Monday Affirmation of History Open Thread

 

V-E Day and the Founding of a New World Order

Beginning early next year, this nation will be celebrating its 250th anniversary of our founding.  It will be a great time to be alive and yet it will not pass quietly.  Be prepared and do not despair.

Victory in Europe Day has thus earned a prominent place in America’s mythology. The conventional wisdom is that 1945 marked America’s entry into the harsh world of geopolitics. Some murmur darkly about the wartime conferences in Yalta and Potsdam that, in their view, damned tens of millions of Europeans to a life of misery under the heel of the Soviet boot. More recently, a gaggle of podcasting revisionists have argued that Adolf Hitler was driven to war not by his frequently expressed desire to cleanse Europe of non-Aryans, but by his fear of stern condemnations from English backbenchers. In their view, the whole war was a mistake.

Ike’s note announced one of the most important accomplishments in America’s history. But it was neither America’s cotillion nor its betrayal of Europe. It was the most important step in the American effort to save their country and the world from the consequences of Europe’s great failure.

and, 

Churchill was right. If the great powers had enforced the Treaty of Versailles and prevented Germany from rearming or occupying the Rhineland, Hitler would have been exposed, emasculated, and expunged. Or at Munich. Even after the invasion of Poland forced London and Paris to declare war, the British and French dawdled for eight months until Hitler knocked out France in six weeks.

Today’s podcast bros agree that the war was unnecessary, but they seek to absolve Hitler rather than condemn him. Like them, many Americans in the 1930’s were skeptical of foreign intervention. They believed that their country only entered its last great war because of lies told by the financial elite, war profiteers, and Jews, and they wanted to steer clear of the next one.

These arguments resonate with some critics of America’s misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, who often blame the same groups of people for America’s current troubles. Their views would be comical if they were less hideous. If Jews were as powerful as they claim, why did they let the Holocaust happen, and why did they pin their hopes on Winston Churchill, who in 1938 was primarily known for overseeing the disastrous Gallipoli campaign and the failed postwar return to the gold standard? Shouldn’t they have picked a better puppet than a back-benching has-been?

Every unhinged lunatic from the Antifas to the Red/Green anti-Jewish, Zionist hating Arabs to your garden variety leftist professor will be working overtime to dismiss and defeat American history.  The gasping, flat-lining legacy Media will be churning out propaganda around the clock to try and spoil the truth.

Most of Europe’s small monoethnic states were thus born in century-long orgy of rape and murder. Millions were slaughtered in their own homes or driven from them, often to die in desolate places. Some of the new nation states had parliaments and offered their citizens a fair degree of freedom, but these were by no means Jeffersonian republics.

Europe has always been a dark place despite its great art, majestic architecture and astounding scientific discoveries.  The Europeans have murdered and plundered one another for thousands of years.  They have blamed nationalism and its natural patriotic pride for all their misery.  Americans, on the other hand, fought devastating civil war, healed themselves over generations.  They are proud of the hardships they have overcome and the freedoms they enjoy.  The Left is waiting to scold us all next year for evil intentions, empire building and colonization.  We know the truth.

 


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  1. Tedtam Avatar

    I can’t believe I’m first.  I’m the one on vacation!  Unless someone slips in while I’m typing.

    Good morning to all, hope your day goes well.  Texpat has, as usual, served up a topic that will take some digesting. Good job, Texpat.

  2. Tedtam Avatar

    I guess I’ll handle the C&C now, while Hubby is asleep in his chair…

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Your white-hot roundup this morning includes: the apocalyptic trade war with China simmers down and stocks rocket up, following excellent investment advice from the Oval Office; Trump dominates news cycle with tweet about lower drug prices and media melts down over pharma stock portfolios; AOC teases presidential run to the delight of many aging boomers as well as yours truly; Trump makes huge progress in proxy war with single all-caps tweet; and Euro leaders caught in embarrassing cocaine train contretemps.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Great OC piece. RTWDT

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      What he said RTWDT.

    2. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Indeed, read the whole thing.

  4. Tedtam Avatar

    First, tariff talk:  US and China agree to keep talking, and it looks like things are going the way Trump wants: some of the tariff load is being suspended in order to continue negotiating.  For all of China’s bluster in front of their own people, they are playing Trump’s game.

    Tariffs will go to 10% across the board, but China is abandoning its own anti-US market measures.  These are things like slow-walking imports, regulations, etc.   The lefty media outlets are having to revisit their cries of “Trump is collapsing the global markets!  The sky is falling!”

    But once again, reality refused to cooperate with media’s dreams— and instead of a catastrophe, Trump got Chinese concessions and another stock market rally. Tariff Doomsday failed to show up for the breakfast buffet and hasn’t even checked in to the hotel.

    What corporate media called “impossible,” Trump called “Sunday.”

  5. Tedtam Avatar

    Only pharmaceuticals will be suffering – Trump’s latest EO is trying to force drug prices to drop.  I don’t like it when government tries to force a market price on any item, but he’s gonna try.  I read a story yesterday about a thalidomide-based miracle drug against multiple myeloma that costs 25 cents to make and the drug company, facing economic stresses, kept raising the cost to multiple hundreds of dollars.  Their thinking was that “people with cancer will pay anything”.  Vultures like that are despicable.   Trump’s Truth that he posted pondered the question: why do Americans pay out the nose for drugs are so much lower elsewhere in the world?

    I couldn’t find any headline celebrating falling drug prices — corporate media was obsessed with how the executive order (which nobody’s even seen yet) would hurt pharmaceutical stocks. I think the media has lost the plot. Trump essentially promised to cut costs for sick people, and the media’s hair is on fire over hedge fund portfolio losses.

    If this was the meat puppet instead of the orange man, the media would be lauding how the prez was saving grandma and grandpa from financial ruin just trying to stay alive.  Nope, the MSM is focusing on the falling drug stock prices.

    So to recap: Trump promises lower drug prices, and the media is as outraged as if he’d just clubbed a baby seal on the trading floor. Their outrage wasn’t over what sick Americans pay— it’s over what Pfizer’s shareholders might lose. If you ever wondered who corporate media really works for, wonder no more. They’re not covering the cost of our meds; they’re covering for the people charging us six hundred bucks for a bottle of tainted sugar pills.

    What’s the score now?  Media: zero, Trump: gazillion?

    Yet they’d rather get run over by the Trump train that get on it.  Trump’s not my favorite person and I fully expect mistakes to be made, but I have to admit – he’s getting results and if the media gets b-slapped in the process, that’s okay by me.

  6. Tedtam Avatar

    And the wet dream of some of the hard right may be coming true:  AOC is NOT ruling out a run for the White House.  Oh, please, let Jazz Crockett be her running mate!  I can see the lefty media lapping this up: two candidates, and both are *women* AND *minority*!!  How could they lose?

    Let me count the ways….but first, back to the C&C: 

    Progressive boomers seem to love her. Patrick Barrett, 83, is a retiree who had time to attend a recent town hall in Arizona. He told the Journal that, despite “aligning with a more traditional wing of the party,” he plans to support Ms. Ocasio-Cortez if she runs for president. She “is a good bridge between those younger people with experiences, minorities, very very urban attuned to all of that, but also working class as hell,” Mr. Barrett gushed.

    Funny, working class didn’t seem to matter in the past….look at Pelosi, Schumer, et al.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Yup! Let’s start a draft AOC and Jasmine Crockett Presidential ticket! I’d donate to that one.    😀

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Working class ?  Is this some sort of joke ?  There is not a “working class” or blue collar bone in her body.

      AOC grew up in affluent Westchester County, north of NYC.  She is the daughter of a architect and attended Boston University for four years.  Current tuition and living expenses stated by the school total $91,342 each year.  AOC graduates from college around 2012-2013 and moves to Brooklyn to become a party girl and bartender.  Along the way, she meets a political activist who recruits and grooms her for a political race like a Hollywood agent promotes his next big It Girl.

       

  7. Tedtam Avatar

    And Ukraine has finally agreed to talk directly to Putin:

    Until Trump tweeted in, direct negotiations remained impossible. If we had an honest media, today’s headline should have been: “Trump Brokers Historic Peace Talks With One All-Caps Tweet.” Mission Impossible.

  8. Tedtam Avatar

    I hadn’t heard this story: Macron on cocaine?

    Early this morning, Politico ran a wildly deceptive story headlined, “Macron’s office hits back at cocaine train claims. But the one thing missing from Politico’s story (and every other corporate media account)— was the actual video clip that set social media ablaze. So watch it for yourself:

    CLIP: European leaders quickly stash the evidence when the cameras come on (0:05).

    Yesterday, three EU leaders rode the rails into Kiev to deliver their ceasefire ultimatum: UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Due to war conditions, travel into Ukraine requires taking a train from Poland. Someone walked into their private traincar to film the “historic” meeting— and caught a frantic, sneaky cleanup instead.

    The now-viral clip shows the men sitting down. Merz suddenly notices a tiny bronze spoon on the table and sweeps it away like the Miami DEA just kicked the door in. Then he gives Macron a look. Macron picks up on it, glances down, sees a small crumpled white paper, casually drops his hand over it, then slowly slides it off the table—like a man disappearing a spare ace card he hopes no one saw.

    Twitter sleuths pounced, claiming the objects were a recreational cocaine spoon and a drug wrapper. Personally, I would not know. But if they hadn’t panicked and scrambled to hide the evidence, nobody probably would have noticed. The French government’s explanation —just a “soiled tissue”— might have even worked. (Not only did CNN fail to link the clip, but it also failed to mention Merz’s tiny spoon, which is harder to explain. You don’t bring a micro spoon unless you came to party.)

    Well, that ‘splains a lot, actually.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Boy, I missed this hot ticket…

    These two organizations have always been shrouded in secrecy because they claim exemption from the Freedom of Information Act and refuse to disclose internal documents.  If the public gets wind of what’s really going on there ?

    The President Donald Trump-aligned legal group America First Legal Foundation on Monday sued Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, accusing him of acting beyond his scope as head of the U.S. Judicial Conference.

    The lawsuit was also lodged against Robert Conrad, who serves as the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, according to Fox News.

    The legal action accuses the men of operating beyond their scope of resolving cases or controversies, citing their cooperation with Congress in helping them investigate Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, and a willingness to create or adopt a code of ethics for the court.

    “Under our constitutional tradition, accommodations with Congress are the province of the executive branch,” the foundation said. “The Judicial Conference and the Administrative Office are therefore executive agencies,” which would be overseen by the president and not the courts.

     

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s become impossible to keep up these days with the pace of breaking news.  Here’s another one I missed..

    Elon Musk reveals DOGE has found at least 100,000 active government employees who have applied for and received unemployment insurance.

     

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Right on, Elon

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Every effing one of that hunnert thousand should go to prison.  There has to be a penalty and being a federal employee should add to that penalty.

      Thieving bastards!

    3. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      We are on, actually inside the plane preparing to head west to intergalactic airport, Houston.

      I really don’t much care for flying.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well it’s Monday again and the rain is petering out but we’ve got  3.31″ of rain since Thursday so we’re happy with that. Clearing up by tomorrow and 94 degrees by the end of the week.

    SO! Mornin’  Gang

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Easing out of F’burg towards home.

    I’d really just as soon stay here. Permanently.

    Oh well.

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      That explains why so many folks retire there.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If they lie to you, throw the SOBs out.

    It’s encouraging to see a county Republican Party censure a new politician who lied to them and then showed up in Austin to vote for things he swore to oppose.  He just got elected in 2024 for the first and probably the last time if he’s denied a place on the ballot in 2026.  This is the way to do it…swift justice !

    The Tarrant County Republican Party voted to censure State Rep. John McQueeney after a five-hour meeting Thursday night.

    Attendees applauded and cheered after the county adopted the resolution by an 87-46-3 vote.

    and,

    When McQueeney seconded and voted for State Rep. Jared Patterson’s (R–Frisco) motion to end debate on the new House rules and then voted for the rules package, he purportedly violated Legislative Priority 4 to Ban Democrat Chairs and Priority 8 to End Federal Overreach.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I saw a report on local news about 5 million people were in default on their student loans and something about the Covid deferment causing the problem. It seems that if you let these slackers have 4 years of no payments AT ALL the interest incenses the total note by thousand of dollars!  Dang imagine that?! Who’d a thunk it?

    They interviewed a 46 tear old female that had $185K in debt!? REALLY?!?!?  My thoughts are how in the HELL does someone that age have any debt left?!?! Should have been paid off years ago!

  15. Tedtam Avatar

    Hubby took a semester off to work construction to have money to go back to college.  He also worked for his parents at their apartments on holidays, etc., and College Buddy and Hubby ran a car repair shop on the side.

    He graduated in five years instead of four, but that worked out as we graduated together.

    He did have to borrow some money, but we paid it back within ten years of graduating.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is another federal agency in the shadows virtually no American has heard of before.  I want to know why Rep. Elise Stefanik has anything to do with this outfit ?

    From the invaluable Data Republican:

    Why isn’t Soros banned from America ?

    This question pops up in my comments a lot. The answer is simple: Republicans and Democrats work with him. The references I found were not from some random academic journal. Over 30 direct mentions of Soros or his NGOs appeared in the Journal of Democracy. It’s the flagship journal of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the same organization featured prominently in that widely circulated “Uniparty NGO” network diagrams below. NED is a U.S. government-funded outfit. It includes currently sitting members of Congress on its board… from both parties, not just former officials.

    plus,

    So when people ask, “Why isn’t Soros banned?” … they need to understand: he’s not an outsider. He’s part of our government. The Uniparty protects and partners with him, because he helps carry out a shared foreign policy vision… the same one that labels President Trump as a threat to democracy.

     

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So over the weekend Trump got the last American Hostage freed from the savages in Gaza and got a tariff trade deal made with China SO how will the Lamestream Media Spin this to make the Trumpster look bad? Asking for a friend.  😉

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  19. Tedtam Avatar

    This woman might not be a transphobe, she may actually be a trans herself – she has more balls than a lot of men.

    I identify as a board member, and my pronouns are “I/Won”.

     

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    At this point, I don’t care if they blow Google up into a hundred different entities.

    They couldn’t have made a worse mockery of their famous original motto, Don’t Be Evil.

    Google has now been caught admitting to degrading the quality of their ubiquitous search engine in order keep people searching in order expose them to more ads.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Returning home via 290 so that I end up in Brenham for groceries.

    Proceeding from Johnson City, the Hill Country charms end abruptly at Dripping Springs – which is now about 10 stoplights long. From there for the next 25 miles to Oak Hill/Austin is solid commercial and residential development.

    Honestly, I’m not certain that Oak Hill even exists anymore. When I lived there in the mid-70’s it was a tiny Austin suburb at the junction of 290 & 71. Now it is a freeway interchange. And nearby historic Convict Hill is topped with hideous townhouses.

     

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      And I’m old enough to remember when Dripping Springs got its first stoplight.  I had a friend with a retail store there and he was happy because he thought it might get him more business traffic.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    New Study Shows GOP Controlled House and Senate Are Totally Worthless, Worst in 70 Years.

    Key Facts:

    • Donald Trump won the 2024 election with 312 electoral votes and control of the presidency, House, and Senate.
    • Republicans also won the popular vote and over 2,700 counties nationwide.
    • Despite total GOP control, Congress has sent fewer bills to Trump than any Congress since the 1950s.
    • Trump has signed only a handful of bills into law, relying instead on 124 executive orders.
    • Past presidents, including Obama, Bush, and Clinton, had signed far more legislation by this point in their first terms.

    The Rest of The Story:
    President Trump’s 2024 victory was decisive, flipping all battleground states and securing a mandate that extended from the White House to both chambers of Congress.

    With such a commanding win, expectations were high for swift and bold action on Trump’s policy promises—chief among them immigration reform, government downsizing, and economic revitalization.

    However, the Republican-controlled House and Senate have failed to capitalize on the opportunity.

    Reports from Punchbowl News confirm that Trump has signed fewer bills into law at this stage than any new president in 70 years.

    While executive orders have surged—124 signed so far—Congress has sent only a trickle of legislation to the President’s desk.

    By contrast, even presidents with divided governments managed more productive starts
    Commentary:
    This failure isn’t just embarrassing—it’s politically suicidal.

    Republicans have been handed the reins of power on a silver platter.

    Voters didn’t just choose Trump again—they demanded an agenda of strong borders, reduced spending, and restored American strength.

    But GOP lawmakers seem more interested in ducking responsibility than delivering results.

    It’s clear that many in Congress are comfortable in the minority.

    They campaign as fighters, but once elected, they fold like a cheap suit.

    This is why Trump has been forced to rely on executive orders—because the very people elected to support him are dragging their feet.

    Whether due to cowardice, internal sabotage, or establishment resistance, the outcome is the same: a paralyzed legislative branch that refuses to act.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’m not one of those people who measure legislative success by the number of bills passed and signed.  Often, it’s the opposite of success.   However, this Congress is particularly unproductive.  This is exactly why the federal judiciary and the Deep State have been running this country since the 1960s.  We could lose both chambers of Congress in 2026 despite the triumphs of the Trump administration.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Good point, Biden and Co got several disastrous bills pushed through.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You may recall that the President of Willie’s Fan Club lived in Oak Hill and she would often bring her pet mountain lion for a visit to the meat market where I worked.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      A Mountain Lion in a Meat Market? I bet that was,……well thrilling. 😉

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Naw, the cat stayed outside.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’d forgotten about that craziness.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Israeli-American captive to travel to Qatar to meet Trump after release from Gaza, family says

    He will also meet with the head of Qatar, who supports Hamas BTW.

    Our country is in deep trouble folks.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’m furious.

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Kinda’ missing my “Edit” Button but see Squawk’s; GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR   I’ll just let it go. 😀

    Seriously though we couldn’t function without the Squawkster keeping this Dang Thang going.

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Supr Dave

    Look under your name the edit button is there.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t understand these stories.  People with deadly allergies wandering around food stores randomly eating things they have no idea of their ingredients.  If my life hung in the balance over something like peanut butter, I wouldn’t take any chances with any kind of baked goods, to start with.

    Anybody ever confuse a peanut butter cookie with an oatmeal raisin cookie ?

    A Washington family is suing Safeway over the death of Margaret Jean Bryant, 78, who they say died after eating a mislabeled peanut butter cookie.

    and,

    The documents allege that Bryant purchased peanut butter cookies that were incorrectly labeled as oatmeal raisin cookies from her local Safeway in Washington on April 7, 2023.

    After eating one of the cookies from the package, she felt nauseous and went to the bathroom, the documents said.

    Shortly after, Bryant’s husband found her unresponsive and called an ambulance. She was rushed to the hospital, but died less than an hour later.

     

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Wazzup?

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

    New Study Shows GOP Controlled House and Senate Are Totally Worthless, Worst in 70 Years.

    I keep telling you the republicant’s don’t want to win they want to lose.
    They want to always lose. They suck.
    they get gazillions more in blood money when they lose and that’s the way they want it.
    they’re all criminals, saboteurs and scumbaggery experts.
    Sternly worded letters and cute senator Kennedy sound bites that accomplish nothing is all you’re going to get.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Central Texas I once knew to be covered with cow/calf ranching operations have almost disappeared while we now import these gamey, rank cattle from Mexico.  There were alarms going off from Texas cattlemen at least 18 months ago pleading with the Biden administration to take action.

    The Trump administration is temporarily banning imports of cattle, horses and bison through ports along the southern border because of the rapid northern spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico.

    U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the suspension in an X post on Sunday.

    “Due to the threat of New World Screwworm I am announcing the suspension of live cattle, horse, & bison imports through U.S. southern border ports of entry effective immediately,” she wrote. “The last time this devastating pest invaded America, it took 30 years for our cattle industry to recover. This cannot happen again.”

  30. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Testing?

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Someone hand me a bigger hammer and screwdriver hold my tea and watch this.

  32. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Out and about I spotted this beautiful Moth on the hose reel up at the pump house and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. It’s large, about the size of a Luna Moth 4″ or so wide. I looked it up and it’s an Imperial Moth and apparently it’s found all the way from Canada to Argentina.

  33. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Squawk, I will hold the tea for you.  🙂

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Thanks Ms Adee

    2. Tedtam Avatar

      I’ll hand him the hammer.

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I see a couple TESTs PLEASE if you are having troubles with the blog PLEASE let me know what is going on.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      No biggie but I am not Sean edit button either.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Basic functions seem to work fine for me. I have not wandered into the Dashboard, yet. It was a travel and a work day for me.

    What are the betting odds on whether Super Dave found the Edit button? Asking for a friend.

    Thanks, SQK, for caring enough to save the blog when you do.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Well nope, no edit button that I can find. The only thing I see below my name is the date in blue and it does nothing. BUTT not complaining.  😉

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Weird. It should be just to the right of  the date!

        Try clearing your cache and shutting down your device completely. Then, drive your entire property twice on the four wheeler. Then drink two beers and have a long talk with the dog on the porch.

        🙂

         

         

        1. Super Dave Avatar
          Super Dave

          I’m confident that will NOT work but dang I think I’ll try it anyway, sounds like a good great idea.   😉

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Main topic of conversation in F’berg was the forecasted 106° temperatures there this week.

    .. After such a gorgeous, cool-ish weekend.

  37. Tedtam Avatar

    I am today rectifying some of the pop culture deficits in Hubby’s profile.  We’ve watched “You’ve Got Mail” and are now viewing “Titanic”.    When I suggested “Titanic,” his first response was “It’s 3 hours long”.  I replied “You have anything better to do?”

    So, we’re watching it now.

    BTW – we caught a very different Meg Ryan movie last night, “Serious Moonlight”.  Not what I expected, but Hubby was LOLing through many parts of the movie.

     

     

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Titanic came out when daughter was in her pre-teen years, about 12 and she wanted me to take her to see the movie. I did fine until the heavy breathing scene in the fancy Renault CB Towncar. I was SOO embarrassed but daughter didn’t say anything about it. Probably for my sake.

  38. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Thus far I seem to be back to commenting as usual despite the several recent changes.

    Thank you all who have made it so.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    What a day.

    A travel day. A work day. A shopping day. A controversial church council meeting.

    Whew! It’s time for a double glass of wine, Bubba.

     

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Shannon if you’re wondering Merlot goes well with Burn’t Dawgs.   😉

      To explain we always have Hot Dawgs for Monday supper because I really like them and my wife likes them well enough to have them also but we had two pieces of the huge T Bones (1.5 Lbers) left over from Sunday night so my wife had them with a baked tater and the left over Charro beans. There was about two glasses of wine left so she asked me if I wanted to help her finish off the bottle so I said sure. I’m pretty sure that this was the first time I’ve had wine with my Hot Dawgs.

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This popped up over yonder in my “memories”. This was Mothers Day a few years ago.

    My mom Estelle in 1948, the year she married, she would have been 19.

    FWIW; She graduated high school at 16 and rode a charted Greyhound Bus to Dothan for two years going to Business School. Then Moved to Montgomery Alabama and met my Dad.

  41. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sorry bout the mistook on the comments.  the edit I was looking at is for Admins.

     

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I knew it!! Only the HoutyTouty get won’t privledge!

      Ahha, I gots an edit button!

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hmmmm I can give us dates in Farsi and Japanese fonts.

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    We left Reynold’s Plantation at 3pm Houston time, got back to our house 9:40 CST. Long travel day. I need to decompress before I try to go to bed. I splurged while I was there and bought a set of hi-ball glasses. Inside the glass they had a 3D rendering of mountain ranges; the bottom of the glass is not flat. I’m testing one out to make sure they work. I’ll take a picture of one and post it tomorrow, I think they are really cool. Reynold’s Plantation is absolutely spectacular, beautiful, elegant, Very green with lots of flowers, tall pine trees, beautifully manicured lawns, big lots enourmous houses, 7 golf courses, prolly 10,000+ acre development, hilly, not one bit of kudzu. I could go on, but you get the idea; I can’t imagine having the resources to be able to live there. Our hosts were very gracious and fun to be around. What a blessed trip.

  44. Tedtam Avatar

    We finished “Titanic,” which Hubby enjoyed muchly.  Now he’s back to PlutoTV and his usual shows.

    He tried to cook some brownies but the oven isn’t working properly.  Cooked it at 350 and it’s still almost completely raw dough in the middle.  He had pulled it out earlier but I suggested we put it back in to finish cooking, not realizing just how badly the oven was (not) working.  It’s been in there for four hours.  Hubby just pulled the dish out and showed me – he was touching it with his bare hand.  I touched it, and it was barely warm.

    Yep, the oven’s got a problem.  We’ll be reporting that tomorrow.

  45. Tedtam Avatar

    On the way here, I noticed what looked like a charming main square in tiny little Frankston.  We went back there this afternoon.  There was a nice park in the middle, but the shops and businesses on the three sides (the fourth was the main road through town) were either closed or closed permanently.  There was one woodworking shop still open, and we talked to the owner.  He was trying to sell his business.  There was a Mexican restaurant, closed on Monday.  A young man was remodeling next door, but it was to prepare it for sale.  There was one small boutique that might’ve been an ongoing business, but it was hard to tell if the “closed” sign meant just for today or forever.  Couldn’t see well through the windows. There was one mercantile shop that seemed to provide country wear, or at least cowboy hats, judging from the piles of hats in the windows.   It was a bust, but at least the drive was nice and the woodworking guy gave us a tip on good restaurant in nearby Chandler, which we’ll try later in the week.

    The people that we met were more than nice.  I hope Frankston isn’t dying.

  46. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Early afternoon here, sunny, and increasingly windy.  Good thing Old Glory is still in the house until the spring season of strong winds dies down.  All our trees in the area are in full green leaf, and the house is in shade most of the day, which helps greatly come the midst of summer heat.

    Seems to be that Texas is The Giant still and not asleep, despite some states that try to compete with us as they lose population and can’t figure out why.  Mirror, mirror on the wall….

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