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What a great picture and even though I’ve traveled all over Texas, I missed Palo Duro Canyon. The land of the inverted mountains as the Injuns called it. Oddly enough it was one of the first sights I put in my Bucket List when I moved to Texas. This after reading an article about it in the now defunct Houston Comical.
Well it’s 26 degrees here and of course TOO DAMN COLD!!! Mercy and tomorrow we’ll have low 30’s & rain here (not freezing) but up around Montgomery there will be freezing rain up to about Birmingham and then snow from Muscle Shoals to Huntsville and Chattanooga. It think winter is here.
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I got a new seamless gutter installed across the back of the house yesterday. 6 x 6″ with a bigger downspout, plus leaf guards. They also cleaned the roof and the gutters on the front of the house. When I go home, we shall see if the project was successful: no waterfall to walk through to get to the door.
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Those installations are fun to watch. Seeing a 6″X6″ X 45′ continuous gutter coming out of the back of a 1 ton Ford Van is something to see. 😉
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So State Farm asked for a rate increase in California because of all the wildfires but the Clowns at the State Insurance Board turned them down. State Farm pulled out and left thousands without insurance. The Land of Fruits N Nuts!
I don’t know if California has an Assigned Rate Pool of insurance but they should especially since these fires could have been prevented with proper forestry management.
I assume that you know Texas has this, it started after all the hurricane mayhem in the 90’s.-
I heard this morning that there is a state pool fire insurance program but it is danged expensive.
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Proper forest management and sound water retention practices would have gone a long way to preventing the majority of the damage these fires cause. Clear out the dead underbrush and deadfall trees, and there is no where near as much fuel for the fires to burn and grow. Build more dams and reservoirs to make water available during the dry season, the dry season that happens every friggen year. Start cutting down the eucalyptus trees as they are really great torches.
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I saw Amy Carter at her father’s funeral the other day and I don’t remember the last time I saw her. She sure keeps a low profile.
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https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1877207054105886836
This is a bit of profanity laced what I hope is truth.
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Great video.
”Nine angry lesbians”
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We can’t have 9 angry lesbians controlling everything in the City Planning Office. 😀
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Changing gears just a bit, of the pitches shown, the first 2 were good calls – the next 2 not so much. What do y’all think about the expression of frustration at the end?
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BAWHAHAHA!!! I’d say the Bastard got what was coming to him. That Karma Gal is a B!TC#. 😀
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A softball team did that once also. Really clicked the ump.
Pitcher, catcher, and manager got tossed. Probably because they didn’t try to hide it much.
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Tedtam at 7:34 AM.
That is the great Adam Carolla, comedian and podcaster, broadcasting from his evacuation hotel room. He grew up very poor in LA so he knows the territory and the people. Adam does frequent appearances with Dennis Prager.
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FWIW; I heard Adam Carolla talking about this on the radio yesterday and when asked if he was staying in his lifelong home of California, he said nope as a matter of fact I’m on my way to Henderson Nevada where I’m meeting with my contractor that is building my house there. This has been in work for a while. He did mention Bill Maher and his 3 year fight to get solar panels installed on his house to no avail.
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Although I have not officially announced, my top platform item is changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Texas.
Screw DJT.
It’s ours.-
Spoken like a true political leader. When are you filing for the primary ?
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I heartily second the motion.
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Thinking about the videos of Gavin Newsom bragging about destroying 4 dams on some California river, we have this;
Remember The Snail Darter? It Was Never Real
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The precise same thing was done with the Spotted Owl; the eco-commies said it could ONLY nest in old growth forests and therefore all logging in its range had to be stopped. The lie was made plain when a spotted owl built a nest in the crotch of a K-Mart sign.
In my opinion, anybody that promotes such lies should be liable for criminal penalties including, but not limited to, skinning alive.
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Shannon, this guy is a Latino Spanish language teacher. He never heard of the word “tuna” to describe prickly pear fruit until he went to Puerto Rico.
You might be surprised to learn that la tuna or las tunas in Spanish has at least 3 different meanings in English:
the fish, more commonly known in Spanish as atún,
a type of fruit and
a specific type of musical group (video link below).
There’s a difference between tuna and tunas in Spanish and it’s easy to mix them up. Luckily, most servers are forgiving and probably know what you are trying to order.
Most Spanish-speakers and learners would recognize the word atún as the translation of the fish tuna, from English. Which is how I also said the word in Spanish.
But then I arrived in Puerto Rico and began hearing the words tuna and tunas in Spanish, instead of using atún. I haven’t run across this in any other Spanish-speaking country so still believe only Puerto Rico uses it (anyone know of another country?).
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Pretty interesting. Thanks for following up. It makes me wonder if Pam LeBlanc, author of the magazine article about bears, has a Puerto Rican background.
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I would encourage everyone to read this story about a young man’s mother and the shocking medical discovery they made about her. This should dramatically change our views on dementia and Alzheimer’s. It might help someone you know.
Remember this: There is no lab test or infallible diagnostic procedure to conclusively determine Alzheimer’s disease. It’s calculated guess work by doctors.
“It’s Alzheimer’s.”
My mom was 61 years old. She had been struggling for years with mysterious symptoms that no doctor could explain. She’d ask me how my day had been, sometimes three or four times in one evening. She sometimes wouldn’t remember that she’d fed the dog. She had debilitating migraines and was often unsteady on her feet. We had spent countless hours fretting over what could be wrong, but not once did I think it could be early-onset Alzheimer’s. That diagnosis belongs to other families, I thought. Not ours.
What we thought was dementia or Alzheimer’s may have not been the problem all along.
But a year ago, my family experienced a miracle.
In January 2023, my mom went into the hospital to have a small surgical procedure, meant to patch a leak of spinal fluid. Instead, it cured her of all her symptoms. In just a few weeks, she became the person she had been 20 years prior: a healthy mother of three, who makes my dad howl with laughter. It turns out she never had Alzheimer’s. It was a misdiagnosis.
As a family, we are still trying to make sense of how this happened. My mom had been treated in New York City’s best hospitals, by world-leading authorities on Alzheimer’s. But somehow she had fallen through the cracks of a fragmented medical-research system, which failed my mom—then saved her.
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My wife’s brother has a spinal fluid issue. Right now he can’t live alone so we put him in a group home. Hopefully, we can navigate Obamacare and get the operation so that he can be restored to one of the medium sharp knives in the dull knife drawer.
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H/T OTL
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I saw that over yonder! I love it.
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My wife pointed out that Fox was still reporting on the LA fires while the all the Lamstream outlets are covering the Jimmy Carter Funeral. She says it’s a distraction to not show Gavin Newsom’s failures. Dang! She thinks way too much like me. I guess retirement has on the same wavelink. 😉
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Tedtam mentioned “Ropa Vieja” yesterday and it brought back memories of Caudet’s Cuban Foods down in the Montrose area back in the 1970s. The family had a wholesale food distribution business. Attached to their warehouse was a diner where they served breakfast and lunch to Cuban immigrants and young Americans living in the neighborhood. They were always packed because you could get a nice, hot Cuban lunch for about $3. Ropa Vieja was often on the menu.
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Recently I was thinking about that place in lower Westheimer that had those warm meaty empanadas. Katfish, I, and other assorted hoodlums would go down there late at night to satisfy severe munchies attacks.
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Wrap your head around the vast amounts of tax money suddenly sucked out of the local, county and state of California coffers. These politicians are completely and totally unprepared and unqualified to handle a disaster like this. Besides the morass of bureaucratic red tape, there are other even worse problems.
In order to rebuild any house, school, apartment building you have to get construction financing and then a permanent mortgage. No financial institution is going to loan money without insurance coverage in place. The insurance industry has abandoned most of the Southern California market so now no loans are made and nothing gets built.
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I wonder how many elementary, middle and high schools have been razed in these SoCal fires ? Home schooling anybody ? If teachers and administrators aren’t working, they aren’t getting paid and they aren’t paying taxes either.
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But they have a bull dyke fire chief and that’s the most important thing.
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Could the California fires be another deep state-spooks Inc. production to push the climate change hoax?
bernie ‘food lines are a goot ting’ the burnout sanders is already out there blaming climate change.
saw D. Beattie of revolver news on Bannon’s show today. It appears the fib pipe bomber story is unraveling.
in a world where the government does nothing but lie, use and abuse it’s citizens and all the three letter agencies are corrupt to their core, anything is possible.
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Elizabeth Scalia has always been a sharp thinker.
Where are Eric Clapton and Van Morrison ? Where are Sean Connery and Michael Caine ? Where are Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Helena Boham Carter and Maggie Smith ?
I’ve been wondering for a while why, in all of this, we have not heard from the pop stars who can usually be relied upon to comment-with-alacrity about the social or political outrages of the day — or at least the ones they know they can safely shout about and be called “brave.” I mean, where is Bono? I’m a fan, and he’s usually pretty fast with his mouth. Where is he? Where is Elton? Where are Adele? Where is Madonna? Where is Sting? McCartney?
For that matter, where are members of the Royal Family, working or non, hither and yon? They’ve got no thoughts on all this?
I’m not surprised, really. All the “courageous” voices only pipe up when they know the cool kids in the cafeteria will have their backs. Mock insult the churches (and quite justly, says I) for their abuses, their cover-ups, their reluctance to do the right thing? Easy as pie; safe as swaddling clothes. But discuss what the secular side of abuse, coverups and refusal has done?
Crickets.
HT: Stephen Green
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Perfect. Thanks, George.
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The people most freaked out in Southern California/LA County are the municipal treasurers, school CFOs, government financial executives and their staffs. They are going to get mobbed for money and there won’t be any.
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The most popular song in Los Angeles right now.
Down the road in a cloud of smoke, to some land I ain’t bought, bought, bought…
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A sign on PCH said this kind of dreamin’ need not apply.
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Great catch by C-SPAN. Go fullscreen and check out the look on Kamala’s face when she looks back to see Obama and Trump talking to one another.
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Where’s obama’s beard?
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Very conspicuous in her absence.
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Clay and Buck are speaking of this very thing right now. Will the wookie’s absence be mentioned on the LSM tonight? If Melania Trump were the only one not there we can guarantee that would be the lead story.
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The lsm is dead.
MSNBC’s Mr potato head’s butter has run dry.
his propaganda is now just comprised of dried up chives and withered, left out in the sun for 3 days, mako shark sushi.
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It’s such a great series.
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There are some people, many of the Catholic, that nitpick the series as not being theologically pure enough to suit them. I’m not one of them. If they present something that doesn’t fit my faith, I just remember that Catholics are not making this series, but the producers of the series do consult a priest and a rabbi when putting it together.
I love the series. It brings the characters to life. The way the writers have woven the back stories into the smallest nuances of Scripture amazes me. The writing and the acting are superb, and as one commenter said, “I used to read the Bible in black and white, and now I see it in COLOR.”
Exactly so.
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Still not tired of winning and watching the miscreants pay.
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Too bad it’s her office paying and not her personally
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My definition of TUNA.
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I thought you would have picked these guys.
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Nah. That woulda been too obvious.
besides…the reo album title ‘you can tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish’ is one the best rock album titles of all time.
imho of course.
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Love it. Such a fine song.
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LA county fire Chieftess sent mayor Bass a letter a month before the fire complaining about funding cuts.
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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang John Lennon’s song Imagine at Carter’s funeral in the National Cathedral. At a State Funeral for a President known for his religious affiliation and observance ?
The dumbest, most pointless rock song ever by Lennon and they sing it at a funeral. Really disgusting.-
I was appalled.
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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang John Lennon’s song Imagine at Carter’s funeral in the National Cathedral.
Barf Brooks.
pffffttt.
he’s as phony as Chris Gaines.They should’ve sung this one.
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Substitute tricky dicky with tricky Kenyanie
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The DEI lesbians running Southern California may have triggered an apocalyptic nightmare there, but this woman, CEO Denise Hardin, canceled 72,000 State Farm policies in Southern California in April of 2024 and almost certainly saved the company from bankruptcy. Their stockholders, employees, vendors, agents and millions of other insured homeowners across America should be grateful.
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Hmmm.
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I think the more appropriate thing to do would been to send a strong letter to the greaseball, Gavin Greusom, and advise that unless and until the insane forest and water mismanagement is reversed, State Farm will no longer be willing to provide insurance coverage. The risk attached to such irrational practices can not be sustained by reasonably affordable insurance premiums; the actuarials simply do not work, the math does not lie.
Yes, it would precipitate a political crap-storm, but the end result would be that thousands of people in CA would be able to still be in their homes because the wildfires that may have started would have been starved of fuel before they could become a conflagration. Furthermore, with more sound water policies, there would be water available to fight a fire should one pop-up.
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I started late today – I stayed up late doing prep for my rosary making class that I’ll be presenting on Saturday. I made two pinkish rosaries this morning, because I’m running low on that most requested color. Then there was laundry and then life….I decided about 1:00 to get something to eat. I used my new food processor to mix some stuff together for lunch. I am going to love that thing. It’s small enough to store in a cabinet and pull out easily when needed, easy to clean…it may become my new favorite appliance.
Hubby had to go into Pearland this morning, so I asked him to drop the old machine at the thrift shop. He waited while I took the time to wash and dry it. It works fine, just bigger and louder than what I want to use now. I hope someone can use it.
I haven’t even had time to go to my happy place. I want to put some treadmill time in today, even if I spend half the time hanging on the handles, and I’m falling behind in my beginning of the year and catch-up bookkeeping, which needs attention before my Latin class tonight.
Ah, well, before I wear down the nose on the grindstone, I’ll go see what snarky optimism Mr. Childers has for me today….
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Today’s C&C is focused on one topic, so I’ll just put the roundup and the link here. It’s Mr. C. using his legal expertise on this topic, and I don’t know that I could do it justice:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Today’s post is late because it was limited to one topic —Florida’s 143-page Grand Jury Report on the Covid Vaccines. I had to get through the whole thing and figure out how best to summarize it. It couldn’t wait because corporate media is preparing to spin the narrative for its own foul purposes unless we get there first. Prepare for equal parts fascination and perplexity.
If there are any particularly delightful snarky comments, I will, of course, share them with the Couch.
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Today’s C&C is not the usual snarky political dissection du jour, but – OH MY WORD – it’s a must read!
WARNING: There are some horrific images of what some jab victims experienced. If you have a squeamish stomach, I wouldn’t advise reading the column.
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This is reprehensible on so. many. levels:
The Grand Jury’s scope of work was limited in three significant ways. The first major limitation they faced was that, unbelievably, government officials ignored their subpoenas. “Most notably,” the Report explained, “a significant number of current or former federal officials refused to testify to us. Federal law prohibits us from compelling those officials to appear.”
On the other hand, Pfizer and Moderna responded to the subpoenas to a certain extent and they sent representatives to testify. But the very same taxpayer-funded FDA officials who throughout the pandemic repeatedly demanded the public’s trust flatly refused to provide many documents or any witnesses to the Grand Jury.
It is unjustifiable, inexcusable, and a disgusting, treasonous dereliction of duty. I hope Robert Kennedy guts the FDA with a rusty fishknife.
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Subpoenas are a one way street. The feds can issue an enforceable one against a citizen of any state. A state cannot do the same to a federal employee. Yeah, I know, I don’t like it either and think there should be exceptions to the rule.
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I experienced this:
One last issue from the Report deserves mention before I make a few final comments. The Grand Jury was particularly distressed that the original trials were rendered useless when the placebo groups were offered vaccines, destroying any chance of tracking medium- or long-term adverse events.
The manufacturers justified this convenient “unblinding” of the placebo groups by saying they just couldn’t bring themselves to withhold a “lifesaving treatment” from placebo trial members. “Interestingly,” the Jurors said, meaning infuriatingly, “both Pfizer’s and Modema’s representatives —independently of one another— became emotional as they described the risks faced by the placebo groups and the unblinding process. Most of us found these displays disingenuous.”
I was encouraged to join the vaccine study, found out I had received the placebo (God is good!), and was told that at some point I was to receive the jab juice. I began praying for some reason to back out of the study.
That’s when I was hit with those four unprecedented thunderclap headaches in one day and the following weeks with constant migraines of varying intensities. Y’all probably remember that Hubby and I were concerned I might have had a tumor, or was about to have a stroke. Those migraines were my crawdad excuse to avoid the jab. As I told Mustafa, the guy running the trial, “One side effect is headaches, and I am *not* layering more headaches on top of what I have now!” I asked to be dropped from the study, but he was adamant that I stay in. I got the impression that he’d had a lot of drops already. I stayed in as probably his only real control data point, but I got a LOT of pressure to take the jab.
So, I thank God for the blessing of my headaches. After seeing the images in the C&C column, and knowing now what I was beginning to know then, the headaches were a great trade-off for what might have been. I remember the gut feeling that the jab was not going to be good for me, so I’m glad I got hit with horrific but temporary headaches so I wouldn’t be dead or severely injured permanently.
I do remember, though, wondering mightily why I was being pressured to get jabbed. Didn’t they want their control groups to remain control groups? Isn’t that science?
Now I understand. It wasn’t science. It was window dressing.
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Just heard a clip of the dei hired mayor of LA saying…if you need help you can find it at URL.
what the triple Hell?
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The Camp Fire of 2018 in Northern California burned over 150,000 acres, more than 18,000 structures and displaced more than 50,000 people. The average home in those small towns up there was valued at $500,000. The total damages ended up being $16.65 billion.
The 1,200 homes in the enclave of Pacific Palisades that had their policies cancelled by State Farm were worth at least $8 billion, by my estimation. State Farm had 70,800 other customers in the area before they cancelled their policies. The damages here could be $100 billion.
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The promised deluge has begun in my neighborhood.
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Yes and I was just informed we need cream of chicken soup for pot pie, or go get burgers, my pick.
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Anyone remember this 70s movie?
simliar but now it would be titled the widespread inferno.
what a tragedy of incompetence and mismanagement brought to you by totalitariancrat rule in California.
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I have successfully completed 30 minutes on the treadmill, with less “hang on the bars” time than I thought I’d need. And I’m still vertical! I did hang upside down prior the walking.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
I felt like I could’ve gone longer, but I’m not pushing it. This is taking longer than I’d like, already.
Now to fix some food, check Elsa, get the mail, and prep for my Latin class in a few hours.
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Carl Higbie on News Max is on a roll about rebuilding in California. You might be able to catch the monologue on YouTube later. I love when he gets all het up.
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Rain started here about 3pm as predicted for our area, so a miserable day becomes more miserable. We’re down to 41 from 42 at 6am and will probably keep sliding down more as the day wears on. Rain stopped after about 15 minutes. It is not finished for the day.
The wind is not as vigorous as it was this morning, but it hasn’t given up. We’ve been under a snow sky all day, just not cold enough to let the snowflakes come all the way to the ground before melting. Fortunately there are no ice crystals bouncing around to wreak havoc here–yet. That is not this far south in the weather predictions, but Mother Nature does not pay attention to weather guesses.
Purrscilla the cat just figured out how to pull the lid off the paperclip box and grab a paw full of them on the desk. She is bored. I have intervened in time to put them all back before she could try to sample some to see if they are edible. Guess that means they have to go in a desk drawer.
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Dunno if y’all listened to Michael Berry this AM or not. Here is a 35 minute cut of the show of Berry giving Jimmah down the river. It is priceless. You can listen to the show or read the transcript. It is spot on.
I could not agree more on this particular comment.
I don’t want Jimmy Carter to be hailed as a
hero and sanctified, beatified, because I don’t think he’s a
good man, and I want to make the case that
he’s not.
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Dunno if y’all listened to Michael Berry this AM or not. Here is a 35 minute cut of the show of Berry giving Jimmah down the river. It is priceless. You can listen to the show or read the transcript. It is spot on.
I could not agree more on this particular comment.I don’t want Jimmy Carter to be hailed as a
hero and sanctified, beatified, because I don’t think he’s a
good man, and I want to make the case that
he’s ain’t
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Sorry bout the dual post. I have adjusted comments to
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Thank you, that will be helpful!
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BTW the reason for the truncated comments is because of people like $@#&% that would drop a War and Peace length comment in the midst of three or four people just chatting away. That urinated me off like crazy.
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I am considering reordering the comments to oldest first instead of newest. I cannot change it with this theme, but as you see the comment block is at the top instead of the bottom. It seemed logical to keep the newest at top to reduce the amount of scrolling to make a comment. PENDING
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Re: The performance of the wholly inappropriate John Lennon song at the funeral
I’m thinking that no matter the wishes of the deceased – or their family – a group of government goons takes over the process of funeralizing a president and they do as they please.
There isn’t Baptist on God’s green earth who would have “Imagine” played at their funeral.
(Nor many, many other denominations of Christians)
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Yup.
it’s unimaginable.
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I finally got a chance to read the C&C TT posted at 1:30. Heads need to roll. Lots of them. Hopefully the information will get out there and that will give much more power to the incoming administration to start taking out the garbage.
THE LYING SOBS THAT HAVE INFESTED THEMSELVES LIKE TICKS NEED TO BE DEALT WITH AS THOUGH THEY WERE. -
Any doubt Amy comey island crap filled hotdog and j Roberts are dirty as toilet bowl scum in Epstein’s former cell?
and many went to bat for Amy Barrett.
I smell crap behind a Crawford dunce Bush.
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I’m watching “Hang ’em High” with Clint Eastwood. Now I’m seeing Danno from the original Hawaii Five-O show, playing the part of a minister as men are about to be hanged.
It just seems weird.
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I watched Hang ‘Em High a few weeks ago. First time in a long while.
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Good flick.
high plains drifter is my favorite Eastwood western followed by the G, the B and the U.like I’ve said before Joe Pesci owes his entire career to Eli Wallach’s character in GB&U.
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If Amy phony island hotdog we’re a car she’d be impeached under lemon laws.
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According to trading platform Autopilot, Nancy Pelosi’s stock tracker took the financial world by storm in 2024, delivering a jaw-dropping 54% gain and outshining nearly every hedge fund. Remarkably, it even beat the Inverse Cramer Stock Tracker, designed to do the opposite of Jim Cramer’s stock picks, which itself posted an impressive 43% gain in 2024. While the result seems almost mythical, it shows the growing fascination with lawmakers’ trading disclosures and the investment strategies built around them. [Emphasis added]
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With insider information huge gains are so easy even a cave man could do it.
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Amy phony island hotdog
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I hate sitting here in the midst of a two day SE Texas rain deluge without ice cream or apple pie.
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This may help ya unck.
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So very perfect.
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Yup.
always liked page’s guitar in this one.
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Apple pie is overrated. Yeah I said it.
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Sierra Ferrell is a big time singer/songwriter.
Real country music.
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The Papist Horde win on field goal at the end of orange bowl
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No kidding?
Didnt even know there was a game tonight.
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Me neither.
off to confession for us.
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Chipotle Pork Tenderloin with green beans and tiny potatoes.
Uh huh.
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Whoa unck.
you had me worried when you said Lovelace classic.it’s patty loveless.
whew:)-
I’d rather have Patty any day.
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Just watched Finestkind on Paramount. Not a bad flick, supposed to be a true story but not really, based loosely on real people in a made up story. Tommy Lee Jones is very old now but he wasn’t bad. One of the producers is, guess who, Taylor Sheridan. Did not know that going in. Busy boy.
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GJT
yes!! I watched it the other night.
A great film.
Highly recommended.
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