American Realist Painting by Bo Bartlett
Tuesday’s American Open Thread
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What a neat painting, I love the old 65 Chevy C 10, Fleetside truck.But the deer should be a buck shooting a doe in those days was illegal almost everywhere.
Well we didn’t make it down to freezing but it is 36 so that’s too cold for me. No frost though since that cold front brought dry air down from the frozen tundra’s. The high will only be in the low 60’s but we’ll be back in the 70’s tomorrow. When it warms up a bit, I’ll go out and finish wiring up the motion sensing light I mounted on top of the grain bin yesterday. There’s been a mercury vapor light up there for 40 years but it hasn’t worked in about 20 years or so.I had to redo the wiring since my dad just ran a line overhead from the green house and it’s been down for a while.I ran a wire from the tractor shed and also ran a line from the light back into the shed to a single light that will come on when the motion sensing light comes on.
Yes, exciting, I know. 😉Oh and Mornin’Gang
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I noted the fact the hunter had killed a doe, but what bothered me more is the disproportionate length of the rifle.
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Good morning Dave. . . . . . .and all the rest of the couch when they wake up
>>>>>>>>>scrams>>>>>>>>>>>
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Apparently Space X launched a Falcon 9 out of Vandenberg AFB late yesterday and my boy sent some neat shots of it from his house in Moorpark.
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Morning all. Coffee!!
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The Bible states that in the end times all the nations of the world are going to come against Israel. I have often wondered why and what would be the trigger for this event.
Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist organization, they have no redeeming qualities and in a just world, every Hamas member would be killed on sight- no questions asked. Unfortunately, we do not live in a just world and none other than the slimeball, Chuck Schumer warned Israel that they must let Hamas live to fight another day.
Schlimer is nakedly politicking for the muzzie vote in Michigan and the lives of his fellow Jews in Israel mean nothing. If he is so eager to backstab his fellow religionists, who face an existential threat from Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, among others, just what do you think he will do to fellow Americans who oppose his blood-lust quest for power? THe man is a disgusting slime ball and the world would be better off if he slipped his mortal coil and what is left of his tarnished soul was banished forthwith to sheol. -
A few murmuring voices demanded an elaboration, which I gladly delivered. First, I said, it is a truth universally acknowledged that young people are, to borrow a term of art, rather dumb. It’s why we don’t leave children alone in the house when they’re nine years old, say, and why even when they are nineteen we feel more confident knowing that a Residential Adviser is right down the hallway should some collegian make particularly regrettable choices.
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And Dems want 16 year old to vote.
Because stupid is their constituency.
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Haven’t had time to read the articles, but over at the Citizen Free Press are some interesting articles on Trump’s legal cases. Looks like a judge may be setting up the opposition for a fall. Hoping to check it out soon.
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Shannon, you have email.
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Well, decided to start my day at my work desk instead of at my beads. The retina burning sun has shifted position and my makeshift curtain no longer protects me from its penetrating rays. Now the sun comes straight at my face through the glass in our dining room door.
But if I lean to the left, I can avoid any eye damage until it goes high enough in the sky that it’s no longer a problem.
It’s the ONLY time you’ll find me leaning left.
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I’m here after 3 tries at logging in. The case in Florida regarding classified documents is swirling down the drain because we have an honest judge in the case.
The much more serious crisis for Trump is the half billion dollar judgment in New York. There are only a few bonding companies large enough to even consider a bond that size and they have all declined to do so.
Unless somebody billionaire like Elon Musk steps forward to help him, Trump could be in deep trouble over this unbelievably insane, corrupt New York judicial circus.
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From the CFP: Mar-a-Lago Judge’s Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins
As you read the article, remember it’s posted at Yahoo News. They lean left all the time. Words like “lackey” will be found there.
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The roundup from today’s C&C:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Actually, it’s Trump Tuesday, since there’s so much going on in the Trump cases I had to research and report on the status of all top three cases. In today’s roundup: Trump’s Georgia lawyers seek an appeal of Judge McAfee’s order in the Fani Willis case; Trump’s New York lawyers file massive appeal brief in the overpriced real estate case; and Trump-deranged liberals are calling for Judge Cannon to be removed from the South Florida case after she filed a fascinating two-page order yesterday.
I do enjoy Mr. C’s legal dissection of the daily news.
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From C&C, Trump’s lawyers are appealing the bond problem Trump has in NY:
Trump’s lawyers are smartly setting up the appellate argument that the bond requirement itself is unconstitutional in this case. There are two ways to argue constitutional issues: ‘facially’ or ‘as-applied.’ In a facial challenge, a plaintiff argues a law is unconstitutional for everybody. But in the less-common ‘as-applied’ scenario, the plaintiff argues the law only becomes unconstitutional when it is applied to him.
To prevent being reversed for unconstitutional “unusual punishment” or “excessive fines,” Judge Engoran, who looks much like an old goat, would have been better off ordering a lower penalty for Trump’s completely victimless crime. But the pallid Judge got greedy, or happy, or something, and ordered an historic, planet-sized judgment, which is now creating all sorts of legal problems.
Being one of Trump’s lawyers involves a master degree in 3D chess.
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The much more serious crisis for Trump is the half billion dollar judgment in New York.
I still find it hard to believe that there are laws that allow a judge to decide not only if a person is guilty of a civil crime involving ZERO injured parties but to set a judgement of millions of dollars. A number he pulled out of his you-know-what.
I saw some girls on one of the alphabet networks all giddy about Trump not being able to come up with a half a mil in cash and saying how he wasn’t nearly as rick as he claimed to be. REALLY?? Theses poor dump kids have no idea what Real Assets are AND don’t care to know. ~SPITS~ Running out of spit….-
Let’s not forget that the judge decided on his own how much Mar a Lago was worth. He valued it at $20 million or so, when the actual value was closer to a BILLION.
SD: guilty of a civil crime involving ZERO injured parties.
HOw is there a civil crime with no victim? This case should be dismissed on appeal and the judge should be disbarred, tarred and feathered, then fed into a wood chipper.
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Super D: Mr. C. discusses that problem, too:
To make the constitutional argument, the Trump team first needed to prove they really tried to buy an affordable bond — but couldn’t. That is exactly what this reply memo carefully documented.
You’re getting to see some very good lawyering here. Trump’s lawyers are multiplying the issues, giving themselves more tools with which to work. They started out with very little to work with and are building the tools as they go.
Monday is the deadline to post the bond. If Trump doesn’t post the bond, and the appeals court refuses to stay without bond, then woke, Soros-funded District Attorney Letitia James can commence collections. Like foreclosing on — liquidating — Trump’s various properties in New York.
But that won’t end the fight. Trump can resist collections, and can fight with James in state court, on a property-by-property basis, slowing things down. When Trump runs out of state-court options, he can then throw the threatened properties into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. He might be able to stop Letitia James for two or three years.
So, the bond is a real problem, but it isn’t fatal. Not yet. Trump still has options.
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We Killed This City
There’s actually a warning on it. /smh
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Morning all – love the painting… My Daddy’s truck was the year following that one… Thanx for the smile
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Super Dave
Apparently Space X launched a Falcon 9 out of Vandenberg AFB late yesterday and my boy sent some neat shots of it from his house in Moorpark.
Go head and load/post a couple of them in the comments. I would like to see them.
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We will always get the government we deserve until there is a heart change in this country we can look forward to even more of what we got now.
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I refused to sign into Youtube to watch Tedtam’s video at 8:58 AM. I will never sign into those sh*tweasels.
I think this is the same “We Killed This City” video at Bitchute.
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Supremely corrupt kangaroo dressed like a penguin Just-us Alito decides to stay Abbott’s arrest the illegal alien law indefinitely.
the government sanctioned invasion will continue and you will like it says the kangaroo dressed as a penguin.
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And in case you missed it.
the House of ill repute approved another cr and voted to fully fund DHS, so they too can further facilitate the invasion, for the rest of fiscal 24.
speaker jr boehner Johnson.
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And here’s another little diddy from the supremely corrupt court of kangaroos dressed as penguins.
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Wife 2.0 had that ‘65 C10 Chevy -in black- when she was attending UT in 1976.
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Got any pictures? Oh of the truck……. 😀
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Morning, gang! Chilly again, eh?
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They can track down grandma in podunk Wyoming but not these folks.
cbs reports this with a straight face.
Could snidely whiplash have been the ring leader of this staged D.S.S. production?
gimmie a f
gimmie an e
gimmie a _
gimmie a shttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-gallows-construction-new-video/
shows you how stupid they think people are.
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ROFLOL.
The gallows was outfitted with a bright orange-colored rope. The color choice was noteworthy, according to Raymond Winbush, a researcher and professor at Morgan State University in Maryland. Winbush said the brightness and distinctiveness of the color was potentially a visual cue to attract attention to the noose.
Y’all needed to seek the expert opinion of some pin-headed Professor for a comment on the color of the rope??
What a buncha maroons.
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I just heard a story on the April 8th eclipse. Sunshine’s and L’il Darlin’s school is in Denton, which is a 100% event there. Lovely Daughter told me that the Perot Natural Science Museum has bought special lenses for all the school kids.
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Yippee. I have internet WiFi again. The Friday storm fried the “radio” on the top of my pole. They replaced it with a newer version.
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Supreme Court rules against Biden’s emergency appeal on Texas Senate Bill 4.
However, I saw two stories that various Texas law enforcement organizations are still waiting on the State to give them detailed guidance on how conduct enforcement.
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Map Shows Warnings for People to Stock Up on Food Ahead of Solar Eclipse
It is official now. This country has lost its collective minds. We have already heard that some states have declared emergencies but to stock up food. GET YOUR TOILET PAPER While there is still some on the shelves. -
Oh yeah and Texas is one of the states saying stock up.
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@ 4:20 squawka Bruddah
sounds like New Year’s Eve, 1999-y2k deja vu hype all over again.
On
april 7th
I’m gonna party
like it’s
April eighth
the very next day
cuz we could all
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What perzactly is supposed to happen with this astronomical event over which man has absolutely no control whatsoever?
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I heard a radio story about the stocking up. It seems the hordes of eclipse tourists are going to buy out the supplies in the eclipse areas, especially the darker eclipse areas.
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What perzactly is supposed to happen with this astronomical event over which man has absolutely no control whatsoever?
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We’re doomed.
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There was this news story about bloodbaths I’m sure no one heard about, but I do want to note China is building their dirt cheap EV car plant in Mexico to destroy the American auto industry.
Now we’ve had the Chinese company, Gotion, which is part of the master plan for this attack on American industry plotting to build huge facilities since 2015 or 2016. They make batteries, batteries for trucks, cars, equipment, etc. and their products power Chinese EV vehicles.
Gotion has been trying to establish major plants in the Great Lakes region to supply the Chinese Evs. A little town in Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron in the Upper Peninsula was chosen for the site of this massive battery plant to supply Chinese EVs. The small village only have 4 people on their city council who originally approved this factory.
Other locals became outraged, threw them out of office and changed the locks on City Hall. The new officeholders then told the Chinese Communist Party to shove it where the sun don’t shine.
The CCP/Gotion has now filed suit against this tiny town for $2.4 billion and the town is not backing down. Heroic people with backbone like all Americans should have.
In the meantime, enormously fat, stupid, trust fund boy and governor Jay Prtizker of Illinois has welcomed these international criminals to come into Illinois and build all they want.
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I heard there could be a blog bloodbath if comment count descends much further.
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5:47 texpat
Chinese EV’d
s may be yet another thing that sours people on the whole EV thing. They aren’t known for making things that work.Combined with the UAW, it’s a sure recipe for success.
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The UAW is outraged by this Chinese scam. They will never see a dime from it if Biden lets it go through.
The head of the UAW and other unions along with the leadership of all the auto manufacturers are on the warpath against it.
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THIS IS SOME VERY GOOD LEGAL ADVISE.
PICTURE THE SCENE: You’re about four minutes into your worst waking nightmare. You had to pull your gun and use it; that’s the bad news. The good news is, you’re still alive. You know that because you can still smell the gun smoke and feel your heart pounding with adrenaline. The would-be offender is dead, or at least isn’t moving. It was him or you, no doubt about that. And because you’re confident you’re justified in your actions, it’s time to fulfill your obligation as a responsible and law-abiding person and notify the police.
You are not in a normal state of mind.
“You probably won’t be the first one to call 911, but if your neighbor, a bystander or even the perpetrator calls 911, you should call them too, and be the first one, if possible,” Richards, who is an Independent Program Attorney for U.S. LawShield says.
Next, you should know that 911 starts recording as soon as you dial, even before dispatch picks up.
“That means what you say can come back to bite you, even if no one is on the line,” says James Phillips, a Florida-based U.S. LawShield Independent Program Attorney. If (like one defendant) you’re heard profanely saying to yourself while waiting for the 911 operator to pick up the person shot “deserved to die,” it won’t play well in court.
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To repeat and I hope no one reading this has to use it although we never know.
I didn’t know this. But 911 recordings are used constantly in trials both for the defense and the prosecution.
Next, you should know that 911 starts recording as soon as you dial, even before dispatch picks up.
“That means what you say can come back to bite you, even if no one is on the line,” says James Phillips, a Florida-based U.S. LawShield Independent Program Attorney. If (like one defendant) you’re heard profanely saying to yourself while waiting for the 911 operator to pick up the person shot “deserved to die,” it won’t play well in court.
Since even a justified shooting is likely to leave you frantic and agitated, one defense attorney with U.S. Law Shield I spoke with advises you to keep things simple and to the point, using the acronym: NASH’D. This stands for:
NAME,
ADDRESS,
SHORT TRUTHFUL STATEMENT of what happened,
ask for HELP,
and DISCONNECT.
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and now for something completely different.
The action on the ball is amazing; the catcher couldn’t even handle it and he knew it was coming.
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When God made angels, he made these two. With the modern Christian hymn, You Raise Me Up, Lucy and Martha Thomas make magic.
Lucy is the older one although her younger sister, Martha, has a beautiful natural vibrato.
I never knew the origin of this song, but the music was written by a Norwegian composer who then asked, a couple of years later, an Irish novelist to write lyrics for instrumental.
Josh Groban and the rest is history.
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I usually watch the School Reports guy for dry freezing, but here he is using a chipper on old phones.
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There was an event at my church this evening, but I opted to skip it for the joy of putting ice on my back. I’m glad the hard part of setting up the gardening is almost done.
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https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1770077766639137057
It seems that its illegal to find crime rather than commit it.
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About 911 calls: years ago, Hubby, some friends, and I were at my across the street neighbor’s house. Our car was parked in his driveway. Some time during the evening, someone left to go buy some bread at the grocery store. After we ate, Hubby looked outside and didn’t see his truck in the driveway. We called 911, thinking it had been stolen, but before we said a word a friend pointed out that he had parked it in our driveway across the street. We hung up the phone before we thought they had picked up. We continued on with our evening, having a good laugh over the confusion. About ten minutes later there was a knock on the door – the cops. They were responding to the 911 call.
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and DISCONNECT.
Yup, give all pertinent information to the operator and get off the line don’t let them talk you into staying on until the cops show up. I have/had a copy of the Texas Law Shield pamphlet and it had all kind of information about the laws relating to firearms and shootings.
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I just walked out to the tractor shed to see how my new motion sensing light works and it lights up the woods pretty good. Since it’s mounted up high on top of the grain bin it doesn’t light up the building so I ran a line inside to drive a LED shop light or 2. I haven’t got the lights yet so I just plugged in my biddy warmer, a 300 watt incandescent light with a hood and clamp and it put out enough light to see in there.
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Other than forcing people into mass transit. And making every single car owner to compete for even less parking at the store or at your home.
I suppose you can ride your frikkin unicorn or bicycle to work in your perfect little neighborhood.
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Great news.
“We have an opportunity now to retire the old commie … and to save this country,” he said.
RINOs Mike DeWine and Rob Portman can wiss up a rope.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/20/bernie-moreno-win-results-ohio-trump-republican-primary-senate
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