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Monday Truth Reckoning Open Comments

The Supreme Court recently ruled against the use of race in college admissions at both public and private universities. In response, many progressives melted down and claimed this would herald an end to racial progress and sabotage the prospects of black Americans.

But as it turns out, a plurality of black people approve of the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Overall, 59% of Americans approve of the ruling, a new The Economist/YouGov survey reveals. Yet among black Americans, 44% approve of it while just 36% disapprove. (21% said they weren’t sure). That means more black respondents approve of the Supreme Court’s ruling against Affirmative Action than disapprove. 

You might be wondering: Why wouldn’t black people want to preserve a system that helps black applicants? Well, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is black and joined the ruling against Affirmative Action, explained his line of thinking extensively in his concurring opinion.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    But as it turns out, a plurality of black people approve of the Supreme Court’s ruling.

    That’s something you won’t hear in the Lamestream Media. When it comes to the Race Baiters and Hustlers I always think of the soft bigotry of low expectations and sadly they don’t see this, well the professional Hustlers do but not the virtue signalers.

    It’s Monday and time to get this week moving, wake up slackers! My, the coffee is especially good this morning.

    SO! Mornin’ Gang

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Everybody, all together now, say Happy Birthday to Shannon !

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Happy Birthday Shannon!!!

    You Old Fart, 68?  😉

  4. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Happy birthday, Shannon!

    And many, many more!

  5. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Happy…Happy… Joy… Joy… Prayin’ it’s an awesome anniversary of your birth, Shannon

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Happy Birthday bruh!

  7. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Got another little headache, so I’m pushing the caffeine this morning.  The trigger finger on my left hand – the middle finger, no less, so I can pop the bird rather effectively if I so desire – is sore this morning.  I put some steroid cream on that.

    So, battling the head and the hand, I wander over to the C&C…maybe Mr. C. has a birthday wish for Shannon.  You never know. The guy knows a lot about a lot.

    PS: I’m listening to Chris Salcedo on the radio, and he’s playing clips from CNN that’s trying to denigrate the movie “Sound of Freedom”.  They are actually trying to play off the movie’s message about child sex slavery as a QAnon thing.  Let’s take a wild guess why that buncha lefties don’t want the movie to be seen…./spits

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and I finished FDing my blackberry cheesecake bites.  When I took the cheesecakes out of the oven, they seemed more wet than the original recipe, but Elsa took care of that.  I guess the berry juice added more moisture.  I also used some of my dried eggs for the recipe.  Since I was making 5x the original recipe, it was going to take 20 eggs.  We had them, but rather than use our breakfast food, I just went to my shelf and added water.  If I’d thought about it, I could have reduced the amount of water for the eggs to account for the berry juice.  I was focused on making sure the eggs were thoroughly reconstituted.

    I do like having stuff on my shelf.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BLINDERS ☙ Monday, July 10, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! It’s a brand new week and a packed roundup including: the jabby “drip, drip, drip” continues, with two new studies linking more “rare” serious vaccine injuries to the jabs; correlations between high jab rates and national excess deaths; thoughts about death reports; a record batch of FIVE coaching SADS cases; the heartbreaking confession of former 16-year old MTV trans star; and a feisty Florida Man clip to start your week off right.

    News:

    Because this is a Covid-based column, Mr. C. starts off with new revelations from a Journal Nature study about eye disease and the jab: vascular occlusions.  A vascular occlusion when a retinal blood vessel becomes blocked, like a tiny blood clot.  It can lead to vision loss or even blindness.  Or it can be a mild case described as having floater, light flashes, blurred vision, and/or eye pain.  “Mild” cases.

    Side note:  Because of her diabetes, Mom had stuff like this going on in her eye.  She got shots in her eyeball fairly regularly. /shudder/  This was, btw, a rather well-known and widely used off label use for that drug.  She also received laser shots to cauterize bleeders.  I don’t wish this stuff on anyone.

    The researchers found a stark link between retinal occlusion and the safe and effective vaccines:

    Individuals with COVID-19 vaccination had a higher risk of all forms of retinal vascular occlusion… The cumulative incidence of retinal vascular occlusion was significantly higher in the vaccinated[] compared to the unvaccinated[], 2 years and 12 weeks after vaccination. The risk of retinal vascular occlusion significantly increased during the first 2 weeks after vaccination and persisted for [at least] 12 weeks. Additionally, individuals with first and second dose of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 had significantly increased risk of retinal vascular occlusion [for] 2 years following vaccination[.]

    The researchers noted that, although vaccination greatly increased the risk of RVO, the absolute risk was still very small, between 7-10 per million shots. But as I see it, the bigger problem is: how many of these “rare” but disabling side effects does it take before a serious adverse event of SOME KIND is not rare?

    /snip

    You’ll recall that just last week I learned opposing counsel in one of my cases suddenly went blind — while driving. And, totally coincidentally, how about this article from Canadian TV News, dated July 2nd: [insert laughable headline wondering if climate change could account for growing vision impairment]

    Ukraine war?  Climate change! Doddering president? Climate change!  Stubbed toe? Climate change!

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    One more medical “miracle,” courtesy of Pfizer: the International Society for Burn Injuries published a paper on the drastic increase in Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, its effects on the skin, and the link to the jab.

    BURN doctors!?

    SJS is skin condition that causes the top layer of skin to slough off and can also affect mucous membranes.  News flash: our bodies are rife with mucous membranes. “Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) is a very similar, related term describing more severe cases where over 30% of the skin is detached.” [NASA Sis informed me that folks with her disease, Sjorgans Syndrome, suffer attacks on their mucous membranes.  They suffer bad dental health because their mucosal membranes in the mouth are affected. Eye dryness is a serious issue.  Lungs and other organs suffer.  SS sufferers often die from organ failure.  So this SJS is bad stuff.]

    SJS/TEN looks a lot like third-degree burns, such as caused by boiling water, often over a person’s entire body. It is considered life-threatening, and requires immediate, emergency treatment.

    Curiously, SJS/TEN is usually a type of drug reaction, normally caused by an allergic reaction to a medication, but in some cases it can also be caused by infections like mycoplasma pneumonia and hepatitis A. Because of the widespread skin shedding, which presents like a bad burn, patients are usually treated in burn units.

    [insert horrific image of a victim.  not for the faint of heart]

    The good doctors have treatments, but no cure.  This will be unending torture for the victims of this disease.  These cases were extremely rare – until 2022, when Concord General Hospital in Australia  saw a seven-fold increase in six months.  Granted, it was only fourteen cases, but the rate of increase caused enough alarm that it prompted the study.

    What did the researchers find?  ALL of those cases were jabbed.  Every. Single. One. Five of them actually had recent WLR on top of the jab.

    The researchers offered theories on this head-scratching increase:

    The virus itself.

    The jab. They found eight other cases following the jab.

    The jab made their bodies react to another medication.

     Here’s how they described the third theory:

    The SARS-COV-2 virus or vaccine may lower the threshold for a drug to trigger SJS/TEN. We hypothesise that the virus or vaccine “primes” the immune system for a drug to cause SJS/TEN, which may not have done so without this “priming.” [For example,] Infectious mononucleosis … has this “priming” effect to induce a drug induced hypersensitivity (DiHS) reaction when an individual is exposed to penicillin.

    The third theory would be consistent with the damage we are seeing caused to people’s immune systems after the shots. After all, SJS/TEN is a hypersensitivity condition, a type of allergic reaction, which is an auto-immune response.

    At least they didn’t praise the jab, as Mr. C. points out.  No glowing recommendation or cover-up.  Progress.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Coming from a Hollywood publication, this is as straight a story as you will ever get.  Props to Variety for not jumping on the sick bastards’ train.  Rolling Stone and CNN are malignant cultural and social parasites.  Variety is, I believe, the oldest continuously published showbiz magazine in American history at almost 118 years.

    “Sound of Freedom,” a religious thriller led by “The Passion of the Christ” star Jim Caviezel, is becoming an unlikely box office savior. The faith-based movie about child sex trafficking has collected an impressive $40 million after six days of release.

    “Sound of Freedom” opened last Tuesday, generating a mighty $14.2 million on the Independence Day holiday. The film picked up another $18.2 million between Friday and Sunday, enough to place third on domestic box office charts behind “Insidious: The Red Door” ($32.6 million) and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” ($26.5 million). It’s playing in 2,850 North American theaters, a smaller footprint than “Insidious” and “Indiana Jones (3,188 theaters and 4,600 theaters, respectively).

    When you are running in a little over half the theaters the box office leader has and yet you take in 2/3rds of that gross, it means your viewings are drawing sold out audiences consistently and Indiana Jones is not.

    Opening weekend audiences were enthusiastic, bestowing the film an “A+” CinemaScore. It’s the only movie playing in theaters right now with that high of a grade. Ticket buyers have been predominately female, while more than 50% of cinemagoers were over the age of 45 years old.

    “There’s support for the movie from white conservative political groups, but a third of the audience is Hispanic,” says David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “The inspiration, action and Latin America-based story are drawing a diverse audience, not just ethnically,” he adds, “but in age and gender.”

    Critics have been mostly positive toward the movie, which holds a 76% on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Sound of Freedom” as “a compelling movie that shines an authentic light on one of the crucial criminal horrors of our time, one that Hollywood has mostly shied away from.”

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up, Mr. C. provides statistics on the growing rate of “excess morbidity”.  I hate that phrase.  It sanitizes the problem.  Nope, these are “jab deaths”.  These are “families affected”.  These are “lives destroyed and kids growing up without mothers/fathers”.

    I often wonder whether including all these SADS cases is consistent with C&C’s optimistic theme and if I should maybe just give it up to other bloggers. But ultimately I always conclude it’s just too important. We need to SEE their faces. We need to REMEMBER these folks. None of them deserved this; even the most ardent pro-jab activists were deluded by the most sophisticated government-funded psychological operation in world history since the Tower of Babel project.

    They are all victims.

    As you know, I focus mainly on high-visibility folks like celebrities, doctors, and sports figures, for four reasons. For better or worse, their deaths are more interesting and still catch people’s eyes in a sea of similar stories. Second, by virtue of their demanding jobs, they are some of the healthiest folks around. Third, as a well-defined, relatively small group of people, they represent the tip of a massive iceberg of the rest of us. Fourth, regular folks’ deaths rarely make the news, but high profile deaths almost always do.

    Exactly.  I always try to point out that there are innumerable unnamed and unnoticed folks in the “excess morbidity” numbers.  Your neighbor.  Your kid’s teacher. The grandfather on the corner.

    Anyway, the pace has definitely picked up….Even among the high-visibility group, I’ve had to start leaving some stories out; I simply can’t keep up with them all.

    Mr. C. offers five SADS deaths in the ranks of coaches.  Let us not forget them.

    COACH SADS NUMBER #1. Montana State Bobcats defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator Jonathan “Bo” Beck, 51, died suddenly, mysteriously, and unexpectedly in his sleep on June 22nd AT HOME. Never made it to the hospital. Never even woke up.

    COACH SADS NUMBER #2. Frankfurt, Germany soccer coach and trainer Christian Reibold, 38, died suddenly, mysteriously, and unexpectedly this week.

    COACH SADS NUMBER #3. Beloved Italian basketball coach Titto Porcelli, 56, died suddenly and unexpectedly in his sleep in the early morning of July 3rd, while on vacation for two days with his family in Puglia, Italy. An article in Traniviva reported it was “probably from a heart attack.”

    COACH SADS NUMBER #4. Olympic gold medalist, WNBA star and Rutgers basketball coach Nikki McCray-Penson, 51, died mysteriously, suddenly, and unexpectedly on July 7th, 2023.

     COACH SADS NUMBER #5. Beloved StonyBrook football defensive coordinator Bryan Collins, 58, died suddenly and unexpectedly of a mysterious “cardiac event” over the weekend.

    May their deaths not be in vain.  Even though their deaths were “mysterious,” perhaps someone important enough to notice these healthy looking individuals don’t really have a good reason to shuffle this mortal coil.

    RIP to them, their loved ones, and all those who go unnoticed and un-memorialized.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next is a story about a trans going de-trans.  There are more of these, thank goodness.  Sanity prevails at some point, for some of these folks.  But not until others have made money off of them, or used them for political power.

    Lastly, a video on Florida man antics:

    https://twitter.com/betcheswildin/status/1676107543632904199

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    On “Sound of Freedom,” I feel compelled that the movie was completed years ago, but stifled when Disney acquired the rights when they purchased a movie studio company.

    The refused to release it, until the rights were purchased from them.  I don’t know how much they extorted, but I’m sure it was a pretty penny.

    Disney supposedly loves kids, but wouldn’t release a movie that would encourage efforts to save kids. /spits

    Disney loves the money that parents pay to entertain their kids.  Love kids?  Not so much.

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Regarding the mentally ill kids that were mutilated by the pro-trans community:

    I would not be the least bit surprised if a bunch of:

    A) Parents that allowed and paid for the ‘therapy’ and

    B) Doctors who performed and prescribed the surgery and drugs and

    C) ‘Teachers’ and other professionals who strongly pushed this horror on the kids

    to be hunted down like the criminals they are by the victims of their collective social experiment.  How many tens of thousands of lives have been ruined by these worshippers of mo–ch?  There is a special place in Hell for these people and their victims will hasten their entrance to the hot place.

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanks, gang.

    68 it is.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My beautiful 16-y.o. kitty Travis has gotten in the habit of hanging around me until I finish my bowl of cottage cheese for breakfast. I didn’t have time for that when I was commuting to work, either in Sugar Land or just the San Felipe business district. I have a mild case of diabetes that I take a low dose of metformin for. When I was diagnosed 20+ years ago, I came up with a breakfast plan that I still follow 7 days a week when I eat at home. So most of that time, Travis has observed whether I have my little bowl of cottage cheese with fruit. The older he gets, the pushier, right up to now when he watches every spoonful until I give him the bowl. He loves to lick it clean.

  18. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    A very Happy Birthday to you, Shannonigans!

     

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Professor of “all things marine shipping” covers a recent ship fire that killed two Newark, NJ firefighters.

    I hadn’t before seen a ship like this one – half container ship/half car hauler (Roll on – Roll off).

    With a strong background in marine and on-land firefighting, he has some strong, long-held opinions about the state of firefighting capabilities in American ports.

    Very interesting.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Happy 68th lap around the sun Shannon.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    17

    Here’s a follow up video on the ship fire from the professor today.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just finished some morning stuff, and finally remembered to put on my ever so sexy BGS.

    Some of my asparagus beans hid long enough from me that they almost passed the “pick me I taste good” stage to the “just let me be seed for next year” stage.  (That’s happened several times this year.) Because they are long and thin, they can easily be mistaken for the vines on which they grow.  I’ve learned to look at my vines from different angles – and I can still miss them.

    I had enough this morning that I did a small blanching session with them, and they are now nestled in my steadily filling bag in the freezer.

    Then I had to go get grout for the upstairs floor tile. Got back and did some kitchen stuff before now settling down to get “real” work done.  Yeah, right.  I do need to get some things done, but I find that without the pressure cooker atmosphere that I worked under for 30+ years, I’m not as motivated to stay focused as I used to be.  I am enjoying the slower pace, though.  Now that we have our vacancy rented, that bit of pressure is off.

    I have avocados ripening – Else is defrosted and dried out, so maybe I’ll do those today or tomorrow.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I saw two posts yesterday – two ancient Catholic churches in France were torched to the ground.  One of the articles said these types of attacks against Catholic churches is increasing.

    And pachapapa has installed some truly heretical “priests” to head up the upcoming bishop level synod to discuss the “synod of synods” process – PP’s attempt to make the church secular, not holy.  There are rumors that he’s going to push accepting homosexual unions, women priests, and other truly heretical changes.  Bestie James Martin – the outwardly and outspoken gay priest – is one of them.

    Also, there is a papal visitation heading, or may already be, to Tyler, TX, to “visit” Bishop Strickland.  These visitations are usually very bad news.  This is when nuns are kicked out of their convents or monasteries are shut down.  Orders are ordered to abandon their charism (traditional values and Latin mass).  They may even be ordered to execute worship or advise their parishes on topics that the priests consider unholy.  Or Else. Priests are kicked to the curb without resources to live on. (The reason for the development of the Coalition for Canceled Priests.)

    I see the ever-faster-evolution of the Ape of the Church:

    The laws of God are under attack. 

    It is a comfort to know that all of this  was predicted.

    I stumbled upon  a meme posted on Facebook, which shared a quote from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen.  This prompted me to research its source and I found this wonderful  Sermon by Fulton J. Sheen on the “Signs of the Times”.

    He, along with many  others, predicted all of this mess.

    “He will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.” From “”

    Signs of the Times Sermon

    Listen to the sermon: https://youtu.be/LhaCjUGamjk

    Bishop Sheen was in the process of sainthood, but TPTB have shelved those efforts.  Satan doesn’t need anyone to focus on that awesome priest.

    And then there’s this.  Sr. Lucia was one of the three child visionaries at Fatima, Portugal.  The series of apparitions of Mary, when resulted in the Miracle of the Sun, seen by tens – maybe hundreds – of thousands of people.  True to Mary’s word, the young boy was taken not long after the visions.  Sr. Lucia was the last to live of the three, and from her come the “three secrets of Fatima”.  BTW – Mary predicted the coming world war to Lucia.  Mary requested that the Pope dedicate Russia to her immaculate heart, but it wasn’t done. And thus, as Mary said would happen, “Russia will spread her errors throughout the world.”

    Anyway, here’s another message from Sr. Lucia:

    Sister Lucia: “Final Confrontation between the Lord and Satan will be over Family and Marriage.”

    Rorate Caeli has released a translation of a remarkable interview, originally published in 2008, with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna. In it, he references correspondence he had with Sister Lucia, the principal visionary of Our Lady at Fatima:

    Q. There is a prophecy by Sister Lucia dos Santos, of Fatima, which concerns “the final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan”. The battlefield is the family. Life and the family. We know that you were given charge by John Paul II to plan and establish the Pontifical Institute for the Studies on Marriage and the Family.

    /snip

     I received a very long letter with her signature – now in the Institute’s archives. In it we find written: the final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family. Don’t be afraid, she added, because anyone who operates for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be contended and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue. And then she concluded: however, Our Lady has already crushed its head.

    /snip

    Does this come as any surprise to those watching the events currently unfolding in the Church? We have referenced various apparitions in the past that are related to this, beginning with Our Lady of Good Success, in the 17th century:

    “Thus I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century…the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. Freemasonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church… In this supreme moment of need for the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent.”

    When we reflect on the division among prelates at the Synod, Our Lady of Akita comes to mind:

    “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres…churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.”

    As Catholics, we are not required to follow or believe these revelations, but there sure is a consistency among them, and they are being played out in real life and in real time.  What greater attack on marriage than at the very root of the purpose of marriage – to engage with God and His gift of procreation?  I heard Fr. Ripperger, my favorite exorcist, answer a question about how Satan attacks us, and he made the point that the corruption of our sexuality is one of the most potent attacks he has against God.  It is through this process, the intimate connection of man and wife, with God’s gift of procreation, that the family becomes a reflection of God’s Church.  And other stuff, equally important, about how our sexuality unites us with God.  

    So what more effective way of destroying God’s creation than by promoting sexual unions that are not procreative?  That are a violation of God’s natural law under which we were created?  People engaging in this behavior are turning from God, rejecting how they were made and for what they were made.  Note that I make the distinction between the sinner and the sin.  I know of one gay man who, instead of following his desires, remained unmarried and dedicated himself to the service of the Church. I always admired him for that. He and I were good friends, until he moved away. 

    As I half-jokingly say: “We all have our crosses to bear.  Some we are born with, some we give birth to, and others we marry.”  I see these alphabet activists and it saddens me, knowing how they are being manipulated by powers beyond their ken, not to become stronger and more holy, but to become weaker and sacriligious.  On the other hand, I’ve also heard from Frs. Ripperger and Lampert that these things are escalating because Satan knows his time is coming to an end, so he’s ramping up his attacks before Jesus kicks his butt.

    But in the meantime, things are going to get worse.  But Jesus promised that the gates of Hell would not prevail – there will be a remnant of the Church that will remain faithful, and from there a stronger Church will arise.  That is the plan, any way.

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Obviously, this mani-pedi thing runs in the family over at Bonecrusher’s house.

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    A mani-pedi makes her feel special . . . . . . . . . .when she’s not licking her own butt.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The only guys who get manicures and pedicures around here are the Italian dudes.  It seems to be a tradition going back to the old Cosa Nostra days.

    Most Italian immigrants were cobblers, stone masons or produce peddlers.  Their hands were beaten, broken and very rough.  It became a status symbol to have smooth, clean, urbane hands in the New America.  Suits, ties, starched dress shirts, highly polished shoes were signals you were not a peasant, but a man of means and importance.

    Today, it’s the mamaluccas and the gumba di cheeches getting their nails done according to Curtis Sliwa who is half-Italian.

    Just kidding, though, you’d be surprised how many men in this region go to the manicurist.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Sara is a cutie.  Especially the nails.

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It took until about 5 years ago (when I got my first mani-pedi) for me to stop tearing out hangnails in my hands and feet.  Both pairs are much happier now.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My TV died last week. Having to replace it was NOT in the plan this year. Or the next. Or….etc.

    The new one arrived a day early, today. I can spend most of tomorrow trying to figure out how to make it work.

    So, I guess it’s a Happy Birthday to me package. 🙂

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I would have trusted my 16 year old daughter to vote, but then she was bathed in political discussions from an early age.  She was mature beyond her age group. She and her brother were hoisted high enough to poke holes in the ballot cards, where Mommy showed them.

    But my experience with teens that age is that many of them are political idiots.  I remember the year that my students at church were refusing to accept Romney because some celebrity had casually made the comment that Romney would deprive them of feminine hygiene products.  Because some rapper said it, it must be true.

    But Democrats need uneducated, unthinking voters if they are to survive, so allowing 16 year olds to vote and hold office fits right into their plans.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    26 Shannon

    What TV did you buy ?

     

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I only buy Sony TVs.

    They don’t make a 48 anymore so I had to buy a 50.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s one of their lower-end models. But it probably still has a bunch of crap that I will never use.

    It’s 4K. Who cares?

    I’ll be plugging in my old-fashioned outside TV antennae and my Firestick. And hopefully will be able to bypass all the other junk it has.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat, et al – I have put up some OC threads for the next few days.  Please feel free to move ’em if you have something you want to say.

    Off to fix dinner and do my Monday night stuff.

     

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    Thanks, I will be admitting Her Highness to the hospital in about 36 hours.  Wednesday is surgery day and I expect to be busy for a couple of days.  The last time she was in a hospital was almost 40 years ago to have a baby.  She is still dreaming up things that could go wrong no one else would even imagine.

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    29 Shannon

    4K has 8 million pixels.

    8K has 33 million pixels.

    Once you reach about 60 your fading eyesight can’t tell the difference anyway.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat

    This model has some special Google stuff. Several reviewers weren’t happy that you have to enter your Google password to even do the initial setup.

    That was almost a deal killer for me but I just gave up.

    SOBs.

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I have a 74” TCL Roku TV, as a former Home Theater enthusiast with deteriorating vision I can’t tell the difference between 4K, UHF or 1080 on it. I say former as I grew to feel like all video and audio systems are pretty dang good out of the box so not worth the energy to piece stuff together anymore.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    Google is ranked up there with the UN and all its metastasized tentacles as a monumentally evil organization.  I really hate them.

    A newly released video highlights how the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) allegedly colluded with Google to secretly install Covid-tracking spyware on the smartphones of more than one million residents “without their knowledge or consent.”

    A video published by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) — a self-described civil rights group devoted to protecting Americans from administrative overreach — walks viewers through the core tenets of the organization’s ongoing lawsuit against DPH and Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, which claims Massachusetts violated state residents and workers’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by installing a Covid “contact-tracing app” on their Androids without their awareness or permission.

    The NCLA is a great new organization dedicated to actually defending and protecting American’s rights like the ACLU did decades ago before it became just another sick, demented group with bar licenses.

    Google’s Motto:

    Do Be Evil, Anywhere, Everywhere in Anyway.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    74” ????

    There are so many jokes available, I just can’t choose one.  🙂

    For 74 inch, I would have to rearrange my living room and sit in the kitchen to get far away enough.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The 50 is going to max out my living room. The house is only 16’ wide. Less walls. Less the space required behind my recliner.

    Sheesh.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Pretty funny.

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, once again when I go out back with a bowl of cat supper for Billy Cat, one of the 3 little ‘coons follows me around to see if he/she can have some. I’m not used to baby animals being so bossy. While I was keeping an eye on Billy, the mother raccoon and another of her babies came through a loose spot in the fence to my east. No idea why the family does not stick together better than they do. The aging couple that live next door there are not very active and have never mentioned to me that they’ve noticed any of “my” animals in their back yard –including Billy.

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve always thought this was an odd cult and I don’t trust religions that gladly enjoy all the riches of America and its commitment to freedom while refusing to participate in its governance or its military.  Nobody will force them to do any of those things and yet to live freely with such liberty seems like a remarkable lack of gratitude.

    PHILADELPHIA—A Pennsylvania grand jury investigating child sexual abuse in the Jehovah’s Witnesses community has charged five more people with raping or molesting children as young as 4, the latest developments in an ongoing probe that has identified 14 suspects.

    Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry, at a Friday news conference, said that while the misconduct dates back years or even decades, “the trauma endures for these victims.”

    Henry did not address the church’s handling of complaints, but said the investigation would continue.

    Critics say that Jehovah’s Witnesses elders have treated child sexual abuse as a sin rather than a crime, documenting complaints in internal files but not reporting them to authorities. And they say the church often required a second witness to substantiate a complaint, a standard that can be impossible to meet when perpetrators often isolate their victims.

    There are no words…

  45. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Evening Hamsters,

    Checking in now that I’ve read all the posts today.  Our high was in the mid 90s today here on the banks of the Brazos at Richmond. That made it a little bit easier to breathe outside at High Noon. Rain yesterday missed us, but the two days before that it was plentiful. The lawn is enjoying it all as are the flower beds. Rain will likely be spotty here for the next few days.

    Only 5 vultures visited this morning, so the remains of the armadillos must be gone.  The vultures that showed up enjoyed the refilled birdbath.  A mother deer and child were in the front pasture grazing this morning until the kid rounded the fence at the barn and chose to eat outside the front pasture.  Mom did not care so long as she could see him/her.  And they moved on early this afternoon, so now the squirrels rule the place again.  We still have no idea how many and what kind of visitors come at night.  And fortunately nobody so far has wandered around in the flower beds that we know of.

    Happy Birthday to Shannon and many more of them.  After one reaches a certain age, birthdays just seem to become numbers to celebrate and then thankfully move on.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Up to a certain age, birthdays are reason for celebration. After a certain age, birthdays are reason for celebration. But in between there is a long dry desert of celebrating.

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