In Which We Return To The Fine Arts
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Where y’all been?
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Hello again Hamsters. Was on the weekend open comments this morning. Temp is still the same, only the time has changed.
I believe the pic at the top shows what used to be called “action art” or something. -
Peyton Who?
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I generally do not care for modern art, the O/C pic is amusing. One of the terms we used in my younger days for vomiting was the technicolor belch.
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bunsonburner
122 squawkbox says:
February 3, 2014 at 7:17 am (Edit)
Hmmmmm when I WAS MODERATOR the new day post would have already been done.
I could do it here but that would require coming out of retirement and then there is the matter of union rules.Ya just can’t get good help anymore. 🙂
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God said, “I need somebody willing to spend five long years complaining about overspending, big government and special-interest giveaways. And get up and vote for $1 trillion in overspending, bigger government and special-interest giveaways—in the name of farmers. Then—when reminded of his reform promises—dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody to fret about drought, wax about food security, and muse (in private) that heedless government shutdowns really do have consequences. Including pressuring parties to prove they can accomplish something by voting for 949-page spending extravaganzas that nobody has bothered to read. Somebody willing to put in 40 hours spinning excuses for abandoning his principles and then, pained from the camera lights, put in 70 hours more.” So God made Republicans.
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#5 squack
Don’t let me get in your way. -
“Investigate 9/11. 9/11 was perpetrated by people with your own government.”
Dude looked just like you would think he would. -
This is what happens when you use expired drugs.
Article sez that brand hasn’t been seen in 5 years. -
Joe had all the animals that his coat was made of followed around and upon their natural deaths had them used in his coat.
Perfect comment to PETA’s kvetching about Namath’s fine-looking fur coat.
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#5 squack
Don’t let me get in your way.Union rules. Sorry.
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bunsonburner
But I see you do have the qualifications to become a great moderator some day. Yup getting aggravated as &%*# when someone starts ragging on ya about not getting the open comments up on their schedule is a qualification listed in the Moderators Handbook to get your moderators merit badges to greatness . 🙂 -
ABC and Diane Sawyer are getting sued over the “pink slime” hysteria.
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Good morning, Hamsterville. ™
I hear your football game did not pan out too well yesterday.
I sort of like today’s fine artwork. Is that Poor Yorick?
The ground hog was right! A story I saw yesterday mentioned some adventures of New York mayors handling groundhogs:New York City’s Mayor – Bill De Blasio – fumbles the groundhog. Staten Island Chuck was not injured after he was dropped by the mayor.
However, an instant replay shows that Staten Island Chuck actually leaped from the mayor’s arm. There was a similar incident several years ago when the groundhog bit Mayor Michael Bloomberg. -
Is that Poor Yorick?
Poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.
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100 chickens discovered in small SUV during traffic stop.
Super Dave smuggling Bama chickens back to Texas -
How big were they?
If they were hatchlings, then no big deal. If they were full size, I’d imagine it would be a bit cozy (and smelly) in there. -
#16 Link
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#19 from your linkie:
Unable to speak English, he communicated to his rescuers through pictures and gestures that he had survived the 12,500 kilometre (8,000 mile) odyssey by eating turtles, birds and fish and drinking turtle blood when there was no rain.
All of the above was raw. I would be willing to bet that he picked up more than just a few parasites during his voyage.
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But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died -
HEADLINE: Panelist at Podesta Think Tank on Common Core: ‘The Children Belong to All of Us’ –
(CNSNews.com) – In addressing criticism of the Common Core national education standards, a panelist at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank, said critics were a “tiny minority” who opposed standards altogether, which was unfair because “the children belong to all of us.” –The responsibility for raising the children rests with the parents, not the state. This is just another salvo from Hitlery’s “it takes a village to raise a child” mentality. The Alinsky tactics are on full display in the trivializing of the objections, the number who are opposed and further in the article, the intelligence of those who object.
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FromFB:
“When you believe that raising taxes and increasing the minimum wage creates jobs, that’s called [picture of Sponge Bob Squarepants, eyes raised in wonder, hands outraised, and a rainbow arcing over his head] IMAGINATION”
My response:
That’s what happens when you sniff rainbows being farted out of a unicorn’s butt. It’s not imagination, it’s RFU overdose.
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I went down to the local small engine equipment/repair dealer at 8 this morning to pick up my snowblower this morning. There was already 4-5 inches on the ground of heavy, slick wet snow. I almost never lose traction, but on the way back I had to crawl up the tallest hill.
Everything is canceled including all the meetings I had rescheduled from the snowstorm the other day, several of which were rescheduled from an even earlier ice storm. It’s amazing how much productivity is lost up here because of weather. Today’s communication technology helps a lot although there are some things it can never solve. -
Have you always been a racist?
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Now Paul Ryan is stating that
“immigration reform”amnesty is not likely in 2014.He said a plan that puts security first could only pass if lawmakers believe the administration would enforce it — an unlikely prospect given Republicans’ deep opposition to Obama.
“This isn’t a trust-but-verify, this is a verify-then-trust approach,” Ryan said.It is opposition to JugEars POLICIES, not the man you dolt. Further it must be verify before trust as he and the rest of the Ds have demonstrated countless times that they can not be trusted.
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Waiting for sunshine to appear and temp to crawl to the predicted high of low 50s. Still 43 out here and bleak overcast. Not inspiring.
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In the opening portion of Limbaugh’s show today, he stated a possible reason for the Rs seemingly lack of direction and focus: they do not want a landslide victory this November because that will put more conservatives in Congress and they are problematic. The goal, according to the theory that was being discussed, was to win by a narrow margin, thus maintaining the power structure of the establishment Rs. I did not get to listen long enough to find out what Limbaugh thought of the theory, ie, is it plausible that this is the plan of the elites to maintain power. On a strategic basis, it is nuts.
If it is true, it is a real indicator of the mentality of the R establishment and therefore a mandate that they all be run out of office. -
He said a plan that puts security first could only pass if lawmakers believe the administration would enforce it — an unlikely prospect given
Republicans’ deep opposition to Obamathe numerous examples of Obama’s ignoring the laws, even those he passed himself.There.
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In the opening portion of Limbaugh’s show today, he stated a possible reason for the Rs seemingly lack of direction and focus: they do not want a landslide victory this November because that will put more conservatives in Congress and they are problematic. The goal, according to the theory that was being discussed, was to win by a narrow margin, thus maintaining the power structure of the establishment Rs. I did not get to listen long enough to find out what Limbaugh thought of the theory, ie, is it plausible that this is the plan of the elites to maintain power. On a strategic basis, it is nuts.
If it is true, it is a real indicator of the mentality of the R establishment and therefore a mandate that they all be run out of office.Not an idea original to Limbaugh. I posted a link to this last week.
5) Republicans are afraid of winning.
In the course of my musings on Twitter, AmishDude suggested that the real motive here is that the GOP leadership is actually concerned about the implications of a landslide. Of all the suggestions put out there, this seems to make the most sense, and synthesizes the above theories reasonably well while addressing most of my pushbacks on them.
The idea is twofold. First, a landslide would present as much of a problem as it does an opportunity for those who might want to revisit the issue in 2015, especially if the GOP establishment (or its donors) believes this is a must-do before the 2016 elections. The base would be even more agitated after a big victory, and appalled at any compromise on this issue if the GOP picks it up in 2015. In addition, absent a majority, Democrats wouldn’t have the same incentive to support a bill that contained further compromises, especially since they already view the bill as a compromise in the first place. They’d be better off watching Republicans flail and fail to pass a bill as their own base abandons them; this is roughly what happened in the mid-2000s.
This makes sense of the timing issue. Perhaps the GOP really did plan on letting the issue die last summer, when taking the Senate looked like a 50-50 shot, and breaking even in the House seemed like the order of the day. But then the Obamacare rollout hit, and suddenly Republicans looked like they might enjoy a 2010 redux. -
Uncle Jay, Uncle Jay which side is to blame for our problems.
Here is a hint…… Football -
Poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.
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Nail her Iron Buttocks to the wall. Demand restitution, and put her in jail if she cannot pay.
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Quantum Leap in New Orleans?
I always liked Scott Bacula’s characters. It will be interesting to see how he’s cast in this spinoff. I need to go check and see if he’s a conservative, like Kevin Sorbo is…that would be great, if I had a pair of conservative sci fi actors to watch! -
#33 Hamous, that was the first thing I thought of, great minds think alike. 😉
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I just noticed a small blemish (can’t see it, just feel it) on my nose. I noticed a similar one on my chin yesterday.
I’ve added coconut to my diet, and one of the warnings was that it boosts the immune system and may cause some blemishes and other reactions as certain cleansing began taking place. As someone who has skin on the drier side of normal, and who got maybe three pimples during her teenage years, it took me a day or so to realize what was happening.
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Now this is neat; Coldest spot in known universe: NASA to study almost absolute zero matter at ISS.
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The FDA may have actually swerved into approving a pretty cool device.
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I thought those were already approved. I’ve heard about them for a while.
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#34:
Demand restitution, and put her in jail if she cannot pay.
Make her pay, even if she has to work a street corner, THEN put her in jail.
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I always liked Scott Bacula’s characters.
Bacula is the plural of baculum.
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baculum
Is that the same thing as a speculum, but used on the other side?
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Oh…..you…… /facepalm
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:>)
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There was a young girl behind the counter. I am in the describing business, but I cannot do her justice by telling you how beautiful she was. It would be easier to build a time machine, go get Titian and DaVinci and bring them back and have them work in shifts trying to paint her picture. I’ll bet the picture would never be completed because they’d be fighting over her with knives before fifteen minutes was up. She was so pretty that a normal person, which I sometimes am, would just look at her, slackjawed, and forget how to breathe or think or behave. If God has some plan for mankind it is surely inscrutable because no one else would put this daisy on the far side of Pluto like that.
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Am I the only one who is thinking this whole second and now third hand smoke danger is getting a bit overblown?
HEADLINE: Study: Third-Hand Smoke Exposure As Deadly As Smoking
ok, IF IT IS THAT DANGEROUS, then ban the substance immediately! The moral and correct thing to do would be to forego the huge tax revenue stream and ban the substance immediately, from the seeds the evil farmers plant to grow vile evil tobacco all the way to the finished product. That would be the moral and correct thing to do if the product was in fact as dangerous as the anti-tobacco nazi nutbags claim it to be. If it weren’t for the huge tax revenue stream and the fact that chronic smokers tend to die before they start collecting a whole lot of SS benefits, the substance would already be illegal. I have yet to read it, but the title of PJ O’Rourke’s book, A PARLIMENT OF [wimminzes of ill repute starting with the letter W], has it pegged pretty darned close.
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Well, with that blog kilting post I shall retire for the evening.
Ta Ta all. -
I just saw a Scientology commercial.
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“L” !!! 😉
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Everybody turned in early. G’night all.
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OK, it’s time to get going.
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Guess union rules call for the new moderator to take a vacation before he starts. 😛
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Good morning Hamsters. Gloomy, misty, 45 at 5:30 and occasional light rain. Most of the rain is east of us. Periodic pitter-patter of drops on the garden room roof tells us it hasn’t yet stopped for the day. Light breezes come and go, and a brighter spot to the NW has appeared. Made it to 48 thus far. Rumor has it the sun will be visible today.
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