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GLBQTJFKIRSLBJIBMM&MEIEIO Pride

It’s late June.
We all know what that means.

It’s time for an oppressed segment of our population to flood out into the local streets to express their pride in being who/what they are, even if one of them happens to be the first elected leader of a major American city to wear comfortable shoes openly in public.
By running around in public dressed in a manner that would have gotten them arrested a few short years ago. What this has to do with pride in oneself escapes me, but it is apparently essential to this expression.

Essential to the “celebration” is showing fearlessness in couture choices.


Sassy!
There are those among the community who lament the current celebratory activities as simply an excuse for the local youths to get inebriated and/or baked to excess, whether they happened to be members of the “community” or not.

After all of these years, I am still clean and sober and I am here to report that last night’s parade was perhaps the most embarrassing and angriest night of my life as a gay person. Some 300,000 people thronged the streets of lower Westheimer Saturday night. Most were young straight and gay kids who were all pretty much messed up on drugs and/or alcohol like we used to be. Some things never change.

Drama Queen.

I find it outrageous that Bud Light was well represented at the front of the parade. Hooray for Bud Light, turning millions of gay people into alcoholics one light beer at a time. And I was outraged at the other corporate floats as well: Shell, BP, Chase, JP Morgan. Where is the community outrage? Shell and BP are apparently very gay friendly and had their gay minions marching with their floats. Have we lost our minds and forgotten that these two companies are destroying the planet?

You should all just giddyup on down there.

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  1. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Planes flying into Houston are burning less fuel and making less noise than before, thanks to an FAA project implemented this month. Instead of the conventional descent—leveling out between drops in altitude—pilots will follow a steady path to the ground with the engine throttle near idle.
    The shift, along with changes that will ease air congestion around Houston, is part of NextGen, the FAA’s $37 billion program to modernize how American airspace is managed by 2030.
    Usually, planes approaching an airport drop altitude in steps, cranking up the engines to level out in between. That makes it easier for pilots to control descents and for air traffic controllers to keep track of everyone and manage spacing between planes. Crews check in with the ground at each interval, making sure they’re clear to drop a few thousand more feet. It’s a safe but inefficient way to get lots of planes on the ground

    .

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Texpat’s ominous #1 seems to say the planes are using less fuel but descending less safely. OMG, we’re doomed! Well, I’m not, I’m nowhere close to an airport.
    Morning, Hamsterville.

  3. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    OC pix: That Indian chief is a good example of the main reason normal people don’t like gay pride events. You must be mentally ill to want to flash the world that way. The other costumes are just tasteless. At least Mayor & her Mrs. retained normal clothing.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Every landing is a controlled crash anyway.
    🙂

  5. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    good landing = you can walk away and you can use the airplane again

  6. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    A bunch of Brazilian kids having fun with soccer balls.
    They’re pretty impressive – especially the shot from a moving truck over a bridge and into a trash can on the truck.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang
    #6 That was pretty good,..why do you suppose that I think the Gal in the black dress was the best. 😈

  8. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    perv

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Those hijinks from the fun loving and peaceful muzzies in Pahwkeeestaahhn never cease to amaze me.

  10. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    100 years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his lovely wife Sophie got whacked in Sarajevo, setting in motion a chain of events that culminated in WW I.

  11. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    n.b. you can follow #KU_WWI on twitter for a “real time” chronicle
    Or you can look at the right-hand side of this page at KU.

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The details of the assassination in the Wiki post are pretty amazing.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Re: FAA changes to flight approach
    Hubby and I went to a meeting last week to hear about the proposed changes at Hobby Airport. They’re realigning some runways to meet new standards, adding parking, etc., to get it ready for international flights. There’s been concerns in the surrounding neighborhood over the changes – aircraft noise, increased traffic, flooding, etc.
    The airport director told us about the new flight approach method, leaving behind the leveling out points. It’s also supposed to reduce aircraft noise in surrounding homes. This also reduces the noise footprint, which also means the FAA or airport authorities don’t have to buy out as many of the surrounding parcels as they might otherwise take. they can’t have any residential homes in areas over 70 decibel levels. They were originally going to buy one of our rental homes, but they have an option where they may not have to do that.
    Oh, and the takeoffs are going to be a “straight up and out” method also.

  14. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #7 Dave
    You liked her shoes?

  15. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good windy morning Hamsters. Pleasant 75 at 6 is long gone, but the breeze keeps getting stronger, and the possibility of a vigorous popup storm is still in order according to the NWS site. Scattered of course and totally unpredictable. It’s summer in SE Texas so one must expect that unless there’s something nasty marauding in the Gulf or heading toward the Gulf.
    Regarding the opening posting for today. Gad, what happened to consenting adults in private? Freak show on parade. Rather freaky lament on the Drama Queen’s blog but can agree with him on why have this event in summer?

  16. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I see JFK, the IRS and LBJ have all joined up with the GLBQT’s. it was only a matter of time I suppose.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    China may need this because there’s a shortage of girls, what with their one-child policy and it’s repercussions and all.

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Gotsta love dem juice!

    HEADLINE: Gaza surveillance cameras pick up Israeli strike on terrorists

    Watch the jihadi terds get rehabilitated with no collateral damage.

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    18
    Boom, out go the lights.

  20. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My husband was heading out and asked if I had checked the forecast because it looked so cloudy. I said had checked only for the morning, since I didn’t otherwise expect to be out. He left but could not have completed the long backout from garage to street before the absolute bottom fell out. Heaviest rain I’ve seen for awhile.
    I mowed the small back lawn this morning and enjoyed the exercise. I need to buy another Black & Decker Grass Hog line trimmer. The one I got a year ago just suddenly stopped working several months back. Pressing the On button doesn’t even make a noise.

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #7 Dave
    You liked her shoes?

    What shoes? 😉

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    While the Episcopalians welcome a Trans-Man Bishop to the National Cathedral in Washington,
    those conservatives who left the church and formed Anglican Church in North America elect their second presiding bishop.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This is cuter than the OC pics.

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Čabrinović swallowed his cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka river. Čabrinović’s suicide attempt failed, as the cyanide only induced vomiting, and the Miljacka was only 13 cm deep due to the hot, dry summer.[65] Police dragged Čabrinović out of the river, and he was severely beaten by the crowd before being taken into custody.

    That feller was just having an all around bad day.

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #23 Tedtam
    A whole lot cuter, both of them.
    Shannon #22
    May the Anglican Church in North America live long and prosper. St. Thomas Becket and St. Thomas More are rolling in their tombs over what the Episcopal/Anglican Church has fallen to.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    One should always try to play chess with an episcopalian for money. . . . . .
    because they can’t tell the difference between a bishop and a queen.

  27. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    One feeble sprinkle about an hour ago is all so far today. Plenty of rumbling off to the north but not close enough to count so far.
    Agree with #3 mharper42 about the ghastly caricature of an Indian chief above is disgusting. Seems a perfect display for some real Indians to take offense and make an issue of it very publicly. The race card comes in many colors.

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    But the queers are just like everybody else so why all the haterade?
    /spits

  29. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    That dude was prolly one of the best trackers in his tribe, on account of he’s very light in his moccasins.

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    He sure don’t have no heavy buckskins weighing him down none.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    He musta been from the now extict pillow biter tribe.

  32. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You people think I’m joking about chemtrails?

  33. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    He sure don’t have no heavy buckskins weighing him down none.

    Gotta travel light.

  34. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    In other news, the DPRK has conducted another missile test…

  35. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Poor dead blog, I knew it well, Horatio. Now quite chap-fallen.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Green Energy for Dead Vets
    Three years before Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki would be forced out of his job because of the veterans who had died under him, he visited the Massachusetts National Cemetery. He wasn’t there to see the men and women who had died because of him.
    via our Ms. Adee

  37. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Thank you for posting this, Shannon. Livid does not begin to describe how anyone with a lick of sense reacts to this insanity.
    Say a prayer to St. Michael the Archangel to continue his watch over our veterans as he has defended them in battle. Amen.

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Good Morning Slackers!
    I would still be sawing logs but for the Boss’s condition taking a turn for the worse. Prayers for this kind old man (my boss, a WWII and Korea vet) would be greatly appreciated.

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Awesome German woman. Would that more here in this country would step up to stop the madness.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Guide for your next tattoo location.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    32 wb
    Heh.

    A woman said, “I think that all of us for a long time have known that we’re being sprayed. This is not contrails, contrails are very short. Chemtrails go along the sky,” before adding “Really, we are being sprayed like we’re bugs and it’s really not okay.” [46:42]

  42. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Reasonably tolerable 76 to start off, partly cloudy, and the breeze is just getting energized. June is almost gone, July 4th is almost upon us, and delightfully there are more flags displayed around our area in advance of the holiday. Perhaps some of those who have slept through the last 6 years are finally snapping to what’s been going on as it finally dawns on them that light at the end of the tunnel is a train roaring toward them, and it has Obama’s grinning face on it.

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #36 Shannon & Adee
    As one commenter pointed out, the inhabitants of a vet cemetery are not bothered by the presence of a giant whipping wind turbine. Seems like families that came to pay their respects would have complained before now though. But as another pointed out, the media would not be inclined to cover such a complaint.

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #40 Texpat
    Although the tramp stamp on the back of the waist is (as far as I know) sort of reserved for female tattooines, there is other territory where I’ve seen ’em on wimmins. On the clavicle is sort of tacky, especially if the tat is large enough to be peeking out above the neckline of a garment. If it’s a tiny butterfly, that’s one thing. A larger design, only partially revealed, inevitably makes you wonder how far it goes. I’ve also seen large tattoos on some wimmins’ calves. Gruesome.

  45. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Great week camping and hiking Big Bend. Getting back to a previous topic, we didn’t see any mountain lions but we did see a black bear and I did get a picture of it. All food and body parts remain intact.

  46. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If you have to ask yourself if you’re ignoring a major scandal of our time, you’ve probably been ignoring a major scandal of our time.

  47. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Greetings Yall from far northwest Texas (aka Parker Colorado / east Denver)…………..not gonna say how it’s 78 degrees sunny and almost zero humidity – nope ya caint make me! 🙂
    goin to take my daughter for a little cruise – Yall enjoy!

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The freight transport business comes to a screeching halt and ships back up into the ocean as Katfish takes his first vacay in years.
    Bring back some of that low humidity, eh?

  49. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We watched Lone Survivor last night on Netflix by mail. Not to be missed and so well done. New Mexico mountains stood in for Afghanistan, and those falls down mountainsides were pretty darned scary to see not to mention how scary to film.
    Nice to see a slap at CNN’s uber sensitivities toward the enemy included in the script regarding the good guys shooting the goatherds who stumbled upon them or letting them go lest they tell the Taliban where they were. Rules of Engagement killed them ’cause they let the goatherds go, and those immediately told the Taliban upon returning to their village. The dominoes fell from there.

  50. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Hey Katfish, bring us back a box of cold air.

  51. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Or a sack. A big sack will do.

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #47 Be sure to stop by and see Bob he lives just up the road.

  53. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  54. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Low humidity ain’t that great. Turns your skin to leather.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    After 57.9 years of it, I’d trade the tropical climate and my pretty face for low humidity and wrinkles any day.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I didn’t know Netflix still did the snail mail service.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oops, lost a year there somewhere.
    I’m 58.9.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Let me know when you come across the new Michelangelo.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Actually, Squawk is at a reunion concert.

  60. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Most every time I check the hamster cage this weekend, I find the wheel is rusted down…
    What are y’all up to?

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    What are y’all up to?

    I think they are all at bunsonburner‘s vodka beach party.

  62. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    Actually, Squawk is at a reunion concert

    Sweet merciful Savior! You mean there’s more than one of him?!?!?

  63. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Heh

  64. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Went out for late lunch/early dinner with good friends and then spent time chatting at their home. Came home in time to see the 5:30 news to determine if we can raise the drawbridges on the Rio Grande yet. However owing to Mexico losing its match this afternoon to the Netherlands that kinda pushed drawbridges out.

  65. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    What are y’all up to?

    I think they are all at bunsonburner‘s vodka beach party.

    Vodka.
    Blecch.

  66. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Agreed, wagonburner.

  67. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I say the first case of resistant TB (or the regular kind), HIV, or whatever other diseases that are infiltrating our borders shows up in the population, the Pubbies should scream bloody murder about how TBO&CO are endangering our children.
    Then stand back as the libs’ heads start spinning. I mean, how do you endorse illegal immigration AND endangering children?

  68. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Then stand back as the libs’ heads start spinning. I mean, how do you endorse illegal immigration AND endangering children?

    they are our kids. Collateral damage don’t yanno.

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