What will we do when Manny, Mo and Jack are gone?

 

Yeah - tell me you never did that when you were a kid. 

I still have mine - somewhere.

 Anyway, Icahn Enterprises on Tuesday announced that the company reached a deal to sell Pep Boys to Mavis, one of the largest independent tire and service providers in the country, in a $700 million deal. Pep Boys has nearly 800 locations around the country and offers auto services including tires, repairs, oil changes and maintenance. The deal will expand Mavis' presence in new and existing markets, particularly in the western U.S., where Pep Boys has a significant presence, and will increase Mavis's network to over 4,400 service centers around the U.S. and Canada.

If I've learned just one thing about these chain auto repair places, it is NEVER let your wife go by herself. It's almost as if they have some magic 'multiplier key' on their cash registers for charges for un-accompanied women. And you know that is the absolute friggin' truth. Juss' sayin'...

A HillBetty to lean on...

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What The Kid got for us today?

 

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Special ocassion coming up ?

Here's a great idea for a gift for her

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It's simple yet elegant - and comes to you with free shipping!

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Dad's an idealist - or a subversive...

N'Orleans is getting slammed...

This is the storm projection map issued last night, and it's still mostly accurate. New Orleans is currently under a tropical storm warning as Tropical Storm Bertha moves toward the southeast Louisiana coast. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and is tracking westward at about 5 mph, though increasing wind shear is expected to keep the heaviest downpours mostly offshore and weaken the system.

Located roughly 110 miles southeast of New Orleans early Wednesday morning with expected impacts with a minimum of 2 to 4 inches of rain with isolated higher totals, gusty winds, and minor coastal storm surge. The City has responsed as best it can, activating Level II emergency operations, while the Sewerage & Water Board readied drainage pumps. Additional precautions included parishes opening sandbag distribution sites and closing select local floodgates. Good luck y'all...

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This is one helluva deal for under $ 150.00.

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Where did we learn our ethics and morals when we were kids?

Certainly we learned from our parents, but TV programming back in the day was wholesome, family-centric and we learned from most of the shows that the good guys always win out in the end...

And if Timmy fell down the well - again - Lassie would always come to the rescue. Here's a list of the top 20 shows on TV in 1960, based on the US Nielsen TV ratings for the 1960–1961 television season, the top 20 most-watched shows were dominated by Westerns and traditional family comedies.

 

Top 20 TV Shows of 1960–1961

 

Gunsmoke (CBS)Wagon Train (NBC)

Have Gun – Will Travel (CBS)

The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)

The Real McCoys (ABC)

Rawhide (CBS)Candid Camera (CBS)

The Untouchables (ABC) (tied)

The Price Is Right (NBC) (tied)

The Jack Benny Show (CBS)

Dennis the Menace (CBS)

The Danny Thomas Show (CBS)

My Three Sons (ABC) (tied)

77 Sunset Strip (ABC) (tied)

The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)

Perry Mason (CBS)

Bonanza (NBC)

The Flintstones (ABC)

The Red Skelton Show (CBS)

General Electric Theater (CBS)

 

With the exception of the variety shows, even the shoot-em-ups had a moral to teach us. Think about Mayberry. All of the main characters on that show - Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober, Gomer, Sam, Earnest T. Bass, Helen, Thelma Lou, Clara, & of course, Opie were all single, except for Otis Campbell, and he was the town drunk. Didn't know then what that meant, but I've come to a complete understanding of it now. Juss' sayin'...

They're holding that price. Grab a couple. I did.

Just trying to jump start your morning with a tongue twister...

 
This is Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Tu Youyou (yes - that is her real name). She is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She's best known for discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, drugs used to treat malaria. Her breakthrough came from researching traditional Chinese medical texts to find herbal remedies, specifically extracting artemisinin from sweet wormwood. Her work has saved millions of lives. 

Imagine being friends with her, and being invited to her birthday party.  At some point you'd be singing 'Happy Birthday' to her.  Go ahead. Try it.

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Just in case you don't think it could ever happen here, this photograph captures the infamous German American Bund rally held at Madison Square Garden in New York City on February 20, 1939.

Advertised as a "Pro-American Rally," the event drew a crowd of more than 20,000 American Nazi sympathizers just six months before Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.

Granted it was nearly a century ago, but the organizers blended American patriotism with Nazi ideology to portray fascism as entirely compatible with American values. The stage prominently features a giant, 30-foot portrait of George Washington flanked by American flags and Nazi swastikas.

The rally was organized by Fritz Julius Kuhn, the leader of the German American Bund, who spoke at the podium demanding a "white, Gentile-ruled United States."

Outside the arena, an estimated 100,000 anti-Nazi protestors gathered in the surrounding streets. They were held back by a massive force of 1,700 New York City police officers deployed to prevent riots.

The event was the subject of an Oscar-nominated 2017 short documentary titled A Night at the Garden, which compiled archival footage of the rally.

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The balls on this friggin' guy.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani backed down in his efforts to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu in New York City, admitting in a video statement Tuesday night that he doesn’t have the legal authority – while slamming the Israeli prime minister as an unwelcome “war criminal.”

The pro-Palestinian, socialist pol said that despite his administration reviewing “every avenue available” to find a legal loophole to take Netanyahu into custody, they don’t have the authority in a video posted to X. “It’s clear we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” a frustrated Mamdani said, referencing an International Criminal Court 2024 warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest over alleged war crimes in Gaza - an order the US does not recognize.

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And the balls on this friggin' guy, too...

Hunter Biden is on a media blitz campaign, using far-right influencers with millions of social media followers to promote his brand and hawk his new collection of art work - which is going for eye-popping sums, sources told The Post.

According to the operations manager of the “Hunter Biden Studio,” Biden is selling a 36-by-36-inch canvas, “Watchers,” for $54,000 — “and every sale includes a private video call with Hunter, in which he speaks personally about the painting. And sources say he has recently appeared on the podcasts of extremists like Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens not as some great defender of liberal values — but to prop up his stalled art career.

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Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 1929. The sun no longer shines through 

like that due to the surrounding tall buildings.

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Something to ponder on your way to church this Sunday: EVERYTHING that happened in the Quran, The Torah and The Bible all took place within that little teenie, tiny circle. Why do you suppose that is?

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My little 'Good morning' thing today was all about juxtaposition : - the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect - like an unusual juxtaposition of colors; also, it's the state of being so placed, like contrasting shapes placed in juxtaposition to each other.

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Someone must have a birthday 

or anniversary coming up.

Here's a great new gift idea...

 

Click on the picture for more information on these cute earrings.
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The cartoon was called 'If Titanic sank today'.

Pretty sad commentary on people, ain't it?

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Ya see? There is good news today...

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If I had kids, which I don't - that I know of - I would give this one piece of advice to all of my kids - especially the boys. 

Always have at least one butt cheek planted against something solid when your putting on yer new underdrawers. And you guys, especially, know what I'm talking about.

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Big tits or not, I wonder if she realizes that tattoo sleeve is probably 

a turn-off to the majority of men. But then again, I could guarantee 

you she doesn't give a fuck what I think, so there...

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Reflecting again...

At  the bar last night we were talking about what constitutes artwork from one person to another. Specifically, we were talking about bad tattoos, but that's a story for another day.

I was thinking that almost anything can be thought of as a piece of artwork if you look at it with the right perspective. 

In this case - maybe trying to make my own point -  I took a simple, nondescript street scene (might be Japan), colorized it, split both it and the B&W and rejoined them fairly seemlessly. Maybe it's art or maybe it isn't, but it is interesting, isn't it?

Sign me up for THIS cruise...

Fat Freddie is queer? C'mon, man...

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You'll get a good couple of years out of these, 

and they are super comfortable...

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Hey - people in Florida can be pretty friggin' stupid, too. Case in point? Her...

Two dim-witted wannabe influencers are being investigated after going wildly viral for filming themselves stroking alligators in Florida - just days after a swimmer was killed by one. “Come with us to pet alligators,” TikTokker Kileigh Rose wrote of the death-defying foolishness her and a friend reckoned would be part of a fun “Steve Irwin summer.”

One clip shows the young women paddling on Silver Springs State Park in a small, clear canoe when one of them puts her hand in the water, rubbing her hand along the alligator’s back, the Orlando Sentinel reported of the footage that was deleted after racking up 2.1 million views and a flurry of outrage.

 

Almost every day, there's an article somewhere about some knuckle-headed so-called 'infleuncer' dying doing something stupid, just for clicks and 'likes'. Sort of a shame the gators didn't win this one. Juss' sayin'...

 

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Someone must have a birthday 

or anniversary coming up.

Here's a great gift idea...

 

Click on the picture for more information on these cute earrings.
They're only $ 18.00 - and come to you with free shipping!

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