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It looks like I'm going to make it to another turkey day.
Kinda woke up late this morning, sorry!
Anyway gotta figure out a menu for 20.
Need some help with that and an Open Thread.
Welcome all!

Afternoon folks!

Hey is this thing on? Can you guys in the back hear?

Well, then, let's try this again ...

Controlling Farms, Food, Health, and War

The globalists seem to try experiments in various countries to expand their control. In the Netherlands they were shutting down and taking farms, but that didn't play well with the public. Now in the UK they have a new strategy to slap farms with a high inheritance tax forcing families to sell their farms to corporations like Blackrock. We'll see how that plays out this year. To my mind COVID was used as a global control experiment. Tobacco corporations became big food and used their understanding of addiction to make foods which were not only addictive but unhealthy. RFK says there's nothing more profitable than a child with a chronic disease. And the big news of the week was the escalation of NATOstan's war with Russia. Will the pentagon manage to halter the Biden regime and prevent WWIII? All that and more below the fold.

Afternoon folks!

This week we start off with a bang, it's the 1972 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, featuring lots of great classic Chicago blues artists and others. After that, Jimmy Witherspoon mellows thing out followed by a late 70's Dr. John album. Following that it's off to the realm of blues-rock with a live album from Creedence Clearwater Revival, a Blues Image album and another overlooked album from Robin Trower and Jack Bruce. Finishing up we've got an EP from the Kinks.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people!

Seems a few of you are getting rain in your neck of the woods. I hope it is needed. Here is East Texas, we have a hot weekend, then a cold front for next week. A chilly thanksgiving.

A/C and heat pump both get workouts.

Meanwhile, we have a courthouse security office who acts as bailiff for county court dockets. It is his job to take people's call phones away from them if they go off during court.

Last week, during a long afternoon probate docket, the Judge's phone rang at least 4 times during hearings. He complained from the bench that he turned the sound all the way down.

After court, I had a talk with the officer. I said he should nab a 12 yr old kid. (raised eyebrows.) Take the kid to talk to the Judge. (mouth opened) Have the kid take the Judge's cell phone and show the damn Judge how to set the ring tone on mute. (laughter..."Great idea!") The people waiting to have their case heard would appreciate it. (No kidding!")

Well, this week, I suggested he have "that talk" with the Judge about posters on the entrance doors of the courthouse announcing holiday closures. See, the Thanksgiving poster features a little Pilgrim-dressed baby turkey under a banner saying "Happy Thanksgiving!" Well, somebody clue the judge in that only a crazy baby turkey would enjoy that day. Kids coming in the building might be traumatized. The officer wholeheartedly agreed.

As we move toward a country of more abridgment of our rights, this sense that the border wall is a back door introduction to freedom ending CBDS, would any of us try this to escape?