He tells it like it is. Sadly, this overwhelming illegal environment is causing a good sheriff to step down.
Man, you talk about tragic, listen to American patriot and Sheriff of Wicomico County, Maryland, Mike Lewis @WicoSheriff talk about what #BLM and open border Democrats have done to his state and our country! When is enough going to be enough? #TrumpWasRight #SaveAmerica!
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— Ben Bergquam – Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News (@BenBergquam) October 31, 2023
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Wassa matta Shannon, cat got your tongue?
You can say that again.
Frost on the Punkin’ this morning, 31 degrees down from 32 @ 4:30 AM when I got up. It looks like Bones and GJT beat me to the draw this morning.
Oh and Mornin’ Gang
It has come to my attention that the Turtle and Linda Graham are not happy with Tommy Tuberville so naturally his stock has risen a bit for me. 😉
It was 36F in my driveway this morning. Fortunately it was clear and dry, so the morning walk with Sarah was rather pleasant, if chilly and brisk.
I had to duck out last night when the Novocaine wore off. I was told to use ice packs 20 minutes on-20 minutes off. Screw that. I may have switched ’em out every 20 minutes, but it hurt too much without the cold on the jaw. It was like 6-7 hours of cold. I think that’s why my jaw is almost back to normal proportions this morning, and the pain point is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay lower than it was about twelve hours ago. The relief of not having that tooth is very welcome.
If I keep this up, I’m gonna look like some kinda hillbilly, with a toofless smile and laundry on the front porch. 😉
Given the treatment plan, I better keep those ice packs stocked up in the frig.
My knee isn’t normal yet, but it’s better.
Progress.
PS: I told Hubby that it took not eating last night to get my blood sugar numbers back into normal range. That’s been harder to do lately, with the bum knee and no exercise lately. I should do this (not eating) more often. It’s not like missing a meal or two is gonna hurt me.
Well, it’s all the way UP to 37 here in the woods…. Last week, we had to deal with a Shortie Dawg who likely never had seen rain before – now she think the thermostat outside is broke … She, with her little sweatshirt (thanks cousin Molly), is currently nestled under her paw print blanket next to me, and if she had opposable thumbs, she’d likely have a cuppa coffee in her hands (not that she needs to get amped up anymore)… stay warm every buddy
We hit 31° this morning at 6 AM. It’s our first frost and we made it all the way to November 2nd.
Her Highness is insisting I call Manny, my friend with the tree service/lawn maintenance/snow removal business and get on his list for snow removal. She’s probably right. I don’t need to get cardiac arrest over some stupid snow. It’s still aggravating all the same.
Good morning C&C, it’s Thursday! Thanks for all the well-wishes yesterday. I seem to be improved this morning, much less fogged, fewer symptoms, although I did not sleep super well. (But that might have something to do with all the vitamins and supplements I’ve been eating by the bowlful. Just saying.)
A quick, thoughtful roundup for you today about the Roman Empire and end of the world, and other some random items that caught my eye.
NEWS:
Childers starts off with his wife grilling him about the Roman Empire, and do he/men really think about it more than once during the day?
For as long as I can remember, people have predicted the imminent Fall of America, comparing current events to the Fall of the Roman Empire. But I never credited it much, since the Roman Empire was falling for centuries, taking longer to clear itself off the world’s stage than America has even been hanging around bothering everybody.
But I’ve been thinking more about Falls recently. We sure seem to be on a civilizational speedway bypass of some kind, racing past the Romans going about 90 mph.
For example, I wonder whether the Emperor ever tried defunding the Roman Police Departments in Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, and the Empire’s other big cities? I wonder whether the Empire deliberately knocked down parts of Hadrian’s Wall so that the barbarian hordes could clamber through more conveniently, not having to do so much climbing, per se, and so they could enter in larger, much more comfortable traveling groups? Et cetera, ad infinitum.
He opines that the Romans weren’t THAT dumb. They probably didn’t fly invaders in by the millions and distribute them deep within their population centers, for example. Have we already moved the Barbarians inside our gates?
A couple highly-suggestive items popped up on my social feeds yesterday, which seemed to me much like signs of the times. At minimum, I think they show where people’s heads are at these days. We have transcended disbelief and anger and are entering some kind of apocalyptic acceptance phase.
The first example was a tweet from usually-secular Human Events editor Jack Posobeic (2.3 million followers), in a video clip interviewing someone about the Antichrist. [insert tweet]
Shortly after spotting that one, I discovered a brand-new video podcast from Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk (1.2 million subscribers), interviewing the excellent, pro-America, Calvary Chapel Pastor Jack Hibbs … about how to recognize we’re in the End Times. It’s a good interview, actually. But it is telling about America’s psychology. https://youtu.be/OA0mdb01HYI?si=DIl3U-7lHyrM4_ZM
/snip
The point is, world events apparently seem so dire that mainstream Christians are now openly discussing the End of The World as if it were no more out of the ordinary than discussing more woke politics in the latest Netflix series. But is it justified? Are world events really that dire?
/snip
On a broader stage, we’ve also faced World Wars before, twice. Of course, those previous times there weren’t two dozen (or more) unstable countries bristling with nuclear weapons, not to mention whatever biological terrors the white coats have obviously been cooking up like they’re preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe something like super monkeypox, or even worse.
What I see today are some admittedly mixed signs of cooling off.
Hezbollah is a well-equipped, Iran-backed, Lebanon-based terror group that everybody had expected to attack Israel while it was down right after October 7th. An attack from Hezbollah would make the Gaza action look like playtime at a nursery school (where the kids all carry hand grenades, but you get the idea).
Despite the shenanigans already enacted, Hezbollah has decided to back down.
Childers boils it down to two points: (1) Lebanon has its own problems, which would be exacerbated by a war, and (2) Iran doesn’t want to expend its “proxy army” on this fight, especially with two US carrier groups hovering offshore. Which makes me wonder – which fight are they preparing for?
Personally, I doubt very much that Hezbollah intends to declare war tomorrow, since announcing war ahead of time kind of ruins the surprise, and it totally destroys any first-mover advantage.
The war is unlikely to spread if Hezbollah just tosses a few rockets from the sidelines. So — right now — it looks like there’s a realistic chance things won’t escalate.
We can hope.
The two spices I use the most, Indian Tellicherry black pepper and Hungarian Half-Sharp paprika, are for some reason unavailable. There seems to be a shortage and I am alarmed !
I’m sure the Mullahs in Iran have something to do with it.
Next, Speaker Johnson news:
In good news here at home, on Tuesday NBC ran a story headlined “In his first act, Speaker Mike Johnson uses Israel aid to pick a fight with Joe Biden.” I already liked how the story sounded even before I read the rest.
Remember last year, when the Dems managed to push through the monstrous omnibus spending bill? The one that included $80B to the IRS? So they could acquire more attack dogs to chase down “wealthy” tax evaders? (Of course, “wealthy” is a relative term, subject to definition by the party in power.)
Some folks have wondered just how many ‘wealthy tax evaders’ Biden thinks there are.
They might not need to look very far. One of the wealthy tax evaders could even be living in Biden’s house in Maui right now. The irony of Hunter’s tax problems has completely escaped the corporate media, which have wasted tons of chances to sprinkle some sly humor into their otherwise-obsequious stories.
So what did the new Speaker do? He didn’t add to the debt, he moved $14B from the IRS to the Israel aid package! Genius! Everyone will love him for that, since the IRS has few friends. I’m sure Obama/Biden were a bit infuriated over that move. Good.
Biden and democrats in the Senate were outraged! How dare he. Democrats vowed to oppose the bill come what may. Israel be damned! This is the IRS! For example, Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff for Representative Don Beyer (D-Va.), sputtered in a recent tweet that, “This isn’t an offset, it’s exploiting a war to pass a tax cut for the rich.” In other words, democrats argue that decreasing all the newly-planned audits will shake down, I mean ‘recover’ less money from taxpayers.
Biden has vowed to veto the bill if it somehow passes the democrat-controlled Senate, which seems unlikely. In the meantime, government money-hemorrhaging remains on hold. The Republicans are starting to look very smart indeed, which is a long-overdue boost for the GOP.
Now, on to election fraud:
Finally, I guess election fraud does happen, after all. The Connecticut Examiner ran a story yesterday headlined, “Court Overturns Ganim Win in Bridgeport Primary, Calling Evidence of Fraud ‘Shocking’.”
But….but….but….I thought election fraud was a right-wing conspiracy theory?!
After a two-week trial, in a 37-page opinion (which is linked in the story), democrat judge William Clark ordered a new democrat primary — a do-over — after video evidence showed elections officials stuffing ballot boxes with absentee ballots — which in Connecticut may only be dropped off by the voter or a close family member.
With the fraudulent ballots included, incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim won the primary. Without them, his opponent John Gomez, pictured above, would have won.
When he testified, even Mayor Ganim, the beneficiary of the fraud, testified that he was “shocked” — shocked! — at all the evidence. I bet he was. The judge’s opinion noted that, “Mr. Ganim was also correct to be ‘shocked’ at what he saw on the video clips in evidence that were shown to him while he was on the witness stand. The videos are shocking to the court and should be shocking to all the parties.”
Good news, with the general election coming up. Is Kari Lake’s trial still ongoing? If we can get a few more court cases documenting the election fraud, then there may be more muscle to fight election fraud.
Don’t get me wrong – the cheating will be rampant, especially after the lesson learned in the Trump election.
But it will help, even if a little bit. Momentum.
From yesternight, the discussion about the new DL rules. My old DL was advertised as being “RealID”, but I still had to bring in documentation. I just used my passport.
Now that I have the new Cherokee Nation Citizen ID card, I can use that for all federal purposes. I’ve used it a few times already. At the Fed courthouse they took it without batting an eye. Other places give me the same look that Yellow Hair gives me when she can’t figure me out (very often). It’s kind of like a puppy does when they tilt their heads only with the added expression of “why is there an arm growing out of your forehead?”
I’ll just leave this right here. 😀
#11 SD: Now that is what I call a maxi-pad!
This is good; @ Thomas Sowell
Indian Tellicherry black pepper and Hungarian Half-Sharp paprika
What the +_)* izzat? What is wrong with good old fashioned McCormick black pepper and paprika? But noooooo you gotta use Indian and Hungarian stuff. No wonder this country is collapsing from within. Unbelievable…..
SPITS © SuperDave
8 Texpat
Thank goodness.
This is interesting. The man interviewed converted to Christianity and lives hopefully under an assumed name somewhere in the USA.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, Son Of Senior Hamas Leader In The West Bank: Hamas Leader In Gaza Yahya Sinwar Once Beheaded A Man Using A Bathroom Sink, Now He Hides Under Al-Shifa Hospital And Uses Patients As Human Shields
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the author of an autobiography titled Son of Hamas, in which he reveals that he collaborated with Israeli intelligence services while he was a Hamas operative. Yousef has converted to Christianity and currently lives in the United States.
Bobby Knight turned out the lights at 83 years of age.
Jimmy Hoffa may be buried at site of demolished MLB stadium: cold case group
The alleged burial site is next to the current Milwaukee Brewers stadium, American Family Field, where they believe Hoffa’s body lies in a spot under where the demolished stadium’s third-base line previously stood.
I went upstairs without crutches, just kinda not thinking about it until the first four steps were behind. I was excited, because it didn’t hurt.
At first.
Note to self: back the heck off and stay away from stairs.
I wanted buy the lovely BSue a nice card and take her out to dinner to celebrate. I could not find a Hallmark card or anything at Walmart. And then I told BSue my plan and she said “Not tonight Honey I have a headache”. She then reminded me that she had the egg machine removed some years ago. I can’t win.
So I asked her what we could do and she said “Go plant a tree.” SIGH
Hmm – where do people think all that black pepper and paprika comes from, Alabama ?
It all comes from India, Hungary, Morocco, Turkey and other places in Northern Africa and Asia. McCormick became a local household name because the company expanded in the 1920s to Houston and Texas. They still have a big facility in Austin on I-35 south.
It all depends on the level of quality. I grew up on McCormick and it’s okay or you can have the really fine stuff but that pepper, no matter the quality, is still coming from the same country.
By the way, the best cinnamon in the world comes from Vietnam. Once you use it in cooking you won’t ever buy anything else. And more than one war was started over the nutmeg trade alone.
About 20 years ago, I bought a book on the history of the spice wars, in Heathrow Airport in London, on my way to North Africa and read it while I was in a compound in the middle of the Sahara desert. The Spice Wars were mind-boggling.
That look I get when I wanna do something nice for my BSue like celebrating World Fertility Day
All spices come from McCormick.
/Sheesh he is trying to tell me spices come from exotic countries. Harummmmppphhhhh
Chilly Good Morning, all you Famous/Hamous folks! I think I got all my drive-somewhere chores done yesterday, so I may mow my front yard today. (Not that it really needs it…)
Changed my mind on outdoor labor today, it’s just too cold.
But hey, what happened to the rest of you???
Sorry mharper42 – sat here too long working crosswords
Busy day here at the office.
(JPOST)
In March 2018, Tamimi was convicted on four counts of assaulting an IDF officer and soldier, incitement, and interference with IDF forces, and was sentenced to eight months in prison and eight months of probation. She was released on July 29, 2018 after serving her full prison term.
The 21-year-old became famous following the distribution of videos and photographs in which she attacked IDF soldiers in several incidents in her home village, Nabi Saleh.
Caroline Glick Focuses on this little darling and others in her latest video.
I wonder if people tgat think humans are basically good still hold on to that lie from the devil.
This is why one can not nor should attempt to negotiate with the muzzies.
It is an irrational act to expect rational behavior from irrational people.
I’m up on Ramapo Mountain babysitting my grandson who is way too smart ass and articulate for a five year old.
I’m on my phone so commenting is limited. I really dislike typing on a cell phone.
I’m not exactly sure where it started, but one of the greatest lies ever perpetrated on the human race is that “all people are basically good.”
They are not and as Squawk says it’s the work of the Devil.
babysitting my grandson who is way too smart
assand articulate for a five year old.
Wish I was there. He’s a cool little dude.
He’ll be completely incorrigible in two or three years and you’ll be hard pressed to hold his attention for more than ten minutes.
Unless you can sneak him out to firing range without his mother finding out.
Hee hee
As I recall, I flew home from NJ on Halloween, one year ago.
Shannon
We went to Tarrytown in New York on Halloween night, remember ?
Texpat
Halloween was Mon Oct 31, 2022. I have my Ellis Island Ferry ticket stub from that morning.
That evening we were giving out treats and Jeff showed up an hour before we had to leave for the airport.
I also remember thinking how stupid I was to put myself into the position of driving home from Bush on Halloween night at midnight or later.
I think the concert in Terrytown was on the previous Saturday night.
(Which rendered us me physically incapable of tackling the planned walking tour around West Point on Sunday.). 🙂
ABC’s David Muir and Ian Pannell calls the murdering bastidges of HAMAS militants.
I AM LIVID, INSULTED AND HIGHLY URINATED OFF
Didn’t you grill the insanely good fish on Sunday evening?
……Keeping in mind that I’m not real sure what I accomplished yesterday, much less a year ago…..
I guess that’s why Super Dave has a minute-by-minute photographic record of his every move, every day.
🙂
38
It’s not a bad strategy. For when the dementia sets in.
Like mine is.
🙂
It occurs to me that in his aviation-related career Super Dave has had to document his every living/breathing moment, especially at the Rocket Ranch.
He doesn’t know any other way to live.
The Commie, Leftist, Queer, America-hating Globalists are so worried about the Palestinians.
Not a peep out of the same bunch about Pakistan kicking out 1.2 million refugees in the last few weeks – literally bulldozing their camps.
Many hundreds of thousands of them are Afghan refugees.
I’ll take this lonesome l’il 42 home with me…
Don’t worry.
Everything’s s going to be alright.
Because Gavin Newsome is shoring up our all-important relationship with China.
Sh!t. Even Politico is making fun of him.
But mark my words. This guy is our next President.
43
But mark my words. This guy is our next President.
Yup
Good evening Hamsters,
Busy day around here after yesterday’s busy day. Spouse wanted to replace our 8-year-old GMC Acadia (with only 40,000 some miles on it and in excellent condition) with a new electric motor Chevvy Blazer SUV. I was concerned about the electric motor part, having recently read about electric vehicle motors catching fire. Turns out when I read the article again it was talking about only Toyota SUVs, which clarification was useful.
Looked at vehicles two days ago and went back to buy the one we tried out. It is about the size of the Acadia, for which the dealer would give us $14,000 in trade. But a good friend who had admired the Acadia for several years was able to meet the dealership’s price on it, so it goes to live with him.
A big difference is it is very quiet to start and runs quietly, which seems kind of strange compared to the Acadia or our Buick car. So the new one is in our garage with our car, and the Acadia is in the barn waiting to be taken to its new home. Will have to think of a name for it, as our vehicles have names. 🙂
Sorry, I’m unclear.
Are you saying that your new Chevy Blazer is an all Electric Vehicle that plugs in? No gasoline?
Shannon
I guess that’s why Super Dave has a minute-by-minute photographic record of his every move, every day.
And
38
It’s not a bad strategy. For when the dementia sets in.
Like mine is.
I guess that’s a thought. 😉
It sounds like you had a fine trip up to Yankee Country last year and I remember you going but has it been a year?! Mercy! And today is November second.
#43 Shannon and #44 Squawk I can’t argue that.
Since nobody asked what’s fer supper I’ll tell you even if you don’t really want to know. 😉
I made my wife tater soup on Tuesday so she had that leftover and I had KO Brisling Sardines on toast with cheese and jalapeno’s, dang fine eating right there.
Adee
Spouse wanted to replace our 8-year-old GMC Acadia (with only 40,000 some miles on it and in excellent condition)
Somebody is going to get a fine, just broke-in automobile. Probably drive it for 10 years. 😉
My next big project is to survive three or four days in Boerne/Kerrville to get my special grandson married off.
Can’t wait. He’s a fine 38-year-old man who has waited a long time for the right one.
Congrats and special wishes for the lucky couple.
Adee
It’s not about the batteries catching on fire which they all can do no matter whether it’s a Tesla, Toyota, BMW, Nissan or Chevrolet. The batteries are all constructed in similar ways with the same materials.
You best get rid of the EV vehicle before the batteries fail because that is when the $35,000 to $40,000 hit.
I still don’t understand what the auto industry is doing with this first generation of EVs in which the batteries have worn out or failed. What’s happening with these cars, SUVs and trucks ?
If a used car dealer/broker or new car dealership ends up with a couple of dozen of these units, is he going to pour $35K to $40K into each model in his inventory ? This is insane. None of it makes any economical or even common sense.
The same thing applies to the windmill and solar panel fantasy world. They are cancelling projects all over America and Ford, GMC and Toyota have killed future EV development for now.
The wedding is on Thursday, January 4, 2024.
So weird.
I’ve learned that the middle class can no longer afford wedding venues on the weekends anymore.
Destroying the American middle class is the most important mission of the enemy.
Shannon – make sure and take your allergy meds with you, if you have any mountain cedar allergies… I moved from Houston to Bandera County a lifetime ago, only to find that I’d moved to where a lot of the cedar pollen (technically ash juniper) starts out… We rejoiced when they put in a Wally World in Boerne because before that we had to go 30 miles or so into San Antonio to get groceries… That’s where I got into EMS… It’s beautiful country, but the cedar will likely still be around in January 😉
Thanks BSue.
Been going to that part of our beloved Texas for many years.
For cedar sufferers, New Years could very well be the worst possible time to be in the Texas hill country.
Remind me to share Texpat’s and my all-time Hill Country holiday cedar nightmare story.
The best thing that happened was neither of us ended up in the hospital.
#46 Shannon
Yes, it is. Electric only, no gasoline. I haven’t driven it yet, figure spouse needs to become more accustomed to it so he can coach me when I’m trying it out. Good thing we live in a small subdivision with only 2 roads and good vision on both of them. Great for practice for me when spouse has it down completely.
He got the plug for it hooked up today. It still seems rather odd compared to gasoline vehicles, and the engine is actually much simpler but bigger than a gasoline engine. It is supposed to have a 300-mile range, but when we go to Fredericksburg in a few weeks, we will take the car.
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