Subdeacon Joe

The rank and file, and some of the, call them middle managers like Sen. Cruz, but the "leadership" has all the spine of an undercooked blancmange. And all too many don't get out and vote, won't write to those in office, won't attend city council meetings to object to things. Chantry wrote: "Longer than that, it's just more out in the open and it's going to get worse before it gets better, if it ever does." For the open civil war I'd go back maybe to 2014. But, as you say, it started before that, it just became more open and more violent, and with things like the Speaker of the House openly calling for more riots, and other members of the House calling for physical attacks on members of the administration, and a Senator making death threats against members of the Supreme Court.

The left has almost always been unwilling to compromise. Oh, they might settle for less than they demand, but keep coming back for more. Finally conservatives have caught on and take the hard line stance. https://everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/11/08/cake-and-compromise-illustrated-guide-to-gun-control/comment-page-1/#comments

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/04/03/eisenhowers-salty-pilots-are-putting-kill-marks-on-their-jets/ As their battle against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen rages on, some fighter pilots assigned to the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower are starting to stencil “victory marks” on the fuselage of their jets to showcase how much ordnance they’ve unleashed and how many Houthi assets they’ve taken out. Photos made public by the Navy this month show the marks on at least one jet, a reflection of successful engagements flown by that particular jet, according to a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operations.

There has been a civil war going on since 2016.

A locomotive engine being swung across a canyon with the Rio Grande River below. New Mexico. c.1915.

https://www.cowboysindians.com/2016/03/recollections-of-a-cowpuncher/

No mustard?

From that it sounds as if the standards are now a bit higher.

I remember it being granular, almost like instant coffee, but not crystals. I sort of like the flavor, but I recall it taking about three times as much to make a glass of chocolate milk as it did with Nestle Quick.

Sort of like the WWII German Goliath remote controlled mine

Haggis and Black Pudding Pizza, hold the Marmite Sauce.

Sconehenge

https://mnch.uoregon.edu/collections-galleries/great-basin-sandals https://centraloregondaily.com/fort-rock-oregon-sandals-history/

https://pages.uoregon.edu/connolly/FRsandals.htm The World's Oldest Shoes Sagebrush bark sandal from Catlow Cave, radiocarbon dated to 9,300 years old In 1938 archaeologist Luther Cressman (from the University of Oregon) excavated at Fort Rock Cave, located in a small volcanic butte approximately half a mile west of the Fort Rock volcanic crater in central Oregon. The Fort Rock Basin is the most northwesterly sub-basin of the Great Basin, Western North America's vast intermontane desert. Cressman found dozens of sandals below a layer of volcanic ash, subsequently determined to come from the eruption of the Mt. Mazama volcano 7500 years ago. Named for the site where they were first found, Fort Rock-style sandals have since been reported from ancient deposits in several Northern Great Basin caves. Sagebrush bark sandals from Fort Rock Cave, similar to specimens radiocarbon dated from 10,500-9,300 years old. Fort Rock sandals are stylistically distinct. They are twined (pairs of weft fibers twisted around warps), and have a flat, close-twined sole, usually with five rope warps. Twining proceeded from the heel to the toe, where the warps were subdivided into finer warps and turned back toward the heel. These fine warps were then open-twined (with spaces between the weft rows) to make a toe flap. Cressman surmised that a tie rope attached to one edge of the sole wrapped around the ankle and fastened to the opposite edge. Most dated Fort Rock-style sandals are from Fort Rock Cave, but directly dated sandals of this type are also known from Cougar Mountain and Catlow Caves. Directly dated Fort Rock style sandals range in age from at least 10,500 BP to 9200 BP (based on dendrocalibrated radiocarbon ages). For more information, refer to Connolly and Cannon 1999. Table 1. Directly dated Fort Rock-style sandals, northern Great Basin. 14C Age Lab No. Age Range (cal BP, 1 sigma) Dated Material Site Reference(s) 9188±480* C-428a 10,920-9650 BP sagebrush bark Fort Rock Cave Arnold and Libby 1951 8916±540* C-428b 10,440-9380 BP sagebrush bark Fort Rock Cave Cressman 1951; Bedwell and Cressman 1971 8308±43 AA-30056 9380-9240 BP sagebrush bark Catlow Cave Connolly and Cannon 1999 8510±250 UCLA-112 9840-9240 BP tule Cougar Mtn. Cave Ferguson and Libby 1962; Connolly 1994 8500±140 I-1917 9530-9380 BP sagebrush bark Fort Rock Cave Bedwell and Cressman 1971 9215±140 AA-9249 10,360-10,020 BP sagebrush bark Fort Rock Cave? Connolly and Cannon 1999 8715±105 AA-9250 9870-9520 BP sagebrush bark Fort Rock Cave? Connolly and Cannon 1999 Note: *The commonly cited 9053±350 age for the "Fort Rock sandal" is actually an average of these two dates, run on "several pairs of woven rope sandals" (Arnold and Libby 1951:117). The weighted average of these two ages produces an age range of 10,390-9650 cal BP. Russian page translation by Alisa Bagrii alisa.bagrii@everycloudtech.com

https://www.cowboysindians.com/2016/03/recollections-of-a-cowpuncher/

Safeway

" The Texas Quote of the Day was written by old-time trail cowboy Teddy Blue Abbott: "If a storm came along and the cattle started running -- you'd hear that low, rumbling noise along the ground and the men on herd wouldn't need to come in and tell you, you'd know -- then you'd jump for your horse and get out there in the lead, trying to head them and get them into a mill before they scattered to hell-and-gone [The cowboys would attempt to make the cattle run in an ever-tightening circle until they could no longer move.] It was riding at a dead run in the dark, with cut banks and prairie dog holes all around you in a shallow grave... One night it come up an awful storm. It took all four of us to hold the cattle and we didn't hold them, and when morning come there was one man missing. We went back to look for him, and we found him among the prairie dog holes, beside his horse. The horse's ribs was scraped bare of hide, and all the rest of the horse and man was mashed into the ground as flat as a pancake. The only thing you could recognize was the handle of his six-shooter. We tried to think the lightning hit him, and that was what we wrote his folks in Henrietta, Texas, but we couldn't really believe it ourselves. I'm afraid it wasn't the lightning. I'm afraid his horse stepped into one of them holes and they both went down before the stampede. The awful part of it was that we had milled them cattle over him all night, not knowing he was there. That was what we couldn't get out of our minds. And after that, orders were given to sing when you were running with a stampede so the others would know where you were as long as they heard you singing, and if they didn't hear you they would figure something happened. After awhile, this grew to be a custom on the range, but you know, this was still a new business in the seventies and we was learning all the time." ------- Teddy Blue Abbott, "We Pointed Them North, Recollections of an Old Cowpuncher," 1939 Shown here: Teddy Blue Abbott at the age of 18"

Nope.....the last religious:

It's called Property Tax.