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Tuesday The Evil of Silence Open Comments

I first became aware of Eric Metaxas wrote Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery as a companion to the movie of the same name back in 2007. I am a fan of Metaxas and believe he has important things to say to America’s Christians and others as well.  Politically conservative Jews like myself have only Dennis Prager as a prominent religious voice in the Public Square.

Letter to the American Church book here.

Eric Metaxas website here.

Here is Eric Metaxas speaking in August, 2021, at Second Baptist Church in Houston:

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It looks like we have some required reading this morning.  That front is pushing through here and we’ve got almost a  ¼” of rain .24″ to be exact and we’re hoping for a little more before the front passes about noon and the temperature drops. I was down at the Farm House cleaning the leaves out of the pump basin of the carp pond to get the pump unclogged so the little waterfall would run and while I was there I got some Bambi steaks out of the freezer to make another batch of chili, It should be good on this cold damp day. But now it’s time for coffee and get this Tuesday kicked off.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It looks like Arizona is next.

    BREAKING: Major Bombshell Uncovered About Election Day

    It’s been widely reported that voting machines were “malfunctioning” in Arizona on Election Day, which means they were rejecting ballots and not accurately counting them.

    Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer confirmed that around 20% of the electronic vote tabulation machines in the state’s most populous county were malfunctioning.

    Lake is taking on Democrat and current state Secretary of State Katie Hobbs for governor.

    Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Maricopa County, Arizona has a budget for the election of $4.5 billion dollars.

    “One poll worker reported that 25 percent of ballots were being rejected,” Carlson said. “Now you would call that third-world, but actually it’s beneath third-world. Most third-world countries have serious elections. They require voter ID. They don’t wait days for election results in Ghana.”

    “I consider someone’s vote their voice,” Lake said. “I think of it as a sacred vote. And it’s being trampled the way we run our elections in Arizona.”

    ‘I have been sounding the alarm for two years. Nothing got done,” she continued. “Very little got done last legislative session. And we need to get in there and restore faith in our elections.”

    Technicians were called in to fix these “hiccups.” Lake’s lawsuit alleges the problem is much bigger than 20% of voting machines.

    Making matters worse, the problems with voting machines created long lines and excessive delays. Numerous people are confirmed that they were either unable to vote or were induced they by poll workers to discard their ballots.

    On the evening of Election Day, Kari Lake’s campaign released a public statement announcing that they have filed a lawsuit against the county.

    “We sued Maricopa County,” Harmeet Dhillon tweeted, who leads legal efforts for Lake’s campaign. They also attached a link to the lawsuit for everyone to see.

    First of all this is NOT  “Breaking News” since I’ve been following this since story Tuesday AND all the problems are only in Republican precincts. Kari Lake went to a Democrat precinct to vote after she could not vote in her precinct.    ~SPITS~

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We are NOT all equal.….Amen!

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    PragerU

    “The year is 1984. One company – Microsoft – dominates the computer world. It’s their way or the highway.

    Conform or die.

    This snapshot in time was perfectly captured in one of the most famous commercials in TV history.

    Set in a gray, dystopian future, row after row of men stare blankly at a giant screen from which Big Brother – the all-powerful leader from George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 – addresses them.

    Suddenly, riot police burst into the hall, chasing a beautiful, blonde woman in a white shirt and red shorts. Before they can grab her, she hurls a sledgehammer into the screen, shattering Big Brother and his grip on the masses. The narrator informs us that Apple’s breakthrough product, the Macintosh computer, will be the device that sets us all free.

    Looking back, Apple largely lived up to its promise. A new wave of companies, each in its own way, followed the example set by Apple’s legendary CEO, Steve Jobs.

    Google gave us instant access to vast amounts of information.

    Facebook gave us a new way to connect with friends, family, and the world.

    Twitter brought this world to us in real time.

    And YouTube allowed anyone with a smartphone to become a virtual broadcast network unto themselves.

    It was glorious and empowering.

    But that was yesterday. Today, it’s 1984 all over again. Big Brother is back – with an important twist.

    Our former liberators now want to be our masters.

    Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the giants of social media, are demanding conformity to their values.

    It’s their way or the highway. Conform or die.

    This image is perfectly captured not by an ad, but by this recent real-life scene: Row after row of men and women stare up at Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, as he makes a presentation – ironically – before a civil rights group.

    “We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence: You have no place on our platforms,” Cook tells his audience. “You have no home here.”

    “Hate”? “Division”? According to whom?

    The answer is obvious: according to Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. They are becoming the Big Brother Orwell foresaw.

    Conform or die.

    Cook’s ideas are exactly the same as his fellow chief executives at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

    Disagree with Big Brother on, say, politics, or morality, and Big Brother will shut you up by shutting you down.

    And what is it that Big Brother doesn’t like?

    Well, Tim Cook, said it: anything that doesn’t conform to his left-wing worldview.

    The examples are numerous and growing.

    Meghan Murphy, a Canadian feminist, is permanently banned from Twitter for refusing to refer to the transgendered by their preferred pronoun, and for writing “women aren’t men.”

    Google, Facebook and Twitter all at various times refused to carry political ads from Tennessee Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn, promoting her conservative views. She’s hardly the only one this has happened to.

    And, as many of you know, YouTube continues to restrict over 100 of PragerU’s videos, finding them “inappropriate for children.” These include titles like, “Why Did America Fight the Korean War?”

    Broad-based studies by the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and by Northwestern University have confirmed what these examples clearly suggest: bias against conservatives at Google and other Big Tech sites.

    And this is the bias we can plainly see. What we don’t see, what Big Brother hides from us – what is referred to as “shadow banning” – may be even more pernicious.

    If you’re on the left, maybe you’re okay with this. But if you’re not on the left, or even if you are and you revere the First Amendment, you should be concerned. Very concerned. We are advancing swiftly toward an Orwellian, 1984 world of stifling, one-way-of-thinking conformity. This time, it’s not a fictional story. It’s real.

    What’s the solution? Simply return to the open market of ideas that served Big Tech so well for so long. Stop the censorship and let people make up their own minds. Otherwise America – and the rest of what has been known as the Free World – will cease to be free.

    That’s how serious the Big Tech threat is.

    I’m Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, for Prager University.

    “H/T GJT

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been fighting a mild reaction to a prescription drug I took.  I went to bed at 8 last night, woke up at 2 and didn’t try to sleep again till 5.  At 5:45, a huge crew of trucks, front end loaders, dumptrucks and jackhammers started slowly down the street.  After waiting almost 3 years, the local utility is finally getting to our small lane to install new gas lines that will allow us to install whole house gensets.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Put down that coffee cup.

    Fakery & Fraud:

    FTX had higher ESG ratings than EXXON.

  7. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    *Hat Tip – over on ACE

    The Morning Report — 11/15/22

    —J.J. Sefton

    Lengthy but IMHO well worth RTWDT

    https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=401891

     

  8. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Good morning gang.  32 degrees and bright sunny skies have returned after some clouds yesterday.  Not certain of today’s agenda, but I’ll work on that after a little more coffee.  Haven’t checked on the predicted high for the day, but I’ll do that after while also.   You all have a great day out there.  I posted Juan Browne’s informative take on the Wings Over Dallas air crash last night.  I guess I should go pull it forward since it really does explain a lot even though it’s way too early to develop a final probable cause.

  9. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Here it is, edited to correct an error:

    Juan Browne over at blancolirio has now posted the results of his research into the Wings Over Dallas air disaster.  It contains a lot of good information as to the fundamentals of how these events are supposed to work.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C342dfNPCyg

     

    I watched it once, and I’ll probably go back and watch it again to see what I missed the first time.  If you want to see the actual crash itself, it’s all over YT and you can find it easily from several different angles.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #5 Katfish: The Morning Report gets read by me every morning.  Always.  The links contained therein are the best, most accurate news source there is IMHO.

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    After about 15 years in a row, my lovely MRS. has decided that she does NOT want to host Thanksgiving this year.  We are going to spend some time in Kerrville and Fredericksburg over the holiday.  2 years ago her sister died on Thanksgiving and it kind of left a bad taste in her mouth.  Perhaps next year we will do it again.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There are more politically conservative Jews out there than any pollsters will admit.  The problem is there just aren’t enough Jews to make an electoral difference.

    The United States’ largest rabbinic public policy organization says the Biden administration is facilitating terrorism against Israel by injecting nearly half a billion dollars into Palestinian government organizations that incite violence against the Jewish state.

    The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), a pro-Israel advocacy group representing more than 2,000 American rabbis, slammed the State Department on Monday for its allotment of U.S. tax dollars to the Palestinian government, which is funding a program known as “pay to slay,” in which money is funneled to convicted terrorists and their families.

    The CJV says the State Department is engaged in a “blatant double standard” on support for terrorism, given its recent comments accusing Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir of “celebrating the legacy of a terrorist organization.” State Department spokesman Ned Price called Ben-Gvir “abhorrent” for his recent attendance at a memorial event for murdered religious leader Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose far-right views spawned an eponymous radical organization that the United States designated a global terrorist organization.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Christpopher Rufo at City Journal explains the relatively new fraudulent scheme emplpoyed by the Left to silence free speech.

    The “Stochastic Terror” Lie

    I browsed the news recently only to discover that, according to a popular science magazine, I was responsible for the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi, husband to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

    In an opinion piece for Scientific American, writer Bryn Nelson insinuated that my factual reporting on Drag Queen Story Hour was an example of “stochastic terrorism,” which he defines as “ideologically driven hate speech” that increases the likelihood of unpredictable acts of violence.

    plus,

    The scheme works like this: left-wing media, activists, and officials designate a subject of discourse, such as Drag Queen Story Hour, off-limits; they treat any reporting on that subject as an expression of “hate speech”; and finally, if an incident of violence emerges that is related, even tangentially, to that subject, they assign guilt to their political opponents and call for the suppression of speech. The statistical concept of “stochasticity,” which means “randomly determined,” functions as a catch-all: the activists don’t have to prove causality—they simply assert it with a sophisticated turn of phrase and a vague appeal to probability.

    I had to sign in with my free account.  I’ve never been asked to use it before so I don’t know if they are requiring it across the board now or not.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #2, well just as I figured they took Arizona.  Kari Lake is suing Maricopa County but no matter the outcome, she’ll not be Governor AND the witch that will be Governor isn’t about to fix the system THAT SHE SCREWED UP because it got her elected. Remember, all the problems occurred in Republican Precincts. Just a coincidence I’m sure,….. ~SPITS~

  15. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Sounds like the Harris County election may be still up in the air… voting irregularities – more ballots than registered voters… and there may actually be something done about it…https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjzgfOIubD7AhXck2oFHYKHDbwQvOMEKAB6BAgLEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.click2houston.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2022%2F11%2F14%2Fvoters-in-harris-county-deserve-to-know-gov-greg-abbott-calls-for-investigation-into-election-problems-in-harris-county%2F&usg=AOvVaw2UG5yitJ4Ja0vEJ-MOzMqd

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Shannon, Monday, 7:01 pm

    I’ve decided to blow off my planned Thanksgiving time on the Bay. Maybe next year. Bones, I may take you up on your invitation after all. 

    Bones, Tuesday, 7:51 am

    After about 15 years in a row, my lovely MRS. has decided that she does NOT want to host Thanksgiving this year.  We are going to spend some time in Kerrville and Fredericksburg over the holiday.

    Dang, never had my RSVP run the host completely out of town before.

    🙂

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Time for the C&C

    Good morning, and Happy Tuesday, C&C! In today’s roundup: good news about Dr. Joe Ladapo; Yellen calls for crypto regulation, of course; Hegelian dialectics and crypto; the New York Times defends FTX.COM; Katie Hobbs takes the lead in Arizona and Kari Lake prepares to challenge; Amazon prepares for a difficult recession and Jeff Bezos says DON’T buy Amazon products; and a little good election news.

    From what I heard on the radio, Hobbs has been declared the “winner” in Arizona.  Of course, I put “winner” in quotes because we all know the truth.

  18. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #9 – Well, if you are getting that close, you just as well plan a day trip to SS.  There you will find at least fresh gourmet coffee, delightful keto (yeah right) desserts, Blue Bell, and so forth.  It’s a pleasant drive up Hwy 16 and offers a lot of rural central Texas to look at.  Just another idea to toss into the hopper.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First up – Florida’s surgeon general is staying on.  That’s  a win!

    Second – Trump is making his “big announcement” tonight.  Not so sure about that…

    [Insert discussion of the pros and cons here]

    To me, it seems simple. The only rational way forward is for Trump to have a free and fair chance to run in the primary — without sneaky tricks and without being undermined by the GOP. Stopping Trump from even running in the GOP primary will just push MAGA toward a third party. And if DeSantis does run, he’ll need the practice of a battle with Trump anyway, to get him ready to fight the Democrats, who will be ten times worse.

    I heard a similar sentiment on the radio yesterday – that DeSantis should go up against Trump and get used to dirty pool, since the Dems would be ten times worse.  I think there’s some truth to that – Trump is unpredictable and can be vicious in a primary.  Working with the Dems would be even more back-stabbing and evil.  A boxer doesn’t earn his belt by slacking off on his training.  Trump would be good training.

    As for a third party, I am on the fence.  The R’s are so far to the left that I think we need a good housecleaning.  A third party would help, and Trump might have enough of a following to make it happen. But that would split the vote and give the right to rule (note I didn’t say ‘govern’) to the Dems.  How much worse would it be than what we have now?

    And how many R’s would join the new “America First” party?

    Would the prospect of a new, (fairly) strong third party scare the R’s back onto the rails?  Sometimes it’s not the action, but the threat of action, that forces a correction.

     

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Yellen is calling for crypto to be heavily regulated after the collapse of FTX.

    Because, we’re from the government and we’re here to help. /gag/  I know little if anything about crypto, but I do know what “help from the government” means.

    This FTX situation appears to be a classic form of an Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is a process described by the triad: “Problem—Reaction—Solution.” For example, in the political context, let’s say the government wants to do something that it knows will be unpopular with citizens, a right stinker.

    Instead of doing that unpopular thing and aggravating everyone, the government craftily creates a problem, a problem that it can blame on certain unpopular others. Then, if the problem worked right, the citizens will react by demanding the government solve the current problem and protect them from future problems. Then, the government offers its solution, which by a marvelous coincidence is exactly the same as the previously unpopular thing it wanted to do in the first place.

    Except now, it’s popular!

    Example:  Covid

    The government’s chocolate-stained fingerprints were already all over the FTX enterprise, right from the start. There sure are a lot of political connections to this “upstart tech darling.” Connections with one political party, in particular.

    Initiate innocent looks towards ceiling by certain folks.

    [Insert long list of why ‘Sam’ – who built FTX – is an idiot and a prop]

    So, he’s not playing 4D chess or anything. He’s playing an animated kid’s card game. But WHERE is Sam playing Storybook Brawl? Nobody knows. Even the Times, who interviewed him Sunday night, doesn’t know where Sam is: “Mr. Bankman-Fried … declined to comment on his current location, citing safety concerns.”

    My guess: he’s playing games in a CIA safe house someplace. But I’m just spitballing.

    According to the Times, Sam has already been working with the government to REGULATE the cryptocurrency market: “Mr. Bankman-Fried’s most ambitious aim was to shape crypto regulation in Washington, where he testified to Congress and met with regulators.”

    As I hope you can see, Sam Bankman-Fried was totally unqualified to help “shape crypto regulation.” 

     

    As I said, I’m certainly no crypto expert, but I have to wonder – all this talk about moving to digital currency only…is this one way to get to that point?  Where the government can control every transaction we make?  Track our every fiscal move?  Restrict transactions for those who don’t go along with the latest political whims?  For example, people who refuse to take the jab- can they buy groceries?  Go to the doctor?

    Until the comply of course.  “You will be assimilated.  Resistance is futile.”

     

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And then, this:

     Investigative journalist Thomas Paine claimed that an FBI source told him the FBI has been wanting to investigate FTX but the DOJ stopped them.

    Because we all know how clean the DOJ is.

    Childers says a lot more about the FTX debacle.  I highly recommend visiting his site and reading it.

     

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Amazon taking a hit in the “non-recessionist” economy?

    But the retail giant is showing other signs of preparing for a downturn. In recent months, Amazon: switched off its telehealth service, canned an odd video-calling projector for kids, closed all but one of its U.S. call centers, axed its roving delivery robot, shuttered many brick-and-mortar stores, and is currently closing, canceling or delaying a number of new warehouse locations.

    Financially, Amazon appears to be struggling. Amazon’s latest earnings report was lower than expected, and Amazon stock is down about 41% for the year, and is on pace for its worst year since 2008.

    If we only knew what Jeff Bezos was thinking!

    ***

    As it happens, we know what Jeff Bezos is thinking because he told CNN this weekend. He’s not listening to Joe Biden, and he appears to be thinking America should get ready for bad recession. Business Insider ran a story yesterday headlined, “Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Warns a Recession Is Looming – and Americans Should ‘Prepare for the Worst’.”

    “The probabilities say, if we’re not in a recession right now, we’re likely to be in one very soon,” Bezos told CNN on Saturday. “The probabilities in this economy tell you to batten down the hatches.”

    Whatever he’s looking at must be pretty grim, because Bezos even advised people NOT to spend money on retail goods. Amazingly, he said people should put off big-ticket items like new TVs, refrigerators, and cars. And, he suggested small-business owners should hold off on buying new equipment. Instead, they should build up cash reserves.

    I guess I should run to the store for more sale meat today and put more stuff on the shelf.

    When Bezos tells us to put off buying stuff….well, that’s a warning sign.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang, never had my RSVP run the host completely out of town before.

    Why to go Shannon! You are the master.   😀

  24. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Going to be a cool week up here it appears.  Need to do a few outdoor chores, but I’ll wait a little longer for that.  Gor the laundry going, showered, shaved, etc.  Seeing a few smart items like switches and plugs on Amazon Early Black Friday sales, but I just cannot conceive of any thing else I would want to switch on and off that way.  Many items if switched off require you to restart when the power is restored anyway, and I just don’t like the idea of surging the TV and other electronics, so I think I’m done there.  I do have one hallway light that I’m going to switch out to a smart bulb to provide a lighted hallway at night that I can switch off from the bedroom.  The Fire Sticks are all on sale – cheap ones less than $20, and they all work with the smart system and take verbal commands to turn stuff off and on.  I’m sidelining my Roku devices since I’m going all Fire Stick.  I think I could add the Roku devices to the smart system, but no need to duplicate that effort for TVs that I never watch in the first place.  Anyone want some Rokus I’ll probably let you have them – they all work just fine.  I’ll see if the boys coming for T’giving want them first, but I doubt they do.  We’ll see.

     

  25. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Why to go Shannon! You are the master.

    That beats being the champion blog killer!

  26. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I sure hope there is a way to avoid a Trump v DeSantis fight. I see no way that ending well.

  27. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Today’s Hamousonian

    Chittlins cleaned properly aren’t bad. Tripas boiled and then grilled over a flame till they’re crispy are mighty tasty. If I’m gonna eat innards though, I prefer menudo.
    With appropriate response

    Shannon

    You chtlin, liver and menudo -eat’n homies can collectively bite me.

    I will politely decline biting you. I do know a lot lizard that will gladly respond to your request if you are still interested and do not mind her taking my place.

  28. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    TexPat November 15, 2022 at 7:20 am

    After waiting almost 3 years, the local utility is finally getting to our small lane to install new gas lines that will allow us to install whole house gensets.

    Hope they don’t explode your water pipes, like they did at Chez Harp and my 80-yo neighbor. Yeah, they repaired what they damaged, but my thought is that the broken section may not be as durable now as the rest of my pipes.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bad assumption #1 

    That the HEB parking lot would be virtually empty on a Tuesday morning.

    Realization # 1

    Those other three cars riding round and round the lot, with me, are old people waiting on a handicap space, too.

  30. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Yo Squawkster – monkeyworx dude notice this? (since it aint about aircraft)

    Claim: Analysis of Satellite Data Reveals Two “Dark Ships,” With Their Transponder Beacons Turned Off to Deny Location Data to World, In Area of Nord Stream Pipelines Near Times of Explosions

    —Ace

    https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=401884

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well, Hammie, I’m not surprised you keep a lot lizard handy at all times. 

    🙂 🙂 🙂

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh, that was SQK.

    Transfer response accordingly.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Canada doing its best to outrun the USA to the collapse of civilization.

    Changes are being made to Medical Assitance in Dying (MAID) which will expand eligibility criteria to eliminate the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criterion. This means that it will no longer be required for a person’s death to be reasonably foreseeable to receive MAID services.

    The government of Canada’s website says that those whose only medical condition is a mental illness will not be eligible for MAID until March 2023, meaning that it will be fully available for those with just a mental condition after that date.

    As of March 2023, mentally ill Canadian citizens can demand a doctor kill them.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    At HEB:

    Penne Alfredo With Plant-Based Chicken

    Who knew chickens grow on trees now?

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    By the way, OC videos are outstanding. Eric Metaxas finally said it in the second one as a passing point, but I believe it is much larger. It’s all about customers in the pews.

  36. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I think Hammie had chickens in a tree next door.

  37. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #29 – IF ‘plant based’ chicken is anywhere as NASTY as BK’s ‘impossible whopper / FAKE meat’ aka TOTALLY DISGUSTING….

    No THANKS! and *NO SMILEY!*

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The United States of America is a nation founded by Christians and no matter how many conservatives of other faiths there will ever be, Jews, Hindus or even Muslims, the fate of the nation depends upon faithful Christians and their loyalty to principles of the Declaration of Independence.

  39. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Harris County Deputy Constable Jennings was the first responder to my wife’s sister’s 911 call when she was shot down. He stayed with the family all that day, even continued off duty, spoke at her funeral. Continues to be in contact with them to this day. He felt a connection to Robin, we believe because she went down fighting. He was part of the effort to hunt down the killer and kill him. He is a badass. Wife just talked to him this morning, we knew he was moving on to something else but didn’t know what. He was sworn in as a U.S. Marshal last Tuesday. He will make a good one. Can’t believe I personally know a U.S. Marshal!

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    "Battery" Hens - United Poultry Concerns

    Plant-based chickens.

  41. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Katfish #26

    The plot thickens.  These things tend to take on a life of their own.  I find it interesting that unofficially Russia is blaming England while much of the world is blaming Flashbang Biden.  I think it was Norway that sent ROVs down to the pipes, picked up the pieces and have sense said they were not going to release info on what they found.  We of the unwashed masses will prolly never know.

    I have on good authority that 9 out of 10 dentist agree that it was probably the United States that did the deed. (TROLL BAIT)

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t know, man. Aren’t Russians notoriously bad pipeline welders?

  43. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon @35

    I dunno.  I have seen that argument in a couple places.  I have on good authority that 9 out of 10 proctologists agree that Russians are poor welders.  So you are prolly or could be correct.

  44. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    We’ll I’ll be dipped in sheep dip.

    In other newz…as far as 2024 goes Trump nor Desantis can win if the 2022 governor steal in Arizona is allowed to stand because we know that Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona would be stolen in 2024 with governors like Shapiro, Whitmer and corn cob Hobbs at the helm.

    as a matter of fact there may never be another republican’t president again.

    I bet McCarthy and the corrupt Kentucky Swamp Turtle hold their failed leadership roles.
    The McLoser gang slithers again.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Abbott likes to take action only once he can do so without spending any political capital.

  46. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Me?  I think this link tells us what happened at the pipe in just 3 words.

  47. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I wonder how many corrupt totalitariancrats and swamp swimming goopeecons are involved in the ftx money laundering debacle?.?

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Re: #33

    I guess that would be Deputy U.S. Marshal.

  49. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Stolen election deniers.

    always switch to reader view on iPhone or iPad.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m seeking 20 partners to go in on an official $40 Collin Street Bakery Fruit Cake.

    Sign up at

    IOnlyWantALittlePiece dot org.

  51. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Shannon since Bones un-RSVPed you, just head a few more miles south down to Sugar Land and dine with us. We usually eat around 1 pm Thanksgiving day.

    Heck if Katfish eats around 5pm or 6pm you can get a two-fer Thanksgiving dinner… just be sure to get a wheelchair lift installed on your minivan so you can roll yourself home.

    I thought I read Tedtam is not spending Thanksgiving day with anyone except Hubby. They can head over to Sugar Land too.

  52. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    All I know is that I have ZERO control over global events or darn near any other event outside of my own household.

    The Ds should be breathing a YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE collective sigh of relief that I am not in charge, IYKWIM.

  53. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I just read Shannon’s #43… I might have to remind the Thanksgiving invite. Fruitcake?!?

    I’ve never met a fruitcake I like.

  54. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Abbott likes to take action only once he can do so without spending any political capital.

    I just read that Abbot is finally invoking that Invasion Clause. How convenient a week after the election.

  55. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I just read that Abbot is finally invoking that Invasion Clause. How convenient a week after the election.

    He finally heard me.

  56. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    He finally heard me.

    It’s about time.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve never met a fruitcake I like.

    Me either. So, IOnlyWantALittlePiece.

  58. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’ll just say this – A Collin Street Bakery fruitcake is unlike any other fruitcake you have ever tried before.  It is really a bowl of fruit and nuts barely held together with the least amount of cake dough possible.  And it is good for breakfast or dessert or mid morning or mid afternoon snack or even at midnight.  So don’t discount a CSB fruitcake. And it’s been a while since I had one, that the tin they send it in will be useful around the house for the rest of your life.

  59. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    If there ever was a fruitcake I’d like, it would most likely be from Collin Street Bakery.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m a contrarian and an outlier.

    I happen to really like fruitcake from Collin Street Bakery.

    Here’s TWENTY DOLLARS – Legal Tender – Photo of Andy Jackson.  I’ll take half the cake.

  61. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Paging El Gordo.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-wins-republican-private-vote-for-speaker/

  62. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #53 – Makes you wonder why you bother to vote Rep in the first place.  And agonize over it.  And listed or see countless hours of ads for them.  How it works:  The Reps hold a meeting (before the newly elected people show up), vote on the new leader which requires only a 50%+1 vote of those attending.  So for example, say there are 200 Reps and 20 new ones coming in.  Well with 101 votes, the new speaker is selected by the existing Reps.  When the new 20 show up, they are browbeat into submission right away by the “leadership.”  Then when the new congress is seated, all 220 vote for him for Speaker which is less than half, but they have no alternative if they want to get re-elected.  So while the majority may favor someone else, the minority controls the day.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There are no words to describe this barbarism.

    Susie Moore at Redstate:

    We’ve reported on the ongoing protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, reportedly from being beaten while in custody following her arrest for “unsuitable attire.”  Late in October, the Biden Administration announced it was levying sanctions against 14 Iranian officials in response to the government’s crackdown.

    Apparently unphased by this, the Iranian parliament has elected to crack down even harder, voting last Tuesday to execute the 15,000 protesters who have been arrested.

    and,

    “Now, the public, even protesters who are not supportive of riots, demand from the judiciary and security institutions to deal with the few people who have caused disturbances in a firm, deterrent, and legal manner,” Iranian government spokesman Masoud Setayeshi said, according to Reuters.

    On Tuesday, parliament did just that, voting to impose the death penalty on all protesters in custody as a “hard lesson” for all rebels. The majority in favor of the penalty was considerable, 227 out of the 290 total members, matching the number of lawmakers who signed the letter.

    It’s time to surgically nuke these SOBs.

  64. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I like fruitcake.  My Mom’s was the best followed by Mrs Bairds (Now unavailable) and the collinsstreet Bakery.

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    55 Squawk

    Your mother made homemade fruitcake ?!

    Lucky boy you were.

  66. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    My current “standard” reply to ALL of the RNC’s  $begathon$  emails:

    Big YUGGGGGE P.S. to the RNC !
    Unless and until Yall PERMANENTLY GET RID of Mitch McConnell and His Chi-COM wife
    along with Kevin McCarthy…..You will NEVER see ONE DIME of MY hard earned money!

  67. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    While we are talking about that, let’s talk about the ranked selection process used by Alaska to ensure the election of someone other than the person who gets the most votes.  I’m sure most of you are familiar with the “bell” curve; ie., if you ask a large population any question, their answers when plotted will form a curve on the chart.  For instance, let’s say there are 4 candidates in a race – 1 far left, 1 moderate leaning left, 1 moderate leaning right, and 1 far right.  Far and away, the largest number of people will relate and vote for one of the moderates, either left or right, while the fringes will vote far right or far left in fewer numbers.  So say we get a firebrand right winger going up against a moderate left winger.  The right winger may garner a lot of votes, but still does not achieve a majority.  Voters are told to rank their preferences, so many voters select the right winger number 1, the moderate right winger #2, the moderate left winger #3, and the wild eyed crazy #4.  Well, #1 gets 49% of the vote, but not enough to win.  Logically the moderate right winger would get  some number of votes from the people who are to the right but not fringe, so they will vote the moderate right #1, the moderate left #2, and whatever for the fringes.  Left wingers are the same – they prefer the more moderate candidate to the fringe left winger.    So in tabulating the votes, since no one got 50%+1, they go to the moderate candidates to see how many voters ranked them as their number 2 choice, as well of course as all those who  chose them #1 to begin with.  And it carries on like that.  Logically, according to the bell curve, neither fringe right or left winger stands a chance of getting 50%+1, meaning it will always be one of the moderate candidates who wins even though they may have gotten fewer first place votes.  This is how Murkowski will win in Alaska to keep her seat.  In fact, the reason they adopted this method is because they did the math long before the election and knew they had to do this to ensure she stayed in office.  In her case, voters from both the left and the right voted her as their #2 choice, so while she lost the popular vote to the more right wing candidate, the right winger did not win the 50%+1.  Now the math can get complicated, but fundamentally that’s how it works.

  68. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a must read from a former Democrat, Asra Q. Nomani, a recently red-pilled leftist.

    I have come to realise that party affiliation is far less important to me than fealty to the values that made it possible for me, a Muslim immigrant from India, to prosper in America. In the summer of 1969, I arrived at JFK International Airport as a four-year-old with no English, destined for a new home in New Jersey and then Morgantown, West Virginia. My parents had made a keen study of US history. They knew it was a nation that had its flaws, but they were encouraged by some pivotal developments, particularly the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which banned racial segregation in public schools and declared unequivocally that race cannot play a role in school admissions. This, they thought, was a fair place to raise their kids.

    and,

    That autumn, as my son became a junior and Jackson’s son became a freshman, the local 12-0 Democratic school board became obsessed with rigging the admissions process so that the low number of black and Hispanic students would increase dramatically. In December 2020, in a devastating decision for kids who had been working hard for months to hone their maths skills, the board replaced the school’s merit-based admissions test with a new racially-engineered system that assigned “bonus points” to factors that were seemed like a proxy for race. One of the board members, Abrar Omeish, actually acknowledged in a text message to another member that the new process had an “anti-Asian feel…hate to say it lol”.

    The author attended the U.S. Supreme Court October 31st hearing on the explosive case against affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.  She made and posted a video on the steps of the Court advocating for the plaintiffs.  This is what happened to her online from all the nice Democrats.

    That video, once posted, triggered an assault like I had never witnessed before. Pamela Denise Long, a contributor to Newsweek and the creator of “trauma-informed” “humane antiracism” training, shared an image of me from the video and admonished me for “coming to somebody else’s country” and using “their laws” to win rights. I was disparaged as a “tool of white supremacy”, promoting a “wannabe white supremacist ideology”.

    and,

    My suspicion that the ire directed at me was a comment on my immigrant status was confirmed on the drive to the watch party. Speeding along the tarmac of Route 66, I got a message: “Go back to India.”

    By the time I got there, I’d been accused of coming from an “upper caste family” (though I am Muslim, not Hindu); of being a “white Aryan Indian”, allegedly descending from the Aryan tribe that captured Hitler’s imagination; and of having “musty underarms”. “You Asians are the pets of white supremacy, flat face,” wrote one Twitter user.

  69. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Goopeecon House.

    losers renominating McLosers.

    rinse, lather, repeat.

    They’ll never stand together with such a slim margin since compromised Crenshaw is really a WEF dem in disguise.

    the Kentucky Swamp Turtle is up next to be renominated lead senate McLoser.
    He’s the one that performed oral treats on the NY Mayo Stain’s salami billl inflation destruction act.

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    57 El Gordo

    Speaking of Alaska, there are a lot people angry with Sarah Palin entering the House District 1 race there because she split the vote with a popular candidate, Nick Begich, many were confident could beat the Democrat incumbent, Mary Peltola.

    The tallies so far.

    Peltola – Dem – 101,441 – 47.26%

    Palin – Rep – 57,035 – 26.57%

    Begich – Rep – 51,927 – 24.19%

    Total Rep votes so far – 108,962

    If Peltola crosses the 50% line with one ballot, she wins even if there are more Republican votes.

     

  71. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Russian missiles cross fired into NATO member Poland, kill 2: senior US intelligence official
    Biden has promised to defend ‘every inch’ of NATO territory

    We will see if Flashbang Biden is true to his word

    Zelensky calls Russian missiles hitting Poland ‘really significant escalation’

    Uhhh ya think?

    EU Chief Calls ‘Coordination Meeting’ With EU Leaders At G20 Over Poland

    Have a nice day.

     

     

  72. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’m seeking 20 partners to go in on an official $40 Collin Street Bakery Fruit Cake.

    and

    I’ve never met a fruitcake I like.

    and

    I happen to really like fruitcake from Collin Street Bakery.

    and

    I like fruitcake.  My Mom’s was the best

    Try this one:

    Free range fruitcake

    When I make it, I mix up the different dried fruit depending on what the store has available.  I also double the “rehydration” booze and use brandy or bourbon sometimes.  I also baste it after cooking with more booze than he calls for.

    It’s not for the young.  It will also keep forever in the fridge if kept in an airtight container.

  73. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Yall enjoy – IME fruitcakes are NASTY and only good for decades of re-gifting.

    Darn things taste the same after DECADES of being re-gifted!

    s/Hurl

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      I got DIBS on any fruitcakes Katfish may receive in future Christmases.
      Show Katfish some love and give him the gift of fruitcakes this year.

  74. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Texpat 1450:  It seems that the prevailing mindset in the Middle East, excluding Israel, places very little worth on the life of a human being  – other than one’s own.  This is a culture that fought each other to the death, one tribe against another, over water and grass.  There was negotiated truce – once side wiped out the other side’s fighting age men, raped all their wimminzes, and took all their stuff.  That is if they didn’t just decide to move in.  A strong leader over there thinks nothing of sacrificing a few of his own to make a point or win a bet; obviously this is horrifying behavior to our civilized, Western sensibilities.  This horror is used against us as a weapon with great regularity.  Unfortunately, there is only one way for we mortals to make this barbarity stop for the vast majority of humanity.  Based  on what I have seen from about 2016, I don’t think the vast majority of the US citizenry have the will for survival to take that action.

  75. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    A Wagonburner sighting! Hope you are doing well buddy.

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    53 Dr phil

    As old Ben Milam might say, “Secret votes are for sissies.”

  77. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    There is nothing more dramatic than a cold Texan

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have an old brownie recipe…

    Never mind.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    At least Marjorie Taylor Greene has the balls to defend her vote publicly, unlike many of her colleagues.

  80. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Pyro #60:  I may try that recipe, but I’m using Honeyshine to do it.

  81. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    I come from a long line of fruitcake makers.  I mean yanno my mom and Dad made me.  But yeah Mom made a great fruitcake.

  82. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I just studied the recipe a bit and I think Honeyshine in place of rum works just great, and Bulliet Rye instead of brandy makes it special.  It really sounds delicious and I am not really one for cane sugar type sweets; although I have been known to eat prodigious amounts of fresh fruit.

     

     

  83. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Shannon, please accept our apologies for cancelling Thanksgiving.  A week or two ago, Mrs. Bonecrusher just decided that she did not want to host it this year.  Perhaps you can come some other time, for sure.  Bring a toothbrush, because I can foresee Honeyshine stock depletion being highly likely.

  84. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    The Russian missiles into Poland story sure took the FTX totalitariancrat money laundering scam out of the news.

    are we sure it wasn’t a Zelensky-USSA operation performed in order to blame Putin again?

    naw.
    This upright and honest non election stealing totalitariancrat government would never do something like that.

  85. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Well, I am unable to locate my Mama’s no-bake fruit cake recipe… guess ya’ll are safe 😉 (unless someone has a recipe that used raisins, dates, nuts, red and green candied cherries, candied pineapple, coconut, crushed vanilla wafer and eagle brand milk)

  86. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Brother Phil

    The Russians have fired over 100 cruise missiles into Ukraine.  Oh yanno with that many cruise missiles they just had a minor targeting error.  Stuff happens yanno.  Whoopsie and all that.

  87. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #73 – naw.
    This upright and honest non election stealing totalitariancrat government would never do something like that.

    ONLY on days ending with a Y!

  88. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Did I ever tell y’all about the brownies at the Dairy Queen Christmas Party? I’m sure I did but here it is again –

    When I was in high school working at the Dairy Queen at Hammerly and Gessner we had this this old, old woman that worked there. I mean she was probably in her 50’s. Still wore hot pant shorts…and a bucket of make up, chatter box too. Still remember her name – Joyce. We also had this really cool manager- Ivan. Ivan made brownies for the party, the unknowing Joyce had more than her share. The story tells itself from there. Funny.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Funny….thirty years later I found that a fifty year old woman in short shorts wasn’t so bad after all.

  90. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    😀 😀

  91. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    More like 46 years later lol.

  92. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Twenty years ago I met a 50 year old woman in short shorts and I’m still here in New Jersey…of all places.

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My step-daughter reminded me that she turns 55 tomorrow.

    She was 19 when I first started dating her mother.

     

  94. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    So that begs the question

    H O T  P A N T S

    or

    Daisy dukes

  95. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Feast or foul

  96. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Beauty and the Foul/Fowl Beast

  97. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Furthermore to #82, I’m pretty sure I used to know Ms. Hot Pants.

  98. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    My GF is now 73 and looks better than she ever has.  There are not many women who get better looking with age, but she certainly has at least retained her elegance and lady like figure and taken good care of herself.

    Oh, I almost forgot what I came over here for in teh first place. It’s about bed time out here since it has been dark for a long time and it’s also cold. Nothing else to do, so I’ll check the news and call it a day. Nite nite you all.

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk, Shannon, Tedtam.

    You have mail.

  100. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    1 vote for Daisy Dukes!

  101. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    #82

    funny stuff Bruddah Squawk.

  102. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s kissing 10:30 and I’ll be taking jars ou of the canner soon.  It’s been a busy night of juggling tasks:

    Putting new jars purchased today into dishwasher.  Dragged my grocery purchases into the house.  I had to put a lot of the eggs (now in regular egg cartons instead of the case) into a cooler on the front porch.  With the low temps tonight, they should be just fine.

    Separating stock in the crock pot from ingredients.  Cutting up turkey that was cooked yesterday and putting into jars, then adding stock to those jars.   Remaining stock got put into jars and it was all loaded into the canner.  I had space left, so I put in a few pints of sausage.  Got that running.

    Put leftover soup from yesterday into a pot to warm up.  That killed two birds: I got to feed Hubby and it made some more room in the frig.  I emptied Fred as much as possible (some berries STILL need more time.)  The dried berries are waiting to get vacuum sealed.

    After feeding Hubby, I cut up four packages of mushrooms and got Fred running again.  Oh, and during this time, I managed to wash a lot of dishes and put them away.  So, Fred’s full but I have room in the oven for four 3-packs of colored bell peppers.  So, I begin to get them sliced and into the oven on drying mode.  Washed those dishes.  Moved some bell peppers (they were on sale today) and eggs into the now available space in the frig.  Down to one cooler outside, all eggs.

    I heard the pop-up on my canner drop, so it’s time to empty the canner.

    Oh, and I did manage to cook a package of chicken thighs and wings, and feed myself somewhere in there.  And shove all that into the frig.  And wash those dishes.

    The frig is very full.  And I am very tired.

  103. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and I forgot that I took a few minutes to vacuum seal some nuts that I purchased today.

    I’m sure there was something else or two in the schedule, but I’m going to remove jars now.

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