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HA! 50’s Housewife, can I say that? 😉
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This dropped into my mail box so if y’all are still trying to figure out what to get me for my birthday, I’d really like one of these. Duluth, Best Made American Felling Axe: Fortitude
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The boy and his lovely bride are at Lake Tahoe celebrating their tenth anniversary…..10 years?! DAYAAM, I must be getting old.
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Have y’all heard of the Tuttle Twins? Well the left-wing whack-jobs really don’t like them.
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100 Years on a Dirty Dog: The History of Greyhound
It was during these decades—from the 1930s through the 1950s—when Greyhound was among a small group of U.S. firms that helped America reimagine itself. Mostly movie studios, automakers and large consumer product companies, these firms painted a picture through their ads and products of a country whose future was only exceeded by the gumption of its citizens and the bounty of its natural resources. Greyhound’s self-selected role was as unofficial tour guide. “Greyhound invested time and financial resources in advertising its ability to transport passengers all over the U.S.,” says Margaret Wash, an intercity bus historian. “They suggested it was fashionable to take bus trips.”
Starting in the 1930s, Greyhound’s national ad campaigns emphasized (or exaggerated) bus travel’s excitement (“Now I Know How Columbus Felt!”), low cost (“Spend less … and have the best vacation ever!) and killer app: someone else at the wheel (“Leave the Driving to Us”). But the real stars of these ads were America (“Roaring Cities, Calm Countryside”) and family (“Rolling Home”). “These campaigns made bus travel into a business of aspirations,” says Robert Gabrick, author of Going The Greyhound Way. “They idealized their passengers and the country they lived in.”Greyhound was especially enmeshed in the fabric of American life during a crucial period in the nation’s history: World War II. From 1941 to 1945, the company aggressively adopted a patriotic mission, even going so far as to outline its priorities in its 1942 annual report to shareholders. Through its ads, meanwhile, Greyhound told consumers what it saw as its primary wartime function: transporting troops and other crucial personnel around the country (“This Army Moves By Greyhound”); after that came educating the public about efficient travel (“Serve America Now So You Can See America Later”), which mattered a lot now that fuel and rubber were being rationed.
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In a few hours I go to church to assist with the confirmation class’ rehearsal. I was asked to be a clothing monitor, to make sure the students don’t come dressed inappropriately. We can make sure the girls aren’t dressed for a nightclub, but we can’t say anything about their family members. I’ve seen some truly atrocious outfits walking in our doors.
The Lord will take you as you are, but pardon us if we know you can do better and just don’t want to make the effort. All of that facepalming in the back may be just for you.
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I don’t know if El Gordo found Flarda Man Friday yesterday but I found this;
Teen sues Florida school district over his Trump elephant,... and the young man may be from Florida but he’s a good guy.
FWIW; I saw this on Fox News and a Judge has issued an order allowing the kid to park at school. I couldn’t find an updated story on-line. -
Morning Dave, and the rest of the gang when you get up. Still reporting in from Big D on this dinky net book, so please just ignore the spelling and punctuation errors for a couple more days. Looks like a big schedule of college football on the charts for today, so I’ll turn in to even more of a couch potato this afternoon in search of the perfect game to watch. It’s pretty chilly up here in the north country, and I didn’t even bring any socks to wear with my shorts and tshirts – come to think of it, I don’t think I even own any socks. Also have to go see the pharmacist and renew my prescriptions for another 3 months. Even with the high drug prices, mine won’t cost as much as Hunter Bidet spends on a month’s supply of his drugs, much less his accessories like 15 year old Chinese girls. Security risk?? No way. Of course, neither are all those Chinese people over at Rice U.
OK, you all have a great day, and I’ll report back later when the day gets really going.
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#8 – I have it on good authority that Flarada Man is in hiding and still licking his wounds after the Jeffrey Tubein “whip it out” incident. He’s planning his comeback, but he knows that performance is going to be hard to top, no matter how creative his stupidity might be.
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Speaking of Jeffrey Tubein, here’s a few photos on the subject matter from Power Line. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-week-in-pictures-metoobin-edition.php
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My #5, 100 Years on a Dirty Dog: The History of Greyhound,….I left out the linky?
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I’m hearing that Jerry Jeff Walker has passed on.
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When I was in the oilfield, we used Greyhound to ship parts just about daily. Your instinct tells you bus equals slow shipping but actually you could get a package out and received within hours most places in Texas and Louisiana from Houston. Same day service for cheap! Before Amazon!
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You could get parts to a remote well site for pennies compared to paying a hotshot service. It was also quicker to drive downtown, put parts on the next bus stopping in Lafayette than it was to hassle with and pay for airfreight.
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I’ll tell the story of my last run-in with Jerry Jeff later. I will be back later.
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I took The Dog from Oklahoma City to San Francisco and back when I was in college.
Exciting it was not.
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We came down to Unity Park in Magnolia to join in on a Trump parade. You would not believe the number of vehicles and flags. Can’t get it all in one camera shot.
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Dave is doomed.
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In keeping with the dirty dog meme, my Roy Clark favorite (next to Maleguena) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8x3LCnYZw
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Never met Jerry Jeff, only his stunning trophy wife with a stunningly bad attitude. (Late 70s)
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I used to routinely ride the dog from Gainesville to Kissimmee to visit grandparents in my pre-teen years. That’s a 1-1/2 hour trip in a car. Do you know how many little towns with bus stops there are on US 441 between Gainesville and Kissimmee? It was about a five hour bus trip. I suppose “times are different” but I would never even consider dropping an unchaperoned ten year old kid on a bus for a trip across the state.
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When I was
going to college at NTSUdrinking early at Doc Holliday’s instead of going to English class, there were a couple of hippies who owned an old run down ranch west of Denton. They had it set up as a local live music venue, acts that would bring in a large crowd would set up in the barn, small acts that would bring in a more “intimate” audience played in a tack house, etc. Denton was a dry county back then so in order to consume adult beverages on the premises, you had to joing thier “club”, which also allowed you to camp on the property.They were seeing some success as North Texas was a musically oriented school (I don’t know if it was musically oriented because NTSU was a party school, or if NTSU was a party school because it was musically oriented) and those music students who weren’t aiming for the One O’clock Lab Band were aiming to establish a career in “Progressive Country” music, and they were those featured at this place.
In the summer of 1975 they thought they’d emulate Willie Nelson by hosting a live music all day picnic, with Jerry Jeff and the Lost Gonzo Band as headliners. Bought the ticket and the tee shirt, set up a tent in the woods so’s I’d have a close place to crawl to and stash all the beer I’d need for an all day and n ight concert, put my crushed up straw cowboy hat on my head, an occupied a spot on a high point in the pasture to watch the show with my buddies.
It was an enjoyable day, the parts I can remember anyway but, to make a long story short, Jerry Jeff never showed up. The Lost Gonzo Band did, but not Jerry. They did about three sets as Jerry was supposed to come on after them, each set began because they has just been told Jerry was on his way from the Denton airport. It seems Jerry DID arrive at the airport in Denton, but was “indisposed” upon arrival and he never got disposed enough to be able to perform.
I was still a fan, Viva Terlingua made me one, but it also turned me towards other artists like Guy Clark who were actually driving the Progressive Country movement, so my fan status waned a bit. A year or two later, Progressive Country was co-opted by “Outlaw” music and a beautiful moment had passed.
I’ve got to do some work outside today. Think I’m gonna pull my crushed up straw cowboy hat out of the closet and wear it while I’m out there.
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I saw Jerry Jeff a number of times over the years, usually at Fitzgerald’s, and usually inebriated (both of us). Probably the best show was sometime in the mid 80s at Wunsche Brothers in Spring.
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Texpat’s favorite Dr now wants a nationwide mask mandate.
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Did Hitler grope young girls too or would Groper Joe be the first totalitarian little girl Groper-n-Sniffer-n-Chief?
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Morning, chickadees. Chilly at Chez Harp, but I’m enjoying it after this prolonged hot locked-down summer we have endured.
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#14 #15 When I was a Tech Rep for Narco in Wichita I used Greyhound all the time to ship stuff to Beechcraft in Liberal Kansas and to the Cessna light plane plant in Wellington. Depending on when the bus ran I could often get it there in a couple of hours and they never failed.
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As far as I know, North Texas still has the premier music department in the state.
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#22 Hamous ain’t it the truth. I’ve told this story before but once when my uncle, aunt and cousins were visiting from Eclectic, one weekend in the Summer it was decided that my sister and I would go back up with them a stay for a few days. My uncle worked for Maxwell AFB and on the last day he took us to work with him and then around 9 AM took us to the bus terminal and told the driver to let us off, on the Federal Highway @ Marley Mill just south of Chisum’s Truck Stop. He said that we’d know when to get off. Sister was 8 and I was 6 and he let us off at the county road about 600 yards from the house of course he couldn’t see the house from the road. That would NEVER happen today.
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Speaking of the dog….when BSue and I divorced absolved deleted destroyed our first marriage I knew and sang every word to this famous Greyhound song.
To see her for the first time after 16 years I rode the “dog” from Houston to San Antonio. I figured if she was gonna kill me or something no sense causing my family more problems having to collect my truck. I think I rode that route 4 times always at the same time with the same driver. I sat in the front because I was riding at night, that driver never shut up. Wasn’t a bad trip and as they say the rest is history.
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BTW; I was fascinated with the place where uncle worked. He was in some sort of computer lab with two whole walls of 9 track tape drives. Buck Rodgers stuff! 😉
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I wonder if the r3gr3ssiv3s in their nice 400k to 700k suburban homes adorned with Harris-Groper Joe yard signs know that if Harris and Groper get in they’ll be doing their best to continue what the The Creature from the Kenyan lagoon started and work to build low income housing right next to their 440k-700k suburban homes.
r3gr3ssivism is a mental disorder
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It has been trying to rain here all morning, started sprinkling about 30 minutes ago and just now I hear thunder. Keeping fingers crossed.
Oh and when I went to the front door to check on the rain I saw the little half-grown Bambi walking across the small pasture ion the other side of the road. This is the second time that I’ve seen him in a few days. -
I’ve mentioned before that I have deep Florida roots on the Granny Hamous side of the family. One of my aunts has been working on the documentation for years. She’s finished up with Granny’s father’s side and received certificates from the state genealogical society. I think she’s about done with great grandmother’s side, which goes even further back, before statehood.
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Are the French growing some stones?
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I had some friends, old auction customers, who owned a big antique store for many years on the southside of Hwy. 290 in the Oak Hill area of Austin, right down the road from where Shannon used to run a meat market. I stopped by there on a Saturday afternoon to say hello and when I walked in Jerry Jeff and his wife had just bought a very large, ornate, carved oak hall tree, one that I had sold the store owners earlier.
Jerry Jeff and I carried the heavy hall tree to his old pickup and he insisted on standing up this massive 7′ tall piece against the back of the cab. I tried to talk him out of it while he told his wife to get in and drive. I offered Jerry Jeff some packing quilts and explained it would be safer to lay it on its back in the bed. I offered to give him rope to tie it off to the headache rack. He barked at me that he didn’t need my help anymore and he would take care of it.
So I stood back with my friends as we watched Walker’s wife peel out headed west, slinging gravel, onto 290 with Jerry Jeff Walker standing in the bed braced against the hall tree trying to keep it standing up against the fierce wind. That was the last time I saw him in person and was one of the dumbest things I ever saw in my life.
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I don’t want to be the guy to prove Godwin’s Law but …….
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This is a long piece about how even the most leftwing fanatics can be mugged by reality and discover the truth. There is hope for some of these people, probably more than we realize. If this 57 year old, die hard Marxist atheist can come around, there have to be many more out there.
Do read the whole thing.
Why I Voted for Trump: A Coming Out Story
I must finally bring up my identity. I am one of the most marginalized people there is, the only category I do not check is race, but even then, I come from the trailer park. I am extremely low income, fully disabled with moderate to severe chronic pain+ for 20+ years, mentally ill, gender nonconforming, LGBTQ, college dropout and someone who depends fully on the safety net for her survival.
and this,
This brings me to how I began to see conservatives favorably. My article drew a lot of hate. I had anxiety posting it, and spent four months making sure I got it RIGHT. I could only envision what I was going to lose when I hit publish. I knew the reaction would not be good, but I did not yet know the full cost. Or that a whole new world was about to open up for me.
One thing I never imagined is that it became a catalyst for meeting local conservatives and finding they were great! Tolerant, fun loving, open to discourse — all the things I no longer saw in the left. I did conservative talk radio KVI with John Carlson a few times and was treated with respect. I was invited to the big Republican fundraiser this February, the Lincoln Day Dinner.
I went prepared to catalog the hate I encountered. Instead, I had a GREAT time! I witnessed no hate, only love. Trust me, the left had trained me to find it but it just was not there. I was shocked. I was wrong. Again.
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I guess I have been properly programmed. We ran with the Trump parade about halfway then ducked out and cut over so we could see the whole thing coming. I went into a donut shop while we were waiting and had to put my mask on. Went back over with my wife as the parade was coming thru. About half of it had passed and I realized I still had my damned mask on! All these patriots going by I’m sure laughing at the stupid democrat standing outside with his mask on lol.
My wife was going FB Live with it and you can hear me when I realized it. NSFW or around kids lol.
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I’ve determined this is the best metal video ever produced.
Especially the drummer’s part.
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My rosary babies were sent out into the world this morning. It was sad to see them go, but I’m hoping they get used.
Folks also donated $65 towards the cost of my materials, so I can make more later on.
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#35 Hamous, that is too cool! My folks came to Dale county in 1854, then when my great grandpa came of age in the 1870’s he moved about 7 miles east and back into Dale County. They had split the county in half, right down the middle and Haw Ridge, where he was raised was just barely in Coffee County.
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#38 This is America? No Amerika……. ~SPITS~ FWIW; my daddy would NOT beleive any of this!
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So since it is rainy I’ve cleaned out the dang fridge dumped N washed 9 Rubbermaid containers/lids, 3 cheap disposable ones. Butt rubbed an 8 Lb Russian Boar roast and put it in the fridge, I’ll start smoking it about daylight in the morning. I have to try out my new smoker AND I have a lot of pecan split up. Oh and the Grey Foxes are going to eat real good tonight and Lil’ Dawg enjoyed a Bambi Steak bone that was about 2″ long and a big leftover T Bone. Dawg can clean every bit of marrow out of leg bone in a few minutes.
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I”ve not had time to watch much on the tube but the main TV is usually on Fox and earlier today Buden was in Bucks County PA and I stopped to listen to his wife screaming and screaming about what a fine man Joe was and they’ve obviously hired a bunch of Bozo’s to sit in their cars at these events and honk their horns, damnedest thing that I’ve seen, I guess that their trying to compete with Trump? He has thousands of loud supporters and poor old Biden has none. Pitiful, jus pitiful…Oh and a little while ago I saw the LIAR-In-Chief, in Miami and the had the same damn horns.
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Well, I got anudder tent.
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FWIW; my daddy would NOT beleive any of this!
My kid’s daddy does not believe any of this.
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…and they’ve obviously hired a bunch of Bozo’s to sit in their cars at these events and honk their horns, damnedest thing that I’ve seen
And many of those were Trump supporters who had a megaphone. They could be heard shouting “Four more years!”
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So who beat up the Turtle?
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An irritated Joe Biden lashed out at a group of Trump supporters who tried to crash his campaign appearance in Pennsylvania.
“We don’t do things like those chumps out there with the microphones, those Trump guys,” he told supporters ensconced in about 130 cars at a drive-in rally at Bucks County Community College in Newtown.
He was referring to scores of fans of President Trump, driving pickup trucks and SUVs draped with American flags and campaign banners, who invaded a nearby parking lot — within earshot of the candidate — to honk horns and try to shout the Democrat down.
Yeah, Biden supporters go into restaurants and yell at patrons while they’re eating or beat people with skateboards.
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Well, I got anudder tent.
Dang I hate to say it guys but we need to get together and have a “Tough Love” talk with Sarge, he’s got the “Bound To’s” and that is far worse than the “Can’t Hep It’s” buying every dang old tent he can find. I’ve seen this before and it doesn’t end well,…..ask me how I know…….>>>>>>>SCRAAAM!!!>>>>>>>> 😀
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One more thing, the anointed one mentioned OBAMA Care and I had to mute the TV, I could have bit a 16 penny nail into! At the debate, Biden said “nobody lost their healthcare coverage with Obama Care”! I just about blew the screen out of the TV. At 62 years old I lost my company insurance, something I’ve had all my adult life but my policy was determined to be a “Cadillac Plan” and unfair so I had to get cheap crappy insurance with $8500 deductible for 80% 0f the cost of the good stuff, year 2 it cost 110% of the old policy. Oh I could have kept my old policy if I wanted to pay 3 times what I used to pay! AND my company paid 60%….. ~SPITS~
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54. Yup. And millions of other people who lost their insurance heard him say that during the debate. If they weren’t already, they’re Trump voters now.
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buying every dang old tent he can find.
Not every one.
Just the historically significant ones.
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When I heard Biden say that no one lost their healthcare, I came up out of my chair hollering.
Maybe he was talking about House and Senate members.
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I have been thinking. Remember when the wuhan lung flu started there were all those videos of chinese dropping like flies in the street? How come we are not seeing that anywhere? Could they have been faked? Would the media and government lie to us? Curious minds want to know. Why aren’t the homeless dropping like flies?
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Well, Rice lost in double overtime to MTSU which is considered by many to be in the 3 worst teams in America. The finish is indescribable, and maybe in a day or two once I have been able to put it all together, I’ll try to explain it. Sort of like watching two incompetent kids trying to fight each other and winding up hitting themselves in they eye – or any number of other analogies like that. The highlight reel across the nation will include a Rice field goal attempt where the ball hit the right upright, then the crossbar, then the left upright, then the crossbar again, then bouncing back onto the playing field and not going through as a field goal. Never seen that before, and probably no one else ever has either. And that’s just one example.
OK, time for some world series. More later.
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Why aren’t the homeless dropping like flies?
It’s afraid of them.
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The daughter works in a seniors home and has contracted the lung rot from a nurse at the facility. As her husband was down here last Sunday for the chicken harvest he may have shared it with us so we are hanging out and isolating ourselves on the farm for another week. Daughter said that compared to a regular flu, flu being a one, the lung rot is a two or three. We have no symptoms and will wait and see. Hubby and the three kids got tested yesterday but the assumption is they will all get it. Bad news is if they test positive all the kids in their classes will be sent home for two weeks as a precaution.
Daughter feels like typhoid Mary is beating herself up over this. To make her feel better I graciously told her that if I get it and die I will not speak to her again. I am sure that made her feel better.
Updates as warranted.
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Y’all may remember my friend who was diagnosed with leukemia last year. She went through six rounds of chemo and a bone marrow transplant through the year long ordeal. No sign of the cancer, praise be to God. But a month ago her 14 year old son got the rona. She wasn’t concerned but obviously the rest of us were, because she had just recently had her entire immune system purposely destroyed. She never caught it.
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Needing to do something different for a change, I treated the next-door neighbors to supper take-out from Luby’s. Next Door is the unusual pseudo-family of the 80-y.o. retiree with medical problems, his 85-y.o. church friend who was the Marine Corps’ miss.beach.head of 1950, and the homeless vet who takes care of his house and 2 chihuahuas when he isn’t at home. Between them, the Marine and the homeless vet (estimated age ~60 y.o.) have saved his life at least once this year when he keeled over. They revived him and called for an ambulance. He has not completely recovered from the problems that his doctors have found and treated so far this year, so he needs to be watched around the clock.
The Luby’s was different from the hundreds of times I’ve been there before. I arrived at 5:30 to pick up the meals I had phoned in. There was a decent number of diners already seated and eating, but not a single person in line along the counter. I guess the very most recent time I had been there was Thanksgiving 2019, when it was so jammed that we almost died of tiredness from standing in line before we had our meals.
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They found an expected, but undiscovered (until now) tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Surrounding the sarcophagus were thousands of golden balls and the sarcophagus itself was wrapped in a golden foil. When they examined it closely, they found a layer of fine chocolate under the foil.
They had finally found the tomb of Pharaoh Rocher.
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A “nationally known” university expelled several male students after they were found to have dipped their testicles in glitter and sending pictures to hundreds of female students.
When interviewed later, one of the expelled men said, “In retrospect, the whole thing was pretty nuts”.
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Murkowski is voting Yes on Barrett.
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Looks like banking on kiddie porn was a bad idea.
“Cuties” turned out to be ugly for Netflix.
The streaming service has watched subscription cancellations skyrocket by 800% after the French coming-of-age film triggered a boycott in early September, analyses show. Within two days of the movie’s premiere, #CancelNetflix became the top trending topic on Twitter and a petition on Change.org garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures.
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WB
Boo Hiss Hiss
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Now I know why I check in here;
Sarge;
Its backpacks that are the actual problem——-
wagon;
They had finally found the tomb of Pharaoh Rocher.😀
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And speaking of Chocolates I’m not a big fan but I often get the wife the assorted bag of Lindor Chocolates and I do sneak out a few 60% dark ones. They are really fine….Pssst don’t tell her.
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You decide
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1320107370312323073
Apparently Trump’s press secretary has sent this out as well but i can’t find it.
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73 dave
Lindt chocolate is the shiznit.The dark Lindor truffles are divine. I very frequently have a couple squares of the Lindt 95% as a “dessert” in the evenings.
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I didn’t know they had dark ones.
Wish you hadn’t said anything.
/walking over to grab two Dove pieces
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LOL. I didn’t believe you. But you’re right. I’ve never seen anything like that. If it wasn’t on camera I still wouldn’t believe you.
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Good night, Couch denizens. Sweet dreams.
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Austin City Limits still sucks. Some poofter was prancing on the stage. Turns out he’s Loudon Wainwright III’s son. He made sure to tell the audience (that isn’t there; empty hall) that he lives with his husband (emphasis his) in Laurel Canyon.
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It’s time to get this day moving.
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#52 Obviously Joe Biden went to one of those “How to Win Friends and Influence People” seminars.
CHAPTER 1: FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE
Principle 1 — Don’t criticize, condemn or complain…. Fail, all he does is criticize.
Principle 2 — Give honest and sincere appreciation…. Fail, Nope he is entitled.
Principle 3 — Arouse in the other person an eager want….. Fail, Yes I want my taxes raised and my gasoline to be $5 bucks a gallon. Oh and do away with my healthcare please.
WAYS TO GET PEOPLE TO LIKE YOUPrinciple 1 — Become genuinely interested in other people. Biden only cares about himself.
Principle 2 — Smile No, Sneer
Principle 3 — Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. Yeah like Deplorable’s and Gun N Bible Clingers.
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About my #83 Why are the left always so angry? I saw Biden’s wife screeching and screaming yesterday and it reminded me of Hitlery or Fauxahontas. Do you really convince a large number of people to vote for you by just being pissed off ALL the time? I don’t get it. Trump has upbeat rallies where he says even though we did good before the plague we can do even better when we come out of this. Our best days are ahead and Shinning City on the hill. The left is just negative, we have to punish ourselves because we are a greedy bunch of bastards. Biden has been out on the stump for the last couple of days and he comes off angry as hell.
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#84 Super Dave says:
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Biden has been out on the stump for the last couple of days and he comes off angry as hell.
Well it’s a dark winter unless he wins. He reminds me of the angry old man who lived in the corner house and yelled “Get offa my lawn!” at the kids walking by.
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So what are Trump’s chances? Watching his rallies vs Biden’s funerals I think Trump will do fine in many of the swing states. The enthusiasm for Trump is of the charts while Biden is just vote for me because I’m NOT Trump. Trump will carry Texas Georgia and Florida for sure and most likely North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Then pick off a few more, Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and or Michigan?
The way I see it, it will come down to turnout for Trump against Democrats stealing votes. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots would be good for several days after the election AND signature verification doesn’t matter at all. Also after the ballots are separated from the letters the ballot counts so they can’t be challenged at a later date. You can bet that Philadelphia will have many more votes than it has citizens. -
Honor is the American spelling of the word meaning, among things, (1) great respect or recognition, and (2) to show respect for. Honour is the preferred spelling outside the U.S.
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There was a second Trump Rally Car Parade in Bellville, yesterday. This one wasn’t organized by the the local Republican Party. A few of the previous week’s participants did it.
Biden can’t draw flies to a rally.
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Morning gang. Following the fiasco that was Rice’s purported football game with MTSU (Montana, Missouri, Mississippi, Minneapolis…???; no, Middle is their first name), we watched the World Series. And again we were treated to a good ball game with a surprise ending. Series is now tied at 2 games each.
I’m gonna try to get my head around yesterday’s football game and come up with some objective comments, both pro and con, about my observations. Off the cuff though, I can tell you that our players deserve better coaching than they are getting, and that starts at the top if the Athletic Department. That part is obvious. No college in the country other than Rice would tolerate this failure and embarrassment year in and year out without making changes.
In other news, you all stay warm and have a great day. More later.
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Utah boy befriends skeleton.
Watch video.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/utah-boy-halloween-skeleton-best-friend/
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MTSU is most prominently known for its Recording Industry, Aerospace, Music and Concrete Industry Management programs. The university has partnered in research endeavors with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,[7] the United States Army, and the United States Marine Corps.[8] In 2009, Middle Tennessee State University was ranked among the nation’s top 100 public universities by Forbes magazine.[9]
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Concrete Industry Management
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Industry_Management
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So what are Trump’s chances?
I think he’ll win all the states he won in 2016 and pick up New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Nevada. I’ve heard some prognosticators say he could flip Virginia because of their blackface, gun-grabbing governor. I don’t think that’s likely. Way too many swamp creatures around DC.
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I think he’ll win all the states he won in 2016 and pick up New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Nevada.
Wow. Aren’t we feeling confident this morning.
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Guess he sleeps well at night.
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If November 3rd don’t hurry up and get here my wife is going to have a breakdown.
Oh, looky there. Hunnerd!
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Georgia is electing two Senators.
Looks like Republican Perdue is going to win one of them.The other race, a wide open jungle primary, looks like a Republican loss.
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#99 – As he reportedly responded when asked by a reporter how he sleeps at night: Naked, with a super model. What else do you need to know?
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Alabama Senate race: Jones outraises Tuberville, even as former Auburn coach widens lead.
Fundraising reports for the third quarter of the year (July to September) were due to the Federal Election Commission Oct. 15. The reports show Jones raised $10.4 million with expenses of $11.3 million leaving him with $7.9 million on hand. Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach who is making his first run for political office, raised $3.3 million, spent $2.2 million and has $1.7 million cash remaining.
Doug Jones
Jones has raised some $25 million since the start of the election cycle with roughly 83% coming from out-of-state contributors. That total is the fourth-highest amount of out-of-state contributions among any Senator, according to the Center for Responsive Politics’ OpenSecrets.org, putting Jones behind only Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-KY, at 92%; Susan Collins, R-Maine at 91% and Lindsey Graham, R-SC at 87%.
Yesterday our local political radio guy said that Jones has raised more than $26 million with 80% of it coming from out of state.
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I notice Murkowski read the polls and decided she better vote to confirm Barrett or lose her Senate seat in 2 years. She has managed to hang onto her office by 48.62% in 2004, 39.49% in 2010 and 44.36% in 2016. Granted, Alaska has an open general election system where everybody runs against every other candidate, but Murkowski has never been able to reach a majority vote, only a plurality.
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Msgr. Golasinki had an interesting homily this morning based on the first reading:
Thus says the LORD: You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
He started off by saying “You probably won’t hear this in many parishes this morning. What they won’t tell you is that it is also required that aliens obey ALL the laws of the host country!” He then went on to link human trafficking with illegal immigration, certainly a form of oppression. He also talked about Lila Rose and the videos exposing PP, as well as all the money PP spends on getting democrats elected and we should remember that when we vote.
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The reports show Jones raised $10.4 million with expenses of $11.3 million leaving him with $7.9 million on hand.
Huh? Is that some a that common core math?
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#105
Evidence to those that rage against the two party duopoly – open voting, no one is happy.
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I stumbled across this track event on YouTube this morning. This is a great one with Emma Coburn in Shanghai at an international event. You gotta watch this girl run the 3,000 Meter Steeplechase. She was sensational and everyone there thought one of the African girls were sure to win.
I looked her up and she was born, raised and lives in Crested Butte, Colorado. She was a track star University of Colorado in Boulder.
Crested Butte – 8,909 ft. elevation
Boulder – 5,328 ft. elevation
Shanghai – 13 ft. elevation
No wonder she didn’t even break a sweat. Just think of the natural lung capacity growing up and training at 9,000 feet above sea level.
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107 Hamous
The amount raised and amount spent only covers the last quarter. Jones must have had around $8 million already on hand from previous quarters.
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106 Hamous
I get so angry at the rabbis around here who hijack that quote from Exodus and then use it to justify open borders and illegal immigration. Over and over again.
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The latest Minnesota poll has the Senate race in a dead heat. Perhaps a Trump steal could drag the Republican challenger across the finish line.
Now that would really be something.
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111. Texpat
US priests erroneously do the same thing. This is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2241 The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protection of those who receive him.
Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants’ duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.
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#107 #110 As I stated, Jones raised $26 million since he began running and he is filling up the airwaves with total BS says he’s a Trump supporter?!?! WHUT?! He voted to throw Trump out of office after the Impeachment fiasco. He tried to crawfish on that vote but as Texpat pointed out, since he is a Democrat he had to choice but to tow the line for them. They had the keys to the bank.
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Wow, just wow !
At American Thinker. This is wild stuff and hasn’t been verified yet, but…
GTV, a Chinese dissident billionaire’s Taiwan-based media outlet, is releasing sordid, depressing videos and photographs of a person purported to be Hunter Biden engaging in sex and seemingly smoking crack. That’s not the big news. The big news is that the same outlet claims that (a) Communist China owns Joe Biden; (b) Joe Biden sold out CIA assets in China who were then executed or imprisoned; and (c) GTV has millions of images showing other presumably influential people in comprising positions. If all this is true, we may see a complete realignment in Western politics.
The Hunter Biden videos and images are at GTV’s video site. I won’t give the link here because the material is pornographic. However, the following are two cropped pictures. In both, the person appearng to be Hunter is naked and with a woman. In the second picture, Hunter appears to be lighting a crack pipe while engaged in sexual activity with the woman…
and,
First: China has long owned Biden thanks to its having compromising information about his family (and possibly about him too).
Second: Biden identified CIA assets in China. The back story is that, between 2010 and 2012, China executed or imprisoned 18 to 20 assets who had bravely worked with the CIA, destroying a critical intelligence network.
Third: Guo’s outlets have “millions of videos and photos” of people who have worked with the Chinese against their own countries. If true, this implies that Guo managed to get into China’s “blackmail” database and can release that information.
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COVID cure.
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Better check your trees, Super Dave.
Seated at his kitchen table, finishing off the remains of a Saturday breakfast, Hunter Hollingsworth’s world was rocked by footsteps on his front porch and pounding at the door, punctuated by an aggressive order: “Open up or we’ll kick the door down.”
Surrounded on all sides of his house, and the driveway blocked, Hollingsworth was the target of approximately 10 federal and state wildlife officials packing pistols, shotguns and rifles. And what was Hollingsworth’s crime? Drugs, armed robbery, assault, money laundering? Not quite.
https://www.agweb.com/article/government-cameras-hidden-private-property-welcome-open-fields
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Don’t get tricked
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/whos-behind-the-mask/
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#106
I saw that reading and was worried about our priest running off with it. We have a new priest that arrived while I was streaming mass at home. Church Friend told me he’s an Anglican convert, and as such is one of the few married priests in the Catholic Church. He seems to be (a tad) more conservative than our pastor, so he focused his homily on studying the two parties to decide for ourselves – but he reference St. John Paul II’s encyclical on the culture of death, and how we should avoid it.
He danced that fine line, but those of us who could read between the lines understood that “culture of death” includes abortion.
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118. From the same website, The Mongrol Horde.
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#118
It is astonishing how much we don’t know about what our gubmint at various levels is up to.
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Also from the same source…PIG WARS.
In 2016, Gaskamp’s smartphone pinged with a mortality alert, automatically triggered when a collared pig is motionless for over six hours. Assuming the wild pig was dead, Gaskamp hopped in his pickup truck and went to find the carcass. “I found the pig motionless in some brush, with a bullet hole on its hip,” he remembers.
Shouldering an AR-15 .223, Gaskamp walked toward the carcass. Without warning, the pig jumped up and ran, but not before Gaskamp buried a round in its shoulder. “I backed off thinking I’d wait a couple of minutes and the pig would be dead,” Gaskamp recalls.
Three hours later, he was still tracking the GPS signal.
Shot twice, Gaskamp’s mortality-alert pig had swum the Red River across a 150-yard stretch of high water into Texas. Gaskamp got permission from the Texas landowner and began following the pig on Texas ground, unable to get a shot off before the pig jumped in the river and swam back to Oklahoma. “Over two days I was going back and forth across the river in a Jon boat trying to bring down this pig. I went back to Oklahoma again, only for the pig to go back to Texas. Finally, she was going up a 200’ rise in elevation off the river when I shot her in the neck and got the collar,” Gaskamp says.
It had taken three shots to bring down a 150 lb. sow.
https://www.agweb.com/article/revenge-of-the-wild-pigs-goes-toxic-NAA-chris-bennett
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Someone finally found a use for those nasty little dogs.On my dog list, they occupy the position just above chihuahuas on the bottom.
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Depends on whether you want a lap dog or not. All my friends who have chi’s are all sold on what good pets they are.
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Those smaller terriers are fierce little dogs. My mom had a Jack Russell. That was a smart dog, and fearless. That was her undoing when she tried to face off a couple ‘yotes.
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I wouldn’t own a chihuahua. Too dang nervous.
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A while back I read an interview with this famous dog trainer. He had trained dozens of different breeds and was asked if there were any he wouldn’t try to work with. He said there were two – Pugs because they’re just too dumb and Jack Russells because they are too stubborn and won’t listen.
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He mentions non-binary options for matrimony, among abortion and other non-negotiable issues.
Biden is listed by name.
Love this priest!
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Well, spent some of the day rehashing the football program at Rice with several other interested parties, and the one point of agreement is that something is bad wrong over there, and that the current senior management is not capable of dealing with it. Not much else going on to talk about. Just thought I would check in.
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131 El Gordo
I might check and see if the Chinese covert ops at Rice have some connection to Hunter Biden.
I went over to the Chinese dissident billionaire’s website which is a bit strange given that Steve Bannon supposedly helped him set it up. They have very X-Rated video of a man who is either Hunter Biden or his twin with a Chinese woman in a hotel. It’s worse than NSFW. There has to be some CCP blackmail operation working here if it’s legit. The billionaire seems to have been able to hack into some Chicom intel database and claims there are many Americans, especially prominent politicians, on this database in incredibly compromised situations. He said it’s not all about sex. There are all kinds of money and deals changing hands. We’ll see how it all sorts out.
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I read that dissident article yesterday. Very bizarre. I don’t think it will ever see the light of day, though. The Goebbels Wing of the democrat party has pronounced that all Biden stories have already been “debunked”. If you disagree you’re a Natzie and must be fed to the lions.
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Good late afternoon/early evening (take your pick) Hamsters.
Well the Packers-Texans game in Houston was certainly interesting this afternoon. It was especially so after reading an article in today’s Chron sports page about possible trades or acquisitions the Texans might be able to make to fill the holes in the team’s playing efforts. Sadly, their season thus far has been dismal, ranging from mostly to totally dismal with one exception. (Thank you, Lord, for that one.) IMHO today’s effort rates as mostly dismal for the Texans.
As longtime Packers fans and recent shareholders, spouse and I would like to see JJ Watt playing back home in Wisconsin for Green Bay. Soon. Did notice at game’s end when the teams traditionally pass each other to shake hands or briefly speak to opposing team members that JJ and Aaron Rodgers exchanged a few words and hugged each other as though they are perhaps good friends. Have no idea what the Packers would have to give the Texans in exchange for JJ’s services, but it might be worth exploring.
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From yesterday:
HEADLINE: Katfish says:
OCTOBER 23, 2020 AT 9:08 AM
#2 – Yo BC – is that the shooting soiree put on by Weasel & the folks from ACE’s Sunday evening shooting thread?You are mostly correct. This was the Texas MoMe. Weasel was there along with several others; it was great to be able to meet and visit with them in “Meat Space.” 1200 acre spread near Corsicanna, beautiful scenery and just what I needed to get excited about everything again. Also got to visit with Mrs. Bonecrushers cousins in Kaufman; really great folks.
This reminds me that we need to have a Hamster gathering/Brewhaha in the near future; it has been too long.
Life is good.
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133 Hamous
If this Chinese guy has what he says he has it will impossible to contain it. What I saw was raunchy, raw and bad. One X-rated photo was stamped something like 23,000 out of 24,987. There’s just too much of it to keep from spilling out all over the internet.
When Twitter and Fakebook tried to shut down the Hunter laptop scandal it backfired and was linked in so many places, the original New York Post story reached 53 million hits without social media and that was 3 days ago.
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#109 Texpat
Either the blonde lady who won it all in such grand fashion is rather tall or most of the other runners are not very tall. What an amazing race indeed. 🙂
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I was digging around in the freezer and came across an 8 Lb pork roast from that Russian Boar that I harvested in East Texas a couple of years ago. Since my new grill has a gas grill on one side, charcoal on the other and a firebox on the end for smoking I thought I’d give it a shot. I started real early and smoked it for about 10 hours and cut some up, used the juice to make gravy, fixed rice and Charro beans and man that was some fine eating. Oh the storm came through here in the spring and took out one of our pecan trees is the wood that I used for smoking.
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Yeah. We know.
We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. – Gropey Joe
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The son-i-l who was here was tested for lung rot, it was negative so we are in the clear. Daughter wears mask all day at work got it. Teenage drama queen wears mask at home gets it. Other two kids, no masks, test negative. Go figure.
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I know it’s anecdotal but everyone I personally know who’s caught it were militant maskers.
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While at LDIL’s surprise birthday party yesterday, Hubby and I got to visit her parents. They are very, very nice folks, but both speak with very strong Mexican accents. I know that LDIL has been taking her mother to the eye doctor for those eyeball injections that give me the heebie-jeebies. My mom got them as well, but they help those with diabetes to avoid vascular bleeds and blindness. We were discussing her eye condition, and she explained that while she can drive locally, like going to the grocery store, but was becoming more uncomfortable with doing so.
When I figured out for sure what she was saying, I jumped up and grabbed Handsome Son, who had parked my car in a neighbor’s yard for the surprise part of the party. He and I headed down to my house where I retrieved my mother’s reading machine. It had been returned from the Video Eye company, where it had been inspected and refurbished years ago. Mom said she was having some kind of problem with it, but they couldn’t find anything to be repaired. Nonetheless, they replaced some computer parts and checked the camera lens before returning it to me. The company rep told me that they hardly saw that model any more, as old as it was, but it was in fine shape. He tried to get me to upgrade Mom to a newer model for $3000, but I declined. He did share with me that ours, working as well as it was, would probably be worth about $1000 if I wanted to sell it. Mom had never used it since the refurb, since she had her big fall right before it was shipped back to my home. It still had the packing plastic around the swing arm.
We took it back to Handsome Son’s house and I showed his in-laws how to use it. It has 3 magnification levels: 25x, 50x, 100x. It also has a B&W/Color option, and it also shows reverse contrast, like a photo negative, which was how my mom used it – white print on a black background. I showed them the buttons for it and the husband laughed and said, “No more excuses for late bills!” We all chuckled and they were grateful for it.
Today, Hubby picked up a TIG welder from the father, on loan so he can use it on the car that he’s building. I don’t think it was a thank-you for the reading machine, though. I just think they are really, really nice folks. Handsome Son has married into a wonderful family.
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#141: I read somewhere that 70% of cases were dedicated mask wearers.
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143. Yup. FB censored me for quoting that study. It was a study by the CDC.
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#144: Maybe here, the number one source for real news.
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Night all.
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Night, E.G. Looks like everyone else quit early tonight.
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