Weekend White Privilege Open Comments
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Russell Lee sure took a lot of great historical pictures back in the depression years and his Dust Bowl ones were the best.
Checking up, it seems that I left off a decimal point when reporting my rain last night. We got .42″ of rain NOT 42″ and it was much needed we may get some more in the morning but at least the grass is saved for another week in this brutal heat.
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Oops left off; Mornin’ Gang 😉
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Darn.
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Hospital profit margins in 2020 and 2021 more than doubled compared to 2019, researchers reported in JAMA Health Forum last month. In all, hospitals made at least $16 billion more in profits during the two Covid years than they did in 2019, the researchers found.
Hospitals delayed profitable elective procedures early in the pandemic and had extra costs for traveling nurses and protective gear. But the 20 percent bonus they received for Covid patients and other special funding more than made up the difference for most hospitals.
– Alex Berenson
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Mornin!
SD, my son is in the market for a zero turn mower and wants me to go with him today shopping for one. New or used. You happy with your Hustler? Know anything about BadBoy mowers?
I know to look for thickest deck material, but I know nothing about the different drive systems on a zero, not sure what to look for there. I see a lot of fancy gimmicks like suspensions, electric deck lift, etc. I see more parts to break.
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#4 Shannon you have 2 links that don’t connect to Alex Berenson so I guess he reported these findings somewhere? FWIW; Alex Berenson is a real hero in the COVID propaganda wars, he was fired by whatever news organization he worked for only because he researched the truth. Naturally he was on Fox a lot and treated like Kryptonite by the Lamestream Press. He was also an unbiased reporter not Democrat or Republican just a true journalist looking for the facts.
I don’t have time to look it up but I think he successfully sued some of the left-wing folks for defamation.
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#5 GJT Hustler is a fine machine and is used by the city here in LA but they’re not in the same league as the Bad Boy mowers. And if you’re wondering, check out the price difference. Price is not always a good indicator but in this case it is. The Bad Boy’s have a heavier steel frame with hydraulic motors on each back wheel instead of the Mo-Ped style belt tensioner transmission mine has. They’d have to be more reliable and longer lasting. X Mark is a little better than a Hustler but not worth the $2K price difference, IMHO. Gravely is also another commercial mower that is good.
FWIW; I’ve been trying to convince myself that I need a new Kubota Zero turn but after a little research I can get a Bay Boy for the same money and it is better than the Kubota,…I know blasphemy. That said I’m talking about a gasoline powered Kubota NOT the diesel $$$!!! which is far superior to their gas powered one.
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Gravely vs Hustler Mowers For Residential And Commercial.
When choosing between Gravely versus Hustler mowers, commercial crews will normally want to go with Gravely, whereas individual landscapers and homeowners will find the lower cost entry level of Hustler more appealing. Both have great warranties and are dependable machines.
Reading this I was reminded that some newer machines have fuel injection and there are Pros n Cons to that. my Hustler has a 23 HP air cooled V twin Kawasaki engine with a carburetor and it works just fine. Since I never use fuel with ethanol I have no problems. FWIW; my wife’s Mule has a 23 HP water cooled V Twin Kawasaki with FI, my old Mule has a 10 HP air cooled Kawasaki with a carb and the Beast 4 wheeler has a 750 CC V Twin with twin carbs, They don’t give out the HP but it’s probably around 50-60? I can tell you that at 65 MPH it’ll scare the crap out of you. 😉
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Thanks Super Dave, that helps a lot. We thought we’d look at high end Kubota and JD just so we’d get an idea what to look for on the lower end. I know mulching is important but not exactly common, I regret my tractor does not have a mulching kit and one thing you’ll never getting around to installing later. Hydraulic drive is a good point to look for.
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One more thing, a lot of mowers have the Briggs Vanguard engine and they’re OK but I’ll be damned if I’m buying a high end zero turn with a Briggs motor. When I first started looking a really wanted a Kohler engine and Cub Cadet (Zero Turn) had one model with a Kohler but it was only a little more $$ than the Vanguard powered one. FWIW; I’m real happy with all my Kawasaki engines and one of them only has 3355 Hrs on it. 😉
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I like Kawasaki engines as well, my Club Car UTV has a 23HP and never had a problem with it.
I see Ariens bought Gravely, you think they’d be same quality?
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I see Ariens bought Gravely, you think they’d be same quality?
Remains to be seem but I’d hope that they would cheapen an old quality machine like Gravely and lose their customers. BUT it has happened a lot, 15 years ago a friend bought a Snapper rider for $800 bucks and it was junk. Instead of the Bush Hog like heavy duty deck it was just flimsy sheet metal. BTW; If it had been a real Snapper it would have been worth twice $800 bucks bargain basement price.
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Alex Berenson publishes here all the time.
And by the way, I bet Alex has this Atlantic article from April 1st, 2021 blown up and hung on the wall.
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Hubby bought a Bad Boy. He loves it. I don’t get to drive it at all.
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Olive oil is the oil of choice in this house. We use it almost everyday.
True extra-virgin olive oil comes exclusively from the first pressing of the olive harvest and contains no additives. “You know, when you see it there [in Italy], it’s this almost luminescent green,” Campanile says. “It looks like nothing you’ve seen before, and tastes like nothing you’ve tasted before.”
Unfortunately, by the time this heavenly liquid reaches American shores, much of it has lost its luster, often due to improper storage or tampering. Journalist Tom Mueller, who has researched the industry, estimates that half the oil sold as extra-virgin in Italy and 75-80 percent of the oil sold in the U.S. does not meet the legal grades for extra-virgin oil.
The most common type of fraud, Campanile explains, is mixing Italian extra-virgin with lower quality olive oils from North Africa and around the Mediterranean. In other cases, a bottle labeled “extra-virgin olive oil” may not be olive oil at all, just a seed oil like sunflower made to look and smell like olive oil with a few drops of chlorophyll and beta-carotene. Major Sergio Tirro of the Italian Carabinieri police, one of the top investigators of food fraud in Europe, showed 60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker just how easy it is to make a realistic-looking fake.
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For starters, he says, look closely at the label. It may have a pretty Italian landscape, but was the oil actually produced in Italy? If so, where? Campanile says he’s encouraged when it’s from a city in Sicily or Puglia known for producing olive oil.
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I woke up at 4am, so I decided to go to Brenham early. Walked into HEB just before 7am.
I didn’t know how to act without 50 shoppers clogging up the bread aisle.
I got lonely.
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There are any number of reasons to despise LeBron James, but this one is serious.
A slew of prominent Democrats—including Barack and Michelle Obama and Ohio senator Sherrod Brown—applauded James as he built the I Promise School in Akron, which the basketball star opened in 2018. While the school received $8.4 million from Akron taxpayers last year, according to numbers provided to the Washington Free Beacon, zero students in the school’s inaugural class of third graders were proficient in math in the last three years. Black students, who make up 60 percent of the school’s population, have also tested in the state’s bottom 5 percent, compelling the Ohio Department of Education to put I Promise on a list of failing schools in need of intervention.
It is one thing to be an obnoxious, arrogant public figure, but using innocent children as props in your own personal virtue-signaling campaign is really disgusting.
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Quick Drive-By; You need to check out Texpat’s; The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man.
What an amazing piece of propaganda EVERYTHING he says about Berenson being wrong has been proven true so will the loser Derek Thompson print a retraction? HELL NO!!! They’re all still spouting lies about COVID.
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Considering that the television transmission towers that serve this region are in Stafford, TX, I am on the edge of their westward reach. And I’m in a low spot in this subdivision.
Therefore, inclement weather and even Saharan dust (on its worst days) can cause me to lose channels. I have just learned to live with it.
Apparently my new TV has a higher signal-quality threshold before dropping out many channels.
So I ordered an Antenna Signal Booster from that weirdo Jeff Bezos.
TV is running like a champ, now. If in this century it ever gets stormy again around here, it will be interesting to see if the booster helps maintain the signal better.
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Found our zero turn mower.
Toro Z MASTER PROFESSIONAL 7500D 72144.
144” cut, 45HP, only 84K
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Periodically – with no pattern or obvious explanation – I can lose TV signal on the most perfectly clear days that you can imagine.
Perhaps the man from Alabama, who knows a lot about everything, can explain why that happens.
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Texpat
We’ve been using a California EV olive oil for quite a while. Fay liked it just fine. I just now threw out an almost full quart of it because the date was late ‘21.
There just isn’t a lot of real cooking going on around here anymore. Guess I need to buy a smaller bottle next time. 🙂
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GJT
If they do actually decide on a Toro, I have a guy between Bellville and Brenham who is a Toro Dealer.
He used to service all makes but a few years ago he decided to sell and service Toro exclusively. I know him to be an honorable businessman.
Might be worth a call on a new Toro rig, once a model has been chosen.
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#17 Shannon
I can’t even remember how long it’s been since I watched anything “on TV”. We quit the cable about 10 years ago, and David put some sort of indoor antenna on a top shelf within reach of my TV. Upstairs, I think he fed his TV through a computer link. Over time, neither one of us watched much of anything live. I had dwindled down to only the old soap opera I’ve been watching for 50-some-odd years. Just recently, that show left the air and is now only available online on Peacock. So I watch it on my laptop…
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I had a church thing this morning, and waited outside until mass was over and for the business meeting to start. I sat out there and sweated and waited – turns out that not enough women showed up to hold the meeting, so while I was sweating it out, the lady I was waiting for was chatting inside with two other women. I finally just gave up when an usher walked by and informed me of the situation. So I just came home. Watered and harvested the garden.
Cooling off a bit, and debating the treadmill. I probably should, I already need a shower and I’m taking Hubby out for a late birthday lunch. Would that be linner? Lupper? Sunch?
So, for about the next month, I’m married to an “older man”.
If I treadmill soon, I’ll just shower before we go to eat. Hopefully the walk to and from my car won’t negate my efforts at personal hygiene.
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Thanks Shannon, we will keep that in mind. Toro used to be out of reach price wise, at least that’s what I remembered. Seems reasonable, I assume the quality is still there.
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BSue
I ventured down the carb aisle and saw the box of HEB Bacon Ranch pasta salad to which you referred. But I couldn’t resist the Caesar version by Betty Crocker. (I’m a Parmesan hound.)
Just finished cooking it and dumped in some real bacon bits.
Should be well chilled by this evening for my ribeye supper.
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mharper
There are still some shows on CBS that I watch. And a True Crime show or two. And Golf. And the old Film Noir nights on the Movies! channel.
I still like watching the local newscasts. And even the national newscasts – if I’m in the mood to watch the enemy.
And it’s all free and High Def, too.
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I think I get about 95 channels free, over-the-air. But only watch about a dozen of them.
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But I have time for the C&C now:
HANSEN’S PSYOP ☙ Saturday, August 5, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, and welcome to the Weekend Edition. Today’s roundup focuses on one story: the massive leprosy outbreak … in Florida! Be afraid, be very afraid, or something. And a little harsh criticism from the Chinese Foreign Minister.
WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY
And before you ask, YES — of course — they have a vaccine for it:
He follows with lots of headlines warning folks to stay away from Florida. Disney won’t like that, but they are just collateral damage in this fight against conservatism and DeSantis.
So, how big is the sudden epidemic of leprosy? One case. ONE.
The Research Letter described a single case of a 54-year-old Central Florida man who had minor clinical signs of leprosy for five years before he finally went into his dermatologist for a rash, and wound up leaving with a leprosy diagnosis. According to the Research Letter, the patient lived in central Florida his entire life, works in landscaping, and spends long periods of time outdoors.
Remember “landscaping.”
Before you ask, he’s doing fine. They gave the intrepid landscaper a standard drug cocktail to treat his leprosy infection, and that was it. No hospitalization necessary. No amputations or stints in the leper colony. In fact, if you read far enough, CNN admitted “the infection is curable, but treatment involves a combination of antibiotics taken over a few years.”
So it’s curable. But still, it’s leprosy. The logical first place to look was the Florida Department of Health website, where one would expect to find critical, up-to-the-minute disease updates about the new outbreak. There was nothing on the home page so I searched for it:
His research resulted in a history of leprosy going back many, many years. Childers discovered that Florida used to be the destination for diagnosed victims of leprosy. So, it’s been around for a long time, no surprise that an occasional case pops up.
Since armadillos have long been considered a possible source of leprosy. So, armadillos like to dig in people’s lawns, and this gentleman was a landscaper…connect the dots. How do TPTB respond?
Experts agree that leprosy is becoming endemic in the region. But that need not cause a public health panic, said Dr. Nicole Iovine, chief hospital epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health Shands Hospital. “Endemic” simply means there are regular levels of a disease in a region but not that rates are climbing, she explained.
“It’s really rare still,” Nathoo said. “These numbers are still relatively super low here. We’re not that concerned with it.”
So it’s news from 1921, and Shands doctors are NOT concerned, contradicting WBAL’s headline. But what about the CDC, which issued a travel advisory for Florida? The Guardian UK’s report on the story, quoting the New York Times, itself quoted CDC officials, who didn’t seem to be super concerned:
So why is the media so concerned?
A change? The now-infamous Research Letter’s patient lived with his leprosy “symptoms” for five years before going to see his dermatologist. I started wondering: what caused things to suddenly get bad enough for him to go to the doctor now? And, why are the numbers of cases ticking up (a little)? I dug some more.
The very first footnote cited in the Research Letter linked a 2017 scientific article on leprosy that mentions this important fact:
Lepromatous leprosy occurs in infected individuals with impaired T-cell immunity resulting in anergy.
(“Anergy” is defined as the “absence of an immune response to a particular disease.”)
Ah. Well. Isn’t that interesting. Immune problems. The CNN article also reported, way down in the story: “Roughly 95% of people aren’t susceptible to the infection because their immune systems are genetically programmed to resist it.”
Compromised immune systems? Oh, wait!
It only took a little digging. Take a gander at the title of this peer-reviewed PLOS journal article, published yesterday:
The researchers slapped that warning about leprosy vaccines right after explaining that the covid vaccines can spur a latent infection. They seem to be warning that jabbed people might not want to take the leprosy vaccine, unless I’m reading that wrong. That warning might be helpful and important information to include in widespread media reports about leprosy outbreaks. What do you think?
Given past experience, I wouldn’t be surprised if this paper is taken down any minute now. You might want to save a PDF copy if it interests you. Here’s the link: https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0011493.
/snip
I’ll end with this link to Peggy Hall’s brilliant debunking of the leprosy psyop, which is a little long (about 45 minutes) but is very entertaining, and includes a different take and different information than today’s post did. https://www.youtube.com/live/i0ysqmtWe4Q
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Next up at C&C: China speaks out
Finally, the Chinese are taking the gloves off, and telling some hard truths. In this recently-posted clip, that you won’t see in US corporate media, the Chinese Foreign Minister accused the United States of destabilizing the world. He used facts.
Among other things, he said:
“What is truly concerning is the destructive role the U.S. has played to peace and stability in the world. The U.S. is the number one warmonger in the world… The U.S. accounted for about 80% of all post-World War II armed conflicts. The U.S. is also the number one violator of sovereignty and interferer in the internal affairs of other countries. According to reports, since the end of World War II, the U.S. has sought to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, grossly interfered in the elections of at least 30 countries, and attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders.”
In fairness, many of the alleged interferences in foreign countries and so forth occurred during the Cold War, when we were beating back global communism. Some of those conflicts may appear questionable in hindsight, but many people would agree most of the conflicts were reasonable, or at least, arguably reasonable.
But the Cold War is over. The problem seems to be that we never dismantled the Cold War “:”dirty tricks” apparatus. Our CIA’s continuing facilitation of color revolutions around the world, like in Ukraine, does not appear reasonable, and opens us up to attacks like this one from the Chinese Foreign Minister. We do not need to be “number one” in any of those questionable categories.
We need to start minding our own business, which incidentally needs a lot of minding right now.
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#27 Shannon… one of Squawk’s favorite quips is “250 channels and NOTHING’S ON!!!!” I think we have FUBO now, because of Astros games – many night’s the only thing we watch “straight” is the local news/weather (and Vanna – Dad would haunt us if we didn’t LOL)… Except Saturday nites… Then we usually see what “Sevengoolie” has to offer in old “horror” movies on “Me TV”before “Combat” and “Rat Patrol”
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Good Afternoon (barely) Hamsters,
At 6AM we had 79 and some mist on the pastures that has provided the only water today so far for the pastures. Now the same thermometer reads 96 on the way to somewhere over 100 by late this afternoon. The wildlife are sensible to seek the shade by mid-morning.
One juvenile deer (probably a yearling) was a guest in the back pasture about 8 this morning, comfortably grazing near the water tank. The jungle telegraph seems to have spread the word far and wide where the water is on our place. Spouse refilled the fountain in the back yard early this morning as it was down quite a bit from visitors we never see at night. Birds like to take a bath in it to cool off as well as get a drink. Other critters do not seem to take offense with that, just so it gets refilled. Squirrels drink out of it and command it while other critters wait for them to leave. Never a dull moment there it seems.
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I’m still friends with one of LD’s old friends over yonder. She put up a post that her mother had unexpectedly come down with a “fast acting and terminal” brain cancer. It was diagnosed only last week.
I am withholding comment.
PS: They live in New York City.
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32 Tedtam
If you have cancer, the two best places to be are Houston for MD Andersen and NYC for Sloan Kettering.
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About to shower, since I did get my treadmill time in. Then it’s off to meet Hubby for his birthday…meal. Still not sure what to call a real early dinner/very late lunch.
I mean we have a word for in between breakfast and lunch, right? What’s the word for a meal between lunch and dinner?
Did the hobbits call it second lunch or something like that? But what if I never had the first lunch?
I am confusing myself. We’re going to a steakhouse, and I’ll be with my man. I guess that’s good enough.
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It may not matter the Dutch politicians are destroying the breadbasket of Western Europe because the richest people in Europe, the Germans, probably won’t have the money to buy their food anyway.
Friedrich Merz, the chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has told a German news agency that the German economy is projected to be the worst-performing among the G7 nations this year.
Merz highlighted several concerning economic indicators, such as a rise in unemployment during the summer, a contraction in industrial production, and a significant 16% increase in bankruptcies in the first half of 2023. That has raised concerns about further economic decline and deindustrialization in the country.
“Germany is losing competitiveness. This is not an abrupt process that triggers an overnight economic crisis [and] instead, we are experiencing a gradual process of deindustrialization in our country. You have to take this very seriously [because] something is happening here at the moment that may no longer be reversible. The federal government must react to this now,” Merz cautioned.
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#33 TT
Chow Time!
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I got to spend the week in Connecticut taking a class at the main campus. It was actually really good with the ability to actually touch and examine the products we make. Zero PC nonsense.
The weather was awesome. Like here in late October or April. We saw a AA baseball game – Hartford Yard Goats vs. the Reading something-or-others. It was nice watching an outdoor game with temps like the juice box.
Went from that – 73F at 8:00 – to here – 97F at 8:00 yesterday. Trying to remind myself that we only have like six more weeks of this didn’t help much.
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You have to take this very seriously [because] something is happening here at the moment that may no longer be reversible.
Well, given that Germany has been the main contributor to the economy of the EU, I’m sure this concerns many of the mooching countries involved.
I wonder if the unfettered immigration of an alien and hostile culture, which is itself sucking on the public teat and weakening the country, was any part of this?
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If Satan has armpits, I imagine my backyard looks a lot like them: hot, dry, cracked, and scratchy/crinkly. That brown area that started in the middle of the yard now stretches from side to side.
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Tedtam
Heh, it gets worse. The enormous Teutonic ego is getting gored.
From my @ 2:21 PM
It’s not at all good news for what was once the industrial and economic powerhouse of the EU. And when the Italians, of all people, are eating your lunch?
Gads. That’s mortifying.
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Wagonburner
Cool.
I’d rather be in Connecticut right now.
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Six more weeks.
Aren’t you the optimist.
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Heat wave here today. It got all the way up to 85° with 41% humidity.
This is really supposed to be mid to late September weather, not July and August. Strange weather this year since we had 98 and 99 degree days back in August and then rain almost every day in May. In June it was hot and humid and then mid-July came with cooler temps and lower humidity. It’s all upside down.
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Yep.
You know that the world is in deep trouble if the Italians serve as inspiration for anything other than fine art.
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A few Germans are refusing to go down without a fight.
Word has it that Mercedes-AMG is mulling over how best to bring back V8 power to the C and E-Class. While the performance unit downsized its powertrains in a bid to be more emissions compliant, fans pointed out that AMG had long been synonymous with under-stressed and over-engineered V8s making enough power to burn through a set of tires in a single outing.
The shift ended up being a bit of a scandal and one that left a sour taste in the mouth of the people that would actually buy AMG-branded products — which may explain the claimed change of heart.
According to two unnamed sources speaking with Car and Driver, Mercedes-AMG is in the midst of deciding how to bring back the V8. Though the overarching plan remains ambiguous, the rationale behind it is anything but.
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You people really need to chill out.
It’s not like Sheila Jackson Lee is on the cusp of leading the most important city in the country or anything.
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THE WEEK IN PICTURES: WHAT NEXT?
Another week, another Trump indictment. I hear there may be another one coming next week. Yawn. I know there is a premium on reruns while the Hollywood actors and writers strike is going on, but this is getting tedious. Can’t we at least get another UFO hearing or something?
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Sadly, I couldn’t make the trip to Kerrville today to attend my grandson’s engagement party.
Strangely, they’ve scheduled the wedding for the week following New Years 2024.
I will be in attendance, come hell or high water.
But I told him an ice storm might keep me away from those hills and curves in Kendall County (Boerne).
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We had a very delicious dinner/lunch. Hubby had a steak and I chose shrimp. And he got a complimentary birthday cake thingie with lots of whipped cream, served in a margarita glass. It looked like something that would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off my diet.
I came home and hung my wash up outside. It should be dry in five minutes flat.
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TedtamTell the young man that we all said,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, you saint.
🙂 🙂 🙂
😉
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Hee hee hee
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High drama today in the Bronx, NYC.
Mr. Verlander went seven innings, but only Altuve could produce a run for him. A home run.
Verlander gave up 2 runs on seven hits and 2 walks. Four Ks in 97 pitches.
Seven innings. Not bad for an old man.
With a bunch of luck we may even make it deep into the fall.
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The World Championship is really nice.
But if all we can do is keep the filthy Yankees and the Los Angeles Whiners out of the World Series, I’m good.
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Had the planets and other things been properly aligned today, I would have spent this day in Kerrville at my grandson’s engagement celebration.
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#48
Shannon, sorry that something went wrong and you missed that party..
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Mharper
Come hell or high water, I will be in Boerne for the week of the wedding on January 3/4/5/6.
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Shannon, we already have hell, and I’m hoping for a little high water.
But not in January.
Congratulate the young’uns on the engagement.
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The 6 PM news was full of the coming week’s miserable forecast of +100 for another week due to nothing happening in the Atlantic Ocean to shake things loose so we get a chance for rain. The dismal forecast’s lack of positive news intoned by out-in-the-heat newsfolks almost overcome by the heat themselves was not the best way to present the sad news. Everybody locally watching the news knows it is nasty hot outside and did not need to see the overheated TV persons standing there dripping in the sun.
Just my 2 cents.
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49, 51
Only a surprise ice storm will keep me off the road for this one.
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I confess.
I prefer this version to Bo Diddley’s. -
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Last night my wife and I went to see a movie, “The Highest Of Stakes”. It’s about Richard Heart and his involvement in the cryptotoken HEX and the Pulse blockchain. Yes, I know anything crypto is BS and I’m not going to bother getting into the specifics of that. The point of this is more about human psychology, and specifically about how to control peoples’ behavior through the use of fear, or its inverse, hope.
Neither fear nor hope are rational. When it comes to controlling behavior, that’s exactly what enables the would be controller to do what they do. That’s how cults work. That’s how otherwise intelligent people allow themselves to be conned into doing stupid things. Human beings are indeed miserably bad at analyzing risk and probability, and that’s what this really comes down to in the long run.
I’m not exempting myself from this. This isn’t me chest-beating and saying to the world, “look at me, I’m immune to being scammed!” In fact, not too long ago I did get scammed. Even knowing that crypto is a scam, I allowed a friend to talk me into investing in a cloud crypto mining shtick. I did it partly because it gave him a referral bonus, but also partly because I foolishly believed I could get out before it cratered. So basically, my greed got the better of me. I didn’t lose a lot of money fortunately, only ~ $750. I’m not a rich guy by any stretch of the imagination, but $750 isn’t going to sink me; not even close. I consider it a cheap lesson in what not to do.
For me, the take away is to better trust my inner cynic going forward. In general, people are terrible and always will be. We all just have to choose what level of that we’re willing to accept in our lives. I believe The Bible has a bit to say about that. Choose wisely, my friends.
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56 Shannon
That was amazing and beautiful.
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Found a source of non-mRNA, pre-cooked (sous vide), pure beef that has been freeze dried for long term storage.
Just in case you decided to prep a bit.
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Well, to be fair you can simultaneously be right and a douchebag.
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Lara Logan describes the left’s ideal “15 minute city” succinctly:
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But, before I head out to mass, there is a God and I just have to trust that He’s Got This:
The Complexity of Biology points to God
Committed as he is to the creative power of natural selection, Dawkins understands the necessity of gradualism and “incrementalism” in explaining the existence of micro-machines (such as the bacterial flagellum): “Evolution is very possibly not, in actual fact, always gradual. But it must be gradual when it is being used to explain the coming into existence of complicated, apparently designed objects, like eyes [or bacterial flagellum]. For if it is not gradual in these cases, it ceases to have any explanatory power at all.”
Dawkins recognizes the power irreducible complexity has to falsify naturalistic explanations (like any combination of chance, natural law, or natural selection). Even Charles Darwin recognized this dilemma when he wrote On the Origin of Species: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down”.
The flagellum has dozens of necessary, interactive, inter-reliant pieces. With just one less part, the flagellum fails to operate as the efficient motor needed to provide motility to the bacterium.
The irreducible complexity of this large assemblage of pieces means the finished design of the flagellum must be constructed in one sweeping step; it cannot be assembled over several generations, unless the prior intermediate micro-machines also offer some advantage to the bacterium. If they don’t offer an advantage, and are instead a misshapen liability, or simply an unnecessary addition, natural selection will not favor the presence of the structure within the organism. In other words, natural selection will not “select” the “intermediates” to allow for further additions. Efficient, irreducibly complex structures point most reasonably to an intelligent designer.
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This photo screams ’70s…. the cheesy wood paneling, the wall decorations, the hanging lamp, the built-in A/C, the big console TV, the burnt-orange carpeting and the woman’s fashion.
Oh and Mornin’ Gang
Is it still morning? 😉
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I’ve been reading different sources and digging into the subject of government mind manipulation and the correlated censorship strategies and tactics.
I came across this paper following the entrails of the highly suspect academic field of behavioral science. This was originally published in the American Political Science Review and is now provided online by Cambridge University.
It’s $26 and I am tempted to buy it.
Nonrepresentative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians
Abstract
A considerable body of work in political science is built upon the assumption that politicians are more purposive, strategic decision makers than the citizens who elect them. At the same time, other work suggests that the personality profiles of office seekers and the environment they operate in systematically amplifies certain choice anomalies. These contrasting perspectives persist absent direct evidence on the reasoning characteristics of representatives. We address this gap by administering experimental decision tasks to incumbents in Belgium, Canada, and Israel. We demonstrate that politicians are as or more subject to common choice anomalies when compared to nonpoliticians: they exhibit a stronger tendency to escalate commitment when facing sunk costs, they adhere more to policy choices that are presented as the status-quo, their risk calculus is strongly subject to framing effects, and they exhibit distinct future time discounting preferences. This has obvious implications for our understanding of decision making by elected politicians.
Translation: Politicians and high-level policy-makers are no more adept at important decision making than the citizens who elect or appoint them and, frequently, are worse.
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The academic world knows the entire myth of elite expertise is an exercise in stratospheric bull***t.
They even study it and admit it in obscure research like the one I linked to above. They don’t care because it is all about power and they don’t want to give it up.
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Overconfidence. A recent study of 597 U.S. climate change officials found that they tended to be overconfident in their knowledge and abilities, particularly when they had more years of experience. Moreover, this overconfidence also meant they were more likely to make risky decisions—a problem if this risk-taking is based on false assumptions. Another study found that politicians who were overconfident in their chances of re-election were more likely to make a risky policy choice; there was no relationship between risk-taking and a more objective measure of re-election chances.
Behold my shocked face !
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It’s $26 and I am tempted to buy it.
Sounds like a worthwhile investment of 26 bucks. I guess it would largely confirm what most of us suspect to be true anyway, but it’s corroborating evidence if nothing else.
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Mornin!/afternoon? Turns out my son wanting me to go shopping for zero turn mower’s yesterday was a ploy to get me out of the house so my Sweetie could setup a surprise BD party for me. We pulled up to the driveway full of cars and about 20 people standing on my porch hollering stuff at me! Love that girl.
Had a blast, we finally got to bed around 2:30AM. Yeah, I’m too old for that stuff anymore so today will be a waste. 😀
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Oh, and he is getting a mower, we decided Bad Boy is the best overall. Can’t beat that 7 ga fabricated deck, thing is a beast.
ZT Elite – 60” not sure if he will end up with Kohler or Kawasaki powered but it’s gonna be a good one.
https://badboymowers.com/zero-turn-mowers/residential/zt-elite-lawn-mower
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GJT got himself a keeper… and happy BD to you!
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I do! Thanks Doood!
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Morning, gang… Just barely, I see… Well, I’ve been up since 9 a.m., have worked the HouChron sudoku, not sure what else I will do today… If anything…
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I have a batch of bread finishing in the oven. Oven is off, I turned the power off about 45 minutes ago; door closed. In about an hour or so I will take the first bite.
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#67 GJT Awwright! They did it up good for you.
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#68 GJT, I’m pretty sure the Bad Boy will be hard to beat and I’ve about decided that the difference between a Kawasaki & a Kohler is just preference.
You mind telling what that machine will set you back? It’s certainly a step up from my 54″ Hustler Raptor. Not sure what it means but I’ve seen much larger machines than mine powered by the same 23 HP Kawasaki V Twin as mine.
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SD, there is really nothing wrong with Toro and the Ariens but the Bad Boy deck is just noticeably more robust. Machine is simple and access for maintenance is easy. Kawasaki v Kohler – I’ve worked on both in construction equipment and both are good engines. Actually, I’ve had no problems with Briggs and Stratton engines but they get a bad wrap so staying away.
he hasn’t purchased yet but I think it will end up around $4,900, but he has to find out options for a mulching kit which I think is an additional $250 or so. I see they have a handle mounted chute cover option which supposedly makes it a mulching deck but he needs to verify it has lifting blades and are there no airflow deflectors needed? Not much info on the site and You know Tractor Supply peeps are no help.
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Houston Public Media has a train wreck report for recent events at Texas A&M. Links to official investigations included at the link.
Texas A&M has agreed to pay $1 million to a Black journalism professor whose job offer was changed after criticism from conservative groups over her support for racial equity, the university system announced Thursday.
The settlement comes in the wake of an internal review by the university’s Office of General Counsel, which found the university mishandled the hiring of Dr. Kathleen McElroy in response to the backlash.
“Texas A&M acknowledges that mistakes were made during the hiring process relating to Dr. McElroy,” a statement from the university reads. “The leadership of Texas A&M apologizes to Dr. McElroy for the way her employment application was handled, has learned from its mistakes and will strive to ensure similar mistakes are not repeated in the future.”
…further murky details included plus the lowdown on the A&M prof and Lt.Gov. Dan Patrick dispute,
The university also released its findings from an investigation into the suspension and subsequent reinstatement of a Texas A&M professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrickduring a lecture on the opioid crisis.
Joy Alonzo was put on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation into comments made at the University of Texas Medical Branch, according to the internal review documents. That investigation was sparked by the daughter of Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, who attended the lecture.
Thursday’s report lists the chain of events that led to Alonzo’s formal censure and administrative leave: Buckingham reached out to Paxton, who later reached out to the university system’s chancellor John Sharp in March.
It appears the Dan Patrick scandal was caused by several women and was a molehill made into a mountain needlessly.
It was the Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham’s daughter who attended the lecture in Galveston, complained to her mother and she called the Vice Chancellor for Governmental Affairs at TAMU Jenny Jones and things seem to have spiraled out of control from there.
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My daughter is on the cusp of graduating from A&M (pending completion of a research project) and the separation can’t come quickly enough for my taste.
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I just got back from the Pig and was listening to Fox and when they went to commercial I flipped over to PMSNBC (Fox Business was off the air and the local FM had a loser on). Anyway I heard some guy bad mouthing Trump, the voice sounded vaguely familiar and when he finished the PMSNBC chick said thank you Mr Strzok! So they interview this know lair, who should be in prison just like he was an authority. SMDH Then they had another lying weasel on talking about Biden N Trump and he was so stupid I had to tune into PMSNBC on my TV to see who it was and low and behold it was one of those Hi-Spanic, Faggot Twins from San Antonio. Are one or both of them in any kind of office now?
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Here Ya’ Go; GJT @ His Birthday Party.
😉
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I’m going into the hospital in the morning for another heart catheterization. I will have had two catscans with contrast dye, two chest x-rays and now a cardiac cath with contrast in about a two month period. I should be glowing in the dark after this.
My cardiologist is still baffled by the unexplained, mystery pericardial infection in June, but I’m pretty convinced it was caused by Pfizer. He wants to make absolutely sure there are no arterial blockages that were missed before. Me too.
However, if any stents are required I probably won’t be home until Wednesday.
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Wow !
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Texpat, did you get Pfizer jabs when they first came out, like I did? There had never (to my knowledge) been any other instance where the latest vaccine was a dangerous gamble… My official Medicare PCP doc is not in UT Physicians, but I have 3 or 4 specialists I see occasionally who are, so UT-P tracks me even more so than my own doc does. And UT-P was eager to get everyone jabbed.
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Great pic! Happy birfday, GJT!
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EIN Presswire is one more cog in the vast government censorship and mass media control apparatus.
EIN Presswire told Students for Fair Admissions that it would not accept the press release, citing an “intent to harm” clause in its rules and restrictions. “This is to inform you that we have declined your press release due to its content: Intent to Harm,” the presswire said without any further explanation.
and,
EIN Presswire told Students for Fair Admissions that it would not accept the press release, citing an “intent to harm” clause in its rules and restrictions. “This is to inform you that we have declined your press release due to its content: Intent to Harm,” the presswire said without any further explanation.
At issue was a press release from Students for Fair Admissions to promote its new website WestPointNotFair.org. The website seeks to connect to applicants rejected by West Point and the Navy and Air Force academies.
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Good Afternoon Hamsters,
Too hot and miserable outside (101 here so far) to do anything but stay inside and view the world through a window. We do have a nice breeze outside, though it is likely a hot one. A herd of white clouds from the west heads this way that will probably bring shade only. A nap looks inviting.
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79 mharper42
I only received 2 injections of Pfizer fake vaccine in March of 2021. I don’t really understand the rest of the comment though.
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Thanks Super Dave for posting the pic! Kids love a birthday party – and cake!
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GJT – looks like a wonderful time you were having there… but I think the grands were having even more fun
Tedtam #59… Thank GOD we can do our own beef, eh??? At that price, I could even not be so terribly set on only getting beef on sale AND justify Nat’s purchase pretty quickly. 😉
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I had to reclaim two of my 7″ baking pans that I’m using for pre-freezing food for Elsa. I think Hubby was about to claim them for his brownie mixes that he’s taken to cooking for himself. I went out into Elsa’s room to put them away and dang, the temp in the garage was 90 degrees. At 5 o’clock. A garage that is shaded all day.
I’ve decided that some of my garden is just going to have to die. I’m not watering the tubs that look like a lost cause: a couple of melon vines, flowers, cucumbers.
My Confederate Rose has lost half of its leaves. I haven’t been watering it since it has a larger root system and seems to have been holding it’s own… Up til now.
I had to go to City water today, too.
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Man those T Bones were good. I had planned on a simple supper, T Bones, Beans and Baked Taters with all the fixin’s but the ladies decided they wanted a salad so when we sat down to eat we loaded up the taters, got out some salad and were about through eating when sister said, “we didn’t even touch the beans”. Nope we all dove in so quickly that we missed some fine beans. Oh well, they’ll be good tomorrow with some burn’t dawgs. Funny my wife and sister absolutely loves those beans but plum forgot all about them.
Yup, Life is Good in My World. 😉
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We have a sunny 98 in the now-shaded back yard and a 96 for the partially-shaded front porch. Front of the house is mostly shaded now thanks to the front-yard trees. The worst of the day is over. Stick your nose outside and it is still hot, hot, hot. And we have at least another week to go at these temps. Ugh squared.
The sprinklers on every other day (mostly at night) seem to have kept the potted plants holding on well so far and the yards still green. It is the best we can do until God’s rain returns and brings His nitrogen with it. The water on the house slab and near it seem to be keeping that from moving. Wonder how many new folks have come to our section of the state who have never had homes on a slab and haven’t been told what to do to keep it from cracking if possible. Other than having good neighbors who know what to do and who to call.
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Texpat, prayers for a successful treatment with no complicatons and having you back home soon.
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We just got 120″ of rain!! Oh wait!! Make that .12″ but we’ll take it. 😀
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Texpat, what she said, prayers on the way. I do hope they get you all straightened out those hospital visits can’t be fun at all.
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Texpat: 3:09 pm
What I commented on in my #79 was how most medical folks were PUSHING the Covid jabs, even after the early warning signs became known. By the time the next batch was ready, I had seen enough negative info to avoid anything whatsoever from Pfizer, or anything containing spike proteins, ever again.
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Happy birthday to all the birthdayers around here.
texpat
G-Speed to you on your procedure tomorrow.
and last but not least super Dave’s latest front yard karaoke venture.
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We lost power about 10 minutes ago. Power company says 2-1/2 hours.
it gonna get really miserable in here if they take that long. Thank heavens we aren’t in Texas right now.
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Hey TedTam – just wanted to let you know that, should you be “prepping” some breakfast foods (since bacon doesn’t work for freeze-drying because of the fat) – I’ve done 2 different kinds of pre-cooked breakfast sausage patties… I don’t remember what the first kind I tried was but it splattered a LOT – HOWEVER the Jimmy Dean pre-cooked patties I did most recently did NOT require the industrial degreasing of Nat like the first kind did… Just got thru packing up one tray of the sausages and 3 trays of eggs (I’m getting much better at NOT making the eggs too frothy in the blender using the method someone on FB suggested of 9 eggs well blended and poured into a quart freezer bag for freezing then “skinning” the egg patty and FD’ing 2 bags worth per tray… then powdering post-freeze drying with the blender – sifting out the lumps and re-running them thru the blender til it was all powdery… Rough yield 1 quart jar full of powdered eggs per tray, tho’ I have been putting them in 1/2 gallon jars then vac-sealing w/an O2 absorber… After watching Retired at 40’s video of the eggs – I decided it just wasn’t worth the hassle of doing non-blended eggs because in his vid, the yolks never got fully re-hydrated… Boiled eggs roughly chopped for egg salad from his video was a success – in case you didn’t run across that one.
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