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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mandatory 6:45AM meeting #%*€ grumble grumble……

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat


    Happy Birthday, Shannon.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    LOL, Happy Birthday Shannon!

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Happy Birthday Shannon.
    Mornin’ Gang

  5. Sarge Avatar

    Use of Chicago as an example of crime running rampant in this country, and therefore a need for more gun control, simply ignores the facts on the ground in Chicago.

    No one doubts that Chicago has a significant problem with violence. As of Monday, the city logged its 200th homicide this year, a shooting that followed a dozen other shooting murders over the Independence Day holiday weekend, and dozens of more wounded in other incidents in the same time frame. It’s worth noting, though, that this is the latest the city hit its 200th homicide in the last four years, according to Red Eye Chicago, and that the homicide rate is down 4% over last year, which was the lowest year for Chicago homicides in nearly 50 years.
    Still, it’s looking pretty violent on the streets of the Windy City, despite having some of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation. It’s so violent out there that Roland Martin calls for the National Guard to impose something very akin to martial law on the streets of Chicago to save what he calls … “Chiraq”:
    snip

    Maybe Martin should listen more carefully to “some critics,” who seem to have a better grasp on both the law and reality. And while it’s considered trite to mention this, maybe Chicago should rethink their enthusiasm for gun-control laws that clearly don’t keep firearms out of the hands of criminals, but ensures that most of the potential victims are defenseless. That way, Chicago might not need the National Guard or the Super Friends Justice League to impose martial law, and some criminals might have second thoughts about operating in the Windy City. At the very least, it would be a novel — and constitutional — approach to the chronic problem.

  6. Sarge Avatar

    Is Shannon older than me yet?

  7. Sarge Avatar

    Murder rate drops as concealed carry permits rise, study claims

    The study by the Crime Prevention Research Center found that 11.1 million Americans now have permits to carry concealed weapons, up from 4.5 million in 2007. The 146 percent increase has come even as both murder and violent crime rates have dropped by 22 percent.
    “When you allow people to carry concealed handguns, you see changes in the behavior of criminals,” said the center’s president, John R. Lott, a Fox News contributor. “Some criminals stop committing crimes, others move on to crimes in which they don’t come into contact with victims and others actually move to areas where they have less fear of being confronted by armed victims.”

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HBD2U SHANNON.
    Good morning Hamsteronianites.
    In this mornings dead tree version of the comical, p6, there is an article about a canal to connect the Caribbean with the Pacific through Nicaragua. Price tag: $50 BILLION and there is a huge Chinese connection. Dya think it will get built?

  9. Hamous Avatar

    Relocating a company with 100 employees, has been in the same building for 50 years, and in the middle of July, is not fun.
    Side note: Filipinos seem to have cornered all the commercial moving jobs here in Houston. It’s like the Patel No-tell Motel phenomenon.

  10. Hamous Avatar

    Oh, and happy birthday, Shannon!

  11. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Metro Houston when shannon was a little kid:

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanks, gang.

  13. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    13
    That’s not a volcano. It’s the Holmes Road dump.

  14. Katfish Avatar

    #s 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 14 – About TIME you caught me Brother!
    Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny HAPPY returns!! (only one more ’till the BIG 6 0!!)

  15. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I guess some Afghan jihadi sent this pic of Bergdahl to the NY Post as a taunt to the USA.

  16. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #17 Katfish
    60 is the new 55!

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    17
    Whoever told the local Brenham radio station….I’m not too pleased.
    🙂

  18. Katfish Avatar

    Ticker Dude rides again

    This is what happens when you sit for the encroachment of your fundamental rights and the guarantees in the Constitution — they continue, right up until you have your wages confiscated on a mere allegation without any due process or hearing.

    Don’t say you weren’t warned — you were, and you sat on your a$$.

    The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly claimed that it has the authority to unilaterally garnish the wages of individuals who have been accused of violating its rules.

    Due Process? Naw, Not Any More

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Well, further perusing of.the local fishwrap reveals an editorial by Daniel “the lemming” Cohan who mindlessly parrots the CO2 causes global warming nonsense. It is really disappointing to see this madness flourish.

  20. Katfish Avatar

    #19 – Geez why can’t 60 be the new 35?

  21. squawkbox Avatar

    Note to John McCain and Bilge O’Really (SIC)
    Oh? Ya think?
    O’Really on one hand says he does not begrudge Obama’s “leisure time” it is petty yo criticize him about the time he takes off and then about a minute later launches into how he is sick of Obama not doing anything to fix stuff.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #22 Katfish: I am interested to see how the establishment is going to respond to this latest gross violation of our fundamental rights. I can’t believe that any court would allow this treachery to stand.

  23. squawkbox Avatar

    Andrea Mitchell: What were they thinking
    Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    “We tried the surgery twice but we failed because we could not access,” head surgeon Jaume Mora said at a press conference Wednesday. “Instead of surrendering, we tried to find a solution.”
    Mora and his team at the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu in Barcelona turned to the CIM Foundation at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia to create a 3D-printed replica of the boy’s tumor so they could perfect their technique ahead of the surgery.

    3D printing saves a 5 year old boy’s life.
    Six examples of ways 3D printing is revolutionizing the world.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Joel Kotkin of newgeography.com on how energy will affect the upcoming national elections.

    More significant, over time, may be how energy plays out in the country’s major political battleground, the rust-belt states. Most of these states are highly dependent on coal for electricity, and some, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, are seeking to develop new oil and gas finds. Policies that limit fossil-fuel development, may prove a tough sell in some districts and could cost the Democrats several additional Senate seats.
    In contrast, the most fervent support for strict climate-change legislation comes mostly from states – notably, the Northeast – that produce little in the way of energy and use relatively little carbon to power their economies. These states need less power than other areas as they already have deindustrialized and have very little population growth.

  26. Tedtam Avatar

    Happy birfday to youuuuuuu,
    Happy birfday to youuuuuuu,
    Happy birfday dear Shannunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn,
    Happy birfday to youuuuuuu!
    Oh, and how do you light that birthday cake, Squawk? Flame thrower?

  27. squawkbox Avatar

    Tedtam

    Oh, and how do you light that birthday cake, Squawk? Flame thrower?

    This might work
    I luv the innernet

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #29 TP: My friend, Dr. Cohn, is using a 3d printer to make artificial hearts. Some people are.expanding the concept to build houses with them. We live in very interesting times indeed.

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #32
    Sheesh, you’ll melt all the icing with that number of candles blazing up!

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Four of the new longer-range Hamas rockets hit Jerusalem today.

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Mexican train derails, stranding 1,300 migrants headed toward U.S.

    It would NOT surprise me if Bronco sent those DHS vans and buses down into Mehico to pick them up to complete their humanitarian journey.

  32. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good noontime Hamsters. Been busy finishing the laundry from the trip and sorting the mail that piled up. Also reading through Hambone to catch up here.
    Well, on the subject of cooler than usual Midwest, ahem, we had a preview last week in Wisconsin. Cool front arrived just before we did and had lows in the 50s in Door County a couple of days and highs in the upper 60s to low 70s, only a bit warmer in Madison. We watched fireworks on the 4th lakeside in Bailey’s Harbor, Door County, wearing long sleeves and jeans, with denim shirts added, and we were darned chilly. Local folks came out with jackets, and one family’s two darling little boys wore ski caps and middle weight jackets. Wish we had piled on more clothes. The car thermometer listed lower 60s when we got back in, but we really didn’t believe that. Next day it was overcast and didn’t make it out of the 60s.
    On July 6 it was chilly, overcast, and dampish low 60s during the day and cooling off after dark. We had a fireplace fire that night, and it was very much appreciated.
    If’n the outbreak next week beats that, it will be most notable. Very much unlike July up there this year. Now if it will just slide down here….

  33. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Happy Birthday Shannon. And many more to come. 🙂

  34. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Methinks we need private special ops to free our jailed Marine.

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I tend to agree with the main point of this article.
    In the past, when Hamas got a little full of itself and started feeling a little frisky, it could depend on world opinion swinging sharply in its favor, even though it was the clear instigator of whatever mayhem it was planning. This time, it looks like they might have overplayed their hand, especially when they kidnapped the three Israeli youths and killed them.
    The savages currently roaming around in The Iraq are not helping the cause, either. People are making the connection between two terrorist groups, whether there is an actual connection or not, and are at the very least turning their back on them, if not becoming actively hostile.
    Maybe there is hope after all.

  36. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s the latest Bill Whittle video, on the border mess, ICYMI.
    http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-where-do-you-live-mark-zuckerberg

  37. Katfish Avatar

    #37 – GEEZ don’t give TOTUS any ideas!

  38. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #42 mharper42
    Nails it.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    36 (addendum)
    Actually the Iron Dome system shot down two of the rockets and two hit in open areas.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I suppose my b’day present to myself is I haven’t had a cigarette in over a month.

  41. Katfish Avatar

    #46 –

    is I haven’t had a rolled then lit with fire and SMOKED cigarette in over a month.

    but still suckin on Nicotine…………………………. 🙂

  42. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Michael Jackson coulda used one of these.

  43. squawkbox Avatar

    bunsonburner
    #48
    I like the guy who had the nose grow on his forehead. No nasal drip in that configuration.

  44. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I like the guy who had the nose grow on his forehead. No nasal drip in that configuration.

    Yabut ifn he sneezed too hard he would give himself a lobotomy.
    As I always say, I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.

  45. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    With all the gay marriage controversy, a blind man could see this coming and not far down the not too slippery slope.

  46. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I like the guy who had the nose grow on his forehead. No nasal drip in that configuration.

    Yabbut he might drown in a hard rain.

  47. Tedtam Avatar

    From the Tuscany Press contest – this is part of a submission.

    “A little girl with worn sneakers that light up when her feet secure ground and a pale blue dress that twirls when she spins crouches in a pew three rows back from the coffin. It looks like a child’s toy chest, simple, painted white with tiny gold handles.

    Okay, that first sentence just seems (1) awkward, and (2) not a good opening sentence. My rewrite:

    The child’s coffin looked remarkably like a small child’s toy chest, and remarkably alone at the front of the church, despite the small crowd that had gathered. It was a simple box, painted white and had gold handles along the sides. A little girl crouches only three pews away, her wondering eyes taking in the activity. She wears a pale blue dress and worn shoes with light-up heels that she likes to watch blink as she twirls around.There is no twirling today, though…

    Is it me? Am I too rough on these submissions? I sometimes get the feeling that I’m too critical, since these are not my style of writing. Perhaps I’m a little myopic.

  48. Tedtam Avatar

    #52

    I like the guy who had the nose grow on his forehead. No nasal drip in that configuration.

    Yabbut he might drown in a hard rain.

    Especially since he probably can’t wear a hat.

  49. Tedtam Avatar

    Well, this should be interesting.
    The level of Muslim-on-Muslim homicides should be high.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    /snicker
    She thinks they still teach writing.

  51. Tedtam Avatar

    #56 Shannon

    /snicker
    She thinks they still teach writing.

    Oh… /smacking forehead

  52. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #48 PyroManiac

    Michael Jackson coulda used one of these.

    So true.
    🙂
    Brutal, but true.
    🙂

  53. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #52

    Yabbut he might drown in a hard rain.

    I heard this from a friend who lived on a farm and had several domestic turkeys that they always had to keep the turkeys under cover and out of the rain. If they felt anything pelting them from above, they would look up in wonderment and were in danger of drowning, just from having their beaks open.

  54. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #54 TT

    Especially since he probably can’t wear a hat.

    Mebbe a visor would cover it.

  55. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I’m sure you all have heard of the Spring shooting yesterday. I’m reading up on the details and more than a few times I had to compose myself. What brings this home to me and my family is that the victims were of a family which, although Niki and I did not know them, members of Niki’s family and several mutual friends of ours did. The family was LDS and attended a ward in the former building Niki and I attended. Furthermore, the oldest daughter, the lone survivor of the shooting, befriended Janisen at Girl’s Camp and in Janisen’s own words, “was one of the few people who would talk to me”. (Janisen has difficulty initiating conversations with people she does not know). Here’s a link of a fund set up for the family. Whatever help you think you can provide would be appreciated. Please be prayerful in your decision. Thank you all and God bless.
    http://www.gofundme.com/bbh9go

  56. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    The payment is set up where you can hide your information from everyone except the organization.

  57. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sorry if I spoiled any fun. Happy birthday, Shannon. 🙂

  58. Sarge Avatar

    Looks like the Z Street suit is bearing some fruit—although this article does not mention it

    “Judge Sullivan also authorized Judicial Watch to submit a request for limited discovery into the missing IRS records after Sept. 10,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement distributed after the hearing.

    That’s the biggee.

  59. Sarge Avatar

    Did some checking—that’s not a ruling on the Z Street suit. Its on an FOIA request from Judicial Watch.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    As a 9 year old, the worst whooping my wife ever endured was for not helping gather the turkeys to save them from a rain storm.

  61. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #46 Shannon
    No cigarettes for a month. That is fantastic. You didn’t even tell me.

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #66 Shannon
    No wonder she can’t stand birds.

  63. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #55 Snoodmistress: That would be wonderful should they try it. The mooslime slaughter would be epic and we just get popcorn and watch. There could be enough soldiers on the battleground to cause blood to run in the streets up to a horses bridle. They are all going to gather for the slaughter.

  64. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Donations are at $55,000. That’s excellent!

  65. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    As a 9 year old, the worst whooping my wife ever endured was for not helping gather the turkeys to save them from a rain storm.

    I got spanked for squishing a baby crawfish.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just in case you freaks didn’t know.
    It’s coming.

  67. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Philip Gordon, the White House’s Coordinator for the Middle East, is an abject idiot.

    Unfortunately, Gordon can’t give us all the specifics — “the details of this work remain classified.” But he is at liberty “to make clear that General Allen and his IDF counterparts are taking into account a range of contingencies, including the rising threats we see around the Middle East today…” And “the bottom line is that, based on this Security Dialogue, we are confident that, together with Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, we can create a comprehensive approach to security, proven through operational testing, to meet the highest standards anywhere in the world.”
    Why does Gordon’s championing of these security arrangements — presented as a veritable panacea that we foolish Israelis have pigheadedly spurned — sound so particularly risible? Because he was speaking soon after the very conference he was addressing in the David Intercontinental Hotel had been forced to shut down temporarily, its participants evacuated to a safer floor of the hotel.
    And why was that? Because Tel Aviv was being targeted by rocket fire, and the sirens were wailing to warn of incoming warheads.

    Bonehead.

  68. Tedtam Avatar

    Watching Hannity’s show on the Rio Grande with Perry, et al. A border officer just came on and said that the Obama administration is complicit with the human traffickers, completing the smuggling cycle.
    Okay, that’s one more for the unemployment line….
    Earlier, while on the treadmill at the gym, I watched Ben Shapiro call this administration not only not supportive of Israel, but “a borderline Jew-hating administration”. Megyn Kelley was surprised by that and pushed back some, but Shapiro stood his ground.
    I wonder if the MSM will pick up on these lines or bury them.
    Thank God for men with all their manly parts. And in the right places.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #73 WB
    Gordon is just one more symptom of the morbid disease. Why should they hire anyone who is coherent when they have no coherent message ?
    It’s rapidly becoming apparent and the Admin will become more desperate as qualified hires begin to flee the applicant rolls. They will have to continue to drop the threshhold for competency and that becomes its own self fulfilling prophecy of spiraling death.

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #75 cont’d.
    This is the tipping point wherein self-preservation and career advancement begin to trump any silly partisan loyalties. The DC crowd will begin to run, not walk, from the Obama job corps. The mistakes, the stumbles and gaffes will get worse as they find it impossible to hire anyone who cares about their future in DC.

  71. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Gordon was exhibiting Baghdad Bob-level cluelessness.

  72. phil Avatar
    phil

    Has tRicked us Perry taken action and called on the Texas National Guard to secure the border or is he still listening to his Tony Robbin’s cds on how to take action?
    They all parrot how this is a great humanitarian crisis. They just leave out the fact that it’s a crisis OCloven Hoof wanted and created.
    Also it’s a only a one way street humanitarian crisis because all the sack of sheet politicians care about is the illegal aliens. –well they don’t really care, they just pretend to.
    It’s not considered a humanitarian crisis or burden on the good, honest, and hard working American citizens because we know for a fact they don’t give two $hits about us. Never have and never will.
    I haven’t heard yet if Jeb Bush has offered his brother’s 1600 acre Crawford Ranch to house a few thousand illegals.
    I’m still waiting though.
    Come on Jeb. Show em some love.

  73. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Donations at about $76.5 thousand. Looking good!!!

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