This past weekend there was a comment about Steve Martin being an enthusiast of the banjo. Here he is with one of the greats in banjodom along with some other guys that are ok.
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How they got that many greats in one room, I don’t know. They must’ve heard Leon and Steve were coming.
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Morning Shannon, I guess Dave is sleeping on off.
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WAKE UP SLEEPY HEADS! IT’S DANG NEAR 0700!
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I’m awake – sorta… And it’s not quite 7 LOL
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Well, that is certainly music that’ll wake you up!
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Now that is a great video.
Morning Shannon, I guess Dave is sleeping on off.
Well I did sleep late, got up at 5:10 AM but dang I slept good since I spent all day yesterday with my chainsaw. I was finishing up the woods/yard boundary on the back of the house and then I started on the giant cedar beside the house. I’ve been wanting to trim the lower limbs and whack off a big limb that was stressing the tree. I had to get my extension ladder to get to the big limb but before I could cut it I had to cut a lot of arm sized limbs. I did have sense enough to cut the ends off the big limb to reduce the weight but it was still hefty, bigger than my upper leg at the base and 6″ at the other end 20 feet away. With the ladder climbing, limb dragging and the stiffing heat I was worn slam out by 4:30. I must have drank a gallon of water all day. I took a shower and soaked up some BTU’s afterwards oh and there was this. 😉
FWIW; If you want a dull chainsaw chain just cut up a bunch of cedar. I sharpened it before I started and had to resharpen it by noon. Also it’s now covered with a pretty pinkish dust from the cedar chips.
Mornin’ Gang! Remember Life is Good.
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I’ve seen a bunch of Steve Martin banjo videos and appearances over the years, but I somehow missed that one. Great stuff.
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IT IS OVER ☙ Tuesday, July 18, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup today includes: the New York Times says it’s over, really over, and they mean it this time; explosive email prompts Senator Paul to send fiery letter to DOJ claiming Fauci perjury over gain-of-function; Russia officially pulls out of Ukraine grain deal; Florida counties begin calling on state to confiscate mRNA doses; very SADS MMA fighter; checking in on Pfizer’s jab laboratory, Israel, where things aren’t going so well; SADS in Israel; Netanyahu cardiac scare; good news on cancer treatments, if you own pharma stock that is; and Ice Cube has no regrets over throwing away nine million dollars.
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Manhattan Institute senior fellow, DeSantis education advisor, and C&C multiplier-recipient Chris Rufo published a new book last week, and it’s already soaring on Amazon’s bestseller charts.
Rufo is one of the good guys. His book is titled “America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything”. It also includes a roadmap for countering the left. The link is here.
I guess it’s a good sign that there are so many sales.
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News:
The New York Times ran a story proclaiming that a long, long last – the death rate is now NORMAL! The pandemic is over! Feel free to dance in the streets!
Then it admits way down in the story that past COVID numbers were probably inflated. You know, people who died with instead of from the virus. Mr. Childers opines that this is probably part of Biden’s (or any Democrat, IMHO) upcoming election run.
We mustn’t miss the further, unstated implication: If the pandemic is over, the vaccine campaign is over too. You don’t need lots of jabs for what the Times says isn’t even an epidemic now. And apparently, covid isn’t even a problem for the much decried immunocompromised population, not any more:
Most immunocompromised people are at little additional risk from Covid — even people with serious conditions, such as multiple sclerosis or a history of many cancers.
My goodness. So all that masking and jabbing to protect immunocompromised people was … for nothing? You really can’t make this stuff up.
We can thank the presidential campaign for this miraculous development. It was politics when it started, and it was politics that ended it…
But there are still ongoing “excess death” studies and stories. Go figger.
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And even the UK Daily Mail has the perjury story on Fauci. Sometimes we need to go to different countries to find out what happens here, because our media isn’t independent any more.
And Messier Garland will do nothing against him.
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I usually skip Ukraine/Russia news, but this isn’t good for world food supplies:
The BBC reported yesterday that, as predicted, following the weekend’s terrorist attack on its Kerch Bridge to Crimea, Russia has officially declared the end of its agreement to allow Ukraine to safely ship grain over the Black Sea.
… In other words, this new crisis was totally preventable, and was caused by Ukraine, which gained no strategic advantage by the attack whatsoever.
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On Thursday, local CBS12 ran a story headlined, “County GOP: COVID-19 Vaccine Is A Bioweapon.” https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1680991653035749377
Last week, after much spirited discussion, the Brevard County Republican Executive Committee (BREC) voted unanimously to send an urgent four-page letter to state leaders demanding that the covid shots be outlawed in Florida. Brevard County is the 10th largest county by population in Florida.
CBS12 reported that other GOP chapters in Seminole, Lake, St. John’s, Santa Rosa, Hillsborough and Lee Counties have passed similar resolutions. Brevard’s resolution called for immediate confiscation of existing doses and a deep investigation into the shots’ safety:
On behalf of the preservation of the human race, the Brevard County Republican Party calls upon Governor DeSantis and the state legislature to prohibit the sale and distribution of COVID-19 injections and all related injections in the state of Florida, and for the state Attorney General to immediately seize all COVID-19 injections and mRNA injections in the state of Florida and have a forensic analysis conducted to determine if the ingredients pose a danger to recipients.
You can read the Brevard GOP’s entire, highly-enjoyable resolution at CBS12’s website.
Game on.
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THE STAGGERING OIL CONSUMPTION OF ANCIENT ROME
In the heyday of the Roman empire, local olive production couldn’t keep up with demand and the Romans began importing olive oil from other places like Greece, the Iberian peninsula and the North African provinces. The oil was stored in massive clay jars called amphorae, some of which were half as tall as a person and required two people to lift. Most were imported under state authority for distribution to either the army or the common people, which was managed by the same department handling the imports of grains.
These amphorae were carefully crafted and marked with the weight, date and origin of the olive oil inside them, but because oil turns the clay rancid over time, the jars couldn’t be reused. Instead, the Romans systematically smashed the pots and stacked them in a massive dumping site which is now called Monte Testaccio, right in the heart of Rome. This is an artificial hill some 35 meters high and over one kilometer in diameter, most of which is now a park covered in vegetation – with bits of amphorae making up the ground. I spent many hours in my youth walking on this hill, constantly picking up pieces some of which I carried home; they are so many! Millions and millions of shreds, most of which were once laid out in neat terraces sprinkled with lime to get rid of the bad smell.
The dumping site may hold the broken pieces of 53 million amphorae, which once contained around 6 billion litres of olive oil – which was either eaten or used in the night lamps. Since most of the amphorae in Testaccio came from faraway places and the oil was destined for distribution, it has been estimated that the state imported at least 7.5 million litres of oil every year, and that’s without counting the oil manufactured in Italy, or the oil imported by other entities for private sales or consumption.The dumping site lay abandoned for centuries, and eventually became the site for jousts and tournaments. Later the mound was the site of the pre-Lenten celebrations, as well as for the city’s get together during the month of October, when olives and grapes were picked in the surrounding fields.
Here is a 1827 description of the October gatherings: “Each Sunday and Thursday during the month of October, almost the whole population of Rome, rich and poor, throng to this spot, where innumerable tables are covered with refreshments, and the wine is drawn cool from the vaults. It is impossible to conceive a more animating scene than the summit of the hill presents. Gay groups dancing the saltarella, intermingled with the jovial circles which surround the tables; the immense crowd of walkers who, leaving their carriages below, stroll about to enjoy the festive scene.”
By; Simonetta Gatto
Photo credit: estateromana.
FWIW; I find this interesting. 😉
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From the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department (Mr. C. uses the SADS news tag for “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome,” just so you’re not confused:
- Cris Lencionis, 28, an MMA fighter, had an S&U cardiac arrest while training on June 8. He survived, thanks to the quick action of his fellow gym mates, and spent several weeks in ICU. He suffered profound brain damage, and will never be the same again, though he is making progress. He will need a defibrillator to be installed in his body. A 28 year old, very physically fit man needs something inside him to restart his heart. He is relearning how to walk and talk. The doctors are absolutely BAFFLED over this event, but they grasp at this straw: “One article said Cris’s physicians think he might have something called Long QT Syndrome, a potentially deadly heart rhythm disorder, that ‘allegedly wasn’t flagged until his health scare.’ “ Just think how bad it would have been without the jabs!
In Israel, which had very strict vaccine mandates, is the global petri dish for studying the jab. The “herd immunity” model didn’t work there. “This week, Israel’s largest healthcare organization, representing over half of the country’s population, Clalit Health Services, reported alarming new diagnosis data. ‘Cardiac arrest’ diagnoses per million more than doubled, increasing an unbelievable +225% in one year from 2021 to 2022. Even more astounding, the use of the diagnosis code in Israel is up a chart-bursting +431% from 2020: [insert chart]” Then he lists several news stories of Israeli’s suffering from jab after-effects.
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Mr. C. includes a short blurb about cancer drugs becoming a huge money maker for Big Pharma.
Go figger.
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Finally, Piers Morgan interviewed rap superstar Ice Cube yesterday. The star famously rejected a $9 million dollar movie offer because he would not take the shots and the producers wouldn’t let him act without them. Ice seems to feel like it was a good bargain.
MORGAN: You turned down a $9 million-dollar movie role in 2021 because you wouldn’t take the covid vaccine being mandated in Hollywood at the time. Any regrets at all?
ICE: Not at all. Not one regret.
https://twitter.com/PiersUncensored/status/1681030422501662722
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From the C&C comments:
Ice Cube said in that clip: if you make the bullets and the band aids, you always want war.
That ties in well with the cancer drug profits being made by Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J.
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With Kamala saying aloud that we need to be depopulated, it reminds me of Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla’s, who as a veterinarian, his specialty was immunological methods of fertility control for animals. They’ve long been working on vaccines which disable reproduction. Handy, huh!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3124969/
https://twitter.com/DanubusKa/status/1679372523123933184
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““In a sign that the pandemic really is over, the total number of Americans dying each day is no longer historically abnormal.” So the baseline has been raised to accommodate the new accepted by them elevated rate of death. Now everything is hunky dory, back to normal. When people are dropping dead all around us, we can safely sing ‘Happy Days are Here’ because it’s just normal. We need a governmental Exorcist, we need to find some powerful Catholic Priest who specialize in that field.
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My husband is a volunteer firefighter and he says the same thing about the number of “medical emergencies” to which they are called. And the victims are often in their 30s and 40s and typically driving when it hits.
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Here’s where you can go to get your Tucker fix.
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Well, if Hillary was allowed to hammer her electronic devices, this should be okay:
Secret Service destroys bag and any chance to officially recover DNA
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He said that if something similar occurred while he was the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, the police would have come in with “hazmat suits,” put it into an evidence bag, and taken it to a lab for analysis.
“I was Knox County mayor,” he said. “When we found an unknown substance somewhere, we called on law enforcement are sheriff’s department, the best in the country, and our police department, one of the best in the country, obviously to come in with hazmat suits to put in the bag and take it to a lab. That’s exactly what they should have done here. They should have taken it to Quantico and analyzed it, but instead, they destroyed the bag.”
Something smells here, and it ain’t dead fish.
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RE: #6
I’m hoping Super Dave’s wife has loaded up the life insurance on him. I quit climbing on ladders with chain saws years ago when I realized the risk wasn’t worth it. My tree guy is so fast, like a tree monkey on meth, he can accomplish in one hour what might take me several hours.
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Steve Martin is a world class banjo player. He is one of very few that excels in both the claw hammer and Scruggs styles.
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Morning, gang. My sweet cat Travis has become hooked on getting to lick clean my cottage cheese bowl every morning . He’s been doing that most of his life — he’s 16 now– but day by day he has less patience to wait for me to finish and pass the bowl to him. None of the other cats have any interest in it. They all eat their bowls of canned cat food, followed by a bit of dry crunchies, then flake out for their after-breakfast naps.
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Now, the Freemans want to expand this pit, near the town of Newry, Maine, so they can mine spodumene, crystals that contain the lithium the U.S. needs for the clean energy transition. The timing of their discovery, in what has been named Plumbago North, is remarkable; the Freemans have stumbled across one of the only hard-rock sources of lithium in the U.S. at a time when the material is desperately needed for the clean energy transition. By 2040, the world will need at least 1.1 million metric tons of lithium annually, more than ten times what it currently produces, according to projections by the International Energy Agency. Should the Maine deposit be mined, it could be worth as much as $1.5 billion, a huge windfall for the Freemans and a boon to the Biden Administration’s efforts to jumpstart more domestic mining, processing, and recycling of critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements to reduce the U.S.’ dependence on China. This is one of the few lithium deposits in the U.S. currently found in hard rock, which means it is higher-quality and faster to process than lithium mined from brine.
People in Maine won’t allow the mining and they whine like this…
“We build industries based on the needs of populations not living here and then the bottom drops out, leaving us struggling again to pick up the pieces.”
I guess it’s okay for Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado to supply the USA (and Maine) with oil, natural gas, gasoline, diesel, chemicals and plastics with all the requisite environmental hazards while people in Maine can live in paradise.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
Old Glory has a breeze to swing to this morning. Other than that the front yard is quiet, with only a crow walking through. Perhaps that means the buzzards have left so the regular critters can come back and enjoy “their” place.
So, Tedtam reports that the Secret Service has destroyed the cocaine evidence bag found in the White House. Are we to presume that for now at least their lips are sealed?
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We should see how well the people in Maine can function with horses, wood-powered steam engines, and wood stove heat & cooking.
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Emphasis mine:
The Department of Justice erased content from its webpage on child sex trafficking that highlighted the plight of “international sex trafficking of minors” in late May.
The stunning revision comes amidst scrutiny of President Joe Biden’s continued incitement of mass migration via America’s porous southern border – a prime avenue for child sex trafficking – and also coincides with the recent release of the film “The Sound of Freedom.”
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) webpage chronicling what constitutes child sex trafficking and how the department is combatting it underwent severe revisions on May 12th, 2023, including the erasure of the three sections: “International Sex Trafficking of Minors”; “Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors,” and “Child Victims of Prostitution.”
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“This form of sex trafficking is a problem in the United States, and recovered victims originate from all over the world, including less-developed areas, such as South and Southeast Asia, Central America, and South America, to more developed areas, such as Western Europe. Once in the United States, a child may be trafficked to any or multiple states within the country.”
“The United States not only faces a problem of foreign victims trafficked into the country, but there is also a homegrown problem of American children being recruited and exploited for commercial sex,” begins the section detailing domestic sex trafficking.
IIRC, the advertising for “Sound of Freedom” began in April or May. What a co-eeng-kee-deenk.
I saw a video this morning of a Texas mom chasing down a man who snatched her 2 year old daughter from her front yard and put her into his truck. It’s not just foreign kids, it’s our own kids.
I hope and pray, hope and pray, that the R’s hammer the D’s about their collective head with this issue in conjunction with the open border during this election cycle.
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Government involved sex trafficking.
In multiple investigative series launched in November 2022 and March 2023, Texas Scorecard has examined the scandal-plagued DFPS, the parent organization of Child Protective Services. After CPS illegally took a 4-year-old child from his parents in 2019, the agency’s reputation has continued to sink. In 2023, a father and a married couple claimed their children were wrongfully taken from them. They provided what appeared to be DFPS documentation that reversed the original findings that led to the seizures. DFPS would not comment on these documents.
A Texas Senate December 2022 report highlighted shoddy investigative work done by DFPS from 2010 to 2020. DFPS also reportedly has defied state law.
But are children in the care of DFPS safe? Can parents trust this agency to help purge predators from government schools?
In March 2023, Texas Scorecard requested from DFPS records of how many kids in their care were reported as runaways. We also asked how many were identified as sex trafficking victims after running away. A record was received in May.
The provided data states that—from Fiscal Years 2019 through 2022—more than 210 “children and youth” who went “missing from DFPS conservatorship” were identified as having been sex slaves during their “missing” period. Peak enslavement was Fiscal Year 2020—during the government lockdowns—at 68. It dropped to 43 in FY 2021 but climbed back to 56 in FY 2022.
Further down in the article, a source claims that only 1% of victims are reported.
Based upon my personal knowledge of a Texas CPS office, I don’t trust the government anywhere near any families I know. They make money off of adopting out kids, so “medical kidnappings” are one way they make money.
These are scary folks. Scary, scary folks.
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#28 TT: Thank you for this article. My big bosses own race horses.
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When I asked my cardiologist this afternoon why the steady graph line across the bottom of the screen had a vee going down instead of up every third or so heartbeat, he said,”Well, you’ve got a skippy-flippy heartbeat.
I said,”That must be a highly technical cardiological term I’m unfamiliar with”, and he said,”Yeah, it’s top secret”.
Bottom line is I went in because I was alarmed about getting low heart rate readings all morning from my home blood pressure unit. The doctor said the weaker heartbeats won’t be counted by the BP machine so although it reads 43 BPM, my heart rate is probably 72.
Cardiologist’s Pro Tip: Go to the drug store or online and buy a fingertip Pulse Oximeter that reads both blood/oxygen level and actual pulse. He said it’s more accurate and dependable than most BP machines for the heart rate.
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Also, we bought an expensive new blood pressure testing unit before I went to the hospital in June. It wasn’t Omron brand because we already had an older one of those.
My cardiologist said Omron makes all the home BP testers and then all these other companies private label them. You might as well go straight to Omron.
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31 Tedtam
I don’t have the yard or space for a border collie and Her Highness would never put up with the hair shedding.
If I lived back out in the country, I would have one or three.
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As of 45 minutes ago, I am gainfully unemployed. I had been holding out hope for a few weeks that things might get worked out between the two major parties.
Being collateral damage is another new experience for me.
Oh, well, c’est la vie.
I guess I’m sleeping in tomorrow.
So don’t call me early, eh?
🙂 🙂 🙂
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22 Dr phil
Yes, I do.
Mom was an Andy fan.
I am a fan of any fine vocalist.Katfish and I never could figure out old you are. Since you live in the neighborhood we often talked about inviting ourselves over. I, of course, would arrive with fine Cab. And teach you how to appreciate a fine Malbec.
He wasn’t much of a drinker, but did enjoy his Jim Beam. In almost sixty years, I never saw the man inebriated on alcohol.
Perhaps other chemicals. 🙂
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Shannon –
I am so sorry that happened to you. Get me your resume and I’ll forward it to a friend who might be able to help.
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24 Bones
I swear that I saw it live. And most of the other famous ones, too.
The one with the Indian guy.
The one with the pussy cat.
So many of them.
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The one with George Goebel and Dean Martin.
All of the Tea Time lady skits…
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Johnny never could handle it when Winters showed up.
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#34 Shannon
Sorry to hear that news, Shannon.
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22 Dr phil
That was actually an old folkie song.
I can’t hear an old folkie song without thinking of Hammie. And laughing.
He just hated all of those old folkies.
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It was an entire genre of American music that he hated.
Heh.
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I’m hoping Super Dave’s wife has loaded up the life insurance on him.
Life insurance? My wife has access to a front end loader and a wood chipper and knows how to use them so no life insurance for me. 😀
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FWIW; I don’t have a Tree Guy and the job I was working wasn’t near big enough to call in the heavy artillery. I’m not fond of ladders but I can still use them safely. Most of my elevated cutting is done on the top of my Mule. It is much safer than any ladder. It’s like standing on a little 4’X4′ porch, a little work to get up there but it makes the job easy.
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Well, no funeral expenses, anyway.
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Hubby’s not home yet, so I went ahead and ate dinner.
Some of his car parts arrived today, so………he’s probably spending quality time with his baby.
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Shannon, Sorry about the job loss have you been looking for alternatives?
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I love it when libs hoist themselves on their own petards.
The walrus was a clever ruse to distract everyone from noticing the fleet of rubber duckies loosed upon the environment.
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I saw a quote from Martin Short, who is a close friend of Steve Martin.
“It’s all fun and games until the banjos come out.”
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I don’t have a Tree Guy and the job I was working wasn’t near big enough to call in the heavy artillery. I’m not fond of ladders but I can still use them safely. Most of my elevated cutting is done on the top of my Mule. It is much safer than any ladder. It’s like standing on a little 4’X4′ porch, a little work to get up there but it makes the job easy.
Frikking geezer Superman.
I have a really nice 22 foot extension ladder that you are welcome to.
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Welcome back, wagonburner.
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Martin Short. One of the funniest guys since Steve Martin.
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Martin can sing, too.
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Steve Martin has long been one of the most interesting talents I have ever seen.
one of the great comics of all time.
Which has allowed him to pursue his true love.
great Music.
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Shannon, Sorry about the job loss have you been looking for alternatives?
Thanks but, no, I always figured I could get a job as a piano player in a whore house.
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Nothin’ stoppin’ me now, son
I’m headed to the Gulf Coast
Soonest.
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I’m headed to the Gulf Coast.
Now that’s the time. I came thaat close to making my TX 35 trip a couple of weeks ago but since it was so dang hot I decided to wait until fall.
Have fun and color me jealous. 😉
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Waiting until the fall sounds like a good idea.
I hate the beach in the summer time.
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This has been a rough damned day. Surely tomorrow will be better.
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Remember boys N girls don’t try this at home. 😉
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Texpat how is her highness getting along?
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John Mayer once said that you could play with the same Stevie Ray Vaughan intensity, but only for about 20 seconds. Your arms will then cramp up, and you won’t achieve much.
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No wasted time, we’re alive today
Churning up the past, there’s no easier way
Time’s been between us, a means to an end
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