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Top of the mornin’ to ya!
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Second! It’s downright ducky out there……Poor Horatio,….. 😉
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1955 GMC Truck Production Starts
March 1955 – The first Y series GMC Blue Chip Design Trucks start rolling down the line in Pontiac MI.
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#3 Did you see the car rolling along the production line with all of the trucks? I wonder what it had in common with all of those trucks.
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If you need a pick-me-up this morning, go back and check out El Gordo’s #67
Robert Duvall opens a can of whooop azz.
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#4 TexMo, I can’t find a car, where is it in the picture?
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Shannon’s #18 yesterday on Vitamin D was fascinating. I have never been one to eschew sunshine. During the Fall/Winter/Spring months I try not to wear any sunscreen at all precisely so I can make some good ol’ Vitamin D. During the summer, I’ll put sunscreen on my face and neck only if I am going to be outside for more than a couple of hours. If it is under that, I’ll wear a broad-brimmed hat. If I am just going in and out for short periods of time, I will wear a baseball cap.
When I was a boy, I always had that golden tan and I never burned. After I moved to Missouri after high school, I lost that golden tan and it seems like I have been more susceptible to sunburns ever since.
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#6 Top center looks like a black car to me. Maybe the angle of the photograph obscures a truck bed.
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#8 TexMo,I don’t know what you are viewing it with but the top center has a black cab and a silver? one behind it. The bed is not installed yet. That is looking at the picture with a 17″ lap-top. Also, I recognize the grills as being a 55 GMC truck.
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We don’ need no stinking wall,…. Massive haul of meth, cocaine, heroin seized at US-Mexico bridge.
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SuperDave, I’ll happily accept the evaluation by our resident 1950s truck expert. 🙂
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7 TexMo
I posted a piece here some years ago about the ongoing health crisis in Israel with early onset osteoporosis. It had been appearing in young, Arab mothers coming in for prenatal care in Israeli hospitals so they did a survey across the population and found it to be a serious problem among Orthodox Jewish girls and their devout Muslim counterparts in their burkas. The custom of wearing clothing to cover up skin also blocked these young women from getting the sunlight necessary to prevent bone mass loss.
I find it strange the whole medical profession and pharmaceutical industry missed the fact vitamin D is simply a side benefit created by the process of metabolizing sunlight rather than being the active agent in protecting bone mass. That seems like something that should have been discovered a long time ago given the long history of research we have into osteoporosis.
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One of my favorite things to do when I had a cold was to lay out in the sun, exposing as much skin as I could comfortably and legally put into the sunshine. Letting the heat penetrate my sinuses, do a little sweating, and get that Vitamin D generating always made me feel better. There were times when I was well into recovery, sometimes by the very next day.
Gotta love what God gave us.
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Morning gang. Looking clear and warming today, while the cold front seems to be gathering steam out west. No big plans yet for the day, but something will develop before long I’m pretty sure. I ran across that little clip from Second Hand Lion last night while surfing around the net, so I looked it up this morning. Can’t find it available anywhere (Netflix, Prime). The movie has a good cast and is pretty enjoyable but I don’t think it ever went anywhere when it was release, so I can’t imagine why the owners would be hoarding it. Filmed in Manor Texas according to something I saw somewhere. It’ll pop up again sometime I guess. Anyway, you all have a good one, and more later.
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Sebastian Gorka has a sobering take on the current makeup of the FIB:
The FBI has had problems since the days of J. Edgar Hoover. But never has the seventh floor of FBI Headquarters decided by itself to launch a clandestine operation to target a newly elected president under the cover of working for an alien power simply because they wanted political revenge for their candidate losing an election. Yet this is exactly what happened. Instead of being horrified, the establishment perpetuates the outré assertions day in and day out to further weaken the president.
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There may be one solution that preserves the patriotic agents who are protecting the nation while helping drain the Beltway swamp: dissolve the FBI, fire all the senior political operators still in the Hoover Building, and make the 56 FBI field offices across the nation—where the real agents work—the counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigations division of the Department of Homeland Security.This way we may prevent the next palace coup.
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Shannon – excellent roast last night. As you mentioned go easy on the salt. Next time may reduce amt. of AuJus to reduce salty taste. btw – at same location in Heb top shelf; they have a liquid pack for slow cookers – it’s pretty good also.
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Instead of the package of dry “au jus”, get a can or carton of unsalted beef broth. You can boil it down a bit to concentrate.
I use the Kitchen Basics brand. You can find in most grocery stores.
You can also add a tablespoon or two of tomato paste. I found some Italian brand that comes in a toothpaste type of tube.
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At least mharper42 is only feeding possums and coons. Let’s hope she doesn’t graduate to big lizards.
A scientist in Indonesia who was feeding a crocodile died after it jumped up an eight-foot wall and pulled her into its enclosure, according to The Sun.
The scientist, Deasy Tuwo, who was 44, was found by co-workers later after they noticed something odd in the water on Friday. The 17-foot-long crocodile, named Merry, still had Tuwo’s body in its jaws, the newspaper said.
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Good gloomy morning Hamsters. Overcast still and 59 on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond, but there is hope of warming to the low 70s later on. Before the next cold blast that is.
I seem to be receiving a hopefully light case of the currently fashionable malady making the rounds: significant fatigue and moderate tummy disturbance, as in not hungry. Hot chocolate is ok so far. 🙂
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My accuracy in political predictions is pretty poor, but I have been predicting this since I lived in Texas.
Since late October, Frisco residents have reported a number of attacks by coyotes — unusual behavior by the canine predators, which rarely interact with humans.
Twice, passing drivers stopped a coyote from stalking joggers along Eldorado Parkway. Then, aggressive coyotes bit a woman on the neck and scratched a 9-year-old child. In December, two other women were attacked while jogging and a coyote bit a dog walking through its neighborhood.
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Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He’s a rare conservative intellectual in academia and the Ivy League.
He posted this on his news feed on his Facebook page so there is no link.
You will be able to watch something as if in slow motion over the course of the next few years: the collapse of support for Israel by Democratic Party politicians who harbor ambition for national office. It will follow the pattern we saw of collapse of support for the pro-life cause by leading Democrats in the period of 1973-80 (and particularly 1973-76). One by one, major pro-life Democrats, perceiving the writing on the wall, flipped to supporting abortion and, eventually, even its public funding: Teddy Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Richard Gephart, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Joe Biden, and many others. (Something similar happened on marriage, by the way, in the period of 2000-2012, especially 2004-09, culminating in Barack Obama’s “evolution” and Hillary Clinton’s change of heart.)
Similarly, today’s leading Democrats will move from support for Israel, to merely nominal support for Israel, to neutrality, to quiet, somewhat ambiguous opposition, to something effectively indistinguishable from “Zionism is racism.” The left calls the tune, and just as the left settled in on abortion in the early 1970s and marriage redefinition in the 90s, it has now settled in on opposition to Israel–not merely the policies of its government, but its very existence as a Jewish state and homeland of the Jewish people. Do you doubt me? You can do a test of your own. Go to the center of campus at your local university and hoist a placard bearing a large blue star of David and the words “Long Live Israel!” (Notice: Please make sure your health and life insurance coverage are in good order before conducting this experiment.)
HT: Steven Hayward at Powerline
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dissolve the FBI, fire all the senior political operators still in the Hoover Building, and make the 56 FBI field offices across the nation—where the real agents work
Should have been done last year but it will never happen.
Meet the new Barr, same as the old Sessions.
Ferris the truth impaler has now become a 4th branch of the Deep State government.
Wall is still not built so border is still wide open.
I heard Dan Patrick say 1.5 million are coming in each year.And PDT, like the USA, is just about out of…
Thousand of felons began registering to vote in Florida.
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There WAS something hinky in your math there, phil. Where that “x12” come from? Looks like 3 million per year to me. No months involved in the stats you presented.But looks like you caught it, corrected it. Good work.
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Betoff fiddles on his skateboard as America burns.
##subtitled when you’re married to a billionairess, life
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Yes Miss Landers.
Since I caught it does that mean I won’t get sent to Mrs Rayburn’s office this time?:)
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Not counting Dinesh’s first movie, Second Hand Lions was probably the last movie I saw in a movie theater.
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I’ve always assumed that ELGordo’s avatar was J. Wellington Wimpy.
Here’s the Texas connection…
On this day in 1929, Popeye, the Sailor Man, renowned comic-strip character, first appeared in print. The Victoria Advocate is credited as the first newspaper in the nation to run Elzie Crisler Segar’s comic strip, originally called “Thimble Theatre,” which starred the spinach-eating hero. Segar (1894-1938) was born in Chester, Illinois, and worked as a moving-picture machine operator, a house painter, and a photographer before his first cartoon effort was rejected by a St. Louis paper. Segar became a popular cartoonist in the 1920s. Popeye was probably inspired by Frank “Rocky” Feigle of Segar’s hometown. By 1932 Popeye was the undisputed star of “Thimble Theatre,” as evidenced in fan mail, toys, games, novelties, and jokes. Segar himself called the Victoria Advocate Popeye’s “hometown.” In gratitude he contributed a special cartoon for the Advocate’s historic 1934 anniversary issue. Speaking to the newspaper’s editor through Popeye, Segar wrote, “Please assept me hearties bes’ wishes an’ felitcitations on account of yer paper’s 88th Anniversity….Victoria is me ol’ home town on account of tha’s where I got born’d at.” Crystal City, Texas, also claims a special relationship to Popeye. The spinach industry credited Popeye and Segar with the 33 percent increase in spinach consumption from 1931 to 1936, and in 1937 Crystal City, the “Spinach Capital of the World,” erected a statue to honor Segar and his sailor.
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I had 2 free tickets to Edwards Marq’E several years ago, so Hubs & I saw Elysium, a sci-fi movie with a socialized futuristic medicine theme. Prior to that, I saw Wag the Dog 12 yrs ago. And amazingly, before that the last movie I saw in a theater was ET (1982).
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Nope, I just remembered also seeing Blood Simple (1984) by the Coen Brothers.
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#28 – That would be J. Wellington Wimpy, Esquire to you laymen and common folk.
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Wimpy has a great Wiki page.
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Sneaked up to HEB and found about ten thousand Mineola Tangelos had arrived.
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Trump cancels Nancy’s trip.
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He can easily do what he did because the Speaker flies on gov’t aircraft since 9/11. Since this trip is clearly nonessential and not urgent, he just told the Air Force to stand down.
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“I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate,” Mr Trump said in a letter.
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I guess now the LSM will start screaming about how unfair it is that Herr Trumpenfuehrer is playing the left using the left’s own rules. . . .
I wish that I could vote more than once for Trump in 2020. . . .
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I wish that I could vote more than once for Trump in 2020. . . .
Pretend you’re a Democrat. Or dead.
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I bet there is smoke coming out of her ears.
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I can imagine Stephen Miller’s fingerprints all over this thing.
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Did I mention that the heater in the central system that serves the downstairs was DOA when I got up? I set it at 70 for winter overnight, and it was reading 71 this morning. I turned it up to 74 and heard the thermostat click, but after a while I realized I hadn’t heard any blowing and it wasn’t warming up. Service company should be here soon; they already had a pretty full schedule when I called. Glad this happened before the Big Chill this weekend. Although we do still have some electric space heaters stored somewhere in case of emergency.
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This is just dumb luck when I post and then notice I scored a 42.
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Fox is reporting the delegation is still sitting on an Air Force bus, trying to figure out what to do.
That right there is hilarious. She’s prolly got 14 suitcases, several other congresspeople, and a metric cr@pton of staffers, etc., and they have to pull the plug at the last minute.
The timing is impeccable.
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Amid mounting confusion, Fox News is told there were furious calls going back and forth among Capitol Hill, State, Pentagon and White House offices. The bus later returned to the Capitol, where members filed back into the building.
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At least mharper42 is only feeding possums and coons. Let’s hope she doesn’t graduate to big lizards.
She may indirectly have already, living close to white oak Bayou. Fattening up them varmints for something higher up the food chain.
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That’s some funny stuff Trump pulled today. Watching the feigned righteous indignation makes it even sweeter.
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No crocodilians in WOB, as far as I know. I am stupified when I occasionally drive over the bridge and see people down below… fishing.
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I got soooooooooooooooooo angry at not being able to clean my glasses that I bought a Peeps eyeglasses cleaner on Texpat’s recommendation. After three days of usage I can report it it a remarkable device.
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There are gators in white oak, at least inside the loop. They pulled a seven footer out sometime last year. Just ask KHOU 😉
They’ll probably be more if they remove the concrete channel like they’re talking about. The ‘yotes have even been seen in the heights in recent years.
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I just use Jerry Jones son in law to clean mine.
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There is some good news with the coyotes.
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All of Houston’s bayous have gators. They are out in Ft. Bend Co. and the Brazos as well. Some unexplored areas are best left that way.
Kudos to the President for putting a stop to the junketeering during this dispute. I would have kicked them off the bus at the airport (it appears to be an Air Force bus) rather than returning them to the Capitol. Shut down all congressional travel that includes military assets. Good move, and it’s probably just the first salvo.
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I was wondering what makes White Oak Bayou so special that it doesn’t have gators.
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All those years we spent on the (Buffalo) bayou, it’s a wonder one us kids didn’t end up as gator lunch.
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Yup, Trump pulled a fast one on the old broad. Priceless!
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At least one of the Power Line guys agrees with my idea on STOU speech.
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We have a plethora of taxpayer-funded covered stadiums he could make use of. Heck, sell tickets. All proceeds go toward the wall.
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All those years we spent on the (Buffalo) bayou, it’s a wonder one us kids didn’t end up as gator lunch.
I’ve wondered the same thing. I spent my entire youth swimming and skiing in the black waters of Florida.
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My neighbors are wrapping their plants. Are we posta have a hard freeze?
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They are supposed to be wrapping their pets, not their plants. Somebody needs to splain it to them.
Now, with apologies to phil, I found this somewhere on someone’s comments:
Ooooohhhhh
The Pelosi plane won’t fly!
The Pelosi plane won’t fly!
The Pelosi plane won’t fly and I’ll tell you why
President Trump just clipped her wings! -
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One day I’ll always remember was when we were about 7 and 10 with our cousins, Mike and Pat, down behind the Gaywood subdivision where they lived and there had been a huge rain and flood. Buffalo Bayou was raging and we found some slick, muddy, steep banks that we turned into natural mud slides. All we had on were cutoff jeans and we spent the entire day, from morning till dusk, sliding down the banks on our asses flying into that muddy river and climbing back out to do it again for hours. When we got back to their house our mothers hosed us off, made us strip down and throw our cutoffs away and then all pile into shower together.
Toxic masculinity, I tell ya. More fun only God allows for boys.
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62, we’re all gonna die Friday night or on Saturday. Probably more than most want to know about electric guitars, but interesting if one does.
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/who-really-built-the-first-electric-rock-n-roll-guitar/
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#52 Hammy
SEE ALSO: Man says he wrestled coyote during attack in his backyard
That’s a back yard? Looks more like an alleyway to me.
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I got soooooooooooooooooo angry at not being able to clean my glasses that I bought a Peeps eyeglasses cleaner on Texpat’s recommendation. After three days of usage I can report it it a remarkable device.
You know, Dawn Dishwashing Liquid will clean stinky, sticky, tarry crude oil off of baby Spyducks. But it wouldn’t clean my glasses – even straight out of the bottle – anymore.
That’s when I broke down and spent $14 on a Peeps eyeglass cleaner.
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66 gto
You ain’t got nothing.
Temperature here on Monday morning at 7 AM will be 4 degrees with 16 mph winds putting the windchill at around -10 degrees and on Tuesday morning at 7 AM it will be 5 degrees with 7 mph winds for a -2 degree windchill factor.
Enjoy your subtropical weather down there.
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I was wondering what makes White Oak Bayou so special that it doesn’t have gators.
It’s not large enough, up here above the channelization, except when we have 50″ of rain in 2 days.
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68 Shannon
Shortly after I came up here, I walked into my local hangout, JD’s Steakhouse, complaining about not being able to get my glasses clean. The tall blond Polish bartender took my glasses and squirted them with vodka and wiped them a clean cotton napkin. It’s probably the cleanest my glasses ever were and she did it for me regularly.
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This weekend, when it’s colder than Nancy’s ninnies, we’re going to try some of this stuff. I bought some fresh Gulf brown shrimps to add to it.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/frenchy-s-gumbo-base/2241977
Fay’s homemade is to die for, but I wouldn’t ask her to make it anymore – too much standing in the kitchen.
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I don’t know about you Grandpa, but, here, it’s Eckermann’s Smoked Sausage, fresh asparagus, (gasp!) really good pinto beans, and guacamole.
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Spamlosi got spammed
her wings got clipped
she stuck her tongue
in ShooFly’s Mayo dipHe snickered
she puckered
he jerked it
she suckered itnary a towel
was there for the fowl
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My daughter and her roommate made it to the roomate’s Uncle’s house up in Tulsa. They should have no problems getting to Rolla tomorrow.
Saturday night low there will be 11F. Lows in the teens for most of next week.
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December was deceptively warm for a winter month, and we’re about to get a taste of winter this month and likely in February. Probably swinging between cold and warmer periods as in some former years. A prolonged cold spell would mean a real winter to be reckoned with. Haven’t had one of those in a while.
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The wife and I were Republican delegates at the 2016 state convention. Sort of a floor show there for candidates to advertise their wares. I signed up at the Trump booth for a free white MAGA hat for a friend. Looks like they have sorted that info out. I don’t tweet or twit but got an email from Trump’s campaign. Addressed to me by name. I assume that is where it came from. Hope they did not hack a bank account. Not enough there to be of interest to them.
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As fine a gentleman as you’d want to meet, I worshiped with this Gentleman.
Some obituaries just make for a really nice read.
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President Trump, the complete gentleman, does the gentlemanly thing
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Wheels on the bus go round and round
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I haven’t finished reading it, but here’s a foreign policy piece that you might enjoy.
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/01/15/making-up-monsters-to-destroy/
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The folks who worry about “toxic masculinity” tend to be the most gung-ho about giving women with gender dysphoria testosterone shots and fake penises. Hmmm.
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Thank the Lord you live in Texas.
A Travis County judge has ruled that the city of Austin violated state open carry gun laws when it blocked a licensed firearms holder from entering City Hall on multiple days in 2016.
State District Judge Lora Livingston fined the city $9,000. Her ruling came Thursday, a week after the judge presided over a two-day trial centered on a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office.
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Greg Gutfeld was there when ELGordo met with and advised the President.
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Thinking about the somewhat abrupt redirection of the Pelosi entourage from an Air Force flight to require making other arrangements, I am still smiling on that refusal by the President.
Umm, I would hope someone in her entourage might have been aware that as Commander In Chief of the Armed Services the President has dominion over things like military conveyances such as planes or ships. It might have been nice to ask to use an AF plane before assuming one would be available automatically for a personal rather than an official trip. 🙂
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wrap pets or pipes?
ROFLMAO – there aint a “low” with a 2 as a first digit in the fresh 10 day forecast!
……………….buncha weenies!!
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#84 – Can’t go anywhere without getting caught any more. Night all. I’ll sleep better tonight knowing that Nancy is standing in a slow TSA line somewhere getting goosed and waiting to get on her first class European flight, not realizing that all her luggage is piled outside her office door over in the Capitol.
#86 – It’s wrap your pets and bring in your pipes. Doesn’t say anything about your plants, but it really doesn’t matter because we are all going to freeze to death or starve to death or get run over by a dump truck deicing the freeway, or something.
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I imagine San Fran Nan is not flying anywhere tonight. She may even be hospitalized for treatment of a bad bile attack.
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Thank the Lord you live in Texas.
Still no constitutional carry here, though. Hell, even Vermont has that.
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While I was sitting in the waiting room filling out forms yesterday morning before surgery, I kept looking at this guy absolutely convinced I knew him from some business, Jewish organization or synagogue function and kept racking my brain for recollection.
So I’m sitting here tonight watching a Law & Order rerun and there he is on TV…the same guy in the waiting room talking to the doctor and worried about his father’s surgery. I’ve watched him for years – he’s a very good character actor who has been around for decades.
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We may be able to slip that one through before the State goes blue and the Bolsheviks take over.
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