I ran across this picture recently. Guess who the dude next to Col. Sanders is?
This immediately conjured up memories of this one:
Can you guess who these people might be?
Lots more here.
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I’m afraid we are nearing the end.
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Current 2012 Electoral Map Based on Intrade Contracts for Each State: 303 Obama, 235 Romney.
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G’Morning All
A slow start for the future of Texas.First producing oil well in Texas comes in
September 12, 1866
On this day in 1866, the first producing oil well in Texas came in at a depth of 106 feet at Oil Springs in Nacogdoches County. The Melrose Petroleum Oil Company, which had been organized in December 1865 by Lyne Taliaferro (Tol) Barret and four partners, began drilling in the summer of 1866. Taliaferro, a Nacogdoches County merchant born in Virginia in 1832, had first contracted to lease 279 acres near Oil Springs in 1859, but the Civil War put a temporary halt to his exploration. The first well produced about ten barrels a day, but the low price of oil and the political unrest accompanying Reconstruction made the development of the field unfeasible. Barret suffered extensive financial losses and returned to the mercantile business in Melrose. Later he saw the field developed with an oil boom in 1887. Barret died in 1913. Though he received little acclaim during his lifetime, in 1966 memorial markers were dedicated at his grave in Melrose and at Stephen F. Austin State University to mark the 100th anniversary of the drilling of the first producing oil well in Texas. -
This Castro seems much smarter than the present San Antone mayor Julián Castro.
Early colony holds first election
September 12, 1844
On this day in 1844, just nine days after reaching their new settlement, Henri Castro, empresario of the Republic of Texas, and his first thirty-five colonists held an election to choose two justices of the peace, a constable, and the settlement’s name, Castroville. Henri Castro, a learned, wise, and humane man, received contracts for two grants of land on which he was to establish 600 families. In the management of his colonies, he is more comparable to Stephen F. Austin than any other Texas empresario. He had an unbounded faith in the capacity of intelligent men for self-government. During Castro’s colony’s first year the population grew to 2,134. Although the colony suffered from Indian depredations, cholera, and the drought of 1848, the population increased sufficiently for the formation of Medina County in 1848. -
How not to set priorities.
To honor their copyright, please follow the link.US and Israel in open feud over Iran
By Geoff Dyer in Washington
Panetta and Shimon Peres©EPA
Feuding between the US and Israel burst into the open when Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, sharply criticised recent US statements about Iran while the White House said President Barack Obama would not meet Mr Netanyahu in the US this month.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d960d376-fc28-11e1-aef9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26FJPn7Az
Seems like Obama is “too busy” to see him, but he still has time to smooze with Letterman………..Obama Announces Letterman Appearance on Day He Snubbed Netanyahu
by Christian Toto 11 Sep 2012
President Barack Obama will be visiting one of his biggest fans soon – late night talker David Letterman.
The president will chat with the “Late Show” host during a trip to New York City next week, according to the National Journal. Letterman’s nightly monologues mostly spare the president from satirical ribbing, saving his most cutting remarks for the Romneys … or even former President George W. Bush.
The news comes on the same day Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he couldn’t meet with him due to a scheduling conflict.While this is going on.
The Cairo-Tehran Express
Egyptian-Iranian intelligence meeting prompts fears of a new Middle East terror axis
BY: Bill Gertz
September 11, 2012 6:31 pm
U.S. intelligence agencies recently monitored a secret meeting between Egypt’s intelligence chief and a senior Iranian spy that is raising new fears the Muslim Brotherhood government in Cairo could begin covertly supporting global -
Epic Fail:
Russian ships displayed at DNC tribute to vets
By Sam Fellman – Staff writer
Posted: Tuesday Sep 11, 2012 17:16:10 EDT
Retired Adm. John Nathman speaks on stage with military veterans during the final day of the Democratic National Convention on Sept. 6 in Charlotte, N.C. Experts say the ships in the background are Russian.
On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message.
But there was a big mistake in the stirring backdrop: those are Russian warships.
While retired Adm. John Nathman, a former commander of Fleet Forces Command, honored vets as America’s best, the ships from the Russian Federation Navy were arrayed like sentinels on the big screen above.
These were the very Soviet-era combatants that Nathman and Cold Warriors like him had once squared off against.
“The ships are definitely Russian,” said noted naval author Norman Polmar after reviewing hi-resolution photos from the event. “There’s no question of that in my mind.”
Naval experts concluded the background was a photo composite of Russian ships that were overflown by what appear to be U.S. trainer jets. It remains unclear how or why the Democratic Party used what’s believed to be images of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at their convention.
A spokesman for the Democratic National Convention Committee was not able to immediately comment Tuesday, saying he had to track down personnel to find out what had happened.
The veteran who spotted the error and notified Navy Times said he was immediately taken aback.
“I was kind of in shock,” said Rob Barker, 38, a former electronics warfare technician who left the Navy in 2006. Having learned to visually identify foreign ships by their radars, Barker recognized the closest ship as the Kara-class cruiser Kerch. “An immediate apology [from the committee] would be very nice,” Barker said. “Maybe acknowledge the fact that yes, they screwed up.” -
It looks like this explains why our diplomats were over run.
In Benghazi, a large mob stormed the U.S. consulate, with gunmen firing their weapons, said Wanis al-Sharef, an Interior Ministry official in Benghazi. A witness said attackers fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at the consulate as they clashed with Libyans hired to guard the facility.
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#7 TexMo
Everything that’s going on in the mid east and our President snubs the only true ally we have to campaign and be on tv.
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Colonel Sanders and Groucho both with their bud Vincent Damon Furnier
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Alice Cooper
The King
Mick Jagger in drag
Elton John
Jerry Lewis & Mel Torme
Jak Nicholson, Art Garfunkle, and some chick
Charlie Chaplin and Ghandi
David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed
Mike Bloomfield (or Lou Reed), Mick Jagger, & David Bowie
Some dude, Ahnold, & Andre the Giant
Marlon Brando and Charlie Chaplin
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Not so good morning Hamsters. Yesterday’s events in the Arab world that get a pass from Obama and his minions plus the memory of 9-11 throw a shroud over America today. Yea for Mitt Romney’s most appropriate comments. Mitt and Paul need to continue standing up for America with all they’ve got while Obama cowers somewhere and sends minions to make lame apologies and statements. Disgust doesn’t begin to describe it. However that will have to do for the moment. 🙁
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#10 Sarge
Wow, you recognize everybody, even from decades-old pix!
The only ones I knew were Nixon & Elvis.
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#12 – *Stand By* for “1979″ as the next item to be termed RACIST!
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The Chron features the unpleasantness in Libya and Egypt on p. A5 in the print edition.
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#10 Sarge: That dude standing with Ahnold and Andre the Giant is Wilt Chamberlin.
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The whole media seems to have been caught flat-footed on the murder of our Ambassador and three staffers.
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Jak Nicholson, Art Garfunkle, and some chick
Candice Bergen
Some dude, Ahnold, & Andre the Giant
Wilt Chamberlain
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Will the events of yesterday cause the LSM to remove their O colored glasses and start reporting the truth instead of openly campaigning for JugEars? Will the Spitter and the rest on his channel stop humping O’s leg? Will the events of yesterday cause the VMG to wake the hell up and realize that we have the well tanned reincarnation of the Jimmah Cawtah presidency but only 10 time worse and vote ABO/RMoney in the next election?
We all know that the polls are skewed in the sample, we all know that the “educational” system K-12 and university, has been indoctrinating students in hard left ideology to the detriment of actual learning; how much of this indoctrination is getting blown out of the water by the events of yesterday? -
The whole media seems to have been caught flat-footed on the murder of our Ambassador and three staffers.
Which is an act of war, unless those who are responsible are quickly rounded up by the locals…
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lifted from the comments section:
Barack be nimble
Barack be quick
Barack be history
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So, two different countries invade our sovereign territory, burn our flag and kill our diplomats. And the best our president can come up with is that he condemns the actions?
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Which is an act of war, unless those who are responsible are quickly rounded up by the locals…
Not too friggen likely as it was the locals who perpetrated the act o war.
What a stunning Foreign Policy achievement, eliminate the one force that is keeping the radical islimists in check (qadaffi) and somehow one is then surprised that the islimists start behaving like the murderous, blood thirsty savages they have always been.
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And the best our president can come up with is that he condemns the actions?
He verbally condemns the actions for the consumption of the American press, on back channels he confirms that he will do nothing to punish this action or make any changes to stop future such actions.
Obama is neither powerful nor brilliant; he is a sock puppet for those who wish to destroy the USA so they personally can achieve more power and (cue twisted maniacal voice)RULE THE WORLD -
If the photos up on Drudge don’t sicken Yall I have no clue what might
*conversation* / or condemnation be DAMNED
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I have a shovel.
I’m going to start digging my bunker.
I have a feeling it will be needed.
Because we have a wissing failure for a president, surrounding himself with even bigger failures for advisors.
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#18 Shannon
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I understand two of the dead in Benghazi were Marine Embassy Guards.
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I wonder where they got this idea?
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One of the young ladies from my church is a missionary in Libya. She just got there a few days ago and due to lost luggage had to go to the airport yesterday to pickup her luggage. She was able to share her faith with the hotel worker that drove her and he seemed very responsive. Her group is stuck in a hotel, by suggestion of the US Embassy, and not able to move about freely. Please pray for her and her group, they will be looking for apartments to live in once they are allowed out of the hotel and then beginning their ministry in earnest.
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#32 duhmoose
They have more courage than I do. While I’d love to travel to the Middle East and see the ancient sites, I am too chicken to put my life on the line like that. I’ve shared my story before, of the coworker from Iran who was not Muslim. Nope, my life is worth something, despite what the radical Islamists say. My missionary work is here, among the teenagers in my church. Some of them are about as unchurched as those Muslims in Libya, unfortunately. They are just missing the hate.
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I can’t get to this link from here, but I ran across it last night. Hope it’s the one I’m thinking of…
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#31 Tedtam
That’s all we need.
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Did they do enough to stop the attack this time?
More than they should have been expected to with less of what they should have had.
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I have a missionary cousin who’s been in Kenya for about six months. Recently, someone hacked their email accounts and started sending out extremely threatening letters to everyone in their address books detailing how they will be tortured and killed. Needless to say the family (we all received the email) is very concerned with their safety.
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Statement released by the US Embassy in Cairo:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others. [emphasis mine]
Maybe the Muslims need to put on their big-girl panties and butch up.
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So — Cairo Embassy does not condemn the killing of 4 Americans in Libya. Just condemn bad-mouthing of Islime.
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In reply, the White House issued this statement:
“We are shocked, that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack.”
The Muslims are not the only ones who need to find some big-girl panties.
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I’m a big girl, and I’m sure I have a few extra I can send. Perhaps we should start a “Panties for Obama” mail-in?
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#32 duhmoose, Prayers on the way. If I were her I’d get out of that hell hole.
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#34 Wagonburner, Yup, it’s the right one. 😉
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That Tedtam woman and her shovel. Something just ain’t right.
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Let’s recap:
Obama starts his “foreign policy” efforts off by apologizing in Cairo
Turns his back on Mubarek without having thought about consequences and what our next steps should be
Actively supports airstrikes in support of rebel factions in Libya to depose Big Mo – despite Big Mo having been more than a little bit cooperative since Saddam Hussein got whacked without having thought about consequences and what our next steps should be
Obama refuses to meet with Netanyahu in the near future while he is visiting on UN business
Obama announces he will be appearing on Letterman
Happens on 9/11 (while ” the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy.”)
Relatively small mobs, not widespread protests
Embassies/Consulates sacked & burned
US Citizens murdered (at least two of whom had diplomatic cover)
Proximate cause was (by most accounts & reviews) a really stupid and bad movie that “denigrated” the pederast prophet, Mohammed
Embassy in Cairo issues statement saying that we are sorry that some guy had to go and hurt the feelings of the Muslim nuts and force them to sack our Embassy & Consulate
Romney issues statement and holds press conference in which he strongly criticizes both the Muslim nuts and our spineless President
Obama issues statement criticizing Romney for criticizing him
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That Tedtam woman and her shovel. Something just ain’t right.
She hung out with the Domestic Southern Terrorist too much?
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The Administration said the “death pictures” were actually Libyans dragging the ambassador to the hospital. From what I’ve seen of these animals, they usually pull out the cell phones when they have a trophy, not a victim.
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That Tedtam woman and her shovel. Something just ain’t right.
Watch it, guys. I’ve recently upgraded my tool inventory with a machete.
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We shouldn’t hurt the feelings of Muslims in other countries, but in this country if a Catholic University doesn’t want to pay for abortifacients and contraceptives, they are hatefully ignorant and just trying to take away a woman’s right to control her own body.
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#38 –
Maybethe Muslimsneed toWILL put on their big-girlpantiesBOMB VESTS andbutchBLOW up.not sure we can say NO CHARGE for that much editing Pahdnah
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I don’t know. If we send them a bunch of panties, their heads might ‘splode all on their own. They are so sexually repressed that it just might do it.
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#51 – soak em in bacon grease first!!
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We’re on the first row for the Paul McCartney concert!
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#45 wagonburner
Fragot:
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Maybe Obama’s “whack ’em with drone strikes” strategy isn’t as clean as he thinks?
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Reporting now:
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He doesn’t attend most of them.
Those golf balls aren’t gonna just up and hit themselves, you know. -
Question: Given his behavior over the last few weeks, even if he attends, can they be called “intelligence briefings”?
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Egyptian President wants to sue the makers of a movie that attacks the barnyard animal-molesting pederast “prophet” Mohammed.
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Hell, at this rate Barry will let them try the case in NYC. Prolly call it a hate crime and get the feds involved.
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Bad news,
There’s a decline in loon pairs, and its not the kind you want it to be. -
#32 duhmoose
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I forgot to post this last night. Good article in Forbes: Obama Hears Your Whining, And He’s Here to Help You Out
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger/2012/09/10/obama-hears-your-whining-and-hes-here-to-help-you-out/ -
I don’t claim to have any foreign policy experience, nor do I have any expertise in the Middle East, its politics, its religion, and the like. I do not have a secret plan that would serve our country and supplement its middle east policies (assuming it has some). Yet I would submit that I could put something together in fairly short order that would be better than what our current administration has. Any takers?
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#67 El Gordo
You’re on if you watched Lawrence of Arabia and read T E Lawrence’s
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. That would be way ahead of Obama. And not a whole lot has changed in the Middle East since Lawrence’s time except the tribes became countries, have oil and wealth, modern conveniences and toys, but still pretty much a tribal mindset. -
We’re on the first row for the Paul McCartney concert!
My Condolences,….I hope that
theyyou have lots ofbeerweed. 🙁 -
#67 El Gordo
Yet I would submit that I could put something together in fairly short order that would be better than what our current administration has. Any takers?
The threshold is way to low.
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#70 – Those 16 and 17 year olds are what they are using now, isn’t it? And I’ll bet they are way cool too.
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I’m watching “Burn Notice” and Michael Shanks is a character in tonight’s show.
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Who is Michael Shanks?…..never heard of him, TV/Movie star ❓
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Michael Shanks played “Daniel Jackson” on Stargate: SG1, of which I own the complete ten seasons in DVD form. He’s played a bad guy on Nikita, and now he’s playing a bad guy on “Burn Notice”. I’ve seen him in a few other shows.
I loved his Daniel Jackson character, but I like him doing just about anything.
~~~~ He’s dreamy ~~~~
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Ooops, it wasn’t Nikita, it was Flashpoint.
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I am going to be ready to meet a bunch of you Hamsters, when we get together for the November post-election Victory Party and Texas Hoedown at some local park.
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That sounds like a great idea. Maybe we could have it here at the Dome. I’ll have to clear it with Hubby. The place is big enough…and there’s more room in the back yard now. Although I’ll have to clear my veggie garden – it’s just a big hairy weed patch right now.
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It’ll be cool by then, the party invitations can say: Bring a yard tool and get cracking!
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Don’t give me any ideas! 😀
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And you can all bring bags and collect pecans. It looks like we’ll have a bumper crop this year.
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Maybe I’ll organize my craft room and give you a bunch of things I don’t think I will ever work with again… But I doubt I can really find time to go through everything until I am finally 100% retired. That may happen spring 2013.
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#81 mharper42
Bulletin: There is no such thing as 100% retired as long as you’re still fogging a mirror.
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…………………FYI……………… I only operate equipment that is motorized with hydraulic assistance (i.e. Dozers, Loaders, Backhoes, Scrapers etc)…………the handle of a sharpshooter, shovel, rake, post hole digger, or trowel ceased fitting my hand 30 years ago!
jus sayin -
You ever operate a yo-yo on a ditch full of 5-ft johnson grass?
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#82 Adee
Ok, when I stop billing any of my time, I will be 99% retired! All the other work I do is just for the exercise. 🙂 -
#83 Katfish:
Amen!!!!!!!!
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