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This young man always took his girlfriend with him everywhere he went. He was very protective of her.  Parisians today would understand this very well.

Paris 1950 by Robert Doisneau

A 24-year-old woman accused of the horrific murder and rape of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a plastic box in Paris last week had been living in the country illegally for several years, a French government official said.

The killing of the girl, identified only as Lola Daviet, has triggered an intense political debate on President Emmanuel Macron’s immigration policies after the country’s media reported that the 24-year-old suspect was an illegal immigrant from Algeria.

“The suspect in this barbaric act should not have been in our country,” Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Rally party, said Tuesday during a heated National Assembly session, demanding that Macron’s government put a stop to “uncontrolled immigration.”

French government spokesman Olivier Veran confirmed to reporters Wednesday that the suspect lived in the country illegally for three years.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    For some reason, Borders, Language and Culture popped into my head no matter what you think of Mike Savage he was right about that.

    39 here but we’ll hit the mid 70’s today and be back in the 80’s on Saturday. I have to get out and mow rearrange my leaves today. I could use the big blower but the mower mulches them up so I can blow them into the woods.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Crap Linky fell out.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Goodness, there’s more Texas in this photo than I can shake a stick at. This is (L-R) John R. Hughes, Ellison Carroll, A. P. (Ab) Blocker, and Bob Beverly wearing cowboy hats and smoking cigars on the steps in the lobby of the Westbrook Hotel in Fort Worth at the 1939 Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association convention. Hughes was a former trail riding cowboy and a legendary Texas ranger whose life story you can google easily. A.B. Blocker was also a legendary cowboy who, among other things, designed the XIT ranch’s brand and who drove his last overland trail drive up to Deadwood, South Dakota, with Harris Franklin’s herd in 1893. Ellison Carroll was born in 1862 in San Patricio County and learned the cowboy trade on ranches in South Texas and the Panhandle. He was a seasoned cowhand when he won his first steer-roping contest at Canadian, Texas, in 1888. For a quarter-century Carroll was known as the master of the steer-roping event. In 1904 at San Antonio, he fairgrounded 28 steers to beat Clay McGonagill, becoming the first acknowledged world’s champion steer roper. He held that title until 1913, retiring undefeated. I can’t find out anything about Bob Beverly on account of him having a pretty common name, but maybe one of y’all can fill us in.

    This photo is courtesy the Cattle Raisers Museum in Fort Worth.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    3 Super Dave

    That is quite a photo.  It sure looks like the shoeshine man was doing a helluva business in Fort Worth.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat, I got my boots shined @ the airport in Midland, first time in years. That is a luxury that I don’t partake of often. I think the last one was at the NRA Convention, Brown Center, Houston, 2013.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This popped up over yonder today, Lil’ Bit in her element, ridding the pipeline with me on the Beast, 2016.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I need to be here and chowing down on this.

    Chowing down on the Oysters, shrimp and such not the fancy girly drinks. 😀

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well the big Zero Turn Mower didn’t start itself and mow the leaves,…..Later,…….

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I refinished the front door this week.  We bought fiberglass instead of wood because the house faces east and the front gets full sun from dawn till midday.  I didn’t want to put up a storm door to protect it because I think they’re ugly on a front entrance.  I don’t mind them on rear doors though.

    The federal government and the EPA have managed to totally screw up the coatings industry.  To stain fiberglass, you have to use oil-based gelcoat stain which is really paint designed to look like stain.  There is no way to apply it without brush stroke marks, etc.  I use expensive Corona brushes and it helps,  but doesn’t eliminate the problem.  I had the door off for 5 days sitting on sawhorses in my neighbor’s garage with the heater on.  After 2 coats of gelcoat and several coats of spar varnish it is back up.

    The feds have a zero tolerance attitude about seemingly every single manmade chemical.  By forcing the manufacturers to virtually remove all volatile organic compounds (VOC) from all paints and coatings, the products are both difficult to use and don’t last long at all.  When I first came up here 20 years ago, there were Dodge trucks with terrible rust problems.  They finally cured it, but in the last two years I’m noticing they are having rust problems again.  My daughter in Oregon has a well cared for Subaru sedan less than five years old and the paint has begun to shed tiny flecks all over.  She took it back to the dealer and they told her it was because of regulations the EPA forced on their coatings process.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I have a fiberglass front door that faces south.  I refresh the finish 2-3 times a year with Howard’s Feed and Wax.

    It is really great stuff, sometimes I’ll finish a woodworking project with it.  Non-toxic, smells like oranges.  Made with orange oil and bees wax.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I worked until 1:00 last night/this morning.  I’ve been focusing on the whole “we gotta eat” thing and have neglected my bookkeeping.  So here I am, trying to get myself going.  I’m drinking coffee out of my “hooker” cup that some kind soul sent to me.  Part of me knows it’s Friday, but other parts of me are in denial.

    Off to C&C….

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and I finally got to visit with my neighbor yesterday.  I haven’t seen her in some months.  She’s been battling various health issues for years, and yesterday she described dryness of her body.  Her eyes are so dry it hurts to blink.  She has some dry skin areas that she’s afraid to touch because it could cause cracking and bleeding.  Etc., etc.

    As I was trying to sleep last night, it hit me – Sjorgren’s Syndrome.  NASA Sis has it, and it is an autoimmune disease often accompanied by/masked by other health issues.  I’ve already sent her a text (because it’s hard to spell).  I’m hoping I’m wrong, but it would explain some of her other problems.

    Keep her in your prayers, for those who are prayer warriors out there.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C NEWS ☙ Friday, October 21, 2022 ☙ THE REPLACEMENTS

    Childers had a speaking engagement that sold out, they increased the space and sold out those tickets as well:

    The extra space immediately sold out again. The hotel doesn’t have any more rooms! I apologize to those who wanted to attend but couldn’t get a ticket. Still, entry enforcement might be lax, you never know.

    Wink, wink!  I guess I’m not the only Childers fan.  

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C:  Discusses the CDC putting the jab on the school jab list.  Then this (emphasis mine):

    In the short term, school mRNA vaccine mandates must be opposed, blocked, tied up in litigation, and overthrown. We need to lobby the CDC to REMOVE the jabs from the vaccine schedule.

    But those are battles. We can win the vaccine wars, by doing just one single thing. This objective is the final hill, the enemy’s HQ, it’s Hitler’s Bunker…. If we can capture this objective, it will be all over.

    We need a federal law removing vaccine injury liability shields.

    If we do that, if we reverse the state and federal protections for vaccine makers, our long national nightmare will be over. It would instantly kill every single mandate. One tiny federal law would do it. Because federal law pre-empts state law, it simply doesn’t matter if blue states have their own liability shield laws. All it will take is a one-sentence federal law reversing ALL liability shields and requiring vaccine manufacturers to be liable for injuries caused by their products.

    I remember reading something, somewhere, a long time ago, about how a municipality made the road contractors be responsible for the condition of the roads they repaired or installed for a period of years.  It was amazing how well those roads held up, because there was a financial incentive tied to their product doing well.

    If we make Big Pharma responsible for their products, what kind of quality could we then expect from their products? By allowing them to be irresponsible, we are encouraging bad behavior.  Make them liable, and I’ll bet all kinds of meds will be withdrawn, improved, or researched ever so much better than they are now.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers discusses the whole British PM issue, then there’s this bit of madness:

     This week, Christopher Rufo helped shut down another “family friendly” drag show, this time at the North Carolina Museum of Art, which was advertising the show to “promote gender fluidity” and — I am not making this up — to ignite a “maelstrom of passion” for children as young as two years old.

    Why? Why? Why?  Can’t we just let kids be kids?  He makes this point:

    And, why are these drag shows and story hours always for KIDS? Why don’t they have drag shows and story hours for accountants and lawyers and stuff? How did drag get connected to reading trans books to kids in the first place?

    This madness must stop.  And the parents who take their kids to these events should be charged with some kind of abuse to minors offenses and made to stand before a (reasonable) judge to explain why sexualizing their kids is good parenting.  And then get thrown into jail.  Or sent to some conservative reeducation camp to counterbalance their twisted values.

     

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Thanks, experts! After two disastrous years of covid pandemic policy, the United States now, depressingly, leads the world in consumption of ANOTHER big pharma product: antidepressants.

    Could be the WLR.  Or it could be liberal “leadership”.  I know I feel more depressed every time I think about the doddering fool residing in the White House.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Fetterman donned a suit on the campaign trail with the meat puppet.  He must be taking his failing poll numbers seriously.

    Then, this:

    Joe Biden’s extra-diverse, alternatively-lifestyled press secretary told a reporter this week that, to keep gas prices down, banning ALL PETROLEUM PRODUCTS was an idea that was “on the table.”

    Well, THAT makes a lot of sense:

    I wonder how they came up with THAT plan. They really are mining all the very best ideas, aren’t they? Or, does this Administration sound like it has no idea what it is doing?

    No, and yes.  Holy crap, you just can’t make this stuff up.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers reports something that I commented on some days back, along with all the other mourning for my Church and his heretical pope:

    In news of the apocalypse, the Catholic News Agency ran a story this week headlined, “Pope Francis Appoints Pro-Abortion Economist to Pontifical Academy for Life.” According to the article, back in 2016 Pope Francis approved rules eliminating the requirement that members of the Catholic think-tank declare themselves “pro-life,” which paved the way to start appointing people to the pro-life institution who are actually pro-abortion.

    We were warned about this “ape of the Church” several times.  It is here.  It is now.  We have a pope that allows – encourages – idol worship.  The sacred spaces that have been desecrated by the pachamana need to be reconsecrated.  The James Martin gay arm of the Church needs to be shut down and cleared out.  Defrock all of those pro-“sin crying out for vengeance” folks.  The Moloch loving folks within the Church need to be yanked out.  Instead, the Church is leaning so far left that we are tipping over. I am already trying to figure out what to do when my mass gets shut down.

    We who have our ears to the ground have been told that the Church will almost go to extinction, but then will be revived.  The Church is entering her own Passion, suffering at the hands of evil.  Some of us will suffer physical as well as spiritual pain.  I’m not looking forward to it, but I see it coming.  Unless we get a good, faith-loving, spiritual Pope this next time around (and Pachapapa has stacked the College of Cardinals, violating canon law in doing so), I don’t see how we can easily recover from the damage being done.

    But God wins in the end.  I console myself with that, and I keep on praying.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More good news from Florida:

     This week, Florida started arresting people who voted illegally in the last election, and corporate media thinks it is the WORST THING EVER.

    According to corporate media, voting can be confusing, especially if you’re a convicted felon who hasn’t paid all your court costs. Illegal voting could happen to anybody! Plus, Governor DeSantis is an evil dictator literally one million times worse than President Trump.

    Or something.

    Please, Texas!  Copy Florida!

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Israel backs off from helping Ukraine – a bit:

    This week, according to its defense minister, Israel announced that it will NOT supply anti-drone weaponry to Ukraine after all. It did offer to help Ukraine build an ‘early warning system,’ however.

    The decision might have something to do with Ukraine’s Nazi-affiliated battalions, since the Jews are a little touchy about Nazis after what happened during the LAST world war, but I’m just guessing.

    Childers reported on Ukraine’s growing Nazi movement at the very beginning of this whole mess.  Russia, as well as the Jews, has issues with Nazis and that was part of  Russia’s concern with Ukraine, as well as the whole NATO at their door thing.

    That all gets overlooked in the heat of the current battle.

  21. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning Hamsters,

    Yea for the Astros again.  Let us hope that Saturday in enemy territory is equally successful.

    #10 Tedtam,

    Your neighbor might find relief for dry eye by using Systane eyedrops. They are specifically for dry eye issues and are-over-the counter meds at the pharmacy.  However, seeing an ophthalmologist first would be best especially if this has been going on for a while.  Lack of normal teardrop production causes dry eyes, and if it is prolonged can lead to a clouded and scratched cornea that reduces central vision, very much like a cataract does.  Tears contain natural antibacterial elements that keep the eyes healthy and lubricated.

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Vaccines

    Beginning back in the 1950s the federal government decided it was necessary for public health to develop a broad national program to encourage people to get basic vaccines.  The polio epidemics of earlier decades and the successful vaccine for it gave them and the pharmaceutical industry the confidence to do it.  Eventually, drug companies began to phase out vaccine production because it was not profitable given government pressures to keep it cheap.  The feds finally told Big Pharma they would exempt them from liability to cut out the cost of product liability insurance so the numbers would work.  It worked fine for the basic polio, DPT and smallpox vaccines which basically wiped out those maladies in America.  Western nations followed suit and we enjoyed in the First World several decades of freedom from persistent diseases that had plagued mankind throughout history.

    The Covid “vaccine” fiasco has blown up the whole arrangement along with a variety of other vaccines introduced in recent years like the HPV vaccine being forced on underage kids.  It’s a travesty and the solutions are not so simple.  Wholesale removal of all liability for all vaccines is not the answer either. Lawyer Childers swerves close to being an anti-vaxxer although I don’t really know what his true beliefs on the subject may be.

    One thing is for sure, the entire public health/Big Pharma conglomerate has severely damaged trust in their competence and integrity to the point they may not restore it for generations.  They do provide essential life saving treatments, but if no one trusts them then even the safe, reliable ones become suspect by the public and that is not good for our future.

  23. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    How did drag get connected to reading trans books to kids in the first place?

    I’ve been trying to figure this out for years. Obviously our children are the targeted audience of these vile displays. If a bunch of adults want to go to a drag show, I could care less. When you target children to expose them sexual content, you should go to jail! These damn morons do not realize that this is grooming that gets these children accustomed to sexual display. It is not a far leap to assume that an adult could take advantage of this and progress towards physical contact and even more deviant abuse.

  24. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Joe Biden’s extra-diverse, alternatively-lifestyled press secretary told a reporter this week that, to keep gas prices down, banning ALL PETROLEUM PRODUCTS was an idea that was “on the table.”

    Say goodbye to your mostly safe and sterile hospital environment. These idiots do not realize where plastics come from. Say goodbye to light weight plastics that have reduced the weight of automobiles to help improve fuel economy. Say goodbye to cheap imported Chinese crap.

    Oh wait. That last one might actually be good. 🙂

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    American Stasi strikes again.

    ” In November 2021, acclaimed filmmaker and former PJTV contributor Chris Burgard released a documentary showing what he witnessed when he went to the rally at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He used footage he shot himself outside the building, along with cell video taken by those who went into the Capitol, to show a new perspective. This perspective seems to have been ignored by a weaponized Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland. The film included several deeply impactful interviews with folks who participated and subsequently found themselves targeted for pre-dawn raids by the FBI.

    Despite never having entered the Capitol building himself, the FBI has now come to Burgard’s ranch in Texas to interrogate him. As one might imagine, after filming extensive interviews with victims of the FBI witch hunt, this left Burgard and his family shaken. Chris and his wife Lisa described the process in an interview with PJ Media.

    On August 4, an FBI agent drove up the quarter-mile driveway at Burgard’s Texas ranch and left his card on the door. Lisa said she found the process deeply unsettling. ‘There was no note attached, so I wasn’t sure, like, was it for Chris, was it for me, was it for the whole family? Were we supposed to call them back? I really didn’t know what to make of it, but it was a warning. I mean, I’ve never had anything like that happen before.’ “

  26. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tedtam

    I am already trying to figure out what to do when my mass gets shut down.

    I’ll welcome you with open arms into the Orthodox faith. 😉

  27. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    I call this good news!

    *Hat Tip – Buck over at ACE

    THE MORNING RANT: Get Woke Go Broke – BlackRock’s Financial Results Are Deteriorating, Along With Its Stock Price and Its Reputation

    —Buck Throckmorton

    BlackRock is struggling. What a shame.

    Its stock has crashed. Its profits are declining. Its revenue is falling. Republican State Treasurers across the country are yanking funds from it. And investment advisors are now warning that its stock is no longer a buy.

    In other words, the company is in crisis, its value is collapsing, and its reputation is in tatters.

    IMHO well worth it to RTWDT

    https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=401487

     

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Go woke and destroy your nation’s defense.

    ” But this is what got me pondering – morosely, I guess you could say. When I first started as a board member, they were long, fulfilling Saturdays. For Annapolis, by far the most popular academy on our board to attend, there’d be 28-36 candidates to interview – some poor kids even call in from overseas where their parents are stationed (I’m telling you, it’s fascinating.). We’d be there at 7 in the morning, have lots of coffee, and sometimes not head out of the building (for the 2-hour drive home) until 8:30-9:00 pm. Long day. COVID year we did strictly zoom meetings, and I expected the numbers on that to be whack. Then, last year, we had only 12 interviews. I thought that was strange, and would surely rebound this year, but no. I’ve only 14 packages to read.

    What is going on? Is this anecdotal only to our region, or is it happening everywhere? And, quite honestly, would a parent – especially one who had been in or knew anything about the military – even recommend that as a choice to their child in the current cultural environment? Listening to friends, other vets, and fellow Marines, that has to be happening more often than not. When I pose that question, “Would you tell a kid today to go in/enlist?” the first exclamation out of their mouths rhymes with “duck” and is followed by an emphatic “NO!”

    It is so toxic. “

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There are nurses in some hospitals making more that doctors because of a severe shortage.

    ” First we have Laura Morgan, a nurse with 39 years experience. Morgan was fired by her employer, Baylor Scott & White Health, when she refused to take a new anti-racism course required by her employer that specifically accused her of being a racist, because she was white. “

    ” Morgan said her “ordeal” began in September 2021 when her company, Baylor, Scott & White Health, directed annual training for clinicians that this year included a course called “Overcoming Unconscious Bias.”

    After reviewing the course, she requested a meeting with the nursing director and the human resources manager. Both blew her off.

    “The idea of implicit bias is grounded in the belief that white people treat those who aren’t white worse than those who are. It’s part of the woke assumption that society, including healthcare, suffers from ‘systemic racism,’” she wrote. “Accordingly, my own supposed implicit bias, which is a euphemism for ingrained racism, must be rooted out. Not only that, it must be replaced with preferential treatment for the nonwhite.”

    “I fail to see how real racial discrimination is justified by my nonexistent racism,” Morgan added. “

     

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, Hamsterville. Dismal news, dismal comments. Hoping for some snap-back in our upcoming election.

     

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From Instapundit:

    ” California officials are sounding the alarm after recent statistics showing that less corporate and start-up activity in the state will lead to a decline in tax revenue, according to a report by Bloomberg News.

    This year, just nine companies based in California have held initial public offerings, or IPOs, which is when a company first lists shares for sale on the stock market—considered a milestone in its growth after strong activity and high valuation, Bloomberg’s report revealed.

    In 2021, California—whose start-up ecosystem in Silicon Valley is considered the most prodigious in the world—saw 81 companies conduct IPOs, making 2022 the year of a ninefold decrease. “

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An item of good news.

    A national polling outfit released results of a generic survey of likely voters including both singles and parents.  The parents are breaking hard, +35%, for Republican candidates across the country.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat

    I was talking to Mike at the pharmacy – who also serves on the Board of Bellville General Hospital.

    He said that they were eventually paying contract nurses more than the contract ER physicians because nurses were so hard to come by.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Breaking news

    Monster Tacos are back at Jack in the Box

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: Steve Bannon Sentenced To Four Months In Jail

    He was sentenced for not cooperating with the kabuki show of the J6 committee.  The one that was illegally formed and would not allow any contradicting testimony.  Everybody on that committee should be decorating lamp posts.

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I put some kiddie plastic balls in my garden (think the ball pit balls, but softer) to try to keep Fatso Squirrel out of my squash.  It seemed to work, so I left them in an the tubs where I had the balls seemed to be protected.

    Until today.  I had some seedlings coming up and I found little holes in their places this morning.

    Damn squirrels.  I had to chase Fatso’s cousin out of my garden yesterday.  I’m sure the neighbors on the next block could hear my screaming.  He was about to eat one of my broccolini plants that’s already suffered a caterpillar attack and is recovering.

    I’ve been lax with the tulle, so I guess that’s on my to-do list now.

    Our pecan trees are absolutely bare of nuts this year.  Not a single one.  That means the tree rats are coming after my garden with a passion.

    It’s on.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bonecrusher – couldn’t agree more.

  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    My FB post of “scapular really wasn’t a roach in my shirt” is still amusing folks over yonder.  Many hundreds.

    So glad I could make their day.

  39. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    I found this REMARKABLE

    I regularly rcv msgs from NJ/NY Port Authority for all manner of stuff as in tractor trailer wrecks, potholes repairing, heavy traffic etc. THIS one sure caught my eye!

    Starting at 12:45PM there will be authorized drone activity in Port Newark along Marsh, Tyler, Export, Calcutta & Bengal Streets, south of Elizabeth channel..

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Katfish

    A good friend of mine has a son who has been with the NYC/NJ Anti-Terrorism Task Force for over 20 years.  He is an electrical/electronic master and they snatched him up out of NYPD right after 9/11.  He told me there are so many things going on in this area and most of it he couldn’t tell me because it’s confidential.  There are all kinds of sensors and surveillance equipment under the Hudson, East and Harlem rivers, stuff mounted on buildings and fake plumbing and bakery trucks driving around loaded with things like digital sniffers to analyze the air for biowarfare.  They have a section that analyzes all the point-of-sale bar codes from drugstores and grocery stores to watch for sudden intensive purchasing of sinus and cough medications in each neighborhood.  These guys are good, very good.

     

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Kurt Schlichter is the man.

    And then there is the spectacle of family members of murder victims “forgiving” the criminals as if forgiveness was a simple act and not a process that demands action by the person being forgiven. This bizarre misunderstanding of Christianity is mixed with what seems to be a desire to front to the world as somehow enlightened – “I want to announce that I forgive the barbarians who raped and murdered my daughter. They did not repent, they did not seek forgiveness, and they have not yet been punished, but I’ll do it now anyway. Look at me.” Not that you want to take theological hints from a guy who grew up a Californian Methodist, but the forgiveness of God does not just manifest out of the blue; the one receiving grace needs to take steps to obtain it. These moral posers – and it is posing, sad and horrifying, but posing nonetheless – demand nothing to obtain forgiveness, so the forgiveness they offer is meaningless narcissism.

    Yes, in case you are wondering, I am criticizing the family members of rape and murder victims who refuse to demand justice. Their moral voguing is perpetuating a paradigm where more people’s kids die. Forgive those who seek forgiveness; don’t hand it out as moral welfare and be shocked to find a society full of moral welfare bums.

    More:

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/civilization-cannot-exist-without-righteous-retribution/

  42. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP @ 12:40 – Of course the KEY phrase to ALL of this:

    right after 9/11

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We have a priest at our church who mentioned in a homily that he hears in the confessional people who have a hard time forgiving those who hurt them.  He points out that most times those who do the hurting have not requested forgiveness.  He says he has to point out to the victims that even in the Bible the point is made that the perpetrators have to ask for forgiveness for their sins.

    I think he was making the point that a lack of remorse and willingness to repeat their offenses does not make forgiveness imperative for their victims.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    60K real estate deals called off in September

    My investor/lender friend and I were talking last week (I needed to sign some papers and will be going in next week to sign more papers).  I asked how this crazy economy had affected his company.

    He does both conventional and private lending loans.  PL loans are more for house flippers, developers, etc.  That’s where he’s investing my money for me.  He told me that their conventional loan side has all but dried up.  People just aren’t buying houses.  Surprisingly, the unconventional loans are still being requested.  My friend is “becoming more conservative” in his lending practices, even to the point of slapping liens on 4 other paid-off properties for a borrower, and not just the current project. “If he believes in his project, it shouldn’t be a problem,” Friend told me.  If the loan goes belly-up, he can foreclose on all those properties to recover our money.

    He covers his – and my – butt very well.   Love that guy.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The Bible says we should forgive no matter what our oppressors do, whether they are repentant or not.  Read the Lords prayer.  Read Roman’s 5.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and during that conversation, I told him “I hope I’m making you rich.  If you do well, I’m doing well.”  “Well, yes you are,” he replied.  I told him I’m no liberal and I am not jealous if he has more money than I do.

    I want him to put all of his kids through any college they choose to attend.  He is pretty conservative politically as well, so I’m hoping his kids turn out like him.  Smart.  Conservative.  Hard working.  Entrepreneurial.

    Him, and all of his staff, too.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #36

    Oh, I agree.  I think he was talking about folks who were really suffering with some kind of guilt over their difficulty in giving forgiveness, especially when still suffering.

    It’s hard to give forgiveness – but not impossible – when the hurt is ongoing and the perp doesn’t seem to care.

  48. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Biden admin demands $34 MILLION more from Congress to continue J6 committee

    The correct response is a very loud, H3LL NO!

     

    https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-doj-requests-34-million-in-critically-needed-funding-for-jan-6-committee?utm_campaign=64502

     

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The new Serta queen-size airbed for Shannon to sleep on next week just arrived a day early from Amazon.  I need to inflate it and make sure it doesn’t have any leaks.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Our old guest bedroom bed hasn’t been replaced in years because no one ever stays here and that thing was soft to begin with.  The exception was my late friend who used to sleep over on the sofa in my study.

  51. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I got an email from Harris County about my jury summons next Friday.  It said I have to wear a friggn mask.  Didn’t that get outlawed by the STate of Texas?

  52. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #40 – Only my experience – last trip to Harris Co. court with a BACA HERO – a few months back…..

    I employed “I’m medically precluded from wearing ANY sort of mask”

    That actually worked all the way to the door of the courtroom – then it was NO mask NO entry.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Forgiveness can be a complicated struggle for most – I don’t care how “black and white” scripture is on the subject.

  54. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I don’t care how “black and white” scripture is on the subject.

    Living in the gray zone makes it complicated.  Get angry at me if you want, the question is where you put your faith.  The Bible is very black and white when it declares do not lean on your own understanding, so I don’t.  There is a lot of promise in this proverb.

    6 in all your ways submit to him,
        and he will make your paths straight.

    Your argument is not with me by the way.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No anger here.

    Nor argument.

     

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Somebody needs to warn Mr. Tedtam.  His wife likes to hang out at this place.

    ” Budget supermarket Aldi is considering selling edible insect recipe kits as the cost of living crisis hits families.

    Bugs such as crickets are known to be a cheap and sustainable form of protein.

    Now Aldi is weighing up whether to stock products by Yum Bug, which make the insect recipe kits.

    Yum Bug founders Aaron Thomas and Leo Taylor, both 28, are competing against other start-ups to get their product on the supermarket’s shelves.

    The duo were picked from hundreds of applicant’s to appear on Channel 4’s ‘Aldi’s Next Big Thing’ tomorrow. “

    How does one go about canning or, egads, pickling insects ?

  57. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon

    #44

    GOOD and Thank you

  58. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Texpat… Uhhhhhhhh…. I, for one, don’t… won’t… and I won’t say that I won’t ever eat bugs – if it were a matter of life and death, I suppose I’d try to choke a few down… but… I don’t think there’s much danger of me trying to make a silk purse out of that particular sow’s ear. And thanks for the warning – if anything ANYWHERE says “Yum Bug” on it, it will not be coming home with me.

  59. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    WOW my danged garbage bill went up $10.00 with no notice.  That is 11%.  Good grief

  60. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Yargh! Sick and tired of gruberment science agencies that decide to ration and control tax-payer-funded research data. Here’s a new example.

    The National Institutes of Health now blocks access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may enter “forbidden” territory.

    A policy of deliberate ignorance has corrupted top scientific institutions in the West. It’s been an open secret for years that prestigious journals will often reject submissions that offend prevailing political orthodoxies—especially if they involve controversial aspects of human biology and behavior—no matter how scientifically sound the work might be. The leading journal Nature Human Behaviour recently made this practice official in an editorial effectively announcing that it will not publish studies that show the wrong kind of differences between human groups.

    https://www.city-journal.org/nih-blocks-access-to-genetics-database

     

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh. This one popped up.

    “A religion that doesn’t interfere with the secular order will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it.” — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

  62. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Heck yeah!https://t.co/JflCVa7bpH

    I hope the above link works. It should take you directly to the judge’s order.

    Exciting news in Missouri v. Biden: Judge Doughty granted our request to depose federal officials, including Dr. Fauci, Jen Psaki, Carol Crawford, Vivek Murthy, and several others about their involvement in social media censorship. I’m working on getting the order up on website.

    If the above link does not work, here is the Twitter link. Then scroll down to the tweet where she posts the judge’s order.

     

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    48 Mharper

    You beat me to it. I was going to post that one.

    More required reading.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    44
    Hubby better examine closely those dehydrated hamburger rocks.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dave says there’s a 60% chance of rain for Game 4. And a 40% chance for Game 5.

    We really need to be playing against a more civilized organization with a roof on their stadium.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Clay & Buck interviewed this engaging woman today.

    Like it or not, it is a demographic reality than Gen X’ers are going to have save and rebuild the Republic.

    https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/19/gen-x-to-democrats-eat-my-shorts/

  67. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I am hearing alot about Republican Tsunamis.  so are the pubbies gonna rake in the Senate too?

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Found this on Forgiveness….
     

    Sometimes forgiveness can come in a moment, other times forgiveness is the work of a long time, helped by new experiences and friendships. The soul moves slowly at its own pace towards healing and wholeness. God works with us in that because we never forgive alone. If you have been really wronged, if you have had some precious part of you taken away by someone else, if forgiveness is impossible for you, turn to the One who can put more than just His hand into yours. Ask Him to forgive through you, so that your pain and suffering can be healed and so that you are free to go on to give life to others. Pray for the person who wronged you, or at least pray that you can want to pray for them. The ultimate act of compassion and forgiveness is Christ on the cross. Here, He suffers with us (which is the literal meaning of compassion) and here His gift of laying down His life gives us new life. He paid the price of death and His resurrection shows that death is never, ever the end.

    The act of forgiveness changes our lives and give us hope. Forgiveness is not a feeling. It is an act.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    I’m showing on Wunderground for NYC rain:

    Saturday @ 5 PM – 0% chance

    Sunday @ 7 PM – 24% (increasing at 10 PM to 34%)

    Monday @ 4 PM – 24%

  70. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #56 Shannon – it truly is, and it ‘s an act following a conscious decision (and if you are blessed – it’s inspired by the forgiveness you have received thru Jesus)…  The hardest thing for me about my mother’s death was that my brother made it abundantly clear that he wanted nothing to do with me, afterwards. And he hasn’t since 1996.  A wise man that we know told me to pray for him – that it’s “the best revenge.”  I reached out a few times, but my sister-in-law told me that he could not “get passed the fact that your mother loved you more than him.”  My response was that, after having married a widow with 3 kids, then having one of his own, I would have thought that he’d have learned that you don’t love one child more than the others – you love each one fully, the way you love THAT child… Eventually, I was able to realize that it was not wrong for me to love dearly the boy I grew up with, and it was easy to love that boy. The man he became, I don’t miss, because I don’t even know him – and I had to forgive him for taking my only sibling from me.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    so are the pubbies gonna rake in the Senate too?

    My brother has convinced me that only fools predict elections.

  72. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    What a story, BSue.

    How blessed I am.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    enough with the onion cutting

    🙂

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    bsue54

    I’m so sorry for your brother’s inexplicable hostility.  We have a very similar problem in this family and I finally convinced everyone involved there is no way to resolve this.  I needed for them to stop torturing themselves by attempting the impossible and getting their feelings deeply hurt.  At least there is a livable peace now.

  75. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #22 TexMo,

    Your invitation to Tedtam was kind and thoughtful.  🙂

  76. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’ve followed this young Gen Z whose dad is a Gen X for several months now. I do not have tik tok, however, he cross posts to YouTube. He films his dad’s reactions to random questions and it can be quite hilarious.

    Warning the Dad typically drops alot of F-bombs.

  77. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Blessed are the peacemakers….

  78. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon and I naively grew up believing all or most families were like ours.  We were both shocked as young men to discover again and again families whose members were at war with one another.  Growing up in our extended family we had never seen such discord and unhappiness.  It was, and is still to some degree, a shocking revelation about human nature.

    Leo Tolstoy was right, to dust off an overused quotation:

    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

  79. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    BSue and Texpat it seems that many families have similar issues. My dad has a younger brother and sister who had a major disagreement over the proper course of treatment for my paw-paw near the end of his life. They haven’t spoken to each other in 17 years. Not even at funerals.

    Fortunately my dad is neutral territory and still has a relationship with both.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Divorce has been the pathway of the “Attacker” on our family.

    And yet, in almost every case, we still ultimately maintain(ed) friendships.

    Another blessing….

     

  81. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Like I said, forgiveness is complicated.

  82. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    My brother has convinced me that only fools predict elections.

    Aw c’mon.  What does he know?

  83. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    That truly is a blessing, Shannon… Because Walt knows how to “find” people, I know where my brother lives. I called and left a message when one of the other 2 grandkids on that side of the family passed… When the other (who was much closer to me than my brother all our lives) did, I didn’t bother. Today was the first time I’d really thought about him recently, so I checked his address, and found that while he’s still living there, his son lives in another town, and his wife in a third. I really miss those nights when we’d all chase fireflies and grasshoppers.

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    66 Shannon

    Perhaps like this.

    All happy families are alike; each unhappy family requires forgiveness in its own unique way.

  85. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Aw c’mon.  What does he know?

    I know. Really pisses me off.

    🙂 🙂 🙂

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There’s a Reason you are lead to keep trying BSue.

    🙂

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Alright Squawk. You’ve pushed me far enough.

    U.S. Senate come January….

    Republicans 52

    Dems 48

  88. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Shannon, maybe it’s because of brain damage from when he shot me in the head with his bow and arrow – he’d pulled the rubber stoppers off, used his little pocket knife to whittle a point on them, and shot them at a cardboard box, which kept falling over… So he convinced me to get inside to keep the box from falling over 😉

    Thanks for the nice memories  LOL

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    72 Bsue

    You may have missed the stories about little Texpat, in his bright red cowboy boots, with six-shooters on each hip, building and holding “toddler” me in the jail he built on the back porch.

    There is photographic proof.

    Damn bully.

    🙂

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We may have grown up like Leave It To Beaver.

    They just never showed Wally’s dark side.

    🙂

  91. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And in our case, June Cleaver was a divorceé mom.

    LoL

  92. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was Wyatt Earp with my Buntline Special and Shannon was a whole lineup of criminals and bad men.

    He never did try to break out of that official cardboard Dodge City Jail on the back porch, but he did cry a lot.

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s 8pm.

    It’s microwave supper tonight, Grandpa.

    Beef tips and mushrooms in gravy with mashed potatoes.

  94. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Shannon LOL… Mine is just the “normal” picture where the guy with a horse came by and took pictures of kids on the horse… Well, all 3 of us were on the horse, with me (youngest) in front… Cousin in the back with a cowboy hat and one chap, brother in the middle with a chap, and me up front looking like they barely got me to stop sobbing, and a lousy bandana tied around my neck… (A picture I treasure as much as I’m sure you do your jail picture LOL)

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Great stuff. Thanks. Too much fun.

     

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat

    Earlier, I called our friend Mike to check on him.

    We visited for a long time, which included him dispatching an armadillo in his backyard with a 20ga.

    Only in Texas.

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He made his soon-arriving son try to find the armadillo in the adjacent woods, just in case it was young enough to eat.

    Let me tell ya,

    I’ll eat bugs from Aldi before I eat a damn ‘dillo.

  98. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #80 – I’ll eat bugs from Aldi before I eat a damn ‘dillo.

    I call CACA de TORO Brother

    (or else You’ve not ever truly been hungry!)

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I did come in to the middle of a conversation on Bo Snerdley’s (James Golden) radio show this afternoon wherein a guest was going over a new poll.  The interesting factoids were about Generation X voters, 40s to early 50s, who were described as Rush Babies, the last pre-internet generation of children to be exposed to talk radio on a regular basis.

    They are parents now and are swinging hard to conservatism and Republican candidates.  It seems to be a big increase from 2016.  I missed the name of the polling company and the guest though.

  100. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    81

    It takes a lot to rile up Katfish from a slumber.

    Who knew that defending armadillo-eating would do it??

    Still surprising me after all these years.

    well. not really.

  101. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’m a Gen Xer and I’ve only dallied with with liberal ideas for a few years in my late teens / early 20s. By the time I graduated college, I had returned home to my conservative roots.

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I didn’t know Bo Snerdley had a radio gig up there!

  103. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’ve always worked around engineers who are by their nature a pretty conservative bunch and see through the media promulgated B.S. Unfortunately due to the oil bust in the 80s there are not a whole lot of Gen Xers in the oil & gas industry. There’s hardly anyone in this industry in their late 40s to late 50s. The youngest of the Boomers will retire within the next 5 – 10 years.

  104. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #84

    I didn’t know that either. I follow Bo on Twitter and I’ve never heard him mention a radio show.

  105. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    https://youtube.com/shorts/bBRXst1Di7g?feature=share

  106. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My old, crooked business partner in Argentina, Ruben, used to work on his uncle’s ranch in Patagonia when he was a boy.  He said the gauchos would trap armadillos down there and then bring them back to the barn and throw them into these big wooden barrels half full of grain.  The armadillos would keep eating pure grain for 30 days and clean out their system.  The gauchos would build a big fire pit, gut and clean the ‘dillos, tie up the hard shells with wire and cover them with hot coals all night long.  Next day it was a big delicacy.

    True story.

     

  107. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sadly, before your time, Dr phil

  108. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Bo Snerdley show is on 4 – 5 PM Monday through Friday on WABC. 

    Saturday mornings, he is on 7 – 10 AM.  These are EDT times.  Saturdays are the best shows usually.

  109. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dammit.

    Missed Blue Bloods, having fun over here.

  110. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Very cool.

    Cuban pilot steals crop duster and flies it 300 miles to Florida…

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