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Weekend Open Comments Turkey Edition

And here I thought Washington DC was the Turkey Capital of the World.  Worthington, Minnesota. tries each year to lay claim to Turkey Capital but we all know because everything is bigger in Texas, well they just can’t be. God bless Cuero, Texas….

THE TURKEY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

Turkeyfest is the latest iteration of a long line of turkey-related festivities in Cuero. The tradition dates back to the late 1800s, when local farmers would drive turkeys on foot across the countryside to sell at the market every autumn. The birds were presented to visiting buyers, slaughtered, processed, and shipped to arrive in northeastern cities in time for Thanksgiving—likely explaining why the festival has long been held in October, not November, as you might expect. The sight of thousands of turkeys parading down Main Street attracted crowds, and legend has it that one of the big-city turkey buyers admired the scene and made a remark along the lines of “You should do something with this,” planting the seed that an annual turkey drive could be a stand-alone attraction for the town. For the past fifty or so years, the Great Gobbler Gallop has played up a lighthearted rivalry between Cuero and Worthington, Minnesota. Both towns call themselves the Turkey Capital of the World; to settle the debate over who truly deserves the title and award bragging rights for the year to come, Worthington ships one of its turkeys to race a Cuero bird at Turkeyfest each year.

You will just have to RTWD Texas Monthly article to find out if CUERO has retained her title.

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130 responses to “Weekend Open Comments Turkey Edition”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s the weekend! First?!
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Gobble Gobble

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Going to be surrounded by Aggies tonight. Wish me luck.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Good Luck! 😉

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Speak slowly and don’t use any big words.

    3. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Just say “Howdy!” and smile big. You’ll be fine.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Have y’all seen this?

    US President Joe Biden Pictured With Book On Palestine, Author Responds.
    The book, which frames establishment of Israel as a “settler-colonial conquest” met by Palestinian resistance, has fuelled debates since its release.

    US President Joe Biden was spotted holding a copy of ‘The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine’ by Columbia University professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi. The outgoing President surprised one and all with his pick during a Black Friday outing in Nantucket.

    Mr Khalidi, the author of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, reacted to the pictures, saying the gesture was “four years too late.”

    SO now we know, well “WE” already knew that Biden cared much more for the Goat Rapers than the Israelis but now everyone will know. That said, will the Lamestream Media cover this? Since they’re Pro Hamas they might.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I don’t care what the old demented fool reads because he can’t remember it anyway. He’s gone in 51 days, Thank God !

      What does anger me is he just gave a bunch of publicity for a book of lies that ranks #11,106 on Amazon. Industry estimates are about 100,000 books sold, but that could be off by 30%. I’m not paying $25/month for the data. I’m sure Arab countries and universities ordered at least half of those.

      From the Frontpage Mag’s Discover the Networks profile:

      Khalidi so strongly identified with the aims of the PLO, which was designated as a terrorist group by the State Department during Khalidi’s affiliation with it in the 1980s, that he repeatedly referred to himself as “we” when expounding on the PLO’s agenda. Additional evidence of Khalidi’s intimacy with the PLO can be seen in his involvement with the organization’s so-called “guidance committee” in the early 1990s.

      Khalidi’s 1986 book, _Under Siege: P.L.O. Decision-Making During the 1982 War_, was dedicated to Yasser Arafat. 

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang, GJT snuck in and tried to take the pole but NO Cigar. 😉

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      😀

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    … Loaded up the fam and went to look at the Amish Christmas lights last night. 😀

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Lol

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I had a friend from Cuero who would invite me down for the Turkey Trot weekend, but sadly I never found time to go. Great post, Squawk.

    Heh. I like filing this under the Critical Race Theory category. Nice touch.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I stumbled across a great shot of Southern Tragedy (J Nine) during Bluebonnet season.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Love her shirt. Geez, she sure left a void in the world when she left.

    2. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      Thanks for sharing – that IS a great shot…

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    One of the best family father/daughter Christmas ads ever and it comes from Apple. Everybody is pretty stunned given the ultra-woke ads of the recent past. If you are the father of a daughter, well, you might want get a
    kleenex. Be sure to go full screen.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Oh my! What a great ad and the little blonde beauty looks just like my baby girl. Is somebody cuttin’ onions in here? 😉

      1. Tedtam Avatar
        Tedtam

        No, they’re cuttng onions over here.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The strikingly brilliant geniuses at The Economist have discovered why America is trillions in debt. Yes, it’s true and hard to accept, but it has been revealed benefits to military veterans in the USA ARE DRIVING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTO BANKRUPTCY.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Veteran’s benefits amount to a rounding error compared to the waste in the State Dept, CIA, FBI, and the DOD not including veterans benefits.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nissan/Infiniti was probably not going to survive even if EV mandates had never materialized. But the billions and billions of dollars wasted by automaker executives listening to the Biden/Harris clowns have nearly destroyed a great industry and ended up screwing all the auto companies’ stockholders.

    A grim reminder, if you needed one, that as bright as the economy’s future might look, the effects of Joe and Kamala’s economy are still very much being felt.

    Things aren’t looking good at Nissan. Dealers are selling cars at a loss, production has slowed, and more recently, the company cut thousands of jobs and sold a third of its stake in Mitsubishi. But it all may have been too little too late.

    A new report suggests that the automaker’s days are numbered. In an interview with the Financial Times, two unnamed Nissan executives said the company has ’12 to 14 months to survive.’

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I spent my first hours resorting and reorganizing my beads. Well, some of them anyway. When I have leftover beads and can’t find the original bags or boxes they came from, or if there are only a few they get set aside until I find another string that matches and they can all be put together for future use.

    No rosary made yet, but I did pray one. When my back loosens up a bit I might try sitting at my table again.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Liberals are truly deranged. They are mutilating their bodies because they believe that boogeyman Trump is going to take away their “reproductive rights”.

    Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Let’s be frank about this. It’s a form of Darwinism at work here. As much as America needs to boost its birthrate, it shouldn’t include deranged, unhinged mothers. These mentally unstable women shouldn’t be having children anyway.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        Absolutely. They represent a self correcting problem.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I thought Mr. Childers would take the weekend off, but he’s back!

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! I hope everyone enjoyed the blessed hearts and hearths of friends and family, giving thanks for our many singular and mutual blessings. C&C is back. And a lot has been happening over the two short days off. Today’s roundup includes: Florida files no-chemtrails bill under the shadow of the federal government; breathtaking NYT limited hangout story deploys new permission structure normalizing chemtrails; Ukraine war narrative evolving wildly as world reacts to Russian super weapon; Trump effect summons Canadian premier to America’s southern Capitol to discuss border security; and another game-changing Joe Rogan interview puts the icing on the weaponization cake.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is an example of why X is such an excellent platform. You can deliver big idea in small brief spaces. Click on the link to see the photos.
    Hundreds of people have died in Spain, not because of climate change, but because the EU forced them to demolish over 200 dams.

    Two years ago, The Guardian reported that Spain and Portugal were becoming too dry thanks to climate change.

    Now, The Guardian says that Spain is too wet because of climate change.

    The narrative changes with the weather.

    No matter what the weather does, it is always your fault and the only solution is to expand the government’s power.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Florida tries to eliminate any chemtrails, but there’s a glitch:

    The best news was that photogenic Florida Senator Ileana Garcia (R-36) introduced SB 56, an anti-chemtrail bill. If passed, it would prohibit “injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or apparatus into the atmosphere” that “affect the temperature, the weather, or the intensity of sunlight” in the Sunshine State.

    So far, so good. But later down the story, it mentioned how earlier this year, Tennessee passed a similar geoengineering ban. But then Tennessee’s administrative agencies said the state’s new law was unenforceable, since the federal government has jurisdiction over chemtrails under the 1963 Clean Air Act,, which now seems pretty badly named. 

    “Air pollutants” includes substances used in geoengineering, and the FAA gets to choose if and when it decides to make folks – or the gubmint – follow the law. So, the gubmint gets to decide if they themselves want to drop stuff into our skies – so much for “clean air”.

    But in our bonkers timeline, under color of the very same “clean air” environmental laws, enthusiastic liberal “environmentalists” are secretly poisoning the air with aluminum nanoparticles in their quixotic efforts to blot out the sun. Not only are they killing us with aluminum poisoning, they are sadly locking in three generations of seasonal affective disorder.

    Was it to protect our air? Or the government’s control over us? Oh, wait..I think I just answered my own question….

    But just wait. Yesterday’s chemtrail news got a lot weirder.

    This story is for all you chemtrails conspiracy theorists, the gullible, knuckle-dragging, anti-scientific nitwits….. So, you might also like to know the federal government is now officially creating “secret” military bases to scan for that thing that doesn’t exist that you dopes believe in. From Thursday’s astonishing limited hangout in the New York Times, grandly presented in a fully-animated, long-form, multimedia, magazine-style story:

    /snip

    But I digress. The special scientists working in the guarded Colorado military base are floating balloons that measure air quality, designed to detect foreign particles or aerosols in the air. Not chemtrails. Consider how the article carefully described the unwanted particles:

    /snip

    Don’t worry, the article mentioned you crazy chemtrail people. Briefly. In a single sentence. Not to give you any credit. It said, “As of now, scientists believe that solar geoengineering has only been attempted at a very small scale, despite the claims of conspiracy theorists.”

    In other words, We don’t know how much geoengineering is happening—or even whether it is happening at any significant scale—but we DO know YOU DUMMIES are wrong about how much you think is happening.

    Let’s employ some more critical news reading skills. Consider how that dismissive sentence was constructed. It said that scientists believe that solar geoengineering has only been attempted at a very small scale. They BELIEVE — in other words, they have no evidence. It’s an arrogant guess: their sneering beliefs are inherently better than conspiracy theorists’ beliefs because scientists have credentials.

    I don’t even know what to make of this whole chemtrail business. Mr. C. goes on to discuss the North Korean style of prose that our government is spitting out. There’s a lot of wool being pulled over a lot of eyes.

    Mr. C. tries to explain this weirdness narrative:

    So once again, we find ourselves spinning along the classic wheel of government narrative management:

    Stage One—Marginalization (Laughing Denial: “Take Off Your Tinfoil Hat; it isn’t happening, dummy.”)

    Stage Two—Minimization (Stingy Concession: “Okay, Maybe It Is Happening, but only a little and just sometimes.”)

    Stage Three—Normalization (Arrogant Dismissal: “Fine, It’s Happening a Lot, all the time, but it’s still not as bad as you claimed.”)

    Stage Four—Retconning (Gaslighting: “What Are You So Upset About? We always knew it was inevitable, and you should be thanking us for telling you about it.”)

    But why this limited hangout, and why now? Is it to normalize geoengineering, so they can start doing it in the open? Are they worried an incoming Trump Administration could blow the lid off, or even deploy the same techniques against them? Could one of our enemies be getting better at doing it than us? Who knows. Something has changed, and now liberals have a new permission structure allowing them to talk about chemtrails, so long as they use three words instead of one and call them “plumes of aerosols.”

    Ha! I bet Orwell never saw this kind of syntactic gymnastics coming.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I first became aware of this technique when Hitlery was discussing the illegally obtained FBI files.
      It didn’t happen
      It was just a few
      It was just a handful
      It was less than 20, then 50, then 100
      It doesn’t matter because they have been returned, mostly
      It was less than 1000.
      Lies up one side of the street and down the other isn’t just an occasional thing with the left, it is a way of life.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m skipping the whole Biden/Putin/Ukraine/NATO discussion. Y’all can go and try to figger all that out if’n you’re so inclined.

    On to RFK and the panty wadding:

    Yesterday, the Guardian ran a very instructive story headlined, “Even in blue Colorado, vaccine advocates worry about RFK Jr’s appeal and ‘medical freedom’ movement.”

    It was a long, curious article that first fretted that Colorado’s liberals, long invested in healthy living and personal autonomy, are “susceptible” to vaccine skeptics like Robert Kennedy. Conversely, it described vaccine skeptics as dark, dangerous people who prey on naive, gullible folks like those in Colorado’s crunchy health movement. The article ended by identifying vaccine skepticism as, and I am not making this up, the product of “white wealth and privilege.”

    /snip

    In other words, they’re losing the Democrats because of vaccine skepticism.

    Well, if the public is openly lied to and oppressed, stuff is gonna happen. Like folks not wanting to listen to you any more.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C then brings up the ring kissing by Trudeau and his border control minister. It seems there was an emergency meeting up north when Trump came out with his tariff speeches.

    Mr. C. finishes with this snarky little tidbit:

    In a geographic coincidence, Mar-a-Lago is close to Cuba, which is just 90 miles from Key West. It was the closest Trudeau had been to Havana since he was conceived. Just saying.

    /snuffle snort!

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I saw Tom Homan (New Border Czar) say this morning in an interview that a large study conducted in the first Trump administration that since serious terrorists are well-funded with fake IDs and documents and immigration laws are soft and vague in Canada, it is much more likely to see them enter the USA across our northern border.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: ANNUAL TRYPTOPHAN HANGOVER EDITION

    So it’s Thanksgiving Weekend, when we work off our tryptophan hangovers and calorie overdoses, and wonder why the Chicago Bears are trying to make the Dallas Cowboys look good. Kamala got a head start on the holiday festivities, and what roll-model she is. You may have roasted a 22lb turkey, but Democrats are bigger turkeys still. But they can just fly away to better climes. Wait—what do you mean turkeys can’t fly? As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Never fails to put a smile on my face!

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I believe the Rogan interview Andreesen was discussed here briefly, but here’s Mr. Childers’ mention:

    Andreesen is a pretty big deal, a former Democrat, and very persuasive in the tech sector. If you picked a single theme for his interview, it would be “weaponization of government.”

    Based on Andreesen’s claims, in a sane, non-circus world, the interview would produce Congressional investigations and public hearings, forcing agency heads to either admit serial constitutional violations or else prove they haven’t happened.

    If you have time or need a good travel listen, listen to the whole thing. Among many other astonishing tales, Marc testified from personal experience having been told by Biden Administration officials not to invest in AI, since the government planned to capture and control two or three “competitors” and tightly manage the entire industry. He also described a secret war against digital currency developers including widespread de-banking and nebulous, never-ending quasi-criminal prosecutions in the cryptocurrency sector.

    It’s going to be an exciting four years. Buckle up!

    SPOTIFY: Joe Rogan Experience Hosts Marc Andreesen (3:07:00).

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat
    Well Israel got a cease fire treaty but didn’t but did.
    Watch Caroline Glick explain what I mean.
    File this under what I know.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’ll have to watch later. Her Highness has commandeered my desk.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Amazing! Imagine the turmoil in our medical system if a safe, cheap, effective, no-side-effect pill is available from your GP to cure cancer!

    The case report highlights three cancer patients who were in pretty bad shape. But after taking fenbendazole, they all experienced a complete remission. What Is Fenbendazole, and How Does it Work? Fenbendazole (FBZ) is a medicine originally designed to treat worms and parasites in animals. Its sister drugs, Mebendazole and Albendazole, have had remarkable success treating similar ailments in humans with few side effects. Recently, anecdotal reports have praised fenbendazole as a potentially miraculous anti-cancer drug. It works by destabilizing microtubules, the structures that help cancer cells divide and grow.

    By disrupting this process, fenbendazole effectively halts cancer cell division and slows or stops tumor growth. Miraculous Recoveries After Taking Fenbendazole Case series #1 features a 63-year-old man with advanced kidney cancer (clear cell renal carcinoma) who experienced tumor recurrence and severe side effects from multiple cancer therapies, including surgery and two different medications. With no effective options left, he turned to fenbendazole (FBZ), taking 1 gram three times a week at a friend’s suggestion. Over the next 10 months, his tumors—including those in his pancreas and spine—showed near-complete resolution on imaging. Remarkably, he experienced no side effects from FBZ, and follow-up scans have shown no signs of recurrence. 

    IIRC, ivermectin has also been used to treat cancer. Whatever kills parasites disrupts cancer, too, it seems.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Heads. Should. Roll. ™

    Military hides jab-affected pilot conditions from the public.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat
    You gave a scenario how the only way this mess in Lebanon and Israel will stop, Well lemme show you how this is all gonna play out in that area. Till this day these conflicts will go on in one way shape form or another. But the most important verses are these…… It is how this particular mess will stop.God is talking to Russia and the other countries that confederate with them to attack Israel. HE has the answer.

    Ezekiel 39:6-8
     6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the Lord.
    7 “‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel. 8 It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken of.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Amen.

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Earlier in Ezekiel HE makes it clear that when the time comes, they will have to show up:
      Ezekiel 38:4

      I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.

      They are coming to be destroyed and they have no choice.

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have recently become better acquainted with Cuero because a close friend lived in nearby Nordheim.
    Cuero is a bustling, charming Texas town whose population is over 8,000 now. There is a mighty fine Italian restaurant there.
    Older parts of downtown are reminiscent of Calvert.

    There you will also find the breathtaking DeWitt County Courthouse.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Now I gotta go there. I love that court house. Right in my wheel house for taking pictures. Thanks for the heads up.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        SQK
        The drive from Cuero to Goliad is so beautiful in the spring – it’ll make you tear up.
        One of my favorites.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The USS Texas in WWII

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There is some stupid car site called Jalopnik. They realized nobody was reading their website so they needed some serious click/hatebait. What to do ?

    Write a big diatribe about the most American, the most popular business in America. Yeah, that’s the ticket…let’s crap all over Buc-ees !

    But what we lack in vintage we’re more than making up for lost time clearing space in our lives for modern day gods. We’ll absolutely clear a couple dozen acres of pristine natural land to plop down a giant fueling depot with hundreds of gas pumps, miles-long car washing robot tunnels, and a grocery store/barbecue restaurant/junk store packed with sh*t nobody needs. Buc-ee’s is our Parthenon, The Automobile is our Athena, and that chubby and cheerful wood-chewing rodent is her symbolic owl stand-in.

    Don’t worry though, Twitchy has the responses.

    The Rooster

    @TheRooster53

    Who the f#@k approved this BS? It’s a friggin’ interstate rest stop. It’s super fun in its over the top variety! Clean as a whistle; great, friendly staff; good prices. The epitome of coastal elite snobbery at its worst.

  28. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Stage One—Marginalization (Laughing Denial: “Take Off Your Tinfoil Hat; it isn’t happening, dummy.”)

    Stage Two—Minimization (Stingy Concession: “Okay, Maybe It Is Happening, but only a little and just sometimes.”)

    Stage Three—Normalization (Arrogant Dismissal: “Fine, It’s Happening a Lot, all the time, but it’s still not as bad as you claimed.”)

    Stage Four—Retconning (Gaslighting: “What Are You So Upset About? We always knew it was inevitable, and you should

    Yup.
    Chemtrailers used to be tinfoilists. Up next is geo-engineering of hairycanes and the four phases listed above.

    do a search on hurricanes and geo-engineering and you’ll get the usual so called fact check propagandists saying it’s false. Debunked. A conspiracy theory.

    when they protest so quickly I then believe where there’s smoke there’s fire.

    Here’s dr Phil goods fact check.

    Oswald acted alone. pffffftttt
    fauci flu wasn’t lab created. pfftttttt
    russia and Trump collusion was real. pfffftttttt
    the wooden dummy got 81 million votes. Pfffffttttttt
    the kammunist got 74 million votes. pffffftttttt
    totalatarincrats keep counting and manufacturing ballots 25 days after an election. True

    and then there’s this. Pay close attention to what he says @the 2:45 mark.
    they may not invite him back.

    the cbs hosts look stunned and try to drive the approved narrative in the beginning.
    As far as hairycanes go when he says experiments done in the lab are the labs Texas, Louisiana and Florida?;)

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Also in Cuero is the Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum.
    I haven’t visited it, but it looked interesting…

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    BTW BSue and I sojourned to Buc cees Centerville for future dinner. On Friday no less. That place was a madhouse, but hey, BSue and I fit right in.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby is going to Handsome Son’s house to watch the football game. I need to finish the canning I started last night. I have sole control of the remote….

    Hubby started a betting pool with his car club friends, the winner(s) to donate their winnings to the club so they can do more Christmas and stuff.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I forgot to include Dr. Malone’s Friday Funnies link.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That Georgia / Georgia Tech game last night was unreal.
    Eight overtimes!

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Speaking of courthouses, I noticed in Hempstead the other day that Waller County is building a new courthouse on the site of the old one.
    The superstructure is up, and it looks like it could be a really neat one.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Anything would be an improvement. That was one ugly old building.

      1. wagonburner Avatar
        wagonburner

        The courthouse in Bellville looks like they hired East Germany’s best architect.

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          The majestic original 19th century Austin County courthouse in Bellville burned down in a horrible 1960 fire. I was 8 years old and inconsolable. I thought it was the finest and most important building in Texas. The morons running the county at the time thought they should be “modern and progressive” and hired some f**king idiot architect out of Houston to design and build the monstrosity there today.

        2. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          Yes, it fits perfectly into the definition of “Brutalist Architecture.” The Bauhaus movement would have loved it.

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This column by scholar and author Joel Kotkin is behind the paywall at the London Telegraph. The following is a long quote posted at Instapundit. I believe Kotkin claims to be an independent now, but has in the past been a lifelong California Democrat.

    DEI is dead. The establishment media just doesn’t want you to know it.

    Even before November, the once trendy concepts of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) were already sinking. Now the election of Donald Trump all but guarantees their accelerated decline.

    The DEI push gained momentum during the 2020 George Floyd riots, after being nurtured for years on most college campuses. Many companies, including Walmart, adopted its associated practices. But new research from The Conference Board indicates that over half of executives anticipate continuing the pushback of DEI initiatives. Among the firms stepping back from DEI include Boeing, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, and Black & Decker, and the biggest of all, Walmart itself.

    Like DEI, corporate types saw in ESG a means of expiating the sins of the past. Both draw support from cultural arbiters as well as corporate human resources departments and Left-wing non-profits like the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society Foundations, and from “progressive” billionaires.

    Economics was sinking ESG even before the election, as its one-time promoter, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, has acknowledged. A recent analysis of major funds found that BlackRock and others who had binged on ESG have underperformed those funds not so encumbered. US sustainability funds faced their worst year on record in 2023, according to a Morningstar.

    The GOP takeover is sure to make things worse. Republican state legislatures – Florida, Kansas and Idaho among them – have passed laws that ban or limit the consideration of ESG, providing direct opposition to these green investment pledges.

    DEI is, if anything, even less favoured. The recipe of racial quotas and the systemic destruction of merit was already unpopular before Trump’s victory. Over the last two years, corporate DEI departments were slashed. One third of DEI professionals lost their jobs in 2022. 

    The idea of racial quotas in hiring and college admissions is rejected by the vast majority of Americans and minorities. Trump is aware of this and, under the influence of activists like the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, could ban aid to schools that adopt DEI and quota policies. Given the extreme dependence on Washington, bloated universities will either have to cut staff or change direction.

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Most interesting to sit back and watch the lefties find out they are not the most loved group they thought they were these days.

    They still appear to be reeling from the November elections all over the country. They lost big time, and if they want to figure out how that happened, all that need be done is to go and look in a mirror….

    There could be wagering on how many mirrors do get broken. They did it to themselves.

  37. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Courtesy of the 1940 Air Terminal and T.A.N.G.
     In 1932 the Navy’s USS Akron airship visited Houston. One of two true “aircraft carriers”, the Akron had a bay that could stow and deploy up to 5 specially designed aircraft. The Akron was on it’s way to the West Coast for sea trials and was touring the nation. The size of the Akron cannot be fully communicated by words; it is 5 times the length of the Goodyear blimps, and 6 times the size of the now common advertising blimps. Sadly, the Akron would be lost at sea on April 3rd, 1933; the Navy’s experiments and the public’s fascination with lighter than air ships subsequently declined. However, the iconic images of the giant airships remain fixed as an symbol of their time.
    In the attached photo you can see downtown Houston in 1932. Some points of interest include the confluence of White Oak and Buffalo Bayous; Union Station and it’s rail lines; the Rice Hotel directly below the Akron. In this shot the view is to the Northeast.
    Photo: TX National Guard

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Not as epic as WKRPs turkey drop. But hey it is Barney

    The Day that Barney Died.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    These two coaching staffs are very, very good.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Cheap call. Not targeting.
    Completely unintentional.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Someone needs to take out Mr. Lee.

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    This kid plays like he has 2 ex-wives and a late Cadillac and mortgager payment,
    [videopress 5mCTRnO1 w=576 h=1024]

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Uh…very nice.
      Thnx.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s going on 9 o’clock. I guess I should consider eating supper.

    But I’ve been busy.

    Waited 13 years for this football game.

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Aggies are scary quick and smart. They simply haven’t had the good luck. I’ll be nervous as all get out until this game is over.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    My turkey canning event is over and send to be a full success. I like hearing those lids ping.

    Now I’m practicing those Latin declensions. A ae ae arum as is am as a is. That was the first one.

    There about 8 of them total, when the genders are included. I should have these down part by now, but I’ve let life keep interfering. In trying to dedicate more time on a regular schedule. Like I really mean it.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching Dragnet again. They are getting all verklempt over a few joints.

    My, how times have changed.

  47. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    TD Aggies! About dang time!

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My Aggie friends and family have never understood how I can be an Aggie fan all these years and root for them. And to be so disappointed in them all these years.

    They know my blood runs Burnt Orange. The difference being that they could never hope for anything good to happen to the longhorn football team.

    The Ags have heartbreakingly accomplished nothing for 13 years in the SEC. With some of the greatest recruiting classes in the history of college football.

    Texas is going to the SEC championship game it’s first year in the conference.

    After some very rough years for the Horns, Excuse the hell outta me for feeling pretty good about it.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Too damn sweet to hear The Eyes Of Texas played in that amazing Kyle Field.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Rematch with the Bulldogs.

    Hook ‘em.

  51. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    TD Aggies! About dang time!

    who allowed that crimson low tide fella in here to spread his pro Aggie propaganda?;)

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    All my life I rooted for Texas A&M whenever they played against anybody but Texas. However, I was against anyone who played against the Texas Longhorns.

    Years ago, my second favorite teams for a very long time was the Pittsburgh Steelers. I rooted for them against anyone and everyone but the Houston Oilers.

  53. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Hullabaloo
    the knack
    the knack

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      🙂

  54. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well it’s 35 degrees here, up from 30 at 4 AM and 29 about daylight so it is DANG COLD! And I don’t like it one bit. 29 yesterday morning and it’ll be low 30’s Monday and Tuesday and back to 29 on Wednesday. Thankfully it’ll be low 40’s by Thursday.
    Well Texas and Georgia will meet for SEC Championship and although I’m not a Texas Fan I’ll be rooting for them against Georgia Bulldogs. It seem to me that the Aggies put up a good fight but couldn’t get it done. In other News Alabama tried to lose the Iron Bowl but Auburn didn’t allow that.That said, Bama’s defense was pretty good when the chips were down.
    SO! Mornin’ Gang

  55. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Spotted over yonder; 20 Man Urinal. 😀
    Oh and I have a great story to go with that.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      WE had one of those when I was working off shore; If you peed innit there was hell to pay.
      We used laundry soap to wash our hands in it, there was an exothermic reaction when the water hit the soap – it got warm.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We hit 24 degrees at 7 AM with a RealFeel rating of 16 degrees. We’re all the way back up to 26 right now and it’s cold in the kitchen. The windchill factor is strong for the next 7 days. No precipitation but the RealFeal temps are below freezing, mostly in the low 20s. It’s no time to be outside.

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We are getting the non-precipitation southern part of that huge Great Lakes blizzard burying upstate New York and New England.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      No snow yet?

  58. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    It was 43 when I first got up… Shortie was not amused but now that it’s up to 48 she seems quite content

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    bsue BTW; When Lil’ Dawg gets back in bed with you after going out to P on the frosted ground, those little toes are COLD. 😉

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      Super Dave, blessedly it’s not gotten THAT cold here just yet… But I’m sure that is something Shortie would love to do

  60. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My @ 8:09 AM; I actually saw a young NASA/JSC (Houston) Engineer use one of those as a Urinal at Edwards AFB CA. back in the 80’s. I’ll just keep his name a secret to protect the guilty. 😉

  61. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I never paid attention to Tecova boot company, but they have been running their new TV ads constantly up here on Fox. One of them showed a couple shopping for boots in a store. I didn’t know Tecova had 42 stores. I thought they were an online outfit. It turns out they have dozens of stores.

    Anyway, I’m looking through their offers and find this lace-up work boot on sale for $225 $180. Pretty nice but they are sold out at the moment. It’s a $100 cheaper than buying Redwing if the quality is close.

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is Douglas Murray on the great Rita Panahi’s show from Australia just taking Angela Merkel apart over all her stupid decisions that ravaged Europe. Merkel’s legacy will be at least as bad as Obama/Biden/Harris.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    For the pure entertainment of it, do watch the Brits suffering through their own Bud Light debacle. (Why is it these men always look sloppy ?)

    Here are some examples…

    Jaguar Boss Attacks Nigel Farage

    The Spectator Takes on the Jaguar Self-Demolishment

  64. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a beautiful, swanky neighborhood. If the insurance company pays for the rebuild, this guy will have to move somewhere else because he will be the laughingstock of his neighbors for years to come.

    A $3 million mansion in a high-end Connecticut neighborhood met a fiery demise on Thanksgiving when the home was inundated in flames from a turkey frying inside a garage.

    Heart-pounding images captured the raging inferno surrounding the Weston home just after 3:40 p.m. on Thursday as firefighters rushed to contain the fire.

    Firefighters were alerted to the blaze by an automatic fire alarm on Weston Road before several 911 calls were made about a garage fire.

    “When we arrived, the whole garage end of the house was on fire – like a third of the house,” Weston Volunteer Fire Department Chief John Pokorny told CT Insider.

    Immense heat prohibited firefighters from getting too close to fight the blaze.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I’m going to guess that at least one (probably at least 2) of these things happened, in addition to the dumb$#!ts frying in a garage:
      1) They tried to fry a frozen turkey
      2) They had too much oil in the pot and it overflowed
      3) The oil was too hot
      4) There was lots of alcohol consumed prior to the conflagration
      5) It was the first time frying a turkey for anybody present

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        It was a very hot, flashing oil fire so they did something to light it up. Fire Chief said the entire garage and at least 1/3 of the house was completely engulfed when they arrived.

  65. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Why is it all these propagandist communist media moguls look like Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld?

    murdoch the warlock
    bezos and butthead
    schwab zee bug man
    zucker the hun
    this dude

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      This guy belongs in one of those Trump concentration camps. Can we build one in the outback ?

  66. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We’ve made it up to 62 and will likely make 65 by 1 PM. A bright, sunny beautiful day here.

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I just can’t believe Dr Phil missed this one. Why would anyone believe Dan Crenshaw would tell a lie ? And the stupid voters in Texas Congressional District 2 continued to vote him back to DC with 66% of the vote.

    Members of Congress make $174,000 a year salary, which includes additional funds for travel and housing, but it did not appear to be enough for Crenshaw.

    ‘It doesn’t matter to me because I don’t have any f***ing money to put in the stock market, unlike the bullshit headlines that have been written about me,’ he complained.

    Video of Crenshaw’s remarks sparked interest from the social media account Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker, a group that tracks stock trades from politicians.

    His remarks were flagged with a community note on X to offer more context to his net worth.

    Crenshaw’s estimated net worth is $1.47 million, and his estimated trade volume is $313,000,’ according to data from Quiver Quantitative, a speculative tracker, not $20,000 as he claimed.

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      thank for having my back.
      last time I heard about him he was ranting about the way united airlines treated his wife because it affected him personally.

      the illegal alien invasion he couldn’t of cared less about.

      I wonder if he owns any united stock.

      https://youtu.be/50X7-KiSSxM?si=xK1GJe3Re6JtfCXx

  68. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Propagandist media in meltdown mode as Trump appoints ‘loyalist’ Kash Patel to head the fib.

    i guess the creature from the Kenyan lagoon never appointed any loyalists during his 12 year reign as Dante over his Inferno?.?

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I can’t recall a single instance where the Lying Media has ever used the terms ‘hand picked’ or ‘loyalist’ in reference to any pick by a D potus. Pretty clear cut and dried evidence of hopeless bias.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is rich as cream.

    Obama is famous for getting other people to do his dirty work so his fingerprints appear nowhere. Too bad if you get caught. Barack doesn’t even remember your name.

    “Is it fair to point these things out?” Clooney contined in the op-ed. “It has to be. This is about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed. We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate.”

    Well, they lost the Oval Office, the House, and the Senate without Joe Biden, and now Radar reports that Clooney is furious after being manipulated by former Obama into lobbying for Kamala Harris to replace the struggling Joe Biden in the 2024 election. The frustration reportedly stems from Clooney feeling abandoned by his one-time ally after Harris’s defeat, leaving him to shoulder the fallout.

    “George is furious with Obama for disappearing after the election disaster and leaving him holding the bag for pushing the plan with his Hollywood pals,” a Hollywood insider told the outlet.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      BAWHAHAHAHA! and Boo F’ing Hoo! What a pethitic eunuch. 😀

  70. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Here Texpat
    [videopress 0Dr65EHi w=720 h=900]

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Wow, that was very cool !

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        I really need to send that to someone.
        Where can I find it?

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          Ask Squawk.

  71. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think I’m breaking out the Santa collection today.

  72. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Date 5
    Sunday evening Advent Svc at her church.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Lutherans fraternizing with the Baptists. That’s like Sunnis and Shiites commingling.

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Crossing the streams.

  73. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    “George is furious with Obama for disappearing after the election disaster and leaving him holding the bag for pushing the plan with his Hollywood pals,” a Hollywood insider told the outlet.

    lie down with Beelzebub wake up with demons.

  74. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Okay gang. I need options for K-cup brewing other than Kureig.

  75. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The Santa Clauses are all on display. I had to move a bunch of books, take my canned food items upstairs, and haul in the Santa tubs from the garage.

    And I told Hubby I wasn’t going to work in the yard today so I wouldn’t strain my back.

  76. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Another young athlete takes an unhealthy dive during a game.

    Suddenly and unexpectedly. It’s still happening.

  77. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Dan Crenshaw and Crenshawettes got a new gig.

  78. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Joe Biden just pardoned his boy, film at 11. I’m checking it out now on Fox.

  79. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    President Biden pardons son Hunter Biden.

    The Brief

    • President Biden issued a pardon for his son Hunter Biden, despite previous promises that he would not do so.
    • The pardon extends to Hunter Biden’s gun and tax charges.
    • Hunter Biden was set to be sentenced in both cases later this month.

  80. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    And I’m sure at this exact moment he’s in the process of sending another sternly worded fax which will return with an error code of 10x-I.D.I.O.T

    https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1863390444802953689

    also sure that when the time comes to confirm Pam Bondi he and the Texas cornhole will vote for alligator garland again because he promised to keep politics out of the doj.

    😂 😂 😂

  81. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    You mean Biden lied? That he pardoned his POS kid?

    I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I SAY!

    PS: Now that Hunter has immunity, can he be prevented from taking the Fifth in any related investigations that may pop up?

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nope, she’s Methodist.

  83. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk @ 6:34 PM

    I’m telling you, these two are the best ever. I couldn’t stop laughing.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Now that is funny right there

  84. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    What happened to “Rule of Law”?…Asking for a friend.

  85. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Some animals are more = than others and they’re all totalitariancrat animals.

  86. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    When asked if no one is above the law nasty pelosi said pass me the vodka and then asked do you have any insider info for me about stocks?

  87. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted

    Well ain’t that just special.

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