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Nice view of Central Park.
Back to the Salt Mine.
Mornin’ Gang -
54 degrees on the dashboard of my trusty Ford pickup this am. I love Houston in the Fall.
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Good morning Hamsters. Brisk and invigorating 48 at 6, north wind is barely stirring at the moment, clear sky that will be the gorgeous blue come daylight, and several more fronts waiting to come through. Finally. Thank you, Canada. Of course this stirs up the pollen and sets it flying, probably even some from Canada. Never mind that, open the windows anyway.
Happily, our furniture jumble in the family room is removed for the most part to the rooms the pieces belong in now that the carpet is installed. But the baseboards are yet to be put in so everything sits away from the walls to make room for that sometime this week. It’s out of the desired sequence because the installer also does the tile for the family room floor, and the flooring company is now swamped with business. We were fortunate to get ahead of the rush on this as we were on the sheetrock installation. So we are no longer camping out in the guest room with minimal furniture. Yea.
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There is a new contender for most obnoxious member of Congress: I give you Frederica Wilson (azzhat) FL.
She gives SJL and Muddy Watters some serious competition in obnoxious buffoonery and causticly abrasive rhetoric. -
Wilson / Lee / Waters
Larry / Moe / Curly
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Things are changing in the trucking business.
HEADLINE: Are those 80,000 pound trucks tailgating each other? Soon it may be perfectly normal — and safe
One truck riding in the slipstream of the one in front, robots driving the trucks, what could possibly go wrong?
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Hey! Lets turn our highways into 75 MPH railroads!
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44 degrees in Centex this morning as I load up for a road trip. Prostate issues require me to limit my morning coffee intake on travel days, so that’s a little aggravating. My 8 year old surveillance DVR decided to take a break, and after several unsuccessful attempts to revive it, I bought a cheap replacement. I was able to harvest the old hard drive and install it in the new unit, and the new unit will view and record the older cameras, so we’ll see how it holds up. The old circuit board displays no evidence of being fried, so who knows what’s up with it. OK, have a great day, and I’ll stay in touch.
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Schlichter describes Frederica Wilson thusly:
…a leftist Democrat who looks like the result of Huggy Bear hooking-up with Ana Navarro
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We’ve had the corner neighbor’s chickens roaming through our yard, and now our loose-dog next door neighbor’s dogs have discovered a free buffet. Two days in a row we’ve heard squawking. This morning, the rooster was missing, and a hen is now breakfast as of 10 minutes ago.
I don’t mind the chickens so much, as they eat bugs, but it seems that no number of calls to the cops of SPCA will make the next door neighbors curb their dogs. If we had the money, we’d fix our very large fence. That would involve a lot of tree and brush clearing, on top of removing the existing ancient barbed wire and patched up places, which would be quite expensive before we even began working on the replacement.
But then, it’s not my responsibility to control the neighbor’s dogs. And there’s a lot of neighbors there now – at least five cars in the driveway daily. How many people can they cram under one roof?! All those people, and not a leash among them. /spits
I’m going to let the corner neighbors know what’s happening to their chickens. Maybe they’ll have more success.
I love my neighborhood, just not those neighbors.
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Morning, everyone, it is COLD in Houston this morning. I think I have outlasted my own personal cold and will be feeling well as the day progresses. But won’t go shopping or go anywhere today, for dread of causing a relapse. I have a lifelong pattern of doing exactly that. Heck, I’ll finish breakfast and go back to bed!
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Do you remember that Slime Ball that our wondermous ex President traded 5 evil Taliban murders for? Well he may receive partial justice, true justice would be the firing squad. U.S. Army deserter Bergdahl’s sentencing hearing delayed until Wednesday.
The 31-year-old Idaho native was quickly captured by the Taliban and spent the next five years suffering torture, abuse and neglect in captivity. A Taliban prisoner swap that won his release in 2014, organized by the administration of then-Democratic President Barack Obama, was criticized by people in the military and by Republicans.
During last year’s presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump called Bergdahl “a no-good traitor who should have been executed.”
Bergdahl pleaded guilty on Oct. 16 to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, with the latter offense carrying a possible life sentence. He entered a “naked plea,” meaning he does not have an agreement about the sentencing terms with prosecutors.
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I’m thinking an ammonia tanker, a gasoline tanker, and a CNG tanker all running together.
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Might as well throw in a flatbed full of CL2 bottles.
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Here’ the snippet from an article linked from Hot Air:
A number of Fox staffers are dreading the possibility of working for Ingraham, who, even among the healthy egos that populate America’s cable newsrooms, has built a reputation as overbearing. According to numerous sources, Ingraham has been, occasionally, a verbally abusive boss, who will not hesitate to scream at employees if something goes awry. Two former employees of her radio show recounted to The Daily Beast separate instances of Ingraham hurling objects at staff members in displeasure. Though Fox declined to address most specific examples of her conduct, the channel issued a blanket denial of such allegations…
Another former employee of the radio show described being targeted with frequent “verbal harassment.” Ingraham, the employee said, would swear and, in “an instance or two,” would throw a phone in anger at individual staffers. Yet another employee recalled Ingraham “screaming to the point of veins popping out, sometimes throwing stuff at staff.” Asked what objects were thrown, that former staffer said: “Whatever was in her hand or closest to her at the moment.”
Full article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingrahams-show-on-fox-news-hasnt-aired-and-its-already-causing-problems
Sounds like Laura should be required to carry a soft plushy animal at all times. 🙂
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U.K. Government Blasts U.N. Because Treaty Says ‘Pregnant Women’ Instead Of ‘Pregnant People’
But not everyone in the typically progressive body is open to the change. Feminists blasted the U.K. in return, saying that the suggested change is emblematic of the systematic “disappearing” of women from the global community, and that altering the term “pregnant women” to read “pregnant people” was symbolic of a global misogyny that recognizes no innate differences between the genders, and therefore believes women deserve no special protections.
“This isn’t inclusion. This is making women unmentionable. Having a female body and knowing what that means for reproduction doesn’t make you ‘exclusionary.’ Forcing us to decorously scrub out any reference to our sex on pain of being called bigots is an insult,” said feminist author and U.N. commentator Sarah Ditum.
The Left begins to cannibalize itself.
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…Weinstein had authorized his psychologist to tell TMZ that Weinstein was doing so well that he’d completed his rehab in just one week:
Harvey Weinstein is leaving Arizona Saturday after completing a one-week program treating various psychological issues, and Weinstein’s psychologist tells TMZ the fallen mogul took it seriously.
Weinstein gave his treating psychologist permission to speak with TMZ. The psychologist asked us not to use his name, but he was a key member of the team treating Weinstein.
The psychologist says Weinstin’s program lasted 1 week, and involved “intensive therapy” on an outpatient basis.
The psychologist says he helped Weinstein focus on “dealing with his anger, his attitude toward others, boundary work and the beginnings of work on empathy.” He says Weinstein was “invested in the program.”
He’s cured! 😯
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/23/good-bad-check-weinstein-completes-rehab-record-time/
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#15 – I call Caca de TORO on that video
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He’s cured!
Rehabracadabra! It’s a Hollywood miracle!
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# 18 Darren
Indeed Weinstein claims that from the security of a country that has no extradition treaty with the US. What a sleaze.
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He’s cured!
Rehabracadabra! It’s a Hollywood miracle!
You forgot your “/sarc off” tag. Because I KNOW you’re not stupid.
How many libs will believe? As many as want to protect their world view.
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Come on you all. Hollywood is a utopia for the world to see its dark light. Weinstein is such a dedicated male. He worked hard – for and entire week – to cure his decades habbit of sexual assaults.
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Adee;
According to some of the accounts I’ve read involving Weinstein I’d say “sleaze” does not even begin to describe him.
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He may be cured but he’s still ugly as a stomped possum.
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Shannon;
Please refrain yourself from ugly insults against possums.
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Adam Kredo just posted this excellent, breaking news.
The Trump administration is coming under increased pressure from Congress to kill a landmark deal between Boeing and an Iranian airline known for engaging in terrorism over concerns the Western airline company would enable Tehran’s transfer of militant fighters across the region, according to multiple sources, who told the Washington Free Beacon the administration is likely to nix the multi-billion dollar deal.
The Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran paved the way for U.S. aerospace corporation Boeing to ink a deal with Iran’s state-controlled airline, Iran Air, which was recently caught using its commercial planes to ferry Iranian militants to regional hotspots.
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What’s wrong with the Boy Scouts?
As an Eagle Scout, the son of an Eagle Scout, and a professional with the Boy Scouts of America for about eight years, I have heard this question a lot this last week. The Boy Scouts of America just announced that they would allow girls to join their program, even earn the rank of Eagle Scout, and many people are confused. After all, it seems patently absurd that a program built for boys, which actually has the word “boy” in its name, would suddenly be appropriate for girls too.
So what is wrong with the Boy Scouts? I do not think, at its root, it is simply that the Boy Scouts capitulated on a whole range of controversial social issues—though they surely have changed with popular culture. I think these changes are actually symptomatic of a deeper problem within the BSA. To put it simply: the Boy Scouts are too safe.
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19 Katfish
Google is your friend. Well probably not, but try “homemade guns in Philippines”
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Hammie gonna be able to see my handiwork up close sometime soon. Starting work on the HEB at 2300 N. Shepherd right now.
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#25 Darren
😉 Right you are.
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#30 – Brother please do not misunderstand – I’m not denying that the video exists (I watched it).
However, it is physically impossible to produce functioning 1911 pistols with mere hand tools from the piles of junk parts that were on display (IMHO). -
Thirty one years ago the Houston Astros clinched the NL West on a Mike Scott no-hitter. The much-beloved pitcher Charlie Kerfeld was on that team.
In this video watch Charlie pour the better part a beer on Nolan Ryan’s head.
As usual, Nolan was prepared to make the payback hell.
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Such a marvelous day just about everybody perks up.
I received excellent and much prayed for good news about our dear friend who has myasthenia gravis that morphed into leukemia several months ago. The prayers of Hamsters and all of us have been heard, and he is improving such that he can now increasingly make his own red blood cells and was allowed to come home last Thursday.
His dear wife completed the training to manage his medication routine at home so he only has to go back to Anderson perhaps 2-3 times a week for checking progress. They live in Houston. He was able to go to church on Sunday, wearing a mask for protection from crowds and using a walker, a tad weak, but he was there.
Prayers heard, prayers being answered.
Thank you all for your prayers for a stranger.
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33 KF
Those are clearly machined parts from some other location. I suspect they make different parts in various locations to avoid the police from being able to confiscate everything at one place. One guy has a boring mill, another guy has a lathe somewhere, etc, etc.
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#37 Shannonigans
Well, shoot, I was asleep and missed out on that once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a Catholic Saint!! 🙁 -
#29 Texpat
Sad story. PC has neutered a once valiant organization. -
#31
Yup. Barrio Fiesta becomes Hipster HEB. It’s a little closer for me than Hipster Kroger.
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#36 – I reckon those piles of parts looked more like ‘cast offs’ or discarded junk to this observer. Which takes me back to my comment about mere hand tools.
Can we ‘suppose’ there are some clandestine machine shops operating?color me doubtful
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Sarge
This hipster HEB….Meatless? Plenty of trans restrooms? -
Hipsters eat meat. It just has to have a gluten free organic locally sourced sustainably farmed label on it.
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41 Katfish
The Filipino craftsmen in the jungles of Cebu, particularly, are famous throughout Asia for their small arms craftsmanship. This has been going since after WWII albeit on a much smaller scale decades ago. They’ve been copying American pistols in ramshackle, scattered facilities for a very long time.
The internet is full of articles by journalists from the Washington Post, WSJ, Bloomberg, etc. who have been there, seen their operations and interviewed these people. These Filipinos have been bootlegging handguns to gangsters, mercenaries and anybody with cash all over Asia from Bangkok to Saigon to Seoul forever.
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44 cont’d.
Yes, of course, there are machine shops involved, but they would be scattered, fragmented and clandestine. This seems to be a sort of ongoing, collective effort. It’s survival depends on the covert, disorganization of all the players. The government can never capture or seize all the assets or players.
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OK, I just stopped by and have not had time to look at the Filipino Gun Works, but even most of the uninformed folks know about the famed Guns of the Khyber Pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Those guys have been copying British weapons since the19th century. So, without actually seeing this video, I’ll not comment. Just remember, necessity is the mother of invention, or in this case copying existing firearms. Just to dang busy to participate today and I hate that!
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Hipsters eat meat.
Well, hell, at least they aren’t vegans.
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