I know that Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA are doing a lot of work on voter drives, and I know that there’s a heckfahr buncha people wissed off at the lawfare against Trump:
PS: I checked before I posted this, and there wasn’t any other Weekend OC set up. Just in case.
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Mornin’ Gang
Private Jets Leave NY Minutes Before Midnight as Rich Flee Taxes.
At New Jersey’s Teterboro and Long Island’s Islip airports, dozens of private jets destined for Florida take off at times such as 11:42 p.m. or 11:54 p.m.
Over at JFK, a regular flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, arrives at a seemingly purposeful time: about 15 minutes after midnight.
Meanwhile, tax attorneys tell stories of clients idling in their luxury SUVs near the New Jersey entrance to the George Washington Bridge shortly before 12 a.m., waiting for the clock to turn before crossing the state line to New York.
And
New York’s tax laws are notoriously tricky. Typically, someone who lives there will be considered a resident for tax purposes, paying levies on their income from all sources, even those outside of the state. But the state considers someone a resident even if they don’t live there, as long as they’ve spent more than 183 days in New York and maintain a “permanent place of abode,” which could simply be a vacation home.
A few hours spent in New York qualifies as a whole day. Getting off the highway in New York for lunch while driving from New Jersey to Connecticut can count. So can getting outpatient treatment at a New York hospital. When you can’t prove where you were on a given day, New York auditors may assume you were in the state.
“Even though you have a Florida driver’s license, Florida voting record, Florida home, it does not matter,” said Mariner, who created his app after facing his own residency audit after moving to the Sunshine State. “You could be on vacation in New York and they’ll pull you back in.”
I remember Rush Limbaugh fighting this for years even after he sold off all his NY assets.
And these blithering idiots continue to vote for leftist, socialist Democrats even after they leave New York.
Daughter reports 60 MPH wind and hail in Midland this morning.
I have edited Tedtam’s Weekend header to include the San Jacinto Day photo. I hope she isn’t mad about it.
No problem. Glad you did.
I’m out till late afternoon.
Off to the Gun Show, cover me. 😀
An unloaded gun is a useless gun. I always laugh at the do-gooders saying to store your guns and ammo separately
Superdave 7:42: As Texpat commented the stupid people continue to vote for those that they know will abuse them. I guess you can’t fix stupid and/or those who worship the government instead of THE CREATOR.
I got to the eggery early, and that’s what actually the first one in line. I didn’t expect that, because every time I’ve been there when they have a sale, there’s been a long line of cars stretching down the road. Anyway, I got a case of misfit eggs for $40. That’s a total of 15 dozen eggs, besides, shape, and condition, which I don’t know until I open up the box. I lucked out, and today all of the eggs are either medium, large, or jumbo.
Concerning governments:
When trust has been broken, the only thing left is forcible control.
the phony Christian is a captured spy stooge.
called my so called rep yesterday and told him I’m done with the house republicant’s and will not vote for another house republican’t again.
they don’t wanna win anyway so he probably doesn’t care.
the phony preacher lied and many more will die.
that Mike McCall is another despicable can’t.
invoking Churchill to keep the Vampyres Ukraine blood money laundering scam going while simultaneously keeping the open borders death and destruction to America blood money flowing in.
95 billion to other countries and not a dime for us.
again why do we stay in the union when all they do is use and abuse us?
need a convention of the states and Texas and other like minded states need to get out post haste.
if you don’t listen to Chris Salcedo on ksev you should go listen to the podcast from 4-18. He nailed it.
will not vote for another house republican’t again.
I know the feeling. The last words I said directly face to face to Kevin Brady 8 years before he retired is that the Repubs had seen my last vote. I worked on his ’96 election team in the Conroe Area. Boy did he turn into a swamp creature.
I just found out that the items I made and donated to my old parish for a Knights of Columbus fundraiser didn’t make it to the Knights. I should never have trusted those folks. “Things walk” is the phrase I was reminded of by my friend to whom I had promised auction items.
I am so. wissed. off. I’ll never leave things with a note during lunch time ever again.
Well I made it back from the Gun Show with my billfold intact so whoever was covering for me, ya’ done good. 😀
Glad I could help.
I just saw a video where a lady told how one homeowner dealt with squatters:
As a property owner, he couldn’t get them out, but as a property owner, he had the right to put whatever he wanted INTO the property. So he did. Snakes. Eighteen of them. Squatters left. The only problem is that he only found fourteen when he moved back in.
More than one way to skin that cat, I guess.
I watched a great O’Keefe undercover interview video about who is really running the wooden dummy regime.
it’ll never see the light of day.
Dear Tedtam, what a shame that the items you made for your former parish’s fundraiser for the K of C mysteriously disappeared after you brought them to the church around lunch time. Hope the pastor can track down where they might have gone and weren’t stolen but rather just mislaid by someone there.
I see myself on T.V., I’m a faker, a paper clown
It’s clear to all my friends that I habitually lie; I just bring them down
says every house republican’t.
note to mike McCall.
Churchill would’ve never let his country be invaded like all you house republicant’s have let your country be invaded.
F’n losers who also disgrace San Jacinto day.
4/20/2024 backwards is 4/20/2024
Government Deficit: The difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government… why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?
A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil service exam in order to work for the government.
Krueger’s Observation
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then gets elected and proves it.<
P.J. O’Rourke
I miss the days when government “took from the rich” to give to the poor. Now they just take.
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Looks like you got some rain in your neck of the woods. We’re getting a light rain and a few thunder boomers but I don’t think much will come of it.
OK This is for Mark; Durian for Dessert! 😉
If you remember, a while back we were having a discussion about a Corpse Flower blooming and Mark said something about the fact that it didn’t smell as bad as a Durian Melon.
I think durian is one of those foods where a dare is involved, followed by ‘hold my beer’.
I remember watching a comedian talking about eating the first eggs. “Just watch, I’m going to eat the next thing that falls out of that chicken’s butt!”
Tedtam @ 8:45 PM
Archie Bunker: What’s fer supper?
Edith: I making cow tongue.
Archie: Ewee I’m not eating anything that comes out of a cows mouth.
Edith: Well then what do you want?
Archie: Aw just fix me a couple of eggs.
😀
Now this is beautiful; 55 Studebaker Truck
FWIW; I’ve never seen one with that much chrome, it must have been the deluxe model. The grill is usually painted white.
Now I’m happy.
/Crap I hate that.
Super Dave I. am not a MOPAR guy but I would love to own and spit shine one of these.
I like it but I’d go a little farther back to the old Power Wagons of WW II fame.
Super Dave when we get the Super Dave Cafe and Tractor Repair open we will get ya into one of these.
I like the 49-53 Chevy’s better because of the Cord style grill but I saw a sweet 55 at the Crawdad Festival here in Podunk a couple of weeks ago. It was Baby Blue (not my favorite color) and fixed up, not really restored, to like new condition.It even had new Oak flooring in the bed. It belonged to the guy’s grandfather and was in great shape when he got it.
I haven’t lost my “wallet” since high school.
Which, as of this year, was at least 50 years ago.
Well, today was the day.
You start out panicked. Then you’re terrified. Which leads to resignation. 99% sure of where I lost it….in a parking lot.
3 credit cards. 1 gasoline card. Medicare Card. Medicare Supplement card. Two Professional ID cards. And, of course, my Texas Drivers License.
Life is good.
Holy Crap Shannon. Life is good but that is no bueno por poopoo.
Give me 3 on the column and keep your old 4 on the floor.
A few years ago, I got out of a truck in a Home Depot parking lot in Parsippany, NJ and lying right there was a big thick wallet, lots of credit cards, with $500 in it. I looked at the drivers license and then did an internet search and found what I thought was the owner and his phone #. I called and left a message – no response for hours. I called again and no answer.
I was leaving the nearby town of Towaco and I flagged down a cop and asked him if he knew the name of the wallet owner. It turned out it was the father of the local police chief so I gave the cop the wallet and he took my name and information. It turned out the chief was a junior and I had been leaving messages at his home instead of his dad.
A couple of days later I had a message from the man on my cell phone thanking me and a day or so after that I received a nice note in the mail with a $50 bill in it.
57 degrees and dropping here near the banks of the Brazos.
Hallelujah!!
And since our Brenham TDL office is closed for the foreseeable future….
I hear there’s one in Columbus….
Temp dropping fast on the Brazos at Richmond. Yea for that. Summer will march in soon enough, so we can enjoy unseasonably cool temps whenever the chance presents itself.
Good Morning. As previously mentioned, today, April 21, is San Jacinto Day.
General Sam Houston had two horses shot out from under him that day. He was also shot in the ankle during the battle. He was 43 years old.
The famous painting below, by William Henry Huddle, hangs in the State Capitol.
Sam is laid out, against a tree. The captured and disguised Gen. Santa Anna, in the all-white pants of a Private, stands before him.
One of the several historical rabbit trails about Sam Houston down which I was led involved the War of 1812. Sam distinguished himself serving under Andrew Jackson in that war at the Battle Of Horseshoe Bend in eastern Alabama.
Houston suffered an arrow to the shoulder in that battle and was not expected to survive but eventually rallied to fight another day.
I’ve been to that battle site and if I remember correctly General Jackson defeated the Red Stick Creeks for the last time and ran them out of the Alabama Territories.
Yes, Sam Houston was later put in charge of relocating the Creeks west.
This person (openly butch lesbian) is the Secretary of Transportation for the state of Massachusetts. She embodies everything about the thuggish style modern government policy. Once the government confiscates everyone’s money, the people are no longer of any use and then they start killing them. See multiple totalitarian nations of the 20th century.
I believe that the correct term for the subject person is tyrant. I care not a whit what her sexual proclivities are, as long as she leaves minors, particularly children alone, I care about the mentality of how she views the role of government and the role of the citizen. She is the definition of a tyrant. Death to tyrants.
Dang Shannon snuck while I was responding to the Squawkster.
Mornin’ Gang
Re: My 7:14am
Super Dave
I was trying to find on the map the Horseshoe Bend of the Tallapoosa River in eastern Alabama to see if it was near you.
It’s NE of Montgomery, SE of Birmingham about 130 miles from me. I’ve been there a couple of times over the years. Last time about 2016.
Domino players at a hole-in-the-wall beer joint someplace in Texas circa 1915. I love the spittoons, the Schlitz beer, and how neatly the bartender is dressed in relation to the players, even though it’s just an ordinary night in some non-descript place. I wonder how many times this same scene or variations on it have been re-enacted in Texas over the years? Millions, no doubt.
H/T Traces of Texas
Pretty fancy chairs for a beer joint.
I had a boss who was from Hanover Germany. He said that those places were all over Germany and that the old guys would come in every day and don’t make the mistake of sitting in his chair. He called it a stumptish.
Quoted by Ed Morrisey from the NYT:
An Israeli weapon deployed in a retaliatory strike against Iran on Friday damaged a defense system responsible for detecting and destroying aerial threats near Natanz, a central Iranian city critical to the country’s secret nuclear weapons program, according to two Western officials and two Iranian officials.
The strike, the Western officials said, was calculated to deliver a message to Iran that Israel could bypass Iran’s defense systems undetected and paralyze them, using a fraction of the fire power Iran deployed last week when it launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel. That attack, intercepted by Israel and its allies, caused minimal damage.
Their shock didn’t just come from the fact that Israel had denuded their critical Natanz site of effective air defense. It didn’t come from realizing just how far Israel could strike without entering its airspace, either. What truly shocked the Iranians is that they had no warning at all before their expensive S-300 system got destroyed from a single strike:
Come to find out that there is a National Military Park at the Horseshoe Bend site in Daviston, AL 36256.
Trivia Question, how did Baton Rouge get it’s name? No cheating. 😉
If I remember correctly, it took its name from the shepherds who led their flocks using a stick that was either red or had a red stripe painted on it. Baton rouge is French for red stick.
Close but no cigar. BUT Baton rouge IS French for red stick.
If you haven’t considered the possibility Google is one of the most evil organizations in our society, try this one on.
Rand Simberg belongs to a Google Groups email chatroom. Google just notified him the content of their completely private discussions has been removed for violating Google rules.
Google is now monitoring and censoring private email conversations.
Gone to Ramapo Mountain to spend a few hours with the Prince and Ellie Ruth for a few hours. Later.
Now that’s the time. Making deposits in the ole Memory Bank good on Ya’.
Those are the best moments. Enjoy!
I coulda’ swore I responded to this a couple of hours ago so here goes again; Put some deposits in that ole Memory Bank.
Watching the farm Report this morning I stumbled across this tid-bit;
Wild Pigs Kill More People Than Sharks, Shocking New Research Reveals
Hogzilla or Jaws? More humans are killed annually by wild pigs than by sharks, a startling new study reveals. By slice, puncture, hook, and gouge, the global number of fatalities from wild pig attacks is rising by the decade.
Between 2014 and 2023, the average yearly number of fatal shark attacks worldwide was 5.8, while the average number of fatal wild pig attacks was 19.7. In 2024 alone, there have already been seven deaths from wild pig incidents.
According to groundbreaking research published in 2023, the number of humans killed by wild pig attacks steadily climbed from 2000 to 2019, for a total of 172 deaths—including a freakishly grisly fatality in southeast Texas.
“Most of the public doesn’t know the facts about wild pig attacks on humans,” says John J. Mayer, lead author of the study and wild pig research pioneer. “It’s not sharks, wolves, or bears that kill the most people—it’s wild pigs, and the numbers are consistently trending up.”
FWIW; This doesn’t at all surprise me.
Good morning all. Nothing happening here, waiting for warmth. We had a cougar siting about a mile away and a grizzly bear siting about a half mile away. Keeping head on a swivel. : )
Apparently Granny Clampett had another son,……
The day before San Jacinto Day your groupofCons, led by the phony preacher MJ, were in the halls of U.S. congress and in your face, waving the Ukrainian flag and voting to rob us of another 95 billion wasted dollars to send to foreign lands but mostly laundered back into their pockets and 0 for our country.
a blood money sucker is gonna blood suck and destroy the country with a gleam in their eyes and a song in their heart.
1000% taxation and serial abuse of the citizenry with 0 representation.
Yep. Some of those sorry basturds were waving Ukraine flags on the floor of the House.
Rep. Paulina Luna grabbed the michrophone and told them to put those damn flags away.
Here’s what the phony preacher and all the rest of groupofCons swamp sewer rats think of representing you.
the Cons voted to spy on you without a warrant. Steal your tax dollars at will, let the country continue to be invaded and can basically throw you in jail for any made up reason they can come up with.
Ain’t life great under deep state rule.
someone?
anyone?
ferris?
Yup, some of the Commie Bastards on the left said something about it being a good thing to stop the impeachment so they could get on to passing the important stuff before time ran out and one of those things was the damn FISA Warrant bill. I guess you know that it was due to expire (sunset). ~spits~
He doesn’t believe a word he’s preaching.
he’s proud of the fisa bill and this one too?
They did the work they had to do? The work of whom? The Beelzebub run deep state?
a spyduck must’ve written the script with a p.s. at the bottom of the page stating ‘we have pictures.’ Just my opinion.
Well, I’ve been told that the rosaries that I donated to my past parish for their fundraiser or popular. They brought in about $75 for the church, and for that church, every little bit helps. So that makes me feel good. Now I have to go do some purchasing for one of our rental properties. I’ll check in again later.
1974… Maria Muldaur, Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt hanging out in their dressing room with Jim Beam.
Say, “thank you Uncle Squawk”.
Linda Ronstadt. photo shoot for the cover of ‘Hasten Down The Wind. 1975
Say, “We’re not worthy Uncle SquawK”
Linda Ronstadt, 1974
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You know who again.
Okay I gotta stop or y’all are gonna think I am a nice guy ruining my bad reputation.
And our very own Squawkie wins the Internet today. Congratulations.
Top 3 in the Brunette Hall of Fame.
The incomparable Maria Muldaur.
And perhaps Top 3 for the Any Color Hair Grand Prize.
Just in case you weren’t paying attention, we are on the cusp of a 3000 year Locust hatching.
See you on the other side.
I guess.
If not, Texpat and dr phil can fight over the special Malbec. If I haven’t finished it by then.
I was up at a girlfriend’s house in Marble Falls back in the 1990s when there was a severe drought in Central and West Texas. It was the middle of a weekend hot, summer afternoon and we were outside trying to get enough water on the shrubbery to keep it alive. As I stood on the north side of that home, the grasshoppers swarmed in like African bees, millions of them, and stripped every single leaf off 3 huge ligustrums, maybe 3 big privets and a couple of tall azaleas. I was batting them off my head and shirt as they attacked the plants. It was shocking, bizarre and only took about 15 or 20 minutes. At the end, there was nothing left but sticks and branches – not a single tiny leaf anywhere.
It was most definitely a Ten Plagues Biblical event for me.
Ellie Ruth says,” OMG, who is this Squawk man ?”
Awwww….so sweet!
I have a Bonnie Raitt in Houston story I can’t tell on a family oriented website. It goes back to Jubilee Hall in the 1970s.
Little Ellie Ruth is the newest lady in the clan, and what a lovely addition she is. 🙂
Oh about my Trivia Question; how did Baton Rouge get it’s name?
When the French explorer Sieur d’Iberville sailed up the Mississippi looking for high ground he noticed a a red stick marking the boundary between two different tribal hunting grounds and since it was high ground they settled there naming the place Baton Rouge.
FWIW; The Alabama “Red Sticks” were a renegade bunch of Creek Indians that caused all sorts of havoc in the late 1700’s early 1800’s and were finally defeated at Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River.
If Mark (Hamous) was still around he’d tell you about Burnt Corn and the Fort Mims Massacre in 1813. Hint the Red Sticks won.
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