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Weekend Christmas Shopping List Open Comments

I went looking for weird stuff to buy on Amazon, because this crowd would probably not only appreciate such a list, but may actually enthusiastically embrace it.  Here goes:

Multi-colored toilet bowl light  Kinda like disco for the bathroom.  Who wouldn’t want that?  I mean, over 10,000 people like it so far!

Ice cream lock – protect what is really important to you!  Lock up your ice cream and you won’t have to open your gun safe because of your roommate with boundary issues.

Dirt cologne – For when you tell your wife you were in the back forty but were really elsewhere.  You don’t have to stop with dirt, though.  Other scents include Paperback, Mildew, Kitten Fur, and Condensed Milk.

Ostrich travel pillow – Ummmm, no thanks.  It looks too weird to put on my head.  Although it may clear the seat next to me, other available seats pending.

Edible seasoned grasshoppers – The WEF is behind on this one, as the description says they’re a delicacy in Oaxaca, Mexico, and called chapulines.  It seems they go well with beer.  I’ll take their word on that one.

Flatulence filtering underwear – Guys, if the wife gets this for you, she’s trying to tell you something.  Hint: Just say thank you and put them on.

Bob Ross Waffle maker – it seems that the kindly, gently speaking gent with the “happy little trees” has a bit of a cult following.  Who wouldn’t want to eat his face?  Oh, wait, that didn’t come out right…

Dinosaur taco holder – ’nuff said.  Who wouldn’t want a triceratops with a taco spine?

One pound of fake body fat – in case you need motivation.  Or an anatomy lesson.

Banana wine bottle stopper – for those who truly enjoy getting drunk instead of being serious about their wine

Insect catcher – Since I can’t squish anything other than a mosquito without gagging, this might actually be for me.  Catch and release isn’t just for fishing any more.

Giant Gummy Python – This just begs the question: Why?  Eight feet and 27 pounds of gummy candy in the shape of a snake?  Again – WHY?

Hamburger Flash memory stick – Well, it would be easier to locate on my desk, anyway.

Bone shaped pens – perfect gift for the med student.  Maybe.

Finger Hands – Yes, little hands to be worn on each finger.  For when a simple wave good-bye isn’t enough.

“I Could Pee on This” book – It has a cat on the cover, but I think it covers dogs, too.  I wonder if it contains poems about little boys?

Potty Putter golf game – For those long, constipation sessions.

Well, that should get ya’ll started on your shopping list!

 

 

 

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96 responses to “Weekend Christmas Shopping List Open Comments”

  1. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Prayers for you and your folks, GJT.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    52 degrees here this morning and we may get some rain tonight. The weather guessers aren’t in agreement on how much since one computer model says the weather is coming right through here and the other has it further east. I’m betting on the latter since it’s most often right.

    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So GJT, did you know or remember that Smokey Yunick was a big fan of the Hudson Hornet in the 50’s?
    Inside the Fabulous Hudson Hornets, 1951-57

    Introduced in September of 1950 with the rest of the Hudson model line, the Hornet was based on the deluxe-sized Commodore and its 124-inch wheelbase Monobilt platform, but with special exterior trim, interior appointments, and H-theme Hornet emblems. Three body styles were initially offered: a two-door Club Coupe, a four-door Sedan, and a two-door Convertible Brougham. At mid-year a trendy Hollywood two-door pillarless hardtop came along. Above, three stylish ladies at the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan admire a Hornet Sedan. In its first year on the market, the Hornet became Hudson’s most popular model with nearly 44,000 sold. The price was $2,568, identical to a Commodore Eight.

    Of course, the Hornet’s truly special feature was its engine, the mighty H-145. Hudson lacked the financial resources to develop a modern overhead-valve V8, but it did have plenty of machine tools and know-how to suit the venerable flathead six. So the H-145 was essentially the old 262 CID Super Six bored and stroked to 308 CID and with some careful improvements. In baseline form the Hornet six was rated at 145 horsepower and 275 lb-ft of torque—more than competitive with the state-of-the-art Olds Rocket V8, which boasted 135 hp from 303 cubic inches.

    Thoroughly over-engineered in the Hudson tradition, the H-145 boasted a high-chromium-alloy block and other premium features, and in mid-1951 the famed Twin-H version appeared, first as an over-the-counter dealer kit and later as a regular production option (1952). The Twin-H Power setup (shown above) included a pair of Carter carburetors with greater throat area and improved fuel distribution, and was eventually rated at 170 hp. By far the biggest six on the U.S. market in those days, the H-145 could be mated to a three-speed manual or General Motors Hydra-Matic transmission ($158 extra).

    And

    As much as anyone, these three racers put Hudson on top in the early days of NASCAR, from left: Drivers Marshall Teague and Herb Thomas and mechanic extraordinaire Smokey Yunick. Teague won seven NASCAR events driving Hornets, including the Daytona beach races in 1951 and 1952, while Thomas and Yunick teamed up to crush the NASCAR field in 1953-54, winning 24 times in 71 starts, including the 1954 Southern 500.

    Emphasis mine.

    FWIW; If you didn’t know Smokey Yunick was a mechanical genius. He figured out that when Hudson stroked the Flathead 6 it created a bad rod angle so he moved the crank in the block, well until he got caught. Of course all drag racers remember his 7/8 scale 66 Chevelle he made to get a little less drag. And yes he got caught again.

     

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #3 is in the Spit Bucket. With 2 links I figured as much but maybe a moderator will drop in before too long. 😉

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Every plumber apprentices dream…

    😀

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just dropped in and I now see my #3 is freed up. Thanks Mr Moderator. 😉

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m waiting for the Democrats to start rolling out “medical experts” to say Senator John Fetterman actually did suffer serious brain damage from his strokes.  The fact Fetterman said he is not a progressive as he confirmed Republicans are right about  the border will be obvious proof the man’s brain is out of order according to these medical dips**ts.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It ain’t Fetterman, its the lump that is so intelligent, kind of like Cuato on Total Recall.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Not only have we seen the elite universities of America build bonfires on their campuses to cremate their own reputations, but the entire modern feminist movement born in the 1950s has been exposed as hollow to the core.

    #MeToo caved in on itself because it was built on falsehoods and hypocrisy.

    The feminist spokeswomen, feminist leaders and all but a handful of female politicians have remained silent throughout the national mental health crisis of transgenderism.  As our high school and college girls athletic competitions are utterly corrupted and turned into farce, the same women have been silent as hundreds of women in Israel were tortured, raped and murdered.

    The women presidents of Ivy League schools are but the “cream of the slop” of this current Feminist Movement.

     

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Dr. Philip Dybvig, wrote this:

    ‘‘I realize I have been too pure. I assumed that a lot of people shared my dream (expressed for example by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King) of ending oppression. However, the dream of most people (especially but not exclusively the oppressed) seems to be becoming the oppressor. This is why there is a strong correlation between abusers of children and people who were abused as children.

    Claudine Gay has power now and she is the oppressor of any group not favored by her and other people in power. This is a common pattern in governments heading for totalitarianism. First, say you represent the oppressed. Then you get power and oppress non-favored groups. This leaves you in a morally indefensible position that could not survive given free speech, so you do what you can to destroy anyone (“counterrevolutionaries”) who disagrees with your narrative.’’

    I agree with David Strom when he says the following.  Claudine Gay was doomed in DC for her testimony and was only saved by the clueless and gutless Harvard Corporation board who was terrified of, well, being called racist, sexist, caving to the mob, anti-DEI, mean White People and canceled donations from hard-left billionaires.

    I may be among the few who think Claudine Gay’s head is still on the chopping block.

    Harvard’s Corporate Board may have expressed unanimous support for Gay, but it’s pretty clear they did so mainly because they didn’t want to appear weak in the face of donor and political pressure to dump her. They likely also feared that Gay would make a huge stink, likely accusing them of racismsexismblahblahphobia because that is her whole shtick.

    They will wait a few months for this to fully fall off the media radar once the election hoo-hah heats up after New Year’s Day.  Gay will quietly resign and that will be it.  They will find another idiot woman to replace her.

     

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have a busy day and I’ll be gone till sundown.

    Y’all be nice now, ya’ hear.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Before I go…

    Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.  Most of what people know about it is nice historical myth.  Every nation has their own myths, tall tales and heroic adventures.

    The truth is that the tea tax lowered the cost of tea and few colonists in the dead of winter dressed in Native American garb.

    It wasn’t unique for the American colonists to dress as Native Americans to protest various British policies. The Boston Tea Party, which happened 250 years ago on Dec. 16, 1773, was just one in a long line of appropriating Native American dress to be perceived as courageous and creating their own American identity.

    There have been a lot of myths and falsehoods that have grown up around the Tea Party. The act of vandalism was not supported by the elites or most of the colonists for that matter.

    Indeed, throwing £10,000 worth of tea over the side of a ship was a shocking display of lawlessness that eventually led to the closing of Boston Harbor in order to prevent any such outrageous conduct from happening again.

    and this very important fact,

    Perhaps the biggest myth surrounding the Tea Party was the reason for it. The Boston Tea Party was not a demonstration against high taxes on tea. The taxes were actually a corporate tax break passed by Parliament that lowered the price of tea for Americans. That was by design. The crown figured that Americans would gladly pay a lower price for tea and thus fill the royal coffers with taxes. Recall that the Intolerable Acts had all been rescinded except for the single tax on tea.

    The colonists who threw the tea into the harbor knew that if ordinary people ended up paying the lower price for tea and thus paying the tax, their argument of “No taxation without representation” would be moot and the crown and parliament would have made a critical point.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Read this story.  There will be a pop test later.

    Mazi Melesa Pilip is not your typical Long Island Republican. She is not, in fact, your typical anything.

    Currently serving as a Nassau County legislator from Great Neck, Pilip has been nominated by local Republicans to run in the February 13 special election to fill the congressional seat vacated earlier this month when the House voted to oust serial fabulist George Santos (R-Nowheresville).

    and,

    See what I mean?

    Gun nuts — my kind of people — reacted a bit differently. “Like having a full hand of wild cards in Uno. With a grenade launcher,” quipped Dana Loesch. 

    Pilip won her office in 2021, defeating four-term incumbent Democrat Ellen Birnbaum by seven points. Now I might not know much about Nassau County politics, but I know what I like. She’ll square off against former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove).

    The GOP’s Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC) Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) said that Pilip “is a formidable candidate with a unique biography: a former IDF paratrooper and mother of seven.” My grandfather would have called her, with all due respect, “one tough broad.” That’s one reason I prefer to quote my grandfather over anyone at the NRCC.

    Mazi Pilip is the kind of woman who should be president of Harvard, not some morally lazy identitarian hack like Claudine Gay.

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Thanks all for the thoughts and condolences.

    My brother, sister and I met up last night at our brother’s to go over arrangements for our dad’s memorial service, looking over old photos and remembering stories. The three of us have become quite the veteran team beginning with handling our aunt’s affairs in 2021 after a stroke, navigating her through rehab then moving her down here into an assisted living facility from Lubbock, selling a rent house she had, clearing out her horribly hoarded home and selling it, made decisions on the family farm with a hundred history and selling it, then ultimately handling her funeral and burial at the end of that year. Six trips in all back and forth to Lubbock that year.

    Last year in April we lost our mom, handled her affairs and since, mostly by my sister and her husband, handled our dad’s business as mom had always took care of the financials. Soon, we will begin the process of clearing and selling their home in Spring Branch. Fortunately, they were fairly organized and it won’t be horrible dealing with junk, though there is a fifty two year collection of stuff. Just quickly going through things, there were actually empty drawers in chests – who has empty drawers??

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Eldest Sis handled her MIL’s closings, and was executrix for Mom and Dad then Beloved Fluttery Aunt.  When my unmarried brother in California asked if she’d do the same for him, she gave him an emphatic “NO!”  She was tired of the schtick and the responsibilities, and the family bickering already.  Add the distance factor and it was just something she was not going to take on.

    It can be a time of strengthening family ties, or a point of contention.  It sounds like you got the better one of the two options.

     

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    EXCESSIVE ☙ Saturday, December 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Since the Childers family is headed toward a few days of holiday traveling, I hope you enjoy this pre-recorded Coffee & Covid to tide you over and open up the comments. Today’s topic: Pierre Kory’s Hill op-ed on the great mystery and forbidden topic of our time: Excess Deaths.

     Possibly the most incongruous and truly baffling component of living in post-pandemic America is the media’s assiduous avoidance of the fact so many of our friends and families are dying at insanely-high rates. It’s obvious to everyone except people who don’t want to see, and apparently, the media does not want to see.

    Which is wild because normally the media loves a terrifying mystery death story even more than Arthur Conan Doyle. And this is the terrifying mystery death story of all time, like Arthur Conan Doyle multiplied by Michael Crichton. Oh, what a wonderful time reporters could have! Just imagine all the hair-raising quotes from experts of all kinds, all the morbid models about overwhelmed hospitals, the endless questioning of who could be next, the political goldmine of comparing rates of mystery deaths between red states and blue states, and so on.

    But nevermind! As far as corporate media is concerned, there are no excess deaths. Say it with us. For reasons about which we can only speculate, corporate media has a cognitive blind spot. Media acts more deliberately clueless about excess deaths than a teenager in a household with a new puppy and a “he who sees it cleans it up” rule.

    Still, there’s nothing surprising about that. But it was surprising when last week, The Hill smuggled out some truth by running an op-ed penned by heterodox covid doc Pierre Kory and investigative journalist Mary Beth Pfieffer, both of whom bucked the official narrative during the pandemic and have roundly criticized the shots.

    Of course, there’s more…

  17. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We found some possible good news yesterday, though we still need to verify. Our dad has bragged for years they did not have to pay any taxes on their home, that they were retired and exempt. We just knew he’d done some kind of reverse mortgage or entered into some kind of deferred agreement and back taxes would ultimately be owed. According to the tax and appraisal district offices yesterday, the home is free and clear and they have been 100% exempted since 2015!! Who ever heard of that? Our dad has been telling the truth all these years as we told him he was crazy lol.

    Oh, BTW, we found the deed and mom bought that house in 1972 for $14,700. Crazy. Fortunately, Spring Branch values have done well, though the house is in decent shape it will be sold if not as a tear down, certainly on an as is cash basis.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Another excerpt from C&C:

    According to Kory and Pfieffer, through September of this year, +158,000 Americans have died than over the same period in 2019. That’s more than died in a bunch of wars, put together. It’s more than a whole town. It’s a small city, wiped out in the first nine months of the year.

    And it’s worse than it looks. Deaths this year should have been well under 2019 rates, since so many sick and elderly people died in 2020-2021 from ‘covid,’ leaving fewer frail folks to die in 2022 and 2023. Which means the current excess is even bigger than it looks.

    Shocked? The CDC was. For some reason, three months ago in September, the CDC — the FDA’s sister, mega-funded public health agency —suddenly stopped updating its website tracking excess deaths. The website now blandly advises that its updates have stopped; it doesn’t even try to explain why. It doesn’t say where you can get the same information.

    Why? Because Science. Shut up.

  19. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Our dad has two biological sons, one still in Lubbock, the other has moved to the San Antonio area. There has always been a great relationship but for some very strange reasons they have both been AWOL during this time, haven’t even been checking on him much less coming down to help. Hopefully, we will not run into issues.

  20. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Going to be interesting how it shakes out, but San Antonio step brother owes back child support to his ex, over 60 grand, for his son who is forty years old now, AND, step brother lives with him lol. When the final disbursements come around, will the state grab it from him? Stay tuned…

  21. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang! Another day when by the time I have finished my little breakfast, I just feel like going back to bed for another hour or two. Weather has become my downfall — don’t like to be either hot or cold, but if I’m going to be outside, it’s always one or the other. At least little Billy Cat seems okay with the weather — he ignores everything, just as long as he gets fed.

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

    Hope it all works out for you GJT.

    I was in a similar but more complicated situation will wise.
    still on going.

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

    After a long drought I went back to FBurg Texas for 3 days.
    Here’s my review.

    there’s so many wine bars on main st now that the wine bars have wine bars growing in them.

    Dooley’s is gone. Was there 99 years.

    the original Christmas store is gone.
    as Hamous would’ve said the hipsters have taken over the Burg.

    country side is still beautiful. Enchanted rock still great.
    food was average.

    Driving back I was left with the feeling that George Bailey had never been born and Mr Potter took over and renamed it Pottersburg.

    on the drive up I couldn’t tell where Austin ended and Dripping Springs began.
    Austin gobbled it up. Super slabs of highway construction everywhere. Many more traffic lights in Dripping Springs, Austin.
    even had a traffic jam in Bastrop.

    and finally there’s this.

    chump change for that hoi polloi New Jersey fella I bet.

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

    Addendum.

    And Nimitz Museum is still a treasure.

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And Nimitz Museum is still a treasure.

    Yup and after 3 different trips I think a saw the whole Dang Thang. 😉

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Don’t forget to pick up replacement bulbs for your string of Christmas lights.  😉

  27. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #23 SuperDave – that’s all taken care of… Since our house disappears into the woods if not lighted up, we leave it that way and enjoy Baby Brother and SiL’s lights next door. They do the eaves, along the drive, and across the fence – looks very VERY festive and we didn’t spend 3 days putting them up, nor do we have to take them down and store them 😉

  28. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    On a  completely different note, Tedtam – I got the pineapple that was in a gift fruit basket peeled, cored, cut up, pre-froze and now into Nat.  I’m hoping that the Harvest Right estimate of 30 hours will be reduced by my having done the surgery on it last night and pre-froze the fairly small “niblets” I cut it into…  Of course, as I was putting away the instruments of destruction I used, I ran across an apple corer/sectioner that might well have aided in the “cut up” process taking something less than 6 hours – but who really knows LOL

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

    Addendum two.

    Forgot to mention FBurg also now has vape and cbd shops, pot leaf proudly displayed on shop sign along with hipster karaoke bars.

    Definitely not Kansas anymore.

  30. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Dr Phil, I remember when the most exciting/biggest draw in F-Burg was a donut shop – we stopped there on a field trip to San Antonio from Abilene… Of course, that was way back in the 1900’s   😉

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

    Of course, that was way back in the 1900’s  

    ha!

  32. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    nor do we have to take them down and store them

    I figured pookie over there would revert to his roots and just leave them up all year.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dr phil

    HEB has a deal on all Cabernet Sauvignon thru Dec 23.

    buy 6, get 15% off

    buy 12, get 20% off

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    20 Dr Phil Good

    Nothing in this neighborhood has sold for $1 million or more, but one of the ugliest early 1960s houses did sell a few months ago for $685,000.  Half a block away, a smaller 1930s era home, one story, 3 bdrm, 1-1/2 bath with no AC and oil heat sold for $585,000.

    There are also a few extra-large, stately, renovated 1890-1920 Victorian homes on big lots a few blocks from here that would probably sell for over a million, but none of them are wanting to sell.

    The highest selling house on our block brought $630,000 in the Covid selling spree.  People who were paying $5,000 to 7,000 a month renting New York City apartments were coming out here, 6 miles from Manhattan, and paying stupid money for houses during the Pfizer/Moderna/CDC/FDA induced hysteria.  They could get a mortgage for $3,600/month and live in a real home.

    Everything has now come to a halt.  This little town of 9,500 people used to have 45 to 55 homes for sale and now has maybe 5 or 6 with “For Sale” signs in the yard.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The weather is too pretty to stay inside so I just spent the afternoon hauling two large piles of branches out to the ditch since this coming week is heavy trash pickup. Hubby and handyman cut down three trees in our backyard a few months ago, and I still have two piles of limbs and branches, and three tree trunks that are still in pieces laying across the yard. Those will have to wait for another day, cuz I don’t think my back and my knee are going to take much more.

     

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    25 bsue54

    I got the pineapple that was in a gift fruit basket peeled, cored, cut up, pre-froze and now into Nat.

    Yeah, rumors leaking from Cut & Shoot are that Squawk not only puts pineapple on his pizza but he loads up his chili with beans and PINEAPPLE.

    Your freeze-dried pineapple should make it even easier for him to commit heresy.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We’ve had Anthony Weiner posting photos of his genitals for teenaged girls, this married, dumb slut Dem candidate in Virginia selling porn on the OnlyFans site on the internet and now we’ve got a Dem Senate staffer posting graphic homosexual porn made in the Senate Judiciary Committee chambers.

    You have to wonder when people are going to get sick enough of this crap.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam @ 4:09 PM

    If Super Dave was a truly nice guy he would load that wood chipper and tractor on his trailer and come by your house to obliterate all that tree debris for you.

    It shouldn’t take much to convince an ADHD guy like Dave to do it on his next mad road warrior trip to Texas.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This looks like a lot of fun for $371.

    Rossi USA is rolling out a new single-shot break-action rifle uses both .45 Colt cartridges and.410 shot shells. The simple, reliable action of the new Rossi Survival Rifle, combined with the flexibility of using either a large-caliber centerfire pistol round and a small shotgun shell create a rifle that’s ideal for use as a last-ditch wilderness rifle.

    Built on the same tough action as the Rossi Brawler pistol, the Survival Rifle is a 16-inch carbine with a hammer-forged barrel that accepts either .45 Colt or 410 shotshells up to 3 inches in length. The single-action trigger is crisp and breaks to the rear with minimal stacking, allowing shooters to place that all-important single shot exactly where they want it.

  40. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I was right! I did need more sleep and I got it. No better way to snooze-nap than to have the 2 biggest cats purring alongside your pillow…

  41. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    30 shannon

    I believe that’s on top of the normal discount.

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

    30 uncklo

    thanks for the heads up but I got the wife well trained.
    she brought me home a sixer today from HEB.

    she knows what I like and for the price this is a mighty fine one.

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk has already warned about this and I believe these thugs will use this strategy again.

    Here is what we are in for with the 2024 Trump campaign and, at this point, probable victory next November.

    I like Mike Benz and his organization, Foundation for Freedom Online

    While the “Election Integrity Partnership” (EIP) was censoring millions of pro-Trump tweets ahead of 2020 election day, a team of high-level DC operatives in the “Transition Integrity Project” (TIP) were plotting a color revolution if Trump won fair & square.

    Existing senior officials at FBI, NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, Donna Brazile and Michael Steele, the former heads of the DNC and RNC, were plotting a civil disruption and nationwide chaos to paralyze the Trump administration from governing had he won in 2020.   The plan involved using all the assets of Black Lives Matter and its subsidiary groups to start sustained riots in dozens of cities across the USA.

    The plan was patterned after previous CIA covert ops in foreign countries to instigate civil agitations and riots intended to overthrow various dictators.  These people were going to execute a real insurrection against our own nation.

    This is clearly the most perilous time for the United States of America in my life of over 7 decades.

    This is only 7 minutes long.

    Mike Benz on Benny Johnson’s podcast.

     

  44. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Afternoon Hamsters,

    The miserable day yesterday gave way to a beautiful day today.  Windy and plenty of blue sky.  We barely made it to 60 degrees, and the wind, while not blowing hard, still has teeth.

    We once had a 10-acre lot in a very new subdivision in Dripping Springs in the early 1980s.  It was about a half mile off the main road through town going west.  Spouse was working in west Austin after a job change, and we looked to build a house and stable on it with plenty of pasture acreage.  Coming home from Fredericksburg last spring we turned down to see what the place looked like now.   The family who bought the lot built a beautiful home and stable on it.  The other lots in the subdivision were mostly built out.  And Dripping Springs has become a suburb of Austin, as the gap between them has closed with subdivisions.

    It would have been a lovely place to live had he not taken a job back in Houston and home instead of commuting for 4 years to Austin on early Mondays and back home on late Thursdays after work.  That all came about in the midst of the 1980s bad times, financial and otherwise. We could not sell our house in Richmond for a reasonable price and took it off the market after 2 years of the 4 he was commuting.  But he was employed in his field for which we were and are thankful still.  Lots of folks weren’t….

    So it was me and the horses during the week, with me working part time in the Med Center in Houston and had some help with the horses.  One of our mares was pregnant and likely to foal while he was in Austin.  And she did around 11pm to midnight when he was in Austin.  But her filly’s progress to birth was stopped with a front leg’s elbow stuck inside the birth canal.  Her head and one front leg were out and half of the other front leg was out but not budging.  It was too late to call the horse vet, not because of the hour but because of the situation.  Fortunately we had read articles on problems with birthing, and this was covered in them.  To spare the details, I managed to release the stuck elbow and pull that leg all the way out.  Then the rest of the filly came out much to the mother’s and my relief.  Got the filly up and steadied, wiped her dry, and got her to mom’s udder to drink the first milk that has all important antibodies in it only for the first day after birth.  Went to bed about 2am.  Mom and daughter made it fine.

     

  45. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Started the post above this afternoon and got sidetracked.  Thus the Good Afternoon above.

  46. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It shouldn’t take much to convince an ADHD guy like Dave to do it on his next mad road warrior trip to Texas

    You got that right! That would be fun, problem is I don’t have a trailer for my tractor. It would fit on my 14′ trailer but it only has a gross weight of 3500 LBs. I’ve thought about getting a dual axle trailer but the tractor place in Brundidge will come and the Kubota with their big 3500 Dodge truck complete with a tilt bed.

    That reminds me, I need to get them to do the 200 Hr service on it. And yes it has 243 Hrs on it but I wanted to wait until the season was over and they have some slack time.

  47. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat @ 4:40 PM My wife has one just like that but it only shoots 3″ 410’s (low pressure 12,000 PSI). The new Rossi is designed to handle the higher 45 Colt pressure about 18,000 PSI. Humm maybe Santa noticed the little Rossi.

  48. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just like I figured that tropical disturbance is hitting the Big Bend area of Florida so we’re only getting a little rain, .18″ in the last couple of hours.

  49. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #40 Adee that’s a great story.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue – good luck on the pineapple.  If it’s anything like my cherries, they’ll take a frustratingly long time to process. I’m never doing cherries again.

    But today’s load is strawberries, meatballs, and I’m trying out riced cauliflower to see how it does.  RC sucks in Fred, so it’s either fresh or frozen unless Elsa can work some magic.

  51. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’ve finally had to stop reading DrudgeReport.com. I was still trying to pick through the garbage and see if there was anything there worth knowing, but as of tonight I am done.

     

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    40 Adee

    When I was young and working around cattle and horses, I was the tall, skinny kid with arms long enough who always got drafted to reach into birth canals and free up problems with birthing calves and a colt or two.  I have been there.

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

    yo

    uncklo

    never

    schtem-lo

    without

    an

    oboe

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

    C’mon you non-geritol taking geezers.

    you’re going to have to do much better than knocking off at 9:34pm.

    do I have to carry this place all by myself every Saturday night?

    I expect a raise and double the Christmas bonus than the rest of these hosers mr Jersey boss fella.

  55. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Good morning all y’all.  Time for coffee.

  56. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Good morning Texanadian, hows the weather up there?

    Oh and Mornin’ Gang

  57. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I ordered the boy and his bride their Christmas gift, a batch of Texas Tamales and I finally figured out how to use my bonus points. 4220 points = $42 bucks off my $300+ order oh and free shipping of course.  They offer free shipping on orders more than $120 and since my order is always close to that and expedited shipping is expensive, I’d be stupid to not get it. BTW; The tamales come frozen solid.

    BTW; I figure the minimum on “Free Shipping” will go up and I’m surprised it hasn’t already it’s been $120+ ever since I started ordering from them, about 5 years.

  58. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Pretty darn good for this time of the year. Just above freezing during the day, mid 20’s at night. It has been a terrific fall so far.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #53 Texanadian, OK, sounds dang cold to me but everything is relative.  Just throw another log on the fire. 😉

  60. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    With both my tractor mower and John Deere rider broke down, and too much going on to fix right either now and four inches of leaves on the ground my son brought his new badazz Bad Boy zero turn mower over last night so I can get the yard did for Christmas. I get to play today, I’m so excited!

    Don’t really know what he meant by “Dad it’s got nine hours on it and not a scratch” as he was leaving. 😀

  61. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    “Dad it’s got nine hours on it and not a scratch” as he was leaving.

    I can’t imagine he ever heard anything similar growing up LOL. Funny how it goes around.

  62. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Dooood

    Aw c’mon man, he’d have never heard such a thing!

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Good morning, my name is Ellie Ruth and I am named after 2 of my great-grandmothers.

    I’ll be there in 18 days.

  64. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Don’t really know what he meant by “Dad it’s got nine hours on it and not a scratch” as he was leaving.

    And

    I can’t imagine he ever heard anything similar growing up LOL. Funny how it goes around.

    BAWHAHAHA!!! Yup, I can even her the boy telling his kids; “close the dang door I’m not air conditioning the whole neighborhood”.  😉

  65. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat @ 8:49 AM we can’t wait to see her when she arrives.

  66. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Super Dave

    Reports from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) show that 716,948 Californians moved to another U.S. state or territory between 2020 and 2021. In that same time, 385,188 Americans moved into California — making California’s net population loss 331,760 residents.

    And those people took $29 billion in taxable income with them — or $183,737 on average. Meanwhile, those that moved into the state earned much less at $87,000 on average.

    This outfit seems pretty good and might be of interest to your son on the West Coast.  He may very well know about them already.

    Ordinary citizens from all walks of life are funders and supporters of Reform California. In fact, Reform California has grown into one of the largest grassroots advocacy organizations in the country.

    • Contributors: Reform California represents a grassroots army of over 50,000 donors who give an average of just $67 per year in small contribution levels.
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    • Subscribers: Reform California has over 500,000 subscribers that receive its podcasts and news alerts on state policy issues and politics.
  67. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Good morning fellow couch critters.  Crystal blue clear sky, very little wind, about 50 degrees and I am cooking up a batch in the garage, with another one waiting.  I’ll be at this for most of the day.

  68. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat I’ll mention Reform California to my son but he’s hoping to escape from the Peoples Republic of California in a year or so. You never can tell where opportunities will pop up but with the companies growth there are new areas opening up. FWIW; It’s hard to believe that he moved there in the fall of 2019, six months after I retired.

  69. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Automobile, (not car) Porn;  1960 Pontiac Bonneville Dashboard.

    Beautiful! Check out the cigarette lighter to the right of the wheel just left of the ashtray. 😉

  70. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I have an agave growing in my front flower bed that has decided to sport quite the flower stalk.  The top is 8 feet from the ground and it is still growing, the stalk is approx 3″ in diameter where it leaves the plant. I actually got the tape measure out so that I would not overstate its stature or girthiness.  It has flower ‘budlets’ coming off the stalk all the way up.

    Not something that we see in Houston every day.

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    65 Bonecrusher

    Tired of making whiskey ?  What does it take to make Tequila in your garage ?

  72. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well I finally got that bathtub faucet fixed, no more dripping.  😀

  73. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang! Sudoku completed w/o errors, still working on my big Sunday coffee, and planning to go run some errands as soon as I finish my breakfast. One destination will be Office Depot on the North Loop, as I am in need of printer ink. I wasn’t sure they were open on Sunday, but I found them online and they will be there till 6 pm, so that’s a lock. Later, y’all!

     

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Professor Sal has been posting almost daily.

    As many expected, Red Sea Convoys are going to happen…

     

  75. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #66 TP:  Agave nectar.  I have an idea as to how it will ferment, however, I have no direct experience with it.

    The next question is: how to finish? Toasted oak or perhaps carmelized sugar maple wood, or simply right out of the pipe?

  76. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just got off the couch, pulled an MHarper and laid down for a nap.  No kitties, though.

    I finished my latest crochet project while at breakfast with Hubby this morning – a very pink baby blanket, round.  I tell ya, if it’s a boy that gets wrapped in this thing, it’ll be a girl coming out!  Anyway, I was able to donate the blanket and two rosaries at church this morning.  That was a good feeling, knowing that some little one will be wrapped up in something special this Christmas.

    Then I got to hug/kiss ten of “my kids” at church this morning.  Toddler Emily will now run to me and hug me, and her baby sister Eleanor (not yet a year old) gave me the most beautiful smiles today.  I handed off Christmas gifts to parents Erin and John and had a good conversation with them while we waited for the sons to finish unvesting and coming out of church (they just started serving as acolytes about a month ago).  Mom and Dad are very excited about opening their FD goodies – ice cream and cherries, I believe. There’s another family that has five girls which I hug every time I see them, but I don’t connect with them nearly as often, so I have a hard time remembering their names.  I’ve gone several months without seeing them, but now a few of the girls are in the schola (choir) so they’re there more often.  But they remember me, and I got the *best* hugs from them this morning.

    Then I came home and the bag monster grabbed me and threw me down on the couch.  I had plans to be outside in this beautiful weather, but I think I’ll settle for finally getting my Santa Clause collection put out.  I have dental bone grafts this week, and I may not feel like moving around much in a few days…for a few days…

    Hubby’s car club delivered Christmas gifts to needy families this morning.  He always enjoys that; he loves giving to those kids.  I missed it because of  my church schedule, dangit, but he came home smiling and happy.

    It’s been a good day so far.

  77. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Considering as how I worked until I was 69 years + 2 months of age, I earned all of my naps after I retired. Actually, I don’t remember now what it was that would change on my 70th birthday — some benefit that I could receive up until that day, but not a single day beyond that point. But it seemed simpler to just not work beyond that point. So, physically I could have worked some number of months longer than I did, and the guys I worked with would have welcomed it, but… I had been waiting for 4-5 years to get new knees.

    I limped a bit for those 4-5 years of working with useless knees, and each knee took almost 6 months to be fully operational after each surgery. Best thing that ever happened to me after age 60.

  78. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue

    Riced cauliflower: it looks loads better coming out of Elsa rather than Fred.  Cover it with parchment paper, though.  It looks I got a little snow flurry inside of Elsa.

    Meatballs:  Wal-Mart Great Value Italian Meatballs, cut in half, FD nicely.  I may have to hide these from myself, since they taste great as a snack.

    How’s your pineapple coming?

  79. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Never operated a zero turn mower before, what an awesome machine! Didn’t take long at all and I was zipping around trees doing 360’s everywhere (I have a lot of trees), getting into places I’ve not been able to get to before.

    I need a longer straw though. IYKYK. 😀

  80. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sounds like the Nashville football team got embarrassed wearing the Luv Ya Blue uniforms. Blasphemy!

  81. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    73

    Yes! And with half of our team out with injuries.

    Screw you, Ms. Adams. I hope it hurts.

  82. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby came home just in time to help me put my Santa display up.  It goes a lot faster when I don’t have to get up and down to unwrap my figures.

    Then, since I was making chicken stock, we had chicken vegetable soup for dinner.

    Time for Latin.  Sum discipula Latinae.

  83. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Didn’t take long at all and I was zipping around trees doing 360’s everywhere

    Yahbut can you go full speed in reverse and in a straight line? I can but that did take me a while. 😉

  84. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Biden’s motorcade was hit by a car. h/t CFP

    The car, a silver copper sedan with Delaware plates being driven by a black man at the wheel appeared to his the SUV that was shielding the motorcade at the intersection across from the entrance of the campaign headquarters. 

    Well, this is awkward.  I guess if it’s a black guy who hates the meat puppet, they’ll slap a MAGA label on him and then it won’t be so awkward.

  85. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Pineapple turned out great – 2 quart jars pretty full… It was a pain to cut up – but now that I’ve found that core-er/sectioner I might consider doing more, if I find them on sale. It took 28 hours to get good and dry.

  86. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby’s never let me on our mower.  He loves that thing.  So does Handsome Son, which is a good thing.  That’s when I usually see him, when Handsome comes to borrow it for his yard.

  87. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I watched Mark Levin’s show tonight and he made a very good point about Biden’s impeachment. That is that all the grifting and money laundering with our foreign enemies is important but hard for the low information voter to understand connecting all the dots but Biden’s total disregard for the border and willfully keeping it wife open is an easy impeachable article 1, second would be using a half a trillion dollars of tax payers money to pay off student loans with the approval of the House. And third would be financing our enemies; Russia and Iran. Article 4 can be the Joe/Hunter crime family BS.

    FWIW: Not long after Biden was elected I stated that the open border was easily enough to impeach Biden and Sarge called me an idiot. That said I do miss ole Sarge. 😉

  88. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    The first meatballs I did took a long time… Next batch I cut half-way thru and they went a little quicker…. I’m not sure where the records from those batches are – I’m still not nearly as organized with such things as “you know who” on u-tube; but much better than I was…

  89. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #72 GJT You may be a real hot rod on that zero turn mower but I bet you don’t look as good on it as I do. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAAAM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   😀

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My HEB was blowing out a bag of 8 small honeycrisp apples for $1.72.

    I should have bought two.

    They’re like candy. But, then,  honeycrisps always are.

     

  91. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m going to have to watch myself with the FD meatballs…they made a good snack.

  92. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yahbut can you go full speed in reverse and in a straight line?

    Yeah, reverse is a work in progress for me yet.

  93. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We were out for a late lunch at Olive Garden this afternoon and brought home a lot to consume tomorrow.  It was the second OG restaurant in our area, with an attentive staff like the first one in Rosenburg and equally good food.  We live about halfway between the two locations and have dined in the first one over several years.  The second one is likewise a family-friendly place, and amazingly families with small children are doing very well teaching the kids how one acts dining out.  Rarely do we hear shrieking little kids in either place as parents get them under control fast and teach them how to behave when dining out.  Good for them taking the time to do so.

  94. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby and I were dining out one night when about five families arrived, kids dressed to the nines.  I figgered they must’ve come from some church or other formal event.  I was impressed that these kids, ranging from very young to young teens, were extremely well behaved.  The families were eventually seated in a large room together just before Hubby and I finished our meal.

    On the way out, I veered off into their room.  Hubby looked exasperated and made some kind of noise, but I kept going.  I entered their room and interrupted their conversation.

    Did I mention that they were all black folks?  They looked at me like “Who does this white woman think she is?”

    I apologized for interrupting their dinner, but told them that I was very impressed with the kids: they were so patient while waiting in the crowded restaurant, how well dressed they were, how well mannered they were, and how rare it was to find a group of young people who represented themselves so well.  I was truly impressed.  The adults broke into smiles and began applauding their kids, and I told them that it reflected just as well on the parents.  Bigger smiles, and I left.

    I hope that those compliments stuck with them.

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    U.S./ Mexico border rail crossings shut down.

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texans trolling the phony “Oilers” from Tennessee on Twitter.

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