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No, No, No Hitter !!!!!

No, No, No Hitter !!!!!

No, No, No Hitter !!!!!

No, No, No Hitter !!!!!

For just the second time in World Series history, a no-hitter has been thrown as four Houston Astros pitchers completed the feat against the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday night to win 5-0 and secure their place in baseball lore.

Cristian Javier started Game 4 in the series for the Astros, tossing six innings of no-hit ball before being relieved. Bryan Abreu and Rafael Montero each pitched a perfect inning before Ryan Pressly closed out the Phillies in the 9th.

The only previous no-hitter in World Series history is Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

The only other no-hitter in postseason history was tossed by Roy Halladay for the Phillies in the 2010 National League Divisional Series.

I was only four years old when Don Larsen pitched that incredible, legendary, perfect game in 1956.  I do remember well the Saturday movie theater matinees as a boy and the many newsreels recounting Larsen’s feat.  Something like this would come on the big movie screen before the cartoons and the feature movie.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    50 Degrees up here on the Tennessee River shooting for the high 70’s. It’s going to be another great day. Coffee pot is gurgling and I’m getting ready to start the day.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I had mentioned the VRBO we’re staying and was going to post a couple of pictures yesterday but after the melt down I couldn’t so I’ll post them this morning. The place is really neat, a 2 bedroom 1 bath house on the water. The front isn’t much to look at but the backside is great. A huge screened back porch, overlooking a couple of patios stepping down a rocky cliff to the water. Not fancy but perfect for us.

    FWIW; With 3 linky’s I’m sure this will land in the spit bucket but that’s OK, Shannon should be stopping by in a bit.  😉

  3. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Warmer temps and no serious wind here for a few days, so I opened up the windows and let the fresh air in.  Closed all but one overnight, but think I’ll open them all back up this morning.  Of course, we could use some rain out here, but that’s not likely before tomorrow sometime.  Not much planned for today, but then this even we’ve got the world series, Rice football, and SS high school football all going on at the same time.  That will tax my media receiving skills to the max, but I have no doubt I can handle it and stay on top of the scores.

    You all have a good day, and I’ll have more later sometime.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Trying to catch up, SO the Astros pitched a no hitter?!?! I know, I’m SOO ashamed but man that makes me feel  good especially after the first loss and the one in game 3. GO ASTROS!!!

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How about a nice Saddle Ring Model 92 complete with the John Wayne large loop lever? 😉

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How about that? Mc Lin’s the little family restaurant over in Daleville won the Alabama Cattleman’s Association; Bama Best Beef Contest.

    In a narrow, but firm, margin, the winner of the 2022 Bama’s Best Beef contest is…McLin’s Restaurant of Daleville, AL! The third-generation, family-owned-and-operated eatery won both the People’s Choice and Judge’s Pick divisions, making them the overall contest winner.

    A 12-oz. Certified Angus Beef® ribeye aged 45 days and seasoned with a secret blend of 16 ingredients that only owner Ricky McLin knows, the McLin’s Special Ribeye has garnered the attention (and appetites) of more than 410,000 fans on Facebook.

    “I run the front of house,” said manager Matt McLin. “I’m the one that sees the face, and it’s my job to learn people. I’ve probably seen three-or-four dozen new families in the past two weeks that I know have never dined with us. They said they had seen us on Facebook and wanted to try the steak.”

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m usually not into a bunch of seasoning on a steak, but I bet the McLins make a fine ribeye.

    Now I’m hungry.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We’ve been meaning to get over to McLin’s ever since we got back home but just haven’t got around to it. FWIW; I didn’t know that had a great steak, they’re known for simple good cooking and the last time I was there, (about 1973?) I had fried catfish. YES I know it’s been awhile but after I moved away I didn’t have a reason go over there.

    SO!! Now I’ll be there to try the steak although Matt says they’re getting a lot of new business so it may be hard to get in.

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Our new HEB opened up yesterday on FM1488 across from Magnolia High Screwel, only 10 miles away! Wife setting up a curbside order right now.

  10. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning Hamsters,

    The Astros certainly made things interesting last night.  So we hope they do it again before coming home to finish it all in front of a wildly happy gang of Texans living here and all over the country—and the world. 🙂

  11. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Keri Lake rocks!!!

    “She put out a defamatory statement and you all ran with it. You didn’t do your journalistic duty. it was a malpractice of journalism like I’ve never seen before. It was an effort, I believe, to influence this election. Many of you are an arm of the Democrat Party Many of you are propagandists. And almost all of you should be ashamed,” Lake said. “Yesterday, my Democrat opponent put out a statement while I was meeting with police officers and firefighters, working to make sure that our state is safe, she’s pulling stunts and you guys are falling hook, line, and sinker for them. She put out a statement about a petty theft that took place at her office. She knew darn well I had nothing to do with it, so she puts a statement out, and right away, your gatekeepers over at the Arizona Democratic Party jumped on it and put a statement out, which was the cue to you to go ahead and start running with it.”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/11/02/kari-lake-points-out-the-irony-of-who-broke-into-her-opponents-campaign-office-n2615400

  12. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    My in-laws are in town for the baby blessing this Sunday. They had a long drive here arriving late Tuesday night, several chores to do yesterday morning and I was thrilled they took time to drive out to my daughter’s house to see Lilyan. To my greater surprise is that when I got back from the dog park, Lilyan was in Niki’s arms at home. “There’s a baby here,” I excitedly said aloud! So Niki, Aedhun (my 10 year old), my in-laws, and myself all chatted for several hours. Around 10:15 I was ready to get to bed. My in-laws went to their RV park, Janisen (daughter)  was there waiting for her husband to pick her up. Janisen needed to pump, Niki was tired having only a couple hours sleep from the past 24 hours and I was asked to watch Lilyan for a bit. She began to cry and kept crying. I took her out of what Niki and I call the “baby flinger” and held her, eventually walked around the house with her, whispering to her “shhhh” and “Grampa loves you”. She eventually stopped crying and Niki came out and took her so I can go to bed. I woke up EXHAUSTED. It’s been many years since I been up calming a baby. Very tiring but absolutely heavenly.

    Babies rule!!!

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Babies rule!!!

    That they do, sir, that they do.  They also drool.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    For some reason, both Hubby and I have been struggling with the calendar this week.  All day yesterday I had to keep reminding myself it was Wednesday, and I still failed to remember that as I dragged the trash can out to the street and prepared dinner early so I could get set up for my Latin class.

    I sat there, cocooned in my bed with my computer, my books, and pen and paper at the ready.  I watched that Zoom thingie spin and spin and spin…and then I realized I’d be sitting there for a long time.

    I sent off an email to magister and finished the lessons for Unit 13.  And laughed at myself.

    This morning, I had to remind myself that it’s not a no-meat Friday, it’s just Thursday.  Why do I keep trying to insert an extra day into the week?

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby and Handyman are here, preparing to pour a concrete pad for the water tank.  Hubby called me outside to look at the rebar and forms, he was so proud of hisself.  I assured him it was a fine, fine job.

    I really appreciate all he does for me.  The tank was my idea, as was my water filter, and my garden, and the canning…and he’s been very supportive of everything.

    He built my bucket and pot water system for me.  He encourages me as I fill out backyard with unsightly tubs and totes with (hopefully) green stuff in them, and especially when I get frustrated with Mother Nature’s offspring eating my efforts.  He built a special canning shelf and food prep area for me.  He’s been very patient with jars and herbs filling the dining room.  At first, he thought the canning and food preservation was just a hobby, and now he realizes it’s a prudent effort and really appreciates what I’m doing.  He’s proud of what I’m doing.

    We have our moments, as all couples do, but I must say that I think I appreciate him more and more as time goes on.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I found this in one of my many email accounts: ”

    Your Premium Membership Has Been Renewal At $239.99 ! [insert realistic Geek Squad logo]

    I’ve seen enough Scammer Payback videos to realize this is a scam.  I know better than to call and try to cancel.  I’ll get some Indian guy named “Steve” who will get access to my computer, convince me that I’ve accidentally typed too many zeroes into their “refund form,” and then try to get me to send them the overage via gift cards or something.  If they don’t load malware onto my computer and steal my money electronically.

    I’m tempted to try and waste their time, but I don’t have the time to waste, either.  Speaking of, I need to get my morning Coffee and Covid out of the way so I can get to slicing tomatoes and saying my prayers before heading out on my errands…

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C NEWS ☙ Thursday, November 3, 2022 ☙ MOVEON DOT JAB

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday. Remember to make plans to vote (if you haven’t already voted) for Tuesday’s election! In today’s roundup we look at how Professor Oster’s appalling amnesty op-ed may in fact be a narrative-shifting signal; how the CDC is jiggering the numbers in a failing effort to hide exploding excess deaths; what happens when they can’t hide it anymore; Brazil election update; Israel election update; and today’s video cartoon to make you smile.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From Childers – first he reports on the 55 year old Colorado politician who suddenly and unexpectedly, with no previously known heart issues, died from an acute myocardial infarction.  Which leads eventually, to this:

    It’s been over a month since I first sniffed a shifting jab safety narrative. A couple examples include that the Biden Administration sent up a narrative trial balloon saying that the government would “soon” stop paying for ‘free’ covid jabs, and the CDC then twisted its guidance dial onto the jab-status-neutral setting.

    The CDC has the best, most accurate, most timely vaccine safety data in the world, it KNOWS when there’s a problem…. Right now, the CDC is reporting lower-than-usual cardiac, stroke, and cancer deaths, and denying any significant excess deaths, although covid deaths are trending high, especially “unvaccinated” ones. We’ll talk about those rotten numbers shortly.

    Other developed countries — countries lacking our CDC — are reporting critical levels of excess death. I’m not exaggerating. From the Telegraph UK yesterday: [insert heading about soaring deaths, higher than during the pandemic, in UK]

    If, as appears likely, the CDC is lying about the real numbers to conceal jab injuries…

    /snip

    …if we are headed toward a point where it will be impossible to deny, then it is fair to assume the political types realize they are going to have to come at least a tiny bit clean about the jab problems. But of course, ONLY AFTER THE ELECTIONS.

    WHEN do we reach the point of no longer being able to blow smoke up the collective rear ends of the public?

     

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; Thanks Shannon, Texpat or whomsoever for freeing my #2 from the spit bucket. 😉

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s always more delicious when a left wing journalist takes a shallow, fatuous Democrat to the woodshed.  Michael Tracey is a young, muckraking investigative journo who has been on Tucker Carlson’s show a number of times.  Even though he once supported Bernie and then Tulsi Gabbard (that makes sense) he pulls no punches with the pompous and presumptuous political class.

    [ As always, bold emphasis is mine unless noted as “in the original” ]

    Congressman Can’t Answer Simple Question About His Own Bill, So Accuses Me of Working for the Russian Government

    ” Take, for instance, Congressman Tom Malinowski — the Democratic incumbent currently running for re-election in New Jersey’s seventh district. After an eminently distinguished, decades-long career deep inside the bowels of the foreign policy apparatus, permanent DC resident Malinowski “moved back” to New Jersey ahead of 2018 midterms to acquire a House seat in that Democrat-friendly election cycle. The plan worked, and for the past four years Malinowski has excelled at being the type of Congressman who loves to pontificate endlessly about things like “the centrality of a free and independent press to the health of democracy” — spending much of his time co-sponsoring legislation focused on just these sorts of platitude-heavy themes. This past May, for example, he got onboard with a resolution introduced by lip-quivering democracy warrior Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) that boldly sets out to “reaffirm freedom of the press as a priority of the United States.” It’s unclear what substantive advances are ever made by legislation of this nature, other than to advance the already-inflated egos of the sanctimonious sponsors. “

    and,

     ” Presented with the opportunity to encounter this amazing man, there was a surplus of material to choose from — but I wanted to ask about one particular doozy of a bill, which has taken on extra relevance recently given the prohibition just decreed by his Progressive™ colleagues against even contemplating any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia to cease hostilities. In July, Malinowski co-sponsored the “Russia is a State Sponsor of Terrorism Act” — as the name implies, this would designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, right beside Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Syria. “

    but,

    ” Amidst the minor hubbub they themselves created, Malinowski’s staff apparently went the extra mile and signaled for a pair of Rahway police officers to amble over and investigate any potential “risk of danger” generated by this interaction, as one cop informed me. Of course the police immediately ascertained that there was no “danger” whatsoever, and shrugged the whole thing off.

    So there you have it. That was the meltdown-style reaction by a sitting Congressman and his posse when he was calmly asked, at a public campaign event, about a piece of legislation he sponsored, on a topic that’s supposed to be foundational to his whole pretense of career expertise. I’d wager this was one of the vanishingly rare occasions since last February — maybe even the only occasion — when Malinowski has fielded a mildly probing question about his aggressively militaristic views on Ukraine war policy. “

    I thought democracy dies in darkness or something like that.

    What happened to “the centrality of a free and independent press to the health of democracy” ?

    This article is as sharp and clear an example of the idiotic, sanctimonious hypocrites like Tom Malinowski inhabiting the halls of Congress and The Swamp.  As Glenn Reynolds has said, “We are now ruled by the worst political class in living memory”.

     

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers then goes on to discuss a recent article calling for pandemic amnesty, for us to forgive those who were overbearing and tyrannical in their behavior to those who didn’t swallow the juice.  Childers calls this a:

    narrative shift, the first major call “to move on.” That seems to be how they’re going to try to finesse things: “The unfortunate events of the pandemic have created a lot of conflict and strife; It is time to move on.”

    There’s been pushback on this, and rightly so, from folks who’ve been told they are evil, trying to kill grandma, and walking death threats just by breathing air.  Childers then goes on to discuss these attempts to shift the narrative, including:

    The sudden disclosure — right after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and was going figure out what really happened any minute — looks a lot like what the internet generation calls a “limited hangout.”

    Wikipedia defines the term this way:

    [A] limited hangout is spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting, sometimes even volunteering, some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further. While used by the CIA and other intelligence organizations, the tactic has become popularized in the corporate and political spheres.

    Finally, along the same lines, last week the Senate subcommittee investigating the Wuhan lab published its “interim report” concluding the pandemic was “more likely than not” caused by a Chinese lab-leak. Another limited hangout?

    That’s a whole lot of momentum building toward some kind of disclosure and blame shifting.

    I’ve never heard of the term “limited hangout” but it certainly describes what is going on.  Give the public just enough to placate them, while hiding the real nasty stuff behind the curtain.  Or under the rug.  But it is at least a step towards justice.  If we can make them reveal all of the nasty stuff, we can clean it up.

    But then, I dream.  There’s too much money, power, and emotional investment involved.  Like climate change, it’s more painful to face the truth than to admit wrong and try to deal with the political/financial fallout.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Then, this:

    I’ve previously described The Ethical Skeptic (“TES”) as one of Team Reality’s heroes of the pandemic. He’s a data analyst and a fraud investigator, among other credentials, and early in the pandemic began doing independent analysis of the covid data, and later the vaccine data.

    Last week, TES published a substack calling out the CDC for systematically burying bad vaccine news under the outhouse, and he described exactly how the whitecoats are doing it. …

    Using data from the CDC’s own Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report (MMWR), TES made a very strong case that:

    1) The CDC is hiding or deleting excess jab-related deaths, especially in certain flagged categories like cancer, cardiac deaths, and strokes.

    2) The CDC is faking covid death figures to make it look like the unvaccinated are dying in larger numbers than the jabbed, to make it appear that the shots are actually doing something useful and not just killing everybody.

    A couple months ago, the CDC “paused” its MMWR for two months for a “system upgrade.” TES presented evidence supporting a plausible theory that during the “upgrade,” the CDC re-characterized a bunch of death data, moving large numbers of American deaths out of jab-related categories into either covid deaths or a “holding” bucket, artificially making it look like deaths from cancer, heart attacks, and strokes were a lot lower than they actually are.

    For example, TES walked through the data and showed exactly how:

    1) The CDC re-coded excess cancer deaths, shifting them from “Cancer Multiple Causes of Death” into “Covid-19 Underlying Cause of Death,” which lowered reported cancer deaths and increased covid deaths. And now, they’ve gamed the algorithm to automatically shift a large number of new cancer deaths straight into covid.

    2) The CDC also dumped a bunch of “Sudden Adult Deaths” into a temporary holding bucket that the CDC uses for undetermined deaths, lowering reported deaths from pericarditis-myocarditis-conductive heart disease. And the agency is surreptitiously continuing the shift, while the figures in the holding bucket grow and grow.

    3) Finally, he discovered that the CDC is just making up altogether new “unvaccinated” covid deaths, to the extent that the CDC’s own subtotals won’t tie and are now wildly out of balance.

    He goes on from there, but there is a LOT of information that follows that is worth reading.

    There’s lies, damned lies, and then there’s statistics.

    They lied about the numbers in the beginning, and they continue to lie about the numbers as people drop like flies.  Again, I wonder how this is going to impact the insurance industry, as every actuarial table is going to be hit. So many people dying means earlier payouts than expected.

    The point is, the CDC can’t keep hiding these deaths forever and it knows it. It’s panicking. Something has to give.

    Walensky’s conveniently-timed covid and Paxlovid relapse has protected her from having to answer any hard questions for the whole month before the elections.

    More importantly, the politicians are well aware of this problem too. They already tried to shift the narrative once, last month, and it failed.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Marjorie Taylor Green is stepping up:

    And here is a terrific example of what I just described last Friday, where heterodox politicians can use pandemic injuries for a political platform. Controversial representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who refused to wear a mask in Congress, has introduced HR 7308, the “Justice for Vaccine Victims Act of 2022,” a bill to investigate vaccine injuries.

    /snip

    Here’s what the bill’s description says it would do:

    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must terminate the COVID-19 emergency within three months of the bill’s enactment. The bill also removes, within three months of that termination, liability protections that apply to the administration or use of certain medical countermeasures (e.g., vaccines) during the public health emergency.

    Removal of liability protections! Exactly! Hurrah!

    Good work getting it out there, Marjorie. There’s a long way to go, but this is the right way to start. Regardless of what happens to this bill, other politicians must be encouraged to run on this platform.

    MTG is the dancing man.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Today’s Hamousonian

    Hamous

    LOUISIANA, MO. — He’s a hard-core biker with a sensitive soft side. Truly, how many Harley owners do you know who stitch quilts on the side? And have you ever met a HOG lover who makes his quilts out of women’s panties? And let’s not forget this character has his nickname “Shovelhead” tattooed just below the bridge of his cap. Yep, right there on his forehead so you won’t forget his name—as if anyone could forget ol’ Shovelhead.
    But back to the panty quilt…
    Louis “Shovelhead” Garrett rents out the basement of his mother’s house in Louisiana, Mo. That’s where he crafts his one-of-a-kind quilts. He’s kind of picky with his panties. He’ll accept silk, acetate, nylon, even rayon. But polyester panties need not apply.
    “I don’t want them cheap, dollar store, not-sexy-farm-girl panties. I want classy.”

    Yup. He’s got classy written all over him. Oh wait, that doesn’t say “classy”.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Judicial Watch is also wading into the fray:

    And the independent, citizen-led investigation into jab harms continues. Yesterday, Judicial Watch announced it has sued the Department of Health and Human Services for records on vaccine safety studies. Which no one has ever seen.

    /snip

    Judicial Watch was forced to sue HHS because the agency refused to turn over the vaccine safety records voluntarily. Weird.

    Gee, go figger.

    Childers then chuckles over the free Twitterverse being able to fact check Joe.  Delightful.

    Netanyahu is back as PM of Israel.  And the CIA is being accused of interfering in Brazil’s elections.  Again, go figger.  Biden loves the communist Chinese, so why wouldn’t election fraud be put into place to put a communist in charge?  After all, Biden admitted that the Dems “had the largest vote fraud machine in place”.  I don’t think he was supposed to say that part out loud, but he did.  So, if the current admin knew how to successfully overcome a wildly popular opponent, why not share the info?

    So now, from what I’ve heard, election deniers are being denied their free speech rights, and maybe even their freedom.  Gee, where have I heard that before?

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    I’m a little older than you and was 20 years old when the Watergate drama began to unfold.  America was glued to the TV and print press as all this was revealed.  It’s been almost 50 years.

    ” In a March 22, 1973, meeting between United States President Richard Nixon, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, and H. R. Haldeman, Ehrlichman incorporated the term into a new and related one, “modified limited hangout“.

    The phrase was coined in the following exchange:

    PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the – let it hang out, so to speak?

    DEAN: Well, it’s, it isn’t really that –
    HALDEMAN: It’s a limited hang out.
    DEAN: It’s a limited hang out.
    EHRLICHMAN: It’s a modified limited hang out.

    PRESIDENT: Well, it’s only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately. “

    At that moment, modified limited hangout entered the minds and vernacular of Americans and has persisted ever since.

  27. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    TT;

    They masterful droolers, for sure! 🙂

  28. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who has been propped up by global elites and central planners since she was a child, is finally admitting her activism isn’t about saving the environment. Instead, it’s about tearing down capitalism and implementing communist, government controlled systems around the world.

    We all knew it but here it is from How Dare You Greta.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/11/02/greta-thunburg-finally-admits-what-climate-change-activism-is-really-all-about-n2615344?fbclid=IwAR0CAoKTGLIhG5HyFHuS027A7OPPFJJu5dXfO8c5rHKhsm3fHXLdfPerd8w

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And if you want to see how sick the Catholic Church has become, today’s Return to Tradition focuses on how a priest in Ireland was canceled by his bishop…for preaching Catholicism!  Sinning is bad!  There is a heaven and a hell!  Repent and be reconciled with God!

    Folks actually got up and walked out in the middle of the homily.  I guess the message hit a nerve.  Later, the bishop apologized for the “offensive” sermon.

    I pray for my Church.  This is rampant.  Coalition for Canceled Priests here in America was brought about because priests like this fellow were being kicked to the curb by their bishops, unable to minister their flocks, celebrate mass in public, many times with no place to live, no insurance, no income, etc.  Many of them had to take secular jobs and forsake their calling.  The Coalition is in the process of buying a vacant friary, perfectly suited for their lifestyle.

    All of this is happening because the priests are doing their job, teaching the faith and encouraging their parishioners to live well and faithfully.  But today’s societies are so complacent, so self-centered, that they attend more to their own pleasures and comforts than be spiritually jabbed for their own good.  It’s too uncomfortable to realize failings, so those reminders must be extracted from their faith.

    So sad.

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    A couchly good morning to y’all.

     

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good ol’ John Dean.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An excellent column by Leighton Woodhouse on the collapse of traditional journalism, why and how it operates today:

    How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie

    ” A swarm of liberal political pundits and journalists had spent the previous weeks denouncing any questions about Fetterman’s health as illegitimate, while attacking the few reporters who dared raise such questions as heartless bigots and right-wing shills. In the process, they unintentionally revealed something essential about how the elite media distorts the public’s understanding of key issues by bullying journalists into repeating obvious lies. “

    and,

    ” In his book Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers, Andrey Mir describes what happened next. Starved of ad revenues, print media outlets changed their business models. They had already been drifting toward partisanship, but now they saw there was money in it. Instead of seeing their readers as consumers of the ads they sold, they started looking at them as potential donors. They began appealing to their political consciences, asking readers to subsidize their noble journalistic missions, NPR pledge-drive style. “Support our brave truth-telling work,” went the pitch, ‘for Democracy Dies In Darkness!’ “

    plus,

    ” Before the internet, a politically unpopular story might trigger a flood of nasty letters to the editor, but as long as it didn’t upset any major advertisers, the haters could be safely ignored. Now that it was the readers paying the rent, things were different. A revolt by your readers, if you were a newspaper publisher post-2016, was a direct threat to your bottom line.

    But there was a threat even more perilous than that: a revolt by all the young reporters you hired to cater to the millions of outraged new subscribers you had enlisted in the fight against MAGA authoritarianism. Those young reporters were true believers. They’d never known the old, aspirationally nonpartisan mode of journalism. “

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve mentioned that they have been repaving most of the Farm-to-Market roads that I travel daily. (The van has the tar specs to prove it.)

    This month they have been finishing up the striping. All striping (both the yellow and the white fog lines) now have continuous rumble dots. The striping machine squirts out the rumble dots in the same pass.

    I examined these dots and they are perfect little rectangles, one foot apart. They look like cake icing but quick dry hard as a rock.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I stream most of my content, but lately I’ve been catching StartTV on my bedroom TV over the air.  Hubby and I both have gotten hooked on “The Closer” and “Major Crimes”.  We’ve seen most of both series, but I missed some of the episodes so I’m now cycling back through again as the shows air, occasionally catching an episode that I missed. So I surfed a few channels to see what was on.

    Last night were some episodes I’ve seen, and I happened upon the show “New Amsterdam”.  I had caught parts of the first season and though I knew it was left leaning, I was interested.  The new hospital head was finding interesting ways to fund his “we heal all of you despite the expense” ideals. Then I got busy and quit watching.  I wondered if it was still on.

    Holy moley, have they upped the lib factor.  The episode opened with one of the doctors walking to work, and wondering why everyone had such sad, concerned faces and were huddling over the phones. A few minutes later is a scene inside the hospital and the medical staff is being addressed by a board member, telling them to focus on the other work they had to do, healing people, and get back to work! There’s a flash to a TV screen about Roe vs. Wade being overturned.  People are in tears.  She pulled the main character, the hospital head doctor, and almost in hysterics, she intensely tells him to “DO SOMETHING!  JUST DO SOMETHING TO FIX THIS!”

    I turned the TV off.  They were acting like a meteor was about to hit the earth or something.  End of the world. Life as they knew it was going to end. There was no other option but to FIX THIS!  And in her desperation. she thought this creative miracle working doctor was going to overturn a Supreme Court decision.

    Let’s just say it was NOT a reality show. It was utterly ridiculous. I have no more interest in watching it.  Ever.

     

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    30 Shannon

    Back before I left Texas, there was a horrible story of a woman in San Antonio who was sitting in stopped traffic next to one of those big truck-mounted striping machines applying those hot plastic stripes on the pavement.  She had her window down and one of the high pressure hoses blew and covered her with boiling hot white plastic striping material.  They had to life flight her to the hospital.

    Ever since then I’m very careful around that equipment and damned sure keep my windows rolled up.

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I just found this very cool, family owned restaurant/chef supply company in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Their prices seem very reasonable if you like to cook.

    Katom Restaurant Supply

  37. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Texpat @ 11:52 am

    Ever since then I’m very careful around that equipment and damned sure keep my windows rolled up.

    Be careful around garbage trucks too. I was the first car sitting at a light when a garbage truck to my left turned from the intersecting road onto the street I was on. I had the T-tops off and watched in horror as liquid effluent came sloshing out of the back of the truck as he turned next to me. It got on my hood and thankfully not in the interior of my car. Talk about a smell!

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    32 TexMo

    Excellent point.

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Suddenly everything on my screen shut down/locked up/went south. I couldn’t get any thing I was connected to to update, so I gritted my teeth and went upstairs. Was not surprised to see some yellow lights on the router, but this happens so infrequently that I usually can’t recall what I need to do. I punched all 4 of those yellow lights and 2 of them turned blue. Came back down stairs and was online again. Sad that I have reached the point where this is the best I can do.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    31 Tedtam

    I used to watch The Closer reruns at night until I saw them probably twice.  They had some good scriptwriters and the old cop character actors were excellent.  But the star of the show was clearly Kyra Sedgwick.  She is the only Yankee/non-Southern actress I have ever seen who absolutely mastered not only a Southern accent, but all the quirky, ditzy mannerisms of so many women I’ve known in my life in Texas.  The hilarious disorganized purse routine, always losing her keys or phone, the hidden candy bar habit – just great acting.  You can’t screen write that sort of stuff.  Sedgwick grew up entirely in Manhattan, the daughter of elite, wealthy parents.  I’ve always wanted to ask her what woman (or women) she studied/copied to come up with her Georgia-born Brenda Johnson character.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Sedgwick is married to Kevin Bacon, IIRC.

    She sure mastered that ditzy-like-a-fox routine for the show.  “Thank y’all!  Thank y’all so much!” as she waltzed out the door to make a deal with her FBI hubby to put the perp into federal prison after she’d garnered their cooperation by telling them that *she* wasn’t going to arrest them for their wrong doings.

  42. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Don’t drive around the beach area or on a ferry with a bunch of seagulls flying about in a Mustang convertible with the top down. Axe my wife how I know.

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Aren’t you glad that cows don’t fly. . . .

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And Provenza cracks me up:

    “You know I don’t [insert verb here].”

    And then there was the stereotypical genius in the cast.  “Closer” and its spinoff, “Major Crimes,” had Lt. Tao. “Criminal Minds” had Spencer. “Numbers” had Charlie. Someone has to have all the answers, or the acquisition of the answers they provide would really drag down the time sequence.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I like “Major Crimes” as much as I enjoyed “The Closer”.  Sharon Raydor was such a calm, cool character but underneath she was like steel.  Nothing ever seemed to faze her, and she just put all the pieces together until the bad guy was in jail.

    Complete opposite of Brenda Johnson’s character, who at times seemed almost hysterical in her efforts to get time with a witness or some other thing that she had to have *right then!!!*.

    And Johnson tended to skirt the rules, while Raydor was strictly by the book.

    Two completely different characters, same basic show.  Different flavors, but both delicious.

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    Speaking of John Dean, I read this book back when it was first published in 1991.  It was written by two, seasoned political reporters in DC.  They stumbled across information about Dean when they began writing their own Watergate history.  The book they started to write reflected the status quo narrative until they discovered the Bernstein/Woodward line was mostly bull***t.

    Silent Coup: The Removal of a President

    The book is still in print and I highly recommend it.

    John Dean worked in the White House and his girlfriend (soon to be wife), Maureen, was some kind office manager at the DNC offices in the Watergate Hotel complex.  It turns out Maureen was hiring pretty young women to work there and then pimping them out in the hotel to all these political operatives and campaign donors.  If you ever read the G. Gordon Liddy accounts, he confirms this same story.  The break-in was actually to try and expose the call girl ring and embarrass the DNC, but John Dean betrayed Nixon to protect Maureen and manipulated Congress and press into believing a pack of lies.  Dean is one evil SOB.

  47. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #35 – I’ll betcha even  sun / moon roof could easily be problematic too eh?  YIKES

  48. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    You really need to read this one.

    I’ll reserve my comments for 30 years down the road after the apocalypse occurs.

     

     

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just ordered ink for the office.  For the first time, I had to pay a fuel surcharge.

    More of that coming, I’m sure.

  50. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Squawk;

    Charlie Kirk has a guest on right now talking about this.

    https://www.audacy.com/am1070theanswer/listen#discover

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I went a looked up some info on Kyra Sedgwick.  She made a small fortune off of “The Closer”.

    The Closer (2005) $250,000 /episode (2007)
    The Closer (2005) $275,000 /episode (2009-10)
    The Closer (2005) $350,000 /episode (2010-11)
  52. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    TexMo #32;

    That’s really gross!!!

  53. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    *Hat Tip* – Ace rides again!

    Charlie Crist Is Conceding Humiliating, Cataclysmic Defeat and Now Only Looking Past the Election to His Next Grifting Opportunity

    —Ace

    Crist figured he’d throw in a little lockdown/masking/booster razzle-dazzle for the Karen crowd as well. Because, you know, SCIENCE (TM) and New Variant (TM).

    IMHO well worth RTWDT

    https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=401683

  54. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Another cup of my cabbage/chicken soup for afternoon snack.  I thought I’d already be getting tired of it since I had some for breakfast this morning, but it still tastes pretty good in spite of how it sounds.  I’ll have a burger for dinner tonight since I didn’t have one last night. what with my soup consumption and all.  I sort of wish I remembered what all I put in it so I could do it again sometime – oh well, maybe I can get close again.  FWIW, I sauteed all the veges except the cabbage and tomatoes in the Instapot with olive oil.  But first I pressure cooked the chicken thighs in the IP which created the broth as well as the chicken parts.  Took them out to cool while sauteing the veges,  the added the cabbage, the broth, the spices, and the chicken, cooked the cabbage down just a bit, then pressured it up again for about 15 minutes.  Just let it depressurize for about 30 minutes, and it was ready to go.  And only one pan to clean up after it was all put away – the IP liner.  No muss, no fuss but it did take me a while to skin and chop up all those veges.  Still have 1/4 head of raw cabbage in the fridge – might just add it to the mix a little later – as it turns out I could have used the whole head, but it looked pretty big before it all cooked down.  We’ll see if I can lose 15 pounds in 15 minutes or whatever they are promising on there web site.

  55. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    2 hours until the Owls tip off against UTEP; 3 hours until the Armadillos get a look at the state’s best team; and the Astros kick off against the Eagles or something.  As you can see I’m a little befuddled on my sports tonight.

  56. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Another victory for Never Trumpers who voted for Biden.

    It turns out that the United States is still the largest provider of foreign aid to Afghanistan, and the Biden Administration is working assiduously and against the law to hide what is happening with that cash. AYFKM?

    Biden Administration is hiding $1 billion in payments to the Taliban – HotAir

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    40 Squawk

    I’ve been reading it already.

  58. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    OK, TV on to watch Rice, Rice radio broadcast on computer being bluetoothed to old Maggie stereo.  Armadillos start at 7 on other TV, and based on the situation, WS on either the radio or possibly on TV sharing time with the Armadillos.  Kick off in about 10 minutes.  And police scanner running off my phone off to the side also.  Not that much activity for emergency dispatcher out here.

  59. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Copied from a friend’s FB post.

    Dear Philadelphia,

    You played a great game Tuesday, you also proved why you’re the most hated fans in sports.
    We are the Houston Astros. We are a city that comes together to overcome adversity. You hate us. You boo us. Your restaurants refuse to serve our team. You threaten one of our beloved public figures (who gave 200 mattresses to veterans and first responders in your town), and yet we rise.

    We’ve watched your fans throw snowballs at Santa, purposely throw up on a law enforcement officer and his 11 year old daughter, throw beer bottles and food on players-even your own.

    When your fans come to our house, we don’t threaten them with harm. We don’t boo your players each time they step on the field. We don’t heckle your hometown heroes. We have respect. Respect for our team, stadium, city, and visitors.

    You absolutely deserved that win Tuesday. And still you continue to show the world why you were voted the worst fans in sports.
    It’s said Phillies fans learn to boo before they learn to talk. Well bless your hatin hearts.

    Stay classy, Houston. Go ‘stros! ⚾️

    PS…how bout that NO HITTER!!! #makinghistory

     

  60. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Love it.

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Alot of good will in Philly.  Mac makes new friends and they exchange niceties. Justin Verlander, while i am sure he wants to win the World Series but he tells some Phillys fans they are number one in his heart.

    The fans erupted in laughter … and it’s clear the whole interaction was all in good fun.

     

  62. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching “The Closer”.

    I think Shriner’s Hospital owns the station.  Every second or third ad is theirs.

    At some point, it goes past market saturation into annoying and “turn the volume off”.  I think I could recite their dang commercials from memory at this point.

  63. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m going to be out of town this weekend, and I told Hubby I really needed him to eat leftovers this weekend. The pickin’s are good: rotisserie chicken, fresh pork roast (cooling down now), and I’m using some canning failure ground beef to make some skillet bacon cheeseburger.  He’s trying to cut back on carbs, so he should be able to open a container or two.  I told him if he didn’t start eating the food we have, it’s gonna start to go bad and I’ll have to throw it out. (The freezer is full, so eat what’s in the fridge, darlin’.)

    He asked if there was a steak in the refrigerator.  I love my husband, but sometimes he’s just asking for a good slap.  I settled for a stinkeye before I closed the door.

    Need to get ready for Latin class soon, so I’ll be prepacking some meals for him afterwards.  Hubby has no problem with leftovers if I put them on a plate for him, but he has a thing about not opening containers and looking for the food.  So I’ll have to leave a note or label the containers in the fridge for him.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Once again I’ve gone two weeks without grocery shopping.

    So I’ve been going to Brookshire Bros for certain disappointment.

    Tonight it is a sorry, rip-off rotisserie chicken and sorry, rip-off potato salad.

  65. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #36 Bones

    … but I thought cows could fly.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Funny how the chickens you buy at the store for cooking these days are freakishly large. But Brookshire Brothers comes up with these scrawny ones to rotisserie.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And charge 7.00 for them.

  68. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    What is up with Verlander?  He is getting that deer in the headlights look

  69. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    REDEMPTION!!!

  70. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    What? Nobody here is watching the Texans/Eagles game.

  71. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, my Latin class got called on account of game.

  72. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I did get to bend magister’s ear (auris magistri) regarding some questions on the homework.  I’m actually ahead of schedule for a change.

    We had quite a discussion about whether “did not cease” is an action that was completed in the past (perfect tense) or an action that was started in the past and could be continuing (imperfect tense).

    Let’s just say he tried to ‘splain it, but I’m going to have to think about it.  I still think it’s imperfect but he insists it’s perfect.

    It’s perfectly confusing, let’s leave it at that.

  73. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Verlander needs some offense N O W

  74. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    What? Nobody here is watching the Texans/Eagles game.

    Go Peña!!

  75. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Go Bregman!

  76. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Oh Boy. Here’s that Fetterman ad again.

  77. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Fetterman commercial?  Again?  The guy looks like a mass murderer.

  78. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #61 – My Son Guppie is watching both games

  79. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So the Fetterman ad is national (why?). Was the Gallery Furniture ad as well? (why?)

  80. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang what am I missing? We got back to the Casa del Rio and I tuned in to the game but I’m betting my batteries aren’t going to hold up form much longer. I was up at 5 and have been running around all day. Visited the Helen Keller birthplace, the Roundhouse Depot in Tuscumbia and some plantation mansion south of town. BTW; about that last trip; that’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back. 😀

  81. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    YES!!

  82. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Whew!!

    Im sure that’s it for Verlander. Great job. Scary but good.

  83. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    IMHO JV aquitted himself pretty well for 92 pitches ^ 5

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oh man, these guys are making me nervous.

  85. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    katfish

    i agree.  redemption baby.

  86. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    BSue says I sound like my Dad watching the Stros.

    I LUV BASEBALL.

  87. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    OHHHHH that is gonna leave a mark

  88. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Okay Astros let’s see some OFFENSE.

    Texpat

    BSue has joined yu on the nervous seat.

  89. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    76 Squawk

    It’s the greatest game ever played.  It is also the only pro sport in which you never know which team will win until the very last pitch, unlike basketball or football.  Thus the drama.

  90. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Roger that.  The chess match of defense and pitching just fascinates me to no in.

  91. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Looks like we got a little football action in the baseball game with that run down.

    Knee to the head… ouch!

  92. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sure did.  Hope Yuli can come back.

  93. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    CRUMB!!

  94. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hmmmm that was weird.

  95. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk to the rescue.

  96. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    cmonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Pressley !!

  97. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mercy!

  98. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Now THAT’s what I call backing up Gurriel!!

    Go MANCINI!

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m going to have to mix a drink.  The ‘Stros are making me nervous wreck. I don’t want to go back to Houston with a 2-3 count.

  100. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    When you have a drink well ummmm would ya have one for me?

  101. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Back on line it would appear.  I could not sign in there for about an hour.  Owls managed to win.  Armadillos did not fare so well.  Astros trying to hand on.  Staying up a little late for a change.  Getting ready to hit the bed as soon as the last pitch is thrown though.  Have a good night you all.

  102. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    CHAS!!

  103. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was going to ask God to intervene, but I realized that might piss him off even though the Philly fans are nasty, they are His children too

  104. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    AWWW CRAP

  105. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I promise i will stop looking at page 42 of the old Sears catalog.  Just one more strike

  106. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    ASTROS WIN

  107. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    What a game!

  108. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  ‘STROS!!!!

  109. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    We’re coming HOME Baby!!

  110. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Throwing away my 50 year old Sears catalog.

  111. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    I gotta go find my bottle of TUMS!!!!

     

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