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Amen to that. And you may or not know, the words “Sporting Purposes” were first used in the Gun Control Act of 68 to separate Handguns from Sporting weapons, (rifles and shotguns). Remember in 68 an awful lot of folks hunted the the Communists didn’t want to scare the masses into thinking that they were trying to take away ALL their guns. But of course that was their goal. The left is good at coming up with words and phrases that wind up in the public’s vocabulary. The latest Gun Control phrase drives me crazy; “Gun Violence” as if a gun could commit violence. ~SPITS~
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SO while the coffee is brewing lets start off with a nice 59 Desota Firedome Convertible. I love the coral Color. That said I don’t like the modern Pimp Wheels, ruins the classic look.
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My Dad owned a 56 Desoto Firedome red with white highlights. I remember it from pictures. I wish I had that car today.
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I just finished peeling a half dozen boiled eggs, not my favorite thing to do. I’d boiled them on Sunday not knowing exactly what I was going to do with them but my Nutty NASA buddy, Linda gave me a recipe for Egg Salad that uses Cream Cheese so I’m going to give it a try.
Oh and if you’re wondering, we’ve cornered the market on yard eggs, got about 6 dozen in the fridge. 😉 -
My neighbor who I repaired our fence with has 4 chickens and he gets 4 eggs a day. He claims that if you don’t wash the eggs you don’t need to refrigerate them and that they will last for months. I have heard similar claims from other egg producers. All I know is that I can taste the difference in yard eggs v store bought. On Sunday he gave me a bag of eggs and I ate the last 3 plus on store bought this morning.
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The natural “bloom” covering in the eggs protects them from oxygen and bacteria, this giving them extended shelf life. That’s why I pull my washed eggs-to fill in the shell pores and deal them, replacing the bloom. In Europe, it’s common to sell unwashed eggs, on an unrefrigerated shelf. When we visited Sicily, I was surprised to see this, being so Americanized to refrigerated eggs.
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The System 76 desktop computers Squawk linked to last night look very cool. It is impossible for me to justify $4,300 – 4,999 for one with my level of skill and usage.
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In the waiting room. I can hear them revving up the jackhammers and bulldozers….
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Catching up. If you missed Texpat’s (May 20 @ 11:52 AM) piece about the International Criminal Court (ICC) approving the pursuit of arrest warrants against senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders for war crimes, you need to check it out.
I’m sure that Biden will denounce this ridiculous nonsense and explain that Israel is AT WAR! Not holding my breath on that one. -
Honest Reporting asks the question:
“Why won’t the media give a voice to the courageous Gazans who openly oppose Hamas?”
It most certainly doesn’t fit into their twisted narrative.
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This is interesting even if it is Microsoft. I’m sure Apple has a better version coming.
Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.
The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more. All you need to do is perform a “Recall” action, which is like an AI-powered search, and it’ll present a snapshot of that period of time that gives you context of the memory.
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Perhaps this will trigger another uprising for the Persians longing to be free from the yoke of 7th century savages. They should wait until Donaldus Magnus is inaugurated and then they may actually be successful.
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Nope ain’t gonna happen.
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Addendum to my 9:06 AM comment:
It’s not a trap only if you completely trust Microsoft and Big Tech to protect your privacy…
It’s a new feature named Recall, part of the company’s Copilot AI chatbot, and it will screencap literally everything you do on your Windows or Surface computer to help you find stuff later.
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“As you use your PC, Recall takes snapshots of your screen,” Microsoft’s support page explained. “Snapshots are taken every five seconds… and [are] locally analyzed on your PC. Recall’s analysis allows you to search for content, including both images and text, using natural language.”
Screencaps will be stored locally and encrypted but anyone with a user’s password or biometric login would have access. To say that Recall “raises privacy concerns,” as Ars did, is sublimely British in its understatement.
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I deleted my own comment and rewrote it. Now the last 2 comments previous to mine from Bonecrusher and Squawk don’t appear even though they show up normally in the dashboard. WTH ?
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The Religion of Peace.
A United Nations (UN) official told Reuters they have not received any aid for the past two days from the US-built pier in Gaza following a major pillaging incident Saturday.
11 out of 16 trucks sent from the pier were waylaid and pillaged Saturday before entering a UN warehouse, the official told Reuters.
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“We need to make sure that the necessary security and logistical arrangements are in place before we proceed,” the official told the outlet.”There were some people [Gazans], they’ve seen the trucks. They’ve not seen trucks for a while,” the official said. “They just basically mounted on the trucks and helped themselves to some of the food parcels.” the official added.
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It’s only May and this election season gets weirder by the day. My imagination can’t conjure up what it might look like in the fall. Cindy Adams has been the gossip columnist at the New York Post for about 97 years, I think.
Matt Margolis at PJMedia:
My skepticism appears to have been well founded because, according to Cindy Adams of the New York Post, Joe Biden is already trying to avoid debating Trump.
“I’m filled with messages about a maybe floppola failure,” she writes. “Mouths kvetch that the debate won’t debate.”
The Biden v. Trump bout is June 27. Smarmy Stormy’s trial gets decided — guess when?
The earliest ever for a presidential debate.
Joe’s counting on cancellation if Trump’s found guilty. Reading from the prompter he’ll say he can’t debate a felon. Slick shtick to reverse his sick poll numbers.
And if acquittal Joe and Jill scramble up the hill to fetch only a pail of water — not election.
Adams says that sources at CNN say both campaigns are having “second thoughts” about the rules agreed to and want out of the debate.
“Trump, who interrupts and talks over his opponents, needs a live studio audience and open mikes,” she says. “The debate prohibits a studio audience plus audio turned off when each candidate’s answer time expires.”
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Two implants, went well. Going to slap some ice on my face now.
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That’s a softball right over the plate for Wagonburner.
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For young men…dating options have never looked brighter.
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I’m thinking of all the people who desperately want the government to run all healthcare in America.
This is ghastly.
May 20 (UPI) — The British government “did not put patient safety first” while covering up a multi-decade tainted blood scandal, leading to thousands of related deaths, a report published Monday found.
Britain’s National Health Service allowed blood tainted with HIV and Hepatitis to be used on patients without their knowledge, leading to 3,000 deaths and more than 30,000 infections, according to the 2,527-page final report by Justice Brian Justice Langstaff, a former judge on the High Court of England and Wales.
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In several cases, health officials lied about the risks to patients. In others, patients were infected during research without their knowledge or consent, including children whose parents’ consent was not sought.
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Glenn Reynolds follows the below story with this from ProPublica 12 years ago.
A few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.
In 2003, a federal court, frustrated by repeated blood safety violations by the Red Cross, gave the FDA the power to fine the organization. Forty-six million dollars in penalties later, many of the same violations — understaffing, ineffective screening of donors, failure to recall infected blood — are outlined in the recent letter the FDA sent to the executive vice president of Biomedical Services for the Red Cross.
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I’m not a WNBA fan or a NBA fan so I don’t keep up with what goes on there. But it seems this Caitlyn Clark girl from Iowa has a bunch cranks angry because as on wit put it…
Caitlin Clark is the complete opposite of the butch, angry, man hating, child hating, 6ft, heavily tattooed lesbian who plays in the WNBA
Not only is Caitlin Clark the best player in the league she’s also the most likeable and not afraid to embrace her feminine energy!
And she is also white, heterosexual and doesn’t have any intersectionals.
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Oh boy.
after 40 years of busting the border open and the phony speaker of the house preacher giving the ny Mayo stain everything he wanted in the latest border busting bill, the republicant’s are expressing fake concern. HA!
next thing you know they may just become ‘troubled’ about this and fire off a sternly worded letter if they can wake Chuck Grassley up.
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Even mediocre politicians don’t make huge mistakes like this. This family owned service station/convenience store chain is hugely popular in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio.
Can you imagine Trump coming to Texas and making a big appearance at Bucci’s and then having the DOJ slam them the next morning with phony civil rights violations ?
While Reighard’s holds the title of the oldest gas station in the country, it was another Altoona family that put a different kind of gas station excellence on the map. The Sheetz family story is one of struggles. This family-friendly service station struggled with a salmonella breakout in 2004, but it retained a deeply local customer base and expanded well beyond its western Pennsylvania roots.
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Biden even went so far as to pick up sandwiches for construction workers after pulling the presidential motorcade into the Sheetz gas station in Moon Township. Wearing his aviator glasses, he posed for a selfie with an employee.
Then things got weird.
Just one day after the president’s orchestrated Sheetz run, the Biden administration hit the privately held convenience store chain with a federal lawsuit in which federal officials say the company discriminated against minority job applicants. The theory, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is that because the company uses criminal background checks to screen job seekers, somehow that’s a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Insane.
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Today’s comments here have lots of good information that can help clarify messed up info one comes across from the New York newspaper that the Houston Chronicle dutifully prints stuff from.
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Just talked to Harper.
Sounds pretty chipper.
Still no power. Swears that she is in “no danger of starvation or overheating.”
She made a deal with her neighbor’s “cleanup guy” to clear the incredible amount of debris around her house and on top of her garage.
I’m close to a solution for her computer problems. And I have her okay to proceed.-
Thank you Shannon.
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What he said, thanks for looking after mharper.
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Watch this 22 minute video detailing serial prosecutorial misconduct by Jack Smith and his team. Jack Smith, at a minimum, deserves disbarment and any reasonable person would declare that he deserves prison time for his misbehavior. I do not want to stand next to him on Judgement Day as I might get burnt by the roasting. Judge Cannon is probably going to force the release of the Grand Jury transcripts and this will be the final nail in the coffin of the Trump Persecution.
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Intersectional:
: the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups
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AKA: How to maximize your victimhood.
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I started reading about intersectionality well over ten years ago.
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so it took a year or two to figure out what it was. -
The bottom line is that we’re on the precipice of losing our nation.
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Ya think?
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It’s always nice to goad Squawkie out of his den.
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Shannon and Squawk
I believe Americans have historically taken their nation’s gifts for granted and this country has always veered closer to the edge of the cliff many more times than all but the wisest men and best historians realize.
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I disagree, Texpat.
I think that our boomer generation is the first one who virtually wholesale took for granted the gifts handed to us.
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