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Haha, now I get it!
First!
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Has Mr. Tedtam made it back from the car show yet?
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No. Hopefully he’ll start home today. He is fed up with the whole situation.
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not trying to rub salt in a fresh wound or anything, but this story could be the plot for a renovation of “Gilligan’s Island…”
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Looks like the Cubans have arrived.
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Reading from last night, we don’t have a cat blog. It’s a bunch of old dudes talking about crabgrass.
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Hey, coulda been about our ailments.
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Looks just like Shannon.
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Yanno’ it does look a lot like Shannon. 😉
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I hope Donald Trump fires the people responsible for this. Arlington National Cemetery is run by the US Army so I don’t know if it will be possible. The orders for this probably came straight from the Pentagon.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to intervene to get former President Donald Trump into Arlington National Cemetery for the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal with Gold Star families, a family told the Daily Caller.
The Gold Star families, who lost their children during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, invited Trump to Arlington National Cemetery. There he laid a wreath for the 13 servicemembers who were killed serving their country in Afghanistan. However, a Gold Star family told the Caller that Arlington National Cemetery was trying to make it difficult for the former President to appear for the ceremony to honor their children, something the families requested.
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“This administration absolutely interfered with the tributes to the 13 fallen. In its war on Trump, it made the Gold Star families collateral damage,” Issa told the Caller.
“Our office worked with Arlington National Cemetery to move the time of the event, to a time that would accommodate the attendance of President Trump. That was done as a request by the families to this office, as they were not receiving that assistance from Arlington National Cemetery,” two sources close to the discussions told the Caller.
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There needs to be a thorough house cleaning at the Pentagon. Way too much power and money flowing through that complex with too little oversight. Bureaucratic corruption writ large by contemptible little rodent type people.
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GJT, you mentioned a Hyundai Palisade yesterday and I had no idea what it was so I looked it up. It has a 291 HP, 3.8 L V6 so is it normally aspirated? AWD? Also is it as big as a Tahoe? In any case it looks like a good choice, especially if it doesn’t have a turbo.
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Thanks SD, we like it a lot. It’s a smaller SUV, mid size they call it. Two bucket seats in middle and two in rear, all can fold down with a touch of a button. Rear door does that fancy hands free opening. Cup holders and USB ports all over the dang thing. Yes, 3.8L, 24 valve (insert Tim the Toolman grunt), no turbo. Front wheel drive. Probly should have went with hybrid but just can’t.
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I can’t go the hybrid, just too many additional things to go wrong. Same with a turbo, they’re OK and needed on a diesel if you want get up and go but I’d rather have CID in a gasoline powered vehicle. My truck has 355 HP and will get out of it’s own way but still delivers a steady 17 MPG around Podunk and up to 22 MPG @ 74 MPH on I 10. A little less in west Texas, (hillier/higher speed limit).
All that said, modern V-6’s have way more power than the old V-8’s.-
Yes we will miss the 30-35mpg on the Hyundai Sonata, this one is in low to mid 20’s but oh well.
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Here is the other side – derangement & opprobrium of the American Left.
Democratic media figures and activists expressed their fury at Arlington National Cemetery director Karen Durham-Aguilera, a longtime senior Army official, after Trump marked the third anniversary of the Kabul airport terrorist attack by attending a wreath-laying ceremony with the families of the fallen service members. The Gold Star families invited Trump to attend the service.
Thirteen American soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in the Abbey Gate suicide bombing during the Biden-Harris administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Steve Schmidt—a failed GOP campaign operative known for smearing his deceased war hero ex-boss, John McCain—accused Trump of “desecrat[ing] Arlington National Cemetery and America’s most hallowed ground.”
Charles P. Pierce, an opinion writer for Esquire, said Trump “grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop.”
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Supposed to be getting some pretty rain around 10 or so. Need one more good soaking and I’ll feel comfortable getting to all this burning I need to do.
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Texpat with tats. At least it’s not brain-bleach worthy. Not like Hillary in a bikini.
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Speaking of…. Don’t look at 8:08…..My eyes!
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Salcedo is reporting (I saw the headline yesterday) that all of our naval assets are in the Middle East, leaving Taiwan wide open for China to invade.
“Gee, you used to have such a nice country. My bad.” /spits
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Oh and we got .17″ of much needed rain late yesterday to go with the .04″ on Tuesday. Pitiful, I know but we’ll take it. Real dry here…..and HOT! I thought I was going to pass out yesterday stacking oak limbs in the hot sun. 😉
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Stud McBuffington you aint.
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The OC picture actually looks more like the guy in the link at 8:08 am.
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Today’s C&C roundup, before my friend and I head to the pool:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! I hope you are all keeping it weird. Today’s roundup includes: Kamala Harris tax plan mowed down by CNBC anchors as clueless economic advisor tries defending the indefensible; New York Times blows the lid on massive California democrat corruption story; coincidental Kamala favorite residence, totally not related in any way to the last story; Telegram founder charged with crimes and stuck in France while Facebook skates; and terrific fifth circuit decision holds the line on arming illegal immigrants.
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After illuminating the idiocy of the Cackler’s plan to tax unrealized gains, Mr. C. ends with this:
Two final comments on the way out. First, it’s not even Kamala’s plan, it’s a Biden plan she stole. Stealing other people’s policies is starting to look like a kleptomaniacal Kamala pattern. Second, the plan assures everybody that unrealized gains taxes will only apply to people worth $100 million. So you have nothing to worry about, unless you think the government always says that, and what will actually happen is that rich people will move to Switzerland and the IRS will be ‘forced’ to lower the boom on us regular folks.
Kamala’s unrealized gains tax plan is practically a Trump campaign ad.
The left always depends on static conditions to calculate the impact of their decisions. They forget that people are rational individuals with the power to change behavior in order to act in their own best interest. Idiots.
To be fair, there’s probably a good number of R’s who do the same thing.
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And then there’s the shocking (not) stories of corruption in the blue cities:
King Kong Huizar became the third LA City Councilman to be convicted of corruption charges in the last year. A fourth still faces charges. The Times said those four were only part of “a much larger circle of staff aides, fund-raisers, political consultants and real estate developers charged in an extraordinary recent wave of bribery and influence-peddling across California.”
Extraordinary!
Actually, not that extraordinary. It’s kind of ordinary. According to Justice Department reports, during the last 10 years, a whopping 576 public officials in California have been convicted on federal corruption charges, more than New York, New Jersey, and Illinois put together. This explains a lot.
Even more shocking, the Times blamed the corruption superspreader, in part, on —get this— the growing Democrat super-majority:
No kidding.
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Regarding the Telegram founder and his detention in France:
Durov was charged with managing an online platform to “enable” illegal transactions and “complicity” with child pornography, drug trafficking, and “online hate.” He’s not been accused of doing any of those things himself or even knowing about them.
The article didn’t discuss why other platforms like Facebook aren’t also being investigated.
It’s not like there isn’t abundant evidence that Facebook is doing just what Telegram is accused of doing, but worse. In late December, New Mexico sued Facebook civilly (for money) but didn’t charge anyone criminally:
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The Facebook suit doesn’t just allege illegal material on the platform. The lawsuit claims that Instagram and Facebook included features deliberately designed to hook children and contribute to a youth mental health crisis.
In fact, New Mexico’s Attorney General told the judge that the case was not about hosting content at all. Instead, it is about Meta actively and intentionally pushing illegal material—far beyond what Durov’s been accused of doing. Still, no criminal charges have been filed against Meta. And even New Mexico’s tepid civil lawsuit does not include the platform’s chief executive. In March, a New Mexico judge dismissed Facebook’s CEO from the lawsuit.
I can’t wait to find out why Telegram is different.
Gee, I wonder why those other sites are untouched? /sarc off
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Interesting 2A court cases: can illegals have guns, but not citizens?
In a sane 3-0 decision Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal law prohibiting illegal immigrants in the U.S. from owning guns, finding it was legal and was Constitutional. “We should not extend rights to illegal aliens any further than what the law requires,” U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho, a Trump appointee, wrote in his concurring opinion.
In the latest weird Democrat inversion, liberals are actually arguing for more guns — just for illegal aliens rather than for citizens. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with giving criminal invaders legal weapons?
Never say the Democrats don’t stand up for gun rights. Just, not your gun rights.
A similar case is currently working its way through the Seventh Circuit. In March, an Illinois federal judge found illegals do enjoy Second Amendment rights, and so cannot be prohibited from owing guns. That case is now on appeal in that circuit. If the Seventh decides differently from the Fifth Circuit, then the ‘split’ decisions will be ripe for a Supreme Court appeal.
Outraged liberals have vowed to take their pro-gun case to the Supreme Court. If they do, the question will be about the extent to which people who are not American citizens and have illegally invaded the country enjoy Constitutional Rights. I hope they do appeal. Let’s get that question settled.
I’ve wondered that, too. Why do non-citizens get the same rights as citizens? How far do their protections go?
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Tedtam? 😈 >>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAAM>>>>>>>>>
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Yeppers.
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“Beware the copula “and.”
Politics and religion. Church and state. What does it mean to bring these into relationship? Are they immiscible? Soluble? In certain respects, but not others? At certain times, but not others? A host of questions to be considered anew. How did conservatives get here? What prompts them today to wonder aloud if they need to rethink the relationship between church and state, between politics and religion?
First, conservatives have witnessed the appallingly rapid takeover of nearly every American institution by that constellation of phenomena called CRT, wokeness, DEI, cancel culture, and what has been called virtue-signaling, but which is better understood as innocence-signaling. Unable to name the genus to which these species belong, unable to see the underlying logic that gathers all of these phenomena together, they have been unable to fight back against them, save for a minor victory here or there. To win the war, conservatives must first name the enemy. That enemy is identity politics.
Second, conservatives have been unwilling to abandon terms for the enemy that have brought coherence to the conservative movement since the 1950s. The terms “cultural Marxism” and “progressivism” are hopelessly out of date and analytically inadequate to the current crisis, yet they are invoked at every like-minded gathering or convention. We are engaged in a monstrous twenty-first-century struggle. The Cold War is over. We must jettison terms that were fitting seventy years ago.
Regarding cultural Marxism, the “long slow march through the institutions” never happened. Instead, we have witnessed the breathtakingly rapid sprint of identity politics through our institutions. Bernie Sanders is a Marxist; his thinking has been thrown into the dustbin of history by the identitarians who now rule the left…”
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Well, my friend and I got a good half hour or so in the pool before the rain started. She doesn’t swim, and the pool is like a horseshoe – 5.5 ft in the middle and 3.5 ft at each end. For our water exercises she stuck to one end and I took the other, and I would swim back and forth across the pool as well.
Good exercise time and good conversation.
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I usually hang out at the pool in the sunshine to drip dry before driving back to my room. Today, because of the rain, I didn’t have that luxury. I decided to wrap my beach towel around my waist like a skirt and shuck my dripping wet bathing suit skort from underneath the covering, so I wouldn’t leave my driver’s seat in the car soaked. My friend decided to do the same, and just as we finished removing our bottoms a maintenance guy drove by. We both cracked up laughing.
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Phone flubbed up this morning (CHECK)
Computer flubbed up this morning (CHECK)
TV flubbed up this morning (CHECK)
Printer flubbed up this morning (CHECK)
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First mail in ballots go out Sep 6.
two month’s of voting? The Hell?I predict this is going to be the most f’d up election in the history of the country.
even worse than the steal of 2020.
this one has all the potential to surpass the Lufthansa heist of 1978.
there’s no such thing as election integrity.
the same 5 states hold all the cards that are dealt from the bottom of the deck.and the deck is laced with Jokers and corrupt governors.
but have no fear.
anderson pooper scooper and mr potato head, the shark sushi eater and his pet mako mika will proclaim it was the most secure election ever.
Even more so than the 2020 and 2022 election heists.
all claims based on 0% proof.
Their proof is because they said it then it’s true.
just ask the beyond reproach Ferris Mueller.know what?
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Know this, Susan Wild is a nasty, mean leftist member of the US House. She got redistricted and now has to win an election with a far more pro-Trump county included in the district.
When two of Rep. Susan Wild’s constituents, a mother-daughter pair, wrote the Pennsylvania Democrat urging her to support Israel in its fight against Hamas, they received not one but two letters in response. One declared support for Israel and its “right to defend itself.” The other called for international pressure on the Jewish state and an “immediate ceasefire.”
The dueling letters, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, were both sent on May 21 and signed by Rep. Wild herself. They appear to be stock letters drafted by Wild’s office. While pushing out such letters to constituents is standard for a member of Congress, Wild’s letters provide drastically different assessments of the war that are now public after Wild inadvertently sent one version to the mother and the other to the daughter.
and the lies she tells,
(Earlier this year, Wild was caught on a Zoom call deriding the county’s residents as bigots who “drank the Trump Kool-Aid.” In 2022, she was also caught on tape saying she needed to “school” Carbon County residents for their support of Trump.)
Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, which Wild represents, has a substantial Arab population in addition to an engaged Jewish community. For the constituents who wrote to Wild, the conflicting letters raise questions about the congresswoman’s authenticity.
Wild has over $5 million unhand while the young Republican contender only has $750,000. Before Wild was redistricted in 2022, she only won the election in a much bluer district 51% to 49%.
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I’ve seen articles about avoiding expensive airfare when trying to get from A to B by sending someone via FedEx (“Avoid the hassle of the airport. Take your own cabin”).
This guy couldn’t afford a box I guess.
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My friend has gone, and we shared stuff. I learned about a family friendly streaming channel and we watched a movie from it last night (BYU). She caught me up on the old parish and friend news. I taught her about my Byrna (she handled it as I played some YouTube videos on it), and today I taught her how to make chaffles, homemade mayo, and shared my favorite feel-good movie with her. She really enjoyed it, then it was time to pack.
I did make her a large carnivore meal before she left. It was our first meal of the day. It’ll probably carry her for the rest of the day as well.
Good times. Now, for Latin….
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Her Highness and I just finished watching the last half of Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga Part 1.
Locations: Excellent, but it’s supposed to be Montana and I said it sure does look like Utah – and it was. Most of the folks in America won’t notice, certainly not the genius bicoastal hipsters.
Stagework/Sets: Great, US Army outpost, tent town, cabins, Indian camps, etc.
Costume/Wardrobe: As good as it gets
Photography/Cinemaphotography: Spectacular in places and way too dark in too many night outdoor & some indoor scenes
Audio: Too much mumbled enunciation
Dialogue: Excellent, except Costner, Mr. Dances With Wolves, declined to use Indians in most the movie and decided to include “indigenous people” and “aboriginal people” out of the mouths of US Cavalry officers in the 1860s. Big irritating alarm bell went off in my head.
Direction: B-
Film Editing/Narrative: D+. Costner is supposed to be telling three separate story lines simultaneously, but it’s too choppy and jumps back and forth without adequate smooth transition. This really hurts the movie.
We will watch the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Parts when they come out. When you compare Horizon to Yellowstone though, you realize what a master storyteller Taylor Sheridan really is. Costner should have taken more lessons from him.
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I don’t know if I mentioned these two things.
A) The Emir of the UAE called Macron in France and said he was freezing the new P.O. for 80 French fighter jets until Telegram’s Pavel Durov was released. That’s called: How to Make a Deal.
B) People across the globe starting pointing to Macron begging Durov to move the Telegram HQ to France a few years ago. Oops ! How embarrassing.
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Grammar apocalypse.
I heard someone on television use the phrase “semi-weekly”.
A few minutes later, I realized that I had no idea what they meant in the use of the phrase.I think it’s pretty funny that GrammarBook dot com doesn’t really know either.
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There, their, they’re Shannon, let’s not get pedantic over grammar.
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Was her name Kamala ?
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Just talked to Hubby – he’s still stranded. They think it’s a short in the steering column. The mechanic, who’s had several trucks like this, knows of some parts he can install that will get around all of these problems – for just under $3000, parts only. It’ll take a week or so to get the parts and install them. But it will eliminate the chance of this problem returning. I think Steve is relieved that he’s found an older mechanic instead of a younger one who only knows how to plug in a computer and read codes to figure out a problem.
And another problem – Hubby doesn’t know if he’ll have a hotel room after tomorrow, either. It’s bad enough that he’s had to pay for one all week, but to be homeless out of town sucks. This hotel is close to the mechanic’s shop, so he’s able to get there and back with the truck dying only once between the two.
I told Hubby that since he’s planning on driving this truck for a long time, I’d rather have it fixed properly than chance him be on the road and the truck just dies on him again. He agreed, it’s cheaper to fix it right that fix it quickly but in a half-wissed fashion. The good thing is that this is our work truck, so at least the expenses are tax deductible.
So, I’ll be packing up a day early and heading home. Handsome Son and I will be swapping my car for his truck so I can drive to Oklahoma tomorrow, where Hubby will hook up the trailer and we’ll head home.
So – I may have to miss my Latin class tonight. I hate doing that, I miss so much of the conversation that helps me understand stuff.
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Just curious. Is this a Ford, Chevy or Dodge truck ?
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Like it makes any difference.
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This is an older truck and I am curious about these problems and what brand it is.
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If I rememebr right it’s a Chevy.
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1990 Chev pickup
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I had a friend who had chronic problems like that on an early 1990s Chevy pickup.
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The Communist newz network is set to air a heavily edited, softball propagandist campaign ad, disguised as an interview with the Kammunist and her pud putzing communist Putz.
hosted by Dana, the no bashing allowed Bash, when it comes to interviewing her Kammunist communist comrades.
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the pud putzing Putz.
ROFLOL
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I’ve been preoccupied, but Her Highness is now a complete political junkie and tells me Kamala was given the questions from CNN ahead of time and then only let the interview last 18 minutes ?
I get a streaming all day report from HH of Kamala’s nonsensical clown show in person and by text. This is a woman who for years told me I was some kind of obsessive/compulsive political fanatic.
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Same here! Problem is she believes everything she hears and stresses to the max. Hard to say “that would never happen” in these times though.
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That’s also my problem. She believes every poll and report. 80% of the polls are biased and useless. I keep having to counsel her over this.
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At least she’s not on Facebook I assume. I mean the stuff Kamala is going to do day one, I tell ya.
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Wow.
Maybe the whole Tribe (tribes?) have had a eureka moment and will vote Right this time???!!!
Darn, too bad there’s not enough of them to swing a national election.
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HH was always personally conservative and mostly apolitical. Not anymore.
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Because I opened up my home as a B&B for a weekend, I never made my weekly grocery run to HEB.
I now have confirmation that when the SHTF I will be down at the local food pantry the following week.
Brookshire Brothers is a depressing backup.
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If you have to eat out of a box, P.F. Changs is pretty good.
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You better get to Brenham tomorrow before it gets worse or you’re going to have to eat at Sonic till Tuesday.
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This CNN craptastic infomercial for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz is painful.
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Craptastic?
Heh.
The only time I’ve ever heard that word is from my band leader.
Right after we’ve really embrassed ourselves during rehearsals.
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I made it home in time to catch all but the first half hour of my Latin class. I’ll unpack now, do my “must do’s” and repack for the next trip.
I will say, this diet is…surprising. I’ve caught some Dr. Berg videos talking about carnivore, and he said that the carnivore protein and fat are all absorbed in the small intestine. Hoping not to divulge too much personal info, let’s just say that the bottom half of my digestive system is not getting much of a workout. He was right.
I ate a good sized meal (two, actually) between 1:30 and 3:00 pm today, and already I feel…..lighter? Not full? I would have thought it would’ve stayed with me longer, but no. I’m not hungry at all. The first meal was a breakfast-as-lunch, with 3 strips of bacon, a link of dinner sausage, and four scrambled eggs, with butter added. I really wasn’t hungry enough to eat, but I ate that with my friend because she had to leave, and I didn’t want to send her off without eating and I didn’t want her to feel awkward eating alone. The next meal was about 2 hours later, and consisted of a bowl of recooked beef roast, with some butter added. It was leftovers and I was trying to get rid of as many of them before I packed up for home.
I just checked the scale, and I haven’t lost any weight but I think I look like I’ve lost some. The gurus say it could take 4-8 weeks for the fat to come off, as the body does internal healing first. And I could lose inches before I lose pounds. But I feel just fine, so I shall continue.
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Glad you made it home safely.
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Re:OC
Unapologetic Toxic Masculinity runs in the family.
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