There is still a glimmer of hope for America.
According to the fine people at the American Veterinary Medicine Association, dogs are the preferred pet among a plurality of pet owners. However, according to this chart, the CCL’s are making it up in volume:
The chart implies that there are approx 69 million pet doggies out there, but almost 76 million cats.
The chart also implies that there is a very significant number of cat hoarders, since the average per household is more that the necessary threshold.
This outfit is also a little bit puzzling since, as you can see above, horses are considered a companion animal. And as you can see below, fish, gerbils, guinea pigs, and hamsters are exotic somehow.
I’ll leave with this:
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The very idea there are 334,000 households with ferrets is extremely disturbing.
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Watch out. Remember the Freaky Ferret Lady post I did on LST? Hell hath no fury as a freaky ferret lady ridiculed.
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That ‘other reptiles’ outnumber ferrets is not good either.
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Not surprisingly the UAW goes to the NLRB over the VW vote.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/uaw-appeals-volkswagen-workers-rejection-tenn-22623130
Now they go to the NLRB administrative ‘law’ process. I doubt VW will oppose this. The non-union voters will not be able to afford to fight this on their own. The process can take years. The case we were in started in 1998 and was finally thrown out when it went to a Federal court in 2013. We could not afford to stay in and had to settle before that. 612 votes may unionize a force of 1550 (or 1500 depending on the source). -
horses are considered a companion animal.
If you were on FB, you’d see the number of times ST has posted that her companion horse has opened the back door and come inside. Apparently he can open gates too.
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That FCC project to put gubmint into newsrooms — now said to be dropped — was funded by George Soros.
http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/mike-ciandella/universities-fcc-newsroom-probe-have-close-ties-soros-got-18m-funding -
California’s debt is $419,000,000,000. Unemployment rate is 8.5%. Unfunded government pensions are around $500,000,000,000.
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Late this afternoon, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release announcing that it will not seek en banc review of the Peruta decision, which was issued last Friday by a 2-1 panel of the Ninth Circuit. As I detailed in a post last week, Peruta requires that the exercise of the Second Amendment right to carry a licensed firearm for lawful self-defense be considered “good cause” under the California statute providing for the issuance of concealed carry permits.
There is one other case that could affect carry licensing mentioned in the post.
Assuming that the San Diego Sheriff does not file a petition for a writ of certiorari, the U.S. Supreme Court still has an available case to consider right to carry. Drake v. Jerejian is an appeal from a Third Circuit decision upholding New Jersey’s carry licensing system, under which almost no-one is ever issued in a permit. (Scotusblog docket for the case is here.) Several amicus briefs were filed in support of the petition, including one written by Wyoming Attorney General Michael and joined by the Attorneys General of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. Lead attorney in the Drake case is Alan Gura, winner of District of Columbia v. Heller.
If the CA case had gone to appeal, and the ruling upheld, there would be two cases from two different Circuits with exactly opposite rulings, pretty much guaranteeing a SCOTUS review. While SCOTUS may end up hearing the NJ case, the cynic in me believes that CA decided not to appeal their case to better the odds that SCOTUS would not hear NJ’s.
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If Shannon don’t start showing up in here soon, I’m gonna want a doctor’s excuse.
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gto – I seem to recall that VW wasn’t necessarily opposing the union and they
even wanted a representative group of employees as they have in their
Europe operations. Pretty interesting that VW wasn’t necessarily opposed to the
Union and it was still voted down. Will be disappointing when the NLRB changes
the nonunion votes and they end up with a union without voting it in. UAW should go home with their tails betw/ their legs – but their MO is, when you are defeated, just ramp up the
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Got the following in an email.
Laughs from Employee Performance Evaluations
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These are actual quotes taken from federal government employee performance evaluations.
1. “Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and has started to dig.”
2. “I would not allow this employee to breed.”
3. “This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definite won’t be.”
4. “Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.”
5. “When he opens his mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet.”
6. “This young lady has delusions of adequacy.”
7. “He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.”
8. “This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.”
9. “This employee should go far, and the sooner he starts the better.”
10. “Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together.”
11. “A gross ignoramus – 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.”
12. “He doesn’t have ulcers, but he’s a carrier.”
14. “I would like to go hunting with him sometime.”
15. “He’s been working with glue too much.”
16. “He would argue with a signpost.”
17. “He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room.”
18. “When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.”
19. “If you see two people talking and one looks bored, he’s the other one.”
20. “A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.”
21. “A prime candidate for natural de-selection.”
22. “Donated his brain to science before he was done using it.”
23. “Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn’t coming.”
24. “He’s got two brains cells, one is lost and the other is out looking for it.”
25. “If he were any more stupid, he’d have to be watered twice a week.”
26. “If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you’d get change.”
27. “If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.”
28. “It’s hard to believe he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.”
29. “One neuron short of a synapse.”
30. “Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.”
31. “Takes him 2 hours to watch 60-minutes.”
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I think New Mexico is cooking the books somehow. Don’t show this to my wife, she’s convinced two minutes is a marathon.
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There are instances where a hair trigger is not an aid to hitting the target.
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I seem to recall that VW wasn’t necessarily opposing the union and they
even wanted a representative group of employees as they have in their
Europe operations.I think it was more of a case of the German union holding a gun to their head saying “Don’t oppose this … or else.”
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#18: I might consider a family court judge to be something other than a radicalized feminazi when the record shows awarding primary custody with child support to fathers 30-40% instead of <5%.
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WTH!?!!
NBC is showing English premiersockersoccer?
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#21 Curmudgeon: I actually kind of like curling, it is the same game (on a different board) as bar room shuffleboard.
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I have so distanced myself from professional sports. I used to be a huge baseball fan, but in light of all the drug abuse allegations and rich guys fighting with each other in court, AND Crane’s moving the LAstros to the American League it just turned me off.
And soccer is like watching grass grow.
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I would rather study trend data of the ice flows in Norway than waste my time with television sports.
Don’t hold back Squawk, tell us how you really feel about it.
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Oh yeah, prove it. What does Bonecrusher think of Obama, Harry Reid and John Cornyn?
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Oh yeah, prove it. What does Bonecrusher think of Obama, Harry Reid and John Cornyn?
HE!! he could have been away for a month and answered that question. Oh and the answer would have something to do with bovine scatology. 😉
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GJT: You’re a funny guy. One does not need to lurk for that understanding to penetrate one’s psyche.
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OK, who kilt tha blog? Twern’t me, I just got here.
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It’s just too purty a day to be inside.
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SD: Is your little psycho dawg still sticking to you like a 2nd skin?
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White Wings are the new pigeons.
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They are nesting big time here in Glorious Copperfield.
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SD: Is your little psycho dawg still sticking to you like a 2nd skin?
Not as much as on Monday, but right now she’s letting me know that it’s time for a walk.
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I know Hammie has been hanging out with hippies.
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And squawk sewed pink fringe on his speedo.
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And Adee has been inviting over drunk coons.
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And texnadian is retiring to become an onion farmer.
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Only mourning doves in my yard. I think they live here year-round. I see them perched in the branches of the deciduous trees. I will have white wings also at some point. Used to see a few of those small “aztec” or “inca” doves — not sure which name is preferred — but it’s been years since I’ve noticed any anyway.
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Shannon, what meds do they have you on?
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And you wouldn’t believe how many bad movies I have watched in the last eight days.
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Oh 42 and how are you progressing?
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I am on anti biotics. Pain meds are available but I haven’t used them except a couple of times in anticipation of a dressing change performed by this nurse Ratchett I’m living with.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Beautiful day even with the overcast this afternoon. One redbud next to the garage has a few swelling buds, but the others in the yard or near the house not so much yet. The live oaks are slow in shedding their leaves, should be a blizzard by now. Two red oaks in front are budding out, but the one in the back yard isn’t quite there yet. All the trees seem to be on very different schedules this year. And of course the pecans know that Winter is still with us.
Spouse put the silver maple bird house on a tall post and bolted it to a pasture fence post in the back yard so we can see who investigates. One squirrel had checked it out when it was sitting on the deck box on the back porch and went inside for a few minutes, so maybe it smells like squirrel. Spouse just saw a small bird land on the perch and peek inside. Wonder if we ought to put a For Rent sign on the post. 🙂
Not surprised that the University of Wisconsin J-School is involved with the phony FCC “study.” Gov. Walker and the Republican Lege ought to reprimand them in the bank account for taking Soros $$ to do it. Another item that tells why UW is known as Berkeley East. -
I’m doing fine. Yesterday the doc was pleased but won’t release me to work until the next appointment on the 3rd. And maybe not then.
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It appears that the opposition has control over Kiev. Perhaps VladyP’s attempt to grab Ukraine is gonna be a bit more difficult than he figgered.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/21/us/mississippi-meredith-statue/
Yanno, as much as I condemn the disrespect shown to James Meredith by these idiot frat boys, I do not see how it was “vandalism”. Nothing was damaged. The noose and flag are removed, the statue is fine. Some light punishment and a lot of disdain from the student body seems appropriate to me. Getting the FBI on the case seems like typical federal overreach to me. -
And thanks for asking.
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This supposed to be serious fight scene starring a Jean Claude Gosh Darn wannabe is quite hilarious.
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#47 Bonecrusher
Do you suppose ole Ethelred Obama the Unready will jump in and try to take credit for that? Or Biden? After all, Joe made the first call in the crisis when Obama was touring golf courses. -
Do you suppose ole Ethelred Obama the Unready will jump in and try to take credit for that? Or Biden?
They probably both will; oblivious to the fact that their actions (or lack thereof) made it harder for the protesters to win. Kind of like this admin claiming credit for the increased oil production in this country when the facts are pretty clear that production is up in spite of not because of the actions from the clowns.
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Following the OC theme, this article in the New York Times is really fascinating considering the implications for original settlers and visitors to North America.
Some Carolina dogs still live in the wild, and local people have long thought they were one of the few breeds that predated the European arrival in the Americas: “Our native dog,” as Michael Ruano, another enthusiast who often works with Mr. Anderson, put it. “America’s natural dog.”
Now, a new study of canine DNA backs up the folklore. A team led by Peter Savolainen at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has reported that several dog breeds in the Americas — among them the Peruvian hairless, the Chihuahua and the Carolina dog — are without some genetic markers indicative of European origin, suggesting they arrived in an earlier migration from Asia.
The study also reawakens the long debate about where and how dogs were domesticated. Current theory speculates that they are descended from wolves that somehow became attached to humans perhaps 12,000 to 33,000 years ago — an early amity that has an extensive pedigree in human folklore. (Think Romulus and Remus.) -
And now for your Saturday evening listening pleasure:
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Back when Keef still looked like he was alive.
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He does serious music too. From one of my favorite albums of his, Georgia Hard.
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I was in the mood for a martini after working in the yard all day. I didn’t have any olives so I used pickled okra. I think this is probably one of those “You might be a redneck…” moments.
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Boy, it’s hard for “progressives” to let go of that tax revenue, even when it’s for the children.
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Shaken, not stirred I presume.
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Absolutely.
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I’ll see your Green Room Rockers and raise you one Zorro and the Blue Footballs.
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#56 Texpat that is fascinating, I’ve long said that DNA was going to help identify where all the native Americans came from and when. It was long thought that it took hundreds of years for the native Americans to get all the way down to Tierra del Fuego until they found a Clovis point there several years ago. On a similar note a buddy of mine bought a fossilized molar from a native horse that lived here long before the Europeans got here and brought theirs.
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#63 😀
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#63 Hamous
I was in the mood for a martini after working in the yard all day. I didn’t have any olives so I used pickled okra. I think this is probably one of those “You might be a redneck…” moments.
You’d better copyright that one real quick so you can invoice Foxworthy when he starts using it.
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I hope you used gin.
It was a martini. What else would you use?
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#63 Hammy
I didn’t have any olives so I used pickled okra.
Hey, as long as it had a little plastic sword pick stuck in it, it counts as an uptown garnish!
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Here’s one I don’t think you can listen to enough.
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The strangest thing is I’ve never remotely liked anything this singer ever did before but I bought this CD a few years ago and musically speaking it’s quite good.
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egads, warning before anyone else suffers brain damage. #79 is a link to a George Michael song.
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By way of a story in the Chron these locals ought to go far. Tontons. And one for the guys. Another local, Wild Moccasins.
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I remember when white wing doves were rarely seen as far north as Victoria. I don’t know if it is legal to shoot Inca doves or if there is anything to eat if you did. Those things are like teal with turbos, never did hit one. Turtle doves have finally adapted to winters here. I remember when Sears had cages of them at Christmas time. Then they took them outside and turned them loose after the shopping season. My brother and I caught a few cold stunned ones. He kept one for a pet for years. Now they are in the hunting regulations. Never seen one while holding a shotgun, doubt they are worth the trouble if I did.
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Good morning, Hamsterville! Looks like everyone conked out early last night. I know I did.
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Adee,
Re: this year’s strange behavior of shedding live oaks
I do wish my beloved 60 footer in the front yard would hurry up with it. This is the one time of year she is on the receiving end of my wrath due to the virtual un-sweepability of those leaves from the front porch. Dragging out the leaf blower daily is simply not an option while in my present condition. -
Press Release, Friday, February 21, 2014
“General Electric’s pledge to only pursue environmental projects that meet common business criteria is the culmination of years of efforts and a recognition that sustainability and the free market can work in concert,” said Justin Danhof, Esq., director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project. “For years, GE has been the poster boy for crony capitalism and corporate America’s green energy cheerleader. Now, GE shareholders have confirmation that the company’s strategies will henceforth be led by true market forces and not by blind adherence to global warming zealotry.”
If you really want your donated dollars to be effective, give them to diligent people like this who do the unrecognized hard work in the trenches every day.The National Center’s Free Enterprise Project is one of the leading free-market activist groups in America. In 2013, representatives of its Free Enterprise Project attended 33 shareholder meetings advancing free-market ideals in the areas of health care, energy, taxes, subsidies, regulations, religious freedom, media bias, gun rights and many other important public policy issues.
The National Center for Public Policy Research, founded in 1982, is a non-partisan, free-market, independent conservative think-tank. Ninety-four percent of its support comes from individuals, less than four percent from foundations, and less than two percent from corporations. It receives over 350,000 individual contributions a year from over 96,000 active recent contributors.
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It was a martini. What else would you use?
1 oz Everclear
½ oz Vermouth
DIRECTIONS:
Shake over ice, pour into a chilled martini glass. Add olives.vodka in a martini
beans in chili
no such thing.Three Bean and Beef Chili
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, diced (1 cup)
1 red bell pepper, diced (1 cup)
2 carrots, diced (1/2 cup)
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 pound extra-lean ground beef (90 percent lean)
1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes
2 cups water
1 chipotle chile in adobo sauce, seeded and minced
2 teaspoons adobo sauce from the can of chipotles
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 (15.5-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 (15.5-ounce) can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 (15.5-ounce) can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-krieger/three-bean-and-beef-chili-recipe.html?oc=linkback -
Hey Texpat started it. Besides it is on the internet so it must be so
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#84 Texpat, I’ve not seen that. The Wright brothers actually bent/twisted the whole wing of the Wright Flyer to enable it to turn and that later changed to flaps. This will be a great fuel saving measure since the air gap will be eliminated. Anything to clean up the aircraft makes it more efficient. On a side note there are two aircraft that I know of that tilt the entire tail assembly to trim the aircraft since trim tabs always interfere with the air flow. The planes are the Lockheed Jetstar and the little Mooney, built in Kerrville Texas. The Mooney 201 was the first airplane to exceed 200 MPH with a 200 HP engine. I might add that the four place Mooney is small.
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Less than 2 hrs away from the start of the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR season and here I sit fresh outta pickled okra.
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and here I sit fresh outta pickled okra.
Oh man that ain’t right. you get yourself to Walmart and lay in enough till you get your order delivered. 🙂
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#92 GJT, Do you want me to bring over a jar of pickled hot okra that my son-in-law grew/pickled? Good stuff Maynard. 😉
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Well I gotta do somethin, since Hambone opened his big fat mouth and spilled the chili beans there’s been a run on ‘em in all of West Montgomery County.
OHHHHHHH!! you know that means YOU HAVE TO shop in dunh dunh dunhhhhhhh shudder
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Yay Tom!! You haven’t scored 100 in a long time, bro.
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Yeah it does get a bit crazy here in East County. We had a wedding down at the Cut-N-Shoot Civic center and danged if they didn’t move in right next door.
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Does this explain why all the congressional investigations headed by R’s never seem to accomplish anything?
“The establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties,” Caddell told Fox News on Sunday.
http://www.conservativehq.com/article/16406-reagan-biographer-craig-shirley-gop-resembles-crime-family -
Beware the Ides of March.
My morbid sense of humor really kicks in when i listen to the Dems demonize Wall Straße.
IMO the only reason Wall Street is as high as it is right now is because Obamaco is buying the national debt. Many people think the US is printing money. They are not. they are simply “creating” money by transferring “electronic funds” to Wall Street. Not exactly accurate in what is being done but in effect that is what is happening.
So here we have Democrats talking about how the rich get richer using the Wall Straße argument while Bonnie Prince Barry is facilitating the Wall Straße boom. the Rhinublicans are missing an excellent opportunity to drive a wedge in the Demoratic ranks. -
From Things a Man Should Know How to Do:
How to Cook a Steak on the Grill
1. Make sure you choose a good steak. The main “cuts” of steak are the Brisket, the Loin, the Round, the Chuck, the Rump, the Groin, the Niblick, the Flanker, the Grommet, the Cosine and the Stirrup. They are all basically the same because they all come from the inside of a cow. You should select a manly-looking steak that is approximately the size and density of a standard manhole cover and does not have too many visible fly eggs.
2. Many people like to enhance the flavor of the steak by soaking it ahead of time in marinade or rubbing it with a blend of herbs and spices.
3. These people are wimps.
4. Place the steak horizontally on the grill oriented along an east-west axis.
5. Drink a timing beer. (VERY IMPORTANT: Not a “light” beer.)
6. When the beer is done, check the steak by prodding it firmly yet gently with your right forefinger. If it feels cold, you need to light the grill. (This should have been Step 1.)
7. Drink another timing beer.
8. Turn the steak over, using barbecue tongs or a No. 2 profilated Phillips screwdriver with a 10-inch titanium-coated shank.
9. Drink another timing beer.
10. Check the steak to determine how done it is, using this chart:
Doneness of Steak – Color of Steak
Rare – brown
Medium-rare – brown
Medium – brown
Medium-well – brown
Well – brown
11. If the steak is covered with molten or flaming plastic, you failed to remove it from the packaging. (This should also have been Step 1.)
12. Spray the steak with a fire extinguisher if necessary and serve it outdoors in a dark area.
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1. Make sure you choose a good steak. The main “cuts” of steak are the Brisket, the Loin, the Round, the Chuck, the Rump, the Groin, the Niblick, the Flanker, the Grommet, the Cosine and the Stirrup. They are all basically the same because they all come from the inside of a cow.
This guy is a blithering idiot.
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Did you see who it is?
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Ooooops.
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#107 for some reason reminded me of the man vs wimmin oil change joke
WOMEN:
1. Pull up to Jiffy Lube or Valvoline Instant Oil Change when the mileage reaches 3,000 miles since the last oil change.
2. Drink a cup of coffee while they change the oil.
3. 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a properly maintained vehicle.
Cost: $29.99 oil change, $2.00 coffee. Total $32.00
MEN:
1. Wait until Saturday, drive to the auto parts store. Buy a case of oil, oil filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner (don’t forget a little tree air freshener). Write a check to the auto parts store for approximately $50.
2. Stop by 7/11 on the way home, buy a case of beer. Write a check for $20.00.
3. Drive home with oil and beer.
4. Open beer, enjoy it.
5. Spend 30 minutes looking for the jack stands.
6. Find the jack stands (finally) under the kid’s pedal car, jack the car up.
7. Open another beer, drink it.
8. Place drain pan under engine.
9. Look for 9/16″ box end wrench for drain plug
10. Give up looking ten minutes later, find crescent wrench.
11. Unscrew drain plug.
12. Drop drain plug into pan of hot oil. Splash hot oil onto your hands and face in the process. Cuss and swear.
13. Crawl out from under car, wipe hot oil from hands and face. Throw some kitty litter on the spilled oil.
14. Open another beer while watching the last drops of oil drain.
15. Spend 30 minutes looking for the oil filter wrench.
16. Give up looking for oil filter wrench, crawl under car and hammer a flat-head screwdriver through the oil filter and twist it off.
17. Crawl out from under car, splashing hot oil everywhere from newly made holes in oil filter.
18. Cleverly hide used oil filter in trash to avoid those pesky environmental penalties. Open another beer.
19. Install new oil filter, making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to the gasket.
20. Pour the first quart of new oil into engine.
21. Oops! Now remember the drain plug (removed in step 11). It’s still swimming in the now-warm oil in the drain pan.
22. Throw more kitty litter on the quart-sized oil puddle on the floor.
23. Open another beer and drink it.
24. Find drain plug with a minimum of spillage, hand-tighten in drain plug socket. Drink beer.
25. Crawl under car (getting oily kitty litter embedded in neck and arms). Tighten drain plug with crescent wrench, but this time, it’s slippery. Bang your knuckles on the frame while tightening drain plug.
26. Throw crescent wrench across the garage in anger. Throw a fit because crescent wrench hits bowling trophy (which wife wouldn’t let stay in the house).
27. Open another beer and drink it.
28. Clean hands, bandaging where needed to stop blood flow.
29. Pour in five quarts of fresh oil.
30. Lower car from jack stands. Smile at your handiwork. Open another beer and drink it.
31. Move car back to discover oil puddles you missed; apply more kitty litter to missed areas.
32. Test drive car to make sure oil doesn’t leak.
33. Get pulled over a block from the house by local police, get arrested for DUI.
34. Call loving wife and bail bondsman.
35. Next day, get car out of impound yard.
Cost: $50 parts, $20 beer, Impound fee $75, Bail $1500, DUI $2500 minimum. Total $4145 (but you know the job was done right!) -
#109 Hamous
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Between those and the obotomylay, he’s lucky to be able to see straight.
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This weekend I tore out some sheetrock to repair a shower head pipe, patched the sheetrock, went to replace some worn out electrical outlets and two of boxes came loose from the studs requiring more drywall work, just put a light kit on a ceiling fan and there’s no power to the light wires so I gave up to sit down to watch my DVRed Daytona race and they’re in major rain delay. But it’s sunny outside, there’s beer in the fridge and there ain’t three feet of snow in the front yard so I figure life is just a-ok.
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#111 GJT
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#109, 112, 113
Poor Shannon in his misery, and there you are embroidering on it.
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Might be a tough choice this evening. Daytona 500 or Walking Dead. Probably a good joke in there somewhere.
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Or maybe The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash.
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Perhaps some Turnpike Troubadours.
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After this winter I’m ready for a Long Hot Summer Day.
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Heh, Sweetie just heard – Facebook I guess – that local Fox declared Jimmie Johnson the winner at Daytona, problem is they were running a replay of a past race during the rain delay. 😀
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Is this actually a bass fret over a coffee can.
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#122 gtotracker
RE: Rollin’ and Tumblin’
This is where I heard it first in the 1960s when I bought an album by three guys named Baker, Bruce and Clapton, none of whom I ever heard of before.
It’s still the best version for me – the wall of overwhelming sound.
Muddy Waters went to Chicago, learned about business and copyrighted the song in his name so he could collect the royalties for the next 40 years, but…Hambone Willie Newbern actually and truthfully wrote this song and it seems Waters may have stolen it from him.
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#123 Texpat, sorry, I see no comparison the two. Not that I like the coffee can version but thought it interesting. Your version sounds like a bunch of ex-wives explaining why they all wanted me gone at once.
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Texpat, sorry, I see no comparison the two.
Wow. Really.
I just demonstrated a historical thread for a landmark, seminal blues song from its origin in the 1920s to its revival in Chicago by Muddy Waters to its introduction to boomer generation in the 1960s. The 2000s video you posted wouldn’t even exist without all the predecessors who kept it alive for nearly a century. -
That was looking like a pretty exciting race until just now.
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Texpat, okay about the timeline. But the base driven link I posted sounds nothing like the original you link to. Sort of like comparing Howling Wolf to George Thorogood.
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A catchy tune to exit with,
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My father introduced me to the blues. This was the first version of Rollin’ and Tumblin’ for me
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Yawn, stretch, scratch, belch; where the wiss am I? Oh yeah, I’m at the office and its Monday morning, right?
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John Dingell-berry to finally end his career of screwing the USA as a member of Congress.
HEADLINE: John Dingell, longest serving U.S. representative, to retire
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Dingell, a Dearborn Democrat who replaced his father in the House some 58 years ago and became one of the most powerful members of Congress ever, will step down after this year, capping a career umatched in its longevity and singular in its influence and sweep.Translation: He has destroyed all that he can and wants to get out before the onslaught of public outrage hits his doorstep.
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