The Guadalupe River Dam At Ingram, Texas
Wore out a few pairs of cut-offs dam-sliding there. Good times.
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Good morning.
This morning’s OC takes you near the location of headwaters of the precious Guadalupe. My brother and I were blessed as children and young adults to spend a lot of time at our Uncle’s ancestral home between Ingram and Hunt, TX.
I wasn’t able to include in the OC the following video:
Enjoy…
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Nice video Shannon but they could’ve left out the two Jet Skis. Remember Jet Skis are to boating as mosquitos are to camping. 😉
71 here this morning but we’ll be warming up to the mid 90’s I think and all that rain that was just north of us yesterday didn’t make it down here, not a drop. It looked so promising ski deep blue to the north and lot’s of thunder boomers but it did really cool things off before dark.
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Hitting the road early, seein’s how I wasn’t sleeping anyway. Made it to Willis before 6:30 and missed rush hour through Houston. That’s a good thing, because I’m driving my son’s truck, which is my much different than my Kia. I think I’m more comfortable with the new boundaries, but I’m still figuring out where some things are.
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But can you see over the dashboard ?
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On Tuesday the Geneva County Sheriff Dept said that found a dead body in a vehicle at a residence and the Sheriff said “looks like a homicide”.
GEE YA” THINK?!?! Today we got an update that the guy’s lover beheaded him with a chain saw and removed “other” body parts.Woman charged with dismembering man with chainsaw in Geneva County, sources say
FWIW; I saw the photo of the gal and she is all of 4′ 10″ judging by the sacle with the picture.-
Do you think possibly the sheriff was jumping to conclusions about homicide just because the body had no head ?
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Well I just watched the CNN Kamala Infomercial with her VP Buffoon moderated by Sea Biscuit. It was worse than pathetic and downright grueling.
But in the whole interview, neither Kamala nor the Buffoon answered a single question! They just filibustered and played their record using up time and if Sea Biscuit followed up on the answer they just lathered rinsed and repeated the same old line. -
My @ 7:44 AM, my apologies to Sea Biscuit and all other Thoroughbreds.
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A truism spotted over yonder.
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7:44 dave
She looks like Matthew Broderick’s trusty steed.-
Yes she does but I didn’t know he was married to Sarah Jessica Parker until I looked it up. 😉
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The Bible says it I believe it.
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I used to remind my old, lefty rabbi of that verse whenever he would make some inappropriate political remark.
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Mark Penn was a high profile, big deal Democrat back in the Clinton administration.
Former Bill Clinton adviser Mark Penn said on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris avoiding the media and only committing to one presidential debate is undemocratic.
and this,
“I don’t know what kind of interview people do in these last couple of days here that’s going to be meaningful and set up going into the Labor Day weekend,” Penn said. “I suppose everything gets pushed online, but look, I think it’s unacceptable for candidates to go this period. In my book, there should be three presidential debates, not one. There should be position papers, not a donate page on your website. And you should be before the press every two or three days because if voters are not informed, then it’s not a democracy with real votes.”
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Seen at a rest stop. They are related and travel a lot. They got two rosaries and we’re so happy to have them.
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Nicole Shanahan is an interesting woman (more on that in a minute). She also was, up until this year, a stalwart Democrat. However, the Democrat party’s decidedly anti-Democrat behavior, both in blocking RFK Jr’s campaign and in placing Kamala at the head of the ticket without her having won a single primary ever, soured her on her one-time party. Now that she’s had a taste of MAGA, she’s also realized that the media and the Democrat establishment have been lying all along. Since she’s got rich and powerful friends, let’s hope her epiphany spreads.
and there are many young women in Silicon Valley and elsewhere listening to this…
Now that the campaign is over and Kennedy has endorsed Trump, Shanahan has done a few press appearances—with conservatives, everyone from Jesse Watters to Adam Carolla. What’s interesting is that this exposure to actual conservatives, rather than to the leftist caricature of conservatives, is that, as she told Dave Smith, she now understands how the media and the Democrat establishment have consistently lied about conservatives and the MAGA movement:
I don’t know if you’ve taken any deep dives into MAGA-world, but I was just under the impression that they were gun-toting radicals who wanted to come to my doorstep and rip my liberal family out of my house, and, I don’t know, do horrible things to liberals. And that’s how that’s how MAGA has been sold to a huge portion of America by the mainstream media.
plus,
And they are really, really smart, thoughtful, intellectual people within MAGA. I’ve received beautifully written notes from MAGA supporters, and they were…
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Leftists only get in and remain in power through lying, cheating, and stealing. If they ever tell the truth they get rejected. Unfortunately, there are so many that do not have a love for THE TRUTH (2tHESSALONIANS 2) and have heard the lie so many times, they can no longer recognize the truth.
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Here is the Dave Smith/Michelle Shanahan podcast interview described in my 11:19 linked article. It’s worth watching. I think her public statements will have more impact than anybody realizes.
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The communist media says this when it comes to the communist ticket of the pud putzing putz and the Kenyan’s beard the kammunist.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”-George Orwell 1984
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I didn’t realize until recently Pelosi never helped Kamala in her California Attorney General race and endorsed her opponent. She has never liked her, Biden knew it and endorsed Kamala as he stood down from running again. He did it to infuriate Pelosi because he knew Pelosi was already working on forcing her out of the campaign too. It was the late Senator Diane Feinstein who was most instrumental in getting her elected to AG.
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I’m often on NYPost and Daily Mail because you find stories and news there the MSM refuse to print. I slog through all the celebrity crap and try to ignore it, but this weird story caught my eye. Gun ‘n Roses guitarist’s stepdaughter commits suicide by hydrogen sulfide toxicity. How the hell does anyone kill themselves intentionally with hydrogen sulfide ? Is this some new fad among the mentally ill ?
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H2S stinks like rotten eggs in low concentrations. In higher concentrations humans can not detect it until they die.
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I know first hand about hydrogen sulfide and what it smells like. I want to know why and how someone, anyone chooses to kill themselves that way.
I guess they could drive to a hog farm or dairy farm and bury themselves in a manure pile.
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Rod Dreher quotes an old section from the young Marxist writer Freddie DeBoer’s website. DeBoer is interesting because he is one of extremely few leftists who call out the Left on their inconsistencies and hypocrisies. DeBoer wrote this 14 years ago.
In 2010 I wrote of Michael Berube’s What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?, “the philosophy of non-coercion and intellectual pluralism that Berube describes and defends so well isn’t just an intellectual curiosity, but an actual ethos that he and other professors live by, and which defends conservative students.” I grew up believing that most professors lived by that ethos. I don’t, anymore. It really has changed. For years we fought tooth and nail to oppose the David Horowitz’s of the world, insisting that their narratives of anti-conservative bias on campus were without proof. Now, when I try to sound the alarm bells to others within the academy that mainstream conservatism is being pushed out of our institutions, I get astonished reactions – you actually think conservatives should feel welcomed on campus? From arguments of denial to arguments of justification, overnight, with no one seeming to grapple with just how profound the consequences must be. We are handing ammunition to some very dangerous people.
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I just found this ad a few minutes ago from Michelle Shanahan. It mocks TDS, Big Pharma, Kamala, Democrats and Commie ideology. Shanahan has produced a couple documentaries in the past so she knows something about film. Great stuff…best ad I’ve seen in a while.
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The Left is unrelenting in its efforts to poison the minds of evangelical Americans. We need the support and votes of these people in order to keep this country from going over the cliff. The author mentions the Megan Basham article I posted here about how these leftist, Marxist projects to corrupt evangelicals is funded by leftwing NGOs and PACs.
For those who haven’t heard of it, The After Party (TAP) is a small group curriculum and corresponding book that is being heavily promoted this election year to individuals, churches, and Christian institutions (such as colleges) to counter the “dangerous trend” of evangelicals having their political identity formed by “partisan forces, not by true Biblical faith.”
The curriculum was developed by David French (New York Timescolumnist), Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today), and Curtis Chang. Fewer people are familiar with Chang than with French and Moore, but for context, his most notable project was called “Christians and the Vaccine,” through which he led a national effort to convince Covid vaccine-resistant evangelicals that their “anxiety, distrust of institutions, and political polarization” was threatening the vaccine’s potential for “healing our world.”
Earlier this year, TAP made a lot of headlines when journalist Megan Basham published a First Things article detailing how the whole project was funded by hard-left foundations (“Follow the Money to The After Party”). Alisa Childers and I also did an episode on our Unshaken Faithpodcast in February in which we discussed the inherent problems with progressives funding Christian curriculum (as well as other concerns about TAP).
Hat Tip: Mark Tapscott
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You got a big problem as a Democrat when Snopes won’t lie to cover your derriere.
Suddenly, Kamala’s working-class roots don’t look so working-class anymore.
But it’s worse than that. It’s doubtful that Harris ever worked at McDonald’s at all.
When the leftist “fact-checking” site Snopes looked into it, it couldn’t find a shred of evidence to support her boast.
We reached out to Harris’ campaign, as well as McDonald’s headquarters, seeking such proof — which could include photos or videos of her working at the restaurant, employment records or physical items such as a uniform or name tag. We also looked for public interviews by friends or family members of Harris’ to confirm the story, with no luck.
Making her claim even more suspicious is the fact that Harris never once said she’d worked at McDonald’s until she decided to run for president in 2019.
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We may be doomed.
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Good Afternoon Hamsters,
Thus far today we have been graced with .03 inches of rain visiting us while all around us has been getting real rain that came down in sheets just before noon. I was even able to fetch the trash can from the road a few minutes after the trash truck emptied it. As then we were just starting to have some light rain so it was a fast walk (for me) back to the garage with it. Thus the small amount of rain at the time. Still waiting for more. Not holding breath.
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Well it was vehicle wash day here. I got out early to wash the Vette since my wife drove it up to Eufaula yesterday to see her brother and when I finished it I decided to wash the Tahoe. By then it was 11 AM so I figured I’d just wash the old GMC also. It was the only one that really needed washing, the other two just had a few bug splatters and the Tahoe mostly need to be vacuumed out.
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Well my post about my sister’s supper on the Appalachian Cook page now has 413, likes/loves/wows and 87 comments. 😉
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Very nice and she broke it in with a Townes Van Zandt classic.
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Talking dogs. No, really, I’ve had 2 dogs that were smart enough to do this.
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Imagine a world 50 years from now, (given the current insanity in the world right now, after the inevitable collapse), where a growing population of humans selectively breed different types of animals to be able to have 2 way communication with humans. Some dogs are really smart; pigs are smarter and let’s not forget the porpoise family or the chimpanzees for crying out loud. A science fiction writer could make a good basis for unlimited journeys through the random happenings of life. The required total-focus of the human to make the connections is daunting.
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I’ve been watching Bunny and her brother Otter for some years now. Otter was bright into the family when Bunny was a few years old. Bunny and her interactions are being studied by some university, so there are cameras on her buttons. It’s been determined that she communicates on about a five year old level.
I am amazed that she has mastered such abstract ideas such as time (now, later, tomorrow, soon, morning, night), and I cracked up when she have a guilty “oops” when she realized she was wrong about someone being upstairs. I didn’t know she had an oops button. Oh, and her fascination with her humans’ habits. One time, she had a big sticker in her paw and was able to tell her human “mad..ouch..stranger, paw”.
There are other animals on the ‘net with their buttons. Billy cat has quite a personality. When Mom refused to give out for on demand, Billy day calmly next to his buttons and repeatedly pressed “mad, mad, mad…”. It’s harder to read cats’ body language, but they do know how to ask for food.
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Made it to McAlester and the truck was towed to the mechanic’s shop. I didn’t feel comfortable pulling with the tow strap, in an unfamiliar location in an unfamiliar truck. Hubby called Destin, who arrived very promptly to take care of things. I got to meet the mechanic, DB, and his wife. Good folks. Then we went to eat, Hubby’s first decent meal all week. The waiter was also very nice. I didn’t know what they put in the water here, but this is quite possibly the nicest place I’ve ever been.
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After dinner, we returned to the room where I crashed and burned for a few hours. I am glad I reached McAlester when I did. I was about to have to find a place to pull over for a third catnap. I left the house tired, running on only a few hours’ sleep. At least I missed rush hours in Houston and Dallas while getting broken in on Handsome’s truck.
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Man I’m starting to like super Dave’s favorite band.
I wonder if there’s an equivalent cabernet wine to Billy Beer?
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the kammunist lied about working at McDonalds.
will the deep state produce a phony retro-application for her like they did for the Kenyan and his birthplace?
if she’ll lie about that she’ll lie about anything and does.
it’s what the communists and communist media do.why does Dana, the bashless basher when it comes to her kammunist comrades, bash always look constipated?
she needs to discover some fiber that’ll put a little sookie in her dookie.
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