It’s all on purpose, folks. I do love some Dan Bongino.
Weekend Open Comments
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uncklo.
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One Little League baseball game local this morning, two softball games in Rosenberg this afternoon. Not sure what else.
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It looks like Texpat may get some weather out of Tropical Storm Ophelia and I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. We could uses a little precipitation here. I took Dawg out earlier and man it’s a nice fall-like 58 degrees outside.
Mornin’ Gang
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I finally got the fall plowing finished. I disced the West 40, the Kudzu Patch, Turnip Patch and Pea Patch. I’m planting Wheat, Oats and Rye for the deer and Turnips for us. 😉
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BTW; Did my Google Map Screen-shot’s work yesterday in my #6? Assuming anyone was interested.
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SD, yes the pics showed up. Nice straight cars appeared.
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#5
I don’t know how to navigate Google maps on my iPhone very well but somehow I was able to see the left side of the car then the right. But I couldn’t recreate when I tried lol.
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Youngest son and a buddy are looking to try their hand at powder coating, he bought a refrigerator from a guy outfitted with burners fueled by propane. The unit was a bit of a hack job but he got it cleaned up and extended the top two feet. Mostly he wants to be able to powder coat small parts on the race car and his drift car and maybe start making some side money with it and possibly build a larger oven for frames and such. But he has ADHD so…
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My John Deere rider engine has a compression release devise on the cam that aids in starting that has gone out. I have the parts but haven’t gotten round tuit. I’ve been able to fiddle around with it to start it this summer, but it won’t let me do it anymore. So lately I’ve been using my tractor to mow. One of the mower spindles has been making noise the last couple times, not sure which one. Yesterday I got the front and sides mowed and it finally shredded the belt so now it is down. Belt is like 6’ long and $80 plus spindle bearings, needs new pricey blades too. Now I gotta figure out which mower to get going first, both pretty big jobs.
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The center spindle on my zero turn went out in the summer but never stopped working. It just dropped down and scalped the lawn. It too a little while to figure out what was happening since 2 of the 3 blades were OK and the center one dropped slowly over time. This was a little aggravating since I had all 3 spindles and all belts replaced last fall. I guess one of the replacements wasn’t up to snuff. The reason for that repair was that the mower deck was making a lot of racket but cutting just fine. And since the mower was 3 years old with more than 300 hours on it I figured it was time for belts, spindles, pulley’s and such.
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I’ve not been a fan of a compression release but I could use one on my Stihl multi-use motor, (pole saw, edger, blade weed wacker and blower) it is so light if you catch it on the compression stoke it’s hard to hold while yanking. BTW; It has a 28.4 CC engine and weighs almost 10 LBs.
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Let myself sleep in an extra hour this morning, it was delicious. Trying to figure out what I have on tap for today. Maybe gardening, if it’s not miserable outside like it was yesterday. I didn’t treadmill yesterday, so that’s gotta happen today. Since I’ve been hanging more often, the pain level has dropped dramatically, so YAY ME! That inversion table was possibly one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.
I need to make some more mushroom sauce, but in smaller batches. I’d forgotten how much moisture those ‘shrooms have, and it took a while to boil all of that water out of the sauce with the big batch I did last night. I got it done, though, and that batch is in the freezer. I have a frig full of mushrooms, so I’ll be making more of that today as well.
I didn’t get around to my Latin studies last night, so I should make some time for that as well, and I still have jars and cans to move around. Not in a hurry on the latter, except to get stuff out of the way of the work upstairs. And bookkeeping. Always bookkeeping. I have a stack of receipts and a credit card bill that needs reconciling.
I need to wrap some baby gifts for the baby shower coming up soon. I did manage to drop off the items at the thrift shop yesterday, so that’s done. And I did get some satisfaction out of realizing I didn’t have to put the ESSBGS on this morning.
But, coffee first…
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I shouldn’t put anymore time or money in the old John Deere but two years ago I rebuilt it replacing the deck, pulleys, bearings, belts and blades so I’m kinda too deep into it to stop now. Does a great job cutting and motor still runs great.
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Tedtam – forgive me if I’ve asked before but… mushroom sauce??? You have a recipe, a link??? Sounds wonderful – and where did you run across a ton of mushrooms????
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Bsue – I texted you a pic of my recipe page for it. Check your phone. I extrapolated it out to 30 servings, but I’ve learned that 8 servings at a time is actually almost too much at once.
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If you need the document emailed to you, just let me know.
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I splurged on sliced mushrooms at Aldi.
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Louisiana can’t get a break.
Water with high salinity levels can pose serious health risks to human if ingested, and if contaminated, it could be months before fresh water returns as long as the drought persists.
Mayor of New Orleans LaToya Cantrell declared a state of emergency due to the saltwater intrusion on Friday, in alignment with the Governor’s Office.
‘Unfortunately, we just haven’t had the relief from dry conditions that we need,’ Gov. John Bel Edwards said at a Friday news conference in New Orleans.
Many concerned households and business owners say they fear for their health, with some claiming they have had enough and are looking to move house.
The problem with living on any river is you are at the mercy of everything that happens upstream. The Midwest’s Mississippi River drainage basin has been in a long drought.
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Tedtam – I’ve not received any texts…
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BTW – Bsue – I may be trying out your cole slaw recipe today, too. I like cole slaw, so it’ll be nice to have some on the shelf.
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Bsue – resending the image
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Super Dave
Yes, the Google Maps shot worked well.
I had no idea that you could do a screenshot to a live street view.
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Tedtam did the number you sent to end with 1986?
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This is a great way to keep history alive. A 1940s bus converted to an RV. I really like it.
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Tedtam, I guess I DO need it emailed – I still haven’t gotten anything on my phone…
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IMPONDERABLE ☙ Saturday, September 23, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning C&C, it’s Saturday! Welcome to the weekend edition. It’s a day of surprises in today’s roundup: Ukraine funnyman makes bizarre pick for ambassador; Seattle tries to crack down on homeless drug users, a little, and woke liberals freak out; the best conservative project you never heard of that is making liberals freak out even more; “identity” illness spreads in Berlin as dog-humans celebrate at fetish festival; and Governor Newsom does the thing you least expected.
News:
UK Telegraph had this surprising (to Childers) headline yesterday: “Zelensky asks Marina Abramovic to be ambassador for Ukraine”. Since I know nothing about this, it doesn’t surprise me at all. Childers, however, says it connects “crazy dots”.
The article wasn’t particularly clear about what Zelensky meant by “ambassador.” It’s likely just a made-up job. But clearly, Abramovic, 76, is about to go on Ukraine’s payroll, get some of that sweet, sweet U.S. aid money, and despite being completely unqualified will somehow be involved with the war-torn country’s kids.
This is deeply bad news for Ukrainian children, something like Grimm’s Fairy Tales coming to life.
She is a “performance artist” who is active in politics and a good friend of the Clintons. That’s a combo that sounds dangerous. She is well acquainted with heads of state. She does not share those good vibes with “Christians and people with any remaining sense of goodness, decorum, or dignity in this troubled world.” Childers describes her behavior towards good folk as “perfectly monstrous”.
Abramovic, who gives the impression of being more like a Satanic coven leader than any traditional kind of artist that you might recognize, mostly focuses on dark ritualistic and occultic themes related to pornography, pain, suffering, and death. She recently sweetly explained to an Artnet reporter, “We are so afraid of pain. I don’t like pain, but I think that pain is such an important element in human life. Suffering is like a kind of gate in order to understand the universe, in order to understand yourself.”
So, she’s sick and demented and wants to inflict that pain on others. Kinda like the Clintons.
Zelensky probably isn’t completely crazy to hire her as an “ambassador,” whatever that means. Putting her on the public payroll is almost certainly connected to the Clintons. Yesterday’s announcement came right on the heels of breathless news about the Clinton Foundation’s involvement in Ukraine’s “rebuilding” effort:
Speaking Clintons, their “charity” is now trying to get involved in the rebuilding of Ukraine. While they’re still at war. But there is a lot of taxpayer money floating around, just waiting to be scooped up. The Clintons are good at scooping up money.
You’d be forgiven for not knowing much about the Serbian performer, or artist, whichever. Abramovic first popped up on the public radar during the Pizzagate pedophile controversy. Wikileaks dumped Hilary Clinton emails that linked the Serbian artist to the Clintons, and their friends, and included some very sketchy discussions that some folks claim are packed with standard pedophile code words.
Abramovic also has a way of turning up around major pedophile stories and disaster zones like Haiti where orphaned kids are a dime a dozen.
Her “performance art” includes a lot of sexuality, nudity, and perversion – and makes the audience get involved as well, such as sliding between to naked people to enter the exhibit, and I mean that in more ways than one.
Remember, this is the toned-down, Royal Academy version of Marina’s art. She usually prefers to challenge her audience more directly with things like explicit Satanic imagery (pentagrams and severed goat heads), cannibalism, piles of bloody, dismembered body parts or bones, spells written in bloody fingerprints on walls, and so forth. I’ll spare you the pictures, you can easily find them online if your curiosity is feeling morbid.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Imponderably, this kind of “art” is what celebrities, world leaders, and rebuilding Ukrainians enjoy the most. You couldn’t possibly name a better-connected artist than Marina Abramovic. She’s looted treasuries all over the world.
Curiously, according to an article run yesterday in Artnet, the 76-year-old performance artist recently had a pulmonary embolism and almost died. She then had three operations and ten transfusions. “I was in unbelievable pain, they said it was a miracle I survived,” Abromovic said. I’m not sure I’d use the word ‘miracle.’ Sounds like a jab injury to me. But the good news was all that pain must have been a very enthralling experience for the occult performer, an experience that probably opened an artistic gate to Hell or Nancy Pelosi’s living room, six or half a dozen, either way a soul-stretchingly painful experience that helped her “understand herself and the Universe” better.
It doesn’t surprise me that a Satanist is well connected to world power leaders.
And what does this bode for Ukraine. Somehow, with her connections, I don’t think it was a mere accident that she’s going to be put in a position to create more havoc while skimming the world’s coffers.
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My brother just called, his wife’s nephew was just murdered at 4AM Thursday in Cypress while he and his wife were in the bed sleeping. Guy came through a back window, went in and slashed his throat. Nothing was stolen. I don’t see any news on it.
They just signed on a new house on Wednesday and were going to be moving this weekend. Wife can’t afford to live there alone. Can’t imagine having to deal with all that at the same time.
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Bsue – I just looked at my phone, and it was emailed, not texted.
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Story on the Seattle homeless issue, and the aforementioned water issue:
So they are trying all kinds of things, from building underwater dams to shipping in millions of gallons of fresh water to put into water processing stations to dilute the saltier river water.
The climate change excuse is bandying around, of course, but the truth is that woke water management policies are most likely to blame.
It usually is.
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This water issue keep bubbling up. WE NEED to build big de-salination plants powered by nuclear reactors. These plants need to be built outside of earthquake zones so that leaves Californicatia high and dry. The plants need to be far away enough from the coast so that hurricanes and the associated flooding poses no risk. Elevating the site is also a major consideration. Pump the salty water from the gulf/atlantic and feed the plants, then pump the brine back to the ocean – no harm no foul.
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Then Childers mentions a “very exciting” development. It seems that there is an effort to provide a slew of new folks to replace the entrenched folks in the bureaucracy and elsewhere: a Heritage Foundation project titled “Project 2025”.
Politico ran one of the stories this week mysteriously headlined, “Too Hot For the Heritage Foundation!” The imponderable sub-headline added to the mystery: “In the Trump-era GOP civil war, a pair of scholars at the think tank signed the wrong manifesto.”
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A couple months ago, when the Project first surfaced on liberal radar, a frantic New York Times article labeled it as a “conservative version of Linked-In:”
Think of it as a right-wing LinkedIn. This so-called Project 2025 — part of a $22 million presidential transition operation at a scale never attempted before in conservative politics — is being led by the Heritage Foundation, a group that has been staffing Republican administrations since the Reagan era.
Heritage usually compiles its own personnel lists, and spends far less doing so. But for this election, after conservatives and Mr. Trump himself decried what they viewed as terrible staffing decisions made during his administration, more than 50 conservative groups have temporarily set aside rivalries to team up with Heritage on the project, set to start Friday.
They have already identified several thousand potential recruits and have set a goal of having up to 20,000 potential administration officials in their database by the end of 2024, according to Kevin Roberts, the president of Heritage. Heritage has contracted the technology company Oracle to build a secure personnel database, Dr. Roberts said.
“In 2016, the conservative movement was not prepared to flood the zone with conservative personnel,” Dr. Roberts said. “On Jan. 20, 2025, things will be very different. This database will prepare an army of vetted, trained staff to begin dismantling the administrative state from Day 1.”
Heritage and its project partners have already briefed Mr. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and their teams, Dr. Roberts said.
According to the left, this is the worst thing ever, Armageddon on a political scale, putting Hitler to shame and ending democracy (aka “liberal tyranny).
… Far-left influencers are sounding the alarm, like this self-described trans “super villain” and “heretical Christian,” who sees Project 25 as literally ending America: [insert image]
Corn connected Heritage’s Project 2025 to Trump’s developing plan to replace vast numbers of deep state termites on his first day in office:
These plans include altering the rules governing the civil service so that tens of thousands of federal workers—maybe more—would be subject to immediate dismissal by the White House. That would mean that Trump could fire employees at federal agencies who do not pledge their loyalty to Trump—or who question the legality or appropriateness of White House directives…
Dozens of conservative outfits—led by the Heritage Foundation—have banded together to produce what they call Project 2025, which has released a 1,000-page report, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, which provides a blueprint for a wannabe-White-House-autocrat. Their proposals include removing protections for federal employees so perhaps as many as 50,000 could be fired and replaced with Trump (or Republican) loyalists. This would be done under the banner of annihilating the supposed “deep state” bureaucracy and smashing the “administrative state.”
While it’s impossible to briefly summarize Heritage’s 1,000 page Mandate for Leadership, here’s the gist: Heritage has assembled a broad coalition of effective conservative organizations and think tanks, has created a practical step-by-step road map for effectively deconstructing the deep state, and has begun compiling a vast database of reliable conservatives to staff federal agency positions to carry out the plan.
And it’s terrifying liberals.
I’m telling you about Project 2025 to encourage you. It means conservatives have not been asleep at the switch, after all. They have not failed to learn the lessons from Trump’s administration, when bad early staffing decisions stymied swamp-draining plans.
Now we just need to get the Republican nominee elected.
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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you can buy what you need in Washington DC.
WASHINGTON—TikTok had hardly any friends in government earlier this year as the Biden administration, Congress and state legislatures were threatening to ban the Chinese-owned video giant.
TikTok now has many more friends, with something in common: backing from billionaire financier Jeff Yass. They’ve helped stall attempts to outlaw America’s most-downloaded app.
Yass’s investment company, Susquehanna International Group, bet big on TikTok in 2012, buying a stake in parent company ByteDance now measured at about 15%. That translates into a personal stake for Yass of 7% in ByteDance. It is worth roughly $21 billion based on the company’s recent valuation, or much of his $28 billion net worth as gauged by Bloomberg.
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Other Republicans in Congress, including at least five others besides Paul and Massie who received financial support from Club for Growth, have also objected to legislation targeting TikTok. With many Democrats already skeptical of a ban, the whittling away of Republican support killed momentum for several bills, including the bipartisan Restrict Act backed by the Biden administration.
The lobbying effort by Yass is notable in part because of the extent of his political spending—he and his wife were the third-largest conservative donors nationally in the 2022 election cycle, chipping in about $49 million to support conservative candidates and causes, according to OpenSecrets.
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GJT #20: Tragic news. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this. These sorts of things seldom happen in a vacuum; I wonder what else was going on?
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Weird story about dog people – just gotta be passed over except that it reflects the ongoing and growing madness of this extension of transgenerism.
And Newsom appears to be making overtures in anticipation of a presidential run: he vetoed legislation that would give parents who “affirm” their kids trans delusions custody in court.
Late last night, completely bypassing the news cycle, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most awful bill to come down the California pike lately. If signed, the law would have required judges in child custody cases to give extra weight to parents who “affirmed” their child’s mental illness, I mean “gender identity.”
If you needed any more evidence Newsom is running for president, this is it. But it’s evidence of even more good news…
1. It proves that dems know how unpopular the trans stuff is with folks
2. It confirms the unpopularity of people who are all for mutilating kids, making said people unelectable.
It might be a strong signal the culture is shifting. It’s a great sign that things are moving in the right direction. Painfully slowly, but they’re moving.
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#20 GJT
That story just broke my heart. I. can’t. even. imagine.
Prayers for the family. Oh, my word, there are no words.
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Everyone suspects something with the crazy ex-wife. Guy had custody of their two kids, very combative. Him and new wife have a child, all kids were in the house as well.
Very strange there are no news stories about it, searched every term I can think of.
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Bsue: here’s the recipe. Amounts are for 2/4/8 servings
Butter – tbsp 1/3/4
Garlic, clove – 1/3/4
Mushrooms, sliced, grams:oz – 150:5.3 /450:16 / 600:21
Thyme, fresh or dried, tsp – 1/2 – 1.5 – 2
Cream, cup – 1/2 – 1.5 – 2
Parmesan, cup – 1/4 – 3/4 – 1
Salt & pepper to taste, fresh parsley to serve
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Melt butter over medium heat in a wide frying pan.
Finely mince garlic and add to foaming hot butter. Add mushrooms and thyme; stir to coat. Saute until mushrooms are lightly golden but still soft.
Add cream and parmesan; season to taste. Cook, stirring for 1-2 minutes, until sauce has thickened. Remove from heat and serve. (or freeze, in my case)
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Notes: Any mushrooms can be used. Cream can be replaced with coconut cream or stock/bone broth if preferred. Parmesan can be swapped for any cheese. For cheese free sauce, add 1 tbsp of nutritional yeast. Any herbs can replace the thyme.
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Storage: Sauce can be made in bulk and refrigerated for up to 4 days, or frozen. When reheating, be careful to do so over low heat to avoid splitting the cream.
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Sauce sounds de-lish.
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Cream can be replaced with coconut cream or stock/bone broth if preferred.
Or red wine, reduced. 🙂
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Thanks Tedtam – sounds yum… Thanks Shannon – I was worried about the butter fat in the cream… fat and freeze drying are not terribly compatible… a little is OK – but it reduces the shelf life because of rancidity (at least I think that’s the problem)
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Morning, gang. Tim, what a gruesome, awful thing; condolences to the family.
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Trump hits new poll highs with Black, Hispanic voters. What to make of it?
Across five high-quality polls that have broken out non-White voters in the past month, Trump is averaging 20 percent of Black voters and 42 percent of Hispanic voters.
Trump Isn’t Winning Black Voters, He’s Losing White Voters | Opinion
In recent weeks, a chorus of conservative media personalities and Trump campaign surrogates have emerged to assure us the former president is poised to secure an unprecedented 20 percent of the Black vote… But the chances of it happening are slim to none.
The most glaring problem with the extravagant claim… As pollsters, we must be careful when taking the pulse of the Black community, because the African Americans who are most likely to participate in surveys and online panels are suburban voters with daytime work hours who tend to be less loyal to the Democratic Party than their urban counterparts.
I guess the take is that the only poll that counts – if counted fairly – happens on election day.
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Saw the Luap Dnar thing with the bathrobe yesterday. I think he didn’t go far enough.
He should have gone with this look:
With these pants:
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I’m making this batch with half broth/half cream. Goodness knows, I have enough chicken broth on the shelf. Making an 8 serving batch and I pulled out my widest pan in which to cook all of those mushrooms. I had a little of broth left over, so it’ll be frozen in my muffin mold and set aside for a later FD cycle. Elsa is defrosting now.
On to the laundry while the ‘shrooms are cooking.
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I actually caught some of my avocados before they hit the “I’m past ripe, nananananana!” stage. Sliced and freezing on a tray for this next round, as is my latest batch of mushroom sauce.
Another load of wash in the machine, and the previous load hanging on the line. I’m putting off the garden until later. Still too much sun and heat for me to be comfortable out there. Maybe hang time is next…
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Boston University announced Wednesday that it is launching an inquiry into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) following accusations from former staff members that allege mismanagement of grant funds, a high turnover rate, and general disorganization.
Racist, Racist, Racist…they’re out to lynch the King of Anti-Racism !
BU’s Compliance Services Office received an anonymous complaint about the center in 2021 from associate professor of sociology and former CAR employee Saida Grundy, according the Daily Free Press.
That complaint detailed multiple high-level CAR staffers leaving suddenly and allegations of a toxic workplace culture of fear of retaliation and discrimination.
It’s shocking, I tell ya’, really shocking. Those damned white supremacists must’ve broke into the building and stolen that $43 million…and they started firing everybody….in the middle of the night wearing white hoods and robes.
Grundy then reportedly went to then-BU Provost Jean Morrison, who had helped hire Kendi to lead the CAR, to discuss the allegations of the center not fulfilling its research obligations and other significant concerns.
“The pattern of amassing grants without any commitment to producing the research obligated to them continues to be standard operating procedure at CAR,” Grundy wrote in a 2021 email to Morrison. “This is not a matter of slow launch. To the best of my knowledge, there is no good faith commitment to fulfilling funded research projects at CAR.”
“I don’t know where the money is,” Grundy told the Boston Globe this week.
Another former CAR employee, professor at BU’s School of Social Work Phillipe Copeland, told the Globe that the center “was just being mismanaged on a really fundamental level.”
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A Fairfield father says that a federally funded health clinic operating within Lawrence High School provided his minor daughter with a baggy of prescription anti-depressants without his knowledge or consent.
When the girl’s father, Eric Sack, discovered the baggy of pills over the weekend, his daughter told him that it was provided to her by the Bulldog Health Center, a School Based Health Center (SBHC) at Lawrence High School.
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Sack said representatives from the Bulldog Health Center, which is operated by the Waterville-based HealthReach Community Health Centers, told him they were legally allowed to give his daughter prescription drugs without informing him, but they wouldn’t address the lack of a label or safety container.
plus,
After Sack withheld his daughter from school, someone at either the school or the health clinic contacted the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Child and Family Services, the division of state government tasked with investigating allegations of child abuse.
On Thursday, an agent from Child Protective Services (CPS) called Sack and informed him that he would be arriving shortly to make a surprise visit to his home to conduct a child welfare investigation.
These CPS people operate without court orders and having to convince a judge they any probable cause for a warrant. They claim everything is an emergency to exempt themselves from the Fourth Amendment. I think it is outrageous and unconstitutional.
Another thing is the stack of documents parents are expected to sign in the beginning of each school year. Most parents are off guard not thinking local school administrations don’t have the best interests of their child in their list of priorities. In fact, deceiving and evading parental guidance and authority is their current modus operandi. Parents should be very focused on each and every thing they sign for a school district oe even private school.
The Bulldog Health Center, like other SBHCs, receives funding from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program.
HRSA is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Because of the federal grant it receives, employees at the clinic have a Public Health Service designation, which means they are protected from liability in the event they are accused of negligence or wrongdoing.
It’s the feds, it’s always the feds.
These federally funded clinics would be performing abortions on students and handing out hormone blockers and other transgender treatments on all the American children right there on school grounds if they could. Never, ever allow a child to attend a school with a HRSA funded health center.
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In a hastily written news item, Texas Scorecard broke the news from this meeting today in Corpus Christi.
The resolution was approved during the
SenateState Republican Executive Committee’ meeting in Corpus Christi on Saturday, and cites Phelan’s embrace of the failed impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton as well as his appointment of Democrats to leadership positions:The State Republican Executive Committee is comprised as follows.
The State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) is the governing board of the Republican Party of Texas (RPT). It has 64 members – one committeeman and one committeewoman from each of Texas’ 31 state Senate districts, plus one Chair and one Vice-Chair. All of the SREC members are elected at the RPT convention held in May of Presidential-election years and June of Gubernatorial-election years.
It’s about time although I don’t know how much good this will do.
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#32 Texpat,
Well, they did it.
Now go put on your armor and sharpen your teeth, Pubbies, and see that it is done straight away. Republicans have waited much too long for this.
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Remember the tall, attractive and young brunette White House staffer who worked for Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration ? She testified before the January 6th Sham Committee and became an overnight media darling of the Left. She was everywhere and all the swells wanted to interview Cassidy Hutchinson.
She said President Trump tried to grab the steering wheel from his limo driver.
Cassidy also claimed Rudy Giuliani groped her.
Cassidy said Mark Meadows told her to lie.
She also testified her attorney advised her to lie to the committee.
Guess what ? Those are lies and it’s being revealed in court.
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On Friday, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced an expansion of its strike with 38 sites and almost 5,500 more workers joining the action. The General Motors and Stellantis parts distribution centers are located across 20 US states.
In a press conference, Fain noted that the latest round of walkouts is targeted at General Motors (GM) plants and Stellantis distribution sites as it made significant progress with Ford Motor Company, but GM and Stellantis “will need some pushing.”
“All that represents serious movement on tiers, pay and job security. We want to recognize that Ford is serious about reaching a deal,” Fain said. “At GM and Stellantis, it’s a different story.”
This is the last thing this economy needs. Oil & Gas, Homebuilding and the Auto Industry are the triumvirate that keep this country running. This strike will drag the whole show into the ground.
Joe Biden is big buddies with the woman CEO of GM and she doesn’t seem to be budging so I’m assuming the Biden administration doesn’t care how long this strike drags on.
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The NFL’s first transgender cheerleader has slammed North Carolina for banning transgender women from women’s sports – as
shehe insisted thatherhis role is ‘setting things up for the younger generation.’Justine Lindsay, 30, captured headlines in March 2022 after joining the Carolina Panthers’ TopCats cheer squad, comparing
herhis dancing achievement to becoming ‘a doctor or a nurse’ in an interview with Elle this week.I have so eliminated any news of the NFL from my life I did not even know.
The push to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports has been fueled by a number of controversial victories, most notably swimmer Lia Thomas’ win in the NCAA championships in March 2022.
As the victories racked up – including a trans cyclist winning a female race in North Carolina by over five minutes earlier this year – numerous lawmakers pushed laws restricting their inclusion.
In August, North Carolina’s state legislature overrode Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto and pushed through the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act – a move that Lindsay says she plans to ‘fight.’
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If all of you people weren’t a bunch of racists and white supremacists, Broadway Bob Menendez wouldn’t be in deep trouble or have to worry about the house burning down with half a million bucks stuffed into his pockets in the clothes closet.
Those who believe in justice believe in innocence until proven guilty. I intend to continue to fight for the people of New Jersey with the same success I’ve had for the past five decade.
This is the same record of success these very same leaders have lauded all along. It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere.”-Bob Mendendez
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This is a good book to have. I, fortunately, live a few blocks away from a major, regional Level 1 Trauma Medical Center.
If I were living back in Texas in Austin County or other places I would not be without it and it is only $27 in paperback.
The only other option is to be married to Bsue and that has already been taken up by You-Know-Who.
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Mark Levin has expanded his show to a second episode on Saturday nights.
He just spent the first 30 minutes with Ted Cruz who spun a barnburner of a speech on the Senate, Mitch McConnell and the limp GOP establishment. It was as fine as I’ve ever heard Ted speak.
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#38 Texpat
I ordered the book on Amazon. It was even on sale for about half price. Thanks for the suggestion.
It’s just good to know that kind of stuff. I still remember coming upon that car wreck on the way back from Bryan, and feeling so woefully unprepared without proper supplies in my car. Fortunately, the young lady wasn’t badly hurt, but when I came home I looked up first aid supply kits and put stuff in my car. I need to go through it and replace the antibiotic cream and such, but I have gauze, bandages, tape, gloves, wipes, etc.
I had a past Office Help break her ankle as she slipped off of our porch steps. I remembered enough first aid from the one class I had in high school to immobilize her ankle. She was actually in very minimal pain as we waited for her mother to come get her. We sat outside in chairs, her leg propped up with a blanket tied a specific way around her leg, drinking water and talking. Her mom brought the blanket back that I used when she was able to take her daughter home. I was very gratified to hear that the ER personnel were impressed with how I wrapped her ankle.
It’s just good to know stuff. Period.
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Mark Levin has expanded his show to a second episode on Saturday nights.
He just spent the first 30 minutes with Ted Cruz who spun a barnburner of a speech on the Senate, Mitch McConnell and the limp GOP establishment. It was as fine as I’ve ever heard Ted speak.
Until they start shooting the invaders, it’s all meaningless kabukke theater, according to Dr phil,
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Eric Adams gets an earful from one of his own.
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By the way, Dr phil.
Thank you for today’s first comment.
I luv you man. 🙂
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The only other option is to be married to Bsue and that has already been taken up by You-Know-Who.
Poor BSue.
🙂
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I attended a 50 year high school class reunion this evening. I had a great time.
My 50th reunion will occur next year.
But my BFF invited me to attend his.
Class reunions are much more significant to people who are from a small town.
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#38 TexPat, that does look like a good’un… but for some strange reason, your remark reminded me of the night in Paramedic School where we were to “practice” delivering babies… Those in my “lab group” decided I needed to go first, and I popped off with a quote from Gone With the Wind “Lordy Miss Scarlett, I don’t know nuthin’ about birthing no babies!” (I’ve never been pregnant, and, as a nurse, I worked in Neurosurgical ICU – NOT Labor & Delivery…) The instructor overheard the remark, and decreed that I MUST go first… taught me to keep wisecracks to myself at certain times…
BTW, I have delivered a baby – in the back of the ambulance… 3 months premature to the mother of many, so not much effort was required. I think I was much more nervous than the mother, and when I told my driver to call the Comm Center to mark the time of delivery, they thought it a joke, so didn’t stamp the card as requested…
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I see that Iowa vs Penn State is available free, on prime time TV.
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I can promise you one thing.
The long awaited University of Texas Longhorns versus the Texas A&M Aggies game will not be available for free to po’ folks.
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Credit card losses bottomed in September 2021, and while initial increases were likely reversals from stimulus, they have been rapidly rising since the first quarter of 2022. Since that time, it’s an increasing rate of losses only seen in recent history during the recession of 2008.
It is far from over, the firm predicts./snip
What is unusual is that the losses are accelerating outside of an economic downturn, he pointed out.
Of the past five credit card loss cycles, three were characterized by recessions, he said. The two that occurred when the economy was not in a recession were in the mid ’90s and 2015 to 2019, Nash said. He used history as a guide to determine further losses.
“In our view, this cycle resembles the characteristics of what was experienced in the late 1990s and somewhat similar to the ’15 to ’19 cycle where losses increase following a period of strong loan growth and has seen similar pace of normalization thus far this cycle,” Nash said.History also shows that losses tend to peak six to eight quarters after loan growth peaks, he said. That implies the credit normalization cycle is only at its halfway point, hence the late 2024, early 2025 prediction, he said.
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Be prepared.
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BSue wins tonight’s trophy for quoting (sorta) from Gone With The Wind.
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Until they start shooting the invaders, it’s all meaningless kabukke theater, according to Dr phil,
had the GkabukiOP been a real opposition party and not a Vampyre party and had they just enforced our laws and secured the border like they promised starting in 1986, or repelled the 1965 immigration sham act, we wouldn’t be where we are today.
So now it’s up to Abbott and he’s clearly not up to the task.
he’d rather allow 10000 illegals a day into Texas because that’s what he’s told to do.
when he says he’s sending the national guard down he most likely means 500 not 5000.
he ain’t serious, dudes and dudettes.
and mr Haney is great at speeches but he’s still 0-662 in the results dept.
I’m done with politics for the weekend.The crooked jesters are never going to solve the border invasion anyway because to them it’s an asset not a disaster.
And I’m done talking about it tonight because it’s harshing my wine buzz.
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ya welcome uncklo.
good stuff from the Daltry.
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The world is inside out and upside down.
Men are taking over women’s sports, modeling and chess.
Black folks are taking over politics.
And now white girls are taking over black nations’ beauty pageants.
Zimbabwe will be among the countries represented at the 2023 Miss Universe pageant on Nov. 18 after selecting its first crowned beauty in 22 years.
The African country’s return to the competition is an exciting fete, but not everyone is pleased with the woman chosen as the nation’s representative for the global stage.
Brooke Bruk-Jackson, a white woman, was crowned Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2023 on Sept. 16. She is a native of Harare, the country’s capital. The 21-year-old model’s runner-ups were Black women, Amanda Mpofu and Nokutenda Marumbwa.
I can’t imagine.
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All ball all day yesterday. Lil Ricky’s little league was first, they were getting whipped badly 11-4 at one point but came back to tie it. Ricky was on first base and made 5 outs and was 3-3 batting.
Shelby’s softball team didn’t fair as well in a tournament down in Beasley. Two games, not sure the final scores but not good. This is 11-13 year old league and they steal on the slightest miscue, coach gives signs to the pitcher via catcher, each player has a walk up introduction with their song. Each game is videoed and shown on an app where each player’s real time stats can be seen. Crazy. She played three games yesterday and depending on their win/loss will play at least three today. Too much I think.
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I forgot to mention at the time but Lil Ricky’s 8th birthday was last weekend, he wanted a bat so my wife ordered one (to specifications of course). I saw this thing and I’m like what kind of space age gitup is this? Image below. Yesterday he went 3 for 3 with it so I guess it works.
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All of these little league/softball parks are just absolutely state of the art now and there are a bunch of them, extremely expensive to participate in as well. The turf is artificial grass or it may be called field turf, pitcher’s mound, bases and home plate/box are embedded in the turf.
I’ve noticed lately the turf must create it’s own issues, deducing from the strongly worded signage everywhere, gum and sunflower seeds must be really hard to clean up lol. Signs strongly encourage ripping off your opponents if seen chewing gum or seeds. Yeah they don’t have to mow but…
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Inquiring minds want to know, did Texpat survive Ophelia?
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You music people are probably aware of this guy Glen Templeton, sounds just like Conway Twitty. He’s going to be at the Waller County Fairgrounds in October, wife got our tickets yesterday.
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I didn’t know you could play baseball without gum and sunflower seeds.
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I know, right! And ripping of fellow players!
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My siblings and I have been reminiscing about our childhood experiences. As an older brother said, we’re sounding like our parents, talking about the past, but it makes us smile.
The first house I remember was on Myrtlewood Street. I remember the neighborhood changing from white to black – and the changes weren’t always good. I remember for the first time having to dive out of the street where we were playing because some teenagers came screaming down the street, not even slowing down for us. Then there was Buckwheat – yes, that was his name – who was a peeping tom. BCS saw him watching her change clothes and her screams brought Dad running. Older kids remember him wandering in our back yard. And the night the older kids thought they say figures walking around our house. None of the perps were of the paler persuasion.
Mom and Dad had gone down the street to visit some friends when the alarm was sounded by my older brothers. I was maybe five years old at the time, elder kids in their teens. We were all trying to huddle behind a big wingback chair that we had in the living room. Second Oldest Brother (SOB) had two shoeboxes of marbles, which were thrown at the back kitchen door that had a window in it, every time they saw something. We finally ran out of marbles, and we younger kids were assigned to an older sibling. The kids younger than I were carried, but Second Oldest Sister was assigned to me. She grabbed my hand and we all made a mad dash four houses down to get Mom and Dad. As we ran, and SOS was dragging me behind her, I remember how not every step made contact. My little legs couldn’t keep up.
It wasn’t long after that event that we moved to Pearland.
Memories.
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I see that turf everywhere now and I think that would make a nice, trouble free yard. Then I imagine all my leaves on it…
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Wonder if BadBoy mowers make a zero turn vacuum machine…
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Another memory: Mom had these big, smooth trays that we used for jigsaw puzzles. (I have not been able to find anything like them since, I wish I could.) When Mom went “big shopping,” she’d be gone for hours and one of the shenanigans we’d do was to slide down our stairs on those trays. We’d found one outdoor cushion that was firm enough to bounce off of while still preventing cranial damage from slamming into the wall. The more skilled among us could lean right as they hit the cushion without falling over, and make the last three steps that ended at the front door. Lots of whooping and hollering for the better runs.
That all ended the day SOB ended a perfect run at the feet of Mom, who’d just returned from Big Shopping. He just looked up at her and said, “Hi, Mom.”
I mean, what else was there to say?
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When I was a teenager working in an apartment complex cleaning pools, mowing and apartment make ready they had an engine powered vacuum machine with a huge bag that was about two and a half foot wide to clean sidewalks, worked fantastic. Don’t think I’ve ever seen another one, then or since.
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Very strange there is still not one single news story on my sister in law’s nephew who’s throat was slashed during the early morning hours Thursday in the Cypress area. It’s like it didn’t happen but we know it did. My wife keeps saying they must be keeping it out of the news for investigative purposes, I find it hard to believe the media would go along with that. I mean, “Man’s Throat Slashed While in Bed Sleeping with Wife” is some pretty delicious click-bait.
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Checking in late. GJT #20 I have no words, prayers to the family and please update us on any new information. I have to agree with Bones that things like this don’t just happen, something must be in the background. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that the nephew did anything wrong or was in a gang or anything but something smells fishy. I did see the X wife comment and all I’ll say is DAMN!
Mornin’ Gang
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#43 Sannon, I glad that you enjoyed your 50th HS reunion I mentioned last summer that I thoroughly enjoyed mine, much more than I expected but how do you have a reunion and get home by 9:15 PM? I’m an old fart that goes to bed early but we didn’t leave my reunion until about 11:30 PM. That said, this is a trueism; Class reunions are much more significant to people who are from a small town. 😉
Oh wait! Your reunion is next year, so what school was this reunion and what will be your school? I seem to remember that you didn’t finish school in the Houston area.
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SO Tedtam’s brother is an SOB?!?! Who knew? 😀
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triumvirate
trī-ŭm′vər-ĭt
noun
- Government by triumvirs.
- The office or term of a triumvir.
- A body or group of triumvirs. 😉
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1966
General Electric MCM KitchenComplete with the hideous Puke Green Appliances.
For you folks in Rio Linda MCM stands for Mid Century Modern. 😉
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Pooof,…and just like that; Graveyard Dead! 😀
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Super Dave
This was a Bellville HS reunion. My BFF invited me as his guest. His wife didn’t go because she told him that his reunions were boring. LOL.
Yes, I left early at 8:30. Four hours was enough.
And I’m old and tired sometimes.
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You know it’s an old geezer reunion if it starts at 4 or 4:30 in the afternoon.
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Our reunion started at 8 but doors opened at 7 and most of us were there by 7:30. I think ours shut down at midnight but we left around 11:30 and there were still quite a few couples milling about. I think they rented the venue from 6-12 PM. FWIW; wife likes to dance and we don’t get to do that much anymore so we caught up at the reunion. I guess I also like to dance sometimes and I wanted to dance with my old HS best female friend but couldn’t seem to get away from my wife, she kept hearing songs that she liked and off she’d drag me.
About dancing, you can beat the class of 72 had some really fine music to dance to. 😉
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have to worry about the house burning down with half a million bucks stuffed into his pockets in the clothes closet
… or Chocolate City mayor whose freezer was stuffed with cash.
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Complete with the hideous Puke Green Appliances.
That was “avocado” back when nobody knew what one was.
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SO Tedtam’s brother is an SOB?!?! Who knew?
Fittingly, he proclaimed himself the family a-hole, and lived up to that title well into adulthood. I hear he finally got some therapy and he calmed down.
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GJT my #64, I did not see your #63 but I may have been pecking away while you posted, (8:49 AM- 8:52 AM). I see that you are trying to keep us posted.
Off to yet another Gun Show, y’all cover me because I didn’t get out of the last one un-fleeced. 😀
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That was “avocado” back when nobody knew what one was.
Yes, I knew the that, wife and I had Harvest Gold back in the 70′s and it might not be all that great but it beat that hideous Puke Green. 😉
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Facing litigation, Stanford University officials are discussing how they can continue tracking election-related misinformation through the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a prominent consortium that flagged social media conspiracies about voting in 2020 and 2022, several participants told The Washington Post. The coalition of disinformation researchers may shrink and also may stop communicating with X and Facebook about their findings.The National Institutes of Health froze a $150 million program intended to advance the communication of medical information, citing regulatory and legal threats. Physicians told The Post that they had planned to use the grants to fund projects on noncontroversial topics such as nutritional guidelines and not just politically charged issues such as vaccinations that have been the focus of the conservative allegations.Conveniently, the authors offer up this lying SOB who is having a hissy-fit because he can’t get a pile of free taxpayer money now.“In the name of protecting free speech, the scientific community is not allowed to speak,” said Dean Schillinger,a health communication scientist who planned to apply to the NIH program to collaborate with a Tagalog-language newspaper to share accurate health information with Filipinos. “Science is being halted in its tracks.”Bless your little ole heart, Dean. You poor thing.Here is his contact if you want to send him a polite message: [email protected]The most high-profile effort, a lawsuit known as Missouri v. Biden, is now before the Supreme Court, where the Biden administration seeks to have the high court block a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that found the White House, FBI and top federal health officials likely violated the First Amendment by improperly influencing tech companies’ decisions to remove or suppress posts on the coronavirus and elections. That ruling was narrower than a district court’s finding that also barred government officials from working with academic groups, including the Stanford Internet Observatory.We should all be grateful for (former) Missouri AG Eric Schmitt and current AG Andrew Bailey plus Louisiana AG Jeff Landry for bringing this suit all the way to the Fifth Circuit and also big props to federal judge Terry Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana.RTWDT.
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Mornin… Ooops, I see it’s already afternoon… Well, what happened is another instance where I spent one hour on the HouChron sudoku, and hadn’t quite filled it all in when I noticed there were some errors.
At this rate, I am wasting my time on these puzzles.
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Two incredibly gifted musicians. Bela Fleck and Billy Strings
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#77 Texpat
Great read. So sad, almost made me feel sorry for them.
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Started watching The Pacific miniseries. Pretty good, it is a companion piece to Band of Brothers that basically follows three marines throughout several Pacific theaters. Released in 2010, I don’t remember ever knowing about it.
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79 BC
Dang, I remember when Béla Fleck was young and skinny.
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#81
One scene at a mess tent at Guadalcanal after supply ships had been bombed – menu reads
Rice without meat
Rice without chicken
Rice without turkey
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Well, as usual, after erasing the sudoku with at least 1 error, and starting over, I completed with no errors in 40 minutes. I was aware of being groggy when I got up this morning — totally at the insistence of 4 of the cats — so somehow I need to wake up better before starting any puzzles.
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Some of my in-laws were out at the cemetery and thought they heard very close gunfire.
Fay’s nephew grabbed his phone and got a video of a huge 8 inch thick Water Oak limb fall twenty-five feet to the ground.
This was a perfectly green limb.
Droughts are hard on ancient Water Oaks. A month ago, the same thing happened on a different tree, taking out a long section of chain-link fence, and very close to taking out the water well building.
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Today, one headstone was knocked over, another moved nearly off its foundation.
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Siblings and I are still reminiscing, dredging up all kinds of childhood memories. The stories about the stupid – literally, dumb as a box of rocks – goats are pretty funny.
How does a goat get itself stuck upside down behind some junk furniture in its pen?
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The Fall season’s start here is not what we expected or hoped. Still blazing hot here, “only” 95 degrees that raced from the morning low of 75.
Bright mid-afternoon sunlight now makes sunspots on the lawns owing to so many trees that have shed lots of leaves way before their time, thanks to the long dry spell. And our way, way out of its southern range American-Elm tree is working on mostly yellow leaves as it would in its home range much farther north in Wisconsin. It’s been here about 40 years and is a very elegant tree and reminder of those in the Midwest. It has drawn the attention of tree people who take care of our many, many trees (80 some, mostly planted by squirrels.) 🙂
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Yea, Green Bay won over New Orleans at Green Bay, 18-17. A win, is a win, is a win.
We could not see it, as we aren’t signed up for viewing all the games–yet.
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88 Adee
There are so few elm trees left in America, I wish we could see a photo of it.
The native, stately elms were completely wiped out in the NJ/NY/Conn region years ago. It was such a part of American history.
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Grilled burgers with grilled buns are ready y’all. S’posed to have been lunch but beer got involved.
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Didn’t watch but I saw the Texans beat the Jaguars. Even when the Texans go 0 fer with everyone else, they always beat the Jaguars.
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I’ve often read authors and writers and never discovered what they actually looked like. It’s human nature to conjure an image of some seemingly anonymous voice on the textual page. After all, without a face and an audible voice, a simple written name seems inadequate many times. I’ve almost always been surprised or even shocked at the inaccuracy of my imagination once confronted with a real life character, man or woman, on television, video or even in person.
I’ve been reading Peachy Keenan for many years on The American Mind, The Federalist and other places. I love her commentary on the culture and she can be damned funny – a nice break from the endless combat of politics.
She is a little older than my kids who are around 40, but not much. Peachy has allowed she is a California housewife and mother describing herself as the Domestic Extremist. I have, over the years, assembled this image of her as a little frumpy, frizzy-haired, nerdy, geeky woman with big, thick glasses.
Anyway, when I turned on Fox the other evening she was being interviewed with another woman and I was, well, stunned.
This totally ruins my imaginary image of her.
Anyway, here is Peachy’s excellent column on 9/11/2001 (see link above), where she was and the enduring aftermath of that day. She describes how it drastically changed her life and that of many other Americans. She is a great and fun read.
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#67 Super Dave
A group of three, though usually thought of people like triplets, or three of the same thing.
#76 Super Dave
We have harvest gold kitchen fixtures. Started out with white things when we built the house but wanted colored things instead of blah white everything. Cook top, dishwasher front panels, and double ovens are all harvest gold. They amazed a young assistant electrician who came to the house with his boss to fix or install something years ago. He had never seen colored appliances like that, or anything that old that was still working. The current sink is white because nobody makes reasonably priced yellow-gold ones anymore.
These days all that is offered seems to be a few blah colors or tones. Remember the days when everything in the kitchen was fashionly black? That’s an oldie color now, or more accurately lack of color. We never cared for the green ones that were offered by several companies, and I’ve never seen that ghastly green pictured.
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I mentioned it at the time but probably 5-6 years ago, maybe longer, I went with my wife to show a house in Katy that was a travel back in time, all appliances, table, countertops in the kitchen were yellow like in the ‘50s, all still in working order. Rest of the house the same, shag carpet, sunken living room, all immaculate. Even the electrical panel was vintage 1955. Don’t remember now but I think the original owners had passed, but home was vacant, but fully furnished. 1950’s style of course. It was like walking through a Dick Van Dyke Show set.
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#89 Texpat
The American Elms in the Midwest also took a severe beating years ago, but somebody found how to stop it after a long time working on it. I think what is available now are not quite the same generation American Elms that can defend themselves.
And there is nothing more grand than maple trees in full red fall color. Hope we will be able to get up to Wisconsin and see the beauty of fall there as well as visit kinfolk. And of course the syrup is devine.
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I think we have 1 elm tree at Chez Harp. That is based on a memory from when we had a very expensive tree company — can’t recall the name at the moment — come out to do something to a sickly oak tree that was growing here when we bought the place in 1995. They tried to sign us up for treatments for all the trees here, but we basically could not afford what all they wanted to do. We had them work on the sickly oak, but it died anyway. Over the decades, we lost a few other trees but we still have 8 big original trees that are doing Ok. One of those is the mighty elm. It has a branch that passes high over the 80-Y.O. neighbor’s chimney above the 2nd floor of his house.
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Come on, Hamsters. We’re so close to 100 comments.
Ugh, temperature here is 83 with 76% humidity. Glad we are inside the house and the AC is working as it should.
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Just one more…
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MADE IT!
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I think THIS one is officially #99…
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And THIS one is officially #100…
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