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Saturday Open Thread - 7/11/26: Odds and Ends

Good morning, good people! Hope this OT finds you all in fine fettle!

Another week of finishing up my active cases, and am still pegging August to be my last month of full, multi-area legal practice.

Staying home, preparing the occasional will or deed is beginning to have enormous appeal.

I have said this is a very poor county, and yesterday, while grocery shopping, I overheard a young couple discussing a purchase. The man told his woman companion that the bottle she was holding cost $5.26, and to put it back on the shelf. They would come get it when he got his next paycheck. The economy is expected to tank, due to this Iran totally (un)necessary war, and we might all be thinking about the next paycheck or the next SS check sooner, rather than later. And those shelves might be empty.

We recently experienced a 2 hr storm with heavy rains, light hail, and 50 mph winds. Lots of power outages, but not here at home, and not at the office. The linemen have been diligently cutting trees and trimming limbs, doing the hard work for us to have power. Kudos!

I thought this video about glysophate might be of interest to you, especially if you consume rice, wheat, rye, barley, oats, and the like. I learned quite a lot about our modern farming. Not remotely like my family did it.

You might get this sense that someone is out to kill us. WEF? Maybe, according to their prophet, Harari.

Well, friends, there are educational, interesting, newsy, and pure propaganda content out there. Go through the weeds, see if you come up with anything on any topic you think is worth sharing with your fellow site members, as this is an open thread, after all!

Let 'er rip!

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There is lots of humor out there! Let's try to avoid doom porn, find some hilarious memes today!
Or, gloomy news about some world leader getting assassinated? And, anything in between is welcome!
Enjoy your Saturday sharing your thoughts, ok?

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Trade day was thin this AM, but I did find limes, organic strawberries, and avocados. After recycling I went by and sprayed off my dirty car...could hardly see out the windshield. I needs a real wash, but that will have to wait. We're due rain the next four days.

I thawed a side of salmon out to cook tonight. A couple of buddies plan to join us.

As to the news, Trump has us in a mess with Iran. Plan on economic consequences soon. It will not end well for us.

Good luck with the impending retirement, and thanks for the OT!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout Sounds like you had a fruitful shopping trip this morning.
I am sipping coffee, wondering what dinner might be. It would be a good night to grill, since we, too, have at least 3 days of heavy rains in the forecast.
The cost for washing a car at the car wash, whether drive through or hand spray, is about $20. I just wash them myself here at home.
I do expect we are headed toward a depression, and we should be planning on some lifestyle changes.
At least you have your Holler, I have my little valley, plus friends and good music. We'll make it, won't we?
Have a great dinner, my friend!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Trump is pissed that the funeral attendees in Iran chanted "Death to Trump", as they buried their Ayatollah that Trump killed.
Like, he is shocked and dismayed!

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It is not really humor but trumpet is a joke anyway.
Can't understand why people hate him? Pretty
obvious why. Losing is winning, murder is freedom.
If he could get over himself, he might cotton to the idea
he is despised at home and abroad.

Good luck winding down your business and thanks for the OT!

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Zionism is a social disease

(A commercial starts at about 4:18 and finishes the video)

https://twitter.com/i/status/2075752390477643904

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all the village idiots in the world and put them in one village, Trump would be their village idiot.

asleepatthewheel.jpg

Gas is $5.19 right now, but with the way the village idiot is screwing things up in the middle east I suspect it will be back around the $6 mark or higher before too long.

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MAGA
Morons
Are
Governing
America

Cool meme!
I don't get Trump's priorities, beyond naming things for himself, playing the stock market, and avoiding blame for a global depression, while being a good Zionist.
We, the people, struggling with inflation, are not on his mind.
I don't have any trips planned, but it would be a head-scratcher to budget one.
Have a fun weekend and support your local gas stations, friend!

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and Jim gets his spin as well

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@QMS Leon sings everything well!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend, friend!
I just checked our weather forecast and we will be having rains and t-storms, day and night, until Saturday. It is storming right now.
The temperature will drop to 84, not that anyone will be engaging in any outdoor activity, unless you are a lineman.
Take care, Cap'n!

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@on the cusp

here. Didn't find any humor in the News, so that'll have to do. They burned a giant LEGO-Trump in Iran. Finally sitting down and having some

The flock video demanded that I sign in, fwiw. I did just learn why nobody could hear a pterodactyl take a leak;
The P is silent. (piss poor joke, I know)

It appears that the Monaco bombing suspect was supposed to stage her escape into Belarussia so as to make it appear that whe was working for the Rus, gaining a two-fer, an assassination and a false flag at the same time, but she didn't sho the Z-dork had her snuffed. https://www.rt.com/news/642829-monako-bombing-telizhenko/

I's supposed to be making notes how I put some tech shit together so that there will be a record next time we need to alter it, so I'd better start while I still remember.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@QMS You're smokin' with those tunes, Q! Rec'd!! Smile

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

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@humphrey
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will die with him.

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@QMS

Can't hide it and no advantage to doing so. Now, what's the real story about Mitch McConnell?

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

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@TheOtherMaven
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is searching for his soul?
Hope the outcome of this is
his band of bandits begin to
recognize their limits.

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wanted to say that Isaac Hayes does an absolutely brilliant cover of "Wichita Lineman." It's off his iconic soul LP, Hot Buttered Soul. If you have a few spare minutes, check it out. I know Professor joe s knows that LP. I'll bet QMS does, too. Smile Current events? Well, death is the great equalizer regarding Lindsey Graham. Tough titties! And MIA Beijing Mitch McConnell? Well, that's 2 yahoos down. We're hunkered down in case of the Great Depression. I'm glad you are slowly inching towards much-deserved retirement and fun! Go for it, chica! You and JtC behave and stay safe. Rec'd from ECFL.

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

@orlbucfan Hayes' version!
I am finishing my open cases right and left. My attorney pals are jealous.
my main driver to get away from it all is judges. I just withdrew from a case that I just don't want to finish because of the judge's personal hostility toward me. I requested that I be allowed to serve a party to the suit by newspaper, as the sworn affidavit presented showed the party had been homeless and transient for years. No friend or family could located him. It wasn't possible to have him personally served by a process server. The judge tore into to me in open court about how I should have done this, that, before she would even consider granting my request. What did the judge do the next day? Signed the Order granting my request! But nobody heard her do it. Nobody in that courtroom was to know she ruled in my favor. I had never appeared in the judge's court before.
It is unethical to call a judge a bitch, so I will not do so.
Take care, chica!

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@on the cusp WHOA!!! otc, I did it again. Wrong album. Hayes does "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" on Hot Buttered Soul, not "Wichita Lineman"! My bad, and I apologize profusely!!!!! For some reason, I have that mistake stuck in my head. It is still a great LP if you like classic Soul/R and B.

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@orlbucfan and will listen to the album!

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