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Heh.
The BBC have cast Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa as the ‘Fifteenth Doctor’ in the new series of Doctor Who, with the media making a big deal about how he is the ‘first openly queer black actor’ to assume the role and what a bold and progressive move this was on behalf of the BBC.
Unfortunately, many Doctor Who viewers weren’t thrilled about the appointment, and though I’m sure much of the criticism comes from the idea that this is forced ‘wokeism’, many also don’t think Ncuti Gatwa is a very good actor and that he has been cast in this iconic role purely so the BBC can pat themselves on the back for being so progressive.
Last month, Gatwa responded to the haters and critics by telling them to stop watching:
“Don’t watch. Turn off the TV. Go and touch grass, please, for God’s sake.”
Unfortunately for them, that’s exactly what’s happened, with viewership for the last two episodes down 50%.
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Yup, they’re ruining everything on TV by having at least one gay, queer, tranny or whatever on the shows. They also change leading men to women, I saw an advertisement of a new Matlock and guess what? Matlock is an old lady.
FWIW; My wife has a couple of older series that she’s watched for years that she given up on. Can’t watch for the Woke BS.
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Why do the states have to do all the heavy lifting ? Congress is having catfights and insult contests instead of fighting back against the executive branch. No juevos on Capitol Hill.
A coalition of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration and the State of California in an attempt to prevent new electric vehicle mandates on truck owners and operators throughout the country from going into effect.
Two legal challenges were filed over the new emissions rules, Nebraska Attorney General Hilgers said in a statement on May 13.
They include a petition for review filed by a coalition of 24 states in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit which challenges the Biden administration’s new regulation setting stronger greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles.
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50 years ago, it was written of mainline Protestant denominations…
Christianity today is preoccupied with social change throughout the world. But Christianity today is also notable for its lack of a distinctly Christian attitude towards the world it wishes to see changed. It has increasingly borrowed its political outlook and vocabulary, the issues it regards as most urgently requiring attention, and even its tests of moral virtue, from the progressive thinking of the surrounding secular culture.
See the graph.
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For Eslabon Ranch owner Greg Genitempo, border policies hit close to home. “The house has been broken into, illegals leave refrigerators and freezers open, and by the time I get there … it’s a mess,” Genitempo shared with The Texan on Thursday.
Genitempo’s ranch is located near Carrizo Springs, situated approximately 22 miles from the southern border. A 40-year-old native of Dimmit County, Genitempo says he has a good knowledge of the area’s happenings.
When asked about specific property damages he has dealt with due to illegal traffic from the border, Genitempo shared “I had a tremendous amount of fence work that had to be done because the illegals like to cut fences.”
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He then shared that running across deceased illegal immigrants is a common occurrence at the Eslabon Ranch. “We found a dead immigrant a few months back. The people that were coming through just left this guy to die, because he couldn’t keep up with them or something.”
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The Biden White House and Antony Blinken are all sick bastards.
The Biden team’s offer to trade Yahya Sinwar, the man believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, for guarantees that the Israeli military stay out of Rafah points to two disturbing truths about the current conflict in the Middle East. The first is that the U.S. knows plenty about what the Hamas terror group is doing and has done. The second is that Washington has been keeping key information—like the terror leader’s whereabouts—from the Israelis, thereby prolonging the war that it claims to decry.
The implications of the administration’s offer, relayed in a recent Washington Post article, has Israelis and U.S. pro-Israel activists livid. Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, for instance, posted on X, “I am shocked and sickened by reports that the U.S. is withholding from Israel vital information on the whereabouts of senior Hamas leaders in Gaza. Is the administration still our ally?”
plus this,
And yet, according to reports shortly after Oct. 7, there was no evidence U.S. spy services shared with Jerusalem their intelligence on Hamas. The Biden administration rationalized its failures by claiming there was nothing exceptional about its findings, much of which was gathered in areas where the U.S. prevented or discouraged Israeli intelligence from operating. As one U.S. source told the press, “I think what happened is everyone saw these reports and were like, ‘Yeah of course. But we know what this will look like.’” In other words, the Biden administration knew there was something big in the works; the only question is whether it had any indication of the full scope of the Oct. 7 operation.
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Dark clouds on the horizon…
A more plausible explanation, however, is that Joe Biden has always been an unpopular candidate made more unpopular by inflation and botched immigration and foreign policies—and that he is likely to win anyway. Most demographic trends still favor the Democrats and hurt the Republicans. Democratic constituencies continue to grow as shares of the American electorate, while core Republican electoral blocs are steadily declining.
Consider the interaction between voting and religious belief. According to 2024 polling data, Republicans win supermajorities among only two religious groups—white evangelical Protestants (85%) and Mormons (75%)—while eking out bare majorities with white nonevangelical Protestants (58%) and Catholics (52%). All of these Republican-leaning religious communities are dwindling. As a share of the American population, white evangelical Protestants have shrunk by roughly a third from 33% in 1999 to only 21% in 2021. In only 15 years, from 2007 to 2023, Mormons also declined by about a third as a share of the U.S. adult population, collapsing from 1.8% to 1.2%. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are no longer the majority even in Utah. Since 2007, the Republican-leaning white Catholic share has dropped by 8 percentage points.
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If you didn’t see this absolutely brilliant video back in February, see it here or just watch it again for the method.
Teacher leading a student out of his ignorance and bigotry.
Now, this week that same teacher was fired without being given any reason although it is obvious given the recognition and praise he received from conservatives everywhere.
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Based on the latest available data and an enhanced version of a stress-tested methodology from a scholarly journal, a new study by Just Facts has found that about 10 percent to 27 percent of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote.
The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022. Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency.
In 2014, the academic journal Electoral Studies published a groundbreaking study by three scholars who estimated how frequently non-citizens were illegally voting. Based on data for the 2008 presidential and congressional elections, the study found that:
“roughly one quarter of non-citizens” in the U.S. “were likely registered to vote;”
“6.4 percent of non-citizens actually voted;”
81.8 percent of them “reported voting for Barack Obama;” and
illegal votes cast by non-citizens “likely” changed “important election outcomes” in favor of Democrats, “including Electoral College votes” and a “pivotal” U.S. Senate race that enabled Democrats to pass Obamacare.
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James Varney at Real Clear Investigations:
Should You Believe Faulty U.S. Crime Stats or Your Own Lying Eyes ? It’s a Tough Call
In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics to argue that America is becoming a safer place.
“Right now, with 2023 figures and early 2024, the trends are all pointing down, in a positive direction,” Jeff Asher, whose New Orleans-based AH Datalytics is developing his own “Real-Time Crime Index,” told RealClearInvestigations.
Conservative outlets, including City Journal and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, assert that minor declines in headline grabbers like homicides fail to capture what is really happening in the U.S.
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Some criminologists say there is another, hidden dynamic within the crime statistics that helps explain why most Americans think crime is on the rise – the dramatic decline in arrests. Scouring FBI data, John Lott, the founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, found that arrests for reported violent crimes in major cities fell 20 percent in 2022, from 42.5 percent in 2019 – the year before the COVID pandemic and BLM protests in response to George Floyd’s death while in police custody.
The percentage of murder and rapes cleared by arrests fell to 40.6 percent from 67.3 percent in those years; for rapes from 33.8 percent to 17.4 percent, and arrests for reported property crimes in major cities dropped to 4.5 percent in 2022 from 11.6 percent in 2019.
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No, people who get “life-saving” surgeries are 12.12 times more likely to attempt suicide than those who haven’t.
I believe there are a lot of people who deserve to have their medical licenses revoked and be sentenced to serious prison time.
Gee, this isn’t what we have been told.
At least not what the MSM, the medical establishment, the President of the United States, every civil rights organization, or anybody in the Establishment has told us.
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I keep banging on about The Narrative™, and there is a reason. There is rarely a correlation between what the mainstream media puts out and what is actually true. Sure, they are perfectly willing to report facts when they don’t upset their narrative, but the goal of their “reporting” is to reinforce a false view of the world that corresponds with their ideological priors.
This is how we get years of propaganda that insists that parents face a choice between a live daughter or a dead son. Never, ever have the statistics even hinted that this is the case. There was zero evidence of this assertion, yet it was made every day, several times a day, to “prove” that children needed to be sterilized and mutilated in the most horrific ways in order to preserve mental health.
plus this,
The evidence says the opposite of what we were told is true. In fact, things are much much worse than people imagine.
A new study just published looked into the evidence and, guess what? It turns out that suicide attempts skyrocket after surgery. Not just a bit. Not even a lot – a doubling would be a lot, right?
No, people who get “life-saving” surgeries are 12.12 times more likely to attempt suicide than those who haven’t.
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Dang Texpat is up and about early this Saturday morning. I’ve been up since about 4:30 but haven’t stopped by. Well, we’re getting our third round of y’all’s rain and this time it’s for real, lots of lightening and thunder bumpers. It’s been raining about 20 minutes and we’ve already got .82″ of rain, 3.32″ an hour at one time. So that’s 1.81″ Thursday night, .75″ Friday and .82″ so far today.
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A Jewish teacher in the Bronx has told The Free Press how “terrified” staff and students had to hide in locked classrooms Thursday afternoon as 400 anti-Israel protesters charged through her school for two hours.
The teacher, who did not wish to be named out of fear of retaliation from students and administrators, said she sheltered in her own locked office with pupils as other students—chanting “Free Gaza” and banging on the walls—ignored announcements ordering the school to lock down.
“I was terrified,” the teacher told The Free Press. “They sounded really, really angry and really out of control. It just felt like complete chaos. And when things are completely out of control, who knows what’ll happen?”
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Well, good.
Pro-Hamas Muslim Thug Will Stand Trial in LA for Manslaughter
A man charged with manslaughter in the death of a Jewish protester he’s accused of striking during dueling demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year will stand trial, a judge ruled Wednesday, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors allege Loay Alnaji hit the 69-year-old protester, Paul Kessler, with a megaphone before Kessler fell and struck his head on the pavement of a street corner in Thousand Oaks, California, in November, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in a release.
Kessler, who was demonstrating in support of Israel, later died at a hospital. Medical examiners determined he died from blunt force trauma caused by the blow from the megaphone and his fall, prosecutors said.
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You cannot fix stupid. Lighting a cigar is among the more civilized and sophisticated human activities.
ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says it has launched an internal investigation after an officer was caught on video lighting a cigar during an arrest. Video at the link.
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???? I’ve been eating barbecue in Texas all my life and now Her Highness tells me about this BBQ chain out of Dallas called Dickey’s. They have 483 locations across 43 states and I have never heard of them until today.
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Didn’t waste your time. They suck. SIL called Dickeys the McDonalds of barbecue.
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What she said, they suck.
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gas-station BBQ – if you say it REAL fast…
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Agree, they shouldn’t be allowed in Texas.
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There was a Dickey’s in Sealy and Brenham for a while.
Neither location lasted more than 2 years.
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ABC13-Travis Herzog
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BREAKING: This severe thunderstorm has been classified by the Storm Prediction Center as a rare “derecho” windstorm, with a NASA damage connection from Space City to the Space Coast – that’s right, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida! The damage path of wind reports on this map, which started in Austin, Texas, stretches for over 1,000 miles!!!
A derecho is a storm that produces wind damage for at least 400 miles and includes several well-separated gusts of at least 75 miles per hour. Wind speeds in Cypress, Houston, and Baytown reached speeds up to 100 mph at times.
Additionally, an EF-1 tornado with 110 mph winds embedded within the derecho has been confirmed in Cypress, Texas. Another EF-1 tornado has been confirmed near Waller, Texas.
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Oddly enough my wife told me about the Derecho Storm last night at supper. The story popped up on her phone. I’d not heard of it before.
Oh and BTW; the whole fried catfish @ Our Place sure was good. 😉
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Pope Francis Tells 60 Minutes that Conservativism Is “A Suicidal Attitude
During his homily, Red Francis preached that “sharing ownership is not communism but is pure Christianity.”In January 2022 Pope Francis lectured to tax authorities that taxation is “a necessary tool for wealth redistribution.”
Pope Francis has worked tirelessly to isolate and other conservative Catholics during his reign as leader of the Catholic Church.
Francis continues to push Marxist initiatives like global warming legislation. He condemns borders and attacked President Trump for defending the US border from invasion.
Norah O’Donnell: “There are conservative bishops in the United States that oppose your new efforts to revisit teachings and traditions. How do you address their criticism?”
Pope Francis: “You use an adjective – “conservative.” That is conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude. Because one thing is to take tradition into account. To consider situations from the past. But quite another to be closed up inside a dogmatic box.”
Rush Limbaugh was right way back in 2013 when called this pope a Marxist.
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Good Saturday Morning Hamsters,
It is very nice to have a sunny morning that might hang around all day. Time to banish the peek-a-boo sun appearances slipping into miserable overcasts for most of the recent days around here.
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Totalitariancrat member of the Kenyan III regime, Tony Blinken, sings Rockin in the Free World in Ukraine where Fleazensky cancels elections and persecutes religious freedom.
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I had things to do this morning, so I missed Hubby’s car show. I’m just waiting for a phone call with the address of where I can meet him and the club friends for an after-show meal.
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But while I’m waiting, here’s the roundup for today’s C&C:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your Weekend Edition rounds up all the news you need to know this morning: record-breaking storms continue on Earth and in Space, where carbon dioxide doesn’t exist; speculation about climate change and Earth’s dwindling magnetic field; another day, another barge-bridge collision; good news in Texas self-defense case as unlucky Uber driver gets pardon; Chinese fight Biden sanctions by dumping dollars, buying gold, and taking their pets back; and Congress chips a little more away from the covid jabs.
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I arrived at Harper’s house about 20 minutes before Tedtam, this morning.
I picked her up off of her kitchen floor, stood her up, and a few seconds later she walked away saying that she needed to hit the bathroom.
You could have pushed me over with a feather.
She had been on the floor since sometime Friday (after falling outside), without the upper body and arm strength to pull herself up into a chair. She’s a bit bruised up and worn out but we hope we have her squared away for now.
Her neighborhood looks like a war zone of downed trees. Her back yard is so piled up with tree debris that you cannot see her back fence. On top of her garage lies the better part of one of her neighbor’s big trees. Tedtam walked down the street and got one of the many crews working in the area to come give Marilyn an estimate.-
Thanks. It was a big mitzvah.
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We had 2 posts that are rotten and broken. One has bee replaced and one to go. It’s too hot to work right now and I am completely out of shape. It’s effing embarrassing. We’ll get the next one set in the morning and rehang a couple of panels a day or so after that.
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God Bless you guys, Shannon and Tedtam. Thank ya’ll for doing that. Not a good situation over there at all.
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The original cell of that storm actually had its origins near San Saba, as David Paul showed yesterday.
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Yikes about Ms. Harper. She will be in my prayers. Sounds like all y’all suffered through a nasty storm. Stay safe out there.
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Power restored here about an hour ago (does snoopy happy dance).
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It looks like ACE is down. Bummer, it is a great news source.
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This is a pretty good layman’s article about the nature and history of “derechos”. They have always existed around the world but it’s only recently they were identified as a meteorological category.
Scientists have long recognized that organized lines of thunderstorms can produce widespread damaging winds. Gustav Hinrichs, a professor at the University of Iowa, analyzed severe winds in the 1870s and 1880s and identified that many destructive storms were produced by straight-line winds rather than by tornadoes, in which winds rotate. Because the word “tornado,” of Spanish origin, was already in common usage, Hinrichs proposed “derecho” – Spanish for “straight ahead” – for damaging windstorms not associated with tornadoes.
In 1987, meteorologists defined what qualified as a derecho. They proposed that for a storm system to be classified as a derecho, it had to produce severe winds – 57.5 mph (26 meters per second) or greater – and those intense winds had to extend over a path at least 250 miles (400 kilometers) long, with no more than three hours separating individual severe wind reports.
Derechos are almost always caused by a type of weather system known as a bow echo, which has the shape of an archer’s bow on radar images. These in turn are a specific type of mesoscale convective system, a term that describes large, organized groupings of storms.
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very kind of you unck and TT to check on mharper.
just wondering.
Does she not have neighbors that check on her regularly?when an elderly woman lived next door to me for several years I checked on her frequently as did other neighbors.
and especially during and after weather events.
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Ace is back up.
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Got back from dinner. I had some so-so barbecue, but the company was good. I actually got to see Handsome Son, since he went to the car show today and he and his father like to visit. He tagged along for dinner.
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Harper only has landline, no cell. Her land line was down for a long time after the storm or she would have called her neighbor.
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If Marilyn Harper is going to live alone with no assistance and no one to check on her, no cellphone, she should at least get enrolled in Lifeline. Anyone who doesn’t have the upper body strength to pull themselves into a chair off the floor after almost 48 hours would be insane to not do this.
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Amen!
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I just heard a story:
Woman in Dallas is having a C-section, and asks her doctor to tie her tubes. Doctor forgets, but still bills her insurance for the procedure after he lies to the woman. A few years later, woman goes to France to celebrate her divorce, and returned with a little French bun in her oven.
She goes to the OB/GYN: “How can this be? You said you tied my tubes!”
Doctor: “It’s a miracle!”Mom-to-be gets a second opinion, and the CAT scan shows that the tubes were never tied. Second doctor says “He lied.”
Mom has the baby and is now suing the liar doc for child support. This can be a landmark case in Texas, being the first time a non-parent is being sued for child support.
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I pushed MHarper to use her walker instead of relying on her cane. She acted like she would. A walker is much better for her, especially since she says she found a big bruise on her hip/thigh. I’m sure it does wonders for balance.
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More chaos in Church, thanks to pachapapa – a group of nuns have left the Church, going independent and entrusting themselves to an excommunicated bishop that they trust.
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I’m so glad Shannon and Tedtam checked up on mharper that sounded down right scary. I just hope that she is OK mentally. Not to be rude but sometimes reading between the lines I wonder about her. BTW; Do y’all have her neighbor’s number?
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Get Woke go broke, 3.10
Cracker Barrel Invests $700M to Entice Customers After Traffic Plunges 16%, Stock Craters as Chain Struggles with ‘Woke’ Backlash.Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, the iconic restaurant chain known for its Southern-style cuisine and nostalgic decor, has unveiled a sweeping $700 million strategic transformation plan aimed at revitalizing its brand amidst dwindling sales and customer traffic.
This announcement comes as the company struggles with a 16% decline in traffic over the past year, a trend that some attribute to Cracker Barrel’s recent embrace of ‘woke’ ideology.
In June 2023, Cracker Barrel sparked controversy by posting an Instagram image of a rainbow-painted rocking chair to celebrate Pride Month, proclaiming, “Everyone is always welcome at our table.”
This move drew sharp criticism from conservative patrons, with Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson tweeting, “BYE BYE CRACKER BARREL! I will NEVER eat there again!!” The Texas Family Project, a conservative advocacy group, accused the restaurant of having “fallen” and “caved to the mob.”
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This is how Biden and the Democrats bring progress and economic expansion to a grinding halt. The idea individual buildings qualify as “infrastructure” is ridiculous.
From the Annals of Unintended Consequences filed under Clueless & Careless:
Idaho had long ago planned and gotten VA approval for three such homes, in Boise, Lewiston, and Pocatello. Recently, however, the federal government said that projects like Idaho’s would have to adhere to BABA, even if they were approved before the law went into effect. Though the department had previously issued waivers for two other facilities, VA secretary Denis McDonough in February told a concerned conference of veterans home officials that the department wouldn’t grant future project waivers, according to several attendees.
The problem for Idaho, and other states, is that the earlier VA grants didn’t include the higher costs that would result from BABA itself. Now states are struggling to find the extra funds—and building materials. States have found that some products, such as HVAC-system parts, electrical switch gear, and LED light fixtures simply aren’t available in America at any price.
Idaho’s veterans’ office spent almost $200,000 and 1,500 hours compiling a report of the BABA-induced cost increases and product shortfalls. They estimated that BABA would add about $13 million to the cost of the 122-bed Boise home, assuming the VA would approve waivers for unavailable products.
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First we have Cracker Barrel going woke/broke and now check out this absurdity…
Dodge, Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis Is Following the Hemi Out the Door
Nobody should envy the person at Dodge that has to convince a sales base of high-horsepower V-8 muscle car owners to eventually switch to electric power, but that person won’t be Tim Kuniskis, who is retiring from his roles at Dodge and Ram on June 1 this year. He will be replaced at Dodge by Matt McAlear, who already leads the automaker’s sales operations. Kuniskis’ leadership at Ram will be taken over by Chris Feuell, who is also the current CEO of Chrysler.
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paging GJT,…. 😉
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An imam linked to prominent Michigan Democrats like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Rep. Rashida Tlaib said in a sermon this month that pro-Israel members of Congress were “stooges” of the Jewish state who should be charged with “treason.”
On May 3, Hassan Qazwini, the imam of the Islamic Institute of America, railed against lawmakers who days earlier voted for the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. The measure, which passed with a vote of 320-91, would require the Department of Education to adopt a widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism for investigations into anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses.
“If there was justice in this country, those congressmen and women would be indicted and convicted of treason,” said the Iraq-born Qazwini, whose remarks were first reported by the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute. He asserted lawmakers who voted for the bill “do not work for the interest of the United States, rather for the interests of a foreign country.”
“Nothing but stooges of Israel,” he said.
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This has to be the meme of the month.
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Well at least the Mercedes auto workers had sense enough to vote down the UAW. If you remember a VW factory in Chattanooga unionized last month.
Mercedes workers in Alabama reject union, dealing setback to UAW.VANCE, Alabama, May 17 (Reuters) – U.S. workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama handed a stinging loss to the United Auto Workers on Friday, rejecting the union in a vote it had expected would build on a win at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant and push it deeper into the U.S. South.
It marked the first big loss for UAW organizers after a series of victories, including double-digit raises for Detroit workers and the union’s expansion to a VW factory in Chattanooga last month. That leaves the next steps unclear for the union, which is in the midst of a $40 million campaign targeting other automakers including Toyota and. Tesla.
“It was clearly damaging to the union and other organizing attempts near-term, but it is the beginning, not the end,” said Harley Shaiken, a labor professor at the University California, Berkeley. He blamed worker unfamiliarity with the union and pushback from Mercedes for the loss.
The workers at the plant in Vance, Alabama, and a nearby battery facility voted 2,642 to 2,045 against joining the UAW, meaning 56% voted “no,” according to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the vote. The result still needs to be certified.
“While this loss stings, we’ll keep our heads up,” UAW President Shawn Fain said at a nearby union hall following the loss.
“I’m not scared at all,” he said when asked about losing momentum. “This is a setback.”
The UAW had hoped to continue a run that includes the overwhelming VW win in Tennessee, as well as a lucrative new contract at six Daimler Truck facilities across the South. Daimler Truck was spun off from what is now Mercedes.
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Oh and Mornin’ Gang
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Never heard of Wordle? Me neither but one year after it was introduced 4.8 billion, (with a “B”) folks were playing the game.
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That’s great news on the Mercedes plant, the earlier stories made it sound like it was in the bag for the union.
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NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Larson is attempting “The Double” next Sunday, running in the Indy 500 then that night the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte. That’s 1,100 miles of racing in one day. As of yesterday, he has qualified for the Indy race placing in the top 12, he has also recorded the fastest lap a couple times in practice. Several other drivers have ran The Double over the years but this dude can wheel anything with a motor and steering wheel. It will be exciting to watch.
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Bless Tedtam and Shannon for going to MHarper’s home and helping her.
Indeed, Dear Lady, please use your walker rather than your cane for safest balance.
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Kyle Larson top 12 qualifying run yesterday.
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About my UAW post, since we are in Alabama this has been on the news.
The ad by More Perfect Union Solidarity is airing as more than 5,000 Mercedes workers in Alabama vote this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers. The ad included comments the legendary football coach made when asked a question about the possible organization of college athletes.
“Not only were these comments taken entirely out of context, they were also being used without my knowledge or permission. I do not personally endorse the UAW or its campaign and have asked the UAW to remove any advertisements featuring me from circulation,” Saban said in a statement.
“I encourage all Team Members to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming election,” Saban added.
More Perfect Union Solidarity President Faiz Shakir maintained that “we didn’t take anything Coach said out of context.”
“We presented his public statements exactly as he made them; and we’d ask people to watch the ad and judge for themselves,” Shakir said.
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The three hardest things to say :
* I was wrong
* I need help
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Rolling the asphalt on the Talladega Motor Speedway in 1969.
FWIW; I remember seeing that picture in the Sunday edition of the Montgomery Advertiser.
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We just got back from grandson’s Hebrew School graduation and are having the Mother’s Day lunch we missed last week.
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I hope M Harper is recovering from her fall and is comfortable at home. I am sure she is very concerned about caring for her cats: they are family. Perhaps her veterinarian could recommend someone to help with caring for them so she can rest as needed and not worry.
Sending a prayer to St. Francis of Assisi, the Patron Saint of Animals.
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We have deer visitors in our front pasture today.
And it got a bit confusing a few minutes ago when we saw a doe in the middle of the front pasture and her fawn parked along the fence line near the paddock in front of the barn. We went outside to see the sleeping baby from a distance across the paddock and were surprised to see two babies asleep face to face by the fence. We looked everywhere nearby for the other mother and could not find one. So maybe the two are twins. Hope the mother has enough milk for two.
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I was looking for something to watch on Pluto TV while I rested the back (making a second attempt at a fire on the pit – I’d never make it as an arsonist). On the “Classic TV” channel I found “Sea Hunt”. Geez, I can’t remember the last time I watched that show.
That’s one thing I like about Pluto – it retrieves things from the memory box and waves them around in front of you. You know, to remind you what we’ve lost.
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But I did just giggle a bit at the “special effects”. I do remember that they didn’t have all the computer gadgets that we have today.
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There’s been a joke floating around the internet about how riding a cruise ship is cheaper than living on land. Now there’s a cruise ship that’s going to make it happen: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/cruise-line-offers-retirees-concerned-about-inflation-new-way-life
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WE have power, my neighbor and I repaired our common fence (3 new posts) and I have a batch of bread cooling in the oven. Life is good.
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For example, the renewed fighting in Gaza’s north is the subject of this lead from the Wall Street Journal: “Seven months into the war, Hamas is far from defeated, stoking fears in Israel that it is walking into a forever war.”
This is a very Western, and indeed American, way of looking at it. Because when you live far from the war zone, as in the case of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, you always fear walking into a trap. But Israel isn’t walking into anything—in fact, Israel tried walking away from Gaza. Not just in its 2005 disengagement, although that move did end once and for all any notion of an Israeli “occupation” in Gaza. Israel, in fact, tried walking away in 1967—that is, immediately upon taking and holding the territory in a defensive war. The Arab states Israel had defeated met in Khartoum and released a famous resolution declaring the “three noes”: No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiation with Israel.
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Which brings us to the second point: This is already a forever war. And that forever war was declared by Israel’s enemies and is re-declared each time Israel offers to end it. Hamas’s raison d’etre, in fact, is forever war. You can find this out by doing such things as: asking them; reading their statements; reading their essential documents; watching their interviews; opening your eyes; etc.
Hamas does not deny this. Since October 7, Hamas officials have been saying this with even more regularity than they did before. Just one example of about a million: “Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such,” Khalil al-Hayya, one of Hamas’s top leaders, said in November. “Hamas, the Qassam [brigades] and the resistance woke the world up from its deep sleep and showed that this issue must remain on the table. This battle was not because we wanted fuel or laborers. It did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza. This battle is to completely overthrow the situation.”
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More signs of the California Apocalypse. Unbelievable.
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Oakland is now replacing traffic lights with stop signs due to homeless encampments stealing from Oakland’s electrical boxes:
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Well, Gramps, I really wanted Breakfast for supper tonight. Which happens with some regularity since I have skipped breakfast most of my 68 years, though I love it.
So, it was 3 fried eggs over-almost-hard, and some Jimmy Dean pork sausage patties – well done. The special part was the surprisingly acceptable, cheapo, HEB brand canned biscuits. But that was probably because I pulled out the Lazy Bee brand raw honey from Burton, Texas – a rich, dark honey, yet not cloyingly sweet. It was Fay’s favorite.
I’ve never been much of a honey guy, but this stuff is pretty special.
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Sounds good to me and I don’t know if the honey is from mesquite or not but if so that is the best honey I’ve had. Much better than Banana River and certainly better than the bland White Clover stuff out of Iowa. Oh and since my wife hadn’t got back from visiting her brother in Eufaula at supper time, I had sardines on toast with cheddar cheese & jalapenos. Good Stuff Maynard.
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I’m pretty certain that refined sugars and sugar in general is what is killing us all off.
Honey is from God and his bees and flowers. It’s probably okay in extremely limited quantities.
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The Corn Syrup mafia is just as deserving of Super Max imprisonment as is Big Pharma.
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I would just like to know the guy who invented “high fructose corn syrup” is rotting in the deepest pits of hell right now.
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Amen!
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Don’t forget that one can make a pretty nice whiskey out of HFCS. . . .just sayin.
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Kroger had pork ribs on sale, so Handsome Son got invited down for dinner. Most of the veggies came from my garden: lettuce, tomato, green beans, onions, cucumber, banana peppers. Since I didn’t pick during the rain nor yesterday because I was hoping the mosquito problem would die down a bit, there were quite a few new green beans to pick.
The mosquito problem didn’t die down at all. They got to eat before I did. I had to run back inside, swatting furiously.
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Lazy Bee Honey hives are all within a 60 mile radius of Washington County (Brenham). Not exactly mesquite country. But there is a bit of huizache. 🙂
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Mesquite and Huizache.
Both are invasive species from Mexico.
Been going on for thousands of years.
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I’d do unspeakable things for some pork spare ribs. Haven’t had any in over two years.
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Now ya’ll have done it – got my taste buds wanting smoked pork… and I ran across a John in Bibs Freeze drying video where he did a pork loin 😉 Of course he did his oven roasted then freeze dried it with gravy… I’m thinking we need to do one that way and another cooked in the smoker/grill BBQ thing… But that will have to wait until after PT tomorrow, no matter which way we cook it before freeze drying it…
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