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I’ve recommended articles by Adam Perkins in the past. This is very good, if not also disturbing.
My cardinal sin was to publish a book three years ago called The Welfare Trait that summarised data linking personality and welfare dependency. Positing such links is blasphemy to those on the left who believe that life outcomes are solely influenced by structural rather than individual factors. And so my discrediting began. In public it took the form of webpages dedicated to detailing my thought-crimes, abusive messages on social media and articles in the left-wing press, such as Mr Portes’s New Statesman piece.
But the public campaign against me is fluff compared to the tactics deployed in private. The self-appointed guardians of permitted thought are always on the lookout for better ways to silence dissenting scientists and in institutional complaints procedures, they have found one. This tactic might seem boring, but it’s a more powerful and lasting type of harassment than a public attack because it hijacks the power of institutional processes to hit you in your bank account and your CV.
To describe what goes on around higher ed campuses as similar to that of the KGB/Stasi/Gestapo is no exaggeration if you omit the physical torture and murder.
Your harasser will ask the institution to conceal their name from you because he, she or ze will typically be someone with whom you have already clashed publicly. Anonymity will prevent you from nipping their complaint in the bud by pointing out their conflict of interest. The complainant is then free to masquerade as a neutral, disinterested observer, rather than someone who is using the complaints procedure as a weapon in their vendetta against you. Moreover, if the institution doesn’t realise that the complainant has a vested interest in harming your career, and they take the complaint at face value and end up firing you or retracting one of your publications, your harasser’s anonymity ensures their name is not connected to your firing/retraction. This allows them to then crow publicly about your firing/retraction, citing it as independent confirmation of their negative opinion of you.
There was a time when respectable institutions of higher education would have ignored anonymous attempts at character assassination, but not anymore. The Star Chamber proceedings of Title IX code violations for sexual offenses has done nothing but teach our children American society holds no respect for due process or our Fourth and Fifth Amendments, but especially the Sixth Amendment of our Bill of Rights.
Once they enter the real world carrying that sort of cynical baggage of contempt for our founding principles, this civilization’s chances begin to slowly shift on the scales of survival.
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77 and sunny here at the farm.
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Greetings from Big D. Hot here like the rest of the state. Have a great day, and more later.
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It’s 85 here with 70% humidity and no breeze.
Feels like home.
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In Denver this past weekend, some soulless busybody called the cops on three little boys working their own lemonade stand.
Aged 6, 5, and 4, the Knowles boys set up a lemonade stand to raise money for Compassion International. All proceeds made from their entrepreneurial endeavor would have been sent to “a little 5-year-old boy from Indonesia with siblings, two siblings, kind of like them,” said their mother.
But in the age of big government, no good deed goes unpunished. 30 minutes into their lemonade stand fun, the cops showed up and shut them down for failure to have the correct permits. Their arrival was precipitated by a complaint.
These LEOs are the same people who run our public schools now.
The news station contacted the permitting the department, who explained “there are no rules explicitly prohibiting a lemonade stand, but there are also no rules protecting it.”
The authoritarian state…
What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine also.
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I remember when “copacetic” was the cool word to say. Couldn’t go a day without hearing someone say it. “Platonic” was another one…
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Legalize marijuana ? Sure, why not ?
What could go wrong ?
SOME 22.3 PERCENT OF fatally injured motorists who were tested for drugs tested positive for marijuana in 2016, a figure that researchers say has “increased substantially” in recent years as states have legalized the drug for recreational or medicinal use, according to a new report.
The finding, in a study released Thursday by the Governors Highway Safety Association, was one of several regarding the growing prevalence of drugs in vehicle fatalities. The report also found that 44 percent of drivers killed in automobile accidents in 2016 who were tested for drugs tested positive for one or more substances – a number that was up 28 percent from 10 years prior. That figure eclipsed the 37.9 percent who were known to have been tested for alcohol and tested positive – a figure that actually fell in the last decade, from 41 percent in 2006.
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I don’t know what it is here, because I’m eating breakfast and haven’t been outdoors yet. I am hoping to mow the back yard this morning.
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The campaign to destroy John Bolton’s chief of staff.
Related to my #1 comment for strategy and tactics.
Former senior Obama administration officials such as Ben Rhodes—architect of the pro-Iran echo-chamber that misled Congress and the American public about the nature of the landmark nuclear deal—have amplified these attacks on social media platforms such as Twitter.
Senior Trump administration officials familiar with the situation called the attacks baseless and blamed organizations such as the SPLC for waging a smear campaign out of revenge for Fleitz’s past criticisms of the group, which has been known to attack prominent conservative thought leaders and label them bigots.
“Most of the attacks on Fleitz originated from the far left Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that over the last few years raised money by putting out press releases falsely lumping conservative Americans with neo-Nazis and white supremacists,” said one senior administration official who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon on background about the attacks on Fleitz.
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Heh.
One of the rockets fired by terrorist groups from Gaza at southern Israel Tuesday struck equipment that provides electricity to the southern Gaza Strip, knocking out power to thousands, a spokesperson for Israel’s Electric Company said.
The damage to three power lines leading to Gaza was preventing the flow of electricity to the the southern areas of the beleaguered coastal enclave, the spokesperson said Tuesday evening, leaving tens of thousands of Gazans with no electricity.
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The doctor that helped create safer barriers has passed
Dr. Henry Bock was 81.
On May 1, 2002, safer barriers were announced by Indycar Series officials. The new technology made it’s debut at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in all for turns of the rectangle shaped track.
Safer barriers were created by Indycar with help from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility. The project started in 1998 and it became an initiative that changed racing crashes forever. -
Welp armageddon of tree debris is the order of the day at ‘Chez PezGato’ today.
One of those “can’t afford it” but “can’t afford NOT to” situations. The fellas will take down a dead tree in the back yard (Praying without taking out a section of ancient fence in the process) + thinning / pruning these darned brittle water oaks out front that grow as fast as mesquites!
I’m guessing if Dearly departed Pop had known how brittle these water Oaks are He might have planted live Oaks……………..
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The Jaybird-Woodpecker War was a feud between two political factions for the control of Fort Bend County. The Jaybirds, representing the wealth and about 90 percent of the white population, were the regular Democrats who sought to rid the county of the Republican government that had gained control during Reconstruction. The Woodpeckers, numbering about forty persons and also claiming to be Democrats, were the officials and former officials who held office as a result of the black vote for the Republican ticket. Former friends, neighbors, and relatives became bitter enemies as a result of the feud…..
….After the election the breach between the factions widened. There were insults, assaults, threats, and denunciations-and two more killings. Kyle Terry, Woodpecker tax assessor, killed L. E. Gibson at Wharton on June 21, 1889; a week later Terry was killed by Volney Gibson. The county became an armed camp, and the “Battle of Richmond,” on August 16, 1889, became inevitable…..
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#13 – That’s the way politics is supposed to be played. By God, if you believe in something, be willing to stand up for it – see Texas Revolution for example. Today’s mamby-pamby politicians won’t stand up for anything, and look where it’s getting us. I can stand here all day long and bark about stuff, but when I’m willing to commit my life for it, then you know it’s serious. Also see our young men and women of the military.
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Good morning Hamsters. Miserably hot/muggy from the get-go at 6, ground mist, insane humidity just dropped to 98% from 99%, and we have 85 already. Also partly cloudy with little chance of rain today, other than the standard 20% just in case something develops.
One day in June of 1976 I was working part time at Baylor College of Medicine in the Fondren building right next to Methodist Hospital when the chance was the standard 20%. Had just arrived about 1 pm under hot sunny skies and planned on staying until I finished an ongoing editorial project. Come about 3 pm clouds appeared from nowhere, got darker, and started spitting lightning and thunder.
We had office windows facing Fannin and had quite a view of the downpour that ensued shortly, a deluge in fact that lasted several hours. Fannin flooded, so did South Main, all the Med Center, so did Hermann Park and areas down Gulf Freeway. A good hunk of Houston flooded from that some 13″ waterfall that afternoon into the evening. We were stuck at the office for the duration.
The department head’s car was parked in the garage under the building, and word spread that the garage was taking on water fast. So he went to rescue his before it got swamped, got it out onto a surface lot, and came squishing back to the office, barefoot, carrying shoes, soaked despite having an umbrella. Other folks in the building were not so lucky and lost their cars. So did folks with cars in other underground garages and even some on low-lying surface lots.
Called spouse who was in his office at Schlumberger Well Services down on Gulf Freeway and said we were stuck. He said they were also stuck and couldn’t get out because of high water. We all were distracted to say the least. A call went out for help in rescuing the ladies who ran the telecommunications office in the basement that also was taking on water fast. Two of our gentlemen went down, helped get them out, and came back soaked from being in waist-deep water before the last lady was safely out.
About 5 pm several Houston firetruck pumpers arrived and started pumping water out of building basements, ours and Methodist’s. Big sprays arced out over Fannin’s by now lake after sandbags were placed across the ramps leading down into the basement garages. We who were stuck decided to try making it over to St. Luke’s cafeteria for dinner, if we could. Yes, the ground floor hallway over there was open and dry at that time, but every time we passed a stairwell going down we could hear rushing water below. Creepy.
After a rather tense dinner we made it back to our building, went up to our offices and made calls to kin to trade the latest news. Spouse was also still stuck at his office. This was long before cell phones. Needed a landline. Firetrucks were still pumping and making headway at last since the rain had finally stopped. TV showed a big hunk of Houston was still paralyzed with water. Called spouse again. He planned to leave work when he could get out of the parking lot and head toward Methodist. By that time we’d moved out of Fondren and into Methodist’s lobby to wait and so had another phone # to give out.
Shortly after that move the power quit in Fondren. It was getting dark. The backup generators were in the basement near the telecommunications center. Duh. They did not work, surprise. Fortunately before that happened, the Orthopedics Department that had the 2nd and 3rd floors in Fondren had staff carry patients down the stairwells and over to Methodist. Elevators had been shut off to prevent someone accidentally going down to basement level.
Spouse made it to Methodist about 1 am. The streets had drained by then, and we were able to drive home. My car was fortunately high enough on a surface lot, and it stayed there. All the way along Braeswood Blvd. heading west there were abandoned/drowned cars on the medians or over curbs or in the intersections. Some of the streetlights were out but some were still on. It was all very weird and unfamiliar while still being sorta familiar. Got home at 2 am to see that our place had not received the brunt of the deluge. This was a cautionary event that amply demonstrated what can happen when the chance of rain is pegged at 20% given the wrong conditions.
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I’ve been mowing on setting #3. With the last mower I used #2, but that is just a bit low with this mower.
However, using the higher settting, it looks like crap a week later. Even with no rain.
Today I’m dropping it down to #2 in hopes that it all dies and I can mow it every other week or so.🙂
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An hour in and not quite done, but had to take a rehydration break. My back yard is nice and shady, and if I have the side gate under the breezeway standing open, that generates a wonderful cooling, well, uh, breeze. I’ll live.
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#15 Adee: I remember that storm well. We drove into town to rescue my paternal grandfather who was trapped in his office. It was that event that finally sealed his retirement from his dental practice at the tender age of only 78 or so.
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Done and all put away, including my new 100′ extension cord. Carefully coiled.
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#15 Adee
Wow, what an ordeal. I’ve seen some high water, but never been stranded anywhere because of it. During the 5 years that I was driving to work down on 90A in Sugar Land, there had been a flood down there that had standing water in all the low spots. I had never previously realized how high that road was above the surrounding landscape. From the last overpass on 59-South before my exit, everything to my right was either underwater or jutting up from the water. 90A was high and dry, as was the railroad track that runs alongside it. And just then, here came a train inbound on that track. There was a surreal impression that the train was running across a lake. -
Update
Okay the whole place looks like a putting green now.
Grab your putters and come on out!
Golf: Free all day!
Concessions: Outrageous. (Think MinuteMaid) **No Coolers AllowedEnjoy our primitive, yet quaint, club house with ICE COLD air conditioning! First five minutes are FREE!!!
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#20 mharper42
It must have been a jolting sight seeing that train seemingly crossing a lake.
Highway 90A must have been deliberately built higher than it looks or else it’s been resurfaced so often it’s been built up. It manages to be open when lots of other major roads are not passable.
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The link itself tells the story! Take that, Soros!!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/soros_becomes_the_kiss_of_death_for_his_own_handpicked_da_candidates.html -
Highway 90A must have been deliberately built higher than it looks or else it’s been resurfaced so often it’s been built up. It manages to be open when lots of other major roads are not passable.
90A, or what’s left of the original roadbed, is indicarive of the way roads used to be built in this part of the country. I’m pretty sure everybody has heard the term “bar ditch” to describe the ditches on either side of country roads. Its actually a modification of the term “Borrow Ditch”, where the dirt excavated on either side of the road bed was piled onto where the road was going. The idea was to drain on either side of the road and to have the road elevated.
In the late 1970s road designers, particularly those in populated areas,realized that using ditches to drain runoff resulted in not only a lot of work in mowing and clearing the ditches to keep them clear for runoff, but when houses and businesses began being built on formerly rural roads, the buildings get flooded while the roads remained high and dry. Today all roads are built below the level of the buildings and the “borrowed” dirt is piled where the houses go—the streets drain the water.
And Shannon gets to mow where the city and state used to.
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What’s it like outside?
You gotta Bud Light unca Shanny?
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Naptime. Is sweet. Is restful. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
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IMHO, the OC pic represents the most prominent accomplishment (?) of Janet el Reno’s term as US Attorney General, the capture of Eleon Gonzales from his Florida kin to be returned to Castro’s Cuba. As I recall, her second in command was Eric Holder, rumored to be the real AG in fact, given her ineptitude. He of course later became the AG himself, unfortunately.
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I think Reno’s siege at the Branch Davidian complex was her most infamous feat.
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#21 – I grabbed my putter as instructed, but nothing happened. Guess I’m getting old.
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#30, not to mention the folks roasted alive outside of Waco.
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Had lunch at the Hoagie Ranch in Kemah today. Highly recommend it.
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#32
Your greens don’t get manicured enough.
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Funny story about the wife’s doglets.She did the laser pointer thing and one of them chased the red dot all about. The other hawk bait looked at the dot, then the wife, and then pointer.Then he called bs and walked off.
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My backyard greens got very well manicured today. And the new extension cord let me mow all the way into the corner way back behind the garage. We have 2 utility poles, one in each back corner, and also a Comcast hive-box in one corner. Aside from a pear tree, I have never planted anything behind the garage, but that corner does have a variety of things that have escaped from under the side fence. Well, I mowed down everything back there today.
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Speaking of greens Ferris has wasted 17 million of them on a Hillary made hoax.
Ferris is Running with the Deep State.
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Hi Gang, reporting in from PC Beach, it’s a bit blustery here today, red flag flying, but we managed a pretty fair sunset. I took several pictures, but the dang camera lens fogged up as soon as stepped out of the air conditioned room, I cleaned and snapped cleaned and snapped and the picture was still froggy! Maybe tomorrow, we’ll see.
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After I came in from the beach, I dumped the pictures off my camera and I really liked the one of Mom’s old Century Plant, Agave Americana. Pretty big, I’d say. 😉
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Take more pictures. It won’t be around much longer.
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#40
I’ve seen those, there is one in a yard that I see when I take the back back roads coming home from work. Had no idee what they were.
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Finally got the faincy LED flood light hooked up with all new wiring off our screened in porch. Nice soft light, mucho ambience. GJT!
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Mom’s Swedish Greenhouse, she did love working in her hothouse. While I’m good at killing off plants, she could put a dead stick into wet moss and the roots would sprout so she could plant it….Oh, and my wife loves it, she’s pretty good with plants also.
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I like this version better than Dylan’s
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One of the best things about drinking excellent Cabs and fine Merlots is the side effects.
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Old Oldsmobile, Jamie Lin Wilson
Number three’s on the way,
Found out today,
Gonna be a long, hot summer
I’ll be big as a tree,
But you’d never say that to me,
You’re a good man,
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Phil knew he shouldn’t have opened that third bottle.
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It is still a little windy here at the beach, yellow flag day so they’ll be flying the red one. Light whitecaps, no floating this morning. As soon as the coffee pot stops gurgling, I’ll walk the mile down to the county pier.
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Good morning Hamsters. Another 73 with high humidity (99%) at 6 and no breeze but surprisingly not miserable yet. Will soon see if that’s changed when I go out to the barn in a minute to turn Contessa out. Sunshine is increasing fast.
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I see we’re being blessed with a new statue downtown. I guess since Texas Democrats are as rare as hen’s teeth, and you have to go back 55 years to find one, it’s okay to overlook his blatant racism when looking for your Democrat heroes.
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I don’t know about you all, but it’s hot in Big D. SS peaked out at 111 degrees yesterday. I don’t know what that means, but it’s got to be some kind of evil omen. Hope you all have a good one.
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Back inside from letting Contessa out of the barn. Yes, the humidity has become pretty intense with sunshine intruding, though the temp is now only 74 and humidity still at 99%. We’re at the you drip even if you’re not moving stage.
My second safari out to the road to fetch the paper was also for naught. It habitually arrives later on weekends, so I probably should not venture forth again until at least 8:30.
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…….l.suiting up to be eastbound shortly for another new HERO
Yall enJOY your Sunday!
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#51
lol ! Imagine if he had of been an “R”, they’d be tearing it down.
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Safe Ridding Katfish.
After I got back from the pier, I took my umbrella down to the beach to stake my claim early.
#51 My favorite picture is #32, his Amphicar, I always loved the story of him driving guests around, and then shout “The brakes don’t work, we’re going in, we’re going under!” as they drove into the Pedernales River. 😀 -
Flipped by the Fox Sunday program. You’re kidding me, right?
The panel included that twit Marie Harf, Obama’s State Department advocate of “jobs for terrorists”.
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Yup, Marie has been a “Fox News Contributor” for a while now.
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“Sustainably farmed vanilla”
What exactly is that? If a farm isn’t sustainable it’s not going to last very long. It’s pretty much built in.
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Did you know Tito’s vodka is 100% gluten-free?
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Moron Dowdy gives a tongue bath to JugEars in this column:
Obama – Just Too Good for Us
Link: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html
The delusion is strong with this one.
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I’m shocked.
Over the past decade, as the prospects of peace between Israelis and Palestinians became ever slimmer, there has been a growing attention to—and, in some quarters, acceptance of—the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, or BDS. Those drawn to the cause have likely come across the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a Virginia-based nonprofit organization that serves as the American umbrella group of the BDS movement and is arguably the most prominent promoter of BDS in the United States. The US Campaign, which is officially called Education for Just Peace in the Middle East, coordinates the efforts of 329 different pro-BDS organizations “working to advocate for Palestinian rights and a shift in US policy … bound by commonly shared principles on Palestine solidarity as well as our anti-racism principles,” according to the group’s website.
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60 Hamous
I always thought Tito Beveridge put that on the label as a joke, but it’s real.
OUR VODKA IS DISTILLED FROM CORN, SO IT’S NATURALLY GLUTEN-FREE.
We’re certified Gluten-Free by the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG). Some folks add a bit of mash back into the spirit after distillation, which could add gluten, but we don’t do that. -
#62 Texpat
We’re all shocked, shocked I say to discover there’s subversion going on by a Palestinian support group, in addition to gambling going on in the back room. 🙂
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Nature’s Path Organic foods is a Canadian, leftwing conglomerate of “vegetarian, organic, non-GMO” products.
They have a Twitter account and announced they are opposing the critical oil pipeline expansion in Canada. The response on Twitter was mockery.
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I almost feel sorry for yall, almost. I am eating real barbacoa made with cheek meat and tongue, with home made tortillas and great Pico with avocados. Made by real live Mexicans in my house. Life is good.
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Important news the MSM deems unnecessary for you to know.
[May 25th, 2018] SAN RAMON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 25, 2018– The Supreme Court of Gibraltar has issued a judgment against Pablo Fajardo, Luis Yanza, Ermel Chavez, Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia (the “Front”) and Servicios Fromboliere for their role in a conspiracy to procure and attempt to enforce a fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron. The court awarded Chevron Corporation$38 million in damages and interest and issued a permanent injunction against the defendants, preventing them from assisting or supporting the case against Chevron in any way.
Donziger and Fajardo, an Ecuadorian lawyer, were found by a U.S. Federal Court to have engaged in extortion, money laundering, wire fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. The Front, which has long been involved in peddling a dishonest public relations campaign against Chevron aimed at extorting a settlement from the company, and Servicios Fromboliere, an Ecuadorian law firm established by Fajardo, are both shareholders in Amazonia and part of the extensive web of obscure entities established by the participants in the fraud against Chevron to attempt to hide their misconduct and profit from it.
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Morning, Couch chickadees. I worked the Sunday HouChron sudoku so fast that I still have half my giant coffee cup to sip on. Over time, since retirement, I have just about given up covfefe, but I still enjoy it on Sunday. It’s just habit that makes me reach for the Sunday cup on Sunday, when a smaller everyday cup would be more appropriate.
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I quit reading Breitbart after Bannon took over, before his association with Trump, but I would go and read John Nolte’s columns because he’s the real pro who created Breitbart Hollywood. I still do and this is interesting stuff.
With no serious competition opening at the box office, Solo has officially collapsed with a catastrophic -68 percent drop in its second weekend. After grossing a measly (we are talking about a Star Wars movie here) $82 million in its debut weekend, Solo bottomed out in week two with just $28 million.
Hollywood has gone financially insane,
In worse news, Solo is by far the most expensive Star Wars movie produced yet, with a reported price tag of $250 million. Add another $150 million for publicity, and we are talking about a $900 million worldwide breakeven point.
But the media and critics have circled the wagons to protect a militant feminist, leftist female director,
This cowardice is a sign, not only of how useless the entertainment media are, but how owned they are by big corporations, how they do not even have the integrity to tell a truth, to report the truth about Mizzz Kathleen’s disastrous arrogance, her bubbled provincialism, her strident scolding and preaching (and all at the expense of story logic and what the fans hold most dear), and how it is murdering the most iconic film franchise in history.
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Another Nolte piece on how Disney destroyed the Muppets.
Remember the Muppets?
You know, Kermit, Ms. Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, and Animal; those glorious, universally appealing characters who starred in The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and the timeless Muppet Show?
You remember them, right?
Yeah, Disney killed them. Disney murdered the Muppets.
The motive was propagandizing our children. The weapon was left-wing politics.
and,
Muppets Most Wanted, the $50 million 2014 sequel, was a box office catastrophe, earning a pathetic $51 million. Kermit and Company then moved back to television, to the arena of their greatest triumph, The Muppet Show, which ran for five iconic seasons between 1976 to 1981. This new show would rank as one the 2016’s greatest disasters, a disaster that limped along for 16 episodes before finally being put out of its misery after just one season and fewer than 3 million viewers.
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Barbacoa is kosher?
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made with cheek meat
Whoa!
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#66 Bones, sounds great, but I hope it also has the brains, can’t have real barbacoa without it.
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I’ll just take the raw oysters thank you.
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That GJT and his raw mountain oysters.
/shaking my head
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#71 Hammy: Interestingly enough, all commercially slaughtered cattle in the US are hung by the feet and the neck cut to drain the blood, this satisfies (IMHO) the Scriptural requirement that the blood be drained. Further, there is no specification in THE TORAH that requires a rabbi to be present, only that the blood be drained, this includes animals taken in the wild.
The beef we bought was from Sam’s and it was packaged at the slaughterhouse, in big, low-cost slaughterhouses, they do not change species because it is too expensive. This is my understanding, so, beef packaged from the big, low-cost slaughterhouse (which is the only place that can compete and make a profit by selling to Sam’s) are Scripturally clean and that is good enough for me. The meat is never touched by the blades in the individual stores, those of which are used on swine as well as beef, chicken and lamb.
Miguel mentioned that he saw a cow’s stomach there as well, the stomach is used to make menudo. I think we may attempt something like a Mexican haggis next time and cook everything inside the stomach. . . . .after it is inverted and thoroughly cleaned of course. -
Stop it. You’re making me hungry. Right.
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I thought all offal except for the sweetbreads were off-limits.
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Now I’m craving mollejas. Might hafta run up to Matamoros Meat Market.
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#78: Hamous: The prohibition is against eating the blood. For normal, non-sacrificial purposes, I don’t recall any restriction against eating offal. I never thought it was a good idea to eat the filters (kidneys and liver), just because eating the filter does not sound like a healthy plan. If the animal is used in the ritual sacrifice, then all the organs/entrails must be burned.
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The demented, deranged descendants of Mark Twain’s school board members* are now running the public schools.
He posted an item on Craiglist offering a bargain price of $12,725, for his school.
It was a very funny post, written like a real ad, touting the property was “next to Walmart for convenience” and has a “huger parking lot, perfect for partygoers looking for somewhere to park.” Oh, and he said the buliding has a “bigger than normal dining room” — the massive cafeteria.
If there had been a Craigslist when I was in high school I might have done the same thing.
The school issued a statement. “We take student safety very seriously and appreciate the students and parents who brought this to our attention. Out of an abundance of caution, administrators and police investigated and determined there was not a credible threat. A student who makes a real or implied threat, whether it is deemed credible or not, will face discipline. Due to the heightened concern nationally with school violence, we have extra police officers for the remainder of the school year and will have additional officers at graduations for all of our high schools.”
Who needs satire anymore ? These school administrators are dumber than a box of rocks.
A harmless joke on a free website is now equivalent to a threat of deadly violence. Like Walter Williams said: Demolish the schools of education on every college campus then bomb them to make sure they can’t be rebuilt.
* “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
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The proper way to cook a kidney is as follows:
Place kidney(s) in a large pot of water, then boil the pizz out of them.
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No kidneys for me. I occasionally like liver but since Granny passed I haven’t found anyone who can cook it properly.
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Chicken livers hearts & gizzards are good ground up in dirty rice.
Goose liver is good in pâté du foie gras.
Beef(?) liver is good in liverwurst/braunschweiger.
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Not a fan of liver by itself in a plate. Blech.
Even with onions.
And ketchup.
LOTS of ketchup.
ALL the ketchup.
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Dat’s cuz you never had Granny’s liver and onions.
My favorite offal is fried chicken gizzards. It really shouldn’t be classified as offal. Nothing but a big knot of muscle.
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I’ll just hafta take your word for it.
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My favorite gizzard come from a speckle – belly goose. Those gizzards will fill the palm of your hand and are easy to clean.
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Not a fan of liver by itself in a plate. Blech.
Even with onions.
And ketchup.
LOTS of ketchup.
ALL the ketchup.
And then borrow more ketchup. Just smelling liver turns my stomach.
I remember when Dad tried to improve us one night by giving us a “special dinner”. He served liver and onions, and wine for the older ones.
It was a dismal failure, and he couldn’t figure out why.
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The original ‘Threadgill’s’ on North Lamar in Austin use to have the ONLY liver & onions that I have ever liked – I see it’s still on the menu but I’ve not partaken there in many coon’s ages.
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And I’ve combined the need for a full tank of 93 Premium with the need to cool down my core temp………………..after I top off Gracie’s tank near home – I go sit in the store’s beer cooler and catch up on my messages. NO sense wasting all those BTUs!!! 🙂
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Beer coolers are the place to be on a hot day. I used to go into the walk in cooler when it got to hot to work in the kitchen, 10 minutes does wonders.
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Am guessing there could be a cultural divide based on age rather than ethnicity regarding what animal parts constitute acceptable/ordinary every day meal components. When I was growing up in the 40s & 50s, mind you among adults who had survived the Great Depression and likely because of it, muscle meat was served of course but so were organ meats equally well represented as the main protein sources at meals. Those folks were accustomed to using about everything usable: waste not, want not being something taken seriously. Hearts, kidneys, livers, even stomachs (maybe lumped in with giblets) would at times grace the dinner table. The components of sausages were usually on the vague side. Many likely still are in the fine print.
In these days of plenty, I wonder how many of these organs go straight to pet foods and rarely see the dinner table other than liver and maybe kidney in the normal scheme of things. Liver is still a champion source of iron and popular as well as in its own right. Liver served in Mom’s family’s tradition was a special treat, not so much in Dad’s family tradition. Obviously different cultures traditionally still favor some and not others.
Just an observation on a seemingly ever-changing culture.
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The first time I ever smelled liver being fried in a big iron skillet was at the new next door neighbor’s house when I was about 7 years old. I ran straight out into the backyard and lost my lunch. Then I went home and told my mother Mrs. Baldwin’s cooking made me sick. When she asked what I ate there I said I didn’t – I just smelled it.
Thank heavens my family on both sides, Great Depression survivors all, never cooked liver. I’ve never been an internal organ eater, especially liver and kidneys.
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Oh, and my mother said she would get her iron from pickled beets rather than liver.
Another gastronomical horror story.
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The people living during the Depression in the biggest cow/calf region of the country in the counties north and south of the current I-10 between San Antonio and Houston had access to more good beef than most anyone else in the country.
The same applied during the rationing years of WWII. The students at UT in Austin and Texas A&M had a steady beef supply by alumni in the cattle and meat business.
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We just returned from that estrogen filled emporium lingering, off life support, in its last days on earth, Babies R Us.
Their inventory sold out a long time ago and it’s clear they’ve turned it over to a liquidation contractor that restocks the place every night and gives Babies R US a cut of the gross. All the merchandise is top name brand so the original vendors of the chain get to dump a ton of inventory at a reduced price and everybody makes some money. Everything is a genuine 40% off list so we got a baby car seat and a stroller for a very good price.
That pretty heifer should drop that bull calf about the last week of July.
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Everybody wants to shop online these days.
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On the cusp of celebrating 40 years as a Recovering meatcutter.
Killed and dressed all kinds of creatures.
No judgement from here, but no offals for me, thank you.
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The people who bought Toys R Us / Babies R Us made enormous mistakes over the years. The crippling debt they took on was far worse than the internet competition.
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But I still eat hot dogs.
Leave me alone.
Get off my lawn.
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Oh and Fay’s Thanksgiving gravy has the the gibs in it. But that’s okay.
Helluva a lot better than her sister’s strange, urine-colored concoction which she calls gravy and has no giblets. -
Found “Hillary’s America” on Amazon Prime. Hubby is actually watching it.
This should be interesting. I am usually his political information source.
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…..and he falls asleep.
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Had grilled redfish on the halfshell this evening. Port Mansfield style from folks I knew there. Just fillet the fish. Period. Put the unscaled fillets scale side down on the grill. When done, the meat just flakes up from the skin. From our dock on the bay.
Fishzilla continued. I have now retrieved 3 popping cork rigs without any fish head parts remaining. Sort of odd that they drift to a general area.
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Best I can tell, the prior two generations endured wars and worked their assets off so I wouldn’t have to eat kidneys.
Call it white privilege, call it whatever makes you feel good.
I call it blessed.
If the Left is successful, I’ll eat whatever’s necessary.
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Heh heh. Now Fishie’s fretting that not enough people are tuning into her Conservative fakery crusade. I thought I “unfollowed” that stuff. Apparently not.
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Looks like we have another one of those backdoor storms coming at us from the NE, if it holds together.
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I heard Dr. Red Duke make a comment one time that you shouldn’t eat any offal at all except perhaps the heart as it’s a muscle. I’m good with that. However, there’s not much I haven’t eaten at least once. Especially since we always raised/butchered our own meat.
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110 CFree
I swear, I was just fixin’ to say, one of my earliest memories in Houston is watching Red’s show on channel 13 and him saying “Americans eat entirely too much organ meat!”
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13 also had an outdoors guy i liked to watch – Thom Dickerson.
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Left/Right shoes – never thought about it but prior to about the 1830’s there wasn’t a difference. When cobblers started using lathes to make shoes is when the difference started.
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Rockport style: Snapper and Redfish fillets scale on and down. Fresh lemon/lime juice, butter with crushed garlic on the grill till done. Coarsely ground black pepper added.
Scoop it up with a long spatula and serve. You can always sprinkle it with a little finely chopped cilantro or parsley if you want.
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I always thought Dickerson was great. I didn’t realize he had passed away at a young age.
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I’m seeing lightning to the east and northeast. Not hearing thunder yet. I do hear the Tejano band at St. Patrick’s 138th annual summer festival. I’m thinking they might wanna start unplugging.
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Wow, it’s massive and it’s almost here! Too late to buy batteries and wrap my pipes! -
You could still hunker down.
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Wind is picking up here.
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Boy, this is a strong one.
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I’ve got 5 juvenile raccoons on the patio, and the rain is starting. They may be blown away by the wind. At least the temp has dropped to 80 after lingering at 92 until 9 pm.
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Tremendous crash of thunder right overhead, made me scream and almost jump out of my chair.
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Phil knew he shouldn’t have opened that third bottle.
I can handle my wine pretty good but there was this place I used to eat Texican food that had the most potent margaritas.
I made the mistake of drinking three one evening with friends and then two beers that night when I got home. One moment I was pulling off my cowboy boots in the closet and the next moment I was waking up on the closet floor with one boot only half off.
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Zero raccoons in view now, I expect they all ran under the deck.
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I don’t think Ruben Ramos had a chance to unplug. I think there’s a good chance the pole tents over the stage blew away.
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The rain has moved over us now, much less vigorous than folks to the north in Houston have described earlier. Seems to be falling apart, no lightning & thunder and barely a breeze.
Let me amend that: large thunderclap just as I closed out the above paragraph. It ain’t dead yet.
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I must have fallen asleep in my chair around 8:30. Woke up at 1:15 and took Max out.
Must’ve had a shower come through because it’s a little damp and cool out there. Nice.
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