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Thursday Open Comments

We are in what Christians call “Holy Week,” the week that changed the world.

Thursday is special, especially to Catholics, because this is when Jesus instituted the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.  The actual event was prefaced in this passage:

Gospel of John, Chapter 6:

31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.  32 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you; Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.  33 For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.  34 They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread.  35 And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.

  68 Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?  69 And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.  70 And we have believed and have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.

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This is one time where Jesus didn’t explain, as with his parables.  He didn’t say “What I really meant to say was…”  And Peter accepted His words, because he knew who Jesus was.

Then there was the Last Supper:  Gospel of Luke, Chapter 22:

  14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.  15 And he said to them: With desire I have desired to eat this pasch with you, before I suffer.

 16 For I say to you, that from this time I will not eat it, till it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.  17 And having taken the chalice, he gave thanks, and said: Take, and divide it among you:  18 For I say to you, that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, till the kingdom of God come.  19 And taking bread, he gave thanks, and brake; and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me.  20 In like manner the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.

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Then follows the Agony in the Garden, which began the physical torture of His Passion.  In the Catholic Church, this begins the Triduum (“Three Days”).  There are many special prayer events, as we relive his Passion with Him in our worship.  His sacrifice was our salvation.  Only one who was divine could handle the physical and emotional torture He sustained.

May this day, and the following days, be special and holy for you.

PS:  I started a Bible study some time ago -and I need to get back to it – and this page explained a lot of things about these Scripture passages.  You gotta go pretty far down to get to the explanations of the cups of wine and the washing of feet.

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68 responses to “Thursday Open Comments”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Gethsemane

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    As recorded in the Gospel of John, after Judas had left the supper, Jesus gave them a New Commandment.

    Later today I am scheduled to sing a short solo based on His instruction.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Whut am I doing up? Well Dawg got me up @ 2:30 and I can’t go back to sleep but I’ll give it another shot.

    An early, Mornin’ Gang

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I usually don’t watch Laura Ingraham but I caught her monologue last night and it was pretty good. It was about all the conspiracy theories being thrown around and how it was somewhat understandable since the Government, the media, Democrats, CIA and FBI all lies to us all the time and we find out usually later than sooner so it’s no wonder that when anything happens no one trusts anything anyone is saying.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Graveyard Dead! AM I good or what?

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My 7:33 comment; I tired to edit/change my “AM” to “Am” and a red square popped up that said “Duplicate comment detected, it looks like you’ve already said that”.

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Good morning Super Dave and all the rest of you sleepy heads. I may have mentioned yesterday that my dog, Sarah, chewed through the fiberoptic internet line yesterday; this is the 2nd time she has done such a despicable act. One of the reasons why she does this thing is that the line is not buried deep enough. 1-2″ deep in a yard with dogs is really not burying the line at all. Anticipating that the burying crew is a bunch of lazy, stupid, non-thinking, diversity hires and will not bury the line deep enough; I dug the trench yesterday and will bury it myself. I figure 6-8″ ought to do it. My hands did not like using the mattock without gloves and I wound up tearing the callus that is associated with my left ring finger off. I have not done heavy digging like that in quite a few years and I am a bit sore. I confirmed that I am still strong enough to hurt myself.
    ATT was supposed to come out and lay a new line yesterday between 4 and 8pm; they did not show up; bastiges they is. Hopefully they will show up this morning and my son, Headcrusher, will supervise.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Ahh the dreaded pick mattock, I’ve logged many an hour on one of those, as recently as last fall BUT it can’t be beat for trenching.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      BTW; When the neighbors dog ate my cable, (on his side of the fence) the dude that replaced it said he’d send a crew out the next day to bury it but after many calls and several weeks, I just buried it myself. SIGH

    3. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Bones dog

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This mother should sue the school board and each individual member jointly and severally for abuse of office.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Bonecrusher, this mother is named Nicole Solas and this began back in 2021 or earlier.

      Legal Insurrection has an earlier collection of links and info about her case here.

      This is the latest report I could find. I was following her case and war against the schools, but lost track of it.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Gotta’ give it to those Ruskies they do know how to make a plane;
    The Antonov 225 “Mriya” was the world’s most giant cargo plane that, weighs around 285 tons when empty and is even bigger than the Airbus A380 airliner, the An-124, and the Boeing 747 Freighter.
    That is a good looking beast I used to see them a lot around Intergaltic when I was up that way, apparently they fly in and out of there regularly.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How about that? The nice ladies over at Appalachian Cooks chose my last picture for their header. They pick a member’s picture and post it at the top of their page for a while then change it out. I am humbled. 😉

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was involved in a project providing mud pumps for a European customer who had chartered an Antonov cargo plane that sat off the runway at IAH. I drove out there just to see it. It was mind-boggling.

    They were in a hurry to get the equipment to Europe, but it was mid-June and the humidity was running at 85 to 90% and they couldn’t takeoff loaded with air that wet and thick. The flight crew was on 24 hour standby alert and after 3 days at 4 AM, the humidity lifted, they ran to the plane, and were able to get her airborne.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Wow it must have been loaded to the gills. When I worked at Air Midwest we had 13 Swearingen Metroliners and they were somewhat under powered at best. Each engine had Torque charts that were checked at the last PM and were kept in the cockpit, that way the pilots could tell how many passengers they could safely fly out of Denver (DIA) on a hot day. Sometimes it was as low as 10 on a 16 passenger plane. FWIW; Denver is at about 5K feet and the air is thinner.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    One more reason to like Nick Saban.

    Nick Saban won seven national championships and nearly 300 football games during a coaching career that spanned a half century.

    What he didn’t (or couldn’t) do was send his own emails and text messages. Even manageable tasks, like picking up a prescription from the pharmacy, eluded the long-time Alabama and LSU coach, who simply didn’t have the time or patience to do it himself.

    plus this,

    And the early returns have been encouraging. Whereas he once had staffers who handled his text messages and emails for the technophobic coach, Saban is now capable of doing all of those things.

    ‘He’s actually texting and reading his own emails and sent his first-ever email,’ Terry, Saban’s wife of 52 years, told ESPN. ‘He even took his first trip to the pharmacy to pick up his first prescription. He’s actually quite proud of himself.’

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    @ 8:22 Awaiting for approval?

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There are no comments on hold in Pending, Spam or Trash.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      It’s freed up now, my reply to your 8:22. Thanks

  15. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’ve seen a(n?) Antonov many times at Bush, a sight to behold. How many mud pumps could it carry Texpat? Those things are solid iron.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      How many mud pumps could it carry Texpat?

      A whole bunch of them.

      With a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (705 short tons), the An-225 held several records, including heaviest aircraft ever built and largest wingspan of any operational aircraft. It was commonly used to transport objects once thought impossible to move by air, such as 130-ton generators, wind turbine blades, and diesel locomotives.

      1. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        That boggles the mind.

    2. Dooood Avatar
      Dooood

      Back when I was still in the frac field (when the pump trucks were still diesel rather than electric) we put two complete trailers w/ 3000HP deck engines side by side in one – sent them down to South America. That is one impressive aircraft.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Just when you think things couldn’t get more strange and demented in Oregon…

    Lots of people have untidy personal lives, but data show that same-sex couples have a higher percentage of issues leading to personal problems (substance abuse, spousal abuse, mental illness, etc.). That’s certainly the case with Oregon’s lesbian governor, Tina Kotek. It recently came to light that Kotek’s “wife,”* Aimee Kotek Wilson, has been acting as a stand-in for Kotek, complete with a taxpayer-funded security detail and that Kotek is spending more taxpayer money to expand Kotek Wilson’s role. While this little scandal rolls, and perhaps to distract from it, Kotek Wilson announced on Tuesday that she’s a recovering alcoholic with an unidentified mental illness.

    In 2022, Oregon elected Tina Kotek, a very out-and-proud lesbian, as its governor. According to Kotek’s Wikipedia page, she seems to be a very focused politician: She wants denser housing in Oregon and has worked hard to destroy single-family neighborhoods by getting legislation passed to allow fourplexes in formerly spacious, less-populated neighborhoods. (The Democrats did this in California, too.) It’s not a coincidence that suburbs tend to vote Republican.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Oregon’s lesbian governor, Tina Kotek.

      Insert really bad Dave joke here. 😀 >>>>>>>SCRRAAM>>>>>>>

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/t_2x1/t_w1536/mlb/hfjwe8uqowptjkgh3ls6.jpg

  18. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Daughter sent me a picture of Isaak’s in Junction Texas and I thought she might be having breakfast there but she texted back that and said that they are packing up the camper up and headed to Junction on the Llano river tomorrow. It’s their anniversary, 14 years! Dayaam! Time flies.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nick Kristof is a senior, veteran reporter for the New York Times.

    HATRED OF ISRAEL MAKES PEOPLE LOSE THEIR RATIONAL FACULTIES: I’ve never thought that Nicholas Kristof is any sort of genius, but this is really embarrassing. Doing some quick math, that would be a line of about 415 miles of 18 wheelers, assuming no space between them. In what world did Kristof think this was possible?

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      HATRED OF ISRAEL MAKES PEOPLE LOSE THEIR RATIONAL FACULTIES

      That is a whole lot of backwards. People that hate Israel have lost their rational faculties before hating Israel. There really is no rational reason to hate Israel, yet they do.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        I’m going to say that it is a 2 way street.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Note to self. ExLax will not unclog gutters.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Is that what they call it these days?

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Don’t ever take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time.
    But if you do, you will sleep like a baby.
    You are welcome

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      The Squawkster is on a roll! 😉

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      😀

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’ll say that Alabama has a pretty good Secretary of State;
    Secretary of State Wes Allen’s Response to Statement Issued by the Voter Participation Center.

    “The response issued by the Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information fails to refute and, in fact, advances our position that these groups are using targeted, partisan tactics. The claim that these groups are nonpartisan is false and is completely contradicted when the groups publicly reveal their targeted demographic to be primarily Democratic voter blocks.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From Texpat’s @8:59 AM

    Gov. Tina Kotek this month ordered that her wife, Aimee Kotek Wilson, be provided a consistent security detail by the Oregon State Police when attending events on behalf of the governor’s office, said Elisabeth Shepard, Kotek’s spokesperson.

    Yes but she doesn’t want us to have guns.

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Even the Box clan would say this is some sick stuff.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Those two people need to be hung by their gen***** over a snake and alligator infested swamp and left there. Those are especially disgusting human beings.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        I am having an extremely hard time elevating them to human status. Definitely spawn of satan.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Fr. Chris gives a quick and dirty explanation of the Catholic view of this holy week and Easter season.
    https://youtu.be/3XHBJfkZ6NU?si=6BbTUuWrF8vhdxwm

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Did you hear the American National Anthem is being cut down to the just 8 verses? 
    It’s the Francis Scott Key abridged edition.

  27. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    To the lady at Costco with her son on a leash.

    I’m sorry I asked if he was a rescue. Thank you for not siccing him on me.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I always used leashes on my kids when we went to the zoo. Necessary due to extreme energy.

  28. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning,gang. I’m trying to get some clocks and alarms going, but nothing is working so far.Guess it’s a good thing I’m retired!

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    So if you only have sex on your birthday and Christmas does that make you bi-sexual?

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      I don’t know. But you have my condolences.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The appalling specter of Joe Biden with Barack Obama and Willie Jeff Clinton holding a trashy, glitzy, celebrity filled fundraiser in Manhattan while the family of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller is holding a wake for him a few miles away is the most clueless thing the Biden administration has done in awhile.

    Former President Donald Trump will attend the memorial for Officer Diller today. All anti-police, pro-defunder politicians and officials have been loudly warned they are not welcome. No one at the DNC has any class or integrity or they would recognize how horrible the optics of this are.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    What happens when two shaped charges are shot at each other? Watch at 2 million frames per second.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Somebody is spiking Squawk’s humidor with blunts. Maybe Cuba ran out of tobacco and started using pot filler to stretch out the supply.

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    So I think I’ll mow my back yard as soon as I finish breakfast. It’s nice outside!

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Mary Chasten warns about illegal alien Romanian mobsters crossing from Canada. Their main scheme is using a device to steal credit and debit card data at stores like Target and Walmart.

    Debit card skimmers have long been problematic at gas stations and ATMs. Now a highly organized network of crooks is branching out.

    “They’ll have people sitting outside a Walmart or a Target, and it looks like they’re panhandling,” prosecutors told Fox News Digital. “Sometimes they’ll have a couple of kids. And they are actually using Bluetooth technology that’s connected to the skimmers inside the stores. So it’s like a two for one, getting cash that people give them and stealing the numbers off the skimmers.”

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

    No one at the DNC has any class or integrity or they would recognize how horrible the optics of this are.

    why would they care about optics when they’re very successfully destroying the country from within along with a lot of help from their groupofCons friends.

    id have to say the most successful president in U.S. history is the Kenyan because he’s succeeded bigly in the utter annihilation and the fundamentally deforming of the country from within.

    he’s been so successful at it that it now resembles a filleted fish.

    instead of fighters we get phony preachers in leadership roles and groupsofCons followers who don’t care nor want to win as long as the blood money is flowing into their pockets.

  36. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Mowing done! Just the exercise I needed. Not to mention that the grass was shaggy…

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve finished my gardening for today. I think I’m down to the last 2-3 tubs to be set up. I evicted on itty bitty caterpillar that had already done a lot of damage to one of my bean plants. In my garden, I am the law and I can evict whoever/whatever I want. No squatter rights. That ‘pillar is now orphaned in the grass. Along with a couple of centipedes I came across as I refurbed my tubs. And the baby mosquitoes. After those, I’ll just fill in with smaller pots ‘n stuff.

    The lady bugs have pretty much taken care of the aphid problem on my radish plants. I could take those radishes out since I have no interest in those aphid-pooped leaves any more, but I wanted to encourage the ladies to stick around. One of them hitched a short ride on my shirt.

    I’m growing some more asparagus beans in some plastic cups. When the beans get big enough to transplant, I’m going to cut the bottom and top of the cup and insert the whole thing into my garden. That way the roots can get into the dirt and the elevated cut edge of the cup will hopefully discourage that !$&*#$@! cutworm to go elsewhere for a meal.

    I think I double planted one of my smaller pots. I guess I’ll see which plant wins.

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    For only the second or third time in our 35 year marriage, we are actually getting a credit from the IRS. Had us a little worried when we found out SS is taxable after a certain amount, but we are good!

  39. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Afternoon Hamsters,

    Wonderful day today, as I took the info for tax preparation to the accountant late this morning. Preparing it for most of two days was exhausting, double checking everything when it was put together. Kinda thought this must be sorta like protecting classified documents. 🙂

    And then we went out for lunch at Olive Garden, one of our very favorites. I brought enough home for lunch tomorrow, enough to share with spouse.

    So now I can catch up with what goes on in the outside world again. And what goes on in the Hamster world.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I thought that Tunnels to Towers was paying off the mortgage for the slain police officer’s family. Nope – Trump paid it off. T2T paid it off, but Trump made the donation to do it. https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1773438105967587538

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I was surprised when it was announced T2T was paying off Officer Diller mortgage with the long waiting list Frank Siller has on his hands.

      However, it looks as if Trump made a charitable directed contribution, meaning it has to go to a certain cause or recipient.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m off to Holy Thursday mass, Adoration to follow. If I don’t check in later tonight, I’ll see y’all tomorrow.

  42. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I had a double plus fun couple of days. I enjoyed my triennial age-appropriate screening/checkup. It’s a real hoot.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Was it the colonoscopy or the trans-esophageal electrocardiogram that was the most exciting ?

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        😀

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Some things are a significant tell, as in a poker game, and this one is pretty amazing. The player is the American public and the “tell” is not what they are doing, but what they refuse to do.

    REMEMBER THIS: “Books about Barack Obama and Donald Trump — whether they were filled with praise or venom — sold like crazy. There were many of them to choose from, too.”

    Axios Washington correspondent Alex Thompson, late of Politico, has had a Biden White House book in progress for some time now, but it’s impossible to say when it will be out because his publisher just dropped it. 

    “Two people familiar with the matter” told Politico’s Daniel Lippman on Wednesday that publisher Simon and Schuster has “withdrawn its contract” with Thompson. As far as Simon and Schuster is concerned, Thompson’s Biden White House book won’t generate enough interest even to make it to the remainder bin.

    “The proposed book was originally scheduled to be published early this year. Playbook reported in February 2021, when the deal was first inked, that it would be “a comprehensive book on Biden’s presidency” and “filled with fresh reporting and informed by his work covering the president and the White House transition.” Thompson, a former POLITICO reporter known for his deep coverage of Biden’s administration, declined to comment, as did a Simon and Schuster spokesperson.”

  44. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Discount Tire
    Our stores will be closed from noon to 3 pm tomorrow to allow our team members to observe Good Friday.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Harper is rubbing off on me.

    After church at noon, I ate BBQ at Bellville Meat Mkt, came home, slept from 2-5.
    Watched the news for an hour, and then slept from 6-10pm.

    I’m hungry for a very late supper now.

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