In my effort to educate you people on the lesser-known aspects of the Olympics, I bring you a topic that will arouse the interest of most of you, even those of you who are not interested in the Olympics per se.
I turn your attention to volleyball. Specifically beach volleyball. It is a game that combines raw athleticism, graceful movement, speed, agility, accuracy, colorful uniforms, and strategy. It is this last point we examine here.
With only two people on a team who must somehow cover an entire half of the court, clear communication is vital. This communication must also be secret so the other team will not secure an advantage in that knowledge.
The solution? Signs flashed from the forecourt player to the backcourt player.
As a bonus, at the link are lots of examples of the signs flashed and what they mean.
You too can be a beach volleyball expert!
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Yee Haw, the good guys win. Congrats Texas!! Darth Dewhurst, hit the road jack.
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I’m still basking in the afterglow of the Cruz victory. Some might say he smashed his opponent – I guess that just shows what a baby killing Chinese loving free borders Tea Party candidate can do. Just wonder if the message has reached Austin yet. Is Big John Cornyn still running the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee where they go out and try to find liberal Republicans to run for the Senate? Wouldn’t it be something to see the Presidential race with something like the same margin of victory (or at least winning 55 or 56 of the 57 states that Zero talks about).
A few azzes got shown, Senator Dan P. for one. I’ve always had a lot of respect for Big Jolly for going to all those meetings and reporting back, but looks like he was bought off by the losing side this time around as well.
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When Dan got to Austin, seems he got infected with PoliticianWeHaveToLegislateAndStickTogetherOnEverythingitis.
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Hey ya BigIron, yes proud moment around here. Thanks to all those hard workin’ Tea Partiers.
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Back to Beach Volleyball, I was particularly interested in the #1 sign, but intrigued by the double deuce sign. Still studying ….
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#2 EG
BJ comes by his decision honestly, he believes we needed someone with experience to get things done. That’s fine but I want to see stuff un-done first, and that is going to take fighting and guts, taking on our side as much as the Dems and the media (but I repeat myself). -
Big Iron, Good to see you, Yup, the Tea Party folks really showed the establishment crowd that they do matter. 😉
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Daughter and I were texting back and forth last night trying to keep up with the election results, that were few and far between on the tube and around 9 she called as I was on the way to Jack In The Box to grab a bite to eat and she asked me what I was going to get. I told her 7 Stuffed Jalapenos and 3 Mozzrella Cheese Sticks and she said “Dad, now you’re scaring me, that is exactly what I get when I go there. Yup that’s my girl. 😀
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In honor of Gore Vidal’s entry into the Gates of Hell let’s see Bill Buckley’s classic “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face, and you’ll stay plastered.”
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#2 El Gordo
I’ve always had a lot of respect for Big Jolly for going to all those meetings and reporting back, but looks like he was bought off by the losing side this time around as well.
That’s a load of bull***t.
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You should see all the liberal upholding of diversity on this news story. Read the comments:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/tea-partier-ted-cruz-wins-texas-senate-runoff-012636444.html
Sorry, can’t remember how to do the link thing, even with the link button! Oh, on the comments at the top, click on popular to see how folks really think about Cruz’s election. -
As FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in the same document, “Today’s action demonstrates that compliance with FCC obligations is not optional. The open device and application obligations were core conditions when Verizon purchased the C-block spectrum. The massive innovation and investment fueled by the Internet have been driven by consumer choice in both devices and applications. The steps taken today will not only protect consumer choice, but defend certainty for innovators to continue to deliver new services and apps without fear of being blocked.”
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G’Morning All
But-but-but they told me the Tea Party was dead. How could this have happened?
Final Texas election results (All races)
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After 281 years, it’s good to see that we voters still have our own voice in Texas.
First election in Texas
August 01, 1731
On this day in 1731, Capt. Juan Antonio Pérez de Almazán, the commander of San Antonio de Béxar Presidio, presided over what was probably the first election in Texas history. In March he had welcomed a group of settlers from the Canary Islands by laying out a place for their homes and by establishing a municipal government. The immigrants formed the nucleus of the villa of San Fernando de Béxar, the first regularly organized civil government in Texas. On August 1 the new city council met to elect alcaldes, and electoral politics was off and running. -
46 years and thousands of laws later they still haven’t figured out that they can’t regulate the sick or evil mind.
Gunman opens fire on students at UT
August 01, 1966
On this date in 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman began a killing rampage that left seventeen dead and thirty-one wounded in one of the worst mass murders in modern United States history. Whitman first killed his mother in her apartment and his wife in their residence. He then went to the tower on the University of Texas campus where he clubbed a receptionist, who later died, then killed two other people and wounded two more. Gaining the observation deck at an elevation of 231 feet he began firing on persons crossing the campus and others on nearby streets, killing ten and wounding thirty-one (one died a week later). Police returned his fire from the ground while police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy gained the observation deck, where they shot and killed Whitman. -
GOP votes almost 500% more than Dem votes.
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BIG45!!!!!! ltns pahdnah how’s paradise?
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#16 – I still recall how terrible that entire scenario felt (to my then 11 yr old self) – even observing from far far away in Tripoli Libya
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Again, the same headline this month. Maybe if they quit fudging the numbers in their forecasts…………….
Bummer Summer: Consumer Spending Takes Unexpected Dip in June
The Commerce Department reported today that consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, dipped 0.1% in June. (Of course, the downturn was “unexpected” as economists expected a 0.1% rise in spending.) It’s the biggest drop since August last year, and reverses the gains in May, when spending nudged up 0.1%. It is also the third straight month in which retail sales have fallen.
The media is trying to report that consumer spending was “flat” in June, which isn’t remotely true. Consumer spending fell. Today’s report suggests more bad economic news ahead. The media may be ignoring the bad economic news, but consumers–and voters–are feeling it every day.
The American consumer is channeling The Who and “won’t be fooled again.” The economy’s only hope is a change of direction in Washington.http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/31/fail-consumer-spending-dips-in-june
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In the olympic spirit
http://magazine.foxnews.com/recipe/olympic-three-cheese-grilled-cheese
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Anybody know how the Dems’ answer to the Tea Party, the “Occupy” candidates, have done this election year?
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Ingredients:
1 slice Kefalograviera
1 slice Kerrygold
1 slice red GoudaThat’s totally not a grilled cheese.
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Anybody know how the Dems’ answer to the Tea Party, the “Occupy” candidates, have done this election year?
One of them didn’t even get out of the starting gate
Nate Kleinman, an Occupy Philly member, this morning dropped his bid to get his name on the April 24 Democratic primary election ballot to challenge U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz for the 13th District seat. Facing a legal challenge to his nominating petitions, Kleinman decided to try a run for the seat with a write-in effort.
Kleinman unsuccessfully tried to play a narrow legal game in a hearing this morning, denying that he had been properly served with the legal papers filed by four of Schwartz’s political supporters. Commonwealth Court Senior Judge Rochelle Friedman was not swayed, telling Kleinman she thought he “did everything possible to avoid being personally served.”
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Iowahawk started tweeting last night about the rumors that Harry Reid is a child molester. Nobody knows if its true or not, but it doesn’t matter.
Accusations are made and the seriousness of the charges implies they are true, and even worse, Reid refuses to deny the charges !!!David Burge@iowahawkblog
Has anybody else hear if #HarryReidisaPederast? Please RT because it’s important to have the answer one way or another.
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If the embattled Reid camp doesn’t do something to stop the #HarryReidisaPederast stories, it bolsters the #HarryReidisaPederast whispers.
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#HarryReidisaPederast – well – I don’t actually know that it’s true, but what if it is?!? His (deceased) dad would be so ashamed.
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In the new Olympic “spirit”, badmitton teams from China, South Korea and Indonesia being investigated for “throwing” matches on purpose to gain a weaker opponent in the next round.
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Welcome back, Big45Iron. We saved your place on the couch. Drop by more often!
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Harry Reid is a child molester
The origin is a satire about Reid’s whisper campaign against Romney. It’s a fairly long piece but very well written.
A Democrat I Won’t Name Told Me That Harry Reid Had Molested Over 2,000 Boys. His Father Must Be So Ashamed Of Him.
July 31, 2012
That’s right. The only thing Harry Reid loves more than Viagra is sexually molesting boys. I’ve got that from a “very reliable source.” The source says that the boys are brought to him from Mexico, and Harry Reid has prevented any effort to stop illegal immigration because he wouldn’t have any more boys to molest. But of course I can’t tell you who that source is.
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Doesn’t mention nutmeg
Haters gonna hate.
That’s totally not a grilled cheese.
At least it’s actually grilled and not one of those toaster-microwave abominations.
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You’re right, Pyro, the “toaster-microwave abomination” is more properly described as a Melted Cheese Sammich. Fast, tasty, and — with less grease involved — healthier to boot. No nutmeg involved either.
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Final Harris County Results…
Cruz. 86,120. 63.81%
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#14 OTL
Thank you for the link to election final totals.
I noticed that in the three articles/stories/opinions on page 1 of the Chron none bothered to mention the margin of Ted’s victory. Somehow I can’t believe that was a mass inadvertent oversight. Lotsa scrambling going on and egg removal from faces this morning in all quarters. Love it. Now, on to November. -
I heard an anonymous person said Reid and Sandusky traded thousands of emails for years with names and phone numbers and addresses!!!
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Oh, nothing could be finer than ignoring liberal whiners in the Moorrr Orrr Ning.
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OWS candidates appear to be as organized as a soup sandwich.
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Katfish, you have no idea how difficult it is being retired in Hawaii.
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Good heavens, have I been out of the loop. Steve Stockman won a primary for another House seat?
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Do you think this liberal might not understand the concept of a world without oil – fuel, plastics, synthetics, and pharmaceuticals?
jones • Miami, Florida • 4 secs ago They really need to secede ASAP and the sooner the better and take your billionaire anti democracy oil tycoons with you. -
So.
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Katfish, you have no idea how difficult it is being retired in Hawaii.
Oh GEEZ cry us a river!! 🙂
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Down Ballot, we haven’t done too bad either.
The Texas Legislature has been vastly improved with this primary election cycle, and last night only cemented conservative gains. Of the state legislative races, the biggest run-off news was conservative-champion Dr. Donna Campbell defeating liberal incumbent Jeff Wentworth by a two-to-one margin.
One quick lesson for Republicans in the Texas House: the closer they stand to Speaker Straus and his henchmen – like State Reps. Charlie Geren and Jim Keffer – the more likely they are to lose.
Two more Straus committee chairmen (Sid Miller and Chuck Hopson) lost re-election, joining the three Straus chairs who lost in the first round of primary voting.
In the open-seats, Straus-friendly candidates fell like flies.
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Back later folks. Good to “see” all of you again.
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Let’s take a ride in the Not-So-Wayback Machine:
July 29, 2012 | 5:22 p.m. – With less than two days until the runoff for the GOP nomination in the Texas Senate race, Lt. Gov David Dewhurst has a narrow lead over rival Ted Cruz, according to a Dewhurst campaign internal poll obtained by Hotline on Call.
The survey, which was conducted this past Tuesday through Thursday, shows Dewhurst leading Cruz, 48 percent to 43 percent.
The poll was taken in the middle of the early voting period, which ended on Friday. Among voters who said they had already cast an early vote, Dewhurst holds a 49 percent to 42 percent advantage. He leads 50 percent to 41 percent among voters who said they planned to vote on Election Day.
The news isn’t all bad for Cruz, the state’s former solicitor general. Among the 79 percent of voters who said they will definitely vote, Dewhurst’s overall advantage dropped by three points, with Dewhurst ahead 47 percent to 45 percent in that group.I wonder if we have enough data to formulate a correction factor for internal polling. We could call it the Dewhurst Coefficient.
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The news isn’t all bad for Cruz
Yeah, I guess you could say that.
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Loving County Republicans turned out in force for Cruz.
Cruz: 8 votes / Dewhurst: 0
So did Presidio Co. with Cruz winning 3-0
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I haven’t been listening the Baker/Patrick show lately because they’ve just been wissing me off too much. I’m listening today. I say we’ll hear the following:
1) (I said) Either one of them would make a good candidate for Senate
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Oh yeah, OTL – I’m saving that one for a future Pic of the Day selection. Thank you!
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Hamous
Two lessons here that cannot be repeated enough.
A) Very rich guys do not automatically buy and win elections. I hear this from Republicans and Democrats constantly and it is simply not true. The graveyard of failed political ambitions is full of rich men and women who got their asses handed to them on an electoral platter.
B) Polling is not really an art or a science, but more of a crapshoot. It can go from being surprisingly accurate to wildly wrong in one election to the next. The larger the country and the larger the state makes it even harder to be right. -
#27 Shannon
And I still think that Chinese swimmer is cheating somehow. The Chinese perform like machines most of the time, but her performance is almost inhuman. And the NBC folks are falling all over themselves trying to quell the controversy. -
At 11:05 am central time this morning, central Texas resident Philip Hornsey says his phone rang. When he picked up, he says the call on the other end sounded like a robocall but within seconds it handed off to a real person. That person said he wanted to remind Hornsey to vote for Ted Cruz tomorrow. Tomorrow, August 1, is the day after the runoff vote.
Hornsey replied “Tomorrow? I believe the election is today.” The man on the other end responded “I’m sorry to hear that.” A moment of static followed, then the man said “misinformed.” Hornsey says that he hung up on the unidentified caller at that point. He told the story to his fiancee, who has experience working in political campaigns including McCain-Palin, and she suggested that he call Ted Cruz’s campaign office. He did, and the campaign informed him that they had received similar calls from concerned Texans. Hornsey provided the Cruz campaign the phone number that his caller ID showed, which is 972-349-6348. That area code, 972, is for the Dallas area. A reverse lookup found no links from that number to any entity. -
The White House issues an apology – sort of:
Charles,
I take your criticism seriously and you are correct that you are owed an apology. There was clearly an internal confusion about the two busts and there was no intention to deceive. I clearly overshot the runway in my post. The point I was trying to make – under the belief that the Bust in the residence was the one previously in the Oval Office– was that this oft repeated talking point about the bust being a symbol of President Obama’s failure to appreciate the special relationship is false. The bust that was returned was returned as a matter of course with all the other artwork that had been loaned to President Bush for display in his Oval Office and not something that President Obama or his Administration chose to do. I still think this is an important point and one I wish I had communicated better.
A better understanding of the facts on my part and a couple of deep breaths at the outset would have prevented this situation. Having said all that, barring a miracle comeback from the Phillies I would like to see the Nats win a world series even if it comes after my apology
Thanks,
Dan PfeifferBut then, there’s this:
this does not by any means end the controversy… There is still an air of defiance in Pfeiffer’s words, and he categorically claims that the bust was sent back “as a matter of course,” and its return to the British government was “not something that President Obama or his Administration chose to do.”
… British officials had made it clear to the White House that President Obama could keep the Churchill bust in the Oval Office. In other words, it was the White House’s firm decision to return the bust, and no request was made by the British to have it back. This looks awfully like a deliberate snub of America’s closest friend and ally, and it would be good for the White House to acknowledge the truth, rather than continue to spin a blatantly false and misleading line. -
Drudge headline shows the Gold medalists owe over $8,000 in taxes.
Geitner must have been helping them fill out their forms.
I’m sorry, the story was taking a long time to pull up. I thought it was an expose. It’s how much is owed because they won medals at the Olympics.
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I’m gonna try to touchpad a response. YEA CRUZ!! He beat the snot outa doodoo. The question now is: will doodoo change his ways on his last term as lt gov.
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TT: More evidence of absurd behavior from TNs that think all money is the govts first and they decide how much we get to keep.
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Denika Chatman is suing the SF Police Department because her son, a suspect in a fatal shooting of a 19-year-old Seattle woman three days earlier and parolee for trying to pimp a 14-year-old girl in that city, was killed in a shooting incident with the police.
His crime? Jumping off a Muni bus without paying the fare.
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Um, I love my country, but I think I will pass on this one.
Treasury said it will continue to study a second unconventional way to sell government debt that would offer negative yields. Investors would, in effect, pay the government for the privilege of putting their money in ultra-safe Treasurys. No decision has been made yet on whether to proceed with negative-yield securities.
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Speaking of the Chinese swimmer, on Drudge under headline Father attacks ‘arrogant West’…
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#60 Texmo
pay the government for the privilege of putting their money in ultra-safe Treasurys
A few comments:
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#61 Mharper
From your link:“I think it is not proper to single Chinese swimmers out once they produce good results. Some people are just biased,” Jiang Zhixue, who leads anti-doping work at China’s General Administration of Sport, told the state news agency Xinhua.
It seems that the Chinese and Al Sharpton deal from the same racist deck of cards.
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I think I was watching 26 last night when they were discussing the Senate election with three pundits, one Democrat, one Republican, and one political science professor from Rice. The pubbie and the professor made the comment that Cruz would be the next Senator from Texas. The Dem objected and the professor laughed and told her “Yeah, and the Astros could still win the World Series this year but it ain’t gonna happen.” The host and the pubbie agreed. But she kept insisting the Dem had a chance because Hutchinson was a centrist willing to work with Democrats and Sadler would be the same and he would be able to bring home government jobs to Texas and that’s what Texans wanted from their Senators.
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h/t Drudge: Obama Campaign Calls Romney Trip ‘Disaster’
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I detest using my stupid phone’s touch screen to attempt to type anything. Fortunately I am back at the office with a real keyboard.
#65 TT: RMoney’s trip was a disaster for JugEars; he reestablished warmth and friendship with Israel. JugEars is not now nor has he ever been a friend of Israel and they know it. Mitt will not let the pals or the goat raping Iranians make any progress in harming Israel, Obama would stand by and let it happen.
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Maybe we should be worried. After all, if there’s anything that Obama’s an expert on – it’s disasters.
You’re taking it wrong. Passion Fingers is exactly 180 deg. out on foreign policy stuff. This means the trip was a rousing success.
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Last, I looked Cruz 57% Dewhurst 43% 14 Points!!!!! Dang.
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#68 WB
Maybe we should be worried. After all, if there’s anything that Obama’s an expert on – it’s disasters.
You’re taking it wrong. Passion Fingers is exactly 180 deg. out on foreign policy stuff. This means the trip was a rousing success.
I”m sorry – I forgot to add this at the end of my comment: /sarc off
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Liberty-Crushing HHS Mandate Takes Effect [Today] August 1
After Wednesday, nearly all employers will be forced, at the beginning of their next health plan year, to pay for coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization—regardless of moral or religious objections. -
This is a bad, bad idea.
Although this Democrat -controlled Senate may be blocking certain appointments, I don’t see how giving any administration unfettered control over certain appointments (i.e., more power), is a good thing.
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I don’t see how that would get past the Senate.
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Whew! I thought they had finally found me out.
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By some estimates, the ACA [ObamaCare] will cause a loss of 45,000 jobs in the US … and medical device companies are already eliminating jobs because of these onerous taxes. The ACA will cost Boston Scientific alone more than $100 million a year in additional taxes, so they built a $35 million research center in Ireland instead of in the U.S. and announced another $150 million site in China. Stryker Corporation of Michigan announced in November, 2011 workforce reductions of 1,000 workers “to provide efficiencies and realign resources in advance of the new Medical Device Excise Tax scheduled to begin in 2013.” In response to the ACA, 50% of senior medical technology executives in Massachusetts said in March 2012 that they would slash R&D budgets, and 25% said they would cut jobs at home and outsource manufacturing. Cook Medical of Indiana just announced it is scrapping plans to open five new plants in the Midwest because of this specific tax, while saying “in reality, we’re not looking at the U.S. to build factories anymore as long as this tax is in place.”
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August 1, 2012 at 9:39 am
Hamous
Two lessons here that cannot be repeated enough.
A) Very rich guys do not automatically buy and win elections. I hear this from Republicans and Democrats constantly and it is simply not true. The graveyard of failed political ambitions is full of rich men and women who got their asses handed to them on an electoral platter.
B) Polling is not really an art or a science, but more of a crapshoot. It can go from being surprisingly accurate to wildly wrong in one election to the next. The larger the country and the larger the state makes it even harder to be right.I knew the goose was cooked when Ed Hubbard and others started making posts on Facebook and elsewhere basically saying they weren’t endorsing Cruz, but didn’t like Dewcrist’s ads.
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#73 Pyro: From TT’s link:
UPDATE: The House passed the legislation Tuesday night by a vote of 261-116. The bill now goes to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
It looks like it has already passed the Senate. You can rest assured that 0 is gonna sign it in the hopes that he may squeak out a win in Nov, whether or not the Rs re-take the Senate. This gives the POTUS much more power. I wonder why BONER decided this was a good idea? Hopefully, this will be one of the things that gets undone when the adults take over 21Jan2013.
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Whoda thunk the French would have ever grown any cajones?
HEADLINE: 2 pig heads hung outside mosque in France
Bout damn time!
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Never seen so much good cheer in traffic jam and drive-thru line, diverse part of town, diverse crowd. Whole lotta God Blessing going on too, what a country!
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Adee – the Weather Witch !
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Hamous 46: You think Dewhurst should ask for the money back he paid for the polling? Hope it wasn’t Benzion!!
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Lunching down on a little Chik-fil-A huh? Good for you!
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DNC message to Paul Sadler should be?
A. Don’t come looking to us for money.
B. Go home and await the bad news in November.
C. Thanks for showing us how we’re all going to feel in November.
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What the real headline should be is:
Texas GOP turnout 477% higher than Democrat turnout. Disillusioned Democrats demoralized. Is this the first headline of the end of the Obama administration? -
From the people who brought Good Christian Btiches to the small screen.
The network has bought drama pitch Founding Fathers, from Di Bonaventura Pictures TV and ABC Studios. Written by feature scribe Rich D’Ovidio (Exit Woods, Thir13en Ghosts), Founding Fathers is described as “Donnie Brasco set in the world of Texas militias.” It centers on Nick Keating who, after serving a third tour in Afghanistan, returns home to find his small Texas town under the control of a militia group led by his older foster brother. After being seduced by the militia’s surprisingly community-based motives, he accepts a rare invitation to join the group. But unbeknownst to his new “family,” Nick has a secret agenda that will put his life in jeopardy and lead him to question his allegiances. D’Ovidio executive produces with Di Bonaventura and McDermott.
“the world of Texas militias”
Niiiiiiice
I do need to quell two ruomors right away.
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Obviously, the Muslim insurgents are so self-confident, they must shoot anyone who pokes fun at them
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#88: Kinda like the libs ain’t they? They both scream and rant about tolerance and peace and all that rot, yet ifn you criticize them at all or simply point out a glaring inconsistency you are a racist (fill in the blank)-O-phobe. They insist that others meticulously follow “the rules” and serially ignore same on their own part.
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Colonel Miller is running his weekly op/ed on that topic today: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2012/08/01/j-karl-miller-tolerance-two-way-street/#comments
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I had never been to a Chick-fil-A until this week. I go by a couple of them each day and did not pay any attention to them. After the flack of the past week I have been paying some attention. They are always packed, both the drive through and the parking lot. They are probably wishing they had said what they did sooner. BTW, the food was good.
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No Chick-fil-a near me, dang it.
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The one at Bear Creek is closed. For expansion.
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We have to pay for the way we raise out children.
My son recently moved. His birthday is Friday. I’m trying to send him a brand spanking new Swiss Army Knife (phillips head, not corkscrew). E mail exchange:
Me:Need to confirm.
Is your snail mail as below, or is it as on the return address on the package you sent me after the wedding: XXXX Country Sq. Dr #1511, Carrollton, TX 75006?Him:
Yes
Me:
Yes to which one?
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That it is the address to send stuff to.
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El Gordo #2;
As one who voted for Ted Cruz I must say that Big Jolly always gave consistant good reasons to support Dewhurst. I even went to Big Jolly one time to ask him for some insights on Dewhurts after reading some accusations against Dewhurst as posted on Breitbart. BJ steered me in the right direction and I concluded that the Breitbart post was over the top. -
#93 – Sarge there’s one on Mason Rd just south of I-10 (right in front of Fiesta) – east side of Mason
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Every radio program I’ve tuned in on this morning and afternoon, local or otherwise, is discussing Ted Cruz v. David Dewhurst election rout yesterday, Ted Cruz’s victory party cuisine from Chick-fil-A, the shock and awe reverberating through the halls of Austin and DC, and the massive nationwide support of Chick-fil-A wherever they have a store..
How many TV stations/networks will show the crowds resolutely waiting for a chicken sandwich or other item? How many will give the Cruz victory info and hurry on to some other topic? One can conclude that those who only give lip service to either are in deep delusion and do not see nor want to see the connection between them that will come to a head in November. -
Oldtimer #26;
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August 1, 2012 at 2:56 pm
#93 – Sarge there’s one on Mason Rd just south of I-10 (right in front of Fiesta) – east side of MasonThat’ll work. Was going to skip it as I have to go grocery shopping tonite. The Kroger is before you get to Cinco, and most of my groceries are frozen——-
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Smart Car? High Speed chase? Muhwahahahahahahahaha
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B’day saga con’td
Me:OK, let me ask it this way.
If I was to mail you an expensive Birthday present, which address should go on the package?Him:
THE ONE THAT YOU SENT! Thats where i live.
Me:
I haven’t sent it yet. I want to send it. If I had more money I’d send one to each and see which one comes back.
Maybe I’ll just use it myself.Frik it. He’s getting a lump of coal.
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Adee #97;
I read about your wanting to get some Chick-fil-A simply because you support the Cathy family’s promotion of and support for traditional marriage. Let me tell you, although this month’s budget is tight I did manage to scrape up a few bucks just to buy some chicken nuggets at Chick-fil-A last week. I did so just to show some thanks for the Cathy family’s stalwart support for traditional marriage. -
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104 Shannon says:
August 1, 2012 at 3:14 pm
99 Sarge
Beware. At that location, you will be in dangerously close proximity to the Katfish.Izzat the one I sent?
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#2 El Gordo:
I’ve frequently disagreed with Big Jolly on any number of different issues. But I have never known him to be anything other than scrupulously honest and above board. You should reconsider your allegations, retract them and offer a sincere apology.
As far as the Dewhurst/Cruz election goes, I am personally convinced that Dewhurst’s loss was due in large part to the vileness of his campaign ads in the last couple of weeks. I know politics is a full contact sport, but I think Dewhurst went way, WAY past the line.
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Shannon #66;
I clicked on the link but I get a message of “do you want to open or save n from http://www.google [dot] com?” I clicked on “open” and I have to choose a format to open in. Is there a preferred choice or should I open the link randomly choosing a format? -
Fat Albert
I am personally convinced that Dewhurst’s loss was due in large part to the vileness of his campaign ads in the last couple of weeks.
Yanno what is sad, the China add hit home with some older folks. I heard on more than one occasion senior citizens state since Cruz was helping the Chinese there was no way they were voting for him. Way way way over the top was the suicide ad and of course my favorite Mr TeaParty himself D_n Patricks entry.
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PJMedia’s Bryan Preston at the Chik-Fil-A near his home in north Austin.
Photos of the lines and traffic jam posted here.Despite the heat, Erin was very friendly and enthusiastic as she took orders from the customers. Erin was scheduled to be off today, but this morning the store called her in. The store called in all of its employees who were supposed to be off, to deal with the huge increase in business today.
I asked Erin how today compares with the average Wednesday. She guessed that her Chick-Fil-A was seeing an increase in business by a factor of ten. It has been this heavy all day, and shows no signs of letting up any time soon.
The leftist thought-police boycott of Chick-Fil-A has failed, spectacularly. The only downside: It was so crowded that I didn’t have time to get lunch, and the Chick-Fil-A spicy chicken sandwich is one of my absolute favorites.
When hippies boycotted Whole Foods because its CEO opposed ObamaCare, I became a customer of the high-end grocery store, and in the three years since that boycott Whole Foods’ stock has gone through the roof. Now, lefty intolerance is driving a huge business increase to Chick-Fil-A. Maybe lefty boycotts are the key to getting American business back on its feet. -
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Sarge
That sounds like me trying to communicate with the
Step Daughter Who Resides In A Parallel Universe.
You broke Rule Number ONE: Never, EVER, give options (more than one choice).
Rule Number Two: Distill your question down to the least number of words.
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Darren,
Here’s the Mormon / Teddy Roosevelt history piece….
http://blogs.standard.net/the-political-surf/2012/07/31/isaac-russell-new-york-times-journalist-pr-specialist-for-the-mormon-church/ -
I still have not forgotten how Dewhurst did us on property taxes. Total lies and deception. Big Jolly has every right to support who he wants. But on that issue, Dewhurst was a low down dirty double crosser. How did Gov Perry (same cloth as Dewhurst) put it? Adios Mofo?
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To be fair to the young man, “Who’s On First” is a fambly tradition.
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Oh.
Well, ‘who’s on first’ is no joke when trying to communicate with SDWRIAPU.
It’s a very frustrating fact of life.
She’s a sweetheart, but among her many psychiatric challenges is that she’s developed a paranoid streak over the last 27 years.
For some unknown reason, she thinks I’m “pulling her leg” about half the time.
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Forbes magazine rates Houston the coolest city in America.
Houston is known for many things: Oil, NASA, urban sprawl and business-friendly policies. But the Texas city deserves to be known for something else: coolness.
The Bayou City may not be the first place you associate with being hip or trendy. But Houston has something many other major cities don’t: jobs. With the local economy humming through the recession, Houston enjoyed 2.6% job growth last year and nearly 50,000 Americans flocked there in response — particularly young professionals. In fact, the median age of a Houston resident is a youthful 33.
The result? Over the past decade, the dreary corporate cityscape has been quietly transforming. Stylish housing developments have popped up downtown, restaurants have taken up residence in former factories and art galleries like the Station Museum have been inhabiting warehouses.
Combine that with a strong theater scene, world-class museums and a multicultural, zoning-free mashup of a streetscape and you have the recipe for the No. 1 spot on Forbes’ list of America’s Coolest Cities To Live. -
Well the boy texted me around 1:00 to say “Go to Chick-Fil-A today” daughter was in line for 1/2 hour in Beamount to get hers. I went at lunch (11:10) and there was NO WAY I’d get back to work in time, I’ll try later tonight. I did go over to the one @ the Gulf Freeway between Bay Area and El Dorado around 4:30 and the line of cars was about 2 blocks long.
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As far as the Dewhurst/Cruz election goes, I am personally convinced that Dewhurst’s loss was due in large part to the vileness of his campaign ads in the last couple of weeks. I know politics is a full contact sport, but I think Dewhurst went way, WAY past the line.
Dewhurst would never have run those ads if his polling had shown that Cruz was going to stay at the 35% he garnered in the primary.
When a ship runs aground, the Captain’s is relieved of Command and his career is over—-even if the ship went aground because the Sonar Operator got up and got a cup of coffee at the wrong time.
Once people learned that they were going to be able to send a very clear message to the Texas Establishment, things went south for Dewhurst. He represented for us the Captain of the Republican Party ship. That’s why his conservative credentials weren’t enough. The only way he was ever going to be Senator was if he won the Primary without a runoff. That became obvious to a lot of people almost immediately after the primary—I’ve used the phrase blood in the water—and that’s exactly what happened when national level Conservatives out to reform the Party saw the opportunity.
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Much has been made about Cruz being funded by “outside interests”. What they don’t say is that Dewchip outspent Cruz 3-to-1 and still lost by 14 percentage points.
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Breaking Rumor:
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What’s wrong with this headline on Drudge?
OBAMA AUTHORIZES SECRET SUPPORT FOR SYRIAN ‘REBELS’ -
Just days before a House hearing scheduled to examine overspending at a 2010 conference he helped run, Steven Kempf, commissioner of the General Services Administration’s contracting division, announced he is taking a 60-day medical leave as of Monday.
In an email Friday to his staff at the Federal Acquisitions Service, Kempf wrote: “I truly do not want to be leaving you at this important time. However, this is necessary if I am going to continue serving our country to the best of my ability in the future.” -
Breaking Rumor:
Sen. Harry Reid found to be chief investor in an underground internet site called Pederasty For All.Seems kind of mean spirited in a Bill Maher kind of way, but I guess everyone’s entitled to the kind of humour they enjoy.
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What’s wrong with this headline on Drudge?
OBAMA AUTHORIZES SECRET SUPPORT FOR SYRIAN ‘REBELS’Uh….The rebels suck just as bad as Assad?
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Yeah, well, when the frikkin United States Senate Majority Leader passes on rumors about the oppostion presidential candidate, it’s game on, mofo.
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Oh I see, there’s a moral equivalence in a suggestion that a candidate lawfully avoided income taxes and an accusation of criminal behavior involving young boys.
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The seriousness of the charges demands an answer.
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Is there a moral equivalence between falsely accusing a moral, successful businessman of felony income tax evasion and falsely (perhaps) accusing a pencil necked geeky lying scumbag sack of VSR of pederasty?
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Absolutely correct, now that I understand the rules, permit me to make a light hearted witticism.
I do not believe the rumor about Harry Reid to be true because he is a Mormon Senator.
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Uh….The rebels suck just as bad as Assad?
No. What kind of “secret” is emblazoned in an innanet headline?
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The seriousness of the charges demands an answer.
The seriousness of the charges demands an answer.
The seriousness of the charges demands an answer.
The seriousness of the charges demands an answer.
The seriousness of the charges demands an answer.
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While I admire the work of Spencer Tunick I don’t think I could bring myself to pose.
For 20 years now, New York-based photographer Spencer Tunick has been creating human art installations all over the world, calling together volunteers by the hundreds or thousands, asking them to remove their clothes, and photographing them in massive groups. His philosophy is that “individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together, metamorphose into a new shape.” He aims to create an architecture of flesh, where the masses of human bodies blend with the landscape, or juxtapose with architecture. Collected here are images from several of his installations as they were being composed.
I’m afraid I’ve lost the link.
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suggestion that a candidate lawfully avoided income taxes
The “suggestion” was that Romney had illegally paid no taxes during his tenure at Bain.
Now if he was a Roman Catholic priest ………………
Then he would be even less likely than the general public to have committed any crime.
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Ifn I lived anywhere near Savannah GA, I would make it a point to do business with this guy.
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Sham, that was a typo. He’s a Moron, not a Mormon.
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Romney should release his taxes as soon as Obama bin Biden releases all the unredacted Fast and Furious info required by congress and his college papers and grades.
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The “suggestion” was that Romney had illegally paid no taxes during his tenure at Bain.
Not in any way shape or form. Tax avoidance though legitimate deduction is not a crime. What Harry Reid said was:
“Harry, he didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years,” Reid recounted the person as saying.
Or as John Cornyn put it
“But right now, the fact (is) that according to the Committee on Joint Taxation, 51 percent — that is, a majority of American households — paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada. … Actually, to show how out of whack things have gotten, 30 percent of American households actually made money from the tax system by way of refundable tax credits — the Earned Income Tax Credit, among others. So 51 percent of American households paid no income tax in 2009, but 30 percent actually made money under the current system.”
And Cornyn didn’t mean that 51% did not criminally engage in non paymentof taxes.
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Sham seems to have difficulty with the concept of “don’t dish it out if you can’t take it”. Sham, Reid knew it was wrong to release that kind of BS without knowing the source and checking the accuracy. So, when conservatives fire back at him with larger ammunition, and he gets upset, (or you for that matter when you didn’t protest Reid’s original nonsense), well it’s much akin to a four year old hitting his bigger brother, and then crying to mommy when bigger brother hits the little brat back. But this is how whiney four year olds learn not to be brats.
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Sham, we understand the difference between creative weaseling (Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years), and Cornyn saying 51% don’t pay taxes which is a known fact and not out of anybody’s personal affairs. So please, don’t make excuses for Reid’s nonsense.
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No, not at all.
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Maybe those ads that Dewhurst ran are indeed what Republicans want.
Yeah right, look how well it worked for DD.
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My comments #2:
Perhaps I used a poor choice of word by implying somehow that I was questioning Mr. BJ’s character using the term “bought off.” I could easily have said the same thing about all the other Republicans in the Texas Senate who endorsed Mr. Dewhurst and probably would not have gotten the blowback because, quite frankly, virtually every one of them had something to gain by having Dewhurst leave the state. I believe that I did preface my remark by including admiration for Mr. BJ being up off his butt and going to all those meetings and reporting back, and I do feel that way. It’s pretty well known that BJ supports the establishment Republicans, and since I assume that he is well informed as a result of his contacts and meeting attendance, I have to respect his opinions and give them due consideration as he is much closer to the action than I am – and while I don’t like to admit it, I do still keep an open mind if there is a good argument to be made. My comment was directed at this particular post which seemed to me to be a little more than just reporting or even reporting with bias – more like cheerleading I think.
http://www.bigjollypolitics.com/wp/2012/07/31/david-dewhurst-lets-fight-until-the-polls-close/
Anyway, I think Mr. Dewhurst ran a disgusting campaign intended to slander and impugn the character of Mr. Cruz, and the more shrill he got, the less I appreciated it. Now it was my intent to vote for Mr. Cruz from the beginning simply because I though he was the better person to represent what I stand for – and Mr. Dewhurst’s campaign reinforced that opinion many fold. I could not imagine supporting a person who was so vile and willing to stretch the truth, obviously not for the privilege of representing me, but for his own self gratification. Having said that, I in no way intended to imply that BJ’s endorsement of Dewhurst was a “paid” endorsement, and to the extent that it may have appeared that way, I retract and apologize. -
Sham, so you didn’t see the final poll taken last night? It was the most accurate of what Republicans want.
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Texpat now revises and extends his comments from a load of bull**** to a portion of fertilizer.
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Y’all just don’t learn.
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Speaking of Gore Vidal, a few quotes.
• “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
• “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
• “Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.”
• “The worst thing to happen to Lincoln—aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford’s theatre—was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”
• “The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
• “I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.” -
Sham, you funded and built the troll road…but you are the only one using it.
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I did not hear Danny Goeb Pat-rick on the radio this afternoon. I wonder when he is gonna speak and what is he gonna say about the B-slapping his candidate got?
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Hamous 151, and they wonder why we call them RINOs and send them packing.
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Sight & Sound has released their once a decade fifty greatest films list again
Citizen Kane has been knocked off by Vertigo. Huh?
The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time
“Vertigo” (Hitchcock, 1958)
“Citizen Kane” (Welles, 1941)
“Tokyo Story” (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
“La Règle du jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939)
“Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
“The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)
“Man with a Movie Camera” (Vertov, 1929)
“The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Dreyer, 1927)
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#151 Hamous: That guy CC always gave me the creeps. I am not n the least bit surprised that he is backing the D. I can not believe that anyone, after seeing his behavior in the last election added to this one would be able to vote for him or trust him as far as they could throw him. It may be interesting to see him launched by an aircraft carrier catapoult while in a little red wagon.
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Bone, sadly Dan seems to have forgotten why he went there. I remember sitting in the back of a pickup truck with him, and he assuring me that Austin won’t change him.
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Big45: Why dontcha send him an email and ask him WT_ happened?
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#136 – Why limit yourself? Callem up for a catalogue and buy something they can ship to you
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Anybody know where Edd Hendee, Paul Bettencourt, and Ben Streusand stood in this election?
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I suppose if one owns a signature pair of Harry Reid kneepads one should display ’em eh?
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#144 El Gordo
Well said and sincere.
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Ethics Committee finds Rep. Laura Richardson guilty on seven counts
Apparently as well they should.The House Ethics Committee issued a blistering report on Wednesday finding Rep. Laura Richardson guilty of improperly pressuring her official staff to campaign for her, destroying evidence and tampering with witness testimony.
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Bonecrusher, since I no longer reside in Texas, I don’t know if that is appropriate.
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I would agree, these guys protect their own. Laura Richardson defied their authority.
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#158 Katfish: Great Idea. I will call them tomorrow, ifn I get a chance, it will prolly be Friday. A google search would not give a website, but it did give a plethora of different search engines for Gaster Lumber.
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An interesting read on a little known facet of history, the Church’s turning away from antisemitism. The author contends that groundwork was laid by jewish converts to Catholicism. He’s flogging a book but the article itself is intriguing.
If history was a series of trials sent to punish the Jews for failing to accept Christ, then what meaning did Auschwitz have? Were the Nazis instruments of God’s will, meant to make the Jews finally turn to Christ? To answer yes to this question was obscene, but it was the only answer Catholic theology provided as of 1945. In the years that followed, the converts had to stage a revolution in a church that claimed to be unchanging. They did so by shifting church teaching to Paul’s letter to the Romans, chapters 9–11, where the Apostle, without speaking of baptism or conversion, proclaims that the Jews remain “beloved of God” and that “all Israel will be saved.”
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Pocahantas Warren wants our infrastructure to be like China’s: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AjLaZH3N9wproY.JAVfdyoSbvZx4?p=structure+collapses+in+China&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-553
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Some guy was just on Mark Levin’s show and said he went down to his local Chik-Fil-A this evening and they had to close early because they ran out of chicken. There were still over a hundred people in line and the cars were backed up so the employees went out and gave every person in line a coupon for a free chicken sandwich.
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Bigs
I don’t listen to them as often as I used to, but i never heard Bettencourt or Streus make any endorsements.
Edd has only been on air once or twice since his family tragedy.
It was pretty clear that no on air personality was allowed to make a definitive endorsement.
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For some reason, “You have no ovaries!” just doesn’t have quite the same ring…..
Italy’s highest court ruled that telling a man he has “no balls” as an insult is a crime punishable with a fine because it hurts male pride in a ruling on a curious row between two cousins.
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#167 Shamaal
Interesting and fascinating stuff.
There seems to be few reviews and none from the Catholic quarters I expected. Maybe just because it’s summer and a lot of folks are vacationing.
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Unlike the unsourced rumor that Harry Ried passed on about Romney’s taxes, there are multiple sources reporting some kind of pederasty on the part of Ried in the past. I have personally seen a dozen reports, most of them similar in nature, and each reporting personal knowledge that he’s diddled little boys.
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Harry Reid supports open borders so there is a constant supply of young Mexican victims for his perversions.
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On Friday, a small fringe group will stage a same sex “kiss in” at Chick Fil A’s to show thier disdain for the owner’s Christian beliefs. Today, tens of millons of people all across the country, grown weary of the Anti-Christian bias, bigotry, and hate speech surrounding the Gay Marraige issue spent an average of $5.00 each in those restaurants to show thier support of his right to believe what he wants to believe.
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From what I’ve seen, there are grown men who were victims in the past ready to speak out but a Republican strategist was waiting to do it with the same timing as the Dems used with Mark Foley.
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August 1, 2012 at 8:52 pm
#173
Who is Ben Streusand ?Local Republican activist with a regular show on local PBS and on Dan’s radio station. He moderated a debate on the loal PBS station a while back.
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Does this pic reek with the odor of rancid desperation or what?
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Streusand ran for Congress years back and lost. I’ve forgotten which district he ran in.
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RE: Kiss-in at Chick-fil-a on Friday
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McCaul whipped Streusand in a 2004 primary runoff. CD 10.
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Yell out loud “You want fries with that?”
Howzabout “Get a room!”?
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Huckabee’s becoming a VP candidate.
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Its being reported that one of Reid’s victims has a decades old answering machine tape he saved for “insurance”.
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TT, PP
Howzabout “Get a room!”?
I go with ignoring, or maybe pointing and laughing.
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Who is Ben Streusand ?Just a local guy on the radio now who was an unknown running for congress in 2004 and got squashed by the establishment who supported the 2012 senate candidate supported by the establishment to squash the unknown candidate.
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Have any media types interviewed all those goats out on Harry Reid’s place in Nevada ?
Nope, but there’s a transcript of conversations clandestinely recorded in his romper room:
If you guess my secret, you can draw a prize from my Pocket Full of Mystery.
If you fail to guess my secret, you must place you hand into my other pocket, the Pocket of Shame and Therapy.
Come, sit by me, and unburden yourself of inhibitions. Sit with me on the Couch of Surprises.
Would you care for a refreshment? 5 Alive? Sunny D? I shall instruct my manservant Crichton to fetch you a Juicy Juice.
Crichton is mute and tells no secrets. He does for me admirably. Ah– the Juicy Juice, c’est arrive. How it shines golden in the light.
ah, dear boy, you there. If I may be so bold to say — you seem a strapping lad
Ah, the good Crichton has returned with our amuse bouche. Pray, try one. It’s a confit of Twinkee and muscle relaxant.
I play many games, Dear Boy. Chess? Ah, an amusing enough pastime. But now I play the most dangerous game of all — TickleFingers.
There are only two rules to TickleFingers. If you refrain from laughing, you win, and may draw from the Pocket Full of Mystery.
But if you laugh, you lose, and must sit upon the Lap of Growing Danger.
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That’s an idea Sarge! Everyone get signs like they’re judging an Olympic dive and hold them up behind the couple as their picture is taken. Just imagine – a gay couple in serious liplock and behind them you see the numbers 5.2.
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August 1, 2012 at 9:46 pm
That’s an idea Sarge! Everyone get signs like they’re judging an Olympic dive and hold them up behind the couple as their picture is taken. Just imagine – a gay couple in serious liplock and behind them you see the numbers 5.2.
heh heh hehI’d love to take the credit, but that wasn’t my suggeston.
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McCaul whipped Streusand in a 2004 primary runoff. CD 10.
You sure that wasn’t Harry Ried who whipped Corey Feldman back in 1990?
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Ya rumormongers are gonna make it to #200 tonight, easy.
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Shannon, I don’t think that was Ben Streusand. I think you’re remembering the young guy that had the carpet cleaning company….Aubrey Thoede.
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Ya’ll can hold up score cards, but I must be a bigot because watching two guys get tongue tied literally makes me sick to my stomach.
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Can we please remember this is about gay marriage and not about guys boinking each other.
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#197 Big45Iron
From the 2004 archives of the Houston Chronicle:10TH DISTRICT
Voting history: 64% Republican
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two hunnerd n three
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Okay, thanks TexPat.
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Don’t homosexuals have just as much right to marry somebody of the opposite sex as anybody else?
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#198 TexMo
I’m with you. I have no desire to see gay PDA and will turn away. It just isn’t a pleasant sight.
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Hamous, something is wrong with your date stamp on the posts. I’ve got 5:34 PM!!
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Well, at least I’m not a homophobe in paradise.
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I’m surprised after being gone for 5 years I still remember all these names, lol.
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Although I’m currently in MDT and it still sez the Central time stamp.
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Homophobes are always in paradise, all the time so happy!
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Most of the gays I know are extremely discreet while out in public.
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Senator Harry Reid said America embraces a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama – a light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.
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Big45Iron
Welcome back to our merry madcap band. Hang with us for a while.
Edd Hendee supports Ted Cruz and held a fundraiser for him at T of T. Edd subsituted on KSEV for several days when the morning show was in transition abouple of months ago, and he said he did not support Dan’s candidate, but that it would not be correct to say anything further on the air. -
BigIron #137;
Sham, that was a typo. He’s a Moron, not a Mormon.
LOL. “Moron” is what I first think of when I think of Harry Reid.
It’s also good to hear from you again. Hope your heart is well. -
Playin’ along the Harry Reid “rumor” is just too funny.
Texpat’s comment on Harry Reid’s goats cracked me up big time. 🙂 -
The best way to tell if you are on Harry Reid’s land is you’ll see all the goats walking backwards away from you….rams and ewes.
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