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Tragic: Hamas Loses Two Leaders In One Day

WORLD — Hamas is reeling after losing two of their most cherished leaders on the same day: military commander Saleh al-Arouri, and Harvard President Claudine Gay.

“This is a devastating loss for our organization and the world,” said Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh while throwing a dart at a dartboard with a picture of a Jew on it. “Al-Arouri helped mastermind our glorious murder/rape party of October 7th, 2023. Claudine Gay presided over the preaching of our message Jew-hatred in America’s Ivy League. This is an incalculable loss.”

Ismail Haniyeh then went back to his game of darts while sitting in a jacuzzi and having his shoulders massaged by a high-priced escort from Dubai.

Further details of this important news report may be found HERE.

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71 responses to “Wednesday Sad News Open Commentary”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    FIRSTICUS!

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think the interesting question is: how many university presidents/hierarchy have the same views as Gay?  The list might be shorter to find those who don’t.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK boys and girls THIS IS your State Department;
    US State Department slams ‘irresponsible’ resettlement remarks made by Israeli officials.

    The US has slammed comments by Israeli politicians advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza while the devastating war rages in the Middle East.
    In a statement, US Department of State Spokesperson Matthew Miller criticized Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir claiming their rhetoric was “inflammatory and irresponsible.” They added: “Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land.”
    The statement read: “The United States rejects recent statements from Israel Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza. This rhetoric is inflammatory and irresponsible. We have been told repeatedly and consistently by the Government of Israel, including by the Prime Minister, that such statements do not reflect the policy of the Israeli government. They should stop immediately.
    “We have been clear, consistent, and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of its future and with no terror groups able to threaten Israel. That is the future we seek, in the interests of Israelis and Palestinians, the surrounding region, and the world.”

    Emphasis mine.
    I just hope that Israel has the will to no longer accept the “Two State Solution”  that has NEVER worked and never will as long as there is any Hamas/Palestinian alive and breathing.
    AND Make no mistake Palestinian=Hamas=Houthi=Iran, not a damned bit of difference between any of those savages.  ~SPITS~
    And with that Mornin’ Gang

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    HA! From last night, Texpat says;

    I often wonder if Adee flinches at all of my grammatical and usage errors.  She was, after all, an editor of medical journals down at the Texas Medical Center.

    Egads.

    I’ll try to do better because every time I read one of my comments to Her Highness, an NYU trained English teacher, I get reprimanded.

    I often think of Ms Adee when I’m pecking away with my gibberish. I try my best to be grammatically correct but sadly English was my worse subject. If not for straight A’s in Literature I may have failed English.

    I still can’t diagram a complex sentence. 😉

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And POOOF! Just like that, my #4 vanished, headed straight to File 13 without even passing Go or landing in the Spit Bucket. Maybe Mr Moderator will come by and rescue it. 😉

  6. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    G’Morning Gang… I have to drive a friend to a doctor’s appt this morning so… I’ve already been up a while, and forgot to say G’Morning

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Just imagine the outrage, wailing, and gnashing of teeth if Israelis started chanting ‘from the river to the sea, Israel shall be muslim free’ . . . . . . .Then consider what the palis say and the reaction.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    For the record…

    This was not done by Israel or the US, period.  Israel does not execute 73 people and injure 170, particularly at a gravesite in a cemetery.  It is not a war zone and Israel does not hurt and kill many to target a few.

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 73 people and wounded over 170 others, state-run media in Iran reported Wednesday.

    A senior official called the blasts a “terroristic” attack, without elaborating on who could be behind them amid wider tensions in the Mideast over Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. No group immediately claimed responsibility.

    Iranian state television quoted Babak Yektaparast, a spokesman for the country’s emergency services, for the casualty figure.

    The blasts struck an event marking the the fourth anniversary of the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force. who died in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq in January 2020. The explosions occurred near his grave site in Kerman, about 820 kilometers (510 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    5 Super Dave

    It’s posted now.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Another thing about Iran.

    Iran is full of people who hate their government, would like to rejoin civilization and have no enmity for Israel or Jews.

    It is not Palestine, the PLO or the Palestinian Authority and Israel knows this.  Iran was home to vibrant, thriving Jewish communities prior to 1979 when the Sunni Muslims and Persian direct descendants still ran the country.

    Every operation conducted by Israel in Iran has been about carefully targeted sabotage of military arms facilities or assassinations of people working directly on their projects to destroy Israel.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Adam Andrzejewski founded Open The Books in the beginning as a one-man operation.  I have a lot of admiration for him.

    Adam Andrzejewski (say: Angie-eff-ski) is the CEO/founder of OpenTheBooks.com. Before dedicating his life to public service, Adam co-founded HomePages Directories, a $20 million publishing company (1997-2007). His works have been featured on the BBC, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, C-SPAN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, FOX News, CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), Forbes, Newsweek, and many other national media.

    Today, OpenTheBooks.com is the largest private repository of U.S. public-sector spending. Mission: post “every dime, online, in real time.” In 2022, OpenTheBooks.com captured nearly all public expenditures in the country, including nearly all disclosed federal government spending; 50 of 50 state checkbooks; and 25 million public employee salary and pension records from 50,000 public bodies across America.

    The group’s aggressive transparency and forensic auditing of government spending has led to the assembly of grand juries, indictments, and successful prosecutions; congressional briefings, hearings, and subpoenas; Government Accountability Office (GAO) audits; Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports; federal legislation; and much more.

    Here is a CBS Austin news clip with Adam about Texas property taxes.

    In fairness to Texas, they don’t discuss the whole picture on taxes in other states.  The bottom line taxation total is what counts to any household anywhere.

    Here is Open The Books – Texas

    State agencies, cities, counties, school districts, community colleges, state universities, MUD districts, etc.

  12. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Wake up you slackers.

    THIS IS AWESOME

  13. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Diagramming sentences was just one of the milder forms of torture inflicted by the Nazis who run the system.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Okay, I really was the class English geek.

    I loved diagramming sentences.  When Mrs. Vincent, my fifth grade teacher, would use my work to show the class how to do it, other boys would be hitting me in the back of the head with spitballs.

    I was an unwilling teacher’s pet.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The global warming didn’t last.

    We are predicted to get over 5 inches of snow Saturday night.  We haven’t had a real snowstorm in 3 years.

  16. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good cold morning, Hamsters.

    We were blessed with almost an inch of rain overnight.  It is most welcome and seems to have soaked in fast, as there are no puddles of any size left.   And it looks like the clouds to the NW are breaking up with more blue spots coming this way.  Sun would be welcome.

     

  17. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My rowdy puppy and my son’s small horse have made our backyard look like it has been plowed.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I tried teaching Handsome Son about sentence diagrams when I was trying to teach him through his language deficits.  Poor kid couldn’t construct a sentence, but at the time he had not yet been diagnosed with verbal apraxia.  That diagnosis didn’t come for some years after his central auditory processing disorder.

    CAPD deals with how the brain (doesn’t) handle language.  In Handsome’s case, his adenoids were so large that his Eustachian tubes never really drained well.  I suspect there was some congenital language delays, but the specialist explained to us that the part of his brain that handled language wasn’t getting stimulated enough to thoroughly myelinate those nerve cells.  A paucity of myelin on nerve endings mean they don’t work well.  One advantage Handsome had was that he was a boy – and boys tend to do better in that department as they age vs. how well girls do.  The myelin sheath thickness corresponds to the amount of stimulation – therefore, since he was “under water” for basically seven years (when the adenoids were removed) – his language development was delayed and he missed two critical windows for language development.  Fortunately, he seems to have caught up. /whew!

    Verbal apraxia, on the other hand, deals not with language going in, but with language going out. Speech is a complex fine motor skill involving muscles and motor skills  from the diaphragm all the way to the tongue.   This wasn’t diagnosed until we forced HISD to put him into the moderately deaf program and he got a qualified speech pathologist.  Miss Laura worked wonders on my kid, and for that I am eternally grateful.  She was patient with me, the mother with all the questions about test scores and what they meant, etc.  She said I was the only parent who showed an interest in her kid at the school.  That was so sad to hear.

    So, my son was cursed both coming and going with language, and at one point I thought that if I could at least get him to understand sentence structure, it might click with something in his little head.   I don’t think he was ready for that yet, and it was one more effort that went by the wayside. But I donated the materials to our local school.

     

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    ROGUE MANHOLES ☙ Wednesday, January 3, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! In today’s roundup, it’s already been a terrible, no-good year for liberalism, and we are just a few days in: Harvard’s woke President takes a long walk off a short commencement platform; new bribery allegations arise against embattled democrat Senator Menendez; small earthquakes also shake the USA in bad news for climate change; figures for Biden election integrity going the wrong way for democrats; and China’s new Handmaid’s Tale problem.

    ***

    Mr. C. points out that an article calls plagiarism the new weapon of the right against the left.  Then he makes this point:

    It can only be a weapon against ‘colleges’ if they plagiarized somebody. Just saying.

    I remember experiencing BCS’s reaction to getting grounded for skipping school.  Since I was at home at the time (severe tonsillitis) when Mom got the call from the school, somehow I was responsible for her punishment.

    Since I couldn’t talk, I failed to make the point that if she didn’t break the rules, she wouldn’t have been grounded.  Actions have consequences.  Same with the Hahvahd president – if she’d just done her own work….

    But it seems that the firing was – wait for it……wait fooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrr itttttt!!! – RACISM!  And the firing of the other two white college presidents was racism, too!

    I’m sure racism has something to do with my blood sugar control efforts, as well. And the upstairs bath rebuild coming to a halt.  I thought that had something to do with our vacancies and the make ready work, but since racism can be blamed for everything, I’ll use it.

    ***

    Speaking of earth shaking news – Mr. C. delves into the recent spate of earthquakes.  Of course Japan was hit the hardest, but…

    On the East Coast, ABC-7 New York ran a story yesterday headlined, “1.7 magnitude earthquake jolts residents awake in Roosevelt Island, Queens.” While no property was damaged by the small shaker, there were loud booms, power outages, and a shocking tsunami of exploding manhole covers: [insert headline]

    DC was hit with a 2.3 quake, enough to cause “disquiet”.

     …Residents who noticed reported hearing sonic booms and feeling disquieting house movement around 1am.

    On the West Coast, closer to the edge of a tectonic plate, parts of California were shaken a little bit harder, as reported by the UK Independent in yesterday’s article headlined, “Earthquake shakes California with 4.1 magnitude tremor on New Year’s Day.” The quake occurred just offshore near Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

    Japan, Manhattan, DC, California. It almost makes you think the whole world was affected by something that can cause earthquakes, which could not possibly be carbon dioxide or cow farts. Well, it would take a truly earth-flattening level of flatulence, which we’d probably notice. So I doubt it.

    Buckle up!  2024 has started!

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I noticed the headline at CFP last night about True the Vote winning its Georgia lawsuit about “voter intimidation”.  Tank Abrams has been sent packing, and as Mr. C. points out, there is now case law about what is – and isn’t – “election interference”.

    Mr. C. discusses the fact that a growing number of voters, including Dems, believe that the Biden election wasn’t.  The numbers are trending the wrong way.  For libs, that is.

    Trending.  That’s the magic word as we head into hard core election season.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the Chinese central planners are being hoisted on their own petards:

    Things aren’t going so well down at the central planning office. The Wall Street Journal ran a long-form, magazine-style story yesterday headlined, “China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No.” The sub-headline explained, “The population, now around 1.4 billion, is likely to drop to around half a billion by 2100—and women are being blamed.”

    Women blamed? How about blaming the central planners?

    The Journal included a handy chart showing that modern communists have been even more successful at decimating China’s population than was Chairman Mao in his wildest, most murderous, rice-wine-induced excesses of the Great Famine: [insert chart]

    I’m old enough to remember both when China first imposed its draconian ‘one-child’ policy in 1980 and also when it lifted the policy thirty-five years later in 2015. Now, almost nine years later, apparently the country’s population is for all purposes stuck in irreversible decline. Chinese communists did too good a job of portraying childbearing as patriarchal oppression of empowered womanhood, and now many Chinese women are just over it:

    When Beijing said it would abolish the one-child policy in 2015, officials expected a baby boom. Instead, they got a baby bust. (Chinese) women are increasingly reluctant to marry and have children, accelerating the population decline. 
    “Having had one child, I think I’ve done my duty,” Feng said. A second child, she said, would be too expensive. She said she tells relatives, “I can have another kid as long as you give me 300,000 yuan,” or around $41,000.
    Molly Chen, 28 years old, said the demands of caring for aging relatives and her job as an exhibition designer in Shenzhen leave no room for kids or a husband. All she wants to do in her free moments is read or scroll through pet videos.

    I remember reading media accounts of baby girls being left to die in the elements, since boys were more desired.  When men marry, the women become part of the husband’s family, and the girl’s parents are not cared for well.  So, women wanted boys instead of girls, to ensure they would be looked after in their old age.

    This led to a shortage of brides, and I also read stories of girls being kidnapped as toddlers, raised next to their future husbands by the kidnapping family.  This way, the son would be ensured of a bride and the parents, future progeny to care for them.  That left a lot of lower economically challenged men without wives.  And babies.

    The Chinese communists used coercion to enforce childlessness, and they may have overshot the mark a little. Now they are faced with the unpleasant prospect of coercing women to bear children, which is much harder than stopping them in the first place. (In America, we don’t use coercion, we deploy bizarre CIA mind-games like confusing kids about their genders and offering them free, irreversible sterilization surgeries to help their identities conform to biological reality, or the other way around. Whichever.)

    One surprising outcome of the baby bust was that China cracked down on abortions and even contraception:

    There has been a tightening of licenses for clinics offering medical procedures to block pregnancies. In 1991, the height of the one-child policy, 6 million tubal ligations and 2 million vasectomies were performed. In 2020, there were 190,000 tubal ligations and 2,600 vasectomies.
    (Abortions) have fallen by more than a third—from more than 14 million in 1991 to just under 9 million in 2020. China has since stopped releasing data on vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions.

    In spite of all this, nobody has cared invoke the awful specter of The Handmaid’s Tale yet against President Xi. But as this story suggests, a dystopian Handmaid’s Tale society is much more likely to arise in a communist hellhole like China than in a free democracy. The ‘one-child’ policy was originally promoted by Chinese communists as ending patriarchal and discriminatory treatment of women under historic Confucianism. Now, the communist party and President Xi are stressing Confucian values like familial duties.

    Don’t have babies! Wait, do have babies. I’ve said it before: if it weren’t for double standards, communists would have no standards at all.

    If there’s a better illustration of the perils of central planning than China’s horrible population implosion problem, I don’t know what it could be. Ironically, women vote for marxist policies in the greatest numbers, but women always suffer the worst whenever marxists hold power. According to the articles, China’s Politburo includes no women in its top ranks.

    China’s population demographic problems run deep. Optimistically, these problems may temper the country’s more aggressive military ambitions. In any event, the failure of one-child is another black eye for the Left.

    Overall, 2024 is starting out very well for sane conservatism.

    And one wonders what the impact of a declining population will have on an expansionist ideology like marxism.  Will the Chinese culture stand a dilution of their genetic purity and import non-Chinese women to increase their birth rate?  What impact would that have on their society, as these women will also have a cultural impact on their husbands and children.  It will be repressed, but I believe it’s unavoidable in the long term.  Mothers have a huge effect on their kids.

    All of the building that’s going on in China – who will fill those concrete structures?  And if/when the Chinese economy implodes (or at least contracts), what impact will that have the rest of the world?  They can only support a certain size army when there are fewer farmers to grow their food and fewer truckers to move it.  Logistics depends on labor, and labor appears to be in decline in China.

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

    The sans a belt slacks gang promises to keep doing nothing.

    speaker  Johnson:Duh, uh, oh we gonna to take a treep to da border, sumwher caled eegels past taxses, cuz we keep pretendin we don’t no how bad it is down ther. We got the Taxses cornhole in office for 20 years and he dont no how bad it is down ther eider.

    so we gonna take a trip to the broaderless USAofMehico and continue to adviccat our vacated craniums for uh, duh sometin called broads and security or sumtin like dat. Witch relly meens we gonna keept duin nutin cuz wer looszers.

    in da meantime all ya sukers out dere keep sendin dem cheks to rona delecto at gopeeCon hedqarters.

    and ps we gonna Sind anuder trillen to dat zeelenski fella to sekure his broader.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/02/apropos-of-everything-republican-speaker-johnson-promises-to-keep-advocating-for-border-security/

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Here is the “victory statement” from True the Vote:

    https://truethevote.org/news/true-the-vote-defeats-fair-fight-stacy-abrams-marc-elias-and-the-biden-department-of-justice-in-landmark-election-case-in-georgia-federal-court

    God bless those folks.  They’ve been targeted, “Gov-swatted,” by so many agencies in an effort to shut them down…

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think I’ve found my next birthday/Christmas/anniversary gift suggestion.

    St. Michael is bada$$.  I want him on my side.

    Quis ut Deus?  Nēmō!

     

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    12 Tedtam

    Thanks for that.  I was going to ask you to explain your son’s problems again.  Her Highness and daughter are both school teachers and counselors and are very interested in this subject.  Kudos for slaying the bureaucracy and solving the problem.

    I will forward it on.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t know what the problem is.

    Why doesn’t China marry off all these single men to trannies ?  We could export a bunch cheaply and offset the trade imbalance a little.

  27. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dose anybody know what day it is? I always have trouble around the holidays but during and after the beach trip I’ve lost my mind. I seem to have added a day to my week somehow, thinking yesterday was Wednesday and today Thursday. Maybe by the weekend I’ll figure it all out. BTW; It’s 43 with a drizzling rain and nothing, I mean nothing is colder than that. A Sunny clear 20 degrees is much warmer.   😉

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and many thanks to our beloved benefactor Texpat for freeing up my #4. Mr Moderator extraordinaire, almost in the same league as the Squawkster. 😀 >>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAAM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  29. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Texpat 1050:  Why don’t we just roundup all the illegal alien invaders, man woman and child, and ship them all to China?

  30. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Last night Texpat said;

    Claudine Gay will be a quiet anathema around the Harvard Yard and I strongly suspect she will silently slip out of Boston back to the West Coast this coming summer where they have even fewer standards and expectations than the Ivy League. Remember, it was actually the students and their newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, who delivered the death blow, in my opinion. How will she teach if even the students have no respect for her ?

    I do hope you’re right but if we didn’t live in Bizarro World she’d have been fired with prejudice, loose any pension and never be allowed near any University again. And of course that last part couldn’t be enforced by mandate but in a moral world no college/University would touch her.

    I can dream can’t I?

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang! I need to go run some errands, but don’t enjoy being out in the cold.

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

    New year.

    same old goopeCons artists joined@thehipparty.

    https://youtu.be/-oSFYxDGKy8?si=ZjSefBoUvfSVHNJ6

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat:

     I was going to ask you to explain your son’s problems again.  Her Highness and daughter are both school teachers and counselors and are very interested in this subject. 

    I found that ZERO school teachers, diagnosticians, and administrators in the mainstream schools knew about CAPD, aka “central brain deafness”.  It wasn’t until we got an outside specialist and the program for the moderately hearing impaired program involved that it was even brought up.

    I purchased a technical book used in the education of speech pathologists early on, to try to understand what was going on with my son so I could help him. CAPD kids don’t learn foreground/background noise discernment.  Everything is loud. (He was absolutely TERRIFIED of balloons and thunder.)  The language center hasn’t learned to unscramble language sounds. Here’s a description from the book, not verbatim, of what being a CAPD victim is like:

    Imagine sitting on one side of your living room.  The TV is on full blast, and someone is reading Shakespeare to you in Old English from the other side of the room.

    Because it can be overwhelming, some kids just shut down and quit trying to communicate.  We were told that Handsome’s case was one of the most severe they’d encountered.  Our pathologist told us that the only thing that saved Handsome was his very outgoing, easygoing attitude.  He always wanted to belong and he had a heart of sweetness for everyone around him.  He certainly had more than his fair share of frustration because he couldn’t make himself understood (verbal apraxia, lack of language development), he also had a hard time understanding (CAPD).  His tears just tore me up, his little face would crumple from the inside and there was little I could do to help him.  As a mother, it was very difficult to handle my own frustration with the situation.  I just had to wrap it, and him, with as much love as I could as he cried it out before we could try again.

    CAPD is often misdiagnosed as ADD/ADHD, mental retardation, or some other disorder.  If you can’t focus on the teacher or hear what he’s saying, the attention gets turned elsewhere.  If the pencil falling on the floor two rows over is as loud as the lesson, again the attention goes to the pencil.  The A/C coming on, the lawn mowers outside, the birds chirping…it’s all just as important to the CAPD brain as what the teacher is saying.  Handsome told his teacher one time that acorns falling on the classroom’s metal roof sounded like machine guns. We had to take Handsome so a psychiatrist to have the ADD ruled out.  How many CAPD kids are being drugged into submission because they are misunderstood?

    The deaf program he was placed into started out with an amplification system.  Handsome wore a headset and the teacher wore a microphone that was picked up by Handsome’s set.  Over a period of weeks, his brain learned to recognize foreground/background noise.  The teachers also used sign language in class, and that helped Handsome overcome some of the communication frustration.  We chuckled as we recognized signs for Father, Mother, sorry, and please – which he used for some time after they weren’t needed any more.  There is some dispute over sign language – some professionals think it slows down regular development, but in Handsome’s case it was a help because his frustration level went down and he could focus better.

    The pathologist worked on the verbal apraxia by using rhythm.  Tapping his hand on the table in time with hers, Handsome was able to incorporate both sides of the brain.  Similar to the heavy stutterer/singer Mel Tillis, and others, who could sing without a stutter, Handsome was able to work on coordinating his motor skills:

    MY name is HANDsome. I go to SCHOOL here.

    That explains why he could say “butterfly” and “elephant” before he said Mommy or Daddy.  More syllables, more rhythmic.  For months I could see him tapping his finger, then his toe, then nodding his head slightly as he talked to me…eventually, he didn’t need it any more.

    As for instructions, I learned to get on his level, look him in the eye, and repeat the command three times and have him repeat it back to me. I couldn’t give him more than one or two commands at a time: “Open your book and find page three.” He couldn’t process more than that in his head. Even then, it was a crap shoot. I remember telling him to do something outside, and watched as he went outside and wandered off in the opposite direction…./sigh/ That can be frustrating for teachers and if they aren’t patient, the teachers give up.

    We were also encouraged to enroll him in activities that would develop motor skills.  We had him in dance, karate, soccer….Oh, the stories!

    It took the deaf ed program two years to get him able and willing to be mainstreamed, but we held him back a year.  He had some catching up to do.  That had the advantage of making him one of the bigger kids in his grade, which may have kept some of the teasing down; that and the fact that everyone just loved him.  As I said, he’s a sweetheart, without a malicious bone in his body.

    I hope that helps.  Given the dearth of informed people in the educational system, I am always willing to share what I’ve learned with anyone who wants to know.

    PS:  The last that I heard, it doesn’t take many ear infections to bring this on.  Be aggressive in treating ear infections.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Wow.  My comment went to spam for some reason.  Fortunately, I was able to fish it out of the trash can.

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I still can’t diagram a complex sentence.

    I have my suspicions that “Bob hit the ball” is complex.

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I have my suspicions that “Bob hit the ball” is complex.

    😀

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Do you serve crackers?     😀

     

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The new Luling Buccees isn’t open yet.

     

  39. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    One other thing just popped into my head regarding CAPD and my kid:  I remember having a conversation with the pathologist about his word selection.

    Word recall is another issue with CAPD kids.  They use language a little…irregularly.  For example:

    • Handsome told his Miss Laura that a bee was “broken”.  It was dead and laying on the sidewalk.
    • He said that his family lived in a “shelter”.

    Technically correct, but not the usual word choice.  If I hadn’t been used to it, I could have been confused by some of his utterances.

    I remember using some picture cards to work through some sorting exercises.  Being able to catalog objects is an important step in developing language.  As I watched him put the cards into piles, I realized that even though his piles didn’t match the suggested categories in the instructions, there was a method to his selections.  CAPD kids make different kinds of connections, which makes sense since to them, language development is a little cockeyed from the start.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And a funny from the psychiatrist: one of his tests was for depression, which they do with kids his age by asking them to draw a picture of themselves.  The fewer body parts, the deeper the depression.  An extreme example he showed us a picture that looked like a teardrop with eyes.

    He laughed and said we didn’t have to worry about our kid.  Not only were all of the extremities present, Handsome had included:

    • eyelashes on the eyeballs
    • ten or more fingers – ON EACH HAND!  Same for the toes
    • elbows and knees were included
    • a full head of hair, complete “sticks” all the way around
    • ears, size large
    • and a belly button

    We all laughed as we admired his art work.

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    Super Dave

    We gassed up at the Buc-ees in Terrell Texas, just east of Dallas on the way home last week, what a Zoo.

    FWIW; We now have 4 of them in Alabama, Robertsdale just east of Mobile Bay on I-10, Auburn on I-85, Leeds just east of Birmingham on I-20 and Athens just west of Huntsville on I-65. Sister and her clan love Buc-ees.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m starting to avoid Buc-ees.  The one in Madisonville is an absolute madhouse. I pack food for the trip between Houston and Denton and take potty breaks at the very nice county rest stops.  Gas can be acquired at other places besides the beaver places.

    I’ll still stop at them, but the elbow-to-elbowness is annoying.  I will say that I’ve never been in a poorly run Buc-ees.  Restrooms are always large and spotless, the staff is always helpful, shelves are stocked, and the checkout lines move right along with enough staffed checkout lines to handle the crowd.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I-10 west of Seguin is in really poor shape. But they are rebuilding it from the ground up.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    All the way to San Antonio.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    80+ mph all the way to SA…making good time.

    It surely was tempting to head south to Corpus back there.

    /sigh

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Look at them hills, Ma!!

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sealy McDonald’s to Boerne, Tx

    175.1 miles

    2:33 hours

    Not bad.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The last time I took I-10 to Kerrville I was doing 80 on cruise control in the outside lane and looked like I was sitting still.  Everybody was passing me doing at least 95 or over 100 and it wasn’t light traffic either.

    I finally got off because some of those drivers were taking too many chances at that speed.  I had intended to take the 1604 Loop around San Antonio, but I chose 46 at Sequin, through New Braufels all the way to Boerne.

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    I’m going to paste your comments into a document and send it on to HH and our daughter.

    Question:  How did the adenoid problem get diagnosed and why didn’t doctors recognize it earlier ?  Handsome must have had chronic ear infections and ear aches as a child.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Momma just got out of the doctor’s office and he was happy.  He said Ellie Ruth is 7 lbs now and there is a lot of fluid in the womb, a sign of impending birth.  She is ready to domino.

    Doc told our daughter,”You really are holding her in, aren’t you ?”

    Let’s pray her water doesn’t break over the next 16 hours.

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I spoke too soon.

    Our daughter made the 45 minute trip home from the doctor’s office, walked in the door and her water broke.  She’s waiting for her husband to get home from picking up the boy to take her to the hospital.

     

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It surely was tempting to head south to Corpus back there.

    Tell me about it, my old GMC would be chompin’ at the bits trying to head that way.

  53. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Keep us posted Texpat, we’ll be wanting to hear about the bundle of joy arriving. 😉

  54. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Question:  How did the adenoid problem get diagnosed and why didn’t doctors recognize it earlier ?  Handsome must have had chronic ear infections and ear aches as a child.

    Yes, Handsome had ear infections.  Fortunately/Unfortunately, he didn’t usually have fevers with them so many of them went undiagnosed until I noticed him pulling at his ears or noticing an unusually heavy amount of ear wax.  My kid was the ear wax king. Since he lacked the language skills, he couldn’t tell me if he was hurting. I can’t remember him ever crying when he was dealing with an infection.

    Our insurance at the time didn’t even want to put in PE tubes.  I literally had to pin a doctor against a wall and demand a referral to someone who would do something other than prescribe ever more potent and expensive antibiotics.  Handsome ended up getting three sets of PE tubes before he was seven years old, and it was at the third set that the adenoids were noted and removed.  I’m thinking the insurance didn’t want to do the additional surgery and/or the adenoid problem didn’t get noticed until Handsome reached a certain size.

  55. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat, great news!  Praying for a quick and relatively painless procedure for both Mom, baby, Dad, and the grandparents.

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve taken to carrying a few of my rosaries with me to give out as I come across people who want one.  There’s a lady at Wal-mart that I usually see behind the customer service counter.  She has serviced me when I go to pick up rent, and I discovered that she was Catholic.  We talked about my rosary making some time ago and she was very happy to hear it.

    I saw her today on my way out of the store.  She was resting on a bench near the front door, so I pulled my cart over and told her “I’ve started carrying some rosaries to hand out.  Wanna see?” and pulled out my two rosaries (one a very pretty hematite looking gray, the other green plastic with angels for the Our Fathers).  She immediately oohed and aahed over the gray one and grabbed it.  I didn’t plan on giving it to her as I assumed she probably had a rosary already, but she was smiling so bigly I just handed it over to her.  When I pulled out the green one, her face lit up again.  “Do you know a little girl that would like this one?” I asked, to which she smiled bigger and nodded vigorously.

    So, Father Felix will be happy with me.  I think I’ve given away almost ten rosaries in the past 2 or 3 weeks.  Time to reload the purse.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m about to load Elsa: two trays of blueberries (skins pierced with a meat tenderizer that looks like some kind of medieval torture device), a tray of sliced strawberries, and a tray of halved meatballs.

    The chicken stock completed this morning.  This run will definitely give me some more room in the freezer.  Next up, I think I’ll take those teriyaki chicken breasts and run those through a cycle.

  58. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Texpat becoming a grampa made me much happier than the “sad” news that Hamas pig scum lost two leaders. If he has not started doing so, start buying baby books and toys. My one year old played with the Little Farm Animals I got her for the first time last night. It was wonderful to see her excitement.

    other boys would be hitting me in the back of the head with spitballs.

    I knew Squakbox was in the same class as Texpat.

  59. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Vivek wipes the floor with another reporter.

    He calls wokeism questions a “catechism”.  He is so right.

     

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Daughter and son-in-law came here because she wasn’t having contractions, but we are halfway to the hospital.  They just left to go there and we hope to have this girl soon.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    O’Keefe gets an illegal to admit he wants to vote for Biden in November.

  62. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Trump releases report on election fraud.

    Why wait so long?

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    22 Super Dave

    I’ll retract my prediction on Claudine Gay if she shows up walking around the campus in Cambridge, Mass. wearing a custom sweatshirt that says:

    $900K MoFos !!!

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Rehearsal Dinner is done.

    Spent entirely too much time on my feet.

    A double vodka tonic at the hotel bar before I gingerly made my way up to my room.

    Glad I remembered to bring the real pain pills this time. Tomorrow’s going to be a long day. It’s an evening wedding.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Bevy Hotel (DoubleTree/Hilton) in Boerne is recommended.

  66. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    Say hey to everybody for me.

  67. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Darren good to see you man, drop by here more often.

    Texpat @ 8:11 Actually that wouldn’t surprise me at all since she’s playing the victimhood card now and all the Lamestream Midia are backing her up.

  68. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Luck is with us so far this first week of the year.

    A new baby girl any minute now and the snowstorm forecast has dropped from 5-6 inches to 3.5 inches to 2.5 inches now and it may only be snow showers.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Yeah, Darren, stop being so mysterious.

    The conspiracy theorists around here are going to start thinking you’re some kind of Deep Swamp spy.

  70. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Texpat;

     

    That would be my honor if you keep becoming a grampa. 🙂

     

    For what it’s worth, these parts have always been my favorite blogging place for politics and social stuff. God speed to you and your family.

  71. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Super Dave;

     

    Thanks, man!

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