The earliest known photograph of downtown Houston in 1856 at 300 Main Street.
And this circa 1866 photo with brick buildings to replace the original wooden buildings after they burned.
300 Main Street, Houston, in late 2013
Thursday’s 300 Main Street in Houston Open Comments
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1856? I wouldn’t have thought that Houston was that big in 1856, in 1900 it was much smaller than Galveston. Great pictures anyway. It’s 40 degrees this morning and I’d like to go on record to say I do not like this cold weather. We had a high of 55 yesterday and it’ll be about the same today. Oh well.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. Showing 36 out here with a projected high in the 50’s. No rain of course. My eyes are still irritated, presumably due to eye strain as I try to focus without the benefit of proper glasses. I go to the eye doc Monday hopefully to resolve these issues. I hope that you all have a great day today. I’ll report more as it develops today.
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JOKE OF THE DAY:
A guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom.
He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting.
“What’s up?” he says.
“I’m having a heart attack,” cries the woman.
He rushes downstairs to grab the phone, but just as he’s dialing, his 4-year-old son comes up and says,”Daddy! Daddy! Uncle Ted’s hiding in your closet and he’s got no clothes on!”
The guy slams the phone down and storms upstairs into the bedroom, past his screaming wife, and rips open the wardrobe door. Sure enough, there is his brother, totally naked, cowering on the closet floor.
“You stupid idiot,” says the husband,”my wife’s having a heart attack and you’re running around naked scaring the kids!!!” 😀 -
Gotsta be an Aggie.
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Lol
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Fifty Shades of Grey is only romantic because the guy was a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer, it would be a Criminal Minds episode.
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Neat OC pics. Wonder what it’d look like if we left it to the Indians.
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Over yonder somebody posted something about ever Tesla sold frees up 625 gallons of gasoline that he can burn in his 65 Vette. Then some dude said something about war for oil and parroted Democrat talking points. He was chastised by a bunch of folks and they argued about it but the poor stupid bastard had no facts, just talking points. NOW, guess what his name was? Allen Kahren, think about that. 😀
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Fifty Shades of Grey is only romantic because the guy was a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer, it would be a Criminal Minds episode.
At 7:19 AM GJT has already won the interwebs for today.
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What was it’s pronoun?
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Blockquotes 1….
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1 Super Dave
1860
Galveston – 6,000 free people – 2 emancipated blacks – 1,178 slaves
Houston – 4,428 total residents
1900
Galveston – 37,789 residents
Houston – 44,633 residents
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Hmmmmm…. I wonder if that 1900 census was before or after the 1900 Hurricane
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13 bsue
It was before. The hurricane struck Galveston 3 months after the 1900 US Census.
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The Washington Compost admits after the elections the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago was political bull***t.
Federal agents and prosecutors have come to believe former president Donald Trump’s motive for allegedly taking and keeping classified documents was largely his ego and a desire to hold on to the materials as trophies or mementos, according to people familiar with the matter.
and,
That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.
plus,
The people familiar with the matter cautioned that the investigation is ongoing, that no final determinations have been made, and that it is possible additional information could emerge that changes investigators’ understanding of Trump’s motivations. But they said the evidence collected over a period of months indicates the primary explanation for potentially criminal conduct was Trump’s ego and intransigence.
If presidents’ perfectly normal human desire to keep mementoes and souvenirs from their time in the White House is a measure of their “ego and intransigence”, then let us compare.
The focus of the FBI raid was supposedly 1,100 items including cocktail napkins, Trump’s passport and greeting cards.
Barack Obama took 30 million documents – that’s right, 30 extra large – to Chicago for his presidential Taj Mahal and not a single one has been returned.
Bill & Hillary Clinton backed up 45′ moving vans to the White House and took furniture, paintings, objets ‘d art, silverware and china belonging to the American people. No word on how many documents went to Little Rock.
So, who wins the most “egomaniacal and intransigent” award ?
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Texpat – thanx! An office mate of mine had a book on “The Storm of the Century” which she loaned me. Since Squawk’s grandparents lived in Crystal Beach, I found it fascinating. According to the book, many of the people who survived had taken refuge on the winding staircase inside the Bolivar Lighthouse…
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Texpat
I heard some speculum about why Trump announced his run for the residency so early that I gots a question about. It was theorized that Washington does not arrest anyone when they are running for orifice. The person even said there was a law. I did not call bovine processed hay on the law part because I was in no mood for a long drawn our argument. Any who you got any input on this or thoughts? I do not think. there is a law prohibiting anyone from being arrested when running for the residency. At most it is a misguided courtesy. Ain’t it? Huh?
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14 bsue
I’ve read a number of articles and at least two books on the 1900 Galveston hurricane. I never cease to be in awe of the people there and how they recovered and rose from the ashes, so to speak.
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#12
Heck, that looks like fun! If I had a kitty I’d get one. Or make one.
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#15
I believe the DOJ *used to have* a policy of not starting an investigation within 90 days of an election. Until Trump.
As far as not arresting anyone during an election, I don’t know. Especially since Trump. That perp walk on a trumped up charge (no pun intended) would be run over and over and over and over…
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15 Squawk
I never cease to be in awe of the ridiculous crap people make up and spread around.
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This has been a weird week, as far as my internal clock goes. I had to check on Tuesday to make sure it wasn’t Friday. Did it again yesterday, and then this morning.
I’ve felt like Friday most awakenings this week.
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C&C NEWS ☙ Thursday, November 17, 2022 ☙ STRESS INDUCED
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Your roundup today includes: McConnell re-elected to Senate leadership over Rick Scott, but McCarthy may have a real challenge being re-elected Speaker; OpenSecrets surprises with the FTX donee list; the Times is hosting a swanky dinner with political celebrities and you’ll never guess who all is coming; a bad narrative shift for Ukraine, now that the FTX honeypot is closed for business; the entire world has accused Zelensky of lying about killing those poor farmers; Biden wants MORE money for Russia; a jab-happy Dutch politician is falling apart after jabs; German court orders new elections in Berlin after voting problems; Senate votes to end state of emergency; digital currency trials begin; and Governor DeSantis calls for chilling out.
Sounds like another busy day for coffee drinkers…
BTW – I worked really, really late last night and will probably be burning a lot of midnight oil again, or at least putting my focus elsewhere. I’ve been so busy with food prep and gardening that I have, once again, put myself behind in bookkeeping. So, if I’m rather quiet, it just means I’m back on my hamster wheel.
But I still have all those eggs and veggies that I just bought…gotta find my balance.
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Hubby and I just had a laugh. Turns out he forgot to close the valve on our water tank outside.
“Well, if there was any debris, it got washed out,” he said.
It is SO hard to find good help these days…
😉
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There is no law exempting presidential candidates from being arrested just as there is no law against a president taking documents with him when he leaves office as long as they are declassified.
Personally, I think Congress needs to clearly define what presidents leaving office can take with them and put a stop to all this monkey business.
Has a US President ever been arrested, either while in office or during their retirement?
The answer: yes.
One US President – Ulysses S. Grant – was arrested while serving as the President of the country.
Grant – the 18th President of the United States – loved to race his horse and buggy through Georgetown while serving his country.
Grant was stopped often for speeding (there were speed limits, even with a horse and buggy). In fact, after stopping Grant three times for speeding, the D.C. Metropolitan Police decided that their message wasn’t getting through and decided to arrest the President.
The problem? The police weren’t sure that they could charge a sitting President, so they elected to fine Grant instead and let him walk back to the White House.
Those were certainly different times.
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From C&C:
I’ve always been conflicted over McConnell. On the positive side of the ledger, he heroically approved a record number of judges, judges that have been critical in reversing the pandemic’s excesses. He also stopped Merrick Garland from being appointed to the Supreme Court — what a disaster THAT would have been — and paved the way for Trump to complete three Supreme Court appointments, which then led to Roe v. Wade being overturned.
On the other hand, a lot of folks can’t stand Mitch, for solid reasons.
Yeah, I feel the same. Just when I want to absolutely hate the guy, he does ONE thing right and me, in my optimism, hope for his redemption.
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Texpat
THANX Yup me either. But yanno Thought I would double check with a trusted source. LOL
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Then on to FTX contributions:
Seven of the top ten were democrat PACs or groups. Three were conservative — but at this point I would suggest a degree of healthy skepticism toward all ‘conservative’ organizations that FTX thought could use some money.
For example, the top “conservative” organization which got $15 million from FTX, American Dream Federal Action, has a super sketchy website that includes “pandemic preparedness” and “biosecurity solutions” as top goals. And it doesn’t seem be actually, well, DOING anything.
So it’s worrisome that the second two largest conservative recipients of FTX’s stolen money were the Republican Congressional Leadership Fund and the Republican Senate Leadership Fund…
So, first of all, don’t expect a rigorous investigation of FTX anytime soon.
Isn’t this common? Donate to both parties as a form of extortion protection?
Spread the corruption around. If they’re all dirty, then they’re all in it together. Hide under the blankets together and giggle over the money hidden under the mattress.
Politics-bedfellows, and such.
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Childers reports, in a rather hilarious turn of events, the NYT has planned an event with four speakers:
- Sam Bankman-Fried, of FTX fame
- Ukranian Pres. Zelensky
- Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock
- US Treasury Dept Secretary, Janet Yellen
Yeah, I think the first guy on the list will be a no-show. What do the others have in common?
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Texpat
I have been in bunches of discussions about arresting a president while in office. I very seldom abandon a full blown thrashing of a misinformed idiot that believes anything, but I have because of some the outlandish crap people believe. My gabber was flabbered to the point where is was like shooting a watermelon ya come to a point where there is nothing left to aim at.
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Then Childers reports the narrative changing on Ukraine. Maybe because the money is drying up and folks don’t want to get caught with their political pants down?
Milley just told the world the Ukrainians aren’t going to win the war on the ground and may not even get their land back. Sure, he said not “anytime soon,” but what he meant was, “unless something big changes.” And Milley doesn’t know what that big thing could be, or he’d have mentioned it.
It’s a funny old world, isn’t it? Because corporate media (and hopeful Ukraine supporters) have been PROMISING for MONTHS AND MONTHS that Ukraine is poised on the very verge of victory, just about — any second now — to give the Russians the special Ukrainian treatment and teach them a lesson they won’t soon forget.
So, who’s lying? Corporate media? Zelensky? Ukraine’s Twitter bots? Or the U.S.’s top general? Or all of them?
I’ll take “All of them” for $800, Alex.
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#23 – I remember, as a child, asking my Mama why people said that (the “strange bedfellows” quip)… She said “because it’s so very VERY true” – that was not terribly long after JFK was assassinated and we were living thru proof that LBJ was likely one of the best examples (tho’ I did NOT understand it at the time)… Additionally, Daddy was a member of the Teamsters Union, and IRRC that was about the same time that Jimmy Hoffa disappeared – and Daddy was terribly sad about that…
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And who killed those Ukrainians via missile? Zelensky has been proclaiming Russian guilt, but…
After an investigation, NATO’s Jan Stoltenberg told reporters, “Our preliminary analysis suggests that the incident was likely caused by Ukrainian air defence missiles fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile attacks.” Stoltenberg emphasized NATO had “no evidence it was launched by Russia.”
Furthermore, U.S. National Security Council spokeslady Adrienne Watson said, “We have seen nothing that contradicts [the] preliminary assessment that this explosion was most likely the result of a Ukrainian air defense missile that unfortunately landed in Poland.”
This doesn’t end/bode well for the Ukrainian cause, because:
Reuters quoted an anonymous Kiev-based diplomat from a NATO country who expressly accused Zelensky of lying, saying, “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile.”
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And another “unexpected” effect
from the jabdue to unknown causes:Jab-championeering Dutch politician Nilufer Gündogan somehow caught Bells’ Palsy, which I’ve heard is really going around these days. She probably should have worn her mask harder, or maybe with more layers or something.
Ms. Gündogan blames “stress” for her sudden and unexpected disease.
Yes, masking harder probably would have prevented her facial paralysis. But stress is a nice go-to: everyone has it, we’ve all been dealing with it, and no one can disprove it – while providing an easy out for the press and the willfully oblivious to ignore the obvious.
I almost missed this gem of snark:
People, this is SO obvious. Do I really have to spell it out for you? What we are looking at here in Ms. Gündogan’s case is yet another tragic example of the horrors of CLIMATE CHANGE.
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We can learn from the Germans:
After widespread voting problems in 2021, including long lines at polling stations, polling stations that ran out of ballots, and delays causing voters to have to wait until after closing to vote, yesterday Germany’s State Constitutional Court ordered Berlin to hold brand new elections within 90 days.
Germany doesn’t use electronic machines for voting. In fact, Germany’s electoral rules are pretty tight:
— paper ballots only
— mail-in ballots allowed only on request
— photo-id (passport or ID card) required to vote
— ballots are hand-counted
— the results are known on election night
Yes, yes, and YES. I would love to have a re-election in Harris County.
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This is the way to do it. The article is by NBC and they are very sad.
On Tuesday evening, the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina swore in the board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative activist group Moms for Liberty.
Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a committee to decide whether certain books and materials should be banned from schools.
In addition, the board voted to replace the chair with Mac McQuillin, a local attorney and one of the board members backed by Moms for Liberty.
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Regarding the push for the Fed to test digital currency:
The Fed is going to test a simulation to see if they can make this work, one of the goals being to speed up “settlement” time.
That’s the most fraudulent explanation I’ve ever heard. As a lawyer who has helped countless clients with wire fraud problems, the LAST thing we need is FASTER settlement times. It’s already TOO fast.
We all know why they want digital currency, and it has nothing to do with helping us with faster transactions.
Hit the nail on the head. Digital currency will give the (centralized) government much more power over its citizens. And history shows us where that will end up.
But then, they don’t teach history in school anymore, so it’s all good. /sarc off
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Found this in the C&C comments:
Thanks for pointing out how Climate Change is causing Bells’ Palsy. I’m staying away from Climate Change from now on!
Good advice for everyone, IMHO.
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Texpat 9:36
Absolutely! Would that it would be repeated countless times across the country.
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Seems ex-chief Avocado has hoodwinked another city. This time the lucky municipality is Aurora, CO.
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List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes
This is a list from Wikipedia from 1900 onward. It’s kind of fascinating to see how many or how few politicians are indicted under particular presidents. Two term presidents are going to have more obviously. However, it’s hard to avoid the fact in the Trump administration very few politicians were charged especially after you remove the purely bogus, political charges against Flynn and Bannon.
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Okay, coffee is down and I have to process some of my stash before heading back upstairs. I’ll put on my rosary video so I can pray as I work and don’t have to worry about counting my Hail Mary prayers.
The rosary rotates through the life events of Jesus. As we cycle through the prayers every day, we meditate on His life. Today is the Sorrowful Mysteries: Agony in the Garden, Scourging at the Pillar, Crowning with Thorns, Carrying of the Cross, and the Crucifixion.
Some weeks, I feel like that is what we are going through every day. But then, these are followed by the Glorious Mysteries. I need to remember that.
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Yes, yes, and YES. I would love to have a re-election in Harris County.
It would be very interesting. In an odd way, I feel voters might pull the lever differently now that they know the results. :shrugs:
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Aurora is perfect for Chief Avocado. Plenty of liberals. His very polished line of BS will go down their throats like local honey.
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TP @ 9:36 – WHAMMO!!
THAT is the WAY to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ∧5!
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This Gerry Monroe from Houston is sure getting a lot of exposure on the internet.
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Sure does make you want to hit the highway, doesn’t it ?
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking Federal Air Marshals off domestic commercial flights to have them conduct welfare checks on border crossers and illegal aliens, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) said in congressional testimony on Tuesday.
In July, Breitbart News exclusively reported that Biden’s DHS had deployed Air Marshals to the southern border to escort border crossers and illegal aliens from processing facilities to Border Patrol custody before their release into American communities.
Van Drew, during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, said Biden’s DHS is still taking Air Marshals off flights to have them transport border crossers and illegal aliens, provide welfare checks on illegal aliens, and in some cases, do janitorial work.
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Text from daughter;
I had a new hire tell me no disrespect, but you are really pretty for an oil company worker not sure if that is a compliment.
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Lol SD
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#12 Bones
My cats do have a kitty tunnel:
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Your Cat Might Not Be Ignoring You When You Speak
Cats have a reputation for being aloof, but a new study has found that their relationships with their owners may be stronger than we thought.
The problem is you ain’t speaking to your cat correctly.
A study by French researchers that was published last month in the journal Animal Cognition found that not only do cats react to what scientists call cat-directed speech — a high-pitched voice similar to how we talk to babies — they react to who is doing the talking.
“We found that when cats heard their owners using a high-pitched voice, they reacted more than when they heard their owner speaking normally to another human adult,” said Charlotte de Mouzon, an author of the study and cat behavior expert at the Université Paris Nanterre. “But what was very surprising in our results was that it actually didn’t work when it came from a stranger’s voice.”
PFFFFFTTTT When I talked to my cat in a high pitched voice it looked at me like I had lost my mind and continued to ignore me till she needed my services.
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#39 SuperD
Re: backhanded compliments
When I was one of the tech gurus downtown, I was in charge of lining up some training for some consultants while I was busy putting out fires elsewhere. I was being run ragged during the spin-up of the project. There was another guru in town, well known in the FOCUS community. I’ll call him “Joe”.
Joe was an arrogant wisser, but as one client told me, “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.” So I called him and scheduled a lunch appointment to discuss the schedule. Darn if he didn’t open the conversation with “Well, you look a lot better than the last time I saw you!”
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I’m thinking of making a couple of buttermilk pies for the boys on T’giving. And maybe a pecan pie or two. And some dump cakes. Think I can do all that and not be tempted to start consuming all that sugar myself. I’m almost afraid to try. That evil one on my should would be telling me that there is no one else here and no one would even know. Except I would know, and I also know that the sugar is as addictive as any narcotic, and I could never stop at one bite or slice or whatever. So I might put it all off for another day or two until their arrival gets a little closer.
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Dang Dump Cake KILT the ole blog! 🙂
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So far I’ve avoided starting on the sugary desserts. Tomorrow I’ll probably have to get started for sure. Maybe we can keep this blog tapped down for a couple of days after all.
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We have had three deer grazing and lounging under a tree in our front pasture since early this morning. Seems the eating is as good there as is the bedding the grass makes. It was a cold 42 this morning with a little wind, and Mother Earth was warmer than that. It seems the local deer (six regulars) find our area to their liking. Nobody bothers them in our pasture, so they think the welcome mat is out. I guess it is. 🙂
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I’ve been trying to get affirmed by the IRS so I can access some past years’ data for the CPA.
Supposedly, the phone app should have been able to take pictures of my two forms of ID and approve me.
Nope.
Then, I was up late last night trying to scan in and upload copies of my ID to the verifying site. Late. Last night. They were finally approved, then I had to wait for an email, which I retrieved this afternoon and, following the instructions attempted to connect with a live agent. This agent was to visually confirm my face and my ID’s. I uncovered my camera and my microphone is always enabled, sooooo….
Nope. Nope.
He sent me a text message with a link for a video conference via phone.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
He could hear me but not see me. He needed to do both. There was no chat option so I couldn’t explain what was (not) going on at my end. We ended up in a Zoom conference.
Yep.
The guy was really nice and very patient. He told me that today seemed to be a bad tech day and I wasn’t the only one. So, I finally got it done and I can move forward.
Here’s hoping I can get everything done without Hubby having to go through the same thing. No way he’d be able to handle it. He’s proud of the fact that he can text messages.
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I had a wonderful afternoon nap with kitty Tyler, and an extra quilt on the bed to keep us toasty warm. Based on my big yawns, I’m still half asleep even though I’ve done several outside chores since I got up.
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#49 mharper42 – it’s been that kind of day around here, as well… well… except for the kitty
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Saw a nice buck parading around out back here a little bit ago. They are really getting active and territorial and quite a few seem to think moving cars are does. Reports this morning at coffee that they are fighting out in the remote areas. Wound up not cooking any pies or anything this afternoon, but did fix my regular cheeseburger (no bun) and sliced mater with a half cup of left over chili. Chili is good on a cooler evening like this one. Think I’ll watch SMU and Tulane go at it on the football tube this evening.
My eyes are continuing to aggravate me. I’m pretty sure that I’m straining them too much to try top read until I get some glasses that will work. I’m drowning them in artificial tears but they are still dry and scratchy. Looking outside for some distance seems to help them relax sometimes as does just closing them and shutting down for a couple of minutes.
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Hey Gordo do you know that in most web browsers you can hold down the CTRL key and use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out of a web page? It can mess up the formatting of some web pages but at least the text will be bigger and you wouldn’t have to strain your eyes to read text on the innerwebs.
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#51 EG
Well, I read your notes about what you ate today, and it took me a while to figure out what that “sliced matter” was that you put on your cheeseburger.
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This is little Mikey Bloomberg’s stupid nonsense:
According to the story, there were nine killings at Philadelphia gas stations during all of 2021 and 2022 – nine homicides in nearly two years. However, citywide over the same time period there were 1,021 murders – 562 during 2021 and 459 in 2022. To be clear, gas station murders made up less than one-percent of Philadelphia’s total homicides.
And who would a young anti-gun activist turn to in order to buttress his false claim that service stations are somehow culpable for murder? How about a local attorney who has filed lawsuits against nine gas stations because people were shot in their parking lots.
and,
While The Trace has always been a tad nutty, their killer gas station theory dials the nuttiness up to eleven. Nine gas-station killings over two years – in a city that saw more than 1,000 murders over the same time period – isn’t a trend. It’s a statistical blip at best, a non-story, pure propaganda.
Besides, Philadelphia offers its visitors and residents a plethora of other venues where they can get shot, stabbed or robbed – not just gas stations. The city is a violent cesspool, which is overrun by hundreds of drug crews, all competing for dollars, product and street corners.
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Krasner, the Philadelphia DA and Soros bootlicker, has been impeached by the Pennsylvania House. It now goes to the state Senate.
Pennsylvania’s Republican-led House impeached Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday, further advancing their effort to remove him from office in response to the city’s gun violence problem.
The 107-85 vote was largely along party lines following a fiery debate. The articles of impeachment accuse Krasner of “misbehavior in office” and obstructing a legislative committee investigating his office. The Judiciary Committee in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted Tuesday to advance impeachment articles against Krasner, setting up Wednesday’s vote.
Republican lawmakers have accused him of exacerbating Philadelphia’s crime problem by implementing certain criminal justice reform policies and botching certain cases.
There are 50 members of the state Senate. It takes 2/3rds vote to impeach or 33 so the Republicans will have to convince 4 Democrat seantors to vote with them.
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My 80 y.o. Neighbor sent out the following, which has some points of interest in it.
I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not that we deserve it.
How Long Do We Have
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
‘A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.’
‘A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.’
‘From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.’
‘The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years’
‘During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
- from bondage to spiritual faith;
- from spiritual faith to great courage;
- from courage to liberty;
- from liberty to abundance;
- from abundance to complacency;
- from complacency to apathy;
- from apathy to dependence;
- from dependence back into bondage’
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2020 Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: ‘In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…’ Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the ‘complacency and apathy’ phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the ‘governmental dependency’ phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
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Titans at Green Bay… it’s 26F up there… Brrrr!
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55 TexMo,
Still 26F but now there’s more snow added to the mix tonight. I get cold just watching that. Definitely winter in Wisconsin, with all the festivities of Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Years worked on with great energy.
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Everybody okay? Did ya feel Hambone move? We survived a 40 point bot attack poking prodding to see if there were any openings to insert his stuff into our stuff.
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That was me. Just mess’n with ya.
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I shoulduh knowed it. It, the log, says Shanghai Shannon firewall blocked for trying to put his things where they do not belong.
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Damn.
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A bot attack? Us? Does that mean we somebody now?
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Heck, it’s been so long since I posted an OC, I couldn’t even schedule an automated early morning post for yesterday.
I had the date and time correct, but for some reason it wouldn’t Schedule correctly.
So, I woke up at 3:30am and posted it Live – before Super Dave got up.
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GJT
We been somebody for some time now. At least once a day we get probed 40-60 times.
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I wonder why anyone would waste their time and resources to attack a site like this.
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Texmo
Most of these attacks are to bring us into a “bot nets”.A botnet (short for “robot network”) is a network of computers (OR WEBSITES) infected by malware that are under the control of a single attacking party, known as the “bot-herder.” Each individual machine under the control of the bot-herder is known as a bot. From one central point, the attacking party can command every computer on its botnet to simultaneously carry out a coordinated criminal action. The scale of a botnet (many comprised of millions of bots) enable the attacker to perform large-scale actions that were previously impossible with malware. Since botnets remain under control of a remote attacker, infected machines can receive updates and change their behavior on the fly. As a result, bot-herders are often able to rent access to segments of their botnet on the black market for significant financial gain.
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#52 – Thanks for the reminder. Problem is the blur, not the size of the print. Got to get some glasses to adjust the focl point on my retina which will hopefully solve the problem. Been with bad eyes for so long my brain is still learning how to process all the new, bright images coming in living color too.
Tulane has opened up a can of whupass on SMU and is turning them every which way but loose.
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Is there a way to fire something into a bot net to destroy it? Or implant something in it to destroy it at a given time?
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Squawk thanks! I learnt me somethin’ today.
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I watched two episodes of Star Trek Stange New Worlds which covers the exploits of Captain Pike about 10 years before Kirk assumes command of the Enterprise.
I switched back to the Packers game and I’m afraid Adee is going to be disappointed in the outcome. Of course as I type this the Packers made an interception, but they are still down by 10 with 10 min left in the 4th.
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