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Good morning gang. Up early this morning as I went to bed early last night, and I also took a nice nap after returning from my trip to Lakeway to visit the hernia surgeon. Another branch of BSW which basically owns the medical business out here in centex from Houston to Dallas and beyond. Headquartered in Temple with one of the only Level I trauma centers in the area. This doc is a good old Texas Aggie, football player, and former resident of Mayo Clinic and is about 10 years younger than me by my estimate – very impressive. The nurse told me that he’s also a trauma surgeon and works the ER when the gun shot and auto accident victims come in. Anyway, I think I’ll be very happy with him. BTW, got the procedure set up for next Tuesday – I’m surprised I could get in so early. Tired of carrying this softball around in my pocket if you know what I mean.
Other health related news, I’m back to Marble Falls Thursday of this week for my normal annual check-up by all my assorted specialists – timing is good there so the cardiologist can go ahead and do the pre-op instructions if any, and the hematologist can approve temporary changes in medications for blood thinners to prevent clotting, etc. Basically, it’s all coming together nicely, and that seldom happens, so I’m worried that something is up.
BFF with the broken pelvis reports that her pain level is better today, but I’m not pestering her with the multitude of questions until the doctors and therapists can come up with a good plan for her. I don’t even know if she can walk or not right now, but I would imagine that she needs help moving about. Her hips are both OK, one is artificial and the other is real, but they are not broken. Still don’t know about the fractures and/or crack in the pelvic bone(s) but I take it as a positive that no surgery is being recommended at this time.
The worm farm is interesting. Of course, me being me, I doing it all on the cheap using buckets for worm bins and such. I was having some escapees from one of the bins, which is an indication of a problem with the contents, so I cut out a circle of screen door and placed it over the holed in the bottom of the bucket to prevent that. I also dumped the whole mess into a tub, added some bedding and aerated the contents, did not smell anything bad although it may have been a little too wet at the bottom, put the screen in place, and put it all back in with some additional fresh bedding. Did the same for the second bin. Then fed them a healthy meal of rotten grapes and tomatoes, some oatmeal, some coffee grounds with the filter as an extra treat, topped it all off with some dried leaves harvested from the leaf dump from the trees earlier. A quick review this morning revealed them feeding well, about 3 or 4 attempted escapes from the top of the bin who hastily retreated into the bin when a flash light was shined on them as they do not like light.
Right now I’ve got 2 bins going, and I’m tempted to add a third. I’ve got absolutely no idea why I decided to mess with these things other than they are pretty easy to take care of, I can beg their food from restaurants and steal grocery store flyers to cut up for filler. And eventually, there should be more worms and more good compost for the garden. Apparently you put that stuff out by the teaspoon, not by the shovel full. There is also the option to make worm tea which is over oxygenated to supercharge all the beneficial bacteria and such which can be diluted and used as garden fertilizer. Kind of interesting to learn about this stuff, particularly since it is not labor intensive and cheap to handle. I’m running both bins indoors with no offensive odors at all, and I would think that a foul odor would be about the first sign of a serious problem. Like many other things, I think what they need most is a good leaving alone so they can take care of their business. My curiosity keeps me wanting to peek in on them every day or so. This morning they were attacking the food I put in a couple of days ago, so they don’t need any more food until tomorrow probably.
Now, that’s what happens when I get all rested up, go to bed too early, and then wind up getting up early in the morning. You all have a great day, and don’t expect to hear much else out of me unless something good drops somewhere.
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El Gordo, it’s good to hear that you can get your surgery so soon, I know that you’ll be glad to get that behind you. Prayers for your BFF. It seems that older ladies often get broken hips after falling and sometimes it does them in. And I do know that she has fractures not breaks.
In other geriatric news, BIL is coming along just fine doing better than the doctors expected.
Going to be a rainy morning here, glad we got so much done yesterday dodging the rain.
Mornin’ Gang
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I mentioned yesterday that since we got a good rain over the weekend I decided that it was a good time to burn off the Pampass Grass. Instead of using a little diesel fuel and a lighter, I used my propane blowtorch. Man that did the trick especially for tweaking it a little after it got started. If you don’t know Pampass Grass is very flammable and burns real hot. It makes sugar cane look wimpy in comparison. The burn-off was timed perfectly because we got another inch and a half of rain midday.
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Today’s APOD – the green flash. I cannot tell you how much money I spent searching for the elusive green flash while sitting at sea side bars watching the setting sun at happy hour. All in the name of science and research of course, but I never did actually see a green flash in person. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230328.html
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They finally released pictures of the weapons used in the Tennessee school shooting. I still can’t find anywhere that they say just what kind they were. But you can of course tell by the pictures. LS Arms grunt AK 223 rifle, Kel-Tec Sub 2000 9 MM carbine with extended mag and a plain old S&W M&P Shield 9 mm.
They had said the one of the weapons was a AK style pistol but that must have been the Kel-Tec 9 mm carbine.
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Please set um free. 😀
And yes I know 3 Links but I’ve been lucky lately, slipping them past the goal posts. Maybe the Squawkster or Texpat made adjustments in my social character score? 😉
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Waking up with a reminder of past headaches making itself known. So, I’m making my coffee, wearing my ever-so-sexy BGS, and waiting for the coffee to finish brewing. Hubby jokes about the sexy belt, too.
He offered to get me more cheap dirt – all I have to do is tell him how many bags I want and he’ll go get them with his truck. Since we got the additional set up in the back yard, I can add a lot more totes. I’d love to get enough home grown asparagus green beans to can this year, and maybe lots more ‘maters. More greens. More flowers. Since I don’t have to worry so much about a high water bill now, I can afford to grow my garden. Given all that, I may ask him to get me more bags. I have a lot of compostable material, between kitchen scraps, office shreds, and I haven’t even hit the pile of leaves between the houses. Even with all of that, I still need some dirt to mix in and especially for the surface area in the totes. Hubby said he’s going to break up the pile of dirt at the shop so I can start bringing buckets of dirt home again, to put into the compost pile or mix with compost in my totes.
Anyway, the coffee should be about ready now…
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Salcedo is reporting all of the lefties calling for gun control.
I say that instead of banning all guns, we simply prohibit all liberals from having guns. That will stop 90% of the gun crime.
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SHAFTED ☙ Tuesday, March 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s another thrilling Tuesday! Your roundup includes: Russia asks for an international investigation of the sabotage of its undersea gas pipelines, and the US says that would be a total waste of time; government-funded committee begins review of covid jab injuries; Project Veritas drops hidden-video clip exposing how elementary-school indoctrination works; some ideas for celebrating Trans Day of Visibility; DeSantis signs mega school choice bill; and an amusing follow-up to yesterday’s story about the young man whose tender spot was injured going through airport security.
News:
Al-Jazeera News — and I am as astounded as anyone that I am often citing Al-Jazeera as a more reliable source than our corporate media — ran an incendiary story yesterday headlined, “Russia May Demand Compensation Over Nord Stream Blasts: Diplomat.”
The headline somewhat understates the situation.
The US & allies are opposed, even though Biden & Co. are positing the theory that Russia blew up their own pipeline.
Meanwhile the United Nations Environment Programme announced that the gas leaks in the Baltic Sea caused by the sabotaged pipelines created the single biggest release of climate-damaging methane ever recorded in human history.
I don’t EVER want to hear any complaints about my SUV ever again. Not ever.
Good point.
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Next up: “they” are working on a report documenting vaccine injuries.
The CDC will have a hand in this, along with other nefarious characters. I’ll need to block my anus to keep the smoke out that “they” are going to try to blow up there.
Dr. George Grimes, who heads HHS’s Division of Injury Compensation Programs, assured committee members “Your conclusions will help inform injury compensation recommendations and decisions when assessing whether specific adverse events are causally associated with vaccines.”
HHS has never paid a covid jab-injury claim, not one single time.
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Besides myocarditis and thrombosis/thrombocytopenia, the committee will also consider jab links with:
* Bell’s Palsy
* Capillary leak syndrome
* Chronic headaches
* Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
* Guillain-Barrè Syndrome
* Hearing loss
* Infertility
* Shoulder injuries
* Sudden death
* Thromboembolic events like pulmonary embolism
* Tinnitus
* Transverse myelitis
There’s a LOT left off that list, like all the dermatological problems. Still, you could say the list itself is a good start, regardless of whatever the government-funded committee finally concludes.
Frankly, I can’t believe the officials are even mingling the jab with any one of the above “side effects” listed above in the same breath. Up to now, the jab has been the safest procedure ever devised by man.
The final report will be whitewashed, I mean peer-reviewed, prior to publication in A YEAR. They shouldn’t rush it. Public comments on the Epoch Times website were, um, less than enthusiastic.
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One thug in Fresno, California was arrested 10 times in one month.
He’s been charged with 18 felonies and 15 misdemeanors.
I hope he hasn’t been released on a personal recognizance bond.
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Project Veritas released a new video on educational indoctrination.
…two new hidden-camera interviews, one of a so-called “reverend” who appears to actually be an in-school “reverend of grooming,” and then separately, of assistant elementary school principal Jeremy Boland, who explained in chilling detail exactly the workings of early education indoctrination.
Video link here: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1564766096330203142/vid/640×360/C2NDTS0wen7LK4F1.mp4?tag=14
True to form, after the PV video surfaced, Boland immediately resigned before he could get investigated and fired, which will preserve his resumé so that he can remain useful to the network in another school.
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We really need to expose whoever is handling and training all these administrators. I don’t believe for one second this is any kind of organic movement.
I am reminded of the scandal in the Catholic Church as the bishops moved their problem priests like pieces on a chess board. Similar outrage should be directed at the leftists for doing the same with problem school teachers and administrators.
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Childers has a discussion of AI and it’s leftist “reporting of history”.
These examples show why AI will never survive. Sooner or later, the Deep State is will assassinate it in its electronic crib. At some point soon, all we’ll get is government-approved pabulum and nobody will pay any attention to what the computer thinks.
Anyway. Another way to look at the Proxy War is that the U.S. isn’t so much helping defend the brave Ukrainians, as we are defending our own government-in-situs and covering up our previous blunders. And don’t get me started about the biolabs.
The danger posed by the US’s constant government-overthrowing and incessant meddling could be the only reason we have any allies left at all — just because they are afraid of us. The second they have a safe exit, they’ll switch teams.
I’m reminded of the recent shuffling of alliances in the Middle East/China/Russia.
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Florida does more awesome in regards to school choice, freeing low- and middle-income families to escape poorly performing schools.
That may be the most pro-minority action any state can take.
Yesterday, Governor DeSantis signed HB1, making every K-12 student in Florida eligible for a private-school voucher, by striking current financial litmus tests and a lifting a cap on the total number of participants. Florida already has 1.3 million students attending private schools under the voucher program – which totals more students than the entire K-12 public-school enrollment in 35 other states.
HB1 is a gigantic bill. Even the summary at the top stretches is five pages long. That might be some kind of record.
Governor DeSantis explained, “Now, primarily there will be a preference for low- and middle-income families, but at the end of the day, we fundamentally believe that the money should follow the student and it should be directed based on what the parent thinks is the most appropriate education program for their child.”
For the first time in history, Democrats complained that the new law will cost too much. They also said it would “devastate” public schools, which I think meant that it would devastate failing public schools.
The mega-bill wasn’t perfect, but it is progress. It’s hope for a lot of parents in Florida whose kids are trapped in woke hellholes. It’s going to change the dynamic for public schools, as soon as a bunch of new private schools get built.
You might even call the new law “hope and change.” Just saying.
I love my state, but we Florida ourselves a lot more.
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From the comments at C&C:
So just 2 weeks ago Jane Fonda goes on The View to advocate the murder of Christians.
A woman identifying as a he/him goes and murders three 9-year-olds and some adults at a Christian school.
Hate crime?
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Amen to that Jeff! Your SUV, and my company Jets, gas oven and stove and my RAM diesel pickup
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NASEM also left off turbo cancers from their list. My husband & I know 3 people who have died within the last 6 months from lung cancer. All of them were in stage 4 upon discovery and died within 3 months of diagnosis. All were non-smokers, in their late 50’s/early 60’s, and all were considered healthy & very active for their age groups. Also, we already know the reported VAERS numbers are grossly understated. Watched a Glenn Beck interview just yesterday where a nurse was fired from her hospital job because they claimed she filed TOO many jab incidents to VAERS. They said she wasn’t being a “Team Player”. Sounds & smells like an easy & successful lawsuit to me. Then, how many doctors & hospital staff have the time to spend on this reporting? She said it takes 30 or more minutes to correctly report an incident because a ton of patient information has to be included. She was doing these on her off time because she said it was impossible to do during her shift.
PERSONAL NOTE: I read a story yesterday that a blood test is showing great signs of identifying cancer even before it becomes a problem, big enough to be detected by current tests. I don’t have the link because I saw it late last night. The developers say they have not had a single false postive/negative in their testing, even finding cancer issues in their “cancer free control group”. It picks up some kind of immune response rather than looking for cancerous cells in the blood stream. I hope this isn’t a hoax; finding cancer before it forms a tumor would be huuuuge.
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Some jerk in the yahoo comments asked where was Jesus in that shooting since it was a Christian school . Little do these faithless people know the devil has been lurking among earth since the beginning of time and will always try to bring Christianity down.
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I just checked the GiveSendGo fundraiser for Dr. Littell, mentioned a few days ago. The original goal was $100K, now moved to $500K. Current balance is $225K.
Mostly from the C&C army. You can scroll through the donations and see the amounts and/or comments and realize how important Childers’ influence is. Let’s just say the good doctor has more than enough money to fight his legal battle now and continue to save people. I hope he shares the excess with other doctors in the same boat.
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It was a homemade ultralight composed of scrap parts. Ninety miles over shark-infested waters.
Two Cuban migrants landed at Key West International Airport on a
motorized hang gliderultralight aircraft Saturday morning, authorities said.They were taken into U.S. Border Patrol custody after landing at approximately 10:30 am. local time, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, which has deputies assigned to the airport.
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Chris Ferrara, a Key West local and self-proclaimed aviation buff, told ABC News he was driving his golf cart nearby when he heard the distinct noise of the hang glider engine hovering above him.
“I looked up and just knew that it shouldn’t be there,” Ferrara said.
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Dr. Malone substack discusses a report on neurological disorders after WLR and the jab:
And info on miscarriages and fetal deaths in Europe:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/3631-reports-of-miscarriages-and
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Texpat
Chastain’s most recent arrest occurred when he was caught driving a stolen vehicle to the police station to pick up his belongings from a previous arrest.
I literally had just took a sip of coffee reading this and almost lost it! 😀 😀
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WB
I just about gagged when KTRH had Jered Woodfill on air for comments on some subject.
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I never trusted Jared Woodfill. My instincts told me he was too slick and sleazy. The Harris County Republican Party was a disaster the whole time he ran it.
The Texas Tribune report on him and Pressler is far worse than I could have imagined.
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I was walking up the hill to one of my plants and, suddenly, that light, north breeze became a gale. Just cool, not cold.
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WSJ in front of the paywall.
You would think the Democrats would attempt to be more subtle in their intimidation tactics. Apparently, they don’t care about appearing to be totalitarian thugs in public or they are just that stupid.
Democrats are denouncing the House GOP investigation into the weaponization of government, but maybe that’s because Republicans are getting somewhere. That includes new evidence that the Internal Revenue Service may be targeting a journalist who testified before the weaponization committee.
plus,
Now Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter. The taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft.
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Scissor-tails are back.
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April 4, 1909 Construction begins on the world’s first super speedway, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
This is a good shot of three mule teams towing grading wagons to construct the banking of what I believe is the north end of the track. The contract to do much of the work was to a company known as the King Brothers. One hundred men were employed using 72 mules and three 15-ton steam engines. Beyond the track, the plan called for grandstands and training quarters for the factory teams to be constructed. Railroad tracks were being built that led up to the course. The project plan called for the work to be completed in 60 days.
By April 25, the Indianapolis Star reported 300 mules, 150 scrapers (I’m guessing these were metal blades affixed to wagons), five steam engines, four six-ton, and three 10-ton rollers were all applied to the task of building the giant Speedway. Obviously, all these numbers are appreciably more significant than those reported above. In all likelihood, the project team underestimated the magnitude of the task, especially within the time frame they had set out for themselves.
I didn’t see in a quick search how long construction actually was, but it was months, not years.
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I read where modern technology shows one end of the speedway is only one foot higher than the other. Pretty impressive.
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Somebody’s cow is on Greenbriar.
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Most of the MSM are not showing full version of both police body cams.
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The officers in Nashville acquitted themselves much much better than the losers in Uvalde.
Well done, guys.
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Now that’s fittin’;
UT Austin researchers rediscover species of ancient beaver, name it after Buc-ee’s
Anchitheriomys buceei, or A. buceei roamed Texas 15 million years ago.
AUSTIN – The Buc-ee’s beaver may rule Texas interstates, but the state has been “beaver country” for millions of years, researchers at the University of Texas-Austin recently proved.
Matthew Brown and Steve May with the UT Jackson School of Geosciences rediscovered a species of an ancient beaver that lived in Texas about 15 million years ago, the school announced Monday.
Inspired by Buc-ee’s pitstop empire, they named the beaver Anchitheriomys buceei, or A. buceei.
A news release from UT states that May, a research associate, was the lead author of the paper that discussed A. buceei and other smaller ancient beavers that roamed the Texas Gulf Coast 15 to 22 million years ago.
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Shannon, I love Scissortails, they ought to be the state bird of Texas. Mockingbird, really?!?!
As y’all probably know the Scissortail is the state bird of Oklahoma.
Speaking of birds we had a huge Pileated Woodpecker tearing up the old dead oak beside the house. I tried to get a picture but he ran off squawking and reminded me why they’re called Grackle Hens around here.
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#27 #28 Amen! Can you say adrenaline? Mercy, I wonder how long it took for the adrenaline high to come down? When the thugs tried to break in daughter’s apartment she called me 2 hours later and was still up on the ceiling.
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About my #31, I looked up a note I sent to a friend after the thugs tried to break in daughter’s apartment. Fall of 2009.
Mornin’ Les,
I talked to my Daughter on Monday afternoon and at about 1:30 PM she was getting ready to leave for work and heard someone trying to pry open the front door of her apartment. She, of course panicked and ran and grabbed her pistol and cell phone, while on the phone with the 911 dispatcher her fear turned into rage because she was so mad that someone would break into her home. She even thought about opening the door and blowing them away but luckily she kept her cool and just sat on the floor and waited to see if they would make it in. After a short time it got quiet so she peaked out the peephole and could see one guy on the hall, she figured he was the lookout because the other guy was breaking into the apartment across and next to hers. She didn’t know this at the time because she couldn’t see that far and didn’t want to open the door. In a little while the cops showed up and knocked on her door. While talking to them they heard a deadbolt click across the hall and the cops told her to go back into the apartment and they went over and arrested two punks. She couldn’t see anything but heard a lot of commotion.
I’m guessing that since they couldn’t get into her apartment very easy because she had the door and deadbolt locked, they just tried a easier door. These two creeps better thank the good Lord that they didn’t make it through her door because the only thing worse than a scared Gal that can really shoot is that same Gal Really Pissed off. They would have assumed room temperature fairly quickly.
When I talked to her at 3:30 she was still kinda’ wound up from all the adrenalin. She was glad that she was home because they caught these punks.
Had they got in and she wasn’t there they’d have got 5 of Jeff’s guns. One of which (70’s vintage, 700 ADL, 30-06) belonged to his Grand Pa, who taught him everything he knows about hunting because his Dad never hunted.
This gun is priceless to him, he’s hunted with it since he was 12.The cops even thanked her because there have been several robberies in her apartment complex over the last few months. This is a nice place with an electric gate, but alas, we live in a third world country now. BTW; She went into work a few hours late. She’s a real trooper.
Later,
Dave
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Here’s one officer’s body cam in the Nashville school.
The contrast between these police officers and the cowardly officers in Uvalde is stark. They ran towards the fire while the men in Uvalde stood around because they were scared of a punk with a “battle rifle”.
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NY Post a few minutes ago.
Audrey Hale, the shooter who killed three adults and three children at The Covenant School in Nashville on Monday, was being treated for an “emotional disorder” before the rampage, police said.
Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said that Hale, 28, legally obtained the weapons used in the attack, but shouldn’t have been in possession of them because “she was being treated for an emotional disorder.”
It is unclear what disorder Hale – who also used the name Aiden – was suffering from.
In an interview shortly after the shooting, an anonymous friend said the former art student also had “high-functioning” autism.
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It’s been many years since I tried to keep up with country music. I listen to the old songs and artists I grew up with, some who are still with us and some who aren’t. The younger generation of country music wandered off into places that didn’t speak to me. It became canned and formulaic.
I don’t know the names of these new young singers and songwriters, but this article by Carmen Richardson is an interesting perspective on the genre.
Country music, like the region it hails from, is often considered the de facto home of the political right. Everyone knows this, even if nobody wants to admit it—from the country artists who intentionally try to distance themselves from their listeners (especially during the race riots of 2020) to the Republican candidates who try to capitalize on the connection, playing country songs at rallies and campaigning in cowboy boots. Like the political right, country music is currently engaged in a debate over its future, with new, young artists on the darker side of country sparring with the good ol’ boys for the right to define the genre.
and,
Born the son of a strip miner and raised in Eastern Kentucky, Childers isn’t trying to be the next Kenny Chesney. He’s trying to be the next John Prine. A former teacher of Childers’ recalled to Rolling Stone in 2019 that Childers was the only kid he ever had who asked him about Jack Kerouac. “He [Childers] was an old soul.” Meanwhile, Childers’ wife, Senora May, reportedly pals around with Wendell Berry’s granddaughters.
Perhaps the majority of country listeners weren’t ready for Childers in 2011, but many more are today. In 2017, the album Purgatory (produced by fellow Kentuckian Sturgill Simpson) broke through to the mainstream, and in August 2019, Country Squire spent a week at the number one spot in album sales. While he’s yet to have a number one hit, his popularity has steadily grown, and he’s got two Grammy nominations under his belt already.
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Back in the 1950s and 60s out on Rummel Creek and Buffalo Bayou in what was then a semi-rural area, there were still beavers around. I almost never saw one, but they left clear evidence with their dams and lodges. They were obviously very wary of humans and nocturnal. Once the Harris County Flood Control District destroyed all the natural habitat along the bayous and creeks they disappeared.
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Awesome job by all Nashville LEO’s, even Metro manned up. Acting like they do it everyday. “Go Go Go!!” “Keep Pushing!”, not “Stand Down Stand Down!” Hope all in Uvalde LEO are extremely ashamed.
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This one of several articles out in the last week or so about electric vehicles.
Fast forward to today, and a new class of cars has a similar problem. A minor accident can cause a total loss, even if the car’s been driven only a few miles. The only difference is that these cars aren’t cheap imports from some godforsaken socialist state. These are state-of-art electric vehicles that come with an average sticker price of $55,000.
Why are insurance companies totaling low-mileage EVs that have been in a fender bender? For the same reason you could total a new Yugo when backing out of a parking spot. The cost of repair is exorbitant.
As Reuters reported recently, “For many electric vehicles, there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents,” which means the only viable option is to replace the battery, which represents about half the cost of the car.
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“At Synetiq, the UK’s largest salvage company, head of operations Michael Hill said over the last 12 months the number of EVs in the isolation bay – where they must be checked to avoid fire risk – at the firm’s Doncaster yard has soared, from perhaps a dozen every three days to up to 20 per day,” Reuters reports.
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Why can’t they just tell it like it is?
”Today in Nashville, a man who thought he was a wimmin broke into a Christian school and killed several children and adults.”
”Today in Nashville, a man who was clearly off his rocker and thought he was a wimmin broke into a Christian school and killed several children and adults.”
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The school murderer in Tennessee, from an upper floor, opened fire on the windshield of the first Nashville PD car to arrive. The two officers jumped out (or had already done so) and ran into the building.
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I present that paragon of virtue, the most kind of bosses, true polymath, wittiest of raconteurs, and candidates for Mayor of Houston.
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I guess because the weather’s so nice and my schedule so skewed, today feels like a Friday.
I had my last post-surgical follow-up this morning. Doc’s assistant says I’m doing well, even though I’m still having considerable discomfort. I told her I had no idea what to expect. so I’ve been frustrated by where I am with my recovery. “You have certain milestones,” she said, “The first two weeks are hell, then you feel better after a month, better after three months, then six months, by nine months you aren’t thinking about it very much, and after a year you’re glad you did it.”
Well, I’m at three months, and this morning I didn’t need to wait a few hours before moving around, so I guess she’s right. She encouraged me to stretch before getting out of bed, to continue walking (treadmill) and I can move up to a light jog or run if I’m comfortable, and she’s real happy that I’m gardening. I did tell her I was container gardening, with half of my garden at waist height and I have a small stool for the lower stuff. Just no heavy lifting ‘n stuff, which is common sense. Basically, regular lifestyle with care – which is how I was living before, so I know what to do.
She also said core strengthening was important, so I guess I get the saxophone out. She agreed that it would be excellent for all of those abdominal muscles. I should be doing it anyway. That, and/or I can do my aerobics, which include stretching and reaching.
She was shocked that my physical therapy was refused by my insurance, so we spent quite a bit of time talking about my alternative resources. She also suggested visiting my chiropractor, not for any jerking around, but she said he could certainly help me with stretches and exercises. It’ll give me a chance to see one of my favorite people.
I told her that I was pretty much off of pain meds, using OTC meds occasionally, and that I was still using muscle relaxants. She encouraged me to keep using those when necessary. Because my insurance has changed and we’re not sure if my PCP would be happy prescribing those relaxants for me, she called in a sizeable prescription for me, with refills on it. She told me to refill it and keep a stash at the house so I won’t have a problem in the future should I need them. The surgeon’s practice isn’t part of my new insurance plan, so this is her last chance to help me out with this problem. She told me that if I had issues in the future, I could still call in for help and they’d talk me through the problem.
I told her I was taking the relaxants at night sometimes, so I wouldn’t be so stiff in the morning, and that I was splitting those pills and taking a half pill during the day, so I wouldn’t be sleeping all the time. She offered a different pill, but I told her that since I’m an insomniac it was useful to have the sleeperizers handy.
So, I’m officially out of the post-surgical period and into my long-term recovery. I was worried by my level of discomfort, but I feel much reassured by my visit this morning.
I’m off to get my meds now, and some other items. Hubby is getting more cheap garden soil for me. Maybe when I get back I’ll put my new seedlings in the dirt and then spray some Bt for caterpillars. At least they won’t be as hard to treat nor as hard on my nerves as those blasted squash vine borers. I’m just not planting squash, at least not until much, much later in the season. Trying to fight those things just took too much time and too much mental peace last year.
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35 wagonburner
Houston has gone from Barbara Jordan and Mickey Leland to Sheila Jackson-Lee and Sylvester Turner. The IQ of the whole city has suffered.
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#35 – WB you’re apparently typing fairly well ONE-Handed
(as you must be holding your nose with the other) 😉
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This is a Thread Reader for Twitter by a guy called The Robber Baron and it starts…
THE COVID FILES
Recently, people were alarmed to learn that the CDC based their masking policy on a NY Times article
Yet, you may not know that in April 2020 the Attorney General of Illinois justified locking down 12 million people based on CNN, NY Times, & Vox articles
I don’t know how I can be more shocked, but this is just incredible. He also links to a long thread on Twitter that provides links to dozens of articles that were anti-lockdown, anti-distancing, anti-mask from the very beginning of the whole sordid episode.
Future generations will not believe Americans were this dumb.
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Holy Redskins Batman! Tillman Tortilla making a bid to buy the Washington Commanders for more than 5.5 Billion.
Fertitta, Houston Rockets NBA owner who built his wealth as a restaurant tycoon, has reportedly submitted an offer slightly above $5.5 billion to purchase the Commanders — making him one of the few known candidates to be in the mix for the franchise.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/8/meet-tilman-fertitta-houston-billionaire-who-wants/
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Gots to do something with all that filthy gambling money.
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I’m just amazed NFL teams are going for that much. Guess I shouldn’t be.
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Hmmm, it appears I never even posted Good Morning today. I got up late, went grocery shopping, and took a long nap. Did a little bit of yard work, wanting to get the black trash barrel filled for this week’s pickup.
Still, it seems to be a bad sign when I keep up with the posts here, but don’t notice until late in the day that I had nothing to say.
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I fasted a few days ago, and that afternoon Hubby decided to make popcorn. Aromatic, buttery popcorn. I almost caved, but I kept asking myself “But will I die?” The answer was, of course, no – so I kept my hands off of the snacks. My ketones were up and the blood sugar was down, so – progress!
I’m trying not to give in to the bored snacking syndrome, and since I’ve been used to snacking, my tummy was sending signals. I kept asking the same question.
I didn’t snack, and I’m still alive.
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Hmmm, it appears I never even posted Good Morning today.
Yes, we were sniggering at your failure to greet us this day. /just joking
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Speaking of – paging TexMo!
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I was reading some “feel good” stories, and one of them was about a grandpa that left random love notes to grandma for her to find unexpectedly.
I did that to Hubby while we were in college. I went through all of his textbooks and such, tucking little notes in between pages.
He was still finding those notes at the end of the semester.
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#38 Shannon 😀
BTW; Who knows the back story of Jennifer Reyna being off the air for several years and then she came back on?
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I don’t know, Super Dave.
Here’s her biography. Interesting.
I didn’t know she was a Houston kid. Military family.
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Did anyone try to view the 5 planets along with sunset tonight? I knew I wouldn’t be able to find a clear horizon in Houston, but I thought I’d be able to see it on video. Well, didn’t find a good view so far.
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