Hedy Lamarr
The Conspirators (1944)
An original Brunette Hall of Famer
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FRIDAY FIRSTICUS!
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Well there y’all are! I looked in about 5 AM and didn’t say anything, came back later and saw Bones’ input then about an hour ago I kept getting ;
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2023-10-20 13:08:54 UTCAnywho, Mornin’ Gang another busy day for me.
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MLB can brag all they want about how they’ve streamlined the game, but the ridiculous amount of commercials last night was almost too much. Since pitchers and hitters don’t cut big checks to the books who run MLB, only TV broadcasters get to drag the game out forever without being punished.
The Astros are the most lovable bunch of guys Houston has ever had. They really are incredible.
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I mentioned my wasp sting the other and just let me say the Benadryl is a miracle drug. I got stung about 2 PM, took Benadryl about 3 PM and the swelling was almost gone by bedtime. Assuming no one saw my post, (Tuesday 3:27 PM) my upper lip looked like a Botox Queen’s and then the swelling went to both jaws.
FWIW; I don’t remember that last time I was stung by a wasp but it was when I was a kid, teenager maybe but a wasp sting isn’t fun at all. I’ve been stung numerous times by the little Bastard Bees the make their nest in the ground but they barely hurt at all and leave a small welt, not as bad as a sketter bite. Working around the farm I often stir up the bees without knowing it until a dozen or so of the sting me. I’m sure glad I’m not allergic to them. Oh and a gallon of Sevin poured down their nest hole takes care of the problem. 😉
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I was getting the 502 error earlier, too. Glad someone finally plugged the cord back in.
I tweaked my knee last night during Latin class. I dropped something and bent down to pick it up, and something about the angle just set it off. I had just volunteered to do some reading, but I had to beg off for a bit so I could do some Lamaze breathing and knee clutching. Magister knows what I’m going through, so he just bounced it to another student and I volunteered a few paragraphs later.
I really do like my Latin teacher. He is so patient. His wife signed into the class last night, and she does it from her phone, and there was an awkward five minutes or so where she was accusing him of saying “eggs” and not “sheep”. In Latin those words wound very much alike. “I’m hearing “aaahhh-vays” and not “ov-ays”.” It was really tying her up in knots. Since she was on her phone she couldn’t see the text very well; the rest of us were not confused at all. She kept insisting and I felt for her Hubby as he tried to keep his cool. I wonder if words were exchanged after we logged off.
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#4 SuperDave
Hubby is allergic to bee stings, and I used to add a bottle of Benedryl into Hubby’s tool box in the early days. Being a plumber, he never knew when he was going to open a wall, dig a hole, move some brush, etc., and just ruin his day.
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Steven is right.
Democrat-run energy policy is likewise heading for a shortage of copper. While Ford and other carmakers have abruptly cut back on the production of electric cars and trucks because car buyers, like dogs in the famous dog food marketing story (“dogs don’t like it“), don’t want to buy them, the whole enterprise of a battery-run energy system is likely to hit the wall because the requirements of copper can’t possibly match projected demand.
Everybody’s crying about rare earth metals while the world’s copper mining industry and supply swirl down the drain.
Look at the Financial Times CHART.
Anybody looking at copper futures ?
If you think all the common things we use containing copper are expensive now, just wait, they will look cheap soon.
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#6 Tedtam We keep Benadryl in both Mules in case of snake bite. It might not save you but it’s supposed to help. I have a cousin that carried one of those needles for anaphylaxis shock. A wasp sting could kill him.
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#7 Texpat, all of this is so predictable but not at all apparent the Greenie Winnie nut-jobs. All electric cars = not enough rare earth materials on the earth (or copper) to produce the batteries/cars. Assuming everyone has an electric, there is no way the power grid could keep up. But hell, lets get rid of all coal and natural gas power plants and replace them with solar, wind and rainbow Farting Unicorns. SMDH Oh and ~SPITS~
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DOXXERS ☙ Friday, October 20, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Your great big roundup today includes: Biden’s big national address and fundraiser; Twitter kicks the New York Times to the curb; New York Times “accidentally” doxxes the entire Israeli army; Biden “accidentally” doxxes deployed special forces members; worldwide caution for American travelers; UK Times op-ed argues self-defense standard for Israel; Newsom goes to Israel; SADS motocross star; SADS actress; SADS beauty queen; SADS music legend; SADS top Hollywood producer; and … I don’t know how to describe this one. You’ll have to see it for yourself.
NEWS:
Childers delivers his description of Meat Puppet’s public display of humiliation with his usual wit:
Last evening, Joe Biden delivered his second national address since rolling into the White House. At times whispering, at times quietly shouting, gritting his teeth, squinting, clearing his throat every six words, and pointing straight at Hell, Joe Biden shot for “steely resolve,” which unfortunately came out looking more like a man anticipating a difficult bout of constipation:
I missed it, fortunately, since I had something better to do. If it wasn’t Latin, it would’ve been watching the Astros. If it wasn’t the Astros, it would’ve been washing my hair. Or my dog. But I don’t have a dog. But I could pretend.
Basically, Joe said “money…we need money…for, well, you know, things you may not want but, Ukraine…Putin – he’s a bad, bad guy…and illegals, who aren’t illegal, really…and war in Israel…/please forget my documents problem and Ukrainian corruption issues – SQUIRREL! /….mumble, mumble…”
Last night, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) tweeted a response video saying she’d heard that the actual bill directs the requested border money not to the border, but to big blue cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, to help accommodate even more illegals. Brilliant.
/snip
Bizarrely, Fox’s Brit Hume described Biden’s speech as “the best of his presidency.” It wasn’t, even though he faced the very low bar of having given only one other national address, and still failed. And you can tell that everybody agreed it was horrible, because two of four Israeli newspapers didn’t even mention Biden’s speech on their home pages this morning. The Wall Street Journal didn’t even run a real story about it, publishing just a handful of bullet points instead.
Israel is probably trying to forget Biden was ever in their country.
I could kiss every single Republican in the House for not electing a Speaker (admittedly, some more enthusiastically than others, but I digress). Because of that, Biden’s aid package can’t be jammed through before anybody gets a chance to read it. Otherwise it would probably have already passed, since right after Biden’s speech the Senate voted 97-0 on a resolution supporting Israel.
The battle for Speaker is a very fine bit of passive-aggressive political jiu jitsu. What are they supposed to do? They don’t have a Speaker yet.
I don’t know whether they planned it this way or not, but the Republicans are looking like geniuses at this point. Take your time, Republicans. Do it right.
Good point.
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Next up: NYT vs. Musk
Musk removed the NYT “trusted badge” after they repeated the fake Hama hospital story. They are shocked – SHOCKED! – and dismayed. So they struck back in the only way they know how:
Musk did not explain the Times’ demotion or answer requests for comment. But given the timing it was obviously because the Times excreted so much fake news about Hamas Hospital, including a running a top-of-the-fold fake photo of a demolished hospital that wasn’t even a hospital and even though the real Hamas Hospital was not, in fact, demolished.
Anyway. The Times responded childishly to its fake-news demotion by immediately running a Paul Krugman hit piece against Twitter. Krugman didn’t even mention the Times’ demotion, but come on:
NPR left the site after being labeled “state affiliated media”. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Also, the NYT “accidentally on purpose” printed images showing where the IDF troops were located. I’m sure Hamas was appropriately grateful for that bit of military intel. Childers wonders, though – who leaked that to the Times?
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Speaking of Biden embarrassing us/them in Israel, there’s this:
With friends like these, we don’t even need Hamas. In a similar story yesterday, Fox ran an article headlined, “Biden administration admits it doxxed US special forces soldiers in Israel, apologizes.” You’d better sit down for this one.
Biden published a picture himself with some IDF troops. Now those faces are known to Hamas and those men and their families will be targeted. Biden Co. took down the picture but not before it was seen hundreds of thousands of times. Biden outed some CIA operatives a few years ago, too. It seems he has issues with secrecy and security, but dementia and America hating will do that.
And of course, Childers takes on the Times again:
Since I’m piling on, the New York Times, which did not report the Biden doxxing story at all, not thinking it newsworthy that Biden doxxed four in-theatre, active-duty special forces soldiers. But the Grey Lady did fret about the poor pro-Hamas Harvard students being doxxed:
Priorities, anyone?
Seasoned C&Cers will recall that like Biden, the U.S.’s other worst president, James “Jimmy” Carter, also faced a Middle-East hostage crisis, and also bungled the rescue attempt. It’s like Biden is trying to beat Jimmy Carter.
As Mark Twain said, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Is anyone tired of the “hold my beer!” attitude at the White House?
PS: There is now a GLOBAL alert for Americans traveling overseas. Setting new standards.
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There’s a new list at the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department:
- Jeff Alessi, 34, motocross star, died S&U in his sleep of a “massive heart attack”. Media yawns because…
- Jaquelin Carrieri, 48, a beautiful lady – pretty enough to be a “beauty queen” – died S&U 2 weeks ago. Reports are that she “stroked out” after visiting a plastic surgeon for a “routine” procedure. Nothing shatters the image of “routine” like losing a patient unexpectedly, eh? “It sounds like Jaquelin had her fatal stroke AT HOME, since the Daily Mail reported Jaquelin’s children Chloe and Julian were were right by her side when she died. It’s your guess why media would assume it was related her unidentified “plastic surgery procedure” (could just be botox) rather than assume it was the jabs, which is what I am going to do.”
- Another lovely lady succumbs to suspected jab-related cancer: past Miss Uruguay, Sherika de Armas, was only 26 when the two year battle with cervical cancer ended. When she was competing there was a jab mandate.
- Theater lost one: Josh Massey, 44, had a “mysterious medical event” last month. A fatal one. He was totally jabbed, and the batches from which those jabs were drawn are some of those very problematic ones that seem to have a higher death rate history.
- From Malawi: music star Thomas Chibade was only 37 when “mystery” attacked and he also died S&U. At least he made it to the hospital before shuffling his mortal coil. “Media — always respectful of people’s privacy — is reporting “rumors” Thomas died from malaria. In other words, it was a sudden and severe bacterial infection. Weird.”
- Closer to home, Hollywood lost one: Stephen Emery, 46, passed away S&U after his workout last Saturday. COD – not shared.
RIP to them and comfort for their families.
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Oh, and BTW – this link was shared yesterday, but it is so worth sharing again:
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1715033782498001303
“It took my breath away.” —Dr. Drew on the new study shows 50% of young men who got myocarditis after the vaccine now have permanent heart damage and he doesn’t understand why this isn’t front page news. And he recommends injured students sue any school that mandated it.
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Pennsylvania’s Peter Brothers Trucking delivers goods all across America.
Owner Brian Wanner says Pennsylvania bureaucrats now are driving him out of his home state.
but,
“I don’t want to be anything like California!” complains Wanner.
Too bad for him and other Pennsylvania truck owners, because Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board decided their state will automatically copy California regulations.
and then this,
California’s rules will raise the price of a new truck by about one-third. Trucks that once cost $190,000 will now cost about $260,000.
There is no bottom to the hole the Left digs in its endless spasms of stupidity.
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Morning, compadres. At mealtimes, I usually have to go to the fence on the east side of my back yard, and call Billy from there. Sometimes he is so close to the other side of the fence that he immediately pops through at the bottom of a loose fence board. My neighbor over there has told me recently that she has seen Billy sleeping in a garden area that her son once tended. Well, this morning he was asleep curled up on my patio — I saw him there when I was raising the blinds on the big window over the patio. He’s a smart cat, definitely knows where his meals come from.
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Mharper – As we used to say in youth ministry: “If you feed them, they will come.”
Pizza has spiritually impacted many a teenager. 😉
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Hallelujah !
I’ve been following Sylvia Gonzalez’s case for several years now.
WASHINGTON—Today, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Sylvia Gonzalez, a 76-year-old Texas grandmother who sued officials in Castle Hills, Texas, after they arrested her as punishment for criticizing the city manager. The case, Gonzalez v. Trevino, asks the Supreme Court to reconsider how government officials are given immunity when they conspire to jail their critics. In doing so, the case is likely to have wide-ranging ramifications for how government officials can be held accountable in a court of law.
“We are thrilled that the Court agreed to hear Sylvia’s case,” said Anya Bidwell, an attorney at the Institute for Justice (IJ), which represents Sylvia. “Criminal laws cannot be used to launder First Amendment violations and create backdoor censorship. But that’s exactly how Castle Hills officials used them against Sylvia.”
This is a direct challenge of the highly abused “qualified immunity” doctrine protecting government officials everywhere. We’ll see what SCOTUS does now. I believe the trend of thinking and opinion on this has shifted significantly from the past.
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#18 TP: I am amazed that the 5th Circuit reversed a lower court on this matter. “Qualified Immunity” is nothing more than license to abuse the citizenry, just like Civil Asset Forfeiture and both need to be struck down with extreme prejudice.
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#20
Politics aside, that displacement happens to me sometimes when I have any number up to SIX cats that want to see if they can find a comfy spot on my bed — naps or overnight.
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Gaetz & Co. are willing to fall on their swords to get Jordan in as speaker:
BREAKING: Matt Gaetz and the eight who voted to oust McCarthy offer to censure or remove themselves from conference to get holdouts to vote for Jim Jordan as speaker: “We are willing to accept censure, sanction, suspension, and removal in order to see Jordan as Speaker. If what these holdouts need are a pound of our flesh, we’re willing to give it to them to see Jordan as Speaker.”
I don’t think I’d ever see a Democrat willing to do that. I really don’t want to lose Gaetz and the freedom caucus people, either.
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But Jordan’s out. I’m glad. I want him on the Judiciary Committee, uncovering all of that dirt.
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Now who is the Speaker going to be? Hopefully, the Rs have made it clear to the squishes that another Casper Milquetoast aint gonna cut it. What is it going to take to get the squishes on board?
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Heh, I’m all in on this deal. I’m only a Houston to Dallas drive away from Harvard.
From Instapundit.
WORKS FOR ME: Ruy Teixeira: Time to Throw the Intersectional Left Under the Bus! “Similarly a recent Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground survey found 91 percent agreement with the statement: ‘All people deserve an equal opportunity to succeed, no matter their race or ethnicity.’ This is what people deeply believe in: equal opportunity not, unlike the intersectional left, equal outcomes.”
It’s pretty much always a mistake to listen to the “academics and activists.” At best they’re mostly idiots, at worst — and far too frequently — they’re basically monsters.
UPDATE: You know, following the drama at Harvard it seems like it would be a good time for some prankster to plaster the campus with those ISLAM IS RIGHT ABOUT WOMEN and ISLAM IS RIGHT ABOUT GAYS posters, and let the intersectional fun begin!
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/snuffle snort!
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Astros v Rangers
Game 5
First pitch: 4:07pm
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Shannon
Major League Baseball (mlb.com) has the game today starting at 8:07 PM.
These morons don’t even know when their own playoff is starting.
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Shannon @ 3:36 PM
Great laughs.
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Astros up 1-0, on a 2-out homer by Bregman.
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Last night during the game, Google Pixel ran at least a dozen ads.
Did anyone realize from the AI features on this phone that no photograph can trusted to be real and accurate anymore ? The ability to alter and edit the photos on the fly with a simple click will make all photos suspect now.
A few others in the past have predicted this and I’m sure that includes Squawk.
Are you going to believe your lying eyes may become an obsolete question soon regarding photographic images. Photoshop was often rudimentary and limited to people who mastered it and the people who make a living altering models and actresses to look a helluva lot better online.
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The war in Israel has finally driven the mildly intelligent news media talking heads over the brink and I am getting angry about it. I’ve had to moderate my radio and TV news consumption because these people are trying to destroy my brain cells.
They have run out of ideas, intelligent questions, original theories or serious analysis.
I nearly lost it in the car today when some Fox News guy in Israel asked an 18 year old Israeli girl whose parents are hostages what she thought the IDF strategy and tactics for invading Gaza should be ?
I AM NOT KIDDING. An 18 year old girl who is terrified for her parents and he asked…I could not take it. I have almost heard more inappropriate, shallow and meaningless questions in the last 48 hours than after 9-11 more than 22 years ago.
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Verlander, on three pitches, gives up a double, a single, and a homer, and it’s alluvasudden 4-2 Rangers after 5 2/3 innings.
Yikes.
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I actually despise this announcing crew. Not surprising because I can’t stand any of them these days. The whole style of baseball and most sports announcing is so bad these days compared to when I was growing up.
They’re all such silly drama queens.
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I really didn’t want to go back to Houston on a 3 to 2 count.
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It’s interesting that Garcia thinks Maldonado called on the pitcher to hit him with a pitch. He didn’t even give the pitcher a glance.
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In the olden days the batters would charge the mound. Not go after the catcher.
And sometimes get their ass kicked by an old man pitcher.
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Ten minutes ago these announcers already had the Rangers in the World Series.
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Yordan Alvarez has gone blind in this game.
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Apparently, Garcia and Maldanado have a personal history.
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Good grief. I wish I’d seen this game.
The Rumble.
And the Altuve dagger.
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This is a historic game, regardless of outcome.
Wow. What a night.
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I told you God loves those Astros.
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Altuve, the people’s Mayor of Houston.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Mackinvale was seen boarding a private jet with two really big, ugly guys.
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What a team.
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It seemed we sat on that opening Bregman homer forever.
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Dusty was one hot mofo after those repeated pitches high and tight.
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Oh yeah.
A penalty against a pitcher. Never saw one of those before.
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I bet Dusty’s wife was wringing her hands. Hell, the guy is 3 years older than me and he was one mad man. I didn’t want him to stroke out.
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I guess that our subdivision must be Altuve fans… We can now hear music inside the house with the windows and doors closed and the TV on… SIGH…
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StepDaughter said that Altuve walked out to the plate like man on a mission.
Like a little King Kong, she said.
🙂
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And the Houston radio announcers said this umpire had some problems maintaining a consistent strike zone.
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Shannon – We thought that, as well – and some really STRANGE things he called
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Daughter is with her hubby at their deer lease in Fredericksburg and she sent pictures of them watching the game. They jury rigged an antenna on top of their community cabin. 😉
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I watched the game with Hubby as I finished crocheting a shawl for a church friend. It’s been conditioned and is in the dryer, getting less wet before I block it. Then I can stitch on the flowers to complete it.
We were both excited when Altuve saved the day. He’s worth every penny they pay him, I said.
While the shawl was soaking, I discovered that those really cheap avocados that I bought were in their ripe zone. I actually caught them before the black stuff started in. WOOHOO! So, I have 2 1/2 trays of avocado slices in the freezer. I have another bag, but realized that I needed more freezer space if I was going to (carefully) cram the four trays in, so instead of slicing up the last bag I went for the ice cream container. I managed to puzzle enough stuff around to fit the trays in so they are pre-freezing, including the 1 1/2 trays of ice cream dollops.
There will be some happy kids come Christmas time. I’m planning on taking some to my lender friend’s office for the staff because they are so awesome, and my friend has 3 little ones that I’m sure will make short work of the FD ice cream. If it makes it home. 😉 I brought some dried blackberries for his kids and he at the whole jar at the office. That day. Made me smile. I had a jar like his but my berries lasted a week.
Then I have my adopted church kids. And my family, if I get to see any of them. And Hubby. Hubby of course loves them, too. He’s taking a jar with him this weekend.
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Dusty announced earlier today that he’s going with Framber on Sunday.
”He’s been there before,” said Dusty.
okay. Glad it’s your decision and not mine.
🙂
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I didn’t know until just now that there are 82 enemy dead in West Bank clashes with IDF.
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So we have low level rocket harassment from the North.
And some old fashioned urban gorilla warfare in the East.
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I am 70% through a special CBS presentation on this new war.
I am shocked at how middle-of-the-road, non- judgemental, simply good journalism it is.
I must be losing my mind.
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Shannon @ 9:44 PM
It is this new cancellation policy going around about anybody who begins to endorse the Jihadi Left. A person could lose their job and become unemployable for life.
It’s nice to see a little justice for a change.
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