Sorry to be late – I realized after Romney’s speech last night that I had to finish payroll for today. The computer was acting funny, so I had to reboot it – twice – before I could get payroll finished. Just as I was about to go to bed, I realized that the trash had not been taken out, so it was up to me to gather the trash and get the can out to the street. Then I went straight to bed. Didn’t sleep as well as I should have, so I’m running a little late.
Handsome has a birthday celebration this weekend. I get to hang out with the in-laws for a while. His birthday is on Labor Day (appropriate, as his labor was 25½ hours of baby-birthing fun!), but we’ll be celebrating it with mother-in-law on Saturday.
So here we are – the Republican convention is over, the Democrat convention is coming. What did you think of the speeches last night? I thought that there were some very effective, humanizing efforts made to make Romney appear not only capable, but relatable. Of course, I kind of expected him to be wearing a cape when he finally arrived on stage, but that’s to be expected – this was his day, after all. Now the Democrats have their convention time to bash him continuously, with the media lap dogs covering every (white) speaker slavishly.
Will they be effective? Will anyone watch? Will anyone care?
Friday RNC Hangover Comments
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As others return home, I am heading to the airport yet again. Y’all have a great day.
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TBO doesn’t like free speech so much. Especially, I suppose, when it exposes him.
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Fell asleep during Rmoney’s speech, could be I’s jus tired. Eastwood was good and Rubio didn’t blow it.
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Maybe if they used the money to help the sick, the weak, and the poor the same way churches do, more people would have donated.
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Text of Eastwood’s speech here.
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Finally made it back from Brazil.
On my last trip to Canada, I completed the application process for a Nexus card, which allows me to use the Global Entry kiosks at Immigration and the fast lane through Customs.
For once, I had ZERO people in front of me at Passport Control and ONE person in front of me at Customs. I waited longer for the parking shuttle than it took for me to get from the airplane to the parking shuttle. My flight hit the runway at about 5:30 and I was on the beltway well before 6:00. -
#3 TT: From the comments in your linkie:
He will suspend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the November election if he thinks he’s about to lose. Watch for a crisis ginned up by his buddies in the unions and the Dept of Homeland Security.
Seems like I am not the only one who thinks like this.
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G’Morning All
Somewhere, Ronald Reagan smiled as he watched Clint, and was thinking, once again, “What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?” -
OTL: Clyde was a great character.
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The clue-less JugEared Jackass in the Oval Office really doesn’t “get it” and at this point, it is doubtful that he ever will.
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Honest Officer, I didn’t kill the blog on purpose, it just kinda happened.
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The blog jumped in front of your keyboard, eh?
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Well, my take on the convention is that it was a success and last night they had several different people putting forth Romney’s life experiences. Comparing his resume, not to mention his moral history, to the empty suit chair, it’s NOT even close. Do you think the polls are really as close as they show? Or will they start to change after last night? I think that Romney will win in a landslide. I saw a lot of GREAT speeches over the last two days and for a winner, I’d pick Rubio from last night with Paul Ryan a close second and then Romney, Condoleezza Rice, on down the line. Also I really enjoyed Clint Eastwood. 😉
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So Shannon, Texpat’s daughter got married at the Bonneville Salt Flats?! What’s up with that?
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Sarge, I’m not at all surprised that a national political party with “atheist” in it’s name would fail to get a convention off the ground in their second year of existance. If you’re interested in attending a non-political convention of free thinkers, American Atheists is having theirs in Austin in March.
Maybe if they used the money to help the sick, the weak, and the poor the same way churches do, more people would have donated.
If conventions aren’t your cup-o-tea, feel free to pop up to Austin and help the Atheist Community of Austin pick up trash along their adopted highway, or brings some goodies to the monthly Atheist Helping the Homeless get together. They’re good folk.
You’re also welcome to rattle the tip jar. We’ll spend your money, even though it has “In God We Trust” on it. -
Barf Kitty has found herself a window full of sunshine in which to bask.
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I’ve never liked Will Ferrel’s movies, but I find these tweets funny:
Who makes the sandwiches in a lesbian relationship?
My hamster died today. He fell asleep at the wheel.
Dear life, when I said “Can my life get any worse?” it was a rhetorical question, not a challenge.
I never let my children watch big band on TV. Too much sax and violins.
If I had Morgan Freeman’s voice, I’d sit in a corner and talk to myself for days. -
The blog seems a little constipated today.
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AB so LUTE ly NSFW (for strong language)
But IMHO well worth it! 🙂
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#8 Pyro
Finally made it back from Brazil.
Glad to hear you did not end up on that Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt that you mentioned yesterday…
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Dangggggggggggg Dirty Harry dun kilt da blog
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#10 OTL
a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp
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#22 Katfishy
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No need to get all worked up about this Colorado public university offering college credit to campaign for Obammy… The course was cancelled due to lack of interest! BWAHA Hahaha hahaha!
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Now, I don’t usually just haul off and criticise someone’s appearance, but there are a few exceptions for something that is really bizarre, e.g., Shannen Doherty’s eyes – one is about an inch higher on her face than the other. (I actually LIKE Shannen Doherty, but her eyes are weird.)
But today I want to mention that I saw NBC anchor Brian Wlliams on TV this week and I’m thinking, holy cow, what is happening to his face? As he ages, it looks like his nose is heading West while his pointy chin is going East.
In beginner’s art class, you learn to draw a vertical line down the center of a face, and perpendicular lines at the eyes and mouth (facing forward). What could you do with Brian’s face? Here he is young, here he is now, as I saw him looking this week. -
#28 Mharper
Dang. It reminds me of how I was advised to store my LPs on their side because they’d warp like Brian’s face. -
re: Brian Williams
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It was great to watch Obummer break from tradition and campaign during the other party’s convention because he didn’t get any air time. There were two big stories, the hurricane and the convention so there wasn’t any time for Obummer. You know Obummer has got to be worried because he is out campaigning and trying to raise money—that’s all he does. He doesn’t even have time for golf. And I still believe there are plenty of “October” surprises for Obummer from vetting, corruption in government, new books and plenty of other surprises that haven’t come out on the “self-chosen one”. People don’t start following the campaign stuff until after Labor Day because after all they have a short memory span.
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#28 – of course we all have differing perspectives – with the 2 poses being fairly dissimilar (IMHO) i.e. “smiling and NOT” plus one fairly straight ahead and the other less so – I’m thinkin his chin was never longitudinally aligned to begin with and the 2 poses just make it more noticeable
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#22 😀
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Heard on Dennis Miller:
Given what’s happened with retirement incomes, cutting funding to Medicare, and now the way they are treating Clint Eastwood, it appears the Democrats are waging a War on Old People. -
#32 Kat
Yep, I know the “young” shot was not at the same angle as the other, but I only spent a minute looking at the available images. The young shot does show Brian’s mouth was already tilted a bit. Virtually no one has a symmetrical face, and this is just an extreme example.
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And here’s a S.D. pic that someone has already marked up.
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Listening to Michael Berry, he is a HOOT! Sometimes daughter will call me when she’s on her way home and say, “are you listening to Michael Berry?”
“It’s Friday and I think that a grown A$$ man or a lesbian woman should be able to pop a top on a beer on the drive home.” “grin” -
I think I’m going outside to dig for a while. My sleep patterns have been rather disturbed lately, and I have found that the exertion helps me to sleep.
Given the low level of blog activity, I don’t think I need to admonish good behavior while I’m gone.
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Ya’ll made it easy for me to catch up on all the posts here at the end of the day. I learned today that I would go broke if I did power washing for a living. I estimated it would take about 3 hours to clean all the side walks around my church. It actually took me 5. That’s a lot of time working in near triple digit heat for this professional desk jockey.
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40!
CPR!
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Good evening Hamsters. Eeks, morning started out at 80 and smothering at 6 a. A hot finale to August winding down to 89 with a stiff southerly wind and 40% humidity at 6:30 p.
Calendar flipping over to September ought to mean some cooler weather soon. The only shower in all Fort Bend County was up near Fulshear late this afternoon and quickly fell apart over the Waller County border.
Has been fun reading/hearing about the haughty left-leaning newsies critiquing Clint’s unscripted speech last night. They just can’t admit it was clever, entertaining, biting, and connected bigtime with those at the convention and those watching on the tube or streaming. How dare an icon in Hollywood be so brash as to admit he’s a conservative?
Gonna be interesting to see what the dark side digs up for their show.
Cheers for the Romney-Ryan team to campaign during the Dem convention rather than politely let them hog the spotlight. Turnabout is fair play. IMHO the Dems still do not fully comprehend the Chick-fil-A effect, but those who do get it are very alarmed as well they should be. -
Tonite marks the inauguration of 2012 Texas HS football.
The Langham Creek Lobos are meeting the Klein Oaks Panthers in their only truly away game this season – unless they defy the odds and make the playoffs.
After a fairly impressive beginning, LC got a holding penalty against them. Instead of a punt, LC was treated to a 50+ yard gain leading to a KO TD. 🙁
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Shabbat Shalom, Y’all!!
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It also marks the 15th anniversary of Dodi’s demise. Dodi!
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Back-n-forth. Back-n-forth. Drivety-drive.
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LC just intercepted. 1st down on 5
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Boogers.
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I was describing last night’s convention streaming plus blogging, on 2 adjacent PC windows, to my husband. (He has no interest in politics.) I enjoyed the speech-by-speech commentary from TT and Super Dave last night. Then I mentioned how in previous years we had bloggers posting game scores on their phones from the stadium. And here is Pyro!
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Okay, I’ll post something.
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LC 21 KO 21
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LC just recovered fumbled kickoff on KO 22
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Something
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Went the wrong way.
KO scores
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Salt Lake City is quite beautiful. But the dullard that named the streets must surely have been hung from a high branch with a short rope.
Imagine having numbered streets running East to West such as 1200, 1210, 1220…1300…1500, etc.
Then imagine having numbered streets running North to South such as 1200, 1210, 1220…1300…1500, etc.
A typical adress might be: 1742 South 2400 East Street
In a short drive you may cross East 2500 South trying to find South 2500 East.
Compounding the confusion is that the street sign do not give the full name of the street and often the street has two names, such that Winkleman Street is also East 700 South Street.
Earlier I noticed we were at the corner of 700 and 700 streets.
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Don’t even try to depend on a GPS device or google maps.
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Halftime
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You should go to OKC sometime
You start running into OKC street signs out in the sticks where you can’t even see town.
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How do you get lat/long out of an iPhone ?
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I’m sure that I’m the only one that noticed that the most popular speakers at the Convention were pro-choice, pro marriage equality, pro-immigration, pro stimulus or varying combinations thereof.
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Those Mormans must be mathematical.
In Lubbock it’s numbers (1st, 2nd, etc) easy and west and alphabetical north and south, or vicey vercy. And everything squared off, no streets running into each other. -
The National Republican Senatorial Committee running up the white flag in New Mexico and Missouri.
The source said the NRSC is also canceling its ads in New Mexico, where Democrat Martin Heinrich appears to be pulling ahead of Republican Heather Wilson, and Missouri, where Rep. Todd Akin’s comments about abortion and rape have damaged his campaign and caused national Republicans to flee the state.
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#60 Flamer
verrrrry carefully.
If you only need long./lat. for your current location, there is a very simple way. Use the “Compass” app that comes with the iPhone in its “Utilities”. In addition to the compass, at the bottom of the screen it shows your lat., long. -
There’s an app for that.
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The RCMP is reported to have IHOP under surveillance.
Sticky-fingered thieves made off with almost 30 million Canadian dollars [US$16.32] worth of maple syrup from a reserve warehouse in rural Quebec, the provincial body responsible for managing the production of maple syrup said late Thursday. That’s more than a quarter of the province’s extra supply—stored each year to protect producers’ from the ups and downs of global supply and demand.
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Nice drive
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We did meters for a small, four street subdivision a few years ago. Each street had the same name, but was prefixed by a direction, such as “W” or “E”.
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KO dude just shanked a punt. -5yd
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For those of us in the Pickled Herring in Sour Cream set, this really is a big deal.
A recently discovered block of eastern Wisconsin cheddar cheese that dates back to the Nixon presidency will be sold for $10 per ounce.
Edward Zahn, 73, was in Z’s Cheese Shoppe’s walk-in cooler last month, preparing to shut down his Oconto store. He pushed aside stacks of cheese to reveal several wooden boxes that had been overlooked for years.
Inside were blocks of unintentionally aged cheddar – 28, 34 and 40 years old – that, some experts say, might comprise the oldest collection of cheese ever assembled and sold to the public. -
LC just downed a punt on the 1/2yd line
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ok, get this.
KO had to punt from the 1. Looked like they were gonna fake it, but the punter tried to kick while rolling out to the left. LC blocked it and scored a TD.
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The wagonburner’s admonition against betting on athletics with balls that bounce unpredictably definitely applies.
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KO drives and scores. LC blocks PAT attempt.
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LC fumbles. KO recovers in LC 18.
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Hialeah, Opalaka and Miami has the same type of brain damaged street names. I have motored in some the worst places in the world and never got lost till I ended up in that mess. -
A Texas woman aiming for a pesky skunk that was feeding off cat food bowls outside her home wound up accidentally shooting her husband when the bullet ricocheted off the porch and struck him in the abdomen, a sheriff said.
This event was doomed when she decided to shoot at a skunk with a .45 off’n the back porch. Striking her unfortunate husband was only collateral damage. Polecats are stinky enough when you hit them on the road.
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KO scores and completes 2pt conversion.
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The absolute worst street name place is Atlanta. Every street in the downtown area seems to be named “Peachtree” something. Lane, avenue, boulevard, street, court, circle, etc.
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LC scores and doinks the PAT
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#83 TT
Houston has done that with “Post Oak” streets near the West Loop. Post Oak Rd, Post Oak Blvd, Post Oak Pkwy, Post Oak Park Dr, Post Oak Place, South Post Oak Rd, etc. -
Spectacular 30yd diving catch on KO 20.
Grind grind grind grind grind
2pt conv
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The #1 MSNBC spitting Obumma propagandist got heckled last night according to this story.
Couldn’t of happened to a sorrier ‘journalist.’
I only wish I could’ve been there to heckle him too.
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This has got to be the Wuthering Heights of football.
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Matthews said he told the rowdy group, “What’s this, a douchebag convention?”
ROFLMAO! 🙂
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Matthews said he told the rowdy group, “What’s this, a douche bag convention?”
“I told him that’s next week,” said New York delegate Anthony Nunziato,
ROTFLMAO
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LC 56 KO 63 in OT
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The Texas Rangers have been called in to investigate missing defensive teams at LC and KO. At least 22 football-playing children are thought to have disappeared.
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