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Ladies first. Y’r welcome. 🙂
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Mornin’ Gang
I’m re-posting this from last night since everyone went to bed;
OK, quick Drive-By, as I’m not paying attention, but I think that I mentioned here that my grandniece, sister’s granddaughter had her home coming last Friday night and she was one of two Freshman attendants. The other girl was to be escorted by her 8 year old brother since her daddy was in Afghanistan. She was first and when they called her name they said that there had been a change and her daddy, just back from Afghanistan would be escorting her. The local TV station was there to film it so on Saturday I Googled everything I could think of and didn’t find a video but I found one tonight. At about the :27-:34 mark you can see my grandniece in the pink dress and later at the :50-1:00 you can see her and her dad on the left side of the field.
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Ted Poe wises up on one important issue?
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I wonder if Mr. Ed’s sister, Kathleen Senilius, is a-gonna get thrown under the bus?
Just how is JugEars going to explain:
*a website that cost twice as much as Facebook or Amazon that does not work
*hiring a Canadian company as opposed to a reputable US company to build the website, when that Canadian company has been fired from every major job it tackled due to incompetence
*taking the website online when it had not been tested, and when the likely failures were known to be extant
*When any competent financial analysis is so damning to the way it is now vs the way it was, how is he going to recover from his “signature legislation?”
I find it amusing that the POS in Chief does not even call it Obamacare anymore. . . . .
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#5 M42: Ted Poe is correct in that our immigration system has flaws:
It opens the door to way too many impoverished, uneducated non-English speaking people from the south
It lets in far too few educated, productive Europeans and others who share our language
The borders, particularly the southern border, is more like a sieve and there is little or no effort from DC to enforce those borders
There is little or no effort from DC to deport those here illegally, even when they have committed crimes like DWI, assault, theft, etc.
There is little or no enforcement of penalties for those employers who hire illegal aliens, unless they support Rs. The D supporters get a free ride until the spotlight hits them, which only then, is followed by a soft slap on the wrist.
Border Patrol agents are routinely targeted by DC for the slightest mis-step, even when no mis-step actually takes place; while the drug running terds get a pass. -
#4 – awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww *sniffle*
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#4 SD: Great story. That girl is way too cute to be your kin :>)
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From yesterday
67 HeadShakerSquawk, you’re in my prayers.
Mucho garcia amigo
Lost my dad in June and still can’t believe it. Can’t even watch the Red Sox in the World Series because the last 2 times they won it we watched every playoff game together and he was ecstatic; he should be here with me.
I know how you feel as does many here. There is no easy way to temper the pain in the loss of a loved one and especially a parent. Every day is filled with memories that seem to “haunt” us. On the one hand we are glad for the memories and then on the other wish that we could turn them off it is indeed a bitter sweet struggle. It is not a comfortable feeling as we go through the process of grieving. While we have the love and care of family and friends that all try to comfort us, there just seems to be no comfort.
I don’t see how this pain will ever go away.
First things first. You grieve for as long as you need to. DO NOT let some well meaning person talk you out of it. While their intentions may be good, what usually happens is that well meaning person begins to install an unneeded guilt trip. Every tear you shed is a message to God Almighty and he sees every struggle you have. God did not do this to your Dad or you!! However, God can take this pain and struggle and he can comfort you as he has done with me. God takes pain and uses it to strengthen your faith in him as he did for me. In time the the pain, that since of loss was replaced with gratitude to know I had the opportunity to know my Dad. With that came peace. All you got to do is to reach out to him in prayer. Seek his face and his righteousness and the peace that comes not form the world but through a personal relationship with Jesus can be yours. I would not tell you this if I had not experienced it EVERYDAY myself.
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One of my sisters as a rough October every year, as there were several not-so-wonderful anniversaries happening in this month. She’s feeling pressured to handle her grief in a certain way.
I told her that her grief is her grief, and it will come and go as it will. No one has the right to try to change it for her or to guilt her out of it. Not only is that fruitless, but it puts an added burden on the grief stricken. I told her that she has the right to her emotions, and that eventually the grief won’t be so strong. Time heals all wounds.
I just wanna slap people who try to shoehorn other people’s emotions into their belief system. -
Headshaker:
First things first. You grieve for as long as you need to. DO NOT let some well meaning person talk you out of it.
What he said.
Eventually the sting will go away, the pain will still be there but will subside. Soon enough, IN HIS TIME, you will see your father again. Consider yourself blessed beyond measure that you had a good relationship with your father, not all of us can say that. -
Ya think i get obstinate and grouchy here? ROTFLMAO after my Dad went home to be with the Lord a well meaning friend tried to talk me out of my grief. They soon learned that was not a good thing to do.
“Why don’t ya know that you will see your Dad again and you should be grateful, blah blah blah.”
The answer to his questions are all yes. HOWEVER as I said to Rob above, God does use adversity to strengthen our faith in him. He wants a personal relationship with us, he alone can give us the peace that we seek and when his mighty hand is working on a person WE have no right to get in the way. That is not supporting a person…. that is getting in the way, it is selfish of them and they have no right to try to step into a space that is not theirs.
I have found over the years that “just being their for the grieving and wounded” is more often than not the best thing. Hollow words spoken in the guise of caring causes harm.
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And in honor of the first parachute jump ever made, to day was the day that event happened…………… why granny may not want to jump.
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A treasure found on Squawkies linkie.
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Before I even first checked the blog (just now), I was thinking about my deceased Dad.
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I wonder how well a gesture of this sort would go on the Potomac?
Even more amusing would be a sign directing it to the JugEared wonder-terd. -
Regarding mourning, it goes at its own pace and there are no timetables, no rules.
An understanding and supportive friend is priceless. -
Next year will be 40 years since I lost my Pops. I can say that not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought of him. The intense pain eventually becomes an ever-present numbness, like a part of you is missing and always will be. A promise of things unfulfilled. Sometimes it’s something as simple as sitting on the front porch in the evening sipping on a beer and thinking “I sure wish he was here.” Or talking to a nephew and reflexively saying a phrase that he used to say and realizing how much I learned from him in 16 short years.
For those of you who have recently lost your father the only thing I can offer is to be thankful that you had him for as long as you did. I have a baby sister who was six when we lost our father. She lost so much more than I did. -
The opening pic above is a hall of mirrors with no mirrors. 🙂
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The opening pic is a series of three staged pictures.
Ever seen those vidiots of miracle kids and their Rubik cubes. How they seem to solve the puzzle in 2.53983678 nano seconds?…………………………… Nawwwww I ain’t telling ya how that is done. (Insert evil laugh here) -
Browsing through a piece trying to explain how the Obamacare website exchange rollout is the disaster it is, a techie comment nailed it. He said it was a Klugeocracy. Now despite my quite limited computer hands-on usage ability but more theoretical knowledge, a kluge is a rescue attempt to fix a disastrous mismatch of jigsaw program elements designed by a committee essentially working independently (see the design of a camel), sometimes reeling into Rube Goldberg territory. It involves patching something malfunctioning or not functioning to make it sorta do what it was envisioned doing because the system is already rolling online and has to keep breathing. Sometimes there are patches on top of tattered patches consisting of virtual baling wire, bubble gum, duct tape, and/or Superglue. This is supposed to hold the fort until another group of real IT folk feverishly works on a substitute that will function as originally envisioned–if not so designed–while the rescue group keeps doing virtual CPR as the patch hangs on by a hinge. And if you’re the Obama government, this gets expensive fast since it is devoted to throwing our tax dollars with abandon to its buddies regardless of actual ability to do the task. 🙁
Not elegant, but I think this might be reasonably understandable to the average literate non-techie citizen whose outrage quotient subsequently rises rapidly. Regardless of having tried to log on to the system or merely resenting the entire fraudulent enterprise. -
NewsTalk 740 reports that Alan Hembuger, former TV anchorman in Houston, has assumed room temperature of an apparent heart attack, he was 67.
RIP -
He said it was a Klugeocracy.
We had a different name for it in the Army.
The first word was “cluster”. -
#24: Didja hafta pay extra for that outside the main gate?
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Parties that large had to retire to a secret location
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Drew M. makes a short post aimed at Establishment types whining about the “shutdown” and what it “cost” the GOP.
There are some people who are still freaking out over the supposed damage from the shutdown to the GOP’s 2014 prospects.
Question…Are there really people who think at 16 day, partial government shutdown a year prior to the elections is going to do more damage to the GOP than the total failure of the Democrats signal domestic achievement in the last half century?
If the shutdown does more harm to the GOP than ObamaCare does to Democrats, the GOP has much bigger issues than anything conservatives can say or do. -
Oh for ever-lovin’ (words fail me about here).
McCain eyes 2016 run.
Let’s hope he’s running off a short pier and not for president. -
Actually, I’d look forward to Sen Cruz humiliating Sen McCain.
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If the shutdown does more harm to the GOP than ObamaCare does to Democrats, the GOP has much bigger issues than anything conservatives can say or do.
If the GOP fighting against Ocare and JugEars shutting down the gov’t to make sure he rams it down our throats, harms the GOP more than the absolute CF of Ocare will slam the Ds, then the GOP should simply disband now. All the party elites should have a hari-kari party and do the right thing for once.
If we had a decent GOP, they would ask loudly and often how it came to be that the signs showing everything closed due to the shutdown could miraculously appear a mere 8 hours after the shut down began. The JugEars admin wanted to shut it down and made plans to ensure that it happened. Just like the sequester, the admin made it as painful as possible for the people – demonstrating their contempt for we peons. -
Good afternoon, Hamsterville. I went to my knee unveiling at the orthopedic place this morning and I never recovered. Conked out when I got back home, skipped morning exercises, missed lunch, and dozed for 5 hours. X-rays looked good, visual inspection was not as gruesome as I feared, and it all got wrapped up again in an ace wrapper.
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Ted Cruz sets the bar!
The competition to be the next Ted Cruz is extremely hot within the Republican Party, where a number of emerging challengers are hoping to capitalize on the newest brand name in conservative politics.
In Kansas, Milton R. Wolf opened his fundraising pitch to supporters last week by asking them whether he could be the next Cruz candidate. In Mississippi, Chris McDaniel announced his campaign to unseat Sen. Thad Cochran last week and welcomed the comparison to Mr. Cruz, calling it “a compliment.”
Then there’s Ben Sasse, a university president running for Nebraska’s U.S. Senate seat, who set state fundraising records by opposing Obamacare. He told the Lincoln Journal Star last week that he would have voted with Mr. Cruz to keep the government shut down last week, saying it was a better option than continuing to spend and run up debt.Forget Ronald Reagan, Republican candidates race to be the next Ted Cruz
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I too will send my prayers out for you. That is the least I can do.
Send headshaker some flowers too. 🙂
Seriously, I too take the approach of “being there” for people who grief instead of telling them how they should not grieve. I think there’s wisdom in that. Just be open to love and to serve and then there will be times to “talk about it”. I know someday my father and mother will pass away and while that stilll sems far off there is no guarantee. There’s always soothing in the Lord.The Bible records that in ancient times there came from Gilead, beyond the Jordan, a substance used to heal and soothe. It came, perhaps, from a tree or shrub, and was a major commodity of trade in the ancient world. It was known as the Balm of Gilead. That name became symbolic for the power to soothe and heal.
The lyrics of a song record:
There is a Balm in Gilead,
To make the wounded whole,
There is a Balm in Gilead,
To heal the sin sick soul.
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In recent generations one after another of the major diseases has yielded to control or cure. Some very major ones still remain, but we now seem able to do something about most of them.
There is another part of us, not so tangible, but quite as real as our physical body. This intangible part of us is described as mind, emotion, intellect, temperament, and many other things. Very seldom is it described as spiritual.
But there is a spirit in man; to ignore it is to ignore reality. There are spiritual disorders, too, and spiritual diseases that can cause intense suffering.
The body and the spirit of man are bound together. Often, very often, when there are disorders, it is very difficult to tell which is which.
There are basic rules of physical health that have to do with rest, nourishment, exercise, and with abstaining from those things which damage the body. Those who violate the rules one day pay for their foolishness.
There are also rules of spiritual health, simple rules that cannot be ignored, for if they are we will reap sorrow by and by.
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A great significant message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is exemplified by the title given to Him: the Prince of Peace. If we follow Him, we can have that individually and collectively.
He has said: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27.)
If you, my brother or sister, are troubled, there is at hand, not just in Gilead, a soothing, healing balm. -
One of my favorite hymns, Darren.
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Heh Mac is giving FREE upgrades to their new OSX. Downloading now. I can also upgrade my OLDER Macs for free.
Hmmm I can see that if you have Windows 7 you just pay $69. And you “might” be able to upgrade if you have XP but check with Windows upgrade assistant. Did i mention that Microsoft is going to stop supporting Windows XP in the next couple of months? DUN DUN DUNHHHHHHH
Did I mention
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Blog killer
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Ms Adee
That is a superb illustration of any bureaucracy, layer upon layer of patchwork, only building on itself. Government bureaucracies just happen to be super-sized and on hyper steroids. -
We’ve been busy, spent most of last week in Vegas- never again. That place is not for normal folk anymore, I think the the cheapest meal we ate was 16 bucks apiece, and that was breakfast. I will say one thing though, hotel room had a life size toilet.
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For whatever reason, I have not flown post 9/11. Even though I knew what to expect, seeing it first hand, the sheeple have definitely caved. No one even winces at the absurdity.
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Day forty-eleven and the Squawk is still constipated. . . .
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Bonez
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. 🙂 -
Howdy folks!! Just a drive by as I’ve been extremely occupied over the last 4 months but on occasion stop by to lurk.
Hamous check your FB messages for an OC thought.
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Howdy pahdnah.
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Squawk et al, thank you for your comments and prayers. I’m still learning how to grieve. My wife and kids keep telling me I’m in denial, which is true to some degree, but they don’t see the times when it really hits me.
I just want to see him again someday, and I know what it takes in order for that to happen. And that’s the hard part for me.
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