Black fatigue – the black lady said it, not me:
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If I could still rate the headline story, I would give it a 5. Most definitely.
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If you have not seen this, please watch.
An Arab man from Saudi Arabia in a message to Palestinians: “Who are you trying to fool? You have no land and no case.
This land belongs to Israel for the people of Israel.
You Palestinians are evil in any country you set foot on!”
This must be shared every single week.
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If you have a credit/debit card of any kind, READ THIS COLUMN. If you think your cards have been stolen and you call the issuing company to cancel your card, make sure there are no automatic digital wallet updates allowed on the card.
So, I called again. This time, I had a guy on the phone who explained that someone had put my credit card in a digital wallet and was accessing it that way. I asked him to remove all digital wallet links which he did.
“How could he use my credit card number? I just got a new one.”
“Oh that is a visa service where they automatically update and link to the new account, so that subscription and digital wallets can continue.”
WTF!
I did a little bit more research. Here is what a simple internet search told me: “Visa Account Updater (VAU) is a service offered by Visa that allows issuers to advise mechants of changes to a cardholder’s details. This service minimises the occurrence of outdated card information for a cardholder that could lead to declined transactions.” You can read more details here.
Yes, it seems to be a common practice all credit cards and the majority of banks are engaging in. So Visa and Chase are not the exception.
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“How could he use my credit card number? I just got a new one.”
“Oh that is a visa service where they automatically update and link to the new account, so that subscription and digital wallets can continue.”
WTF!
WTF! Indeed! This is Un-DAMN-Believable! You get a new card to replace the stolen one and then they GIVE the new number to the bad guy?!?!?!
This brings stupid to a new level. SMDH
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But it makes the fraud so much more convenient. This all will be used as an excuse to get rid of the plastic all together and attempt to force a chip under the skin for all CC transactions.
/mark of the beast. Hard pass.
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No, I have no digital wallets. Never will.
I don’t even know how to digitally communicate with my local bank. They’re a 7 minute drive from my front door. Why would I need to go online to communicate with them?
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Well it’s Hump Day and we’re still not getting much rain .85″ in 3 days but we’ll take it, we desperately need it.
Mornin’ Gang
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We fortunately got 2.5″ of rain yesterday, and some rain overnight and this morning gave us .42″ today so far. Dusty umbrellas got a workout this morning, as we had several errands to do. Questionable if more rain is expected later today.
Currently there is a beautiful blue sky and a light breeze. Comfortable temp is 78 now. We are happy with that as long as it stays, for a Texas summer is not far away.
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Copper Theft
I’ve mentioned this before but I think that if you destroy a $10K A/C unit just to steal the $200 bucks of copper in it, you should get the death penalty, no question asked. Firing Squad on site. ~SPITS~
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skin them alive, then feed what it left to the hogs or gators.
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I am still laughing about how they think this makes the Right wing look bad. Especially after they were caught cropping out the people of color in the original, including the black sponsor of the party.
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Has that resurfaced?
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No, I had to go back and make sure Squawk hasn’t photoshopped himself in to the photo.
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White Privilege
A Home on Wheels | Resilience Along Route 70, Tennessee, 1930s
During the darkest years of the Great Depression, a family of nine found shelter where they could—atop the rusted chassis of an old Ford truck, parked in an open field along U.S. Route 70, between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee. What stood there was not a house, but a lifeline: a one-room shelter, pieced together from scrap wood, sheet metal, and salvaged canvas—an improvised home that spoke volumes about the American will to endure.
One of the most striking photographs from this era captures a young girl standing outside that truck-hut, wearing a dress carefully sewn from a repurposed meal sack—the same kind once used to store food for the family. The print of the sack, faint but visible, contrasts with the girl’s quiet dignity, her posture strong despite the starkness of her surroundings.
This image is more than a portrait of poverty. It is a symbol of resilience, a reminder that survival was crafted not just with tools and hands, but with hope, adaptation, and an unyielding spirit.
Families like hers didn’t have safety nets. Clothing wasn’t bought—it was made. Homes weren’t built—they were salvaged. Childhood wasn’t spared—it was shaped by necessity. And yet, pride remained. So did grace.
Set against the backdrop of rural Tennessee, this story stands as a timeless tribute to the countless unnamed Americans who, even with nothing, held on to something greater—their humanity.
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Very nice find.
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Fay grew up wearing such homemade attire.
My favorite dish towels are from remnants of the same material from that era.
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The one thing you always knew about Ronnie Dugger, no matter how hard he came down on a Republican, was that he loved Texas as much as anybody. I used to read The Observer from time to time and admire how he could take down a pompous politician or official and make me laugh out loud. Ronnie was the kind of man of letters that only Texas could produce.
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It’s a good question whether that bill would have survived SCOTUS had it passed. I’m not even sure I would’ve voted for it given the broad opportunities to abuse it.
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Well, hello there, everyone! I just finished my first meal, and I splurged on five pieces of bacon. There was some other bacon that Hubby let sit for too long. I’m not into slime, so it goes into the freezer until tomorrow morning for trash pickup.
There was another half package that was still good so I went ahead and cooked all of it. The grease is saved in my grease jar and the remaining cooked bacon slices are in the frig.
Hubby’s not good with leftovers. He’ll eat them if I put them on a plate, but he doesn’t take them out of the frig himself. I think he has “leftovers blindness”. I’ll be using leftovers for dinner tonight and/or tomorrow. I leave Friday morning for grandchild heaven, and I prefer to have the frig as cleared out as I can. Hubby will eat either canned food (soup, chili) or bring home takeout meals. He might brave some cooking – he’s ventured into cooking steaks and instant mashed potatoes before, so we’ll see.
I need to call Dr. Salam and see if I can get an appointment to have these new molars lowered slightly. Hubby has knee surgery next Wednesday, so we’ll see if she can fit me in before then.
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I have a dental appointment for 3:30 on Monday. She likes to have me for afternoons, so that should make her happy.
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Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Today’s hard-hitting (hitting Harvard) includes: Trump Administration escalates war with the Ivy-League behemoth by canceling its federal contracts and liberals cry foul; Harvard forced to fire (sort of) ethics researcher accused of faking results in a study about -honesty-; the return of nudging (or did it ever leave?); Harvard’s body-snatching medical-school morgue director pleads guilty; and catastrophe hits the oceans as the light of life is dying—and you aren’t going to believe the Harvard connection.
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First: Hahvahd
“The Trump administration,” the Times reported, “is determined to bring Harvard — arguably the country’s most elite and culturally dominant university — to its knees, by undermining its financial health and global influence.”
Well, you made that bed, you should lie in it. But those bothersome judges/activists are getting in the way again. /sigh/
… Yesterday, Trump’s team dispatched its latest weaponized letter, this time not to Harvard but to all federal agencies. The letter recommended canceling all contracts with Harvard and refraining from signing any new ones.
Let’s discuss this cleverly worded move during the brief moment before some federal judge enjoins it— an even deeper judicial invasion of Executive Branch authority.
Of course, the mouth foaming liberal reaction was automatic. How DARE Trump hinder that august institution’s forays into major scientific progress? Things like: Almost $50K to study coffee drinking, and close to $26K for senior executive training for Homeland Security. By the time they reach executive level, shouldn’t they already know what they’re doing? Mr. C. responds with his usual pithy humor: for half price, he’ll enthusiastically conduct the coffee study himself. /grin/
As for the $25,800 executive training gig? I’m free next Thursday. We’ll start with a PowerPoint titled, “How to Not Get Schooled by a Reality TV President.” BYO tissues.
/snuffle, snort!/
Mr. C. illustrates exactly how this power resides within the Executive Branch – the same power that Biden(?) used to cancel contracts for folks against the jab. No crying there, but let Hahvahd lose taxpayer money, and….let the wailing begin.
Mr. C. posits that any injunction will be on thin ice. Very, very thin ice.
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The next story is about the Hahvahd professor who lost her job because she cheated, on a study focusing on —– waaaaaaaaiiiiiiittttttttttttttttttt forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr itttttt—— CHEATING!
I kid you not.
But after that revelation, Mr. C. does a little studying of his own:
I was most interested in the description of Ms. Gino’s field of study. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles about “how small changes can influence behavior.” Behavior modification. …
In other words, she’s a nudger.
Nudging — the behavioral economics strategy of subtly guiding choices without the victims’ awareness — played a starring but curiously unexamined role during the pandemic. Born of the unholy conviction that small psychological tweaks — especially fear — can trigger massive shifts in behavior, nudges were deployed everywhere: floor arrows directing human traffic like livestock, automatic vaccine appointments, social norm messaging (“9 out of 10 people in your area wear their masks”), commercials featuring intubated children, and emotionally manipulative signage warning shoppers to save grandma from the ventilator.
Like vampires, nudgers operate in the shadows — manipulating behavior through suggestion, framing, and defaults, all while preserving the illusion of free will. During the pandemic, governments leaned hard into these tactics, often without disclosure or debate, raising thorny — and conveniently ignored — ethical questions about consent, manipulation, and where exactly the boundary lies between guidance, coercion, and control.
Remember all of the psyop warnings? She’s a psyop operator.
BTW – I cut slits in my masks so I could breathe, when I went into places where I had to go, like grocery stores. Those useless blue things? They had folds that hid the cuts just fine, so I could get my food without some Karen getting in my face. In some places, I claimed a medical exemption, since wearing a mask would bring on one of my headaches.
I also refused to follow those stupid arrows on the floor.
I’m such a freakin’ rebel! /sarc off/
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More Hahvahd happiness: the morgue guy who was selling body parts, instead of saving the donated cadavers for the medical school. And not even trying to hide it.
So let’s recap. At the self-anointed high altar of American intellect: the nudger-in-chief of behavioral compliance was faking data about honesty, the morgue manager was trafficking human remains with horror-movie license plates, and the school itself is now facing an existential reckoning from the one man they’ve spent years undermining and calling apostate—Donald Trump.
This isn’t just irony. It’s institutional poetry. …
If these stories represent the moral compass of the expert class, no wonder Trump went to war with them. He’s not smashing sacred idols. He’s flipping the breaker on a rotting pagan temple lit by lies and liturgical technocrats. It’s animated by the slowly decaying shreds of its historical prestige, but the institution is long dead inside.
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And finally: is the ocean dying? There’s a study that is showing that the ocean is darkening, resulting in less sunlight penetrating its usual depths. You can imagine the havoc that would create: less oxygen production, less phytoplankton, fewer fish species surviving, smaller food chain, collapse of whole ecosystems. But the media is silent – because this can’t be pinned on mankind.
And aren’t there folks wanting to put big mirror stuff in the sky to reflect the sunlight that we’re getting now?
For years, Bill Gates has funded ‘global warming research’ through, wait for it, Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program. The long-standing project proposes using calcium carbonate or sulfate aerosols to reflect solar radiation. The controversial program has been paused several times, due to public opposition, logistical concerns, indigenous groups, and increasingly rare ‘real’ environmentalists.
Back to the original story:
In other words, it is exactly the kind of brooding ecological disaster that is the corporate media’s bread and butter. Usually.
But this ecological catastrophe? Media is strangely muted. There were no fiery New York Times op-eds, no scolding Greta on a yacht, no emergency UN summit featuring Bono, drone light shows, and holograms. You’d think that “a fifth of the ocean going dim” would be good for at least a TikTok explainer or a climate anxiety segment on NPR.
The problem, you see, is this particular crisis isn’t photogenic. There’s no smokestack villain. No SUV to shame. And worst of all — it whispers an awkward, unwelcome question: what’s blocking the sunlight?
Some of you probably know where I’m headed.
“And the second angel sounded … and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died.
— Revelation 8:8-9.
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Harvard euphemistically describes the idea of spraying reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to dim the sun (cool the Earth) as Solar Radiation Management (SRM). Imagine the incomprehensible hubris of thinking they can manage the Sun.
Not that they noticed, but the timeline cited in the Guardian’s study (2003–2022) overlaps almost perfectly with increased SRM research and “small scale” field trials. The media pretends not to notice because no one wants to say it out loud. The implications would blow a volcano-sized hole in the climate intervention narrative and ignite regulatory hellfire.
I wish those “experts” would just keep their hands off of God’s creation.
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Solar Radiation Management – SRM – is tied to chemtrails. I used to scoff at chemtrails, and I still have some skepticism, but there’s this:
Meanwhile, reports of atmospheric haze, reflective sky phenomena, and “milky” sun halos have cropped up globally in the past decade, especially post-2015. Aluminum, barium, and strontium — all known candidates for aerosol geoengineering — have turned up in rainwater sampling and soil studies.
Even Florida is proposing a bill to ban chemtrails and geoengineering. I’d like to see if those chemicals could have another source.
The story quoted Stanford atmospheric scientist Mark Jacobson — no backwoods tinfoil hat wearer — who called solar geoengineering a “horrible idea,” warning that “reducing sunlight reduces photosynthesis,” which could lead to mass crop failure and global starvation. But so what? Climate change!
/snip
The Guardian tells us that 21% of the global ocean has darkened since 2003 — compressing the photic zone where 90% of marine life lives and where phytoplankton churn out oxygen and food like an unseen but absolutely essential factory.
So … if even small-scale atmospheric dimming — like from volcanic eruptions — can lower the amount of light reaching the surface, what happens when high-altitude planes release solar-reflective particles directly into the stratosphere? The answer is: they don’t know…
Mr. C. wraps it all up:
The truth is, the same elite institutions trafficking in nudges and necromancy now want to manage the Sun itself with aerosol mirrors and solar behavioral compliance. Harvard used to illuminate minds; now it’s blocking the literal sunlight — literally and figuratively. …
I’m sorry to say it, but Harvard’s destruction couldn’t come a moment too soon.
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The Movies! channel is having an Audrey Hepburn marathon today. Charade (1963), with Cary Grant is a good one. Suspense-thriller / RomCom.
Includes Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy.
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Charade is a top shelf film !
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Charade is a great movie!
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Walter Matthau trivia:
He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York on October 1, 1920. His mother was an immigrant from Lithuania and his father was a Russian Jewish peddler and electrician from Kiev, Ukraine. As a young boy, Matthau attended a Jewish non-profit sleep-away camp. He also attended Surprise Lake Camp. His high school was Seward Park High School. During World War II, Matthau served in the U.S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in Britain as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart. He was based at RAF Old Buckenham, Norfolk during this time. He reached the rank of staff sergeant and became interested in acting. Matthau appeared in the pilot of Mister Peepers (1952) alongside Wally Cox.
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This is the equivalent of dragging the old dethroned dictator into the dark in front of a firing squad. Hey, Donald Trump is so powerful he made the untouchable Barack Obama touchable.
But not for long: This morning — at 5 a.m. on the flippin’ dot! — NBC News dropped a triple-bylined, 40+ paragraph bombshell: “Obama world loses its shine in a changing, hurting Democratic Party”
(I think there’s a typo in the title? Maybe they meant “Obama world loses its shine in a changing climate,” or something like that. Nonetheless…)
Folks, NBC News was obviously working on this story for a very long time. They had three journalists collaborating on it, including Jonathan Allen and Natasha Korecki, their “senior national political reporters.” They name-dropped 50 or so people in the first 30 paragraphs. Donors, activists, and big-time operatives were all interviewed.
and this,
NBC News, like all major news outlets, employs numerous “tricks of the trade” to elevate certain stories. The process goes like this: News directors need to justify the ROI in a story. News departments have a budget; news assignments require resources; the better the ROI, the smarter the news director looks. Resource allocation is the telltale sign of a news department’s priorities.
And a 40+ paragraph, triple-bylined news story, with dozens of separate interviews, clearly necessitated a considerable investment.
So, NBC News will be incentivized to draw things out. This is the kind of story they’re gonna let breathe, and there’s an SOP they follow…
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Ace Says It Was Worse Than We Thought…
First, the Secret Service “destroyed” the cocaine, thus stopping anyone from checking up on their claims that there was too little DNA on the coke-bag to test.
And they made sure no one could test it by destroying it.
The destruction of the actual contraband would also make it hard to prosecute anyone for having it, as a prosecutor would just have to assert it existed and any defense attorney could claim whatever they wanted about the coke, and no one could dispute them.
Second, the Secret Service says it did not conduct interviews with White House staff about who smuggled Hunter Biden’s cocaine into the White House because it would be, get this, “a civil rights violation to interview the White House staff” about the coke.
Third, the White House staff moved the cocaine from the library, which relatively few people have access to, to the cubbies in the entrance hall, which more people have access to. The obvious reason for this illegal action is to expand the number of suspects who could have smuggled in Hunter Biden’s cocaine and thus protect the actual culprit.
People need to go to prison. And I mean the Praetorian Guard Bureaucrats who covered this up.
This cannot stand.
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Regarding black fatigue: I caught this on an X post:
State troopers in my state refer to them as “Mondays”…..because everyone hates Mondays.
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Excellente
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Gotta love Steve Inman. Hold my beer. No, really, Hold my beer!
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This is nuts. What would you do to this kid?
Update: this was a 15 year old boy, 270 pounds, off his meds. I can’t even imagine what this Mom has to live with.
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Where’s his dad? Silly question. Mom needs to call some big dudes to beat the crap out of that kid and make it explicitly clear that that kind of BS does not fly. After the wounds heal, they need to come back and do it again so that he does not forget. Then, the decision to take meds will no longer be a question or it becomes an issue for the mental hospital or prison.
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Heh
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KHOU has a story on high beef prices, this afternoon.
I don’t even go through the meat department anymore. But I did last Saturday, just for fun. The thin-cut beef Ribeyes I used to eat were $16.47 per pound.
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It was less than 10 years ago that I used to go to Sams and buy whole ribeyes for around $4/lb!?!
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Gerald, official garden gnome battle buddy.
I could see me sending this to my kid, if I had one in the military.
When Lovely Daughter started college, I sent her some care packages. I think the first one had the crayons and coloring books. There was also a “Study Queen” tiara, so her friends would leave her alone to study when she was wearing it.
From what I hear, her friends would stop by to destress by coloring.
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We finally got some rain around here. It was getting pretty bad. Unfortunately that means I REALLY need to mow soonest.
My favorite version of the best Texas rain song of all time.
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Just checked on the Hepburn marathon.
They’ve made it to My Fair Lady.
And a mighty fine Eliza Doolittle she was.
Magnificent film.
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Just FYi, since the recent Reset I’m having to Log In here about ten times a day.
……after years of staying Logged In six days a week without end….pretty much.
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