Jeff East

farmer, pilot, all around do it yourselfer, always learning, enjoying life

[Jeff East @farmer_jeff]

How ‘Pressure’ reveals the D-Day forecast that changed World War II history https://t.co/QqFytcSKRY via @accuweather

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

There are hats and then there are HATS! TOT reader Dwain Cox kindly submitted this photo of a lovely lady from Beaumont wearing a HAT and a half! This was taken by Beaumont photographer Ward Jaycox, whose work I have posted several times in the past. We don't know who she is but does it matter? She looks fantastic. I love her pose, too. It's somewhat defiant, isn't it? Like she just said something and she's going to smack you if you say the wrong thing in response. 😀 I wish we know who she was.
Thank you, Dwain. This is a sensational portrait. Really super!

[Jeff East @farmer_jeff]

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[Max Armstrong @maxarmstrong]

Lester Pfister’s monster 80 years ago at El Paso, Illinois. He had four built to harvest seed corn in 1945. Oliver pickers

[Max Armstrong @maxarmstrong]

95 years ago. ⁦@CMEGroup⁩ #CBOT trading floor was under construction. At 605 ft., it was Chicago’s tallest building until 1965, now buried in the skyline. In 1929 (just before Depression) US corn acres=102,000,000. Yield =23. Price = $1.16.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Texas Quote of the Day is perhaps the greatest Texas Christmas story of all time:

"The day after Christmas a number of years ago, I was driving down a country road in Texas. And it was a bitter cold, cold morning. And walking ahead of me on the gravel road was a little bare-footed boy with non-descript ragged overalls and a makeshift sleeved sweater tied around his little ears. I stopped and picked him up. Looked like he was about 12 years old and his little feet were blue with the cold. He was carrying an orange.

And he got in and had the brightest blue eyes one ever saw. And he turned a bright smile on my face and says, "I'm-a going down the road about two miles to my cousins. I want to show him my orange old Santy Claus brought me." But I wasn't going to mention Christmas to him because I figured he came from a family -- the kind that don't have Christmas. But he brought it up himself. He said, "Did old Santy Claus come to see you, Mister?" And I said, "Yes. We had a real nice Christmas at our house and I hope you had the same."

He paused for a moment, looked at me. And then with all the sincerity in the world said, "Mister, we had the wonderfulest Christmas in the United States down to our place. Lordy, it was the first one we ever had had there. See, we never do have them out there much. Don't notice when Christmastime comes. We heared about it, but never did have one 'cause -- well, you know, it's just papa says that old Santy Claus -- papa hoorahs a lot and said old Santy Claus was scared to bring his reindeer down into our section of the county because folks down there so hard up that they liable to catch one of his reindeer and butcher him for meat. But just several days before Christmas, a lady come out from town and she told all the families through there, our family, too, that they was -- old Santy Claus was come in town to leave some things for us and if papa'd go in town, he could get some Christmastime for all of us. And papa hooked up the mule and wagon. He went in town. But he told us children, said, "Now don't ya'll get all worked up and excited because there might not be nothing to this yarn that lady told."

And--but, shucks, she hadn't got out of sight up the lane there till we was done a-watching for him to come back. We couldn't get our minds on nothing else, you know. And mama, she'd come to the door once in a while and say, "Now ya'll quit that looking up the lane because papa told you there might not be nothing." And -- but long about the middle of the afternoon, well, we heared the team a-jangling harness a-coming and we ran out in the front yard, and Ernie, my little brother, called out and said, "Yonder come papa." And here come them mules just in a big trot, you know, and papa standing upright in the bed of that wagon holding two big old chickens, all the feathers picked off. And he was just yelling, "Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas." And the team stopped right in front of the gate. And all us children just went a-swarming out there like a flock of chichis, you know, and just a-crawling over that wagon and a-looking in.

And, Mister, I wish you could have seen what was in that wagon. It's bags of stripety candy and apples and oranges and sacks of flour and some real coffee, you know, and just all tinselly and pretty and we couldn't say nothing. Just kind of held our breath and looked at it, you know. And papa standing there just waving them two chickens, a-yelling, "Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you," and a-laughing that big old grin on his face. And mama, she come a-hurrying out with the baby in her arms, you know. And when she looked in that wagon, she just stopped, and then papa, he dropped them two chickens and reached and caught the baby out of her arms, you know, and held him up and said, "Merry Christmas to you, Santy Claus." And baby, little old Alvie Lee, he just laughed like he knowed it was Christmas, too, you know. And mama, she started telling us the name of all of them nuts. They wasn't just peanuts. They was -- she had names for all of them. She -- mama knows a heap of things like that. She'd seen that stuff before, you know? And we was, all of us, just a-chattering and a-going on at the same time, us young'uns, a-looking in there.

And all of a sudden, we heared papa call out, "Merry Christmas to you, Sam Jackson." And we stopped and looked. And here comes Sam Jackson a-leading that old cripple-legged mule of his up the lane. And papa said, "Sam Jackson, did you get in town to get some Christmas this year?" Sam Jackson, you know, he sharecrops over there across the creek from our place. And he shook his head and said, "Well, no, sir, Mister. Well, I didn't go in town. I heared about that, but I didn't know it was for colored folks, too. I thought it was just for you white families." All of a sudden, none of us children were saying nothing. Papa, he looked down at mama and mama looked up at him and they didn't say nothing, like they don't a heap of times, but they know what the other one's a-thinking. They're like that, you know. And all of a sudden, papa, he broke out in a big grin again. He said, "Dad-blame-it, Sam Jackson, it's a sure a good thing you come by here. Lord have mercy, I liked to forgot. Old Santa Claus would have me in court if he heared about this. The last thing he asked me if I lived out here near you. Said he hadn't seen you around and said he wanted me to bring part of this out here to you and your family, your woman and your children."

Well, sir, Sam Jackson, he broke out in a big grin. Papa says, "I'll tell you what to do. You get your wife and children and you come down here tomorrow morning. It's going to be Christmastime all day long. Come early and stay late." Sam Jackson said, "You reckon?" And mama called out to him and said, "Yes, and you tell your wife to be sure and bring some pots and pans because we're going to have a heap of cookin' to do and I ain't sure I've got enough to take care of all of it." Well, sir, old Sam Jackson, he started off a-leading that mule up the lane in a full trot, you know, and he was a-heading home to get the word to his folks and his children, you know.

And next morning, it just -- you remember how it was yesterday morning, just rosy red and looked like Christmastime. It was cold, but you didn't notice the cold, you know, when the sun just come up, just all rosy red. And us young'uns were all out of bed before daylight seemed like, just running in the kitchen and smelling and looking. And it was all there sure enough. And here come Sam Jackson and his team and his wife and his five young'uns in there. And they's all lookin' over the edge. And we run out and yelled, "Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas." And papa said, "Christmas gift to you, Sam Jackson. Ya'll come on in." And they come in and mama and Sister Jackson, they got in the kitchen and they started a-cooking things up. And us young'uns started playing Christmastime. And it's a lot of fun, you know. We'd just play Christmas Gift with one another and run around and around the house and just roll in the dirt, you know, and then we started playing Go Up To The Kitchen Door And Smell. And we'd run up and smell inside that kitchen door where mama and Sister Jackson was a-cooking at, and then we'd just die laughing and roll in the dirt, you know, and go chasing around and playing Christmas Gift.

And we played Christmastime till we just wore ourselves out. And papa and Sam Jackson--they put a table up and put some sheets over it, some boards up over some sawhorses. And everybody had a place, even the baby. And mama and Sister Jackson said, "Well, now it's ready to come on in. We're going to have Christmas dinner." And I sit right next to Willy Jackson, you know, and he just rolled his eyes at me and I'd roll mine at him. And we'd just die laughing, you know, and there was an apple and an orange and some stripety candy at everybody's place. And that was just dessert, see. That wasn't the real Christmas dinner. Mama and them had done cooked that up. And they just had it spread up and down the table.

And so papa and Sam Jackson, they'd been sitting on the front porch and they come in. Papa, he sit at one end of the table, Sam Jackson sit at the other. And it was just a beautiful table like you never had seen. And I didn't know nothing could ever look like that and smell that good, you know. And Sam Jackson, you know, he's real black and he had on that white clean shirt of his and then them overalls. Everything had been washed and was real clean. Papa, he said, "Brother Jackson, I believe you're a deacon in the church. I ain't much of a church man myself, but I believe you're a deacon. Maybe you'd be willing to give grace." Well, Sam Jackson, he stood up there and his hands is real big and he kind of held onto the side of the table, you know. But he didn't bow his head like a heap of folks do when they're saying the blessing. He just looked up and smiled. And he said, 'Lord, I hope you having as nice a Christmas up there with your angels as we're having down here because it sure is Christmastime down here. And I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to you, Lord.'

Like I say, Mister, I believe that was the wonderfulest Christmas in the United States of America."'

---- John Henry Faulk, Texas Humorist, talks about the real meaning of Christmas.

Shown here: John Henry Faulk in 1975

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

When the Linus Christmas Speech was shown to TV executives they opposed it

They said it was "too churchy"

Charles Schultz insisted the Scripture passage be included and said, "If we don't do it, who will?"

Greatest moment of kids TV history

[Jeff East @farmer_jeff]

Where Is Farmland Going? https://t.co/Bn1SF6NboT via @SuccessfulFarm

[Jeff East @farmer_jeff]

7 of the Oldest Tractors in the World https://t.co/j5AJJslgnU via @SuccessfulFarm

[Roseanne Barr @therealroseanne]

This only counts voters who are alive is why.

[Tim Allen @ofctimallen]

Never took the time in all my years to ever read and really read the Bible. Currently almost through the Jerusalem Bible Old Testament and almost done with the Prophets. Next up to New Testament. So far amazing and not at all what I was expecting.

[Texas Storm Chasers ⚡ @TxStormChasers]

Don't be unprepared for some solid rainfall tomorrow! Here is a look at the forecast rain/storms as they develop and roll through #Texas (via latest HRRR data). Some severe weather may occur with that activity across the Concho Valley and Central Texas as well. #rain #txwx #storm #severe

[Jeff East @farmer_jeff]

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This Will BLOW YOUR MIND 🚨
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If You Don’t Believe The Maui, Lahaina, Hawaii Fires Were Caused By DEWs (Direct Energy Weapons) Already, You Will Now
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ANTARCTICA: “Atmospheric Research Observatory I witnessed myself a very powerful green laser shooting out of the top of this facility into the cosmos”
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They informed me that all of my information will be recorded for public record and shared with Congress. It is that important. In 2010, I was selected to go down to the South Pole Station in Antarctica for an entire year by Raytheon Polar Services. As an employee of a third party contractor for the National Science Foundation, I functioned in a dual role capacity as a tradesman and a firefighter. My responsibilities required me to be more informed than most of my crew and offered me complete access to the facilities. What I learned from this unique experience needs to be shared with the entire world.
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The technology at the South Pole Station certainly can do what it is presented as its primary purposes and unfortunately much more. The Ice Cube neutrino detector is presented as a passive listening device for the purposes of the science as presented, but I'm gonna skip right through the Chase folks.
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Uh, I have provided documentation that proves that the 5,160, what they call doms, that are embedded in the ice, can actually transmit at 2047 volts each. That gives us a long list of things to consider. It is effectively a multifaceted directed energy weapons platform that I will, uh, list rapidly a few things that it can do. Vehicle detection. We're learning that these off world craft on world craft, ours or other nations are also emitting neutrinos.
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So this makes the South Pole Station effectively an air traffic control station for this new level of equipment that nobody's discussing. In addition to the ability to detect neutrinos and the exotic vehicles, I provided documentation that shows that this is also a system for faster than light communications. In the past, Gary McKinnon has hacked, NASA found the off world fleet, the list of captains, and it's apparent that if we have faster than light vehicles moving throughout the system, we're gonna need faster than light communications.
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This is that facility.
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Unfortunately, I have other bad news. The season that I was there, 2010 to 2011, we converted from, uh, construction to operations and maintenance in both the elevated station and the detector array. Unfortunately, when they first fired it up, that was when we had the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. There was two incidental shots before they were able to target it correctly. This is an earthquake generating device as well. This is the weapons of war that we have to deal with now, and what Raytheon's hiding.
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There's an e l F system at the South Pole Station that when I was arrived, I was told it was off dismantled and completely defunct in my work. I'll rapidly just tell you I had to figure out the circuitry for certain other repairs and I found that this system is in fact completely energized up and running and being utilized with the other systems for nefarious purposes as well. The
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Atmospheric Research Observatory is, uh, in what we call the clean air sector. I witnessed myself a very powerful green laser shooting out of the top of this facility into the cosmos.

This, I believe, is a secondary form of long range communications and or a defense system. I am not saying that we need to be scared of anything that's out there, but please understand the military industrial complex is happy to invest all of your money in alleviating their fears.
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— The video continues on with some Antarctica Treaty info but due to X’s text limits you’ll have to watch for yourself! 👇

They’ve had this technology the whole time…. Of course they’re using it.

[𝔹𝕦𝕕 & ℂ𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕪… @bud_cann]

Democrats are turning the U.S. into a third world country, NYC has received over 90,000 illegal migrants. The Democrat Sanctuary City is out of resources for the mostly all male, military age, uneducated, unskilled, and ‘ungrateful’, illegals. They’re not from Mexico, they’re not from Central America, who are these people?

[Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz]

Yesterday, I reintroduced the Securing Our Schools Act and the Protect Our Children’s Schools Act.

Sadly, Senate Democrats played politics and blocked these two critical school safety bills.

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[Doc Deason @docdeason]

💦After today's brief respite from the rain, we are looking at a pretty wet next week or so. Look for additional showers and some thunder during the second half of the day on Palm Sunday. • Here's a quick look at projected Rainfall Totals through 7:00 am, next Sat. #etxwx #txwx