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Democrats across the nation are expressing deep concerns about the potential impact of the Hollywood Writers Guild strike on the normalization of degeneracy in popular culture. As the strike looms, Democrats fear that without the steady stream of morally questionable content coming out of Hollywood, society might actually have a chance to, dare we say it, normalize healthy and responsible behavior.

For years, Democrats have relied on Hollywood to push the boundaries of what is considered acceptable in society. From promoting pedophilia to glamorizing substance abuse, Hollywood has been instrumental in championing a culture of degeneracy that aligns perfectly with the progressive agenda. However, with the writers’ strike threatening to disrupt this carefully crafted narrative, Democrats are scrambling to find alternative ways to advance sex with children.

plus this,

The Democratic National Committee has even begun reaching out to celebrities who are not part of the Writers Guild, begging them to continue producing morally questionable content in order to maintain the status quo. It’s a desperate move, but one that highlights the party’s deep concern over losing their grip on the culture war.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The O.C. topic is obviously satire but it has a lot of truth in it. I guess Genesius Times is like Babylon Bee?

    Along these lines my wife has some shows she’s been watching for years and is getting aggravated that they’ve started injecting gays and biracial characters into the shows were they’re not really needed and add nothing to the shows. Also the other night we watched  A man Called Otto with Tom Hanks and it was pretty good until about half way the introduced a Trans, a young female pretending to be male who gets thrown out of her family’s house. They deliberately ruined a good, until then, wholesome show.  The left/woke crowd destroys everything it touches.

    In any case, Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and Shannon, I meant to ask you about yesterdays’ O.C. topic;  “My Avatar” I’m guessing Old Ironsides?

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang! Graveyard Dead! Am I good or what?

    Well if anyone wakes up we got .41″ of rain yesterday and it was much appreciated. I just know that y’all were waiting on my report. 😉

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Good morning Dave.  Now get your butt outside and do some work, ya lazy bum!

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>scrams>>>>>>>>>>>>>quickly>>>>>>>>>>>>

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #4 Bones 😀

  6. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #3 Sorry SuperDave – I’ve been up since 6 but the freeze dryer had shut off, and I was sorta busy… then decided I’d get more done if I took a coffee break  😉

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’d sure love to have this baby; 1980’s Lord Nelson Victory Tugboat.

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just getting going, since I had another bad sleep night and didn’t want to take a medical aid.

    My numbers this morning are better. Down almost a half pound, ketones up slightly, and sugar down from yesterday. Not fabulously so, but…progress!

    I’ve been lazy about my diet for a while, it’ll take a while to get me back where I need to be.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    There goes Bsue again, rubbing my nose in the fact that she has Nat.

    Have y’all tried rehydrating and eating any of your meat yet?

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I thought I had a router problem last night – and I still might – but she’s working this morning.  I was about to tuck myself into bed when I realized I didn’t reboot my computer.

    I’ll try that one later; this one connects just fine.

    Hubby said no rain today, so I’m gonna try to get some gardening done, but I need to finish my morning routine first, treadmill (missed that yesterday), and stretch (missed that, too, and my back needs it).

    So, coffee in hand and the ESSBGS strapped about my waist…

  11. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    *Ironic faux Headline*

    “Prepper STARVES to death having no time to EAT while prepping!”  *snikker*

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BAIL AND SAIL ☙ Wednesday, May 17, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Roundup:

    Good morning, C&C! It’s Wednesday, and our roundup includes: First China, now Africa tries to broker Ukraine peace deal while Zelensky stays anywhere but in Ukraine; Russian hypersonic missile seems to have beaten the Patriot missile system — but what does it mean?; NIH announces development of new “universal” mRNA vaccine for flu, but it gets even worse; New York City creaks under the strain of illegal migrants; Feinstein and Fetterman stink up the Senate; and a nice heartwarming video for starting your day.

    News:

    It seems Africa is flexing some political muscle.  Somehow, they managed to make this administration seem irrelevant.

    According to The Hill, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he’d called both Putin and Zelensky over the weekend, and they each agreed to attend meetings with leaders from six African countries in Moscow and Kiev, respectively. President Ramaphosa will join leaders from Egypt, Zambia, Senegal, Congo and Uganda who make up the peace delegation to Russia and Ukraine.

    South Africa was one of a handful of countries that abstained from the UN vote condemning Russia’s invasion, and is widely seen as a Moscow ally. But Egypt and a couple of the other countries on the list did condemn the Russian actions.

    Childers notices that Zelensky has avoided returning home ever since the failed drone strike.  It’s good to sleep in the beds of powerful friends, when your own bed has become a target.  I’m just guessing.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Netflix sent me this; Call me Kate 

    I may have to check it out.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Talk about a complicated headline!

    Do our generals have any idea what they are doing? I ask because another Proxy War story of great interest appeared yesterday in the UK Daily Mail, headlined “Ukraine Shoots Down Six of Putin’s ‘Unstoppable’ Hypersonic Missiles as Russia Hits Kyiv With ‘Exceptionally Complex’ Attack That ‘Destroyed US Patriot Air Defense System’.”

    /snip

    But most analysts agreed that the video appears to show at least two hypersonic Kinzhal missiles hitting their target: the Patriot battery. Reporters later asked John Kirby to confirm whether the Patriot had been destroyed or damaged, and in his typically nonplussed, arrogant style, Kirby shrugged and said, “if it got damaged in the attack, the U.S. will fix it.”

    Kirby completely missed the point. Probably on purpose.

    Some reporters suggested that other US officials were quietly willing to admit the Patriot system had at minimum been damaged in the attack:

    /snip

    Now, cast your mind all the way back to last week, when the Ukrainians triumphantly claimed to have shot down a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile — using a Patriot battery. When you combine last week’s story with yesterday’s story, it begins to look a lot like the Russians are playing a game of cat and mouse, testing the Patriot batteries using different strategies to try to figure out how best to defeat the American missile defense system.

    And if the Russians DO figure out how to beat the Patriot system, we’re going to have much bigger problems on our hands than Ukraine. I sure hope our generals can spare a moment from trading makeup tips, and consider whether it is a good idea or not to continue dumping our highest tech into the Proxy War for the Russians and anybody else to toy with.

    Maybe we should stop trying to find out who has the stiffest missiles.

    Maybe we should try to figure out better ways to defend ourselves against a growing technological threat instead of focusing on pronouns and integrating sexually confused fellas into the military.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I saw the story about a new “universal” mRNA flu vaccine trial.  Run!  Run for the hills! RUNNNNNN!!!!

    (Emphasis mine)

     On Monday, the National Institutes of Health issued a cheerful press release titled, “Clinical Trial of mRNA Universal Influenza Vaccine Candidate Begins.” The sub-lead stated, “Trial will test the experimental vaccine for safety and its ability to induce an immune response.”

    Wait a sec. Right there’s your first problem. “Ability to induce an immune response” is not the same as “preventing disease,” or even “reducing severity” of disease, whatever that means. Injecting topsoil or lemonade mix also induces an immune response, but that doesn’t mean it protects anyone from taking a dirt nap or catching scurvy.

    These scientists. S.M.D.H.

    Anyway, the NIH’s proud press release described the “clinical trial of an experimental, [mRNA, quadrivalent,] universal influenza vaccine” developed, not by big pharma, but by the government itself. In fact, the new “universal” vaccine was developed by Fauci’s old team, the boys over at the NIAID, the crack team who seems to be all involved with DoD’s bioweapons development, purely for defensive reasons, of course, and not that it has anything whatsoever to do with the new mRNA flu vaccine, no, don’t be a silly goose.

    You don’t need to study any of this stuff. Leave it to the government experts. Keep playing your cell phone games, aren’t they fun?

    /snip

    But what’s so interesting is that the GOVERNMENT is developing this drug, not the pharmaceutical companies. Why? Why is the U.S. government getting into the pharmaceutical business? …

    What I’m especially wondering is: are the regulatory rules different, maybe less stringent, for government study researchers as opposed to private sector researchers? Or is this all because the government is completely shielded from liability for jab injuries by sovereign immunity?

    On the other hand, maybe you find it reassuring that the government is developing experimental vaccines instead of big pharma. …Maybe you think we should just put the government in charge of everything.

    Maybe. Or maybe you’d be crazier than a sprayed roach if you thought that stuff.

  16. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #11 Katfish – you are too funny… and I don’t usually eat WHILST I am  “prepping” but trust me – I was drinking coffee LOL

  17. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) shreds the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Some woman in a domestic dispute called the police and/or the prosecutors’ office in the next county over.  Starting after 10:30 last night, my cell phone started blowing up with messages.  The DA’s office and some “victim identification” agency speaking only in Spanish began calling every 15 minutes until I had 8 messages.  When I tried to call them back, it gave me the same recorded message.  I finally blocked the number.  I did call and leave a message with the DA’s office that they have the wrong number.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up, Childers takes on the sweet, sweet schadenfreude enveloping the NYC issue with immigrants.

    It seems that it’s real easy to proudly proclaim your home a “sanctuary city” and beat your political chest and preen before the pool of liberal (I hate the word “progressive,” they are anything but) voters.  The virtue signaling – including the voters as well as the pols – makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy.  Yes, being a sanctuary city is a very, very good thing to be.

    Until someone calls your bluff.  Just like that – the title of sanctuary city isn’t fun any more.  No more warm fuzzies.  No more preening before the camera.  The reality of a wave of unasked-for humanity with hands out and third world diseases smacks you off of your knees and you fall into the surf.  And they are getting a tiny fraction of what the border cities are getting.

    They’ve been Texafied.  A little bit anyway.  Welcome to the border state condition, you politically correct idjits.

    Anyway, enough of me – let’s see what kind of analysis and snark Mr. C. has on the subject:

    Then on Thursday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he was asking a judge to reconsider the city’s “right to shelter” law. The Mayor explained, “We are now in court now, today, asking the judge to revisit this law to deal with this humanitarian crisis because, even when they decided to put in place that law, no one thought they would be dealing with a humanitarian crisis of this proportion.”

    No. They thought they could spread some sweet tax money around to their buddies running fake charities supposedly helping immigrants. They never thought they’d ever actually have to DO anything. Now the City can be sued by migrants if it doesn’t immediately put them up someplace.

    Nice job, geniuses.

    In order to comply with its own right-to-shelter rules, which force the City to immediately find private rooms for illegal migrants, the City has been housing migrants in luxury hotels, City rec centers, and now public school gymnasiums, alarming parents.

    It seems the voters are concerned about putting these illegals into their schools.  What?! No helping hand to the poor, impoverished, and diversified folks?  Protests are sprouting up.  For once, the protests aren’t against Trump. 

    “We support asylum-seekers, not on school grounds,” chanted the students, carefully threading the virtue-signaling minefield by first showing support for illegal migrants and only THEN going all NIMBY.

    Childers asks: Where are they going after being kicked out of their luxury hotel rooms, school gyms, etc?  And who is paying for this transfer of warm bodies to red states (probably) and /sex/ slavery (for many of them).  Mr. C. answers, most logically – us.

    It is noted that Biden has dropped Mayor Adams from his campaign advisory board, too.  I’m guessing Adams repeatedly spouting the line that “Biden has failed us” didn’t go over so well.  The truth hurts.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up, Mr. C. comments on the “senior day care” center that is our DC government.

    Feinstein, after being absent for 3 months (fully vaxxed for WLR and shingles) has finally recovered from her shingles attack.  And she denies being absent for 3 months.  She actually said she had been in her seat, working.

    Her pictures is awful.  She has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.

    Then there’s Fetterman, trying to show everyone he’s up to the task.  His buddies entrusted the microphone to him – big mistake: https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1658518596132143120

    The problem was, Fetterman’s damaged brain can’t hold the words together long enough to finish a sentence.

    The transcript is even better than the video. Fetterman, wielding his glasses dramatically and pointing emphatically, asked the following, highly-extended question:

    Is it staggering? Is it a staggering responsibility, that, that the head of a bank, could literally, could literally crash our economy. That’s astonishing! That’s like if you have, I mean like, and, and, they also realize is that, that, that, now they have, it’s in guaranteed, a guaranteed, way to be saved. By no mat-, again, by no matter, no mat-, by how? You know. So, it’s, it’s, you know, isn’t it appropriate that they, those kinds of controls be more stricter? Prevent this kind of thing from going? Or should we just go on, just bailing and sailing whoever bank, regardless of how, how, er, there’s, their conduct is.
    You know, uh, uh, I’ll give you an example. The Republicans, uh, want to give a work requirement for SNAP. Your know, for uh, uh, uh, a hungry family has to have these, these kind of penalties, or this some kinds of word, working, required, req-, shouldn’t YOU have a working requirement? After we sail your bank, with billions of your bank?
    Because they seem to be pre-, preoccupied uh, when, then SNAP, ah, requirements for works for hungry people, but not about protecting the tax-, the tax-papers, you know, that will bail, no matter, whatever does about a bank that crashes.

    I read somewhere that the pharmacists who fill prescriptions and deliver them to the Capitol warns that we’d be shocked at the number of dementia, and other similarly alarming prescriptions, are being sent to the folks who run our country.

    Maybe we should make it a law that every lawmaker must pass a cognitive proficiency test, every year.  But the foxes live in the hen house, and that ain’t likely to happen.

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    HA! The CNN of Beers!

    😀

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Leftists Scheme To Trans The Kids Through Abortion Laws, And Too Few Republicans Have Noticed

    You can hardly blame most people for not noticing. By all appearances, the woke left has been on the retreat as of late. Poll after poll has shown that the GOP’s new focus on parental rights and protecting children from gender ideology is extraordinarily popular. Dozens of states have taken action to roll back the transgender agenda, protecting women’s sports and prohibiting transgender surgeries for kids. And the entire right — from Donald Trump to Ron DeSantis to Kevin McCarthy to The Heritage Foundation — has committed itself to this cause.

    but the new strategy on the Left is being executed quietly and furtively to avoid attention from conservatives,

    How will a judge interpret “reproductive decisions”? Transgender medical interventions inevitably involve the alteration of male and female reproductive biology. Children undergoing what the left calls “gender transition” are given chemical-castration drugs, injected with the opposite sex’s reproductive hormones, and ultimately put on a path toward genital surgery. It’s not difficult to imagine an activist judge deciding that this process counts as one of the unspecified “reproductive decisions” the law contemplates. Laws curbing such medical interventions for minors have already been enjoined on far shakier grounds than that.

    Remember the media campaign after the 2022 elections last November describing the weak victory of the Republican Party as attributable to conservative opposition to abortion and overturning Roe v Wade ?  It was very clever and subtle, but it convinced a lot of gullible fools on the Right that abortion was the reason they lost.

    We’ll just stay quiet on the abortion issue because we won the Dobbs decision at SCOTUS so everything is okay.

    The campaign was successful because it had the effect of scaring Republicans from taking public stands on the issue in the near future and especially 2024 just in time for the Democrats’ introduction of these vague, squishy state constitutional amendments across the country.  Planned Parenthood is, of course, deeply involved in this plan.

     

  23. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP @ 9:50 – Not enough FRONT ROW seats in HeII!     ∞

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I finished my treadmill and glanced outside to find two peahens have entered my backyard.

    Just don’t go pecking at my garden.

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I found my cap.

    😉

  26. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. I need to “get a move on”, as the old folks used to say. I made it through the weekend, but must go to the store today, or face rebellion from my yard friends. We just barely made it through last night.

    Billy Cat seems to have bunked in the gazebo last night — based on seeing him there when I shut down last night, and also there when I got up this morning. The patio appeared to be wet again, so it seems to have rained a bit more overnight.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    SuperD

    That. Is. Awesome.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Time to drown myself in mosquito spray and venture out into the yard.

    I have enough paper shreds to load another tub, and I also need to work on trellising my ‘maters and pole beans.

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #23

    Dave, that’s a keeper!

     

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When I was working on the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ‘Disloyal Military’ investigation, I predicted that Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr. would be selected as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The media is now reporting that Biden will indeed pick Brown to replace Milley. And as bad as Milley was, expect Brown to be much worse. Last year, Brown, alongside Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones, the first gay and Filipino woman in her role, and other leaders, signed their names to one of the most shocking and destructive racist documents ever produced by the modern military.

    The topic of the Air Force memorandum was officer quotas set by race and gender.

    and one can guess where this goes,

    Brown’s quotas limit the number of white officers to 67% and cut white men down to 43%.

    The Air Force officer corps is currently 77% white: getting it down to 67%, a reduction of 10%, would require serious effort to purge white officers and bar the doors to any new ones.

    Reducing the number of white men in the officer corps to a minority, 43%, would cripple the service and wipe out generations of talent: especially when 86% of pilots are white men.

    and,

    In 2022, the [readiness] rates fell to an outrageous 54%. That’s barely 1 in 2 available planes. In a major war, rates like these mean we would lose and hundreds of thousands of our people could die.

    plus this,

    A recent wargame predicted that we could lose 900 planes in a clash with China over Taiwan with the Air Force losing as much as a third of its fighter/attack strength. Readiness rates like those on Brown’s watch and the loss of the talented pilots he wants to see gone because of the color of their skin and their sex would be the margin between victory and catastrophic defeat.

     

  31. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #17 – BUY that Senator a beer! (mebbe even a KEG!)

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Lawrence Person quotes this paywalled article from The Texan website:

    A landmark local government preemption bill cleared its second hurdle Tuesday as House Bill (HB) 2127 was passed by the Texas Senate, with a few amendments.

    Dubbed the “Texas Regulatory Consistency Act,” the bill prohibits municipalities from approving regulations that exceed state law in nine different sections of code: Agriculture, Business & Commerce, Finance, Insurance, Labor, Local Government, Natural Resources, Occupations, and Property.

    The bill states that any regulation specifically enumerated in state code is regulatable by municipalities, and anything else is not, a strategy called “field preemption.” Up until this session, the state had opted for “conflict preemption,” a strategy of addressing specific policies adopted by localities after the fact.

    It’s the difference between blasting with a shotgun and firing with a rifle.

    I’m surprised this has succeeded this far.  When it came up for committee hearings, the Texas Municipal League, Democrat and Republican mayors and other local officials went to Austin to testify against it.

    This is aimed at trying to rein in some of the lunacy going on in Austin, Houston and other large cities.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Separatists fed up with Trudeau want province to break away from Canada, become 51st state

    An advocacy group in Alberta, Canada, is trying to educate residents of the province about what it argues would be the benefits of breaking off from the country to join the U.S. as its 51st state.

    “I find myself having an affinity toward the U.S. more than Canada because of the freedom, Constitution and just the entire republican system versus the monarchy here, which is really a pseudonym for dictatorship,” a source with the Alberta 51 Project told Fox News Digital.

    Founded in 2022, the project is “dedicated to supporting education to all Albertans on why we should become the 51st state of the United States of America,” according to its website. About one-fifth of Canadians in various provinces believe they would be better off under the U.S. government, according to a poll done by Research Co. earlier this year.

    This is one way to get Texanadian back in the USA.

  34. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Afternoon Hamsters,

    Up and about here reading Hambone at a reasonable hour today, and it is full of great posts on items of news mostly unavailable in local media (take that, Chronicle).

    #19 Tedtam’s comments on Mrs. Feinstein and Mr. Fetterman take your breath away…. I hadn’t seen a recent pic of Mrs. Feinstein until yesterday.  Yikes, more like death warmed over.  However having had shingles years ago I can sympathize with anyone who suffers it.  Call it a double whammy of the chicken pox virus in its most vicious form.

    As for Mr. Fetterman, umm that stroke really did scramble his brain further than it must have been pre-stroke.  Hey voters in Pennsylvania, look-see what you have done by electing him.  If y’all have recall in your state, get busy starting on it. Having voted for him makes everyone who did so look to be total fools, cubed.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Yea for Alberta.  The western provinces of Canada are much more like us in our Midwest and far West than they are like eastern Ontario and the rest of the Eastern Provinces.  British Columbia in the west would likely not want to come since it is pretty much like our current messed up west coast states.

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I spent about 4 hours in the Sun today. Got a lot of gardening done, which I haven’t been able to do for the past few days because of all the rain. I’m now out of the shower, and I looked at my arms. I’m getting a very definite tan line from my tank tops. I’m also attaining that color skin that made hubby think that I was a Mexican when he first met me.

    We Sicilians.. we can pass.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Wait for it…

    https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1657479545153368065?s=20

  38. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #32 – Ya reckon fido wanted to go swimmin just as little bit?       😉

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Evening, y’all. I had a nice long nap, then got up to feed hungry mouths everywhere I looked. After the rainy days, Billy seems to have gone back to the adjacent back yard, although I haven’t spotted where he curls up over there. I think there is also one young raccoon that holes up in that yard, and comes out to eat at Chez Harp earlier than any of the adult toonies.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yesssssss!

    Bill banning puberty blockers, hormone treatments for trans kids sent to Texas governor

    -Texas Tribune

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Authored by New Braunfels Republican Sen. Donna Campbell, SB 14 would prohibit trans Texans under the age of 18 from accessing transition-related medical treatments including puberty blockers, hormone therapies and surgeries — though surgeries are rarely performed on kids.

    The bill would also require trans youth who are already getting this care to be “weaned off” in a “medically appropriate” manner. This is slightly out of step with the abrupt cutoff mandated by the version the Senate approved last month, but the upper chamber has chosen not to ask for a conference committee to iron out the difference.

    In pushing for SB 14, Campbell and other backers have disputed the research and science behind transition-related care. They also say the legislation is an effort to save Texas families from health care providers who are taking advantage of a “social contagion” and pushing life-altering treatments on kids who may later regret taking them.

    “We are the Legislature — our job is to protect people,” Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, said. “We protect children against lots of things. We don’t let them smoke. We don’t let them drink. We don’t let them buy lottery cards. … And so we are doing the right thing.” – Texas Tribune

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Incredible news, Shannon.

    I don’t know who did what to force this through or how dastardly it might be, but I’m glad they did it.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well, the Lege is running out of time. We’ll just have to see if they get any of the other conservative priorities through.

    I was wrong on this issue. I never believed that it would happen. I guess some of those flaccid pencil RINOs in the House were reading their emails.

  44. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We’re getting a good rain. It started about dark after a sunny day and we’ve got almost an inch (.94″)  last count. Lost of thunder boomers so it’s been nice. In other news we are planning on going fishing in the morning weather permitting so I got the old Jon Boat out and pressure washed it, lashed onto the top of the mule and took it to the big pond. I put out my minnow trap and it was slam full in about 2 hours.  I also dug around in my worm farm and found a whole bunch of fat wigglers. FWIW; I don’t baby my worm farm, it’s just a 100 gallon stock tank filled with topsoil and leaves. And no, it don’t take much to amuse this ole Redneck. 😀

  45. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Eve Arden ( Our Miss Brooks) ~ Vivian Vance ( Ethel Mertz)

  46. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #35 #36 That is pretty damn hard to believe but I’m glad they pulled it off. I do wonder how it happened though.

    I was wrong on this issue. I never believed that it would happen. I guess some of those flaccid pencil RINOs in the House were reading their emails.

    I was wrong also.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    With nothing on TV worth watching, I’m watching Lidia Bastianich cook her glorious orthodox Italian cuisine.

    Have watched her for years on public television. Right now she’s making an incredible fish stew. With Grouper, clams, and shrimp.

    Oh my.

    LidiasItaly.com

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    :barf:

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I did some grocery shopping this afternoon. Found some thrift store items I wanted, then to Aldi.  I was in line to check out and was waiting my turn.

    If I’m moving, I’m usually okay.  Standing still, not so much.  As I’m  patiently waiting for the gentleman in front of me to get checked out, a lady who had checked out before interrupted his checkout to complaint about something on her receipt.  The cashier had to stop what she was doing and tend to the girl. We all kept patiently waiting until she got her $5.40 refund.  The cashier went back to completing the gentleman’s order, and began to work on mine.  I knew I didn’t have much longer before spasms started to kick in.

    Halfway through my checkout, the lady came back with her receipt again, declaring she was still owed something.  The cashier kept telling her that the lady that she wasn’t including the sales tax.  Swipe an item. Talk to the lady.  Swipe another item. Lady continues to argue.

    I finally had enough and told the lady that I had a back problem and that if I didn’t get checked out soon, I was going to be in pain, and could she please wait until after I’d been checked out?  Receipt wielding lady flounced back to her perch by her groceries and talked angrily into her phone for another ten minutes as I tried to sack and load my groceries between spasms of pain.  She finally left without her change.

    Then I had to go by Wal-Mart and pick up items I couldn’t get at Aldi.  By the time I got through, I was hanging on the basket for dear life.  I came home and Hubby helped me haul everything in and I laid down after taking a muscle relaxant.  Finally got to eat dinner.  Gonna relax a little more and then see if I can study a bit.  Class is tomorrow night, and I have a busy day tomorrow.

    That dang lady.  I’d be in better shape had she waited until after I completed my checkout.

  50. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Now just whip up some fish tacos to sop it up with

    :barfx2:

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Shannon:

    My Dad was in love with Lidia, I think.

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Right to his face.

    Good for them.  The students, I mean.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GJT (44 & 42)

    Are you a fish hater in general? Or what?
    Fish stew is just a different version of  gumbo. Gumbo hater, too?

    You ever tried a fish taco? Do you hate all fried fish? Or just that wrapped in a flour tortilla?

     

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Please note this is good-natured push back. Not an attack on your Id.

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I pixture fish soup as bunch of fish boiled in water, don’t know why fish tacos sound so disgusting to me. Yep, love gumbo, all kinda fried, grilled fish. Go figure lol.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If I’m moving, I’m usually okay.  Standing still, not so much.

    Amen. Standing on concrete is the devil.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Be brave. Find a good fish taco.

    Eeee’s good, gringo.

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam & Shannon

    Hell, it took me almost 36 hours to be able to leave the house and go to the grocery store late this afternoon.  I was supposed to go to Costco for a bunch of stuff and wasn’t up to it.  It’s been very rough the last couple of weeks.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I know. Praying constantly for you to have some kind of relief.

  60. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #50 Shannon,

    Same here.  Also get up stiff for several steps if I’ve been sitting very long, even in a comfortable chair or couch.

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