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Subdeacon Joe

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  1. Those ratings are fan based. Who is more likely to give an online rating to a movie, Forty Rod, or a 20 year old gamer?
  2. Classic! If not mashed potatoes, baked potatoes since you had the oven on anyway.
  3. I'm going to assume you mean like Calvera and his gang wear. Outside of parades, celebrations, and such I don't recall seeing anyone wearing a sombrero.
  4. A GREAT entertainer. And talented musician. Played the role perfectly. Thanks, Tommy, for the many, many hours of wonderful entertainment.
  5. Now, why would I do something that mean?
  6. The sauce is basically catsup, I've never seen a need to add more.
  7. My pleasure. Let me know what you think of it.
  8. Influenza kills. ~30,000 to ~90,000 per year. Disproportionately among the elderly and very young. But we don't see the lockdowns, mandatory closure of "nonessential" businesses, effectively mandatory vaccination, forced closure of churches (and, when allowed to partially reopen, the State dictating how worship is to be conducted) every year for flu. Yes, Covid serious, or it can be. Almost killed me, I think. But it's definitely not as deadly as the fear mongers want us to believe. The mortality rate is only slightly higher than the rate for influenza. Given what I posted above as my experience with it, and what I've read in CDC and NIH literature, I'll not be getting any more shots for it.
  9. No hikers were harmed in the making of this video
  10. In '21 I was fully vaccinated, the 2 part Phizer, plus boosters. After every shot I was down for 2 days and felt like dog puke for 2 weeks. Got the Fauci Flu in November of '21. At one point, about 0400, after being up coughing and playing on my computer, I heard a THUD and found myself on the floor, chair overturned, and bowels and bladder had loosened. I didn't, and don't, remember falling over. So, the vaccine and boosters that initially we were told would PREVENT the Fauci Flu, and then were told, when it didn't do that that it was to lessen the symptoms, didn't do squat for me. One upside - after my wife had it (likely picked up from me, and she was fully vaccinated), it seems to have sort of reset her hormones or something. Broke her depression, reset her apatit and she has lost over 50 pounds now. Then there is the political aspect of it. We saw political figures ignoring their own mandated protocols. We saw "health care professionals" send a letter, I think to the DOJ, saying that political protests bordering on riot against police brutality, racism, and statues were safe and would not spread COVID, even though there were thousands and tens of thousands unmasked and shoulder to shoulder, and COVID should not be used as a reason to shut them down, but peaceful protests against lockdowns, against anti-2nd Amendment laws, would spread COVID like a wind-driven wildfire and would kill thousands and so should be shut down to prevent the spread. Places like marijuana stores and nail salons were allowed to be open, but people attending church services in their cars, and masked IN THEIR CARS where threatened with arrest for violating quarantine . People alone on the beach were arrested. In Southern California an elderly couple was told that they couldn't sit in their chairs on the beach, but they could sit in the sand in the same spot. Other such absurdities - couldn't hike into an isolated fishing spot, couldn't park by the beach and watch the sunset from inside your car.
  11. While, indeed, a Crusade, it was supposedly said against the Albigensian Cathars in Southern France rather thd in the Holy Land
  12. Yep. Sort of The Bard and The Bible cobbled together with lots of Bondo.
  13. A good read and reminder : https://oldafsarge.blogspot.com/ "It would take more than a snarky meme to motivate his men to fight again. Only six months earlier, “lives, fortunes and scared honor” had been earnestly pledged by men of standing, privilege, and wealth, no longer willing to submit to oppression by a government too far removed geographically and too disinterested in the problems in the daily lives of those who bore the burden of government demands, taxes and policies. Thomas Paine’s writing had helped motivate them. Now, Thomas Paine delivered a broadside which saved the day. No, not a naval broadside of cannon fire, but the paper type, a large sheet printed on one side dated December 19th or December 23rd 1776. Barely two years after arriving in America, his broadside “The American Crisis” (noted as “By the Author of COMMON SENSE”) fervently laid out the challenges and rewards of continuing the fight for freedom. Washington got copies and ordered it read aloud to his entire army, prior to embarking on the Trenton attack. This inspiring piece boosted morale and commitment to the Revolutionary cause among citizens and soldiers. Here is the memorable opening - These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has the right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER,” and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God."
  14. Because whatever warped mind that came up with it wants the reader to misread it that way. Try reading it aloud to someone else (how would you read to someone else other than aloud? ) without saying "spleen."
  15. A good one, rollicking and fun:
  16. That's weird, I always have to start the sound when I open IG. Must be something in our settings.
  17. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1GWpHEtfMK/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  18. Thanks. My wife REALLY likes it. I came up with it because I bought a container of the Everything Seasoning that was too salty to use on bagels so I gave it a try in a little ground pork for sausage. That worked, so I tried it in the next meatloaf. That and the powdered beef base take the place of salt.
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