Mark Charles Tipton
SEPTEMBER 5, 1957 – JANUARY 7, 2022
Hamous Memorial Weekend Commentary
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RIP Hamous, we miss you.
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Happy Birthday to my sweet wife! She’s officially in the geezers club, on Medicare and everything.
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What he said, RIP Mark. Taken way too early. Happy Birthday to Ms GJT! But I’ll NOT mention the Old Geezer’s Club.
It’s the weekend! 59 here after a high of 62 yesterday because of the little bit of rain that roared through here last night and I say little, .79″ to be exact but it’ll be clearing all morning and we’re hoping for sunshine later today.
With that; Mornin’ Gang
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Mark Charles Tipton
SEPTEMBER 5, 1957 – JANUARY 7, 2022Not that it really matters but if you remember, Mark’s last post was on Monday night January 3 so he likely passed away during the night but was found later on Friday.
I think this was his last post and the last one for the day;
Hamous says:
January 3, 2022 at 9:17 pmSix ways from Sunday
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is closing its investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing home COVID-19 deaths without bringing charges against Cuomo, according to the former governor’s attorney.
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The safest transportation system in the world, American commercial aviation, is going downhill like every other institution.
I’ve flown twice recently on Alaska Airlines. It’s a fine, professional outfit.
Alaska Airlines will ground its entire fleet of Boeing Co. 737 Max-9 aircraft after a fuselage section in the rear part of the brand-new jet blew out shortly after takeoff.
The airline is taking the “precautionary step” to temporarily ground the fleet of 65 planes until completion of full maintenance and inspection, Chief Executive Officer Ben Minicucci said. Flight 1282 was carrying 171 passengers and six crew from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California. Nobody was injured in the incident.
plus,
The grounding by a loyal Boeing customer marks the most severe response to an incident since the manufacturer’s entire fleet of Max aircraft was temporarily taken out of service in 2019 following two deadly crashes. The 737 Max is by far Boeing’s most popular aircraft and its biggest source of revenue, with single-aisle aircraft like the Max and the corresponding Airbus SE A320neo family used the most widely flown shorter routes.
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It was much worse than I realized.
How Did a Window Blow Out of a Boeing Airliner?
Troubles continue for Boeing’s 737 Max series of airliners, with the latest dangerous incident taking place yesterday above the airport in Portland, Oregon. This was a totally different issue than we’ve seen with these planes in the past and the details are disturbing enough to make it noteworthy, though thankfully nobody was seriously injured. An Alaskan Airlines flight had taken off for its third flight of the day but when it reached 16,000 feet, a window suddenly blew out of the side of the fuselage. The passenger cabin immediately decompressed and the outgassing was so severe that a young boy had his shirt ripped off of him entirely and it blew out of the plane. (Associated Press)
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Well I just dropped my wife off at the airport for her flight to Memphis on United for Elvis birthday week, so thanks for that Texpat….
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Things are different today than back when a decades old Boeing 737 had flown so many zillion miles the top of the fuselage flew off on an island hopping flight in Hawaii years ago. It was like putting the top down on the convertible while driving down the freeway and nobody was hurt.
The 737s were so tough and reliable the US used to take a stripped down model, load it with intel surveillance gear and huge fuel tanks and fly them all over the world mimicking commercial flights.
Now you might be nekkid before the plane lands and have to disembark in that embarrassing condition.
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My heart goes out to you Texpat; you are going through the epitome of ‘bitter sweet’ times.
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Here Hamous
And I still hate this band
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Now I need something to clean my pallet.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
We woke to a whole 39 here this morning at 7am, with the sun out in all its glory warming us up a bit to 47 now. Evidence of three frosts here so far this winter shows in the slight yellowish tint to the yard grasses around the house. In the pastures the green winter grasses rule and pretty much cover the frozen summer grasses so the pastures are still producing good food for the local deer herd. Many of the live oak trees that keep their leaves are mostly green and beautiful in stark contrast to the bare trees that look so sad in comparison.
Such is winter so far here with January and February still to get through. The coldest we’ve had in our almost 44 years out here was 7 above 0 one night. Never will forget that and recall wondering if the thermometer was broken.
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We miss Hamous very much. I first found him on Lone Star Times way back when and followed him wherever he went. Rest in Peace.
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Catching up from last night prayers to your daughter in Oregon Texpat that has got to be tough, losing her her husband at such a young age.
Also Bones has it right about ‘bitter sweet’ times. 🙁
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I had three landmark events – two joyous and one heartbreaker – all happen in less than 24 hours.
Then, in the middle of this, the small repair I took one vehicle in for turned into $2,000 in the same day.
And this morning the bank texted me at 5:30 AM to say somebody was trying to use a debit card I have to buy something from Microsoft. They didn’t approve it.
I’ve exceeded my quota of drama this week.
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Missing you, Hammie.
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Easing down the hill from Aunt and Uncle’s place outside Kerrville.
Headed back to Austin County but I have one stop to make on the way home, Super Dave.
I’m going to run into the Witte Museum of San Antonio to see the original painting of Chili Queens At The Alamo.
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Headed back to Austin County but I have one stop to make on the way home, Super Dave.
I’m going to run into the Witte Museum of San Antonio to see the original painting of Chili Queens At The Alamo.
Now that’ll be a worthwhile detour for sure.
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I’m going to run into the Witte Museum of San Antonio to see the original painting of Chili Queens At The Alamo.
Look real close and you will see beans in the pot.
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Wife has safely landed in Memphis without the sides of the plane blowing out.
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Happy Birthday to my Baby Girl! This popped up over yonder from last year but the Time Machine pictures are just too neat to not repost. 😉
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Wife has safely landed in Memphis without the sides of the plane blowing out.
Well that’s always a plus especially with colder weather. 😀
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Look real close and you will see beans in the pot.
HA!!! 😀
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I once posted a profile on Hambone.net of the artist Julian Onderdonk and his paintings of Texas, including the Chili Queens at the Alamo. I don’t why, but it’s not showing up in a search.
This is from the Briscoe Museum of Western Art in San Antonio:
Perhaps the best-known Texas artist, San Antonio native Julian Onderdonk (1882‒1922) came from a family of artists and spent his formative years learning from his father, Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. His depictions of fields full of the state flower forged an entirely new subgenre in Texas art with his plein air scenes of the majestic blue flora. After leaving his home state to study painting, including a summer studying under the renowned William Merritt Chase in New York, Onderdonk found himself struggling to make it as an artist in the big city. He eventually made his way back home, bringing with him a refined sense of style in his painting and a heightened appreciation for the Lone Star State, along with all the life teeming within it. Although Onderdonk is best known for his depictions of bluebonnets, his scenes of the hill country, fields of spring flowers, live oak trees, and the changing of the seasons equally impart his interpretation of light and movement, his personal connection to the land, and that special something only Texas has to offer.
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Morning, kiddos!!! I’ve had breakfast and read the WIP — thanks, Bones! — and to tell the truth, I think I’ll just go back to bed. For a while, anyway… Feeling sleepy.
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From the Houston Chronicle this morning on the hottest residential real estate markets in the nation. Nine of the top 20 are in Texas, but #1 & 2 are in Houston.
The study was based on the number of homes that went into contract within 90 days of listing, using Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data.
The report showed that prospective homebuyers are looking for areas filled with amenities but without the congestion of the city. Cypress’ zip code (77433) jumped to the top of the list last year, rising six spots from its #7 place on the list in 2022. In Katy, zip code 77493 took the #2 spot, jumping one spot on the list and unseating Clarksville, Tennessee, which was at the top of the list last year.
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yo bruddah squawk.
when you were a trucker we’re you ever on the road this long? 😝
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yo squawka Bruddah.
here’s one I bet you’ll like.
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I’d bet his back couldn’t take two museums in one day, but the Briscoe Museum of Western Art is about 15 minutes from the Witte Museum in downtown San Antonio.
It looks like a nice museum and I’d love to go back and see both of those places. I’ve been to the Witte a number of times.
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Has anyone noticed the fake fetterman is much smarter than the real fetterman?
He’s probably just playing the lead gaff in a head act for the deep state.
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The Fetterman of recent days is not a real person. His persona has been hijacked by a group of anarcho-conservatives who have created a new Fetterman using AI and 3-D holograms.
I hear they’re working on Jamie Raskin and Ilhan Omar next.
Squawk might be involved.
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I couldn’t get into the particular museum building where the painting MIGHT be on display. That building isn’t available on weekends without an escort and they are short on volunteers. But I got the business card of the Director Of Collections and will get to bottom of this search with her via email – next week.
Super Dave, the museum store sells prints but they are not the superhigh quality reproductions that we got from Copano Bay Press.
I’d bet his back couldn’t take two museums in one day…
I barely made it back to the car. I’m in the same shape I was when I left New Jersey. Pretty bad.
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I hear they’re working on Jamie Raskin and Ilhan Omar next.
Squawk might be involved.
Yes infidel I am THE PUPPET MASTER
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A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers was canceled this week when players on the home team shot antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.
The girl’s varsity teams from The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, faced off in the non-league game Thursday evening.
“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled at a Leffell opponent, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.
From the outset, there was hostility and aggression with “substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past,” senior player Robin Bosworth wrote in an op-ed for Leffell’s student-run newspaper, The Lion’s Roar.
I don’t have to tell you the racial component of this school. Mysteriously, Google and Co. have vanished any photos of the Theodore Roosevelt High School’s Girls’ Basketball Team. Funny how that works, isn’t it ?
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My comment @ 1:55 PM cont’d.
Roosevelt High School in Yonkers was a perfectly normal* suburban school 1960s to 1970s. Reunion photos show mostly white and a few black and Latino students.
The school is 100% full ghetto now.
* The most embarrassing scandal at the school was Steven Tyler’s compulsive drug use which got him expelled.
He went on to become Dr Phil Good’s magical icon later in life.
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I’m glad none of the people around here saw Shannon and I walking, or attempting to walk, after a day at Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
It was pathetic. At one point I almost gave Shannon the keys so he could get the car and come back to pick me up.
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It looks like my post from earlier today didn’t go through.
Texpat, I just want to let you know that I went to mass this morning. On my way out I stopped off at Our Lady Perpetual Help, and lit one of those big all week candles for you and your family. I know it’s hard to celebrate and mourn at the same time. Here’s hoping your drama gets reduced and your joy gets increased.
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Shannon, I started going to see a chiropractor when I got the nickname “duck butt” from my fellow co-workers. It was, of course, a reference to the only posture I could assume to ambulate at the time.
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This ol’ van just won’t pass by Nancy’s Steakhouse in Columbus without stopping.
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We are recovering from a wonderful brunch lunch with favorite items of choice served made from scratch instead of lingering in moderate heat to be ready for scooping out on a big plate. We who have dined there often know why it seems to take a bit longer to bring it to the table. It is because they cook things when they are ordered instead of having them sit around warm in a big pan waiting to be ordered. You can surely tell the difference….
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28 Tedtam
Thank you.
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Who knew that Super Dave donated a Christmas Tree to San Antonio’s Witte Museum?
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You’re in good hands with Deep State
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in the intensive care unit at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for five days while his second-in-command was on vacation in Puerto Rico, and no one thought to tell Congress.
Friday, I reported on Austin being hospitalized since New Year’s Day for “complications” from an “elective medical procedure.” Now NBC News reports that the story was much worse than Austin lolling about in a hospital bed with bandages on…well, whatever. He was actually in intensive care, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was on leave in Puerto Rico.
and this,
While I thought Austin being in the hospital for a week without notifying Congress was a grave dereliction of duty, that pales in comparison to what we now know.
Sometime before New Year’s Day, Austin underwent some sort of “elective” surgery that the Pentagon is being very cagey about. This implies that the surgery was not as elective as, say, a radical colon craniectomy might have been. Austin was released from the hospital, suffered some sort of medical event, and was readmitted to Walter Reed. This time, he was sent to the ICU and remained there for five days before being moved to a regular room.
So far, the Pentagon has refused to say whether Austin ever lost consciousness (this could be because it was too hard to tell) and the degree to which his Democrat apparatchik deputy took over his duties and for how long.
While we are focused on Congressional notification, no one has yet asked if the White House was told.
Maybe, just maybe, Lloyd Austin and Kathleen Hicks didn’t want Congress to realize they are irrelevant and non-essential personnel and the Department of Defense can operate without them.
However, since the SecDef is #6 in the line of succession to the presidency, it would seem most appropriate to notify Congress of his incapacitation. Sixth in line is not exactly close, but in the event of a nuclear attack and several officials being killed it might become a critical issue.
Morons and incompetent ones at that.
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Texpat 4:40
I hear those male appendage removal surgeries can be hell.
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* The most embarrassing scandal at the school was Steven Tyler’s compulsive drug use which got him expelled.
He went on to become Dr Phil Good’s magical icon later in life.HAHA!
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Texpat 4:40
I’m thinking back to the Secretaries of Defense in my lifetime…..and I’m pretty sure that we need to drop them entirely from the Presidential Line Of Succession.
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At the museum I had to take a shortcut thru an exhibition of the work of a local photographer. This one stopped me in my tracks.
The incomparable Flaco Himenez:
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My answer to the question is does a penguin sh!t on ice?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/zerohedge-live-debate-was-january-6-manufactured-crisis
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After the obligatory dances with his bride and mother at the reception, the groom chose this Epiphone guitar to perform an original song that he wrote for the occasion.
Not a dry eye in the house.
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We made it to 60 today, bright and beautiful, and warm enough to only need a sweater or light jacket if you are outside very long. On Friday we had 1.5″ of rain and puddles in the yards that have soaked in now. Weather folk say we don’t have rain to think about until Monday. Umm, isn’t that when the championship college football game is in Houston? Let us hope the rain doesn’t show until Tuesday. That would be convenient all around.
On Thursday we had a new roof that matches the house roof put on our “carriage house” garage that is a separate building from the house and from the stable. It had room for a two-horse trailer with a dressing space; the other end of it is for the lawn care stuff and our small tractor mower suitable for mowing the pastures as well as the lawns. It also hauls small branches and carts of leaves in fall to make several large piles in the back pasture and eventually good fertilizer when they rot.
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36 Shannon
I think you are correct there, son. The thought of some them being president is downright scary.
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42 Shannon
The floor there looks like pre WWII quarter-sawn oak, but the paneling on the wall looks to be custom milled pecan.
Dang, somebody spent a bunch of money on those walls.
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Squawk @ 6:05 PM
Flaco is one of the most beloved musicians in Texas history. One of my best memories was seeing him perform with the legendary Augie Meyers at the John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes on the edge of San Antonio.
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Rush? Rush?! Rush?!?
They’re a bunch of Canadians producing pretentious piffle trying to out-mood the Moody Blues.
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Rumor has it that dave & Mr. Granny have been involved in a clandestine bromance.
Heres the evidence:
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I know I’ve been out most of the day, what with church stuff ‘n all that. On First Saturdays, our Catholic Daughters group attends morning mass, which we follow with a rosary and First Saturday Prayers. Mass begins a 8:00 a.m.
I left in plenty of time, but got caught in a major traffic jam. All of I-45 N was shut down. I saw cop cars, but no construction vehicles, which surprised me. I managed to break a few traffic laws (along with dozens of others) and exited down an on ramp to the feeder, then made some turns through a neighborhood to try to escape the now heavy feeder traffic. I eventually found myself back at the feeder road, past the traffic jams, and noticed four or five cops cars on the empty stretch of highway to my left.
Then I noticed the ME’s van, then the covered body on the shoulder of the highway. Some guy tried to cross the freeway and failed. I didn’t see any cars stopped, so it looked like a hit and run, unless the cops had already carted the suspect and his car off. I doubt that, though – the highway didn’t appear to have been blocked for long, and if they had the car involved I doubt they would’ve removed it from the crime scene so quickly.
I said a prayer for the dead man as I headed on into downtown, to my church. I got there and discovered that darn near every parking space had been taken. The Incarnate Word Academy shares parking space with us, and they had some big event happening at the same time we had mass. I was very fortunate to get a space that was being vacated by an IWA dad.
So, I made it to mass, but was late. Since it was a low mass (no singing), Father was moving right along. For the first time in years, I didn’t feel like I could receive Communion. I was there before the Gospel, which for a lot of folks is the cutoff point, but I still would’ve felt weird.
Tomorrow is another day.
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Texpat
I am well aware of who Monsieur Flaco is and the lofty heights of his popularity in Texas, Tejano and Spanish music industry.. In fact I got to hear him play zydeco on that squeeze box. Now for a cajun like me that was as you would say music to my ears.
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45 WB
That’s pretty funny.
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Funny how nobody’s seen Super Dave lately….
Alabama man gets arrested after taking a dive naked into the fish aquarium at a Bass Pro Shop
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Rush???
Indeed. Initially, I didn’t listen to Limbaugh for a couple years because I was afraid he might be somehow connected to the worst rock band and worst rock vocalist in the history of the universe.
I’d just as soon listen to a 24 hour loop of Hillary Clinton laughing.
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I always kept a Slim Whitman 8-track tape handy, just in case the band Rush came on the radio.
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Geddy Lee is in the Medical History Hall Of Fame for the worst case of undescended testicles on record.
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Rush???
Yeah RUSH. The best rock and roll band ever to come out of Canada. They are bottled in pill form to keep us in our best performance.
And I take 2 tablets daily to keep my game on.
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The U.S. Intelligence community had to switch to waterboarding because making them listen to Geddy Lee and Rush is a war crime.
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Who knew that Super Dave donated a Christmas Tree to San Antonio’s Witte Museum?
HA! My SIL has a huntin’ tree that he puts up every year separate from the regular one. It has lots of really neat ornaments that they’ve picked up over the years. I have a picture of it lost in my camera that I’ll have to get out.
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Both my kids are watching the Texans against the Colts who knew that they were still playing? Apparently the Texas aren’t half bad these days.
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Rumor has it that dave & Mr. Granny have been involved in a clandestine bromance.
WTF?!?!
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It looks like I’ve been missing a good time. And no I’ve not been to the Bass Pro Shop.
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I never thought Axl Rose was that bad, but he could make Katfish hurl.
Then I asked Katfish, who is worse, Axl or Geddy?
Hands down, Geddy, he replied.
🙂
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I got a friend request from Laura Lee...Well at least she’s a hunter. 😉
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When the EPA outlawed all of the good furniture strippers, professional refinishers turned to high volume recordings of Geddy Lee.
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Listening to Geddy Lee is listed first among the prime causes of erectile dysfunction.
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Shannon
Then I asked Katfish, who is worse, Axl or Geddy?
Dang man that ain’t fair. How do I know you ain’t makin that up? For all I know Katfish might have been the President of the Geddy Lee Fan Club. Maybe not. I do not want to defame his good name.
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LOL
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I love this stuff.
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Hammie memories
I won’t soon forget when, after years of discussion and friendly debate across two blogs, one night Hammie walked in and declared that John “Bonzo” Bonham was the greatest drummer of all time and everybody else is an also-ran. Phil and I both know that Keith Moon was a high cut above the also-rans and indisputably in second place, but the discussion ended – forever – at that point.
It was historic. The debate was over.
🙂 🙂 🙂
/Rest in peace, Buddy Rich. 🙂
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Harummmmpppphhhh. We all know Ringo Starr was the greatest drummer of all time.
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Hamous
hamous.orgRE: Bonham greatest drummer
NOT
I’ll see your Bonham and raise you Krupa AND Rich
Great jazz drummers, both. But I said I don’t think there’s ever been a better all around drummer than Bonham. I still think that.
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Wow. Houston Texans end up with the best rookie QB in history. Hurt for several games. Manages to drag us into a playoff spot. Injury ridden offense. And defense.
Rookie head coach does an incredible job.
It is developing into a great Houston sports story.
Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m not supposed care about anything anymore….other than politics.
Sorry, not sorry.
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Why is Squawk’s # 67 comment all cattywampus?
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Shannon
I went off the wagon and followed the Texans the last half of the season. What a story, one we are not used to. Quarterback and coach are class peoples.
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Keith Moon was the best.
still is.
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And still is again.
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71 phil
You can take it up Hammie and Bonzo and Keith when you see them next.
See you there.
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One more for uncklo.
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Unless, of course you end up in the other place.
With all the bass players.
AaaaaahahahahahahHahaha.
/Darn it. Katfish isn’t here to be insulted by that remark!
🙂
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74 phil
So good.
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I play guitar not bass:)
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unck
Imo the greatest rock album ever.
A masterpiece of songwriting.
Townsend was underrated as a guitarist.not one weak tune on it.
just don’t tell the Jersey boss man that. 😉
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Funny comment on YouTube…
When John Bonham died and went to Heaven he met St Peter at the Pearly Gates and asked him if he could be Heaven’s drummer…. St Pete said no, we already have a drummer. That’s him playing now.
Bonham says, that sounds like Keith Moon… St Pete says, no, that’s God… he just thinks he’s Keith Moon..
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Lol
unck.
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Neither Bonham nor Moon, but rather, Baker. Discuss.
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To borrow from Rudyard Kipling…
Oh, Jazz is Jazz, and Rock is Rock, and never the twain shall meet.
We had a favorite band we followed for years until they drifted apart and the lead singer moved to Connecticut. Most of the members were older pro studio and backup musicians.
They covered classic Soul, R&B and Jazz tunes and were absolutely great at it. They had keyboards, sax, lead guitar, bass guitar and drums. Bernie, the drummer, got a short tour gig with Alicia Keys so one weekend they had a substitute drummer who was a younger hotshot rock & roll studio musician from NYC.
It didn’t work. The guy didn’t know how to play without trying to smash the trap set to smithereens. He was completely at a loss for a light touch.
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RE: Squawk’s #47 Flaco Jimenez and Cajun Music
I found this interesting about the “bajo sexto” being played by Hugo Gonzales in the video. I’ve long known of the instrument and some of the other stringed instruments original to Mexico, but I never researched the history.
The bajo sexto is a 12 string guitar with 6 double strings and originally served as bass and occasional lead to the new accordions a German musical instrument company introduced all over Mexico. The melding of the two musical cultures gave birth to conjunto and a whole lot of other cultural appropriation.
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A neat old picture of J Nine (Southern Tragedy) popped up over yonder. I do miss that girl.
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I also discovered this informative video about concertos. I never really understood the true definition or history. They’ve only been around for about 300 years and the original master of the concerto was Antonio Vivaldi.
Rock loves Vivaldi, especially metal bands, because a concerto is merely a solo piece written for a musician to show-off. Also, you must be an extroverted exhibitionist and there are no shortage of those in rock & roll.
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Liz Cheney is a particularly EVIL Witch….. That is all.
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John Bonzo Bonham liked his chili with beans.
Frankly I think Alex Van Halen is a bit underrated. His opening lick in Hot for Teacher (During the Van Roth era) was pure genius.
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A neat old picture of J Nine (Southern Tragedy) popped up over yonder. I do miss that girl.
Dangit I am sick and tired of losing friends (and family) I love.
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About the picture of J Nine, her high school friend Beau said that the picture was taken after their 20th High School reunion and that would place it in 2003. I met J Nine in 2005, I think.
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Bill Ackman has been raising hell at all three Ivy League presidents and now 2 have resigned.
He is now going after the chairman of the MIT Corporation, the school’s board of trustees. Business Insider just published a hit piece on his wife and they are in the crosshairs.
Ackman is furious and he is not letting up. Robert M. Sterling on X (Twitter) posted:
Going after @BillAckman’s wife is one of the dumbest moves I’ve ever seen. MIT and Business Insider don’t understand the force of nature that’s about to come after them. This guy literally beat out Brad Pitt competing for his wife.While you were losing sleep over not having toilet paper during Covid, he was making $2.6B shorting the entire economy. The dude is just built different. Ackman is righteously pissed off. He’s motivated. He’s rich af, and he’s got some of the best research analysts in the world working for him (I worked in military intelligence, and DOD/IC analysts don’t come close to Wall Street short-sellers when it comes to autistically meticulous research). You think Gen Z clickbait journalists and MIT deans more comfortable in chemistry labs than in tense board-room proxy fights are ready for a guy like this once he gets on the war path? Yeah, right.
Ackman’s wife is Neri Oxman, a former MIT professor, beautiful and brilliant. She was dating Brad Pitt when Ackman came along and kicked poor Brad to the curb.
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Also, you must be an extroverted exhibitionist and there are no shortage of those in rock & roll.
chris Gaines disagrees.:)
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no good comes from anything the Kenyan’s involved in.
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Link for #87.
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chris Gaines disagrees.:)
ROFLOL
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Shannon;
Wow. Houston Texans end up with the best rookie QB in history. Hurt for several games. Manages to drag us into a playoff spot. Injury ridden offense. And defense.
After the kids alerted us to the Texans game my wife wanted to watch it since there’s nothing on anyway. We tuned right after they started and I watched it until somewhere in the fourth quarter and fell asleep in my recliner. YES I know, but in my defense that recliner has chloroform in the headrest. That said, I did enjoy watching most of the game.
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I thought folks here would enjoy this.
The same guy who posted on Twitter about Bill Ackman and his wife also posted this in November. Robert M. Sterling is a CFO and an investor from the Midwest. He’s talking about Mississippi and Louisiana here.
I know we’re not supposed to stereotype, but one of the craziest things about doing a prolonged business deal in the Deep South was learning that there really are 6’4” 300-lb guys named Bubba, who are the most authentically friendly and personable dudes you’ll ever meet in your life. You can walk into a meeting with a stranger named Bubba, slap each other on the back, shake hands, and you’ve made a friend for life. You’ll spend half the meeting talking about college football, but you’ll still manage to get the deal done with plenty of time to spare. And you’ll leave with an invitation to go shoot quail and eat brisket at his grandparents’ farm, whether you live across down or you’re traveling from New York and you only visit once a year. Bubbas are a national treasure, and I will always be super bullish on them. If anyone can save our country, it’s our Bubba population.
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I’ve never had to babysit 24/7 a five-and-a-half year old boy with a wildly high IQ, a vocabulary like a 13 year old and clinically diagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
He is an absolute full-time job for one adult and sometimes two. He talks almost incessantly about every subject under the sun.
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Texpat 1:42
…….Oh, and thanks, Mom. Poor thing, you had to do it twice.
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That white 61 Chrysler Imperial just came by again, I’ve not seen it in over a year and I have no idea where it lives. It’s been by here about 3 times, (that I know of) in the last couple of years. It is a beauty, complete with the Continental Kit.
😉
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94 SD
Est. Curb Weight :
4940 lbs. !
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Two men in Europe interviewed 3 African immigrants there. I don’t what country this took place in, but it has gone viral with millions of views all over the continent.
The three African men talk about raping women as if it were as natural as eating breakfast.
It is not graphic or profane although the banality of evil has a shocking visage.
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Good Afternoon Hamsters,
Southern Tragedy was a most remarkable lady, and it was so much fun to read her posts. She was brains, and beauty of face, and beauty of heart, all wrapped up in kindness.
Oops, got something in my eye and must find the Kleenex box. See y’all later.
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ReMix is a European news site. Go over there and check out their news stories. The assaults and rapes of women and girls in Europe are epidemic levels.
Here is one:
During the trial of former Czech MP Dominik Feri, who has been sentenced to three years of prison for raping two women and attempting to rape a third, the presiding judge said that he laughed so loudly during the testimony of his rape victims, that his laughter could be heard in the courtroom where they were delivering their testimony.
Feri was separated from his victims in another room while they delivered their testimony, but he was listening to them on his audio device.
“He laughed so loudly that it could be heard in the courtroom. Two victims mentioned this as a significantly unpleasant circumstance during their testimony. The defendant has the right to a defense, but not in such a blunt and insensitive way,” stated Judge Lenka Hájková of the District Court for Prague 3, who found Feri guilty along with two other colleagues.
NOTE: Another alarming turn of events is Poland has a new leader who has turned out to be leftist tyrant. Poles are outraged and in trouble.
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The Tennessee
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My wife decided to fix supper today and what a fine meal it was. Crock Pot Pork Chops over Rice, Butter Peas, Steamed Broccoli, Honey Garlic Carrots and Hawaiian rolls. My sister came over and we all stuffed ourselves.
Life is Good!
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Super Dave
You are killing me here.
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I guess I forgot to login today. Good evening, everyone! But nothing to report…
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Anybody ever try the Frenchy’s CreoleGumbo Base? Just add fish and/or shrimp?
I took the leap and bought one today.
Too lazy to go in there and do it.
Trying to decompress my spine and recover after an intensely active week. 🙂
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That gumbo base is in the freezer section.
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Frenchy’s is a Houston institution that I’ve never been to.
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With the weather beautiful today and going to heck tomorrow, I decided to spend some sunshine time working in my garden. I refurbed and planted two containers, and moved some leaves to my compost pile (as well as in the tubs). I decided to stop before I did real damage to the back and knees, but I’m feeling it in the back. I feel better after a hot shower.
I saw my Latin teacher after mass, and he introduced me to his daughter Elizabeth. “She’s in my class…”he said, and popped an appreciative eyebrow when I interrupted with “Sum discipula.” (“I’m a student.”)
I guess I will need to work on longer sentences, though.
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Dad talked about Frenchy’s as if it were the Kaaba and he wanted to go on hadj.
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Anybody ever try the Frenchy’s CreoleGumbo Base?
Does it have nutmeg in it?
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We just got home from delivering the wild child grandson home and arriving right after his little sister, the new granddaughter, was escorted into her new home.
We are truly wiped out and exhausted – physically and mentally – after this week.
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In a blue collar neighborhood in Brooklyn, many new illegal migrants have been knocking door-to-door every day begging for food and clothing.
However, a number of vehicles were towed away from their temporary shelter facility. Mayor Eric Adams turned this nice historic National Park Service site into a tent city for illegals.
Floyd Bennett Field was New York City’s first municipal airport; later it became a World War II naval air station. Today this area includes over 1,300 acres of grassland, saltmarshes, tidal mudflats, a marina, and the former airfield, including a control tower and terminal that is now the William Fitts Ryan Visitor Center (Ryan Visitor Center). Many recreational opportunities are available, including camping, biking, archery, gardening, ice skating, hockey, and gymnastics and other indoor sports.
It was a Toyota Sienna, a white pickup truck, two Toyota Sequoia SUVs and other vehicles.
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Anybody ever try the Frenchy’s CreoleGumbo Base? Just add fish and/or shrimp?
Nope but do tell us how it comes out.
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Texpat @ 8:16 PM Very good and I’m guessing mama and dad are glad to be home.
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Weather forecast for tomorrow is not nice at all for the many thousands of people gathered for the football championship game. Forecast is for the rain to start up more than morning mist or drizzle by around 11 am giving way to serious rain and keep going from there during the day. This likely will affect some crowd shopping trips that merchants are counting on, though certainly there will be hardy souls shopping anyway.
Hope it is not a great mess for everybody there.
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