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David Cordell

Bob Davidson

Sandra,

I don't think you are quite right about the private suing -- but you are right that the law is an attack on abortion without attacking it as a constutional right.  A more accurate analogy might be that a state would define the public display of a weapon to be an assault (credible threat of physical violence) and give anyone who felt threatened by that display the right to sue the displayer.  This doesn't directly eliminate the right to bear arms, but does limit it.  The difference is that there are are such laws. 

Steve Keene

David.,

I have been following everyone's suggestion for getting Jimmy to eat.  My experience is sometimes you have to think outside the box.  Give him something to eat that you know tastes like crap like anchovy peanut butter marmalade mashed potatos.  When he spits it out and says that tastes like crap.  Give him some scrambled eggs in butter.  He will say that's not so bad and get it down.

Steve Keene

Bob D.,

Babyon Bee reported that Jessie Smollet has impersonated Larry Elder in California so racists will commit real hate crimes against him.

David Cordell

Biden Unveils 'Your Body, My Choice' Vaccination Program

September 9th, 2021 - BabylonBee.com

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a speech today, Joe Biden unveiled a brand new program to force the rest of the country to get vaccinated, entitled "Your Body, My Choice."

"Listen folks, make mistake. Uh, make no mistake," said the President, reading carefully off the teleprompter. "I have complete control and sole authority over everything you do with your body, and everything you put in your body. I'm the government for God sakes! I have F-15s and nukes! Jus getha vashine! Jusdoit!"

Biden then walked out of the room to get a snack. 

Many concerns remained around issues of freedom and natural immunity, but the President was already eating his applesauce with the crushed-up pills in it and was unable to answer questions.

Companies will be forced to comply with the mandate until the Supreme Court strikes it down in a few hours. 

David Cordell

Does anyone know if Biden's dictatorial COVID-19 policy considers "natural immunity" that occurs in people who have already had the disease, i.e., if you have had the disease, does Biden require that you get the vaccine?

Phil Huber

Happy Birthday to Hull Barbee, another Heights Original !

(and also to Lance a couple days late. Sorry I forgot.)

Phil Huber

David,

 My understanding is that you do not gain a natural immunity from having had Covid-19.  You can get it more than once, so vaccination would be another reasonable preventative measure.

Dr. David Winter of Baylor says that exactly how much natural immunity Covid-19 conveys is uncertain to date because there isn't enough focused and  specialized research data.  His readings and the anecdotal evidence he's heard suggest that it may convey about 3 months of immunity, while vaccinations last somewhat longer.  So- in theory, you would be able to postpone getting the vaccine, but only for about three months. 

Steve Keene

David,

I have noticed that the media is treating both parties the same.  If Trump makes a mistake they blame Trump.  If Biden makes a mistake they blame Trump!

Steve Keene

Phil,

Welcome back, Rip Van Huber.

David Cordell

My first memory of Billy Hull Barbee, Jr. --- 

Second grade. Heights Elementary. Tether ball poll just west of the second grade wing. The big boy was unbeatable! He pounded the ball with speed and height. Who is this new kid??

Well, he was a close friend throughout our school years. Roommate in college. Still a great friend. 

Happy Birthday, Hull!

70 ain't so bad.

The best is yet to come!

Hull Barbee in Mrs. Stewart's 3rd grade class, 1959-1960

Phil Huber

Steve ,

Time for another nap now.

P

Steve Keene

Hull,

Happy Birthday Hull. 

Had I only known that all it took for David and Tommy to make up was for someone they both knew to have to go to Chemotherapy, I would have volunteered to have Lance undergo Chemotherapy long before now.

Steve Keene

Jim,

It appears that one of the airplanes held on the tarmac full of unstranded Americans and allies, free to fly at anytime, has been released and has landed in Qatar.  Psaki says no negotiations were made with any of the terrorists.  In an unrelated development, the Taliban announced a ten year extended warranty on their Humvees they received at no charge.

China announced today that after reverse engineering Humvees, they were locating a new Humvee plant in Afghanistan to help rebuild the economy.  They expect the plant to be very successful because of the slave labor from former translators for the U.S. and a large preorder of Humvees by a consortium run by Hunter Biden to provide transportation for the U. S. military.  Approval of the arrangement is expected from a Big Guy in the U.S. government.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

B. Hull, 

I remember you from Mrs. Stewart's class!  You were always eager to run out to the baseball diamond with Steve Alford and the other guys!  Can't blame ya!   I was always eager to run to the girl's jump rope area to jump away pent-up energy with my friends!

Have a Happy 70th Birthday!  Hope you get another great horse today and maybe some short-supplied ammo to shoot those pesky hogs, plus lots of kisses from your pretty ladies and grandkids!

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Phil H., 

Howdy fella'!   Born on THE IDES OF MARCH!  Glad to hear from you today!  Don't be such a stranger here!

Are you still shootin' the great shots?

Hope so!

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

My body!  Biden's choice to jab!

I hope y'all recognize the socialism creep and feel the feeling of your freedoms being snatched!

Kurt Fischer

Tommy:

What great memories and what a great picture to show the joy of youth.

David Wier

My wife and I got married very young and she did NOT knw how to cook. 

By the time she learned, she was galaxies in front of her mother and my mother in doing so. In fact, I realized at that point that my mother didn't really know how to cook AT ALL. I never knew meat loaf was supposed to be so light gray in color. I couldn't STAND her vegetables and she kept trying to get me to eat beats, rutabagas, cauliflower, broccoli, artichokes, cooked carrots (I love them raw), cooked cabbage (I love it raw, too) so much, I couldn't stand to eat them and unfortunately, the same exists today. Just the smell of some of them cooking turns my stomach. I don't have any serious health problems. I love fruit, peas and corn, so I'm not too bad off. 

The only think I can remember is her special spaghetti sauce that was really great. The only problem is the amount of onions she put in the mixture and it's one of the keys to the actual flavor. The next day, after eating it, my indigestion would be awful. It was also way too much for my kids. I'm trying to find a way around it so I can try it again. 

As a side note, when I went down to my grandmother's house in Cuero, Texas, she'd make me peaches and cream, which I loved, but was never able to equal that taste as an adult. The closest I've come is the Whataburger peach milk shake. (Alas, that makes my blood sugar go through the roof!)

Karin Ridenour (Anderson)

The extensive research I have done following doctors and epidemiologists who actually work with patients indicates that natural immunity from having had covid is superior to vaccines because not only do you develop antibodies to that specific bug but your innate immune system is also strengthened which does not happen with vaccines which only protect you to the one version. Thus you see lots of people who are vaccinated getting the other variants. There are over 100 corona viruses so it's important to have strong innate immunity. Virologists say that the vaccines will put pressure on the virus to keep evolving new variants that will be weaker. 

Kurt Fischer

Tommy

Yes, George Higginbotham's room was on the second floor.  When building the house, they created a very large room covering about half of the second floor.  

George named it the Dinky Di.   I'm not sure whether you were aware, but George spent his junior high years in Australia.  His father was in oil and gas and was transferred there.  The name "Dinky Di" was Australian slang.  

As a side note, by living in Australia, George was able to relate a story about racism.  In Australia, the Aborigines were not allowed to remain within city limits after sundown, a form of racism we had not experienced in the US for many years.  Yet the Australians would confront him about how Blacks were treated in the US and how racist we were.  A very interesting contradiction.

George spent a lot of time creating a club-like atmosphere in the Dinky Di and he had a number of memorable parties there.  He had a mirror ball that he built himself, gluing each small piece to a sphere.  He managed to have someone bring in a high end stereo each time so the music would be loud and clear.  Good times.

Kurt Fischer

I read an interesting article recently on greenhouse gas emissions.  The author referenced a recent study regarding which urban areas produced the most greenhouse gases.  The study noted that out of the top 25 emitting cities, 23 were in China, while Moscow and Tokyo rounded out the bottom of the top 25.  The top US city was NYC and it was 26 on the list.  This is based on total emissions.  (The other metric that people use is emissions per capita and western cities rank higher on this metric.  But I would suggest the bottom line is the total amount of emissions.)  I found this study at the following location:   https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2021.696381/full. 

The study was by three Chinese academics, so pointing at the Chinese cities was not a western biased conclusion.

I also looked at total greenhouse emissions by country.  Here again, China is by far the worst polluter.  In fact, their emissions (28%) are greater than the combined emissions of the next three countries on the list (US (15%), India (7%), Russian Federation (5%)).  

We hear a constant message that we need to reduce our emissions or climate change will destroy the world that we know (or something similar).  One would think these same individuals with this message would be paying more attention to China's footprint.  Perhaps they should place more emphasis on curtailing US investment in China because of its environmental impact.  One would also question how much the US can do to impact overall emissions in the world.  While we have 15% of the total emissions, even reducing this amount by 20% would have a small impact on the world total (3% reduction).  Yet to achieve this 3% reduction will cost the US economy a tremendous amount of money and impact our living standards.

I hadn't looked at these numbers before and they seem to be in conflict with the ongoing message that we will save the world by reducing our own emission levels.

Jim Bedwell

Yesterday at the grocery I was the only one without a mask until the end when I saw 3 or 4 people also maskless. YEE HAW! And nobody said a word to me; all other places I've been I had to wear one (initially before my civil disobedience against tyranny returned) since I was told to.

Jim Bedwell

Concerning Jim Morrison, I was talking to an RHS '69 BABE (all would agree) once that senior year. She said she had seen the Doors (I never did) and that by the end of the concert, probably every female in the audience would have gone to bed with him. I asked her if she would have, and she said, "Well, I'm just glad he didn't ask me." hahhahahahahahaha!!!!!

Jim Bedwell

Kurt,

As always with you, another EXCELLENT post, this time about glowarming. I LOVED your last restrained, subdued, seemingly innocent statement, and had a LONG laugh after I read it:

"they seem to be in conflict with the ongoing message that we will save the world by reducing our own emission levels."