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It looks like the Labor Day weekend snuck on us this time but at least we’re having cooler weather. We got a little rain yesterday, .30″ and that brings us to 1.02″ fro the week and .30″ for the month. Funny as I was scrolling through the numbers on the Weather Station it said .30″ for the month and I thought what? Then it dawned on me that we are in a new month.
SO Mornin’ Gang and wake up slackers!
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71/feels like 71, wahoo, I’m balanced!
Rarely watch the local news, last night she wanted to watch to follow a wildfire out here (it’s ok), stupid weather girl touting 20 percent chance this weekend like yuge breaking news. Good grief.
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No more Margaritaville. RIP Jimmy Buffett, great times.
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Jimmy Buffet passed away? I didn’t hear that. Sad.
Found this; Jimmy Buffett, ‘Margaritaville’ Singer, Dies at 76
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, whose laid-back, good-humored, often tropically-themed brand of country-laced pop spawned a lucrative one-man business empire, died Friday. He was 76. A cause of death was not immediately released.
Buffett’s death was confirmed through a statement on his official website: “Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs. He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many.”
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I saw this Jackass on Fox this morning;
WATCH: Top Biden Apologist Philip Bump Freaks out When Confronted With Hunter Biden Text Messages.
When trying to pinpoint who the biggest hack at The Washington Post is, it’s a long list to consider. Jennifer Rubin was the obvious choice for many years running, penning some of the most slavishly pro-Democrat pieces in history while claiming to be a “conservative.” Then there’s Eugene Robinson, the noted race hustler who has never found a problem he won’t blame on systemic racism.
But I’d posit that while those two were once at the top of the heap, they’ve been recently supplanted by Philip Bump. Who doesn’t know who Bump is, he’s a former “reporter” turned columnist who has taken it upon himself to be Joe Biden’s top apologist. He’s that guy on the far left who is constantly churning out articles that there’s “no evidence” that the president was involved in his son’s business dealings. You know the one, even if you don’t know Bump specifically.
Bump recently went on a podcast hosted by Noam Dworman. During the interview, he was confronted by Dworman over what he thought of a now-infamous text message in which Hunter Biden complained to his adult daughter about having to give half his income to his father.
That’s when Bump freaked out, eventually walking off the set.
Here Ya’ go;
Bump: There’s no evidence Joe Biden received money from his son’s nefarious dealings.
Host: Here’s some evidence.
Bump: That doesn’t count, and now I’m leaving.
~SPITS~
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Bunch of new laws now in affect in Texas.
Of note to me:
Owners of EV now pay an extra $200 in tax to cover for loss in state gas tax.
Educators can lose teaching certificate and pension for distributing ‘harmful’ material to minor students.
DA’s can be be removed from court for not charging district attorneys for misconduct if they choose to not prosecute a type of criminal offense under state law or they instruct law enforcement to refuse to arrest individuals suspected of committing the type of offense. Not sure what that means but if it means what it sounds like…
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Indeed,
R.I.P. Jimmy, good times.
The guy probably made more money than the Beatles. Had that Midas touch.
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The guy probably made more money than the Beatles. Had that Midas touch.
They said he was worth over a billion bucks. He made most of his money marketing “Margaritaville”.
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RIP Jimmy B. A genre all his own.
I’ve watered my garden, emptied the compost bucket, and picked 3 green beans that were trying to sneak by me. I’ve decided that my remaining eggplant will have to die, I’m not wasting any more water on it.
One more bites the dust.
I have some basil that’s doing well, the green beans are hanging in there, the tomato plants are gasping but I haven’t given up on them yet. The melons are doing remarkably well, and I have several small ones on the vine. One thyme plant is quite happy, but she gets some shade where she is on the ground. The other one, also shaded, is struggling. Not sure why one is doing well but not the other. Peppermint is gone, but I still have my sweet mint, chocolate mint, and a few stalks of oregano left.
Right now, it’s just the hand of God keeping some of my plants alive. This heat is brutal.
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Beaver felled a tree on a powerline off FM1488 causing a fire. Suspect has not been apprehended.
/I didn’t know we had beavers, I suspect Buc-cee.
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It’s hard to believe, but Handsome Son has a birthday tomorrow. Another birthday. /sigh
I miss my babies. I was so happy when I was chasing them around the house and collecting cuddles. It’s frustrating to be a nurturing soul with so few outlets to express it.
But all of those babies at church…I can try. Little Emily actually let me hold her last week. Made my whole day.
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My daughter’s Significant Other is a volunteer firefighter with Cat Spring VFD.
All of these local VFDs have been banding together, fighting fires daily. Trying to keep grass fires from turning into wildfires.
They’re getting pretty worn out.
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A genre all his own.
Well said. I never met anyone who didn’t like him.
Although I haven’t checked with Squawk. You never know about him.
🙂
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I remember calling the Pearland VFD after I saw a grass fire out in the sticks one day. I had to drive to the local country store (the one we’d ride our bikes to on Mom’s “big shopping day” to buy candy) to make the call. I drove back to the field where I’d seen the flames, but they were gone. I waited for the FD to show up and they looked a little wissed off. We walked out into the field and found the burn spot, but for some reason it had gone out.
They stopped being upset and we went on our separate ways.
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Looks like Childers is sleeping in today. I need to get my treadmill time done before I meet LD & Family for lunch. They’ve driven into town to make some visits to family and friends. Her baby shower is next month, and baby due the first half of December. I’m guessing this is their best chance to do this before the pregnancy becomes too uncomfortable.
I have really missed seeing them; this will be a delightful interlude in my day.
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This Stunning 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Will Make You Forget About the Chevrolet Impala.
Introduced in 1958, the Chevrolet Impala sold almost 200,000 examples in its first year on the market. Accounting for 15% of Chevrolet production that year, the Impala helped the company regain the number one production spot in America.
Deliveried increased dramatically in the 1960s, to the point where the Impala moved almost 900,000 units in 1964. Come 2022 and second- and third-gen Impalas are anything but rare, but they’re incredibly popular with the classic car crowd. To such an extent that other GM-built full-size vehicles from the era are pretty much ignored.
And that’s a shame because GM’s lineup included many awesome land yachts at the time. I’m talking about the Oldsmobile 98, the Buick Electra, and the Pontiac Bonneville. The latter is my absolute favorite for two reasons: it looks sexier than the Impala and it came with a powerful V8 engine as standard.
Just like the Impala, the first-gen Bonneville was a one-year wonder. The full-size was redesigned for 1959 when it was also slotted above the Catalina. That year also saw Pontiac introduce the iconic split grille and “wide track” design that added three inches of track width compared to other GM products.
The second-gen Bonneville was only offered with a 389-cubic-inch (6.4-liter) Tempest V8 engine. While restricted to just one mill, the standard Bonneville packed more punch than most Impala versions available at the time.
Not surprisingly, the 1960 Bonneville wasn’t as popular as the Impala: Pontiac delivered only 80,651 units that year. And only 17,062 examples were convertibles, which makes the 1960 Bonneville one of the rarest full-size drop-tops from the era. The Coronado Red example you see here is one of those cars.
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Looks like Childers is sleeping in today.
Well we have some good news,…..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAMM>>>>>>>>>>>> 😀
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13 SD
Great video, too. Love the retractable trunk light. 🙂
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Katfish’s mom had an early 70’s Bonneville – still a land yacht. She didn’t let him drive it much. It rode like a cloud.
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5 Super Dave
Quoting from my #16 yesterday on Jonathan Turley’s regular criticism of Philip Bump.
This is the world we are living in now. Even after federal agencies and the mass media have fully admitted the reality and accepted the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Lafayette Square in DC, Russian collusion, The Washington Post has done a 180° turn and decided, for instance, Hunter’s laptop is a Putin psyop…
There is no sane, rational explanation for The Washington Post to suddenly start backing up Philip Bump in August of 2023. They clearly do not care how ridiculous and absurd they look.
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I’ll take a 1960 Bonneville over an Impala any day of the week.
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#17 Texpat, I must have missed that one, I’ll go back and check it out. I try to scroll through the page everyday but I don’t always have the time. FWIW; The video of Philip Bump was worse than hepatic but sadly he’s not embarrassed in the least.
Oh and Fox played the clip of The Binder (I call her Buckwheat) saying that Biden has done more to secure the border than any President in history. What is amazing is that not only is she lying but she knows that WE know she’s lying.
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Making criminals out of millions of honest, constitutionally loyal, law-abiding citizens…
August 31, 2023
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Biden ATF formally rolled out their plans to implement backdoor universal background checks, which was made possible by Senator John Cornyn’s “compromise” legislation passed last summer.
Under this newly proposed rule, any individual who sells even a single firearm for any profit, to any person including family could be classified as “Engaged in the Business” of selling firearms, and in turn, they would be forced to get a federal license, conduct a background check, and complete gun registration paperwork under federal law. This will further enhance the ATF’s illegal gun registry and will make it much harder for private individuals to sell guns—effectively forcing them to either become a gun dealer or take time off work to coordinate trips (with potential gun buyers) to find a gun store. Further complicating matters is the fact that the ATF has currently adopted a Zero Tolerance policy that is driving numerous gun dealers out of business for mere clerical errors.
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Love the retractable trunk light.
Those retractable trunk lights were in several cars in the 60’s our 66 Chrysler had one. BTW; The 60 Pontiac caught my attention because my uncle had a white 4 door and I thought it was very pretty. I loved the grill.
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Morning temp made it down to 72. Yea. Now 84 and not seeming to be in a hurry. Mother Nature is taking her time this morning and brought a nice little breeze with her.
Sadly the pastures are mostly yellow/brown now except under the trees. But the deer still graze on them and hang out in the shade. Spouse went outside on the back porch to check on something last night and discovered three of them asleep or resting in our back yard. They stayed there until morning grazing, and then dived under the fence back to the green in the pasture that still gets water from the yard sprinklers. They seem to be OK.
Weather Guesser mentioned there is a 40% chance for rain this weekend that should cover much of Fort Bend County. Hope springs eternal here.
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I wonder if bartering for guns between private individuals would be allowed…
Two miles down, sitting in front of my fan, and I hate to disappoint you, but Childers finally got out of bed:
HARD STOP ☙ Saturday, September 2, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
[PS: I just saw a headline as the topic on my “Return to Tradition” podcast for today. “We’ve dumbed down the faith too much for too long.” A rousing AMEN! to that. I’m horrified at how poorly catechized 95% of our Catholic population is today. I remember what one monk told me when I asked how they were able to attract youngsters: “When you water down the faith, you lose them.” ]
C&C Roundup:
Good morning, C&Cers, it’s Saturday! Welcome to the Weekend Edition. Your roundup today includes: buh-bye Eris, hello Pirola, the newest and bestest scariant ever; new deer study hauls animal reservoirs back into view; the dumbest idea Bill Gates has ever come up with, and that’s saying a lot, will soon be government funded; Jimmy Buffet dies mysteriously; Madonna update; Olympic swimmer SADS; the paddle board connection; McCullough makes a connection and describes his jab protocol; US Open players dropping like flies from mystery illness that is definitely not covid; and a cute funny cat video for some mindless fun.
News:
Welcome the new WLR variant named “Pirola”. I’ll skip much of the delighful snark that has made Childers one of my favorite reads…but it all boils down to WE’RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEE! /without a new jab
Of course, the latest jab recipe won’t work on Pirola, because the “experts” weren’t fast enough. But you can try the latest version, just in case. [Just in case of what? I ask.]
It all boils down to Childers’ last line of this story: “Omicron is the least dangerous of all the covid variant lines. But never let the facts get in the way of a good covid scare story.”
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Well I just applied for and received my Hunting License, then all I had to do was print it out. Ain’t technology neat….Sometimes…
Oh and if you’re wondering how much it cost, it was zero, Nada, nuttin’ since I’m over 65 BUT I did need the Harvest Record form for Deer and Turkey. 😉
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Next up:
It seems that wild deer are also hosting the pandemic virus.
We haven’t visited covid’s “animal reservoir” feature for a while. In 2020 and 2021, the phenomenon was a compelling argument against vaccines, because jabs could never end the pandemic by “eradicating” the virus and creating herd immunity.
Unless you can jab all the deer, the virus will survive in the deer reservoir. And cats, dogs, monkeys, bears, lions, marmosets, and duckbilled platipi, or platypuses, or however you say it.
Then, after some point in late 2021, they admitted that the mRNA jabs don’t prevent transmission anyway, or even stop people from catching covid, and the experts finally shut up about herd immunity.
Anyway, the deer are still catching covid. Here’s what the study’s introduction explained:
We detected that SARS-CoV-2 was introduced from humans into white-tailed deer more than 30 times in Ohio, USA during November 2021-March 2022. Subsequently, deer-to-deer transmission persisted for 2–8 months, disseminating across hundreds of kilometers.
Setting aside the extremely curious question of how, exactly, humans are giving covid to deer — kissing them? petting zoos? people who identify as deer? — the study re-raises the original objection. As we continue to sprint after evasive viral variants with ever newer and improved-er vaccines, what precisely do we hope to achieve?
If we can agree the virus is out now and is never going away, then the only legitimate objective for vaccines is personal risk reduction. And if that is true, there is no justification for mandates, zero, none whatsoever.
Look at it this way. Let’s say my personal risk of dying from a covid infection is 0.001%. Should all personal risks of 0.001% or greater require government intervention? Obviously not. And don’t tell me it’s about grandma — the jabs don’t stop transmission. Grandma can get the jab as much as she wants, and if the jabs work, then she should be fine.
If the jabs don’t work, nobody should take them. Seriously. What is so hard to understand about all this?
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And now for the latest crazy from Bill Gates and the Climatemonger crowd: they want federal money (our taxpayer dollars, btw) to chop down trees and bury them.
Yes, that’s right. The tree huggers want to cut down large CO2 ingesting life forms and bury them.
How will they do it? The creator of Windows BOB has now created, and I am not making this up, a 17-ton “semi-autonomous” tree destroying robot that works in the dark. My imagination is still boggled.
A tree killing robot. Let’s hope it’s not AI-driven and decides that humans are too stupid to be allowed to live and reproduce. Something like that would be hard to stop. Especially since Biden is sending all of our armaments to that country thousands of miles away.
Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, wait a minute, trees are what reduces carbon dioxide. Chopping them down seems as dumb as eating Tide Pods with maple syrup for breakfast. But the experts are way ahead of you. I’ll let Forbes explain:
Yes, the conventional idea is to plant trees to soak up carbon dioxide from the air and to then sell credits to corporations, private jet owners and others who need or want to offset their emissions. But scientists say burying trees can reduce global warming as well—particularly if those trees would otherwise end up burning or decaying, spewing their stored carbon into the air.
Hahahaha! They got us! Trees are made out of carbon, dummies! So you know what that means. They must go! All of them! Unleash the robots!
The “burial godfather” explained how it works:
University of Maryland atmospheric science professor Ning Zeng, considered the godfather of biomass burial, explains that the average ton of freshly harvested forest is about 50% carbon by weight, and if left to rot or burn it would put the equivalent of one ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A good rule of thumb, he says: “A ton of biomass in the Earth is a ton of CO2 not in the sky.”
/snip
Here’s the thing: chopping down trees is good now, but we cannot allow loggers to profit from the harvested trees, by turning them into houses or furniture or pencils or anything practical like that. No, in order to prevent a windfall for the vile tree industry, the trees must be safely buried after they are chopped down, so nobody can use them.
Because capitalism is inherently evil, so let’s not make the best of a bad situation. Even if it is prima facie the dumbest idea ever.
Childers posits the question: on what fuel will these gargantuan robots operate? It’s hard to believe that they’ll be solar powered. As far as valuing the benefit, no one knows.
Anyway, the very best part is: they want us to pay for it! In tax credits. If you were a billionaire, would you waste your time selling things into the fickle, demanding marketplace when you have the gullible government sitting right there?
Forbes speculated in the article about other advantages, like thinning forests to prevent wildfires — fires create carbon dioxide too! — but I can’t even. I’m starting to think you guys feel I say this too often, but I am not making any of this up, I promise.
You know what else is made out of carbon? Us. We are made out of carbon. Just like trees. Coming soon: Bill Gates’ people-harvesting robots.
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There’s a whole list of S&U, or “Mysterious” deaths. He included Jimmy Buffet in the list, read the column to see why. Of course, JB was 76, but he was recovering from some mysterious malady…anyway, it seems that the tennis world is also being racked by multiple S&U events.
Dr. Malone’s protocol was mentioned: https://twitter.com/DrNoMask/status/1696238966029127832
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Now that I’ve cooled down a bit, it’s hang time and shower before I head out to get hugs from my granddaughters. See y’all later.
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It is quite obvious that the people naming the new Covid variants are the same morons naming newly marketed pharmaceuticals.
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Tedtam 10:24
Unfortunately, there is no link to Dr. McCullogh’s most recently published detoxification protocols.
If I wasn’t sitting in the HEB parking lot, I would try to find it…
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It doesn’t seem so odd to me.
In May, Buffett gets sick suddenly in Boston, checks into a hospital and cancels a big concert. He gets out in a few days, doesn’t reschedule any performances and says he’s going fishing and sailing.
It’s pretty obvious the doctors told him he only had weeks or months to live and that is why you got the I’m going fishing and sailing line. If everything was okay Jimmy would’ve started performing again.
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I’m going to try and find that great story of the early friendship between Jerry Jeff Walker and Buffett down in Florida back before most folks had heard of them.
And if I’m in a story-telling mood later, I’ll retell the the tale of when Jimmy Buffett spent the weekend in my girlfriend’s roommate’s bed with 102° fever and wouldn’t let me take him to the doctor.
Damn, that was a long time ago.
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Morning, Couch Critters! A bit cooler outside this morning, although still supposed to hit 100 degrees today…
My HOA is having a Labor Day party at the pool on Monday, so hoping the rain holds off till after dark that night.
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SuperDave, back in the mid to late 60’s, we had an Impala, and our neighbor had a Bonneville… The neighbor kept her Bonneville in the garage, and our garage had been turned into a kitchen before we moved there 😉
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Some good news.
Alaska education board votes to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports
A board appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy decided Thursday in favor of a new regulation that would ban transgender girls from participation in high school girls’ sports.
The decision by the state board of education came less than six months after the board passed a resolution first indicating its members were interested in such a policy. All seven Dunleavy-appointed board members voted in favor of the new policy, which states that only girls whose sex assigned at birth is female will be able to compete in girls’ sports.
Corrections: Newborns are not “assigned” as girl or boy at birth. It is what they are. Ob-Gyns don’t pick up a baby and say, “I think we’ll call this one a girl today, but tomorrow it might be a boy.”
Dumb headline: Alaska education board votes to ban transgender
girlsfrom participating in girls’ sports.Transgenders are still either biological male or female.
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Well said. I never met anyone who didn’t like him.
Although I haven’t checked with Squawk. You never know about him.
Meh
I am not a fan of Buffett or his music. I do not know enough about him to praise or blast his character. I do not think I have ever listened to any of his songs played all the way through. I do commend Buffett for parlaying a song into a billion dollar business and creating a lifestyle that appealed to enough people for him to prosper.
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I’ve got a crockpot full of reduced for quick sale chicken leg/thigh quarters – cooking them til the meat falls off the bone, and then will shred and (maybe) mix some with BBQ sauce – or just run them thru Nat as they are, and worry about sauce or whatever when rehydrating…
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Dance Hall Darlings take their final bow at Swiss Alp Hall in Schulenberg.
”Swiss Alp was basically a hay barn with windows. If you weren’t soaking wet with sweat from dancing, you weren’t having a good time.”
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Made it to 96 thus far across the Brazos in rural Richmond, with a light breeze again. Wonder if we shall hit 100 again today.
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33 Shannon
I missed another one.
I would have driven to Schulenberg for that dance. I’ve even been to the Swiss Alps a couple of times. The Triumphs may have been the first band I actually paid to see as a teenager.
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Dance Hall Darlings take their final bow at Swiss Alp Hall in Schulenberg.
Daymmmm that is a shame. But all good thing s will come to an end at some point in time. The Triumphs are a band I can listen to.
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Many early memories have slid off the edge of my internal hard drive, but I’ll never forget the night my friend Billy and I were on our way home from a dance at Swiss Alp. I was a passenger in Billy’s ‘67 VW Beetle.
Somewhere on 159, between Industry and Bellville, I woke up and we’re doing 40mph in the bottom of the ditch. About the time I uttered, “Whoa!”, Billy steered back up on to the roadway.
I’m grateful that he woke up, too.
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My day has been weird. Over the last three or four days my heart rate seems to have been fluctuating between 50 and 70 bpm. I thought it was the crappy home BP monitor and oximeter I have. I began to feel a little weak and not quite right and finally started taking my heart reading manually on my carotid artery with a watch. My heart rate has been 39-40 since yesterday. It’s usually 66-72.
I called my doctor and said I thought I was taking too high of a dose of beta blocker and he agreed. I wanted to stop, but he said cut it in half. Anyway, I’m not driving anywhere.
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#39 Texpat – wise decision there. The doc who finally got my BP under control put me on a minimal dose of a beta block and ACE inhibitor, and a calcium channel blocker and adjusted the dosage til he got me in range. After it’d been under control for years with the same doses, I asked if he thought it was OK to cut down on the number of meds – his answer was “DON’T MESS WITH SUCCESS”
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Yesterday I found a small packet of catnip in a kitchen cabinet. It may have come in the box with delivered flea collars that 800-Pet-Meds sends me every 6 months, but I don’t recall stashing it like that. Anyway, I put down 6 box tops into which I could put a pinch of the goodies for each cat. So then I had 6 cats who went total ape.
I drove to the local Post Office at noon to drop off an outgoing letter, an event I do maybe 2X a year, so then I detoured by the 43rd St Kroger and went into the PetSmart across the street. I got a large package of catnip that has really hit the spot with my fur babies.
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I’m back from a lovely lunch with my daughter and family. Got some hugs and smiles, my tummy is full, learned the name of the new baby, and got caught up on some news.
On the way home I stopped at Kroger to see what Elsa will be full of next and found a buy one-get one free sale on chicken, so there ya’ go.
I told LD and Aggie Beau that I was looking forward to marinating my FD steaks to rehydrate them. That’d pull the flavor all the way through….I’m going to process this chicken raw for the same reason.
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I’m trying to imagine Mharper’s cats all going catnip all at the same time. Boggles the mind, it does.
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40 bsue54
I was doing fine for 17 months after a heart attack and felt good. All the sudden, everything went sideways in June with the atrial fibrillation, pericardial effusion and two stays in the hospital for 10 days. They have had some difficulty getting the drug cocktail straight ever since then.
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Tedtam, I think that’s what I’m looking forward to trying, as well…
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It’s HOTEL CALIFORNIA !!! You can check in, but you can’t check out !!!
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada — More than 73,000 Burning Man attendees were told to stay at their camps Saturday and are blocked from leaving the event after a slow-moving rainstorm turned their desert playground into a soupy, muddy morass.
Organizers banned vehicle traffic from the roads Friday afternoon and kept the exit gates closed as of 8 a.m. local time Saturday. Even walking was treacherous as thick, slimy mud clung to shoes and anything else it touched.
Organizers on Friday and Saturday warned attendees to conserve their food and water, indicating the closures could be lengthy. The Burning Man radio station known as BMIR and a social media account have been providing updates to attendees.
Cell phone service is virtually nonexistent at the event, and only a few people have access to satellite Internet for updates. Burning Man attendees are expected to be completely self-sufficient for the duration of their stay, bringing in all the food, water and shelter they need.
Dawn brought a growing realization for attendees that they might not be going home as planned, given rain forecast for later Saturday into Sunday. And while Saturday morning is usually full of anticipation for the Man effigy burn, this Saturday arrived quietly.
Anybody heard from Dr. Phil Good ? Burning Man is his kind of place.
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Dr phil Good was banned from Burning Man years ago.
For being too weird.
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RE: #44 cont’d.
Cell phone service is virtually nonexistent at the event, and only a few people have access to satellite Internet for updates.
If I were Elon Musk, I would be hiring a couple of local planes to fly around the 73,000 person captive audience at Burning
ManMud with huge trailing banners saying:STARLINK INTERNET IS EVERYWHERE !!!
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It just ain’t right.
Burning Man is in the desert wallowing in mud and rain and we’re sitting here burnt to a crisp.
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Lol
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After two loads of laundry I put away this afternoon and pairing a really big pile of socks for both of us, it is nice to sit down with some A&W zero sugar root beer and catch up with everybody’s day such as it has been. Wind is still bringing Sahara desert sand particles our way. We’re at 97 now and not likely to crack 100 today, so that is nice. The breeze has picked up considerably from this morning’s mostly dead atmosphere. Wonder how long this wacky weather will hang around.
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Anybody heard from Dr. Phil Good ? Burning Man is his kind of place.
Dr phil Good was banned from Burning Man years ago.
For being too weird.
hahahahohohololheeheeheehoohoohoo.
thats some funny good stuff there from the maynards.
Just wanted you to know all’s well here in muddy burning man.
I prayed to the god of 5ggg thunder and got a miraculous signal on my iPad so I wamtec to let y’all’s know I’m ok.And it really is my kinda place.
Well it’s time to go smoke the peace pipe you hosers.
/out.
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It’s like an out of body experience, man.
/Out II
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Elsa’s full of chicken now. I cut the breasts to make them thinner. I have enough for another run or two after this one.
According to my receipt, I saved almost $70 by buying the sale chicken. It’ll be nice to put that money on my shelf. I’m also saving some leftover beef roast on this run. It’s nice to not have to throw out groceries.
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Tedtam – it does feel good, doesn’t it? Also, I’ve found that it gives us a valid reason to NOT eat left-overs, should we not feel like it. After freeze-drying and rehydrating, they won’t be left-overs any more – they’ll be the choice of the moment 😉
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I don’t know if you caught my okra posts. Since I can’t have popcorn and I like okra, I ran two trays of seasoned okra and two trays of plain. Dehydrated okra is okay, but it’s a little chewy. Great as an ingredient and passes as a snack (for me, anyway). The FD okra came out very light and reminds me of fluffy popcorn without the kernel. I think I over seasoned this time, so I’ll cut back next time. The plain went on the shelf.
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That does sound interesting 😉 is your okra putting out that much, or did you get this someplace special…
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Just the special frozen food aisle. My garden is barely hanging on.
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Whole pods, or cut? I don’t think I’ve ever bought frozen okra unless it was pre-breaded LOL
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Cut pods, and you can find it non-breaded. Folks like to make gumbo ‘n stuff, after all.
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Gotta load it on the trays quickly, before the slime factor makes them difficult to handle.
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LOL The only person I ever knew who made gumbo from scratch was my 2nd MiL – who had a garden with some of those magic Jack-in-the-Beanstalk kind of okra – one pod was nearly a foot long, but not big and tough…
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Dear unck and tp.
New friend made in burning mud./out, man
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What a trip it’s been.
I may never come back.
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After singing at church, I treated myself to dinner at this new place in Sealy.
Then I wandered downtown into one of the oldest saloons in Austin County….because I heard some live music, from two blocks away.
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I visited with them during the break and they came back out and performed a great old Delbert McClinton signature song for me. (It was originally a Temptations song.)
Lady Luck and four leaf clovers,won’t ease this pain I feel all over
A good time was had by all. 🙂
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Sounds like Shannon had a good evening. Love that.
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I started some chicken stock yesterday. I woke up to the whole house smelling like chicken soup. That gives me an idea for dinner….
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Yesterday was opening day for Dove season and J Nine would have sent me a text. I do miss that young lady.
Mornin’ Gang
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Scrolling up, the dried okra snack sounds like a great idea. Just wondering what kind of seasoning you might put on them.
Oh and I’ve always made Gumbo from scratch.
And;
Dr phil Good was banned from Burning Man years ago.
For being too weird.
That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are. 😀
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Good Morning Hamsters,
We woke up to 76 on the thermometer at 6, and already it has climbed to 88 with 71% humidity. At least there is a light breeze. More trees in the neighborhoods near us as well as ours have lost leaves, some with a yellowish cast and others still green but looking pale. Spouse found out why the mondo grass has failed in some places: fungus taking advantage of our watering everything. Pasture grass continues its march to dead grass hay, now more yellowish/tan. The deer eat it but continue to prefer the still green grass under the trees, though that is starting to shrink.
Spouse refilled the water tank yesterday and the fountain on the back patio, so creatures have water available.
We heard a racket on the back porch roof that got us up. Seems two big black birds were having a loud fight over the fountain. Looked to be an argument over who got there first. They finally settled it and left.
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Reaction on the Right to this one has been one of horror.
However, I think it’s one of the best ideas yet and will be much more effective than exposing the screaming racist Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
To Beat Trump, Democrats Need a Whitmer-Warnock Ticket
You cannot get more delusional than this.
Biden has accomplished more in two years than many presidents did in two terms. The CHIPSand infrastructure laws are delivering consequential innovation and investment, as are parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, the codification of same-sex marriage, the PACT Act for veterans’ health care, the first real gun safety reforms in decades, and an updated Electoral Count Act. I outlined all of that a year ago when I argued that Biden could, and should, step aside.
Biden has succeeded in uniting the West against Vladimir Putin in his war against Ukraine. In polling, he receives scant credit for this—or for historic job creation, a manufacturing boom, or $35 insulin. Unfortunately, no talk of attacking junk fees or averting a recession is going to soften the blow of stubborn inflation, which for many voters is how they take the measure of the Biden administration.
Shame on those American voters. They should have more compassion for their leaders. Cut The Big Guy some slack, for crying out loud.
Warning: Put your coffee down and take a deep breath.
DEMOCRATS HAVE A DEEPER BENCH than many people appreciate. In particular, there are two leaders from swing states who can provide generational change, a fresh start, and a far more serious threat to Trump than Biden can: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock.
This dumpster residue has been brought to you by writer A.B. Stoddard and Billy Kristol’s The Bulwark, the internet asylum and hospice for terminally ill Trump Derangement sufferers.
A.B. Stoddard grew up as little rich girl in Connecticut and daddy, Brandon Stoddard (President of ABC Entertainment) made sure she got a leg up in the media industry. I mean, really, how else would a woman this dumb manage to work as a producer at ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings as one of her very first jobs ?
Raphael Warnock is the biggest racist in the US Senate and Gretchen Whitmer has all the appeal of the Wicked Witch of the West so I believe they should be the team to run against Trump. Yessirrree.
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There’s no satisfaction in me being right about this.
8:57 AM PT — Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Jimmy was diagnosed with skin cancer 4 years ago that turned into lymphoma, and we’re told that was the cause of death. As one close friend put it, “He lived his life in the sun, literally and figuratively.” Jimmy began receiving hospice care last Monday and there was an outpouring of love from friends and family.
All the fishing guides I knew down around Rockport lived at the dermatologists. The sun can kill you.
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Hello unckla, hello texpata
Here I am, at damp Burn-man-a
it is very en-ter-tain-ing,
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Good Grief !
Texas Christian last season came within one win of a national championship. Colorado won one game. But with one wild win to open the 2023 season, the Buffaloes and their audacious new coach Deion Sanders made a case that overnight success is very possible in the increasingly unhinged world of college football.
Since moving to Boulder from Jackson State in the lower tier Football Championship Subdivision this offseason, Sanders has made Colorado a test lab for the theory that a losing program can be made over in a flash. A whopping 57 players joined Colorado via the transfer portal in the offseason, including nine who came along with Sanders from JSU.
and this,
Hours after Colorado’s win, Texas State shocked Baylor 42-31. The Bobcats were another team that went all in on transfers, adding 50 in the off-season under new coach GJ Kinne.
Pro football teams trade 1,2 or maybe 3 players. It looks like NCAA teams are moving entire teams around. It’s not your father’s college football anymore.
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65 Dr. Phil Good
Tell me why people stranded in a vast mud pit the size of Rhode Island with little water and food want to get naked and run through the mud, especially with no way to get clean ? What ? They’ll use what is left of their drinking water and then all die from dehydration ? Has Jim Jones been reincarnated there ?
This is the largest gathering of infantile, maturity-stunted adults in the Western Hemisphere.
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Morning, pals-o-mine! The family room floor is covered with catnip-stoned puds. Looks like they are all knocked out for a while.
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Woops, one of them woke up, got up, is sniffing around to see if there is any little bit of catnip that got overlooked.
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You cannot get more delusional than this.
Amen to that! What is truly amazing is that these clowns really believe all this bilge water.
Raphael Warnock & Gretchen Whitmer!?!?!? BAWHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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Jimmy Buffett owned one of my all time favorite airplanes, a Grumman Albatross and he flew it himself.
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This is the largest gathering of infantile, maturity-stunted adults in the Western Hemisphere.
it’s the mudpocalypse.
Bombadeeda bombadeeda bombadeeda bombadeeda
happy chemtrails to you…
until we seed again:)
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If the super alkali soil of Black Rock City, Nevada becomes toxic and causes an intense chemical burn on anyone barefooted, what does it do to morons with the mentality of two year olds who strip naked and wallow in it ? What happens to all those tender body parts ? Reports say water will not wash this stuff off. You have to use vinegar and it can take months to heal the burns.
I feel so sorry for all the personal injury lawyers struggling to get into Burning Mud Man so they can sign up new clients. This will be the biggest legal event in Nevada history.
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Good Grief, Charlie Brown. Whatever kind of Stupidity Index there is now lies prostrate in the mud with all the unfortunate ones who went to this, ahem, “Event”.
Would seem to be plenty of black eyes and other areas to go around numerous times for arranging such a disaster.
Texpat is correct that this legal zoo shall be infamous in Nevada history.
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Normal rate is 60 to 100 beats per minute.
I’ve been experiencing “Bradycardia” since Thursday evening. It’s a strange feeling. My heart rate has been as low 32 beats per minute and never higher than 55 for a few seconds before it drops back to 42 and lower. I don’t have any other symptoms other than a mild case of fatigue. I’ve spent almost the entire day lying down. This is the opposite problem of atrial fibrillation.
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Grankids and parents went camping in their RV in Livingston at Onalaska this weekend, we went and spent the afternoon with them. Water is so low there are virtually no boat traffic, looking as far as you could see I saw two boats and a couple jet skis, on a holiday weekend. Strange.
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The Brazos at Richmond has many sandy areas showing through what water there still is. Looks almost as though you could walk on the riverbed. Truly looks strange, and scary.
And supposedly some rain for our general area should come in the next couple of day. Not holding breath…
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Texpat, please get better. We want you around for a long, long, looooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggg time.
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Some of our tenants are just the best. One of them Zelled us the rent as usual, then texted me to verify that I got it. As soon as I assured her we’d received it, she called.
She hadn’t talked to me in months, and just wanted to check up on me. Turns out her little 3 year old boy is showing signs of a language development issue, so we had a discussion about that and I gave her some suggestions. She is just a really nice person.
She helps offset the less perfect tenants.
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Tedtam
Heh.
Over the objections of Her Highness, I had two glasses of red wine and I am now totally cured. Heart rate is in the 49 to 69 range…no more 30s.
There is nothing a little vino can’t do.
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There is nothing a little vino can’t do.
i’ll drink some cab to that.
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There is nothing a little vino can’t do.
Now that’s the time. 😉
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I fixed some Rubens on my Blackstone tonight and the wimmin’s were impressed. Some of the best ever it seems. The good news is that I can cook them all at once and it only takes a few minutes. It takes way longer to get the griddle ready than to cook.
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I’ve put Elsa on about 12 hours of extra drying time and I’ll just do the next weigh-in in the morning. The chicken is still steadily losing grams, so there’s still water being sucked out.
I strained the bones and veggies out of the crock pot broth. I filled my silicone cupcake tins with broth and it’s in the freezer; the remainder is in jars in the frig awaiting its turn. I’m interested in seeing how the broth turns out after Elsa gets her cold little claws on it.
I’ve been trying to keep Sunday a day of rest, but I’ve been pretty productive. I think I feel better than if I’d done nothing.
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Update tweeted from a CenemaNN propagandist.
I paraphrased it.
illegitimate wooden dummy briefed about Burning man.I bet everyone on feels safer now.
he’ll probably ramble on about how this situation reminds him of when he stepped in the mud when running back into his house in 1973 to rescue his burnt toast.
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We called spouse’s brother and wife in Wisconsin near Madison earlier this evening to check on their weather. They’re in the 90s at the moment and for a few more days. That is apparently thanks to the heat we have here moving up there only not getting in the 100s. Their home has central AC and so they are comfortable. They also need rain but not as badly as we do here.
Their wonderful dog Ozzie is a 14-year-old black Labrador who now has meds for heart problems as well as aches and pains for his old joints. We love that dog as a part of our family. We’re planning to visit them in mid to late October in hopes of seeing some fall color there and hope Ozzie is still with us. They got him as a puppy.
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