When America Was Rising…
Paris, Winter 1944
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I guess it wasn’t April in Paris.
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Fight on, Texmo, fight on.
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What he said; Fight on, Texmo, fight on.
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Looks like we’ve survived the worst of the storm out here.
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I got this in the mail from TSRA and I don’t know how to link it.
On Thursday, March 10, Alabama became the 22nd constitutional carry state when Governor Kay Ivey signed HB 272.
Alabama is the 21st state to end the requirement for law-abiding citizens to obtain a permit to carry a handgun since Alaska broke the ground in 2003.
A lot of the credit has to go to State Representative Shane Stringer, who has been a stalwart champion of permitless carry. Stringer, who was a captain in the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, was fired by Sheriff Sam Cochran for supporting constitutional carry. Cochran, who led a group of the Alabama sheriffs in opposing the new law apparently saw which way the wind was blowing after firing Stringer, and said he would not be seeking reelection.
2021 was a banner year for permitless carry, with Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah joining the club, and it is possible that an equal number of states could sign on this year. -
Woke up to a substantial BOOMER here – looks like most of the RED line just now passing us east & northeast bound………..a few ‘spots’ still to the West / SW may follow through
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/katy/77494/weather-radar/2103521
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That nasty weather is supposed to be here late today.
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The wife is heading to Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport to catch the Company Plane to Burbank this morning so I fixing Sausage, Eggs, Grits and Biscuits for breakfast. That ought hold her over since she’ll not be in Houston long enough to get anything to eat. 😉
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I’ve had enough coffee to get me to the coffee shop this morning, so first let me say good morning to all. As usual, we got a little mist out here yesterday yet the storms formed up around I-35 and tore across the eastern part of the state from there. Had some tornaders up north of us, so that’s one more sign that spring is trying to break through winter’s grip. Maybe the plant shop will finally be back open this morning, so I’ll go back up there after coffee.
So while I’m still in process of waking up and collecting my thoughts this morning, you all have a great day; and I’ll go ahead right now and add my voice to the roaring crowd cheering TexMo on. More later.
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All I need now is for people to watch another 3700 hours of video and I can re-monetize the channel——
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Well, I checked the weather guesser, and looks like my poor plants will suffer another brutal beating from the wind today – 20-30 with gusts to 40. If we could just go a few days without these winds I think they would begin to start looking healthy, but as it is the leaves continue to get wind burn and the new growth just hasn’t quite got started yet.
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#11 Sarge I’ll have to work on that later but I did notice your Coleman Gas Lantern, sister found a red one at an estate sale and got it for me. She brought it over on Sunday, it looks a little rough and the flap on the pump seems to be dried out or deteriorated since it doesn’t pressurize. I can probably fix that but I don’t don’t about the generator, I’m guessing that it’s plugged up after all these years.
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Sarge
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You want me to loop your channel on four computers?
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*update* as of 0743
Good Morning Katfish and Tedtam. This is Frances – Texmo’s wife. I just wanted to let you know today is the BIG day. They just took him away to the OR. Keep you posted. Prayers are appreciated.
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Super Dave says:
MARCH 22, 2022 AT 7:46 AM#11 Sarge I’ll have to work on that later but I did notice your Coleman Gas Lantern, sister found a red one at an estate sale and got it for me. She brought it over on Sunday, it looks a little rough and the flap on the pump seems to be dried out or deteriorated since it doesn’t pressurize. I can probably fix that but I don’t don’t about the generator, I’m guessing that it’s plugged up after all these years.
Prolly only need to replace the pump seal, they’re pretty cheap and widely available. Soak in neetsfoot oil overnight. The generator is prolly OK unless the previous owner used the wrong fuel. Damtings are practically bombproof.
squawkbox says:
MARCH 22, 2022 AT 8:05 AMSarge
#11
You want me to loop your channel on four computers?
I wonder if YouTube would be able to tell—- I’m actually doing better than I thought I would be (I haven’t done anywhere near as much promotion as I did back in the day) until I looked at how to re-monetize. I’m still confused about linking to Rumble, I don’t want to lose anything I’ve already got on YouTube. It took me two years to get to 1900 subscribers, I don’t want to start over.
It ain’t great money. I think the best I ever did was $200 a quarter. But its passive income and every lil bit helps.
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Prayers up for TexMo, he’s going to bed in the OR for a while, so prayers also go out to the doctors and nurses that they can get this done.
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Good morning Hamsters,
#15, Prayers for Texmo and Frances today. It will certainly not be a ho-hum boring day. Update appreciated when you have time, dear lady.
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Everything is ok here on the banks of the Brazos at Richmond, for which we are grateful. The storm didn’t reach us until a bit after 5am. And then it was Katy bar the door with the howling wind, lightning bolts, mighty thunder, rain and live oak leaves flying sideways, thumping the windows on the way past. Could see it coming from all sides of the house before we could hear it. Good demonstration of the saying “Batten down the hatches.” Oh, 1.18 inches.
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Mi Sheberach for TexMo.
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I am not a fan of Bill Kovacs but he does nail this one.
(Oh and if this has already been posted, well it must now be obvious I do not read every comment or click every nebulous link
Climate Change Is About Control, Stupid – Not the Environment
(But if you had quoted this I prolly would have clicked the link and read the post)
Citizens of the United States already live under a legal framework that contains over 3,000 separate criminal offenses in 50 titles of the U.S. Code, 23,000 pages of federal law, over 200,000 regulations, and almost daily Executive Orders that usually limit those actions deemed objectionable to the kakistocracy.
And we all have pointed out at some time or another that we have laws on top of laws
Additionally, the government has in reserve 136 emergency laws allowing it to assume control over industrial production, communications and banking, and most aspects of commerce. Most of these emergency laws are effective when the president declares them effective.
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Prayers up for the TexMo Team.
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It is amazing to me that half the people in the office this morning do not like smoked salmon?!? This morning for the birthday breakfast, I made some smoked salmon and cream cheese rolls (mostly salmon) skewered them on toothpicks and crushed some Parmesan cheese chips in which to dip said roll. These things are highly addictive and darned tasty.
The big bummer is that the breakfast got cancelled when I was on the way to work, after I had already made them. -
The big bummer is that the breakfast got cancelled when I was on the way to work, after I had already made them.
Is it really a bummer when you get to each delicious food?
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I’m just getting going, been up for, ohhhhh, ’bout an hour or less.
Hubby had some things he wanted me to do yesterday, but between the funeral mass, trying to get errands done before the storm (I thought it was going to hit last night), prepping for a meeting (zoom – and it never opened for me, so oh well), cooking dinner, headache, etc., I didn’t get started on his to-do list until after dinner. So I was working away during the evening, and I didn’t even feel tired until about 1:00 a.m. I stopped around 1:30, having completed all but one of his to-do items, which I’ll tackle today, along with the other 15 items on my list, not including my exercise time. Not including whatever the CPA has for me.
I was woken up by the lightning storm outside of my window, then went back to sleep. The sun is coming out and the worst seems to be over, so I need to un-protect my container garden and let my plants get some sunlight. I was afraid that wind and hail would decimate my seedlings.
Already sent up prayers for Texmo and his wife. Today must be a nail biter for her.
I have coffee, so it must be time for….
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Tuesday, March 22, 2022 ☙ MARTIAL LAW
Happy Tuesday, C&C, I hope you’re having a nice pandemic while I am away. I have a short vacation roundup for you today including democrats start pushing for an end to airplane mandates, and a minority report on The War, wherein president Zelensky cracks down on, well, anybody opposing him.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
Nobody was more shocked than I was when Joe Biden failed to officially cancel the pandemic at the beginning of the month, not in a creepy whisper OR an old-man shout. I was even more intrigued when the White House extended the widely-hated and crazy intrusive airplane mask mandate. Biden’s best political move would have been to completely end the pandemic, not slide out a tentative, half-baked pandemic de-escalation plan.
And airplane mask mandates are one of the most irritating features of the pandemic. As if truculent stewardesses needed more ways to exercise their irrational rage on unsuspecting travelers. It rankles.
Anyway, it looks like I’m not the only one irked by the Big Guy’s indecisiveness on pandemic policy. Left-wing political news site Axios ran a story yesterday headlined, “Vulnerable Democrats eye GOP transit mask repeal.” Hahahaha! See, I told you so!
The article quotes Representative Sean Maloney (D-N.Y.), who is the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In other words, he’s in charge of helping dems get re-elected. He told Axios, “I’m completely over mask mandates. I don’t think they make any sense anymore. I’m for whatever gets rid of mask mandates as quickly as possible.”
Completely over mask mandates. COMPLETELY. He wants to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
You may recall last week the Senate resolved 57-40 to end airplane mask mandates. The vote included EIGHT democrats, half of whom Axios identified as “some of the most vulnerable incumbents this midterm cycle.”
I guess most voters don’t like mask mandates, in spite of what loud liberals on Twitter say.
Now some House democrats are signaling they might join with Republicans to end the mandate. “I would vote for that,” Representative Susan Wild (D-Pa.) told Axios. She argued that localities and airlines “can make that decision for themselves.” And Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said, “If, based on science, [airplanes are] just as safe as anywhere else, then we should be considering it.” Representative Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) said, “People are ready and are armed with the information they need to protect themselves; I think we ought to consider it, the question is: when?”
But the White House is hanging in there. Last week, Biden issued a formal “Statement of Administration Policy” memo confirming that, if Congress does pass the resolution to end airplane mask mandates, Biden will veto it, inkily emphasizing the words “veto it” with a thick underline.
Axios’ story reveals that many democrats are frustrated with the White House’s indecisive pace in slowly ending the pandemic, dragging painful mandates into the election season. It also confirms the New York Times’ survey I reported this weekend, where the paper found that democrats were split on Covid policy, with those considering themselves “very liberal” overwhelmingly in favor of continuing mask mandates forever, but other categories of liberals, not so much.
What do you want to bet that the White House is mostly jammed up with people who consider themselves “very liberal?” In other words, forever-maskers? The situation is teeing up nicely as a showdown between “very liberal” democrats who are 100% sure they will DIE GASPING if the mask mandate is lifted versus the rest of the democrat party who are fretting about getting shellacked in the midterms.
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*THE MINORITY REPORT*Back in the day, I had to preface certain comments about Covid with an obligatory phrase: “Now, I am NOT saying that Covid is like flu, but…” I did it because if I didn’t start out with that disclaimer, my Facebook comments would immediately start filling up with tart missives from triggered folks scolding me because I was minimizing the worst plague since the Black Death and literally killing grandma.
Well, it’s the exact same deal now, except before I report certain things about The War I have to declare this: I do not support comrade Putin. I think he’s a sneaky, low down, yellow-bellied, egg sucking, lizard-lipped communist and I wish a pox upon his genitals. He is an ex-KGB psychopath who’s obviously overcompensating for, let us say, a shortage in other areas. In other words, I am definitely not a Putin fan. Not even close.
Having checked that box, let’s get started!
The media and some well-intentioned folks in the comments have been earnestly assuring me that Ukrainian president Zelensky is a true hero of the people and definitely NOT a nazi, not at all, the guy is jewish, just LOOK at him. Does he look like a nazi to you?
But un-heroically, and actually kind of nazi-like, to be honest, on Sunday president Zelensky outlawed eleven (11) Ukrainian opposition parties, which is exactly what Hitler did once he got hold of his ‘temporary’ emergency powers. Don’t cancel me; I’m just saying.
National Review reported on the story in a Sunday article headlined “Zelensky Suspends Opposition Parties in Ukraine with Russia Ties.” The move included Ukraine’s main minority political party, which often opposes Zelensky’s policies, plus most of the main left-wing groups in the country. Commenters point out that Zelensky didn’t ban either Azov or Svoboda — the two parties regularly accused of literal neo-nazism. In a statement about the order on Sunday, president Zelensky said, “The activities of those politicians aimed at division or collusion will not succeed, but will receive a harsh response.”
A harsh response. Well, okay then. How very nazi-like of you.
Reuters reported that Zelensky also nationalized all the country’s privately-owned TV channels into a single platform under his control, citing the importance of a “unified information policy.” [Gee, sounds like our media here in the US, and the calls against “disinformation”.]
Thanks, behavioral psychologists, for handing governments the “disinformation” weapon and authorizing them to use it.
Last week, using his emergency war powers, Zelensky shut down three television networks that he claimed were peddling Moscow-funded content. I.e., disinformation. In a tweet Wednesday, Zelensky explained the cancelled networks’ coverage was just “propaganda financed by the aggressor country that undermines Ukraine on its way” to incorporation into the European Union and the NATO alliance.
You can’t allow underminers if you want to do a good war.
But not everyone agrees with the way Zelensky is handling the media. For example, the European Union’s Foreign Policy head minister Josep Borrell said last Wednesday, “Given the scale of disinformation campaigns affecting Ukraine including from abroad, this should not come at the expense of freedom of media.” So.
Does anyone else think it’s odd that Ukrainian TV networks are still fully operational, or is it just me? Wouldn’t that have been one of the first targets for Russian airstrikes? What on Earth is going on? What kind of war are they running anyway?
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Sadly, it looks like my simple four-part peace plan isn’t going to work. In an interview with scrappy Ukrainian public radio Suspilne — which is still on the air somehow — president Zelensky said he refused to “de-nazify” Ukraine to end the war, explaining defiantly but illogically that “There can’t be any ‘de-Nazification’ in the agreement (with Russia). When a country that is treading in the footsteps of the Nazi is accusing us of being Nazi – we can’t accept that.”
Again — I’m not pro-Russia. I spit on Putin’s picture. I hope his milk curdles. I wish that his mattress sags and a bat flies up his nightdress. But Russia already outlawed nazism. So it seems weird for Zelenski to accuse Russia of being nazi. The communists hate nazis anyway. It’s never been the same ever since Hitler stabbed Stalin in the back and ruined his awesome plan for splitting Europe.In my official capacity as head blogger, I am calling on president Zelensky to access the better angels of his nature and outlaw nazism in Ukraine, for the benefit of the people, and end The War.
Somehow I don’t think he’s going to listen to me.
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Kovacs is a grand poohbah at the US Chamber of Commerce, but his article is worth saving for all the rich reference links he included.
I find it ironic he would be writing something like this when his organization and most of the members are playing the crony capitalist scheme of both encouraging regulations they can participate in writing to crush competition (see regulatory capture) while also caving to the environmental thugs on the Left. Large corporations are exclusively interested in their own narrow self-interests and rarely, if ever, stand up for the principles of capitalism and freedom unless it advances their own selfish dominance. The USCoC would just as soon see the eradication of all small business and entrepreneurship.
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ReturntoTradition.org has a good report on the declining vocations numbers.
Industrialized, developing countries have as a common denominator a declining birth rate. Instead of large, Catholic families, from which vocations were celebrated, many Catholic families have much smaller families and a vocation from the family is often seen as the loss of grandchildren. Societal pressures also reduce the focus on faith and puts it more on comfort. The Vatican II changes have made the mass more Protestant – indeed, Protestant ministers were included in the redesign of the mass. Being an attendee at both masses, I am very much aware of the difference in reverence between the old and new services. Walking into Annunciation, one is greeted by a sign requesting that attendees observe “sacred silence,” and that sets the tone for the rest of the mass. Attending mass at my old parish feels like walking into a high school gym.
Even the way the priest handles the Body of Christ is very, very different. A traditional priest holds his thumb and forefinger together once the host is consecrated, just in case there is a crumb caught in there. Those digits never separate until the vessels are cleaned after distribution of Communion. The consecrated Hosts are touched only by consecrated hands. In the novus ordo mass, I sometimes think “potato chips” as I watch the priest pour Hosts into the various vessels, and then the Lord of the Universe is handled by unconsecrated hands and put into other unconsecrated hands. One study showed that just over 100 crumbs were dropped during this procedure. At Annunciation, that doesn’t happen. Any bits are caught by the paten held by the altar boy (not girl, boy) and are collected after Communion.
The point that I’m trying to emphasize is that Vatican II watered down the faith. The reverence for the Lord has been minimized. And that brings me to my money quote, which I received from an Orthodox monk when Hubby and I visited his facility early on in our marriage. I asked him how they attracted such young men to their order, after noticing a pre-teen in their ranks. His answer has always stuck with me: “We don’t water down our faith. When you water it down, you lose them.”
This is why the traditional orders were seeing growing numbers in attendance and in vocations, while the rest of the Church suffered from decline in all areas, in general. There are fewer parishes, just larger, so that spreading the priests around gets easier. More functions are being delegated to the laity, because there aren’t enough priests and nuns to do it all anymore. And as Anthony Stein discusses in the video, the Vatican is doing all it can to make it harder for a vocation to be an attractive choice.
I pray for my Church. Daily.
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Abby Martinez tried to fight back when a Los Angeles school, county social workers, and an LGBT group sought to transition her confused 15-year-old daughter.
But once Yaeli Martinez was moved into foster care and later injected with testosterone, the heartbroken mother could only watch helplessly as the girl spiraled into depression that ended when she stepped in front of an oncoming train.
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29 Shannon
I read that story yesterday. It’s heartbreaking and takes your breath away. Then comes the outrage.
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Who in the world names their kid
- Booger
- Bubba
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Yaroslav Trofimov
@yarotrof
Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, says that according to Russian ministry of defense numbers, 9,861 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine and 16,153 were injured. The last official Russian KIA figure, on March 2, was 498. Fascinating that someone posted the leaked number.
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How about that? Those nice folks at Durden Sign sent me a check for the annual rental of that small piece of dirt that their sign sits on. The check will help out my battered up Mad Money Fund at the Credit Union. 😉
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Re: My #32
Sorry, didn’t catch that was from Allahpundit. Can’t stand that guy.
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34 GJT
No apology necessary. Even that arrogant fool stumbles into the truth occasionally, and accidentally.
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Walking into Annunciation, one is greeted by a sign requesting that attendees observe “sacred silence,” and that sets the tone for the rest of the mass. Attending mass at my old parish feels like walking into a high school gym.
One of my pet peeves.
There’s nothing to be done about it.
I mentioned it a couple of times and got the old “fellowship is important” argument.The entire concept of sacredness is long lost.
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#31 – Is ‘Guppie’ OK? (my Son) 🙂
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#s 32 & 34 – A*&#!&*pundit is a blatant oxygen THIEF!!
Who knows how many pairs of knee pads that loser has worn out?
*NO Smiley*
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28 & 36
You haven’t seen anything yet. Not all, but plenty of synagogue services are worse. My rabbi was never one to stand on ceremony or excess formality, but the advantage people will take of a slightly relaxed atmosphere is maddening.
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Looking forward to hearing good news from Texmo’s wife. Houston is a great place to be when you need major medical work done!
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I mentioned it a couple of times and got the old “fellowship is important” argument.
I thought that was what the rest of the campus was for. At Annunciation, we are landlocked and have little outside space, but that’s where people go to visit before and after mass.
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A nice email surprise from my mother’s sister. Apparently her granddaughter was on Ancestry and was directed to a photo of our mother with other members of the UT branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association.
We don’t have an abundance of photos from Mom’s college years.
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As a matter of fact, that’s what finally got me to move parishes, besides the urging of Hammy to try out a conservative priest instead of the maddening homilies that almost made us get up and walk out in the middle of mass.
I was trying to prepare myself for mass, and was praying my rosary. I literally had to yell it to myself because the noise level was somewhere between leaf blower and jet plane. That was the last official mass I attended at the old parish.
It wasn’t easy; I had a history that actually stretched from my early childhood, had a break of about 20 years, and then back again for another few decades. Lots of friends and memories there, but…Jesus.
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#42
Nice.
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She had a Tedtam fro, of sorts. Once she became mostly grey-headed it relaxed some. By fifty she gave up the fight, grew it quite long, and wore it in a silver ponytail.
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Katfish
Guppie is more than acceptable as is
- GJT
- Bonecrusher
- Texmo
- Katfish
- too name a few
jury is still out on Texpat
I know people whose parents named them Booger and Bubba. It is what is on their birth certificate. Names are important. These real names have locked these guys into such jobs as garbage collector or septic tank suckers. Maybe lawyers in some one horse town.
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I have plenty of curl but it was Texpat who was mightily cursed from both sides.
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That lady in #42 is quite attractive.
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My wife’s little brother is called Bubba, Eddie is his given name. Everyone calls him by his nickname but his wife, when they met and started courting a couple decades ago she could not stand that name and refused to use it. We love her and she is a sweet gal but the whiny, nasally way she says “Eddie” I’d almost rather her call him Bubba.
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#42
Beautiful lady.
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Can’t figure how to link it but a photo journalist got some footage of a Chevy truck driving down the road getting rolled over a couple times by a tornado in Elgin yesterday then just keeps on driving lol.
Chevrolet needs to find that guy.
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GJT
He needed to “go” real bad.
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https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/2022-03-22-viral-video-shows-tornado-spin-pickup-truck-before-driving-away/
Crazy Video Shows Pickup Truck Get Rolled By Tornado Then Drive Off -
Insurance probly won’t pay cause he fled the scene lol.
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I’m back on my FatSecret app so I can track my food intake. I got lazy. I need to be accountable, and tracking my macros helps me stop seeing smaller portions instead of what I really have on my plate, and also reminds me that snacking is food, too.
I read somewhere that the simple act of writing down what you eat will cause you to lose weight, at least initially. Yep, down 1.3 since yesterday. Prolly water weight, but I’ll take it.
On the FS app is a journaling option. I have no interest in seeing other peoples’ meals, nor in giving them “attaboy!” pats on the back. But occasionally, I do see something amusing:
Dieting is easy.
It’s like riding a bike.
Except that the bike is on fire.
And the ground is on fire.
And everything is on fire because you’re in Hell.Actually, my keto diet is everything but Hell, (hello! Guac and bacon?!) but I did find this amusing.
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Just saw a story that wheat, aluminum and barley are experiencing shortages. That can only mean bad things for the prices of beer and possibly availability of your favorite beverages.
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And then there is that second vehicle that gets rolled!!
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“The most Texas thing I’ve seen today.”
“In other states, stories begin with ‘Once upon a time’. In Texas, they start with ‘You ain’t gonna believe this s**t!’”
Great comments.
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46 Squawk
Texpat is short for…
Texpatriarch, Monarch of Male Superiority & Guardian of Toxic Masculinity
It was too much trouble to keep typing that out all the time.
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Now they’re saying the photo is dated 1944.
Which means she was only 18!
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42 Shannon
Just in time for Mom’s 96th birthday on Friday.
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Somebody’s gettin’ kinda full of theirself
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It’s only 52 degrees out here today, and the wind is still howling. That’s just too cool and breezy to go to the plant nursery and enjoy taking the time to find the proper plants to fill my large clay pots out front. I’ve found that when I’m uncomfortable or in a hurry I tend to make poor decisions by not thinking things through, so I’m going to wait another day before going. It’s just not going to warm up enough today.
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Low for tonight is showing at 38; my self imposed low for leaving the plants outside is 40. But I might just waive my rule since they sit up next to the brick house, are located on the south side of the house, and should be warm enough where they are; the big “if” being that the forecasters don’t miss the low temp by much. I’ll make the final decision somewhere around 4 or 5 PM today.
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Did Texmo give any clues how long his operation would probably last? I’m getting antsy to know how it is going, so if anyone could tell me to save my ants till a lot later, I would appreciate it.
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He originally mentioned that it would be a many hours long surgery. I got the impression that the doctors were going to let their fingers walk just about everywhere in his innards, to find and remove as much cancer as possible.
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Facebook friends in north Texas are all posting the red pickup vs the tornado!
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#66 #67 Yup If I remember right it was to go on as long as necessary to find all the bad stuff, likely all day. Praying it all comes out good. His wife and family must be worried sick waiting for the news.
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FYI – I’ve been using Infuse Energy for our rental properties. We need power while we’re doing renovations and make readies, so I have to find a reasonably priced provider with a month-to-month (no contract plan). I just had to call their customer service number to transfer power from the unit we just finished to the one we’re working on now, and it went smoothly and professionally. This is the second time I’ve done this, and both times working with their team was professional.
So, if y’all ever need an energy provider, they are one to consider.
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Check his browser history: CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin explains why ‘kiddie porn’ sentencing guidelines are too strict and we can’t EVEN make this up (watch)
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Texpatriarch, Monarch of Male Superiority & Guardian of Toxic Masculinity
It was too much trouble to keep typing that out all the time.
You should just get a stamp.
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#s 67 & 69
Yep still in surgery as of 2 minutes ago………………..
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This place is dead.
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Been trying to get missing 1099’s for all my aunts accounts. All these places acting like you trying to rob them. I just need you to mail me a tax form, that’s it, don’t need any info, no money mailed to me, just mail the form to address on her file! Please! If no 1099 generated they will tell you that almost in code language like they giving out secrets.
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I just realized it was 5:00! This time change always throws me off on dinner times.
I hope Mrs. Texmo hasn’t gone completely bonkers in the waiting room. The last I heard, there was yoga and dancing, since she doesn’t like to sit still.
All day. Waiting. In a hospital. Not her best day ever.
Or Texmo’s.
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Well, I ran my options through FatSecret and I’ve determined what I can(‘t) eat for dinner tonight. So, off I go…
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I seldom need reminding when it’s 5:00.
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*update* – as of TWO minutes ago
Surgery done. They are waking Him up. We haven’t seen him yet. They are keeping him in the ICU tonight. According to the dr, things went very well. They will keep him just in case and he may be moved to a room tomorrow. It will be another 1.5 hrs before I can see him. Stopped the timer. 9hr 54 min was the day
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Love this guy.
DeSantis slams NCAA and Lia Thomas, declares Florida swimmer ‘rightful winner’
https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-slams-ncaa-lia-thomas-221740724.html
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Just got resettled after returning from Fay’s 3pm appointment at Memorial City.
Kiss my mask.
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Note Texpat,
West bound on I-10. On the north side.
By the end of the summer, from Katy Buc-ees at Pin Oak, all the way to the first Brookshire exit, there will be a solid line of million sq.ft. warehouses.Rice? What rice?
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#79 Katfish
Thanks for passing along the patient status. Good news so far.
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Ask them why the he// they didn’t have the 1099’s out by the required Jan31 deadline.
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#84 – by the required Jan31 deadline.
BINGO!
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Been a screwed up mess between our crappy postal service here, getting her address changed, address forwarding expiring, who it was mailed to, blah blah. Many insisted on mailing to her assisted living facility, who couldn’t figure out not to mail to one of those places??
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Glad to hear that TM is out of surgery. I don’t know exactly how those things work, but I think they do lab work on every piece they take out and wait on results to find out if they have to shave off more, etc. so I would expect that to take a lot longer than just an in and out investigation. He’ll be pretty sore for a couple of days after all that shifting of stuff around and then putting it back. Wishing him luck and a quick recovery.
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Trying out a new HEB Simple Meal offering tonight.
Spicy jalapeño Monterrey Jack Tamales, with Poblano Pepper Rice, and course-diced yellow squash with red bell pepper diced.
Colorful, if anything.
If it’s as good as it looks……
Let ya know.
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WB
It’s college night on Wheel of Fortune.
This black chick is wearing an Oklahoma sweatshirt.
But the “O” is missing.
It reads KLAHOMA.
Is this a new thing or what?
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Full Contact Golf
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Full Contact Wheel of Fortune. She got the “O” knocked off as they scrummed for the best spots on the wheel.
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Shannon
The “O” is there. It is wrapped tucked between her uhhhh well yanno and her arm. Look close. -
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Review:
It’s just okay. Pretty bland.
Some old woman from Indiana might -might- find it spicy.
Great concept. Yawning execution.
Would love to attempt a better version myself.
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When a wimmin misses her “O”, run.
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I’m kinda warming up to the KLAHOMA thing.
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Rice baseball is playing the Agro Americans in Houston this evening, so I’m paying some attention to that.
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Just for the record, there was no O.
I kept an eye out for it because it was so weird.Maybe the O was on the rear.
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Those Okies always got tricks up their sleeves.
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I understand they prefer beans with their chili too.
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Last *update* tonight……
Doing ok. I left the hospital and am having dinner. I will not be able to see him tonight. They told me he was awake and asleep as the anesthesia wears off. I’ll be back tomorrow
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Thanks Katfish!!
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101 Squawk
Probably. It’s all about being uncivilized.
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Never trust a photo shopper with with photorotonic proof.
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Well that solves that.Still like KLAHOMA.
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Corruption is endemic throughout our justice system. Beyond the point of no return.
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#102 Katfish, Thanks, I’m hoping it all went well.
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Rice and the Aggies are in a long running ball game tonight. I may not be able to stay up for the end. You all have a good night now. More tomorrow. It’s cool out here, and windy even at night.
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I just wish James would find someone to write for him. It’s been a problem from the very beginning.
He borders on the incoherent at times. Needlessly repetitive and unable to create coherent time lines. -
111 Shannon
I agree. Maybe I’ll apply for the job.
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