The more I see of this guy, the more I like him.
Congressman @ByronDonalds destroys the #FakeNews media and exposes the two standards of justice when asked about congressman Bowman pulling the fire alarm, and the stolen 2020 election, then answers my question on the border security.
This is a great example of how bias the… pic.twitter.com/DnwSQo8xSL
— Ben Bergquam – Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News (@BenBergquam) October 27, 2023
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47 F, breezy, misty. That qualifies as cold for this native Houstonian.
He said Mesican, I don’t think you can do that. 😀 I do like Byron Donalds, he says it like it is. Too bad that most people will miss that interview unless they can cut N paste something that makes him look bad.
Mornin’ Gang
47 F, breezy, misty. That qualifies as
coldwinter for this native Houstonian.
Insert dreaded acronym here. 😉
60 here in LA and we’re going to have another fine day but they say we may be in the mid 30’s by Wednesday morning but that’s OK since we’ve had 2 solid weeks of lows in the low 60’s highs in the low to mid 80’s. I’ve got a lot of work done in these two weeks. The first week I completely cleared the dam of the little pond except for the “Robert E Lee Memorial Bridge” (huge oak tree that fell across the dam) and last week I worked on my drainage project behind the carport, I’m basically finished with it except it that I want to add a little more gravel, so today I’ll get 1500 Lbs, about all I can carry on my trailer and I should have some left over for my wife’s flower bed project.
Life is Good
Thug in Ref’s uniform smacks a coach. Thug gets hit with 2 felonies.
Texpat @ 7:49 AM That is very good and oh soo true. 🙁
Hubby left early so he could show our Bryan vacancy. I used to do that duty, but…knee. /sigh/ He’s found a neighbor who not only does make readies (so we may be using her services later), but she’s willing to do showings for us as well. It’ll be worth paying her to do them, rather than us driving 1½ hours each way. Anyway, Hubby is planning to be back in time to drive me to my dental appointment, which may culminate in the first of many extractions. I guess I should pre-cook some dinner for him, so he can have something to eat tonight. I’ve already stocked up on my FD chicken stock and liquid meals. And I bought some torture eggs for the frig yesterday. Scrambled eggs may also be featured in my diet for a few days.
I found butter on sale for $2.49/lb yesterday, limit 5, so I turned 2 pounds into ghee last night. I may do some more today. I have more shelf space than frig space, and I have pounds of butter stashed away in the back of that lower shelf already…
I remember when Aldi had it on sale for $1.87 two years ago, just before Thanksgiving. I was so excited, I bought a bunch and ghee’d it all up. They didn’t do it last year, and I was disappointed.
The whole butter episode brought back memories of what things used to cost. I saw a video recently of a guy going through Costco, who’d taken pictures of prices a year ago and showed them side-by-side with today’s prices. Shocking. Comparing today’s prices to those of five years ago would probably put folks into shock.
I’ve been watching old shows from 70’s and 80’s. Listening to them discuss things like car repair prices ($610 dollars to repair the grill?! [on a very fancy English import] I’m opening a car repair shop when I retire! or “It was only $132 dollars to repair the rear end damage.” ) really brings home the inflation that we’re dealing with today.
I look at my shelves and realize how much in today’s value is sitting on those shelves.
I remember watching Mom fill up the big van (we needed a big van to haul all of the offspring) on those old gas pumps where the numbers flipped. For some reason, 25 cents/gallon sticks in my head.
Of course, salaries were lower back then, too. IIRC, our house between Manvel and Pearland cost somewhere in the $40-$60K range, on two acres of land. Not sure where that number came from.
BTW – I like the “Rober E. Lee Memorial Bridge” thing. Made me LOL a little bit.
Tedtam @ 8:57 AM That came from the old Andy Griffith show. Briscoe Darling was telling Andy to get up to the hills before dark because the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge gets slippery at night. Barney looks puzzled since he’s never heard of that bridge and Andy tells him it’s an oak tree that fell across the creek. I find that funny and of course as an Alabama Redneck I can relate to it. We were always disappointed when high water washed away one of our natural bridges. 😉
Hubby just called to tell me about the two showings he’s had. One of them is a lady who was evicted – but won in court, so it’s not really an eviction – because her landlord allowed a roof leak so bad that mold was growing all over the walls and the moisture seeped into their clothes and belongings. He KILZed the walls and scrubbed the mold, and supposedly fixed the roof, but the next rain brought a new deluge. She moved out, into a motel with her daughter.
She is manager of a Cici’s pizza joint, so the lady is responsible, and makes enough money to afford the unit.
Hubby assured her that we take care of business and our tenants. Him being a plumber and having a handyman assures that future water problems will be taken care of.
I cannot believe what some landlords try to get away with. Treat your tenants fairly and things are much easier and less expensive.
Am wrong for having watched and enjoyed this clip 10 times? Palestenian fireworks.
Time for the C&C:
Good morning, C&C! It’s Monday. Your roundup today includes: A Halloween surprise as liberal media piles on the Big Guy; Biden blunders New Hampshire primary; Biden’s electoral horror show; Trump begins forming up the existential issue for 2024; lockdown professor seeks forgiveness; disheveled scientist Peter Hotez deletes poorly-considered tweet; the Hill basically dares Biden to go to war with Iran; General Flynn calls out blackmailed congressional pedophiles; Libs of TikTok de-listed by the Anti-Defamation League.
NEWS:
Biden Blunder #3,853:
The short version is, Biden — apparently personally — ordered Iowa and New Hampshire to stand down as the historic first two states holding democrat primaries, to make South Carolina first.
He wanted to reward SC, especially since he did poorly in Ioway and New Hampshire last time ’round. The Law of Unintended Consequences favors no man:
The “trick” was, the DNC said it would strip Iowa and New Hampshire of delegates if they didn’t go along. But Biden’s plan backfired. I bet you never saw that plot twist coming.
In a cowardly fashion, Iowa backed down. But the Granite State remained immovable. Live Free or Die! New Hampshire is steaming ahead with its early primary anyway, delegates or no, and leaving Joe Biden off the ballot.
Ruh-roh.
Seeing an opening, a Dem from Minnesota, Dean Phillips, is now running in NH, and campaigning robustly. Biden is doing his usual basement campaign, because…dementia, I suppose. Was it Twain that said it’s better for folks to think you’re an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it? Biden is using that as his campaign slogan, it seems.
Not one to leave a political weapon laying right in front of him, Phillips is campaigning on a razor-sharp political issue: returning New Hampshire to its place at the start of the democrat primary lineup. Needless to say, that’s an effective appeal to stoney Granite Staters.
In response, the Dems for Biden are trying to generate a write-in campaign. Yeah, good luck with that.
Pass the popcorn.
More Biden campaign wonderfulness:
Meanwhile, yesterday liberal mouthpiece Axios ran a story in a similar spooky vein, just in time for Halloween, headlined “Behind the Curtain: Biden’s Re-election Horror Shows.”
It’s an awful read and I won’t put you through it. But overall, the piece painstakingly enumerated all the many ways Biden is deeply unpopular, even with democrats. In the end, Axios was too chicken to criticize Joe and basically claimed President Peters is doing a heroic, effective job…
Axios still tries to claim that Brandon is doing an A-OKAY! job.
… but maybe Biden’s bad polling could have something to do with two major wars that are jamming us ever closer to the brink of World War III, letting terrorists flood the southern border, and causing our debt to increase faster than our gross domestic product? But what do I know?
Trump is the key and the stumbling block. Check out this nugget of political calculus that Axios said came from “top analysts” of both parties:
Trump is the only viable Republican that Biden can defeat. And Biden and Vice President Harris are the only Democrats that Trump could defeat.
… Biden’s gamble on Trump is either cunningly strategic or it’s the dumbest move they ever made, similar to how democrats crossed lines to vote for Trump in many states’ Republican primaries in 2016.
That one didn’t work out too well. We will see what happens this time. So far it’s off to a bad start.
Continuing the theme:
Biden is more or less writing Trump’s pitch to voters. It will be simple and compelling. It’s a literal existential issue: vote for Trump to avoid World War Three. Trump will argue, correctly, that no new wars occurred during his presidency, and that Biden is practically sprinting toward global thermonuclear war.
Mean tweets is a small price to pay for global stability. Trump is pitching “peace and security” as the main campaign issue.
All viable candidates must have a good answer to the WW3 question. Trump’s pitch will be his record. Biden has no peace pitch. What about the rest? This could soon be the only issue anybody cares about.
And the pro-jabbers are now asking for “grace and forgiveness”. Remember those “you deserve to die!” statements? The jobs lost? The total, callous disregard for the disruption of lives, civility, and economies?
Grace and forgiveness my ever-lovin’ patootie. As a Christian, I can find forgiveness for your stupidity and meanness, but grace? As a Catholic, I believe in atonement for sins – we have the concept of Purgatory, where even good people go to pay the temporal price of their sins before being clean enough to enter Heaven.
So introduces Professor Scott Galloway, who led the jab efforts in NY.
…Now, Professor Galloway demands grace and forgiveness — because he did his best under difficult circumstances.
https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1718153125125574695?s=20
This from the guy who said half of America had “its head up its a$$”. Lovely.
But now he wants grace, because they all did their best. On Maher’s show, Professor Galloway admitted:
“I was on the board of my kids’ school during COVID. I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect: I was wrong. The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risk. But here’s the bottom line: Myself, our great people at CDC, and I’d like to think the Governor, we were all operating with imperfect information, we were doing our best. But let’s have a little grace and forgiveness for the sh-t show that was COVID.”
Imperfect information? Professor Galloway wasn’t saying the information was imperfect during the pandemic. He was talking about locking up dirty unvaccinated people, and making sure they couldn’t earn a living: [insert mean tweet dedicated to the “great firing” of folks who refused the jab: “We have put people in prison for less”]
In case you are tempted to feel any sympathy toward Professor Galloway’s earnest plea for understanding, consider first that in the very same show, the professor didn’t give newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson any grace. In fact, the nutty professor called Johnson “David Duke light” because Johnson had said he had a Christian world view. Galloway’s below-the-racist-belt jab was too much even for Bill Maher, who chided, “I read today (Johnson) has an adopted black son. I don’t think David Duke would do that.” But then Maher joined the pig pile, calling Johnson “nevertheless, he’s a religious nut.”
This guy sounds like a winner on all kinds of fronts.
So what do you think? Does Professor Galloway deserve “a little grace and forgiveness?” Or is he an elitist, arrogant jacka** that should get fired and cancelled like all the innocent unvaccinated people who lost their jobs in New York while Galloway was cheering on the officious thugs from public health?
Gee, let me think…
An unexpected entry from the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department:
Over the weekend, I covered a related story, featuring another annoying, liberal, pro-mandate millionaire: the unkempt, nutty professor Peter Hotez. Hotez recently won the Anthony Fauci Award for Courage, and no, that is not a joke. On Saturday, Hotez lit a fuse on social media by tweeting about how so many of his colleagues were dying suddenly and mysteriously lately, arrogantly wondering if the deaths were caused by “overwork,” or “exhaustion.” You know, from working so tirelessly and selflessly for the ungrateful masses during the pandemic.
Because work! Work can kill you. Suddenly and unexpectedly: [insert confused and sad tweet listing his friends who’ve passed and encouraging others to take care of themselves]
Once he got some, well,, “feedback” on his tweet, he deleted it, S&U.
Legally, evidence of an intent to conceal something is admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt.
But set that fruitful vein aside for the moment. Combine Hotez’s earnest but 100% tone-deaf tweet fiasco with Professor Galloway’s request for “grace and forgiveness.” What they have in common is a race toward the bottom. Galloway is right, the pandemic was a total s-show, and it was Galloway and Hotez’s fault. It’s becoming undeniable.
Childers next opines of the Middle East train wreck of a foreign policy: he thinks that Biden will be dumping Ukraine in favor of Israel, thinking it’s more winnable. Zelensky will be disappointed, of course. His 15 minutes are winding down as is his war efforts. He is learning just how fickle public opinion can be.
Along those lines, the liberal Hill ran a wildly rabid pro-war National Security op-ed yesterday headlined, “Israel is beginning to cross the Rubicon in the Gaza Strip.”…
The article began promisingly enough, with a bold declaration about the Biden Administration’s abject failure, a sentiment that any of us could agree with:
Biden’s entire Mideast foreign policy is now in a complete shamble.
A truer word was never spoken, although I might quibble with whether Biden even had a foreign policy in the first place to go into a shamble…
Anyway, after that promising start, the article’s logic began flying off the rails faster than a pack of monkeys riding a merry-go-round. The Hill’s national security editors urged the U.S. to go to war with Iran, right now, or at least teach those crazy mullahs a lesson they won’t soon forget:
/snip
Biden needs to make it clear to Iran that any future attacks on American forces – the Pentagon estimates that at least 20 attacks have taken place over the last two weeks – will be met with devastating consequences, and that the U.S. will consider any attack by Iranian supported proxies as an attack by Iran itself.
“Devastating consequences?” What on Earth is the Hill thinking about? On the one hand, the liberal magazine is calling for peace talks and a ceasefire in Gaza. On the other hand, it runs op-eds basically daring Biden to instruct Iran on some “devastating consequences?”
Never forget: liberals are NOT peaceniks. They LOVE wars. They only embrace peace when it’s a politically convenient tool.
It was suggested by Scott Ritter, a commenter, that the $106B war funding request with a sizeable chunk dedicated to Ukraine, was a choke-provoking amount for Congress and designed to be refused. That way, the meat puppet could declare that the R’s got in the way of peace, donchaknow?
And General Flynn exposes what should not be exposed:
Whatever else you think about him, on a recent podcast interview, General Flynn accused some unnamed members of Congress, the House and the Senate, of going on “Code ‘L’” trips and becoming compromised by globalists, who blackmail the lawmakers because they had sex with children.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1718421142073917903?s=20
It seems no one is refuting the claims, just trying to ignore it. /spits
Finding “white hydrogen,” which is clean fuel source, is being found in the earth’s crust.
It is clean burning, producing only water vapor as its by product.
My question is: water vapor is the most dangerous greenhouse gas as far as climate warming goes. If we go to burning hydrogen, how will we process that excess water vapor to prevent MMGW?
Perhaps we could capture it and ship it to places who need it. Or have more babies and turn all of those people into “water reservoirs”. Just a few thoughts.
Hubby just called – looks like we have a good prospect for our vacancy AND one for the soon-to-be vacant unit as well.
It’s nice to have ’em lined up before we begin repairs.
I am going to post this expletive laden video clip because it is a sign that we normies, even in NYC, have had quite enough of the muzzy bs. Something tells me that this is not an isolated incident and those who openly side with the muzzy terrorists are going to be in for some painful times.
Morning, chickadees. I’m feeling sorry for Billy Cat this morning, because although he had his good breakfast under the breezeway, he may have to spend the whole day in the gazebo to stay dry.
Tedtam
When you consider the starting salaries out there today it blows the mind. When my parents got out of pharmacy school at UT in 1948, my mother made $250/month and my father as a manager $325/month.
They bought their first home in early 1952 for $6,100.
My first job at 11 years was 25¢/hour although I got a raise the next year to 35¢. When I was 30 I was general manager of a small company and making about $38,000 a year. I thought I was doing okay.
A semi-skilled 25 year old illegal alien construction worker in New Jersey makes at least $50K a year now. He can make $80K if he wants to put in the extra time.
I just read an article stating a large hedge fund on the East Coast is paying new grad trainees $19,000/month. These children don’t know anything and they are probably dumber coming out of college* today than when they went in. Why would anyone agree to pay a totally inexperienced 22 year old $228,000 a year to try and train them when you have no idea whether they will even be worth keeping.
With this much money sloshing around in the economy, it’s no wonder housing prices are absurd.
When I started babysitting at age 13, $1/hour was considered a good deal. I was ecstatic when my math teacher hired me. He started at $1/hr for one kid, and added 65 cents per each additional kid. He had four, including the baby who had never been without mommy before. I spent hours walking her around, trying to comfort her and get her to stop crying. I earned that 65 cents/hour!
If I have this right, teenagers are now earning $10 and up for the same thing.
My first job coming out of college was $16K/year. A few years later, Hubby and I were dancing ecstatically because I was about to get a raise to $26K with a promotion. That got quashed because the company had some silly rule about no salary increases over a certain percentage. We had to settle for around $21K, IIRC. We were still happy about that, since we were struggling to pay bills, having moved into our house by then. The house needed work and kids were coming. Every penny was precious.
Nowadays, $26K gets turned down by not being enough to live on.
One funny memory about the quashed raise: Hubby was working for his 2nd Daddy/Mentor at the time, doing plumbing work. Hubby’s father pulled him aside after hearing my news (when we thought I was going to earn $26K), and FIL asked Hubby if he was okay with me earning more than him/Hubby.
Hubby’s response was “She always has.” FIL shut up after that.
When Hubby told me about it later, we both LOL’d greatly.
I just heard on the radio that Matt Perry’s death is being investigated. Seems they found no drugs in his system? I assumed that he OD’d or at least relaxed too much and drowned. But if he was sober…
I’ll wait until I’m sure that’s the story. I’ve only heard it once.
Kurt Schlichter. Well worth the read, particularly when we examine just where we are in the BIG SCHEME OF THINGS.
LIttle kid, banging on the drums, with an orchestra.
I am livid. Israel needs to tell Biden to go to H E L L. Israel then needs to turn to God as they did in Old Testament days after they turned away from God. God is faithful for the sake of his name, he will defend Israel and give them the victory. Those animals in Gaza need to be buried under the total rubble of Gaza. Israel of all the nations of the world do not need Amerikuh or anyone’s help. They have God.
Genesis 12:3. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Because God never changes and his word is true I fear for Amerikuh. Biden is sealing our doom. Every time Amerikuh has stabbed Israel in the back messed with God’s land disaster has hit us, Hey Don’t believe me. Read this compendium of Bill Koenig’s well researched book Eye To Eye.
Keep pounding Hamas until the rubble bounces
I had breakfast this morning, then went back to bed. I had 3 cats piled in with me, and we all snoozed away for hours. Now I’m having a late lunch. It’s viciously cold outside, so it looks like Billy is holed up in the gazebo. I’ve given him 2 more small meals since I got up again.
Can you spot the fake Fetterman in this article’s photo?
So I’m going in to have this test done very early in the morning. Hopefully, I’ll be home by noon depending on the how many others are for the test.
It’s fascinating technology I didn’t know about until they did this test on me the first time in June when I was in the hospital. They put you under a general anesthetic for the test
What is transesophageal echocardiography?
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a test that produces pictures of your heart. TEE uses high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) to make detailed pictures of your heart and the arteries that lead to and from it. Unlike a standard echocardiogram, the echo transducer that produces the sound waves for TEE is attached to a thin tube that passes through your mouth, down your throat and into your esophagus. Because the esophagus is so close to the upper chambers of the heart, very clear images of those heart structures and valves can be obtained.
In other news, I have been so disturbed and angry over what is going on I’ve found it hard to even post anything.
I’m very, very concerned with what is going in this country and this world right now and I have always been the optimist.
TP 1831: I think I understand your position. When one considers where we are in the big picture, eternal scheme of things, with all the evidence available, it is maddening the degree of pig-headed stupidity our so-called leaders have demonstrated.
Bidet is remarkable in the same way as The Krugtron is: they have been so consistently wrong for decades and yet they still have not suffered in any way?!?
Look at all the death, misery, and destruction that has happened globally over the last 40 years; honestly assess the following: how much is due to the extreme but accurate interpretation of islam by its followers?
Tedtam @ 12:52 PM
Maybe you missed my comment yesterday. The fact Matthew Perry was even alive in 2023 is some kind of miracle that obviously left his doctors baffled.
I got sidetracked over at the Daily Mail looking for something else entirely. Matthew Perry had a highly addictive personality. He was so hooked on opiates at one point he was taking 55 Vicodin tablets a day and was down to 129 pounds. At 49 years old, Perry’s colon ruptured and doctors gave him a 2% chance of survival. He was in a coma for 2 weeks and then in the hospital and rehab for months.
That only happened 5 years ago.
He had 15 more operations to try and repair his digestive system. He also had COPD and possibly emphysema. No illegal or non-prescribed drugs were found and the last photo of him in public looked like he had become very heavy.
No wonder he had cardiac arrest and drowned. I can’t believe the guy was still alive in the first place. 55 Vicodin a day ? I didn’t know it was even possible.
It’s very sad he outlived both parents.
I meant to say “It’s very sad he was outlived by both parents.” His stepfather was Keith Morrison, the longtime co-host of Dateline on ABC.
Cause the prophets wrote about it
And Jesus spoke about it
And John got to take a look
And he told us what he saw then it’s easy to see
It’s goin’ by the book
Tedtam
I agree about Congressman Byron Donalds. I think he ought to be Majority Whip at least now. The man is too damned impressive to waste.
Squawk
The Truth Teller.
Love you, man.
Texpat
The fact Matthew Perry was even alive in 2023 is some kind of miracle that obviously left his doctors baffled.
I have to agree, I knew nothing about the dude except that he was on a popular TV show but now that he passed away we’re finding out he’s been committing suicide for 30+ years.
BTW; Texpat, good luck on your heart procedure. It sounds like a fairly easy test.
Well since I unloaded yet another load of gravel today I think I’ll hit the sack I’m wore out.
See y’all in the morning.
Well, no teeth pulling today. The root canal is schedule for mid-November, just in time for Thanksgiving! I’ll have to deal with the sensitivity and fragile feel of the teeth for a few weeks. My dentist. Dr. Gabriel, went over my care plan with me today. He talked to two specialists about my case. The first one said yank all the baby teeth and put in the new stuff. Second guy said to leave ’em, since they are still working, and deal with them if/when they fall out later. So, for now, three implants, several extractions, a root canal, and after all of that, an attempt to restore some of my front teeth that I’ve ground down during my nighttime grinding. I’m also getting fitted for a customized night guard.
I had a very fancy 3D x-ray done today, because the dentist/s want to be sure about the abscess before they start the root canal. They need to know exactly how big the abscess is, and how much impact it’s had on its neighboring tooth. The neighbor tooth is sensitive and both of them feel weak. They’ll try to save them, but we’ll see. I guess it’s good to know what to expect before one starts digging into someone’s gums. I’m also assured that root canals today are not as painful as they used to be. I’m clinging to that hope.
I took a hard pass on orthotics. I don’t think there’s enough structure to make braces safe, and the dentist agreed that it could possibly damage more than fix, though it would make room for some work that they’d like to do. And Dr. Gabe told me it would probably hurt, as they’d be trying to move the bigger teeth, and there would be more resistance. As long as I can chew, those back teeth don’t have to be perfect.
All told, I’m looking at about 6-8 months of dental work. It has to be done in stages: work, heal, evaluate, next step. The bill is big, but I expected that. It’s still considerably less than I’d expect at a professional clinic. Hubby and I have known this was coming, so we’ve been saving up for it.
Good news: the knee feels better today. I’m going to r-e-s-t-r-a-i-n myself so I don’t re-damage whatever I damaged the first time.
Oh, crap, I just hurt myself, stretching my leg out. dangitdangitdangitdangitdangitDANGIT
I was afraid I’d jinxed myself. I’d kick myself, but that would only exacerbate the problem.
Take the Hamas people and put them into one big warehouse, then play the Barney “I love you” song.
over and over and over and over…
The message will either sink in, their heads will ‘splode, or they’ll kill each other.
Either way, problem solved.
Texpat, good luck on the test tomorrow. May it go well and provide good news.
BTW – the story from Squawk’s #14 link is horrifying.
Shooting the father, because he’s an obvious threat and it tortures the wife.
Throw the baby into a hot oven to cook.
Rape the mother repeatedly, with unrestrained glee, as she listens to her baby screaming as it is cooked alive.
Those are not human beings, they demons. There is no way any human to take such joy in such agony.
Gaza needs a mass exorcism.
Deport every damned one of them. I don’t want them in our prison system either. They are poison to humanity.
the joined@thehipVampyreparties invited them in and continue to invite them in.
they are the Dr Kervorkians of the USA.
they’ve suicided the country to death via 40 years of non-stop immigration both legal and illegal.
it is the Vampyres religion.
Bring in millions upon millions of people who have no allegiance to the country and it will eventually yield you no country at all.
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