Got a kitchen pass from lovely wife and what do I do?
Take night pictures of the Fred Hartman Bridge. I live a very exciting life.
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39 degrees here so I’ll be bundling up in layers to head off and chase Bambi, y’all be good while I’m gone.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. First off, the Fred Hartman Bridge is an impressive structure and certainly a worthy subject for a high end photographer.
No bundling up for Bambi out here, but I will bundle up and go out for a cup of coffee at the TOK. I think we are looking at another mid 60s day with more bright sunshine today. We are certainly ready for some rain as the burn bans are back in effect out here.
You all have a good day. Here’s the WIP to kick things off: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/the-week-in-pictures-corvette-summer-edition.php
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RE: week in pictures
The one with Luke Skywalker and O B Wan made me laugh out loud.
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Back from coffee at the TOK and still everybody is sleeping. I’ll get my breakfast going here shortly and then decide what I need to be doing today. More later,.
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Slept like a rock. I know, SHOCKER! Turn on MeTV and found that James Garner/Maverick has been replaced by “The Wild Wild West”.
I really looked forward to Garner in the morning. I guess Robert Conroad and Ross Martin are an okay replacement.
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So many good WIPS. Again. The potato one made me LOL a little bit.
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Got a kitchen pass from lovely wife and what do I do?
Take night pictures of the Fred Hartman Bridge. I live a very exciting life.
I hope she dressed you first.
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Now that I’ve digested the WIP, time for..
COUNTERMEASURES AND PROTOTYPES ☙ Saturday, January 14, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Welcome to the Weekend Edition, C&C, and Happy Saturday! I predicted an exciting year, and so far the year has been over-delivering. Your roundup today includes: the CDC drops a late announcement that the jabs might, maybe, who knows, be linked to strokes caused by blood clots; I discuss a developing theory about the genesis of the vaccines and mandates; top vaccine official resigns; The Washington Post features a celebrity covid-minimizer; Putin replaces generals; crack-addled Hunter lived in the house where Daddy kept his top-secret docs in the garage; and intra-nasal covid vaccines disappoint jab lovers.
There’s your roundup, so you can see what I skip or gloss over…
Yeah, I was shocked to hear this on the news yesterday afternoon:
Late yesterday afternoon, right before the dull weekend news cycle, where you always bury inconvenient announcements, the CDC excreted an electrifying limited hangout: …, the hyper-diligent agency detected a barely-noticeable signal of a link between the jabs and sudden and unexpected ischemic strokes. Now it is going to diligently investigate, you betcha.
Will it actually investigate? Why – because it can’t be hidden any more? Or are they going to issue some “study” to show that people stroking out is because of climate change? Or our gas stoves? Or is the “study” just buying time, hoping that this all blows over?
BTW, “ischemic strokes” are usually caused by blood clotting. And the CDC is already proclaiming that the link is unlikely and will continue to promote the jab.
I know. SHOCKER! /sarc off/ Childers discusses the fine tuning of punctuation and the associated emphasis in the announcement itself.
I called the announcement a limited hangout because the CDC cabined its “very unlikely signal” to just one single type of one lone brand of vaccine, Pfizer’s booster, and one narrow age range: over 65. All the other post-jab strokes in the other age ranges and brands are just distracting coincidences. No signals there.
Politico also made this remarkable concession:
[R]are but serious side effects — which can occur with any pharmaceutical product — have arisen since the vaccines’ debut.
It’s a cautious admission, not unlike what we’ve seen before, but note the absence of the adverb “very” before the word “rare,” and use of the word “serious” to modify side effects. That’s huge. There is a big difference between “rare” and “very rare.” And you better believe Politico chose its words carefully.
Anyway, the announcement set social media on fire.
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And then this just set me off:
There’s developing new angle to the CDC’s limited hangout, and maybe to the entire covid story from Day One. I’m working as hard as I can to verify this information, but many commenters have asked about it, and it is beginning to look like the international response to the pandemic was a U.S. military operation right from the jump.
Critically, the military is not bound to any of the laws about testing vaccines or proving safety or efficacy. Its powers supersede the rules governing private pharmaceutical companies. If, as it is starting to appear, Pfizer and Moderna were acting as military contractors and not private pharma firms, it would explain a WHOLE LOT of the pandemic’s myriad unanswered questions.
For example, it would explain why the CDC occasionally approved the vaccines over the negative votes of its own vaccine committee. And how two pharma companies simultaneously invented the same vaccine days after the state of emergency began. And why no other vaccines have been approved (and why the one-shot J&J version was quickly yeeted).
Childers shows a document that supports that theory. Link to the doc is here.
This letter reflects a contract award. It says the request for proposal was issued earlier, on June 9th, 2020. The project isn’t for “development” of a vaccine. It is for “large-scale vaccine manufacturing” of a “medical countermeasure.” Which means the vaccine must have already been ready for manufacturing in June. This document strongly suggests the DoD — or somebody — already had the formula, and the military needed someone like Pfizer who could make the vaccine at scale.
Childers discusses various aspects of the document and terminology. Then:
So what we really need to know is: WHO INVENTED THE MRNA VACCINE PROTOTYPE? Was it a MILITARY prototype, or not? Or maybe did Moderna invent the vaccine under an MCDC countermeasures grant, and then the military recruited Pfizer for its expertise with large-scale drug manufacturing?
These questions are critically important, not least because they affect every aspect of vaccine liability. If Pfizer and Moderna were operating under emergency military orders, using the DoD’s prototype vaccine formulae, and were legally bound to help conceal national security secrets like where the vaccines came from and how they work, then the drugmakers’ liability profile is a tiny fraction compared to what it would be if they were the original drugmakers.
Childers continues to discuss this possibility and the implications thereof. Of course, you must go there to get his full analysis. He will continue to follow his leads, of course.
If the military was behind this….and who was pulling the strings for the military….
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Then on to the acknowledgement that “covid deaths” have been overcounted. By the experts. You know, the ones who keep telling us that masks work, that the jab works, etc., etc.
Anyway, it’s not just a LITTLE overestimated. One of Wen’s experts guessed that “90 percent of patients diagnosed with covid are actually in the hospital for some other illness.”
At this point my eyes were rolling so hard I could see the entire bottom edge of my brain pan.
Because fear is evil’s strongest weapon.
During my review of hundreds of medical examiner reports from Florida, my absolute favorite case was the one where an unlucky roofer was laying shingles on a three-story building, and was struck by lightning that drilled a smoking hole through the roof and two underlying floors. He was thrown three stories down to the ground where he broke his skull, neck, back, and most of his ribs. Barely alive, the hapless roofer was rushed to the hospital where he mercifully died without ever waking up.
But, he tested positive for the virus in the ER, so: Covid death!
Yeah, there was a lot of that.
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With a father like this, no wonder Hunter is such a train wreck:
Independent researchers located paperwork late this week appearing to show that crack-addled whoremonger Hunter Biden was renting the house with the garage where Pappy Joe was carefully safeguarding his top-secret classified documents in a cardboard banker’s box. The Big Guy wasn’t exactly giving his son a great deal though. Hunter apparently reported the rent was $49,910 a month, or about $600,000 a year, for a house worth about $1.6 million:
Elder Biden seemed to be sucking his own son dry. I guess Biden wasn’t as beloved as Beau. Beau was a saint. Beau’s death is a continuing lesion on Elder Biden’s soul. In the meantime, he financially beats Hunter like a rented mule.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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My freezer stock bag was full, mostly veggies. I picked up a couple of “buy me before I die!” rotisserie chickens for $3.76 each yesterday. Brought ’em home and bagged ’em by halves and tossed the resulting bones into my crock pot, followed by my freezer bag of odds and ends.
I set it to start cooking last night. I woke to some kinda strong stock smell. This stock should make some powerful soup! I pulled one of the chicken half bags out of the freezer and will add that and some of my dried veggies later on, after I’ve strained out the cooked stuff in the pot now.
Nice to know I have dinner practically made already.
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GJT
I hope she dressed you first.
- Speedo
- wife beater t-shirt
- argyle socks
- sandals
- fedora
Only the best for her hubby
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Lol
Re: WIP
Now I’m gonna have to look at an ice bag next time at the store.
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From the C&C comments:
It’s become impossible to not question any younger person’s death. My son goes to Hopkins. Last night they emailed everyone to let everyone know of a second year student’s death. She died January 11th of a “brief illness”. She was premed, and I know from what we went through that there was a next to zero chance she was able to get out of the vaccines. Since the email was public, this is fine to share.
That said… I can’t help but think you know what. To me, “brief illness” isn’t much different than “sudden illness”.
My son is at med school Michigan … his friend drops dead at the gym while he was walking in … at least you got an email.
It sure looks like a big rock has been lifted up and now all the lifeforms underneath are scurrying for cover. Question is: who lifted the rock and why?
Okay so wait are we going to ignore the fact that Hunter was basically legally transferring ALL of his income from Burisma to his dad. Sounds to me like daddy was the real director and Hunter was just working for them on paper.
We met a fella at a party here in CA who had covid during Delta, was on a vent, remdesivir, his family not allowed to see him… only to survive all of that. It’s the typical story you hear only the patient usually dies. He ran through for us all the bonuses the hospital was getting for his covid diagnosis, and he had seen the bills associated. The amount of extra cash hospitals were getting to add covid to hospital records was staggering and a covid death yielded a windfall to the treating hospital…..
Re: the military countermeasures and the vaccines- I remember DJT saying early in the pandemic (daily presser) that there are things going on behind the scenes that would scare us & that he wasn’t able to talk about.
Wow, I can’t even finish reading the whole post without saying Military and Trump’s warp speed was his own downfall in 2020. Or did Trump have no freaking idea what was happening in the government?
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11 Tedtam
Hunter Biden was renting the house with the garage where Pappy Joe was carefully safeguarding his top-secret classified documents in a cardboard banker’s box. The Big Guy wasn’t exactly giving his son a great deal though. Hunter apparently reported the rent was $49,910 a month, or about $600,000 a year, for a house worth about $1.6 million:
This is called money-laundering by prosecutors. Rudy Giuliani said yesterday on WABC he believes Obama has decided it’s time for Joe to go. He might be right.
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They’re going to be at Super Dave’s place any day now.
It is the New York Times though.
Cougars Are Heading East. We Should Welcome Them.
Numerous cougar sightings were reported east of the Mississippi River last fall, encounters that have become more frequent in recent years. A trail camera glimpsed one in northern Minnesota, for instance, while authorities captured another in Springfield, Ill., after it had made its way there from Nebraska. Yet another was fatally struck by a car on I-88 west of Chicago.Cougars once had the run of the continent, ranging far and wide. But they were virtually eliminated in the Eastern United States by the early 1900s (except for a small population that survives in Florida), victims of bounty hunting and habitat loss. In recent decades, their numbers in the Western United States, where they were also once targeted for eradication, have rebounded, and now these big cats, also known as mountain lions, panthers and pumas, are slowly moving east.Newly published research by me and 12 colleagues has pinpointed over a dozen landscapes large enough to sustain cougars indefinitely in states that border or are east of the Mississippi. Their return would most likely result in healthier forests, safer roadways, less zoonotic disease and, in turn, healthier human communities.
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Insert cougar joke here _____
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Tedtam #14
CC: Texpat
Re: the military countermeasures and the vaccines- I remember DJT saying early in the pandemic (daily presser) that there are things going on behind the scenes that would scare us & that he wasn’t able to talk about.
In the history of the world there is only one other time that I. am aware of where the whole world came together to do something. And that ended up having God confuse all the languages of the world. Not even during the medieval plagues did the whole world come to…… nor during the world wars. These major events were localized in that the whsle was not involved in the action.
The world wars did not include the entire world all of nations of the world.
Isn’t interesting that the ENTIRE world save 1 country in a matter of days went into lock down and forced everyone to wear a face diaper? That indicates to me that the response to covid was planned behind the scenes, ahead of time.
I am struck by how many world leaders and “influencers” are all saying the same thing from what surely sounds like a playbook, And the US is neck deep in the plan.
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Insert cougar joke here _____
A leopard can drag something twice its weight up a tree.A cougar can drag someone half her age into bed.
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Morning, gang! I’m sorry, but I woke up so groggy that I can’t think of anything to say except “Hi”!
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I have read the WIP but I didn’t understand most of them…
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Cougars have long been a favorite of mine.
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I like cougars in leopard prints.
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😀 😀 😀
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Harkening back to Mrs. Shelton, ninth grade something or another…
/wipes sweat off brow
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ROTFLOL
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They found more classified documents at one of Joe’s houses today. Rep. Hank Johnson (no relation we are aware of) thinks the docs might all have been planted. Hank must know what Barack is up to.
Her Highness has been saying for a year that Barack is going to take down Joe and finagle a plot to get Michelle in as President. Who knows these days ?
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Texpat
Her Highness has been saying for a year that Barack is going to take down Joe and finagle a plot to get Michelle in as President.
Her Highness may be right. BSue and I road tripped yesterday and I heard 3 separate talking heads present that theory.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THAT NOT THE WOOKIE!!!!!!
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I don’t know how it will all go down, but there is a very high probability Joe Biden won’t be in the White House by early 2024 before the primaries begin.
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I don’t know how it will all go down, but there is a very high probability Joe Biden won’t be in the White House by early 2024 before the primaries begin.
Obama in the back room with a Merrick Garland subpoena.
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Gotta love it – sitting on the porch, enjoying a fresh dose of cedar pollen… Phones inside… Asked Squawk a question to which he said, “I don’t remember who that was…” I said “I guess you could always ask Siri who it was…” He said “yeah, like hey Siri, who was that we were talking about???” And you hear a voice from inside the house, “I didn’t quite get that – could you repeat your question????” We both started laughing to which she replied “I’m on it – just a minute”
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HOLY CRAP TEXPAT. Check this DVD reported on by Yahoo Finance. It is also listed on IMDb. Talk about yer trial balloons. How did we miss that?
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I’m thinking that nap time may come early today. I just had 3 white tail does jump my fence into the back yard. They were being followed by 2 axis does. I know that the white tails and the axis do not get along with each other, and that the axis would run the white tails off, but this is the first I’ve seen it in person. Neither party appeared to be exceptionally aggressive, the axis would just move toward the white tails and the white tails would run ahead. Interesting to watch that up close as they were all inside my fence.
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I can’t believe she’s so popular. I don’t have a problem with her being a woman (if that’s what she is). Or with being black.
But a persistently angry black woman with a racist chip on her shoulder and a socialist agenda is just…just….bad juju all around.
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yo unck
unck yo.
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yo Bruddah Squawk
bruddah squawk yo
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yo all the rest of you fellow hosers
all the rest of you fellow hosers yo
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Squawk @ 12:33 PM
You can watch the Michelle 2024 video here on Salem if you set up an account and give them some money, I presume.
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Waiting on a stop light to change in Brenham.. In front of me are three goats in the back of a pickup. Wearing jackets. All three of ‘em staring at me with that creepy goat side-eye thing.
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For some reason, this memory just popped into my head. I guess because I was reading some “good karma” stories earlier.
Hubby and I were at a restaurant eating dinner when a large group arrived. It appeared to be about 4 or 5 black families with at least a dozen kids between them. They must’ve been coming from a wedding or something, because every last one of them was dressed to the nines. The young girls had their done up in ribbons and braids, the boys in suits, etc. The kids’ ages ranged from about 6 or so up the teens.
Since I’ve been annoyed and occasionally terrorized by kids not being parented well in restaurants, I was particularly impressed with the manners of the whole group. Not a single Karen in the group, the adults waited patiently while the servers managed to get a bunch of tables pushed together. The children stood off to the side, just talking quietly together or admiring some of the decor of the restaurant. When their eating space was arranged they all trooped in together and proceeded with their meal.
Hubby and I were commenting to each other how well behaved the children were. We finished our meal shortly after, and as we headed for the door, I took a detour to the right, towards the large group. Hubby tried to stop me, but there was no stopping me this time.
I stood in the middle of their table, behind some of the children, and asked if I could say something. You could see real irritation on the faces of some of the adults, wondering why this white woman was going to bother them. Those features changed to pure smiles as I complimented the children on their impeccable behavior and how handsome they all looked. The adults were smiling, laughing, and began clapping for their kids. I then said the adults needed to be acknowledged also, for parenting so well. Then I waved good-bye and wished them all a good evening. They did the same to me.
I don’t care what Hubby thought of my detour, I really wanted those folks to know how I appreciated how well behaved their children were. It was something I felt compelled to do.
After reading those karma stories this morning, I wonder if what I did changed a future for any of those folks that night. Doesn’t matter. It did me a world of good.
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How many here think Biden will make it through his SOTU address?
I’m guessing he’ll be unavailable for any events that day – it’ll be nap time and meds until he’s picked up to make his speech.
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Out at The Falls those axis deer were always walking around like they owned the place, with their noses in the air and Axis Privilege, pushing the natives around.
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#35
Oh man, you livin dangerously
Possible responses:
So do you go up to a black person and congratulate him for having a job?
Do you walk up to any black family and speak to the dad, thanking him for being around??
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A skit by SNL hosts, one black, one white who write jokes for the other one trying to get them in trouble.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kgF_oiiQjpw
😀 😀
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Wow, just wow.
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Wow, I can’t even finish reading the whole post without saying Military and Trump’s warp speed was his own downfall in 2020. Or did Trump have no freaking idea what was happening in the government?
While I do appreciate some of what Trump accomplished, I can’t let warp speed go. He will never again have my support for any political aspirations from here forward with the possible exception of him being enough of a disrupting influence on the Republican party to make it disintegrate from within, and I don’t see that as likely. As to him not having any idea what was happening in government with the wuflu, I don’t find that likely either. If he wasn’t aware he was too stupid to be trusted as president in the first place. The most plausible explanation for what happened IMO can be summed up in 2 words: regulatory capture. Big pharma just got their turn at the trough like the big banks and investment houses had before them. Too big to fail indeed.
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Ha!
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39 GJT
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Lol
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So Texas has a $33 billion surplus and Florida has a $21 billion surplus.
California has a $22 billion deficit.
I think Texas and Florida should by California and turn it into a giant Air BnB.
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You can tell the cia run mockingbird media is run by the cia when it came to light they were in on the Kennedy assassination and morning mr potato didn’t even take a one second break from eating his mika the mako shark sushi.
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I think Texas and Florida should return those surplus dollars to their rightful owners, namely those who paid them in the first place, and not be looking around for more foolish ways to spend it.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A video that has gone viral online shows the moments a Guitar Center employee tackled a violent customer to the ground. Albuquerque police said they responded to reports of an aggravated assault at the Guitar Center on Menaul and San Pedro Tuesday afternoon.
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You’re no fun. The revenue from California AirBnB would make a fortune and no Texan or Floridian would ever have to pay taxes again. You have to think creatively.
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Boston unveils bronze sculpture honoring MLK and people have questions
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Boston unveils its bronze sculpture honoring MLK and people have questions
Man, this is pretty disturbing.
[Edited: I did not scroll the comments before I posted this. Too funny.]
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#46 Texpat
Guessing that TX and FL are already doing a lot to rescue the citizens of CA who want to get outta that un- civilized zoo. The latest Texas population has been announced to be 30 million (and growing), but we don’t know how many illegals are amongst them. Florida likely doesn’t know how many new illegals they have either. But many of them get counted.
However, there is a useful factor in how many new folks come to these states: population counts are the basis to determine how many seats in the US House of Representatives each state gets. States losing significant population lose representatives. I have not heard of or read of any conservatives mention that population/representation loss having that result. Liberal states lose, conservative states gain in the long run. Just how long this turnover takes likely depends on the laws of each state and federal law. Just an interesting thought.
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‘The Science’ Is Ruining Science
Nature magazine, one of the premier science journals, carried a startling news story last week about a study charting the precipitous decline of “disruptive” scientific research, concluding that this decline is also reducing technological innovation. Using typically advanced quantitative techniques of a massive data set, the full study reports a more than 90 percent decline in “disruptive” scientific findings across nearly all fields over the last 70 years. One of the authors of the study told Nature, “The data suggest something is changing. You don’t have quite the same intensity of breakthrough discoveries you once had.”
The guy at Powerline.com who puts together the weekly Week In Pictures meme fest actually does other things beyond crawling around the internet looking for absurd images. He teaches at UC-Berkeley, among other things.
This finding is ominous, and may help explain the slowing pace of technological innovation, as summarized in Peter Thiel’s famous comment that “we were promised flying cars, but only got 140 characters.” As anyone who follows the holy grail of “innovation” knows, disruption is a prime precursor of progress, highly prized in Silicon Valley as it is in academia. Even before the jargon of “disruption” and “innovation” took over our popular vocabulary, the idea that science progresses by fundamental “paradigm shifts”—or breakthrough discoveries that challenge or overturn the existing consensus—has been widely accepted ever since Thomas Kuhn’s classic explanation in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
plus,
Back in 2004, the renowned Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin wrote in the New York Review of Books that “Most scientists are, at a minimum, liberals, although it is by no means obvious why this should be so,” and MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel, very much in the so-called “consensus” of climate science, was honest enough to lament “the shocking lack of political diversity among American academics, who suffer from the kind of group-think that develops in cloistered cultures. Until this profound and well-documented intellectual homogeneity changes, scientists will be suspected of constituting a leftist think tank.”
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#53 – I seem to recall that Texas picked up two additional representatives following the last census, and the Dems were howling that the illegals in their states were not being counted. There is some question as to whether or not illegals who are not citizens or legal voters should be counted when it comes to representation in Congress.
Seems the productive citizens of California are the ones leaving the state for Texas while the productive New Yorkers seem to prefer Florida. People can still vote for representatives with their feet I guess.
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53 Adee
For the first time in its history, California has lost a seat in the House of Representatives — and it’s not alone among blue states.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday that based on data from the 2020 census, seven states will end up losing seats in the House of Representatives — and therefore electoral votes for the presidency — while six states will end up gaining seats.
The only state to gain or lose more than one seat is Texas, which will gain two. The shift was less than anticipated by population estimates, but it’s still bad news for Democrats.
and,
As for losing House members, California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia will all be down one seat.
Texas came within a hair’s breadth of winning a third seat.
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I’m as shocked as anyone else that I find myself in agreement with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), yet here we are. Jackson Lee is asking the White House to issue a presidential pardon for an Afghan man who is being held for illegally crossing the southern border.
Biden’s disastrous bug-out from Afghanistan continues to reap consequences. In this case, Abdul Wasi Safi is seeking asylum in the United States. He crossed the southern border to reunite with his brother. His brother is now a naturalized U.S. citizen. Jackson-Lee asks that Safi receive a pardon and be granted asylum. “This is a mistake that needs to be corrected immediately,” she said at a news conference Friday.
Shocked, hell, I am stunned, but I agree with SJL completely on this one.
Wasi, as he is known, worked as an intelligence officer in the Afghan National Security Forces alongside U.S. troops. He fled Afghanistan in 2021 as the Taliban began targeting citizens who had previously helped the U.S. during the decadeslong war. Wasi crossed three continents to make it to the Texas border, where he hoped to meet his brother, who is now a naturalized U.S. citizen. Instead, he was arrested and has been in custody since Sept. 30.
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We attended the candlelight at the subdivision pavilion tonight for the slain girl. She was from Nicaragua so there was a Spanish speaking pastor providing the service. Don’t know what denomination but he was a fire breather. Vigil was very well attended.
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El Gordo and Texpat,
Thank you for reminding me and everyone else what has happened relatively recently in growing TX and listing the states losing a representative (or two) and those gaining. Conservatives need to keep that in mind so they can casually mention that correction to any liberal who seems to not have gotten the message yet.
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It’s Sunday morning and dang cold here, 29 degrees. SO what did I miss yesterday? I really planned to stop by but just never got around to it. Since the wind made that 39 degrees pretty cold, I climbed down out of my stand early, about 8:30 and headed back to the house to get some coffee. Then an hour or so later I went back and stalk hunted for a couple of hours. I found several more scrapes in the piney woods around the pond and in the hardwoods below it. I pretty much covered the whole place and no telling how far I walked. When I got back my wife had a few odds and ends to attend to around here and before you know it, it’s dark. We ordered a Difilippo’s Pizza and watched a move on Netflex. I started to check in around 8 PM but knew I’d not stay in the conversation and hit the sack. I saw sawing gourds by 8;30.
Oh and Mornin’ Gang
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Texpat; The shift was less than anticipated by population estimates, but it’s still bad news for Democrats.
Do you know if the Blue states are still counting illegal aliens as members of their population? That numeric screws up the official census numbers to the advantage of Kalifornia, Nevada and possibly Illinois and New York.
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Slowwwwwwwwwly suiting up to head north for more new young HEROs.
Yall enJOY!
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Cracker Barrel is unveiling a memorial in the honor of my wife’s sister Robin this morning at eight o’clock, today is the anniversary of her passing.
Little bit of a drive so get some coffee and out of here.
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Be careful Katfish and GJT give your bride a hug, that is going to be tough. 🙁
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SO! That’s it! My wife has Mageiricophobia. 😀
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Tis cool this morning but not “cold” at 49… The weather wench is saying that it’s 15 degrees warmer than this time yesterday… None the less, Catfish, and GJT – ya’ll stay warm out there… And SuperDave, I’m only fearful of trying to decide WHAT to cook LOL
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Morning gang. 39 degrees out here this morning. Another crystal clear retina burning day in store it would appear, with temps rising into the low 70’s. Makes me want to engage in springtime activities with my plants, but I know that it’s just too early. February is our cold month, and it’s not quite here yet. That’s also about the time to start planting seeds and stuff for spring plants, but it’s a little too early for that as well I believe. Eventually I’m going to have to set up my greenhouse, so I might do that today. My little garden in the front (South) is ready to be tilled again, but it’s full of bluebonnet plants and I don’t want to disturb them , so I’ll let that sit a while longer. Probably by planting time my bed will already be full of bluebonnets and mess up all my plans as I would never dig them up, although I will harvest the seeds. Meanwhile, no TOK today or tomorrow, so I have to drink my own coffee. You all have a great day out there. More later as it develops.
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This is a very good thing. I heard about this a couple of weeks ago, but didn’t realize they formally filed in Texas last Tuesday.
A coalition of outspoken critics and skeptics of the mainstream narratives on COVID-19 has brought an antitrust lawsuit against some of the world’s largest news organizations, accusing them of working in collaboration to suppress dissenting voices surrounding the pandemic.
The lawsuit (pdf), filed on Tuesday in a federal court in Texas, targets The Washington Post, the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC), The Associated Press (AP), and Reuters—all of which are members of the “Trusted News Initiative (TNI),” a self-described “industry partnership” formed in 2020 among legacy media giants and big tech companies.
“By their own admission, members of the TNI have agreed to work together, and have in fact worked together, to exclude from the world’s dominant internet platforms rival news publishers who engage in reporting that challenges and competes with TNI members’ reporting on certain issues relating to COVID-19 and U.S. politics,” the complaint reads.
I love this. Plaintiffs filed this suit in the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division. That means these media organizations and their attorneys will have to fly into Amarillo for all court appearances.
This alleged effort to establish a dominant media narrative by shutting off nonestablishment outlets, according to the lawsuit, has violated both federal antitrust and freedom of speech laws.
“Federal antitrust law has its own name for this kind of ‘industry partnership,’” the lawsuit states. “It’s called a group boycott and is a per se violation of the Sherman Act.”
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Well, now that someone won the big lotto jackpot, where are going to invest those gambling dollars now. Here’s a great option – you can bet on where the next bunch of classified documents stashed by Biden will show up. https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/betting-site-posts-odds-for-location-of-next-classified-biden-docs-discovery/
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Well, just had yet another masterpiece post vaporized into the ethernet. So at the risk of duplicating something, you can now bet on where the next stash of hidden classified documents will show up. https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/betting-site-posts-odds-for-location-of-next-classified-biden-docs-discovery/
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Well, that post vanished too. Something seems amiss around here.
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At least I was able to fight my way through my bout with Mageiricophobia. I had a larger slice of Owens Hot Sausage, cheddar cheese shredded on top and 2 over very easy. very runny eggs. With my second cup of hot black coffee. Now if the good fairy would just come take care of these dirty dishes, all would be right with the world.
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71 El Gordo
I don’t know why the spam filter software seems to focus on yours and Super Dave’s comments, but it does and now, for the second time, didn’t just hold it in “pending” status, but threw it all the way into the “trash” can.
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Thanks TP. That’s probably where most of it should go anyway.
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#69 ELG
I saw a story where a one million dollar lotto ticket was won in July from Prairie View just up the road but had never been claimed. The deadline was coming up, I don’t know if the ticket holder ever showed up. I figured it was some college kid left in their pants pocket and forgot about it.
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Rough and unexpected justice in Deutschland.
Klaus Müller, the president of the German Federal Network Agency [which regulates gas and electricity], has warned that the growing number of private electric car charging stations and electric-powered heat pumps could overload the power grid in Germany. “If very large numbers of new heat pumps and charging stations continue to be installed, then we’ll have to worry about overload problems and local power failures … if we do not act” …
The plans for electricity rationing are slated to come into effect on 1 January 2024 …
The Ukraine war is a catastrophe, but it has done us at least one crucial favor, by accelerating the German energy crisis. Because the truth is that we were always going to end up here, with too many electrical things and too little electricity to power them. It was just supposed to happen two or three decades from now, long after the reigning cast of Green luminaries had retired from public life.
Instead, all of these clowns are facing the mathematically certain and long-predicted consequences of their false promises right now. And it looks like their most committed supporters will be the first to suffer for their foolishness.
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Olivia Reingold knows how to hook a reader on a story about politics.
MIAMI—It’s almost 11 p.m. on a recent Friday night at ONE Gentlemens Club, and it’s dead except for the girls in their thongs, sitting on pleather couches, waiting for someone to give a lap dance to. No one can talk to anyone else. It’s too loud for that, what with the electronic drum, the incessant rapping. The rap is supposed to inspire twerking—and tens. Tonight, no one’s twerking.
Tory Williams is alone at the bar in fishnets and boots. She should be mixing drinks.
“Did you vote in the recent election?” I write in my notebook, then pass it to her.
She nods. When I ask who she voted for, a grin appears. “DUH-SAN-TIS,” she mouths.
“Why DeSantis?” I shout. Williams is a black woman who looks to be pushing forty. She has a fiancé and, after two slow years, a job. It was her brother, she says, who made her rethink her politics.
and then,
These voters are not all that dissimilar to the Reagan Democrats who fueled the Republican’s 1980 White House victory.
Like the Reagan Democrats, the DeSantis Democrats feel condescended to, abandoned by the progressive elites who bankroll Democratic candidates and shape the party’s agenda.
Then, like now, inflation was out of control. Then, like now, the leadership in Washington seemed tired, out of ideas. Then, like now, the country seemed adrift. In 1980, America was losing ground to the communists in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, to the mullahs in Iran. In 2022, it is gripped by a polarization and economic stratification that have been building for years, with eight in ten Americans dissatisfied with how things are going, and two in five fearful a second civil war is on the horizon.
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Man, I’m having a morning today. Felt okay when I first got up, just the usual discomfort. Made it through the shower and started breakfast….then the sciatica hit so hard I was in tears and barely able to stand up. Took a muscle relaxant first, to see if that would resolve the issue, but ended up taking a magic pill, too.
The pain is gone but I’m barely conscious. Gonna it up for a bit and see what y’all are discussing, but then I’m going to have to lay down again.
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#65 Dave
Mageiricophobia
That’s not why I don’t cook. I used to cook, but then I was extremely busy at work and just didn’t have time for it. After I took a retirement offer as a coder, I was soon lured back as a test case writer for a related software package. There was supposed to be a tester reporting to me, but the guy they had was useless, so I ended up also being my testcase tester, working 60 hrs a week. A lot of my hours could be done at home — the product was meant to be used remotely — but it was still a long week, and I worked until I was 69. I guess the main thing that had me finally retiring was that I wanted to get high-tech knees, and you simply can’t work while getting that done and recovering from it — twice.
Morning, gang.
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Got a little bit of an early nap. We are getting some higher cloud cover so it’s not warming up as quickly as predicted earlier. I might go ahead and make up a big batch of my cabbage soup to help me recover from Mageiricophobia. It’s one of those things that requires a lot of chopping and sauteing and waiting and then cooking some more then mixing and cooking and so forth. Back in my drinking days, that could turn in to an all day project, but by the time dinner was ready it was lights out time. These days I’m much more efficient with my time and it doesn’t take nearly as long to get the job done. But it still takes a couple of hours to do it all right. We’ll see if I get inspired here in the next couple of hours.
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RELATED: My #76 comment
More crazy, crazy environmental stories out of Germany
Yesterday’s pictures of police marching in on protesters trying to protect a lignite field is symptomatic of the many contradictions of German energy policy. Here you have Green ministers, Robert Habeck among them, defending police action against protesters, most of whom are members or at least voters of the Green party. The lignite deal was negotiated by the Greens themselves. We are now observers of the absurd spectacle of the Greens defending the dirtiest version of coal.
The reasons this has became necessary is because the Green party has pushed the entire political class, Angela Merkel in particular, into an early exit from nuclear power. It is not just about the three power stations due to go offline on April 15. It is an entire industry that has been phased out. Coal constitutes a staggering 31% of German electricity production. In 2015, it was only 8%.
The official exit date for coal-fired power in Germany has been brought forward from 2038 to 2030, but that happened before the Ukraine war. We would not be betting on this timetable. The cheap Russian gas is gone, and will never return. Nuclear will be gone in April. Betting on the 2030 exit date is betting on the absence of shocks.
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Since I’ve not been keeping up all week I neglected to mention that I got my Trusty Kubota back on Tuesday with the new Lane Shark installed and plumbed into the hydraulics. So GJT it seems to me that I really didn’t need the third function at all but it will be good to have when I get my grapple. 😉 They replaced the dual function manifold/valve body with a 3 function unit. The third function being activated with push buttons driving a solenoid. Then they added a (Lane Shark Supplied) electronic On/Off switch for the mower and also added an extra return line. They’re using one of the grapple Pressure/Return lines for pressure but it seems to me that all they had to do was Tee off the pressure line from the tractor and add a return line to the sump. I could be wrong but what do you think? Here is a Power Point of the third function hoses and the extra return. One last thing, the third function and/or mower works all the time, no by-pass valve.
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So did I really slip two links past the goalie? YES!!! 😀
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Champaign County, Illinois is one of the state’s geographically largest counties at 998 square miles. Harris County, Texas is 1,778 square miles to offer a frame of reference. Most of the 102 counties in Illinois are pretty small by Texas standards, however, there is a sheriff and sheriff’s department for each of them.
At least 80 county sheriffs and prosecutors have vowed not to enforce the new Illinois gun control law that bans 170 kinds of semi-automatic rifles and places limits on ammunition magazines.
“The right to keep and bear arms for defense of life, liberty and property is regarded as an inalienable right by the people,” said Iroquois County Sheriff Clinton Perzee. “I, among many others, believe that [House Bill 5471] is a clear violation of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution,” he added.
Perzee said he would not use his jail to detain people solely for violating the new gun law.
“[N]either myself nor my office will be checking to ensure that lawful gun owners register their weapons with the State, nor will we be arresting or housing law abiding individuals that have been arrested solely with non-compliance of this Act,” Perzee said.
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I saw a mouse in the laundry room late last night, so I got out the Have-A-Heart critter trap which had not been used for a long time. It’s a 6″ x 6″ x 16″ heavy wire box with a food holder at the back and a spring/trip to drop the door if something steps on the food tray. So, I had a very pretty mouse in the box this morning, but not the one I saw last night.
I feed Lynx in the laundry room at meals-in-the-bowl time, so I set the trap just outside the back door for breakfast, then brought it back in after Lynx was done. I usually spend 45 minutes or even more on the Sunday sudoku, but today’s was a gyp — took only 15 mins. So I decided to go fetch me a breakfast at the kolache shop 1/2 mile away, toward the bayou. There is a partially fenced area right along the bank of White Oak Bayou — used to be a CoH water storage facility, long gone now but still has a paved driveway from Tidwell. I have used that area before to release trapped critters near the bayou. So that’s where I relocated the cute gray mouse.
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Miss Universe Is the Weirdest Thing You’ll See All Week
By Megan Fox
I sure hope it is. Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to see Miss Texas/Miss USA/Miss Universe 2023.
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DANG! Texpat beat me by thaaat much. He snuck in while I was pecking. 😀
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I feed Lynx in the laundry room at meals-in-the-bowl time, so I set the trap just outside the back door for breakfast,
And I thought you feed the mouse to the cat. 😉
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Looks like that kid that cut his wife’s head off has some recent police trouble.
Dicus is also known in Montgomery County. On November 20, 2022, he was arrested on Melton Street for DWI. He bonded out and appeared in County Court 1 last Monday. His next court date was set for January 30,
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#82 SD
They’re using one of the grapple Pressure/Return lines for pressure but it seems to me that all they had to do was Tee off the pressure line from the tractor and add a return line to the sump.
Not sure. In the systems I’m familiar with there are differences in valves running a cylinder or hydraulic motor – called motor spools or cylinder spools. A motor spool is open to tank and any pressure without the valve being engaged with go straight to tank.
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Squawk
RE: CDC/FDA Military contracting of “vaccines”
There’s developing new angle to the CDC’s limited hangout, and maybe to the entire covid story from Day One. I’m working as hard as I can to verify this information, but many commenters have asked about it, and it is beginning to look like the international response to the pandemic was a U.S. military operation right from the jump.
Critically, the military is not bound to any of the laws about testing vaccines or proving safety or efficacy. Its powers supersede the rules governing private pharmaceutical companies. If, as it is starting to appear, Pfizer and Moderna were acting as military contractors and not private pharma firms, it would explain a WHOLE LOT of the pandemic’s myriad unanswered questions.
For example, it would explain why the CDC occasionally approved the vaccines over the negative votes of its own vaccine committee. And how two pharma companies simultaneously invented the same vaccine days after the state of emergency began. And why no other vaccines have been approved (and why the one-shot J&J version was quickly yeeted).
I don’t understand how this would work procedurally without it leaking out to the press one way or the other. Maybe I just don’t know enough to understand, but there has to be a ton of things the public doesn’t know. I don’t what to think right now, but Trump really did seem to get run over by Fauci and his gang when this COVID thing started. Why did DeSantis seem to keep his head and Trump lose his ? Not being in DC probably had a lot to do with it.
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Squawk
Looks like that kid that cut his wife’s head off has some recent police trouble.
Takes a long time to do the things he did to that poor girl which would lead you to believe he was filled with rage. I don’t know anything more than anything that’s been reported but the cook at the Mexican Meat Market where she worked mentioned Anggy talked about the husband was always jealous. Jealousy in a relationship is very powerful, whether warranted or not. I said from the get go that’s what it was.
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At least I’ll know what “yeeted” means if I ever encounter it in real life.
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#89 SD
Aw c’mon, Dave, you don’t really think I would let my cats savage a small cute animal, do ya?
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My feral cats would start doing tricks for a mouse. When I got mice a couple years ago, I used the old fashioned traps, and the cats would come running every time I opened the door in hopes that I had a mouse for them. I think I fed them close to 20 mice before it was over. They are still mad at me for stopping. Three bites, starting at the head, crunch, middle, crunch, and tail, slurp – all gone.
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I am highly urinated off. Got my gas bill for the month. This is the second month in a row that it nearly 3 times the amount I paid just 3 months ago. $148. From my bill my usage was below $20. The gas price recovery is around $120.
So I called……… It was not pretty.
Well Mr box you gotta understand that Russia went to war and cut off their gas,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
So what are my options now? Not much.
We can offer you our balanced payment plan.
But not to worry y’all Biden assure us that inflation is on the way down.
But good morning. Today, we’ve got some good news — good news about the economy. For the sixth month in a row, inflation has come down. Measured over the last 12 months, it has fallen 6.5 — to 6.5 percent. That’s down from 7.1 percent the month before. It’s down from 9.1 percent this summer. Inflation is now at its lowest level since October of 2021.
I do not believe Biden and I am not a happy camper. My meter is pegged red.
Do not click if the BS word offends ya.
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Pfizer’s bivalent Covid booster raised the risk of stroke for people over 65, according to a federal database that the government considers the gold standard for tracking vaccine side effects.
The Centers for Disease Control said Friday afternoon it had received 130 reports of ischemic stroke in people over 65 who had received the new Pfizer jab less than three weeks before. An ischemic stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks the flow of oxygen to the brain.
The CDC and vaccine advocates in the media immediately downplayed the potential importance of the finding. But it is only the latest to suggest the mRNA shots have serious cardiovascular risks that may increase with repeated dosing.
– Berenson
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My most recent Centerpoint bill was $266.63. Astonishing. I assume this is mostly for natgas to run the central heat. Even though I am rarely upstairs, I am running the upstairs heat at 60° and downstairs at 62 – 66 °, and I guess the water heater is the only other thing using natgas. One person doesn’t use a lot of hot water.
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mharper42
$266.63.!!!. Holy crap. You are a lot calmer than I am.
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The medications are finally wearing off enough that I’m not wiped out horizontally on the couch.
My couch. In my living room.
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Tedtam, I hope you are resting comfortably.
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Mharper –
Well, I’m not wanting to cut my leg off at the moment, so there’s that…
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Near catastrophic on the ground event at JFK today. You can watch the ATC controller save the day as an AA plane missed the turn and crossed the wrong runway at the wrong time. My editorial comment is that most certainly DEI was involved as you should be able to discern for yourself when you hear the communications with American. Thank goodness this one was avoided – I do think they had to clean a few seats afterwards, both in the airplane and in the tower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsFIHKkN2oU
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Darn, the ether ate another of my masterpiece posts.
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E.G.
Darn, the ether ate another of my masterpiece posts.
It has been loosed upon the unsuspecting crowd
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Here’s the crux of my missing post. Airplane near miss on the ground today at JFK. Woman pilot.
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Texpat
beginning to look like the international response to the pandemic was a U.S. military operation right from the jump.
W H U T??? A US Military Operation? I doubt it. But like you
I don’t what to think right now,
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BTW, my big soup pot is about 2/3 full with a brand new batch of cabbage soup. I cooked up a bunch of chicken legs in the Instapot and shredded them into the soup. I’ll just let it sit there and cool for a few hours and put it up in containers later – some to freeze, some for immediate consumption.
My littlest, scrawniest rose bush that I though might be completely dead has decided that it’s now springtime, so it is putting out tiny little new buds all over those bare branches. All the rest of the plants are still dropping leaves, but this one decided the sunshine and warmer weather was just what it needed after the hard December freeze. I don’t know if I should bring it inside or just cover it up the next time it gets real cold. My ten day forecast shows no freezing weather for the next week plus, so I’ll just leave it alone for now I guess. I have 2 dwarf hollys, and they both look pretty sad right now after the freeze. I had assumed that they would be about the most hearty plants for cold weather, but right now they do not look good. I watered everything yesterday, but I’m letting them go at least a week or more between waterings just to not encourage them to start growing yet.
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Greetings from my new laptop.
I haven’t typed on a keyboard in years. And I’m hell bent on learning how to use this trackpad.
At least I got the security software installed. Download was virtually instantaneous. Wheeeeee!!!
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Hubby said he’s gonna buy a coupla steaks and fix the salad for dinner tonight. So I don’t have to stand up and cook dinner for him.
Yeah, he lubs me.
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Get your nerd on.
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Moral of the story: Fat cats happily coexist with mice.
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Thanks for the release. After listening to the video a couple more times, I do think the controller utters an expletive in there.
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She’s got a fairly sizable house.
I have 1280 sq ft.
Last month’s bill was $176. My new bill is $201.
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My August bill was only $131!
And you know I keep it like a fridge.
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Our oldest son has been telling me I need to get a Sous Vide but I haven’t pulled the trigger. I had some ribeyes I cut from a rib roast, he loaned his to me and said to try it. Pretty cool, got an hour left at 115 degrees, set at 4 hours earlier, partly still frozen. Throw them on a hot skillet for a minute or so he says and it will be delicious. We’ll see.
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I thought I was being pretty conservative with the heat. I guess not.
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Our gas bill was $43.62 for December. We use natgas for the stove, oven, water heater and clothes dryer. We still use oil for heat, believe it or not and are on a level payment plan for that.
The bill reads something like $19+ for gas and a $23+ fee for “delivery” charge. So far, this has been the warmest winter since I came here.
For the record tomorrow, January 16th, is the 20th anniversary of me arriving in Bergen County, New Jersey.
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Latest gas bill here (for ~2500 sq ft) was $110.53 but I’m pretty confident my next will be higher. How much higher I guess we’ll see.
Edit to add… mostly all gas appliances (range top, water heater, dryer, central heating system). Daughter was home for the holidays from school so pretty sure that will add to the next bill.
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Texpat
Our gas bill was $43.62 for December.
Fine pour more salt in the wound. Bad enough my bill is sky rocketing but damn Yankee land is cheaper. I hope a cat has its babies in your wash.
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Would you mistake a Malamute dog for a coyote from a few feet away ?
These people in Pennsylvania elect a stroked out doofus as senator and then this ? They shot a little girl’s dog.
The hunters communicated to the others in the party that there would be a man and two large dogs in the area, according to Jennifer’s post.
Before they could walk away, one of the hunters shot the dog while he was just feet away.
The malamute mix was shot ‘in the gut’ by a hunter with a scope on his rifle.
Chris yelled out ‘who shot my dog?’ before he carried the pup, calling out for help.
Jennifer said the hunter who shot Hunter stood and watched as the others attempted to help with the wounded animal.
Before the family was able to bring Hunter to the car but the animal died after a short drive as he ‘suffered in pain’ for 20 minutes.
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117 – Texpat… Living as long as I did in West Texas, Panhandle, and Hill Country, I have seen more than my share of coyotes. Not one single one (even the ones in zoos) were anywhere close to as sleek and plump as that little girl’s dog…
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#113 – You didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you where I am on the sous vide experience. For a nice, expensive cut of meat like a rib eye, I just don’t think it is worth the time and effort since you can cook it up pretty quickly inside or outside and it will be tender and tasty. However, for the larger and cheaper (and tougher) cuts, the sous vide does exceptional work. I did a cheap, on sale brisket a couple weeks ago. I trimmed it up and cut it in half – basically the point on one and the fat part on the other and did the sous vide for about 36 hours, seems like about 150 or so. It turned out very tender and tasty, and I just put a crust on it in the oven. Also did a port butt for about the same amount of time, and it was very good as well. Anyway, the better the cut, the less I use sous vide. I’ll be curious as to your final findings,. I do use mine, but the stuff they show on YT mostly does not make sense to me.
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I agree with your thoughts El Gordo, good old ribeye doesn’t need any fancy French cooking to make it delicious. He talked me into it, so I’m trying it. I do have this pork but in the freezer though…
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A gloomy morning and afternoon at times has looked like rain should be coming, but it doesn’t come. We could use a little rain. Sunlight peeks through an overcast sky and then vanishes again and again. The wind has steadily picked up since morning and is strong enough to set leafless tree limbs swaying a bit. The red oaks have shed the last of their leaves, so the only green ones left are the live oaks. It was 31 this morning at 6 with a light frost everywhere, but it dropped from 72 to 70 a few minutes ago.
Yesterday morning spouse burned a large pile of leaves and small branches in the back pasture near the barn and its water source. Fortunately a light breeze blew the smoke away from neighboring houses and our house. There weren’t many wet leaves in it so the large pile was mostly gone to ashes by late afternoon and just smoldered some before dark. Spouse had our small tractor to push the pile closer together several times so it was sitting on dirt and not grass. And it is completely out today. We hope what leaves are left to come off will be taken care of by the wind.
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Trying Modelo Oro (light?), nope.
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I came across the new fancy statue of MLK, and was eager to see it, but it is some dumb new-age crap. You can see bronze arms, but you can’t make sense of the whole thing.
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/celebrating-mlk-on-boston-common/
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mh – I checked out your statue link. My first impression is that it looks like that thing you see all the time where some guy is bent all over and has his head stuck up his – well you know.
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Squawk
Oh, I would but it’s not in my budget right now.
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My last gas bill was $126 for a 1650 Sq Ft, old pitifully insulated house. About normal for this time of year BUTT we had several mild weeks in December and the meter was read on the day before the bottom fell out, 32 high on Christmas day. I figure that my next bill will be a doozy. The old Farm House was about $50 bucks but we only keep it warm enough to save the pipes unless someone is staying there.
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Retraining your brain and hands to run a laptop instead of a phone is a might stressful. An hour and a half at a time is about all I can handle without a long break.
Back in the war against dementia, by god. With a vengeance. 🙂
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’ No mouse’ is a real drag on progress. I’ve used a trackpad for about five total minutes prior to this new adventure.
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Are you using an external mouse, I could never get used to the one on the laptop.
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jinx!
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Shannon – I have a MacBook laptop, and started out using my mouse a LOT… And I still use the mouse when I’m doing graphics work. For here, the track-pad has gotten to be almost second nature. Give it time. Or get a mouse, and leave it on the end table, while using the track-pad – that’s what I do LOL
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I may eventually get a mouse but I’m really committed to becoming comfortable with the trackpad.
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I finally got my trackpad preferences adjusted and honed in.
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Little victories.
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holy crap Shannon
You used the “C” (commitment) word in public. That caused a heck of a shiver up my spine.
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Shannon – great news… don’t know if this will help at all, but when I am “killing time” or trying to stay awake while “watching” tv, I go to one of the free game sites – Arkadium dot com is my latest favorite. There’s a goofy game called “mahjong” where you click on 2 matching tiles to make’em go away… And making the cursor go where I want with the track pad improved a LOT after playing that for a while – because the game requires that I scroll to the matching tile and click on it… Doing that several evenings while watching TV has both improved my “track-padding” and kept me awake during some boring tv programs LOL
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2nd Amendment bureaucratic ban
I believe the Founders worried about a “fourth” branch of government – the regulatory state that essentially could/would enact laws without being responsible to the voters.
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136 Shannon
That is the first Progressive Insurance commercial I’ve ever seen I liked. Very good.
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I see that Norton Lifelock got hacked. How ironic.
It’s why I don’t use a “password manager”. I have my password system, so I have a different password for every account, and I can recall them without having to resort to an online password manager.
Because if that gets hacked, then I get screwed. I trust no one but myself.
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About check out time out here this evening. I saw a skunk running across my back yard earlier, so I’ll have to get a trap back and dispatch him before long I’m sure. I haven’t had a skunk for quite a while now, but they are certainly plentiful in this part of the state based on what I see on the side of the road when I’m roaming around.
Hope you all have a good evening now. More later, and nite nite.
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137 Tedtam
If bans on bump stock guns have been overturned by the Fifth Circuit in the last few days, there is no way this new ATF rule will ever survive any level of judicial scrutiny.
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None of y’all would believe how many skunks there are in densely populated northeastern New Jersey.
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Found this article on what passes for “art” these days. I must say, I agree with the assessment:
Expensive multi-million dollar “installations” commissioned by high-minded, low-IQ, semi-literate civic officials are all we have now. They are “installed” in your public spaces, the way a sewage pipe is installed. The large-scale contemporary “art” they install means nothing, has no purpose, and creates only one thing: a crushing sense of defeat in anyone forced to see it. “We gave up on life. Now it’s your turn.”
And yes, the phallic MLK statue is included.
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Niorton got hacked because Norton deserves to be hacked. Back when I was first just becoming computer literate I purchased a computer that had Norton pre-installed for a 90 day period or some such. Anyway, I wound up with a 2 year subscription to their updates which I did not want. I contacted them and they basically or maybe literally said too bad, we’ve got your money and we’re not giving it back. I said fine, but you can rest assured that anyone anywhere anytime asks me what kind of protection to get that I’ll tell this story and bad mouth you as best I can to anyone who will even act like they might listen. And I’ve held true to my word. If for some reason you are still using a Winders system and think you need protection, because it is Winders after all, get Trend Micro. It leaves all the others in the dust. I think Norton is itself a virus, and if you ever start trying to get it off your computer you will see what I am talking about. Or you could do like the more enlightened of us do and simply start using Linux where you don’t need any of that stuff.
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I knew nothing good could come of LifeLock aligning with Norton.
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