This is really horrible. I can’t believe this man is actually running for the presidency.
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Second!
Thanks, Texpat!
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The video would be hilarious if that IDIOT didn’t have a good chance to be President.
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I’ll bring this over from earlier this morning;
Oh and the storm plowed through here about 2 AM, dropped ½” of rain and was gone by the time I let Dawg out a 3:30. It was breezy not any high wind but it did knock over a flowerpot on the front porch no limbs down in the yard but I’ll check later after sunup.
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Silly Girl Scouts. All Women’s Lives Matter… Only when they tow the correct propoganda line.
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I told the children last night to bundle up. I’m not turning on the heater in October. Currently 66F upstairs and 65F downstairs.
I had to actually put on socks and long pants yesterday.
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Well looky here; US GDP jumps 7.4 percent in third quarter, a record-setting rebound.
The US economy staged a record-setting rebound from the coronavirus crisis in the third quarter, the feds said Thursday — but there’s still a long way to go before the nation makes a full recovery.
America’s gross domestic product — the value of all goods and services produced here — grew by roughly 7.4 percent from July to September as consumers and businesses emerged from the pandemic-related lockdowns that led to a 9 percent contraction in the second quarter.
That growth equates to an annual rate of 33.1 percent, by far the largest since modern record-keeping began in 1947 and nearly twice the previous record surge of 16.7 percent in the first quarter of 1950, the US Commerce Department data show. Economists were expecting an annualized 31.9 percent jump after the second quarter’s 31.4 percent plunge.
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I had to actually put on socks and
longpants yesterday.Insert dreaded acronym here. 😉
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Dispatching Child Protection Agency to Missouri City now.
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The lovely Mrs. Bonecrusher decided that 66 was too cold for Freddy, so she turned on the heat. Freddy is a male betta that lives in a big flower vase by the front door. Freddy the Front Door Fish.
I was nowhere near as concerned about Freddy as I am about the batch I have fermenting; if it gets too cold the fermentation can stop and seeing as how it is getting close to the end it may not restart. I didn’t check it this morning, but yesterday morning it was still active. By Sunday it will have been active for 2 weeks, which is quite a long time.
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#7
Biden/Obama did that.
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Biden/Obama did that.
Of course.
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This is not a racist comment, I was told a few examples but this was the only one I could remember right off. They work hard at this.
Try this- Google image “happy white women”, then try on DuckDuckGo. See any difference?
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I think my body is finally trying to do catch-up on lost sleep from earlier this week. I think I actually fell asleep before midnight last night – that hasn’t happened in a while – and I woke up at 5:30 to take a potty break. I went back to bed, thinking I’d be up for the day in a half hour or so.
The next time my eyes opened, it was 7:30. So I’m eating breakfast and checking in here. I think I’m going to try to fast the rest of today. Trying to decide when and how much to exercise later. I guess it’ll depend upon how awake I am and if my constitution can take it without eating.
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HEADLINE: Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good? Here’s What a Group of 200 Scientists Think
One vaccine to rule them all. That was the blue sky goal for a new global collaboration with hopes to beat coronaviruses. I’m not just talking about SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for our current pandemic. I’m talking about all coronaviruses—past, present, and future—even those that haven’t yet made the leap into humans.
Published in Science, the unique collaboration tapped nearly 200 scientists crossing academic and industry borders, and asked: do coronaviruses have a shared pressure point? If so, can we exploit it to engineer a universal vaccine against the entire viral family?
Short answer: yes, and maybe. The team brought the whole modern biology toolshed to decipher three coronaviruses: SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and MERS-CoV, each of which has wreaked havoc on human society. By analyzing how these viruses interact with human cells, the team was able to find a handful of critical shared proteins that the viruses use to hijack our bodies.
/SNIP
Moving from theory to practical validation, the group then used CRISPR and RNA interference—a Nobel Prize-winning technique that silences the message of a gene—to snip out over 300 viral proteins from the screen, one by one. They then infected human cells in Petri dishes with these kneecapped mutants to see if they could still replicate and thrive.The result was a lofty number of 73 proteins necessary for coronaviruses to replicate themselves. Some were familiar to scientists and validated the viral map: PGES2 (catchy, I know), for example, interacts with the common “N” proteins on all three viruses—validating the previous computer modeling results.
But do they do anything in real life? In their next gargantuan step, the team analyzed data from roughly 740,000 people who had either tested positive for Covid-19 or were presumed positive. Here’s the kicker: some people were prescribed a drug called indomethacin, which grabs onto PGES-2, and potentially rips it away from the viral “N” protein—hence, molecular distancing. With the protein handshake between virus and human cells now gone, it means that the virus can’t replicate itself as normal, at least in theory.
Medical billing data suggests that might be the case. People who took indomethacin were less likely to end up in the hospital or require inpatient services than those who took another similar drug that didn’t target PGES-2.
In other words: using computer modeling, genetics, molecular biology, and real-world data, the team may have found a human-viral protein handshake that’s conserved across the three most deadly coronaviruses in our history.
Do read the whole thing.
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#14 TT: From Sat night to Tues night, I think the most sleep I got was, maybe 5 hours. Last night I was in bed by 7, after falling asleep on the couch for an hour. I woke up around midnight to pee, then back to sleep. I woke up feeling refreshed this morning. Last night I felt run-down, kind of like on the verge of getting sick. This morning, there is no trace of that.
It really is amazing that when you let your body do what it is supposed to do by getting some rest, you get better; almost like it was that way by DESIGN or sumptin. . . . -
I had to actually put on socks and long pants yesterday.
Weenie.
Haven’t had on socks, long pants, a shirt with a collar, or actual shoes since mid-March.
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I’m going to guess that he is right over the target.
Deep Staters gonna deep six that which is dangerous to the Deep State. I can’t imagine not keeping copies of said documents in both hard copy and digital formats.
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I’m getting close to the end of my second 54 Day Novena for the country. This one is from Church Militant; praying not with them but on their schedule. I finished the US Grace Force novena some days ago.
I was talking to a lady recently who was going through a bad time in her marriage. She also is Catholic, so I shared with her that I prayed a rosary and a Divine Mercy Chaplet every day, which is also prayed on the rosary beads. She was praying her rosary, but had never heard of the DMC.
The DMC has some opening prayers, but then the decade cycle begins. Each bead in the decade has prayed on it “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.” The first time I prayed it, I started crying. The repetition of that phrase really brought home how much sin is in the world. Nowadays, I explained to her, I dedicate each bead to a person/group as I say that prayer. I have a bead for myself, my husband, my children, my priest, all priests, each sibling and spouse, cousins, deceased relatives (whom I hope are in Purgatory and can benefit from my prayer), Pope, governmental leaders (all), leaders of other countries, any other particular person or group, and then I blanket it over the whole world.
By the time I’m finished with the 50 beads in the five decades, I feel better. It helps me to know that I’m praying for those who I feel need it most as well as those for whom could just use some spiritual support.
She liked that idea. She said she was going to look it up.
So, it’s rosary and DMC time now, before I start my work day.
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I can’t imagine why they would not have made and sent copies of those documents.
Better yet, just scan and email. They’re in a modern office. Should be able to scan 100 sheets front and back in about a minute.
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Part of the big clean-up that is required for our country to have any hope of survival must start in our educational system; K-12, undergrad and post grad included. Most importantly, our universities must not be allowed to be indoctrination centers.
HEADLINE: Georgetown University Hires Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok to Teach Undergraduate Students
sTRZWQKLDK along with Comey and many others belongs in prison for, at a minimum, lying under oath to a FISA judge.
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HEADLINE: So You Say You Want a Revolution?
The parallels between early 1900s Russia and today are interesting. The left wants no part of trying to change things within the system, they want violent overthrow and will lie, cheat, steal, and murder to accomplish their objectives. The left is like the Borg on Star Trek; they can not be reasoned with nor negotiated with, they have no interest in anything but their own power. They must be utterly destroyed or they will destroy the USA. There is no possibility of a negotiated settlement; attempts to achieve this by the right only gives power to the left. The left want war and will keep pushing until they get it or the right commits suicide and simply capitulates. The end of the game is the same; either the left is utterly defeated or a whole bunch of us are going to get killed by the left.
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French Islamist beheads one, kills another, stabs a third – in a Catholic church.
NICE, France (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Muslim jihadi has gone on a stabbing spree in Nice’s Notre-Dame Basilica, killing the male sacristan, beheading an elderly woman at the baptismal font and knifing a fleeing third woman who died in a nearby café.
Armed police cordon the basilica after jihadi massacre
The assailant in his 20s, identifying himself as “Ibrahim,” stabbed and wounded several others around the neo-gothic Basilica of the Assumption of our Lady around 9 am Thursday.
Police shot and severely wounded the killer, who was heard repeatedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” [God is greatest] as he was taken away in an ambulance.
“He cried ‘Allahu Akbar!’ over and over, even after he was injured. The meaning of his gesture left no doubt,” Nice’s Mayor Christian Estrosi told BFM television, labeling the attack “Islamo-fascist terror.”
Don’t hear about many attacks on Baptist/Methodist/Lutheran churches.
What I found particularly irritating in the article:
Mainstream media and politicians, tight-lipped on the role of jihadi ideology in the stabbing spree, referred to the incident as a “terrorist attack.”
If you can’t name your enemy, you can’t defeat him.
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Georgetown University Hires Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok to Teach Undergraduate Students
They always take care of their own.
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I guess we can now safely label Georgetown U as a CINO university now.
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Hillary to represent NY as an electoral college voter.
Yet, she wants to abolish it.
Can you imagine what’ll happen if NY goes red?
Not. Enough. Popcorn.
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Okay, I just saw this:
“Nut n’Slut can’t draw a bath and yet this is a close race?”So stealing that.
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Trump campaign pulling FLA ad buys and shifting them to Minnesota. They must think they’ve won FLA.
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There are several states that have passed the national popular vote thingy where whoever wins the popular vote nationwide gets all the electors from that state, even if a majority of that state voted for the other guy. I don’t know how this passes Constitutional muster or how it is anything but disenfranchisement.
Wouldn’t it be funny that those states, if those laws are actually in effect, wind up giving the election to Trump where he would have lost otherwise?I want Trump to win both the popular vote (meaningless electorally) and the electoral vote convincingly; so as to severely dampen all the nonsense.
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From the Biden/Harris website:
Guaranteeing transgender students have access to facilities based on their gender identity. On his first day in office, Biden will reinstate the Obama-Biden guidance revoked by the Trump-Pence Administration, which will restore transgender students’ access to sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity. He will direct his Department of Education to vigorously enforce and investigate violations of transgender students’ civil rights.
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The heat has been on at Chez Harp every day that it was cold. I set the downstairs thermostat at 70° at bedtime. Some mornings, the heat hasn’t come on, but this morning I got up to it being 70° and I could hear that the heater was running to keep it there.
Once I’m up, I dress to be comfortable, why suffer?
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Spouse donated blood again this morning, and we’ve lost track of how many times over the years he’s done that. Certainly his donations amount to 15+ gallons, and only the Blood Center has the exact count. When he goes in to donate he usually doesn’t know what the center needs at the moment, so it could be whole blood, red blood cells, platelets, or plasma. What the Blood Center needs at the moment dictates what they will take, so donation time varies according to their component needs.
And the folks there gave him a Happy Birthday card since today is his birthday. They keep track of things like that. We’re going to birthday dinner at a favorite restaurant out here, this year without the company of good friends since we’re not supposed to do that. Some health cranks probably would begrudge us going out at all for dinner. Well screw that, idiots. 🙂
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I got a big pink insulated cup when my donations went to a gallon of blood.
I made it *very clear* that I was the only one allowed to use that mug. If Hubby (who likes his beverages in big styrofoam cups because he doesn’t like small drinking receptacles) wanted a big mug, he could go bleed for his own.
It was already pink, so no tape was needed.
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It was only 42 here this morning, and there was a light frost on the pastures at daylight. Certainly felt like winter on the breezy trek to fetch the Chron shortly after 6am. Still have a brisk wind and 57 just after noon. Thank you, Canada. Keep that door open.
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Spouse usually comes home with a coupon for lunch or dinner at a restaurant
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(Besides being Adee’s Hubs’ birthday?)
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I guess we can now safely label Georgetown U as a CINO university now.
It has been for decades. That goes for most Catholic universities. There’s usually a common thread – Jesuits.
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The girl isn’t smiling, but this is sort of cute, am I right?
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This is about as Russian collusion as you can get.
But the Russians certainly are holding blackmail tapes on Hunter Biden to use against a Biden administration.
We found the real blackmail photos. This has nothing to do with President Trump. But it does have everything to do with THE BIDENS.One such example was in October 2018 on Devlin Drive West Hollywood with some ‘friends’. Hunter spent a night in this luxurious property with a group of girls and guys. One member of the group was a girl by the name of Christina. She has a California driver’s license. She also spent some time with Hunter.
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But these aren’t ordinary friends, it appears they are Russians. These guys hung out with Hunter Biden at the luxurious property in West Hollywood.The problem with this vacation was that multiple compromising pictures were taken of him by some of these ‘friends’ and the acts were captured on the CCTV cameras. One such picture shows Hunter in what appears to be an orgy, in others he models naked.
An evaluation of one of the women in the above picture shows that she has a some marking on her upper back. However, after the image was taken, someone covered it up with a black ellipse. We were able to uncover that under the black ellipse, there was a tattoo. This type of marking is similar to tattoos used to brand trafficked sex slaves.
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As a result of this event, the Bidens became the likely targets of blackmail. Unlike the fake pee pee images which were alleged in the Steele dossier and the Russia collusion farce the Bidens truly do have a never-ending list problems that should disqualify them from ever holding public office again. -
I had to turn the heater on this morning. It was in the 50s inside the house. Not comfortable working.
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Trump campaign pulling FLA ad buys and shifting them to Minnesota.
Fakenewsflogger disinformation. Trump campaign has actually increased Florida ad buy. It’s just that RNC is now the account of record since they will pick up the tab so Trump can shift his money to Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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UPS says they have found the missing TuCa documents. No other details yet.
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Agreed.
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Good grief. This is just unbelievable.
Leftist journalist and writer Glenn Greenwald co-founded The Intercept website a few years ago as a safe haven for whistleblowers to publish their stories. Greenwald, along with a couple of others like Matt Taibi of Rolling Stone, have been the only voices on the Left calling out the Left for rank hypocrisy and journalistic malpractice.
My Resignation From The Intercept
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
It’s that bad and, as Professor Glenn Reynolds says, it is very much a type of coup attempt.
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So, at 50 you get contacted by AARP and at 65 you get contacted by National Cremation Service?
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It prolly just you.
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#46 – LMAO! 🙂
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#46: Pitcher of health, aintcha?
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Hey, I’m 76 and I haven’t been contacted by any Cremation Service!
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#49 – But NOW that you’ve typed it……………….tick tick tick 🙂
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Oh, those intrusive questionnaires you gotta answer when you go in for your checkup…
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#49: There’s a joke in there.. . . . .
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44TP
The Goebbels Media will gladly board the trains for Der Führer Grope&Sniff Joe.
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and at 65 you get contacted by National Cremation Service?
Better lay off the pork rinds and Tabasco sauce.:)
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Well, these creamation guys are in your neighborhood, Katfish, so I’ll forward their letter to you.
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Seeing as how you’re so much older than I am.
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WEll I am happy to report that the fermentation did not get interrupted, CO2 still bubbling away through the air lock.
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About a year ago I started getting invites for “free” dinners to watch a funeral planning seminar, like they used to do for timeshares.
I’m waiting for the new commercials:
If you bought a pre-planned funeral, by now you know the ugly truth.
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So, that cold front has cooled things off in Texas, it has been unseasonably warm here for two weeks, highs in the mid 80’s now low 90’s last week. I’ve been hearing the A/C come on at night a lot and that is unusual for this time of year. But it’s is supposed to be cooler this weekend and we could have a low in the 50’s on Saturday. Me, I can’t complain I do like warm/hot weather even if I did sweat my butt off cleaning up the 4 wheeler trailer to take the Beast to the shop.
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Jews aren’t real excited about cremation. They saw enough ovens in the last millennium. Dust to dust is just fine with the Tribe.
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Super Dave says:
OCTOBER 29, 2020 AT 8:00 AM
I had to actually put on socks andlongpants yesterday.Insert dreaded acronym here.
I shall continue to wear my long pants and to utilize my hot water heater. 😉
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#13 GJT
That is a remarkable difference between Google and DDG. According to Google, white women require a POC in their lives to be happy.
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Do they make a pant for one-legged fellers?
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Brett Baier has recently been tilting his panel to the left, 2 liberals and/or never trumpers vs one conservative/Trump supporter. Disappointing.
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#64 Yup and did you see the 75 year cheerleader giggling and hoping that Kansas could turn blue? Geeze she could have at least pretended to be unbiased. BTW; I do love Kimberly Strassel, I first started reading her columns on WSJ 20 years ago. way before she came on the tube and for a long time I couldn’t tell if she was conservative or liberal BUT she always spoke the truth.
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#64
Maybe someone will remember who Michael Berry interviewed recently. Guy who was with Fox News from early on and has since moved on talked about how the newsroom really always was a bunch people who swung left. It was inevitable the whole place would move left eventually.
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hot water heater.
Nope, I’m NOT gonna’ do it, too easy,…….. 😉 >>>>>SCRAAAM>>>>>
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#13 GJT
That is a remarkable difference between Google and DDG. According to Google, white women require a POC in their lives to be happy.
The amount of effort to do that, for such a small thing. Imagine the bigger picture.
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I just talked to Southern Tragedy, haven’t heard from her in a coon’s age.
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Anyone listen to ChrisX on KSEV? He was supposed to be trying to gather a rally to go troll the Camalla appearance in Houston tomorrow and my wife wants to go. I did not catch any of his show today and he does not keep his FB updated.
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Just throwing this out there. 😉
Although captive raccoons have been known to live over 20 years, their life expectancy in the wild is only 1.8 to 3.1 years.
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Is the COVID thing the only wedge issue the dems have?
That’s all I see in gropey ads. And all I can think of is all the kvetching they did when Trump closed off air travel with China.
Or is it just COVID!!!! Booga booga!!!
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I thought they were all about healthcare now.
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Gropey always seems so angry.
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Back from a lovely birthday dinner for spouse at a fave restaurant in Pecan Grove. Half of the very generous main courses came home as usual these days when dining out, also one large piece of cake that can easily be shared by two sometime later.
No sooner had we arrived home than the phone rang with a birthday call from spouse’s brother and wife up in Wisconsin. They’ve had a couple of inches of snow with the latest outbreak of really cold air, a bit early for winter to horn in. Early in the season it can look so beautiful, but a whole season of snow and ice starts to wear thin in beauty along about late January. There’s an uptick in virus cases in the state and much of the Midwest lately when we here have been having a decrease of cases. Likely to be increasing cases up there is cold weather keeping folks indoors more, as in below freezing temps recently plus the snow.
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Anyone doing anything for Halloween? Chez Harp usually has all the lights off up front, doorbell unplugged, and one year I even stacked the front steps with all the leaf bags we had raked up that day. But this year, all the preceding will be true, but I am going out with my camera and a list of 7 addresses where they are advertising on the FB Group to be decorated and throwing bags of candy to you at least 6 feet away. Always good to have some colorful pix for the next newsletter.
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Well, TuCa says the documents showed up from UPS. Turns out there were no documents in the conventional sense, just a flash drive. No details forthcoming from UPS about the circumstances of the find, and they say they threw the package away from whence the flash drive escaped. Something is amiss still, TuCa made that clear, but it seems for all practical purposes, the case is closed, at least to the public. UPS may have some housecleaning to do, but we’ll probably never hear of it.
In other news, I’ve been a bum all day today, so I need to set my schedule to get a few things done tomorrow. No heavy lifting though. My animal farm seems glad to have me back, snarfing down birdseed, deer corn, water, and whatever else they can find. Tomorrow is a big Friday weigh in day. I’ve been holding back on much discussion lately, but I’m still holding firm. Typically a couple of poached eggs with sausage or bacon in the morning, a slab of beef or pork with fresh sliced tomatoes and either green beans or asparagus in the evening. I found some new spicy oil at Walmart to sprinkle on the maters, and it’s pretty good. Now that I’m back, I’ll be going to the Olive Oil shop here soon. I don’t expect the results of tomorrow’s weigh in to be earth shattering, but I keep reminding myself that I’m doing this in a healthy fashion, I’m still dropping a few ounces here and there, and in the bigger picture, I should still be well within the guidelines for one month’s loss. BTW, I’m defining a month as 28 days rather than calendar months, just for book keeping purposes.
I may or may not be back later this evening, so if I don’t report back in to wish you all a good evening, don’t worry. I’m stretching out this being lazy all day as far as it will go.
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Being lazy is exhausting, then you gotta go to bed. Not long for me. My younger self is so ashamed.
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Halloween is canceled. Dora and Ratboy will be roaming the streets looking for evil trick-or-treaters.
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D & R won’t find anything bad in this neighborhood. One of the 7 householders who announced her safe distancing plans listed a trebuchet which she would use to launch small bags of candy at passers-by.
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There are white supremacists out there. Halloween is their holy day.
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#72
Or is it just COVID!!!! Booga booga!!!
And #73
I thought they were all about healthcare now.
It’s both. The Dems now claim Covid is a pre-existing condition and therefore Trump will leave you holding the bag when he takes away your coverage of pre-existing conditions.
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My new least favorite commercials are the schizophrenia ones.
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a trebuchet which she would use to launch small bags of candy at passers-by.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye 😉
Actually that does sound like fun.
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We completed on Confirmation mass this evening. We have one more next Thursday.
Our priest is head of the southeast deanery, and the Cardinal has requested that he administer all of the confirmation masses. Normally, a bishop would do that.
They’ve been backed up like crazy with all the delays due to the health restrictions.
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Halloween is canceled. Dora and Ratboy will be roaming the streets looking for evil trick-or-treaters.
Is the totalitarian costume in vogue this year?
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And Hubby’s figured out how to maneuver Pluto TV. Good for him.
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Is the totalitarian costume in vogue this year?
Yup. The Mark Kelly inspired costume.
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The Marxist AG in in Minnesota is trying to limit Trump’s rally tomorrow to 250. It would also apply to Biden’s rally. Heh. If he got 250 people to attend it would be a ten fold increase.
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Trump has peaceful protests, so he’s good to go.
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We made Friday again. Much cooler this morning at 56 degrees.
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50° here.
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