We still have a missing person.
TexMo and mharper42 inadvertently gave us a clue yesterday. Investigations into Area 51 and the Roswell crash site have found an interesting photo of one of the “subjects”.
The similarity is obvious.
Hamous is a space alien love-child. He apparently went home to Tau-Ceti.
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Good morning Hamsters. Am thinking the cold front is a tad ahead of the forecast, which is fine with me. Steady breeze from the NNW and light mist greeted me on the way to the barn to feed the mares a little after 6. It was 65 then and now is 62. Snoopy Happy Dance day is here.
Spouse’s Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club has its annual Hamfest today at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds, and spouse went over there yesterday afternoon to check on the setup for ham licensure testing, which he and other members will oversee. He brought a box of ham gear to donate to the club for sale, as there is lots of private treaty buying and selling as well as sales at commercial booths. One of his fellow members stopped him before he even got in the door and bought the stuff before he could donate it.
I asked him if he’d told anyone what he was bringing, and he said no. So then I asked if the members thought he usually donated good stuff and likely wanted to get there early.
He thought that was the case. 🙂 As to the specifics of what it was, I have no clue.
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Good morning, Hamsterville. Just got a call to go pick up the old cat and discuss the results of her lab work. Sounds ominous. Check y’all later.
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Thanks, Adee. We are back with the cat, no ominous news after all. She may never trust me again, as I was the devilish one who wrapped her up in a towel and forced her into a carrier, after which she spent 48 hrs away from home with strangers doing things to her.
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Teddy “Three Rings” Johnson got himself in a little trouble on a local sports radio show yesterday.
That guideline should really go without saying, but former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson stepped all over it when he recently said on his Houston radio show that current Patriots lineman Vince Wilfork had the ugliest wife in the NFL
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No matter the actors, I just thought it was hilarious he got busted for saying it.
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#6 Tim, I have noo idea who he is, but that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
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Best description of the Jug Eared Jackass occupying the White House I have ever heard, well done Phil.
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That “Global Warming” is going to get us yet.
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Actually Ted Johnson’s dad/family runs the Rib Tickler BBQ restaurant in Tomball.
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Looks like Hammy’s ride home finally got there.
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#5 Mharper
She may never trust me again, as I was the devilish one who wrapped her up in a towel and forced her into a carrier, after which she spent 48 hrs away from home with strangers doing things to her.
Which brings me to the infamous “cat story”. (Lovely used to hate it when I told this one. Now she acts like (1) she doesn’t care or (2) she knows it’s inevitable and gives a sigh.)
It’s long, so bear with me.
When Lovely Daughter was much younger, we got a kitty for her, whom you know as Barf Kitty, but her given name was Miss Salem. (It was going to be “Salem” until we found out it was a girl kitty.) Miss Salem was Lovely’s pride and joy, sleeping with her at night, etc.,
Set up the scene. We had a long couch, sitting against the north wall of our living room, which had two windows behind it and there was a window with a potted plant near it on the east wall. The front door was at the other end of the long couch. Across from the front door was the shorter couch, and behind it was open area leading to the dining room. The hallway from the open area running behind the south wall of the living room held the master bedroom, bathroom, and second bedroom. The dining room, behind the short couch, led to the kitchen, and Lovely’s bedroom and bathroom was on the far side of the house, after making a left turn at the refrigerator.
One day, Lovely Daughter and Handsome Son were working on a puzzle on the floor of the living room. Handsome was sitting with his back against the long couch, legs straight out in front of him, in an “L” shape. LD had her back to the short couch, laying on the floor on her side, with her elbow bent and her head in her hand. I was coming out the master bedroom and caught this glimpse of this scene of harmony and love and decided to do what I do best.
I got on all fours, crept around the short couch, and when I got within about five feet of them, I let out a “RAAAAWWWWWWRRRRR!!!!” The results were nothing short of astounding.
Handsome moved to his left about a foot, without ever moving a limb. Lovely daughter, I kid you not, didn’t move either, but she actually came up off the floor.
What I didn’t realize was that Miss Salem had been sleeping on the long couch. She bounced – BOUNCED – a few steps down the couch, and landed in the aluminum mini-blinds in the far window behind the couch. Bless her heart, I’m sure that the noise and confusion of doing that didn’t help bring down her fear level. After rattling the blinds a few moments and freeing herself, she ended up behind the potted plant at the east window, from which she emitted sounds not unlike a jet plane trying to take off. “rrrRRRRRoowwwww, rrrrrrrrrrrrowwwwwwwww….”
LD was distraught that her kitty was so upset. She had a hard time talking to me, as it was hard to hear over my laughter, but she wanted to go hug her baby. I was pretty firm in telling her that Miss Salem would take her face right off if she got near her right now. (Still giggling.) The best thing would be to ignore her. I apologized to my two offspring for scaring them to death (still giggling) and they got back to their puzzle while I sat on the short couch where I could watch things for a while.
The jet noises began to have spaces between them, and finally, about fifteen minutes after the main event, Miss Salem decided to make a run for it. With no warning, she shot out from behind the plant, raced across the couch, and jumped down, all with the intent of getting out of the room before the hostile force overtook her.
What she didn’t calculate into her panicked rush out of the room was the pile of newspaper on the floor between the door and the couch. She landed on the pile of paper, and lost traction. Do you remember those cartoons where the characters are in the air and the legs are pumping but they aren’t moving? Well, that was Miss Salem. Newspaper was being rolled up behind her as her legs frantically sought traction on the floor. Her eyebrows were behind her ears and there was a very real look of outright fear on her face. Finally, she reached the end of the pile and she took off across the dining room, through the kitchen, made a screeching left turn at the frig, and finally made the safety of Lovely’s bed. Like a rubber band, she was. From there, we could hear the jet plane again winding up.
Lovely again wanted to go and comfort her baby, and again I warned her that she really ought to find something else to do until the cat calmed down. So I went into the kitchen, called a friend, and said “You gotta hear this cat!” (still giggling). “I hear it – THAT’S THE CAT?!” she exclaimed. Stephanie was in tears. “Mommy, it’s not funnnnneeee!” “Oh, yes, it is!” I hugged her, but that didn’t seem to help much, since I was still smiling. I told my friend what had happened, in between outbursts of mirth, while Lovely stewed in her predicament in the other room. I went back and apologized again, hugged her (still smiling), and warned her to stay out of her room.
Well, the day went on, and every time any one went near Lovely’s bedroom, the jet engine would start winding up again. After dinner, while everyone was watching TV in the living room, I saw the cat come out and sit near the frig. I laid on the floor behind the couch, and we just eyed each other for a while across the two rooms. I finally decided to see if she was safe to get close to, but as I got up, she dashed back to the bed. A few hours later, we ran into the problem of where Lovely was going to sleep. I put cat food, water, a towel bed, and the litter box in her bathroom, and made my way cautiously to the cat on her bunk bed. She allowed me to pick her up and love on her, but wouldn’t let Lovely near her. This made Lovely very angry. “But I’m not the one who scared her!” she cried. “I know, I know,” I said, trying to keep my giggles under control. I put the cat in the bathroom, closed the door, and comforted my daughter, who was still roiling with righteous indignation. We all went to bed.
The next morning, we all got up a little late (it was a weekend). Lovely made her morning ablutions in our bathroom, and I eventually cracked open the bathroom door. It took the cat a half hour before cautiously venturing out of the bathroom. She sat near the bathroom door for a good while before she decided to take a chance on entering another room. I picked her up and loved on her, trying to calm her down. When Lovely got close, the cat still wanted nothing to do with her. Lovely just stood there, “Mommeeee, it’s not faaaaiiiiirrrrr! I didn’t scare her, you did!” I tried to keep the smiles and giggles down as I tried to comfort my daughter again. The cat kept her distance, but gradually did allow Lovely to hold her. I behaved myself for the rest of the day, and eventually, things got back to normal.
The next day, I came home to find Lovely on the long couch, reading a book, under a big blanket. Being the loving mother I am, I decided to throw myself on top of her, like a professional wrestler, and get a big hug.
I didn’t know that Miss Salem had tucked herself under the blanket, on Lovely’s chest.
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Maybe Hammie’s going incognito.
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I am going out now to mow the small plot of grass in the back yard. It is full of tall weeds. This will ease me slowly into 2013, find out if I am over the hill yet — or not. Checked forecast to see when it might rain. Came across the beautiful photo below.
http://www.weather.com/news/science/stunning-turquoise-ice-on-ancient-lake-20130322
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11 SD: Did you see this savagery inflicted on the English language in the story to which you linked?
In east Cornwall emergency services were searching for a missing woman her partially property collapsed during heavy rainfall overnight.
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I was just a toddler when my mom, a kid herself, for whatever reason decided to put on my dad’s hat and suit coat and hid in the hall closet until I walked by. I still remember it.
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I’ve never met Hamous but if that’s his picture above then is it possible he shaved his mustache and joined Vanden Plas?
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Here’s the accompanying story:
A dramatic 911 call recorded a Oklahoma man’s confrontation with an intruder who broke into his Ponca City home early Thursday morning. The homeowner ended up shooting the intruder several times when police didn’t arrive in time.
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The homeowner stayed on the line with 911 as he waited for the police to arrive. However, the police didn’t arrive before the intruder found his way into the house.
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A short time later, the home intruder managed to gain entry into the home. It was at this point that the homeowner fired several shots at the suspect.
“I just put three rounds in his ass,” he informed the dispatcher.The perp was airlifted to a hospital, and the shooting is under investigation.
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Off to the Houston Library’s book sale. Then I might move some dirt. Maybe. I have a ton of paperwork to do, and I am waaaaay behind. But I’m not driving to Sweeny today. I have three takers on the apartment, so if one craps out tomorrow, I’ll just call the next one. Behind them, I have a long string of serious inquiries.
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Best description of the Jug Eared Jackass occupying the White House I have ever heard, well done Phil.
Actually it should be OBeelzebubama.
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Mookie Abbas-hole got bribed to not file suit with the ICC. This bribery is only a delay as the deal was not to file suit for only 2 months(?) which leads to the question: What is the JugEared Jackass up to with regards to Israel?
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Yay! I am not over the hill (yet) — although mowing when it is 68 degrees is not typical at all.
I have spread an old sheet under the live oak and am catching some tiny spheres. So small I can’t think of what to compare the size to. Some are brownish and some are bright green and bounce on the sheet but don’t make a sound. Off the edges of the sheet I can still hear these things when they land on the grass. The popping sound up in the foliage is not as loud as yesterday, but it is still dispersed noise throughout the whole canopy. No wind, no way this is branches rubbing, but thanks for the suggestion, Shannon.
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Yay! I am not over the hill (yet) —
Man that was quick.
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#26 Dave
The front yard is very wide and deep. In the back yard, I have only a 25×40 plot of lawn grass. The rest is various hardscapes, or weed patches where I tried to do things like a gravel-based cactus garden — but the weeds won.
It was quick to mow because it is so small. Even at 68 degrees, I would not attempt to mow the front yard until I am further away from the knee debacle where I was bedridden and throwing up on pain meds. 🙂 🙂 🙂 -
eventually, things got back to normal.
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I have a low power microscope somewhere but not sure I could find it with a compass and a 5-man working party.
I have one of those 3 or 4 rotating objective lens microscope, like the ones used in institutions in my attic, still in like new condition. I haven’t broke it out in years, you have inspired me.
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I also have a high-power slide-style microscope, but I haven’t used either in so long that I can’t even remember exactly what they are called. Maybe an “inspection microscope” ? — for looking at rocks or bugs or plant material, surface inspection, no slide prep needed.
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Nora got some lunch, soft pate’ watered down, and she is mellowing out already. Doesn’t hate me after all. She has been through a real ordeal for a cat her age, but looks like she should be with us for a few more years.
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#32 M42: From your linkie:
Democrats want to believe that the future of Obamacare was secured by President Obama’s reelection. But if implementation ends up being the disaster that looks increasingly likely, the American people will have the final word.
October 01 2013 is scheduled to be the start date for open enrollment in the exchanges – I seriously doubt that it will be even remotely workable, let alone inexpensive, by 01N0v2013. Interestingly enough that is really the start of the jockeying for position in the primaries for the 2014 elections. Izzit possible that there could be a repeat of the 2010 elections, except this time the Senate actually gets out from under the inept debacle of leadership under the Ds?
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soft pate’
Goose Liver? Just kidding,…
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Hmmm, pate’ is just how canned cat food that is ground up is labelled these days. In the olden times, that was just “cat food”. Now with hi-tech molding machinery, they can form the food into almost any shape or style. My cats prefer a style called shreds & gravy.
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We buy dry dog food in a style we call “dog balls” — small spheres of brown knosh of some kind. No, we don’t have a “dog”. Feed “dog balls” to the “raccoons” and “possums”.
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Say, why we gots no WAF this weekend?
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Mariposa prefers pate’ with a little warm water stirred in to make is softer. That is likely because when our dear Valentine was in his final illness we and the vet mistakenly thought it was another round of histoplasmosis rather than the slow-moving diabetic kidney failure. She would come into the kitchen when I dished up his Rx cat food and stirred in water to make it more like stew and plaintively meow for some too, so she got a small amount. She’s been conditioned to think that’s the way it should be served. We still miss Valentine so much. 🙁
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We asked our dear neighbor behind us to join us for supper at the Swinging Door BBQ last night. He lost his lovely wife of 46 years to cancer a couple of weeks ago after a drawn-out illness. Supper was a nice break for him from all the paperwork from the hospital and legal stuff for probate. I hope we can get together with him more or less regularly as he goes through mourning. Fortunately his son and family live in Houston so he is not entirely alone. Other neighbors are helping out as they can. He is the third husband in our small neighborhood to lose his wife within the past 5 years. Most of the homeownwers are empty-nesters or retired, with a few younger families mixed in.
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Good Grief! You just never know where danger lies; One child dead after sign collapse at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
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Just got back from book shopping at the GR Brown. I got about $80 in kiddie books, but I couldn’t find the two books that were specifically requested, and there were NO Dr. Seuss books at all. They probably went the first day. I got some home repair type books for me. I couldn’t find a single thing on crochet, but there were a lot of books on knitting and quilting.
My old granny shopping basket that I brought was a-creakin’ by the time I got through. My eyeballs were about to roll across the floor after 3 hours of searching book covers and reading brightly illustrated picture books.
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#41 Ms Adee, I remember you speaking of the gentleman a while back and wondering when would be the appropriate time to approach him. I’m thinking that you timed it just right and may have given him a nice diversion from the sudden change in his life. Bless you.
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#39 mharper42, (I’m banging my coffee cup on my cell bars), WAF, WAF, WAF, WAF, WAF! 😉
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And the gun show and home show were going on next door…
Didga’ get any ammo? I need 44, 9 MM, 40 S&W and H3!! even 22, can’t find ammo anywhere! I loaded up 100 rounds of 44 mag last week,…maybe I’ll get some 9 MM and 40 S&W dies, & roll my own.
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WAF thread is up.
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#48 Tedtam, I bet he sold the ammo for way more than it cost. I got a whole bunch of 223 ammo and thought about making a killing on it but ifin’ I did, I couldn’t sleep at night.
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I’m watching what must be one of the first Hogan’s Heroes. Interesting – not all of the characters started out at the beginning. Richard Dawson looks so much different. Not unrecognizably different, but enough to notice.
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#49 SD: If you want to lighten your load a bit on .223 I am a buyer. TT has my email address, is cash ok? If you have excess 9mm, I am a buyer for that as well.
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I received the following email from the Senate Conservatives Fund, the group started by Jim DeMint. I think it refers to the “continuing resolution” although that wording isn’t used. The fact that Cornyn is flagged means the SCF will fund an opponent for the 2014 election. Hope someone half as good as Cruz turns up.
Fellow Conservatives:
As you know, U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) forced a vote on an amendment last week to defund Obamacare. The Democrats defeated the amendment, but all 45 Republicans voted in favor of it even though some in the party don’t want to fight the issue anymore.
But the real test for Republicans came this week when the Senate held the final vote on the bill that funds Obamacare.
As we expected, a large group of Republicans flip-flopped and helped the Democrats pass the legislation.
Here are the 20 Republicans who voted to give the Obama Administration the funding it needs to implement Obamacare. The highlighted senators are running for re-election in 2014.
Alexander (R-TN) *
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS) *
Collins (R-ME) *
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX) *
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
McConnell (R-KY) *
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Wicker (R-MS)
These senators want voters to know they oppose Obamacare, but they aren’t willing to do what is necessary to actually stop it. They give lip service to conservative principles, but won’t make real sacrifices to deliver for the American people.
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Troopers Indicted After Roadside Cavity Search Of Two Women. This happened in Irving Texas.
DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – CBS-11 has learned two state troopers involved in a controversial roadside cavity search of two North Texas women have been indicted on criminal charges by a Dallas County Grand Jury.
CBS-11 has learned that one of the troopers, Kelley Helleson, who left the courthouse after testifying Friday, is charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of official oppression.
She was seen on dashcam video searching the body cavities — front and back — of the two women along an exit ramp of the Bush Turnpike in Irving last summer.
The Texas Department of Public Safety fired Helleson.
CBS-11 has learned the other trooper in the case, David Farrell, is charged with theft after one of the women said her prescription bottle of the painkiller hydrocodone was missing after the search.The DPS troopers were doing a body cavity search (without a warrant, mind you) on the side of the freaking road, are you kidding me?!?
Some commenters isolate the root cause(s) of the situation that causes the extreme violation above:Gregory Orcutt • a day ago −
This is from the Texas Council on Law Enforcement website, a state-sponsored peace officer certification organization. Even if the women were under arrest and not detention, the State’s own handbook demands a warrant for this type of search:
Issue: Whether, during a warrantless strip search conducted incident to an arrest, a police officer may ordinarily conduct a body cavity search or seize potential evidence protruding from a body cavity.
Disposition: No. Absent certain exigent circumstances, a search warrant is required in order to conduct a body cavity search incident to an arrest, and, accordingly, evidence discovered in a body cavity without such a warrant is inadmissible under the Fourth
Amendment of the United States Constitution.Norman Gooding • 14 hours ago −
Another “gift” from the war on drugs bounty money program,,,if there had been no grant monies riding on the search it probably would have never occurred.ipgrunt • 33 minutes ago −
The so-called war on drugs is a war against 4th amendment rights. Please, let’s stop this police state of affairs. The latitude given by the courts in the name of prohibition creates a storm trooper mentality in those peace officers that are supposed to protect our rights. End the war on drugs.lucille • 16 minutes ago −
This will end badly for others, the gangs also known as the Texas State Troopers and the local police will begin to take counter measures to not get caught violating other peoples rights. They aren’t that dumb, they will begin to park that squad car sideways or move the interaction out of the line of sight. They will claim that the microphone was not working and all the lies, just to be able to keep doing the dirty things they do. These people do not serve us, they serve the piper the politicians who promise and keep the paychecks coming. They feel above the law and untouchable to anything. They have unions that defend them and they will get their jobs back in some other part of the “department” then they will eventually be sucking on the government titi again. Never stops, they just change and move on to do the same all over again, it’s a racket.This is not to say that all cops are bad, the overwhelming majority are good. The issue is the money grab behind the scenes, the seizure aspects of the war on drugs. The war on drugs give the cops license to toss the 4th, 5th and prolly other amendments all in the name of keeping society safe. The whole WoD is a disaster, financially, constitutionally and it does not make much of a dent in usage; end it now.
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The fact that Cornyn is flagged means the SCF will fund an opponent for the 2014 election. Hope someone half as good as Cruz turns up.
Gregg Abbott would be a good choice.
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I’m so excited that WAF is up.
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Then why haven’t you participated? Oh, I see, that was sarcasm, huh?
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I don’t have the intellectual chops anymore.
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I’m slowly losing my mind.
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Great song Brother Paul.
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Shannon, have a little red wine and hit the sack. “Tomorrow is another day.”
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#44 Super Dave
Thank you for the reinforcement. The son, his wife, and the grandkids had been over there numerous times since the memorial service, but we hadn’t seen their vehicle for a few days this week. The hardest time for those in mourning is when everybody has gone home in the days after the funeral/memorial service. 🙁 -
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Hamous is a space alien love-child.
We knew that.
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I wasn’t growed up all refined like Shannon so when I saw truffles matched up with aroma and hog in the WAF I had to look it up since I thought truffles was something you bought down at the Walgreens on Valentines Day. Well I’m still not sure what aroma and hog has to do with it but some version of it, mushrooms or chocolate, sells for hundreds of dollars an ounce especially if you buy the Eyetalian stuff and if it has the aroma of a hog I don’t get why.
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Hogs can smell the truffles and can be trained to hunt for them. They are the bird dog of the fungus world.
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Windy good morning Hamsters. Cloudy and 54, trees waving back and forth, live oak leaves flying, and Winter’s cold breath pushes all before it. Wonder how many of the piles of live oak leaves and old blossoms swept up yesterday will remain where I put them at the edge of the driveway near the fence. Front porch spring/Easter decorations came inside last night in anticipation of the strong winds arriving in the wee hours, and that was a good move. AC turned off and heat turned on again. March is going out like a lion.
Spouse came home early yesterday afternoon from the Hamfest–without buying anything. Licensure exams ended around 12:30, and he wasn’t feeling tip top so there wasn’t much incentive to hang around. Good thing, as he’s showing flu-like blah signs and has little energy. Mariposa showed her concern and kept checking on him during the night, which of course woke me. Can’t say I have lots of energy either at the moment, but the mares need to be turned out after their breakfast. So, off to do that. -
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I never understood why a form of chocolate was called truffles, since the pungent fungus is not an additive for candy. But I still don’t care enough to look it up.
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This is not art. The gawking sheep who may think so are most likely Low Info D voters. What is so disturbing to me about this is that the stupidity of the display can be classified as “art” by the MOMA. Are there any standards left, is there any reason, or are we reduced to being told what art and beauty is by the elitist glitterati and the socialist controllers? That a single tax payer penny goes to support this crap is a crime.
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Up on Drudge: Israel fires into Syria. I consider this good news. Is Bronco still wandering around over there, making inane speeches?
Israel fires into Syria after Golan attack on troops
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/24/us-syria-israel-idUSBRE92N06020130324
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I have had trouffles before and they have the consistency of rubber with very little taste; $.10/lb is too much to spend on them. My understanding is that the fungus grows on the roots of white oak trees at the drip line and can be destructive to the trees. This is not a good situation because the white oak tree is the wood for barrels in which wine is aged.
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#76 M42 from your linkie:
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed the strategic plateau in 1981 in a move that has not won international recognition.
Interestingly enough, the article did not mention that Syria attacked Israel without provocation with the attempt to commit genocide. Had they included that necessary, historically accurate detail, it would not be viewed in a negative light.
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G’Sunday Morning All
Being as we are about halfway through the high holy days (March 2nd-April 21st) of the Texas Revolution, it’s time for the yearly retelling of my favorite story from those times back in 1836. I especially love a story that has a lesson and this one has a good one, one that I learned a long time ago. Namely, “don’t mess with Texas women!”
The story comes from the narrative of Robert Hancock Hunter. Hunter fought in the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 alongside Sam Houston and all of the rest of the Texians. The following event took place on April 16th, 1836, five days before the battle.It seems that Houston’s army had borrowed a team of oxen from Mrs. Pamela Mann. The oxen were needed to move Houston’s artillery. In order to get them from her, Houston had promised her that he was moving his army towards Nacogdoches, where her oxen would be safe.
The army came to a fork in the road. North lead to Nacogdoches, and safety, south lead to Harrisburg … and a fight. Houston said “to the right (Harrisburg), boys.”
This did not please Mrs. Mann. I will now let Hunter’s narrative take over, in his own singular spelling and grammar:
“She rode up to the general & said, general you tole me a dam lie, you said [you] was going on the Nacogdoches road. Sir, I want my oxen.”
“Well, Mrs. Mann, we can’t spare them. We cant git our cannon a long without them.”
“I dont care a dam for your cannon, I want my oxen.”
With that, she whipped out her Bowie knife, cut the oxen from their traces, and lead them away.
The rugged frontiersmen watched this performance in stunned awe.
“No body said a word,” Hunter went on. “She jumpt on her horse with whip in hand and away she went in a lope with her oxen.”
Conrad Rohrer, the army’s wagon master, protested to Houston that he could not move the artillery without the oxen and said he was going after Mrs. Mann to retrieve them. Houston advised him not to do it, saying that this particular Texian woman would not let them go without a fight. “Dam her fighting” Rohrer answered and away he went.
Rohrer sheepishly returned to camp a few hours later, his shirt in tatters. “Where are the oxen?” the men asked. “She would not let me have them,” Rohrer meekly replied.
“What happened to your shirt?” they asked.
“She needed it for baby rags.”Let this be a lesson for all of you. Having read this story, don’t come crying to me if you ever find yourself in the wrong end of such a situation!
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This guy is Elvis reincarnated. He’s so real (looks and voice) it’s spooky. Made a teenager out of me again……
Elvis tribute artist Ben Portsmouth performing “An American Trilogy” on the Late Show with David Letterman 2/8/2013
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#81: Wow, just wow.
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I hope you aren’t riding in this wind, Katfish.
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Mornin’ Gang
It’s awful quite around here, my bride left yesterday to head off to the old farm house, took the girls with her. I already miss my little psychotic dawg. Its spring break over there and her grand niece wanted her to come over and maybe go to the beach. Grand niece has a stepmom that’s close kin to the mother in Cinderella, her real mom is also a study. My sister has always taken up time with her, gymnastics softball and such. In the last few years, my wife has spent more time over there since she is semi-retired and they’ve become pretty close. It may be a little too cold for the beach though. -
#83 – Yep just suitin up to go welcome another young BACA HERO into the family – not far – only down to Rosenberg – I may be able to just put up a sail on southbound 99 eh? 🙂
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Well, we’ve made it to 52 with the wind in full roar on the shaded front porch. In the lee of the garage it’s 55 under the red oak tree sheltering St. Francis. Wonder what the windchill is in the full sunshine. Neighbor behind’s flag is straight out fleeing the wind from the north, the pole holding it bending a bit. If there were currently anything blooming up in the western Canadian provinces, the pollen would be flying through here by now. Newly sprouted leaf clusters come loose and tumble about, swooping aloft or rolling on the ground, their energy renewed with each gust. Congratulating self on resisting planting spring flowers just yet. The steadfast pansies take the buffeting in stride and pop upright again, their cheery faces refusing to surrender.
Spouse is up and about and alternately napping and reading. My energy level is not much better than his, so this will not be a very productive day. Frotunately not much truly needs to be done today. 🙂 -
I never understood why a form of chocolate was called truffles, since the pungent fungus is not an additive for candy. But I still don’t care enough to look it up.
the original chocolate truffles looked like real truffles.
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#81 OTL
I enjoyed the Elvis impersonator, amazing he is a Brit. I haven’t watched Letterman in years, maybe decades, so don’t know if every other person on the stage is part of the Paul Shafer orchestra. Maybe the backup singers are part of the Elvis act? -
/crickets
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It’s just too pretty of a day to be inside.
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Yeah, well, tell that to my bookkeeping. /frown
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TT, how is your new Man Friday working out? Is he a keeper?
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Check this out if only for the fabulous photoshop! I especially like the overflowing ashtray.
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#93 M42: That article comes from the Washington Compost no less. Why the wiss didn’t these lame excuses for news outlets start being honest about the one defiling the WH before the election? Perhaps we can re-take the Senate and hold the House, perhaps increase the margins in 2014 and start to undo the damage and make him the lamest of lame ducks.
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#92 Mharper
TT, how is your new Man Friday working out? Is he a keeper?
It’s hard to tell. It’s been really slow lately, which is good, so he doesn’t get overwhelmed as he’s learning. But he’s so dang quiet! I’ve had to tell him to speak up on the phone already. And I suspect that when he’s through with a task, he’s surfing. I’m busy at my desk, so unless I come up for a breath or he says something, I don’t know if he’s finished. And since he doesn’t say anything…but I don’t know for sure.
He has caught on to some things rather quickly. He’s much different from last Office Help, so I’m having to do some adjusting myself. -
Happy Passover y’all.
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Rally and celebrate marriage. What a novel idea.
Please join us for this critically important event. If you want to support marriage between a man and a woman, if you need more information to understand what’s at stake, and if you want to learn what to do to help and take action, please mark your calendar and be there!
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Tedtam #14;
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64 Bonecrusher says:
March 24, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Jerry Lee Lewis (aka the big bopper)Ummmm—-
No.
Jerry Lee Lewis was “The Killer”
The Big Bopper’s only hit was Chantilly Lace. Born in Beaumont, he died in the airplane crash that killed Buddy Holly. -
I will take the coveted 100 with the set up
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Busy building fence, getting garden working and other things. I am only able to sneek a peek when life settles down. I do try to keep up. Maybe Hamous was organizing the Hamfest. Just wondering.
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Good morning Hamsterville. Wha?
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