Guadalupe River State Park between Spring Branch and Bulverde, Texas
I just needed a little peace after all this excitement and before the great, national nervous breakdown.
Tuesday’s Momento de Tranquilidad Open Comments
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Ahh, peace and reflection.
Ok that’s enough, democrats are stoopid!!!
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Headed to Galveston this morning, going out on a boat offshore with family and a few of my wife’s brother’s fishing buddies to deliver his ashes to the sea he loved so much.
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That’ll be great, hows the weather there?
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Clear and still been getting into the high eighties every day. No rain for since the summer I think. Maybe tomorrow or Thursday..
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BIL’s proudest moment, there are pictures, murals, window stickers, T-shirts, everywhere of this thing. His wife is I think still pulling them out buried everywhere lol.
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Reports of ballot boxes being set afire got me wondering if the culprits could be R’s or D’s (since roadside ballot boxes should be legal it might be the R’s). Well it’s reported that a Volvo was seen driving away, so now we know! 😀
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Oh and the O.C. picture is beautiful..
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I often switch the TV to see what the Lunatics are up too, to see just why their hair is on fire today and their panties wadded up. It seems that this morning there is lots of gnashing of teeth and pulling if hair about The Washington Post’s Non-Endorsement of any Presidential candidate.Apparently there is a big conspiracy between Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos?! Who knew? 😀 Also they’re all excited that Kamala is speaking on the Ellipse today, you know, that place where Trump overthrew the US Government and became a Dictator?…..OH WAIT….. BTW; They’re bragging that 20K folks are estimated to show up in Washington. Yeah right, Trump only had 97K show up for his Madison Square Garden rally with 20K inside. 😉
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Yesterday in Houston a domestic disturbance developed into a kidnapping, high speed chase, and a gunfight that the dead perpetrator lost with HPD.
The subsequent investigation had the entire inbound side of the Southwest Freeway shut down for 8 hours.
I’m just curious why it takes 8 hours to gather evidence…shutting down a major Houston artery all day.-
I’m just curious why it takes 8 hours to gather evidence…shutting down a major Houston artery all day.
I’m sure it doesn’t take that long but the Bastards in charge don’t care if anyone is inconvenienced.
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I’ve seen it here when there a one car wreck on I-80. Two fire engines, a big Hazmat truck, two ambulances and about 20 police cars with maybe 8 men actually doing something. The rest of them are standing around telling jokes and slapping each other on the back. This was all for minor injuries and 10 gallons of spilled gasoline while several thousand vehicles sit idling forever.
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I’m just curious why it takes 8 hours to gather evidence…shutting down a major Houston artery all day.
========Short answer: It doesn’t and it should never happen. The reason it happens is that some cops are psychopaths and they get off on causing inconvenience to innocents. They love the power and they love exercising the power at the expense of the citizens.
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As a general rule, the lowest temperature of the day will be one hour after daylight and that makes sense because the earth cools after the sun goes down and only starts warming up after the sun is up. It’s cooler here today, about 63, after the cold front came though yesterday but it was 59 at 5 AM and 60 at 6 and 61 by 7 so I guess that we have a slight southern breeze warming things up. BTW; yesterday’s high was in the mid 70’s and it was 71 on the front porch yesterday about 4 PM so it made for a nice time to be out there.
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General Jack Keene, former Vice-Chief of the US Army, was interviewed yesterday and he covered the contents of Yahya Sinwar’s iPad found after he was killed. Sinwar’s master plan was to break the will of the Israeli people with its savage, barbarism while Hezbollah and Iran covered Israel in ballistic missiles. He knew it would be impossible to conquer Israel in a conventional fight. He thought the Jews would turn against the government and it would collapse. People would give up and leave the Land of Israel…except Iran and Hezbollah didn’t cooperate.
I think the current overwhelming force strategy used by Israel has been long in planning. It has been a last resort choice, but it has always been there. So has the ultimate goal of overthrowing the mullahs in Iran. Read Scott Pinsker…
The novelty and creativity of how Israel made Hezbollah’s pagers go boom so swept away the mainstream media that they missed the larger story: Mossad was certainly aware that placing these pagers in the hands of their enemies would provide a treasure trove of actionable intelligence. Mossad is many things, but they’re not stupid. So they almost certainly embedded tracking devices in all those pagers.
This means the Israelis have been tracking Hezbollah’s “secret” leadership for months — everywhere they go, everyone they meet, everybody in their network.
Furthermore, with Lebanon’s close geographic proximity to Israel, Mossad undoubtedly has spies in Lebanese hospitals. So even if the actual beepers were track-proof, an eyewitness account of who’s hobbling to the emergency room with their balls blown off would tell Israeli intelligence all they needed to know.
And not to mention, all the visitors of Hezbollah’s injured VIPs: They’ll be dropping by the hospital as well. I’m sure that’s going to be very interesting, too. Lots of new data points to glean.
and this,
Those were Iran’s most advanced — and most expensive — air defense systems. (Estimated cost: $150 to $300 million each, so four blown-up systems could be a $1.2 billion setback.) But the issue here isn’t money. It’s vulnerability.
Without those systems, Iran is suddenly vulnerable to threats from the Turkic States, particularly Azerbaijan, as well as Kurdish separatists who have access to drone technology. It can no longer defend itself from the skies.
Seems to me that blowing up Iran’s air defense system would be the first logical move before some kind of a broader campaign.
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Beautiful picture – reminds me of the Medina River below where I lived, in Bandera County… coming up on mountain cedar season, after the first frost… Roses have thorns LOL
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Lettuce keep the cedar fever away as long as possible.
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Jeffrey Carter is a rock star commodities trader and venture capitalist. He was born and bred in Chicago and finally couldn’t take it anymore, leaving his hometown for Las Vegas.
Bottom Line: When a nation has 36 trillion dollars in debt, it cannot get rid of inflation. Even if you have Elon cut 2 trillion out of the budget it will take years to reflect any real reduction in inflation. At this level of debt, even Reagan’s strategy of growing the economy out of debt won’t work.
Carter is a very smart guy and here is his Substack column with not so good news.
Looking at the markets and all the underlying pressures on them, I don’t see how we avoid inflation. I remember feeling a similar feeling in 1992. Bush had messed up the economy by raising taxes and we had a mini-recession. When Clinton was elected I thought there was no way to screw it up. We were going to have a bull market.
I don’t think it matters who is elected President concerning inflation. It doesn’t matter if a million Nobel prize winners say one President’s economic plan will be less inflationary than the others.
Inflation started under Biden and it’s here to stay. Biden and Jimmy Carter are the worst American presidents in my lifetime. Biden is probably worse than Carter all in. He not only was bad economically, morally, and domestically but he also set the world on fire when the right decisions would have kept the potential fire in check. Harris is too dumb to change course.
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Check out this neat picture I found over yonder; Morgan’s Point …ferry landing, 1939.
FWIW; I didn’t know that there once was a Ferry operating from Morgans Point to Baytown but it didn’t surprise me that there might be one before they built the tunnel and not being from Texas I didn’t know when the tunnel was built.
So the Baytown Tunnel was opened in 1953.From Texas Escapes;
“The causeway between Hog Island and Baytown was built in 1933 and the Morgan’s Point ferry began operation then between Hog Island and Morgan’s Point. The ferry service ended in 1953 when the Baytown-La Porte Tunnel was built at the site of Spillman Island in the ship channel. (Washburn Tunnel is located in Pasadena area; it opened in 1950.) The Fred Hartman bridge replaced the Baytown-La Porte tunnel in the 1990s. After the Morgan’s Point ferry was closed, people continued to use the causeway to go to Hog Island to go fishing and crabbing. In 1961, Hurricane Carla destroyed the causeway and the connection to Hog Island.” – Wanda Orton, Columnist and retired managing editor, Baytown Sun
I’ll add that I didn’t know about the causeway from Baytown to Hog Island but looking at Google Maps you can see old bridge pilings at the south end of Lee Drive so that must have been where it was. So can any of youse guys share anything on this? 😉
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When we were little, our next door neighbors had an old family bay house on Morgan’s Point. We never got to go there.
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Edited, yes it works but Hal isn’t letting me post a longer post that has NO bad words? -
Jenna Wang, Tim Walz’s clandestine lover in China.
‘My colleagues couldn’t speak whole sentences but Tim told me that if he closed his eyes and listened it was like being back in America.’
Wang had a friend on the same teaching staff as Walz so she was able to gain access to the exclusive school where she could visit him in his one-bed staff digs.
Over the weeks that followed the lovebirds grew closer, walking in the park and going to dances in the evening where there was less chance of being spotted by communist snoops.
They avoided overt shows of affection in case it got back to Wang’s father Bin Hui, who was an important CCP official and chairman of a labor union in her native city of Guilin.
Walz would travel to Hong Kong and Macau on the weekends – cities that were more or less inaccessible for all but the Chinese elite – and bring back Western-style luxuries like blue jeans, Ray-Ban sunglasses and jewelry.
‘He couldn’t sing and when he tried to dance he found it very hard. I could tell he was in the military,’ Wang said.
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7:46 shannon
Why is it that it takes multiple hours to get a cop to show up (if at all) after a crime, but every wreck or traffic stops looks like someone is passing out free donuts?
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I read yesterday the average response time for a 911 call in Oakland, CA is 98 minutes. That is how bad it is there and it’s due in great part to a proposition Kamala promoted as Attorney General to defund police and decriminalize crimes in the state.
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Super Dave
Here are some more pictures of ferries in Harris county. I cannot find my old info page on all the Ferries that made Houston great darn it. But I have visited many of the old sites. There were several ferries on the various bayous. some only lasted for months and did not have the impact of others but it is kind of fun to see where they were. -
Whoopi unhinged.
Whoopi Goldberg warns Trump will break up interracial marriages by deporting the spouses of white guys.-
What is really terrifying is that there is a significant segment of the population that actually believes the sewage spewing forth from Whoopi’s disgusting maw. I noticed that Joyless Behar-hole was not on the panel; what happened to her?
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She got deported??
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I bet I know, the link is from PJ Media? SO! I’ll leave it out.
BTW; Texpat’s @ 8:19 AM is a must read! Very interesting and informative.
I liked this comment although it’s something that everyone (that pays attention) has known for years.Edited, yup, I copied and pasted the paragraph saying how inept the Biden Harris administration with foreign policy was and that Monkey with a dart Board could do a better job.
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“EVERYTHING YOU NEED to know about business or politics can be learned from Godfather I and Godfather II,” inmate 05635-509 told the assembled group of prisoners in Danbury Federal Correctional Institution.”
– Steve Bannon, teaching a Civics class to fellow Federal inmates. 🙂 -
Super Dave
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Israeli air strikes damaged a military base linked to Iran’s defunct nuclear weapons programme on Saturday, satellite images show.
They did not bomb any active nuke sites
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at around the 4 minute mark on my 11:09 post, there is a young kid carrying what looks to be a rifle. In a war zone. With the IDF nearby. The kid is being used as sniper bait for the negative political value. These people are monsters.
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As I understood General Jack Keene, the IAF in their second or third wave of attack hit the Iranian facilities devoted to development and storage of all the missiles dedicated to carrying nuclear warheads in the future. They didn’t directly hit the factories making the nuclear weapons themselves. The bombs won’t do them much good if they can’t send them.
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Maybe DHL?
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A decent sized truck could carry a nuke and there is no shortage of volunteers to be suicide drivers.
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THIS IS A TEST POST
Detonating Hezbollah’s pagers was the first step of an orchestrated, elaborate intelligence operation that forced its underground network into the open, exposed its leadership, and left it easy pickings for the Israelis.
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Comcast has been doing work in the area, so I now have my internet back. I used the down time to clean one of my problem areas in the house, do some laundry, and wrap Christmas presents. I’ll be toting said gifts to Denton this weekend, since I may not be able to see the kids and grandkids before Christmas.
Sucks. But that’s life. I’ll be grateful and take what time I can with the family, when I can. Being with them just makes my heart smile.
I’ll just have to hug ’em by proxy after Sunday mass.
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After reviewing the offerings so far, I remain (as always) in admiration of how smart some of our Couch Critters are.
But the Morgan’s Point story made me smile, as I remember an amusing story….
As y’all know, Hubby talks in his sleep, usually about work. Waaaaaay back when (maybe even B.C. – Before Children, I think I was pregnant with Lovely Daughter), I was doing my usual insomnia thing and trying to fall asleep, when I heard Hubby start mumbling. I thought I’d have some fun and engage in conversation:
Me: “I’m sorry, what did you say?”
Him: (more audibly) “I need your help.”
Me: “What are we doing?”
Him: “We need to cut and move these pipes.”
Me: “Whose pipes?”
Him: “The lady’s!” (getting a little ticked off now, I guess I wasn’t moving fast enough)
Me: “Which lady?”
Him: “The lady! Who lives here!!!” (I’m really pushing it, I guess. 😀 )
Me: “I’m sorry, I don’t know where we are. Where are we?”
Him: “Morgan’s Point!”
Me: “Oh, okay. Can I help you later? I’m really tired.”
Him: “Okay.” (He rolls over and the conversation is over.)The next morning, I came out of the shower and Hubby was sitting at the dining table, eating his breakfast. I greeted him and then asked what lady he knew in Morgan’s Point. His face went completely white and I thought “Holy crap, I’ve found something!” I began to worry about my marriage.
He asked me why I asked about Morgan’s Point. I explained the nighttime conversation and he started laughing. It turns out that Alfred, his boss and mentor, had sent him on a plumbing job and as Hubby was looking at the map, he saw the name “Morgan’s Point”. He’d heard about it but never knew where it was, so it stuck in his head. The town got woven into his dream. He just didn’t know why I was asking the day after he’d found it on his map.
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Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Only one week left. Your election-countdown roundup today includes: Amazon founder takes to the op-ed section to defend his honor and explain the far-left WaPo’s decision to ghost Kamala; two hundred more papers plus USA Today snub the chortling Veep; Times grudgingly gnaws on Florida’s red-state status and refuses to credit the real cause; wildly ironic accident plagues Treasury Secretary’s defense of the dollar; and surprising trend offers optimism for, mixed with concerns for the futures of, our young ladies and gentlemen.
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First C&C story:
Bezos (Amazon and Washington Post) submitted a very good op-ed about why he didn’t allow the WaPo to offer an endorsement. Basically,
- Folks don’t trust the media.
- Folks don’t trust the media
- By endorsing a candidate, we look biased and untrustworthy.
- Therefore, not endorsing a candidate, because
- Folks don’t trust the media.
It sounds like Bezos may actually try to bring the WaPo back to real journalism. I hear there’s a huge rat exodus from the WaPo ship, which will probably help that effort.
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Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI ‘honey pot’ spies infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaignBottom line: James “The Druid” Comey and his accomplices were out to get Trump as soon as he announced in 2015.
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Mr. C. discusses the news story about the why’s and wherefore’s that Florida went from purple to red, suddenly and unexpectedly. Why?
Florida flipped red for one reason, and that reason’s last name is DeSantis. The federal government’s fascistic overreach set him up perfectly. The hyper-fascistic overreach from Florida’s blue counties armed DeSantis with even more ammunition. And, at some point in early summer 2020, DeSantis made the fateful decision that transformed him into one of the most well-known politicians in the world.
Governor DeSantis defied lockdowns at a time when doing that meant the narrative-enforcing media would immediately savage you and try to destroy your political career. DeSantis did it anyway. He also shut down the Summer of Protest. And he fought to free people —like me— who live in Florida’s few blue counties.
The media’s effort to destroy DeSantis backfired. They just gave him more publicity. The result was that, over the next two years, Florida experienced a red tsunami of Republican in-migration unlike anything that has maybe ever happened in American history. Conservatives across the country fled to Florida in droves. Meanwhile, small herds of liberals moved out, indignantly muttering “deathsantis” to each other all the way up I-75.
These conservative pandemic gains led to Florida’s legislative supermajority, which promptly, after close observation of the 2020 election, started plugging the holes in Florida’s electoral code. Florida was already better than most, but now Florida is one of the most secure states in the country in terms of election integrity. They also resisted mandates and fought Biden every step of the way.
Florida stopped being a swing state all at once thanks both to Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden. But I’m giving DeSantis all the credit.
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Mr. C. brings up the interesting divergence that exists between young men and women: the guys are becoming more religious than the women and more interested in having families. The gals? Not so much.
On the other hand, Generation Z’s men are more likely than its women to want kids and have a family. And, late in the story, the Times noted a shocking but related statistic that: “almost three in 10 Gen Z women identify as belonging to the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community.”
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And … politics appeared to be the gist. Unstated, not explicitly, was the fact that Gen Z’s men seem to be drawn not just to any churches, but to conservative churches … Whereas young women are being repelled and pushed to join woke churches.
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The realignment is bigger than young people’s choice of church. This welcome spiritual trend among men appears only to be a symptom of a bigger realignment. Behold this headline from just four days ago, in the New Yorker. Young men aren’t voting the way liberals want them to, and so they are even more firmly in the woke crosshairs than they even were before: [insert headlines about the problem with men voting Trump]
So funny. Let’s play spot the bias! … When young men vote for Trump, the papers ask what’s wrong with them? But when young women vote for Kamala, it’s portrayed as a positive.
Let’s call that what it is. Propaganda. And it must be influential on young women, who don’t want to have people asking what’s wrong with them.
Do you suppose it’s been completely natural and wholly organic that America’s young women bucked the conservative trend and veered wide left? Or, could it perhaps have something to do with relentless political propaganda and faux peer pressure promising them fake happiness and feeding them terrifying pabulum about the patriarchy?
Indeed.
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Well “Dang” FWIW; This has to be a good book. 😀
Trailer parks. Rednecks with ambition. Media coverage. Murder. Moonshine. Bootlegging. Conspiracy theories. Rasslin’ moves. Hot rods. Duct tape. Mullets and monster trucks. Homemade vehicles. Mazes. Escape tunnels. Safe rooms. Pistols and pursuing leads.
The whole town thinks Willem has already committed two murders. Why shouldn’t they believe he’s committed more?
For the past year and a half, Willem has been an outcast in his hometown. Everyone believes he’s a killer. On top of the murder accusations, his “biofuel/fertilizer” business is failing. He’s well over knee-deep in inventory with no chance of a sale in sight. When Murven, his out-of-work best buddy, volunteers to help him with his daily collection, they discover Willem is stockpiling more than he bargained for as an “entre-manure.”
Once the sheriff gets involved, Willem’s past and Murven’s general reputation slingshot them both to the top of the list of murder suspects. With a little help from an unexpected ally, they escape custody and fight to clear their names of murder. As the news spreads, every busybody and media hog in the county—family, friend or foe—wants a piece of Willem and Murven’s fifteen minutes of infamy.
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It’s a book ? I thought you were talking about your family !?!!
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My @ 3:48 PM, I do love that 69 Ford Custom Long-Bed Fleetside Truck. Judging by the badge on the front fender, she’s likely a 390, V 8 for sure. Did I mention she’s a 4 X 4? 😉
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Ford 390 ci engines….8.5 miles to the gallon.
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Why Did They Lie?’ NBC News Blasted for Falsely Alluding to Beyoncé Performance at Harris Event
If Kamala didn’t bribe her constituents with free entertainment nobody would show up. You do know that her parents used to tie a pork chop around her neck so the family dog would play with her? 😉 -
“As a general rule, the lowest temperature of the day will be one hour after daylight and that makes sense because the earth cools after the sun goes down”
And all these years I figured the hour before daylight would be the low temp of the day.
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We occasionally talk about “crazy eyed women” around here.
But let me tell ya, that Colin Allred dude is one crazy-eyed mofo. Scary.
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I see shenanigans are happening, via a coupla headlines at CFP.
Bucks County shuts down early voting line a few hours early.
Some bat rastard is trying to shut down Trump’s rally in Allentown.Because….SAY IT WITH ME NOW! ….
If Dems can’t win in the arena of ideas, they cheat!
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Texans are headed to nasty New York to play the Jets.
I hope they are all updated on their shots and have updated body armor for their time on the streets.
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I’m headed into town to have supper with the three sisters-in-law.
Which is always a good time.
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RIP. Teri Garr
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I heard about it on the radio. They said she suffered from MS for many years. She was smoking hot in Young Frankenstein.
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One of the biggest disappointments was learning Terri Garr was a very difficult actress to work with and not particularly liked by her fellow actors. They said she could be a real hellbitch. Previously, I had a big crush on her and thought she was really hot, but notice Garr didn’t get a lot of work for decades.
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She had MS.
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Her Highness wants to start chartering planes from Israel the the US so Israelis citizens can vote here. Since US federal judges are going to allow illegals to vote it might as well as be conservative-loving Zionist Jews from Israel.
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I’ll chip in.
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TelAviv to Newark is about 12 hours. I can’t chip in but I’ll volunteer as a flight attendant. As long as I have a first class seat after my 8 hour shift.
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Will you get to wear a short little skirt? And slap the overly entitled Karens?
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After a full day celebrating spouse’s birthday I managed to get time read today’s comments late tonight. Good stuff as usual.
The election seems to be attracting a whole bunch of interested voters on both sides. Though the news folks keep saying that the Republicans have a really large turnout. Hummm. We shall see next Tuesday late at night and in the wee hours of the next morning what has happened.
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