I miss Robin Williams. His stuff never gets old. I wish he was. /sad
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Good morning.
Just for fun, I went to Stubhub to check on the asking price for a ticket to the November 30 UT vs. A&M game at Kyle Field.
$500 – $800
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They will never get me in Kyle Field again. Those extremely steep long stairways with zero handrails are ridiculous. There is not a sports event anywhere in the world I would pay $500 to see.
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You been since they rebuilt it a few years ago?
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No, but it is just as steep if not worse from the photos. Besides, I avoid crowds like that these days. Too much potential for panic and mayhem.
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Well we made it to the beach! I’d mentioned that we rented a nice beach house on the water, just up the road from Pineapple Willy’s. It’s pretty fancy for a Farm Boy from Alabama but once you get past three couples and a two young-uns the prices are all about the same. The girls wanted a pool so that jacked it up a little bit. A 2 story with 6 bedrooms and 6.5 baths, it’s made for entertaining groups or families. 2 of the upstairs bedrooms have full size bunk beds, I’ve never seen that before. The granddaughters pretty much stayed in the pool until past 10 PM last night. Oh and luckily for us we dodged Debbie as she headed further west and we do hope the folks hit by the storm fair well. I’m just glad it was a small Cat 1 storm. We had some weather to the west of us that almost blocked out our sunset but I managed to snap pretty good shot as the sun sank into the Gulf.
Did I tell you that Life is Good?
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Great memories you’re building there Super Dave, exciting to see your family outgrowing the condo. BIL who just passed happened to mention Saturday that he was the last Haney on the family tree, him being the only son and he had no kids. Sad to see once you ponder.
My brother and I were the last with our name, this after a healthy crop of six great uncles. I have one boy and he has two, mine is 33 now and is not interested in having kids, brother’s oldest is 31 I think, wants kids but is still single. Might all be up to his youngest who is 25 or 26 but is single as well.
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My brother has 3 boys, one married and they have a daughter. I have a son and daughter, the daughter has one son and my son is not married and the prospects for same are . . . .dim. My one male cousin with our last name has no children. There are darned few with our last name in the country and not that many more in Europe. I am the only one with my first, middle and last name in the country.
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Yup,Sad. One of the reasons there are so few of our family is that the boys tend to have girls and the girls tend to have boys but I had one of each just like my Daddy. That said my Boy has 2 girls and DIL says there’ll be no more.He’d like to have a boy. Of course the main reason there are so few of us is that we have one, only one ancestor to cross the pond in 1654 exactly 300 years before I was born. My wife has a common Irish surname so there are thousands of folks with her last name.
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About the fancy Beach House, the next to the largest bedroom on the second floor has the best view. Oh and our bedroom is downstairs, Daughter snagged that room because of the view. The Boy got the Master Bedroom. 😉
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This desperate little man is pathetic. He has a full time staff of two dozen people to polish his image and “personal brand.”
Bill Gates is desperate for the one thing his billions can’t buy: a Nobel Peace Prize. He even has a team of staffers dedicated to making him seem like a “lovable nerd philanthropist” as part of his quest, according to a new book.
It’s also why he befriended Jeffrey Epstein — just one of the skeletons in his closet, Anupreeta Das writes in her new book, “Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World,” out Aug. 13.
“To boost his candidacy for the big prize, some of his handlers … launched publicity campaigns when the world was nearing a public health milestone that the Gates Foundation was involved in,” writes Das, finance editor of the New York Times.
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The Kameleon picks Gov. Tim Walls (Minn) as her running mate. I guess picking a Jew would cost Minnesota and they can’t afford to lose that state. I hope and pray that sanity prevails amongst We The People and vote out the commie, civilizational hating Ds out of office up and down the ballot.
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He’s the Gavin Newsome of the Midwest.
Crime has skyrocketed there the past few years.
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If you go to a shoreside hospital and the renowned Texas Medical Center (40 miles from Galveston Bay) with all the symptoms this man had and nobody but the man’s daughter even bothers to think of vibrio infection…this is almost criminal. A dozen people have died from this already and not a single medical personnel thinks of it.
I honestly don’t know how I survived the many years of swimming, surfing and wading in the Gulf of Mexico. Once as a teenager, on a dare, I went almost to the end of a jetty, slid off because of the algae into the huge granite rocks and cut up my foot so badly I had to have stitches. Is this vibrio bacteria so much worse these days or was it my strong immune system ?
A Texas man was killed by flesh-eating bacteria after going crabbing in flip-flops instead of his usual wading boots.
Randy Bunch, 66, passed away within a week of becoming infected, his family said – eventually succumbing on June 8.
A few days before, the seasoned fisherman retrieved a crab trap in his native Freeport, in shallow waters off a boat ramp he had frequented for years.
and here is the worst part,
Another hospital visit ensued – this time to the Texas Medical Center in Houston.
There, Bunch’s condition quickly continued to deteriorate, and within half a day, he was in dire straits.
and this,
‘I saw his foot and was like, ‘Oh, gosh. Could this be the flesh-eating bacteria? The vibrio?” Pendergraft recalled of the realization.
Doctors soon discovered that she was right, but by then, it was already too late.
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Popping in and out – gotta run to the Heights on an errand before meeting Hubby for a day-late birthday lunch, then errands elsewhere for a while.
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Stephen Miller is keeping things hopping.
America First Legal (AFL) is suing Maricopa County, Arizona, for allegedly disregarding state law requiring officials to purge voter rolls of any noncitizens.
The Washington, D.C.,-based organization, led by former Trump administration senior advisor Stephen Miller, filed the lawsuit against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Tuesday, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The lawsuit comes after AFL demanded Richer’s office to remove foreign nationals from the county’s voter rolls — demands that Richer rebuffed.
Why would a elections official outright refuse to remove illegal aliens from registered voter rolls ?
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IT makes the cheat and steal much easier if you have a buffer of illegal votes on tap. There is no other reason. Richer should never breathe free air again.
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For the first time I just saw a six-axle dump truck. Glad I don’t have to keep that thing in tires.
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I’ll bet it takes a penny or two to keep it in fuel, as well…
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I’m really surprised the TxDOT, or any other state, is allowing these rigs. The trucking industry has much better lobbyists than back when I was involved. These six and seven axle dump trucks are rated for Gross Vehicle Weight Ratings up 88,000 lbs. concentrated in a footprint not much larger than my Ford F-350, 4-dr, long bed pickup. That is an enormous amount of force per square inch on the roads and bridges.
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Watch out for spirit bear crossing the road in Bellville.
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THE MARKETS ARE CRASHING
I am not playing games this is some serious bovine processed hay.
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Kameltowed and the last Walz.
a true communist ticket made in Hades with the blessing of Satan’s boss, the Kenyan.the last Walz will appeal to the rural voter says the media of Beelzebub.
right.
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I always find it amusing when even scientists become complacent and assume they know everything….and then, surprise, surprise, as Jim Nabors would say.
Our Creator runs a very orderly, synchronized tight ship.
In particular, it is challenging what we thought we knew about the early evolution of galaxies.
and,
The CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) survey, led by Prof Steven Finkelstein of the University of Texas at Austin, used JWST’s NIRCam instrument to look back as far as the epoch of reionisation, just after the so-called dark ages of cosmic evolution, to study the structure of galaxies in the very early Universe.
It found more of them than predicted, and they appear bigger and brighter than expected.
What !?!?!!!
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I’m wondering when this whole Feed Our Future scandal will blow up in Walz’s face. It sounds to me like this judge was fed a lot of lies throughout this corrupt episode. All this happened on Walz’s watch by people he appointed. There are many ways to steal from a $250 million scam.
FOX 9) – In a rare public rebuke, a Ramsey County judge on Friday criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for making what the judge called “inaccurate statements” about a massive fraud case.
The previous day, Walz called for an investigation into Judge John Guthmann, whom he accused of forcing the state to restart payments to nonprofit Feeding Our Future in 2021. In his response, Guthmann said Minnesota education officials made all payments voluntarily.
Federal authorities have indicted 48 people connected to the nonprofit in what the feds consider the biggest pandemic fraud scheme in the U.S. The feds say at least $250 million was stolen from a federal nutrition program meant to feed low-income children.
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Walz claimed that Trump is “not going to do anything” about the disaster on the southern border that has been unleashed by the Biden-Harris Administration.
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In November 2005, Walz reached out to his former battalion as it was preparing for war. He offered to hold a fundraiser for their bus trip home over Christmas. “The same Soldiers he had abandoned just months before, trying to buy their votes,” Behrends and Herr wrote.
These are not the only two to call out Walz’s service. According to Behrends and Herr, Tom Hagen, an Iraq war veteran, wrote a letter to the Winona Daily News calling Walz’s retirement “disturbing”.
“But even more disturbing is the fact that Walz quickly retired after learning that his unit —southern Minnesota’s 1-125 FA Battalion — would be sent to Iraq,” Hagen wrote in the letter, according to Behrends and Herr. “For Tim Walz to abandon his fellow soldiers and quit when they needed experienced leadership most is disheartening. It dishonors those brave American men and women who did answer their nation’s call and who continue to serve, fight and unfortunately die in harm’s way for us.”
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See Tim Walz’ wife. She looks like a young Hitlery and is probably to the left of her politically, if that is even possible.
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Back home after lunch dining out after a late morning routine Dr.appointment.
Now trying to catch up on what’s happening in River City amongst the obviously Dizzy Dems. Ya need a program to keep track of all of them. They are Dizzy, and it is disgustingly easy to see too many of the Pressers are scrambling to cover that up at all costs. If we want to know what is really going on, stick with Hambone’s commentary and other conservative commentaries available elsewhere.
Hamsters know where to find things of great interest, for which we are grateful. 🙂
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Squawk, here is a starkly obvious reason why we are in this looming economic catastrophe.
Watch the 01:42 Video. It is staggering.
This is the Biden-Harris Administration’s handpicked Economic Advisors Chair, Jared Bernstein, struggling to understand basic economics and the consequences of uncontrolled money printing.
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Ohhhhh that is gonna leave a mark. These idiots think that they can print baby print with nothing bad happening. Sadly we have an economy that is based on credit. Thank you Dick Nixon for taking us off the gold standard.
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Hey, Squawk. Remember my $723 electric bill ?
If you get a bill in the mail for a monthly charge of $1,873.90, who would you expect to be paying? A mortgage company? A landlord?
Not in California. That bill covers electricity for a suburban house near San Diego, according to the Wall Street Journal. Thanks to the state’s refusal to use fossil fuels and to fund green-energy sources, the costs have come due for utility customers, in a state where power costs are rising faster than anywhere else in the country:
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The chickens have come home to rrroooooost
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Finally back after my post-birthversary for Hubby. Next time, I’m getting the ribeye instead of the sirloin. I usually get the ribeye at our steak house but thought I’d try a different cut today. Nah. Ribeye is better.
I dropped off the freeze dried Skittles ™ to my lender friend this morning. His kids were so cute on the phone. They told their daddy that they wanted “the nice lady” to make some more for them.
If it puts smiles on kids, I’m all for it.
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I have time for the C&C before I get on the treadmill:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Today’s roundup includes: markets recover, slightly, while media keeps ignoring the nuclear rocket on the stock market trading floor; Israel does it again, despite all the U.S. claims we are doing ‘everything possible’ to avoid escalation; headlines show pattern of escalation rather than diplomacy; we connect some nuclear dots to guess why we seem Hell-bent on war with Iran; more evidence of media malfeasance; great but buried story links cell towers to bovine deaths and lameness; and a federal court finally drops the antitrust hammer on Google.
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Re: Markets, Media, and avoiding mentioning the pending war
… Among other things, a broad Middle East war would shut off the oil flow, causing (more) worldwide inflation, hobbling supply chains, and generally wreaking havoc on global business and finance.
Markets are often said to have their own intelligence, smarter than any A.I. Through crowdsourcing, they aggregate millions of individual data points and self-interested decisions, which are all boiled down into handy, easy-to-understand share prices.
I hate to sound like I mistrust everything, but I wonder to what extent yesterday’s market recovery, such as it was, reflected undisclosed government buying to prop up prices, rather than any recovering consumer confidence. It looked a lot like the media version of Basil Fawlty goose-stepping through the Manhattan lobby on his way to the Stock Market’s bar [a reference to a Fawlty Towers/John Cleese show].
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After some discussion of Israel methodically eliminating the higher ups among their enemies and the rising ire of Iran, he ends with this:
Until recently, General Shoigu, who now heads Russia’s Security Council, was the top officer in charge of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Yesterday he met with the mullahs in Iran. Is it to be a new proxy war for Mr. Shoigu?
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The “twenty foot ladder” thing was the mantra of that liberal lawyer in the LST days that everyone had so much respect for. I couldn’t stand his snarky azz.
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I don’t remember that. Do you recall his name ?
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Can’t for the life of me remember his name. Seems he was in Waco?? Bill something??
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Amid the ME war stories, remember this:
Two weeks ago, Secretary of State and rabid neocon Anthony Blinken announced Iran was only two weeks away from getting nukes. Remember that.
Israel is a tiny country the size of New Jersey, surrounded by enemies sworn to its destruction. Of them all, Israel views Iran as the biggest single threat, mostly because Iranian leaders keep promising to wipe Israel off the map, and funding “resistance” groups like Hezbollah that constantly launch rockets into Israel. Ben-Mier explained two critical dynamics: (1) Israel needs the United States to win a war with Iran, and (2) Israel must prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons at all costs.
Mr. Ben-Mier described three conditions under which Israel would attack Iran to stop it from getting nukes:
According to Mr. C.’s source (https://www.jstor.org/stable/20752917 ) these are the conditions:
- If negotiations are failing and Iran is “approaching breakout capacity”.
- Sanctions fail, and “coercive measures” fail, and Iran continues to threaten Israel while continuing its nuclear program.
- If Israeli intelligence determines that Iran is on the verge of acquiring nukes, the threat against Israel is imminent, and no one is stepping in to stop Iran from making good on their threat.
However catastrophic it may be. Remember that one, too. Ben-Mier’s three conditions have now been satisfied. Negotiations and sanctions have failed to stop Iran from enriching weapons-grade uranium. And, at least according to neocons in the Biden Administration, Iran is now ‘on the verge’ of acquiring a nuclear device. So check, check, check
…Could Israel be provoking Iran into throwing the first punch, and lunging right into the American bouncer? Does it have to play out this way, with Iran attacking first, to make it politically possible for the Biden Administration to start its next Proxy War against Iran? Obviously, I don’t, and can’t, know for sure.
Either way, it’s bad juju for everyone.
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RE: Google search monopoly
Google got b**ch slapped harshly by a judge regarding its monopolistic behavior. Further hearings are scheduled to discuss remedies, but Mr. C. anticipates an appeals process that could take years to complete.
One wonders. Had Google not abandoned its original motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” might it have avoided the DOJ’s crosshairs? Once again, we see the example of a big corporation that decides to dabble in politics and then discovers what happens next. (Ahem, Disney.)
As a libertarian-minded conservative, I generally object to government meddling in markets. But there is a place for anti-trust laws, and I can’t think of a more deserving target of scrutiny than this particular search giant. Thus, it’s progress.
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79 years ago, Hiroshima got nuked.
Here’s how the Enola Gay kept from getting blowed up by it own self.
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Cool video. Back around 2013, my daughter in Oregon decided to get married at the Bonneville Salt Flats. We stayed at the big casino hotel in Wendover, Nevada on the Utah/Nevada state line. The whole thing was a surreal experience. One thing I found in that little town was an old decommissioned US Air Force base that was the secret home base for the Enola Gay and Bockscar B-29 bombers that departed from there and dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I drove down there and while it is still a functional air strip, it’s used mainly to fly massive amounts of cash back and forth from Las Vegas. Lots of security there.
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I am gettin one of these for my man cave.
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What Shannon wouldn’t give for one those. Then he would never have to get up.
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Where would he pee?
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We had an inch of rain yesterday and now we are predicted to get 4 inches over the next 72 hours. There is almost no way I’m going to escape this without water in the basement.
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It’s not a flooded basement, it’s an indoor swimming pool.
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Mold factory.
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I was looking for something earlier. I found a flash drive that I’ve been missing, but now I’m missing my bluetooth mouse.
Never did find the TV remote that I wanted. I finally ordered one.
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This is a good start on cleaning voter rolls:
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What a day. We had a great time on the beach and later walked down to Pineapple Willy’s for super. We walked back along the beach just after the sunset. We watched it from the restaurant pier but couldn’t get a picture because of the screens to filter out the hot sun. When we got back to the house the Boy snapped a pretty good shot of the Crescent Moon rising in the west just after sunset. Not bad for a cell phone. 😉
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Spotted over yonder; Racist Squad member Cori Bush lost her primary tonight.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Obituary for Eddie (Bubba) Haney. I thought my wife did a good job encapsulating his life and heart in the limited space.
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RE Texpat’s 2:48 post – that’s scarier than any natural disaster. Holy freaking cow.
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Here is the final with 98% reporting in Missouri Congressional District #1.
51.42% Wesley Bell
45.6% Cori Bush
She did better than the polls were indicating.
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