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Am I first?! I’ve been up and about since about 4 AM but didn’t stop by and I figgered by now somebody would be here raring to go. The White Supremacy O.C. post is Spot On and sadly the Woke Mob doesn’t realize that by going after all that is good and normal they’re marginalizing the so called oppressed minorities, that is that they’re not smart enough to have even have these goals.
Well, it’s the weekend what is going on in your world?
SO! Mornin’ Gang
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I have been wondering how many readers here have discovered the “return to the top of the page” feature Squawk added to the name “Hambone” in the copyright declaration at the bottom of the page.
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I had not discovered it.
For me, it returns me to the Front page, as opposed to returning to the top of the current thread.
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I’ve come to the thoroughly considered conclusion this woman in Dallas is a major QAnon crusader. It is the best and even most obvious explanation for her behavior.
Dr. Phil Good posted a comment about Greg Abbott containing a link to this Texas writer on Substack. This guy speculates on the reasons she went BSC on an American Airlines flight out of DFW.
We’ve heard multiple guesses regarding what provoked her outburst, ranging from drunkenness, to opioids, to even shapeshifting reptoids. After utilizing our triple-digit IQs, we developed four hypotheses:
- She dropped acid before the flight. Dallas’s Soros DA is notoriously lax on druggies.
- She watched They Live too many times.
- The lizard man from our 4/07/2023 Many People Are Saying report was on the flight.
- Illegal aliens “of the third kind” are also getting taxpayer-funded flights and other free stuff.
He tried hard, but I think he is wrong. It’s QAnon.
The guy does add an important link exposing American Airlines’ campaign to promote mental illness across America.
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2 Shannon
You’re right, but I swear sometimes it seems like it takes me to the top of the page I’m on.
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Shannon
For me, it returns me to the Front page, as opposed to returning to returning to the top of the current thread.
Same here, at least on the iPhone. I need a nifty “bring me to bottom” button. So much scrolling….wears me out! 😛
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I’ll third that, didn’t know about it and yes it goes to the Front Page with the week’s O.C. threads.
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Soon, AI will know when and where you want to scroll.
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Who remembers the Hurst Dual Gate that came on some of the GTO’s and W 30 442’s in the 60’s?
FWIW; I’ve not seen this add before, “His N Hers” I don’t think that’d fly today. 😉
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Good morning couch.
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IRS quietly changes rule on how your children’s inheritance is taxed
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Anyone familiar with my writing knows I’m a big fan of Joel Kotkin. My only gripe is he links much too often to the WSJ as if everyone subscribes to it. He also pays too little attention to the incompetence of inner city politicians like Turner and Adams.
After decades of self-celebration and relentless media hype, the great “urban renaissance” predicted by the New Urbanists—a vision of cities built by and for the creative class—has come crashing down. Where the smart set once proclaimed that mayors should rule the world or that economic growth would increasingly cluster in a handful of super cities, now even The New York Times bleakly warns of an “urban doom loop.”
The very impressive blocks of skyscrapers that housed many of the world’s leading corporations have gone from harbingers of the future to something resembling the abandoned factory towns of the Industrial Revolution. Transit systems critical to the old urban model are in free fall. In great cities like New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, criminals and the homeless, many of them mentally disturbed and unstable, lurk on the streets, in the parks, and in the stores.
and,
As for the economic fallout, it may just be beginning. Office buildings in the 10 leading metros remain roughly 50% occupied, and Wall Street is clearly losing interest in new projects. In recent months, many of the property giants—RXR, Columbia Property Trust, Brookfield Asset Management—have defaulted on billions in commercial property loans. The Atlantic reports some $1.5 trillion in commercial loans will soon be coming due, with many holders unlikely to be able to pay them. The collapse of regional financial institutions like Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic, and Signature are all partially the results of aggressive real estate lending.
I’ve been saying for many years we were over-building and over-spending on commercial real estate, particularly in retail and class A office space. It was simply unsustainable.
Planners and the urban intelligentsia have long detested suburbs, one reason why urbanists often ignore these facts. Lewis Mumford compared suburbia to ingesting “tasteless prefabricated foods.” New urbanist James Howard Kunstler has described suburban sprawl as “the greatest misallocation of resources the world has ever known.” Al Gore has been waging a dogged war on suburbia since before the end of the last century, and The Nation recently published an article calling the periphery “breeding grounds” for white nationalists, fascists, and homophobes.
These views may sell in Manhattan, but suburbs and exurbs continue to steadily usurp the economic and social functions long dominated by cities. No longer just “bedrooms” serving as dormitories for office workers, the suburbs from 2010 to 2017 accounted for over 80% of all job growth. The 50 highest-growth counties, mostly located on the fringes of major Sunbelt metros, enjoyed an employment increase of more than 2.5 times that of other counties in 2019. Since the pandemic, suburban office space has consistently outperformed that of the nation’s Central Business Districts.
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#6 SD
Ill have to look again but I believe the shifter on my wife’s Hyundai Sonata has a similar dual gate pattern. Sadly, I’m an old man now and never even tried it.
Now, I have been known to use the neat little “sport mode” button on curvy roads… 🙂
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Good Morning Hamsters,
We’re in Air You Can Wear smothering time this morning, as in take a dozen steps outside and bingo, you’re in it up to the eyeballs. Nothing can move fast. Best it gets is just pushing through the mist to get inside again, preferably a place with AC. The real hot stuff is supposed to return next week. And July has only started. Rain would be nice to cool things down.
For the first time in quite a few years we’ve had an armadillo invasion. Spouse sent three of them to armadillo heaven last night after one or more had gone hunting for edibles in our flower beds the night before. I asked him this morning where the burials were. They are deposited rather than buried in a large ditch that goes through one of our pastures, with hopes they will be discovered and done away with by the night gang of critters that pass through. In previous years all that has been left by the next morning is the “shell” made of hard leather and the feet. Armaillos must have been behind 5 doors when the Lord was passing out brains….
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From OTL
I don’t miss calls.
I stare at them until they go away.😀
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Courtesy of Instapundit
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Never seen an armadillo out here, rarely see a possum, see rabbits occasionally – used to be a bunch. During the fireworks the other night we barely could see a lone deer strolling through the smoke in our front yard, didn’t appear scared, seemed more annoyed trying to find a more peaceful area.
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Weather conditions here in northeastern NJ are similar to Southeast Texas.
NJ: 89° and 72% humidity
Houston: 95° and 74% humidity
miserable outside.
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No wonder Fox was in a hurry to fire him.
Tucker Carlson told podcast host and actor Russel Brand during an interview that aired on Rumble that former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told him the rioting crowd on January 6, 2021 was filled with federal agents
Carlson said he disapproved of the violence that took place during the riot, noting his son was in the Capitol during the chaos, but he said it never crossed his mind that law enforcement agencies could have played a role in the events that unfolded that day.
“I never thought it was a false flag or anything like that. I’m not a conspiracist by temperament. I never thought that,” Carlson explained.
“And then I interviewed the chief of Capitol Police, Steven Sund, in an interview that was never aired on Fox by the way, I was fired before it could air. I’m going to interview him again. But Steven Sund was the totally non-political, worked for Nancy Pelosi, I mean this was not some right-wing activist. He was chief of the Capitol Police on January 6,” he said.
“And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, that crowd was filled with federal agents.’ What? ‘Yes,’” Carlson added.
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Just getting going. Woke up with one of my headaches – haven’t had one of this level in quite a while, perhaps because I’m still in a sleep deficit? – and I just wanted to lay there until the worst of it was past.
It’s still there, but at a bearable level. Given the weather reports above, I’m not running out to the garden just yet.
So, I’m drinking my morning medication – coffee. And that means….
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I just recently discovered the shifter in the van has a position, when in Drive, that you pull to the left.
I have no idea what it’s for.
I guess I ought to pull out the book and see if its the nitrous position.
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FLYING ☙ Saturday, July 8, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
(Before we get to today’s roundup, yesterday’s C&C had some lively descriptions of various varmints of the government. Truly some of Mr. C.’s best wit. Not to mention the military’s latest scientific endeavor – a vacuum cleaner for your blood. Ummmmm…..no thanks.)
Roundup:
Good morning, C&C, and welcome to the Weekend Edition! Your roundup today includes: studies continue to mount up showing covid lockdowns were the worst idea that public health has ever had, and that’s saying a lot; Wall Street Journal op-ed counts the deadly cost of government censorship; SADS journalist early Alzheimer’s; SADS YouTube star’s permanent disability; another SADS swimmer death — in one week!; another SADS cardiac surgeon — also in the same week!; Biden authorizes mostly-illegal cluster bombs for Ukraine; House tries to deauthorize the War on Terror; and an adrenaline pumping video to get you moving today.
News:
Lockup Damage: A new study showing not only the failure of masks to perform their expected duties, but utter catastrophe to society. The Manhattan Institute’s City journal put out a study titled “Lockdowns: The Self Inflicted Disaster”. It studies two separate reports of the effects of lockdowns, using Sweden as the control since Sweden never locked itself down. Score one for Sweden!
The first analysis, released as a book, reviewed 20,000 studies of lockdowns. That’s a lot of studies.
…The book, authored by three respected economists and published last month, was simply titled, “Did Lockdowns Work?”
The answer is no. “Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times,” explained one of the three authors, Lars Jonung of Lund University in Sweden.
The second report again showed ‘no statistic benefit’ from the lockdowns, and that was after adjusting for different variables by three economists.
But non-covid excess deaths increased by +100,000 annually and worse, disproportionately hitting working-age adults. Excess deaths were only one of the negative effects. Rates of smoking, drinking, and obesity also increased. States with more stringent pandemic restrictions had bigger declines in their economic output and higher rates of unemployment.
Lockdown effects were, perhaps, hardest on our children, who now suffer from permanent learning loss as well as excess mortality and booming anxiety disorders, as indicated by a raft of recent headlines, like these from the UK Telegraph: [insert headlines that suicides would kill more kids than the WLR, and other harm]
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… Sadly, U.S. corporate media, having sold its soul for twenty pieces of silver during the pandemic, largely remains silent. For now. And the CDC is suicidally sticking to its lockdown guidance, along with the W.H.O., which is still pushing them, hard, in its odious new “pandemic treaty.”
But the weight and momentum of twenty thousand studies is unstoppable, and a correction is inevitable, though it will take some time for that to happen. An entire generation of government officials who were all complicit in lockdown mania must — and eventually will — be replaced by new, uncomplicit officials whose hands aren’t dripping with children’s blood.
That’s when accountability can start. It WILL happen. It IS coming. It is as inevitable as corporate media horror stories about climate change. Those of us alive and remain will never, ever forget.
I fear that Mr. C. is more optimistic than I. By the time the non-complicit take their offices, those bloodstained hands will probably have handed over enough bloodstained cash to silence the new guys.
But, I also have hope that there will be enough backlash, enough exposure of facts, and enough shame and anger that at least SOME of the criminal will be hung out to dry.
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More from the C&C:
The WSJ also ran an op-ed about WLR censorship, putting right there in print for every eyeball to see, that the government and SM colluded to silence dissenters. Dissenters who proved to be correct in their dissent.
That story would have been stifled only a year ago.
In the story, it was pointed out that the stifling of information on alternative treatments and hiding the truth resulted in what is now considered “excess mortality”. That’s a euphemism for “we killed people by lying”.
Legions of doctors stayed quiet after witnessing the demonization of their peers who challenged the Covid orthodoxy. A little censorship leads people to watch what they say. Millions of patients and citizens were deprived of important insights as a result… Excess mortality in most high-income nations was worse in 2021 and 2022 than in 2020, the initial pandemic year. Many poorer nations with less government control seemed to fare better. Sweden, which didn’t have a lockdown, performed better than nearly every other advanced nation.
The article quoted Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who in 1969 famously said “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” Truer words were never spoken. So I guess all us of contrarians were doing science all along. Who knew.
Gosh. How many times over the last three years have I written about the dangers of ceding decision-making to experts? Historically, “experts” as a class were only supposed to INFORM our decision making, not MAKE decisions for us. That key historical distinction seems utterly lost on our friends from the left, and our present woeful circumstances constitute the best evidence of why we’ve never before put “experts” in charge of anything.
One editorial is not enough, not by a long shot, but it’s a start. Even though corporate media is still valiantly trying to defend official “disinformation censorship,” the truth, like water, keeps relentlessly finding ways to seep out. And — we aren’t seeing too many full-throated defenses of pandemic policy, are we?
Tick, tock, experts.
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Morning, gang. I don’t see any sort of “jump to the top” control anywhere in my displayed hamous.net. But that’s ok, I don’t find it onerous to scroll around.
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Mr. C. reports some stories from the S&U Department, Severe Illness Division.
Among those is the story of a YouTuber who has come down with a series of serious immunological diseases. These have caused her to basically suspend all normal life activity, she is so ill.
YouTube star and frequent jab advocate “The Physics Girl” Dianna Cowern is suffering from months of deteriorating health, to the point she is now entirely disabled. She blames her condition on long covid, not long vaxx, despite having gotten the safe and effective shots, which were neither effective to protect her from viral or vaccinal injury.
[insert her description of her truly miserable life as it is now]
MCAS stands for Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. It is a complex and poorly understood disorder involving abnormal activation of mast cells, a type of immune cell involved in allergic and inflammatory responses. In MCAS, mast cells are overly sensitive and easily triggered, leading to the release of intolerable amounts of various interrelated chemical substances, such as histamine, prostaglandins, and cytokines.
Hmm. I did a little searching, and it didn’t take long to find.
Yes, there is a connection to the jab. Prayers for her body to find a way to overcome, and for her partner to have the patience to deal with what seems to be a truly taxing situation, caring for her.
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More from the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department:
- Another doctor drowns. Well, he was removed from the water but passed not long after. I’m assuming that, being a medical professional, he was also jabbed, probably more than once. A young Dr. Paolo Cappare, 42, of Italy, went swimming for the last time. Italy mandated that all health professionals get jabbed.
- A cardiologist in Washington D.C. dropped DURING ROUNDS. Dr. Ramin Oskoui, who ironically had the profession of cardiologist, was only 60 years old when his fellow doctors and students witnessed his sudden departure from this earth. Being surrounded by medical professionals and all finest medical equipment in the world is obviously not a match for the SADS Syndrome. Even though he was outspoken against lockdowns and masks, he was still mandated to take the jab.
Prayers for the peaceful repose of their souls, and for comfort for those around them.
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Mr. C. ends his column with every parent’s nightmare, but with a happy ending.
I’ll bet it took five adults to pry his hands free. Thank goodness he’s okay.
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My wife has a cousin recently deceased from complications from HIV which she’d had since the earliest days of HIV. Though she was gay, she got it through drugs (obviously), she jumped on the hate Reagan bandwagon and never turned back, joining in on every leftist hate parade ever since – a mean hateful woman, very entitled.
Anyway, her memorial is this afternoon. Wife was not going to go but brother shamed her into it, she called around other cousins seeing who was going, found out Gay Pride apparel is requested and memorial is at a gay church (did not know there was such a thing). Calls brother back to inform him, “I’ll wear what I want to wear, but we need to go”. I don’t think this will be very fun. I have been pardoned from attending. 😀
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I see Tucker becoming the next Rush.
Outspoken. Big voice. Feared by the totalitarians.
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re today’s post:
I knew you people were a buncha white supremacists.
I guess that’s how they figure conservative black dudes are too.
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GJT.
My sympathies. Family is family, so there’s that. But to be inserted into such an affair unwilling would be trying, to say the least.
A hasty departure ASAP is foreseen.
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I’m thinking of cooking up some more cheesecake bites. Aldi had a good sale on blackberries, so I’ll be putting some of those into today’s batch.
I guess I need to get moving. The headache is down to just-above-mildly-annoying.
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Cousin’s mom kind of bought into the leftist claptrap over the years but the brothers and sisters are normal Americans. Feel sorry for them, I’m sure they will be so embarrassed.
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I just recently discovered the shifter in the van has a position, when in Drive, that you pull to the left.
Turns your automatic into a 8-speed manual in case you wanna go sporting’ around all those curvy mountain roads around Bellville. Look on your dash where it usually sez “D” or “R” and it’ll have a number.
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Shannon, I saw the IRS story yesterday. Our properties are in a revocable trust, not irrevocable.
But if Hubby or I still have properties in xxxx years from now, and if Handsome Son wants them, there is a type of transaction that will cancel the debt upon death. I think it’s called a self-canceling deed. We’d (or whomever is left) sell the property at market value to him, and he’d make payments to us until we passed. At the point, the debt would be canceled. Or Handsome would be made beneficiary in a will of those notes, at which point, he’d be making payments to himself.
Handsome Son hasn’t shown any interest in the properties so far, except for our shop, according to Hubby. I think he likes the idea of having them, but not in maintaining them. Not everyone is cut out to be a landlord, so we will probably eventually sell them and find other ways of passing down what we’ve managed to build over the years.
Unless we go on a lot of ski trips: Spending Kids’ Inheritance
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Wife’s Corvette has paddle shifters and when you use them you are thankful for traction control or you might wind up in the wrong lane. My truck doesn’t have real paddle shifters but it has a “M” manual mode and up/ down buttons on the end of the column shifter so you can play-like your BAAD. FWIW; that 340 HP out of the 5.3L will get out of its own way. 😉
Got to get back to work, I got the turnip patch and the power-line right of way bush hogged and now I’m off to the west 40. Just need a little water, it is HOT!!!
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If you’re on a iPhone or other iDevice, to get to the top of the current page, just tap the little battery indicator at the top right of your display.
Works on dang near everything.
* tapping on the clock in upper left also works. Just tried it.
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the propagandist/mr potato head/mockingbird media have had their talking points dictated to them and the smear campaign is on.
QAnon is just another psyop invented by the spyduck agencies
and 51 out of 52 spyducks agree.What better way for the propagandists to marginalize Caviezel than for the spyducks to link him to their own creation?
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QAnon may not call themselves that or may prefer another name but they are out there. Else I’m imagining the fifteen paragraph diatribes some family members constantly message me. Or maybe they are spy ducks. Quack.
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Sorry I’m so dense.
If it gives me an 8 speed manual, does a clutch and a stick magically appear so I can have all of this fun?
Its not like this thing has paddle shifters.
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No clutch.
The shifter is the “stick”. There’s likely a helpful “+” & “-“ next to it.
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Hmmm.
Guess I’ll read the book.
Though I leave the thing on ECO all of the time, trying to squeeze out every mpg.
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Calfornia’s Unemployment program is in big, big, big trouble. Like “insolvent”.
The article is hopeful that this will cause the program to be rebuilt.
It’s California. Yeah, like THAT will happen.
But Newsom wants to be president.
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Man, I’m a messy cook today. I’ve dropped stuff on the floor, eggs on the counter, mixed stuff blown over the top of the bowl…I’m hoping I don’t drop a whole pan of cheesecake on the floor.
The way I’m going today, I’d better be careful taking them out of the oven.
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Just returned from St. Luke’s Sugarland. Nice facility.
A friend is in that place with pancreatitis. I took his 14-year-old son down there to see him.
I haven’t been down 36 that far (Rosenberg) in some time. It now has passing lanes and wide shoulders and most people doing 70mph. A real improvement.
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Gates and WHO are at it again.
They want to depopulate Africa now, using malaria and a new “helpful” vaccine.
Yeah, ‘cuz that last one was so helpful.
The largest Mosquirix trials produced shockingly poor results, with the vaccine cohort having much worse outcomes than the placebo group. The vaccine group displayed ten times higher risk of meningitis and cerebral malaria, and a doubling in the risk of death compared to the placebo group. Even if the shots “work,” they do not achieve any temporary or long term sterilizing immunity or significant efficacious benefit, so in no way would it reduce the actual disease burden.
Nonetheless, the notoriously corrupt and captured World Health Organization has given its stamp of approval for the dangerous vaccine, recommending it for at risk youth. They even baselessly claim on the WHO website that for every 200 malaria shots deployed, one child’s life will be saved by the “vaccine.”
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There is no evidence that these shots work to prevent malaria, but that hasn’t stopped Big Pharma and global “Public Health” institutions from executing its designs upon the African continent.
Follow the money:
Last year, UNICEF awarded GSK (which, again, is currently the lone supplier of malaria shots) with a $170 million contract for 18 million doses of its malaria injections ($9.44 per dose).
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There is also a Rosenberg bypass road I wasn’t previously familiar with, which runs over to 59 from HWY 36.
Very nice – decreasing you’re chances of getting hijacked by the gangsters in Rosenberg.
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I just walked outside and the air is so thick I can hardly breathe.
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36 Tedtam
You mean there’s no money for reparations !!!
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I finished up the bush hog work about 4:20 I spent a little over 7 hours on the tractor total, I did take a 15-20 Min break in the middle of the day to cool off. It was sunny and hot all day until about 4 and the sky turned dark to the north, by the time I got to the pump house to wash off the tractor the wind whipped up and the pines across the road were swaying pretty good. I barely made it back to the tractor shed before the bottom fell out. Did get wet running to the house. We got .40″ in about 20 minutes and it rained another 20-30 minutes more for a total of .62″. With the nice rain we got on Sunday and the .17″ yesterday we’re at 1.55″ for the week. The sun is just now breaking through but it’ll not have enough time to heat things up again it’s real nice outside now.
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Catching a bit of the movie The Cincinnati Kid.
Steve McQueen is a Depression-era poker player trying to build his reputation.
Other stars include Karl Mauldin, Edward G Robinson, Joan Blondell, and Tuesday Weld.
Not to mention a 24-year-old Ann-Margret.
Woof.
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39 Tedtam
These Big Pharma companies had gone crazy with the power they saw gained by Pfizer and BioNtech during COVID. All their senior executives became overnight billionaires. They were wined and dined by the international luminaries and sleazy grifters with big credentials everywhere. Now all the drug thugs want in on the game.
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I had a long afternoon nap, so the cats were glad to see their late supper materialize. That included Billy out back. I took him his bowl of wet chow, then came back inside. Went out again in 10 minutes to find the mama raccoon and one of her 3 babies were cleaning his bowl. I hope the other 2 little raccoons are ok. Maybe I’ll see them later on tonight.
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Memorial service not all that bad, reports say. RIP cousin-n-law.
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Lordy.
On short notice, old friend took me out for early b’day dinner and drinks.
It’s been a long day and night.
Wheeeeee!!!
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Just watched the BlackBerry movie on Prime. Didn’t know much of that history, pretty interesting.
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It’s Sunday and the coffee is good, Wake Up Slackers!
Mornin’ Gang
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I happened to catch Lawrence Jones on Fox last night and he a fascinating piece on Millennial Voters who have left the Democrat Party.
Millennial voters share why they’re leaving the Democratic Party
Oddly enough they all want the same thing everybody does; their country back! The black girl said that she didn’t care about race as we’re all Americans and just want to be able to afford to live and not worry about crime when we walk down the street. The black guy is worried about his kids and guess what, they’re all voting for Trump. Yes I know this is a small group but with all the information available to them, especially since they’re younger folks, more of them are seeing the Democrats for what they really are.
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RWTWT! It’s well worth your time.Oh and remember what Rush always said; “the democrat Party has to have a permanent underclass to get elected”. This is of course why the border is wide open.
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I just turned on NewsMax and saw something about Harris resigning, and its a sign that Biden won’t run?!
What did I miss?
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Maybe it was just a discussion on hypotheticals.
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Interesting story, and yet one more reason (like I needed one) to never visit the Big (Rotten) Apple:
NYPD exodus continues as cops feel ‘squeezed from every direction’
The story explains how the Police Commissioner has resigned, along with scads of the rank and file, leaving the folks without their own security forces open to the criminals. The defund the police efforts and general disrespect shown the police have made their jobs untenable and dangerous. Attacks on and against the police are on the rise. They are working overtime to make up for the loss in their ranks, which is causing burnout and even higher resignation numbers. There are now demands that the officers do paperwork on even simple interactions, which would just be more crap they have to do besides their basic jobs. Scrutiny of their every move is being pushed. Many of them are quitting before qualifying for their pensions. The spin is that they are hiring “so many” new officers….but it’s not enough to make up the shortfall.
I’d hate to be a tourist there today. Not that I ever wanted to be, but if I was there in the Giulani era, I’d at least feel somewhat safe. No wonder folks are streaming out of that cesspool of liberalism.
“Cops are being squeezed from every direction. They are working inhumane amounts of forced overtime. The brass is pushing for more enforcement, while the police-oversight complex is pushing to ruin more cops’ careers,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry, who reps “just over” 21,000 rank-and-file officers.
“Many cops can’t afford to keep taking that risk because the pay is still too low,” he added. “The NYPD will not be able to recruit its way out of this staffing emergency. It needs to make the job livable for the cops it already has.”
Officers typically work 20 years or more to collect their full pension, which can equate to 50% of their final average salary. The data obtained by The Post shows those who are “running their time,” or using accrued days off before they exit. Those cops are still counted in the NYPD’s own stats as being on the force.
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Number of cops who have left the NYPD in 2023 through June 30
Year/Retirements (with full pension)/Resignations (without full pensions)/Total
2023/905/648/1,553
2022/1,210/909/2,119
2021/977/530/1,507
2020/1,188/347/1,535
Source: NYPD pension data
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I just caught some more news on Harris: “There are signs that she is going to resign.”
There was a mention of her latest word salad on culture and how horrifically bad that speech was. “She is not ready for prime time.”
Ya’ think? She was even more of a moron than Biden before she was elected, and I think the pressure of being up front makes her brain freeze even more.
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Off to breakfast with Hubby and then with Jesus. See y’all later.
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Someone’s rooster has took over a lady’s outside cathouse.
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I just caught some more news on Harris: “There are signs that she is going to resign.”
NOT in a million years!!! She doesn’t have enough self awareness to even consider stepping down, I.E. she is a Legend in Her Own Mind.
Just my dos pesos.
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Sister should be here any minute. Seems that she has invited herself over for breakfast on the Blackstone BUT she is bringing home grown sausage from the Peter’s farm is making pancakes so I’ll let her slide. Since she’s a better cook than I am she really helps out if needed.
As a side-bar, I just boiled 7 eggs to make my world famous Jalapeño Deviled eggs later today.
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Tedtam
We won’t even go into the City anymore. The only exception is if it were an emergency or a special medical appointment.
NYC was very safe throughout the Giuliani and Bloomberg eras. Remember, Giuliani inherited a disastrous city from David Dinkins and it took him a couple of years to finally right the ship with Chief Bill Bratton’s help. He served 8 years and Bloomberg followed with 12. Bloomberg and Bratton despised each other so he was replaced by the great Ray Kelly, probably the best top cop NYC ever had. It was 20 years of relative peace in the City and made NYC one of the safest urban areas in America – for a while. Then came de Blasio.
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If the Cackler is forced out, what are the odds that someone other than Gavin Goodhair Gruesome is going to get the spot?
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57 Bonecrusher
Nobody ever said California wasn’t weird.
March 2, 2023
According to a pair of polls released on Wednesday, Governor Newsom’s approval ratings are still hovering between 40%-55% approval, with 7 in 10 voters saying that he shouldn’t run for President.
In a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom currently holds a 44% approval rating, with 43% disapproving and 13% not giving an opinion. While still very low in terms of overall approval, the numbers are stronger than where he was in a July 2018 Quinnipiac poll that had a 39%-38% approval/disapproval split.
Despite Newsom’s slight rise in popularity, most Californians don’t want to see him as Governor.
And the poll found that 70% of Californians don’t want to see Newsom run for President in 2024. Only 22% were in favor of it. When it’s narrowed down to Democrats only, the majority still don’t want to see Newsom run next year, with 54% against a run and only 35% for a run.
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Paul Caron quoting the WSJ:
When Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian was released from Iran after 544 days of imprisonment, he said his welcome home came with bills of $20,000 for unpaid taxes, late payment penalties and interest.
Rezaian had given his brother power of attorney to manage his affairs while he was abroad—but that power didn’t allow his brother to submit tax returns on his behalf. “There was no pause button for wrongful detention,” Rezaian said. “I was a hostage…Why do I have to pay taxes on that?”
Families of wrongfully detained U.S. citizens struggle to maintain detainees’ financial lives in their absence, even as they also wage daily battles to secure their loved one’s freedom. Their bureaucratic battles have spurred government officials, advocacy groups and lawmakers to search for ways to help them cut through the red tape.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
Got rain yesterday, yea, yea, double yea. So that made a smidge over 2″ for the week. All the green things around here are greener this morning thanks to God’s rain and the nitrogen it brings with it. It popped up right over us in the afternoon and came down in torrents for about half an hour.
The matter of the armadillo remains got taken care of by a huge flock of buzzards that moved in after dining on the three deceased ones in the pasture and then came over to the fountain in the back yard to rest and get something to drink. By that time the flock was 35 strong! Counted every last one of them as they drank and cooled their feet in the fountain and then parked on the pasture fence or just lay down in the grass on their stomachs. They looked to be a bit larger than our cat Purrscilla, though there were some a bit smaller. They must have heard the Jungle Telegraph announcing there was some good stuff in the ditch at our place.
Spouse chased them away after a couple of hours and refilled the fountain after rinsing it out. They apparently never found the water tank on the other side of the barn that holds something like 35 gallons and would have a lot more water in it. We don’t know if there’s anything left of the armadillos. Perhaps some other critter could have hauled the remains off overnight.
We can do without that kind of excitement.
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The long, slow march through the institutions…
The Montana State Library Commission is pondering whether to leave the American Library Association because its new president is a “self-proclaimed Marxist” and lesbian.
Emily Drabinski had proudly proclaimed in April of last year “I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary.”
Drabinski’s campaign for the ALA presidency had focused on left-wing causes such as “unchecked climate change, class war, white supremacy, and imperialism,” and she proposed a “Green New Deal for libraries.”
Where is the Texas Library Association on this issue ?
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Texpat 10:29 am,
Would seem that one or several of our elected Texas officials send an inquiry to the Texas Library Association on this matter and suggest that the ALA likely needs us more than we need them, and they find the new president’s views are unacceptable as president of the association.
Texas carries considerable clout as the 2nd largest state in the USA and should not hesitate to express an opinion on the matter. And if it becomes necessary it should leave the ALA to its own devices minus Texas money. If Texas leads, other conservative states could decide to follow. 🙂
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Morning, chickadees. Looks like a dry week at Chez Harp. These pop-up showers have been great lately. One of the benefits for me has been how Billy Cat was led to spend much more of his day time hanging around my old dilapidated gazebo. I feel like he has become less afraid of me.
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#60 mharper42,
Good news that Billy seems to be more comfortable at your place as time goes by. Heaven only knows what his earlier life was like, and if he could talk we would likely all be in tears.
The lovely black and white cat who lives in our neighborhood doesn’t really belong to anyone but has made friends with several neighbors who feed him regularly. He’s been at our place recently and enjoyed lunch on our back porch one day. We did see him walking down our driveway toward the road yesterday. We had put out some dry food and water on the back porch for several days after the first visit, but he didn’t stop by so we brought the dishes in. Purrscilla apparently liked what she saw in him as she stayed glued to the garden room windows on his first visit.
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59 Adee
It is hard to believe the Texas Library Association isn’t already completely corrupted by the hardcore Left when the only thing I found in simple searches on the TLA was about this big conference in San Antonio in January 2022. It was featured on the ALA website. I would not assume any educational organization in the state of Texas is conservative, traditional or observant of Judeo-Christian values unless it emphatically states otherwise.
This below is from a nationwide press release of the ALA about a major TLA conference in San Antonio, much of which was live-streamed to the all states. Just remember, everything these people do is with taxpayer money.
Texas is home to 29 million people, three of the largest cities in the U.S, and one of the most diverse populations in the country. At LibLearnX, you’ll hear from Texas library leaders about the innovative approaches libraries in the state are using to meet the needs of their communities. “Innovative Approaches to EDI* in Texas Libraries,” Sunday, Jan. 23, 10:45 a.m. – noon Central, is a newly added Main Stage session that will be streamed LIVE from San Antonio, Texas. ALA President Patricia (Patty) Wong and ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall will moderate the session, in person, with our colleagues on the ground in the Lone Star state. Panelists will include: Tamiko Brown, library coordinator, Fort Bend Independent School District; Dean Hendrix, dean of libraries, University of Texas at San Antonio; Shirley Robinson, executive director, Texas Library Association; and Ramiro Salazar, San Antonio Public Library director.
An additional Texas highlight includes “Being a Queer Librarian in Texas: Expectation vs. Reality,” Monday, Jan. 24, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Central, a panel discussion presented by the ALA Rainbow Round Table. Participants will hear from LGBTQIA+ librarians working in various types of libraries and communities across Texas. Panelists will discuss their experiences compared to the public assumption of being an out, queer professional in a southern, mostly conservative state. Panelists include: Israel Favela, collection development and cataloging manager, Houston Public Library, Houston; Nancy Jo Lambert, librarian, Reedy High School, Frisco, Texas; and Steph Noell, special collections librarian, University of Texas at San Antonio. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Arro Smith, library division manager, technical services, San Marcos Public Library, San Marcos, Texas.
*EDI is Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
The only state library association I found publicly objecting to this Emily Drabinski was the state of Montana.
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A July 9 2020 memory popped up over yonder and I’m beginning to think that my wife looks better on the tractor than me.
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Library Science was one of the very early captures by the Commies. You’d be hard pressed to find any defenders of liberty among them.
Mrs. Frizzell, librarian at Bellville HS, was the last of the good guys. She was almost my mother’s age.
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#63 Shannon,
That being the case, it would be helpful if this situation was pointed out to Texas Republican conservatives in office to look into this matter and contact the folk in Montana about their situation and what they are doing about it. Texans can’t do anything about it if they don’t know about it. Texan parents need to know about it.
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I’m watching videos from Killer Bee Guy in Arizona. Arizona has declared 100% saturation of Africanized honey bees. Every honey bee there is of the aggressive variety, and all honey bee hives are destroyed when found. They’ve been found in Canada now.
KBG and his partner repeat every video that ALL honey bees are considered invasive, hence “European honey bee”. There were no honey bees in America before the Europeans brought them over. There are over 4,000 bee species in North America, and obviously things were getting pollinated before the Europeans showed up.
They recommend not keeping honey bees. If you do, you definitely need to keep your queening process controlled. I saw one guy have to kill one of his hives because it went “hot”.
Now that I’m gardening, I was wondering about the different types of bees I was seeing. Over 800 types in Texas, so far identified. From what KBG says, the honeybees actually aren’t the most efficient pollinators, and they push out the other native pollinators for pollen.
Learning stuff.
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Can’t make Honeyshine without Texas Wildflower honey.
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64 Adee
If the senators and representatives in the state legislature are unaware what is going with the Texas Education Agency, Texas Library Association and the Texas Association of School Librarians, they ought to lose their next election. If I were an elected official in Texas today with the flaming hot curriculum and library issues in schools and the irate parents across the state, knowing what these people are doing would at the very top of my list.
Finding out how all this is funded is complicated. It’s not as if anyone makes it easy and I don’t have time right now to run it down. Maybe later in the week.
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We had another surprise rainstorm earlier this afternoon, this one almost 4/10″. Now it’s back to sunny skies with a nice breeze, 93 in the shade, and the sidewalk is almost dry again. The flowerbeds certainly appreciated it. And there is one hardworking squirrel planting a pecan in the front yard near the house after considering two other places before finding one suitable. In a few more minutes we leave to dine for a late lunch or early dinner, whichever it can be called. It is a nice day to take time to read most of the newspaper to find out what we missed on the TV news.
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Honey Bee Contributions
There might have been a few more domesticated tribes in the Northeast and the deep Southwest growing some kind of maize, but if there were no European immigrants in North America, there were no crops that needed to be pollinated.
The world is a very different place in the 21st century. Here is a list of 95 food crops requiring bee pollination.
Most of these were not even here before Europeans and other immigrants brought them from other lands.
Brussels sprouts are on the list so maybe we should destroy all the bees after all.
I don’t know what Arizona is going to do with their bee problem. Theoretically, they have to destroy every single hive in the state before they can introduce new non-aggressive bees again. That seems impossible.
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This nice looking combat hero from Afghanistan fled to America.
The man, whom Washington, D.C. police identified as 31-year-old Nasrat Ahmad Yar, was found inside of a vehicle on the 400 Block of 11th Street in the northeastern part of the city on July 3. Police described him as a shooting victim, but did not provide further information.
D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services took him to a local hospital, but life-saving measures failed and Yar died, police said.
and,
“He was so happy he got a new car because he could take care of his family,” his best friend Rahim Amini told WUSA9. “His wife asked him to stay home but he said, ‘I have to pay rent. I don’t have that much money. I have to work.’”
plus,
Ahmad Yar was a father of four who moved to Alexandria, Virginia, less than a year ago. He and his family left Afghanistan in 2021, after the fall of Kabul, and first lived in Philadelphia before moving to the D.C. area because they felt unsafe after Ahmad Yar was robbed at gunpoint in Philadelphia.
Retired Lt. Col. Matthew Butler told WUSA9 that the family had to leave Afghanistan because Ahmad Yar was considered a target for the Taliban because of his work helping U.S. forces.
“He was most certainly a marked man if he stayed,” Butler told WUSA9. “He served this country a great deal more than I did. I did 42 months in combat but that was nowhere near what he had.”
This young man was a genuine hero and deserved all the respect this nation could give him. We open our borders to every creep and criminal in the world, give them $500/night hotel rooms, debit cards, cell phones, etc.
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They are not saying to kill all of the bees. They’re saying to kill the honey making variety. There are a lot of solitary type bees that don’t live in hives making honey. Those are the native bees, and they did all the pollinating before the Europeans arrived. Just while I’m in my garden, I see several different varieties of bees. A lot of them I don’t recognize as honey bees.
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Breakfast on the Griddle, Not fancy just Sausage N pancakes first then the eggs last. 😉
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Tedtam
Ok, I have those too. Earlier, I read and skimmed a National Academy of Sciences study comparing honey bees, other bees and non-bee pollinators. It was actually interesting, but in terms of effectiveness the honey bees out performed the other two categories.
The advantage of honey bees is their queen-centered hive loyalty which makes their portability possible. Most folks don’t realize the size and scope of the commercial bee business and how many thousands of hives get hauled from farm to farm to provide pollination for expensive crops. Farmers are well aware of non-bee pollinators and if they could depend on them exclusively to pollinate their crops they would gladly save the money paid to honey bee contractors.
The non-bee pollinators like wasps, flies, butterflies and bats are going to be hard to herd, contain and transport to a farm 200 miles away and then collect and move on to another field.
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Before Europeans arrived, nobody was planting 200 or 300 acres in some crop that had to be pollinated on time or it wouldn’t produce and would eventually get cut down and/or plowed under. Who can afford that ? These guys in Arizona don’t seem to have a grasp on how farming actually works in America.
Everything was wild 500 years ago on this continent. Nobody knew or cared if anything got pollinated and if there were wild berries or fruit it was a treat in a diet consisting mostly of proteins and animal fats.
Maybe they can come up with some kind of efficient hybrid bee that both pollinates and doesn’t make honey.
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We’re getting another good rain, .74″ in the last hour and kind of drizzling now.
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We’re getting another good rain, .74″ in the last hour and kind of drizzling now.
quit bragging or I just might sic a flearther on you.;)
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Shannon, I had a couple of BLT’s for supper, good eating for sure. 😉
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I was entertained this afternoon by one of the 3 baby raccoons being out on the patio wanting some food. It was with its mom but there was no food put out at that hour for raccoons, which are supposed to sleep during the day. There was a little bit of “Wild Mix” — corn kernels, sunflower seeds, and peanuts in the shell — left from the food I had put out for birds and squirrels earlier in the day, so Mom and Kiddo were checking on that. I brought out some of the dog food — small dry spheres — that I put out in the evening for raccoons and possums, and as expected, the 2 daytime visitors liked that plenty. I was amazed how the tiny little baby raccoon could crunch through the dry spheres, but it was packing away the cupful of that which I had scattered on the patio. I went inside with the plastic cup and scooped up another helping of the dog chow. As I bent over to sprinkle the extra food onto the patio, L’il Critter clamped his teeth on the rim of the plastic cup and was trying to take it away from me. As we both pulled on it, most of the dry spheres were shaken out, so he let me keep the cup as he started eating the scattered chow. After a while, I saw the baby scamper over to the huge oak tree behind the old gazebo. He climbed the trunk and his mama followed him up. I haven’t seen them or the other 2 babies — assuming this is part of the family with 3 babies that I’ve been feeding for several weeks.
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mharper42,
Good deeds done for all the animals today at your house. Our smaller gang also made out well today.
Not looking forward to the heat wave coming again next week, and here it isn’t even halfway through July yet.
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