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Weekend Linguistic Corruption Wars – Commentary

Wenyuan Wu, Ph.D

Wenyuan Wu holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami and is the Executive Director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation. She previously served in the same capacity for the historic No on 16 Campaign. Dr. Wu has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, National Review, NBC News, ABC News, NPR, Quartz, Ed Source, College Fix and others. She writes for Minding the Campus of the National Association of Scholars and sits on the board of Parents Defending Education Action. 

Linguistic White Supremacy: The Left’s New Crusade Against the English Language

Cue the perennial abuse of “white supremacy.” The phrase’s original meaning of a belief system that White people are inherently superior to other races is now completely coopted with shapeshifting and ever-expanding connotations. Objectivity, a sense of urgency, perfectionism, and written words are characteristics of white supremacy culture. Getting married, like structural racism, bolsters white supremacy. Even soap dispensers perpetuate white supremacy.

The U.S. academia has now concocted an absurd proposition that speaking and writing proper English is a form of white supremacy. The term is “Linguistic White Supremacy(LWS)” or “White Language Supremacy (WLS),” depending on where you look.

and this as well,

CCC goes on to outline the characteristics of WLS as “habits of white language,” including: “individualism,” “stance of neutrality, objectivity, and apoliticality,” “rational, controlled self,” “rule-governed, contractual relationships,” “clarity, order, and control.” In other words, good virtues and values, with roots in the Age of the Enlightenment, are just learned habits of white supremacists.

CCC goes on to outline the characteristics of WLS as “habits of white language,” including: “individualism,” “stance of neutrality, objectivity, and apoliticality,” “rational, controlled self,” “rule-governed, contractual relationships,” “clarity, order, and control.” In other words, good virtues and values, with roots in the Age of the Enlightenment, are just learned habits of white supremacists.

The late, great Walter Williams exhorted Americans to demolish all the Education Departments on campuses nationwide and turn them into rubble.

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122 responses to “Weekend Linguistic Corruption Wars – Commentary”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And why is that important you axe? I rest my case. ~SIGH~
    It’s Saturday! Up and at em.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Houston, we have a problem. 😉
    Notice the smoke in the Wago connector.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; I caught a glimpse of the Maryland Carpetbagger on the national news saying something about investigating Houston Looting and Pillaging for not taking care of the power lines and their infrastructure. So is Beryl much like Ike in uncovering the lack of maintenance on the power lines. Deja Vu all over again?

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texas and Harris County are in Good Hands. 😀

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    8:41 AM and Graveyard Dead! Am I good or what?
    Cooking down my figs to make preserves, smelling good in the kitchen right now. 😉

  6. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    I’m awake and was accompanied by the Short Dawgie but she decided there wasn’t anything of interest to her happening so she went back to bed… But we DO have power not coming from our stand-by genny, so that’s progress, I suppose… But there is a dog outside barking a “one note samba” that is about to drive me crazy…

  7. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Write up to visit with Little Prince who just loves to jump. He was in his jumper just giving those legs a workout.

    Olympian athlete or basketball player. We’ll just see.

    But his face lights up when he sees me. That just makes my day.

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We’ll, this makes me want to run right out and buy right now.
    https://x.com/OldRowOfficial/status/1811483001962004879

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      4XL?! didn’t know they came they big. Reminds me of Jeans by Coleman back in the day. 😀

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I didn’t know there was some standard metric for measuring damages from a category 1 hurricane. So every cat 1 storm is supposed to inflict the same exact destruction and power outages ? That is a really stupid statement, Dan.

    What about Tropical Storm Allison in June, 2001 ? It wasn’t even a hurricane and sometimes it weakened to Subtropical status. How about the 35″ of rain in five days that fell northeast of downtown Houston back then and the 38″ that hit the Port of Houston ?

    I’ve never seen a utility company in my life with a decent, responsive customer service department. Monopolies and semi-monopolies don’t attract the kind of people who create excellent customer relations. If they are whining now about Centerpoint, then they forgot or are too young to have experienced post-hurricane Houston Lighting & Power decades ago when they were a true monopoly.

    Texas Scorecard report:

    While over a million Texans have been left without power for days after Hurricane Beryl, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is highlighting questions for electricity distributor CenterPoint, which he and the Senate will seek answers to.

    Patrick posted on X, “For various reasons, the storm had a heavier impact than most CAT 1 storms. Trees were knocked down everywhere, often taking power lines with them. Texans understand that.”

    However, Patrick stated that with continued power outages following Hurricane Beryl, there are around a million homes and businesses, nine fire stations, and seniors in assisted living and nursing homes without power.

  10. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    I don’t know if there was any truth to it, back then with TS Allison, but I seem to remember what may have been an urban myth – that “they” turned off the power in Houston before the flood waters got too deep because there would have been more damage to “infrastructure” if the water knocked out the power “because the heat would have made the system suck water into the lines”…

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      During Allison, some other guys and I were organizing triplex and centrifugal pump skids to take down to the Medical Center to help pump out all those 3 and 4 story underground parking garages. There were lots of totaled vehicles down there. Coming up with the gensets for power and enough hoses to carry the water away was the hard part. There was no point in pumping water out just so it would run back in.

      The worst part of all were the idiot architects and engineers who placed huge, expensive standby generators at the bottom of the parking garages or on a concrete pad 4″ above the street curb level. They were almost all ruined. Go down to the TMC today and see all the standby generators on stilts.

      1. bsue54 Avatar
        bsue54

        there were some (the garages at Methodist & St Lukes TMC come to mind) where they placed generators on the 2 floor of the parking garage AFTER that expensive lesson…

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just heard my first ping. 😉 Man that’ll take you back.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Federal court in Texas eviscerates Biden’s Title IX rule which would force schools to accommodate boys (who identify as girls) into girls’ sports, showers & locker rooms.

    Perhaps the most incredible part of this opinion is how the government lawyers described the concerns of school age girls who don’t wish to dress & undress with boys as “niche.”

    The government literally argued that it’s wrong for a trans kid to feel uncomfortable in a locker room, but if a non-trans kid feels uncomfortable? Well, that’s a rather niche issue. Amazing!

    (The court unsurprisingly rejected this argument.)

    The court also recognized the obvious – that Biden’s proposed executive re-write of Title IX impermissibly grants special privileges to kids who identify as trans.

    Alliance Defending Freedom argued the case for Carroll ISD. The Biden DOJ brought in a hotshot young lawyer who previously clerked for ACB. Unfortunately for Biden but fortunately for us, the proposed rule is so nonsensical that no argument could save it.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Spotted on the Alabama Power Co page over yonder; Thank you Alabama. 😉

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is the way Dems build conservative majorities.

    Biden & Mayorkas dump 20,000 Haitian refugees on the small city of Springfield, Ohio, population 58,000.

    “We do not have the capacity to sustain that, it’s taxing our infrastructure, it’s taxing public safety, it’s taxing our schools, it’s taxing healthcare, and taxing our housing.”

    This is exactly what we mean when we say, they are replacing citizens in real time. I don’t just believe we need to vote these people out, I believe we need to charge them with treason for enabling the invasion of the United States.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I read that out to Aggie Beau last night. I pray that this translates into votes against Biden… Enough to overcome the steal.

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I really think that treason is the appropriate term. They are actively trying to destroy our country using illegal means. Why import a bunch of peasants that overtax the social safety nets and make them crash unless you want that to happen to the whole country? These leftist scum need to be removed from society with extreme prejudice.

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Doug in Exile thinks that they are going to attempt to put Big Mike Obama on the ticket and replace Joe The Dip$#!t Bidet at the convention.

  16. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    This is the way Dems build conservative majorities. Biden & Mayorkas dump 20,000 Haitian refugees on the small city of Springfield

    the Kenyan’s promise was to fundamentally deform what was once was the greatest country on earth and he’s almost there with a lot of help from his joined@thehipparty friends.

    the answer is for red states to immediately secede from a federal government that is waging war on its citizenry and own country.

    all they do is tax, use replace and serially abuse us on every level.

  17. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Yo unckunck.
    before I forget again.

    happy belated birthday.
    you still look pretty good for 96.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: ANYWAY. . .

    So this was the week Joe Biden and the Democratic machine, looking for a squirrel, any squirrel, discovered Project 2025, which—horror of horrors!—proposes conservative ideas for America. Ideas like sound fiscal policy, strong national defense, family values, lower taxes, less regulation, back to basics education, etc. In other words, for the left, a climate of hate. As Joe Biden might say, anyway. . . Now back to President Chauncey Gardner, Vice President Trump, and Ukrainian President Putin.

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Chauncey was simple and nice.

      the wooden dummy is his doppelgänger in service of the Kenyan’s satanic majesties request.

    2. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Project 2025 is a pie in the sky wish list of how things oughta be sort of but never will be. We ain’t returning to better days and even if Trump get’s elected we might see a couple of good years soon to return after the next democrat is elected.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Amen! Most people now days aren’t aware of how much the Federal Government does that is totally unconstitutional. Sadly we can never go back short of a revolution and that ain’t gonna’ happen. It all started with the income tax. That began the career politician. ~SPITS~

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I did not pray for patience this morning and I am getting EVERY opportunity to practice it.
    I hate:

    1. Medicare
    2. Humana
    3. Centerwell Pharmacy

    I miss the old days when you could speak directly with a pharmacist and not some customer service rep that HAS TO WORK OFF A SCRIPT. I got no answers to any of my questions. Yelling (which I did not do) at the customer service rep does no good.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      One thing about Wellcare is there is a hotline to speak to a licensed pharmacist anytime. I’ve never had the need to do so.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Oh I can talk to a pharmacist but it P A I N F U L to get through to them. L O N G wait times. You can be cued for them to call back again long wait time.

  20. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Same for centerpoint.
    in a disaster they need an actual person you can talk to.
    that’s a basic 101 principal of disaster recovery planning.
    cost shouldn’t matter.

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    WIP; Kamala Harris has the lowest approval rating of any VP since polls began and that’s after Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face. 😀

  22. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    i was reading some comments on SCW website and a few were blaming all these woes on Texas being a ‘one party’ state.

    the demoncrats have had control of Houston for 32 years.
    but I guess they aren’t culpable for any of this mess

    that little tidbit of info is lost on the Lina hildago following faithful sheep.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      What is SCW ?

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I got my preserves done,…..picked some more figs,….HOT out there,…. well anyway,… 😀

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      So how many jars can I order? 🙂

    2. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      Every time I see someone mention preserves, I smile and think of one of my trips to Abilene to visit Mama and Daddy – when we went to his aunt’s place out at Clyde and picked a BUNCH of pears. When I got back to Houston I proceeded to follow the directions Mama’d given me to make pear preserves. As I was cooking them, I called her and asked when I would know they were done – and was assured that I needed to “boil them til they turned red…” I boiled’m til the cows came home, and decided I’d have to be satisfied with pink preserves because that’s as dark as I could get them, not understanding that she meant when they changed from ‘white-ish’ to ‘red-ish’ not RED… I coulda used that first batch for roofing tar, if I coulda gotten the spoon out after I stuck it into the jar…

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Speaking of Medicare…………. Humana/Centerwell is doing all they can do to implement “in home care” with me.I get calls lot’s of them from Humwell to schedule me for an in home evaluation etc. I told “them” that I just got my annual poking and prodding from MY PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR and I do not want or need their services in my home.

    Their reply is they do this to help my doctor.
    NO THE REASON THEY WANT TO DO THAT IS TO FULLY TAKE CONTROL OF WHAT THEY DEEM ARE MY HEALTH CARE NEEDS.
    I have been arguing with them as to why I need certain medications. At the moment they relent but not without several emails telling me alternatives to what my doctor prescribed and of course life style changes etc.

    Take heed cause all this is coming for you too.

    I am posting this so that later I can point to it and say I told you so.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      My supplemental Medicare policy is with Mutual of Omaha. AMAC did the analysis and recommended them for me when I began Medicare. They don’t bother me and they have covered a fortune in billings. No complaints and praise is due.

      My prescription drug plan, Wellcare (formerly Aetna) is another story. They are completely unrelated to Mutual of Omaha. While they have been great on covering everything with virtually zero copay, they are constantly trying to sell me on their Medicare Advantage Plan which I do not want. I occasionally take their calls to humor them because I want them to keep covering my scripts.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        BSue and I are discussing changing to another plan. I will seriously consider your appraisal.

  25. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    File this under – Wow I did not know that.
    An hour worth your time.

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I think i need to replace the banana republic flag with the
    Texas Brown’s Flag of Independence 1835
    In fact I am thinking of replacing the flag header with 5 or 6 from the Texas revolution collection of flags.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I like it.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Ya want the flag to replace the banana or the whole new header image>

  27. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Your government and you.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Watch this very cool 5 minute video. It makes thing very real. They are soldiers so there is unsurprising profanity.

    We talked to some members of the Israel Defense Forces Egoz unit, an elite commando unit specializing in guerrilla warfare, special reconnaissance, and fighting in complex terrains.

    We asked them about going into Gaza after Oct. 7, near-death experiences, and staying sane when you’re a 24-year-old with your friends’ lives in your hands.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The whole squabble about Project 2025 is silly. Trump should have just not said anything about it. The Heritage Foundation writes up a similar plan during every presidential campaign season. They’ve done it for decades. Some of the ideas get adopted, some get defeated and some get ignored. It’s all a bunch of smoke with no fire.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Trump had to have picked his VP days ago to give them time write and practice their speech before the convention starting Monday. I suspect if you were in contention and didn’t get a call from DT a week ago, you know you’re not it.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk @ 1:00 PM

    I don’t know why, but Squawk’s flag video shows up on my iPhone and does not appear on my computer. Weird.

  32. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat
    Here is the flag video link

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess the campaign is starting.

  34. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Trump taken off stage as 8 shots reportedly shot at a rally in Florida

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Butler, PA?

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      I sit corrected – someone initially said Florida

  36. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Newsmax TV Trump taken off stage after shots fired

  37. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Fox News Trump rushed offstage by secret service

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    National News has the story now

  39. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Trump grabbed his ear when the shots were fired. Saw a picture of him with blood coming from his ear

  40. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    See his ear. DEFIANT TRUMP

  41. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    what are the Vegas odds on it being a deep state-war machine-fed recruited psycho?

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A print of Dimmit’s Goliad Flag will complete my collection.
    maybe.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “Fight, fight, fight!” screamed the wounded President Trump.

  44. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Give the propagandist media a huge assist in this assassination attempt.

    they need to be asked the same question they asked President Trump about Charlottesville.

    will you, mr potato head networks, take responsibility for this assassination attempt?

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The SWAT rifleman in front screamed, “The shooter is down,“ to the agents surrounding the downed President.”

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m not certain that the VEEP choice has known for a week. Hard to believe such a secret could be kept that long.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The guy that won the job called me last night.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Okay, the alternative scenario is Trump told all 27 possible VPs to write an acceptance speech weeks ago and practice everyday. That’s the ticket….

  47. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” President Biden is heard telling supporters in a recent conversation.

    will the wooden dummy or the creature from the Kenyan lagoon take responsibility for inciting this violence and assassination attempt with their endless vilolent rhetoric?

    https://www.nysun.com/article/biden-threat-to-put-trump-in-a-bullseye-met-with-shrugs-in-contrast-with-firestorm-over-palin-crosshairs

  48. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So this is what it’s come to? Wife and I were sitting on the front porch enjoying a couple of beers when I came in around 5:30 the TV was blowing up with the news and I could see the blood on trumps ear. I backed the video up to when the shots were fired and them my phone blew up with sister, daughter and son all calling and texting. The latest news I have is that the gunman is dead and someone in the crowd was killed. Prayers to that family. An an inch or so difference and Trump would be dead.

  49. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    No matter the truth the media will still lie about what really happened.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    They keep saying this guy was on a nearby rooftop with a sniper rifle. The whole damned place, the huge perimeter, the trees, the brush was full of Secret Service snipers and drones and they missed some guy lying on top of a local structure. They better have a damned good explanation for this. And I mean damned good.

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Local attendees interviewed saw the guy crawling across the roof a storage building and were screaming and yelling at the local cops and Secret Service and nobody did anything until the asshole fired at the crowd.

    Just unreal. This stinks badly.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      The Deep State just made an assassination attempt. It failed. 4″ plexiglass shielding around the lectern and around all ingress and egress pathways is cheap insurance. I am not surprised that todays D party and deep state would attempt such a thing; I am however profoundly disappointed.

  52. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    cnn headline
    trump rally interrupted by secret service.

    get ready for an avalanche of lies from the satanic propagandist media regarding this assassination attempt.

    look at the headline on the bbc link in texpat’s comment.
    Trump injured after apparent shooting at rally.

    Maybe the secret service were just standing around because they were told to.

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Michael Berry

  54. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Next propagandist media headline will be…car simultaneously backfires as a ketchup packet, hurled from the front row behind president Trump, explodes on his ear.

  55. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Right now I’m going with this scenario since the government and media lie 24/7/365.

    I think the shooter they shot was an alphabet agency recruited patsy and the real one is a member of club DC and was allowed to get away.

    one thing is for certain.
    the propagandist media will never tell the truth.

  56. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Ever see Three Days of the Condor or The Parallax View?

    they were made in the 70s when Hollywood did not trust the government or the alphabet agencies.

    now they’ve joined them.
    Just another tentacle of the deep state octopus.

  57. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So, I flipped over to CNN to see what the lunatics where saying about the assassination attempt on Donald trump and their first guest, an FBI expert, was none other than the disgraced Andrew McCabe well that figures they have Brennan, Clapper and Comey on their shows all disgraced traitors. ~SPITS~
    With That Mornin’ Gang

  58. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Listening to the CNN Reporterette, I heard her drop a Democrat talking point when she asked McCabe if it was true that the shooter was a registered Republican that had made a small donation to a Democrat?!?! WHAT?!?! SO it begins,…… ~SIGH~

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    AT the very least whoever was in charge of security at the Trump even is guilty of gross negligence. You let a nut climb up on a building 130 yards from the stands and have time to shoot?! Why didn’t the snipers on the other roof take the shooter out before he fired the shots?!

  60. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat @ 8:13 PM July 13; Just unreal. This stinks badly.
    Well yes!

  61. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; If the range was 130 yards any 8 YO boy from Alabama could have made that shot easily. Oh and the Boy says it was divine intervention. I won’t go that far but it certainly wasn’t Trump’s to go.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Oh and the Boy says it was divine intervention. I won’t go that far

      With all due respect SD
      I will. I do not mean to argue or sound rude, but dang man he was micrometers away from an intrusion of a bullet to his head. You even said an 8yo from Bama could make that shot. It was divine intervemtion no doubt.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Yes, I’m beginning to feel that way also.

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Secret Service should always have several camera-mounted drones above any rally where Trump or any presidential candidate is in front of a huge outdoor crowd. There is no reason this guy should have been able to crawl across a one story, light colored metal roof and fire a weapon. He was visible to the crowd from the ground, for crying out loud.

    Here is the first person to fire. Kimberly Cheatle is current director of the SS.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Drone? That was the first thing my wife said. She recently went to a concert in Chipley Florida, a real small Podunk town but she was impressed with all the security including a Drone that buzzed around all night.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is the Google Earth satellite image of the area where rally was held and the Trump would-be assassin fired his shots. It is incomprehensible to me this guy could get away with this.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      But he did not get away with this.

       It is incomprehensible to me this guy THOUGHT HE could get away with this.

      . There fixed it for you.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Okay, but he did get away with this.

        A doctor attending the event told NBC News that he saw a man suffer a gunshot wound to the head and helped carry him from the site of the rally. Speaking in a parking lot near the event, a mother and her son who were attending the rally told NBC News that they saw people in the crowd who were injured and carried away. And in the hours after the shooting, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, said in an interview on Fox News that his nephew was grazed on his neck by a bullet at the rally.

  64. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Not much to add to the discussion du jour.

    We are about to head to church where Little Prince will be baptized this morning. They lost their air conditioner here, but they have a couple of smaller units downstairs, so it’s not too bad. Certainly better than my house. The humidity level here is a fraction of what we had in Houston. I’ve been invited to stay a little longer, so Hubby will be on his own for another day.

    And I get to put more hugs and giggles into my cuddle tank.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Special C&C today has the best aerial photo of the scene. (Scroll down).

  66. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Victor Davis Hanson:

    So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump:

    By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a non-assassination story. It is incredible though. A lengthy investigative report on a nightmare story in Granbury, Texas. It’s the
    picturesque county seat of Hood County, southwest of Fort Worth.

    None of them knew what, exactly, was causing these symptoms. But they all shared a singular grievance: a dull aural hum had crept into their lives, which growled or roared depending on the time of day, rattling their windows and rendering them unable to sleep. The hum, local law enforcement had learned, was emanating from a Bitcoin mining facility that had recently moved into the area—and was exceeding legal noise ordinances on a daily basis.

    Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks. At least 10 people went to urgent care or the emergency room with these symptoms. The development of large-scale Bitcoin mines and data centers is quite new, and most of them are housed in extremely remote places.

    There have been no major medical studies on the impacts of living near one. But there is an increasing body of scientific studies linking prolonged exposure to noise pollution with cardiovascular damage. And one local doctor—ears, nose, and throat specialist Salim Bhaloo—says he sees patients with symptoms potentially stemming from the Bitcoin mine’s noise on an almost weekly basis.

  68. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I found it quite interesting that the only Presidents to be assassinated were all Rs except JKF and he was going after the Deep State. The Ds are in unison that the Rs are evil, hitler, etc, yet the outright criminal acts and evil intentions always come from the left. Me thinks they doth protest too much.

  69. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    So I’m now supposed to believe the lying media is going to tell the truth about what happened with the assassination attempt when all they do is lie?

    lied about the wooden dummy’s health for four years.
    lied about Russian collusion with Trump for four years.
    and on it goes. The lies are never ending.

    and the fib that hates Trump is going to investigate what happened and get to the bottom of it?
    The same fib tha raided mar-a-lago, staged Jan 6th, most likely assisted in 2020 steal and only arrests Trump supporters ?.?

    that fib?

  70. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He didn’t get away with it. He bought the farm with a sniper bullet to his head.

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I looked at the GoFundMe page Trump set up for the three families – one whose father was murdered and the two critically injured victims. The goal was $1,000,000 and an hour ago it was over $1,700,000.

  72. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    AP-Associated Propagandists is still calling it a Trump rally shooting.

    they are incapable of truth telling because they are of their father Beelzebub.

  73. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    The media liars are already running cover for the ultra violent left.
    so he was a registered republican who donated to the most progressive get out the democrat vote organization there is.

    the Hell?

    https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1812550100771901909

    fib is also lying again in my estimation.
    told you they are incapable of truth telling.

  74. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    What a sweet guy

    [videopress tCaxp8r6 w=720 h=1280]

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The story I saw on this was the New York Post correctly identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, but mistakenly published this guy’s photo in the breaking news item. So the guy decides to make this TikTok video just to be a world-class jackass.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        I was wondering why he said the wrong guy thing. Good stuff Texpat. Mucho Garcia

  75. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My wife went to see her brother the other day and then her and SIL went to a friend’s house and picked a whole bunch of Blueberries. We’re going over to my sister’s house for supper so my wife made a Blueberry Pie and since I thought it was kinda’ Purdy I posted it over yonder. 😉

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I guess that y’all have sen the picture of the 223’s vapor trail as it whizzes past trump’s head? Incredible photo.

  77. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My @ 1:51 PM I made a batch of Deviled Eggs to take but y’all have seen them before, seen one, seen em all. 😀

  78. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Good grief, I had forgotten about this.

    Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell.

    “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”

    Clearly, Roosevelt had buried the lede. The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Check out these two contrasting Time magazine covers. One from yesterday and the other a few days ago.

  80. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    You have to be a certain age to remember when Frito-Lay was a distant runner-up in the potato chip wars in SE Texas. George Dentler and his family made the finest potato chips ever and dominated the market. Lay’s are good, but they have never been as good as Dentler’s. They disappeared off the shelves in the late 1960s after the company sold out to Pet Milk.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      I well remember the name Dentler’s.

  81. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A house in the neighborhood just sold for $679,000. It is not a very attractive house, 1700 square feet, 3 bd 2 bath, central AC, lot 85X100.

    No wonder our taxes keep going up.

    Good heavens. I just looked up the Zillow on this house and it’s $633,000 (high end estimate $672,000). During Covid, it was estimated at $460,000. These young couples are still coming out of New York and paying high prices because it looks cheap here compared to NYC.

    The house in this same neighborhood I gutted and fully renovated and had to sell right after the economic disaster in 2009-2012 is now valued at $603,000. I sold it for $389,000.

  82. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    this is playing out much like the jfk assassination.
    Crooks played the part of Oswald and the SS played Jack Ruby.

    I believe it was an intentional ss failure so the narrative could be set.
    Only this time the real failure for them was they missed. The real shooter was allowed to escape because he is a member of the DC club.

    and now the Trump hating fib is in charge of the investigation.
    remember when the fib raided Epstein Island to retrieve all the evidence?
    where did it go?

    remember Ray Epps?
    someone?
    anyone?
    ferris?

    remember the phony, staged and failed governor whitmire kidnapping plot?

    when it comes to the always lying media and always lying government it always pays to think outside the proverbial box.

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    P.F. Chang’s Mongolian beef and rice.
    Pretty good.

  84. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    The same fib that is now in charge of the assassination attempt investigation is the same fib that was unable to determine who left the coke in the White House.

  85. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    They tried to take Trump out, but now it will be almost impossible to beat him at the ballot box. Beyond the amount of steal/cheat. The left looks like Wylie E Coyote messing around with ACME stuff.

  86. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There’s nothing like severe thunderstorms to keep the Lunatic Left protesters off the streets.

    Event planners at Fiserv Forum will also need to contend with potentially severe thunderstorms that are forecast to bring strong winds, hail, and the possibility of tornadoes to the Milwaukee area.

    NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has highlighted an area in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, including Milwaukee, for a 2 out of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms on Monday. Just south of the convention, cities like Chicago have an even greater risk of severe weather, with a 3 out of 5 risk from the SPC. 

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Anybody else notice how there has not been a single call for more gun control or outlawing AR-15s ? If this had been any Democrat politician, you would’ve never heard the end of it.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I noticed that as well.

  88. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Centerpoint has a new improved outage map

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Damn, that is funny !

  89. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The outage map had been predicting power for me on the 16th. I checked this afternoon and my whole neighborhood showed powered up. Fortunately, I called Hubby before packing up… The may lie. No power yet. Hubby is miserable, but coping.

  90. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Per the online meter reader my sister has, parents house in Spring Branch powered up yesterday afternoon. Friday when we met with the house cleaning company there was no power, but the outage map showed the while neighborhood was up. Not.

    Now we can go forward with getting the place cleaned up, yard guys scheduled Tuesday and photographer Wednesday to get on the market.

  91. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Comcast sent me a text that they were planning on having service up by 11:15 tonight. They were needing the power to be restored first.

    Maybe I can go home tomorrow.

    Here’s hoping…

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