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Monday’s Unmitigated Gall Comments

Richard Johnson on Page Six of the New York Post writes:

Ted Kennedy could never erase the tragedy at Chappaquiddick, Mass., not even in Gstaad, Switzerland.

In “Real Lace Revisited: Inside the Hidden World of America’s Irish Aristocracy” (out Thursday from Lyons Press) author James P. MacGuire tells of a dinner party at the chalet of Bill and Pat Buckley.

After the other guests had left, Teddy asked if he might borrow a car to return to his hotel.

“At that point, Patricia Taylor Buckley drew herself up into her most imperious glare, and said, ‘Are you serious? Don’t you know there are no fewer than four bridges between here and there?’ ” MacGuire writes.

I had something else planned for today, but when I saw this linked by Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit I couldn’t resist it.

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  1. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. My hours are still messed up as I try to adapt to DST. Thankfully, I can just sleep whenever I want to and roam around whenever I want to, so I’ll just ease into this transition without any real deadlines. It’s still a little cool out here to get the grass growing, but it’s certainly time to start preparing, assuming that we will get some rain sometime. Actually the entire area is beautiful green right now following rain a couple of weeks ago, and the bluebonnets are growing although not blooming yet. I’d like to pick up some chicks at Tractor Supply, but I don’t think they would survive the varmits unless I built heavy duty steel cages for them. I’m sure they would appreciate some fresh chickens or ducks, but I’m not prepared to make their life any easier. Haven’t seen any snakes yet, but I hear they are coming out as the weather warms. OK, you all have a nice day.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang

  3. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m hearing on the radio that spring break starts today, so all you spring breakers out there be careful. Apparently it’s also Gorilla Golf season with everyone studying the charts and filling out their brackets. So far, I’ve managed to avoid filling out a bracket any time in my lifetime, so hopefully I can make it the rest of the way without doing one. Spring Break and Gorilla Golf – a deadly combination. Lesee, would I rather go to the beach and ogle boobs, probably get arrested for being a lecherous old man; or would I rather sit around and watch a freak show on TV. Tough decisions I tell you, tough decisions. Maybe I’ll just mow my lawn and take a nap; or maybe I’ll just take a nap. Never know.

  4. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Pitch dark out at 5 sun time/ aka 6 DST, chilly 48 degrees and perhaps a bit lower by sunup. This morning seems considerably less odd than yesterday’s did, though it will likely still take another day or so to acclimate to the artificiality of DST.

    Mrs. Buckley certainly knew how to freeze blood with one glance. Yea for this lady.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    EG

    What is Gorilla Golf ?

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Fascinating chemistry research.

    “This new way to treat wood makes it twelve times stronger than natural wood and ten times tougher,” says Liangbing Hu, leader of the research team which published their findings in Nature, in a press statement. “This could be a competitor to steel or even titanium alloys, it is so strong and durable. It’s also comparable to carbon fiber, but much less expensive.”

    One of the things that makes wood wood is a polymer known as lignin which forms support structures in trees and plants. The second most abundant naturally-occurring polymer on Earth, lignin is what makes wood rigid and brown. Somewhat counterintuitively, Hu and his team removed the wood’s lignin polymers in order to make their wood even stronger.

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: Sessions Takes On Activist Judges: It’s About Time

    The subject in the above article specifically had to do with Commie-Fornia and their sanctuary status. On a broader scale, I think that there are quite a few federal judges that desperately need to be impeached and removed from office. The offense: refusing to follow the clear, written law of The Constitution. The notion that The Constitution is a living, breathing document that magically changes with the times (or any judges whim) needs to be dispatched forthwith – with extreme prejudice.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #6 TP: That is very interesting. I wonder what that process would do to the sound propagation properties of the wood? I imagine that it would make, say a guitar for instance, much lighter. Thinner woods tend to resonate better than thick ones in that application but crack easily. This stuff could wind up making a pine guitar sound like a rosewood guitar, but be tougher and lighter. Or it could suck and not resonate at all. I would love to get my hands on some of that wood, just to see how it behaved.

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I heard a guy talking on the radio about the Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest.

    As the United Kingdom fought for its survival during World Way II, a team of American oil drillers, derrickmen, roustabouts and motormen secretly boarded the converted troopship HMS Queen Elizabeth in March 1943. Once their story was revealed years later, they would become known as the Roughnecks of Sherwood Forest.

    What great site….

    https://aoghs.org/petroleum-in-war/roughnecks-of-sherwood-forest/

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #9

    What a fantastic story. It still amazes me the speed in which monumental tasks were performed at the most critical moments of history by Americans.

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    10 GJT
    Elsewhere on the site I learned that Feb was the anniversary of the discovery of Nylon by DuPont in 1935.

    The first use of Nylon was toothbrush bristles which hit the market that same year.

  12. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Some good reading right here this morning — thanks, Hamsters. I need to go get my car inspected for the state of Texas, and that will be my main accomplishment today. It’s too cold to do anything outside. It is really getting easier to do the new-fangled 2-stage registration. I got the mailed-from-Austin part a while back, and it looks like I signed up online for the email reminder. I have no recollection of doing so, but I did get an email reminder on Saturday to go get the inspection. And then I can do my registration online.

    I’m so old that I can still remember with a shudder back when all registrations in Texas expired on the same day — end of some Spring month — and could only be obtained at a county clerk’s office. If you waited till the last day, you waited in a line that wrapped around outside the building. I also remember that the long line of people were a target for local politicians who wanted to shake some hands and pass out campaign literature.

  13. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The first really successful commercial use for nylon was in the barter economy centered around ladies stockings and the Main Gate at Fort Sill in 1942

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat (and okie WB)

    A great auctioneer story….

    https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/million-dollar-auctioneer/

  15. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #11

    The West Coast always cranks out the best ideas to cripple our country.

    A state taxes gasoline for the first time on 23, 1919. Oil is selling for about $2 per barrel when Oregon enacts the one-cent gasoline tax to be used for road construction and maintenance. Less than two months later, Colorado and New Mexico have followed Oregon’s example.

  16. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #5 – When you roll an orange ball into the gorilla cage which has hoops installed at each end and the gorillas try to stuff the ball down the hoop.

  17. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Annd the blog is speechless.

  18. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BREAKING: Woman injured in 2nd explosion reported in Austin on Monday, EMS says.

    The incident marks the second reported explosion in the city on Monday, the third in two weeks.

    An explosion earlier in the day in the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive left a teen dead and a woman injured.

  19. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The West Coast always cranks out the best ideas to cripple our country.

    Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    While the media and the Democrats and other clueless imbeciles are preoccupied by the Russian Menace, China is quietly taking over the world.

    Hot Air:

    So Russia is attempting to “meddle” in our elections and disrupt democracy, eh? In the view of some observers, specifically analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency, that’s small beer compared to what China is up to. They’re actually trying to take over our country from the inside through huge investments and influence peddling. And America isn’t their only target by a long shot. The Free Beacon takes an in-depth look at a recent CIA report which indicates that the Chinese are flushing vast amounts of capital and human resources into moving the United States to a position far more friendly to Chinese objectives.

    Free Beacon:

    Managed by a division of the Chinese Ministry of Education known as Hanban, Confucius Institutes are a key piece of Beijing’s broader foreign propaganda campaign, which costs the Chinese government an estimated $10 billion annually.

    As of 2016, China’s Propaganda Department was spending $6.8 billion per year to “build an international media apparatus that boosts China’s influence,” the CIA says. Chinese state-run media outlets operating in the United States employ individuals who spread communist propaganda, seldom register as foreign agents, and sometimes work on behalf of Beijing’s intelligence services, according to the report.

    “The CCP bankrolls several English-media outlets in the U.S. that try to influence perceptions of China and world events,” the report says, citing media accounts. “The CCP also pays some American media firms to publish propaganda without obvious CCP attribution … and harasses or denies visas to journalists who publish stories critical of the regime.”

    Hot Air again:

    The playbook is remarkably similar. Chinese expats are entering the country and becoming citizens, joining in various groups, churches and businesses, all while pushing a pro-China agenda. They also have been buying up property at breakneck paces, not only controlling those assets but contributing heavily to skyrocketing real estate costs. In Sydney, the median house price just passed one million dollars and that’s in an area where the median annual income is around $80K. People simply can’t afford to buy property and wind up renting for most of their lives.

    Why would the Chinese ever bother worrying about going to war? If you can erode your adversaries from the inside and buy their countries, there’s no need to fire any missiles.

    The Chinese are the enemy with the most military AND non-military assets with which to undermine and manipulate Western societies.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Sultan Knish with We’re Here from the International Community and We’re Here to Help

    But it would be a slow day at the United Nations if all it did was start a cholera epidemic that infected hundreds of thousands of people, lie about it for years, then pretend to take responsibility, refuse to actually pay for it, and then try to blame the whole thing on Trump who had been hosting Season 10 of The Apprentice back then. Unlike the UN, The Apprentice never infected 800,000 people with cholera.

    Since it was the UN, it also had to sexually abuse children to give Haiti the full multilateral experience.

    “One boy was gang raped in 2011 by peacekeepers who disgustingly filmed it on a cell phone. What do we say to these kids?” UN Ambassador Nikki Haley asked.

    Those were the Uruguayans. The Sri Lankans had their own child sex ring of some 134 peacekeepers paying children 75 cents to abuse them and the Nepalese gave most of the country cholera.

    That’s the international community for you. If it doesn’t get you one way, it’ll get you another way.

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is excellent.

    John Daniel Davidson on the border in Texas writing about “La Frontera”.

    Then there’s the Rio Grande Valley in the southeastern corner of the state, which is not a valley at all but a floodplain. That’s important if you want to understand the place — and if you don’t understand the Valley you can’t understand the problems along our southern border. Texas historian T.R. Fehrenbach, a Rio Grande Valley native, once said the region’s early Anglo settlers used the term because they thought “valley is a prettier word.” But they were also evoking its fertileness. Irrigation and agricultural machinery arrived in the early 20th century and transformed the Rio Grande Valley into sprawling farmland, drawing huge numbers of laborers from Mexico. Today, the region is predominately Hispanic, ethnically and culturally — even most Anglo residents of the Valley speak English with a Mexican accent. Nowhere along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border are the historical, familial, and economic ties between the two nations more pronounced.

    and,

    I went to the Rio Grande Valley last week to try to understand what “securing the border” would mean along its busiest stretch for illegal crossings. Before heading south, I met with Fred Burton, chief intelligence officer for Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm in Austin, Texas, and an expert on border security. He tells me it would be possible to secure the border completely, but no one would like it.

    “You can surge assets into certain sectors, predicated on intelligence-led policing,” he says. “You can surge resources into certain areas to reduce or restrict the flow of drugs north and all the other stuff coming south. But in order to secure the border, if you think Berlin wall, you would have to have military deployments from the west coast to the east. It would have to be handed over to the United States military.”

    Obviously, that will never happen short of a high-level assassination or a terrorist attack originating from Mexico. But under normal conditions, there is zero public support for the deployment of the American military along our southern border. That means the border is never going to be entirely secure, no matter how many times Trump and the Republicans clamor for border security.

  23. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    But in order to secure the border, if you think Berlin wall, you would have to have military deployments from the west coast to the east.

    It really ticks me off when they use a wall which was constructed to keep people in and compare it to a border that is meant to keep people out. We aren’t trying to keep people from fleeing to Mexico.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I think Burton’s point is something like this:

    If the Allies had built the Berlin Wall to keep East Germans out of West Germany, they would still have had to man it with troops to make it effective. Determined human beings will figure out how to defeat most any structure given time, and the Mexicans have a lot of time on their hands.

  25. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Jobs are what draws them here. Crack down hard on businesses hiring illegals. We’ve been using E-Verify for at least 10 years. Not a single illegal is employed at any of our 30 locations in the US.

  26. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    ‘Octo-pigs’ and ‘demon goats’

    From the comments:

    They should raise turkeys, never enough drum sticks

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Appendix to my #20 on China.

    Massive debts could force the Maldives to cede territory to China as early as 2019, according to former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, who also warns that a flawed presidential election this year would open the door for a Chinese takeover of the island nation.

    “We can’t pay the $1.5-2 billion debt to China,” Nasheed told the NikkeiAsian Review in an interview in Sri Lanka. He said the Indian Ocean country, known mostly as a tourist destination, takes in less than $100 million a month in government revenue.

    and,

    “Without firing a single shot, China has grabbed more land than the East India Company at the height of the 19th century,” Nasheed said, alleging that the Asian economic powerhouse has taken over more than “16 islands already” under the Maldives’ current president, Abdulla Yameen. “This land grab exercise hollows out our sovereignty,” he said. Nasheed did not provide any names of the islands he alleged China had taken.

    Once ports have been built on the islands, “these commercial infrastructures can very easily become military assets,” according to Nasheed. Such conversions are “very simple,” he said, pointing to a naval base China established in the East African nation of Djibouti last August — its first naval installation abroad.

    Just take a look at this map to understand how geographically critical permanent Chinese military installations in the Maldives would be. They are buying up whatever they need by repossession.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a Texas Tribune article on the difficulties of immigration and just keeping some companies running. I’m no advocate of illegal immigration, but I also understand the repercussions of controlling it are not as simple as we would like them to be.

    I don’t know what all the answers are and there are more than a few questions. I do know we need to completely throw out the immigration laws we still use sponsored by the jackass, pictured at the top of this page, back in the 1960s. And I maintain that secure borders and sane, prudent immigration law are two different subjects that will never be solved as long as they are handled as a single contentious issue.

    Not on the day of the Big Raid. Nothing leaked out. State police sealed off the highways in and out of town. ICE agents came with a fleet of empty buses and left with them full.

    Their target that day was the huge, steam-billowing beef plant here on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle, owned then by meatpacking giant Swift & Co. “Everyone on the production floor was shouting, ‘La Migra! La Migra!’ ” Monica Loya, a former plant worker, recalled. “There were people hiding behind machinery, in boxes, even in the carcasses.”

    Operation Wagon Train hit Swift & Co. plants in six states on Dec. 12, 2006, arresting nearly 1,300 workers. In tiny Cactus, 300 were taken into custody — about 10 percent of the town’s population. It was the largest workplace raid in U.S. history.

    and,

    And yet, no one seemed to believe the Cactus plant would be filled anytime soon with American workers. People here were not even sure they were American jobs in the first place. At least not since the Vietnamese and Laotians showed up in the late 1970s, a few years after the plant opened.

    “Cactus wouldn’t exist without the plant,” said the city manager, Aldo Gallegos, who grew up in the town after his parents moved from Arizona in 1992 to work for Swift. He estimates that about half of all floor workers are refugees and that half are Latino, mostly immigrants.

    “The plant didn’t skip a beat,” Gallegos said. “Everyone’s got to eat steak.”

    Workers who hang on at the unionized plant earn wages that average more than $17 an hour, in addition to health benefits and free language classes, making it one of the best-paying jobs in the United States for someone who speaks little or no English.

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Sylvester Turner’s statement on flood & government

    Mayor Sylvester Turner, City of Houston
    My essay with Marvin Odum about my proposed flood protection reforms

    Dear Houstonian:

    As I have mentioned here before, I plan to ask City Council to vote on March 21 on my flood protection reforms so that the city can do its part, along with other levels of government, to make our city more flood-resistant. On Sunday, the Houston Chronicle published an essay about this by our chief recovery officer, Marvin Odum (former president of Shell Oil) and me. Please read the opinion piece, below.

    Research tells us that human nature is not well suited to preparing for disasters. We’re complacent about future risks. We tend to prepare for a repeat of the last disaster instead of the next one. And when we finally do take the first couple of steps to protect ourselves, we convince ourselves that the job is done.

    Houstonians have learned those lessons the hard way. Tropical Storm Allison, the Tax Day and Memorial Day floods and Hurricane Harvey have taught us that we need to do things differently if we want to survive and thrive in the face of future disasters. As we’ve said repeatedly, Houston can’t just build back after Harvey — Houston must build forward.

    Our proposed new flood prevention rules for construction are just one example.

    Houston’s economy has flourished over the years with its light regulatory touch on development. The city has grown, the cost of living has stayed attractive, and businesses have found Houston a great place to call home.

    But the flooding of hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses over the last three years has made clear that we can no longer build in ways that could force residents out of their homes — threatening their livelihoods as well as their very lives — year after year. What’s more, a city better protected from flooding will be a city that continues to grow economically.

    That’s why we have crafted common sense standards for future homes and buildings to be built up and out of harm’s way. Under these rules, any new home in Houston’s floodplains will sit at least two feet above the current 500-year floodplain. That compares to the current rules that call for one foot above the 100-year floodplain.

    The logic is simple. We’ve experienced three “500-year” floods in the last three years. We will mostly likely experience more. If just the homes that flooded in today’s 100-year floodplain had conformed to the rules we’re proposing when Harvey hit, 88 percent would have escaped unharmed.

    The reaction to our new proposals has been understandable — and predictable. Builders are warning us about higher construction costs. Some homeowners want to understand the effect on their property value and the aesthetics of their neighborhoods. Engineers want to see the data behind the numbers (“Why two feet? Why not one? Why not three?”)

    But the overwhelming response from the public has been “what’s taken you so long?” Builders and homeowners alike acknowledge that the savings in insurance, future repairs and replacement of personal property — never mind peace of mind and life safety — more than pay for the additional cost of building a new home a few feet higher.

    Houstonians know that business as usual won’t work if we want this city to be a safe, economically competitive city in the future. Business leaders know that innovation and change is the key to profitable growth. And our city’s elected officials take seriously their responsibility for the well-being of our residents.

    Will these new rules solve all of Houston’s flooding problems? Of course not. The turnover of the housing stock in the current floodplains will take decades. We also need to turn our attention to building codes outside the floodplain — where 63 percent of Harvey’s home damage occurred. And we need more coordinated and responsive methods for managing flood control reservoirs across government boundaries in the region.

    Most importantly, we need to redouble our efforts with our partners in the county to obtain funding for, and complete, the regional flood infrastructure projects people have been talking about for years. The time for academic finger wagging and chin stroking is over. Bayou expansion projects, new reservoirs and coastal protection projects need to get done. Let’s wrap up the studies, prioritize the work, secure the funds, and get these vital defenses in place.

    We’re a city that sits about 50 feet above sea level and is laced with bayous. Flood risk has been a fact of our lives since our founding in 1836. We’ve managed to turn that risk to our advantage, building along the way a legacy of can-do determination, engineering expertise and a powerful sense of volunteerism and community we see so vividly when the going gets tough.

    The Harvey recovery gives Houston a transformational opportunity to build on that legacy. One of us has a more than a quarter-century of experience working through legislative processes to resolve complex social issues. One of us has led a global business through multiple changes and challenges. Both of us are natives of the Bayou City. And both of us are committed to working shoulder to shoulder with all Houstonians to realizing this opportunity… to build forward. #

  30. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    If you are concerned about the Chinese influence overseas, check out what they are doing on our college campi. Confucius Institutes are funded by the Chinese government, and of course, we import high ranking communist leaders kids to go to college here, at a premium price of course, which they are more than willing to pay. Plus they fund groups to promote Chinese communism on campus, etc. Colleges exercise probably even less discretion than the Clintons when it comes to accepting monetary handouts. Check it out, there are numerous stories out there. Here’s an overview
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute

  31. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #29 – Sylvester Turner’s statement abbreviated – “BOHICA” More regulations, higher taxes, that is all.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    El Gordo

    From the Free Beacon link in my #20.

    Last month, Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), who co-chairs the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, called on the five Florida educational institutions that host Confucius Institutes to end those partnerships amid reports that the Chinese government uses the programs to limit discussion on topics the government finds sensitive, such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the political status of Tibet.

    “Beijing is becoming increasingly aggressive in its aim to exploit America’s academic freedom to instill in the minds of future leaders a pro-China viewpoint,” Rubio said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “Confucius Institutes across the country and my home state of Florida have given China’s communist regime an avenue to covertly influence public opinion and teach half-truths designed to present Chinese history, government or official policy in the most favorable light.”

    Rubio lauded the recent decision by the University of West Florida to cancel its contract with the Chinese-backed organization and encouraged other universities to reconsider their arrangements.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh.

    http://babylonbee.com/news/joel-osteens-bible-spotted-shivering-under-seedy-freeway-overpass/

  34. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    re: Patricia Taylor Buckley

    That’s a man, baby!

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #26

    Spider pig?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&noapp=1&v=BARjPuUN36Y

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Clearing out more MIL stuff, and found a “memory box” of pictures, diplomas, report cards (the college sent report cards to Big Daddy-O, letting him know of Junior’s academic progress, which I found interesting).

    I had to smile when I found the letter written by Hubby’s father to his folks, letting them know that he and MIL were hitched. “I’m sure you’re good and surprised, but C**** and I are good and married, and we’re very happy.”

    I thought they’d eloped, but there’s the proof.

    I also found out that MIL was a rodeo beauty queen contestant. Never thought of her as that, but two years running she was a “Gold Star Girl”.

    Now, what to do with all the old cameras????

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Bobby O’Rourke on his way to a landslide…

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    At SXSW, Beto O’Rourke says there’s no reason an AR-15 should be sold to civilians. “I have no idea how that polls and I should give a sh*t what the NRA” thinks about it.

    9:30 AM – 10 Mar 2018
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  38. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Squawk collect cameras. And hats. Lots of hats. I hear he has a haberdashery.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    36 Tedtam

    Some of those ugly, old cameras are worth real money to collectors.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve got pics of ’em. There’s two large lenses. One is obviously damaged; I don’t know if it can be fixed. The other one I want to try on my fancy camera to see if it works.

    Be cool if it did. It’s hefty. I’m sure the magnification will enable me to take pictures of my neighbors from an unobtrusive distance! Then Hubby own’t be the only one with heavy equipment.

    His backhoe. That’s what I meant – his backhoe.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I thought it was pretty funny that in my #14 the Osage Indian chief’s real name was Chief Bacon Rind.

    All them okies are weird.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    EG my #32

    January 2018:

    As part of a broad effort to interfere in U.S. institutions, China tries to shape the discussion at American universities, stifle criticism and influence academic activity by offering funding, often through front organizations closely linked to Beijing.

    Now that aspect of Beijing’s foreign influence campaign is beginning to face resistance from academics and lawmakers. A major battle in this nascent campus war played out during the past six months at the University of Texas in Austin.

    After a long internal dispute, a high-level investigation and an intervention by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, United the university last week rejected a proposal by the leader of its new China center to accept money from the China States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF). The Hong Kong-based foundation and its leader, Tung Chee-hwa, are closely linked to the branch of the Chinese Communist Party that manages influence operations abroad.

  43. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That kindergarten pic of Bobby O with the Beto sweater looks photoshopped to me. I’m sure an expert could determine it pretty quickly.

  44. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Then he was in a band named the El Paso Pussycats where the dudes wore dresses

    https://www.discogs.com/Foss-The-El-Paso-Pussycats/release/5832632

  45. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Beto wears girl clothes. Beto wears girl clothes.

  46. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Hey, that’s a resume enhancement if you are a Dem.

  47. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Prolly not if you’re running statewide in Texas.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Now it’s Bobbie O’Rourke instead of Bobby.

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    34 Hamous

    re: Patricia Taylor Buckley

    That’s a man, baby!

    Actually, that’s what a quart of gin a day for forty years will do to you.

    The Buckleys did like to have their drink or two.

  50. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #36 TT

    Now, what to do with all the old cameras????

    Big Jolly likes old cameras and old unused rolls of film.

  51. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Decided to go out and knock the tops off the weeds in my yard with the mower. I’m in terrible shape, sore back, etc. Gotta get my azz in gear now that it’s warming up. I’ve got big plans this spring to get a lot of things done. Oh well, I can dream, can’t I.

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #34 Hamous, that reminded me of Crocodile Dundee,…He’s from Australia,….oh, maybe, I’d better got down there sometime. 😀

  53. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    There are plenty of things to think about in today’s postings, that is for sure.

    The Chinese bigwigs are probably still enjoying how they walked all over Obama and are becoming more wary of Trump as time goes by. He’s predictably unpredictable….

  54. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #49 – Another thing a quart of gin every day for forty years will do to you
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/hillary-clinton-slips-stairs-india-two-times-despite-two-men-holding-video/

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    54
    India?

    Well, she does have a history with Indian girls.

  56. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    #40, post the pics, I can tell you what they are, rolled a lot of b/w film back then.

  57. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Houston Camera Exchange is gone. B&W, and color, film is a mail order business now. Given the top Nikon glass ever made is available dirt cheap on ebay, Nikon Fa, I’m still using the F15 MD.

  58. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You Republican wimmin have been such good girls, why, just as soon as you get done in the kitchen there and the wash have a seat and rest your bones.

    “[Democrats] do not do well with white men and we don’t do well with married, white women,” Clinton explained. “And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should,” said Clinton.

    https://woai.iheart.com/featured/the-sean-hannity-show/content/2018-03-12-clinton-goes-nuclear-hillary-says-white-women-were-forced-to-vote-for-trump-by-their-husbands/

  59. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh my, Tim, you’re just so welcome.

  60. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #58

    Hillary Clinton is an emotional neanderthal throwback. She just can’t conceive that we women can think all on our lonesomes.

    Suck eggs, witch.

    Man, I despise that thing-that-passes-as-female.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I sold more stuff today – a bird bath, musical instruments, Epson printer, crock planter, Tibetan print blocks, 3 flat baskets, one large basket, a dried sponge, and something I thought I’d never be able to unload – a full newspaper size book of the 1952 London Times newspaper, about 3 inches thick and heavy as heck. I was so happy to get rid of that, I only charged $5. Take it! Take it, please!

    A couple of gay guys showed up to buy two low benches, but the benches were too low. They bought everything else.

    Then a second guy came by to buy an antique chamber pot stool that was being used as a planter. He and his wife love the old antique/vintage thing, so he had a blast going through the house. He bought the ’40’s cloak room door that was on the bathroom, and a box in the back bedroom/craft room that I’d never seen open before now. It looked like it was made from military boxes from the stenciled text on the wood. Supposedly it was made by MIL’s father. He spent some time in the military, so I guess that’s where he got the wood. Hauling the door outside took just about everything I had in me. Heavy isn’t the word for that thing. Then we had to haul out the box, which fortunately could be carried out in two pieces. He said he had a very understanding wife, and she’d crack up when she saw what else he brought home with the chamber stool.

    The fun couple that bought a car load two days ago is coming back for a bed frame and another silver plate tray. They’re going to help me move a picture to our church that Hubby is donating.

    It’s a sad chore, but I’m meeting the nicest people.

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