SUNDAY #4407

One Of My Very Own

Sorry, but they can't all be gems.

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NEWSY BITS

After Puzzle Time

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PEOPLE

Whelp...there goes that defense.

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A character in one of my novels was trapped on a farm and needed a way to poison her kidnapper. I called my nephew the pharmacy professor and he told me about locoweed (Astragalus). A concentrated dose may not kill him but will render him so incapacitated that you could, say, drown him.

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I wonder if it's the kids yelling at one another or the parents yelling at the kids.

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A favorite tactic of the unscrupulous is to accuse your opponent of doing the exact things you are doing. I heard that man say that he will not allow a vote on the $2000 stimulus checks because he didn't want to enrich the Democrats' rich friends.

How did his pants not combust?

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I bet that little scamp will never win another game of Candyland with lesser-loved Daddy.

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"Let's pet the shark," they said. "It will be fun."

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Those zany Saudis.

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Watch carefully...

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Do you think they practice the choreography prior?

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Watch carefully. 

(This clip disappears when I enlarged it - don't know why.)

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Me: *looking at a barn full of feed* Who’s all that for?

Farmer: The cattle eat it.

Me: Wow, that’s one hungry cat.

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PLACES

It's called civil disobedience and I'm fer it.

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I would bet the brick supplier was the governor's brother-in-law.

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Why has the whole world bought into fireworks on New Year's Eve? I think it's time for a new tradition. And while we're at it let' dump the Gatorade bath after winning a football game. And gender reveal parties. And engagement rings.

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Meanwhile in New Zealand

As a school teacher, we learn our job is to de-escalate any and all situations. I would think cops need the same training.

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When growing up, this is what the sky looked like.

Now that I live in the city I miss the stars.

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Traditional rapeseed oil pressing factory

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This is a classic Australian game where you peg a bag of cheap and nasty cask wine to a hills hoist (a clothesline) and then spin the clothesline around until it stops. Whomever the bag lands closest to has to drink before spinning the clothesline again. You keep spinning until the bag is gone or you are gone.

"Hills hoist"?

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If it works it's not stupid.

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It must be very loud.

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This is one of the worst cases of risk assessment and situational awareness that I've ever seen.

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Every Christmas I buy my grandson something that is very difficult to assemble because watching my pissed-off son-in-law struggle to put it together is my Christmas.

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THINGS

Had 2020 been a bread slicer...

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HempWood

Now that it's legal to grow hemp in the United States, a man who's spent the last decade developing hemp "hardwood" is building a $6 million factory to manufacture the product en masse. His patented product called "HempWood" is made out of compressed hemp pulp fibers, held together with a soy-based glue. While that may sound like some newfangled version of particleboard, it's not. It looks and feels like oak, but is actually 20 percent harder than the famous hardwood tree. It also grows 100 times as fast. While it takes an oak tree at least 6 decades to mature, it takes hemp 6 months.

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Wouldn't you love to hear the conversation that resulted in that decision?

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In some states, a shed does not require a building permit. Any building with a gabled roof is not a shed. So many people build that kind of roof.

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And...

But dinosaurs were reptiles and most likely resemble modern reptiles - not mammals.

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I would hang a sign on it telling other motorists what it is.

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Finally found an image of the Torq-Set screw.

Hughes Aircraft built nuclear missiles and all the screws required a special screwdriver that only Hughes sold.

It was stated that they were unstrippable. This was a lie.

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Quick ain't it.

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SOURCE LINK

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I impel you to watch this. I found it fascinating.

Unmute: SOURCE LINK

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TAKE A REAL GOOD LOOK AT THESE 

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If you invite me to a party and I don't have a good time I will leave an open can of tuna under your couch.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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Why would they have TWO ways to denote numbers greater than five?

I would use a much easier method. Six looks like one only pointing down. Seven is two pointing down, etc.

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OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS ON THE ECONOMY

When I was young anyone with a pulse and no felony conviction could find a job.

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So go ahead and tell me everything you know about heaven. Don't hold back on the details.

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NEWSY BITS

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THE TRUMP CULTISTS

Read this:

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Do I think that all Trump supporters are cultists? No. Do I think most Trump supporters are cultists? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY!

Don't believe me? Let's take a quiz.

Trump said more people attended his inauguration than ever before. Did you believe that lie?

He said Mexico would pay for the wall. Did you believe that lie?

He said covid was a hoax. Did you believe that lie?

He said masks were overrated. Did you believe that lie?

He actually said we have more covid infections because we test too much. Did you believe that lie?

He suggested we drink bleach. Did you believe that lie?

Let' skip forward a thousand lies to the zinger:

He said he won the election in a landslide. Did you believe that lie?

If so, you must have evidence. Even cultists would want to see the evidence. Well, judge after judge SAW the "evidence" and threw it out of court. Republican states did a recount after a recount and proved over and over that the majority of the voters had rejected Trump. Barr said he lost. McConnell said he lost. Graham said he lost. 

And after all that and more if you still believe Trump's assertion that he actually won - then you, my friend, are by definition are a textbook cultist.

And before you stoop to call me a dangerous Socialist liberal Democrat just remember that it was YOUR DOMESTIC TERRORIST BUDDIES WHO ATTACKED MY CAPITAL!!

And I assure you that if I catch Biden lying to me I will jump on his ass with equal vigor.

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Nobody bludgeoned a cop after the email lady lost, just saying.

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The lamest diversionary cop-out in political history

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Calling them deplorable was not only accurate but much too kind.

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Do I think most Trumpers are racists? Yes, I do.

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It should concern every American that 49% think he's doing a great job.

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THE FAMILY TRUMP

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