Weekend Where’s Wall-E Open Comments
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Does it officially make me an old curmudgeon that I had to google for an image of Wall-E?
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Like GJT, Don’t know about Wall-E, but I see Marvin the depressed robot in the lower left.
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G’Morning All
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G’Morning All
Waterloo approved as new capital of Texas
January 19, 1839
On this day in 1839, Waterloo (soon to be renamed Austin) was approved as the new capital of the Republic of Texas. In 1836 Columbia (now West Columbia) had become the first capital of an elected government of the republic. It remained capital for three months. The city of Houston was then selected as a temporary capital until 1839. A capital-site commission selected a site near La Grange in 1838 and Congress passed a bill to build the capital there, but President Sam Houston vetoed it. Mirabeau B. Lamar, Houston’s successor as president and a proponent of westward expansion, instructed the commission to inspect a site he had visited on the Colorado River. Impressed by its beauty, abundant natural resources, and central location, the commission purchased 7,735 acres comprising the hamlet of Waterloo and adjacent lands. Because the area’s remoteness from population centers and its vulnerability to attacks by Mexican troops and Indians displeased many Texans, including Houston, political opposition made Austin’s early years precarious ones. In 1842, during his second term as president, Houston ordered the government to return to the city of Houston, and issued an executive order making Washington-on-the-Brazos capital. The order spawned the Archive War. The Constitution of 1845 provided that Austin be capital until 1850, when a vote was required to choose the permanent capital. The city received majorities in that election and a subsequent election in 1872. -
Let’s play another game of kick the can, guys.
House Republicans offer path to avert debt ceiling stand-off — for now
Published January 18, 2013
FoxNews.com
House Republicans said Friday they would allow a vote next week on a short-term increase in the debt ceiling, a move that could avert a risky stand-off with President Obama — at least for now.
Meeting at a retreat in Virginia, House GOP leaders said they would move on a measure allowing the government to borrow for about three more months. -
It ain’t about duck hunting, folks.
The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law
The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ut6yPrObw&feature=player_embedded
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OC pic is a rerun. We did that one last year.
Good morning, Hamsterville. I am working with a juvenile offenders community service program this morning, but my shift doesn’t start until 10 a.m. The other people started at 7:30 which is earlier than my alarm even goes off, these days. -
Alderman Suggests Requiring GPS Devices On All Guns
January 17, 2013 4:05 PM
Reporting Craig Dellimore
Ald. Willie Cochran, Chicago City Council, Committee Hearings, Craig Dellimore, firearms, GPS, GPS Technology, guns
CHICAGO (CBS) – A South Side alderman is asking for City Council hearings on an unorthodox gun control measure that would allow for GPS tracking of firearms.
WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports Ald. Willie Cochran (20th), a former police officer, has suggested that global positioning system chips be embedded in new guns, and retrofitted on existing firearms, so they could be located if they go missing.http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/17/alderman-suggests-requiring-gps-devices-on-all-guns/
If it is illegal for citizens in Chicago to have have guns, how is the chip going to be put on the legal guns? Am I missing something here, or is this clown a total moron? Citizens can’t own guns but he wants GPS chips on guns the people can’t own. It probably sounds logical to Liberals. -
Holy Hot Rods! TV’s Batmobile May Fetch $5 Million!
The Batmobile is, hands down, the star of the show. There are other Batmobiles out there, of course. But all others were copies of the original, which began life as the 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car that made its screen debut in a 1959 film “It Started With a Kiss” with Debbie Reynolds. Then legendary customizer George Barris turned the car into the Batmobile for the TV series. The car was used in the original series as well as the movie adaptation starring Adam West.
Jackson said that all other batmobiles were fiberglass copies made from this original.
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HAL?
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English lesson for the day:
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Oletimer #4;
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GJT;
I did the same thing. Is Wall E even in that picture?
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What do you think about this new toy for the marines?
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I’ve seen tweety (Buck Rogers), R2D2 & C3PO, and Star Wars battle droid (?), flosating robot from The Black Hole, Chick robot from Space Balls, i Robot, and various robots from 1950s sci-fi flicks / TV series. I cannot spot Wall E.
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El gordo;
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OTL
You simply write a law requiring criminals to have the GPS devices embedded in their illegal guns. Done, dealt with. You need to get with the feel goods man. -
Fast and Furious: Is This the Man Who Murdered U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry?
Gustavo Cruz-Lozano confessed to killing Terry after he turned himself in for allegedly threatening to kill Hidalgo County, Texas Sheriff Lupe Trevino, ABC News reports.
But before he surrendered himself, Cruz-Lozano said in an exclusive interview with Univision News’ daily news magazine show “Primer Impacto” that he murdered Terry during a firefight on Dec. 14, 2010, while the agent was on patrol near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. Two AK-47 rifles found at the scene were linked to the botched Operation Fast and Furious, in which the U.S. government sought to track firearms sales to violent drug cartels. But it remains unclear whether those weapons were used to kill Terry.
Cruz-Lozano, 41, was not one of the several suspects arrested in the aftermath of Terry’s slaying. But in an interview with Univision News, he insisted he is the one who pulled the trigger on Terry.
“We had a drug shipment and when they took us by surprise, people started surrounding them, and that’s when we ambushed them,” he told “Primer Impacto” correspondent Natalia Cruz. “When they started surrounding them and they had no time to react, I was the one, I was the one that killed him.”It strikes me as odd that someone would come forward now to confess to killing Officer Terry. Perhaps getting a motive for turning himself in would be helpful in making sense of this.
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#15 El Gordo, man that is neat and I want one!! BUTT @ $2000 I’ll have to pass. 🙁
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Speaking of GPS chips, The NYPD want to put a GPS chip on every prescription bottle. We’re living in a police state.
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#17 Darren
What I wonder is whatever are the advantages of that pistol ofver prevous or current pistols the Marines use.
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Obama gets inaugurated on Martin Luther King’s birthday. That explains the flood of executive orders lately.
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$2000 I’ll have to pass.
That’s what the government will pay for it. For the general public it’ll probably be $500. 😉
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MHarper
OC pic is a rerun. We did that one last year.
Proof again that wimmins don’t forget nuttin.
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#22 Super Dave
I had a 1911 in the USMC back in the 60’s. They’re stronger than dirt but the most inaccurate weapon ever made unless you spend some time matching the barrel to the slide and frame, then they’re good to go. I’m guessing the M45 is an “accurized” version of the 1911 with a littler shorter barrel. -
#12 El Gordo
According to my highly suspect public education, the capitol is the pink granite building located in the city of Austin – the capital of Texas. -
Do I win? I found Wall-E.
Count robots from the left bottom to the right 7 or 8
up 2 robots. He is the sad eyed character standing next to the “Bad Robot”
Now here is a scary thought. There are people out “there” that can name every robot in the picture and the movie/show/vidiot they were in. These are people that you want to take the long way around when walking by them. -
These are people that you want to take the long way around when walking by them.
You can identify them by the fact that they don’t swing their arms when they walk.
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You can identify them by the fact that they don’t swing their arms when they walk.
Oh GREAT OBSERVATION there Hammie. Usually the silver body paint is a good clue too.
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Heh. The chick robot next to C3PO that appeared in Spaceballs is named Dot Matrix
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#31 OTL – I think he was referring to #12.
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Remember those hostages that Zero’s brothers were holding at the BP gas plant in Algeria. Remember Hillary sitting on her thumb hoping things would get better? Well, that was yesterday, and surprise, look what happened. Probably not much about it on the news either I would suspect.
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Heh. The chick robot next to C3PO that appeared in Spaceballs is named Dot Matrix
Uhoh we got one of “them’ here. 🙂
Can’t tease ya too much Bonez. I love the old Scifi movies and can, on a good day, name pretty much all the robots that appeared in the movies form the 30s thru 60s. I drive my wife nutz when I get on my Godzilla kick. Something about guys in giant rubber monster suits just cracks me up. -
# 39 Hamous
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Any of y’all do Hulu Plus? What ya think about it? I have Netflix but am seeing more “old” TV and older Movies on Hulu far out stripping Netflix. I am thinkin bout switching.
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#35: I would have had no idea as to its name had I not watched Spaceballs with the Mrs just a week ago. We both laughed at the name Dot Matrix, voice by Joan Rivers.
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22 Super Dave says:
January 19, 2013 at 10:01 am
#17 Darren
What I wonder is whatever are the advantages of that pistol ofver prevous or current pistols the Marines use.
It’s a 45 NOT a 9 MM, the seals have been using the old 1911 for some time.There is none.
Its a tricked out M1911 Officer’s Model. Its also an excuse to charge $2000 for a pistol that normally costs arouns $700. -
#26 OletimerLin, Yup the reason that the standard issue 45’s were so inaccurate was that they were made with loose tolerances so an Armorer could dissasemble 10 pistols and throw the parts in a bucket and reassemble them with any slide/barrel. purchased a Para GI 45 Expert a while back and it came with a barrel bushing wrench, not way can you disassemble it without the wrench. Very Accurate, BTW. I love it because it has a plain finish and looks like the original but has a great trigger and a match barrel. 😉
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My #40, remind me to tell you about the dent in my bedroom ceiling from the first time I dissambled the 45. 😀
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bonez
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I guess I need to catch that one. Oddly enough it is one of those movies I have seen “major” bits and pieces but never the whole thing. -
What?…..Did somebody say Gun Show?
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26 OletimerLin says:
January 19, 2013 at 10:13 am
#22 Super Dave
I had a 1911 in the USMC back in the 60′s. They’re stronger than dirt but the most inaccurate weapon ever made unless you spend some time matching the barrel to the slide and frame, then they’re good to go. I’m guessing the M45 is an “accurized” version of the 1911 with a littler shorter barrel.One of the easiest things in the world to do is to “accurize” an M1911. Its so easy, gunsmiths have been complaining about it for years. Drop in parts and a little polishing is all it takes.
Especially if you don’t have an unreasonable expectation of what the accuracy of a pistol needs to be. If want to use it ouside of 10 yards to make headshots, you’ve got an unreasonable expectation of accuracy. If the pistol is suffciently accurate that a minimally trained individual can hit anywhere on a 50 gallon drum at 40 feet, it does the job a pistol is supposed to do——especially if its .45 ACP. -
#42: It actually adds to the humor to watch it from the begining. If you have ATT U-Verse you can search for it then record it to watch at your leisure for no additional charge.
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#41: Lemme guess, you pulled the slide pin out, released the slide lock and the slide went a flyin, right?
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#46, Nope, I had the slide, I was
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Yep.
Better that you did that indoors rather than outside in the grass.
Ask me how I know.
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Bonez
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Heh as far as TV goes I am in the dark ages. No cable, no sat, no DVR. We get Netflix through a Roku box. Actually Netflix and Hulu are good value for people like myself. I still have a VCR and blank tapes if I “really” wanted to record. If I wanted to get really extravagant in my telebitchin viewing I can use my high speed low drag iMac as a DVR. Way too lazy to do that and the little lady has not expressed a desire to record shows for future watching. -
via Drudge, from deep in the “No schizzle Sherlock” category, Joe Biden is a liar.
HEADLINE: Biden’s claim of brush with gun massacre questioned
Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s claim that he heard the gunshots of a 2006 school massacre while playing golf is raising questions about his veracity or his memory.
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“I happened to be literally — probably, it turned out, to be a quarter of a mile [away] at an outing when I heard gunshots in the woods,” Mr. Biden recounted. “We didn’t know … we thought they were hunters.”
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“There’s a lot of things here that I find hard to believe,” Mr. King said. “I looked in my database, and he [Mr. Biden] is not in my database.”
Even if Mr. Biden had played at the course that day, Mr. King said, “It’s very far-fetched that he would have heard it.”
“I know he didn’t hear those gunshots,” Mr. King said. “They were inside the school. Even if they were outside, he wouldn’t have heard them.”Does anybody remember Hitlery’s claim of running for cover from sniper fire in Iraq, when in fact she paused to let a child read a letter and casually sauntered off the runway?
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Ask me how I know.
How do ya know Sarge, Howuyaknow? Huh tell me puhlease. Puhleassse. 🙂
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What izzit about libs and the tendency to be chronic liars?
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Liberals are second story “men”. You never can believe their first.
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The reason I’m an expert about the proper uses of the words capital and capitol is because I got nailed on it by an evil fifth grade teacher.
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#52: I guess that would be a photo of Rotunda the Hut?
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/envisioning Squawk with a metal detector, seaching in vain for a spring in the grass
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Shannon
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Well ummm uh ya see…………oh never mind.
Bonez
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THis could be a handy tool to keep at the office or some other place where firearms are discouraged.
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When will the madness stop??? It’s time to ban Hello Kitty!!!
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#59: There has been a full court press against firearms for a long time. The elementary school
teachersbrainwashers are doing all in thier power to demonize firearms and anyone who would be so deranged as to want/own/use one. How many reports have we gotten about kids getting reprimanded/suspended for pointing a finger and saying pow pow? This kind of crapola does not happen in a vacuum, it is intentional and is designed to make Americans not want firearms. Another front in that war is all the politi-slime speaking about how they honor the 2nd amendment and don’t want to take away anyone’s right to hunt, or demonize the AR15 because it is not a legitimate hunting weapon. -
I recently saw an article recently about not letting boys grow up to be men because we teach them not to fight back…dang, gotta go find it now.
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Ah, here it is! Parable of a Broken Bully.
Jack is dealing with a bully. The bully is larger than he is, is obviously stronger than he is, and he threatens Jack every day at school, every chance he gets. What does Jack do?
Jack has no idea of it, but he is at a fork in the road of his life. If he follows one path, he suppresses his problem. If he has a father living in the home in which he is growing up, and it’s increasingly common that boys don’t have that, he may say something to his father about it. But chances are, the father has been raised in the modern American way of thinking, which is that fighting is never right. He offers Jack no clear or effective way to deal with the bully. “Talk to him” and “avoid him” are equally ineffective options. At school, Jack knows that his teachers know that he is being bullied, but there is nothing that they can do about it. In fact, no one in his immediate community can help him at all. The bully is just smart enough to avoid getting into any serious trouble at school, while he is also just smart enough to know which of Jack’s buttons to push to hurt him in ways that leave no marks on the outside. Jack is trapped. This is his life.Jack is growing into a bitter, passive-aggressive young adult who cannot bring himself to really trust anyone. When he needed help from the adults around him, none of them had any answers for him. His grades suffer. He simmers with anger all the time, though he mostly hides it well. He has to submit to counseling and is soon put on a drug regimen to counter his moods. In his dress and appearance he exudes a dark image that belies his inner terror and weakness. His only outlet, the only way he finds any equalizer in his life, is when he goes online to play first-person shooter video games. He prestiges up the ranks faster than anyone. He knows his way around every digital battlefield. His kill-death ratio is ridiculous.
The bully’s arrogance grows and grows into a life of violence and eventually petty crime, then more serious and more violent crime, but society never stops him. Jack will probably never be a truly happy, fully functioning adult. And that’s if he doesn’t do what he is secretly planning to do. This Jack cannot imagine being free of his bully, ever.The second path, or choice, is to fight back. Jack learns to stand up to bullies, and the bully learns he has limits.
If Jack follows the first path, he suppresses his natural instinct to defend himself until it boils over into armed rage. One day he brings a gun to a fight with his bully, ending and ruining and scarring lives until he finally takes his own. Jack is the author of another modern American tragedy, and joins the ranks of the villains.
But if Jack takes on his bullies at an early age, during his formative years, what happens?
…Jack is married now and has kids of his own…living in a decent neighborhood, but one summer night well past midnight he hears noises outside. He peeks out his window and sees an altercation going on in the street. …there may be eight or a dozen of them, a mix of men and women. They’re arguing, he hears punches thrown and car doors slam and insults fly, and it looks like one man is moving his car to block the cul-de-sac. No one will be able to get in our out of Jack’s part of the street.
Jack doesn’t know or care what the man is up to. He doesn’t care how many of them there are out there. He only cares that his family and neighbors are not going to be blocked in by anyone.
Jack is not armed, but the people out in the street don’t know that and they don’t need to. They don’t need to know that he’s scared, either. They only need to know that he exists and will not be bullied. He grabs his phone and a hefty Maglite and goes outside. Standing in his front yard, he turns on the light and shines it directly at the man in the car. The man blinks and shields his eyes with his hand, blinded. Jack loudly announces that he is calling the police, and he dials, and standing there in the yard in full view of everyone, tells the dispatcher what he is seeing.
The man reverses and moves his car out of the way. The fight breaks up, and within a couple of minutes a police cruiser arrives just as the last of the disturbers are driving away.
…Criminals get word that the people who live on that street will not sit by. They will step up. They won’t be bullied into accepting a building threat to themselves, their families and their property.
If we trace the events of that summer night back to their origin, it all turns on how Jack dealt with his bully, and just as importantly, on how the society around him framed his response to the greatest problem he faced in his most formative years.Perhaps, if we didn’t have so many metrosexually raised young men and so many androgenous females, we wouldn’t end up with the current bully of a president.
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Darkness not on the edge of town.
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Nothing like an androgynous female to get you….down.
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The weather’s beautiful. The ground is (hopefully) not too wet.
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Last week was Testosterone Week!
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BSue was telling me of a story of two little boys (1st 2nd grade something like that) kicked out of school. One pointed his finger and the other boy said bang. They were playing cops and robbers. When asked why they were suspended, kicked out or whatever,,,,,,
ALL TOGETHER NOW
The school has a zero tolerance policy against guns.
the two kids prolly looked like these two gangsters.
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Boys in my day growing up to be real men.
I mean what the heck, I turned out alright.
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Hey Shannon
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Good afternoon Hamsters. No freeze last night and plesanty warm 60s, sunny and breezy. A day made for outdoor stuff while it lasts, such as bailing out the fountain’s supply of rainwater from the recent storms so the still pretty cyclamen can go back in it and not drown. Also there are many twigs and small branches scattered all over and needing cleanup thanks to the windy days. Of course this is simply getting things ready for the next nasty cold fronts to mess up.
Dinner with dinos (much preferred to dinner for dinos) last night was a lot of fun at the Sugar Land branch of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The museum has several new exhibits and rearranged ones since we were there over a year ago and all was open for viewing by the dinner guests. Stan is apparently the greeter dino on the first floor and named after the fellow who dug him up. He shares space with a no-name considerably smaller sort of proto ostrich with huge sharp claws on its front limbs that look sort of like 3-fingered hands. They get along. The main dino gallery is on the second floor
and around the corner at a distance from the dining space set up by the caterer. Must admit that walking among them before dinner makes dinner itself quite a contrast. Not than anybody would wander in to beg at the table.
While visiting with other guests before dinner, one mentioned that the dinos out there were rejects/refugees from the main museum once there was a place for them to go to help make room for the first stringers when the new pavilion was ready. Hope Stan and his friends didn’t hear that comment. That makes the Sugar Land museum sound like the broom closet. 🙁
Then it was on to a lovely dinner, ham radio club awards presentation, and a great illustrated lecture on the Sun’s weather and its effects on the planets, particularly ours, given by a fellow ham and Rice University professor of space science. Delicate sidestep around a question about MMGW, strong description of the Sun’s powerful, say overwhelming, influence and that of cosmic rays. 🙂 -
Time to ban assault bubble gun. In fact they call it a “machine”.
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China’s Billionaire Heiress Can’t Find Boyfriend.
Zong Fuli, the daughter of beverage magnate Zong Qinghou (net worth around $12 billion), tells the Chinese edition of Marie Claire that she is “rich and boyfriendless.” She says she can’t find a regular nice guy, and that men simply want her for her money.
Gee, Ya think?!?!
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I think that HAL is wissed off at me!
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Dayaam, Blog Monkey is on the ball! Quick and Fast!
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#70 – Adee, better watch out for those Rice folks, they’re pretty weird.
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Well, here’s the arithmetic for my afternoon:
2 hours
2 big trees (15-20 feet tall, that’s “big” for hand digging), removed by hand and shovel only
15 loads of dirt moved and smoothed
1 small tree (less than 1″ diameter)
It’s been a good afternoon. Now I have to shower, cook dinner, and take my mother’s laundry to her. Oh, and do some bookkeeping for a meeting with a tenant tomorrow.
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Oh, and one red earthworm relocated to my garden. 😀
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Tedtam, you go girl! 😀
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This is NOT good; Algeria: 32 militants killed, with 23 hostages.
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Watching Panetta on the news (“They won’t get away with attacking Americans”) made me think about Lancelot Link Secret Chimp. The one scene I remember was the bad guys getting away from Lance. He said “They won’t get away with this!” and his sidekick Matahari says “But Lance, they just did!”
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#76 El Gordo
Two of my dearest friends are Rice grads. 🙂
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#82 Hamous
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Didn’t Barack “O.J.” Obama say he was going after the Benghazi gang?
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DAYAAM; Amateur Australian prospector finds massive gold nugget.
The anonymous prospector discovered the 5.5 kg (177 ounce) nugget near the country town of Ballarat and in an area known as the “Golden Triangle” due to its rich veins which sparked a gold rush in the 1850s.
The find came to light on Wednesday when the man walked into the Ballarat Mining Exchange Gold Shop and told owner Cordell Kent: “Mate, I found a good one”. He then revealed the nugget, adding that he had weighed it on the bathroom scales at home.
“It’s a substantial nugget,” Kent told Reuters.
The Y-shaped nugget, 22 centimeters (8.7 inches) long and 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) wide, was found by the prospector using an Australian-made gold detector.
“The intrinsic gold value is about A$286,000 ($301,100), but because it’s a natural raw specimen and they’re extremely rare it’s got a value far in excess of that,” Kent said.Remember that there a lot of modern day prospectors that make a living panning/finding gold, and they usually find small flakes, working all year to find $50,000 to $100,000 dollars worth. This is HUGE, you almost never find gold nuggets bigger than your thumbnail.
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My #86 I should add that 99% of the gold that they find is smaller than a BB.
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The king of cool.
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#85 Pyro
Didn’t Barack “O.J.” Obama say he was going after the Benghazi gang?
Like OJ, Barack “asks around” while he’s golfing, getting leads and such…
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Just cause they’re good friends of yours doesn’t mean they’re not weird. 🙂
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#78 TT
one red earthworm
I celebrate your joy at finding and relocating an earthworm! I am discouraged from digging in my was-a-composting-leaf-pile, because after years of being added to but never turned, it is now a mound of full-blown new soil, full of earthworms, and I hate cutting any of ’em up using a shovel in there.
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Possibly the best MST movie of all time.
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#83; 90 – Virtually all of my old college friends are Rice grads, including my room mates, and yes, they are all pretty strange. Wouldn’t have it any other way. Luckily, I’m not of course.
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I know a Rice grad, he owns Defalco’s home wine and beer supplies; great guy and make some really tasty beer, which can be sampled in his store. One of my closest friends on the planet, his mother is a Rice grad.
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An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender he wants a beer. The second one orders half a beer. The third one orders a fourth of a beer. The bartender puts two beers on the bar and says “You guys need to learn your limits.”
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NBC/WSJ poll: NRA more popular than entertainment industry.
Forty-one percent of adults see the NRA — the nation’s top gun lobby — in a positive light, while 34 percent view it in a negative light.
By comparison, just 24 percent have positive feelings about the entertainment industry, and 39 percent have negative ones.
The NRA’s fav/unfav score is virtually unchanged from its 41 percent-to-29 percent rating in the Jan. 2011 NBC/WSJ poll, nearly two years before the Newtown shootings.Mornin’ Gang
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According to Mark Steyn, the Congressional approval polls show that august body remains slightly ahead of a urinary track infection in overall popularity. That’s progress I guess.
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gut moanin, y’all.
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urinary track infection
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Hunnerd 😀
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Pretty thick fog out here in glorious Copperfield.
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Re: gold prospecting
I have a buddy I used to work with whose dad and uncle years ago – like in the 60’s, found an abandoned gold prospecting camp somewhere in the mountains in Arizona. It had been abandoned for what ever reason abrubtly as all their stuff was still there including maps. Anyway the dad and uncle went up there all the time not only prospecting, but looking for buried gold the original prospectors might have had, and they were convinced it existed. The dad and uncle are gone my buddy and his friends still go up there for a week every year or so treasure hunting. And it is a real adventure as it’s on government land and they have to sneak up there. 😀 -
96 Dave,
That is not exactly raising the bar too high.
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Holy moolah, Batman! Man who paid $1 for the original Batmobile sells it at auction $4.6M.
The Batmobile started out as a 1955 Lincoln Futura which Barris bought from Ford in 1965 for a nominal $1.
He then spent 15 days and $15,000 transforming the concept car into the one-of-a-kind Batmobile to be driven by actor Adam West.
At the time the auction was announced, George said: ‘I think it is the most valuable car in the world and the public really get a kick out of it when they see it.
‘I designed and built the Batmobile and I have shown it all around the world but now I think it is time that someone else can enjoy it.
‘Over the years I have built many cars and I always get attached to them and it will be sad to see it go but I would like someone else to enjoy it now.
‘When I created it I wanted to make it a star like Adam West and Burt Ward. It was not just a car.’ -
HAL?!?!
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HAL flags all dailymail links as spam. I don’t know why. Maybe he’s Irish.
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I think he don’t like SD.
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I think he don’t like SD.
I think that you’re right, I accidently linked to a forbidden site last week and I think that HAL got his panties in a wad over it. I linked it from Drudge and didn’t notice were the link went, I’ll be more careful next time. 😉
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Good morning Hamsters. Lotsa fog out here on the banks of the Brazos overnight and well into this morning, but at last all is clear and warming quickly.
Big decisions about watching football or doing stuff outside, though I suppose it is possible to do both and watch a game on your cell phone outside. Since we have no dog in the hunt (sniff) it won’t be stressful, maybe not even compelling viewing. Can’t let the late game interfere with Downton Abbey at 8. 🙂 -
Not trusting super dave just shows that granny has excellent judgement.
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Not trusting super dave just shows that granny has excellent judgement.
Bravo Sierra! She trusts you with the control panel, just how good can her judgement possibly be?
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Did you know that there are three types of Aggies?
Those who can count and those who can’t.
Geek version:
There are 10 kinds of people.
Those who read binary and those who don’t.
(I’m sorry, but every time I hear that last one I still crack up. It never gets old.) -
Word of the Day: Hoplophobe
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Future site of a Muslim-on-Muslim massacre.
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#114 Hammy
A gay mosque? A few thoughts that cross my mind:
1) Yep, I agree. This is a perfect target for the religion of pieces.
2) This (hopefully) illustrates a growing liberalism in the religion of pieces.
3) This will provide a rich source of jokes. Not in western civ, since it is not politically correct to laugh at gays or Muslims, but I can see a number of middle eastern stand up comics (if there is such a thing) going to town on the idea of gay mosques.
4) This could start a divide in the divine worship of Allah. We can only hope. -
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5) I bet it will have FABULOUS interior decor! -
#114: THE must have accessory as said mosque.
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#117 BC
Linky no worky, all blue background with links to advertisers. Somebody got there first. -
Look at it now 😉
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#119;
Now it all makes sense! 🙂 -
Heh
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Justin Bieber ain’t even good enough to spit shine his shoes.
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Had to get a new Les Paul so I could learn this song and help Gibson recoup some of their money after Evil Conniver Holder ‘s DOJ sued them.
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I’m liking Hello Kitty more…
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#125 Pyro: There’s just something wrong with both examples.
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Nice version.
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Knowledge is power. Get some.
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EG, speaking of knowledge, school us on how you are doing after your medical procedures. We will need to know, for ourselves, soon enough.
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I did not know Muslims even had salons.
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DAYAAM!!!
I think that the fumble may have done it! -
Light-loafered Muslim to redneck Muslim
I don’t even have a salon you can call home and ask my wives! -
GOOOOOOOOOO Ravens!!!!
(and greetings from beautiful crime ridden downtown Tallahassee once again) -
Been busy clearly land for fences, back, shoulders everything hurts. Hi, y’all
http://www.helenspage.com/p/you-know-you-live-in-a-country-run-by-id/71know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.
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You know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.
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You know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
An 80 year old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman in a burka is only subject to having her neck and head searched.
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You know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money.
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You know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher “cute” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable.
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You know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10
Commandments.
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You know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of “underprivileged” drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools of a “home”. -
Ok the Harbaugh brothers are going to coach against each other in the Super Bowl. Yes their parents and family will have a hard time not being able to root for one or the other. We get it. Don’t need to hear about it for the next 2 weeks.
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If Musburger is involved, maybe their wives are hot and we’ll be spared the parent drama.
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#129, et al – Medical update. My scheduled hip replacement was aborted due to an obstruction which precluded easy installation of a catheter. Since it was apparent that the obstruction issue will have to be dealt with surgically, the orthopedic surgeon did not want to run the risk of infection arising from that source; thus the obstruction matter must be dealt with first (now scheduled for next week). Infection is the greatest risk for these joint replacements, so they are very careful to check everything first, including teeth and gums, mouth, and all the way down. I had a hangover from the anesthesia for a few days, and little Florida is still tied up, but overall I’m fine. I’ll deal with next week’s procedure, allow some time for healing and regrouping, and then reschedule the hip for springtime I guess. BTW, if you are not familar with Methodist Hospital, let me tell you that there is a reason that former Presidents and foreign dignitaries like to spend their holiday vacations there. The doctors and staff are literally world class, unlike the toy train that runs in front of the place. Thanks for asking.
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