What Shall We Make Today?

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Continuing my No-Bake theme, today’s offering is Watermelon Rice Krispie Treats!

For the Green Rind

5 oz mini marshmallows (half a bag)

2 tbsp butter

2 cups Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Cereal

green food coloring

For the White Rind

5 oz mini marshmallows (half a bag)

2 tbsp butter

2 cups Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Cereal

For the Red Fruit

10 oz mini marshmallows (1 bag)

4 tbsp butter

4 cups Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Cereal

½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

Spray a 9″ spring form or baking pan with baking spray, or grease with butter.

Make the Green Rind

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the mini marshmallows and butter until puffy (about 1 minute). Immediately add cereal and a few drops of food coloring. Mix with a buttered spatula or spoon. With your fingers, line the pan with the green cereal so that it is about ½” wide and ¾ of the way up the pan.

Make the White Rind

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the marshmallows and butter until puffy. Add cereal and mix with a buttered spatula. Press it up next to the green cereal, creating another ring a little wider than the green rind. Fill ¾ of the way up the pan.

Make the Red Fruit

In a larger bowl, melt the mini marshmallows and butter. Add the cereal and red food coloring to desired color. Press the cereal into the center of the pan and, with your hands, press down to pack all three colors together. Place the chocolate chips, flat side up, randomly in the red fruit part of the watermelon. Let harden. Cut into wedges. For wedges on a stick, insert a stick into the wedge while the cereal mixture is still soft.

ENJOY!

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  1. Morning All
    cloudy here again this morning, but the temp is about 62*.
    last evening the little bird was back on the railing–the front one this time. just cheeping and cheeping. so i went out the side door and approached it very slowly–talking softly. i got to within a foot of it. it’s feathers were a little ruffled but it didn’t seem to be bothered by me at all. it kept cheeping and then i heard another soft cheep in reply. maybe the bad storm that blew through here disoriented the small thing and he was looking for his family? mate? in an instant he flew off into the woods.

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    1. Good morning, Miss Pat.

      We will have sunshine today in N FL for our trip to the doctor appointments – that’s good news. After the appts., we plan to pick up slow roasted lamb pitas and fixings from Kairos, a mediterranean restaurant in town, and bring them home to have a late lunch.

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        1. We are back home safe – and the doctors were very pleased with her diabetic control – 87% of the time she has been on target – and no super high blood sugar episodes.

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    2. Morning, Pat! Cute! Temp is 62 here, too, but clear for the most part with ground fog since it is still very humid. No rain predicted again for the next 10 days, in the 90’s every day. At least my grass won’t grow so quickly. Christina did a much better job on the weed-eating this time.

      Wheezer was sleeping on my chair again – I was able to scratch her head briefly 3 times! After a few minutes, she jumped down to eat; I retrieved a container of canned food and was going to hold it in my hand to see if she would eat it but as soon as I approached, she backed off, sat down and watched me. So I dumped it into her food dish – after a minute, she moved up to smell it and commenced to chowing down. When she finished it, she stepped up to the threshold and looked in but didn’t come inside this time. After a few minutes of looking, she headed back outside.

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  2. Talk about an energy crisis – EVs will surely bring it on!!!

    EV Boosters Cannot Do Math 

    “Two home-charged EVs would eat up nearly half the household’s total electricity usage – and require thousands of dollars to upgrade the house’s electric panel. Today’s 50-kva transformers, which cost about $8,000 each, can power about 60 homes; that number drops closer to 40 if each of those homes houses one electric vehicle, closer to 30 with two EVs using home chargers.

    For a city with 120,000 homes, which today may require about 2,000 transformers, the addition of 120,000 home-charged electric vehicles means adding 1,000 transformers, about $8 million. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, because distributing 50 to 100% more household electricity requires generating 50 to 100% more electricity…”

    h/t – Transfigurations – https://transfigurations.blogspot.com

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  4. Wyatt

    @austerrewyatt1

    What if the world found out that chemotherapy and radiation were designed to kill CANCER patients, and ivermectin, fenbendazole, apricot, seeds, soursop tea, chlorine dioxide, dandelion root tea, frequency therapy and antineoplastans were cures for CANCER?

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    2. The only movie of his that I even liked, much less loved, was The Perfect Storm. I did enjoy watching ER but that’s it.

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      1. i liked him in Facts of Life and Roseann. we have several of his movies–we got long before i found out what a huge liberal ass he was…lol
        The Ocean 11, 12, and 13 and Monument Men
        I do find him handsome–even more so since he got grayer for some reason.

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        1. Probably because he stopped using the hair dye! I don’t remember him in Roseann and never watched the Facts of Life.

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          1. i did an open about him recently and he claims he never used dye–doesn’t get the wrinkles removed–that’s one of the things i like about him. older men can be very sexy!

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      2. Good morning, Katharine! She is also quite intelligent and she doesn’t get nearly enough credit for it. I think she is one of only a very few women who measures up against Trump’s intelligence!

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        1. PF and Filly about Melania: She has lots of admirable qualities. Y’all have mentioned several. I also admire her grace and style. She does not try to compete with Trump for the limelight. She also keeps their personal lives personal, something that must be hard to do.

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  10. Peter Bernegger

    @PeterBernegger

    We ran North Carolina’s Active Voter registration list through our TITAN system: Registered to a Commercial Address: 292 Missing Apartment or Suite no.: 83,027 Permanently moved out of County: 70,039 Permanently moved out of State: 91,264 Moved but left no forwarding address: 28,157 Primary address is not valid: 159,520 432,299 There are more, different issues – but you get the point. North Carolina’s statewide voter list is foul.

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  11. delusions of grandeur not limited to the males of the maggot family. taco wanted her own entrance song–disputed stories though

    aricle

    In 2022, the Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams reported that the Marine Corps Band was instructed to compose an entrance theme for First Lady Jill Biden. The song, Fanfare for the First Lady, was intended to be a counterpoint to the president’s Hail to the Chief. But of course, the president is the elected commander in chief, and the First Lady is more of an honorary post.

    Many of those in the Marine Corps Band said they’d never been asked to do an exclusive First Lady entrance theme before. “Someone in the White House apparently ‘had the bright idea, ‘Oh, tell the band that we want music for Jill,” a source said. ‘The band had to provide music,'” Adams reported. 

    At the time, press secretary for the First Lady Michael LaRosa (yes, she has one of those too), said that the story was not accurate. “The first lady does not have a song anybody has written for her specifically. She has no ‘Hail to the Chief’ song. She has no song. She never asked anyone to create a song.”

    “The White House asked nobody, not one person, to compose an exclusive entry song, or any song, for the first lady,” LaRosa added. “None of that is accurate.”

    Yet, the song exists. LaRosa said the whole thing was the band’s idea and that it wasn’t even written for First Lady Jill specifically, even though it was played just for her and there was a recording made as well so she could have the entrance song even when the band was not around. It was even performed at the White House’s Teacher of the Year event. 

    After Adams’ story was published, an update was released saying that “The U.S. Marine Band has retired ‘Fanfare for the First Lady’ from its repertoire, the Washington Examiner has learned. The song was removed quietly following the publication of this article, a source said. One source attributed the decision to pull the composition from rotation to ‘negative’ news coverage. We hope the first lady can forgive us for killing her entrance theme.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-white-house-demanded-marine-corps-band-compose-fanfare-for-the-first-lady-entrance-theme-for-jill-report?cfp

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  12. GRENADES???? wouldn’t think they would be easy to obtain. these were both found to be inert. still…wth???

    Hawaii Airport Forced to Evacuate After Two Grenades Found in Man’s Carry-on Luggage, TSA Agents in Pittsburgh Stops Another Man Carrying Two Grenades

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    1. Oh, they’re around – you can find them sometimes at Military Surplus stores, supposedly deactivated. A number of people at Ft. Myer used to buy old surplus gas masks and use the filters to smoke weed in the barracks – they completely eliminate any smoke or smell. The newer ones used different filters that didn’t do that.

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  13. anyone who’s taken an economics class can verify this is a bad policy. the gov’t does not and SHOULD not control every aspect of life.

    FTA

    During the previous presidential debate, Biden declared, “we’re going to make sure that we reduce the price of housing. We’re going to make sure we build 2 million new units. We’re going to make sure we cap rents, so corporate greed can’t take over,” 

    Biden’s focus on so-called corporate greed and support for caps on rent illustrate a dangerous misunderstanding of economic principles, risking counterproductive interventions in the housing market. His stance also shows a disregard for individuals’ right to employ their own property in the ways they see fit, violating their freedoms and harming prosperity. 

    In recent years, the corporate-greed line has become trite as a number of prominent Democrats have tried to blame inflation on corporate avarice. Not only has this supposed explanation for elevated prices been repeated ad nauseam, it is also inaccurate. The so-called greed of profit-maximizing entities is no greater when prices are high than when prices are low. Greed does not fluctuate with or determine prices; supply and demand do. 

    And any politician who grasps a few basic economic principles knows that capping rents leads to a shortage of housing and harms renters. While that seems counterintuitive, it’s true. High prices signal that demand is oustripping supply, which incentivizes developers and investors to create more housing in attempts to capture a slice of the potential profits. As more housing is developed and supply increases relative to demand, then prices moderate. By capping rents, the government distorts the signal that would otherwise tell developers to build more housing. Instead of new developments coming online, current landlords will cease providing upkeep services to the same extent since it will become unprofitable at capped rents, and others will transform their buildings into office spaces, luxury apartments, or other entities typically exempt from rent control. The result is a shortage of housing and higher prices in the long run.  

    This is not just theory. It has played out time and time again. 

    Ever wonder why rent is so high in some areas? Because there isn’t enough housing! Rent control would make the root problem worse. And Biden’s plan to build more government-funded housing merely redistributes taxpayer dollars through inefficient bureaucracies. If prices were allowed to fluctuate properly, and developers were not unduly restricted by city governments, then the private market could far more efficiently create the housing demanded. 

    Another issue with Biden’s proposed plan is that it wholly disregards the right of property owners to use their resources how they see fit. The government should not stand behind the point of a gun, so to speak, in an attempt to mandate how individuals price their own property. Such an edict, in effect, steals from landlords as it caps the profits they might make in a free market or puts them in the red altogether. Capping rents is not only counterproductive, but it is also coercive as it aims to control how people use their own property. This is an immoral practice that reduces happiness and prosperity throughout society.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/biden_s_mental_decline_reflected_in_foolhardy_policies.html

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  14. Australia floats the idea that if a catastrophe strikes a power grid, they could utilize (READ: STEAL BACK) the power from EVs to make it through till the grid could be restored. the author brings up the best point ever though…
    FTA
    Now, it’s not like anyone with a brain really expected these progressive “intellectuals” to offer sound policy proposals, but their “plan” is beyond asinine, and Bolt explains why, running through the real world application of such a scheme:

    There’s huge bushfires, say. They knock out electricity lines, like the ones that went down and triggered Victoria’s big blackout. Your EV, which you were charging at home, is suddenly drained to save the electricity system. And then the fires approach. Or the floods.

    What will you drive?

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/new_crackpot_ev_scheme_emerges_to_steal_power_back_from_charging_cars.html

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  15. EXCERPT: “Native Alaskans are fighting back against the Biden administration’s decision to shut down oil and gas development in northern Alaska, which they say is vital to the prosperity and well being of their communities. 

    The Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat (VOICE), a nonprofit advocacy group for Native-American communities living on the state’s North Slope, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland over the final BLM’s final rule blocking 13 million acres in their region to oil and gas development.

    VOICE lawsuit.pdf

    The lawsuit argues that the rule goes against the Congressional intent of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), which was to increase domestic supplies of oil. 

    “For over 40 years BLM managed the NPR-A consistent with these Congressional directives, in regular consultation with local stakeholders, and successfully balanced the NPR-A’s primary purpose of furthering oil and gas exploration and development with appropriate conservation and protection measures. Not anymore,” the complaint states. 

    The lawsuit accuses the BLM of enacting the final rule without any meaningful engagement with the North Slope Iñupiat, despite unanimous opposition from the elected leaders of the communities. 

    “Our complaint speaks for the North Slope Iñupiat’s voices whom the federal government has chosen to silence, stonewall, and scorn since it blindsided us with its unilateral mandates in September 2023,” said VOICE President Nagruk Harcharek…..”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/native-alaskans-file-lawsuit-challenging-federal-overreach-wake-scotus

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  16. Just The News: “Progressive New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

    The two conservatives justices have been embroiled in ethics scandals and corruption allegations over the past year, over failure to disclose luxury trips and refusals to recuse themselves from certain Supreme Court cases.

    The New Yorker said the charges against Thomas also include failure to recuse himself from matters related to his wife Ginny Thomas’s financial and political interests.

    “The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large,” the congresswoman said in a statement. “Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s pattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters before the court in which they hold widely documented financial and personal entanglements constitutes a grave threat to American rule of law, the integrity of our democracy, and one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed.”

    Allegations against Thomas center on certain luxury trips he took with family friend billionaire Harlan Crow over the years, which he omitted on disclosure forms.

    Alito’s ethics scandal centers on his failure to recuse himself from cases related to January 6 and Donald Trump after controversial pro-Trump flags were spotted outside two of Alito’s homes.

    “Their refusal to recuse from the specific matters and cases before the court in which their benefactors and spouses are implicated represents nothing less than a constitutional crisis,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Given the court’s demonstrated inability to preserve its own legitimate conduct, it is incumbent upon Congress to contain the threat this poses to our democracy and the hundreds of millions of Americans harmed by the crisis of corruption unfurling within the court.

    “Congress has a legal, moral, and democratic obligation to impeach,” she added.

    Only one other Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached. Samuel Chase was impeached by Congress in 1804 over refusing to dismiss biased jurors, but he was later acquitted by the Senate.” 

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  18. Wow! Heard a bunch of birds outside and when I looked out, there was a whole flock of Blue Jays – about 6 or 7 – all over by the wood pile – looking for bugs, would be my guess. Robins, turtle doves – even watched one chase away a Blue Jay, which is unusual – Norther Flicker, all the usual finches, Orioles and sparrows. Bird central!

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  19. Just The News: “Should President Joe Biden decide to exit the presidential race, Wisconsin law creates another impediment to Democrats replacing him. Death is the only allowable reason for a candidate to drop out. According to the state’s ballot access procedures, “Any person who files nomination papers and qualifies to appear on the ballot cannot withdraw their name from the ballot after filing. The name of that person shall appear upon the ballot except in case of death of the person.”

    The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has identified states, such as Wisconsin, where Democrats could face legal challenges if they try to replace Biden.

    “We are monitoring the calls from across the country for President Biden to step aside, either now or before the election, and have concluded that the process for substitution and withdrawal is very complicated,” Heritage Foundation Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell said in a statement.

    Even without this provision in Wisconsin’s election law, removing Biden from the ballot would prove difficult to accomplish. Prior to the national convention where delegates formally vote on candidate nominations, states conduct presidential preference primaries. Biden won in Wisconsin by a large margin.

    While it’s possible that delegates could select a nominee other than Biden at the Democratic convention, this would violate the rules that delegates “shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.”

    In Madison last week Biden said, “I’m the nominee of the Democratic Party. I’m the nominee of this party because millions of Democrats like you just voted for me in primaries all across America. Well, let me say this as clearly as I can: I’m staying in the race.”

    U.S. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that is still Biden’s plan during a press briefing Tuesday.”

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      1. Don’t rule it out yet! And I’ll bet $$’s to donuts that the so-called “family” would go along with it, too!

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  20. Just The News: “Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said she intends to move forward with her plan to force a House floor vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” on Wednesday.

    “Democrats can vote with us! Get us the tapes! Tomorrow we will bring the vote on inherent contempt to the floor!” she wrote Tuesday on X in response to a post about House Democrats lacking a consensus on whether President Biden should remain in the presidential race.

    It is unclear what time Luna is expected to force the vote. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has reportedly encouraged Luna to hold off temporarily. 

    A vote to hold a cabinet member in inherent contempt has not taken place in nearly a century. Luna has described inherent contempt as a way to demonstrate how serious Congress is about compliance from cabinet officials.

    “Under inherent contempt, the individual is brought before the bar of the House by the Sergeant at Arms, tried by the body, and can then be detained either in the Capitol or in D.C.,” Luna wrote. “This process demonstrates the seriousness with which Congress views non-compliance and the potential consequences for those who refuse to cooperate.”

    The GOP-led House voted 216-207 in June to hold Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide Congress with the audio recording of special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Biden for his classified documents investigation.

    Hur concluded in his report that “Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Hur did not pursue charges against Biden.” 

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  21. Former President Donald Trump will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Florida on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter, less than a week after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

    The visit is likely to fan concerns that the Hungarian leader is working as an intermediary between Putin and Trump.

    Trump and Putin professed a fondness for one another during the US president’s first term – often garnering bipartisan criticism. More recently, the Republican leader has said he believed he could convince Putin to end his war in Ukraine and release Americans detained in Russia if he were elected to a second term.

    Orban will travel to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after the conclusion of the NATO summit in Washington. His visit to Moscow became a central point of discussion at the gathering, where other allies pledged additional air defenses for Ukraine in its continuing campaign against the full-scale Russian invasion that began in 2022.

    Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has not asked the Hungarian leader to lay the groundwork for some sort of Ukraine-Russia peace deal, according to one of the people familiar with the Orban visit, who was granted anonymity to discuss the Trump-Orban meeting. — Bloomberg

    Our Take: Yesterday, we covered Viktor Orban’s “surprise” world tour, and now we have NATO limping into their annual meeting, licking their wounds.

    But they need to rebound quickly, as China just released footage yesterday of Chinese troops drilling in Belarus, preparing to fight NATO in defense of Russia. This comes just weeks after Kim Jong Un pledged to send his guys to Ukraine to crack some skulls.

    And don’t forget: Trump is lurking, and will soon return. Speaking of Trump and Orban, the two are meeting today at Mar-a-Lago to discuss… world peace, most likely. Just days after Orban met with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in their respective countries. Boy do I wonder what notes Viktor is passing between them.

    “People are coming to witness whether Biden is or is no longer [in charge],” one European diplomat said.

    Sounds more like a wake than a security summit. Tick Tock, Deep State. Trump is coming. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  22. NF: IOW, the same thing Islamists want with Sharia Law….

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/leading-sephardic-rabbis-ban-yeshiva-students-from-reporting-at-idf-recruitment-centers/

    Our Take: So I’ve been digging into the Jewish history for weeks now, and I’ve learned a bit about exactly why the Jews habitually were expelled from European towns and kingdoms over the centuries. Revisionists will claim it was purely antisemitism, but I’ve learned that it’s actually a far more simple explanation: Rabbinical Courts.

    What would happen is that Jewish communities would form their own parallel court system to enforce Jewish laws, and when those laws came into conflict with laws from the local authorities, the rabbis would instruct their communities to ignore the secular laws and only observe the Jewish laws. You could see how this dynamic could quickly become subversive and lead to real problems—hence, the expulsions.

    (In western Europe, Jews learned that if they simply assimilated to some extent, and not establish those courts, they didn’t get expelled. While that may not have solved all prejudices, it does explain how there were so many prominent Jewish banking families in Prussia, Holland, Venice, Switzerland, and London, such as the Rothschilds, Wallenbergs, and Warburgs, among others.)

    It was this problem that led to Catherine the Great of Russia creating the Pale of Settlement political region, where Jewish communities were permitted to settle and establish these Rabbinic Courts, which became very powerful and corrupt authorities. This corruption is what led to the creation and rise of Orthodox Judaism in the late 1700s, which was a parallel Jewish community within the larger [parallel] Jewish community.

    So now we see this exact same dynamic is playing out in the Jewish State, against the Jewish State, where Orthodox Rabbinic authorities are telling their community to defy the state authorities—which happen to also be Jewish—now that those authorities have ruled that the Orthodox exemption from IDF service is invalid. It’s both an ironic twist, but also a rerun of what happened in the Pale, since the rise of Orthodox Judaism inspired the rise of the Revisionist movement, which became the Zionist movement. (The Zionists and the Orthodox have always been rivals of sorts.)

    As this is happening, there are reports of potential mutinies materializing within the IDF, as the brass believes that Netanyahu has put them in an impossible position to declare a military victory, and want to seek a truce no matter the cost. There are also former IDF leaders speaking out publicly against Bibi, claiming he was baited by Hamas to invade Gaza. (Ya think?)

    The Counterinsurgency walls are closing in on Netanyahu. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  23. “Every time you see another story like this about these fuckin’ whackjobs who populate our western-most state, ya gotta think to yourself ‘How the fuck do these people find their way home every night’? This is a store in Sacramento that is suffering a burgeoning wave of thefts, and the City lawyer says they’re being a pain in the ass for calling the cops whenever they find another incidence of crime. Unfuckin’ believable. The story’s here.”

    “They’re freaking out because there aren’t any buyers this year for all of the grossly over-priced snob-wine grapes they grew. Vineyards who wanted $ 9,000.00 a ton for their fancy red wine grapes that would be used to make $ 100.00 reds are going to take a monster hit because people just aren’t splurging on wines like they did, say three and a half or so years ago. Ya follow?”

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    1. i read the transcript at Marica’s–thanks for that!–and I agree. media is a powerful tool that is wielded unevenly today!

      there are few real journalists and news people. truth has no political leaning. truth is truth. but we’re getting less and less truth and more propaganda it seems.

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  29. Yeah – more progress! I managed to get the west end of my driveway inside the gate sprayed with All-Kill before it got too hot and the breeze came up. That is where the Texas Stickers are the thickest so I wanted to hit them first. I’m gettin’ there!

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      1. Oh, but I am soooo out of shape – in years past, I’d have gotten the entire driveway done and probably part of the fence line! But it is what it is….and I don’t feel the same drive now since there is no-one coming behind me who will GAS one way or another about this place.

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    1. As expected – and those who voted for it made a deal with those who didn’t – just enough voted no or didn’t vote at all! Because the big Poo-bah, Mike Johnson said no!!!

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  31. Huh….watching an episode of Treehouse Masters – he’s building one for Shaquille O’Neil – Shaq is like a male, black Jill Biden, introducing himself as “Dr. Shaquille O’Neil”!!!

    Wiki: “O’Neal dropped out of LSU for the NBA after three years. However, he promised his mother he would eventually return to his studies and complete his bachelor’s degree. He fulfilled that promise in 2000, earning his B.A. degree in general studies from LSU,[219] with a minor in political science.[220] Coach Phil Jackson let O’Neal miss a home game so he could attend graduation. At the ceremony, he told the crowd “now I can go and get a real job”.

    Subsequently, O’Neal earned an online MBA degree through the University of Phoenix in 2005. In reference to his completion of his MBA degree, he stated: “It’s just something to have on my resume for when I go back into reality. Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.”[221]

    Toward the end of his playing career, he began work on an educational doctorate at Barry University.[222][223] His doctoral capstone[224][225] topic was “The Duality of Humor and Aggression in Leadership Styles”.[222][226] O’Neal received his Ed.D. degree in Human Resource Development from Barry in 2012.[227] O’Neal told a reporter for ABC News that he planned to further his education by attending law school.[228]“

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