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Thursday’s Killer Robots & Flaming Cars – Open Comments

Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company’s Texas factory during violent malfunction – leaving ‘trail of blood’ and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button

A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloody malfunction at the company’s Giga Texas factory near Austin.

Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminum car parts.

The robot had pinned the man, who was then programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby, before sinking its metal claws into the worker’s back and arm, leaving a ‘trail of blood’ along the factory surface.

So this will be the first manufacturing plant in history with union contract shop rules about killer robots.

Reports of increased injuries due to robotic coworkers at Amazon shipment centers, killer droid-surgeons, self-driving cars, and even violence from robotic chess instructors, have led some to question speedy integration of the new tech.

The injury report, which Tesla must submit to authorities by law to maintain its lucrative tax breaks in Texas, claimed the engineer did not require time off of work.

But one attorney who represents Tesla’s Giga Texas contract workers has told DailyMail.com she believes, based on her conversations with workers there, that the number of injuries suffered at the factory is going underreported.

This is a warning.  If you are driving through Bastrop at night, DO NOT STOP, even if there is a Buc-ee’s in town.  I’ve heard the parking lots are where the robots lurk at night after they sneak out of the local Tesla Giga factory.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Two Wednesdays? As I mentioned last night in my #27 drove straight through from Midland to LA yesterday. We rolled in at 10:32 PM after leaving Midland at 7 AM, 1063 Miles in 15 1/2 hours, (late for me) and I was plum worn out. I didn’t get to bed until well after midnight and slept like a log, didn’t wake up until almost 6 AM. I don’t remember the last time I’ve slept that late but I’m up and at-um now and ready to get back into the groove. 42 here and shooting for the low 60’s so that’ll work.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    2nd rat gets the cheese.

    LA; is that Lower Alabama, Los Angeles, or something else?

    [edit: I was going to put something else in the query above, but I didn’t want to irritate Granny Hamous]

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    First? I think? Texpat you can flush my #1 today since I posted it yesterday.

    LA; is that Lower Alabama, Los Angeles, or something else?

    Lower Alabama of course.
    It’s 45 here and shooting for the low 60’s but it’ll be colder for the next few days.

    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Happy Thursday fellow couch critters.  Funny though,it kind of feels like a Wednesday and yesterday like a Monday.  I had Monday and Tuesday off.

    Nothing confusing about any of that, now was it?

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Bones, after the Road Trip, Christmas and all I have NO IDEA what day it is. Hopefully I’ll get it all sorted out right after New Years. 😉

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s in the low 50s here.  Rain and drizzle today.

    In 21 years here, I’ve never seen weather like this in December.

    We have a sunroom off of the breakfast table area.  I rebuilt the entire exterior western wall a few years ago and installed a new set of French doors.  I had to jack up the entire roof in the process.

    I went into the kitchen late last night before going to bed and heard the sickening tap, tap, tap sound of dripping water.  I have a roof leak for the first time ever in this house and it was coming through the fairly new trim work I installed.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It says here that the Ags lost to OK ST last night.

    A fitting end to a miserable season.

    Here’s hoping the new regime can turn things around quickly.

    We need both Texas teams kicking Southeastern hillbilly butts.

    Hook’em Horns! Gig’em Aggies!

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nikki Haley refused to state slavery was the primary reason for the Civil War.

    She is a sleazy politician.  

    When the questioner said it was “astonishing” to hear her respond “without mentioning the word slavery,” Haley replied: “What do you want me to say about slavery?” She then asked for the next question.

    The exchange, which took place roughly an hour and a half into the town hall event, underscored the unique nature and customary pitfalls that often await candidates in New Hampshire, where direct exchanges with voters are the norm.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    American higher education continues to beclown itself.

    A political science professor and former police officer effectively fired by St. Philip’s College earlier this year after allowing debate on topics such as gender ideology and police brutality has received a $185,000 settlement.

    The college’s agreement with Will Moravits also included a neutral job recommendation, and in turn he agreed to not work for any Alamo Colleges District schools in the future, he said. The San Antonio-based St. Philip’s is one of five in the community college district.

    Moravits, in an interview last week with The College Fix, said the settlement was reached in September and warded off a federal lawsuit he was prepared to file against the district that alleged its leaders infringed on his constitutionally protected free speech rights and academic freedom.

    it’s not the only one,

    Moravits is one of two conservative scholars who this year have accused St. Philip’s College of discrimination and suppressing free speech and classroom discussion.

    Biologist Johnson Varkey filed over the summer a religious discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the college, alleging administrators fired him for teaching sex is determined by X and Y chromosomes.

    Professor Varkey is black, a Christian and has taught at this school for almost 20 years.

    plus,

    University of Washington ‘should rescind the scholarship if they really care about women,’ Riley Gaines wrote

    A transgender volleyball player and high school junior from California verbally committed to play for the University of Washington, which could make him the first known male recipient of a women’s Division 1 athletic scholarship.

    If the university signs athlete Tate Drageset’s offer next fall, he would take one of 12 National Collegiate Athletic Association DI volleyball scholarships available for women at the school, Reduxx reported Wednesday.

    and the real kicker,

    The University of Wisconsin chancellor who previously paid a porn star thousands of dollars to speak to students on campus was canned Wednesday — after it was revealed he films his own adult content with his wife and posts the X-rated videos online.

    The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents decided unanimously to fire longtime UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow, citing his “abhorrent” conduct in a vague statement.

    “In recent days, we learned of specific conduct by Dr. Gow that has subjected the university to significant reputational harm. His actions were abhorrent,” UW president Jay Rothman said in a statement.

    Gow — La Crosse’s second-longest-serving chancellor — appears in various online porn videos with his wife, Carmen Wilson, using “Sexy Happy Couple” as their public account name.

    The films, which sometimes feature well-known porn stars, appear on sites like OnlyFans as well as Pornhub.

    It cannot come soon enough that American taxpayers will be finally fed up with this destructive garbage and start cutting funds to these fools and idiots.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Texpat 0816:

    I went into the kitchen late last night before going to bed and heard the sickening tap, tap, tap sound of dripping water.  I have a roof leak for the first time ever in this house and it was coming through the fairly new trim work I installed.

    That qualifies as the superlative BUMMER!  Even more worser, you just see where the leak is exiting, not from where it is entering violating the surface barrier of the roof.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    7 BC

    You are exactly right.  It’s still raining lightly but I’m going to try and investigate later when it stops.  I’m hoping it’s some kind of gutter problem although I have leaf guards.

  12. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh oh now I done did it.  Oh well

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I didn’t even know this brouhaha was going on down in Waco.

    The Democrats and especially their contingent from Texas are having a wall-eyed hissy fit over this Baylor exemption from Title IX.

    “We support the Department making clear that discrimination ‘on the basis of sex’ includes discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics, including intersex traits,” the Democrats concluded.

    Baylor requested an exemption from Title IX in May, regarding harassment complaints from LGBTQ students filed in 2021. Referencing its Statement on Human Sexuality, Baylor stated that any Title IX requirement that contradicts the Baptist doctrine of marriage and gender distinction is inconsistent with Baylor’s religious principles, making the university exempt from such requirements.

    The DOEd granted Baylor’s exemption in July.

    After it gained media publicity and outrage from LGBTQ activists, Baylor President Linda Livingstone responded to the backlash saying in a statement that there would not be any changes to the university’s regulations on sexual harassment and it will continue to investigate allegations completely.

    When did it become the rule only women can be university presidents in the USA ?

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Cryptic comments from Squawk are always the cause of anxiety.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is very cool.

    Watch the LAPD cops use their new Grappler device to grab the rear wheel of a hijacked car.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday she is switching congressional districts, avoiding a likely rematch against a Democrat who has far outraised her and following an embarrassing moment of groping and vaping that shook even loyal supporters.

    In a Facebook video Wednesday evening, Boebert announced she would enter the crowded Republican primary in retiring Rep. Ken Buck’s seat in the eastern side of the state, leaving the more competitive 3rd District seat she barely won last year — and which she was in peril of losing next year as some in her party have soured on her controversial style.

    Boebert implied in the video that her departure from the district would help Republicans retain the seat, saying, “I will not allow dark money that is directed at destroying me personally to steal this seat. It’s not fair to the 3rd District and the conservatives there who have fought so hard for our victories.”

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Cryptic comments from Squawk are always the cause of anxiety.

    😀

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This woman has more guts than a lot of high public profile people.

    Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele said in an interview this week that her former employer demanded she stop speaking about Will “Lia” Thomas, the male swimmer who identifies as “transgender” and competed against women at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas won races and robbed women of opportunities.

    and,

    “I was asked to stop tweeting about it. I was asked to stop doing anything, saying anything about it on social media because I was offending others at the company. I made sure I sent up another tweet that night after I received that email because like, no,” Steele said on Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast.

    “Let’s stop living in this lie. And once again, oh, you’re going to silence me and Sam. She was told the same thing, for this issue, but they were going to let everybody else talk about all these other things that are not even related to sports on our sports programming,” she added.

     

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Sage Steele has been on Fox a lot in the last year or so and lost her job at ESPN after she made comments that didn’t fit the left’s nut-job standards. She sued and I think she won. FWIW; She was a 20 something year veteran with that sports and was a black female (two boxes checked) but due to factual statements, that couldn’t save her.

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    ESPN anchor Sage Steele departs network after settling lawsuit.

    Updated 12:23 PM EDT, Tue August 15, 2023

     

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I said this would happen.

    Remember what Helen Dale said in her essay I posted yesterday:

    However, respect for FIRE and Reynolds—and my belief that implementing the policies they advocate would be beneficial for Americans, so please do them for your country’s sake—does not mean they’ll “fix” your universities. The universities are like big tobacco: they’re never going to be good places full of good people, and you need to accept that. No matter how much you enjoy them, cigarettes will kill you. The universities’ number is in the process of coming up.

    And now they are running the con believing the average Texan is too stupid to notice…

    The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) announced in November it would close its DEI office, according to Inside Higher Ed. The school said they would be opening a new office called the Office of Campus Resources and Support in a Nov. 29 letter. UTD’s president previously said in August that no one in the DEI office would be losing their jobs, according to Dallas Morning News.

    The Office of Campus Resources and Support will foster a “welcoming university climate” and house The Galerstein Community Center, which was previously named The Galerstein Gender Center.

    The University of Houston (UH) closed its Center for Diversity and Inclusion and LGBTQ Resource Center and announced a new center called the “Center for Student Advocacy and Community” in August.

    plus,

    The University of Texas (UT) at Austin renamed its Division of Diversity and Community Engagement to the Division of Campus and Community Engagement, according to Inside Higher Ed. The division offers programs such as “Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship” and “Women in STEM.”

    The wicked liars will never stop until you cut off their money.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally settling in at the ‘pooter.  Got up late (was up late), at Hubby’s urging to sleep in.  Went through my morning rituals in the kitchen and with the hair (the latter more challenging than the former), and by then it was almost 9:00.

    One of my daily habits is listening to ReturnToTradition channel on YT.  Mr. Stine has started doing an early morning/nighttime live stream in addition to his daily Catholic news show.  That means I get double the info each day.  The stream discussed the event in pachapapa’s home diocese in Argentina – lightning hit a statue of St. Peter, and blew off the “blessing hand” and hit the keys (Jesus said he would give Peter the keys to Heaven, Matt 16:19).  This happened on PP’s birthday!  Lotsa folks are reading ominous omens into this.  What are the odds that this statue, from pp’s home diocese, would get those particular injuries, by lightning, on that particular day?  Whether you believe in coincidences or not, the odds are astronomical and it certainly got people talking about the abomination in the Vatican.

    (It also reminded people of the peace dove debacle from 2014.)

    Mr. Stine’s second offering discussed the newest pushback on the diabolical same sex blessing edict.  IIRC, it was the Turkish bishops that raised the middle finger this time.

    My only hope is that this causes a rubber band effect on the next consistory.  I know that bishops are losing donations, which reflects the trust and respect of the parishioners under their care.  Here’s hoping that enough cardinals hear their complaints and don’t make the same mistake again.

    But I’m not holding my breath.  It was predicted that the Church would have to suffer her own passion; that she would suffer and be diminished – but also that the remaining remnant Church would be stronger in faith.

    Because secularism and the smoke of Stan needs to be forcibly ejected, and the evil one will resist with everything he has.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    DIE is not die-ing, just being resurrected under a new name.  Like the criminals who fake their deaths in order to collect insurance money or avoid prosecution.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BTW – Michael Berry is doing a good job standing in for Clay & Buck from 11:00-1:00 on 740 a.m.

    I’m not a huge fan of his local show, but when he does the national thing,  I think he’s a lot better.

  25. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Holy crap

    HILLARY CLINTON SETS THE ISRAEL-GAZA RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE VIEW

    And she got it right.  I listened to the interview.

    The segment, which aired on Nov. 8th, is important because Clinton debunks the anti-Israel narrative that has become commonplace in much of the media and a sizeable portion of the population in the US and Europe. And also among the hosts of The View, usually with the notable exception of Alyssa Farah Griffin.

    Clinton stressed that those repeating Hamas calls for a ceasefire ignore that there was a ceasefire on Oct. 7, until it was broken by Hamas’s brutal and horrific assault against Israeli civilians early that morning. She also stressed that Hamas has been stealing aid brought in during ceasefires, and has routinely violated previous ceasefires, including ones she personally negotiated.

     

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Todays Coffee and Chrome

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    SHIFTY SHIFTING ☙ Thursday, December 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday!  In today’s roundup: Biden shifts Ukraine strategy and messages pivot to peace;  Russian high school history textbooks tell some home truths about 2020 US election; preprint study on persistent covid predicts pandemic of heart attacks; Michigan Supremes dump Trump 14th Amendment suit and keep him on the ballot; and a heartwarming tale of a Christmas that ALMOST went completely wrong.

    NEWS:

    Ukraine: Biden lied, tried to cover the loss by manipulating the language.  Or rather, his team did.  Biden can only manage to manipulate toilet paper on odd numbered days starting with “T” these days.

    Mr. C. has a long discussion of the word spinning and obfuscation, in his usual pithy language.  Let’s just say that Ukraine ain’t the pretty girl at the party any more.  Look for a change in narrative:

    In fact, I’m predicting a media stew of astounding “rebuilding Ukraine” articles praising Biden, featuring interviews with grateful Ukrainians, and mounting headlines like: Pfizer’s New State-of-the-Art Ukraine Pharma Labs Help World Prepare for Next Pandemic, Gates and Blackrock Build Beetle Flour Manufacturing Plants in Donbass, Clinton Foundation Constructs Kiev Schools with Cool Underground Tunnels, and Marina Abromovic Chaperones Bahkmut Children on Educational Field Trip to Hades.

    Get ready for the new Narrative: Joe Biden’s Proxy War was the best thing that ever happened to Ukraine.

    ***

    Speaking of Russian winning:

    Troll level: Grand Master. Well played, Russia. Well played. Newsweek ran the informative story yesterday featuring this startling headline:

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    Bwahahahaha! According to Newsweek, Russia’s state-approved 11th Grade World History textbook informs students that the democrats stole the 2020 elections in the U.S. “as a result of obvious electoral fraud by the Democratic Party,” adding for context that Joe Biden had extensive corrupt connections to Ukraine. And they included a masked picture of Joe, an obvious metaphor which is triggering leftists even more:

    Those silly Russians!

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Back to the title of the column, more WLR news:

     Yesterday I came across a new iScience preprint study signaling a potential new Pandemic Narrative, titled “Predicted risk of heart failure pandemic due to persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection using a three-dimensional cardiac model.” It features goofy Covidian science, as I’ll explain momentarily, but note its dire prediction: an upcoming pandemic of heart failure. Yeah.

    [insert image]

    The researchers begin with the Covidian theory of persistent covid infection — a stealthiest kind of crypto-covid infection ever, which is not only asymptomatic but also tests negative, even using PCR — which has been criticized for being too sensitive. In fact, persistent covid is completely invisible to testing. So far.

    So, it’s kind of a religious belief.

    Notably, the researchers predicted a pandemic of heart failure which, they say, will be evidenced by finding spike protein in cardiac tissue. Even though they admitted there’s no conclusive evidence for persistent covid infection so far, they feel the alarm bells should already be going off about heart attacks:

    The explosive increase in the number of virus-infected patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to an enormous increase in the number of patients at potential risk for future heart failure. In clinical practices, such high-risk patients should be identified by detecting the virus itself or the viral genome in endocardial biopsy tissue or by monitoring blood troponin levels.  This report may serve as a warning for the possibility of a heart failure pandemic in the post COVID-19 era.

    ..The researchers infected some cardiac cells with covid in a Petri dish…. Since there’s no immune system in a Petri dish, it couldn’t show viral persistence in the body. But it did show what happens to cardiac cells when spike protein gets into them through viral infection or mRNA transfection. Which is: nothing good.

    I thought the author’s illustration (above) sort of gave away what they’re really thinking about. The upper panel at the far left shows increasing spike protein not virus. Only one thing causes spike without virus: the jabs.

    And the insurance companies brace themselves once again for the onslaught of claims.  This really isn’t good.

    But who will pay for the damage?  Oh, wait…

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    After legal discussion of the Michigan ruling keeping Trump on the ballot (and which doesn’t bode well for the Colorado case), an amusing story of a 3 year old who unwrapped all of the Christmas presents in the wee hours of the morning.  The parents found out when the toddler woke them up to ask for scissors.  I can only imagine what went through their minds as they surveyed the devastating results of their kid’s handiwork:

    After interrogation, the learned the crime was not intended only to get hold of his requested Spiderman web-shooting gloves. It was actually an act of pure self-sacrifice and love. He did it for others. The 3-year-old told his parents he unwrapped the presents because he didn’t want his family to be confused. “He wanted us to be able to see our presents so we knew what they were,” Scott Reintgen reported. “I think he legitimately just felt that he was doing a service to everyone. He will not do it again next year. We hope.”

    Fortunately, the Reingarten Christmas was not ruined. Katie and Scott put the little midnight Christmas bandit back to bed, staying up to re-wrap the presents, painstakingly piecing the mangled wrapping paper back together with a lot of extra tape. (Well, it was mostly Katie. But Scott helped.) Now the story is international news, and presumably is going to be a great story his parents will tell at the young man’s wedding.

    OH, YEAH.  That’ll be a story to share with the future Mrs. 3 year old.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #16 Squawk

    Do you remember where that picture was taken?

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tedtam

    The Central Diner, also called Paula’s Kitchen and formerly known as The Elmwood Diner, Liberty Elm Diner, Jenn’s Elmwood Diner, Ole Elmwood Diner, or Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner #806, is a historic Worcester Lunch Car Company diner at 777 Elmwood Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island

     

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Speaking of pictures, in my cleaning and reorganizing of the piles of stuff upstairs (I’m actually climbing the stairs again! – but carefully), I found our wedding album.

    Hubby was quite slender back then.  My wedding dress pictures made me look a little heavier than I was, but who cares?  I shared it with Hubby last night and we both shared some good memories.  College Buddy was part of the wedding, as well as my BF from college (my maid of honor).  We both laughed/commented on the family pictures – my mom and dad had gone through a rancorous divorce and there was still some bad blood there.  The picture of Hubby and me with my parents had tense, non-smiling faces, with my parents bookending us.  The picture with Hubby’s parents had a much more relaxed and smiling ambiance.  When we took the picture with both parents, it was Hubby and me on one side, then my parents book ending his parents.  There is not a single image where my mom and dad were next to each other.

    I remember my receiving line being stopped by my brother because I’d put Mom at the front and Dad closer to me.  I had studied etiquette books thoroughly on this subject, and I chose the option that kept them the furthest distance apart.  I wanted to slap my brother for his audacity that day.  But I didn’t change things and told the photographer to let the line continue.

    We were paying for our own wedding, and we didn’t have a lot of money.  I think the whole event cost us about $3000.  I got my wedding dress at a bridal shop closeout sale (that was a crazy day!).  I got the dress and shoes for $700, normally at least twice that.  I had wanted Mom to make my dress, which she refused because I think she was just tired of sewing clothes for her brood, but she did agree to make my veil.  We were extremely lucky to find the exact same lace as was on my sleeves.  I was happy to have something made by my mother on my wedding day.  We paid the organist $40, and my boss sang a solo that I hear was beautiful.  I had found out only the week before that he used to perform for the USO.  That was his wedding gift for me.  I wanted to hear it, but I was busy getting dressed at the time.  Dangit.  The reception hall was the Lion’s Club, and cost us $500.  We had friends and family bring items for the food table, we bought cold cuts and finger foods, and our wedding cake was from a local grocery store.  (It got a lot of compliments, btw.)  A girlfriend provided the groom’s cake.  We had a small supply of champagne for the toast and a keg+soft drinks+tea+water for the rest of the party.  We tape recorded our music and a brother of mine played it on a boom box for us.  A lady friend from work gave me possibly the best gift of the day: she managed my reception for me.  She made sure the receiving line was in place at the right time, managed the food, and handled any small problems that popped up.  All I had to do was enjoy being married.

    It wasn’t fancy, but it all the special we needed.  Happy, happy day. Good times.

    I was working for an airline at the time and was able to get a deal on a few days in St. Thomas, VI.  We ended up in Orlando, FL just as the United Airlines pilots went on strike.

    The trip home is a whole ‘nother story.  Not so good times, but a story to tell.  I’ll tell ya’, I was glad I was married to the man I married.  He practically carried me at times during that ordeal.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat, that grappler thing is pretty neat.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BTW – that awful trip home from Orlando?  It was a good thing that I had been setting up pilot interviews at work.  Part of that job was arranging for their flights to and from the interviews in Houston.  I had an OAG and knew how to use it and the online reservation system.

    The ONE thing that got us home that weekend was my being able to tell the gate agent (fourth of the day? fifth?) to check one more time, for Saturday only flights.  He’d just returned passes to everyone else left over at the gate and sent them away.  I insisted that we stay and I told the agent exactly what to enter on his screen.  He argued with me, but I insisted that I knew there was one more flight that day that would at least get us to Atlanta.

    Shore ’nuff, once he entered the search parameters I gave him, it popped up and we got the last two seats on that flight.  We couldn’t sit together, but we could fly together.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Cry me a freakin’ river:

    The mayors’ requests come as U.S. cities have struggled to manage the increasing number of migrants sent from Texas and other states. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing operation has transported more than 80,000 migrants to Democratic-led cities since last year. His administration recently stepped up the practice with chartered planes.

    The mayors sharply criticized Abbott and the effort, saying buses arrive at all hours and outside designated drop-off zones with no details on who is aboard.

    That’s how the border states get ’em.  Suck it up, buttercup.

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Good news on the cancer fighting front.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-in-the-lab-using-vibrating-molecules

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk

    I got tired of diner food up because a lot of it is mediocre and diners are no longer a cheap place to eat.  Most of these diners have the exact same menu and it all tastes like it came out of the same commissary.

    There is an exception…Englewood, New Jersey’s Jackson Hole Diner.

    I can’t find a decent shot of the exterior.

    .

     

    They are famous for their hamburgers and hot dogs.  The breakfasts are also excellent.

    I wanted to take Shannon there to eat, but we ran out of time.

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #26 TT:  Molecular jackhammer: MAJOR COOL.

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Congress spent $7.5 billion on electric vehicle chargers two years ago. How many have been built? One!

     

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Todays Coffee and Chrome

    Nice

    Jackson Hole Diner.

    Dittos

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Kathy’s Korner is a Travel Center with a restaurant on I-10 on the west side of the Brazos River.

    I’ve been there at least 50 times over the years.

    But I never noticed until this week that on the farthest west side of their huge parking lot are 16 EV charging stations, all emblazoned with the Tesla logo.

  42. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #28 SD:  I am outraged, but not surprised at all.  Unless and until a couple of hundred heads of politicians and bureaucrats responsible for this looting of the public treasury are placed upon a platter, this crap will continue.

    We really need to follow the Argentina model, cut the number of government agencies in half and seriously scrutinize the rest.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    They are now predicting a low of 49° and “sunny and a high temp of 71° “ for New Years Day.

    Yeah, baby.

    And you wonder why I pray for winter to come every year?

  44. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Re: Diners

    I am partial to places like Jackson Hole but now I look for small town hole in the wall diners. Every eatery has gone insane on prices.  I do not mind paying if the food is good.  BSue and I still frequent Kelly’s diner, LaMargue but it is hard to get out of there for less than $30 for the two of us.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    John Carroll was the first Catholic Bishop of America.

    In 1791 he composed a prayer for the country to be prayed with regularity in his parishes.

    We would do well to do so again.

  46. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Here ya go

  47. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I loathe Waffle House

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    36 Squawkbox

    I loathe Waffle House.

    Most definitely.

    The last time I was in a Waffle House was in the 1990s in Odessa, Texas, on the I-20.  We were starving and had been busy since early morning.  It was 2 AM when we walked in and sat down.  It was packed and they hadn’t bothered to service or repair their big exhaust fans.  The bacon fumes and smoke were so thick it made your eyes burn.  On top of that, the place was absolutely filthy.

    We got up and walked out and I have never stepped foot in one again.

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    35 Squawk

    I’m sorry to tell you, but that is the other location in Queens, NY on the way to La Guardia.  Hence the “Airline” and plane in the signage.

    The second local location is in Englewood NJ and it sits so close to the road the only way you can get a real wide shot of the place is to stand in the middle of heavily trafficked Grand Avenue.  It will be the last thing you do in life because drivers here don’t particularly value pedestrians very often.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    32 Shannon

    It is 48º in Maywood NJ and 50º in Bellville at this moment.

    How about that for December 28, 2023 ?

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The last time I was at the Waffle House at Hwy 6 and I-10, that ancient location was spotless, the food was excellent, the service was even better, the coffee was perfect.

    It was 2am and I was on my way home from one of the damn hospitals in Houston.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    37

    And I was probably the scariest-looking of the clientele.

  53. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Evening, y’all… I had errands today and didn’t realize until 4 pm that I had never signed in on HammyVille today. I remember thinking I would do that, but… Next thing I knew, I was waking up from a sweet 2-hour nap. Had 3 cats snoozing on the bed with me.

    While I was out on the errand run, it seemed to be colder than usual for Houston lately, and I hadn’t taken a jacket. I wonder how Billy Cat stays warm. When he’s in my back yard, I see him napping in a couple of sunny spots in the grass where he can hear me open the back door.

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk

    I don’t know, but I think Shannon wants to be argumentative.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Country cafes got me to recalling great memories about the Weikel family and the Bon Ton Cafe in old La Grange.

    I used to try and schedule my travels to & from Austin/San Marcos/Lockhart to Bellville so I could have lunch at the Bon Ton Cafe.  The chicken fried steak was perfect, but I really stopped for the pies.  There was an ancient looking little lady who baked all their pies in a metal building behind her house there in town.  I have yet to eat any pies as scrumptious as hers and it has been decades since I was there.

    I was actually having breakfast there one day when she pulled up outside in a small van and the men went out and unloaded dozens of her pies into the cafe.  Manna from heaven.

    She looked to be about 85+ years old, 5′ tall and maybe 100 lbs.  She reminded me of my great-grandmother in Brownwood, Texas.  They said she baked pies for the Bon Ton 6 days a week.

    Later on, I rarely ever passed through La Grange without stopping to load up on kolaches at the Weikel Family store out on the new Hwy 71 bypass.

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I finally got Hubby to watch “Sound of Freedom” since he doesn’t do well at theaters.  Falls asleep and such.

    He was wiping his eyes several times during the show.

    Seriously, if you haven’t seen it, you should rectify that situation asap.  I told him that next to “The Passion of the Christ,” I think SoF was possibly the most impactful film I’ve ever seen.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I still haven’t seen “Cabrini,” but it’s on my list.  I hadn’t been to the cinema in years, and the Angel Studios started coming out with stuff that I was willing to spend money on.

    “The Shift” was good, too.  The movie about Abraham and Isaac was also well done. “First Son”?

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Swatting Update.

    Rick Scott, Republican senator from Florida was having dinner with his wife at a local restaurant last night when his home “swatted” by anonymous Democrats.

    Story Here.

     

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat

    You have a text.

  60. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon

    The Waffle House here in Conroe stinks.  I do not like the menu.  Small medium or large hash browns?  What the heck is that.  Bacon or large bacon, Sausage or large sausage, city ham or country ham?  The place is a ripoff.  You can have all the Waffle house you want.

  61. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Swatting Update.

    I saw that on Watter’s show and it’s kind of scary to think that the lunatics would target Republicans not caring if anyone including the cops were hurt or killed.  

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Like Rush, I live in Realville.

    I don’t expect a pound of hash browns, three sausage patties, five slices of bacon, three eggs, toast and biscuits for $2.99 anymore.

    Just grateful to find quality food and coffee without roaches at 2 in the morning.

    🙂

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just so you know, I wouldn’t eat at a Denny’s if you paid the tab and also gave me a nice, crisp $100 bill.

    Never again. Never.

  64. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon

    Now see we can agree on something.  I loathe Dennys

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ll never forget finding the outstanding Mexican breakfast place on Galveston Island that only the locals knew about. I read about it online about 2 years prior and had saved the info.

    It topped off a very romantic weekend down there. Alhough Fay wasn’t too happy that her juevos rancheros had a virtually raw egg placed on top. I helped her remove it. Ha ha. ha.

    Don’t ask me the name or location. It’s been too many years ago.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    But then, for decades, all of our Texas coastal excursions were romantic.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And IHOP is kinda like Red Lobster….No matter what you order, it all tastes the same. What a racket.

    The success of obscure, authentic taco trailers isn’t hard to understand.

    It’s just hard to find them when you’re traveling and in a hurry.

  68. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The best Mexican breakfast ever had was in Falfurrias.  The “Side Door” cafe on the main square was where I ate for 3 months.  I ate everything on the menu but breakfast was the best.  authentic Mexican no TexMex.

  69. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    IHOP is for emergencies only.  Cracker Barrel is a no go except when the stove blows up,my brother is gone next door, the lights are off in Conroe..  I got stood up in 3 different stores in one year.  Got my tea but no waitress to take my order.  I am not a fan but BSue likes them.

  70. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The Star of Texas was good in Falfurrias sadly they are closed now.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Like I told GJT a few years ago, I have never been in a Cracker Barrel.

    I didn’t even realize until a few years ago that they were a restaurant.

    Perhaps because no one I have ever known mentioned eating at a Cracker Barrel.

    Scary to consider that there may be thousands of restaurants out there that I have never heard of.

  72. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    For all I knew, Cracker Barrel was franchise curio shop from South Carolina.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Somehow I escaped every single Cracker Barrel marketing attempt to reach me.

    F’n weird.

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Best and most interesting breakfast in Texas on Sunday mornings was Cisco’s in East Austin.

    Juevos rancheros, Mexican style fried potatoes with freshly made, hot tortillas.  The best thing was the Bloody Marys were free until 12 noon because it was illegal to sell them.

    Lyndon Johnson, Ben Barnes, Lloyd Bentsen, Bob Bullock, just about every politician and journalist in Texas ate breakfast there on Sunday mornings.

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Now you have me recalling the Big Wheel in Oak Hill.

  76. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve never been in a Cracker Barrel either.  It simply never occurred to me to go.

    I’ve eaten in an Applebee’s twice in my entire life.  We ate at the Texas Roadhouse twice this year only because we somehow ended up with gift cards to the place.

    I am not a chain restaurant or fast food joint consumer.

    We will do takeout from Five Guys or Burger King 3 or 4 times a year.  That is it.

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    57 Shannon

    I remember the Big Wheel well.  Man, they made some great breakfast food.  Loved that place.

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