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I’m not sure how I feel about this.  Combine this with the AI techonology…

DNA Chips: The Billion Gigabyte Storage Solution of Tomorrow

In the form of DNA, nature shows how data can be stored in a space-saving and long-term manner. Würzburg’s chair of bioinformatics is developing DNA chips for computer technology.

The hereditary molecule DNA is renowned for its ability to store vast amounts of information over long periods of time in an incredibly small space. For a good ten years, scientists have therefore been pursuing the goal of developing DNA chips for computer technology, especially for the long-term archiving of data. Such chips would be superior to conventional silicon-based chips in terms of storage density, longevity, and sustainability.

… If this works well, the information is preserved for a very long time – researchers assume several thousand years. The information can be retrieved by automatically reading out and decoding the sequence of the four basic building blocks.

This type of storage has been demonstrated, but there are still hurdles to clear: storage costs are astronomically high and information retrieval is very slow.  But that may be overcome by using molecular and nanotechnologies, new polymers, and better production processes.  It could become a home product in only years.

… “With our proof of concept, we can show how current electronics and computer technology can be partially replaced by molecular biological components,” says the professor. In this way, sustainability, full recyclability, and high robustness even against electromagnetic pulses or power failures could be achieved, but also a high storage density of up to one billion gigabytes per gram of DNA.

Thomas Dandekar rates the development of DNA chips as highly relevant: “We will only last as a civilization in the longer term if we make the leap into this new type of sustainable computer technology combining molecular biology with electronics and new polymer technology.”

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m not sure when son and I last raced, maybe May. We wrecked and tore out the left front suspension. Not huge damage but after one thing or another we are just now getting it going to run at Cotton Bowl Speedway this Saturday night. We spent last night setting front alignment and getting our new shocks and springs setup on the scales.

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We head to Galveston this afternoon, of course in true “senior” fashion we both have doctors appointments to make. 😀

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #2

    I ruin’t the joke, doctors appointments are not in Galveston, we go there for my brother’s retirement party, just have appointments before we can head out of town.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT, have fun at Galveston, this is a good time of the year to be at the beach. Oh and we need a report on those fancy Space-Age shocks that you’re using.  As usual I’m real busy and missed all the Impeachment fun AND since I’m NOT keeping up, I have a question, is there any evidence that AG Paxton did anything wrong? This may seem like a stupid question but there seems to be a lot of accusing goin’ on out there. Think Rush Limbaugh here.

    So with that; Mornin’ Gang

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I think I’ll go let Dawg out, I’ve not done that in 10 minutes or so. 😀

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I don’t know what it is but something about Dana Delaney gets my motor running. 😀

  7. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #5 SuperDave – I feel your pain…. it’s usually a little longer between with ShortieDawg but not always.

    Amazingly enough, according to our atomic clocks, the outside and inside temperatures are the same (that would be the temperature inside and outside the house – NOT Shortie…)

    I need to find something for Nat’s other 2 trays, since the creamy coleslaw fit on 2, with room to spare… but, DANG, that stuff is tasty… I just need to remember to triple the amount I made – or double it, and really FILL the 2 trays.

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Super Dave, we found out during the off season our shock/spring setup was all wrong – meant for asphalt not dirt. They used to run both but all tracks on our schedule are all dirt now. We ordered new sets from a guru out of California, setup for our tracks, he has a full time job and builds them on the side. Well we didn’t get them for three months, after we wrecked, so never got to run them. So here at the end of the season we finally get to try them out. Guys in the circuit who knew our car before we bought it say it was a good handling car before, excited to see what the change is going to do for us. Of course, being a new driver it’s hard to know if it’s driver or car but I firmly believe he has been driving better than than what the car has been. Good group of guys, and one girl, that we run with. they all will help with anything you need.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue – I got in late last night and didn’t see your post to me until just now.  I’ve been doing the measuring my food in pound and half pound sets, using the method that School Reports uses.  That way I can figure the rehydration amounts for foods where it would be important, like your cole slaw.   Or the sauces – I pre-freeze in silicone muffin molds, and I know they hold just under a half cup.  I did that with my current product – chicken stock.  If I need just a little bit for a recipe or a cup of soup, I can grab one or two of those pucks.  If they hold shape.  I think that leaving them in puck form will also reduce the chance of oxidation – less surface area than a powdered form.

    I try to keep some frozen broccoli in the freezer, so when I have room on a tray I can fill it with at least some kind of veggie.

    I’ll be checking Elsa in a bit.  Last night, before I headed out, two of the trays were dry but the other two were still losing moisture.  I put Elsa on a long “more dry time” cycle so I wouldn’t miss the end of it this morning.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I tended my garden this morning, and harvested a few beans for eating and one bean for seeds. My cantaloupes are still getting ripe.  I haven’t been harvesting my herbs much this year, but this morning I cut some basil to put into my mesh herb dryer that I have hanging in the dining room.  My lemon basil is one of the few plants that has just gone bonkers in all of this heat; maybe because it was partially shaded.  The flavor on it is really good, so I should be harvesting it soon, too.  It smells absolutely delicious.

    So, back inside, with coffee in hand…

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    CHILLING EFFECTS ☙ Tuesday, September 12, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C family, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup today includes: New York Times forced into shocking reveal about boosters; more bad news as the G20 downplays the Ukraine war in controversial statement; allies put a clock on the Counter-Offensive; Ukraine announces operation scrape up bodies; President Peters’ mic cut off in the middle of a press conference in indescribably humiliating public disgrace; Governor Newsom reconciliation tour; and some great medical freedom legal news out of California.

    NEWS:

    Childers found a little something tucked into a news story about the release of the new “vaccine,” being released without any kind of testing.  Not one little mouse was subjected to possible blood clots or strokes.

    …I wouldn’t have covered it except for an odd little nugget of interesting information buried halfway down the story. You see, last year’s jab innovation turned out not to have been so much of an innovation after all. It looks less like dynamite and more like a wet noodle:

    Unlike the bivalent shots from last fall, the latest mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna are monovalent, meaning they are designed to protect against just one variant: XBB.1.5… Initial data from preprint studies has suggested that the bivalent formula from last year was no more effective against BA.4 and BA.5 than the original vaccine it replaced because of so-called “immune imprinting” bias.
    “Our immune system, when we have  seen something, is biased to seeing that again,” Dr. Ho said. “So if you include the original components, the immune system will react mostly to the original component and not to the new version of the virus.”

    Ho, ho, Dr. Ho! We fooled ‘em again! Suckers.

    But there it was, in 12-point type, straight from the New York Times’s own ghastly orifice: The Bivalent experiment failed. It’s back to the monovalent drawing board. And, how do you like that, they do know about “immune imprinting” after all. When they want to.

    /snipping out delightful snark

    Last year they literally tested the bivalent shot out on everyone knowing that it probably wouldn’t work against new variants. And they are doing it all over again, because XBB.1.5 has gone the way of the actual Kraken, faded away into the nebulous fog of ancient history, legends, and covid lore, and now we face a new, stiffer challenge in the expanding Pirola variant, which allegedly has 30 different mutations in its spike compared to XBB. You probably didn’t even know the spike had thirty parts to mutate.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Ukraine, Ukraine, G20 getting tired of Ukraine, Ukraine outraged at weak resolution language, Russia, proxy war, Ukraine, blah, blah blah…

    It seems that the G20 is backing slowly away from Zelensky, and he’s not happy about it.

    It also seems that Ukraine is running out of bodies to throw at Russia.  How long before they beg for foreign boots to march on their ground?  In the meantime, Zelensky wants to find those draft dodgers who ran out before they got shot:

    Displaced Ukrainians who fled the country to escape the press gangs now have to consider re-locating again, this time to a country without an extradition agreement with Ukraine. Not surprisingly, Russia is warmly inviting Ukraine’s wandering citizens, and most pundits suspect a lot of them will accept, so — ironically — Zelensky’s new crackdown will probably result in turning even more Ukrainians into Russians.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I linked to this story yesterday:

    In another UK Daily Mail article you won’t see in U.S. Establishment Media, this weekend’s headline said, “Incredible moment White House staff abruptly end Biden’s rambling Vietnam press conference mid-sentence and cut his mic.”

    In a difficult start, President Robert L. Peters began by telling reporters, “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.” Well. That’s obvious. Then, Biden continued, rambling incoherently, “We talked about stability, we talked about the Third World, excuse me, the Southern Hemisphere has access to change. It wasn’t confrontational at all….”

    Suddenly, the booming voice of Biden’s extra-diverse press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, can be heard butting in. “Thank you everybody. This ends the press conference. Thanks everyone,” she said firmly, abruptly terminating the presser, all while Biden goofily continued trying to talk on the dead mic.

    It is excruciating to watch, even for Joe.

    Some of the lamestream news actually reported it (thought probably not in depth, but how would I know?).  Childers wonders if they are making room for someone new, and wonders who it might be.

    Gavin “The Hair” Newsom?  Cackling Kamala?  TBO’s “wife”?

    They are all horrifying to contemplate.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Speaking of The Hair, he seems to be crawdadding on how he handled the WLR crisis.  Perhaps to pull in some of those centrist Trump haters looking for any reason to not-vote-Biden-but-won’t-vote-Trump.

    In a Meet The Press interview with Chuck Todd, Governor Newsom expanded on his poor pandemic response and “humbly” said that he’d learned a lot of lessons and, in hindsight, “would have done everything different.” Newsom doesn’t blame himself, he blames partisanship: “I think science took a big hit,” the coiffed Governor explained. “It should be alarming to all of us that all of sudden it became partisan.”

    Ahhhhh…as I read down, I see that Childers and I agree:

    How about that? I’ll make a rare prediction. This interview is Newsom’s unofficial announcement he is running for president. They’re trying to fix what appears to be his biggest weakness: California’s disastrous pandemic policies. The tell was Newsom’s repeated invocation of non-partisanship and his excellent upcoming book report, which Establishment Media can triumph as an example of great leadership.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And some good news from California, for a change.  Remember that horrific bill that punished doctors who didn’t toe the company line on WLR treatment?

    A few days ago, California bill SB815 was sneakily amended to include a provision to repeal AB2098, the state’s currently-enjoined doctor censorship law. Everything you need to know is in the LA Times’s description of that law as “a well-intentioned  poorly worded and ultimately doomed effort to curb the most flagrant cases of COVID-related falsehoods by people wielding medical licenses.”

    Haha, “people wielding medical licenses.” Just say ‘doctors,’ morons.

    The law already has four lawsuits pending against this unconstitutional law, and one already has a preliminary injunction.  Recalling what Childers has said before about injunctions being a good indication of the plaintiff prevailing in the actual court case, that doesn’t look good for the law and the legislators who put it into place.

    … Judge William Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled that the law’s “unclear phrasing and structure” could have a “chilling effect,” and even called the law “grammatically incoherent.”

    Last year when the law was passed, the censorship law was critical and essential to save the lives of patients too stupid to make up their own minds. But now, all of a sudden, woke California legislators don’t think the original bill was even necessary. Much ado about nothing, and so forth. As they say, success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

  16. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning Hamsters,

    We’re off to a good start finding out about the latest version of the “vaccine du jour” that isn’t really a vaccine exactly….  Who in his/her right mind would try it now that more and more has been revealed about it?  That is, stuff that makes it less and less attractive to someone with even half a brain.  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me….

  17. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    A caravan of electric vehicles recently set off on an expedition from Charlotte to Memphis to tout the wonders of those marvels of technology.  Led by our intrepid DOE Secretary, Jenny Granholm, the convoy stalled in Grovestown, Georgia, where they discovered that charging stations aren’t as abundant out where normal people live as they may be in all those ur-hip places the right-thinking people live.

    “But Wagonburner, Grovestown, Georgia appears to be somewhat off the most direct route to Memphis. What’s up with that?” you might ask. You might also ask, “Why did they decide to stop in a small town of 15,000 people when they had apparently just gone through the much larger city of Augusta, where charging stations are likely to be more numerous?”

    The answers to these questions are mysteries.  I believe that these people have very low aptitudes for critical thinking and seeing anything beyond the first-order effects of their decisions. e.g., “These EV’s are awesome! Everyone should have at least one!”  They don’t consider anything beyond that, like whether charging stations are reasonably plentiful, how long it takes to recharge, whether there’s enough grid capacity to handle this additional load, whether in our effort to ‘save the environment’ here, in some other faraway place all those dark-skinned wogs are enslaved and completely destroying the environment where they live.

    In short, they can’t plan a trip to the bathroom properly.  This is evidenced by their arrival in a backwater town with a convoy of EV’s likely more in number than the total number owned by the residents therein. A town, by the way which is well off the shortest route to Memphis, implying they can’t even read a Rand McNally or use Google Maps.

    As a bonus, they managed to thoroughly chap a local family by blocking a charging station with a gas-powered vehicle because they were saving it for a convoy member who was coming soon (and we’re important people, you hick). This local family took offense and called the police. Unfortunately there’s no law against what they were doing, but the situation shamed them enough that they moved and started using the slow-charge stations nearby.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

     but the situation shamed them enough that they moved and started using the slow-charge stations nearby.

    For folks who normally shed shame like a duck sheds rain, that’s progress.

  19. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    What do Gretchen Whitmer and Greg Abbot have in common? Unfortunately, quite a bit.

    Tucker speaks my language about coward WEF governor Abbott.

    It’s not a democracy though.
    Never was.

  20. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    If a picture paints a thousand words.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I managed to get herbs put into Fred and they are drying.  I have 1½ pans of breakfast scramble pre-freezing for a future Elsa run.  The few beans I harvested this morning are about to be blanched before joining their bean brothers in the big freezer.  Handyman is through for the day, so I can begin to plan out the upstairs storage area.  I have jars that I need to clean/check/move upstairs.  I also have a bank/shopping run I need to do today, and the clouds are building.

    More rain?

    But, as always, the back dictates what I am able to do for today.  We shall see.

    As I look into my backyard that is in desperate need of dead leaf raking…

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think I’m going to start a binder/recipe book for FD recipes.  I have some recipes that need to be tweaked or adjusted for larger volumes to make them Elsa worthy.

    So…I have a “regular” cookbook, and binder full of keto recipes, and now a FD book.  I have an Evernote file with keto recipes, maybe I’ll start another one for FD recipes.

    It may sound like overkill, but it’ll save me flipping through useless pages when I’m looking for a specific ingredient list.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Big news in the Catholic world:  the Vatican is going to pressure the wonderful Bishop Strickland of the Tyler, TX diocese to resign.

    Bp. Strickland spoke out against the vaccines and masking mandates.  The Vatican was pushing them.

    Strickland has been faithful to the Scripture and the Catholic faith, and has called out Francis and his cronies on their evil, sinful ways and their promotion thereof.

    Bishop Strickland knows that he was setting himself up for suffering, but he pointed out that Jesus did, too, and he’s just following his example.  A good shepherd will protect his flock, despite the wolves that keep trying to hurt them.  I hate to say it, but the Vatican is full of wolves.  They are leading millions of souls astray, and it’s voices like Strickland, Altman, Heilman, Parker, et al, who are the hope of the Church’s future.  We are reaping the harvest of years of poorly sown catechesis.  Most Catholics are ignorant of many of the basic tenets of our faith, or if they know, they won’t stand up against the pressure to just go along.  Heck, I’ve run into way too many adults who don’t know the basic prayers of our faith: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Grace before meals, Apostle’s Creed.  I had teenagers who couldn’t recite the Our Father, for goodness’ sake! That tells me everything I need to know about God being present in their homes.

    Taylor Marshall doesn’t think that Strickland will comply with the coming demands.  Anthony Stine thinks it’s a done deal.  Whatever happens, Strickland will continue to be the holy man he is.  Once a priest, always a priest.  He will continue to say his mass and his office every day, and tend to  his sheep in an unofficial way.  The best thing that happened to Fr. Altman was being released from his bishop.  He became a free agent and able to speak out more freely.  I see Bishop Strickland in the same place, should he be forced out.

    I pray for my faith.  Jesus promised that the gates of Hell would not prevail, but he never said we wouldn’t suffer at the hands of evil men (didn’t he predict that?).  We may contract to a smaller number of true Catholics, but it will be a cleaner and stronger faith than what I see now.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There are a lot more serious things going on in the world, but this is so absurd.

    A Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates performed sex acts with her husband online — and asked her virtual audience to pitch in with “tips,” The Post has learned.

    Susanna Gibson, a mother of two young children who is running in a competitive race to represent District 57 in Richmond, showed quite a bit more than skin on the adult streaming website Chaturbate, according to screenshots of archived material reviewed by The Post.

    The 40-year-old nurse practitioner hosted more than a dozen of the live romps with her husband on the platform, which was then posted to a publicly accessible archive on the website Recurbate in September 2022 after she declared her candidacy, the Washington Post first reported.

    The unconventional candidate had more than 5,770 Chaturbate followers, whom she repeatedly pressed for more “tokens” in exchange for certain acts in “private” showings — adding that she was “raising money for a good cause.

    In other videos, she suggested that she and her husband have “tried swapping” with different partners as she is “ethically non-monogamous,” but that he “doesn’t like sharing.”

    All this is private sex fun for the couple even though it is broadcast to billions of people on the internet as the naked Susanna Gibson begs for money.  The real evildoers here are those nasty Republicans.

    “It won’t intimidate me and it won’t silence me,” Gibson said. “My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up.”

    Don’t blame me if you can’t stop laughing.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Saw this over on MeWe.com:

    A very important piece by Dr Peter Kwasniewski:

    Recent events prompt me to make the following statement.

    Ten years ago, I started off trying to make sense of Pope Francis’s utterances and policies, giving him “the benefit of the doubt.” This was difficult to sustain for long, as he wandered off more and more into insults, incoherences, and errors, and governed like a South American despot, advancing or protecting criminal cronies and waging a personnel war against the orthodox. Things have become progressively, indeed exponentially, worse with the passing of the years: the advancement of the longstanding St. Gallen agenda continues apace, under the ruse of pseudo-synodality.

    One does not have to be a sedevacantist to see that we have a pontiff who is, for all intents and purposes, a bridge-builder with enemies of the Church (Emma Bonino, James Martin, globalist archons of every sort…) and a bridge-destroyer with orthodox Catholics (dubia cardinals, Franciscans of the Immaculate, +Fernández Torres, +Rey, +Strickland, lovers of traditional divine worship worldwide, American conservatives in general…). One does not have to be an outspoken sedevacantist to recognize in his words and deeds the telltale signs of a material heretic and a criminal.

    Those who dismiss, downplay, or (worst of all) try to defend the notorious errors and criminal deeds of Francis are no better than those who, alarmed, scandalized, and provoked by them, end up denying that he is pope because they cannot see how it would be possible, without leading souls to perdition, to acknowledge such a man as the ongoing head of the Catholic Church.

    Personally, I believe it is possible for a material heretic to retain his hold on an ecclesiastical office by the brute fact of a continued occupancy that is unchallenged by his brother bishops and his senate of cardinals. He should, in justice, be openly challenged by the Christ-appointed rulers of the Church who share in the dignity of apostolic succession and the governance of the Roman Church. Apart from imploring the Lord for deliverance and restoration, the laity can do nothing more than call out and denounce the pope’s errors and misdeeds and then, effectively, distance themselves as much as possible from him, even as victims of an abusive spouse or parent may be forced to do.

    This position, which is that of Cardinal Burke, Bishop Schneider, Roberto de Mattei, and many other learned Catholics whose orthodoxy is beyond reproach, is the one I myself have consistently taken, as can be seen from the various statements I have signed over the past decade (see “Defending the Faith against Present Heresies,” Arouca Press), and from my two-volume set “The Road from Hyperpapalism to Catholicism” (also Arouca Press). I have not changed my position, and, as nothing has essentially changed in regard to the evidence, I see no need to change it.

    The harm done by this pontificate will certainly take decades to undo; it may possibly take centuries. I am disgusted by the smug attitude of people who mock the sedevacantists rather than expressing their solidarity with all fellow Catholics who rightly identify and condemn the real evils that (unsurprisingly, albeit regretfully) drive certain individuals to extremes. Go ahead and freely criticize sedevacantism (as I myself have done many times); but do not glibly pass over the catalog of horrors against which its proponents are reacting.

    Do I dare to say that I have a tidy explanation for what is happening—cut and dried, with no remainders, no residue of unintelligibility? No, I do not; and I seriously distrust anyone who claims to have a tidy explanation for the mystery of iniquity, in this age or in any other age. Today, we are confronted with certain evils that, in the form and configuration they take, have never been seen before in Church history. Not surprisingly, there will be a variety of reactions to them—good, bad, and ugly. Among the ugliest responses are those of papolaters and popesplainers, who augment a Protestant-Orthodox caricature of the papacy and thereby defile the image of Christ our God.

    Peter Kwasniewski
September 11, 2023

    Dr. K adds this addendum:

    I would like to add an additional point.

    The crucial distinction between material and formal heresy must be borne in mind. Only the latter deprives a prelate of office. That formal heresy has to be assessed by the pope’s senate, the cardinals, or at least by the apostolic college, the bishops. It is obvious that two well-educated Catholics could reach opposite conclusions about whether, on what issues, and to what extent Francis is a heretic. To leave it to individual members of the faithful to decide whether he remains pope or not collapses ecclesiology into subjectivism. To judge that he is in error (materially) leads to no such collapse. For one may and indeed must withhold assent from what which one believes, for sound reasons, to be in error.

    I find it appalling is that there are people who are still acting as if we are not in an unprecedented crisis of authority from the top down — as if “things are rough but not really so bad.” No. We are living in a time that makes the Arian controversy look like Bugs Bunny. Why? Because the errors today are pervasive and fundamental, going to the roots of faith and reason, calling into question revealed religion and the entire structure of paradosis.

    So if people come to wild conclusions, you may criticize their errors, but you lose any credibility if you do not simultaneously admit that Francis is an absolute catastrophe for the Catholic Church, an evil from whom (and from whose legacy) we beg to be delivered.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The word was a new one on me.

    Sedevacantism (Latin: Sedevacantismus) is a doctrinal position within traditionalist Catholicism, which holds that the present occupier of the Holy See is not a valid pope due to his espousal of one or more heresies and that, for lack of a valid pope, the See of Rome is vacant.

    The term sedevacantism is derived from the Latin phrase sede vacante, which means “with the chair [i.e. of the Bishop of Rome] being vacant”.  The phrase is commonly used to refer specifically to a vacancy of the Holy See from the Pope’s death or resignation to the election of his successor.

    The number of sedevacantists is unknown and difficult to measure; estimates range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

    I’d bet the number of sedevacantists is probably well into the millions now.

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The question if pope Frankie is in league with the evil one should have been settled once and for all when he not only placed pagan idols inside the church (I forget the name of the main church/chapel in the Vatican) but retrieved and returned them from the river when a faithful Catholic tossed them in there.

    Having pagan idols in the HOLY PLACE is an abomination; one does not have to be a Catholic scholar to understand that.

    I never did like that guy and stated so many times on these pages.

  28. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    You’re gonna need a bigger peninsula.

    Ever notice the ones that say house them all never volunteer take any into their own houses?

    from a link on citizen free press.

    https://youtu.be/j7vCqvX47co?si=xKYZjWAy7qHD1sJg

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The pagan idol is called Pachalala (Replace the “l” with “m”.  I don’t like to put the names of demons in print).  This is how Francis gained the derogatory nickname “Pachapapa”.  Pachapapa encouraged a worship service in the Vatican garden to the pagan idol.   The image is a carving into a flat piece of wood, of a naked woman whose prominent breasts rest upon the image of a baby inside her womb.  Some uncomfortable Catholics tried to put this off as some kind of image of Mary, but that’s utter bullwiss.  She would never be represented like that.  Pachalala is a deity representing the idea of mother earth or a cosmic goddess.  You can think of it as some kind of fertility entity or provider of goodness.

    There were multiple idols placed in various chapels/altars in the Vatican area.  One brave young man went viral when he pulled them from the altars and dumped them into the Tiber.  Frankly, I would’ve taken a baseball bat to them and bashed them into pieces first.

    The idols were recovered, unfortunately.

    Unfortunately, that wasn’t the first heresy Pachapapa performed as the Vicar of Christ (a title which he has shunned, btw).  It is one of his most well-known bad acts, though.

    We’ve had bad popes before, but this guy is in a league all his own.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Friday night Her Highness and I were watching Jesse Watters’ show on Fox while we prepared supper.  He had a long feature segment on this illegal alien Brazilian punk who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison by frog-crawling up a wall, climbing onto the roof, walking over to climb down the fence and escape.

    This is a prison for murderers.  Don’t ever hire anybody from Pennsylvania to build your prisons.  This perp murdered a girl here in America and is wanted for killing a girl in Brazil.

    Anyway, Jesse interviewed several people including that TV bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman and they all ranted about how this guy as good as caught and you can’t out fox bloodhounds…on and on.  The whole time I’m telling Her Highness none of these idiots understand anything.  This creep has wilderness and survival skills and he is very resourceful.  Hundreds of cops and SWAT teams had him “surrounded” in some kind of state park.

    I was laughing.  I told HH he’s not even there.

    Guess what ?  The Brazilian was gone, got a razor and shaved his face, stole some new clothes, stole a vehicle and moved to a different region.  Last night, he broke into a home, stole a rifle and managed to get out of the house while dodging 7 rounds from the homeowner.  This victim needs to spend more time at the range.

    I hope these stupid cops catch him before he kills someone else.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    McIntyre quoted Tuberville as saying, “We’ve got 44 four-star generals right now. We only had seven during World War II. So I think we were a little overloaded to begin with. I don’t care if they promote anybody to be honest with you.”

    I don’t either. We are not talking about a guy getting a stripe when completing boot camp or A-school. We are talking about generals and admirals.

    I wasn’t sure about Tuberville as a senator when he ran.  I will say I admire his fortitude in sticking to his guns on this issue.  He is right on all counts.

    In light of the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court sending abortion back to the states, Biden and the Pentagon decided to give women in the military and military dependents time off and free transportation to an abortion clinic in a locality where it is legal.

    Tuberville said, hey, wait a minute. The Hyde Amendment forbids using federal money on abortion. He said either change the law or change the policy. The Biden administration and Congress refuse to do either one.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Had to skip breakfast and lunch didn’t happen until 2:30.

    I had two filets of Blackened Mahi Mahi with ancho chili sauce.

    Excellent!!

  33. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Free Willy Paxton.

    impeach house speaker dud phlegmlan.

  34. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I got UP 2 hours after my morning alarm dingged off. FYI, that is a new low, even for me. I fed all the cats, then had a quick small breakfast myself. I noticed Matsuo was walking on the kitchen counter and leaving smudged footprints — an odd shade of dark red, which freaked me out. My first thought was to call their nearby vet which I’ve been using for 3 years now. My second thought was, don’t waste time finding they are already booked up for the week. Instead: put Matsy in the big carrier and drive straight to GCVS for emergency action. I hadn’t been to Gulf Coast Vet Services for 4 years — last visit being when Matsuo had romped through a window in the family room, getting broken glass embedded in his tummy.

    Turns out he now has bladder stones and possibly other urinary problems, so he is staying with them overnight. At some point, I will need to decide whether to go visit him there tonight, or just wait till I pick him up sometime tomorrow.

    I’ll probably go there for a visit tonight.

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is an alarmed excerpt from the hard-core leftwing website, Vox.com, via Hot Air.  The great news they’re so worried about is the serious advance of genuine school choice in states across the nation.

    Even in the reddest states, they fell short of their true Holy Grail: public money funding private school tuition, for all who want it, including middle-class and wealthy families

    Very suddenly, that has changed. It started with West Virginia in 2021 and Arizona in 2022, and then continued with a flood this year — Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Indiana. More may follow. “It’s happening!” Corey DeAngelis, a conservative activist who describes himself as a “school choice evangelist,” regularly tweets, joyfully chronicling each new victory. …

    But the biggest change is in who can use them: everyone. “It’s really hard to overstate how different from any kind of previous legislation these programs are.” said Liz Cohen, policy director for Georgetown University’s FutureEd think tank. “It’s not income-tested; it’s not about getting the lowest-income kids in the worst schools. Prior to three years ago, I would have bet a lot of money you would have never seen this happen.”

    Read it all here.

    The question begging to be asked is why, in the last two years, has full-fledged school choice suddenly become supported by a majority of voters in so many states ?

    Hmmm, could it be endless school shutdowns, Critical Race Theory, violence & bullying or maybe it’s been Libs of TikTok and tranny boys in girls’ restrooms.  I just can’t imagine why.

    Maybe it is because school administrations are populated by people so stupid they will charge a 6 year old first-grader because he made a finger gun and pointed it at someone.

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A hospital is actively fighting against a mentally competent patient–as judged by their own psychiatrists–in order to hasten her death.

    And in order to do so they have arrived at a novel theory, and one the judge they argued before accepted: she cannot be considered mentally competent because, according to their own judgment, her desire to live distorts her capacity for reason.

    Any reasonable person would agree with them. That is their argument. The will to live is in other words proof positive that one is irrational.

    Doctors know best, after all.

    Not only are doctors all knowing, they are infallible.  We know that as fact after 3 years of grueling, incompetent, bullying, unconstitutional harassment and intimidation from the medical professions, law enforcement and public health authorities.

    This young 19 year old girl in the UK is being condemned to death by doctors and a judge who has declared her unfit to make decisions about her own life because she wants to continue living.

    This is taking the argumentative fallacy of “appeal to authority” to an absurd and diabolical level.  These people are complicit in murder.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat, that is truly horrifying.

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The beatings and abuse will continue until morale improves.

  39. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just got through watching a video where two guys handed pillows to passers by and engaged in pillow fights with them.  Spreading the joy.

    Sounds like something I’d do.

  40. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Pillow fights with strangers?  In public?  Where was this free entertainment?

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The august New York Times had a headline today about the persecuted, mistreated woman in Virginia who was simply trying to pay her bills by making X-rated sex videos with her husband and posting them on a public website where they can be archived across the internet.

    Poor little ole thang.

    I mean she has two children to feed and the average nurse practitioner in Virginia only makes $121,463 a year and with her husband’s paltry attorney income, they’re almost homeless.

    Those evil Republicans LEAKED this sordid story just to embarrass a nurse scratching out a living.

     

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The pillow fights appeared to take place in New York City.  I saw engagements in the subway, parks, sidewalks, coffee shops (they took the pillow fight outside, naturally).

    I even saw one old guy drop his cane, and another man get up from  his wheelchair long enough to take a few swipes.

    Every fight ended with grins and hugs.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    My chicken stock “pucks” are finally finished.  I put those into canning jars and vacuum sealed them.  Two of them that didn’t fit into the jars went individually into my smallest Mylar bags.  These bags have press-to-seal strips, so I put a straw into one end and seal right up to the straw. I suck out the air and pull the straw out with my mouth and immediately finish sealing the bag, which then gets finished off with a melted seal with my impact sealer.  I figger that way my oxygen absorbers don’t have to work so hard.

    So, Elsa is shedding her ice coat and I’m getting ready for the next batch.  I have some breakfast scramble ready to go in, and I bought some ice cream earlier today.  I’m going to make some Christmas gifts out of that.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    One good reason to check that all of your doors and windows are closed before you leave town.

    Holy moly, what a mess.

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Not going to visit Matsuo in the hospital tonight. His doc phoned a status report and info on what he would need to do when he comes home tomorrow. On hearing that he needed to spend at least 2-3 days in isolation, I told the doc that I have a 2-level cage on wheels that David and I used several times with sick cats.

    The cage has simply been left for years in a corner of a room upstairs, but I decided  to get it downstairs. It’s wooden floor is on wheels, and the 4′ high cage easily detaches from that floor. It was still quite a handful for one person to get it all down the stairs — but I did it. It would have been hard on both Matsuo and myself if I tried to take care of him upstairs. Now I have it all ready for use in the family room downstairs, which is where all the cats normally spend most of their time. I think Matsuo will appreciate not being alone.

     

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Matsuo is lucky to have such a momma.

  47. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Thank you for the compliment, Tedtam. Matsuo needs all the love and attention he can get; his life was a bit rocky for a while after his adopter got sick and moved out of state — without him. That was partially offset by getting to return to his first home and his bestest brother Lynx and his loyal “momma”.

     

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