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This is the most raw, powerful and true telling of what fame and fortune is really like that i have heard. They are battery acid to the soul and the soulless are the pushers and the gate keepers. Never wish for those two imposters. Thank you @JimBreuer
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Here’s a story for you. We started filming without owning the title and had to do alternates.
Taft Broadcasting owned the title Ghostbusters as part of their half-hour sitcom starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker (F-Troop) and a gorilla chasing ghosts. I had never heard of it. They didn’t have proton packs or Bill Murray. Columbia paid $500,000 to buy the name, but they really should have paid Dean Martin, from whom I first heard the term.
In the film Scared Stiff (1953), he and Jerry Lewis (check out his acrobatic stair descent) are in an old haunted castle, and Lizabeth Scott asks Dean: “Who are you guys?” And Dean answers: “You’ve heard of Trustbusters and Gangbusters, we’re Ghostbusters!”
For my research writing the first movie, I watched every single ‘ghost’ comedy ever made. Bowery Boys, Hope and Crosby, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis all did such films.
Happy Halloween 2026.
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These are 3 things most Christians don’t know about Reformation Day.
1. It is possible October 31 wasn't a random date.
Some historians think Luther chose October 31st to circulate his 95 Theses (and post them on the Castle Church doors according to tradition) because the following day, November 1, was All Saints’ Day.
This was a major religious celebration when large crowds of pilgrims would gather at Wittenberg's Castle Church to venerate its collection of sacred relics.
So here comes Luther… and in Thesis 36 he argues that every truly repentant Christian has a right to “full remission of penalty and guilt even without an indulgence letter.”
In other words, Luther was challenging the indulgence system immediately before a major religious celebration involving indulgences at his own university's church.
2. Luther was not trying to create a new branch of Christianity.
Luther was a devoted Catholic monk and professor of theology. When he published his 95 Theses in 1517, his goal wasn't to start a new church, but to reform the one he was already part of.
As the controversy developed, Luther wanted ordinary Christians to read the Bible themselves and believed all church teachings and traditions should ultimately be evaluated against the authority of Scripture.
By 1522, some of Luther's followers were already starting to call themselves “Lutherans” but he was against that.
In his work “A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion” he wrote: "I ask that men make no reference to my name, and call themselves not Lutherans, but Christians."
3. The printing press was the “social media” of that time… and it changed everything.
A lot of people imagine Martin Luther as a rebellious monk who nailed his 95 Theses to a church door so the whole world would hear his criticisms of the Church.
Nope.
Luther wrote the theses in Latin for academic debate. Most ordinary people couldn’t read Latin.
The printing press had been developed in Europe only about 70 years earlier, and printers began reproducing and distributing Luther's writings. His 95 theses spread quickly beyond Wittenberg, and German translations helped make his arguments accessible to ordinary people.
In other words, Luther’s work went “viral” before “viral” was a thing.
And as Luther's writings continued to spread, more and more people were being exposed to statements like these...
"When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance." (95 Theses, Thesis 1)
"We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds." (Disputation Against Scholastic Theology, Thesis 40)
"My conscience is captive to the Word of God." (Diet of Worms, 1521)
And after that, the world would never be the same.
🍂FEW SUNDAY MORNING THOUGHTS 🍂
Good morning and welcome to November! You may now (please) remove all skeletons, caskets, and tombstones from your yard if you have 'em. We thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.
• Visibility is the bigger weather story around the area this morning, thanks to minimal spread between the air temp and dew point temp combined with light winds. Visibility does vary quite a bit around the area, as evidenced by the 7:30 observations shown here.
• This trend will gradually improve as we go through the morning and after church, when we'll see a mix of clouds with a little sun. Temps will later top out in the low 80s.
• Showers and thunderstorms are still on the docket for late Monday night/Tuesday, thanks to the next system that'll (thankfully) bring some widespread beneficial rainfall to our drought-stricken area. And while we could have a few instances of stronger winds with this, it does not look like some kind of significant event for our area...other than the fact that we will celebrate the moisture!
• For now, please go enjoy your Sunday and pray for our nation during this upcoming election week. #etxwx #txwx
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You know what's scarier than watching a horror movie, watching the clock rewind an hour on an overnight shift....🫠 Happy EST, everyone! Enjoy the extra hour of sleep for us. 🕐
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He ran into Freddie Freeman while dressed as Freddie Freeman on Halloween. It’s impossible to hate the guy
FRIDAY MORNING WEATHER
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Good morning and welcome to the last Friday of October! While this month has flown by, it has done so on a much slower clip insofar as cooling temps are concerned compared to normal. Still, we have managed to make some decent progress, at least when you look at where we were at the start of the month.
• We’re covered in clouds again to start the day as Pacific moisture streams over the region from the southwest. This trend will continue through the day as the lift also slowly encroaches on the state from Mexico.
• Radar would argue that we’ve got some decent rain beneath these clouds as far east as I-35 this morning, too, but the observations aren’t holding up that case. Still, I don’t think you can completely rule out a stray sprinkle across our western counties today, but it shouldn’t amount to much, regardless.
• Temps today will be a tougher call from west to east as some drier air helps to fight some of the clouds across the eastern half of the area. This will set up a bit of a temp gradient from east to west. Still, the amount of clouds will keep us cooler than we were on Thursday as a general rule.
• As the better lift approaches the area this evening, look for light rain and shower chances to increase, especially after midnight and as we get into the day on Saturday.
• As we’ve been talking about for several days, the totals we see from this event will not be all that impressive. And given the dry pattern we’ve been in, I would say they’ll be hard to recognize across the especially parched eastern half of the area, although they’ll be welcomed nonetheless.
• Look for scattered light rain and some showers to mix in off and on through the day on Saturday as the best lift crosses the area. Thunder will be hard to come by on Saturday, too, which also speaks to the weakness of the overall process and the lack of heavier downpours.
• Rainfall should be in the process of exiting east of the area by late Saturday afternoon. I’ll leave in a low-end chance of a stray pocket of light rain early that evening, but most folks should stay dry, and this will help to minimize impacts on trick-or-treaters as a result.
• Look for more clouds than sun on Sunday and Monday, although some peeks of sun will help to bring temps back up above the 80° mark both days as we build more moisture back into the area from the south.
• The main event of the forecast is the cold front that’ll push through the area probably earlier on Tuesday. It’ll be preceded by showers and thunderstorms and then breezy and clearing conditions pretty quickly thereafter.
• Given the time of day, we may be a bit more hard-pressed to see any severe weather across East Texas. That’s something which will come into better focus over the weekend and as we get closer to the front’s passage. I still think we’ll have some good rain to work with, though, which is important in and of itself.
• Drier and cooler air will move in behind that boundary, and we’ll set ourselves up for a really pleasant mid to latter part of the week with temps much closer to what you’d expect to see during the opening frames of November.
• Tropical Update: NHCs board is currently clear of any active systems of note or anything showing potential signs of it over the next seven days.
☀️ Today • Sunrise: 7:36 am - Sunset: 6:32- pm | Total Daylight: 10:55 (-1:45) ⎥ Tyler Normals: 52/74 – Records: 88°/2024 – 24°/1917 – 3.47”/1992
📊 Lower 48 Temp Extremes for Thursday: 93° at 17 miles east of Ochopee, Florida 🔹 13° at 19 miles southeast of Juntura & at 19 miles northeast of Kirk, Oregon.
• Thursday’s Climate Stats • Tyler City: 63/80 (0) -- Tyler Pounds: 63/80 (0) -- Longview: 59/84 (0) – Lufkin: 58/82 (0) #etxwx #txwx
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Red counties in Texas are slowly and steadily on track to almost unanimously clear their 2022 midterm turnout, some by 30% or more or up to presidential.
None of the big four blue counties appear to be on track to hit their presidential counts, which is where I factored them during my worst case analysis. Travis needs to hang 200k votes in the last two days of EV + ED to get there. And they had 103% of previous presidential turnout in 2018.
Talarico still on pace to lose 40k or more of O’Rourke margin in El Paso.
THURSDAY MORNING WEATHER
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Good morning and welcome to Thursday! Generally speaking, overall thinking about the next week or so really hasn’t changed much over the last 24 hours. We’re still looking a lot of the same features we’ve been talking about.
• Low clouds are trying to make progress northward again this morning, thanks to a bit more modest southerly fetch from 1,000-5,000’ off the surface. Most reporting stations are at or above where they were at the start of yesterday when it comes to temps, too.
• Besides the low clouds, we have additional high clouds that are going to continue streaming across the area today, thanks to the changing pattern aloft up at around 18,000’. As I mentioned last night, in spite of the added clouds, the slightly warmer start will still allow for temps to make another healthy move back above the 80° mark again today.
• Unfortunately, the clouds will not result in any significant rain chances for at least our area through the day today or even on Friday.
• By Friday night, though, especially as you get later, rain chances will begin to creep into the region from the west as our next storm feature moves out into the Plains while staying to our north. This will ultimately result in our best rain chances areawide during the day on Saturday. That said, with those better dynamics staying to our north, this will still hamper the rain processes across our area. So, while overall chances for rain area good for most of us, the overall totals are not looking all that impressive. So, I think that bears mentioning. Most folks will have well-under a quarter inch in their gauge by sundown on Halloween.
• Rainfall will ease to the east by Saturday night and that’ll be the start of another dry period through most of Monday.
• We will continue warm and progressively more humid following the exit of that first round of rain. So, those wanting a reprieve will have to wait a little longer as we remain well above normal throughout the weekend.
• As we’ve been talking about for several days, we have a much more organized system set to cross the country from Monday through mid-week and this one looks to be the catalyst for much better rainfall potential, including some heavier rain and maybe even some severe weather potential, depending on how things come together with timing of certain parameters for Tuesday. Regardless, the more widespread and soaking rain will be a big coup for the area.
• Even at this early stage, the Weather Prediction Center has already outlined much of the area inside of its “Marginal” flash flood outlook for Tuesday, which is always interesting to see. For some of us, it has been a mighty long time since you’ve had any rain of consequence. At least the western and central counties have had some luck over the past month or so. But, the eastern counties have really struggled in this department and I’m excited for those areas especially when it comes to this next week’s system.
• Ultimately, this will all culminate in the passage of a cold front that’ll help to usher in drier and cooler air for the mid to latter part of next week and at least get us closer to normal for the early part of November.
• Tropical Update: The tropics continue quiet throughout the Atlantic Basin at this time. Again, hurricane season will officially end on November 30th.
☀️ Today • Sunrise: 7:35 am - Sunset: 6:33 pm | Total Daylight: 10:57 (-1:46) ⎥ Tyler Normals: 52/74 – Records: 89°/2024 -- 24°/1910 – 2.08”/2000
📊 Lower 48 Temp Extremes for Wednesday: 93° at 7 miles east-southeast of Hidalgo🔹9° at Peter Sinks, Utah
• Wednesday Climate Stats • Tyler City: 60/84 (0) -- Tyler Pounds: 57/83 (0) -- Longview: 55/83 (0) – Lufkin: 57/85 (0) #etxwx #txwx
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Glenn Beck thinks that he knows why governments all over the world are suddenly encouraging their citizens to get prepared, and it isn't good news...
teapawt.net/glennbeck/status/21155…
The last time I felt the urge to give a warning like this was in 2007, right before the 2008 crash.
Across Europe, governments are quietly issuing emergency "Be Ready" advisories, asking citizens to stockpile cash, water, and food. Add that to the Pentagon’s new FORTRESS initiative and it sure looks like... SOMETHING is coming.
They're preparing for impact. And you should too.
I hope and pray I'm wrong. But I think massive global conflict is coming... and here's why.
🏆 Congratulations to the Milwaukee @Brewers! The team from the SMALLEST TV market in the entire league just 💣 every other small, medium, and major market team in the league. Incredibly satisfying and a great lesson. ⚾️ I’m so happy for their fans, which I’m one of now, too.
I hope the @Rangers were taking notes…
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Global life expectancy.
The first dip is Mao. The second dip is Fauci.
(Hat tip @mattwridley)
🤖 Made with AI
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🚨 Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is sounding the alarm as nations worldwide quietly stockpile essentials.
He’s telling families to lock down a preparedness plan, radios, water filtration, and emergency supplies today.
"Do it for your family". ⏳🇺🇸
Do it. It should never have been pulled in the first place. One look at that logo and you can tell it's very respectful.
Pretty sure everyone knows how I feel about this ❤️ HTTR4LIFE
@Commanders @NFL need to stop canceling Native Americans.
🚨Descendants of Chief John Two Guns Whitecalf, want the Washington Redskins logo restored. The fight is about much more than football. The Chief was a proud advocate for Native Americans and spent his life fighting for his people.
His likeness as the face of the Redskins was a symbol his descendants considered as an honor. Now, the family is fighting to get the logo back.
The Redskins logo was never a caricature or an insult for the family. It represented a real man whose story deserved to be remembered and now the family wants it back.
Do you think the NFL should restore the logo?
Yeah. Really well done!! Thanks, MLB.
INCREDIBLE 😮
20-year-old Julie Falcon with a stunning national anthem performance ahead of #WorldSeries Game 5 ⭐️
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🚨 9 litres of water. 3 days of food.
The UK government just launched the new "Be Ready" campaign urging every Briton to stock up on 72 hours of emergency supplies.
Why?
Is war coming, or is it something else?
💦 Looking ahead: While we do still have scattered showers in the mix for our area from late Friday night and off & on through the day on Saturday, the overwhelming majority of this next 6-7 days' worth of rain totals (shown here) will occur on Tuesday.
• That kind of production would argue for at least some stronger storm potential, too, although we're still way too far out to get very specific.
• Regardless, I think it's worth mentioning that our secondary severe weather season around these parts takes a move upward in November. #etxwx #txwx





















