Waking up in a different world?

 There are a few surprises out there this morning, 

aren't there? Starting with the good news... 

Any day the Astros lose is a good day, so 

this must be a very good day. Juss' sayin'...

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Looks like an album cover, don't it?

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Considering they figured out a way that the cops would 

quit or retire in droves, that may be a legit question.

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This was my father's last hunting knife. He got it from my Uncle Mondo for Christmas in '65 and as usual had to mark the date on it. He catalogued everything he owned. Even his kids.
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Zillow is getting out of the house-flipping business and will fire a large percentage of its staff, after admitting that it greatly overestimated its ability to wrangle “the unpredictability in forecasting home prices.”

In a dire quarterly earnings report published Tuesday, the company announced that it would be shutting down Zillow Offers, its division devoted to house flipping and selling. The company, which primarily operates as a digital real estate market, simultaneously announced that it would be letting go a quarter of its staff—or some 2,000 workers. The dissolution of “Offers” means that Zillow stands to suffer a write-down (i.e. loss) of some $540 million.

Good - and I hope the jerkoff who thought this was a good idea gets shit-canned, too. They've been buying up houses here in The Villages for a year now, and driving prices through the roof.

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There are gifts you buy for a special

 occasion. Or for no reason at

 all. Whoever you're buying it for,

 they'll appreciate the effort...

Gold Rainbow Hand Beaded Bracelet With Irish Knot 

Button Closure And Silver Seed Bead Accents

Click on the picture for information on this item. 

Click on this link to see all she has to offer:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BjacksonJewelry

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A shop selling records and radios by Rivoli and Emerson on Broadway 

in New York City, with the Varsity Ballroom next door

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As deadlines loom for military and defense civilians to get mandated COVID-19 vaccines, senior leaders must now wrestle with the fate of those who flatly refuse the shots or are seeking exemptions.

The vast majority of the active duty force has received at least one shot, but tens of thousands have not.

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Must be some kinda monkey business in there...

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People really do have entirely too much free time...

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I'll be the first to admit there's a lot of shit the media does that I don't understand, but this? I have no fuckin' idea why they'd label her that way. It's stupid, it's pandering (somehow) and it means fuckin' nothing. Juss' sayin'...
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How much effort does it take to buy a nice 

little present for someone special? 

Not much - buy her a nice gift just because 

she cares - something like this maybe...

Green Unakite Stone Hand Beaded Bracelet With 

Green Crystals And Copper Seed Bead Accents

Click on the picture for information on this item. 

The jewelry my wife makes would be a perfect gift.

Click on this link to see all she has to offer:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BjacksonJewelry

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Abraham Lincoln's hat he wore to Ford's Theater 

the night he was shot by John Wilkes Booth 

on April 14, 1865. You'd think he coulda afforded 

a new hat, wouldn'tcha?
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I can hear my sister saying that...

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MEGHAN MCCAIN: Democrats should be petrified today. Glenn Youngkin's win is nothing short of a bloodbath for Democrats and what is arguably more dangerous for the left is the winning pathway he has shown the rest of the Republican party moving forward into midterms and the 2024 general. There are many takeaways as to why Youngkin has been able to pull off such a significant and historic win but first let's put things into context. The state of Virginia is a reliably blue swing state. President Biden won Virginia by 10 points. President Obama won Virginia in both 2008 and 2012, Hillary Clinton won it in 2016. This is not a red state by any political analyst's metric and many of the citizens of the state of Virginia have been reliable democratic voters for a very long time....up until today. So what has happened? In the simplest terms possible - it is revenge of the parents.
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Frank Sinatra's Hi-Fi System (1965)
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If ya need me I'll be outside havin' a smoke...

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