My Latin teacher, aka “Magister,” sent us this link. I can only imagine the logistics involved. I guess the livestock was the original MRE. Since there wasn’t any canning back then, they’d have to take live animals in order to have fresh food. Something I hadn’t thought about before.
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I didn’t know that. 😉
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I guess the livestock was the original MRE.
On ships it could be turtles since they could go for days without food or water.
Well, I’ll be mowing today and after 12 days it’s not nearly as bad as I’d have thought.8 days away puts a dent in the mowing schedule.
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Regarding the last post last night about pro palestinian/anti-American: It seems to me that those 2 positions are consistently held by the same people: those on the left side of the spectrum. Interestingly enough, they are also anti Christian/observant Jew and fervent antigorebullwarmongering, anti-growth, pro BLM, antifa and are basically nothing but sand in the gears of humanity. They are parasites, termites to the structure of western civilization, and as detestable as turds in the punchbowl of life.
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In case anyone missed my rattlesnake story from yesterday.
Real snakes on the plane ! True 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.
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The headline history video is great stuff, Tedtam.
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You really have to watch the videos Corey DeAngelis posted from the Texas Democratic Convention this past weekend. Ready made TV commercials for the Texas GOP. Wild !
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This is a post on X by an Israeli going by the name of Imshin. He follows and reposts social media postings by residents of Gaza. This group of four illustrates the part of Gaza where the hostages were held by the family of a wealthy doctor. Take a look at the vast offerings in a very modern supermarket and mall and consider all the media reports of Palestinians living in abject poverty with no food.
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I am going to assume that everyone has heard about the extensive tunnel network on the Gaza/Egypt border. Some of those tunnels were big enough to drive a semi through. Now consider how much pressure Bidet put on Israel NOT to enter Rafah. The government of Egypt knew the tunnels were there as did the USA, and neither wanted the embarrassment of their existence to become public knowledge. I find it interesting that the LSM has chosen to let this particular issue fall down the memory hole. I would like to hear the explanation from both the govt of Egypt and USA about why the resistance to invading Rafah; the plethora of lies coming from such an explanation would be both amusing and enraging.
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Super Dave #1.5 Now ya know
Shannon #! Thanks for the heads up
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I finished this morning’s rosary. I didn’t think I was gonna like it much, but I found a combination that allowed me to use some big purple beads that have been hanging around looking for a home. Once I got it done, I realized I liked it better than I thought I would. I guess it all comes together when it’s for the benefit of the Lord. 😀
I texted a pic and a greeting to Lovely Daughter, who informed me that Little Prince has been running a fever. Adding LP, LD, and Aggie Beau to my prayers (more) today. I’m sure it’s been a rough weekend.
Now I have to decide: is my back well enough to treadmill? It wasn’t last night, and I should have taken a muscle relaxant. I may have to today, but even if I cut those suckers in half, they are still nap-inducing. I guess I should at least harvest the garden and pray my rosary first.
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https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=58442 ? The mother of all hacks.
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Quite the hack right there. What ever they attacked would be likened to attacking bluehost on our level. Way more than what i control. While I valiumly do all that is possible to protect our little piece of heaven, reality is we will always be one step behind the bad guys. If something like that happened to us the most they could get is our username and passwords in addition to all our recipes.
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Not our recipes!!
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Well, Dave’s menus, anyway.
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I’ve always wondered why our little corner of the ‘net gets so much attention. Do these bots just attack every url? Or are we more “special” than I think we are?
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Good morning C&C, it’s Monday! Your roundup-from-the-road this morning includes: Maryland transforms the standard of feminine beauty; New York Times double op-ed shatters narratives, and it’s great progress, but was it legit or just a limited hangout?; and French President Macron suddenly and unexpectedly dissolves the government, hoping to assemble a better one — and it might be another terrific sign.
Mr. C mentions that the purple haird, nose pierced censors at Facebook have taken him down twice recently, and he may be sent to FB jail for a while. Despite Mr. C.’s legal acumen, I don’t think the wardens at FB jail operate under the usual rules. Or any rules, really.
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I mentioned last week i have several trees that have a bunch of spider type webbing all over them. A little search showed they are web worms. Simultaneously, we have been dealing with a ton of these caterpillar like things all over our porch, about an inch long, white. Guess what? Web worms lol. It appears there is a record infestation of them around the area this year.
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I’ve been fighting those critters since the beginning of the season. Record amounts of those guys and other caterpillars this year. The whole neighborhood here has been annoyed by them. It’s given me shuddering flashbacks of the summer in my childhood when the army worms were so bad they covered the side of my house, and it was impossible to walk without squishing them unless very intense concentration was used. Since I’m a squiisher-puker, I had to really focus when I ventured outside. So gross.
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Has anybody else noticed how bad the house fly crop is this year? It is the worst in my memory.
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Yes. YES, YES, YES. They are really bad. I have fly spray, fly paper, fly window traps, and a bottle of soapy water handy and out. I thought it was just me. I think they come in whenever I go in and out of the house, since I’ve seen them in the back yard. I’ve never seen house flies on my garden plants – until this year.
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Caution: prepare for gag reflex! Maryland selects a man to be their entry to a national womens’ beauty pageant:
This year’s pageant saw an intensely competitive field. Lots of lovely ladies tried out, each vying for the top scores in poise, beauty, and most of all, femininity. Last Thursday, out of all the beautiful women who competed, the Miss Maryland USA Pageant crowned the very best man as Miss Maryland.
And having earned his crown, he vows to use his new title to help achieve world peace.
Bailey Ann lives the way he imagines a woman would, and according to Bailey’s social media accounts, is also connected in several key ways to our U.S. military. Bailey claims to be married to an active-duty Marine, and works for (or with) the USO, of course, the DOD’s troop morale-boosting department.
Doing exactly what to boost the troops’ morale is left to one’s imagination, since Bailey’s Instagram does not explain.
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Mr. C both laments and celebrates the fact that the media is slowly, slowly moving in a direction that allows actual discussion on the WLR scandal/s. Yet, despite the slowly-being-revealed evidence, there are many examples of the pushback from the “I’ll blindly follow the government off a cliff” folks.
His eventual response to the lengthy discussion:
If politics is downstream from culture, then to fix politics, we must first fix the culture. Even if fixing culture is vexingly difficult, the phenomenon is well known. In 1841, in his seminal book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” Charles Mackay famously noted, “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
If covid isn’t an extraordinary popular delusion, then I am a spicy pepperoni Hot Pocket. For whatever reason, good or bad, limited hangout or genuine contrition, the New York Times seems to be slowly recovering its senses. And I’m counting that as progress.
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Imshin with a dog rescue story in Gaza where dogs are frequently abused. This has a very happy ending thanks to a persistent IDF soldier.
Over the years I’ve been watching Gaza, I’ve seen a fair share of dogs and other animals being abused there. This IDF reservist was initially not allowed by an officer to rescue this sweet dog and take her home, but eventually managed to save her. Look how happy she is now.
He says thay most of the dogs are living in packs and managing to survive, but this one was just too traumatized.
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I watched a video where Muslims had captured a huge number of stray dogs and one of them was going down the line, injecting acid into each pup. A horrible way to die. Muhammed was one sick wisstard. When he declared dogs “unclean,” he was keeping his people from the benefits of loyal friends.
I’m really happy when I hear it’s a canine unit that helps capture one of those terrorists.
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Buried in the comments regarding the Maryland beauty pageant:
About fifteen years ago I was in a meeting with a group of engineers called by the project manager (a female). Somehow the topic of our wives came up (all stay at home moms by coincidence) and the project manager stated, “wait a minute, none of your wives work?” We each acknowledged it. “My husband never gave me a choice” she responded wistfully.
We all made good incomes but none of us were comfortable. We had made sacrifices to live on one paycheck because we valued having our wives raise our kids more than we valued what those dollars would buy us. And by God’s grace we all married women on the same wavelength.
In some situations this just isn’t possible for whatever reason. But often it is possible, particularly when one factors in that the second income comes along with significant added expenses (child care, auto/gas costs. wardrobe, etc.). But people have been conditioned to think happiness comes in material possessions rather than the joy of raising a family. Couple that with the brainwashing women receive that they aren’t complete without a “career” (no one just has a job anymore) and it’s a forgone conclusion for many that the parents won’t actually raise their own kids. Just like that program manager’s husband.
My wife has a science degree and worked in industry until she was pregnant with our first. She was a stay at home mom for eighteen years, and in that time we got used to living on less than we had before. She’s now working part-time at a biblical Christian high school as a science teacher, but her salary is a pittance. She’s there because we believe in the school and they needed someone, and we are blessed that we are doing well on just my salary (after two decades of living frugally it becomes a habit). She’s a missionary in my opinion, as she works far, far harder than what she gets paid, but she gets to show the love of Jesus in doing so. Neither of us would change a thing.
When my son was about five years old, I was blessed to be able to work from home, supporting my husband who was working his butt off to support us. Being the mother of both a gifted and a learning disabled child, I had quite a few days on the emotional see-saw. It was challenging to be what each needed – a cheerleader for one, and protector and encourager of the other. Trying to give to each what each needed for optimal emotional and educational growth was a challenge.
No way working a 40+ hour/week job in an office far from my kids would have allowed me to be there for field trips, sporting events, teacher support events, or allllllllllllllllllllllll of those ARD meetings for my son. On top of that, there was the at-home speech therapy and extra homework tutoring I gave my son.
I gave up a very well-paying career to do this. Hubby was encouraging (and grateful) that I came home. He could trust me with his accounts, and he realized the value of having an at-home wife was for the family. We’ve had a lot of discussions about those twenty years of child-raising: the budgeting, the frugality it required, the importance of being there for the kids, and we both marveled at how well our kids have blossomed into great adults.
I would not have traded it for the world. I’m grateful that I was in a position where it was an easier decision to do this than most women face. Many women struggle with the question of “Should I?” and the ramifications of each side of that decision. I was lucky, that the decision in our family was relatively easy.
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Interesting comment. Not discounting what was said above about lowering your standard of living, but I’m not convinced it’s all that feasible in today’s terms in the absence of external financial assistance. Take an example of a current day young guy, making $20-25 / hour where he is the sole income. Just did some quick, back of the napkin math and I could see where it’s possible without a kid. Throw a baby into the mix and you’re likely going to have a pretty hard time of it, even living a sparse existence. More and more intelligent young people are figuring this out and opting to not have kids. The less intelligent will continue to breed like rabbits. Declining birth rates among intelligent young people is not a sign of a healthy society. Lecture young people who are in that situation about it and they’ll likely extend the middle finger in your direction, and who could blame them? Watch the movie ‘Idiocracy’ if you get a chance. It’s kind of funny, but more not, if you get my drift.
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I’ve always said that kids should ingest their weight in dirt by the time they’re five years old to have a strong immune system:
https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-grew-forests-and-it-changed-kids-immune-systems
h/t CFP
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As the kids play in the dirt they are also electrically grounding. There are studies that indicate that frequent grounding (bare feet on grass – wet is better) improves the immune system and leads to better health overall. This is not an either/or situation: both the grounding and simply being outside playing in the dirt are beneficial.
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I grew up barefoot most of the time. I can tell now, even as an adult, that I feel better when I have some skin contact with the ground. Even a few minutes helps to destress me.
Unless I’m standing in one of our very many ant beds. Then, not so much.
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I’m out to check on some subcontractors. I’ll be back later.
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Mike Rowe is putting out a documentary.
As promised, here’s a trailer for the movie I’ve been threatening to make. It’s called “Something to Stand For,” and it’s a series of loosely connected stories about a few extraordinary Americans, told in the style of the late, great Paul Harvey. It might make a lot of Americans who share my concern about the collapse of patriotism feel better about the country we call home, and the people who paid the ultimate price defending. It’ll be in theaters June 27th, through Independence Day. See you on the big screen!
Worth standing in line for. Love Mike Rowe.
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Tedtam, in regards to Guys in beauty pageants.
This was my reply to Texpat when he and i were talking about the obese Miss Alabama winner.
In reply to Texpat.
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 posting the female form oh wait LGBTQ etc all over the stories and the properties. Once successful IP’s (Intellectual Properties) are financially suffering. Instead of course changes of their actions Disney DOUBLE TRIPLE DOWN on the woke message. 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 who at first asked for the old hero character’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. This crap is not going away any time soon.
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Tedtam.
Do these bots just attack every url?
Yup that is what they do. Remember that BOT attacks are human driven. The reasons are as varied as some people are anarchist, others egotistical and do for bragging rights, for others there is money in it. Then you got governmental hackers paid for by the like of Russia, China, NORKS and even the good ol USA. Their purpose is to attack free speech, cause confusion bring down infrastructure. Attack everything you are gonna hit a big fish in the net somewhere.
Spammers get paid for their defacements and what keeps them in business is idiots purchase from them. Then you have the guys that spread FUD for personal & political reasons.
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This just makes my blood boil. Yeah, take my daughter, put her through a health endangering, soul killing, morally reprehensible procedure in such a way that parents have no idea it’s happening. On top of that, if the girl comes home with a life changing health condition, the parents are then responsible for that care.
Heads. Should. Roll. ™
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1800154104200626538/video/4
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Is fat Fani Willis going to be disbarred?
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No, if course not! Disbarment is the least of what she has coming to her but she’ll use her “Race Card” to skate on it. ~SPITS~
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I’m talking about within the next 18 months or so, not the afterlife.
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Just caught a video of Karens doing what Karens do. I’m thinking about creating a flip book of statements that can be used when attacked by a Karen. Instead of engaging the madness, just flip through the book until you find a quote that fits.
Some ideas:
“Honey, you’re just not pretty enough to treat people like that.” (I actually got that from an internet story, but it’s possibly the best comeback I’ve ever seen for a Karen event.)
“Do you have a real issue, or just an overwhelming desire to control people?”
“Do you have a real issue, or just an overwhelming desire to dominate people?”
“I’m sorry, but your volume is so distracting I can’t hear a single word you’re saying.”
“I know adulting is hard, but it’s a great skill to acquire. Please try harder.”
“You are just not that important. Good-bye.”
“An apology has been offered. Please be an adult and accept it.”
“My two year old had better anger management than you.”
“I checked the sky, and the universe does not, in fact, revolve around you.”
“You need a nap. It’s obvious carrying all of that anger is making you cranky.”
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#3, 5, 7, 9 are definitely flash cards I would include
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Your list did not include:
F-off and die
go suck start a shotgun
go play in the freeway.
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I thought that Abbe Lowell was supposed to be the best defense lawyer around. Apparently, he forgot the most important rule: never ask a question that you do not already know the answer.
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KHOU reporting that the new BUC-ees opened today in Luling (the original location).
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Only 120 pumps ? When Her Highness and I were in Texas back in 2016 or 2017, the brand new Buc-EE’s in New Braunfels had 144 pumps.
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Well, pulled a ribeye out of the freezer earlier, got the Weber hot and now it’s raining. We will persevere!
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Got the steak done in the rain, pulled it off now sun is out. First world prollems.
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Found a video made for that VW Hwy 67 road trip through Texas. It’s about an hour long, I skipped through it and found the Texas Monthly reporter about 40 minutes in. It looks like everyone had a good time.
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Rocky Racoon came up into the backyard to get some leftovers earlier and now I see the motion light on at the Tractor Shed so he must be heading down the Whispering Pines Trail. 😉
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