Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FLA)
U.S. House of Representatives
House Freedom Caucus
Brunette Friday Open Comments
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Good morning. Is this thing on?
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Good morning, texanadian.
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Good Morning – it was chilly when I took Shorty Dawg out to go walkies… but dry… Thankfully, we’re back inside now – me with my cuppa coffee and her snuggled in her blanket by my side, snoring softly 😉 Have a blessed day, every buddy
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A Texanadian sighting, I guess you got your crop in.
Mornin’ Gang, Shannon, bsue.
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Getting ready to make a driving attempt to Denton.
Gotta remember to pack some extra pillows. I know which of mine are squishy enough for the knee.
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Great Brunette Friday picture, I see Anna Luna on Fox occasionally and she is a true conservative.
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Someone’s horse is loose, Greenbriar and Walnut Hill.
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On the House floor: Nancy Pelosi admits she was served with ‘third-party subpoenas’ in federal criminal case.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been subpoenaed in a “third-party” criminal case based in California.
The official House rules require members to notify the speaker in writing if they are served with a subpoena. That notification, the rules say, “shall promptly be laid before the House.”
On Wednesday, House Reading Clerk Tylease Alli read from the House floor the notification that Pelosi submitted.
“This is to notify you formally pursuant to Rule VIII of the rules of the House of Representatives that I, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita, and U.S. representative for the 11th Congressional District of California, have been served with third-party subpoenas from the prosecution and the defendant to produce documents in a criminal case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California,” the statement read.
Unfortunately, neither the clerk nor Pelosi provided additional details, such as the case for which Pelosi has been subpoenaed. Pelosi’s office declined to comment.
Fox News reported that the subpoena is related to the criminal case involving David DePape, the man accused of brutally attacking Pelosi’s husband inside their San Francisco residence last year.
DePape’s federal trial for the alleged assault is set to begin next week. The venue is the northern district of California.
In pretrial motions, a witness in the case sought to avoid testifying at trial. In court documents, that person is referred to as “Target 1” because his or her legal name has been redacted. It’s not clear who that person is, but we know it’s not Nancy Pelosi.
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Someone’s horse is loose
Not mine, I no longer have any horses but back in the day they did get out a couple of times. My dad woke me up about 2 AM one Sunday morning and when we got to the Federal Highway a State Trooper was herding them up the road with his cruiser, blue lights flashing. Luckily in those days the road was dead, only an occasional trucker on the road. It was a sight though 2 horses and a donkey trotting ahead of the police cruiser.
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The United Nations sends “cash shipments” to Afghanistan every 10 to 14 days, money that is supposed to be shielded from the Taliban, according to the latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Biden administration has allocated more than $2.5 billion for humanitarian projects in Afghanistan since its 2020 evacuation from the country, and international donors provided billions more for the country.
While the State Department has provided assurances this aid is not enriching the Taliban, SIGAR reports that the terror group’s “interference into UN and NGO activities has continued to rise throughout 2023.” This interference includes arresting aid workers and demanding that “sensitive data” about various projects be turned over to Taliban officials. The terror group also “indirectly benefit[s] from U.S. education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance, and by infiltrating and extorting existing Afghan NGOs delivering educational assistance,” according to SIGAR’s summary of its report.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which remains active in the war-torn country, also said that “agency-funded projects were affected by Taliban interference” in recent months, according to the SIGAR report. But the Taliban’s meddling in international aid projects has not stopped the United States and other Western nations from pumping money into Afghanistan, generating concerns the terror group is enriching itself while the nation starves.
NOTE: Hard core leftist and anti-Israel and Jew hater, Samantha Powers, runs the USAID. She is an old running buddy of Obama and served as the ambassador to the UN under his administration.
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Don’t you just hate changing passwords?
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Edited twice and I give up, linky won’t work.
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Antony Blinken is having a Press Conference, oh boy! He is so pathetically naive it’s scary and of course the scariest part is that the whole world is watching this Damn Clown….. SIGH!
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Ha!
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Obviously, the people in GJT’s neighborhood don’t know how to build fences or hang gates.
We always said:
Horse High, Bull Strong & Hog Tight
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President Trump’s new education plan is going to give the higher Ed people cardiac arrest.
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KLVH 97.1 Country Legends station no more, now a contemporary Christian station.
H/T OTL
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I’m sitting in a diagnostic imaging clinic waiting for Her Highness to get a cardiac calcium test. I need all you folks to keep working to pay the taxes for all this stuff.
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Obviously, the people in GJT’s neighborhood don’t know how to build fences or hang gates.
Ain’t that the truth. They don’t let their chickens venture far off though! 😀
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IF this is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, then there is only one solution to the palestinian problem.
The problem is that where ever the palis have gone, they have created massive unrest. They have made themselves loathsome in the eyes of their Arab bretheren. They are like a huge pack of rabid dogs terrorizing the neighborhood, any neighborhood, where they happen to be.
What do you do when confronted with a pack of rabid dogs?
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I need all you folks to keep working to pay the taxes for all this stuff.
Tell me about it, like my 65th BD triggered never ending issues, now waiting to get over pneumonia to take care of kidney stones found in non related CT scans, then still haven’t dealt with vein issues in my legs causing neuropathy.
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I can’t tell you Texpat’s age, but I suspect when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.
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My 26-pound pud cat Lynx is wanting to sit in my lap, but I won’t let him while I’m trying to eat my breakfast. Yeah, we got up late this morning. He has a delightful purr.
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I can’t tell you Texpat’s age, but I suspect when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.
Topped off with a tablespoon of castor oil.
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Katy isd has received over 2 billion worth of bonds packages since 2014 and is now asking for 840 million more.
And you won’t even get property tax hike.
what a racket.
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Wasn’t texpat the stunt double for Spanky on the little rascals?
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Where the wagonburner at?
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In 2022, 13,241 Canadians died through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) – 4.1% of all deaths.
The advance of MAID has been astonishing. Since euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalised in 2016, there have been 44,958 MAID deaths. About one Canadian in 25 dies after a lethal injection. It took Belgium and the Netherland about 20 years to reach this level of normalised euthanasia – it has taken Canada only seven years.
holy crap
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Can Americans make cool war-fighting stuff or what ?
Both on the same day.
“In recent days, a cruise missile launched from the southeast toward Israeli airspace was detected by the IAF’s control and detection systems. After tracking the cruise missile’s trajectory, Adir fighter jets were scrambled and successfully intercepted the missile,” the IDF said today, while releasing video of the incident.
The cruise missile was likely launched from the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, although the IDF did not specify the launch site. While Israeli did not specify what weapon was used to intercept the incoming cruise missile, Israel’s F-35I variants are armed with both the AIM-9X Sidewinder and Aim-120 AMRAAM missiles.
Israel’s F-35s were declared operational in 2017 and they were used in combat in 2018 for the first time. Israel signed a deal to buy an additional 25 of the aircraft in July. The country will eventually have 75 of the fifth-generation aircraft.
The IDF also hold the title of the first known kill by an F-35, when in March 2021 it shot down two drones it says were launched from Iran.
Plus this,
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Arrow air defense system for the first time intercepted a ballistic missile today, in an attempted strike believed to have been launched from Yemen.
The Israeli Defense Forces said the interception was the first operational use of the Arrow system since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, and that it “thwarted an aerial threat in the area of the Red Sea.” The IDF later said the missile was fired toward Israel but was intercepted before it could reach its target.
“All aerial threats were intercepted outside of Israeli territory. No infiltrations were identified into Israeli territory,” the IDF said.
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26 wagonburner
You know, I was glad to find out you are only Cherokee without any Comanche blood which could raise serious problems in Texas. The Cherokee despised the Comanches and were responsible in great part for driving them off the Plains to Texas so they could terrorize respectable, civilized people. Cherokee came to be better marksmen (with better guns from the White Man) than the Comanche were better horsemen.
By the way, you should get out of that Intracoastal Canal before you get your silly self run over by a towboat.
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Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery, Grimes, Waller, Austin and Washington counties in Texas equal the entire geographical land area of Israel.
or,
In West Texas, just Brewster and Jeff Davis counties equal the size of Israel.
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Texpat
The Israel Defense Forces said that it used F-35I Adir fighter jets to shoot down a cruise missile this week, the first known cruise missile intercept by the American-made stealth fighter.
I saw a video of that on Watter’s show last night, pretty dang neat.
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The National Association of Realtors just lost a huge class action lawsuit for $1.8 Billion dollars – that is with a capital B. Matt Stoller, who has spent his career on researching monopolies, believes big changes are coming. I suspect the damage amount against the NAR will be significantly reduced on appeal, it still means they are going to have to change their business model. A lot of agents and brokers in America are probably going to take a hit.
The realtor matters in America, because the home matters. And it’s a job that takes skill and instinct, because each house, and each buyer, is unique. There are a host of intangibles every agent brings to the business, an understanding of neighborhoods, what a family might need, how to price a house, as well as a network of the endless number of businesses who handle repairs, water issues, lending, escrow, legal services, and so forth. I’ve used a bad agent who tried to scam me, and I’ve used wonderful agents who helped me at pivotal moments, and the difference is literally life-changing. Real estate is fundamental to who we are as a society, and the broker class who mediate our purchases are important civic leaders.
But realtors in America also have a unique commission structure, which leads them to charge among the highest rates in the world, roughly 6% of the home price in the U.S. versus 1% in, say, the United Kingdom or Singapore. This middleman business takes in about $100 billion a year in revenue, supporting millions of realtors but also costing Americans who buy and sell homes a non-trivial chunk of their life savings every time they buy or sell a house. Realtors were a significant part of Kate Judge’s important book, Direct, on the rise of the middleman economy, because they are a good example of how conflicts of interest can corrupt an industry on which we rely.
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Today, NAR blocks low-cost entrants through its cooperative commission rule, which is a conflict of interest based on corrupting the incentives of the agent for the buyer. (Indeed, many of the most obvious problems we have in the economy right now involve such corruption where an agent for a buyer is controlled by a seller, or vice versa. This is the basic problem in pharmaceuticals.) In the real estate agent business, someone trying to buy a house doesn’t pay a broker upfront to represent him or her. The commission is baked into the price when the sale closes. For the last twenty five years, the National Association of Realtors, the main lobbying body for the industry, mandated that the selling agent split the commission with the buying agent.
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#26 wagonburner, Judging by the water tower I’m going to guess Galveston Bay not far from Dickinson Bayou. The water is too wide to be the Intracoastal unless it were it cuts across the bay. The Tug pushing the barge could be in the ship channel heading to the Port Of Houston or Bayport or even Baytown. That said, it’s only a guess, you could be in West Bay but I’m not familiar enough with that area to know any landmarks. 😉
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Chinese Belt & Road hits a dead end.
There is not a lot of good news out there, but this one about made my day. I hope the Philippines did this because they are smart enough to turn it down and not because Biden and Blinken made some secret promise to hand over billions to them.
It’s a powerful symbolic move by the Filipinos and should help encourage other poor countries to do the same.
But the Philippines won’t be among the recipients of China’s largesse or shared future as Marcos Jr’s administration swerves decidedly away from China’s monied but troubled program for paving its global influence.
In a major development with geopolitical implications, the Philippine Department of Transportation has announced the full termination of a series of big-ticket infrastructure projects with China in favor of Japanese and Western rivals.
According to the Philippine Senate, nearly all of China’s key investment initiatives in the Philippines are now in doubt due to both economic and political factors. The upshot is a new nadir in Philippine-China relations, a dramatic about-turn from the six years of warm engagement under the pro-Beijing Rodrigo Duterte presidency.
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For the Philippines, China has largely engaged in “pledge trap” diplomacy during the Duterte administration, a cynical ploy that entailed forward-deployed concessions in the South China Sea in exchange for largely illusory investment pledges. China pledged as much as $24 billion in infrastructure projects under Duterte, nearly none of which have been delivered.
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Real cranberries showed up last week and I couldn’t resist.
They’re cooling right now.
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Wisconsin is the top cranberry producer, by far.
Sure would like visit a cranberry farm operation.
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KHOU carried a story about the newest graduates of the Houston Police Mounted Patrol Class. Two of the grads are from Conroe PD.
Back in the day – before the West Loop became the West Loop – HPD’s mounted patrol facility was along there.
There were also stables there where you could take your kids and rent horses. Daddy took us there at least once. I was always so young that I was inevitably set on the oldest great-great-grandma mare on the place. No matter how hard I tried, she wouldn’t exceed the speed of slow-motion.
So frustrating.
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The Cherokee despised the Comanches and were responsible in great part for driving them off the Plains to Texas
If the paleface woulda just let us be, we’d have rather stayed home.
n.b. Rumor has it that I’m about 3x more Choctaw than Cherokee, but we can’t prove it.
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I can’t remember which tribe Hammie was out of.
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No children came to our house on Halloween night and likely didn’t come into our subdivision at all unless it was to attend a party. This year we didn’t get anything to give out and so turned the porch lights out early. But this is likely close to the 30th straight year that no kids came, and watchful parents made the right choice to pass us by. We have large lots so walking between homes can be a challenge since we don’t have streetlights and only yard lights close to the houses.
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#34 Shannon,
The mare knew what she was carrying and acted accordingly. 🙂
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I remember the HPD mounted patrol on the West Loop well. I don’t think we ever went in the facility but I can remember passing by it all the time.
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One of the guys Soaring Eagle went to field camp with was like 100% Apache.
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Adee # 36
I didn’t see or hear any T-or-T activity on my street either. My side of the subdivision is north of Tidwell (a major through street in near northwest Houston), while the larger area south of Tidwell is connected with some lesser subdivisions. On my side, we have 2 short streets of houses, backed up to White Oak Bayou and a massive wooded area belonging to a Lutheran church, its school, parking lots, playground, and a sports arena. -
34 Shannon
Those stables, I believe, were Harris County Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol or maybe it was a joint operation with HPD.
ATTN SQUAWK: I am old enough to remember when the western boundary of Memorial Park was Post Oak Road and there was no I-610 or I-10. It was just the Katy Highway US 90 and the old Post Oak Road.
There were semi-rural neighborhoods clustered around Memorial Drive but it looked and felt like most any other country road in Texas back then. In the area near to the Park, there were some big older homes, a few mansions, but it was all bar ditches, homemade culverts and no shoulders for miles through the piney woods.
Westheimer Road ran like a airport runway westward and there was nothing there when I was little once you got past Post Oak Road. It was two lane blacktop all the way to what used to be called Jackrabbit Road and is now called Highway 6. Somewhere out in the middle of nowhere there was Bud Bigelow’s Steakhouse. He was a friend of R.E. “Bob” Smith who owned thousands and thousands of acres west of Houston and ran a million head of cattle. The story I was told is he loved Bigelow’s steaks so he sold him a couple of acres to build the restaurant so Smith didn’t have to drive into town to eat.
It was a pretty fancy place and my parents only splurged there 2 or 3 times. We would drive east on Memorial Drive to Voss Road, turn south and then west on Westheimer. Bigelow’s was about where Dairy Ashford crosses now, between Hwy 8 and Hwy 6. All I remember is they would bring a cutting board with a knife and hot fresh bread out of the oven with a little bowl of real butter. It was heaven and may have been the first time I ever tasted a serious grilled steak at about, hmmm, maybe 7 years old.
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Do you like your kabuki theatre rare, medium or well done?
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If the new speaker were serious he’d take another 20 billion from the irs budget and allocate all of it for shutting the border down.
no more stupid games.
otherwise it’s just the same old s___t!
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We need a 150 mile DMZ.
From the Rio Grande River to points south.
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Mentioned here recently was ABC’s Keith Morrison.
Fay and I always looked forward to his episodes of Dateline. (Even though Dateline is by far the worst of its genre).
Fay and I agreed that Keith missed his calling. We would laugh and laugh about it.
He has the finest horror-movie-narrator voice and delivery in history.
Of course, I never could perfect my impression of him.
🙂
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Shannon @ 5:20 PM
Sure would like visit a cranberry farm operation.
Maybe once and you have to bring your deep-wader overalls and flannel lined longjohns because the murky, thick water in a cranberry bog is icy cold.
I got close to one in southern New Jersey once when our daughter lived down there years ago and that was enough for me. I stopped by and met this couple who were farmers and had a roadside stand. They had a bog and I walked down there. It’s not my cup of tea, but I do enjoy those super fresh cranberries from time to time.
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Wisconsin is the top cranberry producer, by far.
I did not know that. I always thought New Jersey was the Cranberry Capitol of the world. I guess that since Wisconsin has all those lakes they also have swampland to grow Cranberries.
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After a busy day with the chainsaw I decided that we needed to head over to Our Place and have some fried catfish and it sure was good.
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Central Texas Country Boy Redneck Hippie Blues
The 70’s we’re a lot of fun.
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I can’t do a Keith Morrison impression either but I’m very good at catching phrases he works that made your ear perk but didn’t consciously realize he’d just said that. Big fan as well.
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Things you learned from your Grandmother.
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Maybe once and you have to bring your deep-wader overalls and flannel lined longjohns because the murky, thick water in a cranberry bog is icy cold.
I didn’t mean imply that I was willing to help with the harvest.
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“I’m all for welcoming folks here from places less desirable, but what better dish to make everyone prove they can handle the Texas ‘heat’ along with the Texas ‘cool’ than chili?” Rapp writes. “If everyone who wants to move to Texas is required to sit down and finish a big bowl of 5-alarm at a place like the Texas Chili Parlor before getting a drivers license, buying property, or buying one of those hipster LBJ hats, I reckon we’d have a lot easier time of maintaining our identity.
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My favorite last 4:46 in cinematic history.
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48 phil
….One of the great psycho bad guys ever
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