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HA! But I do love the old midwestern barn.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. 26 degrees here this morning, so down one degree from all day yesterday. I’ve been up for about half an hour so far and I do not think I’ve seen one car drive by on the highway. Schools were announced closed yesterday. If I do get out it won’t be before I can see some daylight out there. Still no forecast for above freezing temps before Thursday, and now maybe Friday. No heavy precip, but the icy rain and sleet is apparently just putting a fine sheen on the roads which is impossible to see but very slick. Hopefully the precautions that I took for my little plants are still effective and keeping them alive. Pretty amazing to sit here facing the highway for now almost 45 minutes and not seeing one single car on the road. Have a great day you all, and stay smart.
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Cocaine and Bradford pear trees have two things in common now. They are both white and both illegal contraband in Ohio. Several other states have pending legal bans against the fruitless tree after Joy Reid, Van Jones and Al Sharpton won’t shut up about the racist white supremacy of the spring bloomer.
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Dateline TOK. Cafe is open, road is clear at this time. Melted ice on windshield with help of heat gun. Very light sleet falling, but I made my way down for coffee. Don’t want to get iced in though.
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Feeling thankful that this corner of the woods does NOT appear on any of the maps predicting freezing rain… Stay safe out there, gang
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Jazz Shaw took the pixels right out of my mouth. I could’ve written this column.
Where Is the Rest of the Tyre Nichols Story ?
But the actual story that’s driving all of this activity remains something of a mystery. What really happened on the night when five members of the now-defunct SCORPION police task force pulled over Nichols and beat him so badly that he succumbed to his wounds a couple of days later?
and this,
First, what were five members of what was described as an elite violent crime unit doing on traffic duty that night when they probably should have been hunting down gang kingpins? These weren’t run-of-the-mill rookies fresh out of the police academy. They were experienced officers tasked with the job of tracking down some of the most dangerous criminals in Memphis.
and,
The police would typically pull the driver over, ask for their license and registration, and then administer a sobriety test. But as can be seen in the opening seconds of the video, these cops didn’t do that. They rushed the car and they were already screaming at Nichols. As soon as the car was unlocked, they yanked open the door and dragged the driver out and onto the pavement.
Even Jesse Watters, who is somewhat of a lightweight, was asking the same questions last night. The available facts of this case only evoke more questions that have not been answered much less asked by any in the MSM.
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TP @ 7:51 – Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke also indicating / wondering “IF” we’re hearing
‘The REST of the Story’
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How did I miss this?
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Victory Over Biden UnconstitutionalBan on State Tax Cuts.
So, as part of Biden’s “
American Rescue Plan” “Send Taxpayer Money to Green Energy Parasites Plan” there was a provision to punish sates that lowered taxes?!?!? WTF?!BTW; I just read this in last week’s
Weekly EffortSouthern Star newspaper.
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Where Is the Rest of the Tyre Nichols Story ?
That is a very good question and I did see that on Watter’s World last night.
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Who remembers the hot blonde in the 56 T Bird?
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Also one of the neatest cars in American Graffiti was the 58 Edsel Corsair that belonged to Steve’s girlfriend’s father.
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10 Super Dave
I went through elementary school with a kid named Sammy whose father owned an Edsel.
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via: Ace
In my view, prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence should result in, at minimum, a mandatory 20 year sentence. In a truly just world, the prosecutors convicted of withholding evidence should face the same penalty as the wronged defendant.
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Back in the 1800s, a very wealthy man named T.C. Williams was both a trustee and generous benefactor of what is now called the University of Richmond in Virginia. Williams was a devout Baptist and gave away much of his fortune to regional institutions.
Even though they don’t seem to have any evidence as proof, the current board of trustees and president decided to remove T.C. Williams’ name from the law school which has borne his name for a century because he allegedly owned slaves. The Williams family generations have continued to be benevolent donors to the university.
However, now that the school has slandered the reputation of T.C. Williams, the family wants all the money he gave the school and calculates its present day value at $51,000,000.
When you have time, read this letter Williams’ great-great-grandson, Robert C. Smith, sent to the president of the school demanding the refund. It’s worth your time, especially the last two pages.
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The C&C today is devastating. Nuremberg trials are definitely required for these crimes against humanity. Start with Fauci and Dazick.
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Here locally Wm. M. Rice is facing the same fate at Rice University. Mr. Rice was a businessman, and Texas did not allow banks back in his day, so he would extend credit to his customers. One such customer included 2 of his slaves as collateral to Mr. Rice, and Mr. Rice subsequently foreclosed, thus he became a slave owner. He did not own slaves or use them in his day to day business affairs, but that was good enough for the history re-writers to demand his tomb on campus to be defaced and his statue to be removed.
In news of local interest, I’m back from TOK without incident. The road is still passable, but the ice build up on my car and windshield is getting thicker. I used my heat gun to assist in cleaning this morning, but if it continues at the current rate, I’ll be stuck inside the remainder of the day and probably tomorrow as well. That’s OK too I suppose. BTW, my driveway is icy and about the last thing I need to do is go out there and slip down and break something.
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Today’s Ninja Nerd lecture – Blood pressure fundamentals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g7pFPXG2eE
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TP @ 9:16 – I PRAY Robert C. Smith and His family SUE those HYPOCRITES into the 5th dimension!!
*NO SMILEY*
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Just got back from the doctor’s office. I am cleared to bend and begin doing stuff. Carefully. Need to get referred for PT. I told the Nurse Practitioner I may get my saxophone out and start playing.
“Explain that,” she said. I told her that playing a wind instrument works the core muscles. She made a note, then told me to work my physical therapist.
It’s going to be a rough day. I got maybe 20 minutes’ sleep. Got up with a nasty headache right over my right eye. Coffee and Tylenol got that under control before heading to the doc’s office. Almost got hit on the freeway when someone decided they wanted my spot in my lane. Brakes were slammed on in both cars with inches to spare.
I’ll go to the C&C now. Maybe Childers’ optimistic sarcastic wit will improve my attitude.
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I’m hearing a lot of complaints about the terrible officiating at NFL playoff games this weekend, with many going so far as to claim that the games are rigged. Well hello, these games have been rigged for at least the past 20 years and that’s why I quit watching them at least that long ago. Just like the Dems used to hide their anti-American agenda, the NFL has tried to hide it rigging of games as directed by the TV networks and the gambling interests working in concert with each other. Now neither one of them even makes an effort to disguise what they are doing, knowing that no one can or will do anything about it anyway. Between the drug cartels and the main stream media, they control the message and the politicians who are elected to run this country, and the gambling interests couple with the MSM to run sports gambling. You will never see the NY Jets and the NY Giants meet in the Super Bowl because 90% of the country would not watch it. The only reason people watch anything other than their local teams on the weekends is if they have a little money riding on the outcome. And of course, how many game have one team getting out front only to see the other team come from behind and win on the last play of the game – yes, that can happen, but not every day. If a gme gets out of hand, people turn the TV off, and that is not good for networks who guarantee an audience to their advertisers. So anyway, to all the newcomers who have finally figured out that the NFL games are scripted and rigged, welcome to reality.
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PRION SHELLS ☙ Tuesday, January 31, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday — and January is just about wrapped! What a month. Today’s roundup includes: a disturbing new study links jabs with Turbo Mad Cow disease; an essay on the “study shell game” so-called experts use to dismiss our research; a SADS mad cow death close to home; another top scientist calls for an immediate stop to the shots; Brits protest the Beeb; and Kim Dotcom is now completely red-pilled, or maybe whatever comes after that.
Turbo Mad Cow disease?! Reading on…
A new study published last week in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research, titled “Emergence of a New Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: 26 Cases of the Human Version of Mad-Cow Disease, Days After a COVID-19 Injection.”
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Mad Cow Disease, also referred to by its discoverers’ names, Creutzfeldt and Jakob, is called a ‘prion’ disease. …
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Getting back to the pointy end of the needle, Prions are a rare type of bad protein whose DNA is “folded” wrong. The shape of DNA is almost as important as its genetic encoding, and if a protein gets misfolded, bad stuff can happen. It’d be similar to mutating your DNA.
Even worse, the prions can somehow transmit their own misfolded shapes to other healthy proteins nearby who were just minding their own business. The prion bumps into the healthy protein, says “excuse me” and wanders off, and before you know it not only is the healthy protein patting its pockets and wondering where it left its wallet but then it finds itself refolding into an extremely uncomfortable pretzel-like figure.
Mad Cow disease happens when a person gets prions up in their brain, … bad things can happen. Bad things like they slowly get more and more psychotic and then die painfully.
The study researchers, which posthumously included famous virologist Luc Montagnier, cited three previous studies from 2020 and 2021 finding a link between the mRNA jabs and prion diseases like Mad Cow. They explained that the spike itself has prions which are reproduced in the jabs — all confirmed in research done by others: [insert researcher’s text here..trust me, it’s about misfolding prions from the jab]
Even though this prion region is found in the covid virus, the researchers noted that the remarkable prion region is found in the original Wuhan strain but not the Omicron lineage. The Wuhan spike, including the prion region, is the spike the jabs make.
This new study relied on all the prior research and analyzed a recent breakout of prion disease in France, where all the cases sprang up right after jabbing. Here’s how the researchers described the problem set: [more researcher’s text]
Bearing in mind from the outset that it usually takes decades for prion disease to manifest itself, the question we address here is: why and how can this same fatal disease quickly manifest itself following these injections?
(Italics in the original.)
It’s not JUST Mad Cow. It’s a new TYPE of Mad Cow disease. The researchers call it the “spontaneous emergence of a new, rapidly developing form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.” I call it Turbo Mad Cow.
Mortality is near 100%. All but one patient had given up the ghost by the time the study published this month: Link to the study
What I find most frightening is that, if I read this correctly, this isn’t one of those “boosted” side effects. This can happen with just the two original jabs.
I haven’t looked, but I’d be interested in pursuing the numbers of Turbo Mad Cow (TMC) from the original virus vs. the jab.
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Can’t beat the far Side….Lunch Break at the Zoo. 😀
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Should I put a little space heater in my car to melt the ice on the windows? It’s pretty heavily iced over right now, and while I don’t intend to go anywhere, I’m wondering if I should thaw it out just in case.
To answer my own question, yes. I’ll leave it in there for a while and let it clear the windshield and windows the take it out. I just want to keep the ice down to a manageable level.
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Childers then goes into an explanation of how lawyers and now medical academics go about dissing the studies or facts they don’t like. Interesting read. Then:
But Jeff, the academics will snort. Those are all REAL objections!
No, they’re not. … I’ll give you two reasons that definitively prove none of those objections are valid reasons to dismiss a study.
First, the academics completely ignore all those same objections when it comes to their own preferred studies. …
Were the academics fair? Did they sheepishly admit we were right, and the sample size was too small, the study period too short? Did they concede their study wasn’t peer-reviewed, which it wasn’t? Did they concede it wasn’t randomized and there was no control group?
Nope. The so-called “experts” pushed that stupid Kansas study as long and hard as they could. They’re probably still using it.
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So HYPOCRISY is the first reason that the instant objections aren’t real. The second reason is that NO study is perfect. Excluding fake and dishonest studies, all earnest studies add SOMETHING to the knowledge base. The real question for any study is what does this study add to what we already know?
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In other words, it’s dishonest to exclude an honest study from consideration. All studies are evidence;…
Take our Mad Cow study, for example. The researchers’ data is available. They cited their sources… Anyone can take that same data, apply the same (or different) sources, and then propose different conclusions. Or offer a competing study for comparison.
I do love it when Childers breaks down the legal stuff for me.
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Morning, gang. This Tuesday has turned out not as bad as predicted yesterday, so I think I’ll go out and finally run those errands. Got to finish up my breakfast and then get warmly dressed for all that.
Check y’all later.
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Oh, and by the way, Jose Baselga died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at age 61. He was head of AstraZenaca’s cancer research and development. Jabbed? I think he probably was. As Childers says, “It must have been sudden because he was still working.”
And another doctor has come out of the vaccine closet to call for a halt to all mRNA jabs:
This time, it’s MIT’s Dr. Retsef Levi, a specialist in operations research, which concerns safety and quality in the manufacture of biologic drugs as well as health policy. In other words, he’s a legitimate expert, right in the sweet spot to be opining on whether the jabs should be halted.
Dr. Levi begins his main statement like this:
I’m filming this video to share my strong conviction that at this point in time all covid mRNA vaccination programs should stop immediately. They should stop because they completely failed to fulfill any of their advertised promise regarding efficacy. And more importantly, they should stop because of the mounting and undisputable evidence that they caused unprecedented level of harm, including the death of young people and children.
Here is the address for entire statement video: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1619943501319258117/vid/636×360/sWVAmjHldDlhH_8L.mp4?tag=16
“Mounting and indisputable evidence,” he says.
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I’ve heard of Kim Dotcom, but I’m not real familiar with him/her. I’ll assume it’s “him,” and I apologize if I’ve misgendered the person. I assume he’s an internet influencer, and he’s come right out and called the WLR release to be an act of bioterror. Childers responds:
What do YOU think? It it WERE an act of war, might that be the reason why the DOD was involved in the covid response from day one? Is that why they used military-grade psyops on Americans? Is that why the international response was so remarkably homogenous? Is that why the jab testing and approval process was only a punchline?
Interesting questions.
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#24 – THIS Kim? (a She)
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Texpat 9:16
That letter was EPIC! Here’s hoping he bankrupts the university and those purple haired, shrewish mobs are without dorm rooms nor protest space.
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Kim Dotcom is not Kim Komando. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom
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Car seems to be thawing out and ice coming off the windows and windshield. Think I’ll leave the heater in there a while longer and then turn it off. I’ll just leave the heater in the car and know that I can thaw it out in about 30 minutes if I need to go somewhere. Currently no new precip falling, but it’s been light and intermittent to begin with. I know what it takes now to get the job done.
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In honor of the whales washing up on shore in NJ, we have this bit of memorabilia.
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After exploring my other options such as cleaning house, reorganizing the pantry, scrubbing bath tub, and the like I think I’ve settled on bringing out the chili pot this afternoon for something to do. That sounds more appetizing to me than my other options.
BC – thanks. That is one of my all time favorite classics.
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Where is the rest of Tyre Nichols story?
It is going to be lost behind the videos.
Texpat I really wished you had fit in the money quote of this story:
As I already said, none of this makes sense. And I hope that some of the local journalists in Memphis are still digging into the details. If this really was all completely random, then those five officers weren’t just bad cops. They were homicidal maniacs. And that’s an even more disturbing possibility than the idea of them having some sort of unknown motive to hunt Nichols down intentionally.
From the evidence we have seen, those cops were more than just bad actors. Yes I would like to know the rest of the story but I fear it will be lost behind the videos. Having said that I cannot imagine any excuse that would justify these cops actions. The worst of criminals does not deserve that type of beating. It is kind of hard to prosecute someone for any crime when the cops throw out the rule of law themselves.
Frankly I no longer trust the cops. Yes I know there are bad apples but how can I trust the cops not knowing if the cop that that is pulling me over for a tail light out is trying to trick me into a larger offense? Now we cannot be sure that he not going to touch me up outside of the vehicle because I did not answer his questions to his satisfaction.
I find it interesting that once again there are calls to defund the police and/or write more legislation for the police in general.
Frankly I do not trust society either. The bad apples in society have turned our justice system into a revolving door. what was once right is now wrong and the evil doers know they are not going to punished much less see a court date in an expedient manner. We demand the cops maintain an orderly society in the midst of a vocal minority in society that is demanding they do nothing.
What is the answer? I do not know. I do not think the police departments are out of control, I do believe society is trying to move to a point where there are no controls at all.
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I retracted part of the above post since it was too bad even for me.
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Let me punctuate what has been said
Kim Dotcom
IS NOT
Kim Kommando
It is your lucky day I could not find a Kim in a speedo
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Might be time for an early nap today. Nothing much else to do.
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#33 – I’ll temper my “Hubba HUBBA” with “ewwwwwwwwwwwww!” 🙂
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Katfish
I debated which Kim to put first. I figured ugly Kim would leave the reader with a bad taste or not get noticed if I put it last. Then i remembered the sage advice of my G-ma. Desert always comes last.
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31 Squawk
I thought about including the graph you quote. I thought I offered enough to get anybody to go ahead and read the whole thing.
Every time I think the mainstream corporate media in this country has hit bottom they find a way to go deeper. News organizations may not have the answers, but there was a time when sharp reporters were unafraid to ask the rhetorical questions out loud and producers encouraged them. It is a tried and true form of public baiting to draw out a silent witness or whistleblower on the verge of divulging information. Now they don’t even try.
The mysteries behind the irrational behavior of those cops are glaring and the only ones I’ve seen asking the questions are independent writers and commenters online, Jesse Watters, Tucker and several local radio commentators around here.
On a related matter, Carlson featured a segment last night about the NBC reporter who filed a report on the Paul Pelosi incident that was exactly, precisely correct in every word and that network suspended him while saying he didn’t meet their journalistic standards. Every bit of evidence revealed since then has vindicated correspondent Miguel Almaguer and yet I haven’t seen or heard a single apology from NBC.
The rotten, lying bastards.
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This was a great clip and a nice tribute to a Texan we all know and love.
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I got those errands taken care of! And it wasn’t bad at all outside. On the way home, I came by Kroger and got a few critical items I was out of. It’s not smart for me to shop without a list, but today it was no big deal. If I’d been organized, I’d have gotten a gallon of milk, but I have enough for several suppers. Nothing else I’m low on, so I am free now to have lunch and then a nap.
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When this film, Charade, was released in 1963, she was 34 years old.
The following year My Fair Lady hit the theaters.
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The chili pot is on simmer, I’ve had my nap. The temp is all the way up to 27 from a brisk 26 at wake up time this morning. The precip has gone for now, and my car is de-iced – that space heater inside was a good idea, and those don’t come often out here.
The weather guessers have now added a winter storm warning through Thursday AM to include an ice storm with incumbent broken tree limbs and downed power lines. So we’ve still got a chance of losing power before this is all over.
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Dang, I wish I could have some beans and cornbread with that chili when it gets ready, but alas, the diet still has to remain in place regardless of the weather. It’s smelling good though.
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Texpat
i totally agree with you on the media. That is why i said the rest of the story will be lost behind the video. nothing will change my mind that there is no good reason for the cops actions or no longer trusting law enforcement like i once did. But the rest of the story could shine the light of truth on a department that condones this behavior. fixing this problem is a one department at a time affair.
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You take Kim and I’ll take Kim.
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It is your lucky day I could not find a Kim in a speedo
Depends on which one.
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You take Kim and I’ll take Kim.
Those are fightin’ words.
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LA cops shoot knife-wielding double amputee.
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I’m currently airing out the house. Wife started a fire in the stove and it died. I shoved a bunch of fat wood kindling sticks in there… bad idea. All of a sudden they all ignited simultaneously and created a huge ball of fire. We started seeing smoke but realized it wasn’t wood smoke. It was so hot that some of the special caulking around the flue where it penetrates the “ceiling” of the new firebox was smoking.
The fumes/smoke bothered me, but it gave the Mrs. a headache.
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Two horses loose on Greenbriar. Don’t know if the pig ever found home.
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#47 GJT
So out in the stix, do y’all get on Nextdoor to complain about not keeping your horses and livestock properly fenced in like city dwellers complain incessantly about stray dogs?
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#48 – Out here they usually just call the owner to come pick them up. I’m sure occasionally one of them might wind up n someone’s freezer, depending on the nature of the animal.
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I’m having a chili cheeseburger for dinner – or at least components of a cheeseburger. Burger patty with cheese smothered in a couple tablespoons of my chili. I might have to add an additional half cup or so of chili just to make everything come out even. Just for the record, the chili turned out pretty darn good, but then so did the burger.
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#48 TexMo
We have a neighborhood FB group. It is 90% lost dogs or loose dogs or people speeding through the neighborhood but occasionally there will be something of interest which almost makes it worth being on there. The horse, the pig, cat, snake, poodle is a protected species in here and the posts are usually “please help it they must be cold!” 😀
From time to time somebody will just be fed up with a trespassing dog, give out a warning this is the last time and boom they gone.
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Chili Cheeseburger sounds good – we’re having chicken pot pies, because the additional heat from the oven sounded like a nice idea, and Marie Calender makes such marvelous ones. It’s days like today, when that cold wind is whistling UNDER the house that I have to remind myself that THAT is part of what helps keep the place cool in the summer, and the Good Lord knows that we have a LOT more days that we’re looking for cooler than we do of these freezing windy gray ones…
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or at least components of a cheeseburger
That would be a deconstructed cheeseburger.
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No wonder I just about froze to death, being outside for 5 minutes to put out fresh water and nighttime chow for my yard friends! It was “nice” outdoors when I ran some errands to a couple of stores early this afternoon. Right now, it feels like Antarctica on my patio. I don’t have a working outdoor thermometer these days, but weather.com tells me it is 38° out there.
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Nope, no Next Door out here in the country – so the Karen’s and the con artists really suffer.
Everybody just hates everybody else equitably out here.
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Well, this isn’t good news!! I got email today from Memorial-Hermann inviting me to attend a 2-day class on Advanced Practice Cadaver Skills Training.
The email didn’t specify if I would be a student or a cadaver to be practiced on…
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#54 – We are still stuck on our high for the day of 27 out here. 56 – Yes, I would tend to be a little leery of such an invitation at our ages.
I’m going back to see what’s on TV for a while before it’s finally bedtime.
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#19 Super Dave says:
January 31, 2023 at 10:36 am
Can’t beat the far Side….Lunch Break at the Zoo.
Gary Larsen was a genius. Over the years I believe I have collected most of his books. As a commercial Cabinetmaker, I Would put a FarSide cartoon under the bottom of each drawer I made and that was thousands. Only a few people ever discovered them that I know of. One even called me me after she discovered the cartoons and we had a good laugh.
If I recall Gary Larsen went on Sabbatical about 1995 but never found his groove again.
Great humor that lives forever. 🙂
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Mharper…maybe they’re waiting until that date to make that decision? 😉
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Hubby was going to drive to Bryan to show our second vacant unit and sign lease for the “B” unit. He tried calling our B unit new tenant – but she’s blocked his number.
You know, all she had to do was text and say she’d changed her mind. So, she was going to no-show him at their originally scheduled time tomorrow.
I guess we dodged a bullet. We don’t need to rent to folks like that.
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52 bsue
For a much more filling/fulfilling dinner, get a whole chicken, put in a pot, cover with water, and simmer for an hour or so (feel free to include mire pois to the water). Fish the carcass out and set on a cutting board to cool. Strain any stray bits out of the stock and return to a simmer. Pick the meat off the carcass and roughly chop into bite-size pieces and return to stock.
In the meantime, mix up some dumpling dough. This makes actual dumplings, not those thick-ass noodles. I normally add a little extra baking powder to make them poofier. Turn up heat on stock/chicken to a low boil and spoon the dumpling dough into the stock in about 1/2-3/4 oz blobs (I use a disher for this). Cover and simmer for about 8-10 minutes until dumplings have poofed up. You can also add some flour or cornstarch to the stock to thicken.
Also, feel free to add whatever veggies ar in a pot pie. This is much better.
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I was at Wal-Mart getting some more meds and a few other items. Since I got maayyyybeeeee 20 minutes of sleep somewhere around 5:00 a.m., I had a feeling I wasn’t going to want to spend a lot of time or energy cooking dinner. I went by their rotisserie chickens, to find them being marked down.
I mentioned my sleep deprivation to the lady with the pricing gun, and she laughed and said she understood. I told her I’d wait for the markdowns before picking up the evening’s entree. She lowered her voice a bit, pointed at the deli counter, and said, “I don’t know why, but they told me to mark those over there down a lot more than these. They’re the same chickens, but they’re a lot cheaper.” I thanked her and wheeled my cart over to find 7 fully cooked, hot chickens priced at $3.55 each, normally $7 and change. I snatched up six of them and brought them home.
Handyman got one; he likes to cook and feeds us sometimes, so that was good. One went for dinner with leftovers set up for another meal later. The others were split in half and partially deboned, then vacuum sealed and put in the freezer.
The day wasn’t a whole loss.
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I also got my final hospital bill. I paid half of the estimated $7,000 when I registered for my surgery. I was supposed to get the adjusted and final tally after the insurance finished paying their parts.
I expected to pay another $4,000 or so. Turns out, the insurance covered everything. I can’t believe my surgery and ancillary services were over $336,000, but that’s what the bill says. Everything is zero at the bottom.
I guess I’m glad I didn’t pay the full $7K in the beginning.
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Wagonburner – thanx for the reminder… That’s exactly how my Mama did dumplings – well, except she always used canned biscuits cut into quarters (I know… I know… but that’s how Mama did it) for her dumplings… And I’ve not done them for a while… Those directions for the dumplings sound easy enough, and tasty… But for quick, no thought, no work, and extra heat from the oven, the Marie Calender’s pot pies were WONDERFUL… (And I bookmarked the recipe)
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Oh, and I have a LOT of chicken stock base to work on next week.
I’ve been cleared to start living normally, slowly and carefully. I’m thinking I can do canning – pint size jars. I don’t actually move the full canner around, and I can dip out the canning water before washing the canner.
Thinking about it before I start doing it, but if I make all that stock the freezer won’t hold it all.
I will say, having canned and dehydrated foods around were awful handy during my down time. Prepping is not just for Armageddon any more.
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Tedtam congratulations on receiving clearance from your doctor to start trying to get back to normal.
Now all of us couch dwellers will give you the stink eye if you start to over do it.
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Tedtam, is your sink close enough to siphon the canner water into? Just a thought
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I thought that with all of the rest my elbow got when I was down, that it would be healed.
Not so much. It’s already starting to flare up, even with the limited use its getting now.
Dangit. Dangit, dangit, dangit. And I can’t take anti-inflammatories for another…8 months or so. No Aleve, no tumeric, no nothing. It interferes with the fusion.
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Bsue – Hubby installed a faucet near the sink for filling pots, but nope, no drain.
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Glad to hear the good news that the back is recovering nicely.
Still 26 out here where it has been plus or minus 1 degree for 2 days now. And ice on the way tonight. Got a message that the TOK will not be open in the AM. Ice on my windshield again, but I’ll probably turn the space heater on in it again to thaw it out. Cover over plants is still holding, so I’m assuming they are doing as well as can be expected under there.
Watched The Enemy Below on YT a while ago. That was a 1957 movie and it’s still a good one today. Back when people talked about honor and dignity, even when fighting in a war. I’ll find something else to kill the time until about 10 or so. Power has been holding on so far so good through all this. Will be OK unless we get a tree limb falling on something I guess.
OK, back to the other room.
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#69 Tedtam – it was just a thought, but I do understand. Our stove is at the far corner of the “work triangle” – not even on the same wall as the range.
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Man we had a fine day, hit 77 about 3 PM, bright and sunny. I did notice on the weather map this morning that most of the country was under the influence of a arctic blast of air. Only a small section of the country, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolina’s and Virginia weren’t in the deep freeze. But the best part is the mid 60’s at daylight, that way it warms up quickly. I do hope y’all get thawed out because I remember the Christmas cold spell, dang cold.
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Oh and it was Burn’t Dawgs fer supper, complete with Horsey sauce, hot mustard, cheddar cheese, onions and sweet jalapeno relish. Dayaam good eating for sure. 😉
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My husband is crazy. We’re watching some Alaska show – this guy is laying in the snow to try and not spook all the caribou so he can shoot one. Squawk says “aren’t you glad you don’t have to belly-crawl to the meat section at Walmart to sneak up on the ground beef ???”
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bsue, reminds me of the old Thanksgiving joke; “I shot my first turkey today, sacred the hell out of all the folks at the HEB frozen foods section.” 😀
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This just popped up; Guess who?
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I had to look up what a disher is.
Mom, the gadget queen, didn’t own one. Neither did Fay.
Mom did have an ancient melon baller.
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Hot Indian chick from Yellowstone.
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Night all.
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79 Shannon
Hot Indian chick from Yellowstone.
IMDb:
Kelsey Asbille Chow (born September 9, 1991) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Mikayla in the Disney XD sitcom Pair of Kings. From 2005 to 2009, she had a recurring role as Gigi Silveri on the drama One Tree Hill. She portrayed Tracy Stewart in MTV’s Teen Wolf from 2015-2016. Chow was born to a Chinese father, and an American mother in Columbia, South Carolina. Her father is the son of Chinese immigrants and her mother is descendants of White and Indigenous Americans*. She stated in 2010 that she wanted to be able to speak more fluently in Mandarin Chinese as well as be able to read traditional Chinese characters. She has two younger siblings: a brother who is two years younger and a sister who is eight years younger. She attended Hammond School for high school, located in Columbia, SC. Kelsey Chow’s residence is in Los Angeles, California, but she lives in New York City where she attends Columbia University.
*This is a little iffy. Nevertheless, I’m impressed with her acting skills.
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All you need is 1/1024th.
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We’re stuck at 36 here on the banks of the Brazos at Richmond. Fine with us if it stays that way overnight. We do not look forward to rushing out to cover plants at this hour of the night.
The current really miserable winter weather covering most of the state brings a reminder of a similar messy and dangerous winter snow and freezing rain interruption of a Thanksgiving week back-to-back horse shows in Waco in the 1980s. The temp hung around the upper 20s the last day of the second show after several inches of snow on top of ice made it a nigthmare for everybody trying to get home. The show facility folks said exhibitors were welcome to stay another night in hopes of better weather the next day. Our horse was in training with a stable in Luling, and the trainer elected to overnight before trying to get home with the horses. Imagin pulling a horse trailer with 5 horses in it in conditions like that. Fortunately the highway folks were able to spread enough salt by the next day to melt most of the ice on the main road.
We were trying to get home to Richmond, and the drive was nerve wracking to say the least. Made it safely after a much longer trip because we could only go about 15 or 20 miles an hour on 45 with about 4″ of ice on the highway that had only been partially covered with salt. In several places we went off on side roads in parallel with 45 since there were fewer cars disabled on those. There was a mix of cars and trucks that skidded off the road or were blocking one lane or sometimes more than one lane in crazy positions. Likely a lot of that was the result of drivers going too fast and slamming on the brakes instead of pumping them as we from the frozen north would know how to do to try to miss a crash.
We didn’t get past the ice on the roads until about 25 miles from Houston. Gas stations all along the way had plenty of drivers trying to refill tanks or just stop there for a while to wait for less traffic. Some stations ran out of gas, so folks looking to fill up limped along until they found another one that still had gas. We can’t help but recall that trip every time we see ice on roads close to Houston. All those bridges and complicated traffic intersections….
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