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Granddaughter 2.0 just arrived!
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Congratulations Grandpa!
Second!
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Guess that was unexpected and quick, you just left town right?
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Happy New Baby, SD.
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Good grief, the Dodgers won. The whole country will be pulling for a Yankees/Dodgers Series.
May the Astros bats reappear and throw a monkey wrench into that scenario.
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Congratulations, SD.
We’ve got another one popping out of the oven any moment now.
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Well SD, that’s quite a fine way to start the day.
Dodgers look to me to be the next baseball world champ. No need to play any more games, it’s over. In case you missed it, here she is again preparing to sing.
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Thanks Guys, Baby due about October 29, but doctor thought she’d arrive last weekend so we’ve been taking it day-by-day. Anyway, I got the truck loaded and just heard my Huntin’ Buddy drive up on his Kawasaki 360, so we’re off to the woods. It’s gonna’ be a long day for me. 😉
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Good morning Hamsters. Waiting on more rain ahead of that real cold front coming. So far 0.3″ overnight, very welcome as things were getting dry out here again. Another round or two of showers would be welcome, as the Brazos flood silt lingered longer than last year in the pastures and has killed most of the Bermuda grass. It is coming back but could use some water.
Aha, another grandchild for Super Dave to spoil. The prerogative of grandparents I guess. Congratulations to the happy parents.
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I thought the NFL and NCAA were the only ones rigging premo match ups and MLB was pure as an innocent kitten.
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10 GJT
When you look up “cynic” in the dictionary, there’s a picture of El Gordo by the definition. (<;
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Author bio: Sidney Powell was a federal prosecutor in three districts under nine U.S. attorneys from both political parties, then in private practice for more than 20 years. She is a past president of the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit and of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. A veteran of 500 federal appeals, she published “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.”
Yet Mueller tapped a different sort of prosecutor to lead his investigation — his long-time friend and former counsel, Andrew Weissmann. He is not just a “tough” prosecutor. Time after time, courts have reversed Weissmann’s most touted “victories” for his tactics. This is hardly the stuff of a hero in the law.
Weissmann, as deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force, destroyed the venerable accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs worldwide — only to be reversed several years later by a unanimous Supreme Court.
Next, Weissmann creatively criminalized a business transaction between Merrill Lynch and Enron. Four Merrill executives went to prison for as long as a year. Weissmann’s team made sure they did not even get bail pending their appeals, even though the charges Weissmann concocted, like those against Andersen, were literally unprecedented.
Weissmann’s prosecution devastated the lives and families of the Merrill executives, causing enormous defense costs, unimaginable stress and torturous prison time. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the mass of the case.
Weissmann quietly resigned from the Enron Task Force just as the judge in the Enron Broadband prosecution began excoriating Weissmann’s team, and the press began catching on to Weissmann’s modus operandi.
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I seem to remember some of those Enron execs committing suicide.
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I’ve come down with some awful crud too. Had a sore throat for 3 days now, and drinking Alkaseltzer cold fizzies to suppress runny nose and watery eyes. I sacked out early last night w/o loading the dishwasher, but I may do that in a bit, if I can stand up long enough.
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The only pro sport that is not totally controlled by the media and the gambling interests is MLB. College football on the field play is relatively well officiated – there the cheating goes on with recruiting and classroom activities. MLB gets some calls wrong, but as a general rule, they appear to be honest errors in judgment or sheer incompetence.
As to Enron, they were a crooked outfit. I don’t think anyone could deny that, and it started at the top. I have no sympathy for them, for their accounting firm, or for their executives. As to Weissmann, he’s just another lawyer who takes short cuts and is more concerned with wins than in justice (according to the law). Merrill Lynch, like all the other brokerage firms, could care less about what it’s selling, and I have no sympathy for them either. So there.
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To the sick folks, get well soon. Do you think any of that crud is contagious over the internet? The weather change always seems to get my sinuses flared up, my eyes watering, and my sneezer activated. I will claim some sympathy for the sick folks.
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Greetings from the Lost Wages Airport. Some of the people waiting for flights appear a bit “wrung out”. This place 8s nice to visit, great shows and golf, etc, but my skin is screaming for more humidity. Everything is very expensive here, but the people have been kind and helpful, genuinely friendly.
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That EG dude is just overflowing with the milk of human kindness, ain’t he?
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#12 TP: The same type of criminality happens with the IRS and there is no recourse available. It costs thousands to defend against frivolous charges.
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This puts early Stones music to shame.
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We are now in the sardine can.
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Just for the record, I also have compassion for those employees, customers, and other innocent by-standers who are harmed by the actions of those crooked executives that led to the failure of these firms. Enron was a big charitable contributor, and its Chairman took all the accolades for these well publicized gifts. So was Pablo Escobar, the largest drug smuggler in Columbia. They all work the same way. Robin Hood theory. Every time I see the power company paying someone for naming rights, I know that a portion of my power bill is being used for that – but they aren’t giving me any credit for my contribution. No, no sympathy for these crooks. Just the true victims.
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I wonder if Texpat ever wishes his name was Bond. James Bond.
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I have a hard time feeling sorry for employees who put their entire retirement into only Enron. They saw absurdly huge returns and listened to the foxes guarding the hen house who said the growth would continue indefinitely. That’s just greed, right there. They gambled and lost.
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The piece in Texpat’s #12 is about an unscrupulous prosecutor who has routinely been reversed on appeal, but only after needlessly destroying lives. That Enron is part of the the story is nearly irrelevant. This scumbag has been chosen by Mueller to lead the prosecution.
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23 phil
Now that you mention it, the thought has crossed my mind. I was going for the role, but my agent said I’d have to fake a British accent. So poor Monica had to settle for that cockney bum, Daniel Craig.
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I’m paying attention right now (for the past week) to the trial of an individual involved somehow in the Waco biker shoot-out at Twin Peaks a couple of years ago. It’s clearly a must win for the prosecution as there are about 175 pending cases on the same event, and they are assuming that most of those cases will be plead out once the perp in this case is found guilty. So the prosecution, the judge, and everyone else on the inside are pulling out all the stops to get a conviction. To her credit, the defense attorney is doing an outstanding job of exposing this hypocrisy, and you never know when a juror or two might actually be paying attention. The judge most certainly expects to be reversed on numerous matters on appeal, but that’s down the road, and in the mean time, the defendant will be serving time and all the others will have plead guilty to spitting on the sidewalk or whatever – and most importantly, they will never have to disclose that the majority, if not all, of the fatalities were the result of police shootings. It’s pretty amazing to watch, second hand, this take place in Texas, but the powerful little people in that town look after their own.
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Super Dave;
That is most excellent sir. Congrats!
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Texpat @#6 is going to have a new piece of toast too. This is awesome. I wanna be a grampa too. 🙂
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That’s too bad.
I was looking forward to possibly seeing Shannon cast as M.:-)
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Trump’s EPA reversal is simply more of the same type of politics he displayed in Iowa and continues to display as president. As a man lacking any core convictions, he is tossed to and fro by whatever direction the political winds are blowing, and in the case of ethanol and the RFS, that means Trump has put King Corn ahead of America’s interest.
http://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-corn-gop-establishment/
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But according to all, even the GOOPeeCons, Ferris is above reproach.
Impeccable character. Stupendous and staggering honesty. Walks on water and then soaps the suds that clean his duds and with a song and a smile serves dinner with spuds.
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#12;
What an absolute atrocity!
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El Gordo #16;
Our boy Aedhun (5) has been sick almost all week. Fever, coughing, and vomiting. Poor guy. If he wasn’t so comfortable and catered to all day long
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Here’s a story that I know very little about, but it looks like promising developments are actually in the works, without government funding or meddling.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/blue-origin-has-successfully-tested-its-powerful-be-4-rocket-engine/
And then there is John Cornholio
https://www.axios.com/john-cornyn-holds-up-top-white-house-nominee-2498698528.htm
We know this is BS because all Texas needs to do to get more hurricane funding is to just ask. Trump and Abbott are having a ball running circles around Sylvester the Black Cat , controlling all the hurricane funding, and preventing him from spreading any around to his friend. The only way Sylvester can get any money to grease his friends is to raise taxes, and even the Houston city council has seen through that scam. All that government money floating around out there, Trump and Abbott taking care of their friends, and Sylvester can’t even dip his beak in the pot. Hardly seems fair doesn’t it. Hey Sylvester, Trump and Abbott watched what Ray Naggin did in NOLA, and they aren’t about to make that same mistake. -
I hope this means we get to hear less from them.
The Evangelical Luther Church of American was founded in 1988 with 5,288,230 members. By 2016, less than twenty years later, the ELCA had shrunk to 3,563,842 members. With that kind of “growth,” the ELCA has less than forty years before the final member throws her hands up and quits. Christ the King Lutheran Church in Cary, N.C., believes that they’ve found the answer to stopping the mass exodus of tithing members. They’ve stopped preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and have embraced progressive theology and social justice.
https://pjmedia.com/faith/lutheran-church-decides-best-way-retain-members-stop-preaching-gospel/
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Sounds like the Vangieluthers are going full tilt Bobolicious-style UU.
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The sickness continues. It is now characterized by the apparent growth of a second set of eyeballs immediately behind the ones normally there. This apparently induces pressure on the snot gland causing it to increase output exponentially. I’m a bit surprised that this effluent is not being absorbed by the cotton inside my brain pan rather than as a constant stream from my nostrils. I’m not exactly sure how all of this caused the loogie gland to act in a similar manner, but it has. Some sort of organic sandpaper has been introduced into my throat making the whole loogie gland thing a bit painful. I am, however, going to try and get something positive from this. I beleive that if I put a pound of pasta in a mesh bag under the covers as I sleep, the resulting steam from the perspiration issuing from my fevered body will result in a cooked dinner.
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#31 Shannon: What the eff is it going to take for these morons to understand that corn based ethanol is made for drinking, not burning as fuel?!?
Just think of all the high quality corn liquor is going to waste as fuel.
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Iowa is the first state to hold a vote for presidential nominees. Iowa grows corn and pigs. Burning corn tends to make the prices higher for the corn reserved for pig feed. Government forces corn burning, resulting in (1) subsidies for corn growers, and (2) higher prices for corn sellers. Farmers tend to vote for people who can help them make more money. Now do you all of a sudden realize how efficient it is to burn corn?
Pretty soon somebody will be telling us how efficient it is to make food pellets out of pig manure if only the government will mandate it in the food supply and subsidize it for production. -
Just heard a Denver Cadillac dealer advertise on KTRH. They’ll even pick you up at the airport.
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Yes, the ELCA is slowly disintegrating.
Several conservative Lutheran replacements have sprung up in the last few years, in addition to some long existing orthodox synods. -
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Which airport?
Then what?
Do they pay for your hotel room?
What about the trade in? Will they pick that up at the airport too?
Tell me more.
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Congrats to grandparents and the soon to be’s!
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43 Phil
I figure the ads are directed at those whose trade-in now stinks of Buffalo Bayou.
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Oh, and I’ll drink a mimosa with her. (The new OC girl)
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Com’ on, Astros.
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Tonight’s Ivy League matchup features the Harvard Crimson hosting perennial powerhouse those illiterate Neanderthals of Princeton.
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Illiterate Neanderthals open up an earl y 10-0 lead over the Crimson.
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Harvard strikes back against the knuckledraggers.
17-3
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We are back home eating steak at our own table, life is good. Thank you Darren for handling the transit back and forth from Intergalactic Airport.
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Since you’re tied up with pansy Ivy League lacrosse, it’s 0-0 in the bottom of the 3rd at Minute Maid.
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Bonecrusher;
My pleasure. I enjoyed the company. Enjoy the steak.
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https://www.keltecweapons.com/shotguns/ksg-25
The above is very darned expensive, however, it is very impressive: 25 2-3\4″ 12 Guage fully loaded. -
52 Bones
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I am so glad to be out of that big cigar tube with wings.
The spirit, Angels Envy, is better than what I can make now, hopefully that will change soon.On a separate note, the foul stench that is from New York Frigging City just got retired in the top of the 5th. Is it possible that the Astros can force a game 7?
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ASTROS DRAW 1ST BLOOD!
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I just flashed back to the Astrodome scoreboard cartoon of the opposing manager walking out to the mound.
If you never saw it, I’m sorry.
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3 – zip Astros, bottom of 5th.
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We’re on the back porch again. AM radio is coming in better with the cloud cover.
Not chilly but sweaty in the underwear. Fay won’t strip down to hers.
Bummer.
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The Astrodome had scoreboard cartoons before the word “pixel” was invented.
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Shannon
#59Was it this one? This is funny the pitcher leaving before the cartoon is a Yankee.
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SQK
That s the one.
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Far be it from me to discount the wisdom of the Owl Sage from San Saba.
But tonight’s game was very, very special for a guy who was hospitalized for mosquito bites at Colt stadium fifty-five years ago. Okay that might be an exaggeration.
One game away from the World Series.
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaawwwwww.
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We’ve known for years that there were undercover St. Louis spies around here.
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Everyone knows Pujols was a Soviet plant.
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Game 7 HERE we COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ‘STROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Here’s hoping that my predictions are wrong. Go Stros.
Oh, it’s also college football Saturday. I think I’ve pretty well set up with a 3 game system – TV, radio, and computer – so that I can keep up with 3 games at once. Talk about multi-tasking skills.
Gotta get moving around here – first tranche of games start at 11AM.
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I told ya all along the Asrtros would turn it around. :blush:
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I had a bad night and won’t be up long. Hope to get medicated enough that I can sleep peacefully — and pain-free — for several hours.
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Did I keel thee blog???
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Did I keel thee blog???
No we’re over on Saturday’s thread. 😉
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