JP takes on the takedown by Elon against Lemonhead. I didn’t see much of the interview, but after watching this, I agree – Don’s as dumb as a box of rocks.
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I had to Log-In this morning, first time in a while. A little warmer here @ 45 and we’ll be in the 70’s before noon so we’re having fine weather.
Mornin’ Gang
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The world we live in,…..SIGH
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I guess we are supposed to believe that it is an expert because it said it was? I don’t think that it has the expertise to pour urine from a boot.
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Good Morning all y’all.
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Good morning, how’s the weathers up there?
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Currently 14F going to 27F with a wee skiff of snow. Not a bad day.
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Looks like granny’s gonna get hammered in an hour or two.
I’m less doomed but looks like storms here too.
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It’s 31 degrees here with a RealFeel of 21 with winds blowing 20 to 30 MPH.
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Bonecrusher
The BlackConservative24 channel has been online for 2 years 3 months and has 881,504,768 views for his videos.
The owner, Pat, also has 1.17 million subscribers. That’s really impressive.
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We’re here to get an ultrasound of hubby’s leg. It’s a good thing I looked at the campus map for this facility yesterday and discovered the patient parking garage. Really didn’t want to get hubby’s fancy dancy new wheelchair soaked in the coming rain. Or me.
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Quick Drive-by but Bones’ This guy does an excellent job of trolling with satire @ 7:50 Am
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I’m looking around the world and now believe there is some kind mass psychosis gripping people everywhere.
Millions believe the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron is a transgendered man even though she has given birth to 3 children.
Millions more think Princess of Wales Catherine has disappeared and the woman seen with the Prince is a body double or a robot.
Untold number of hysterics are stockpiling toilet paper and food because the solar eclipse will cause…I have no earthly idea.
President Trump describes the “bloodbath” that will happen to the American auto industry if Chinese communists are allowed to flood our markets with crappy cars. Every mentally challenged, emotionally disturbed journofaker and cable network talking head go completely insane.
And, finally, at least 23 Americans believe Joe Biden actually received 81 million votes.
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And, finally, at least 23 Americans believe Joe Biden actually received 81 million votes.
Anytime some asks if I think the election was stolen from Trump I ask; “Do you really believe that Biden got 10 million more votes than Barrack Obama”? 😉
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I posted yesterday, and I believe Wagonburner repeats above – it’s the hordes of eclipse tourists that are going to drain the local stores of goods.
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re: eclipse hysteria
From what I’ve read, during a similar event in Tennessee(?) 5-6 years ago, it was pandemonium due to the “eclipse tourists”. There were so many that many smaller towns and cities had to essentially shut down for a couple days due the huge crowds.
Think hurricane Rita evacuations over several states instead of just Houston (especially Katy). One account I read was that it took a full day afterwards for the full crowd to be able to leave.
For this thing, I’d expect Rita+ levels of traffic going West/North just from Houston metro area. This doesn’t take into account people coming from a couple states over.
It’ll basically be like a hurricane/blizzard over a humongous area.
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From this week’s Texas Press Association / Capital Highlights:
Paxton, Cornyn still exchanging barbs
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is possibly considering a run against incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn following a streak of successes in ousting Republican House incumbents in the March primary, The Dallas Morning News reported. Paxton has repeatedly attacked Cornyn, up for reelection in 2026, as being too moderate.
“Super Tuesday showed there is a large base of Paxton-friendly voters who not only admire him but want his kind of unapologetic aggressive conservatism in the United States Senate, said conservative radio talk show host Mark Davis.
The two have clashed several times on social media. When Cornyn announced he would run to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, as the Republican leader in the Senate, Paxton posted on X, formerly Twitter, “Republicans deserve better in their next leader and Texans deserve another conservative senator.”
Cornyn replied, “Hard to run from prison, Ken.” Paxton faces a trial this spring for securities fraud and is under federal investigation for his ties to a since-indicted real estate investor.
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I just don’t think we’re going to get the nasty weather today that we got last Friday when two ancient mobile homes in south Bellville were completely destroyed by hail and wind. Dozens of old trees were blown down across the city, damaging some houses. Most of Bellville lost power.
But I’m no meteorologist.
So, to be safe, I was up at 4:45 and completed my appointed rounds for work by 8am. And made rehearsal by 9am back in Bellville.-
It makes me think of those two gigantic pine trees in the front of our mother’s home. I’m glad I had the tree guys come and take them out.
I could see one or both of them crushing those little houses across the road.
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Inflation is still raging out there and Jerome Powell, in all his vast wisdom, tells Wall Street he’s going to cut interest rate three times this year (before the election, of course).
Inviting complete disaster in the economy just so a demented old bastard can get reelected is criminal. Powell knows this action will explode inflation and wreck the American economy, but he doesn’t give a damn.
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9:05 TP
Those of us “in the know” know that Catherine, Princess Of Wales, has been banished to a dank, dark chamber in the Tower of London for “bad behavior.”
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Mountie Dudley Doright and his paramour, Nell, sure didn’t write this report.
In terms of declining living standards and inaccessible home ownership, the RCMP’s warnings are indeed in line with available statistics.
Canadian productivity — measured in terms of GDP per capita — has been trending downwards since at least the 1980s. But this has accelerated dramatically in recent years — even as per-worker productivity rises in many of our peer countries.
An analysis last year by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe found that if Canada had merely kept pace with U.S. productivity growth for the last five years, Canadian per-capita earnings would be $5,500 higher than they are now.
Meanwhile, housing affordability has reached “worst-ever” levels in most of Canada’s major markets, according to a December analysis by RBC. On average, even condos are now so unaffordable that only 44.5 per cent of Canadian households had sufficient income to buy one at current prices. As for single-family homes, only the richest 25 per cent of Canadian households had any hope of obtaining one.
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Jr Boehner Johnson is quite content to let the invasion continue for the next 8 months with the cr they’re about to vote on and give the ny Mayo Stain party everything they wanted and more.
the groupofCons party doesn’t wanna win and ain’t worth a thimble full of spit.
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Running vinegar through the coffee machine to clean out the relentless calcium scale fills the whole house with the aroma of vinegar and makes me smile…thinking of all the women in my life who worked away in hot kitchens, putting up pickles.
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We grew a lot of our own food, and one year the cukes went crazy. Mom put up 41 jars of pickles that summer.
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Speaker jr Boehner Luntz Johnson.
fake Christian.
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Bar exam is racist.
read yesterday that getting married is also racist.
https://mynorthwest.com/3954879/rantz-supreme-court-washington-state-bar-exam-racist/
are you enjoying animal farm world yet?
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Guess it’s time for this reminder again.
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Happy Thursday, all of y’all! I’ve been waiting for it to STOP RAINING ever sense the indoor purr-balls hounded me out of bed. I can’t tell if Billy Cat is dry and relatively happy down inside the gazebo, but I hope he is. I’ll feed him as soon as I am able to.
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Hubby got his ultrasound and I made another trip to Dr. Bailey for the numbness I’ve been getting down my right arm. I may go hang in a bit, after my meal has digested for a while.
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RESULT: Billy hopped up from the floor of the gazebo and waited on the wooden surrounding area for me to get there with his bowl. He is a really smart cat — not only was he in the best dry spot where he is more than welcome — but also a guaranteed breakfast location.
Have I mentioned that I love that cat?
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From the C&C: WHIRLING DEATH FISH☙Thursday, March 21, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS
Here’s a video report of fish and their erratic behavior leading to their death:
https://youtu.be/7LFbL4-lIbsBut why? Why do they spin themselves into “mass mortality events”? (Gee, that sounds familiar, like “excess mortality”.)
So, the infection or transfection or whatever it is, it’s not just being seen in an unimaginable number of different fish species, but it is also becoming common enough for lots of random fishermen to happen upon.
…Water samples collected from near spinning fish showed 1,000 Gambierdiscus cells per liter — far above the normal range of 30 to 40 cells per liter.
But they don’t know whether the Gambierdiscus algae is causing the spinning death wheels, or just another symptom of the problem.
…behold this eye-popping paragraph from the Drugged Fish story:
Scientists and volunteer guides and anglers sampled redfish in nine of Florida’s most important estuaries. Pharmaceuticals were found in all of the estuaries sampled, with an average number of 2.1 drugs per fish and a maximum of five. Only seven out of the 113 sampled fish had zero drugs in their system. On average, 25.7% of the fish exceeded a level of pharmaceuticals considered safe, which equates to one-third of the therapeutic levels in humans.
So, most of the fish are drugged to toxic levels. Drugs like opioids, antiarrythhmics, antipsychotics, etc. But Mr. C. has another concern:
…The federal government has been, and still is, buying billions of useless and unwanted doses of mRNA spike protein genetic injections. The government continues buying vatloads of the stuff even though…people stopped taking them. So here is the question: where did the expired and unused mRNA juice go?
Try to follow me here. If last April fish were showing high levels of multiple types of common pharmaceuticals, then it is obvious that lots of drugs are somehow getting into the ocean and from there into our aquatic friends. …The much more important question is … they couldn’t have been that stupid, could they? (Don’t answer that.)
Somebody please tell me the vast amounts of discarded spike-protein-making, genetic-therapy serum didn’t somehow wind up in the ocean like the opioids and the anti-psychotics obviously did. They’re properly disposing of the mRNA right? They’re burning it up, right? Or at least burying it in a lead casket or something, right? RIGHT?
There’s no way they could be flushing their experimental mRNA serum down the toilet, or dumping it into landfills and stuff? Without knowing how the watered-down gene juice could affect other species? Like fish?
Well, TPTB wanted the spike proteins in our food supply. They may have gotten their way.
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We have had the whirling fish problem up here for some years. They say the fish are good still to eat but it wouldn’t be me eating them.
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Whirling fish and hermaphrodite frogs.
What else do you expect during the ramp up to the apocalypse?
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Greg Lukianoff, co-founder of FIRE, explains the madness and why single, white women vote almost exclusively for Democrats. It’s all about emotions – the bad ones.
MONEY QUOTE: “What’s more, the interaction between race, ideology, and gender is statistically significant — with liberal white and non-white women having the worst self-reported mental health.”
I told my friend, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, about it, and we started working on an article published in 2015 entitled “The Coddling of the American Mind” which we expanded into a 2018 book of the same name.
We predicted not only the coming explosion of major threats to free speech and academic freedom on campus, but also the concordant decline in young people’s mental health — all of which came from the same source. Now the data is in, and it shows that both the threat to campus free speech and the mental health crisis we saw coming was even worse than either of us expected.
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The data shows that ideology, race and gender are all statistically significant predictors of self-reported mental health, with liberals having the worst self-reported mental health compared to moderates and conservatives, and women having worse self-reported mental health than men. What’s more, the interaction between race, ideology, and gender is statistically significant — with liberal white and non-white women having the worst self-reported mental health. This trend has also been reported by Zach Goldberg and Haidt using Pew Research’s data, as well as findings from Gimbrone et al.
Using FIRE’s 2024 Campus Free Speech Rankings data, we’ve seen that 36% of students reported feelings of poor mental health more than half the time. Out of these 15,000 students, 67% were liberal, compared to just 16% moderate and 17.3% conservative. To put it simply, the more students were likely to believe in “social justice fundamentalism”, the more miserable they tended to be.
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Another way to phrase it is that you have to be emotionally unstable to believe that crapola.
Because they did not have a love for the truth, G-D sends down a strong delusion so that they believe the lie.
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Since I was up so early trying to beat the weather, I decided to go to the movies this afternoon.
In my living room, on Amazon Prime, they were showing the recently released Road House.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a former UFC fighter who takes a bouncer job in the Florida keys. Classic American good guy vs. bad guys, but without guns.
The late, great, king of revenge films Charlie Bronson would be proud.
Recommended.
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Whirling fish and hermaphrodite frogs.
and a country swirling the swamp drain thanks to the groupofCons Vampyre party who are set to sell you out again by tomorrow so they can go on a 2 week vacation.
this shows you how useful razor wire is and how much the groupofCons party hates you and the country.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1770892598242115727
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Yo Abbott.
you declared an invasion. The Texas constitution gives you the full power to repel the invasion.why are you still playing tiddlywinks?
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I’m worried that a panic attack is quietly brewing inside me.
My post-Covid stash of paper towels now only numbers 48 triple rolls. -
Instead of a solar eclipse I’m hoping for a super gigantic meteor so then I won’t need my 48 triple rolls.
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Good Late Afternoon, Hamsters,
We’ve made it to 67 today and thus far have 1.19″ in the new rain gauge.
The previous gauge cracked seriously and leaked owing to water left in it when we had a -32 overnight several weeks ago. It was old enough to qualify as an heirloom of sorts as it had been in service so long. The replacement looks to be stronger, sitting out on the top fence rail of the paddock next to the carriage house that once sheltered the horse trailer.Weather folk say more rain is coming tomorrow or even sometime tonight. It is welcome here, as we are trying to resign being the hole in the donut again as we were last year.
Spouse and I decided to view the eclipse at home, watching Channel 11’s coverage of it. Seems since we out here are in the almost total eclipse range Fort Bend County is likely to have lots of folks come here to view it. Unless Mother Nature hides it behind overcast that is.
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I’ll take Judas jr for a hundred Alex.
Alex: name the fake Christian who just stabbed you in the back again.
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I’m on the back porch, sipping Honeyshine, and enjoying the low pressure and atmospheric instability. Lightning is all around, but it is not raining right here right now.
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Nowvit is hailing and I just took one to the head. No damage.
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The hail was about the diameter of a nickle at its biggest. That interval lasted about 4 minutes.
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We’re getting a hail storm going through the Chez Harp neighborhood right now. The sound effects are scaring the cats. I hope Billy Cat is down inside the old gazebo, staying dry, hopefully not too scared.I gave him his supper out back around 5 pm, just hope he’s safe.
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yikes
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(Great history in the Description, Texpat. She was a Beaumont girl.)
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I saw Roadhouse when I was scrolling through but I thought it was the old one. I’ll have to check it out.
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I’ve not mentioned my TV issues. Our TCL 75” bought in 2019 went on the blink, made the mistake of buying one online from Amazon never going to a store to look at them, a Samsung 85”. Never liked the picture, lackluster color, hated the menu navigation and I kept having to do a hard reboot to get Netflix, though it worked on the other sets around the house. During the garage and storage clean out I had to deal with boxing it back up and returning it before the deadline, what a pain!
Fell in love with an LG at Costco for less money and snatched it up. We love it. Freaking reviews always steer me wrong.
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I saw Barbara Lynn live in Austin in a small club years ago. She is 82 years old now and still living in Beaumont.
Lynn released an album, also titled You’ll Lose A Good Thing, which featured ten of her compositions.
Unusual for the time, Lynn was a female African American singer who both wrote most of her own songs and played a lead instrument. Soon Lynn was touring with such soul musicians as Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, James Brown, Al Green, Carla Thomas, Marvin Gaye, Ike and Tina Turner, the Temptations, and B.B. King. She appeared at the Apollo Theater, twice on American Bandstand. In 1965, she had her song, “Oh Baby (We’ve Got A Good Thing Goin’)” (1964) covered by the Rolling Stones on their album The Rolling Stones Now! in America and Out Of Our Heads in the UK. The song was also recorded by Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, with Beverly Skeete lead singing. Lynn continued to record for the Jamie label until 1966 and had several more minor hits.
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Barbara Lynn also used to appear on Houston’s own Larry Kane Show. Most people reading this aren’t old enough or were not raised in Houston, but this show was a local institution.
If you came of age here in the late 1950s and 1960s, then, as America reflected on the life of Dick Clark last week, you might have paused for a second or two and thought about “The Larry Kane Show,” which appeared on KTRK (Channel 13) Saturday afternoons.
You see, Kane was Houston’s version of Clark. Local youths could be seen dancing (impressively, more on that in a bit) to the latest hits or to a diverse batch of musicians ranging from Tony Bennett to Paul Revere and the Raiders.
The two-hour show ran on KTRK from 1959 to about 1971 and ended in 1972 following a short run on KPRC (Channel 2). By the 1970s Kane’s show was being syndicated across the country.
During the show’s run, Kane was also raising a family and attending law school at UH. The Houston native, born Harry A. Lieberman, graduated from San Jacinto High School as valedictorian. His start in broadcasting began in radio at KUHP in El Campo, and he eventually worked his way to KXYZ and KNUZ.
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So who can do clutch brake and starter all at once? I can/could.
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Uh, yeah, I recall that routine.
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I’ve had a productive day, got the first mowing done. Real nice weather for it.
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Harry Lieberman aka Larry Kane was a very smart guy and ended up as an entertainment lawyer. He passed away in 1998 at the young age of 63. This is from his bio in the Handbook of Texas.
The show, which lasted until April 22, 1972, and had a one-year run on KPRC-TV, Channel 2, featured an array of musical guests of both national and regional fame—the Lovin’ Spoonful, Tony Bennett, Hank Williams, Jr., John Denver, Otis Redding, Glen Campbell, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Dionne Warwick, Jefferson Airplane, Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, and Wayne Newton. Texas artists included Roy Head, B. J. Thomas, Neal Ford & the Fanatics, The Clique, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Moving Sidewalks*, Fever Tree, and Southwest F.O.B. which showcased a young Dan Seals and John Colley who later teamed up as England Dan and John Ford Coley. Neal Ford later commented, “This show alone was probably the most important factor at that time in Houston and Texas music, giving all of us a stage to a very large market.”
*The Moving Sidewalks played at our senior prom at Spring Branch High School. They got a manager named Bill Hamm, changed their name to ZZ Top and were never heard from again.
I had a girlfriend back then whose older sister was dating the lead singer of Fever Tree.
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