Smith was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Margaret Ellen (née Hartsfield) and Jack Smith (born Jacob Kupferschmidt), a dentist. Her father was of Russian-Jewish descent, whereas her mother had English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh heritage. She graduated from Lamar High School in 1964. She majored in psychology and drama at Trinity University (Texas) in San Antonio but completed only a year. Instead, she moved to New York and joined the Balanchine School of American Ballet.
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Oh yes, one of the most beautiful ladies ever on the tube and very classy. Well, I woke up to a light shower this morning and they say we may get a little more rain today. we’ll see.
Mornin’ Gang
Bones talking about shooting skeet reminded me of my first real Dove hunt out on uncle Henry’s P-Nut field. I bagged 4 birds with 6 shots using my mom’s 20 Ga Mossberg 500 pump. And yanno’ my “Kill Ratio” has not been that good since. More like 50% in the big hunts I’ve been on. But sadly I’ve not been on a Dove hunt in years, I need to find a place around here to do that. Maybe the Peters’ since my sister married into that clan.
After shooting a shotgun for the first time in years I was reminded why people spend so much money on the hobby. The fact of the matter is that it is a lot of fun and takes considerable eye hand coordination.
I have a Belgium made Browning Auto 5 Light 12, 28″ Modified that my dad gave me for my 16th birthday and it fits me so good that the shot charge goes exactly where I’m looking so if I miss it’s my fault. And if I miss, say a Dove, it’s usually because I didn’t lead far enough or didn’t follow through.
I have had this left handed Remington 1100, 28″ modifided, for over 40 years and have never patterned it.
Lara Trump, campaign manager for her father-in-law and native of North Carolina, said this morning on Fox that most of the critical rescue operations have turned into a death count. She said they are going from house to house with body bags now. The stench of dead bodies is pervasive in many areas. If the media let Biden/Harris get away with this it will be their ultimate criminal act.
Remember the stupid anti-meme/parody law signed by Governor Greaseball Newsom? You know, the one that crapped on the 1st Amendment? A federal judge just put a temporary restraining order on it due to it being over broad.
It goes without saying that Ft. Liberty’s 82nd Airborne Division, located just outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina, could send far more help. While there is no need to seize an airfield with airborne forces, the security environment is uncertain, with countless reports of looting and violence.
The 82nd Airborne serves as America’s “Global Response Force.” The 82nd was largely responsible for the evacuation of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan—meaning that they are extraordinarily well-positioned to respond to Hurricane Helene relief efforts in their own state.
It is not as if disaster relief is outside the purview of a combat-ready unit like the 82nd. Paratroopers from Ft. Liberty joined in Hurricane Andrew relief efforts in 2004. And they patrolled the streets of New Orleans in defense against looting in response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The Global War on Terror and international tension elsewhere did not stop the rapid deployment of critical U.S. military power to Haiti after a natural disaster. A mere 48 hours after Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake in January 2010, the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne landed in Port-au-Prince to provide security and humanitarian assistance. This came amidst a troop surge in Afghanistan and dormant but still existing military commitments in Iraq.
I doubt that this is true but I guess it could be? I mean with the “Black Boxes” in cars now.
My insurance company mistakenly believed I was driving my car when, in reality, I was riding the roller coaster The Beast at Kings Island. Those red dots indicate where the app incorrectly assessed my cornering and braking skills and lowered my driving score
The automakers have been selling driving data to the insurance companies for some years now and a number of class action lawsuits have been filed against the manufacturers. There are plenty of cases now in which individuals’ premiums have been increased based on secret data fed to the insurers. It is the reason I will never again buy anything but an older, low-tech vehicle. Even Tucker Carlson drives an old 1989-1992 (?) pickup when he’s home in Maine for the same reason.
That and emissions inspection reasons are why Hubby went with a 1990 truck. And he wanted to be able to work on it himself, too.
I’d like to have one of these; 72 GMC, oh and with the 292 Six and Granny 4-Speed, 4.11 GR.
Oh wait, my @ 7:39, they’re saying that the insurance companies are tracking their I phones.
See a brief clip of Lying Tampon Timmy lying to reporters; note the Fettermonster in the background.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! 2 Coronal Mass Ejections are headed our way, the 2nd should hit tomorrow.
Just when you thought those poor folks couldn’t have it any worse, add a layer of wissed off yellow jackets.
And FEMA is shutting down the landfills – here’s first hand reporting.
Like every other federal agency, FEMA has now devolved into a tyrannical, incompetent mini-dictatorship. The congressmen need to start raising hell over this crap.
This is a great example as to why we should never allow the Feds any more power than is absolutely necessary. The top 5 layers of FEMA needs to be fired and any pensions ‘earned’ need to be cancelled and they can have Social Security just like we plebes.
I always like Jacquelyn Smith. Jackson, too. I didn’t know that Jacquelyn was from Houston. She went to the same school Hubby went to, for a while. Before he attended my high school his senior year, just so he could meet me. 😉
I never cared much for Kate Jackson, too much of a snobby feminist for me. To each his own. 😉 BTW: She was from Birmingham.
2/3rds Texas.
Jaclyn Smith was born and raised in Houston. Farrah Fawcett was born and raised in Corpus Christi. Kate Jackson was born and raised in Alabama.
There cannot be enough books written about this subject.
“Criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something,” Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch observed in 2019. Gorsuch elaborates on that theme in his new book Over Ruled, showing how the proliferation of criminal penalties has given prosecutors enormous power to ruin people’s lives, resulting in the nearly complete replacement of jury trials with plea bargains.
and,
To illustrate “the human toll” of “too much law,” the book tells the story of Florida fisherman John Yates, whose grueling legal odyssey began with the charge that he had discarded undersized red grouper. That alleged act supposedly violated a law aimed at deterring the destruction of potentially incriminating financial records. Gorsuch also recalls the pretrial suicide of 26-year-old computer programmer Aaron Swartz, whom prosecutors threatened with “decades in prison and millions in fines” for downloading a bunch of articles from an online academic library without permission.
If you ever peruse the Texas criminal code you might see 15-20 slightly different potential charges for the same offense.
It’s mind boggling.
Eva Edl is a survivor. The 89-year-old widow grew up in the former Yugoslavia, where she saw the horrors of Communism firsthand. She came to the U.S. because she thought it was a bastion of freedom and liberty, however, she now finds herself facing time in prison for trying to convince women not to kill their unborn babies.
and,
The Communists targeted the German-heritage Danube-Swabian people like Edl’s family. Her Hungarian grandmother was initially able to hide her grandchildren, but not for long. The Communists forced Edl’s mother and older siblings into labor camps and sent Edl and her grandmother to a concentration camp.
Amid the grim atmosphere of the Communist concentration camp, where death loomed at every turn, Edl came to faith in Jesus. Somehow, she made her way out and fled to Austria and eventually the U.S. seeking freedom.
plus,
Edl potentially faces 11 years in prison. If that’s her sentence, she won’t get out before she turns 100 — if she lives that long. And we can’t expect the Biden-Harris “justice” system to let an abortion protester out early for good behavior.
While the ILA thug was on TV yelling about wages, the real negotiations were over automating ports.
Watch this video. What you see is what terrifies the longshoremen’s union.
China just built the world’s first full automated 5G Port that will be a model for future ports around the world. The Tianjin Port is changing the port industry using 76 fully autonomous vehicles and embracing advanced technologies like 5G and AI to manage the operations.
But whether they are open or closed, many American ports rank among the least efficient in the entire world. The ports in New York, Baltimore, and Houston—three of the largest of the 36 ports that could have been shut down by the ILA strike—are ranked no higher than 300th place (out of 348 in total) in the World Bank’s most recent report on port efficiency. Not a single U.S. port ranks in the top 50. Slow-moving ports act as bottlenecks to commerce both coming and going, which “reduces the competitiveness of the country…and hinders economic growth and poverty reduction,” the World Bank notes.
That so many American ports are struggling to keep up with the rest of the world should be unacceptable. Fixing that ought to be one of the top priorities as negotiations between the ports and the ILA resume.
The ILA’s strike had little to do with demands for higher wages—the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), which operates the ports, had reportedly offered a 50 percent raise to ILA workers, many of whom are already very well compensated. Instead, it seems to be driven mainly by the union’s desire to block automation at the ports where its members work.
As econ blogger Noah Smith points out, “port automation is already heavily discouraged, both by the ILA’s existing contract, and by Department of Transportation Rules that stipulate that automation is never allowed to reduce the number or quality of jobs. But now the ILA wants to ban automation completely.”
The most disgusting of all the pro-Hamas rioters this past year have been the ones who showed up with their hands dyed red like blood. This is where that barbaric custom began 24 years ago.
Aziz Salha, the Palestinian terrorist who rose to infamy for waving his blood-stained hands after lynching two Israeli soldiers in 2000, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Thursday.
and,
The gruesome Ramallah Lynching occurred on October 12, 2000, when two IDF reservists took a wrong turn on the way to their base and ended up in a Palestinian-controlled area.
First Corporal Yosef Avrahami and First Sargent Vadim Norzhich, both aged 33, mistakenly entered the Palestinian city of Ramallah and were arrested by the local police. The two men were dragged to the Ramallah police headquarters, where they were beaten and killed by a frenzied mob amid the chants of “Allahu Akbar.”
The IDF should interpret those red stained hands as a sign to kill this one first. No mercy, no exceptions.
So I see the dock workers strike is over,
NOW WHAT IN THE HELL AM
I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THIS TOILET PAPER?
You can fill up an entire guest bedroom from floor to ceiling like Shannon did in Covid.
😀
Eat a lot of fiber?
This is Iran under the Ayatollah and his inhuman thugs.
It was 12:30 pm on October 12, 2022, when people began to gather, yet no slogans had been chanted.
Women had bravely removed their hijabs, prompting special unit officers to beat them with batons, and to sporadically fire shots into the air. Kowsar’s heart raced with fear.
and,
“My heart was bearing 1,000 times a minute,” Kowsar adds. “I understood my fear was because of the special forces, so I decided to stop, and confront my fear and walk through the line of armed special forces who stood against this silent crowd. I told myself I’d walk through and that nothing would happen to me for not wearing my scarf.”
and then this,
Kowsar tried to run away, but fell, and from the ground she saw two riot police officers dragging two women by their headscarves, strangling both of them “as if they weren’t human beings,” she says.
“I told them to stop,” Kowsar says, “I was lying on the ground, it was right after being shot by paintballs. … The man who threatened to shoot my eye appeared again. He smirked, aimed at my face, and shot me in the eye.”
Kamala’s campaign is desperate now. They’ve had to roll out Obama to campaign in Pennsylvania for her because the state blue collar cohort is polling significantly for Trump.
😀 But dang that even hurt me.
I’m not a guy (at least the last time I checked, you never know when that’ll change!) and even *I* felt that one!
Super Dave
Here’s one I don’t remember.
’61 Olds Starfire, sold only in convertible.
After a two-year hiatus the Starfire name returned for 1961 as a separate model, offered in a single convertible body style. Intended to compete in the growing personal luxury car market, from 1961 to 1965 the Starfire Convertible was the highest-priced model offered by Oldsmobile. While it shared most of its sheet metal with other full-sized Oldsmobile models, the Starfire wore unique trim and luxurious interiors. The Starfire Coupe hardtop joined the convertible for the 1962 model year.
My BIL had one of those but I think it was a 62, red with red interior. The speedometer was a bar that changed from green (slow) to orange (50’s) to Red (60+) I only rode in that car once, way before I got together with my now wife. My cousin Wild Bill and I saw David (BIL) at his mom’s store and he took us for a ride to demonstrate the 180 high speed turn-around he learned at Alabama State Trooper Cadet School. The US 231 was being 4-laned so there was long paved stretch that wasn’t opened yet so he got the Olds up to about 55 MPH and spun it around using the cars power to straighten up and head the opposite direction. What a ride! I’ll NEVER forget that one. Oh and not all cars had enough HP to straighten out the turn. Thanks for the memory, I’ve not thought of this in years. 😀
Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the NASA SLS (Space Launch System), I wrote one. If you’re unfamiliar with the topic, you should read it first.
It is hard to believe four years have gone by, but in all that time, the SLS has launched only once. Time flies when the rocket doesn’t. I don’t often write blogs in a sharply critical tone, so as always, the usual disclaimers apply. I write in my personal capacity as some Guy with an Opinion on the Internet.
This is a long collection of NASA bureaucratic disasters. If you think FEMA is a problem, you haven’t seen anything yet. Here is an example:
As of 2020, Aerojet officially earned $146m per SSME engine that NASA already paid to develop and build and already had in a warehouse leftover from the Shuttle program. For reference, that’s more than the entire purchase price of a Falcon Heavy. Per engine.
In 2023, we learned that despite Aerojet being paid $2.1b to recondition 16 of these engines for SLS, by the end of the contract in 2020 they had delivered only five. NASA’s inability to get a refund for these nonsense “services” already bought and paid for brought the taxpayer’s cost to re-purchase SLS engines to over $420m per engine. Once again, these are engines that NASA already owned – and that cost only $40m each to build in the first place. Not that that’s a good price, SpaceX currently builds the far more advanced Raptor engine for under $1m each, and launches the entire Falcon 9 rocket for less than $20m.
Why is NASA giving $2.1b to a private corporation to (fail to) perform unneeded services on inappropriate engines for a rocket no-one wants?
HT: Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit
Totally privatize the NASA Space Industry? AMEN to that! NASA has been on a downhill spiral since several years before I left. Oh and it saddens me that it had to come to this but years ago I read an article about ALL government agencies eventually becoming a huge bureaucratic mess that could no longer function. 🙁
Finally popping in. I made two rosaries this morning. The first one was so pretty, I hate to give it away, but I can’t keep them all! Went outside to ground myself and start the deconstruction of my garden. It’ll be a slow process, but I took out one bin that was lying fallow. I’m still composting because I just think it’s better than putting my food scraps in the garbage and growing flies. I’ll compost and grow worms, and put that product in my yard.
Next year’s garden will be much smaller, if at all.
Since today is a no meat day, lunch was four eggs with ample butter.
That sure is pretty. BTW; The St Christopher has three rings/loops instead of one so I guess it was made for a Rosary?
Probably. There are different chaplets with different bead configurations, but the rosary is the main one for the Catholic Church. I repaired one this morning which has nine sets of four beads. I need to research which set of prayers goes to that one. But yes, if a medal has three loops, it’s designed to be used as a centerpiece for a chaplet prayer, the rosary being a form of chaplet.
Another example from Casey Handmer’s Blog on NASA projects. This one is infuriating, You wonder America can’t seem to actually create anything anymore ?
The SLS’s [Space Launch System] launch tower now costs far more than the world’s tallest building
In 2019, NASA awarded Bechtel a contract to deliver a launch tower – a glorified steel truss far simpler than the booster catching towers SpaceX assembles in weeks – by March 2023 for a total cost of $383m.
As of today, the OIG reports that the tower will cost $2.7b and is to be finished by September 2027, but more likely 2029. For reference, the Burj Khalifa is seven times taller, contains paying tenants, hotels, and shops, and was built in five years for just $1.5b.
If you had $2.7b in 27 million $100 notes, and you piled them up, they would be so much taller than Bechtel’s non-existent launch tower that you’d need not one, not two, but 23 separate piles to exhaust the supply. Whoever wrote Bechtel’s side of the contract certainly earned their bonus. Whoever wrote NASA’s side should be made to paint the entire structure with a toothbrush – but I expect they’ve long since been on Bechtel’s payroll in some kind of advisory no-show job.
Just heard a report from Elon’s folks on the ground – FEMA is actively BLOCKING their Starlink distribution efforts and is also seizing aid supplies and locking them up.
Not enough spit. in. the. world.
Heads should roll. ™
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Your roundup today includes: Gubernatorial trifecta as Florida’s Governor DeSantis sweeps the executive efficacy field; DeSantis shames feds into activating hurricane relief; encouraging video from Florida’s emergency operations center; Biden bizarrely reports that disaster relief is working across the board; DeSantis saves the supply chain in good news about the dockworker strike; NPR scolds hurricane conspiracy theories on Twitter; and Florida’s Governor leads by focusing hurricane relief on next month’s election.
BTW – I heard an audio clip on the radio (Clay & Buck), where Biden – who’d just “toured” the disaster area – was asked as Biden made his way to his escape pod mobile nap center airplane about relief efforts for the affected folks.
I kid you not – the moron in chief said that folks were getting everything they needed and were quite happy.
Where is the 25th Amendment when you need it?!
The taxpayer’s money doled out so far his year
24.4 billion to Ukraine
11.3 billion to Israel
2 billion to Ethiopia
1.6 billion to Jordan
1.4 billion to Egypt
1.1 billion to Afghanistan
1.1 billion to Somalia
1 billion to Yemen
987,000,000 to Congo
896,000,000 to Syria
9,000 to each illegal alien that has entered the country
Americans that have lost everything to hurricane Helene
750 bucks.
the pull my finger party led by the phony preacher and Kentucky McSwampTurtle love us.
From Outdoors Alabama Weekly;
Hunters Reminded to Keep Safety at Forefront this Fall
Alabama hunters are apparently more aware of the safety aspects of climbing a tree during hunting season. During the 2023-2024 season, only six treestand accidents were reported, down significantly from the average.
Unfortunately, Alabama’s two years without a hunting fatality ended with two this past season.
Michael Bloxom, Hunter Education Coordinator with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ (ADCNR) Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division, said the first fatality occurred during a duck hunting trip in January. The teenage victim pulled his shotgun out of the back seat of the truck with the muzzle pointing toward him when the shotgun discharged.
“That is a classic example of a common accident,” Bloxom said. “Always have the muzzle pointed in a safe direction whether it’s traveling, hunting, target shooting or whatever. And if you’re traveling, it’s better to keep the firearms unloaded and cased.”
The second fatality occurred during a feral swine hunting trip at night in March when another teenage victim was shot by one of his hunting partners.
“They had shot a hog during a legal nighttime hunt,” Bloxom said. “The rifle was slung on the shooter’s shoulder, and they were walking to go get the hog. Apparently, the victim was walking behind. Somehow, that rifle slung around on the hunter’s arm, pointed backwards and went off, striking the victim.
“One thing to point out with semi-automatic rifles or shotguns: Sometimes you think they’re unloaded when actually another round has been cycled into the chamber. The best practice is to remove the magazine and cycle the action to make sure the chamber is clear.”
This is so sad and totally avoidable with a modicum of hunter safety training. 🙁
Biden says you can’t beat me for stupidity ! UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Hold My Beer ! They’re having a toast in Beijing.
The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.
The deal – reached after years of negotiations – will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move.
This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft.
The announcement, made in a joint statement by the UK and Mauritian Prime Ministers, ends decades of often fractious negotiations between the two countries.
The US-UK base will remain on Diego Garcia – a key factor enabling the deal to go forward at a time of growing geopolitical rivalries in the region between Western countries, India, and China.
Mr. C. informs us with the DeSantis relief efforts:
First, DeSantis snubbed Biden and refused to give him a photo op when the meat puppet arrived to shuffle around for the cameras. Good for him.
DeSantis snubbed Biden, not to score political points off the aging vegetable, or because Biden is a quadriplegic lame duck, but because Governor DeSantis is busy. [emphasis mine] Florida’s Governor lacks time for coddling old codgers. Bless him, former Governor (now Senator) Rick Scott volunteered to steer slow-walking Biden around for a couple hours so that DeSantis could keep working.
Joe Biden — who is not busy — wasted a week since Helene tore through Florida’s panhandle before visiting the Sunshine State. There is only one reason Biden came at all, and that was the same reason that FEMA surged 5,000 relief workers and activated its volunteer network yesterday.
Those workers were surged because DeSantis is an effective governor. His ‘Operation Blue Ridge’ was embarrassing the federal government, so the feds had to do something. That something seems to blocking private aid from helping the suffering folks, btw.
Mr. C. has a different reasoning on the response response, but I don’t see why both situations can’t exist:
…. No, Operation Blue Ridge was politically undigestible because it would have strengthened DeSantis. (It would also have highlighted President Trump who, like Florida’s Governor, stepped into the post-hurricane leadership vacuum.)
It’s a good news-bad news situation. Now that FEMA has occupied the territory, assistance from other states and from independent volunteers must follow FEMA’s federal rules. That’s the pro/con of getting the feds involved.
Mr. C. ends with “the feds have more resources” but he may have written it before the stories about how the feds are throttling efforts to provide help.
Whenever I think of the congressional blood money sucking Vampyres, which is all of them, I think of this song.
Here’s the link to the Biden “they are happy” response to a reporter.
https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1842018660191195305
Here’s the actual conversation:
REPORTER: “What do the states in the storm zone need — after what you saw today?”
BIDEN: “Oh, in the storm zone? I didn’t know which storm you’re talking about. They uh, they’re getting everything they need. They are happy, across the board.”
You can’t make this s**t up, folks.
Honestly, I don’t think Biden has any clue what’s going on. He just says stuff now. He has a running list of stock vague answers, meaningless throwaways, which are the intellectually caloric equivalent of a gas-station donut.
I have to agree.
I guess the Cajun Navy has the right idea.
Get in quickly before the Federal Gestapo goons show up.
I remember back during the forest/brush fires in Montgomery/Waller/Grimes counties when people self organized and set up effective food, water, assistance and supplies stations. They were functioning for days before FEMA showed up and tried to shut them down. Those volunteers told the feds to go to hell.
I didn’t know that DeSantis had anything to do with the dock worker strike delay:
I don’t know how he does it. While occupied with catastrophic damage to several parts of the state, a slavering media hot on his heels for any slipup or mistake, DeSantis somehow found time to coordinate help for other states. But that wasn’t all. Florida’s Governor also leaped into the port strike disaster.
Yesterday afternoon, DeSantis deployed the Florida National Guard to Florida’s ports to keep supplies flowing amid the dockworker strike. The Governor was appalled at the looming supply chain disruptions, especially in light of desperately needed recovery efforts for Hurricane Helene.
DeSantis said, nope, that’s not happening on my watch. Here’s his tweet from around two o’clock yesterday:
His response via X (excerpt below):
I can’t pull the excerpt, dangit. Basically, DeSantis said that blocking goods at the ports was unacceptable and he was sending his people (state and national guard) to do the work that the longshoremen weren’t going to do. Tolls would be waived for the trucks and vehicles, and his state troopers were going to make sure that the good were getting from the Florida ports to the devastated areas.
Six hours after DeSantis’ announcement, around nine o’clock, the Longshoremen announced good news! They accepted the deal in the Washington Post’s headline. Suddenly everyone was happy and contented — even though the deal was silent as to the Longshoremen’s top priority of preventing port automation:
It’s possible negotiations were ongoing behind the scenes and Biden Administration officials maintained uncharacteristic discipline about them. But I don’t believe that. The timeline is too compelling.
It seems more likely the Biden Administration decided that after Operation Blue Ridge, it couldn’t afford to let DeSantis again embarrass the feds….. The Longshoremen accepted a generous raise and stood down about the robots. To avoid Taft-Hartley.
/snip
The reason doesn’t matter. The end of the strike before the supply chain collapsed is good news either way. But I think it is not unfair to conclude that Florida Governor DeSantis is single-handedly saving the country.
Ah! Mr. C. *has* heard about the blocking of aid by our (not so) benevolent dictators:
The old “no evidence” gag! In other words, NPR isn’t denying the federal government is withholding aid. They just saying you can’t prove it.
NPR’s claim was a classic example of the argument from ignorance fallacy, ingloriously known as an argumentum ad ignorantiam. The statement, “there’s no evidence the federal government is withholding aid,” implies that the lack of evidence proves it is not happening. But just because there is no evidence yet does not necessarily mean something isn’t happening or couldn’t happen.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
/snip
It’s nice (for Biden) the governors of South Carolina and Georgia praised the federal response. But it doesn’t prove they got any aid; they might just be sucking up, to make sure they’re first in line for a check whenever it comes.
And, what about the governors of Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee? They didn’t praise Biden. NPR was uncurious as to why not.
Not that long ago, there was a day when NPR would have been mercilessly mocked for this kind of weak-minded reporting. Whoever is stage-managing the media these days does not do its best work under pressure.
And finally, DeSantis has issued Executive Orders to allow his affected Florida citizens to vote.
Personally, I won’t be surprised if the liberal legal resources won’t file suit to prevent him from allowing new polling places and changes to mail-in ballots. It’s just too bad that your usual polling place is now a small lake, or it’s only 6″ high since it got blown down, etc.
Here is the letter of endorsement and the many, many signatories for Donald Trump. It starts with former Cabinet members, Gold Star families, lots of lower level officials and then military flag officers, etc.
Hamsters, take time to read the many names and have several quiet moments…. And perhaps a glass of wine to accompany it. 🙂
This judge lays down the law to this self-entitled jerk:
“If there is fresh air in front of her house that you need to breathe, you can’t go there to get it.”
I know something about this. Google Maps ETA. 😀
FWIW; When I left Midland Texas before 4 AM my Garman GPS said I’d be home by 7:29 PM. But after pole-vaulting across Texas and arriving @ the I-20/I-30 split west of Fort Worth my GPS said ETA; 6:58 PM. This thanks to the 75 MPH speed limit but by the time I got to Buc-ees in Terrell it said ETA: 7:55 PM! The traffic on I-20 through Dallas Fort Worth really, really Sux! But I did make it home by about 7:45 PM almost exactly 16 hours after I left, 1055 miles. 😉
My carnivore gurus all tout various forms of salt that comes from the earth or sea, and which contains trace minerals not found in the usual table salt. Most of the recommendations are Redmonds, Celtic sea salt, or Baja Gold (sea salt).
I’m buying a big bag and just put it into a storage bucket. I think it’ll be cheaper than buying the smaller boxes.
My grandpa would be proud.
PS: Not sure why my text got so big. I put in a space, hoping that fixes it.
Speaking of Oldsmobiles, I came across a B&W photo of Mom’s Olds in the garage on Brittmoore with our go cart parked behind it.
But for the life of me I cannot get WordPress to accept it for posting on this blog. I tried cropping it and everything.
It’s nothing special but I wanted to post it in the comments for some reason a couple months ago.
E Mail it to me and I’ll try, you never know. 😉
So far my favorite one is:
“How many Democrats does it take to change a light bulb?”
“None. Kamala tells them she fixed it and they sit in the dark and applaud.”
By the way, it appears that I’m going to be able to tolerate the new glaucoma drops. And they are, mercifully, cheap!!
Thanks.
A win is a win, no matter what form it takes!
During my jog today I was contemplating when exactly did most all of the local and national weather prognosticators tropical reports start to sound like a Richard Lewis stand up comedy act in the 90s?
only diff is they ain’t funny.
For 3 weeks it’s been…well something could form in the gulf but we don’t know yet but we need to watch it but it hasn’t formed yet but it could form or it may form but then again we’re not sure if it will form but the models say maybe it will but there’s no consensus with models so we need to watch it even though nothing’s formed yet but it could form or may form but we just don’t know yet but we need to keep people paranoid and living in fear now because we don’t know if it will form but it could form because the nhc gives it a forty percent chance to form but that means there’s a 60 percent chance it won’t form but we need to watch it cuz it could form or maybe it will form or maybe it won’t form but we need to watch it cuz it could form …
during the composition of this post I subconsciously brought my hand to my forehead many times.
Richard, the original neurotic.
Haven’t seen Duude in a long while.
You still lurking, sir?
Yeah, well, where the heck is Texanadian ? Did Justin Castreaux have him secretly incarcerated ?
Texanadian may already be in his winter cacoon.
🙂
Or they may be in Cancún.
🙂
Nirvana and 45° dew points are promised for next Wednesday.
Until then we will continue nearly breaking records for October temps.
Enough already.
You’ll not hear a single complaint out of me when in February my fingers and ears are painfully frozen.
I promise.
Bring it on.
If I don’t make it to the other side of this extended sneezing fit, it’s been fun.
The ragweed pollen count remains high, and it is making folks who are allergic to it totally miserable. Pass the Kleenex box, please.
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