My how the times have changed!
Today:
It’s a stretch limo that the folks can’t afford, not the family car.
The dresses may or may not cover the important body parts.
The guys don’t wear suits, they rent tuxes.
There’s tweaking, not talking.
Because the DJ is playing the music so loudly you couldn’t carry on a conversation, anyway.
And there’s not as much class or respect.
If alcohol is not openly being served, the punch will be spiked. (I guess punch spiking has been around since then, actually.)
Girls open their own car doors, because they haven’t been taught about guys being “gentlemen”.
Guys don’t open their dates’ car doors, because they haven’t been taught about being a “gentleman”.
But the car door only opens long enough to get into the back seat, anyway.
Forget a handshake on the first date. Second base is more the norm.
Forget a quick kiss, if you’ve been on more than one date – condoms are more like it.
Oh, it’s nice to think back on kinder times. This won’t apply to all youth these days, just a depressingly large bunch of them.
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So what are we going to do about the Cornyn problem? Or the Olson problem or the Brady problem? Same as we are doing about the Obama problem I guess, which is nothing.
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El Gordo, I’m doing my best to fire them in the primaries.
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Yeah, this culture of death I talk about is just a figment of my demented, right wing mind. That’s what I’m told by enlightened “progressives”.
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“Progressive” reason # 176,988 to abort your baby: Colic
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Great good morning Hamsters. Friday the 13th comes on Thursday this month. 🙂
A winter’s morn boasts frost everywhere and 28 at 6 and 7:30; the first rays of the Sun bring sparkles on roofs first while the grass below awaits its turn at fleeting glory.
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#4 Hamous
Grow * up * Iowa * woman * tie * your * tubes. You * are * pro-choice * right? -
How’s about they choose not to have sex?
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Socialism working as it’s supposed to.
“I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that there are no cars to buy,” he says. “I can’t find milk or toilet paper, either.”
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With this bunch, the mind set is the rutting season is year round. 🙁
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*prayer request* – Please Yall lift up some kneemail for Shannon – not broadcasting details at this point but he has an issue with a foot infection of sorts
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Prayers launched, dear Shannon.
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The clues were there the entire time, if only he could have connected the dots.
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#10 Katfish
So sorry to hear Shannon has a medical problem, and hoping he gets well quickly. I know that is not a prayer, but it is sincere. -
#10 Katfish
So sorry to hear Shannon has a medical problem, and hoping he gets well quickly. I know that is not a prayer, but it is heart-felt. -
I know that is not a prayer, but it is heart-felt.
Maybe not technically a prayer, but it works.
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mharper #15;
I know that is not a prayer, but it is heart-felt.
You’ll still get brownie points n heaven for it and will be able to use them when you’re finally converted. 😉
We all luvs ya’, mharper. -
Katfish #10;
Gotta take care of those feet. Hope and pray all will go well for Shannon. -
Hamous #4;
From those who preach to understand those who are different. Such scummy-thinking people liberals are at times. And kids who are colicky are challenging to care for but many are also very intelligent. -
Knee mail on the way for Shannon, I hope it’s not too serious.
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#4 Hamous, that is unbelievable!
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Shannon’s in the hospital right now. He went down and admitted himself so a different specialist can evaluate a persistent problem.
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Kneemail for Shannon’s new Doc to get the correct answer to what is going on and the correct treatment program for a complete recovery.
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I can’t describe to y’all how much damned snow is piled up outside this house. I can’t even see where the small Toyota is in the driveway. The top of my Ford pickup has about 16″ piled on top.
We’ve easily had more than 12″ on top of the frozen 30-36″ that was on the ground before.
And it is supposed to continue snowing until 6 AM tomorrow. -
Texpat #25;
It’s good that Shannon’s finally admitted to something. 🙂
#27;
Have Shannon take a Tylenol and get him to Jersey, out the door and shovel that snow for your neighborhood. -
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February 13, 2014 at 10:47 am
I can’t describe to y’all how much damned snow is piled up outside this house. I can’t even see where the small Toyota is in the driveway. The top of my Ford pickup has about 16″ piled on top.
We’ve easily had more than 12″ on top of the frozen 30-36″ that was on the ground before.
And it is supposed to continue snowing until 6 AM tomorrow.Yah, I know. My relatives are saying the same thing.
I told them I understand. It took me almost two minutes to scrape the frost off my windshiled this morning. -
The top of my Ford pickup now has about 20″ piled on top.
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Derek Jeter announced yesterday 2014 will be his last season in major league baseball. Jeter is genuinely loved by just about everybody in these parts. He’s quiet, doesn’t brag and seems to get every hot new It Chick that arrives in town.
I never knew what his ethnicity was and looked up some of his history last night. Jeter’s father, a black man from New Jersey, was in the US Army, stationed in Germany, when he met Jeter’s mother, a Irish/German woman in the military. They married, the father got his PhD and the mother is an accountant where they live in Michigan.
Anyway, I stumbled across this Houston connection from the past. I’m sure serious Astros fans will know this, but others may not. From Wikipedia on the pivotal 1992 MLB Draft:As a scout for the Houston Astros, Hal Newhouser evaluated Jeter extensively prior to the 1992 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft. The Astros held the first overall pick in the draft, and Newhouser, convinced that Jeter would anchor a winning team, lobbied team management to select Jeter. However, the Astros feared that Jeter would insist on a salary bonus of at least $1 million to forgo his college scholarship for a professional contract. Consequently, the Astros passed on him in the draft, instead choosing Cal-State Fullerton outfielder Phil Nevin, who signed with Houston for $700,000. Newhouser felt so strongly about Jeter’s potential that he quit his job with the Astros in protest after they ignored his drafting advice.
John McMullen was threatening to sell the Astros franchise or move it to DC in 1991. Houstonians were mutually sick of his crap. He wanted a new stadium and Texas was still recovering from the devastating busts of the 1980s and in no mood to reward some Yankee from NYC with a billion dollar stadium complex. Then came the Draft.
The Yankees, who selected sixth, also rated Jeter highly. Yankees scout Dick Groch, assigned to scout in the Midwest, watched Jeter participate in an all-star camp held at Western Michigan University. Though Yankees officials were concerned that Jeter would attend college and forgo the opportunity to sign a professional contract, Groch convinced them to select him. Regarding the possibility that Jeter would attend Michigan, Groch said “the only place Derek Jeter’s going is to Cooperstown”, referring to the home city of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The second through fifth picks were Paul Shuey, B. J. Wallace (who never played in the majors), Jeffrey Hammonds, and Chad Mottola (125 career MLB at-bats and over 5,000 at-bats at AAA); those five would combine for a grand total of 2 All-Star Game appearances (Nevin and Hammonds). The Yankees drafted Jeter, who chose to turn professional, signing for $800,000
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McMullen lost Jeter over 100K. Good grief.
Hal Newhouser was honored by having his number retired by the Detroit Tigers five years later and died the next year in 1998. Newhouser was a pitcher, a Triple Crown Winner in the 1940s, and played for 17 years.
I want to pay my respects here to a man of integrity and note his prescient skill at recognizing talent and heart. In 1992, he told John McMullen and Bill Wood where to stick it when he knew he was right. Hal Newhouser was vindicated every time Jeter knocked it over the fence and in every run batted in. -
Sarge
The camera was a gopro. I followed the youtube user to their twitter feed,Mia Munselle @MiaMunselle Feb 9
1 minute to watch the coolest video-we found a GoPro camera on our property! Watch til very end! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxPuk0JefA …Prayers up for Shannon
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Sarge
The camera was a gopro. I followed the youtube user to their twitter feed,Yah, I figgered. Small camera, big price tag—-apparently bombproof.
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Yeah that little camera is pretty tough. They really are not that expensive. $200 -400 depending on which of three you buy.
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34 squawkbox says:
February 13, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Yeah that little camera is pretty tough. They really are not that expensive. $200 -400 depending on which of three you buy.Not ‘spensive for a camera. ‘Spensive for my budget.
I’m looking to get on eventually, most of the guys who do trail videos us it. -
Shannon – hope you get to feeling better!
What’s that saying? “Feets don’t fail me now!”
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I’m looking to get on eventually, most of the guys who do trail videos us it.
Yeah I unnerstant. 🙂
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Hey Shannon hope ya get to feeling better soon….. but till then could I get ya as my third leg in the 3 legged race? 🙂
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It’s dead, Jim.
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A guy on the Hammock forums wants a backpack for his wife.
I doubt that anyone takes him up on it. -
#39 wagonburner
Hmmm, and Voyager is now touring interstellar space and still talking. Wow. Tough act to follow. -
Big decision from the 9th Circus Court, but this time its a good one. Actually, its the only common sense one it could make.
9th Cir. essentially gives state a choice: it must allow either open or concealed carry. Cannot prohibit both.
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#30 Texpat
Now that is way past the stage at which there is no place to put it. When snowfall in Madison got to that where to put it point, the city used to scoop it up into dump trucks and dump it on the frozen lakes. How frozen is the Hudson? -
#31 Texpat
Reminds me of the 1984 NBA draft:The Houston Rockets used their first pick to draft Hakeem Olajuwon (then known as Akeem Olajuwon), a junior center from the University of Houston. The Portland Trail Blazers used the second overall pick to draft Sam Bowie from the University of Kentucky. The Chicago Bulls used the third pick to draft Naismith and Wooden College Player of the Year Michael Jordan from the University of North Carolina.
Yeah, I know. Olajuwon had local connections, but still, we could have had Jordan.
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I saw some stories earlier today that said it did boot back up this morning, so I’m confused.
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#44 Hamous
Last night, they said that after the announcement Yankees’ outfield tickets went from $50 to $1,100 in minutes. Everybody wants to say they saw Jeter in his final season. -
Running off for errands – one of them is dropping off a container of coconut oil to see if it will help my mother’s itching problem. She made all sorts of excuses as to why she didn’t want to do it – except to admit that she likes playing martyr. I met the head nurse in the hallway, who told me “Well, you know she was going to say no! Just bring it to me and we’ll try it.”
We’ve tried just about everything else, so what have we got to lose….I’ve read testimonials where it’s helped with psoriasis and exzema and other conditions, so all that will happen will be that I’m out $8 and Mom’s skin will be silky soft. I guess they’re going to tell Mom it’s a new cream of some kind. Well, I guess it is… -
Adee
The Hudson River has been frozen all the way over beginning north of the Tappan Zee bridge at Tarrytown, just south of Yonkers. You could probably walk across the Hudson at West Point.
Both the Passaic and Hackensack rivers have been frozen over near where I live in Bergen County. -
Yah.
I had to take a stick and break the ice in the dog’s water bowl this morning. -
Gee, now the Ds are not even trying to hide that they want to IRS to target conservative groups.
HEADLINE: Vulnerable Dems want IRS to step up
Sure, in the article they say they want the IRS to investigate conservative and liberal groups but the not so secret dirty secret is that only the conservative side will be targeted. In the 90s when the Clinton scourge was afflicting the country, Ds would openly campaign in churches, sometimes even soliciting donations. During that period at 2nd Baptist someone left some voter guides on a table outside the sanctuary and the IRS came running, threatening thier tax exempt status. The unequal application of the law (14th amendment) was on full display in that the left, D leaning groups were never prosecuted – even for blatant abuses yet for imagined abuses the other side had to jump through hoops to prove innocence.
The Lois Lerner/Sarah Hall Ingraham IRS fiasco is just the latest example and prove beyond all doubt that the IRS can not be trusted. It is way past time to scap the current tax code and replace it with a National Retail Sales tax, WRITTEN IN STONE NEVER TO EXCEED 15%. -
Just a drive-by to say thanks for your thoughts and prayers. We’re making progress but keep ’em coming.
Shannon -
It is still so cold here in H-Town, I need a tee shirt under my short sleeved shirt to keep me from getting a bit chilled, except for when I am in the bright sunshine under the crystal blue sky we are blessed with today.
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I have just finished stage one for my 2nd batch of bread using this mixer. This finely crafted piece of German engineering is a joy to use and it absolutely beats the tar out of the Kitchenaid garbage mixer that I burnt up.
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I’m not worried about Shannon.
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musta been one nasty hoo-ha to infect his foot all the way through his boot for cryin out loud. . ./
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Probably someone with the Virginia Cornstubble.
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I just got the Conservative Republicans of Texas voter guide and the scuz-balls endorsed John Cornball for crying out loud! I tend to agree with some of the others but Cornball?!?
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Looks like the self-mutilating grifter found a “progressive” judge to allow him to try and steal the inheritance away from the Wharton firefighter’s children.
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#42 Sarge
Great decision in the Ninth.
However, it was tried before a three judge panel with one dissenting. An appeal is almost inevitable requesting an en banc hearing and will be granted because the three judges were not unanimous. I knew the Ninth Circuit is the largest, but I didn’t realize the full Court consists of 29 judges.
When a case must be heard en banc in the Ninth, they consider 11 judges to be a proper full en banc court.
For a more learned and reliable source about this case, I present Eugene Volokh’s quick post a few hours ago:So a Ninth Circuit panel, by a 2-1 vote, just struck down the broad California restriction on carrying guns in public. What now?
1. The defendants might well ask the Ninth Circuit en banc to rehear the case. If a majority of the sitting Ninth Circuit judges agrees with such a request, then the case will be reheard by 11 judges of the Ninth Circuit — Chief Judge Kozinski, plus 10 other randomly selected judges. (In theory, it’s also possible that the Ninth Circuit could rehear the case with all the active judges participating, but that has never happened and is unlikely to happen now.)
2. Whoever wins, it seems likely that the losing side will “petition for certiorari,” i.e., ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the matter. It’s possible that the losing side might choose not to file such a petition — Illinois didn’t challenge the Seventh Circuit’s decision upholding the right to carry guns, but instead implemented a shall-issue concealed carry licensing scheme. But it seems likely that a petition would be filed.
3. If a petition is filed, the Supreme Court is likely to hear the case. It has no legal obligation to do so, but there’s a solid split among federal circuit courts and state supreme courts on the issue (regardless of whether the Ninth Circuit reverses this panel decision en banc), and such a split is often seen by the Court as a reason to step in and resolve the matter. This is the sort of federal constitutional question that should be resolved by the Justices for the whole country, rather than having the same constitutional amendment being interpreted differently in different federal circuits. -
Yah.
Having it go to SCOTUS I’m hoping for as the result should be as the ruling went in the 9th, if they hold to the current trend of the Court regarding 2nd Amendment cases.
Which is likely why IL declined to appeal, and I do think CA will hold off as well.
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If Chief Justice Roberts can be turned to the dark side on the ACA, I do not trust that he will not be turned again. Depending on the SCOTUS to do the constitutionally correct thing is risky business.
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#62 BC
There is no reason to assume Roberts will not be anything but a supporter of the Second Amendment given his votes on Heller vs DC and MacDonald vs Chicago.
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#63 TP:
1) Roberts participated in allowing the Govt to argue that the ACA was both a tax and not a tax, they allowed them to have it both ways, which in my feeble mind is inconsistent with any standard of decency.
2) There was no severability clause in the ACA, therefore if any part is deemed unconstitutional, then the entire thing must be tossed. This also was allowed to slide and that which was not tossed was allowed to stand.
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I think the Obamacare episode cured him of that.
PFFFFFTTTTTT
Ever the optimist you are.
Lessee
Roberts has already demonstrated he will rewrite law, rule contrary to any conservative disposition we thought he might possess, he thinks the “will od the people” trumps constitutional law. He has a lifetime appointment. He hangs around his own little echo chamber.
Nawwwww I look for even greater gaffes and guffaws from the erstwhile Justice Roberts. -
Below are two quotes from Chief Justice Roberts on the Supreme Court’s responsibility in handling the health care law.
“We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the Nation’s elected leaders.”
“Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. (But yet he did make a policy judgement) Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”He has done nothing to indicate to me that his philosophy has changed.
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Why izzit that the Ds are able to get hard-core commie bastiges on the court like Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, and we have to fight tooth and nail to get a Scalia or Thomas?
I really hope that A) RBG lasts through JugEars term and B) Some conservative in the vein of Ted Cruz gets elected as POTUS. Hopefully he will replace that commie hag with a rock ribbed conservative. -
Because the Republicans are like a good hoover vacuum
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There’s nothing like a Hoover when you’re dealing with dirt.
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Last time I ribbed the New Jersey weather I woke up and it was 32 degrees and some kinda icy stuff in places. Ain’t doin it agin, no no, not me.
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Punishment is bad. -
Praying they find the problem and the cure my blogger brutha Shannon. Hope the pain is bearable.
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#49;
I had to take a stick and break the ice in the dog’s water bowl this morning.
Stick? That’s what the cat’s for.
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#65 Squack
We’ll see. -
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Yup we will. A leopard cannot change his spots and a snake in the grass will always be a snake. -
Seen on FB today:
If you think all everything will be OK once Obama leaves office, you don’t understand the problem. -
If you think all everything will be OK once Obama leaves office, you don’t understand the problem.
Uh, really ?
I said the same damned thing about George W. Bush before he finished his first term and many people disagreed with me on Lone Star Times. -
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And the problem begins where exactly? Leave us not forget Squawk’s undeniable truths about politicians
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As to the chief Justice’s integrity in future rulings, whatever it was that was used to blackmail him on the Obamacare decision is still out there and eligible for recall any time another favorable ruling is required. He’s vulnerable at any time, has been neutered, and is therefore always untrustworthy. Some say it has to do with the private adoption of his children in Ireland (I think) which does not allow for private adoptions, an issue which should have shown up in the vetting process, but who knows. What we do know is that he cannot be trusted – even the liberal justices can be trusted to vote a certain way on virtually all issues. Thus the integrity of the Supreme Court has reached about the same level as that of the White House and the Senate, with the House not far behind.
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