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This is a huge exaggeration, but suicide bombings and other attacks by Palestinians did drop dramatically, unfortunately never to zero.

Here is an article with plenty of facts about the “fence” along the West Bank.

This triggered the Israeli decision to build a barrier on the West Bank. And soon Tirza got to put his maps to work as chief architect of the 450-mile “fence,” as he calls it — only 5% of which consists of concrete wall.

The number of Israelis killed in terror attacks peaked in 2002 at about 450. By 2005, with the fence complete, terror deaths fell to about 60, and didn’t get that high again for a decade.

They had no choice but to build it, says Tirza. Israeli security forces had been stymied in their efforts to stop militants from crossing into Jewish territory because there was no established border. “It was a joke. When we caught illegals and terrorists, we couldn’t do anything. They would say, ‘Where’s the border? We didn’t know we were crossing into Israel.’”

and this,

Tirza was also involved in Israel’s 2012 move to build a 15-foot fence along its 150-mile border with Egypt, through the desert of the Sinai Peninsula. Before, the line was marked in many places by a ramshackle fence, and some 10,000 migrants were crossing the border every year. Since the new Sinai fence went in, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, human trafficking has fallen 99% and cross-border terror attacks have stopped.

plus,

It’s more than just a physical barrier. Israel deploys a phalanx of other technologies along its fences, including balloons with cameras, infrared sensors and radar that can see for miles around. Seismic sensors can pick up on vibrations from smugglers digging tunnels. They even have unmanned, remote controlled vehicles that patrol the barriers. Most of the time they run on autopilot, sending back live video to base. Newer models are built on Ford F-350 trucks and feature remote-controlled machine guns.

 

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  1. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Top of the morning to ya… or ya’ll.

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    You don’t have to be a conservative on campus to be persecuted; being sane and honest is more than enough to qualify. Anyway, Amy Wax is my hero for wanting to transform the Ivy League, the reeducation camp for spoiled brats of the Elite.

    WASHINGTON – Amy Wax wants to defund Ivy League schools, including her own. She’ll tell you about it later.

    The University of Pennsylvania law professor has spent the past year under fire from students and colleagues for her comments on race and culture, starting with an op-ed that praised bourgeois values.

    A new round of demands for her firing arose after Wax said she didn’t know of any black law students who graduated in the top quarter of the class. She has stayed silent through most of the controversy.

    But Wax is ready to talk now. Throughout her speech at the Heritage Foundation Thursday night, Wax kept the audience laughing with observations about the “incredible air of unreality” at Penn and “happy talk” the school feeds donors and alumni.

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    These people are delusional and whoever is funding them are cruel bastards.

    If you ask the leaders of the caravan, they’re saying that the area on the Mexican side of the Texas border is full of drug cartels and gangs, making it too dangerous to go there. But in reality, the journey to the country’s west coast and then northward through Durango, Sonora and beyond is not only three times as long, but also rife with criminal activity. So why choose that?

    While the rank and file migrants may not all be up on the latest news and the political climate in the United States, their leaders clearly are. They frequently comment during interviews on remarks made by the President and stories in the mainstream media. They’re likely aware that there may be a very stern welcome for them waiting in Texas, including a significant U.S. military presence. On the other hand, reaching the Tijuana crossing means they would be entering California, where the Democratic state government will likely welcome them as heroes upon their arrival.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Back to work.
    Mornin’ Gang

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #3 Texpat, I hadn’t thought of that but of course it makes perfect sense. When I first saw the map of their planned invasion, I thought damn, they’re traveling hundreds more miles than they have to to get to the US border.

  6. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I had an interesting experience over the weekend. I attended mass in Kerrville, and as I was waiting my turn to go forward to receive the Eucharist, I noticed an elderly black lady with an eyepatch receive. Something about her patch caught my attention.

    Now, my hair was trying to be fluffy that morning, so I was wearing a snood.

    I bumped into the woman after mass was over, and we bonded over being fellow hookers. “I thought your patch was crocheted!” I said, “I crochet, too!” as I pointed to my snood. She replied, “I saw that! I was thinking I like that yarn color and I need to get some!” We laughed and hugged, and I asked about her eye patch. It turns out she’s on Plavix, and she rubbed her eye that morning and something about Plavix makes her blood vessels more readily rupture. “I was sure people would think I had pinkeye,” she said, ” and I didn’t want people thinking I was contagious. I looked at my watch and said ‘Yeah, I have enough time!’ and whipped out my eye patch.” We laughed and hugged again.

    So, along with duck tape, WD-40, baling, wire, and chewing gum, yarn also fixes a lot of things!

  7. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Snow flurries in Jersey Village. On November 13. Ridiculous.

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby says he is seeing snow flakes at Dairy Ashford near Memorial in Houston.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, which one of you cut both of those barbed wire fences between North Dakota and Canada? Dayaam that wind is blowing cold.

  10. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I saw a lot of snowflakes over on the Rice campus the other day.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby’s snowflakes are dangerous because drivers will be looking up instead of focusing on the road.

    EG’s snowflakes are dangerous because they tend to stand in the middle of road, fling feces, and vote.

  12. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    A great morning to be retired and able to snuggle under the blankets as late as I wanted to. But finally the pitiful whines of my starving kitties got me up. They are all a lot happier now, and curled up in some of their various favorite cat beds. I need to go out for weather emergency supplies, but no hurry — I’ll let it warm up to 45 degrees.

  13. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Up to 31 degrees out here this morning from an earlier low around 29 or so. A few high clouds and plenty of wind but no precip in the forecast. Prepping for tomorrows first leg of the semi-state wide road trip (semi means I’m only traveling half the state). Texas is a beautiful state and I never tire of traveling and seeing what people have done with what nature has provided. The deer out back are getting frisky with the cooler weather, and the younger ones are bouncing around, running and jumping, and seem to be enjoying themselves. I haven’t heard much in the way of deer hunter reports, but I’m assuming they are doing well given the abundance of deer in the area. Let’s see now, prepare for travel today, travel tomorrow, Friday night football on Thursday night for the local team, Friday travel, Saturday early Thanksgiving feast in Rosenburg followed by all day college football, Sunday travel, and then a return to normalcy for a few days before return to SS. Don’t come rob my house while I’m gone. More later.

  14. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Here’s some radial engine porn for you to scroll through while waiting for the temps to warm up outside this morning.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_&_Whitney_R-2800_Double_Wasp#/media/File:Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-2800_Engine_1.jpg

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Check out these quick stats for the 10-0 San Saba Armadillos:

    http://www.maxpreps.com/m/team/stats.aspx?gendersport=boys,football&schoolid=4bdf577a-b848-4f6f-a923-6183006ba0a9

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In my opinion the most pernicious, dangerous idea being foisted on America by the Social Justice Warriors is that white people are inherently racist and don’t even know it.

    That it is taking hold in the largest generally conservative Protestant denomination – the Southern Baptist Convention – is a very bad sign.

    http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/12/preachers-activists-demanding-largest-u-s-denomination-confront-white-privilege/

  17. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    They don’t know what they don’t know

    The use of that phrase has become ubiquitous recently, to the point where if someone uses it my ear flaps automatically close up.

  18. phil Avatar
    phil

    the anti-Semitism of reason” must lead “to the systematic combating and elimination of Jewish privileges.

    A history lesson.

  19. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #15 – I think they are actually 10-0 as they have no losses so far this season. Another interesting statistic, they are averaging scoring 53 points per game while giving up 7-8 points per game. We’ll see how that holds up going into the playoffs against presumably stronger teams.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oops. That’s a typo.
    Fixed.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nearly 500 fairly balance yards per game!

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Went to the bank early today, since we got a check over the weekend.

    Because…weather.

  23. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good almost blowing away morning Hamsters. Began the morning with 38 at 6 with the wind roaring through making the trek to the barn to feed the mares one of fast walking. For a bit we wondered if they should stay in all day, thinking there might be some form of water falling from the sky. That has not materialized, so they are out at pasture and apparently content. Currently we’ve wobbled to 39, but that seems likely to dissolve to 38 soon.

    Spouse just discovered several large cracks in a bedroom window that has for years had a hole from a rock thrown up by weedeater power that has stayed its same shape and size for all those years. Presume the cold snap might have something to do with the cracks suddenly appearing. They are only in the outer pane as is the hole. Guess that upper pane needs to be replaced now, and we can retire the tape over the hole.

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m wobbling on whether to cancel my short trip to Kroger. Of course, it may and prolly will be even colder tomorrow.

  25. phil Avatar
    phil

    Two of the biggest stars of the hate whitey movement are none other than lily white Mr Potato Head and his sushi tasting pet Mako, Mika.

    Hating whitey is in vogue amongst the lily white Newspeak Media of the Mobs, in many if not most universities and of course the rich Hollywood rEgressives.

    In realty we have the rEgressivecrat party that

    Demonizes and marginalizes an entire race (whites) daily
    Supresses free speech
    Has the ultra violent kLantifa as members of their party
    Spews Goebbels like propaganda 24/7
    Partners with the Deep State to overturn the 2016 election
    Promotes fraudulent elections and mob rule while blaming the Russian boogeyman for nonexistent election meddling.

  26. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Clouds have dissipated and the skies are now crystal clear and blue, and there is a northerly breeze but not nearly so strong as it was earlier. So, given the sunshiney look outdoors, I decided to take out the trash, check the mailbox, and look around a bit – no need for a jacket, just a T-shirt would do for this quick out and in. I skipped the look around – the trip to the trash and mail box was enough – it’s cold out there, and even the breeze is biting to the bone. If you must go out, I suggest that you wear long pants and a sleeved shirt and even perhaps a jacket. Don’t let that bright sunshine fool you.

  27. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Surely they will have to come up with something equivalent to the Mile High Club for this. Where were these things when I was a kid?
    https://nypost.com/2018/11/12/self-driving-vehicles-will-lead-to-more-car-sex-study/

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #26

    The shrink-o-meter is for sure pegged stumped.

  29. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Lil Bit may have to move over to make room,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=i9qv8RSreIM

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I figured we could all go in on this for Squawk for Christmas.

    https://mcphee.com/products/yodelling-pickle

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It looks like I am on ice for a few days with strep throat. I just took my first antibiotic in over 10 years. Last night and this morning my throat felt like I had been gargling broken glass. The doc said it looks like it too.

  32. phil Avatar
    phil

    Hope you get better.

  33. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I just took my first antibiotic in over 10 years. Last night and this morning my throat felt like I had been gargling broken glass. The doc said it looks like it too.

    Dr. Hamous says you have a gluten deficiency 😉

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Vatican Bans Further Editions Of Book on Viganò

    https://ricochet.com/571766/vatican-bans-further-editions-of-book-on-vigano/

    /no word, yet, on any scheduled book burnings

  35. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I got all bundled up — sweatsuit, scarf to keep my neck warm, heavy jacket — and went to the store. I figured on this cold a day, and after the noontime rush, I should have the store all to myself. Nope, busier than I have seen it in years. So I stuck to my short list and didn’t look at anything else. Well, I did walk past the hot deli ready-to-go cart on the way in, but the lunch wave had cleaned it out. So I just got the 5 things on my list — 2 of them were backyard critter staples to be sure I can get everything that depends on me for food through this cold snap. Then pushed my cart though the auto-open doors, right into the north wind. Bbrrrrrrrrrr.

  36. phil Avatar
    phil

    So far the GoopEEs have succumbed and conceded to voter fraud in Arizona, Montana and Nevada.

    And those are the ones we know of.
    Here in Texas Mr Haney barley eeked out a win by about the length of a skateboard nose. –But Greg Abbott is onto the voter fraud and he’s gonna get to the bottom of it! /NOT

    What states are next?

  37. phil Avatar
    phil

    That Bill Nelson dude is very freaky and reptilian looking.

    Watch as he battles Rick Scott over the recount.

  38. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I just took my first antibiotic in over 10 years. Last night and this morning my throat felt like I had been gargling broken glass. The doc said it looks like it too.

    The Medicine Man sez you’re gonna get teh autism.

  39. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Temp out here on the moors of the Brazos has wobbled between 39 and 38 all day. Sky to the NW is beginning to clear, but I can’t really say we got any rain unless it was very little last night. Spouse is busy moving plants onto the covered back porch for the next couple of nights, as we’ll likely be in the upper 20s for the next two nights.

    Might be chilly enough to cover the plants on the porch.

    Way back last spring I believe the long-range winter forecast was for a colder than usual winter, and coming earlier. Well, this appears to fulfill that forecast. Similar early and colder winter was forecast for the Midwest as well, and from our mid-October visit to Wisconsin having colder than normal temps and even snow one day, guess that goes for there as well. Kin up there are not looking forward to that.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching a live “Campus Clash” presentation, and one of the speakers is Candace Owens (and Charlie Kirk and 3rd guy, who was the only student from Parkland that came out for 2nd Amendment).

    There’s a discussion of the fallacy of today’s feminism. A point was just made: a man came up to Candace and said “I believe women.” Candace said “Okay, you sexually assaulted me.” The liberal man was taken aback at that point. I can’t imagine a better way to illustrate the stupidity of the “I believe survivors” zombies.

  41. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Many decades ago, the Catholic Church banned Franco Zeffirelli’s film of Romeo & Juliet

    That’s a pretty disingenuous opening line. Where and how did the Church ban the film? I suppose they could ban it from being shown inside Vatican City. But I bet you could walk a few yards outside and find a theater showing it.

    Likewise, the Vatican cannot ban further editions of the book.

    Fede & Cultura confirmed with Church Militant that they were put under “irresistible pressure from within the Church not to publish anything else that would depict the Pope in a bad light.”

    This isn’t 500 years ago when the Church WAS the government.

    I really like those guys over at Church Militant, they’re like Jesus’s bouncers (especially with the current LibTheo Pope) but they can get a little over-the-top sometimes.

  42. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I braved the blizzard and gale force winds to attend the Olde Pharts coffee this afternoon in hopes of catching up on all the local gossip and to get some insight into world affairs from the perspective of some of the county’s agri-elite thinkers. But they only wanted to talk about high school football playoffs, so it seems to me that their priorities are in the right place. I keep hearing on news broadcasts about the fires out west as if someone somewhere cares what goes on out there anymore. Kind of sad that some of those people don’t have sense enough to get out of the way of the oncoming flames, but otherwise, who really cares? Wow, crude down to $55 – those Iran sanctions are really killing us aren’t they? Is there anything the Dems don’t think they can take to the courts – really, a pass to the White House, the President’s right to appoint cabinet officials, the President’s rights to issue executive orders, ad infinitum. Good news, I hear that the Senate is back working to approve more judges – keep ’em coming. If I can figure out who my representative in the House is, I’m going to instruct them to vote for Nancy for Speaker – this might be fun to watch. OK, that’s all for now.

  43. phil Avatar
    phil

    rEgressivecrats sue Arkansas Razorbacks for insensitive use of

    Woooooooooo, Pig! Sooie!
    Woooooooooo, Pig! Sooie!
    Woooooooooo, Pig! Sooie!
    Razorbacks!

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    41
    I just don’t remember the Juliet butt shot.
    I need to watch it again.
    🙂

  45. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I don’t think I ever saw it. I remember the brouhaha over The Last Temptation of Christ. Never saw that one either.

  46. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Yesterday a friend on FB posted a weather map of the U.S. that showed current temperatures. Tampa was at 82F. One of the comments said the following:

    We actually do have winter here in Florida. It’s usually on a Thursday in January.

  47. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Apparently, a heretofore unknown Orson Welles film (his last one) has been discovered and released on Netflix titled The Other Side of the Wind. John Huston is the main character. This reviewer says it’s his best. That’s hard to believe – Citizen Kane? Touch of Evil? It was supposedly filmed between 1970 and 1976. I don’t remember a whole lot of good movies in the ’70s. I’ll check it out and report back.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    On this day in 1863, Josefa (Chipita) Rodríguez was sentenced to death for the murder of John Savage in San Patricio de Hibernia. Rodríguez, for many years believed to be the only woman legally hanged in Texas, furnished travelers with meals and a cot on the porch of her lean-to on the Aransas River. She was accused of killing Savage while seeking to rob him of $600 in gold, but the gold was found in the river north of San Patricio, where Savage’s body was discovered in a burlap bag. Nonetheless, she and Juan Silvera (who may have been her illegitimate son) were indicted on circumstantial evidence and tried before Fourteenth District Court judge Benjamin F. Neal at San Patricio. After Chipita pleaded not guilty, the jury recommended mercy, but Neal ordered her executed. At the time, Chipita was described as “very old” or “about ninety,” but was probably in her sixties. At least one witness to the hanging claimed he later heard a moan from the coffin, which was placed in an unmarked grave, and her ghost is said to haunt the area, especially when a woman is sentenced to be executed. She is pictured as a specter with a noose around her neck, wailing from the riverbottoms. She has been the subject of two operas, numerous books, newspaper articles, and magazine accounts.

  49. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I just don’t remember the Juliet butt shot.
    I need to watch it again.

    It was Romeo’s butt and Juliet’s hooter.

    Or maybe it was a stunt butt.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So, of all the places in America, Amazon decides their new headquarters will be in New York and (essentially) Washington DC.

    Imagine that.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Juliet’s hooter? Is that, like, one of two hooters?

    Or did you mean hoohaa?

  52. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Newer models are built on Ford F-350 trucks and feature remote-controlled machine guns.

    Uber drivers need those.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Gotta have me a cap. And maybe a shirt.

    Amarillo Professional Baseball unveiled the team name and logo for its Class AA affiliate of the San Diego Padres.

    In front of a packed ballroom at the Embassy Suites, the organization announced that the name for the new team would be the Amarillo Sod Poodles.

    How many knew that prairie dogs are sometimes called sod poodles?

  54. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #50 shannon
    Occasional-Cortex is against it because it will displace the disadvantaged among her constituency.

  55. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    My last ride last night was from Bush to the Woodlands, about 30 minutes in total. Right when I met my passenger he told me about “Geo Engineering” being the cause of the cold weather here. He asked me if I knew about it and I only said that I know you can use warm air from underground to warm your house. He then goes on to explain the whole conspiracy (he is “not into conspiracy theories or nothing”, of course) of the rich banks and bankers (“Trillionaires”) lacing the earth’s atmosphere with nano-metallic particals like aluminum to destroy the planet. I think he said they are doing so to take people’s money out of panic. But all those who know, top CIA officials, top Air force officials, are sworn to secrecy and won’t talk out of fear of going to prison if they do.

    Normally I like to interact with my riders and I never argue with them unless they explicitly say they want to debate, but this time I just stayed quiet just to see if he’ll at least pause between ideas. Nope, he talked a good 28 minutes straight. That was a loooooong ride. I was so happy to get home to reality with a happy puppy brining me his rawhide and rope to wrestle with. (We’re still working on his chewing his rawhide bones and not my bones when he’s playful. His bite is simply way too strong to endure the latter).

  56. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You shoulda brought up chemtrails and fluoride in the water.

  57. phil Avatar
    phil

    And Bigfoot.

    They’re calling insane hogs?

  58. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I don’t remember a whole lot of good movies in the ’70s

    Well I guess you ain’t rememberin Jaws, Carrie, and Deliverance! Haruuumph!

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was too busy in the ’70s to go to movies, but one time I was invited by one of the most beautiful girls I ever knew to go see Federico Fellini’s Amarcord film.

    I had just come off the road from some working marathon. We went to the theater and I…collapsed and fell asleep through the whole flick. She. was. not. impressed.

    So much for romance. But, good heavens, she was gorgeous and getting ready to graduate from the U of H school of architecture. I blew that deal, but you know what ? That was one boring, damned, stupid movie.

  60. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Well I guess you ain’t rememberin Jaws, Carrie, and Deliverance! Haruuumph!

    Yeah, well when I was 12 I thought Billy Jack was the best movie ever made. Then I saw it at 40.

    Jaws stands the test of time. Carrie and Deliverance, not so much.

    I made it through about 45 minutes of Orson’s “masterpiece”. I’ve probably seen more boringly pretentious movies, but none come to mind at the moment. It’s a movie about the making of a movie. That should have been a warning. A few old actors, probably in the twilight of their careers, like Mercedes McCambridge and Edmund O’Brien couldn’t save it.

  61. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I will say this – it did have lots of hoohas and hooters in those 45 minutes.

  62. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    You shoulda brought up chemtrails and fluoride in the water.

    Come to think of it, I should have fluoride residue on my teeth.

  63. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Wagon;

    Yeah, and chemtrails was also a big part of his spat.

  64. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Oh, and its got midgets!

  65. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Texmo;

    Aren’t you Greek Orthodox? What do you think of the following, which I learned about just the other night:

    Till Death Do Us Part?

    A couple of notes about the Orthodox wedding ceremony: First, the language of the sacrament does not contain the phrase, ‘Till death us do part. In fact, there are no vows at all taken by the couple, except to certify that they come to the marriage of their own free will, and have not promised themselves to anyone else. The vows of the Catholic and Protestant West give the marriage a more legal emphasis, rather than the Eastern Church’s emphasis on the blessing of God to effect the union. Second, the climax of an Orthodox wedding ceremony is the crowning, when crowns are placed upon the heads of the bride and groom, signifying the formation of a little outpost of the Kingdom of God in their home, and the crowns of martyrdom, which must be their daily goal, to take up their cross and follow Christ. Near the end of the wedding the crowns are removed with these words: “…receive their crowns into Thy kingdom, preserving them spotless, blameless, and without reproach, unto ages of ages.” On the eighth day of their married life, the couple returns to the Church for a formal removal of the crowns, and again, these words are spoken by the priest:

    …preserve their union indissoluble; that they may evermore give thanks unto thine all-holy name, of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

    I really like that!

    Concerning “Eternal” Marriage

  66. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Texpat;

    That was one boring, damned, stupid movie.

    How would you know? 😆

  67. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m still watching the Aussie series “Rake” on Netflix. In Season 3, it’s starting to take on a little more serious tone. Seasons 1 and 2 involve some of the most bizarre and perverted cases you could imagine, short of something Quentin Tarantino might come up with. It’s LMAO for me all the way, but I’ll admit that I’m a pretty sick puppy. If you are sensitive, I would steer clear.

  68. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    66 Darren

    That was just the first 15 minutes. I’m absolutely confident it got worse.

  69. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Star Wars, 1977.

  70. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, for the first time in maybe about 10 years, I went to a Greater Inwood Partnership meeting, and was elected to their board. I used to really like GIP back when they were sponsoring trash pick-ups on the esplanades on 3 miles of Antoine. That was a joint operation between GIP and Harris County Probation Department, where we would supervise young offenders working off their community service, and we would get clean esplanades. We also had some great beautification projects of planting, watering, and trimming on Antoine esplanades. Good exercise, fine companions, and something to show for the effort, besides just my own yard.

    I decided to give them another 2 years, while I still can.

  71. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    What the Medicine Man said.

    It was Romeo’s butt and Juliet’s hooter.

    I watched that film in 9th grade English class. Nothing like a boob to get a bunch of 14 yr olds all riled up.

  72. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Darren I have never actually attended an Orthodox wedding. I have witnessed the removal of the crowns on the 8th day. When my sister and her husband converted, they had some type of ceremony. I think my wife and I were supposed to have had a similar ceremony after we converted. However, I think it slipped the priest’s mind.

  73. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I have followed El Gordo’s advice to a tee. My pets are wrapped, I brought in my pipes, and I dug up my plants.

    I actually did dig up three plumeria. The largest one is close to 5 ft tall and actually has several blooms on it. I cut the largest cluster of blooms off and brought them inside for my wife. It’s a shame to have a freeze this early. Several of our perennials still have blooms.

  74. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m showing 28 degrees here about 10:30 this evening as I head out to the land of nod. Gotta get a good night’s rest for the travel day tomorrow, and the travel days beyond. I’ll be checking in tomorrow before I head out. Right now, it’s just cold.

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Darren
    Did you ask your rider if he knew Phil and ELGordo?

  76. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Shannon;

    He gave me no time, he just talked, and talked, and talked. I think Phil and El Gordo sent him to torment me.

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    Darren

    TexMo;

    It seems like a great ritual. You got my blessing to go get yours done. 🙂

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    phil

    Darren
    Did you ask your rider if he knew Phil and ELGordo?

    Don’t know the rider but I like his conspiracy theory on “Geo Engineering.”

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    Adee

    Good night Hamsters. Currently 32 here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond and definitely should stop in the upper 20s by morning. Wind has died down.

    Off to bed.

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    gtotracker

    Ever seen the rain.

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    Darren

    Phil #78;

    🙂

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    Darren

    Phil, if I ever pick you up be sure to bring songs from Triumph either on CD or App,e device.

  83. phil Avatar
    phil

    Phil, if I ever pick you up be sure to bring songs from Triumph either on CD or App,e device.

    Ok. Deal.

    And then can we swing by unca Shanny’s place to get some Caymus 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon?

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