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Thursday “Dark Side” Open Comments

I was brain dead by the time I got home last night after teaching my class. I did have enough synapses firing to post one thing:

We were reenacting the betrayal of Jesus, his appearance before Pilate, etc. I had several students acting out the different parts, with one of them playing the part of “Sanhedrin”. I had already discussed how the Jews in power were upset because Jesus’ new law of “love God and love one another” was a threat to their power, and how Pilate was caught between the two factions of Jews v. Jesus, while trying to keep Caesar happy as well.
So “Sanhedrin” brought “Jesus” to “Pilate”.
I urged “Sanhedrin” by saying “Try to convince him to kill Jesus for you!”
The response?
He looked at Pilate, lowered his head slightly, and said in a low voice “You! You must come to the Dark Side!”

Since I have another busy day ahead, I’m off to do my thing. My back is well enough to get a workout in this morning, then I’ll eat breakfast, and then I’ll tackle the rest of my day. I have to drive down to Sweeny to meet prospective tenants this afternoon, so I have to cram my day’s work into one morning. I may not stick my head up much today.
But when I’m feeling stressed, I’ll just remember Darth Vader from my class last night, and I’ll smile.

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  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Obamacare in the real world.

  2. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All
    Starbucks announced Tuesday that it’s bought its first coffee bean farm in South America. They believe that this is the best way to get the best-quality coffee beans.
    Taco Bell will announce Friday that it will buy a horse farm.

  3. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good morning Hamsterville. I do not have to go the office today, but we are going to attempt to get Cat #6 to the vet for a feline leukemia re-test. This is a scrappy little 15-yr-old female who doesn’t go anywhere without a fight. All the other cats have re-tested negative, so there is no reason to think she will be positive.

  4. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    This is a scrappy little 15-yr-old female

    It’s getting on up there in cat years.

  5. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    During high school, Tim worked as a host at a Red Robin restaurant in Albuquerque. During this time, Tim learned a lot about welcoming guests at a restaurant and developed a loyal following of customers.
    http://www.youtube.com/embed/y6He0FWoFj0

  6. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #1 – Brother there aint no getting around how badly this SUX!

  7. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Back from cat dropoff. When she is sedated, they will draw a small amount of blood for the FeLk test. If she is positive, we will go back and say goodbye to her. Otherwise she spends the day with them getting her checkup and possibly having some dental work done.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My cat, as opposed to the other cat, sleeps on me every night. Sometimes I don’t even feel her get into position. She/he/it is a great cat, likes to play rough and “mix it up,” her favorite place in the whole world is in my lap. I use the she/he/it to describe her sex because when the cat was sterilized, there was one ovary and one testicle, a genuine hermaphrodite.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This story demonstrates why AP can not be trusted.

    HEADLINE: IRAN VOWS TO LEVEL TEL AVIV IF ISRAEL ATTACKS
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says if it’s attacked by Israel, it will annihilate Tel Aviv and Haifa.
    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all key decisions in Iran, says Israel is too small to be called an enemy, and that the United States is the “center of animosity” toward the Islamic republic.

    OK, so far so good. Then we get to this little blurb and it makes you question everything you have just read:

    Israel, which is believed to have the only nuclear weapons arsenal in the Mideast, has threated to take military action against Iran if diplomacy fails to stop Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.

    I guess they don’t count FRIGGEN PAKISTAN as the mideast, or perhaps they forgot that Pakistan has successfully tested more than one nuke already?!?
    That is a glaring lie of omission.

  10. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Pakistan is not in the ME.
    Iran is barely in, if you stretch it. The ME usually means the area bordered by Lebanon/Syria, Iraq, the Saudi Peninsula, and the Suez Canal.

  11. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Lookit what flew in through the window from one of our favorite curmudgeonly correspondents.
    Where is Hammie

  12. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    This oughta get some of you people wound up…
    bronco yassir
    h/t – drudge

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    JUst when you think it can’t possibly get any worse, we have this little gem from Tennessee

    HEADLINE:University Could be Defunded Over Sex Week
    A group of Tennessee lawmakers is preparing to issue an ultimatum to the University of Tennessee-Knoxville – either defund the first-ever “Sex Week” or they will defund the university.
    Lawmakers, alumni, and taxpayers are furious that the university allocated nearly $20,000 to fund a week-long salute to sex that included a poetry-reading lesbian bondage expert, a campus-wide condom scavenger hunt and seminars on—among other things – oral sex and lesbian erotica.
    “We should be teaching these children what is important to learn so they can get jobs,” state Sen. Stacey Campfield told Fox News. “I don’t know what jobs they plan on getting if they’re having seminars on oral sex and bondage. I don’t see how that will help someone in their professional career – unless they plan on becoming a porn star.”

    KUDOS on the Tenn state legislature for finding their testicles. Shame on the university admin dolts who actually approved such an idea. Best line of the story:

    Campfield said the inmates are running the asylum.
    “They say it’s all about diversity,” he told Fox News. “Well, perversity does not make diversity just because it’s at the university.”

    I wonder how much diversity of thought is allowed at that university? I wonder what happens to a prof if he mentions Intelligent Design or lampoons the obvious sham that is MMGW?

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The following popped into my inbox:

    PAUL RYAN’S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS
    A List of Republican Budget Cuts
    Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.
    These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end.
    * Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy — $445 million annual savings.
    * Save America ‘s Treasures Program — $25 million annual savings.
    * International Fund for Ireland — $17 million annual savings.
    * Legal Services Corporation — $420 million annual savings.
    * National Endowment for the Arts — $167.5 million annual savings.
    * National Endowment for the Humanities — $167.5 million annual savings.
    * Hope VI Program — $250 million annual savings.
    * Amtrak Subsidies — $1.565 billion annual savings.
    * Eliminate duplicating education programs — H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
    * U.S. Trade Development Agency — $55 million annual savings.
    * Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy — $20 million annual savings.
    * Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding — $47 million annual savings.
    * John C. Stennis Center Subsidy — $430,000 annual savings.
    * Community Development Fund — $4.5 billion annual savings.
    * Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid — $24 million annual savings.
    * Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half — $7.5 billion annual savings
    * Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% — $600 million annual savings.
    * Essential Air Service — $150 million annual savings.
    * Technology Innovation Program — $70 million annual savings.
    * Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program — $125 million annual savings..
    * Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization — $530 million annual savings.
    * Beach Replenishment — $95 million annual savings.
    * New Starts Transit — $2 billion annual savings.
    * Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts — $9 million annual savings
    * Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants — $2.5 billion annual savings.
    * Title X Family Planning — $318 million annual savings.
    * Appalachian Regional Commission — $76 million annual savings.
    * Economic Development Administration — $293 million annual savings.
    * Programs under the National and Community Services Act — $1.15 billion annual savings.
    * Applied Research at Department of Energy — $1.27 billion annual savings.
    * Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership — $200 million annual savings..
    * Energy Star Program — $52 million annual savings.
    *Economic Assistance to Egypt — $250 million annually.
    * U.S.Agency for International Development — $1.39 billion annual savings.
    * General Assistance to District of Columbia — $210 million annual savings.
    * Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority — $150 million annual savings.
    *Presidential Campaign Fund — $775 million savings over ten years.
    * No funding for federal office space acquisition — $864 million annual savings.
    * End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
    * Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act — More than $1 billion annually.
    * IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget — $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
    *Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees — $1 billion total savings.WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT?
    * Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees — $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
    * Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of — $15 billion total savings.
    *Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.WHAT???
    * Eliminate Mohair Subsidies — $1 million annual savings.
    *Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — $12.5 million annual savings
    WELL ISN’T THAT SPECIAL
    * Eliminate Market Access Program — $200 million annual savings.
    * USDA Sugar Program — $14 million annual savings.
    * Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) — $93 million annual savings.
    * Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program — $56.2 million annual savings.
    *Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs– $900 million savings.
    * Ready to Learn TV Program — $27 million savings..
    * HUD Ph.D. Program.
    * Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
    *TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
    My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place?
    Maybe this is why the Democrats are attacking Paul Ryan.

    I have not dug into the specifics of each item listed and verified that they are in the plan, however, if we are currently paying for this crap, shouldn’t each and every item on the list above be eliminated?

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well I see that we finally got up and moving.
    #2 OletimerLin 😀

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Wagonburner’s #12, Our own “Manchild”; Flustered Barack Obama on the back foot over Israeli settlements.

  17. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Mayor Porker is going to be disappointed.

    Florida himself, in his role as an editor at The Atlantic, admitted last month what his critics, including myself, have said for a decade: that the benefits of appealing to the creative class accrue largely to its members—and do little to make anyone else any better off. The rewards of the “creative class” strategy, he notes, “flow disproportionately to more highly-skilled knowledge, professional and creative workers,” since the wage increases that blue-collar and lower-skilled workers see “disappear when their higher housing costs are taken into account.” His reasonable and fairly brave, if belated, takeaway: “On close inspection, talent clustering provides little in the way of trickle-down benefits.”
    One group certain to be flustered by this new perspective will be many of the cities who have signed up and spent hard cash over the years to follow Florida’s prescription of focusing on those things—encouraging the arts and entertainment, building bike paths, welcoming minorities and gays—that would attract young college-educated workers. In his thesis, the model cities of the future are precisely those, such as San Francisco and Seattle, that have become hubs of highly educated migrants, technology, and high-end business services.
    That plan, though, has been less than successful in many of the old rust belt cities that once made up much of his client base. Perhaps even more galling to these cities, Florida has turned decidedly negative in his outlook on many of those cities—now looking remarkably gullible—that once made up much of his client base.

    World Class just ain’t what it used to be.

  18. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Looks like ObamaCare may be rearing its head. In the wake of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, CVS is telling its employees they need to reveal their height, weight, body fat percent and other personal information for health insurance purposes.

    I expect to see much more of these insurance health screens. If you are a non smoker, have good blood pressure, low cholesterol, and a decent BMI (according to conventional wisdom), you will not have your health insurance rate jacked up 7% per year but only 2%-3% per year.

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Further to #14 above and #18: How about simply repealing O-Care for an annual savings of at least $1.7 trillion? The $1.7 trillion number is low, because repealing the ACA will cause the economy to grow and that will increase the flow to the treasury, so it has a double positive impact on the deficit.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Seeing as how all budgetary items are now on the list, now would be a great time to hold Janet “the dyke” Napolitano aka Big Sis’ feet to the fire on the question of: why has the DHS bought 1.6 billion rounds of ammo in the last year in addition to many thousands of firearms? To date there has been no reasonable answer to this question.

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Just dropped in to say goodbye for a while.
    I finished my 2012 taxes. It will be a few weeks before I get all my brains scraped off the ceiling/walls, reassembled and put back into the cranial cavity.
    I will vote for anyone that returns to the the lost premise that this country was founded on “private property rights”. For those who are in doubt our money is our property too. I payed enough in taxes to buy a small city’s worth of Obamaphones. I am not a happy camper.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Lots of interest in our rental unit in Sweeny. At last count, I have about six people coming to see it tonight, 1 for tomorrow, and 1 that I emailed information to.
    I may have that sucker rented by this time tomorrow!
    WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

  23. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good afternoon Hamsters. Love Sarge’s #17, which surely will give the urbanistas ulcers.
    How about some creative soul(s), who are always praised by the ubranistas, nailing a copy of this article to the front doors of City Hall? An another copy to Metro’s front door?
    What could be wrong with such an historic reinaction, never mind that this subject matter is far less significant. 🙂

  24. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #1 Shannon
    Hmm, so the Noo Yawk Times thinks the Recession is over? Have they consulted their own financials lately?

  25. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #24 Adee
    They must be listening to the MSM, and thus think everything is hunky dory in Obamaville.
    🙂

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dayaam, who kilt tha’ blog?
    It’s “Grave-Yard Dead”.

  27. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    In the interests of enlightening people I will offer this.
    http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1996/July%201996/0796valor.aspx
    Amazing if true.

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #27
    Last thoughts of the Japanese pilot; Da…..

  29. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Other scary stuff, that makes sense
    http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/03/20/the-perpetual-campaign-how-obamas-leftwing-partisans-plan-to-invade-and-destroy-texas/?singlepage=true
    I have personally saw how their fear campaign has worked.

  30. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    By the way, if anyone cares.
    PETA sucks

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The Couch is not dead but has a bad case of malaise.
    Me, I’ve had a rough work week and it’s not over yet. But at least driving to the office is already over for this week. Our 15-yr-old cat had most of her teeth extracted, and is spending the night at the clinic. Around noon, I found a grass snake in the family room. Not a small one. It was coiled around in several circles but I estimate 18″ if stretched out. It was lethargic for some unknown reason so was easily swept up onto a big dustpan and taken outside. Its fate after that is unknown. Lots of unknowns when there is a snake in the house.
    I’m about at my breaking point for stamina, but do have a full day of work to perform tomorrow. Check y’all later.

  32. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Ms Harper: Retirement is getting closer by the day. Plan past it to keep the energy up. Don’t focus on the day it begins but the life that begins when it starts. Many people plan to retirement but don’t know what they are going to do the day after. A new door opens and a world of possibilities is awaiting.

  33. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    The Couch is not dead but has a bad case of malaise.

    Taxes, work, yard work and gardening. Pretty much fills my days. Isn’t spring grand? 🙂

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #17 Sarge
    Excellent link, Sarge. Kotkin is consistently brilliant.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Mayhap the couch is more vacant than usual because the basketball tournament has started. Couch residents are either glued to the tube watching their favorite teams or have wagers placed, or they are not at all interested in it and have stomped off in disgust to other entertainment or chores.
    We watched a Netflix movie that arrived today. It was Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and it certainly could have been a prequel to Alien. Also shared several elements. The alien world portrayed was filmed in Iceland. It was much more entertaining than watching games between teams that hold no interest for us.

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