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Morning gang. Trying to start a little earlier these days to get out in front of the heat, but I think it’s a hopeless case. So far I’ve only seen one fawn this year. He’s probably a month old, and he and his mother come around every day, along with a few others. The fawn is a little juvenile delinquent and takes off running, jumping like a bucking horse, and generally racing around like a dog running around a track until he realizes that he’s gotten a little too far away from Mama Doe. She tries to keep up with him, but he’s just too full of energy. He can’t jump the 4′ fence yet, so Mama has had to come to his rescue and lead him out of the back yard a couple of times (I leave my back gate open just so they can get out). Fun to watch. Have a great day you all.
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Second! Yup, it’s Friday, if we can make it through today, we’ve got her made,…dang these 5 day work weeks just kill me.
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#1 El Gordo, little Bambi must be a buck.
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Is it just me, or is it cooler this morning than it has been?
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From yesterday;
Those Red Velvet Ants are not really ants.
I didn’t take time to read the article, but yes they’re wasps and the male has wings. In Alabama we called the “Cow Killers”. I’m real surprised that some of y’all haven’t seen them. They were all over the place in Alabama and I’ve seen a few up in Shelby county Texas, but not down here on the coast. Once, up at the deer camp, when the boys were younger, they caught a Cow Killer and a Scorpion and put them in a coke bottle to fight to the death. They killed each other but the Scorpion lived much longer than the Cow Killer.
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Good morning Hamsters. Starting out at 77 and 97% humidity this morning, with the first number going up as the day progresses and the second number going down some. This is too much like late August, and we still have August and most of September to endure before a dependable cool front makes it to us. Ugh cubed.
Looks like the ground mist is only water today and not mixed with Sahara dust. We could use some rain, but at least the mist helps a bit and is better than nothing.
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I think that I’ve found my Pick Um UP.
1953 GMC 102 Hydra-Matic and the Danbury Mint Die-Cast Model replica.
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Always nice to wake up to good news.
The bad news there is Trump might not get another chance if the last two hang on until the forecast dates.
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Once, up at the deer camp, when the boys were younger, they caught a Cow Killer and a Scorpion and put them in a coke bottle to fight to the death.
That right there is good clean fun for boys (and some girls) of all ages.
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When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Will I be ready?
When my feet won’t walk another mile
And my lips give their last kiss goodbye
Will my hands be steady?
When I lay down my fears
My hopes and my doubts
The rings on my fingers
And the keys to my house
With no hard feelings
When the sun hangs low in the west
And the light in my chest
Won’t be kept held at bay any longer
When the jealousy fades away
And it’s ash and dust for cash and lust
And it’s just hallelujah
And love in thoughts and love in the words
Love in the songs they sing in the church
And no hard feelings
Lord knows they haven’t done
Much good for anyone
Kept me afraid and cold
With so much to have and hold
Mmh
When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south
Through Georgia grain or tropical rain
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue
Or run into the savior true
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night
Straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings
Lord knows they haven’t done
Much good for anyone
Kept me afraid and cold
With so much to have and hold
Under the curving sky
I’m finally learning why
It matters for me and you
To say it and mean it too
For life and its loveliness
And all of its ugliness
Good as it’s been to me
I have no enemies
I have no enemies
I have no enemies
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Lefty moonbat anii demonstrate Trump Derangement Syndrome.
HEADLINE: Petitioners Trying to Revoke Liquor License at Trump Hotel Have History of Anti-Trump Bias
I would love to see the hotel entity sue the petitioners individually and collectively for political harassment and restraint of trade.
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Christian Toto, the film critic, interviews the profane, inarticulate Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders about Rush Limbaugh using one her songs as his show opening bumper music all these years.
HIT: Sometimes artists get upset with their music being used by politicians, like Bruce Springsteen with President Reagan using “Born in the USA.” You don’t seem like a conservative, so how did “My City Was Gone” wind up as the theme for Rush Limbaugh’s radio show?
CHRISSIE HYNDE: I’ve been here since 1973, so all my references are not American. I’ve never seen “Saturday Night Live.” I never saw Roseanne’s show, so I didn’t really get the controversy there. I didn’t know who Rush Limbaugh was. But people were chasing me in airports, telling me, “You’ve got to stop him!” I said, “Should I listen to him?” They said ‘No, he’s terrible.’ Well, first of all, I’m in a rock and roll band and I don’t like people telling me what to do. I just got fed up with everybody telling me what to do.
So I investigated and he was using a certain number of bars where he didn’t have to get permission. I don’t give a f***, there’s your answer. But if a politician I didn’t back was using my song for theme song, that’s hardcore. That’s different degrees. My dad loved Rush Limbaugh.
After many years of being criticized about it, we said if we ever get proceeds from it we’ll send them to PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]. I don’t know because I don’t give a f***. The whole idea for me to be in a band is subversive. I’ll vote, but I’m not very vocal in my political opinions because I don’t give a f***.
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El Gordo linked to this in comments last night at 09:26. It is a great letter from lawyer/blogger Mark Pulliam to the Board of Regents at the University of Texas. It deserves to be linked again.
An Open Letter to the University of Texas Board of Regents
I am writing to express my chagrin, bordering on exasperation, at the continuing hijinks at UT-Austin under the so-called leadership of President Greg Fenves.
The latest example is discussed in a nationally-reported item in Campus Reform, concerning a student who was forced to participate in a Maoist ritual self-criticism as “punishment” for a Title IX charge. While I do not know the facts of the case, as a lawyer who practiced labor and employment law for 30 years, I must say that being forced to watch a film about “toxic masculinity” and then write a “reflection paper” sounds like a scene from Orwell or “A Clockwork Orange,” rather than an appropriate resolution imposed by responsible decisionmakers. https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11139.
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10 Sarge
Nice work from those brothers.
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“The French Suicide” (“Le suicide français”) is a book published by the author Éric Zemmour in October 2014. Just one year later, on November 13, 2015 in Paris, a horror took place at the Bataclan Theater, when three terrorists fired into the crowd during a concert, murdered 130 people, and injured 413. Some of the victims had been tortured.
The French population reacted as usual: shock and horror quickly gave way to resignation and submission. Flowers, candles and teddy bears were placed at the scene of the attacks. The government promised to act, but did almost nothing. A ceremony was organized that ended with a song that said, “When All You Have is Love”.
and,
Lawyers for the victims of the attacks carefully read the report of the commission of inquiry (released to the public on July 5, 2016), and discovered a few shocking facts. It turned out that soldiers in charge of anti-terrorism operations had been standing nearby on the night of the attack. Also, when the police officers who arrived at the scene as the attack began discovered that they had no adequate weapons with which to confront the terrorists, they asked the soldiers for help. The soldiers contacted the Military Governor of Paris, General Bruno Le Ray, who replied that France was “not at war”, and that it was “unthinkable to put soldiers in danger to save lives”. Therefore, while dozens of innocent people were being murdered, the soldiers, a few dozen meters away, did not respond. Meanwhile, the police waited for reinforcements, which took more than three hours to arrive.
The lawyers for the victims were horrified. They spoke of non-assistance to persons in danger and decided to sue the army and the police. The complaint was officially filed on June 8, 2018.
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I didn’t become a fan until just a couple of weeks ago after watching a documentary on them. Super impressed with the subtle, almost subversive Christian messages. The lyrics can be astounding. Got a Pandora station for them now. That tune is especially good.
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The Hell?
Is that mayo in my doughnut?
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Is Limbaugh ever one the air anymore? Seems the rare times I get to tune in running parts or whatever there’s always a guest host on. It’s the way it went with Johnny Carson’s show in the latter years.
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Wasn’t the Texas Association of Counties one of the enemies when there was the fight to lower property tax appraisals years ago?(before those fighting got to Austin and forgot about it). I see them on FB bringing up runaway property taxes all the time now
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FBI Reveals Maria Butina Traded Sex In Exchange For All 62,984,828 Votes Trump Received In 2016
https://politics.theonion.com/fbi-reveals-maria-butina-traded-sex-in-exchange-for-all-1827731038
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Did you get yours?
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She musta bypassed Magnolia. Or I was away.
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I told her, “There are so many Russian hotties. Why did they have to send you?”
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OK, so now we at least know why someone here doesn’t like Trump. He must have missed the train so to speak.
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lol
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#20 #21 #22 😀
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Y’all can just strike my #4, I guess I was just delirious with heat stroke. 😉
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Well if it’s Friday, it’s Blackened Snapper, fries N slaw at the Seabrook Classic Cafe,…Dang good stuff Maynard.
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#27
I actually was feeling a little cooler today since you said that. You were lying??
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There is some breeze today helping quite a bit.
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Never mind, that was a shop fan.
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#18 – AFAIK – Rush is still on KTRH 740 daily from 11a to 2p
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Reading about John O. Meusebach German founder of Fredericksburg, I learn’t a new word; Cameralism, he had studied it at the University of Bonn.
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#29 GJT, when I walked in this morning, there was a light breeze and I thought it might be a little cooler, went out at lunch and naw.
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#32
I know Limbaugh is still around, I see posts about what he’s said all the time. Just always a guest host seems when I tune in. Rush is getting like Johnny Carson or George Jones, never know when they gonna show.
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The word for the day is: Hellish. As in: How does it feel outside right now?
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Hubs went by Long John Silver’s today and got us Fish & More lunches to go. It’s been a long while since we have eaten LJS fish but I still love it. One thing that has changed is the “& More” now includes 2 side dishes. In addition to their cole slaw, which is ok, he got us green beans. Not sure what they are seasoned with, but they were very tasty.
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Cameralism as a science is closely connected with the development of bureaucracy in the early modern period…
If there are any statues of him in Fredericksburg we need to demand they be torn down.
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The vile practice of registering Jews so that they could buy kosher meat was floated in Austria; fortunately the dominant conservative party shot it down.
HEADLINE: Austrian pol wants to make Jews register to buy kosher meat
Anti Jewish sentiment is on the rise while the euro-turds happily let muzzy rape gangs run wild.
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Cameralism as a science is closely connected with the development of bureaucracy in the early modern period…
Up at Fort Sill, its an extra 10 bux and you gotta bring your own camera.
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We have a choice of which thermometer to consult for the current temp. In the front yard in heavy shade we have 90 with 67% humidity and a nice breeze. In the back yard in the sun it’s 97 with 53% humidity. Also in the back yard in filtered shade it’s 95 and 55% humidity. All of them mean misery outdoors right now.
Light haze that appears to be the Sahara dust still hangs around according to the weather info in the Chron. We apparently did not get rid of it, and it’s likely to be with us through the weekend. Same cautions about being out in it still apply.
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Regarding Rush being absent off and on this summer and having guest hosts fill in, Hannity and other conservative hosts do likewise to sneak in some quiet time before the mad dash to the wire for the November elections begins by mid-August. No off time in that marathon unless illness prevents doing their programs. It is a long grind.
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#39 Bonecrusher
Shining example of an ignorant, blithering idiot of a politician taking a running leap off a cliff and landing with both feet deeply imbedded in you know what.
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When I finished mowing yesterday, around 12:30, temp was 91. When I decided at 6:30PM to go back out and use the blower, it was 95! Whew!
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Joe the Potato Head ScarBurro’s pledge to Mika.
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HeeAww
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Dayaam, did Phil kill the blog? I think he may have done as fine a job as ole Dave, blog killer extraordinaire….. 😉
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I’ve been seeing complaints on Nextdoor.com from my neighbors about the poor service from our letter carriers. I didn’t get mail a few times, but then there are days I just don’t get mail.
Today, however, our handyman found our mail “in the middle of the yard”. And I received notice that USPS couldn’t deliver my product because he “didn’t have access to my front door”.
Those of you who’ve been to my home know that’s utter BS.
I filed a complaint and a redelivery request online through the USPS site. That in itself is a deterrent to filing complaints. Gee willikers, it’s a PITA. I had to dummy in “sender” information, since I didn’t know a first name or the origination city from which Amazon sent my package.
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Gracelyn Mae Violet Griffin’s birth certificate will always be a conversation starter.
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When Falon began to scream, the night took a sharp turn for everyone involved.“I’m about to dial 911, I open the door and she’s just screaming,” Brenda Enriquez, the Chick-fil-A store director, told KSAT.
Robert came running. There was no way the ambulance was going to get to them quickly enough.
“I can see just the top of Gracelyn’s head, just barely crowning, but I knew we couldn’t go anywhere,” Robert told KENS. “So I told [Falon], ‘Sweetie, we’re gonna do something great, and we’re gonna do it right here and we’re gonna do it right now.’”
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The ordeal lasted just six minutes. Robert wrapped Gracelyn in his “Trump 2020” T-shirt before the paramedics arrived, he wrote.“I think it’s pretty ironic that a proud conservative, Christian family would have a baby in a Chick-fil-A, and wrapped in a Trump 2020 T-shirt! BOOM #maga,” he wrote
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Ben Stover, the franchise owner of the Chick-fil-A along U.S. 281, told KENS that baby Gracelyn will get free Chick-fil-A for life, and has guaranteed her a job when she turns 16. Plans for her first birthday party — yes, it will be chicken-nugget-themed — are already in the works. -
47 Tedtam
Go in person to your local post office and demand to see the local postmaster face to face.
Give them hell. It works because I have done it in more than one postal code.
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I can’t do it until Monday. But I will.
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I hear my neighbors have tried that tack, and it’s failed. Our postmaster just doesn’t give a damn. But I’ll try.
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Go in person to your local post office and demand to see the local postmaster face to face.
Give them hell.
I hear my neighbors have tried that tack, and it’s failed. Our postmaster just doesn’t give a damn. But I’ll try.
BEFORE YOU GO find out who is the regional postmaster; ie the boss of the postmaster in your station. Make a call to him/her and speak of your difficulty and report back the results of your meeting with the local postmaster. Don’t let the bureaucrats get the best of you.
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I was wondering who was up next on the food chain….regional postmaster. thanks.
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Too bad about the cardiologist gunned down in the Med Center today.
As to getting the post office straightened out, you might want to warm up at the Drivers License place, then go over to the VA hospital for practice. Once you think you are up to it, then you can tackle the post office. Heck, once you get that fixed, you might go to DOJ or FBI. Good luck.
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#47 TT
That package guy must have been faked out by the extra house in front of the Dome, where you actually live! I think I remember some signage up on the “extra house” pointing around behind it. -
We haven’t had a package delivery problem in years. And why was our envelope mail in the grass?
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Sometimes this blog gets stuck on the launch pad and needs a NASA engineer to reboot it.:)
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