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  1. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Poor Bambi… First!

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Yay, Adee’s back!

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    What about gay cousins?

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Ms Adee, we were on a cruise in the pre internet/cell phone days so no news for a week. Turned out we were dodging a hurricane all week and had no clue. 😀

    Good to have you back, now what did we tell you about running off and not telling us?

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #6

    What difference does it make? The narrative got put there and it stuck, truth be damned.

  6. Hamous Avatar

    Not that anyone but us read here, but it’s probably not wise to post your vacation schedule in advance for the whole world to see.

  7. Hamous Avatar

    #8 Agreed. “Progressives” have a plethora of slogans like “Hands up, don’t shoot” that are all built on lies. Everything “progressives” say is a lie. No exceptions.

  8. Hamous Avatar

    Yup. With each passing day it becomes easier and easier to choose not to vote.

    It takes a special combination of incompetence and cowardice to miss an easy lay-up like this, but apparently the new Republican Congress has it in spades.

  9. Hamous Avatar

    Ron Paul and blowback – It’s France from the 1830s fault … oh, and the Jews.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    lol

    Libertarianism as a philosophy is pretty cool until you get the munchies. 

  11. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good to be back on the couch, back to the 6 am feeding the mares routine, after feeding Mariposa first of course since she’s underfoot when the alarm goes off. Bailed her out of boarding late yesterday afternoon, and she’s been our shadow ever since. The mares are a bit more reserved in greeting, but then they can’t follow us around the house. 🙂

    A few quick assurances about the Panama Canal after Jimmah Cahtah gave the Canal Zone back to Panama in the 70s, improvements and all. The Chinese do not run the canal, the Panamanians do and get hefty tolls for passage through it dependent upon the size and draft of the ship and its cargo weight. The toll for our cruise ship that went only to Gatun Lake (about halfway through) and turned around and left the same way it entered was according to the excursion guide about $300k. The tolls are paid in US $.

    The Chinese have the contracts to run the ports at either end of the canal, and they pay Panama for the privilege. The current contract is a 15-year one (not sure when it began). Panama gets its cut. And from appearances and the massive construction effort to create the wider locks that shadow the original ones, Panama is doing a darned good job of financing and building them. Specs on the new locks are to be met exactly as were the ones on the original locks. No wiggle room. Delay in the new ones opening is caused by contractors who haven’t met specs precisely and have to do it over—at their expense. Meaningful learning experience for them.

    The older locks will continue in service—nothing wrong with them except they’re not wide enough for many modern ships. The new ones will be able to accommodate aircraft carriers and huge tankers and container ships. More stuff on this later.

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang
    Now that the rain has cleared out, it’s warming up to be a nice day and we got 3 1/2″ of rain! The two holiday weekends netted almost 4″ total, so we’re catching up.

  13. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texas is good enough for some snowbirds
    but noooooo, Adee has to take it to Panama. 🙂

    Welcome back, Dear.

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #14 Ms. Adee: I beg to differ a bit on your post;

    A few quick assurances about the Panama Canal after Jimmah Cahtah gave the Canal Zone back to Panama in the 70s, improvements and all.

    The canal zone was never “Panamanian” property; before Panama came into existence, it was Columbian property. Panama only became a country by entering into a treaty with the US (under Teddy Roosevelt, I believe) as follows:
    1) The USA would assist the Panamanians in their break away from Columbia in exchange for a permanent US sovereign strip of land which would become the Canal Zone.
    2) When the Panamanians declared independance from Columbia, the US recognized the new govt within hours and put a Navy gunship close by to “deter” the Columbians from putting down the revolt.

    The land was deeded in perpetuity as Sovereign US Territory in exchange for the gunboat and recognition. Other considerations were that the Panamanians would gain the tolls and that Panamanians would work the Canal, but that the Canal and the land surrounding it would be US territory. So Jimmah Cawtah never gave back, he simply gave away. And what benefit did the US get for giving away such a great asset?

  15. phil Avatar
    phil

    Saw this comment on another site regarding a commentary written about OCloven Hoof’s The State of Satan’s Union speech.

    Sheer poetry.

    “He is C.S. Lewis’ Un-Man, T.S. Eliot’s Hollow Man, G.K. Chesterton’s
    Godless Man, and Alistair Maclean’s Counterfeit Man, all rolled into one
    sorry sleazy unctuous bundle of repugnance.”

  16. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #18 continued: The US Sovereignty of the Canal Zone adds further to the absurdity of the issue of citizenship of John McCain, he was born in US territory to two US citizen parents; a much clearer and cleaner case than the JugEared Jackass’ case.

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Brother Phil

    The author forgot Aleister Crowley, Anton Levay and Charlie Manson.

  18. Hamous Avatar

    I guess I missed this gem from the SOTU. So now he’s proposing we punish parents who actually save for their children’s college and give it to the irresponsible parents who don’t care???

  19. Hamous Avatar

    Looks like Fox heard my whine about suffixing all scandals with gate. The deflation scandal is now….

    BALLGHAZI

  20. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #18 and 20 Bonecrusher

    Thanks for the history that goes farther back than Jimmah. And incidentally the idiotic matter of John McCain not being born a US citizen. And likely a crooked tangent to try to say Ted Cruz is not a US citizen because he was born in the Dominion of Canada. You just know that’s coming from the lefties the closer Ted gets to running for pres.

    Our tour guide was a US Army veteran of Viet Nam and Granada, born in the Canal Zone and thus a US citizen but of Panamanian ancestry and proud of his service. And proud to speak his mind as was just about everybody in the countries we visited. They are all No Political Correctness Zones. How refreshing, and we need to turn the tables on the dolts who kiss Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book at every turn to squelch free speech—other than theirs of course.

  21. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I had several pretty good history teachers at Memorial High School here in Houston, and at Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches. Some of the stuff just stuck in spite of me trying to drown and smoke out the info.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Thanks, for the OC picture, got me to thinking and I just put the last of this year’s backstrap in the Crock Pot. 😉

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and welcome back Ms Adee.

  24. Hamous Avatar

    Felicia Cravens posted a question on FB the other day: Who is your #1 political hero?

    I thought about it for a long time. I couldn’t come up with anyone. I have no political heroes.

  25. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hamous

    Felicia Cravens posted a question on FB the other day: Who is your #1 political hero?

    I have a political hero. Mustapha Debboun, PhD, BCE

  26. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    That Appaloosa convertible reminded of a recent sighting in a mall parking lot. A gleaming new cream-colored PT Cruiser with some stick-on bullet hole decals on the driver’s side… If I had a cell phone, I woulda brought back some pix.

  27. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I am very partial to Sen Jeff Sessions for his sane stand on immigration. Also fond of Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. Occasionally of Trey Gowdy. Can’t think of anyone else who even jiggles the meter.

    Hero status will have to wait and see if anyone is able to get anything accomplished in the right direction.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My political heroes are mostly dead white guys.

  29. phil Avatar
    phil

    21 Bro Squawk

    Double Heh.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The Euro-Zone banksters are getting in on the QE game. This will hasten the collapse of most if not all major currencies. It will make it very easy to institute a new Global Currency to replace the Euro, the Dollar, the Pound, etc. We could call it the Falsie and everybody could get in on the game.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #22 Hamous: it gets even worse. The new rules only apply to new dollars put in, not dollars already in place. The “optics blind” azz-pore paid forward 5 years worth for his 2 chirrenzes while he has lots of funny money coming in, and then he will slam the door shut for everybody in the future. The money put in originally was after tax and now they want to tax it again as income for the recipient.

    /
    Get a rope!

  32. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #36 Bones check out my #3 comment yesterday morning.

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hey TexCan, do y’all have any problems with these things in the GWFN?

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Palin Derangement Sydrome on full display here. Just read the commentary from those who frequent the Washington Compost and realize that they can’t even separate SNL from fact.

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #37 SD: Correctamundo. Wadyawanna bet that absolutely no one in the LSM will raise that glaring question, no one. Can you imagine the catterwalling and complaining that would happen ifn W would have pulled a similar stunt?

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heard on one of the home shows that due to federal efficiency standards going in force next month, water heaters will double in price.
    Geez, I’m lucky to get 7 years out of one.

  37. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh rats, another 42! 😀

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good grief. I don’t have even an extra inch of space for an increase in diameter of the water heater.

    New Rules On Water Heaters

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #43 Shannon: I just got to this point:

    Another drawback is that a new water heater is likely to have lower hot water deliverability than prior models. “For example, a model with less input may be required to achieve the higher efficiency, which will ultimately result in less hot water delivered,” Sanborn said.

    So the new one may be a bit more efficient, but it won’t deliver as much hot water?!?
    Only a DC idjit could come up with crapola like that.

  40. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yeah I guess they’re pretty efficient if the hot water heater doesn’t have to heat the water.

    Prices going up and lower output is double bad for me, ours is on its last leg and I can’t replace it right now and it’s located in the garage about 20′ from the house taking everything it has to overcome air temperature getting to the house.

    On the bright side size don’t matter, I gotta lot of space.

  41. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m assuming you will still be able to buy the older models till stock runs out?

  42. Hamous Avatar

    Bite the bullet and get a tankless.

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #47: If Shannon can only get 7 years or so out of a water heater it may be because the water coming in has too high a mineral/sediment/suspended garbage load in it. To make the tankless make sense and last a good long time the water has to be treated upstream of the heater. I use a whole house water softener and the coffee pot never needs to be cleaned and the shower door does not build up the soap scum either.

  44. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I wish Keds made em, but i could settle for PF Flyers old skool design,

  45. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #46 GJT

    With this bunch of twits in Obozo’s government, it can be hazardous to assume anything but the worst possible scenario. On the other hand, bet the black market in stockpiled old model water heaters will skyrocket, kinda like the old 3-gallon toilet tank models that work properly once smuggled in from Canada or snapped up at estate sales. Trust that the Canadians haven’t lost their minds and downsized their tanks. Texanadian, please tell us they haven’t.

  46. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tankless water heater is on my to do list. i do not need it yet. I ain’t buying an “old one” to store either. The new water heater regulation affect only 50+ gallon models. Apparently 40 and below do not fall under the new guidelines. The new 50ers are also 2 inches larger in diameter which means they will not fit in most existing spaces. And if ya gotta put them in the attic most attic steps are not wide enough to accommodate the new size.

  47. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #51: Not to mention the 50-80 gallon disaster just waiting. . . . .

  48. Hamous Avatar

    To make the tankless make sense and last a good long time the water has to be treated upstream of the heater.

    Not really. The problem with hard water and tank water heaters is that the carbonates have time to precipitate out and build up over time. While you will have some build-up with a tankless it’s much less because when the water is heating it is also always flowing so there’s less time for precipitates to form. Plus you can clean it out. Can’t do that with a tank. You just replace it.

  49. Hamous Avatar

    I just saw a 1969 Nova sell for $380,000.

  50. Hamous Avatar

    I wish Keds made em, but i could settle for PF Flyers old skool design,

    Converse still makes old school Chucks. I got a couple pair. One pair made out of suede leather. They’re probably 20 years old now and still going strong. I think Nike owns Converse now.

  51. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Yup Converse makes em. They are kool too. But the name PF Flyers brings back my old memories. That was the brand of choice when I was growing up. That and Keds.

  52. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    As long as we are traversing memory lane, does anyone remember these? I had one on which I played soccer – on the concrete.

  53. Hamous Avatar

    Well, Converse ads have finally replaced Dutch army surplus underwears.

  54. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    #57 Bonez

    Never owned one of those. But this was my first brand spanking new bike I done ever got when I was a little bearded speedo wearing wierdo

  55. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    We get along fine with one 40-gallon water heater, although I never understood how the previous owners who raised 5 or 6 kids in this 4-br house did it. When we bought the house 20 years ago, 2 of the kids were still living here plus one’s husband and a grandchild.

    Still, this issue raises my hackles.

    “Like it or not, the changes are coming. Builders and contractors should view these changes as an opportunity to educate their customers on the higher efficiency options available in the market thus helping them make choices that they will feel good about every time they turn on the hot water.”

  56. El Gordo Avatar

    Well, as long as we feel good about our hot water heater, it makes no difference whether or not it works – right?

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My first new bike was very similar to one of these, I was about 6.

  58. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Good ol banana seat spider bikes. that was the last bike I ever owned.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just saw a 1969 Nova sell for $380,000.

    DAYAAM, did it have a big block (396)? I wonder what my 67 SS would be worth today or the wife’s 75 SS with the power windows?
    FWIW; I lifted the pictures off Google but the Nova’s pretty much looked like them.

  60. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, Converse ads have finally replaced Dutch army surplus underwears.

    SO what link do I click on?
    I took weeks to get rid of that DAMN toilet!

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Well, Converse ads have finally replaced Dutch army surplus underwears.

    SO what link do I click on?
    I took weeks to get rid of that DAMN toilet!

    Door #1

    Door #2

    Door #3

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #67 AIN’T NOOO DAYAAM way I’m clicking on ANYTHING that the Squawkster posts!!!!! 😉

  63. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  64. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    OH Now Super Dave 🙂

  65. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Is Tedtam happily helping Lovely Daughter care for baby daughter #2 now so she can get some rest?

    Have not scrolled through all the days posts I missed while off on vacation so I am uninformed on that subject.

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #67 #68
    I’m with Super Dave! I don’t even want to know!

  67. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Curiosity killed the cat. But satisfaction brought him back.

    Yanno ya wanna.

  68. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Adee, I think so. TT was requested to come for the weekend, I think, and was out the door before the call was over. 🙂

  69. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Thank you mharper42. Hope all is well with them.

  70. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I am noticing an awful lot of young female “teachers” in hot water for molesting and having sex with students. I’m pretty sure that was rare or nonexistent in my teenage years, so wondering what had led to this sorry mess. Is it just too many of the wrong kind of people going into teaching these days? I know a few young women who work in schools, although not as teachers, and these women, at least, seem normal to me.

  71. Hamous Avatar

    DAYAAM, did it have a big block (396)?

    It was a Yenko 427.

  72. Hamous Avatar

    I am noticing an awful lot of young female “teachers” in hot water

    Tank or tankless? 😉

  73. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Yeah the canuks went to the smaller tank. Now you get to flush twice.

    Snow sharks are a deadly problem up here, we have squads of Hawian Eskimoos that hunt them to keep us safe. Every now and then one slips through and somebody loses a poodle. We call it a popsapoodle.

  74. Hamous Avatar

    Curiosity killed the cat. But satisfaction brought him back.

    Humidity built the snowman. Sunshine brought him down.

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The new water heater regulation affect only 50+ gallon models. Apparently 40 and below do not fall under the new guidelines.

    That is not true, according to my research on the Web.

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The 50+ gallon models are subject to stricter efficiency standards and will require more extensive redesign, but all water heaters are subject to new standards.
    From what I’m reading, the 40 gallon (and less) models will be able to meet the standards by simply increasing insulation – which will require increases in diameter.

  77. Tedtam Avatar

    I am home tonight…been running all day, taking care of Mom, going to the gym, etc. I’ll be heading back to Lovely’s place tomorrow for a few more days, at their request.

    Yes, the arm twisting is painful! 😉

    If the new water heater designs make it impossible to get ’em up into attics, there’s gonna be a lot of angry customers down the road, as the current models need replacement. There’s gonna be a lot of redesigning of attic access or repiping of houses coming…

    But I think water heaters in attics are the work of de debbil, anyway. Stupidest place for one of those. Some architects should be shot. Twice. Then hung.

  78. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    On Friday morning, I woke up to Chuck Tiller playing Chubby Checker’s Pony Time on my clock radio. Of course I remembered the song, but I didn’t seem to have any clue what the dance looked like. The tune stuck in my mind throughout the day, and finally I looked for a video to see the dance. Pretty sure I had never seen it performed before. But blast it, I still have the tune stuck in my head. Sorta like that Dutch Army underwear still popping up. Along with a couple of bikes today. Boogety boogety boogety shoo.

  79. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    When you were a baby were you dropped on your head?

    I still want a tankless water heater.

    Did you sniff glue as a child?

    UUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  80. phil Avatar
    phil

    1993

    I think the key ingredient is missing.

  81. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The attic seems to be a really bad place for a water heater in the first place. All those gallons sitting on a platform above a thin sheetrock ceiling below. Had a leak from the attic water heater in our first house in Houston that overflowed the pan it was sitting in when insulation plugged the discharge pipe out of the attic. We had a minor waterfall down the front of ceiling to floor cupboards in the guest bathroom but fortunately no ceiling collapse before we stopped the leak and got plumbing help.

    The current house we built out here on the moors of the Brazos has the water heater in the attached garage (but described as detached because you have to go outside the house to get into the garage even though it is under the same roof—go figure on that one). Decided in the planning stage that the attic was not the place for it.

  82. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Beautiful starry sky and 39 at 6 but dry here, seems like a good start to the day. Some flowering plants (wedelia) in a bed between the house and barn have frozen above ground for the season and look pretty sad, but they are tough and will come back with spring. Pansies as usual are beautiful despite the cold.

    Another winter storm moves through the Midwest to dip southeast and then bedevil the northeast, mostly reinforcing what we already have for a few days. The dead of winter down here isn’t bad in comparison.

  83. Hamous Avatar

    Happy birthday, MHarper!

  84. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Yea, Happy Birthday mharper42. We won’t ask how Hamous knew about it.
    Many you see many more.

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang
    Happy Birthday MHarper!

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    ‘American Sniper’: Intolerance Burns Inside the Left like a Poison.

    The Left cannot tolerate dissent. If just one thing sneaks through the institutions the Left is desperate to hold a monopoly on, it is immediately crushed, defamed, mocked, and Frankenstein-villaged until the end of time.
    Just try to read this from Vox without seeing the vein throbbing in the author’s forehead:
    Faced with a choice between altering its narrative to account to account for that gray versus altering the facts of history, the film chose the latter. It adopted an “honesty shmonesty” approach to the war: in its retelling, Iraq was a fight of Good Americans against Bad Terrorists, led by Chris Kyle, the Good-est American of them all.
    Translation: “Harumph! Harumph! Harumph!

    On and Hunnered!

  87. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Happy Birthday MHarp!

  88. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Happy B-Day M42.

    The link on SD#100 focuses on the foaming at the mouth for American Sniper; the same froth occurs when a legit climate scientist presents more evidence debunking MMGW. It is quite amusing and infuriating to watch.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Happy Birthday, mharper !

  90. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Thank you, Couch friends, for the birthday wishes! May you, too, someday reach the ripe old age of 71. (Hammy knew from FB.)

  91. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We watched the movie Jobs yesterday on Netflix. Now I don’t have much recall of the ’70’s but apparently the ’80’s and ’90’s buzzed by as well, I had little to no memory of any of the events. It’s pretty bad when your son has to explain the history of stuff from before he was born. 😀

  92. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    These 12 Words and Phrases Are Apparently Sexist Now
    Offenders include “Founding Fathers” and “opinionated.”

  93. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #106: PC insanity run amok. Laugh and ridicule them, do not under any circumstances take what they say to heart. Gentlewoman is a BS word only used in political circles, lady is a far more reasonable term. Unless of course when we are referring to SJL, then shrieking baboon is more accurate.

  94. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Wonder where the money went: Federal Edition

    The government awarded $432,000 to Columbia University to interview gay men who use GPS dating apps and determine whether it increases their likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior.
    (snip)
    The study is examining “how and why smartphone applications are used for sexual partnering,” how gay men “present themselves,” communicate, and what they look for on apps like Grindr.
    The project is also studying the sexual arousal level of gay men when using the apps.

    (I do not even want to know)

  95. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I grew up using the phrase “Oh boy” which is meaningless but similar to “Oh man.” Also “boyhowdy” which is West Texas gibberish. All these could be replaced by “Oh wow” or “Oh, my!” which are similar interjections. I’ve had to bite my tongue a few times in the last 20 yrs when I blurted out “Oh boy, [something or other]” in the presence of any black male. Who would usually proceed to give me an odd look.

  96. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bonecrusher

    Dunno if you are a sci-fi movie fan or not, I laugh at their pc version of respecting military type commanding officer. Star Trek: In their universe a response to female officers is SIR as in yes sir or no sir. I have seen that in other movie franchises. So did they just make all officers androgynous or sexually neuter or what?

  97. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #110 Squawk: In the Next Gen series, they have also done away with money and poverty and everybody lives in harmony. Funny how they never get around to explaining how that econcomic model could possibly produce a society that can manufacture Warp Drive star ships. . . .

  98. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I could spend days on Rodenberry’s utapioca view of the future.

  99. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    INtererstingly enough Roddenberry did see into the future:
    motion detecting doors that open automatically
    communicators, we call them mobile phones now
    the importance of computers in everyday life

    there are prolly a whole lot more of that type of thing that was not known then that we take for granted now.
    Someone else who saw into the future and absolutely nailed the mentality of the left/lib/prog was Ayn Rand. She was wacked on a whole lot of levels but she painted an extrodinarily accurate picture of the left.

  100. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Ever read Jules Verne? THAT was a man ahead of his time……… so to speak.

  101. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I prefer reading Jules Verne’s books over anything Randorberry could pen.

  102. Hamous Avatar

    Check your white male privilege!

  103. Hamous Avatar

    They forgot my favorite word. Bossy. Bossy, bossy, bossy!

  104. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Check your white male privilege!

    Boyhowdy!
    🙂

  105. El Gordo Avatar

    I always like the word “plum.” As in “he fell plum down to the bottom of the well.”

  106. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Just out of curiosity where are y’all seeing the ads. I don’t never see them no where. Course with my high powered ad blocker I don’t get em. Oh and I block 3rd party cookies.

  107. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My blocking options are different in Chrome than they were in IE, which I guess I used for 20 yrs. I started downloading an ad blocker that Katfishy recommended, but I chickened out before installing it. Need to research it a bit, but been overloaded the last 12 days with a draggy husband needing lots of attention.

  108. Hamous Avatar

    I see ads on just about every page I go to…except Hambone. We’re still ad-free.

  109. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    How is your husband doing? And you? I worry and when I worry I pray for y’all. 🙂

  110. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I see Chris Bell got bored again and has throw his hat into the Mayor’s race.
    Hammie must be excited.
    Does Chris have a rich Mommy financing all of his races or what?

  111. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    In honor of Chris Bell’s candidacy something for Hammie to sing along with.

  112. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    A facebook friend of mine in Maine said it’s going to blizzard in a couple of days and now I read that New Yourk is set to get pounded with snowfall.

    http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=NYZ072&warncounty=NYC061&firewxzone=NYZ072&local_place1=New%20York%20NY&product1=Blizzard+Watch&lat=40.7198&lon=-73.993#.VMV7q4FOKrU

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    Darren

    That is just so much of another storm. Good grief I spent five years in Maine form1958-64. Every year we would have white out snows that dropped 2 to 4 feet at a time with drifts to to the bottom of the 2nd floor of the house. I heard the foxnews woman screaming how everyone was gonna die in this possible top five hysterical storm of all time. BOVINE PROCESSED HAY. The only thing that makes this storm possibly worse is the amount of people it will affect.

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    mharper42

    Squawk, my husband is on a slow improvement curve. He is going up and down the stairs several times a day now, and eating and drinking without having to be threatened. He is overdue for a lab visit but I am hoping we can do that on Tuesday. He didn’t reach some of his milestones to go tomorrow. Thanks for asking! Oh and I am doing fine, I was supposed to be doing step exercises anyway. 🙂

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    squawkbox

    mharper
    #132

    Good. 🙂

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    squawkbox

    mharper
    It just really bugged me that he would not move. I know it did you too. I mean yanno you are like a sister to me so I fret and worry bout you and yours.

    Ain’t many people I really care about but the couch critters here are near and dear to me. 🙂

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    Texpat

    #133 Squawk

    Oswego ? Really ? Who cares ? There’s like 12 people living there.

    Your second link looks like neighborhoods around here last winter. No kidding.

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    Texpat

    I have about 100 lbs. of propane, several gallons of lamp oil, jugs of kerosene, 10 gallons of gas for the generator, 3 gallons for the snowblower, 2 gallons of wine, a case of beer, plenty of whiskey, tons of food and all venicles fueled up.

    And I have my Big Buddy propane heater.

    My next door neighbor bought one these for Hurricane Sandy and when he lit it up in his kitchen for about an hour, they had to turn it off and crack the windows it was so hot. This is a two story house.

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    Texpat
    My rant is this thought that bad storms have only have or are only occurring in the last few years. I weren’t kiddin when I said in Maine we had MAJOR blizzards for the 5 years i lived up there.

    These weather people make me sick. It is all about the hype and narrative than proper perspective.

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    squawkbox

    ACCUMULATIONS…SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 20 TO 30 INCHES…WITH
    LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 4
    INCHES PER HOUR EXPECTED LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING.

    We did that standing on our heads back in the day. The roads were cleard inside of 12 hours. all that was left was shoveling out the drive. No snow blowers for us back then.

  121. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It just really bugged me that he would not move.

    That wasn’t a big issue. 🙂 There really isn’t a bed downstairs that he fits in comfortably, and the upstairs cat would have been in a panic if he had moved. Yes, I carped a lot about all the stepping, but it was good for my knees, in ways that my one remaining routine exercise — the Exercycle — is not.

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    Texpat

    Nobody lives in Maine.

    In fact, Maine doesn’t even really exist.

    We only insist the place exists to screw with the minds of Canadians.

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    gtotracker

    I’d never heard of a ‘numbers’ car until the other day. The ’69 GTO has been sitting around since the mid 80’s. I’d always meant to shove a 455 in it but got married instead. The only thing not from the factory on the car is the carburettor and heads. I still have the original heads, had to change them to low lead heads. The carb may be around somewhere, put it on a boat at some point.

    The thing is far from mint. It came from Oklahoma where they salt the roads and the dash is in the attic. Still with the owners manual. The cam lost a lobe at some point. I recall replacing it with a ram air 4 cam and timing chain. Replaced the points ignition with the HEI distributor. Drove that thing back and forth to College Station for a while.

    Numbers car, reckon I ought to check that out.

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    gtotracker

    Heard on Alvin CC radio on the way home.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6YkSItejP4

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    Squawk

    The problems here stem from the idiocy and stupidity of others beyond my control. It’s not the roads. It’s the incompetent utility companies, the unreliable local municipality and a region in which no gas station or truck stop (or other essential businesses) even considers installing backup generators for disaster events. The lack of forethought and common sense around here is enough to make you want to just slap one of these arrogant bureaucrats right through the window.

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    #143 gto

    I only learned what a numbers car is from the classic car restorer/trader who moved in next to me a few years ago.

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    Texpat

    Hamoose !

    A trial to determine whether U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson’s wife committed bigamy when she wed the congressman has been delayed because she required emergency surgery to remove breast implants.

    Reaction from the guys at Powerline:

    Greatest. Democrat. Ever.

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    Greatest. Democrat. Ever.

    He really is. Except for maybe George Wallace.

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    gtotracker

    I’d never heard of ZZ Ward until today. If you like blues/rock give this lady a listen. Awesome.

    If my 143 is still there cancel my request.

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    squawkbox

    Texpat
    142
    Heh

    I am not denying the storm will prolly be a bad one as far as snowfall goes. And your traffic woes are caused by bureaucrats. I can excuse the utilities. Lets face it as people push into a city the grid becomes like a rats maze. What is inexcusable is the fear mongering hysteria the media creates. I have listened to a couple national newsie type meteorologist and they all used the most extreme OMG we are gonna die descriptives/reporting they could muster. AND THEY WILL BE RIGHT THERE TO GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE STORM OF THE MILLENNIUM. So comforting.

  131. Hamous Avatar

    Yes but the most important thing – what did the Weather Channel name it?

  132. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    weather.com has it as Winter Storm Juno.

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