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Friday 100 Club Open Comments

Yes, you have seen these stickers on the back window of cars for years. (Including mine.)

You might be aware that this non-profit was founded in Houston, TX over 70 years ago.

You might even be aware that when an LEO or Fire Fighter dies in the line of duty, this organization hands the family a no-strings-attached check for $20,000.

Were you aware that they now serve 32 Southeast Texas Counties?

The 100 Club also donates life-protecting equipment to local law enforcement agencies and replaces service animals killed/injured in the line of duty.

After that first 20 grand, the average total amount of 100 Club support to that family is $300,000 towards mortgages, scholarships, loans, and other support.

The Harris County Sheriff has lost four Deputies in 2024.  

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71 responses to “Friday 100 Club Open Comments”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    FIRSTICUS!

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It was 69 on the dashboard of my totally Bitchin 2016 F150 this morning in my driveway. On 290 it read 74 and the ‘official temp’ on am740 was 65. 9 degrees is quite a variance in temp.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Never had a “100 Club” sticker but where is our Friday Brunette?! When I saw the header I naturally assumed it was put up by Tedtam but NO, it was Shannon!?
    It’s Friday! Not that it makes a lot of difference nowadays but there it is.
    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I have one in the spit bucket.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    White Privilege, housewives purchasing groceries, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946.

    Private traveling grocery store in company housing project. Black Mountain Corporation, 30-31 Mines, Kenvir, Harlan County, Kentucky…

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Thank you for releasing my post.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Neiman Marcus hired this Dutch guy to run their company in 2018. He moved to Dallas with his “husband” to reorganize the financially troubled company. Geoffroy van Raemdonck did so well they’re having to sell the company to rival, Saks Fifth Avenue, as people are laid off and veteran employees worry their jobs will be gone. On his way out the door, this jackass decides to remove “Christmas” from the world famous Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalogue.

    it was changed “in the spirit of inclusivity as it welcomes customers of all backgrounds, religions and traditions to celebrate the season,”

    The bitter irony here is Herbert Marcus, his wife Minnie, Abraham Neiman and his wife Carrie were two Jewish couples who founded the luxury department store. They started the annual Christmas gift catalogue 98 years ago in what was a project of inclusion if there ever was one. Children of immigrant Jews grow up and create the most fabulous catalogue in the world for Christians – and everybody else.

    Neiman Marcus has quietly removed the word “Christmas” from its iconic, 98-year-old annual gift catalog – and some company insiders gripe that the stealthy switch smacks of woke politics, The Post has learned.

    The swanky retailer didn’t specifically discuss the pivot in a press release last week.

     

    But for the first time ever, it called the glossy catalog — long known for its extravagant gifts, from last year’s $975,000 electric Cadillac to his-and-her Egyptian mummy cases in 1971 — the “Holiday Book” instead of the “Christmas Book.”

    and,

    “If Geoffroy and his team put as much time into running the business as they did on expressing viewpoints about DEI, we would be buying Saks or launching an IPO,” one employee griped to The Post. “Instead, my job is at risk because of our business failure.”

    The Dallas Morning News asked about the name and a spokesperson said it was changed “in the spirit of inclusivity as it welcomes customers of all backgrounds, religions and traditions to celebrate the season,” according to the report.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I find it more than a bit ironic that with all the talk of inclusivity it is always people of faith and those of conservative political beliefs that are excluded with alarming regularity.
      I first became aware of the language take over in the 90s when the new thing was Political INCorrectness. A friend told me that something I said was politically incorrect, my response was firm and immediate: the whole PC thing is to control the language and the debate so that the left always wins. I refuse to play that game.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Almost all the department stores in Texas were founded by Jews. Joskes,
    Sakowitz, Battelsteins, Sanger Harris and of course, Neiman Marcus. The exceptions were Foley’s and Dillards. Hemphill-Wells, a San Angelo/Lubbock story, was the department store for the Panhandle and West Texas. Our great aunt in Lubbock spent her entire adult life working there.

    The prevalence of Jewish retailers in small town Texas was widespread. Most of these stores were started by drummers, traveling peddlers, working out of wagons in early Texas. When they found a town they liked they settled there and opened a dry goods store. I grew up with Levine’s in Sealy, Schwartz’s in Hempstead, Toubin’s in Brenham, all stores with nineteenth century roots.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      When my father died, I learned something about my grandfather. Dad had already shared that his father was a mean drunk, but I also learned that he liked to gamble. I have relatives buried in Rosewood Cemetery because Grandpa used to play poker with Sakowitz and some other high rollers, and won six plots in a poker game. Grandpa’s trade was barber, so I guess Grandpa got to know them that way.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a funny story and all too true. There’s a lot more Jewish blood out there in Texas. You’ll find quite a few German/Polish/Czech/Slav Jewish names in the phonebooks of Central Texas. Most of them don’t even realize their ancestors were Jewish.

    Toubin tells a similar story for the PBS special one-hour documentary, At Home on the Range: Jewish Life in Texas. This story concerns former Washington County Sheriff Goldberg. Toubin states that, “The sheriff we had here was named Goldberg. I got a call from a Goldberg in Houston. He said: ‘Leon, I want to ask you a question. There’s a sheriff in Brenham named Goldberg, is he Jewish?’ So I stopped him on the street one day and said: ‘Sheriff I want to ask you a question. Are you Jewish?’ The sheriff said: ‘Leon, I was probably Jewish. But the family came here and there weren’t any Jewish girls to marry. Everyone intermarried and I’m Lutheran today. But I was probably Jewish at one time.”

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From the crossword; Music genre for BTS? Answer; K Pop,….MmmK I have NO IDEA what any of this means but I’ll look it up.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I think it’s Korean Pop.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Yeah, K-Pop = Korean Popular Music. BTS = Bangtan Boys from South Korea. You can find absolutely anything on-line….Often things you DON’T want to find. 😀

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon and I grew up when visiting downtown Houston for a day of shopping and going to Foley’s was a tradition. I stumbled across this very cool history of Foley’s department stores in Houston that last 105 years. They were a unique and generous member of the civic life in the city.

    Foley’s downtown store was a symbol of the many meanings that Foley’s held for Houstonians – a symbol for Houston’s dramatic re- covery after the Second World War, a symbol for the city’s expanding affluence during the latter half of the twentieth century, and a symbol for the transformation of Houston from a somewhat provincial town into an international center for business and commerce. Perhaps most of all, Foley’s downtown store was a symbol for the kind of management that blends keen business practices with genuine community engagement.

    I believe it was the first department store in Texas to have central air conditioning.

    Newspaper and radio accounts of the Kenneth Franzheim’s architectural plans invited Houstonians to anticipate the grand opening where comfort and luxury would be the shopper’s companion. Plans included an air conditioning system that would saturate the building with cool, electronically filtered air during the summer months. Even during power failures fresh air would pour into the building through intakes in the building walls. Suspended heating pipes would ensure an even temperature throughout the building. The heating and air conditioning plants would be situated in the five-sto- ry garage and service building immediately west of the store, opposite Travis.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I really enjoyed this link, the good old days for sure. 😉

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s good to start work in my jammies. I found some very comfortable ones at Aldi, and they are now my favorites. Anyway, here’s some C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Only eleven more days to go. Your roundup, which ends with a tremendous ‘bang,’ includes: BRICS Summit ends and the BRICS plan becomes clear; Canadian Premier pushes back on professional censorship; scientists self-censor study showing no improvement from puberty blocking drugs; Politico says the quiet part out loud and offers President Trump a deal; more news of markets trending toward Trump victory; and President Trump quietly reveals his October Surprise and it’s even bigger and better than we could possibly have imagined.

  13. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    I knew one Jewish girl, growing up in Abilene – in the 3rd grade… the whole class wanted to convert because Rebecca got all the regular holidays along with all the Jewish ones…

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Heh !

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Victoria Taft has a very good article on election integrity with a report by Monica Eaton, an internationally recognized cyber fraud executive.

    Cyber security professional Monica Eaton knows what the nation’s up against in maintaining fraud-free elections because her companies attempt to do the equivalent of that every single day. But “in our professional opinion, our voting systems are extraordinarily vulnerable.”

     

    Eaton is the founder and CEO of Chargebacks911, an anti-fraud company, and Fi911, a financial payments company, as well as chief information officer of Global Risk Technologies. She knows how hard it is to detect fraud in global finance with the constant swiping of cards all over the world and has “successfully protected over 15 billion digital transactions from every single state and territory in the United States of America—and 87 countries worldwide.” 

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Two old men are sitting on a bench in the park. A young, attractive girl runs by in a sports bra and shorts. One of the men smiles, and the girl comes over, asking, “Why are you grinning at me, you creep?” The old man replies kindly, “I’m not smiling at you, I’m smiling because no matter how tough life gets, seeing pretty young girls in summer always makes an old man feel better.” The girl, touched, kisses him on the cheek and jogs away. The old man then turns to his friend and says, “3-0, your turn.

    😀

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The BRICS summit ended, but Mr. C. reports it’s much more dangerous than just moving away from the dollar, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT:

    It turns out they aren’t creating a new currency to compete with the dollar. It’s much more ambitious than that.

    /snip

    The “Group of Seven” (G-7) used to be the world’s biggest economies. (Plus Canada.) Not anymore. Bloomberg said that in just the last six months, BRICS has surged ahead of the stumbling G-7 group in IMF forecasts:

    The BRICS folks are surpassing the G-7 economies without even trying, thanks to our glorious leadership. /spits/ The sanctions imposed by Biden are, according to the Russian leader, pushing the BRICS folks into creating their own alternatives to the established economy. As my Midwest Magic Cleaning guy likes to say: “Suck it”. This involves creating a new international payments platform, instead of using the current system called SWIFT Forget the IMF.

    Kinda like how crypto is bypassing the established banking systems.

    …SWIFT is U.S. created and effectively controlled, even though it is ostensibly privately owned and supposedly located in Belgium. The thought that SWIFT is at all independent is a great gag that everyone at the State Department always guffaws about making them cough champagne up their noses.

    There are many countries that think that their SWIFT privacy is being invaded by the US, mainly because it was exposed by Snowden. Problem #2 is that the US abuses its power by trying to bully the other folks at the table into doing things they may not want to do. Schoolyard bully tactics, so to say.

    … like teach their kids trans techniques, by threatening to cut them off from SWIFT, or snatching their money as it travels through the collected SWIFT system.

    Russia, for example, is cut off from SWIFT under U.S. sanctions. And $300 billion of its money was seized while sitting in a SWIFT clearinghouse bank. The implacable Russians are great poker players, you can’t never tell if they’re at all mad about Biden snatching their $300 billion or exploding their undersea pipelines.

    But you can imagine how mad the Russians must be.

    The Russians are mad enough to spend their time and money leading a world movement to replace the G-7 and its captive SWIFT system. Which would be horrible for us.

    Once BRICS has its own interbanking system, they won’t need to trade in dollars anymore, not unless they need something from the U.S. or from a G-7 country. For complicated reasons, the reduced demand for dollars just from those lost transfers will drastically worsen our debt problem. And maybe more important for BRICS countries, the U.S. won’t be able threaten sanctions to force them to swallow every lunatic social experiment that comes down the liberal U.S. pike.

    Not only would a competing banking system tank our economy due to reduced demand for our dollars, it will remove our advantage in trade because SWIFT won’t be, well, so swift anymore. We’ll lose a big stick that we’ve been able to wield with impunity for so long.

    The BRICS pitched their interbanking system yesterday as a non-threatening “alternative” to SWIFT, rather than any kind of direct competitor. Having choices, they stressed, just improves everyone’s outcomes. But that logic is like claiming that when you parked your taco truck right next to Jose’s taco truck, it is actually better for Jose’s taco trade since diners like different choices of tacos.

    Jose is not likely to agree. Jose is likely to go loco.

    BRICS is not yet ready to switch the new platform on. But this week’s Summit was so significant that many articles, while not drawing a direct comparison, mentioned “Bretton Woods.”

    Bretton Woods was the famous (or infamous) 1945 meeting where the winning countries after World War II created the international banking system, the IMF, and the World Bank. Yesterday, BRICS argued that things have changed since 1945. It’s like the G-7 is a seasoned citizen still using an iPhone 7. You can’t install any new apps. The international monetary system needs an upgrade.

    The U.S. could shut this BRICS initiative down easily and immediately. All we need to do is reform SWIFT. If the U.S. stopped using SWIFT to sanction other countries, and SWIFT opened up its system transparently, and the U.S. stopped using SWIFT for spying, then BRICS would be unnecessary.

    And everyone would keep trading in dollars.

    In other words, we could rescue the dollar. We only need to give up the ‘dirty tricks’ tool we use to force other countries to make their kids sit through drag queen happy hours. But Biden’s neocons won’t try that simple remedy, will they? They’ll let the dollar be destroyed before they give up their economic wonder weapon.

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Awwww hell nahhhhh
    Salt on water melon?
    no No NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Revolting.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Only a man of refined taste would understand. Especially if his mother taught him to like it.

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I normally do not indulge in my more tender moments when shopping, but this brought a tear to my eye.
    HEB knows from where their bread is buttered

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      At least they finally started making it with real beef so you don’t have eat that fake meat and beans anymore. Are the beans real too or just the beef ?

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        real beans, good eating right here maynard

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    After some encouraging news from Canada re a new, more reasonable elected official (as opposed to those who operate like Trudeau), there’s a story that broke over the last few days about a report about trans kids and how not-helpful puberty blockers are for them. IT WAS WITHHELD because it didn’t fit the agenda.

    But…but….but…it’s all about taking care of the kids! No, it’s offering them up to Satan and having a politically correct trophy kid instead of getting them the mental health help they need.

    Johanna expected to confirm that hypothesis. She is a trans activist and has often been an expert science witness in high-profile trans cases. But the results of Johanna’s study unexpectedly went the other way.

    SHOCKER! /not/

    And, in addition to the mental health issues, there are the permanent physical injuries and mutilations, like a lifetime “micro penis,” an organ that will forever remain child-sized, even after detransitioning. And a weakened kidney system.

    But that’s not even the stupidest part. Fake vaginas are made by hollowing out and “inverting” (don’t ask) the male member. But if the member is micro-sized, doctors can’t make a fake vagina out of it. It’s not deep enough. There’s not enough skin there to do anything useful. So giving boys puberty blockers ensures a bad result from their “gender-affirming surgery.”

    You will have to explain how any of that makes sense to trans advocates, because I cannot. I think it must have something to do with a related condition called, “micro brain.”

    I hadn’t thought of that. I’ve heard of fake vaginas with painful hair growing inside, and successive infections which can, over time, threaten the very life of the individual. It’s gotta suck to go through puberty blockers anticipating a “fully female” transition, and then have a vagina that won’t even allow a “normal” sexual experience.

    But then Mr. C. makes this very important point about the credibility of our academia and medical “professionals”.

    That being said, there’s a second ugly facet to this tarnished story. What does this self-censorship say about our credentialed class? What does it say about the whole academic publication racket that withholding politically inconvenient results is considered business as usual? How many scientific studies are never published because of politics?

    Why do scientists pretend like the academic journals are some kind of sanctified source of unbiased science?

    I feel like everyone involved in the academic enterprise knows about all these problems but hides it from the rest of us, since if we really knew how things work, we would pay even less attention to scientists.

    Just one more nail in the coffin regarding “trusting the science,” as Texpat and others have brought to our attention here on The Couch.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And one more attack on Trump and the current election cycle:

    They just couldn’t stand it anymore and had to say it out loud, to make sure Trump got the message. Yesterday, Politico ran an ugly story headlined, “A Modest Proposal – A Deal to Stop Trump From Trying to Overturn the Election.” You already knew this was why they prosecuted him six ways from Sunday, but now they’ve spelled it out in painstaking detail.

    /snip

    Instead, Juleanna has pitched us a deal: What if the federal and state prosecutors running rings around the Trump lawsuits circus all agreed to drop their charges if Trump will just say he lost the 2024 race?  Just say the words.

    Juleanna compared the potential deal to Judge Merchan’s gag order. She pointed out that Trump actually complied with the gag order — shocking far-left partisans who believe President Trump is mentally and ethically incapable of waiting for a crosswalk signal, much less controlling what he says.

    Intentionally or unintentionally, Juleanna gave away the whole sordid game. Her proposal is not new. The lawsuits were always about coercing Trump to say he lost. That’s how political lawfare works. If Trump had dropped out, the lawfare would have magically vanished. Biden would have generously pardoned him, to avoid humiliating and dividing the nation.

    But, it’s too late now, Juleanna. Too late.

    He’s opening a can of election whoop-a$$ on them all.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And Trump is giving the left more heebie-jeebies, actually saying out loud that he may be considering trashing the whole income tax system and relying on tariffs. According the story I read yesterday, this was how we funded our government before the income tax was instituted.

    Personally, I like a consumption tax. NOT a VAT tax, just a basic sales tax on non-basic items. Then everyone, rich and poor, will have skin in the game. We’ll have the option of how much want to pay in taxes by determining what we can afford by choosing what we want to buy. And, more importantly, it removes the whole “social engineering” aspect of taxation, where our glorious leaders get to determine winners and losers, and wealth redistribution as a tool to buy votes is drastically reduced. Just my two cents.

    It is finally all coming together and making sense. Tax cuts and tariffs, as explained in the article’s subheadline: “The former president has repeatedly praised a period in American history when there was no income tax, and the country relied on tariffs to fund the government.”

    The news story I read called this “regressive,” since higher tariffs mean things will cost more, which will affect the poor more than the wealthy.

    Tariffs are taxes. But suddenly, after being confronted with Trump’s plan, the New York Times has miraculously discovered that, get this, corporations pass taxes along to customers. I’d almost given up hope. …

    I remember being a Bible study with some friends, which almost always devolved into a political discussion (RIP, dear ladies). I remember one woman saying how she was happy to see that companies were being made to pay more, “it’s only fair”. I pointed out to her that I, as a business owner, treated taxes like other expenses such as payroll and vehicle maintenance. It was a cost of doing business, and I had to include that expense in our prices or else we’d go bankrupt. “Companies don’t pay taxes, they collect them,” I told her. Her face fell as she quietly said, “I didn’t realize that.” She was sweet, but like most libs, has no idea of how the economy really functions.

    So … Kamala’s plan to increase the corporate tax rate will also increase prices. In other words, her plan will accomplish the exact opposite of lowering inflation. Noted. Thanks, New York Times, for the helpful admission!

    The cowardly Times disabled the comments section for this story.

    But now, you can see the whole thing. Perhaps this is Trump’s October surprise, the unplayed card that Trump held in reserve (and is still keeping the details close to his chest). End the income tax and fund the federal government through tariffs. So simple. Even if it did result in higher prices for foreign goods and services (encouraging domestic alternatives, by the way), it would just be a sales tax.

    As Trump pointed out, this can easily work. We’ve run the country this way before, for a long time. This is exactly how we used to do it. The proposal is simple, elegant, and practical. But economists never thought of it, which is why they’ll oppose it.

    Only President Trump could have proposed something so radical and right.

    Experts and economists will be badly triggered by all this talk of tariffs. They get obsessed with tariffs in a very Rain Man-ey sort of way. Maybe tariffs do impose some external costs. But there is no possible way to calculate the offsetting, galactic-sized boost our economy would experience from drastically reducing or eliminating the hated, productivity-killing income tax.

    Nobody saw this coming. Media will do everything it can to suppress it. But Trump’s plan could produce the greatest economic boom this country has ever seen, a thousand times bigger than the gold rush. Only Trump could pull it off. It’s incredibly encouraging.

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat
    Ya need to watch the WDT. In it you will find why Trump is going to be ham strung in the world if he wins. Trump’s power came form the fact that he always bargains from a position of power. when he was resident of the
    US he improved the economy making us a power house again and he could use that position to “bully” other countries into his will. David goldman points out, brilliantly I must say, how the world rallied to the Russian’s side nullifying steps Biden took to collapse Russia.

    Russian Iran are solidifying their relationship slowly but there are getting there.

    For Russia, closer ties with Iran are necessary to increase pressure on America and create a de facto united front against the U.S. from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf. Despite occasional rifts such as that over the Zangezur Corridor between Azerbaijan and Turkey, cooperation continues based on a shared view of the international system and a common understanding of mutual threats.

    BRICS is struggling but remember that it was created to counter United States power. Without BRICS China and India rallied to Russia’s side countering Biden’s ham fisted intention to sink Russia. The die has been cast.

    MAGA sounds good but at best we may find our country even more isolated in the world. It has to be and i think we are seeing just more steps in the deteriorating condition of our country.
    

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Thanks, I didn’t see back then. There are a handful of people I stand in complete awe of and David P. Goldman is one of them. I started reading him and posting about him when he was writing a column for the Asia Times back in the LST days.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Today is Meglet’s birthday, not sure how old she is but she’s about daughter’s age. I remember back in the LST days she was just a kid. BTW; she has 5 young-uns. 😉

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    They look the same to me. I can’t tell the difference.

    The Democratic Party had a convention in Madison Square Garden in 1992 to nominate Bill Clinton.

    The German American Bund had a pro-Hitler Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939 to support Hitler.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    No wonder Kamala has been running such a bad campaign.

    A controversial former Roman Catholic archbishop who was excommunicated earlier this year has told American Catholics there is “no question” they have to vote for former President Donald Trump — because Vice President Kamala Harris is “an infernal monster who obeys Satan.”

    Carlo Maria Vigano, who served as the Vatican’s ambassador to the US from 2011 until 2016, penned a fiery open letter to American Catholics in which he said this November, they must “choose between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation.”

    “The choice is between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan,” Vigano wrote.

    “For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy,” he said.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I saw that headline. I love Vigano. I wish he could be our Pope, but alas, he’s just trying to keep from getting suicided or all-out homicided, like Cardinal Pell.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    So this morning Her Highness was out in the sunroom area at the rear of the house with the 10 month old granddaughter. I was in the study and heard her screaming. I ran to them and discovered there was an eight point buck drinking out of the birdbath. He was getting ready to feast on the three large hibiscus shrubs I have on the paver patio. When I stepped outside and hollered at him he took off like a rocket, unlike the does who just stand there and stare me until I scream at them a few times.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I wish you’d have snapped a picture.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was trying to find information this morning on the Texas 7th Congressional District race with Lizzie Fletcher and the Republican opponent on Houston’s westside. Anybody know anything about it ???

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      I haven’t seen a single ad for Lizzie which is unusual. She may not have a Republican opponent.
      There is much gnashing of teeth about the dearth of Republican candidates in Harris County. Talk of stringing up the local Party leadership.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        A woman named Caroline Kane is the Republican nominee. She doesn’t even have a hotlink to her campaign page on Ballotpedia.

        Even more depressing news about our old stomping grounds is the 2024 Democratic primary of the 7th District drew 37,581 votes and the Republican primary drew only 5,034.

        John Culbertson must have been worse than we thought. He buried the Republican Party and poured salt on the grave on the Houston westside.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The line to vote is out the door at the Washington County Courthouse in Brenham.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Decided to treat myself to a Trump Burger.
    Keep that mojo goin’.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fight fight fight

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My guy

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      They both look like Hitler to me.

  32. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Just finished reading the comments so far today after a long day filled with several had-to-do items that are done.

    It’s a lovely sunny day in the dry upper 80s out here on the other side of the Brazos across from Richmond.

    We are happy to have voted yesterday in the early afternoon, as the wait outside the polling place was almost 30 minutes. But we think the crowds will get larger the closer to the voting day comes. The actual voting took about 10 minutes when one had carefully looked at the folks running for office for several days before, so we knew who we wanted to vote for before setting foot into the polling place.

    Doing your homework before makes it much easier than fumbling through the list on the voting machine for the first time, And that’s a great way to annoy folks waiting in line behind you who have done their homework. Voting is not a game, it is our duty as citizens.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think I’m skipping dinner. I had tuna fish salad (with my homemade mayo and two chopped up hardboiled eggs) and my first ever can of sardines.

    I am not only full, I am fished out for the day. This being Friday, my usual diet of bacon, beef, and chicken wings are verboten until tomorrow. If my appetite recovers, I can have some eggs. I’ve hit my protein target for the day, but lag a bit on the fat percentage, so I am having a “fatty latte” in lieu of dinner. Still behind on the fat numbers, but here’s hoping it encourages my body to burn more of mine.

    I did get some exercise in. I really felt like moving today, so I put on a channel in my Pandora that would have some danceable music. The way I dance is a workout, but I also had my step handy and did some step aerobics when the tempo was right. Hand weights. Not a hard core workout, but enough to wake up the heart rate a bit.

    Progress is slow, but I am sticking to the plan. If things don’t start improving – moving faster, that is – soon, I may join the “Steak and Butter Gang” and get some coaching for a month or two. I’m pretty sure they’re going to say I’m not eating enough, but holy moly I’m just. not. hungry. Supposedly, once my body gets used to “being fully nourished” it will rev up my metabolism.

    Don’t know that I’ll ever be able to sit down and eat a pound of bacon, a ribeye, and five eggs like some of the guys I’ve seen. But they work out pretty hard, so there’s that….

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      You’ve never eaten sardines before ?

      1. Tedtam Avatar
        Tedtam

        Nope. My closest brush with them was when a high school basketball player opened a can on the bus before we left for a game. I remember everyone going “ewwwww!” and so I’ve never wanted to try them.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Things are blowing up all over Tehran. I can’t imagine why. Blinken has demanded some targets be removed from the list. The miserable bastard.

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

    Who knew that slick willie Nelson would become a 91 year old supporter of the totalitarian communist party.

    the party that supports mutilating little Johnny so he can become little Janey.
    the party that supports men kicking the sh!t outta women in women’s sports.
    the party of death, destruction and chaos.
    the party of big IRS.
    remember the irs willie?
    you really are one stupid son of a biscuit eater Willie.

    My ode to willie…

    to the overrated country singer bore
    whom I never bought a record before
    you sit alone atop my list
    so shove it all the way up with a fist
    To you the biggest country singer bore.

    f you willie.
    you need to be deported from Texas.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Don’t do business with cokehead, pothead celebrities.
      
      My father bought a couple of lots on the golf course & subdivision Willie was developing in west Austin years ago. Then the IRS showed up and said, “Hey, you owe us $50 million bucks in unpaid taxes and they seized Willie’s development. Dad had to sell the lots at a big loss.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dr Phil sighting!
    Glad you’re okay and not in some FEMA camp.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Yet.

  37. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Iranian sources: An explosion occurred at the Iranian Ministry of Defense in central Tehran

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The Iranian Fars news agency: military bases west and southwest of Tehran were attacked

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Iran is getting the attention it deserves in this mish/mash. Doesn’t say attacked by whom, though one immediately thinks who did it?

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

    Always believe the government because they’re here to help.

    https://www.noaa.gov/news/fact-check-debunking-weather-modification-claims

    was this debunking sponsored by Pfizer or snopes?

    not saying I but into it 100% but when you have a government that does nothing but lie, well….

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

    Tonight on crossfire

    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/08/20/earth-science/japan-typhoon-control-research/

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a diminished show of force by Israel. Biden/Harris/Blinken demanded tonight various targets be taken off the list. I’m not talking about oil & gas or nuclear sites either.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I finished watching Mayor Of Kingstown. There are three seasons of this series by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone).

    It’s pretty dark…but what Sheridan show isn’t? I still enjoyed it.

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Reports of explosions at the Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital were also received.

    Arab media reported that Israel attacked the location of the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Iran.

    There were no planes flying over Syria or northern Iraq during the time of the suspected attack. Iran closed its airspace following the attack, according to Maariv. 

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got a text message, appeared to be a wrong number from someone looking for their ride. We began texting back and forth a bit – she’s from New York, I mentioned Texas. “Alisa” began asking to be friends through a wrong number, but would I be friends with an Asian? I responded that I’m a conservative, we don’t care much about race, but more about what’s inside a person.

    After a bit more, the desire to be friends got to be creepy, and I cut it off.

    I wonder if this is how some predators are trying to reach targets now, with random phone numbers to see what kind of response is received? Did I just “talk” with an AI bot crawling the phone space looking for victims?

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just blocked the number and I’m restarting my phone. We’re supposed to restart them periodically anyway, to keep bad guys from using them in the background.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    These people are total financial idiots. They are in hock up to their eyeballs, and this blonde bimbo finances her boob work on her credit card. Among other things.

    I’m ashamed to say they live in Houston. I’ll be they voted for Turner.

  47. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    American officials: 
    “We received an update from Israel that the attacks in Iran will continue for several hours”.

    he Sky News network reports: the Israeli attack consists of several stages – the first stage is the destruction of the Iranian air defense systems.

    Now that most air defense systems have been neutralized – the Israeli fighter jets are dominating the skies of Iran and begin THE REAL MISSION!

    Sky News: Israel attacks sites used for the production of missiles and drones.

  48. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The Syrian Ministry of Defense admits that Israel attacked a number of military facilities of the Syrian army tonight (apparently these are Syrian air defense systems)

    From a close friend of mine:

    I am following large Arab and Iranian channels. It’s absolutely amazing that, in the 21st century, they think they can convince their followers that the largest Israeli Air Force mission didn’t hit any targets

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The poor auditor guy in my 9:01 link is trying hard to keep it together, but these two gems of colossal ignorance are really making it difficult.

  50. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Well, we all knew that Israel was going to defend itself until the threats of Iran and Syria were quashed tout de suite. Apparently, Israel is doing that now. They warned their intentions to defend themselves in no uncertain terms.

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