Favorite team:UTEP 
Location:1 Ft. Above Sea Level
Biography:
Interests:
Occupation:ditchdigger/soda jerk
Number of Posts:1432
Registered on:4/16/2012
Online Status:Not Online

Recent Posts

Message
quote:

I really don’t want to delve into Elephant 6, but I’m tempted.


Oh, what the hell. Lol.


Well, my family background is mostly Cajun and my mom spent years doing genealogy research on our family.

Turned out that several generations back a Boudreaux married an Hebert and several generations later another Boudreaux married another Hebert so that made my parents distant cousins.

It also made myself my own cousin, my brother his own cousin, my mom her own cousin and my dad his own cousin and all of us each other's cousins, though very distantly removed.

Thank God for my Irish and Scottish ancestry added in the mix, lol. Keeps my family tree from looking like a pole, lol.
May not be so obscure if you're of a certain age and of a certain region.

quote:

Some core memories have been unlocked the more I examine that list.


Seeing MC900 FT Jesus on the list reminded me how much I liked and listened to this one back in the day.

quote:

Parts of Beaumont are good, the West End or area around Regina Howell Elementary and areas off Gladys, Phelan and Dowlen Rd. Burbs to look would be Lumberton, Nederland and Port Neches. Bevil Oaks/ Pine Wood is good but prone to flooding.


Seconded. I've never lived there but my mom grew up in Beaumont and I still have a lot of family in that area.

From my limited knowledge, Lumberton doesn't seem too bad as suburbs go. I've always preferred the north side of Beaumont over the mid county area (Port Neches/Nederland/Groves) anyway because of the pine forests and some rolling terrain, and the absence of refineries/industries like you have around those communities between Beaumont and Port Arthur.

It does seem like it can be a bit of a pain in the arse traffic wise commuting to and from Beaumont for work if you live in Lumberton.

Also, I know the housing closer to Village Creek (used to love camping at the State Park there) in Lumberton has had some problems with flooding in the past as well.

re: The lightning bugs are back

Posted by PacoPicopiedra on 7/24/26 at 4:36 am to
When I was a kid growing up near Galveston Bay we didn't have fireflies here. We had these tropical bioluminescent click beetles that we called lightning bugs. Don't really see them around here on summer nights anymore.

As was mentioned earlier in this thread, he's the grandson of the founder of Toys R Us and has his own shady history when it comes to sexual misconduct.

Apparently early on he worked with a group called Justice Democrats, started by AOC, until sexual misconduct allegations surfaced. So, that may be why AOC sat this one out in regards to endorsing Platner while other Socialist/Commies jumped on the Platner bandwagon.


Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints

quote:

Yesterday, Payday Report learned that Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Moraff from her 2022 congressional campaign after receiving at least three complaints of sexual misconduct against Moraff.


quote:

Now, Moraff, who recruited Graham Platner to run for Senate in Maine, is at the center of a massive controversy after he admitted that he spent only a few days vetting Platner, who just withdrew from the Senate race after he was accused of rape.

Given the fact that both Congresswoman Lee and Justice Democrats stopped working with Moraff following these accusations, questions have been raised about why so many on the left trusted him to give a thorough vetting and assessment of Platner.

“Birds of a feather, flock together and Moraff and Platner were predators,” said one woman, who says she was sexually harassed while working to elect Congresswoman Lee.


quote:

In 2017, Moraff led efforts to recruit Summer Lee, then a local community organizer, to run for the State House from Pittsburgh’s Mon Valley. He then played an essential role in leading her campaign to defeat Paul Costa, a 20-year incumbent from a historic Democratic machine, whose family held four major elected offices, in a little less than one year.

However, by the end of 2022, Moraff was barred from participating in Lee’s historic run for Congress, in which she overcame $5 million in AIPAC spending to become the first Black woman elected to Congress from Western PA.

Payday Report has learned that Moraff was barred from Lee’s campaign following at least three complaints of sexual misconduct leveled against him, leading Lee to ban Moraff not just from his previous leadership positions in her campaign, but from even attending campaign events for Lee.


quote:

In Pittsburgh, some activists began contacting Payday saying that it was no coincidence that Moraff would so quickly approve Platner without doing the type of deep background research needed for a candidate for that office.

Worse, many speculated that Moraff may have overlooked Platner’s record while vetting him given Moraff’s own record of sexual misconduct, which ultimately led Congresswoman Summer Lee to ban Moraff from participating in her campaign or attending her events in her first run for Congress in 2022.

Payday Report has learned that during Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign for Congress, Lee received at least three sexual harassment complaints against Moraff. At the time, Moraff was attending Yale Law School, and the heir to the Toys “R” Us fortune was working on a pro bono basis on Lee’s campaign.




quote:

In my post about my father’s death, the internist neighbor told me that there could be a genetic disposition to aortic dissection.


Yeah, John Ritter's dad, Tex Ritter, died of a heart attack at age 68 but they now believe it was probably an aortic aneurysm since that's what his son died of. I thought I heard that Lindsey Graham's father died of a heart attack when Lindsey was in college. Which, again, could point to a genetic disposition.
I was taking some trash out to the garbage can last week and the damn yellow jackets had built a nest under the handle of the recycling bin next to it.

While putting the garbage in the can I must have bumped the bin and stirred them up because one of those little frickers stung me right on the temple. Not real painful, but I walked around for the next few hours looking like I had Bell's Palsey. I took it out on them with a full can of Bengal wasp and hornet spray. Good times.

re: Underrated guitar players

Posted by PacoPicopiedra on 7/9/26 at 7:46 am to
quote:

Eddie Hazel


A tribute by Ween.


quote:

That reminds me the 1976 Freedom Train
Is anyone here old enough to remember?
A rolling 25 plus car musem of American history from 1776 to 1976.
Visited all contiguous 48 states in 1975 and 1976
Full of priceless artifacts and memorabillia. Armed guards were everywhere
Cool as shite


I remember it. We saw it when it stopped in Memphis while we were visiting family in Arkansas. I was 5 years old so, unfortunately, didn't really grasp, at that time, the significance of all the important exhibits on display in the train related to our nation's history, but the moving sidewalk that transported visitors between each train car was cool to me at that age.



quote:


Should be swinging from a tree


A very large one, like a redwood.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I've never been able to get past the schmaltziness and borderline chipmunk vocals even when I was a kid and it was more prominent on the radio.




Deep in the west
Where the tall mountains grow, I've gone home
Where the heaven above
Turns red from the fire down below

Are you listening to me
When I'm talking to you?
Said together, we're one
And divided, we're through
Ooh, ooh
Divided, we're through

Silver friend at night
Yellow friend, you come with the dawn
Back in my heart
I've been drying my eyes, see me run

So you hang onto me
And I hang onto you
Said together, we're one
And divided, we're through
Ooh, ooh
Divided, we're through

Refusing to talk
I suppose that it's all for love's sake, ain't it, babe?
Learning to give
That's important before you can take from me

Are you listening to me
When I'm talking to you?
Said together, we're one
And divided, we're through
So you hang onto me
And I hang onto you
Said together, we're one
And divided, we're through

Are you listening to me (There you go)
When I'm talking to you? (Changing your mind)
Said together, we're one (This love of yours)
And divided, we're through (Will take me sometime)

So you hang onto me (Here I go)
And I hang onto you (I keep changing my mind)
Said together, we're one (This love of yours)
And divided, we're through (Will take me sometime)

Ooh, ooh
Divided, we're through (Hey, hey, yeah)
Ooh, ooh