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The Olympics are opening now and there are many sports you’ve heard of and probably plan to watch: basketball (meh), gymnastics (pretty impressive, especially the rings), rhythmic gymnastics (gack!), track & field (quelle traditional), swimming (ditto), and numerous others, including some lesser-known ones.
(dude in the back gets extra style points)
Friday Olympian Open Comments
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Like many other sporting events, I’ve just lost interest in the Olympics since the suits seem to think that the production is more valuable than the events themselves. That’s a real shame because most of those athletes actually care what they are doing and dedicate themselves to their chosen sport. Now everything must be PC, the judges will penalize the USA where ever they can, and it will be something like the United Nations. Too bad, but realistically, it’s something else the USA should start to wean itself from and get out of.
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Ted Cruz sold the Chinese made uniforms to the U.S Olympic Team.
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They are made from puppy skins.
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Ha!
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Pyro didn’t put up any links to the Guinea Pig Games, I think it’s fake.
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The Olympics are opening now and there are many sports you’ve heard of and probably plan to watch: basketball (meh), gymnastics (pretty impressive, especially the
ringswomen folks)And let us not forget womens’ beach volleyball 🙂
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Yeah, in their parkas, weather is going to be in the 60’s. Don’t matter, they’ll prolly all be in burkas to show solidarity with the Saudi women’s teams. -
I just found out that Ted Cruz drowns baby harp seals in bleach, then BBQs them using charcoal briquettes made of burned Bibles and feeds them to the underage Asian girls he keeps chained up in his basement and uses as sex slaves.
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And you will vote for either one of them again in November because their opponent is a Democrat.
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Not a good day for Romney yesterday. At a discounted fundraiser, he wants to remove the bust of Lincoln from the White House and assumes the brits will offer him the bust of Churchill they loaned Bush the younger.
Later on, Romney told donors at a fundraiser (tickets had been slashed from $25,000 to $10,000 during the day) that he was ‘looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again’.
The problem with that applause line is that the Jacob Epstein bust was a personal loan from Britain to President George W. Bush made in July 2001 for the duration of his presidency.
When Obama took over from Bush, the loan expired and he apparently showed no interest in extending it. The bust was returned to the Government Art Collection.
The whole issue, which has been used to portray Obama as anti-British, is a sore point for British diplomats, who view it as presumptuous for Romney to assume the bust would be loaned to him. -
I have a feeling Dewchip is not going to be a gracious loser. His daddy flew a bomber on D-Day, dammit! Burns me up! The question is, is he gonna go full-on Crist and run as an independent a la Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn?
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13 Hamous says:
July 27, 2012 at 7:26 am
I have a feeling Dewchip is not going to be a gracious loser. His daddy flew a bomber on D-Day, dammit! Burns me up! The question is, is he gonna go full-on Crist and run as an independent a la Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn?I was thinking the same thing.
The guy has spent a ouple million dollars of his own money, and just about as much from other folks who see a deal in supporting a guy who will remain LT Gov even if he loses the Primary
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11 shamaal says:
July 27, 2012 at 7:19 am
And you will vote for either one of them again in November because their opponent is a Democrat.Ummmmm–
No.
I’m on record here statting that I will not vote for Romney in the General, and that I won’t vote for Dewcrist if he wins.
Darren didn’t like it much, but I picked up the shattered pieces of my life and moved on.
Not a big problem though. Romney will take Texas easily, few people even know the name of the Democrat in the Senate race, and even fewer care.
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“The whole judging panel came away with a big ‘wow,’” said the technologist Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, of Wenger’s project. Wenger, whose prize includes $50,000, a trip to the Galapagos Islands, one year of mentoring and internship opportunities, wrote a computer program known as a neural network to help detect patterns in a large database of breast tissue samples. Traditional biopsies of the breast are painful, but a less invasive type of biopsy known as a fine needle aspirate (FNA) is also less conclusive. Wenger’s program, which she put through an incredible 7.6 million trials to test it for accuracy, helps doctors successfully detect more than 99 percent of malignant tumors using FNA.
Wenger first developed a passion for science as a small child, when she got to know the doctors caring for her younger brother who suffered from a lung condition. “I really grew to idolize the men and women in scrubs and got a taste of what science could do to change the world,” she said. In 6th grade, she had an “amazing” science teacher who encouraged her to pursue projects of her own. “She instilled in Brittany the scientific method … and encouraged her to participate in competitions,” says Brittany’s father, Jeff Wenger.Brittany Wenger’s photo here. She couldn’t be a more unassuming, everyday 17 year old girl than this.
Ryan Johnstone at Scientific American just completed a degree in software engineering and wrote this about Brittany:I took a look through Brittany’s presentation slides and was astonished at her level of intelligence. Having just completed a degree in software engineering I still don’t understand neural networks enough to even replicate what she’s done. I can only dream of contributing something to the world as helpful as this, but it’s definitely an inspiration to go further and try to achieve it.
We will see more and more of the autodidact as our educational system transforms itself, as universities follow the lead of MIT in allowing open source online courses and resources.
The inevitable creative destruction of the old, credential-based elitist paradigm is tumbling under the weight of a financially unsustainable system grown sclerotic from its academic, bureaucratic inertia. It’s only logical this would happen in the hard sciences first. -
Oh, the loan was up on the Churchill bust. Why didn’t they just say that, this changes everything. Prolly done to rile up the Tea Partiers and birthers, that is why it’s brought up right, to let everyone in on the joke?
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In context, of course:
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me—because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t—look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something—there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.The problem with “progressives” is they are incapable of recognizing what’s wrong with this philosophy, first and foremost being that it’s Marxist to its rotten core. You know you’re in deep when the best retort you can come up with is to talk about plaster in the shape of the heads of famous people.
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I bet the Brits can’t wait to get one of these for Buckingham Palace.
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G’Morning All
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The Gray Lady is dying a slow death
The New York Times Company reported a second-quarter loss on Thursday because of a write-down in the value of About.com and continuing declines in print and digital advertising revenue.
The net loss was $88.1 million, or 60 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $119.7 million, or 79 cents a share, in the period a year earlier, when the company wrote down the value of its regional newspapers, which it later sold.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/business/media/the-new-york-times-co-posts-a-loss.html?_r=1
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Or they can display it in their protectorate, the Maldives.
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#23 Sarge
And right along with that is this:Obamacare: No Free Lunches
The president loves to cite the fact that college students are now able to stay on their parents’ policies until age 26. This has undoubtedly made it easier for some students to get or keep insurance coverage. But the additional coverage is not free. In fact, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, the cost of continuing coverage from 18 to 26 could run as high as $3,400 per child per year. Much of that additional cost is passed back to companies that provide insurance coverage to dependents of their employees.
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The predictable result: Companies are dropping dependent coverage altogether. Among them is one of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York, SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which is now dropping dependent coverage for 30,000 workers. Ironically, the fund had previously covered nearly 6,000 workers’ children, some up to age 23. Those students, along with other spouses and children, are now out of luck.
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Similarly, another provision of Obamacare that the president frequently talks about is a ban on insurers’ discriminating against preexisting conditions for children. Not surprisingly, this encouraged parents with sick children to rush to sign them up for coverage. Good for them. But parents with healthy children were less likely to get coverage, especially since the inflow of sick children drove up premiums. Faced with this “adverse selection death spiral,” insurers in 20 states have responded by discontinuing “child only” insurance coverage.
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A new survey by Deloitte released this week suggests that at least 10 percent of employers plan to drop their coverage in the next couple of years as a result of Obamacare. And, it could be worse: A separate survey by McKinsey & Company put the number of companies considering dropping their coverage as high as 30 percent.http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312196/obamacare-no-free-lunches-michael-tanner
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There’s more. Contempt for religious faith has been growing in America’s leadership classes for many decades, as scholars such as Christian Smith and Christopher Lasch have shown. But in recent years, government pressure on religious entities has become a pattern, and it goes well beyond the current administration’s Health and Human Services mandate. It involves interfering with the conscience rights of medical providers, private employers, and individual citizens. And it includes attacks on the policies, hiring practices, and tax statuses of religious charities, hospitals, and other ministries. These attacks are real. They’re happening now. And they’ll get worse as America’s religious character weakens.
This trend is more than sad. It’s dangerous. Our political system presumes a civil society that pre-exists and stands outside the full control of the state. In the American model, the state is meant to be modest in scope and constrained by checks and balances. Mediating institutions such as the family, churches, and fraternal organizations feed the life of the civic community. They stand between the individual and the state. And when they decline, the state fills the vacuum they leave. Protecting these mediating institutions is therefore vital to our political freedom. The state rarely fears individuals, because alone, individuals have little power. They can be isolated or ignored. But organized communities are a different matter. They can resist. And they can’t be ignored. -
And item number ONE on the list is:
Flag Etiquette
STANDARDS of RESPECT
The Flag Code, which formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag, also contains specific instructions on how the flag is not to be used. They are:
1. The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing. It is flown upside down only as a distress signal.
2. The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
3. The flag should never be used for any advertising purpose. It should not be embroidered, printed or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use. Advertising signs should not be attached to the staff or halyard
4. The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, fireman, policeman and members of patriotic organizations.
5. The flag should never have placed on it, or attached to it, any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind.
6. The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
7. When the flag is lowered, no part of it should touch the ground or any other object; it should be received by waiting hands and arms. To store the flag it should be folded neatly and ceremoniously.
8. The flag should be cleaned and mended when necessary.
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#19 Hamous
You know, for $70, that might be a bargain. Imagine the satisfaction of taking that thing to a shooting range and using it for practice….
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Remember Big Sis’ quote: “The border is more secure than it’s ever been.”
Sen. Sessions hosted a press conference today with top officials from two unions that represent U.S. immigration law enforcement agencies.
ICE agent Chris Crane is President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, the union representing America’s more than 7,000 ICE agents and personnel. Border Patrol agent George McCubbin, III is President of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing America’s more than 17,000 border agents and personnel.
From Sen. Sessions’ remarks:
“The Administration claims it has diligently enforced immigration law and that the border is ‘more secure than ever.’ But those on the front lines know this to be untrue. They see the violence, chaos and lawlessness. They have lost confidence in the leadership of their agencies…
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Not only that, they’re racists.
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Obama told Oakland Democrats to fight for his re-election this year. They had the reverb in his microphone that gives his voice the sound of God.
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These athletic guinea pigs are so much more wholesome than those from the Kia Soul ads, which Shannon memorably decried as
overweight, droopy-panted, rapping rodents
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I saw where corn prices are soaring due to the Midwest drought. Food prices are getting as high as gas prices.
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CPS arrested a woman at WalMart for having a filthy baby with an overloaded, dirty diaper.
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As far as the opening comments, as impressed as I am with the gymnastics, especially men’s rings – HOLY COW! How do they do that?! – I find the rhythmic gymnastics impressive. I remember when I took gymnastics as one of my PE courses in college, my instructor told me that there was the strength moves, and the flexibility moves. I was unable to do some of the strength moves, so she gave me some agility ones to take their place for my final.
When I watch these women, I am amazed at how they can throw a ball up in the air and catch it blind – in the crook of their knee! Or how they make the hoop look like an extension of their bodies. That kind of skill takes a certain natural talent and hours upon hours of practice. I know that I could never have attained that level of consistency and accuracy, not even in my younger days.
And for hand-eye coordination, look at the speed of the ping-pong games. While I’m not sure ping-pong should be an Olympic sport, it’s still impressive to watch.
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You’d think they’d want to show their superiority.
But no, the Iranians are Olympic weenies when it comes to competing with Israelis.
Heck, if it’s wrestling, there’d be an opportunity to snap a neck or something. On TV, even! Just think of what a hero he’d be at home! Line up the virgins! -
And the comments are priceless. Some of them I can’t repeat here, Hammy’s Granny might start spinning.
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Can DewWORST be any more negative in his campaigning? And why is Dan Patrick endorsing DewWORST ? Is it because he wants him out so he can be in? Will be glad when the primary election is over and there won’t be anymore of those DewWORST campaign commercials. Boy, DewWORST must of have outspent Cruz by 30 or 40 to one on those stupid political ads? Did DewWORST go on the cheap when hiring a campaign ad company?
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And why is Dan Patrick endorsing DewWORST ?
If Dewcrist gets elected to the US Senate, a member of the Texas Senate is picked to take his place as Lt Governor until the next election. Whoever holds that post is the odds on favorite in that election. It is supposed that Dan went to Dewcrist and promised he could deliver Tea Party and Houston voters if Dewcrist would support him as that person.
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Really creative comment from my link above:
Condoms were invented by Iranians. They found that the large intestines of goats could be used to prevent their women from getting pregnant. It was not until the 20th century that westerners improved on this method by removing the intestines from the goats first.
It took me a minute…
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Good morning Hamsters. Whee, 73 and again reasoably comfy until around 7:30 am when the humidity became smothering in the sunshine. High overcast crept in with a slight breeze tagging along, so slightly faded dapples decorate the lawn as they shift a bit with each breath of breeze.
The landscape renewal is complete in our yard, a great improvement over patches of bare dirt and pitiful struggling shrubs and flowers trying to prosper despite being planted in the wrong places. The job took two days, and our duty now is to keep everything new watered properly to give them a good start. The pop-up showers have missed us for a week or so. Sprinklers come on at night around 10:30 and seem to be doing the job. -
My sprinklers on this side of town seem to be big ones in the sky. We’ve gotten rain every day now for….days.
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At a high school in North Dakota, a group of boy students played a prank. They let three goats loose inside the school. But before turning them loose, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1, 2 and 4.
School Administrators spent most of the day looking for No. 3. And you thought there was nothing to do in North Dakota. -
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For all of you with bikes, boats, ATVs and even vehicles, this company makes all kinds of mounts for smartphones, iPad type devices, laptops, etc.
Mount anything to anything that moves.
I suppose you could even strap one to a saddle if you used one of these battery backups like I have.
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Uh-oh! The Secret Service is on its way to Tedtam’s dome as you read this.
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CNN President to resign.
About dang time. From his letter to staff:CNN needs new thinking. That starts with a new leader who brings a different perspective, different experiences and a new plan, one who will build on our great foundation and will commit to seeing it through.
You mean, like actually reporting news? Like getting crap like Bashir off the airwaves? Oh, wait…that’s the old MSNBC crowd, isn’t it? Well, one down…
And I’m ready for a change. I have interests to explore and I want to give myself time to do it.
Interpretation: “I need to leave now in shame, before I’m fired.”
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LOL, Michael Berry’s people incorporated the Dollar Store “ping” in the Knock Three Times song. With, as Pyro would say, bonus 911 call moans and groans. Maybe it’ll be posted later.
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#48 TexMo
Yep, it was very un-PC to use the phrase “target practice” in connection with Obammy’s image. (I doubt if anyone who saw the plaster bust of POTUS 44 did not think of how satisfying it would be to see one of those shattered into dust particles.) -
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I think I heard in an interview that the reason for the SEAL Team 6 designation was to keep the Russians busy looking for 1-5. 😀 -
Big Jolly
weighs in on Dewhurst/Cruzb-slaps Senator Dannie.I say all of that so that you will understand why I think Dannie’s recent “endorsement” of Lt. Gov. Dewhurst and the reaction to it is so funny. Please take a moment to read that note and note that it talks mostly about Dannie – classic stuff. After you read the note, check out the comments.
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Heh, Dannie has created an army of little Dannie’s, people that cannot think critically and will trash you if you disagree with them. Even his insider Tea Party is distancing themselves from him.I’m not voting for either, but I find the race interesting because according each candidate’s supporters, their guy is a “true” conservative, and the other is a “RINO.” I’ve yet to see a concise or consistent definition of either term. Deciding which of these two guys is farther to the right is like trying to award first place in a crazy pageant between Bachmann and Palin.
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I’m prolly watching too much Dallas, but I can’t help wonder what lil Chris Baker has been offered if Dan makes Lt. Governor, driver maybe, entourage leader? Or does he lick Dan’s boots for the honor of it all?
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#53 bob42’s link to David Jennings
DJ is too generous in describing DP as having been the moving force in the rise of the local tea party movement. DP joined in early as did many, but being a nationwide grassroots movement, nobody can claim sole parentage of it–anywhere. And he has abandoned it over this Senatorial campaign. Maybe there are some “Little Dannies” here and there, but they are not legion and certainly not representative of the tea party movement in general. It is much too large for that. 🙂 -
“The attempts by the Romney campaign to make this into their rallying cry haven’t changed anything,” said a senior campaign official, adding that Obama “has done events without a teleprompter since then.”
The aide said even when Obama has prepared remarks in front of him on a podium, he “doesn’t always use them.” [emphasis mine]Please, go ahead and let him speak freely so the public can see what lies beneath that 2008 luster that is slowly fading.
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Chris Baker, Dan Patrick’s right hand man.
http://www.google.com/search?q=smokey+and+the+bandit+characters&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=fNMSUIStA4q29QTi_IDACA&ved=0CDoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=672#biv=i|23;d|aUl9CrTXII-BGM: -
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Some seem folks seem to have developed a terminal case of Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS)
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Just wondering…
Some of you commenters here link to FB pages often. Most of the time, there is a requirement to log in to FB before proceeding to the linked page.
But sometimes there is no login requirement.
What’s the deal?
Since I refuse any dealings with FB, I know my life will be eternally incomplete.
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#37: Gut Infection?? More like abject fear of getting his head screwed into the floor followed by the torture as punishment for his humiliating defeat at home.
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#46 Shannon: I did not do that. Not that I disagree with the sentiment however.
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Easy boys. Steady as she goes.
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Land Ho!!!!!!!!
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#63: I’m thinking more along the lines of impalement with a glass rod, then shatter it with a sledge hammer.
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If you’re gonna play the fiddle, you gotta have a Texan in the band.
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This one puts ’em all to shame.
Of course, I’m cheating. Mary’s helping me out on this one. 😉
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Tedtam;
What’s the origin of “Ave Maria”? “Ave” in Portuguese means “bird”. Is it like saying “Maria of the Sky”?
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OK, a quick “drive by” Cuz I’m in a hurry, if this has already been posted, sorry; Tea-Party Favorite Surges in Texas Senate Race
From the wall Street Journal, no less.AUSTIN, Texas—Tea-party favorite Raphael “Ted” Cruz is aiming to pull off an upset in a U.S. Senate primary runoff next week, aided by a Just weeks ago, Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst appeared to have a comfortable lead in the race to become the Republican candidate—the main event in the conservative Lone Star State—after he finished first in the May primary. But his 10-point margin wasn’t enough to avoid next Tuesday’s runoff with Mr. Cruz, a former Texas solicitor general.
Now, against a backdrop of heavy spending by independent political-action committees, Mr. Dewhurst looks to be in the fight of his life. Recent polls suggest momentum has shifted to Mr. Cruz, a Harvard Law School graduate and son of Cuban immigrants.
A July 12 poll of likely GOP voters by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling found Mr. Cruz leading the runoff race 49% to 44%, a reversal from its May poll showing Mr. Dewhurst ahead by 17 points.And that my friends is why Dan Patrick endorsed Dewhurst. I mentioned last night that I thought the internal polls of both Cruz and Dewhurst were most likely very close.
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Sarge #15;
Although I never said nor implied you have broken pieces in your life I’m vey glad to know that you have picked those pieces up and moved on. I get a thrill up my leg thinking about your success. -
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This is a good one for Shamaal;
Lately, there’s been a rumor swirling around about the current location of the bust of Winston Churchill. Some have claimed that President Obama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and sent it back to the British Embassy…
This is 100% false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room.
News outlets have debunked this claim time and again. First, back in 2010 the National Journal reported that “the Churchill bust was relocated to a prominent spot in the residence to make room for Abraham Lincoln, a figure from whom the first African-American occupant of the Oval Office might well draw inspiration in difficult times.” And just in case anyone forgot, just last year the AP reported that President Obama “replaced the Oval Office fixture with a bust of one of his American heroes, President Abraham Lincoln, and moved the Churchill bust to the White House residence.”and:
The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush’s tenure.
But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: “Thanks, but no thanks.”
Diplomats were at first reluctant to discuss the whereabouts of the Churchill bronze, after its ejection from the seat of American power. But the British Embassy in Washington has now confirmed that it sits in the palatial residence of ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald, just down the road from Vice President Joe Biden’s official residence. It is not clear whether the ambassador plans to keep it in Washington or send it back to London.(Bold in the original)
Then again, “Why, oh why, would they engage on this subject, wholly unnecessarily, and get their facts wrong to boot? ”
It’s a dumb event to focus on.
White House: Hey, we never really removed that bust of Churchill
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53 bob42 says:
July 27, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Big Jolly weighs in on Dewhurst/Cruz b-slaps Senator Dannie.Allow me a moment to relish the sweet, sweet irony of the fact that what is bringing Jolly’s arch nemisis down is that he supports the same candidate that Jolly does.
Dan is about to find out what a lot of us found out two years ago.
Conservatives will get nowhere by trying to join the Establishment or cooperating with it. Other Conservatives will not trust you anymore, and the Establishment will still hate you and try to bring you down.
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Ave – Latin- “hail”
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TT #80;
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Bob;
Here’s a boycott for you:
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Latin for bird is “avis” or “avi”.
Hail is “ave”.
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Sitting on a park bench on 43rd street near 8th ave. NYC is full of beautiful girls in miniskirts and minidresses. Yowza.
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Oh, the loan was up on the Churchill bust. Why didn’t they just say that, this changes everything. Prolly done to rile up the Tea Partiers and birthers, that is why it’s brought up right, to let everyone in on the joke?
The joke’s been known for some time. Truth be told there is another bust of Churchill in the residence right outside the Treaty Room that was given to country during Nixon’s term.
The Oval Office has finite space and the President wanted a bust of Lincoln (this was during his bipartisan phase). The Churchill bust was on loan and returned. That the whole fiasco is a prank on the knuckleheads, like the President not releasing his birth certificate, is one of the benefits of this administration. Sort of like the “all he gave the Queen is an iPod” schtick; those who read newspapers get the joke. -
Is snot running down your nose?
Sitting on a park bench on 43rd street near 8th ave. NYC is full of beautiful girls in miniskirts and minidresses. Yowza.
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Let’s please not bring Big Jolly into the argument here. If you’d like to do debate him please go to his blog.
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Early voted at lunch time today at Moody Park. There was only one other voter there.
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#26 texanadian/27 OTL
Makes me sick…
Qouting Freepers as a news source!?
Throw tradition and respect out the door – The US may dip the flag today in London to British leaders.
Yahoo reported, via Free Republic:
The United States may break with a controversial tradition and dip its flag to Britain’s leaders at the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) CEO Scott Blackmun said on Thursday.There’s a number of dips involved here, and they ain’t holding flags.
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#82 Darren, I’m not boycotting Chick-fil-A either. But I did write a second spoof news piece on them.
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One letter, big difference.
Aha!!!
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Phonetically-speaking, words the “e” and “I” get the same sound in Portuguese when it’s at the end a word and the sound would be the long “e” sound in English. So I can see how the “i” in “avi” could evolved an “e”.
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# 60 Shannon
But I read a study that said people without FB are more intelligent and have more & better sex.
I remember participating in that study. 😉
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#81 Darren
Now I wonder what the connection of “hail” and “bird” might be.
Hail in the sense of a greeting, podnah. Not weather.
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Come to think of it maybe the Portuguese word is spelled “avi” and it might be a Brazilian slang word as opposed to an academic vocabulary word.
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#84 Texpat
Yowza
Down, birthday boy.
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And a nice setup for some Hamster…
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“Hail fellow well met” — it’s a greeting, a salutation, that’s all.
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Whew! It’s a good thing we think that boycotting business for things or actions their executives do is nonsensical.
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have agreed to donate $2.5 million to help pass a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington State, instantly becoming among the largest financial backers of gay marriage rights in the country.
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Texpat in the park.
Hamous in the park.
Somehow I didnt get the Letches In the Park
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Hard to believe this kind of stuff still happens
“The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote him out the church,” said Charles Wilson.
The Wilsons were trying to get married at the predominantly white First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs — a church they attend regularly, but are not members of.Keep in mind it’s being reported on Fox, so there’s no telling whether the church, town or even the state actually exist. 😉
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Sadly, I recently had to end my 20 year boycott of Levi Strauss & Co.
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These folks know their clientele
The local Tampa press has been on this for awhile but now the NYT joins in with piece on how the city’s strip clubs are prepping for the upcoming GOP convention. Yes, there’s even a Sarah Palin pole-dancing lookalike who will grin and bare it, you betcha, for all those faith-based Republicans.
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I’m pondering going to see the dreaded and oh-so-dangerous Batman movie tonight. But I don’t have a flak jacket.
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I’m pondering going to see the dreaded and oh-so-dangerous Batman movie tonight. But I don’t have a flak jacket.
I will wait for it to come out on Netflix
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Shannon
Sadly, I recently had to end my 20 year boycott of Levi Strauss & Co.
Wranglers just don’t fit right anymore.No really it is okay to buy the next size up. 🙂
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I’m tired of being at home night after night. Going out.
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I still fill up my Wranglers, just in different ways.
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Ms. TT, don’t let ’em skeer ya, go for it. This is America by golly!
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I’m tired of being at home night after night. Going out.
Enjoy your night out. I’ll turn the lights off here when the
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GJT
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Yeah me too. but I found that varying sizes of speedos help. -
Okay this is too much. Some clown sent ME (the long haired, bearded freak of
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In my case, it was dropping down in waist size.
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In my case, it was dropping down in waist size.
Oh fine. Go ahead and brag. 😉
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I look at different articles on the black couple not allowed to marry in the Baptist church, all the comments are either puzzled and looking for answers or flat out denouncing it (and don’t forget the preacher did the right thing), compared to an earlier link to a Target ad with two gay guys in a romantic pose. The comments there are vitriolic, from leftists, still ripping Target because they donated to some anti-gay group and such and such. But Republicans are the hate filled bigots and presumed to launch some violent campaign to boycott Target, all the while Chi-fil-A is under vicious attack (and boycott).
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Oh and BTW, I’m on my non you tube supporting iPad so I am unable to play y’all Mac Davis’ (from my hometown Lubbock, Tx) skin tight blue jean song.
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I didn’t know that Jimmy Page did the sound track for the Charles Bronson movie Death Wish 2.
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Can we just go mano-a-mano right now and get this election over?
I can go for that. Romney in the 2nd round at the 1 min 15 second mark.
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#121 Shannon
I didn’t know that Jimmy Page did the sound track for the Charles Bronson movie Death Wish 2.
At long last your search has ended. We have something in common. 😉
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I’m tired of being at home night after night. Going out.
Next time, give me a call. I’ll drop by in my convertible, we’ll put our tops down and cruise Galveston. 😉
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I think you’re a little optimistic, Sqk.
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Senator John McCain’s claim that concerns about Huma Abedin are a smear based on “a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations” proves more embarrassing by the day. In fact, to the extent it addressed Ms. Abedin, the letter sent to the State Department’s inspector general by five House conservatives actually understated the case.
The letter averred that Abedin “has three family members — her late father, her mother and her brother — connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations.” It turns out, however, that Abedin herself is directly connected to Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure involved in the financing of al-Qaeda. Abedin worked for a number of years at the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs as assistant editor of its journal. The IMMA was founded by Naseef, who remained active in it for decades, overlapping for several years with Abedin. Naseef was also secretary general of the Muslim World League in Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most significant Muslim Brotherhood organization in the world. In that connection, he founded the Rabita Trust, which is formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization under American law due to its support of al-Qaeda.
You ought to be able to stop right there.
A person is not required to have done anything wrong to be denied a high-ranking government position, or more immediately, the security clearance allowing access to classified information that is necessary to function in such a job. There simply need be associations, allegiances, or interests that establish a potential conflict of interest. -
OMG, these people really exist!
I thought this kinda stuff was a joke.RF Shielding for Your Mind
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More like Romney in the 7th.
Only if you’re relegating the bout to the very limited sport of boxing. Throw Romney and Obama together in a UFC-style match and you’ll get a first round win for Romney.
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I doubt it. Obama’s thin, but he’s wiry.
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Texpat is doing a little window shopping I see.
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I doubt it. Obama’s thin, but he’s wiry.
Round house to those jug ears and a pop to his snoot and it is all over. That boy is not a fighter, not physically or in politics. Most cowards go down very quickly. I see no reason to doubt Obama is any different. Now Bill Clinton in his prime, I’d put a bet on Bubba in a knock down.
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Obama’s thin, but he’s wiry.
That’s from smoking. Hardly an advantage.
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That boy is not a fighter, not physically or in politics. Most cowards go down very quickly.
Heh. reminds me of a comment made once that Obama would be the type of high school bully which would run up and kick you after other people held you down for him to do so.
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Obama and his pals were zoned out in their Choommobile, not fighting or kicking anyone.
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Apparently you are not familiar with the fine art of toe to toe pummeling that I speak of. No feet ,just fist. round house aka hay maker. A good boxer will give his opponent a good cauliflower ear before punching his clock for him. -
Heh she said Choom…………………..mobile
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Just got back from the movie. It was good. It came with armed security.
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Apparently you are not familiar with the fine art of toe to toe pummeling that I speak of. No feet ,just fist. round house aka hay maker.
Granted, I did not know that there wasa boxing roundhouse move. Hitting the ear though is very effective. Upsetting the fluid in the ear is good at getting an opponent off balance.
But, as I said, boxing is very limited.Romney risks loosing the election if he limits himself in his attacks. Likewise, UFC in allowing MMA fighting is more effective in bringing down an opponent.
Roundhouse punch vs. Krav Maga
(Krav Maga I believe is the official form of defense Isreali train with)
Click now and you might catch the same advertisement I got for a free bra. That should fulfill your Christmas shopping for BSue (or your own, I won’t ask questions) this year. 😉 -
Boxer Vs MMA Fighter
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I am helping tear down our old garage today. It’s been sitting so long, the roof fell in. We’re picking through our things – old bicycles, toys, sheets! (so THAT’S where they went!), tools, etc.
I keep hurting myself, tripping down memory lane.
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