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Weekend Free Speech Extravaganza Open Commentary

What happens when conservatives get cancelled, silenced or driven off a taxpayer supported college campus.

Homicidal Hamas Maniacs Cry Like Babies When They Get Cancelled

Stolen from, shamelessly and without apology to, my compadre David Bernstein.

Author’s Exception:  I don’t believe in the hecklers’ veto in public forums or spaces funded by taxpayers’ money, including university and college campuses, libraries and any government owned property.  Anyone in America can stand on a crate on any public sidewalk or park and say whatever they want as long as they don’t threaten someone’s life or safety.

Any person, private company or organization who does not receive government funding can censor any speaker on their property and television, radio and internet broadcasters can do the same.  No one can be compelled to provide stages, podiums and microphones for anybody who demands it.

*Please excuse the profanities in the cartoon above.  Granny Hamous is angry, but she’ll get over it. I promised I wouldn’t do it again.

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111 responses to “Weekend Free Speech Extravaganza Open Commentary”

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

    Every. thing. is. a. conspiracy.

    I’m telling ya’ !

    like I said

    the water’s just right.

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

    yo uncklo.

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

    yo squawka Bruddah.

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

    yo todo El resto de ustedes Mangueras.

  5. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    re: federal budget

    The largest 4 budget items (rough numbers):

     

    CMS (Medicare / Medicaid) = ~ $1,471,000,000,000 which represents 34% of total

    SSI (Social Security) = ~ $1,364,000,000,000 which represents 31.5% of total

    Defense / War = ~ $825,000,000,000 which represents 19% of total

    Interest (On Debt) = ~ $673,000,000,000 which represents 15.5% of total

     

    Note that SSI is only ~ 15% unfunded currently while CMS is ~ 83% unfunded.  As interest rates go higher, which they almost certainly will, the cost of servicing the debt goes up.  So the 83% unfunded largest of the four items above will face a squeeze – probably a pretty severe one.  The “excellent” medical service y’all have become accustomed to in America?  Let’s just say your best defense against what’s coming is going to be to not need the medical system at all.

    Also, yes there likely will be some form of CBDC.  Whether or not TPTB pull out a “stick-save” with it is an open question.  I’d take the under on that, but who knows.

    No conspiracy theories needed for any of this.  You just need a brain and a calculator.  Mathematics is a harsh mistress.  She cares not what political party you affiliate with, nor does she care one whit about what you think is fair.

     

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s the Weekend! And I may take it easy today. After a week of hard work my body is reminding me how old I am.

    Mornin’ Gang

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mom what’s an Assault Weapon? 

    Stolen from Tedtam, over yonder…..So sue me.  😀

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Good morning, all!

    Salvete, omnes!

    Getting coffee in hand, seeing headlines on my phone until the computer wakes up…I see this story, which I’m sure Childers will cover.

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-hid-data-covid-vaccine-trial-deaths/

    They lied. Fauci lied. And people died. Or suffered (are suffering) needlessly.

    Heads should roll .

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    In addition to the post above, Mr.  C. had a separate post on the subject dear to my heart – the “little people” who don’t get headlines when they S&U die.  He had 24 from just last week that he listed, that he was able to find AND that matched the vaxx axe profile.

    Big Pharma has left a trail of broken bodies and devastated families in its wake as it sailed the seas of Humongous Taxpayer Dollar Grift.

    Heads should roll.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Speaking of which Dr Phil Good posted his yesterday and It’s just UN-DAMN BELIEVABLE!!! What planent are they on?!?!?!

    Anthony Fauci To Receive Prestigious ‘Ethics Prize’ For ‘Saving Millions Of Lives’

    FWIW; The article has this disclaimer;

    No, this is not a Babylon Bee article. This is really happening. Anthony Fauci, who is unparalleled as the most destructive government bureaucrat in American history, is being awarded with an ethics prize.

    ~SPITS~

     

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    SuperDave – I think ALL of our bodies are reminding us of our advancing years.

    It sucks when my brain feels like it’s 20 but my body won’t go along with the illusion.

    This getting old is getting old. ®

  12. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good lovely morning, Hamsters

    We seem to have a rerun of yesterday’s humid and warm here instead of the cold front that isn’t here yet but is now expected tonight.  Mother Nature rules such things and took care of most of Texas to the north.

    We’ve gone 5 days now without the Chron delivered even though spouse has been told by someone in charge there said we would have had them two days ago.  Guess we should demand a refund.  I miss the comics and Dear Abby the most.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    After the death of George Floyd, the most massive shakedown in American history started rolling.

    Staggering is far too mild a word to describe what ensued among American corporations, foundations and organizations.

    $99,329,948,029

    That is billions with a B.

    The Claremont Institute in California has compiled a huge database of every donor and the monies they threw at BLM and all the associated organizations.  It is vast and detailed, but not all inclusive because there were donations and grants not publicized.

    Click here to enter the database and then click on the blue link in the middle of the page.

    Examples:

    AT&T gave $3,141,604,596.00

    AT&T contributed more than $3B toward causes advocating racial justice. For a breakdown, see here: https://www.attdreaminblack.com/commitment. This included at least $21.5M in donations to the National Action Network, National Urban League, NAACP, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Equal Justice Initiative, and Color of Change. Additionally, the company made lobbying for police reform part of some employee’s jobs and instituted a controversial DEI regime (see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10143019/You-problem-T-recommends-articles-staff-stating-white-people-racist.html). AT&T also partnered with OneTen.

    CVS committed $600,000,000 over 5 years for racial inequity even as black thieves stole millions from their stores and forced them to close 900 stores in predominately black and minority neighborhoods across the nation.

     

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    LITTLE VICTORIES ☙ Saturday, October 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, and welcome to the Weekend Edition! It’s Saturday, and your roundup includes: Biden’s war letter unexpectedly includes jab signals; Australia launches covid commission and people start wondering about the U.S.’s money-grubbing role in the pandemic’s tyrannical over-response; the Hill headline hilariously quotes Speaker Johnson saying Biden is losing his marbles; more great news about Speaker Johnson; Times frets about people losing more trust in its reporting because of … AI, and accidentally raises a fascinating point;  double-SADS actor and playwright; DeSantis trashes WHO “pandemic treaty”; and South Park trashes wokeness and Disney feels the pain.

    NEWS:

    Next watch this highly encouraging clip from the Australian Senate this week, in which Senator Gerard Rennick grilled Australian regulators over whether in fact, covid is a genetic therapy, given that it uses ‘transfection’ to work:

    https://x.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1718182829417480663

    To me, the discussion heralded the unraveling of the original and biggest lie of all: “the covid shots are traditional vaccines and are definitely not genetic treatments.” That lie depended on people being unable to understand all the scientific jargon and mumbo-jumbo, like what “transfection” means. But we regular folks are starting to work it out. In other words, both in the U.S. and around the world, people are catching on to how the “Science!” shell game worked.

    /snip

    Senator Rennick tweeted a list of questions that he would like the new Covid Commission to consider. I doubt I could have drafted a better list. You’ll likely enjoy reading his list, because it will vindicate your own thoughts, but while you’re reading it, consider the sheer number of issues and problems that have mounted up about the jabs and against the whole worldwide covid response.

    It’s getting to be a pretty long list. Here’s part one:

    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84bcc295-5b83-4711-a7be-c8c28b148e44_1824x1234.png

    I stopped to break the long post in two, but also to direct your attention to that highlighted line: “the totalitarian role of the (United) States in locking people down.”  It is becoming increasingly obvious that when this whole thing finally completely unravels — and it will — people around the world are going to be properly furious with the United States and there will be Hell to pay.

    We can hope.  Second half of the list:

    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5946ffe6-aea0-4f92-a426-6b592b531512_1818x900.png

    And it seems the Japanese are waking up, too.  They also suffered under intense mandates.  The global backlash should be – SHOULD be – devastating to the existing power structures.  /not holding breath

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next at the C&C:  the new Speaker cast shade on Biden’s cognitive ability.

    New Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), 51, appeared on Sean Hannity last night. Sean asked the new Speaker, “Do you see in Joe Biden a cognitive decline? And if so, is that a danger to the country?”

    Johnson replied, “I do, I think most of us do.” Fact check: True. Biden has bats in his belfry.

    Laughably, the Hill got a ‘response’ from the White House that did not actually respond to the question about Biden’s last six working neurons, but instead just called Johnson names like, “MAGA Mike” and “extreme,” and then complained about President Trump a bunch.

    When you can’t answer with the truth, obfuscate with ad hominem attacks.

    ***

    And Speaker Johnson has boiled down his approach in 7 Key Principles:

    …Johnson suggested that, if they took every Republican writing from the Federalist Papers to the Republican Party platform, it would boil down to seven key points, which he dubbed the “Seven Core Principles of Conservatism.”

    They are: individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, and human dignity.

    He was persuasive. The Republicans amended their bylaws to include Johnson’s seven principles. Yesterday, Johnson told the Examiner’s reporter that he has “big plans” as Speaker to help the conference implement the Seven Core Principles of Conservatism. Wisely declining to delve into specifics, Johnson plans to unveil his vision for the conference’s future at a Thursday morning meeting.

    So far, I’m liking this dude.  But I reserve judgment.  I liked pachapapa, too, when he first came on the scene.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    On to the coming AI media/mental wars:

    Emerging A.I.-based tools let users create photo-realistic videos from text prompts. Not to mention all the well-known PDF and image editors, which let people modify document images, photos, emails, and all sorts of digitized evidence. Think about all the arguments over Obama’s birth certificate. Document-related authenticity issues have been around for a while, but we’ve all been mostly ignoring their larger significance.

    Here in the legal world, we are racing toward an apocalyptic endpoint where the argument over whether a particular bit of media evidence is authentic will require a whole trial of its own, with media experts, other hard evidence verifying the media, authenticating media (like photos taken of the same subject from other angles), and live eyewitness testimony.

    And at that point, you might as well just avoid the media evidence altogether and go back to the basics.

    The Times said that at some point, all media related evidence will suspect, which makes it useless.

    There’s just no way to tell how all the pro’s and con’s will shake out, but I think overall this development is good news. Accelerating technology is crushing the government’s omnipresent panopticon.  That’s a plus for we regular citizens. And, be of good cheer: for the first 200 years of the Nation’s life, we didn’t even have all this digitized media evidence, and we still did just fine.

    The legal system will have to revert back to human evidence and exhibits you can hold in your hand. Same as 2,000 years ago.

    This will be interesting.  I wonder if Biden’s legal team will argue that the evidence against Joe is just a major AI enhanced setup?

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Lowes and Home Depot are listed in the BLM Database at a grand total of $42,000,000.

    $40 million from Lowes alone.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    DeSantis strikes again:

    Governor DeSantis is back in the post today for discussing a subject that almost no other sitting politician will discuss: the WHO’s proposed “pandemic treaty.” DeSantis told Epoch Times’ Jan Jakielek the treaty would be a non-starter in Florida, which already passed a law nullifying foreign lockdown orders:  https://x.com/TeamDeSantis/status/1717958498670006716?s=20

    “Go ahead, make my day. I will take that treaty and throw that in the trash can where it belongs,” DeSantis said. He’s not the only candidate talking about it, rather he’s the only elected official who is. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has also spoken against the WHO’s impending power grab. And while he was President, Trump deleted all the U.S.’s funding for the WHO for a short but glorious season until President Peters dumped cash all over the authoritarian sickness agency.

    The question is, how come nobody else in government is talking about the WHO’s nefarious plans?

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I caught this interesting video this morning:  Why are people collapsing all over China?

    No, it’s not the jab.  It’s cultural rot.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Another insight into China.

    China is planting Fields of Stones stuck to Metal Bars – No, Really

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    15 Tedtam

    The Times said that at some point, all media related evidence will suspect, which makes it useless.

    I’ve been saying this on this website for quite awhile.  It’s alarming as hell and will create utter chaos in an already screwed up judicial system.  This is a huge issue.

    Think about all the arguments over Obama’s birth certificate. Document-related authenticity issues have been around for a while, but we’ve all been mostly ignoring their larger significance.

    Uh, speak for yourself, Childers.

    I haven’t been ignoring it.  The larger significance was the first thing to cross my mind when I originally read about the possibilities of AI.  I assumed everyone else who was aware had the same reaction.

    If people think identity theft or false identities are a problem now, they haven’t seen anything yet.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #17 TT:  We have been at war with China for years, a cold war.  What you are describing is our infecting the Chinese populace with a highly infected version of the American legal system.  They will collapse under their own greed and lack of moral foundation.

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I think I’ll mow the back yard, it needs it and I sure do need some exercise.

    So later, y’all.

     

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here it comes.

    It’s 44° in Amarillo.

  25. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s 38F with lightning in Lawrence , Kansas.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TT and Bsue:  I would like some commentary on this technique of canning.

     

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: HABEMUS DECENTIS EDITION

    White smoke from the capitol chimney! Habemus decentis! (We have a speaker!) Now we can get back to girdlock old school, instead of this clever backdoor means of a government shutdown-by-proxy (or pulling a fire alarm, as Democrats now like to do). Everyone says the new speaker, Mike Johnson, has no experience, but that claim just makes me smile. If our current condition is the result of “experienced” politicians, how could “inexperienced” politicians be any worse? Besides, I thought this whole “self-government” thing meant ordinary Americans could participate fully in the exercise of state power. At this point, any of the Johnsons of Rockridge would do, since nearly all House members are fluent speakers of authentic Beltway jibberish.

    LINK HERE

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Linkage not visible.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #23 Bonecrusher

    I’ve seen her videos, and similar ones, before.  I’ve also watched videos from current and past Amish/Mennonite members who also water bath.  From what I’ve seen and heard, the US is the only country that pushes pressure canning.  You can’t even find pressure canners readily available in most parts of the world.

    There’s a YT channel that I check in on occasionally, “Homesteading with the Zimmerman’s” or some such.  The couple used to be Mennonite, and still run their household using a lot of what they learned growing up.  Mom Z had never heard of botulism growing up, and no one she knew ever got sick from it.  Everything they do is water bath canned.  I heard that the risk of botulism is greater with Botox treatments than with home canning.

    Frankly, for future meat canning, I may try the water bath method.  Pressure canning meat changes the texture, especially for ground beef.  FDA says to fill the jars with fluid (water, broth) over the cooked, crumbled ground beef and pressure can.  I’ve opened one of those jars and while it’s still meat, it had the texture of dog food.  I’ll have to hide it inside a casserole or something.  I went to dry canning, which seems to hold the texture better without forcing the fluid into the meat.  I guess I ought to start opening those jars to see what I’ve got and what’ll gag me.

    What I like about the water bath canning is the lower temperature in play.  I think a lot of the textural deterioration is due to the extremely high (240 degree) temps achieved inside the pressure cooker.  Water bath canning will take longer, but the temp will be lower.  For foods where texture won’t matter, like purees or stocks, pressure canning is still something I would do.

    IMHO, if water bathing has been the norm for this long, for so many people, and with such good success, I don’t think I need to fear it.

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

    The recently released Kevin Trudeau should write a new book called Deep State Psyop Cures They don’t want you to Know About.

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, it was hot, but it went fast and looks so much better out back.

     

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bones

    I urge you to be extremely cautious with canning. Botulism kills.

    [I]t is important that safe preservation methods and tested recipes be followed for the prevention of food-borne illness and spoilage. For example, nearly 29% of the 326 confirmed cases of botulism between 2001 and 2017 have been linked to foods preserved at home. A recent survey of current food preservation practices from individuals participating in AgriLife Extension workshops found that among those who had preserved food in the past, more than 60% had utilized one or more unsafe methods.

    https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/asset-local/preserving-the-harvest/

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    WB

    OU seems to have their hands full, up there in Kansas.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This has been in my towering stack of things I don’t have time to write and post about.  It was published in May of this year.

    Foundation for Freedom Online

    Apparently not content with setting up a Ministry of Truth, an Internet censorship directorate, and even a program for controlling speech in video games, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has devised yet another dystopian program for domestic thought control: pushing citizens to monitor each others’ political beliefs under the guise of “deradicalization.”

    So reveal new documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

    The FOIA files show DHS’s Office of Terrorism and Violence Prevention (“OTVTP,” now known as “CP3”) using taxpayer dollars in January 2021 to screenwrite an online “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style video series to “deradicalize” friends and family.

    DHS’s “radicalization suspects” in the video screenplays are not violent terrorists or extremists. They are typical everyday Americans with typical everyday American opinions.

    For example, DHS constructs a detailed profile for “Ann,” a “middle-aged pro-life advocate” — she is a “suburban Mom” surrounded by stock footage of “laundry” and “Minivan” who “has become increasingly more concerned about the welfare of other children:”

    and this,

    Ann is an example of an ordinary American who happens to have a pro-life opinion. But according to DHS, an agency first created to stop another 9/11, this opinion warrants a government-funded video training instructing her entire community to treat her as a radical, and to take real-life action against her First Amendment-protected statements.

    Audiences of DHS’s deradicalization videos would take the role of “bystanders” that are given options on how to intervene in Ann’s political development. For example, audiences watch Ann’s activities from the perspective of her preacher, her longtime friend, and her hairdresser.

    In one scenario, Ann utters the phrase “baby killer” at a public ribbon-cutting event at a local bakery. DHS gives you, the bystander, three choices: calling Ann’s husband, contacting Ann’s preacher, or stopping by Ann’s house:

    This is spine-chilling, rage inducing madness.

    This is essentially a state-funded instruction video for creating a modern Stasi class where citizens are encouraged to report on one another – even when no laws have been broken. 

    DHS also built a stock profile for “Courtney,” an “old high school friend” of audience members who has become a “budding conspiracy theorist.” She, too, is associated by DHS with the imagery of “suburban Mom, laundry, minivan.” What gets her wrapped up in DHS’s informant dragnet is that after her divorce, she “has become fixated on conspiracy theories regarding government connections to child abuse and trafficking:”

    Really ? Imagine that.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Dolcefino on voting fraud:  “You’re Dead to Me”

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bellville is celebrating the 175th anniversary of its founding next Saturday.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Among them was a video taken of two people who have been identified as Noah Schaffer and his wife Kelly, who were both seen in one video being confronted by a woman who tore into them for allegedly taking posters down of children who had been taken captive by Hamas terrorists:

    Watch the video (The woman who put up the posters ofAmerican hostages held by Hamas is understandably outraged and knows all the four letter words)

    And once Noah Schaffer, 41, was identified as the man in the video, it didn’t take long for his Jewish father, the owner and CEO of the company Schaffer works for, to send a company-wide email to Human Factors International employees. He denounced his son and notified employees that he had been suspended without pay for four months, during which time he is supposed to be reflecting on his actions and understanding that what he did was wrong:

    “As has been noted, Noah is my son. He is not an antisemite nor a supporter of Hamas. I can attest that he has not acted this way at any time during his whole life,” Eric Schaffer wrote, according to the outlet. “He now understands that his actions were reprehensible, he is deeply sorry and regretful. HFI’s senior management team and I personally, in no way condone his actions today. We are placing Noah on unpaid leave for the next four months.”

    “This will give him time to learn more about his Jewish family history, reflect deeply, and make amends. And after this time we will review if he can rejoin the company,” Eric added.

    The father, Eric Schaffer, is probably a very nice man, but I don’t think his son is who he thinks he is.  If my son acted the way this guy did, I would fire him, offer him a ticket to Israel and tell him to come back in two years and apply for a job if he wants to.

    What is the deal with the Antifa wife, anyway ?

     

  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Pence who???

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

    KT for president. 😉

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

    The latest production of Deep State Theatre has ended.

    and “the rest is silence.”

  41. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Bones and Tedtam – I’ve barely been brave enough to do the USDA approved pressure canned way with meats.  The hamburger patties I did I browned and tried to get all the grease possible out/off – and they held up pretty well to pressure canning – I mean, they were still hamburger patties and whatever it was I wound up using them for required me to break them into pieces anyway.  I’ve had good success with beef cubes and with chicken raw packed and pressure canned…

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I am tired to the bone.

    I worked outside all day murdering my huge overgrown crepe myrtles around the house.  They were supposed to be medium height and width hybrids.  Well, guess what, these suckers grew like huge invasive jungle trees.

  43. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Yo Brother Phil

    Tom Jones does Talking Heads

     

  44. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Yo Brother Phil

    Tom Jones singing Delta Lady with one of the nicest humble musicians I ever had the opportunity of meeting.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Yo Brother Phil

    Tom Jones and Jerry Lee Lewis.

     

  46. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry dead at 54

    The actor died due to an apparent drowning.

    He drowned in a Jacuzzi?!?! WTH?

  47. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat,

    Well, guess what, these suckers grew like huge invasive jungle trees.

    I feel your pain. When I’m out in my jungle trying drag/pry the trees from all the dang vines I hear the theme music from Jumanji. 😉

    FWIW; We have a couple of huge Crepe Myrtles, those thing grow fast. And, they go forth and multiply. No as bad as Wisteria but they ca be aggravating.

  48. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #39 Super Dave – they say no evident foul play but don’t mention whether he was alone… but if ya pass out in a jacuzzi and your head don’t stay above water… well, ya prolly gonna drown in a jacuzzi

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Remember kids drugs and jacuzzis don’t mix.

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I mentioned my drainage project the other day and on Thursday I went to Johnson’s Trucking to get a yard of River Rock Gravel. My trailer isn’t strong enough to carry a full yard, 2.5 Tons so I was planning on picking up a half a yard at the time. When the yard man got ready to load it up I was seriously impressed with his front end loader. A Volvo L260H, 416 HP with a bucket capable of loading 35 Tons! For you folks in Rio Linda that’s 70,000 pounds! Oh and the bucket has a load cell to transmit the exact weight to the operator in the cab. I really, really need one of these. What I’d do with it I don’t know. It only took me a little over an hour to unload my trailer using a scoop and loading up my wife’s little Gorilla Cart to move the gravel. And it only took about 8 Cart loads. This little cart is better than a wheelbarrow, it has four big pneumatic tires and a dump bed. Also when it’s full of gravel it takes a lot of Omph to lift the bed to dump. I picked up the other half of gravel on Friday and just about finished up the job but I’ll probably get one more half load on Monday, you can’t have too much gravel.

  51. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #43
    Super Dave says:
    October 28, 2023 at 9:06 pm
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    Yup, 3 Links. Squawk? 😉

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #43 thanks! Squawk, Texpat or any other Moderator.

  53. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    S’Alright? S’Alright

  54. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    There’s a big ole moon sitting the the eastern sky with Jupiter right under it. Light’s up the whole front yard.

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

    Remember kids drugs and jacuzzis don’t mix

    yo squawka Bruddah.

    appreciate the Tom J triple play.

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

    There’s a big ole moon sitting the the eastern sky with Jupiter right under it. Light’s up the whole front yard.

    I be looking at em through my telescope.

    you know those pesky ole flearthers swear he’s transparent but I’ve observed he’s as thick and buttery as the biggest and most solid block of cheese I’ve ever seen.:)

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

    Can even see Jupiter good tonight.

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

    the moon in line with Jupiter killed the blog.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    “A big mouth don’t make a big man”.  ~ Wil Anderson AKA John Wayne, The Cowboys.

    Mornin’ Gang

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sending this one out to our suffering friend with the bum knee and the bad back.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Shannon

    That tune hits the mark. I do miss dancing.

    And I have danced without a partner before.

  62. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m sure EG would have something to say

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/27/biden-faa-pushing-diversity-hiring-as-air-traffic-control-system-falls-into-total-disarray/

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Random musings from Diogenes Sarcastica:

    Have you ever noticed Robert De Niro always looks like his son just told him he wants to ride unicycles professionally?

    Do you ever watch a film to the end of the credits, pick a name and think ‘hey Clint Youngreen, assistant bear trainer #3, I bet you thought nobody would see you down here. Nice job pal.

    Rage Against the Machine never specified what type of machine they were furious with, but I’m willing to bet it was a printer.

    Microwaves have like 32 buttons but you only need about 4, including the number buttons. Look me in the eye and tell me you use the 7 key.

    Someone told me yesterday that they don’t eat tacos because they’re bad for you, and I’m starting to realize what my parents meant when they said I should be careful who I surround myself with.

    Anyone who says their wedding was the best day of their lives has clearly never had 2 snickers bars fall down at once from a vending machine.

    Pro Tip: When a woman laughs during an argument, please know that the psycho part of the brain has been activated. Abort Mission.

  64. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12676999/carlos-gimenez-warns-cuba-smuggling-chinese-nationals-us.html

  65. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TP 1832:  Crepe Myrtles make excellent raw materials for fancy walking canes.  The twisted, gnarly shapes can be accentuated with an angle grinder and flap discs into real works of art.  It’s real easy, just remove the parts that don’t work.  The wood is pretty strong and dense.

  66. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    56 Shannon

    Pro Tip: When a woman laughs during an argument, please know that the psycho part of the brain has been activated. Abort Mission.

    Also check to see if she has stopped blinking and make sure she is not near any knives or guns.  Take the nearest exit.

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    58 BC

    I’m sure they do, but I don’t need any canes right now.

  68. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Today in Cool History:
    Oct. 25, 1955 – The first microwave oven for home use was introduced by the Tappan Company. It initially failed to catch on because it was large, expensive, and only available in built-in/wall-mounted. Also, many didn’t understand (or trust) microwave technology, and their food being zapped by invisible rays.
    The 1955 Tappan model (intended for home use, and with technology licensed from Raytheon) used 220 volts, cost $1,295 (over $12,500 in today’s dollars), and only a few homes had one.
    Raytheon coined the term “Radarange” in 1946. It was the first commercially available microwave. It was almost 6 ft tall, weighed 750 lbs, and cost about $5,000 (over $76,500 in today’s dollars). Raytheon acquired the Amana Corporation in 1965, and introduced the first countertop microwave oven in 1967, which they named the Radarange. It wasn’t cheap, either – at $495 (almost $4200 in today’s money). So, two decades after its invention, the microwave oven finally caught on in American homes in the form of Amana’s compact unit. Now, over 90% of US homes have a microwave oven.
    FWIW; Our first “Radar Range” by Amana cost $500 in 1975, we could have got the manual one (knobs instead of buttons) for $450. Sony was the only other Microwave manufacturer at the time but it was more expensive.
    Oh Crap! 3 links, keeping fingers crossed. 😉

  69. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well I have one in the Spit Bucket and yes, 3 links.

  70. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m pretty sure we had an Amana Radar Range in the 70s.

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I got sidetracked over at the Daily Mail looking for something else entirely.  Matthew Perry had a highly addictive personality. He was so hooked on opiates at one point he was taking 55 Vicodin tablets a day and was down to 129 pounds.  At 49 years old, Perry’s colon ruptured and doctors gave him a 2% chance of survival.  He was in a coma for 2 weeks and then in the hospital and rehab for months.

    That only happened 5 years ago.

    He had 15 more operations to try and repair his digestive system.  He also had COPD and possibly emphysema. No illegal or non-prescribed drugs were found and the last photo of him in public looked like he had become very heavy.

    No wonder he had cardiac arrest and drowned.  I can’t believe the guy was still alive in the first place.  55 Vicodin a day ?  I didn’t know it was even possible.

    It’s very sad he outlived both parents.

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon in Virginia, April 21, 2022. Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brittany A. Chase/DoD via Wikimedia Commons.

    Has Guts & Grit standing next to Useless & Foolish

    Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová has called for her country to leave the United Nations following the General Assembly‘s approval of a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza that didn’t mention Hamas or the hundreds of hostages kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group.

    The Czech Republic, one of Israel’s closest allies in Europe, was one of only 14 countries that opposed Friday’s resolution, which came three weeks after Hamas massacred more than 1,400 persons in Israel and took some 230 others hostage to Gaza, including dozens of foreign nationals.

    “In my opinion, the Czech Republic has no place in an organization that cheers on terrorists and does not respect the fundamental right to self-defense,” Černochová said. “Let’s get out.”

     

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Quite by accident I caught the episode of America’s Test Kitchen where they tested nine toaster ovens and the Breville was the winner again.

    One thing that makes it better – which I didn’t know – is that it has quartz elements instead of the nichrome type used in cheaper models. Quartz allows quicker, heating and more consistent temps. The thermocouple test found one oven that had a temp variation of up to sixty degrees from the temp setting during a long baking period.

     

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I discovered a frozen pizza that is quite good.
    I am not a fan of bread-type pizza crust. Cannot stand deep dish pizza. The thinner and crispier the crust, the better, in my book.

    However, these guys use naan bread for the crust and it is not thick, and in my Breville oven it turns out crisp every time. Naan is Indian flat bread.

    My favorites are the Margherita and the Cilantro Pesto. The size is about the size of a man’s large hand  (my hand, not Trump’s).

    Highly recommended.

  75. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Spouse’s birthday is today, but we cheated and had a lovely dinner out yesterday and the leftovers today.  The customary cake will likely be decorated cupcakes instead to avoid what sometimes happens to birthday cakes unless you have some guests attending dinner.  It usually doesn’t get eaten up even on the day after the event despite efforts to save the remains wrapped up to keep it from drying out and becoming crunchy.  There is nothing more forlorn than the last piece of cake.

    We’ve all been waiting for that cold front for several days as summer temps refused to go away.  Tonight is supposed to be when the front for real gets here and passes through.  However our quiet and humid day now has some wind coming through off and on and seemingly getting more substantial.  But don’t mention that out loud, or it will stop.  🙂

  76. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The Czech Republic has the right idea to split from the UN and only see it in the rearview mirror.

  77. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Had a lovely time at mass, and Little Ellizabeth and Emily gave me hugs after, before Hubby showed up to drive me home.  Their dad gave me quite the sympathetic smile and told me to get better.  Elizabeth is going to keep praying for my knee.  Well, she did that for my elbow, so…she’s my little spiritual Florence Nightingale.   She takes her responsibilities for my healing quite seriously.  What a little sweetheart.

    Hubby has been so sweet about my knee issues.  Obviously, it’s cramped my style around the house.  I wanted to be upstairs organizing stuff, and cooking can be a challenge on my bad days – and he offers to get dinner if necessary.  And he’s making time to drive me to my appointments, dental and knee.  I know it’s a PITA to stop his schedule, but he offers and dang near insists on it.

    So, I made it almost all the way through grocery shopping this afternoon before the knee started to crater.  Hubby was enjoying his country music in his truck, but he hopped out and crossed the yard, and insisted on carrying in all of the groceries.  Handsome Son had just returned from borrowing the lawn mower, so he helped me harvest the pickable green beans from the garden.

    Now, I’m icing the knee before I begin dinner.

  78. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have to go all the way to the UK to find out what is going on down in Houston.  Hillary slithers her way into town to prop up Sheila Jackson Lee’s dying campaign and some kid trolls and bombs her big event.

    A man, who prides himself on catching pedophiles, was dragged out of a Hillary Clinton rally after he bombarded her with questions about Bill Clinton‘s trips to Epstein island. 

    Alex Rosen, 23, shared a video of multiple security guards dragging him out of the event where the former US Secretary of State campaigned for Democrat Mayoral candidate Sheila Jackson Lee in Houston, Texas, Friday.

    Rosen, an independent journalist and anti-vaccine activist according to his profile, founded Predator Poachers in 2019 to find adults who seek sexual activities with minors.

    and from HotAir,

    23-year-old activist Alex Rosen was in the audience and he rose to shout out some questions to Hillary as she spoke to the audience. Rosen wanted to know why Bill Clinton visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island home so many times. The crowd immediately began booing him and chanting “Sheila.”

    “Hey Hillary, Why has your husband been to Epstein Island 26 times?” He was taken down by security and dragged out of the room. Then he was escorted out of the building.

    I don’t know who this kid is, but he could be Squawk’s relative.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sorry, Texpat.

    I just figured you had your hands full with exciting New Jersey politics to enjoy the exciting City of Houston race.

    Only you are worse than I am in predicting elections.

    But I must tell you that some of the highest-profile Dems in Houston have now appeared in TV commercials for Whitmire.

    Like Hammie’s favorite Dems, Alvarado and what’s her name.

     

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Official Hammie Poll

    Can the last, old, white man, liberal Harris County Democrat in Texas beat Sheila Jackson Lee for the Mayor Of Houston?

     

  81. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That’s a yes or no question, Dr phil.

    No apocalypse commentary applies.

  82. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Quite by accident I caught the episode of America’s Test Kitchen where they tested nine toaster ovens and the Breville was the winner again.

    I’ve been planing to get one but I can’t seem to get a “Round Tuit” I can’t decide if I want the larger one or not. Bigger is always better but do I need the larger one cluttering up the counter? I think Texpat had the large one and Shannon the smaller one so any thoughts?

  83. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I needed to run over to Enterprise to hit Publix so while I was over there I also went to the Bread Store and their Pig. On the way back I stopped at the Dollar General in New Brockton and I STILL didn’t get everything I needed! Oh for a H.E.B. BTW; A loaf of Natures Own Wheat bread is $4.75 at the Pig here in Podunk and $1.75 at the bread store!? WTH?!

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The most amazing thing to me with my Breville countertop oven is both how little heat is radiated from this unit.  And the speed with which it cools down is pretty amazing too.

    All the countertop ovens I’ve owned in the past were like fire hazards and radiated as much heat as they used to cook.  Worst energy efficiency ever.

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat @ 8:37 pm
    So the Franklin Stove comes to mind? 😉
    We have a newer gas stove with the digital controls and I’m amazed at how little heat it radiates. It barely heats up the kitchen if you don’t use the stove top. When the kids were coming up I did most of my summertime cooking on the grill outside to keep from heating up the kitchen. That old stove got warm on the outside.

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Spotted a truesim over yonder; Rewriting History.

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    The politics in New Jersey are boring these days.

    The politicians are either in jail, waiting to go to prison, in prison or just out on parole.

    No kidding – the last 5 mayors of Atlantic City are in prison or recently got out and I believe the current one is under indictment.

    I’m glad the governor is term limited because I am not sure his liver is going to survive longer than his last term. Curtis Sliwa calls the NJ governor “Half-in-the-Bag Murphy” because he looks like an old Irish drunk when he shows up in public.

  88. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    72 Super Dave

    We have a GE Profile gas range/oven about 8 or 9 years old.  It still puts out some heat, especially noticeable in the summer.

    What brand range/oven do you have now ?

  89. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Every little bit of BTU (British Thermal Unit) (heat) that escapes from an electric or gas stove or oven is wasted energy – natural gas or electricity.  Oh, and you are paying for it.

  90. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat; Frigidaire Gallery. It’s about 8 years old I think.

    And yes Frigidaire makes stoves. 😉 

  91. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; The vent for the oven comes out under the display behind the burners and we have a hood over the stove so I don’t know if that makes difference or not but I’m always amazed at how little heat it puts out. It obviously has real good insulation in the walls.

  92. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The 1960 Ford F-100 Factory Blue 4×4: A Classic American Icon. ‎

    The world of classic trucks holds a special place in the hearts of automotive enthusiasts, and among the many iconic models, the 1960 Ford F-100 Factory Blue 4×4 stands out as a true gem. In this article, we will delve into the history, design, performance, and collectibility of this classic vehicle. Buckle up and embark on a journey through time as we explore the allure of the 1960 Ford F-100 Factory Blue 4×4

    I like the no nonsense, ready to go to work look about the truck.

  93. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is the Frigidaire Gallery line.

    Look at the prices for 2023.

  94. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    76 Super Dave

    Yeah, there were several of those in my high school parking lot and my FFA Chapter.  I wanted one but couldn’t afford it.

  95. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Temperature will be in the 40s tomorrow at Chez Harp! Right now it’s windy and 59, which is chilly and I am feeling sorry for Billy Cat. I bet I see him crouched down in the lowest level of the old gazebo when I get up tomorrow.

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

    That’s a yes or no question, Dr phil.

    No apocalypse commentary applies.

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If you haven’t watched Mark Levin in a while, tonight’s episode is one you should watch.

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It seems we may encounter a windy, chilly, and wet day tomorrow.

    Cue the hallelujah choir.

  99. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    78 Dr phil

    i’m speechless.

    you win.

    (sigh.)

  100. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    81

    been carrying that one around waiting for the right moment.

    sick. Just sick.

    LOL

  101. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This pink Cadillac came through town on Saturday.

    Bernadette Peters.

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Link.

     

    https://youtu.be/I5P2UWe-c1I?si=iC_2q_G4919g2aDv

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I had a football game on in the background this afternoon. I don’t even know which game it was.

    After that game, Fox26 carried the Big Ten women’s college volleyball game live, U of Wisconsin vs. Minnesota.

    The Wisconsin arena was sold out. Which has happened for decadesThis has s big time college volleyball. It was pretty exciting.

    Wisconsin smoked ‘em.

     

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

    My prediction is Whitmire will win but be cheated out of the victory at the last minute as the machine will find/manufacture however many votes it takes to put the thing over the top and once the thing is installed there will be a mass exodus from Harris County.

  105. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I can’t believe I just now discovered this particular version of the iconic Vince Gill song.

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

    But lettuce:) hope I’m wrong.

  107. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    87

    Jimmy Fortune is the greatest American tenor in history.

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

    88

    Hutch was the man.

  109. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Lucy and Ethel conspire to steal John Wayne’s sidewalk tile from Grumman’s Chinese Theater.

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

    Lucy and Ethel conspire

    heh

  111. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Lucy ends up with her foot in a five gallon bucket of hardened concrete.

    She had some splaining to do.

    very early one.

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