If you don’t vote for this candidate in 2024, you need to vote for one who powerfully articulates the principles and arguments as well as Vivek Ramaswamy does.
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I saw the O.C. clip on Tucker’s show the other night and although I agree with him 100% but I bet he doesn’t get enough traction to make it through the primaries. Also IMHO even though his message is what this country desperately needs right now it’ll not be picked up by any of the other candidates. Trump being the only one that comes close.
Can you believe it’s 73 right now? And the high is supposed to be 84, low 80’s all this week but I think it’s a tease because early March is gong to be cold and wet. Everything is budding out and we even have a few azaleas blooming and the fig trees started about Tuesday. They usually go from looking dead to leafy in about a week. That said I hope we don’t have another hard freeze and stunt them for the year, that is possible but very unlikely but they can deal with just a frost.
Mornin’ Gang
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Ramaswamy for president!
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Re: Call before you dig
I remember sometime in the 90’s I went to bury the kid’s dead hamster in the back corner of the yard. First strike of the shovel, dead center through the Time Warner cable lol. Now if I had been looking for it….
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Dateline TOK. Warm morning and nice weather for next two weeks. You all have a good day.
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I told y’all a few days ago that I liked what this guy said. And he says it like he believes it, too.
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I remember sometime in the 90’s I went to bury the kid’s dead hamster in the back corner of the yard. First strike of the shovel, dead center through the Time Warner cable lol. Now if I had been looking for it….
I did the same thing when I buried Dixie near the high voltage transformer. BTW; the damn cable was about 2″ below the grass! I spliced it and called “The Man” then the cable was replaced and ran along my side fence until they could send the poor guy to bury it. Guess how long that took? Never would be the answer, I called a dozen times and was promised they’d be right but I don’t thank they even mentioned it to anyone else, so I finally just buried the damn thing myself.
And I know what you’re thinking,,,The High Voltage Transformer?!?!?!? I knew exactly where the lines for the transformer was since the guy that installed my fence, when the house was being built, he cut the neighbor’s line to the house next door. After we moved in Houston Looting and Pillage came to fix it and accused me of cutting the line and I told them the builder’s fence guy did it but I don’t think they believed me. 😉
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One of the first summer jobs the boy had was helping a guy put up fence. One day his boss was using a gasoline powered auger and hit a low voltage (220V) line. Sparks went everywhere and it knocked out power to the block. The boss wasn’t hurt but he was PI$$ED since all 3 utility companies had flagged the yard.
As a side-bar; After Ike took out my side fence and I was putting it back up the boy helped me some and I was amazed at how good he was at it, making sure the fence was level and the posts were plumb. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised since he was a quick learner and always conscientious.
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#s 3 & 6 – Comcrap’s cable here is no deeper than the grass’s roots!
They use a wedge shaped spud bar to ‘bury’ it in the tiny v-shaped indentation (no digging) – WAY too easy to damage the darned cable ………………..
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I don’t think they mark coaxial cable anyway do they?
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All utilities are supposed to mark their lines, except for the city’s water and sewer lines.
Don’t know why the city gets an out, but there ya’ go.
So yes, the cables for your TV cable and internet should be marked.
Warning: they are more likely to be the lines that snake all over the yard and are left in coils for the burying contractor to “bury where it lies”. Larned that info from a cable guy in my back yard. Shore ’nuff, there was about 30 ft of cable that had been left in a big circle in my yard, buried where it was left lying.
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Just went to the Texas 811 site and submitted a locate for one of our rentals. Feels weird to be logging in as “homeowner” and not “contractor”.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
Another overcast early morning here that might slide into afternoon and then hang around the rest of the day. Our live oaks are shedding leaves in in large amounts that are covering every flat surface. There must be some nuts also coming down, as the squirrels have been busy picking through the grass as well as climbing the trees for acorns. By the looks of the squirrels this should be a good harvest year. They are not starving.
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DECENCY AND DISAPPOINTMENT ☙ Thursday, February 23, 2023
Roundup:
It’s a terrific C&C Thursday! Welcome to the good-news roundup. I know that I promised to slog through the war stuff today, but I’m resetting that until tomorrow so that I can share three uplifting developments: Trump’s visit to East Palestine and all the fruit it has already borne; the quietest, most impactful bill yet filed this year in Florida; and the Supreme Courts’ intent to hear oral arguments on two critically-important Free Speech cases.
First up: East Palestine
Beyond a rally and a photo opportunity, President Trump’s visit produced at least two tangible effects. The first, and more likely to be of benefit, was the announcement by FEMA that, even after Biden previously denied federal aid to the beleaguered town, FEMA had been authorized to commence relief efforts.
FEMA’s reversal occurred the day before Trump’s visit.
Nothing like a political rival making you look bad and getting voters’ support to spur TPTB into action. Pete Bootyjudge has now announced that he’s taking time out of his personal schedule to visit the folks in the poisoned town. Here’s hoping he drinks the water to prove a point.
…Then — a couple days later — Eureka! Suddenly it was appropriate to visit. Right after Trump. My guess is Mayor Pete was waiting for someone to tell him what to do.
Needless to say, East Palestine is grateful for the attention Trump gave them. I doubt there’ll be any Democrat voters in this town after this debacle. If any of them are still around come voting season.
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IT has been a while, but I have located lines by using 2 pieces of copper wire, one in each hand. Bend a 90 degree with about 4″ to hold on and have 8″ or so pointing away from you in each hand. HOld them about 4″ apart and start walking. When you cross a line they will move 90 degrees.
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Bones, you just took my mental picture back to another lifetime when a member at Thousand Trails showed our east coast city slicker resort manager how to “dowse” for water or electricity, with 2 welding rods bent as you describe. When it worked for the manager, his face looked like a little kid seeing Santa for the first time.
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FWIW; When we ran the 10/3, 220V main line to the new Pole Barn I was 95% sure that I knew where all the utility lines were here at the this old house but I called 811 just to be absolutely sure that the gas line, (the only one I was concerned about) went around the west side of the house. Afterwards everybody and their brother showed up to mark the lines. The local cable, Troy Cable was here in 20 minutes! AND all there lines are overhead out here in the sticks. BTW; The local gas company uses a a new-fangled plastic line for their meters so for location purposes they bury a green 10 gauge copper wire along the length of the pipe. They found the wire in the flower bed and hooked their beeper to it to chase the line. The beeper followed it almost to the gravel road before it petered out so it must be damaged about 20 feet from the main line.
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More C&C:
Now Childers goes to his bailiwick – the law. It seems DeSantis is winning again:
Last week, largely unreported by corporate media, Governor DeSantis held a press conference on “defamation law reform.” … HB991…
…I’m not surprised corporate media has been so quiet about it. Anyone who’s ever been trashed or cancelled on social media will instantly recognize how badly-needed is this new law. It would literally benefit everyone, by shrinking the poisonous effects of online cancel culture.
This new law would allow you to effectively and economically sue social media trolls who got you fired by falsely labeling you a “racist.” And it does a lot more than that too.
To set the table, part of my commercial litigation practice includes defamation cases…
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The bill’s first major improvement is that it awards attorney’s fees to a successful plaintiff. …
/snip – lots of real life examples of why this is important
HB 991 goes a long way toward fixing these problems.
Attorney’s fees is a great start, but it gets better. The other trick corporate media always plays in these cases is that they whip out “journalistic privilege,” a law that protects reporters from having to disclose their sources. It’s important to protect legitimate whistleblowers. But HB 991 provides that when a reporter defames someone, they can’t defend themselves by relying only on anonymous sources.
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Next, the law codifies something I’ve believed for a long time, but courts have been confused about: whether calling someone “racist, homophobic, or transphobic” is defamatory per se. Defamation “per se” is a heightened category of defamation that allows for recovery of “name clearing” or “nominal” damages, like that $1 award my pediatrician client wanted. (Technically, in a case involving defamation per se, the plaintiff doesn’t have to prove damages to survive a motion to dismiss.)
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The new bill would make calling someone “racist, homophobic, or transphobic” into the same category with those other harmful types of defamation. This is driving the woke contingent insane right now. They think EVERYBODY is racist, homophobic, and transphobic, so if the law passes they won’t be able to say ANYTHING. [emphasis mine]
HB 991 also updates the law to current technology, by adding provisions recognizing current internet and social media realities. This gets a little technical, but one example is the new law would let the plaintiff (the injured person) pick the county in which to sue the defendant (the person who lied). The old law made the poor plaintiff file suit wherever the defendant lives, on the rationale that the injury happened where the defamation happened. That made sense for newspapers and radio and such, but the internet is everywhere.
Finally — and this is the most controversial part — the law would make it slightly easier for public figures to sue people for defamation — a long overdue reform…
There SHOULD be a lot of latitude to talk about public figures…. the ball swung too far, and needs to swing back a little.
First of all, this part of the bill is not just for celebrities and politicians. It helps everybody, because some courts will promptly dismiss a defamation case by finding that the poor plaintiff is a “public figure,” …. HB 991 fixes that, and provides a clear and reasonable definition of what a “public figure” is — something the Supreme Court overlooked in the Sullivan case.
The new provision for public figures only says that they get the same rules as everybody else when people defame them about things unrelated to their jobs. In other words, people could still criticize public figures all day long about anything that is remotely connected to their office. …
/snip – more explanation of “allowed” public statements
You don’t have to take my word for it. Read HB991 for yourself: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/991. If you write your legislator, make sure to tell them not to let the bill get watered down.
HB991 would make excellent progress pushing back against cancel culture.
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#16 SuperD
Hubby bought tracer wire and I was here when the new cable line was buried – about 3″ down. I made sure the guy put the tracer wire in the trench with the cable.
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The tree people just arrived to take care of removing dead wood in trees and branches almost laying on the roof. We apparently called very early in the season for their work, as they were available within a few days after the trees were surveyed. We have 80+ trees on our property (6.4 acers), down from 90 when we built the house 42 years ago. The squirrels planted most of them other than around the house where we planted the trees in an orderly manner. Squirrels have no planned plantings obviously, just wherever seems covenient.
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Edit Button doesn’t work on my end, the little wheel just spins and spins until the sand runs out.
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From C&C comments:
Dr Robert Malone lists various legislative bills being pursued that we should consider watching. Since I am from TN…
SB 3 – creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.
SB 11 – makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19 to protect citizens from government overreach. Ensure that state and local governments cannot require COVID-19 vaccine mandates and that statewide standards are met before local governments can issue mask mandates in public and in schools. It also guarantees a person hospitalized can be accompanied by a family member during their stay.
SB 1 – prohibit minors from undergoing irreversible and harmful medical procedures to change their gender identity
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/state-bills-to-support-or-oppose
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“Pete Buttigieg is just like a difficult and unsatisfying bowel movement.”
Wow, what an analogy. I don’t know how apt it is, though, as I have a sense that Pete is specializes in bottom-friendly diets and likes to keep things quite cleared out down there. For personal reasons.
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I think you might be right. I’m just baffled. Liberals claim to be all about empathy and yet whenever a time comes to show it, they have none. And I am lost as to why your average middle class American liberal wouldn’t wake up and say “you know? maybe these politicians I’m supporting wouldn’t lift a finger to help me either?”
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Exactly! Where is the outrage from AOC and the like about the massive environmental damage? We know they don’t care one bit about the white conservatives living in East Palestine, but you’d think they could gin up some emotion for the animals and environment. Nope, it’s all a charade with that crew of hypocrites, just a charade to continue and extend their control. They disgust me, every last one of them.
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My only concern is that the Justices don’t understand Section 230 at all, or how it relates to the 1st Amendment.
For sure Sotomayor doesn’t, but I’d be willing to bet that Thomas does.
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One of Mr. Childers’ readers reported that she received a grovel letter from the PV board, asking her to remain loyal.
Not likely.
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Raquel Welch accuses Mae West of being a transvestite.
I guess Mae was years ahead of “her” time.
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#17 Tedtam,
Now that starts out the morning with a lot to be happy about. And to top that off, the sun just came out of the clouds.
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Can you believe it’s 73 right now?
Can you believe it is -22F right now. High of -9F and a low of -29.
IHW
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Today is not edit button headaches day. That comes on Tuesdays
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Super Dave
Edit button works fine on this end. Try clearing your cache, re-login and see if that helps.
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Back from TOK and now have a little breakfast in my belly, so it’s about time to get outside and survey the possibilities of gardening today. I don’t get too excited these days abut the insanity the seems to be prevailing across the nation and as reported by the news media as being normal, but the introduction of the lady foreperson of the Trump grand jury in Georgia was quite an eye opener. Is this really where we are headed with justice in America. As one quote paraphrased, I always knew a grand jury could indite a ham sandwich; I never knew it could empanel one.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-georgia-grand-jury-forewoman-trump-2020-election_n_63f58c5de4b0e2590d4035a8 -
I just got notice that a friend of a friend has died S&U. He was helping his sister care for their disabled father, so now the sister is all alone with that duty and with the charge of burying her brother and settling his estate.
Please pray for Daisy as she adjusts to her new responsibilities, and for the soul of her brother Guillermo.
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I got one of my best birthday gifts ever on my sixteenth birthday, 1970. A Belgium Browning Light 12 Auto 5 28″ Modified and it’s still one of my all time favorites.
FWIW; This just popped up. 😉
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I suspect there are a number of draft copies of lawsuits waiting for the final passage of HB991 before they are filed to challenge this bill. The lawyers will be hitting the courthouses with motions for temporary injunctions the minute this passes.
What could be very interesting is if this legislation is blocked and makes it to the Supreme Court. It might be the case that rewrites libel and slander law in America.
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Priscilla Jackson claims a nearby work site’s porta-potty has been used for prostitution along Nathaniel Brown Street on Houston’s south side. (ABC13)
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Morning, gang.
I’ll make a guess on texanadian’s #25:
I Hate Winter?
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Wonder if the porta-can has phone numbers.
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I likewise have decoded IHW as I Hate Winter. Understandable given the nasty cold weather Texanadia is stuck with. Have to wear a face mask to keep saliva from freezing if you open your mouth too wide in such temps.
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Yup IHW = I Hate Winter. Texanadian has mentioned this a couple of times. Just shows to go ya’ nobody reads anybody’s posts. 😀
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Prostitution in a portapotty?
The mind reels.
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I’d have to have a two seater.
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Ya’ couldn’t get too energetic, for sure.
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Him: What’s wrong?
Her: Nothing, just wondering why you lied to me October 12th, 2012 at 5:27PM.
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Shannon quoted writer Liel Leibovitz in First Things yesterday describing his gathering in Texas with a bunch of friends from various walks of life who shared common bonds via fundamental principles of American life. It’s worth repeating.
A few weeks ago, I was having dinner with some friends in Texas. The group, to use an oft-abused term correctly, was diverse—Jews and Catholics and evangelicals, young and old, university professors and professional musicians, with little in common save for our shared belief that faith, family, and nation ought to be the building blocks of a happy, fruitful life.
Maybe it was the spirited conversation, or maybe just the spirits served liberally throughout the evening, but at some point I turned to my friends, raised my glass, and made a toast. “Mazal tov,” I said. “You’re all Jews now.”
The line got a big laugh, but I was being serious. Growing up in what, until five or six years ago, felt like a very different America, my friends had no way of knowing what life as an embattled minority might feel like. Their beliefs, give or take a few articles of faith, were so ubiquitous in the public discourse that they hardly needed stating: Of course we all love America and believe in its divine election. Of course we all cheer and yearn for warm, tightly knit families offering love and support. Of course we worship a mighty God, divergent as our religious practices and affiliations may be. Sure, here and there a fiery and divisive issue might have popped into view, reminding my friends that some of their neighbors held wildly different convictions, but what they could expect at such contentious moments was a debate, not a crusade, because America was America, and because they, normal Americans, were the majority.
No more.
I am a big fan of Liel and was looking last night for another of his essays when I came across this absolutely shocking true story of his childhood. It is an amazing tale and I thought the headline was a joke at first.
What Learning My Dad Was One Of Israel’s Most Notorious Bank Robbers Taught Me About Being A Man
My idol was a real live person called the Motorcycle Bandit. He appeared on the scene shortly after my twelfth birthday, robbing bank after bank after bank all over Israel. He was in and out of the banks in under forty seconds, never leaving behind any clues to his real name or identity.
He got so popular that Israel’s most famous comedy sketch show – sort of the local version of Saturday Night Live – devoted an entire episode to the bandit, speculating in one bit that he probably never robbed a bank in Jerusalem because he didn’t particularly care for that city. So you can imagine what the reaction was the next day, when, in an apparent tribute to his favorite television show, the Motorcycle Bandit robbed his one and only Jerusalem bank.
People went insane. Women who worked at banks would write their names and phone numbers on little notes so that if the sexy heart-throb robber happened to hit their bank, maybe he would find their number and give them a call.
But the people who loved the bandit most were us teenage boys. For us he was a hero, and on Purim, which is more or less the Jewish equivalent of Halloween, we all dressed up like him – in a leather jacket and a motorcycle helmet and a big shiny gun.
So about a year and a half later, I’m thirteen. I’m walking home from the eighth grade, and no one’s home, so I mosey over to the kitchen to make myself a snack. I hear a knock on the door, but it’s not a tap-tap-tap. It’s a boom-boom-BOOM.
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Well, this wouldn’t be good…
US Could Default on Debt as Early as Summer, New Study Estimates
The United States will run out of existing funds to pay the nation’s bills within seven months unless Congress raises the debt ceiling, a bipartisan group confirmed on Feb. 22
The “X Date” when the government will have to begin delaying some payments can’t be predicted with certainty, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), but will likely come in summer or early fall of 2023.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said Congress will not consider raising the debt ceiling without some concession on future spending by Democrats.
President Joe Biden has consistently said he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling because failure to raise it would put the “full faith and credit” of the United States at risk.
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Got outside a little today. Trimmed a couple of low hanging branches with the pole saw and got rid of some mistletoe while I was at it. Redid some new plants and delivered some squash seedlings to a friend – still have plenty more. Brother advised me that if you park your car around here in a couple of months you had better roll your windows up and lock your car or you will come back to a car full of squash and zucchini. Last year I started eating sauteed squash with onions, done in butter, and almost got addicted. Not only is it tasty but easy to prepare. I should have plenty this year if the seedlings are any indication. I finally checked and last freeze out here is March 28 on average. I’ll be setting some out before then I’m pretty sure. I’m getting ready to post some pictures of the diantha that I put in the ground last fall and which survived the winter along with some volunteer bluebonnets that are starting to bloom. I think they will get along with each other pretty well and will look nice together. You can feel free to bring one or more over here if you like. Think it’s going to be an early bluebonnet season out here.
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A society already suffering from a decline in religious affiliation and whose social institutions and popular culture daily signal open hostility towards boys and men now wonders why young males have withdrawn from participating. Once churches and synagogues were common places for men to meet and make friendships, but what if no one is joining ? All of the men only clubs, service associations and lodges have been sued out of existence by feminists or Congress. College fraternities seem to be the last vestige of masculine redoubt though sororities and exclusively adult female organizations seem to continue to thrive.
Then comes the turbo-charged shock to the framework of civilization, the Pandemic of COVID, that amplifies all the social ills corroding human associations in America. The grand majestic failures of our governments’ reactions made everything worse for everyone, striking most harshly on the most vulnerable.
More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women, signaling a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male.
Men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. They stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of declining marriage, sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of young America.
and,
As of 2022, Pew Research Center found, 30 percent of U.S. adults are neither married, living with a partner nor engaged in a committed relationship. Nearly half of all young adults are single: 34 percent of women, and a whopping 63 percent of men.
Not surprisingly, the decline in relationships marches astride with a decline in sex. The share of sexually active Americans stands at a 30-year low. Around 30 percent of young men reported in 2019 that they had no sex in the past year, compared to about 20 percent of young women.
Only half of single men are actively seeking relationships or even casual dates, according to Pew. That figure is declining.
One doesn’t have to agree with all the conclusions in this article to still be alarmed by the facts.
The same emotional deficits that hurt men in the dating pool also hamper them in forming meaningful friendships. Fifteen percent of men report having no close friendships, a fivefold increase from 1990, according to research by the Survey Center on American Life.
“Men are less naturally relational than women,” said Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution whose new book, “Of Boys and Men,” has drawn wide praise.
RTWDT.
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No
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The brain is a powerful thing.
Condition the brain to accept the visual cues that the fake hand is real and it feels stimuli.
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I’m sure many of you have seen this, but TuCa discusses DEI and its relationship to commercial airplanes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzc0xoUDKg
Of course, the same applies to ships, military activities, the judiciary, college admissions, and more. Some of those things are actually important.
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#44
It would be a good thing if inadequate hires — pilots and any other positions requiring extreme excellence — were aware of their deficiencies. But they are probably not bright enough to notice.
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Mayor Pete’s press secretary does not want to answer questions on camera. Kinda strange given her position.
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FAR too “slammed” here to do much posting today.
Yall should GO check out ACE!
Beaucoup bad fodder to read!
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Couldn’t pass this one up though!
Black Panther Angela Davis gets some NEWS She really does NOT like!
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My #48 – I’m fairly SURE there was NOT any cotton being picked aboard the Mayflower!!!
BwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHA
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14 Bones
I was pretty good at it for a long long time, and then POOF! it didn’t work for me anymore. I was three feet off or more. I don’t know what happened, but I lost it. Some people use tig or other welding rods. I, too, used heavy copper ground wire that I got off utility linemen.
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I was a lot better at finding water lines than phone and electric. And different soil types seemed to affect my abilities.
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It has been at least 5 years since I used the wires. I think the trick is to not squeeze too hard.
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Sometimes I could use just a single, short, t-handle meter shutoff tool.
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If you are interested in the history of Coors beer, this is a good documentary. It appears to be about 20 years old.
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I saw, close up, one of these brand new Hydrogen-Electric tractors coming out of the Love’s Truck Stop today. It was being hauled on a double-drop trailer.
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Early dinner this afternoon.
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El Gordo, blog killer extraordinaire.
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Just had a lapful of Purrscilla kitty looking at the computer screen briefly but intent on standing in front of it anyway despite not being at all interested in what was going on. Just “pet me” was her intent for coming up there, and the best way to get attention she’s found is to stand right in front of the screen and almost step on the keyboard. I know when she’s happy and ready to step down when I put her on the floor and she walks off to somewhere else in the house she likes.
Tree pollen count is up enough to require antihistamine no matter that I have only been outside very briefly today. Our red oaks are the culprits this time, leafing out a bit early in our warmer than usual weather. We’re very mindful of the tricks Mother Nature can play in February and March with unseasonably cold fronts rolling in from Canada. So we are holding off planting flowers in several beds outside until sometime in March.
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Shannon
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No way you would catch me in that pimp mobile. Gimme a good old fashioned internal combustion diesel fueled Mammoth.
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#55 Shannon – I’ve never been a fan of cab-overs… and that thing looks like something that would make me feel like a fish in a fish-bowl fitted into a bookcase strapped to the front of something going down the freeway WAY too fast…
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There will never be a fraction enforced of the justifiable retribution for these bastards who forced America to shut down and to close the schools over a stupid coronavirus.
Yana and her mother fled Ukraine and found a new home with an aunt in San Francisco — until the 13-year-old girl started Marina Middle School in January. Bullied and robbed, she’s quit school, reports Jill Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Students interrupted classes, jumped on desks, cursed at teachers,” Yana told her mother and aunt. “Nothing happened.”The newcomer tried to avoid disruptive students, but she became their target. Her cell phone was stolen in the cafeteria, and the students she believed responsible threatened her. “They started yelling and cursing and moving toward her,” her aunt said. A counselor stepped in.
“The next day, Yana stopped going to school,” writes Tucker. School officials offered her “a security action plan,” which apparently included an escort in the hallways, but denied the family’s request for a transfer to a new school.
Teachers nationwide say student violence has more than doubled since schools reopened, according to a recent survey. “Eighty-four percent of teachers believe current students lack the ability to self-regulate and build relationships compared to peers prior to the pandemic.”
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Still got an hour to kill until bed time. I got the pole saw out and worked a little bit on some dead limbs, worked on stuff in the greenhouse, watered everything, etc. No one brought it over, but my red dianthus are mixing with the just starting bluebonnets and I think they will get along just fine. And they are going to be pretty in full bloom. I thought the dianthus would die out over the winter, but it never really did, so I put some in the ground earlier and it’s held its own pretty well. We’ll see if it spreads and continues blooming all summer. I went ahead and mixed a little fertilizer in the rose pots since they are budding out no matter what, so I figure a little boost would be good for them and would most likely do no harm. I had transplanted some iris to a bare spot out front, and it’s mostly coming along with new growth, but I don’t think it will put out any flowers this year. Usually they bloom right at Easter when the do actually bloom, and they are beautiful flowers when they show. Probably not this year though.
OK, off to find something interesting on YT. I’m pretty simple so it doesn’t take much to entertain me. You all have a good evening now. Nite nite.
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# 60 Bsue
Archive.
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Clouds are rolling in.
Standing out in the rain.
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