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keithbvadu2

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December 7, 2024

Good news, Republicans. You get your jobs back

Good news, Republicans. You get your jobs back...

All those jobs the immigrants took from you.

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December 2, 2024

Pardons for Hunter/Jan6ers... Is violently attacking the police an ordinary pardonable crime?

Always ask the question:::: Is violently attacking the police an ordinary pardonable crime?

November 24, 2024

Grandma's Thanksgiving Invitation

(Remember– this is a joke, folks. Some people try to take it way too seriously. )
We all have some of these relatives.
Sometimes, we ARE some of these relatives.
Most of these are the voice of experience.
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Grandma's Thanksgiving Invitation

Dear Family:

I'm not dead yet. Thanksgiving is still important to me.
If being in my Last Will and Testament is important to you, then you
might consider being with me for my favorite holiday.

Dinner is at 2:00, NOT 2:15, NOT 2:05. Two (2:00)
Arrive late and you get what's left over.

Last year, that moron Marshall fried a turkey in one of those contraptions and practically burned the deck off the house. This year, the only peanut oil used to make the meal will be from the secret scoop of peanut butter I add to the carrot soup.

Jonathan, your last new wife was an idiot. You don't arrive at someone's house on Thanksgiving needing to use the oven and the stove. Honest to God I thought you might have learned after two wives - date them longer and save us all the agony of another divorce.

Now, the house rules are slightly different. This year because I have decided that 2/3 of you don't know how to take care of nice things, then paper plates and red Solo cups might be bad for the environment, but I'll be gone soon and that will be your problem to deal with.

1. The University of Texas no longer plays Texas A&M. The television
stays off during the meal.

2. The "no cans for kids" rule still exists. We are using 2 liter bottles because your children still open a third can before finishing the first two. Parents can fill child's cup when it is empty. All of the cups have names on them and I'll be paying close attention to refills.

3. Chloe, last year we were at Trudy's house and I looked the other way when your Jell-O salad showed up. This year, if Jell-O salad comes in the front door it will go right back out the back door with the garbage. Save yourself some time, honey. You've never been a good cook and you shouldn't bring something that wiggles more than you. Buy something from the bakery. The only thing that jiggles at my house this Thanksgiving will be your Aunt Trudy after a few glasses of wine.

4. Grandmothers give grandchildren cookies and candy. That is a fact of life. Your children can eat healthy at your home. At my home, they can eat whatever they like as long as they finish it.

5. I cook with bacon and bacon grease. That's nothing new. Your being a vegetarian doesn't change the fact that stuffing without bacon is like egg salad without eggs. Even the green bean casserole has a little bacon grease in it. That's why it tastes so good. Not eating bacon is just not natural. And as far as being healthy, look at me. I’ve outlived almost everyone I know.

6. Salad at Thanksgiving is a waste of space.

7. I do not like cell phones. Leave them in the car.

8. I do not like video cameras. There will be 32 people here. I am sure you can capture lots of memories without the camera pointed at me.

9. Being a parent means you have to actually pay attention to the kids. I have nice things and I don't put them away just because company is coming over. Mary, watch your kids and I'll watch my things.

10. Speaking of being a parent; if you are babysitting a neighbor’s kid, it is not automatically family here without prior notice.
Take them back home or put them in one. Or tell the neighbors to send enough money to pay for a restaurant meal.
If your child still wears diapers, you will leave with the same number of them as you had when you arrived. Bag them up and take them with you. The trash man doesn’t come again until next Tuesday and the last thing I need is a trash can full of baby poop. No exceptions to this rule. You’re dealing with a woman who washed cloth diapers so this would be an argument you will lose.

11. Rhonda, a cat that requires a shot twice a day is a cat that has lived too many lives. I think staying home to care for the cat is your way of letting me know that I have lived too many lives too. I can live with that. Can you?

12. Words mean things! I say what I mean. Let me repeat: You don't need to bring anything means you don't need to bring anything. And if I did tell you to bring something, bring it in the quantity I said. Really, this doesn't have to be difficult.

13. Domino's and cards are better than anything that requires a battery or an on/off switch. That was true when you were kids and it's true now that you have kids.

14. Showing up for Thanksgiving guarantees presents at Christmas. Not showing up guarantees a card that may or may not be signed.

15. If you want to talk politics, sit next to me, but I’m old enough to speak my mind regardless of your precious feelings. If I were you, I’d practice don’t ask, don’t tell because even when I mind my Ps and Qs, I can still spell bullsh_t.

In memory of your Grandfather, the back fridge will be filled with beer.
Drink until it is gone. I prefer wine anyway. But one from each family
needs to be the designated driver..

You know I love you. And I am indeed thankful for my family. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. Follow the rules and we’ll all get along just fine.

NO Jello-salad. I mean it. Really.

Love You, Grandma.

November 22, 2024

Next SECDEF denigrates disabled vets for earned benefits.

Next SECDEF denigrates disabled vets for earned benefits... Hegseth tars veterans using
all their government benefits as “dependent” while Kilmeade suggests they lack “personal
integrity”

(Hegseth served... Kilmeade never served)

https://www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmeade/foxs-pete-hegseth-brian-kilmeade-criticize-ame
rican-veterans-who-apply-every

Fox's Pete Hegseth, Brian Kilmeade criticize American veterans who apply for every
government benefit they qualify for
Hegseth tars veterans using all their government benefits as “dependent” while Kilmeade
suggests they lack “personal integrity”

Published 04/05/19 9:29 AM EDT --- video.

PETE HEGSETH (FOX NEWS HOST): This is a really complicated discussion. This is about
disability ratings, which isn't always necessarily tied to health care but the idea that
this -- the health care you get is about service-connected disabilities. If you go to
war, and you get injured, we'll take care of you. So when you come home, they try to rate
how disabled you are and that's how much care you get. Well, I could be rated for 50%
right now if I wanted to be. I mean, just to have a totally -- and vets know this out
there, I could do ear, and ankle, and knee, and back.

STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Because it's proportional, right?

HEGSETH: Because it's proportional for different injuries that you have. Groups out there
-- vets groups, mostly -- encourage vets to apply for every government benefit they can
ever get after they leave the service.

DOOCY: Why not?

HEGSETH: Because -- well, why not, right, if government's giving it out. To me, the ethos
of service is I served my country because I love my country and I'm going to come home
and start the next chapter of my life. And if I've got a chronic condition, mental,
physical, otherwise, the government better be there for me. But otherwise, I don't want
to be dependent if I don't have to be.

KILMEADE: You got to have integrity. You got to have personal integrity.

HEGSETH: Well and right now a lot of groups are convincing vets to give -- get, take more
from the system as opposed to just what you need for the service you gave.

November 18, 2024

This song will make you homesick for a place you have never been... Serenade

Many have played it and have done it well..
I like his version best.

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November 15, 2024

UNSAFE electrical repair.

UNSAFE electrical repair. Does your power cord feel loose or lean out of the outlet? The fingers inside the outlet are supposed to have a firm grip on the prongs of the power cord. That firm grip provides good current flow. If it is a weak grip, it is a poor current flow and can overheat, which can melt the plastic and actually start a fire. This little plastic gizmo makes the plug grip to the plastic cover of the outlet but not to the actual electrical fingers. It is still a poor connection.

REPLACE the outlet!

Don't 'fix' it on the cheap with this plastic piece of crap.



November 10, 2024

Ford Electric truck! Depreciation CRISIS!

beat me with a stick.
a bigger stick.
then, do it again.

Subject: Ford Electric truck! Depreciation CRISIS!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =s1X9SP5YgT4
November 9, 2024

Will Trump get a food taster?

The crown was usually passed down to the first born son and the others got lost.
Sometimes the first born took fatally ill when a younger son was ambitious.

With Vance on his heels, Donald should be wary.

The 25th Amendment might be on the menu.

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