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Monday’s UFO Open Comments

This is totally unrelated and I don’t normally veer off into celebrity culture, but I always liked this woman who was the butt of jokes and mocking from the Hollywood gasbags. They wanted to portray Somers as the dumb blonde bimbo, but she was a long-time devoted wife, mother and astute businesswoman for many years. You never heard of Suzanne Somers entangled in lewd and lascivious common behavior of the current Tinseltown celebrities.  You can make fun of ThighMasters all you want, but she was raking in millions because hundreds of thousands of people bought them.  Women loved Suzanne Somers….they wanted to be Suzanne Somers.

She is 69 years old here and already 15 years into a 23 year battle against breast cancer.  She was tough and this woman had a lot of guts.

RIP Suzanne.

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46 responses to “Monday’s UFO Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Very nice tribute to a remarkable lady and I agree. It still amazes me how the left demonizes anyone who doesn’t think like they do and revere the ones that do. Compare Suzanne Somers to Madonna, no wait, that can’t be done, as different as night and day.

    Well @ 48 degrees it’s a bit chilly here in south Alabama and only warming up to the mid 60’s. haven’t seen that in  awhile.

    With that; Mornin’ Gang

  2. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I watched this clip yesterday, after I reported her passing. The woman played the blonde bimbette, but she was anything but.

    She didn’t wear her medical battles on her sleeve for attention, either. I had no idea she had been battling cancer for so long.

    I do hope she has peace now.

    As for me, I’m up early for my Ortho appointment. If you’re the praying type, if appreciate a few.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Ortho appointment

    So, are we to pray for the bugs?  😉 Just kidding, I guess it’s something to do with orthopedics?

    Prayers up.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Edward Blum’s group, American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), recently filed lawsuits against two law firms, prompting them to change the criteria for their fellowships. The group sent letters to three additional law firms this week — Winston & Strawn, Hunton Andrews Kurth and Adams and Reese — alleging their programs violate federal civil rights law and threatening to file lawsuits unless the companies similarly changed their fellowship programs.

    “To avoid litigation, the Alliance hopes these law firms will immediately modify their programs to bring them into compliance with our nation’s civil rights laws,” Blum said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “No student should be treated differently because of their race or ethnicity.”

    While other people are sleeping Ed Blum is making the legal apparatus of The Left miserable as he exposes their hypocrisy.

    LOLOLOLOLOLOL….

    Oh, but this is the cherry on top.

    AAER dropped its lawsuit against Perkins Coie Wednesday after it said it would allow all students to apply for its program, previously reserved for “historically underrepresented” groups. The group also dropped its lawsuit last week against Morrison & Foerster after it removed references to race and sexual orientation from its fellowship eligibility criteria.

    Perkins Coie is the sleaziest, most fundamentally corrupt gang of consigliere for the Clintons, the DNC and Obama.  Morrison & Foerster are not much better and lobby from K Street like all the best extortionists in the business.  They take great pride in the fact their website url is mofo.com.

    Ed Blum really is a great American.

    No one is so naive to believe these law firms won’t continue to violate the constitution and the law by discriminating against young Americans, but they have been put on notice and now have to cover it up.  When they get caught the next time, the courts won’t be so merciful since they were fairly warned.

     

  5. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    G’Morning, and prayers for TedTam’s knee (at least I think that’s the misbehaving part)…  for answers – and a plan to get things back under control… for SS’s family… and for the Astros to remember where they left their bats – maybe they need “hats for bats” like in the movie “Major League”… And it’s 52 here in the woods – likely was 49 or 50 when I got up but I was too busy trying to manage a crazy dog to actually look. Now she’s curled up quite contentedly against my leg, sleeping again (SIGH)

  6. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Good news. Nothing major, and I’m to burn my crutches. Pace myself and do some special exercises. If necessary, I may have to get a cortisone shot later. Ice will be my friend for a while, but I can exercise. I’m already taking the meds the doc suggested. It’s not ligament damage, as was suspected. Just a party of sorts going on under the kneecap.

  7. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #5 Tedtam – HOORAY!!!! PTL… Not that those unscheduled “rave” parties are any fun – but so much better news than it coulda been!!!!

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nobody wants to see someone else get shot and probably die, but there are those rare exceptions to the rule.

    I enjoyed this Hamas GoPro video in Kibbutz Sufa.  Damn the bad luck.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t know if anyone reading this has 401K or other financial accounts with Vanguard, but this is a heads’ up for everybody.

    Vanguard invests in Chinese military-linked companies: report

    Index providers, Western managers face growing pressure over Chinese investments

    HONG KONG — Top index fund manager Vanguard has invested in scores of Chinese companies that have links to the nation’s military or have been sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged human rights abuses, according to research by a bipartisan U.S. group.

    The $98.7 billion Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund has invested in the subsidiaries of 60 companies that are part of China’s military-industrial complex, according to the report by the Coalition for a Prosperous America.

    The group, which represents U.S. manufacturers, workers, farmers and ranchers, said the Vanguard fund had also put money into eight companies sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged human rights abuses in China’s Western Xinjiang region.

    Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) report is here.

  10. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    A chilly good morning, gang! I got a kick out of seeing Billy Cat eating a big bowl of breakfast on the patio, while 3 feet away, 2 pigeons and 1 dove were scoring on some corn kernels scattered around and left from last night. As soon as Billy finished and wandered off, I put out fresh corn-and-sunflower-seeds for the daytime peckers.

    2023 was so hot for so long that I can barely believe the wonderful cold we are getting now.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Kim is a Statutory Town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The population was 63 at the time of the 2020 United States Census

    A post office called Kim has been in operation since 1917.  The town was named after the novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

    As of 2014, the town included a complete school system (grades K-12), a post office, and a general store.

    That has to be a one-room schoolhouse with only 63 folks in the entire town.

    My father read Kipling’s novel about India titled Kim when he was a boy and liked it so much he decided if he ever had a son he would name him after the book.  He did come up with a more formal, extended version of the name though.

    I always wondered if my father might have seen this man’s similar name, Kemmons Wilson, the founder of the Holiday Inn chain, but he told me he never heard of him.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This was horrible.  This driver had the worst of luck.

    The driver of a semi truck was killed on Interstate 25 in southern Colorado when a coal train derailed late Sunday afternoon as it was passing over the interstate a few miles north of Pueblo. Interstate 25 remained shut down on Monday morning.

    The photos are incredible.  What a tragedy and a mess this is.  The cleanup is going to be something else.

    Where is Petey Buttigieg, the boy Transportation Secretary ?

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve finished all of the baby rosaries for the young’uns.  Now, I have to get Hubby’s dinner on a plate for him for later, gather some stuff, and get ready to head out for some errands.

    Now that I’ve been told I can use the leg.

    Freedom.  So sweet.

  14. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Would someone PLEASE return the team bus with the REAL Astros on it????

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Nobody wants to see someone else get shot and probably die, but there are those rare exceptions to the rule.

    Yup and this is definitely one of those exceptions. The Bastard got what was coming to him.

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good grief.

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bases loaded. No outs.

    No runs.

    Unbelievable.

     

  18. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #12 Shannon – been that way this whole series… HARRUMPH… Bah HUMBUG… yuck

  19. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    How nice it was my morning walk with the physical therapist up and down our long driveway 4 times in this lovely cool breeze.   I was at last cool enough to wear a long-sleeved shirt.  And having that wonderful fresh air instead of thrice-warmed air that limped over us before it finally got pushed out.  We’re supposed to enjoy this front until later this week.  Snoopy Happy Dance until the next front arrives a bit less cold.

    The PT supervisor is supposed to come on Thursday to assess my progress, and that is now more than satisfactory thanks to muscle memory from 40 years of horseback riding.  I’m near the end of this guided therapy and can do it myself from now on.  Think I will have spouse walk with me so I can soon try for 5 laps.  Knee discomfort is mostly gone unless I over-do, and that is the stop sign.  And the cool weather makes it easier.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Com’ on, guys.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Time for Chaz to connect.

    Arrrrrrrrgh!

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve had it up to here with Taveres.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been very busy with doctors’ offices,  a drug company and insurance outfits today.  It is amazing how these people can eat up your whole day as if they are the only with things to do in life.

    I don’t want to turn this site into a all Israel/Hamas news aggregator as much as the temptation exists.

    However, there is so much going on in this world at the moment I could have posted 40 times today if I had the time. The world is run almost exclusively by fools right now, inside and outside America, and we are on a tightrope over an apocalyptic Abyss.

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thank the Lord I don’t have to watch Pressley pitch again today.

    I may have made a mistake giving Fay’s nitroglycerin to Texpat.

  25. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    OMG, I am hopelessly senile.

    I had a medical checkup at UT Health (new location on the West Loop) today. Everything was fine so I was leaving at 4 pm to head home. Glad to get a small jump on the worst traffic on the West Loop. Well, I could not find my car where I was dead certain I had parked in the 2-block-long, 3 level parking garage. A building manager and a security guard spent 1 hour walking around with me, looking for it. We stuck to the half of the garage that I was SURE I had parked in, but eventually they talked me into trying the other half of the garage that I was SURE I had NOT parked in. And that is where we finally found it.

    Those 2 women were angels!

    I’m surprised I survived an hour of 5 pm traffic on the West Loop.

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Shut down at home.

    so what else is new?

  27. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    MHarper42 – I thought it might be worth sharing a tip someone shared with me when I was still parking at Hermann every day… I ALWAYS parked in the same place – on the rare occasion  I could NOT, I took out my phone, took a picture of the level sign and made the caption which garage… Just a suggestion…

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    That’s what I always do as well BSue, usually don’t need it but I’m always afraid I will forget.

  29. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    On that note:

    Utah NIL collective gifts brand-new Dodge Ram 1500 trucks to all 85 scholarship football players

    When I saw this story the first thing I thought about was 85 Dodge trucks in the parking lot, with only so many different colors, all these players out there clicking their remotes trying to find their truck. 😀

    https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/watch-utah-nil-collective-gifts-brand-new-dodge-ram-1500-trucks-to-all-85-scholarship-football-players/

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Today’s Texas Rangers pitcher Nathan Eovaldi is from Alvin, Texas.

    Even Nolan never mastered five different pitches.

    Helluva performance.

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    As a Senior, it is quite terrifying to lose your vehicle. It happened to me twice during the weeks that Fay was in Ben Taub Hospital. And always well after dark. I was commuting daily from Bellville and physically/mentally running on empty. Wandering around different levels of that parking garage.

    I bought my first carry weapon after that ordeal.

    The third night I locked my keys in the trunk of the Camry. That was an expensive mistake.

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #21 Bsue

    Thanks for the tip! It is scary that I was CERTAIN which half of the gigantic structure I had left the car in, only to finally find it in the other side. I can no longer expect my memory to get the job done.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If you can get it, great pitching always beats great hitting.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The new clocks on the pitchers and batters has really improved the game.

  35. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #26 – you’ll be surprised at how entering the info in your phone will help solidify it in your memory (ask me how I know LOL)… And that second garage there at MH-Northwest confused the heck out of everything over there – that one almost even defied my method because I went out the open side, I didn’t realize there were 2 side beside garages, that look just alike. Wasn’t sure which one I’d come out of.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    21 bsue

    I too have learned to do that.

    And though Patience has never been one of my virtues, I now will drive round and round for a long time waiting for a Handicap Space to become available, which are usually close to the elevator in a parking garage.

  37. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Our desktop weather station is showing rain for tonight and a low in the upper 40s.  We’re down to 58 already.  Put my hand on the window in the front door to check, and yup it is cold.  And that little window is double-pane.

  38. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    All the wind today really stirred up the pollens of every sort, so naturally the ragweed was the top of the list or second on the list.  First on the list was equally miserable. What a two-some that made.

    Kleenex to the rescue, and that makes me think about investigating Kimberly Clark stock.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    However, there is so much going on in this world at the moment I could have posted 40 times today if I had the time.

    That’s really bad because I went full Hermit today. Never checked CitizenFreePress or any other site, except Hamous. Never left the house. Didn’t even go up to the mailbox.

    It never occurred to me to see if the Astros were on until BSue mentioned it. I couldn’t believe they were on free TV again.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I never checked my email today, either.

    Man, that was a mistake.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Wow. Social Security emails that I’m getting a 3.2% COLA.

    Better than a poke in the eye with a stick, I guess.

     

  42. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Shannon – no need to check anymore… they won’t be on TV anymore this year   🙁

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve had a couple of brief “lost” experiences in parking garages.  But the worst episode in my life was at the Astrodome during the Livestock Show & Rodeo.  My 7 year old daughter was with me and it was one of maybe two of the coldest February nights I recall in my life in Texas.  We went to the livestock show and exhibits, but mainly to watch the National Cutting Horse Association Championships.  I had a couple of friends on the Committee and one who was a competition judge.  I had a Committee parking pass, but I forgot to bring it so I had to park way out on the west side of the main parking lot.  We were early and they were just then setting parking cones to designate the wide driving lanes to exit the lots.  I got a spot right on the end of the row by the drive.  Perfect.

    Anyway, she was seven and I was late thirty-something as we headed to my pickup truck.  It was a very long haul in the dark from the Astrohall about 11 or 11:30 at night.  It was so cold my teeth were chattering before long.  We walked toward the area where the long wide drive lane was and when we got there it had disappeared.  By this time, it was beyond bitter, somewhere in the mid-20s or lower and winds were at least 15 to 20 mph.  My daughter was tired so I picked her up and she rode on my back with her arms around my neck.

    I could not find my truck and I started to get worried (no, terrified) because I was becoming extremely cold and exhausted.  I finally realized the &8%*$#@ f***ing parking crew had picked up the cones and decided to fill in the driving lane with vehicles as if it never existed.  There was no one to be seen or heard – no parking attendants, no security guards, no police, no one in that jammed full lot.  It was very dark, no moon and I had been working since very early morning.  I was very tired.

    My daughter I realized later, only seven years old, began to sense my fear and fatigue and started to encourage me and say everything was going to be alright.  It was one of only a couple of times in my life I almost panicked. I finally spotted the truck.

    I’ve been damned cold up here in New Jersey and New York, but I never felt that kind of fear again in my life.

     

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I never understood the commentary about the Jardience singing plumper commercial.

    But it just ran on my TV.

    Pretty bad.

  45. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #37 Shannon – Squawk and I just realized that we haven’t seen her since we got the new TV hooked up – I guess there’s a special filter on Sony Bravia to prevent damage to the screen  🙂

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Approximately 250 protestors assembled Monday outside the BBC’s London headquarters over the network’s refusal to brand Hamas as a terrorist organization, The Times of Israel reported.

    Demonstrators chanted slogans like “Hamas, terrorists,” “Shame on you,” and attacked the network over their decision to label the group as “militants” or “militant group” rather than as terrorists, the outlet noted.

    Cool.

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