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It’s the weekend! And for some reason it seems like it’s been a long week maybe because it was colder early in the week and I was stuck inside too much. That front roared through here last night and gave us almost an inch of rain .95″ to be exact and a few thunder boomers, nothing like the vicious storm the weather guessers had predicted. Not sure what’s on tap for today but the HEB imported coffee sure is good on this cooler morning.
Mornin’ Gang
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About to head out to have breakfast with Hubby and Handsome Son. Then I’m picking up a gal friend for a spontaneous, unplanned road trip. The only “have to” spots on today’s itinerary are to see Shannon and go to Lindemann’s to pick up the steaks Hubby wants so badly. Other than that, it’s come to an intersection and we flip a coin to determine which direction we go.
That kind of trip would drive Hubby crazy. He prefers to have his road trips planned out. Highly prefers.
He’ll spend time planning out his trip, and half the time I’ll see something along the way and say “let’s go see that!”. He’ll oblige me and shoot his plans all to heck.
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I just let the GPS send me on an adventure.
Postponed practice at Cotton Bowl Speedway for tomorrow not verified yet, they are trying to get the track dried out. Looks like light showers this morning which is probably why they said call would be made by ten AM,
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Stick a fork in it.
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Yall Arkancided the blog this early? 🙂
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New Jersey has overturned the bookies’ March Madness apple carts with Princeton beating #2 Arizona and local school Fairleigh Dickinson beating #1 Purdue.
Some folks lost a whole lot of money this week.
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Be worried, be very worried. These are the banking elites running the financial system.
Meet the woman running the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and directly responsible for oversight of Silicon Valley Bank.
Until recently, Daly was opposed to the Fed’s hawkish shift to tightening credit to fight inflation. Her bank examiners no doubt shared her dovish mindset and didn’t anticipate rates increasing, which may also explain why alarms weren’t raised at SVB.
Daly has no background in banking or managing risk. After dropping out of high school, she worked in a donut shop before eventually getting her GED and entering college, where she became enamored with a socialist professor.
She said she was inspired by Marxian economist Gene Wagner, who “has mentored me my whole life.”
Several years later, after earning a PhD from Syracuse University, Daly landed a job as a labor inequality researcher at the San Francisco Fed, where she ingratiated herself with then-SF Fed President Janet Yellen, who helped her fail upward.
Daly called Yellen an “important mentor in my life . . . [S]he made my career kind of explode.” Daly quickly rose up the ranks, and in 2018, she was named president and CEO of the SF Fed — but more important to the wokesters, she was the “first openly gay” regional Fed bank chief.
Oh, and the CEO of SVB, Gregg Becker, also sat on the board of the SF Fed with Daly. Very cozy bunch there of rabid Trump-hating donors to Hillary and Biden campaigns.
Moving on to the Woke/Broke Credit Suisse Bank of Switzerland..
Lizzy Asher, the wife of Credit Suisse top exec Daniel Ezra, wore a French maid-style outfit and flashed her derriere at a New York society event— just as the Swiss government bailed out her husband’s firm for $50 billion.
Without a shred of self-awareness, Asher posed up in Roaring 20s glam at the Art Gala at the Mandarin Oriental in Midtown on Thursday evening, where she mingled with stars including Nicky Hilton, Alice + Olivia designer Stacy Bendet and Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Honestly, you can’t make this crap up, but we aren’t done yet with the Swiss.
Jordan Schachtel@JordanSchachtelThe head of global markets at Credit Suisse is a mentally ill “gender fluid” man who sometimes believes he wakes up as a woman. -
Morning gang. I slept in a little late this morning. I was used to getting up about sunrise or 7AM before the time change, and now I’m still getting up at the same time but it’s 8AM. Had good coffee with the gang of olde pharts. I’ve been trying to pay attention to my worm farming operation in my custom made set up which consists of a bucket with holes in the bottom set inside another bucket without holes in the bottom, and a lid with holes to allow the whole thing to breathe a little bit. I got a small batch of worms to begin with, and I put a little oatmeal in there for worm food. I later added a banana peel, but since there are not many worms, I do not want to over feed them and have rotten food start stinking. I’m keeping the whole contraption inside, and I haven’t noticed anyone trying to escape. But, upon inspection, I’m not seeing any worms. I’ve removed the cover materials and scratched around but very few occasionally to be seen. They do not like light, so even if they are near the surface when the cover comes off the scurry away. Anyway, this morning I decided to dump the whole thing into a laundry tub to see if there are any worms left in there, and sure enough, they are in there presumably still getting acclimated. So I think all they really need right now is a good leaving alone. The bedding mix is good, there are a few food scraps in there, the moisture seems about right, and I think they just need to sit for about a week doing whatever worms do. I would bet that they could live for a couple of months on the nutrients that are in there right now, but I’ll check on them again in about a week and quit bothering them for a while.
I think I’ll go ahead and order a second batch of worms and start a second worm bucket bin. They are supposed to double in numbers every 60-90 days, but I’m pretty sure that the moving about and establishing new headquarters slows that down a bit. I wondered if you need to have a critical mass or minimum number in the colony to get them started, but it seems that they will multiply to fill the surrounding habitat no matter what size it is, so once again, just leave them alone.
Funny, but that’s about the same advice for most things – just give it a good leaving alone. Everyone seems to think they are supposed to do something. All the politicians and do gooders are always interfering in other people’s lives. Live and let live, and leave people alone. That may be the true secret to a good life. Have a great day you all.
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This is alarming.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say 68 patients in 16 US states have been diagnosed with a rare bacterial infection likely caused by preservative-free eyedrops.
The public health agency says a rare strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is resistant to antibiotics, has resulted in the death of one American, as well as vision loss in eight other patients across the country.
Four people infected have been forced to have their eyes surgically removed, including Florida grandmother Clara Oliva, who is now suing the makers of EzriCare Artificial Tears.
“My client is horribly injured and now legally blind. I am currently investigating others similarly injured by this recalled product,” Oliva’s attorney Natasha Cortes wrote in an email to Law&Crime.
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In January, the agency warned customers to stop using both EzriCare Artificial Tears and Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Tears after they clocked the rare outbreak of infections.
In February, Global Pharma Healthcare — the company which manufactures both of those products — issued a voluntary recall following a formal recommendation from the Food and Drug Administration.
If you have any of these in your house, I would throw them out.
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If they arrest and try Trump on these ridiculous charges, Elon Musk thinks he’ll be re-elected in a landslide.
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Good chilly morning, Hamsters,
We had a little rain here before midnight but don’t know how much since the little weather station clears its rain gauge at midnight. Will have to check the independent gauge on the fence. It can’t be much since the sidewalk is only wet but no puddles. We have a light breeze and 48 that has held on since early morning. This is certainly not a day for outdoor activities unless necessary.
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#9 – Think about it. If Trump gets arrested, the Dems will think he is one of them and they’ll all vote for him too. Yes, I could see a landslide election coming out of that.
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#9 Texpat, According to Trump he will be arrested on Tuesday. This is all hard to believe, they’ve been after Trump hoping to find something, anything they could arrest him for and since they couldn’t, they decided to get him on a minor issue that isn’t against the law. I do wonder WHAT the charge will be. Of course if there is a trail in New York he could be convicted. Can you say Third World Banana Republic?
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My #12 And to think the Biden Crime Family cannot will not be touched……. ~SPITS~
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Squawkster, this one’s for you. Bailey of WKRP.
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I love this story.
Common sense suggests that space missions can only happen with multimillion-dollar budgets, materials built to withstand the unforgiving conditions beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and as a result of work done by highly trained specialists.
But a team of engineering students from Brown University has turned that assumption on its head.
They built a satellite on a shoestring budget and using off-the-shelf supplies available at most hardware stores. They even sent the satellite—which is powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries and a $20 microprocessor popular with robot hobbyists—into space about 10 months ago, hitching a ride on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket.
Now, a new analysis of data from Air Force Space Command shows that the satellite not only successfully operated, but could have far-ranging impacts on efforts to cut down on the growing problem of space debris, which poses a potential danger to all current and future space vehicles.
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It’s very cold outside, seems colder than the 55° shown at weather.com for my zip code. I no longer have an outdoor thermometer, or even a rain gauge — that was the sort of stuff David liked to know what was available and to be sure we had the latest and tech-iest products.
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Brahma calf found.
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Just met up with Tedtam and friend in Brenham. And got her headed down FM 109 (one of my favorite roads in Texas) towards the metropolis of Industry, TX.
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Loose goats, calves, horses.
I think you have some fencing problems in your neighborhood.
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Don’t forget to keep an eye out for escaping worms if you’re going through San Saba. Not a day goes by without the police scanner talking about a bull or goats or sheep or horse loose on the side of the road somewhere. Have not heard of a report on loose worms yet though.
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Today’s DEI near miss comes to you from O’Hare in Chicago. The pilotette is instructed to turn right heading 180 but she decides to turn to her other right (left) to the other 180 heading (360) causing a conflict with arriving traffic. It won’t be long now until the big sky gets too many planes in the same place at the same time with disastrous results, all in an effort to be woke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinRd1lcoy4
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This is a very good threadreader app from a guy named Cooper Lund.
Silicon Valley’s problem is, in large part, that they’ve stopped fixing the average person’s problems. Tech hasn’t improved most people’s lives in a noteworthy way in over a decade, and has made an awful lot of people’s much worse.
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Most people outside the Valley can see this decay, not just in a lack of new services, but also in the rapidly declining quality of existing services like how Google search is now basically unusable.And the VCs know it, too. They tried to get people excited about Web3 because there’s nothing interesting coming down the pipeline and they gotta get new companies to grow. There’s a crisis in tech, and that’s why tech keeps laying people off while the rest of the economy is fine.I wouldn’t say the rest of the economy is fine, but he does make some good points. -
Tonight’s predicted low temperature has been revised downward and is now indicating a low of 34 degrees. I’m wondering if I should go recover my tarp and cover up the newly planted stuff in my garden in case it does frost. I’ll probably wind up doing that some time this afternoon before dark. It’s only about 50 degrees out there now with overcast, but if the overcast leaves, that will allow the radiant heat to escape into the stratosphere and make for a much colder night.
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I think you have some fencing problems in your neighborhood
Naw, just a bunch of hillbillies.
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#23: Where are the co-pilots? Sleeping?
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but also in the rapidly declining quality of existing services like how Google search is now basically unusable.
I haven’t used Google search in a very long time.
What are they talking about here?
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#29 (!!) – PLEASE Lord let this be a tide that swells higher than Noah’s flood!!!
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Horrific East Texas oilfield tragedy of 1937.
At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, with just minutes left in the school day and more than 500 students and teachers inside the building, a natural gas explosion leveled most of what had been the wealthiest rural school in the nation.
Hundreds died at New London High School in Rusk County after odorless natural gas leaked into the basement and ignited. The sound of the explosion was heard four miles away. Parents, many of them roughnecks from the East Texas oilfield, rushed to the school.
Despite immediate rescue efforts, 298 died, most from grades 5 to 11 (dozens more later died of injuries). After an investigation, the cause of the school explosion was found to be an electric wood-shop sander that sparked unscented gas that had pooled beneath and in the walls of the school.
In early 1937 the school board canceled its contract with Union Gas to save money and tapped into a pipeline of residue gas (also called casinghead gas) from Parade Gasoline Company, according to historian James Cornell. “This practice — while not explicitly authorized by local oil companies — was widespread in the area,” he reported…
A young man working for United Press in Dallas, Walter Cronkite, was among the first reporters to reach the scene of the disaster south of Kilgore, between Tyler and Longview. It was dark and raining in East Texas.
Decades later, Cronkite would [write], “I did nothing in my studies nor in my life to prepare me for a story of the magnitude of that New London tragedy, nor has any story since that awful day equaled it.”
More here:
https://aoghs.org/oil-almanac/new-london-texas-school-explosion/
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My aunt in Kerrville says Mountain Home – just west of there – had snow this morning
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Squeezed in a nice little nap there,and since it’s cool, I’m having a cup of coffee to get moving again – not a whole bunch of coffee like in the mornings, but just a single cup, or maybe a cup and a half. It’s warmed up to 55 degrees and the sun is trying to peek through, with tonight’s low still forecast around 34 degrees. I’m think I’ll go drag my tarp around and cover the main garden bed just in case Mr. Jack Frost decides to make a late season visit. Average last freeze date has already passed, but latest recorded freeze date is mid April, so I guess we are still in no man’s land when it comes to late season freezes.
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I’m back home from the wildflower hunting, which was wildly successful this year. It was nice to give Shannon a hug in real life. I took pictures on my fancy camera, so I’ll need to download those and make a collage or something so I can share. There was so much purdy I almost overloaded on the Texas beauty. Shannon got us on a real pretty road, we took a few detours, etc., etc.
I also scored two of those steaks Hubby asked me to pick up.
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I calculated that I drove 288 miles today. About 240 of those miles were full of Texas spring.
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I had to log in every time I came over here today. Since y’all were wondering.
My tomato seeds I planted in a cup in mid February never have done anything, everything else has sprouted. So someone mentioned Magnolia Hardware had some nice plants in their greenhouse, never had been in there so stopped by there and grabbed a few tomato plants. $1.19 each, not bad and they look real good. We shall see, I’ll get all of it in the garden once this little snap is over. They could probably handle the chill but I’d rather not.
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The cool spell has caused me to take 3 naps today. Just too chilly to be trying to do anything outside. Shoot, I may have supper and then grab another nap.
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My forecast has again been revised downward now to 32 degrees for a low tonight. I guess I should go get the tarp out and spread it out as far as it will go to see if it might help any. I can’t cover everything but the main bed should get handled.
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Sang at church.
Actually made it through Amazing Grace. (Tonight was the the blind man Gospel reading.)Went to the local mediocre steak house and had a mediocre rib eye.
”A mediocre rib eye is better than no rib eye at all.”
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If it isn’t completely dried out, I think I’ll head home and smoke one of those fine cigars that I bought in New Jersey.
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#38: Bed sheets work well also.
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Well, I finally went outside about 7 pm. I did some more trimming on my freeze-damaged ligustrum bushes. Some of them are looking Ok, but several are not. I guess I’ll coddle even those for a year or two, and hope they eventually look like a planned set again.
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There y’all are! I’ve been getting a message saying that the site couldn’t be found check your, yada yada yada. BIL made it home this afternoon and my wife rolled in about 5 PM so all is well here. Doctor said BIL was doing surprisingly well especially for his age. I figure he’ll be back to normal in no time. Lil Dawg was real glad to see mom but is already ignoring her. She just wants everyone home I guess.
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Imagine you’re the pilot of a British-operated, Boeing 314 Clipper crossing the Atlantic in early-1942. Your passenger insists on having a go at the controls, but you can’t really say no.
😉
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I finally got around to reading the C&C for today. There’s a lot there, but what really caught my attention was that a surgically transgendered girl is filing suit against the hospital that convinced the girl’s parents that the daughter needed body mutilating, future destroying transgender surgery instead of treating for the various mental ailments she had.
Here’s to hoping this is the beginning of the end.
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JOKE OF THE DAY:
Sam has been in business for 25 years and is finally sick of the stress. He quits his job and buys 50 acres in Alaska as far from humanity as possible. He sees the postman once a week and gets groceries once a month. Otherwise it’s total peace and quiet. After six months or so of almost total isolation, someone knocks on his door. He opens it and there’s a big, bearded man standing there.
“Name’s Lars …Your neighbor from forty miles away….Having a birthday party Friday … Thought you might like to come. About 5…
“Great,” says Sam, “after six months out here I’m ready to meet some local folks. Thank you.”
As Lars is leaving, he stops. “Gotta warn you…There’s gonna be some drinkin’.”
“Not a problem… after 25 years in business, I can drink with the best of em.”
Again, as he starts to leave, Lars stops. “More’n’likely gonna be some fightin’ too.”
Sam says, “Well, I get along with people. I’ll be there. Thanks again.”
Once again Lars turns from the door. “I’ve seen some wild sex at these parties, too.”
“Now that’s really not a problem,” says Sam. “I’ve been all alone for six months! I’ll definitely be there. By the way, what should I bring?”
Lars stops in the door again and says, “Whatever you want, just gonna be the two of us”.
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Well, bedtime is about here again already. Cold outside, but not much wind. Started work on one of my Absolutely Nasty Sudoko Level 4. Got all the easy ones filled in, but no breakthrough yet on the tougher ones. My heart is just not in it right now. After being encouraged by finding my first batch of worms are still alive, I decided to go ahead and make up a second worm bucket and order some more worms. I don’t actually have a plan as to what to do with the silly things if they do live long enough to begin to multiply and make castings, but I’ve got plenty of time to think about that. They are supposed to generally double in number about every 3 months, I’m assuming that they multiply exponentially, so if you start with 100, 3 months later 200, 3 more months 400, and at 9 months 800, 1 year 1600. Just for reference, 1000 worms is about 1 pound. That’s why I decided to start a second batch. At that rate, my bucket worm bin system should be good for a couple of years without having to add any space or really do much work other than making sure they remain moist and feeding them occasionally. I think the current bedding they have would probably last 6 months if I never fed them anything, but part of the learning curve will be watching to see how fast they consume cardboard, leaves, and table scraps as they begin to multiply. I think I can get coffee grounds from the cafe, I’m going to check with the grocery to see what they do with their old produce, and see just how much of a mooch I can turn in to.
OK, you all have a good evening now. Don’t let it get too cold tonight. More later. Nite nite.
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42 degrees here this morning DANG cold and I’m kinda’ tired of it. My wife had the first good night’s sleep in a week and is, of course still sleeping. I’m having my first cup of coffee and thinking I may fix sausage N eggs a little later.
Mornin’ Gang
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Super Dave, it’s 39 here in the woods – clear to mostly dark, at the present time….
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Keep on red-pilling those left-wingers..
Texas mom Laura Maria Gruber always considered herself a “woke” liberal in favor of progressive causes, even sending her young daughter to a charter school that celebrates “diversity, equity and inclusion,” according to the school’s web site.
“I picked my daughter and her best friend up from school and my daughter said ‘We played this game at school, Mom, and you’re going to be upset,’” Gruber told The Post Saturday from her home in San Antonio.
“When she told me about kids getting up in class and posing as hookers, I almost crashed the car.”
The September incident was so disturbing, Gruber said, she pulled her daughter from the school and demanded an apology from administrators.
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Old Electronics Porn; Weston Electrical Company Brass DC Meter 1898. From the looks of the Book Mark it was for 28 VDC, a ship’s engine room perhaps.
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A teenager is suing a health care company and the doctors who put her on controversial puberty-blocking drugs at age 12 and removed her healthy breasts in a double-mastectomy surgery when she was just 13 years old, accusing them of “intentional fraud and concealment.”
Layla Jane, an 18-year-old detransitioner represented by attorney Harmeet Dhillon, claims in a letter of intent to sue that she was rushed into the life-altering medical services while she and her family were not properly informed of risks and other vital information, such as the rate of desistence for childhood gender dysphoria.
Initially, physicians wanted her to wait until she was older to make the decision, but then she falls into the hands of three ghoulish female doctors.
“Two of Layla’s initial providers advised that per Kaiser’s official policies, Layla could not start cross-sex hormones until she was 16 and advised that surgery was not permissible until age 18,” the letter claims. “But, soon thereafter, Layla ended up in the hands of Dr. [Susanne E.] Watson, Dr. [Lisa Kristine] Taylor, and Dr. [Winnie Mao Yiu] Tong. These doctors immediately approved Layla for cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy at ages 12-13, without performing an adequate evaluation and treatment of Layla’s extensive mental health co-morbidities.”
Fortunately, she has Harmeet Dillon as her attorney.
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I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York 1930s, We start on Manhattan’s West Side, at 12th Avenue and 42nd Street, at the ferry terminal of the West Shore Railroad, the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, and the Weehawken Ferry. aftre we have a Crowd Scene street we can see the beautiful fashion in 30s.
The two most striking things about this colorized video remastered from the original 1930s film are the fact everyone is so well-dressed and well-groomed and there are no fat people. Look how fit and slender everyone is.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
We were stuck at 45 degrees since 6 this morning, all wrapped up in a snow sky and a faint breeze. This is not conducive to do much inside the house and to avoid going outside unless absolutely necessary. The exception here is doing laundry that requires attention for brief periods only. Finally made it to 48.
Good news that U of H is still in the championship hunt, and it would be wonderful if it made it to the final round, at home, and better yet took it all. The state would go wild over that.
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Morning gang. Reports say it got down to 32 degrees early this morning, but a quick check around indicates no discernible plant damage. Hopefully that is our last close call for this freeze season, but it is always subject to some rogue storm showing up with golbal warming, cooling, climate change, or whatever. Since it’s still early, I’m going to pick up a couple of vege seeds that the worms might like and see about growing my own worm food since I do not generate enough of my own table scraps to sustain them. And who knows, I might eat one or two carrots for myself. I’m about out of real estate to dedicate to the gardening effort, so I’m going to put a couple of pepper plants in pots out on the back patio and see if they won’t do OK back there. A little bit of container gardening if you will. If I could just get those peppers to cross pollinate with the cherry tomatoes I could retire in luxury. Imagine something like a fresh Rotel tomato straight from the garden. My bet is that I’m not the first person who has thought of trying to do that.
In other news, I’m not a basketball fan, but apparently this years’ March Madness is driving everyone crazy. Half the favored teams have already been knocked out, and the other half play today. I might at least pay some attention to the scores as they come across this afternoon.
OK, warming up a bit outside. I could mow, but I’ll wait for a bit warmer for that. Sadly I’m going to have to remove a couple of bluebonnet plants from my garden. They have just exploded and are blooming profusely, but they are taking over the new seedlings and not allowing for any sun at all to reach them. Guess we will find out if worms like bluebonnets here soon. You all have a great day out there now. More later.
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I saw one fat lady.
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#56 Texpat,
Wonder if those people in the video are not overweight because it is the Depression era, and many if not all things were scarce at times, including food.
My Mom in nurses’ training in Madison in the 30s one day only had a can of corn to eat…. And her father, sire of 13 children of whom 11 survived, worked on the railroad in Antigo, WI (north central WI) as did several others in the extended family. He was so proud of her choice of nursing school in the worst of times he managed once to send her $5. An older sister was also a nurse. Y’all who read this, please regard this as something very real about the Great Depression. I think I’m the oldest Hamster (81) and have much knowledge of that era through family history. Younger Hamsters may also have kin who survived the Depression but passed on before the younger generation could learn much about it directly from someone who lived it.
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#59 Shannon
Ouch
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#59 Shannon,
VDH nails it as usual. Great find.
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From the Victor Davis Hanson post;
But the aging and dying empire battled more than the challenges of internal divisions, or an unforeseen but deadly pandemic and the empire’s disastrous responses to it.
The last generations of Byzantines had inherited a global reputation and standard of living that they themselves no longer earned.
They neglected their former civic values and fought endless battles over obscure religious texts, doctrines, and vocabulary.
They did not expand their anemic army and navy. They did not reunite their scattered Greek-speaking empire. They did not properly maintain their once life-giving walls.
Instead of earning money through their accustomed nonstop trade, they inflated their currency and were forced to melt down the city’s inherited gold and silver fixtures.
The once canny and shrewd Byzantines grew smug and naïve. Childlessness became common. Most now preferred to live outside of what had become a half-empty, often dirty, and poorly maintained city.
Damned scary isn’t it? Emphasis mine. 🙁
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Well look at that!
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The first time I read the VDH piece, I read it as “childishness”.
Still applies.
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Morning, gang. I got up late; the cats insisted, poor babies. But as soon as they’ve eaten, they all conk out for their after-breakfast naps. The HouChron had a very easy sudoku this morning that only took 35 minutes to work. As soon as I finish my breakfast, I think I’ll do a quick run to Kroger.
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RE: B
Well, nowadays one can graduate from Harvard with an undergraduate degree without ever taking a single history course. If those in charge of educating the supposedly “brightest” have no respect or interest in history, then the most important feature of past knowledge is lost. All the red flags of former ages are unseen and unheard.
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Temp is in the mid 50’s headed to the low 60’s, but no wind, no clouds, and absolute beautiful to be out messing around in the yard. I’ve switched to shorts and tshirt and gotten a few chores finished up. Plan to finish up the planting except for perhaps few stragglers. Everything is looking pretty good except the tomatoes. They seem to be stunted once they hatched (germinated) so maybe it’s just not warm enough for them yet. they are certainly still alive and have some thin roots dangling from the peat pots they were started in. I did reluctantly remove a few bluebonnets from the bed but their absence is hardly noticeable since they are thick this year. Taking a little coffee break here. I forgot to eat breakfast this morning, but I’m not hungry yet since I know if I were to eat I would then get lazy and not want to finish my yard work. OK, as Mike Patey says, “Back to work.”
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Texpat
A teenager is suing a health care company and the doctors who put her on controversial puberty-blocking drugs at age 12 and removed her healthy breasts in a double-mastectomy surgery when she was just 13 years old, accusing them of “intentional fraud and concealment.”
Layla Jane, an 18-year-old detransitioner represented by attorney Harmeet Dhillon, claims in a letter of intent to sue that she was rushed into the life-altering medical services while she and her family were not properly informed of risks and other vital information, such as the rate of desistence for childhood gender dysphoria.
This was the story I referenced from the C&C up above.
It’s a disgusting expose of the medical establishment and how it is profiteering off of political correctness, confused teenagers, and their trophy desiring parents.
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Temp is up in the mid 50s now, and I think I’m about done for the day. I’ve still got to go back out and put everything back in the tool shed, but I’ve just about completed my gardening chores and every square inch if about full. I’ve got a few stragglers left over from the greenhouse that are not up to par, and I may eventually dispose of them, but I would like to see if any of my neighbors want to fool with them first. Got a few pots that still are not planted, and I’m holding them back just to see what else might pop up that strikes my fancy. Anyway, about done for the day and taking a break.
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You just can’t beat a homemade hamburger. With steak fries.
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Back from the grocery run, spent over $100 on backyard critter chow, for both daytime (squirrels and birds) and nighttime (raccoons and possums) clients. Yesterday while hand-trimming dead twigs on ligustrum bushes, I got a finger nail caught on something and then it had a snag that was very close to “the quick”. I use plain nail polish to try to stabilize a tear like that until it grows out a bit further, before trying to fix it. So this morning, I noticed I had developed a snag on the other side of that same broken nail. Put another dab of nail polish there, looked like it was good to go for a week or two. But while bringing in the 20-lb bags of dog kibble, I saw I had ripped off that whole broken section. Used nail clippers to even it up — there is about a millimeter of protruding nail now left and smoothed out. So sometime soon I need to cut the other 9 nails to match.
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Trilateral Commission calls 2023 ‘Year One’ of new world order
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The BIS Wants “Absolute Control” Of Your Money Via Central Bank Digital Currencies
The General Manager of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Agustin Carstens, sent a chilling message regarding the future direction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
“We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000 peso bill today. The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that.”
And here we have Deputy Managing Director of the IMF sharing how central bank digital currency (CBDC) would allow the government to precisely control what people can and cannot spend their money on.
OUT THEY CALL ME THE BREEZE. DON’T CALL ME WE’LL CALL YOU
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#72 mharper42,
Ouch, squared. That can be miserable, especially when you forget it is there and accidentally hit it on something hard or not so hard. Nail polish to the rescue for lots of things needing gluing back together when you don’t have any glue handy.
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The Chron (Business section) has quite an article today explaining crypto-currencies and transactions using them, notably bitcoin but also other cryptos, promoting them as the coming thing, everywhere. (Except the bitcoin folks seem to have a hard time convincing ordinary people when their “currency” is not backed by anything more tangible than thin air.) You have to read it to get the flavor of it, though from being merely an article you can’t ask questions and expect an answer in reply.
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Guess what dinner is tonight at the hogan?
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Guess what dinner is tonight at the hogan?
If I didn’t know better I’d think it was Gumbo. I finished off the last of my Gumbo Friday night. It gets better with age.
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Yep.
Had a bunch of crawfish & shrimps from H‑E‑B last night. Leftovers are in the baggie. Got extra shrimps and andouille to round it out.
The seafood stock and clam juice give it an extra little bit of seafood flavor. Might try a big squirt of anchovy paste next time.
* Not shown is the trinity sweating out in the pot with some bacon grease.
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73 Squawk
So I spent most of last night enduring a series of weird, strange prescription medicine-induced nightmares.
And now I’ll have a night of comment-induced nightmares. I honestly didn’t realize the Trilateral Commission was a serious thing anymore. I think we all hoped it had faded into obscurity like Jimmy Carter.
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I got two tubs refreshed with more compostable material, and seeded. I pulled some dirt from some smaller buckets from last year and my compost pile. I was dumping one bucket of dirt and almost screamed when a huge earthworm almost landed in my lap. I thought the dang thing was a small snake at first.
So, two big tubs and two buckets, refreshed and new seeds.
I noticed the pecan trees are starting to leaf out and bloom. It won’t be long and everything in the neighborhood in covered in yellow.
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Not too sure about the digital currencies being proposed to replace the worthless paper currency we currently use, but I will take gold or silver, bullion or coin, for any of my goods and services you might like to acquire. Just saying.
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#79 Tedtam – everything up here in the woods has been a strange shade of lime green from oak pollen (or maybe it’s just the car, since blue and yellow make green…) for days…
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The pine trees will soon be assaulting us with their pollen.
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The pine trees will soon be assaulting us with their pollen.
Really?! The pine pollen is just about over here, it started in February and peaked the first week in March.
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Wagonburner, I saw the seafood stock. I’ve not tried that but I’ll keep it in mind for the next batch. About the anchovy paste, I like it but it’s salty. I guess a squirt would be OK for a big pot of Gumbo though.
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Kinda early, but never too early to start think abut bedtime. I did not get a nap in today since I was outside most of the day messing with stuff. I’ll probably try to mow tomorrow once it warms up a little. I think last night was out last close to freeze of the season, but of course there are a few weeks left for Mother Nature to pull another one of her fast ones on us. OK, might check some gorilla golf scores and call it a night. More later. Nite nite.
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About the anchovy paste
You could always use anchovy filets? Remember there’s a couple bottles of clam juice in there too.
Sardines might work as well. They’d probably fall apart while you’re cooking it all.
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Weather guessers are warning that our low tonight will be 32 here across the Brazos from Richmond. Fortunately our patio plants are still next to the back porch and not out on the patio.
Winter is fickle when Spring is about to take over.
Good night all. We’ll see what the morning brings.
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