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[AustinTXCat]

Have you eaten at KFC lately? I do recognize that there might be differences between individual stores but the last three I have eaten at have been consistently bad.

We usually get a chicken tenders bucket meal from KFC around once per month or so. Have not noticed a big difference lately for this order. It seems the quality of traditional KFC boned chicken meals has declined some recently.

Last time I visited our local KFC, a PETA group showed up inside the restaurant and began protesting. Manager called the police. They scattered.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

My father worked with KFC when the Colonel was still around in the early days of the franchise. John Y Brown had just purchased the company and he recruit dad to help expand franchises with a vision of going international. At the time their product and quality was as good as any restaurant. For those years the company standards were as high as any in the industry but eventually they got bought out and dad left with John Y to start up Lums restaurant a few spins offs. But the point I wanted to make was Colonel Sanders was very strict and would not put up with a store that messed up his chicken.

KFC has gone down, down in their product and quality over the years.

I had KFC Tuesday and it was simply excellent.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Have you eaten at KFC lately? I do recognize that there might be differences between individual stores but the last three I have eaten at have been consistently bad.

Tuesday. It was wonderful.

I use the Bowling Green store on the 31-W bypass and the Cave City store. They are always wonderful.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I had KFC Tuesday and it was simply excellent.

So glad to hear this. I think the Kentucky stores are a notch above everyone else.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I am guilty of this

 

[Ben101er]

Thanks 55 this song has been in my head ever since you posted this!

I've been through Winslow, and they have a flatbed sitting there., along with a statue of Glen Frye.

 

[Ben101er]

Thanks, Rooster. That's the one. Souvenir shop across the street, and in the middle of the intersection is a huge Route 66 sign painted on the asphalt.

 

[Ben101er]

Good morning D League

It is 73 ° and sunny with a high forecast for high 80's. Another day without any rain. We are really dry down here. The girl on the radio said we have a 60% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. I pray it comes.

National Veggie Burger Day. I have never had one and probably never will. Meanwhile I am going to get out some Osborne Brothers and Listen For The Rain.

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Someone told me that Sonny lives here in Ashland, since he retired.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Tuesday. It was wonderful.

I use the Bowling Green store on the 31-W bypass and the Cave City store. They are always wonderful.

I like the Middlesboro,KY store for the buffet. Can't find KFC buffet here in Austin.

 

[cordmaker]

Blues brothers just came on, credits said Dan A wrote it. Had no idea he did. Man just can't watch it, words don't match up with their mouth movement!!!! Can't stand that!

 

[starchief5]

I like the Middlesboro,KY store for the buffet. Can't find KFC buffet here in Austin.

I ate at a KFC buffet yesterday. I'm beginning to pick up the vibe that KFC does not keep a tight rein on their franchises. Some good, some awful apparently.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Someone told me that Sonny lives here in Ashland, since he retired.

I have been a huge Osborne Bros fan since the mid 1960's. I would turn out the lights, lay in bed and listen to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, especially Bobby and Sonny. Bobby is still recording but I understand Sonny had severe arthritis and had to give up the banjo and retired. They had some of the best harmony in music, no matter what genre you picked. Their Eastern Kentucky voices were perfect for Bluegrass.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I ate at a KFC buffet yesterday. I'm beginning to pick up the vibe that KFC does not keep a tight rein on their franchises. Some good, some awful apparently.

I think there is truth in this. During the early days KFC would not stand for an under performing franchise. The field reps made periodic testing, unannounced, and if they found something wrong the manager would have his heels locked and given a good chewing out. The Colonel would rip you a new one in a minute. The one we have here has two or three other restaurants in the same complex. Long John Silvers, A&W Root Beer and KFC. The quality is not the best. I am glad some stores still do it right because the original pressure cooked recipe was about the best fried chicken ever. My dad would give me coupons for free buckets when I was stationed at Fort Knox and I would bring a bucket back to the base with a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon and my fellow DI's would have a party. The simple life.

 

[cordmaker]

Just watched a documentary on Indian Head Rock, I had never heard of it till today. Interesting what happens when politics gets involved in things. Good show to watch! It ended up being a battle between Southern Ohio and Northern Ky.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Unfortunately we have to post these sign at our beaches to keep the Yankees safe. You will not believe how milky white some of them show up and walk around with no shirt or skin protection. Like the sign says this is not the Jersey Shore.

 

[starchief5]

 

[warrior-cat]

WC you think WP who be a good night time lure? Makes lots of noise.

Maybe, get one of the lighter or clear colors with a rattle. They have them now.

 

[warrior-cat]

Activist groups are lining up to help Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms with a new plan to sell off the city jail. The facility has become a financial burden following a streak of criminal justice reforms.

The detainee population at the Atlanta City Detention Center has dropped dramatically. City Corrections officials say recently that up to about 150 people are held there on a given day. This time last year, that number was closer to 700.

About a tenth of the building’s capacity is being used to house inmates.

On Monday, the Atlanta City Council saw an early draft of legislation that would close the facility.

Marilynn Winn leads the advocacy group Women on the Rise. She calls Atlanta’s detention center “the EXTRA jail.”

“It exists in addition to Fulton and DeKalb county jails and houses people merely for traffic and city ordinance violations,” Winn told City Council members.

The building also holds a dwindling number of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees. Bottoms stopped accepting those detainees in June, in response to President Donald Trump’s immigrant family separation policy.

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An activist campaign to close the city jail was born at the same time. Just months later, Xochitl Bervera, with the Racial Action Justice Center, has a proposal ready.

“So we come with a solution, and we have a policy brief here today that we want to share with you,” Bervera said.

Her group is one of a coalition of advocacy organizations behind changes to Atlanta policy like bail reform, reclassifying marijuana charges and pre-arrest diversion. She says the same model for community input can work to decide the jail’s future.

Operating the facility costs the city of Atlanta $33 million a year.

Activist Devin Barrington-Ward told the City Council that whatever happens must be a step toward helping the city’s most marginalized groups.

“Use the savings to invest in the communities who have been impacted by 20-plus years of using the police and the jail to address problems caused by white supremacy and institutionalized racism,” Barrington-Ward said.

He was one of several speakers who discouraged the idea of directing any sale proceeds toward Atlanta police.

Bottoms had introduced the idea of selling the detention center in a Fox 5 interview late last week. That news spot included the idea of reappropriating jail funds to city law enforcement. The mayor’s office has not offered any further details on any plan.

City Council is expected to start discussing next steps during its Public Safety Committee meeting next week.

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Soon to be the fall of society in some of these places. It will start looking like some of these futuristic movies with go and no go zones.

 

[warrior-cat]

My father worked with KFC when the Colonel was still around in the early days of the franchise. John Y Brown had just purchased the company and he recruit dad to help expand franchises with a vision of going international. At the time their product and quality was as good as any restaurant. For those years the company standards were as high as any in the industry but eventually they got bought out and dad left with John Y to start up Lums restaurant a few spins offs. But the point I wanted to make was Colonel Sanders was very strict and would not put up with a store that messed up his chicken.

KFC has gone down, down in their product and quality over the years.

It evens seems as if the herbs and spices from the original aren't even used anymore. Use to love that stuff.

 

[warrior-cat]

Warrior and a buddy back in the day.

I'm the one with the bigger pole.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Hey D-Leaguers. I thought some might be interested in this tribute to Ernie Pyle. He was a boyhood hero of mine, in part because there was a Marine veteran in my small Kentucky town who Pyle had mentioned in one of his last columns from Okinawa-- and two decades later when I was a little kid, the locals still talked about it! Pyle was the exception to the rule that all Hoosiers are useless turds (that's actually mostly true of their basketball fans.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html

 

[starchief5]

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Hey D-Leaguers. I thought some might be interested in this tribute to Ernie Pyle. He was a boyhood hero of mine, in part because there was a Marine veteran in my small Kentucky town who Pyle had mentioned in one of his last columns from Okinawa-- and two decades later when I was a little kid, the locals still talked about it! Pyle was the exception to the rule that all Hoosiers are useless turds (that's actually mostly true of their basketball fans.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html

Thanks for posting this MdWilcat55. I remember my grandparents and others talking about Ernie Pyle often. I was almost two years old when he was killed by the Japanese. My mother had a newspaper clipping of his death that she kept in her scrap books. I have a lot of her old stuff but I couldn't find the clipping she had kept. Mom and dad talked about him often and my grandparents said he was the main link between them and their sons fighting overseas through his writings.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Thanks for posting this MdWilcat55. I remember my grandparents and others talking about Ernie Pyle often. I was almost two years old when he was killed by the Japanese. My mother had a newspaper clipping of his death that she kept in her scrap books. I have a lot of her old stuff but I couldn't find the clipping she had kept. Mom and dad talked about him often and my grandparents said he was the main link between them and their sons fighting overseas through his writings.

You bet, Sawnee. It's hard to overstate what he meant to folks all across America during the war. People respected newspapers and admired the journalists who put their safety on the line. A simplier, in many ways better time.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

You bet, Sawnee. It's hard to overstate what he meant to folks all across America during the war. People respected newspapers and admired the journalists who put their safety on the line. A simplier, in many ways better time.

Oh yes much simpler. No instant TV images. A worried mother could go months not knowing how her son was doing. Any word from the front was welcome and appreciated. Plus we had a press that was not trying to be the enemy of the President and military. They all wanted to win the war and come home.

 

[starchief5]

 

[_Rooster]

 

[UK82]

Vintage KFC. The rotating bucket.

 

[AustinTXCat]

 

[_Rooster]

I have been a huge Osborne Bros fan since the mid 1960's.

 

[UK82]

The dog is pacing, sky is getting dark. If this weather pattern turns south then we're in for some nasty stuff tonight.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Let me be the first to wish D-League a happy D-Day on the 75th anniversary. A remarkable moment in our country’s history 75 years ago today.

We’re enjoying a world their bravery helped create. I can’t figure out how to link on my phone but watch Ronald Reagan’s 40th anniversary of D-Day speech on YouTube if you have time. Still moving.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX and Happy D-Day. Currently 68°F and lightly raining. Looking at sporadic rainfall until this afternoon. We'll take it.

Anyways, it's also another great day to be alive. Co-worker out today and tomorrow, so expecting two very busy days.

We'll check back later. Y'all behave.

 

[_Rooster]

74°➫ 104° Mostly sunny, hot & dry

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good morning D League

Current temperature is 72° and plenty of sunshine will be with us today and a high is expected of 89° A stray shower is possible but I will believe that when I see it. Rain just doesn't want to come our way for some reason.

Today we honor the 75th anniversary of bravery that led to the defeat of Hitler's Army and freedom for millions of Europeans. D Day was always an important day during my childhood and it shall ever remain so in my heart. The movie Saving Private Ryan captures the horrors of the landing in the opening of the movie but even that can not capture the magnitude of that battle. So we salute those who never saw June 7, 1944 and salute those who survived and fought again. And we thank God for their courage knowing death was staring them in their face.

Have a blessed day all.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Let me be the first to wish D-League a happy D-Day on the 75th anniversary. A remarkable moment in our country’s history 75 years ago today.

We’re enjoying a world their bravery helped create. I can’t figure out how to link on my phone but watch Ronald Reagan’s 40th anniversary of D-Day speech on YouTube if you have time. Still moving.

President Reagan's speech was one for the ages. I will make a point to watch it today.

 

[cordmaker]

Morning D! Cloudy and it looks we are going to have some more rain. Some good D-Day documentary's on Discovery but the one that kinda stuck me was the one about the king who fooled hitler! So much spying and counter spying(observing pc). Everything was so secret! Now days the news media would be irate if they kept plans to invade and didn't share with them! I can see it now cnn, from unknown and unverified sources we are reported the invasion will take place at 0500 hours on Normandy Beach with 7000 ships! Not to give away secrets but that's what we (cnn) are hearing! We won't work very hard to confirm these rumors! AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE THAT HAS SERVED WITH HONOR!!!!! Have a great and safe day!

 

[cordmaker]

This my present modus operandi. More of a what did do than a how to. This Paddock>D-league is it for me and social media. Don't tweek, don't face, not linked in. I'm sure reading Austin's posts that he's forgot more than I'll ever know utilizing these various platforms.This is Win10 Pro & Google Chrome. Anywho here's what I do. It's very dynamic and flexabile if you are using a desktop (laptop) And you're in control. I like being in control. Not of others but of self.

1. Created a dummy gmail account with google. Writing down address and password for reference saving an electronic (docx) and hard copy (print) for spammers to attack..
2. Used that to create an imgbox.com account in the cloud where I could send and retrieve the imagebox password. Again saving both electronic and hard copies.
3. In My documents>My images I created a "Cloud uploads" directory as an upload container in case the cloud (imgbox) evaporates they are not lost. There I put images from the internet or personal photos I wish to upload for posting.
4. Logging in to your imgbox.com acount you are ready to get started
5. I created galleries for emojis and others for photos.
6. Save internet link to imagebox account with password on to your bookmarks bar. Now it's available for quick access
7. Now when you click the Bookmark bar link, your imagebox account opens to your internet cloud imagery. After one upload from your desktop Cloud uploads, every time you click upload it connects to the Cloud uploads directory. When you upload you select the gallery to upload to. I'm still learning about the site.
8. I create the emogies using google's search engine. Right click internet image and save as *.png, *.jpg, *.tif or whatever I've created and put into my desktop Cloud uploads.
9. Any open image in google chrome can be searched for whether they exist or not. Google always creates the an icon (emoji) to enhance user experience. Right click icon to save as image. Navigate to the desktop Cloud upload and then image save image to the cloud uploads. Now all internet saves default to Cloud uploads by default
10. From your imagebox.com upload the your downloaded icon into you emoji gallery at image.box. Ready to use.
11. I can edit via Adobe Photoshop, MS Paint or Paintshop. I store these in my Cloud uploads uploading is easy. Removing gallery images is a simple deletion and you still have the images on your system.

Questions welcome.
This in my gallery because I did not want it to disappear.

Mr. Rooster You lost me at modus operandi!

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

My view exactly.

I was lucky enough to pay my kids college and Dad and Mom paid mine. I thought that that was the way to do it. My sister ended up with a Ph.D., my brother in law with a Masters. My kids, me and my wife all got educated without debt. We went to schools we could afford.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Let me be the first to wish D-League a happy D-Day on the 75th anniversary. A remarkable moment in our country’s history 75 years ago today.

We’re enjoying a world their bravery helped create. I can’t figure out how to link on my phone but watch Ronald Reagan’s 40th anniversary of D-Day speech on YouTube if you have time. Still moving.

I live down the street in Smiths Grove from Leon Tarter, my cousin. He landed in Normandy June 7, DDay plus 1. He is still alive and still works.

He was one of my hero's growing up.

http://www.tarteronline.com/