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Copperas Cove, Texas at sundown.

Early in the decade of the 1870s, shortly after the Civil War, Jackson Rush arrived in Temple, Texas. He was a railroad construction contractor from Tennessee and had worked his way from there to Illinois and then down the original Santa Fe rail line to Temple building rail beds.

When he rode out to this place from Temple, he wrote that this was the home he was searching for and bought a ranch to raise a family with his wife, Marinda Barker. Jackson and Marinda had two daughters and, tragically, Marinda died shortly after childbirth with our great grandmother, Sadie, in 1880.

Rush and his wife are buried in the old cemetery in town. The local historical society years ago restored the graveyard and had new gravestones made. When I visited there in the late 1980s I retrieved his original headstone and we still have it in Bellville.

He was our great, great grandfather and a direct descendant of Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence

In the 1870s, a piece of the Chisholm Trail was cut through the area, making it an ideal settling place for cattle ranchers. A group of farmers and ranchers settled in the area, and in 1878, applied for a post office under the town name “Cove.” The name was already taken, however, so it was officially changed to “Copperas Cove,” after the metallic taste of the water from an area creek. The original post office is still standing today.

In the 1880s, Copperas Cove expanded rapidly when a railroad was put in. The railroad served as a shipping point for the area farmers and ranchers and attracted several businesses to the area. By the early 1900s, a school district was established, and the town was flourishing, largely due to the agriculture production. However, as did many farming communities, Copperas Cove suffered greatly during the Great Depression. Businesses closed, and almost all of the residents left to find work elsewhere.

The 1940s brought new life for Copperas Cove with the establishment of Fort Hood, then called Camp Hood. Fort Hood is located in the neighboring city of Killeen and is one of the nation’s largest military installations, and with its growth, it continues to attract people to the Copperas Cove area.

 

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Neat story but I didn’t see the Original Post office from the link.

    BTW; I’m having HEB Texas Pecan Coffee this morning, imported from the big HEB at Clear Lake City and El Dorado Blvd’s. Good stuff Maynard.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Houston we have a problem. It was real windy yesterday and about 2 PM I headed down the Whispering Pines Trail and saw that a small dead pine had fell across the trail. I should add that the pine wasn’t there when I came through about noon. My chainsaw is in the shop getting the bar replaced so I grabbed my wife’s little battery powered Stihl and whacked into in 3 places, just enough to move by hand. The main trunk was only about 35 feet long with the top broke in pieces so 3 sections was manageable. FWIW; I wouldn’t attempt to cut a trunk this big with the little saw if the pine was green but since it was dead and dry it cut through it quickly. I have always been impressed with this little saw. It has exceeded my expectations.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Talk about a rabbit hole. I saw a neat old picture of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and noticed the Cook Book that Lucy was reading so I looked it up. Id never heard of the Settlement Cookbook but I’m sure it has banned today as being racist, sexist, and whatever else they might think of. Of course it was just published to help immigrants cook and maintain the household and also to assimilate their culture into ours. Assimilation is no longer allowed in this once great country because we want all the “Tribes” fighting against each other so they will be easier to control. ~SPITS~

  4. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. Dateline TOK for the last time for a few weeks as principle operator goes back for surgery. Cooler this morning but for 80 before day is done. Have a good one now.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well I have one in the Spit Bucket but one did make it.  😉

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fixed.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Thanks, Shannon. 😉

  8. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Morning, Gang… Lovely sunrise picture – and I was getting giddy, that the mesquite in the picture has leafed out… then saw that it was TexPat that posted, so not sure that it’s a picture from this year LOL

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dr. Bowden is still fighting for her life.

  10. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #9 – God BLESS that fearless woman!!

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Coffee & Covid for today:

    Roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, and Happy Tuesday! Your roundup today includes: a promising supplement to prevent vaccine injury and maybe even covid infection; non-developments in the Fetterman story; EPA pauses and un-pauses its East Palestine cleanup operation trying to find places to send the toxic waste; and Dilbert author Scott Adams gets socially nuked over tepid race comments.

    News:

    Last week, prominent heterodox medical expert Dr. Peter McCullough ran a Substack post with the intriguing headline, “Dissolution of Spike Protein by Nattokinase,” with an even-more intriguing sub-headline, “Holy Grail of COVID-19 Vaccine Detoxification.”

    For obvious reasons, it got my full attention. Here’s how he started the post:

    Far and away the most common question I get from those who took one of the COVID-19 vaccines is: “how do I get this out of my body?”

    I read that substack, and I can’t remember if I linked to it  here.  But it’s a hope for those who’ve been spiked.

    So it’s significant when Dr. McCullough calls something the “holy grail” of vaccine detoxification. Here’s how he described the potential treatment:

    Nattokinase is an enzyme is produced by fermenting soybeans with bacteria Bacillus subtilis var. natto and has been available as an oral supplement. It degrades fibrinogen, factor VII, cytokines, and factor VIII and has been studied for its cardiovascular benefits. Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.

    Of course, supporting his conclusion, Dr. McCullough cited a study titled “Degrative Effect of Nattokinase on Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2,” published in the journal Molecules in August 2022.

    Of course, there’s more if you wanna go check it out.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up – the Fetterman mystery:

    It’s okay to be curious, but some of you were a tad bit hard on the Fettermans in the comments yesterday. Apparently there is a harsh and judgmental idea floating around that a wife should not abandon her husband and take a holiday while he goes into extended care for depression after having a stroke, but instead she should stick around and try to help him recover, maybe visiting him occasionally, bringing the kids by, talking to his doctors, trying to cheer him up, that kind of thing.

    I read some of those comments yesterday, and they were (appropriately, IMHO) vicious.  I think Ms. Fetterman ranks right up there with Ms. Biden in abusing their husbands while trying to  ride their sick political coattails to behind-the-scenes power.

    On a more serious note, I have a question. The media is treating Fetterman’s clinical depression as something you treat by going to rehab for a few weeks and then — tada! — you’re all better. Is that really how clinical depression works? Legitimate question: should a stroke-disabled person with clinical levels of depression be serving in the U.S. Senate, handling the Nation’s classified secrets, voting on critical laws, approving Supreme Court judges and federal judicial appointments, and so forth?

    Why is this not being discussed more vigorously?  Oh, wait, I forgot….

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    “Dissolution of Spike Protein by Nattokinase,” with an even-more intriguing sub-headline, “Holy Grail of COVID-19 Vaccine Detoxification.”

    So this is their potential “out.” Be interesting to watch if this thing gets legs, indicating they are desperate to get out from under this thing before the evidence of how harmful the jab was mounts up.

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It never occurred to me that he was still alive.

    When Mutscher’s relationship to the Sharpstown bank was investigated, a group of 30 lawmakers known as the “Dirty 30” formed to target Mutscher and call for his resignation. The lawmakers were a coalition of Democrats and Republicans led by state Rep. Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, D-Corpus Christi. The Dirty 30 also disapproved of Mutscher’s heavy-handed approach to leadership.

     

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Voter integrity issues:

    How Bad Is Your State At Managing Voter Rolls? Find Out With This New Database

    Here is a link to the interactive database tool.

    I clicked on Texas and found this under “Legal Victories”:
    In 2016, PILF sued Starr County on behalf of our client, the American Civil Rights Union, for having implausibly high numbers of voter registrations in contrast to the U.S. Census counts of citizens living there. In this litigation, an election official said he would not remove a deceased induvial from the voter roll even if he saw his dead body. [emphasis mine]

    Can this dufus be stripped of his office without waiting for the next election, if he publicly refuses to perform his duties?

  16. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees. I’ve got errands to run today, but I’m moving at a snail’s pace. Well, not moving at all, just sitting at the laptop.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    But your fingers are moving.  That’s a good sign. 😉

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We have several inches of heavy, wet snow on the ground and vehicles.  It’s going to drop to 27 in the early morning so anything left will be solid ice.

    Forgot to post – I’m back and the paths and driveway are clear.

    IHW. © by Texanadian

     

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Remember folks that people with beards are just people without beards, with beards

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    9 Shannon

    Dr. Bowden is still fighting for her life.

    It is amazing, and unsurprising, a medical board is loaded with non-medical members, but here is the diverse and inclusive 17 member Texas Medical Board.

    Led by an anesthesiologist, the board has one cardiac/thoracic surgeon, two internists, an ob/gyn, two general practitioners, one orthopedic surgeon and three osteopaths.

    There are no members with education or experience in immunology, epidemiology, communicable disease research or pharmacology.  A medical board for the state of Texas should have at least two or three members from these fields.

    There is one member with a degree in bio-chemistry, though, whose career seems to have been focused on running corporate Human Resources departments.

    So we have 11 medically trained members, an HR administrator, an oil & gas executive, a retired cop/real estate broker, a communications consultant, electric utility executive and a lawyer from Fort Hood. I am in favor of having non-medical members of the board, but not so enthusiastic about people lobbying their way into public positions with significant power over people’s lives just to pad their resume.  I wonder about all these members.

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    18 squack

    Ooooorrrrrrr…

    Many of them are just grizzled old coots.

  22. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    It is fascinating listening to my wife’s conversations with her new UK friend, fellow Elvis fan. They have found much in common, talk and message each other constantly. Last night they discovered they are the same height (short heehee), we’re comparing weight, she said she was eight “stones(?)”, wife said what the bloody hell is a stone?? So they call their currency pounds but weight is stones? Anyway it is interesting that their base languages are much different, but I hear her say things in the current dialogues the same as ours – woke, snowflakes, she uses LOL in text, millennials, etc.

  23. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Our MOA is hot today, so I’m getting occasional sounds of freedom coming and going.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #21

    Wonder if all that activity is a spooling up in anticipation of something…

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    20 GJT

    The internet has flattened out English with American slang, idioms and accents.  It was much harder to understand Brits back when I first arrived there in the late 1970s unless they spoke very proper “King’s English”.  These days people all over the world know particularly how younger Americans speak and how they say it.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    14 Shannon

    For years after he left the Texas House, Gus Mutscher lived in a big apartment he’d had at his Coach Light Motel there on South Market street in Brenham even though he owned a ranch and other property.

    Years ago, the night club at the Coach Light was a pretty popular place with live music.  I met Clint Black up there one night after he played.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Eight stones equals [14 lbs x 8 = 112 pounds] a very nice weight for an average woman, unless she’s very tall and, yikes, anorexic.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang Texpat beat me to it, 112 pounds it is.

    Oh and Texpat good to hear you got the drive and walk clear. And IHW also even though it’s not nearly as bad here. 86 here and we’ve been running the A/C since the middle of last week even at night because of the humidity.

  29. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yep, it is 112 pounds. Don’t know why I’d never heard the term.

  30. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    And she says she’s five foot one, why didn’t she say 1.6 meters since our system is so dumb?

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Yeonmi Park

    Park grew up in North Korea, starving and being told the nation’s leaders could read her mind. Her parents were arrested when she was nine, leaving her and her 11-year-old sister to fend for themselves.

    She escaped to China at 13, only to be sold into sex slavery for two years. At 15, she crossed the frozen Gobi Desert by foot before being rescued by missionaries in South Korea.

    and then,

    On “The Brian Kilmeade Show” Friday, Park said she was attacked by several Black women who punched her and took her wallet while she was with her 2-year-old child.

    She said the incident happened in the summer of 2020, when Black Lives Matter protests were at their height. Park has spoken extensively about the far-left, anti-American ideologies she encountered while going to school at Columbia University, comparing it to her home country where the regime forces people “to think the way they want you to think.”

    I’d like to force every whining snowflake in America to have to spend a couple of hours listening to this remarkably brave young woman after they screech about micro aggressions and misgendering pronouns.

     

  32. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    I’d like to force every whining snowflake in America to have to spend a couple of hours listening to this remarkably brave young woman after they screech about micro aggressions and misgendering pronouns.

    Pfffftttt they won’t hear the message.  It would be received like going to traffic school.

     

  33. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    This is a documentary on Ukraine which focuses on the neo-nazis that make up a significant portion of the far right wing militias.

     

  34. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The MOAs are designated training areas.  The reason they have MOAs is to provide air space for pilots to train.  Military pilots require a lot of training.  There are several MOAs across the nation, and the training missions are all inclusive, meaning that they train for all sorts of circumstances, terrain, altitudes, air to air combat, air to ground combat.  Our military is not generally directly involved in any large scale air combat missions that I am aware of anywhere in the world right now.   I would expect that many military pilots spend their entire military careers flying nothing but training missions.  Generally speaking, pilots do not train for a specific mission after the orders to deploy are anticipated or received.  Rather they train literally all the time – some in the plane, some in the simulator, some on the ground, and so forth.  It is not unusual to have an MOA be designated as “hot” meaning there are active military training sessions being conducted, and absent any other notification, a civilian pilot would be well advised just to stay out of an MOA without advance clearance into one.  So, given this situation, I would not expect anything unusual is going on with the MOA.  Most of the activity in our MOA is foreign pilots being stationed in Del Rio and trained here in the US.

  35. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I got the prep work done for my project of a roll-over of what was once David’s bank IRA, switched to my name 2 years ago after the estate was blessed by Harris County. I am merging his IRA with mine. I won’t bother to track it, but once moved, I expect the $$$ from his IRA will earn more under my manager.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat

    From Alex Berenson’s Substack:

    Adults have sharply higher risks of being diagnosed with heart, skin, and psychiatric conditions for at least 90 days after they receive Covid jabs, a peer-reviewed study of almost 300,000 people in California has shown.

    The researchers examined new diagnoses given to the same people before and after they were vaccinated to see whether the shots changed the risk of new health problems.

    They found that people were about 21 percent more likely to receive a new diagnosis in the three months after a shot, compared to the three months before. With almost 240 million American adults jabbed, the rise translates into millions of extra new medical problems found in the months after vaccination, and tens of millions worldwide.

    Serious conditions such as hypertension were about 25 percent more likely to be diagnosed in the three months following a shot than the three months before, the researchers found.

    Depression, eczema, diabetes, and cellulitis were 10 to 20 percent more likely.

    Myocarditis diagnoses had the highest additional risk. They were about 2.6 times as likely overall, with an even higher risk in men. Myocarditis is a known side effect of the mRNAs, so the fact it had a particularly high rate of extra diagnoses provides strong evidence that the signal the researchers found was real.

    Overall, the researchers reported that the 284,000 Covid-vaccinated adults they examined received almost 6,000 additional diagnoses of health conditions in the 90 days after being jabbed compared to the 90 days before.

    With about 237 million American adults vaccinated, that estimate would translate into about 5 million extra diagnoses for problems like diabetes in the three months following the shots. Worldwide, the number could be up to 25 million.

  37. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Good afternoon all. Maybe some news you can use.

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3876664-zero-calorie-sweetener-popular-in-keto-diets-linked-to-strokes-heart-attacks/

  38. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I may have a post in the bucket. Only one link.

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3876664-zero-calorie-sweetener-popular-in-keto-diets-linked-to-strokes-heart-attacks/

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well, I wasn’t expecting half the days in February to be near or in the 80’s.

    Makes me very wary of March possibilities.

     

  40. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Attempted two posts, poof, gone.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Crazy.

    Grapefruit league play in Florida, between the Orioles and Pirates.

    Before the game, both teams agreed that they would play the full 9 innings regardless of the score.

    The game was over after 8.5 innings, Pirates winning 7-4.

    The four man umpire crew left the field. They must have had a hot date or something.

    The teams played the last half-inning without them.

    No word on who was calling strikes.

    🙂

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texanadian

    nothing in the bucket, sir.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dr phil

    It appears the place has been left to us. They’ve all left to squeeze in one more nap before they go to bed.

    So, let’s start with this one, okay?

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I could watch and listen to that man play bass for days.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Tucker had a segment about affirmative action hiring. He reference the frequent transportation issues, including derailments and ATC failures with aircraft.  He finished up by having a doctor on, and they discussed how affirmative action is medicine is utterly ludicrous.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh, what the heck…

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Baker/Bruce mind meld.

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

    the van winkles appear to be quite numerous around here.
    Ok unck, I’ll play.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If we’re gonna talk about bad spells, I just gotta play this one.

    https://youtu.be/HuGI2tX3H-U

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Shifting gears….

  51. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #31 et al – Anyone who understands the keto diet and its effect on the insulin production by the body will understand that anything sweet, even the artificial sweeteners, causes the body to produce insulin.  So it really does not matter if you consume sugar free soda or sugar infested soda, the effect on you diet is the same.  Now for a diabetic, the artificial sweetener may be just the thing because the body can no longer process sugar, but just for remaining in ketosis and burning fat rather than sugar for energy, artificial is just as bad as the real thing.  Insulin causes the body to store fat, and limiting its production can allow the fat to be released into the bloodstream to be used by the cells for energy.

    Anyway, I thought that was interesting, and especially when people are talking about preparing sugar free desserts, soda, and such.  And don’t forget – if a food product is advertised as “fat free” run away – they have just replaced the fat with extra carbs which is even worse.

  52. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Juan Browne reports on the California blizzard of 2023, plus a tip on managing your Generac during a snow storm.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8sE2gxwM7M

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I wanna be your break in the storm

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The news about that particular all-natural sweetener (also sold as Stevia) is big, big deal.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    37 Shannon

    I was always stunned by that short reunion.  It was known worldwide Ginger Baker hated Jack Bruce so much he had almost threatened to murder him.  He may have and we don’t know about it.  From what I read over the years Jack Bruce wasn’t very popular anywhere in the music business and that’s why he wasn’t seen very often.

    Bruce was a stunning, legendary bass player.  How many guys made it into the lead guitar like that ?  No one ever heard a bass line like that before Cream.

    But he was, by most all accounts, a real jackass.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

  57. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    As usual I’ve missed a lot but it’s been a busy day and it got hot but that sure beast the alternative. I’ve been catching up on Watters and Tucker and about the time I sat here down the Apache’s started tearing up Longstreet Range to the west. Mostly Gatling Guns but an occasional canon and it will rattle the windows. I’m not sure why but 90% of the firing is well after dark, maybe they do a lot of infrared headset training?

  58. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    While I was typing Shannon slipped in a picture of Mark on the beach. I bet that was one of his last pictures. 🙁

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It was only some time in the last decade that I took the time to investigate what Jack Bruce did for the next forty years.

    Pretty interesting journey.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yeah. Been thinkin’ about him lately.

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I wanna crank an old gatlin gun.

  62. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Looks like I’ll be checking out early this evening.  I’m trying to make it to 10, but I think I’m about as close as I need to be.  Nite nite you all.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s been an eventful year.

    I had a heart attack.

    Mark passed away two weeks later.

    Russia invaded Ukraine.

    Squawk’s beard got longer and weirder.

    Joe fell down the stairs, again and again…and then again.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Lead story on KHOU.

    Nice middle aged black lady films COH garbage truck make two attempts to properly line up the automatic-garbage-can-picker-upper-and-dump ‘er.

    Repeatedly running over her water meter in the process.

    Personally, I think she is really screwed.

    But maybe KHOU will stay on the case.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Also on the news tonight, they were showing some old photos of the President of the United States.

    He’s a dead ringer for Hunter.

    Same cocaine eyes and everything.

     

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    42 Dr Phil Good Cbkle

    (Too many letters, dude.)

    might fine song, sir

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Rare documentary

    Dr phil, The Early Years

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

    HA!
    good one unck..

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