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I gots deja vu all over again.
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It’s Hump Day!
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BTW; Folks mentioned DR. phil Good’s @ 12:03 post yesterday and it is a must read!
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Shannon linked last night to this spectacular move by Karoline Leavitt and the White House communications department.
The Trump administration spokeswoman walked into the den filled with White House correspondents on Tuesday and overturned the tables.
Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) would no longer oversee who gets a seat in the press room; instead, from now on, the White House communications staff will be in charge.
I never realized the White House press corps exercised this kind of power and it is long past time to kill it. Hallelujah !
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Removing that bit from the arsenal of the left may actually produce better reporting overall. Now the left media is going to have more competition. It will be interesting to see how they respond – sink or swim.
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Hey, it’s mentally ill Wednesday !
The other day, a very intellectually unimpressive sort posted on TikTok that Elon Musk should be assassinated. Actually assassinated. If you haven’t seen it before, you can here. (Trigger alert: Big Giant Smart Girl Glasses.) On top of that, she said that she had not paid income taxes for eight years. Certainly, the latter will get her looked at, but the former will, too.
Around the same time, Rep. (R) Dan Crenshaw of Texas said on video that he would “kill Tucker Carlson” if he ever met him personally. I’ve listened to that video a few times, and while that part is intelligible, the “I’m not kidding, I’d kill him” part is less clear, and I don’t want to rely on some editor’s subtitles to make the decision for me. So maybe that’s there, I just couldn’t pull it out of the background noise very well.
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It seems I failed to see Texpat’s post in the “all posts” list on the dashboard again.
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A House hearing Tuesday descended into chaos when Chairman James Comer(R-KY) threatened to have Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) forcibly removed for calling President Donald Trump a “grifter.”
During his speaking time, Frost called Trump the “grifter-in-chief” and accused both him and Elon Musk of using their positions to “enrich themselves to the tune of billions of dollars.”
“So if we wanna look at waste, fraud, and abuse — which I’m down to do — why is there complete silence on the other side of the aisle about looking at the complete grifter that is the President of the United States,” Frost said, “and the richest man on the Earth, which is looking into things like social security and different things like that? Why don’t we investigate the real corruption?”
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I am almost of the opinion that we should bring back dueling. It would certainly put a damper on the worst abuses.
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It’s fakery all the way down. I think the NYT, WaPo and CBS should be banned from the White House.
When angry voters confronted Rep. Rich McCormick over DOGE at a town hall held in the Georgia Republican’s deep-red district, the New York Times, Washington Post, and CBS News cited the scene as proof of emerging bipartisan “backlash” over Elon Musk’s efforts to slash government spending. CBS included a quote from one of the protest’s organizers, Maggie Goldman, describing her only as a McCormick constituent.
Goldman does live in McCormick’s district, though she’s far from a concerned supporter of the two-term Republican. A self-described “Democrat & Political Activist,” Goldman, who did not respond to a request for comment, coordinated volunteers for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020, according to her LinkedIn. Shortly thereafter, she ran for her local county commission as a Democrat seeking to enact a “more inclusive policy agenda.”
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When a “news” organization consistently lies against one side, it ceases to be news it is propaganda/hyper partisan advocacy.
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This is great. A federal employee calls into Charlamagne tha God’s hugely popular leftwing podcast and lays it all out about lazy government employees.
“I mean, it’s not that hard. You complaining about actually working? I don’t get it.”
“This is our taxpayer money. And you have to work. You don’t like it? Get another job.”
“But the people that’s complaining about writing the email, it’s going to take, what, five minutes out of your day? Ten minutes. I read on Twitter that guy was complaining, oh, it’s going to be an hour. It takes you an hour to write five things that you completed? Okay, maybe you do need another job.
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Posted on the wrong Wednesday thread.
Colony Ridge arrests on Monday up to 118.
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/colony-ridge-texas-immigration-operation-arrests-update-
It’s getting plenty of national attention…at least on Fox. For all I know, CBS, NBC and ABC have blacked it out.
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Well Ian from Capital Tractor just picked up my tractor and SXS for their annual springtime service. I guess I’ll have to get out my old red Mule that I haven’t even started yet this year. I put the battery charger on her just in case. 3460 +/- hours on the clock and still going strong.
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Got my Club Car side by side running yesterday, I’m ashamed to say it’s been sitting in the back for at least 2 years with a flat tire, bad starter and battery. Normally I shut off the gas and run it dry if it’s going to sit but I guess I didn’t know it was going to sit lol. After a bit of churning, choking and throttling she fired right up. Stabil to the rescue! Now I can tinker with some other needed maintenance items.
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It takes a lot for me to get truly outraged these days, but the CNN article I linked to yesterday containing thinly veiled threats from CIA employees if they were laid off was over the top. CNN is acting as the willing messenger in what is essentially a blackmail operation aimed at the President. Threatening to sell national secrets to our enemies is too damned much for me. Find, identify and fire every one of those bastards.
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They’re not fooling around this time.
An individual believed to be behind an extremely strange government TV hack that went viral on Monday has been found and will likely be fired.
The TVs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) started suddenly streaming a video of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet.
‘Yesterday an individual was escorted off the property,’ a spokesperson for HUD confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Plus, the woman on TikTok linked in my 7:40 AM comment has already been identified by the federal prosecutor in DC.
A US attorney has honed in on an influencer who called for Elon Musk‘s assassination while making a bold admission about paying taxes.
Social media creator Sarah C Roberts shared a video to TikTok where she threatened the billionaire’s life before boasting about how she’s skipped taxes for the past eight years.
The controversial video garnered immense attention, including from Musk and Acting United States Attorney Ed Martin of the District of Columbia, who vowed to take action against Roberts.
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This is some excellent, brief commentary about breaking down the Deep State by Jeffrey Tucker on X.
I’m concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.
The reality is very different, and I’m not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.
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A truism;
The Biden years underscored the point. We didn’t even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.
~SIGH~
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Scary thought. If Trump fails at rooting this crap out, it will never, ever, ever be attempted again.
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That is true and I pray for him and his people.
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Yeah, that’s the ticket…follow the science.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, recently released a database uncovering $2 billion spent by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on “questionable projects.”
The database lists more than 3,400 grants “totaling more than $2.05 billion in federal funding awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during the Biden-Harris administration.” This funding that supported “questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.
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This is some high level troll master work here.
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The Biden administration lied to Americans last May when they said “only” 70,000 taxpayer files were leaked. Here is the truth.
A new letter released by the House Judiciary Committee reveals that under the Biden administration, an IRS contractor leaked the tax information of 405,427 taxpayers to news sources — including that of President Donald Trump. Yet Americans are supposed to be concerned about DOGE?
For weeks Democrats have cried wolf over Elon Musk and DOGE supposedly plotting a “hostile takeover of the Treasury Department” and putting sensitive taxpayer information at risk. Democrats feigned outrage that DOGE would have “access to the management and disbursement of trillions of dollars and the highly sensitive information of millions of Americans.” They even held a press conference attacking DOGE for being granted read-only access to the Treasury Department’s payment system.
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She’s been doxxed. She also has the attention of influential people.
I don’t know if anyone here watched the incredible video on X by the super genius tech woman who goes by DataRepublican. She is astonishing. Totally deaf and non-verbal and has difficulty with signing. She came out a month or so ago with software any person could use to follow all the grant monies spent by the US government. Her system also allowed for following the funds through intermediaries.
Read this. (If it is not legible, go to this link.)
I have been doxxed. Rather than let others control the narrative, I am addressing this directly.
My name is Jennica Pounds. I recently resigned from my job to pursue DOGE-adjacent efforts full-time. While my background check is still in progress, my ultimate goal is to work with the Administration to cut waste and improve efficiency.
What began as a side hobby became a mission when I uncovered the role of NGOs in these issues. This is not about left or right. This is about us—the people.
I gave up everything for this—my safety, my career—because I believe in what I am doing.
I am 100% Deaf and nonverbal. My lack of signing fluency does not make me any less Deaf. It is a result of a language impairment related to my autism called expressive dysphasia, which affects my ability to construct language fluently in real-time. This impacts my signing, speaking, and even writing, though writing allows me more time to correct mistakes. My interpreter and I spend hours refining my talking points to ensure she conveys what I mean, not just what I say.
I am Deaf. And being Deaf is not, and should never be, defined by one’s signing ability, particularly when there are medical conditions involved.
I do not believe the Deaf community should be politically aligned with any party. A priority of mine has always been on holding the Administration accountable to Deaf Americans, including advocating for policy changes such as allowing a second interpreter camera stream on television broadcasts. I will continue using my platform to push for these necessary changes.
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Talk about skyrocketing, she’s everywhere!
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Data Republican has the attention of Michelle Shanahan and Trump’s favorite Asst. Attorney General Ed Martin.
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There are 26 comments here and 14 of them are mine. Somebody else needs to take up the slack.
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We’re busy reading them ok!
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No kidding. It’s hard to read and write at the same time. Especially while you’re driving.
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Stop texting and driving ! I know you’re doing it.
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Yeah, no texting and driving. Ya might spill your beer!
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I just got off the treadmill. About to sit down at my desk while cooling off.
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FBI leadership is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency’s plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover “honeypot” agents.
The off-the-books investigation, launched in 2015 by FBI Director James B. Comey, was revealed by an agency whistleblower in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee last year and first reported exclusively by The Washington Times in October.
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The investigation was eventually closed because a major newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercovers and was about to publish it, but the FBI press office told the outlet that the photograph was an FBI informant who would be killed if the photograph was publicly released.
In fact, it was a photograph of the FBI undercover employee.
The FBI whistleblower employee noted in the disclosure that one of the undercovers agreed to be transferred to the CIA so she would not be available as a potential witness.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday night that she was dismissing more than 100 employees of the US intelligence community (IC) who participated in “obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit” chatrooms on a government messaging platform.
Tulsi Gabbard heads the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). There are approximately 1,100 employees all with some level of security clearances. It’s not a big agency in terms of personnel. I thought the disgusting trans sex chatter in the government platform was confine to the ODNI. Our intel agencies have been populated with freaks.
The cabinet official issued a memo earlier Tuesday calling for the termination of every employee, ranging from those at the Defense Intelligence Agency to US Naval Intelligence to the NSA, and the revocation of their security clearances by week’s end, according to DNI spokeswoman Alexa Henning.
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These are even better than the staff cuts that they’re making everywhere. Those idiots can get fired for cause.
I don’t do anything remotely personal on my work computer aside from pulling up a quick map or something. I don’t want to even accidentally get the IT guys on my a$$.
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Look out.
the Jersey boss man is on the warpath again.
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Okay, Texpat – I’m about to post my C&C review for today:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! In today’s roundup: Tulsi initiates a rapid-fire purge of sex-chatting spooks across more than a dozen intelligence agencies—a brisk 24-hour cleanup; Ukraine signals it’s ready to deal, confirming White House promises and crushing media fantasies of Zelensky resistance; the U.S. makes diplomatic history, taking decisive steps to de-escalate the kinetic phase of World War III; a series of COVID bombshells hints at a major shift in media narrative control; and a possible FBI purge of Comey’s honeypots spreads fear and loathing throughout the metro D.C. area.
It looks like some, if not most, of these topics have been brought up already. I guess it’s gonna be the snark that gets the spotlight now.
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Discussion on the perversion in the intelligence agencies:
The overlooked story here is that our intelligence agencies employ people who even think such things, much less chat about them at work. Good gravy! Where is the shame? It this what LGBT “Pride” means? And Heaven help us if these top-secret-clearance officials are actually doing the things they were describing in their sexy chats.
I’d prefer to believe they were just indulging in hyper-promiscuous leather festival fantasies—rather than reporting on real-life experiences. Because some of that stuff should already be illegal. I mean, think about the poor gerbils. Ick. (Okay, sorry, don’t think about them.)
Indeed. Were these folks not vetted? Or were they vetted and then welcomed in, like the J6ers being invited into the sacred sanctum of the Capitol?
But I digress. The Times article did include at least one astonishing fact not previously seen elsewhere…. it reported that fifteen different intelligence agencies were implicated. First of all, I didn’t even know we had that many secret departments. Good grief, as Charlie Brown would have said …
Second, the bright side is they finally found a common interest, to knit them all together in a poly-something. Intercourse between agencies, you might say. By which I mean dialog, of course. Drag your brain out of the gutter.
As I’ve said before – the dude cracks me up.
Anna Paulina Luna reports that “war” has broken out among the agencies, and the dreaded word “treason” is being bandied about.
’bout dang time that word was dragged out of the closet. No pun intended.
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On to Ukraine – and the upcoming mineral rights deal and the teeth gnashing from the EU:
Over the weekend, green-shirted Martial Law Administrator Zelensky vowed he would never ever sign the deal. Then the U.S. joined Russia, China, and several other countries in the UN Security Council to approve a resolution about ending the war that didn’t assign blame to either side, which infuriated the yellow-bellied Europeans, who abstained, withholding their veto rights. The US resolution passed 10-0.
I’ll return to that resolution in a moment. Remember it.
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Obviously, if Ukraine loses the war, or loses in a way that cripples its economy, the Europeans won’t get paid back.…They don’t care about Ukraine. They care about the money. They don’t want to lose $100 billion Euros.
Mr. C. points out that if the Ukraine loses the war, the money that the EU loaned Zelensky won’t get paid back. I didn’t realize that. Biden had just been shoveling money into that black hole like grave robber about to get caught in the cemetery. The EU could lose $100B Euros if Trump is successful. On the other hand, Trump is about to sign a deal where the U.S. actually gets something for it’s previous “nothing”. And so far, there are no guarantees for more American taxpayer funded assistance involved.
Trump 1, EU 0. If we can get Zelensky to not back out (again). It looks like a win-win for both American and Ukraine.
From what we can tell, it still sounds like a good deal for Ukraine. The Financial Times, which claimed to have seen the final agreement, reported that Ukraine would reluctantly pay income mineral mining into a fund to invest in projects in Ukraine. Like rebuilding the war-torn country, for instance. The U.S. would own a stake in the fund, with the precise terms to be worked out in future agreements.
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On Saturday, to wild mockery from corporate media, the Trump Administration said it expected a deal completed this week. They’re used to the speed of Biden.
Trump doesn’t do much sleeping on the beach.
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Now Mr. C. dissects that UN Resolution mentioned previously:
… Corporate media largely ignores it, but make no mistake—this was a seismic shift in global geopolitics and a massive triumph of U.S. diplomatic finesse. It is incredibly rare for the United States, Russia, and China to align on any Security Council resolution, let alone one concerning Ukraine.
Trump is developing, in real time, a foreign policy of common sense. …
We don’t need peace with Europe. We need peace with the two other near-peer superpowers.
It has been ages since the U.S., Russia, and China agreed on anything… But this week, for the first time since the Ukraine war began, real diplomacy—not just posturing—appears to be happening.
Unlike the Biden admin and their mouth organs in the media, Trump hasn’t been constantly insulting the other superpowers and rallying the sheeple to rage.
You don’t have to like folks to work with them or through them. Keeping the desired end result in mind helps to minimize the chaos. Chaos is how the Left operates; it’s their favored milieu. Trump may be a disruptor, but he is focused.
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Her Highness says they had MMR (measles, mumps, Rubella) vaccines when she was a child in the 1950s. I have no recollection of that being around in Texas when I was a kid. I had chicken pox, red measles and mumps as a child and so did Shannon. Lots and lots of kids had them. It was an unwelcome but accepted part of growing up in those days.
Did other people have the MMR vaccine in Texas back then ?
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I remember having mumps. I also had a brief bout with TB (never had to have those arm bumps again, but I was required to have yearly lung x-rays for a number of years). I vaguely remember something about measles. I also had chicken pox. I still have the scar from the smallpox(?) shot – that big round one with the tiny holes inside it. I remember eating the sugar cube for polio. I don’t remember any other vaccines, though there very well could have been more pokes in my past.
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We had the smallpox vaccine and the Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus (DPT) shot. We got the Sabin polio oral vaccine in 1962.
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I have had every version of the measles and the chicken pox. I think I had the MMR vaccine in addition to typhoid diphtheria and tetanus.
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I don’t believe the MMR was available in Texas until 1980-ish… I worked for a pediatrician in Houston then and IRCC we were just beginning to give them
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I was mistaken – it was developed in 1971… and varicella was added in 2005
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The next section of the C&C reports how RFK is putting the brakes on a “new Covid medication”. Let’s just see how much teeth gnashing and/or running for the hills occur as the MAHA group takes over.
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RFK stops a $460 million study involving 10,000 participants in a clinical trial to begin this coming Monday. Some grantees are out there screaming their heads off. Why do we need to be spending another half a billion bucks on a Covid vaccine ? It’s stupid.
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Mr. C. finishes up with a discussion of the “honeypot” dirty tricks campaign run from the FBI. Texpat linked to a story about it earlier.
Mr. C. reports that one of the ‘federal hookers’ has now slept her way up the CIA. Interesting. I don’t know that his comment is totally tongue in cheek.
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Federal hookers is the correct term. There are undercover cops on the larger police forces that do the same thing. If you get paid for sex with someone other than your spouse, you a ho.
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Our backyard is already in serious need of a haircut. I may venture out later and try to work in the garden – need to decommission some of the tubs and put out some seed. The asparagus is already sending up stalks, so I need to harvest more often.
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I just got this text;
SNAP restrictions would create a massive bureaucracy and have the government deciding what’s in your grocery cart. Do you want a “food code” that’s more complicated than the tax code? TAKE ACTION NOW! Facts 31
Stop To End
Well dang, does this mean I can no longer buy beer with my Alabama Card?
😀Dang that Elon Musk.
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RE SuperDave 12:54
You say “massive bureaucracy” like it’s a bad thing. We are confused.
Yours truly,
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I’ve told Hubby I’m going for a 36 hour fast. I gotta break this plateau. Don’t know that I can make 72 hours.
Since I did my treadmill time this morning, I’m getting hungry. I need to remember that this will pass. Hunger isn’t forever. It’s surprising how unhungry one can be when not eating.
I went to a fasting website and found this, for all y’all, just so you know:
One of the reasons I believe in incorporating fasting into your lifestyle is that it’s really simple.
It’s free, it’s convenient — you can do it while traveling or when you have a really busy schedule, it’s flexible — and you can take some time off from it without losing all the benefits you gained.
Fasting also helps you create balance.
Feasting and fasting is the natural cycle of life, and fasting allows you to fully participate in holidays, vacations and other important moments.
It’s a tool that allows you more freedom to be involved without taking a few steps back on your health.
And the following paragraph is why I need to fast more often:
Fasting is also the quickest way I know of to break through high insulin (traditionally called insulin resistance), breakthrough weight-loss plateaus, get rid of stubborn fat, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and prevent Alzheimer’s disease and other chronic diseases.
It extends your life expectancy, increases longevity, and decreases inflammation. Your blood work will show a decline in all the markers for diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and heart disease.
There are many different types of fasts, and you can incorporate each different type into your lifestyle in order to make it sustainable.
I remember being at a keto conference and a speaker was talking about the usual arguments against making changes:
“Don’t have money? You can fast. Don’t have time? You can fast. Don’t have equipment? You can fast….” You get the idea. The guy cracked me up. -
An opinion without 3.14 is just an onion. :
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I’d rather have pie.
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Groan
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Jasmine Crockett must carry her brain in her purse. Where it gets crushed on a regular basis.
Yep, Trump negotiating peace will send us into WWIII. What a mental midget.
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I changed the oil and filter on the old red Mule and used it to haul some limbs off. It was good driving the old girl again.
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There is a 5 hour video of the funeral procession and service for Shiri Bibas and her two babies on Jewish News Service. The entire nation of Israel, it seems, came to a halt and lined the roads from Tel Aviv to southern Israel near Gaza to the kibbutz for burial where they were kidnapped. It is about a 65 mile (100 km) trip.
We could only watch about an hour. It is heart-wrenching. The most astounding thing was the father getting up and speaking at the service. I couldn’t have done it. I couldn’t speak at either one of my parents’ funerals. What a brave, stout heart…
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My wife and I just came in from the front porch and the sun sets in about 5 minutes. Oh and @ 72, the temperature is dropping a little. I think the high was 75 or so, very nice indeed.
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Capital Tractor has a fine big wrecker style truck to pick up equipment and I figured that there would be plenty of room for my tractor and SXS but dang it was tight fit. I had to tuck the bucket under the arms to get the tractor far enough forward to get the SXS on the back. They fit but with no room to spare.
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“Islam and the West” is indeed a must read, likely several times to absorb all the important stuff.
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Thanks, Adee, everybody should read it at least once.
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Like Adee says, if you haven’t watched the Raymond Ibrahim video in the headline, do not miss it.
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And dang I missed it but I promise I’ll get to it tomorrow.
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Jake tapped out was against it before he was for it.
Jake says the 5 keys to success are…
buy my book.
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Really happy that Pluto TV has Columbo on tonight. Detecting before all of the science stuff.
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I recognize one of the characters on the current episode – he played a cold-blooded mass killer on another show. I find it amusing when I can cross-reference actors.
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I may have mentioned that I have a loose dog problem at one of my well sites. It involves two small pits, a chihuahua, and another small curr. This has been going on intermittently for months. Sometimes a problem, sometimes not. I only have to visit this location once a week.
Recently, a new player started showing up. – a Red dog that probably goes 35-40 lbs. Fang-baring, barking, bouncing-on-his-front-legs, vicious-acting SOB.
My employer knows about it and has talked to the water system board about the situation. He knows I will shoot the dog(s) if I have to. But I don’t want the potential legal hassles that go with it.
The County has no leash laws or other regs.A couple weeks ago was a close call with Red. I called around and found these tiny air horns at Ace in Brenham.
Today, Red showed up alone and pulled his crap. He was six feet from me when I pulled out that air horn and blasted that SOB. You’d have thought I shot him. I’ve never seen a dog coil up like that, almost fall backwards on his back trying to get away. Took off running like a bat outta Hell.Pretty damn funny.
Worked a lot better than screaming at him two weeks ago.
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A 44 mag works better and it will end the problem once and for all. 😉
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I’ll have to remember that. I’ve taken to carrying my Byrna just to check my mail. A stray started for me last week. Being just the one dog and not charging hard, he would’ve probably been harmless – but why not be prepared?
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I had measles when I was about 8 or 9 years old. At that time there were two types of measles making the rounds in Wisconsin. Red Measles was the big bad one, and German Measles was much less severe. I had both, the red ones first, and the other several months afterwards. Younger people seemed to have less illness than older folks, and our doctor seriously considered sending his young daughter over to our house to catch it from me. Mom discouraged that.
My Mom the nurse kept all the info she could find about the measles outbreak: where it was, where it had been nearby and how sick were the patients. And when I starting to come down with it she called our doctor and her nurse friends to tell them what my symptoms were and ask what they had found in their patients. The give-away symptom was white spots inside the mouth (coplex spots) and a fever then starting to feel tired as the spots developed. The doctor did not need to see me since Mom was a nurse and he had patients galore as it was.
Having the red measles and coming out ok was supposed to give immunity for life, which seems to have been correct. This was before there was any vaccine available but work started to find a cure.
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I remember sending Lovely Daughter to a friend’s house to catch chicken pox when she was little. Better than her having it as an adult.
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