Happy Boxing Day

For our Commonwealth friends:

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Adee
Adee
December 29, 2014 7:00 am

#93 Darren

Nails it. Please do repost on today’s OC when it’s available.

gtotracker
gtotracker
December 29, 2014 6:58 am

That the plane is missing is no longer breaking news. Bring it up when they actually find something.

Super Dave
Super Dave
December 29, 2014 5:15 am

Well maybe the rain has FINALLY stopped, it rained all weekend in Clear Lake and starting late Saturday it was cold, about 45 for the high yesterday and with the rain, it doesn’t get colder than that….43 now.

Darren
Darren
December 29, 2014 5:09 am

I’ll repost this if a new blog post opens up. Robert Oscar Lopez is a scholar, former Catholic now Born Again Baptist who has written extensively on the need for two parent families (one female and the other male). In this article he masterfully shows how the gay activism threatens higher order thinking at Catholic Universities. But sexual radicalism and… Read more »

Super Dave
Super Dave
December 29, 2014 4:59 am

So “Boxing Day” became “Groundhog Day?”
Mornin’ Gang

El Gordo
December 28, 2014 10:12 pm

Been gone, back now. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and looking forward to a glorious new year. Every day that passes is one less day President Ebola has left in office. Rice played (and defeated) Fresno State in the Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve, and I was scared throughout the entire game that he would show up and take… Read more »

Katfish
December 28, 2014 8:30 pm

#38 – WOWEE that lovely Gal got some PIPES!

Adee
Adee
December 28, 2014 7:49 pm

I’m exhausted from watching the game but delighted with the win and Aaron Rodgers’ comeback to engineer it wounded though he was. And of course everyone else on the team stepped up to protect him and do their jobs very well. Presume the Cowboys-Lions game next week will be interesting. As for the Politico article, take that with a block… Read more »

Shannon
Shannon
December 28, 2014 6:42 pm

Republicans nationwide begin taking tax cuts off the table.
And spending reductions are ne’er mentioned either.

Adee
Adee
December 28, 2014 5:37 pm

Aaron is back in the game and throwing a scoring pass. Yea. Standing ovation when he took the field. Quite a pleasant surprise.

squawkbox
December 28, 2014 5:03 pm

Texpat
#79

Yuh saw that did yuh? His pedigree is akin to Khomeini. Back in 2008 there was a lot of speculation that he was like Khomeini if not cut from whole cloth.

Adee
Adee
December 28, 2014 5:02 pm

Yup Shannon, this injury will likely have unforeseen ramifications on the playoffs. He injured the calf muscle in last week’s game, which explained the low score (20-3) over a team that should have been run out of the stadium. Brother-in-law in Madison said that Aaron was recovering from the flu last week when he played and injured the muscle when… Read more »

Shannon
Shannon
December 28, 2014 4:48 pm

That’s a real bummer about Aaron Rgers, Adee. They need this win more than ever now, to get the bye week.

Texpat
Texpat
December 28, 2014 4:42 pm
Shannon
Shannon
December 28, 2014 4:41 pm

she now lives in Paris with a menagerie of adopted stray animals.

Mebbe she needs a live in dog walker.

Texpat
Texpat
December 28, 2014 4:35 pm

76 Squawk

RE: your link

With enough money any man can buy a vanity website, hire writers and look like a living martyr.

Ghastly.

squawkbox
December 28, 2014 4:34 pm

Texpat

I’m gonna hafta put her on my reading list. She has some really good insights. Thanks for the heads up on her.

even if she did get a scholarship to some podunk school at Oxford. 🙂

Texpat
Texpat
December 28, 2014 4:32 pm

76 Squawk

I’ve been following Claire for 8 or 10 years now. She’s really great even if she did get a scholarship to some podunk school at Oxford.

Adee
Adee
December 28, 2014 3:44 pm

Yea for the Texans, yea for JJ. Good way to end the season. Cleveland tried to win and failed. Kansas City did win though, so 2/3 of the dream came true. Now on to the Packers and Lions. Cold with an occasional snowflake in Green Bay, and already the field is getting torn up in the first quarter. It will… Read more »

squawkbox
December 28, 2014 2:32 pm

Texpat

CLAIRE BERLINSKI is easy on the eyes.

Oh wait you are talking about Fethullah Gülen. He has been on my radar for some time. 🙂

Hamous
December 28, 2014 12:41 pm

All of us are firm skeptics of claims that humans are causing catastrophic global warming and climate change. We are not climate change “deniers.” We know Earth’s climate and weather are constantly in flux, undergoing recurrent fluctuations that range from flood and drought cycles to periods of low or intense hurricane and tornado activity, to the Medieval Warm Period (950-1250… Read more »

Shannon
Shannon
December 28, 2014 12:22 pm

This JJ Watt kid is pretty good.

Texpat
Texpat
December 28, 2014 12:06 pm

72 Shannon

One Kors’ colleagues, Steven Pinker, is also very good and the co-author of the article I cite in my #68.

Steven Pinker on Taboos, Political Correctness, and Dissent

Shannon
Shannon
December 28, 2014 11:55 am
Texpat
Texpat
December 28, 2014 11:39 am

Squawk Claire Berlinski at City Journal on her recent place of residence… Until recently, I lived in Turkey. It seemed to me then unfathomable that most Americans did not recognize the name Fethullah Gülen. Even those vaguely aware of him did not find it perplexing that a Turkish preacher, billionaire, and head of a multinational media and business empire—a man… Read more »

Adee
Adee
December 28, 2014 11:32 am

Drove past our rain gauge on the way to check on the neighbor’s horses while they’re out of town. Gauge says 0.6″ and growing, and it’s still 40 with a steady breeze that has some teeth now.

Hope the Texans also have some teeth this afternoon.

Bonecrusher
Bonecrusher
December 28, 2014 11:17 am

The big media push for jebboosh is ramping up to full steam. The election is still 22 months away and the first primaries are still 15+ months away.

/
scuze me while I puke.

Texpat
Texpat
December 28, 2014 10:44 am

Homicide Rate in Mexico (per 100,000 people)

1931 – 51
1940 – 68
1960 – 32
1980 – 20
2007 – 10
2010 – 25
2012 – 20

No one would never know this reading the American press coverage of Mexican current affairs.

Shannon
Shannon
December 28, 2014 10:00 am

64 Texpat
Great piece.
It seems he’s been replaced by superhero-loving sissies of the new castrati.

Adee
Adee
December 28, 2014 9:51 am

Cold and wet good morning Hamsters. Miserable outside far and wide it seems according to the weather map and radar. Once we were up at 6 and the thermometer in the back yard read 40 we thought that was the morning low. But noooo, around 7 it slipped to 39 and stayed there for a couple of hours before crawling… Read more »

mharper42
mharper42
December 28, 2014 9:31 am

Oh no, another missing airplane over Asian waters.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30614627

Texpat
Texpat
December 28, 2014 7:59 am

Continetti on the man who wrote: “Do you feel lucky, punk?” “Go ahead, make my day.” Everyone has a favorite John Milius story. This is mine: It is the mid-1980s. There is a party at the house of screenwriter Paul Schrader. Milius, who wrote Dirty Harry and Apocalypse Now and directed Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn, is there when… Read more »

mharper42
mharper42
December 27, 2014 10:12 pm

TT, so glad you’ve been able to have a long and wonderful family Christmas!

Adee
Adee
December 27, 2014 9:55 pm

G’night one and all. Pull up the quilts or comforters tonight, as Ole Man Winter is back.

Tedtam
Admin
December 27, 2014 9:44 pm

Been running 90 to nuthin’ since the 23rd. First, spent a few days with Lovely, Aggie Beau, and Sunshine up ’til Christmas. Then I came home and spent the next few days preparing for the family shindig which was held today. We got the probably its cleanest since it was built, and most of my siblings and a few of… Read more »

Adee
Adee
December 27, 2014 9:22 pm

Rain approaches again tonight after a respite of several hours. Feels colder than 47, however with the wind still blowing we have wind chill as the explanation. Not a fit night for man nor beast.

gtotracker
gtotracker
December 27, 2014 9:14 pm
phil
phil
December 27, 2014 9:11 pm

Raven Hair, Ruby Lips

She was quite a beauty then.

gtotracker
gtotracker
December 27, 2014 9:10 pm
Shannon
Shannon
December 27, 2014 9:04 pm

This Mayor DeBlasio vs. NYPD is really something to watch.

Shannon
Shannon
December 27, 2014 8:24 pm

53 gto
Nice.

Hamous
December 27, 2014 8:17 pm

#23 SD – Sodium acetate is normally a solid at room temp but can remain a liquid as long as no crystals start forming. My educated guess is that the little metal clicker somehow starts the formation of the crystalline structure, at which point the sodium acetate would jump up to the temp of it’s freezing/melting point. Boiling it takes… Read more »

gtotracker
gtotracker
December 27, 2014 7:30 pm
Shannon
Shannon
December 27, 2014 7:28 pm

Love the delta blues stuff, but I have to admit when it comes to bluegrass I prefer the slicker, modern sound to the more primitive.

gtotracker
gtotracker
December 27, 2014 7:26 pm

Surfing the links, these guys sound pretty good.

gtotracker
gtotracker
December 27, 2014 7:07 pm

Always a day late and a dollar short, dangit.

Texpat
Texpat
December 27, 2014 7:02 pm

47 gto

You missed them. Heritage Blues Orchestra played Miller Theater on September 5th.

Texpat
Texpat
December 27, 2014 6:57 pm

45 gtotracker Last year, one of the guys in the trio, Carolina Chocolate Drops, decided to go solo and Rhiannon wasn’t able to come up with a suitable replacement right away, but they’re still together with new members (now a quartet). In the meantime, T-Bone Burnett found her and she’s been all over the place since. She’s supposed to start… Read more »

gtotracker
gtotracker
December 27, 2014 6:57 pm

Surfing Texpat’s link brought this. I really like this sound.