Weekend “See the Resemblance?” Open Comments

This is how Lovely Daughter and Aggie Beau introduced us to our future grandbaby:

Tedtam's grandbaby at about 9 weeks
Tedtam’s grandbaby at about 9 weeks

I can see the resemblance. Short. Round.
Lovely kept going on and on about this great Christmas present they were giving me, but I didn’t get excited or consumed by curiosity. When I was young, one of my sisters showed me a great Christmas gift I was to be given, and it totally ruined the Christmas morning experience for me. Ever since, you could wave a gift under my nose and taunt me daily, and I have no inclination to shake, sniff, or handle any gift before Christmas morning. I don’t know if it drove her crazy that I didn’t react to her obvious excitement over the gift.
Lovely Daughter and I want a girl first. Firstborn girls are great, especially if they are the nurturing kind, like Lovely. On those days when I had a headache or was stressed out, she helped take care of Handsome Son for me, even at a young age. Aggie Beau says that since he decides the sex of the baby, he’s decided he wants a boy first.
I guess time will tell.


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  1. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Firsts

  2. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All
    Thanks for all the kneemails. Keep her in your prayers through the surgery please.
    Sister is doing well and in good spirits. No N-G tube or other catheters for now. Nice flower arrangement to grace the bedside table. Still set for Monday morning surgery!

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texas Supreme Court Wades Into Episcopal Property Dispute
    Wading into the tricky legal waters where religion and government meet, the Texas Supreme Court will decide who owns 52 Fort Worth-area churches — the national Episcopal Church or the diocese that broke away in protest of the consecration of a gay bishop, the ordination of women and other liberal policies.
    The properties at stake are worth more than $100 million, making this the largest church-property dispute in Texas history, and probably in U.S. history as well, lawyers say.

  4. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Plaintiff asserts that the activity of underaged drinking and firing bottle rockets out of one’s own anus constitutes an “ultra-hazardous” activity which exposes both of these defendant to strict liability

  5. Hamous Avatar

    Hamous: I call that genre rock-a-billy blues. I like it.

    First song by The Derailers is a Buck Owens tune. The second song by Johnny Hiland is a Merle Haggard song. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos and Merle Haggard & the Strangers were two bands that defined the sub-genre of country music known as The Bakersfield Sound. Hence, my “little bit of Bakersfield”.

  6. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    What a cute kid, Granda TT!

  7. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Grandma TT
    Won’t be very long before the gender question can be settled unless the little one is coy or shy and does not pose so you can tell. 🙂

  8. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Hmmm, it appears that Q10 has disappeared from supporting the Bellaire double shooter now that further information on the perp’s pedigree and history has been dug up by Channel 11 and broadcast last night.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Justice served; Animal rights group settles lawsuit with Ringling.

    WASHINGTON—An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle a lawsuit the circus filed after courts found that activists paid a former circus worker for his help in claiming the circus abused elephants.
    The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said Friday it was not admitting any wrongdoing in settling the lawsuit. The New York-based animal rights group was one of several involved in a lawsuit filed in 2000 against the circus’ owner, Feld Entertainment Inc., claiming elephants were abused. Courts later found that the animal rights activists had paid a former Ringling barn helper involved in the lawsuit at least $190,000, making him “essentially a paid plaintiff” who lacked credibility.
    Two courts agreed the former barn helper, Tom Rider, wasn’t credible and didn’t have a right to sue. As a result, they didn’t address claims the circus violated the federal Endangered Species Act by allegedly chaining the elephants for long periods and allowing trainers to use sharp tools called bullhooks.

    Mornin’ Gang

  10. Hamous Avatar

    Details on Ms. Adee’s #8:

    Activist Quanell X said he knows Lewis’ family well because they attend the same mosque. He watched Lewis grow up in a strict household and said he was stunned by Monday’s events.
    “This is not a kid that grew up in a broken home,” Quanell X said. “He had a faithful Muslim mother and father. He was raised in a good community. This is outside the imagination of anybody who knows this young boy.”

    Meanwhile, back on Earth:

    KHOU 11 News also has learned that Lewis was in jail just one month ago.
    He was caught by loss prevention officers at a Macy’s store in Willowbrook Mall, stealing three pairs of earrings and three bracelets. He pled guilty and spent six days in the Harris County Jail.
    The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said Lewis was in jail there too. Back in March, he was sentenced and served 90 days in jail for possession of marijuana.
    It is unclear what Lewis’ upbringing was like, but we learned from investigators that his father, Harlem Harold Lewis Jr., was sentenced to 50 years in prison for distribution of illegal narcotics in 1994 — just three years after his son was born.
    Lewis Jr. is currently out of Texas Department of Corrections on parole. He will be on parole until 2044. Court documents show he has a long criminal history that includes convictions for injury to a child, armed robbery, and drugs.

    Fine, upstanding Muslim home.

  11. Hamous Avatar

    If it weren’t for the stupid war on a plant, clearly, this young brother would not have killed two people in cold blood.
    /sarc

  12. Tedtam Avatar

    French court rules “millionaire’s tax” unconstitutional.
    Something about inequality in taxation.

    The court said Hollande’s plan would have added extra levies of 18 percent on individuals’ incomes of more than 1 million euros ($1.32 million), while regular income taxes and a 4 percent exceptional contribution for high earners would have been based on household income, an e-mailed statement shows.
    As a result, two households with the same total revenue could end up paying different rates depending on how earnings are divided among members of those households. That runs counter to a rule of equal tax treatment, the Paris-based court said.

  13. Katfish Avatar

    #8, 10, & 11 – Lordy I’d hate to see what ole Q10 considers a BAD upbringin……..

  14. Tedtam Avatar

    Unexpectedly.
    Certainly not supporting the lib’s arguments against guns.
    heh heh heh

  15. Hamous Avatar

    Lordy I’d hate to see what ole Q10 considers a BAD upbringin……..

    A white Christian or Jewish upbringing.

  16. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I see a “name LD’s baby” contest in the hazy mists of the future.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Somehow I doubt if LD and AB, or even TT, is going to concede naming rights to this bunch of nutty rodents that gather on Hammy’s Couch!

  18. Tedtam Avatar

    It could be fun. I mean, the baby’s going to need a “couch name,” if nothing else.

  19. Katfish Avatar

    #17 – get creative – let’s go for what name it WON’T be eh?
    I’m betting it WON’T be Tyrone nor Shaneequa 🙂

  20. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #10 Hamous
    Thank you for filling in the details. As I recall it was Jeff McShan who reported on it last night for Ch. 11. Must say he did a masterful job of keeping a straight face. Nobody mentioned Q10, but then Ch. 11 has more than done its part in reporting on him previously. 🙂
    Did not find anything on it in today’s dead tree edition of the Chron.

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The careful reader will note that I did not indicate that the permission of the parents was being sought or was indeed to be required.
    Based on the current looks of the infant in question, “Spot” is at the top of the list so far.

  22. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #17 Wagonburner and #20 Katfish
    Methinks you two are walking on very thin ice.

  23. Hamous Avatar

    I’m going with Erasmo or Agapito.

  24. Katfish Avatar

    #23 – MOI? *innocent lQQk*

  25. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Methinks you two are walking on very thin ice.

    It’s a lifestyle choice for some of us.

  26. Katfish Avatar

    As a lifelong motorcyclist I was unaware of any gauge of ice other than THIN 🙂

  27. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #22 Pyro

    Based on the current looks of the infant in question, “Spot” is at the top of the list so far.

    Spot as in Eye-Spot?

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If I’d had a daughter she would be Sarah.

  29. Tedtam Avatar

    I’ve always liked the Biblical names.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am just now getting caught up on the couch musings. As far as Grandbaby TT’s name, Pyro stole my first choice of “Spot”, so I’m gonna go Pee Wee Herman on all y’all and go with “Spec” seeing as how the little one is real small right now.

  31. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #31 Tedtam
    “Methuselah” (boy)
    “Gomer” (girl)

  32. Katfish Avatar

    Gomer is biblical?????????????????

  33. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Presented without comment; Cops: Woman, 50, Battered Boyfriend, 32, Because Six Came Before Nine.
    Oh, and the comments are priceless.

  34. Tedtam Avatar

    If I’d had my way, Handsome Son’s name would be Noah Robert.
    Just ‘cuz I like Noah.

  35. Tedtam Avatar

    “Don’t you realize that you’ve just given criminals information on houses where there are no guns?”
    “What a bunch of liberal boobs you are!”

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    CRAP! I didn’t know that! Gomer (wife of Hosea)

    Gomer (go’-mer) was the wife of the prophet Hosea, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Hosea. Hosea 1:2 refers to her alternatively as a “promiscuous woman” (NIV), a “harlot” (NASB), and a “whore” (KJV) but Hosea is told to marry her according to Divine appointment. She is also described as the daughter of Diblaim.

    Ducks and hauls it,….watching out for the flying, cast iron skillets.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Your comment is awaiting moderation……Hum OK? ❓
    Ooh, I know BUTT Wiki said it, not me.

  38. Tedtam Avatar

    I usually miss the Sunday morning talking heads because of our church/breakfast schedule. I am purposefully going to miss Meet the Press this weekend. I have no desire to see POSOTUS try to save Gregory’s ever-loving rear end.

  39. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    28 Hamous says:
    December 29, 2012 at 11:51 am
    Thin ice

    Ah yes.
    Vanilla’s brother.
    neither of which is a Bibical name.

  40. Tedtam Avatar

    In the discussion for a possible replacement for Boehner, shoudl he lose his speaker position – I did not know this:

    “Dark Horse”: The Speaker of the House does not actually have to be a member of the House. It is possible, though highly unlikely, that another leader could emerge as a candidate. A few have even suggested Speaker Newt Gingrich, who ran a highly competitive presidential campaign, and whose troubled relationship with President Bill Clinton in the 1990s looks comparatively warm compared to Boehner’s perpetual standoff with Obama. The Donald is waiting in the wings, too–and unlike almost everyone else, he’s prepared to use the debt ceiling as the wicked bargaining chip it actually is. Is it time to think outside the Dome?

  41. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #42 Tedtam, that issue came up in the 2010 election, not sure why.

  42. Katfish Avatar

    #35 – SD I never could locate the comments………

  43. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    First lawsuit to come out of the Sandy Hook shootings has been filed.
    Muses Ace

    the plaintiff’s attorney may very well call a representative of the NRA to explain how the presence of a $600 tool and the minimal training required to operate it may have been able to prevent this massacre

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #40 TT
    POSOTUS
    Brilliant. I love it. 🙂

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #42 TT
    I’ve seen Allen West mentioned as a possible new Speaker after his term ends. Is that Dec 31, or Jan 20 when POTUS is sworn in?

  46. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #44 KatFish,…35 – SD I never could locate the comments………
    On my puter they showed up right after the article, a few;
    Bob,
    She got very irate over a 68.
    Terry,
    Sounds like she was spitting mad!
    I find this whole story hard to swallow!
    Steve,
    He came and she went.
    Frank,
    Florida never disappoints
    Then, Henry,
    Only when it’s election night
    Mark,
    You mean ERECTION night?
    I know, that’s BAAD! 😈

  47. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Just in case anyone had a doubt at the overwhelming lefty bias of the Facebook moderators; check this out.

    HEADLINE: Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge
    (NaturalNews) The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads:
    “Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” – Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.
    This historical quote was apparently too much for Facebook’s censors to bear. They suspended our account and gave us a “final warning” that one more violation of their so-called “community guidelines” would result in our account being permanently deactivated.

  48. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    revisionist history purge

    1984,…. “Facebook is a useful Idiot for the wack job left,….if ONLY they knew….. Sigh

  49. Tedtam Avatar

    Speaking of…
    I just came back from visiting with my mother and dropping off/picking up laundry. I try desperately to avoid political conversations with her, and I told her as soon as she started bringing up the fiscal cliff thing that it was dangerous territory for us and tried to change the subject. She kept after it, trying to blame the Republicans for the whole problem, as in “they won’t work with Obama, they just want to cut Medicare, why won’t the Senate work with him?” I kept pointing out the Senate was run by the Democrats, and they hadn’t even voted on any bills sent over by the House. That ticked her off, since I had pointed out that the Democrats were part of the problem. I also tried to assure her that the Republicans weren’t trying to cut her Medicare (“but that’s all they talk about!”), but she wouldn’t hear of it. Because she watches TV news, she “listens to all sources” and knows more than I. “You just don’t want anyone to disagree with you!” she yelled at me. I wish I’d had a mirror.
    As much as I try to go into her room meaning to keep my cool, she still manages after all these years to push my buttons. I’m just very glad she doesn’t vote. I shall continue to pray for patience and detachment when I go to see her next.

  50. Katfish Avatar

    #51 – MsTT – be of good cheer – you have the ULTIMATE subject changer at your fingertips!
    Helloooooooooooooooo – new GRANDCHILD!
    “Er Mom – I won’t even be thinking about politics of ANY kind until this Baby is born!”

  51. Tedtam Avatar

    I wish it were that easy….
    Mom had 12 kids. She has almost 40 offspring from those 12. Babies don’t faze Mom. They are no big deal to her, kind of like “how do you like this weather?”. Using it as a subject changer assumes that she might have some kind of interest in it.

  52. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Glad to see the subway pusher was found pretty quickly. She deserves the death penalty, but doubt they have that in NY.

  53. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    54 mharper42 says:
    December 29, 2012 at 6:52 pm
    Glad to see the subway pusher was found pretty quickly. She deserves the death penalty, but doubt they have that in NY.

    The obvious answer to this is to insure that everybody in NYC who intends to enter a subway station should register thier intent and have a background check performed.
    Its the only sensible reaction to the deeds of crazy people. Heaven forbid we lock them up or give them treatment in a facility.

  54. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Who would have thought that renting a 4×4 in Texas would be a problem? I reserved an all wheel drive vehicle through Hertz several weeks ago. I went to pick it up and they only had a front wheel drive. I told them thanks but no thanks. Meanwhile Mrs. TexMo was burning up the web and the phone lines trying to secure us an all wheel drive. We went with Budget at DFW, but even their system is literally incapable of reserving a special request. I was flummoxed by their inability to do this. Fortunately Budget had a very nice Jeep Wrangler Sahara that is a 4×4. I am glad we went through the extra effort because it has already paid for itself with peace of mind.

  55. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Oletimer, your sister is in our prayers. Tell her to stay away from those NG tubes if at all possible even if she does not feel like eating and drinking.

  56. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    47 mHarper,
    The soon-to-be former Representative West could not stand for Speaker as the job requires one to be currently holding the elected position of Representative.
    Gene Green would have a better chance of being Speaker. Rep West might be popular with the very far right and some elements of the Tea Party, but most of his fellow Republicans are not unhappy about his defeat; indeed the Florida Republicans engineered his defeat by redrawing Congressional boundaries and making his new district more moderate.
    Simple

  57. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I wish it were that easy….
    Mom had 12 kids. She has almost 40 offspring from those 12. Babies don’t faze Mom. They are no big deal to her, kind of like “how do you like this weather?”. Using it as a subject changer assumes that she might have some kind of interest in it.

    Tedtam, that’s 3.334 kids per you and your siblings. It sounds like you managed to bring the average down. What gives?
    Oh, and congratulations on your grandchild in the oven. For now his/her couch name can be Blob. 🙂

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #58 Simple
    Please see #42 where the fact that you do not have to be a member of the House of Representatives in order to serve as Speaker was introduced. I didn’t know that myself until a few days ago, when I first saw it in reference to getting rid of Boehner.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #56 TexMo, was the car rental kinda’ like THIS? 😀

  60. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    60. mHarper
    I stand corrected, but so far no non-member of Congress has ever been elected to the post and given the lack of popularity of the soon-to-be former Representative West with the Republicans in general…I still think that Gene Green has a better chance.
    Simple

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Max has a better chance than Green of being elected Speaker of a Republican majority.

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #63 #63 Remember, outside of Texas Houston there are about 3 people in the country who know who Gene Green is. Besides he’s a DemocRAT, not to mention an IDIOT!

  63. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #61 Super Dave
    ROFLMAO
    I actually felt sorry for the lady. She was the only one there the day after Christmas. She even traveled from Grapevine to DFW to pick up the car intended for me. She even kept the two people in front of me waiting for 45 minutes so she could pick up that car. Fortunately I did not feel too guilty for declining the car because it is not what I had reserved.

  64. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    64 Dave,
    I have consistently voted against Gene Green for years, but he is not an idiot and indeed a Gentleman in the times that I have had to deal with him. Gene knows that I generally vote Republican and yet he has promptly answered my requests. Even BigJolly has will tell you that Gene is a polite and decent guy.
    Consider this. If he is an idiot, then what does that make the long line of Republicans he has defeated by better than 60% margins and that includes 2010 when even the Democratic Commissioner on the East Side (Sylvia Garcia) went down to defeat.
    My comment about him being elected Speaker was a bit of sarcasm; there is not a chance of that happening, but there is less of a chance of the soon-to-be former Representative West being elected Speaker.
    Simple

  65. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Gene Green sounds a bit like Sylvester Turner, the undefeatable State Representative in my gerrymandered part of Houston. He’s a Dem and I would never vote for him, but he is a decent guy.

  66. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It looks like I have one stuck in the spit bucket. . . .

  67. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I have been extremely busy the last few days clearing trees and preparing for the upcoming event on January 1st. Thank you all who have replied, mostly with regrets. Today is the first time I’ve been online in about 5 days so I have not responded, my apologies. That will happen tomorrow. I have been on the chain saw for 5 – 6 hours a day clearing trees for a much larger garden, building pens for goats – who eat youpon like pigs. All is coming together, hope you all had a great Christmas.

  68. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    TT;
    Sorry if I missed a previous announcement on your upcoming grandbaby. That’s fabulous. I watched Lovely Daughter in action with Aedhun and I’ve no reservation in saying that she’s a natrual a baby nurturing. She’ll be a great mom. No doubt Aggie Beau’ll be a great dad as well.
    Congradulations to all!!!

  69. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Well, in this case, the superior boxer beats the superior grapler.
    Parabens to dos Sanots in defending his title.
    http://irc.lv/video?id=DR9DBaLze7ra

  70. Hamous Avatar

    If he is an idiot, then what does that make the long line of Republicans he has defeated by better than 60% margins and that includes 2010 when even the Democratic Commissioner on the East Side (Sylvia Garcia) went down to defeat.

    It makes the long line of Republicans nothing more than losers in their respective races. But it does make the majority of the voters in CD 29 idiots.
    I’ve met him. Gene Green seems like a nice guy. He has a cold, cold heart. Here’s all I need to know.

  71. Hamous Avatar

    Just in case anyone had a doubt at the overwhelming lefty bias of the Facebook moderators; check this out.

    I’m skeptical of the story for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, the vast majority of my fb “friends” are very vocal pro 2nd amendment. They post a lot and there is no doubt as to their stance. None of them have been censored. Second, all stories related to this seem to lead back to Alex Rabies Jones and Adam Kokesh, whose radio show is carried by Russian state-run media.

  72. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All
    Hook Em Horns
    No. 23 Texas to a 31-27 victory over No. 13 Oregon State in the Valero Alamo Bowl.

  73. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Deport me? If America won’t change its crazy gun laws… I may deport myself says PIERS MORGAN

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1nVMRHf6Jo/UOA647fdyUI/AAAAAAAATfE/cE3a-T8pVkI/s400/piers_morgan.jpg

  74. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    O.K. Here’s a Second Amendment post and then I’m off to the hospital to see my sister. Things are still the same with her.

    SCHERTZ — Middle school teacher Kim Williams traveled from Houston to cash in on Saturday’s free concealed handgun licensing course offered to educators after the mass shootings at a Connecticut elementary.
    “I feel the need to be proactive,” Williams, 38, said during a break in the 10-hour class at LoneStar Handgun.
    “I’m entrusted to the care and safety of over 100 students. I want to be prepared, if and when things go that way,” said the long-time employee of the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District.
    The local firm’s owner, Josh Felker, advertised the class Dec. 17, three days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. All 400 available slots were booked within 24 hours, Felker said.

  75. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    “Gun advocates will be hard-pressed to explain why the average American citizen needs an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine other than for recreational purposes.”

    The answer to this question is straightforward: The purpose of having citizens armed with paramilitary weapons is to allow them to engage in paramilitary actions. The Second Amendment is not about Bambi and burglars
    Whatever a well-regulated militia is, it is not a hunting party or a sport-clays club. It is remarkable to me that any educated person — let alone a Harvard Law graduate — believes that the second item on the Bill of Rights is a constitutional guarantee of enjoying a recreational activity.
    There is no legitimate exception to the Second Amendment for military-style weapons, because military-style weapons are precisely what the Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear. The purpose of the Second Amendment is to secure our ability to oppose enemies foreign and domestic, a guarantee against disorder and tyranny.
    In the words of Supreme Court justice Joseph Story — who was, it bears noting, appointed to the Court by the guy who wrote the Constitution:

    “The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”

    Joseph Story (1779 – 1845)
    Joseph Story was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on September 18, 1779. In 1801, Story became a member of the bar. Story served as a member of the lower house in the Massachusetts legislature from 1805-11, and in Congress in 1808-09. In 1810, Justice William Cushing died, creating a vacancy on the Supreme Court. President James Madison turned to the 32-year old Story. Story is the second youngest person to be appointed to the Court. Story remained a member of the Court until his death on September 10, 1845.

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The “Man-Child” is on the tube talking to one of his many sycophants, he is truly a legend in his own mind….~Spits
    Mornin’ Gang

  77. Tedtam Avatar

    I intentionally avoided POSUTUS this morning. I wanted to keep my breakfast down.

  78. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good New Year’s Eve Eve morning Hamsters. Chilly 29 at 6:30 and frost everywhere. Patio plants uncovered mid morning and placed out where they can get some of the rain promised.
    Had long ago given up watching the Sunday morning pseudo news shows because the net effect is rising blood pressure at this end, which I do not need. There are few to no mystic seerers of the future on them other than a few conservatives invited as punching bag fodder. Rarely do the token conservatives get in a round house punch. Fox is the only one trying to be fair and balanced.
    Besides, there are two games of great interest to watch today, and household chores to finish before the start time for the Texans. Mission accomplished on that. They can avoid all sorts of unpleasantness in trying to read the Byzantine rules prescribing what happens if they don’t win. All they gotta do is win, period. Same goes for the Packers later this afternoon. Just win and don’t mess with the what happens if stuff. 🙂

  79. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Texans were robbed of a turnover on the Colts’ 14. 🙁 Hope the game does not hang on that.

  80. Katfish Avatar

    Not sure what’s up with the Texans – but short of some real fireworks and pretty danged quick – they appear to be completely “outta gas” offensively

  81. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Very disappointing to have some other team(s) now determine the Texans’ fate.

  82. Tedtam Avatar

    Well, now that Handsome Son has thoroughly beaten the stuffed furniture in frustration over the Texans game, the men have left to do some work, and I am here to barbecue the meat for tonight.
    I could always put the kindling over the TV. The Texans going up in flames could have started the fire for me.

  83. phil Avatar
    phil

    Twas the night before Fiscal Cliff-mess, when all through the White House,
    Not a creature was stirring, not even an ACORN mouse,
    The Constitution had been shredded with much glee and such flair
    And titanic tingles up the MSNBC Spitter’s legs,
    Split his inseams and erected pubic hair
    Ms. O. was nestled, all snug in her bed,
    While visions of super-sized fries, danced in her head,
    And there was House Speaker Weepy, dressed in a donkey gown and cap
    Prepping to raise taxes, like a loyal Soetoro hack
    Weepy knew he could raise them, with a tear and a snap
    For the low-info voter, has a brain like tree sap.
    And after Weepy had finished his dirty deeds like a rat
    He then snuggled in, for a RINO’s long winter nap…
    When out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter,
    Weepy sprang from the bed, with a fully taxed bladder,
    To the window he staggered, in an IRS audit crazed dash,
    Ole Weepy, he wept, when he saw Natzy Pelozi’s slit sash.
    The moon shone bright, on her vampire like face,
    Casting dark shadows on the Serfs, like a thick dungeon paste,
    When what to Weepy’s crying eyes should appear,
    But a Kenyan born impostor, with eight Bolshevik Reindeer.
    With a pachyderm-eared driver, smoking one menthol Kent
    Weepy knew in a flash, it was Soetoro the Marxist
    Soetoro rambled on, as his deceptive words came,
    As he huffed, and he puffed, and he called them by name:
    “Now Communism! Now Khrushchev! Now Mussolini and Now Lenin!
    On, Marxism! On Socialism! On Tyranny Not Freedom!
    In his GM made sleigh, he let out a great yawn.
    And there was beastie CNN’s Crowley, a moderating news pawn.
    Then Weepy drew in his head, and was turning around,
    Down the chimney Soetoro came, a Soros made clown.
    Dressed in a Draculish robe and crown, from his head to his feet,
    He held his menthol cigarette, very tight in his teeth,
    And as the smoke from it rose, resembling a devilish like wreath,
    Soetoro then opened his robe, to wipe his jack-booted feet
    Revealing a plethora of J. Goebbels reporters, kissing his seat,
    His eyes they glowed amber as he huffed and he sputtered
    He started to speak; Weepy couldn’t hear a word that he uttered!
    With his college professor drawl and his tax the rich shtick,
    He said, I’m wanna bankrupt this country, it was founded by tea-baggers and hicks.
    He squinted his eyes, and scratched his ego-driven head,
    And the charlatan media assures, all his lies are concealed, and his agenda is fed,
    For all journ-O-lists are phony and they sleep in his bed.
    He uttered not a word, with his goodie bag in tow,
    All the stockings he filled, with Obumma phones, they overflowed
    Got to bribe the simpletons with freebies, it’s elementary, you know!
    And laying his middle finger on the left side of his nose,
    He yelled up yours America, as he puffed up and rose
    He leaped back in his GM sleigh, and gave his Communist Reindeer a salute,
    And Weepy heard his tele-prompted words, as he drove off in a hoot,
    “Now listen up rapscallions, I say this tonight
    I’m going to change this country, it’s my progressive delight
    I’m the Kenyan born impostor; my college records are sealed air tight
    And to the country America, I say this very night,
    I’ll distribute your money, I’m the messiah and I’m right,
    And to all you Serfs, I say this very night
    To Hell with Fiscal Cliff-mess,
    And to all a good fright

  84. squawkbox Avatar

    As a rule I shy away from any “religious” jokes but this is too funny to pass up.
    Nuns – 1
    Idiots – 0

    Three Nuns were attending an Astros baseball game. Three men were sitting directly behind them. Because of their Habits were partially blocking their view, the men decided to badger the Nuns.
    In a loud voice, the first guy said, “I think I’m going to move to Utah. There are only 100 Nuns there.”
    Then the second guy spoke up and said loudly, “Think I’ll move to Montana. There are only 50 Nuns there.”
    The third guy yelled, “I want to go to Idaho, there’s only 25 Nuns there.”
    The Mother Superior turned around, looked at the men and in a very sweet and calm voice she said, “Why don’t you go to Hell, there aren’t any Nuns there.”

  85. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Packers lost to the Vikings in the last seconds 37-34. Vikings make the playoffs, Da Bears don’t. Vikings play the Packers at Green Bay next weekend. That should be some game.

  86. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #86 Squawk
    🙂

  87. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Just finished for the third night in a row watching older insanely funny movies: Airplane, Return of the Pink Panther, Revenge of the Pink Panther. Had seen them first in the theater, then several times on boradcast TV, and now thanks to Netflix (when it is working uninterrupted). We needed some comic relief after the circus in DC all week and the Packers and Texans losses today. At least the latter survive to play another week.

  88. phil Avatar
    phil

    Almost a new year but it’s the same ole Romo.
    How bout them Chokeboys?!
    Aikman would have won this game tonight even at his present age.

  89. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good New Year’s Eve morning Hamsters. No rain last night, but a light mist appeared about 6:30 on the way from the barn to the house; 54 and dampish but not mugly—so far.
    Weather folks keep promising rain in signifcant amounts for the next few days, but…
    At least things are damp enough here that Fort Bend County has lifted the airborne fireworks ban. Of course if it’s raining more than a dribble folks will have to postpone their fireworks activities until another time.
    2013 will be a Happy New Year if we can stop and reverse some of the damage Obama has done to this country. The conservative states must stick together.

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