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Wednesday Open Comments of the Mind

WASHINGTON, DC—In a shocking turn of events, Congressman Jamaal Bowman has once again incited an insurrection within the hallowed halls of Congress. This time, his target was not just the budget or the Speaker of the House, but the very concept of fire safety itself.

As the new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, addressed his fellow lawmakers during a routine hearing, Bowman, armed with the knowledge that McCarthy now held the gavel, decided that pulling a fire alarm was the best way to voice his dissent.

“I will not stand idly by while Kevin McCarthy presides over this chamber!” declared Bowman, moments before yanking the fire alarm lever with dramatic flair.

The cacophonous wailing of sirens and flashing lights filled the room as lawmakers and visitors scrambled for cover, convinced that the Capitol was once again under siege. This, of course, was not the case, but Bowman’s insurrectionary antics have become so frequent that it’s hard to distinguish them from actual emergencies.

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77 responses to “Wednesday Open Comments of the Mind”

  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Racing pretty good, supposed to be all day and tomorrow. Didn’t get my yard did beforehand, gone be a mess when this is done.

  2. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=406430

    I’m with J.J. Gaetz isn’t the problem. The Republican party as a whole is the problem, same as it ever was… same as it ever was…

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From Dooood’s linky;

    The timing here was unfortunate. Gaetz is an ego-driven blunt object and it’s impossible to figure out if he thought beyond getting this wish of his. Only a Republican could come up with the idea to team with Democrats to punish a Republican for teaming with Democrats. . .

    Pretty much sums it up. And whether you like McCarthy or not this is NOT going to be good. Now all the crazy left-wing nut-jobs can say that the Republicans are dysfunctional,…and they are sadly right.  ~SIGH~

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #4 I’ll add that the Democrats all stick together come hell or high water. They even circled the wagons to protect that imbecilic that pulled the Fire Alarm. Yes Virginia, they HAVE NO SHAME!

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Just Another Reminder

    At 1:20 PM CDT today the federal government will be testing a new nationwide cell phone emergency alert system.

    Your phone will start blaring a loud alarm at 1:20 PM so don’t get worried about it.

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I forget who it was, but an R congress-hole sent a letter or statement to Garland insisting that Rep Bowman be charged under the same law that the J6ers were charged.  I’m not holding my breath for that one.

    I think Gaetz was correct in ripping of the band aid.  The Rs have been played for fools at least since the mid 80s when they traded amnesty for border security.  The amnesty happened but the border security never did.

    I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings for the future of this country.  There has to be a thorough cleaning of the federal unelected government.  Each and every agency should be trimmed by at least 20% and the civil service protections and pensions need to be booted.  The government employees must be on Social Security – JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.  Insubordination must be a fireable offence.  Judges, like that clown in NY in the Trump case, need to be removed from the bench for blatant bias against the defendant.  Prosecutors at all levels who withhold exculpatory evidence need to face a minimum of 20 behind bars.

    There needs to be dramatic reforms and they need to happen quickly or there will be a bloodbath all across the country.  Thank G-D for the 2nd Amendment.

  8. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I guess the alarm test is in case NIAID helps China develop another new bio weapon that gets out.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Texpat 0832:  I am very tempted to turn my phone off at 1:15 for 15 minutes or so.  I don’t trust anything that the feds say anymore.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    2 Dooood

    I can’t get the ACE link to work.

    If anyone has the same problem they can try this one.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m on crutches today.  I can gingerly walk on the knee, but really shouldn’t if I don’t have to.  I was at crying level last night, and Hubby was so sweet.  I had managed to get up off the couch to head for bed and once I got vertical, had stopped to allow myself a moment to make sure I was going to remain vertical and wipe a few tears.  The guy with the bum knee and bad back hopped up to get his set of crutches for me.   He wanted to do more but I kept waving him off.  I felt safer without someone trying to help me and throwing my balance off.  I guess getting old together is measured in how much holding each other up is involved.

    The knee brace helped minimally, but after a bit was more annoying than helpful, so I took it off.  I may slap it back on in a bit.

    I am certainly  not going to be cooking in the kitchen or running Elsa today.  But it is for days like this that I have put food on the shelf.  Even Hubby can open a jar and dump it into a pot.

    I guess it’s not going to heal by itself. I wanted to hold off dealing with the knee until the dental stuff got fixed.  I was feeling pretty good yesterday and did some jogging on the treadmill due to time constraints.  I guess jogging is out.  That’s the only thing that I can think of that could have caused this much pain in the knee.

    Speaking of dental, I need to make a call today…

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It seems the law was passed 8 years ago for FEMA to create a nationwide emergency alert system for all cell phones and they’re supposed to test it 3 times a year, I think.

    Eight Years, it took the US federal government 8 effing years to do this.  It’s sickening.  

    We don’t have enough ammunition for all of our armed forces to train regularly at ranges or in live fire exercises and we damned sure don’t have enough ammunition right now to fight a real war.

    I hope it doesn’t take these fools 8 years to resupply ammo for our military.

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    But there is plenty of time and money to throw at the tranny’s so that they can feel more validated.

     

    /spits

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    9 Tedtam

    He wanted to do more but I kept waving him off.  I felt safer without someone trying to help me and throwing my balance off.

    It seems very simple, but it really is important.

    I learned years ago to stop the impulse to grab or hold an injured or elderly person struggling to walk.  My grandmother taught me to never grab her but to let her grab and hold me.  It let her be in control of her balance rather than me so she felt safe.

    It was a lesson that served me well over the years with others.  Offer your arm or hand, but let them reach out and grip…if they feel the need.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BORDER WARS ☙ Wednesday, October 4, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&Cers and all those who quietly fight for freedom, it’s Wednesday! Today’s action-packed roundup includes: Swiss reporter imprisoned for calling another Swiss reporter a fat lesbian;  Fifth Circuit expands injunction against government censorship; House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rapidly and historically removed from his seat; Governor Pritzger begs Biden for border help; amazing but spicy citizen journalist video clip from New York City; Scotland moves to ban trans rapist prison switching; Florida law allowing death penalty for child rapists takes effect; Supreme Court refuses to help take Trump off the presidential ballot; and the EU failed to approve more funding to help protect Ukraine’s borders.

    NEWS:

    Straight to jail! NBC News ran an eye-popping headline yesterday: “Swiss LGBTQ groups praise jail sentence for commentator who called journalist a ‘fat lesbian’.” It was personal. The way I talk here on C&C, you better believe when I saw that headline, I immediately whipped out my pocket Constitution and gave that baby a kiss.

    Say what you like about body positivity and the virtuousness of eschewing unflattering commentary on others’ physical appearance. Alain Soral did, and before he knew what was happening, on Monday he got sixty days in the slammer for the egregious crimes of “defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred.”

    The target of Alain’s curt, vituperative insult was another Swiss journalist, Catherine Macherel…

    /snip

    Here in the U.S., thanks to the First Amendment, defamation is not a crime. Defamation is also not actionable if the insult is true. But if you do injure somebody with a false statement — injure them in terms of dollars and cents — you can then sue them in civil court for restitution. Hurt feelings don’t support a defamation claim. Generally speaking, you can’t get any money for your hurt feelings, and you sure can’t lock people up.

    If it could talk, the Constitution might say, toughen up and insult them back…

    Nowhere in the Constitution are we guaranteed the right to not be offended.  I haven’t noticed too many stories of conservatives crying over all of the insults we’ve received, and trying to throw the bad words people in jail.  Free speech is sometimes frivolous, sometimes hurtful, but always protected.  Or so it should be.

    Instead, Switzerland’s out-of-control LGBTQ++ crowd has pulled the levers of power in that unfortunate country so hard such that just insulting a gay person can get you thrown in prison….

    We’re not quite to that point. Yet.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    On the Missouri v. Biden free speech case:

    It seems a federal court has made it more difficult for  Biden Co. to police the social media environment.  Good for them.

    Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey,…tweeted, “CISA is the ‘nerve center’ of the vast censorship enterprise, the very entity that worked with the FBI to silence the Hunter Biden laptop story.” Now it will have to stop policing social media until the case has been decided.  

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Discussion of the ouster of McCarthy.  Good reading, of course.  Mention of Trump being nominated.

    Man, would heads ‘splode if that happened!

    Next up: Border issues

    Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) sent Joe Biden a strongly-worded letter yesterday, urgently requesting help with illegal migrants who are being bussed into Chicago. Hilariously, Pritzger’s letter suggested that Biden appoint “one person” in the White House to oversee border efforts:

    Wait….wasn’t that supposed to be VP Harris?  The one who’s totally ignored the border?  But if Biden said he was taking action by putting her in charge, then I guess something is being done.  The hand washing is complete.

    Apparently Kamala Harris is so inconsequential that Governor Pritzger didn’t even waste the words to suggest Biden needs someone else.

    /mic drop

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More border:  Elon Musk is encouraging citizens to produce their own border expose reports and make them public.  He did that recently, himself.

    In other words, if you stupid reporters won’t do your jobs, get out of the way and let us do it.

    So the unidentified but totally based citizen who posted this video is today’s example. He saw something, filmed something, and it turned out to be a story. As the clip starts, a New York City resident approached a fancy hotel and asked what’s going on? Somebody said, it’s a migrant shelter. He started filming and, like a kicked-over rotten log, human cockroaches began boiling out of the lobby and trying to crawl all over him.

    Watch this clip if you’re okay with the raw, but appropriate adult language.

    https://x.com/AmiriKing/status/1709394505210753123

    For those who chose not to watch, what happened next is they all got into an argument over whether the guy “has the right” to film the hotel. They kept ordering him off, pushing around him, and he kept refusing to leave. More and more thugs came out of the lobby and tried to crowd him away. An NYPD officer stood by but refused to intervene. By the end of the clip, you can see at least eight people on the sidewalk representing the “shelter.”

    None of them wore hotel uniforms.

    It was a public sidewalk, but the “owner” kept claiming the citizen was “on his property”.   Why so many badges and hard faces?

    The clip evidences a conspiracy of silence between the media and the government to cover up the story. The Migrant Mafia members were too confident. They look like people who expect not ever to face any scrutiny.

    A media that only covers gigantic problems when they are political problems for Republicans is a wholly worthless media.

    Next, the clip showed us the uniform face of the vast migrant industrial complex. All those Migrant Mafia people are getting paid with taxpayer dollars, probably handsomely. And they all look and act like thugs. Who are these people, really? Who was the young black man in the Eastern European gangster-style track suit who spoke with authority and claimed to “own this building?”

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Florida’s new, more stringent laws on child sexual abuse charges has gone into effect.  You really, really don’t wanna mess with kids in Florida.  They have a big hammer that they are just waiting to swing down on your head.

    There are valid libertarian concerns about the new law, but it is the natural and predictable result of the crazed movement to legitimize pedophilia, as evidenced by new blue state laws like California’s, which recently largely de-criminalized “consensual” sex with minors, down to twelve years old.

    I have a ten year old granddaughter.  I cannot even imagine her being ripe for the picking in a few years.  The California law is sick, sick, sick.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The Castro case to block Trump from the ballot was mentioned a day or so ago. He lost:

    The case got to the nation’s highest court after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissed John Anthony Castro’s lawsuit to bar President Trump from appearing on the presidential ballot for being an insurrectionist. Castro, a Texas lawyer, promptly appealed to the Supreme Court. But the highest court declined to hear the case, leaving the original dismissal undisturbed.

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I can’t get the ACE link to work.

    I couldn’t either so I copied and pasted it, worked OK.

  22. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Texpat 9:17

    Absolutely the thing to do, offer your hand or grasping the inside of your elbow.  Offering the hand can cause a problem if the person being helped ends up strung out farther away from rather than remaining beside the assistance. It is so very easy to end up pulling the person forward and seriously messing up their balance.  Offering the arm keeps the person much better connected to the assistance.

    A walker can be better.  But the person using it must be inside the walker for the best stability.  Too often you see older folks walking mostly behind in the walker and leaning forward unbalanced having the same problem as taking someone’s outstretched hand for stability.   Physical therapists can show the person how to navigate properly and maintain the center of gravity.  Stand up as straight as possible to maintain balance.  Shoulder, hip, and ankle in a straight line if possible.  That depends on working with a PT or doctor or nurse who knows how to do it instead of a do-it-yourself experiment.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Pachapapa is at it again.

    If it weren’t so dangerous, I’d laugh.

    But he means it, and waaaay too many folks just follow this bad shepherd blindly.  This is the ape of the church unfolding before our eyes, as prophesied by Bl. Catherine Emmerich and Bp. Fulton Sheen.

    BREAKING NEWS: Francis Issues ‘Laudato Deum,” Endorsing A One World Government

     

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Getting rain and sky rumbles at the Dome.

  25. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    My bad on the AoS link this am.  That’s what I get for trying to format first thing in the morning. 8^)

    But I’m w/ Bones on this one.  Sucks what Gaetz did in a way, but who really cares at this point when we all know whatever ridiculous cardboard cutout character replaces McCarthy is bound to be just as uniparty as he is?  Got to keep the pro-wrestlers and politicians (but I repeat myself) on track in the storyline.  Yeah, we are hosed and it’s just a question of when it comes, not if.

    My personal outlook as of a couple of months ago was that October 2023 was going to hold some nasty surprises for us.  I don’t know of anything tangible in this regard, really just more of a hunch based on how events have unfolded and the timing of those events over the last few years.  Maybe this ousting of McCarthy is just a precursor to what’s really coming?  Honestly don’t know, but I guess we’re going to find out.  YCVYWOOT regardless.

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

    A country in wane
    circling the drain
    send more more billions to Ukraine

    Border busted open
    invaders show boatin’
    send more billions to Ukraine

    Texas governor he’s obeyin’
    WEF masters are dictatin’
    send more billions to Ukraine

    Crime in the cities
    death on the streets
    send more billions to Ukraine

    Socks not a fittin’
    no pot to pi$$ in
    send more billions to Ukraine

    House speaker is out
    a Vampyre rino louse
    send more billions to Ukraine

    totalitariancrats are debauchin’
    propagandist media’s crotch shottin’
    send more billions to Ukraine

    the courts are kangarooin’
    the uniparty’s oozin’
    send more billions to Ukraine 

    40 years of retreads
    50 years of lizard heads
    send more billions to Ukraine

    Mr Haney’s border preachin’
    but doing nothin’ just screechin’
    send more billions to Ukraine

    Blood money laundered in
    Turtle’s head bedpost bangin’ again
    send more billions to Ukraine

    A decayed nation
    a Balkanized sedation
    send more billions to Ukraine

  27. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Can we just bury the notion that Trump is going to be president again?

    The democrats have yet to use THE nuclear option.Yeah they got him tied up in court, that ain’t the nuclear option.  They could have him Clintonized but I do not think so.  The nuclear option is that the states ultimately determine who is listed on the ballot.  Now this would prolly be fast tracked to the Supremes, but Roberts has indicated that he thinks what should be left to the states be left to the states.  This is not without precedent see Ralph “Do you know there are rat hairs in that hotdog” Nader’s presidential run.

    Nader qualified to appear on the state ballot in 43 states along with the District of Columbia. In four states, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, and Wyoming, Nader’s name did not appear on the state ballot but he was eligible to receive official write-in votes that were counted. In 3 states, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, Nader neither appeared on the state ballot nor was he eligible to receive write-in votes.

    And just for grins and the sake of argument…………… let’s say Trump does become president.  He is going to be a lame duck from the outset.  The pubbies do not want him only the electorate.  He is not going to be able to muscle our now voluminous enemies around the world to get our country back into a place of strength.  There are so many moves by countries to inner cooperate ignoring the United States Trump will be little more than a yapping chihuahua. The Saudis no longer trust this country.  They still want a security agreement from the United States but based on holy writ it will either 1. not occur or 2.  be worthless.  Our military is a mess, the oil industry is a mess, the dollar is a mess.  

    Frankly Trump for yours and my concern will be nothing more than a toothless lion.

     

  28. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, y’all! I was surprised to have my second rainy day when I went out with Billy’s breakfast bowls. I had glanced out the back windows over the patio, and saw him in the gazebo, but it didn’t sink in that it was raining. I gave their bowls to the 6 indoor cats, then got a bowl of canned and a bowl of crunchies ready for Billie. Then I splashed out the back door into a fairly heavy downpour. But I got the bowls put down under the gazebo roof so he has a dry place to eat.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mharper’s story about sloshing Billy’s food out to him triggered a memory for me:

    When we moved to Pearland, the family across the street gifted Eldest Sis with two cats, Punch and Jemimah.  Punch failed to safely cross the street shortly after we moved in, but Jemimah became everyone’s favorite cat.  She was the matriarch of our property, and the Eve to the dozens of kitties we owned over the years.  Since we raised animals and were surrounded by fields (and the associated wildlife), having cats was useful in keeping the vermin population around our property down.

    Jemimah was my confidant for many years, her fur holding a lot of my tears growing up.  She was a proud kitty, and a great momma.  She demanded – and received – a lot of respect and love from us.

    So, during the period when it was my duty to dump the dinner scraps outside for the cats, I had one night where I had a particularly large chunk of meat in the slops, and I was saving it for Jemimah.  I had gotten pretty good at yodeling “HeeEEERE, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty!”  This was the summer of 21 cats (4 mommas had given birth to 4 kittens each, plus one extra).

    I stepped out to the concrete slab that was the usual feeding place, and began the yodel.  Furry things began appearing from all corners of the compass, but no Jemimah.  I dumped some of the scraps and yodeled again.  A few more latecomers showed up.  I dumped some more, but wondered where Jemimah was…yodeled one last time.

    She had been at the front of the house.  She came screeeeming around the front corner of the house, ran under the gate without breaking stride, got to the edge of the concrete slab ….and I could practically hear the brakes going on.  She went from full speed to full stop in about two steps.  She then primly licked her paws and preened her ears for a minute, cleaned her face, and then put her two paws in front of her as she sat there.  She wrapped her tail around her feet and looked serenely at me as she expressed her “you can feed me now” permission.  I think she was upset that she’d been seen running in such an undignified manner.

    I was cracking up laughing as I dumped the choice bits in front of her and she began eating.

    What’s that saying?  Dogs have owners, cats have staff.  Billy has his staff, too.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I read all of Ace’s post this morning.  “Most of the time, but not all of the time” is my track record of agreement with Ace, but I could say that about most people.

    I give high credit for acknowledging Daniel Greenfield’s analysis of the House Republican ongoing debacle.  Everybody and his grandmother is offering their options on this right now, but Greenfield is worth taking a few minutes to read,  I think he gets it just about right, as close as anybody could.

  31. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Can we just bury the notion that Trump is going to be president again?

    Yes, for exactly this reason:

    And just for grins and the sake of argument…………… let’s say Trump does become president.  He is going to be a lame duck from the outset.

    The lunatics have been running the asylum for long enough now that I really can’t see it being any other way.  Rough road ahead for sane Americans on multiple fronts.

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

    $174,000 a year pays awfully good.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-10-03/sen-dianne-feinsteins-obscene-fortune-ought-be-returned-american-taxpayers-she

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

    @12:26-tp

    but republican’ts do have a mission and it is to feast on as much blood money as they can and not win elections because they really don’t want to win.

    their gravy train is most profitable just the way it is.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I forgot to turn my phone off and the e-alert-test thingie came through at 1318hrs.  Now my phone is prolly infected with something.

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

    29

    doesn’t matter

    I disabled all guv alerts and turned off my phone and I still got it when I turned it back on.

    now the only question is what emergency will the deep state players create to use the emergency notification in real time?

  36. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Now my phone is prolly infected with something.

    2 shots and you should be good to go.

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

    The Deep State’s doing some resurrecting for a new Christmas ad.

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    McCarthy’s dethroning.

    Ain’t it interesting the calls for the heads of the people that instigated the move?  They are the bad guys?  I think not.  I agree 100% on their reasoning.  McCathy caved.

  39. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think even a lame duck Trump presidency would be scads better than most of the alternatives.  Especially if we can get enough R’s elected to support him.

    Love him or hate him, the dude doesn’t give up and he hates to lose.

  40. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    From Tedtam

    BREAKING NEWS: Francis Issues ‘Laudato Deum,” Endorsing A One World Government

    Heh, heh, well ask this question.

    Does the Bible prophesy a one-world government and a one-world currency in the end times?

    We are rapidly heading to these inevitable events.  Will these things come to pass tomorrow, this week, this month, this year?  I do not know.  But events are falling into place that these things will come to pass.  Il Papa is simply helping it come along by softening up “his” flock.  The rest of us gentiles got the gubment to softening us up.  and a fine job they are doing.

     

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby enlisted my help to try to find a hotel room for him for one of his car show trips, this one in Round Rock, near Austin.

    I hate doing his hotel rooms for him, but he doesn’t do computers, and I promised “for better for worse”.

    These hotel searches seem to take for freakin’ ever on some of these trips.  I could waste a whole afternoon trying to find one in his price range, with the kind of parking he needs/wants for his car trailer, etc.

    There wasn’t a hotel that we could find after several hours of searching that didn’t create a choking hazard.  He called some 800 numbers.  He called on Motel 6 and the price for one adult for one night was over $300.

    Yeah, his brother may have wissed him off, but it may be where he’s going to stay.

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tedtam

    I think even a lame duck Trump presidency would be scads better than most of the alternatives.

    For me he has become the lesser of two evils.  I will reserve my reasons because I am not voting.  And that is why I have disappeared from here.  As far as politics go to most I am. nothing more than a troll, my honest appraisal and opinions have zilch meaning to most people.

    I am okay with that.

    OUT

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #37 Squawk:  The only valid reason that I can see for not voting is to not have one’s name on the list voting for the wrong person.  As vindictive as the left has become, one can’t be too careful.  Your reasons are your own and I cast no rocks at your decision.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    There was a sound outside, like something big falling, and we lost power.  The generator kicked on a few seconds later.

    Well, we know it works.  I’m thinking a tree limb fell on a power line.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Another big boom. What in the world is going on behind our house

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    It’s not unusual for a transformer to blow and then to have the next one down the line from it blow from the surge.  When I hear one go off around here, I always wait to see if a second one is going to blow.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I heard a knock and hobbled outside.  The power company guy said “I fixed the original problem and it held for only five minutes!”  We both think a tree limb, weakened by the summer drought and now sponging up water finally called it quits after this morning’s rain.

    The power company hates our neighborhood.  Trees and squirrels.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Sometimes when you hear the loud firearm type of pow from a transformer, if you’re lucky, it’s just a fuse on the transformer blowing like a circuit breaker in your panel and it only takes a few minutes to replace it.  If the transformer itself has failed, it takes a crew and a while longer.

    Early last spring we had a gang of 3 transformers mounted on a frame of a large, heavy pole at the edge of our neighborhood, about a block away, explode and catch on fire.  Of course, there were large old tree limbs hanging over the transformers so they caught on fire too.

    We had to have the fire department, the tree removal contractors and all the trucks from the utility company block half the streets.  The encouraging thing was how fast they repaired and installed everything.

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Aggies testing rockets.

    What could go wrong? 😉

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    There goes the leg.  I may be checking out for the night.  Gotta lay down.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    For those of you who care to vote in November –

    on such things as giving yourself and your families and neighbors a big break on their Property Taxes

    October 10 is the last day to register to vote.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And you Houston residents might want to take advantage of the exciting opportunity to vote against the colossally ignorant and corrupt Sheila Jackson Lee.

  53. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Shannon 44 & 45,

    There are good reasons to vote this November.  Lazy folks get what lazy folks deserve when they don’t vote and then dare to complain about the outcome.  When asked by those who did vote why they didn’t vote, and a lame excuse follows, just mention they should look in a mirror to see who is responsible for not voting.

    Unfortunately I can’t vote against Queen Sheila ’cause I live in Fort Bend County.

  54. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Just checked, I am registered to vote but not for SheJack.

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Why is Shannon shouting at me?

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    48 GJT

    You need to turn your danged hearing aids up.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Pakis smarter than American politicians.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m guessing that Bones, WB, Tedtam, Doood,  Dr phil, and Darren will have to cast our  votes against SheJack.

    I’m leaving out somebody.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If any of you need a ride to the polls I’ll come down there and take you.

  60. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    What??

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GJT

    It is all Caps that are yelling.

    Bold is….well…bold.

    And eye-catchingly authoritative and brilliant.

  62. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    😀

  63. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Quick Drive-By and I just wanted to say that Texpat’s  “Daniel Greenfield’s analysis of the House Republican ongoing debacle.” Pretty much hit the nail on the head. And yes, I did RTWDT.

  64. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    You talking to me?!?!   😀

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We don’t watch any network television around here whether it is comedy series, soap operas, antacid commercials, mockumentaries, Sickly Minutes or any “news” shows.*

    We will watch some cable movies, documentaries, history shows or especially independently produced drama series like Bosch with Titus Welliver.  I love this show.  Great stuff.

    Here is the original series titled Bosch with 7 seasons and 10 episodes each.  We spent an entire summer watching.

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

    Season 1 of Bosch: Legacy, the sequel, is also available at the link below if you haven’t seen it already.

    Bosch: Legacy is available for free on Amazon.  Season 2 is now finally coming on Friday, October 20th with 2 episodes that night and then 8 more to follow for Season 2.

    * Correction: Her Highness likes to watch Jesse Watters on Fox each evening for reasons I don’t fully grasp.

  66. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    So you voted for the lesser of two evils huh?

    Yeah

    Then you voted for evil after all.

    ————————————————————–

    So you did not vote huh?

    Yup

    Well you have no right to complain.

    Really?  Show me where it says I lose my right to complain or say anything for that matter in the constitution if I do not vote.

    ——————————————————————————

    My vote is my handshake with a politician giving them permission to rule over me constitutionally speaking.  I can now say they do not have my permission.

    —————————————————————-

    SKIP THE VOTE 2024

     

  67. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat @ 8:44 pm
    Thanks, we’ll have to check that out. After Ozark, Big Sky, Yellowstone and the sequels we started on Lincoln Lawyer (I read most of the books) and now we’re on season 2, episode 11 of Suits. Suits is just OK, the plot is very predictable and usually ends with a cliff hanger. We’ve about decided it’s really just a nighttime Soap Opera. 😉

  68. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    So if we don’t hear from Bonecrusher tomorrow we’ll know Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms surrounded his McMansion in Copperfield, raided the whiskey still in his garage and threw him into prison with the rest of the Infernal Insurrectionists.

    When you donate to the STOP THE SHEJACK fund, don’t forget the Bonecrusher legal bailout charity.

  69. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Now this is just too cool; 1954 Mercury dashboard…..

  70. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    When you donate to the STOP THE SHEJACK fund, don’t forget the Bonecrusher legal bailout charity.

    😀

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I found a $5 bill in the washing machine.

    Like, dude, I’m rich!!!

  72. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #50 Shannon

    I’m leaving out somebody.

    Really?

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So sorry, my friend.

    I plead dementia.

  74. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    MHarp, you can vote in city elections? When we lived in Woodland Trails off Fairbanks N Houston we could not.

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Alright!

    They caught the hit-and-run killer of the Houston postal worker.

  76. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #64

    Tim, I am close to Tidwell & Antoine in near northwest Houston, well within the city limits of Houston. I had started voting at the Lone Star College on Victory, but they are crowded with one small room to vote in, so it is tedious there. Last time I voted I drove further north up Antoine to the Eisenhower High School, which had lots of space but wasn’t crowded at all.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have never bought a pumpkin.

    Ever.

    Doubt I ever will.

     

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