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Tuesday Open Commentary

U.S. House of Representatives Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) reintroduced his CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act on Tuesday, a piece of legislation he said was designed to “halt the efforts of unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that dismantles Americans’ right to financial privacy.”

According to the press release, Emmer was joined by the bill’s 50 original cosponsors in reintroducing the legislation intended to block the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar. They warned such a payment vehicle “could give the federal government the ability to surveil Americans’ transactions and choke out politically unpopular activity.”

Specifically, the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act – which was first proposed by Emmer in January 2022 and formally submitted to Congress in February – prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC directly to individuals, ensuring the central bank cannot transform itself into a retail bank able to collect personal financial data on Americans.

But criminals lurk in the shadows in their relentless pursuit of power and domination.

The hearing was a largely partisan affair, in keeping with the fact that the sponsors of the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act are all Republicans, with subcommittee chair French Hill (R-AR) saying, “There is no support for a CBDC in Congress except from those on the fringes,” and Rep. Emmer calling CBDCs “a tool the Communists have.”

On the opposite side of the aisle, subcommittee ranking member Stephen Lynch (D-MA) warned of “false narratives and fear-mongering, much of it coming from the cryptocurrency industry itself,” and announced the creation of a congressional Digital Dollar Caucus.

Lynch also used the opportunity to reintroduce his Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware (ECASH) Act, which calls for a Treasury Department pilot program for developing a digital U.S. dollar. Lynch said the pilot would complement a Fed-issued CBDC and make progress toward better financial inclusion for citizens now outside the financial system.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    More required reading and I hope I have time to check this out. Digital Currency is a particularly bad idea. Not just that it is easy to steal but more importantly that the government would have total control of YOUR money. I can see the day when your account is frozen due to something you said or did not to mention a great way for the IRS to spy on you.

    This note is legal tender for all debts public and private. There is a good reason that the Federal Reserve Note says this.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good morning.

    67°F at 5:30 out here.

    Ahhh.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    58 here is LA, feels like fall weather. High today mid 80’s. As I mentioned yesterday we were in the mid 80’s with 44% humidity. 😉

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    When you’ve got no baby sitter but it’s Dove season opening day.    😀

  5. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I missed this part of a Michael Berry show last week.

    Anonymous citizen journalist seems to have further uncovered Bush connections to the AG impeachment.

    The journalist has been combing public records and media reports and discovered:

    Before becoming head of the Texas General Land Office,

    GP Bush founded Pennybacker Capital, a private equity real estate investment firm.

    Then, after Bush is elected Commissioner, the Texas General Land Office gave $75 million of PUF funds to Pennybacker to invest.

    Nate Paul had 200 commercial properties tied up in Austin during the insane real estate boom there. He was sitting on these properties and refusing to lease or sell them. Pennybacker wanted a bunch of these properties.

    And no surprise here – Bush Consiglieri Johnny Sutton, (the Austin Slime ball Attorney who has yet to invoice the OAG whistleblowers) is also involved.

    26 minute podcast interview here. (Please Note: IHeart Podcasts are annoyingly slow to open up)

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Think you’ve seen it all?  BUT wait there’s more.

    I       Have     No     Words         ~SIGH~

    Well I guess I could say P.T. Barnum was right.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just so you know, Walmart is investing in American jobs.    😉

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Now what we have here is an Automobile. 1953 Cadillac El Dorado Sport Convertible, Pearl white with red interior. 

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #7 SD:  The WalMart spawn had a bird nest on the ground;

    Decent products at decent prices with a huge distribution network

    In the beginning almost all was produced in America, creating American jobs

    By partnering with the little guy, they could help make the little guy a big guy.

     

    Then the spawn took over and decided that being a billionaire wasn’t enough, they needed much more so they started to rely heavily on cheap Chinese crap made with slave labor, which squeezed out the American Little Guy.  Further, for the food stuffs that were purchased locally, they applied heavy pressure on their suppliers; squeezing out profit margins and then slow paying.  They have defined why Greed is one of the 7 deadly sins.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #8 SD:  Land Barge.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK this is insane. BTW; I saw one of these at the gun show and I think I need one.  😉

    13-inch Barreled Taurus Judge Home Defender in .410/.45

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    11

    Good grief

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #11 SD:  I didn’t see if it had a rifled or smooth bore.  Rifled would be great for the .45 long colt or OO Buck Shot (3 balls), bird shot – not so much.

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #5 Shannon

    Thanks for that. Dirty bastards.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    6 Super Dave

    I know it seems silly to buy an electric jar and bottle opener, but there are plenty of rheumatoid, osteo and psoriatic arthritis sufferers out there who could really use one.  I can remember walking into my mother’s house and she had waited all day for me or Shannon to come by to open jars for her because her arthritis was so bad.

    Back about 35 years ago, I broke and fractured the bones in my left arm, hand and wrist and was in a cast for 3 months.  I dare anybody to try and open a jar of pickles or preserves with one hand.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    11 Super Dave

    Now you’ve gone and done it.

    I need one now.

  17. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I really struggle opening a tight jar anymore. Sometimes I gotta go to the garage for the big channellocks.

  18. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the jar opener, it wasn’t so much the need for an opener it was the overkill. A motorized, battery powered device to open a jar? You can get all sorts of openers that use simple leverage so anyone can open a jar.

    That’s my story…. 😉

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Slept like crap last night.  Fell asleep late, and for some reason woke up around 3:00 a.m.  Tried to go to sleep, but Hubby started cooking bacon around 4.

    Yep.  Made it impossible. Tried my best, but my right knee is just darn uncomfortable in a lot of sleeping positions these days.  I was talking to a doctor friend – and I don’t impose on him to do any diagnosing or anything, he’s off the clock – but I described the knee issues and he laughed and said “Time to see the doc!”  He’d recently had some orthoscopic surgery on his knee recently, too.  I told him I was already lining up work, possibly extensive work, on my teeth.  One medical/financial blow at a time, please.  I can live with the knee for now. And the back.  But it makes sleeping more difficult.  This getting old is getting old.

    Anyway, I’m up now and have coffee in hand, and I’m actually eating some breakfast.  Includes bacon. /sigh/  Then I think I’m going to get today’s gardening in, my treadmill time, then shower before I make a shopping run.  I have my mushroom sauce recipe that I want to make, and I’ve extrapolated the servings out to 30 so I have plenty to fill Elsa as well as have for dinner tonight.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Jars:  I get a church key and use the flat end (so I don’t poke holes in the lid), and gently pull the rim out/up until I break the vacuum.   I don’t disfigure the lid, just lift it just enough, working my way around the rim, until I hear the pop and feel it give. Hubby saw me doing that once and was flabbergasted.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    As for CBDC – it gives me the creeps.  Who’d want to put THAT much power into the hands of anyone?

    SEE:  China

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    IMHO; the .410 can be a great home defense weapon in shotgun, rifle or pistol configuration. It’s low in recoil and at 41 caliber it does command attention. The self defense loads with 4 or 5 “000” Buckshot, 36 Cal round balls are perfect for home defense, deadly without the over-penetration. I’ve been thinking about getting my wife a Mossberg Shockwave in .410, I have a 20 Ga BTW. That said; the Taurus Judge Home defender would be easier to operate. At almost twice the cost of course.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    MISHAPS AND BAD LUCK ☙ Tuesday, September 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup today includes: a roundup of yesterday’s little lost F35, along with thoughts about what it might mean, what’s the worst-case scenario?;  Watch out below — Newsweek op-ed drops hard Proxy War truths on woke readers; and a commonsense clip from Governor DeSantis about the Senate’s new hoodie-policy; John Fetterman responds.

    NEWS:

    RE:  Missing military aircraft:  Pilot ejected for some reason, plane continued flying on autopilot, but Childers points out that that particular story will change….

    There was an amusing phone call on the radio this morning, to wit: “It’s so stealthy that it even lost itself!”  “It is so well weaponized that it can shoot down anything within 100 miles – including itself!”  But I digress.  Childers comments:

    F35 fighter jets are arguably our highest-tech weapons. They cost $135,000,000 in pre-pandemic dollars, according to GAO figures. So losing one is like a thousand million teenagers losing their retainers. The F35 program has cost taxpayers $1.7 TRILLION DOLLARS so far.

    The whole fleet was grounded.  The Hindustan Times “brutally roasted” Biden with a headline that included aliens flying the plane.  India is a very highly populated country; I’m sure the hoots and guffaws were heard by Meat Puppet’s staff in the WH.  Then the search ends as the wreckage of the plane “appears to have been found”:

    “Appears to end.” Huh. Was it found? Maybe yes, maybe no:

    Joint Base Charleston said in a statement that searchers who had been looking for the missing warplane located the wreckage in Williamsburg County, north of Charleston, but stopped short of confirming it was from the missing jet.

    They “stopped short?” What? That hardly “ends the mystery.” And, why stop short? What’s causing the confusion? Was the evidence completely burned up into ashes like in Lahaina, or did the jet self-destruct or something? What’s stopping the Marine Corp from identifying the wreckage of its own plane?

    They also stopped short of answering all the obvious questions.

    — For example, they haven’t said how they lost a top fighter jet with the most highly-advanced, GPS-enabled, networked technology in history. Was the transponder on? If not, why not? From the New York Times article:

    “How in the hell do you lose an F-35?” Representative Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican and the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, had asked her social media followers. “We’re asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?”

    According to manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s promo website, F35.com, the F35 is not just a stealth fighter. It’s a communications gateway:

    Ominously, remember this, gateways go both ways.

    Also unclear is why the pilot ejected.  Marines just don’t abandon working aircraft.  Unless he was ordered to do so.  And was the pilot executing a training mission, or something else?  Why did it take all day to find the debris field?  No smoke?  No ball of fire?

    What they are saying is: not much. The unaccountable, inexplicable, total loss of a $135,000,000 plane was just a silly mishap, simply bad luck. A Marine Corps spokesperson only said in a statement yesterday that the F-35’s pilot “safely ejected from the aircraft. We are currently still gathering more information and assessing the situation. The mishap will be under investigation.”

    Mishaps.

    In spite of all the ubiquitous headlines, the military has not actually identified the Charleston debris field as the missing fighter. A conspiratorial-minded person might think they are just covering their sixes by hanging on to a “possible” crash site in case the plane turns up somewhere else. Whoops! Sorry! We had the wrong debris field. Here it is, over HERE!

    Well, we’ve seen Biden give a Chinese surveillance balloon free rein to roam over the whole continent, why not up the ante with our highest tech aircraft?

    Because we all know MP is in Xi’s pocket.  There has to be some quid pro quo for all those millions of dollars put into Biden Co’s pockets.  And Hunter may need a place to run to as his legal issues spiral up.

    Just the thoughts than run through my brain on little sleep.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More from C&C on the aircraft mystery:

    All signs point to massive government mendacity and obfuscation, but what else is new? Rather, what’s the worst case scenario here? Let’s start with the second-worst case scenario, which is the pilot defected, perhaps stealthily flying the plane to the new Chinese military base in Cuba, which was easily within range.

    The Marines have yet to name the pilot.  An unspecified pilot in unspecified condition in an unspecified place.

    Using the official stance, Childers explores a worst case scenario:

    The worst case scenario is the computerized plane ejected its pilot and defected by itself. Maybe it flew itself to Cuba, after Chinese hackers assumed control of its highly-advanced instruments using the stealth fighter’s own networked “communications gateway.” Maybe this summer’s Chinese Spy Balloon mapped out a way to get the plane out of the U.S. undetected?

    Could that possibly happen? I did a little research.

    There’s a lot of incentive for enemies to acquire one of these fighters.  They could reverse engineer their own weaponry, for example.   Or develop counter measures for we have on these pricey planes.

    The first thing my research produced is that the software running the F35 is hideously complicated. You could call the F35 the world’s first software-driven airplane. Estimates range at over 8,000,000 lines of code. And that’s just the software inside the plane. A code base like that takes a giant team of programmers to maintain, and the opportunities for bugs and glitches scale up along with the code base’s size.

    True dat.  As a former programmer, it was always know that simpler code was easier to manage and maintain.  I remember the day I was handed a project that was brilliantly coded without one line of explanatory coding included.  That thing was 15 programs, to be run consecutively in a certain order.  The programmer had made manual changes, twice, in the middle of the continuum, and not a comment code line anywhere.  I followed the code, found the two breaks, and had no idea what I was missing until I manage to track down the guy who wrote the code and he told me that he ‘just changed the names of the files’.   There’s a phrase in the industry: “Coding for job security.”  It means that a programmer can generate code that only they know how to maintain (there are always updates, patches, and enhancements in the life of any program).  If I’m looking at millions of lines of code, it would be very easy to sneak in little Easter eggs.  Nasty little Easter eggs….

    Put differently, a massive code base equals a massive opportunity for bugs and glitches. With a hundred-milllion-dollar, nuclear-equipped fighter jet flying at mach speeds, the opportunities for disastrous bugs and glitches is equally massive. (C&C programmers: feel free to weigh in and offer your own opinions.)

    But we needn’t speculate. It is common knowledge that problems have plagued the F35 program since day one. In fact, there have been several crashes just in the last twelve months.

    There was a crash in Texas.  “In June, the DOD froze all F35 shipments due to — watch this — software problems. ”  

    Finally, as recently as August 25th, another pilot ejected from an F35 after another “mishap” on takeoff, and the $135M dollar plane unceremoniously plopped into the ocean. 

    But an earlier crash about eleven months ago was the most interesting. In July, the Pentagon released the cause of another F35 crash in Utah in October 2022. Guess what caused the mind-bogglingly-expensive stealth fighter to go down? A software glitch…

    The accident’s description of the software glitch was terrifically provocative: It sounded like the plane was trying to take over and fly itself:

    As they prepared to land, the pilot felt a “slight rumbling” of turbulence from the wake of the aircraft in front of him… the jet stopped responding to the pilot’s attempts at manual control.

    … Further attempts to right the aircraft failed, and the pilot safely ejected north of the base. His F-35 crashed near a runway at Hill.

    How curious. I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t land the plane right now.

    Given the program’s secrecy, we have no way of knowing precisely what kind of tech was in that cockpit, of course, but clearly something else, like glitchy software, or someone else, like a hacker, was trying to fly the downed Utah F35.

    A coding upgrade was recently put on the planes.  Childers wonders if the missing plane was a test run of the new software. Were these software problems one of those Easter eggs, to be exploited by bad guys wanting one of our planes?  I wonder – aren’t a lot of our computer chips manufactured by questionable characters?  Did China just steal one of our planes?

    Why don’t the planes have manual controls as an override?

    I’m not holding my breath waiting for the Pentagon to issue answers.

    Finally, is this whole thing part of the Pentagon’s ritual humiliation this year?

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This whole ‘missing’ F-35 does not add up at all.  I can believe that a defection took place; I’m not happy about it, but it seems like a plausible event.  The gov’t has been even more opaque in it’s explanation that normal.  It also fits with the ever more traitorous behavior of those in charge:

    Wide open border

    draining the strategic petroleum reserve

    shutting off new oil production

    draining our munition supply

    absurdly high deficit spending that accomplishes nothing

    capitulating to China, Iran, UN, WHO, etc.

    mercilessly attacking the productive portion of society through malicious prosecution, confiscatory taxes, refusal to prosecute criminals

    If those in charge were actively trying to destroy the country, what would they do differently?  Cloward and Piven anyone?

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Russell Brand has been accused of sexual assault and YT has demonetized him.  A report I heard yesterday discussed this issue – it seems that these are old reports, had been previously investigated and found wanting in both evidence and convincing testimony, and were dismissed.  Now that Brand has evolved into a conservative and is gathering quite a considerable voice, he is suddenly “me too’d” into YT oblivion.  He’ll probably move to X/Twitter, Rumble, etc.

    And Ukraine:  the media is now reporting that they can “no longer hide the truth”.

    You can’t make this wiss up.

    And Childers ends with DeSantis on the House rule change allowing anything to be worn on the floor. 

    I reported this yesterday. I guess Fetterman was simply incapable of acquiring and wearing business clothing, and flat out refused to get out of his sweats and shorts.  Like a little kid throwing a tantrum, and Daddy caves in.  So now, bikinis and Hawaiian shirts are acceptable attire for those responsible for running our country.  Not that I’d want to see any of those folks in bikinis…or Speedos.  Please, no Speeedooooooos!!

    He made a great point. But I’m not sure I completely agree. Maybe DeSantis didn’t go far enough. Leftists don’t want dumbed-down standards, they want no standards. After all, standards are racist, patriarchal, and transphobic. And they hurt the climate by increasing carbon dioxide, or something.

  27. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I finally got around to seeing how my state rep voted for impeachment. Stan Kitzman, district 85, voted for impeachment. Explained his vote with some hogwash, he got blasted on his FB post in June. Can’t wait to find his opponent.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This ‘splains it:  https://xkcd.com/2030/

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I still have a lot of printouts of various quotes and jokes that I used to accumulate waaaay back when.  One of my favorites was about computer programming:

    If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

    Scary because it is true more often than not.  And then there’s the problem that sits between the keyboard and the chair…

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I WAS ONLY JOKING!!!

    Susan Collins jokes she will ‘wear a bikini’ in response to Senate dress code change

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Man this story was made for Hammie:

    This Is the Future Liberals Want: Reckless Cyclist Brawls with Naked Hippie Outside Burger Joint Flying Gay Pride Flag

    Just another day in Portland, Oregon

    It’s gots pictures

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, the Jehovah’s Witnesses aren’t happy just walking our streets and knocking on our doors any more.  I just got a phone call from one of them.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oh well, I guess I’m not communicating well.  Here’s a page with dozens and dozens of jar openers, but they all require two hands.

    If one has only a single hand, a hand in a cast or severe arthritis and unable to grip a jar, then all but two items on the page are utterly useless.  One is battery powered and the other mounts under a cabinet.

    If one has never been in the frustrating position of being temporarily (or permanently) one-handed then it is very easy to take the availability of two hands for granted.  Incapacitate one hand and wrist with a big ace bandage one morning and see how your day goes using only one hand.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Cute girl with a great dad.

     

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #31

    Courters beware!

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just drove by Brenham DPS License Office. There is one customer there. Tuesday must be a slow day.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    31 Bonecrusher

    As if the FBI needed to be embarrassed any worse than they have been.  Pathetic.  What are FBI agents carrying now ?  Pellet guns ?

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Chuck Schumer is the poster boy for the low intensity, dim bulb class of today’s political leadership.  Even I never thought he would stoop to something so incredibly stupid and classless as abolishing a dress code on the floor of the US Senate.

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. I have not recovered from my outing yesterday. I guess I thought I would never need to drive on The Loop at 4 pm again.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

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    18 Tedtam

    You beat me to it.

    I finally figured out your jar opening hack a couple years ago. It works just great on the very difficult Arriba! salsa jars.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just finished garden duty, and I refurbed two totes instead of one.  Chard, tomatoes, and spinach seeds in the dirt.

    But something took a good bite out of the inside of my upper right arm. It hurt like the dickens and still hurts some.  I can tell exactly where it bit me because there’s a good size welt there now.  I didn’t get a good look at what it was because my first instinct was to get it off my arm, but it was large enough for me to see and it was black.  I’m hoping it wasn’t a spider.

    And then there are these teeny tiny little black things that are barely visible but pack a painful bite.  They look like really small dirt specks – until they bite.   I hate those things, whatever they are.

  42. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    When I was a tender yute of 15 I had a job washing dishes at the Holiday Inn.  In the kitchen I saw a woman use the back side of a chefs knife and beat around the rim of the jar .  After about 10 whacks it opened.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    While outside, I was able to connect with my BETA.  Green Cousin is still in the hospital, and today is a dialysis day.  The doctors think Green Cousin “reopened” an old back injury, in the L1 region.  She’s in a lot of pain, so I won’t be visiting any time soon.  She doesn’t like company when she hurts.  When she finally gets discharged from the hospital, she’ll be in rehab for at least 21 days.

    BETA said “She never even got to see the new deck we built on her trailer for her.”  🙁

    Now, a ramp will have to be built onto the deck before GC can return home.

    Man, it sux to be her right now.  I did verify that all of her wishes are in writing and the proper documents have been prepared.  That makes me feel better.  Well meaning family can’t butt in and change things against her will.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sunday’s rally attracted a large chunk, 15%, of first-time protesters and was overwhelmingly female, said American University sociologist Dana Fisher, who studies environmental movements and was surveying march participants.

    That’s because no man would have them.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m not believing anything of import will come of this:

     Ray Epps, a Jan. 6 participant whose removal from the FBI’s Capitol Violence webpage sparked conspiracy theories that he was a federal informant, was charged in connection with the Capitol attack on Tuesday.

    Epps is charged with one misdemeanor count, disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds. He was charged by information, suggesting that he plans to enter a plea deal. Not long after he was charged, a virtual plea agreement hearing was set for Wednesday, Sept. 20 before Chief Judge James Boasberg.

    This smacks of Hunter’s sweetheart plea deal.

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve watched the drive through tours and photographs of Colony Ridge.  Now I’ve seen the Daily Wire flyover video.  

    After seeing numerous links and blurbs across the internet about this massive place with 50,000 or 75,000 illegal aliens and soon to be 200,000 people smuggling dope and people, I have questions…

    – How are these people going to live without sewage or septic systems, running water or lighting ?

    – There appear to be a lot of abandoned, empty or unoccupied and unfinished structures in Colony Ridge, far more than any actual occupied homes.  In fact, there seems to be a very small percentage of land with any buildings at all.  Where are all the residents ?

    – The flyover reveals a vast, mostly barren prairie with some grass, few trees, mostly unpaved roads and no underground storm drainage system.  This place has to become a giant mud pit when it rains.  Who builds a development like this with any hope of it becoming anything but a rural ghetto ?

    – Local news reports have Trey Harris’ companies repossessing hundreds of homes each year at auctions at the Liberty County courthouse where they buy back each repo in order to resell it.  Why isn’t this more of a news story locally ?

    – Where are all the tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands ?) of illegal alien residents ?  They certainly aren’t visible from the Daily Wire helicopter view.

    There are clearly some people living there, but this development has been around for some years now and they don’t appear to have attracted very many stable, established residents.

    It looks more like a huge racket to ripoff foreign buyers by getting them to put up hundreds or a couple of thousand bucks downpayment, send them some flimsy contract for deed paperwork and then repo the property when they miss a couple of payments.  I think Dolcefino said Harris’ companies repossessed over 1,200 lots in 2021 alone.

    Here is my comment from last night on the subject.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Which is the real Fetterman?

    One of the comments in the C&C caught my eye, and it led to the above link.  And to this one, which I reached by querying “real fetterman” in my search engine: https://wltreport.com/2023/08/25/which-one-is-real-fetterman/

    Just take a look at this photo collage below and understand one thing: none of these photos have been edited — they have all been presented by the Fetterman Camp or by the MSM as authentic photos of Senator John Fetterman.

    Ears are a big thing to some folks, but I see differences in the noses and head shapes, too.

    It’s hard to change your head shape, even with the best surgery…

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    37 Bones

    At 15/16 I washed dishes at the Jade East restaurant behind Memorial City Hospital. Corner of Frostwood and Kingsride. (That place was there for at least 20 years.)

    Then I got on at the hospital mopping/buffing floors.

    Commuted on my ten speed from Georgetown on West Belt, rain or shine.

  49. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I was a busboy/dishwasher at the Panchos on Longpoint. I know I was under 16 because I wasn’t driving yet. Before that I stocked shelves, swept and mopped floors at the Stop n Rob around the corner from our house.

  50. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I had to have beer/cigarette money. 😀

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    43 GJT

    Were you working at Pancho’s on Long Point when they got busted for serving donkey meat they smuggled in from Mexico and mixed with their ground beef ?

    I thought Pancho’s would be closed forever.  I think the feds shut them down for a few days and, miraculously, they opened right back up. One of my first lessons in the highly efficient federal government being there to protect American citizens.

    When I was in high school we would go for lunch there because you could eat for next to nothing.

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Joe Biden at the UN General Assembly this morning in New York City.

    Incoherent babbling.

  53. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Congressman Chip Roy R-Hill Country has enjoyed a lot of media exposure over the last couple of years and is a master of indignant outrage on the House floor and television.  He has been a guest a number of times on Tucker Carlson’s show.

    I have predicted Chip Roy wants to run for John Cornyn’s seat in 2026.

    Darren Beattie at Revolver News wrote this yesterday.

    Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has never been a “Trump enthusiast.” But he’s flown under the radar, kind of like Trey Gowdy. Chip, like Trey, is known for his fiery rhetoric that’s not always backed up by actions. He has a penchant for delivering impassioned speeches on the House floor, unapologetically telling Biden and others to “go to hell.” He also earns a lot of PR points with his unwavering stance on the U.S. border issue. However, when it comes to concrete achievements, many critics label Chip Roy as a closeted NeverTrumper who offers more talk than substance. Consequently, it didn’t come as a shock when Chip threw his support behind Governor Ron DeSantis for the 2024 race instead of endorsing President Trump. However, what truly astonishes us is how Rep. Chip Roy targeted the tough and popular Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2020, during the very beginning stages of the Bush-led impeachment plan.

    Back in 2020, when the assault on Ken Paxton initially unfolded, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas wasted no time in issuing a statement urging Ken Paxton to step down. Who needs evidence or proof these days? All it takes is a few allegations from so-called “whistleblowers,” and everyone rushes into action. One would expect that we would have learned our lesson from the Russia hoax and both impeachments against President Trump, but regrettably, establishment figures like Chip Roy don’t seem to appreciate those type of lessons.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Raised a lot of flags at Pancho’s on Long Point!

  55. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Just wondering if folks who try to translate what he’s saying into foreign languages for others present who don’t speak English well are having a hard time doing it.  Because the English makes no sense.  Who has the hook ready in the back to stop this insanity?

    By now every last Democrat should be cringing at Biden’s seemingly acceleraing inability to speak normally.  And they should by now be accustomed to receiving long, glaring stares from other folks who wonder just how long this will go on before somebody stops it.  Elder abuse plain and simple.  By the way, why is his family allowing such to happen?

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sopapillas at Pancho’s;

    Probably the only time in my life that I ate honey with any regularity.

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think his playing career is over.

  58. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #46 Adee:

    Elder abuse plain and simple.  By the way, why is his family allowing such to happen?

    1)  They are getting richer by the day as long as he is in office.

    2)  They all probably hate him because he is such a corrupt, venal, malevolent, stinkhole.

    3)  Once he is out, Hunter is TOAST.

    4)  IMHO Hunter abandoning the laptop from hell was a cry for help and a strike back at his father.

  59. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I don’t remember anything about donkey meat at Pancho’s or shut down. But my focus was on this hot waitress a little older than me that was always teasing. My time there would have been about ‘73.

  60. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #48 Bones

    Not enough cringe for that one.

  61. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #48 Bones  & #51 Tedtam. – I don’t recall them teaching us, in nursing school OR paramedic school, that knees are supposed to bed THAT direction…  Makes mine hurt in sympathy just watching it

  62. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #51, 52:  I can’t see how anyone could recover from that and still play pro football.  He’ll be lucky if all he needs is a new knee.  It will likely hurt for the rest of his life.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    50 GJT

    The donkey meat fiasco at Pancho’s happened around 1967 or 68.  I believe they got caught by US Customs/FDA inspecting inbound meat shipments and the donkey meat was addressed to Pancho’s in Spring Branch.

  64. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Pancho’s on Long Point when they got busted for serving donkey meat they smuggled in from Mexico

    Thats what gave their food an extra kick of flavor.

    Why they gotta use imported donkey? Is Mexico to donkey as New Zealand is to lamb?

    Are tortillas fried in donkey lard like pommes frites fried in horse lard?

    Can you get donkey meat here?

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

    So the senate changed the dress code for the fake Fetterman?

    ha.

    I posted about the fake fetterman last week.
    ain’t him.

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

    But what about Trey Harris, the developer behind Colony Ridge? Harris is a big political donor, giving $1.4 million to Gov. Abbott’s campaign while his wife gave another $100k.

    With governor Abbott Texas has fallen and surrendered and it can’t get up.

    no border.

    No state

    No country.

    it explains why 7000 a day are let in with another train load on the way.
    Like I’ve said many times, they’re all compromised imo.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-09-19/developer-builds-60-square-mile-illegal-alien-colony-texas

  67. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hey, I had a teenager job too, when I was 14. My family had moved into the country south of Midland, on a 5-acre plot with a windmill. There was an egg farm nearby, and I went over on a grueling schedule that worked with riding a school bus when I was in the 9th grade. I walked through the hen house with huge baskets and collected the eggs that rolled down chutes from the individual cages. The eggs were delivered into a chilly room where adults checked the eggs against a bright light, then washed and crated them, and then put them in cartons in refrigerators. I, in the meantime, would walk through the hen houses with chicken chow and fill up the bowl in each cage. I felt sorry for the chickens.

    For 11th and 12th grade part-time jobs, I was a junior librarian at Midland Public Library downtown.

  68. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    In 1967 or 68 I was still chewing on pencil erasers in Hereford.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    What a wuss.

    I could chew up the clear, plastic barrel of a Bic pen in no time.

    🙂

  70. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    ShortieDawg discovered chasing her tail just now… She’s the perfect length to go in a tight circle, and actually catch the tail – then consider circling… Then stagger almost off the edge of the front porch because she’d made herself so dizzy. Why do we never take the camera or phone w/camera out there for such occasions?

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    56 Dr Phil Good

    There are 40 people out there on the internet claiming Trey Harris has given +/- $1,400,000 to Greg Abbott’s campaign.

    I cannot find a single one offering a link or citation backing up that assertion anywhere.  I can’t even find a record of Harris’ wife making this alleged $100,000 donation.

    Why do all these writers avoid providing the evidence ?  I’d like to know whether it is true – or not.

    I don’t give a damn one way or another about Greg Abbott.  I’m neither his friend or enemy.  I understand many here hate him and think Abbott should have built ramparts on the Rio Grande manned with automatic weapons to shoot anybody trying to swim across, but I am interested in the truth. If people are going to criticize a politician they need to have their facts straight and verifiable or they undermine their own argument.

    ***********************************************************

    Here is another thing.

    The US Census population for Liberty County in 2020 is 91,628.

    The population of all incorporated cities is 40,371.

    This would leave a population of 51,257 for all the unincorporated parts of the county.  Liberty is a very rural county with lots and lots of people living in the woods.

    About 34% or 30,797 members of the population are listed as Latino/Hispanic.  This is for the entire county.

    The historical population records for Liberty County do not reflect some huge invasion of 40,000 or 50,000 or 75,000 legal or illegal immigrant residents.  Go here and scroll down to see the chart on the right.

    Maybe Greg Abbott and the Texas Rangers set up roadblocks and threatened to shoot the US Census workers trying to come into Colony Ridge over the last decade.

  72. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Abbott should have built ramparts on the Rio Grande manned with automatic weapons to shoot anybody trying to swim across

    That wouldn’t be enough for some people.

  73. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oh no, it’s terrifying.

    As we stumble toward another existential election, panic is setting in among some progressive groups because the donors who buoyed them throughout the Trump years are disengaging. “Donations to progressive organizations are way down in 2023 across the board,” said a recent memo from Billy Wimsatt, executive director of the Movement Voter Project, an organization founded in 2016 that channels funds to community organizers, mostly in swing states, who engage and galvanize voters. He added, “Groups need money to make sure we have a good outcome next November. But. People. Are. Not. Donating.”

    Don’t worry, even the billionaires will be digging Krugerrands out of their sofa cushions once it becomes obvious the Orange Bad Man is the Republican nominee.

    These aren’t isolated anecdotes. There is a growing chorus of data points that this is happening across the progressive movement, even for groups working on hot-button issues like LGBTQ rights and reproductive justice, whose constituencies are suffering high-profile attacks in the news every day…

    A lot of organizational leaders are experiencing a sense of failure, isolation, self-judgment, and fear right now. And it’s much harder on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) leaders and staff from marginalized backgrounds, who already have to swim upstream to prove themselves within the racist and sexist cultures of politics and philanthropy….

    How much money would stem the drought? $100-300 million, deployed strategically to grassroots voter engagement groups for the remainder of 2023, would go a long way.

     

  74. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Okay, I had to lay down for a bit after I got home from shopping.  I just hurt – hips, legs, knee, back, and that darn bug bite from this morning.

    Hubby was sound asleep in his chair when I came home, so I had to drag everything in. I laid down a bit after I put the “must be kept cold” items away.  Then I had to finish dinner; the pork loin chops in the baby crock pot were fully cooked by now, so I made a small batch of mushroom sauce and broccoli instead of salad.  I didn’t want to stand and cut salad stuff; broccoli was put in a pot over heat.   I woke Hubby up and we ate dinner, after which I laid down again, then went upstairs for some vampire simulation time. Hubby had fallen asleep again, so went on to my next task after slapping an ice pack on my butt.

    I hit the jackpot on half price rotisserie chickens while shopping, so I bought five of them.  I just finished deboning them while sitting on Hubby’s stool that he uses in the kitchen, since he can’t stand for long, either.  The meat is in trays in the freezer, and the carcasses are in my crock pot turning into stock.   Since I’d made such a mess, I went ahead and washed all the dishes and cleaned the surfaces.

    Now, I get to open the Amazon delivery that I kicked inside the door when I arrived home.  Something for Hubby, and my replacement battery for my little netbook.  I’m going to plug that puppy in and let it start charging up.  Then I think I’m going to lay down in my bed.  Since I got about a half  night’s sleep last night (a hopeful estimate, actually), I want to be ready to crash and burn when I finally wind down.

    So, see y’all tomorrow.

  75. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    O U T

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