Weekender Geological Mappery Thread
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I love Buddy Guy.
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Daughter Of The Wolf (2019)
Recommended.
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What a neat map.
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I’m a fair to middlin’ cook but those Appalachian Cooks ladies take it to another level, how about; Duck breast with fig preserves, asparagus, red mashed potatoes with duck fat gravy?
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I’m slowly losing it I guess. I just put up a post and then I guess I forgot to punch the Post button. Anyway, it’s cooler out here than predicted this morning. My plants are outside up next to the house, so hopefully it’s not going to damage them. Guess we’ll see about that here in a bit after the sun comes up.
I read Ammo Grrrll but I think I may have forgotten to bring her forward, so here she is a day late and a dollar short: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-419.php
And here we have the WIP: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/the-week-in-pictures-putin-us-on-edition.php
You all have a great day now.
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Great map. My eyes went right to the Big Bend area. The Chisos Mountains is one of my favorite camping spots. That’s the only place I’ve seen a black bear in Texas.
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Even Little Big Town diggin on some more Taj
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#5 – No kidding awesome map!
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The Chicken Ranch La Grange Texas
When the Chicken Ranch was forced to close in 1973, it was the oldest operating brothel in the United States. The Chicken Ranch supposedly got its name when the Great Depression hit. Though the Ranch had plenty of clients, times grew harder and income harder to obtain. Therefore, Miss Jesse Williams, Madam of the Chicken Ranch, began the “poultry standard” of charging a chicken for services rendered. Soon chickens were everywhere and the establishment officially became known as the Chicken Ranch. The meat and the eggs provided the household with plenty of food and extra income came from the sale of chickens and eggs. The brothel was listed on the tax rolls as a poultry farm.
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And Keb’s jammin too!
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I had something else to report but by the time I got teed up over here, I forgot what it was. I’m gradually losing it I guess. Since Mary’s passing, I’ve noticed that I’ve forgotten a couple of things that I planned to do, and I think about doing something and then forget what it was shortly there after and wonder what I’m doing here or there when I headed out to do something. Can’t tell if it’s just being distracted or if it’s something more serious. I think it’s just being distracted, but you never know. Maybe I should just put my mind to it and try to pay attention a little better.
San Saba Golf Course is taking bids on a flock of electric golf carts. I’ve always thought that having a golf cart would be handy for running around here, but my property is not large enough, and making them street legal is pretty expensive if I remember correctly. Plus even if street legal, it’s not a good idea to run them on the highway, so that means staying on the back streets.
OK, it’s time for coffee. I can remember that. Then I’ll replace my flickering light bulb when I get back. You all have a good one, and more later as it develops.
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MAPS
The University of Texas at Austin owns the largest collections of maps in the world. They just archived the Perry-Castaneda collection of 250,000 printed maps. Only about 70,000 are online.
UT Library Collections – These are documents of all kinds with maps mixed in. Click on “type” to find maps.
A person can get lost wandering through all this stuff, especially if you’re a map geek like I am.
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#10
I think making one street legal only entails having a horn, headlights, taillight and brake light. They should already have a horn and headlights, I’m sure brake light kits are sold and easy to install. But, if you are having trouble remembering where you are going and where you are at…. 😛
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Meanwhile back in reality…………. *hat Tip*>> ACE ‘natch
Drug Cartels Wage War on Mexican Government as Fighting Breaks Out On American Border
—AceThe Mexican border remains undefended as an actual narco civil war breaks out.
Laredo, Texas is an American city. The population center spills over across the unguarded, open border with Mexico. The population center on the other side of the border is called Nuevo Laredo, or New Laredo.
So this narco war is very literally on the border, on America’s doorstep.
Oh, and we had to close our consulate there because it was strafed with gunfire, and we also issued a warning to all Americans to shelter in place.
Obviously, we need to get those MiGs to Ukraine!
Suspected gang members blocked roads with spike strips and set fire to trailer trucks affecting local traffic in Nuevo Laredo, a city that lies opposite Laredo, Texas.
The US Consulate urged its employees and US citizens to stay indoors or avoid the area. The temporary closure was announced by the Mexican government soon after.
RTWDT
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Sure sounds like a confession to me…………..*spits*
Elle Duncan says many at ESPN planned a walkout over Florida’s anti-grooming law
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12 GJT
You can always mount a GPS unit on the cart and hit the HOME button if you forget where you’re going or what you’re doing.
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Lol
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Just perusing the stories and comments on Deshaun Watson, got traded in a blockbuster deal, he gets richest contract in history but racism was involved…or something.
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Super Dave
I’m a fair to middlin’ cook
C’mon man. I done seen your culinary skills. We know better.
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GJT
What caught my attention was the Cleveland organization saying that they wanted to move on from Baker Mayfield and try working with “an adult.”
Ouch.
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Wonder if anyone knows what “adult” shenanigans Watson has been up to the past year or so, did he cut back to ten women or go cold turkey?
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Houston Rodeo reminds volunteers of non-political stance after some spread ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ message
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The sloppiness of the CDC is a thing to marvel at in utter disgust.
HEADLINE: CDC Removes 24 Percent of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands of Others
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had listed in those under 18 years old.The health agency quietly made the change on its data tracker website on March 15.
“Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” the CDC says on the site.
I guess the juicy financial
incentivebribe paid to the CEOs of the hospital systems to pay big buck for any WLR death or procedure performed had absolutely nothing to do with the inflated numbers, did it. We were all screaming about the difference between with WLR and from WLR 18 months ago. The junta needed the increased numbers so aid in the big scare so that they could consolidate power.But the statistics are often cited by doctors and others when pushing for COVID-19 vaccination, including figures who believe virtually all children should be vaccinated. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, cited the tracker’s death total in November 2021 while pushing for an expert panel to advise her agency to recommend vaccination for all children 5- to 11-years-old.
Bad stats are called lies. Lies used to promote questionable behavior is called propaganda. Refusing to admit that the clot shot changes DNA is a lie of omission. All this so that they can shank us with a dangerous, DNA changing, ineffective drug that is paid for with tax dollars, so that Big Pharma can make big bucks, with the added bonus that many of those that took the shot will die early after a debilitating and expensive illness.
They want us dead after they can extract as much filthy lucre as possible. They are evil and need to be treated as such. -
What he said.
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Will be leaving the home of hugs and giggles soon. We had a fabulous vacation. But all things must come to an end. They need to get back to their routine and I have a home and business to tend to.
But it was magical, all those morning snuggles and conversations. Watching them enjoy their outings. Making memories.
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And the C&C had been missing me. Thanks to Bones for picking up the slack.
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NO C&C so far this am. Safe travels back to H-Town, TT.
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We had an income tax refund due and we opted for direct deposit. The thieving bastiges at the IRS deposited less than half of what was due. No email explanation, no explanation of any kind, just a short pay with the implied FU taxpayer.
I don’t know what yet to do./spits
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Morning, fellow crackers! I need to get started on my 2021 taxes, maybe I’ll at least download the forms today.
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#28 Bones
I’ve never had any issues with direct deposit for tax refunds. If there is an actual issue, you will have to wait for the IRS to send a letter via USPS. They do not communicate via electronic means.
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Our CPA sent us a workbook to fill out 6 weeks ago and I wrapped up my portion about 3 weeks ago… still waiting on the wife to get her income statements for her two LLCs wrapped up. Our CPA told us last year to make sure we file by April 15th this year even though we normal file in late summer. I think he is worried about the three months my wife worked contract for her present employer last year. On his advice she never sent in a quarterly payment for her taxes. In any case, we know she withheld plenty to cover the tax obligation so no worries there.
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Dropped mine off last week.
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Well that did not work well.
A little musical interlude.
/Katfish
Not only did wordpress delete my posts as instructed it decided to delete yours too. Dunno why it did that.
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#33 – I deleted mine Squawkster – after I figured out what you were doing (I think?)
Your ‘musical interlude’ initially showed as a repeat of the OC post above
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Glitchy net today.
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rEpublican’ts slogan for 2022–vote for us for doing absolutely nothing and because we’re not the other guy even though we really are the other guy.
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Was Brother Squawk really a truck driver in his younger days or was he the fellow on the skins?;)
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Revealed here for the first time.
Squawk’s Dutch relatives have musical ambitions, but they can’t quite figure out how to acquire instruments so they make do.
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Hey unckola.
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With BSue on the sticks.
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Texpat
The guy with the blue hard hat is my cousin Clementius Box. Hey is actually a successful Pool Noodle and pipe insulation salesman. He failed miserably as a piano player in ho-house.
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rEpublicant’s. Vote for us. We do know nothing we do nothing just like Sgt Schultz. Bank robbers keep your loot even if caught.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/wisconsin-cant-decertify-the-election/
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rEpublicant’s. Vote for us in 2022 and please donate large quantities of cash to republicant’s@scumbaggery’sRus.treachery
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#38
That was different! Boomwhackers, indeed.
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Sigh.
Posted by a young collector on one of my militaria pages:
These items were given to me by a local librarian who knows I collect. In the group is some field manuals dated 1942 and 1941 a named navy hood conduct medal dated 1941 and an address and notebook with various cursive writing (I can’t read cursive) that appears to be dated throughout 1943 with various references to artillery ranges and field manuals.
The cursive writing was notes taken by a WW2 Marine during training on communications equipment. Its the kind of Tribal Knowledge that can’t be found in Manuals and other official publications, its like having the vet teach you. A huge body of knowledge is in the process of being lost because our education system sucks.
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No sales tax on pints of Blue Bell?
What a deal.
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Random thoughts from Casa TexMo.
Since I missed work on Monday and I’ll be out for several weeks, everyone and their brother were knocking at my door trying to get last minute information from me. It was very exhausting. I have two final items I have to complete this weekend and then I’ll be done.
We bought a cheap greenhouse with very thin plastic sheeting that eventually tore. The sheeting also did not tuck under too well so the cold wind could get inside. We fixed that yesterday. It was about 72F outside and 92F inside the greenhouse.
Apparently they now have an epidural similar to what women receive during labor and delivery. In my case it will be higher up so I can walk. It is supposed to minimize (maybe eliminate) the amount of post op narcotics.
Today is another day to work in the garden and yard. Absolutely beautiful weather.
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Apparently they now have an epidural similar to what women receive during labor and delivery. In my case it will be higher up so I can walk.
Well I’ll be. Great.
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47 TexMo
They gave me some kind of upper epidural when I had my shoulder surgery last August to reduce the amount of narcotics. The anesthetist kind of surprised me with that one.
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I’ve been outside puttering around most of the day. Wish my tomato plants were a little bigger, but if they were, I’d probably go ahead and put them in the ground, so it’s probably a good thing that they are not quite ready yet. They will grow just as fast in the pots as they will in the ground at this stage anyway. I am noticing some hearty growth now, and no one was damaged with the cooler night last night. If we were to get some rain the grass would probably start greening, but for now it’s just too dry, and everything around seems to be burning.
More later, and keep enjoying this nice spring day.
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Drip sprinkler installation is going well. It is actually tied into our yard sprinkler controller so now hopefully we will get produce beyond May/June. Since the yard is automatically watered, we have a tendency to forget the garden and everything dies too soon. 🙁
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It’s been a fine day here, I got out early and picked up all the limbs from the storm and in doing that I checked all the trails. While I was on the dam of the pond I decide to drag the old pine tree top off the pond side of the dam. About 6 years ago a huge pine fell across the dam and the top landed at the edge of the water. BIL cut it into sections and pushed the logs off the back of the dam with his big John Deere. I’ve been wanting to get the top for a while so I got the tractor and pulled it out but before I could do that I had to murder a few Sweetgums that were growing up around it. Since I had the wood chipper I let it devour the small trees, trunks and all. The largest one had about a 4″ base and the wood chipper doesn’t even notice it grinding thought the blades. Anywho that was fun and wife was pleased. She was cleaning the farm house and wishing she was out side. Speaking of that, she’s out front planting some flowers in the big pots in front of the porch. After years of tending several large flower beds she’s decided to go maintenance free on the main ones. That means river rock and a few small bushes along with scattered pots that can be replanted.
Oh and when I took her to the pond to see the work we went on down the Bear Creek Trail to check on the limbs down. On the way back, about half way, I spotted a big 5′ Timber Rattler so I removed his head with the 20 Ga pump, blew it smooth off, nowhere to be found. He had 9 rattles and a button. FWIW; I don’t like murdering them but we just have too many around here. -
This just popped up over yonder, my wife doing what she likes to do, and looking good doing it. BTW; This was in March of 2020. 😉
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aySay unckolayay
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I got home, and Hubby got up to greet me, but I told him to sit back down. His knee, damaged from all those years of climbing up and down off the backhoe, and had flared up so badly that he skipped going to a car show. That’s serious. He’s been resting it, but it was still not doing well when I got home.
He told me that he had a surprise for me, and I guessed correctly – he put a spigot on the back of the house. He was going to water my containers for me while I was gone this past week, and I figgered he wasn’t the water totin’ kind. He’d rather drill a hole in the wall (as he had promised me he would do). He was going to focus on our apartment renovation and do it after, but…he wasn’t making several trips with the watering can, as I’d been doing.
I dragged a hose around from the front and watered my plants. Something took the top off of my red bell pepper plant, which is worrisome. If I transplanted a cutworm from the compost pile, I could lose some other herbs in that tub. It looked higher than cutworm damage, so we’ll see.
I don’t know if any of the plants in my stevia container are actually stevia – taste testing didn’t go well. I did find a volunteer tomato, which got transplanted into its own pot soon after discovery. I have no idea what kind of tomato it is, so it’s “tomato surprise”. Some of my other seeds didn’t come up while I was gone, which isn’t surprising – those were old seeds and the germination rate probably isn’t the best, and I planted a bit early. So those pots got reseeded. I found some more stevia seeds and planted some into seedling cups for now. At least I know that any green in those cups will probably be what I want.
All of my okra are gone. I think I gave Handyman all of my okra seeds, so I guess I’ll buy fresh seeds and start over.
My lettuce and basil seems to be doing well. Spinach is slow, but coming along. I have some onions that I planted when they started sprouting in my kitchen, and one of them is about to bloom; so I may get some seed. Still waiting for my ginger to come up. I’m worried I may have a fungal problem since I have several plants that are all brown and dead; again, I’m going to wait and see how the other plants do. Lost all but two, maybe three, of my rose cuttings. /sigh
After completing my gardening, I fixed dinner and unpacked. Now, for a shower and do some Latin studying. I have my beloved Latin mass tomorrow. I missed the last class, so I can see if the recording of the zoom class has been posted yet.
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56 Tedtam
My daughter and son-in-law live in a 3,600 sq. ft. McMansion (plus huge finished basement) and the damned new home builder designed it with two outside faucets and two exterior electrical receptacles. The faucet and receptacle on the east side (front) have never worked. Plumbers and electricians can’t explain it either. I think they are fake. I ran a new long water line and added one faucet so there are two functioning hose bibs, one each on the west side and south side.
If I could find this builder, I would wring his neck with my bare hands.
The national building codes should require an exterior faucet on each side of every home. There should also be exterior GFI receptacle boxes on each side of the house. Both of these should be at least 36-42″ above ground level. If the home is extra large, there should be even more faucets and receptacles.
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51 TexMo
Those are the lowest raised beds I’ve ever seen. Y’all must be really short people.
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#57 Texpat
Our plumber just plumb forgot to put a spigot on the back side of the house.
I could wring his neck, but I need my husband for other things.
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49 texpat
I had that too. Lasted about 2-1/2 days. When it wore off, it wore off fast. The next 2-3 days were not fun, but I limited the narcotics to those couple days. -
51 texmo
Drip systems are where it’s at. Once you get the connection to the water supply done, just about the only tool you need is a pair of scissors.It’s also really easy to reconfigure, which is important to me because all my herbs, etc. are in pots on and around the patio. As a side benefit, all the flowers get watered as well.
I had an extra zone on the sprinkler system included that I connect to. It’s awesome.
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All of my okra are gone.
You say that as if it were a bad thing.
In my mind it just frees up space for something more useful like tomatoes, peppers, or just about anything else.
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Let’s have a vote.
What’s cuter?
Granny talking about DH building her canning stations and water faucets?
Or…?
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One of the places we visited had fried okra – non-breaded – and I was in heaven. I love crunchy foods, and I like okra. High temps, like frying, and acid are two ways to overcome the slime factor.
I also plan on pickling some okra this year. I won’t eat more than one piece at a time, but I do like it beside a salad. When I was pregnant with Lovely Daughter, I got one every day with lunch. She was my pickled baby.
Handsome Son was my no-way-in-hell-am-I-eating-Chinese baby. Before I was pregnant with him, I could eat it every day.
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Oh, and just so y’all know, I’m a ‘unicorn”. LD2 labeled me that because I give magical cuddles.
Just don’t expect me to go fartin’ rainbows or glitter.
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As previously noted, I spent some time outside today, and all the plants appear to be pretty happy right now. Still got about a 10 day wait, and since everything right now is in fairly large pots, there’s really no reason to put them in the ground immediately anyway. They will probably do better sitting in the pots and developing good root systems before being transplanted, so I’ll just continue to keep an eye on the situation and play it by ear as needed. I’ve got some extra pots that I’d like to put something in, but I don’t really know what else to plant. I’ve got 2 Serrano pepper plants which should provide for all my needs, more tomato plants than I can find a place for, and that’s about all I really need. I like the okra idea, and a couple of those will feed a lot since I don’t like them to get too big and tough, but once they start producing they don[‘t want to seem to quit.
You may remember that I started several cuttings from BFF’s rose bush back in September. I was down to the last one that looked like it had a chance of making it, but I tossed it today. Not a sign of a root sprouting out on it anywhere. It’s looking like the disposition of her estate is going to be moving forward full speed ahead shortly, and they will be selling her townhouse “as is” rather than putting any money into it, so there won’t be any more opportunities to reproduce it. I cut it back pretty far last fall, so there’s not much left to make cuttings from anyway – it’s cut back proper for the spring growth to go crazy. We thought about just digging it up and bringing it back, but it’s been there 40 years, so moving it might be a real challenge too. Besides, I can get new rose bushes for $10, and that’s a lot cheaper than driving to Dallas these days.
As to the ivy, I’ve got stringers already showing nubs of roots, plenty of pots to put them in, but no place in the house to keep them once they are done. I’m going to see if I can make one outside hanging basket which will hang from the eave and be constantly shaded, but the summertime heat may be more than it can handle. Guess we will find out about that soon enough.
Not quite bedtime yet, but certainly time to start thinking about it. You all have a good evening if I don’t make it back for a closing statement tonight. More later.
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Oh, another idea. I normally mow around all the volunteer bluebonnets that show up in my yard and allow them to seed. Additionally, I harvest bluebonnet seeds and throw them out in the area behind my back fence. A couple years ago they did pretty well, last year not so well. This year has been dry throughout the fall and the winter, and so far the spring, so I’m not sure how the seeds will germinate. Bluebonnet seeds are very tough and it can take two years for them to germinate if conditions are right. Anyway, thinking ahead, I might plant some harvested bluebonnet seeds in the big outdoor pots this fall. That might be something different anyway.
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#58 Texpat,
Originally we had stacked two 4x4s on top of each other. There used to be six 3’x3′ squares. We had three beds next to the fence, but it was too shady.
Since January the Mrs. completely disassembled the beds and moved all the dirt to the new beds with nothing more than a shovel and small 3 gallon bucket. Between the beds she laid two layers of landscaping fabric and put pea gravel on top. We had pea gravel between the previous beds and she moved that too.
Now along the fence she laid new paver stones and put up the greenhouse. The plan is to extend the paved area along the fence to put a work table there for potting plants, etc and finally put a small storage shed out there for garden implements.
With the chemo it was too cold for me out there so she has done 99.9% of all that work. Today I was the clean up man throwing crap out. I managed to not over do it since I just had the laproscopic surgery on Monday.
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If you have Prime, the series “Reacher” is pretty good.
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68 TexMo
Just giving you a hard time. You’ve got a real fine wife there. She might be a keeper.
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#63 Wagonburner, no contest the Labs win hands down. 😉
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If you have Prime, the series “Reacher” is pretty good.
Now that’s a coincidence a week ago the wife wanted me to watch “Reacher” so she found it on my Dumb TV and we watched episode “0” and when the next square popped up, I clicked on it and we started watching Jack Ryan by Tom Clancy. Dang did we get sucked into it or what? We just now got finished with the last two episodes in season #1 so I’m looking forward to the next season…..It sure beats Yellowstone.
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Tedtam says:
MARCH 19, 2022 AT 9:23 PMIf you have Prime, the series “Reacher” is pretty good.
Yes it is, and it shows what a dumb move casting Tom Cruise in the movies was. Now, it ain’t gonna win no Oscars of Emmies, but its dang good action fare.
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#57, 59
Hard to sue your builder when he is your hubby, but it’s also tuff having a client who is your wife. I do believe hubby drew the short end of the stick on that one.
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My son got third place in his heat race tonight. Through the pill draw he started front row outside, I was nervous I could be for him being put up front second night out but he held on and got third!
In the feature race he started 5th row, not sure yet where he finished – they haven’t posted yet but it was mid pack. Most importantly he looked like part of the pack out there, running side by side with them and handling the corners very well. So proud for him. We’ll see in a day or two how the points shake out, our goal is to lead in rookie points.
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Either the blog died or you folks don’t take enough vitamins.
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Hey unckola
AySay unckolayay.
One of these days your favorite nephew is going to come back and haunt you. -
Morning gang. I’m up early this morning for some reason. The fires out in our direction are taking their toll, and nephew in Cross Plains lost about 150 large bales of hay and his tractor in one of them. That’s a pretty good loss for a younger man. We’ll see if any of the federal or state aid trucks start showing up handing out money – usually they do not because there just are not a lot of voters living in the rural areas. Locally groups are raising truck loads of bottled water and animal feed to ship out to the fire victims and the fire fighters. Have not heard of any federal help on any of these huge fires, presumably because Texas tends to vote Republican. So I guess we’ll just tough it out.
Yesterday was a beautiful day out here, and I got some things done outside. Today the gale force prevailing SE dry winds are predicted to return, so my outdoor plants will take another beating. I don’t really have any wind breaks sitting up here on this little hill like I do. I think Spring is supposed to show up sometime here soon, like today. More later as it develops. No coffee today as coffee shop is closed on Sunday.
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I guess Hubby got up to go to mass after all. He attends a novus ordo mass in Pearland, an early one. He likes to go to real early masses, and he meets me for breakfast before I go to my Latin mass. (I told him I was happy to attend both, but he insisted on this arrangement. He knows how I feel about the Latin mass, but he hasn’t the patience to learn it.) He said last night that he wasn’t sure if he was going to attend, since there was no way he could kneel. I told him that I didn’t think folks would judge him, and what if they did? He had a good reason for staying off the knee, so sit during the kneeling parts. God will understand.
I guess he heard me. I’m just happy that he wants to attend mass. I guess as one gets older, getting closer to God gets more important. His mother never attended any church, nor his dad. I don’t think his brother does, either. It just wasn’t important. At least one of the family is churched.
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And for all y’all, since I think I’m the only Catholic left on the Big Comfy Couch, the Pope has announced he consecrating Russia and Ukraine to Mary on March 25th.
This is a big deal. HUGE DEAL. The three secrets given by Mary at Fatima to the three child seers includes a request for the Pope to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart, else Russia would “spread her errors throughout the world”. The consecration was never done. Pope JPII supposedly did a consecration, but the modernists had him change the wording, so it wasn’t done as the Lady had requested. There is great controversy and discussion as to whether the pachapapa will perform the consecration as requested.
First, he is “inviting” bishops to join him. He should be making it a command – he obviously enjoys using his power to shut down traditional orders and worship, so he should have no problem ordering the bishops to join him. By making it an invitation, there are going to be some bishops who refuse to join. Because…well, that’s a whole ‘nother topic.
Second, he is not consecrating Russia by itself. The original instructions were for the consecration of Russia, not Russia and Ukraine.
Third, will he be following the formula required for the consecration? I wouldn’t put it past this Pope to screw it up, intentionally or not. When reading the Bible, especially the Old Testament, it is clear that when God tells you what and how he wants things done, he expects his instructions to be followed.
Here is information on Mary’s appearances at Fatima, one of the most known and important apparitions of Our Mother. The Miracle of the Sun was seen by many thousands of people, and not just at the apparition site, but also from miles away. Interesting is the fact that not only did the people in attendance think the sun was diving onto them and fearing for their lives, but they were instantly dried after being in a pouring rain. Hard to say that was imagination.
I am praying a novena – so that means two rosaries each day, my usual one for peace in the world and the Church, and now one for the consecration – so I guess I better get started.
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And I guess I need to schedule my First Saturday and First Friday devotions schedule. The Saturdays devotion was a request by Mary at Fatima. Fortunately, I attend a church that has the required designated First Saturday masses.
Just a regular Saturday vigil mass won’t do.
I love my faith, and my church.
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There is one thing you can bank your money on and that is I am thoroughly nauseated by everybody’s stupid, damned “core values”. I don’t care.
But to be sure, Disney has lots of them.
“The live performance in our park did not reflect our core values, and we regret it took place. It was not consistent with the audition tape the school provided and we have immediately put measures in place so this is not repeated.”
Scalp your obnoxious core values !!!
Are you often offended by half-time marching band routines? If so, be thankful you missed a recent performance by Port Neches-Groves High School.
The incendiary incident occurred, of all places, at Walt Disney World.
On March 15th, the school’s drill team got down at the Orlando amusement part, but there was a profound problem: The girls shouted, “Scalp ’em, Indians! Scalp ’em!”As now made clear by the Mouse, the slogan supported racist stereotypes.
There might’ve been reason to find out beforehand what the team was going to chant — after all, they’re called the “Indianettes.”
And presumably, the mantra’s message was that American Indians are winners.
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Well CBS paid their dues this morning. That Evil woman that hosts “Deface the Nation” is doing a Puff piece with the Chinese Ambassador to the US. He lies and she smiles and nods.
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Sister will be coming over later so I’m thinking Texas Lone Star Tamale’s, rice N Charro/Refired beans. I picked up 3 perfect avocados yesterday to make my guacamole.
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I’d mentioned Sister’s big Bocage Estate Sale and it was the best one they’ve had to date. Netted a little over $55K of which they’ll get about $16,500.
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#81 Texapt “Core Values,”?!?! I have to throw the BS flag on that one since Disney has a day set aside just for Queers and Tranny’s. “Core Values” my AZZ.
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I saw this headline, Latest Inflation Advice Goes from Insulting to Psychotic, and clicked on the link.
The Bloomberg.com article itself is behind a paywall, but you get the gist of its contents in the above tweet. There are also some things within the article to enter into the realm of psychotic. For example, this is an actual quote by the author.
” If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs. “
The answer to inflation is now to…let your pets die? Also, don’t eat meat, ride a non-existent bus if you live anywhere outside of a major metro area (or get robbed and assaulted on one, if you do live in a city), and suck it up, you big baby, because no one said this would be fun.
I look up the Bloomberg Op-Ed author and it turns out to be a Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. The New School is a buzzing hive of communists drones and ideological queen bees in NYC. It turns out Teresa is also a board member and current board secretary of the Economic Policy Institute. Oh, whoopee !
EPI produces a lot of jargon drenched policy papers and awkward opinion pieces for the stale, desiccated major media publications. I went to their website to see what they are up to lately, what they might have to say about inflation, commodity shortages, supply chain mismanagement. You know, all those hugely important economic subjects glaring the world in the face.
Nothing.
Almost every essay and column is devoted to why government workers, teachers and all union members are drastically underpaid. So I knew it wouldn’t be good and decided to refresh my memory of this group by looking at the Board of Directors. You can’t make this stuff up. I mean, the evil witchwoman, Julianne Malveaux, is on the board as vice-chair. The list looks like a roundup of all clueless leftwing bloodsuckers in the government/union/academia triumvirate.
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Dry SE winds are continuing up here on the hill, and the forecast for the next couple of days indicates no relief from the winds, but we do go from a 0% chance of rain to a 3% chance. My default position is that when the weather guessers out here say 100% chance of rain then we might actually see a little bit – anything less than 100% means 0% out here. My newly planted rose bush is taking the brunt of the wind and its leaves are getting wind burn, but I think it will be OK when it really gets to start growing. I still can’t decide what to put in my larger pots out front. I could just put some shrubs in there and be done with it; I could plant some colorful flowers in there that will burn up as soon as it gets really hot; or I could do a little vegetable gardening in them. Decisions, decisions. Better be careful or I just won’t do anything at all.
Blackie, the feral cat, had a good breakfast that I put out this morning. I figure he’s got a few other stops when he runs his route every day because he seldom eats all the cat food I’ve put out, or he is just being polite and leaving some for the Pogo Possum family that drops by just after dark every evening and mops the patio clean.
OK, back to work for a few minutes. More later.
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My #86 cont’d
Lots of people, all kinds of people with Twitter accounts laid into Teresa Ghilarducci for her overbearing, condescending column on Bloomberg. Equal blame falls on Bloomberg’s woke little editors for allowing this to go to print.
The best response, according to Twitchy, is a seven tweet rant by a young woman and mother named Lady Demosthenes.
A sample:
Politicians aren’t your parents. They are NOT the adults in the room, they do NOT care one iota about you and you can’t rely on them to fulfill any of their empty promises because they are useless liars, one and all.
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My cousin Ruby Begonia Box decided to dress up like Luanne Platter from King of the Hill. What y’all think? Pretty good huh?
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#89
It has always been a known fact that the Box family has impressive genes.
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89 Squawk
Why is their a huge, poisonous reptile crawling up her leg ?
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I’m channeling my inner Dave today. So far me and my ‘lectric chainsaw have take down a loquat tree that half died in Snovid ’21 and a tangerine tree that completely died during the same event.
Unfortunately I do not have a big orange tractor.
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#91
She is from the lizard clan of the Box family. Over in France they tattoo white flags on their calf.
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Yeah the Box clan produces some sturdy stock in women. In fact they are so tough they do not care whether the seat is up or down or how the toilet paper hangs on the roll.
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#94
If the rider is bigger than the horse it don’t much matter if it’s got a saddle lol.
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#89 Squawk 😀
TexMo, Good job, what kind of chain saw do you have? 16″ 18″ bar? The AC ones aren’t that bad it’s just that dang cord.
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BTW, GJT congratulations on the boy’s third place win.
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GJT
We need pictures. Congrats to your boy and to you the proud Dad.
Mosel Tov
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Priming the pump for the next guy…
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Washing the dog today. The human female in the equation has me using Burt’s Bees Oatmeal Shampoo for dogs in the bathtub.
If it was my Dad, he’d have me using the hose on the lawn and a nearly empty bottle of Prell.
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#97, 98
Thanks! We are having a blast.
Still haven’t managed to get any good action shots, got a couple of decent videos my wife filmed but they are too big to text. We have them posted over yonder. I’m giving up trying to video and watch, I lost track in the feature and have no idea how he placed. Having to wait for them to post results lol.
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I used to say, “it is a strange world we live in today”. I would like to amend the comment to: “we are doomed”.
Ken Paxton cannot catch a break even when he is right.
Texas AG Ken Paxton misgenders Rachel Levine, a transgender federal official, drawing outrage
Wait what? Misgenders? What the hell is that? Is that word in the dictionary?
Referring to a story listing Levine as one of USA Today’s women of the year, Paxton wrote: “Rachel Levine is a man.”
Ohhhhh he called a man a man that likes to dress up and pretend he is a woman. He is not a she and thank goodness cause it would be a really ugly woman.
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We’ve watched Reacher and Jack Ryan recently, too.
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GJT
Chan you post a link again to the car – or type of car – he’s racing. And some specs.Fay wants to see.
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I went ahead and took out a crabapple tree too. It was an ugly tree and I don’t care for the fruit. Now there is plenty of sun for the new orange tree that is going in.
I decided to take a break before I accidentally cut off a random foot or leg. I might be done for the day eventhough the work is not complete.
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GJT, glad to hear you are having a blast. I would very much like to catch a race this season.
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Dave, I have the Homelight brand of saw from Home Depot with an 18″ bar.
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#105
They are called a Dwarf Car, close cousins to Legend Cars. They are miniaturized (can’t remember the scale) of 30’s models coupes, trucks and delivery (panel) trucks. They run 1000cc motorcycle engines/transmissions, his is a Kawasaki ZX10 engine out of a Kawasaki Ninja bike. Minimum weight is 1000lbs/1240 with driver. Somewhere are around 175-200hp, they rap it to 12K RPM and get there quick!
The series we are running with:
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#106
Thanks MHarper, that’s sweet.
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Texmo
I think I understand why you needed to cut the tree down. Good call.
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Happy first day of Spring, Hamsters.
From a surprising 39 this morning we have bounced up to 74 now. Yesterday’s vigorous north wind is replaced by a vigorous south wind today, and the humidity is a dry 43%. The live-oak leaf blizzard continues regardless of which way the wind blows. If’n we don’t get the rain promised with tomorrow’s frontal arrival, we’ll have to put the sprinkler system to work again.
Sadly, our pansy planting in mid-November did not allow the flowers enough time to set roots before the gusty winds and freezes came in December. Only about 10-15% of them survived, and those that did are still as small as they were when we planted them. Most of them are starting out again with very few blossoms. They had plenty of mulch covering the soil and roots so perhaps that is why some have survived. The beds look so forlorn and barren. Kinda like much of the US after the dismal nonperformance of the Biden regime in its attempts to spread Holy Socialism.
We are so fortunate to live in Texas.
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#110 GJT
Those cars look more like something you wear to drive rather than something you climb into. 🙂
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Ms Adee
I know, I can’t even get in it lol. If I could I couldn’t get back out.
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#106
I just realized there could be confusion, my son is the one in the driver’s suit. Kinda hard to tell, I know. 😀 😀 😀
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Saw my first hummingbird scout a few minutes ago. So maybe in addition to the calendar, there is another sign that spring time is here.
Wind is terrible out there.
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#117
Who knew hummingbirds had calendars lol.
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They showed him the money yesterday and he said give to me !
Star shortstop Carlos Correa agreed early Saturday to a $105.3 million, three-year contract with the Minnesota Twins, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.
The move ends Correa’s seven-season tenure with the Houston Astros. He will earn $35.1 million annually under the deal and can opt out after the 2022 and 2023 seasons to become a free agent again.
Correa picking the Twins was a surprise, given they have lost 18 consecutive postseason games and finished last in the AL Central a year ago at 73-89.
I didn’t realize he was only 17 when he was drafted by the Astros. Sorry to see him go.
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Texpat
I didn’t realize he was only 17 when he was drafted by the Astros. Sorry to see him go.
So much for team loyalty. Course team loyalty went out the window years ago.
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The Jacksonian Return
America’s remarkably consistent foreign policyBen Domenech
Mar 18
Throughout the process of reacting to Ukraine, a shorthand has developed for those individuals one might categorize as skeptics of any form of American involvement on the side of the Ukrainians. The 424-8 vote yesterday on suspending trade with Belarus and Russia, where the resistant votes included Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Thomas Massie and Chip Roy, is a fair representation of the high single digit percentage of Republicans holding such views as demonstrated in the Pew poll below. There is a faction of the American public, right and left, that sees what is happening in Ukraine, believes it is none of our business, and do not want to commit resources and treasure to their defense or go down the road of sanctions. But we are already there, and they are overwhelmingly outnumbered in both parties. Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders do represent a view, it’s just not even in the same territory as a majoritarian one.
It’s worth pausing to consider why this is. I have maintained here in The Transom for quite some time that those who saw in Donald Trump’s rise a return to isolationism or an anti-war bent within the Republican Party were dramatically misreading our political reality. To be opposed to seemingly endless wars of utopian nature in Iraq and Afghanistan is not to be opposed to the use of American military might to destroy our enemies or support our friends — far from it. And if you doubt that, ask yourself how many people on the right outside the lunatic fringe were angry about the death of Soleimani. (Priceless Pompeo Flashback: “He’s a terrorist!”)
As I wrote back in 2014 in the context of ISIS:
The American people are innately Jacksonian. They rejected the elite pushes on Syria and Libya for the same reason they now want to destroy ISIS – because they believe the purpose of the American military shouldn’t be to nation build or police countries, but to kill and destroy evildoers who threaten us and our interests. That’s why the humanitarian agenda and the democracy agenda couldn’t take hold in Syria – Assad was smart enough not to chop heads off Americans (that doesn’t make for good Vogue profile material, after all).
The media has trumpeted various polls over the past few years regarding the shifting opinions of Americans. But if you reconsider the elections of the past few years as the expression of American beliefs about foreign policy, a different picture emerges. Americans want a military that is strong but rarely deployed, and then deployed only to kill and destroy those who are clearly enemies of the nation and our interests. They want a state that maintains security without mass violations of privacy. They dislike permanent prisons and reject the droning of American citizens, but have less objections to the “enhanced interrogation” of prisoners (Hollywood has convinced Americans of two things over the past decade: gay marriage is great, and torture works).
Presidential candidates have responded to this consistency. The George W. Bush of 2000 rejected nation-building explicitly. The Barack Obama of 2008 emphasized a rollback of privacy and prisoner overreach while doubling down on the need to kill Osama Bin Laden and eradicate threats in Afghanistan. The thread that runs through the language of both candidates is entirely Jacksonian – a belief that those who hit us should not escape our reach, and that we ought to follow to the ends of the earth those who did us harm.
This is why Americans who balked at military action against Assad and Qhaddafi now endorse it when it comes to ISIS. It is not a shift of opinion on their part. It is consistent and coherent – a belief that there will always be dictators, and they will do awful things, but that the actions of evil men do not become our concern until the point when they take up arms against us and murder our fellow Americans. When that happens, no matter how slow to anger we are as a people, we make our wrath into a policy that will echo on the other side of the world.
This brings us to Victor Davis Hanson’s analysis of the Ukraine situation, which comes from the perspective of not just the author of The Case For Trump but of a military historian, that was published this week in American Greatness. Hanson’s perspective here is therefore doubly valuable: a Trump advocate, speaking to other Trumpians, from an informed perspective on why their tendency toward avoiding involvement is wrong. These last three points stand out:
Eight. It is not “escalation” to send arms to Ukraine. The Russians far more aggressively supplied the North Koreans and North Vietnamese in their wars against America, without spreading the war globally. Pakistan, Syria, and Iran sent deadly weapons—many in turn supplied to them by Russia, North Korea, and China—to kill thousands of Americans during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Nine. Putin may never fully absorb Ukraine as long as it can easily be supplied across its borders by four NATO countries. The United States deadlocked in the Korean War, lost the Vietnam War, was stalled in Iraq, and fled Afghanistan in part because its enemies were easily supplied by nearby border friends on the assumption the United States could not strike such abettors.
Ten. It is not “un-American” to point out that prior American appeasement under the Obama and the Biden Administrations explains not why Putin wished to go into Ukraine, but why he felt he could. It is not “treasonous” to say Ukraine and the United States previously should have stayed out of each other’s domestic affairs and politics—but still do not excuse Putin’s savage aggression. It is not traitorous to admit that Russia for centuries relied on buffer states between Europe—lost when its Warsaw Pact satellite members joined NATO after its defeat in the Cold War. But that reality also does not justify Putin’s savage attack.
America flirts with Wilsonian, Hamiltonian, and Jeffersonian foreign policy regularly. But we return, again and again, to Old Hickory.
Kahn’s Ladder
Joshua Treviño:
“It is worth walking through all this now as we think about the policy options available to the United States in the war in Ukraine. The public conversation on it is exceptionally strange in several respects, but the strangest aspect of it is the cohorts taking avid counsel of their fears. That is not, by the bye, the individuals rejecting obvious open-warfare pathways, for example an enforced no-fly zone or Ukrainian air-combat missions from third-country airfields. Kahn would recognize immediately that recklessness and imprudence deprive the actor of its own escalation dominance, and therefore strip deterrence of its power. The chorus calling for these things in Ukraine — American attacks upon Russia, in essence — do not grasp that their preferences if enacted would constitute a substantive weakening of American power. It is those who reject those pathways who preserve our strength.
“The counsel-of-fears cohorts exist much more in the realm of sanity, even if they are probably in error in their analysis. The most consequential set among them is actually in governance, and actually making decisions on American war policy now. This is of course the Biden-Administration apparatus, including the President himself, who have indulged in exceptional caution in support for Ukraine, including but not limited to: refraining from meaningful action versus Russia in the war’s opening days, thereby ceding initiative to the Europeans; imposing a needless time delay upon battlefield intelligence shared with the Ukrainians, rendering it vastly less useful; and killing an opportunity for transfer of NATO-nation MiGs to Ukraine. Set aside the objective merits of each of these — the aircraft transfer in particular is of debatable value — and focus upon what they signify. Nearly without trying, the Russians established deterrence upon the Americans. Escalation dominance, in certain spheres, has been lost.
“One might argue, correctly, that this is not the whole picture: the Congress, after all, just approved a genuinely remarkable and overt wartime-materiel package for Ukraine. But the fact that it is part of the picture is what makes it so dangerous. Having established deterrence in part, the rational imperative for the Russians is to seek the same outcome by comparable means, in this case the generation of fear of retaliation. It is in this context that we must understand the existing Russian nuclear threats: Putin’s public alert to his nuclear forces some weeks back is a modified level 16, “Nuclear Ultimatums.” They are grasping for the right lever, and we have provided the incentive.
“The less consequential counsel-of-fears cohort is on the right, necessarily out of power and therefore unable to affect real policy decisionmaking. Here we see, across a variety of media and in significant sections of the commentariat, the sort of binary thinking that Kahn and his intellectual milieu overturned: it is all or nothing, and action at any rung of Kahn’s ladder runs the meaningful risk of procession straight to level 44, “Spasm or Insensate War.” The word meaningful does some work here, and it is important to acknowledge it, but it is nonetheless necessary and not to be dismissed. In this mindset, provision of nearly any aid to Ukraine risks a nuclear Armageddon and should therefore be avoided.
“Arriving at this sort of conclusion requires one of a few priors, including an internalization of the belief that Ukraine is existential to Russia, and also a belief in the extraordinary irrationality of the Russian state. The fatal problem with it is in its near-total concession of escalation dominance at all levels to any nuclear-armed adversary. Its outcome is necessarily paralysis at best, and surrender at worst. It is a throwing-away of the very mechanism of Cold-War victory versus quite nearly the same state. Set aside that it is falsified by history, and focus upon what it means for policy and governance. If we desire stewardship of the American national interest, it is a mindset unfit for both.
“We ought to note that this is very much a minority cohort on the right, restricted mostly to media circles. The majority sentiment among conservatives, when it comes to American support for Ukraine, is: more.
“If we want a peace that is not the peace of the grave, then we need to look to our hard-won national experience in that vein. The question we must be asking ourselves now is how we impress one or more of those three concepts upon the Russians: that they won’t win; that they will lose; and / or that they have no interest in moving upwards on the escalation ladder. How do we create a mindset of deterrence that leads to them constraining their own conduct in their own war? We’ve done it to them, and it has been done to us. That is what we work toward.”
Putin’s Chechen Gamble
Thomas Grove:
“In the first days of his war on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin looked to Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov to supply the fighters he wanted to take an airfield north of Kyiv and launch Russia’s advance on the capital.
“That unit was pummeled and its commander was killed by Ukrainian forces when it tried to seize the Hostomel Airport. But Mr. Putin has turned again and again to Mr. Kadyrov’s forces from Chechnya, reveling in the Chechens’ fearsome reputation as Russia steels for another push on the capital—and Mr. Kadyrov appears happy to comply.
“We are in Hostomel, these days we are 20 kilometers away from you,” Mr. Kadyrov said on his personal Telegram channel earlier this week, goading Ukrainians bracing for the onslaught in Kyiv. “Should I knock on your door?”
“A shaky video showed him in a darkened bunker, laughing with Chechen military officers looking over documents blurred out on screen, though Ukrainian sources say it wasn’t shot in Ukraine and said some server logs from Mr. Kadyrov’s web activity showed he was in Chechnya at the time.
“In many ways, the relationship between Mr. Putin, the Muslim Chechens and Mr. Kadyrov in particular, has become symbiotic. Mr. Putin burnished his reputation in the early years of his rule by sending troops into Chechnya, a Russian republic on the country’s southern flank, to put down an Islamist insurgency. Mr. Kadyrov’s father, Akhmat Kadyrov, a rebel religious leader, sensed which way the wind was blowing and pledged allegiance to the Kremlin, helping the Russian forces put down the separatist movement and routing the capital, Grozny.
“After his father was killed in a bomb attack, the younger Mr. Kadyrov strengthened his family’s alliance with Moscow. He ensured Chechnya’s loyalty in return for vast inflows of cash that enriched his family and helped him build a huge security apparatus that at times has served as his personal army. His forces have since been implicated in some of the worst rights abuses in modern Russia, including the mass detentions of Mr. Kadyrov’s opponents, along with allegations of torture and the disappearance of both his critics and ordinary citizens, say Russian and international human rights groups.
“For Ramzan, this is to show Vladimir Putin that his loyalty knows no bounds and that he will send in his own men to support the president’s mission in Ukraine,” said Alexey Malashenko, an expert on Russia’s North Caucasus at the Moscow-based Institute of World Economy and International Relations.
“By deploying his forces behind Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine, Mr. Kadyrov is also making a public show of support that is designed to show any rivals in Chechnya that he is tightly aligned with the Russian state and to remind them of the firepower at his command.
“For Mr. Putin, having Chechen national guard battalions at his disposal provides a corps of troops who might be able to restore the sense of intimidation that Russian soldiers have largely lost since the start of the invasion, when fierce Ukrainian resistance cost the lives of several thousand Russian soldiers and the loss of numerous tanks and aircraft.“
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To all who are having trouble with the wind and small plants. Get yourself some wire mesh, we use 1 inch x 2 inch, wrap it with poly, we use vapor barrier, clothes pin the plastic on the mesh and you have a serviceable wind break that allows the sun to get in. We do this all the time with young plants that are outside until they are strong enough.
Your public service announcement for today. Windy here today and we got an inch of snow last night. Crappy.
Out for now.
PS: Survey stakes work well also.
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119, 120
“Sorry to see him go.”
No kidding.
The best I ever saw.
94mph double-play throws to first base.
Free agency has been around forever now, and the game is better for it.
Sadly, the fans will usually see their best/favorite players move on.Most amazing contract I ever saw. All the money guaranteed and he can stay or leave at the end of every year.
Good for him. I wish him well.
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I haven’t kept up with the entirety but Correa was insisting on a ten year deal, sounds like he had no takers. Ended up a sweet deal for him anyway though.
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And for all y’all, since I think I’m the only Catholic left on the Big Comfy Couch
Excuse me? What am I, chopped liver over here?
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Any of you people who have stayed inside this weekend should have your heads examined. It is spectacular outside.
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I got all my herbs planted this weekend. They’re small now but in about a month they should be big enough to snip enough for meals.
I got kinda ambitious this year. I have:
Four different tomatoes
Jalapeño
Cilantro
Flat leaf Eye-talian parsley
Curly-leaf parsley
Tarragon
Chives
Red basil
Basil vulgaris
Eye-talian oregano
Greek oregano
“Hot & spicy” oregano (whatever that is)
Red-leaf sage
Dill
Rosemary
English thymeGot the drip system adjusted for now. I’ll hafta tinker with it as the weather gets hot.
I’m gonna pop a couple Aleve and kick back now.
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#87 Texpat,
Hmm, if that information explanation stuff is at the psychotic stage now (agreed), the only levels left are to go nova and then super nova. Can’t beat super nova for efficient destruction that covers what nova is and then some. 🙂
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Wagonburner
Excuse me? What am I, chopped liver over here?
Foie gras?
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#127 wagonburner
Umm, just how large is this garden?
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RE: #125
Maybe it’s because he’s not Italian. It might be just because he’s from Oklahoma. That might be reason enough.
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Any of you people who have stayed inside this weekend should have your heads examined. It is spectacular outside.
I submit that there are indoor duties even on an exquisite early Spring day.
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Wagon, sorry for the fergit.
I think I still have vacay brain.
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A dear, sweet man from my old parish passed away and I’m at his rosary and visitation. His wife is one of my absolute favorite people ever.
I am usually adverse to conversation in the name and testing the church like a gym, but tonight is not a mass and it’s a family reunion here tonight. I found out I’m not the only one who left the parish for a more reverent worship experience. I saw someone who had 3 strokes a few years ago. It’s good to see him up and walking. He said he still struggles and gets tired, and his right side will never fully recover, but I was able to hug him and give him encouragement.
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Oh, and they have a sign for masks to be mandatory. Not happening, my headaches are threatening to amp up and a mask would definitely be an aggravation.
Must folks here are sans masks, but the libs are all covered up. One old friend just recently came out of ten days in the hospital, so she gets a pass.
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Today was beautiful and just what springtime should be like. It was sunny and warm enough to reach the mid-70s by afternoon, with a pleasant breeze that encouraged being outside to enjoy it just because whatever of interest beckoned. And since tomorrow is supposed to be nasty and wet, it was doubly nice.
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I got out a bit this morning and got some soil prepared to plant something some time and watered everything in the pots out there. The wind was finally just too much for me, but I didn’t have anything left to do outside today anyway. I’ll go check out the plant store tomorrow and make some decisions on what to get for the big pots and also some smaller plants to fill in smaller pots as well. I’m not certain that I could build a wind break out front that would hold up under the sustained 25 and gusts to 40 mph that I’m experiencing out here – unless I was willing to break out the concrete posts and 2X4 braces. It will eventually subside I guess, but March is reminding us that it is in fact the windy month. I’m not counting on anything coming from the rain in our forecasts, so everything is just staying put where it is. No rain preparations required out here.
Looking like the old gang of BFF work associates is planning a wake in Dallas in a couple of weeks. I’ll make an appearance I suppose, and there are other things that I need to take care of up there. Since I don’t drink and am still adhering to a strict keto diet, I won’t be much fun or have much fun, but I do want to say hello to some old friends from way back when, so I’ll try to be there. Still not completely sunk in that she’s gone, but from all accounts, she is gone, so that’s that. The celebration of a life lived to its fullest is appropriate and warranted under the circumstances.
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I’m sorry, guys. Things have been so insane around here.
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Eric Burdon, Alvin Lee, Rick Wakeman
Downright nasty.
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138 Shannon
Oh good heavens, it’s the ever lovely Elsa Martinelli. Woof, woof.
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Okay, that had to have been the most painful set of eulogies I’ve ever had to sit through. Here’s the rule guys, in case you have to do something similar for me.
Number one: if you’re going to do a eulogy for me, it better be under 3 minutes unless you’re making people laugh.
Number two: do not read poetry.
Number three: if you’re going to speak, but you know you’re going to cry so that no one can understand what you’re saying, don’t.
Number four: no original acapella tunes are allowed.
Number five: no preaching to the crowd either
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Somehow, it just wouldn’t have worked with a blonde.
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Alvin, Leslie, and couple other pickers.
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Link for #145
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143
I promise.
Only the meter box thing will come out.
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Oh, and
Number six: your eulogy should not be about you; e.g., as I heard tonight: “He loved me so much” in about six different ways.
Holy cow.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in hospital due to infection.
They say he’s doing well and should be released in a few days.
If he doesn’t get Covidcided or Arkancided in the next 48 hours or so.
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#138 Shannon says:
March 20, 2022 at 7:40 pmI’m sorry, guys. Things have been so insane around here.
Presenting Belated Brunette Friday.
I’m liking that one, I’ll never forget seeing that movie at the Brackin Theater, here in Podunk. I had no idea how neat classical music was before I saw Hatari.
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Sister came over and we had a nice visit but she was most impressed with supper. It wasn’t all that special except for the Texas Lone Star tamales and my world famous guacamole. But she does love the Refried/Charro beans also. So I sent her off with a to-go plate. 😉
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Oh and what he said;
Oh good heavens, it’s the ever lovely Elsa Martinelli. Woof, woof.
😀
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The last eulogy I gave was for the elder aunt here I took care of and oversaw her daily care. We were pretty close.
When I wrote my eulogy, I made sure there were at least two big laugh lines and one small one. I had a lot of material to work with and ultimately I wanted people to leave with a smile on their face remembering Selda. I also wanted it to be brief, no more than about 4 minutes. Lost my composure once for a short moment, delivered my lines and got big laughs from the crowd for my punch lines. I only used the first person “I” when there was no other choice and never referred directly to my own feelings.
*One was about the fact she couldn’t walk anymore without veering to the left. I told the crowd I scolded Selda because it was caused by listening to Keith Olbermann too much. Even that got a good laugh from the mostly Democrat crowd.
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130 adee
Surprisingly small.A grand total of around 12 pots.
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#154 wagonburner
There sure are advantages to growing things in pots rather than in the ground. Especially if you live here where the weather can be unpredictable at times, and flat out dangerous. Pots can be picked up and moved to shelter if necessary, even if you must use a cart or dolly to transport them. Unless of course they are big enough to serve as an elephant’s water bowl. 🙂
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unckola AySay.
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Does the blog close at 11:30pm these days?
Take more vitamin D.
Take more Omega 3
Drink more Cabernet…
And eat more veg-e-mit-e.
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