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Great comment opening. The “reality” side is the true side, long though it is.
Good night all. Listening to the rain and the noise that might be the pea-size hail.
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I woke up to a pouring rain and light show, .62″ in the last 10 minutes. Also it was 51 degrees when I went to bed and 65 now! That front is pulling moisture out of the gulf warming things up. Also checking the radar, the front and serious weather has not crossed I 65 yet so we’re in for some serious rain.
Mornin’ Gang
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Our local Weather Guess is all excited because he thinks he has found a tornado in north Florida, NW of Redbay Fl. He used his debris tracking radar to find a spot that looks like tornado activity.
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I just took my pup for a walk around the block; it’s a bit nippy out there. The cold weather makes puppy frisky.
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This is just fascinating. It was about 51 degrees when I went to bed last night and then that cold front pushed into the western part of the state sucking warm air off the gulf. It was 65 when I got up about 4:30 AM and continued to rise up to 68 by about 7 AM, then the front pushed through and the temperature started dropping. It’s 59 right now and the little Weather Station indicates that it’s still dropping.
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It got up to around 72/3 here yesterday. The front blew through and dropped the temp by 15 or so degrees tout de suite.
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53 degrees now! And fairing off quickly I bet it’ll be cold overnight. 😉
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Super Dave
I’m looking at the national radar map and I can see your part of Alabama is getting the worst of it. The leading edge of this storm system will be here at 12 noon. We’re supposed to get 2.5″ in 15 hours. That is a lot of water and I hope we don’t wake up to a flooding basement.
This system is huge – from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. It stretches across Chicago & Detroit to Ohio, across Pennsylvania to Maryland and then stretches through Tennessee, Georgia all the way down to Alabama, the Florida Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hey, watch this trick ! I can talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time !
Clyburn was asked on CNN about President Joe Biden’s African American approval ahead of a Biden trip to Clyburn’s home state on Monday.
‘I’m not worried — I’m very concerned,’ the South Carolina Democrat said.
Biden is set to deliver remarks at the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the site of the 2015 shooting that left nine African Americans killed by a white supremacist.
Clyburn revealed he has sat down with the president to voice his concerns. He added that he has ‘no problem with the Biden administration and what it has done,’ but worries that the White House is not selling its successes to voters.
and,
Biden also trails former President Donald Trump with voters under 35, 37 to 33 percent.
Former President Barack Obama recently told Biden about the concerns he has with the structure of his reelection campaign, according to reports by the Washington Post and Politico.
Obama reportedly grew ‘animated’ at a lunch with Biden before the holidays about the threat of Trump’s possible return to power.
He reportedly told Biden that his campaign lacked authoritative decision makers in key states who didn’t have to clear everything with the White House.
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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
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Dang. Wife’s return flight from Memphis delayed an hour and a half due to earlier delays.
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10 Squawk
Exactly. But they are more accurate than almost any political poll.
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Finally settling down in front of the ‘puter. Another late morning due to insomnia (it’s good to be boss and in a semi-retired situation), so I put a rosary recitation on YouTube on my TV while I did my rosary work. Today’s creation is purple/pink/silver combination, last night’s was what I call a “car rosary” – a short rosary that is less likely to get caught on knobs and rods and break. Ask me how I know. It is black and silver. I also had to repair another one, then put together rosary packets for them: instructions on how to pray the rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy with the rosary, in little storage bags. I gave away a bunch of them on Sunday, so my stash is now just over 20 or so rosaries. We have a speaker night coming up, on the search for and excavation of the tomb of Peter. I’m going to ask Father if I can set up my rosaries for the taking. That would be a perfect way of getting them into new hands.
The Catholic Church – those that pay attention, anyway – is blowing up over the latest Vatican scandal. Pachapapa’s bestie from Argentina, a man who was elevated to the 2nd most powerful office in the Church, the ghost writer for the latest papal decrees that violate our faith, has been exposed as the author of a truly disgusting piece of prose. By disgusting, I mean it is so bad theologically that, well, from what I hear — one part describes a 16 year old girl engaging in an orgasm with Jesus. It declares SS sex okay, as long as “it is done in love”. It is so explicit in its description of sexual anatomy and the use thereof that the commenters on the topic are having a hard time discussing how bad this book is while trying to avoid the need for confession on their part, or on the part of listeners such as myself. It’s like trying to describe a banana without using the word “banana”. It’s dang near impossible.
I am mortified and horrified that this man is in charge of the teaching of our faith.
What’s worse is the point that Timothy Gordon made: these two have known each other for a very long time. They both hail from Argentina and have been friends for many years. When the equally disgusting book on erotic kissing (the kind that is only licit between married folks) came out, Fernandez was supposed to have joked to Pachapapa that “I’ve written worse”. That set some people to looking for the “worse,” and they found it. Pachapapa knew all about his friend’s penchant for the sexually deviant theology.
I predict that nothing will happen to Fernandez. This has all been prophesied: the “ape of the Church,” the passion of the Church, the last battle in the arena of marriage and the family. Satan attacks hardest that which is most holy.
I have to remember that the Church, that entity that I believe Jesus set up, is complete and pure. It is the barque in which I float. It’s just populated by madmen at the moment. I follow Jesus, not pachapapa. The sad thing is, those who are looking for the easy or pleasurable way will embrace these heresies under the guise of “obedience”. I am not obedient to evil, no matter what color cassock it wears.
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Morning, compadres! Not sure if that is a word, in any language, but it’s what my fingers typed.
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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ☙ Tuesday, January 9, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! And the news keeps on rolling in with another remarkable roundup: Georgia Trump case blowing up with explosive allegations about prosecuting District Attorney Fani Willis’s love muffin; new details emerge in the awful AWOL story of Secretary Lloyd Austin; missing door plug found where you least expected it; Ninth Circuit re-stays awful California gun ban law and it gives Gavin Newsom a tender tummy; and the animal kingdom provides us with more examples of how to fight the deep state globalists.
News:
I saw the headlines on this over at CFP:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a breaking story yesterday headlined, “Filing alleges ‘improper’ relationship between Georgia DA, top Trump prosecutor.” Improper is one way of putting it.
I hear RICO charges may be pending:
Yesterday, one of the President’s co-defendants filed a motion filed in case alleging that DA Willis not only hired herself a love snack, paying him a six figure salary, but also used the unfortunate young man in a sordid scheme to launder taxpayer money and luxurious gifts back to herself…
The motions filed against her and asking that she and the entire Fulton County DA office be disqualified in their attempts to remove Trump from any presidential attempts, include the charge that Willis hired her boy toy as part of her
persecutionprosecution.Willis paid Mr. Wade well over a half mil in the last year for (as Mr. C. puts it) his “services”. The invoices call it “legal fees”.
That much money for a man with zip/zero/nada experience in a case at this level before. Add to that fact that Willis shattered the ceiling on how much the county pays for legal billings of this type. These payments are not only regulation shattering, but not approved and thus, unlawful. It is only coincidental, I’m sure, that his contract with the DA’s office began the day before he began proceedings to divorce his wife. Willis has already run and completed that race. I guess she can coach her new legal associate on how to successfully navigate his divorce.
The motion alleges the contract payments to Wade appear to have benefitted DA Willis in several, ahem, ways, and therefore amounted to kickbacks, racketeering, and a massive conflict of interest.
By all appearances Mr. Wade has earned every penny. Talk about a dirty job. Mr. Wade is married, but as noted sadly and totally coincidentally finds himself amidst a pretty ugly divorce. I wouldn’t mention his divorce, you know me, privacy first, but it’s relevant to the story because defendant Roman’s very creative criminal lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, relied on then-available documents from Mr. Wade’s divorce case.
I’m sure the soon-to-be ex-wife has lots of stuff she’s willing to share about Mr. Wade. The divorce court judge, on his own initiative and in a very irregular procedure, sealed Mr. Wade’s divorce filings after Trump’s legal team accessed those public records. Talk about bed fellows! But it was too late. The proverbial cat was out of the bag.
I’m only guessing. But, presumably based on information in the sealed divorce records, the Motion alleged that Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade are involved in a sweet-sounding “romantic relationship.” The two romantic adulterers traveled together to Napa Valley’s wine country and to the free state of Florida, and happily cruised the Caribbean on Norwegian and Royal Caribbean cruise lines using tickets purchased by Wade. Using taxpayer dollars.
The anti-Trumpers may argue that Ms. Willis’ personal life is that – her personal life, regardless of how she uses taxpayer money. Mr. C. sees a potential Claudine Gay type of outcome. Either way… pass the popcorn.
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Now, on to the mysterious Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin saga:
The Lloyd Austin AWOL story isn’t going away. Yesterday one tiny new fact emerged, prompting renewed widespread coverage. The Wall Street Journal’s headline said, “Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Hospitalization Deepens Mystery of His Absence.” The sub-headline explained, “His No. 2 at the Pentagon didn’t learn of his hospital stay until days after he was admitted.”
Bullet points:
- Austin supposedly underwent an “elective procedure”.
- He went into ICU, and nobody but his doctors knew about it.
- Second in command Kathleen Hicks, on vacation in Puerto Rico, was told to take over. Not why, just do.
- Hicks never bothered to tell anyone she was in charge, probably shooting off emails between vacation activities.
If you believe any of that.
Yesterday’s new information was that the Pentagon has deigned to give we the peasants a tiny new morsel of information, the fact Austin was in “severe pain” on New Year’s Eve before he went into the ICU. That’s it. We still have no idea what’s wrong with him, whether he’s still in the hospital, what’s his prognosis, how his severe pain is going, or anything useful. It seems the Pentagon is now operating as its own independent government. Civilian oversight? What’s that?
It might even be a whole separate country at this point.
Biden has not said anything nor answered any questions on this. Does he even know?
Even more bizarre, the statements issued on Biden’s behalf claim Biden is perfectly satisfied with Secretary Austin’s services and has no plans to take any action despite the number two man in the nuclear chain disappearing for a week after an ‘elective procedure.’
It’s almost like the Pentagon is running the country instead of the other way around.
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Squawk:
Yep, that guy.
Now you know why I have to work at not being distressed over the state of the Church. I have to keep reminding myself to stay faithful to Scripture and remind myself who’s really in charge.
/deep breath
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News on the 2A front – a California court has struck down yet one more attempt to limit the right of citizens to arm themselves. Government employees are free to pack, but those they want to control must be content with slingshots and hand to hand combat.
…The sub-headline explained: “Just a week after the law was allowed to take effect, a federal appeals court reinstated a lower court’s block on the ban.” California Governor and stealth Presidential Candidate Gavin Newsom was literally sickened by the news:
I will never understand the left’s focus on the object and not the operator. Until I remind myself that it’s not about the guns, it about control. Then it all makes sense.
Among other line-pushing restrictions, Senate Bill 2 includes a long list of “public places” where personal firearms will become illegal. One innovative feature of the bill is that guns would only be allowed in private businesses with clear signage inviting firearms — even with a state permit. (Government employees like cops and IRS agents could still carry guns freely. Just not citizens.) Concealed carry permit holders and allied groups sued the state in federal court to block the law. The trial court issued an injunction blocking the law from taking effect.
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I see another representative – another Republican – is retiring.
We’re going to need a real red wave this coming election cycle.
Why so many retirements now? Epstein related? Trump related?
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Her Highness is totally convinced now that Barack is so worried Biden can’t win he’s really decided to inject Michelle into this election. The podcast she made this week is supposedly the signal she’ll be running or storm the convention and steal all the delegates. Trump advisor Peter Navarro is also convinced of this.
The jury is still out for me on this, but I certainly don’t deny the possibility.
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What to do on this rainy, wet morning? Well I made Banana Nut Bread with walnuts and it turned out pretty dang good. As a bonus I got to play with my big 4WD Kitchenaid mixer. 😉
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The jury is still out for me on this, but I certainly don’t deny the possibility.
Several months ago I’d have said no way Michelle would run but now I’m not so sure. I do think that sliding her into the Convention might work for them and that they couldn’t pull that off with ANY OTHER candidate.
Just my humble opinion.
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I don’t think Big Mike Obama has a snowball’s chance in #ell of winning. Does anybody actually like her?
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Wife is still sitting at Memphis airport, every update they add at least another hour to departure time. She was originally suppose to arrive at 1:15PM, now it’s gone all the way to 5:27 arrival.
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Does anybody actually like
herhim?Or does anyone have the stones to tell him nobody does?
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One of those tornados the Weather Guessers were watching this morning hit Cottonwood and caused a lot of damage.
COTTONWOOD, Ala (WDHN)— The small town of Cottonwood saw major damage early Tuesday morning when storms rolled through the area and a possible tornado touched down.
Director of Public Safety in Cottonwood Jim Smith said the Cottonwood town hall, city water department, multiple downtown buildings, and more were destroyed during the severe storms and possible tornados.
“The town of Cottonwood is basically destroyed,” Smith said.
According to Houston County EMA Director Mark Powell, McClane Distribution at 100 McClane Parkway in Cottonwood was heavily damaged, and a natural gas leak occurred at the site during the storms.
Two semi-trucks were turned over, and one reportedly hit the side of the building. Two of the drivers sustained minor injuries.
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A video of a young New Zealand parliamentarian is making rounds on the internet as she delivered her first speech performing the ‘Maori haka’ to honor her indigenous roots. The 21-year-old member of the Maori community, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi Clarke, made history as the youngest MP in 170 years. In her maiden speech, she pledged her commitment to her constituents and said, ‘I will die for you.
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I posted our Bryan unit for rent today. Included in the Zillow ad is the address (and Zillow puts a map in), that it’s 4 miles from TAMU and 1 mile from downtown Bryan; one block off of Highway 6; that we accept no pets; the floors and counters are freshly renovated; washer/dryer hookups available; off-street parking; that “we do not accept any government subsidies (for example, Section 8)”; etc.
The first response is from Akeesha, who wants to know where this property is and do we take vouchers?
If you are that lazy or that stupid that you can’t read the ad, I don’t want to deal with you as a tenant, either.
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I only have one thing to say.
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23 Squawk
That is some wild and crazy stuff there, my friend.
I think those Maoris have been doing some bad drugs for a few centuries and it’s embedded now in their DNA.
Question: Your son or grandson brings this girl home to introduce her and she starts doing this routine.
Peruperu Haka
The Peruperu is a type of haka performed as a “war dance”, as it was traditionally performed before a battle. It is characterised by leaps where the legs are pressed under the body and weapons are usually used. The sticking out of the tongue and bulging eyes are meant to intimidate the opponents, as well as invoke the God of War.
Do you shoot her or call the police first ?
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File this under cool to watch
just imagine the possibilities if she could teach the Kentucky swamp turtle or new house speaker, same as the old house speaker, Tyke johnson to do that.
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Those wacky Hasidic Jews and their shenanigans.
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27 wagonburner
I know a few Lubavitcher Jews and they are intelligent reasonable people for the most part. However, as a group they are a little weird. They run the Chabad houses and synagogues that are friendly and welcoming. I don’t what is going on over there in Crown Heights, but I am going to ask the Chabad rabbi who lives around the corner next time I see him.
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I had not seen Roger Simon (author, screenwriter and co-founder of PJMedia) around and I was beginning to wonder if he was in bad health.
It turns out he’s been writing a book.
A net exodus of Americans from blue to red states has been in progress for several years now. This is largely a southbound movement, and perhaps some migrants are “running from the cold up in New England,” as the song goes. But mostly they are leaving states that are too far gone into woke socialism to recover anytime soon—in favor of states with more conservative governance.
The conventional wisdom, or fear, among red state locals is that these newcomers, despite having “voted with their feet,” will continue to vote for the same policies that ruined the states from which they are fleeing. Roger Simon argues that the reverse may be more accurate: blue-to-red migrants tend to be serious constitutional conservatives, and they might be the cavalry that rescues the red states from their own problems.
With the possible exception of Florida, the red states, too, are in trouble. Like California, long-term one-party rule has corrupted them, but in a different way. Their political leaders have become disconnected from the conservative values of their constituents. Migrants from blue states, however, are likely to be highly invested in saving the red states into which they are moving.
American Refugees is the story of how a culture clash precipitated a great blue state exodus, and what it means for the rest of America. Focusing particularly on Tennessee, Simon contends that only the red states can preserve the constitutional republic envisioned by the Founders. Only they can save America for our children and grandchildren. The struggle will be great, but the story will ultimately have a happy ending.
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Texpat
I do believe I would do everything I could to get her on my side. That is some wild stuff. I swear I thought the Brit Parliament was crazy. Got nothing on that girl and New Zealand.
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30 Squawk
I was on a business trip years ago down in the Corpus Christi area and once we were done with business I took my 9 or 10 year old daughter to a nice restaurant down on Ocean Drive. We returned to the hotel room and I turned on the TV that was on some channel broadcasting the House of Commons in the UK and they were destroying the Prime Minister over all kinds of things.
My daughter thought it was a comedy show. She had no idea it was the real deal. Once I explained it, I fell asleep with her rolling around laughing her head off on the hotel bed.
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Well, I picked up the new prescription lenses today. The old ones are good for my rosary work, but the distortion area on each side makes them useless since it drives me too nuts to keep them on my face. These lenses are larger (from top to bottom), which gives the progressive lenses more room to deal with the changes. Also, the ladies in the optical department told me that these were a little different progressive technique than the other pair, and the distortion area looks more like an inverted saddle each side, and is smaller in general area. I’m not really noticing the distortion. As I told the ladies, these glasses are better and my first inclination wasn’t to fling them across the room when I put them on.
I do like my cheaters, though. No distortion at all and they work just fine. Lovely has been after me for years to get “proper” glasses and I thought they’d be more helpful since I have some astigmatism. I’ll use them, but the cheap lenses are just as good, IMHO.
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Hunter’s art dealings exposed.
“The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people,” says Chairman James Comer. “Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors, one of whom was appointed by President Biden to a prestigious commission after she purchased Hunter Biden’s art for tens of thousands of dollars shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration.”
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Squawk
Her Highness wants to bring the Maori woman here to run against AOC.
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Here we go again.
It must be getting cold out there. I keep turning the heater down and it keeps kicking in anyway.
I just hate what the heater does to my eyes.
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From over yonder. Oh, how I wish this man were our Pope!
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano @ArchbpViganoThe Church does not belong to the Pope, and even less does she belong to a clique of heretics and fornicators that has succeeded in coming to power by deception and fraud. Therefore, we ought to unite our supernatural faith in the constant action of God in the midst of His people with a work of resistance, as counseled by the Fathers of the Church: …… Catholics have the duty of opposing the infidelity of their Shepherds, because the obedience that they owe them is aimed at the glory of God and the salvation of souls. We therefore denounce everything that represents a betrayal of the mission of the Shepherds, imploring the Lord to shorten these times of trial.And if one day we are told by Bergoglio that, in order to remain in communion with him, we must perform an act that offends God, we will have further confirmation that he is an impostor, and that as such he has no authority.Therefore, let us pray. Let us pray very much and with fervor, mindful of the words of the Savior and of His final victory. We will be judged, not for the scandals of Bergoglio and his accomplices, but for our fidelity to the teaching of Christ: …… a fidelity that begins with living in God’s grace, receiving the Sacraments frequently, and offering sacrifices and penances for the salvation of the Ministers of God. -
Next week, it begins to act like real winter around here.
A week from tomorrow the high will be 28° with a low of 17° and a wind chill factor of 11°.
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I just turned on the Kennedy Report (Kennedy Hall). He’s one of the Catholic voices that I listen to.
It seems that Archibishop Vigano (see my post above) has asked for the Swiss guards to arrest Cardinal Fernandez and Pachapapa.
Ain’t gonna happen, but it makes a point. I’m going to listen to the rest of the Kennedy Report and see what all he says.
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I have been wearing glasses for 61 years. With some experimentation with contacts.
Late in life I developed a slight astigmatism and nothing was more annoying, having been corrected to perfect vision or better-than-perfect all these years.
When my ophthalmologist was playing with the lenses and hit the perfect astigmatism correction layer, I nearly came out of the chair with joy.
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Hubby and I were talking about the possibility of some day moving out of Houston. He knows I’d like to move to the East Texas/Tyler area. Strickland used to be the bishop there, before pachapapa got exasperated with his holiness and defense of the truth and kicked him rudely to the curb. There’s a Catholic community there, and it would be nice to be around people like that.
The next place would probably be a barndominium, one story, with concrete floors. If I’m going to be in a walker or wheelchair one day, that would make it easier to move around. I asked if he would insist on putting radiant heat in the floor. Why yes, yes he would.
Warm floors. No hot air being blown around to dry out the eyes and drop dust everywhere. Quieter. More efficient.
If he didn’t, I would.
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Tedtam @ 9:11 PM
Please don’t build a retirement home with concrete floors. You have no idea how bad that is for a bad back or spinal injuries.
Pour piers and beams with a decent crawl space for plumbing and traces for wiring. Lay down a solid wood floor and you will never, ever regret it. People take for granted and don’t appreciate what the flexibility of a wood floor does for backs and the whole body, for that matter.
Here’s how these people do it.
I have not lived on a concrete floor since before my daughter was born, some 40 years ago. I could never do it again.
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I spent four days standing and walking on concrete floors last week.
I’m not certain my back will recover this time.
I’m this close to breaking out the last hope – prednisone.
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Texpat
Her highness is one priceless lady. 2 thumbs up on her idea.
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The only serious one-story retirement home has:
A) solid hardwood floors with radiant heat
B) 36″ wide doors – interior as well as code-required exterior for wheelchairs and gurneys
C) outdoor ramps instead of stairs
D) fully integrated wifi and cable connectivity throughout the house and yard
E) countertop wheelchair accessibility in bathrooms with roll in shower areas
F) safety grab bars everywhere needed
G) remote controls for motorized drapes & blinds
H) handicapped level reloading bench and hidden rifle barrel ports to shoot the bad guys
I) if it’s a beach house on pilings, it has to have an elevator
J) at least a 22kw standby generator
I am sure I’ve forgotten a few things…
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Texpat
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Zoned air conditioning. Mini splits have improved to great reliability.
Intercoms in all rooms including the terlit.
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40 Squawk
Excellent idea on the mini splits and they are already remote controlled. Any extra cost is saved by not having to run all the ductwork and venting.
When I was in the fancy 5-star-hotel-like hospital room last summer being waited on by this slew of cute young nurses, I had a touch screen about the size of two iPads mounted on an articulated arm. I was able to order anything from a full food menu, control the various lighting combinations in the room, the temperature of the HVAC, the vertical blinds on the large picture window and all the features of the 80″ flat screen TV on the wall. Oh, and summon the girls.
That could be a cool addition.
By the way, the hospital tried to bill Medicare $15,875 per day for my stay there. LOL.
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We had an intercom system in our house when I was growing up. I can’t believe more houses don’t have them. We could play a radio station throughout every room if we wanted to. Mom could call us downstairs or we could ask Mom a question if we wanted to. So convenient.
When I toured my childhood home a few years ago, I forgot to check and see if those units were still in place.
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An sprinkler systems. Easier to install during the building phase, and cheap insurance against fire.
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Intercoms in all rooms.
Uh, no.
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