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Carpe Diem. I see the bird, but I’m not telling. Let’s get cracking and make this day amount to something. Let’s see if we can start a war in the Republican party – I seriously think right now is the best time to duke it out and prepare for the mid terms. Round up your friends and neighbors and find some good primary candidates, even here in Texas. Senate and CD 22 would be a couple of good places to start, since they are the only ones I know anything about. They do work for us, not the other way around. OK, I’m outta here and off to celebrate life.
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Ruffed Grouse, TGIF!!!
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Ruffled Grouse? Oh, I don’t know, I thought El Gordo sounded pretty upbeat.
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Good morning Hamsters. Well a warmer start this morning and plenty of dew on everything, 51 and light ground mist forming. The plants and grass are happy for a few hours anyway.
Sadness in our neighborhood this week. The lovely lady in the home behind us passed away after a battle with colon cancer that had spread quickly to other organs. The stage 4 tumor was discovered by accident when she was hospitallized for a roaring case of diverticulitis. She and her husband moved out here from Houston a couple of years ago and were enjoying more outdoor space and country atmosphere in their retirement house, remodeling it to fit their needs. The husband is a dear man in his 60s who worked so hard to make her comfortable when the outcome was grim. They enjoyed watching our horses and our neighbor’s horses. Memorial service and visitation tonight. Wish I had visited them more often, though their daughter said that there weren’t many days her mother was strong enough to have visitors. May she rest in peace. The neighbors, as always, gather to help. -
#3 Shannon
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Is it a momma and baby chick?
Adee – it’s always sad to see someone’s dreams cut short. May God comfort the husband in his grief and help him through the rough times and lonely nights ahead. -
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Speaking of birds, a couple of old coots, John McVain and his trusty b!tch, Miss Lindsey Graham, call Paul, Cruz, and Amash ‘wacko birds on the right’.
John, buddy, this is why you didn’t get to live in that big house on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. -
I didn’t realize our ABM system was that good.
In the case of an attack from the DPRK, the safest place to be is wherever they’re aiming. -
#6 Tedtam
Thank you for your kind thoughts. I’m debating inviting to lunch the husband and another retired neighbor who lost his wife after a very long illnes several years ago. They don’t know each other. Have to think on that for a bit. -
My headline for link in #9
Phony Conservative Fossil Wets His Pants Has Temper Tantrum And Scolds Young Upstarts For Not Toeing The Der Obummaher Line -
#9 Wagonburner
The “waco birds” remarks has just set Edd Hendee on the warpath, and he called McCain’s and Graham’s DC offices on the air. First call to Graham’s office got through to the canned choice of topics list, but the pr officeholder was unavailable and his mailbox was overfull. When Edd tried to leave a voice message, the phone hung up. When he called the McCain office, the line was busy. Call back got the e-mail choice number, which hung up. Suspect both office phones, e-mail boxes are in meltdown. Duh….
Lindsey Graham is up for re-election next year; John McCain is not, but he said after his last election he would not run again. Edd is determined to support a conservative candidate in Graham’s primary if a sensible person is available. Senate Conservatives Fund is also looking for a suitable conservative to back in the primary. Have a feeling there will be a long line of groups supporting someone like that. 🙂 -
Is it a momma and baby chick?
How many?5 Chicks
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I see 14 chicks … unless some of ’em are something else.
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mh42’s into the sauce again
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Even the most steadfast egalitarian institution betrays itself in practice. Can anyone deny the vicious and habituated struggle made by the public schools to achieve the social utopian schemes of a darkened age? The grandfather of public education, John Dewey, had a great hand in effectively purging the Great Western Tradition, human nature and the human soul from the developing reductionist algorithms the schools formulate to craft the modern citizen. They incessantly clamor that all can learn equally, that all deserve equal access, that all be treated the same, that all deserve equal material success, and the list of equality rights seems interminable. Yet the hypocrites still have their Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) classes and the more bovine corralled into separate programs. Consistently, criminal behavior is ignored while relatively benign behavior is punished. The arbitrary nature of the inequality in public schools is disturbing for those with eyes to see.
For those with the ears to hear, the airwaves bring ominous echoes of reports from all corners of the western world. Good hard working people are being fined for not baking cakes to celebrate same sex unions, for not photographing gay weddings and for preaching against the sins of homosexual activity. A 14-year-old boy in Texas was suspended from school for stating that “homosexuality is wrong.” A teacher in Indiana was suspended for making anti-gay remarks outside the classroom. A teacher in Florida was suspended and could be fired for making remarks against “gay marriage” on his personal Facebook page. -
Office help is out again today. She’s been missing three and half days this week, throwing up and running fevers.
Ran a scan on my computer last night before I went to bed, around 1:15 a.m. Got up this morning to find it had an infection. too, so now I’m doing a boot scan (which has found one malware so far). So I’m using the other computer.
I hate using other people’s stuff. Her keyboard is different, she has her browser laid out differently…it’s just more difficult. But life could be worse. I could be the one throwing up, I suppose. -
#3 Shannon, #12 Phil, #17 wagonburner 😀
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How’s that “Hope & Change” working out for ya’?
296,000 Americans Drop Out of Labor Force in February; 89M Not Working.(CNSNews.com) – The number of Americans not in the labor force increased by 296,000 in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs report.
According to the report, there were a total of 89.3 million people not in the labor force, up from 89 million in January.
BLS labels people who are unemployed and no longer looking for work as “not in the labor force,” including people who have retired on schedule, taken early retirement, or simply given up looking for work.
The increase marks the second month in a row, after rising in January from 88.8 million in December. Those not in the labor force had declined in December from 88.9 million in November. -
Rand Paul’s Tea Too Strong For The GOP?
That said, there is nothing permanent about the makeup of our two party system. Coalitions in American history have a way of breaking up; old allies flounce off and find new friends. Go back a generation and almost all white southerns were Democrats, go back two generations and most blacks were Republicans. Jews used to be a swing vote; ethnic northern Catholics used to be solid for the Dems.
In the 21st century the United States will confront a whole new series of challenges as everything from our economy to our place in the world shifts in complicated ways. American party politics are unlikely to remain stable in the face of these changes, and it is anybody’s guess what our party system will look like by 2030.
The battles now raging in both of America’s big political parties may or may not be the beginnings of wider realignments. But new generations bring new issues and new questions to the fore, and both the Battle of San Bernadino and the Battle of the Drones show that the deeper seismic forces that periodically rip American politics apart are very much alive and in play. -
This is an interesting graphic on unemployment since 1948; U.S. Unemployment: A Historical View.
It’s interesting to look at what the % was under each president, check out the last few months of Reagan, (steady @ 5.3%) H W Bush, (improving @ 6.5%) Clinton (declining @ 5.7%) and W (bad @ 9.9%). I’ll not mention 2009-2013, mama said if you can’t say anything nice,……. -
be sweet
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Man on the street question on the sequester…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gXOV_XWJck&feature=youtu.be -
Gives a wole new meaning to “guns out the wazoo”.
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The comments are funny.
Happiness is warm gun. -
I guess size doesn’t matter after all.
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Hi Hamsters. Where have you been? Was it the limburger cheese Shannon left out and uncovered that ran everybody off? Did someone accidentally expolode a can of condensed milk while heating it on the stove, and the result can loosely be described as “action painting”?
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No, harper forgot eggs boiling and they exploded all over the kitchen.
Just wait till Crazy Aunt sees/smells that. -
I’ve been napping, a pleasant way to round off the week. Now I’m ready to build a supper salad and watch my daily recorded soap opera. Oh, what an exciting life I live now as my career winds down. Next week I start training a replacement. That unfortunately requires me to go the the office multiple times over several weeks. And I’ve done it twice before — but at the end they were not ready to let me leave after all.
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Finally got back home. My computer scan is finished, and I’m back at my usual spot.
/sighs in relief
And as for the kitchen thing, I’m not looking, I’m not touching, I’m not saying. -
Hubby’s been working in Bryan on his mother’s apartments. He’ll be home soon, and I was at the store, trying to figure out what to fix for this meatless Friday in Lent. I’m tired of rice and beans.
I found some soy chorizo sausage. He loves Tex-Mex, so I think I’m going to make some kind of burrito-like thing with the sausage, some beans, cheese, my home-grown cilantro and those tortillas that you cook at home. Man, those things are good! They sure beat the take-them-out-of-the-bag-and-eat-them brands. I won’t even touch those anymore.
I won’t tell him he’s eating fake sausage until after dinner.
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Because intelligent women don’t watch The View.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is being fired from ABC’s “The View” because market researchers found that her conservative views were out of touch with the show’s audience, according to a report in Us Weekly.
So it will become a total clown show now. There is some good news, though:
The magazine, citing unnamed sources, reported Friday that Hasselbeck will be leaving the show along with Joy Behar, an outspoken far-left liberal who quit the show by choice.
I find all of the libs annoying, but Behar and Whoopi make me want to reach out and touch someone. With a tire iron.
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#34
He’ll be home soon, and I was at the store, trying to figure out what to fix for this meatless Friday in Lent. I’m tired of rice and beans.
I’m not sure why but the first thing that came to mind was, Eggplant Casserole.
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If you can eat cheese when you go meatless, how about eggs? Or is an omelette considered too breakfasty?
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Eggs, cheese, and seafood are all ok.
No beasts of the land, fowls of the air, or anything that crawls or slithers on the ground. -
Eggplant Parmesan
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So giving up meat for Lent is mandatory? For some reason, I thought you got to choose what item you would give up.
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I didn’t think about eggplant. Hubby flips out when I suggest breakfast for dinner. He just can’t wrap his head around that idea. Yep, he can be a real “concrete” thinker sometimes.
The fake sausage thing wasn’t great, but it wasn’t stick-my-finger-down-my-throat-I-have-to-throw-it-up bad either. Hubby didn’t get a chance to try it, though. He was so exhausted when he came home he didn’t even eat. It took him all of 5 minutes to doze off after he sat down. -
Abstaining from eating meat on Fridays during Lent is required as are fasting and abstaining on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
“Giving something up” for Lent is a voluntary sacrifice to help remind the faithful of the Sacrifice made for us by Jesus. Examples of alternatives to giving something up would be attending weekday Mass, saying a daily Rosary, volunteering somewhere, etc. -
Eggplant Parmesan
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Eggplant Parmesan
I don’t get it.
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Blowing snot bubbles till somebody ‘splains it.
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I gather eggplant parmesan is a dish that Pyro would not eat even if you staked him in an ant bed. Especially if it lacked nutmeg and/or could be prepared with the aid of a toaster and/or a microwave. To be really authentic, it must be made with hand-ground nutmeg and cooked over pecan logs in a wood-burning stove.
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Tim’s really in a snit.
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ShannonEagle Ford Shale Oil
San Antonio sounds like Houston in the early ’80s. Wonder if they are having to deal with the yankees like we did.
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It was just reported that John wet diapers traitor McCain was screaming and shouting wacko, wacko, wacko and then realized he was looking in the mirror.
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Eggplant is a foul
vegetablefruitsubstance.
I’m pretty sure the only way to make it palatable would be ketchup.
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Daggit
Make eggplant parmesan. No meat. Parmesany Italian sauce goodness. Only real reason to eat at my sister’s house.
Those big ol’ mushrooms that taste like steak, especially if you put some A1 on them, those are good too. -
Defusing the situation with self-deprecation is clearly not working. 😀
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Look, I don’t do eggplant neither, but what does meat got to do with it?
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That’s it.
I’m putting the frikkin eggplant into the microwave with some toast and cheese. -
Don’t ferget the toasted hand-ground nutmeg.
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My husband was on his own for a meal some recent day and invented the following: He made 2 pieces of toast and then put 4 pepper-jack cheeze sticks between them with some extra jal slices, nuked it till the cheeze melted, mashed the toast together to be sure it was all “fused”, and was very proud and happy with his sammich.
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Mr mh42 is clearly the second coming of Wolfgang Puck.
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And he doesn’t even know about the philistine food fights that occur in these precincts.
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