One thing about Hamous that I remember was how good of sport he was when I photoshopped him, “The Floating Head”. I do not know how I came by the original picture but I know “the Floating Head” got lots of photoshop milage. My all time favorite was the LST 2008 Happy New Year banner which started a joke war between Hammie and me that spanned several years.
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I remember those! Thanks Squawk.
Mornin’ Gang
Daughter called last night and told me an interesting story. One of her employees came into her HR office and said “Ms Brandy I’m terminating my employment here and I need to turn in all my company equipment”. She asked him why he had decided to leave and he said “well ma’am, I won the lottery” She of course didn’t believe him but his boss stopped by to see about his company truck and he told her, yup. it’s real, I saw the ticket. So he won $4+ million in one of those big lotteries that usually top out in the hundreds of millions so I guess he won at a lower level? Less numbers? I told her that’s a first and likely last time this will happen since you are more likely to get hit by lightening twice than win a lottery. Daughter was glad it happened to a hard working man that had paid hie dues, not some welfare queen using our money….YUP! That IS my Baby Girl. 😉
Morning gang. 25 degrees out here this morning. Dry though. Supposed to get above freezing sometime today. I’m headed for a hot shower and a trip to the coffee shop, so you all have a good one. More later as it develops.
This is shocking! But welcome news, who’d have thought that Starbucks would do the right thing? I just hope this catches on.
This just popped up; the boy and family at Disney Anaheim, over Christmas break. They like going down there since it is a 2 hour run, well, 1 hour if the traffic is perfect.
Texpat from last night:
Thank God your wife is cured. I would only suggest being very careful in letting these physicians overdo the chemo, and radiation especially. The tendency to destroy the immune system is nothing to ignore and it has had devastating effects on more than one friend of mine.
Yes, true. It was a constant battle and balancing act. She would get the chemo, then the next scheduled session would come along and her blood work would come back low, so they would hit her with medication to boost (Neupogen?) which works, but at the cost of bone aches from the inside out since it works on the marrow.
The radiation was worse. Blackened, burned skin. I think this was the lowest point for her. Not going to lie, there were times she seriously gave consideration to death being the better alternative. But she plowed through with will and prayers. She is an amazing human being with a beautiful soul.
Going through this gives me special empathy for folks like TexMo. People like them are fighters of the highest caliber and will always hold a special place in my heart and prayers.
Anyhoo… sorry to go heavy right off the bat. OT, those fauxtochops are great, Squawk! I had saved a bunch of them over the years but they are on one of the eleventy-seven thumb drives on my office desk. I really need to go through and consolidate. Also had a bunch of music Hamous and I swapped via ftp back in the day. Great memories.
Hot shower was nice on a cold morning. Now I’m off for coffee. Think I’ll get around to making that pot of chili that I’ve been planning all week. No outdoor activities on the schedule for today. Might even change out a couple of electrical sockets. You never know. Have a good one.
I’m still trying to wrap parts of my brain around the fact that Hammy’s name won’t be popping up on a post.
I keep looking for it.
Grieving is a process. I’ve added him to my beads on my chaplet I pray. I”m not one to give in to the sin of assuming Heaven for myself or anyone, but I do have peace in my heart that Hammy made it to the right place. But I still pray for him. Because I don’t assume I know God’s justice.
Btw…I am Catholic so there’s purgatory, not the eternally hot place I refer to.
I anticipate that I’ll spend some time there, myself.
There are people who have been ‘vaccinated’ yet have gotten the WLR more than once. How many unvaccinated have gotten the WLR more than once?
I have never seen this question asked. Ever.
Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, January 20, 2022 ☙ OUTPERFORMING
Happy Thursday, C&C! Well, well, well. Chief Covid Administrator Biden previewed the State of the Union in draft form at a blockbuster, record length press conference yesterday; other world leaders gave press conference consistent with Narrative 2.0; Starbucks gets its head right; and more.
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*THE C&C ARMY POST*
[THIS STORY MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL! Remember that Dan’s wife only wanted her doctor to be able to administer drugs like ivermectin, but the hospital refused to allow them near Dan, and insisted on the ventilator. Childers was working through the courts to get access and allow the meds.]
Yesterday, after nearly a week of improvement to the point he was being weaned off life support, Dan Pisano experienced a sudden, devastating setback and all hope for his recovery blew away, like tufts gently parachuting off a dandelion after a sudden gust. Last I heard late yesterday, the family was gathering to make those end-of-life decisions that aren’t decisions, not really, and to say goodbye.
My reaction on hearing the new was, mostly, a white-hot righteous anger. These hospitals really have no idea at all how their bad short-term decisions WILL have long-term consequences. There are systemic problems in our corporate hospital system that must be addressed. Like a bunch of things.
Dan is in his reward now; we celebrate that fact. His labors are complete. But it is for us the living, rather, to ensure that Dan’s passing was not in vain, not an unfinished work, that it means something, something that protects our children and their children, as well as all those others like Dan who have struggled and died needlessly in hospitals over the last two years, while hospital administrators dithered and made decisions lifting up money and political expediency, while casting aside life and morality.
I intend to make sure that the loss of all our fellow citizens has meaning. How about you? Are you in?
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For those of you who follow such things, Dr. Joseph Mercola published an article this week highlighting C&C’s Narrative 2.0 theory. [Pandemic Narrative Undergoes Radical U-Turn](https://tinyurl.com/2p8zk6kj).
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Yesterday I was notified I was in Facebook jail, again — this time for seven days. I appealed, and it looks like I’m out.
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Finally — a lot of folks are, understandably, expressing apprehension and doubt about whether the global governments will actually end the pandemic. I think they will, but it is absolutely fair to believe that they are going to take what they’ve learned and roll it into another bigger effort later. It’s now our job to stay awake, to not go back to sleep, not back into our comfortable pre-pandemic lives, but rather to march irresistibly toward re-setting our national foundations to ENSURE this can never happen again. Or at least, make it ten times harder. We shouldn’t rest — we cannot rest — until that job is complete.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
I told you so! Yesterday afternoon, proving that Coffee & Covid readers are the most thoughtful and well-informed group in the world, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. slowly took his victory lap in what can best be described as a draft version of the State of the Union address scheduled for March 1.
Biden’s prior press conference was advertised five days in advance. But for some reason, yesterday’s announcement — scheduled on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration (offset one day) — seemingly sprang up out of nowhere, was described by the WaPo as “a record-long news conference,” and lasted for nearly two hours, which is totally unprecedented for the fledgling Biden Adminstration.
Biden first built a brick-veneer wall of excuses around the administration’s failures. As I pointed out yesterday about the Economist’s septic-tank of a lead story, “It’s not Biden’s fault,” Biden repeatedly blamed Republicans for his failure, even oddly referring to himself as a victim in the THIRD PERSON at one point: “I did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart [GOP] effort to make sure President Biden didn’t get anything done,” he said. [Probably because it was written that way on the ‘prompter?]
That was so dumb that even the radically leftwing Nation called it out, observing, “On that point, he’s either posing politically, or he’s hopelessly naive.”
Biden artfully teed up Narrative 2.0, acknowledging his bad polling numbers but saying that his drop in popularity was partly because — thanks to Covid — Americans were used to seeing him acting more like a lawmaker and less like a commander in chief. Well. He’s not wrong. And predictably, Biden attributed his political kryptonite — inflation — to the virus. The Mercury News reported, “Biden blamed the virus for the rising prices that also have bedeviled his first year in office.”
SOMETHING bedeviled his first year in office. I’m not sure it was the virus.
But it was THIS line — the line that CNN identified as the #1 most important line out of Biden’s top seven “best lines” — this is the line his speech will be remembered for — Biden said, and I am not making this up:
”I didn’t overpromise. I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.”
Outperformed? What? What on earth could he be talking about? Even CNN didn’t buy that nonsense, albeit focusing on Biden’s failure to pass Build Back Better or the odious bill to federalize elections.
In support of outperforming, Biden touted … his response to the pandemic! He said that his administration had succeeded in vaccinating nearly 75 percent of all adults, while allowing that he wished he had “moved a month earlier” to ramp up testing capacity. Maybe, maybe not. A month from now, at the State of the Union in March, Biden can claim that his free test program put the bow on the box that the pandemic will be buried in. That reference to a “month earlier” was a signal of some kind, providing the basis for his claim of success in March.
He repeatedly stressed that people are “frustrated” about Covid-19 mandates and restrictions. The Wall Street Journal also noticed that, highlighting it in an article headlined, “Biden Concedes Covid-19 Frustrations, Sees Path for Stalled Bill, Warns Russia on Ukraine.“ At one point, he said:
“After almost two years of physical, emotional and psychological impact of this pandemic, for many of us, it’s been too much to bear. Some people may call what’s happening now ‘the new normal.’ I call it a job not yet finished. It will get better.”
It will get better! Forget about that “new normal” stuff. Never mind!
MSN referenced that quote in its headline about the press conference: “‘It will get better’: Biden says US headed toward time when virus won’t be a disruption.” The first line of MSN’s article described, “Joe Biden highlighted the progress his administration has made in the fight against COVID-19 and assured Americans the pandemic would come under control as it approaches two full years of upending daily life.” MSN then quoted Biden assuring everybody it was almost over:
“We’re moving toward a time when COVID-19 won’t disrupt our daily life, when COVID-19 won’t be a crisis, but something to protect against and a threat. Look, we’re not there yet, but we will get there.”
Yes, we will get there. Probably by March 1. MSN reported that Biden — in the midst of an Omicron surge! — bottom-lined it for Americans, assuring us that the worst is now over:
“The bottom line on COVID-19 is that we’re in a better place than we’ve been and have been thus far, clearly better than a year ago. We’re not going back to lockdowns. We’re not going back to closing schools … We’re in a very different place now. We have the tools — vaccines, boosters, masks, tests, pills — to save lives and keep businesses and schools open.”
Biden also defended his faithful hound-like CDC Director Walensky, who at this point could be fairly compared to that hilarious news chief Saddam Hussein used in the final days of his reign, or maybe just a talking parrot — saying:
“To the extent [her mixed messaging is] confusing, it’s because the scientists are learning more,” Biden said. “She came along and said, ‘Look I’m a scientist and I’m learning, learning how to deal with stating the case for what we’ve learned.’ ”
It wasn’t confusion. It was Science! The old fallback.
Don’t hallucinate that all this means the injection battles are over. Biden doubled-down on jabs: “We’re going to stick with our vaccination efforts because vaccinations work.” But do not worry. Narrative 2.0 is directly opposed to mandates. You can’t have an ended pandemic and also a desperate emergency need for jab mandates at the same time. It’s going to give us a vast swath of new rhetorical tools to push back with.
In summary, the whole speech was designed to tee-up the State of the Union in about a month. If you read all the myriad headlines and see all the wide-ranging topics that Biden touched on, it looks exactly like a little pre-State of the Union speech. In other words, it was a warm-up. This lets them test the messages, find out what critics will say, adjust talking points to fit the criticism, and polish up the final points to perfection. In other words, his speech yesterday WAS Narrative 2.0, just in draft form.
To further confirm this, check out what was happening at the same time all over the world.
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The president of the Czech Republic also held a press conference yesterday and ashcanned plans for a national jab mandate that would have switched on March 1. “This does not change our stance on vaccination. It is still undoubtedly the best way to fight COVID-19 … however, we do not want to deepen fissures in society,” Czech president Petr Fiala said. He also announced shortened quarantine and isolation times.
It is NOT a reversal. It’s an ADAPTATION. It’s Science. Science plus a new narrative. Good boy! Now maybe that foreign aid will show up on time in the Czech Republic.
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The prime minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson, also held a press conference yesterday. Guess what? He announced that England’s Covid restrictions and vaccine passports would be terminated in March — at the latest. “People in England will no longer be required to wear face masks anywhere or work from home from next week,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. Zoom! That was fast.
Becker News reported that Boris Johnson’s current assessment is that the nation’s plummeting Omicron infection numbers and stabilizing hospital rates indicate that the UK can “safely live with Covid.” We can live with it! No need to get all hot and bothered. It’s fine. Nothing to worry about.
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The leader of Ireland’s lower house, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, told his party leaders yesterday that it was time to wrap up the pandemic. “I think it’d be really good if we could set March 31 as our target for ending all legal restrictions, the legislation around masks and Covid passes and all the rest of it expires on March 31,” he told Irish lawmakers. He said that the Irish people have done all they can as a society and there should be a dividend for that. So … it’s not our fault after all! We’ve done all we can. And we should get a nice reward.
Varadkar spent most of his time explaining the costs and bad effects of Covid policies and lockdowns. He just discovered them and it was alarming, or something. “I think about a particularly negative impact on younger people, and young adults who haven’t had a normal youth,” he said. Ireland has been particularly strict in the lockdowns.
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Mega-coffee-chain Starbucks Corporation announced yesterday that it will no longer mandate that its U.S. workers be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. The policy was to take effect next month. The coffee giant attributed the change to the Supreme Court’s recent blocking of the OSHA Mandate.
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Yesterday, Corporate Media giant and administration mouthpiece Bloomberg ran an article headlined, “Early Omicron Breakthroughs Show MRNA Vaccines’ Weakness.” The headline is even more blunt on Bloomberg’s news feed: “MRNA Boosters Don’t Block Omicron, South African Study Shows.” The first sentence of the article said boosters are basically useless at controlling spread of the virus:
“Booster shots with messenger RNA vaccines such as those made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE failed to block omicron in a study of some of the first documented breakthrough cases caused by the highly contagious variant.”
Failed. And the study wasn’t buried immediately beneath a coal mine where radioactive waste is stored. No. Instead of being deep-sixed and cancelled, it was highlighted in the headline and first sentence of a major article published by a media source that most likely confers daily with the White House about messaging. So.
The study was very small — just a handful of German tourists — and could have easily been swatted aside and disregarded by the usual suspects. Just anecdotal! Instead, Bloomerg said the tiny study “shows” that boosters don’t block the dominant variant. Shows.
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Fauci seems, more and more, like a little old man on an island. While all of THAT other stuff was going on, the press conferences and announcements, the diminutive medical advisor told media that Pfizer’s vaccine “might be” approved by the FDA for kids UNDER FIVE next month. At least he HOPES it will be: “My hope is that it’s going to be within the next month or so and not much later than that, but I can’t guarantee that,” Fauci said.
And, guess what? Since early studies have shown that young kids don’t produce ineffective antibodies from the shots, Fauci suggests a solution: INCREASE THE DOSE. According to CNBC, Fauci said younger children will likely need THREE doses, because two shots did not induce an adequate immune response in 2- to 4-year-olds in Pfizer’s clinical trials. [OH! HELL! NOOOOO!!!!]
Good luck selling THAT to parents of young kids. CNBC’s report on Fauci’s comments cited Walensky, who IS up to speed with Narrative 2.0, as saying there’s no indication that the omicron variant causes more severe illness in children. So. Fauci vs. Walensky. Who wins?
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Remember how China has been the media darling this whole time with its “aggressive approach” to controlling the virus? Maybe not so much, not anymore. CNBC ran an article this week headlined, “China’s zero-Covid policy could deal another blow to global supply chains, Moody’s says.” See how it works? Media giveth and Media taketh away.
But it gets worse. CNBC cited an economist who said that China’s policy will have “important ramifications for inflation.” Inflation is China’s fault! Because of its stupid zero-Covid policies! And supply chain problems. Dumb China.
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Okay, okay, at some point I’m going to have to stop doing all these Narrative 2.0 stories. What can I tell you? It’s a target-rich environment. Let’s just make sure it sticks first.
I have to tell you. It’s cold up here. It’s 32° now and will hit 13° tonight and then down to 9° Friday night. We won’t see temps above freezing until midday Tuesday.
We have a weather phenomena here in NE New Jersey and NYC that somehow prevents precipitation when it drops into the teens and single digits. The biggest snows in the winter come when it’s in the 27° to 35° range. I don’t know whether it has anything to do with the Gulf Stream waters along the Atlantic coast.
There is one person on Karl Denninger’s forum who claims to be unvaxxed and contracted the coof twice. I have no way to verify the validity of that. But I do know many who have been vaxxed and subsequently got it. I’ve been told a few of those vaxxed got it more than once, but again, no way to verify the validity. At this point it seems we have a whole bunch of anecdotal claims going around and the hard work of actual, legitimate data analysis is being supressed in cases where it has been done.
legitimate data analysis is being supressed in cases where it has been done.
So.
I’m on a Catholic veiling page over yonder.
I am constantly amazed at the number of women who express anxiety over veiling, even though they feel called to it, because (1) they think other women will be hostile, or (2) they think they may be doing it out of vanity. (“Hey, look at me!” syndrome.)
If you are called to veil, as I am, you cover your head in front of the Eucharist out of reverence and love for the Lord.
Who gives a flying rat’s wiss what other women think? They are not more powerful than Jesus.
As for the vanity thing, get over yourself. There are probably as many people going to look at you and your veil as there are folks who remember what you wore yesterday.
/smh
To be fair, there are a lot of women who jump in and support them. I’ve shared my story of women approaching me after mass who admired my head covering (snood, scarf, veil) and thanked me for doing it. They themselves didn’t have the will to do it for themselves, even though they said they missed it.
Damn modernists, making those women feel intimidated.
People who are good at data analysis tend to be of this personality type:
https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality
My point on this is that INTJs tend to just state what they know to be true and then move on. We’re not particularly sociable or easy to get along with. Thus, it’s easier to marginalize us, because other personality types place more value on feelings than us INTJs do. It explains much if you think about it.
Our oldest son never got the jab and he’s had it twice, same with his wife.
Dooood
A good friend of mine is triple-vaxxed and he claims he caught COVID twice recently. He was using a testing facility and not home testing.
Morning, Couch Critters. It’s good to know that the gang will still be here.
Had a couple of chihuahua dogs on my front step huddled up next to the house this morning trying to keep warm I suppose. I put out a little food for them, but they are very shy. I was able to give them a little pet on the head and offered to let them come inside, but they are too afraid. They are now roaming a little bit and I don’t want them to get down to the highway and get hit by a car. No collars, no tags, but obviously someone’s pets as they are well cared for and healthy. Called the dog catcher to deal with it. I know him to be an animal lover so he will most likely be able to catch them and post proper notices for the owners to come forward and claim them. It’s not a good day for inside dogs to be outside.
My son and girlfriend headed out of town last night and we are dog sitting their Dachshund. So the weenie dog and my 80 lb Ginger have the run of the house for a few hours, since I am at work and my wife is now too. I’m scared to see what I am going to find when I get home this afternoon.
Back when Hubby and I were living in Montrose, we had a lab and had made friends with a couple on the street behind us, who had a Great Dane. We had a small yard for our dog, while the GD was kept indoors, in the upstairs apartment.
Those two dogs loved to play together. As the four adults sat on their front steps, talking, those two dogs would race off in opposite directions, full speed, around the building. They would run right at each other, full tilt, pulling their heads back at the last minute, and body slam each other. They’d take a second to regroup, then run off again. I can only surmise that a similar crash was taking place on the back side of the building as well. Spittle would fly everywhere after a while, when contact was made. We all took to shielding our faces when they came around the corner at that point. The Great Dane totally destroyed a stand of pampas grass as she ran through it.
Eventually, they’d wear themselves out enough to sit at our feet. Tongues out and a very satisfied look on their faces.
Brenda and I took the dogs to the park on the bayou nearby, and took off their leashes. You have never seen such joy! They ran and ran and ran. We eventually brought them home. Brenda told me the next day that when her hubby, Andy, came home, he wanted to know “What did you do to our dog?” Once Domino got home, she ate a whole bowl of dog food, drank her water, then collapsed into sleep for hours.
Good times.
I know of a couple of families that are not vaxxed and have caught covid more than once.
Doood
She would get the chemo, then the next scheduled session would come along and her blood work would come back low, so they would hit her with medication to boost (Neupogen?) which works, but at the cost of bone aches from the inside out since it works on the marrow.
Was the drug called Neumega to stimulate the bone marrow to create platelets? If so, that drug may be in my future. Also, if it is the same thing, thanks for the heads up on that particular side effect.
#24
Perhaps since there are so many “variants” that have turned up, that could explain why having covid doesn’t preclude having it again.
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I have spent very few years of my life working for big companies. But one of them required spending a paid day taking the Myers-Briggs personality tests…….once the company had accumulated enough new hires and longer term employees who wanted to repeat it.
The contractor who gave the test and follow up was a real pro. I actually had a great time that day. And, of course, the test pigeonholed me fairly accurately.
In the end I decided it was a worthwhile exercise with the ultimate goal of keeping peace in the workplace.
Well, I’ve just changed my mind about going to Kroger today. Too cold, high chance of precip, and I — I mean the yard critters — can make it for 24 hours. Forecast looks much better tomorrow. I may scoot out to the nearby kolache shop and get a bacon & egg sammich for lunch, here in a little bit. The rain isn’t really due here for a while.
The weather today is the kind that cuts through your clothes and chills one to the bone. Low 40s, windy, high humidity; almost like its winter or something.
#25 TexMo, yes sir that does sound correct. A lot of the details are fuzzy for me now, but that is the purpose of the drug. I remember it being bad for her, but not the worst. Sucked for a few days but the drug did do for her what it was intended to do. I remember her having two doses of it, administered IV.
Temps out here have held steady at 26 all morning with cloud cover but no precip. It may not get above freezing after all today. Birds are ice skating on my water troughs out back. Puppies are still huddled up back there but I don’t want to scare them off for fear they might run back to the highway in front. They should be safe so long as they are in the back. I’d let them warm up in the laundry room if they would come it, but they are just too shy. If there was precip I’ll bet they would come in to seek shelter.
New guidance just in from the CDC:
Guitars, Cadillacs, and Hillbilly Music will keep us hanging on.
My son and girlfriend headed out of town last night….
Pretty dang Liberal of you to let your Son and Girlfriend go out of town together. Does you Wife know about her?
Sarge is on a roll today. Or at least a biscuit.
8^)
Here’s a front shot of the new roof. This is about 1/3 of the new surface on the back of the house, the breezeway, and the 2-car garage.
Me to my Son after cutting my finger off in the circular saw:
“Call me an ambulance.”
Son: “You’re an ambulance.”
Me: “I have never been more proud of you than I am right now.”
I finally read the Daily Mail article El Gordo linked yesterday. It’s really infuriating. Pete Buttigieg is simply an idiot and to say he’s in over his head is a gross understatement. His only transportation experience was running a small town bus service in Indiana.
Here is the link to the article again.
I’m a little concerned about all this because we live in what is the busiest air traffic area in the nation and on the approach path (April-November) of the busiest general aviation airport in America. Right now, aircraft are taking off to the north and veering west because of wind patterns here in winter months. But come late March flights will be descending over this little town all day long headed into Teterboro a few miles from here.
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Okay, I approve. 🙂
I don’t think even my 22’ extension ladder would work on the upper level
My wife’s nephew came in from New Hampshire brought up this exchange we had years ago and still cracks up about it. I had completely forgot about it.
At the time he lived down here and was a prison guard at Huntsville, his now wife was also a prison guard . We had not met her yet but he told us he met his fiancé in the prison unit, I axed him what was his name 😛 He will never forget it.
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You need to give away or throw away all those stupid ladders.
The pups are still out back, so I opened to door to the store room that faces their direction. Radar is showing some icy precip to the west, so if it moves a little more in our direction, they may decide to check it out. It’s still cold out there, but when I went out to open the door, one of the dogs stood up and barked at me to warn me away from them, so maybe they are feeling better having had a little food.
In our sale (closing pending) of our Montrose property, the buyers sent a guy with a drone to check out the roof.
We’d never had that happen before, but it sure made sense. The drone had a camera, was able to get in close and also hover high enough to get an overall view, and they recorded it for the investors to see.
Took about 20 minutes, from the parking lot. And no one was going to fall off a ladder.
#41
Got some old rags to tempt them? Or would the other critters take ’em over and leave the pups in the cold?
Bootyjudge is probably suffering from some kind of postpartum depression and unable to concentrate on his/her job.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!! The proceeds from our sale are being wired in as I type this.
Now, we can pay our taxes.
Not much else, but we can pay taxes.
For this year.
We hope.
Pete Buttigieg is simply an idiot and to say he’s in over his head is a gross understatement.
Experience in packing fudge into tight spaces was the only qualification he needed to get the job.
Matt Walsh thrashed some ‘theybies’ on Dr. Phil show. Define “woman”. Answer: “ummm, wellll, hmmmm”
Rhey are now experiencing “anxiety and nightmares”.
Holy crap, I’m a pretty sensitive person, and I handle conflict better than these….folks. If having someone question you about your beliefs is so traumatic, how do they function on a daily basis?
Bootyjudge is probably suffering from some kind of postpartum depression and unable to concentrate on his/her job.
I think the more likely explanation is that he is dumber than a bag of dog crap, doesn’t even understand the problem, and has no clue whatsoever as to the solution. In other words, a typical D politician.
If it’s printed on rooters by their propagandist fact checkers then it must be true.
Watch out boys they’ll chew you up.
5G Chaos Is ‘One Of The Most Delinquent, Utterly Irresponsible’ Seen In Aviation Career, Emirates President Says
This administration is utterly retarded. They can’t even distribute millions of test kits now.
First, the system they’re using with the USPS allocates one test kit per “street address”. If you live in a 12 story building with 88 apartments, you get one kit for that address.
Minimum safe temperature for the test kits is 35.6° F., but other FDA approved brands require even warmer minimum temperatures. It’s below freezing here reaching 13° overnight and 9° early Saturday morning. It will remain well below 30 degrees here until a brief period on Tuesday afternoon.
How are they going to put all these kits into the mail ? I guess they can send them all to south Florida and Hawaii, maybe Arizona.
All clear on the canine front.
#47 Tedtam
Bless their Theybies little hearts. I found the clip of Dr. Phil’s show with Matt Walsh on YouTube.
#46 Phil
Experience in packing fudge into tight spaces was the only qualification he needed to get the job.
In my best Alec Guinness voice as Master Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, “That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time.”: Fudgepacker
Rump rustler, butt pirate, queef, poofter, pillow biter, etc.
For some reason, my computer is deciding to just lock up and refuse to accept any input.
On its own schedule.
I’ve done some cleanup, multiple reboots….at least I got my Santa collection packed up. I’ve had to move up to 3 tubs now. The Santa that Hubby made me is a monster. I *might* have made it with two tubs, but that one alone needed more space than any 3 of my other Clauses. And it’s flippin’ heavy, too.
Putting them away is like completing a puzzle. Some of ’em get shoved up the shorts of others, said others being formed by a plastic cone. If I don’t support the plastic cone bottom, it’ll be all squished out of shape next year. So I find a smaller Santa, roll ’em in paper if needed, and shove em up Santa’s butt.
As far as I know, none of ’em are named Bootyjudge. And I refuse to honor any requested special pronouns.
But doing that gives me more room to carefully arrange the others.
Now, they’re all nestled away, waiting for next year. And I’m hoping that this time, my computer will stay operational and not give me a digital finger again.
There’s a two orvthree epusode arc in The Sopranos when they find out one of the crew is gay. They use every euphemism for being gay ever spoken by man. Especially funny delivered in Jersey accent. Most politically incorrect television ever.
Just went over to Next Door to see if there were any civic club events coming up.
One lady was pretty upset that a utility mark was put next to her sidewalk. Thought it was her yard. Didn’t like having it in her grass.
I had flashbacks.
Lady: (1) it’s necessary, (2) it’s the law, (3) it’s temporary, (4) not having your lines marked means your house could blow up. Literally.
Choose your battles.
#59 – Fargin LIV Idjits!!!
Just a drop-in to say hi and hope everyone is doing ok. The headshaker of the LST days is not the same headshaker of today, grandkids have a way of “grounding” a person in many different ways. I think I may be more “conservative” than all of you now! 😉
Having spaghetti tonight for dinner in honor of Hammy and the spaghetti lunches at Sacred Heart on Airline that we attended a few times with Lowrents (Lawrence) et al.
If you ever decide to meet up in person please let me know at [email protected]. Thanks and God bless.
hs
Great to see you Rob.
Hey HEY Shakester!
It occurs to me that neither Smacktle nor Darren have visited.
We need a way to contact these folks before the Transition happens.
Does anyone have a way to contact these two?
Can you think of any other Irregulars????
Katfish
You can track down Smacktle, right???
I hate that such a tragedy had to bring us together like this, but it’s nice to see old friends here. I can message Smacktile Dysfunction on Facebook. I ran into Gregg today at HEB, hadn’t seen him in a few years he’s still a mess and funny as ever. He’ll never let me live down blasting the waitress for butter on my pancakes when we gathered one day at IHOP. 🙂
Well, I’ve shut down the work computer and am back on the living room computer. It froze up on me again. I wish I could figure out what the problem is. It doesn’t seem to be website or application related, as it’s done dropped poo everywhere.
So, now I’m going to prep for my Latin class. This computer should be stable.
If you ever decide to meet up in person…
I had talked to Hubby about a Christmas invite, but since my family wasn’t interested in getting together we shelved it.
Maybe we should have a shenanigans at the Dome. Springtime would be nice. And that would give me time to clean the place up.
I can FB Darren, I think.
67 Tedtam
I don’t understand why you have more computer problems than anyone I know. Are your computers just dated and old or is it a connectivity problem with your internet service ?
I just informed Darren Over Yonder.
#70
This computer has run like a champ for….a long time. I moved it downstairs for the next few days, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
I don’t know. Just something I’ll deal with.
No one called about the dogs today. I fed them a package of hot dogs and petted the female a little bit but the male is still keeping his distance. Tried to coax them inside to put them in the laundry room for the night, but they were not having any part of coming inside, so I’m leaving the door open to the store room tonight. Who knows what all kinds of varmits might like to move into that store room – my luck it will be the skunk. Friends of Animals called and they are putting it out on their FB page, and I’ve seen a couple of others post it as well, so hopefully the owners will turn up soon, and hopefully the varmits won’t get them tonight – or the cold. I think they will be OK so long as they don’t decide to get back out front and get on the highway. If something gets one of them they will get them both because they are never more that one foot away from each other.
OK, in other news, things are breaking faster than I can fix them. Talk about computer problems, I’ve got them too. And I guess I’ll just have to reinstall my printer since none of my computers seem to be able to find it anymore. When it rains it pours, and it’s not even raining. OK, that’s all for now. More later as it develops.
Didn’t get my chili done today either. Manana.
Shakey
What blog handle did Greg use?
This is a great 2 min video from Zuby about the crumbling narrative.
Sorry Texpat it’s a Twitter link.
El Gordo, if you live near a highway it’s quite possible somebody dumped those puppies passing through town. We used to see a quite a few dogs dumped around Bellville because it was an easy 45 minute to one hour drive from Houston.
People who abandon dogs and puppies on the side of the road are akin to child abusers in my book and should be dragged before a firing squad.
#65 – Smacktle has been informed
Matt Walsh responds to the traumatized he-she’s from the Dr. Phil show:
“What’s more, I think you’re narcissists and bullies,” Walsh said. “I don’t think you give a damn about anybody or anything but yourselves. I think you advocate for opening up bathrooms and sports teams because, from your perspective, the rape, trauma, and abuse that happens as a result is worth it — as long as your ideology wins the day and your self-perceptions are reinforced. Because that’s all you care about.”
“I think you represent something that is not only anti-scientific and irrational, but evil. And I think you have evil intentions,” he continued. “I think you’re bad people, and I think that you are neither correct nor well-meaning. And if one person in the whole world, in your whole life, saying this to you causes you to spiral into depression and be plagued by nightmares, maybe that should clue you in. It sounds like your conscience is trying to tell you something.”
Walsh noted that he and his family face constant threats and mean comments — but without the benefit of a society willing to accept him without question.
“I encounter more outright hostility in a day than you have in your whole life. … I didn’t have the audience clapping for me. You do,” he added. “And yet I’ve slept like a baby every night since that taping. That’s because I know I’m standing in the truth — not just factually, but morally. You don’t have that same self-assurance.”
“Well, maybe you should look within yourself. That’s all you ever do anyway. You’re constantly staring back into yourself, shouting into the cavern of your own ego, listening to the echo. Well, while you’re in there, maybe try a bit of actual introspection. It might serve you well.”
Well put.
71 TT
Thanks
75 TexMo
Only Hamous and I agreed to a self-imposed Twitter ban. As we said, it wasn’t a “mandate”, only a voluntary, personal choice.
Are your computers just dated and old or is it a connectivity problem with your internet service ?
Those crochet and snood bulletin boards are rife with hackers and viruses.
Lawdy – pinto beans + ham hocks + corn bread
I didn’t miss a self imposed belly ache by much!
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
Peanut Butter and Smuckers Strawberry Preserves on wheat bread. Lay’s potato chips.
Damn fine, too.
We should all save this somewhere so that when lefties creep into your Facebook feed in November claiming its all because eeeeeeviilllll Republicans passed laws to keep people from voting, you can post it as a comment.
78 Tedtam
I love Matt Walsh. Guy is great.
BTW, the last two graphs there are the worst news the Democrats will get out of this.
78
I haven’t been paying much attention to this Dr. Phil/ Matt Walsh /PsychoSexuals thing.
But that was beautiful. Especially if you watch the video.
Peanut Butter and Smuckers on Wheat Bread.
On the leading edge of The New Keto.
I can’t help being an important influencer.
Shannon, Gregg’s moniker at LST was T-Bone
Baloney, American process cheese food, Fritos on wheat bread.
Baloney is the queen of the luncheon meats. Also makes a terrific omelette.
My sincere apologies for the past week of newsletters as I have been dealing with China AIDS in my household and much as I would like to say I beat the WuFlu with beer and marijuana like All Star Alpha Man Shane Gillis, I beat it with Gatorade and Tylenol like a weakling. The outcome being, I feel fine, but my brain feels like I’ve been doing tequila shots nonstop for the past ten days. It’s not the worst I’ve felt — it’s like the fifth worst I’ve felt, after the pneumonia, the appendix, the heart thing, and the foot sliced open by a dirty shell when I was six — but it’s still a pain in the ass and I hope you’ll forgive me for being less enlightened and insightful than normal.
– Ben Domenech 2/19/22
#90 – Baloney is the queen of the luncheon meats
Oscar Meyer BEEF & thick cut por favore!
#90
Question: Is that eaten cold, or is it toasted and melted all together for a hot sammich?
90
Well, I did spend most of my early years putting Fritos inside my PB&J sammies.
Baloney and Spam pretty much fell off my radar once I turned 16, moved out, and got my own apartment.
Thank you TT for informing me about Hamous. I got chocked up reading through and into the past few opening threads. I never met Hamous but I am fully confident to say that he was a great guy. I am sure he’s making Purgatory more accommodating for when Tedtam gets there. Me too for interrupting her Latin class tonight.
It’s been a pleasure to have become aquatinted with Hamous and really everyone here. I have only met a few here in person and hopefully that will grow over time. Starting from Lone Star Times until now, my life has been enriched in unique ways from my fellowship with you all and I am thankful to having been a part of this group. I want to tease a bit by saying that it takes a but of bravery to move over to Squawk’s place but really it is a fine decision and one to be grateful for.
May Hamous rest forever in God’s infinite peace. May God bless all of Mark’s surviving loved ones as well.
Hey Headshaker. Congrats on the grandkids and the subsequent realignment of priorities. 🙂
Darren!!!
Hey Darren, don’t be such a stranger.
93 mh42
Cold!
You philistine.
93 katfish
Not sure about that.
I always thought the best was whatever kind it was that came in a big log that they had at this gas station in southern Oklahoma we used to buy sammiches at before we engaged in physical labor for the day.
Thickness depended on who was cutting it that day, but you got a lot either way.
#78; 85:
Matt Walsh hit an initial grand slam with his “what is a woman” question.
“What is a woman? Can you tell me what a woman is?” Walsh queried.
I wonder if “queried” was an intended pun?
Addison then accused Walsh of wanting to “reduce men down to our genitals, our chromosomes.”
“No,” Walsh shot back, “what you want to do is appropriate womanhood, and turn it into, basically, a costume that could be worn.”
And this…
Earlier in the segment, Walsh slammed the idea that people can choose their own pronouns that others are forced to use.
“You don’t get your own pronouns, just like you don’t get your own prepositions or adjectives,” Walsh told the guests. “It’s like if I were to tell you, my adjectives are handsome and brilliant, and whenever you’re talking about me, you have to describe me as handsome and brilliant, because that’s how I identify.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-matt-walsh-stumps-lgbt-activist-on-dr-phil-show-what-is-a-woman
Hey Shannon, hey Bonecrusher!
HNY Darren!
#100 – Does sound more fun fosho
Hey Katfish.
Hello all,
Late to catch up with everybody’s posts. Happy to have some old timers pop up from former blogs before Hamous.org came to be.
Hamous is still with us, we just can’t see him. 🙂
I had a long talk with my next door neighbor, Al, who is the executive overseeing 23 buildings and parking garages comprising the Hackensack University Medical Center near my home. He was telling me about the crises they’re having over cost overruns they’re having with ongoing construction projects. Al said galvanized pipe and conduit has increased in price over 200% in the last year, among other materials. A $139,000 project has increased $93,000 due to material costs alone. Another parking garage project has gone from an original bid price of $1.2 million to $2.1 million.
The orthopedic OR area called him and said it was 59° in their rooms. A large heat exchanger had gone out and delivery for a replacement is 5 months so he told his crew to pull it out, plug the two leaking tubes and reinstall it to keep the heating system going in that building.
Al said things are completely nuts in commercial construction right now because of all this. These kinds of cost shocks reverberate throughout the economy in ways most people can’t see or comprehend.
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