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Friday’s Texas Rules the Universe Open Comments

An asteroid is seen near Earth in this artistic illustration. (photo credit: PIXABAY)

An asteroid around the size of almost 33 armadillos is set to pass by Earth on Sunday, according to NASA’s asteroid tracker.

The asteroid in question has been designated 2023 FL2 and was discovered just this year, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

For those wondering how this measurement is being calculated, the metric is the total length of the nine-banded armadillo species of armadillos, including the tail, and not while it is rolled up into a ball.

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71 responses to “Friday’s Texas Rules the Universe Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, I’ll bite since it looks like no one is up and about. I’m a little disgusted about the Trump indictment but of course not at all surprised. They got what they wanted, a Mug Shot so it’ll make no difference if Trump is found guilty, the case is thrown out or sent up to higher courts. All that will be remembered is that he WAS INDICTED. Also the saddest part of this is that no matter the outcome, that evil DA will be a hero and my even become the next Governor of New York. ~SPITS~     ~SPITS AGAIN~      “Running out of Spit”

    With that; Mornin’ Gang

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m honestly so disconnected I have idea how Trump being indicted is playing with the general public. Probably worse than I’d hoped.

  3. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    About time the revered armadillo received its just recognition. Trip to MF wore me out yesterday but ok today. Have a good day.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think that the Trump team will insist on a change of venue.  Over 80% of Manhattan voted against Trump in 2020 – it is not possible for him to get an unbiased jury there or anywhere in New York City.  The judge is also a critical feature of this circus; if Trump draws a POS like Emmet Sullivan who was on the Gen Flynn case there is no hope.

     

    I have said it before: the left desperately wants an armed insurrection/revolt against their serial violations of the Constitution and regular order.  They want this so that Martial Law can be imposed and they will be cemented in power for ever.  Talk about sowing to the wind. . . . .

    The only thing worse than a crooked cop is a crooked judge.  Politicians are crooked by nature so they don’t count.

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Nice not to be chilly this morning.

    Told son I’d get our new front tires we finally got mounted for the race car today to get ready for Texanna tomorrow. Should be like my old man and change them myself but we need to save the old ones for spares and I don’t have much luck busting beads without destroying a tire. Besides, twenty bucks and the local tire shop, it’s worth it.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    In other news my beloved Lane Shark ceased to function last week. I was cutting the tops of a hedgerow and the blade just stopped turning. I wasn’t cutting anything big at all so I was surprised that it just gave up. My first thought was that I may have sheared  a “Spear Pin” but I’d not seen any sign of one on the motor/coupler unit. FWIW; The hydraulic motor was running just fine but the blade was obviously disconnected from it. I called Randy at the tractor place and he said it was most likely that the spline key had came loose. He said that occasionally the set screws that hold it in place aren’t properly secured from the factory and you have this failure but once fixed it’s not a problem again. After rain delays and such he showed up yesterday and separated the motor from the blade coupler and the problem was exactly as expected. He went back to the shop to get parts but called late in the day and said that the Lane Shark folks were going to send a whole new motor/coupler unit to replace mine since it was brand new. How about that? It sounds like they’re a fine company taking care of the customer. BTW; Lane Sharks are manufactured in Pensacola Florida so that “Splain’s a lot.      😉

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    A Re-Declaration of Independence

    Tyranny is already upon us. To defeat it, we must first learn to reject its premises. And to say so aloud.

    Jeff Goldstein

    Mar 26

    Be it so understood:

    I refuse to “unpack white violence.” I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.” I will not — and in fact cannot — “examine my implicit biases.” I’m an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being. My meaning is mine. It is what makes me me.

    This essay is brilliant!  Please take the 5 minutes to read the whole thing; you will be richer for it.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It appears that I have one in the spit bucket.  Please release as it is a good one.

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I finally took a dive into what my Trump/Fox News hating liberal neighbor has been hooting about regarding the Dominion lawsuit and some Fox News employee saying they padded the coverage towards Trump in the controversy over Dominion’s voting machines in the 2020 election.

    You have to go to the left wing sites to find any information about it. As an aside, nothing to do with the lawsuit, this female employee felt so oppressed with the misogyny in Fox News she often considered suicide, sometimes thought it would be easier to step in front of a bus rather than go to work. Sounds like a conservative to me. Sheesh.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    SD

    Be nice if they could leave the old parts with you for spare but I’m sure they have to hold onto them for warranty, which will sit on the shelf for forever and finally get tossed.

    That is great service.

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wonder if the asteroid is packing Lone Star.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    No one was injured and there is no way to defend against this assault by a front wheel.

    Watch the 27 second video, note that the offending wheel struck the vehicle a second time.

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    BC

    That video is out there everywhere, no telling how many views it’s gotten in different formats. What a shock, they may not have even seen the tire and suddenly got launched lol.

    I borrowed my son’s truck this week to move some stuff, the other day I was running down FM1488 and this lady coming towards me waiting to turn left suddenly decided to jump out and then decided against it, fortunately as I never even had time to hit the brake or swerve. Be cautious out there.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #9 GJT, Lane Shark is a fairly new company so they may want to do an autopsy on the old unit to understand the problem. The repair dude mentioned that my motor unit was the improved version whatever that is.

  15. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hopefully they will.

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; The tractor repair guy showed up in an old Chevy 1 ton truck with a huge Kohler powered Vee twin compressor in the back to use with pneumatic impact wrenches but said he seldom uses it since they’ve switched to battery powered impact wrenches. He had a serious Ingersoll Rand, 20 VDC, 780 Ft Lb job and it was heavy. I had a hard time holding out at arms length to take a picture. 

    FWIW; Discount went to all battery powered impact’s so I wanted to show the boy that one.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The blog is sounding very manly this morning.  But not afraid of manliness.  Y’all aren’t toxic.

    Lefty men, especially the crossdressers, are good examples of toxic masculinity.

  18. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I always had an air compressor in my service trucks, only use it ever really was, was contractors on the job sites wanting me to air up their tires. Most of the time, it would take longer to drag out everything than to remove bolts manually.

  19. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Before battery operated tools became more efficient and powerful, I had more use with an inverter with an electric impact that worked well, even could remove lug nuts with it.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Seein’ as how Childers is a lawyer, I am interested on his take on The Big Event:

    TRUMPED UP ☙ Friday, March 31, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    I agree with Mr. C. that the sniggering at Bragg’s reluctance to press charges finally became too much and he pulled the trigger on the charges.  Yesterday afternoon it was “we have to wait a month, when the grand jury comes back…and it’ll be easier to let this problem just fade away”.  Then, before the GJ could pack their vacation bags, we suddenly get the headlines that the indictment/s fell.

    I can only imagine the intense pressure that DA was under.  Soros probably threatened to fund his opponent next election cycle. TPTB were holding his lunch time hamburgers hostage.  So, the charges were made.

    Back to the column:

    I’ll explain the legal process later and how things are likely to play out slowly, but let’s wade through the politics first, since this is really more of a political event than a legal event.

    He’s dead on for that point.  This is going to have to be played politically as well as legally.

    There are two groups of hot takes right now. Insane leftists are crowing about how wonderful our legal system is (it’s NOT racist after all, not today), a marvelous system blind to people’s wealth, position, and skin color, a wonderous manifestation of perfect justice, something they’re celebrating as the “rule of law.” Exhibit A in this category was grotesque nightmare Nancy Pelosi, squawking like a zombified crow from her retirement nest and scaring the little children:

    https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1641594971462541315

    [In this tweet, she squawks about how no one is above the law, and Trump has his chance to now prove his innocence.]

    All that time in government, and Pelosi still thinks criminal defendants have to “prove their innocence.” That’s not how it works, Nancy, it’s the other way ‘round. There’s a slogan some of us use to remember it: “innocent UNTIL proven guilty.” Maybe that will help you next time.

    I served on a rather high profile jury recently, and as voir dire was commencing the lawyers gave much talk to the process and tried to give us some idea of what we were going to be overseeing in the trial without too many details.  After giving some examples of possible driving violations and accident scenarios, we (the pool) were asked by the defense attorney “Given what you’ve heard, how many of you are 100% sure the defendent is guilty? Raise your hands. 90%? 75%?…less than 30%?”  My hand went up.  He called on various folks with upraised hand, and they all gave their percentage of guilt.  He finally got to me, and I responded “We haven’t had a trial yet, so he’s innocent until proven guilty.”

    I thought that lawyer was going to do a rain dance, he was so excited. “THAT’S IT! THAT’S RIGHT! He’s INNOCENT until we finish the trial!”  I ended up being second alternate only because I was so far into the jury pool that all of the other spots were taken first.

    But there are sooo many people who forget that basic principle of law.  Indicting Trump will give those who fear him vindication in believing him guilty before a trial commences.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers has a good point here:

    On the right, most conservatives appear to be falling right into the distraction trap, bickering with each other whether Trump’s indictment and inevitable arrest will either help him politically or hurt him politically, like the democrats just advanced a pawn in the presidential campaign’s chess match, and is not in fact an irreversible breach of democratic norms that has plunged the country into a hysterical free fall.

    There’s a Christian movie called “War Room,” about a woman who was a real prayer warrior and teaching her prayer ways to a woman in an endangered marriage.  Prayer Warrior had to keep reminding her apprentice to remember who the real enemy was – and it wasn’t her husband.  We need to remember who the real enemy is, and not get so focused on the chess game.  We need to fight the other player, not the pieces.

    I think all this political calculation is a horrible mistake for conservatives and is precisely the trap that radical democrats want us to fall into. Who cares about the politics? It’s kind of like chatting with your neighbor about the pro’s and con’s of different lawnmower brands after your neighbor STOLE YOUR LAWNMOWER. The stolen lawnmower’s BRAND isn’t the point.

    Love him or hate him for his politics, Dershowitz is possibly the most principled left winger out there.  I’ve heard him put the law before politics many times:

    Former democrat and respected constitutional scholar Alvin Dershowitz called Trump’s indictment the worst case of prosecutorial misconduct ever, which still understates the damage.

    /snip

    Some conservatives were more cautious, and like me, smell a democrat distraction campaign instead:

    Again – focus on the enemy, not the chess board.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT that reminds me of something funny. Years ago I ordered a battery powered impact wrench from J.C. Whitney. It hooked to the car battery and like most thing from J.C. Whitney it was junk BUT this was after they discovered the Cheap Chinese junk. The first time I used it sparks flew while trying to get the lug nuts off my truck. Turns out it was positive ground!!!!  SMDH!?!?    SO! I just threw it in the trash. FWIW; I didn’t use it for some time after I got it so there was no sending it back.

    That reminds me, I once told my wife that J.C. Whitney made all their money on shipping since most things came back to them.  😀

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m still amazed you can get 780 ft/lbs of torque out of a battery that size.

  24. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #21 Oh and if you purchased and installed all the gas saving devices gadgets from J.C. Whitney you’d save so much gas that you’d have to drain your tank once a week or so.  😀

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m still amazed you can get 780 ft/lbs of torque out of a battery that size.

    Me too, I figured it was around 500 Ft Lbs until I looked it up;

    780 ft-lb max torque and 1,000 ft-lb nut-busting torque

  26. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    BRIIC nations falling in to line.  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/brazil_turning_chinese__i_really_think_so.html

    What’s really going on while everyone is outraged about some goofy trannys and such.

  27. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT; Here ya’ go, GJT Jr. third place winner.

    I still think third place is pretty dang good.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve heard many warnings to the outraged to not allow themselves to be provoked to violence.  We know the FBI is out there, just waiting to drag folks to jail for looking crosseyed at the wrong politician.  If anything happens, I fully expect martial law to be declared “for our safety,” and it would probably be in place as voting takes place.  Guess who wouldn’t be allowed to go to the polls?

    Conservative activist and brainy anti-marxist James Lindsay recently published a podcast describing what he calls “mid-level violence” or “strategic provocation” as a staple of the democrats’ marxist playbook. It’s a very interesting idea and sounds right to me. Lindsay explained the democrats’ most commonly-deployed strategy these days is to provoke a target into the impossible dilemma of either giving in — and becoming demoralized — or pushing back in some way and then being hysterically portrayed as having overreacted.

    I was reminded of James’ theory while watching the looney-Trans protests in Tennessee’s Capitol yesterday over that state’s new anti-gender-mutilation laws.

    Childers looks at statements by folks like Youngkin, and joins him in pointing out the hypocritical application of law by the left.  The left, which infests so much of our judiciary.  And he repeats Trump’s phrase: “They’re not after me, they’re after you.  I’m just in the way.”

    So true. So, so, so, so true.

    This story is not really about Trump. Trump’s indictment and upcoming arrest is the capstone on a decades-long democrat strategy, not to ENFORCE the rule of law, but to DESTROY the rule of law.

    Childers has an interesting discussion that follows this, but I’ll let you go read it for yourself.

    It has often been said, “Republicans think democrats are stupid. Democrats think Republicans are evil.”

    When your opponent is a nasty “evil” person, Hollywood has taught us all from birth that breaking the rules to stop the evil people is a moral achievement….

    I see this sentiment at least once in many of those “on the street” videos that are held in blue areas. Along with a shocking lack of general knowledge, but that only proves the point that the Founders said our republic was dependent upon an educated and moral populace.

    “Educated” and “moral”.  We’ve failed miserably on both of those counts.

    Nancy Pelosi’s misstatement of the natural order of prosecution was not, in fact, a misstatement. That is exactly how she sees the legal standard. Pelosi and democrats think THEY are entitled to a STRONG presumption of innocence, but Republicans must assumed guilty until proven innocent, and the Biden DOJ has been proceeding accordingly.

    I’m reminded of my frustration with Islam.  They see a peaceful society as one in which everyone submits to their faith/rule/economic system.  Allah is “the great deceiver,” so they see no problem with deceiving or coercing others to submit, while they demand the protection of our non-islamic judicial system.

    The hypocrisy is obvious to non-Muslims, but they themselves see no hypocrisy in it, since all ends justify their means.  It’s like the psychopath problem: they don’t think like we do. But they are Martians.   THEY DON’T THINK LIKE WE DO!  It’s a point that freedom lovers will stumble over until it sinks in.  We expect them to think and act like we do, following logic and rule of law.  From their side, it all makes perfect sense.

    Remember who the enemy is.

  29. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Thanks Super Dave! I thought so too, even if he was beat by a girl. She’s pretty good BTW. She was a rookie just starting out last year as well, she gotta a daddy-money car though. That’s our excuse anyway, and we’re stickin to it!

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    To every living person on the globe: We are all in this together, and it is long-past time we all ACTED like we are in this together. The world will not enjoy a one-party, nuclear-armed United States run by democrats, no matter how much they despise President Trump and hope to see him jailed. That would be an epic disaster of civilizational scale.

    Think about it. If they get sole control, the democrats will turn every other country on Earth into Ukraine.

    Trump’s indictment is a clear inflection point, and I think the message is loud and clear. It’s not really about the next election, not at all. Nothing like Trump’s arrest has ever happened before in the U.S., and it is obvious to everyone sane that whatever comes next must either be a restoration of freedom and liberty, or a nightmarish cataclysm. Every single federal worker who wants to avoid living in a chaos-filled, dystopian anarchy needs to start whisteblowing right NOW.

    That’s actually good news. This problem didn’t start with Trump. Trump just lanced the boil and now all the pus is oozing out. His arrest is an inflection point and everybody knows it. It’s time to stop pretending things we are living in normal times, and start calling out what the democrats have been up to. If they get away with it, every real Republican in Congress will be sitting exposed in the crosshairs.

    I’ll leave it right there.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The weather is nice this morning, with a good breeze.

    I’ve finished my breakfast and coffee, so I think I’m going to head out and set up a tub or two.

    BTW  – there’s been a report of a new Eucharistic miracle that occurred right here in the states.  A minister was distributing Communion and thought he was going to run out – but he didn’t.  The Hosts were multiplied, like the feeding of the 5,000.  It hasn’t been investigated yet, nor approved or anything, but still – as the priest says – “pretty cool”.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From the comments at the C&C:

    Just one more tidbit to add to all this: The Christian school that monster shot up last week (and who deliberately hunted down the pastor’s daughter, according to those who watched the body cam video) is Presbyterian. Trump was confirmed Presbyterian as a child.

    Don’t forget that there is a level to this war above the political.

    Remember who the enemy is.

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. Today I need to start sorting through piles of paper and isolating the items that apply to my 2022 1040 tax forms. I probably won’t actually start working on it today, but I’d like to have everything ready for tomorrow.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This past Monday was the 187th anniversary of the Palm Sunday Goliad Massacre.

    342 Texan prisoners of war lay dead in the sun, killed by musket, lance and treachery.

    R.I.P.

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    FU Santa Anna

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    So wagonburner has been wrong.

    It’s not Lutherans, but those pesky Presbyterians who are the real terrorists.

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

    Has anything ever happened to anyone Mr Haney has grilled during the congressional kabuki theatre hour?

    as far as I can tell he’s batting 0 for 236.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Back in the early 1990s, a business associate and I went wandering around the old, abandoned Hughes’ Tool plant in the East End on, I believe, Navigation.  We were probably trespassing, but there were open gates and no “No Trespassing” signs.

    I walked into a large, dank, dusty room filled with about 60 or 70 drafting tables.  My friend and I stared at it and both thought about how those 60 or 70 draftsmen had been replaced by a couple of people with modern 3D AutoCad software.  It was a poignant moment thinking about the historically sudden obsolescence of more than five dozen people, men with wives and children to care for and feed.

    Is the Singularity here ?  Glenn Reynolds has a great piece at substack about the very near future.

    To answer the second question first, we probably wouldn’t.  One of the characteristics of a singularity is that you can’t tell when you’re entering it.  (And by the time you figure things out, it’s too late.)  But looking at Chat GPT and the various AI Art programs that are appearing, I can’t help but see an irony:  The jobs that are coming under attack first are the jobs that up to now have resisted technological replacement.

    For decades, traditional manufacturing jobs were gobbled up by automation and offshoring.  This led Robert Reich to postulate a hierarchy of work in which the “symbolic analysts” – essentially, people who worked with information as opposed to actual stuff – were at the top, while people who worked with actual things were at the bottom.  With a remarkable lack of sympathy, journalists and politicians told coal miners and auto workers that they should “learn to code” as their jobs vanished.

    and,

    In the same way, AI Art programs are likely to drive a lot of commercial artists out of work.  Again, this will probably start at the bottom and work its way up, but that’s a comfort only to the people at the top.  Generally speaking, employment is roughly pyramidal, meaning that most of the jobs are at the bottom, and hence more vulnerable to being replaced.  Famous writers and artists may be brands, unique enough not to be replaced by machine intelligence.  But most writers and artists aren’t famous, and aren’t brands, and are hired simply to do a good enough job, cheaply enough, to meet client needs.  When machines can do the job as well or better for less money, they’ll be out of work.

    Well, this is all good news for plumbers and auto mechanics.  Their jobs are safe unless and until they can be replaced by actual robots, something that’s much further away.  It’s just a lot more difficult to manipulate atoms than bits.

    plus this,

    As Eric Hoffer wrote, “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.”  And that’s what we’re likely to see as AI plucks the low-hanging fruit from the symbolic analysts’ world.

    My son-in-law has been talking for several years about his profession of Wall Street securities analyst being made obsolete by AI and has been looking to get out of the field, hopefully sooner than later.

    RELATED:

    Wingstop has become the latest fast food restaurant to start using AI bots to take customers’ orders. It is joining the likes of some of the most famous fast food chains around, including McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Chipotle, Popeye’s and Domino’s. The AI voice bots are mostly being used for drive-thru services and for taking orders over the phone. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if these fast food chains start incorporating the technology for taking orders at the counter as well.

    Removing what’s left of entry level jobs for teenagers will have dramatic social effects.  Those first jobs are important steps toward maturity and adulthood with important lessons on how to live the rest of their lives.

    The longer I live, the more important I realize everything I learned in those jobs as a kid and teenager.

     

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    34 Dr. Phil Good

    I generally consider Jesse Watters a lightweight and pretty silly sometimes although I realize I’m not in his target viewer demographic.

    But last night, Jesse was on a roll and kicked Josh Hawley around pretty roughly.  He said Americans are sick of endless hearings, public displays of indignation by politicians and useless letters to the Deep State.

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

    I’ll say it again, Sam.

    Kevin McCarthy

    @SpeakerMcCarthy

    Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election.

    says the guy who could’ve cared less about the 2020 stolen presidential election, the 2022 midterm theft, the Katie Hobbs stolen election in AZ  and is ok with 40 years of the joined@thehipparties open borders destruction of the USA.

    this is why I can’t stomach nor take any of these joined@thehip swamp lizards seriously.
    Nothing but a bunch of pretenders, losers shysters and country busting totalitarians.

  41. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP @ 11:20 – I reckon I’d pay good $money$ to watch an AI lab try to perfect ANY robot to be

    a short order fry cook (a la Waffle house), dishwasher, or busboy er uh PERSON

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    36 Katfish

    Watch this video of the company already having made the first fully robotic restaurant.

    I would never eat there, but I only speak for myself.

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

    Not one mention of the erased border and stolen elections by Hawley in that clip.

    they’re all cartel bought and paid for pack mules in congress.

  44. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I am truly convinced that Dr phil Good is the only sane person left who is dealing in reality and not chasing all these social stories down the endless rabbit trails leading to nowhere.  Just ignore that stuff and it will go away.  So long as someone can get a headline with outrageous behavior and take your eye off the ball, the longer it will continue.  It doesn’t matter if AI takes over all the jobs if we are all Chinese subjects to begin with.  It doesn’t matter what sex someone claims to be, or who they are bathing with when the Chinese and the Russians are calling the shots.  It doesn’t matter how many dollars you have when the Chinese Yang is the favored currency for international trade.  Keep your eye on the donut and hot on the hole.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Picked up two rolls of blue disposable shop towels. They’re like bags of potato chips – getting smaller and smaller and cost more.

    Oops sorry. I forgot all subjects are banned from here except geopolitics and the border.

  46. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP @ 12:20 – the title of that vid clip should say:

    “spotless BUT slower than a 3 legged cat trying trying to cover up poop on a frozen pond!”

    At the speed er uh LACK thereof shown – patrons would STARVE before the cooking robot had enough clean dishes to produce a meal!

    Those inventors have a long LONG way to go IMHO.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    China ! Chinese ! China !

    Aaaaargh !!!!!

    I post articles here consistently on the threat of China and the fact it is THE greatest external threat to America, but obviously El Gordo doesn’t read anyone besides Dr. phil Good.

  48. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Generally speaking 99% of all advertising is insulting to the intelligence of an imbecile and I hate it – tv, billboard, radio, EFFING POP-UPS, etc. This ad, https://notthebee.com/article/this-christian-college-ad-is-giving-me-the-energy-to-take-on-clown-world, is an absolute winner.
    My prayer every morning is that the people would wake up from their wokeness and realize what is happening.
    Watch the ad. Be encouraged.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    All China and Border News All The Time is the only way to go. Anything else is a silly distraction cooked up by the Commies.

    That half the citizens of this country appear ready to forfeit their God given rights  to our Lords in Washington is not a worthy subject. That the culture has been intentionally poisoned beyond repair is not a worthy subject.

    And God forbid we have any humor or great music around here.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Super Dave

    This month’s Texas Co-op Power magazine has a feature on the painter of Chili Queens at the Alamo.

     

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    43

    The cover story this month is about Truth Barbeque in Brenham, which has made every Top Barbecue list in the state.

    I’ve tried to go there, but I’m not willing to stand in line forever to eat anymore. Maybe I’ll have to try on a weekday some time.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    41 Bones

    What a fine ad.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    For those of you who seem to have problems viewing Twitter videos, here is the YT version of the ad in Bones #41.

  54. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #41, 45

    Dang! I’m ready for battle now! Where’s Dr phil Good, I’m getting behind him.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    43 Shannon

    I posted a front page profile on this site about the painter, Julian Onderdonk, a couple of years ago.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The only president we’ve had who would stand up to the Chinese and also managed to secure the borders was the victim of..

    A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century

    By Jacob Siegel

    In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made McCarthy’s name synonymous with the politics of the era.

    For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.

    Until 2017, that is, when another list of alleged Russian agents roiled the American press and political class. A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election. Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States.

    None of it was true. After reviewing Hamilton 68’s secret list, Twitter’s safety officer, Yoel Roth, privately admitted that his company was allowing “real people” to be “unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse.”

    The Hamilton 68 episode played out as a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the McCarthy affair, with one important difference: McCarthy faced some resistance from leading journalists as well as from the U.S. intelligence agencies and his fellow members of Congress. In our time, those same groups lined up to support the new secret lists and attack anyone who questioned them.

    Here we can see the Chinese promoting and perpetuating the traitors in our government with their bots, TikTok and dozens of other projects.

    The crime is the information war itself, which was launched under false pretenses and by its nature destroys the essential boundaries between the public and private and between the foreign and domestic, on which peace and democracy depend. By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against Americans citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for mass psychological operations. The crime is the routine violation of Americans’ rights by unelected officials who secretly control what individuals can think and say.

    Last week, the Border Patrol said Chinese illegal immigrants crossing the southern border had increased 900%.  This happens as a direct result of the information war and the evil bastards running it.

    China does not want to fight a hot war with the US.  They would much rather covertly win a domestic Cold War against Americans by using all the cultural and moral vulnerabilities to sap the spirit and courage of the nation’s people.  Their goal is to corrode the internal fortitude of the USA and destroy its self-confidence until it withdraws from the world and surrenders its historical place as the defender of liberty and beacon of hope to other peoples everywhere.

    If anyone thinks you can just ignore these things and they will go away is a damned fool.  To ignore the whole picture is to be blind to and willfully ignorant of the war being fought in America on America by our own corrupt bureaucracy and their sponsors, the Chinese Communist Party.

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Texpat 16:11 hrs:  This is the BIG SEPARATION of the sheep and the goats as is written.  I wonder who on the world stage today is going to declare themself “The One?”

    The willingness/ignorance of so many people to reject what is right to do that which profits them immediately, knowing that  it is wrong and harms others.  The left has been literally selling our country to the commies for decades, Felonia von Pantsuit selling 20% of Uranium 1 to Russia ring any bells, how about Slick Willie removing the 2nd largest known high quality coal on the planet from exploration by declaring the ground above a national park.  Mohktar Riaddy paid big time into the Clinton Crime Family for making his coal more valuable, to Puddin’ Head Biden leaving billions of dollars of equipment in A-Stan for no reason?

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    44 Shannon

    In addition to all comments that mention anything but China and the Border, all comments and links to articles about Texas BBQ joints are also banned.

    They make me too hungry and too homesick.  Besides, I’m told if I ignore all these BBQ joints, they will go away, anyhow…just like magic.

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    48 Bonecrusher

    Bill & Hillary, maybe GW, Obama and the Biden family could and should all have been charged and convicted.

  60. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Anyone remember when Clinton gave the scientific secrets of the MERV system to the Chinese in return for cash?  It goes back a long way.  Wonder why Rice University no longer accepts donation from Shell Oil but does admit Chinese nationals to the tune of about 50% of its student body?  And Rice is not unique in this respect.  Wonder where all these freaky concepts designed to tear down our moral fiber come from?  The left is operating on a world wide stage.  China now owns Africa and much of Latin America.  Our bought and paid for leaders are rejecting our allies  and allowing our economic enemies free reign to take whatever they want.  We are running out of strategic partners.  Don’t think there is something to the leftie uprising in Israel while Biden sits idly by and declares it to be a domestic problem for them to solve?  Make fun and jest all you like.  The times they are a changing.

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat’s 4:11 pm is required reading.

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    49 El Gordo

    Make fun and jest all you like.  The times they are a changing.

    I know as a Rice grad you had to once have had excellent reading comprehension.  What happened ?

    Do you think you are the only swinging **** around here to understand exactly what is going on or are you so arrogant you don’t believe you should have the consideration to at least read what others write and if you disagree, then lay out your arguments ?  You might even discover they agree with you if you bothered to look.

    I used to have a copy of this book.

    The Chinese Generals who engineered the espionage success against America have all retired with the highest rewards from the communist party. Their operations against the United States were carefully planned and executed. Their meetings were quietly withheld from public view by a U.S. administration seeking to reap the benefits from “military” sales to the People’s Liberation Army.

    President Clinton personally approved of the penetration of the U.S. aerospace industry by the Chinese Army. Documentation shows that Chinese General Shen Rougjun of COSTIND played a game of financial brinkmanship with Hughes and Loral while getting his son a classified position inside the U.S. space industry.

    According to U.S. Commerce Department documents, Gen. Shen met with Ron Brown and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz. President Clinton personally approved the meeting. The resulting espionage success of General Shen led directly to improved ICBM missile guidance and reliability for the Chinese Army.

    Get the real story behind the Chinese “Tiger Song” air defense system. Read how the Chinese Army penetrated the U.S. Defense Department and obtained an advanced air defense system that was re-exported to Iraq. The story includes detailed letters and meetings between Chinese General Ding Henggao and U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry.

    The Chinese have always been smarter, more devious and far more willing to pay tons of money to corrupt American politicians.

     

  63. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I read virtually every thing posted on here that I can read, but I will admit that my scrolling finger does cramp up at times.  And I’m not trying to dictate that we only discuss topics that I’m interested in.  I am suggesting that we try to pull back the curtain to see what is actually back there when these outrageous events occur in an effort to see that the other hand is doing while we are focused on the outrage.  For instance, we complain about drag story time and/or pornographic books in the school library; we even discuss the possibility that teachers supporting this stuff be dismissed.   But the hardest core conservatives in the Texas legislature are still beholding to the teacher’s union and are always demanding raises for them.  But what is the real story behind all of this – it’s not because people believe children should study porn.  It’s to dumb down our children’s morals to the point that such is no longer considered outrageous by the time they become adults.  And it’s working.  And who is behind that effort to destroy American values – at its core, it is our economic enemies.  Who wants to destroy our judicial system – just the lefties?  No, the Soros people of the world – again, our economic enemies.  And it’s working.

    So I don’t know why you are all outraged about my concerns when virtually everything we discuss relates to one or another of our enemies.  So no, I don’t read everything that everyone posts on here, but some serious discussions about why all these things are happening,  rather than just the usual knee jerk reactions are interesting.  The personal stories are the best parts of this blog in my opinion, and I consider everyone on here a friend.  If we cannot have friendly disagreements sometime, …  It’s not my blog, and I’m a guest here.  I try not to abuse the privilege, and generally the opinions that I express are my own and not those that someone else wrote for me.  So if you all want me gone, just say the word.

  64. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    El Gordo

    I don’t want you to leave this site and have never implied it.  I am simply baffled at times at the comments you make that seem to make no sense in the context of the subjects discussed here.

  65. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s not Lutherans, but those pesky Presbyterians who are the real terrorists.

    The Presbyterians are minor league wannabe’s in the Lutheran farm system. What, exactly is a “Presbyterian” anyway?

    Sounds like a bunch of splitter mumbo jumbo to me.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We don’t want you gone, ElGordo.

    But concentrating on 2 or 3 macro-issues is going to get very boring. And not everyone believes that some world-wide conspiracy based in Beijing and Moscow is responsible for all the ills of this country.

    I guess we shouldn’t take it so personally that you often come rolling in here saying we are wasting time sharing all of this so-called insignificant bullsh!t.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I do pretty damn good, but I don’t have hours on end to do the reading that I want and need to do to keep myself informed.

    I appreciate the other people here sharing stuff that I have missed. If I have already seen it, I move on to the next post. Likewise for things in which I have no interest.

  68. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I didn’t get anything much done today. The only thing I planned to do was to start sifting through documents related to my 2022 taxes, and I didn’t do any of that. Quick run to the grocery store, that was about it. A wonderful long nap.

    Manana, gang.

  69. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Here I am rolling in to read all the comments for today.  Good stuff as usual on many topics. Especially appreciated by me are all the links to sources bearing great interest and information of consequences vital to comprehending just how big a mess we as American people are allowing to blindly thrive.

    Regarding Wisconsin’s  Senator Joseph McCarthy’s long fight to expose the Russian communists influence in America’s national and state governments, in recent years it has been reluctantly acknowledged that he was right.   Long after the Senator had died.  It greatly pained the liberals to have to acknowledge that.

    My father was friends with Senator Joseph McCarthy and kept in touch with him for years.  My father having been a Wisconsin state Senator for three terms introduced him to the realities of politics of all kinds. Growing up on occasion I would overhear his phone conversations with politicians and business people on various topics as well as the communist invasion of the government.  Of course for a while the Russians were allies during WW2, and great interest about their intentions was discussed  frequently.

  70. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I do believe that it’s April Fools Day and the joke is, no weekend thread.

    About the “Big Picture” Tucker’s show last night was pretty good if you can find it.

    Meanwhile It’s time to make coffee, a little early but I need my coffee.

    Mornin’ Gang

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Weekend Open Comments is posted.

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