One of the fondest memories I have was looking for the Budweiser plant as we came in on I-10. Watching the majestic neon Anheuser Bush Eagle flying in the night sky was just cool. Mom and Dad enjoyed it too because for a couple minutes the three kids in the backseat of the 63 Dodge 330 would shut up. But alas those days are gone. The video was from a story about the resurrection of the Bud Medallion at the New Jersey Bud plant.
When INBEV merged with Budweiser and became AB INBEV they decided to do away with the iconic eagle and replaced it with the eagle you see in the picture below. Mercifully the AB Eagle is making a comeback at some of the US breweries. Maybe Houston someday. Maybe.
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Anyone removing navigational buoys should be shot on sight.
Dr. Malone’s Substack with his Friday Funnies.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-word-salad?publication_id=583200&post_id=144943578&isFreemail=true&r=pn3fy&triedRedirect=true
I think this chart tells a lot:
It may not be everyone’s taste, but David Chapelle can be very funny. This is a clip from his “Black Bush” show also including Jamie Foxx as Tony Blair. It’s profane just so you know.
The Three Amigos on Ksev (Friday afternoons, 4-6) were discussing the squatter issue. Bettencourt is working with his team on legislation. As a landlord, I called in with some comments and suggestions. I am now expected to call his office and set up a time to testify at the hearing.
BTW – They had been talking about the recently coined term of cadever president, created by ?Bill Maher? I told them that I called Biden a “meat puppet” and they all cracked up.
If you didn’t see this story about New Hampshire Governor John Sununu talking about Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom, it’s pretty funny.
I went to the store late yesterday to pick up a few things. It was all food items, no non-food, no meat, no chicken, no fish. Peanut butter, eggs, small bag of grapes, some cherries on sale, cheddar cheese, etc. Two small bags of groceries and it was SEVENTY-ONE DOLLARS.
UCLA Hamas supporters have an illegal encampment in the campus and won’t leave so they no food or water. They ordered food from some restaurant to be delivered by a ROBOT. The robot shows up, but the cops stopped it on the sidewalk. Hilarious.
In what Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas calls a “border incident,” it was claimed that Russia has removed navigation buoys from close to the two countries’ shared border.Estonian border guards said on Thursday that Russian operatives had removed almost half of a total of 50 navigation buoys, recently placed on the Estonian side of the Narva River. The objects are positioned on the border river to direct ships away from foreign waters. This episode follows hastily altered reports of Russian proposals to redraw its maritime borders in the Baltic Sea. The plans, contained within a draft Defence Ministry document that was linked to briefly online,… Read more »
This is very, very interesting. Two of the world’s most important chip companies can flip a “kill switch” remotely on their most advanced chipmaking machines should China invade Taiwan, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.The Netherlands’ ASML — Europe’s top tech company by market value — supplies advanced machines to chipmaking companies. They include Taiwan’s TSMC, which produces, by some estimates, 90% of the world’s most advanced processor chips.The news of a forced shutdown, or a “kill switch,” on ASML’s chipmaking gear comes amid intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing and mounting concerns over a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which Beijing… Read more »
The Israel Defense Forces said they discovered nearly 700 tunnel shafts in Rafah, with some crossing into Egypt.Israeli Deputy Attorney General Gilad Noam explained the findings at the International Court of Justice. and, “Also present in Rafah,” said Noam, “is an intricate underground tunnel infrastructure that runs underneath the city and provides ample space for operators, command and control rooms, and military equipment.”“Nearly 700 tunnel shafts have been identified in Rafah from which approximately 50 tunnels cross into Egypt,” he added. “These tunnels are used by Hamas to supply itself with weapons and ammunition. It could potentially be used to smuggle… Read more »
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What the hell?
Illinois politicians aim to change word ‘offender’ to ‘justice-impacted individual’
The bill is headed to the governor’s desk
I recommend reading the C&C analysis of the NYT article on the White House and Ukraine. We are a lot closer to WWIII than anybody realizes because Antony Blinken and Victoria Nuland (even though she resigned) are pushing very hard for giving weapons to Ukraine for them to attack civilian locations in Russia. It is insanity. Reading critically, we discover there is no debate. There is only Blinken, Zelensky, the ghost of Viktoria Nuland, and the pugilistic echoes rattling around inside Joe Biden’s empty skull.Why then did the Times call this a debate? Why try to dress it up as… Read more »
What a firecracker at the Bronx!
Everything she said is true.
I can tell it’s hot outside. My garden is going into afternoon wilt mode.
We are heading for a worldwide energy production & distribution crisis. I keep harping on this because the threat isn’t being taken seriously enough by the public. Voters need to start asking questions, lots of them. “Every time you query the model, the whole thing gets activated, so it’s wildly inefficient from a computational perspective,” she says.Take the Large Language Models (LLMs) at the heart of many Generative AI systems. They have been trained on vast stores of written information, which helps them to churn out text in response to practically any query.“When you use Generative AI… it’s generating content… Read more »
Isn’t it amazing how all these studies proving contrarians were correct after all are coming out now ?
This is not by accident. The TikTok generation is too ignorant to understand the world or its history and will believe any lies told to them. Students unable to analyze complex or lengthy texts and lack the context to understand certain arguments or points of view are much easier for administrators and politicians to manipulate and control. Can you say “From the River to the Sea ?” Many college students don’t read very well, their professors say. And they don’t think they should have to work very hard. “Some struggle with reading endurance and weak vocabulary,” writes Beth McMurtrie in the Chronicle of… Read more »
From the C&C comments, someone had a joke: Three dinosaurs stumble across a magic lamp. They rub it, and a genie appears. “I have three wishes, so I’ll give one to each of you,” the genie announces. The first dinosaur thinks hard. “Alright,” he says, “I’ll have a big, juicy, piece of meat.” Instantly, the biggest, juiciest piece of meat he’d ever seen appears in front of him. Not to be outdone, the second dinosaur thinks even harder. “I know! I’ll have a shower of meat!” Immediately, huge pieces of meat rain down around him. The third dinosaur, certainly not… Read more »
Mr. Childers discusses the “debate” within the WH re letting Ukraine fire American weaponry into Russia: They are trying to sell a horrible idea. The scheme to allow Ukraine to launch U.S. missiles at undefended, innocent civilian targets in Russia — in other words, war crimes — is literally the worst idea the neocons have ever had, bar none, in a painfully long list of previous terrible, no-good ideas./snipReaders rightly reflect: Who’s on which side of this zero-sum argument? Which Biden advisors are like YOLO!! and which ones are like you’re barking mad!! Are they throwing things at each other? Which group does Papa Joe favor… Read more »
This is why BSue INSISTS on doing all the cooking
Public Service Announcement from the government via KTRH
Don’t be snuggling or kissing your chickens.
No joke. Salmonella can kill you.
Here’s today’s C&C roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s finally Friday! First up in the roundup, we examine the New York Times’ latest word weapon, designed to trick us into supporting Biden’s escalatory madness. Then, the Fauci story develops further as it breaks into mainstream media; and Trump rocks the South Bronx in a political earthquake bigger than the New Madrid disaster.
I managed to get a little gardening done, since I’m feeling better. I used my compost tea buckets to feed my plants and pulled another mess of green beans. I have a huge ‘mater that I think I can pick tomorrow, and maybe a few small ones. The asparagus beans are just busting out all over right now; I picked some today and over the next day or two should have quite a few more. Blanching and freezing for those veggies for now, and when I get my big freezer bag full I’ll start freeze drying some for long term… Read more »
I miss Archie Bunker.
Tucker exposes abject tyranny on behalf of our current Dept of (In)Justice.
The death penalty is appropriate for perpetrators of same. Death to tyrants.
. . . .and now for something completely different
Shannon
I thought Mrs Bairds was/used to be inside the loop. I could be wrong but now they are in two location outside the loop east and west. I bet they don’t hand twist the bread any longer. Mrs Baird had nice buns.
I’m doing better this morning, but still prefer to not talk. The corner of my mouth is still trying to heal, and drawing air over the sutures is uncomfortable.
Someday I’m going to take Hillsdale up on some of their online courses. They are advertising a course on the history of classical music now
When Hubby and I went through our engagement prep weekend, a requirement before getting married in the Catholic Church, Nabisco had a bakery across the street from the Chancery.
It made concentrating on our discussion topics a little difficult at times. I think I gained give pounds just inhaling the aromas that wafted across the street
Count your lucky stars if you live in Texas. Not only the horrible condition of the roads in New Jersey, but the highway designs are insane in some places. There are freeway interchanges designed by monkeys on LSD. I avoid them if at all possible. They don’t know how to bank curves on freeway ramps which is why overturned tank trucks are a chronic problem.
Growing up in suburban west Houston, we never spent any time in the industrial East Side, only driving through it on the way to Beaumont. Our parents never opened any pharmacies on that side of town.
It wasn’t until I was in my early 30’s, when I drove hot shot, that I really explored that side of Harris County and beyond, finding out just how enormous this town really is.
Headline: Man arrested after attempting to steal Balenciaga shoes, holding woman at gunpoint: PoliceThe dude looks like he got a hickory shampoo and tune up.
Note that this happened in Oklahoma.
Wasn’t Mrs. Baird’s Bread on Shepherd, well inside the Loop?
The Wiki history of Loop 610 talks about Loop 137 which, in the 1940/50’s, was the basic forerunner of 610 prior to the building of the Interstate system – roughly following the ultimate pathway of the North, West, and South Loops.
On the northern end of the 610 West loop, there used to be a big bakery and the smell of baking bread was intoxicating. Some rectum decided that was a bad thing and made them move or put in scent scrubbers.
Maryland Club was a much more pleasant landmark – because I LOVED the smell of roasting coffee beans wafting over the freeways… never cared for the smell of the brewery
Demonized as contributing to climate change, cattle may actually decrease emissions, research showsHowever, research by pro-agribuisness outfits Alltech and Archbold suggests that the thinking on reducing emissions at the source is missing a bigger picture on cattles’ relationship with the land, and possibly, by removing grazing from pastures, emissions will actually go up. and, Dr. Vaughn Holder, research project manager for beef nutrition at Alltech, and Dr. Betsey Boughton, director of agroecology at Archbold, studied the impacts that cattle production has on the ecosystem on a wetlands pasture at Buck Island Ranch, about 150 miles northwest of Miami, Florida. The researchers found that 19%-30% of methane… Read more »
Super Dave. and Shannon
Well Hell. I goofed, imagine that. I never meant to say 610. Shoulduh been I-10 though 610 did come much later.
I plumb done forgot the Maryland Club Coffee. But yeah all the way on that one
I remember when the Humble Oil Building (800 Bell St.) was built in 1963.
At 606 feet tall, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Daddy took us down there to go up on the observation deck.
For a quarter, you could watch an injection molding machine produce a replica of the building for you. That was a real gee-whiz attraction.
You could see the giant rice dryer/grain silo on Lumpkin Rd. near West Belt, way off in the distance.
Comey belongs in a cell in the Florence, CO SuperMax prison.
According to Wiki, the East Loop was approved for construction in 1960. It was completed in 1973 with the opening of the Ship Channel Bridge.
I can remember driving by the brewery and loving the smell of the mash doing its thing. Malted barley… mmmmm… what a lovely scent.
Stephen Green pointed out a couple of weeks ago the Belgian company InBev that bought Anheuser-Busch would never have made the Dylan Mulvaney/Bud Light commercial if they had remained in St. Louis and not moved to NYC. They lost touch with the Americans who bought their products.
It was a solid, Midwestern company at one time and then the Belgians came and screwed it up like everything else they touch.
I remember riding in the car headed to Beaumont to visit out grandparents and seeing them building that giant brewery. I had been to the old Pearl beer brewery in San Antonio, but the new, modern A-B plant was something else. I also recall the Stewart-Stevenson yard across from the brewery and wondering want all that equipment was for.
Funny beach prank.
The degree of projection coming from James Comey is staggering. ‘Wagner went on to ask if there would be a stress test “unlike any other if Donald Trump is re-elected” and asked what Comey suspects the potential implications would be for the FBI.“Oh, serious – and for the Justice Department and the FBI – because Trump is coming for those institutions. He knows their power and I think he has regrets that he didn’t work hard enough to corrupt them last time, so he’s coming for them and that’s a danger for all Americans,” the former FBI director argued.’ After… Read more »