Hambone v3.0

Monday “Liberal Elitism Strikes Again” Open Comments

Again, the left shows how it thinks that it’s culture of urban, dependency, big government culture is sooo much better than, well, a conservative culture.
Bill Clinton is warning his fellow Democrats not to underestimate the power of all those gun owners running amok “out there”.

But he said that he understands the culture that permeates a state like Arkansas — where guns are a longstanding part of local culture.
“A lot of these people … all they’ve got is their hunting and their fishing,” he told the Democratic financiers. “Or they’re living in a place where they don’t have much police presence. Or they’ve been listening to this stuff for so long that they believe it all.” [Emphasis added]

So, gun owners are ignorant, backwoods, scared people who only want their guns because they have been brainwashed into fearing their government.
Because all those urbanites know so much more than those backwoods hillbillies, clinging to their guns and religion. Probably like these:
Of course, these “hillbillies” seem to have decent dental care going for them. But the real danger is the cigarettes that they wave around in front of their young son.
Of course, how does Bill explain all those urban conservatives? Oh, the weak-willed, weak-minded, brainwashed.
There is not enough spit or tape in the world.

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  1. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Never did I think I would long for the days of the Clintstone presidency, but I often do these days.

  2. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Off to a great start for the week. Nothing like getting an intimate examination at 5:30 on a Monday morning.
    I’ll get another less intrusive one later when I arrive at my exotic destination.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #1
    I watched Primary Colors this weekend, yeah for the days we mostly had to worry about who the Preezy was boinking.

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Oh yay, party day in DC.

  5. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Chewbacca got a new hairdo for the inauguration.

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The full-on attempt to brainwash the American people against guns has now lost its transparency. We have idiot teachers indoctrinators suspending boys from pointing fingers and saying Pow Pow. We have the same idiots suspending a girl for saying she is gonna shoot someone with her bubble gun. We have had kids suspended for drawing a picture of a pistol. The indoctrination is full-on in the elementary schools.
    We must never forget that the 2nd amendment is the guarantor of all the rest.

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    GMA just called her the Fashion First Lady. Really, they did.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Broncobama is making it clear that he never intends to go away, even after his usurpation of the office for 8 wissin years.

    HEADLINE: Obama Campaign To Make Unprecedented “Change” Into Non-Profit Organization
    Up until now no presidential campaign in history has turned itself into a non-profit organization in order to fund it’s legislative agenda. Enter Obama for America, which Michelle Obama declared on Friday will soon be turned into a 501(c) 4 social welfare non-profit organization that will be renamed Organizing For Action. She said this will be “the next phase of our movement for change.”

    There you have it, from Moochelle’s own gaping mouth: they are not going to go away. Because of this they need to be utterly defeated in the arena of ideas, and they need to be busted for treason and corruption.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Moochelle’s hairstyles went from Aunt Jemima, to That Girl to ModSquad. What a buffoon.

  10. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    In the end we will discover that Manti Te’o’s dead girlfriend was Elizabeth Warren’s Indian grandmother.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, if you want to puke, flip on the tube and tune to any one of the networks and watch the sycophants slobbering and drooling over the inauguration. FWIW; CBS is winning the prize hands down.
    Mornin’ Gang

  12. phil Avatar
    phil

    They need to change the name of the Presidential swearing in ceremony to the what a Communist, Kenyan born liar and impostor looks like with his hand on the Bible as he lies through his teeth while swearing to defend the U.S. Constitution ceremony.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Tedtam

    There is not enough spit or tape in the world.

    AMEN!!

  14. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    You need one of these. Now!
    http://blurbrain.com/remington-model-1859-revolver-manufactured-by-polish-ryszard-tobys-of-czempin/

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #14 texanadian, dang that is neat!! 1.10″ Caliber.

  16. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #14 TexCan: Can you imagine actually trying to shoot that thing? Ifn it didn’t break both wrists, the muzzle would split your head with the recoil.

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    “Bout my #11 ABC is pulling in at a strong second place. I’m guessing that in the end they’ll all be tied up.

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m guessing that in the end they’ll all be tied up.

    hope springs eternal. . . .

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #14 texanadian,
    And I thought that the Century Arms .45-70 Revolver was big!

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #19 SD: Would you really want to shoot that .45-70 revolver? It seems rather, well, uh, unpleasant to me. I really enjoyed shooting my Glock 10MM when I had it but ammo was close to $1.00 a pop and was sometimes hard to come by so that pistol went away.

  21. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #2 Pyro
    Oh no, wuz you groped at an airport?

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #19 here’s a good picture showing the size difference between the Centry 45 70 revolver, and a Ruger 45.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #2 Pyro
    Oh no, wuz you groped at an airport?

    Couldn’t you tell by the smile on his face. 😯

  24. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    the size difference between the Centry 45 70 revolver, and a Ruger 45.

    Wow, that is quite a difference. Need a forklift to carry it around.

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #24 texanadian, the size difference is nothing compared to your #14, but the Century 45 70 was actually not that bad to shot, it weighed around 6 pounds,….I think and that helped reduce the recoil. Of course it WAS heavy to carry around.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #25 SD: I would imagine the concussion from that round going off in a revolver was enough to blow your hair back, rattle your sinuses and blow out your eardrums (ifn one was foolish enough to fire it without lots of hearing protection). Black powder or smokeless?

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    My link to the “hillbillly” family didn’t come through.
    Let’s just say – they were good shots. Even the little kid was a good shot. They were a well-adjusted group of people, who seemed to enjoy themselves and each other. They were well-dressed, casually so. There were no bib overalls or daisy dukes. Their dental work seemed just fine. The only flaw was that the parents smoked. Guns and cigarettes – these are evil, ignorant people, obviously.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think I’m going to tackle Mirkwood again, third day in a row. I’ve been waiting for the ground to dry up enough to drag the cart around with making ruts. Maybe I’ll plant some more lettuce seed, as some of my plants are bolting.
    I’ll be listening to talk radio, as I won’t be able to swallow any of the inauguration coverage. I’d end up putting something through my tv, even though it’s just an inanimate object doing what it’s supposed to do.
    You know, like guns.

  29. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Y’all be sure to remember Israel in their elections tomorrow; let reason prevail.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It appears that Sarge and Mark Levin have analyzed the problem in much the same way.

    HEADLINE:EXCLUSIVE: MARK LEVIN’S INAUGURAL DAY MESSAGE— FIGHT!
    /snip
    “I think the Republican Party, its apparatus, its so-called leadership, the parasitic consultants, represent an institution that is tired, old, almost decrepit, full of cowardice and vision-less. It has abandoned the Declaration of Independence and any serious defense of constitutional republicanism.

    Read the article.
    h/t Breitbart

  31. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All
    Couldn’t make up a better movie script.

    Mason County courthouse burns
    January 21, 1877
    On this day in 1877, the Mason County courthouse burned, destroying all early county records, including those pertaining to the Mason County War. This deadly episode began as a feud over cattle rustling but grew into a conflict between the Anglo and German elements in the community. The violence began in February 1875, when a mob took five suspected cattle thieves from jail and killed three. Shortly thereafter, another suspected rustler was killed by twelve men with blackened faces, prompting his friend Scott Cooley, a former Texas Ranger, to seek revenge. Cooley and his men, including Johnny Ringo, killed at least a dozen men, whereupon Maj. John B. Jones and twenty or thirty Texas Rangers were sent to quiet the difficulties. Jones searched for Cooley and his followers without success before discovering that some of his rangers were former comrades-in-arms of Cooley. After Jones discharged them, Cooley fled into Blanco County and died a short time later. A few people were eventually arrested, but most of the cases were dismissed. After many months of violence, a strained peace returned to Mason County in the fall of 1876, but the courthouse fire ensured that many of the details of the Mason County War would remain unknown.

  32. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    But all they want are some reasonable restrictions, they all firmly support the Second Amendment.

    When NY Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin was told to not present the original proposal by New York Democrats on gun control he decided to release it on his Facebook page:
    1. Confiscation of “assault weapons”
    2. Confiscation o ten round clips
    3. Statewide database for ALL Guns
    4. Continue to allow pistol permit holder’s information to be replaced to the public
    5. Label semiautomatic shotguns with more than 5 rounds or pistol grips as “assault weapons”
    6. Limit the number of rounds in a magazine to 5 and confiscation and forfeiture of banned magazines
    7. Limit possession to no more than two (2) magazines
    8. Limit purchase of guns to one gun per person per month
    9. Require re-licensing of all pistol permit owners
    10. Require renewal of all pistol permits every five years
    11. State issued pistol permits
    12. Micro-stamping of all guns in New York State
    13. Require licensing of all gun ammo dealers
    14. Mandatory locking of guns at home
    15. Fee for licensing, registering weapons”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV?id={1E28282E-EC56-4FA9-AFED-D1BDD67B1EBF}&title=NY-Assemblyman-exposes-gun-confiscation-agenda-of-Democrats

  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #32 OTL: What they say in public frequently is at odds with the legislation they write. I doubt that any reader here on the couch believes that the Ds want anything other than all firearms eventually confiscated.

  34. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    27 Tedtam :

    Let’s just say – they were good shots. Even the little kid was a good shot. They were a well-adjusted group of people, who seemed to enjoy themselves and each other. They were well-dressed, casually so. There were no bib overalls or daisy dukes. Their dental work seemed just fine. The only flaw was that the parents smoked. Guns and cigarettes – these are evil, ignorant people, obviously.

    Watch it lady, that’s my family you’re talking about. 🙂

  35. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    This is interesting
    http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/the-real-reasons-that-germany-is-demanding-that-the-u-s-return-its-gold.html

  36. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #33 Bones
    Even the #1 expert agrees with us Hamsters.
    James Alan Fox is a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. He is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and former dean at Northeastern University. He has published 15 books and dozens of journal and magazine articles and newspaper columns. Fox holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology (1972), a master’s degree in criminology (1974), a master’s degree in statistics (1975), and a Ph.D. in sociology (1976), all from the University of Pennsylvania.
    He is known as “The Dean of Death,” for his research on mass murders. USA Today says that “Fox is arguably the nation’s leading criminologist.” As an authority on homicide, he appears regularly on national television and radio programs, including the Today Show, Meet the Press, Dateline, 20/20, and 48 Hours. He has been a guest numerous times on Oprah.
    He often gives lectures and expert testimony, including appearances before the United States Congress, and White House meetings with the President. He served on President Bill Clinton’s advisory committee on school shootings, and a Department of Education Expert Panel on Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools.
    He has served as a visiting fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice, and an NBC News Analyst.

    Myths about mass shootings
    Posted by James Alan Fox, Crime and Punishment
    Even before the death toll in last Friday’s school massacre in Newtown, Conn., was determined, politicians, pundits, and professors of varied disciplines were all over the news, pushing their proposals for change. Some talked about the role of guns, others about mental-health services, and still more about the need for better security in schools and other public places. Whatever their agenda and the passion behind it, those advocates made certain explicit or implied assumptions about patterns in mass murder and the profile of the assailants. Unfortunately, those assumptions do not always align with the facts.
    Myth: Mass shootings are on the rise.
    Reality: Over the past three decades, there has been an average of 20 mass shootings a year in the United States, each with at least four victims killed by gunfire. Occasionally, and mostly by sheer coincidence, several episodes have been clustered closely in time. Over all, however, there has not been an upward trajectory. To the contrary, the real growth has been in the style and pervasiveness of news-media coverage, thanks in large part to technological advances in reporting.
    Myth: Mass murderers snap and kill indiscriminately.
    Reality: Mass murderers typically plan their assaults for days, weeks, or months. They are deliberate in preparing their missions and determined to follow through, no matter what impediments are placed in their path.
    Myth: Enhanced background checks will keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of these madmen.
    Reality: Most mass murderers do not have criminal records or a history of psychiatric hospitalization. They would not be disqualified from purchasing their weapons legally. Certainly, people cannot be denied their Second Amendment rights just because they look strange or act in an odd manner. Besides, mass killers could always find an alternative way of securing the needed weaponry, even if they had to steal from family members or friends.
    Myth: Restoring the federal ban on assault weapons will prevent these horrible crimes.
    Reality: The overwhelming majority of mass murderers use firearms that would not be restricted by an assault-weapons ban. In fact, semiautomatic handguns are far more prevalent in mass shootings. Of course, limiting the size of ammunition clips would at least force a gunman to pause to reload or switch weapons.
    Myth: Greater attention and response to the telltale warning signs will allow us to identify would-be mass killers before they act.
    Reality: While there are some common features in the profile of a mass murderer (depression, resentment, social isolation, tendency to blame others for their misfortunes, fascination with violence, and interest in weaponry), those characteristics are all fairly prevalent in the general population. Any attempt to predict would produce many false positives. Actually, the telltale warning signs come into clear focus only after the deadly deed.
    Myth: Widening the availability of mental-health services and reducing the stigma associated with mental illness will allow unstable individuals to get the treatment they need.
    Reality: With their tendency to externalize blame and see themselves as victims of mistreatment, mass murderers perceive the problem to be in others, not themselves. They would generally resist attempts to encourage them to seek help. And, besides, our constant references to mass murderers as “wackos” or “sickos” don’t do much to destigmatize the mentally ill.
    Myth: Students need to be prepared for the worst by participating in lockdown drills.
    Reality: Lockdown drills can be very traumatizing, especially for young children. Also, it is questionable whether they would recall those lessons amid the hysteria associated with an actual shooting. The faculty and staff need to be adequately trained, and the kids just advised to listen to instructions. Schools should take the same low-key approach to the unlikely event of a shooting as the airlines do to the unlikely event of a crash. Passengers aren’t drilled in evacuation procedures but can assume the crew is sufficiently trained.
    Myth: We just need to enforce existing gun laws as well as increase the threat of the death penalty.
    Reality: Mass killers typically expect to die, usually by their own hand or else by first responders. Nothing in the way of prosecution or punishment would divert them from their missions. They are ready to leave their miserable existence, but want some payback first.
    In the immediate aftermath of the Newtown school shootings, there seems to be great momentum to establish policies and procedures designed to make us all safer. Sensible gun laws, affordable mental-health care, and reasonable security measures are all worthwhile, and would enhance the well being of millions of Americans. They may do much to impact the level of violent crime that plagues our nation daily. We shouldn’t, however, expect such efforts to take a big bite out of crime in its most extreme form. Of course, a nibble or two from the prevalence of mass murder would be reason enough. And efforts to promote real change in our social policies would be a fitting legacy to the tragedy in Newtown.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #25 SD: I would imagine the concussion from that round going off in a revolver was enough to blow your hair back, rattle your sinuses and blow out your eardrums (ifn one was foolish enough to fire it without lots of hearing protection).

    E) All of the above and I resemble that remark. 😉

    Black powder or smokeless?

    Smokeless, of course, and if you roll your own you can use a good magnum pistol powder like Hercules 2400 or Winchester 296, that way you’ll get higher velocity than using rifle powder and with much less muzzle flash. With rifle powder most of it will burn AFTER it leaves the barrel. That said, the muzzle flash would still be spectacular. 😀

  38. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Today’s inaugural parade will include a float that features Americans whose lives Obama improved.
    It should be quite a float. It includes a gay Air Force pilot, a brain tumor survivor, a civil rights worker, and the entire gun industry.

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #38 and the entire gun industry. 😀

  40. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    WalMart announced Friday they would hire a hundred thousand U.S. veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to work in the stores.
    It’s defensive decision. If the president decides to confiscate all guns, WalMart will have its own militia to protect them.

  41. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Lance Armstrong books headed to fiction section of Australian library
    By CHUCK BENNETT
    He fooled anti-doping watchdogs for years, but now Lance Armstrong can’t even outwit the Dewey Decimal System.
    The Manly Library in Sydney, Australia, is moving all of its books about the disgraced cyclist to where they belong — the fiction section.
    “All nonfiction Lance Armstrong titles, including ‘Lance Armstrong: Images Of A Champion,’ ‘The Lance Armstrong Performance Program’ and ‘Lance Armstrong: World’s Greatest Champion,’ will soon be moved to the fiction section,” a sign announced over the weekend.

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/lance_tall_tales_shifted_7QbJmcoutCSY3qur2ceDYL

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Can’t work on Mirkwood just yet. Hubby gave me some office work to do.
    Dang. I wanted to celebrate MLK day by not working.
    I thought that was the default mode of the day. I guess I’m not black enough. Because, to be authentically black, you have to be a hard-core Democrat. Otherwise, it’s just face paint.
    And we know the majority of Democrat leadership depends upon a large number of people not working.

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #42: How very objective of you. All of the things you said would be considered “divisive” and “raaaaacist”, yet the fact of the matter is that they are true, they are objective fact. The LTNs will pejoritize any aspect of D voters that is not appealing and malign any who would point out the obvious. That king must be getting cold because he is nekkid as a jay bird and its cold outside.

  44. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Arrived at the waypoint of my journey to exotic lands. As expected, the security process was much less intrusive (and competent) – and likely at least as effective.

  45. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I came home for lunch and turned the TV on just in time to hear Brian Williams describe Jimmah Carter as “the model of post-presidencies”. I may have to call in sick the rest of the day.

  46. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’m thinking Bush41 is a good model. He pretty much faded from view and didn’t run around leaving a cloud of flying weasel[poo] in his wake.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #45 Hammy

    I may have to call in sick the rest of the day.

    While I understand and sympathize, I have but one comment:
    slacker

  48. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’d go with:
    pansy

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m looking for some advice on software.
    1) Rental property / Property management: I’m using Quickbooks, right now, and it’s a pain in the rear to use. It’s not really designed for that kind of accounting, and when I first purchased QB (which we use for our plumbing company), Intuit included in their help files how to make adjustments to use it for rental property. They obviously realized the problem, as later editions dropped all of the references to rental property usage in their help manuals. Fortunately, I printed off the more confusing transactions (security deposit handling, mostly) from their help manual before it disappeared when I upgraded the versions. I have yet to persue Gnucash’s forums for rental property management, but there are people using Gnucash. I just need to be sure our CPA is okay with whatever I pick. She’s a whiz at QB, but there are some transactions that got goofed up and she can’t figure out how to fix them. Strange.
    2) Office desktop management: Prefer freeware. I’m using Fences on my business laptop right now, but my netbook has nothing. Fences is great, love it, but they want to charge for it now. To upgrade will cost me $10, which isn’t much, but I like to explore the freeware market. I was excited about Bumptop, but Google acquired them and you can’t even download it now. I tried to downlead Realdesk(?), which is very similar to Bumptop’s 3D desktop, but I couldn’t get it to download properly. I’m looking at this one right now. I’ll probably keep the current version of Fences, just not upgrade it. I have a few things on my netbook – various folders more so than applications. I don’t want to pay for another copy of MS Office, so I’m using LibreOffice (offshoot of OpenOffice) on my netbook. Rocketdock is pretty cool looking, but I’m not sure about the folders – does it launch only apps or folders as well?
    Off to shorten the nose on the grindstone. Check back later.

  50. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Information you can use in a dangerous world. Read the reviews.
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870334336/?ie=UTF8&tag=insta0c-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

  51. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m looking for some advice on software.

    I’m pretty fond of 100% cotton.

  52. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Anyone missed it, EG posted his medical update late last night.

  53. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Scientist seeks ‘adventurous woman’ to have Neanderthal baby
    That was already done about 65 years ago.

  54. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #53: Give him a face lift and make a set of luggage from the excess.

  55. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    He’s starring in a new movie as Dugout Douggie MacArthur.
    I can’t see that working.

  56. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #53 Hammy
    Candidate from 91 years ago.

  57. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Dang. Would he be that old?

  58. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    His family was so poor that, at one time, he reportedly had to wear his sister’s dress to school because he had nothing else to wear.

    Guess that’s why he was so tough.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Your tax dollars at work…
    The three new overpasses on Hwy 290 in Brenham are near completion. The massive retaining walls are interlocking 4×8 ft concrete panels molded to look like hand laid, random rectangles of Austin White limestone.
    Get this.
    They are being individually hand painted to achieve a realistic appearance.
    Yep.
    Hand painted.

  60. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The HORROR.

  61. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I leave the country. I turn on the TV and what do I see?
    Freaking Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca walking down the street.

  62. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’m not saying it’s cold, but I could cut parallel lines in a plate glass window with my chest.
    😉

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    62
    Do test it with your tongue first.

  64. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Silly.
    That’s only for aluminum flag poles.

  65. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bones
    #30

    It appears that Sarge and Mark Levin have analyzed the problem in much the same way.

    HEADLINE:EXCLUSIVE: MARK LEVIN’S INAUGURAL DAY MESSAGE— FIGHT!
    /snip CIRCUMCISED
    “I think the Republican Party, its apparatus, its so-called leadership, the parasitic consultants, represent an institution that is tired, old, almost decrepit, full of cowardice and vision-less. It has abandoned the Declaration of Independence and any serious defense of constitutional republicanism.

    Shoot, they are just a couple of Johnny Come Latelys. 🙂
    The “R”s have not had a vision for this country since Reagan. GWB 1 didn’t and GWB 2 certainly did not push any agenda what so ever except maybe chasing terrorists.
    I have been making that argument for at least 20 years now. In fact when was the last time we heard any arguments from the “R”s that any spending or new proggie was UnConstitutional? When have they in the past for years pressed Bronobamaco on doing, oh I dunno, a budget as required by our founding document of law? I am just pressing home the point, thas all.

  66. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Can you say “Thunder Thighs”? FWIW; I’m trying to be nice. 😉
    Obama gut-busting lunch menu tops 3,000 calories.

    HealthyFoodRecipe.net posted the full menu, complete with its calorie count, and said it was “unsatisfactory” to see such an unhealthy spread, given first lady Michelle Obama’s push for healthier eating.
    She has come under fire for the high-calorie counts of some of the state dinners she’s hosted at the White House, but other nutritionists have given her a pass, saying indulging on special occasions is perfectly fine. Inaugurations, which come every four years, are about as special as occasions get.
    The first course is lobster tails in a New England clam chowder sauce. The second course is bison with a red potato horseradish cake. The dessert is apple pie with sour cream ice cream.

  67. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well the Bambi Chili that I put together on my day off is smelling pretty good, prolly be diving in about 6:00. Oh and I have fresh homemade tortillas’ from HEB and chopped up cheddar cheese. 😀

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I couldn’t agree more….
    Ben Domenech:

    The ongoing debate over understanding Obama as a politician has moved into odd territory over the past few years – the extremes between being cast as a lightbringer, healer of the planet, solver of all our racial woes, and on the other as a devious socialist bent on national ruin. All this attention gives the man, from my perspective, too much credit for being interesting. He is not all that complicated. The key to understanding Obama from my perspective is the traditional lens of urban Democratic machine politics – an approach bent on bending your foes into caricatures of themselves and organizing your own community into a political blunt instrument to wield at whim. The president is miscast as a wonky technocrat, which he has never been, or a leftist true believer, which is more about the dabbling of his formative years than the man he became. His priority is not policy, nor is he interested in the wholesale remaking of American life into a progressive utopia. Obama does believe the mechanisms of government are better, and produce more ethical outcomes, than the competition of the marketplace – but so do many politicians. But even if he didn’t believe that, Obama would pursue the kinds stakeholder-focused policies he does, because that is how you wield power in the traditional machine politics environment.
     
    Applied nationally, this approach doesn’t heal the land or the hearts of people tired of partisan dischord – it doubles down on the divides of class and interest, an approach even the left acknowledges has made for a nation more divided.

    Obama accepted the presidency four years ago as someone for whom the hopes of the nation were wrapped up in healing the wounds of the Bush era. Today he accepts it as a self-branded visionary who has revealed himself at heart to be a pedestrian partisan who wants to use the love and affection of his loyal supporters to crush his opponents and their constituencies. This is the essential broken promise of Obama’s presidency and his entire political career. He is not a technocratic wonk or a healer of planets or public squares. The healing he seeks is false talk of goodwill and charity after his opponents have been thoroughly defeated, just as the policy he seeks is the consolidation and cultivation of power. He has four more years to engage in his brand of political rule now – and at the end of it, I suspect we will look back on eight long years full of strife, when little was achieved for a nation where e pluribus unum no longer applies.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    More…

    The contraception mandate is a perfect representation of this strategy: a calculated and unexpected declaration that religious liberty extends only so far as the whims of a bureaucrat will allow while benefitting politically from creating a wedge within the opposing coalition and ostracizing those Catholics in their funny hats. These flashpoints are perfect examples of traditional big city politics: you sideswipe your foes with an argument they don’t even expect using the full weight of power, and reap the benefits. This harsh approach has its limits, however – it poisons the well for negotiation and agreement on things that matter – as Obama has discovered on more than one occasion.

  70. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Grease burns HURT!
    There’s about a 2″x2″ really red area on my arm. Where I normally rest it while mousing.
    It hurts! Ice only numbs it temporarily.
    /whimpering softly

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Barack Obama, The Most Uninteresting Man on The Planet.

  72. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #58 Hammy
    I cannot picture a young Charles Bronson wearing a dress. When he first started appearing in movies, his young face already looked like it was sculpted from slate by sticks of dynamite.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh, Tedtam, I can really empathize.
    We had one of those popcorn poppers when I was about nine years old. It was the type. that used oil. I don’t remember why, but I decided I needed to remove it from the lower “burner assembly” while it was hot, splashing several tablespoons of hot grease on my entire forearm.

  74. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    ♫ ♪ ♫ We’re havin’ a heat waaaaaaaavvvvvvvve ♫ ♪
    ♫ ♫ ♪ A tropical heat waaaaaaaaavvvvvvvee…♪♫

  75. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Leapin’ lemurs, Batman!

  76. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #74 Wagonburner
    Now that’s a proper winter even if it is a tad warmish for January. Also glad it’s up there and not here. 🙂

  77. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #75 Pyro: Dude that beached whale on the right side of your linkie is (cue valley girl voice) “Like totally gross, I mean like ya know like gag me with a spoon.” Remember that you just can’t unsee things.

  78. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #77 Bones, my thoughts perzactly!!!

  79. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #71 Pyro
    10 degrees F that feels like 1 degree F sounds unpleasant.

  80. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #79 mharper42
    When it gets that cold, a degree or so on either side of 0 doesn’t make a lot of difference. Cold is cold.
    My dear mother-in-law’s graveside service in 2003 was in a small Wisconsin country churchyard on a sunny December day, several inches of snow covering all, and the mid-afternoon temp was +17 with a light wind. Do not know what the windchill was, not that it made much difference. Some 20 years earlier my father-in-law was laid to rest in the same cemetery in January, sunny day, plenty of new snow, and maybe even colder. Not that such scenes are likely to ever be forgotten.

  81. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The only time I was ever in really cold weather was a Geological Survey trip from Austin to Amarillo. It snowed and was 7 degrees the morning I had to wade into a muddy creek and take water samples. I was wearing every item of clothing I had packed, layer upon layer. The knee-high rubber waders sucked the heat out through my feet. To top it all off, the creek bank was a bit quicksandy that day, so I was sinking if I stood still.
    Ah, sweet memories of youth!

  82. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Ahem.

  83. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Sarge, good thing they aren’t green, they look ever so elvish even in blue.

  84. phil Avatar
    phil

    Haven’t seen one iota of the communist impostor’s coronation today but I bet the Obumma/Goebbels media coverage went just like this.
    Did sphincter boy, the MSNBC spitter, need a colonoscopy after the festivities?

  85. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The underquilt is going to be the real challenge, but having the jackets makes it a lot easier. With the sleeves from the other jacket, I’llput a piece of grosgrain around the shoulder opening to keep the down in, then connect the two witha piece of shick cord or elastic strap so the can be worn a bit like a jacket. The idea is so that you can sleep with you arms outside of your quilt in cold weather. Same thing for the slippers, they’re not made for wear, just for wearing while sleeping to keep the feet warm.

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It is always gratifying to be able to make something for yourself!

  87. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mission Impossible Squirrel

  88. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Kalifornia approved handgun safe.

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