Katfish RIP – Monday Open Commentary

David Russell aka Katfish

March 25, 1955 – May 21, 2023


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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m still trying to process the news about Katfish, prayers go out to his family and friends. I know Shannon and Texpat will have a hard time with this, it never gets any easier. I guess we’ll have updates on just what happened but like GJT said, he died doing what he liked to do with his BACA brothers ans sisters. RIP Katfish.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Part of me is screaming out: ‘why can’t this bad stuff happen to the bad people instead of the good ones?!?’

    I understand that my ways are not HIS WAYS. This intellectual understanding does not soothe my lizard brain that just screams why. . . .

  3. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I am in North Dakota slowly making my way home.

    Very sad about Katfish, he will be sorrily missed.

     

  4. Tedtam Avatar

    Missing Katfish already.

    I let Texmo’s wife know about Katfish. Seemd her hubby and Katfish were friends outside of the blog universe as well. I let her make the decision to tell him or not. (Like I had a choice.) I asked if I could visit, and she said he’s in a lot of pain and sleeping a lot. Given my experience with MIL, he’ll be turning his focus inward and given his pain levels and heavy meds, may not even know if I was there. Not much longer. /Sad

    Y’all, can we hold off on any new bad news for a while? Stay safe and take care of yourselves.

  5. Tedtam Avatar

    I told Hubby that at least those two can visit together in Heaven.

  6. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    It is a not so cheerful Monday morning, dear Hamsters.  An overcast start to the day seems quite proper when folks are mourning the passing of a dear one.  Rest in peace, Katfish.

  7. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Last week I learned a friend I have known since elementary school passed away early April. Yesterday I learned a man from church from my childhood passed away. He was a man of love and service. Yesterday, of course, I learned of Katfish’s passing. Despite my never having had the privilege of meeting Katfish, the void and sadness of him passing was at the same level of the previous two passings. Once again, I would like to offer lots of prayers for surviving loved ones, particularly Shannon and Texpat and everyone else here. I hope Katfish’s son arrived well as well as all his family members.

     

    Life is precious. God bless.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Tedtam, TexMo became a BACA member a couple of years ago, glad you got in touch with him.

    Also Prayers for TexMo and family.

  9. Tedtam Avatar

    On a more hopeful note, I saw an article where doctors have discovered that a diabetes medicine may be helpful in solving addiction problems.

    Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?

    Earlier this year, she began taking semaglutide, also known as Wegovy, after being prescribed the drug for weight loss. (Colloquially, it is often referred to as Ozempic, though that is technically just the brand name for semaglutide that is marketed for diabetes treatment.) Her food thoughts quieted down. She lost weight. But most surprisingly, she walked out of Target one day and realized her cart contained only the four things she came to buy. “I’ve never done that before,” she said. The desire to shop had slipped away. The desire to drink, extinguished once, did not rush in as a replacement either. For the first time—perhaps the first time in her whole life—all of her cravings and impulses were gone. It was like a switch had flipped in her brain.

    As semaglutide has skyrocketed in popularity, patients have been sharing curious effects that go beyond just appetite suppression. They have reported losing interest in a whole range of addictive and compulsive behaviors: drinking, smoking, shopping, biting nails, picking at skin. Not everyone on the drug experiences these positive effects, to be clear, but enough that addiction researchers are paying attention. And the spate of anecdotes might really be onto something. For years now, scientists have been testing whether drugs similar to semaglutide can curb the use of alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opioids in lab animals—to promising results.

    /snip

    … But semaglutide could one day be more widely useful, as this class of drug may alter the brain’s fundamental reward circuitry. The science is still far from settled, though researchers are keen to find out more. At UNC, in fact, Hendershot is now running clinical trials to see whether semaglutide can help people quit drinking alcohol and smoking. This drug that so powerfully suppresses the desire to eat could end up suppressing the desire for a whole lot more.

    /snip

    …Semaglutide does not dull all pleasure, people taking the drug for weight loss told me. They could still enjoy a few bites of food or revel in finding the perfect dress; they just no longer went overboard. Anhedonia, or a general diminished ability to experience pleasure, also hasn’t shown up in cohorts of people who take the drug for diabetes, says Elisabet Jerlhag Holm, an addiction researcher at the University of Gothenburg. 

    /snip

    The long-term impacts of semaglutide, especially on the brain, remain unknown. In diabetes and obesity, semaglutide is supposed to be a lifelong medication, and its most dramatic effects are quickly reversed when people go off. … Doctors have noted a curious link between addiction and another obesity treatment: Patients who undergo bariatric surgery sometimes experience “addiction transfer,” where their impulsive behaviors move from food to alcohol or drugs. Bariatric surgery works, in part, by increasing natural levels of GLP-1, but whether the same transfer can happen with GLP-1 drugs still needs to be studied in longer trials. Semaglutide is a relatively new drug, approved for diabetes since 2017. Understanding the upshot of taking it for decades is, well, decades into the future.

    I’ve always said that we should focus as much or more on addiction as we do on breast cancer or heart disease.  The economic and social loss to this country is massive, due to addiction problems.  I’ve known so many family and friends with all sorts of chemical addictions, and seen the damage they can do.  Money to support families get snorted up noses or downed at bars (or home).  Being the daughter of a gambling and food addict, I’ve seen the stress that the shortage of money in the home can cause as well as the effects on my father’s health, and the resulting stress on the family.  Kleptomaniacs steal compulsively, and those “shortages” in the stores cause them to raise prices to cover the expense.  Those folks also end up in jail, becoming one more burden on our society and to their families.  How much productivity is lost because workers aren’t at their peak performance levels due to hangovers or being strung out at work?  Look at the streets of large cities and marvel at the human carnage due to drugs. And how much money fuels the mobs and cartels as our dollars go to pay for their product instead of say, food?

    This gives me hope.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Who remembers the Aloha Airlines 737 Convertible? 

    The aircraft had lots of hours on it but the root cause of the metal fatigue failure was the thousands of pressurization/depressurization cycles on the short Island hops.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh crap.

  12. Tedtam Avatar

    Junior has flown in for another visit.

  13. Tedtam Avatar

    Coffee & Covid:

    BRIDGE AND BORISES ☙ Monday, May 22, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, and Happy Monday, C&C! It’s a new week, and your roundup today includes: another FDA failure ends in historic fines and disgrace; loony price caps in Europe to “fight” inflation; Pentagon’s “accounting error” is good news for Ukraine, bad news for military inventories — but IS IT an error?; Kim Dotcom whistleblower adds stuffing to Biden terrorism theory; Chuck Todd pans the FBI; Rolling Stone reports Fox layoffs; and the Wall Street Journal exposes itself as a grotesque Bill Gates apologist.

    *WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    Last week, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Oxford University Removes Sackler Name From Buildings.” …

    The Sacklers own Purdue Pharmaceutical, maker of the safe and effective, Food and Drug Administration-approved painkiller Oxycontin. The CDC attributed half a million deaths to Oxy-related overdoses in the ten years between 1999 and 2019….

    In March, a court approved a $6 billion dollar settlement with the Sackler clan… in exchange for a complete release from civil liability. The settlement was significant because late last year — before eight U.S. state Attorneys General objected to the deal, the DoJ had asked the court to approve a much-lower $4 billion settlement that would have released the Sacklers from both civil AND criminal liability.

    …the current settlement also bans the Sacklers from the opioid industry and, together with Purdue, requires them to publicly disclose over 30 million documents, including some that were previously withheld as attorney-client privileged. Purdue Pharmaceutical will have to be dissolved or sold by next year (2024).

    … Presiding Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain called the settlement an “extraordinary” improvement on previous deals with the Sacklers, and he blasted the U.S Department of Justice as “reprehensible” for its continued opposition.

    /snip

    All this legal wrangling is quite fascinating, of course, and it makes the DoJ look as corrupt as everybody thinks it is, but how come nobody’s talking about the FDA, which was the captured agency that originally approved the drug? A drug that has addicted and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not more? When will we start considering the FDA’s role in these epic disasters?

  14. Tedtam Avatar

    Next up (emphasis mine):

    The Financial Times ran a story this weekend headlined, “Europe’s Politicians Impose Price Caps to Address Soaring Food Costs.” The subheadline explained, “High inflation sparks return of controversial measure that retailers say forces them to sell at a loss.”

    That “invisible hand” gets slapped by TPTB when their voting base gets a little testy.  Like when the voters realize the people they elect into office really don’t (a) have their best interests at heart, or (b) have the faintest clue what they’re doing.

    ...Next, remember that all this inflation was caused by Western governments taking advantage of the pandemic’s crisis to print money to fund every stupid idea they ever had.

    Now they are dealing with the inevitable consequences.

    /snip

    If a country’s current crop of leaders are ones with low IQs, the kind of zany, colorful politicians that get elected/selected during good times, then inflation and price controls are bound to surface somewhere.

    /snipo

    Setting fair prices is easy! You just need a strong government to put those greedy capitalists and opportunists in their places and — voilá! — the ailing economy will cough itself into new life, and start running smoothly and efficiently for the benefit of the people.

    But you knew there was a catch coming.

    The problem is with the law of supply and demand. Consider that title. It’s a “law.”…. It’s a law, because you can’t break it without going straight to economic jail.

    One of the first provisions in the law of supply and demand is, when planners fix prices, citizens experience scarcity. … when governments mandate low profits in one area of the economy, producers take their money out of that area, and invest it in other, more attractive areas.

    /snip

    Eventually scarcity will become a much bigger problem than inflation. Scarcity literally starves citizens. At that point, governments face even less attractive options than price controls: they can remove price controls and issue a new, de-valued currency to stop a gigantic post-control pricing spike, or they can nationalize key industries like agriculture, housing, and other life essentials.

    Nationalizing means taking those industries over and running them as a government service. But government is much less efficient than the private sector, so after nationalization, citizens will have to deal with scarcity anyway, plus lower quality, and worst, there’s nobody to sue when somebody dies after eating an unwashed, wormy apple with dangerous pesticide on it, because you can’t sue the government.

    All part of the plan, folks, just move along…nothing to see here…dang, where’s my copy of “1984”?

  15. Tedtam Avatar

    And what is happening over at Fox News (now)?

    Rolling Stone ran a story Friday headlined, “Fox News Just Axed Its Investigative Unit, Sources Say.” The subheadline explains, “More layoffs could still be on the way as the network tries to cut costs following its settlement with Dominion, insiders tell Rolling Stone.”

    The article reports that, following its $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, Fox has now dissolved its investigative unit. What would a modern news network need investigative reporters for anyways?

    “The rank and file journalists are getting let go. Meanwhile, upper management are sitting pretty while they are the execs responsible for the Dominion debacle,” one Fox employee told Rolling Stone. “We are the sacrificial lambs.”

    /snip

    In a tweet acknowledging the ratings decline, Megyn Kelly wrote, “My audience is calling them Foxweiser” — a reference to the significant decline in sales of Bud Light following its recent disastrous collaboration with cross-dresser Dylan Mulvaney, who identifies as a nine-year-old girl.

    On Friday’s podcast, Megyn shared the latest alarming news about Fox’s plummeting ratings, estimating that the network was only “left with about a third of their audience.”

    “I mean, that’s stunning,” Megyn said.

    Get woke, go broke: The iron law of media.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Human beings have always wanted to believe there is some miraculous cure out there for whatever problems are ruining their lives.  Witch doctors, shamans, snake-handling healers, late-night cable TV shysters, Big Pharma pharmacologists, etc.  People have wiped out their life savings chasing shysters and quacks peddling cures all over the world.

    Heart disease and cancer are not directly related to brain functions.  They can be the result of addictive behaviors though.  I am always skeptical of these “discoveries” especially anything related to manipulating the brain and the mind.  Our own federal government is energetically pursuing every kind of Orwellian mind-control process, high tech procedure and pharmaceutical tool to find ways to regulate the thoughts and opinions of Americans as it is.

    The Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) (anti-depressants) that have become so freely prescribed to millions of Americans, particularly teens and young adults, have all kinds of side effects the medical profession is either denying or ignoring.  The suicide rates and post-lockdown violence in that demographic is beyond alarming and I suspect Big Pharma is terrified the truth will eventually come out.

    This class of drugs was hard marketed as a “miracle breakthrough” in treating emotional and mental problems and yet, like COVID “vaccines”, they aren’t working like the geniuses said they would.  Each night, the TV is covered with endless drug ads not the least of which are new drugs to treat the side effects of the “miraculous” anti-depressant drugs that were supposed to be a cure-all.  I would laugh if it weren’t so sad.

    Proceed with extreme caution.

  17. Tedtam Avatar

    From C&C comments:

    Regarding engineered scarcity, it is coming . Every ounce of preparation on your part will be worth a pound of survival. Civilization – goes an old maxim – is only nine meals away from barbarism—Once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order.

    Our supply chain is an incredibly complex and incredibly fragile (fragility increases exponentially with complexity) global just-in-the-nick-of-time production and delivery system, and right now it is breaking down all across the world.

    Famine. It’s what’s for dinner. If you do not prepare.

    https://tritorch.com/famine

    ***

    Jar up as much meat as you can afford. Protein will be in short supply.

    >Where can I just get my supply for fentenyl to help out so I don’t have to endure this insanity?

    >>I’m sure the new arrivals on our border are bringing in a good supply.

    ***

    Coming to a country near you: John Kerry says American farmers are a big problem. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/john-kerry-targets-american-agriculture-with-stated-goal-of-combating-the-climate-crisis/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa

    ***

    I actually think the goal of most world governments at this point – certainly the ones in first world nations – is to completely destroy the economy of their respective countries. Price fixing contributes to that, as Jeff pointed out. If there is no profit for a famer, manufacturer, or company, they won’t waste their time producing food, goods or services. Why would they? When no one grows food, there’s an obvious problem. It’s quicker depopulation than the clot shot for sure, and you think we had riots in 2020? Starving people are dangerous.

    Worse, this whole situation leaves the people COMPLETELY dependent on the government, and there you have it, folks…. what do we call totalitarian governments that controls every aspect of your lives? I call it communism or Nazi Germany 2.0.

    >My take on it is that across the world nations are being run by really stupid people who knew one thing only and that is how to rise to the top in politics. If you read the history of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the parallels are remarkable. Dumb people, making repeated dumb decisions over extended periods until everything ceases to work. The world’s leaders are so dumb that they will literally burn down the house they live in.

    >No. They are not dumb, at least not the ones pulling the strings. Their minions, sure, but not them. They are just evil beyond any normal human comprehension. but do not ever think they don’t have a plan, sick though it may be.

    >I’d venture one step farther: the goal is depopulation. And if you think you’re going to survive easily, I’m happy to sell you a few bridges to help you get around.

    ***

    A Soviet man waits in line for hours for meat, when he finally get to the front there is none left. He snaps.

    “I am a patriotic Soviet citizen! I work for the state for thirty years! I fight in the great patriotic war! I don’t complain. And this is how I am treated? Dogs get treated better than this!”

    A man in a trench coat walks up to him, “Comrade, do not speak like this. You remember in the old days what would have happened for doing so” and he pantomimes a gun to the head using his finger.

    Frustrated the man returns home empty-handed. His wife greets him, “Are they out of meat again?” “Even worse” the man replies, “they are out of bullets”.

    ***

    My mother said exactly one useful thing in my life. It was about the great depression.

    “At first it was great because everything was so cheap. And then it was awful because the store shelves were empty.”

    ***

    Philanthropath: A sociopath masquerading as a philanthropist. [Referring to Bill Gates]

    ***

    One of my binge watches during the pandemic lockdown was the miniseries, “Dopesick.” This eye opening series (among other things) helped me to doubt the whole pharma/alphabet agency pandemic response. The Sacklers are evil people who deserve worse than they are getting.

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #10 SD:  I do remember that incident.  Nice recap on the video.

  19. Tedtam Avatar

    Texpat: Proceed with extreme caution.

    I agree.  Our last global experience with the “jump on the bandwagon” treatment should have taught us something.

    But this story is the first I’ve heard in a long time that gives hope that there may be a treatment for such a corrupting, widespread social plague.  As I said, between family and friends, I’ve experienced the negative side(s) of someone else’s addictions.  I’ve seen the damage to lives and families.  I’ve seen the painful struggles that one goes through, trying to free him/herself from the overwhelming desire for destructive behavior.  College Friend is one extreme example.  His brilliance in engineering work was always overshadowed by his chemical and other dependencies.  I knew a lady years ago who shared that her mother, who’s chemical of choice was champagne, was still sipping it through a straw as she died. My father, the gambling addict, literally gave himself his fatal injury while at his computer, gambling with money he didn’t have to spend.  He was trading his food money (one addiction) to satisfy his gambling addiction. (His chair rolled back, he fell off, hit his head on the edge of the desk which snapped his head backwards, giving him a spinal injury.  The subsequent infection, probably exacerbated by his poor health from 70+ years of 3-pack-a-day smoking and his very morbid obesity, is what finally took him out.)

    Addicts are not by themselves, evil people.  But the addiction causes untold pain to the addicts and people around them.

    Here’s hoping that more studies are conducted on the short- and long-term effects and side effects.

  20. Tedtam Avatar

    We need to just ban volcanoes.  Mexico City being abandoned by millions.

    Where will they all go?  Oh, wait…

  21. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The gorebullwarmongers, like John Effing Kerry, are evil to the core.  Remember it was none other than Kerry who lied about his experiences in Viet Nam and lied about what he saw others do.  He has been an evil POS his entire career and he answers to those far more evil than he.

    Man made climate change is the biggest fraud ever foisted on humanity; it is the ultimate power grab.  I shudder to think of what these ‘people’ are going to face when Judgement Day comes.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Information Warfare in New York
    /snip

    We know fictitious records exist in the rolls. We also know those records have been used to vote. On top of that, we know that records like those belonging to fictitious voters have been deleted. None of this is visible at the county board of elections level. This means an easily exploited opportunity exists to inject any number of illegally generated SBOEID numbers (which we know has been done), assign votes to them (which we know has been done), and then delete the evidence by deleting the SBOEID numbers associated with excess votes (also, this has been done).

    Were all three of these things done for a coordinated purpose? Or are they independent actions carried out for unrelated reasons? Regardless, fictitious records, cloned records, fictitious votes, and deletion of records all violate the law. This, ultimately is the issue. We know election fraud occurred. There is too much evidence to deny it with any credibility. When will someone in an appropriate position start following the law?

    I believe that this is one of the ways that the elections in 2020 and 2022 were stolen.  It is my opinion that Dominion voting systems are involved with Zuckerberg and Gates in a criminal conspiracy to commit and perpetuate voter fraud.

    h/t: ACE

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My screed is freed :>)

  24. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I had planed on posting this late yesterday but when I saw the news about Katfish I didn’t feel much like it.

    Well, we had a fine Fish Fry with our catch from the Farm Pond. Pat, my favorite sister came over and helped me with the frying, she’d batter em up and I’d fry them with my big Crawfish boiling burner in a 10 Qt pot complete with a deep basket. My wife took care of the inside work so we got R done pretty fast. We also had Hush Puppy’s, French fries and coleslaw. Good eating right there. Remember Life is Good. 😉

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    22 BC

    I don’t understand what happened there.  Your hyperlink was to a site called Zark Files, but when I freed it up to this page, the link takes you to American Digest.  The author does have a link down in the article to Zark Files although why would the article pick that up instead of the American Digest link ?  Weird.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My #22

    Never mind.  I figured out what happened.  Commenters need to be sure to de-link all the links but one when you’re quoting an article.  WP is easily confused some days.

  27. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Ozempic was, I am pretty sure, one of the medicines I tried for diabetes. It made my throw up profusely. Other medicines gave me the runs. I just need to (very seriously) watch my sugars; which I don’t do.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    24 Darren

    But just think, Darren, you were able to kick those heroin and pot addictions !

    (<;

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    A solemn morning, as we bid farewell to Katfish. I am glad to have seen him at the most recent gathering at Tedtam’s Dome.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The second picture in the heading above was taken at Tedtam’s, May 2, 2022 I believe.

  31. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Texpat!!!

    😆 😆 😆

    Just like a police I flushed the pot and heroin down the toilet.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    26 Shannon

    The photo of Katfish was taken at Tedtam’s home on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 4:21:32 PM.

  33. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Senior trying to reset Password. 

    Notice; Some slightly colorful language in there.

  34. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #28

    😀 😀

  35. Tedtam Avatar

    Got another tub put together: transplanted a bean plant that is just having a hard time in its original space; shasta daisies (my “happy” flower), and nasturtiums.

    Nasturtium leaves and flowers are edible.  They are supposed to have a bit of a peppery flavor.  The seeds can be dried and ground for a pepper substitute.

    And I repotted Mom’s amaryllis.  It’s been neglected and root bound for a while.  It has a little room now.

    Then I sprayed Bt all over my garden.  The caterpillars are getting vicious, especially on my broccoli.  I think the brocc is a lost cause, now.  Lost two more ‘maters to the crawlies, too. /slow burn

  36. Tedtam Avatar

    Hubby has informed me that he’s getting my car inspected, so I can get my new tags.  Finally fixed the problem instead of just replacing O2 sensors.  I’m now the proud owner of a new catalytic converter.

  37. Tedtam Avatar

    I harvested some sweet mint, to be dried.  I also collected another green bell pepper. Dangit, I forgot to get the banana peppers….

    My asparagus beans have put out their first beans, so I’m waiting for them to get big enough.  The cantaloupe and cucumbers are blooming like crazy, but no fruit yet.  I was gong to work on a better trellis for one of my ‘maters, but I thought I’d had enough fun for today.  It can wait.

  38. Tedtam Avatar

    He’s now banned in China.

    Funny guy.

  39. Tedtam Avatar

    Picked up this smart retort story over yonder:

    I was riding in a car with one of my buddies and he was way over the speed limit on a pretty empty county highway.  To give you some idea, he was going 90ish with a 55 mph limit. Well, suddenly we hear a patrol car behind us and we pull over.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Look at it this way, Tedtam. When we’re all on the Bill Gates Insect Diet, you’ll have plenty of caterpillars for snacks.

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

    And this just in.

    they also won a second one for pretending to want secure borders.

  42. Tedtam Avatar

    Well, it didn’t pass inspection.  The O2 sensor went off during the inspection.  The ‘verter sounds horrible – possibly an exhaust leak?

    Hubby will get with our mechanic and try again tomorrow.

  43. Tedtam Avatar

    Thinking about the above come-back, I am reminded of one of my brothers.  “C” was two kids above me in the family line up, hated authority, but was wicked smart.

    Scenario:  School bus

    Brother C (“BC”) was good friends with another problem kid, “K”.  They were rough housing at the back of the bus when Margaret, the bus driver that BC detested, stopped the bus and told them to quit.  BC flipped her off, and she tried to be smart with him by asking “Do you have a license to shoot that bird?”

    BC promptly pulled out his dove hunting license and said, “Yes, I do.  It’s a license.  To shoot birds.”

    Scenario: 9th grade English class, taught Senora Thomas, the very outspoken and proud-of-it Chicano teacher. She was famous for yelling “Silencio!” to her classes.  From down the hall.  Remember also, that BC was #5 in a train of kids from our family. We quite often recycled teachers.

    First day of class:  Senora Thomas is calling roll: “BC!?”

    BC: “Here.”

    ST: “Are you M’s brother?”
    BC: “Yes:

    ST: “Well, I don’t think  very highly of him.”

    BC: “Well, he doesn’t think very highly of you, either.”

    That one….that one is LEGEND.

    Senora Thomas managed to wiss off my brother.  Remember that he doesn’t like authority, and Senora Thomas was a particularly hated target of his disdain.  He snuck off quite often during lunch hour with friends, drinking beer and returning to her class drunk.  He refused to do homework. He was trying to get her to flunk him.  I give her credit – she knew BC was extremely intelligent.  She gave him a B in her class.

    Man, that ticked him off.  Yes, he is certainly one of a kind.

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

    If a story is not reported by the mr propagandist potato head media did it happen?

  45. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #38 Ms TT

    Well, it didn’t pass inspection.  The O2 sensor went off during the inspection.

    Im sure they already have but make sure the sensors are OEM. At this point I think I’d get them from the dealer.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GJT

    Amen.

    There are certain things that should be OEM. That’s one of them.

    No guarantees, but you just have to suck it up and pay dealer price.

    Unless you just simply enjoy spinning your wheels with cheap, aftermarket crap that isn’t saving you a dime, but costing you more in the long run.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GM has had a very long run of bad headlight wires/plugs.

    I know from experience.

    Finally bought bought a replacement from the dealer after two tries with aftermarket.

    If you pay attention, you see a lot of GM trucks from the late Twenty-teens with a headlight out.

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We had a 2012 Chevy service truck with the 6.0 engine that ate us up with O2 sensors. It was at the mechanic shop we used, they kind of split the costs on the additional parts unnecessarily replaced parts due to bad, or ECM couldn’t read, after market sensors.

  49. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Pacemaker procedure scheduled for 9 this morning, some kind of equipment problems – they said. They need to get it done, she had one pause for 5 seconds today, most have been 3-4 seconds. Doc said they will get it done tomorrow even if it’s after hours, so we have no set time. Might be a long day with no food or drink.

  50. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #45

    *Meant to say procedure scheduled this morning was postponed.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good grief, GJT.

    Fight on!!!

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’d like to correct the previous reports that were in error.

    Katfish’s accident happened in Grimes County near Anderson.

    Information continues to be hard to come by.

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    Adee

    GJT and Mrs. GJT

    Good Grief, Charlie Brown GJT & Mrs.,

    What a management mess for something that apparently was planned properly and then fell apart piece by piece.  Hanging around a surgery department at all hours and waiting for some coherent info on what is supposed to happen when, then finding out something else has gone wrong is a nightmare.  After that fiasco nobody could blame the patient and spouse to gather belongings and march out of the place, saying on the way out that the Hospital Administrator was going to hear about it ASAP.

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