Two guys who like to shoot guns.
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Looks like one of those guy could use a haircut.
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Looks like one of those guy could use a haircut.
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#21 EG
If word were to get out that women were in fact capable of making logical decisions and taking care of themselves
El Gordo, are you on medication or other drugs today, or a victim of identity theft? This does not sound like you!
My apologies for this post yesterday. In my haste, I failed to insert the word “some” between the words “that” and “women.” I can see how the post as written could be confusing to some and that an incorrect inference could be drawn. I might make an effort to be more careful in the future, but I doubt it.
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#21 EG
If word were to get out that women were in fact capable of making logical decisions and taking care of themselves
El Gordo, are you on medication or other drugs today, or a victim of identity theft? This does not sound like you!
My apologies for this post yesterday. In my haste, I failed to insert the word “some” between the words “that” and “women.” I can see how the post as written could be confusing to some and that an incorrect inference could be drawn. I might make an effort to be more careful in the future, but I doubt it. -
Too bad Perry didn’t have as much fun helping people with property taxes.
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Too bad Perry didn’t have as much fun helping people with property taxes.
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Hey ya BigIron, good to see you around. Our champion of the property tax fight, Dan Patrick has dropped the subject as well. Must be the air inside the tent.
Way to keep ’em guessin’ out there El Gordo. 😀
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Hey ya BigIron, good to see you around. Our champion of the property tax fight, Dan Patrick has dropped the subject as well. Must be the air inside the tent.
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While the resemblance is remarkable, I’m pretty sure the guy on the left is not Low Rents.
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While the resemblance is remarkable, I’m pretty sure the guy on the left is not Low Rents.
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For all the violent, racist rallying the Tea Party has done, all that had to be uttered was treasonous to get their attention? Who knew.
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For all the violent, racist rallying the Tea Party has done, all that had to be uttered was treasonous to get their attention? Who knew.
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Low Rents hangs with the Rifleman?
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Man it’s gonna be hard to be agin this Perry guy if he keeps upsetting the Karl Rove and Krauthammer wing.
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Man it’s gonna be hard to be agin this Perry guy if he keeps upsetting the Karl Rove and Krauthammer wing.
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#7, I doubt it. That must be his evil twin hanging with Pecos Perry.
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#7, I doubt it. That must be his evil twin hanging with Pecos Perry.
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I’d better not catch any of you good folks engaging in any illegal yard watering or car washing. Can you believe this? Any more controls that need to be implemented? Can we burn stuff since we can’t water our yards now? Maybe start driving on the wrong side of the road or run a few red lights? Gotta have some kind of activity to engage in that’s not illegal.
I know – let’s go sell a bunch of guns across the border to some gangsters. Or print up a bunch of currency and throw it out on the street. That should be no problem.
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I’d better not catch any of you good folks engaging in any illegal yard watering or car washing. Can you believe this? Any more controls that need to be implemented? Can we burn stuff since we can’t water our yards now? Maybe start driving on the wrong side of the road or run a few red lights? Gotta have some kind of activity to engage in that’s not illegal.
I know – let’s go sell a bunch of guns across the border to some gangsters. Or print up a bunch of currency and throw it out on the street. That should be no problem. -
All designated watering days does is to remind everyone to water on their days, and to water longer.
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All designated watering days does is to remind everyone to water on their days, and to water longer.
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Ha! Take that union thugs. Obama’s Destroying America Tour bus made in Canada. 😀
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Ha! Take that union thugs. Obama’s Destroying America Tour bus made in Canada. 😀
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Bo ate the recovery.
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Bo ate the recovery.
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Awright Ted Nugent, You gotta’ killum before you grillum.
I was clicking through the vast wasteland that is cable TV last night and stumbled across Wuss Blister interviewing his master. I only watched a little of it before I grabbed the trash can so I could puke. The most disgusting spectacle that I’ve seen in a long time, Wuss pitching softballs with NO follow up to his Messiah and Obama blaming everyone but himself for the mess HE got us in. A pathetic little man interviewed by one of his adoring followers.
~Spits……
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Awright Ted Nugent, You gotta’ killum before you grillum.
I was clicking through the vast wasteland that is cable TV last night and stumbled across Wuss Blister interviewing his master. I only watched a little of it before I grabbed the trash can so I could puke. The most disgusting spectacle that I’ve seen in a long time, Wuss pitching softballs with NO follow up to his Messiah and Obama blaming everyone but himself for the mess HE got us in. A pathetic little man interviewed by one of his adoring followers.
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Is that a target on Perry’s cap? And who is the dude in the camo? It’s hard to coin a caption when you don’t know who (all) the subjects are, so Ima gonna leave this one for Robert M.
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Is that a target on Perry’s cap? And who is the dude in the camo? It’s hard to coin a caption when you don’t know who (all) the subjects are, so Ima gonna leave this one for Robert M.
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#15 mh42
You don’t recognize Ted Nugent? -
caption: “Get this straight, Jimmy Dick, if you pull the same crapola in DC like the Big Texas Land Grab (TTC), or forced Guardasil, or continue to refuse to secure the border, I am gonna punch you so hard your grandkids are gonna bleed.”
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caption: “Get this straight, Jimmy Dick, if you pull the same crapola in DC like the Big Texas Land Grab (TTC), or forced Guardasil, or continue to refuse to secure the border, I am gonna punch you so hard your grandkids are gonna bleed.”
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The degree of psychological “projection” practiced by this administration is breath-taking.
Campaigning in Iowa on Monday, the Texas governor said he would consider it “treasonous” if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke “prints more money between now and the election” in November 2012 — a fresh sign of the political heat the central bank faces as it tries to right the stumbling U.S. economy.
“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all will do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas,” Perry said to laughter from supporters in Iowa.
“Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, treasonous in my opinion,” he said.
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“I certainly think threatening the Fed chairman is not a good idea,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.I don’t see the physical threat in the above quote. I think it is reasonably clear that this is a rhetorical point, and not a physical threat. I certainly does not rise to the level of “we’re gonna kill Romney” now does it?
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The degree of psychological “projection” practiced by this administration is breath-taking.
Campaigning in Iowa on Monday, the Texas governor said he would consider it “treasonous” if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke “prints more money between now and the election” in November 2012 — a fresh sign of the political heat the central bank faces as it tries to right the stumbling U.S. economy.
“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all will do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas,” Perry said to laughter from supporters in Iowa.
“Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, treasonous in my opinion,” he said.
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“I certainly think threatening the Fed chairman is not a good idea,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.I don’t see the physical threat in the above quote. I think it is reasonably clear that this is a rhetorical point, and not a physical threat. I certainly does not rise to the level of “we’re gonna kill Romney” now does it?
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#16 – I’ll bite. Not only do I not recognize Ted Nugget, I never heard of him. Does he play for the Cowboys or something?
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#16 – I’ll bite. Not only do I not recognize Ted Nugget, I never heard of him. Does he play for the Cowboys or something?
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G’Morning all
#10 El Gordo
I know – let’s go sell a bunch of guns across the border to some gangsters.
Gunrunner/Fast and Furious just keeps on getting worse.
Firearms illegally trafficked under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program turned up at the scenes of at least 11 “violent crimes” in this country in addition to being involved in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona last year, the Justice Department has acknowledged to Congress.
Although Justice did not provide any details about those crime scenes, it has been learned that the additional violent crimes occurred in cities such as Phoenix, where Operation Fast and Furious was managed, and as far away as El Paso, Texas, where a total of 42 Fast and Furious weapons were seized in two separate crimes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-naw-atf-guns-crimes-20110816,0,2290351.story?track=rss
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G’Morning all
#10 El GordoI know – let’s go sell a bunch of guns across the border to some gangsters.
Gunrunner/Fast and Furious just keeps on getting worse.
Firearms illegally trafficked under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program turned up at the scenes of at least 11 “violent crimes” in this country in addition to being involved in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona last year, the Justice Department has acknowledged to Congress.
Although Justice did not provide any details about those crime scenes, it has been learned that the additional violent crimes occurred in cities such as Phoenix, where Operation Fast and Furious was managed, and as far away as El Paso, Texas, where a total of 42 Fast and Furious weapons were seized in two separate crimes.http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-naw-atf-guns-crimes-20110816,0,2290351.story?track=rss
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If I were Rick Perry right now, I would come out of the chute ranting about how Obama has tried his best to slow Texas down, be it NASA, moving the Humvee plant out of Sealy, crushing the gulf drilling business, using the EPA to usurp Texas air quality standards and prevent the opening of a refinery in Corpus Christi and threatening to do more on the ship channel, using endangered species act to try to shut down the oil fields of west Texas, doing squat to stem the flow of illegal immigrants who suck our social services dry, and on and on – only to have the Texas economy outshine the rest of the country due to low taxes, right to work laws, and a legislature that only meets every other year and tries to stay out of the way the rest of the time.
What else would anyone need to know. Now don’t get me wrong – I’m not a real gung ho Perry man, but I’d try to get the devil elected to get rid of the Messiah right now.
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If I were Rick Perry right now, I would come out of the chute ranting about how Obama has tried his best to slow Texas down, be it NASA, moving the Humvee plant out of Sealy, crushing the gulf drilling business, using the EPA to usurp Texas air quality standards and prevent the opening of a refinery in Corpus Christi and threatening to do more on the ship channel, using endangered species act to try to shut down the oil fields of west Texas, doing squat to stem the flow of illegal immigrants who suck our social services dry, and on and on – only to have the Texas economy outshine the rest of the country due to low taxes, right to work laws, and a legislature that only meets every other year and tries to stay out of the way the rest of the time.
What else would anyone need to know. Now don’t get me wrong – I’m not a real gung ho Perry man, but I’d try to get the devil elected to get rid of the Messiah right now. -
I posted this pretty late last night, but if you want to talk about scary, here’s the latest on the brazen illegal activity of unions.
I’ve been unable to watch the news lately, due my nose sharpening efforts on an old grindstone that I have in my office. Was this anywhere on the news? Did TBO say the union guy or the business owner “acted stupidly”?
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I posted this pretty late last night, but if you want to talk about scary, here’s the latest on the brazen illegal activity of unions.
I’ve been unable to watch the news lately, due my nose sharpening efforts on an old grindstone that I have in my office. Was this anywhere on the news? Did TBO say the union guy or the business owner “acted stupidly”? -
#20 – OTL – The reason I brought up the Fast and Furious eposide is that proves once again what happens when you mind your masters in government – the nastier the deal, the better the opportunity for promotion:
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#20 – OTL – The reason I brought up the Fast and Furious eposide is that proves once again what happens when you mind your masters in government – the nastier the deal, the better the opportunity for promotion:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/16/atf-promotes-three-fast-furious-supervisors/ -
MHarper and El Gordo
Ted Nugent made multi millions in the rock music business. He now lives on a ranch outside Dallas, is an avid and outspoken 2nd amendment supporter and hunter.
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MHarper and El Gordo
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#19 El Fat Man: Ted Nugent is a long time hard core rocker. His signature song is Cat Scratch Fever. He is a staunch conservative, vocal 2nd amendment advocate, an avid gun and bow-hunter and authored a cook book “Kill it and Grill it”. He has never been one to pull punches when confronted with the absurdity of the Ds and he eschews drug use.
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#19 El Fat Man: Ted Nugent is a long time hard core rocker. His signature song is Cat Scratch Fever. He is a staunch conservative, vocal 2nd amendment advocate, an avid gun and bow-hunter and authored a cook book “Kill it and Grill it”. He has never been one to pull punches when confronted with the absurdity of the Ds and he eschews drug use.
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More on “the Nuge”, he used to live in Michigan and was known as the Motor City Maniac. He has been in the music biz since the early 70’s.
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More on “the Nuge”, he used to live in Michigan and was known as the Motor City Maniac. He has been in the music biz since the early 70’s.
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#23 El Gordo
I saw that. Also Judicial Watch just got an appeal approved that Holder has to give Judicial Watch letters and emails on the Black Panther voter intimidation case that Holder shut down. He definitely needs to be booted out.
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#23 El Gordo
I saw that. Also Judicial Watch just got an appeal approved that Holder has to give Judicial Watch letters and emails on the Black Panther voter intimidation case that Holder shut down. He definitely needs to be booted out. -
Mexico reported that the number of people leaving Mexico for the U.S. is down to practically zero. There are no jobs for them.
Now OBH and Big Sis will tout how they fixed the illegal immigration problem without building a fence.
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Mexico reported that the number of people leaving Mexico for the U.S. is down to practically zero. There are no jobs for them.
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I saw where Newt demanded that every government employee take a loyalty oath.
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I saw where Newt demanded that every government employee take a loyalty oath.
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I guess when you’re either a racist or a moron, your perception of everything around you is racist or moronic.
/facepalm
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I guess when you’re either a racist or a moron, your perception of everything around you is racist or moronic.
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His signature song is Cat Scratch Fever.
See, I would have picked Stranglehold.
and was known as the Motor City Maniac.
Motor City Madman.
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His signature song is Cat Scratch Fever.
See, I would have picked Stranglehold.
and was known as the Motor City Maniac.
Motor City Madman.
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You don’t recognize Ted Nugent?
Not only don’t recognise, don’t know who he is — although the name sounds familiar…
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You don’t recognize Ted Nugent?
Not only don’t recognise, don’t know who he is — although the name sounds familiar…
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#30 TT
Sharpton is a killer for my acerbic jabs. You just can’t add anything to his quotes to improve them.
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#30 TT
Sharpton is a killer for my acerbic jabs. You just can’t add anything to his quotes to improve them. -
Gotta go tend to things. I’ll leave you with this one:
A morose man was sitting at the bar staring at his drink when a biker steps up, grabs his drink and gulps it down in one swig.
“Well, whatcha’ gonna do about it?”
“This is the worst day of my life,” he replies. “I am a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, my car had been stolen and I don’t have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home and found my wife with another man.
“So I came to this bar to work up courage to put an end to it all. I buy a drink, and I drop a poison capsule in and sit here watching it dissolve and then you show up and drink the whole thing.
But enough about me, how is your day going?”
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Gotta go tend to things. I’ll leave you with this one:
A morose man was sitting at the bar staring at his drink when a biker steps up, grabs his drink and gulps it down in one swig.
“Well, whatcha’ gonna do about it?”
“This is the worst day of my life,” he replies. “I am a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, my car had been stolen and I don’t have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home and found my wife with another man.
“So I came to this bar to work up courage to put an end to it all. I buy a drink, and I drop a poison capsule in and sit here watching it dissolve and then you show up and drink the whole thing.
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#30 TT
MSNBC can dress Sharpton up in a fine suit and tie, but he still sounds like an uneducated buffoon.(I guess Al Sharpton is a black cloud hanging over the nation…)
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#30 TT
MSNBC can dress Sharpton up in a fine suit and tie, but he still sounds like an uneducated buffoon.
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I took a closer look at my garden this morning. Most mornings I turn the sprinkler on from the house and turn it off later, refusing to walk through the growing heat. It seems my garden likes the sprinkler better than my hand held sprayer, and is doing much better now. My pumpkin and yellow squash are doing great and taking over. I have some self-seeded basil popping up, as well as some self-seeded arugula. My pak choi is doing much better in the pot than their mother plant did in the bed. My chard is still hanging on, and my kale is starting to sprout new leaves from the main stalk – surprise! (I actually used some chard, kale, and pak choi in my stir fry last night.) My hot pepper plant is loving life and producing.
Unfortunately, my fourth cantaloupe vine of the summer has fallen to the squirrels. That bed is just not doing well. There’s a big red stray dog that appears to have taken a liking to my other veggie bed, and has dug himself a place to sleep. Fortunately he didn’t kill my bell pepper or parsley doing so.
I think it’s time I start putting those cayenne peppers to use. I have a small cache of them now. Time to soak ’em, blend ’em, and spray ’em all over the garden. Until my hubby finds the BB gun he “borrowed” from the house.
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I took a closer look at my garden this morning. Most mornings I turn the sprinkler on from the house and turn it off later, refusing to walk through the growing heat. It seems my garden likes the sprinkler better than my hand held sprayer, and is doing much better now. My pumpkin and yellow squash are doing great and taking over. I have some self-seeded basil popping up, as well as some self-seeded arugula. My pak choi is doing much better in the pot than their mother plant did in the bed. My chard is still hanging on, and my kale is starting to sprout new leaves from the main stalk – surprise! (I actually used some chard, kale, and pak choi in my stir fry last night.) My hot pepper plant is loving life and producing.
Unfortunately, my fourth cantaloupe vine of the summer has fallen to the squirrels. That bed is just not doing well. There’s a big red stray dog that appears to have taken a liking to my other veggie bed, and has dug himself a place to sleep. Fortunately he didn’t kill my bell pepper or parsley doing so.
I think it’s time I start putting those cayenne peppers to use. I have a small cache of them now. Time to soak ’em, blend ’em, and spray ’em all over the garden. Until my hubby finds the BB gun he “borrowed” from the house. -
You have to laugh along with Drudge… well you don’t have to, but I do. Big picture of Obambie eating an ice cone, not to far down Putin being manly again fishing. The Ruskies must be releasing these pictures to make Obambie look like the wimp he is.
Oh, and Obambie’s bus was built in Canada, probably by grilled cheese eating non union canuks.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/canucklehead_obama_bus_ted_gyztvw89k5MyKNS4B7Qp7O -
You have to laugh along with Drudge… well you don’t have to, but I do. Big picture of Obambie eating an ice cone, not to far down Putin being manly again fishing. The Ruskies must be releasing these pictures to make Obambie look like the wimp he is.
Oh, and Obambie’s bus was built in Canada, probably by grilled cheese eating non union canuks.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/canucklehead_obama_bus_ted_gyztvw89k5MyKNS4B7Qp7O -
Keep up with the body count during ramadamadingdongdam here.
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Keep up with the body count during ramadamadingdongdam here.
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All water utilities are required to have a Drought Contingency Plan.
Each plan is customized for the individual water system.
There are various Triggers for each Stage of the plan. Most plans have a Stage 1 Response involving VOLUNTARY restrictions on water use with a goal of reducing demand by 10-20%. Stage 2 Response usually involves making the restrictions mandatory.By the second week of July, my water system was at 75% of capacity. My six wells can only produce so much water in a 24 hour period.
Some may be annoyed by the restrictions, but they are really going to be annoyed when they turn on the tap and nothing comes out.
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All water utilities are required to have a Drought Contingency Plan.
Each plan is customized for the individual water system.
There are various Triggers for each Stage of the plan. Most plans have a Stage 1 Response involving VOLUNTARY restrictions on water use with a goal of reducing demand by 10-20%. Stage 2 Response usually involves making the restrictions mandatory.
By the second week of July, my water system was at 75% of capacity. My six wells can only produce so much water in a 24 hour period.
Some may be annoyed by the restrictions, but they are really going to be annoyed when they turn on the tap and nothing comes out. -
not cursing but ROUGH language and attitude (we LOVE IT!)
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not cursing but ROUGH language and attitude (we LOVE IT!)
MotorCityMadman on the 2nd Amendment -
The NUGE for PREZ dangit!!!!
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The NUGE for PREZ dangit!!!!
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#40 Katfish: Quote of the century “I don’t like repeat offenders, I like dead offenders”
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#40 Katfish: Quote of the century “I don’t like repeat offenders, I like dead offenders”
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I’m just saying that water use restrictions don’t have a damn thing to do with Big Brother or government over regulation.
It’s a simple matter of supply and demand.
And further, water utilities have no control over water main leaks. Piping, valves and fittings get old and they break. Clay soils are very active, depending on moisture content extremes, aggravating the leak problems. I have been averaging more than thirty leaks a month this summer. I have maybe 500 miles of pipe in the ground. Houston has thousands of miles pipe in the ground and reportedly is averaging 600 leaks a day. They have 40 crews working around the clock doing repairs. -
I’m just saying that water use restrictions don’t have a damn thing to do with Big Brother or government over regulation.
It’s a simple matter of supply and demand.
And further, water utilities have no control over water main leaks. Piping, valves and fittings get old and they break. Clay soils are very active, depending on moisture content extremes, aggravating the leak problems. I have been averaging more than thirty leaks a month this summer. I have maybe 500 miles of pipe in the ground. Houston has thousands of miles pipe in the ground and reportedly is averaging 600 leaks a day. They have 40 crews working around the clock doing repairs. -
#43 Shannon
Houston has thousands of miles pipe in the ground and reportedly is averaging 600 leaks a day. They have 40 crews working around the clock doing repairs.
What Hubby and I haven’t figured out is why, in extreme situations as this, why the city doesn’t call on some private contractors to make some of these repairs. We do them all the time, and we certainly have the equipment and personnel to get to the mains. Joe Blow’s Household Plumbing can’t do it, but there are over 40 names on the city’s approved list to work on the water mains that they could call on.
They’d probably get more work done, for one thing. Our guys don’t sit around and our crews don’t have three supervisors on one job site.
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#43 Shannon
Houston has thousands of miles pipe in the ground and reportedly is averaging 600 leaks a day. They have 40 crews working around the clock doing repairs.
What Hubby and I haven’t figured out is why, in extreme situations as this, why the city doesn’t call on some private contractors to make some of these repairs. We do them all the time, and we certainly have the equipment and personnel to get to the mains. Joe Blow’s Household Plumbing can’t do it, but there are over 40 names on the city’s approved list to work on the water mains that they could call on.
They’d probably get more work done, for one thing. Our guys don’t sit around and our crews don’t have three supervisors on one job site. -
But Shannon, how can that be. We have the Messiah in the White House, and these things are not supposed to happen any more.
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But Shannon, how can that be. We have the Messiah in the White House, and these things are not supposed to happen any more.
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Oh, and Hubby was talking to me just last night about a leak at fire hydrant down the street. The city sent a guy to place a little blue flag to mark the leak, but he didn’t take that extra step to turn the valve to cut the water flow to the hydrant and stop the leak. No telling how many gallons of water have been lost because he either didn’t think or didn’t think he had the authority to take that one extra minute to find and turn the valve.
There are some really good people working for the city. Most of the drones, however, keep their brains in their cell phones, only acting when told to.
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Oh, and Hubby was talking to me just last night about a leak at fire hydrant down the street. The city sent a guy to place a little blue flag to mark the leak, but he didn’t take that extra step to turn the valve to cut the water flow to the hydrant and stop the leak. No telling how many gallons of water have been lost because he either didn’t think or didn’t think he had the authority to take that one extra minute to find and turn the valve.
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The next step would be what Big Jolly blogged about down there in Speedtrap. Not enough water in the system to fight fires. All that equipment running non-stop in this heat must be causing problems as well.
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The next step would be what Big Jolly blogged about down there in Speedtrap. Not enough water in the system to fight fires. All that equipment running non-stop in this heat must be causing problems as well.
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46 TT
It’s possible that he turned off the hydrant, but the leak is on the other side of that valve.
But you are probably correct.
The City probably pays that guy 60’grand a year to ride around, confirm leaks, and mark it for a utility locate request. And some other guy gets paid to ride around with a valve wrench. -
46 TT
It’s possible that he turned off the hydrant, but the leak is on the other side of that valve.
But you are probably correct.
The City probably pays that guy 60’grand a year to ride around, confirm leaks, and mark it for a utility locate request. And some other guy gets paid to ride around with a valve wrench. -
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I missed that one and not finding it.
Got a link?
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47 gto
I missed that one and not finding it.
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I was just over at American Digest,
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/driveby/a_tale_of_two_busses.phpand he raises an interesting point that greyhound one doesn’t have an American flag anywhere on it.
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I was just over at American Digest,
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/driveby/a_tale_of_two_busses.php
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At his speaking engagements, Obama stressed the need to extend payroll tax cuts and to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and other union-made infrastructure kinds of stuff. Also some free-trade agreements. This was a repetition of what he had said on the first day of his Grand Ground Tour.
On his 938th day in office President Obama also said he would soon have a completed jobs plan. Maybe early fall, something like that. And he complained, “We could do even more if Congress is willing to get in the game.”
Tomorrow with all this heavy work in his rear-view mirror, the president is scheduled to join his family on Martha’s Vineyard for a nine-day vacation.
I used to think this guy was smart. He’s not smart at all. Our Boy Wonder has been told all his life how special he is. It’s no wonder he actually believes it.
I heard him berating congress for not passing free trade agreements with Korea, Columbia, and Brazil. The idiot hasn’t even submitted them to Congress for ratification yet.
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At his speaking engagements, Obama stressed the need to extend payroll tax cuts and to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and other union-made infrastructure kinds of stuff. Also some free-trade agreements. This was a repetition of what he had said on the first day of his Grand Ground Tour.
On his 938th day in office President Obama also said he would soon have a completed jobs plan. Maybe early fall, something like that. And he complained, “We could do even more if Congress is willing to get in the game.”
Tomorrow with all this heavy work in his rear-view mirror, the president is scheduled to join his family on Martha’s Vineyard for a nine-day vacation.I used to think this guy was smart. He’s not smart at all. Our Boy Wonder has been told all his life how special he is. It’s no wonder he actually believes it.
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But Shannon, how can that be. We have the Messiah in the White House, and these things are not supposed to happen any more.
He walks on water. He can’t make water.
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But Shannon, how can that be. We have the Messiah in the White House, and these things are not supposed to happen any more.
He walks on water. He can’t make water.
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The open comments photo looks like some kind of Brokeback Mountain thing to me.
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The open comments photo looks like some kind of Brokeback Mountain thing to me.
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#53 Shannon
The open comments photo looks like some kind of Brokeback Mountain thing to me.
I double-dog dare you to say that to Nugent’s face.
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#53 Shannon
The open comments photo looks like some kind of Brokeback Mountain thing to me.
I double-dog dare you to say that to Nugent’s face.
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#52 – Mr. Ham – Maybe this is what he was really talking about when he promised to make the oceans begin to recede.
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#52 – Mr. Ham – Maybe this is what he was really talking about when he promised to make the oceans begin to recede.
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He walks on water. He can’t make water.
I bet he would if the Iranians started to get really frisky.
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He walks on water. He can’t make water.
I bet he would if the Iranians started to get really frisky.
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#56 WB
He walks on water. He can’t make water.
I bet he would if the Iranians started to get really frisky.
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#56 WB
He walks on water. He can’t make water.
I bet he would if the Iranians started to get really frisky.
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He walks on water.
Just as I thought, the idiot can’t swim. 🙂
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He walks on water.
Just as I thought, the idiot can’t swim. 🙂
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#58 Tex
Just as I thought, the idiot can’t swim.
Especially with the sharks.
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#58 Tex
Just as I thought, the idiot can’t swim.
Especially with the sharks.
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Oh, and Obambie’s bus was built in Canada, probably by grilled cheese eating non union canuks.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/canucklehead_obama_bus_ted_gyztvw89k5MyKNS4B7Qp7OAnswers a question I had this morning:
The bus was ordered by the Secret Service in July 2010 and delivered two months ago.
That means they began planning this tour sometime in 2009.
He knew then that he’d have to do something like this to get re-elected.
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Oh, and Obambie’s bus was built in Canada, probably by grilled cheese eating non union canuks.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/canucklehead_obama_bus_ted_gyztvw89k5MyKNS4B7Qp7OAnswers a question I had this morning:
The bus was ordered by the Secret Service in July 2010 and delivered two months ago.
That means they began planning this tour sometime in 2009.
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This is enough to make you want to pull your hair out.
A U.S. supercomputer laboratory engaged in classified military research concluded a recent deal involving Chinese-made components that is raising concerns in Congress about potential electronic espionage.
The concerns are based on a contract reached this summer between a computer-technology firm and the National Center for Computational Engineering at the University of Tennessee, whose supercomputers simulate flight tests for next-generation U.S. military aircraft and spacecraft, and simulate submarine warfare for the Navy.
The storage system for the contract calls for using software from U.S. cybersecurity firm Symantec installed over devices made by Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications giant that U.S. officials have said has close ties to China’s military. Huawei and Symantec formed a joint venture in 2008, with Huawei owning 51 percent of the shares of the enterprise.
Security, schmecurity we don’t have anything to fear. . . . . . . Spoken like a true beaurocrat.
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This is enough to make you want to pull your hair out.
A U.S. supercomputer laboratory engaged in classified military research concluded a recent deal involving Chinese-made components that is raising concerns in Congress about potential electronic espionage.
The concerns are based on a contract reached this summer between a computer-technology firm and the National Center for Computational Engineering at the University of Tennessee, whose supercomputers simulate flight tests for next-generation U.S. military aircraft and spacecraft, and simulate submarine warfare for the Navy.
The storage system for the contract calls for using software from U.S. cybersecurity firm Symantec installed over devices made by Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications giant that U.S. officials have said has close ties to China’s military. Huawei and Symantec formed a joint venture in 2008, with Huawei owning 51 percent of the shares of the enterprise.Security, schmecurity we don’t have anything to fear. . . . . . . Spoken like a true beaurocrat.
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#61 Sarge: I think the order had to be for three buses and not just one, so when they quote the price for one the contract was for 3 and therefore one can reasonable triple the price. . . . .kind of like what he did with Bush’s worst deficit.
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#61 Sarge: I think the order had to be for three buses and not just one, so when they quote the price for one the contract was for 3 and therefore one can reasonable triple the price. . . . .kind of like what he did with Bush’s worst deficit.
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#61 Sarge: I think the order had to be for three buses and not just one, so when they quote the price for one the contract was for 3 and therefore one can reasonable triple the price. . . . .kind of like what he did with Bush’s worst deficit.
The cost is almost beside the point. They are touting this tour as being “Trumanesque”, mimicking Truman’s whistle stop tour in his run for re-election against impossible odds. Purchase of the bus was done to achieve exactly that image.
Design specifications would have had to be written and reviewed, then plans and proposals by vendors would have to be written and submitted and then reviewed (and probably amended and reviewed again) before the order was placed. He took office in January of 2009. The bus was ordered mid 2010. That means that sometime around the end of 2009, they knew he wasn’t going to skate back into the White House on a wave of stupendous recovery and a strong economy, and would need something like this.
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#61 Sarge: I think the order had to be for three buses and not just one, so when they quote the price for one the contract was for 3 and therefore one can reasonable triple the price. . . . .kind of like what he did with Bush’s worst deficit.
The cost is almost beside the point. They are touting this tour as being “Trumanesque”, mimicking Truman’s whistle stop tour in his run for re-election against impossible odds. Purchase of the bus was done to achieve exactly that image.
Design specifications would have had to be written and reviewed, then plans and proposals by vendors would have to be written and submitted and then reviewed (and probably amended and reviewed again) before the order was placed. He took office in January of 2009. The bus was ordered mid 2010. That means that sometime around the end of 2009, they knew he wasn’t going to skate back into the White House on a wave of stupendous recovery and a strong economy, and would need something like this. -
#64 Sarge: Let’s not even try to pretend that this is anything other than campaigning for re-election; why the wiss can’t we get the federal election goons to force these expenditures to come out of his campaign instead of SS budgets? That the presstitutes in the LSM aren’t claiming it as outright campaigning is further evidence that they have lost all credibility.
O’erkle is taking his 4th vacation this year, is that correct? How many other people can afford the time, not to mention the money to take 4 vacations before the end of August? I can only imagine that there will be a couple more before the end of the year. Remember how Dan Blather would go on and on when W would spend a long weekend at his ranch? NO double standard at all, nothing to see here folks, just move along.
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#64 Sarge: Let’s not even try to pretend that this is anything other than campaigning for re-election; why the wiss can’t we get the federal election goons to force these expenditures to come out of his campaign instead of SS budgets? That the presstitutes in the LSM aren’t claiming it as outright campaigning is further evidence that they have lost all credibility.
O’erkle is taking his 4th vacation this year, is that correct? How many other people can afford the time, not to mention the money to take 4 vacations before the end of August? I can only imagine that there will be a couple more before the end of the year. Remember how Dan Blather would go on and on when W would spend a long weekend at his ranch? NO double standard at all, nothing to see here folks, just move along.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Ground mist and 75 at 6 and partly cloudy with 93 at 12:30 pm, with faint hopes for a passing shower.
I see where the Canadians crafted Obama’s Darth Vadermobile Blunderbus. 🙂
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Ground mist and 75 at 6 and partly cloudy with 93 at 12:30 pm, with faint hopes for a passing shower.
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#64 Sarge: Let’s not even try to pretend that this is anything other than campaigning for re-election
That’s kinda the pernt.
And its a re-election campaign that was planned almost two years ago.
He knew then that he’d have to do something other than “normal” campaigning using Air Force 1.
That’s the sick part.
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#64 Sarge: Let’s not even try to pretend that this is anything other than campaigning for re-election
That’s kinda the pernt.
And its a re-election campaign that was planned almost two years ago.
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I heard on the radio, could be just cover for Obambie, that the SS had been wanting buses like this since Clinton started doing it. They probably figured Bush didn’t need it as much as Obambie. Just saying.
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I heard on the radio, could be just cover for Obambie, that the SS had been wanting buses like this since Clinton started doing it. They probably figured Bush didn’t need it as much as Obambie. Just saying.
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I heard on the radio, could be just cover for Obambie, that the SS had been wanting buses like this since Clinton started doing it. They probably figured Bush didn’t need it as much as Obambie. Just saying.
Yah.
I’m pretty sure that the SS was just dying to get the Prez on the roads of the country in a big black bus.
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I heard on the radio, could be just cover for Obambie, that the SS had been wanting buses like this since Clinton started doing it. They probably figured Bush didn’t need it as much as Obambie. Just saying.
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The nut is off the tv tower
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#37 Tex-Can
The Ruskies must be releasing these pictures to make Obambie look like the wimp he is.
Yeah, that’s been going on for awhile. Show Obammy riding a bike, and Putin wearing a loincloth and wrestling with a tiger.
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#37 Tex-Can
The Ruskies must be releasing these pictures to make Obambie look like the wimp he is.
Yeah, that’s been going on for awhile. Show Obammy riding a bike, and Putin wearing a loincloth and wrestling with a tiger.
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They opened a Chinese Restaurant in Lakewood Colorado?
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#59 TT
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#59 TT
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He just can’t get a break.
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He just can’t get a break.
Black Caucus: Tired of making excuses for Obama Caution, there is a picture of an IDIOT there. -
#75 M42:
Animal Planet had a story on a guy with a pet grown bull buffalo living inside his house.
Can you imagine trying to housebreak a wissin buffalo?? What a nightmare when he decides it is time to deposit a meadow muffin on the carpet.
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#75 M42:
Animal Planet had a story on a guy with a pet grown bull buffalo living inside his house.
Can you imagine trying to housebreak a wissin buffalo?? What a nightmare when he decides it is time to deposit a meadow muffin on the carpet.
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#74 – ROFL…………………there hve been various “animal disappearance” stories for many years in the Denver area – the most common theory being for some sort of “ritual sacrifices”
Denver is chock FULL of GREAT restaurants of most every culture on earth (my faves were the Greek joints for a great Gyro or some falafel OR the Vietnamese rice noodle bowls)
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#74 – ROFL…………………there hve been various “animal disappearance” stories for many years in the Denver area – the most common theory being for some sort of “ritual sacrifices”
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#75 & #77 – Prolly a tree hugger trying to capture extra methane for power generation?
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#75 & #77 – Prolly a tree hugger trying to capture extra methane for power generation?
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My friends cow had twins and she rejected one. That calf has been bottle fed for about 6 weeks now and she is really friendly. She is now Daisy the House Cow, but she lives in the barn. She will prolly not be integrated back into the herd, she may wind up being a milk cow. Right now she acts like a playful puppy.
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My friends cow had twins and she rejected one. That calf has been bottle fed for about 6 weeks now and she is really friendly. She is now Daisy the House Cow, but she lives in the barn. She will prolly not be integrated back into the herd, she may wind up being a milk cow. Right now she acts like a playful puppy.
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#80 Shannon, was she tasty?
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#80 Shannon, was she tasty?
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#59 – I’ll “see” your awwwwwwwwwwwwwww and raise you a shift key – AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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#59 – I’ll “see” your awwwwwwwwwwwwwww and raise you a shift key – AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Here are some still shots of the buffalo guy. He made a BuffaMobile by cutting the top
off a car and removing all but the driver’s seat. There are some videos of the buffalo being driven around in the special car, but I couldn’t get any of them to play.http://www.care2.com/greenliving/pet-buffalo-rides-in-car.html
(FWIW, I am surprised to hear any kind words about unconventional pets from most of this gang.)
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Here are some still shots of the buffalo guy. He made a BuffaMobile by cutting the top
off a car and removing all but the driver’s seat. There are some videos of the buffalo being driven around in the special car, but I couldn’t get any of them to play.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/pet-buffalo-rides-in-car.html
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#83 Kat
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#74 dave
From your link:Sequin, an owner of four cats, was devastated last week after finding part of her neighbor’s cat in her yard.
Four cats = crazy.
“We have raccoons, coyotes and foxes. Sometimes larger animals like lions and bears do come into town,” Jennifer Churchill with Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.
She live in a zoo? All she’s missing is tigers and she’d have a full set with the lions & bears.
I wonder if manbearpig has been spotted recently?
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#74 dave
From your link:Sequin, an owner of four cats, was devastated last week after finding part of her neighbor’s cat in her yard.
Four cats = crazy.
“We have raccoons, coyotes and foxes. Sometimes larger animals like lions and bears do come into town,” Jennifer Churchill with Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.
She live in a zoo? All she’s missing is tigers and she’d have a full set with the lions & bears.
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was tame in the early years and a complete butthead later in life
I resemble dat remark!!!!
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#86 –
was tame in the early years and a complete butthead later in life
I resemble dat remark!!!!
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I need to be brought up to date on the NAFTA highway. What’s going on now? Is it blocked, or have access and control issues been dealt with?
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I need to be brought up to date on the NAFTA highway. What’s going on now? Is it blocked, or have access and control issues been dealt with?
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I need to be brought up to date on the NAFTA highway. What’s going on now? Is it blocked, or have access and control issues been dealt with?
NAFTA Highway technically still on.
Trans Texas Corridor is supposed to be dead.
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I need to be brought up to date on the NAFTA highway. What’s going on now? Is it blocked, or have access and control issues been dealt with?
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Trans Texas Corridor is supposed to be dead.
Does that mean watch for treachery?
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Just to show the liberals, of which there are probably very few that read this website, that I can write captions for anybody no matter what party affiliation, so here goes my “Top Ten” captions for the picture:
1) I’ll bet if I said I have my “sights” set on the White House some anti-gun nut will misinterpret that.
2) Is it always open season on Dummycrats or what?
3) Don’t you know the two of us are driving the anti-gun nuts crazy?
4) Do they give out any points for just “winging” them?
5) Not to be like “Robin Hood”, we will be taking our guns to this fight.
6) I wonder if that certain pansy has even held a gun before?
7) We need to show those clowns in Washington D.C. what Texas politics is like.
8) I didn’t know the President could choose which amendments he wishes to defend or not defend.
9) Let’s shoot all the targets on the “left” and not shoot any on the “right”.
10) Ted, you’ll never guess where I found the most “mo-fo”s.
I hope the liberal readers out there appreciated what I did in writing these captions for Ted and Rick. It’s really hard going against an ABO candidate.
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Just to show the liberals, of which there are probably very few that read this website, that I can write captions for anybody no matter what party affiliation, so here goes my “Top Ten” captions for the picture:
1) I’ll bet if I said I have my “sights” set on the White House some anti-gun nut will misinterpret that.
2) Is it always open season on Dummycrats or what?
3) Don’t you know the two of us are driving the anti-gun nuts crazy?
4) Do they give out any points for just “winging” them?
5) Not to be like “Robin Hood”, we will be taking our guns to this fight.
6) I wonder if that certain pansy has even held a gun before?
7) We need to show those clowns in Washington D.C. what Texas politics is like.
8) I didn’t know the President could choose which amendments he wishes to defend or not defend.
9) Let’s shoot all the targets on the “left” and not shoot any on the “right”.
10) Ted, you’ll never guess where I found the most “mo-fo”s.
I hope the liberal readers out there appreciated what I did in writing these captions for Ted and Rick. It’s really hard going against an ABO candidate. -
Shannon,
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Shannon,
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The comment below if from this news story about Ed Schultz apologizing about misleading video on Perry. Forgot how to do the linkie thing:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/ed-schultz-apologizes-rick-perry_n_929066.html
Posted by Jim Nash: Rick Perry worked for the Al Gore campaign in Waco Texas back in 1988. We were both delegates to the TX Democratic Convention. He kept on referring to the Dukakis supporters as “welfare babies” He referred to the Democratis in the Waco area as ” Hee Haw cotton choppers.”, in private coversations that we had. He claimed that he could “hustle” his group into follow the leader. In short, he had no respect for his delegate constituants. On another matter, as Governor, he refused to stop the execution of Scott Willingham, even though DNA overwhelmingly absolved Scott of the arson deaths of his children.
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The comment below if from this news story about Ed Schultz apologizing about misleading video on Perry. Forgot how to do the linkie thing:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/ed-schultz-apologizes-rick-perry_n_929066.html
Posted by Jim Nash: Rick Perry worked for the Al Gore campaign in Waco Texas back in 1988. We were both delegates to the TX Democratic Convention. He kept on referring to the Dukakis supporters as “welfare babies” He referred to the Democratis in the Waco area as ” Hee Haw cotton choppers.”, in private coversations that we had. He claimed that he could “hustle” his group into follow the leader. In short, he had no respect for his delegate constituants. On another matter, as Governor, he refused to stop the execution of Scott Willingham, even though DNA overwhelmingly absolved Scott of the arson deaths of his children. -
I wonder if manbearpig has been spotted recently?
He’s real! I’m cereal!
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I wonder if manbearpig has been spotted recently?
He’s real! I’m cereal!
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#13 hamous
You’re right.
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#13 hamous
You’re right.
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Thanks. I’ll check it when I get home.
I can’t seem to access any of Big Jolly sites from my iPhone.
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Thanks. I’ll check it when I get home.
I can’t seem to access any of Big Jolly sites from my iPhone.
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90 Sarge,
We would have to borrow money from the drug cartels to build the NAFTA highway, but then to think of it…shouldn’t users pay for new highways?
/snicker off
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90 Sarge,
We would have to borrow money from the drug cartels to build the NAFTA highway, but then to think of it…shouldn’t users pay for new highways?
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The joys of being broke
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He referred to the Democratis in the Waco area as ” Hee Haw cotton choppers
Heh.
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He referred to the Democratis in the Waco area as ” Hee Haw cotton choppers
Heh.
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Better’n being a cedar chopper, I reckon.
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Better’n being a cedar chopper, I reckon.
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He referred to the Democratis in the Waco area as ” Hee Haw cotton choppers
Can’t see the problem.
At least he didn’t call them goat ropers.
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He referred to the Democratis in the Waco area as ” Hee Haw cotton choppers
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<—-Prefers to be a mesquite chopper.
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<—-Prefers to be a mesquite chopper.
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Wasn’t there a campaign contribution connection between Perry and the people that made the HPV vaccine?
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Wasn’t there a campaign contribution connection between Perry and the people that made the HPV vaccine?
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#105 B45: That will prolly be one of the targets in the campaign against Jimmy Dick. It is a 2 edged sword however, if they open that can o worms O’erkle is gonna be in a heap of trouble; there is lots of quid pro quo on his side.
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#105 B45: That will prolly be one of the targets in the campaign against Jimmy Dick. It is a 2 edged sword however, if they open that can o worms O’erkle is gonna be in a heap of trouble; there is lots of quid pro quo on his side.
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100 Simple Simon says:
August 17, 2011 at 4:28 pm
The joys of being brokeAnd what about the joy of grabbing the ring on #100?
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100 Simple Simon says:
August 17, 2011 at 4:28 pm
The joys of being brokeAnd what about the joy of grabbing the ring on #100?
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Bonecrusher, I’m not talking about Obama bin Biden. I was refering to the race within the party. So far I’m leaning to either Bachmann or Cain.
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Bonecrusher, I’m not talking about Obama bin Biden. I was refering to the race within the party. So far I’m leaning to either Bachmann or Cain.
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107…It was there. I could not resist, but for the life of me I could not think of any comment that would be up to the significance of the event; ergo I punted with a lame remark.
Simple
/head bowed in shame
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107…It was there. I could not resist, but for the life of me I could not think of any comment that would be up to the significance of the event; ergo I punted with a lame remark.
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Darren, is she moving a transparent cover?
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Darren, is she moving a transparent cover?
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The race is over. All other candidates can just go home.
KISS frontman Gene Simmons: Rick Perry will be our next president
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The race is over. All other candidates can just go home.
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Darren, is she moving a transparent cover?
I don’t think so. The cover she’s moving is almost the same shade as the darker square she’s moving the cover to. I think it has to do with the squares surrounding the cover shes moving. It’s seems incredulous but also legitimate.
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Darren, is she moving a transparent cover?
I don’t think so. The cover she’s moving is almost the same shade as the darker square she’s moving the cover to. I think it has to do with the squares surrounding the cover shes moving. It’s seems incredulous but also legitimate.
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If that card is played early, in the primaries, it could spell the end for JD. If he survives that card in the primaries, it will resurface in the general. I would MUCH rather see Bachman and/or Cain as both of them are genuine conservatives and have real world biz experience.
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If that card is played early, in the primaries, it could spell the end for JD. If he survives that card in the primaries, it will resurface in the general. I would MUCH rather see Bachman and/or Cain as both of them are genuine conservatives and have real world biz experience.
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If one of the devoted and knowledgable Catholic s on this site could give me feedback on yesterday’s inquiry regarding the Catholic doctrine of salvation I’d really be apreciative. If not, that’s cool. But I do not want to misrepresent Catholic doctrine when I speak about it to others.
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If one of the devoted and knowledgable Catholic s on this site could give me feedback on yesterday’s inquiry regarding the Catholic doctrine of salvation I’d really be apreciative. If not, that’s cool. But I do not want to misrepresent Catholic doctrine when I speak about it to others.
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Bonecrusher, not only that, but dealing with Iran, if Cain says I’m going to target you, he actually has the skills to do the targeting himself!!
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Bonecrusher, not only that, but dealing with Iran, if Cain says I’m going to target you, he actually has the skills to do the targeting himself!!
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Darren, did you see my response yesterday to what the young priest said about the road to salvation?
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Darren, did you see my response yesterday to what the young priest said about the road to salvation?
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I intended to today but my laptop decided that today was the day to test out it’s brakes. Hopefully it’ll be more cooperative soon. -
#115 Darren
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Notice in the #110 video that the colors change as she drags it across. That is why think it’s a transparency. The shadow of the cylinder does cross the square as she moves it, and the color of the square shifts to what is under that square that is moving. Hence my belief it’s simply a transpareny, and will reflect whatever color it’s adjacent to.
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Notice in the #110 video that the colors change as she drags it across. That is why think it’s a transparency. The shadow of the cylinder does cross the square as she moves it, and the color of the square shifts to what is under that square that is moving. Hence my belief it’s simply a transpareny, and will reflect whatever color it’s adjacent to.
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Big45;
Darren, did you see my response yesterday to what the young priest said about the road to salvation?
I did and thanks. It did, kinda sorta talk about what I was seeking. It did emphasize what your dad could **do** to get to heavan. And, yes, beying the Ten Commandments is an ecxellent wya to get there. But I want to be more specific. Catholics definitely believe in being saved by grace. I do too. But I would like to know what the Roman catholic Church doctrine is regarding the role of good works in salvation. It seems that Catholics believe in good works as a necessity and that a person after coming unto God through His mercy in Christ could lose that grace of salvation by not doing good works, namely by sinning and not repenting. I believe in this as well.
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Big45;
Darren, did you see my response yesterday to what the young priest said about the road to salvation?
I did and thanks. It did, kinda sorta talk about what I was seeking. It did emphasize what your dad could **do** to get to heavan. And, yes, beying the Ten Commandments is an ecxellent wya to get there. But I want to be more specific. Catholics definitely believe in being saved by grace. I do too. But I would like to know what the Roman catholic Church doctrine is regarding the role of good works in salvation. It seems that Catholics believe in good works as a necessity and that a person after coming unto God through His mercy in Christ could lose that grace of salvation by not doing good works, namely by sinning and not repenting. I believe in this as well.
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I intended to today but my laptop decided that today was the day to test out it’s brakes. Hopefully it’ll be more cooperative soon.
Thanks, wagonburner. Maybe God didn’t want me to know it today. 😉
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I intended to today but my laptop decided that today was the day to test out it’s brakes. Hopefully it’ll be more cooperative soon.
Thanks, wagonburner. Maybe God didn’t want me to know it today. 😉
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Shannon #118;
Heh. 🙂
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I’m sure everybody here has heard of the Obama bus being manufactured in Canada. And, of course, the immediate thought from my brain was, “yeah, way to go with that creation of American jobs, Obama”. But, I didn’t think of what Rush said. It give further depth to my retalatory thought.
Rush: Obama Owns Two Car Companies, Goes to Canada to Buy Buses
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I’m sure everybody here has heard of the Obama bus being manufactured in Canada. And, of course, the immediate thought from my brain was, “yeah, way to go with that creation of American jobs, Obama”. But, I didn’t think of what Rush said. It give further depth to my retalatory thought.
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Well LQQkie here, I just got my “1854 Seated Liberty Half Dime(with arrows)” in the mail. She is a beauty, even if she’s only a EF 40. I’m not sure why, but I have become a big fan of half dimes, maybe because they are silver and really old? This coin was minted Xactly 100 years before I was born. 😉
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Well LQQkie here, I just got my “1854 Seated Liberty Half Dime(with arrows)” in the mail. She is a beauty, even if she’s only a EF 40. I’m not sure why, but I have become a big fan of half dimes, maybe because they are silver and really old? This coin was minted Xactly 100 years before I was born. 😉
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Oh, I might add that the Morgan Silver Dollar is my favorite. Most of mine are pre 1880.
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Oh, I might add that the Morgan Silver Dollar is my favorite. Most of mine are pre 1880.
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Darren – here’s a short and sweet Catholic answer: If you have faith in Jesus Christ you are called to live your life like Christ. That means works necessarily come with faith. Faith and works cannot be mutually exclusive.
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Darren – here’s a short and sweet Catholic answer: If you have faith in Jesus Christ you are called to live your life like Christ. That means works necessarily come with faith. Faith and works cannot be mutually exclusive.
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Obama added that, “Nobody is more interested in seeing our agricultural sector successful than I am, partly because I come from a farm state.”
Is he talking about Hawaii? 🙂
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Obama added that, “Nobody is more interested in seeing our agricultural sector successful than I am, partly because I come from a farm state.”
Is he talking about Hawaii? 🙂
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/08/17/obama-dismisses-farmers-concerns-about-regulations-dont-always-believe-what-you-hear -
Catholic Answers usually has really good answers, thorough but understandable to the layman. Here’s a link to their response to the question of salvation.
Several salvation explanations
Assurance of Salvation
And I do love my Envoy MagazineI hope those help..
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Catholic Answers usually has really good answers, thorough but understandable to the layman. Here’s a link to their response to the question of salvation.
Several salvation explanations
Assurance of Salvation
And I do love my Envoy Magazine
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#127 Hammy
Or, as Rich Mullins so eloquently puts it, Faith Without Works is Like a Screen Door on a Submarine.
Never seen it done with cups before, but it was pretty cool.
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#127 Hammy
Or, as Rich Mullins so eloquently puts it, Faith Without Works is Like a Screen Door on a Submarine.
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When it comes to understanding salvation and baptism, I tell my students that baptism opens the doors to God’s grace, but it’s up to us to walk through the doors. Non-Catholics tend to look at baptism as a choice we humans make, whereas Catholics see baptism as a gift bestowed upon us. That’s why we have no problems with infant baptism. Not to mention that infant baptism was referenced in the Bible, as whole households converted.
Was it Peter or Paul that said he “works out his faith in fear and trembling”? If faith in Jesus, accepting him as one’s personal savior, was all we needed to gain access to Heaven, then why would he “work out his salvation in fear and trembling”? It would have been more like “celebrating my salvation with joy and gladness”. That usually throws the confused Evangelical for a loop.
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When it comes to understanding salvation and baptism, I tell my students that baptism opens the doors to God’s grace, but it’s up to us to walk through the doors. Non-Catholics tend to look at baptism as a choice we humans make, whereas Catholics see baptism as a gift bestowed upon us. That’s why we have no problems with infant baptism. Not to mention that infant baptism was referenced in the Bible, as whole households converted.
Was it Peter or Paul that said he “works out his faith in fear and trembling”? If faith in Jesus, accepting him as one’s personal savior, was all we needed to gain access to Heaven, then why would he “work out his salvation in fear and trembling”? It would have been more like “celebrating my salvation with joy and gladness”. That usually throws the confused Evangelical for a loop. -
Darren, I am with Tedtam–I am too darn tired lately to get into a big theological discussion. You’ve asked for a simple explanation of the Catholic position on works vis a vis Grace and justification. I contend there is no such thing. The subject does not lend itself to simple explanation.
The closest thing to an abbreviated treatment is contained in the Joint Declaration on The Doctrine of Justification–a document released in 1999 after thirty five years of dialogue between the Catholics and Lutherans.
The pertinent section is as follows.’Please note that
#37 is a statement of where the parties agree
#38 is a statement further clarifying the Catholic position
#39’is a statement further clarifying the Lutheran position4.7 The Good Works of the Justified
37.We confess together that good works – a Christian life lived in faith, hope and love – follow justification and are its fruits. When the justified live in Christ and act in the grace they receive, they bring forth, in biblical terms, good fruit. Since Christians struggle against sin their entire lives, this consequence of justification is also for them an obligation they must fulfill. Thus both Jesus and the apostolic Scriptures admonish Christians to bring forth the works of love.
38.According to Catholic understanding, good works, made possible by grace and the working of the Holy Spirit, contribute to growth in grace, so that the righteousness that comes from God is preserved and communion with Christ is deepened. When Catholics affirm the “meritorious” character of good works, they wish to say that, according to the biblical witness, a reward in heaven is promised to these works. Their intention is to emphasize the responsibility of persons for their actions, not to contest the character of those works as gifts, or far less to deny that justification always remains the unmerited gift of grace.
39.The concept of a preservation of grace and a growth in grace and faith is also held by Lutherans. They do emphasize that righteousness as acceptance by God and sharing in the righteousness of Christ is always complete. At the same time, they state that there can be growth in its effects in Christian living. When they view the good works of Christians as the fruits and signs of justification and not as one’s own “merits”, they nevertheless also understand eternal life in accord with the New Testament as unmerited “reward” in the sense of the fulfillment of God’s promise to the believer. [See Sources for section 4.7].
The entire document can be found here:
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Darren, I am with Tedtam–I am too darn tired lately to get into a big theological discussion. You’ve asked for a simple explanation of the Catholic position on works vis a vis Grace and justification. I contend there is no such thing. The subject does not lend itself to simple explanation.
The closest thing to an abbreviated treatment is contained in the Joint Declaration on The Doctrine of Justification–a document released in 1999 after thirty five years of dialogue between the Catholics and Lutherans.
The pertinent section is as follows.’Please note that
#37 is a statement of where the parties agree
#38 is a statement further clarifying the Catholic position
#39’is a statement further clarifying the Lutheran position4.7 The Good Works of the Justified
37.We confess together that good works – a Christian life lived in faith, hope and love – follow justification and are its fruits. When the justified live in Christ and act in the grace they receive, they bring forth, in biblical terms, good fruit. Since Christians struggle against sin their entire lives, this consequence of justification is also for them an obligation they must fulfill. Thus both Jesus and the apostolic Scriptures admonish Christians to bring forth the works of love.
38.According to Catholic understanding, good works, made possible by grace and the working of the Holy Spirit, contribute to growth in grace, so that the righteousness that comes from God is preserved and communion with Christ is deepened. When Catholics affirm the “meritorious” character of good works, they wish to say that, according to the biblical witness, a reward in heaven is promised to these works. Their intention is to emphasize the responsibility of persons for their actions, not to contest the character of those works as gifts, or far less to deny that justification always remains the unmerited gift of grace.
39.The concept of a preservation of grace and a growth in grace and faith is also held by Lutherans. They do emphasize that righteousness as acceptance by God and sharing in the righteousness of Christ is always complete. At the same time, they state that there can be growth in its effects in Christian living. When they view the good works of Christians as the fruits and signs of justification and not as one’s own “merits”, they nevertheless also understand eternal life in accord with the New Testament as unmerited “reward” in the sense of the fulfillment of God’s promise to the believer. [See Sources for section 4.7].The entire document can be found here:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html -
That means works necessarily come with faith. Faith and works cannot be mutually exclusive.
That’s sound logic to me. If i may
“18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”
(James 2)
I’ve heard from an Evangelical that this scripture means that one shows **to man** his works to show his Christianity to man. But it is through faith alone that one is saved. I simply reply that my understanding from this scripture is that you have faith in Christ unto salvation but if you choose not to work based on your faith than your faith is dead. And dead faith is nothing to hope for.
Thanks for your reply. I was seeking a short and clear answer.
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That means works necessarily come with faith. Faith and works cannot be mutually exclusive.
That’s sound logic to me. If i may
“18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”
(James 2)
I’ve heard from an Evangelical that this scripture means that one shows **to man** his works to show his Christianity to man. But it is through faith alone that one is saved. I simply reply that my understanding from this scripture is that you have faith in Christ unto salvation but if you choose not to work based on your faith than your faith is dead. And dead faith is nothing to hope for.
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Since y’all got all serious I shouldn’t mention that Canadian stock car driver Maryeve Dufault is making her NASCAR Nationwide Series debut this weekend. And I won’t mention Danica Patrick is also running. And I won’t mention how much I love racing.
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Since y’all got all serious I shouldn’t mention that Canadian stock car driver Maryeve Dufault is making her NASCAR Nationwide Series debut this weekend. And I won’t mention Danica Patrick is also running. And I won’t mention how much I love racing.
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Is he talking about Hawaii?
Not to worry, he’s only got 56 more to choose from.
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128 mharper42
Is he talking about Hawaii?
Not to worry, he’s only got 56 more to choose from.
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It will be interesting in a couple of months to see how many union members are left in Wisconson.
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It will be interesting in a couple of months to see how many union members are left in Wisconson.
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Tedtam;
From assurances of faith.
“There are few more confusing topics than salvation. It goes beyond the standard question posed by Fundamentalists: “Have you been saved?” What the question also means is: “Don’t you wish you had the assurance of salvation?” Evangelicals and Fundamentalists think they do have such an absolute assurance.
All they have to do is “accept Christ as their personal Savior,” and it’s done. They might well live exemplary lives thereafter, but living well is not crucial and definitely does not affect their salvation. ”
Yup,that’s been my experience with Evangelicals/Pentacostals. Such a concept goes against my faith and it’s never settled well in me personally. It’s always made sense to me that one “should be good” to get to heaven. No doubt that we are saved by grace for none of us deserve God’s salvation nor his blessings I may add. But by His infinite love and mercy, He bestowals them both upon us. Many if not most of his temporal blessings, I find, are unconditional but salvation, I think, has certain conditions upon them.
I’ve come across “Catholic Answers” before and it seems like a very reliable source to explain Catholic doctrine. I’m glad you sent me your own approval. And I had forgotten to mention “mortal sins” to the Evangelical blogger. I did have it in mind but forgot to add it in the conversation/debate. By it’s nature, it says “be good or else”.
So, it does seem that I am accurate to run around the blogoshpere and say that Catholics believe that good works are necessary for salvation.
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Tedtam;
From assurances of faith.
“There are few more confusing topics than salvation. It goes beyond the standard question posed by Fundamentalists: “Have you been saved?” What the question also means is: “Don’t you wish you had the assurance of salvation?” Evangelicals and Fundamentalists think they do have such an absolute assurance.
All they have to do is “accept Christ as their personal Savior,” and it’s done. They might well live exemplary lives thereafter, but living well is not crucial and definitely does not affect their salvation. ”
Yup,that’s been my experience with Evangelicals/Pentacostals. Such a concept goes against my faith and it’s never settled well in me personally. It’s always made sense to me that one “should be good” to get to heaven. No doubt that we are saved by grace for none of us deserve God’s salvation nor his blessings I may add. But by His infinite love and mercy, He bestowals them both upon us. Many if not most of his temporal blessings, I find, are unconditional but salvation, I think, has certain conditions upon them.
I’ve come across “Catholic Answers” before and it seems like a very reliable source to explain Catholic doctrine. I’m glad you sent me your own approval. And I had forgotten to mention “mortal sins” to the Evangelical blogger. I did have it in mind but forgot to add it in the conversation/debate. By it’s nature, it says “be good or else”.
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Shannon;
I actually began reading that 1999 (“Concordia” is it called?) you cited. It was mentioned to me several months ago by an Evangelical Lutheran and he said because of that treatise (if it’s called that) the Evangelical Lutherans were in communon with the Catholic Church. I don’t know how accurate that is though. and Anglican Catholic recently told me that wasn;t the case but I don’t entirely trust that response neither.
According to Catholic understanding, good works, made possible by grace and the working of the Holy Spirit, contribute to growth in grace, so that the righteousness that comes from God is preserved and communion with Christ is deepened
Amen to that.
When Catholics affirm the “meritorious” character of good works, they wish to say that, according to the biblical witness, a reward in heaven is promised to these works. Their intention is to emphasize the responsibility of persons for their actions, not to contest the character of those works as gifts, or far less to deny that justification always remains the unmerited gift of grace.
Thanks for that.
I understand that you are too tireed for a deep theological discussion (which I wasn’t seeking for, just the simple explanations I received tonight) but you also have some armadillos to shoot. Just warn us if Mrs. Shannon will go out and do the shooting. That’s a sight we don’t need to see. 😉
Take care.
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Shannon;
I actually began reading that 1999 (“Concordia” is it called?) you cited. It was mentioned to me several months ago by an Evangelical Lutheran and he said because of that treatise (if it’s called that) the Evangelical Lutherans were in communon with the Catholic Church. I don’t know how accurate that is though. and Anglican Catholic recently told me that wasn;t the case but I don’t entirely trust that response neither.According to Catholic understanding, good works, made possible by grace and the working of the Holy Spirit, contribute to growth in grace, so that the righteousness that comes from God is preserved and communion with Christ is deepened
Amen to that.
When Catholics affirm the “meritorious” character of good works, they wish to say that, according to the biblical witness, a reward in heaven is promised to these works. Their intention is to emphasize the responsibility of persons for their actions, not to contest the character of those works as gifts, or far less to deny that justification always remains the unmerited gift of grace.
Thanks for that.
I understand that you are too tireed for a deep theological discussion (which I wasn’t seeking for, just the simple explanations I received tonight) but you also have some armadillos to shoot. Just warn us if Mrs. Shannon will go out and do the shooting. That’s a sight we don’t need to see. 😉
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I wonder how many people will belong to the union in Wisconsin after a couple of months?
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I wonder how many people will belong to the union in Wisconsin after a couple of months?
http://biggovernment.com/bhealy/2011/08/17/after-failing-with-recalls-big-labor-spams-state-employees/#more-316184 -
“Concordat”, I think it’s called.
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“Concordat”, I think it’s called.
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No. Catholics and Lutherans are not in full communion.
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Darren – I think the Lutheran position sprang from the Reformation when a Catholic Luther criticized (rightly so) his fellow Catholics for twisting the Gospel so that works were used in an attempt to win favor from God. Similarly the clergy sold indulgences, surely a corruption of God’s plan. Luther’s exit also led to a counter-reformation in the Church but alas, it was too late to mend the rift.
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Darren – I think the Lutheran position sprang from the Reformation when a Catholic Luther criticized (rightly so) his fellow Catholics for twisting the Gospel so that works were used in an attempt to win favor from God. Similarly the clergy sold indulgences, surely a corruption of God’s plan. Luther’s exit also led to a counter-reformation in the Church but alas, it was too late to mend the rift.
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So, it does seem that I am accurate to run around the blogoshpere and say that Catholics believe that good works are necessary for salvation.
Well, if you say so.
After years of study, I’m still not sure.
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So, it does seem that I am accurate to run around the blogoshpere and say that Catholics believe that good works are necessary for salvation.
Well, if you say so.
After years of study, I’m still not sure.
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mHarper, well alot of folks don’t realize how much agriculture there is out here in Hawaii. Pineapples are not our only crop, although they are our main export. We also export alot of fish from coast to coast on the mainland. Mexico used to have a thriving pineapple business too until Vietnam undercut them. But most everything we produce costs more because of shipping costs from the mainland. Consequently we consume locally most of what we produce – cattle, coffee, bananas, guava, oranges. That’d being said, I hope he meant Illinois, and that he no longer considers Hawaii “home”.
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mHarper, well alot of folks don’t realize how much agriculture there is out here in Hawaii. Pineapples are not our only crop, although they are our main export. We also export alot of fish from coast to coast on the mainland. Mexico used to have a thriving pineapple business too until Vietnam undercut them. But most everything we produce costs more because of shipping costs from the mainland. Consequently we consume locally most of what we produce – cattle, coffee, bananas, guava, oranges. That’d being said, I hope he meant Illinois, and that he no longer considers Hawaii “home”.
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If a man were marooned on an island and he had not good works to perform for others, does that mean he would be excluded from Heaven? Long story short, God knows who is a good person, and who is contemptible and evil. It is up to Him to weigh it all and decide the final place we shall be. I keep in mind that Christ the man got pretty darn made and went after the people in the temple with a whip and drove them and their livestock out and dumped their tables over. There is a time for righteous indignation, and when talking and making nice won’t do.
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If a man were marooned on an island and he had not good works to perform for others, does that mean he would be excluded from Heaven? Long story short, God knows who is a good person, and who is contemptible and evil. It is up to Him to weigh it all and decide the final place we shall be. I keep in mind that Christ the man got pretty darn made and went after the people in the temple with a whip and drove them and their livestock out and dumped their tables over. There is a time for righteous indignation, and when talking and making nice won’t do.
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If the Catholic church we correct in their Godly decisions, Galileo would have had it alot easier. Popes are not infallible in their decisions, nor those advising him.
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If the Catholic church we correct in their Godly decisions, Galileo would have had it alot easier. Popes are not infallible in their decisions, nor those advising him.
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So, it does seem that I am accurate to run around the blogoshpere and say that Catholics believe that good works are necessary for salvation.
No, I think it’s a little more nuanced than that. Faith is necessary for salvation. Good works necessarily follow faith.
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So, it does seem that I am accurate to run around the blogoshpere and say that Catholics believe that good works are necessary for salvation.
No, I think it’s a little more nuanced than that. Faith is necessary for salvation. Good works necessarily follow faith.
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And that is that. I gotta go fix my tired. C ya.
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And that is that. I gotta go fix my tired. C ya.
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If a man were marooned on an island and he had not good works to perform for others, does that mean he would be excluded from Heaven?
Others don’t have to be present with you for you to perform good works. For instance, a lot of people pray for others every night. I think that is a small way you could live more Christ-like.
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If a man were marooned on an island and he had not good works to perform for others, does that mean he would be excluded from Heaven?
Others don’t have to be present with you for you to perform good works. For instance, a lot of people pray for others every night. I think that is a small way you could live more Christ-like.
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From Robert Heinlein:
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can’t say and what we can show and what we can’t show — it’s enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.
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From Robert Heinlein:
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can’t say and what we can show and what we can’t show — it’s enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak. -
(sticks head out of LurkCave, savors another cool night…)
Howdy Hamsterousians!
Well, here we are again, another evening of “Adventures in Armadilloland” bringing the score to Humans 2, Dillos 0.
Another dillo showed up tonight, larger than Baby but not quite as big as Monster Dillo. This time, having had a little practice in the fine art of dillo pouncing, things went a little quicker.
Mr. Dillo made his way through the bushes while they were being watered and got himself into an open position. I, of course, circled around downwind, box in one hand and cover in the other. Whap! The sprinkler cycles back and smacks the cover (and me)! Dillo beats feet at the noise and scampers about 5 yards away. After a minute he finds himself something to dig for and forgets all about me. Silly dillo.
Stalk. POUNCE! The fight is on! Thumping, bumping, clawing! Cussin’ and fussin’! The stupid cover is far enough away that we have to go through the “scoot the box” exercise again. Aside from taping the cover to my back, there’s no way to do a two-handed pounce and have it nearby.
OK, Dillo is now safely in the box, the tape was in my pocket this time (amazingly enough, it didn’t fall out in the fray) and in the back porch light the cover was secured. There’s enough room in the back seat of trusty vehicle to put the box, and off we go.
Pulling back into the driveway, whom do I see? Baby D!
I get the box out. But he’s fast! And scoots all the way around the house into the back yard. Apparently he remembers the last time when I almost got him, and doesn’t want to stick around this time, either. He has taken shelter under the tool shed. Don’t worry, I’ll get ‘im. Later.
Time for recuperation and that cold adult beverage in the fridge…
‘Nyt all!
(retreats back into LurkCave, contemplating buying new track shoes for catching Baby D)
P.S. Hey Bigs, do you have dillos in Hawaii? Want some? They’re really fun to catch 😀
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(sticks head out of LurkCave, savors another cool night…)
Howdy Hamsterousians!
Well, here we are again, another evening of “Adventures in Armadilloland” bringing the score to Humans 2, Dillos 0.
Another dillo showed up tonight, larger than Baby but not quite as big as Monster Dillo. This time, having had a little practice in the fine art of dillo pouncing, things went a little quicker.
Mr. Dillo made his way through the bushes while they were being watered and got himself into an open position. I, of course, circled around downwind, box in one hand and cover in the other. Whap! The sprinkler cycles back and smacks the cover (and me)! Dillo beats feet at the noise and scampers about 5 yards away. After a minute he finds himself something to dig for and forgets all about me. Silly dillo.
Stalk. POUNCE! The fight is on! Thumping, bumping, clawing! Cussin’ and fussin’! The stupid cover is far enough away that we have to go through the “scoot the box” exercise again. Aside from taping the cover to my back, there’s no way to do a two-handed pounce and have it nearby.
OK, Dillo is now safely in the box, the tape was in my pocket this time (amazingly enough, it didn’t fall out in the fray) and in the back porch light the cover was secured. There’s enough room in the back seat of trusty vehicle to put the box, and off we go.
Pulling back into the driveway, whom do I see? Baby D!
I get the box out. But he’s fast! And scoots all the way around the house into the back yard. Apparently he remembers the last time when I almost got him, and doesn’t want to stick around this time, either. He has taken shelter under the tool shed. Don’t worry, I’ll get ‘im. Later.
Time for recuperation and that cold adult beverage in the fridge…
‘Nyt all!
(retreats back into LurkCave, contemplating buying new track shoes for catching Baby D)
P.S. Hey Bigs, do you have dillos in Hawaii? Want some? They’re really fun to catch 😀 -
Lurker, there are no native mammals in Hawaii. All the mammals here are imports…even the rodents. I did have armadillos at my place in Oak Ridge North, and plenty out the back gate in the woods when I lived at FM 1488 and Texas 242 (College Park). I’m just stocking up on ammo in case Obama gets elected again and the whole darn thing falls apart.
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Lurker, there are no native mammals in Hawaii. All the mammals here are imports…even the rodents. I did have armadillos at my place in Oak Ridge North, and plenty out the back gate in the woods when I lived at FM 1488 and Texas 242 (College Park). I’m just stocking up on ammo in case Obama gets elected again and the whole darn thing falls apart.
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