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Nothings says Texas like…….. well Texas

The eyes of Texas the hearts lend a hand says welcome  to Texas Texas means friend

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Only in Texas are the potholes shaped like Texas

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1926 – The Light Cup Race – San Antonio to the Gulf of Mexico on the San Antonio River. It took 5 and 1/2 days.

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1942 – Joskes was the first department store in the South to have street level to top floor, up and down escalators. It was such a unique experience that folks would come to the store just to ride. (UTSA Special Collections)

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Do you remember Buttercrust Bread?

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Two guys and a Kitten Hitchhiking to Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic. (Somewhere near Austin 1980)

Dang it, I just realized that today is the anniversary of Japan Bombing Pearl Harbor.  Much has been written about the various destroyers and battleships that were destroyed on that fate filled day.  I have one question that I have never seen addressed.  Where was the Dread Naught USS Texas on December 7, 1941?

Battleship Texas in Casco Bay, Maine

THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION answers that question:

When the Second World War broke out in Europe in 1939, Battleship Texas was assigned to neutrality patrol, escorting merchant ships across the Atlantic. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Battleship Texas was in Casco Bay, Maine, preparing for her next patrol. With the United States now officially at war with the Axis powers, Texas continued her patrols until late 1942, when she took part in Operation Torch – the Invasion of French North Africa.
Operation Torch, the Invasion of French North Africa on November 8th, 1942, was the first major combat seen by Battleship Texas. Texas supported the attack on Port Lyautey, Morocco, where the Army sought to take over a strategic air field. After three days of fighting, the operation was a success and French North Africa was brought back into the war on the side of the Allies.

As a greater man than me used to say, “Now you know the rest of the story”.

 

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127 responses to “What’d He Say Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Great pictures and O.C. piece!
    Well it’s 29 degrees out here in the country, down from 31 when I got up but in any case, TOO DAMN COLD!! Mercy!
    But we made the weekend.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So Texpat, you getting much/any snow? It looks like there is a blizzard north and west of you.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I almost forgot, it’s Pearl Harbor Day.

    Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    My daddy heard that speech on their battery powered Delco Radio, down at the Farm House. BTW; My dad had to take the A, B and C battery pack over to Marley Mill (grist mill) to get them charged.

  4. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby is driving me to church since we lost our free parking downtown. Gotta busy church morning.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘No Reasonable Person’ Could Deny Hunter Biden Pardon.

    President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes dating back to 2014. The decision followed years of denials from Biden and Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre claimed Hunter Biden was “singled out politically” due to his last name. She said Biden wrestled with the decision but ultimately granted the pardon.

    Jean-Pierre said, “No reasonable person could have come to a conclusion other than that Hunter Biden deserved to be pardoned.”

    Jean-Pierre added, “Hunter Biden would not have been prosecuted if he had not been a person who has the last name of the president.”

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Super Dave, we haven’t had serious snow here in NE NJ in at least 3 years. The landscape contractors are unhappy because snow removal is their big source of income in the winter. Most everyone I know is perfectly happy to not have snow.

    Often you see the winter snowstorms moving east off the Great Lakes towards us and NYC. When they get closer to the Atlantic coast and the Gulfstream warm waters, they will take a turn to the northeast and dump snow and ice all over New England.

    It gets cold and icy here in the Mid-Atlantic Eastern Seaboard, but the great majority of severe winter weather occurs from the upper midwest, around the Great Lakes and up into New England. We’ve been known to have a few 30″-36″ blizzards here, but nothing like those 5′-7′ monsters in Minnesota or Upstate New York around Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The last of the sailors and Marines assigned to the USS Oklahoma who died on Dec. 7, 1941, was only identified in 2021, after an exhaustive multiyear effort that involved multiple government agencies.

    Read Maggie Phillips’ moving Prayers at Pearl Harbor, an account of her visit there.

    Much of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial is actually a museum. It presents a thorough account of the run-up to the attacks from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Visitors can read sailors’ and civilians’ eyewitness recollections of that day, when 183 Japanese planes executed a surprise attack on the U.S. naval presence in Honolulu just before 8 a.m. They can also view startling photos of the aftermath, which are where the true cognitive dissonance between Pearl Harbor the tourist spot and Pearl Harbor the memorial manifests. Mere feet away from an outdoor plaque displaying a black-and-white photo of a dead American sailor, face down in the surf, families laugh and teens pose for selfies in front of the ocean. Inside, an exhibit on identifying the dead informs readers that more than 72,000 WWII Department of Defense personnel remain unaccounted for. The last of the sailors and Marines assigned to the USS Oklahoma who died on Dec. 7, 1941, was only identified in 2021, after an exhaustive multiyear effort that involved multiple government agencies.

    and,

    FDR delivered a lengthy prayer he penned himself on a live D-Day broadcast. Heard by more than 100 million people worldwide, including Anne Frank, the broadcast is by some reckonings the largest mass prayer in American history. General Dwight Eisenhower’s message to the Allied forces on D-Day also entreated the “Almighty God” to bestow his blessing “upon this great and noble undertaking.” General George S. Patton distributed 250,000 prayer cards to every soldier in the Third Army to pray for heavy rains to break. He also disseminated through his chaplain the following order to all other chaplains under his command: “Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle … Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace.”

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      When I was a kid, my Mama would take me on the bus with her to downtown Abilene to pay bills and visit the library… I read virtually every book in the juniors’ dept so they let me have an adult dept card… but the most memorable book from the junior’s part was the Pearl Harbor edition of a series of “I was there at….” books that included the Alamo, and the Japanese atomic bomb sites… Many of the Junior dept books were drivel – but I remember that book vividly…

  8. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    It’s only 45 here in the edge of the piney woods, and the short dawgie is not enjoying it at all… or maybe it’s just because the Thursday night into Friday Heartworm treatment slumber party took a lot out of Shortie… Praises be, this was the final scheduled treatment – prayerfully she’ll be down to the preventative treatments after this one… but she really does make a great foot warmer

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Shannon linked this article last night about the downfall of Syria. He mentioned that there were no good guys, I beg to differ, I think the Kurds are the good guys and I hope they give the Turks a real hard time.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Rush Limbaugh debating Algore on Nightline via Michael Berry podcast.

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-the-michael-berry-show-27764850/episode/its-a-saturday-morning-bonus-podcast-for-%E2%80%8B12-07-24-245929983?cmp=ios_share&sc=ios_social_share&pr=false

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The situation in Syria is pretty complicated. This is a fairly simple brief explanation with a decent map of the factions.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Most folks are unaware how many different sects and variations of Islam there are across the eastern hemisphere. The ruling minority of the Assad family in Syria are Alawite Muslims. Sunni and Shiite denominations believe the Alawite are sacrilegious heretics.

    The basic doctrine of ʿAlawite faith is the deification of ʿAlī. He is one member of a trinity corresponding roughly to the Christian Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ʿAlawites interpret the Pillars of Islām (the five duties required of every Muslim) as symbols and thus do not practice the Islāmic duties. They celebrate an eclectic group of holidays, some Islāmic, some Christian, and many ʿAlawite practices are secret. They consider themselves to be moderate Shīʿites, not much different from the Twelvers.

  13. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Merry Christmas??

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      ROTF

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tom Selleck is going to be unemployed after next Friday and now he’s dropping hints he wants a job over there with Taylor Sheridan.

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So, cheapo butter costs $5 now.?
    Sheesh.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Here’s what they don’t explain about inflation. Butter was $2.50 4 years ago and is now $5.00. Feds crowing the inflation rate is down to 1.9% and it may be, but your butter is not going back to $2.50. The $5 per lb. price is going up by 1.9% and that is the truth. Some commodities will go back down in price, but most will not and even if they do it takes a long time for that to be reflected at the grocery checkout.

    2. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      You’re about as in touch as Scarborough.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: PARDON ME?

    The only surprise about the Hunter Biden pardon is that anyone was surprised—outside the mainstream media, which had treated “my word as a Biden” as though it was ever serious. Predictions: Biden isn’t done with his dubious pardons yet, and he will leave office in January with the lowest public approval rating in history, topping even Nixon in 1974.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    WIP Beethoven made me lol.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I want to know why the Texas judge is giving them until June 30, 2025 to release the files. That is a lot of time for shredding and redacting. Nevertheless, I cannot wait for this manure to hit the Westinghouse.

    A federal judge has just ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release the sealed documents for pharmaceutical Pfizer’s Covid mRNA “vaccine” trials.

    Pfizer and the FDA have been battling in the courts to keep the documents hidden from the public for 75 years.

    However, the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT) brought a high-profile case against the FDA to force the release of over one million pages of documents.

    The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas has just ruled against the FDA and ordered the release of the Pfizer docs.

    The files are related to the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid mRNA “vaccine.”

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The 1941 photo of the Battleship Texas is just great.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      I added the color to the original black and white. Looks mucho better

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Love the old saying, “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did – except she did it backwards and in heels.”

    You couldn’t pay me to watch Dancing With The Stars, but I can watch Fred and Ginger over and over.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Over 1,200 babies, children, women and men were murdered on October 7, 2023. Hundreds of hostages and Israeli dead bodies were taken to Gaza. Many of the hostages have been murdered in captivity.

    More than 22,000 Hamas fighters and supporters have been killed by the IDF. Every single day there are riots and violent protests advocating the murder of Jews and of Americans for their support of Israel.

    Where are the riots and protests for these murder victims ?

    Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May 2021, and approximately 617,910 as of March 2024.

    How about some riots and protests for these murdered children, women and men ?

    The civil war in Ethiopia has resulted in the death of some 600,000 civilians, a staggering estimate for a conflict that has lasted only two years and has been focused on a single region, Tigray, of around six million inhabitants.

    Where are the passionate demonstrators and hysterical protestors for these people ?

    Despite estimates of 61,000 dead in Sudan…”In May, US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello said that some estimates suggested up to 150,000 people had been killed.”

    So we have in three more or less Islamic countries 1,367,910 estimated dead civilians and not a single rioting protestor in sight.

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Longhorns versus the Mongrels in 40 minutes.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If you are a cattleman, this strikes abject fear in your heart.

    We have murderers, rapists, pedophiles, prostitutes, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl coming across the border. Now cattle are being smuggled into the US with New World Screwworm.

    ‘With this latest find in Mexico, we will further intensify this work to protect American agriculture and reestablish the barrier in Central America.’

    The US, Mexico and Central America paid a collective cost of $800 million to completely eradicate the screwworm more than three decades ago, but illegal cattle trafficking has fueled a resurgence.

    Screwworms typically don’t travel more than a couple of miles, but the illegal trade of infected cattle has forced the parasite to spread 700 miles from North America’s southern border to Central America’s Pacific coast.

    The infestation originated in Nicaragua, passing through Honduras and Guatemala before it spread to Mexico’s livestock.

    and,

    It reached the US in just two and a half months and has likely spread to American livestock and pets, according to Jeremy Radachowsky, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Regional Director for Mesoamerica.

    ‘Evidence directly links illegal cattle trafficking to the screwworm’s resurgence,’ Radachowsky said.

    ‘By bypassing sanitary controls, often with stressed, undernourished, and injured livestock, cattle smuggling creates the ideal conditions for transboundary transmission of diseases, including brucellosis, tuberculosis, and parasites such as the screwworm.’

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Financial industry giant Goldman Sachs has announced it will no longer participate in the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). It is the latest high profile departure of a financial institution from a global climate alliance in the wake of scrutiny by American lawmakers concerned that banks are attempting to severely limit financial options for fossil fuel concerns because of climate change.

    The NZBA boasts membership of more that 140 global banks with a goal of creating net zero emissions by 2050. The United Nations Enivironment Programme (UNEP), which oversees the alliance, has thus far not commented on Goldman Sachs’ departure.

    and,

    Missouri’s Senator Eric Schmitt, a Republican and former state attorney general, said that the NZBA was set up to “to starve companies engaged in fossil fuel-related activities of credit on national and international markets.”

    According to Schmitt, it was not only fossil fuel companies that are threatened by the NZBA:

    Missouri farmers, oil leasing companies, and other businesses that are vital to Missouri’s and America’s economy will be unable to get a loan because of this alliance…. These banks are accountable to American laws — we don’t let international bodies set the standards for our businesses.

    Which, of course, is the whole point of the ESG scheme. The goal is international control over U.S. banking, with climate change and “social justice” as limiting factors of growth.

    ESG was once considered the wave of the future for the financial industry. But increasingly it just looks like another sad chapter of left-wing lunacy destined for the scrap heap of history.

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

    The refs are completely sucking.
    3 terrible calls already.
    Guess they’ve decided to make themselves a big part of the outcome.

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

    I really haven’t watched a game for quite a while.
    My question is why do they constantly do the spilt screen interviews when the teams are playing?

    just shut up and play:)
    it’s very distracting.
    espn blows.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    That Golden catch was an old-fashioned “button hook” pass pattern. I used it a lot as a kid. It still works.

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

    Are a couple of these officials paid off?

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Apparently so.

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

    The sorry refs are reminding of why I quit watching football.
    That roughing the passer call was a joke and every time Texas starts moving the ball here comes the yellow hankies.

    im already convinced the refs are on the take.
    it’s quite obvious.
    Between that and the constant split screen interviews I’m turning it off.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This ABC announcing crew is just horrible. It’s a damn shame and a sad descent from the ABC Wild World of Sports I grew up with. They are so irritating with incessant psychological analysis and constant stupid chatter instead of actually calling the game. Please just STFU.

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    These refs suck. They said Texas has had 6 flags thrown at them.
    6 flags over Texas. Get it? I made a funny.

  32. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Dr Pepper tuition giveaway football throw,,,,,,,,,
    BORING

    AND THE CROWD GOES…….. wait is that snoring? The crowd is snoring folks.
    And now a word form our sponsor
    DR-HO’s, ‘Sitting Can Be Unhealthy‘

  33. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    You too can squeeze yourself to shapely thighs.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Been tryin’ to tell you boys for years.
      Face, eyes, thighs. Everything else is ancillary.

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Just shake it. No motor. Get rid of those flabby arms while you watch aggravating football games.

  35. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And now back to the game.

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

    You’re right about the flabby arms workout
    squawka Bruddah.

    you can do eeettt

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Bwahahahahahahahahaha

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s just fine to rough the Texas passer in Georgia, I guess.

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    After years of causing mischief and mayhem I have finally found a video that even I cannot share. Weird Japanese toys. That is some sick…….

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

    get kash patel to check the refs bank accounts in a couple weeks.
    Georgia stole an election in 2020 what’s a game to them?..

    were these refs vote counters in 2020?

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Whew! Finally. End Zone.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Was happy to find at HEB the Marie Calender Creamy Parmesan Chicken Pot Pie again. It had disappeared during Covid.

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    C/mon TEXAS. dangit

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ewers and his side-arm-ish delivery has bugged me for years.

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I just confirmed Fani Willis is calling the penalties through the headphones of the referees there in Georgia.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    A SCREEN???? WTH????

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

    Refs rigged it in 1st half.
    shoulda been 21-0 Texas.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Yep.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In overtime Fani Willis not only calls all the penalties, she also calls the plays for Georgia.

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

    Rafflesburger, kemp and fani are the officials.

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat Shannon You are spot on about side arming. Side arming flattens the trajectory cannot lob in the pass accurately.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Er, uh, that was me.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Fixed it. You all look the same to me.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Lord, let us not have 8 overtimes as they had in the game the other day.
    Not sure I can survive it. 🙂

  51. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I hate side armers in baseball and more so in football

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Aw, now, come on! You didn’t like the side-armers in baseball over these many years?
    I guess you really hated the knuckleballers.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Knuckleballers good. Niekro et all

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

    Before the game the refs pulled out, from under tables, suitcases full of penalty flags with the name Longhorns embroidered on them.

  54. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Well that was lasted while it was fun

  55. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Bark bark bark bark

  56. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    What a game!! I hadn’t planned on watching the game but got sucked in.

  57. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Y’all got your hearts started back yet?

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

    Rigged all the way.
    it ended just how the ncaa wanted it to end.

    been a long while since I attempted to watch a game from the start and the refs immediately jumped in and sucked great big globs of greasy grimy gopher guts.

    texas had 260 yards and just 3 points to Georgia 45 yards and 0 points in the first half.
    the gopher gut eaters were the best defense for Georgia. Killed several drives with bs penalties.

    wont ever waste my time watching any of that sh@t again.

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Everything about Georgia is corrupt – elections, DAs, judges and referees.

  60. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Geaux Slippery Rock

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In the olden days, I would root for whomever
    won the SW Conference Championship in their bowl game.

    No guarantees I’ll be rooting for Georgia.

    Times have changed.

    As far as I’m concerned it’s Texas and the Aggies against the world – especially those teams situated east of Louisiana.

    So there.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Yeah, same here. I’m a Longhorn, Aggie and LSU Tigers fan. Everybody else is on their own.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Southwest Conference was special.
    All of them Texas teams, plus those inbreds from Arkansas.

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You didn’t know there was a place called California, which is a small city in western Pennsylvania, did ya?

    Me neither.

    But Slippery Rock thumped them 31-13 today in the Division II Super Region One Championship.

    California is a borough on the Monongahela River in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,479 as of the 2020 census. – Wiki

    Geaux Slippery Rock!!

  64. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bet Texpat does not know this
    Remembering Wally Pryor & Slippery Rock

    For all of you who still remember Texas Memorial Stadium (Now DKR) announcer Wally Pryor giving the much anticipated score of Slippery Rock football games during UT home games…

    The story can also be found @ The Rock Mystique on the Slippery Rock Athletic page.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Actually, I was only in the old Memorial Stadium in Austin decades ago, twice for games and it was so loud I’m not sure I ever heard any announcer.

  65. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Just as an aside Michigan State did the Slippery Rock scores too.

  66. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    By the way, the Syrian Assad regime has fallen according to Israeli TV. The UN is supposedly organizing a council of the five different factions fighting each other and Assad for control. Oh wuhpee do !

    Members of Assad’s family are already in Moscow and I expect Bashar al-Assad will be there by Monday morning too. If this guy wasn’t so stupid he could’ve played a strong hand and survived, but Bashar simply doesn’t have the brainpower. He had all kinds of options to make coalitions with different parties and to reach an agreement with Israel like Jordan has done.

    Expect this genius plan to last about 7 days before they all start killing each other again. Anarchy is the name of the game and creates a very dangerous vacuum.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Even the most casual Longhorn fan should be aware that they gave live updates at Memorial Stadium on the Slippery Rock State score.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And anyone who ever spent any time on the romantic limestone cliffs overlooking the lower Colorado River knows about the sometimes treacherous slippery rocks.

    🙂 🙂 🙂

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The out of control wild-a$$ Texas troopers are at it again. They’re using those long reins again and itching to start horse whippin’ those poor migrant refugees.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Texpat,
      That inaugural Border Mounted Patrol class graduation was a pretty big deal at some media outlets.

  70. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just got back from a Knights of Columbus dance at my old parish. It was a chance to see some friends, do some line dancing, make some new little kid acquaintances, and take my chances on a half and half raffle. I brought two of my “special stash” rosaries and donated them to the Knights, and Joe asked me to officiate the auctioning off of said rosaries. The proceeds from the auction would be split between the Knights and the Parish. I thought they’d go for about $50-$60 each.

    They went for $125 and $175. I was floored. I was grateful that they were able to bring in money for the church.

    I had fun at the mike, too. The bidding was busy, and just as it was slowing down – which was when someone would jump in and start things up again – I caught a guy over my right shoulder bring his hand up. He was scratching his nose, and I warned “Don’t scratch your nose or you might be bidding!” Folks laughed and he quickly lowered his hand.

    Good times.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good morning.

    Doing charity auctions was always the most fun. Texpat would sell and I would be the ring man.
    At the height of the Spuds Mackenzie craze, we had saved a stuffed, 2 foot Spuds Mackenzie Doll for the last lot.
    We got these two women (who were feeling no pain at that point) in a bidding war for Spuds. The venue had really slick floors, so I had pulled off my boots and was running back and forth between the two bidders, sliding “home” with Spuds right into their personal space. Back and forth, hootin’ and hollering’.
    Good times.

    Original Spuds Mackenzie commercial. I deem the three girls honorary Brunette Friday Girls.

  72. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    2024 Clydesdale Super Bowl Ad

  73. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Clydesdale’s and a Yellow Lab in the snow. Now that is hard to beat. That is one of their best. Shannon is up early and I slept late, I didn’t get up until 5, not sure why except that it was warm in the bed.
    We’re a little warmer here @ 36 but we’ll be in the mid 60’s and sunny so that’s good. Well the coffee pot finished up before I sat down so I’ll be needing a cup.
    Mornin’ Gang

  74. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Low Bass Singer Cover

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      OUTSTANDING!

  75. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Just how low can he go?
    CAROL OF THE BELLS | Bass Singer Version

  76. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The southern slopes of Mount Hermon (hur-moan) are called the Golan Heights, mentioned so often in the news.

    Israel’s Army Radio reported Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had seized the peak of Mount Hermon, the highest mountain in the region, as a precaution against the advance of Syrian rebels as the Assad regime collapsed.

    The mountain, covered in snow during the winter months, is the highest in the region, and a key strategic point. Israel has a military base on the mountainside, but Syria has long had a military base on the peak of the mountain itself.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Golan Heights? Oh, you are talking about Judea and Samaria

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Judea and Samaria (West Bank) are further South.
        The Golan Heights region forms the northern-most part of Israel and its border with Syria.
        This map shows it well.

        1. squawkbox Avatar
          squawkbox

          I stand corrected

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been so frustrated this year with Google Maps. Like the search engine itself Maps seem to get worse and worse. The labeling of major thoroughfares and geopolitical borders difficult to make out if they appear at all. I decided to search “large detailed map of Israel” in DDG and turned up some good examples.

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The original yellow lab puppy and Clydesdale ad.

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oilfield Rando

    @Oilfield_Rando

    The people who turned the US military into a social laboratory for “transgender rights”, “racial equity”, abortion advocacy and climate change want you to know that Hegseth is too dangerous to lead it because he’s a Christian.

    4:12 PM · Dec 7, 2024

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  80. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The other day I was watching an old Matlock episode (The Thief) and the guest star was Lacey Underall from Caddyshack. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her on anything else. And yes she was still hot.

  81. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My @11:39 Sadly Cindy Morgan passed away in December 2023 at age 69. She was the same age as me but I found this strange;

    Morgan was found dead of natural causes at her home in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, on December 30, 2023, at the age of 69. She had last been seen alive on December 19 and had made a final social media post on her personal Facebook page on December 25, 2023.

    Died of natural causes at 69? No mention of any illness.

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In 2022, 702,880 people died from heart disease. That’s the equivalent of 1 in every 5 deaths.

    Every year, about 805,000 people in the United States have a heart attack. Of these, 605,000 are a first heart attack, and 200,000 happen to be people who have already had a heart attack.

    -CDC

  83. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    What a beautiful sound.

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I love this woman.

    Peachy Keenan

    @KeenanPeachy

    Remember how cruelly Michelle Obama mocked Melania Trump for bringing her a lovely gift when she and Donald arrived at the White House on Inauguration Day 2017.

    Michelle went on Oprah to laugh at her and complain that she had no where to put the gift down for the photos.

    Michelle of course brought Laura Bush a gift in 2009 when the Obamas first arrived at the White House.

    Michelle Obama is one of the most vicious, nastiest, least gracious women alive and it was the worst mistake this country ever made letting that couple near the White House. Classless oaf of a woman.

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

      I agree.
      Big Mike is one of the nastiest and least gracious women alive.

  85. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I think I like this playoff thing. Whole lot better than a bunch of people voting.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I’m so out of it, I had no idea SMU was in the mix. I was stunned when I saw them on the tube last night, ranked. I had to double check that it wasn’t a lower level division game.

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

    Well football…

    I gave you one more chance last night after a long hiatus of not watching futile-ball but after last night’s one sided flag fest, in order to steal the first half and eventually the game from Texas, I just got one thing left to say.

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Ed Morrisey at HotAir posted this early yesterday before it was confirmed Assad was a goner. It’s a pretty good recap of Syrian recent history and what might happen soon.

    There’s also the great Zen Master clip from the movie, Charlie Wilson’s War.

    Houston’s own Joanne Herring who was portrayed by Julia Roberts in the movie is still alive at 95 years.

    Iran’s bugging out of Syria! Good news? We’ll see.

    For the optimists, this looks very promising indeed. Iran didn’t just prop up Bashar al-Assad out of brotherly friendliness, after all. With Assad in charge, and especially with Iraq available for lines of communication, Syria served as a conduit for the Tehran regime’s extension of power through its terror proxies, especially Hezbollah. For forty years, Assad allowed Iran to flex its muscle on Israel’s borders, not to mention allowing Assad himself to participate in their long war on the Israelis. Iran passed heavy arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon through Syria as well as financing and direct support from the IRGC. In return, Hezbollah helped Assad remain in power after the civil war broke out over a decade ago. 

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

    Didn’t watch the ag vs Texas game last week just watched an eleven minute highlight reel on the net.

    after reading some comments it appears there were numerous ag fans who were displeased with a few zebra calls.

    the officiating was bad when I quit football about 5 years ago and it appears it’s worse than ever now.

    if you can’t get a better crew than they had in last night’s championship game it’s time to hang it up ncaa.

    not mention the horrible espn coverage of the game.
    pat summeral and Tom brookshire would be ashamed of that coverage.

    well at least there’s still pickleball. unless it’s rigged too;)
    and there’s still 90s Gilad exercise vids on tubelubed.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I agree. It seems as if the refs have decided they want to be part of the game like the players and they get face time on camera when they make calls. It also seems as if the NCAA, like the NFL, has tightened up rules to the point referees have no room for discretion. All sports in America are trying to destroy themselves. Look at the “golden bat” rule being considered for MLB. God forbid…

      The rule is inspired by the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition team that’s considered baseball’s version of the Harlem Globetrotters.

      The Bananas’ “Golden Batter” rule, which was implemented ahead of their 2024 world tour, allowed teams to pinch-hit any hitter at any time of the game. Each team can only use the “Golden Batter” once per game.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Syria is [was?] home to two major Russia military installations: an air base in Hmeimim and a naval base in Tartus. The latter is Russia’s only warm-water naval base and provides Moscow access to the Mediterranean Sea.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      UPDATE:

      Russia leaves Syria: Ships and Weapons Evacuated From Tartus and Hmeymim

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      It was also the first naval base outside of a Soviet coast in history and post -1989 Russia never had a foreign naval base until Syria.

  90. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    What a beautiful day it’s been, 68 now and that was our high for the day but it’ll be cooling off soon.

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

    Trump sat down with seahag and propagandist extraordinaire, Kristen welker.

    after that debate a couple of months ago I have no idea why he’d give her or her network the time of day. What a snake she is. The Kammunist’s sorority sister.

    notice how the totalitariancrat propagandist media always defends the totalitariancrats and notice she wants Trump to say 2020 wasn’t stolen because they say so.

    wahhhh.

    but the 2020 election was the most secure election ever because we said so with 0% proof it was.

    cOmmunist and demonic losers one and all.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Kristen Welker turned out to be embarrassingly bad at this job. Talk about a DEI-hire, lefty robot. Pretty obvious the woman has never had an original thought in her entire life.

      Tim Russert is rolling in his grave.

  92. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Diversity !!! Equity !!! Inclusion !!!

    Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson, who broke the glass ceiling by becoming the first former African illegal alien and Muslim woman to serve on the Boston City Council, now became the first African Muslim illegal alien councilwoman to be arrested for kickbacks.

    and,

    Much as I want to take shots at Anderson, a BLM supporter who called the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7, a “military operation”, this if anything shows that Muslim illegal aliens are adapting to the political culture of Boston. If a Boston councilmember weren’t running a kickback scheme involving family members, that would be a true failure to integrate.

    The only thing surprising about this story is that there was an ethics investigation. In Boston.

  93. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is exactly why the United Kingdom is dead. Watch this man being arrested for offending somebody on Facebook.

    There is no Anglo-American Pact anymore. We have to distant ourselves from these people.

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I was finished with the Brits a long time ago. As the the entire law enforcement apparatus and government ignored the organized, systematic rape and grooming of minor teenage British girls by Muslim hordes.

    When they’re all hanging from London’s bridges I’ll cry nary a tear for them.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Hear, Hear !!!

    2. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      And if you think it can’t happen here, you are sorely mistaken.

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

    Once again pollsters lie.

    poles are for fishing and polls are for phishing.

    The kenyan rated 2nd best? The hell?

    worst president in history is the demonic Kenyan and his third term is almost over.

    the wooden dummy wasn’t the worst because he was never president anyway.

    just a sock puppet on the Kenyan’s hand.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-worst-president-modern-history-devastating-new-poll-finds

  96. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I am just sitting down. the Catholic Daughters hosted a reception after mass since today is a big Marian feast day, The Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Once I finished there, I came home, Hubby gave me the late lunch spot for the VW club so I could join them. They gave away Christmas gifts today. So I hopped back into my car and joined them. Home again, and I am tuckered out. I didn’t sleep well, being a little wired from the sale price of my rosaries last night.

    So, gonna lay down for a bit…

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dean, Ricky, and Walter

  98. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Why didn’t Mrs. Baird’s Bread make the weekend headline display ?

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: Shannon’s 3:48 AM post of the 2024 Budweiser Superbowl commercial

    I forgot to mention how cool it was Budweiser used Levon Helm’s song, The Weight, as the theme of the ad. Robbie Robertson stole the credit for that and a number of songs from Levon Helm, including The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Robertson is, by most accounts, a SOB.

  100. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Lot to wrap up in one last Yellowstone show, this one was slow moving.

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