World War II tip for identifying the smell of tear gas:
“Flypaper simulates the smell of tear gas. More accurate reproduction of the odor is obtained if apple blossoms are added.”
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Yesterday’s washed-up slut meets today’s washed-up slut in a desperate attempt at relevance.
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Third. Is everybody still frozen in? Fortunately the clouds stayed around and kept the temp from really tanking last night. Only 29 here and overcast at 6. These low 30s, upper 20s nights are becoming routine this winter.
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Dang, we all got here at the same time.
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33 at Chez Harp. There are fewer icicles visible, but those are longer than they were last night.
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Good morning Hamsters. The SOTU fiasco reviews roll in, none very complimentary so far. Glad we did not waste oxygen watching it. Wonder how many folks are hung over from playing the drinking game while forcing themselves to watch it. There were so many opportunities to imbibe I hear.
Today should be much warmer and so welcome. Maybe the plants on the back porch can go out on the patio for a few days before the next front rolls in. The mares will be happy to get out of the barn today and move around some. Sunlight would also be welcome. -
Ted Cruz on Obama’s use of Executive Orders:
There is no example of lawlessness more egregious than the enforcement—or nonenforcement—of the president’s signature policy, the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Obama has repeatedly declared that “it’s the law of the land.” Yet he has repeatedly violated ObamaCare’s statutory text.
The law says that businesses with 50 or more full-time employees will face the employer mandate on Jan. 1, 2014. President Obama changed that, granting a one-year waiver to employers. How did he do so? Not by going to Congress to change the text of the law, but through a blog post by an assistant secretary at Treasury announcing the change.
The law says that only Americans who have access to state-run exchanges will be subject to employer penalties and may obtain ObamaCare premium subsidies. This was done to entice the states to create exchanges. But, when 34 states decided not to establish state-run exchanges, the Obama administration announced that the statutory words “established by State” would also mean “established by the federal government.”
The law says that members of Congress and their staffs’ health coverage must be an ObamaCare exchange plan, which would prevent them from receiving their current federal-employee health subsidies, just like millions of Americans who can’t receive such benefits. At the behest of Senate Democrats, the Obama administration instead granted a special exemption (deeming “individual” plans to be “group” plans) to members of Congress and their staffs so they could keep their pre-existing health subsidies.
Most strikingly, when over five million Americans found their health insurance plans canceled because ObamaCare made their plans illegal—despite the president’s promise “if you like your plan, you can keep it”—President Obama simply held a news conference where he told private insurance companies to disobey the law and issue plans that ObamaCare regulated out of existence.http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304632204579338793559838308
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Be happy you’re not in Atlanta right now.
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Turkish Prime Minister seeks help from Obi-Wan, saying ‘he is our only hope’.
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#8 Pyro
Tractor-trailers were advised not to enter Georgia all.
Wow. Won’t they run out of food soon? Stranded motorists may resort to cannibalism.
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#9 Pyro
Is it too dangerous for a Muslim politician to appear in person? -
#10 mh42
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#s 8 & 10 – reportedly Home Depot locations from Birmingham to Atlanta stayed open all night to let stranded folks have a warm place to stay
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Yabbut today is only Hump Day. By the time the snow melts, some stranded cars may be found with just a few gnawed bones in them.
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One of my cousins was posting pics from an Atlanta freeway yesterday. He was still stuck when I went to bed. Forgot to check this morning.
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This invention is a solution that is desperately seeking a problem. Nice to know that the priorities are in the right place.
WARNING: very safe for work B ( o )( o ) bie content. -
#16 Bones, I saw that this morning, I didn’t know what to think.
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#18: I’m glad to see the Japanese emerging from a 20 year recession and this type of technology may just lead the way.
/sarc off
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So there is life on Mars? Mystery Rock ‘Appears’ in Front of Mars Rover.
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Good grief. Atlanta could have been us if our advance warning network not been appropriately cautious and the weather system landing on us was they got yesterday. Atlanta has shades of the 2005 Rita evacuation here on the heels of Katrina’s debacle in New Orleans, only in the deepfreeze. Shudder.
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Speaking of Mars rovers, I saw this on a list of stupid science questions this morning:
Will Curiosity kill all of the cats on Mars?
The others:If love is blind, should I be worried that I can see my wife?
How far does light travel in dog years?
Since penguins wear little tuxedos, why don’t they simply take them off and wash them when there’s an oil spill?
If 666 is Satan’s number, does that make 25.8069758011 the root of all evil?
If anions are negative and cations are positive, what charge are onions?
Why are research drugs only tested on blind patients?
Who repairs the sound barrier?
How did they get the Mississippi River to line up EXACTLY to the state border?
I got Laser-eye surgery a month ago, but I still can’t shoot lasers out of my eyes. Should I get a refund? -
#22: Clever and funny.
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#20 dave
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I worked until 1:00 a.m. AGAIN last night – at least it wasn’t 3:00! But I went to be early because I needed to access something from the internet, and the inet just wasn’t working. I could get to it, I could see the screens, but reloading the web pages took for-wissing-EVVV-EERRRRRRRRR. I finally gave up and went to bed.
So, this morning, I’m just getting into the office. I have a luncheon to attend for our professional organization, then I have to prepare for tonight’s class. I’ve been warned that one of my helpers may not be there due to a sick kid, and this is the lady who handles all of my administrative stuff for me. I have to make my copies myself today, which means I need to be up at the church early. Somewhere between the lunch and church I have to work in a possible bank run and cook dinner.
That’s after I load up with my caffeine this morning and get myself rolling.
It’s going to be a long day. Y’all keep me in your prayers. And my class, too. I’m either going to be a bit dodgy tonight or really angry. I’ll try to lean to the silly side. I don’t want to be sued by some angry parent. I have enough stress already. -
This looks like something Shannon and I would do.
It starts slow so skip up to at least the 2:00 mark.
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I was just reminded – I don’t have to be at church tonight! I have wiggle room in my schedule!
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#27 – pure insanity!!! (but well done after all the puckering)
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#27 TP: What a nightmare getting that up there, but now that it is in place, they have a very stable and sturdy cabin. They will need to heavily insulate it as that steel box will get really cold in the winter and hot in the summer. I would attempt to cover it in hay bales then adobe to make it more habitable.
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I am not at all upset about this behavior.
HEADLINE: Rep. Grimm Threatens NY1 Reporter Following State of the Union
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Grimm released a statement following the incident.
“I was extremely annoyed because I was doing NY1 a favor by rushing to do their interview first in lieu of several other requests. The reporter knew that I was in a hurry and was only there to comment on the State of the Union, but insisted on taking a disrespectful and cheap shot at the end of the interview, because I did not have time to speak off-topic. I verbally took the reporter to task and told him off, because I expect a certain level of professionalism and respect, especially when I go out of my way to do that reporter a favor. I doubt that I am the first Member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won’t be the last,” reads the statement.So a congress critter with an R next to his name actually behaves like he possesses cajones, whoodathunkit? I hope more and more Rs finally get a belly full of the cheap shot, hyper partisan press and take them to task for it. Bust their butts when they step over the line and violate the agreed format.
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So a congress critter with an R next to his name actually behaves like he possesses cajones, whoodathunkit?
A nonplus for me. Big deal…… a reporter…….. When they get the cajones to DEFUND Obamacare then I will get excited.
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When they start taking Obama to the courts for all his illegal executive orders, violating his own laws, and ignoring laws he doesn’t like then I will get excited.
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The warning of impending violence/revolution can be found on the comments section of this Breitbart article.
HEADLINE: Conservatives: Obama’s State of the Union Immigration Reform Appeal Fell Flat
Paul Ryan is a big part of the Rino problem, along with Boehner, Graham, McSwine, McConnell, et al.
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I’m going to be extremely excited come about January 20, 2017.
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I’m going to be extremely excited come about January 20, 2017.
Me too, unless of course Hitlery or anyone else with a D next to their name is being sworn in as POTUS.
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If we last that long.
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#22 #25 😀
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#33 Shannon
The guy driving the truck is the owner of the container and the property. He was told it would be impossible to get that container up to his place on top of the mountain. No trucking company would even try so he used his own equipment and did it himself.
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I sent this to my friend who has a similarly warped sense of humor as mine:
If 666 is Satan’s number, does that make 25.8069758011 the root of all evil?
His brilliant response:
well maybe just 25.8 because we didn’t make Satan all that significant.
Yeah, he really is one of the sharper knives in the drawer.
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Tennessee gets Beretta, but Remington is still looking and hopefully Texas is still on the list.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents last fiscal year apprehended about 57,500 more people attempting to cross into the United States illegally via the southern border than in 2012, according to data released this week by the agency.
The spike, however, is attributed mainly to an influx of immigrants coming from countries other than Mexico. Agency officials said in a statement that those immigrants were “predominantly individuals from Central America.” -
I come bye to check out the site and I’m disturbed to see the video Squack has posted. That man has way too much time!
#27/ 40 Texsplat
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Apparently twenty people are challenging Senator Cornyn.
The Larouchees are always so much fun.The fifth Democrat in the race, Rogers, is the only candidate to have previously won two Democratic primaries, both for a U.S. House seat in 2010 and 2012. Yet she is also the most controversial candidate, as she advocates for the impeachment of President Obama for his “advancing the post-9/11 banker’s dictatorship initiated by his predecessor,” according to her campaign website.
A supporter of political activist Lyndon LaRouche, Rogers also supports replacing Obamacare with a single-payer health care system, increasing funding for NASA and reviving the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that curtailed financial speculation by commercial banks.
“My first priority would be to bankrupt Wall Street, to shut down the bail-out and bail-in policy,” Rogers said.
But it’s her support for Obama’s impeachment that has prompted the Texas Democratic Party’s executive committee to actively oppose Rogers’ campaign. On the party’s website, the other four candidates for U.S. Senate are listed, but not Rogers. -
If 666 is Satan’s number, does that make 25.8069758011 the root of all evil?
It’s an approximation of the square root of evil.
btw – 8.7328917412959665803735393455523 is an approximation of the cube root of evil. -
I agree with him, but I don’t think its the good thing he seems to think it is.
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This looks like something Shannon and I would do.
When i was a whole bunch younger you betcha. Not now. No way huh-uh. I have been known to deliver to some iffy locations but never anything like that. Good vidiot.
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IMHO a pretty astute and interesting ‘take’ on the female gender:
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Bronco sure has been associated with strange people over the years.
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Bruce Jenner going from winner of an Olympic Gold Medal in the 10 events in one decathlon to a three-on-the-tree?
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#52 Joe Stalin: It sure looks like he is undergoing sex reassignment procedures. It looks like he has moobs. Getting involved in the Kardashian Klan has warped his brain.
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I met someone with the most confusing background ever, I believe.
The waiter at our association luncheon today joined in the conversation as we were “discussing” Obamacare. He seemed to be very conservative. I talked to him afterwards (because I talk to everyone), and found him to be quite an enjoyable conversationalist.
It turns out that he’s a Bulgarian adopted by a Chinese father and Korean mother. His name tag read “Trey” but his real name is “Peter”. (They ran out of name tags, he said.)
So I have a conservative gay guy wearing a name tag with a name not his own, who’s ethnicity is Bulgarian but has a Chinese last name, and two Asian parents from two different Asian countries.
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Lovely has informed me of this:
Don Luis Cruz brightened the days of many on the southeast side of Houston with his violin playing during prime traffic hours, proving that talent can be found most anywhere, at any time if you just listen close. Cruz was known for playing on the sidewalks near busy intersections for tips. It was reported that he used that tip money to make sure his grandchildren received an allowance.
Cruz passed away on Tuesday according to family members. He was 90 years old. Many didn’t know his name or his story, but he was a part of their daily lives. He had thousands of Facebook followers, was a pop culture fixture on the south side of Houston, and he even had local rapper Chingo Bling in his pocket.I have passed this man near Woodridge and Loop 610 several times. It always brightened my day to see him playing on the corner. He didn’t beg for money, he earned it. He always had a smile on his face and seemed to really enjoy what he was doing.
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HEADLINE: Rep. Grimm Threatens NY1 Reporter Following State of the Union
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Grimm released a statement following the incident.
/CIRCUMCISEDBUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And i just saw a story and Grimm looked like a sniveling wimp saying how he overstepped his reaction and that osmetimes he gets emotional “about these things”. That was funny but the funniest part and I am quoting here
“I expect to be fussed at by my mother for my behavior”
Muhwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
What a cajoneless wonder. What a wimp, what a putz. No spherical manly orbs at all. i am going to send him some neuticals. -
In fact i think I will send neuticals to all the rinublicans in Washington, wimmins too.
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I suppose I oughta buy feline neuticals for the wimmins.
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The Couch seems to have relocated to Oz this afternoon while I was napping.
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Lots of Super Bong tickets available.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/28/big-game-may-not-be-such-a-hot-ticket-18000-super-bowl-seats-still-available/
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Mike Lee still sends a thrill up my leg. This is a short must read.
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And 2.823474229170301 is the log of evil.
Question: if 666 is evil, then is -666 good? Or possibly 0.00150150150150 (1/666)? -
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Apparently Jenner used up all of his testosterone while winning the Olympic Decathlon (an amazing feat to be sure). He obviously has none left. -
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I guess my hearing loss has worsened. I can only understand about every third word. Perhaps I’ll try it on the desktop speakers. Or find a written version.
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Darren?
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I heard that during the State of Illusion and Disillusion speech last night someone yelled out quoting the scripture “Get thee behind me, Satan” and upon hearing that the cryer Bohner and flunky Paul Ryan rushed to get in line behind OBeelzebubama because they thought the person shouted “Get in line behind Satan”.
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I’m not sure what sign of the apocalypse we’re on now, but I’m pretty sure this is the next one.
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I can’t believe that after 40 years we’re still talking about this stupid male/female pay discrepancy crap.
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Dylan has spent a lifetime yanking the chain of everyone who has expected him to live up to their silly fantasies.
He told Seeger and Peter, Paul & Mary to stick it up their a^^ at the Newport Folk Festival early on. The same went for the anti-war, anti-military wankers and all the imbeciles arrayed against the capitalism that fed and clothed them.
I’ll never forget the little foolish “journalist” who confronted him many years ago thinking he had the ultimate gotcha game with the fact Dylan had invested in some oil and gas drilling partnerships in Texas and Oklahoma.
It went something like this…
What, you genuinely believe there is some universal rule artists are bound to poverty ? That artists take some automatic vow of poverty ?
Who are you ? Why are you here ?
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#71 Hammy
I set that up for Friday, dangit!
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