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It’s THURSDAY!!! My Friday, I didn’t think we’d make it.
What a great picture, have we seen that one before?
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Well, Tuesday night I went to the HOA Board, supper @ the Sundance Grill, yesterday we had the NASA Division feast and today, we have the Jacobs free for all. I guess that I’m getting enough to eat lately. I even skipped supper last night, musta’ been that last piece of cake I had about 3 PM. 😀
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Mornin Dave. I wonder when the rest of the critters are gonna show up?
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Good soggy morning Hamsters. We had a windblown 1.02″ last night with big puddles in the yards and pastures that are still draining. Chance for more rain this morning, but all is quiet now and I hope it stays that way. Too wet for the mares to go out today other than perhaps in the paddock if that’s not too mushy.
A small corner of the Chron first section got wet so it lays out drying on the washer and dryer tops. Its plastic sleeve was barely turned back in one corner, just enough to get wet in the newspaper tube. No matter, now all the sections are hanging over kitchen chairs and seem to be drying rapidly. Whatever news is inside can wait.
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Original GMC factory product photograph.
I’m unsure of the GMC model here so I won’t guess.
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As seen over yonder, on Southern Tragedy’s page; Men, poor aim.
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A while back one of our vendors was here and I liked the neat pen he had, so yesterday, he sent me one. It looks like this one only with their logo. The thing that looks like an eraser is a stylus. It even came with two extra ball point, ink cartridges. 😉
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Ok as we walk through my brain observe the buddy system. Line up single file, hold each other’s hand and for gosh sake stay on the path.
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Hi y’all
As you trudge through the demands of the day keep this sage wisdom in mind:“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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What a great picture, have we seen that one before?
I believe I recognize the, err, saddle.
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SDYesterday my sweet wife brought me home leftovers from a Taste of Texas real estate luncheon. Tender, melt in your mouth ribeye, oh my goodness it was good! Big huge slice of chocolate cake too!
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Today’s OC Photo
A couple of months ago, I created a draft with this photo, but never published it and actually sent it to trash. The weird thing that happened was Super Dave opened up Hambone.org as I was working in the dashboard and saw the draft post even though it had never been posted. As soon as I published the new OC header, it disappeared. Never could figure that one out.
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DAYAAM!!! SKEWERED ALIVE Factory robot impales worker with 10 foot-long steel spikes after horror malfunction.
The 49-year-old was on the night shift at a porcelain factory in China when the accident happened.
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#12, I remember that, yup, very odd.
#11 GJT I had the Filet Mignon, seared @ the Sundance Grill, and dang it was good, about 3 inches thick and juicy. Probably not Taste O Texas quality but fine eating. Oh and try as I might, I didn’t finish it and that made Lil’ Dawg real happy. -
I’ve heard Gregg Jarrett, the Fox News anchor, interviewed a couple of times lately on the radio promoting his new book. It’s getting serious praise from a lot of people.
The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
Accustomed as I am to reading books with the ever ready yellow highlighter, in reading The Russia Hoax I quickly realized I was coloring every page of the book.
The very first sentence of the first chapter is short and directly to the point:
“This is a story of corruption.”
Indeed it is, and what a stunning story it is. As Jarrett says, this is a “cautionary annal of the damage wrought when those who serve in government seek to undermine it.” And but of course the story begins with… shocker I know… Hillary Clinton.
The Clinton part of this tale is told in pointed detail. Gregg Jarrett is, among other things, a lawyer. Thus his recounting of what the new Secretary of State did in terms of playing a game with her infamous emails is matched with the exact cites of which federal laws were being so brazenly violated.
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The Ticker Dude chimes in…………….shining the light on monopolistic business practices of Big Pharma and the medical industry.
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When Phil disappears, did you ever wonder where he goes? Well, I think I’ve discovered it. Is Phil really Joe Bob Briggs? Only the spyducks know.
http://houston.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/12-12-18-joe-bob-briggs-comes-to-houston-for-a-holiday-themed-double-feature/ -
It’s 56 degrees this morning with relatively calm winds. Winds are supposed to pick up later this morning, but for now it’s just bright and clear. I’m hearing all kinds of tales about sleet, snow, rain, and blizzards but I can’t find any evidence of it on the official weather maps. Since Obama politicized the weather you can’t believe anything any more. Looks like Houston can’t have a regular afternoon rain shower without being subjected to Harvey like weather scare tactics from the media – at least until they get another rain type tax in place for the knee grows to “divert” to their friend’s projects. OK, you all have a great one, and as I speak, the wind is starting to pick up.
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I finally got around to looking at the radar, and while it’s CAVU here, Midland is showing snow and ice. So I guess something is out there and it seems to be headed our way.
UPDATE: The NWS has just issued a winter weather advisory for our area now, saying rain will turn to snow this evening until tomorrow morning. Wind is now blowing 25+ but the gusts meter is broken. Weather may actually be on the way. Time to wrap the pets and bring in the pipes. It seems doubtful that there will be any survivors this time, according to media sources. Trump’s fault of course. -
Morning, chickadees. Looks like we had some rain overnight, but I’ve not walked out to the fence to check the rain gauge.
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To the surprise of moderate Muslims and counter-extremism activists across the United States, Houston mayor Sylvester Turner recently proclaimed December 9 as “CAIR-Texas, Houston Day.” He glowingly described the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a grassroots civil rights organization, “seeking to advocate for justice and mutual understanding.”
and then this happened,
“CAIR-Houston Day” marked CAIR-Houston’s 17th annual banquet. The banquet featured political luminaries such as U.S. Rep.Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas (who also issued her own “Certificate of Congressional Recognition” marking the event). But the headline speakers for the banquet were highly objectionable: Islamist activist Linda Sarsour and CAIR-Florida executive director Hassan Shibly. Sarsour viciously attacks counter-Islamist activists to the extent of wishing she could “take their vaginas away,” labels her opponents “Zionist trolls” and wrote “Nothing is creepier than Zionism,” and was called a racist even by other Progressive activists; and a new investigative report has revealed that her supposed role as cofounder of the Women’s March was highly exaggerated, and she participated in the airbrushing of the true founders to serve her own prodigious ambition and her Islamist agenda.
I didn’t see any mention of this on these pages.
Didn’t the local media praise it and talk about what a great, tolerant and diverse city Houston has become ? Or are these types of events de rigueur in Baghdad on the Bayou these days ?
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#21 Texpat
Well, google on “CAIR texas houston day” netted firstly 6 CAIR sources.Followed by anti-CAIR posts from:
Houston Mayor honors Hamas-linked group, proclaims December 9 …
https://www.jihadwatch.org/.../houston-mayor-honors-hamas-linked-group-proclaims-…
6 days ago – “CAIR-Houston Welcomes ‘CAIR-TEXAS, Houston Day’ Proclamation by Mayor Turner,” by Naaz Modan, CAIR,Houston Mayor Honors Designated Terror Group: Names December 9 …
https://freedomoutpost.com/houston-mayor-honors-designated-terror-group-names-de…Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner proclaims December 9 “CAIR-TEXAS …
https://gellerreport.com/2018/12/houston-proclaims-cair.html/Houston Mayor Dedicates Citywide Annual Holiday to CAIR-Texas …
https://kprcradio.iheart.com/…/2018-12-11-houston-mayor-dedicates-citywide-annual…Nothing from the HouChron, except a 3-y.o. whine:
Texas Muslim Capitol Day marred by anti-Islam … – Houston Chronicle
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/…/texas/…/Texas-Muslim-Capitol-Day-marred-by-…
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Man, I couldn’t take all those negative emails. I got almost 160 of them! I have to answer all those.
No. No, you don’t. You just delete them.
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Houston mayoral proclamations don’t make the news much. If they’re reported at all I assume it would be in the Chronicle, which nobody reads anymore.
Sylvester could proclaim it Houston Pimp & Spinner Day and no one would know.
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Um… Hamous at the very bottom of your #23 is this line.
(This story was completely made up by Russ Rollins, sadly in 2018, It’s not hard to believe.)
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Texpat, I had no idea Turner and SJL were crawling into bed with CAIR like that. I really can’t stand the online version of the Chronicle. It is nothing but a huge ad circus. It is literally very difficult to discern the actual story and follow it down, around, and through the myriad of advertisements.
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Cloud banks out west are moving rapidly in my direction. It’s kinda interesting to be able to just sit here and watch the weather front come in. Wind, sleet, rain, snow, blizzard conditions now forecast. Of course, it’s too warm for anything to stick to the ground, but still interesting to watch. Hope my roof stays on. Oops, rain droplets now hitting my west facing windows. Look out, we’re all gonna die.
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Good catch. Some stories are so plausible I don’t bother to check anymore. For instance, this one.
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When Phil disappears, did you ever wonder where he goes? Well, I think I’ve discovered it. Is Phil really Joe Bob Briggs? Only the spyducks know.
I’m fancy myself more like Secret Agent SpyDuck Sam Casey, aka Lazy Rider, with a little Tom Jones, Kiss (Ace Frehley in particular), Cabernet/Merlot wine and you can’t tunafish but you can a piano mixed in.
Just your everyday, plain ol, federal agent.
One question.
Who wants to be Buffalo Bill? -
One question.
Who wants to be Buffalo Bill? -
Looks like a young Bon Jovi.
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But I was hoping for more of a
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A little investigation reveals the 2018 CAIR-Houston Banquet at the Post Oak Hilton Hotel sold out almost a week in advance at $75 a head.
That’s the bad news. The good news…
The Clintons had to cancel since George H.W. Bush granted them an excuse to do so since they couldn’t give away tickets in Houston.
It would be interesting to know which politicians and media types showed up there. Why the press blackout ? There seem to be no photographs, video or any kind of visual record of what happened there. Did Sly Turner go ? What about the County Judge-elect ?
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Why the press blackout ?
Answer.
All local Newspeak channels are in on the fix too.Goebbels’ Gobblers Inc.
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This and these psychos are what passes for journ-o-lizm in today’s Orwellica.
Mr Potato Head.
The perpetual eater of Mako shark sushi.
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Temps have dropped from near 60 degrees to about 40 degrees in the past couple of hours. Winds are 26 with gusts to 35 , and they have a little bite in them now that wasn’t there earlier. So I guess the cold front is here in force by now. If there is nothing else going on, why not discuss the weather, huh. More later if it starts snowing or raining ice or something.
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NWS has now issued another special weather statement on icy roads, snow, wind, etc. They seem to be running behind the weather in their statements rather than forecasting in front of this storm. They refuse to use the “B” word (blizzard), but I think that’s what’s happening. HS football scheduled for Abilene tomorrow night, but by then hopefully this stuff will have blown through. Meanwhile, put your airplane back in the hanger and put a pot of beans or soup on the stove and wait it out.
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Thus far little indication of a windstorm coming here. Just a light breeze that barely ruffles much, though since we took down everything on the front porch that could be damaged or blown down there’s not much to look at other than the trees out front.
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I anticipate that this blow will take down the last of the pecans. There are still quite a few hanging in there. I picked up 2½ buckets since yesterday afternoon. It’s hard to walk in the grass without turning an ankle. I have to stop when the mosquito swarms get too aggressive.
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So far, I’ve filled a large laundry basket, a big kitty litter container, a tall laundry hamper (about the size of a 13 gallon trash can), and have started on another.
I’ve hit the back yard once. All of those are from the front yard. And there’s still a lot more to come. I’ll be cracking for a long time.
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You going unca Shanny?
You can wear your tie dye Ropers with matching headband and I’ll wear my snakeskin boots and my best Frank Zappa headband, Kiss T-Shirt and black jeans.
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You guys are right. The new WordPress format S-U-C-K-S.
Who devised that software anyway? I’ll be exhaustion, drugs, too much coffee, and a very strange bet were involved somehow.
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As I shudder in utter disgust…….
The Vatican’s third most powerful official has been convicted in Australia on all charges he sexually abused two choir boys there in the late ’90s, according to two sources with knowledge of the case.
A unanimous jury returned its verdict for Cardinal George Pell on Tuesday (Australian time) after more than three days of deliberations, the sources said, in a trial conducted under a gag order by the judge that prevented any details of the trial being made public. …
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Still 60 degrees, 12 mph, here.
Max and I are heading out to investigate.
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It arrived while we were outside.
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Hey unca Shanny.
Did you stay up late the night this originally aired and watch it?
Were you drinking stored Falstaff and herb-ing the night fantastic with your hoi polloi buds in Memorial?
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Sometime during the second half of the year 1049, Peter Damian, prior of the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in what is now the Italian region of Marche near the Umbrian border, wrote a lengthy letter to newly installed Pope Leo IX. The letter concerned “the befouling cancer of sodomy,” which Peter Damian declared was “in fact, spreading so through the clergy or rather, like a savage beast, is raging with such shameless abandon through the flock of Christ.”
In Peter Damian’s definition—a common one during the Middle Ages—the sin of “sodomy” encompassed “four classes of unnatural vice,” each described by him with startling explicitness and deemed more serious than the last, starting with masturbation and culminating with anal intercourse, the worst offense of all. All were forms of male homosexual activity (the other two consisted of the carnal touching of others’ private parts and intercourse between the thighs of someone of one’s own sex). Peter Damian was outraged, particularly because the superiors of clerics who committed such sins were, in effect, giving them a pass: exacting penances for monks and priests found to have committed the first three offenses but expelling from holy orders only those who had engaged in the fourth, anal intercourse.
Some of the offenders, Peter Damian said, had even chosen fellow homosexual offenders as their confessors so as to obtain slap-on-the-wrist treatment. “Listen, you do-nothing superiors of clerics and priests. Listen, and even though you feel sure of yourselves, tremble at the thought that you are partners in the guilt of others; those, I mean, who wink at the sins of their subjects that need correction and who by ill-considered silence allow them license to sin.”
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/11/peter-damians-counsel
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phil
The hoi polloi are around Memorial at Friar Tuck.
Not Memorial at Brittmoore.
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Ain’t none of these in my old neighborhood:
https://www.trulia.com/p/tx/houston/526-w-friar-tuck-ln-houston-tx-77024–2109759618
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Parents had it built in the late 1950’s for less than 5% of the current appraisal district number:
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I hear and see ice pellets hitting my window now. Wouldn’t bother me to get up in the morning and see about a foot of snow on the ground, but none of this will stick because it’s been too warm lately. I’m watching Netflix version of El Chapo with poor subtitles and wishing I had paid a little more attention in Spanish class.
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And they must’ve turned the formal sitting room into a bedroom sometime in the last 60 years, because it was a 3 bdrm when we had it.
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Wind just blew through here.
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Looks like they tore down the porte-cochère too.
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Well that was a wasted mouthful of suds.
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I didn’t remember Brittmoore crossed I10.
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52 Shannon
The extra bedroom.
They added on the back. The lot is pretty deep. That house wasn’t 2,110 sq.ft. when we lived there.
Our parents built that home in the winter`and spring of 1959 and we moved in that summer.
They paid Cantrell-McMillan Builders $26,100 for it. I still have the paid invoice somewhere.
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I don’t know…Rustling Oaks subdivision. Memorial in the 60s.:)–Seems Hoi Polloi-ish to me.
The Oaks were rustling in the wee hours of the night. The sound of The Doors drifted through the trees as well as the faint smell of hemp. The Grey Poupon sat on marvelously delicious munchies, waiting to be devoured, and the Schlitz was on hand to top off the liquid request of the ever so parched taste buds.
Lance was nowhere to be found. He had staggered of in his inebriated state with his UT sweat shirt in tatters, passed out and heaving fitfully on the neighbor’s soft St Augustine lawn.
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When we moved there in 1959 Britt Moore Road (it was spelled that way because he was an actual person) stopped at the south end of our property. It was paved from our driveway to Rummel Creek – about 3 long blocks. There was no bridge. It picked up on the north side of the creek and continued up to Katy Road/US Hwy 90 and that section was an oyster shell road all the way.
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What’s so hoi polloi about that?
🙂
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TexpatI never knew it was a person, explains the strange spelling.
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Besides, I don’t think Lowenbrãu became available in the US until later.
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Shannon
Should we ruin phil’s fantasy and tell him our mother sold that house in 1969 ?
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UT sweatshirt, Allman Bros, and hemp.
Close enough.
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Here ya go, Phil.
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We had an editor’s correction.:-P
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GJT
Britt Moore was a settler and rancher who owned tons of land between Westheimer and Katy Hwy., west of the West Belt all the way out Memorial Drive. He had one heir, his daughter Edith Moore, who lived in a big, old log cabin in the woods near Rummel Creek. It was the house her father built around 1900 and is a wildlife sanctuary now run by the Audubon Society.
I grew up in those woods.
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Pretty sure that my Mom was the previous owner of that iron bed in the video. -
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Aside to Katfish.
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Should we ruin phil’s fantasy and tell him our mother sold that house in 1969
It was still fun.
Kind of like in the movie The Lonely Guy when Steve Martin’s telling Charles Grodin about the time, when he was younger, he went to a movie with this girl and put his arm around her and his hand ended up on her breast.
He’s so stoked because throughout the entire movie he got to keep his hand on her breast.–But when the movie’s over and the lights come on, it turns out he had his hand on her purse.
Then Steve Martin says “it was still fun though” and Charles Grodin says “cause you didn’t know.”
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Charles Grodin is still kicking at 83 years old.
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#69 – Yep She surely did!
Those woods were magical (and likely still ARE)
I know there were plenty of garages with steaks and beer around there!
OOOOOOOOOOPs did I type that out loud? *innocent lQQk*
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Wow, I’ve been gone, busy, or napping since 3 pm. Now I’m back too late for much of anything. I can report that it seems that the Dennis Prager radio show is back on 1070 AM late evenings. If so, and not just for tonight, I say YAY!
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#58 phil
I don’t know…Rustling Oaks subdivision. Memorial in the 60s.:)–Seems Hoi Polloi-ish to me.
Sorry, old chap, but you seem to be misusing “hoi polloi”. Yes, it sounds like it must mean high class, but in fact it means the opposite: the common people.
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So, I guess that the new WordPress format is just too dang confusing?
Mornin’ Gang
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