Faded Memory – Weekend Open Comments

Lone Star Times Holy Cow Bear

I found this little guy in my office, stashed on a bookshelf and obscured by my clothing iron. Someone with a better memory than mine will have to remind me the circumstances of how he came to be.

One of the tags identifies him as an Original Holy Bear. The other tag identifies him as “The Holy Cow Bear” and includes the following:

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together…. – Isaiah 11:7

 


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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Why does Smacktle come to mind? Well I’m packing up to head home but wife is still sleeping, she should be up in a bit though. We had a fine time here at the beach but I may take one last walk down to the pier since I don’t have to hurry, a 2 hour drive home beats 10-11 any day of the week. 😉
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Dooood Avatar

    Those bears are from Rob (aka Headshaker). My daughter still has a similar one I think. Nice gift from HS.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    SO! There is a Tesla right below me with Rutherford County Tennessee plates on it. It belongs to a Yuppie 40ish couple that apparently have no kids. Checking the Google map Rutherford County is 460 miles from here so there is NO WAY that high dollar toy will make it home without a recharge, maybe two. 300 mile range on a good day? Running the A/C all the way? Why would anyone put themselves in that much misery just to Virtue Signal? SMDH!! SIGH

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; The folks from Wilmore Kentucky rolled out about 6 AM and have a 10-11 hour trip ahead of them but they’ll only need to stop once for gas for their F 150 and that might take 10 minutes out of their schedule, how long does it take to recharge a Tesla? Even on a fast charge I bet it’s over an hour.
    SSMH

  5. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanks Doood.

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I don’t remember the LST bears either, but memory is the third thing to go.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So we’re heading home after a great trip and of course today the Gulf is flat, like a pool table, great for floating around. But there is always next year.

    1. Tedtam Avatar

      Do y’all have a family place there? I’m jealous.

  8. Tedtam Avatar

    Waiting for Hubby outside of the grocery store. Until he fixes my car, he’s gonna hafta make time to tote me around

  9. Tedtam Avatar

    I remember the bears. Good times.

  10. Tedtam Avatar

    Finished the harvesting for the morning. Turns out I’m cultivating a bunch of ants, too.

    1. bsue54 Avatar

      Oh yeah – I remember fighting the fire ants for tomatoes – they loved the ones that were shielded on one side but sunny on the other

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Daughter texted me that while I was driving back from the beach, she said “Oh the irony” 😀

  11. Tedtam Avatar

    Well, she didn’t cowtow to the media. “We’ve done our research.” Wow, that must’ve left a mark.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I, of course have NO IDEA who Amber Rose is but she certainly can be on the right side with us sane people. Yanno’ we’re seeing more and more of this. 😉

  12. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I just don’t get it. I understand women announcers for women’s sports. In this age to push men out it is only natural, But why do the announcer women sound more like men than some men announcers do? Guttural speech sounds along with type “A” aggressiveness. Some of these women look more like men than some men do. The more things change the more things stay the same……sorta

  13. Tedtam Avatar

    Today’s C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your vacation roundup includes: notes from my NACL talk yesterday; another fantastic appellate decision from the Ninth Circuit; and the latest dust-up in the Trump Trial by an internet troll who may or may not have inside intel.

  14. Tedtam Avatar

    Right out of the gate, Mr. Childers makes an important observation:

    I have no transcript from yesterday’s talk at the NACL Conference, but I wrote this up from my notes.

    Why was I asked to come here and talk about “covid”? Isn’t the pandemic over? Can’t we move on already? Unfortunately, the pandemic is not over. The pandemic is the explanation for every major problem. The pandemic knocked the world off its axis, and it is still spinning wonky.

    Here’s the problem. Covid launched the three most important Biblically-based values historically constraining government into outer space: truth, transparency, and trust. In absentia, these fundamental core principles were all enslaved to a new master value: science.

    “Enslaved” is the proper word in this context. We were told where to eat, how to eat, with whom we could interact, how to think…I believe the word “slave” covers what happened to our society. He goes on from there: science started out as a tool, then morphed into a belief system and finally, as a weapon:

    Belief in capital-S Science required faith, not reason. And faith is something that brooks no questions.

    Faith and belief are binaries. They are litmus tests. Either you believed in Science, or you didn’t—there was no middle ground. If you didn’t believe in Science, put your faith in Science, and trust in Science, you clearly were anti-Science.

    You were, in fact, a Science denier.

    The ‘Science denier’ label was, of course, always a blood libel. It was intended to evoke the sulphuric odors of antisemitic Holocaust denial. Ironically, shredding small-s science’s pragmatic roots, Science irrationally injected muddy belief and politics into the previously sterile corridors of rational philosophy.

    True dat.

  15. Tedtam Avatar

    More from Mr. C’s speech:

    In early 2021, I published my most widely read post, which immediately went viral, got me canceled, and got C&C purged from every single publishing platform on the same day. It was a letter to the Church, addressed to pastors. I advised spiritual shepherds to stop falsely telling their flocks that the vaccines stopped transmission, and most of all, to stop preaching that taking the jabs was a moral imperative.

    I explained the World had been possessed by a demonic Spirit of Fear, manifested in a substitute religion of Science with its own rituals, sacraments, and high priests. (Biblical rabbit hole: compare Zechariah 1:7-11 and 6 with Revelation 5:6 and 6:1-7, and discuss.) This diabolical Spirit of Science displaced everything in its satanic swath of destruction, casting churches into the non-essential abyss, instantly rendering them useless artifacts of the old order.

    It was not coincidental that in the United States, the only lawful protection from the legalistic sacrament of mandates was a religious exemption.

    The left uses fear to move their flock. When those who are led by emotion and not by logic are faced with Fear, they respond without thinking. That is why Democrats tend to use arguments like “They want to take away your rights/social security/[insert entitlement here] from you”. Or the label racist is planted on their enemies, after convincing the flock that it’s a label always well deserved, without need to prove it, and obviously the worst evil in the world.

    This is why a well educated populace was what one Founding Father predicated our republic upon. An ignorant populace, one filled with individuals unable to think for themselves, is easier to herd and enslave than a constituency who’s not afraid to look directly at their wannabe slave masters and ask them “Why? Please explain!”

  16. Tedtam Avatar

    Mr. C. then brings up a legal decision from the Ninth Circuit, the gist of it being that the jabs weren’t real vaccines, and thus didn’t fall under the protection of laws regarding vaccine health laws and mandates.

    This reasoning is a legal earthquake. For years, we anti-mandate lawyers have argued that the covid mandates were unconstitutional. But the government lawyers have always argued “there is no Constitutional right not to take a vaccine.”

    Now, a federal appellate judge — one step below the Supreme Court — just cut through the confusion like a hot needle through butter, agreeing with our arguments. Since the shots are not vaccines, Jacobson does not apply. Since they don’t protect others, mandated shots are legalized battery.

    It is the concurrence heard round the world. It’s taken three years to reach this point, which is lightning speed in the law. As I keep saying, this is not over.

  17. Tedtam Avatar

    Citizens doing the work of the government, putting together a local militia group to protect their neighborhood. The fact that they’re black may put a bit of pause in pushback against them. It’ll be hard to climb over that pile of victim points.

    When the armed volunteers are not on the streets, the group monitors video feeds from a dozen drones hovering over the neighborhood, and 75 home surveillance cameras in the neighborhood.

    “The Democratic machine in Hartford is either unwilling or unable, incapable of doing it, and people are paying their tax dollars, and they’re not really getting any kind of service,” Lewis told Fox News. “So we want the people to understand, number one, self-defense is not a dirty word.

    Hartford’s Democratic Mayor Arunan Arulampalam has denounced the group over concerns they will enact vigilante justice.

    /snip

    Lewis contends the brigade is not made up of vigilantes and are all trained in discipline legal security. The 40 or so volunteers in Hartford have legal permits to carry concealed weapons and the purpose is self-defense.

    “I’m a fourth degree black belt, and I trained everybody in hand-to-hand combat,” Lewis said.

    If the government wouldn’t stop protecting the criminals and defunding and disrespecting their police, the citizens wouldn’t have to do their jobs for them. “Vigilante justice” wouldn’t even be an issue.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sitting in the very pleasant Memphis airport waiting on my ride back home.

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Yummy the steer is now in frozen storage at Bonecrusher Estate. 560 lbs of meat took 2 chest freezers, 1 small and 1 medium, plus my outside freezer. 172 lbs of ground meat, lots of rib eyes, t-bones, chuck roasts, and short ribs. I am going to eat some tonight. Right now I am baking bones before I boil them for stock. My inner carnivore is quite happy now.

    1. bsue54 Avatar

      My cousin’s granddaughter had a 4-H steer named “Houdini” because I don’t believe they ever found a way to keep him from escaping from wherever he was confined… well – except for the “final solution” – Houdini’s Hine-y was one of the best rump roasts I ever did cook 🙂

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      What was your average price per pound if you don’t mind me being nosy ?

    3. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Where did you get it? There are almost no slaughter houses left around here, used to be several within a fairly short drive.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is pretty cool. I think Squawk should have one to pin on his Speedo. Thomas Massie wears a real-time National Debt Clock on his lapel.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Hah. I got this pinned to my butt on my speedo.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Heh, takes a mighty big butt to display that one. Although it’s a mighty big debt, too.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That is too cool.

  21. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    In this case, I actually agree with Joe “The Dip$#!t” Biden.

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m just glad Jerry Springer has escaped Memphis alive.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Yanno’ all those old white guys look alike. 😀

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is real life in Memphis. Do you wonder why I was a little worried ?

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The newest ridiculous insult to the American people from the Biden administration is the EPA’s announcement of a new regulation requiring all cars in the near future to meet a 65 mpg minimum mileage standard. Anything at 55 mpg or above rules out any internal combustion gasoline engine cars and will force people to buy EVs…theoretically. First of all, this will be buried in litigation for years, Trump can rescind it and Americans do not want it regardless of party affiliation.

  25. Tedtam Avatar

    I had talked to Hubby some time back about splitting a cow with some people. It would’ve required another freezer. Somehow, it just never happened.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was thinking about American Apollo program astronaut William Anders who died in a plane crash off the San Juan Islands of Washington state. He was 90 years old flying his own plane and went out doing what he loved to do. Her Highness thinks I’m wrong and he shouldn’t have been flying alone or flying at all, for that matter. Sometimes women don’t understand men.

    1. Tedtam Avatar

      Reminds me of the end of “Second Hand Lions”.

    2. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      As long as a person can pass the physical they can fly. My grandpa was in great shape he lost his license when he suffered a detached retina.

    3. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      My thoughts exactly and what I told my wife when we were discussing it.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Over the years, I have picked up several like new freezers for next to nothing from people. One guy gave me a never used chest freezer and I gave it to the synagogue.

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The bones baking in the oven are filling the house with a wonderful smell.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    On the shuttle to my van. Yay.

  30. Tedtam Avatar

    I just finished my treadmill time and I put on a video from Midwest Magic Cleaning on YT. This house was the home of a man who was injured, causing him to lose his job, which spiraled into a mental breakdown and alcoholism. His utilities were cut off. Based on the trash in the house, especially the number of beer boxes, the estimate was a minimum of 6000 beer cans in the home. The man had gotten to the point of using a 5 gallon bucket in his living room for a toilet, with just a ceiling tile laying on top of it. If you saw the before shots of the bathroom, you’d understand why the bucket was a much better choice. MMC says that the “good news” is that the man is now in a nursing home, because he obviously was not able to take care of himself. His mental health issues are just too much.

    This house was toxic, so there was continual washing and sanitizing of exposed skin, and the bathroom required full hazmat gear. This house is getting as clean as they can get it so it’s safe enough for workers to come in and renovate the house.

    The MMC guy is autistic, and cleaning these houses “scratches his itch”. He has a regular house cleaning service, but he cleans these hoarder and abandoned houses as a hobby and for the internet videos. This guy is amazing, doing what he’s doing, doing it for free. His son helps him, and in this video the two of them were getting so dehydrated and exhausted that he found an autistic neighbor who could use a little cash and hired him for the day.

    To hear him talk so compassionately about the people who live in these houses always impresses me. He understands those mental health conditions, and knows that throwing out stuff that we might consider junk could literally send these people over the edge. He knows that what he does is merely a first step in their recovery.

    I may buy some of his merch, just to support him. We need a world filled with people like him.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I used to read Jason Whitlock 20 years ago when he was a black columnist for the Kansas City daily. He was left-of-center politically, but there something about him I liked and trusted and he finally got saw the light some years ago.

    This is upfront, in your face, nasty racism and lesbian butch bullying on a national scale sponsored by and condoned by a national professional sports league. It is pure thuggery shoved at the American people.

    Jason Whitlock has reacted furiously to Caitlin Clark’s Team USA Olympics snub, blaming ‘BLM-LGBTQIA+Silent P Alphabet Mafia bigots’ in a string of angry social media posts.

    News of Clark’s Paris rejection has sparked widespread shock across American sports but the conservative podcaster Whitlock went further on Saturday by accusing the gay community for the WNBA star’s absence.

    At first, Whitlock said he was pleased Clark would not compete in the upcoming Games, writing: ‘Am I the only one glad they left Caitlin Clark off the Olympic team? Now I don’t have to watch a bunch of angry, entitled feminists who hate America play hoops.’

    But the target of Whitlock’s anger soon moved away from patriotism when he wrote: ‘They/Thems Hate Cait. End of story.’

    He continued in a separate post: ‘Women’s basketball decision-makers are not dumb. They’ve been bullied by the BLM-LGBTQIA+Silent P Alphabet Mafia bigots.

    READ THE REST. 

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      when he was a black columnist

      Did he change color and that caused him to leave? Maybe to a chartreuse columnist?

    2. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Texpat in all aspects of our country there is an evil at work that wants to transform this country to their image. Disney has taken many popular IP’s (Star Wars and Marvel for example) and pasting the female form oh wait LGBTQ etc all over the stories and the properties are financially suffering. Instead of course changes of their actions they DOUBLE TRIPLE DOWN. It is a sight to behold. Same thing in Gaming. Woke agenda has infiltrated into all the gaming creator and the customer is walking away. Again Doubling Triple down. AND “they” blame the customer for at first asking for the old hero’s and stories, then demanding then voting with their wallet. These companies call the customers bigots etc because we do not buy what they are selling. Thi crap is not going away any time soon.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I did make it to Home Sweet Home.

    Slowly disintegrating in my chair.

    Aaaaaaaaah.

    1. Tedtam Avatar

      Home always feels good. Glad you had both a good and safe trip.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Longest Day is on.

    Never gets old.

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I commented to Texpat about astronaut William Anders and the fact died flying his own plane and went out doing what he loved to do. And remember, he took the Earthrise picture that changed everyone’s view of our world.
    Mornin’ Gang

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A Must Read… [CORRECTED WITH LINK]

    Hen Mazzig in Tel Aviv has a detailed account of how the hostage rescue in Gaza went down. It’s fascinating and remarkable for the extensive planning and training that went into this operation. The fact they lost only warrior is simply a miracle.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Got a link?

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    SO! How did Amazon know that I used my 10′ X 10′ Cabana at the beach? I went looking for an ink cartridge and this 10′ X 20′ monstrosity popped up.
    Says it weighs 70 Lbs but if they knew ho much I dislike carrying my 33 pounder down to the beach along with a beach chair and shovel they wouldn’t have bothered. 😉

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      If you think Amazon isn’t monitoring everyone’s social media with gigantic algorithms, well, you are missing the boat here. They don’t need Facebook’s help to pick up your mention there of being at Pensacola or the beach. It automatically drives ads directly to you.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Oh I know that, my wife gets ads seconds after she mentions anything about anything. Sometimes if she even thinks about something. I was just being a little sarcastic. FWIW; It was Panama City Beach.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My @ 8:03 AM I mentioned my Cabana and usually don’t use it when it’s just my wife and I, instead I put up my big patio umbrella but since my sister was coming I broke out the Cabana and used it every day. No need to have to de-sand both of them. Right now the Cabana and beach chairs are drying in the backyard after a thorough wash down with the hose.
    BTW; Those Cabana’s last 6-8 years and when they go south it’s only because the fine beach sand gums up the leg locking mechanisms. The metal frame and canvas top are still usable. No telling how long they’d last if you used them in the backyard or for tailgating. That said; using them at the beach consists of about 5 days, 3 times a year.

  38. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    You may not be interested by ole Sarge has a FB page called; “Bannerman’s Camp” Classic and Vintage Motor Camping Living History and he has his office fixed up like an old camping/hunting cabin.Here he is in his vintage outfit in his “Cabin”. BTW; he has about 1,100 members from all over the world.

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About Amazon, Google and FB monitoring everyone’s activities my wife and I often kid about what the Chinese monitors think about the two old crazy folks in Alabama and their shenanigans. 😉

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    David Strom is an excellent writer at HotAir and this story is quite a doozy. The diagnosis of the Woke sickness is so deep in the medical world, some influential members have Stage Four Psychosis.

    How Far Have Medical Journals Fallen ? This Far…

    Richard Horton is editor in chief of the preeminent medical journal, The Lancet. Richard seems to be on the verge of an emotional meltdown. There is no other reason a ranting diatribe like this would be published in the magazine.

    The prospects for this failing system look bleak. Donald Trump again as US President? The far right making electoral gains across Europe? Murderous political leaders able to act with impunity? Purveyors of disinformation, working under the rubric of The Geneva Project, who proclaim that, “We, people of the world, no longer abide by the tyrannical rule of unelected global officials and their vision of the future”? A collection of anti-vaxxers, right-wing activists, and conspiracy theorists gathered at the World Health Assembly on June 1 to declare their opposition to WHO’s efforts to negotiate a pandemic agreement. What is the cause of this breakdown of belief in an international community? There are many possible culprits. Racism. Populism. Nationalism. But I think it was Dr Ghada who identified one especially important root cause: the loss of our humanity. The system is failing because our humanity—our compassion towards each other—has been eroded and, in some instances, erased. We are numb to one another’s pain. We refuse to see the distress of our neighbour. We turn away from the misery of others. We seem to be hardly human anymore.

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I want to focus on these two quotes from the opinion rant by Richard Horton in The Lancet.

    We were meeting at a moment of catastrophe for Palestinians. The people of Gaza, most of whom have had nothing to do with Hamas or the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of Oct 7, 2023, are suffering a systematic attempt to destroy their lives and the health system that supports their lives. It is a human crisis—but also a crisis for humanity itself. Because why is this mass slaughter being permitted by the international community? 

    This is a disgusting hypocritical lie. Period. Over 70% of Gaza residents voted in Hamas and continue to support them in even higher numbers. The entire population of Gaza is complicit in October 7th.

    Purveyors of disinformation, working under the rubric of The Geneva Project, who proclaim that, “We, people of the world, no longer abide by the tyrannical rule of unelected global officials and their vision of the future”? A collection of anti-vaxxers, right-wing activists, and conspiracy theorists gathered at the World Health Assembly on June 1 to declare their opposition to WHO’s efforts to negotiate a pandemic agreement. What is the cause of this breakdown of belief in an international community? There are many possible culprits. Racism. Populism. Nationalism.

    Richard Horton is a moron, but a very dangerous one given his sphere of influence.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I believe that the cheese done slid off of Horton’s cracker. Not only has he laid an egg, now he is trying to hatch it.

  42. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Now this is weird and I’ve not seen it before.

    1959 Microwave Oven

    “In 45 seconds, this electronic surface unit will cook eggs. One cup of water boils in two minutes!

    The microwave tube that sends out cooking waves is directly below the fiberglass disk that holds the food to be cooked. The panel of switches on the wall will command the perforated hood to drop down and cover the disk. Cooking action starts only after the hood fits securely into groove around the disk, stops when the hood rises. The hood automatically goes up when the timer on the surface unit rings, stopping cooking action.”

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      That is scary looking. My late friend, Alan, genius electrical engineer, would warn me not to stand in front or near the microwave I have today. He said they are still not totally safe. What kind of stuff was radiating out of that contraption ?

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        In use the funnel came down and allegedly sealed against the metal ring around the fiberglass plate.I don’t know how effective it was but I do know that the C-Band (3.7-4.2 Ghz) RF energy couldn’t make it through those small holes. A C-Band wave guide is about 2″ X 3″.

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Noa Argamani, the Israeli hostage freed with three others in an audacious rescue operation by the Israel Border Police’s elite Yamam unit, was held captive in the family home of Gazan “civilians,” a report said on Sunday.

    Rami Abdul, the chairman of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said that the organization’s initial evidence showed the Israeli special forces used a ladder to enter the home of Dr. Ahmed Al-Jamal and his family.

    Several of the family members were killed during the operation, Abdul said, including 36-year-old Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah Al-Jamal. Al-Jamal was also identified as a staff writer for the U.S. outlet The Palestine Chronicle. Al-Jamal’s wife was also killed during the rescue mission.

    Meanwhile, Imran Khan, a senior correspondent on Al Jazeera‘s English channel published an Instagram post distancing the network from Al-Jamal, saying he was a freelancer in the past. Khan wrote, “The individual in question who was killed in the raid along with his family was, at one point, a freelance journalist. He has never worked for Al Jazeera Arabic or English.”

    Imran Khan is a world-class liar.

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Yamam is Israel’s counterterrorism unit. Commander Arnon Zamora was killed in the rescue of Noa Argamani in Gaza. Thankfully, he was the only casualty. Israel is commemorating him on the level of Yoni Netanyahu, Entebbe hero.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    From the Sunday C&C…

    The study measured antibody responses and mortality in jabbed and unjabbed patients hospitalized with severe covid and acute respiratory failure at Ohio State University hospitals between May 2020 and November 2022.

    The researchers found that among covid patients, mortality was significantly higher in vaccinated patients (70%) compared to unvaccinated patients (37%), even after adjusting for comorbidities. Even more fascinating, they found the vaccinated patients had higher total IgG4 antibody levels, suggesting jabbed people develop an improper immune tolerance allowing spike protein to run wild.

    We’ve discussed the IgG4 problem before. These antibodies are a normal but unusual part of the immune system that usually activates in response to allergens, where the body tries to stop an immune over-response by ignoring a particular foreign protein, like pollen. In this case, the allergen is probably mRNA-induced spike protein.

    The study’s starkly concluded that jabs make covid worse:

  46. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Back home from the trip to Wisconsin to see spouse’s brother and wife. Travel however was not pleasant coming home however, with a 3-hour and then some delay at Green Bay to fetch another plane to take the place of the original plane that was taken out of service. No reason given of course.

    We finally get to O’Hare near Chicago and wait again, this time nearly 4 hours or so. The original wait there had been 2 hours to allow lots of time getting there from Green Bay. We got there with lots of time to spare.

    Well, that long wait time was likely caused by the idiot/dingbat elsewhere seeking fame a few days earlier having lodged himself on board a plane in another state and refusing to leave, causing a real mess until finally removed by the police.

    The staff at O’Hare did not say exactly why we had the wait but gave enough info to connect the two happenings. There must have been some time devoted to get the guy out by persuasion before the police removed him. As huge a place as O’Hare is, there must have been lots of shuffling of departures for the whole airport.

    The captain on our plane was standing at the door while passengers were leaving. In passing I told him I thought the trip was very well done. He smiled and said, “Thank You.”

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Indeed; it was the year I was born.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      It’s funny to think I was 7 years old and we all thought those cars were perfectly normal.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        They were. 😉

    3. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Nice fins. I wonder if i can get those on my highlander?

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        You have a Highlander? I thought that you had a Tacoma Pickup. The Highlander looks like an SUV to me.

        1. bsue54 Avatar

          We do have a Highlander… Once upon a time, we had a Tundra. It was the last year before they hyper-inflated those puppies… I remember someone pulling in next to me in one of the new Tundras in the garage at MH-Hermann one day and I felt like I was in a toy truck… The original Tundras were about the size of a Tacoma, and ours had the “little back seat”

  47. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just ordered this for Daughter, personalized BTW;
    Legends of Texas by Frank Dobie

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Real snakes on the plane ! Real story.

    My next door neighbor is a retired captain, US Army and was the senior logistics officer in Kuwait for supply lines into Iraq and Afghanistan. He went to work as logistics exec for a privately owned commercial electrical contractor in NY before he took this recent job as logistics director at Newark’s Liberty International Airport. He was dragged into the middle of this absurd episode.

    Sometime this week, a plane inbound to Newark discovered a rattlesnake onboard. It was probably the quickest deboarding in years. Airline security personnel were told to not let their eyes off the snake. Airport police, Homeland Security, the FAA and NTSB all got involved in the biggest bureaucratic sh*tstorm in recent memory. The airport police and Homeland security people were too scared to board the plane. What a bunch of sissies.

    They finally got a wildlife removal guy there but the person charged with keeping eyes in the snake walked off and then they couldn’t find the snake. The Air Canada flight crew agreed to fly the plane back to Canada where the airline said they were going to dismantle the $90 million aircraft.

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If this Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling stands, the real manure will hit the Westinghouse. They stated in this opinion that the mRNA “vaccines” are not real vaccines. Got that ?

    If the courts say the Covid shots were not vaccines then I don’t see how any of the federal exemptions for liabilities can survive a serious legal challenge. It may also indicate massive fraud by Pfizer, Moderna, etc.

    Plaintiffs argue that what’s commonly known as the COVID-19 vaccine isn’t a vaccine at all (because it doesn’t prevent transmission), but is a therapeutic, so it cannot be mandated by law.

    At the U.S. District Court level, a judge ruled that a 1905 Supreme Court ruling (Jacobson v. Massachusetts) related to mandatory smallpox vaccination allowed the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

    The 9th Circuit panel ruled that, taking the Plaintiff’s pleadings as true (which they must at this point in the proceedings), Jacobson does not apply and that employees cannot be forced to receive “treatment” they don’t want to receive.

    The ruling rejected LAUSD’s claim that the suit is moot since the district had rescinded its mandate two weeks after oral arguments in this appeal went very poorly for the district, and gave a detailed timeline of LAUSD’s continued attempts to manipulate the legal proceedings.

    1. Tedtam Avatar

      What the C&C brought up. You’re right. Ponchos and umbrellas won’t be enough to protect certain folks from smelling like Bessie’s stall.

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    GJT

    Anyone know what might have been going on late last night in College Station? We were coning in from a race in Giddings on 290 about 1:30AM and as we came up to Hwy 6 southbound traffic merging in, cars were bumper to bumper for as far as you could see. Looks like there may have been a baseball game last night, but 1:30 in the morning?

  51. Tedtam Avatar

    Magister (my Latin teacher) brought me home after Mass today, so that saved Hubby a trip. I went ahead and gardened, getting all sweaty just watering outside. I was going to treadmill, but the back is tightening up on me. I’ll see how I feel later. I laid down to rest the back, and the fact that I woke up around 2:30 last night and didn’t sleep well after hit me. So, now that I’m awake again…

  52. Tedtam Avatar

    It seems everyone is taking the night off. Y’all have a good evening and enjoy your down time! My back is bothering me and I may have to lay down again….

  53. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The capacity of my hatred for the worldwide news media is expanding exponentially each day. It is a metaphysical phenomena.

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    Texpat

    IT’S ABOUT BRINGING AMERICA DOWN, NOT RAISING UP THE PALESTINIANS: If anybody with a brain and a pulse remains who doesn’t know the “Pro-Palestinian” movement is actually all about being anti-America, they should check this out:

    “The people of Palestine have called for this movement to escalate its pressure. We are here to answer that call and help this movement ESCALATE. We want this movement to break out of the confines of universities, to spread throughout society, paralyzing the economy that is driving the genocide of the Palestinian people, and has made all of us complicit in decades of colonial war.”

    That quote from one of movement’s front-groups is in the fourth installment of Richard Pollock’s deep-dive into the leadership, the tactics and the ultimate aims of the radical Left leaders of the Pro-Palestinian movement. Pollock is the former New Leftist who trained legions of his comrades using Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” He knows whereof he speaks.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Dang more required reading but I’ll have to check it out tomorrow.

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