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Children under 12 constitute less than one tenth of one percent of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States.  However, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (center) fully and without shame or self-awareness embraces the hypocrisy exemplified by this photo.  These adults are far more likely to contract, spread and get sick from the Wuhan Lung Rot than any child in this school.  Where are their masks ?  Fools and idiots.

Scott Morefield at Townhall.com writes:

Of course, as we unfortunately know, censorship of ideas they don’t like is alive and well. All Twitter has to do to erase evidence like this from the annals of Twitter history is to delete Ian Miller’s account, an action that could happen to any of us at any time. Such is the risk of daring to go against the established Faucian Covid narrative. Thankfully, Ian has minimized the damage of that possibility by giving all of us an amazing gift in his new 217-page book, titled, “Unmasked: The Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates.” In it, the author combines his famous charts with unflappable analysis that devastatingly rips the veil off the misleading pseudo-science surrounding masking we’ve been force fed for two years to reveal the forbidden truth – that masking and mask mandates have done absolutely nothing to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 worldwide.

“I’ve looked at data from all over the world, from the granular county level to entire countries, and have yet to find examples showing clear and sustained benefits to mask mandates,” Miller writes. “There has simply been no discernable pattern or correlation with mask mandates and better outcomes.”

 

 

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ gang
    Suited up and heading out in search of Bambi once more.
    Y’all behave.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ain’t never heard of those Private Selection hot dogs. But I’ve probably only been in a Kroger once or twice.
    But the ones that Squawk orders special have always intrigued me. I just never wanted to buy a whole box. What if I hate them?
    In fact, after a lifetime of loving hot dogs, I’ve really fallen off on hot dog consumption. They all taste the same anymore, regardless of price.
    I’ll buy a couple chili dogs at Sonic sometimes. Just because.
    I don’t even like their chili.

    Man I need to get to James Coney soon.

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And if you put ketchup on a dog you’re probably one of those beans-in-chili sickos.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This one popped up on YT last night. I hadn’t watched it in years.

    One of the cooler encores in history.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #4 Shannon: Thank you! That was very entertaining.

  6. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. Gotta hit the shower and then off for coffee – or maybe I’ll just skip the shower and go straight for the coffee. I’m going to go through the exercise of setting up my power wagon outside and bringing out my back up batteries to make certain they are all topped off and ready to go. ERCOT says record usage expected, but no sweat, they are ready for it. If the power even flickers I expect Abbott and the Reps are finished in Texas given that they did absolutely nothing substantive but decided to just paper over the problems exposed when dealing with the power issues from last year.

    In other news, I’ll be back after a while to deal with the rest. You all have a great day.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    4 Shannon

    I loved that one.

  8. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Good morning all. Going down to -27 tonight, currently -2. Bring in your pipes.

     

    https://www.facebook.com/egirv/videos/1277580429391723

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    8 texanadian

    If I were Justin Trudeau, I would never come out of hiding after what Tucker Carlson did last night.  Here is the 16 minute video if you missed it.  Every second is worth watching.

  10. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    It really irks me when I see a small grade school aged child masked up in public and both parents are unmasked. This truly shows how much fear the schools have instilled into these poor children. They hear it seven hours a day from their teachers and other “trusted” adults so they now just automatically comply out of fear and habit.

    /spits

  11. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Anyone who doesn’t italicize Private Selection is a peasant who will never appreciate good hot dogs.

  12. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Since I’m all ecumenical and stuff, I go for those Jewish hot dogs, you anti-semitical philistine.

    The Chosen Weenies.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Jonathan S. Tobin, the Jewish writer and lecturer, is the author of this article.  He thinks this lawsuit is very wrong and so do I.

    Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram are suing the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, but their real beef is with the Holston United Methodist Home for Children. The Knoxville couple, who are Jewish, wished to adopt a boy from Florida, but part of the adoption process involved them taking a state-approved family training course.

    According to the lawsuit they filed in state court, they reached out to Holston United because it was the only government-approved agency that could provide them the services they needed. But after initially thinking the home would work with them, they were told that the Methodist group’s core religious principles forbid it from placing children in non-Christian homes.

    and this,

    At the heart of these disputes is the impulse of those who believe the revolution in social mores on gay rights should effectively marginalize and strip religious groups of their rights when they are involved in any public activity. In response, religious conservatives have asserted that it is their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion that is at stake. Liberals resent such constitutional protections, saying, in Justice Elena Kagan’s infamous claim, that conservatives are seeking to “weaponize the First Amendment.”

    plus,

    It needs to be understood that the purpose of the lawsuit is not to protect a Jewish family from discrimination. Rather the intention here is to sweep the public square clean of religious belief. It is based on a faulty interpretation of the First Amendment that would only protect the right of believers to freedom of conscience in their own homes or inside their houses of worship, but strip them of their rights once they left.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    If you didn’t read the C&C from yesterday, you should. The life you save could be your own. Once the hospital gets its hands on you, it’s hard to get your rights back.

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    Coffee & Covid ☙ Tuesday, February 1, 2022 ☙ CANCELING MANDATES

    Happy Tuesday, C&Cers! Today’s roundup is all good news: Canadian Trucker protest update; Narrative 2.0 continues to play out as expected; an unexpected Reuters headline; England cancels its healthcare mandates; Denver cancels its mandates; Massachusetts encourages colleges to cancel mandates; the New York Times encourages schools to cancel mask mandates; the University of Florida cancels mass testing and invokes the flu; and the Florida Senate passes a fantastic bill protecting small business.

    *******************

    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    The Canadian Truckers have now raised nearly TEN MILLION DOLLARS. Fox News pointed out that is more money than the major federal political parties of Canada raised during the last quarter of 2021. Possibly in response, yesterday Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a video presser from exile, outside his secret bunker, essentially making two points. First, the triple-jabbed Prime Minister says he has tested positive for Covid, so he has to quarantine. He’s not scared. It’s for everyone ELSE’s safety.

    Next he addressed the protest obliquely; criticizing the truckers without naming them. He said that Canadians have a “right to make their voice heard,” but NOT a right to “shut down our democracy or annoy their fellow citizens.” How Canadian! You can protest, but just do it where nobody can hear you. He also said he won’t cave to racists or people who disrespect veterans. Nobody seems to know what he’s talking about.

    Trudeau allowed that SOME protests are okay, like Black Lives Matter, whenever he — Trudeau — agrees with the issue. I am not making that up. Trudeau seems to think he’s the arbiter of acceptable thought. Most Canadians don’t appear to share his high opinion of himself.

    The truckers, for their part, are parked in the capital; today will be the fifth day. They don’t seem to be planning to leave anytime soon.

    The Canadian Broadcasting Co. is desperately running stories suggesting that the trucker protest is really a RUSSIAN MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN.     I’m not joking. Don’t ask me to explain how that would possibly work, or why the Russians would be interested in staging a trucker protest over vaccine mandates in Canada. It is absolutely the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard, but it passes for news up there somehow.

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    You’re going to need to put your coffee down before you read this next story. Reuters — and I am not making this up either — actually published a story yesterday headlined, “Ivermectin shows ‘antiviral effect’ against COVID, Japanese company says.”

    I know, you can’t believe your eyes. But yes, you DID read that right. Reuters published a pro-Ivermectin story.

    According to Reuters, a publicly-traded Japanese pharma company called Kowa reported it has been working with Tokyo’s Kitasato University to test the anti-parasite drug against common Covid variants, and it was seeing positive results in its clinical study.

    That’s it. That’s all Reuters has. No other details.

    So … why now? Why publish a nothing-burger story with a big headline suggesting that Ivermectin might actually help? Until ten minutes ago, mentioning anything positive about the drug was expressly forbidden by media censors. There are a ton of ivermectin studies going on all around the planet. Why this one?

    The story includes plenty of shade; it mentions Joe Rogan, and that ivermectin hasn’t been approved by any major health agency for Covid treatment. But still. You can’t get around that headline. What’s going on?

    ***********************

    Great Britain announced yesterday that it is canceling its vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. UK health secretary Sajid Javid said they were canceling the mandate for SAFETY, of course, and because Omicron. Javid said he’s worried that the vaccine mandate will “endanger patients” because of the loss of key healthcare personnel from an already understaffed health service. You don’t say.

    Before the announcement, healthcare workers had until February 3 to get their first jab or be fired. According to the Guardian UK, England’s National Health Service reports that as of late January, 127,515 medical workers had not gotten their first shot. Isn’t it weird how so many people with MEDICAL TRAINING don’t want the jabs? SO bizarre.

    In an address to Parliament, Javid said, “While vaccination remains our very best line of defence, I believe it is no longer proportionate to require vaccination as a condition of employment by statute. I will launch a consultation on ending vaccination as condition of employment in health and all social care settings. Subject to the response and the will of this house, the government will revoke these regulations.”

    Now, try to follow me here. If labor shortages caused by vaccine mandates for healthcare workers would hurt patients in Great Britain more than letting unvaccinated staff work in hospitals, wouldn’t that be true here in the U.S. as well? Does Covid work differently over there somehow?

    ******************

    Denver, of all places, announced the retirement of its mask mandate and vaccine passport rules for local businesses, starting Friday. The mile-high city will still keep mask mandates at schools and day cares though, for “safety.” In making the announcement, Denver’s mayor said the virus will just be something “we’re going to have to manage and learn to live with.”

    In other words, it’s endemic now.

    Interestingly, the mayor said the STATE’S data models showed that lifting the mask mandate this week would have “little change” on the number of cases and hospitalizations in metro Denver.     So this is coming from the Colorado state government, using “data models,” which can show anything you want. I wonder what could cause the State of Colorado to shift away from mandates.

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    In a remarkably similar development, the Massachusetts governor’s office sent a letter to college and university presidents yesterday, urging them to — and I am not making this up — end the campus Covid-19 mandates and restrictions. The letter darkly warns administrators about a “twindemic” of Covid plus social isolation, and decries the mental health epidemic affecting young people.

    I guess they just noticed it?

    Anyway, the letter encourages higher education institutions to be leaders; to lead the shift back to “near normal” by rolling back college Covid restrictions and investing in mental health services.

    And they’re talking about almost all restrictions AND testing.     The letter says:

    “Early in the pandemic, we made trade-offs, and veered on the side of remote learning and isolation. Overly strict protocols that inhibit any level of social interaction are counterproductive at this time. Now is the time to reconsider these protocols, to help promote a return to healthy social interactions, including [by removing]: remote learning; restricting or discouraging group activities; overly aggressive surveillance testing; and mask type requirements.”


    The letter didn’t mention vaccine or booster mandates, at all.     They left that one alone for now. It doesn’t encourage or discourage jabs or take any position on them. But if they meant to keep the jab mandates, I would’ve expected to see that in the letter.

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    In another unlikely development, the New York Times published an op-ed late last week headlined, “Let Kids Take Their Masks Off After the Omicron Surge.”     Curiously, the op-ed is written by one of the Times’ staff op-ed columnists, Michelle Goldberg. I say curiously, because just four days earlier, Goldberg penned another op-ed, except this one was headlined, “What does it mean to be ‘Done with Covid?’ While the pandemic rages, normality isn’t an option.”

    So, what happened over four days to transform one of the Times’ top opinion editors from “normality isn’t an option”     in her January 24th editorial, but just four days later, to “masking was intended to be a short-term intervention” and “keeping kids in masks month after month also inflicts harm, even if it’s not always easy to measure”?

    The new op-ed also reveals how they are going to thread the mask needle. Goldberg described a Harvard professor who suggests that “For anyone who fears moving away from universal masking, the great news is that they can continue to wear an N95 mask — along with being vaccinated and boosted — and live a low-risk life regardless of what others around them are doing.”

    See? In other words, if you’re scared about being around maskless people, just put on an N95 mask, take your jabs, and you’ll be good to go!     I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that sounds very similar to what we’ve been saying since day one. So.

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    The Florida Senate passed SB 620 late last week. The bill is called the “Local Business Protection Act,” and would allow local businesses to sue local governments if they pass any regulations reducing business profits by more than 15%.     It offers various protections to local governments, such as limiting the recovery of lost profits to only 7 years, and giving local governments a three-month window to “undo” the regulation after being notified of a claim.

    This would be a HUGE boost for small businesses if it passes in the House. I think it is mostly aimed at cruise ship restrictions in places like Key West, but it would also limit all kinds of other kooky socialist ideas like massively-expensive requirements for landlords to install “climate-change” features. Just think about what a law like this would have meant back when local governments were shutting down “non-essential” businesses back in 2020 and ordering restaurants to close indoor dining, or making them space their tables out, and all that other nonsense that accomplished exactly nothing.

    C&C officially supports SB 620. Pass it!

    ****************************

    The University of Florida sent out a remarkable letter Friday to the entire campus, announcing that “as the COVID-19 pandemic transitions to an endemic and the omicron surge rapidly declines,” the University of Florida is going to start “treating COVID as we do other contagious illnesses such as the flu.”

    Now, I’m old enough to remember back in the old days when comparing Covid to the flu would get you banned from Facebook for killing grandma.

    Anyway, UF’s “next phase” includes canceling asymptomatic mass testing of students. Now, Covid tests will be available on demand in Student Health Services, which is where a student would go to get a flu test, for example. Once mass testing goes away, the pandemic IS over. What will the media do then?

    The letter seems a little defensive in its tone, in spots. For example, it carefully points out that “these changes have the full support and encouragement of our campus public health experts, and UF is by no means an outlier in this regard. Many other leading universities around the country are adopting similar approaches.”

    See? Everybody else is doing it. It must be “consensus.”

    The letter was signed by no fewer than EIGHT administrators. Safety in numbers. You can’t be too careful, after all.

    Are you spotting a pattern of any kind in these stories? I don’t know, it’s so hard to tell. Oh well. I can’t wait for that State of the Union in a month. How about you?

    *************************

    *COVID IN FLORIDA AND ALACHUA COUNTY*

    This week’s update saw a drop of almost -100,000 cases statewide. In other words, cases fell by a third last week. Hospitalizations were also down again, now back below 10,000 for the week. Most significantly, the R-naught fell again, now at a near-record low of 0.45, showing that the pace of retreat of the virus is accelerating. And, highly-injected Alachua County continues to perform worse than the state average, even though it always performed better than the state during the pre-injection period.

    The Alachua County Medieval Faire was extremely well-attended this weekend, by all accounts, with nary a mask to be seen, except for a few birdlike medieval plague masks, a nice touch. I’ve got to grab one of those; it would be fun to wear it on an airplane, and it feels like there might not be a lot of time left to do that.

    Another week or two and the Omicron wave should be over.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just realized that Groundhog Day is tomorrow.

    But in the covidpocalypse, every day seems like groundhog day.

  16. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Justin Turdeaux and FJB share something: they are both post turtles.
    They did not get where they are by their own power
    They do not know what to do now that they are there
    It may take an external force to remove them

  17. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    wagonburner says:
    FEBRUARY 1, 2022 AT 08:30
    Since I’m all ecumenical and stuff, I go for those Jewish hot dogs, you anti-semitical philistine.

    The Chosen Weenies.

    I plead the Whoopie Goldberg defense. I thought a hot dog was a hot dog, because they all look the same. I thought hot doggishness was something you could see. Jewish hot dogs have always had my full support.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    What would be really ironic is to find a Jewish hot dog brand made in Germany.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Picked this up at MeWe:

    HOPEFULLY, THE VACANCY IN THE SUPREME COURT WILL DENY BIDEN THE CHANCE TO PACK THE COURTS WITH LIBERALS. So, unlike Trump, I don’t believe Biden can do two things at the same time, and that includes his handlers. The fight over the next Supreme Court Justice will stall Biden from packing the courts, a good thing for the GOP. Hopefully, the GOP will control Congress after the elections. All in my opinion.

    Then a link to this article: Supreme Court Vacancy Could Actually Shrink Biden’s Judicial Footprint

    I hadn’t thought of that, as I pretty much assumed that the court packing thing had gone all back-burner and stuff, but the Dems are increasingly desperate, so ya’ never know…

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #13 TP:

    According to the lawsuit they filed in state court, they reached out to Holston United because it was the only government-approved agency that could provide them the services they needed.

    If there were another approved agency this would not be such a big issue.

    Contrasting with the Colorado bakery harassment; there are plenty of other choices readily available, so why pick on this one?

    If you must go through a government mandated entity(s) and there is only have one choice of said entity, there needs to be lots of room for people of different beliefs.

  21. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    OK, let the winterizing begin. I’ve located all my battery units and have them connected to a power source top top them off. I had a master plan of what was supposed to power what unit or system when I put this all together, but I failed to write it down, but I do remember that I need to keep the refrig and freezer alive with generator power; internet and cell phone with battery power backed up by generator power, and a hot plate for coffee. Laptop with battery for communications as well, with battery back ups there and generator last resort backup. That should keep my informed and in communication with the outside world.

    Water supply is adequate with 2 cases of bottled water; plenty of food in the refrig and/or kitchen pantry. Gasoline stores outside should be sufficient for 2 or 3 days, not counting the full tank of auto gas available if needed. Propane cooker available, plenty of propane; plenty of wood available for BBQ pit if necessary. Lots of bottles of propane for little camp style grill if needed. Flashlites also charged. Overall, I think I’m pretty well prepared.

    While I’m hearing the grocery stores are being cleaned out and our politicians are telling us not to worry, it’s all under control, I see no reason not to make reasonable preparations. No, I’m not going out and buying big new generators and all that, but having what I do have on stand-by seems prudent. I do not want to see Governator Beto, but if the power flickers for long, that will do it. This coming storm should about max out our capacity, and just imagine what it would be like if everyone had electric cars. And their answer is to put up more unreliable windmills. What has happened top our Republican party in Texas? Sold us out is what has happened. OK, back to work.

  22. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    re: #3

    Well at least he’s half right.

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Article written by Roger Simon:

    HEADLINE: How My View of the Holocaust SHOAH Was Altered During COVID

    We are definitely there. RTWDT

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    20 Bonecrusher

    If there were another approved agency this would not be such a big issue.

    Tobin makes the point in the article.

    It can be reasonably argued that the state should provide other options for compliance with adoption rules other than those that require working with a religious agency that will only help those who practice its particular faith. A solution to this family’s problem would be for Tennessee to provide such an option — whether ecumenical or secular in nature — that would allow them to legally adopt a child from out of state.

    Yet it is quite another thing to claim — as the lawsuit filed by Americans United for Separation of Church and State does — that Tennessee has a positive obligation to force a religious agency to discard its beliefs or that a law that seeks to protect the right of that agency to religious freedom is unconstitutional because people of another faith wish to avail themselves of its services.

    You know right off the bat, the plaintiffs don’t give a damn about Judaism, Christianity or religious belief of any kind because they ran straight to those guardians of the Bill of Rights, Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

     

     

  25. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Thank you Texpat, I had not seen that clip yet. Tucker is great.

  26. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    OK, I’m going out to see if I can score some chili meat. I think a big batch of chili will seal the deal for the Ground Hog Day apocalypse. I actually prefer beans (pintos, home cooked) in my chili, but they are not keto, so no beans in my chili. Wish me luck – the store shelves are emptying out as we speak.

  27. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I’m Baack! Miss me?
    It was 33 in the stand this morning but when the sun came up it warmed up fast, 60 right now and shooting for the mid 70’s. More Chainsaw and Wood Chipper work today.
    I saw a nice spike this morning grazing in the pasture next door but I don’t have permission tho hunt there so he went about his merry way. I tried to coax him over, rattling my horns and using the doe bleat but he wasn’t real interested. The doe bleat did seem to get his attention a little bit though. FWIW; This was my uncle’s corn/peanut field when we were growing up and we hunted doves there in the fall. My cousin has it now and hasn’t allowed anyone to hunt on the place, mostly because “Real Hunters” are hard to find now mostly you get game hogs and slobs so why bother? She’d probably let me hunt on the back side away form the house but I’ve not asked since I have plenty of acreage of my own. I have permission to hunt on cousin Jerry’s 60 acres on the other dies of the dirt road but I’ve not really hunted there yet and have not taken the time to scout out the area. This 60 acres is the other half of GrandPaw’s farm, less the 6 acres on Marley Mill road that went with his farm house when it was sold.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #8 Texanadian 😀
    #9 I saw that of Tucker’s show last night.

  29. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Doood, congratulations on the new job! 😉

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #24 TP: The point I was driving at was that at the beginning of the adoption process, there was no choice. At the time the only option available excluded Jews, this is what needs to change.

    I agree that the plaintiffs are likely leftist scumbags and have highly suspect motivations.

    It would be nice if the State of Tennessee could fix the problem and render the court case moot.

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    other dies side of the dirt road

    Dang Spellcheck! I’m getting tired of this shirt.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Doooooooooooooooodski: Great news on the new job. May it pay well and have lots of other good non-monetary benefits.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve been watching a lot of gardening videos by these people.

    She does “cold composting,” aka “composting in place”. I started my first CIP pots. One was one of those lettuce with roots that I bought at the store. Ate the lettuce, then plopped the roots into a pot with compostable materials on the bottom, compost from my pile on top. It looks like it’s taking off. I put some tulle over it to keep the squirrels out.

    My second pot was started yesterday. More kitchen scraps, compost from the pile, and some lettuce seeds.

    When I go to the bank later, I’ll stop by my favorite thrift store and see if they have some cheap totes/tubs so I can start building the soil inside the tub. I have some cardboard egg crates/cartons that I have used to start fires for barbecue, but they would also make great seedling starters.

    Poor plants. They are victims of my enthusiasm. We’ll see if I can make this system work for me. I like her “tower” method of stacking pots in pots in pots. That reduces the amount of weeding, but more importantly, it reduces the amount of bending. That was always a problem with my past gardens – the maintenance issues, especially after I herniated my disc in 2013.

    And the watering is reduced, too. Since I don’t have an easy way of getting water to the back yard (I’ve talked to the plumber about this), this method will also be easier to keep watered.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This goes with my #23:

    HEADLINE: From 1984 to 2022

    The parallels are downright scary.

  35. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Went to the meat market and scored some fresh ground chili meat (hamburger with a more coarse grind) at a price slightly less than the ground up downers that they sell at the grocery store. He’ll have to go up on his prices soon I expect, but this should help me weather the storm for now. I’ll work on that this afternoon, or may even wait until tomorrow since I still have the roast that I prepared yesterday to work on for a few days.

  36. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Thanks, y’all. I’m looking forward to getting back into the frac world. It’s very different than when I left it almost 15 years ago as you can likely imagine.

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #36 Dooooooooooood: Don’t let the pressure and grit get to you.

  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I had to call the cops last night. I was driving into Pearland last night to have dinner with friends. I was driving down Mykawa Road, which is (1) in very poor repair, I’ve busted rims on potholes in that road, and (2) is very dark for most of it’s length.

    It was raining, it was dark, I had a lot of oncoming traffic (read as “trying not to be blinded by oncoming headlights”) and suddenly there was a black guy in a dark colored track suit, standing in the middle of my lane, moving his arms. At first I thought his car had broken down and he was directing traffic around his vehicle. I almost hit the dude since his black skin and dark blue clothing didn’t reflect a lot of light, especially in the rain and with my eyes being affected by the headlights. I managed to circle around him, noticing that his arm movements weren’t really traffic related, more like cheerleader stuff. As I passed him, I realized there was no car behind him. The guy was on some kind of drug.

    It took me a while to get to a safe place to pull over and call the police. Turns out, I was the second one to call, and a unit had already been dispatched.

    I’m hoping they found him before he became a splatter mark on the road. Fortunately, the rain and the poor road condition was a great combination to slow down traffic, which increased his chances of survival.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Bonecrusher’s link in #23 to the Roger Simon column is a must read.  Good stuff.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Congrats and good luck on the job, Doooood.

  41. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #36 – Way to GO Dooooood!!

  42. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #39 – 100% AGREED!

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Here’s a story you won’t see on the MSM:
    Legally armed store owner thwarts smash and grab robbery

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    I know you aren’t big on the music videos, but being a band geek you should enjoy the encore by Fleetwood Mac in Shannon’s #4.  The real action gets started about 2:45.

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees. I see that EG is the only one publicizing his exhaustive preparations for a possible power outage. Me, I guess I’ll do what I did a year ago when the Texas power grid went down in that February cold spell. Once the rolling blackouts started, I had no power for about half the day on several days. But the cats and I did fine. Well, they did fine because the cold didn’t bother them, and it turned out I did fine because I made it Ok day after day with just 2 aids: my puffy jacket and a small flashlight in my jacket pocket. Of course, I had no internet, but I did have a big stack of sudoku puzzles and a supply of freshly sharpened pencils. Very low tech.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mykawa Road, which is (1) in very poor repair, I’ve busted rims on potholes in that road, and (2) is very dark for most of it’s length.

    Been that way since it was opened a hundred years ago.

  47. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Great news Doood, congratulations and good luck. May February be a better year for all.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been a fan of the Hebrew Nationals since I lived in Texas.  When I came up here and started shopping at Costco I often stopped at the snack bar to buy one of their huge hot dogs with deli mustard and sauerkraut.  It came with a large drink for only $1.59.  Costco sells more hotdogs than any other outfit in America and they’ve held that same price for decades.

    About 12 years ago, I noticed Costco took down the Hebrew National sign and were providing their new Kirkland huge dogs instead.  I was irritated about this figuring they kicked the Kosher dogs out of the stores.  My research revealed Hebrew National (owned by food commodity conglomerate ConAgra) had decided to stop supplying Costco so they built their own plant in California to make their own hot dogs.

    They are still $1.59 $1.50 and it’s a meal.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He’s a funny guy. Emily In Paris.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Go kick butt, Doood.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve said it before.

    This is a bad time to be getting old and white.

    In a series of articles this month, The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium reported that hospitals in Minnesota, Utah, New York, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin have been using race as a factor in which COVID-19 patients receive scarce monoclonal-antibody treatments first. Last year, SSM Health, a network of 23 hospitals, began using a points system to ration access to Regeneron. The drug would be given to patients only if they netted 20 points or higher. Being “non-White or Hispanic” counted for seven points, while obesity got you only one point—even though, according to the CDC, “obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection.” Based on this scoring system, a 40-year-old Hispanic male in perfect health would receive priority over an obese, diabetic 40-year-old white woman with asthma and hypertension.

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mykawa Road, which is (1) in very poor repair, I’ve busted rims on potholes in that road, and (2) is very dark for most of it’s length.

    Been that way since it was opened a hundred years ago.

    True dat. Over the past ten years several new subdivisions have been developed on Mykawa, north of the beltway. Hubby put in a lot of those meters. All of those dump trucks and concrete trucks haven’t done that worn out asphalt any favors, and if there are patches, they are poorly done. I only take that road because it is such a straight shot for me for certain locations in Pearland, the restaurant last night being one of them.

    I’m hoping that with the increased population in the area, Houston might actually do something to improve the road conditions. But I’m not holding my breath. I might have great-grandchildren before that happens.

    Hubby hates taking that road. The nearest detour adds about five miles to the trip.

  53. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #45

    Sometimes low tech is the best tech.

  54. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m getting reminders for our 42nd class reunion. We were supposed to have our 40th two years ago, but..well, you know.

    We were sent a list of missing and deceased classmates. I was able to send info on one of the missing. I was saddened by the list of deceased. I was unaware of how many we’ve lost in the last 42 years.

  55. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Update on the “solvent trap” that the ATFE is all hot and bothered about.

  56. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I thought a hot dog was a hot dog, because they all look the same. I thought hot doggishness was something you could see.

    Get a load of Mr Metaphysics over there. As Plato might posit, “All weenies share in an ideal weenie-ness.” Aristotle might then add, “A weenie contains its weenie-ness.”

    In more recent times, Kant would consider that a weenie represents an observer’s total experience of weenies. Marx and Nietzsche would posit that “Everyone deserves a weenie” and “One should stop at nothing to obtain a weenie of one’s own.”, respectively.

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #53

    See, takes another woman to appreciate low tech!

     

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh and congrats to Dooood!

     

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Never cooked a beef stew in my life. Thinking that’s a good way to utilize a sixteen damn dollar Chuck roast. Leftover roast never gets completely used up around here. At least I can freeze the stew.
    Fay would make a beef stroganoff (one of my favorites) with the leftovers, but I can’t stand for so long at the stove and do that.

    Cowboy Kent has a pretty good looking one.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mom called them weenies.
    I don’t think wiener was in her lexicon.

  61. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    59 shannon
    You can shred the leftover roast and make chili out of it, augmenting with ground beef if needed.

  62. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Heh. Just got an ad on my screen for a Unisex Canvas Tarp

    Thank goodness. I’ve spent the last year looking for a Mens Canvas Tarp to no avail…..

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    WB
    I’m headed outside to the big freezer to get some chili shortly.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Gotta use unisex tie downs for that.

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    60 Shannon

    I don’t think wiener was in her lexicon.

    It sounded too German.  She never accepted their surrender in May of 1945.  Mom never stopped fighting the Third Reich.

    I’m not sure she ceased bellicosity with Hirohito either.

  66. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Got one battery that’s still topping off, but the rest are fully charged. Going out to get old generator out of storage, gather heavy duty extension cords, make sure everything starts, and have them all at the ready if needed. The “we’re all gonna die” media seems to be softening its tone a little bit – I assume someone gave them a call and told them to cut it out, stop creating a panic, and quit making government look bad.

  67. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Gotta use unisex tie downs for that.

    Now why does the word “hussy” come to mind?

  68. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Ain’t the tie-downs all the same for Male/Female/LGBTQ*P and whatever the 47 other ‘genders’ are?
    Afterall, BDSM is all the same, right?

    Izzit possible to misgender a tie-down?

    Would the tie-down even care?

  69. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    The covid narrative is dying so we have to drum up more hate news on this first day of black history month. Apparently a dozen HBCUs have received bomb threats today.

  70. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I am not keeping up today, but I scrolled up and saw the mention of “tie downs”. I spend all of 10 min a month on FB. I saw a post where my BIL asked for advise on preparing himself and his daughter for her first visit from Aunt Flow. Keep in mind my sister is still very much involved in my niece’s life. I kid you not a woman apologized for assuming that only women menstrate. That’s when I stopped reading FB. I was only about 4 min in, but that was enough.

    Somebody call 911. I think I have a concussion from hitting my head on my desk.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Have you considered that the mens got the menses now and are havin them babies?? And we just didn’t know?

  72. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I think there’s a tarp for that now.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I just can’t wrap my hands around the mechanics of such a thing.

  74. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    No need to watch the local propagandist news network’s weather prognosticators this week.

    Here’s their forecast.

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    David Clayton Thomas

  76. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Wait… I have seen a pregnant man before.

  77. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Got the old generator out and after about 10 pulls, reached around and pressed the “off” switch to “on.” Started on the first pull after that. But then it started surging. Took the carb off and blew out the jets with carb cleaner, took the bowl off and cleared the jets with a paper clip. Got better for a while and then started surging again. I did notice a bad gasket on one carb connection (front side, not the block), so don’t know if I will be able to find one locally tomorrow or not. Then it decided to slow down and only run at idle, and rough at that. I could tweak the little carb governor and it would speed up and run smooth, but when I released it slowed back down. I may have messed up some of the linkage, or the surging (it was surging from stop to stop, pretty violent for a little engine, but it’s too late to continue taking the thing apart tonight. Guess we know what my project for tomorrow is. Meanwhile, the little inverter generator is ready to go, so I might be down to one generator when the power goes out tomorrow night, Thursday, and Friday. Those carbs are so cheap on Amazon that its easier and cheaper just to replace it with a
    Chinese knock off than to take it apart and clean, replace gaskets, and the like.

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Got another one. Sorry.

    Early reports have the guy who helps me with physical labor in St. Luke’s with a stroke/heart attack.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    John is a bit of a rascal and mostly reformed reprobate, but we go way, way back.
    I try my best to help keep him out of the poor house.

  80. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #75 Shannon: That was really nice, thanks.

  81. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    78 Shannon

    John is only 60 maybe ?  Dang, how did he get to St. Luke’s ?  Did they Lifeflight him ?

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t have many details. 59-60, I believe.

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    H/T Instapundit

    That little pussy-hat-wearing head of Canada can’t find any heavy-duty wreckers to tow the trucks. When he calls, they tell him they’ve got the Chinese Lung Rot.

  84. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    This is actually pretty huge news.

    Its the second worst nightmare for the Dems and the second worst thing they’ve been fearing.

    WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico suffered a stroke and underwent surgery over the weekend, his office said Tuesday, adding that he is expected to make a full recovery.

    snip

    His office did not specify when the first-term senator plans to be back in Washington.

    Lujan’s absence from the Senate means Democrats will lack the 50 members needed for any purely partisan votes.

    The Senate doesn’t have proxy or remote voting like the House has (thank Turtle for that). This means Schucky won’t be scheduling any critical votes until Lujan signals he’s coming back—which might be a while.

    No Build Brokeback legislation until after summer, probably—just in time for campaign season to begin.

    Some Democrats said Tuesday they were still absorbing the news and had not thought about how it would impact governing in the evenly split chamber.

    Which means that right now, they’re cleaning the crap out of their drawers and hoping Bernie doesn’t catch a cold.

  85. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I suggest you contact your Republican National Committeeman and tell them if you want traitors Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger expelled from the House GOP Conference.

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: #85

    Here are the three Republican National Committeemen from Texas:

    Matt Rinaldi
    Current Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas
    National Committeeman
    Email: [email protected]

    Robin Armstrong
    National Committeeman
    1101 Maxi Circle
    Friendswood, TX 77546
    832-578-6634
    Email: [email protected]

    Toni Anne Dashiell
    National Committeewoman
    143 Spanish Pass
    Boerne, TX 78006
    210-467-2526
    Email: [email protected]

  87. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Is Bomb Cyclone 2 heading this way?
    Are we in the snow cone?

    Could be a new Godzilla movie.
    Godzilla vs the Bomb Cyclone Monster.

    https://youtu.be/j2iUQ6sta_c

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: My #86

    Matt Rinaldi

    Chairman Matt Rinaldi represented northwest Dallas County in the Texas Legislature from 2015 to 2019. During his time in office, Rinaldi was consistently rated among the top two most conservative members of the House by Rice University, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, Young Conservatives of Texas and Texas Eagle Forum. Rinaldi was, according to the Dallas Morning News, “instrumental in strengthening the punishments in the sanctuary cities ban,” and authored and passed into law measures that: remove from office public officials who adopt sanctuary city policies, require government contractors and subcontractors to use e-Verify, revoke pensions of teachers convicted of committing sex crimes against students, allow churches to utilize volunteers to provide security services without risking heavy fines, and prohibit any taxpayer money from going to Planned Parenthood.He served as the Pro-Life Whip for Texas Right to Life in 2017.

    ———————

    Robin Armstrong

    Armstrong was born in Texas City and reared in nearby La Marque in Galveston County. He has a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from Texas A&M University in College Station and a medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He did his residency in internal medicine. He is on the staff of Mainland Medical Center in Texas City. The hospital is located down the street from his boyhood home. He was the 2006 president of the Galveston County Medical Society.

    In April 2020, Armstrong garnered controversy by utilizing his personal political connections to conduct a non-clinical study over the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, a long-used anti-malarial medication that had recently been given Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA for use on COVID-19 patients, but remains politically controversial because of Trump’s announced support for its use.[1]

    —————

    Toni Anne Dashiell

    Bio here: http://www.toniannedashiell.com/bio

  89. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just checked out church bulletin, since I was out of town last weekend. They mentioned Hammy’s passing and asked for prayers for him.

    Just thought I’d let y’all know.

  90. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I see Whoopi is being suspended for two weeks from The Spew because of her statements on the Holocaust.

    Unfortunately, it’s not permanent.

  91. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Washington football team to announce new name tomorrow.

    I sincerely hope it’s the Washington Foreskins.

  92. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    About bedtime out here. You all have a good evening. Nite nite.

  93. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    The Hard left View’s Whoopi cushion is and has really never been anything but a racist, full of hot air gas bag doing the bidding of team totalitarian.

    Just like all the other hacks on that so called show.

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I just received response from Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi that he is supporting the removal of Cheney/Kinsinger from the House GOP Caucus.

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