Russia is very enigmatic.
It can also be very very strange. Not just strange – ur-strange. A mix of the desolation of East Germany of the 1960’s, the fantasy of the French circus, the nuttiness of an American street fair, cold and unforgiving like a Siberian winter, warm and comforting like a fine Scotch whisky.
There are 30 more pictures at the link above. #12 might be my favorite. I call it Babushka and Two Dogs.
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Well.
After a week enduring a full court press by the media, Herman Cain is still doing well in Iowa
Is the likely #2 in NH (where Rick Perry still polls almost 3 points behind Jon Huntsman).
And appears to be kicking booty and taking names in SC.
My bet is that Newt will pull out and endorse Cain, either just before or just after NH. If he does it before NH Romney is toast, even if he wins NH and especially if he it by takes less than 45%.
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Well.
After a week enduring a full court press by the media, Herman Cain is still doing well in Iowa
Is the likely #2 in NH (where Rick Perry still polls almost 3 points behind Jon Huntsman).
And appears to be kicking booty and taking names in SC.
My bet is that Newt will pull out and endorse Cain, either just before or just after NH. If he does it before NH Romney is toast, even if he wins NH and especially if he it by takes less than 45%. -
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Appears CNN likes Romney.
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Is it safe or is this still a quilting blog?
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Is it safe or is this still a quilting blog?
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I couldn’t find a picture of a Russian quilting bee.
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I couldn’t find a picture of a Russian quilting bee.
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These pictures were taken on the apocalyptic planet Ur. No other explanation works for me.
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These pictures were taken on the apocalyptic planet Ur. No other explanation works for me.
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#3 goatboy:
Let’s try Macrame’!!
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#3 goatboy:
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Wagonburner:
I’ve long suspected that about you, and these pictures confirm it.
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Wagonburner:
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The top picture could have been taken at the blessing of the shrimper fleet in Galveston. That gets pretty weird.
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The top picture could have been taken at the blessing of the shrimper fleet in Galveston. That gets pretty weird.
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#5, There is probably a reason for that. Even they have limits.
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#5, There is probably a reason for that. Even they have limits.
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Any of you people participating in “No Shave November”?
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Any of you people participating in “No Shave November”?
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To all you critics:
These are clean.
I have an appreciation for the strange and discordant. It comes from growing up around the world and about an hour north of SF. -
To all you critics:
These are clean.
I have an appreciation for the strange and discordant. It comes from growing up around the world and about an hour north of SF. -
#10 goatboy
The Soviets drove it underground. -
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The Soviets drove it underground. -
GTO Dude from anoche:
What does one with a 90 minute message……..oh wait……..never mind.
Mrs Bonecrusher was in the house when I was getting my massage. I went from the table, to my bed with my wife
AND THAT WAS AFTER I SENT THE THERAPIST HOME./SHEESH, some of y’all have real filthy minds – I knew there was a reason I liked this place.
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GTO Dude from anoche:
What does one with a 90 minute message……..oh wait……..never mind.
Mrs Bonecrusher was in the house when I was getting my massage. I went from the table, to my bed with my wife
AND THAT WAS AFTER I SENT THE THERAPIST HOME.
/SHEESH, some of y’all have real filthy minds – I knew there was a reason I liked this place. -
I’m not sure, but I think I may have given my toe a hairline fracture last night. I stubbed it and was jumping around and making strange and desperate sounds for a few minutes. It’s still sore this morning.
/walking a little funny
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I’m not sure, but I think I may have given my toe a hairline fracture last night. I stubbed it and was jumping around and making strange and desperate sounds for a few minutes. It’s still sore this morning.
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Don’t know what’s funnier – his moves or getting busted.
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Oh, those little brothers!
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Hey Katfish: Some of your HD Bretheren and Sisteren made the trip to THE HOLY LAND. What a really cool deal, I can’t think of much else I would rather do than tour Israel on a motorcycle.
Lucky for the bikers, they’ve had a police escort guide them on the trip so far. By the time the 10-day trip leaves on Thursday, they will have ridden across the country to Caesarea, Nazareth, Mount Carmel, the Kinneret, the Golan Heights and down to Masada, Ein Gedi and elsewhere in the Negev.
Before heading to Jerusalem, the group met outside the Armored Corps Museum at Latrun, a site of pivotal battles during the 1948 and 1967 wars, which Burd said had special meaning to the riders.
“We chose Latrun because of the military importance. We came over here to make a statement that we appreciate the IDF and all the armed forces. We’re just some patriots from America and some military people. We wanted to come over as Christians to say thanks to the IDF because they have been so good about keeping this land free so we can come and visit it.”
Even making the trip on a pack of scooters would be a blast:>)
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Hey Katfish: Some of your HD Bretheren and Sisteren made the trip to THE HOLY LAND. What a really cool deal, I can’t think of much else I would rather do than tour Israel on a motorcycle.
Lucky for the bikers, they’ve had a police escort guide them on the trip so far. By the time the 10-day trip leaves on Thursday, they will have ridden across the country to Caesarea, Nazareth, Mount Carmel, the Kinneret, the Golan Heights and down to Masada, Ein Gedi and elsewhere in the Negev.
Before heading to Jerusalem, the group met outside the Armored Corps Museum at Latrun, a site of pivotal battles during the 1948 and 1967 wars, which Burd said had special meaning to the riders.
“We chose Latrun because of the military importance. We came over here to make a statement that we appreciate the IDF and all the armed forces. We’re just some patriots from America and some military people. We wanted to come over as Christians to say thanks to the IDF because they have been so good about keeping this land free so we can come and visit it.”Even making the trip on a pack of scooters would be a blast:>)
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Finally!!!!! I now have a reason to vote for Ron Paul.
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Finally!!!!! I now have a reason to vote for Ron Paul.
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And we worry about these guys attacking us? I guess they’re better with guns…
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And we worry about these guys attacking us? I guess they’re better with guns…
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#16 TT: That is a hoot!
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#16 TT: That is a hoot!
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#19 TT: NOW can you see how easy it is to get them to follow these instructions:
Terrorist Leader TL: ” Hey Achmed, put this vest on and go stand in that crowded market full of civilians”
Achmed: “yes of course, allah be praised. If I may ask, sir, why should I just stand there?”
TL: “So that you will be able to kill many infidels”
Achmed: “Yes sir, on my way!”
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#19 TT: NOW can you see how easy it is to get them to follow these instructions:
Terrorist Leader TL: ” Hey Achmed, put this vest on and go stand in that crowded market full of civilians”
Achmed: “yes of course, allah be praised. If I may ask, sir, why should I just stand there?”
TL: “So that you will be able to kill many infidels”
Achmed: “Yes sir, on my way!”
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Looks like a group reenactment of the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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Looks like a group reenactment of the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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#17 – Even though I can think of 100 OTHER spots I want to ride to or through that must have been a very cool trip (particularly if they didn’t have to dodge any rocket attacks)
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#17 – Even though I can think of 100 OTHER spots I want to ride to or through that must have been a very cool trip (particularly if they didn’t have to dodge any rocket attacks)
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#23 Pyro
Portrait of mharper42 in a quilt.
Rats, I got a complex Access Denied error on your link. What’s up with that?
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#23 Pyro
Portrait of mharper42 in a quilt.
Rats, I got a complex Access Denied error on your link. What’s up with that?
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Jim Rockford meets early Occupy Wallstreeter:
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Jim Rockford meets early Occupy Wallstreeter:
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#23 Pyro: from your “linkie”
Access Denied
The owner of this website (shenkitup.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cat-Lady-Art-Quilt.jpg). (Ref. 1011)Timestamp: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:51:30 -0800
Your IP address: 65.68.94.166
Requested URL: shenkitup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cat-Lady-Art-Quilt.jpg
Error reference number: 1011
Server ID: FL_14F3
Process ID: PID_1320681090.076-1-62782343
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2
Yeah, that was lots of fun – NOT!
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#23 Pyro: from your “linkie”
Access Denied
The owner of this website (shenkitup.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cat-Lady-Art-Quilt.jpg). (Ref. 1011)
Timestamp: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:51:30 -0800
Your IP address: 65.68.94.166
Requested URL: shenkitup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cat-Lady-Art-Quilt.jpg
Error reference number: 1011
Server ID: FL_14F3
Process ID: PID_1320681090.076-1-62782343
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2Yeah, that was lots of fun – NOT!
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#23 To make it work ya gotta cut and paste the linkie in #27 above.
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#23 To make it work ya gotta cut and paste the linkie in #27 above.
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#23 Pyro: I didn’t see any cat barfing so it could not have been the crazy aunt!
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#23 Pyro: I didn’t see any cat barfing so it could not have been the crazy aunt!
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That coulda been me 40 years ago but I only had red hair that one time when I used some spray-on instant red-head on a Friday night.
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That coulda been me 40 years ago but I only had red hair that one time when I used some spray-on instant red-head on a Friday night.
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Huzzy
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Huzzy
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Y’all need to spend the <7 minutes to watch this.
Commie bastiges is taken over! -
Y’all need to spend the <7 minutes to watch this.
Commie bastiges is taken over! -
From Garrulous Granny:
Do you know what happened 161 years ago this fall… Back in 1850?
California became a state.
The people had no electricity.
The state had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.So basically nothing has changed except then the women had real breasts and the men didn’t hold hands.
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From Garrulous Granny:
Do you know what happened 161 years ago this fall… Back in 1850?
California became a state.
The people had no electricity.
The state had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.
So basically nothing has changed except then the women had real breasts and the men didn’t hold hands. -
This should be easy. Where’s Hamous?
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This should be easy. Where’s Hamous?
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Behind the camera?
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Behind the camera?
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Crackerland? (sand & palmettos)
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Crackerland? (sand & palmettos)
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Where in Crackerland?
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Where in Crackerland?
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Panhandle near FWB?
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Panhandle near FWB?
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Just south of Melbourne Beach. It’s hard to tell perspective but the first two I’m standing on an Indian mound about 30′ high. Last one I’m looking up at the mound. The mounds are behind my sister’s house on an island with the Atlantic on one side and the Indian River Lagoon on the other.
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Just south of Melbourne Beach. It’s hard to tell perspective but the first two I’m standing on an Indian mound about 30′ high. Last one I’m looking up at the mound. The mounds are behind my sister’s house on an island with the Atlantic on one side and the Indian River Lagoon on the other.
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#40 – could easily be in George Bush Park (except for the sand dat is)
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#40 – could easily be in George Bush Park (except for the sand dat is)
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#26 – ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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#26 – ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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I’m fixing to have to replace a bunch of the plumbing in my house. It’s currently galvanized pipe and it’s starting to develop pinhole leaks that are driving me nuts.
Any thoughts on the relative merits of PEX tubing vs Copper (aside from the cost that is)?
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I’m fixing to have to replace a bunch of the plumbing in my house. It’s currently galvanized pipe and it’s starting to develop pinhole leaks that are driving me nuts.
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#44 Fat Al
PEX tubing has been used in Europe for years, and is required in many cases there. It does its job well, and saves a lot on labor costs. There is no reaction to chemicals or minerals in the water. It’s easy to retrofit, as the tubing can be fished up in the walls; this results in less wall damage, if you’re lucky. Sometimes the insulation can get in the way. It’s not going to kink and crease like copper.
It can be pierced with nails, but then, so can copper.
There are several good connection systems for the PEX tubing. Make sure you or your contractor is familiar with the connection pieces and the required tools. There’s no standard system for connecting the tubing, but fortunately, only a few systems.
If you get the tubing and have it setting outside until work starts, be sure to check with the manufacturer for exposure to sunlight. Unless you’re going to leave it outside for a month or more, you’ll probably be okay, but some tubing cannot handle and lot of UV rays without some degradation.
Finally, check with local building codes. Some codes have not upgraded to allow PEX yet, the slackers.
Go with PEX. It’s a great product.
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#44 Fat Al
PEX tubing has been used in Europe for years, and is required in many cases there. It does its job well, and saves a lot on labor costs. There is no reaction to chemicals or minerals in the water. It’s easy to retrofit, as the tubing can be fished up in the walls; this results in less wall damage, if you’re lucky. Sometimes the insulation can get in the way. It’s not going to kink and crease like copper.
It can be pierced with nails, but then, so can copper.
There are several good connection systems for the PEX tubing. Make sure you or your contractor is familiar with the connection pieces and the required tools. There’s no standard system for connecting the tubing, but fortunately, only a few systems.
If you get the tubing and have it setting outside until work starts, be sure to check with the manufacturer for exposure to sunlight. Unless you’re going to leave it outside for a month or more, you’ll probably be okay, but some tubing cannot handle and lot of UV rays without some degradation.
Finally, check with local building codes. Some codes have not upgraded to allow PEX yet, the slackers.
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#35 Hammy
Shoot, I was scanning all that unfamiliar green stuff, thinking it was a wheres-that-cat puzzle. -
#35 Hammy
Shoot, I was scanning all that unfamiliar green stuff, thinking it was a wheres-that-cat puzzle. -
#45 TT: Seeing as how y’all are all professionally plumberiferous and such, do you engage in household contracts of the sort to which Fat Albert alludes?
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#45 TT: Seeing as how y’all are all professionally plumberiferous and such, do you engage in household contracts of the sort to which Fat Albert alludes?
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#44 Fat Albert: Read this.
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#44 Fat Albert: Read this.
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Check out the Ace Duraflo Technology offered by TDT Plumbing.
Complete interior sand blasting and interior epoxy coating of your existing pipes.
Pretty amazing. No tearing out walls, etc.http://www.tdtplumbing.com/products/epoxy-coating-ace-duraflo-epipe
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Check out the Ace Duraflo Technology offered by TDT Plumbing.
Complete interior sand blasting and interior epoxy coating of your existing pipes.
Pretty amazing. No tearing out walls, etc.
http://www.tdtplumbing.com/products/epoxy-coating-ace-duraflo-epipe -
Ifn jugears and the wookie haven’t disgraced the country enough yet; watch the wookie here.
Warning: may cause you to puke or destroy your monitor/wash eyes with bleach; comments are interesting. -
Ifn jugears and the wookie haven’t disgraced the country enough yet; watch the wookie here.
Warning: may cause you to puke or destroy your monitor/wash eyes with bleach; comments are interesting. -
Does anyone believe Joe Pa didn’t know his assistant coach was diddling little boys?
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Does anyone believe Joe Pa didn’t know his assistant coach was diddling little boys?
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It was reported that he was told by someone who actually saw one occurrence
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It was reported that he was told by someone who actually saw one occurrence
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#47 Boney
#45 TT: Seeing as how y’all are all professionally plumberiferous and such, do you engage in household contracts of the sort to which Fat Albert alludes?
Not really. Our meter business is picking up (hallelujah!), so Hubby’s not as interested in doing service plumbing. We might be able to make a referral, however.
Shannon’s idea may also work, but I’m not as familiar with it.
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#47 Boney
#45 TT: Seeing as how y’all are all professionally plumberiferous and such, do you engage in household contracts of the sort to which Fat Albert alludes?
Not really. Our meter business is picking up (hallelujah!), so Hubby’s not as interested in doing service plumbing. We might be able to make a referral, however.
Shannon’s idea may also work, but I’m not as familiar with it. -
#52 Shannon:
It was reported that he was told by someone who actually saw one occurrence
and Joe Pa reported it to his superiors. So yeah, he knew.Back in the Old Testament days, ifn the boy and the guy who saw it (2 witnesses) reported it to the townfolks, the perp-diddler would have been stoned with rocks or shot through with arrows until dead. Try as I might I just can’t see anything wrong with that. Ifn you condone or turn a blind eye to such behavior you will only get more of it.
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#52 Shannon:
It was reported that he was told by someone who actually saw one occurrence
and Joe Pa reported it to his superiors. So yeah, he knew.Back in the Old Testament days, ifn the boy and the guy who saw it (2 witnesses) reported it to the townfolks, the perp-diddler would have been stoned with rocks or shot through with arrows until dead. Try as I might I just can’t see anything wrong with that. Ifn you condone or turn a blind eye to such behavior you will only get more of it.
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You have more faith in eye witness testimony than I do.
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You have more faith in eye witness testimony than I do.
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#55 Shannon:
You have more faith in eye witness testimony than I do.
Without being too graphic, a physical examination of the victim would show evidence of the crime; that coupled with the testimony of the eyewitness and the testimony of the victim is enough for me.
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#55 Shannon:
You have more faith in eye witness testimony than I do.
Without being too graphic, a physical examination of the victim would show evidence of the crime; that coupled with the testimony of the eyewitness and the testimony of the victim is enough for me.
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Possibly the coolest Rube Goldberg machine ever. Catchy tune, too.
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Possibly the coolest Rube Goldberg machine ever. Catchy tune, too.
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#54, If those rules applied,Michael Jackson would never have lived long enough to o.d.
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#54, If those rules applied,Michael Jackson would never have lived long enough to o.d.
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Haven’t seen any reference to grilled cheese sammiches in a day or two.
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Haven’t seen any reference to grilled cheese sammiches in a day or two.
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The most damnable of the charges against Sandusky stems from a 2002 incident in which a Penn State graduate assistant walked in on Sandusky as he was allegedly engaged in an act with a 10-year-old boy. The grad assistant, horrified by what he saw, called his father, who told him to tell Paterno. Paterno, in turn, reported what he was told to school authorities.
He never called the cops. He never used his position as “Joe Paterno” to help put a halt to what was clearly becoming an increasingly horrific situation in his home city. Yesterday, he issued a statement through his son, Scott, and tried to offer an explanation of why he didn’t take a more proactive role in stopping this scandal.
This guy, Mike Vacarro of the New York Post, makes a very good point.
It doesn’t matter why the right thing wasn’t done, just that it wasn’t done.
And Paterno still has to answer for that, if not with his job then with a chunk chiseled off his pristine legacy.
Nine years is a long time to not call the cops.
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The most damnable of the charges against Sandusky stems from a 2002 incident in which a Penn State graduate assistant walked in on Sandusky as he was allegedly engaged in an act with a 10-year-old boy. The grad assistant, horrified by what he saw, called his father, who told him to tell Paterno. Paterno, in turn, reported what he was told to school authorities.
He never called the cops. He never used his position as “Joe Paterno” to help put a halt to what was clearly becoming an increasingly horrific situation in his home city. Yesterday, he issued a statement through his son, Scott, and tried to offer an explanation of why he didn’t take a more proactive role in stopping this scandal.This guy, Mike Vacarro of the New York Post, makes a very good point.
It doesn’t matter why the right thing wasn’t done, just that it wasn’t done.
And Paterno still has to answer for that, if not with his job then with a chunk chiseled off his pristine legacy.Nine years is a long time to not call the cops.
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The real question should be “Why did you not immediately beat Sandusky with a baseball bat?”
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The real question should be “Why did you not immediately beat Sandusky with a baseball bat?”
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The real question should be “Why did you not immediately beat Sandusky with a baseball bat?”
A little barbaric don’t you think?
I’ll go with Old Testament punishment when it comes to kids and the truly innocent. Or wild west days, take your pick. These freaking cover ups for political/establishment protections are SICK, SICK, SICK and they need to pay dearly. All of them.
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The real question should be “Why did you not immediately beat Sandusky with a baseball bat?”
A little barbaric don’t you think?
I’ll go with Old Testament punishment when it comes to kids and the truly innocent. Or wild west days, take your pick. These freaking cover ups for political/establishment protections are SICK, SICK, SICK and they need to pay dearly. All of them.
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