked frito chili pie made with Doritos instead of Fritos because that’s what we had… Just the ticket for a cold damp evening
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MsTT – Thankees
Precip was thankfully rare today – 2 or 3 sprinkles and 1 light rain lasting mebbe 3-4 miles.
Just gloomy & chilly mostly.
But E M P O W E R M E N T happened so I’ll take it!
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For some reason, YT started throwing videos of carpet cleanings in my feed. In a weird way, I’m actually enjoying them. Sometimes they’re listed for AMSR as well, so that may be part of it. Personally, I’m amazed that these beautiful rugs come in so filthy that all one can see is a layer of black or brown filth; no pattern. (Some of them are rescued from dumps.) Then with the right equipment and a small ocean of water, these men are able to scrub, pressure wash, scrub, and rinse them to almost new appearance. I guess I like order coming out of chaos.
I’m sure it won’t be long and I’ll move on to some other quirky video preference.
One guy has a sense of humor. His floor buffing machine that uses with a carpet scrubbing pad has the name “Dirt Reynolds” on it, and another push machine that looks somewhat Star War-ish is named “R2-Clean2”. I love a sense of humor.
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#40 Shannon, I approve wholeheartedly. 😉
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My#45 sounds like Ms Adee and bsue did alright also. We had leftover beef roast, smashed taters N gravy with English peas and steamed broccoli, cauliflower and carrots. It’s been a busy day here so we had supper a little late, 6:30ish and then watched a crazy movie.
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My supper tonight: 1/2 of a Stouffer’s Roast Turkey tv dinner. Came with sliced turkey, stuffing, gravy and mashed potatoes. I added a scoop of tart cherry preserves which I like in place of cranberry sauce. When I have a tv dinner meal, I always split it into 2 helpings on divided plates with a lid for the microwave. So I’ll have room each time to add a fresh green salad: lettuce, chopped green onion, sliced cucumber, carrot shreds, grape tomatoes, croutons.
So now I am stuffed full and still using my glass of milk to wash down my evening vitamins.
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It’s getting close to bedtime out here, but since we are discussing dinner, I had a nice ground beef burger patty with cheddar cheese and a cup of cabbage soup about 5PM. I’m having my nightcap now, a half cup of pretty tasty chili out of the tub that I’m thawing for tomorrow. I picked up some tomatoes at the grocery today, but none of them are ready yet, and they don’t look all that good to begin with, but this time of year you just take what you can get. I’ve decided to try planting cherry tomatoes this year, and I got to liking yellow squash last year so I’m gonna grow some of that for myself this year as well. I’ve got plenty of pepper seeds, and plenty of seeds from all the flowers, but I don’t think I’ll start them yet. I can probably just plant them in the ground after the last freeze. But the veges I want to get started on.
You all have a nice evening now. More later.
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Yes, Chicken Roping In Wyoming Is A Real Thing, Moorcroft Holding 9th Annual Event In February
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Left-wing terrorist mounting an insurrection and burning Atlanta.
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Slowly suiting up to roll south for more new HEROs.
Yall enjOY!
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Lost that one, lets’ try again. Be safe Katfish.
Mornin’ Gang.
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This just dropped into the mail box;
Browning CITORI 4-Barrel Set GRADE 6 SKEET 12, 20, 28 & 410 NEW IN BOX.
Just beautiful maybe I’ll mortgage the Farm and put in a bid. It will be interesting to see just how high it goes. No telling now a days, somebody AND I don’t know who, has lots of loose cash around.
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Area 51 Expert And Website Owner Raided By Dozen Armed FBI Agents.
During an appearance on Fox News, Area 51 expert Joerg Arnu revealed that his home was violently raided by more than a dozen armed FBI agents in November.
He has received minimal explanation for the raid, which caused $25,000 in damages to his property. Arnu says he’s lost faith in the federal government and justice system.
Speaking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Arnu said, “I can’t get ahold of anyone. Three doors were kicked in. A country gate was busted.”
“My girlfriend was dragged out of the house in Las Vegas,” he continued. “I was dragged out of the house in Rachel. And nobody can give us any answers.”
Arnu suspects that the search was related to images he posted on his website, but he hasn’t received an explanation from the U.S. Justice Department for months.
He continued, “I published photos of Area 51 on my website, which is something I have done for 20 years without anyone really taking issue with it.”
“And all of a sudden, this thing comes out of the blue crashing down on my homes. I really still don’t have an explanation,” the expert said.
Carlson asked Arnu, who is an immigrant, if he had ever imagined something like this happening to him when he migrated to the United States.
“Absolutely not,” he responded. “I would have never expected this.”
“If you would have told me three months ago that this could happen, I would have said absolutely impossible,” he continued.
“I am really shocked that this can happen to a cooperating, innocent senior citizen who is really just wanting for looking for a peaceful retirement and who has a little hobby on the side to run a blog about Area 51. That’s all I’m doing,” he explained.
“Part of what I’m doing on my website is actually telling people how to stay out of trouble. There are directions on the website so that people know where they can go and where they cannot go. So in fact, I’m trying to kind of help the government keep the loonies out of there,” Arnu explained.
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Morning gang. A cool 31 this morning, so I stayed under the warm covers a few minutes extra. No TOK today, so fixing up my own special brew in the Keurig. No news developing out here that I’ve been made aware of yet. Not certain what the day holds in store just yet either, but it will most likely involve some gardening or gardening related exercises. Here’s hoping that you all have a great day, and I’ll report back in after the coffee starts kicking in and I get my bearings. More later.
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My morning so far:
Take pill. Because I really needed it.
Drop my phone and break the glass
Here’s hoping things improve from here…
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It was really clammy yesterday, not much rain and absolutely no sunshine. Today is nothing but blue sky and sunshine, temp in the high 40s. I may have to root around in the yard today.
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55 Super Dave
With a rogue FBI and Merrick Garland as AG, nobody in this country is safe…not even Joe Biden.
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El Gordo
If you need some new bearing this company might could help you.
Huisman builds world’s largest bearings
Tuesday, January 17, 2017; Huisman, the worldwide specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, is currently producing world’s largest bearings at its production facility in China. These two, 30m diameter, bearings are meant for world’s largest Tub Cranes:
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If you remember George Blanda, or Y.A.Tittle for that matter, you are officially an old person.
Tom Brady only has 2 years to go because Blanda played until he was 48. He played in 4 different decades and was recruited by the Bears in 1949 for $6,000 a year, equal today to $73,000.
He signed with the Houston Oilers as both a quarterback and kicker. He was derided by the sports media as an “NFL Reject”, but he went on to lead the Oilers to the first two league titles in AFL history, and he was the All-AFL quarterback and won AFL Player of the Year honors in 1961. During that season, he led the AFL in passing yards (3,330) and touchdown passes (36). His 36 touchdown passes in 1961 were the most ever thrown by any NFL/AFL quarterback in a single season, until matched by Y. A. Tittle of the NFL New York Giants two years later in 1963. Blanda’s and Tittle’s mark remained the record until surpassed by Dan Marino’s 48 touchdown passes in 1984. Blanda’s 42 interceptions thrown in 1962 is a record that still stands.
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Tittle has the riddle
Blanda kicks another field goal
Field goals: 335/639 (52.4%)Passing yards: 26,920Extra points: 943/959 (98.3%)Completion percentage: 47.7It is official, not only am I an old person I am an old fart.
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Yeah, but how many of us went over to Jeppensen Stadium and watched Blanda play?
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59 Squawk
Stunning.
I sold some big bearings in my life, but nothing like these. Even though these 98.43 foot diameter bearings are obviously built in segments, I’d like to see the machining tools used to create them. Just watching that would be spectacular. I also wonder about the diameter of each bearing ball. They must be the size of a VW.
Check out the Huisman Tub Semi-Submersible Crane vessel these bearings are made for. This double crane unit floating offshore can lift 10,000 Metric Tons.
That is 22,050,000 pounds. Mind-boggling. Can you imagine the subsea water ballast required on this unit to counterbalance a lift that large ?
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62 EG
Raising my hand.
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My dad took me to one Oiler game at Jeppensen and one at Rice stadium.
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Dam, we do have some olde pharts on here don’t we.
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Texpat
I think I missed my calling. I love big machines and those cranes just fascinate the heck out of me. While in Illinois I got to tour a couple Cat plants. My favorite was the Decatur Plant where they built the “large” mining trucks. I got to sit in the cockpit but they would not let me drive it. (SNIFF)
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Y.A. Tittle in 1958 came close to keeping Johnny Unitas from playing the “Greatest Game ever played” against Frank Gifford and the New York Giants.
Tittle had the riddle leading 49ers against the Colts 27-7. If Unitas lost they would have not gone to the playoffs. Short version: Unitas mounted an epic comeback and beat the 49ers 35–27, clinching the Western Conference championship.
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Many smart TVs come equipped with cameras most people don’t realize are there. There’s not much you can do short of voiding the device’s warranty and removing it yourself. You could cover it up, but who wants electrical tape on their television screen?
Start with your smart TV’s tracking features — especially Automatic Content Recognition (ACR).
Here’s a column with instructions on how to turn off that camera in your smart TV that’s watching you walking around in your underwear.
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I didn’t realize the Conroe event was going to be held now at the county’s convention center.
Southern Star Brewery CEO Dave Fougeron has disputed claims by Rittenhouse and other prominent right-wing figures that he canceled the event because of pressure from a “woke mob” or retailers such as San Antonio-based H-E-B. Fougeron also said he was not aware until last week that Rittenhouse was the event’s “special guest.”
“While I support a business or property owners’ right to hold or not to hold an event based upon their values, giving in to woke organizations, especially in the current cancel culture environment is foolish,” Keough told the Conroe Courier.
Keough’s chief of staff, Jason Millsaps, said the judge had nothing to do with the decision to book Rittenhouse at the convention center. “This is a facility that is open to anyone in the public that can reach the agreement to rent the space,” he said. “… We don’t discriminate on events wanting to rent our space.”
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Facebook and YouTube have banned the posting of the already viral Rebel News videos of Pfizer CEO Bourla at Davos.
Elon Musk and Twitter are promoting the videos.
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Good Sunday Morning Hamsters,
All things are bright and beautiful out here on the moors of the Brazos promising a pleasant day ahead. A steady breeze ruffles Old Glory on the front porch, tree branches sway in tune, and all creatures great and small go about their routines in the yards and pastures.
A neighbor and her collie walk down the road, dog in the lead and eager to go. We see that pair just about every day, and this morning started out at a brisk 46. Quite a few folks come to walk our two roads for safe exercise as you can see oncoming traffic from quite a distance, and the roads end in cul-de-sacs at the river so there is no through traffic since there is no bridge over to Richmond there. However there have been several articles in the Fort Bend Herald indicating that a bridge is planned to be built over the river not far away from our subdivision, and the road leading to it that is currently a country lane will become four lanes divided by an esplanade. It will be convenient for everyone living between the two existing bridges several miles apart in our rural area that is fast becoming suburban in large-lot subdivisions or multi-acre lots in more spread-out subdivisons. We still have pastures with cows in them around the area, though not nearly as many as when we moved here 42 years ago.
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HAMILTON, Ontario — Turning off Waze or your favorite GPS app and using an old-fashioned map may be the best way to fight Alzheimer’s disease, a new study reveals. Researchers at McMaster University say orienteering, an outdoor sport that exercises the mind and body through navigation puzzles, can train the brain and stave off cognitive decline. The aim of orienteering is to navigate between checkpoints or controls marked on a special map. In competitive orienteering, the challenge is to complete the course in the quickest time.
For older adults, scientists say the sport — which sharpens navigational skills and memory — could become a useful intervention measure to fight off the slow decline related to dementia onset. They believe the physical and cognitive demands of orienteering can stimulate parts of the brain our ancient ancestors used for hunting and gathering.
The human brain evolved thousands of years ago to adapt to harsh environments by creating new neural pathways, the McMaster team explains. Those same brain functions are not always necessary today, however, thanks to GPS apps and food being readily available.
Unfortunately, the team says these skills fall into a “use it or lose it” situation.
I still use maps even if it’s looking at the map on a screen. I memorize the area I want to go to and drive there. I’ll use the GPS if I have a problem although it’s not often. I’m always checking myself to see if I have my mental compass bearings in sync.
I wonder about all the women in my life who have never been able to read a map and won’t even try. They navigate solely by landmarks. Are women always in cognitive decline ? That could explain a lot of things.
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Zerohedge on the collapse on the US consumer…
(bold emphasis in original)
The combination of record high credit card debt and record high credit card interest is nothing short of catastrophic for both the US economy, and the strapped consumer who has no choice but to keep buying on credit while hoping next month’s bill will somehow not come. Unfortunately, it will and at some point in the very near future, this will also translate into massive loan losses for US consumer banks; that’s when Powell will finally panic.
Check out the charts at this “The Consumer Has Cracked” report.
We don’t live on cards around here and what does get charged gets paid off monthly in full.
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If you don’t read anything else today, do read this.
Royce Williams was a real-life “Top Gun” 10 years before Tom Cruise was even born.
On a cold November day in 1952, Williams shot down four Soviet fighter jets – and became a legend no one would hear about for more than 50 years.
The now 97-year-old former naval aviator was presented with the Navy Cross, the service’s second-highest military honor at a ceremony Friday in California.
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said on Friday that among the many proposals he has reviewed to upgrade sailors’ awards, Williams’ case “stood out above all others. It was very clear to me that his actions were truly extraordinary and more closely aligned with the criteria describing a higher medal.”
“Freedom does not come cheap,” Del Toro said. “It comes through the sacrifice of all those who have and continue to serve in today’s military. Your actions that day kept you free. They kept your shipmates free in Task Force 77. Indeed, they kept all of us free.”
and then,
As the four US Navy jets flew their patrol, the group’s leader suffered mechanical problems and with his wingman, headed back to the task force off the coast.
That left Williams and his wingman alone on the mission.
Then, to their surprise, seven Soviet MiG-15 fighter jets were identified heading toward the US task force.
“They just didn’t come out of Russia and engage us in any way before,” Williams said in a 2021 interview with the American Veterans Center.
Wary commanders in the task force ordered the two US Navy jets to put themselves between the MiGs and the US warships.
While doing this, four of the Soviet MiGs turned toward Williams and opened fire, he recalled.
He said he fired on the tail MiG, which then dropped out of the four-plane Soviet formation, with Williams’ wingman following the Soviet jet down.
At that point, US commanders on the carrier ordered him not to engage the Soviets, he said.
“I said, ‘I am engaged,’” Williams recalled in the interview.
I have one big question: Why did the US Navy wait 71 years to award this man the Navy Cross when they could have given it to him in a secret ceremony ages ago if was still classified or if they were worried about Soviet reactions ? It’s a miracle this man is still alive.
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Not warming up outside as fast as I had hoped. I may wind up just taking an early nap to give it a chance to get warmer. I ordered some tomato seed and some crooked yellow squash seeds so those will not arrive for a few days. Thus no rush to get things done. I can still prep the pots and soil. More later.
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Gordo you need to get that greenhouse set up so you can start germinating some seeds. The idea is to have plants at various maturity levels that you plant two weeks apart. This way you will have crops come in say weekly instead of all at once. This avoids everything maturing all at once and you are stuck giving it away, letting it rot, or taking a lesson from Tedtam and dehydrate or jar the excess.
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Chinese hardware, software from some company in the wind, no override switching, supply chain disruption and nobody has been able to turn off the 7,000 lights in a fancy new high school in Massachusetts.
WILBRAHAM, Mass. — For nearly a year and a half, a Massachusetts high school has been lit up around the clock because the district can’t turn off the roughly 7,000 lights in the sprawling building.
The lighting system was installed at Minnechaug Regional High School when it was built over a decade ago and was intended to save money and energy. But ever since the software that runs it failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously, costing taxpayers a small fortune.
“We are very much aware this is costing taxpayers a significant amount of money,” Aaron Osborne, the assistant superintendent of finance at the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District, told NBC News. “And we have been doing everything we can to get this problem solved.”
Osborne said it’s difficult to say how much money it’s costing because during the pandemic and in its aftermath, energy costs have fluctuated wildly.
You cannot make this stuff up. What was it Mark Twain said about school board members ?
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I’m still experimenting with off the shelf coffees.
This morning I combined a pound of Community Club Decaf and a pound of Bright and Early.
Good stuff, Maynard.
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Texpat @76
RE: Royce Williams
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The classic Tracy-Hepburn movie Adam’s Rib was on this morning. A romantic comedy courtroom drama.
They don’t make ‘em like Tracy and Hepburn anymore.
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Morning, chickadees! Woops, it’s not morning, is it?
I confess, I got up super late, had a bedful of cats all looking at me to see if I was going to wake up and feed them. They start purring when they see signs of life.
Got them fed (plus extra for several of them that were very hungry), got my big coffee made, got the HouChron sudoku brought in from the driveway, then enlarged on the printer, and spent one hour getting that puzzle done. Many interruptions as 20+y.o. Millie kept coming back for more chow. Always glad to feed her when she comes to me and asks for more, more, more. I consider that my #1 job these days.
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#79 Texpat
When I served on the Parish Council 7 – 10 years ago, we were in the midst of having many icons installed on the walls and ceiling of both the nave and the narthex. As the white walls disappeared, we knew it would only get darker and darker inside. We knew we needed to upgrade the lighting.
We opted for fully dimmable LED lights in can fixtures. We also had a custom chandelier fabricated to point lights upwards into the dome that was already filled with icons. We also had the same thing done for both apses to shine light up towards the icons there.
This system is fully programmable, however, during services there is a remote that can toggle between some presets. During Orthros the temple is dim. When the Divine Liturgy starts, they make it much brighter. I would say the lights are only at 85% brightness the majority of the time. The only time they are at 100% is at Pascha and occurs during a two hour service before the the midnight Divine Liturgy which starts at midnight. The bright white light helps represent the resurrection of Jesus.
Fortunately we have never had a software issue with our lighting. All of our LED lights were manufactured in Germany. I do not know where the software came from and I can see difficulties with troubleshooting if the original installer is no longer in business.
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I pulled a Harper this morning.
Turned off the alarm at 5:30 and promptly went back to sleep for two and a half more hours.
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#78 – good advice and well received.
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#87 EG:
OH I THOUGHT YOU MEANT TO SAY #86…
Everyone should “pull a Harper” on the weekend, every now and then…
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I made it through mass, though if I’d been smart I would’ve gotten up at least once and walked to the back of the church for a bit. Elderly Gent was very happy to see me in my usual spot in front of him. By the time I said my good-byes after church, I was spasming big time. It took me a few audibles and three tries before I could get myself into my car.
So, I’m home and just set up a 3:00 appointment to get my phone repaired. Sitting on a hot pad until I leave.
The day is so pretty, it sucks to be inside. I hope y’all are getting som sunshine!
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RE: MAPS
Hubby loves to tell this story:
Hubby relied on Key maps for decades – still does, though he’s learned how to use his phone, too. He taught Handsome Son how to use them when Handsome was young and started riding to jobs with him. Fast forward to years later, and Handsome Son is working at a local A/C company. All of their techs were using the vans that had GPS in them, and they needed some parts to be picked up. Handsome said he’d do it, and the owners told him that the van had no electronic mapping in it.
Handsome asked for a Key map and the address, made the run and returned. All on his own.
The owners and other techs were in awe.
And that, dear friends, is a sad testament to the dumbing down of our education.
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I wonder about all the women in my life who have never been able to read a map and won’t even try. They navigate solely by landmarks.
I remember reading about a scientific study on this very topic. Men tend to navigate by street name, etc., while women use landmarks. It’s all about how the brain is wired.
Hubby, for some reason, always felt like he had to give me VERY specific instructions on how to get to places when I used to run a lot of errands for him, like pick up parts. It irritated him when I told him I’d rather figure it out myself (we had Key maps in the office, or I’d pull up a map via computer). Rather than tick him off, I just let him ramble on with his instructions – so many that there’s no way I could remember them all – and just nod or give the occasional “mhmm” until he finished. Then I’d pull out the maps and get my route written down.
Now, I have my GPS in my car. I like it because if there’s a traffic delay it’ll give me alternatives and I don’t have to pull off the road to pull out the maps in the car. I still have maps in my car, just in case. Sometimes I just like to look at them and get ideas of where I’d some day like to traipse off to…
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If you have Facebook, a friend of mine posted this amazing video of a dog dancing with her owner…
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89 mharper42
I wouldn’t expect anything less from a border collie. They’re easily the smartest dogs on the planet.
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OK, the greenhouse is framed out. It fits just perfectly in the spot I had planned and hoped (but not measured) that it would. It’s a little small one, and I did not go ahead and put the outside sheathing or whatever you call it on because it’s windy and I really don’t have any thing to put in there yet. I did get a couple of concrete blocks and some 2X4s to make a shelf on the back side since it opens from the front and I don’t want to be having to lean way over to get to stuff in the back. We’ll see how it holds up, and I can already tell that I’m going to have to come up with some better anchors to deal with the wind up on this hill. It sits right next to a power outlet so I can put a lamp or something in there if it’s going to get too cold. Tomorrow I might start on some seeding, but my vegetable seeds will not be here for a few days. Supposed to get down to 30 tonight so I watered my other outdoor potted plants, but I think they will all be OK at that temperature. I’m ready for spring, but I keep forgetting that we have February yet to deal with.
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I decided I better check and see if my big oven still works.
So I bought 12ozs. of bacon for the first time in four months.
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Shannon, is that a lot, a little, or just right? I dunno if I’ve bought bacon at any time in my life…
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93 Mharper
You’ve never bought bacon? Ever?
Never heard of such a thing.
12oz is a small package of bacon. A dozen thick slices, or so.
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#92/94 Shannon – you bought bacon to find out if your OVEN works???? What am I missing from this picture here????
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95 bsue
He’s a little strange in the kitchen.
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I don’t have any other use for that big oven anymore. Bacon has been priced for the Davos crowd for the last few months.
If I was going to test the oven, I damn sure wasn’t gonna use broccoli or brussel sprouts.
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We quit cooking bacon on the stove decades ago.
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Ooooooh Kay
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If you want perfect bacon EVERY TIME, cook it in the oven, hon.
🙂
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#100 – Shannon – you got a temp and time guideline?
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Bacon does very well in my George Foreman grill if I can remember back that far. I haven’t hit the lotto lately, so not much bacon around here.
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I’ve seen video of dancing dog classes at dog shows, with or without a people partner as part of the dance and not just giving the cues. Very charming classes, and the dogs look to be enjoying themselves in spite of some costumes they really don’t care for.
I’ve also enjoyed seeing “dancing horses” that are not part of a circus at all but rather highly trained and athletic competitors in haute ecole (aka, high school) classes at dressage shows. The routine is a dance created by the owner or trainer to accompany the music selected to best fit the movement of the horse. And mostly classic music fills that elegance bill.
You never see cues given by the rider, as they are very subtle, and the horses know the routine well. By the rider moving his or her fingers on the reins (perhaps closing fingers only a quarter of an inch) can be a cue connecting to the horse’s mouth. Shifting the rider’s seat farther down in the saddle asks the horse to execute a different movement to bring the hind legs forward under the body. When properly done, the horse and rider become one creature; they know what each other is thinking. One does not demand, one asks.
Of interest is how what we have now in advanced riding is that these are some of the movements war horses made. The knights being busy with lances and swords in their hands needed a way to communicate with the horse that could be understood in the noise and heat of battle. And during the Crusades the European knights discovered very soon that their large and strong mounts were no match for the elusive, quick, and smaller mounts of the Bedouin tribes that literally ran circles around them much to knights’ great disadvantage.
Thus between Crusades began importations of the Arabian horses into Europe and later into the colonies of Europe in the New World to improve the breeds already brought there thanks to Spain. There are now more Arabian horses in the US than in the rest of the world combined. I can’t dive into pedigrees because that is one very, very large study of the American, British, and Canadian registries alone, never mind the rest of the world. Of interest is that some Arab horsemen do buy American-bred Arabians and have recent copies of our registry studbook available to been seen and studied. Largely I suppose because we trace pedigrees back to the desert (listed as desert bred (DB) when the known pedigree goes back to the desert. If one is a serious owner or breeder or merely lover of the breed, one knows where to find the begats. 🙂 We were able to trace all but two of our 13 Arabians to DB. We’ve been without horses going on 3 years now but have their pedigrees and show records and pictures tucked away for future viewing. And 10 of them sleep in our pastures.
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BSue
We cook it at 350°. On a foil covered cookie sheet that has sides.
You must be patient.
At 15-20 minutes, carefully drain off the fat and turn the slices.
Another 10-20 minutes (according to personal preference) and you’ll have perfect bacon.
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Pilot walks away from small plane emergency landing on HWY 99 near Rose Hill and the stadium.
After clipping an 18 wheeler.
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#104 Shannon – thanx, I’ll have to try that sometime soon 😉
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BSue
Fay was a bacon hound. I used to do 2 batches (1.5 lbs) at a time.
After draining the finished product on paper towels, you can place the slices in layers on fresh paper towels, inside a plastic bag, in the fridge. Keeps for at least a week.
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Shannon – I presume you undercook it just a smidge, and reheat in a hot skillet?
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This is always the best weekend in pro football.
The finest defenses in the game really sparkle.
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Not necessarily. Perfect bacon is good cold or hot. Though it doesn’t take much to reheat it, in a pan or a zapper.
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Shannon – thanx…
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Crispy bacon
or
soft bacon?
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BEHOLD THE POWER OF BACON
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I had to run out and pick up our pizza earlier. Joe Piscopo of SNL fame has a Sunday night Frank Sinatra tribute show on WABC. I really like the old Quincy Jones arranged & produced work with Count Basie’s orchestra, but the horn section stuff with Nelson Riddle’s era can be very cool. There’s a background brass section of “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” that sounds exactly like the horns in a popular Mavericks song. Very nice.
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Shannon says:
January 22, 2023 at 5:33 pm
Pilot walks away from small plane emergency landing on HWY 99 near Rose Hill and the stadium.
After clipping an 18 wheeler.
About 2 miles SE of me.
I was heading into Town to HEB right after it happened. Backed up traffic for miles around.
The crash occurred on the old Beckendorf Dairy Farm property where the new Stadium is situated.
The Hooks and Bekendorfs held their ground for many years protesting the 99 Toll Road and rightfully so. In the end The Toll Road won and as a result we have constant road noise 2 miles away and New Homes being built in every direction. The only upside is there is going to be a New HEB soon right across from the stadium.
Progress is something I hoped to never see out here. 🙁
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Chewy bacon.
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Tedtam, speaking of key maps…. did you know that there are 2, count them – TWO, Tree Monkey Roads in Montgomery County??? Neither did I until my partner and I responded to the wrong one to pick up a patient, years ago… There’s one in the Woodlands, and one off 105 over almost to Cleveland… Our ambulance was fully equipped with key maps from Montgomery, Harris, and Galveston counties – but that was back in the day, before we could ask the cell phone (which took the place of our 2 way radios) how to get there and it’d give us directions.
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mharper42 says:
January 22, 2023 at 1:58 pm
If you have Facebook, a friend of mine posted this amazing video of a dog dancing with her owner…
Too cute. 🙂
The two Labs in the background didn’t seem too impressed.
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Abuck
Dammit, they promised us flying cars in the 21st century. If they had kept it, folks would be commuting from Flatonia to Houston and back for work and be living in peace.
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Pilot walks away from small plane emergency landing on HWY 99 near Rose Hill and the stadium.
After clipping an 18 wheeler.
Hubby called me about this earlier. He knows the traffic reporter, who pulled pics off the traffic cams. Jumpin’ Joe said that the plane LANDED on the 18 wheeler, probably to avoid landing on cars. We supposed that the plane landing into the trailer, counting on it to stop forward motion.
Hubby said he’d send me the pics, but both of us are hurting tonight, so more important things to focus on.
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You actually can do truly crispy bacon in the oven. But the leftovers will be brittle, dry, and powdery.
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Wow. Can’t wait for the videos of this crash landing to start showing up.
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did you know that there are 2, count them – TWO, Tree Monkey Roads in Montgomery County???
No surprise, there.
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Ask Katfish.
When you give a trucking company or delivery outfit of any kind an order, you have to provide the road suffix (as in avenue, street, road, boulevard, highway, etc.) and most definitely the zipcode. This is especially important in the Northeast.
In my little 9,000 population town, there is a Spring Valley Road and Spring Valley Avenue. They are both major thoroughfares and they INTERSECT !
No kidding: Meet me at the corner of Spring Valley and Spring Valley.
I was in Long Island City in Queens one day trying to find a printing company plant and I knew I had the correct address, but Google Maps kept taking me to the wrong place. I finally called the company and asked for their address again and this time I entered the zip code. Boom, it took me to an address, exact same street number and name, 12 blocks from the first destination in an adjacent zip code with the exact same address.
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Abuck
Lordy, Beckendorf is an ancient west side family name.
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Texpat, back in the dark ages, when I moved to Canyon, Tx I was shocked to find that (at that time) most all streets in the town were identified with a house number, and a street number followed by St or Ave… All the St’s ran east/west, and Ave’s ran north/south (or vice versa – it’s been a while)…. but, since they started in different places, the house at 100 1st STREET (at the corner of 1st Ave) was no where near the house at 100 1st Ave. Darnedest thing I ever saw…
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I was just getting ready to start putting up tomorrow’s headline piece for OC and discovered the important expose story on the RNC corruption has disappeared from the AMGreatness.com website. I’ve been working on it over the weekend.
This is very weird.
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Atlanta, GA: Every other dang street downtown is “Peach Tree _____”
Avenue, Circle, Street, Way…
Taxi drivers must go nuts there.
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I saw a follow up report on the plane crash but have not seen any other video. Landing on a road is a tricky situation because of traffic and often time high line wires as well as road signs and such that can clip the wings. As I understand it, this plane experienced engine failure. Power off landings are a little rougher in a heavier aircraft like the bonanza as they require a steeper angle of descent to maintain airspeed for the flight controls to be effective. Normal landing speed for a bonanza would be about 110 knots on final reducing to about 90 knots over the fence and touching down about 80 knots. For round numbers, add 10% to the knots speed to convert to mph. I’ve seen an airshow event where a guy has his plane mounted on the roof of his pickup truck and he has the driver go down the runway and takes off from the truck at high speed and then lands on the truck moving about 80 the same way. Doing spot landings, namely putting it on a pre-prescribed dime is hard to do, even with functioning power controls. Doing it power off, unless you trained for it every day for a long time, would be virtually impossible. Flying over cars and then landing in front of them may be your best hope as you might thing the average driver would slow down upon recognizing what was happening, but airplanes with no motor running are silent and may not wake the drivers up from their hypnotic trance often associated with driving an automobile. The plane looked destroyed when I saw it, and I have not heard of fatalities or anything yet. Anxious the hear though. Looked to me like the road was not wide enough.
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I went to school with Beckendorfs in Spring Branch ISD. There were Beckendorfs from Magnolia to Hempstead to Katy/Brookshire and then south to East Bernard and Eagle Lake. They are a fertile and prolific bunch and they do know how to grow rice.
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Much of 99 is only four lanes with a wall or grass median in between.
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I didn’t even know about the mass murder in California.
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Just know that the United States Department Of State is on the job.
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The State Department has been populated by a bunch of Commie lifers for as long as I’ve been paying attention.
But after reading the link in my #131, I really am considering moving to Oregon. Not only does my lovely niece live there, they also just legalized psilocybin.
Sounds like a nice way to spend these next few years as our national leadership accelerates the destruction of our nation.
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Oregon has always had high unemployment. That’s probably fine if you retire there.
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#74 – *OR* – just ride a motorcycle!
The complete sensory overload is well known ‘exercise’ for the brain…….
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Tedtam’s husband’s friend sent photos of the plane crash but one I can’t do anything with one since it’s a copyrighted photo from Transtar. The second is from a private vehicle, but there is also private info exposed so I’m not going to publish them here.
The photos in the news tomorrow will be much better.
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There are lots of news reports with pix of the crashed plane, e.g.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/plane-crash-houston/285-d9c64fd8-132e-4738-983a-18fc2e80b646
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Looks like that bonanza has fuel tanks on the tips of its wings, and that the road is only 2 lanes at that point. Tanks scraped off and big fire. No injuries, so that’s a good sign. I heard the pilot say that he was landing at 90 – that means 90 knots or about 100 mph, so he would be passing everything on the ground at that speed. I think the truck just happened to be there when he ran out of energy and altitude at the same time. Now it’s about time for me to call it a day. You all have a good evening. More later. Nite nite.
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Shannon:
Texpat says:
January 22, 2023 at 7:22 pm
I went to school with Beckendorfs in Spring Branch ISD. There were Beckendorfs from Magnolia to Hempstead to Katy/Brookshire and then south to East Bernard and Eagle Lake. They are a fertile and prolific bunch and they do know how to grow rice.
Arlie Beckendorf retired as the Director of HR at Spring Branch and his brother Elmer ran the Dairy Farm out here off Cypress Rosehill. All the property in and around The Stadium used to be The Dairy Farm. Their Forefathers founded Rosehill Methodist back in the late 1800s if I recall too. Fine folks and I got to know them because my wife’s secretary is a Beckendorf. It is not the same out here anymore. We have two rush hours now, and it can take 15 minutes to drive 5 miles into Town. My neighbor moved 20 years ago when they built the Chili’s at four corners. Said it was getting too Cityfied. I should have listened and done the same.
Too much excitement for one day!
I’m heading to bed. Going to be cold tonight, I can tell because both cats are in the bed.
Cats are smart. 🙂
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I feel the earth
Move
Earth’s inner core has recently stopped spinning, and may now be reversing the direction of its rotation, according to a surprising new study that probed the deepest reaches of our planet with seismic waves from earthquakes.
The mind-boggling results suggest that Earth’s center pauses and reverses direction on a periodic cycle lasting about 60 to 70 years, a discovery that might solve longstanding mysteries about climate and geological phenomena that occur on a similar timeframe, and that affect life on our planet.
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