Lovely Daughter and Aggie Beau recently asked us for some pictures to fill some frames. I hate those kinds of requests, as I am not the most photogenic face in the world, and I have a hard time finding pictures that I like. They are few and faaar between. I found some old ones, though, while perusing my stash of pictures and yearbooks.
My favorite is my senior prom picture. That’s my Hubby behind me. I had to crop out the couple we were talking to. The photograph caught her in mid-blink and she looked stoned, and her date’s face was only half visible.
It’s been years since I looked that good!
Then I found a picture of Lovely’s first birthday party at Pistol Pete’s. She was a cutie from her first day. That was such a great day. It’s hard to believe she’s all grown up and stuff already. This picture was taken just yesterday.
When Handsome Son was born, he had a rough time. Lovely was always there to help me out and love on her baby brother.
Here I am, nailing Handsome Son with a kiss at a birthday party. I don’t know who kissed him more, her or me. I had to chase him down in the moon walk before I could lay a big wet momma kiss on him. Of course, the fun part was having Mommy chase him around.
I don’t chase him around any more. It’s just not the same. I miss my little kids.
Where does the time go?
And I’m reminded of that old adage – life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
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Good morning Hamsters. Waiting for the promised storm and meanwhile suffering through the almost overwhelming humidity and condensation on everything while leaving a wake as I went to and from the barn. Mugly 64 at 6 and holding for the moment.
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Now there’s a line of light showers coming through that must be ahead of the front’s leading edge. Looks like another line is forming some distance behind, up around College Station. So far very tame, and that is fine with me.
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Did I say I would never complain about rain again? Yeh, I did. Thru the mud I shall slog.
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It looks like we are in for the triple play as far as nasty weather potential for today. We have the band going through Houston now, the one at College Station now and finally there is another around Waco. The newsies on the am radio this am said it should all be over by 2-3 pm today.
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George Galloway reveals just what a racist, anti-semite, scum-bag, coward he really is.
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Camping tomorrow! In the woods till Monday! Sweet weather for three days with rain on Sunday night. Love it, love it, love it.
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Enjoy your hangin, Sarge.
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#5 – If the “tails” of the 2nd & 3rd lines don’t ‘grow’ much we might not get much of anything……………..looks like each is ‘trying to grow’ – all we can do is keep an eye on the radar I reckon
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#6 Bones
Article on the eventIn a statement late on Wednesday evening Galloway explained that “I refused this evening to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the Apartheid state of Israel.
“The reason is simple; No recognition, No normalisation. Just Boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the Apartheid state is defeated.” Mr Galloway is a leading political proponent of the campaign to ‘boycott’ Israeli goods, services and – it emerged tonight – people.
After the debate Aslan-Levy said that “I am appalled that an MP would storm out of a debate with me for no reason other than my heritage.
“To refuse to talk to someone just because of their nationality is pure racism, and totally unacceptable for a member of parliament.”
Mahmood Naji, the organiser of the debate, told Cherwell that he “condemned Mr Galloway’s walkout, on the basis of his opponent’s nationality.”http://www.cherwell.org/news/uk/2013/02/20/george-galloway-in-antiisrael-storm
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New scare tactic on the sequester.
If we don’t do something about it, no one will be flying any how.3 hour airport security waits under sequester
February 20, 2013 | 3:32 pm | Modified: February 20, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Paul Bedard
The Washington Examiner
The travel industry is warning that airport security line wait times could stretch to three hours after mandatory funding cuts kick in March 1.
Top congressional aides and the U.S. Travel Association tell Secrets that under the looming budget sequester, an hour will be added to security waits at the nation’s largest and busiest airports due to necessary Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Custom and Border Protection furloughs required to meet the funding cuts.
And once travelers pop out of those security lines they will likely face even longer waits since cuts in Federal Aviation Administration staff will result in reduced air traffic control and longer delays.http://washingtonexaminer.com/3-hour-airport-security-waits-under-sequester/article/2522078
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#12 OTL: According to Edddd Hendeeee, this am on AM 700, the harsh, draconian, meat cleaverish cuts this year amount to a staggering 1% of the budget. Can you imagine that complete outrage, expecting a 1% cut (on top of the automatic 6-9% increase) well, of course the entire thing will come collapsing down into an immense heap of misery and human suffering.
/sarc off
Any organization that can’t cut 1 freaking percent in real terms from last years budget, when faced with decreased revenues, will soon go bankrupt. -
No! No! I said hard to starboard!
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#13 Bones
RE: The report Tuesday that said human intelligence is on a steady decline.
So when Pelosi says the U.S. government doesn’t have a spending problem we have to remember that she’s doing the best she can with what nature gave her. -
#13 Bones
Here’s a good, real look at what must be done.
Reid Ribble is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin’s 8th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.End the Fiscal Cliff Jousting Match
Americans are fed up with the jousting occurring between President Obama and Republican congressional leadership on the fiscal cliff. There is a lot of public posturing but apparently not much genuine conversation.
Here’s the reality: when facing a $16 trillion debt and spending 32 percent more money each year than we take in, revenue must go up and spending must go down. There are no other choices. So the debate is centered on how to collect more revenue and where to cut spending.
Neither party is without fault. Republicans must confront their own conventional wisdom that says, “the only way to shrink government is to starve it of resources.” Government has consistently grown in size and interfered with the private sector…during periods of both high and low tax rates. Spending has become completely decoupled from revenue and that’s a dangerous policy. What, in fact, has actually happened under this strategy is that both the debt and the size of government have grown and all debt is simply a future tax on the next generation…someone, someday will have to pay the bill for the debt driven spending today.
Democrats must challenge their orthodoxy as well. While annual revenues are roughly what they were in 2006–just a few years ago– spending has increased by $1 trillion every year since 2008. Democrats argue that the only way to increase jobs is to increase consumer spending, so they fight for more stimulus and temporary giveaways. Yet consumer spending is at historic levels. If consumer spending alone created jobs we would have the most robust job environment in the world right now.
So to Republicans I say, instead of the “borrow and spend” orthodoxy consider asking the American people to pay for the government that they have – then just maybe they will agree with you and demand a government that does less. To Democrats I say, instead of your “tax and spend” orthodoxy consider removing the regulatory friction points in our economy that have been installed.
We must recognize that even though raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans makes good politics, it does little to solve our nation’s financial crisis. The $16 trillion dollar debt will not magically disappear on the backs of 2 percent of Americans. In fact it will only reduce this year’s deficit by about 7 percent. We can’t just have a 7 percent solution for a 100 percent problem. All of us receive the benefits so all of us must share the sacrifice – either in the form of higher taxes or lower government benefits.
Democrats have to demonstrate their willingness to put serious spending reductions on the table and Republicans need to offer a pro-growth, pro-job agenda that includes revenue. Most importantly both sides need to lay down their swords and act like the problem solvers the American people deserve and expect. -
#16 OTL
I cry every time I see that video. The transformation is so remarkable. God bless those people that took that throwaway and gave her the chance to be happy and to enrich the lives of her adopted family. She’s a cutie. I love her bouncing on the bed scene. -
#19 Tedtam and #16 OTL
I cry a bit also each time.
“Whatsoever you do for the least of My brothers you do for Me.” 🙂 -
A follower of the pederast “prophet” Mohammed (Muhammad, Mohammed, Mohamed, Muhamed, whatever) (may assorted vermin infest his nether regions) has filed a “blasphemy” complaint against the Pakistani Ambassador to the US for saying that the blasphemy laws should be reviewed and changed (despite the fact that followers of said barnyard animal loving “prophet” can’t seem to handle life)
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#18 OTL: Raising revenues is essential. Dramatically cutting spending is essential. Both must happen.
REVENUES
1) The best, least painful way to increase revenues to the treasury is to have a much lower tax rate. Kennedy proved this in the 60s and Reagan did again in the 80s; the increase in economic activity and revenues to the treasury was directly attributable to the tax cut which caused the “economic pie” to grow. This approach to raising revenues benefits the most people, harms the fewest and raises the most revenue to the treasury.
2) The fairest of all taxes is a retail consumption tax and it MUST NEVER exceed 15% –WRITTEN IN FREAKING STONE!
SPENDING. Deal with the tax burden on the poor by a prebate for the tax charged on basic necessities, give this prebate to everyone. It won’t matter to the rich as they will consume it for lunch and it won’t hurt the poor as they will have a full check and prices in the store will not likely rise by much, if at all. Apply the tax to all retail purchases goods and services and have it as an additional line item. Eliminate all other federal taxes.
This problem is a bit more complex, but not much.
1) Stop the automatic increases; henceforth the baseline budget increase is ZERO, ZIP, NADA, NOTHING. The introduction of verbal sanity and honesty into the equation will help tremendously, one dime more this year than last year is an increase, not a harsh draconian cut.
2) Roll all departmental budgets back to the 2006 budget year, adjusted for inflation. This alone will result in a trillion or more in savings THIS YEAR. Yes, this will require layoffs in the government sector – tough schizzle, if the private sector has to lay off people in times of distress, then so does the govt.
3) Eliminate the wasteful, redundant, non constitutionally mandated departments like Education, Energy and some others. Apply the sanity ax to all govt programs, if they don’t work as advertised or cost more than 3x than advertised cut them off.
4) Pass the balanced budget act and force the govt to live within its means. In times of genuine emergency, like a war, (not simply a storm or a decrease in standing or an election on the horizon) emergency deficit spending is allowed if and only if a 2/3 majority in the house and senate approve. If 2/3 of the state legislatures oppose the emergency declaration, there is no emergency.
The above are simple and reasonable measures to restore sanity and we can rest assured that the Ds will fight it tooth and nail. -
Where’s bob42 when you need him?
Mexican security forces disappeared over 20,000 people in the past 5 years as part of the War on a Silly Plant. -
#24 WB
Please, do not invoke the spirit of the-one-who-must-not-be-named! -
Ditto Tedtam
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The front has passed through Washington County.
The local weather forecasters are looking pretty bad right about now.
Even when their own computer-driven forecast maps were showing differently, they continued to predict severe weather. -
#18 OTL
Yea for Reid Ribble (R-WI 8). Conservative common sense writ large by an unassuming gentleman from NE Wisconsin; his grassroots support and the Scott Walker conservative movement plus his hard work swept him into a seat formerly held by Dr. Steve (?) Kagen, an off the rails liberal. My friend in Sister Bay, Door County, Wisconsin says he is popular and highly regarded. Seems to me he is of the same mold as Paul Ryan and Jim Sensenbrenner, who represent Wisconsin very well. -
The local weather forecasters are looking pretty bad right about now
What’s wrong with them?
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Watching the radar, it appears that the 3rd line got sucked back up into the main body of the front, 2nd line is just now coming through town, it should all be over in an hour or so.
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Once again the rights of the many are trumped by the “rights” of a few.
The state takes those students to task – noting their discomfort “is not a reason to deny access to the transgender student.”
And any student who refuses to refer to a transgendered student by the name or sex they identify with could face punishment.
For example – a fifth grade girl might feel uncomfortable using the restroom if there is an eighth grade transgendered boy in the next stall.
Under the state guidelines, the girl would have no recourse, Beckwith said.
“And if the girl continued to complain she could be subjected to discipline for not affirming that student’s gender identity choice,” he told Fox News.Really?!?
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Tedtam,
I just put some recent pics of my kids on my screen saver at work. These newer pics replace some that are 1 – 2 years old and I have found myself staring at these newer pics in amazement at their growth and how time is ticking every day. -
I like the pix you posted, TT. Did your husband really have that mustache in high scool, or was it a prop of some kind?
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“A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day and throughout every, or almost every, other area of her life, should be respected and treated like a girl,” the guidelines stipulate.
According to the Dept. of Education, transgender students are those whose assigned birth sex does not match their “internalized sense of their gender.”
They said gender nonconforming students “range in the ways in which they identify as male, female, some combination of both, or neither.”I’m a pre-wimmin!!! Lemme in the pre-wimmins’ locker room!
“These students, because of widespread misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about their lives, are at a higher risk for peer ostracism, victimization, and bullying, the document read.
Because they’re freaks.
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#33 Texmo
I have found myself staring at these newer pics in amazement at their growth and how time is ticking every day.
Never take your eyes off ’em. Don’t even blink too much. They grow when you’re not looking, and if you blink too much, you miss out.
What sucks for me is that in some ways I still feel like that teenager in the first picture, but I’m trapped in this older age. I wonder if I’d like to go back and do it all over again. I think I would, but I would love to hold onto some of the knowledge I’ve gained since then.
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Do pre-wimmin talk a lot, too?
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Of course.
They also giggle and squeal incessantly.
btw – word usage:
wimmin is singular
wimmins is the plural
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I haven’t followed the Jesse Jackson Jr. story much.
I see where he and the Mrs. siphoned off $750,000.
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#41 Shannon
So, as I read your linked article, much of our political destiny, at least short term, resides with a group of self-centered, self-absorbed hipsters with a personal sense of “coolness” that cannot be disturbed by a maggot they pop out of their “wombs on legs”?
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#35 Wagonburner
Well this sure looks like another brainless indulgent iteration of “let the children express themselves” from the 50s and 60s, which just incidentally might be the work of the spawn from the 50s and 60s progressives. Any of these geniuses ever stop to think how children think–or don’t? Kids go through phases triggered by outside influences–advertising of all sorts, whatever transitory things their peers or at least some of them are into, popular movie/book characters, singers, sports heroes, logos, etc
Grade school kids can be into role playing without the ability to rationally separate reality from fiction/fantasy. Not everyone attains the age of reason at the same time, and let’s face it, not everyone attains it at all, no matter how old they are. 🙁 Then there’s the matter of judgement. Ya think school administrations pushing teaching/indoctrinating about “alternate lifestyles” plants suggestions in little skulls full of immature mush? Wantiing to be a transgender critter is different than wanting to be an astornaut, fireman, ballerina, doctor, nurse, etc to these kids? It’s a lark. And becomes a lark that gets adults all in a dither–even more fun without any real understanding in a kid under the age of puberty. The unerstanding level of those in puberty isn’t clear either. But the tyranny of the minority must be upheld.
The geniuses in school administration ought to consult with the biology teachers and get a refresher on DNA as the controlling entity on gender. Transgender surgery and opposite sex hormones do not change DNA no matter how much they might wish it does.
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Okay, this is just really clever. It could have bombed royally for being “too cute,” but it seems to have gotten the job done.
Or, it could be that after eating the chocolate, the reviewer was just too mellow to turn him down for the job. -
Rand Paul puts his money where his mouth is. He’s not waiting for a tax bite on others before contributing to bring down the national debt.
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Another reason I don’t like using computers in elections.
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#32 Texmo
Why does anyone normal still live in Massachusetts?? I think the best solution is restrooms for boys, girls and other. Assuming one “other” can tolerate another “other” using the adjacent stall… -
#37 TT
in some ways I still feel like that teenager in the first picture
There’s an old movie about that: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
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It’s not THAT old. 1980’s?
Old movies have Bogart, Hepburn (hubba hubba), Spencer Tracy, inter alia in them, not Nicholas Cage and Kathleen Turner. -
Gotta have my occasional Dennis Miller fix or I’ll go postal myself!
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#48 mh42
High Noon – Gable
Pat and Mike – Tracy & Hepburn
Operation: Rabbit – B. Bunny
Road to Bali – Crosby, Hope & Lamour
Limelight – Chaplin & Bloom
Any film made before these movies in 1952, the year I was born, is old.
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I was putting myself in TT’s snood; from her perspective, 1986 is an old movie, I betcha.
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That’s just sick.
Getting into another wimmin’s snood.
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#16 OletimerLin
Kleenex moment brought to you by Fiona.
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH Kleenex moment brought to you by Fiona. 😀
Did you see her tail waggin’ at the end?
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Some of us on the couch have been through some challenging times
over the last year or so…
How To Survive Intense Shelling -
#53 Pyro
Getting into another wimmin’s snood.
In the same way you and Shannon got into her Dome.
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At least it wasn’t ghey.
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Ain’t none ‘o you allowed in any of those places, if you know what I mean.
I love you guys, but there are limits.
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I was just reading comments on a story about the upcoming Papal elections. It never ceases to amaze me how rabid non-Catholics get about anything involving a faith to which they are not connected.
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They had a blurb on the news about “some are hopeful” that the new Pope will lead the way toward enabling the Church to ordain women as priests.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
That is a settled issue of infallible Doctrine.
There’s also lots of chatter about whether Roger Cardinal Mahoney should be involved in the Conclave. Thoughts:
1. All ordained priests, bishops, & cardinals are appointed for life. Period.
2. The only way Canon Law addresses the issue particular to Mahoney is that Cardinals with a grave impediment must clear that impediment before attending a conclave.
3. While Mahoney’s actions in shielding priests who abused children is reprehensible, one must assume that he has taken his vows toward ecclesiastical duties very seriously and has cleared any grave impediments. This likely means he has celebrated the Sacrament of Reconciliation and God has forgiven his sins – as should we.
4. It is therefore between Mahoney and God and no others to determine whether he is fit to vote. -
61 WB,
You have a good point, but at the same time the count of the “butts in the pews” in Europe and North America is decreasing. A voluntary act of contrition on the part of the Cardinals, who did actively conspire to shelter the guilty priests and obstruct investigations, might just be a step in the right direction.
I am a pretty lapsed Catholic, but I don’t hate the Church. The Church is more than the men who run it. I am not as kind in my feelings toward the pedophiles and all who hid their actions.
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1. All ordained priests, bishops, & cardinals are appointed for life. Period.
What about those that have been excommunicated?
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#63 Shannon
As I recall from religion class decades ago, he who receives the Sacrament of Holy Orders (ie, ordained a priest or bishop/archbishop) retains the powers invested in him for life regardless of his subsequent illegal behavior. He may be forbidden to act as a priest by his bishop/archbishop, but his priestly powers to administer the sacraments cannot be removed by man. Seems to me kinda like “What God has joined together let no man put asunder.”
A validly ordained bishop/archbishop who is excommunicated may still validly ordain. This caused lotsa troubles in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales after Henry 8 exited Rome, for excommunicated bishops on both sides did not lose their powers of Holy Orders so long as they had been validly ordained. The upshot then as today is take care who you ordain, because you can’t cancel it later. This of course at times keeps church lawyers busy.
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