I have commented before in this august forum of the beauty, grace, and sheer athleticism that is wimmins beach volleyball. Here is an example of said grace, beauty and sheer athleticism:
After seeing this, participants, fans, and enthusiasts of other sports became jealous and wondered why their sports were not watched with the same degree of interest. Fortunately, Mr. Nate Jones of the New York Metro had the same questions and endeavored to find an answer for you people.
He examined some other sports through the same lens, so to speak, as wimmins beach volleyball. The results were expected, if not almost disappointing.
We see basketball:
Diving:
Gymnastics:
Swimming:
Wrestling (not rasslin’):
As we can see, none can compare.
I’m going with grace, beauty, and sheer athleticism.
Weekend Olympic Photography Open Comments
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Genesis: In the beginning were the liberals. And the liberals were without intelligence. And stupidity was upon the face of the liberals. Nothing has changed since then.
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You may recall about 10 years ago I-45 was under expansion between North Houston and Conroe. I don’t recall exactly which year, but it was before the new overpass was done where you could exit from I-45 onto Woodlands Parkway. It was late afternoon on a Saturday. I was crawling down the feeder (in my car, I had not been drinking), trying to get to Woodlands Parkway to turn right. I was almost there. I could see the traffic coming off of Woodlands Parkway, waiting to turn right (south) onto the I-45 feeder. Here is where the fun occured.
There was a small, K type car at the intersection, awaiting to turn right onto the feeder, but nowhere to go. I could see she was fortyish…..small, petite, salt and pepper hair pulled back into a pony tail. Behind her was a guy in a pickup, I’d say mid 30s to early 40s, dark hair. This guy was honking his horn at her, cussing, yelling at her to turn. She had nowhere to go.
After a couple of minutes of this, her car door opens, she puts the blue light on top of her car, puts on her gun belt and her sheriff’s jacket, and proceeds to walk back to said loudmouth. At this time traffic moved, and I had to go one, and did not see the results. But it was a great example of karma. -
Does anybody have anything archived from Lone Star Times? I had two things on there I’d like to get. One was my story of Bill White as General Patton after the hurricane. The other was my story of the black cessna, slightly mocking the Minutemen on the border and heavily mimicked from the black knight on Monty Python.
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OK, seeing buttcheeks on the front page is not acceptable. I do not know wagonburner’s fetish with butts, crotches, and weirdo crossdressers but, wagon, get help.
I’d normally cease and leave at this point but there’s a story I really want to share via a link found from a Drudge story.
After reading the following story I am convinced that Wojdan Shaherkani from saudi Arabia is a remarkable “girl”. I place that word in quotation marks only because she is 16. “Girl”, however, does her no justice: she is a woman in character, will, and virtue.The most overused word at the Olympics is “courage,” but on a historic, heart-thumping Friday morning at the ExCeL Centre, it wrapped itself as tightly around Wojdan Shaherkani as that black scarf around her head.
With some in her country calling her one of the “Prostitutes of the Olympics,” with her country’s television network refusing to broadcast the match, with her own neighbors perhaps whispering of her shame, Shaherkani became the first female athlete from Saudi Arabia to compete in an Olympic event.Shaherkani did not break new ground easily:
Around her white robe, the 16-year-old was wearing a black belt even though she is not even close to qualifying for a black belt. She had been practicing the sport for only two years. The Olympics were her first official judo competition.
One of two female Olympic athletes from her country, she was thrown into the Games by a Saudi government that finally caved into pressure from the International Olympic Committee. She had never been out of the country. She didn’t know she would be competing until a couple of days ago, when judo’s governing body finally met her country’s demand that she wear a modified hijab.Shaherkani quickly lost the Judo match but truly she won so much more. She braved the odds. She stood firm in the face of grave ugliness from her fellow countrymen. She feared what she was to do but proceeded to do it. Her efforts were, as Bill Plaschke described her braveness, heroic. Wojdan Shaherkani has led the way for good to open up uon her country. She did so by respecting her culture, adhiring to her faith, and by steadfastness in a world of fear and uncertainty. God bless her and hers and I truly hope to see her return in four more years in Rio.
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Ever wonder where the term “Maverick” came from? From a coupla Texas Revolution heroes, that’s where.
Texas Revolution participant marries future memoirist
August 04, 1836
On this day in 1836, at her home in Alabama, Mary Ann Adams married Samuel Augustus Maverick. The couple divided their time between Alabama and Texas until 1838, when they moved to San Antonio. In Texas Samuel had already been involved in the Texas Revolution and served as a delegate to the Convention of 1836. He became a leading land baron–the term “maverick,” denoting an unbranded calf, derives from a herd of his cattle–and legislator. After her husband’s death in 1870, Mary Maverick made efforts to see that the state’s pioneer past was not forgotten. She was a prominent member of the San Antonio Historical Society and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She helped promote the annual Battle of Flowers celebration, and she served as president of the Alamo Monument Association for many years. Historians often refer to her watercolor sketch of the mission, and in 1889 she wrote a brief account of the fall of the Alamo. Her memoirs provide a vivid picture of life on the Texas frontier. She died in 1898. -
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The Domestic Diva doesn’t need the Green Party, apparently.
Roseanne Barr, the far-far left sitcom alum, lost her fight to represent the Green Party in the upcoming presidential elections.
Barr is still running for the highest office in the land. And she’s put together a dream ticket for those who think Current TV is too conservative.
She announced Thursday that she will run for president on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. Her running mate, Barr said in a news release, will be Cindy Sheehan, whose son, U.S. Army Spec. Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in 2004….
In the release, Sheehan, who was vilified by the right for her Crawford vigil, said she was honored to be selected as Barr’s running mate. “I am excited about the chance to infuse the message of socialism with the heart and soul that is missing from political discourse,” she said.
Perhaps Sheehan can convince her uber-rich running mate to share some of her wealth with their comrades.(From Brietbart)
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About a dozen people gathered in the parking lot of a Galleria-area Chick-fil-A restaurant Friday in the latest skirmish over the fast-food company’s role in the same-sex marriage debate.
The “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” was to have been a counterpoint to Wednesday’s massive “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” that saw supporters flooding the chain’s restaurants around the country. But it was a much more modest affair on Friday at the franchise on Richmond near the West Loop.
Reports of sparse crowds were common nationwide.(From Houston Chronicle)
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Some commentary on Tuesday’s aftermath
Voters across Texas did not buy the well-funded lies and the establishment spin spewing from campaign ads. Why? Because this new coalition has worked tirelessly since the last legislative session to unravel the “all is well because the GOP is in charge” Austin Fairy Tale.
What do the GOP May primary and July runoff election results mean?
■Voters are no longer impressed with the endorsements of incumbent statewide officials and state senators.
■Voters are well informed and know where to get the voting records of incumbents.
■Voters are looking at the entire record of incumbents – not just the pro-life and pro-Second amendment endorsements.
■Voters understand that some Republicans love “big government” just as much – or more – than Democrats do.
■Voters are on to politicians who shake their fists at Washington, DC with one hand, while reaching for more federal funds with the other.
■Voters are tired of the “Washington is broken” rhetoric that any parrot can learn. We get that part. How about some solutions?
■An energized coalition of grassroots constitutional conservatives intent on reform can outwork and out-strategize the highest paid political consultants.Bring us the political head of Joe Strauss.
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#4 – Bigs try Texpat – he might have a trail of bread crumbs or know more than I…………
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Will Dewhurst be gone as LtGov?
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Will Dewhurst be gone as LtGov?
If he continues slash and burn, he prolly will be.
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August 4, 2012 at 7:28 am
#10 Sarge
Looking back on Dooworst, it seems like he was taking his ads straight out of the Lib Handbook. I got so tired of them………………………….My experience wth Establishment Republicans is that thier first impulse when faced with reform minded Conservatives is to go nasty and stay that way. It didn’t surprse us at all. In fact, its probably safe to say that we counted on it.
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August 4, 2012 at 7:38 am
Will Dewhurst be gone as LtGov?He’ll serve out his current term in the same badly wounded state as Rick Perry, then both of them wll retire from elected poltics and hope that in a few years they will be revered as the pioneers they were rather than the opportunists and cronyists who presided over one of the most vindictive political machines to appear in Texas politics that they became—–and that’s saying a lot.
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And if there’s still anybody out there who thinks that Dewcrist deserves a second chance, or a shot at the Governorship, then what needs to happen s to get him a Speaker of the House who will help him pass that loooooooooooong list of legislative issues he needs to pass to get back into good graces.
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Here’s a guy who feels sorry for himself for acting a fool and losing his job, embarrassing his company, victimizing and harassing an innocent drive through food clerk, and then refusing to take personal responsibility for his actions by saying that he was only following orders from a liberal web site that he had visited – oh, and for sure, he’s not gay
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Our economy is in dire condition. The Middle East is coming close to a meltdown, possibly beginning WWIII. Under these circumstances, what do we find?
Conservatives:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Obama:
When the going gets tough,play golf.
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Someone doesn’t have a sense of humor.
I never thought the RNC had the cajones to do this. On one hand, I’m laughing at the cake and the reaction, and on the other hand, it seems like a rather sophomoric thing to do.
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I just checked Lynsee’s Gofundme site. It warms my heart to see anonymous and friend-of-a-friend donations. I know how it feels to help someone out, especially anonymously, but I’d like to add my “thank you” to anyone here who has offered to help her out. You have no idea what this is doing for her emotionally.
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If you don’t mind wading through some typically nasty Lefty bile, there’s some good information on changes wrought by the TEA Party knuckle-draggers…
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#20 TT
I’m sure glad now that I finally posted your assistant Lynsee’s appeal on my FB. I was wrong thinking that wouldn’t work! Now that the link is in Gigi’s account, I hope it will spread more widely among her big circle of FB friends. Do you have to wait until the target amount is donated, or can she take it out as needed? -
According to the fine folks at the Pew Research Center, the Houston Metro area is highly segregated according to income level.
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Butt-man, er, Pyro:The Clayton campaign’s Facebook page champions three major positions: strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution, family stances that are pro-life, and keeping the country from turning into “AN ORWELLIAN SUPER STATE.”
I would really like to see all the Rs take the same pledge.
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#19 tamted
Let them eat cake!
Can’t have more of a sense of humor than this …………“We sent the cake back to the RNC, along with a copy of the Tax Center’s report on Mitt Romney’s tax plan.”
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OK, seeing buttcheeks on the front page is not acceptable.
By whose rules? Did you write the last check to the web hosting company?
I’d normally cease and leave at this point…
… but your desire to moderate the moderators overrode your easily-offended sensibilities?
… but your story was more important than your easily-offended sensibilities?
… but you feel your easily-offended sensibilities give you the right to demand that the moderators conform to them?
Every web browser I use refreshes to the bottom of the page. Even if I don’t like the picture at the top of any one post, I only have to look at it until a few comments are added, then it disappears.
In case you haven’t noticed, attempting to moderate the moderators is offensive to me. I trust the front pagers here to meet my standards. If I don’t think they’ve done that (which has never happened, btw) I will take care of the situation in private. For your part, you are an invited guest here. You have no rights to dictate what my standards are. If this is unacceptable then you can always not visit the site, or as the footer says: “If any of this is a problem, Hambone suggests you start your own blog.” If you would like a full refund of your subscription I will gladly … oh wait … -
Mharper she can withdraw the money any time she wants. Of course, GoFundMe takes its cut, and the money handling middleman takes his cut, but that’s somewhere around 4%. Other than that, it’s all hers.
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Speaking of easily offended sensibilities …
Obama:
When the going gets tough,play golf.
Even if it IS his birthday, the propriety of playing golf so often while people are losing their homes and going on welfare sends a completely disconcerting message.I understand he sleeps at night also, just like his predecessors
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For those who may have missed it …
Curiositytouches downlands on the surface of Mars at 1:31 a.m. EDT, Aug. 6, 2012 Monday morning.
Like those who remember where they were when JFK was shot, I remember I was in the school lab in Millington watching the first televised pictures returned from the surface of Mars by Viking. Heady stuff.With its rover named Curiosity, Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet’s “habitability.”
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From your link:“Many Democrats in Tennessee knew nothing about any of the candidates in the race, so they voted for the person at the top of the ticket. Unfortunately, none of the other Democratic candidates were able to run the race needed to gain statewide visibility or support.
Unfortunately, too many people on both sides of the ticket vote blindly like this. There is no one else to blame but themselves when they find their respective parties in a pickle like this.
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#31 Shamaal
I understand he sleeps at night also, just like his predecessors
And that is the problem. Did you miss it completely? Did the point go so far over your head that it didn’t even part your hair?
Honestly, almost not worth commenting.
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I’m hoping that the doom heading our way will bring eventually send some moisture to our midwest. Aggie Beau’s folks, up near Oklahoma, said their well is struggling and may be going out. AB’s Mom said they were blessed to get 1″ of rain one week.
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I am Florida.
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In addition to being the birthday of the Golfer-in-Chief, today is also my dad’s birthday. He would have been 78. Happy Birthday, Pop!
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Where “up near Oklahoma” do AB’s kinfolk live?
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Hubby and some hired help are working on tearing down what’s left of our old garage again today. I’m not helping this time – it took me three days to recover from the last one. Besides, I’m sitting here, looking at a whole box of paperwork that needs tending. AND I got precious little sleep last night…
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And that is the problem. Did you miss it completely? Did the point go so far over your head that it didn’t even part your hair?
I see, I must have missed your previous
outrageposts regarding his predecessor’s vacations and biking forays while the economy cratered, unemployment doubled and capitalism was murdered.
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Happy Birthday to Hammy’s Daddy!
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Hubby’s birthday is tomorrow. He’s very happy to have made it another year.
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It’s rare that anti-semitism manages to offend both branches of the semitic tree.
French Jewish leaders are calling the tossing of two pig heads into a mosque not far from Toulouse “an odious desecration.”
The Jewish communities of France convey their “sincerest sentiments of friendship” to the Muslim community, the statement said. ….
France’s Union of Jewish Students also said in a statement that it was appalled by an incident that had occurred in a “worrying climate of hatred.” -
During JugEars reign of lawlessness, he now offers defacto citizenship/permanent status/amnesty for a paltry $465.
The Department of Homeland Security today announced details of the application and approval process for the DREAM Act-like program, outlining specific eligibility requirements and a $465 fee. It will begin Aug. 15.
Illegal immigrants younger than 30 who came to the United States before age 16, have lived here for at least five years continuously, attend or have graduated from high school or college, and have no criminal convictions are eligible to submit requests for so-called deferred action (legalese for an official exemption from deportation).
The administration said documentation provided by each applicant will be reviewed individually on a case-by-case basis at one of four service centers run by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. It’s unclear how long each review will take, but some immigrants are expected to receive temporary legal status before Election Day.
While the “dreamers” will not obtain a path to citizenship or the right to vote, Obama’s policy shift – circumventing Congress with executive action – has been widely seen as a politically motivated nod to Hispanics who have long sought the change.They may not get a “path to citizenship” right now, does anyone with half a brain have any doubts that they will be granted same in short order, like maybe in time for the 2014 mid-term elections?
The only way to have even a chance to keep our country is to flush as many Ds as possible down the toilet of legislative disgrace and make sure the plumbing is fixed so we don’t get a back-up.
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One of our track and field starts, Merritt, just had to pull out of competition. Pulled hamstring injury wasn’t quite healed, so he won’t be able to complete in any of the relays, either.
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#43 TT
He’s very happy to have made it another year.
And so are you! Here’s to a nice b-day celebration tomorrow.
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Milestone event a few days ago.
Beginning on Aug. 1, about 47 million women have guaranteed access to additional preventive services without paying more at the doctor’s office for policies renewing on or after August 1, 2012.
Well-woman visits
Gestational diabetes screening
HPV DNA testing
STI counseling
HIV screening and counseling
Contraception and contraceptive counseling
Breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling
Interpersonal and domestic violence screening and counseling
But not every man is as enamored as others regarding the prospect of healthy women.“I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that’s Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that’s the day of the terrorist attack,” Kelly said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.”
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A real clear sign of the end times is when the good is called bad and the bad good. When men rush towards evil and shun righteousness, when they diligently choose to believe the lie and reject THE TRUTH.
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#40 Shamaal:
I must have missed your previous outrage posts regarding his predecessor’s vacations and biking forays while the economy cratered, unemployment doubled and capitalism was murdered.
For a bunch of folks who’s cry 4 years ago was “Vote for Barak – he’ll do things differently” you guys sure do spend a lot of time making excuses for him by saying that he’s doing things just like the guys you used to hate.
Here’s a clue (’cause it seems you are missing a few). A battle cry of “Vote for me, I’m not worse than the other guys” probably won’t win an election. -
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Unfortunately, too many people on both sides of the ticket vote blindly like this. There is no one else to blame but themselves when they find their respective parties in a pickle like this.
Florida is everyone, it seems.In this case, the allegation isn’t really true. His opponent had money and name recognition:
“What a debacle in Tennessee,” the liberal Daily Kos website wrote Friday morning, hours before the party announced its decision. “It’s not like Democrats were ever going to have a shot at unseating freshman Sen. Bob Corker, but at least our preferred candidate, actress and activist Park Overall, is a real Democrat. The guy Dems did nominate seems to be anything but.”
Park Overall was one of the most popular stars of one of the most popular TV series of the last 20 years.
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Will I be spoiling it for anyone by giving men’s volleyball news?
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Only if it includes pictures. 😉
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#50 Fat Al
I read Shammy’s post, and thought “Where do I start?” Then I realized I didn’t have to.
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NASA has announced $1B in contracts to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities. Although SpaceX has proven spaceflight capability, Boeing is the favorite.
NASA Friday announced new agreements with three American commercial companies to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next five years. Advances made by these companies under newly signed Space Act Agreements through the agency’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative are intended to ultimately lead to the availability of commercial human spaceflight services for government and commercial customers.
CCiCap partners are:
— Sierra Nevada Corporation, Louisville, Colo., $212.5 million
— Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), Hawthorne, Calif., $440 million
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Will I be spoiling it for anyone by giving men’s volleyball news?
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The Russian men’s vball team (indoors) is giving our guys a run for their money. Tough plays, but our guys FINALLY won the first match, after several match points.
Even if you’re not into volleyball, this is a good match.
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Burnside;
What’s your source on that chart.
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I am upgrading the doom index to “Bert” from “Cookie Monster”.
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#55 Pyro: Here’s another question: How is the incredibly important “labor force participation (LFP)” number calculated? Is it some arbitrary fudge factor or is there some meat behind the number. I can’t believe that the number of people ready and willing to work has decreased by as much as the 2009/2012 LFP differential would suggest.
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How is the incredibly important “labor force participation (LFP)” number calculated?
As I recall, it’s the number of people with jobs divided by the total number of people in the population who are of legal working age, less those who cannot work (e,g, disabled, etc.).
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#61 Pyro: The wind speed and direction map here (you may have to scroll down a bit) seems to indicate that the storm will not make it north of the Texas/Mexico border.
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#64: What about the people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits being “dropped” from the unemployment rolls altogether (an arbitrary decision of the current admin, I think), doesn’t that enter into the calculation somehow?
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May be, but there is a very strong tendency for storms to turn right due to the Earth’s rotation. The winds don’t (to me) look strong enough to push it that far south. It’s still a good week from landfall (not counting the Yucatan), so lots can still change.
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Well, based on the Tennessee Democrat party’s definition, a hate group is an organization that has a differing opinion than theirs. By that definition, the entire Democrat party is one big hate group, or more precisely an amalgam of hundreds of hate groups. They hate each other but they hate conservatives more. The president of the United States is the leader of the country’s largest hate group!
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Has anyone else noticed a marked increase in the number of red wasps this year? I got stung twice mowing the yard just now. On my bum leg too. It swells up really bad. I am not an animal! I am a huuuuuman beeeeeeeeing!
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I am not an animal! I am a huuuuuman beeeeeeeeing!
Quote from John Merrick in the movie, Elephant Man.
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What about the people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits being “dropped” from the unemployment rolls altogether, doesn’t that enter into the calculation somehow?
They are in the population of working age who are not working. The labor force participation rate includes everyone. From our friends at the BLS:
Labor force (Current Population Survey)
The labor force includes all persons classified as employed or unemployed in accordance with the definitions contained in this glossary.
Labor force participation rate
The labor force as a percent of the civilian noninstitutional population.What you’re talking about is how people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits no longer appear in the “searching for or willing to work” bucket. IOW, they are no longer in the “Labor Force”, but are in the population as a whole. That is why the green value in the chart is so high; it represents U3 as if the people who have left the labor force were still there.
It is different from U6 in that it considers part-timers and those who are otherwise underemployed as fully participating, where U6 does not.
There are two very critical points that tend to be neglected in reporting of unemployment:
1. The dramatically lower labor force participation rate we’re seeing, which artificially lowers the apparent unemployment rate.
2. While the recent job growth numbers are an improvement, they are about half what they need to be in order to keep up with job losses and population growth, so even though there might be more jobs created than eliminated (a good thing), there are not enough left over to absorb the new people entering the workforce even considering those leaving it through “natural” means (e.g. stay-at-home mommies, retirement, disability, death, etc.) -
What you’re talking about is how people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits no longer appear in the “searching for or willing to work” bucket. IOW, they are no longer in the “Labor Force”, but are in the population as a whole. That is why the green value in the chart is so high; it represents U3 as if the people who have left the labor force were still there.
ah, yes.
They are out of work but not Unemployed, you see, so we don’t count them.
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Park Overall was one of the most popular stars of one of the most popular TV series of the last 20 years.
I’m certainly no authority on TV stars and series but I’ve never heard of her or the TV show.
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I do remember Richard Mulligan, though. He did one of the best portrayals of Custer I’ve seen.
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How can this happen when there’s no voter fraud?http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/03/2930855/inside-the-shady-world-of-ballot.html#storylink=cpy
Cabrera was charged Wednesday with a state felony for allegedly forging an elderly woman’s signature on an absentee ballot, and with two counts of violating a Miami-Dade County ordinance banning the possession of more than two filled-out absentee ballots.
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I’m certainly no authority on TV stars and series but I’ve never heard of her or the TV show.
Empty Nest intro.
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Never was much of a fan of that high-brow tv.
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How can this happen when there’s no voter fraud?
But there is voter fraud. It’s been proven over and over again. From time to time I even post it here. There’s just very little voter fraud that is addressed by requiring IDs at polling stations (.0009% in Washington State, .0004% in Ohio) Those laws only exist to deny voters. But you know that.
From your linkDeisy Cabrera’s arrest puts a spotlight on ‘boleteros,’ the often elderly campaign workers who hustle for absentee-ballot voters.
This is just a bonus
Top boleteros — who tend to be Republican — have access to about 200 voters and as few as 30.
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Oh, well, its Republicans who are voting illegally.
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I ain’t up much on the hipster lingo, but now I finally understand the meaning of
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All righty then all you world travelers. Mrs. Shamaal is getting her other knee replaced and wants to see the world again.
We’re looking at flying into Moscow train to St. Petersburg and fly to Rome next April.
Desired are favorite hotels in each. The places that I stay at on the company dime are pricey.
I can keep us entertained in Moscow and St Pete, but have never been to Rome. We’re considering an apartment for a week with a couple day trips to Pompeii and Herculaneum. -
In case you missed it last night, this is a picture of my biscuit.
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Lovely and I stayed at a B&B at the Piazza Bologna. It’s the terminus for a bus line that takes you to many of the sites, and one of the subway line entrances is about 40 steps from the front door, and it takes you to another set of sites. It’s in a neighborhood, not in the middle of the “touristy” area, so you can get a real feel for Roman life. The owner, Aldo, was on oxygen and could not leave the building, so he may not be there anymore, but he was quite a chatterbox and let us know everything we needed to know and more.
I’m warning you, the taxi driver from the airport had me all white knuckled in the back seat. I almost broke Lovely’s hand. And they listen to our old pop music. Oh, and there are no department stores. If you want clothes, you go to one store. If you want tobacco, that’s another store (and where you buy bus tickets). And make sure you are healthy. A local resident warned me against their medical system. -
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Re Wasps: YES. We’ve cleared out several growing nests under the breezeway to the garage, and now we are fighting them in the front yard. Had a colony trying to build a nest on the lintel over the front door – were not aware of it until one stung my husband on top of the head when he went out for the mail. Fortunately he is not allergic or even sensitive to wasp venom. We’ve spray-zapped several other nests the last few days. They are being aggressively patrolled and defended. -
Russia just took down our men’s volleyball team.
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. Oh, and there are no department stores. If you want clothes, you go to one store. If you want tobacco, that’s another store (and where you buy bus tickets). And make sure you are healthy. A local resident warned me against their medical system.
Ah, the joys of EuroSocialism, Italian Subset.
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We saw a lot of wasps earlier in the season, but I’ve been seeing a lot of butterflies lately. Mostly orange and brown ones, about an inch or so wing length.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Down to 74 this morning at 6 and not mugly until around 8.
High overcast comes and goes with mostly filtered light dapples on the lawn, shifting their dimensions as the breeze sways the branches above. Flirting with 90 on the front porch so not as hot as yesterday at this time.
#22 Shannon
Loved the dirge from the Austin liberals in shock and awe at Tuesday’s results. It conjures up visions of the author and adherents in sack cloth covered with ashes, huddled in a limestone cave entrance (Bee Caves?) with water dripping off the ceiling, making dull splats on them or the cave floor. They are busily binding up their considerable wounds and pulling out splinters, assisting one another to get at places they can’t reach. All the while cursing the Terrible Tea Party for their lot, still not fully comprehending what happened nor what the tea party and allied grassroots movements are all about, though it seems they have a glimmer now that the voters of Texas aren’t buying what they or the RINOs are selling. Somewhere deep down in the subconscious there must be stirring the thought that November will not be a good month for their side, and that perhaps the debacle of 2010 could have been merely the overture…. -
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August 4, 2012 at 1:43 pm
#83 Sarge
What’s that dead insect at 2 o’clock of your biscuit?I did a pre-emptive bug juice sweep of the porch just before sundown (and before any food got out there)—mainly for wasps as it turns out. That moth was collateral damage and I never even noticed him until I saw the pics. I’d turned the porch light off to keep from attracting bugs while I was out there. Most of the pics are done by the light of my headlamp.
Whatcha do is pre-heat an aluminum pot and while its heating up, you put some just add water biscuit mix and 1/8 cup of water in a bag and moosh it up then you cut a corner of the bag and squoosh it out into a muffin tin, the put the muffin tin in the pre-heated pan, cover it and cook it for 10-15 minutes on your backpacking stove.
Then you mix up some just add water gravy with some bacon bits and some just add water egg crystals and you’ve got a fairly decent breakfast.
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If’n you do it right, when you take the cover off your pot, it looks sumpin like this
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If it looked like that after I made it, I’d go back to bed until I had slept it off. 😉
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Fergot to mention. You have to use some spacers on the bottom of the pot or the biscuit will burn. I found some that have a dual use.
This is what the baking kit looks like all packed up. The ‘luminum stuff is called reflectix—the same stuff windshield sun protectors are made of. If you have to bake something for longer than 15 minutes, you can take it off the heat and put it in that reflectix for the last 5 or 10 minutes of baking time to save fuel.
Here’s what’s inside. Stove, fuel, canister stand, 1/4 cup measure, spacers, and muffin tin. Weighs a bit under 2 pounds. -
It looks like Serbia is kicking our butts in water polo, too.
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Sarge, I can see some lost Yankee tourist who took a wrong turn trying to get to NASA or maybe Galveston, ends up on a lonely country road somewhere southwest of Houston as dusk approaches. Runs out of gas, discovers the battery is dead in his cell phone. In desperation, he gets out and starts walking on up the road. Ahead through the dense trees, he sees some flickering light and a dimly seen house, and picks up the pace. Emerges into the yard of a house where a man in camo clothing is bustling around on his front porch — he seems to be cooking something in the light of a headlamp.
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My Uncle Aqua Shamaal used to participate in water polo …….
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After the water polo fiasco Uncle Shamaal took up table tennis.
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Sarge, I can see some lost Yankee tourist who took a wrong turn trying to get to NASA or maybe Galveston, ends up on a lonely country road somewhere southwest of Houston as dusk approaches. Runs out of gas, discovers the battery is dead in his cell phone. In desperation, he gets out and starts walking on up the road. Ahead through the dense trees, he sees some flickering light and a dimly seen house, and picks up the pace. Emerges into the yard of a house where a man in camo clothing is bustling around on his front porch — he seems to be cooking something in the light of a headlamp.
What should this tourist do now?Have a biscuit.
I’m actually more worried about being pulled over with a pack that has a dozen or so baggies filled with white powder in it sitting on the back seat. -
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erbia has officially beat the US in water polo.
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At long last, the Erbians are avenged for being bombed by NATO.
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Cop: “Sir, can you tell me what’s in these bags?”
Me: “Biscuit makins”
Cop: “Why do you need biscut makins in this bag?”
Me: “I’m going caming.”
Cop: “I don’t see a tent”
Me: “I sleep in a hammock.”
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American mens beach volleyball advances to the quarterfinals.
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#108 Sarge
The Carbonite kerfuffle happened a while back and isn’t fresh in my mind. BUT I thought when Rush fans started cancelling their service, Mr Carbonite buckled and apologized. Did it not happen that way?
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#100 Sarge
I don’t wear camo ’round the house.
Yabbut my scenario was spookier if you wore camo with your headlamp while makin’ biscuits on the front porch.
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Carbonite is endorsed by Glenn Beck
“I trust Carbonite to protect my home & work computer files. Please, start your free trial now.”
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I’ve never been a big fan of performance art, particularly when it’s performed by politicians.
Representative Bachmann’s latest piece involves working with her fellow representative in addressing Medicare and Medicare fraud. After accusations of his being a Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator and ‘mafia’ hitman one would think she would avoid the appearance of being a muslim dupe, but what the hay, anything for her art.Less than two weeks after she questioned her fellow Minnesota U.S. Representative’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Monday in St. Michael, MN that she’s hoping to team up with Rep. Keith Ellison on Medicaid reform.
In a meeting with St. Michael business owners, Bachmann said she was looking to do bi-partisan work to end Medicaid fraud.
“Minnesota is the poster child for Medicaid fraud. If we’re going to have a system, we need a system that works for the poor. Right now, it’s not working. I’ve been in communication with Rep. Ellison and hope to work with him on this issue,” she said. -
This is where we stayed in Rome, the Hotel Nova Domus.
http://www.hotelnovadomusrome.com/
As the crow flies, it’s 0.65 miles to the plaza at St. Peters on the west side of the river. On the east side of the river, it’s 2.6 miles to the Colliseum, and 1.6 miles to either the Spanish Steps or Trevi Fountain. The rooms were small but comfortable. The only weird thing was the little rubber hose, about 3/8″ wide and 4 inches long sticking out of the ceiling above the bed. Either it was their sprinkler system, or a camera.
We spent 10 days in Positano, which was absolutely wonderful. Easy trip to Naples, Pompei, or Salerno. Salerno is a great place to buy luggage if you need it. Not a tourist trap and still very scenic by itself.
This is where we stayed: http://www.romesweethome.com/apartments-rental/positano/positano/isolabella-apartment.asp?lang=it
Warning, it’s about 70 steps to get up to street level or down to the apartment. Fantastic view. There is a little grocery at the top of the stairs. The owner is Lucia, and she also owns the apartment. Her husband’s family owns one of the best hotels in Positano and it’s a great place to eat…just can’t remember the name. Lucia’s brother owns il Leone Ristorante which is farther up in the mountains. 5 star. Lucia would remember us because my wife embroidered some linens with Lucia’s initials on them and sent them to her. -
590 seats and 524 menu items, wow!
Caesars Palace’s revamped $17 million buffet, tentatively set to open in Las Vegas Sept. 10, is billed as the Strip’s biggest, with 524 menu items. Caesars researched other Vegas buffets and says it will dish up more dishes. ….
“The major focus is the quality of the food,” Green says, such as sliders fresh-cooked on a mesquite-burning grill. Planned prices are at the top of the Vegas buffet food chain, as you might expect: breakfast, $19.99; lunch, $24.99; dinner, $39.99. -
Sarge, would you explain for TedTam the difference between camo and commando?
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Thank you Tedtam and BigIron45, keep the info coming. I’ve bookmarked your addresses.
I’m concerned about the steps but Mrs. Shamaal assure me that she can navigate given enough time. She did well getting around Prague when she could take her time so she may be right. -
Anti-military Dictator Fidel Hussein Castro Obumma sues Ohio over new voting law.
Maybe by November, the Canine Connoisseur in Chief and Evil Conniver Holder will have sued all 57 states for some reason or another. -
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#117 Brother Phil
It seems pretty straight up to mePlaintiffs bring this lawsuit to restore in-person early voting for all Ohioans during the three days prior to Election Day – a right exercised by an estimated 93,000 Ohioans in the last presidential election. Ohio election law, as currently enacted by the State of Ohio and administered by Defendant Ohio Secretary of State, arbitrarily eliminates early voting during the three days prior to Election Day for most Ohio voters, a right previously available to all Ohio voters.
And last I checked there were 50 states. Unwrap the flag from around yourself and count the stars, one star for each. Now if you had just come off a visit to the states and territories I’d be willing to cut you some slack on mis-speaking.
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And last I checked there were 50 states
Then you better tell your leader Obumma because he visited 57 states when he was campaigning.
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Nothing to tell the President, as I said
Now if you had just come off a visit to the states and territories I’d be willing to cut you some slack on mis-speaking.
So are you using the same reason or are you just ferdrayt?
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87-year old libertarian busted for growing 400 specimens of Colorado Chronic in his back yard.
Musta fragot they have helicopters and stuff now.
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So are you using the same reason or just slow?
Actually, it was a bit of tongue in cheek humor ABOUT Obumma’s 57 state gaffe.
Are YOU just ferdrayt?
But for a moment I did forgot the rules–Only Demoncat politicians can make gaffes and get a pass.
Also I’ll make you a deal. I’ll unwrap the flag from around myself as soon as you unwrap yourself from around yourself.
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Shamaal Pater was busted when he emigrated from California to Hawaii. The police were so embarrassed (“Who you got there detective? John Dillinger?”) by the episode they let him go and made him promise to never leave the state. He didn’t. His birthday would have been tomorrow.
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Also I’ll make you a deal. I’ll unwrap the flag from around myself as soon as you unwrap yourself from around yourself.
Neither’ll ever happen.
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Hey, I’ll have y’all know I’m a legend in my own mind.
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Or something
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I don’t care for this President at all, but we should address him properly: Obama bin Biden.
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#112 Shamaal:
So, let me get this straight: when Republicans won’t work with Democrats they’re being stubborn, right wing, and obstructionist, but when they try to work with the opposite party it’s fake performance art.
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Obama’s national healthcare plan will give every citizen $20,000 a year to cover all medical expenses. The program will be known as Everyone’s National Entitlement Medical Allowance, or ENEMA for short.
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Carbonite apologized to Limbaugh for pulling their advertising, and when they saw sales plummet they wanted to come back. Limbaugh, to his credit, told them to pound sand.
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Sham, why is one man, Harry Reid, blocking 30 bills from coming to the Senate floor for a vote where his party has majority rule? Do you think he might be afraid to have members of his party go on record with a vote for measures that the majority of Americans believe in?
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#112 Shamaal:
So, let me get this straight: when Republicans won’t work with Democrats they’re being stubborn, right wing, and obstructionist, but when they try to work with the opposite party it’s fake performance art.
IMHO, there’s a difference between politics and a sincere belief that a fellow elected official is part of a vanguard advocating the violent overthrow of the United States. To then make nice only emphasizes both performances as art.
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Sham, do you mean like when Obama advocated a civilian security force just as strong as the military? Now why would he need that other than to establish a dictatorship?
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How anybody as enamored of Barack Obama as you are could not understand is a mystery, but I’ll try to explain. . .
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#132 BI45
Without specifics as to what bills you are talking about, let’s take a simple amendment to a bill..“I’m told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment — listen to this one — wants to offer an amendment on when life begins,” Reid said. “There will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We’ll either do flood insurance with amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won’t do it, we’ll have an extension.
IMO, Majority Leader Reid will not let it come to a vote for several reasons. IT AIN’T GOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH A FLOOD, it put’s Senators on record in a politically tinged issue with no real applications, there may be others but you know the drill.
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All politics is performance art. The act of trying to get elected requires it.
A valid philosophical approach. Taking it to its logical conclusion there would be no hypocrisies, broken promises or valid expectations; only players reciting their lines in the Grand Guignol that some believe is American politics.
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#134 BI45
Sham, do you mean like when Obama advocated a civilian security force just as strong as the military? Now why would he need that other than to establish a dictatorship?
Actually that was advocated by the Secretary of Defense during the Bush administration and it was adopted by President Obama. I posted something on the status a couple months ago, it’s running around 50% of the budget now. The training ground was Iraq and the crucible is Afghanistan. Why should the Defense Forces train in accounting, statecraft, schooling and other crafts to support nation building?
What any of that has to do with a dictatorship is more the stuff of the tin foil chapeau’ed than any conversation I can shed light on. -
Are ya feeling lucky punk? Maybe in the morning.
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You dug in, now dig yerelf out.
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Well do ya?
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Shamaal, all of the touristy stuff in Rome is in a very small geographic area. My wife and I dragged our three kids all over Rome. I have never had a problem with any European subway system. I was genuinely impressed with Rome’s bus service. We would typically take a bus at the end of the day when we were all tired. We stayed at a small hotel fairly close to the central train station. We did this because we took the train from the airport and we also took a train to Naples. If you go down to the Bay of Salerno, you should see
the ancient Greek ruins at Paestum. There is more to those ruins than many in Greece.
I never could find a bus schedule to find a bus to take me from Naples to Paestum so I rented a car. I used my company’s corporate rate and that brought the price down to “American” levels. Also 1km inland from Paestum is the monument marker indicating where the Texas 36th infantry division went ashore during Operation Avalanche. It was important for me to see this beach because my Grandfather was apart of that invasion. -
Yes it is.
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As I understand it, this land wasn’t made for one group or another.
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#144 TexMo
Thanks for the information. Our interests in Rome are the Vatican and the tourist stuff. I’m undecided whether to rent a car and drive to Herculaneum and Pompeii, take a train and hire a guide or just hire a guide with car for both trips. -
Hey Shamaal
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Sham, here is a partial post, but in complete context of what President Obama said.
We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, and to be there for our military families. And we’re going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set.
We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. We need to use technology to connect people to service. We’ll expand USA Freedom Corps to create online networks where American can browse opportunities to volunteer. You’ll be able to search by category, time commitment and skill sets. You’ll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities.
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Or matbe we could go runnin together.
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Okay it ain’t Angus but this something a”little” different.
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This isn’t getting much exposure, but Sunday night ~ 12.30 a.m CDT is the scheduled landing of the Curiosity rover in Gale Crater on Mars. It isn’t clear (to me at least) how long it may take to know if it was a success. Prolly worth staying up for.
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#150 B45I
Sarge and I went around for a week on the topic, I remember it well. And i still agree with “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set.”
It has been partially implemented and I posted something about its progress several months ago. Let me see if I can recall the agency and particulars. -
Howdy BigIron.
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A Lil’ Ain’t Enough for me either.
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Sham –
I couldn’t drive in Rome, maybe in the country. I do know, for a fact, that stop signs are considered “pretty decorations” by most Italians, so if you drive, be careful. I don’t know if mainland Italians are different from Sicilians, but the islanders have a streak of “if I can’t have it you can’t either”. Our guide, a friend I made on the internet who shares a history from my paternal grandpa’s hometown, was our guide and translator. He was driving us on the autostrada from Poggioreale (grandpa’s village) to Palermo, and there was a driver who started edging over into our lane as we were passing him. He just didn’t like sharing the road. My friend said that kind fo stuff is real common.
If you can afford a guide, it’s worth it, in my opinion.
Also, on the day Lovely and I were trying to buy train tickets to Florence (Fiorenze), it was late in the day and the ticket agent didn’t want to sell us tickets. Not knowing enough Italian, I kept asking. It was obviously quitting time (customer service was a concept that he was a little unclear on) and he just wanted to go home. He finally sold us tickets to get rid of us. It turns out that they were out of the “bullet train” tickets that most tourists take, and we were on the smaller regional line. It was awesome. It was slower, so we got to really see things, it stopped at some of the smaller towns, and we had time to visit with a group of travelers from Australia. Being a smaller line, we also had plenty of room on the train – our choice of whole compartments! We tourists figured out that we were going to have about 10 minutes to transfer trains at one of the stops, so we all ran off, giggling and laughing, and found our train together. We thought we might miss it, since Italian trains are notorious for not being on time (like a lot of things).
Also, be aware that unions run a lot of things in Italy, and they like to flex their muscles by scheduling strikes. Yes, they schedule them. The populace know where to find the schedule of strikes for that day and avoid the trains/streets/metro when necessary. The strikes are for certain hours on certain days, and then they’re over. Probably not in the tourist areas, but you may want to ask around if you are going to venture out on your own. -
#153 Ms Harper
The more publicity this gets the merrier, see my #32 for more information.
Once Curiosity brakes to enter orbit there will be “7 minutes of terror” while it descends and then re-establishes contact. It was to remain in communications during descent but there was some circumstances that prevented that from happening. Let’s cross our fingers. -
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Thank you for the insight T2.
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Yanno I considered moving to the Baja I mean all ya gotta pay off there is the local constabulary and drug lord. I did a little research and found out financially i would come out ahead especially if Obama gets a second bite at the apple. But yanno, this is my dang ‘ol country so I think I will just move next door to Haddie. C’mon and get me. I dare ya.
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If someone in a Lowe’s store offers you assistance and they don’t work there, you may live in Texas ;
If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas ;
If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas ;
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If ‘Vacation’ means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas ;
If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas ;
If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas ;
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas ;
If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas ;
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -you’re going 80 and everybody’s passing you, you may live in Texas ;
If you find 60 degrees ‘a little chilly,’ you may live in Texas ;
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Southwest promo has gone bad, it will take a while to sort it out.
People really got annoyed when the folks paid by Southwest to say good things on social media kicked in and started saying how swell the airlines were while folks were trying to get up to 30 duplicate charges off their credit cards.Southwest Airlines has updated their Facebook page with information for customers affected by a computer glitch that has caused excessive credit card charges for countless people taking part in a 24-hour deal on Friday, and according to our readers writing in, during normal transactions as well .
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Phelps and the relay team just won gold.
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Sham, I’ve toured both. Allow 3 days for Pompei,and one for Herculeum. The reason for that is they’ve been digging out Pompei for so much longer, there is much more to see. I have many pics on my computer from Pompei. Herculeum was actually the wealthier of the two cities. There is speculation that there could be papyrus libraries intact in Herculeum, which could have independent Roman writings concerning Jesus. Nothing to date yet.
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It seems like only a couple weeks ago that DRUDGE headlines were proclaiming
DISASTER: Phelps loses his golden touch as French win relay… ^
From the July 29, 2012 22:15:15 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Phelps loses his golden touch as French win relay… ^
From the July 29, 2012 22:05:22 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
PHELPS FIZZLES: NO MEDAL ^
From the July 28, 2012 20:15:44 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Phelps ‘barely’ qualifies… ^
From the July 28, 2012 13:42:27 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Phelps WON’T go for 8 golds this time… ^
From the July 02, 2012 22:45:07 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.With all the negative and mean spirited publicity from the right, for a moment I was concerned that somebody accused Phelps of being gay.
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Thank you B45I, I’ll budget time accordingly.
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What are you smoking now?
Hopium just wasn’t cutting it anymore. He’s switched to Hatium.
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It wasn’t me writing those headlines that had nothing to do with the linked stories.
Michael Phelps was photographed with weed. The demographic that Drudge appeals to loves stories about pot smoking guys failing, particularly in a sport where the previous two stars, Louganis and Spitz, turned out to be light in the loafers. -
#172 Shamaal
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I’ve been happy as a clam in fine sand since the Olympics started.
It was Drudge who was ragging on the guy and hoping for failure.
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I just happen to notice and remember stuff like this.
And you just had to bring up these wonderful “memories” at a time of rejoicing and celebration for a hugely earned reward.
I would say bite me, but at this time, I don’t want you near me. You’ve lost a piece of your humanity and I just don’t want you near me. Go away. Far away. It’s not too strong at this time to say I feel like you’re poisoned with something that I want nothing of.
I’m going to bed, and I’m going to be happy for Phelps. He’s worked hard, damn hard, and he’s earned his reward. If you want to poop on a moment like this, I’ll leave you to wallow in those feelings.
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Your ire is misplaced, but tomorrow’s another day.
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Don’t make me call Rodney King into this room….particularly in his present condition!
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So Sham, you can clearly see from President Obama’s comments in my #150 that he was NOT talking about the Peace Corps, Americorps(e)?, or Freedom Corps. He was talking about a select, specific domestic security force just as large, just as well equiped as the military. Don’t try to spin it any other way. It’s exactly what the President said. Read it again.
It’s not taken out of context:
We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, and to be there for our military families. And we’re going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set.
We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. We need to use technology to connect people to service. We’ll expand USA Freedom Corps to create online networks where American can browse opportunities to volunteer. You’ll be able to search by category, time commitment and skill sets. You’ll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities. -
Mark Steyn does a little analysis of the host country and the Olympics.
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And while some of you are shedding a tear of joy for Olympic winners or drowning your sorrows over Olympic fails, Zero’s unending war on American values marches on.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/killer-of-american-troops-set-to-be-freed-thanks-to-obama.php
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El Gordo, please address the President properly….Obama bin Biden.
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More evidence that “progressives” are members of a hate group:
“If, when you see a commercial with a monkey, your first thought is “black people”, then you just might be a racist.”Exactly. Who in the world, upon seeing a monkey, immediately thinks: African-American! Bizarre as it seems, that apparently is how many liberals do think. If that isn’t racist, what is? And then we have the fact that NBC apologized for being “insensitive.” I don’t get that. NBC is saying that it should have been more sensitive to the possibility that lots of its fellow liberals would equate monkeys with black people. On the contrary, I think that if there really are people who see blacks that way, we should be insensitive to them; in fact, contemptuous of them. By apologizing, isn’t NBC implicitly implying that they are right, that it is logical and reasonable for people to equate monkeys and African-Americans?
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Who in the world, upon seeing a monkey, immediately thinks: African-American!
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#183 Sham:
And I know he isn’t alone.
Of course you do. But don’t feel as if you need to air your personal failings here.
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Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) apologized Monday for what his opponent’s campaign said were demeaning and insensitive comments the senator made to a 20-year-old volunteer of Indian descent.
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Chronicle reports a major child abuse and porn ring is being broken up.
“They are the worst of the worst,” said Bruce Foucart, agent in charge of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agency’s Homeland Security Investigations unit in Boston. “This isn’t just a child that’s nude and someone’s taking pictures of him; this is a child that’s being raped by an adult, which is horrific.”
The case began to unfold when Robert Diduca, a Sheraton hotel manager from Milford, Mass., sent the photo of the Dutch boy to an undercover federal agent in Boston. Diduca, a married father of three who used the screen name “Babytodd,” thought he was sending the picture to another man with a sexual interest in babies and toddlers. -
He was talking about a select, specific domestic security force just as large, just as well equiped as the military.
And yet he doesn’t say that, nothing about being domestic. But you may be right, a simple google search of civilian national security force shows that many folks support your
paranoiaposition: Glenn Beck, World Net Daily, Freepers, Michael Savage, etc.
And what has the President done to implement his wicked plan to subjugate the American public? It’s not like he’s built a prison on a remote island in which to place people indefinitely without trial. Oh, I know! He’s saving that for his next term.
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Next he’ll be telling us there aren’t any FEMA camps being built.
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Gotta love you Sham. So you’re still denying the sun rises in the east and sets in the west everyday as long as there is cloud cover.
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I learned not to question Sham’s research when he provided me with proof that Gov.Brewer and the Republicans were in fact building concentration camps with ovens in Arizona for illegals: http://www.terragalleria.com/pictures-subjects/pueblo-architecture/picture.pueblo-architecture.usnm43807.html
Sham thinks the governor should have stuck to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUNZAmFfKA
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#191 B45I
Now I’ve seen that oven evidence with my own eyes, why yes, it’s confirmed.
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Love, youth, experience. From its placement, love will be first for everyone.
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Gotta love you Sham. So you’re still denying the sun rises in the east and sets in the west everyday as long as there is cloud cover.
Shamaal’s a member of a hate group. You can’t expect him to be logical.
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#194: Love, Intelligence, Friends, power
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#193, #195 – Actually that is an Obama designed “green” grilling machine. It has an electric heating element to do the actual grilling, thus avoiding cutting down forests to burn wood or charcoal and eliminating smoke particles into the atmosphere. The part that was not supposed to be exposed was the big V-8 that powers the electric generating plant that powers the heating element. This is a microcosm of the myth of Obama’s zero emission electric cars though.
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199, that’s pretty good EG. Yep, just ‘sposed to be a magic box to plug into.
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198 Bones
#194: Love, Intelligence, Friends, power
Only 3 count, you gotta give up something
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#199 EG
Obama prolly doesn’t even approve of grilling. That is a boor-zwha-zee event held by racist pipple for their family and friends. You grillers should be eating canned beans anyway, so you can send more money to his re-election campaign. Look at the good of society as a whole, you boor-zwha-zee racists. -
The day is finally upon us — it’s International Beer Day and that means it’s time to go out and celebrate beer! By celebrating you’re joining a community of hundreds of thousands of men and women around the globe, all rejoicing in the deliciousness that is beer. Ready to celebrate?
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Patrick has big plans
State Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, the outspoken voice of the far right in the Senate, said he will be pushing vouchers that parents of school-age children could use for charter schools, online offerings or additional alternatives to the public schools.
“To me, school choice is the photo ID bill of this session,” the Houston lawmaker said. “Our base has wanted us to pass photo voter ID for years, and we did it. They’ve been wanting us to pass school choice for years. This is the year to do it, in my view. That issue will do more to impact the future of Texas and the quality of education than anything else we could do.” -
Obama prolly doesn’t even approve of grilling.
Some folks need to start reading newspapers.
President Barack Obama made sure that British Prime Minister David Cameron will be able to have a little taste of America whenever he wants once he returns to the UK after this week’s state visit.
As is tradition, the two heads of state exchanged ceremonial gifts, but Mr Obama was sure to make his one that brought out the Eton-educated Prime Minister’s masculine side.
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#204 Must be one of those Frenchy Urapeein things, closest celebration to me here in the woods – according to their locator- is Galveston.
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International Beer Day
Yes! Think I’ll celebrate with a Buried Hatchet Imperial Stout this evening.
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From the reviews
Buried Hatchet Stout pours to a very dark brown color with tinges of redness. Its nose is bold and inviting, with a scent that combines coffee, chocolate, a little toffee, and a little bit of vanilla. Its foam level is nice at first, but it does fade away in a relatively short time. Still, it manages to maintain a cap of tan colored bubbles that holds its own to the bottom of the glass and there is a small amount of lacing.
Buried Hatchet Stout is a complex brew and it offers many great flavors to keep the stout lover satisfied. The flavors of chocolate and coffee are the most obvious, but there are also tastes of toffee, caramel, toasted malt, nuts, light herbal hops, and fruit. The beer has a definite creaminess to its body and there is some bitterness, but it is quickly reigned- in by the taste of the sweet malt and smoothness.
Buried Hatchet Stout has many qualities that make it a memorable brew. Its complexity is obvious and its flavor just keeps on giving. The flavor profile of mocha, caramel and toffee, fruit, etc., will satisfy most any fan of the style. Its aroma is wonderful and its body, while not as full as the nose may lead you to believe, is still full enough that most will not mind.
Buried Hatchet Stout is a very interesting beer with a smoothness not often found in beers with this alcohol level. Try some for yourself, if you can get your hands on a can, and discover the malty smoothness of this Texas- brewed malt beverage treat.Less thinking and more drinking
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#211 Shannon from your link 😉
Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won’t beat the ride.
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Less thinking and more drinking
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#202 OTL: Power was fourth in order of appearance to me, so it goes out the winder. I noticed that neither “GOD” nor “YHVH” were included in the chart. I did not yet look for “Jesus” or “Yeshua”.
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#214 Bones
Don’t you have to spell it G-D? That’s not a word. YHVH is not a word.
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light rain in Friendswood
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Heavy rain in Friendswood
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This is hilarious.
Five gangbanger thugs try a smash and grab in a jewelry store in Garden Grove, California.
Not a good idea when a pistol-totin’ blue haired grandma owns the joint.
Also notice her brave, fierce little dog on the counter barking its head off at the thieves.
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One more time, the ability to show a little class is just beyond reach.
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mharper42 The Space Center has been abuzz for a couple of weeks talking about Curiosity landing on Mars. NASA has a pretty good video about it and neat graphic showing the entry into the thin Martian atmosphere.
I’m betting that there will be more than a few nervous folks at JPL early in the morning. 😉
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#96 #99 😀
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Better be careful if you are holding religious services in your home
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EG: Too bad that pmsnbc could not be bothered to actually have posted a clip of the offensive behavior to haunt her. Mebbe u-tube has it.
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My #220 From the graphic.
Friction in the atmosphere slams on the “brakes”!
The spacecraft slows from 13,200 to 1,000 miles per hour (5.9 to 0.45 kilometers per second).
Whoosh! Out pops the parachute, 7 miles (11 kilometers) from the ground slowing it to 9% of its original speed.
Here comes the Sky Crane maneuver. Think of a large crane lowering a steel beam from a skyscraper to the ground.
As the rover separates, the engines slow descent to about 1.7 miles per hour (2.7 kilometers per hour).NEAT!!!
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Wow, a 3 second dance for her sister in the crowd, apparently patented by a gang in California. Good thing we have Fox news to point it out.
And there was Serena — the tennis legend, the winner of 14 individual Grand Slams, the best player of her generation, the American girl being crowned at the All-England Club as the queen of tennis — Crip-Walking all over the most lily-white place in the world.
Personally I liked it. People will be crip walking all over the place tomorrow.
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What’s wrong with NBC’s Olympic coverage? Al MIchaels explains
NBC has calculated that the TV audience for the Olympics in the US is 56% female, and this conditions what it calls its “storytelling model” of presentation. The network’s star roving Olympics reporters, John McEnroe and Ryan Seacrest, recently attended an internal seminar tutoring them in the method. “It is making the people that are watching care about what they are watching,” explains John Fritsche, senior vice-president for operations. “It is about getting up close and personal with the athletes.”
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And yet they have record viewers, I should be so wrong.
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NBC publicly admits that it has developed a brainwashing strategy to “condition” its viewers, and someone points out that they have record viewership. Does that validate their strategy? What will they be doing at election time if this works?
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All broadcasters have a strategy, I would say that ad revenue validates their strategy.
What will they be doing at election time if this works?
Showing President Obama doing the Crip walk in front of a lily white audience?
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Reports of multiple shootings at a Sikh temple this morning in Milwaukee.
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Showing President Obama doing the Crip walk in front of a lily white audience?
Well there thank you very much for calling all viewers of FoxNews racists Shamaal. I am surprised you did not dress the lily white audience in white robes and pointed hoods.
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#225 Shamaal
…Crip-Walking all over the most lily-white place in the world.
Only an inane imbecile like a sportswriter would use a phrase like that.
Are we talking about, by the way, the same lily-white tennis fans who over the years have supported the Williams sisters and allowed them to accululate multi-million dollar fortunes ?
Or are we talkiing about the decidedly racially and ethnically diverse Wimbledon fans depicted in many photos like this one ?
Stupid is as stupid does.
The actual Crip Walk in reality looks much more like the five black thugs piling on top of each while the little gray-haired woman is blasting away at them.
See the video in #218.
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Obama, on hearing about the shooting in the Sikh temple, immediately asked the head of the Secret Service if there were any dead dogs, and if there were, he’d stop by for a bite.
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Texpat, those guys at the pawn shop didn’t seem to be able to move near as fast the guys trying to rob the internet cafe. In both incidents, it proved that the thugs didn’t have any personal courage when it came to facing a senior citizen who was armed….even though they themselves were also armed. Seems to be a huge element of personal cowardice amongst them. Too bad some armed citizens weren’t in the theater in Aurora.
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Man I gotta get out in the hood more, I never even heard of a crib walk. I know the first step is hold the pants up….
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Raining at Casa42.
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#236 Big45Iron
Too bad some armed citizens weren’t in the theater in Aurora.
Absolutely – it’s tragic.
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Chronicle reports a major child abuse and porn ring is being broken up.
I got a call from someoby in the positon to know that Harry Ried is nvolved.
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#232 /234 texpat/Squawkbox
I just posted a C&P from El Gordo’s #219. What he calls a “brainwashing strategy. If’n you object to the characterization your beef is with Fox, Drudge or El Gordo. We report you decide. -
#241 Shamaal
I object to everything.
And don’t think claiming to only being the messenger is exculpatory around here.
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I had a bad crush on Maria Muldaur once upon a time. I saw her perform at Cullen Hall at the UofH and one very memorable jazz/blues night with a full grand piano, acoustic string and horn sections at Jubilee Hall down off Bagby. She was in her prime and stunning in a slinky chanteuse dress and high heels.
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August 5, 2012 at 1:40 pm
#236 Big45IronToo bad some armed citizens weren’t in the theater in Aurora.
Absolutely – it’s tragic.
John Lott did an article a couple weeks ago where he stated that 4% of the adult population of Aurora, CO hold a concealed carry permit. He also stated that there are signs o the door to the theatre telling concealed carry permt holders that they ould not bring thier guns inside, per city ordnance. The seating capacity of Theatre #9 is 432. That means that at the very least there would have been TWO people shooting back. The probablity is that it would have been three or four, and possibly more.
The cops were there in 90 seconds, even though they were at the theater for crowd control. Two, three, four, or more concealed carry holders with thier weapons would have been on the scene at the very moment that somebody with the ability and permission to use deadly force to save lives was needed.
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If’n you object to the characterization your beef is with Fox, Drudge or El Gordo. We report you decide.
No my beef is with you. You made the comment, you penned the phrase, you interjected your vision, you implied a racist vision pure and simple. And then to pass it off as my argument is with Gordo? Sad little man you are and indicative of what I loathe in what goes for political discourse today. You have no intelligent argument so you are left to accusing your opponents of racism simply be cause they disagree. Sad, sad pathetic little man you are. I pity you.
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If I’m not mistaken, Al Michaels works for NBC and not for Fox News. As to performers flashing gang signs at the Olympics while representing the United States of America, I still have a problem with that and do not think it is very classy or cute. As to a network having a “take” on a story, I would agree that it’s a commonplace, but they do not often admit that their strategy is to use a story line in an athletic competition that would “condition” their target audience to pay attention – particularly one based on gender. Is that not profiling and misogynistic? I don’t think that I have utilized Drudge as a source here lately. I stand by my comments.
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We always shoot the messenger first – especially when they mumble approvingly about the message.
Arguing with Shampoo is like playing chess with a pigeon. You make a move, he knocks over the pieces, craps on the board, then struts around like he won.
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shamaal thinks that just because something happened to be shown or stated on Fox News/Sports that everyone of a conservative bent instantly falls down in unison over those words.
Or that he can somehow use it to paint others with a very broad brush. Thing is, the paint he’s using has had so much water added to it by now that it doesn’t cover anything anymore.
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#245 Squawk, well said.
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Not a bad idea. If different people were running the Republian Party, it might even get done.
The first such proposal would be to restore the 20 percent excise tax on motion picture theater gross revenues that existed between the end of World War II and its repeal in the mid-1950s. The campaign to end the excise tax had studio executives and movie stars talking like Art Laffer, as they noted that high taxes reduced business income, hurt investment and cost jobs.
The movie excise tax was imposed in response to the high deficits after World War Two. Deficits are high again, and there’s already historical precedent. Of course, to keep up with technology, the tax should now apply to DVDs, downloadable movies, pay-per-view and the like. But in these financially perilous times, why should movie stars and studio moguls, with their yachts, swimming pools and private jets, not at least shoulder the burden they carried back in Harry Truman’s day — when, to be honest, movies were better anyway.
For extra fun, they could show pictures of David Geffen’s yacht and John Travolta’s personal Boeing 707 on the Senate floor. You want to tax fat cats? I gotcher “fat cats” right here! Repeal the Hollywood Tax Cuts! -
For extra fun, they could show pictures of David Geffen’s yacht and John Travolta’s personal Boeing 707 on the Senate floor.
Even better than that they could show a “Google Map” of Travolta’s home at his private airstrip. Just go to Google Maps and enter; 29.278398,-82.116762 sorry I don’t know how to put it in a link.
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Aight I think the chess playing pigeon beats the dancing gorilla on the spew scale. Sorry Ms Adee.
Talked to my Mom this morning and she was talking about the birds eating her cat’s food all the time, if the cat happens to be eating, the birds stalk the bowl spread their wings to scare the cat and sometimes even run towards him. The cat just ignores.
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These guys win for sheer talent.
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On an even happier note, I am lowering the doom index from “Bert” to “Cookie Monster”.
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In the end, you really are a scumbag, Shamaal.
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#253 Wagonburner
Clearly, you are a racist bigot.
It’s obvious you are mocking the Black Irish because everyone recognizes the dog whistle implications whenever a chimpanzee dancing an Irish jig appears anywhere at anytime.
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Shamaal yeah MY BEEF IS WITH YOU
Read it and weep. You sir are the one to turn this into racial issue. Here is just a small sample of other news outlets that noted the move. But no you gotta turn her classless act into a race issue here. You make me want to hurl.Serena Williams did the crip walk after winning gold (PHOTOS)
Yahoo! Sports .
Serena Williams and the Crip Walk
Washington Post
Serena, Venus Williams skip on the Crip walk, pocket gold
USA TODAY – 5 hours ago
Serena Williams Crip Walk: Epic Win or Epic Fail?
AllHipHop – 2 hours ago
Serena Williams shows support for gangsters after winning gold / Scrape TV …
Scrape TV – 3 hours ago
Serena Williams Wins Olympic Gold, Crip Walks To Celebrate
Vibe – 7 hours ago
Serena, Venus skip crip walk at Olympics
Tucson Citizen – 6 hours ago
.And Shamaal i do not care if she did the crip walk or the monkey or the mash potato it was a classless act.
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I’ve heard on good authority Harry Reid owns several Irish chimpanzees.
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What I thought waa going to be a quIck shower turned out to be a full inch of rain – 15 minutes after I finished mowing. Nice.
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#259 Shannon
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The older we get, life’s “oh yeah” moments get less and less complex. That is a good thing, appreciating life more as it goes.
Lots of booming going on around us, don’t think we are going to get any rain though. I did not get my yard cut, I am fighting off a cold and let Sweetie talk me into letting it go this weekend. -
Shannon has peeps for such things.
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I am ever so glad to hear, in the last several postings, that I am not the only down-to-earth Texan who still believes in mowing their own grass!
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I love yard work, not much on flowerbeds though.
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I love yard work
I’ve always suspected you were a sick puppy.
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Nobody hates mowing grass as much as Shannon does.
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Mowing grass is a fine activity. It is just the infernal August humidity that makes it problematic.
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Are you telling me that when Shannon says “15 minutes after I finished mowing” – that doesn’t mean he, himself, in person, was mowing?
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Nope. no extension cords.
I’ve only used the weedeater once this year. My back just can’t tolerate it anymore.
Roundup is my best friend.
As for there being some kind of honor in doing your own yard work, I’m calling Bullshizzle.
If you love to do it, that’s wonderful. knock yourself out.
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You don’t see any honor in being self-reliant? industrious? energetic?
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No, I don’t equate doing your own yard work with self reliance or industriousness.
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I’ve heard on good authority Harry Reid owns several Irish chimpanzees.
Young ones, too. All males.
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My landscape crew exudes self reliance, industriousness, and energy!
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Virtually all matter in the universe is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons, except for liberals, who are made entirely of morons.
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Years ago people quit telling liberals to stop acting stupid. They came to realize the liberals weren’t acting.
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It’s a waste of time to debate issues with liberals. They are too stupid to grasp concepts involving logic and common sense. If they could, they would not be liberals to begin with.
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We hire a lawn maintenance crew to mow, trim and maintain the shrubs, many of which are too tall anymore for me to trim.
Given the size of the yard, my lack of storage space and factoring in the cost and hassle of the machines – it’s just not worth it.
Now, when it comes to planting annuals, perennials, flowering shrubs and vines, I win yard of the month every month in this neighborhood, at least according to my highly biased and corrupt polling scheme.
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I hate it when I get bad information and pass it to others. For years now I’ve been telling people that dance routine was Obama and the Dancing Czars.
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This is cool-looking. I have a hunch it’s a lot harder than he makes it look.
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I hear there is a great polling company called The David Dewhurst Self Delusional Public Opinion Polling Corporation.
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We’re about to go to Lovely’s for a birfday dinner for Hubby.
And I wish they’d quit this interview with Phelps. This network is talking too much. A little less talk, a lot more action.
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Though I always find satisfaction in the final result, I have always considered yard maintenance to be a colossal waste of time.
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No more so than washing the dishes every night.
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Wow, go to work for five hours and the knickers get so knotted folks won’t be able to sit down for a week.
El Gordo stands by his post as do I. IMO it wasn’t classless or a flub it was exuberance. That it was initiated some 40 years ago in a gang known for rumbles with the Bloods doesn’t even enter into it, it’s been co-opted; get over it. I will point out though that not one person, other than texpat, commented on the article that El Gordo posted and I C&Ped from. I only posted the mild stuff.
But perhaps I am alone in believing that this is a blowup over nothing by people who do not like Mss. Williams. Let’s check out Squawk’s link for the liberal take.Serena Williams did more than win a gold medal on Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Saturday. With a rhythmic celebratory bounce in front of millions worldwide, she inadvertently set off a firestorm that is misguided and dripping with racist, patronizing overtones.
Ooh, another sensitive fellow like myself.
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They just had an Obama commercial on.
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shamaal thinks that just because something happened to be shown or stated on Fox News/Sports that everyone of a conservative bent instantly falls down in unison over those words.
No not at all, but the outraged silence is deafening. Even Drudge had enough sense to pull it off the page.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
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Point’s made. This guy tried to pi$$ on her parade and I ain’t buying it.
To paraphrase someone else’s comments… I’m going to be happy for
PhelpsWilliams. [S]He’s worked hard, damn hard, and [s]he’s earnedhisher reward. If you want to poop on a moment like this, I’ll leave you to wallow in those feelings. -
I went to my proctologist’s office for my first rectal exam. His new nurse, Evelyn, took me to an examining room , told me to get undressed and have a seat until the doctor could see me . She said that he would only be a few minutes.
After putting on the gown that she gave me I sat down and while waiting I observed that there were three items on a stand Next to the exam table:
A Tube of K-Y jelly,
A rubber glove,
A beer .
When the doctor finally came in I said, “Look Doc, I’m a little confused This is my first exam. I know what the K-Y is for and I know what the glove is for, but can you tell me what the beer is for?
At that Doctor Paul became noticeably outraged and stormed over to the door.
He flung the door open and yelled to his nurse .. . . . . .
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Ms. Williams little “endzone dance” was classless and debased her victory. I remember a couple of Olympics ago when the the sprinters of the men’s track team behaved in a far worse fashion. It was classless trash then and the same now, just not as bad. Ifn I recall, none of those sprinters that were prancing about got any endorsement deals.
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My friend Wagonburner was a man who loved puns. One day while reading the Houston Chronicle he saw that they were running a pun contest with a huge cash prize. WB was very excited as he had collected many puns over the years and would love to see his favorite pun run in the local news paper. For days he reviewed his pun list to pick his 10 best puns to send in. When the day of the announcement came he was sure that one of his amazing puns would take the prize.
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So there are two tropical fish in a tank, and one says to the other “do you know how to drive this thing?”
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Ok, I’m NOT keeping up but yesterday my Huntin’ Buddy and I bought a reallly neat Lamar Trailer made in Sumner, Texas. It is about 16 feet long, the bed being about 10 feet long and 88 inches wide. It has removable side rails in the front that come off and become the ramps, that way, you can load one 4-wheeler sideways on the front and one on the back. You don’t have to unload the rear one to unload the one on the front. 😉
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I have never liked the idea of “cloud computing”, apparently neither does Steve Wozniak.
“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”
He added: “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away” through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to.
“I want to feel that I own things,” Wozniak said. “A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”The more you put in the cloud, the less secure it becomes. Does anyone really think that the feds won’t data mine the cloud for evidence of a crime? The legality of it is irrelevant, it will be done, particularly if we continue to elect lawless scumbags like we did in 2008.
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#293: Looks like the one in the front is not all the way up, which helps to keep so much weight off of the tongue. Roll on roll off, is a real nice way to move stuff.
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Mrs Bonecrusher and I went to Houston Grand Prix and rode the go carts today, lots of fun.
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The webmasters/moderators quandary
I am so glad I am retiredPerhaps the most difficult challenge for a webmaster is deciding whether to take steps against a troll that a few people find entertaining. Some trolls do have a creative spark and have chosen to squander it on being disruptive. There is a certain perverse pleasure in watching some of them. Ultimately, though, the webmaster has to decide if the troll actually cares about putting on a good show for the regular participants, or is simply playing to an audience of one — himself.
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Quite a pickle indeed …………..
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Actually i became very good at making those decisions back in the day.
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And I imagine, quite a few others.
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With all due respect to the couch master btw.
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From the one article I read about the Crip Walk crisis today, the Williams sisters grew up in Compton CA which is also the home of the Crip Walk. The fact that, when asked, Serena would not tell the reporter the name of her little victory dance, and instead said it was a bit embarrassing, shows that she belatedly realized it had been a boo boo. Presumably sister Venus yucking it up in the stands also knew what the dance was, but thought it was hilarious.
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Nope just you.
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#293: Looks like the one in the front is not all the way up, which helps to keep so much weight off of the tongue. Roll on roll off, is a real nice way to move stuff.
FWIW; The one that we got isn’t exactly like this one, it has the opening all the way forward and this is a good thing because you need to have at least 10% of the total weight on the tongue so that it will track properly, without enough tongue weight it will dance back and forth and if the trailer is larger than the truck it take over and wreck the truck. That said, the axle is located about 2/3 away from the front so that if you pull it empty it will track just fine. We were surprised at how well it tracked empty.
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Well, yesterday daughter and her hubby had to come down to Clear Lake for a memorial service and stopped by to see us. Son-in-Law brought two 1/2 gallon zip lock bags full of okree that he grew in his garden, he also brought a couple of jars of pickled okra. Well, late today I cooked a pound of Bambi burger meat to make dirty rice and chopped up a quart of okra and battered and fried it and finished it up with
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And that’s where we don’t see eye to eye. I see it as calling out an imbecile and his penny ante network. That EG posted it as a troll is neither here nor there, I did rise to the bait. I honestly expected folks to reply as texpat did. I had no idea that we had so many members aware of crips, bloods and offended by forty year old gangsign. They’re most certainly more smarter than me.
The first thing I thought of was why bring it up particularly in a lily-white context (author’s words – not mine). I still thing folks will be doing it tomorrow. -
Does anybody know which worm won the silkworm race in the Olympics?
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I recall a debate class I was in 30 something years ago. I was matched against a rather attactive black lady, liberal, fortyish. It was the old “if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, did it make a noise” postulation. I tried to use logic, common sense, and scientific reasoning, and she took the typical liberal approach that since nobody was there, I couldn’t prove it. Finally, I used this supposition. I asked her if she was kidnapped by a biker gang and taken into the woods and gang raped for days, tortured, strangled to death, and buried, and nobody ever found her body, was a crime committed. She said of course. I said prove it. I got a standing ovation from the class. The professor said I was brutal. I told him it was Marine training.
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Good thing marijuana is safer than alcohol.
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#307 #308 😀
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And on another note I am one step behind Shannon for hating yard work. Have y’all been seeing an over abundance of red wasps this year? Good grief they are taking over around here.
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282 Shannon says: Though I always find satisfaction in the final result, I have always considered yard maintenance to be a colossal waste of time.
Behold the blue bonnets near Brenham. They neither toil nor do they reap. Yet Michael Shawn Kelly and Blinda Ann Kelly of “Your Livable Garden” and Michael Miller and Scott Waldo of Backyard Bay have never in all their glory arrayed a landscape such as this!
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All of y’all are full of crap.
The only thing that matters is…
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BigIron, From your #308, I hate this kind of crap, because of course, sound is sound waves and will be there if someone is there to hear it or not. It will propagate through the ground and may be heard miles away with very sensitive seismic equipment. I have no idea who came up with this nonsense but whomever it was has NO clue about science. 🙁
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#313 😀 I have no idea who the guys on the outside were but the guy in the middle looked an awful lot like Shannon! Does he play the guitar? 😉
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Ummmmmm …………. That would be Scientific American in Apr 5, 1884, pg 218.
“If a tree were to fall on an uninhabited island, would there be any sound?” “Sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear, and recognized as sound only at our nerve centers. The falling of the tree or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. If there be no ears to hear, there will be no sound.”
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Haven’t mowed the lawn since 2005.
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I like mowing my lawn. Good exercise. Mow, edge and sweep in an hour and thirty-five minutes.
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#316, #317
I call bulls**t on that one too.
OK, let me get this straight, were I work we can produce 167 DB’s of random noise; we NEVER, EVER let anyone near the reverb chamber while it’s running, so theoretically no one hears it, yet we have literally set plywood on fire at this level!!! You CAN’T be that STUPID!!…..I know, Hambone, …sigh, but I get real tired of the Troll trying to insult my intelligence.
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#319 Phil, dang man you must have a palatial estate, I can mow/bag edge in less than an hour on my whopping 1/5 acre here in Texas, the old farm house is a different story, two hours on a RIDING mower. 😉
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Next you’ll be claiming it’s possible to precisely know the speed and position of a particle at the same time.
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sound 1 (sound) n.
1. a. Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
b. Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.Emphasis mine, no one said that someone had to hear it for it to be sound. Dang DAMMIT, give them books and send them to school and this is what you get?!?!
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Reality only exists if some petty, sanctimonious academic moron from Oxford or other campus was able to hear it or record it, publish a paper on it, give speeches describing it and eventually write wildly overpriced textbooks about it in order to extort extravagant monies from his impoverished students so that he can live a luxurious life of leisure.
Otherwise, it didn’t happen.
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#320 – SD you saying plywood has ears??
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Super Dave, to be a liberal, you must give up every vestige of common sense, logic, truth, and shame.
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#325 Katfish
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SD you saying plywood has ears??
Well if the 5/8″ sheet of CDX plywood had ears, they were completly burned off! 😉
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I’ll bet Harry Reid had his way with Sham, but since nobody saw it, well, it didn’t happen. Sham’s in denial. Harry Reid still has not commented.
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Medal Count
China 61 – 30 17 14
United States 60 – 28 14 18
Great Britain 37 – 16 11 10
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Sham, we don’t find unattributed lies from liberals about the GOP Presidential candidate amusing either. Since the very fate of the nation – and the world at large – may depend on the choice that voters make on November 6th, we find these false accusations dangerous as well as disgusting. You might not. And since you consistently show a complete lack of logic, common sense, and integrity when dealing with the issues which are truly important, we don’t much care either what you don’t find amusing. Oh, what made you suddenly find pedophilia unamusing. The entire Democrat party in the US House stood up and cheered for child molester Gerry Studds.
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I sweep with an old worn out broom, so it takes a little longer. I also have an old fashioned, run of the mill push mower. -
Awe Sham, you pulled your post (that means the entry you made above that is now removed, not some personal pleasure pasttime).
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TexPat 317, Sham also has old news articles from the Spanish Inquisition which state the earth is flat and anybody stating otherwise shall be burned as a heretic. If they say the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth, they shall be burned a second time. Both times until they are dead.
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Has anyone ever met this Shamaal in person? What’s his story? Why does he have NO FRIENDS? I figure even a booger-eating moron would rather spend his time with people who actually like him.
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So why does Shamaal visit the couch?
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I watched the match.
I have never seen such domination in women’s olympic tennis.
She kicked that Russian hottie’s ass.
I was proud of her.
I saw the dance.
Anyone making a big deal out of the dance is a frikking idiot.
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Well it looks like we’re on our way to 400 now. 😉
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But only a jackass would play the race card.
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And that jacka$$ would be Reid Forgrave of …………………..
wait for it ……………………………….
Fox Sports!
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Why do people go to zoos?
To see what you look like.
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So, Shannon, you also like to see the football spikin’ after a TD? I don’t watch sports, but I do see spikin’ being called out on utube and the blogosphere. What was that line: “Act like you have been there before.”
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Enough camaraderie, folderol and bon mots ……….
It’s bedtime.
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I’m on my back porch smoking a cigarette and crip walking in my underwear.
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Good lord, man, spare us the visuals! Acchhh! eye bleach…
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No, I cannot stand the trite grandstanding by football players. I liked how Earl Campbell simply walked off the field.
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400. !!!!!!!!!!
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Oh California. I’m watching the operation on Ustream and there are some guys in the control room I don’t think you would see working for NASA in Texas. One has a red-and-black mohawk under his headset and I got a glimpse of a long-haired homeless man at another console. In CA, you lose points for just looking normal and clean-cut.
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Flawless landing!
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#342 mharper42:
I agree with respect to NFL football. The two cases are hardly comparable. I suspect that if your player in the end zone had just won a Superbowl, and the Superbowl only happened once every 4 years, and in winning he had sealed an irrefutable place in football history, you might forgive 3 – 4 whole seconds of delighted exuberance.
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Just out of curiosity – any celebrations in the control room at JPL when the rover confirmed a safe landing????
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Sham, point was that baseless accusations hurt somebody’s reputation. You don’t like being part of one. Gov Romney should not have to suffer it at the hands of Senator Reid. And you should condemn it. Are you going to?
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He’s destroyed your civility, he’s stolen your class, now Zero is coming for your internet.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/242227-with-defeat-of-cybersecurity-bill-obama-weighs-executive-order-option -
Guess everyone is still worn out from crip dancing all night in celebration of Serena’s victory.
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