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FIRSTICUS!
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Boy, it’s crickets this morning.
Somehow, I just couldn’t settle on one Israel story for this post. There is just so much. I started my day with thoughts and prayers for those families who’ve suffered so personally at the hands of the demonic.
Anyway, I finally got some sleep last night, so onward!
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LEAKS ☙ Wednesday, October 11, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! I’ve hit some travel turbulence and am still road blogging. I’m not complaining though — Fernandina Beach’s First Baptist Pastor Zach Terry and the church’s Israel tour group is still trying to get home, last seen attempting to cross the border into Jordan. So they could use prayers more than me. Today’s roundup includes: Israel war narrative surges as Gaza bombing continues; Saudi peace deal disappeared faster than Joe Biden when its time to pay for dinner; NATO pipeline gets sabotaged; leaked border data shows thousands (or more) Middle Easterners breaching U.S. border; RFK separates from the democrat party and goes independent; SADS celebrity doctor; DeSantis announces sanctions on Iran; and the biggest pumpkin you’ve ever seen.
NEWS:
Remember when I asked if Zelensky was suffering from “war envy” now that Israel has taken center stage? Yep, he is. Panic is setting in as the eyes of the world swivel from his patch of ground to the atrocities further south….
…Only ten minutes or so ago — despite its failed counteroffensive — Ukraine was still the media’s darling, its intimate lover and constant companion. But today, bupkis. Now, the media’s not even texting back. They practically blocked Zelensky on Facebook.
They don’t want him anymore, because there’s a newer, better, purer war to talk about.
In even worse news for Ukraine, it wasn’t just the media noticing the opportunity for a strategic pivot. The Biden Administration has latched onto the Israeli war like a drowning conman latches onto the only life preserver.
[Discussion of Biden’s description of the evil committed, and how the media is loving it. But then, it’s Biden, so they’d love his reading of the dinner menu….but I digress…]
Biden’s speechwriter was obviously told to get out the thesaurus and don’t hold back.
I don’t mean to assume Biden is insincere (although I can’t help it). But due to American citizen involvement, the narrative over Israel’s war against Hamas is quickly coalescing into a joint battle of the forces of good against an evil common enemy. The politics over the Israeli conflict are much easier since it began with real war crimes against perfectly sympathetic innocents, not like Ukraine’s messy cast of characters including amoral nazis, corrupt oligarchs, crisis actors, and botched friendly-fire snafus.
In that sense, the War in Israel offers the Biden Administration its last pre-election chance at political redemption, a possible path to transcend its disastrous, cowardly withdrawal from Afghanistan and a coming long, painful winter mired in the literal quagmire of the hopelessly unwinnable Ukraine war.
He’s right on that. Every voter wants to vote decisively and for the “right side”. Israel is a much clearer situation than Ukraine. I think the image of a life preserver is spot on.
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Now, on to Israel and Hamas: first, a mention of the ever growing body count. I notice that the MSM keeps lumping the body count of both sides together when reporting the story. Disgusting.
News of Hamas’s literally unbelievable savagery and barbarism against unarmed civilians continued surfacing throughout the day yesterday. The stone-age barbarity of what Hamas has done is so unbelievable and so indescribable that a lot of people literally don’t believe it, preferring to assume the whole thing must be a psyop, at least in part because the alternative — that the stories are true — is simply too horrible to consider.
Some of the rumors about the Hamas’s crimes are just that, rumors. But too much of that sort of news was credible, and because the savagery was so widespread and was not isolated to a few bad actors or rogue militants, I can only conclude that Hamas was intentionally trying to horrify everyone by slaughtering defenseless women and children in ways you’d expect from an insane serial killer.
Childers – and I – both ponder if the insanely inhuman behavior of the Pals was/is an attempt to fan the flames of war. Israel is gathering itself for an attack. They have to. I suppose the Bible is playing itself out.
One of the casualties of this war is the Saudi-Israel peace agreement. It has been decapitated and lays bleeding on the ground. That was one objective achieved. /spits
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And, then there’s a pipeline “event,” just as winter is about to start in Finland:
Over the weekend, authorities shut down the undersea Baltic Connector between Finland and Estonia after detecting a leak in a 48-mile offshore gas pipeline. Around the same time, a telecommunications cable linking Estonia and Finland — 230 feet below the Baltic Sea — also stopped transmitting.
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The Finnish are hinting darkly about sabotage. On the other hand, there was no explosion, and the leak was quickly sealed, although the repairs may take longer. The article stopped short of accusing Russia right off the bat this time, but you know it’s coming.
This is the kind of thing that makes me say World War III started two years ago.
Circles within circles within circles….
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One thing that the Israel story has done, is refocus attention on our border problem:
According to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data leaked to Fox News and confirmed by other CBP sources, the data shows that over the last two years, tens of thousands of “special interest aliens” from mostly Middle Eastern countries were captured by Border Patrol while illegally invading the U.S.’s southern border. The captured aliens included “special interest” types from places like Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Turkey, and more.
The data did not say how many of captured migrants were removed versus how many were just released back into the U.S. with a court date. It also did not estimate or count the numbers who have snuck past agents without detection. CBP sources told Fox there have been more than 1.5 million “getaways” during the Biden administration.
The story of just “good, hardworking people” is a farce. Sure there are some of them, but the wolves have mixed themselves in with the sheep. And the shepherd has not only ignored the fence, but has torn the darn thing down to let the wolves in.
It’s time to focus on the United States’s border problem, instead of other countries’ border problems, and the invasion of America, instead of the invasion of other countries.
True dat.
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We have a celestial event coming up on Saturday:
Heads up! Literally. Skywatchers and amateur astronomers should note that Space.com is offering a live update website for tracking this Saturday’s rare “Ring of Fire” annular solar eclipse (October 14). The tracking website can be found here: Annular solar eclipse 2023: Live updates.
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After the story about a SADS event being buried by Big Tech search engines, there’s this: DeSantis comes out with his own MidEast plan:
Politico ran a promising story yesterday headlined, “DeSantis Floats Florida-Based Sanctions Against Iran.” Reacting to Biden’s gifting Iran with $6B dollars for five hostages, Governor DeSantis gave a speech yesterday announcing his own plan to ask the state’s legislature to ban all official business between Florida and Iran. And he called on other states to do the same.
Even though sanctions would be limited to Florida, you never know. Florida’s ban on investing in ESG funds last December led to Blackrock reeling in some of its woke agenda, for example.
It’s a start.
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And Childers ends with the story of the mind-blowing winner of a pumpkin growing contest. Two pumpkins, over one ton each. Needs a crane to lift it. I can’t even imagine the trucking of said squash to the contest.
Anyway, you have to admit, the monster pumpkin is pretty appropriate for Halloween season. A pumpkin that could literally crush you and your car is very scary. Just think about the devastation that would be unleashed if that gargantuan gourd started rolling downhill. People would be fleeing in panic.
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A commenter at the C&C made this very accurate point:
Don’t get excited about Biden declaring Hamas a terrorist organization. He says the same thing about Trump supporters, parents who go to school board meetings, and people who didn’t get the covid shot.
And Trad Catholics. Whatever, Joe.
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Forgive me if I don’t get on the biden train to Israel. Before this war pedo Pete and his regime wanted nothing to do with Israel and being on the same side. Israel was a fly on bidens butt that they kept trying to flick off because they were annoyed. But NOW, it’s all hands on deck. Ya right. How convenient they got to pivot from their money laundering schemes to suddenly all in on Israel. It’s a war of convenience for the regime, and another endless supply for their money train. Anyone see the war machine stocks going up?
It’s an election miracle in the making.
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And a news story that I picked up yesterday, mentioned in the comments today at the C&C:
Mary Lou Retton is in the ICU with a rare form of lethal pneumonia. She has no health insurance. No other details have been found, at least by me.
I believe that somewhere out there is a fund site to help pay for her medical bills.
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Floyd Mayweather felt compelled to help after watching the Hamas terror attack, so the boxing legend arranged to send his private plane, chock-full of supplies, to the front lines in Israel.
TMZ Sports is told Floyd, who teamed up with a relief organization in Israel, arranged to send “Air Mayweather” to the Middle Eastern country this weekend … and deliver supplies.
“We’re told they’re planning to bring everything from food and water to bulletproof vests for the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and civilians.
“Mayweather’s pilots, AJ Ramey, Chris Javier, Sam Kniskern, and Freeman Blakney, will be flying the plane as they trek thousands of miles across the world.
It’s not the first time Floyd’s helped in a time of disaster. In fact, over the summer, he helped 70 families with food, shelter, and transportation after the Maui fires.
Remember the Floyd Mayweathers of this world. Do not forget them. There are only a handful of these celebrities out of thousands who have announced support for Israel and sympathy for the Jewish people. Doing so will cost them opportunity, serious money and possibly their careers.
In a normal world, people would not care or expect actors, performers. professional athletes and musicians to give their opinions on serious life & death political issues. Historically, parents forbid their daughters and sons from associating with these people for good reason. Then along came television and the internet enabled everyday by a weak spineless news media willing to deploy any psy-op trick to hold viewers and defraud advertisers. Dismantle and dilute the education system and eventually half of America are retarded idiots.
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It’s nice to hear of a celebrity that is still sane.
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This is the kind of story that leaves you stunned for a few minutes
While St. Petersburg, Fla., pastor Robert Dell projected an image as a philanthropist, shepherding addicts as they crawled their way to recovery and a normal life, prosecutors say he was organizing the theft of millions of dollars of merchandise from Home Depot.
Dell, who ran The Rock Community Church and Transformation Center, is accused of running a criminal enterprise involving the very people he professed to help.
He has pleaded not guilty.
In a news release and in court documents, prosecutors say Dell asked the people in his recovery program to pilfer items like drills from Home Depot stores throughout the St. Petersburg region, and then sell them to him.
Dell and three co-conspirators, including his mother and his wife, would then sell the drills on eBay, prosecutors allege.
The group sold around $3 million worth of Home Depot merchandise between 2016 and Dell’s arrest over the summer, prosecutors say.
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Maybe it was Biden who gave the ‘go’ signal to Hamas, and not the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
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Late checking in. The good news is we’re funally going to get some rain. Weather Guessers say we may get 2.4″, Dothan 1.65″ and Enterprise 1.75″ keeping fingers crossed. BTW; Enterprise ALWAYS gets more rain than us. So there’s that. 😉
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Now here is an image that will send shivers up the spines of Hamas and give aid and comfort to our allies….NOT!!!! What a pathetic trio of Clowns! Remember the whole world sees this and knows how inept our so-called leadership is. SMDH Oh and ~SPITS~
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I hope y’all saw the video of Fox gal trying to get a comment out of the Evil Squat Squad leader, Rashida Tlaib.
The reporterette chased her down a hallway and into an elevator trying to get her to comment on Hamas beheading babies. The “C” word said nothing! Running out of SPIT!
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This is the kind of story that leaves you stunned for a few minutes.
Well maybe not anymore, Sadly I’m not surprised by much these days. 🙁
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Mattress Mack claims Astros didn’t let him throw first pitch due to Mattress Firm.
HOUSTON – Founder of Houston’s Gallery Furniture Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale claims his competitor, Mattress Firm, blocked his opportunity to throw out the first pitch for yesterday’s ALDS opener.
Mack appeared in a video on his Twitter saying, he was scheduled to throw the first pitch by the Astros but got a call retracting the offer just before the game.
Mack said the Astros told him Mattress Firm, an MLB sponsor, would not let him throw the first pitch.
Mack said this isn’t the first time Mattress Firm stopped some of his public appearances.
“I was scheduled to judge the police dog contest at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo last year. My friend Constable Mark Herman has a police dog named Mattress Mack, part of his unit. Mattress Mack catches criminals and sniffs out drugs, so I was very excited to judge him. Mattress Firm was also a sponsor of the Houston rodeo, but they said you couldn’t judge it,” Mack said.
In the video, he also relayed a direct message to Mattress Firm:
“There’s plenty of business out there for all of us, what we need to do is promote bedding, promote a better night’s sleep, not snipe at our competitors. Let’s all be better than that and Go ‘Astros!”
Mattress Firm also released a statement in response to Mack’s claims:
“While we love being the Official Sleep Partner of Major League Baseball, we don’t determine who throws out the first pitch. We’re here to help Astros fans crush their sleep, not their dreams. Go ‘Stros!”
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American Ignorance and Stupidity All Rolled Up Into a Big Fat Moron
A diversity and inclusion director at Cornell University has come under fire over disturbing social media posts supporting Hamas and dismissing the terror group’s slaughter of innocent civilians as a “resistance.”
Derron Borders, of the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, voiced his support for the Palestinians and criticized Israel following the devastating invasion by Hamas terrorists who killed more than 900 people.
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A drippy good morning to all you Hamoustonians. It was nice to see a wet back yard when I got up this morning. Even better to see Billy Cat climb out of the center of the old gazebo when he heard me call his name. He is spending more and more time in my back yard, which I like very much.
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Almost noon and lunch time here.
The Israelis undoubtedly have a big and lethal surprise to send Hamas today. May it knock Hamas into the middle of next week with one unforgettable demonstration.
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Whoopsie
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#13 Squawk: are you retracting the claim that northern Israel is under drone attack?
It is understandable to believe that such a thing could be true, given the circumstances. In fact, it would be a great opportunity loss for Hezbollah to not attack at this time.
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bones
Yup. Too many other sources say no due to a cyber attack. But that too could change
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Apparently, she went on Morning Joe today and also announced the government of Israel is pleading with parents everywhere to delete social media apps from their children’s phones because Hamas has announced they are going to livestream the torture and execution of the hostages in Gaza.
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I’m having trouble keeping up today because I’m involved in a household electrical problem that has turned into an all day deal.
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#15 Squawk: I caught a bit of Ben Shapiro’s show this afternoon and he said the attack was on and that civilians in the north are being ordered to the shelters.
If the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia wants to be on the right side of things MBS will re-start the deal with Israel if for no other reason than to stick it to the goat rapers in Iran.
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Our neighborhood has lost one of this year’s fawns overnight Tuesday. Spouse and I were driving out our main subdivision road yesterday morning and saw at least a dozen vultures crowded around something on the ground in our front pasture. Something obviously had died (or was killed) the night before, and the vultures seemed not to care about pushing one another away from the body.
Spouse went out to see what it was when we got home, vultures long gone, and it was heartbreaking to see only the small skeleton with only a few pieces of hide and ligaments attached. We wondered where the mother was or if she had also been killed. Haven’t found any sign of her and hope she is still alive. This afternoon he put the bones in our lawn cart and moved them to the back pasture where they would not be seen from the road. The bones will decay soon enough or maybe be hauled off by some animal. Our area is still wild enough to host coyotes and at times even wolves. Those were the likely suspects.
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In a recent article, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former National Security Council official Richard Goldberg traces the money trail. He confirms: It is so much worse than we think.
Goldberg lays out the numbers. The $6 billion you’ve seen in every (other) headline is only the money being transferred from our friends in Qatar. But this is separate from the $10 billion of assets being transferred from Iraq, which Goldberg says will continue on “a rolling basis.” Then there are the reports that Iran will be allowed to access $7 billion in fiat currency by trading drawing rights with the International Monetary Fund. He also says Japan is scheduled to transfer $3 billion to Iran.
and,
The revelations do not end there. U.S. officials have also quietly acknowledged that they’ve uncapped Iranian oil exports to China. These export levels, previously held around 775,000 barrels per day under Trump’s sanctions, are now estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.2 million barrels per day. Modest estimates value this relief at $25 billion annually.
The total? $50 billion.
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The difference between me and billionaire Bill Gates is that I would use his money to hire every charter airliner on the planet to pick up every American who needs to get out of Israel.
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What he said.
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And I would use Billy’s money to fly every Texan and American to Israel who wanted to enlist in the IDF and fight. Also fill the payload areas of each flight with as much small arms ammunition allowable.
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Hey GramPaw what’s fer supper? Well I’ve been real busy working around the little pond and have been remiss in the cooking department. Today that tropical depression brought us some drizzling rain so I decided I’d fix Honey Mustard Chicken N Taters, Honey, Garlic, N Sriracha Baby Carrots, English Peas and Texas Toast. I like this Chicken recipe because it’s so easy to prepare, about 30 minutes of prep, pop it in the oven and you’re done. Life is Good here on the Farm. 😉
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News report in New York City today from JFK Airport:
Two men showed up at the El Al ticket counters today as long lines of reserve IDF soldiers who had been called back up for the war stood in line to purchase tickets.
Other airlines have canceled all or most of their flights to Israel, but El Al has added flights to accommodate IDF reservists living around the world trying to return and serve.
The first man was a charedi Orthodox Jewish man who stood at the counter with credit cards and paid for the tickets of IDF reservists in the hundreds of thousands.
The second man, also a Jew, covered airfare for many soldiers headed to Israel with a stack of credit cards.
Neither man was identified and when questioned an El Al spokesman said they were not authorized to accept donated payments for passengers although they seemed to, uh, look the other way today.
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NYU Student Bar Association President sides with Hamas and loses a job
Damnation, I just cannot believe this girl’s bad, bad luck…
Law firm Winston & Strawn said on Tuesday that it had rescinded a job offer to a New York University law student who wrote in a student bar association online publication that “Israel bears full responsibility” for Hamas’ deadly attack in Israel…
“Winston stands in solidarity with Israel’s right to exist in peace and condemns Hamas and the violence and destruction it has ignited in the strongest terms possible,” it said.
Word on the street is affluent, loudmouth college students at high profile universities across the nation are frantically deleting and locking down their social media accounts after suddenly realizing their stupid comments might actually cost them a career.
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Clean up in the Twins dugout… new batting helmet for Carlos Correa… and maybe a new head gasket for him, as well, after a temper tantrum that rendered his old helmet into pieces of fiberglass (or whatever they make those things out of…)… Sometimes you just know the thought that “money really shouldn’t have been everything” has to drift thru his mind
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So, what’s happening in the Astros game?
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Just finished putting my chicken stock into quart jars. If I’d used a blender to really powder it, I might’ve gotten it into one.
I’m keeping one jar downstairs. Being able to make a cup at a time, quickly and easily, may be most welcome with (hopefully) colder weather on the way. Or I might add a little to my eggs for a little extra flavor, just to try it out. FD chicken stock is kinda pretty, too. Since I didn’t pulverize the styrofoam flats that came out of Elsa, just crushed them with a spoon, there are mostly flakes instead of crumbs. Inside the flakes are crystalline structures that catch the light. I never thought the stock would be decorative, but there ya’ go.
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Tedtam – sounds interesting and pretty. I have to ask – did you cook the stock down before freezing it, or FD from original strength?
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Well I guess the bulk of the rain is going to miss us. It started drizzling about 10 AM and has not stopped all day, still drizzling now. SO we’ve got a grand total of .31″ of rain so far and that beats nothing but we’re getting serious rain to the north and south of us, been that way all day and that is of course known as the El Gordo effect. I talked to daughter tonight and she says they’ve only got 3.6″ of rain all year. They normally get about 10″ total for the year.
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#26 Texpat I saw that on The Five today, does my heart good. 😀
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I’ve been thinking about President Ronald Reagan the last couple of weeks.
So I bought two pounds of his favorite…..Jelly Belly jellybeans.
49 intense flavors. So good.
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Bsue –
I did reduce the stock on the stove at first. The pot was within an inch of the top when I started, and I took it down about an inch and a half, maybe two, before putting it into Elsa. If I hadn’t done that, it wouldn’t have fit. I’m sure it saved Elsa some time, too.
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At least a dozen business executives have endorsed Bill Ackman’s call to deny hiring members of student groups at Harvard who signed on to a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack on Saturday that killed more than 1,200 people, including at least 22 Americans.
Jonathan Newman, the CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen, was among a group of business honchos who seconded Ackman in urging that the signatories of the letter circulated by the a coalition of 34 Harvard student groups who “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X on Tuesday.
“Same,” David Duel, CEO of healthcare services firm EasyHealth, wrote in response to Newman.
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Do you mix your Jelly Bellies to make new flavors? Like butter and popcorn? Do they have chili and Frito? You could make a Frito Pie in your mouth.
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TedTam, I’m sure that it will… I gotta make some before I can FD it… I did finally get some leftovers into the little round silicone molds like John in Bibs uses to make discs to FD. I’d picked up some reduced for quick sale chicken breast tenders that were preseasoned with ranch flavoring, added taters, carrots and such – and MAN that stuff was tasty, so I have a 6 “disc” tray/mold like John in Bibs uses full and in the freezer… When I get enough to fill a tray, they’ll get to make up part of a load for Nat.
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#33 Texpat
Does my heart good.
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Jelly Belly jellybeans.
I have a jar of those on my desk 12″ from my keyboard AND they’re in a Ronald Reagan jar that I got when I went his Presidential Library. FWIW; I saw the jar of Jelly Belly’s in the gift shop and wanted to get it but at $30 I said naw. Later when we got back to the boys house he gave me the jar. Oh and I just refilled it last week it took a beating when my son was here in August. 😉
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I just saw the Podunk Meat Wagon driving by real slow I hope they weren’t looking for me. As far as I know I’m good. 😀
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Tedtam, Coconut N Pineapple=Pina Colada. They already have a hot buttered popcorn flavor.
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Hubby knows to save chicken bones from dinner in my “broth bag” in the freezer. I add vegetable trimmings, too. When it’s full, I dump it in my crockpot, add water and a little bit of vinegar, any seasonings, and cook it up. Crock pot – I let it simmer for at least a day. I want to pull all the good minerals and stuff that I can from those bones. I can do the pressure cooker, too, and much faster there.
I keep forgetting to roast the bones first, though.
When I get lucky and find rotisserie chickens on sale, I can make a heckuva lot of stock.
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My jar isn’t from the the library but it’s pretty cool.
It holds an entire 2lb. bag. Except for about 12 jelly beans.
Which I was going to eat anyway.
🙂
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Tedtam – thanx for reminder of how you do stock… Guess I’m going to have to stop buying boneless meat LOL
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I haven’t bought any in a few years. Because I think the sugar-free ones really suck. And the real-sugar ones probably aren’t good for the teeth that I have left.
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If I get lucky enough to be at Wal-mart when they’re trying to move the chickens and mark ’em down to half price, I’ll grab five or six of them. One will be set aside for immediate meals, the others deboned and either FD or frozen. Then the carcasses get processed for stock.
Some day I’ll go the next step and process the bones into bone meal for the garden. No waste at all, then.
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I’ve been using Mom’s old walker to get around the house. We saved the old folks’ stuff, and it’s paying off. The walker is as good as crutches for most of the places around the house, and it saves some of the discomfort under the arms. I know not to put the armpiece right into the armpit, but it still rubs. I don’t remember being so uncomfortable the last time I had to use them, but this time it’s a real issue.
If I end up in surgery, though, I’ll probably have to use crutches exclusively for a while. With crutches I put less weight on the leg and I can get into tighter spaces with them.
Still waiting to hear from the ortho doc for an appointment. They “get a lot of referrals” and I’m somewhere in this week’s pile.
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Astros Winn the series!
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