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Wednesday Open Comments

Via Dan Zimmerman @ The Truth About Guns

The best part about the gun debate is that it’s increasingly just academic.

Our victory is assured.

Put aside Bruen, or Heller, or McDonald, or any of the other gun rights victories in courts. Put aside the massive increases in gun ownership, in every demographic.
Right now, there are more guns than people in the US. Tomorrow, that gun/people ratio will grow, as it has for years, and shows no sign of stopping.

Every day, 3D manufacturing technology continues to improve.

You’re already able to make a functioning gun at home, using free, publicly-available printing files. As that technology improves, we will reach the gun singularity, wherein you can make a gun at home of the same or better quality than you’d get from a manufacturer.

Soon after, you’ll be able to print better weapons at home than the meandering bureaucracy at the Pentagon can procure.

We won’t need to be terrorist groups or cartels to get machine guns from the CIA and ATF. We’ll just make our own, and our stuff will be better than theirs.

And thanks to Tor nodes, VPNs and other privacy tech, they won’t even be able to know who’s making them, or where they are.

— Spike Cohen at X (Twitter)

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46 responses to “Wednesday Open Comments”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    FIRSTICUS!!

    Now to read the content.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

    ― Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

    It’s Wednesday! Hump Day and I don’t know if I mentioned it or not but I’m heading to Midland in the morning and to show you just how tough I am, I’m taking Lil’ Dawg with me, that should be fun. She’s not been on a Road Trip since we moved here in the spring of 2019 but she made lots of trips prior to that so I’m hopping she’ll settle in OK. Normally she rides shotgun in the Copilots seat and protects me from any strangers I might encounter along the way. Wife flew over last week to baby sit their psychotic Dawg while they went on a family, in-law cruise and we’re driving back together after Christmas.
    Yup, Life is Good   😉
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How about that? Bones snuck in while I was pecking away but no matter I was real late anyways. Maybe his showing up will save the dang blog. 😀

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    2 Super Dave.

    Have a safe trip, Dave.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Stephen Green quoting the WSJ from behind the paywall.  Link at the bottom if you’re a subscriber.

    Record youth unemployment that topped 21% this year has further dented confidence in traditional paths to achievement in China. Some, like Li, are also frustrated about other issues, such as violence against women in China or government efforts to prevent people from accessing foreign apps such as Twitter or Instagram.

    Many are quitting their jobs and turning to meditation and other forms of spirituality. Some are moving far from China’s megacities to start lives anew in places like Dali, a southwestern city famous within China as a hub for digital nomads and dropouts.

    Others are flooding fortune-teller stands and Buddhist temples in mountainous areas, or exploring Chinese and Western philosophers and writers from Laozi to Hermann Hesse. Some are throwing “quitting parties” with banners celebrating their newfound freedom.

    “This generation has had a lot of resources invested in them,” said Sara Friedman, professor of anthropology and gender studies at Indiana University, who studies Chinese society.

    “They have worked really hard. They have been pushed really hard. And to then say, ‘I’m stepping out of this rat race, I’m opting out,’ is a pretty radical decision to be making.”

    I’m not sure how Xi is going to handle this.  When things looked worse than bleak, Chairman Mao turned the poor high school and college students into the Red Guard by appealing to the Inner Fascist.  He gave them the authority to torture, humiliate and assault all the adults in the country.  It was a giant distraction to keep them from turning on him and his regime.

    The kids today in China are spoiled rotten compared to the children of the Red Guard.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out.  Inflation is rampant and the real estate industry, holding most of the middle class wealth, is on verge of collapse.

    WSJ Link Here.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I dare anybody to read the excerpt below and not go on to read the whole thing by Michael Walsh.

    The Column: A Model Immigrant

    And a very happy 132nd birthday (yesterday, Dec. 18) to the greatest Irish gangster of them all, Owen Vincent Madden! Leader of the Gopher Gang, inmate at Sing Sing, NYC’s leading beer brewer during Prohibition, Mae West’s lover (hardly an exclusive category), Broadway producer, founder of the Cotton Club, the man who hired Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, and Harold Arlen and made them all stars, owner of five heavyweight champs, including Primo Carnera and James J. Braddock, stone killer, the man who led Mad Dog Coll to his death in the call box at the London Chemists on 23rd St., very likely the guy behind the hit on Dutch Schultz in the Palace Chop House in Newark, boss of Hot Springs, Ark., and mentor to young William Jefferson Blythe/Clinton in his final years. Truly a great American, even if he was a criminal.

    Who knew the most famous black nightclub in American history, The Cotton Club, in Harlem was founded by an Irish gangster, the biggest of them all ?

     

  7. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I want to hear one SOB, just one, anywhere on earth, demand Hamas agree to an immediate cease-fire !  Right NOW !

    Your wish is my command.

    I demand Hamas agree to an immediate cease-fire !  Right NOW !

    I can tell you why all these things are happening but you won’t believe me.

  8. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Disclaimer I am not an SOB in the way you meant rather I am a Sweet Old Bore.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally popping in.  I fell asleep on an ice pack last night. Once again, I eschewed the “20 minutes on, 20 minutes off” recommendation for the ice, since I usually have some sort of fabric between the pack and my skin.  I kept ice on right jaw almost continuously from the time I came home to when I fell asleep.  I think that has made me functional today, even though I feel like I’ve had a ping-pong ball inserted into my jaw.  My dentist got quite a workout yesterday.  I never thought about the upper body and arm strength that dentists have to have. Pulling teeth and reaming out bone are not easy tasks.

    I was quite happy to hear his instructor telling him his work was “wonderful,” “delightful,” and “very well done”.  The instructor did the final stitching himself, as he was illustrating technique to my student dentist.  I was also gratified to hear me described as “a very nice patient” to the instructor.  I want them to like me.  I want them to like me a lot.  It’s easy, because I like them, too.  Dr. Gabriel and the assistant, whose name escapes me at the moment, have been very personable, considerate, competent, and professional.  A good combination.

    So, being forbidden hot drinks for the next day or two, I’m drinking my lukewarm coffee…

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I heard an interesting point being made on Chris Salcedo this morning: all the Jew haters claim there is a Palestinian genocide being conducted at the hands of the Jews.  No one ever points out the genocide against Jews that has already happened in many MidEast countries, like Syria.  The number of Jews went from the tens of thousands to zero or close to.  One country touted a whole 7 Jews.  At least at the time of counting.

    I’d be surprised if that family is still alive.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ☙ Wednesday, December 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C family, it’s Wednesday! The Childers family will be traveling home today after a delightful and festive holiday getaway. Today’s roundup includes a couple breaking stories that were obligatory as well as the scheduled news: Iceland volcano finally gets around to erupting; WaPo tells two tales of Ukraine; Colorado supremes cancel Trump primary because insurrection; John Solomon’s Crossfire Hurricane lawsuit might explain Monday’s CNN exposé; old jab study rebuts “no evidence” claims about harms from plasmid contaminants in jabs; new peer-reviewed study rounds up cancer effects from jabs, disproving another ‘no evidence’ claim and further undermining mRNA tech as a whole;  Australians start noticing the mysteriously rising rates of baffling car crashes and I make some suggestions; and Kevin McKernan points out a very big problem with the jabs’ nonsense-DNA defect.

    NEWS:

    If you like watching volcanic eruptions, indulge your little heart: https://www.youtube.com/live/RYqT0T5gLjQ?si=ypSjintuPjKMIoXq

    Trump election news:

    The UK Guardian ran an unprecedented and historic story yesterday headlined, “Why did Colorado disqualify Trump from the state’s 2024 election ballot?” The understated headline correctly explained this “Decision is the first time a presidential candidate has been deemed ineligible for election under the insurrection clause.”

    …applying Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — called the Insurrection Clause — the Colorado supreme court beclowned itself ruling 4-3 that Donald Trump is ineligible for any office, not even county dog catcher, because of the January 6th Capitol Riot, …

    The decision would ban Trump from the primary ballot.  The Court pats itself on its back by proclaiming themselves as “mindful of their solemn duty” and “applying the law without fear or favor” or “being swayed by public opinion”.  Yeah, right.  I’m looking for title to my beachfront property in Arizona.  I think it’s in the kitchen junk drawer.

    …The decision upheld a Colorado district court’s earlier but equally deranged 102-page judgment finding Trump was an insurrectionist by “clear and convincing evidence,” after a one-week trial.

    Making their decision look less like a serious ruling and more like a virtue-signaling political hand grenade, the Colorado justices stayed the effect of their own order to allow Trump’s lawyers time for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. I’d say the Supreme Court is bound to throw out Colorado’s awful ruling, since it is commonly-known that the Insurrection Clause was passed by angry Republicans to stop Confederate military officers like General Robert E. Lee from running for office after the Civil War.

    Saying that comparing the Capitol Riot to the U.S. Civil War is deranged is an insult to deranged people.

    DeSantis and others immediately called for SCOTUS to reverse the ruling.  Vivek is threatening to boycott Colorado.

    The Colorado GOP threatened to “withdraw from the Primary as a Party and convert to a pure caucus system if this is allowed to stand.” If that happens, Trump could still get the GOP’s nomination through a caucus even if barred from Colorado’s primary ballot.

    Childers, et al, thinks there is no way this ruling will stand.  He calls it a travesty and a sham, and claims that the Colorado court’s logic is so bad that any SCOTUS judge would have the ability to make sense of it and uphold it.

    … even the liberal Justices on the Supreme Court would vote to overturn in a unanimous pro-Trump decision, which would essentially ask the Colorado supremes to board the short judicial bus: [insert headline precting 9-0 ruling]

    It seems inevitable we’ll soon have a whole lot more clarity about what the Insurrection Clause, which has never been used this way, does or doesn’t say. And that should finally shut up a bunch of crazed leftists, at least about this insane idea, and annoy the Supreme Court, which has to deal with all this nonsense.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    John Solomon strikes again, God bless ‘im.

    Day before yesterday, I covered the “lost top-secret binder” story. An alert commenter directed me to a supplemental motion filed in a little-reported lawsuit by reporter John Solomon of Just The News. In January 2021, President Trump tasked John with publishing the declassified Crossfire Hurricane binder to the American people. This year John has been suing the Biden Administration as Trump’s “designated representative” trying to get a copy of the binder. I quickly reviewed his supplemental motion during a spare hour.

    It was extremely informative.

    While DC operatives were scrambling to recover and hide/burn all copies of the binder, Solomon managed to get a look at a mostly unredacted version.  He KNOWS what’s in the binder.  Solomon with information is a dangerous combination to the Deep Swamp dwellers.

    The DOJ (aka “Deep Swamp Enforcement Arm,” or DSEA), claims that through a sequence of events the Binder is now property of DSEA and they can redact the heckfahr out of it before releasing anything through FOIA requests.  Solomon is fighting that.

    Second, apparently influenced by psychedelic mushrooms, the DOJ theorized that Trump’s explicit order for them to lightly redact and then distribute the binder somehow included an implied discretion for the agency, which it utilized to decide instead to heavily redact the binder and then not distribute it.

    “Discretion” being the key word: a goofy DOJ euphemism for “disobey a direct order.” Obviously it’s a stretch.

    Childers proclaims both arguments “legally horrible”.  He suspects the playing field is being set up to fight an order for the DSEA to release the binder, as per Trump’s original order.  Childers garners this opinion based on the lawsuit’s docket and the legal machinations on record.

    To me, the case looks ripe for summary judgment. John Solomon claims to have a legal right as President Trump’s “designated representative” to Trump’s “Presidential record” — the declassified binder. The DOJ raised two dumb legal arguments. Since there aren’t any disputed facts to be tried, the case should be resolved by summary judgment. And the last thing filed related to the competing summary judgment motions was on October 12th.

    It’s now December. A decision on the summary judgment orders could literally come any minute now.

    So here’s my guess about what’s really going on: The historic “lost DOJ binder” story ran in CNN on Monday because, one way or another, the deep state discovered that federal Judge Leon is about to rule in John Solomon’s favor, forcing the government to cough up the binder like a giant, politically-damaging hairball. So maybe the deep state used CNN trying to create a pretext for corporate media and the social media platforms to blackout any discussion of the binder and lock it down.

    Childers reveals that there are other “explosive documents” expected soon, in addition to the Binder.  He suggests we buckle up.

    And pass the popcorn.  This is all gonna hit just as election season hits main stride.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up: more jab news.  Specifically, contaminants in the jab news.  And the cover-up.

    Kevin McKernan reported plasmid DNA contaminants along with the Simian Virus 40 (SV40) promoter gene, and was promptly labeled a quack.  (Remember that the SV40, which was NOT supposed to exist in the jab, makes the infestation and damage from the spikes more likely.)  After other labs confirmed McKernan’s findings, that bullying was shut down.

    Since the quackery argument had fizzled and the evidence was obvious, the argument went to “well, there’s no evidence that anyone was hurt!”  Until someone found a 2010 study in the journal Vaccine refuting that argument.  Yes, before WLR hit, there were already warning signs about DNA vaccines. Biosafety of DNA Vaccines: New Generation of DNA Vectors and Current Knowledge on The Fate of Plasmids After Injection.”

    Childers got help in reviewing the medical-ese of the report.  What did it all boil down to?

    Gene therapy. In other words, the mRNA vaccines appear to use techniques designed to modify the subject’s DNA. Ruh-roh! That’s just what they told us over and over the vaccines did not do. If the plasmids Kevin McKernan found are random contaminants, or random parts of E. coli genes, then it seems likely that some cells in people who got the jabs are being randomly engineered.

    This plasmid thing, plus the previously-mentioned mistranslation defect, are quickly unraveling the jabs. As I keep saying, it’s only a matter of time.

    But Gates wants to jab the world.  I wonder if he got jabbed the first time?  Or did he know better?

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Jabs and cancer:

    The well-regarded Journal Cureus published a remarkable new peer-reviewed study this week titled, “SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and the Multi-Hit Hypothesis of Oncogenesis”.[You gotta see the chart in Childers’ column]

    /snip

    It’s a pretty technical list, and non-med/sci folks don’t need to try understanding them all. The point is, a major journal just published a peer-reviewed paper listing eight different ways the vaccines can cause new cancers or make regressed cancers flare up again….

    Specifically, the researchers have grown concerned about something called the “multi-hit hypothesis” of cancer. It’s a theory that cancer develops not by a single event but in a gradual process caused by multiple accumulating genetic changes — called ‘hits’ — in cells….Each “hit” is a new mutation or a different disruption, adding up and increasing entropy until the cell goes wonky and then … cancer.

    Due to the many ways mRNA vaccines “hit” cells,…. the researchers concluded that all mRNA jabs should be pulled from the market, not just covid ones … Specifically, they said since there was so much evidence the jabs promote cancer, the drugmakers should be forced to prove the shots don’t cause cancer in order to continue. It’s the “first do no harm” principle:…

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And now – unexplained vehicle accidents – what’s causing the uptick?

    I’m just guessing – sudden cardiac events?  Unexpected strokes?  The increasing number of these events has caught the eye of Australian news.  The Australian “experts” are reported to be concerned about the numbers of these S&U vehicle accidents and deaths.

    Experts! Presumably these newly-worried experts are the same ones who constantly fretted about covid overwhelming hospitals during the pandemic. According to the story, pre-pandemic Australia enjoyed a long, steady reduction in car crash deaths.

    But that’s all history now, mate; there’s a whole new epidemic going on, an epidemic of crumpled metal:

    “We can’t ignore the facts; we are seeing a significant increase in death rates around the country,” Dr Crozier said. “The cumulative effect of 100 dead every month, and 100 hospitalised every day — it’s an epidemic. A tragic epidemic.”
    …But as the nation emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, the road toll started to increase.
    /snip
    “So, since COVID … basically, they’re going in the wrong direction,” she added.

    Weird! What could possibly be causing this burgeoning epidemic of car crashes that started in 2021 or so? They’re baffled….

    Of course, every other possibility has been reviewed except the elephant in the room.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    4 Squawk

    I sincerely appreciate the support, but it would have meant more if you were wearing a shemagh, a keffiyeh and your name was Bobby Abdullah.

    I should have been more specific in my request.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More on/from Kevin McKernan:

    I’ll wrap up today’s post with a little more evidence of the risks posed by the “nonsense DNA” made by the jabs. This short clip is part of an extended Rumble interview between heterodox gene scientists Kevin McKernan and Jessica Rose (2 hrs). In the clip, the two scientists discuss the latest mRNA design defect described in the peer-reviewed Nature study, the creation of “nonsense DNA,” or in technical terms, the “ribosomal frameshifting.”

    https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1736050390238416976

    …in the clip Kevin identified maybe the biggest problem with the nonsense DNA. When the pharma companies substituted n-methyl pseudouridine for natural uridine in the spike protein mRNA, they didn’t just “tweak” the spike’s genetic formula to make it longer-lasting.

    Instead they created something entirely new.

    In nature, viruses mutate towards less toxicity to the host and more transmissibility.  …. This is well known and commonsense.

    It’s common sense because it’s how natural selection works. It’s survival of the fittest, old boy. Charlie Darwin cooked up that old gag and made a fortune.

    To understand the discussion, remember that DNA is not actually a two-dimensional ribbon, but a 3D shape:

    image 3.png

    McKernan explained that, by replacing natural uridine with indestructible pseudouridine, the DOD bypassed natural evolution. And it didn’t just create an otherwise identical, longer-lasting spike mRNA. An RNA strand with n-methyl pseudouridine instead of uridine folds into a completely different shape. The scientists created something new, with a different size and shape, a new type of protein never trialed by natural selection to make sure it didn’t kill the host.

    So they really have no idea what the differently-shaped spike protein might actually do. They only tested for antibodies. (And let’s not even start speculating about the risks of misfolded proteins, called prions, which is a whole different problem.)

    … They’d deny it, but what they’re actually doing is transhumanism at the cellular level. In this case, it’s transvirusism, but it’s the exact same idea, and they are blindly stampeding toward tinkering with human cells.

    Just because we CAN doesn’t mean we SHOULD.

    On a personal note:  Years ago I had a couple of “background” apps on my computers.  They utilized unused CPU cycles to process data, which helped to analyze huge amounts of data across thousands of computers, which took the load off the main computers which couldn’t keep up. One was for SETI, which would analyze background space noise for extraterrestrial intelligence.  The other was for medical research into prion diseases and such.  It is:   https://foldingathome.org/

    Beware!  Watching the folding process on your computer can be mesmerizing.   But knowing that I was helping further medical research that could help fight neurological disease was a good feeling.

  18. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK let’s lighten things up a bit; Presenting the Hallmark Christmas Movie Plot Generator.    😀

  19. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good morning, everyone.

    I’d like to go back to bed, in spite of, or maybe because of, some errands that I need to run…

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Just my commentary on…….

    POLITICS
    Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump is disqualified from presidency for Jan. 6 riot

    I am so far ahead of the curve I am lapping everyone.  Over a year ago I said that there would be states that move to keep Trump off the ballot.  I’d bet that Colorado will not be the last.

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

    The destruction of the country has been assured by the joined@thehipVampyreparties.

    pResident Kenyan wanted to fundamentally deform Amerika and he’s succeed by getting by with a little help from his joined@thehipparty friends.

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

    There’s already been a lawsuit filed over Murphy Abbott’s law that allows illegals to be arrested.

    but he knew that would happen.

    it’s all part of the smoke and mirrors pretending.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Via CFP:

    Republicans float booting Biden off state ballots after Trump ruling

    Libs never seem to get the goose/gander thing, nor the Law of Unintended (or totally ignored) Consequences

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Joe Pags sitting in for Hannity.  I like Joe.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I spent a little time outside doing some way overdue grooming in my container garden.

    The thai basil has jumped ship and is now growing in the lawn.  When we cut the grass, my yard will smell FABULOUS!

    Unless the wild onions overcome the basil.  Hubby cries when he cuts during onion season.  I smell it in the house.  But I like to go out there and harvest the wild stuff in the yard.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Get your nerd on.

     

  27. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Joe Pags sitting in for Hannity.

    Really? I passed by there today and since Hannity wasn’t on I listened for a little bit and I’d have bet good money that the guest host was Lars Larson. Apparently Joe Pags sounds just like Him.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    ‘Bout got the old GMC loaded up and Dawg is getting nervous, she doesn’t know that she’s ridding shotgun in the morning. 😉

  29. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Ever wonder what happened to those two creepy girls in the Shinning? 😀

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Best letter to Santa from this week’s Bellville Times:

    Dear Santa, My name is Hayes Savell I am 8 years old. This year I have been very good. For Christmas this year I would love 400 Billion dollars, cheese, lasagna, but no toys and shoes made with cheese.

    Love, Hayes Savell

     

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Super Dave – I think they have different guest hosts lined up each day.  Today was Pags, but I don’t know who sat in yesterday.

     

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have not mentioned this and I have been hesitant to do so.

    My daughter, Tyler, in Oregon, a new registered nurse, is going through something I am at pain to describe.  Her husband of 10 years is suffering from laryngeal cancer and has decided to refuse treatment.  He doesn’t want to go through the removal of his larynx and the installation of a prosthetic replacement with the permanent trachea.  He has decided to die and the tumor is now blocking not only his ability to swallow but also his ability to breathe.  It is only a matter of days before he dies from suffocation.

    My daughter just turned 40 years old and now she will soon be a widow.  Her heart is broken as well as mine.

    It is so hard to feel this helpless.

    Please pray for her.

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My #15

    I went back to bed, 3 separate times today. No errands were attended to…

     

  34. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Texpat, sad for your daughter. Losing your spouse is sad at any age.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hard times for Gulf shrimpers.

    (Video)

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat, my heart breaks for you and your family.

    Prayers for peace and comfort to all of you.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    31 Tedtam

    Thanks.

    It’s not something I ever expected to to endure watching my daughter go through something like this.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An Austin, Texas Democrat politician is demanding police step up their patrols in his neighborhood despite previously voting to defund them.

    Yes, in the latest example of ‘Do as I say not as I do,’ Representative Greg Casar now says that he wants more police for at least the next week. It’s unclear why the Congressman wanted the extra police.

    The Austin Police Retired Officers Association however did not hold back and called out the Congressman’s sudden change of tone.

    “We want everyone in Austin to feel safe, but this seems to us as the height of hypocrisy from the congressman. Maybe he should hire private security like his fellow squad members do. Sure seems like he wants the police in his neighborhood just not yours,” the ROA tweeted out.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    30 Shannon

    In all the years before I quit eating shellfish, I ate shrimp in many places in the world and nothing anywhere compared to fresh Gulf Coast shrimp.  There is simply nothing else like it.

    So now it will become a delicacy priced out of most people’s budget by some entrepreneur smart enough to market it the right way to all these millennials.

    The imported stuff is garbage, but I guess the younger generations don’t know the difference and therefore do not care.  The worst thing I ever tried to eat was one of those Vietnamese tiger shrimp.  Awful, inedible and virtually tasteless.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When Congressman Greg Casar was a mere member of the Austin City Council:

    We did it!! Austin City Council just reduced APD’s budget by over $100 million *and* reinvested resources into our community’s safety and well-being. Tens of thousands of you have called, emailed, and testified. You made the impossible into a reality.

  41. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat so sorry to hear, prayers to you and family. I don’t know a lot about this type of cancer but I think it’s very often fatal so I’ll not judge the young man. I knew two guys at NASA that both died of cancer of the esophagus. Both were 60+ though.

    Bless you.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    When Hubby and I vacationed on the coast of Georgia, we went to a huge seafood place that was packed.  I assumed the food was good.  We ordered shrimp, and we shared “WTH IS THIS CRAP?!” looks as tasted something akin to cardboard.

    On the way home, we connected with another couple who lived on the Keys.  They said the iodine in the Gulf Coast waters was what gave our shrimp so much flavor.  They could tell a difference in their seafood flavor just on different sides of their island.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam

    They said the iodine in the Gulf Coast waters was what gave our shrimp so much flavor.  They could tell a difference in their seafood flavor just on different sides of their island.

    Yes, ma’am. I have been told repeatedly the same thing. My preference is always the Gulf Brown Shrimp….. but the Gulf white will do. 🙂

    I have eaten many of the others. I will never forget  finally getting to eat the much-ballyhooed Asian Tiger Shrimp.

    Needless to say, I wasn’t impressed that tasteless offering.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sometimes it’s really hard.

    Wish I could see the angels’ faces when they hear your sweet voice sing

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Damnable Time and Miles.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s all good, son. All good.

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