Proof of two things: 1) The ’80s was a weird decade, and 2) Taylor Swift can in no way be considered “country”.
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Apparently I’m a supporter of Preezy O’Breezy because I chose not to vote.
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Looking through old comments I came across this. I’m quite sure the recent election was not the “right direction” he was talking about but Krugtron may have (accidentally) finally got something right:
In fact, there’s a very good chance that 2014 will go down in the record books as one of those years when America took a major turn in the right direction.
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MSNBC – where old folkie hippies go to die.
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The flag of Sicily is pretty weird.
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Obama Flashback: ‘If you don’t like my policies, go out there and win an election.’
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Good morning Hamsters. Overcast and gloomy 53 at 6, feels like late Fall. Pecan trees are dropping leaves rapidly now and nuts as well; the red oaks are slower and on occasion drop some colored rather than brown leaves along with acorns. Live oaks mostly just drop lots of acorns and a few leaves the north wind pulls off. We’re all waiting for that first cold blast coming next week that will vanquish Summer for this year and put lots of us in the mood for Thanksgiving and the Christmas season. Of course the election results deserve the most credit. 🙂
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Wisconsin is now a red state, not as red as we are of course, but no longer purple and certainly not blue. With the election Republicans increased their majorities in the state Assembly and Senate; statewide the Dems only hold the Secretary of State office; in the US House of the 8 representatives 5 are Republican and 4 of them are conservatives. Paul Ryan is the more moderate one. In the US Senate, Ron Johnson is a conservative, and the other is Tammy Baldwin, a far-out liberal elected in 2012 before the bloom was fully off the Obama rose. Blue splotches around Madison and Milwaukee remain and an occasional blotch elsewhere. Much more like the state I grew up in.
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I had a conversation with the priest at my parish on Thursday night at a dinner before a class and found out he’s a blacksmith. Pretty cool.
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OK, I’ll bite. Who is Taylor Swift?
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There may be hope for south Texas yet.
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OK, I’ll bite. Who is Taylor Swift?
She’s an anorexic young girl who was the darling of “Country” music for a few years. One of her hit songs is the music superimposed on the video above.
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Hey, those jumping jack exercises are just like what I do twice a day to limber up my store-bought knees.
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Willie can do a really cool card trick:
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I thought Taylor Swift was a NASCAR driver.
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#15
lol, that actually would be a catchy race car driver name.
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Local dirt track racer up in Lubbock when I was a kid Sleepy Nelson is my all time favorite driver name.
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Course Stacy Starrett was a pretty good driver name too, which also happens to be my son’s name. 😀
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#16 – Oh for goodYo-Quiero-Taco-Bell-?ness SAKES!!
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Now that is funny right there Tim.
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16 SQK
International Paruresis Association
I have this urge to sneak into their offices one night and remove all the bathroom doors.
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Ruh Roh Nascar soon to be on the anti-domestic violence band wagon.
I wonder if Brian France NASCAR, CEO will be badgered into the same crappola Goodell was? Are we going to be treated to a NASCAR commercial featuring drivers speaking out against domestic violence? Will NASCAR have a month long awareness month addressing women’s maladies? Will Queen Sheila demand NASCAR pay $500M to anti-abuse agencies?
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Shannon
Lemme know when you go and i will help.
/Oh wait that did not sound right.
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Years of cranking out degrees in Nonprofit Administration gets you the International Paruresis Association.
Billions of offended peoples need to be administered.
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There must be some shy-bladdered millionaires footing the overhead.
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“We always wondered why Grandma insisted on going outside to pee.”
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Some of Texanadian’s neighbors in Alberta.
I love this video.
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More likely funded by Big Pharma. I didn’t even know men had shy bladder, I thought it was a wimminz problem. But if it is a universal complaint, gotta be some high dollar prescription pharmaceuticals to treat it. -
Hey Dori……….. now everyone knows………. dumbaxe
/I swore I would never use the term “dumbaxe” for what I really mean……. I lied.
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Whoa, was I wrong!
While both sexes are susceptible to paruresis, “nine of 10 who come in for treatment are men,” says Soifer.
http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/features/secret-social-phobia
But they’re talking about a mental problem, not a physical one, so there may not be any drugs for it.
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yes Yes YES YESSSSSSS
Washington Redskins Suing Native Americans Offended by Team’s Name
I hope the noble savages get their scalps handed to them.
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And in further news the noble savages are offended that people who resell tickets for exorbitant prices are called scalpers.
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#33 – Sooooooooooo what’s next? Lawsuits from Custer’s descendants? 🙂
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I have an old buddy who is a Nez Perce Indian. In high school he wore a t-shirt that said “Custer had it coming”. That always made me laugh. Still does.
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Everyone here except Adee offends me and I’m suing.
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I offend myself.
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I’m Siouxing.
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My mom tells me I gots some Indian blood in me. I am sure it is not near as much as bunsonburner. Prolly just 1 part per billion billion. Unlike a bunch of other folks in a like genetic position i cannot get all indignant over “Indian Issues”. But then again I cannot get all wound up over “white folk” issues.
I tend to get more upset over important things like Kansas saying they have better BBQ than Texans. Heh and I ain’t Texan either.
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I try to be offensive. I have thrown out my deodorant to aid in the effect.
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I tried to pee and had a bout of shy bladder syndrome and now I’m pi$$ed.
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Wow.
A This Old House program showed crimped joint fittings on black iron pipe for a natural gas line. No threads!!
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Good thing you are retired.
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#41
Is that dangerous?Something rumpled the comment order. I had 42 by accident, now I don’t. My question was for the crimped pipe, not for what is now #41. 🙂
I think I’ve identified a bad word in Phil’s #41 that caused the pile-up. Looks like someone neutralized it for him… 🙁
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Nope
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Hmm, interesting to figure out who has standing to sue anyone for any particular grievance, which of course does not prevent anyone from trying. That’s what gives lawyers on both sides of the judicial bench jobs.
#36 Shannon
Obviously I haven’t yet blundered into a sore spot. 🙂
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MHarper
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Obviously these people were abused by over bearing parents that would not let their chillin get off the potty till they pee peed. I think they should get a hold of Jim “The Texas Hammer” Adler and sue the pants off their parents for causing them undue mental distress.I feel like I need to help these people to
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By gawwwwdddduuuuuuhhhhh there is help. AND it is an Amazon Editor’s Favorite book of the year 2014.
Most people take being able to urinate in public rest rooms for granted, but for countless millions of people having to urinate when they are out in public poses a terrific problem. The anxiety is called avoidant paruresis and like all social phobias it is amenable to change. This is a book about effecting positive change.
Paruresis is a serious malady. Volunteer today to watch someone. Go with them into the restroom and watch as they lose there inhibition and learn to urinate in public.
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Everyone here except Adee offends me and I’m suing.
Especially GJT.Line ends over yonder.
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What I thought was called “shy bladder” is when your doctor sends you to the lab for blood and urine tests, and you aren’t able to produce any urine. No one is with you or watching you, so I guess this is a different syndrome.
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I’m sure this is a joke but who would find it funny?
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Craigslist is a weird place for sure
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Sic ’em Bears!!!
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#51 Hamous
Seems more like an attempt at stinging comparison that falls short of the desired target but manages to get the point across to anyone who hangs on to read all the way to the bottom.
That darling little boy with the harness would not have been wildly out of place in a busy public place in the era in which I grew up past the toddler stage (the 40s). He won’t wander away and get lost or run out in the street and certainly won’t be kidnapped by some pervert when he’s connected to a parent or guardian who can’t leave him with someone at home. The harness is a lot better and more clever than the ones seen in the 40s. And in those days it was not a scandal to attach your child to yourself in that fashion any more than carrying the child in a papoose arrangement.
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If someone tries to sell you Super Bowl rings, they ain’t their’s.
Texans linebackers coach Mike Vrabel tweeted today that his house was broken to, and among the items stolen was the three Super Bowl rings he won as a player for the New England Patriots.
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My children were VERY ACTIVE when they were small. When we went to the zoo, I always put a leash on them, thier wrist to mine. It kept them safe and me sane.
As far as the shy bladder thing goes, I know someone with the condition. His father used to beat the tar out of him all the time, even for having to get up in the night to pee. The father never beat his younger brother. The guy is somewhat difficult to be friends with, under all the scar tissue he is a good guy.
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So all of a sudden Dictator OCloven Hoof has a round table meeting with the reweaklican leaders and wants to bury the pitchfork.
The same OCloven Hoof who said elections have consequences and I won.
The only place the reweaklicans should bury the pitchfork is where the sun doesn’t shine.
And they should do the same to the Mephistopheles Streamed Media as well. Those commie propagandists.
There is no room for compromise after 6 years of this two bit dictator.
The problem is will the Bartender of the House and the Whisky Wizzler of the Senate be able to grow a pair between the two of them to fight the good fight?
I am highly doubtful they will but hope they prove me wrong.
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Now I am offended
This Rob Lowe commercial mocks people with hairy backs, arms or whatever. I liked my ex mother-in-law. She can’t help it she looks like Sasquatch.
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Adee – I got it but it just rubs me the wrong way. Of course we should be humane to pets and not treat them as disposable items. That’s what makes us human. But comparing children to dogs is absurd. A few years ago I was listening to a conversation between two coworkers. One was relating being frustrated with his then toddler. The other (childless) one popped off with something like “Yeah, I know what you mean. My dog does the same thing!” I had to hold the guy back.
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Bunsonburner is offended
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How bout comparing dogs to kids?
Yeah yeah I know I am just trying to start stuff.
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#Hamous 59
Understood. The piece in question was pretty clumsy.
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#61 Squawk
The first comment to the article nails it and is hysterical in the amusing meaning.
Everybody else in the comments section and apparently the investigators themselves seem to be totally oblivious to the conventions of canine society in the wild and when transferred to domesticity with human companions/owners. Ummm, the concept of the alpha dog and pleasing the alpha dog if you don’t happen to be the alpha dog….
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Ms Adee
I look at “research” like that as one more step in dehumanizing humans.
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And not to forget that dogs have owners and cats have staff…. 🙂
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I do understand people like in Hammie’s story though. I’d bet the reply was innocent enough. The guy’s child was his dog. When my Ginger (my boxer) was alive she was my bud, my kid you name it. In the course of conversation I am prolly guilty of interjecting something just like that too. I would never equate a human being child with a dog though although one or the other is capable of actions that might remind a person of of the actions of the other.
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#51 Hammy
I don’t think the “ad for the child” is meant to be humorous at all. It is satire. We extreme animal lovers have no sense of humor. I daresay most people have both children AND pets, and are keenly aware of the difference between the two. -
Just at dusk spouse noticed three small deer in the neighbor across the street’s yard eating acorns under their live oak trees. Bet we have some come to browse under our live oaks and red oaks at night, and perhaps they also like pecans. We also have plenty of those.
With the proliferation of homes in new subdivisions out here they surely are pushed out of their usual feeding places. We see more of them now than when we first moved out here in 1980, but then this area has not been in the sticks for many moons. There are a few densely wooded plots in the area that shelter them by day. So far they have not disturbed our flowerbeds. But this morning spouse said a pair of youngish squirrels were making whoopie in a pansy bed and flattened a pansy or two.
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Boy, A&M threw a monkey wrench into the SEC West.
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The nurse in the family tells of many men who had to take the urine sample cups home.
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Saw the last few minutes of the game waiting for the news to eventually come on. A&M won the pounce on the loose ball in the last seconds. What a finish.
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I finally have a chance to check in. /long day
First, last night, as I was coming home from visiting Hubby in the hospital, I saw about five or six shapes dashing across the dark road ahead of me. They ran like puppies, were about the size of puppies, but they looked more like cats. I actually pulled into a driveway so my headlights could identify them. I thought someone’s pack of puppies had gotten loose. As I turned into the driveway, I caught sight of two raccoons slipping through a wooden fence while a third turned to look at me, and a tail of a fourth just disappearing over the top. It gave me a smile.
Hubby was finally discharged from the hospital today. We were told yesterday that we could leave whenever I arrived this morning. I got there just before nine, to find that they had just hung some antibiotics on his IV, and it would take at least two hours to finish. We also find out that the doctor hasn’t issued discharge orders yet. It was past noon before we were able to leave.
While waiting, we asked the nurse to remove the tube from Hubby’s knee. She refused to do it: “We’re not allowed to do things like that. It’s an invasive procedure.” The doctor told us that WE could pull the darn thing out ourselves, so why couldn’t the nurse? Anyway, we got Hubby home, and I got him all settled with his drinks, snacks, remote, etc. Then I went to get Hubby’s prescriptions – a couple of antibiotics and some pain killers for which he could either get shot or lots of money. It took me several hours, as I got there just as the pharmacy closed for lunch. Just. Closed. Dangit.
Returned home and found some sterile gloves, gauze, antibiotic ointment, etc., and we c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y unwrapped his knee. His knee looks like something from Frankenstein’s monster, with a cut and stitches across the entire top of his knee, and the tube poking out from one side. Hubby began gingerly pulling the tube. And pulling. And pulling. And pulling. That sucker must have been wound up in circles under the kneecap. He ended up removing at least four inches of tubing from inside his knee. I applied the ointment as gently as possible, and then we covered it with gauze and rewrapped everything.
So Hubby is now comfortably (as possible) on the couch, and I finally have finished cooking and washing dishes, and finally get to relax a little bit. Before starting some paperwork.
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Why does this song remind me of Blob Beckel and Juan Williams?
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TT, reading about one of your days just exhausts me! You are always on the go. Glad you got the man home, and we all hope he continues to improve.
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And the glass of Cabernet.
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#72 Mharper
And I forgot to mention my weekly visit to my mother. For the most part, the visit was nice, but I don’t think I let her talk about herself enough. That’s important.
I am constantly annoyed/amazed at her irritation when I mention anything about me going to help Lovely Daughter with any baby stuff. Just because SHE never had any help with caring for us, she thinks it’s a sin for me to help Lovely. Of course, she was there to help my two baby sisters out, but she forgets about that.
I try to be patient and remember that she’s had issues for years, that she’s getting on in years, and she is all alone all day in her room.
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Hubby is talking in his sleep over on the couch. Sounds business related.
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Ok, any bets on when Ferguson is going to blow up? I thought it would happen over the weekend, because I read that the St Louis schools had asked for the grand jury verdict to be announced when schools are closed. To make it easier for kids not to be caught up in the riots. Makes sense to me for small kids, but bigger ones will be more likely to join in the looting on a weekend. Or so it seems to me.
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#77 TT
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#48 –
Go with them into the restroom and watch as they lose there inhibition and learn to urinate in public.
Not unless I kin pee in their shoes while I’m waitin for ’em to grow a pair! 🙂
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Sounds like someone needs to make sure her man gets a sammich.
And no skimping on the Fritos.
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#80 katfish
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Bic Pens “For Her” — see the new product reviews…
http://guff.com/bic-decided-to-create-a-pen-for-her/20“I can’t find a switch to turn it on, and it didn’t come with batteries. This is not the “for her” product I was expecting. At all.”
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Katfish
#80I ain’t volunteering. My lovely wife and I have been married for 18 years (this time) and we both agree the door must always be shut. Watching someone wet is not what makes my mustard spicy.
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OK Galoshes fer Squawk – LMAO 🙂
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Tedtam
So happy that your Hubby is at last home and on the mend. What a week you’ve both had. Agree with mharper42 that just reading about your active days makes me weak. 🙂
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Good morning Hamsters. Well brisk barely describes it this morning at 6, 44 out here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond, quiet, lots of dew. Gorgeous Moon on her way to bed in a clear sky, rosy fingered Dawn approaching from the east. Nice early morning to stay in bed for a bit or go back to it after breakfast. Cameo and Tessa were extra happy to see me.
Weather prognostication for here includes a possible freeze during the Arctic blast coming in a few days, highs only in the 40s and 50s several days. Up in the Midwest folks are told to expect up to 5 consecutive days below freezing. That is very early for them. Looks like the Old Farmer’s Almanac is right on it when it says this winter will be colder than last year. There must be some big climate change/MMGW conference scheduled somewhere coinciding with this. 🙂
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I think this early frost is called the “Gore effect.” Everywhere Algore goes to talk about global warming suffers freak blizzards and 100 year record cold spells, etc. Are you sure he’s not out hiding in the woodpile?
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#88 El Gordo
Well we must admit that Algore is rather wooden so that’s a distinct possibility.
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Heh. And good morning, all.
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One would have thought that after the outcry from the syphilis experiments in the south among blacks during the 50-60s this sort of thing would not happen again. As it turns out, those that run WHO and UNICEF have hearts of darkness.
HEADLINE: UPDATED: Did the Kenyan Bishops Just Expose WHO & UNICEF?
Yesterday, the Bishops of Kenya issued what appeared to be a courageous statement exposing a clandestine population control program disguised as a tetanus vaccine program.
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However, during the second phase of the Tetanus vaccination campaign in March 2014, that is sponsored by WHO/UNICEF, the Catholic Church questioned the secrecy of the exercise. We raised questions on whether the tetanus vaccine was linked to a population control program that has been reported in some countries, where a similar vaccine was laced with Beta- HCG hormone which causes infertility and multiple miscarriages in women.
On March 26, 2014 and October 13, 2014, we met the Cabinet Secretary in-charge of health and the Director of Medical Services among others and rasied our concerns about the Vaccine and agreed to jointly test the vaccine. However the ministry did not cooperate and the joint tests were not doneLong story short, those “compassionate” folks at the UN and WHO have devised a scheme to control the population in Africa by giving a drug (disguised as a tetanaus vaccine) that permanently causes infertility in wimmins. Because they care so much.
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Katfish informed me of the seaport labor problems on the West Coast which hasnt bubbled up to the national news level yet.
I came across this piece of information in researching the issue….
According to the Pacific Maritime Association a longshoreman working 1,600 hours a year -two-thirds of the longshore workforce- earns about $123,000 whilst Clerks receive $147,000 and walking bosses (foremen) make $209,000 for similar working hours. In addition, workers are said to receive a benefits package worth about $93,000 a year.
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Maybe we need to contract with WHO and UNICEF to move those operations to certain areas of the Middle East.
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#93 Shannon: Wadyawannabet that this will be all over the LSM in no time at all with wall to wall coverage of the outrage?
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1,600 hrs a year? Must be nice.
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No Texans today what’s a feller to do?
Never mind I was just handed a list.
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#95 Ralph: 40 hrs/week x 40 weeks = 1600 hrs/year. What would you do with yourself with 3 fargin months off every year?
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Morning all. A balmy 20F here today. It is the GWN, started to snow yesterday afternoon and continues. Very light and accumulation is about 5 inches. Heading out to clear the driveway as the kidlets are coming this afternoon and I don’t want them packing it down and making an ice rink.
TT – glad the hubby is on the mend.
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I never watch the Sunday morning shows but tuned in to get the spin. Meet The Press was all Dems, This Week is talking about Russian cyber attacks. La la la la didn’t notice a thing happen this week! 😀
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Shannon
Katfish informed me of the seaport labor problems on the West Coast which hasnt bubbled up to the national news level yet.
Uhhhh reliable national media has reported on the issue. (Note it is not Fox)
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Hunnerd!
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Dang it
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TexCan if it makes you feel any better I have to mow today. 😛
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Do a Google news search for longshoreman and everyone else chimes in.
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What would you do with yourself with 3 fargin months off every year?
Nothin
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#101
GJT says:
NOVEMBER 9, 2014 AT 10:19 AM EDIT
Hunnerd!OooPs
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Longshoreman sounds like a good candidate to be replaced by a robot or some other type of machine. Of course, the shipping companies will also need robocops to protect their operations from the rioting (sub-)human so-called workers. Gad, I hate unions.
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Cowboys and Jaquars playing in London, hardly any of the players can bother putting their hand to the chest during the anthem.
/spits
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108 GJT
That is a primary reason I no longer watch pro sports anymore. I’m sick of those people – the leagues, the owners, the managers and particularly the players.
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We never see the national anthem on TV for football games so it kind of stood out. I guess since its in London they showed it. Stark contrast to a NASCAR race where it’s shown every week and all participate. Go Rednecks!
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Dug out the yard and driveway. Took an hour and it isn’t even really heavy yet with snow. Six inches on the ground, eight according to the TW.
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Hubby is out of the house, going over some business stuff with his mother. He can walk, but can’t bend his knee. I told him that not only does he have a Frankenstein’s monster type of wound on his knee, but he walks like him, too. Taken to calling him ‘Hopalong’ ‘cuz when he stands up, he hesitates and kind of hops the first step or two. Was going to call him “Sticks” (which was my nickname not too long ago), but he’s not using the crutches much if at all.
I’m going out to get a good workout in. I haven’t been able to get much exercise this week. I thought about working in the backyard since the weather is so nice, but I think the dirt is too wet and would stick to the shovel. Then I’m going to the store and getting stuff to fix dinner. I’ve gone to the Atkins site and gotten some recipes. It looks like chicken gumbo stew for dinner, and peanut butter haystacks for dessert.
Out for now.
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From the CEO of Foreign Policy, a WaPo affiliate and left of center journal:
The isolation starts with the fact that from the beginning, for the president and his campaign team, it was never about the Democratic Party. It was never about the rest of their team in the administration. It was never about a network of international relationships. It was always about one man who was the product, the messenger, the mission, and the raison d’être all wrapped into one. And for the next two years, it seems highly likely that any brave post-election faces they try to put on this to the contrary, Obama will reap the results of his political and policy narcissism in a way that will not only be difficult for him personally but will be bad for America and its role in the world.
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This outfit belongs to a friend of mine and they have this cherry Chevelle S/S for sale if any of you are interested.
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#114
TexpatThat’s a sweet Chevelle. Nice to see something built anymore not layin’ on the ground.
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We had a late lunch at Luby’s, which was doing overflow business with nicely dressed, after-church, middle-aged and older crowd. I lost count of the number of women on canes, walkers, and rollators. Speaking of which, I need to start getting ready to head to the O.R. in the morning for the scar cracking that will hopefully put my right knee back in the game.
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Finally got around to watching True Grit. Don’t remember what y’all folks thought about it here a few years ago but I thought it was done better than the original. I haven’t seen a bad Coen Brothers movie and the soundtrack was excellent as usual.
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That is a nice Chevelle. Though, if I was going to put a crate motor in it I would have dropped in a modern Tremec T-56 six speed instead of a Rockcrusher.
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Good luck with that mHarper!
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O.R. in the morning for the scar cracking
I do not know what that is but it does not sound good. Prayers up for ya MKneesy42. Can’t have one my favorite people to tease with hurting knees while they walk. 🙂
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Thanks, Shannon! How are you & the Mrs. coming along? We sure have a lot of people on the injured list lately. 🙁
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I e-mailed that Chevelle pic to a friend of mine that is looking. Dunno what his verdict will be but this guy is a Chevelle nut. Wish I had the cash to grab that thing for myself even without a Tremec T-56 six speed.
Uhhhh what is a Tremec T-56 six speed? 🙂
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Ditto what Shannon said. Scar tissue/adhesions can cause all sorts of miseries, and unfortunately there isn’t a way to stop its formation beforehand.
Please let us know how you’re doing once home tomorrow if you’re up to it.
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I walk pretty good, Squanderous, once I get the bum knee outside the car. It no longer bends to the degree required for everyday life, possibly due to scar tissue that has formed around the ligaments. Doc will render me unconscious, raise that knee, put his ear close by it, and manually bend the knee, hoping to quickly hear some popping noises. This should have been done 3 months ago, but time has been wasted on things that didn’t do any good at all.
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#124
This should have been done 3 months ago, but time has been wasted on things that didn’t do any good at all.
Oh man do I know that feeling. 🙁
So they won’t have to cut again? I hope.
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Good luck with the knee cracking. Give us all the gory details when you are able in case some of us (like me) have to consider it as an option.
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Give us all the gory details
A video with sound would be real cool and would be a hamous.org first tuh boot.
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How are you & the Mrs. coming along?
Her- it’s a painful daily battle. Showering herself and doing her hair pretty much finished her off today.
Me- I’m fine. Actually had an Afib episode last weekend that wiped me out. An occasional episode is not unexpected for a few months following this procedure, while scarring fully sets up. (And I had missed my medication that Sunday morning at 6am.)
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Giants on the road leading Seattle at the half.
It’s all fixed, I’m tellin’ ya.
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Hmmm, what mharper42 is describing sounds very much like adhesion breaking in my repaired/rebuilt left ankle in the late 80s when my horse fell with me before I was clear of her. The left foot was stuck under her, and I pulled myself out but tore all the ankle ligaments loose from their moorings on one side. And broke the bottom end of the fibula, but that was minor in comparison.
About two months into the physical therapy that began after the fibula fracture was healed and the ligament reattachment was deemed satisfactory, the therapists could detect adhesions had formed in several spots. They caused mobility problems in several ranges of motion, of which ankles have many since they are almost universal joints.
The ideal is detecting them and breaking them while they are small and thin and can be dealt with by judicious external manipulation of the joint to pull them apart just about painlessly. Wait too long and they thicken and toughen so that external manipulation is way too painful to break them without anesthesia of some sort. And perhaps some subsequent healing time.
In my case I could feel the adhesion begin to stretch on manipulation and pulling on my heel and foot, best described as feeling that taffy is stretching inside, thinner and thinner until it breaks painlessly but is definitely felt letting go. A creepy sensation but not painful. Over several more weeks the therapists broke about three adhesions as I recall and restored mobility. They did not recur.
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20 laps to go, this is gonna be a wild restart and finish.
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Oh man all this talk about ligaments and scars does not give me a warm fuzzy about my BSue’s pending knee surgery. She had the arthritis scraped form under her knee and the Doc told her sometime in the future she will need new knees. She lives off of liquified rooster comb injections right now. The Doc told her she would know when it is time to get the new ones.
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How you know it is time for knee replacement is when you can take at least 6 weeks off. I guess it might be possible to work part time after a month of PT. I could not drive for 2 months after the first knee, but got to it in 5 wks after the other one. Of course, it’s very much a YMMV situation.
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When the weather gets bad she gets real grumpy/ So being the good caring husband that I am I will ask her if she thinks it is time for new knees. I never knew she knew that kind of language, but a simple no would suffice. 🙂
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I lived with all that chronic pain and limited mobility for years – probably 10 or so. My only regret is that I waited so long to go ahead and get the hip and the knee fixed. Now I feel good enough to want to get back in the game, but I got too old to do so standing around waiting on the sidelines for so long. Just tell the doc that whatever he’s doing isn’t working any more and it’s time to get it fixed. I was back at work after 2 weeks each time, and while I used a cane and hobbled around for a while, nobody but me seemed to care, and I think being up and about helped me heal faster.
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Obama’s “green” energy? Here’s how it works – if you can’t pay back the federal loan you got to build the boondoggle all you have to do is request a federal grant to pay it back.
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#136 Hamous
Isn’t that a cozy arrangement? Let’s hope somebody with a brain squashes that request pronto and then sues to recoup the federal loan. This boondoggle merits close scrutiny by the new media.
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Re: scar tissue and the cracking thereof:
When my sister had breast implants, she had scar tissue build up around them. Her husband used to “crack her chest” himself. She’d lay on the floor, and he’d put one one hand on her breast, the other on top of that hand, and then push down like he was giving her CPR, but harder.
I cannot even begin to comprehend how painful that must have been.
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Okay, I’ve never heard that one before.
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#135 EG
I guess we ladies are just more delicate and fragile. 🙂 I was in PT for 3 months for my first knee. There was no way I could have worked after 2 weeks, even if I could have driven, which I couldn’t. Of course a manual stick shift pickup doesn’t sound like it’s for someone who is delicate OR fragile, but I didn’t even attempt a test drive until 2 months of PT. -
It is 32 in Green Bay at present, cozy and warm inside Lambeau Field however if you are a Packers fan. Snow flurries in their forecast for tonight, snow tomorrow and Tuesday. Low of 18 Tuesday night. The Arctic front is there.
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Well, this ‘splains some things. Maybe there IS something in the water!
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Perry, considering a repeat presidential bid in 2016, had just spoken at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Reagan’s famous “A Time For Choosing” speech. Among his scalding criticisms of Obama, Perry explained the president’s failings as due to his background as a U.S. senator – something that happens to apply to several of his would-be challengers for the GOP presidential nomination.
“If you’re in the Senate or if you’re in the House, you can give a speech and then go home. Governors can’t. We have to govern,” Perry said, adding, “And the president of the United States, historically, has had to operate that way, too; the ones that were successful. And one of the reasons why this President is not successful is because he’s never had that experience.”
Yup. perhaps this is a preemptive strike against a certain US senator from Texas who may run for president 2016.
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Squawk #132;
My uncle had knee surgery several years ago and it seems fairly standard though I’m sure BSue’s well informed as to the procedure and its possible affects.
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Packers 42, Bears 0 at the half. Wow, just wow.
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Packers 55, Bears 14 final. Packers let the clock run out a couple of yards outside the Bears end zone to avoid another score.
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