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Jimmy Baker,

I'm a real sucker for a female voice and also any slide instrument. Here's a group from California, a girl duo with great backing instruments, although they play too.

Maybe somebody can get these to Jimmy if he's also such a sucker for a female voice. Here are 3 of my favorite songs by them, the Ditty Bops - so soothing:

09/08/21 01:49 AM

#22082

David Wier

Prayers from our house for Jim Baker.

09/08/21 08:41 AM

#22083

David Cordell

For anyone wanting to post a YouTube video --

This is a better approach than posting the URL because simply posting the URL takes the viewer away from the Message Forum.

Find the video on YouTube.
Highlight and copy the URL
Go to the Message Forum and click to post a message.
Type your message.
Place the cursor where you want the video to appear within the message.
Click the YouTube icon on the menu above the message area.
Paste the video's URL into the window
Click OK
Click OK on the window that appears.
Proceed with your message as usual

09/08/21 08:46 AM

#22084

David Cordell

Bob D.

Just heard Jonathan Turley make the same argument that you made about the new Texas abortion law. He said the real challenge to Roe is a pending Mississippi case -- Dobbs. Do you know anything about that one?

09/08/21 08:53 AM

#22085

Jerry May

Prayers for you Jim!

09/08/21 11:05 AM

#22086

Lowell Tuttle

Anyone interested in the history of birht control and what or how all this has transpired?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control_movement_in_the_United_States#First_birth_control_clinic

09/08/21 01:48 PM

#22087

Thanks, David C. That youtube copy worked!

Also I had an image in my mind this morning. Just as bad cop Derek Chauvin had his knee on the neck of criminal George Floyd, so does Joe Biden have his knee on the neck of America, with the same stubborn stupidity to see the task through and the complete lack of caring or empathy for the victim.

I just saw Tony Blinken and his pathetic, wussy statement that he would hope the Taliban would let those hostages leave in those 6 planes. I've never had any bully impulses, but watching that made me want to take his lunch money!

09/08/21 02:58 PM

#22088

Lance,

Happy 70th Birthday! Hope your celebration is super special!

Did you go to a private school in first grade? You must have had traits of a more mature person to have been admitted a whole year early!

09/08/21 03:11 PM

#22089

Linda O'Donnell (Peacock)

Jim Baker,

So glad to know that you have a strong faith that will help you immensely through these next few months. My prayers are with you for a speedy recovery!

My cousin, John Bryant, was diagnosed with the same cancer when he was 62 years old. He went through chemo also, as you will endure, and he just celebrated his 79th birthday last month! He is said to be cured, as he has not had any more recurrence in all these years. He still has a bit of trouble with his immunity system being lower than it should be, so he has been very careful throughout this current pandemic to always be masked when going anywhere around his town. He is a very blessed, faithful Baptist guy and wonderful cousin of our family, full of good jokes and happiness always encircling him! We enjoy him so much and are thankful to have him come visit with us anytime.

You will pull through this issue with strength, courage, and determination, I'm sure!

09/08/21 05:28 PM

#22090

Prayers for Jim Baker.

09/08/21 08:05 PM

#22091

Ivermectin is not JUST for animal deworming! Ivermectin has been used by physicians for years, and is used in connection with other drugs to treat a number of illnesses. Just ask your MD the next time you see him/her.

To listen to the mainstream media spew their rhetoric about the drug, is to be a fool. Jimmy Kimmel doesn't know squat about the subject, but will say anything for a cheap hee-haw from his ill-informed audience.

09/08/21 10:22 PM

#22092

Lance,

Happy Birthday Lance. I hope you can take a Cruise soon to celebrate. It won't be long when Christopher decides it is more fun to cruise with a female than his Dad. Start getting your gab together for number six. You probably are missing someone to blame by the tenor of your posts. It is okay to backslide a little, so steal her heart. Get a Christian one this time that doesn't believe in divorce.

Janalu,

I really hee hawed when I read your neigh on Kimmel. To be truthful, there are many of us country boys that get medical advice and prescription drugs from Veterinarians. I would much rather trust a Vet with an education from A & M or Texas Tech than a city Doctor with a degree from Bangalore, Hyderabad or Jaipur University. The same drugs and the office visits are an order of magnitude cheaper. Plus, where else are you gonna get a bone shaped biscuit to chew on when you are done?

09/08/21 11:58 PM

#22093

David Wier

Lance - the only memories I have of day care were sitting in the front yard with the day care owner, waiting for my mother while all the other kids had left and my mother was late leaving work and the other when they served me squash and hominy for lunch. I told them I REALLY didn't like those but they made me eat them anyway. After eating, I almost immediately threw up. I don't remember ever being served either of those two items any more. Also, I haven't eaten them since....

When I was that age, I don't remember them having kindergarten as I started school in the first grade.

09/09/21 12:01 AM

#22094

Chief Bedpost:

How does someone like Psaki look at herself in the mirror or sleep at night? The latest out of Psaki is that there are indeed six planes full of Americans being held at an airport in Afghanistan while negotiations are going on. So let me get this straight and correct me if I am wrong. There are six planes of Americans on the tarmac that we are negotiating to get released to fly out of the country. They are full of the same individuals that were part of the zero number that were stranded and could have left any time if they had wanted to go. Psaki's latest press conference clarifies that the Americans are free to fly out of the country, only the planes they are on are not being released. They can fly out anytime, just not on the plane. This I have to see. An individual risked life and limb to sneak four Americans out to Uzbekistan or Tajistan by an overland route. He stated that the U.S. State Department would give him no help or assistance. Psaki then announces in her news conference that WE have managed to get four Americans that were not stranded there out by an overland route. When asked if we were negotiating with terrorists she made it clear that we were not. We were only discussing possible future aid packages for the Afghanistan people. The administration also announced that they are providing funds for the country of Tajistan to seal their border to keep from being overrun by Afghanistan refugees. So let me get this straight. We can send money to protect their border from a refugee crisis, but our own Southern border cannot be closed because that would be racist.

Does this administration of clowns realize how ridiculous they look and sound? How do they keep a straight face while spewing this bullshit?

Then Biden speaks to the American people to let us know that he is in total control and everything is going according to his plan. Incredibly at the end of his news conference when reporters are set to ask questions, he says "They told me that I am to turn and walk away now." Who is "they?" Is it possible we can call "they" up on charges of impeachment?

09/09/21 12:19 AM

#22095

David Weir,

The last three vegetables I ate at my house were yellow squash, hominy and collard greens. What do you call a vegetable, fried potatos or macaroni cheese?

My problem is I like butter on the yellow squash and hominy. I do better with hot pepper sauce on the collards.

09/09/21 12:46 AM

#22096

Steve,

My mother was kinda bossy and would grit her teeth at picky eaters. She insisted that her four children would learn to eat everything she cooked, and would learn to like it all. She was raised/reared in the west Texas countryside, where there was only one town in her large county. Her mother cooked squash, blackeyed peas, okra, cabbage, beets, turnips, greens of all kinds, corn-on-the-cob, homegrown tomatoes, 'new' potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., etc., and would buy broccoli, asparagus, spinach, etc., from their local store, so she cooked a lot of nourishing veggies for the family, along with meats and cornbread. She was bossy too, and insisted her daughters learn to eat all of it without complaining. She would say, "Just eat it! It's good for you!"

My mother continued the family tradition with us, and by golly! We all like veggies now, even though we didn't when we were young-uns, necessarily. We learned, just as Mom said we would!

I'm reminded of the time in third grade, when my good friend, Sally, was spending a Friday night with me. We sat down at the dinner table with my family gathered as usual, where my Mom had cooked pot roast, squash, okra, mashed potatoes, etc., and as we were passing around the bowls, Sally looked at the okra to ask, "What is this?" I started to laugh and told her, "It's okra, and you're gonna have to eat it or my Mom will not let you leave the kitchen until you do!"

My Mom started laughing too, and said, "Well Janalu! That's not a very nice thing to say! Sally probably will enjoy the okra, won't you Sweetheart?"

Sally just laughed and nodded her head, looking at me with a questioning look. So as she took her first bite, we kids were staring at her to see her reaction, but she swallowed with a smile, and announced, "It's good!"

We all giggled and giggled and told her she could spit it in her napkin if she wanted to! HA! She didn't........

09/09/21 08:04 AM

#22097

Janalu,

Our mothers must have been raised in the same tribe. My grandmother was the one that really set the tone for kid nutrition. She had an annual list of home and nature remedies that were designed for torture and good health. These included enemas, sulfur and molasses spring cleanouts and poultices for wounds.

09/09/21 09:21 AM

#22098

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

My mother was also a stickler for eating vegetables, which included brussel sprouts, spinach, cauliflower, and broccoli. It rubbed off, I still eat these and more.

As for Ivermectin. It is used to treat scabies etc. I did a bit of research into just how effective this drug is in treating Covid. Here is a quote from the NIH (National Institute of Heath)

Ivermectin is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antiparasitic drug that is used to treat several neglected tropical diseases, including onchocerciasis, helminthiases, and scabies.¹ It is also being evaluated for its potential to reduce the rate of malaria transmission by killing mosquitoes that feed on treated humans and livestock.² For these indications, ivermectin has been widely used and is generally well tolerated.^1,3 Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA for the treatment of any viral infection.

Rationale

Ivermectin has been shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures.¹³ However, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies suggest that achieving the plasma concentrations necessary for the antiviral efficacy detected in vitro would require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans.^14,15 Even though ivermectin appears to accumulate in the lung tissue, predicted systemic plasma and lung tissue concentrations are much lower than 2 µM, the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC₅₀) against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.^16-19 Subcutaneous administration of ivermectin 400 µg/kg had no effect on SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in hamsters. However, there was a reduction in olfactory deficit (measured using a food-finding test) and a reduction in the interleukin (IL)-6:IL-10 ratio in lung tissues.²⁰

Since the last revision of this section of the Guidelines, the results of several randomized trials and retrospective cohort studies of ivermectin use in patients with COVID-19 have been published in peer-reviewed journals or have been made available as manuscripts ahead of peer review. Some clinical studies showed no benefits or worsening of disease after ivermectin use,^21-24 whereas others reported shorter time to resolution of disease manifestations that were attributed to COVID-19,^25-27 greater reduction in inflammatory marker levels,²⁶ shorter time to viral clearance,²¹ or lower mortality rates in patients who received ivermectin than in patients who received comparator drugs or placebo.^21,27

However, most of these studies had incomplete information and significant methodological limitations, which make it difficult to exclude common causes of bias. These limitations include:

The sample size of most of the trials was small.
Various doses and schedules of ivermectin were used.
Some of the randomized controlled trials were open-label studies in which neither the participants nor the investigators were blinded to the treatment arms.
Patients received various concomitant medications (e.g., doxycycline, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, zinc, corticosteroids) in addition to ivermectin or the comparator drug. This confounded the assessment of the efficacy or safety of ivermectin.
The severity of COVID-19 in the study participants was not always well described.
The study outcome measures were not always clearly defined.

My mother recieved this drug while in the nursing home the day after she was diagnosed with Covid. The side affects of this drug were nausea and diarrhea, which she had in abundance. There have been numerous accounts of people who decided to self medicate with this drug by purchasing the over the counter variety available at feed stores. The dosages for horses is considerably higher than that for humans. Guessing the correct dosage got these folks in real trouble. It is poison when taken in doses too high. The good news for mother is she is free of all parasites and scabies. Invermectin did not help her at all. It made her sicker, weaker and later she was hospitalized. I am lucky she lived through it.

Home remedies are one thing. Taking drugs meant for animals because they are cheaper is an indication you might need better health care coverage.

09/09/21 11:02 AM

#22099

Bob Davidson

I am feeling extremely grateful to live in the age of air conditioning and also much poorer. Our ac quit Friday evening -- no one was available then to fix it because of the holiday weekend. Of course the house turned into a sauna -- over 90 degrees inside. Saturday I went out and bought and installed a small ac unit in the dining room so we had a couple of non-sweatbox rooms. Being a stubborn old cuss, I did it all myself in the heat even though I noticed that it took two young, strong guys to load the box in the back of my truck. I lugged the damn thing in the house myself, pried open the painted shut window and got it to go up and down, got everything out of the box, put it together, fitted the stuff in the window, and the rest. Before I got it up and running I had pretty clear symptoms of heat exhaustion (still sweating profusely so it wasn't heat stroke): blurry vision, disorientation, shaking hands, dropping things, unclear thinking, and all that, but kept at it and didn't ask anyone to help -- somehow just getting it done seemed like the vital thing so I kept at it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. When it was finally going I sat in front of it and guzzled cool water. We had a couple of bearably semi-cool rooms for three days,but the local heat and humidity were pretty strong for the poor little unit -- I had to get a 110 volt one since I'm just a lawyer and couldn't possibly rewire an outlet for 220..

The real HVAC guys came yesterday and replaced thousands of dollars worth of stuff, but we got to sleep in our bed, instead of on a sofa or recliner, in cool comfort.

09/09/21 11:16 AM

#22100

Gary Puckett

Tommy

When I had surgery on my tongue for cancer I couldn't hardly eat anything for two weeks. We found that Orgain liquid supplement was the answer. It is high in protein and other nourishment, you can find it at most stores but in particular Whole Foods.

09/09/21 11:29 AM

#22101

Bob Davidson

David --

The Texas abortion law was obviously set up to comply with the letter of Roe but to stick a thumb in the eye of the spirit. If you actually read Justice Brennan's opinion in Roe v. Wade, in addition to finding that there is a right to abortion within the right to privacy in that mysterious penumbra of the Constitution, he spends a lot of energy dealing with medical issues in the different trimesters of a pregnancy. The opinion thinks that the viability of the fetus is a key issue. With medical advances in recent decades, doctors can save babies at a much earlier stage than they could in 1973 so the Texas law is hanging its hat on that idea.

The Texas legislature obviously used detected fetal heartbeat as a standard to comply with the viability standard in Roe while defeating the ability of someone to get an abortion. Other laws and court decisions have ignored the viability standard and focused on the Constitutional right to abortion: partial birth abortions, etc.

No one really knows what the court will do. I see the problem as the liberals taking a shortcut to bypass the democratic (with a little d) process by having the court impose a mandate they like. The feds and most states have passed their own laws expanding on the Court-given right to abortion so even if the Supreme Court were to rule that Roe is a mistaken interpretation of the Constitution, abortion would still be legal most places, but since there was no democratic consensus, people still fight for what they think is right and wrong.

In law school, our con law professor was an absolutely wonderful teacher and human being -- Sidney Buchanan. He sponsored the Christian Law Students Association and led prayer lunches -- those of us who participated loved him. He also wrote funny songs about the major cases, set to Broadway show tunes and had us sing them at the start of class. It was the only time in law school where everyone laughed without alcohol involved. (The Socratic method they used in the classes usually left us all trembling in fear of being in the spotlight.)

I had the same 75 students in all of my classes the first two semesters. Most of us became close friends and still are. There were two issues that really set people off and stopped us from talking about the cases and the law: abortion and affirmative action. The pro and anti abortion people couldn't even talk to one another -- "baby killer" vs "forced pregnancies" and the blacks got so angry if anyone brought up affirmative action that we just avoided the topic.

09/09/21 12:25 PM

#22102

Wayne Gary

Bob D.

I have a conundrum. People who are in favor of murder charges when someone assaults a woman that causes the death of her unborn baby but say they are in favor of abortions.

09/09/21 01:32 PM

#22103

Chief Toenails,

Jen Psaki is pure slime, very appropriately chosen for her post in this Satanic administration.

Chief Bedpost

09/09/21 01:47 PM

#22104