Ep. 62 If fossil fuels come from fossils, why have scientists found them on one of Saturn’s moons? A lot of what you’ve heard about energy is false. Dr. Willie Soon explains.
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(01:49) Fossil Fuels in Space
(14:27) Global Warming Throughout History
(25:31) Outside… pic.twitter.com/GMaDkDl8z9— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 9, 2024
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40 here and warming up to the mid 60’s so I can get some work done. It’ll take a half a day to pick up all the limbs here, at the farm house and on the trails.
Mornin’ Gang
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Texpat from last night;
The man has worked under incredible pressure for decades. Have you looked at him over the last two years ?
Nick is tired and you can see it in his eyes and the deep lines of his face.
I don’t disagree, I said I was surprised but that was because it was kept so quiet that I don’t think anyone saw it coming. But because of his age and record there has been some discussion in the last few years about him stepping down. I of course wish him well and just hope we can get a coach half as good as him. The boy called and said he was blindsided by the news but was happy that he got to go to the last Alabama game Sabin coached.
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Posted over yonder;
Most National Titles by a Head Coach.
OK the headline is highlighted in purple lets see if it works this time.
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Well dang my #3 linky worked! 😀
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SuperDave – congrats on your link-ey domination 😉
As for Sabin – I expect we’ll see lots of him as a commentator
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Well dang my #3 linky worked!
Even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and then.
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Ellisons to swallow the whale.
Larry Ellison’s son, David, is putting together the deal to buy Paramount, a huge entertainment conglomerate that has been a bite too big to swallow in the past. Nobody could, nor did they want, come up with the money to buy this humungous, sprawling corporate thing. Now Ellison says he wants to do an all cash deal. Mind-boggling.
Skydance Media CEO David Ellison and his backers are in talks for an all-cash bid for Paramount’s parent, National Amusements, Axios has confirmed.
Driving the news: Ellison is seeking financial help from Skydance investors including his father, Larry Ellison, with the intent of buying at least a majority stake in National Amusements (NAI) from Shari Redstone, according to a source.
plus,
- Any NAI buyer would control the future of Paramount’s assets, which also includes its studio, its famed Hollywood lot, streaming services Paramount+ and PlutoTV, a slew of cable networks, and broadcaster CBS.*
- Redstone has so far refused to break up Paramount. A buyer has never materialized for the entire company.
* My prediction on CBS may come true sooner than later.
and then you add this to the bonfire,
Amazon Is About to Eat the TV Universe
After all, people are paying Amazon for the fast shipping. Reacher and Thursday Night Football are thrown in for free. It’s a move that has marketers salivating and a few legacy media executives anxiously waiting to see what happens.
The move will instantly turn Amazon into a streaming-ad juggernaut, and the largest ad-supported subscription streaming platform in the marketplace with tens of millions of users, leapfrogging the likes of Netflix in the process.
Amazon, run by Andy Jassy, has always been coy about just how many Prime subscribers it has (the last official number, in 2021, was “more than 200 million”), but no one disputes that its reach is almost unrivaled. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that there are about 168 million Prime subs in the U.S. alone, as of 2023.
If just half those subs watch Prime Video content, it would be comparable to Netflix’s penetration in the U.S. (77 million) and significantly more subs than the likes of Hulu, Peacock or Paramount+.
This is not about whether you watch and subscribe to cable.
This is going to affect the way our economy functions because there is a whole lot creative destruction on the near horizon. If Jeff Bezos’ Amazon comes in and sucks all the oxygen out of the TV ads, something will have to give and nothing about TV will look the same a year from now – not sports, movies, local affiliates, news broadcasts (gag), movies or series on or off cable. Online streaming will consume everything and the players are lining up.
Turn on your local CBS station, KHOU, one morning and it has vanished. Paramount+ is streaming old reruns of Yellowstone with ads every 4 minutes.
Television ad revenue totals $67 billion a year, 50% of worldwide TV advertising. Total media ads in the USA run $343.44 billion annually. It’s a lot of money bouncing around the economy and where and how it is spent drives many things in our lives.
The subject most interesting to me is what happens to news broadcasting – old networks, Fox, CNN, MSNBC and the smaller guys like NewsMax and News Nation. I’m not much of a watcher myself, but their impact on politics and culture is undeniable.
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Tedtam
Fascinating stuff in that Carlson piece in the header.
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GJT if you’re lurking; “Air cooled Engine for sale” 😀
Come to think of it has GJT been AWOL for a couple of days?
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10 Super Dave
I don’t have enough J-B Weld to fix that one.
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A coalition of 17 state attorneys general are asking the Supreme Court to recognize parental rights in a case involving a Maryland school district’s transgender policies.
West Virginia is leading the coalition challenging a case involving parents fighting an appeals court ruling that found they did not have the right to sue Montgomery County Public Schools over a policy that allows teachers and administrators to transition children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
Plaintiffs in the case dubbed the guideline in question the “Parental Preclusion Policy,” which their lawyers with the National Legal Foundation argued was a violation of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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MCPS will charge Parents Defending Education $18,290.96 to obtain public records of correspondence about the district banning parental opt-out policies for its gender and sexuality curriculum, according to a letter released by the organization.
In response, Nicole Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education, stated: “In Montgomery County Public Schools, ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’ are dirty words, but the graphic sex acts that parents object to in their children’s books is completely acceptable.”
I know Ken Paxton has Texas on this list along with 16 other attorneys general. An amicus brief signed by 17 state AGs will get plenty of attention at SCOTUS.
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This is hugely important.
A coalition of 17 state attorneys general are asking the Supreme Court to recognize parental rights in a case involving a Maryland school district’s transgender policies.
West Virginia is leading the coalition challenging a case involving parents fighting an appeals court ruling that found they did not have the right to sue Montgomery County Public Schools over a policy that allows teachers and administrators to transition children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
Plaintiffs in the case dubbed the guideline in question the “Parental Preclusion Policy,” which their lawyers with the National Legal Foundation argued was a violation of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The coalition wrote in their brief that “‘…the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by the Court’ [is] the right of parents to direct the care and custody of their children.”
“Parents must have the right to ask for the courts’ help in securing the fundamental right to know what schools are doing with our kids,” the brief continued.
Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia joined the West Virginia-led brief.
I just pray the Supremes will grant cert and rule on this case.
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Over yonder I saw a post titled; The Best Sermons Are Lived Not Preached.
This was #4. Today, after I watched my dog get run over by a car, I sat on the side of the road holding him and crying. And just before he died, he licked the tears off my face.
Mercy somebody is cutting onions in here. 🙁
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- PUBLIC RELATIONS is an anagram of CRAP BUILT ON LIES.
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My #12 comment ended up in the Trash and my #13 comment ended up in Spam.
Sheesh.
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#13 comment went to Spam twice.
WP is really cranky this morning.
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Morning everyone. It is -22F here this AM, -30 tomorrow. We leave for Mexico on Monday. It is going to be nice.
No other news.
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Noam Chomsky was bar mitzvahed on Pearl Harbor Day.
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All the “27 year old reporters in DC who know nothing and all they have done is follow political campaigns around”.
(that’s paraphrasing)
This is stunning and everyone should watch the video Benny Johnson posted.
But the questions he asked the media on Wednesday were truly something else. He was talking with two state reps, and one of them wanted to know if that was any of the nationally media who believed they were wrong?
Vivek said that was a great question, and then he asked the assembled media that was there in front of him somethings I think we would all like to know from them.
First of all, there are no older, grizzled, skeptical, experienced reporters standing there. They all look like they’re a few years out of college. The message being major mainstream media companies don’t care to send serious reporters (if they even employ any these days) to follow the presidential campaigns. The MSM doesn’t care because they are going to publish their pre-canned stories already written back in DC or NYC anyway.
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Fauci just admitted to Congress that the six-foot social distancing rule was completely made up and had zero scientific basis. Incredible. So many people — scientists included — were completely ostracized, silenced, and prevented from even talking about the sketchiness of the rule. The public is right to be skeptical of any health mandates.
RFK Jr. responds:
More made-up science. If you doubted it back then, you were ridiculed as anti-science, censored, silenced. Now it becomes clear: “trust the science” really means “obey authority.”
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18 texanadian
Y’all are going to run off to Mexico and let all those little chickens starve to death ?!
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19 Squawk
There was some kind of warning there no one heeded.
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Best internet headline yesterday:
The Voters of Atlanta Are Getting Their Fani Handed to Them
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Good to see you texandian and Mexico should do the trick it’ll sure beat 30 below.
GJT glad you checked in we’d hate for you to miss out on all this wisdom. 😉
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Just got back from the way-too-early dental appointment. Today was a “make your head glow” day, including a panoramic 3D image of the entire jaw, a scan (to be discussed below), and an x-ray of the bone graft site.
The scan (I didn’t catch the technical name) was interesting. The device reminded me of an electric toothbrush, but where the brush would go was a small camera. As it was passed over and around my teeth, a surface image was constructed. I asked about it, and the dentist said that it took millions of pictures and stitched them together. The programming on that process fascinated me – how did it know it was imaging the back molar instead of the front teeth, for example? Dr. G. explained that he makes a preliminary pass and the device “remembers” the basic layout and works from there. Amazing.
When he was finished, I could see exactly what the inside of my mouth looked like. This will be laid over the 3D panoramic scan and then the dentists and specialists can take exact measurements and adjust procedures moving forward. I got back in a few weeks to discuss that. Right now I’m looking at four implants, possibly one or two bone grafts (TBD), and depending on how things look later, a possible crown. After that will come some rebuilding/repairing of the front teeth.
The technology in the dental area these days is impressive.
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Did you see this video of illegals turning the terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport into their personal dormitory ?
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Now I’m about to run out and take care of some errands. Hubby suggested that I fill up my gas tank before the big cold (relatively speaking, Texanadian & Texpat) hits this area. I may not need to drive out for the next few days, so filling up today is a smart move.
But before I go – here’s the link and roundup for today’s C&C:
REMEMBERIZING ☙ Thursday, January 11, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Welcome to the week’s backside. Your roundup today includes: human insect testifies before Congress in squeaky cockroach language that nobody can understand; two-candidate Republican debate accomplishes nothing but gets wide international press coverage; Covidians at the New York Times scrape the cesspool again looking for a new pandemic to worry about and give away the game; FDA approves Florida’s plan to help Americans save money with drugs from Canada, but there’s a catch; Hunter Biden crashes his own contempt hearing, but was he sober?; and disgraced ex-anchor Don Lemon makes big announcement about … free speech.
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Whatever you do you need to watch the video in Texpat’s #21. I can’t say that I’m surprised but it is truly sad that these poor brainwashed IDIOTS don’t have a clue but worse than that they don’t want a clue. Just parrot the Democrat/Swamp/Media Complex talking points.
~SPITS~
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My #28 with the young reporters it’s almost like the truth is totally subjective. Whatever fits their narrative is the truth.
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U.S. destroyers shot down 24 drones and missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, constituting the largest attack on commercial shipping in the Red Sea since tensions escalated in October, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed Tuesday.
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Good morning, denizens of HamboneVille!
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Y’all are going to run off to Mexico and let all those little chickens starve to death ?!
We got rid of all our animals, except an outside cat, in the spring. We went to Ontario to pick up some of TW’s mother’s things. That was a couple three weeks. Flew to Newfoundland in August for a month. Animals don’t fit into those plans. A neighbor up the road will feed the cat while we are gone. Everything else will be shut down.
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In 1985 the State of Texas started the internationally recognized and copied Adopt-A-Highway program in which volunteers commit to picking up trash four times a year on a 2 mile stretch of highway.
I noticed today that a stretch of Texas 36, just north of Sealy, is the trashiest stretch of highway that I regularly travel. The adopting organization is the Austin County Democrat Party.
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The Tucker interview confirmed what I have believed and understood to this point in time; the absurdity of the whole WLR thing, the jabs, MMGW, a-biogenesis of oil, inconsistent output from the sun, the wobble of the earth in the orbit, etc. This guy can show the raw data and the math to back up his claims – something Michael Mann will never do. . . . . .because he can’t. The common theme among all of the above is that insatiable desire of tyrants to have as much power over as many people as possible and the gullibility/cowardice of the masses.
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Back from running errands. I had a rough wake-up this morning and I even though I want to nap, I still have to take out the trash, make dinner, and get ready for Latin class. I don’t think I’m going to get to the garden today…
Maybe a 20 minute power nap will suffice…
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#30 Shannon: Why, pray tell, don’t these ships bomb the launch sites? That would be the most efficient way to make the crapola stop, wouldn’t it? Make the rubble bounce!
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Wowzers, where is everybody today?? I’ve been out running errands, and expected to see a lot more activity had piled up here…
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Headcrusher had 1st appt with spine surgeon, Dr. Stuart Wiel. The good doc did the muscle tests and looked at the MRI and stated clearly that surgery was the only fix. Go in through a small incision, cut out stray disc material, and enlarge intervertebral foramen. He said this is likely to be outpatient surgery. Now it is simply an issue to get it all approved by insurance.
There is rarely a more clear-cut case for surgery, hopefully the ins company won’t object.
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I’ve been busy all afternoon squiring around the Prince of Wanaque and visiting with Ellie Baby Ruth.
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Caption:
What’s with the sack? Get me outta this thing!!!
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CBS Evening News discovers the impact of illegal immigration on public schools.
34,000 children in the last 18 months in NYC schools.
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Got my last faucet wrapped. Doing it once it is cold and rainy is so stupid. Ask me how I know.
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Shannon
Got my last faucet wrapped. Doing it once it is cold and rainy is so stupid. Ask me how I know.
We don’t wrap pipes around here. WE DRAIN EM.. Seriously that is my only sure defense against frozen pipes.
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The embarrassment began when it was Josh Hawley’s turn to question him. The Missouri senator proceeded to set Biden’s climate agenda on fire with one of the most clear and concise takedowns of the insane electric vehicle mandates put in place by the administration.
and Senator Hawley asked:
HAWLEY: Let’s talk a little bit about who’s really benefiting from this administration’s climate agenda, and from these draconian electric vehicle mandates. So, Mr. Turk, you’ve already alluded to this. I know you know the answers to these questions. Currently, one nation accounts for 60 percent of the world’s electric vehicle production. That nation is?
TURK: China
HAWLEY: One nation accounts for 76 percent of the world’s lithium battery production. That nation is?
TURK: China
HAWLEY: Yet, your administration, the president’s administration, the mandates that you put in place require that two-thirds of our new vehicle sales in just the next eight years be electric vehicles. Your policies are driving us and our supply chains into the hands of our greatest geo-strategic enemy, enriching them, enriching their government while forcing Americans to pay for electric vehicles that on average cost $7,000 more, on average than a traditional vehicle, are more expensive to repair and insure, require more frequent replacement of everything from tires to component parts.
So, Mr. Turk, why is it good for the American worker that we force our supply chains to a country that is our greatest rival and adversary, and why is it good for the American consumer?
plus this today,
(Bloomberg) — Hertz Global Holdings Inc. plans to sell a third of its US electric vehicle fleet and reinvest in gas-powered cars due to weak demand and high repair costs for its battery-powered options.
The sales of 20,000 EVs began last month and will continue over the course of 2024, the rental giant said Thursday in a regulatory filing. Hertz will record a non-cash charge in its fourth-quarter results of about $245 million related to incremental net depreciation expense.
The dramatic about-face, after Hertz announced plans in 2021 to buy 100,000 Tesla Inc. vehicles, underscores the waning demand for all-electric cars in the US. EV sales growth slowed sharply over the course of 2023, rising just 1.3% in the final quarter as consumers were put off by high costs and interest rates.
“The elevated costs associated with EVs persisted,” Hertz Chief Executive Officer Stephen Scherr said in an interview. “Efforts to wrestle it down proved to be more challenging.”
Oops, we all screwed up. Whadda we do now ?!?!
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39 Shannon
It’s the torture mothers and grandmothers subject newborns to in every generation.
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RE: my #42
Hertz will record a non-cash charge in its fourth-quarter results of about $245 million related to incremental net depreciation expense.
This ain’t junior varsity bookkeeping, Bubbas. It’s the real thing.
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45 Squawk
Showers must be rare around the Box Swankienda in the winter time. How do you wash dishes ?
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I live in SE Texas. I’m not set up to drain water pipes.
But I’m not a moron….I do know how to cut off the water at the meter.
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Showers must be rare around the Box Swankienda in the winter time.
Separate bedrooms, I guess.
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Shannon Texpat
Draining the lines is a no problem. turn off the water open all the faucets and hose bibs on the house. I have a short length hose I hook up to one hose bib and then I blow through it. Lines are drained no problems with freezing.
(Here comes the jokes)
If we need a shower I turn the water on shower and drain the lines again.
Toilet: we have several one gallon jugs stored away along with 2 5 gallon water coolers. Use the toilet, flush and manually fill the resevoir for the next use.
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Texpat, Ellie Ruth is beautiful! When she gets older, I know of a (future) handsome young man who will be about her age….
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49 Squawk
You operate like that from December through February or early March ?
Dude, that’s some mean livin’.
And I want a video of Squawk blowing out the water from all the lines with that hose in his mouth. You gotta have some serious lung power.
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Texpat
The only time I do that is when we have a hard freeze. Country living at its best. Oh yeah it does not take much lung power to clear the lines. I have seen homes with burst pipes. I am not taking any chances.
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Her Highness had to have the TV on while we were eating earlier and Laura Ingraham was on. Her guest was a surgeon from Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in Houston who is a whistleblower over TCH’s covert transgendering of underage minors in violation of the Texas law against such practices.
His name is Dr. Eithan Haim and he has been hounded and persecuted by the Department of Health & Human Services and subjected to federal investigation because he has exposed TCH’s criminal actions. His legal fees have exhausted all of his savings now.
I tried to embed the YouTube video. Tedtam and Squawk pull it off, but it doesn’t work for me.
Watch the Christopher Rufo interview of local Houston hero, Dr. Eithan Haim, here.
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Texpats Video
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Let me know if there is legit crowd-funding for Dr. Haim’s legal defense.
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#38 Texpat, Awww ain’t she sweet and I love the thermal underwear outfit. Good idea really. 😉
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I never cut off the water and drain the pipes at this house but once in a blue moon I do that at the Farm House because there are a few pipes that aren’t insulated properly and yes I know I should crawl under there and fix that problem. I only do this if it’s in the low 20’s and I use my air compressor to blow out the pipes. Of course the house is vacant most of the time so cutting off the water isn’t a problem. Here all the pipes under the house are well insulated so it’s not a problem.
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I guess that y’all heard that we finally bombed the savages in Yemen that were shooting missiles at our ships. About damn time! Say what you will but Trump would have acted back in October not wait until January 11 2024.
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Years ago during a freeze, Hubby was running crazy fixing everyone’s blown pipes except the one to my kitchen sink.
After 3 days of washing dishes in the bathtub, I called his answering service and made a request for an appointment. Once they realized who I was they thought it was the funniest thing they’d ever heard.
Hubby fixed it that afternoon.
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SuperDave
My pipes are overhead. That was the builders choice since the house is up on piers.
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Ben Domenech on Chris Christie:
His persona as Jersey a-hole seemed so tired and rundown, Tommy DeVito would have stood a better chance in this primary. And how does he go out? Crapping on everyone.
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I remember another time my vehicle stalled on the side of I-10 West of the loop. My phone had died, but fortunately right behind me was a motor assistance deputy (Fred) who let me use his phone.
Hubby didn’t answer the first two times I called, probably because he didn’t recognize the number. Deputy Fred was getting antsy to get back to his patrol. I called the answering service and gave this message: “will you please contact Hubby and let him know that I’m stranded on the side of the highway. I am sitting in a MAP truck with a very handsome deputy Fred, and if he values his marriage he will contact me immediately.”
Deputy Fred blushed as the answering service lady howled with laughter, and Hubby returned the call within a minute.
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If we’re going to modify the 1st Amendment I suggest we, first, ban all pharmaceutical advertising.
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His persona as Jersey a-hole seemed so tired and rundown, Tommy DeVito would have stood a better chance in this primary. And how does he go out? Crapping on everyone.
I never heard him taking on Biden just trashing Trump at every chance. I guess he just had Trump Derangement Syndrome real bad.
SO Shannon’s writing is slanted and so is mine? OK 😉
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Considering that the RAF assisted the U.S. on air strikes in Yemen, I decided to read up on the British Prime Minister for the first time.
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58 Squawk
My pipes are overhead. That was the builders choice since the house is up on piers.
Uh-oh. Oh-no. My condolences.
Builders like that should be hunted down with dogs.
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57 Super Dave
I guess that y’all heard that we finally bombed the savages in Yemen…
Israel said a month ago if the US or anybody else didn’t stop that crap, they would take care of it.
Tuesday, the British said they were going in to attack Yemen if nobody else would.
72 hours later, the Biden administration, after embarrassing all Americans, said they would join the defensive attack against the Houthis.
Lady Liberty hangs her head in shame.
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The first time Katfish had to replace his attic-mounted water heater, we had extensive, detailed discussions about what we would do to the builder once we located him.
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Good grief, you would think a dry, 20-something degree freeze is Armageddon.
Beats the hell out of August any day, as far as I’m concerned.
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