Found An Old Picture Of Some Relatives
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The picture, “Trail of Tears” perhaps?
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Four dogs in today’s pic. No cats.
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Look at all those stolen wagons and teams.
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A couple of days ago, First Things republished a 2010 article by Lauren Weiner about Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Houston’s own Alan Lomax and their influence via folk music before and after WWII. Fascinating stuff for those interested in our history.
Weiner is a nice Jewish lady, a middle-aged academic writing about the insidious, cunning efforts of the communists to influence American culture in every possible way. Americans were not unaware of this threat in their midst and fought in many small ways against a force they perceived to be the consummate evil.
( This anecdote is for Squawk )
Weiner was also Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ speechwriter during the last Bush term and recalls:On the night that Secretary Gates gave the inaugural Dean Acheson Lecture in Washington, voters around the country were tuning in to a McCain-Obama debate. Playing off this, I had him use Acheson’s anecdote about a man from Kentucky who, when asked which sheriff candidate he backed, said, “I haven’t made up my mind yet; but when I do, I’ll be bitter as hell.” There was laughter. Then Gates ad-libbed: “That probably should take care of being asked to stay on in any successive administration.” This brought down the house (and was ironic in light of his later being asked to stay on).
On to the real subject of Seeger, Lomax and the commies in First Things.
These were borrowed tastes, but nobody seemed to mind. As Van Ronk observed, “One of the first things that must be understood about these revivals is that the folk have very little to do with them. Always, there is a middle-class constituency, and its idea of the folk” whoever that might be ”is the operative thing.” Capturing all of the contradictions, the historian Robert S. Cantwell wrote that this was a time “when the carriers of a superannuated ideological minority found themselves celebrated as the leaders of a mass movement; when an esoteric and anticommercial enthusiasm turned into a commercial bonanza; when an alienated, jazz-driven, literary bohemia turned to the simple songs of an old, rural America.”
The collective first tried bringing high-brow modernism to the masses. This involved, among other things, holding a contest for best original May Day marching song. (Copland’s entry took the laurels; Seeger countered that his was more singable and, anyway, the workers weren’t likely to have a piano handy during their protest marches.) The effort was a bust. But it led Seeger, family in tow, to roam the rural southeastern United States, exploring the music played by the regular folk and groping for a way to turn these demotic musical expressions in a politically helpful direction.
By the time Charles’ son, Pete, came of age, the record laid down by the “people’s democracy” in the Soviet Union had lengthened to include show trials, the forced collectivization of agriculture, a well-developed police state, and the takeover of neighboring countries. Nonetheless Seeger fils, the next-generation wandering minstrel, stuck with his inherited “Pan-Sovietism” through a long and successful musical career. (The historian Ronald Radosh, in a public exchange with him in 2009, elicited a rueful comment about having stood by Josef Stalin despite everything.)A few of the catchier songs did reach a larger audience. That included counter-subversives, though, producing more skirmishes in the culture war that was the communist controversy in America. There was the Joint Committee Against Communism, led by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, which went after Columbia and RCA Victor for releasing “Old Man Atom.” It was a musical warning by Vern Partlow, of the People’s Songs’ Los Angeles branch, of the danger of letting the United States maintain its monopoly on nuclear weapons. The rabbi’s campaign caused Partlow’s song to be withdrawn from distribution and apparently dissuaded Bing Crosby from recording his own version.
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Remember the Republican congressman who threatened to throw a TV reporter off a balcony in the Capitol ?
Here’s your Mr. Tough Guy back in September:“Ted Cruz and others like him have been writing checks with their mouth that their votes can’t cash, and, you know, I think now they have to put up or shut up,” Grimm (R-N.Y.) said on MSNBC’s “Jansing and Co.” on Friday. “That’s one message that I want to send back to the Senate, that they can’t continue this political rhetoric if they don’t plan on backing it up.”
Grimm responded to critics that say the shutdown fight damages the Republican Party, saying that this is actually an opportunity to unify it against members like Cruz.
“When you have Sen. Cruz and others constantly going out there on every show imaginable and running ads that we can defund Obamacare, I think that hurts the Republican Party,” Grimm said. “I think this is an opportunity to maybe start putting an end to that and having maybe a unification of the Republican Party. … We have some things we need to work out among the far arch-conservative right wing of our party, and I think this is part of that process, as painful as it is.” -
Danica Patrick and the new Go Daddy Super Bowl ad.
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#5 Spoken like a true paleface oppressor.
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#6 Texpat – excellent article. I’ve always thought that “folk artists” from that era were nothing more than commie-loving plagiarists who stole from poor Southerners without ever giving them a dime. But did you ever notice the folkies’ renditions of traditional songs were always devoid of soul? Even commie Petey’s banjo playing was reminiscent of an automaton.
I’ve also been telling people for 40 years that “friend of the common man” Woody Guthrie’s anthem was simply collectivist propaganda:The most beloved Guthrie recasting is, of course, “This Land Is Your Land.” It was a response to “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, which Guthrie found complacent and cliché-ridden. His original manuscript contains verses that denounce property rights, but the standard rendition cut that material, and the strong and simple melody goes back at least to “Little Darlin’, Pal of Mine,” a Carter family song based on a Baptist hymn called “When the World’s on Fire.”
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Found An Old Picture Of Some Relatives
Your relatives should have hid out in the hills like mine and skipped that whole march of Andy’s 😉
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#3 – Hopefully the Gentleman from Texas took a long hot shower after 11 minutes in the presence of the Chicago scumbag *no smiley*
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Those were government provided wagons. They’ve been on the dole ever since.
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How do trees survive the winters anyway ?
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Good morning everyone. 38 here, where’s the sun?
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Four dogs in today’s pic. No cats.
The cats are there, you just can’t see them because they are sneaky bastiges. They are prolly ridin in the wagons, they ain’t stupid ya know.
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#11 They have hills in Crackerland?
I’m thinkin’ my relatives were livin’ large on the beach, which the white devil wanted first. -
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I only see three doggies. And that’s assuming the animal in the lower left corner is a dog and not a miniature mutated donkey.
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A new biblical epic film on the way to a theater near you…
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#20 Pyro
I thought that was a baby donkey until I saw your comment. Closer inspection shows it has paws, not hooves. -
I saved the best for last.
David P. Goldman as Spengler on Pete Seeger:I was not just a Pete Seeger fan, but a to-the-hammer-born, born-and-bred cradle fan of Pete Seeger. With those credentials, permit me to take note of his passing with the observation that he was a fraud, a phony, a poseur, an imposter. The notion of folk music he espoused was a put-on from beginning to end.
There is no such thing as an American “folk.” We are a people summoned to these shores by an idea, not common ties of blood and culture. There is folk music in America where pockets of ethnicity resisted assimilation: African-American blues, for example, or the English songs frozen in amber in white Appalachia. That is why the best American popular music always came from black sources, performed either by black musicians or white emulators from George Gershwin on down. -
the English songs frozen in amber in white Appalachia.
I thought Appalachia was populated mostly by Scots-Irish immigrants.
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Those innocent victims of Imperialist Oppression displaced by banksters in a Capitalist land grab are abusing horses, donkeys, and dogs. They are obvious carnivores that eat things with faces as evidenced by the military style assault weapons they carry. And did you notice that the men ride horses while women and children walk?
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One of the four dogs is admittedly hard to find.
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#26 Texanadian
You have stumbled across Squawk’s all time favorite political speech. He must have linked to it a dozen times on Lone Star Times. -
What Grimm said:
far arch-conservative right wing of our party,
What Grimm meant:
far arch-conservativeenemy right wing of our party,
Grimm is a prime example of why I never, never, never get excited about anyone that “steps up to the plate” and shows some backbone in the Republican party. No, don’t get me wrong, I like Cruz and Paul but the reality is 2 guys are just a start and even if they were elected President and Vice President, there are a butt load of Grimms behind Boehnerco who side more with theStalinistsDemocrats.
I luv Reagan but truth be told EVERYTHING he worked for began to get torn down the day after Bush 1 was elected. -
#11 Hamous, reading some of the history of my neck of the woods, south Alabama, the only Indians my folks ever came in contact with was the few Seminoles passing through, trying to sneak back home to Florida. This would be around 1840-1850.
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You have stumbled across Squawk’s all time favorite political speech. He must have linked to it a dozen times on Lone Star Times.
And that is because that speech is the best example of how things should be.
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Dang, it’s already getting hungry in here, who wants to go to Milliways for lunch?….. Actually I’m kinda’ thinking the Seabrook Classic Café.
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Super Dave
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Dang that sounds good but alas by the time I got out of the sticks you would be suffering the ill effects of food deprivation. -
Good morning Hamsters. There was a brief hint of layer-cake Sunrise this morning, but the clouds have closed ranks and become a blanket again. It was 25 shortly after midnight with a hard freeze in the forecast. Likely long before 6 this morning clouds moved in, and it was 34 at 6, climbing slowly to 46 now, supposedly on the way to the low 60s. Breezy and dampish and not balmy at all.
So the Atlanta mayor is now Mayor Nagin II, having been negligent about preparing the city for the snow and ice that still has it in traffic jam paralysis. Of course, he’s blaming the weather folks for not warning him–while he’s at an awards luncheon as guest of honor as chaos descends on his town and turns it into a Hurricane Rita evacuation debacle redux. Likely wasn’t checking the weather on his cell phone that morning…. -
I just read the Davy Crocket speech and was almost moved to tears. Would that the same speech be read before each day of “business” in Congress.
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#s 26, 28, & 31 – and it just became MY favorite as well!
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Hamous, reading some of the history of my neck of the woods, south Alabama, the only Indians my folks ever came in contact with was the few Seminoles passing through, trying to sneak back home to Florida. This would be around 1840-1850.
My father’s side of the family was from the tri-state area of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama (and yes WB, there are hills up there). Granddaddy Tipton was half Muscogee (Creek). They were around, you just didn’t know it 😉
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Waxman is going to retire!
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Nosferatu to retire.
He’s doing it to save himself a humiliating defeat at the hands of Marianne Williamson. -
Waxman is going to retire!
One less wisshole idiot to deal with.Only to be replaced by another just as bad or worse. It’s California, after all.
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The C notes are being counterfeited again. Funny money is a floodin the big apple. The commentary is interesting, including the idea is to create phony scandals, like mass counterfeiting, to force the cash less society the utopidiots have been dreaming about.
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But I certainly won’t miss those freaky nose holes staring back at me from the TV screen.
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On a purely visual basis, not having to look at Nostrilitis Waxman any more is a good thing. I would love to see that POS try and get a job in the private sector and have to deal with the forest of regulations and garbage that he put in place.
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#39 Sarge
Great, now we have Aimee Semple McPherson running for Congress. -
Heh heh heh. Those that can, do. Those that can’t, become climate scientists:
“I’ve asked very frequently at universities: ‘Of the brightest people you know, how many people were studying climate […or meteorology or oceanography…]?’ And the answer is usually ‘No one.’”
“You look at the credentials of some of these people [on the IPCC] and you realise that the world doesn’t have that many experts, that many ‘leading climate scientists’”.
Was Lindzen suggesting, asked Tim Yeo at this point, that scientists in the field of climate were academically inferior.
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Great, now we have Aimee Semple McPherson running for Congress.
Yeah, but more new-agey! It’s as if Aimee and Marshall Applewhite had a baby.
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#45 Hamous
Here is the Wiki bio of the guy who heads the IPCC. He’s an Indian mechanical engineer. There is no formal training in any climate science or even meteorology. -
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It’s as if Aimee and Marshall Applewhite had a baby.
They say Aimee liked to practice making babies with lots of men friends.
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He’s an Indian mechanical engineer. There is no formal training in any climate science or even meteorology.
But he writes pulp porn novels. Not dinosaur pulp porn, though.
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Solution:
One dog, carrying a pack is in the foreground, far left. His mistress is also carrying a pack. If you look directly past her head, another dog accompanies the third wagon in line.
Dog number three is behind the paint colt in the middle foreground.
Dog number four is behind that.
That may be a puppy being carried by Number 3’s young master.
Bringing the total to FIVE!!!!!! No cats. -
Cats refuse to be forced into walking long distances just to please their humans.
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Great, now we have Aimee Semple McPherson running for Congress.
I doubt that she serves more than two terms before somebody needing a better crony primaries her out.
Its good to see Voldemort going into retirement, and its good to know that nobody from that district will be anywhere close to a Chairmanship for at least 10 years. -
I went to the gym last night. Pumped a little iron and walked a 5K on the treadmill. Then I came home and worked until about 2:30 am.
And I am feeling it today…. -
AWESOME DAD.
Get out some tissues. Some of us might want one. -
#41 – Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm do You believe $100 bills ever STOPPED getting counterfeited?
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Ann Coulter lays immigration out plain and simple, with some agonizing new stats.
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Good work, Shannon, all 5 of your finds look solid. Now I direct your attention to Wagon #1 and is that a white puppy alongside the stetson-wearing driver? -
Two frisky donkeys ‘rasslin’ in a field and a few blocks later a Chihuahua with a perfectly shaped bulldog face. You don’t see that drivin to work living in the city. 😀
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#58 GJT
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I was laughing out loud, it was was the funniest thing I think I’ve ever seen. It was like walking up to a beautiful blonde and it turns around showing his beard. 😀
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Not that a Chihuahua is all that beautiful.
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#60 Just go down to lower Westheimer and you can see that most any time.
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I saw that.
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#56 Tedtam
Ann Coulter’s piece is a red alert to anyone with two brain cells to rattle together. However, the Pubbie establishment will ignore that unless they are battered with it by an outraged base. Can’t comprehend why the establishment thinks amnesty is so important right now to the majority of voters who are inclined to vote Republican when the polls indicate it is so low on the totem pole that it’s subterranean. Declare jihad on Obamacare and the establishment has a winner.
How many legions can the Chamber of Commerce field and get to the voting booth vs. how many legions the Tea Party Movement can get to the voting booth? Somebody in the DC bubble ought to seriously study that. -
I have come to think that the DC Establishment R’s don’t care whether the GOP loses elections, as long as they personally have cushy jobs waiting for them on down the pipeline. Lobbyist, consultant, advisor.
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If the T Party ever gets really mobilized, the only job the establishment pubbies will be able to secure is dog schizzle taster. I really see the parties splitting and we will have 3 or 4 instead of 2. The rinos and the moderate ds will be the new rino party, the rest of the Ds will be the socialist D party, they will shed the charade of being otherwise. The conservatives will be the T party and will, on occasion, have the more conservative rinos caucus with them.
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Ann Coulter’s piece is a red alert to anyone with two brain cells to rattle together. However, the Pubbie establishment will ignore that unless they are battered with it by an outraged base. Can’t comprehend why the establishment thinks amnesty is so important right now to the majority of voters who are inclined to vote Republican when the polls indicate it is so low on the totem pole that it’s subterranean. Declare jihad on Obamacare and the establishment has a winner.
They want Amnesty so bad, they think using our anger at Obamacare we’ll let them have it.
have come to think that the DC Establishment R’s don’t care whether the GOP loses elections, as long as they personally have cushy jobs waiting for them on down the pipeline. Lobbyist, consultant, advisor.
Find out what kind of cigars that lady smokes.
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I no longer get angry when some chucklehead “progressive” accuses me of McCarthyism. Each day Bonnie Prince Barry is in office he provides Ol’ Joe with a little more vindication. By January 20th, 2017 we’ll be erecting statues of Joe. Or standing in soup lines.
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Funniest comment:
“The Olympics are for the mentally ill.”
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#19 Texpat; Doberhuahua, that is too funny!
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I’d rather be surprised by a doberhuahua than a Bah-bah Wah-wha.
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Sarah McLachlan was the perfect touch 😉
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There’s an echo in here.
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Oops. Apparently it was blocked at work. Nevermind.
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#70 – Now THAT is a true Sister in every sense of the word!
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Somebody took that dude Rachael Maddow down a peg:
As our local friend Cheryl Carpenter at BizPac Review reported, when the interview got testy about Benghazi, Huelskamp said,
This administration promised to be the most transparent in history, Rachel, and I think if you would stop being a cheerleader and be a journalist, you’d recognize we’re not getting those answers.
Completely aghast, Maddow said, “Did you just call me a cheerleader?”
Yes, yes, Rachel, Representative Huelskamp called you and all you blind fawning liberal progressives masquerading as “journalists” cheerleaders. Rep. Huelskamp is what the GOP needs more of: resolute individuals who will look these progressive socialists in the eye and take them on, unapologetically.
Huelskamp didn’t let up,You’re a cheerleader for the administration,” he said. “You’re not being a journalist when you’re not willing to look at the facts. If it was Bush, you would be jumping and screaming.
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#67 Sarge
The anger at Obamacare is no gateway to interest in amnesty, so the Pubby
Establishment has once again been snookered by gypsies, tramps, and thieves, otherwise known as political consultants. They and the far lefty Dems are also oblivious that there are such persons as Tea Party Democrats. The few conscious Dems, on the other hand, are painfully aware
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Okay, Adee gets 10 points for the Cher reference.
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In that grilling of Holder in #3, he condescendingly said to Cruz “I don’t know if you’ve ever conducted an investigation, Senator, but…”
Surely he knows Cruz was the Solicitor General of the 2nd most populous state in the union and was a law clerk for the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. I think I’ll be happier to see this sleazy thug go away than I will his punk ass boss. -
I guess I have actually attained official curmudgeon status.
Let me get this straight.
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Wow, folks, I missed this one today.
Wendy has soiled her nest with the only people who can really help her…Before I get to the tweets that serve as a timeline, we need to set the stage. David Rauf is the Austin bureau reporter for the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle. Those newspapers serve Texas’ largest and second-largest cities. They are big dogs among the Texas press. Jan Soifer is the chair of the Travis County Democratic Party.
The Travis County Democratic Party held a fundraiser with Wendy Davis on Tuesday, and Davis delivered her stump speech. That’s normal stuff. But in a highly unusual move, the TCDP and the Davis campaign barred the event to all but one media outlet, the Texas Tribune, which livestreamed it. According to Rauf, not only did the Tribune get exclusive access, a Davis campaign press release told other media to stay away. They would not be welcome or admitted. -
Addendum to Bryan Preston’s post in my #84:
Update: An email from a television news director in Texas is making the rounds: “Who the f*ck is the Texas Tribune other than a news organization that violates every ethical standard possible – begging for money in the course of their reporting?”
The Tribune is a tax-exempt non-profit, and as such is not supposed to be in competition with any other media.
Update: Another journalist said today: “What kind of planning was it to have Davis give the best speech of her life on the same night as the State of the Union?”
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Shannon
I guess I have actually attained official curmudgeon status.
Let me get this straight.
Twin sisters conspire and cheat to get the unqualified sister into the Olympics?Doesn’t make you a curmudgeon in my world to think this is not an action to be proud of. Also, if a switcheroonie is now known to be in the works, won’t the non-qualified gal have to bow out?
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83, 86, 87, & 88 – PSHAW (He’s jus miffed that the twins didn’t give up their subterfuge to Him privately )
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re the twins: Now neither will be allowed to compete or should be allowed to compete seeing as how they conspired to committ fraud. Count me as one of the curmugeonous SOBs.
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For crying out loud, do you ever tire of raining down judgments on other people ?
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No. He lives for being outraged.
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Oh wait — does that make me judgmental?
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Heh,…. Some pretty good pictures in there.
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Doesn’t make you a curmudgeon in my world to think this is not an action to be proud of. Also, if a switcheroonie is now known to be in the works, won’t the non-qualified gal have to bow out?
I don’t think they played the old switcheroh, the one that bowed out knew the other was better qualified if healthy, she gave her spot to the sister that had a better chance of winning.
Sister #1: I can go and come third or fourth, you can win this. The team knew what the twins were doing. -
#94: That’s is as bad as the fake picture of O shooting the shotgun.
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Here’s a video of my ancestors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJVsS-vIDdc
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#84: That is up on instapundit… she is toast.
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Here I go with a big fat setup for someone…
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If the House of Representatives were a scrotum John Boehner would be the itchy, stingy, smelly rash of jock itch.
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Hunnerd n one
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I don’t think the twins are engaging in fraud. I’m no expert, but from what I think I’ve learned watching some of the skating competitions, there’s a points system that is used throughout some “qualification cycle”. If you get the top number of points, you’re on the team.
In this case, it’s quite possible that the sick twin would have accumulated more points than the other twin, had she competed. Her sister, knowing that her sister would have been on the team, stepped aside, making her sister the Olympic hopeful.
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I thought the sick twin was too sick to be able to rack up any points?
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#84-85 Texpat
The mind reels. Wendy’s campaign is now well into Keystone Kops territory. Is Joe Biden a technical advisor? Where are all the DC Democrat experts who are supposedly shepherding her through to victory? Obviously not paying enough attention. Or running for the tall grass having decided they do not want any fingerprints on this, umm, spectacle.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
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The points are accumulated over a season(s), not just one competition.
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