March 2, 1836
Texas Independence Weekend Open Comments
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Yup God Bless Texas. And don’t you wish it could go back to being the Republic of Texas? I think it’d be in the top ten countries in the world in GDP. That said it looks like Squawk is working out the bugs and will have things back on track in no time. When I checked in last night my first thought was “New and Improved” and how I just hate that but I guess it’ll be really improved?
Mornin” Gang
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Hey, I figured out how to get in here! Thanks Squawk, sorry.
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Man, I leave town and everything goes to hell.
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Lubs ya, Squawk. I’m going back to baby holding mode now.
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G’Morning – glad to see that nobody slammed the door on the blog during the nite… Tis a bit foggy out here in the woods but some weather dudette is promising that we will see the sun before the day is over… A short-dawg I know would enjoy that 😉
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So the bizarre story of the day comes out of Alabama, go figger. FWIW; This came out of Black History Month.
Residents showed concerns of sign in the Burkett Subdivison that is now gone.
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) – A sign that was in the Burkett Subdivision just 24 hours prior is now gone, leaving residents with more questions than answers.
One of the residents, Myrtis Keith, has lived in the Burkett Subdivision since 1969.
“When we first moved here, it was very few houses, especially on this street. Everybody was in their movement, most of the people that ended up here were teachers,” Myrtis said.
On February 29, the last day of Black History Month, a dedication honored Reverend Evander Burkett Sr., who developed the neighborhood on his farmland. The issue for some, if not all, of those in the community itself, nobody knew about the dedication.
“To the people who coordinated it, not to speak to the individuals that live in the community, not to tell us anything about when you are putting it out there. Not to tell us anything about the dedication, who does that? For the people who live in the community,” Anthony Keith, a longtime resident, expressed.
These residents believe this wooden sign does not justly reflect the integrity of this historic neighborhood.
“I would like to see something more elaborate. Elaborate in the sense that, (it is) based on the people’s lives you are trying to uplift,” Anthony said.
The mystery deepens, since nobody seems to know who erected the sign. People at Dothan City Hall say the sign does not have a permit, and that could make this sign illegal.
Kevin Dorsey, the District 1 city commissioner, said he is listening to the concerns of the residents.
“I received a couple of phone calls regarding the sign. It was really appealing to me, it wasn’t a sign there for the subdivision. I think it’s a great idea to have a sign there. I think it comes from the miscommunications regarding the sign,” Dorsey said.
Dorsey planned first thing Monday to investigate, but then this afternoon the sign was not there anymore.
Everyone just wants more communication involved, and a better sign to showcase Reverend Burkett Sr.’s legacy.
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Oops it looks like I put too much content into my post, sorry, I’ll condense my next one down some.
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Thank you for fixing the blog Mr. Squawkerator
{extends hearty hand clasp through USB port}
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Hey Doooooooode: Can you do this?
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No edit button yet, but no worries. About my last post; H/T OleTimerLin 😉
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Okay we had a train wreck on the blog. I am not sure what caused the old theme to develop errors in the coding but something broke locking us out of the dash board. That theme is gone.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION: I am not complaining because providing my services to y’all is a labor of love. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE MONETARY COST as far as providing a place to come and visit. However, to keep costs under control I use what is free to us. Ya might say if I find a nicer couch on the side of the road I move it in.
The theme you see here is a WORDPRESS created theme created by the WordPress team for the WordPress blogging platform. That is the good. Things are less likely to break as updates are installed. The bad is now I have to learn how to modify the theme for form and function that we the users want, The other theme came ready made. But it was crippled when it came to certain functions that I had to work around to MAKE work. I could have paid for a premium theme but frankly blogging ain’t cheap any more. So I learn to do to keep costs down. So with this theme most of what we are used to is available I just have to learn how turn it on. This is going to take me a few days as I learn.
GOALS
- Comment numbering (SIGH)
- Restore some familiar graphics
- Restore time stamps on comments
- Install a Google search function
- Optimize navigation
I appreciate your patience.
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I am not complaining because providing my services to y’all is a labor of love. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE MONETARY COST as far as providing a place to come and visit. However, to keep costs under control I use what is free to us. Ya might say if I find a nicer couch on the side of the road I move it in.
Thanks so much Squawk for all you do. I couldn’t wouldn’t do what you do at gun point! I’d lose my ever lovin’ mind! 😉
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We are blessed in so many ways. Squawk is one of them. Y’all are the rest.
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Squawk is the man.
I crashed early last night. I was having some aggravating back pain so I was unaware what happened until I opened my computer this morning.
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Testing, 1,2,3.
I just had one comment vanish.
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Testing, 1,2,3.
I just had one comment vanish.
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Texpat
try reloading the page when you have a comment vanish. There is a bug I gotta fix.
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Shannon
Click the “Just a bunch of crackers” picture above to get to the admin page.
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Morning, chickadees! I got up late — even for me! — this morning, but I am thinking I’ll crawl back in bed as soon as I finish my breakfast. Yeah, live like a house cat, that’s the ticket! Not that I don’t have some things to do, but after all, I am RETIRED.
Again, THANKS Squawkman, for keeping us on the air. BTW, if there is a need for contributions to keep our tugboat afloat, I am willing.
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wonder if this works
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CFP posted this video of the storm in Northern California.
100 mph + winds and 10-12 feet of snow. It’s like a SubZero Hurricane.
I bet those folks would give anything for some global warming right about now. More people die from this kind of weather than will ever die from global warming.
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MHarper
Thanks for the offering to help monetarily but it is not necessary.
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Yea for Squawk.
What I see looks great, and the background soft yellow makes reading comments and articles more comfortable for my eyes. Likewise, the blue printing on the dates and in topics for contrast.
I’m in if donations become helpful. 🙂 I think I’m the oldest Hamster (82) in this delightful clan.
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Happy birthday Texas. I will have a cold one for you. It is blistering hot here in the south.
Been having internet issues so I haven’t been around much.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEXAS
Once a Republic in fact, still a Republic at heart. 🙂
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Many thanks to that squawka Bruddah fella for tending the blog bar and keeping it afloat.
it’s a dirty livin but someone has to do it.;)
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Hey Doooooooode:
Hey BC, nice chops! I can slap, but I don’t do it much. In front of the vid the tapping he was doing…. I used to play around with that back in hair metal days (when I had hair LOL). I’m a pretty straightforward finger or pick guy these days.
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You won’t believe what a person has to do for a license and insurance to simply be a painter. The average voter is almost certain to be unaware of these kinds of regulation. The legislation creating them gets buried in other bills as an amendment or in the terrible omnibus bills.
You’ll be surprised at the states with the worst rules, many of them red states.
It’s mind-boggling and anti-freedom.
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After 21 years, I’ve come across the story of why New Jersey now is the only state out of 50 that prohibits pumping your own gasoline or diesel.
Just as you thought, it’s all about Jersey corruption and crooked polticians.
A young Jewish engineer decided the people of New Jersey deserved cheaper fuel. All the competition, engaged in illegal price-fixing, ended up going to the NJ legislature.
To understand the actual reason states banned filling stations, look to the life of Irving Reingold (1921-2017), a maverick entrepreneur and workaholic who liked to fly his collection of vintage World War II planes in his spare time. Reingold created a gasoline crisis in the Garden State, in the words of New Jersey writer Paul Mulshine, “by doing something gas station owners hated: He lowered prices.”
In the late 1940s, gasoline was selling for about 22 cents a gallon in New Jersey. Reingold figured out a way to undercut the local gasoline station owners who had entered into a “gentlemen’s agreement” to maintain the current price. He’d allow customers to pump gas themselves.
“Reingold decided to offer the consumer a choice by opening up a 24-pump gas station on Route 17 in Hackensack,” writes Mulshine. “He offered gas at 18.9 cents a gallon. The only requirement was that drivers pump it themselves. They didn’t mind. They lined up for blocks.”
Consumers loved this bit of creative destruction introduced by Reingold. His competition was less thrilled. They decided to stop him—by shooting up his gas station. Reingold responded by installing bulletproof glass.
“So the retailers looked for a softer target—the Statehouse,” Mulshine writes. “The Gasoline Retailers Association prevailed upon its pals in the Legislature to push through a bill banning self-serve gas. The pretext was safety…”
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The location of the Irving Reingold gas station was less than 10 minutes from where I live now.
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Super Dave
I caught a 1973 movie The Seven Ups which has a great car chase scene. Roy Scheider is the male lead detective. He is driving a Nova and the bad guys are in some kind of big Buick.
The wheel man for the bad guys looked very familiar, except he has long hair in this one.
It didn’t take much research to confirm that the actor is the same bad-guy wheel man in the Bullitt chase scene.
He is famous actor/stunt man Bill Hickman, who also executed the same role in the famous French Connection car chase.
Famous bad-guy Richard Lynch is also in the movie.
Here is the chase scene from The Seven Ups.
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It may be common knowledge that the same stunt man/actor executed the three most famous (bad-guy) car chase scenes in American film history, and I’m just late to the party.
Bill Hickman, Bad Ass.
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Shannon
You should now have tool bar that allows you to get the admin page.
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Yes, sir.
Tool bar is visible.
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Good everything you need is there
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Girl Scout cookies are available again and have been for a couple of weeks. I went grocery shopping at Randall’s this afternoon, and a local troop had several Scouts and a Brownie out front with the cookies available this year. Still going strong are the original recipe shortbread trefoils, the absolutely divine thin mints, and the equally divine peanut butter patties. And some newer flavors this year that I overlooked in favor of the above-mentioned cookies.
Regrettably, the Scouts had to raise the price per box to $6 from $5 last year. It all goes to a good cause. I was a Girl Scout in the 1950s and did the cookie sales. So if you see some Scouts with a mother or two helping out on your way around your grocery store or other business, do stop and sample a cookie or two and take some boxes home with you. They freeze very well. 🙂
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Hit the HEEB this morning. They seem to vacuum up more and more of my money every week, yet I buy the same items every time.
And mowed again today.
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Adee
RE: Girl Scout Cookies
My neighborhood is full of little Girl Scouts. They’re like the Mafia, but with pretty smiles, bright eyes, bashful glances and curly pigtails.
“Nice house you have there, Mister Johnson. Hmmm. Do you want to live in it wracked with guilt over not buying a few boxes of cookies ? It could be a life-long traumatizing memory for us. The psychological damage may never end.
Okay, we’ll deliver that 12 boxes of peanut butter cookies as soon as they arrive, but that will be cash.
Smile, bye, thank you…
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The shrimp gumbo is excellent tonight.
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WE GOT THIS
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Hamsters note:
You still have to Refresh page after posting a comment.
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Oh my.
A double comment.
Not sure how that happened.
It happens all the time on Instapundit, so we’re in good company.
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Y’all check out our front page and tell me what ya think
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This kind of story makes me want to go down to this town in Virginia and punch this guy’s lights out.
We are always going to have immigrants and they need to be responsible, hardworking people.
Exactly like this couple.
Government officials are not allowed to pursue personal vendettas or retaliate against people for criticizing their policies. But that is precisely what is happening in the town of Parksley on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where out-of-control bureaucrats have done everything in their power to target and eliminate the town’s first—and only—food truck simply because they dislike its owners and the fact that they dared to work with the Institute for Justice to call for the repeal of the town’s unconstitutional food truck ban.
Theslet Benoir and Clemene Bastien are a married couple that immigrated to the United States from Haiti two decades ago. They settled in Parksley, where they opened a brick-and-mortar store that caters to the needs of the Eastern Shore’s Haitian population. Last June, Theslet and Clemene expanded their business by opening the Eben-Ezer Haitian Food Truck—the town’s first. They parked the food truck on their own private property next to their store and began selling beloved Haitian dishes.
This did not sit well with Parksley Councilmember Henry Nicholson. Soon after the food truck opened, Nicholson berated Theslet and Clemene for opening a business that he saw as a threat to nearby restaurants. He also admitted to cutting the food truck’s water line, rendering it inoperable until Theslet and Clemene could pay someone to repair the damage. And while trying to prevent groceries from being delivered to the food truck a few days later, Nicholson screamed at Clemene: “Go back to your own country!”
When Nicholson’s attempts at intimidation failed to dissuade Theslet and Clemene from pursuing their American Dream, Nicholson and other members of Parksley’s town council passed a sweeping ordinance that banned all food trucks from operating within the town outside of special events. Despite the ban, the mayor publicly stated that Parksley would allow Theslet and Clemene to continue selling food until their one-year business license expired in May 2024.
At Theslet and Clemene’s behest, the Institute for Justice (IJ) sent a letter to the Parksley Town Council urging it to repeal the ban. The very next day, the town’s attorney sent a letter threatening to throw Theslet and Clemene in jail. Backtracking on its promise to let the food truck stay open until May, Parksley’s government told Theslet and Clemene that they had been committing criminal misdemeanors each day the food truck was in business. To avoid hefty fines and years behind bars, the town commanded Theslet and Clemene to immediately cease and desist operating their food truck. Terrified, they did what the government demanded.
But Theslet and Clemene have had enough. That’s why they teamed up with IJ to file a federal lawsuit to vindicate their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Enraged town officials can’t take the law into their own hands, damaging private property in the process. And the government can’t retaliate against its citizens for taking steps to petition for a change in the law, threatening them with imprisonment for voicing their concerns. Victory for Theslet and Clemene will mean victory for Americans everywhere who face arbitrary and vindictive punishment simply for exercising their right to earn a living and their right to question the government’s policy.
I know I have an extra large quote here, but I do try to send donors to Institute for Justice a lot so I don’t think they will mind.
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Squawk:
The only thing that I notice we “need” is some sort of tag on the entries, so we could say the # or the time-stamp or something to reference when we comment on someone’s entry.The front layout looks fine to me.
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I caught a 1973 movie The Seven Ups which has a great car chase scene. Roy Scheider is the male lead detective. He is driving a
NovaPontiac Ventura and the bad guys are in some kind of bigBuickPontiac Bonneville.That was a great chase scene and even though I’m familiar with actor/stunt man Bill Hickman, I didn’t know he was in all three movies. Good catch.
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MHarper
Yup. I am working on that. With this crash came the necessity to do things whole bunch different than what I am used to. I will get there and in the end I should hope we never ever again suffer a crash. Appreciate the observation. Thanks
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I strongly recommend – and so move – that the “dude with cigar and laptop” image should become a permanent part of the Hambone logo.
Do I have a Second?
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I think the Ventura was a Nova with Lipstick.
But thanks for the Bonneville correction.
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Here’s hoping that we can legally use the image.
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Here’s hoping that we can legally use the image.
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I can now lay claim to two Double Comments.
Sheesh.
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Such fine guitar’n in that vid.
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It is in the bylaws that each new version of Hambone “must be baptized with some SRV”.
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Texas gunslinger, by God.
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Best line from the magnificent True Grit remake:
”Rooster Cogburn is not my friend. He has abandoned me to a congress of louts.”
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Best line from the magnificent True Grit remake:
”Rooster Cogburn is not my friend. He has abandoned me to a congress of louts.”
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Okay that’s three double comments.
I demand double the pay!!!
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Ms. Adee
It appears that the involuntarily big spaces at the end of a comment are here to stay.
No biggie.
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Next best line from True Grit:
”Time just gets away from us.”
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Next best line from True Grit:
”Time just gets away from us.”
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Shannon, you have to refresh to see your post. When you hit the go button it disappears but when you refresh you see it.
I’m cooking bacon and getting ready to fix Sunday breakfast.
Mornin’ Gang
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We have bird couples building nests, a lot of romancing going and young male mockingbirds and doves calling out for mates into the night. Robins have begun to show up and started bathing in the birdbath.
It really does look like an early spring. We got through it with one serious snowstorm and two little ones.
I’m probably going to sell my expensive, barely used snow blower. They won’t let me use it anymore.
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ProTip for commenters.
If you have a big space at the end of your comment, it is caused by this piece of code designating open space:
If you want to remove the space, use your Edit function and very carefully highlight only that code and erase or delete it. Sometimes there may be more than one. Hit Save and that should cure your problem.
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Good Morning – I woke up breathing, Shortie Dawg didn’t drag me off my feet we went walkies, I survived a trip thru the shower AND am now getting a dawgie bath… AND this here blog thing looks to be working, at least somewhat… Hallelujah
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More women are psychopaths than previously thought, expert claims – these are the 7 key signs to look out for
I’ve known this to be true for decades. I’ve met a few. However, there is hope for girls and young women. Things are looking up and there actually might be, believe it or not, a redemptive quality to the obnoxious Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift melodrama.
Taylor Swift is changing women’s taste in men – with Gen Zs now shunning wafer-thin, baby-faced men in favour of hunks like Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce
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I am not posting twice. It is happening on its own.
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Shannon
Your double post occurs cause you are hitting the “Post Comment” button twice. You need only hit the browser refresh button once to get the comment to show,
I am contacting BLUEHOST to help with that particular problem cause after hours of researching I cannot find a solution.
The management, staff, and janitor of Squawkbox Blog Maintenance Service thanlyou for your patience and indulgence.
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Okay
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wonder if this fixed it
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Everyone
Now y’all gotta decide. The problem with posting comments was the plugin that allows all the fancy comments. I can turn the fancy comments on and we fight with the comments not showing or we can have comments showing with no fancy comments. -
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That would be the moderators decision whether to deal with missing posts. I don’t use the fancy stuff much except blockquotes and can do that manually.
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Late start today, didn’t get home from Alvin until 1:30AM. First race night of the season, we blew a radiator hose in the heat race so did not finish, we got that fixed but had to start in the rear in the feature race which is tough even for the fast guys. Car is handling better after the offseason work we did, passed a couple cars and had fun. We will get better.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
Wet sidewalk, cloudy sky, more leaves came loose from the trees in yesterday’s constant wind, and we made it to 71. Now this rain we’ve been promised is definitely in the “Don’t hold your breath” category.Purrscilla kitty is currently walking away from the desk since I discouraged her from examining everything on it–again. For the fifth time this morning. She has a good view of the front yard and road, and sometimes sees neighbors walking their dogs in the mornings or afternoons. She’s currently glued to watching spouse march out to bring in the Sunday Chron that finally arrived. Will ask spouse to take a picture of her and set it up for me to send it to Hambone.
As for the request to send pictures of our horses, sadly they are all in endless green pastures. Lost the last mares 4 years ago, one was almost 28 years old. Her companion was 19 years old and passed 5 weeks after her. There are 10 horses buried in our pastures, including a foal that was born way too early and could not live. No markers because the pastures need to be clear for mowing. But we mostly know where they are. And we have pictures in albums and many framed pictures hanging in the hallways and files for each of them in the desk.
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It looks like we have some positive changes but now we have a huge Etude advertisement at the top of the page, will this go away? Not complaining, just wondering. 😉
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Oh and the Tool Bar is gone from my page. But it was here this morning.
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I’ll try the new method this way.
Some exclusive news to kick off your morning: The Heritage Foundation’s political arm is taking a new swing in the right’s fight to stop a central bank digital currency.
Heritage Action will tell Capitol Hill offices today that it plans to grade lawmakers based on their support for anti-CBDC legislation from Rep. Tom Emmer and Sen. Ted Cruz. It will be part of the group’s conservative scorecard that analyzes where House members and senators stand on “key votes” and, in the case of the CBDC bills, co-sponsorships.”
and,
The upshot is that it’s going to be very hard – and potentially impossible – for the U.S. to get to a place where Congress blesses the idea of the Fed launching a CBDC. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the central bank needs approval from lawmakers and the executive branch.
The genesis of the effort is Emmer’s bill, which has 97 GOP co-sponsors. Cruz introduced a companion bill Monday with Republican co-sponsors including Sens. Bill Hagerty, Rick Scott, Ted Budd, Mike Braun and Kevin Cramer.
Their legislation would prohibit the Fed from issuing a central bank digital currency directly to consumers or via banks. (Banking and crypto industry groups also support the proposal.)
plus this notable quote from the left-of-center Brookings Institute,
The argument against central bank digital currency echoes other fights against increasing the power of the central bank, a theme in American politics since our founding,” said Aaron Klein, a Brookings Institution senior fellow.
and finally,
It’s worth noting that Powell hasn’t tried to rally lawmakers behind a CBDC. Fed Governor Christopher Waller, who heads the central bank’s internal payments committee, has voiced more outright skepticism about the idea.”
It’s obvious about 30 other countries are in the process of or already have introduces CBDC. It doesn’t mean the USA has to do it. Not all new ideas are inevitable and not all of them sustain forever.
I know many Americans believe CBDC will happen here and nobody can stop it. They may be right, but I hold out hope it can be stopped, especially if we can have a decent majority of control in the Senate and House come January 2025.
Mind you, this article is from the leftwing Politico and they aren’t beating the drum for CBDC either. One of the big effects CBDC would be the eradication of small banks, local institutions and the concentration of retail banking into a cabal of mega-banks like JP Morgan and Bank of America. Not everybody on the Left supports this crap.
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Without the toolbar for comments I don’t know any other way to blockquote other than typing the code in manually for each quoted segment.
If that’s what we need to, then so be it. Although, I’m pretty sure I use the blockquote and embed features more than anyone else in comments. Tedtam has been a heavy user too.
Is there some way to embed a url without the toolbar function ?
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I’m not seeing a big ad at the top.
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Big ad for Etudes or something.
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I’m not seeing a big ad at the top.
It’s a subliminal ad that says…have it your way at Burger King.
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What is a fancy comment?
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I would definitely miss the block quote button.
And the button to do Live Links.
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Keep this html code handy uncklus.
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I guess I could relearn the codes.
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Wasn’t David French the jackass who said we low-life, rural dweebs should learn to code?
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David French?
Who he?
Is he related to mr potato head of the morning we hate rural white people show?
mr potato head is proof positive that sucking on mako shark sushi every morning turns the brain into brine shrimp.
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French is a columnist of some notoriety.
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It looks like we have some positive changes but now we have a huge Etude advertisement at the top of the page, will this go away?
I do not see the ad. Izzit still there? We should not be seeing any ads.
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Hey, I now have a BOX to enter my comment in!
I was dumb-founded by the start-up sight of whatever that big ad was for. It’s gone away now.
Thank you, Texpat, for the report on some official Opposition to the digital currency.
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I saved, then exited, then restarted. I came up again with the multi-page Etude ad at the top. Maybe it’s just peons like me that get the ads?
S’okay, I can live with that.
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Etudes is part of the Theme. I am working to get rid of all that crap.
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Just received from Bonecrusher:
Howdy Shannon,
I can’t post at all and keep getting the following message:
Not Acceptable!
An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_SecurityAnd he has tried to re Login. Hasn’t helped.
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Ask bonecrusher to try again please
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OK the Etude ad is gone on my computer and everything looks good except no Tool Bar.
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Let’s see what happens when I try to comment again – don’t really have anything to say – but when does that ever stop anyone?
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Looking better, every time I log in!
Thanks, Squawk!
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Oops! Oh and my comment showed up with refresh.
I meant to say my comment showed up WITHOUT refresh.
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Okay let’s try this comment system.
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[spoiler title=”Peekaboo You gotta click to see what I said”] Testing the quote box [/spoiler]
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At the bottom right there is a sprocket with [spoiler title=”TADAHHHHH”] an edit button [/spoiler]
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Well I am going to go drink some cigars and smoke some coffee and give y’all time to criticize this comment system.
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Everybody should relax and let Squawk work his magic.
He knows what needs to be done. Give him time to do it.
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Wow – this place is getting so fancy I might get lost in here 😉
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Ok, this is different.
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Is this thing going to let me do talk to text? It appears that it will period period cool
Edited: I don’t know how to do punctuation via talk to text.
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My stupid dog, Sarah, decided to dig up the new fiberoptic cable in my backyard. No internet, no TV till tomorrow.
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Wonder how this works
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Thank you Squawk for restoring my thought projector.
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Bonecrusher
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I’m going to guess that is Shorty the dog. She looks a lot like Sarah.
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Yup that is the Short one.
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Hello again, Hamsters.
We came back from a late breakfast / early lunch at a restaurant that has a delightful menu on Sundays convenient for folks on the way home from church services. I brought part of it home–as usual–since the portions are not skimpy.
And who should happen be outside the restaurant’s front door but another Girl Scout group with those irresistible cookies. This time it was a family with a Brownie and two Scouts and mother and dad helping out. Good place for them to come, and I presume the family dines there frequently. So I bought three more boxes to add to the three from yesterday. Told the folks I was a Brownie and Girl Scout in the 1950s, and the father said he guessed it would have been the 1980s. Grin. Now there is a gentleman who knows what to say. 🙂
So we have 6 boxes in the fridge while we decide which ones to freeze for later. And local Girl Scout troops have made $40 from the transactions. The money stays with the troops.
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EVERYONE please read please……….
This commenting system has a lot of good stuff in it. I will let y’all discover and learn together. I am working to provide threaded comments. That way if I wanna argue with Texpat I will be able to answer directly to his comment. This will lend itself to immediacy, not requiring numbers or time stamp plus you can hide my screed and frankly on that I do not blame you.
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Hey TedTam, I don’t know if you’ve ever run across this lady’s blog or not – but she has some interesting stuff – recipes and how to’s – kind of a younger version of RoseRed… It’s called “Acre Homestead” on you-tube or the blog is https://www.scratchpantry.com/
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Now you can directly reply to another persons comment.
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far out Man new colors.
I like em.
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New comments will be at the top. You will thank me for this when there are several comments. The comment box will always be at the top. I cannot change that.
TEDTAM you can now do Coffee and covid and no should be upset. Long comments will now be “READ MORE” after 40 words.
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I see your test and raise you a passed
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Dang I can’t embed my vidiots anymore. Color me sad
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I don’t suppose the color of the font in the Comments could be true black?
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I will look
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I haven’t boiled eggs in over thirty five years. I had to go look up the recipe technique.
I don’t really eat boiled eggs.
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I notice that the comments now have the date and time, but from newest to oldest. I can live with that, but it seems unnatural.
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click on the arrow beside word far right above the line that say ___ Comments (on the left) and “Newest” on the right… You’ll see “Oldest” or “most voted” – choose “Oldest” if that seems more natural to you…and that’s the way the comments will be ordered on YOUR computer…
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I have a tool bar that I can change it between Newest first to Oldest.
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Thanks for pointing that out! It seems more fitting to me to see the Newest at the bottom, just ’cause that’s what we’ve all ll this time.
I notice this “Reply” has an empty circle for my ID, but after I Post Comment, I’ll see if my mama raccoon shows up…
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she does on my screen
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Yep me too.
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And thanks for the “true black” Comments font. Helpful for for old eyes.
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Even on my Mac that old color sucked.
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I really should fire up my Mac and see what it all looks like.
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Does the vote up or down feature mean I can diss Squawk everyday ?
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Sure
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Whoa. I can do this?
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Texpat will be so grateful that I won’t be asking him all the time how to put a photo in a Comment.
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Uh oh.
No comment Edit button.
That’s going to change my life.
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Hover your mouse over your comment. I small sprocket will appear, click sprocket, edit button is there. BTW this thing has a pretty good auto spell check.
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Mouse? We don’t use no stinking mouse. With the Mac or the iPhone.
🙂
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The problem with you people, and this is coming from a Texas Jewboy, is that y’all aren’t…
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No linkie
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I won’t be Replying to individual Comments because replies disappear, until you go back and click on View Replies to individual comments.
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Replying in a new comment keeps the conversation going.
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Well we have an abbreviated Tool Bar and the thread is backwards? Last comment first? Mmm K 😉
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I just put these things together, I do not try to guess the whys or wherefores one should or should not direct reply to anyone.
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Think of the last comment first as the inverse of what we had before when the comment block was at the bottom. I cannot move the post comment block
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FWIW; The Chicken, sausage, shrimp, scallops Gumbo with okra and celery was a big hit with wife and sister. Served over rice with Texas Toast. Sister brought over old fashioned Pear Salad with cheddar cheese and it was a nice “take you back” treat.
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Is “old fashioned pear salad” a canned pear half with a dollop of miracle whip and a sprinkle of grated cheese??? My Mama used to make those <3 <3 <3
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Yup! Well NOT that nasty Miracle Whip but Dukes Mayo and a cherry on top. 😉
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Sorry Super Dave – I didn’t know what REAL mayo was until I met Squawk
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Uh oh! My attempt to link a picture caused it to show up on the page, at least on my computer.And I don’t see an edit button.Sorry about that.
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How about that? I found the “Edit Button” and got rid of the Pear Salad picture.
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over old fashioned ” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow ugc”>Pear Salad
The text after fashioned and before Pear.
Are those the ingredients for Pear Salad?
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I need directions on how to find Comment Edit Button.
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It is right there.
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It’s the tiny star on the lower right,it shows up when you pass the mouse over it,..I think, I have used it twice. That’s neat, a reply feature.
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Dr phil Good, I used the paper clip and highlighted “Pear Salad” and pasted the URL into the box. Just like I used to but the picture showed up in the middle of the page. Maybe Squawk is still working out the bugs?
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I need directions on how to find Comment Edit Button.
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OK I give up but I sure did have a purdy picture of a Pear Salad a couple of times but I’ll not waste the space.
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Okay I found it. Some would call it a gear or a cog instead of a star. (See Texas flag.)
I will say that all of the buttons are extremely touch-sensitive compared to the previous version.
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Hmmmm lemme see. Pear Salad
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Super Dave I highlighted “pear salad” hit the link button pasted the URL and all worked well. It ain’t me or the mechanics of the blog.
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Aha if you paste a picture link into the comment box it posts the picture. so be careful out there.
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Thanks again, SQK
I can’t even imagine….
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I’ve read all that’s currently in the Comments section and thank you for all the work folks have done to get things where they are now.
Good Night All, and see what changes appear tomorrow.
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