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‘Bout Time!
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Neighborhood espionage alert.
Brookstone is selling AR Drones (refurbished) for $179 a piece.
Spy on your neighbors, harass the commies down the block and be the first person in your area to be arrested for electronic peeping tomism !
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Washington Free Beacon:
Good shot, Mary.
MATALIN: Are you an economist or a polemicist? Make up your mind. Do you want to talk about economics or polemics? We (have) two different ways of going forward. We will not have Medicare or Social Security, senior Democrat Dick Durbin saying Social Security isn’t causing a problem (and) Medicare, not the drivers of this deficit. What these guys should do, Coburn is right, this is meaningless, they should either give (Obama) 98% (of tax cuts) or they should do what President Clinton proposed – extend (the tax cuts) for three months (and) let the new Congress (address this issue). -
#2 Texpat
Do you think they will sell out today? Must admit that would be a most unusual gift–for any occasion. 🙂 Umm, are you considering one? -
#4 Adee
Not really. I’ve got better places to spend a couple of hundred bucks right now, but if the need arises…. -
Does anybody know if it is possible to turn off the autoplay on the Krugman video. I don’t understand why ABC has made all their videos autoplay recently. Irritating as hell.
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Just stumbled across this one:
The Federalist Papers are available for Kindle download for free from Amazon.
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Texpat – there’s an autoplayback parameter that you can change from TRUE to FALSE in the code you paste. I fixed this one.
I watched this segment yesterday. Strangely enough, Paulie K wasn’t the most annoying. I guess I’ve gotten used to the moron. Matt Dowd now tops my list of blithering idiots in politics. -
#8 Hamous
Listen, when a maniacal liberal like Sid “Vicious” Blumenthal calls you an opportunist, you really should go crawl back under a rock. But Matthew Dowd clearly harbors no sense of shame. -
Wonder if the drones can drop a load of M80s, and what is the range? Can they reach, say …… Bellville?
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#10 GJT
Bellville is a little far, but you’re only 30 miles from Squawk’s house. -
#8 Hamous
Thanks for the tip. I didn’t even think to look in the code. -
Yeah, maybe FBI wanted leaflets……
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Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview), a TEA party conservative, announces run for Texas Speaker of the House. Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) withdraws, throwing his support behind Simpson.
I don’t think he has a prayer, but I’d sure like to see him beat that low life Joe Straus. -
Pets plants and pipes time guys. If my three major weather prognosticators are to be believed,intellicast, weather rock, and brass monkeys we are in for a hard freeze tonight and tomorrow.
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#15 – Intellicast here indicates 32 tomorrow & Wednesday mornings – since when is 32 a “hard freeze”?
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When yer a real weenie.
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I must say that getting my Nexus card was well worth the hassle & expense.
Last time I came back into the country, I was in my car before the luggage showed up in baggage claim.
It’s about the same on the way out at bigger airports. Don’t hafta take off shoes, belt, or jacket. Don’t hafta take laptop out of the bag. Don’t hafta stand in line.
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Mr. Fish
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says on my intellicast version here in dead zone that Tuesday morn
2 AM 32°
3 AM 31°
4 AM 30°
5 AM 29°
6 AM 29°
Hey it is on the innerwebsnet so it has to be true. -
Bunsonburner
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Collaborator -
G’Morning All
Gonna be busy today, so I’m gonna do a fly-by on the blog. Be back sporadically.Lamar inaugurated as president of the Texas Republic
December 10, 1838
On this day in 1838, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was inaugurated as the second president of the Republic of Texas. His predecessor, Sam Houston, appeared in colonial costume and powdered wig and gave a three-hour “Farewell Address.” Algernon P. Thompson, Lamar’s secretary, reported that the new president was indisposed and read his inaugural remarks. Lamar’s inaugural speech declared the purposes of his administration to be promoting the wealth, talent, and enterprises of the country and laying the foundations of higher institutions for moral and mental culture. Though he had only mixed success as president, Lamar’s support for education was one of the high points of his administration. His proposal that the Congress establish a system of education endowed by public lands resulted in the act of January 26, 1839, which set aside land for public schools and two universities. Although it was decades before the school system was established, Lamar’s advocacy of the program earned for him the nickname “Father of Texas Education.” -
When yer a real weenie.
Hey these caves get drafty so I haftuh take no chances. Stupid bats like to displace the roaches when it gets cold.
Besides have you ever been in a cave when your stalactite sprung a leak from a hard freeze? Not a pretty sight at all. -
Happy Birthday Dan. Y’all keep on riding the Ponderosa together, now.
Dan Blocker born
December 10, 1928
On this day in 1928, the future television star Dan Blocker was born in DeKalb, Texas. When he was six years old the family moved to O’Donnell, in Lynn County, where his father operated a general store. Dan attended Texas Military Institute in San Antonio and Hardin-Simmons University before entering Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine in 1947. After graduating with a B.A. degree in speech and drama, he refused offers of professional careers in both football and boxing. He was drafted for combat duty in Korea, where he served as an infantry sergeant. In 1952 he returned to Sul Ross, where he earned an M.A. degree, and then taught school in Sonora, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico, before moving to California in 1956 to work on a Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Los Angeles. During this time he also worked as a substitute teacher and began his career as a professional actor in Los Angeles. He played the role of Hoss Cartwright for thirteen seasons, from 1959 until his death in 1972 from complications following an operation, on NBC’s “Bonanza,” one of the longest-running and most popular TV series in history. A monument in Blocker’s memory stands in a park in downtown O’Donnell, across the street from a museum which displays memorabilia from his career. -
No worse than 35 predicted for my semi-inner-city zip code.
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#16 Katfish
#15 – Intellicast here indicates 32 tomorrow & Wednesday mornings – since when is 32 a “hard freeze”?
Went to mass with Lovely Daughter and Aggie Beau last night, then to their place for dinner. While watching the football games (as I was furiously crocheting, trying to finish a gift for his mother), I mentioned the oncoming cold front. AB, who grew up a stone’s throw from the Oklahoma border, said he couldn’t wait, and was planning to open all the windows when it came through.
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BTW – I went to mass with them at St. John Vianney (rich parish) because AB wanted me to see the pile of gifts gathered by the congregation for “Giving Sunday,” when the parishioners who buy their gifts for the needy bring them in and lay them
ataround the sanctuary. Since this was the last mass for the weekend, I got the full effect. AB told me there was probably about a hundred bicycles in the back, where they were being stored because there wasn’t enough room for them and the impressive pile of presents.
St. JV has rather large sanctuary area, open on three sides to the nave. The gifts were piled up about 3-4 feet high, all the way around. There were a few walkways left open so the priests and ministers could reach the altar area. Lovely took a picture for me. When she gets it to me, I’ll see if I can post it.
These will be distributed to 18 parishes in the area, and a few outside of the area, I believe. -
Guess all this talk about freezing means I need to bring in my Ghost Pepper (hottest pepper in the world).
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he couldn’t wait, and was planning to open all the windows when it came through.
Oh to be so young and impetuous again.
BSue and I seldom argue and fight but when it gets cold around here that is when the exchanges get heated. I cannot stand the cold and she likes to make the bedroom like a meat locker in the winter time. She ends up sleeping under one blanket and I have a good ten inches of layered blankets over me. We know the arguments are coming and the results are always the same but still insist on doing the dance. 🙂 -
OTL
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Now, this is a real shocker:
NYT admits that there may be a problem with welfare dependency:“This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.”
In the article, they focus on Appalachian children, and no mention is made of Obamaphone families. But then, I haven’t read the original article. Both are problems, but it’s interesting that the urban welfare populace isn’t referenced.
Conservatives have long advocated marriage as the best anti-poverty program going. The logic is simple: two paychecks are twice as much as one.
Not to mention the family unit is structurally more stable with two parents in the home. Usually.
Radical feminists, however, have eschewed such economic logic, suggesting that the two-parent model is patriarchal and outmoded. As the former head of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Kim Gandy put it, “Marrying women off to get them out of poverty is not only backward, it is insulting to women.”
Yeah, like what you’ve been encouraging women to do has helped them out. Since when is a loving relationship a hindrance to women? Or to men? Women don’t HAVE to marry, but statistics are statistics. Is it possible that NOW is more interested in furthering a political agenda that doesn’t really care about the outcome of their ideas, just some fantasy about how things should be? Oh, and is it a coincidence that their agenda tends to push more women into welfare situations – and providing the Democrat party with more votes?
But the New York Times’ Kristof appears to have found religion on the economic and developmental virtues of marriage as well: “A growing body of careful research suggests that the most effective strategy is to work early on children and education, and to try to encourage and sustain marriage,” Kristof writes.
Duh.
… Mr. Kristof deserves a hat tip for acknowledging what conservatives have known for decades: marriage reduces poverty, and boundless welfare vaporizes human flourishing.
I agree. His cajones probably grew at least a half size or so, just writing this piece in the liberal bastion of New York. They could get even larger if he’d tie this to the urban poor as well as the rural poor. But that may hit a little too close to home for most of his friends. He wouldn’t want to get blackballed.
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I have seen videos of people trying to eat a ghost pepper before.
It turns you into a ghost, if you aren’t careful.
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If I’m not mistaken, St. John Vianney is the parish home of that filthy rich Matt Bramanti.
It was established in 1966 and was where all the Papists from my neighborhood attended.
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Jalepenos are about the extent of my forays into the world of ingesting capsaicin. No problems there. I got ahold of a raw chili patine once and thought I was gonna die, but was more afraid I wouldn’t.
When yer a real weenie.
🙂
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In fact when I ate that chili patine I know I looked something like this guy.
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My favorite column on Demint’s exit:
DeMint departs from a Senate caucus now full of his ideological acolytes, ready to step out from under his shadow. It is no exaggeration to say that Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and many more faces of the party today would not be Senators at all without DeMint’s approach (imagine for a moment how different the Senate Republican caucus would look with Crist, Bennett, Bunning, and Dewhurst – oh, that’s sad). He departs even as he was positioned to take what most of the old guard in the Senate would view as a plum committee position, one where they could hand out favors and glad-hand to their hearts content, to fill a wall with crystal knickknacks and irrelevant legislative accomplishments (also known as the Kay Bailey Hutchison approach).
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Chile
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Chile
patinepiquin !!!/Note to self turn off automatic spellcheck
/I knew that. No really I did. You can ask my wife. Oh wait she’s at work. Guess you will just have to believe me. 🙂 -
Can’t eat mustard greens without homemade chili piquin vinegar sauce.
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Just got my xrays back. The doctor suggested i may be spending to much time here on the couch.
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Nope, this is when you’ve spent too much time on the Couch.
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Has the Weather Channel named this “hard freeze” yet?
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Yellow Hair & I got hitched at St John Vianney. Her family went there. They had yet to build the new huge church building.
I attended St. Francis de Sales – near Bellaire & Fondren. We now call Christ the Redeemer home. -
I saw as much as a 10-11 degree differential in temperature between Bellville or Brenham and the central Houston temperatures over the years. Many times, it would hit 28 or 29 in northern Austin County and be 35 in Houston. I’m sure it can get much colder in the Conroe area overnight than it might in, say, Meyerland or Pearland.
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Dunno hammie. But it has struck me a funny that
1. intellicast predicts hard freeze
2. Weather channel does not
3. Weatherunderground does
4. Clcik2houston does not
5. ABC 13borderline
UPDATE: Light freeze
6. KHOU predicts freeze
So what were they saying about global warming? Oh yeah they have a consensus about weather 15-20 years from now. Next day is just too iffy. -
The official NWS predicts dunh dunh dunnnnnh……
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I guess it depends on your definition of “hard freeze”. Pipes don’t break at 28 degrees.
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You forget that they’re talking to a bunch of people who have to put on heavy jackets at 40 degrees.
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#43 – WOW you allowed the French to depict your curmudgeonly self in a video?
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You forget that they’re talking to me
a bunch of peoplewhohavehas to put on heavy jackets at4055 degrees. -
RE: ‘hard freeze’ – I’m betting our water / pipe expert can chime in and I have NO stats to offer – but IMHO we don’t have a HARD freeze until temps drop to 25F or below for say…………at least 8 hours
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I hereby proclaim this hard freeze event to be named Magnus.
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The King of the Hamsters!
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#43 Shannon
Well, that little film certainly cheered me up a lot. Boy howdy, as they used to say out in West Texas. -
St John Vianney. How is the last name pronounced? vie – annie, just a guess?
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Vee-anny
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It’s kinda like pee-can or puh-cahn.
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#49 TT
Hey, I put on a heavy jacket at 50 degrees.
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Well, now I know what the unions are good for these days.
Reinstating workers fired for getting high and drunk during the workday.
I guess that’s okay. It’s not like they’re handling heavy equipment or driving or anything. -
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I was bemoaning the message, not the medium. Boy howdy, I say.
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#’s 39-41 squack & crazy one
More like this:
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I dated a Catholic girl in high school whose family were charter members of St. John Vianney. Bramanti and Rick G knew the original priest, as did my girlfriend’s parents.
One night my girlfriend and I returned early to her house from a date. We walked in the front door and off to the right was the formal living room. There sat her parents by a table with several empty wine bottles, laughing hysterically.
In the middle of the room was the priest, telling some elaborate joke that required him to act it out. So there was the high priest of St John Vianney on all fours, in his clerical garb, braying like a donkey at the top of his lungs and wiggling his butt in the air.
Monique and I took one look, ran through the house into the backyard and fell down on the ground laughing until we couldn’t breathe anymore.
It’s hard to forget something like that. -
The priest who celebrated our nuptial mass was Fr. Joe Crosthwait, a big mick priest with a great sense of humor.
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Yeah, I’ll bet.
I’ve met some really cool priests in my time. Some of ’em were regular people.
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How is the last name pronounced? vie – annie, just a guess?
How do you pronounce these?
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vi-eeny-weenies
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I’ve met some really cool priests in my time. Some of ‘em were regular people.
Me too and I am one of those heathens. My fave was a Catholic chaplain that I met in the service. I would give him a crisp snappy salute since he was an officer and his return salute looked more like he was blessing me with the sign of the cross. Real easy going fellow, easy to talk to, and not afraid to share a beer with “us” in the barracks.
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How do you pronounce these?
Mystery meat????
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Hey Katfish.
If you talk to you-know-who, tell him I said, “Go Texans! Beat the helloutta the Beantowners!!!!!!!!” -
#73 – We’ve been occasionally discussin that one off & on for a couple of weeks – and YES I believe I know ‘who’ 🙂
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#69 Hammie: UNCLEAN!
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Arkansas Foie Gras -
#69: self deleted
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So i was looking for a funny picture about vienna sausage:
This is what a well done Vienna Sausage looks like…
Now that is funny I do not care who you are.
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#78 I’m not sure “Chantal Cheri” has a lot of room to talk. Slap some stupid sunglasses on her and she’d pass for Joey Ramone.
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But yeah, that was funny as heck.
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Chantal Cheri qualifies as coyote ugly.
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Hmmmph I think I found a chili recipe that Texpat can appreciate
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Chantal Cheri qualifies as coyote ugly.
Oh I dunno. Yeah she looks a little sleazy, but maybe with a little makeup
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#83 What the hell was that thing in the second link (as I search for eye and brain bleach)?
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ABC news Diane Sawyer is getting all gushy with a story about swimming newborns. Ain’t nothin new here. My folks had me swimming pret near when I learned to walk.
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Bonez
Jocelyne Wildenstein At one time she was attractive. See the link. -
#69 Hammy
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#81 –
qualifies as coyote ugly
Which begs the question (since you know the term ‘coyote ugly’)
Do you know what “double coyote ugly” is?
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#82 – Squawkster-Tooter Ya better hide and hide well Bubba! (that’s some el-GROSS-O stuff for even this bachelor!)
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Are you saying it is pronounced Saint John Vienna Sausages?
Nope, just tryin’ to figger out how you pronounce “Vienna”. Where I’m from they’re pronounced Vie-enna where vie rhymes with pie. Mmmm, love that jelly stuff in the can!
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My folks had me swimming pret near when I learned to walk.
You sure about the swimming lesson part?
Or is your subconcious trying to protect you from knowing the real truth?
They were hoping to “trade you in”? -
Katfish
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#92 – even with GJT shoppin fer Drones? 🙂
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OKOK – back to them pesky ‘coyotes’ – let’s review:
‘coyote ugly’ = you wake up next to a female SO unexpectedly ugly (your beer goggles apparently were not working well) – that you quietly chew off your arm that is snuggled under her so you can escape without awakening her (like coyote’s are known to escape from a game trap)
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo – a “double coyote ugly” = once you have completed the terrible self mutilating task above – after you’ve made good your escape – you chew off the OTHER arm because you now know she’ll be hunting for a ONE ARMED MAN!! !! 🙂 -
Or is your subconcious trying to protect you from knowing the real truth?
Uhoh!! so that is why someone’s hand is on my back
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Katfish
Worse than that is finding a wedding ring that “is not yours” on the arm you have left. -
Where I’m from they’re pronounced Vie-enna where vie rhymes with pie.
That’s just weird.
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#90 Hammy
I never heard the canned weenies, or the city in Austria, pronounced other than Vee En’ Uh. -
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Here ya go Katfish. This seems to be appropriate. -
#98 mh42
You don’t hang out with enough crackers and other assorted hicks.
n.b. my #70 is an actual sample of some of my relatives’ pronunciation.
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Huh whuh where am I? Whose bed is this?
WHAAAHH Who are you?
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#99 – naaaaa THIS one’s bettah!!
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#100 Pyro
Nope, I didn’t get your drift, thought you were making a joke.
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Bellecek musta paid off some Refs………………….. ARGH
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Speaking of waking up with a Two, Willie never looked that good even when he was young.
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Sheesh, I wonder what is on PBS?
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OK, so I’ve NOT been keeping up, and I mean for the whole year, BUTT dang the Texans really SUX!! I’ve been told by several folks that they’re the best in the league?!?!
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OK, I cheated, Patriots 9-3, Houston 11-1! Hotlanta 11-2?!
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Squawk and Hamous are right, we’re DOOMED!! Poll Shows Support for Taxing High Incomes.
A Politico/George Washington University Battleground Poll out Monday morning finds that 60% of likely American voters favor raising taxes on households making more than $250,000 a year. The poll found that only 38% believe the Republicans’ argument that raising taxes on households earning more than $250,000 would hurt the economy, whereas 58% don’t buy it.
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Squawk and Hamous are right, we’re DOOMED!! Poll Shows Support for Taxing High Incomes.
We live in interesting times.
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We live in
interestingthe end times.Insert dreaded acronym here,….. 🙁
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Yup
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When they all start losing their jobs what do you think will happen? It’ll be the rich guys’ fault too. Then they’ll run whining to Papa Bronco. Those rich guys are being mean to us! Like the old story about the guy that kills his parents and then pleads to the judge for leniency on account of he’s an orphan.
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We just got back from was originally the annual trip to the 99 cent store in the Woodlands but as we were literally packing kids into the van to return home Niki got a call from her cousin and invited her to go Christmas light viewing in the Woodlands so we simply drove to the Academy parking lot and waited for them. The first neighborhood was nice. It was obviously a planned light setting as the lights were many but varied little one from another. We then drove to another neighborhood in the Klein area. There were scattered lights there and I regretted sailing off to that part of the houston area as it was already past the little one’s bedtime and Aedhun started fussing for food. fortunately Rhuelin was still awake and took care of his little brother. Overall it was a good evening. And i’m getting in my proper fill of Christmas music. It helps remind me of the reason for the season…yo.
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LOL, Black Sabbath for the ukulele. Weird Al missed his true calling.
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Super Dave #110;
Seems the Dem’s support for the Occupiers’ paying off. -
Katfish #94;
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo – a “double coyote ugly” = once you have completed the terrible self mutilating task above – after you’ve made good your escape – you chew off the OTHER arm because you now know she’ll be hunting for a ONE ARMED MAN!! !!
Don’t worry, I’ll get away. 😉
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Uhoh!! so that is why someone’s hand is on my back
I just figured it was plucking out hairs.
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#118 Darren
Don’t worry, I’ll get away
Having met you, I get your punch line. But you wouldn’t be in that situation to start with, I don’t think.
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All together now.
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Whut?
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mharper;
Having met you, I get your punch line. But you wouldn’t be in that situation to start with, I don’t think.
You would be correct.
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Let’s say a prayer for B-Sue.
That many hairs to pluck, eh?
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