Monday’s New York Times “All the Truth” Open Comments
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Sadly, the Coogs lost to Florida tonight, by 2 points. Guess that means they are second best in the country for their effort. I didn’t watch the entire game as I had too many other things to do tonight. Second place compared to all the other teams from all over the country that started out dreaming to get that far is certainly not a disaster.
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congrats to Flo rid a
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What an ugly way to lose
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It’s nothing to be tired at 32, maybe a little bit at 42, but it is a whole different thing to be tired at 72. Down to the molecular level in the bone marrow.
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I just watched a video of two girls, maybe 5-7 years old, being filmed by what seems to be their older brother – and they are mercilessly verbally and physically bullying a little white girl who looks to be a little younger than them. Crying from the white girl. Next, the white girl actually tries to befriend them and hands them something, but the voice of the videographer tells the black girls to throw it on the ground. More crying ensues from white girl. The black girls then proceed to mock her and bully her some more, taking obvious delight in the distress they are causing.
Hate starts when it’s taught at home. This made me sick to my stomach.
What will the black girls and boy become as they grow older? Will the white girl continue to try to be friends or will she become an angry, bitter teenager herself? And will weapons be involved?
And the parents will wonder what happened to their precious little babies…
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Well, we finally got a delivery in our fancy new box, and it was locked, too!
Third time in how many weeks? I order a lot of stuff, much of it for my rosary making and/or Steve’s vehicles.
We’re hoping this starts a trend. In the beginning, I didn’t give any ratings on how well/badly the delivery was done because I know change can be slow, but this long after I update my delivery instructions AND all of the signage….I began giving negative reviews of the delivery service. We’ll see if the feedback is actually working.
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Iowahawk once again wins the internet via X:
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Look I’ve been as critical of tariffs as anyone but if the long term vision is domestic Nike sweatshops filled with fired DC bureaucrats, I’m willing to listen
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buhwahahahahahahahahahah
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Ha!
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Lol. H/T Michael Berry
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GO COOGS
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I request that the moderator delete my 4:55 pm post be deleted.
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Done.
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Got Hubby registered for his car show in Grand Prairie next month, and got his hotel set up, too.
If I die tomorrow, I have no idea what he’d do.
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Almost Heaven Lawnmower Graveyard
260-824-5087My neighbor says he’s done business with them for years. Reputable, fair, and test and guarantee their parts.
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That might be a handy number to save.
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Well dang! I stumbled across a pretty neat gadget. Wireless Trailer Lights that attach magnetically, operate on a rechargeable battery and uses a 2.4 Ghz transmitter that plugs into your trailer light socket.
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Nice. ‘Bout damn time 🙂
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Link doesn’t work for me. Hubby would probably be interested.
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Trump complains frequently about other nations’ currency manipulation. Here’s an example. Back in 2001-2002 I was working on a $400,000+ quotation for equipment in the Algerian oilpatch. I spent a lot time and energy on the package and knew from a source I was the low bidder.
However, right before deadline a Canadian company came in with a higher quote, but in Canadian dollars. The Canadian government had let their dollar crash to $0.63 to the $1.00 USD to boost their export industires.
The US manufacturer had a plant in Ontario to make matters worse for me. The Algerian government was able to purchase Canadian dollars with their USD reserves and still buy the Canadian offer cheaper than mine. Look at this chart.
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Look at this chart.
Dang! Bad timing for sure.
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And, regarding the moaning over the improving inflation numbers (good for us, not for the movers and shakers, that is). According to Childers:
But consider this. Is the stock market adjustment a bug or a feature? Trump called it “medicine,” but what is he treating? He said the market medicine would treat “something,” like a vague placeholder standing in for a diagnosis he knows but won’t name. So let’s take a swing at filling in the blank.
Trump has already defanged the deep state by turning off its taxpayer cash-to-NGO spigot. So we know he’s laser-focused on stripping our enemies’ financial weapons. But what about the money they already stole? Money they can use to create mischief, fund paid protests and lawfare, and otherwise hogtie the agenda? The billions Biden pumped into their networks over the last four years?
Those humongous piles of (our) cash has been invested in the stock market. Is it possible that this market adjust could be one more way that OMB (Orange Mad Bad) is going to drain yet more of their ill-gotten gains? Pre-emptively eliminating a huge economic bubble that the insiders could have benefited from financially?
Since the Obama era, financial bigwigs like Warren Buffett have rung alarm bells about overheated stock prices. The problem was intensified by big bailouts and market manipulation (like SPACs) that added nothing to underlying values while the DJIA spiraled ever higher, ever closer to the Sun. The markets teetered on the high wire of unbelievably risky FAANG stocks, wherein seven tech companies hog the first third of the entire Dow Jones’s value.
Buffett liquidated most of his portfolio before the election – over $300B dollars’ worth. What did he know?
Trump’s enemies—media pundits, establishment economists, champagne-globalist think tankers— publicly and often hoped he’d walk right into a Wall Street trap: an overpriced, overstimulated market ripe for correction, just in time for him to own the crash. The Dow was frothy, valuations were stretched, and recession whispers were already in the air when he stepped back into office.
If this is the “medicine” we need to take, better to do it early in Trump’s administration that later, closer to election season.
Trump said, “Hang tough, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic.” And if he pulls this off — if he resets the stock market, starves the slush funds, and rebuilds the markets on the back of real, global trade deals instead of reckless financial gimmicks — then he won’t just make America great again.
He will make history. And I, for one, plan on enjoying every minute of it.
We can hope. The left is evil, merciless, and persistent. And getting desperate. There’s no telling what they’ll try to do.
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Astonishingly, Britain’s Starmer has declared globalization a failure and is dead.
Yeah, I’ll believe that when I see it. Keeping my powder dry, so to speak.
… Starmer “will also say he understands Trump’s economic nationalism, and why it is popular with voters who believe they have seen no benefits from free trade and mass immigration.”
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To say that London is the world’s globalization headquarters is like saying the Mouse lives at Disney World. London has been the velvet-gloved epicenter of globalism ever since the East India Company shipped spices and opium on the same manifest. London’s financial class didn’t just benefit from globalization— they practically wrote the instruction manual.
For them to start hand-wringing now about “mass immigration” and “no benefits from free trade” is a sign the ground is shaking beneath the WEF cathedral.
Mr. C. opines that Trump isn’t just MAGA, he’s doing it in Europe, too:
In short, Trump is jackhammering a wedge between European national identity and EU hegemonic bureaucracy— between real nations and their synthetic supranational babysitters. It’s starting to look like Brexit on steroids.
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The Times ended its story by morbidly reflecting that President Trump once “said the European Union was created to ‘screw’ the US.”
I can hope. I still hope to one day travel to Europe, but as it is right now – that’s not going to happen. Unless and until the hostile Muslim hordes are removed or tamed, and the Europeans return to free speech and other civil rights that we take for granted here, I’ll just have to travel vicariously through television or simply enjoy the free places here in the United States. There’s plenty to enjoy within our own borders.
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And across the pond, the EU is facing its own crisis – could this realignment of the trade practices be the end of the EU? The emergency meetings continue, while Trump haggles with individual leaders.
The European Union is a patchwork of competing national interests duct-taped together by bureaucracy and inertia. Trump is exploiting a structural weakness: the EU speaks with one voice— unless a member state sees a better deal. And the President can offer them better individual deals. You might call it a “tariff scalpel” strategy— slicing not just into trade surpluses, but also slicing apart alliances.
Recently the EU was coming together to oppose the American response to the Ukrainian war, and today is a different story.
…They’re scrambling to keep their economies afloat and to stop them from unraveling under the weight of U.S. tariffs and retaliatory market chaos.
Thus we begin to see even more outlines emerging of the bigger play. It’s not just economic leverage. It’s strategic sequencing: destabilize, divide, deal. In his AF1 comments last night, Trump had harsh words for the meddlesome Europeans.
He’s not going to let them get away with the theft from the past. The school principal is looking at the kids’ report cards and calling them to task for the entire school year’s misconduct.
“Europe’s treated us very badly,” the President explained. So “we put a big tariff on Europe. They’re coming to the table; they want to talk.” But, he said, “there’s no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis, number one for present but also for past. Because they’ve taken a lot of our wealth away. And we’re not gonna allow that to happen.”
For Europe, therefore, it’s not just equalization— it’s retaliation. It’s reparations. I bet now they wish they hadn’t so enthusiastically leapt into the elections interference game back in 2020. They tried to sabotage his presidency. Now he’s dismantling their union— one tariff at a time.
Of course, the only reparations that are legit are the ones justified by wokeness.
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Foreign markets are having problems with Trump’s insistence on the tariff issue:
…However, the President stuck with a single, consistent metaphor, saying last night that “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.”
And there ain’t a spoonful of sugar anywhere to make it better. The White House reports that 50 countries are burning up phone lines to negotiate trade deals. Not China. China is doubling down.
Trump is holding massive leverage. Global markets are getting beaten worse than a micro wrestler in a bar fight. Mainland China’s CSI 300 index dropped sharply into a plunge of around -6% to -7%. Hong Kong’s main stock measure, the Hang Seng Index, crashed -13%— its worst day since a 1997 landslide during the Asian financial crisis. Indexes in Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo fell between -7% and -10%. European markets have free-fallen between -5% and -7% since their openings early this morning.
In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “I can tell you that, as only he can do at this moment, President Trump has created maximum leverage for himself. And more than 50 countries have approached the administration about lowering their non-tariff trade barriers, lowering their tariffs, and stopping currency manipulation.”
Soooo…winning! We may be looking at the fairest “open market” ever once Trump gets through with his a$$ whooping. Trump is encouraging folks to just hang in there because once the adjustment period is over, things will settle down and be better. I think he’s right. This is a long overdue adjustment. China has its own set of “battle words,” assuring their own folks that things will be just fine, don’t worry, the great Communist leaders are in full control against Orange Man Bad and his bullying. Cry me a river.
The world leaders aren’t calling Trump’s economic haggling team. They’re calling his hostage negotiating hotline.
I agree with the last line.
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Finally getting around to the C&C:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! The news continues to be dominated by Trump’s tariffs and the world’s market response. So let’s dig in. In today’s roundup: global markets plunge as Trump tariffs take hold, but what’s the upside?; a quarter of the entire Earth lines up to do deals; China reels under tariff chaos; Europe in focus as Trump vows the EU will have to pay “a lot” in restitutionary back-invoices; British pivot to Trump agenda in astonishing reversal as tariffs begin to grip; Brussels Tower of Babel leans over; US inflation at rock bottom; oil prices plummet; Main Street celebrates; and the astonishing possibility that a stock market reset might have been the plan all along.
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I am ready to see the pastures in Texas fill up cow/calf operations again thanks to Trump’s trade sanctions. Readers here have seen my remarks after trips down to Texas over the years observing the vanishing herds across the state. It was pretty depressing.
I haven’t grasped how devastated our cattle business has been by cheap cattle imports, packer house monopolies, cheaper meat imports and hostile foreign tariffs on US beef.
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Back in March I was watching the Farm Report and they said that the US Cattle herd is at it’s lowest level since 1951 @ 86.7 million head. Down from
250 million head, I think. This was after the devastating fires in the Texas Panhandle. Some time last year they said that with the fire and drought many Cattlemen were selling off their breeding stock. Stock that they had worked 50 years to build up.
Oh and don’t get me started on the fact that 95% of all shrimp consumed in the US comes from Asia and South America.-
From WWII until shortly after 2000, the 18 counties along a horizontal line between Houston and San Antonio produced approximately 72-74% of all the beef calves in America. Those south-central Texas cow/calf operations kept a steady flow of beef to the feedlots in the Texas Panhandle and the Midwest. Not anymore…
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My mother’s great-grandpa got a section of land between Lawn and Ovalo waaaaay back when – mostly cotton and cattle…. It wound up divided between 4 kids… by time it was Mama’s generation, their branch of the family also had 100 acres to divide between 5 kids… Anyway… we always had “home-grown, locally processed beef” until I graduated high school… and I sure have missed it
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I saw quite a few Hereford looking calves sucking on their mama’s on my travels to New Ulm today.
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Dave, that’s why I only want headless shrimp – I can’t tell what kind of eyes they HAD
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It’ll be interesting to see how the meat packing part of the process changes and affects the market. Some of these ranchers have started their own meat processing facilities so they won’t be at the mercy of the big guys. As beef production ramps up, I wonder if they’ll be offered a deal they can’t refuse…
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The tiny, independent, vertical beef marketing operations are great, but it will never make a dent in the macro meat industry. I have been pissed off for years as the DOJ in the Clinton, Bush, Biden administrations have done nothing to trust-bust the meat packing monopoly in America. Trump 45 didn’t have time to address it, but hopefully Trump 47 will.
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Y’all keep talking about potato salad and I haven’t posted this or any other recipe here for a long time. They take up too much room, but I’m making an exception.
Kimmon’s Texas Potato Salad
Ingredients
5 lbs Potatoes – Russets ONLY
6 ea. Hardboiled eggs – chopped
2-3 large Kosher Dill pickles – chopped fine
3-4 ea. Celery stalks – chopped
1 large Green bell pepper – chopped fine
½ cup Green onions – chopped
1 jar Pimientos – chopped fine
Mayonnaise
Salt
Black pepper – coarseNote: Several of the ingredients contain a lot moisture. You will need to use colanders, strainers and paper towels to get them as dry as you can or it will ruin your dish. Very important.
A. Peel, cut into large chunks the potatoes and boil in water until cooked but firm – don’t overcook to mushy. Too soft is no good. Dump into a colander to cool and drain all the water out.
B. Follow the directions noted above to remove as much moisture as reasonably possible from the pickles and pimientos.
C. Place potatoes into a large bowl and lightly mash into rough consistency.
D. Add all other ingredients and start adding salt and pepper to taste. Small amounts.
E. Stir ingredients gently until well-mixed.
F. Add mayonnaise one large spoonful at a time and mix thoroughly into salad. Don’t overdo it. Stop right before you think you have hit the minimum.Let sit in refrigerator – overnight if possible* – take out, sample and add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve.Note: This is the basic, traditional Central Texas German/Czech/Polish potato salad recipe served for generations by most families in Texas and was made by my great-grandmother. Some families vary the recipe with different ingredients so experiment all you want. But, personally, I like this one the best.
Also, you can double or triple this recipe for large gatherings with no problem. I use the rule of ¼ lb. potato salad per person.
* It always tastes better the next day.
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the method is pretty much the same as that of my family – however… we’ve always used sweet pickles, regular onion (diced) and Miracle Whip (I didn’t know what REAL Mayo was until I met Squawk) and boiled eggs – NO celery nor bell pepper… all stirred in with the potato masher but the taters never got mashed all the way…
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Any woman who married a man who weaned her off of Miracle Whip should thank her lucky stars everyday for him. I’m glad you never confessed that to Hamous. He hated mayonnaise (The Devil’s Smegma !), but he must have thought Miracle Whip was some kind of evil communist plot.
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Trust me, Hammie and I had “those discussions” 😉
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I forgot the yellow mustard
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Now you’ve lost your genuine native Texan passport. It’s not right.
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There are serious people who believe the UK is being pushed into violent anarchy by the elitist arrogance of the Left and paralyzed complacency of the Right in that country. They are completely consumed with Islamophobia, toxic masculinity, decolonization, transfreaks and government control of all speech.
I grew up in a post-colonial world where we said “I don’t see race” and honestly, if naively, meant it. Over the past 30 years, liberal institutions have taught us to see race again – by stressing the wonders of diversity so persistently that some white people feel the state has actively taken a side against them. Ancient, binding concepts, such as “equality before the law” ring hollow. The latest Police Race Action Plan openly rejects the principle of “treating everyone the same” in favour of “equality of police outcomes”.
A situation in which millions believe cops are not impartial public servants but an occupying force is the headline metric of state failure. Mainland Britain has become Ulster.
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BTW – one of the menu items for last night’s dinner was potato salad. Hubby has been buying the store-made stuff for past meals, but I wanted to make something other than “a tub full of mayonnaise with the occasional potato piece”. He uses a lot of mayo, for tuna fish and chicken salad sandwiches, so I needed to buy some anyway. I am trying to reduce or eliminate seed oils in the house, and all of the popular, mass produced brands start with “soybean oil”. (gag) I was looking for something better.
I found a jar that was labeled “avocado oil mayonnaise” and I checked the ingredients. (Going keto teaches you to do that with *everything*.) Avocado oil is NOWHERE in the ingredients list. It did have a slightly better oil profile than the other stuff, so I bought it anyway.
My tater salad is the Yukon gold taters, mayo & mustard dressing, celery, seasoning, and hard boiled egg. And the dressing is used as dressing, not the main ingredient.
I went ahead and boiled the whole bag of potatoes, and I was going to send some home with Handsome but forgot. I’m thinking about making smashed potatoes for Hubby – take the boiled tater, smash it down, top it with butter, cheese, maybe some bacon; cook it in the air fryer or under a broiler to crisp up the tips and edges; then maybe top with sour cream.
If I can’t use them up in time, there’s always the Elsa option.
Update in response to the recipe above: I forgot that I added pickles and onions, too. And I like texture to my potatoes, so larger chunks and the potatoes are ones that are more firm when boiled. Russets are not my favorite in tater salad.
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Hellman’s makes an olive oil version.
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As Hubby and I were talking about the current sale process for the Pasadena property we inherited from MIL, I was thinking that was the last of the inherited properties.
I forgot those two empty lots in El Paso. One is 5 acres, near a commercial area, and the other is smack dab in the middle of a planned residential development. MIL & FIL purchased these lots back in the ’70s, when a developer sold them on the future demand of land in the area. Currently – or as of April 2018, when I drove out there – they were nothing but sand and desert scrub. No streets, no nuthin’. Nothing had been developed.
We keep getting offers for the land from speculators. We’ve been holding onto the lots, since the taxes for those two lots is less than a cheap dinner out. (When MIL died, I discovered that she hadn’t paid taxes in years; it’s a wonder that the lots hadn’t been confiscated.) The offers have been slowly creeping up over the years, and we’ve just held onto them. I opened two envelopes this morning, one for each parcel. I think the residential lot may be about to be developed.
The latest bid for the .41 acre lot today is $6,500, from $4K in January. Oddly, the offer for the 5 acre lot was less than that one by a thousand.
We’ll continue to hold onto them for now and see what happens. I may go poke around the El Paso county site and news sources, to see what’s going on. The last time I tried that I couldn’t find a good source of information, but if development is beginning to encroach into that planned subdivision, there should be some news somewhere.
Might be a nice road trip, to go check things out.
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At the ‘pooter earlier than usual. I was so busy cooking for Hubby and Handsome that I didn’t get to an important email that I need to send. I’ll be heading that way shortly to do just that.
The OC topic is, unfortunately, more true than I’d like for it to be. This unholy hatred of Jews from the unholy left is beyond belief.
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Someone mentioned that Tim Walz was such a loser that he couldn’t bring home Minnesota for the Cackler and it reminded me that if Al Bore had won his home state of Tennessee he’d have won the Presidency back in 2000.
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The people most familiar with those losers…
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Amen!
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I can understand people missing or procrastinating about getting a colonoscopy every 8-10 years, but when men die of prostate cancer I am baffled. Once or twice a year to get a 10 minute blood draw for a blood test ? How do you not do that if you are over 50 ?
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I have to go in once a year just to get my meds renewed. They take about a gallon out of my arm for all the tests they do.
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Yes, if there is anything good about my High Blood Pressure it’s that I have to go EVERY year to bribe the doctor to renew my meds.
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The annual “You really should take better care of yourself.” appointment.
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Y’all mentioned the passing of Jay North yesterday so I looked it up. He died of Colon Cancer.
R.I.P.
FWIW; I don’t remember seeing him in any other show besides Dennis the Menace.-
There was a show called “Maya” – kinda like “Daktari”
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Now that is an interesting front page, especially considering the date stamp. No linky? Well we’re finally getting some rain, a little more than an inch and a half (1.68″) overnight and the radar looks promising for this morning.
OK slackers it’s Monday, time to hit the ground running or at least get moving. 😉
Mornin’ Gang
Edited a few minutes later; Oh wait! I now see the “If today’s NY Times editors were in charge 1943” I better get me some coffee.-
“All the News That Fits Our Agenda” and “We Do the Thinking For You” might have been clues.
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Yes, I missed that with my quick glance but in my defense, I’d only been up 30 minutes or so and wasn’t firing on all 8. 😉
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Yes, indeed.
I caught it pronto and with a certain degree of sadness. I was born in 1941, and in my very early years as a child heard my elders frequently discussing what was going on in WW2.
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