Here are some paintings that have the obvious subject(s) and to a greater or lesser degree, a secondary subject.
Gentlemen (I’m using that term with the loosest possible meaning) and ladies, the arts.
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Baylor wins!!!!!
RG III for president!
Darren # 74, I saw that article in the Chron. At last the Catholic Bishops are speaking up about secularist discrimination against the Church in particular and Christians in general. Seems to me that other Christian denominations make good allies in this battle with the secularists over the abortion issue, and everbody ought to get together and stand united on… Read more »
Catholic charities have been closing shop de to gay activism that in order to recieve state money for adaoption, an organization must accept homosexual couples as an exceptible choice of adoption placement. Heres the latest from Illinois (emphasis mine): For the nation’s Catholic bishops, the Illinois requirement is a prime example of what they see as an escalating campaign by… Read more »
I never realized this before.
BACON!
Season’s Greetings!
#59 Adee Hubby said that people who go for the lowest bidder don’t always know what they are (not) getting. That reminds me of a past job we had bid for $5000. It involved cutting open the street, installing the tap and the commercial size water meter, then refilling with stabilized sand as per city ordinance, and then resealing the… Read more »
Thank you good folk for your condolences on our distraction from the holiday season’s good tidings and merriment. I think we will toast to the success of the repair, as Bonecrusher suggests, at dinner on New Year’s Eve. The nearby restaurant we frequent especially on Easter and Thanksgiving for their wonderful buffet has New Year’s Eve dining at 5 pm… Read more »
#59 Adee
Sorry to hear your plumbing horror story, but I always say it is good to have problems that can be fixed just by spending money.
#54 Bones
Nuts to that. Blacks are probably > 90% of the public school population in DC.
#38 Hammy
And one F-I-F-Y that sneaked past Hal and/or Blog Monkey.
Exclusive: Romney Responds To Surge In National Polls
#20 PyroManiac!
Now you have stabbed me to the heart!
From Hot air: While campaigning in Iowa on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul praised the Occupy Wall Street movement, comparing it to the Tea Party movement. “In many ways, I identify with both groups,” Paul said. Both groups are fed up with problems in Washington and “the two-party-system,” Paul said while speaking at an insurance company in Des Moines.… Read more »
#13 Bones
I thought we had figured that one out — Hugo Chavez got his “abdominal” cancer by dating barnyard animals. Someone posted a story on how common that is in Latin America.
#11 PyroMan
Wow, I hadn’t seen that one before. The brave (butt nekkid) Obammy rides in on a unicorn to save and/or attack teh Russian Bear? While Metropplis burns in the background?
That’s pretty sad, Adee.
There is a very special place in eternity for contractors like that.
#59 Adee: What great news, now all the “throne rooms” are fully functional. That ought to be worth at least a champaigne cork pop.
Pervy Geek Paradise Las Vegas (CBS Las Vegas) – Reality star and veteran brothel owner Dennis Hof wants to go where no man has gone before. Hof, 65, is the present owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. But now, he is opening up a new venture, a sci-fi-themed bordello situated 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The venture will be… Read more »
Good afternoon Hamsters. Two mornings with frosts and barely missing 32; this morning it was 38 and everything sparkled with dew instead of frost. Lovely to see sunshine again for a few days after the dismal, but welcome, rainy and gray ones. Tuesday we made a day trip to the College Station area for a Christmas visit with horse owning… Read more »
Thrilled to see some input, thanks. Now tell me why the article didn’t mention some of those salient points, hmmm? Dya think they are fanning the race flames?
So, Bonesy—
With number like that, and all things being equal, Black students should be being expelled at a rate 10 times higher than White students. It actually look like its the White students who are taking the hit.
It might be that the blacks tend to be more concentrated in settings where nobody would be likely to succeed. If they happened to be in the roughest, most gang-ridden schools, it would seem that more of them would turn into discipline problems.
Actually, there are 54 blacks for every 40 whites. The article does not mention other races, so out of every 100 people, we’re dealing with 94. That means that blacks form 57 1/2% of the population being compared are black and 42 1/2% are white, a disparity of 15%. The article does not mention whether or not the comparison was… Read more »
#53 Sarge: I don’t see a reason why blacks are 2-5 times more likely to be suspended/expelled than whites when they are only 14% greater in population.
The question is why the disparity?The 2009 U. S Census sites the population of the city of Washington at 599,657 and ranks the city 21st in size compared with other U. S. cities. The population is 47.2% male and 52.8% female. The race breakdown is as follows: White: 40.6%; Black: 54.0%; American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.4%; Asian: 3.2%; Two… Read more »
Blatant, naked political pandering. HEADLINE: ICE launches hotline for busted immigrants As states across the nation ramp up their efforts to catch illegal immigrants, the Obama administration on Thursday launched a new free hotline for people busted on violations to get help. The hotline, run by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, is available 24/7 for detained individuals to… Read more »
#49 This article on Drudge raises some interesting questions. Headline: In Washington area, African American students suspended and expelled two to five times as often as whites questions: The question is why the disparity? What are the root causes and how do we, as a society fix the root causes that create the problem? Let’s see if we can think… Read more »
Who knew? The fashion police will save us from terrorism and poor behavior in schools.
All that money wasted——-
Somebody call Richard Simmons.
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Along with the blankets and hats, target the baggy pants.
I can’t believe that in this group of powerful thinkers no one has taken up the challenge in #10 above.
duhmoose #44;
I completely agree with you. And I know I struggle to do things I know I should. Just gotta keep striving to do better.
Keep up the good work, duhmoose.
funny from my inbox: Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of… Read more »
I just found out a friend of mine suffered a heart attack on Christmas Day. He’s just down the street, so I made sure he knew to call me if he needs anything. Man, that had to suck. Christmas Day. He just got back from the hospital. He’s started a whole new set of resolutions already – exercise, lose weight,… Read more »
Darren, we have been going strong for about 2 1/2 years now. The hardest thing is getting them off their duffs to actually put feet to their beliefs. I am a strong believer that if your actions don’t back it up, you might not have the faith you think. It is kind of funny being the “daddy” of the group… Read more »
Yep, I believe everything he says: The new practices are “part of a broader effort to improve our immigration enforcement process and prioritize resources to focus on threats to public safety, repeat immigration law violators, recent border entrants and immigration fugitives while continuing to strengthen oversight of the nation’s immigration detention system and facilitate legal immigration,” ICE wrote in its… Read more »
duhmoose;
In all due seriusness, I do hope your Bible study group goes well. Hope your group learns much and *does* much to come closer to Christ.
I’ll join in and set you both straight. 😉
The comments are pretty funny. vis: The only door New Hampshire voters need show anyone, is that door showing the Union leader editor McQuaid into federal prison as he should be easily found guilty of election tampering for this editorial. Well you can tell who the commenters are who listen to, and are programmed by, conservative talk radio. Talk radio… Read more »
And the Lutherans are getting uppity!
Wow. Three “Establishments” and two “Joe Straus’s” in one day, and it’s only half over!
Careful, or we’ll learn to make lovely Jello molds and bring them to social events. And even get them in the proper liturgical color for the season.
One of sarge’s favorite papers sez Ron Paul is truly dangerous. I’m not sure I’d go that far, but I do think he’s a nutter. The comments are pretty funny. A whole bunch of Ronulans nuts going apoplectic that anyone would dare criticize The One Man Who Can Save The World As We Know It in such a way that… Read more »
Catholics going to Bible Study.
What is this world coming to?
🙂
Oddly enough, most of my Dad’s side of the family are Lutherans and my current roommate, who also attends my church, is a back sliding Presbyter who went to Wheaton. Those Reformed groups are just strange.
Noted domestic terrorist at the height of his power (man on far right). Note headgear.
Same domestic terrorist as powerless prisoner. Note new location of head gear.
I rest my case.
Fixdit 4ya
Yah. But we took thier hats and blankets away a long time ago and thus rendered them powerless.
You do know what the one thing in common to all of those was, don’t you? 😉
I come from a long line of “crazy nondenominational Bible church evangelicals” and Baptists.
Just be careful with Lutherans.
They’re a bunch of terrorists. 😉
#25 Duhmoose Sounds interesting. I actually attended a non-denominational Bible study group at my office building for a while (it was my first experience with a Bible study, actually). I warned the leader that I was Catholic, that it was my first Bible study, and I’d probably have a lot of questions. He invited me to ask all I wanted.… Read more »