Joe Biden is spending almost a week away from the campaign trail to prepare for his upcoming debate with Paul Ryan. There are those who think he needs the extra time to avoid embarrassing himself.
While that is likely true to some extent, I think it’s also partly an excuse to keep him out of public view as much as possible to minimize the potential for additional self-goals.
Monday Joe Biden Debate Prep Open Comments
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Do you think these varmints can do better with the city than its current denizens?
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EG, they are just hungry and trying to feed they chillrenzes. They would not destroy if you just gave them food.
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The holy grail of the Church of the Rainbow is for sale. Some rich queen is going to be very happy.
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Ha! Mark Steyn, headline: …Unless a Spontaneous Movie Review Breaks Out
Yesterday I went to see Taken 2, one of those films in which Liam Neeson spends 90 minutes gunning down half the inhabitants of a foreign city.
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Good morning Hamsters. Wow. barely 7 AM and we have hilarious posts. EG#1 about raccoons taking over New Yawk City is hysterical, especially the comment “Raccoon Ahkbar!”
GJT’s #4 “Go to the US Embassy. You’ll be safe there” is funny in the saddest way, but still funny. 🙁
#3 Hamous, what? Simony in the Church of the Wizard of Oz?
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I’d not give Biden short shrift. He’s been in politics for 40 years, he has to have some snap. Axelrod is no dunce either, and he’s doing the debate prep. Barry had John F’n Kerry as his debate prep, which is a handicap in and of itself , AND he’s the kind of narcissist who woud think that he don’t need no steenking debate prep anyway.
Uncle Joe and his debate prep coach both know that the whole thing rests on them right now. A disaster here of the magnitude that was displayed last week and Ann Romney can start measuring for the new drapes.
A big part of the problem will be that all Joe will really need to do is not make any mistakes. The Legacy Media is standing ready to amplify any mistake or stumble, however small, that Ryan might make and any advantage Biden might gain. Axelrod will have Biden focusing mainly on “zingers” and sound bites rather than wonky data. The data works against them, and the sound bites work better on You Tube. Biden is the kind of smartazz who could pull that off. You will likely see any data presented by Ryan treated as a joke with a flip remark in response that ignores the data, but is intended to be memorable. -
#3 hamous
A madonna for the CotR.
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That’s disturbing.
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The perfect solution to the coon problem in Yankeeville. 1500fps using .177 pellets with a single cock.
I have one of these a model 34, and it will group inside of a dime at 30 yards. With a good rest, headshots on birds are no problem inside of my backyard. I have taken squirrels at 40 yards with one shot. -
Pyro: You took exception to my use of the word “enema” on WAF. I have a rule that may prove to be really fun. If one can not see the connection, in addition to the letter connection, call BS or BPH or whatever and make the allegedly offending commenter justify the connection on the WAF page ( in parenthesis of course). I think that would add a new dimension of accountability in addition to another avenue for comedy.
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The folks inhabiting the raccoon invaded neighborhoods could help themselves some by securing the lids on their trash cans and taking in dog and cat food usually left out in their yards. That might help neighborhoods inhabited by reasonably responsible folks so the critters move on to better scavanging elsewhere. Would guess that other critters are likewise drawn to the easy eating, none of which are assets to the community either. Just might be the raccoons happen to be the smartest of the lot. 🙂
Up one degree from this morning’s 54. Very nice for a change. Overcast and kinda gloomy outside makes hot chocolate a treat, though it is good stuff any time of year. -
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So, is the wagonburner household celebrating Columbus Day with the same enthusiasm, verve and zip as the rest of us? 😉
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Yep.
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#7 Doesn’t Hammie have a version of the Benzion rule?
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If the sue happy lawyers get their way, the SCOTUS will rule in favor of the copyright holders. While I am fully in favor of copyright protection, that protection and the fees associated with it only apply to the first sale of a particular item. Once that item is purchased, THE OWNER of said item can then re-sell it for whatever price the market will bear with no royalties due to the original copyright holder. This applies to tangible items like books, cars, etc; I can readily see how “residuals” would apply to things like movies or TV shows, if and only if the residual compensation were contractually agreed to prior to production.
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It’s the Granny rule.
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The NYT, once again, displays an alarming lack of journalistic integrity. This gem is at the very end of the
articlepropaganda piece.Hamas has largely adhered to an informal, if fragile, cease-fire with Israel and has acted in the past to rein in smaller groups, but this was the second time in less than four months that Hamas joined in firing rockets at Israel.
In June, the armed wing of Hamas joined Islamic Jihad in firing barrages of rockets into Israel after a number of deadly Israeli airstrikes. Analysts said at the time that Hamas was acting out of a sense that Islamic Jihad was gaining ground, and after Gaza residents criticized Hamas for not avenging Israeli strikes.I fail to see how almost daily rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel could be described as “largely adhering” to the cease fire.
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Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, although the population has grown by 31 million since then. A worker between the ages of 50 and 61 who has been unemployed for over a year has only a 9 percent chance of finding a job in the next three months. A worker who is 62 years or older and similarly unemployed has about a 6 percent chance. And 50 percent of this year’s college graduates are without jobs or are underemployed. What a waste.
The real unemployment rate is 15 percent, measured by what is called U-6, which includes people who are working part-time on an involuntary basis. We have 4.7 million fewer jobs than the peak reached at the end of 2007. And indeed much of the improvement in jobs has been through dubious “seasonal” adjustments, such as the July seasonal bump of 377,000 jobs—the largest such adjustment for July in the past 10 years. The labor participation rate has dropped to a 30-year low, and if not for that development, the unemployment rate would be much higher.
Underemployment is still in the range of 16 percent, and that does not count people who have a job for which they are overqualified or who are making much less money because they are aren’t working in their chosen field. John Williams at Shadowstats, who uses the U.S. government methodology from 30 years ago, tells us that the U-6 unemployment rate is around 23 percent. The difference is in how you create the model. The feds keep changing the rules, and it should be no surprise that with each new rule the number of people officially counted as unemployed drops.
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Owning a dog makes you more attractive, especially if it’s the right breed. If you’re a single wimmin, you should get a big dog like a retriever. The reverse is true for men. Stay away from Rottweilers & Pit Bulls.
Cats, on the other hand, make men seem a little light in the loafers. They’re ok for wimmins, as long as there are only one or two. More than that and the craziness coefficient rises exponentially. -
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How about a Bovier des Flanders?
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Anything French-sounding – see cats
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Doesn’t Harper have more than 2?
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#22 Simple: One of these? Does yours have the common problem of excessive, room clearing flatulence?
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“Hold my beer and watch this…”
Come Tuesday, weather permitting, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner will attempt to be the first person to break the sound barrier in free fall. The mission will take Felix 23 miles above Earth in a small space capsule. He will then step out of the capsule and plunge to Earth hoping to reach speeds that exceed 690 mph.
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CRAP! “Girl loses stomach after drinking cocktail containing liquid nitrogen!!”
Liquid Nitrogen is -320 F!!! Freezes anything instantantly, this would be funny in a Darwin kinda way if it weren’t soo SAD! 🙁
Can you get enough nourishment to live without a stomach?
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#26 Bob, I’ve been watching that, he’ll break the speed of sound on the way down.
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The Obama campaign engaging in Goebbels tactics once again.
Last night, the Obama campaign blasted out another email claiming that Mitt Romney’s tax plan would either require raising taxes on the middle class or blowing a hole in the deficit.
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“In fact, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein and Princeton economist Harvey Rosen both concede that paying for Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000.”Sounds good for 0 and company so far, but wait. . .
But that’s not true. Princeton professor Harvey Rosen tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email that the Obama campaign is misrepresenting his paper on Romney’s tax plan:
I can’t tell exactly how the Obama campaign reached that characterization of my work. It might be that they assume that Governor Romney wants to keep the taxes from the Affordable Care Act in place, despite the fact that the Governor has called for its complete repeal. The main conclusion of my study is that under plausible assumptions, a proposal along the lines suggested by Governor Romney can both be revenue neutral and keep the net tax burden on taxpayers with incomes above $200,000 about the same.I wonder how much crap he is now catching from the DemoZombies at Princeton? Fortunately, more and more thinking individuals are refusing to parrot the party line to simply get along, they are starting to speak out for the truth.
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We shoulda’ sent Jammah, Chavez wins 6 more years in tightest race yet.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his
masterful political touch in winningability to steal a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela’s opposition. -
That young Venezuelan challenger better leave the country. And quickly.
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#30 SD: How long and how much more destruction to Venezuela do you think Chavez will achieve before the cancer takes him out?
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Super Dave, yes.
Can you get enough nourishment to live without a stomach?
But it’s not easy. A friend of mine from church has a rare disorder that frequently paralyzes her stomach. She has a “J-tube” in her belly that pumps infant formula into the top of her small intestine.
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#26 Bob, I’ve been watching that, he’ll break the speed of sound on the way down.
Will he bounce?
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#34,26, and others: He may break the barrier and then again he may not. It really depends on how he holds himself during the descent and how aerodynamically efficient his suit is; at those speeds it does not take a lot to really slow you down due to wind resistance. Granted, that (wind resistance) is minimized at the beginning of the plummet as the air is really thin that high, however, it is still a factor. Terminal/peak velocity (during the flight, not at the end when it is zero) depends as much on aerodynamics as it does gravity.
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I wonder how big of a hole he will make when his parachute fails to open?
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He may break the barrier and then again he may not. It really depends on how he holds himself during the descent and how aerodynamically efficient his suit is
I know exactly how I’d hold myself or, more precisely, what I’d be holding. Don’t know if it would make me more aerodynamic though.
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#37: It is gonna be really wissin cold so there prolly won’t be a whole lot to hang on to; unless the other part matches his brass testicules.
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TMI
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I wonder how big of a hole he will make when his parachute fails to open?
Death and burial all in one fell swoop.
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It looks like common sense is coming to Washington state.
The latest SurveyUSA poll for King 5 News found that 57 percent of likely voters in the state plan to back the ballot measure while only 33 percent oppose it and another 10 percent remain undecided.
But don’t worry Texas. Our state will remain dominated by brain dead control freaks for at least another decade.
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I think his head will explode.
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TMI
Call 1-800-we-sue-em and see ifn they will take the case.
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Maybe you should move to Washington.
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#s 26 & 28 – how does / will he keep from burning up? A suit made from space shuttle tile materials?
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#41: Even if it passes, it is still illegal on the federal level. That reality will simply shift the
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#45 Katfish, I don’t think excesive heat is gonna be an issue, lack of may be however. The shuttle hits the atmosphere at something like 20,000 mph and this guy is gonna be lucky to get over 650.
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#45 At the time they began re-entry, shuttles were doing ~17,000 mph.
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thank you for the correction. I knew it was way over 10,000 mph and did not take the time to find the exact number. I think some of the space debris in orbit is cruising in excess of 20,000 mph. Either way we are speaking in terms >20 times faster for the shuttle than the human fireball.
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I think his head will explode.
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#46 Bonecrusher, it sounds to me like you are selectively opposed to states’ rights, when it suits your ideology. There’s a word for that…
When Bush was president and an upstart state would dare to challenge Nixon’s political war on a plant, he sent professional propagandists, on the tax-payer’s dime, to stir up local opposition to both decrim and medical use initiatives. And of course, even though the country was fighting two expensive wars at the time, his justice department easily found the time to waste $10M entrapping Tommy Chong for selling bongs over the internet.
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Has he calculated the G-forces? At those speeds, the blood may not be where he needs it to be for clear thinking, and he may not be able to move if he needs to. Perhaps his parachute will deploy automatically at a certain altitude.
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#51 Bob
But overall it behaves less stupidly than the prior administration did.
/facepalm
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I am having the weirdest day. I started off not taking my allergy meds, but I washed the sinuses. I was experiencing some weird anxiety-type feelings, and I couldn’t pin down where they were coming from. Something around my neck and shoulders is bugging me. I’ve pulled my growing-out hair off my neck, thinking there was a curl tickling me. Then I changed shirts, because the one I was wearing had a wide neck hole, which I’m not used to. I took some allergy meds at lunch and had some chicken soup. I think there’s some fluid in my ears; maybe that’s causing a general feeling of “what the heck is going on”.
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Na ga dait
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West Nile.
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Rabies.
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Hormonal.
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I just wish I could get my brain fully engaged. I have inches-high paperwork to handle, and I can’t focus because of this…this…whatever the heck it is.
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I managed to catch a youtube of Saturday night’s ‘debate’ between Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Fox News Clown Bill O’Reilly before it was pulled for a copyright issue.
The two comedians kept it light and friendly most of the time. But when they were serious, I almost (but not quite) felt sorry for Bill. Him debating Stewart was like showing up for crap contest armed only with acute flatulence. Not surprising, since that is the essence of Fox News. -
Galloping pie-guytis.
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The Vapors
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I can only resist so many golden straight lines
armed only with acute flatulence
Doctor heal thySELF! 🙂
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If teh ghey could marry under a wreath of marijuana leaves Bill O’Reilly would win a debate against Jon Stewart, Fox News would be “mainstream”, and Two-Note Bobolicious would have nothing to whine about.
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Vaporlock
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Quick! Get that lady some smelling salts!
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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You guys would be funny if this wasn’t driving me CRAZY!
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Hairball
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Passion Flu
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Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu
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Distemper
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If you travel at all, you have stayed in a hotel or motel room with one of these locks. Onity is the largest supplier of keyless lodging door locks in the world.
The inconspicuous lock hacking device is an adaption of one demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in July by Cody Brocious, a hacker and software developer for Mozilla, who discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Onity locks, a cheap and popular hotel room lock that the company says are used on at least four million hotel rooms worldwide. Through the port on the bottom of the lock intended for a device that hotels can use to set master keys, Brocious found he was able to read the lock’s memory, including a decryption key stored on the locks that gave him access to their opening mechanism.
Even though Onity claims to have patched the security breach, it requires hotels and motels to spend a significant amount of money on upgrades and there is no guarantee the place you stay next has done so.
Proceed with caution when deciding what to leave in your room.
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Katfish, the man may be your hero, but he is an idiot.
The tides go in. The tides go out. You can’t explain that.
Yes Bill, we can, despite the efforts of the theocratic republicans on the Texas State Board of Education and idiots like you that need a dumbed down audience to appreciate your daily exhibitions of gross ignorance.
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Even though Onity claims to have patched the security breach, it requires hotels and motels to spend a significant amount of money on upgrades and there is no guarantee the place you stay next has done so.
As long as it doesn’t affect any Bed and Breakfasts in Texas I’m OK.
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nematodes
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#7 Pyro
Justin Bieber, Brad Pitt, don’t recognize the guy bottom right… Reminds me of that creepy guy Bob from Twin Peaks. -
Halitosis
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Bieber, Conan O’Brien, House, and black jesus.
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#11 Bones
I think my solution is going to be: give up WAF altogether. I used to enjoy it, now there are non-words, and no apparent connection. F’it.
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Suggestions to make it better?
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Mange
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#51 D!khead:
#46 Bonecrusher, it sounds to me like you are selectively opposed to states’ rights, when it suits your ideology. There’s a word for that…
How the wiss do you get that from this??
#41: Even if it passes, it is still illegal on the federal level. That reality will simply shift the persecution prosecution from the state to the federal court system. Then those wicked mandatory minimums will rear their ugly heads. Does the initiative allow dopeheads people to grow their own and thus evade the 1 oz max?
The fact is that marijuana is illegal at the federal level, my championing of states rights, which I do with great regularity, is not diminished by me stating this fact now does it?
I am in favor of decriminalization of all drugs because using the crime avenue is a dismal failure at reducing the number of consumers. This has been my position every time the issue is brought up, even though I do not always chime in.
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TT: I think you may be a-sufferin’ from brainial snotitosis.
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#24 Shannon
Doesn’t Harper have more than 2?
Indeed I do, total 7. However, 2 are mostly David’s.
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Heartbreak of Psoriasis
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#54 TT
Something around my neck and shoulders is bugging me.
Have you been close to any large, human-sized pods lately while working in your back yard?
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Meet Paul Broun, a popular Tea Party Republican representing Georgia’s 10th congressional district, who is seated on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior. There’s a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe that the Earth is about 9,000 years old. I believe that it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says. And what I’ve come to learn is that it’s the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.
I’m sure you will, you idiot. Georgia, like Texas, is littered with delusional republican theocrats that don’t care to realize the difference between their personal god and everyone’s government.
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I laid down for a little while; it seems to have helped. Maybe I’m just suffering from allergy induced fatigue, and not wanting to admit it. I just feel so….nervous and agitated.
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Bonecrusher, thank you for the correction. I didn’t realize that you were rational on this issue.
I am in favor of decriminalization of all drugs because using the crime avenue is a dismal failure at reducing the number of consumers. This has been my position every time the issue is brought up, even though I do not always chime in.
By golly, you’re smarter than Bill O’Reilly and the Texas republican party.
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That’s because you don’t read what people write. You’re so close-minded to others’ opinions you automatically assume you know their positions. That’s typical of you authoritarian elitist types.
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#83 Pyro
Suggestions to make it better?
What will make it better for me is to not even go in and look at it.
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This gets more and more tedious as time goes by.
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#95 Sarge
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Fireants
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Nope. Killed me some ’em yesterday. Or at least, put out the poison. They’ve taken over a whole ridge of Mirkwood, and I can’t
clearlevel that part until they’re gone. It’s a huge nest.
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You may want to have a tissue handy.
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#99: Dangit, there must be some dust in the house.
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I thought legalizing all these “victimless crimes” made all the problems go away.
And if legalizing drugs eliminates all the related crime, why does the Netherlands continue to have criminal drug rings ?Amsterdam, often hailed as the sex mecca of Europe, is to have a major facelift. After 12 years of legalised window brothels, attracting hordes of customers from all over Europe, politicians, police, citizens and even many of the prostitutes themselves are admitting that state-sanctioned prostitution is a failed social experiment.
Given almost ten years of evidence that criminal gangs control the red-light area of De Wallen, the local council has announced plans to clean it up in an attempt to transform the reputation of the city. Out will go at least half of the window brothels, sex shops and cannabis cafés and in will come more museums, restaurants and art galleries.
Many of those controlling the window scene and facilitating the trafficking of thousands of women into Amsterdam are so-called “loverboys”, young Dutchmen of Moroccan, Turkish or Surinamese descent, most of them Muslims, who look for vulnerable young Dutch women, pose as lovers, and after a few months, force their “girlfriends” into prostitution, keeping them under close control both by force and psychological means.and,
The tippelzone was promoted as a way of controlling the problems associated with prostitution, such as drug dealing, trafficking and violence. In 2004 the local council closed it down. The mayor, Job Cohen, admitted it had become a haven for traffickers and drug dealers, and had not achieved its aim — to break the links between prostitution and organised crime.
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#75 – HUH? WHO said anything abut any ‘Hero’?
The only HEROES in my world are VETS or our BACA Kids.
I merely pointed out the most succinct (IMHO) phrase that (again IMHO) describes YOU and your endless, incessant, and most of all FEEBLE attempts…………………no more no less
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Interesting facts. There’s even one for Bobo in there.
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Texpat, your premise is fundamentally flawed.
And if legalizing drugs eliminates all the related crime, why does the Netherlands continue to have criminal drug rings ?
I don’t know of anyone that states that. Shirley you aren’t suggesting that decrim/legalization will cause more crime than we have now, are you?
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#104 TT: The last one on the list is eerie beyond words.
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#104 Here are some other Anslinger zingers:
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.
Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.
…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.
Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
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BTW – I’m continuing on my read of “Dead or Alive” by Tom Clancy. The latest chapter really has Jack Ryan getting angry at the incompetence, ineptitude, and crookedness of
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Mange?
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There is a grave worth dancing on featured on the front page.
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#104 Tedtam
OK, the last one; A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same day the donor did. So some here would say that the donors heart caused him to repeat the suicide, BUTT an old curmudgeon would say that the wife drove both of them to it. 😀 -
Mark Tapscott posted this over at Instapundit:
THIS GUY PROBABLY DOESN’T HAVE A “CO-EXIST” BUMPER STICKER ON HIS CAR: Oklahoma authorities have arrested an Illinois man found with materials and instructions for making molotov cocktails, and a list of 48 Oklahoma churches he planned to bomb. The New York Times, et. al. have already dispatched investigative teams to Oklahoma to assess this latest threat to freedom of religion, thought and expression in the Bible Belt, right?
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There are days when I feel like this.
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BUTT an old curmudgeon would say that the wife drove both of them to it.
So does Occam’s razor.
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#114 😀
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#111 TP:
There is a grave worth dancing on featured on the front page.
To quote the Harry Morgan Character in John Wayne’s last movie, The Shootist:
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Trouble in Paradise; Why he’s falling apart.
The foundations of Obama’s campaign are not nearly as strong as they once seemed.A presidential reelection campaign needs three key elements: a defense of the incumbent’s record, a successful effort to define the opposition and a compelling vision of a second term.
President Obama may well celebrate a second term in Chicago next month, but the conventional wisdom underestimates the difficulty he faces, as his campaign has distinct problems with all three elements.
His defense of his record is exceptionally weak, his effort to define Mitt Romney is nearly exhausted, and his vision for the next four years — perhaps the most important — has been largely missing from his effort this year.
Defense of the incumbent’s record
Four years ago, Obama expressed great confidence that he would be running amid renewed prosperity; he famously told Matt Lauer, “One nice thing about the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable. You know, I’ve got four years…If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
In February 2009, even most Republicans would probably have predicted that by 2012, the country would be feeling much more prosperous, with much lower unemployment.
Friday’s jobs report brought much-needed good news, with the 114,000 new jobs in the payroll survey meeting economists’ expectations and bringing unemployment down to 7.8% — but that was fueled by 582,000 part-time jobs. GDP growth is at a meager 1.3%, gasoline is averaging $3.78 per gallon nationally and the foreclosure rate is only slightly below 2011’s 17-year peak.
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#10 Bonecrusher Does your air rifle have a suppressor/silencer on it, if so how quite is it? My single cocker clocks 1200 FPS in .177 and is LOUD! As loud as a 22LR because the pellet breaks the sound barrier. I don’t dare shoot it in my back yard. 🙁
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I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing a lot of this pic.
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We do pray for your quick recovery, Ms.TT.
I have been fighting that crap for three weeks.
The Zpack knocked it down, but remnants remain with chest congestion.
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#119 SD: Not loud at all is it is just under the sound barrier with the heavy pellets. I have used cleaning pellets with a solvent on them and they did break the sound barrier with a loud crack. If I were shooting in the backyard and if you were in the front yard, you could not hear it at all. I live in a subdivision, on something like 1/5 acre.
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How many grains are the pellets and are they .177 .20 or .22? FWIW; I’m using regular old .177 7.9 grain lead pellets.
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Well, another one off the
reservationplantation; Twitter Explodes After Black Actress Endorses Romney as the ‘Only Choice for Your Future.
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#123 SD: .177 and I can not remember exactly what they weigh. I just know that when I look I go for the heaviest I can find. The most accurate I have ever shot were Beeman Silver Jet, they have 3 gas check rings and are pointed, and lethal on squirrels to 40 yards and beyond.
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I just heard that a federal LTN judge has stayed an execution of a convicted child rapist and murderer because he now may be crazy. I don’t really care what his condition is now, was he crazy/insane/not aware of his actions when he committed the crime? If yes, then his condition now is irrelevant, so give the murdering rapist the big dirty spike.
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#114 🙂
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Big doings in
SaskatchianSasukatchwanCanadaMore than 245 combines cascaded across the prairie landscape near Saskatoon on the weekend, trying to break a world record for the most combines in the same field harvesting at the same time.
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#119 SD: I missed the first part of your question, no , it does not have a suppressor of any kind. Did I mention that it has a 1 stage adjustable trigger (standard equip) I have it set to <3 lbs. Right now a friend is using it to dispatch nuisance squirrels in Missouri City, Quail Valley to be more precise.
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I just don’t know how they stand the excitement. For those unfamiliar with Canadian units of measurement a kilogram is 6/10 of a furlong.
One week after setting an Atlantic Canada record at the Annapolis Valley Giant Vegetable Growers Association weigh-in in Waterville with a 733-kilogram gourd, Ansems broke the record again Saturday with a 783.4-kilogram pumpkin that captured the 28th annual Windsor Pumpkin Festival weigh-in “It was definitely a good year for growing giant pumpkins,” Ansems said.
My great Uncle Canuck Shamaal participated in the Annapolis Valley’s annual “Running of the Pumpkins”.
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I suspect it’s not really lost. They are difficult to misplace.
British rugby league player Paul Wood has lost a testicle after a collision during the English sport’s showpiece final at Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium on Saturday.
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#114 TT
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#131 Shamaal
My great Uncle Canuck Shamaal participated in the Annapolis Valley’s annual “Running of the Pumpkins”.
Tragically he was gourd to deathOkay. I’ll have to grudgingly admit that was funny.
But the Americans win again.
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11:55 is a lot of time left to screw up.
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#132 Shammy
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Yes.
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#137 DAYAAM Good Game, worth watching.
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Woody Johnson may fire Rex Ryan tomorrow.
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Ryan might have to quit anyway given the relentless, rabid pit bull attitude of the NYC sports media.
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I loved the commentators changing “Watt” to “Swat”.
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Shamaal Jr brought the movie Battleship home. Interesting movie but a tad incredulous. Taylor Kitsch plays a better Keanu Reeves character than Keanu Reeves though.
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Good game by the Texans. Seems pregame expectations by many had it a higher scoring game with a larger winning margin. Guess the Jets didn’t get the message.
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Yes, Ms Adee, all the blow out predictions had me very nervous. We got out alive, given a victory. With a little help from JJ. 😀
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