{"id":9895,"date":"2026-08-17T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9895"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:19:33","slug":"dooney-donkey-chompers-diogenes-and-possibly-taking-a-frog-to-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/dooney-donkey-chompers-diogenes-and-possibly-taking-a-frog-to-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Dooney, Donkey Chompers, Diogenes and Possibly Taking a Frog to The Range"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>Been a -relatively- quiet Sunday in many respects.  The Dooney is doing well, and making up for the lost chow time for the past two to three days.  His toofuses were bothering him quite a bit, and it put him off his grub.<br><br>So it seems he&#8217;s making up for lost time today with a bottle\/snacks\/teether cookies almost every three hours.<br><br>The kid can, when he sets his mind to it, suck down the groceries with no regard to my wallet I swear&#8230;  If y&#8217;all see any sales on a horizontal deep freeze, let me know in the comments.<br><br>Buying 1\/2 a cow is looking like it&#8217;s going from &#8220;possible&#8221; to &#8220;probable&#8221; here, what with beef being expected to shoot through the roof in the next 6 months from it&#8217;s ALREADY retarded fucking high prices&#8230;  Better to buy <strong>now<\/strong> and be happy than to be looking later down the road at extortion level pricing&#8230;<br><br>Now&#8230; other news<br>Alexandria Ocasional-Cortex, AKA Big Tiddies\/Empty Head came out and recently re-broadcast that she has Sephardic Jewish roots, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc2.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">tracing back to Spain during the Inquisition <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Spanish Inquisition - Mel Brooks\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LnF1OtP2Svk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">when her fam became &#8220;Conversos&#8221; rather than experience the unpleasantness of Torquemada and the boys&#8230;<br><br>Love that bit BTW&#8230;<br>So can anyone say &#8220;Pandering 101&#8221;?<br>Yep.<br>I mean for real:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc-1536x842.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc-1200x658.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aoc.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Add on the &#8220;Freezing Eggs&#8221; at 36 (Empty Egg Carton much there Sandy?) It&#8217;s my call that she&#8217;s going to be the DemoncRat Nom for 2028.<br><br>And her campaign will have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ALL THE CHECKMARKS<\/strong><\/span><br>Female<br>Single Mother (by then)<br>Hispanic Descent<br>Jewish Roots<br>and she&#8217;s Relatively Hawt Looking with Big Milkers&#8230;<br><br>The last one is worth <em><strong>at least<\/strong><\/em> 15 polling points considering just how cucked and fucked the majority of men are out there these days&#8230;  the Gooner Voat <strong><em>alone<\/em><\/strong> is going to push her over the line.<br><br>Tell me I&#8217;m wrong.<br><br>TBH I&#8217;m not worried&#8230; My call is she inherits a completely fucked up economy, and despite &#8220;The Plan&#8221; that the &#8220;Elites&#8221; think the way a LOT of things are going to break, their fever dreams of Complete Control is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span><\/strong> going to go the way they think&#8230;.<br><br>We&#8217;re too heavily armed, and a LOT of us are just waiting for the time when the cops decide it&#8217;s in <em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their own best interest<\/span><\/strong><\/em> to NOT investigate that big ole heap o&#8217;dead &#8220;Urban Yoofs&#8221; in someone&#8217;s yard or why said Yoof&#8217;s heads are mounted on fencepoasts around the neighborhood&#8230;.<br><br>Believe me&#8230; THAT is how the sloooooow decline is going to happen&#8230; Cops are, despite all descriptions after the fact, are Hoomon (fwiw) and they&#8217;re going to <em><strong>eventually<\/strong><\/em> come to the realization that arresting\/charging\/attempting to investigate certain &#8216;crimes&#8217; are going to have a negative impact on themselves AND their families&#8230;<br><br>Leastways the <strong>smart <\/strong>fuzz will come to that conclusion&#8230;<br><br>And then, let&#8217;s see&#8230;..hmmmmmn&#8230;..<br><br>Ah&#8230; My man Dio from <a href=\"https:\/\/diosworkshop.com\/\">&#8220;Dio&#8217;s Workshop&#8221;<\/a> has a new book out on the Zon: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4ghFAie\">Flying on the Wings of Change<\/a>&#8220;<br>Said book blurb:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What happens when a wounded veteran, a computer genius, and a handful of fiercely independent misfits decide that the best way to change the world is to stop waiting for someone else to do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">G has spent years flying from a wheelchair, learning to make the sky obey him even when his body won\u2019t. T is a computer wizard with a mysterious past, an enormous extended family, and a talent for turning impossible ideas into working machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Together, they build things that shouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Aircraft that push the limits of what remote flight can do. Technology born in garages and workshops instead of corporate boardrooms. And a community of people who have decided that family isn\u2019t necessarily something you\u2019re born into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But building extraordinary machines attracts attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Soon G, T, and their growing family find themselves caught between government agencies, competing agendas, and people who would very much like to know exactly what they\u2019re capable of. What began as tinkering and experimentation is becoming something far more consequential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Because when you build something powerful enough to change the rules, eventually somebody comes looking for the keys.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Give it a look-see.<br><br>Dio has his shit together regarding writing in ways I haven&#8217;t.  I&#8217;m like 10 years behind on writing my book\/screenplay &#8220;Contractors&#8221; about my time(s) overseas.  The reason I say screenplay, is that a LOT of the shit I went through would make a very &#8220;M.A.S.H.&#8221;-like movie&#8230;<br><br>I could see John Cena playing me&#8230; <br>Granted he&#8217;s a little short but what the Hell right?<br><br>Lastly. <br>Not sure if you all know this guy on twitter, Eros Brousson.<br><br>He&#8217;s a French Comedian who moved to Austin Texas, and has made quite the impression.  One of his bits for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BLACK RIFLE COFFEE\u2026 INTERESTING \u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KGWNa2oNQ6\">pic.twitter.com\/KGWNa2oNQ6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u00c9ros Brousson (@erosbrousson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/erosbrousson\/status\/2080688008529895453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">And the one where -I- found him that almost killed me from laughing&#8230; his take on Buc-ee&#8217;s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Buc-ee\u2019s\u2026\u2026\u2026.. WHAT A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE MY CROISSANTS . \ud83e\udd50 THIS IS NOT AN AD . <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4EzUPQRymq\">pic.twitter.com\/4EzUPQRymq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u00c9ros Brousson (@erosbrousson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/erosbrousson\/status\/2006053770820501984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Now, granted <strong>normally<\/strong> due to my overseas experience, I&#8217;d say to Hell with this Frog.  Generally my disdain for all things French preclude me from wanting to have <strong>anything<\/strong> to do with a Frog&#8230;  However, his honesty, and his Euro-Outlook from the French Perspective of the Culture here in the US is awesome.  <br><br>The guy literally makes me laugh my ass off every single time I see his latest.<br><br>Annnnnnnnd of course, the guy in the back has a question:<br>&#8220;So&#8230; what does this guy have to do with anything Big Country?&#8221;<br>Well<br>Let me tell you&#8230; he&#8217;s launching a charity-driven tour of the US.  He announced it today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COMMENT, LIKE, REPOST THIS VIDEO . LET\u2019S VISIT THE 50 STATES ALL TOGETHER AND RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd0d I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF A COMMUNITY <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BMkeuSFeCM\">pic.twitter.com\/BMkeuSFeCM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u00c9ros Brousson (@erosbrousson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/erosbrousson\/status\/2089084840951898392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A very noble cause, and so, I had to make an offer (you can see it in the thread if you click on the link)  For those of you who can&#8217;t:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"790\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eros.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eros.jpg 747w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eros-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">So I&#8217;d LMAO if he actually makes it here, and if he does?<br><br>Oh Hell yeah&#8230;<br><br>I&#8217;ll get him out on the range&#8230;<br>I&#8217;ll even make sure he doesn&#8217;t get shot&#8230;<br>A great collaboration with a Frenchman and someone who isn&#8217;t German amiright? &lt;drum riff><br><br>So&#8230; that&#8217;s about it for tonight.<br>Got me a pile of yardwork to do tomorrow that I&#8217;m WAY behind on, so wish me luck.<br><br>More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bev.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bev.jpeg 675w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bev-298x300.jpeg 298w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bev-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u00a0<br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!Been a -relatively- quiet Sunday in many respects. The Dooney is doing well, and making up for the lost chow time for the past two to three days. His toofuses were bothering him quite a bit, and it put him off his grub. So it seems he&#8217;s making up for lost time today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/dooney-donkey-chompers-diogenes-and-possibly-taking-a-frog-to-the-range\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dooney, Donkey Chompers, Diogenes and Possibly Taking a Frog to The Range&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9903,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions\/9903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}