Thursday Snipe Hunt

Time for a snipe hunt. Where is it?

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Lower lefthand corner, above the snow.

  2. Katfish Avatar

    I’m recycling this one as it was very late last night……………….
    *RUTRO*
    Here’s the full text of the IL bill and if they can get it to pass, you can bet that POTUS will try to push it through nationwide.
    http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09700HB1263sam005&GA=97&SessionId=84&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=57242&DocNum=1263&GAID=11&Session

  3. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Sounds like they’re like the Palestinians; they shoulda fought harder when they had the chance.

  4. squawkbox Avatar

    Thanks for the reminder of some good times Bunsonburner.
    Count me in. I got my gunny sack and cowbell. SEE if you do it right they, the snipe, will run right into your sack.
    I mean I am hooked on that sport.

  5. Katfish Avatar

    #5 – Yer battin .500 Squawkster – 2nd linky works – 1st linky not so much

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    To those who claim that there is no rampant waste, fraud and abuse of the food stamp program, I present this case.

    HEADLINE: Woman Tries Buying iPad with Food Stamps
    Louisville, Kentucky (The Weekly Vice) – Tracy Browning, a 38-year-old Louisville woman, was jailed after she allegedly tried to purchase several iPads with a food stamp card, then fled to another location where she tried to make the same transaction.

    There is a video associated with the story but I did not have the stomach to watch it.
    The food stamp program is the first place I would look to do some serious forensic accounting, followed by depts of energy, education and commerce.
    If this woman had not previously abused the program, using the card to buy things not associated with nutrition, how would it have occurred to her to use it in this case? Let’s not forget the Obamaphone parasite while we are at it.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good luck on your hip replacement next week, El Gordo.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    El Gordo be sure to do all the rehab so you will get a good long term outcome.

  9. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I can’t get to it here, but there was an early King of the Hill episode where they took Bobby and Dale’s “son” camping. They sent them on a snipe hunt.
    “Here’s your bag and your whoop ass stick. That’s in case the snipe comes after you.”
    “Yeah man I tell ya what…Did one of them snipe hunts last night man with them sticks and bags and Whack! Whack! man, go Woooo-loo-loo-loo! … Talk about big mistake y’all… It’s right there in that cooler. “

  10. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Paris Mosque said today: “This is a disgraceful and hateful, useless and stupid provocation,” continuing:”We are not like animals of Pavlov to react at each insult.”

    We’ll know shortly how well Mr. Boubakeur knows his flock.
    I predict some good old-fashioned seething.

  11. squawkbox Avatar

    As we all know when goes snipe hunting it helps to wear camouflage. Here is our own bunsonburner wearing the latest in snipe camowear.

  12. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Having no idea what a snipe looks like, or if such a bird even exists, was a disadvantage. However, after viewing some images like this one, I immediately found the bird. Dave and EG seem to know what it looks like, as well.

  13. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #15 squack
    They’ll never see me coming.

  14. squawkbox Avatar

    bunsonburner
    RE: Cartoon
    I found the cartoonist’s web page. This guy lampoons everyone. Scroll down about midway of the page and you will find an animated gif that suggests that maybe the Jews and Catholics oughta join in the fire bombing if one is to get all upset over this nonsense. But of course they will not.
    looking through the comments on a few other sites I am a bit disconcerted over the abject fear displayed by the commenters over what the Muslims might do. Regular folks calling for Hebdo’s censure not because of the content per say but out of fear of the Muslims.

  15. squawkbox Avatar

    They’ll never see me coming.

    See….. you have perfected the technique.

  16. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s my superior genetics.

  17. Tedtam Avatar

    I just thought it was your tendency to fade into the background wherever you go.
    /ducks and runs

  18. Katfish Avatar

    #21 – Badda BINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

  19. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good chilly morning Hamsters. Possible sleet mixed with rain now out of the forecast today but we seem to be in for several days of real winter temps. It’s a balmy 42 and overcast, unlikely to be very warm today.
    So, Obamaramadingdong can’t even personally sign the Fiscal Cliff Fixit bill, he’s using his autopen from Hawaii. Jerk.

  20. squawkbox Avatar

    I just thought it was your tendency to fade get pushed into the background wherever you go.
    /C’mon bunsonburner, you can sit beside me in the back of the room. It ain’t so bad, you can see more going on and you don’t get jostled about by the hoi polloi. Think about it, it is easier to get to the food and drink carts/bars cause you ain’t gotta fight through the masses of ………. anyway you get muh drift.

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You can also shoot spit wads at the backs of their heads.

  22. squawkbox Avatar

    To quote Mr Katfish
    RUTRO

    A lot of kids will become fairly brain-dead if they become so dependent on the internet, because they will not be able to do things the old-fashioned way.’

    Kids = brain dead
    Me= old farts disease.
    The rest of you = senility. 🙂

  23. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    7 Bonehead,
    I am in agreement about pursuing the folks who bilk the food stamp program out of money, but instead of going after the individuals, let’s go after the stores that sell non-food merchandise on the food stamp coupons or “credit cards”. The mid-level “Mom & Pop” stores that offer 50 cents on the dollar cash for bogus purchases should be fined out of business.
    Punish the individuals when we can, but it is easier and cheaper to go after the big fish.
    The entire federal expenditure for Food Stamps, School Lunch/Breakfast, and Elderly Indigent Food Services only came to about $100 million last year according to documents I retrieved from the Dept of Agriculture. There is only so much you can spend on enforcement before the enforcement costs rise above the costs of the program.
    Simple

  24. Tedtam Avatar

    Love this sign! I’ll be the never gets robbed!

  25. Katfish Avatar

    #31 – Impressive view! (likely more light than ALL of North Korea!)

  26. Tedtam Avatar

    Lovely dreams big.
    AB has told her they can’t afford this stroller, but she told me “I can dream, can’t I?”

  27. Katfish Avatar

    #33 – $850???? That aint no dream – it’s a NIGHTMARE!

  28. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #33 TT
    Looks kind of top-heavy and possibly tipsy to me.

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Weepy stays.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    34 Katfish
    Yabbut it has a digital screen to stifle creativity and a cell phone charger !!

  31. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    They didn’t wanna make him cry.

  32. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Woohoo. Stripped down Bible, Book of Mormon, Koran, Bhagavadgîtâ, and Buddhist Sutras of the world, UNITE!!!
    Atheists to Send Revamped ‘Jefferson Bible’ (Including Koran & Book of Mormon) to Obama & 113th Congress

  33. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    34 Katfish says:
    January 3, 2013 at 1:40 pm
    #33 – $850???? That aint no dream – it’s a NIGHTMARE!

    Yahbut if you save money elsewhere, its doable.
    A more affordable crib for instance

  34. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #33 – $850???? That aint no dream – it’s a NIGHTMARE!

    Yeah and it ain’t even got a cooler or beer holder.

  35. Katfish Avatar

    Heck my FIRST motorcycle only cost $600 (and it would almost keep up with freeway speeds)

  36. Katfish Avatar

    I reckon this does make $125 Nike shoes-that-a-tyke-would-outgrow-in-3-months look a LOT more “reasonable” eh? SHEEEEESH 🙂

  37. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Speaking of snipe hunting and watching submarine races…
    This would be neat to attend – from Instapundit
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7LfzWmBGfz6SWrSL8wMLd_ow_FQ?docId=CNG.33a7273684d217b32e1e9267be395f29.621

  38. Hamous Avatar

    These morons intend to push us towards a fascist state. This bozo wants to repeal the 2nd and replace it with this:

    The people retain the right to keep and bear arms, subject to reasonable restrictions deemed necessary by the congress and the President to secure the rights and well being of others.

    We’re toast.

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It is snowing in El Paso today.

  40. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #38 Pyro
    He cried anyway, when he won.

    Mr. Boehner again choked up, as he did two years ago, when he teared up upon taking the office

  41. Hamous Avatar

    It is snowing in El Paso today.

    Does it have a name? If it doesn’t then it’s a non-event.

  42. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Does it have a name?

    Pasqual.

  43. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Yeah and it ain’t even got a cooler or beer holder.

    Yabbut you can charge your phone with it.

  44. Hamous Avatar

    You don’t need a cooler or holder for this beer.

  45. Katfish Avatar

    #52 YEOW!
    (that Wynkoop Brewery is a cool joint for sure)

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No point in scrimping, Lovely.
    $1.2 million rocking-horse for baby.
    I had to suffer with a red stickhorse.

  47. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You musta been one of those rich kids. All I had was a few pebbles.
    I had to give them back when the DOT paving crew came back.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yabbut it was headless by the time I got it as a hand-me-down.
    Just a stick.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My trike only had one (rear) wheel.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Twelve thousand baby pictures of the first-born.
    One of me.
    Criminal, I tell ya, criminal.

  51. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I spent my childhood in New Hampshire.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dodging bears?

  53. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I do believe we have seen the end of irony. There can be no more after this.

  54. Hamous Avatar

    Eating boiled meat.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Raw scrod in a bottle, straight from the blender?

  56. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Meat boiled with cabbage.

  57. Hamous Avatar

    When you see silliness like this in Texas you know we’re toast.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    65
    Stupid bureaucrat.

  59. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    If I hadn’t been born a male child I wouldn’t have had anything to play with.
    🙂

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #58 Shannon
    After 12,000 photos, the camera broke. What do you expect ?

  61. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Didn’t get what you want for Christmas? How about a new suit?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA

  62. Katfish Avatar

    #69 – WOW! cool job!

  63. squawkbox Avatar

    coolest guy at the boat ramp

    Me want!!!
    Before i take my leave juuussssttttt a minor rant.
    Dan Patrick is a Class A Type 1 hypocrite.
    Rant off
    /Note to self change the channel to the Vietnamese station to insure that I NEVER get caught listening to that………….. OOPS sorry I did say “Rant off”.

  64. squawkbox Avatar

    After 12,000 photos, the camera broke. What do you expect ?

    Hmmmm mustuh been a Pentax or something like that.
    /Actually 12,000 shutter releases is pretty dang good

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #73 Squawk
    11,999 pictures of me, one of Shannon and then the danged thing quit.

  66. squawkbox Avatar

    Texpat

    11,999 pictures of me, one of Shannon and then the danged thing quit.

    sounds like a good ratio to me. 🙂
    just out of morbid curiosity how does Shannon fair around mirrors?

  67. squawkbox Avatar

    Or maybe that should be “mirrors fair around Shannon”.

  68. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    All this talk about hard scrabble childhoods reminds me of a time when I made doll house furniture out of mud.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oh, there aren’t any mirrors in Shannon’s house except the floor level ones for Max the Beagle to use.

  70. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I made doll house furniture out of mud.

    You had mud?!?!?!?!?!?
    One-percenter.

  71. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I had a mud puppy.
    Named him Spot.

  72. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    i’m surrounded by rich elitists.

  73. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Then one day it rained.
    My Dad told me he ran away cuz he didn’t like me.

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m really the couch Rodney Dangerfield.

  75. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Then I saw him clean his boots, and I knew the truth.

  76. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    My parents sent me to the store to get a loaf of bread.
    When I got back home, they had moved.

  77. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Then my Mom came in and said “I’ll never get that spot out of the carpet.”
    That’s why I have wood floors today.

  78. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #85 Wagonburner
    Hmm, they had an easy to pack teepee? And the store was 5 miles away? And you were walking?

  79. Hamous Avatar

    Only “pets” we ever had had names like Bacon, Pork Chop, Hamburger, and Sunday Dinner.

  80. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hammy: sounds like ST’s kids; she has a pig head in a freezer than they raised. The pig had a name, but I don’t remember it – something like Sunshine I think.

  81. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Perusing the first 2013 edition of the Bellville Times…
    This has been a pretty dry year around here – 44.15 inches of rain.
    Just in case you forgot how dry it was in 2011…
    we only recorded 14.19 inches.

  82. El Gordo Avatar

    Hopefully your folks out there in Kevin Brady’s district will know how to deal with him the next time election season rolls around. If it’s not apparent that he has chosen to place his own interests above those of his constituents, I don’t know how to make it more clear. Even Pete Olson finally got one right.

  83. squawkbox Avatar

    El Gordo
    #92
    Brady used to be a good egg. The last couple years he has really gone north. I think he has single handedly convinced me to rethink my position on term limits.

  84. squawkbox Avatar

    I heard an interview of Brady’s this PM as to why he voted for . What a bunch of convoluted pile of garbage. Why didn’t you guys know that it was part of the secret plan to get the GWB tax break enshrined in stone. No talk what so ever about cutting spending.

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #88 #89 That reminds me, my wife was getting some of the kids things together to give to them so she didn’t have to keep up with the stuff and she found some things from daughters room. One item was a small plastic, yellow tag with the number #89 on it and she didn’t remember what it was. I of course knew it was Bama’s ear tag (Bama was the Hampshire Gilt that daughter raised when she was a junior in high school), I showed it to daughter on Christmas day and she teared up, Bama was very smart and acted just like a dog, daughter could walk her aroung the ring with her ridding crop and she would mind her.

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Pig head in the freezer?
    Must be getting ready to make tamales.

  87. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Great boat video.
    SD: Over Christmas we bought a nanny with a couple of kids. A couple of days later the previous owner called to see how they were doing. He left a message on the phone and we were busy and didn’t get back to him. He called twice more inquiring about the goats and finally got TW in the truck. We thought he was just being nice, persistant but nice. Turns out one of the kids, “Peaches”, was the grand daughters favorite and he was hoping to get her back. I had the pleasure of making him sweat razor blades and twisting his tail before letting him have her for another female. It was fun. He sent the gd a picture of another kid saying that Peaches was alright and got an email back in all caps -“that’s not Peaches.” He got serious then about getting hold of us.
    Grandpa’s, you got to luv em.

  88. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    And the set up
    waiting for the spike…

  89. squawkbox Avatar

    One of the funniest conversations I ever had with a group of Mexican carpenters consisted of one word. These guys had their children and wives with them and a goat tied to a tree. The children were just fawning all over the goat, hugs and kisses and such. One of the carpenters glanced at me as aI walked by and I started laughing. He looked at me kinda quizzical and I glanced at the goat and said “cabrito”. He and his comrades laughed and the children. well the kids suddenly realized that Jose’ the goat was on the menu pretty quick. Weeping and wailing ensued.
    Yeah I know I am a heartless curmudgeon but dang it was a funny set of circumstances and the overall scene was just set up for me and my sick humor.
    Future meals should never be given a name.

  90. squawkbox Avatar

    So are any of y’all the kind of folks that cannot eat anything that is looking back at ya? A macho man type dog handler I knew in the service lost his cookies in his plate when the fried trout he was served still had the head on it. Cracked me up.

  91. Tedtam Avatar

    I don’t like my food looking at me. Gives me the creeps.

  92. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “Why would you hire a nanny that already had her own kids?”

  93. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Isn’t caprito spanish for goat or maybe cooked goat? Just asking.

  94. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Why would you hire a nanny that already had her own kids?”

    🙂

  95. squawkbox Avatar

    I guess it must be individual dispositions Ms Tedtam. As long as the food is cooked i can eat it. Sushi on the other hand is bait to me. I can do raw meats in any form.

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam’s a vegan?

  97. squawkbox Avatar

    texanadian
    A quick check of Wikipedoia confirms my spelling but then yanno wiki is chock full of messups.

  98. squawkbox Avatar

    From 4DRanch They spell it with a “b” too.

  99. squawkbox Avatar

    Texpat mustuh wrote this recipe.
    Cabrito Chili
    2 T cooking oil, 1 T salt, 2 c chopped onions, 3 lbs lean ground goat meat, 1 T ground oregano, 1/2 c + 2 T chili powder, 2 T ground cumin, 1/2 c flour, 1 t garlic powder, 8 c boiling water.
    In heavy pot, saute onions in cooking oil, add oregano, cumin, garlic powder and salt. Stir and saute until onion is almost clear, then add ground meat and cook and stir until crumbly and almost gray. Add chili powder and then flour, stirring vigorously until thoroughly blended. Lastly, add boiling water, bring mixture to a boil, and simmer for not more than one hour. Seasonings may be adjusted to individual taste. Adding pinto beans to this chili, before or after cooking, is not recommended; serve beans as a side dish.

  100. Tedtam Avatar

    Tedtam’s not a vegan. I just prefer my meat headless, and in pieces.

  101. squawkbox Avatar

    It is a crazy mixed upside down world. Consider these stories.
    Kansas sperm donor sued for child support
    /Judge agrees he has to pay
    An older story but….
    Divorcing lesbians must divide donor sperm, court rules
    And then there is this…….
    Man warned by FDA to stop giving his sperm away for free

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Last year there was an IKEA commercial about a woman who leaves the store with a number of large bags in her cart. She looks off to the side, as though caught in the act. When she’s loaded everything up in the car, she urges her husband to “Drive, drive!,” believing that the store has grossly undercharged them. This is the exact feeling I get about going to a butcher shop and seeing a bin of pork cheeks. How is it possible that the cheeks cost less than ground meat? How is it possible than no one else is buying out the whole bin?
    The first thing I do is saunter by the butcher counter. I try to play it cool.
    “Oh, I see you have cheeks today,” I say. “Well, maybe I’ll just get two pounds or so.”
    Thumbs twiddling, I watch the bucker wrap up the cheeks.
    “On second thought, can I get twenty more pounds?” If I can muster it, I’ll yawn to show my indifference.
    I try very hard not to bolt like a maniac once he’s handed me the precious parcel. Probably, I think, this is what it would feel like to rob a bank, exactly that rush of adrenaline and sense of risky wrong-doing.
    Pork cheeks are exactly what their name implies: the slip of meat in the hollow of the cheek, underneath the animal’s eyes. (Guanciale, the famed Italian bacon, is made sometimes from the cheeks but also from the jowls of the pig.)
    What makes cheeks so good? Relatively lean, yet very moist meat. There are few parts of the animal for which this is true. Usually, you need marbled fat to get the same degree of tenderness—say, in the neck region, the shoulders, or in parts of the brisket. But cheek meat is like hock meat—the same kind of lean meat connected by lots of tissues and collagen. Cook it for a long time, and the meat breaks down into hockey-puck-sized nuggets of fork-tender flesh. You might not have the advantage getting bone and cartilage in the mix, but cheek meat is so good on its own If you can get your hands on some, pound-for-pound it’s a much better deal.

  103. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I got puck sized nuggets from some pork tender flesh just outside the Main Gate at Fort Sill once

  104. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I agree with you Tedtam.
    I didn’t scratch and claw my way to the top of the food chain
    to not pay someone else to cut the damn head off!

  105. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    /woke Fay up, laughing too loudly.
    /shhhhhhh!!!
    🙂

  106. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Channel 11 news reporting that a bureaucrat at TXDOT says that the other bureaucrat is wrong and that they will continue using their signs to direct people to gunshows and other events.

  107. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I would say folks who cannot face the full facts of the animal, fish or fowl they are going to kill and consume for sustenance are, well, sissies and pu**ies, but then, I have lived in the NYC region for the last 10 years and there is no way to convey the stark-raving ignorance of these people about the natural world that surrounds them and….

  108. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh and
    Go Aggies! Beat the helloutta Ou.

  109. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I like crab meat but don’t make me look into those beady little eyes.

  110. Tedtam Avatar

    We used to raise most of our food. I’ve fed the chickens, watched them being born, and seen them slaughtered. I’ve even plucked a few in my time. I’ve fed the pigs and watched them being butchered (my brother pulled 15 piglets just days away from birth out of one sow one day, that made me a little sad). We had fluffy little rabbits that became dinner and little fur purses.
    I’m aware of where my food comes from. I just don’t want it looking at me when I eat it.

  111. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sarge had a run-in with some crabs at the Ft. Sill gate.
    Cheap.

  112. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    But they had nice eyes—

  113. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We had dinner in a lovely restaurant just outside Little Rock long ago, and the fish I ordered came whole, head on, eye staring. That was not expected nor appreciated by me or anyone else at the table. Solved the problem by placing the little paper umbrella from my cocktail glass over the head. Covered most of it nicely. The waiter was amused by either the revulsion or the solution. It was not discussed. 🙂

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