In the next stop on our journey through Olympics-related trivia and nonsensia, we visit tattoos. Having a tattoo of the Olympic rings appears to be somewhat de rigeur among the athletic crowd. This is one instance where I don’t really have negative thoughts about body art. These people have trained their entire lives for the chance to compete at the highest levels of their respective sports. A bit of tasteful ink is not really out of the question.
As for those who have a mural of vikings storming Valhalla going up and down their arms, I can do without that.
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Tattoos on females has to be one of the quickest, surest turn offs on what might otherwise be a beautiful woman. They call them “tramp stamps” for a reason.
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Anybody should be allowed to get any tattoo they want as long as it’s not obscene and in public view. However, I would like to see each state pass a law (grandfathered of course) that the first tattoo anybody gets is the word stupid in large capital letters across the forehead, which may not be concealed by hair or other device….hat, head band, unless for the public health and safety (surgeons, dentists, etc.).
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Well it was a little after 7 PM when I got in line to get my Chick-Fil-A last night and the line was over three blocks long. One hour and 11 minutes later I had my Spicy chicken, regular chicken and two carrot raisin salads. FWIW; Ole Dave NEVER, EVER waits in line for anything, but last night I made an exception, figured it was worth it.
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Mrs. Darren found a gift card she was previously unaware of. She got it from one of her baby showers. We’ll be having lunch today at Chick-fil-A. -
Was Aubrey Theode even old enough to vote in 2004?
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Is Michael McCaul part of the establishment? Perhaps.
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Shannon, Ben Streusand was on the new morning guy’s show yesterday telling the story of him running for congress in 2004. He described it as being beat by the Establishment Candidate.
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I was walking up to a store here and the entrance was shaded and landscaped very nicely. A young woman stepped out of the door with her little boy and both were perfectly dressed. She was strikingly beautiful in her stylish sundress, perfect tan and long hair. Her son was dressed in one of those little sailor suits and shiny new shoes.
It struck me that the scene belonged in a swanky fashion advertisement, the sort of image a photographer would struggle to replicate with the perfect people, lighting and colors.
Then as she grabbed the boy’s hand and began to walk towards me I saw she had an ugly deep bruise running down the inside of her leg from the knee to her ankle. I wondered what kind of injury would cause that until she came closer and I realized it was one, big, hideous tattoo.
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Broken fantasies are the worst kinda downer man.
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7 Shannon says:
August 2, 2012 at 6:23 am
Is Michael McCaul part of the establishment? Perhaps.
But I challenge you to find a Texas congressman with a more conservative voting record.
.MCaul has made some questionable calls. I’d not place him at Ted Poe levels. But, as noted here, the level of conservatism does not an Establishment Candidate make.
A Cruz victory would suggest that Republican voters aren’t just rejecting inadequately conservative candidates and longtime incumbents. The sufficiently conservative who are tied the establishment — a word becoming more and more toxic in politics — are also at risk.
One question that can be asked to determine if a Republican is an “Establishment” candidate is to find out to what extent he supports the current Leadership of the Party. Once they understand that its the Leadership we’re really after, they will be able to get out from under that label.
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August 2, 2012 at 6:41 am
Shannon, Ben Streusand was on the new morning guy’s show yesterday telling the story of him running for congress in 2004. He described it as being beat by the Establishment CandidateI didn’t think it would happen so quickly. From the same source as above:
A Tuesday win by Cruz would mean just about every candidate left in a GOP primary who is challenging a frontrunner tied in ANY way to the establishment will do everything they can to compare their candidacy to Cruz’s.
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Another way to determine if a Republican is part of the Establishment is to see what he’s been saying about the Tea Party and how much he supports Tea Party Candidates.
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curious commentaries RE: tattoos Yall – to each their own I reckon – I’ve seen a lot more that were beautiful and artfully done than ugly……………………although I always prefer something completely original and unique over some ‘stock’-everyone-has-one type design – I only have one and it’s a tribute piece to my dearly departed Pop (God restim)…………although I am considering 2 more:
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Tattoos belong on old bikers and Army guys, wimmins ought not ‘less they be makin’ a statement about themselves.
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#14 – cannot agree with “makin’ a statement about themselves”……………..I’ve encountered FAR too many ladies with some ink that are light years away from being ‘tramps’ – IMHO only slightly more ‘naughty’ than breakin’ the speed limit or running a red light when an intersection is empty
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If I were king in the year 1320:
Decree at ye ole’ tattoo shop
And the first tattoo shall be the word stupid. Stupid being the word. It shall not be dumb, nor shall it be ignorant, but stupid. Stupid being the word. And nimcompoop is right out of here.
Said tattoo shall adorn ye forehead, ye forehead being the place. It shall not be upon the neck, nor the torso, nor the arms, less said arm be already badly mangled from some battle or other industrial accident already adjudicated for which there be no claim of any type throughout the land. Nor shall it be upon any appendage not meant to be viewed in public, unless when fully inflated, shall carry some important edict of the king which could not be read in it’s entirety in any other condition. It shall not be upon the legs except as described in section two, subparagraph b above. Lord Katfish by royal decree shall have dominion over all matters of tattoo, and shall not make decisions while under the influence of spirits or female wiles.
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Anyone who blamed Rush Limbaughfor the humliating defeat of 2008 would be an Establishment Republican.
Anyone who said that it wasn’t the Tea Party who brought the victories of 2010 would be one as well.
Anyone who ever said the Tea Party is dead is in the pile, too.
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As far as the queer kiss in at CfA tomorrow, I suggest a bullhorn, right next to them.
First use the buzzer/alarm button when they start then speak into the horn, look two guys are kissing. . . . .ifn its attention they want. . . . . . -
Moreover Sarge, anyone saying any of those things shall soon enough not hold political office.
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Katfish, shall I, by your chortle, understand said policy meets your approval?
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Folks, look at the comments from this story last night from ABC/Yahoo.
http://news.yahoo.com/gop-hits-obama-lobbyist-meetings-caribou-100052801–abc-news-politics.html
Scroll down to the comments, then click on oldest. Look how heavily slanted the ratings are towards the conservative viewpoint by the readers. Keep in mind on Tuesday 4.7 times as many Republicans showed up at the polls as Democrats. I’ve watched these comments on all kinds of news stories which have political overtones for the last 3 years. For the 2010 election, they were running 3 to 2 in favor of the conservative viewpoint, with commentary ranging from a couple hundred to over 25,000. Now they are running 3 to 1 in favor of the conservative viewpoint. While this is not scientific, I believe it shows a definitive trend. And based on the polls Dewhurst got a couple of days before the election, they’re as good or better than what he paid for! -
I guess it’s time for Occupy Dolphins.
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#21 – I aint gettin no ink on my forehead 🙂
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Well, at least it’s not a Catholic priest. While I’m not happy with any of this, it just goes to show that people are people – the good, the bad, and the ugly – no matter what profession is under scrutiny.
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“I think abortion is necessary on some occasions. People be against it, but people don’t deal with the real life situations some people deal with. I don’t think it’s right, I don’t think it’s good to have a baby and not be with the father.”
That’s from Houston rapper Slim Thug. I guess there’s some small comfort in him recognizing the importance of a home with a mother and a father, right?
“Even though I got three baby mamas … it’s working out. But it ain’t right. I ain’t saying wait three or four months. If it’s immediate, it’s like birth control to me.”
Never mind. Stay classy, Slim!
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CBS Atlanta didn’t think the whole Chick-fil-a thing was worth covering – because it wasn’t a bunch of long-haired, dope-smoking, angry, screaming people damaging property.
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TedTam, don’t forget the body fluids, excrement, and rape.
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Hamous, Dewhurst wasn’t using the same pollsters, was he?
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If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building.
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But grammar is relevant for all companies. Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn’t make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your physical absence. And, for better or worse, people judge you if you can’t tell the difference between their, there, and they’re.
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On the face of it, my zero tolerance approach to grammar errors might seem a little unfair. After all, grammar has nothing to do with job performance, or creativity, or intelligence, right?
Wrong. If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use “it’s,” then that’s not a learning curve I’m comfortable with. So, even in this hyper-competitive market, I will pass on a great programmer who cannot write.I won’t pass judgment on the occasional typo or error. After all, we’re only human. It shouldn’t be on the resume, however. Appearances are important, however, and how we project ourselves on paper and in person is important, especially in the business world. I remember looking through resumes for the job here in this office, and found a very likely prospect. I called his number and found a recorded greeting that was so ghetto that I didn’t leave a message. I did not want to risk him slipping into Ebonics when talking to a customer or a vendor.
But then, there are people like Lovely Daughter. She is very gifted, but her one weakness is spelling. She can do everything but spell consistently and accurately. (I suppose even Paul had his thorn in his side, didn’t he?) I wouldn’t hire her for programming – that would be a disaster! – but she could work very well with a spell-checker program in an office.
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George Will tees off on the Ted Cruz victory to leave an important lesson on our history and the time when the GOP Establishment fell on its sword to boldly stop Teddy Roosevelt from winning what would have been a disastrous third term. I have never shared current conservatives reverence for TR for a number of reasons, several of which Will spells out here.
TR went off the deep end and embraced a seriously anti-Constitution approach for the executive branch. Wilson was a particularly odious man and a dreadful president, but Roosevelt would have been even worse.
The Bull Moose Party was TR’s renegade faction of anti-Establishment Republicans hell bent on radically transforming constitutional checks and balances. It is not enough to be simply anti-Establishment – you must be doing it for the right reasons. And the GOP Establishment has not always been wrong throughout its history.And Cruz’s victory coincides with something conservatives should celebrate, the centennial of the 20th century’s most important intra-party struggle. By preventing former President Theodore Roosevelt from capturing the 1912 Republican presidential nomination from President William Howard Taft, the GOP deliberately doomed its chances for holding the presidency but kept its commitment to the Constitution.
Before Cruz, now 41, earned a Harvard law degree magna cum laude, he wrote his Princeton senior thesis on the Constitution’s Ninth and 10th Amendments, which if taken seriously would revitalize two bulwarks of liberty — the ideas that the federal government’s powers are limited because they are enumerated, and that the enumeration of certain rights does not “deny or disparage others retained by the people.” -
This is for all you guys who love to hang out in your manly refuge, garage or shop.
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G’Morning All
Big day in Texas history
The Texas revolution startsTexans oust Mexicans in battle of Nacogdoches
August 02, 1832
On this day in 1832, Texas settlers refused an order to surrender their arms to José de las Piedras, commander of the Mexican battalion at Nacogdoches. The ensuing battle of Nacogdoches is sometimes called the opening gun of the Texas Revolution. Piedras had issued his inflammatory order in the wake of the Anahuac Disturbances. The ayuntamiento of Nacogdoches resisted the order, organized a “National Militia,” and sent messengers to outlying settlements requesting military aid. Those who responded elected James W. Bullock their commander. On the morning of August 2 Bullock demanded that Piedras rescind his order and declare for Antonio López de Santa Anna and against the Centralist Mexican government, but Piedras refused. Bullock’s men entered the town that afternoon and eventually captured the Old Stone Fort and other key locations. That night Piedras evacuated his soldiers and headed for San Antonio. A detachment of mounted Texans, including James Bowie, caught them the next day; after a running fight along the Angelina River, Piedras’s men turned against him and surrendered him to the Texans. In the battle of Nacogdoches, Piedras lost forty-seven men killed and forty or more wounded. Three Texans were killed (a fourth died later) and four were wounded. -
A Texas legend begins
Larger than life, he was. One of my favorite books is Vinergaroon.Law arrives west of the Pecos
August 02, 1882
On this day in 1882, the commissioners of Pecos County officially appointed Roy Bean justice of the peace. He retained the post, with short interruptions, until he retired voluntarily in 1902. As he gained fame for being an eccentric and original interpreter of the law, the Kentucky native became known as the “Law West of the Pecos.” For example, when a man carrying forty dollars and a pistol fell off a bridge, Bean fined the corpse forty dollars for carrying a concealed weapon. The forty dollars covered the man’s funeral expenses. Bean died in his saloon on March 16, 1903, of lung and heart ailments and was buried in the Del Rio cemetery. His shrewdness, audacity, unscrupulousness, and humor, aided by his knack for self-dramatization, made him an enduring part of American folklore.
When Roy Bean was appointed Justice of the Peace by the Texas Rangers, he set up shop in a small town he renamed after the internationally famous actress Miss Lillie Langtry, and his saloon courthouse, he named the Jersey Lilly. In 1904, a full year after Judge Roy Bean died, Miss Lillie stepped off the Southern Pacific Sunset Limited at Langtry enroute from New Orleans to Los Angeles. She listened to the townspeople tell the stories of how Judge Roy Bean dispensed justice, how he once fined a corpse, and how he so admired Miss Lilly.
The mayor of Langtry then presented Miss Langtry with the Judge’s revolver. The Judge never met the object of his most ardent admiration, Miss Lily. Of the visit, Miss Langtry later wrote in her autobiography, “It was a short visit, but an unforgetable one.” -
Katy, Texas is born (A few years later)
Legislature grants Katy a Texas charter
August 02, 1870
On this day in 1870, the Texas legislature approved the Kansas charter of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, commonly known as the M-K-T or the Katy. The company had no charter to build in Texas, but was given the same rights as if it were incorporated in Texas. The Katy, the first railroad to enter Texas from the north, originated in 1865, when its earliest predecessor, the Union Pacific Railway Company, Southern Branch, was chartered by the State of Kansas. In 1870 the railway’s name was changed to the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company, a change which defined both the company’s strategic intent and its service area. The newly named railroad was intended to funnel business from Missouri, Kansas, and the north and east to and through Texas. The Katy, touted in advertisements as the Gateway to Texas, breached the Texas frontier near the site of present Denison, where the first regular train arrived on Christmas Day, 1872. In 1880 the Katy was acquired by Jay Gould, who leased the railroad to his Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and by 1882 the Katy had 638 miles of track in Texas. In 1915 all of the Katy properties in and out of Texas went into receivership, and in 1923 the company was reorganized as the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company of Texas. In 1989 Union Pacific and its subsidiary, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, bought the Katy, and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas was no more.
The town of Katy was originally known as Cane Island. The name is derived from Cane Island Creek which runs just west of downtown. Cane Creek is a branch of Buffalo Bayou. The origins of the name Cane Island are believed to be from the fact that Katy was once a major sugar cane producer and rice producer. To commemorate the importance of rice to the Katy community, the Chamber of Commerce holds the Rice Harvest Festival every second weekend of October. The railroad had been built through the community by the end of 1893. -
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It’s Big Jolly’s birthday and he’s at hospital waiting for grandbaby #1.
Sounds like it could be the awesomest birthday present ever.
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When Handsome Son was born, he was kept for some extra days for testing because of some labor complications. Then, the day we were supposed to bring him home, we went to the hospital, where I scrubbed and gowned myself so I could go into the Level II nursery to TAKE MY BABY HOME! I had his going home outfit in one hand, his going home blankie in the other, and my feet in the starting blocks. All I had to wait on was the doctor’s okay. Hubby stood outside the nursery window, watching and waiting.
The doctor arrived and began making his rounds. I had one eye on Handsome, one eye on the doc, and my feet in the starting blocks. I heard a nurse talking to the doctor about a baby that had quit breathing, but I knew they were talking about one of the preemies, so I stood at the door, just a quiver away from running into the room to GET MY BABY!
The doctor came over and explained that Handsome had stopped breathing during the night, and they needed to keep him for more tests. I was devestated. I went outside and told Hubby what had happened. We stood at the window together, crying, until Hubby took my hand and led me away. It was too hard to stay and look at our son and not be able to take him with us.
It was five days after his birth before I got the call that Hubby and I could take him home, but we first had to have Infant CPR training and learn how to operate the “mobile” monitor that I had to have with him (and on him) at all times. That sucker weighed a good 20 pounds. (Side note: Try carrying a diaper bag, a baby, a baby carrier, handle a toddler sister, and my purse, and then add another contraption with wires on it connected to the baby. His first seven months were a trial, but I did it. ) It was an up and down day, because either the trainer or the equipment were or were not available. Hubby got three calls to come in and then cancel before it was confirmed that everything was ready. We got our training, got the monitor, and then got our baby.
I was allowed to bring home Handsome Son on my birthday. I don’t remember getting anything else that day, but that was okay. I got the best possible present that day. I gained full possession of my Handsome Son. -
Yes, let’s give them more power under Obamacare.
The IRS is paying out billions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds to identity thieves; a problem that the tax service’s inspector general told CNBC is a “growing problem” involving numbers that are increasing “exponentially.”
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Yup. It’s the end of the world.
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TR went off the deep end and embraced a seriously anti-Constitution approach for the executive branch. Wilson was a particularly odious man and a dreadful president, but Roosevelt would have been even worse.
The Bull Moose Party was TR’s renegade faction of anti-Establishment Republicans hell bent on radically transforming constitutional checks and balances. It is not enough to be simply anti-Establishment – you must be doing it for the right reasons. And the GOP Establishment has not always been wrong throughout its history.How ironic that 100 years later, it is the Insurgents who are trying to restore checks and balances and return to a Constituion centered approach to government.
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#11 Sarge
Having personally endured most of a Michael McCaul town hall meeting, I can assure you, based on first-hand experience, Mr. McCaul is not a conservative. The fellow actually had the temerity to stand there and tell his groaning audience, “It was the best we could do” referring to his vote on raising the debt ceiling again.
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We’ve got our own problems with Rep Olsen.
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Look;
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The man who occupies the most powerful political office in the State of Texas just lost the most important race of his lifetime by 14 points.
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#43 Hammie: That one is in a bad spot, there is a better chance that one could affect us here in H-Town,
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Here’s the current 5-day.
Fcst is to be a TS in the next 36-48hr as it passes over the Windward Islands into the Caribbean. Doesn’t fcst a dramatic increase in strength across the Caribbean over the remaining four days. -
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Seeing as how our breadbasket is in a severe drought and how it costs about 2 gals of diesel to put one gallon of corn based ethanol in a gas tank, how about we contact our congress critters and demand a “temporary” moratorium on corn base ethanol in gasoline. How about a moratorium on ethanol in gasoline period.
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#54 – pssssst………..just don’t mention Suzanne Pleshette and MAYBE Sha-Na-Na can make it through the day without a meltdown
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#55 Katfish: Back in the day Suzanne Pleshette was smokin hot!
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#57 Timd: Excellent point. Seeing as how it is forecast to get really bad in that area, the last thing we want to do is burn food for fuel. The whole process is insanity from the beginning. How can it possibly be considered “renewable” when it costs 2 gals of diesel to put 1 gal of ethanol in the gas tank??
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Cancer sticks, AKA coffin (coughing) spikes, kilt her quicker than she shoulda died.
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#59 BC: Agree. The only logic, at least to the farmer, has to be a gummint subsidy that guarantees him a profit. Meanwhile, as the farmer gets rich and the politician gets re-elected, the taxpayer, the trucker and the average guy at the pump all take it in the shorts due to engine and fuel system damage coupled with reduced fuel economy.
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There appears to be a common link between #’s 45, 46, 47 and 52, 53, 59 to wit: there are politicians involved! Who’da thunk it?
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Another quick journey in the Not-So-Wayback Machine:
Chick-fil-A gets a lesson on corporate outspokenness
July 31, 2012, 6:21 p.m.
Despite decades if not centuries of bitter experience, business leaders apparently haven’t absorbed the lesson that it’s best to let your products speak for themselves and keep your big mouth shut.
The latest executive to learn this the hard way is Dan Cathy, president of the family-owned fast-food chain Chick-fil-A. In an interview with a Baptist publication and an appearance on a devotional radio program, Cathy unburdened himself of the view that gay marriage violated God’s plan.Yeah. Lesson learned. The hard way. It’s a rough and rocky way:
According to one account, Chick-fil-A’s corporate headquarters told its outlets to expect a 15 to 20 percent increase in business yesterday, while the actual increase may be closer to something like 200 percent.
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Heh. Is there a better study in liberal cluelessness out today? (That was a rhetorical question: I am sure Power Line readers can find a dozen worthy examples in this target-rich environment.) What’s really behind Hiltzik’s column is old-fashioned liberal intimidation of business–trying to keep business people from speaking out for their own principles and interests.
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Another member of the old guard may be in trouble, this time in Adee’s home state:
That created a possible opening for former congressman Mark Neumann, who also has benefited from the backing of national conservative leaders and from $700,000 in attack ads against Thompson and Hovde by the conservative group Club for Growth.
The anti-tax organization is hoping for a repeat of what happened this week in Texas, where the group’s ads were a significant factor in the GOP primary victory of Ted Cruz over the better-known, better-funded longtime Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. -
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Why are you guys bothering with ladies in a casket when Cheryl Johnson is still nearby?
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Frumpy English girls? No thanks.
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I’m OK with “frumpy” (whatever that means) euro gals. Wish all you like, but they can’t all be California girls.
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#73 WB
I went to see Breakfast at Tiffany’s when I was 10 years old. My mother thought I wasn’t quite old enough to see it, but she wanted to go and no one else was around.
I had no idea what a call girl was or that Holly Golightly was one, but I fell really hard for Audrey.
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#66 Hamous
Good article that pretty much agrees with what I’ve read.
According to a conservative Wisconsin blog I visit regularly (not Althouse), the sudden scramble on the GOP side looks to be a free-for-all come primary time. Conservatives there generally regard Tommy Thompson as too willing to compromise with Dems when it isn’t necessary and too big a spender as Governor for 4 terms. Also many think he’s been in politics too long and at 70 should hang it up.
Neumann has the support of Jim DeMint and other conservative Senators as well as Club for Growth, but some Badger conservatives aren’t all that enthusiastic about him owing to a bitter and ugly campaign on his part against Scott Walker in 2010. That might be one reason Scott Walker is staying out of picking anyone. Neumann served a term in the House in the 90s I believe, and otherwise he’s been in business. He is a fiscal conservative.
Hovde has caught the attention of conservatives now that he seems to have a chance, and he seems to have a growing following. He likewise has business experience and financial savvy. His having lived in DC in recent years might concern some voters.
Sadly for many conservatives the fourth candidate, Speaker of the Assembly Fitzgerald, is preferred but has the fewest funds. So he appears to be pretty much out of contention.
On the Democrat side, Rep. Tammy Baldwin is the choice–she who belongs to the US House Democrat Socialist group and is a flaming liberal. Whoever the GOP winner is will have quite a battle against the full force of the liberals/progressives who are furious over the results of the runoffs after their 2010 election losses. That will be an ugly campaign.
On the bright side, Wisconsinites have learned that the majority of them basically lean or are conservative and no longer have to be cowed by the true miniority of hardcore liberals/progressives/socialists any more. Amazing what can be accomplished once you realize there are so many more of you than of them and taking command of your state before it goes off a cliff. -
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There’s only one Chik-Fil-A near me and I almost went over there yesterday even though I have never been to one before. I thought, “Hey, this is Jersey, there won’t be that big of a crowd”. I ended up not going and it’s just as well.
That location made the front page of the New York Post today.
Headline: Cock Fight ! Free Speech Backers Flock to Chik-Fil-A
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Obviously, Gilligan is truly awesome. At least, according to this guy!
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Dave Jennings is officially a grandpa.
Terra Lynn debuts at 7 lbs. 1 oz., a new Texan.
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I believe this was covered last night, while now it’s wife-beating and not child molesting.
And now that Reid has repeated the charge from the Senate floor, a panel on Megyn Kelly’s “America Live” has fired back with an even more cutting response. Specifically, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen described Reid’s attack as a thoroughly disingenuous piece of rhetorical sleight-of-hand and to prove his point, jokingly made a similar charge against Reid:
In response to Reid taking to the Senate floor to declare that “the word is out” that Romney avoided taxation for ten years, Thiessen quipped: “The word is out that for the past ten years Harry Reid has been beating his wife. Do I know that? Do I have any proof? No. But the burden of proof is on him to prove that he hasn’t been beating his wife.”
“That’s essentially what Harry Reid just did to Mitt Romney,” Thiessen said.
“What does ‘the word is out’ mean?” he continued. “He admits he doesn’t have any proof. In fact, this is the quote: he said, ‘Do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain. But I don’t think that the burden of proof should be on me, the burden should be on him. He’s the one I’ve alleged has not paid taxes.’” -
The punk ass bully that was berating the young cashier at Chick-fil-A while he was getting his “free water” has been fired. HA HA!
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#86 Hamous:
Incredible. Hey you guys are haters. . . but, please don’t think I’m gay, no, no, no! There’s no gay in me – I’m totally straight, ’cause, after all, who’d want to actually be gay. They’re so screwed up they don’t even know how arrogantly hypocritical they are. -
This is just mind-boggling. The governor of the most populous state in the union is shooting craps with its future by betting on the tax income from one internet company.
Marketwatch via Instapundit.With Facebook shares trading at all-time lows, investors in the busted IPO are gnashing their teeth.
But they’re not the only ones.
California state officials had been counting on a big boost to state revenues from the social networking company FB+0.65%.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s office put the number as high as $1.9 billion, assuming that Facebook shares are trading around $35 later this year when restricted stock unit lockups end.
Now however, with Facebook barely above $20, those assumptions are very much in doubt.
And as the Legislative Analyst’s Office told the Sacramento Bee “if the company’s stock price remains depressed, hundreds of millions of income tax dollars assumed in the 2012-13 state budget plan are at risk.” -
#86 – definitely a punk – BUT (aint there always a but?)………
………the guy didn’t seem that terribly rude from this desk —– even though I totally AGREE the window cash register Gal didn’t need to hear that………………..I bet the POS tries to SUE his former employer – let’s all pray some fine judge throws it OUT as frivolous -
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How’d he feel about making everyone else behind him wait just so he could chat with the drive thru employee denouncing the coporation which created her job and provided him with ice cold water on their dime? -
In the profound vocabulary that is Mrs. Darren (vocabulary I’ve been actively encouraging her to reduce and perhaps eliminate), that man was a dumbsh*t.
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I just hope there was a morality clause in his employment contract, thus:
“Employee agrees not to be a rude wisshole to others, especially when said others are simply doing their job and have no power to correct the problem causing the wissholocity. Employee shall find appropriate avenues to vent and disperse anger and other negative emotions, such as breaking crockery, punching bags at a gym, or inserting hand into a running garbage disposal. Employee recognizes that failure to appropriately behave in public may reflect poorly on Employer, causing losses in prestige and sales, and so shall keep his wisshole tendencies to private venues.” -
#93 Darren
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bob;
If you’re here today I want you to know that Mrs. Darren and I went to Target today to refill her meds and we did some shopping for baby stuff on one of her gift cards. While I was in the checkout line Mrs. Darren rested on one of the cafeteria’s seats and chatted with a Target employee there who was on break and is also an active member of our church. We had a good time there and we like the stuff we were able to get. -
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Texpat;
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Whoohoo!!!! Now he can exclusively work on spoiling a baby as opposed to worry how to best raise the child.
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Hey, you are here bob. I left a post for you.
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Hugh Hewitt’s on the radio right now interviewing an author and Hewitt just mentioned how Romney served 5 years as an LDS bishop and 8 years as an LDS stake president. (To explain this simply, bishops are leaders of wards or ocal congregations and several wards together make up a stake). Hewitt pointed out that neither position is a 2 hr/ week job. (Boy, he got that right). The author is also LDS and had served as a bishop and the author pointed out that these jobs are from 20-40 hours per week. The two just completed the segment talking about how these positions are there in large part to comfort and aid those in need. The needs range from parents whose kids use drugs, lead alternative lifestyles, and death of loved ones. It was very well done.
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Did I miss something?
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Did I miss something?
Is Target now a target of the queer crybabies?Just the opposite. They announced they were offering same-sex wedding registries.
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Hamous #75;
Right now I’m pretending I never saw anything there. I saw no bikini babe whatsoever. Nor so I see the poster everytime I scroll up and down this thread.
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They announced they were offering same-sex wedding registries.
Is that what that advertisement was for? I didn’t look at it much in part because the idea of dudes kissing makes me gag.
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If there was a place which offered such good prices on medication, I’d go there. But not knowing of any I’m fine shopping at Target.
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Lovely hates it when I call her a Target bigot. (She hates shopping at Wal-Mart.) I’ll need to watch it, now, the nickname might be misconstrued!
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HA HA HA! Hubby and Handsome are out for the evening, for the VW Car Club meeting.
I have full run of the kitchen, don’t have to cook or care for anyone else, and sole control of the remote! -
Any tips on getting the default mail set up on Windows 7? I’m trying to email my congradulations to Big Jolly but it won’t let me connect because my default email is not set up. This has happened to me before attepmting to contact other people but I’ve never tried to fix it.
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Tedtam #109;
I have full run of the kitchen, don’t have to cook or care for anyone else, and sole control of the remote!
Kitty’s waiting for his meal so that he can retun it on your lap.
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TT;
Likewise Mrs. Darren took the kids swimming. I planned to go but I could not find my swimsuit. It is nice to have free reign in the house once in a while, isn’t it? -
Kitty can just wait for her meal, and she has her warm spot/blanket. I’ve set up a “standing” work station for the evening, so the lap thing is screwed, too.
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On July 17th, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in OH to strike down part of that state’s law governing voting by members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is “arbitrary” with “no discernible rational basis.”
Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military are given three extra days to do so. While the Democrats may see this as “arbitrary” and having “no discernible rational basis,” I think it is entirely reasonable given the demands on servicemen and women’s time and their obligations to their sworn duty.Make sure those military folks don’t get their votes in. Good thing the Democrats make sure nobody’s disanfranchised.
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Some reason’s moral at ICE is down following Obama’s executive decision to leyt illegals go.
Crane said a case involving a veteran ICE agent is a perfect illustration. The agent arrested an illegal who was not a “primary target.” The agent’s superior officers ordered the illegal released – even though he did not meet the criteria listed by the Dept. of Homeland Security.
The officer refused to follow orders and is now facing a three day suspension. The 35-year-old illegal immigrant with ten traffic violations was released.
He pointed to another case in El Paso where an illegal immigrant injured an ICE agent during an attempted escape. Again, Crane said, because the individual was not a priority target, he was released without any charges being filed.Medved the other day spoke about ICE agents getting beat up by their suspect but they too were ordered to let the person go.
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Two current Drudge headlines:
GM PROFITS PLUNGE 41%…
Feds keep buying more cars…Gotta love that Drudge.
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Romney took English 3, Elementary Algebra, Biology, French 1, and Art 3. He is credited in his art class for having a “real ability in painting,” but admitted that Romney is “not as industrious or as responsible as he might be.”
The rest of the report card contains similar comments about Romney’s potential to do better in class, and under additional comments, the following is written about Romney’s overall performance.
“Mitt is doing well. He is a more responsible citizen this year.” -
I was in a Target about a year ago…the first time in many years.
It felt more like a “dollar store” with limited selection.
I’m just used to Walmart. The one in Brenham is a good one.
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Unlike the usurpiing Kenyan’s birth certificate, at least Romney’s report card isn’t a phony.
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phil #119;
My high school report card could be summed up as “working far under potential”. “Strives for Ds just to get the h*ll out of school”. -
Romney’s in big trouble now…NOT.
LOL: New Poll Shows Obama Ahead By Ten Points…with a D+19 Sample -
#102 Shannon
Did I miss something?
Is Target now a target of the queer crybabies?That is so 2010. They donated to an anti-same sex marriage group.
This year they upset the homophobic crybabies by selling rainbow tee shirts and donating the funds to the Family Equality Council
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94 Tedtam says:
August 2, 2012 at 5:26 pm
I just hope there was a morality clause in his employment contract, thus:I would not have supported his firing based on what he said and did. He has as much a right to do that as Chik Fil A does to donate to whatever cause he wants, or I do when I put post its on gas pumps. If you could get fired for being a butt hole, we’d all lose our jobs at some point.
But when he posted the video to You Tube and his blog, he identified himself as being the CFO of that company and as a professor at a local college, thus associating his employer with his hate. That left them no choice.
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I have come to the conclusion that part of the volleyball game rules is a group hug after each point is scored. It doesn’t matter if it’s men or women, inside or beach. I’ve never seen so much body contact in one place before, except maybe the old roller derby days. Or my high school dances.
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Anne Romney’s horse made an impressive impression in her debut at the Olympics
Never for a second during her seven-minute performance did a hoof stray dangerously mouthwards, nor did she do anything at all to offend or upset the host nation. From the moment she entered the Greenwich Park equestrian arena at 12.15 on Thursday afternoon, the most famous political horse since Caligula toyed with making a consul of Incitatus seemed in her element.
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The Brazilian Men’s Volleyball coach needs my duck tape. I think his head is about to ‘splode, ‘cuz they are getting their collective butts kicked. It’s not totally embarrassing; the Brazilian team is scoring. But the Americans have a growing lead.
And I hear we had a woman gymnast make gold in the all-around. I hate that so much is being made of her skin color, being the first “African American” to earn the gold for that event, but she is cute as the dickens and has obviously worked hard for it. She is extremely talented, and she earned that medal. Good for her. -
USA just kicked some Brazilian volleyball hiney.
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I have come to the conclusion that part of the volleyball game rules is a group hug after each point is scored. It doesn’t matter if it’s men or women, inside or beach. I’ve never seen so much body contact in one place before, except maybe the old roller derby days. Or my high school dances.
I thought that from early on this past weekend watching men’s gymnastics, “sho lotta huggin’ goin’ on around here.” I guess we’re all just happy people anymore.
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Real men share their joy.
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Man, I twisted around in my chair earlier, trying to reach something. I really hurt my hip. I can stand on it, sit on it, but if I try to lift it…well, I have some problems.
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Ah ain’t sharing my joy, sorry.
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Party pooper
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USA just kicked some Brazilian volleyball hiney.
Thanks for the spoiler…
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They all hug too.
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#133 WB
Sorry. I’ll keep to myself. The gymnastics things was earlier today and was all over the news, so I don’t feel badly about that one. -
Wagonburner – don’t you ever stay at home? Whatsamatter? Aint’ the cookin’ good enough?
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#136 TT
Wagonburner – don’t you ever stay at home?
His wife Yellow Hair is mean as a snake. I’ve seen him post that many a time.
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Willard’s hired former Henry “I do believe that the worst is likely to be behind us,” Paulson aide and Fannie Mae Vet For Bain Rehab. Michele Davis is finishing up a gig managing the oil company BP’s public relations effort in the wake of a giant Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
She arrived at Treasury from Fannie Mae, the giant, government-backed firm that backs a large share of the nations mortgages. She was vice president for regulatory policy at Fannie Mae from 2002 to 2006, and is listed as a registered lobbyist for the troubled and controversial entity — which made a practice of keeping a bipartisan squad of Washington insiders on payroll — in 2004. (Indeed, Mitt Romney attacked rival Newt Gingrich for taking payments from Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae’s sibling entity.)
Apparently he agrees
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I believe I’ve met the wife. If she’s the one I’m thinking of – she’s quite nice. Maybe WB is just a wimp.
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Wagonburner – don’t you ever stay at home? Whatsamatter? Aint’ the cookin’ good enough?
Travel’s slowing down – sorta.
Being in Canadia is not too bad – 1hr time difference, looks & feels like Colorado or Wyoming, flight to get here isn’t too bad, it’s summer so it’s light out until 10:00 and it’s not buried in a mile & a half of snow. -
I believe I’ve met the wife. If she’s the one I’m thinking of – she’s quite nice.
You’ve never met. If you had, there would be no ‘believe’ about it.
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Who was it that I met at the park for our LST Memorial get-together?
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Nearly 40 percent of all home health care agencies or HHAs with suspicious billings came from Texas, according to the latest findings from the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
We didn’t have these fraud crimes
investigatedoccur when the other guys were running things.
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Who was it that I met at the park for our LST Memorial get-together?
Beats me. Did you drink some of bob’s ‘coffee’?
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Mainstream Media Blacks Out Chick-fil-A Story?
Should read…
Prop-Obummagandist-ProGay Media Blacks Out Chick-fil-AStory!!
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#147 WB
Beats me. Did you drink some of bob’s ‘coffee’?
Not only no, but HELL NO!
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The British ambassador has some blunt talk for Israel.
The British ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould said on Thursday that anyone who cares about Israel, should be concerned about the erosion of international support for the country.
Speaking on Channel 10 news on Thursday evening, Gould said, “Israelis might wake up in 10 years time and find out that suddenly the international community has changed, and that patience for continuing the status quo has reduced.” -
A program to spay / neuter pit bulls does not surprise me.
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Texpat #126;
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I hear them chihuahuas are streaming across the border to have anchor litters. 😉
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tedtam #125;
The Brazilian Men’s Volleyball coach needs my duck tape. I think his head is about to ‘splode, ‘cuz they are getting their collective butts kicked. It’s not totally embarrassing; the Brazilian team is scoring. But the Americans have a growing lead.
I was in Brazil one year they beat the US for the gold. I tell ya’, I never heard the end of it. 🙂
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#150 Shamaal
The British ambassador to Jerusalem is a singularly ignorant and asinine fool. He and his limey colleagues had better worry about whether the UK even exists in 10 years rather than fret over Eretz Israel. -
I’m trying to search for a specific interview. It was with a Likud Party leader and I think it was Wagonburner who made a front page post here and that i’m not thinking of a former LST post. Wagon’s post had the name of the leader who was interviewed and the name completely escapes me at the moment. Any leads would be appreciated.
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Shamaal #150;
The British ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould said on Thursday that anyone who cares about Israel, should be concerned about the erosion of international support for the country.
Erosion of international support for Israel always coincides with Isreal defending itself along the lines it should. It’s only when the Jews in Israel are pacified and cater to the demands of the Palestinians that internaltional support for Israel increases (as false a support it is).
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Come to think of it, part of what I just posted to Shamaal is part of the interview I’m looking for. I remember it had something to do with the Canadian press.
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Brekthrough; I did a Bing image search on “likud party” and found the person. Not the interview I want. Did find the person. Moshe Feiglin.
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Still not the interview but this is precisely what Feiglin referred to in that interview:
Have you ever asked yourself where the safest place in Israel is? Where do you not have to worry about Arabs throwing rocks at your car? Where can you walk around at night without fear of arms or drugs smugglers crossing the border? Where don’t missiles fly and where don’t bombs explode? In short, where is the place that you are safest from both external enemies and from internal Arab terror and crime?
That place is the Golan Heights. Without even trying, possibly even by mistake, Israel enjoys real peace there. Any new peace plan must follow the principles that have brought us true peace in the Golan. There are just five easy steps:Encourage Arab emigration
Conquest
Israeli sovereignty
Settlement
No peace accords!Sixty thousand Syrian Arabs who had been scattered throughout villages in the Golan Heights disappeared even before the Golan was liberated. The only ones who stayed were the Druze in the north of the Golan. These villages are the exception that proves the necessity of implementing the first principle.
The second principle, conquest, was fully implemented by Israel in the Golan. No foreign forces remained there. The area is entirely controlled by Israel.
Israel declared sovereignty over the entire Golan, settled it and most important of all – never signed a peace treaty with Syria. This is how we have prevented the war under the guise of peace that we suffer on our border with Egypt from repeating itself on our border with Syria.http://www.jewishisrael.org/eng_contents/articles/70/article7046.html
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…Is Romney right that the White House put Reid up to it? Probably, but like I say, Reid’s a rodent when it comes to this sort of thing. Axelrod probably figured that he’d find his way to a smear like this on his own, in due time. Hey, maybe Ax was the mysterious “Bain investor” who called Reid up and told him that Romney’s been ducking his tax obligations. That’d be all Dingy needs to go to the press with it.
Two clips here, one of Romney and the other via Mediaite of Rush Limbaugh having fun with Reid’s “logic.”Two short clips provided at the bottom of the link.
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Ann Romney’s mare Rafalca finished in 6th place in the Grand Prix dressage competition (highest level) today, which is quite good in a sport dominated by Europeans and the Brits. I’m sure there were a lot of entries in that competition. Her trainer rode, Ann did not..
In Shamaal’s #124 the fool journalist’s “report” of the mare’s performance was pure political snark from someone totally clueless about the discipline of dressage. Also unsure about Caligula making his horse Incitatus a Senator–Caligula did. Now what that throwaway had anything to do with today’s Olympics event is likely the product of a sodden mind in a body that hung around a pub too long prior to sitting down to the keyboard. 🙂
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