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.
The ragweed pollen count remains high, and it is making folks who are allergic to it totally miserable. Pass the Kleenex box, please.
One of the greatest break up songs ever.
If I don’t make it to the other side of this extended sneezing fit, it’s been fun.
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.
Nirvana and 45° dew points are promised for next Wednesday.
Until then we will continue nearly breaking records for October temps.
Enough already.
Texanadian may already be in his winter cacoon.
🙂
Or they may be in Cancún.
🙂
Yeah, well, where the heck is Texanadian ? Did Justin Castreaux have him secretly incarcerated ?
This is an amazing story.
Born without a uterus, woman finally delivers her first baby following a transplant.
Haven’t seen Duude in a long while.
You still lurking, sir?
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… Read more »
By the way, it appears that I’m going to be able to tolerate the new glaucoma drops. And they are, mercifully, cheap!!
Thanks.
Dr. Malone’s Friday Funnies:
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.”
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… Read more »
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 remembered that when I traveled with Lovely Daughter, I saw the huge salt evaporation farms in the… Read more »
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… Read more »
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.”
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.
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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 guess the Cajun Navy has the right idea.
Get in quickly before the Federal Gestapo goons show up.
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… Read more »
Whenever I think of the congressional blood money sucking Vampyres, which is all of them, I think of this song.
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.… Read more »
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… Read more »
From Outdoors Alabama Weekly; Hunters Reminded to Keep Safety at Forefront this FallAlabama 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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
The C&C today: AMERICA’S GOVERNOR 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… Read more »
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. ™
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 buildingIn 2019, NASA awarded Bechtel a contract to deliver a launch tower – a glorified steel truss far simpler than the… Read more »
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… Read more »
The time has come to totally privatize the space industry. NASA has spiraled into a dysfunctional miasma. 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… Read more »
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… Read more »
OUCH!
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.
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… Read more »
So I see the dock workers strike is over,
NOW WHAT IN THE HELL AM
I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THIS TOILET PAPER?
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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.
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. 😉
And FEMA is shutting down the landfills – here’s first hand reporting.
Just when you thought those poor folks couldn’t have it any worse, add a layer of wissed off yellow jackets.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! 2 Coronal Mass Ejections are headed our way, the 2nd should hit tomorrow.
See a brief clip of Lying Tampon Timmy lying to reporters; note the Fettermonster in the background.
Oh wait, my @ 7:39, they’re saying that the insurance companies are tracking their I phones.