Lonesome Landscape, Utah, USA by Zachary Gertsch
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PL’s Pictures of the Week are up early this morning, and some of them are well above average, including a short 12 second video that you might enjoy. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/the-week-in-pictures-smiting-our-enemies-edition.php
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Good morning again, Baton Rouge.
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Brian Mast walked to the podium of the House of Representatives, on prosthetic legs, to deliver his opinion of those members who supported the “war powers resolution” criticizing President Trump. Mast was awarded the bronze star for his bravery and valor after losing his legs and a finger to an Iranian IED.
I know most in here haven’t seen or smelled or touched that kind of death, but let me tell you about it. They were burned alive inside their Humvees. Their lungs were scorched by the flames of the explosions. The vehicle fragments were blown into their skulls. Some of them were paralyzed. Some of them had their arms blown off. Some of them had their legs blown off. Some of them will never see again. Some of them will never be recognized again by those who knew them previously. Each and every one of them – they are the credible explanation for deleting this terrorist target from our world. And, no doubt, it is dangerous to take out a terrorist target, but a coward is somebody who lacks the courage to endure danger”
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Present! And safe, got a little wicked out there for a little bit. Haven’t walked the grounds yet but I don’t suspect any problems.
Family in Lubbock posting pics of snow on the ground from last night.
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I had planned on getting a new phone tomorrow. I going to have to fight the Saturday crowd and move it up a day.
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The killer storm of 2020 was a big dud here in the barrio.
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In their news break, KTRH is talking about the Mozilla alert issued by U.S. Homeland Security.
Heads up, Tedtam.
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According to pictures on my daughter in law’s Facebook page, Denton got about 3″ of snow.
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According to a letter sent today to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that was just obtained by The Daily Wire, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced Texas’s refusal to accept any additional refugees for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The letter was prompted by Executive Order 13888, on “Enhancing State and Local Involvement in Refugee Resettlement,” which was issued by President Donald Trump on September 26, 2019.
According to the text of the September executive order, “[t]he Federal Government consults with State and local governments … to be respectful of those communities that may not be able to accommodate refugee resettlement.” Furthermore, “if either a State or locality has not provided consent to receive refugees under the Program, then refugees should not be resettled within that State or locality,” and “the Secretary shall notify the President of such decision.”
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8 Sarge
It is an unbelievable 63° here in northern New Jersey heading to a high of 66° with clear blue skies. Tomorrow is the same.
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Please note that the Mozilla alert does not include Linux users, which incidentally use Firefox as the default browser. And the cure for those poor Win and Apple users, is to load the upgrade which was probably automatically done anyway. More scare tactics. Just to be safe, use Linux. Mint is my fave, but other more sophisticated users than me use Ubuntu. Got an old, worn out, slow computer that you have given up on, load Linux and watch it spring back to life. Better than a goat gland transplant (you have to be a certain old age and to know who Wolfman Jack was to understand this one) or any of today’s low T treatments. Go for it – you only live once.
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I did check my ubuntu computer this morning and it upgraded to firefox 72, but I also checked all the grave security threat alerts. No mention of linux.
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Gassing up in Bay St Louis, I just drove out of the dang rain, what a flood! It rained from Lafayette to the LA/MS line. It came down like pouring out of a washtub from Hammond to the MS line, but it’s headed this way.
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I stopped using Firefox when they forced out their founder because he didn’t sufficiently genuflect to the Alphabet Rainbow god.
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In and out in 46 minutes with a new phone, everything completely transferred and downloaded (hopefully).
Hallelujah.
I’d say that I squeezed out every last bit of use of the the old iphone6.
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Well super storm whats it’s name turned out to be nothing more than a mere thudershower out Katy way.
Hunker up indeed.
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Iran is finally admitting they shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet. Meanwhile, traitorous Dems are still trying to blame Trump.
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what’s its name.
Thanks Miss Landers and coffee.
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And the naked communist leads in Iowa.
Corned beef and cabbage soup lines to follow and that’s a good thing.
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Refugee, Petty
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Hamous says:
JANUARY 11, 2020 AT 11:06 AM
Iran is finally admitting they shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet. Meanwhile, traitorous Dems are still trying to blame Trump. -
In and out in 46 minutes with a new phone
Still a fanboi?
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Working on Opera right now – this is MIL’s computer which I appropriated for my new downstairs unit and she had it loaded already – and am in the process of installing Brave as an alternate browser. I am avoiding using the Chromium browser that is also infesting this unit.
Getting up late this morning. LD2 has a birthday very soon, and I was crocheting a bag to hold some of the items that I purchased for her. I was on roll, not feeling sleepy, so I have it 99% done since I stayed up past 2:00 a.m. to finish it. It’s pretty and includes pink yarn, so I think she’ll like it. But that means I allowed myself to stay in bed late. I heard a little bit of a storm before crashing, but it wasn’t anything like the WE’RE GONNA DIE warnings had me expecting.
All I need is a button and I probably should block it, if I can find my blocking board upstairs in my crafting chaos.
Another 2 skeins of yarn down!
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I also made huge progress in my paperwork backlog, now that I’m not being eaten alive by the daily requirements of the plumbing company. I have taken a 4″ pile of paperwork to a half inch, and I finally see the wood on my desk! I HIT WOOD! That’s always a good feeling. I still have work to do – a lot of cleaning up as per my CPA, and I need to catch up on all of my bank reconciliations, but it’s such a relief to see a light at the end of that tunnel!
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Bernie is much like Hitler in the fact that neither of them ever worked a day in their lives.
What a field.
A communist
A twinkle toes
a senile and corrupt Pizza guy with a penchant for girl hair sniffing and stroking
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I’m watching episodes of “Dirty Jobs”.
I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed watching Mike Rowe. Not only is the guy wicked smart, good looking, and possessing a wonderful sense of humor, I discovered the guy can sing, too. He sang the national anthem before a minor league game, and dang if he didn’t nail it.
I love that guy.
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In October 2017, in the wake of the plethora of uninformed opinions offered by self-important celebrities in response to the horrific Las Vegas massacre, Sajak tweeted, “OK, let me explain this again: We’re celebs. We’re wiser & more empathetic than you. We are famous. Please take our opinions more seriously.”
Love his tweets. He and James Woods ROCK the twitterverse.
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He (Rowe) is a former barbershop quartet champ.
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Back when the legendary D.X. Bible was just a 30 year old assistant coach at Texas A&M.
On November 24, 1921, possibly the first broadcast of a football game in the country aired from the Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Texas A&M University) via call letters 5XB, which is now WTAW. The station operated as a ham relay station at 250 watts. Originally, the station was to air the final score of the Texas–Texas A&M Thanksgiving game, but Frank Matejka, W. A. Tolson, and others decided to send a play-by-play account of the game via Morse Code. Student Harry Saunders and assistant coach D. X. Bible designed a set of abbreviations to fit every possible football situation and sent the list to every station that would broadcast the contest. The game aired over the ham relay stations; the Morse Code was decoded and announced to fans over a public-address system.
Our parents would talk about football god D.X. Bible from their time at UT in the 1940s like we used speak about Darrell Royal in the 1960s.
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They have a revolt on their hands.
North Manchester, Ind., a tiny conservative town that resides in a county that voted 72% for Donald Trump, is embroiled in the cultural battle of their lives. In December, parents of students at North Manchester Elementary found out that the school was allowing a biological boy to use the girls’ bathroom without notifying parents or passing any policy that was debated in a public meeting. As a result, multiple families pulled their children out of the school at the urging of Nate Gephart, a father turned activist who had finally had enough. The superintendent, Dr. Teresa Gremaux, claims that federal law under Title IX is forcing the school to allow a tiny minority of gender-confused children to invade the privacy of everyone else.
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“Millennial vs Boomer in microcosm,” Iowahawk deadpans in response.
Family Feud Canada – this is not fake news. You gotta watch it.
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From Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra Twitter feed:
Average # of deaths per day in US:
Abortion: 2,408
Heart disease: 1,773
Cancer: 1,641
Medical error: 685
Accidents: 401
Stroke: 401
Alzheimer’s: 332
Diabetes: 228
Flu: 150
Suicide: 128
Opioids: 115
Drunk driving: 28
Underage drinking: 11
Teen texting-and-driving: 8
All Rifles: 1
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“Well, I don’t think so, but we will tell you that probably it was going to be the embassy in Baghdad,” Trump said. “You saw that happening. You saw with all of the men, very few women, circling it and circling it very strongly and very viciously, knocking out windows and trying to get and they were close to getting in, and I called out the military.”
“They said we’ll have it there tomorrow,” Trump continued. “I said, nope, you’ll have it there today. We’re not going to have another Benghazi on our hands.”
“I think you would have had another Benghazi had we not acted quickly,” Trump added. “That could have been stopped, and this was stopped. And we had our Apaches going there, the great helicopters, and they were dropping flares all over the place, and a lot of things were happening. They had acted real fast and everybody disappeared.”
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Still a fanboi?
Indubitably.
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Gto
Now if I could just get her to come help the guys and me sing it at church…
Jamie Lin singing one of my favorites in that barn in Columbus:
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Well, after driving through the rain most of the way home, it was only cloudy here, but the front is now moving through Andalusia and will be here in less than an hour. So, I didn’t get killed, last night in Texas but according to the local weather gal, I’ll surely be killed, shortly. Ifin’ you didn’t know, that front is moving fast! It took about an hour to move through Nassau Bay and didn’t drop much rain. Lots of high wind here though.
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Oh, and I rolled in here @ 2:30, 10 hours flat, stopped once for gas and peed out the window. 😉
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The candle, provocatively named “This Smells Like My Vagina,” will run customers a cool $75 and boasts a fragrance packed with geranium, citrusy bergamot and cedar, according to the Daily Mail.
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according to the local weather gal, I’ll surely be killed, shortly.
You’re actually blogging to our ghosts because we were all killed last night during superstorm what’s its name.
Our local weather folks told us so too.
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Well I’ll be. It worked.
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Her Taylor guitar has a great tone.
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Hasn’t it always worked?
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I thought this Asperger’s brat said she was gonna shut her stanky lutefisk hole.
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The latest poor saps to join the oops club are the authorities in charge of Montana’s Glacier National Park. For years they’ve been warning on their visitor signs that their main attraction, the glaciers, would be “gone by 2020.” Instead, it’s those misleading signs that have had to go, because 2020 has now arrived and those pesky glaciers, all 29 of them, remain stubbornly unmelted by climate change.
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Good evening Hamsters. Well we got strong winds, a some small hailstones, and 1.17″ of rain last night with the front. It was not quiet. The wind tore several respectable-sized branches off two pecan trees in the back pasture, and lots of small branches were scattered everywhere there and in the front and back yards.
One large pecan trunk broke off near the back fence and leaned on the TV cable wire and the ground electrical wire, sagging both significantly. Called HL & P to come get it off, and they got here within the hour. Fortunately we’re near a substation. Never lost power after the limb settled down on the wires, but while they were bouncing during the storm we thought for sure the power would stay off.
Wind was strong enough to topple a large and heavy urn on the front porch and eject the artificial bunch of poinsettias and some plastic bags used as fillers to hold them in. The bags landed in the front and back yards. The bunch of poinsettias landed in the paddock at the side of the house. All sizes of branches were scattered here and there randomly in all the yards. The wind and rain came about 11:30 and rushed through fast, maybe half an hour total. Woke us up to lightning flashes almost continuously for a few minutes and rain pounding on the patio cover roof.
Daylight showed our next-door neighbor’s old and hollow very large pecan tree was broken off at the lower trunk and landed in their side yard, fortunately missing their house and our pasture fence.
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Hasn’t it always worked?
No. I was never able to create a hyperlink with my last phone.
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43, for what Taylor’s cost they ought to sound nice, if the player is up to it.
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The Link button didn’t work?
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Randolph Scott was just a name in a song I once heard. Watching a show where he tries to prevent California secessionists from doing their deed. Have Gun Will Travel was off the air before I was around. Since watching ota-tv there are a lot of good westerns from the day. Interesting to see so many stars before they were stars. Since all the heroes are white, wonder how long any of these will be on the air in a few years.
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No, the link button didn’t work, nor could I type in the code to make it work.
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Gto
Interesting to see so many stars before they were stars.
Yes. It’s the same with Perry Mason.
One of those stations carried the old WWII show Combat! (‘62-‘67) for a while. Seemingly, every actor you’ve ever seen did a guest appearance on that show. It is one of the best shows ever produced for TV. Vic Morrow was the star.
I wish they’d bring it back. When that station dropped it, they went all Star Trek all the time.
Pfffftttttth!!!!And Have Gun, Will Travel is the best TV western ever.
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Test III
The Church Sisters
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Combat! (‘62-‘67), now that you mention it I saw a few of those, don’t remember which channel but have not seen it in a while. I like Richard Boone in the movies I saw him in but HGWT is good.
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50 gtotracker
My former next door neighbor and good friend was a very talented mechanic, shade tree engineer and extraordinary luthier. He had his luthier works in the basement where he could control the humidity and keep it clean away from the mechanical stuff going on in the garage. His guitars sold for $4,000 to $6,000 and he swore he made $35 to $40 an hour per instrument. I believed him knowing what a perfectionist he is.
Taylors look like a deal, but they use lasers and all kinds of automated processes whereas my friend did everything by hand.
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From the Combat! Wiki page:
The majority of the guest stars appeared as additional squad members, French citizens or German soldiers. In the first season, the then little-known Ted Knight and Frank Gorshin made appearances. Other notable guest stars included Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall, James Coburn, Bill Bixby, Dwayne Hickman, Telly Savalas, Luise Rainer, Andrew Prine, Rip Torn, Charles Bronson, Richard Basehart, Eddie Albert, James Caan, Jeffrey Hunter, Leonard Nimoy, Terry Carter, Ben Cooper, Frankie Avalon, Dan Duryea, Sal Mineo, Neville Brand, Brandon De Wilde, Tab Hunter, Bobby Rydell, Beau Bridges, John Cassavetes, Roddy McDowell, Walter Maslow, Mickey Rooney, Claudine Longet, James Whitmore, Dennis Hopper, John Dehner, Tom Skerritt, Carol Lawrence, Gilbert Roland, Harry Dean Stanton, James MacArthur, Dennis Weaver, Keenan Wynn, Joseph Campanella, Richard Jaeckel, James Franciscus, Peggy Ann Garner, Fernando Lamas, Ricardo Montalbán, Claude Akins, Paul Burke, Warren Oates, Nick Adams, William Smithers, Joan Hackett, Margaret O’Brien, Jack Lord, Dean Stockwell, Jack Carter, Chad Everett, Frank Sutton, Warren Stevens and Michael Pataki.
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The unbeatable Baltimore Ravens are getting pushed around by some team from Nashville.
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I have no doubt Taylor’s are worth what they are or nobody would buy them.
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Do the titans have a Stagger Lee play?
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Sierra Hull on an octave mandolin. From what I find these are not made for the commercial market. Find one used or Texpat’s friend to make one.
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A modern version of the 1964 Zombies hit.
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Her eyes are clear and bright, but she’s not there
I met that woman one time.
Or maybe it was a couple of ‘em.
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The speakers on this phone are a large improvement. I still would like to be able to have a higher volume setting, especially in the truck.
It came with these ear phones that look like those fancy Apple wireless ones, but these are not wireless. Extraordinarily great sound.
(I never used the horrible cheapos that came with the old phone. They looked exactly like the ones that came with the transistor radios in the early 1960’s.
I think I will be using these more. I never knew that you could actually hear the bass with quality earphones in a mobile phone.
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Excuse me.
Wanted Dead Or Alive was the best TV Western ever.
C’mon—-
Steve Frikkin McQueen
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Close. No cigar.
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I got a call from Green Cousin this afternoon. She is officially now on the liver transplant list. Hubby and I have a rental house nearby that isn’t ready to rent but darn close to livable condition for cousin & family to use. Hubby can hook up the final plumbing lines from the bathroom renovation in an afternoon, and any remaining painting, door hanging, etc., can happen after they move in. We already have utilities on in our name, so they can just reimburse us and not worry about utility deposits. I had a talk with them this afternoon and reassured them that I have enough crap in this house to do most of the basic furnishing, including a bed or two not being used right now. I have a bureau not in use, we have some metal chairs and some folding tables so they’ll have a place to sit and eat. The unit comes with a frig and stove, so that’s taken care of. I’m sure I have extra plates and silverware, etc., and I’m sure I can scare up some extra casserole dishes and a pan or two. As I told them, anything that we can’t supply can be found in any of the plethora of thrift stores around the area.
They are going to follow Hubby’s suggestion to contact the constabulary along the route from Huntington to Houston to ask how best to ensure that they can make the trip in 3 hours or less. One traffic jam and she’ll be screwed on getting her transplant, and that trip is already a few hours in length.
Their bags are packed and cell phones are living on chargers. They can be out the door in five when “the call” comes.
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Let us know if you need anything else.
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I had to call cousin after returning from mass with the confirmation class. This was the first time the newly combined classes attended together. I shouldn’t have been shocked, but I was:
* No genuflecting upon entering the pew.
* They were just sitting there like lumps during mass. I had to demand that they pull out their missalettes and use them. One girl rolled her eyes at me.
* I watched them during the mass. Most of them had no idea what the responses were, even with the missalette right in front of them. No wissing clue.
* The two girls in front of me thought it was social hour. Talked all through the mass.
* They resisted my orders to kneel during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Sorry, but if Jesus is on the altar, we show reverence by not sitting on our butts unless there’s a medical issue. They’re lucky our church has pews; some churches in Europe don’t have them and they’d have to stand the entire mass.I wanted to smack a few smug faces, but after mass we had a literal “come to Jesus meeting” and explained a few things, such as attending mass in blue jeans or any other unacceptable attire will get you the highly prized old brown choir robe to wear. (That’s the brain child of our coordinator, who can be a bit of a harda$$, which I love.) I explained that we reverence our Lord by genuflecting appropriately and following the proper gestures during mass, such as kneeling and – HORRORS – contributing to the liturgy by learning what our contributions are to the process.
I made sure I spoke loudly enough that the parents and sponsors also in attendance could hear me. I know where these kids have learned their attitude…
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#71
Let us know if you need anything else.
Prayers are always nice. I keep the donor’s family in my prayers as well, whomever that will be.
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Baghdad and Karbala are getting to be as bad as Baltimore and St. Louis. These guys need to be more careful.
A prominent pro-Iran militia commander has been killed by unidentified gunmen in Iraq.
High-level Popular Mobilization Forces leader Taleb Abbas Ali al-Saedi was shot dead late on Saturday in Karbala, a city about 62 miles southwest of Baghdad.
Local media reported that al-Saedi was ‘assassinated’ by unknown gunmen, but no further details about the shooters were immediately available.
Al-Saedi was the commander of the Karbala Brigades, a unit within the Iran-backed Shiite PMF umbrella group.
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Titans peaking at the right time. They may just bull their way all the way to the end.
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Another shining star of the FBI. What a bunch of sleezebags.
REVEALED: Top FBI official who leaked court-sealed and sensitive information about ‘terrorism and law enforcement’ to reporters through hundreds of texts, rounds of golf and private dinners
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That Henry guy is one bad mofo.
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#64, #65
Her eyes are clear and bright, but she’s not there
So, I am familiar with this old song, but now wondering if I have never actually understood it. Guess I always thought it meant she pulled up stakes and left town.
But is it in fact saying that she’s not there mentally? A nut job? a loon?
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78 mharper
Here are the original lyrics. We report, you decide
Verse 1]
Well no one told me about her
The way she lied
Well no one told me about her
How many people cried[Pre-Chorus]
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know why should I care?
Please don’t bother trying to find her
She’s not there![Chorus]
Well let me tell you ’bout the way she looked
The way she’d acted, the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she’s not there[Verse 2]
Well no one told me about her
What could I do?
Well no one told me about her
Though they all knew[Pre-Chorus]
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don’t bother trying to find her
She’s not there! -
The Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra is from Norway.
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#61 – DANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Brother !!
Send that lil angel to The Voice!!
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81 Kfish
Here she is again (a few years earlier).
With the ever effervescent Jennifer Nettles.
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First cup of good coffee I’ve had in days.
Mornin’ Gang -
Morning Brother Dave. I guess the rest of the gang will be along shortly. Glad that you made your return trip safely, and can’t wait to hear what they offered you for your consulting contract, or whatever the big news is. In the mid 30’s here this morning, but the south wind has returned and looking for a quick warm-up today. Every year about this time, the nice days begin to appear, and the outdoors gardening starts to look like it makes sense. Stuff all starts off nice, gets and early sprouting, and boom, blue norther takes it all out in one night. So don’t fall for this early spring talk yet, we’ve got a long way to go. Well, you Houston folks seldom get a freeze, so you might be all right.
Tomorrow night is the college football game of the century, and I’ll be disappointed if it is not a good one. A good one is defined of course as LS&U winning bigly. Last time I looked, the spread was around 5 points in LS&U favor, and they should win by more than that, but as sure as I went and placed a bet, Clemson would sneak a way in to win or at least cover the spread, so that’s one more reason I don’t bet on football.
I started considering tapping into the power line that feeds the little “on/off” led light on the front of the Maggie as a source to power the blue tooth dongle. That light has not worked since I started fooling with the re-do, but it’s been a low priority item and I haven’t fooled with it so far. Well, yesterday I turned the unit on, dialed up Pandora on the computer, made the bluetooth connection, and let Maggie start singing. And lo and behold, the little indicator led light came on. Just again proves one of my theories that I’m sure Brother Dave would agree with – if you treat these electronic devices nice and don’t swear at them too much or make threatening noises when you talk to them, they will respond much better.
OK, here’s hoping that you all have a great day. More later as it develops.
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Morning, gang. Can’t wait to hear Dave’s news!
In the regular news, which I now take from CFP rather than Drudge, I see that Bloomberg’s campaign event in San Antonio netted 45 attendees.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/11/judge-judy-sets-the-stage-for-bloombergs-anti-trump-rally/
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I think the iranian mullahs have a death grip on the nation but what if the people finally overthrow them? How would the traitorous Dems spin that as a negative?
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#88 – I go to Bongino Report rather than Drudge, but for now, it seems to me that the Freepers over at Free Republic are about the most inclusive news source. And also Instapundit.
#89 – We all know that the Dems fear the electorate and ignore as much as they can of the great unwashed. They would have no problem finding fault if the existing govt were to be overthrown. And they would figure out a was to blame Trump for it as well, until they figured out that the US voters approved of the action.
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I heard this jewel from his Texas rally yesterday:
Beto showed that a Democrat can win Texas
Huh??? What’d I miss?
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Just as I’m sitting here exercising my fingers, a beautiful white tail 8 point buck is trailing a doe to the side of my house. He’s staring her down right now. This might get exciting here in a minute. Buck is a monster, and the doe seems to be keeping her distance, but not too much distance. She’s sort of acting like she doesn’t know that he is there, the old hard to get routine. Great way to start the day by watching Mother Nature in live action. Sorry I don’t have my camera at the ready right here. I’ll let you know if anything develops.
She escaped into the woods behind my house, with Mr. Buck in hot pursuit.
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To celebrate our one member who is the owner of the Green Bay Packers, this song is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=40&v=mwHGjq6wOZU&feature=emb_logo
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Sorry I don’t have my camera at the ready right here.
You shouldn’t be shooting pRon on Sunday anyways.
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Dr J.D. Trump’s Butt-Hurt Salve,…..soothes the sting of massive but-hurt resulting from unexpected defeat & exposure to raw truth. Apply liberally for 8 years. Repeat as needed.
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#92, Years ago, I was driving down Middlebrook drive, off Space Center, where it makes the bend under a high power line. It was December, overcast and raining slightly. About 200 yards away, on the power line, I saw a buck and doe, flirting, with the buck making advances and the doe easing away and teasing him. I stopped for a minute to watch and the doe squatted and did her business, while the buck had his nose in the air, sniffing. I went on down the road and when I came back by about 15 minutes later they were,…. well, they were, heing and sheing. it would have been neat to have a movie camera with a long lens.
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Ninety Seven!!! Teeing her up.
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I’ll do 98.
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Then I’ll do 99.
Then I’ll stop.
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So the
OilersTitans are going to the AFC Championship game. The Texans wouldn’t think of holding up their end of it but the possibility exists for a Texans vs Titans championship game – in Houston.The football gods have never given favor to Houston regarding pro ball, a couple of notes – this will be the second championship game for the Titans since they left. The Titans coach is a former Texans DC they let go.
Edit: Hunnerd!
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President Trump’s tweet in Farsi expressing his support for Iranians protesting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already earned over 200,000 likes, making it the “most liked Persian tweet” in the social media giant’s history, according to a leading think tank adviser.
Saeed Ghasseminejad✔@SGhasseminejadThis tweet by @realDonaldTrump with more than 100k likes is already the most liked Persian tweet in the history of Twitter. A strong show of support by Iranians for Trump’s Iran policy, something the MSM does not and will not report. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216114167108849665 …Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrumpبه مردم شجاع و رنج کشیده ایران: من از ابتدای دوره ریاست جمهوریم با شما ایستادهام و دولت من همچنان با خواهد ایستاد. ما اعتراضات شما را از نزدیک دنبال می کنیم. شجاعت شما الهام بخش است.
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Well it seems that the alphabet network’s newest News Skank needs some of that “Butt Hurt Salve”. They are trying to get some traction and shaming Trump because he took out an Evil Goat Fornicator……. SMH, you can’t make his up.
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Early Dem Primaries
Feb – Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina
Mar 3 – Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Democrats Abroad, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia
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#86 SD you nailed that!!
My baby Sister and her Husband up in Arlington were hunkered down hiding in a closet Friday night as twister(s?) were touching down in Kennedale right across US287 from them……….Saturday morning it was snowing.
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it would have been neat to have a movie camera with a long lens
perv
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384 – And from that same show……………
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#101 Texpat, Google Translated;
To the brave and suffering Iranian people: I have been with you since the beginning of our presidency and
My government will continue to stand by. We are following your protests closely. Courage
You’re an inspirationBTW, I’m guess they write, right to left, since I had a heck on time copying the words, when I’d get to the end, (right end) of a line, it would jump back to the next one. Then, I noticed the period to the left of the last line and copied from there and it worked perfectly. 😉
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Early Dem Primaries
Mar 3 – AlabamaThanks, for reminding me, I’ll be out there voting for Bernie. 😀
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Thanks, for reminding me, I’ll be out there voting for Bernie.
Keep in mind, you can only vote in one primary. Even though there won’t be a Republican presidential primary there will be other races. In particular, you need to get that senate seat back in Republican hands. Here are the candidates:
Stanley Adair
Bradley Byrne
Arnold Mooney
Roy Moore
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The only ones I’ve heard of are Sessions, Moore, and Tuberville.
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Currently -17 F going down to -36 tonight. The fireplace is very hungry.
IHW
Out for now
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Looks like Judge Roy is running again in Bama.
Amazing how the story of him going out with a high school girl disappeared after he lost. Guess the #sleazetoo movement wasn’t offended after the election since they achieved their desired results from their hit and run job.
Also amazing how Pizza Joe gets a pass on his hair sniffing and those close encounters of the caressing kind moments which are many and out there for all to see.
And in the eyes of the propagandist Newspeak Media Pizza Joe is bonafide presidential material.
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Everybody knows that being a pervert is a resume enhancement for a Dem. An impeachment, a few misdemeanors, a few felony charges – those all help if you are a Dem. If you are a black Dem, you’ve got to have felony convictions and other forms of street cred just to get on the ticket.
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And from the Sgt Comey Schulz Dept.
His harsh sentence will probably be having his Time magazine subscription revoked.
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112 texanadian
Mostly sunny, blue skies and 67 degrees here in New Jersey. I love that global warming.
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112 texanadian
How many cords of wood do you burn through a winter ?
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Words that have dual meanings exactly opposite of one another.
1. Sanction (via French, from Latin sanctio(n-), from sancire ‘ratify,’) can mean “give official permission or approval for (an action)” or conversely, “impose a penalty on.”
2. Oversight is the noun form of two verbs with contrary meanings, “oversee” and “overlook.” Oversee, from Old English ofersēon (“look at from above”) means “supervise” (medieval Latin for the same thing: super-, “over” plus videre, “to see.”) Overlook usually means the opposite: “to fail to see or observe; to pass over without noticing; to disregard, ignore.”
3. Left can mean either remaining or departed. If the gentlemen have withdrawn to the drawing room for after-dinner cigars, who’s left? (The gentlemen have left and the ladies are left.)
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Keep in mind, you can only vote in one primary.
It was joke son, I’ve not missed a Republican primary since about 1982?….I think.
FWIW; I’ve not taken the time to seriously research the Senate candidates, I know I’m SOO ashamed, but I do know who I’ll not be voting for, Jeff Sessions. When he left the Senate, I honestly thought that he was the best Senator of all 100 of them. I agreed with pretty much 100% and his outspoken stand on immigration was certainly the best. He was one of Trump’s first supporters, back before I was a Cruz supporter. I voted for Trump, because even though I really didn’t believe he was as conservative as he said he was, I had no other choice. Then I fund out he’s the best President since Reagan, by a long shot. His first Supreme Court appointee made my vote worth it, even if he didn’t do a damn thing else. -
My #119, Also, our US House Representative, (2nd congressional district) Martha Roby, who faced a primary challenge in 2018, is stepping down.
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Headline of the week (Ace)
Barking Mad: PETA Slams Toothy McBigTits AOC for Purchasing Purebred French Bulldog
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#113 FWIW; Judge Roy Moore was sandbagged. I know this because he ran for office numerous times and the sexual allegations, never came up. He was targeted by the Soros money machine, because he fought to keep the Ten Commandments in his Etowah County, Courtroom. The evil, Democrats managed to steal Sessions old seat and really made hay, about turning Alabama red, even though everyone knew this was Bovine Scatology. In any case, since this is the Bible Belt, and he has been tarnished, by no fault of his own, he really, shouldn’t run, it could ruin our chances to take back our Senate Seat.
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My# 122, writing Etowah, (pronounced, Et A Wah, a Cherokee word, meaning,”edible tree”). I thought about a local News Chick pronouncing, Eutaw, as eT-A-Taw, instead of Utah. In fairness, she is from New York and had no way of knowing.
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lu.thi.er
/ˈlo͞odēər/
noun
a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars.I have a pretty good vocabulary, but every now and then Texpat or Ms Adee, slips me a new one. I’m guessing that I should have know that one. In any case, I learn new things all the time and the older I get, the more that I know, that, I don’t know. BTW: Wife got a Tee Shirt that says something like that and I had no idea what it meant, but my kids did, it has something to do with the TV Show Friends.
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I’m still trying to figure out which one of you Yahoo’s, this is, it can’t be me, since I never smoked. 😉
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1953 GMC 102-22 Hydra-Matic followed by 1958 GMC 100 Series NAPCO
I took this image 19 years ago as we all were returning from the North East Chevy GMC Truck Club annual meet held in the Wendell State Forest in Wendell, Mass . For many years, this was the best show for vintage GM truck enthusiasts and it went over 25 years in a row but is no longer held.
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In my defense, that was my Dad’s hat….
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Our otherwise quiet Sunday has the thumping sound of a mini-earth digger making a trench for replacement of drain field pipe that has given 40 years of service.
The new pipe is 8″ in diameter and contains some kind of internal projections that prevent tree roots from getting in. The old pipe was only 4″ diameter and has tree roots in it. Probably can’t complain about almost 40 years of good service until the tree roots got in. The new pipe will outlast us.
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Good grief. 8” line.
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112 texanadian
How many cords of wood do you burn through a winter ?
It naturally depends on the how cold it gets. I had about 4.5 cords put up but this cold spell is supposed to last another week which will put a significant dent in that. My trailer has a load I need to buck up and split, another half cord. I think if I am careful I might just make it. If not I am surrounded by pine and spruce forests with lots of standing dead. Makes a nice outing on a relatively warm day.
Normal year about 4 cords.
I could always turn the furnace up past 60 if I need to.
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You’ll have to educate me about burning pine and spruce. Burning pine simply isn’t done down here. What kind of burner set up do you have?
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OK, I’m not keeping up AND y’all know that I don’t keep up with Pro football, but the boy called, all excited, and asked me if I was watching the Game?!?! What game? Well the Texans are playing Kansas City and whooping them 21 to nuttin’ and if they win they’ll play the Tennessee Tampons, that beat the Baltimore Ravens, who were/are the best team in the NFL?! Sidebar: Who knew that Baltimore had a damn football team? AND that they were good? But I digress, if the Texans beat KC, they play the Tampons and will most likely beat them, (according to the boy), and they will be the AFC champs and go to the Super Bowl?!?! Nobody told me that they were even in the running. The bad news is, that Seattle, Green Bay, or the 49er’s will be on the NFL side. The good news is that I’d love to just see the Texans in the Super Bowl, just to PI$$ off the damn Cowgirl fans.
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You’ll have to educate me about burning pine and spruce
Can you say Creosote?! Chimney fire for sure! Maybe, they have some super secret fire box that consumes ALL of the pine tar? If not, 50% winds up in the chimney.
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Normal year about 4 cords.
I’d never have guessed that it could be that low, I think 1 to 2, cords will keep a place toasty here, if you have a wood stove.
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Normal year about 4 cords.
Oh, wait, long-johns right? 😉
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Well, I’m glad you didn’t tell him that NFL is all rigged. Sort of like when you find out about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy to the real fans. Usually the NFL lets one team go to the super bowl that comes from a distressed city like Detroit, or the Saints when NOLA flooded or stuff like that. Maybe they are looking at Houston’s flooding in the same light. The Tampons managed to go shortly after they moved out of Houston and found out the did not have a big fan base in Tennessee, so it was a gift to them to let them have something to crow about. I guess if Tennessee beat the best team in the NFL that would be enough to prove my point right there – and probably on the last play of the game or some such nonsense. OK, enough on the NFL.
But, tomorrow night can’t some soon enough for me. I’m not sure how I’ll watch the Tigers v the Tigers, but I’ll figure out something by that time. It should be good.
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I’m gonna be in Lafayette this week. Should be an exciting place to be tomorrow night.
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#110, #111
I would not hesitate to put Jeff Sessions back in the Senate. Yes, he was a dufus as AG, but he had been quite good as a Senator.
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The college championship has always been available free.
Not this year.The guvmint needs to do something about this clear case of white privilege, racism, and discrimination against the poor.
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#127 Sarge
Good one.
Heh.
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The college championship has always been available free.
Not this year.Do you have internet service? If so, you could sign up for a free trial of one of the streaming services and cancel later.
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Chiefs rally for 21 unanswered points. Bwahaha.
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For our Brit friends, as seen over yonder. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157175812807872&set=a.57602302871&type=3&eid=ARBmmbU_jtGS8dlP6UIzReW3gOXvtLmFAv4NGddRKmNkeIML1jGo5xleLSS5UPDkzDCJsAjzceXOTfK1
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We need young, smart, conservative wolverines.Not some old guard, gentle, establishment three-toed sloths.
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David S. Kris, a former lawyer in the Obama administration, has been tapped by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to assist in a review of reforms to the FBI’s surveillance procedures by Judge James E. Boasberg.
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Kris has been openly critical of Republicans such as Nunes and has appeared on MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow’s show.
“The Nunes memo was dishonest. And if it is allowed to stand, we risk significant collateral damage to essential elements of our democracy,” Kris wrote in a 2018 blog post.
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Do you have internet service? If so, you could sign up for a free trial of one of the streaming services and cancel later.
Yes, I have internet service.
I’m no genius when it comes to the complicated computer stuff, but I’m fairly confident that college football will be slightly frustrating at 2-3mbps.
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Sadly the Texans are floundering badly.
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You’ll have to educate me about burning pine and spruce. Burning pine simply isn’t done down here. What kind of burner set up do you have?
Wrote along reply and then hit the refresh button by mistake.
The stove is a regular air tight. We don’t have oak here so it’s pine, spruce, poplar and birch.
You take standing dead and you can usually use it right away. If fresh cut it needs to dry for a minimum six months here. Probably a year in Texas with the humidity. You can tell by the weight if it’s ready. Fresh cut weighs twice what well seasoned wood does.
I sweep the chimney two, three times a year. When it warms up some I will let the fire go out and clean it first chance. It is usually too bad but it a high use time right now. Takes about 30 minutes to an hour with getting the equipment ready and then putting it away.
Current temp -13F.
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It’ll be available on the radio somewhere. Back when I was growing up, Exxon carried all the SWC games with great announcers, and I learned to visualize the games just by the pictures that the announcers would project through the radio. Still enjoy doing that today. I don’t drink anymore, but just find the game on the dial, or on TuneIn on the computer, sip some wine, close your eyes, listen to the crowd, and you are there. Simple as that.
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I’m glad I don’t care who wins in the NFL. I’m never disappointed unless the Cowboys don’t lose.
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Kern Tips, Humble Oil & Refining and a good radio. All you needed back then.
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I thought I heard somewhere on here that the Texicans were headed to the super bowl, but then someone just flashed a final score, so looks like those super bowl tickets will cost them same as everyone else. I think the Tex coach was auditioning for a job at Rice which calls for blowing leads and making dumb calls. Well, at least we won’t have to hear any more about NFL for a couple of months now.
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#154 – all we had out here were old, static plagued radio with the nearest stations a hundred miles away. Even fading in and fading out, it was still exciting to listen to the games. No doubt Kern Tips was tops.
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Up by 20, lost by 21 (?) #1 on the list – Oilers v Buffalo, this one is #5 I think they said.
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My son-in-law’s close childhood friend now works in the operational side of the CIA. There was a special ops team following behind the Soleimani convoy to recon the hit and collect DNA for confirmation of the identity of the targets. Obviously, they had to get in and out quickly. I have now a photo of the Soleimani corpse taken by the team minutes after the missiles arrived. It’s supposed to be classified, but an internet search turned up one copy on an Iraqi website. The guy there who posted it was having a toast to Soleimani’s demise. It’s a gruesome sight, legs were blown off. I suspect the Iraqi was somehow working with our people if he ended up the photo.
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So there was possibly at least a torso in that casket?
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159 GJT
Not much more than that. Head was still intact, but well, I’ll stop there.
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Well, at least we won’t have to hear any more about NFL for a couple of months now.
Not to worry. The rasslin’ version of pro football, the XFL, starts up in a few weeks.
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I’m glad I don’t care who wins in the NFL. I’m never disappointed unless the Cowboys don’t lose.
AMEN! The main reason that I wanted the Texans to go to the Super Bowl, was to PI$$ off the Cowgirl Fans.
Up by 20, lost by 21 (?) #1 on the list – Oilers v Buffalo, this one is #5 I think they said.
I’ll never, ever forget that! I always wanted to pull for the home team, but I was driving around, in my old 84 GMC Pick-Up, on the west side of town, doing house inspections for several State Farm agents and listened to the game on the radio. I couldn’t believe it! I never watched or listened to another Oilers game! Biggest choke in football history…. AND, if memory serves, Buffalo went to the Super Bowl, 4 years in a row, and got BEAT EVERY TIME!
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Oh and disregard my #132, I only posted because the boy was excited and I forgot Dave’s fourth Axiom, never, ever, bet, opine, surmise, deduce or otherwise decide the outcome, of anything, if the Fat Lady hasn’t even arrived at the venue, let alone showed up on the stage.
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My #163, Dave’s fourth Axiom applies especially to ANY kind of sporting event.
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It’s 23 degrees in Green Bay tonight, and at the half it’s the Packers 21 and the Seahawks 3.
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So now, I’ll be pulling for Clemson and Green Bay, I have no choice.
I’m glad I don’t care who wins in the NFL. I’m never disappointed unless the Cowboys or LSU don’t lose.
Insert dreaded acronym here.
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Because I am 100% sports-free, I’m never disappointed by any outcome. It simply doesn’t matter in my life. So, nyah nyah nyah.
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I had a good afternoon…drove to Bryan to meet prospective tenant and her parents. What a lovely family! Daughter, the tenant, and her boyfriend will be living in the unit. She goes to Prairie View A&M, studying kinesiology and travels with the basketball team. Her mother and I hit it off right away on the phone, both of us being church goin’ mommas. I met the father today, and he works for Bryan Housing Department, so as I was going through the lease and all of its restrictions and warnings, he was nodding his head and saying, “Yep, she’s right. I’ve seen it.” He followed that with “You won’t have to worry about that with us.” Mom and Dad are prepared to pay utilities and help with rent if necessary. Dad left with the other two little ones in one car and Mom stayed with Daughter as we finished going through the lease. When I got to late fees and penalities, she was totally on board with the provisions, being especially pleased when I brought up the “buy out” provision for early lease exit. It was one of the most pleasant transactions I’ve had with potential tenants.
Daughter is going to go through the lease with her boyfriend before signing. They’ll be emailing me their application, sending their fee with Zelle directly into our account. Once they pass their background check, we’ll calculate the prorated rent, finish signing the lease and email the paperwork back and forth. Our existing tenant has the keys and will deliver them for us when I give her the go ahead.
It was a lovely day to get out of the house and into the sunshine. Nice day, nice folks, and potentially and probably nice tenants. Good day.
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Hubby shared an interesting story. One of my elder brothers is a rock solid, down to earth, outspoken guy. He’s the first to call bullstuff and usually quite firmly. His career has been in the construction trades, and is a supervisor for a major building firm in the Houston area.
He was called on to review blueprints and the condition and repairs needed on a nursing home flooded by Harvey. The building has been gutted but the owners failed to keep the licensing active so in order to rebuild, they have to upgrade everything to newer, stricter codes instead of being grandfathered under the conditions of their original license.
Bro was walking through the empty building, all by himself, and noting discrepancies between the architectural designs and reality on the ground, and making general notes for constructing the bid. No one was with him, but he kept hearing noises and turning around to see who was there – no one. In a couple of places, there were condensation puddles in the hallway (which he noted as a problem).
Then he found footprints, wet footprints, extending from a puddle as if someone was following him. They weren’t his.
There was also a trash can that was not just knocked over, but thrown, and its contents dispersed over a wide area.
Freaky.
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OK, so we all know that the Squawkster is an old curmudgeon, much like me, or a Sasquatch but y’all also know that he has an eye for taking fine wildlife pictures. So, at the risk of P…ing him Off, check out this picture, a White Faced Ibis. Check out the iridescent wing feathers, purple to green, aqua and pink. I love this picture.
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I just looked up an old classmate who’s running for Congress.
In high school, he was considered one of the dorkier kids. Became a lawyer. Looking at his picture now…let’s just say that he’s aged well. Cute kids, too.
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21 unanswered points seems to be quite fashionable these days.
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That means we’ve got to be willing to do things, for example, like regulation. By 2028, no new buildings, no new houses, without a zero carbon footprint.
By 2030, trucks — light-duty trucks and cars, zero carbon footprint. By 2035, all production of electricity, zero carbon footprint.
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Way to go Green Bay.
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Chief Justice John Roberts not only appointed Judge James E. Boasberg to the FISA courts, but also elevated him to the senior position of FISA Presiding Judge of all FISA courts in December 2019. Boasberg is an Obama appointee and the first Democrat to be head judge at FISA in almost 25 years.
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How about them Green bay Packers? YES!
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Zero carbon footprint is not only a myth, it’s a flat-out lie and everyone knows it except the Asperger Brat. Even if all humans were wiped off the face of the earth it wouldn’t be true. 100% of life on the planet is carbon based.
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Looking forward to the Packers’ next game. Well done. And one at a time. 🙂
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Night all.
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This David Kris appointment to reform the FISA courts is already swirling into a sh*tstorm.
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#177 Hamous. Precisely. Also won’t get rid of carbon if there were no organic compounds. What do these idiots think diamonds are? Pure carbon.
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It would have been a lot better if that had been Texpat up there selling the Bullitt Mustang.
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180 Texpat
It’s exactly what I expected. Might as well put Schiff in charge of the reforms.
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Or Comey or Brennan
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Heh.
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_MoreDEVELOPING: Gov’t watchdogs raising concerns Hunter Biden’s political gifts to several Senate Dems–inclg Leahy, Menendez,Booker,Whitehouse,Cardin,Cantwell–may transgress Senate “conflict of interest” rules & possibly trigger recusal requirements during Senate impeachment voting
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How bout dem Texans!
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Best version.
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Gotta disagree with you on that one.
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In the Hall of Fame.
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Best Jimmy quote was when the Cowboys were going to play Buffalo in SB27 after the big Oiler choke loss and the interviewer asked him if he was concerned about that and Jimmy says “we’re not Houston.”
52-17.
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