It is only 11.36 minutes. Do not miss it. It is worth every second.
Today is Yom Kippur. I’ll see you after sundown and breaking the fast.
Monday’s Cluster B Insanity Open Comments
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“Monday, Monday… Can’t trust that day….”
Have a good one, anyway
Oh yeah – FIRST
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It’s Monday again and this time next week it will be October second! Man times flies, it’ll be Christmas before we know it.
Mornin’ Gang
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NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room.
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.
Within an hour and a half, the capsule was transported by helicopter to a temporary clean room set up in a hangar on the training range, where it now is connected to a continuous flow of nitrogen.
Getting the sample under a “nitrogen purge,” as scientists call it, was one of the OSIRIS-REx team’s most critical tasks today. Nitrogen is a gas that doesn’t interact with most other chemicals, and a continuous flow of it into the sample container inside the capsule will keep out earthly contaminants to leave the sample pure for scientific analyses.
The returned samples collected from Bennu will help scientists worldwide make discoveries to better understand planet formation and the origin of organics and water that led to life on Earth, as well as benefit all of humanity by learning more about potentially hazardous asteroids.
“Congratulations to the OSIRIS-REx team on a picture-perfect mission – the first American asteroid sample return in history – which will deepen our understanding of the origin of our solar system and its formation. Not to mention, Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid, and what we learn from the sample will help us better understand the types of asteroids that could come our way,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “With OSIRIS-REx, Psyche launch in a couple of weeks, DART’s one year anniversary, and Lucy’s first asteroid approach in November, Asteroid Autumn is in full swing. These missions prove once again that NASA does big things. Things that inspire us and unite us. Things that show nothing is beyond our reach when we work together.”
The Bennu sample – an estimated 8.8 ounces, or 250 grams – will be transported in its unopened canister by aircraft to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday, Sept. 25. Curation scientists there will disassemble the canister, extract and weigh the sample, create an inventory of the rocks and dust, and, over time, distribute pieces of Bennu to scientists worldwide.
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And Pooof just like that gone! Another one bypassed the Spit Bucket and dove straight into the trash. Oh well Tedtam should be here shortly. 😉
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The sky is rumbling, out here in the woods… But not a drop of rain, at least not so far…
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Oops, I missed the First Day of Fall. 😉
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SD
#3 restored
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Thanks Shannon! I knew that you were good for sumpin’ 😀
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From the crossword; Bob Marley Fan? Answer: Rasta. Mmmm K
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Just getting up. I had turned my radio volumne down so I didn’t get my wake-up call at the usual time. I think I needed the extra hour.
I had intended to make a rosary then study Latin last night. I was 99% done stringing this one up, which was a challenge because I had designed it with itty bitty seed beads as spacers. Those were more of a problem than I had planned to get on the fishing line I was using, so it took longer than I had planned. Finished the loop, tied it off to the center piece – four knots – and held it up to make one last check. It looked very pretty, the icy blue glass beads offset by the little shimmer between them. I cut the string, I put it down and gathered the pieces that I needed for the “tail,” which ties onto another loop on the center piece.
As I picked it up, the freshly knotted end came undone. How, I don’t know. I put four dang knots in it, and I’ve never had them just “come undone” like that before. Because I had cut the string, there was no way I could “fix” the knots and I’d have to restring the whole thing. Trying not to curse, I decided to recreate it with wire. Wire takes longer, but if something comes loose it’s just that one piece to be fixed, and not the whole dang thing. I still wanted that shimmer look, so I put seed beads on either side of the blue ones in each link.
Therefore, it was close to midnight before I finished putting it together. It is pretty, but I think I’ll be very happy to give that one away. And – no Latin. I need to put some time in on it today. Since it’s raining and I don’t have to drag the hose around the back yard, that saves me some time. /sigh
It’s Monday. What can I say? Oh, Good Morning! And thanks to Shannon, for clearing up the trashed comment problem. I need coffee….
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Something strange happened this morning. There was this rumbling noise that reminded me of a herd of bison running by. And then – this is the really weird part – there was what looked like water falling out of the sky.
Im not sure if we should call NASA, a university with a department that studies UAP’s, the news, or what.
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Not a drop here yet, possibly get some starting around noon. But that’s what it looked like around 11PM last night.
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LABS OF LIBERALISM ☙ Monday, September 25, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C family, it is Monday! Here to start your week off right is a good news roundup including: Third annual covid summit announcement; HHS finally strips Wuhan lab of grant funding; new woke children’s history book identifies surprising Stonehenge builders; roundup of news following Newsom’s trans bill veto last Friday, with new UK study panning hormone treatments for kids and federal decision finding school gender secrecy harms everybody; New York City retailers put low price goods on lockdown; another “extremely rare” SADS airline pilot; SADS mRNA researcher; SADS British football star; Dallas Mayor switches teams to play for the Republican Party; following Paxton’s vindication, Texas GOP calls for Speaker Dade Phelan to step down; and Tucker is optimistic about where we’re headed.
THE C&C ARMY POST
Mark your calendar. The Third Annual ‘Florida Summit on Covid’ is coming this November 11th, 2023 at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida. The heterodox conference is aimed at healthcare professionals (with 6 hours of continuing medical education credits) although all are welcome. Speakers include covid standouts like Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Steven Hatfill, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Richard Urso, and more.
This year’s expanded conference delves into some new areas including “The Assault on Our Food Supply” and “The Assault on Our Children,” adding other independent medical voices like Dr. Shawn Baker (Carnivore Diet) and Alfie Oakes (organic food). Florida’s Surgeon General Joe Ladapo will deliver a special address. Tickets start at $85 and are available at http://www.JohnLittellMd.com, where you can also find a complete speaker list.
If I was in the area, I’d want to go. I’m hoping that it’ll be distributed on Rumble or some such later.
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Last week I bought 2, 5 gallon cans of diesel for exactly $22 bucks apiece. One of the things I love about my Kubota is that I pretty much spent two days plowing and only used about 10 gallons of fuel. I would like a bigger tractor but mine does everything I need it to do and uses very little fuel. About the only time I think I need a bigger tractor is when I’m trying to root up privet hedge with the front end loader. It does a pretty good job if it’s sandy soil but it can’t do it in clay. Here’s some of the Bradford Pear trees I uprooted back in June of 2022. 😉
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Breakiing news from UK: the Wuhan Institute of Virology is being stripped of US funding. For breaking rules, like “gain of function” stuff. The stuff that the little elf Fauci said never happened. It only took the US how long? And why now, I wonder?
Sadly, ‘debarring’ does not mean “nuked from orbit” or even ” “burned to the ground and salted the earth,” it just means that WIV will be ineligible to receive any U.S. government grants, and it prohibits U.S. scientists from collaborating with WIV scientists.
The HHS documents that as late as 2019, the WLR lab created chimeric viruses that were 75% fatal in humanized mice and increased the viral activity massively – “clear violations”. Obviously not so clear as to generate concern like, right away!?
The Chinese have obstructed any investigation, blocking access to data and documents. Of course, our government tried really hard to overcome, but…well, you know. If the Chinese folks don’t answer our phone calls or faxes, a shrug is called for.
Ominously, HHS’s memo also warned there’s no reason to think the WIV has stopped doing all that gain-of-function research, saying: “There is risk that WIV not only previously violated, but is currently violating, and will continue to violate, protocols of the National Institutes of Health on biosafety.”
There is risk? You don’t say. It only took three years for that risk to occur to the geniuses in the federal government.
Who’d’a thunk it?
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On an almost-humorous story: a kids book in the UK now claims that black people built Stonehenge, since Britain was black for about 7,000 years before the white folks took over. Where did all of those darker pigmented folks go? And there’s a tranny author who’s wissed off, because he/she/it was about to put out a book that transgenders built it.
Let’s put all the libs into one big warehouse and lock the door. Let them sort it out amongst themselves.
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Speaking of trans madness, Childers goes on to discuss the legal issues in California. blah, blah, blah, then this information:
Next, consider this UK Daily Mail headline from just last Thursday, about a new study following kids taking puberty blockers: [insert headline that puberty blockers affect mental health]
Originally, and bad enough, the study found there was no improvement in the kids’ mental health as the numbers showing improvement equaled the numbers that got worse and netted out to zero benefit. But the continuing study, now updated, shows that on net, a third of kids are getting worse.
In June, unlike in the U.S., England’s National Health Service announced that puberty blockers could only be given to pediatric gender dysphoria patients as part of clinical research.
In similar vein, there was a fabulous decision in California federal court last week in the case Mirabelli, et al. v. Olson, et al.. A federal judge enjoined enforcement of an Escondido Union School District’s policy preventing teachers from telling parents about their kids’ gender dysphoria. One section of the opinion was especially terrific, the part finding that the woke secrecy policy harmed everyone involved:
(The Parental Exclusion Policy) harms the child who needs parental guidance and possibly mental health intervention to determine if the incongruence is organic or whether it is the result of bullying, peer pressure, or a fleeting impulse. It harms the parents by depriving them of the long recognized Fourteenth Amendment right to care, guide, and make health care decisions for their children. And finally, it harms plaintiffs (teachers) who are compelled to violate the parent’s rights by forcing plaintiffs to conceal information they feel is critical for the welfare of their students — violating plaintiffs’ religious beliefs.”
All that news has been slow to reach America’s laboratories of liberalism. Let’s pray that California’s history of non-overrides holds this time.
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Now, the SADS news from the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department. I can’t wait until we can shut that place down, but since some of the effects takes months or years to fully materialize….
- September 23rd: A 37 year old Alaska Airlines pilot died S&U in his hotel room during a layover. There’s been a block on news about his death. He leaves behind a wife and two young children. I guess the only blessing is that he didn’t die in-flight. I think of those kids and want to cry.
- mRNA pioneer and cancer specialist, Jerry Pelletier, had only a short battle with his field of study before passing at age 61. Being from Ontario, Canada, he must’ve gotten jabbed since Canada was pretty strict and Pelletier was an mRNA researcher. Childers assumes it was turbo-cancer, because he couldn’t find any mention of the good doctor being diagnosed, or his cancer being mentioned.
- From the UK Sun, a 27 year old Sheffield United player (I’m assuming this is soccer) died at home soon after signing a deal. No cause of death for Maddy Cusack, natch. She was a big jab promoter. 27 years old. /sad
Prayers for their loved ones left behind, and for their peaceful repose.
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Mention of Phelan being asked to step down, which he’s refusing to do. Also, the Dallas mayor’s flip to the R party. Both topics mentioned here prior.
Phelan says he has no intention of resigning. Get ready for some good old fashioned Texas political fireworks.
We’ll see.
Finally, Tucker Carlson gave an interview to Switzerland’s Weltwoche this weekend. Topics ranged from his sudden and unexpected departure from Fox News to things like Biden’s mental incompetence, Ashley Biden’s diary alleging Joe’s molestation, and Larry Sinclair. Out of all of it, I thought you’d enjoy this final, optimistic bit the most:
Weltwoche: In general, what gives you hope in a rather worrisome time, looking into the future?
Carlson: “That the stakes have suddenly gotten so high that smart people are rethinking their assumptions. I see it all around me. I see people all around me asking themselves, “I used to believe this. Is it still true? Was it ever true? What is the truth?” People are focused on questions of truth and falsehood, I think, much more deeply than they ever have been, and that’s a good thing.
I also see an awakening of spiritual awareness and religious faith in the United States that I think is great. Not everyone is reaching the same conclusions that I’m reaching, but that’s okay. It’s better than thinking that Amazon’s going to make you happy, because Amazon is not going to make you happy, actually. That’s not true. That’s a lie. And more and more people seem to be concluding that it’s a lie, and I think that’s a great thing.
There’s this idea that somehow the main threat to our happiness is from religious people. That’s absurd. The main threat to our happiness is from people who think they’re God. They’re the dangerous ones. I’m much more comfortable around religious people. I’m a Christian, but they don’t have to share my views.”
Tucker unleashed!
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The main threat to our happiness is from people who think they’re God. They’re the dangerous ones.
Truer words were never spoken.
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I think
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Ones with big muscles to carry those boulders.
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Some gal in the neighborhood won a fat girl contest and she is so proud. Posts selfies just about everyday. OhEmGee!
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We have wetness!
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Weather! Mind out of the gutter.
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Glad he clarified that point.
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He?? I prefer “they” thank you.
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It used to be Good Job Tim, I guess now it will be Good Job Timothina?
>>>>>>>SCRAMS>>>>>>>>>>
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😀 😀
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Morning, chickadees. I saw my patio was damp when I took Billy Cat’s breakfast out for him — sorry I slept through it, but I’m still glad to have a little rain every now and then.
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Ended up following a rabbit hole – I listened to a lot of songs growing up and never really connecting the bands’ names to their music.
One of the most romantic tunes ever by The Association.
And who can forget Cherish?
And one of my favorite fun songs: Windy
I’ve never been big on the “music threads” that pop up here, but these songs just took me back to a time when the music was soooo much better. And I realize that my granddaughters will probably never be able to appreciate real harmony and musical talent that made the music of that era so special.
I remember dancing around the house when “Windy” came on. It still makes me wanna get up and dance.
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#30 Tedtam, if I remember correctly, you were also in band? The Association was one of my fav groups – at least until we played “Bill Moffit” versions of all the songs “The Association” did in marching band.
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Yep, still have my saxophone. I need to play it more often, it brings me joy.
My favorite concert piece was Jupiter. Awesome. The opening is harder to play than you think. The center, slow part is possibly some of the most beautiful music evvverrr.
I found an all-sax composition. Bet you didn’t know there were so many flavors of that instrument.
My favorite marching music was “Strategic Air Command” but my favorite marching routine was the one that our band director composed for the rock opera them to “Tommy”.
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We have wetness!
Weather! Mind out of the gutter.
Glad he clarified that point.
Amen! 😀
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BTW – the HS band video linked above has Strategic Air Command in it. Just a small bit of it, though.
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Good afternoon Hamsters,
Rain predicted for our area. Real raindrops fell over Sugar Land but not much beyond their city limits. All we got was a sprinkle on the windshield going over there and that was gone on the way back home to Richmond. Sun is out amongst the clouds now, so the spit on the windshield will have to do for moisture today.
We were over in Sugar Land for a follow-up cardiac surgeon appointment, he who finally stopped the galloping horses in my upper heart chamber. He was pleased with my recovery thus far and was a bit surprised at my condition that was more advanced than he had imagined it would be almost a month later. I said that some 40 years of riding horses was the key thanks to muscle memory that is still there to be of service as needed for other things now. I just keep on keeping on getting stronger, but stop and rest when I’m tired.
One bedroom in our house is the TV room as well as the trophy room for ribbons and trophies and awards won by our horses and spouse and I as riders over those 40 years. I had at one time ridden sidesaddle in shows. That is work because of using muscles you don’t use the same way riding astride. 🙂
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I rode side saddle once, when I was about ten or so. We had neighbors that had horses and occasionally we’d get to ride. The Monroe girls saddled up their pony one day and we took turns riding it around their back yard (remember we had 2 acre lots). They didn’t cinch it well enough and when I had my turn, the saddle started sliding. I was finally able to stop the horse when the saddle was hanging to the left side of the horse, and I was straddling it – left leg hanging over the seat of the saddle and right leg on bare horse.
It was a bit of a challenge getting off without falling. Required some extra hands.
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I think I like this orchestral version of Jupiter better. The previous one was a tad too fast.
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Nothing wrong with late ‘60’s Top 40 music.
Or Pop music from any decade. It has its place. The cream always rises and lasts forever.
As for harmonies disappearing – it’ll never happen. Not as long as there are great vocalists singing together.
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GJT (they/them)
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The FM radio band didn’t really take off until the 60’s when investors took an interest because the AM band was so crowded and FM was less regulated.
All we really had prior to that was Top 40 AM. (KILT in Houston.)
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Album Oriented Rock music – with some ten-minute long songs – simply didn’t work well for AM broadcasters.
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When 3-5 singers get together, harmony just happens (sort of).
Think Beach Boys and The Mama’s & The Papa’s.
And millions of American Roots artists and bluegrass singers.
And Lord knows the Hymnody is full of harmonies.
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When I hear somebody’s car boomboxing out rap, I just sigh in sadness for them. Give me some good MoTown, 80’s dance music, Jim Croce, Simon & Garfunkel…anything other than rhymes about hoes and guns.
And a melody. A good melody overcomes just about any bad mood.
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#36 Tedtam,
Hope your mother didn’t see or hear any of that until much later. Kudos to the pony for not freaking out as you were able to rescue yourself in a most unusual way. A positive in the awful situation was the pony was not very tall. Yikes.
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I got my 2 miles in, and this was a good 2 miles. Sometimes I struggle with motivation to get that last quarter mile in, but I was feeling quite energized when I finished. I just got my hang time in, so the back has been cared for as well.
Getting some bookkeeping done, too. I seem to get more done when Hubby’s out of town…I just noticed we have a downed limb in the back yard. I guess this morning’s rain came with some wind, too.
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#46 – love the little standing on the bench so he can reach the bass
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To be that talented at that young an age – it must just come naturally. What a lovable little group of pickers and grinners!
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#48 – Your comment made me think back – I started in “band” in the 4th grade – the same year that JFK was assassinated… I turned 9 that December… but I just had to figure that out, because it still seems like yesterday in many ways. I prolly wasn’t as tall as that young’un… I guess my clarinet was almost as tall as me LOL
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Album Oriented Rock music – with some ten-minute long songs
That, and albums intended to be played a whole side at a time, with no silence between tracks
see:
Floyd, Pink: Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall
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It’s getting kinda dark toward the north/northwest.
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We have some very tall clouds to our NW toward Sealy with a menacing darkish blue color below that likely headed this way. Mother Nature continues to be capricious and definitely ignores clocks. My new physical therapist is on the way here coming from that direction. Nasty weather there has delayed him.
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I started in sixth grade. I wanted to play flute, and my dad thought that would be a nice feminine instrument. When we visited with the band director, though, she took a look at my mouth and teeth and recommended the saxophone. Mom and Dad went along, and I guess it was a good recommendation since I excelled with it.
And then Dad went and brought home Boots Randolph albums.
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More wetness! Good rain, of course I missed it running errands.
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I’m sure the DJ’s liked playing the full album. Allows for long bathroom breaks.
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We just got between .25 and .5 inches here in Glorious Copperfield.
Buster the dog is inside for the first time.
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Got a nice solid rain for about 20min(?).
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Getting rain here again.
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I will always remember Bruce Willis as the Die Hard guy. I guess the only blessing is that he may be oblivious to his own condition.
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I just ran across the WIP / lost flyer edition:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/09/the-week-in-pictures-take-a-flyer-edition.php
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Bsue – one of my favorite recipe sites.
https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/stuffed-pepper-skillet-keto-recipe/
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We got 17/100ths of rain around 5 this afternoon, and most welcome it was. Hope for more sometime soon.:) It was better than only washing off the dust, so we are going up in the world it seems.
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Tedtam… Hmmmm I dunno nothin’ bout no keto stuff but that their site had some really interesting looking recipes. Thanx for sharing!!!
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Well, this is horrible.
A longtime commentator on Twitter whose rather vulgar pseudonym is Catturd. He has driven the Left off the deep end with his hilarious mockery and sarcasm for years. He was finally doxxed by some leftwing criminals who have published his personal information all over the internet.
Today, while he was producing his podcast live from his home in Texas, he was swatted. If you don’t know what that means, here you go. A man called into his local police department claiming to be Catturd, said he had stabbed someone and that he was going to shoot himself with a gun. I suspect they spoofed his home or cell telephone number to fool the local 911 operator.
This is the most dangerous thing the Left does and a couple of innocent victims have already been killed by duped police officers in the past.
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Cattured has had me closer to signing up for Twitter than anyone.
But I still didn’t do it.
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This is the most dangerous thing the Left does and a couple of innocent victims have already been killed by duped police officers in the past.
That is scary the left has no shame. And the Lame-Stream Media just looks the other way. Unless of course there is some racial angle they can use.
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I didn’t know he had a podcast. I’ll check it out.
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We came in from putting the wife’s Mule and trailer in the shed and then I came into my office to see what’s going on in the world. My little Dawg came in, plopped down on her bed and is now snoring real loud. I guess she had a busy day. 😉
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I came home from Home Depot and it was pouring down rain so I sat in the car till it calmed down. Buddy the Dog came running out to greet me and just stood there getting drenched wondering what the heck I was doing. I have a big pile of dirt in front of the garage I’ve been using for some erosion control, he climbed up on top of it, in front of my car just glaring at me lol. I guess he was saving himself from drowning, who knows. He got a good bath.
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We had several brief showers at Chez Harp, but I no longer have a rain gauge so I don’t know how much wet I got. Even a few drops are welcome, though.
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