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Ha! Good one.
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Not much participation from me lately, been busy, busy. I’m embarrassed.to say how long we have had a rented storage building, but a constant overstuffed garage there has been no place to put any of it. Finally we got it emptied out, used my son’s enclosed race trailer filled it up and brought it home, rented a roll off dumpster and been trashing, trashing, trashing. Feels so good. We ain’t near done but have the dumpster until Friday.
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At the same we are beginning the process of dealing with our parents home, going over Sunday with everyone including grandkids to start clearing out what we want, the rest probably, hopefully using an estate sale company. If there is enough there to make it worth their while. Luckily, they weren’t too bad at hoarding, but it is a lifetime of stuff.
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Not hoarders, but they stashed cash everywhere, from each other? I don’t think so but you never know. There was $7K in a boot, $200 in an oven mitt, my sister found $1,500 in the closet the other day lol. We will have to check everything before tossing.
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When I first came up here, a friend of mine’s father had just passed away. The old man had been a widower for 35 years and loved engineering, technology and inventions. There was a half-built robot in the living room.
He was quite hoarder with a machine shop in the basement. After his wife died, he turned the three story house into a shop.A lifetime of collecting books, magazine subscriptions plus a former bedroom holding enough electronic inventory to open a Radio Shack.
It took us over a month, some weekdays and weekends, to clear everything out. We used at least two 20 yard dumpsters.
We had to check every single book after finding almost $10,000 in cash stuffed into the pages of several books in the first room we started working on.
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I do not like DST at all. I do not like changing the effing clocks twice a year. It is a stupid endeavor that yields nothing but bad feelings, increased health issues and more car wrecks. DST has no redeeming qualities. The fact that our R leadership here in the Great State of Texas can’t even get DST killed and buried is illustrative of:
Institutional inertia is a very powerful force
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Everyone will remember me telling of dealing with my aunt’s stuff when she suffered a stroke, then passed in 2021. Never married and no kids it was left to us to deal with. Legendary hoarder, her stuff plus over a hundred years of family and extended family history got funneled to her and she dared not throw anything away. It was so said so much probably valuable, treasured stuff got tossed. Over five hundred miles away, there simply wasn’t enough time to go through it properly. After days of tossing junk, started getting into more important items buried, but time ran out, had to go.
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WTH time is it? I don’t know but I’ve been up since 5 AM give or take. Much cooler here at 45 degrees and I noticed that the heat didn’t come on overnight, it was 66 in the house this morning. I checked the thermostat and the Heat/Air was off. It seems that Sunday before last my wife turned on the A/C while sister was here and then turned it off. So I guess we’ve not needed heat or air for a week.
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FWIW; I saw GJT’s garage over yonder and was reminded that the best thing about moving from Texas was getting rid of lost of junk.My garage wasn’t as bad as the picture but almost. I threw away and gave away a lot of stuff. Luckily Pete across the street was a car nut and had recently rebuilt his 80’s Firebird so I gave him my engine stand, bearing press, floor jack (Chinese) pedestal grinder, push mower, edger, jack stands and a TH 400 Tranny. He also took lots of small items that he could use. I gave my fancy 12 CF Summit beer fridge to my boy and he still has it in his garage. The rest of the stuff in my garage I loaded up on my 14′ trailer and brought it over here.
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I’m liking the new format but I have noticed that links don’t show up until you click on “Read More”. That said; I like the “Reply” function, it keeps down clutter.
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This is an excellent example of what I’m talking about.
These Democrat morons showed up Ted Cruz’s home in Virginia at 7 AM on Saturday and scream, ring cowbells and make all the neighbors miserable.
There are 15 girls out there shouting while one big, thuggish looking guy paces around. He looks like the pimp.
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Has anyone noticed? Yeah I have been talking about the fact that women seem to be the majority in any protest. They always seem to be the spokespeople too. I pointed it our during BLM protests.
Notice verse 6. Once again the Bible is prophetically right. That is how I know what to look for.
2 timothy 4
3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godlinessbut denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
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Sad but true. 🙁 ~SPITS~
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A Public Service Announcement
Today is the first day of Ramadan. Observant Muslims fast from before sunrise to after sundown. They start getting a little punchy after a week of daylight fasting.
Watch out for them driving out on the highways and byways. It could be worse. Things get really dicey when Ramadan falls in July-August-September when the days are very long and the nights are short.
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Even though we live in Bizarro World it is still a little surprising that all the left-wing whack-jobs and the Media, but I repeat myself, are more concerned about Biden calling a Murdering Thug “illegal” than the death of Lakin Riley. But there is power in words and the left is changing the language to fit their narrative. Illegal alien was changed to undocumented to immigrant and now to newcomers? ~SPITS~
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Well dang, that was quick. My trusty Kubota is ready and Dean will be bringing it later today. I can pay the bill on-line but I need to talk to Randy in service so I think I’ll amble up that way and pay him a visit and pay him also. 😉
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Hollywood, the Whore of Babylon, not only sold out to China for access to their audiences, they have sold their production companies to Chinese financial control.
Dune and its upcoming sequel were both financed by Legendary Pictures, which is majority owned by China’s Wanda Group. Legendary also financed the Pacific Rim movies and the latest Godzilla blockbusters.
China’s influence on Hollywood is more than just financial.
For years, Beijing has exerted an insidious creative pressure on American filmmakers to make China look strong and the United States appear weak by comparison. Communist values like collectivism are championed while American-style individualism is ridiculed.
Schweizer’s book notes that Transformers: Age of Extinction portrays senior Chinese government officials as results-oriented and capable, while American officials are bumbling and generally incompetent.
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Texpat 10:03, Hollywood has been doing that to White, observant Christian and Jew, heterosexual, conservative men since the 1980s. This group is almost never portrayed in a positive light in advertising, movies, TV shows. . . . . .anything.
It would be an interesting list of things that were invented by the evil white man; even more fun would be the shaming of the leftist gadflies should they enjoy one of those products. -
The US Census calls all agricultural operations “farms” regardless of whether they raise crops or are strictly livestock operations like ranches.
The increase in productivity is really remarkable, but I think there are some dark data buried in these stats.
Conducted every five years, the Census of Agriculture collects data on land use and ownership, producer characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures. USDA defines a farm as an operation that produced and sold, or normally would have sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products during the census year.
While the number of farm operations and acres operated declined, the value of agricultural production increased, rising from $389 billion in 2017 to $533 billion in 2022 (40% nominally and 17% adjusted for inflation). These updated numbers highlight the continuing trend of fewer operations farming fewer acres of land but producing more each year.
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The 2022 census also indicates a decline of just over 20 million acres (2.2% of total) in acreage operated. Colorado led in terms of numerical decline, with 1.6 million fewer acres being farmed in 2022 compared to 2017, followed by Texas (-1.56 million), and Oklahoma (-1.26 million). Only three states, Alabama, Alaska and Rhode Island, had increases in operated area. By percent decline, the map of operated acreage looks quite different. Hawaii leads with a loss of 7.2% of operated area followed by Virginia and Maine both experiencing a loss of 6.3% and Washington experiencing a loss of 5.6% between 2017 and 2022. Counties in the West had the largest swings in acreage operated, likely linked to the sheer size of counties with a significant proportion of open and undeveloped land.
Look at the Figure 4 county map of the US. The red counties reflect the greatest loss of farm and ranch operations. They are concentrated in the Houston-DFW-Austin-San Antonio triangle that is being consumed by residential and commercial development.
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The Figure 4 map in my comment below shows a view of an urban/suburban/exurban/semi-rural mass stretching from Tulsa, OKC, northeast Texas, DFW, Waco, Austin, San Antonio to Hill Country counties.
It’s pretty amazing to see it exposed through retired ranch and farmland, but it’s right there. A huge chunk of America is moving to that region.
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The famous old printing presses of the LA Times produced their last edition early this morning. The LAT is moving out of the building they once owned, but now can no longer afford to rent. Printing will be subcontracted to another company.
This quote says it all. Their last in-house printed newspaper paper was 22 pages.
Press operators gather to review the run: Tomorrow’s paper will have color on all but one of the 22 pages. They’ll start at 8:30, print a little more than 100,000 copies and be done in less than two hours.
To step inside the Olympic printing plant is to step inside a time capsule enshrining a 19th century product manufactured with 20th century technology and poised for 21st century obsolescence.
I’m old enough to remember when just the Houston Chronicle’s Section A/Main News would run 40 pages on a Tuesday.
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One more American institution swirling around the drain. This is about UGA Bulldogs and the SEC, but it applies to all college sports across the country.
That is an emerging complaint from fans and one more factor that could create big changes in college sports, including revenue sharing in which schools directly pay their athletes, rather than asking fans to foot the bill through collectives.
There’s a term for it in the NIL industry: donor fatigue. Fans who are already asked to donate a lot for season tickets, not to mention the facilities arms race, are now being asked to essentially pay the players, while the schools are prohibited from doing so directly by NCAA rules.
“It certainly is on the minds of all of us right now,” said Walker Jones, executive director of The Grove Collective, which supports Ole Miss athletes. “I think there’s an understanding that donor-led and fan-led model is not equitable and not sustainable. …
Like Bud Light and electric cars, the NCAA is about to run head-on into the rational economic mind of the average American. All of these universities, particularly the big ones, have been rolling in all this TV royalty cash and adding into their construction, administrative and DEI budgets. Now there are terrified because they’ve blown the whole deal, athletes are demanding to be paid and they want Six-Pack Joe to cough up thousands of dollars.
NOTE: It came out last week Yale has nearly one administrator for every student.
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Want to know how much I’m into this de-hoarding? I’m tossing perfectly good boxes. How ‘bout that!
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Heh!
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It is gruesome to look at your clocks when you get up on the first Monday after the time change…
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If you didn’t see Florida Congressman Brian Mast’s encounter with Code Pink last week, here is the video.
He squeaked by with 53% of the vote in 2016, but won his last race in 2022 with 65%.
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12:28 texpat
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Just ran across a 1989 bi-weekly pay stub. $10 for medical, $4 for dental.
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Finally made it in from the garden. Three tubs set up today, so I’ll be icing the back in a bit. Hubby is still using the walker, good for him. I thought that at first he thought his man card might be in jeopardy if he touched it, but common sense and necessity made that a moot point. He’s touching the ground with his foot today; last night, not so much. No weight on the leg yet, but he’s not writhing in pain, either. He used the ice packs overnight, and the small cooler thing worked well. He had ice for his tea all night long and the cold packs were cool packs, but at least they weren’t warm.
He has a knee doc appointment Friday morning.
Since he was set with his tea, ice, and TV remote, I headed outside and got some seeds in the dirt: bush ‘maters, climbing ‘maters, eggplant, parsley, cantaloupe, chard, and some mystery seeds. They had fallen out of their envelope and were loose. I guess I’ll find out what they are soon enough.
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Re: the 1989 pay stub
We’ve been watching a lot of 70’s and 80’s TV shows via Tubi. I just SMH when the cost of things comes up. A $600 car repair bill was a big deal back then. Nowadays, that just gets you in the door.
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I had made some hard boiled eggs for the road trip, so I’d have some snacks that were legit on my diet. I finally had my first meal of the day: egg salad.
I also made Hubby a grilled cheese & ham sammich. I went outside and pulled a lot of bulb heads from our wild onion patch that is our backyard. The wild onions don’t make seeds – they make a head of little bulblets that are tiny onions. When they start growing it looks a little like Medusa’s hair. Eventually the new little onion plants fall to the ground and take root. I like to pull the heads off and sauté them. They get a really mellow, almost sweet flavor, and are quite delicious. Both the sammich and my eggs got some.
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Handyman is here to mow the grass. Hubby loves to do that. But not today.
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Well that may have been a mistake. 😀 I went up to Capital tractor to talk to Randy but when I got there I spotted a slightly used (848 hours) RTV X1120, Diesel SXS, complete with a windshield, roof, winch and hydraulic dump bed and I’m in love. So as soon as I can get $ome ca$h out of my brokerage account, they’re going to deliver it. BTW; My tractor should be here this afternoon. Oh and it does have nice wheels, (not that it really matters) and new tires.
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I knowed when you said you went to talk to “Randy”, they’d end up being $$$ signs involved. 😀
Those Kubota side by sides are nice machines. Especially the diesels. They may all be diesel for all I know.
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They have a gasoline model that has the same 24 HP Kawasaki V Twin that is in my wife’s Mule.
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I was listening to Clay and Buck while playing in the dirt. Deadspin, the leftwing sports site that defamed that little kid for being racist and wearing “blackface” to a ball game – it’s been sold to a European entity and all of the staff are gone, gone, gone. Deadspin refused to acknowledge their error and apologize, so good riddance to bad rubbish.
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I believe that the kid and his family sued Deadspin and I don’t know if the trial has happened yet or not, no idea of verdict. I would hate for Deadspin to weasel out of liability by selling itself.
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Mr. C. starts off today’s column (remember he’s still out of town, he gave a speech to litigators):
Thanks to everyone for yesterday’s birthday wishes. I had a great birthday! As a surprise, I got to shoot a machine gun and drive a race car. So now I am almost certainly on some kind of eco-terrorism watchlist. It was worth it.
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Among other things, Mr. C. discusses the legal ramifications of recent court rulings upholding Texas laws that will force porn providers to verify that their consumers are not underage children. In the discussion, he provides this insight:
But second, Friday’s decision also delivered fresh ammunition to parents working to scrape obscene books and pornographic materials out of schools. If the state has a rational, constitutional interest in controlling minors’ access to obscene materials on the Internet, how much more obviously rational is the state’s interest in protecting kids the very same way in the school library?
Historically, states (including Florida) have been overly-delicate about regulating obscene school books, fearing First Amendment challenges. But this Fifth Circuit decision could fuel a renaissance in understanding that adults and children are treated differently under the First Amendment. Kids don’t enjoy the same scope of free speech as do adults.
Will this shut the pieholes of the libs who are hell bent on sexualizing our kids? Prolly not, but it’s a start.
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It would be fun to read the sale agreements between the owner of Deadspin, GoMedia, and the UK company that bought them with the clause stipulating none of the employees would be rehired.
The most interesting reading would be how the buyer makes the seller remain liable for the lawsuit from the young KC fan.
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Good late afternoon/ early evening, Hamsters.
The first day of DLS does absolutely nothing to increase our daylight time one second. That is the job of our Sun, who rules his planets, and will not add one second to today’s sunlight.
I think it was last year around this time that serious talk was about dropping
DLS completely, but making this year the last one. Too many business folks complained they would not have enough time to get ready to dump it this year, perhaps next year…. Uh, maybe next year?Getting tired of changing all the clocks in the house by an hour if they don’t change time by themselves? And in the vehicles that are too old to do it themselves?
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Never heard of it.
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That is one helluva story there about infant botulism. I am much better informed for having read it.
Highly recommended.
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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead days after testifying against company: report
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-found-dead-days-testifying-against-companyH/T Michael Berry
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The Clintons must’ve shared their hitmen with Boeing.
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I was furious with Kevin O’Leary, the Shark Tank guy, for coming out full blast trying to save TikTok.
I should have known better. It’s now come out he wants to buy the company, with investors of course, because he doesn’t have that kind of scratch. I think he already has them lined up for the deal.
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