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Ayn Rand was way ahead of her time. She saw how grifting was used in her time and envisioned a time when it would be the norm and everyone would willing become slaves of the state for a small stipend. I.E. Communism 10.11111 or something. More rain coming this morning, (sorry Phil) and cooler temps. I’ve noticed that the high pressure, HOT weather system goes from Mississippi on the east to California on the west so y’all are getting baked. I hope it gets better soon, we had the for about a week and it was brutal. Well I guess my Lane Shark work is rained out so I’ll have to find some other mischief to get into.
Oh and it’s Friday!! Yahoo!
Mornin’ Gang
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Texpat did Her Highness make it home? I find it hard to believe that they had her up and walking yesterday. Modern medicine is a miracle for sure.
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When the gov’t officials can do as they wish, legal or not, without any consequences, while at the same time holding We The People to the strictest interpretation of the law, anarchy and bloodshed are always the result. There will be violent pushback. See France circa 1789 for an example. Who knows, perhaps the national razor will make a comeback. . . . .
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So, yesterday the FBI/CIA corrupt White House Inc reported that the “Case of the Mysterious Cocaine Stash” (insert Perry Mason music here) is CLOSED!!! CASE CLOSED!!! No suspects found!!!!! Give me a break! Everyone with the IQ above a turnip knows that the White House, Et Al knew who belonged to the Cocaine before COB the day it was found! BUT we also knew that this would be the outcome AND THAT NOT A DAMN THING WILL BE DONE ABOUT IT!!!! EVER!!!! It may or may not have been Hunter’s stash but we do know it was found in the Library where few outsiders are invited. We know this because we’ve heard the tape of the law official that found it say so. Never mind that they changed the location twice (3 different locations) we remember the original report. The location was deliberately changed to a place without video surveillance and also a high traffic area. ~SPITS~ ~SPITS~ AGAIN, HELL ONE MORE TIME! ~SPITS~
YUP, Virginia we’ve lost our Republic. SIGH
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Her Highness arrived back at the swankienda about 3 PM yesterday. She has been surprisingly cooperative do, I believe, to the lingering effects of Dilaudid from surgery. HH is doing well, moving around with her walker and, so far, being careful.
It really is amazing to see someone have a major, weight-bearing, joint replaced and be walking around hours later. She had the anterior (frontal) replacement rather than the posterior (back) procedure. Everyone we know who had this done recommended it, particularly 3 people who had undergone both, one on each hip.
The anterior method involves the use of cameras and the surgeon has to be be comfortable and confident using them. Not every surgeon feels that way. The posterior method is fully visual, but recovery is more painful and takes longer.
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About my #4, I got real tired of all the news talking heads (including Fox) discussing the area where it was decided that the cocaine was found when EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM KNEW THAT WAS A LIE!!!!
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Texpat Great news and I agree with this part; It really is amazing to see someone have a major, weight-bearing, joint replaced and be walking around hours later.
I know nothing about the anterior (frontal) replacement rather than the posterior (back) procedure but it sure makes sense to me because the posterior procedure requires severing some serious muscle tissue, even if the surgeon cuts lengthwise.
I’m betting Her Highness will be kicking Texpat’s butt again in no time. 😀
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Shannon noted late last night the hair-on-fire story from Channel 13/ABC was the shortage of the drug to treat syphilis.
It is called penicillin G benzathine, marketed by Pfizer’s Bicillin L-A. It apparently is manufactured in China for Pfizer who acquired the patent by buying the old Wyeth Pharmaceutical company.
Obviously, Pfizer has been too busy devising new methods of poisoning human beings with endless variations of mRNA drugs and counting the inflows of billion and billions of dollars to pay attention to the supply chain of the only treatment for one of the oldest and most persistent fatal diseases in history.
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PSA; Today is El Gordo’s birthday. 😉
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The jaw is minimally better today. I iced it last night while watching TV, after the Latin class for which I did very little talking. I’ll be icing it again today.
I have to wear a dental guard at night, since I’m a teeth grinder. Guess where it presses down? Yeppers. So I’ve been taking a full muscle relaxant pill at bedtime, to try to relax me enough that I’m not pressing down so much at night with my teeth? Does it work? Heck if I know, but I’m going to keep doing it. I also put myself back on my Aleve. That helps my back issues but I can’t tell if it helps my jaw. I must’ve pulled on it a lot harder than I thought, as I was looking for a potential cavity on that dang baby tooth in that area. That, or I have dainty gums.
I did lose a pound yesterday, since eating is so difficult. There’s that little bit of sunshine.
Okay, off to the C&C…
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Spotted over yonder and it tickled my funny bone;
Fun, fast, exciting, but be careful, can be dangerous. Enough about my wife, the bike is my ‘73 I just got painted. I know, wrong color for year, but it’s my favorite Honda color.
😉
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THE ISRAEL MODEL ☙ Friday, July 14, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Your end-of-week roundup includes: Biden Administration tired of waiting for Zelenskyy to do something, does some things, including announcing a brand-new foreign policy and calling up reservists; historic writer-actor joint strike hits Hollywood, but will anyone notice?; SADS soccer player; bodybuilder swimming SADS; SADS Hollywood writer and producer; singer and TV personality long vaxx; democrats score minor court win against SB 7050 and a Miami Independent interview; and your amusing Friday video clip — respect muh pronouns.News:
Ukraine blah, blah, blah. A lot of it revolves around the swirling downward efforts of Zelensky, etc. Then Biden acts:
But now that Ukraine’s Celebrated Counteroffensive™ is looking more like counter service at a shabby deli, it appears that Team Biden is using the power of the United States presidential pen to try to create negotiating leverage to end the conflict favorably.
Just within the last few days:
1) Biden overrode Congress’ ban and authorized cluster bombs to Ukraine.
2) Biden announced a new “Israel model” strategy.
3) Biden ordered up a potentially vast reserve army.
Note that all this news came directly from the Oval Office.
It’s all reckless brinksmanship, of course, but the Russians have — so far — seemed to be playing conservatively and not taking the bait. So that’s good. Remember, Team Biden is thinking about the 2024 election campaign (and so are potential Biden replacement candidates), so I would take all these developments as a Big Push™ to set the table for a conclusion.
According to most sane pundits, Team Biden has five months to wrap up the Proxy War before it becomes a major 2024 campaign “quagmire” issue.
IMHO, too late on that last comment. But that’s just me.
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Next on the news carousel: actors and actresses are on strike. Like Mr. C., I don’t see this as much of a bad thing, really. Also, AI figures may be taking their places soon, so maybe that’s why they feel threatened.
Suddenly & Unexpectedly News:
- The NM soccer player that I mentioned the other day. 20 year old college student. Gone, for no good reason. The college just recently ended their jab mandate. “…Thalia Chaverria, 20, died suddenly, mysteriously, and unexpectedly right after her 20th birthday early Monday morning. In bed. At home. Never even made it to the hospital.”
- A 30 year old Romanian body builder (you should see the pics – impressive!) “drowned” in 3 feet of water. Suddenly and Unexpectely, obviously. Catalin Stefanescu had gone fishing with a friend. No cause of death has been released.
- Manny Coto, producer of TV shows such as “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “24,” etc., died after a 13 month struggle with pancreatic cancer. [I don’t know if 13 months is fast or slow, but Childers included it in his list.]
- Double jabbed (at least) Brazilian singer, songwriter, and TV personality Joelma Mendes is suffering effects of “long COVID”. She’s had the WLR FIVE TIMES in the last year! Even with the jabs! Her body suddenly swells. She found out that “it was my blood that was clotting”. It will probably continue to clot. Those spike proteins don’t just toss themselves out on their own.
Prayers for all of these folks, and the innumerable unnamed who also suffer.
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Now, on to Florida law:
Democrats were doing a happy dance when a judge blocked two provisions in SB 7050, Florida’s attempt to enact new election reform laws. The blocked provisions made criminal the use of illegal aliens for voter registration. It also prohibited nonprofit organizations from retaining the private data of Florida’s citizens. Florida is appealing this decision.
SB 7050 was the legal package over which I was widely criticized earlier this year for not criticizing, after some Florida conservatives expressed concerns that the new law would actually help election fraud. I reviewed the various concerns and couldn’t confirm them in the bill’s language, which rankled some people.
One of my frequent critics was the Miami Independent which, to its credit, recently interviewed me about the law and treated me perfectly fairly. Back in April, the Miami Independent (quoting an elections activist) darkly labeled SB 7050 as the “Florida Election Fraud Legalization Act.”
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I continue to stand by my original analysis: the gigantic SB 7050 package of election law tweaks seems, as far as I can tell, to be a raft of commonsense provisions strengthening election law. The recent federal decision delighting democrats seems to have borne that out.
Notwithstanding SB 7050, there remain lots of problems with election laws, especially related to the voting machines, and we undoubtedly still have a lot of work to do. It’s not a problem that arose overnight, and it won’t be solved in one legislative session. I’m not waiting around for changes to the laws, either. I’ve filed several elections challenges cases and am currently involved in a Zuckerbucks challenge. I’m all for accountability and transparency and if I can find any problem in the law I’ll gladly help to call it out.
The good fight never ends.
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I’m glad Her Highness is doing well. Hopefully her loving husband is doing well, also.
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Well crap.
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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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#9 Dave
Happy Birthday to EG!
Morning to the rest of us.
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Where does the “White House” dig up all these pervy freaks and why are they paid so much? I can’t imagine that these individuals are in such demand from other employers that it takes that much to pry them away from whatever their then-current endeavors might have been and that there is not a large number of at least equally talented candidates who would be willing to take these roles for a more reasonable salary.
That’s assuming that these positions are even needed in the first place. I haven’t heard about monkeypox in a very long time. It popped up as the “next HIV” months ago and within a week or two it vanished.
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PSA; Today is El Gordo’s birthday.
Where is that old coot?
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joined@thehipparty blood money sucking Vampyre machine to continue sucking on more blood money.
They got the daily double of blood money sucking coming in daily.
Endless war in Ukraine. Lots of blood money.
Endless open borders here. Lots more blood money to dine on.your Republic, if you can keep it, is lost.
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14 wagonburner
If one judges by the frequency of ads on TV and the internet, the bipedal digits of the entire human race are rotting off and toe fungus is the hugely ignored threat to mankind rather than MonkeyPox.
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Her Highness and I were just informed we will be the proud grandparents of a baby girl in about 6 months. Son-in-law is in for a big surprise when she comes along.
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#18 TP: MAZEL TOV!!
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Congrats, Texpat! Gummy Bear should be making his/her appearance in early to mid-December.
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The World’s Most Secure Building of the Leader of the Free World
I was reading this in Stephen Kruiser’s column about 8-Ball in the White House at PJMedia when my memory was prompted by the following line…
This story is totally believable if we want to think that the United States Secret Service is utterly incompetent. They didn’t say that’s what they want us to think, but it’s definitely on the table. Then again, maybe the Secret Service was feeling left out and wanted to get in on the “protecting the Bidens” action that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been doing so well. That would explain the convenient lack of curiosity on this issue.
Why worry about a little coke when you have these people to contend with ?
(a small sampling from a long list)
- September 19, 2014 – Omar Gonzalez jumped the fence from the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House and entered through the North Portico doors. Upon entering he overpowered a Secret Service officer and ran through most of the main floor before he was tackled by a counter-assault agent.
- February 17, 1974 – Robert K. Preston hovered a stolen Bell UH-1B Iroquois helicopter above the grounds and was forced to land. He ran towards the residence, but was tackled before reaching it.
- November 21, 1987 – Mike Davis, an unarmed man scaled a White House fence and made it to near the foot of a stairway that leads to the West Wing where President Reagan’s office was before being arrested.
- March 10, 2017 – A man carrying a backpack, later identified as Jonathan Tuan Tran, 26, of Milpitas, California, was arrested after jumping the White House fence, coming within steps of the mansion. Court papers charged Tran with “entering or remaining in restricted grounds while using or carrying a dangerous weapon” and stated that he had two cans of mace in his possession at the time of the incident.
and the most deranged of all:
December 4, 2005 – Shawn A. Cox, of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, was immediately captured by Secret Service agents after scaling the White House fence. Cox believed that Chelsea Clinton still lived at the White House “and that he was destined to marry her”. Cox was sent to the St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital; a court-ordered psychiatric report found that he was “grossly psychotic and manic”.
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If my father was still alive, I’d buy him this shirt even though he’d probably never wear it.
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I’ll bet Her Highness was a little upset that she couldn’t do a happy dance when y’all got the news.
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Stephen Green writes the downward spiral of Bud Light has inched closer to the abyss.
Now the Death Star has been spotted adorning the price signs for Bud Light, which was the most popular beer in America back in the olden days of […checks notes…] a couple months ago.
If you think that’s a bad sign for Bud Light sales, you’re wrong. It’s much, much worse.
I first became aware of Bud Light’s Alderaan-like fate on Wednesday evening, when my friend and former RedState colleague Kira Davis tweeted that “they’re not even selling Bud Light at my local Costco anymore. Don’t know when it stopped but I’ve noticed it’s not in stock anymore.” Kira was reporting from southern California, which, as I noted on Instapundit earlier today, “isn’t exactly overrun with conservatives.”
Costco has been clearing out Bud Light and the price signs and ads all have the dreaded asterisk which indicates they will no longer stock the item once it is gone.
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We knew this was coming: Tucker’s starting his own media company
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel are seeking to raise funds to start a new media company that would potentially use Twitter as its backbone, according to people familiar with the matter.
The new company would be anchored by longer versions of the free videos that Carlson has been posting regularly on Twitter since shortly after his departure from Fox News, but would ultimately be driven by subscriptions, some of the people said.
Carlson and Patel are looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the company, the people said.
Given Tucker’s popularity, it will be interesting to see how it pans out.
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This is ugly and stupid.
There is a daily struggle going on along the Rio Grande River but it may not be the one you are thinking about. It’s not the usual struggle between Border Patrol agents and migrants crossing the border illegally. It a battle between the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Border Patrol.
and,
Border Patrol (DHS) is leasing strips of land along the riverfront from farmers and ranchers who own property along the river. They pitch a tent and use it as a place to do administrative work processing migrants as they are apprehended crossing the Rio Grande River. Then most are turned out and allowed to remain in the United States until it is time for their asylum hearing, often up to six years out. This directly conflicts with what DPS is trying to do, which is to stop migrants from crossing into Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott did this in response:
He sent state troopers to occupy the Urbinas’ land on the grounds that criminal activity was taking place.
Texas then bulldozed the river ramp, strung rows of barbed wire across it and planted a large sign that threatens a fine and reads: ‘You cannot pass here’.
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Tedtam @ 1:40 PM
Neil Patel and Tucker Carlson started the Daily Caller conservative news site back in 2009. The reason they knew each other is because over 30 years ago the two were college roommates at Trinity College in Connecticut.
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This really is some good entertainment.
Tucker Carlson showed up at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa and ended up onstage interviewing, of all people, former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson. It is a series of videos from Twitter and the results were, well, here is Glenn Beck’s take on it.
Glenn Beck compares Asa Hutchinson’s interview with Tucker to the Hindenburg disaster: “I don’t think I have seen anything burst into flames and die that fast.”
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Happy Birthday El Gordo,
Best wishes for many more to come.
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Happy birthday El G-man.
come on back home.
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This story is totally believable if we want to think that the United States Secret Service is utterly incompetent.
deep state kabuki playhouse theatre hour.
the U.S.S.A has fallen and it can’t get up.
a government of career government criminals, by career government criminals and for career government criminals.
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Notice how hack eCan’t politician Assa Hutchison didn’t want to answer the question about how many Frankenfauci jabs he took.
that’s probably because he, like most of the lying politicians back then, were taking ivermectin and didn’t want anyone to know so they could push the jab on the unsuspecting masses.
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Out running errands, I tuned into the AMegos show, I know Super Dave can’t stand listening to Bettencourt’s voice but I wanted to see what he said about the property tax bill. I don’t know, sounds like big numbers but not much individually seems to me. Never heard the word “valuations”, the biggest problem in my view.
Anyway he had the state senator in Montgomery County on, there will be a third special session on school choice. He said it will pass, we will see I guess.
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Man, taking care of Her Highness 24/7 is a big job and I am wiped out.
Thanks again to Tedtam for posting this entire week.
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Counties surrounding Harris County seem to be attracting lots of new families leaving Houston for various reasons that we can all guess easily. I think Fort Bend County leads the pack in growth. Sugar Land keeps growing and growing with new subdivisions and new large-lot subdivisions. Richmond and Rosenberg are also growing and stretching out into the county as well as new large developments out in the west part of the county, not in a town. The town of Fulshear in the west side is no longer very small with many more cows than people. The new houses are moving the cows out. And then there is Katy that has spread into 3 different counties, pieces of it being in Fort Bend, Harris, and Waller. That makes for some confusion to people who live nearby or are just passing through.
Much has changed in the 45 years we’ve been out here, and we would not trade it for anyplace else. 🙂
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#30 GJT, What is this 25 years? I’ve/we’ve been told ever since Dan went to Austin that we’d see property tax relief. I say it ain’t gonna happen there are too many bureaucrats wanting/needing the money. Oh and thanks for reminding me why I couldn’t listen to that show. 😉
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Man, taking care of Her Highness 24/7 is a big job and I am wiped out.
I feel your pain, it is seldom that my bride needs real care but when she does,….. Mercy 😉
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Since the weather was iffy all day I decided to make the dreaded trip to Sam’s this morning. WHAT A ZOO! I’m reminded why it’s been months since I’ve been but we were getting low on paper towels and coffee so I figured it was time. I don’t know where they get their meat but it all looked real good and priced right. It’s been years since I’ve purchased any meat from them.
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Home Built Tractor Built In 1954
The owner of this home-built tractor is Burt Gesner of Madison, Conn., who’s now in his early 90’s. He built the tractor back in 1954 to use at his summer home in rural Unity, N.H.
Gesner and his family told me about all the different years, makes and models of vehicle parts he used to build the tractor. It’s a great example of one man’s ingenuity, sensibility and even artistry in creating a working product that has lasted for many years.
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a government of career government criminals, by career government criminals and for career government criminals.
Yes.
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If you examine the details, meaningful property tax reduction has passed the Legislature and the Governor will sign it.
If you don’t want an additional $60,000 added to the current $40,000 homestead exemption, then don’t vote for it when comes up on the next ballot.
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If you disagree with a cap on appraisal increases on non-homestead properties – including second homes, rental properties and commercial and business properties – then vote against it when it comes up on the ballot.
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These guys could have eliminated every conceivable tax in Texas and some people would still bitch about them.
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Yes, all Republican politicians suck at least 49% of the time.
But if you won’t claim an obvious victory and give credit when it is due, you will soon find that nobody is going to be willing to go fight for you in the Austin cesspool.
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Shannon I agree it’s a good deal and I don’t really understand the details, but aren’t we potentially going to get appraised to death to make up for it? Bettencourt admitted to a caller today the 2019 deal got swallowed up. That was the previous best deal of the century.
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I understand where you are coming from, GJT.
My 28-year-old single-wide trailer house appraisal increased by 76% this year.
If I live long enough it’ll be appraised at several hundred thousand dollars at some point.
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We should all be counting our blessings. After all, the Hollywood actors and writers are now both on strike.
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