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Tuesday “Ain’t Gonna Fly” Open Comments

I think the MI6 ident was a little over the top.

A Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper arrested a man on New Year’s Day for feigning to be a federal agent after a woman in the man’s vehicle waved in apparent distress, an arrest report seen by the Daily Caller alleged.

Jorge Alberto Alfonso, 61, born in Cuba, was arrested after his white Ford F-150 pickup truck drove past the arresting trooper’s stationary FHP vehicle in Naples, according to the arrest report. The vehicle was allegedly outfitted with flashing emergency lights and other law enforcement paraphernalia. The trooper wrote that he spotted a woman “waving her arms, appearing upset or distressed” from within the truck. He claimed the truck’s bed was open and carried a backpack and other suitcases. The truck was registered to Alfonso, who was the passenger according to the trooper.

“When I approached the vehicle and began explaining the reason for the stop, the male passenger interrupted, claiming his K9, seated in the back, accidentally activated the red and blue lights,” the trooper wrote. “He identified himself as a federal agent, providing a CIA Counter Terrorism Unit ID, a CIA emblem coin in a badge wallet, and an MI-6 ID.”

/snip

The format and design of the IDs “didn’t match known federal ID standards,” the trooper alleged.

Alfonso also allegedly wore a skullcap — prohibited for law enforcement IDs — in the ID photographs and had a challenge coin for a badge.

FHP troopers impounded Alfonso’s truck and allegedly found firearms, passports — with blank ones among them — badges ostensibly for federal agents, bulletproof vests, pills without labeled bottles, money and jewelry.

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Ummmmmmmmmm…..yeah.

 

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    28 and clear, warming to 49 and repeat. I think weather’s record is stuck.

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      GJT, I just re-read this.. looked at the display for our indoor/outdoor thermometer and you’ll never guess what it says the temp out there is at 4:01pm 😉

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    At least it is not raining and the wind blowing with these low temps.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    33 here, a bit warmer than they thought BUT TOO DAMN COLD!!!
    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Bitter truth? 😀

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Truth!

  5. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    We’re tied with GJT at 28 currently (don’t know how low it actually got)… bright, clear, and sunny…

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Tied? Who the winner, higher or lower temps? Lol

      1. bsue54 Avatar
        bsue54

        well, we’re all the way up to 29 now… 😉

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Took a walk around the house. No sign of oppressive heat and humidity – so you’ll not hear me complain. But even the slightest breeze cuts right through ya.
    The winter weeds are coming on strong. I actually need to mow and get John to weedeat.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      If there is anything good about winters in New Jersey, it’s that the weeds all die…dead to the ground.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Why do Republicans want to out stupid Democrats ?

    So we have this guy from northwest of Dallas in the legislature, a Republican, who has written the Mother of All AI Laws and wants all of his colleagues to vote for it. It’s a really bad idea and actually a speech code on stilts. Giovanni Capriglione may have the best of intentions, but we know where that road leads. If passed the bill will immediately draw First Amendment lawsuits like flies.

    George Mason University professor Dean Ball has the devastating criticism.

    The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) has been formally introduced in the Texas legislature, now bearing an official bill number: HB 1709. It has been modified from its original draft, improving on it in some important ways and worsening in others. In the end, TRAIGA/HB 1709 still retains most of the fundamental flaws I described in my first essay on the bill. It is, by far, the most aggressive AI regulation America has seen with a serious chance at becoming law—much more even than SB 1047, the California AI bill that was the most-discussed AI policy of 2024 before being vetoed in September. 

    This bill is massive, so I will not cover all its provisions comprehensively. Here, however, is a summary of what the new version of TRAIGA does.

    Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE, relentless defender of free speech, describes at length why this bill should die. If the Ninth Circuit ruled these kinds of laws are unconstitutional, imagine what the Fifth Circuit will do to HB 1709.

    First, like its previous California incarnation, SB 1047, TRAIGA’s primary method for countering the aforementioned discrimination is through imposing penalties for “negligence” on the part of AI developers, distributors, and even some users.

    If that sounds broad, you don’t know the half of it. As Ball points out, “discrimination can be deemed to have occurred regardless of discriminatory intent; in other words, even if you provably did not intend to discriminate, you can still be found to have discriminated so long as there is a negative effect of some kind on any of the above-listed groups.”

    Second, TRAIGA also requires the writing and constant updating of compliance documentation in the form of “High-Risk Reports,” “Risk Identification and Management Policies,” and “Impact Assessments” which, as Ball explains, will end up being a full time job — one that the government cannot force companies to undertake. When California imposed similar reporting and assessment requirements on social media companies in the name of protecting children, the 9th Circuit had little trouble finding that the requirements compelled speech in violation of the First Amendment.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: my comment at 8:54 AM

    The California bill was not as oppressive as the proposed bill in Austin and even Gavin Newsom vetoed it.

    In the end, TRAIGA/HB 1709 still retains most of the fundamental flaws I described in my first essay on the bill. It is, by far, the most aggressive AI regulation America has seen with a serious chance at becoming law—much more even than SB 1047, the California AI bill that was the most-discussed AI policy of 2024 before being vetoed in September. 

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From the Wall Street Journal:

    Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has done more to politicize science and erode trust in public-health leaders than anyone other than Anthony Fauci. Dr. Murthy was at it again on Friday with a headline-grabbing report that recommends alcohol be distributed with cancer warnings.

    and,

    The academies found insufficient evidence to support a link between moderate drinking and oral, pharyngeal, esophageal, laryngeal and other cancers. It did find a slightly higher risk of breast cancer with moderate drinking but also a lower risk of death generally and from cardiovascular disease specifically compared with never drinking.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Good old Lyndon, always lookin’ out for the other guy. Joe Califano told these stories to Robert Samuelson for his book, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath. How do you think the eggs and high cholesterol myth started ?

    Shoe prices went up, so LBJ slapped export controls on hides to increase the supply of leather. Reports that color television sets would sell at high prices came across the wire. Johnson told me to ask RCA’s David Sarnoff [RCA was then a major TV manufacturer] to hold them down. Domestic lamb prices rose. LBJ directed [Defense Secretary Robert] McNamara to buy cheaper lamb from New Zealand for the troops in Vietnam. … When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    California has now banned anything that runs on natural gas in the future. It will leave more gas for us to export and make money on with the Euros.
    Biden thinks this crap will stand. Hahaha. It’s not just “certain natural gas water heaters”, it’s the vast majority of gas heaters.

    The Biden administration is once again turning up the heat on household energy costs—this time by banning certain natural gas water heaters.

    In a move critics call a “lame-duck regulation,” the new restrictions are set to phase out scores of affordable, reliable models in favor of more expensive alternatives.

    While the administration touts the changes as a step toward environmental progress, many Americans see it as yet another financial burden at a time when inflation is already squeezing household budgets.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      What we are witnessing is a total scorched earth policy to inflict as much punishment as possible on We The People for not voting correctly. I expect Trump to undo all this last minute crapola via EO within his first week in office.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Just when you thought you had peaked on your hate for Merrick Garland and Co, we have this:

    HEADLINE: Biden DOJ May Charge Up To 200 More Jan. 6 Defendants As Trump Takes Office

    /SNIP

    “Over the past four years, our prosecutors, FBI agents, investigators, and analysts have conducted one of the most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in the Justice Department’s history,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Monday. “They have analyzed massive amounts of physical and digital data, identified and arrested hundreds of people who took part in unlawful conduct that day, and initiated prosecutions and secured convictions across a wide range of criminal conduct.”

    “The public servants of the Justice Department have sought to hold accountable those criminally responsible for the January 6 attack on our democracy with unrelenting integrity,” Garland continued.

    We should note that Ray Epps was not among those charged, yet he is on tape encouraging people to storm the Capitol; nor are the numerous FBI agent provocateurs on the list to be charged.
    There is going to be a special section opened in hell for these slimeballs.

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You never know if some of these stories are true but a post on X claims Mark Zuckerberg is abandoning “Fact Checkers” in favor of an X styled “Community Notes” system. Winning.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Prolific conservative X commenter DCDraino posts…

    From his mouth to God’s ear. If the Republicans fail over the next four years, they will fade into oblivion.

    We are about to experience something that’s never been done before

    Republicans have only controlled the White House, Senate, and House for 10 years in the past century

    And you know how many of those years included a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court plus a powerful MAGA media ecosystem with hundreds of millions of followers to hold RINOs accountable?

    Zero

    This is why we call it the Golden Age

    Republicans have never held this much power in modern history

    Let’s use the hell out of it and save this country.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think I made Little Prince’s grown up rosary this morning, to be given to him when Mom and Dad feel it’s appropriate.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    GJT, if Zuck moves the FB content moderation team to Austin, it defeats the whole idea. I suggest Midland-Odessa myself.

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook has done “too much censorship” as he announced the social network is scrapping its controversial third party fact-checking in favor of adopting Elon Musk’s “Community Notes” model on X.

    The 40-year-old tech tycoon — who dined with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his Nov. 5 election victory, with Meta donating $1 million to his inaugural fund — claimed on Tuesday that the dramatic about-face was sign that the company is returning to an original focus on free speech.

    “We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said in a video on Tuesday.

    Among Meta’s dramatic moves in the stunning reversal will be to Meta’s content moderation team from deep-blue California to right-leaning Texas in order to insulate the group from cultural bias — a move that looked like another page out of Musk’s playbook.

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Let’s use the hell out of it and save this country.

    Heh

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      My dreams are high, but my expectations are low.

      1. Tedtam Avatar
        Tedtam

        Nailed. It.

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          I think the Left will be nastier and more evil than ever because they are no longer self-conscious, or even care who they alienate, not that they did much before. It’s almost suicidal behavior.

      2. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        That really was not a swipe at you. Yanno it is funny, I fear nothing, but I fear for our country more this year than ever before.

        1. Tedtam Avatar
          Tedtam

          The Left has never NOT resisted. Evil never stops in its relentless desire for control. It may be slowed. It may be paused. But social entropy is a relentless marauder of common sense.

          1. squawkbox Avatar
            squawkbox

            BINGO

        2. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          This year will be a really rough rodeo. The Left has nothing to lose anymore because they threw everything they had into the wind.

          1. squawkbox Avatar
            squawkbox

            BINGO

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally plopping myself into my chair. It’s gonna be a busy day – errands during the day, some ‘portant pooter stuff to do, and a meeting in the Katy Area starting at 6. I told Hubby I wanted to be on my way out there by four, hoping to miss the worst of rush hour traffic.

    As Texpat said to Squawk :”My dreams are high, but my expectations are low.”

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Before I get real busy, I’m going to my happy place:

    The C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! 2025 seems to have settled down and is proceeding well. Your terrific Tuesday roundup includes: House sets records certifying Trump’s election in a quiet, productive half hour; Canada’s national nightmare ends with Castro lookalike resignation; Trump doubles down on teased plan for largest USA expansion in history and Demark arms up; McDonalds ditches DEI under pressure from conservative activists; nation’s most progressive town deletes woke mayor and woke DA for being too progressive; and you’ll never guess what a new study concludes about global warming climate models.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C. tackles the “see, we’re not election deniers and we’re definitely not like the Jan 6 insurrectionists” interpretation of history and the election certification. He brings up a previous, actual bombing of the Capitol – by leftists:

    Don’t bother asking progressives about the literal bombing of the Capitol in 1983, or the Congressional mass-murder plan, since they’ve long-since miniaturized the actual bombing story, in a narrative-reducing process that is rhetorically comparable to turning juicy bunches of grape into a handful of dry raisins. It means nothing, a mere fringe event, especially when compared to the mass invasion of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, by MAGA-cap-wearing tourists (plus one guy with buffalo horns).

    It is telling that Democrats in Congress more fear unarmed grandmothers from Orlando and retired firefighters than radicalized communists with real improvised explosive devices.

    Here I am digressing again! Wrapping this up, with yesterday’s smooth, uneventful certification, 2025 is off to a promising start. The stage is now set for a presidential term that does not feature multiple impeachment efforts or a “Resist” movement in the opposition party…

    In other words, it was Democrat election denialism. Which is the second-worst sin after insurrection, except when real, communist domestic terrorists do it.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    One facet of the Trudeau departure from office:

    In the murky mechanics of parliamentary systems, Trudeau’s ‘resignation’ (he will continue to serve as a lame duck until replaced), the setting of a new general election, and the Prime Minister’s suspension of the Canadian parliament until the end of March were recognized as politically savvy maneuvers. It has something to do with giving Trudeau’s liberal party more time to campaign and select a quick Kamala-Harris-like last-minute replacement, and to avoid the imminent “collapse” of the now-minority liberal government.

    It is all an overly complicated political process that I could explain but it would cause you to experience shooting pains behind the eyeballs and possibly lose consciousness. [snuffle, snort!]

    President Trump reacted to the terrific news by reiterating his offer to make Canada the U.S.’s 51st state, which I initially thought was just a joke, but now I’m starting to think Trump might actually be serious:

    /snip

    In any event, the slogan “Make Canada Florida” got a tiny, maple-leaf’s thickness more real. Or maybe a palm leaf. Either way.

    Pivot to Greenland (I just heard a call from Greenland come in on the Clay & Buck Show – caller said given a choice between Denmark and the U.S., caller thinks the populace would vote to go American):

    I like the idea of retaking the Panama Canal. But I’m not sure how I feel about the other two proposals, assuming they are serious. I have grown to love Canadian conservatives, and Bless the Truckers, and I’ve tried to help as many as possible relocate into the Sunshine State.

    Nor have we yet heard a real pitch from Trump yet, so it’s far too soon to take a position anyway.

    But … if Trump could pull off those three things —Panama, Canada, Greenland— he would legit earn a giant-face-sized spot on Mount Rushmore.

    And that terrifying possibility would continue to drive Democrats batty well into the third millennium.

    If that happens, we could just hook up some wires to the libs and let their spinning generate enough electricity to power some of these big AI farms.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C. takes a brief foray into the wonderment of uber liberal Oakland, CA recalling two Soros-funded office holders. Will wonders never cease? Has the pendulum finally gone too far for those folks?

    Then on to the tree hugger news:

    Every once in a while, the narrative cracks, and a little ray of truth shines through. Of course, it’s hard to see the truth through the cracks, especially the whole truth, but at least you can see that the truth is there. It happened yesterday, when the Atlantic ran a curious weather science story headlined, “Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth.”

    The story was based on a new climate study … researchers found that, on every continent except Antarctica, certain regions show up as mysterious hot spots, suffering repeated heat waves, bafflingly beyond what any current climate model predicted or explained.

    … the Atlantic invested many long paragraphs offering excuses for why experts don’t even expect scientific models to be accurate. Failed models are not a failure of science at all; it’s how science works! Failed models show science is working. Now they tell us. …

    The trouble for capital-S Science is that the climate scientists who worship the current political climate model have long relied on their models to forecast planetary doom unless vastly expensive measures using your tax dollars and curtailing your freedom are undertaken immediately and without argument.

    /snip

    In other words, as I have repeatedly said, models are nothing more than decorated guesses.

    The main reason the climate models are wrong is that they don’t account for the higher atmospheric water vapor levels resulting from the historic Hunga Tonga undersea eruption, or the high solar activity producing historic aurora all over the planet’s night skies (but apparently the “experts” think all that extra energy has no effect whatsoever on the climate).

    The truth is that, if they want to vacation in Aspen this year, climate model scientists must remain politically muzzled….

    Under the rule limiting what variables are allowed to go into them, the climate models are condemned to failure.

    This admission was good, but it is only one article. But it’s a start! …

    Still, it is progress. This admission of climate-model failure is late in coming. They clung to their models because they have nothing else after the models. But with this remarkable admission, climate-change realists can now dismiss the silly models — because they don’t work.

    Maybe the scientists can start to have a real conversation soon.

    I’d love for Trump to hold a live, highly televised, unedited brawl-type debate on this topic. It should include the trillions of dollars wasted and/or fed into elitist cronies’ pockets; the suppression of developing countries’ economies; the environmental destruction related to these “green energy” sources, etc.

    Pass the popcorn if that happens.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    ”My dreams are high, but my expectations are low.”

    Ditto that!

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good grief.

    HFD said the firefighters were injured after getting trapped inside one of the apartments by a fallen door. They issued a mayday, and another firefighter, who had recently been rehired, ripped the door open to help get the trapped firefighters to safety.

    Fire officials said the firefighters’ air packs, helmets, and other gear melted due to the extreme heat during a flashover, which caused the temperature to rise significantly.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A monkey in a pink tutu that slipped out of a Missouri home was captured just before a winter storm slammed the state.

    “Bananas” is how the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office described the apprehension of the primate in a Facebook post.

    The spider monkey was spotted Friday afternoon at the intersection of two highways near the town of Otto, just to the south of the St. Louis area. The monkey had been staying at a nearby home when it managed to open a door and get outside.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; I just finished up Bone’s @ 8:08 AM yesterday.
    Victory Davis Hanson’s Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?And even though there wasn’t any “new” news in the piece it was worth reading just to put all the Biden Administration’s corruption into context.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Since Hubby and I are Byrna owners, the company sends us emails and videos on how to use, when to use, and owner’s experiences:

    Adam Alexander was pulling out of his parking spot on his way to his night shift at work when a person swerved past him and then immediately threw the vehicle in reverse to start a confrontation with Adam. Thankfully Adam had been prepared to defend and took his Byrna out of his bag and quickly dialed 911. Quickly Adam assessed that other driver who had exited his vehicle was clearly intoxicated and not armed with a firearm but was aggressively approaching him. Based on the rapidly escalating situation unfolding, Adam brandished his Byrna SD and put the laser on the man’s chest and with that the road raging driver backed down and retreated to his vehicle.

    Adam’s dashcam video illustrates the importance of careful situational awareness while being prepared to defend. Law enforcement arrived shortly thereafter and confirmed Adam’s correct use of force, imprinting an important rule to his routine: “I’m never going to not have my Byrna on me.”

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I am getting cancellations for my rosary class. I expected this, folks’ll reserve a spot before thinking it through or checking their schedules, or….life.

    There was one lady who digitally jumped the line to get a spot. We hadn’t announced the class yet, but she somehow got to see an email where it was discussed. How? Anyway, several weeks before we got the time and place verified she was already requesting a spot for her and her friend.

    The notice in the bulletin clearly stated that RSVP’s were necessary, as I was sending out “pre-class instructions and a materials list’ to the attendees.

    She and her friend are both dropping the class because “they don’t have the materials”. I guess they’re not going to buy them, either.

    The class is being offered for free. Did she think that I or Father Felix was going to buy her tools and materials for her? /smh

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Vegas truck bomber was a reality TV star ? Does life get weirder ?

    A nonsensical, contradictory portrait of the Tesla Cybertruck bomber is emerging just days after the Army veteran supposedly killed himself before detonating his vehicle at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.

    While the left has tried to frame 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger as a MAGA fanatic, new evidence reveals he was neither a Republican nor a conservative.

    Rather, Livelsberger was a registered “No Labels” voter, Fox News reported.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Jeremi Sensky traveled from his Pennsylvania home to celebrate the New Year with his family in New Orleans. Sensky is a paraplegic and has been wheelchair-bound for years after a car accident left him paralyzed. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was hit by the truck during the attack on Bourbon Street.

    Sensky survived his ordeal but suffered fractures to both legs. He was transported to the University Medical Center, where he underwent surgery to repair his damaged legs. His wheelchair was not only left in pieces but was also being held as evidence by police investigating the attack.

    Never fear, the Cajun Navy was there.

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

    The Vegas truck bomber was a reality TV star ? Does life get weirder ?

    It’s all a spooks Inc., deep state production.

  32. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This is interesting and also to some extent true.
    Manage that Trigger.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      It’s true. I spent 4 of my 6 years in the military teaching small arms and proved finger positioning over and over again. There just ain’t no way to squeeze that trigger straight back except in position one. You can try adjusting your sights for two and three but you run into consistency problems.

  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think ‘pimp hand’ of justice is going to ‘B slap’ some miscreants.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s impossible to not laugh at these arrogant asshats.

    The resulting spit-take perfectly suits this latest broadside from four European Union leaders. After years of attempting to interfere with Elon Musk’s social media platform, this quartet is suddenly shocked, shocked that Musk has decided to participate in their electoral processes to protect his own interests:

    Tech billionaire Elon Musk is getting wide pushback in European capitals as he tries to extend his recent political success to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. 

    Leaders in four European countries — France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom — denounced his influence in separate statements Monday, warning that Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, should not involve himself in their countries’ politics. … 

    “Who could have imagined, 10 years ago, that the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks would intervene directly in elections, including in Germany?” Macron said, according to The Associated Press, alluding to Musk’s endorsement of a far-right German political party. 

    Oh, I dunno … maybe the same people who imagined that European leaders could dictate speech policies to an American social-media platform? Go figure. 

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Karma is a B!TC# 😀

      1. Tedtam Avatar
        Tedtam

        And she ugly, too.

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

    I heard Salcedo mention the film grid down-power up on his show so I watched about 35 minutes.

    wasn’t that impressed.
    lots of Russia Russia Russia hacking mentioned, some China hacking mentioned and Iran as well.

    also noticed all the news clips were from propagandist news organization.
    no thanks.

    the players they left out were the malevolent deep state players themselves.
    imo they’d hack our own grid and blame Russia.
    could this be their own event 201 prefab?

    and besides. The blood money sucking Vampyres aren’t interested in upgrading our grid when there’s gillions and gillions to be made off of laundered Ukrainian blood money.

    and do they ever think that maybe allowing 50 million illegals into the country has anything to do with a taxed and inefficient grid?

    nah.

    They’re too busy playing hide the salami with one of their young college interns and then lavishing them with gifts they’ve purchased with laundered Ukrainian blood money.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No way to know if it will help, but there have been suggestions that you contact your Texas House Representative and make known your position on whom they should vote for in next week’s Texas House Speaker election. I’m fairly certain that mine needs to have his mind changed.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Who is your House rep these days ?

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Rep. Stan Kitzman of Waller County.

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          The Kitzman family has been around a long time out of the Pattison area. An old time name in Waller County. I can’t believe Stan Kitzman would vote for that Dade Phelan protege.

          1. Shannon Avatar
            Shannon

            Although he wasn’t one of the Phelen Henchmen who tried to take out Paxton, he was definitely a vote for impeachment. He published a letter explaining his vote, it was full of innuendo (and no facts) against Paxton. If you recall, the impeachment failed laughingly at the Senate trail.

            1. Shannon Avatar
              Shannon

              I voted against Kitzman in the last Primary but we’re going to need a stronger, high-quality candidate to unseat Kitzman.

            2. Texpat Avatar
              Texpat

              You should run against him. It would do you and the District good and I’ll come down and run your campaign !

    2. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Kitzman is my rep as well, just sent him a note. Thanks for the reminder.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well dr phil,

    It looks like, once again, they rolled all the Hamsters back into their rooms so they could have their late afternoon Jello before bed.

    Time to rock, baby!

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon, this is the ultimate cover of that Guns n’ Roses song – honestly. Once you see and hear this, it will never be the same in your head.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Pretty good.
      I always have to laugh because Katfish had this entirely unreasonable and near psychotic hatred for Axl Rose’s vocals.
      I tried to tell him he was a bit over-the-top about it. Of course, over the years I razzed him unmercifully about it.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This was one of my earliest albums. I sat outside under the window behind the stage of the old wooden Jubilee Hall near downtown Houston to hear these guys when I was too young to be allowed inside.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Now you’re talking’.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Jubilee Hall was big, old octagonal wooden dance hall exactly like the ones you find in Central Texas, but it sat on a full open square city block at Bagby and McGowen a block or so behind the original Spec’s Liquor Store on Smith Street. I’m sure the old hall is gone now but it was a fine old building, maybe the largest octagonal wooden hall I ever saw.

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