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Wednesday’s American Left Mental Crisis – Open Thread

They have learned nothing and they know nothing anymore. It is truly shocking.

How honest are we about our ignorance? How honest do we want to be? In answer to that eternal question, which is—or should be—of particular interest to reporters, the 20-page, 12-essay onslaught of postelection “dispatches” that dominates the latest issue of The New Yorker is one of the most honest pieces of magazine publishing we are likely to ever see. Some of the greatest minds in America have gathered in the pages of the country’s leading weekly to declare how little they understand things now, and how little they care to understand them moving forward.

and,

The New Yorker drew together some of its highest-end chroniclers of the American zeitgeist, who then reveled proudly in their own attachments to in-group biases and cliches. They celebrated a kind of communion with their suffering readership, who found comfort in the certainties these writers gave them. This communion is grounded in ignorance. “I was alarmed by the number of white men who had shown up to vote,” the short story writer Lorrie Moore recalls of her polling place, refusing to interrogate her alarm. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan introduces us to two Trump voters she met while door-knocking for Kamala Harris in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but they turn out to be a racist and a loner, exactly the types of people we needn’t trouble ourselves over.

If, in fact, these people dominate leftist thought and policy in America for the next two generations, the absolute dominance of consevative polkicy and leadership will last beyond my lifetime.

and enjoy this bit of disturbing revelation,

“American Fascist,” Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s contribution, uses some variation on the word “fascist” 44 times across two and a half pages, along with 15 combined mentions of Hitler, Mussolini, and Putin. One imagines the interior of Snyder’s brain as a scarcely endurable popcorn machine, a rhythm of repetitive hissing and clicking that produces buckets of nearly identical thought kernels. Perhaps silence would be even harder for Snyder to endure.

These people have power and they must be defeated, crushed and damned.

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Delicious piece. RTWDT

    Wife and I both are dealing with some kind of viral thing going on and steroiding to the max. Helping a lot but sleep, not so much.

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    This is probably been known but I did not know Taylor Sheridan’s Landman is the TV version of a podcast called Boomtown. I’ll have to give it a listen.

    “Boomtown was a labor of love for all of us who worked on the podcast, and nobody could have hosted but Christian, a West Texas native with roughneck experience and fantastic narrative chops,” Creydt said. “It’s a thrill to see this story and world in Taylor Sheridan’s hands and to know Christian has been so integral to a series we’re all going to be glued to.”

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/press-room/landman-official-trailer/

  3. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    re: O/C: These people are mentally and emotionally DAMAGED, they need to be institutionalized with the hope of introducing sound thought processes. Most probably can not be salvaged. I have had more than enough of these people and I loathe the destruction they have wrought on our country and the world.
    The first thing to do to heal the crazy person is to get them to admit that their ideas are flawed and their thought processes are flawed. Trying to deal with someone on an intellectual basis before this is a fool’s errand.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Speaking of destruction…the implosion of the feminine ideal and role in modern Western civilization has been shocking to me. Obvious to any serious thinker now is the fact political feminism, like modern liberalism, has always held and nurtured the seeds of its own demolition.

    If a society regularly murders its own babies and sells their innocent body parts to laboratories, it will eventually lead to this and worse.

    Keep Brain-Dead Women Alive and Use Them as Surrogate Mothers

    This evil idea first appeared out of Norway 10 months ago. The articles I’ve found about it are all behind paywalls.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I can’t imagine that a healthy baby can be produced by AI on a brain dead woman. Best case scenario is that it is an ideal way to produce psychopaths who have no concept of love.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Heh

    One imagines the interior of Snyder’s brain as a scarcely endurable popcorn machine, a rhythm of repetitive hissing and clicking that produces buckets of nearly identical thought kernels. Perhaps silence would be even harder for Snyder to endure.

    • I love that. Oh and not sure where the Dot came from but I can’t erase it without getting rid of everything.
    • BTW; RTWDT and I hope I have time to go back and click on some of the link.s
    • Mornin’ Gang
    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Yeah. That dot appears with certain Copy/Paste actions. It’s a pain to work around.

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Drain the SwampLarry P. ArnnPresident, Hillsdale College

    This guy has a pretty good handle on what is and what should be. RTWDT

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the O.C. piece. It seems to me that after the election the left went into;
    1) Denial, say it ain’t so!
    2) Modest self reflection, like really, it couldn’t be us, could it?.
    3) Then back to Nope, not us we’re good but we still can’t understand how 77 million IDIOTS voted for Trump.

    Which brings us back to this;

    If, in fact, these people dominate leftist thought and policy in America for the next two generations, the absolute dominance of conservative policy and leadership will last beyond my lifetime.

    ~SIGH~

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh, Emily Compagno is on Fox this morning, can you say legs? 😀

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Yes, she may win the legs contest at Fox, but did you know Emily used to be an Oakland Raiders cheerleader ?

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Emily is whip smart, articulate and beautiful. One of the lucky ones.

        1. Super Dave Avatar
          Super Dave

          She also owns a 72 Mach 1 Mustang.
          Not a big Ford fan but I approve. Very nice machine. 😉

      2. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        Error 1011 Ray ID: 8e9292003acf2ca6 • 2024-11-27 13:47:28 UTC
        Access deniedWhat happened?The owner of this website (ultimatecheerleaders.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tiffany217.jpg).

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          I’m not having any problem with the link. ???

          1. Bonecrusher Avatar
            Bonecrusher

            I just tried again with the same unfortunate result.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Another battle won that deserves celebration. Slay the Modernists trying to dehumanize our history and environment.

    Before (left) and after (right) of the interior of Notre Dame.

    Modernists lost this battle, so instead of a glass spire and partially destroyed vaultings everything was reconstructed as it was. Architects, for example, made sure that the former Medieval assymetrics in the central vaulting with the oculus (which was there due to lack of precision tools) became recosntructed exactly as it was before.

    The walls and windows have been cleaned of centuries of grime and a new adjustable lighting system has been installed rendering the interior of the church ever brighter.

    The Holy Mass of rededication will be celebrated on December 8.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That is great!

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      What an amazing feat: The French actually got something spot-on correct. BRAVO!

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Last call run to the grocery store.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Hold on, let me check my list

      1) Beer

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        😀

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This is neat; A 1948 Craftsman 2 Man Chainsaw. 103 CC, not sure about the HP but it cost $405 new, that’d be $5305 in today’s dollars!

  12. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m ready.

  13. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Shoulda mentioned before.

    Those of you who use lots of fresh herbs for your turkey should go out front of HEB and buy the plants. You’ll spend a lot less and get a lot more than with those sprigs in the produce section.

    You’ll wind up with a plant that’ll make more and more and more after. For free.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    As someone who for 70 years could fall asleep effortlessly, but now suffers a lot insomnia, this sounds worth trying.

    The Alpha Bridge Method

    Dubbed the “alpha bridge method,” the technique is thought to have been originally developed by the US Navy for pilots who needed to snooze on command.

    The sleep hack has taken the TikTok by storm thanks in part to psychologist Erica Terblanche, whose viral video has amassed 1.4 million views. Fans are raving about its effectiveness, and sleep experts say there’s science to back it up.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Insomnia tends to run in my family; I will definitely pass this on. Thanks.
      I have become somewhat of a NAZI when it comes to my bedroom; there are only 2 things that happen in there and watching TV is not one of them. I rarely eat in the evenings and I try to disengage from aggravation for a while before I turn in.

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Netanyahu responds (harshly) to the ICC arrest warrant.
    Quick take: Go pound sand you anti-Semitic slime-balls.

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      And likely a whisper of what will happen in the afternoon after President Trump’s swearing-in…. on the topic of that arrest warrant.

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Thanksgiving dinner done right

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    BSue and I are doing our traditional Thanksgiving day drive. We will have our Thanksgiving feast at Kellys Diner La Margue. BSue will have the Turkey dinner with all the fixens. Me? Either chicken fried steak or shrimp dinner. Good stuff right there.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That sounds like a good plan, is Kelly’s a zoo on Thanksgiving?

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Super Dave. Not really. We have never had a problem getting in getting service getting food and getting out.

  18. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So Diana sent me a friend request and had this to say;

    Wow your post is amazing, I checked your profile and you always seems to share great articles and beautiful photos I’m very happy to meet a kind and handsome Man like you, I really want to add you as friends but failed please add me or write me a message thank you so much.

    I’m thinking that there is more to this than she’s saying. 😀

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      HUSSY sent me the same thing last week. I thought she was really interested in. me alone. I’m hurt. You can have her.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Her last three boyfriends died mysteriously and the medical examiner declared each as “undetermined cause of death.” Meanwhile, Diana has bought a new condo in Monaco.

        1. Super Dave Avatar
          Super Dave

          😀

      2. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        😀

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Danger

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        I like that!

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve mentioned this study and the refusal of NYT and Bloomberg to publish at the last minute. Someone at the NYT leaked the decision was made out of fear the snowflake newsroom with go on strike. Pathetic.

    An NCRI researcher told National Review, “Unfortunately, both publications jumped on the story enthusiastically only for it to be inexplicably pulled at the highest editorial levels. This has never happened to the NCRI in its 5-year history.”

    An editor for Bloomberg News’s team meant to “elevate issues of race, gender, diversity, and fairness,” Anna Kitanaka, told NCRI that the story would not be published. However, Ms. Kitanaka did not provide any explanation for the decision.

    Meanwhile, a reporter with the Times told the NCRI that the paper would “hold off” on its article about the study because of “some concerns.” However, the reporter said the Times may reconsider an article if the research was peer-reviewed.

    An NCRI researcher told National Review, “The piece was reported and ready for publication, but at the eleventh hour, the New York Times insisted the research undergo peer review after discussions with editorial staff — an unprecedented demand for our work.”

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Gonna hafta read the OC topic later. I just finished the rosary stuff and am going to brave the grocery store this morning. I saw a recipe last night for carnivore mashed potatoes and I need to get a few ingredients.

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    A tough old Albertan Cowboy told his grandson if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning.
    The grandson did this religiously, and lived to the age of 93.
    When he died he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren… and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Lol

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I was about 8 when I watched my pharmacist grandfather mix a little gunpowder, some honey and whiskey in a glass and then made me drink a few gulps. He said the sulphur in the gunpowder would knock out the sore throat and ear infection I had and the whiskey was a painkiller. But I had to promise to never tell my mother or grandmother. Oh, and it worked even if it was awful.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Where is Shannon? Oh wait he’s working.

  23. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Dessert:

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Did you make it and what is it? In any case I’m game. 😉

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Kroger wasn’t nearly as crowded as I thought it’d be. They were out of lettuce, but I should have enough to give Hubby a salad tomorrow, plus I still have some malabar spinach in the garden to stretch it a bit if necessary.

    I found everything I needed, so I’m going to attempt to make the carnivore faux mashed potatoes with gravy tomorrow.

    I found some ribeye steaks on sale, so they are now vacuum packed in my freezer. And I bought Hubby a pint of ice cream so he’ll have dessert tomorrow. I’m thinking I’m going to make myself some carnivore chocolate pudding. It doesn’t sound like it would be tasty, but it is.

    I am always amazed at what can be done with eggs, cheese, and ingenuity.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Time for the C&C before I begin more serious stuff:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, the quintessentially American holiday of giving thanks for our blessings. And we have been blessed, in heaping measure, far beyond anything we deserved and farther beyond what we’d even allowed ourselves to hope for. Today’s pre-holiday roundup includes: Trump makes his best, most deliciously ironic nomination yet; Biden tries to snake more billions to help Ukraine defends its borders; Trump Effect snaps Mexico into line within hours from Trump tweet; Canada, hit hardest, promises to help secure northern border; and one California skyscraper signals doom for the Democrat resistance.

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

    Here’s a couple big swamp turkeys fer ya.

    https://nkytribune.com/2024/11/mcconnell-to-step-down-as-u-s-senate-leader-but-take-over-two-key-chairmanships/

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Does McTurtle not have teeth?

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

        He has fangs.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Charlie Kirk on X.

    Kamala Harris’s campaign raised nearly $1.5 billion. Meanwhile, their media operatives spent months ridiculing Turning Point for our GOTV operation.

    Now, after they lost, Kamala’s team went on Pod Save America, and their excuse is that we were so effective at GOTV that what we did must have been illegal!

    First, shame on them for this pathetic, evidence-free slander. But second, it’s deeply satisfying for Democrats to realize they were beaten badly at a game they thought they would win forever.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First off, another Trump pick ruffling the appropriate feathers: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as head of the NIH:

    It’s an out-of-the-park home run….Remember the insanity of the summer of 2021, as the jab mandates began to take shape, and as mask mania continued slowly climbing toward its grotesque summit. Somebody in the resistance sent me Jay’s cell number, … he was a senior professor of health economics and epidemiology at Stanford, one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

    /snip

    To his everlasting credit, Jay immediately agreed to help. Not only that, he refused to take any payment for his time. After we spoke, I discovered he was also helping other lawyers, all across the country, at great professional risk and despite it making him a pariah among his colleagues.

    Not only that, Jay kept showing up to help lawyers like me even though he faced scorn and derision from hostile judges….

    /snip

    … But still Jay soldiered on. In October 2020, with two other sane scientists, Jay authored the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter (now signed by almost 1 million scientists and influencers) reasonably arguing for a focused protection strategy for vulnerable communities, instead of broad mandates and lockdowns.

    Despite the efforts of the then head of NIH, Frances Collins and the Little Elf went on a PR rampage to attempt to discredit Dr. Jay and destroy his credibility and reputation. But Dr. Jay continued to soldier on, helping DeSantis in his efforts to restore sanity. Those efforts did start to have their effect on Dr. Jay.

    …Last year, undaunted and unbeaten, Jay signed on for more, serving as a plaintiff in the “Twitter files” lawsuit against the federal government for pandemic censorship, enduring even more slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

    /snip

    Four years ago, Frances Collins — as useless a bureaucrat as ever stepped — slandered accomplished Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as a “fringe epidemiologist” and tried to ruin his livelihood. Now, Frances Collins is unemployed, and is touring the podcast circuit with his guitar. And in a historic turnaround story for the ages resembling Biblical Joseph becoming Pharoah’s right-hand-man, Jay is taking Frances’ job.

    “Experts agree,” the Times glumly admitted, that “a shake-up is coming to the nation’s public health and biomedical establishment.” And I, for one, cannot wait.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      In October 2020, with two other sane scientists, Jay authored the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter (now signed by almost 1 million scientists and influencers) reasonably arguing for a focused protection strategy for vulnerable communities, instead of broad mandates and lockdowns.

      I signed the Great Barrington Declaration and they sent me a nice thank you letter.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Then, there’s the Israel-Hezzie cease-fire (if it holds):

    This peace deal is just between Israel and Hezbollah; Hamas declined to join, and so the war in Gaza continues for now.

    You might think that social media would be churning over Israel’s controversially strong response to the barbaric attacks by Gaza’s authoritarian government, Hamas, and the war’s distressing effect on displaced Gazan civilians. But instead, the weight of social media discussion revolved around which president should get the credit for the cease-fire: the shadow who is Joe Biden —who rushed to take credit— or the shadow cast by incoming President-Elect Trump?

    Frankly, I think it’s that huge shadow thing. Mr. C. agrees:

    This peace deal is just between Israel and Hezbollah; Hamas declined to join, and so the war in Gaza continues for now.

    You might think that social media would be churning over Israel’s controversially strong response to the barbaric attacks by Gaza’s authoritarian government, Hamas, and the war’s distressing effect on displaced Gazan civilians. But instead, the weight of social media discussion revolved around which president should get the credit for the cease-fire: the shadow who is Joe Biden —who rushed to take credit— or the shadow cast by incoming President-Elect Trump?

    Ending wars before holding office. Talk about job efficiency!

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And this just wisses me off:

    While stealing credit for Trump’s peace deal in the Middle East, Biden and his neocons are also busily trying to make the Proxy War even harder to end. The New York Post ran a story yesterday headlined, “Biden makes last-ditch ask of Congress for $24 billion to help Ukraine.” Senator Mike Lee immediately tweeted that Biden’s new package, which the Times argued would actually fund the U.S. military-industrial complex, should actually be dead on arrival: [Mike Lee tweet]

    It was an especially tone-deaf move, unlikely to pass, and probably intended more to give Democrats a way to blame Republicans for Ukraine’s loss.

    They’d blame Trump anyway. They can’t help themselves.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Immigration – and the reduction thereof at both north and south borders – is the next topic at the C&C. It seems that the tariff threats wadded enough panties that leaders of both neighbors are suddenly concerned about the tidal wave of poverty that’s been transversing the borders:

    In an address yesterday to Canada’s House of Commons, the Canadian president begged lawmakers not to “panic” and tried to reassure them saying, “the idea of going to war with the United States isn’t what anyone wants.” There was a good reason Canadian ministers were panicky as women on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

    Canada’s dollar is, for some reason, called the Loonie. I am not making that up. It’s something to do with birds or lunatic asylums, we don’t know yet. Anyway, the Loonie (don’t laugh, this is serious) immediately plunged in value after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Canadian imports come January:

    In any case, it does not look like Canada has any appetite for a trade war. It will probably get its border secured…..

    Consider this: Trump promptly got both Mexico and Canada scrambling to cooperate with two tweets, and he’s only the President-Elect. He’s making it look easy. Yes, it’s gratifying and yes, it confirms the trust we placed in him. But there’s an even bigger picture: Trump isn’t waiting. Meaning, he’s already started solving the nation’s biggest problems, even though he lacks the power to issue a single executive order yet.

    Behold, Donald Trump Version Two, the grizzled veteran of a frustrating first term and the scarred survivor of eight years of Marxist lawfare. This version of Trump knows what buttons to press, he knows where the bodies are buried, he’s absorbed their worst and now he is about to throw it right back at them.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    After immigration, Mr. C. dissects some info on red vs. blue state economic woes, pointing to the commercial (non-)market in various cities; and the growth in population between red and blue states.

    You know the story, and there’s charts involved, so – moving on:

    Resistance 2.0 is taking shape:

    The “pillars of the next Trump resistance,” the party’s last, best hope, are the democrat governors and mayors, along with their state attorneys general and various blue interest groups.

    But they face a Los Angeles skyscraper-sized problem. Back in 2016, when Trump’s first term began, Democrats were coming off eight years of flourishing under the tender mercies of the Obama Administration. The Blue States were flush with federal cash, politically well plugged in, and were slavering for a fight.

    But these last four years under Biden have been completely different. Blue states grew dependent on pandemic relief and federal immigration subsidies, while massively increasing their financial burdens and commitments —to non-citizens!— and simultaneously hollowing out their tax base by undermining their cities’ quality of life metrics with homeless encampments, non-prosecution and no-bail policies, and sanctuary largesse.

    They can plan their resistance all they like. But the federal subsidy spigot is about to be cut off, at which point they’ll be forced to balance budgets from their own tax revenues. It could be a disaster….

    Gee, ya’ think? Increasing taxes in an already high-tax state which spends its funds on illegals while ignoring the legal citizens….

    I see a wave of brand new Republicans, some of them moving to red states. I’m hoping that the die hard bluebloods remain in their blue states and just suck it up and get in the welfare line. If there’s anything left for them. Those blue states and cities just never considered that their gravy train might end.

    …They are so dependent on federal money that, sooner or later, they’ll consider agreeing to anything.

    /snip

    There won’t be —can’t be— any meaningful Blue Resistance from the governors and mayors and their lawyers. Blue donors just urgently flushed a billion and a half dollars down the Kamala Harris toilet, so the blue activist groups will be running on fumes for a while. And, if the Trump Administration can figure out which agency is controlling the corporate media, then media’s relentless, coordinated psy-operations will be shattered into a thousand pieces.

    The #Resistance is broken. Nobody’s realized it yet, but it will become obvious soon.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Ahead of one of the most highly anticipated college football matchups of the year, the Texas A&M Aggies have been forced to abandon one of its most long lasting traditions due to a ban.

    Texas A&M is set to revive its dormant rivalry with Texas – one of the most bitter rivalries in all of college football – after the Longhorns moved to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) this season.

    With that move, Texas and Texas A&M are set to play each other for the first time in 13 years when UT travels to College Station. But one of the Aggies’ oldest, most storied traditions will not be present. 

    For over 90 years, the Aggies have built a massive bonfire and lit it in celebration of the final game of the season. Traditionally, this has been the Texas game – with the bonfire symbolizing the students, ‘burning desire to beat the hell outta t.u.’ (t.u. is a derogatory nickname for Texas created by Aggie students).

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      The year I took Fortran (I know, I know) the class was on Wednesday nights, from 5-8 p.m. He taught for half the class, gave us a ten minute break, then finished up. Our instructor was a little guy that was flown in each week just for this class. The night of bonfire, we had a test the first half of the class, and nobody went back, opting instead to attend bonfire.

      We got a good scolding from the dean, but I guess the instructor learned his lesson.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This never gets old. So much better than hands up. Or kneeling.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m here. Just on the road.

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Lovely Daughter has informed me that come Monday, they’ll be saying good-bye to Ollie, their long-lived, long-loved dog. I’ve noticed over my infrequent visits during the past year that he hasn’t been as peppy as he used to be, and I knew this day was coming, but still….

    It will be strange to have only one dog greet me enthusiastically at the door when I visit. I wonder how the girls are going to take it. They visit Aggie Beau’s family for Thanksgiving, and they are taking Ollie with them to take care of him as best they can until Monday. And June Bug, the other dog – she’ll have to adjust to being alone. The rabbit doesn’t really socialize.

    Ollie will be missed. He had that terrier attitude, more than willing to take on dogs much larger than himself.

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      This is a very sad parting for all concerned. Ollie is family as is June Bug, and he will be sorely missed.

      In due course perhaps June Bug would benefit from having a companion. There are thousands of dogs needing loving homes to be considered and saved in reputable shelters when the time to look for one is right.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About 1995, Squawk on his way home, tryna to make it back for Thanksgiving! 😉

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Oh heck yeah!!!!! YEEEEHHAAAAWWWWWW

  38. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dave, the early years. Oh and that’s my Redbone, smooching with the Beagle. 😉

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      That was quite the coon haul.

    2. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Love it!

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Left Targets Trump Appointees With Bomb Threats, SWATting Hoax Calls Designed to Get Them Murdered by Cops.

    This was found on ACE. My first question is: seeing as how the phone number calling in the threat(s) are known to police; these could be burner phones; how much investigation is there into those making the false threats? This sort of thing is not funny at all and innocent people are going to get killed because of it. There have to be painful consequences!

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Remember that it’s us knuckle dragging,backwood Hillbilly’s that are the violent ones not the pure, peaceful leftists. ~SPITS~

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Western Electric 2A turntable, circa 1926, was created for Vitaphone broadcast and movie sound systems. The rare stereophonic version had a moving coil cartridge, the turntable ran at 33-1/3 RPM. The flutter and wow were far less than any modern turntable. Rumble was -65 dB or better. The angular error of the tonearm is so small that a straight-line tracking arm was not considered necessary. This was accomplished with cast iron parts, ordinary copper wire, common ball bearings, and a 1 horsepower electric motor.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I never saw that before and I’m amazed by it. 33-1/3 RPMs…in 1926, the year my parents were born…really ?

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        In 1926 you’d have thought it would be 78 RPM but 33 1/3 had better sound quality and I guess for broadcast purposes they chose it.

  41. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We have taken care of enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner today at a good restaurant that has it on the menu today as well as tomorrow and maybe Friday.

    Leisurely dining in a not full restaurant was much appreciated. No screaming small kids there today. The staff agreed that tomorrow is going to be like a zoo. We brought home most of my very generous turkey portion for sandwiches tomorrow. We’re likely to be watching football.

  42. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I just finished a batch, 1 gallon at 100Proof, right at a 30 day ferment, which is twice normal. Very nice taste. I ran out of wood chips so I am toasting up a fresh batch in the oven right now.

  43. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Happy Thanksgiving

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Haha!!

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        I think this gravy boat came out of that truck @ 2:22 PM.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

  44. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    EV Slay

  45. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Big bird has been in the oven a while. Little bird goes in Friday for sandwiches next week. When that is all gone, I won’t cook or eat turkey again for a year. If it were up to me, the menu in this house would be strictly beef or fish.

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It is all theater, people.

    By the way, all this cease fire talk is complete BS. Hamas is close to being wiped out, but Hezbollah has been decapitated from the top down. The idea any sort of agreement can be struck with them is silly. Who are you going to talk to ? Who in Hezbollah even has any command authority ? Hezbollah is now a disjointed guerrilla operation scattered across Lebanon under direction from various Iranian operatives.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      I’ll bet two Shamwows that we see a ceasefire and “treaty” with Hezbollah. Who Israel will negotiate with is Iran. Hamas not. They sealed their doom with the hostages.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        You are on. Hezbollah has already violated the “cease fire” in the first six hours. I can’t see Iran negotiating anything with Israel no matter how many mediators there are.

        1. squawkbox Avatar
          squawkbox

          Just watch

          1. Texpat Avatar
            Texpat

            I’m not confident I can hit 3 predictions in a row, but I guess we’ll see. It would definitely be the first time in my life.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The only way this all ends is when what was done to Hamas and Hezbollah is done to the Ayatollah Khamenei, the other mullahs and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). You take them out and those Shiite goat herders will run for the hills.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    So everywhere I go I’m suddenly seeing this Texas Nue Vodka, big displays, really cheap. They say they are based in Dallas, but the bottle label I looked at said “Brewed in North Carolina.” Is this false advertising ? Have I been scammed even if I didn’t buy any ? Can I file a class action lawsuit ? Shouldn’t the people of Texas sue Nue for hijacking their fine international reputation ?

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Long live Tito’s.
      Texas’ original vodka from Texas’ first legal distillery.
      Failed Texas oil man becomes a billionaire making booze.
      Love it.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        It’s a great story of persistence.

      2. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Both the kids like Tito’s and they even sell it here in Podunk!

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We lucked out. The insurance inspector (remember how I ranted about his incompetence recently?) had issues with our electrical panels at our Bryan property. He was concerned about them being part of a recall and we’d have to have an electrician sign off on them or have them replaced.

    I contacted the manufacturer today via e-chat and he cleared it all up. The recall was for units made between 2000 and 2002. Our panels are from 1972. The inspector was 30 years off.

    But I have documentation from Schneider Electronics that clears it all up, and it didn’t cost us a penny.

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’ll just leave this right here. 😀

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Texpatz Kar

    2. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      That seems like the best place to leave it, SD 😉

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Sitting here waiting impatiently for this 24 lb. turkey to cool down enough to go into the refrigerator. I’m tired.

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