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Texpat, so is Her Highness coming home today? I’m amazed that they get folks in and out so quickly these days but as a doctor once told my wife, you don’t want to be recovering in hospital with all those sick people. 😉
Mornin’ Gang
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Good morning Dave . . . . . . . . .and all the rest of the couch dwellers when they wake up.
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She played the prisoner in the season 4 episode Prisoner of Love, the Andy Griffith show.
An unusual episode, but the actor Susan Oliver had a fascinating life!
Experienced a life changing event that belied her later aviation accomplishments. She was a passenger aboard the Clipper Washington, a Boeing 707 on a transatlantic flight from Paris to New York City when it dropped from 35,000 feet to 6000 feet. It happened on 2/3/59, the same day Buddy Holly died in an airplane crash. These events gave her a paralyzing fear of flying and it took extensive hypnosis to overcome it. In July 1964 she was reintroduced to personal flying during an evening flight over Los Angeles in a Cessna 172. The experience motivated her to return the next day to the Santa Monica Airport to begin training for a Private Pilot certificate the next year.
In 1966, while preparing for her own transatlantic flight, she was a passenger in a Piper J-3 Cub, and the pilot was “show-boating” and hit some guide wires. The plane flipped and crashed. Susan and the pilot walked away without an injury.
In 1967, piloting her own Aero Commander 200, she became the 4th woman to fly solo a single engine aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, and only the 2nd woman to do it from New York City.
Was named Pilot of the Year in 1970.
Attempted to become the first woman to fly a single-engine plane solo from New York to Moscow, but was deterred in Denmark when the Soviet government denied her permission to enter their air space.
An accomplished actor, director, writer and world-famous pilot, Susan crammed a lot into her 58 years.
Susan died of cancer at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California on May 10th, 1990. She was 58.
Gone way too soon, she lived a full life in her time here.
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All the bone docs around here seem to have taken off the first 11 days of July for vacation. Wednesday, the 12th, they were all back and the orthopedic surgery floor was a mad house – bone fragments flying everywhere.
Her Highness was the first patient of the top surgeon and she was done before noon. The problem was the OR support staff and physical therapy teams were overwhelmed. Her nurses had gotten her up to walk around the room, but she won’t see a PT team till this morning. Two of those sessions and I pick her up this afternoon.
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4 Super Dave
Great story.
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4 Super Dave
Your link goes to a Redditt jpeg image. It doesn’t link to a story on Susan Oliver.
Here is a good career biography of her from the IMDB.
A Historynet bio of Susan Oliver, the pilot.
While the flight’s captain schmoozed with VIPs in the first-class cabin, the autopilot had disengaged and the copilot, who was distracted by other chores, didn’t notice. The aircraft rapidly spiraled from 35,000 to 6,000 feet before the captain made his way back to the cockpit and they recovered from the descent. Oliver returned to New York only to witness clean-up efforts near LaGuardia, where a Lockheed L-188 Electra had just crashed into the East River, killing 65 of 73 on board, and to hear that rocker Buddy Holly had died in an airplane crash that same day. She swore off aviation, passing up acting gigs that would have required her to fly.
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Some of these rappers are pretty intelligent and they are in it because it’s an accessible economic opportunity for them, a very lucrative one.
As far their fans go, I wouldn’t say the same thing.
According to a report from Breitbart News, Ice Cube is convinced that artificial intelligence is a tool that is going to lead to creative droughts and laziness as it is applied to the realm of art and entertainment. His comments were made during an interview he conducted with Charlamagne Tha God on “The Breakfast Club” podcast.
“I think it’s wack,” Ice Cube went on to say during the interview. “I think it’s the worst s**t ever. I think it’s gonna put a lot of people out of business and out of work. Everything is gonna be more vanilla. It’s not gonna be more creative. It’s actually gonna go the other way.”
“People are gonna get lazier. Nobody’s gonna work hard and nobody’s gonna attain the knowledge so they can write it down. They’re just gonna ask for the knowledge. People are just gonna get stupider,” the rap superstar continued.
Ice Cube admitted that artificial intelligence is probably going to end up being part of our society whether we like it or not, suggesting that folks who end up losing their jobs because of the technology are going to be forced to do a little creative problem-solving.
“Look. When they invented the light bulb, the candle maker had to figure out how to make money. So they started making candles that smell like all kinds of stuff to make money. So, adapt. Adapt or die. And that’s just it,” he explained matter-of-factly.
Stephen Green at Instapundit commented:
I’ve played around quite a bit with ChatGPT and other generative AI writers, and the results always, always sound like an earnest, well-informed 10th-grader who also happens to be deeply uninteresting.
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Texpat – my PT folks didn’t tell me about the broomstick method of getting up. I had to find it for myself. Once I did, my quality of life increased dramatically, as it no longer hurt to get up and down from a sitting position.
Put a stick between the feet and with both hands on the pole, pull straight up. Reverse for going down.
Holy moly, if they’d only taught me that from the first day, things like using the bathroom, getting out of bed, leaving the couch to walk around – it all would have been sooooooooooooo much better.
Her surgery is different from mine, but I’ll still bet it’s a better method than leaning forward and then rising up. That hurt lika sunnnabish.
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GRATEFULLY ☙ Thursday, July 13, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Your roundup today includes: new Ukraine narrative of gratitude shapes up to shake down taxpayers; Tucker claims top source said January 6th was packed with undercover feds; goofy Kamala Harris reveals Biden’s AI strategy; White House cocaine saga update; an odds series of concert casualties leads to new cardiac theory; and an uplifting chicken video, even though she can’t fly worth a darn.
News:
I usually skip the Ukraine news, but today’s item is somewhat funny. The narrative “Zelensky shouldn’t treat us like Amazon” seems to be a growing meme. His lack of gratitude is also rankling.
I’m guessing the proxy war is going to be winding down. When? Who knows? But the narrative is shifting, and not in Ukraine’s favor.
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J6 News
Trending Police News ran a story that the Capitol Police Chief told Tucker that the J6 crowd was lousy with feds. I thought my word “lousy” was accurate. In an interview tih Rusell Brand, Tucker opined that the J6 crowd was “bursting with undercover federal agents,” and that news had come directly from Steven Sund, the aforementioned police chief. Tucker was fired before he could air the interview.
I dunno. Federal agents infiltrating the January 6th crowd? A crowd that wasn’t even supposed to be there, except that Trump allegedly told them to march to the Capitol on the spur of the moment? I mean, how would federal agents even know ahead of time that they needed to infiltrate the crowd? What was their assignment? Crowd control? Safety of the attendees? Protecting the President? It’s so confusing.
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C&C on AI:
Kamala meets with Civil Rights leaders to discuss AI.
I’m sorry, but those three names in one sentence makes me want to both chuckle and run for the hills.
Anyway, look who she met with yesterday. The list reads like a list of attendees at the 1967 World Socialist Congress or something:
The meeting’s attendees included Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) CEO Alexandra Reeve Givens, UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguia, AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins, and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler.
Harris, who could use a little more artificial intelligence herself, gave away the group’s focus: they don’t know jack about the technology and couldn’t understand it if they did. So instead, they want to throttle what the AI is allowed to read:
“AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it’s two letters. It means ‘Artificial Intelligence.’ But ultimately what it is, is it’s about machine learning and so the machine is taught and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine…”
I know her ‘two-letters’ nonsense is unintentionally hilarious, but it obscured the sinister part: “what information is going into the machine.” They want to make sure the AI doesn’t figure out stuff like who really killed JFK, or whether there are any physiological differences at all between male and female brains. I mean, you can’t have AI running around explaining why men can’t become women, or why 15-minutes cities won’t work.
It’s the same thing they’re trying to do with our kids in the public schools. They want to control what everyone, including AI, learns. They’re going to make the poor machines read Marx and make sure it never ever sees the Bible. Separation of Church and AI.
AI never had a chance.
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Re AI: I think it would be very interesting to load an AI program with the KJV, Vulgate, NAS, NIV and probably several other versions of the Bible along with the Talmud. Querying the database only loaded with the above would produce some very interesting results.
IF one were to only load the database with good information, the problem of garbage in – garbage out is greatly diminished.
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Tedtam @ 9:28 AM
Thanks, I’ll mention the broomstick method.
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Next up: cardiac events at mass gatherings
Instead of the celebrity drop in public, Childers is bringing up large gatherings where multiple die. First up was the Astroworld event in Houston. (I’m sorry, but every time I hear Astroworld, my mind goes back to the amusement park where I worked when I was sixteen. Possibly one of the best summers of my life. A big part of my mind insists that the roller coasters are still there, and I am still cashiering at one of the hamburger joints. Good times, even with the heat. But I digress…)
There was a concert there in November 2021, and people started dropping like flies. The medical tent was overwhelmed. To this day, no one knows why. Baffled.
By 9:39pm, Houston police were “notified of [multiple] victims receiving CPR, and began ‘show stop’ procedure.” The show ended at 10:12pm. Officials have speculated that ‘overcrowding’ caused the injuries, but last week a Texas grand jury cleared Scott and other concert officials of any criminal liability for the disaster.
An ABC13 report on the Travis Scott disaster ended with a shrug, reporting “officials could not pinpoint a specific factor that led to the casualty, calling it a complex investigation.”
Experts are still puzzled.
Ed Sheeran had a concert July 12 in Pittsburgh. He’s not a rapper, so it wasn’t the music (though rap music ending in death wouldn’t surprise me).
..he’s a popular British singer-songwriter known for his versatile music style, which includes elements of pop, folk, and R&B. Today Magazine ran the story with the headline, “17 Hospitalized, 2 Go Into Cardiac Arrest At Ed Sheeran Concert Amid Extreme Heat.”
Cardiac arrest again.
It was only 82 degrees at the time of the concert, so unless they had a furnace going, that excuse won’t fly. Concert goers braver warmer temps than that to indulge their musical sweet teeth. So why lie?
Pittsburgh Emergency Medical Services issued a press release saying, “EMS personnel working during the Ed Sheeran concert received 37 calls for service, with 17 transports to the hospital.” Thirty-seven calls for emergency services. “The transports were for heat-related issues, some falls, one seizure, and two cardiac arrests.”
One of the cardiac arrests was a paramedic. They don’t know what caused all the casualties.
Finally, there was this UK Independent headline from last October, 2022, about a Seoul, South Korea mass casualty event: [headline South Kores – 153 dead during some kind of Halloween festivity]
One news report described it thusly:
Bodies were pictured lining the streets in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district, while footage showed first responders and bystanders desperately providing CPR to unconscious victims in scenes described as “like a hell”. Emergency officials said most of the dead were teenagers or adults in their 20s who had been caught up in a crowd surge[.] Many of those caught up in the stampede suffered cardiac arrest, officials said.
The explanation by the authorities is, once again, “overcrowding”. Heck, if overcrowding killed people, just my parents trying to seat their twelve kids around one dinner table would’ve been liable for murder.
“Overcrowding” is an incredibly unsatisfying explanation. It generally means they just can’t tell what happened, but there were a lot of people there, plus a destructive panic. Over the years, crowd casualties happen from time to to time, but they are rare. They seem to occur every five or ten years, or maybe even less often than that. Certainly not three in eighteen months, two of them in the US.
But they do happen. In 2003, Rhode Island’s ‘Station Nightclub’ featured a music band of idiots using fireworks — indoors — which predictably set the building on fire, creating a panic that killed 100 people and caused even more injuries. In 2010, at a techno music festival in Duisburg, Germany attended by 1.4 million, a tunnel stampede killed 21 and injured over 500 people.
So, it can happen. But still. The odd recent frequency, the vein of cardiac arrests running through them, and the remarkably similar circumstances raise questions. Think about it this way: if one or two people in a large crowd suddenly fell over and began seizing or going into cardiac arrest, a panic could easily ensue, and later nobody would really know where or how it started.
Childers opines about whether someone died S&U, it might cause a panic. In the ensuing melee, who’s to say which came first?
I started developing a theory that whenever you get a large group together lately you’re going to see heart attacks, because there are so many happening. It’s just statistics. So I did a little online detective work, and after about ten seconds guess what?
Without much trouble, he finds three headlines about cardiac events at public events. Wales, NY, Paris
I’m going to make a wild guess here and speculate that, without some additional factor of news interest, like a performer’s heart attack, a mystery hero, or a coincidental doctor in the next seat, most cardiac arrest incidents at large events won’t even make the local news. So there’s probably no way to get the data, and the officials aren’t going to check. Once again, we’re left speculating.
I’m going to take a wild guess: People are dropping S&U anyway, these just happen to be at a big public event. It could’ve just as easily been in their garage, but it would go unnoticed there. Well, except for their loved ones and the EMT’s called to assist. It’s only location and timing that make these temporarily news worthy.
Just my two cents.
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The first rule of making a nationwide public spectacle of yourself is to not look stupid.
The country-rap artist famously raged about the collaboration in a viral video where he screamed, “F*** Bud Light. F*** Anheuser-Busch,” before mowing down several cases with a semi-automatic weapon.
His fury didn’t appear to pour over into Ritchie’s Nashville bar, Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock ‘n’ Roll Steakhouse, where “CNN This Morning’s” Ryan Young was surprised to find the brew being served during a recent reporting trip.
I don’t know much about Kid Rock and nothing about his music.
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Mr. C. ends on an amusing note. It’s a video of a chicken avoiding multiple very, very large lizards that appear to be of the Florida variety. The twitter comment was “The US economy avoiding a recession…”
https://twitter.com/dougboneparth/status/1678415281494917122
Of course, we don’t know if the chicken actually escaped its intended fate. Nor do we know about our escaping our fate. But it is funny, for as long as the clip runs.
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Fox News reports on a 20 year old NM soccer player who died S&U.
I’m sorry, but these young folks….breaks my heart.
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Bones:
IF one were to only load the database with good information, the problem of garbage in – garbage out is greatly diminished.
The problem will be who gets to control the information flowing in. What paradigms will be programmed in as it grows its brain?
It’ll be like “1984” on steroids.
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The White House payroll has hit historic highs under President Joe Biden, and the most highly remunerated staff member is his Monkeypox Co-ordinator Demetre Daskalakis, who The National Pulse first revealed as a Satan-and-occult-obsessed gay man who recently donned bondage gear for a speech at a biomedical conference.
Daskalakis, who is 50 this year, joined Biden’s White House staff less than a year ago. In that brief time, he has earned himself a salary of $260,718 – the highest in the White House apart from the President himself.
According to Open The Books,”[t]he second most highly paid is Anand H. Das ($216,414), Senior Deputy Associate Counsel,” with the total staff bill for the year coming in at a hefty $52.7 million for 2023. By comparison, the Trump White House averaged a staff cost of $46.95 million over four years.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
By the time we all go to bed tonight we shall likely be so worn out from slogging through the AI world presented here, there, and everywhere else imaginable that we shall need a glass of wine or some more potent beverage to confine it so we can actually go to sleep and leave it behind. Tedtam nails it with “run for the hills” advice as the first thing to be done, worry about beverage selection later.
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Because I’ve been watching interviews by/about “Sound of Freedom,” a new guy popped up. Stephen Hilton claims to be a Hollywood insider who is spilling the beans about the child sex trafficking in Hollywood. He’s “away from his family” and doesn’t have a boss, so he feels free to come clean.
Last night’s video that I saw had a clip from Mel Gibson describing something freaky that happened way back when at a Hollywood crowd event. Hilton said he felt more brave about coming out with the information, since he now makes three names going public: Gibson, Caviezel, and himself. I guess he’s the “third man”.
At least, I hope so. I hope that with all of the publicity now and three voices out there, that momentum will begin. I know very little about him except for the two child trafficking videos I’ve seen. Some of the adrenochrome stuff seems far out there – the “QAnon” that MSM is touting to suppress the movie – but it’s been said by multiple people now, at least that I’ve seen. I really don’t want to believe folks are that twisted, but if folks are, the “elites” are the folks most likely to do the twisting. Hilton does make a point: when you have more money than you can spend, it’s likely that life becomes boring and bigger and weirder thrills are required to avoid boredom.
For some reason, using their wealth to better mankind doesn’t seem exciting or fulfilling enough, I guess.
But these folks, who are mostly not God-based folks, want to push the envelope, and sexing up and sexually abusing kids is the current envelope to push.
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Morning, chickadees. I probably have chores I need to take care of today, but I am thinking about crawling back in bed. Let that be a lesson to me — if there is work to be done, gotta write it down.
I’ll hang on until I finish my last few bites of breakfast, but then…
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Tedtam @ 10:05 AM
I saw that story this morning. Too sad.
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It seems the Secret Service is ending their coke investigation without naming a culprit.
They are living up to their name. Secret.
Nah, there’s no double standard here, just move along, nothing to see.
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TT 10:09: It is my understanding that one can load whatever one wishes into the AI program. Wouldn’t it be interesting to load an AI program with only the sources I listed above? Talk about getting a different perspective on things. . . . .
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Houston we have a problem. I got out early to finish up the mowing before the predicted rain showed up around noon and halfway through I somehow managed to snap the valve stem off the left front wheel. Tarrs don’t hold air very well when that happens.
I took it to Whaley’s here in Podunk and not only did he fix it in 25 minutes, he only charged for the tube, about $22 bucks TT&L. Can’t beat that. FWIW; I almost finished up before the bottom fell out, 1.42″ in 30 minutes, 3.45″ an hour at the start. It’s still drizzling a little but I think it’s over for the most part. Life is Good out here in the Country. -
Texpat @ 7:20 AM I found the story over yonder and didn’t want to link to FB so I just copied and pasted the content and then found a throw-down picture on-line. Thanks for researching her BIO and the 707 story. I remembered the story of Susan Oliver from back in my Aviation days and since I was a young man then I couldn’t help but notice that she was not only talented but downright pretty. 😉
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Back from Randall’s with stuff on the grocery list packed away. Lovely happening while there is running into an old friend who is a horsewoman and still has several. Her place is about 4 miles from us, so I must call to make a date to come see her horses and visit.
Barely made it into the store without breathing hard from the heat, and I was only parked around the corner of the building. The heat is dangerous and sneaks up on people fast, hat or no hat, umbrella or no umbrella. Best place to be is out of the sun.
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I found this posted elsewhere and it made me laugh. I hope it does the same for y’all.
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Old men like pretty girls too.
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Be nice to get some more rain, I’m tired of watering. I am reminded, however, after the nice recent rains we had, grass gets really thick and lush in all the places you don’t want it to.
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I am reminded, however, after the nice recent rains we had, grass gets really thick and lush in all the places you don’t want it to.
It is also very effective at hiding the land mines that my puppy likes to leave. . . . .
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Adee: This one is for you.
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18 Super Dave
One of the things that drove me crazy about Facebook was people posting all kinds of original material, much of it clearly copyrighted, without links or at least attribution for the original author(s). I always try to acknowledge original authors, artists or photographers or provide accompanying links that do. It used to be good manners to do so, but the internet has ruined decent behavior for the human race. I often post images from sources who don’t bother to mention the photographer and it’s frustrating. People think if they see it, they own it. Trying to track down original creators on everything can be a wild goose chase.
The other thing is people posting news stories to social media like…
27 People Rescued By Helicopter From Bus Floating Down River After Dam Collapses
…with photos.
…without location.
…without time and date.
…without any links.
…without any further information.
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Well, I went out 2 hours ago to roll in the CoH trash barrel, and get the mail. As soon as I went through the gate from the back yard, I saw a huge oak limb had come down adjacent to the driveway. No idea when that happened, I hadn’t heard anything. Most of it laid flat on the strip of ornamental ground cover between the house and the driveway, but several branches were sticking up over the driveway, so that had to be cleared. The tree cutter I use generally has booking for 2-3 days, so I decided to see what I could get done. Those 2 hours were well spent and I’m now thinking I can get it all done by myself. With the driveway cleared and the branches I cut off the main limb now stored out of sight from the street, there is no further hurry.
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According to the Harris County medical examiners office, ALL ten fatalities at the Astroworld Festival died due to ”compression asphyxiation”. Other injuries were from trampling.
There was a secondary stage at the festival and that concert finished just minutes before the Main Stage featured show began.
Thousands of people from the secondary stage began surging into the general admission area (standing only) which was already at capacity for the main show. Barriers to this area had not held and were downed earlier in the evening.
I happened to be home recently and watched the entire hour long presentation by HPD and the DA’s office following the announcement of no-billing by the Grand Jury. It was one of the most comprehensive and detailed presentations of its kind that I have ever seen.
The two chief HPD investigators gave a great presentation explaining the events of the tragedy.
Were there heart attacks? I’m sure there were. But this was not a mass cardiac event.
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I attended a few concerts in my day where it got pretty dicey among those of us crowded in front, by the stage.
Scary as hell.
Over the years they got very strict about stopping “stage rushes”. Crowd control is much easier in arenas as opposed to festival venues set up in parking lots or parks with temporary barriers.
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My dashboard thermometer indicates 105 right now.
HOT. REAL HOT.
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Joe Biden decided to threaten Alabama with canceling the Space Force HQ plans for its command base to be built in that state. Joe doesn’t like the fact you can’t get an abortion on every street corner in Alabama.
So the new Space Force (lmao) Headquarters was supposed to be built at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL (home of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.)
But the Biden administration is trying to financially choke red states, and has cancelled that decision, citing Alabama’s restrictive abortion laws. In response, Alabama’s US legislators, namely Senator Tuberville on the Senate Armed Services committee, and Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, have blocked the entire Air Force’s funding.
As a result, PCS moves are cancelled and reenlistment bonuses are off the table until 2024, an especially painful hit given the current morale of the US military.
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#30 TP: It is way past time for the Rs to start playing hardball. The next thing they need to do is cut the DOJ by 75% until some major reforms take place. Garland and Wray must be fired and their pensions confiscated at a minimum.
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After grilling fib leader Chris stingwray yesterday the eCan’t party is now 0-334 in the results dept from their kabuki theatre playhouse grillings.
Next up is another loss when they grill the secret disservice about the bag of coke.
You have hunter biden saying in a text message he’s there with his father and the eCan’ts can’t even get a victory out of that.
Forever losers.
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Maybe I’m a bit dense, but didn’t monkeypox turn out to be somewhat less severe than athletes feets? And didn’t they try to call it something else lest Teh Ghey ™ get offended to being compared to a monkey?
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Texpat @ 5:13 PM, As you might expect that has been on the news a lot here lately. Tommy Tuberville is getting a lot flack for his actions on this. He thinks that he’s just using the tools he has on hand to force the issue.
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1.94″ of rain since noon, we’re catching up. Big pond is at 3/4 full and little pond ran out the spillway about 1 PM.
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1.94″ of rain since noon-Big pond is at 3/4 full and little pond ran out the spillway about 1 PM
I think he’s just outright trolling me now.
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Tonight’s teaser for the ABC13 news program:
Syphilis is running wild in Houston.
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