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Well, it’s Monday, back to the salt mine. That’s a neat picture but the gas pump is too modern, it needs to be one with the little spinner or marbles in the glass bubble.
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Yesterday, someone mentioned that G.H.W. Bush would be taken by train from Houston to College Station and it’ll have a special engine, Bush 41 Locomotive.
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We’re finally going to beat Bama,….Hold my beer. 😀
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When Dick’s made its announcement that it would not sell AR-15s at any of its stores going forward and that it would discriminate against legal adults looking to buy long guns, gun rights advocates called for a boycott. It was answered. So much so that the company has been reeling from the lost revenues.
It’s now to the point that the company is considering cutting out all of its hunting merchandise.
The CEO for the sporting goods retailer said Thursday that the company was doing a trial run in 10 locations, pulling all hunting merchandise and replacing it with other items.
“Though it’s too early to discuss performance, we’re optimistic these changes will better serve the athletes in these communities,” Dick’s CEO Edward Stack said in a conference call, as reported by JSOnline.
The reason for the new approach may be because sales in that department have plummeted across all of Dick’s 732 stores.
“Specific to hunt, in addition to the strategic decisions made regarding firearms earlier this year, sales continued to be negatively impacted by double-digit declines in hunt and electronics,” said Lee Belitsky, chief financial officer.
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#4 TP: The latest example of “get woke – go broke”. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch of Dick’s.
The strategy will be taught in college level marketing classes (starting in 30 years or so – after all the Marxists have been run out with tar and feathers) throughout the country as what not to do. -
Someone pointed out that the CEO’s who make decisions for the likes of companies like Dicks run with the virtue signaling crowd who could care less about the actual performance of the company. They make these decisions to please their friends without regard. Then one day they wake up and their company is broke and they wonder how it happened.
In this case, they are going to show the evil gun owning hunters just what social outcasts they are by withdrawing all hunting merchandise. I can’t wait to see how well that’s going to work out. Guess they will replace it with girl’s volleyball equipment or something like that. That should go over about as well as Rice athletics decisions.
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Basically they’re aiming to be WalREI.
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Happy Chanukkah my bretheren and sisteren. This short video is important to watch.
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I always liked Oshman’s. I never set foot in a Sports Authority after they took over Oshman’s and I’ve never set foot in a Dick’s.
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I was pretty much of an Academy guy with an occasional stop over at the Fishing Warehouse over on Telephone Rd. before it moved to bigger quarters. No Dicks for me. Haven’t tried Pro Bass or any of the mega stores either. Gave away all my fishing gear when I moved out here, and some of it was pretty nice stuff. I can’t believe that people (like me) could spend $250 or $300 on a rod and reel, thousands on a boat and gas to run it. But I wouldn’t trade it. Every day you spend fishing is added back on the end of your life, so no days are actually wasted when you are fishing.
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My mother suffered from migraine headaches her entire life. Some were really brutal.
It’s a damned shame this wasn’t discovered when she was alive.
In this first-in-kind study, researchers investigated the clinical utility of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a nutritional agent, as a supplemental agent in migraine. Researchers searched Web of Science, PubMed, and Cochrane Library databases for potential articles evaluating the effects of CoQ10 on migraine. Two independent reviewers extracted data and conducted analyses using the Revman 5.2 software. Five studies with 346 patients (120 pediatric and 226 adult) were included in the meta-analysis. Findings supported CoQ10 as a powerful therapeutic preventative agent in regard to migraine duration and the number of monthly migraine days.
CoQ10 was first identified in Japan in 1940. It was originally isolated from beef hearts at the University of Wisconsin in 1957. But, obviously, nobody knew what to do with it.
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Bright sunshiny day to all you Hamsters.
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All the Leftist organizations seem to be embroiled in bigotry and hatred.
Tesla’s electric-car factory has become a cesspool of racist behavior, with black employees routinely getting subjected to discrimination and slurs, a new report claims.
A half-dozen black employees at the automaker went on the record with the New York Times about a litany of complaints at the Fremont, California, facility, including workers who said they were called the “N-word” and “monkey,” and one who said he encountered a “racist effigy” drawn on a bale of cardboard that included an oversized mouth and a bone stuck in its hair.
Not only are they racists and bigots, they’re drunken dope heads !
Elon Musk will have to lay off the booze and pot if he wants to continue doing work for NASA, the agency’s chief warned this week, while laying into the SpaceX founder for his recent erratic behavior.
“I will tell you that was not helpful, and that did not inspire confidence, and the leaders of these organizations need to take that as an example of what to do when you lead an organization that’s going to launch American astronauts,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein said Thursday during a meeting at NASA’s headquarters in Washington, DC, The Atlantic reported.
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Looks like all the local channels are in the Bushes today.
Hours of cars on the freeway footage.
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I’m watching the Bush procession myself. Pretty impressive.
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I’ve been to the Nimitz/Bush Museum in Fredricksburg many times.
I’ve seen the footage of GHW Bush being fished out of the Pacific Ocean after being shot out of the sky by the Japanese.
Hard for me to understand how a man that fought against Hitler and Hirohito in WWII would go on to become a premiere open borders, cheap labor, NWO globalist, sell out America and vote for dHillary in the last election and have his sons follow directly in his footsteps.
1000 points of light? I don’t think so.
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“Deep Fakes” discussed at the annual Texas National Security Forum.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/2/vladimir-putins-deep-fakes-threaten-us-elections/
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When I was a little boy, my grandfather would take me into the old, downtown Oshman’s. That was always an exciting stop on our twice a year trips to downtown Houston. Oshman’s, Shudde Bros. Hat Co., Stelzigs, there was another sporting goods/gun store whose name I can’t remember…great memories.
However, when they drained the swamp between Memorial and the new I-10 along West Belt to develop the Town & Country shopping area, Oshman’s opened a big, freestanding store there. One day, I had saved up my money and wanted to buy a new baseball glove. I rode my bicycle to Oshman’s with all my cash in my pocket.
I went into the store and started trying and handling all the gloves and one of the unfriendly, nasty old men in the store told me to leave. I tried to tell him I had the money to buy a new glove, but he didn’t care. They already had a reputation for being rude to kids, but for me, I became a non-customer for life and never stepped foot in Oshman’s again.
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I never heard of Dick’s until they opened one near me a few years ago in Paramus.
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Hard for me to understand how a man that fought against Hitler and Hirohito in WWII would go on to become a premiere open borders, cheap labor, NWO globalist, sell out America and vote for dHillary in the last election and have his sons follow directly in his footsteps.
Here is your answer grasshoppah.
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Picture of the day; Sully, the late President Bush’s service dog, lay in front of his casket at the funeral home in Houston on Monday
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#16 Phil: Thank you for expressing my thoughts. The entire Booooosh clan has been a big disappointment to me and free-market Conservative principles.
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#16 phil
1000 points of light? I don’t think so.
Noblesse oblige.
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Couple of things I’ll never forgive President GHW Bush for:
1. “On August 18, 1988, George H. W. Bush received his party’s nomination for president of the United States. In his acceptance speech, he calls for a “kinder, gentler nation.”
2. I can’t find the exact quotation, but he was at Kennebunkport zooming around the bay in a large cruiser, and when he spoke to reporters, he said the American people were going to have to use less gasoline.
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From the “You Just Think You’ve Got Problems” file…
Gerard Vanderleun of American Digest posts a photo of what is left of his home in Paradise, California.
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Hamous,
I purged a ton of old emails recently and I guess one of them contained the password to this site. I tried to log in via my desktop and saw that WordPress had logged me out. I went to look for the password in the original email from you and it was gone. Please resend.
If this phone logs me out, I’m toast. I’ll be like Alice looking through the glass. All of ya’ll will wonder whatever happened to TexMo.
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Here’s the route for the train from Spring to College Station.
GJT, it’s coming through Magnolia, in case you care.
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27 mharp
The second video is very cool – Inside The 4141.
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MHarper, that would be neat, just up the road from here. I didn’t see any estimated times other than it be a 2.5 hr route, not that I dug that deep as we are knee deep in it over here. Today is D-day to be out of this old house and we are not ready. They’ve been saying Tuesday or Wednesday they were to begin moving it but got a call late last night it was today. So, had to take off work and wouldn’t you know, no sign of them yet. Oh well, I needed the extra time.
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I went to look for the password in the original email from you and it was gone. Please resend.
Isn’t there a “forgot password” button?
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I usually refrain from criticizing the dead until after they have been buried.
I might make an exception for capital and mass murderers, but everyone else gets the same respect whether I agree or disagree with them about anything.
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TexMo, the WordPress login page ofters you a chance to set a new password. Prolly it will be emailed to you, provided you still use the email account you setup your WordPress account with…
Register | Lost your password?
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Oh, the train ride is Thursday. I assumed today.
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I was having fun watching Texmo screaming frantically outside the glass.
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#31 Texpat
Bush 41 was a lion in my estimation — alive or dead — compared to how I felt when McCain died. -
#35 M42: Mcswine didn’t even rate as an abcess on the butt of said lion.
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I may run up to Navasota to see the train on Thursday.
Bush and I go way back together. 🙂
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37 Shannon
That you do. All the way to 1964, I believe.
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If Academy doesn’t have it, I don’t need it.
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From what I’ve seen and heard on the visual and spoken media locally, everyone has been properly respectful in dealing with President George H.W. Bush’s passing and funeral arrangements. Good on them. And good for him to have specified his wishes as to who is invited to his funeral services and orderly details of his wishes for his last journey to Barbara’s side. It will be memorable for his family and friends who ride in that train and for the many who see it pass by, either in person or on TV.
The picture of his faithful service dog laying by the casket is so beautiful and moving.
I did not agree with some of his policies, but such is life. Digging deeper, I liked what I saw in the man himself, an honorable servant with many responsibilities, devoted husband and father, gentleman in the best sense of the word, modest but intensely capable at whatever he was doing, American warrior, American servant.
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I never had any problems at Oshman’s. Of course, I never went when I was a smart-assed kid.
In 1919, J.S. “Jake” Oshman, an immigrant from Latvia, opened a store, Oshman’s Dry Goods, in Richmond, Texas. In 1931 he moved to Houston by buying the stock of a bankrupt army-surplus store known as Crawford-Austin and liquidated its inventory. He discovered in the process that sporting goods, especially fishing and hunting supplies, sold well. In 1933 he opened the first Oshman Outdoor Store, in Downtown Houston at Capitol and Fannin.
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And good for President Trump for sending Air Force 1 to bring President Bush’s casket and family to DC for the state funeral.
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#10, that would be Cut Rate Fishing Tackle Unlimited I presume. He bought a car dealership on 45S, sold off the freeway frontage property, and converted the showroom into his store. I met him once. He did not have the kayak I wanted in the store and drove me to his storage facility where he had one. They have opened a store in Sugar Land on 59 & Eldridge. Kind of pricey, their focus seems to be on offshore fishing. Those big reels have computers now, how much line the fish has taken, how much is left, how fast and hard the fish is pulling, etc. They also have a fly fishing section but I don’t do that anymore.
There was a big, for the day, sporting goods store between Sampson and York at McKinney. Sporting Goods Inc I recall. They went bust back in the 80s but their sign was still across the street in the parking lot until about a year ago. Maybe that was the place Texpat is remembering. I was in there once looking at lures and saw what looked like three bums looking at magnum revolvers. After they left the salesman blurted out “I did not want to sell that gun to those guys!” Another salesman pointed at me and that conversation went quiet. The building has recently been torn down and a muti-level storage facility built there. Those are popular around there, reckon all those condo dwellers need room for their stuff. Probably to stash their hunting and fishing gear out of sight.
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One has to be a pretty ancient Houstonian to remember the Houston forerunner of Academy – Southern Sales. Texpat and I loved the old Southern Sales military surplus store on Katy Road (pre-Interstate).
https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2011/06/the-southern-sales-story/
Southern Sales was ultimately swallowed up by what eventually became Academy – which has its own interesting history. It started out as a tire store in San Antonio.
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Oshmans’s and kids. Growing up in Friendswood the one by Almeda Mall was about the only place to go. Don’t recall them being rude. Probably more about marketing and why waste time on the one kid who can pay for a glove than how many try to steal one. I never went hunting until after I married and the Paw-in-Law let me use his hunting lease. I started going to the hunting exhibitions at the GRB and such, nobody would talk to me. Now that I have a few gray hairs they walk out of the booth to give a pitch.
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Back in 2009 Squawk and I fought off a full frontal assault of classless, mean jackasses who flooded LST with the nastiest crap about the Kennedys in the midst of Ted Kennedy’s death and funeral. I’ll never forget how disgusting some people who claim to be conservatives can be. All we asked was they wait until the man was laid to rest. Unbelievable.
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I’m going to assume Barbara drew a line when it came to the crazy socks he could wear for eternity.
He had to settle for some subdued ones that feature the Blue Angels.
Very Cool.
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My question is simply this: What did he think was going to happen when he appointed a woman to the bench?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/3/charlie-baker-massachusetts-governor-wants-judge-r/ -
This is how the Associated Press chose to announce on Twitter the death of GHWB:
“George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died”.
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#49 Shannon
It’s the Ass Press, so we should not be surprised. Somebody of good taste and breeding on the conservative side will put them in their place, claws and teeth leading the rebuke they well deserve. 😉
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44 Shannon
Texpat and I loved the old Southern Sales military surplus store on Katy Road (pre-Interstate).
Man, I was wracking my brain trying to remember that name earlier today. Thanks.
It was right next door to Ledbetter’s Supermarket in that old strip center just west of Voss/Bingle. It looks like there’s some big store called “Fishing Tackle Unlimited” there now. All the old buildings are gone. -
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Well, here’s the plan. When the House opens for business on January 3, the first order of business is to elect the speaker. It’s presumed that the Dems will nominate Stretch Pelosi, but what if the Reps nominate AOC. Now that would give some of the newly elected Dems a chance to voice their concerns about Stretch, and the world would go even crazier if all the Reps and a few Dems voted for AOC. All aboard the AOC for Speaker train. Heck, even AOC would be better than that Ryan character anyway.
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#52 not phil – I’m having a hard time putting that comment in to context.
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53 EG
That’s an extraordinary plan.
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#I am
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Here’s a little short video to enjoy before bedtime
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I am not phil, either.
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Sorry, but we can have only one not phil. I get confused enough as it is.
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Tuesday? Wake up slackers!
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