Audrey Friday Open and Frank Discussion of Topics of Mutual Interest
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Dang, having to scroll through the title, shoulda wrote it in green italics!
>>>>>scrams>>>>>
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GJT 😀
Yes, I do like Audrey Fridays. Well we had a nice, spur of the moment, short visit t the Golden Isles but it’s good to be home. Downright cool here this morning, 66 with a light breeze and no rain in the forecast for the next 7 days!
Mornin’ Gang
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I have volunteered to help at our church’s Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, so I’ll be out for most of the day. I have things to get done this morning, but Hubby just took out the trash, so that’s one item off of my to-do list.
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I had just moved back to Houston from Dallas and living off 290 near Antoine and Tidwell
Well did you get a free VCR? Did it have water in after being in the pool? 😀
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#4 SD: The promoter at that time was Michael Pollack. Cheezy doesn’t even get close.
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BTW; Texpat says:
September 28, 2023 at 9:17 pm
I enjoyed your story and I pretty much knew all of it except the part about Bud Adam’s son committing suicide, that is very sad but I still don’t think I can forgive him for being such an arrogant ass! -
The Dems keep losing their minority votes.
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#4 & #5 Yes I know the apartments were in SW Houston, near the Dome, I think. BTW; You don’t go anywhere near that area with being armed nowadays .
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The promoter at that time was Michael Pollack. Cheezy doesn’t even get close.
Pollack almost made Hal look legitimate. 😀
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Feinstein has gone to her reward.
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Well dang I guess Tedtam snuck in while I was pecking away. At least I grabbed the Headline. 😀
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My # 11 I guess Newsom will appoint this Clown to finish out her term. He, like Newsom is one of Nancy’s boys. ~SPITS~
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We get treated to never ending accolades about her life now. Nauseatingly long accolades.
I guess Carter won’t be far behind, I hear he’s not doing so well, either.
Thank goodness for reruns on TV. And good books. And life tasks to keep me busy. My Christian music station.
They are/were children of God and deserve some modicum of respect, but I can’t think of anything they’ve done that would require more than five minutes of retrospection. The fact that Feinstein refused to give up her seat when she was so ill is a reflection of her narcissism. Carter, at least, spent a good chunk of his retirement to helping others. He may have been a disappointment as president, but I think he had a good heart.
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Can she be removed from the Senate now??
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7 Tedtam
Inshallah !!!
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I am glad that at least one contaminant of the US Senate is now gone. Only about 70 mre to go. Good riddance to bad policy!
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Sorry to be disrespectful, but the idea of senators now serving in office until they die at 90 only adds to the pile of insults and embarrassments heaped upon the US Senate in recent memory and those are by its own members.
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Can she be removed from the Senate now??
Not until the funeral.
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Oh and the 5000 is in Amps. 😉
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Isn’t Jimmah’ and Rosalynn Carter both still alive and aren’t they about 100?
Good Georgia genes I guess.
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He, like Newsom is one of Nancy’s boys.
He is a Nancy-boy.
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Adam Schiff-Hole is a lying, treasonous, miscreant. A pox on his house.
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Sit up and pay attention to Professor Jacobson. There were unclear news reports on the judge’s ruling so Jacobson paid for a transcript of the hearing itself.
There are bombshells and then there are bombshells.
Affirmative Action sure does make strange alliances. In this case, a desire to defend a grant program open only to black women may bring down the entire anti-discrimination legal infrastructure that has been in place for over 150 years, if a District Court ruling that racially discriminatory contracting is “speech and expression” protected by the First Amendment is not reversed.
The American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), a group formed by Ed Blum, whose Students for Fair Admissions won the Harvard affirmative action case, sued Fearless Fund in federal court for the Northern District of Georgia over a grant program open only to black women. The claim was brought under a post-civil war statute prohibiting discrimination in contracting, not under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment (which arguably would not apply to a private investment company) or other discrimination statutes. You can read the Complaint and Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
Numerous civil rights groups filed Amicus briefs supporting the defendant and the black-woman-only grant program.
Federal Judge Thrash of the US Northern District of Georgia, a Clinton appointee, denied the injunction motion by Ed Blum and in doing so said the following:
The Defendants, in my opinion, have a message that they are trying to communicate that black women business people have suffered discrimination and lack of equal access to capital to begin, expand, and promote businesses. And the Defendants, with their grants, are trying to send a message that they recognize that and want to support black female business people with their charitable donations.
Under the controlling Eleventh Circuit authority of Coral Ridge Ministries media, donating money qualifies as expressive conduct and is entitled to First Amendment protection. That was not a 1981 case, but I have no reason to believe that the Eleventh Circuit would have decided the case any differently under Section 1981.
And the Plaintiff disagrees with that message. They want the Defendants to communicate a different message.
Well, that’s not the way it works. The First Amendment protects the Defendants’ right to decide what message they want to promote, and that’s what the First Amendment is all about.
The message here is it is legal to discriminate based upon race and you are covered by the First Amendment… as long your intentions are good. Hah !!!
No Supreme Court justice has ever gone here. So now this will go to the Eleventh Circuit and then SCOTUS and they are all going to be on the hot seat trying to explain this one.
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From yesterday
Hey Dr phil
Did you catch Governor Abbott ringing the closing bell at the NYSE today?
no but I saw that it closed at 33,666.
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Birthplace of Silicon Valley (1939)
David Packard and Bill Hewlett found their company Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product, the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, rapidly became a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney Pictures ordered eight of the 200B model to test recording equipment and speaker systems for the 12 specially equipped theatres that showed the movie “Fantasia” in 1940. In 1939, Hewlett completed his EE masters thesis at Stanford. His thesis project was a variation of the Wien bridge oscillator, in which he used the negative differential resistance of an incandescent lamp to act as a parasitic impedance in the feedback loop. This ensured that the oscillator operated just at unity gain, and thus produced steady, low-distortion output. This was a really clever and elegant hack — many oscillators of the time did not produce steady oscillations, but instead fed a pulse stream (sometimes just a rectified mains signal) to an RLC tank circuit with a large Q — so the output was a series of decaying oscillation patterns with modulation at this pulse frequency. Oscillators which did produce steady output were large and expensive. Hewlett replaced the complex control systems of these with a simple light bulb. HP’s first product, the HP200A bench oscillator, was based on Hewlett’s thesis design, optimized for manufacturing in the now famous garage in Silicon Valley.
FWIW; I’ve used the HP 200 Audio Oscillator, they were used well into the 21st century. Oh I understand all the context of the article, reading it I thought it just might be confusing to the uninformed. 😉
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On Tuesday, Insider reported that Hutchinson’s new memoir claimed that Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who is a devout Baptist, never drank alcohol in his life before downing multiple White Claws in the White House in November 2020, apparently unaware that they contained alcohol.
In her new book “Enough” Hutchinson said that Meadows consumed the first beverage in front of White House budget director Russ Vought, who she claimed is a “faithful Mormon.”
but wait a minute,
Unfortunately for Hutchinson, the key witness in the story, Russ Vought, has taken to X, formerly called Twitter, to point out that the interaction with Meadows never took place and to set the record straight on his religion.
“This story from Cassidy is a total fabrication,” he wrote.
“I’m not a Mormon and this interaction with Mark never occurred.”
and don’t forget this one,
Frankly, though, this is just par for the course for Cassidy Hutchinson, as this was also the woman who claimed that Trump lunged at a member of the Secret Service and tried to grab the wheel of his limousine during the events of Jan. 6, 2021 — a story that was later proved to be false.
This little fraudster and attention slut testified before the sham January 6th committee that President Trump smashed dinnerware against the walls and sometimes yank the tablecloth off a dinner table sending everything onto the floor.
It is amazing, isn’t it ? Not a single other person in history has ever said anything remotely like this about Donald Trump.
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Is the propagandist corporate media running stories about how China spy Dianne was the lioness of the senate?
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He must need another suitcase stuffed with laundered Ukrainian war blood money so he can trip over it in the middle of the night when he gets up to go take a leak and bang his head on the bedpost again.
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20 dave
Answering if it’s the volts or the amps.
https://youtu.be/ZhNEX2U1fyg?si=GIXETx_exuIhl-VS&t=222
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I packed my stuff and drove to church, only to find that I’d timed it perfectly, and even the cleanup was completed. My Catholic Daughter friends laughed when I gave my fist pump when I realized this.
I guess the cops got a real early lunch. So, I’m back home and gonna try to be productive.
I called Hubby to let him know that I was on my way home, and he reported that a portion of Telephone Road near our house was completely blocked off, north- and south-bound. There’s been a big water line replacement project going on, which was desperately needed, and he thinks one of the contractors hit a gas line.
Ah, I remember those days, when we had to worry about blowing a small part of the city. Better them than us.
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Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Dianne Feinstein voted yesterday. She was marked as a “yes” vote on the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act.
the securing growth and robust leadership in American aviation act?
what the hell is that? Another money making scam bill for the Vampyres to get richer on?
what a bunch of psycho circus clowns.
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New SEC Rule Could Eliminate Environmental, Social, and Governance Funds
The last time I reported on environmental, social, and corporate governance, BlackRock Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink, whose firm has attempted to foist these standards on the global business community, had stopped using the term, whining it has become too politicized.
Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced a rule that may pull the curtain back on the content of these funds, which may drive a stake through the heart of ESG inanity.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced a rule requiring environmental, social, and governance funds to be 80% aligned with the funds stated goals. This could reveal a long-held secret of ESG funds: to be competitive, they are packed with more profitable investments that are not green.
They can’t have their cake and eat it too. The Larry Finks of the world want to sell you “ESG” securities, but since they can’t live up to the hype they want to bundle them into “funds” that include all kinds of non-green but profitable companies’ stocks. Now they’re getting caught and exposed.
I don’t trust them and figure these billionaire punks are wise guys who are smarter than most regulators.
However, Instapundit’s lawprof Glenn Reynolds wrote recently about Bill Gates being shockingly honest:
Speaking at a New York Times event, he observed that heavy-handed policies won’t work: “If you try to do climate brute force, you will get people who say, ‘I like climate but I don’t want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living.’”
As Gates noted, many of these people are in middle-income countries, like China and India, that are the biggest contributors to carbon emissions today and whose emissions (unlike those of the United States) have been growing.
He also rained on the greens’ apocalyptic parade, saying “no temperate country is going to become uninhabitable.”
And he cautioned against untested approaches like massive tree planting: “Are we the science people or are we the idiots? Which one do we want to be?”
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I have to say that with decades of aid and abetting from Vampyre rinos, who would rather serve in hell with their blood money than protect and serve this nation, that the creature from the Kenyan lagoon has successfully and fundamentally deranged and changed the country forever.
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Dan Bongino on the ‘lack of evidence’ concerning Joey FullPants Biden.
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I wanted to put this in my post #33 but there’s a two link rule that’ll trash bin the post.
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Hey Fred……………….. What?
Ya know what Audrey and Di-fi have in common?
They are both dead.
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I dunno what all the fuss is about gov Gruesome picking Di-fi’s replacement.
Since she is still a demorat even in death……… she can still vote.
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Yanno what? Audrey and di-fi are no longer dead tired.
they are just dead.
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It is too late for Audrey but maybe Di-fi will be cremated.
Then she can have that smoking hot body she always wanted,
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Audrey and Di-fi were dying to get into the cemetery.
So they did.
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What does Audrey and Di-fi have in common?
No one can say they were bored to death.
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Audrey and Di-fi have discovered that not only are death and taxes are inevitable, they come with shipping and handling costs too.
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What does Audrey and Di-fi have in common?
Both were born free but taxed to death.
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**groan**
How did you hear Princess Diana died?
I heard on the radio.
… and the dashboard and the windshield and the car hood …
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Spouse came home from proctoring ham radio license exams an hour ago and said there were some really dark clouds to the west of us but he couldn’t tell which way they were moving. Well, they certainly are not moving near us. We did however have a rather dense mist early this morning, so that will have to do for water today.
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Morning, gang.
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Woops. I went to the store, and after I got back and put everything away, I saw that I had punched in the elaborate 2-word greeting aboce.
BUT NEVER SENT IT!
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Squawk – I’m reminded of the “Johnny Jokes” that went around when I was a kid:
“Mommy, Mommy! Why do I keep walking in circles?”
“Shut up or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor.”
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[Put one hand on each cheek and squeeze inward]
“Bus driver, please open the door!”
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I wish I could remember more of them.
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Here’s humor for our generation:
My wife of 60 years told me, “Let’s go upstairs and make love.” I just sighed and said, “Choose one, I can’t do both.”
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I just bought tickets for D’Souza’s latest film “Police State”. You have to buy tickets through the web site, they will not be available at the theater.
Also bought tickets for “After Death” movie from Angel Studios. Also need to pre-buy tickets.
I qualify for senior tickets now. /sigh
I guess if I’m going to suffer the aches and pains of old age, I should take advantage of whatever discounts I can find.
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Stephen Green, the Vodkapundit, at PJMedia:
If the evil democracy-hating MAGA House Republicans don’t agree to Democats’ budget demands and avert a government shutdown, then the IRS will have to furlough an estimated 60,000 of its 90,000 employees just three days from now.
I haven’t wept like this since holding my newborn sons for the first time.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the mafioso in charge of the IRS believed the agency to be “shutdown-proof,” but federal officials at the Office of Management and Budget just ruled that the IRS may not “cover workers’ salaries during a shutdown with funds from President Biden’s landmark climate change, health care and tax law.” Instead, for the duration of the shutdown, IRS agents would be forced to find kittens to abuse on their own dime.
May lightning strike me down if I’ve ever said this before, but God bless those federal officials.
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Pollock’s most famous party properties were on Gulfton.
Which is now a ghetto barrio.
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Future potential Angel Video Studio projects. “Live Not By Lies” looks frighteningly interesting.
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This is an image copy of final text from Stephen Green’s Drunkblogging the Debate on Wednesday night. (Remember to refresh the page for the image to appear)
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43 shannon
They were essentially a tarted-up dump back then. The complexes had names that sounded like a “Gentlmen’s Club”/“Adult Entertainment” venue, as I recall
Now they’re just a dump.
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EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run
If the Dems had given his a fair chance, he’d be their way out of their rock v hard place election issues as per Biden v Kamala.
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I meant to post this yesterday. It is the commentary of the very smart and wise editor of PJMedia, Paula Bolyard.
The Fox Business GOP presidential debate was a total trainwreck — and that’s putting it mildly.
If you watched, you were treated to nearly two hours of left-wing talking points from the moderators, who not only had no control of the debate but ignored their own rules and allowed candidates to attack one another without the opportunity for rebuttal.
The leftist Univision moderator — Emmy award winner!!! Ilia Calderón — who had trouble speaking English clearly, kept asking questions about Dreamers and DACA, turning the questions into speeches to condemn GOP policies on immigration.
Here is a video link to that outrageous false accusation by Ilia Calderon and De Santis’ response.
Then there was Dana Perino’s stupid question at the end asking the candidates who should be voted off the GOP “island” to clear the field. DeSantis spoke up and called her out for asking a question with no substance in what should’ve been a serious debate. The other candidates quickly united behind DeSantis, nodding their heads.
You know what didn’t get asked in the debate? Anything about Covid — arguably the most critical issue of the last four years. No one was asked whether they want masking to return or support school closures and mandatory vaccines now that the virus is ramping up again. Wouldn’t you have liked to hear those answers and compare them with the candidates’ past positions and statements?
plus,
Wouldn’t it have been great to hear Mike Pence — who stood mutely by Anthony Fauci during his endless pandemic press conferences — debate DeSantis, who quickly opened his state, refused to mandate vaccines and masks, and sent kids back to school early on?
Paula is right on every count.
We need to demand more from our national parties — and the national parties need to demand more from their candidates. I like Ron DeSantis’s idea tonight to debate Donald Trump. Only it shouldn’t be a Hannity-directed three-ring circus; it should be a serious debate with a serious moderator. And the other candidates should have one-on-one debates as well. I don’t buy the line that because Trump is polling the highest, he shouldn’t have to defend his words and actions. He should be required to earn Republican votes like any other candidate.
I believe Trump is very wise to avoid the so-called debates as they now formatted. However, I don’t think he should get a pass on avoiding debates altogether. It would be interesting to hear Trump and De Santis sit (no standing at podiums) at a table with one moderator (I nominate Brit Hume) and debate all the issues for 2 hours. No audience, period.
PJMedia doesn’t now and never has endorsed any primary candidates. They are very good about walking the neutral line.
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Well, the power is semi-out on my block. Apparently it takes 2 transformers to provide enough juice to run central air, and one of the t.f. on a 6-home-section of the pole wiring fritzed out about noon today. They still don’t have it replaced, and I’ve noticed that more and more things in the house have stopped working as the afternoon wears on. I didn’t know about it when I got home from my grocery trip, and my plan was to warm up the bacon/egg kolache I had bought on my trip. The microwave was running, but pitifully slow and weak. After I ate my lukewarm meal, I moved the microwave onto the floor in my work room — assuming it was about to fritz out. I have an older, larger microwave that’s been stored in my hobby room for maybe 10 years… was thinking about bringing it back to the kitchen to see if it still works.
I went out to fetch the mail and ran into 80 Y.O. — also at his mailbox — and he told me that one transformer on our block had gone out, and electrical things line A.C. and microwave weren’t working well. It may be hours yet before they have the power running properly again.
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Who cares about pubbie debates? What a joke. How bout we look at something really important
With Saudi’s cutting production, Biden plans to increase oil production at home.
UH NO
Biden Administration Plans Zero Offshore Oil And Gas Lease Sales For 2024
and then there is this
Cushing (OKLAHOMA) oil hub’s low levels spur quality, operational, price worries
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Texpat
Watching the FoxWeather Channel coverage of flooding in the tri-state area.
Rescues in North Bergen County.
I assume you are high and semi-dry.
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Mharper
I would turn off my AC system under those circumstances. And pray my refrigerator survives such an extended partial power situation.
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Those weak power deliveries and especially the on & off electrical glitches are not good for compressors – HVAC or Refrigeration. Just turn them off until everything is steady and normal.
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50 Shannon
As I’ve described in years past, our little town sits on a broad ridge between the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers. Topographically and geographically, we are safe from any serious flooding. We are up high from the flooding pathways.
Those are rivers, by the way, General George Washington and the American Revolutionary Army had to cross in order to retreat to Pennsylvania during the War. Passaic Road runs east/west about 5 blocks north of our home and is the route Washington and His army took fleeing from Fort Lee on the Hudson River and the British Army.
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49 Squawk
I cannot speak about this I am so furious.
God did not give me enough cuss words and profanity to describe Joe Biden and all the evil bastards who lead him around like a trained chimpanzee.
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The leftist Univision moderator — Emmy award winner!!! Ilia Calderón — who had trouble speaking English clearly, kept asking questions about Dreamers and DACA, turning the questions into speeches to condemn GOP policies on immigration.
That faux news debate wasn’t a debate.
there is no border thanks to the Vampyre gee O pee.Just another kabuki theatre clown show featuring fake journalists and fake candidates pretending to ask fake questions to a bunch of fake bought and paid for WEF idiots who pretend they want to solve real problems which they really don’t because if they did we wouldn’t be where we are today.
So what’s that communist Univision media propagandist complaining about? She’s got her communism and the country is gone.
send her back.
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Back around 1998 or 1999 in Stafford, Texas, there was a large, strip shopping center built with a giant Randalls, Walmart and other stores.
Right after everybody got open, they started having these quick, hard power glitches and it began to fry the huge refrigeration and HVAC compressors for cooling in the stores.
Danged if that original, local HVAC contractor wasn’t “johnny-on-the-spot”, after every blackout, showing up with trucks loaded with exactly the proper replacement parts and equipment.
The tenants began to pressure HL&P when the developer/landlord wasn’t so responsive.
Houston Looting & Plunder finally became suspicious, set up surveillance and busted him with Harris Co. Deputies. He was making hundreds of thousands of dollars and he went to prison.
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Texpat #54
The damage Bidenco is causing and will cause is down right scary. I try to look at things through a positive eye, I really do, but dang man it is going to be very difficult to recover form their————-
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57 Squawk
The rest may falter and stumble, but the only ones I know will rise up and kick ass are the Oilpatch.
Nobody except Jews have been kicked down and stomped on more than these folks. They just don’t quit and can come flying out of the woodwork in the middle of night all over Texas and start making holes.
Just like that and Texans started exporting oil, Lieutenant Dan.
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On FoodTV they’re they’re talking about awesome grilled cheese sammiches.
Something must be wrong. I can’t see any toasters.
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#51 & #52
You Johnson brothers are correct about turning off the fridge and the AC during a cock-eyed outage where you only have half the electricity you normally do. Nextdoor 80 Y.O. knew about that, but it was news to me.
It was stone-dark 8 pm before the team of SIX Centerpoint workers had the new hootie hoisted into place. The work was done in my backyard where the pole is. Several other times that the thingamajig had to be removed and replaced, the work was done from the yard behind me, with a much larger backyard, a gate from the side street, and a drivable area all the way to the location of the pole in my yard. That lets one worker be lofted up on a machine to reach the work area of the pole, so it takes maybe 1 hour instead of 3. But the neighbor with the gate was out of town and had left his gate locked.
That accessibility is rare in backyards in my neighborhood. Anyway, it’s all fixed now and we have to hope it holds up longer than has become average these days.
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Nice night at the softball fields in Splendora. Only sweating a little bit.
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