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Queso Flameado at Los Cucos.
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Quasi Modo @ Lost Cucaracha??
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Replacement of my windshield washer pump/motor ran over the scheduled time by over an hour.
As such, I never ate a thing today until after 3pm.
Too hangry to blog today. So there.-
What a sad, pitiful story.
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What a sad pitiful excuse not to blog.
So there.
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GRRRRRRRR. I am really beginning to hate bluehost.
Remember folks when you are dealing with customer service that voice on the other end is going by a script. He cannot deviate from it and I am telling ya…… he she or it might think you are stupid, YOU ARE smarter than he she or it is.
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I’ve had to tell my phone company customer service to please, please, please, stop apologizing for every dang statement I make.
“I have a problem with my bill…” “I’m sorry for that, let me…”
“I made a payment and it’s showing..” “I’m sorry, I’ll take a look…”
/silence while they study information/ “I’m sorry for the wait…”
“I have a hangnail!” “I’m sorry, let me see what I can do…”
“The sky is blue.” “I’m sorry…-
That ranks real high on my grrrrrr level
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I’ve been a little busy today and I’m preoccupied with balancing the budget for Trump. It’s a big, damn job for one man in his office.
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Get a bigger office for yerself
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…and I realized that I haven’t completed listening to my podcasts today, nor have I prayed my rosary. Going to see Dr. Bailey threw off my daily routine.
It’s been months since I’ve had to see him, and his office has been totally redone. It looks like he has some new doctors sharing his space now. We talked about his girlfriend, Lisa. She’s been fighting cancer and rejecting a lot of Dr. B’s suggestions, like a zero carb diet and the anti-parasite meds that have been reported to reverse cancer in recent reports. She’s doing just what her oncologists have told her to do, but Dr. B. and I both agreed that at this point, what does she have to lose?
She’s lost the ability to swallow and hasn’t been able to eat since Thanksgiving. Down to 98 pounds and is in the hospital.
I told him I’d be sure to pray for her. It’s not looking good. I know he was doing morning appointments today so that he could get back to her this afternoon.
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BREAKING: Elected Texas judge Tano Tijerina announces he’s switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
He says Democrats have gone too far to the left and mentions border security and the woke movement such as allowing boys in girl’s sports.
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Okay, I’m here. Just finished dinner. I’ve been on the move today: first the chiropractor, then stopped off at home just long enough to collect my stuff for a bank deposit, then off to Wal-Mart to pick up some rent -> bank-> shop to check mail, then home.
Once home, I unpacked the few groceries and prepared seasoned some steaks. By then, I had to lay down and rest the back. I was finally able to get up and make dinner. I just finished eating.
I must be coming down with some kind of virus. I don’t think it’s an allergy, but I could be wrong. Taking some ivermectin and I’ll be adding quercetin tonight. I don’t have time to be sick.
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Tap Tap
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It finally feels like summer is over.
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I have been waiting for this! I love the first major cool down.
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Me too – but I wish that it were going to be more restrained in its down side… I guess I should just be glad they aren’t forecasting anything below 34 for us for the next 48 hours
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Hello
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Am I the only person that can get on the blog?
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IDF
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Ladies who do much, much more than cook. The stars of their nation.
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Early morning sunshine gave in to overcast, followed by increasing wind activity pulling more leaves off trees, bouncing them hither and yon over the neighborhood. Mother Nature was helping out everything look more like winter with more barren trees, leaving the live oaks hanging onto their green leaves just slightly the worse for wear now. But the maple trees still have their golden leaves to give some color to look at.
Some more clouds have joined the scene along with patches of clear blue sky that seem to be friendly. And the wind is pulling off more acorns from trees and sending them bouncing along in our yards, so the squirrels don’t have to climb up trees to get them to have a feast.
It was 58 at 6 this morning and is still holding at 58. It is cold out there with that wind. Spouse is out mowing the back pasture to get rid of the weeds that have sprung up in the nicer weather. We still have deer grazing in our pastures and can see a few more now that the spring babies are growing fast and hungry for good grazing.
Occasionally a buck or several of them show up to graze when there are no lady and baby deer present. Their antlers are growing. Winter has not arrived yet but is not far away. The Canadians are sharing some of their weather now.
Christmas/Winter decorations are almost all put out and around the house. They add such a cheerful note to overcast and cold winter days, such as they are here. We can still vividly recall the Christmas Eve some years ago when we had snow falling, bright and gorgeous, leaving some 5″ with us that lasted several days. Snow we had to shovel rather than sweep. As they say, wait 5 minutes and the weather will change here.
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Syrian Navy, post-IDF-operation last night.
Poof.-
What navy?
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It’s obviously a submarine flotilla.
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I filed my BOI form a few days ago. I didn’t like doing it, but the fines were…what? $500/day?
Yeah, that’d leave a mark on small biz folks like me. The bad thing is, I found out that it was being requested only accidentally.
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If you own a small business, you may have just dodged a bullet you didn’t even know about. Last week, a federal judge in Texas issued a temporary restraining order against a new requirement that small companies identify their owners to the federal government. Since many small businesses remain unaware of the intrusive rule, this is a welcome reprieve for people who face nasty civil and criminal penalties for failing to comply. Don’t get too comfortable yet, though: The feds plan to appeal, which means you should probably still get your paperwork in order, just in case.
but the feds have to get past these two judges rulings,
Judge Liles C. Burke of the U.S. District Court for the Northeastern District of Alabama helpfully summarized in a court ruling earlier this year.
and,
Burke agreed, finding the law didn’t even pretend to assert constitutional justification for the federal government imposing ownership reporting requirements on businesses incorporated under state laws.
plus,
The decision in that case came on December 3, and if Burke was scathing in his opinion of the CTA, Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas was absolutely scorching.
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Iran overplayed their hand on such a grand scale it will remain prominent in history books for an eternity. By propping up, arming Hamas and encouraging their sadistic attack on Israel, they set in motion a series of events that began the cascading collapse of their own sphere of influence.
Through Gaza, Lebanon, Israeli retaliatory attacks on Iran, implosion in Syria, the demolition and failure of the proxy facade surrounding Israel fell like dominos. The invincible Shiite Empire sits now with no missile batteries, no aerial defense installations as they now face the imminent onslaught of a Trump regime.
Syria was Iran’s corridor for delivering logistical and armed support to the Lebanese group Hezbollah and to Hamas in Gaza, which helped ensure the security of Axis of Resistance powers while allowing Iran to exercise its influence – and deterrent capabilities – far from its own borders. “Syria represented a springboard for the Iranian regime to project its influence as far as the Mediterranean, and that has disappeared,” notes Jonathan Piron, a historian and Iran specialist at the Etopia research centre in Brussels.
“The Axis of Resistance as we knew it no longer exists,” he says. “With the Israeli operation in Lebanon, Hezbollah is no more. Its capacity for action has been significantly diminished, in any case. Now, Assad’s Syria no longer exists, either. The main pillars of the Axis of Resistance have disappeared. What is left? The Houthis [in Yemen], but they have their own agenda and are far from Tehran. And the Iraqi militias, which have refused to intervene in recent days on Syrian soil to come to the aid of Bashar al-Assad.”
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In case you didn’t have anything to worry about…
So we need to find this out from a bunch of congressmen and their staff instead of from the Pentagon and the White House ?
Spending $890 billion a year on the Pentagon has become ridiculous. No one exceeds my support for a strong and belligerent, if necessary, military.
But I think we are all being played for suckers with this impenetrable military bureaucracy in DC.In a war with China, the United States would expend its stock of advanced missiles and bombs in less than a month—and run out of some critical weapons in a matter of days, according to a wargames simulation conducted by the House Select Committee on China.
America’s cache of long-range antiship missiles, critical to defending Taiwan in a sea battle in the case of a Chinese invasion, will run dry within three to seven days, according to the committee’s findings. Within a month, meanwhile, the United States would run out of long-range cruise missiles. Taiwan’s own supply of mid-range antiship missiles would also be expended within a week of battle.
The findings are raising alarm bells among lawmakers, who worry America’s defense industrial base is woefully unprepared to deliver the arms needed once China makes good on its repeated threats to invade Taiwan. With China’s military rapidly growing, U.S. supply lines remain strained amid conflicts in the Middle East and other geopolitical hotspots.
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I don’t trust any politician and I’m not impressed with their intelligence level, but I don’t think the Republicans are so stupid as to lose the House and Senate by scaring the daylights out of American families by slashing their SS checks.
And I have a butt load of problems with this:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” — which is not, despite the name, a government agency.
The acronym “DOGE” is a nod to Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency, dogecoin. Trump said in a statement that Musk and Ramaswamy will work from outside the government to offer the White House “advice and guidance” and will partner with the Office of Management and Budget to “drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.” He added that the move would shock government systems.
It’s not clear how the organization will operate. It could come under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which dictates how external groups that advise the government must operate and be accountable to the public.
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I present to you….Trailer Park Tesla!
H/T Jeff Foxworthy-
Those look like Cadillac tail lights.
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CHINA has unveiled unbreakable, spherical robo-cops which have been seen rolling around cities – ready to catch criminals.
The AI-powered bot beasts are capable of not only stopping crime, but somehow detecting it too.
plus this,
The ball beast is able to operate both on land and in water, making it practically unstoppable.
It can also withstand a whopping four tonnes of impact damage to prevent criminals from trying to cover their tracks and kill it.
Despite the RT-G only being able to reach a fairly slow speed of 22mph, it does weigh a back-breaking 125kg.
The RT-G can also be equipped with non-fatal police gear like net guns, tear gas sprayers, some grenades, loudspeakers and sound wave dispersal devices.
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This is how stupid the “journalists” are today.
The fact-checkers at Reuters contacted the Babylon Bee about the veracity of their report that “Allahu Akbar had replaced Cheerio, Mate” as the most common greeting in the UK now.
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This is something very interesting I didn’t know. Former WH press secretary Sean Spicer sued Biden when he was fired from a position Trump appointed him to at Annapolis. Spicer wanted to lose.
The case dates to Sept. 8, 2021, when Biden began to fire Trump allies from the visitor boards at the academies of the Navy, the Air Force, and the Army.
Spicer and others, including Russ Vought (just picked by Trump to head the Office of Management and Budget) and former Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, were unceremoniously dumped despite several of them having time left on their three-year terms.
Spicer and Vought sued, saying that unlike White House staff or others appointed by a prior president, they couldn’t be fired because of their congressionally mandated terms.
They lost, however, when a judge essentially ruled that the president could fire any presidential appointee, whether they had terms or not. A further effort failed, too.
Spicer said that is exactly what he hoped the courts would do because he wanted to help a future Trump presidency fire Biden’s picks without having its hands tied.
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Dr. Bailey fit me in, so I have a man jerking me around this morning.
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Tell Malcomb that Rene C. said hi.
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I have a man jerking me around this morning.
hussy
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There are dozens of federal budget/debt/deficit analyses out there with different ways to solve the problems. There are private foundations, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Claremont Institute, university economic departments, Congressional Budget Office, Office of Management and Budget, US Treasury, various branches of the Federal Reserve, Senate Appropriations Committee, House Appropriations Committee, Republican Policy Committee and on and on. They all have their own statistics, ideas and strategies.
Here is one:
Federal debt held by the public has almost tripled as a share of gross domestic product (GDP)—from 35 percent in 2007 to 98 percent in 2022. At $24 trillion, the debt totals more than $180,000 for every household in the nation. With accumulated debt so high, the risk of an economic crisis has increased. Each percentage point rise in the average borrowing rate on $24 trillion of debt creates $240 billion in increased annual interest costs.
Experts do not know what level of government debt will precipitate a crisis, but many empirical studies find that economic growth slows when debt tops about 90 percent of GDP. Combined U.S. federal and state government debt is about 140 percent of GDP, which is substantially higher than the average of 100 percent in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development member nations.
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There y’all are!
Bringing this over from earlier this morning.
Not seeing a Tuesday page but it’s 70 here and raining, not much, 1.20″ since yesterday morning but we surely need it.
Mornin’ Gang -
Good Morning, Gang… Coffee just finished burping, and Shortie Dawg is going to be displaced from the leg rest on the sofa recliner long enough for me to go snag a cuppa!!! Have a great day
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Late last night, I typed in a 9 instead of a 0 so the front page header was scheduled for December 19th instead of December 10th. I need to go to the eye doctor after the new year starts.
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First! HeeHee
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