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You had to pick the very worst fast food joint that there is?
It’s the weekend!
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It was about 1976 when early one morning I saw a brand new McDonald’s on I-35 in San Marcos. I had heard of them for years, but had never seen one. This location was one of the first in Texas.
I ordered a Big Mac at the drive-thru, pulled over and parked. I took one bite of that thing – it was certainly not a hamburger – drove over to a garbage can and threw it away.
Some cheap meat, mediocre bun…that was it. No mayo, no mustard, no lettuce, tomato onion or pickles. Just a thin drab piece of ground meat between a mediocre bun.
The only time I ever set foot in one again was when my daughter was very young and insisted on it. I’d buy her a happy meal, but nothing for me.
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Been there done that. Sometime in the early 80’s when I lived in Wichita my boss came down from Philadelphia to help me with our Avionics Shop. At lunch he wanted to get a burger at McDonalds and I asked him why in hell would he want to do that, come to find out he wasn’t much of a Fast Food guy and always took his boys to McDonalds. I told him I’d never go to McDonalds and he said to wait until you have kids, you’ll go. I of course didn’t believe him but sadly he was right, my boy loved the kids meal and the playground, daughter not so much.Like you I sometimes took the kids and sat with them without ordering anything for me.
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I have some sympathy for this guy, but I could never have lived with myself if I withheld the truth about something as important as the events of January 6th.
What he should have done is go scorched publicly. Aggressive and relentless as hell would gotten Cheney and Schiff to back down. It looks like this guy didn’t have the guts to do it. Washington is full of frightened, spineless people who are easily intimidated.
Donald Trump‘s former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller claims the January 6 committee threatened to ‘make his life hell’ if he kept claiming his former boss authorized National Guard deployment during the Capitol riot.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center said he became ‘fearful’ of aggressive tactics by members of the Democrat-led panel who tried to stop him speaking publicly about a narrative that didn’t align with their final report.
Miller’s bombshell claims follow a report by Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk that reveals the committee withheld a transcript from an interview with a top White House official where he told Vice Chair Liz Cheney and other staffers that Trump did want to deploy troops.
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Morning Gang – well… I don’t know if the 3 of us, in different states, qualify as a “gang” but GOOD MORNING anyway 😉
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I have no recollection of the first McDonald’s I ever saw. I had an older cousin who worked at a Jack in the Box, I remember the Jack, in the box, at the drive through. Don’t remember if it was new or not, would have been 1972 or so. A Taco Bell rings a bell around that time.
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OK I give up it won’t let me post my comment.
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BTW When daughter got married my sister came to the wedding and brought her granddaughter who was about 12 at the time.They stopped at a Whataburger in Louisiana totally by accident, they’d not heard of them but Granddaughter was hooked and from then on when ever they came to visit they had to get a Whataburger.
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I don’t think I mentioned it but my wife has been in Texas all week. She left on Thursday 14th to make it to her Bunko Gal’s reunion on Friday and then visit with Huntiun’ Buddy and his wife. She stayed with them a few days and then checked in at Fairfield Inn for a couple of nights before heading down to San Leon to see our friends there. She called about 8:50 AM as she crossed the Sabine river so she should be home before dark. One of the other reasons she went was to finish up with Bob’s estate and hopefully she finally got that taken care of she had to deal with a lawyer and an accountant early in the week and that wasn’t real fun.
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McDonald’s fries at one time were the best because they used beef tallow instead of vegetable oil, just one more thing the government and its idiotic dietary guidelines ruined. This was the closest you could ever have gotten to the original Belgian method of cooking pommes frites – horse tallow.
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This is hilarious!
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Fay’s three sisters and I went Nancy’s in Columbus again, last night. I finally tried the grilled shrimp. Pretty good. And they give you ten of them! Served on a bed of delicious dirty rice.
Construction on I-10 continues in that area.
On the way home, from Columbus to the FM949 (Cat Spring) exit is about 6 miles. That took 30 minutes because it merges into one lane right at 949. Brutal. -
Last night was a really rough night for the back. I had to do the Trifecta treatment: muscle relaxants, pain killers, and ice. I’m taking it very easy today.
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I have an old work friend that is deeply involved in the rodeo. I don’t know if he goes every night, but he goes regular. Anyway he posts all the time about the dumbassery of construction going on on the west and south loop really jamming up rodeo traffic. Yesterday I heard on the traffic reports they were completely shutting down the west loop. Brilliant!
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Mercifully, I think they are close to completing that total rebuild of the 610W / 59 interchange.
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Wife reports that the overpass on 146 in Kemah is complete and open, the traffic is much better along that stretch but it does get clogged up at rush hour.
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The last time I was in the Clear Lake area I decided that If I were still there I’d have to move, what a zoo. The traffic situation here is much more to my liking. As long as I stay away from the Ross Clark Circle in Dothan.:wink:
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This popped up over yonder from back in 2014. FWIW; The bumper sticker says it all.
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Wow, you’d have to be a real moron to park like that!!!
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Morning, you fabulous Hamous-ites!
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Been fighting a slow tire leak for a couple days and of course it was flat this morning. Aired it up one more time in the 23 mile trip to Discount Tire in Brenham. They had to replace the nearly-new tire.
It wasn’t too many years ago that you only had to pay $17 for a road-hazard-damaged tire replacement at Discount Tire.
Now it’s $41.
The entire affair caused me to miss the voluntary Annual Millheim Cemetery Clean Up.
Which is just as well because I really have no business participating anymore.
Which makes me sad.
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While putting away groceries there was an old MacGyver on TV featuring the incomparable Abe Vigoda.
Abe and Elvis were spotted in Bellville during the recent car show on the Square.
You do know they now share a condo in Buenos Aires, right?
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That’s not true. Elvis went back to whatever far-off galaxy he’s from.
Abe is sharing the condo with James Dean.
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So my Primary Care Internist (and former Bellville high school buddy) has referred me to some young-ish neurosurgeon to discuss my decades-long lumbar problem. My recent MRI is just as bad, if not worse, than we all anticipated. (Just ask Bonecrusher – I sent him a copy of the MRI Report, just for grins.)
Considering the recent experiences of several friends, acquaintances, and others, I have no interest or intention to take any action involving surgery on my back.
But I’ll go talk to the guy, anyway. Just for grins. It is strange what serves as entertainment when you reach this age.
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I understand your apprehensions; do try to keep an open mind.
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I promise I will.
But like a mid-50’s vintage car sitting outside for the last sixty years, sometimes there ain’t enough Bondo in the world to fix some of the body parts.
🙂
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I just need to remember I can’t pick up heavy stuff any more. That’s how I got into this mess – that and a congenital issue with the pelvic bone on my left side. I picked up a brick in the back yard, thinking “It’s just one brick.” Right. That was a heavy summ*itch, not a regular brick. I could tell I’d pulled my back when it happened, so being out of action for a coupla days didn’t surprise me. It took a year – little longer – but I realized one day that I was able to function most days without pain killers, so I guess the surgery was worth it. If I could just stop hurting myself…
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Cry me a river of crocodile tears fella.
clay Higgins: he’s my buddy. He’s my pal. He starts every day in the right place.
well if he starts every day in the right place why did he just make a deal with the devil and give the devil everything he wanted in the deal. Jr boehner johnson and over 100 of his fellow groupofCons travelers sold out the country and any chance of getting the border secured.
so onward with the continuous flow of the destruction and human costs of life, sex and drug trafficking etc.?the groupofCons are insufferable.
https://twitter.com/RepClayHiggins/status/1771215381471940964
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Ok governor whitmire.
step up to the plate first along with all your administration and start housing them in your place first. -
And here’s the rim shot.
soon to go nationwide I’m sure.citizenship means nothing to them. You’re just a tax dollar on a tree waiting to be plucked off.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-challenging-110659541.html
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“The Office Of Global Michigan”
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Remember the Pinewood racers from Cub Scouts. This web page is a series of pictures from rocker/valve cover racers. Apparently “valve cover racing” was a thing some time back and is seeing a bit of a revival. Pretty imaginative.
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Oh, I remember the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby very well. My father gave me some guidance and then left me to my own resources. Other kids’ fathers would do all the work for them and make these fancy cars that were faster than mine.
I was angry with my father. He was always a stickler for the rules and said I had to do it by myself in order to learn. It didn’t matter if I didn’t win.
Damned first principles.
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we must be related some how. My Dad had the same genes.
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It has been raining cats & dogs here since about 5 AM. No breaks at all. Weather nerds said 1.6″, but we had to have passed that a while back.
I have a very nice pot roast cooking in the slow cooker and we are warm and dry in this cozy home.
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I just picked a small 4+ Lb beef roast to put in the crock pot in the morning. Great Minds?
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The smallest package at Costco was 6.25 lbs and it was 2 pieces. I’m cooking the larger one today and then I’m cooking the slightly smaller one in the morning.
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Apparently my wife is stacking telephone poles on I-10, made the Alabama line by 2 PM and my be home by 5.
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The big problem with Matt Gaetz, MTG et al with the McCarthy rejection was they didn’t have a plan, a coherent list of solutions or a solid, vetted candidate to step up and get elected right away. They just acted like bomb throwers without any strategy and wasted an enormous amount of time and political capital.
If MTG wants to throw out Johnson, again with no replacement candidate who can win, no strategy and no sellable set of priorities, then it’s going to be the same old crap again. You can’t just scream Border, Border, Border, Democrats Are Evil all day long. You gotta have a plan.
Newt Gingrich seems to have been the last Speaker who could get things done and do it quickly, but he had a real majority and sexually depraved president who was willing to work with him.
McCarthy and Johnson had/have a razor thin margin and a blithering idiot
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I went down to Eli’s to get my pistol out of pawn,
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Well we won’t do that again. From now on it is Mach 10 trolling like has not been seen before.
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I decided to do the front lawn, and got 1/2 of it done, but needed a break, some lunch, and now maybe a 1-hour nap. But I still think I can finish up today. If not, maybe tomorrow…
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It’s Ivermectin Day in America.
After 4 years of catastrophic health agency tyranny, physicians finally score a legal victory. I think the FDA settled because their Pharma masters were terrified of discovery. Here is the backstory…
Pierre Kory and his colleagues with former Reagan White House counsel C. Boyden Gray representing have finally kicked the ass of the Food & Drug Administration.
The FDA settled out of court with the plaintiffs to avoid discovery in which plaintiff’s lawyers could subpoena every single document, email, text message and phone log containing the word Ivermectin.
The FDA now has to remove every single document, public notice and retract all the bulletins they sent out to pharmacist and physicians in America. They are not allowed to tell anyone to not take Ivermectin for Covid or anything else for that matter.
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I was surprised by the number of friends and acquaintances in my neighborhood who were hip to the chicanery in time to reject the jab. Myself, I was a long-time member of UT Health, and they gave me the first 2 jabs before I had any negative chatter. I’ve read since that getting the first 3 jabs correlated well with Covid abnormalities. Both UT Health and my personal doc of long standing (over 10 years) gave me years of grief because I refused additional jabs after those first 2.
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Of course this story has been hidden from the masses but I’ll make sure that my people know about it. It’s a damn shame they settled though, wouldn’t you have loved to see just a fraction of the documentation? You recon Saint Fauci’s name was on any of the correspondence?
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I’m no fan of any Speaker of the House since Gingrich, but in defense of McCarthy and Johnson, consider who the Right has recently selected since Newt.
Denny Hastert – convicted pedophile – 1999-2007
John Boehner – weepy, old, louche drunk – 2011-2015
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Not sure why this popped up over yonder but Mark would have liked it. Carrabelle , FL
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The real heroine of this huge victory over the FDA is Houston’s own Dr. Mary Talley Bowden who was libeled, slandered, smeared and harassed for valiantly defending the use of Ivermectin on her Covid patients. Methodist Hospital treated her like a criminal. Bowden provided the key evidence that convinced federal judges to continue to rule in the plaintiffs’ favor.
I am sure all the sniveling asshats from the Texas Medical Board to Methodist to the Houston Chronicle to Fort Worth’s Hugeley Hospital in Fort Worth are all lining up apologize to her.
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The wife rolled in at exactly 5 PM, she made 658 miles in 10 hours flat. Not a record but no flies either. 😉
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I was actually searching around recently for some kind of update on Dr. Bowden. Last story I could find was that she is still locking horns with Methodist and that situation is far from resolved.
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I’m no fan of any Speaker of the House since Gingrich, but in defense of McCarthy and Johnson, consider who the Right has recently selected since Newt.
Denny Hastert – convicted pedophile – 1999-2007
John Boehner – weepy, old, louche drunk – 2011-2015
Paul Ryan – left wing foolish impostor – 2015-2019
jr boehner Johnson – fake Christian. Real swamp dweller.
they screwed the pooch for the last time with this last 1400 page bill from Hell deal. Jr boehner Johnson gave one of the sleaziest, slimiest , snakeiest politicians in history, the salami eating NY Mayo Stain, everything he wanted and then some.
I predict a big resounding FU to the house groupofCons in November.
I’ll vote Trump at the top.
A maybe for Mr Haney.
I’ll vote for local races
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SQK
I certainly do remember the Pinewood Derby. That’s a very early Dad memory.
That was Webelos level for me.Valve Cover Derby must have been an Alabama thing. 🙂
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This woman has real grit.
Mary Talley Bowden MD’s Twitter-X account:
BREAKING:
FDA loses its war on ivermectin and agrees to remove all social media posts and consumer directives regarding ivermectin and COVID, including its most popular tweet in FDA history.
This landmark case sets an important precedent in limiting FDA overreach into the doctor-patient relationship.
Thank you @BoydenGrayPLLC
for your excellent counsel. @drpaulmarik1
@RobertApter1
@Covid19Critical
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It’s way late, but I’m gonna go check out the C&C. With the latest developments, I’m interested in Mr. C’s take on events.
PS: I ventured a tour of the garden this afternoon. A !#$%!@# cutworm took out six of my beloved asparagus bean plants. Sometimes Mother Nature just wisses me off.
PPS: Hubby’s probably on his way back from his car show in Nacogdoches today. His wheelchair fits snugly into his car, so we’re very happy about that. He said it made a big difference today at the show. He said he felt very self-conscious about being the chair, wondering what people must think of him, but I reminded him that nobody is thinking anything about it because he’s just. not. that. important.
He laughed and agreed.
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Oh, and I picked some salad greens from my garden while I was out there. As I was eating my salad, my mouth had a gush of sweetness. Surprised the you-know-what outta me, then I remembered I had picked a sprig of Stevia that I didn’t remove when I washed my greens.
That was weird.
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The easiest, best quiche recipe I’ve ever tried. It was like a super fluffy omelet baked in a pie crust…
Easy Quiche Recipe
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First up, Mr. C. says exactly what I thought he’d say: Kate’s cancer is quite possibly jab related, and the rest of the Royals are taking their hits, too.
In other words, the new cancers look just like what we have learned to expect from jab-induced turbo cancer. The fact they’re still trying to hide it proves that Big Pharma is now more powerful than the Royal Family. So.
That’s after he notices some anomalies in Kate’s “announcement video,” like it might have been AI generated or photoshopped or sumpin’. Was that actually Kate?
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Just dispose of the whole idea of a crust and call it a frittata. Much less trouble and nobody can really tell the difference.-
I understand that concept but “someone” around here really likes the crusty part of quiche LOL
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Mr. C. then discusses the giddy LSM news heads over their anticipation that Trump will go broke with the NY judgments. Then their disappointment when Truth Social is estimated to give him $3B when it goes public.
Once Truth Social is publicly offered, we will do our muscular part to dash liberal dreams and make the offering a wild success. I have some creative strategies in mind; stand by for multiplier orders.
This should be fun. Trump loves a good fight. Pass the popcorn.
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The Pinewood Derby was lot’s of fun and my boy won second place in year 2. This after I used my NASA scale to get the just weight right using lead shot poured into holes in the bottom of the car and using epoxy to hold them in place. BTW; The car was wedge shaped, looked like a wooden door stop. 😉
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Lil Dawg would never admit it but she missed her mom. 😉
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How dogs tell time: 5 minutes = all day. 1 hour = all day. 5 hours = all day. All day = all week.
No wonder they’re so happy to see us when we return.
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Mr. C. is also elated over the FDA story and has warm words for Dr. Bowden.
I hope she sues the heckfahr outta TPTB and get filthy rich off of them. Someone deserves a part of all that tax money they took from us.
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I met with a new agent for one of our health care policies. The old agent was a friend of ours and I guess she quit. I met the new guy at Kelley’s, and he wasn’t quite what I expected. He’s very young and could easily work as a model. He has that classic WASP look with a beautiful smile, and it’s obvious he lifts weights. I expected an older guy. This guy used to work as a lineman and had some kind of accident/health crisis that almost killed him. Brought him to Jesus and to taking care of his body. He said that the experience drove him to find a line of work where he could help people, and his experience with insurance problems during his health crisis took him to his current job.
Nice guy. I hope he does well.
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Oh, and as I was driving home from church Friday, I found myself behind a ratty looking work pickup truck. It looked like the tailgate had been replaced with a sheet of aluminum, and in orange spray paint was thin battery on the left, and plug (wall plug variety) on the right, and the letters “TESLA” in the center.
Cracked me up.
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I just spent an hour on the phone with Katfish’s Bama Belle. We have entirety too much fun on the phone.
You might recall I took her as far as Texarkana on her journey to Memphis to live with her son and his young family.
She’s doing well. Her vision problems are no worse, thankfully. She certainly can no longer drive. And still is fighting the good fight.
It seems like years since Katfish died on May 23, 2023.
It hasn’t even been a year.
Sometimes time passes so frightenly fast.
Sometimes not.
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Tedtam
The Bama Belle is also caught in the never-never land of healthcare.
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Virtually blind – with other major health challenges – she has another six years before she’s eligible for Medicare.
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I was thinking about the shrinking crowd here on the Couch recently. I miss ’em all.
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Remember your many blessings, my friends.
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Amen! My wife and I are ever so thankful that we’re healthy and have little to no health issues.
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If she can qualify for disability, Medicare will kick in. There are lawyers who specialize in that stuff. She ought to look into it.
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Well, actually, there are Social Security Disability Benefits available to some people.
But NOBODY is eligible for Medicare until they reach the age of 65.
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I know from personal experience through someone else that disability does kick in Medicare.
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THIS!!! 😀 😀 😀
TEXAS CAUTION:
In regard to all the people wanting to move here from New York and California as well as many other heavily populated cities across the country, as well as those wanting to visit…
Before you come to Texas to visit you must be aware of what is happening here. Especially, around the rural and well, All of TEXAS There’s a housing shortage, rent has tripled, and folks are vacationing here in record numbers…
So, if you plan on moving here, or just plan on vacationing in our river bottoms, hill country, mountains or lakes this summer, I think you should know that wolf spiders, fire ants and bedbugs have infested hotels and motels across the area due to dryer than usual weather. The woods will eat you alive with ticks and chiggers.
On the Texas Coast, Bull Sharks are bigger than Jaws & way more aggressive. The Beaches are overrun with Portuguese Man of War Jelly Fish & the Sting Rays are as big as a Volkswagen Beetle.
Our lakes are full of gators, freshwater sharks, and creepy old guys wearing speedos.
Our rivers are full of drunks in tubes peeing themselves while the banjo players lay waiting in the bushes.
Texas Mountain Lions have eaten many domesticated animals and possibly some small children.
The local bear and coyote population are all ‘in heat’ and think your wife/girlfriend is hot.
Snakes… don’t even get me started on the water headed copper moccasins here, and the Diamond Back Rattler Cobras.
The poison ivy has overtaken all other vegetation.
We have had bear sightings at every park and town and they are after your picnic baskets….and some cougars have been spotted in motel rooms and bars.
Watch out for the jackalopes, they have been extremely aggressive this season.
We have the Skunk Ape invading our parks and it’s their mating season. Porcupines are “stabbing” small children should they dare to utilize the local playground equipment.
Skunks have made their way over and multiplied at unprecedented rates and wander the local campgrounds in packs looking for beer.
Murder hornets!?! We’ve got great black clouds of murder hornets, and swarms of giant crickets and even some Oklahoma grasshoppers.
Scorpions have now migrated here and have been congregating in massive quantities under rocks, logs, wooden steps, automobiles, and tarantulas are now stealing peoples food and biting like crazy.
I’m pretty sure all private tiger owners (we had a jump in them after Tiger King) have released their cats into the streets of our cities and towns.
Head lice now fly and we have vampire bats.
Oh, and no one is vaccinated.
I hear Idaho and Louisiana are really nice though.
I saw reference to Squawk in there somewhere….
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Damn chiggers. I hate ‘em.
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Many moons ago, I took a trip to some land owned by Hubby’s 2nd Daddy. It was at the confluence of the War Eagle and White (IIRC) Rivers in Arkansas. I thought there was a cabin or something, but no. After walking through that property and sleeping in the bed of his pickup overnight, the back of my knees looked like hamburger meat. I was rubbing alcohol on them all the way back home. It took three months for normalcy to return. So yes, I hate chiggers, too.
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Nope.
Sorry.
It could be Medicaid. It may be Obamacare.
But it ain’t Medicare until you are 65. Period.
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Nope. It’s Medicare. I’ve seen the card. I’ve discussed the situation. Parts A&B, but no supplement insurance is available until 65. An HMO, aka “advantage plan,” is available, however. That would provide parts C&D coverage.
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“If you get Social Security disability benefits for 24 months,
you’re eligible for Part A.
If you get Social Security disability benefits because you
have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease),
you don’t have to wait 24 months to be eligible.
Also, someone with permanent kidney failure requiring
dialysis or kidney replacement qualifies for Part A if
they’ve worked long enough or are the spouse or child of a worker who is eligible.”No mention of age if the eligibility for Medicare because of getting Soc Security disability…
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squawka Bruddah-o
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Dr phil
After all these many blogs, You are the first to bring up Supertramp.Good times.
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Yup.
good tune.
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jersey boss man Stan.mb sent a blog text to me to relay to you.
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all the rest of you oserhoses.
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I wasn’t quite aware that Houston still had a Channel 39.
Just watched almost 30 minutes of well-produced high school baseball coverage.Nothing quite like a catcher gunning down a base-stealer at 2nd.
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Dr physical l
Abba might have been the first sign of the apocalypse.
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Naw.
the first sign of the apocalypse was the movie Ishtar.
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I don’t know, man.
Wasn’t Ishtar one of the hundreds of Dustin Hoffman movies that I never bothered to watch?
Okay. I will stipulate that I might have seen some of it. But if so, it wasn’t memorable.
Mescaline was pretty popular during that time period.
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My memory fails me more and more often these days, but after The Graduate did Hoffman ever again have a memorable screen performance?
Okay, okay, his retard performance was pretty amazing.
But give me another one.
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Saw it on cable long ago.
Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman.
liked Beatty in Shampoo, which I recently saw and Heaven Can Wait.
ishtar was prime MST3K material.
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Just finished reading the comments for Saturday. Good stuff in there.
I have been working on organizing our tax information yesterday and today, and will finish it on Sunday so it can go to the accountant for filling out the tax form on Monday. I haven’t had time to come over here to find out what y’all have been discussing yesterday until now.
Good Night All.
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yo jersey boss man Stan.
you can’t call any more mandatory meetings about the amount of pieces of flair worn by us plebes if you’re going to conk out @7:42pm yourself.
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I have a bad reaction for 24-36 hours after I take a Dupixent every 2 weeks. It makes me very fatigued. I fell asleep on the sofa before 9 PM.
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Looks like we have a Sasquatch sighting,….. 😀
Mornin’ Gang Oops >>>>>>SCRAAM>>>>>>>
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How does a grown man fit in one of things ?
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I thought the same thing. I’m not a big man and when I was in my 20’s I weighed about 150 Lbs soaking wet. One of our Air South pilots bought an MG Midget and I have no idea how he could drive that thing. I got behind the wheel and with the seat all the way back the steering wheel was in my chest. FWIW; He was a little bigger and taller than me.
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Yesterday I was feeding the hens and when I went into the chicken house a Carolina Wren shot out past my head and then I noticed that she had made her nest in one of the hen’s nesting boxes. I counted 4 eggs in there and I hope she makes it, but last year a chicken snake broke up her nest and ate the eggs. FWIW; I no longer give quarter to chicken snakes, I used to catch them and relocated them but they’re too plentiful and are rough on the birds. A few years ago we had a Wren build her nest on the steps of a ladder on the car porch and one day a noticed a chicken snake wrapped around the step and the eggs gone. https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t22/1/16/1f61e.png Oh and the picture isn’t that great since I used my old Flip-Phone to take the shot.
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We have quite a few Carolina Wrens living here around the house. Fortunately, we don’t have chicken snakes.
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Harvest man celebrates 106th birthday.
One Harvest man shares the secrets of life in celebration of his 106th birthday.HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — For some, living to celebrate another birthday each year is a very special moment in time no matter how old you turn. For one Harvest man named John Drake Sr., we hear some of his secrets to a long life ahead of his 106th birthday Sunday.
Drake believes his gratitude for all things is the reason he’s still here today. “I had a wonderful life, and I’ve been blessed in many ways to be able to be here today at my age. I’m blessed in lots of ways and I appreciate it. That’s one reason I’m here today, cause I appreciate some of the things that I’ve been through in my lifetime. Always give thanks for the Master who is above that looks over you daily.”
With many decades of experience here on earth, something that really shaped him was his time as an Army Sergeant in World War II. “It’ll take a lot for me to explain the things that I went through during my lifetime being as a soldier. Most of the time I was in the war. I was a World War II Sergeant in the Army, and I learned a lot being in the army about other people and other places. You get to learn more about life.”
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8:33 AM Sunday March 24, 2024…….Graveyard Dead! I guess my work here is done. 😀
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Waiting for Hubby to join me for breakfast. Gonna be a long day. Did you know there’s a mediocre Western that comes on at 4:00 a.m. called “Restless Gun”? This is after I tried ocean noises and praying a rosary. I put the sleep timer on my TV and hoped for the best. It was about 5:30 before I think I fell asleep. My eyes are already burning.
About 3:00 I felt a big pop in my hip as I rolled over. I was excited, thinking maybe the pain was going to lessen. A half hour later I discovered I could barely walk to the bathroom. When I first got out of bed a few hours later, I was still awkward and concerned, but doing much better now. Still taking my back brace to church, though, and I’m not doing the procession with the palms.
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Good morning y’all. It is 5F here this morning. Starts to be spring on Tuesday.
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On Social Security Disability
My friend Carl who suffered several serious back injuries working for the New York Times as a machinist for 32 years is 66 years old now.
He reached a point where the doctors told him not to work anymore and he needed surgeries. Carl was 57 when he took SS Disability. He told me it was based on his contribution account history and was calculated by a formula for SS Disability from that.
Carl also told me once he reached 65, his SS payment would not change to the higher amount he would have received under normal circumstances because he had received early SSD payments.
He didn’t apply for any other Medicare benefits because his wife was an executive at KMPG and had unbelievable insurance. Now that he is 66, he has to enroll in Medicare according to New Jersey law.
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Kamala Harris in Puerto Rico thinks this band is performing to honor her presence. She starts clapping.
The her aide, who obviously speaks Spanish, tells her what they are singing….
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Well! Shannon, Tedtam, texanadian and Texpat all saved the day, thanks guys. 😉
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I’m in the process of fixin’ breakfast but I’m on hold while my wife catches up with my sister on the phone…. It’s been almost 2 weeks so this may take a while.
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You’ve got to hand it to old James. If he were running the Democratic Party, there never would have been a Biden or Harris. Excellent read.
Later on in the interview, Carville diagnosed where much of this attitude is coming from.
“A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females,” he said, before characterizing them as killjoys. “’Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you.’”
He continued: “The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.’”
Carville also slammed “elites” in the party and the media for ignoring male Democratic voters, stating, “If you listen to Democratic elites – NPR is my go-to place for that – the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election.”
Rebuking this stance, he told Dowd, “I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?’”
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Rebuking this stance, he told Dowd, “I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?’”
He may be rabid lizard but he’s 100% right about that.
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Shannon………………. Ummmmm no.
Dr phil
After all these many blogs, You are the first to bring up Supertramp.
Good times.
From 2019
Hamous said:Could not remember the name, thought it was Super Tramp. Lost a bet.
Supertramp???
Coincidentally, me and a buddy, who is about our age, were going to lunch the other day and a Supertramp song came on and I asked him who it was. He guessed Little River Band.
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Today is the Jewish holiday of Purim and the celebration of Queen Esther.
A story of the Emancipation Proclamation:
“Set during the reign of the Persian Emperor Ahasuerus — known in the Greek historical tradition as Xerxes — the Book of Esther narrates an attempt by Ahasuerus’s viceroy, Haman, to exterminate the Jewish people,” said Lamm.
and,
“About two weeks before publishing a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln met with nationally prominent abolitionist Rev. William Weston Patton,” said Lamm.
During the summer, Lincoln expressed a desire to emancipate the slaves in the South, but had not yet done so, he said.
plus,
“We believe that in divine providence you have been called to the presidency to speak the word of justice and authority, which shall free the bondsman and save the nation,” Patton reportedly told Lincoln.
“In response, all Lincoln could say was, ‘Whatever shall appear to be God’s will I will do,’” said Lamm.
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12 When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, 13 he had this reply brought to her: “Do not imagine that you are safe in the king’s palace, you alone of all the Jews. 14 Even if you now remain silent, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another source;[b] but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows—perhaps it was for a time like this that you became queen?”
15 Esther sent back to Mordecai the response: 16 “Go and assemble all the Jews who are in Susa; fast on my behalf, all of you, not eating or drinking night or day for three days. I and my maids will also fast in the same way. Thus prepared, I will go to the king, contrary to the law. If I perish, I perish!” 17 Mordecai went away and did exactly as Esther had commanded.
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The groupofCons party voted for this.
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This wouldn’t have happened had the house of cards – groupofCons party stuck together and voted the 1400 page continuing to wreck the nation bill from Hades down.
https://twitter.com/SenatorHagerty/status/1771414274524537251
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In the 1980s, when Tip O’Neill threatened Ronald Reagan in the shutdown standoffs, President Reagan said hold my beer and shut down the government SIX TMES.
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I do not approve of this, but I do understand the temptation.
An argument between a Florida couple about their differing political views turned violent Wednesday, investigators said.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office was called to a home in North Fort Meyers after a 70-year-old man allegedly grabbed his fiancé’s neck and squeezed, an affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital states.
The woman, a “Democrat,” called for help, investigators said.
“She (and the fiancé) had been fighting throughout the day and argued over politics because John was a Republican,” the affidavit said. “During the verbal argument, (he) began calling her a Democrat and other names.”
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Note to the groupofCons party.
you have to read a continuing to wreck the nation bill to know what’s in the continuing to wreck the nation bill.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1771521716805669016
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Why do we never get to see who actually writes these continuing to wreck the nation bills?
we know that 1400 page monstrosity didn’t just appear overnight.
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All these fake mocking bird media polls coming out saying the wooden dummy leads or the lead for Trump is razor thin are just put out to condition the masses to except another steal which is most likely already being printed up.
just like the 1400 page CTWTN bill was sitting on ice until it was needed last Thursday morning @3:00am.
notice they dumped that bill close to the same time all the magical votes for the wooden dummy started to appear in the 2020 steal?.
somone?
anyone?
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Ok Jersey boss man Stan.
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Sasquatch? Sasquatch?? Dang Super Dave I thought we was buddies! 😀 I have no idea what I was doing but the camera caught me at the wrong time lol.
My boyhood best friend did come out to watch us last night at Big O Speedway near Ennis. We’ve not seen or been in touch with each other since we were eleven years old. I found him on Facebook last year, our dads raced stock cars together. Was strange looking at an older man with the same boyhood face, I’d have recognized him on the street. We had a lot of catching up to do, good time.
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GJT; I consider you a Buddy or I wouldn’t have made the snide remark. Feel free to reciprocate. 😉
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😀 😀
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Back home from Ennis, we stayed in a hotel in Corsicana last night. Forty six race cars showed up last night, to get it whittled down to twenty five in the A-main we had two B-mains, had to finish 12th or better to move on but didn’t make the cut. Did pass some cars and had fun, that’s the main thing.
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Mowed some yesterday, but didn’t finish. It was so thick I was bending over to unclog the deck so many times that I figured I had better stop.
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That’s what I’m doing today also! I have already bagged up half a ton of leaves. Most of ’em will stay in the garage through this Spring as my CoH garbage can will only hold ONE of these big bags, plus a bit of weekly trash… I need to do maybe 2 more hours with the blower, the rake, and the big plastic scoop — if I am going to reach the end. (Probably won’t, is my guess.)
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I’ve seen TX Burger joints all over for many years but to my recollection, I’ve never been in one. Yesterday on the trip up we stopped at the one in Centerville, pretty good old fashioned burger. This one had a mural on the wall with Nolan Ryan clutching Robin Ventura in a head lock beating the crap out of him. 😛
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I think there’s a TX Burger somewhere between Sealy and Seguin on I-10.
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We’ve been out visiting the neighbors. Sister came over so we all loaded up, (including Dawg) in the Kubota SXS and headed over to Agnes lane. When we got near the end, the house up on the hill, the folks were out working so we stopped and chatted. We’d not met them before since they’ve only been there for a couple of years. The daughter inherited the place (25 acres and house) after her daddy died. But we never met him. On the way back we saw David that lives in the converted Army barracks and talked to him about buying a few hens. He was chickens, turkeys, guineas and Peacocks. Leaving, we noticed that the Spivy’s were at Hubs old place where they’re building a Barndominion so we stopped for a bit. They’ve stripped all the modern (60’s) siding off the old farm house so you can see the original vertical barn like wood siding. They’re going to keep the old house and barn intact. I’ll have to get pictures of the place. It really looks neat.
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Oops, I have one in the Spit Bucket and I don’t know why. No bad words or links.
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I never mastered cooking burgers on a grill, but my late brother-in-law was an artist.
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Spotted over yonder; Spaghetti Warehouse
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I just returned from Mass. Today is a long mass because the Passion is recited and there’s a palms procession before. I managed to deliver the repaired rosary before and asparagus bean seeds to the cute kids I hug after.
I told hubby not to call me for a while. He understands.
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The back brace came in handy. Standing in line for confession and then for the long gospel would have been extremely uncomfortable otherwise. A gentleman found me a chair to sit in while in the confession line. There are just some really thoughtful folks in this world.
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Snow. More snow. Spring returns hopefully Tuesday.
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I was actually able to nap! It’s a miracle!
Of course, I almost destroyed the world by creating/finding a new, highly explosive substance called “bracchium”. It seems my Latin class is invading my dreams.
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What’s with the wind today?!?
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It’s blowing
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Hey Grampaw what’s fer supper? Well I put a little 4 Lb beef roast in the Crock Pot about 8:00 this morning and at supper time I fixed some rice, butter beans, mixed veggie’s and brown gravy using the broth. Warmed up some of those Hawaiian rolls in the oven and dang we ate good. Oh and believe it or not that was plenty of food for the two of us. https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t57/1/16/1f609.png I/we do love leftovers.
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Says here the Coogs meet up with the Aggies tonight in the tournament.
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They are playing now on TVT or izzit TBS
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I feel wrecked from 2 days worth of outdoor yard work this weekend.
Glad to have the front lawn looking nice, though.
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May I have this dance?
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Sounds pretty good Grampa.
I’mnot sure what I ate for supper. But I’m certain that I ate quite early.
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I noted that the Pope dispensed with his Palm Sunday sermon today.
>>>Choose one of the following three options:
• and the crowd roared!!!
• nobody noticed.
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Wow. Wish I could have seen the Coogs and Aggies fight their way to overtime.
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Weather folks in the upper Midwest say that Minnesota and Wisconsin tomorrow will have a return of the nasty dead of winter. Such a return always happens up there in March or rarely in early April. Batten down the hatches for sure. Such weather can virtually paralyze the state if a freezing blizzard covers the state. Woe to anyone who already planted a garden.
We must contact spouse’s brother to check on them and their very ill dog Ozzie.
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