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I’ve spent a lifetime in the outdoors. One of the things I love about going out into the woods and wilderness is meeting other hardy souls, toughened by the primitive conditions and bonded through sharing the experience.
Lately, I’ve noticed a change.
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I thought they still used canoes in Oklahoma.
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Good morning Hamsters. Well the 73 bright and early can’t be beat, but the 92% humidity surely can. Mugly starting out but getting better as the humidity drops, but the temp rises.
When the 50-year anniversary balloon finally surrendered to gravity after 3 weeks I squeezed its remaining filling out to put it with our wedding album. That required a search through drawers we rarely look in, as in years go by.
Before I found the album I came across Alan Ameche’s autograph on a 1953 Wisconsin highway map that my Dad had obtained when Alan was working with a street repair crew in the summer, and they were in front of our house. Alan was still in school and on the Wisconsin team, The Horse he was called. I knew it was somewhere in a drawer and not in the strongbox where it should have been all these years. Happy surprise. I was in grade school when he was tearing up opposing teams, and everybody loved him. He was very generous to UW in his later life. I’m sure there are thousands of his autographs still around, but likely mine is the only one on a Wisconsin highway map front page.
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Camping ain’t what used to be neither.
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#2 Sarge
Eh what? The Geico gecko has morphed into a clumsy human?
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Well this is good news; Blue Bell To Begin Trial Runs In July. H/T ST from over yonder, she pointed out that they were starting up in Sylacauga Alabama.
Oh, and Mornin’ GangFORT WORTH (KRLD/CBSDFW.COM) – After a nearly four month absence from store shelves, Blue Bell ice cream could make a comeback before summer’s end.
The company will begin trial runs at its Sylacauga, Alabama plant during the week of July 20, as part of its plan to get the ice cream back in grocer’s freezers.
Based on the results of the test runs, a decision will be made about resuming production and getting the ice cream back in stores, but according to a statement from the company, there’s no timeline.
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Blockquotes? I can see them on the edit screen?
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Trial runs in Alabama first. Sounds like a good idea to me.
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#7 GJT
Now that’s my kind of tent. Only serious question is it animal proof? Like coons and bears and snakes and bobcats can’t get in?My neighbor was on an afternoon trail ride with a friend in the hills near San Francisco when she spotted mountain lion scat on the trail. Her horse became very alert and uneasy. She suggested to her friend they needed to get out of there pronto and go back. The friend replied they didn’t need to leave yet, as mountain lions are nocturnal! My neighbor said do as you wish, I’m outta here.
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#7 GJT: Does the tent have a/c fer cryin out loud? If not is simply aint civilized!
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#10
I agree, it’s his mountain, he can have it!
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#8 you had ’em backerds.
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#11
lol, I don’t know. I only heard the term “glamping” for the first time this week.
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#2 Looks like a prime candidate for Barack’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Or secretary of state. . . . .
Lurch in a Kayak is just funny to think about
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#9 Shannon 😀
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Chet Atkins radio on Pandora is really smooth this morning :>)
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From Blue Bell’s page over yonder;
Many have asked…why start in Alabama? The reason is because it is a smaller facility than our Brenham plant, which has allowed us to complete our improvements there sooner. We’re hard at work and want to bring you the same great-tasting ice cream as soon as possible!
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All y’all Saints fans out there – y’all are racists.
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You can just haul back a few dozen gallons for the couch residents.
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They should take this opportunity to make Blue Bell KOSHER so that everybody can enjoy it!
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A caller to Michael Berry of American Indian descent said that after the Civil War the Buffalo Soldier regiments were savagely unleashed on the Indians.
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I love it when a tragic story has a happy ending.
HEADLINE: Witnesses stop attempted rape of 14-year-old girl
The story says there was a “scuffle;” the photo of the perp’s face says something else.
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Looking forward to a successful Blue Bell startup and finally getting it back in its rightful place in the stores. Safeway’s premium ice creams are ok meanwhile, and its less traitorous than buying the cut throat competition just salivating over Blue Bell’s troubles.
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Can we finally do away with the gorebullwarmongering nonsense and all its attachments once and for all now??
HEADLINE: Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will ‘go to sleep’ in 2030 and could cause temperatures to plummet
Global warming, global cooling, global warming, climate change and now global cooling caused by the sun going to sleep. . . .when will they finally admit that they don’t have a fargin clue?
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I got caught up in watching “Lawrence of Arabia” this morning. I went and looked up his entry in Wikipedia. What an interesting man.
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WhatEVER you do today, DO NOT get on any freeways in Harris County. Apparently this is the weekend when every single one of them has lane closures and construction all at the same time and in both directions.
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I have spent my day so far up on the stepladder using the hedge trimmer on just about every category of plant in the front yard. Mostly the ligustrum bushes. Did I finish? No way, it takes me 2 “days” now to do that chore. Oh man am I tired. Oh man did I need some prolonged exercise. Off to recuperate now by napping.
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Save that #42 for me, if I get up in time. 😀
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Putting #42 in the “Lock Box” 😉
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Looks like there was NO need, but thanks, Daverino! 😀
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Well, poking around over yonder, it seems that Big Jolly is roasting a whole piglet on his La Caja smoker. …….Funny,…. ole Dave wasn’t invited. 🙁
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My imagination kicked in and I thought if I were to rewrite this scene and make it be about the current GOP race, Alec Baldwin”s character would be Donald Trump, Ed Harris’ character would be Jebbuh the Bush, Jack Lemmon’s character would be Oops tRick Perry and Alan Arkin’s character would be Lindsey Graham.
Some profanity. Beware.
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So everybody’s off doing useful or fun things today, and the couch has space on it to spare.
Got a new keyboard for the computer I use and spouse telecommutes on. Not only did the N key label totally wear off he old one but the M key label was wearing badly and half gone. Noticed that both of the Dell keyboards that came with new computers in recent years were prone to losing the N after some use, but this was the first time the M was fading too.
The new one is also a Dell made in China, but the Dell logo is impressed into the keyboard material and rather hard to see. It’s arranged differently than the old one and doesn’t have the depressions in the keys that keep fingers from sliding off easily.
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Is this census worker a canary in the coal mine?
HEADLINE: Woman Outraged After Showdown With Census Worker
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – An East Dallas woman is outraged after she claims one U.S. Census worker showed up at her door for a housing survey and would not take “no” for an answer.
Sonia Platz said the worker went as far as to camp out in her yard as she waited for Platz to change her mind.
“She’s ringing the bell, knocking on the door. And I’m like, ‘I don’t want to participate.’” Said Platz
The East Dallas resident said it started with a series of three letters from the U.S. Census Bureau. A few days later after receiving the third later, a census worker showed up. Her husband verbally declined.
But a few days later, a different worker showed up at their home and would not leave according to Platz.
“That is a whole, other level. That’s not following up. I felt like she a part of the mob,” said Platz.
The census worker sat on the bumper of her van for the next 30 minutes. Sonia said the worker would only get up from the back of her van every few minutes to see if she had changed her mind about taking the housing survey.The commentary after this article is prolific. My question is what would the couch dwellers do in a similar situation.
I think my response would be to answer with the number of people that live in the house and to the rest reply: Nunyafargin business. If the terd refused to leave the next response would be to call the sheriff. If they insisted on continuing to ring the bell or knock on the door after being strictly warned against this behavior, there is a great possibility that it could escalate into something nasty. -
It never would’ve happened had he had his Clark Kent/Superman specs on.
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Gotta wait a bit…
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Heh
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Dang it.
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Thanks, goats, I see you tried and tried, but I was loading the dishwasher and arrived a few seconds too late.
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#41 Hammy
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Before I left Texas, the summer of 2002 in Bellville, I had one of those special in-depth US Census guys accost me in my front yard on a Sunday afternoon to tell me I had been selected for their American Community Survey.
I told him I did not want to participate and had no intention of voluntarily giving information to the federal government. He was stunned, apoplectic. He followed me as I walked to my truck and drove off, leaving him standing there with his clipboard and an idiotic look on his face.
He managed to catch me at home two more times, the last of which turned pretty ugly when I ordered him off my property or I was going to call the sheriff. Census guy started threatening me with federal violations and charges if I didn’t cooperate. I told him to step off the property or I was going to get my gun and protect it from his trespassing. The guy started shouting, but backed off onto the road. I told Census guy to never show his face around there again or he might get shot. Again, he told me I was going to hear from federal authorities and I told him to give me the number and I would call them immediately. He began mumbling and stalling. I drove off and never heard from him again.
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Texpat, fifteen years later, doubt that will happen now.
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#44, You wimmens need to work faster or these things would not happen. Have sammiches prepared in advance just in case.
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Ukranian singer auditioning singing in Russian. Following her album release they screw it up with too much over dub. Anyway, by far the most interesting female vocalist I have heard.
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Hamous, #89 yesterday, where did you find that? I think Buddy Blue was the second to croak off.
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Not bad for a lady who does not know a word of English.
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I heard him on XM many years ago and recognized him from the Beat Farmer days.
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Ok, I left a big platter of tuna salad sammiches in the fridge, right next to the Pabst Blue Ribbon longnecks. Y’all he’p yourselves, and I’ll clean up in the morning.
/ Yeah: in your dreams /Night all.
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She left some Blue Bell too.
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Wish I could’ve called me one when I was jogging this morning.
Man was it warm.
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Just had to track down that song in the Chase Bank commercial…..
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Emmylou and Rodney Crowell set Austin City Limits on fire tonight. Highly recommended, catch it in reruns if you can.
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First!
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Second!
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Hot Air highlites a WSJ editorial which a connection has been found between IRS’s Lois Lerner and the Wisconsin so called John Doe probe. I don’t expect anything from the GOP, so a public hanging of that witch would be most satisfying. They love to throw the knuckle draggers red meat, why haven’t we gotten it? I mean she and the whole operation was against the chamber of commerce types too right? Oh wait, maybe not.
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DIGGING UP THE DEAD: Memphis Council Votes to Dig Up Confederate General and Wife’s Grave. If this has already been posted…..~Sorry
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Ukranian singer auditioning singing in Russian.
When things like this start showing up on The Couch we are, grammatically speaking, doomed.
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Good morning Hamsters. Coolish 73 again with 90% humidity at 6, but it stayed reasonably pleasant until about 8 after which the pleasant part phased out fast.
It is of course high summer, and we’ve still dodged a more than very brief 95 out here. Clouds are our friends even if they don’t have rain in them.
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#63: I find the whole banish all traces of the Confederacy very Stalinesque. Damned scary.
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An excellent Sunday Morning Read.
“The ecstatic participation in mass elation is the oldest psycho drama in the world,”
Of course, the fear of isolation isn’t always enough to silence some people. So manipulators repeat lies and sloganeer endlessly to condition their subjects to repress unauthorized speech and thought: “The techniques of propaganda and salesmanship have been refined and systematized; there is scarcely any hiding place from the constant visual and verbal assault on the mind. The pressures of daily life impel more and more people to seek an easy escape from responsibility and maturity.”
It’s sobering to realize that the above words predate the Internet by nearly half a century. They describe perfectly how transgenderism has become such a “thing” and why so few are willing to admit that the emperor has no clothes.
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Clouds are our friends even if they don’t have rain in them.
In West Texas, we called that “getting 2 inches of shade.”
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Maybe I suffer a bit from Godwin’s law syndrome but history teaches that totalitarians are never satisfied.
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68 Serge
A fine piece.
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70 Phil
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#68: A fine read indeed.
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Nice “do”, wagonburner.
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I hope this hasn’t been posted already, if so I apologize for the duplication and not reading every link in every post. There are some great points in this article.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/obamas_killing_the_left_lets_help_him.html -
Ok, this article dates back to 2006, but I had never heard that Progressives hate cul-de-sacs. I happen to live on a short cul-de-sac street, and I love the lack of traffic on our block. Well, low traffic except for the Mexican family across the street, that have 3 generations living there and about 6 or 8 pickups and cars.
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Lake Buchanan is finally picking up some water after about 5 years of drought.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/29513302/flood-water-from-colorado-river-flowing-into-lake-buchanan -
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I think something similar would prolly happen to JugEars if the same thing actually happened.
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#68 Sarge
Bravo, good find. Political correctness is a suicide pact for a free people, and this nails it.
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90 degrees, no clouds and 39% humidity in Baghdad-on-the-Hudson.
Glorious, sweltering heat. I might be able to
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#76 mharper42
Another great find along with #77.
Not hard to understand the mania coming forth from the lefties in Houston for urban density (rescue downtown), the world-class-city-making light rail boondoggle, the anti-sprawl wailing and gnashing of teeth when the burbs keep on growing despite their far-left propaganda, and all the trinkets of lefty delusion that the taxpayers of Houston have to fund instead of improvements in basic city services. Never mind the attempt to require pastors to give Mayor Porker copies of their sermons when they raised legitimate questions about mixed up sexes (physically and mentally) allowed to wander into whichever restroom they felt like at the moment on any occasion.
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#77 mharper42 If this wasn’t WSJ, I’d think that it HAD to be an Onion piece, are these IDIOTS serious? They want to limit cul-de-sacs because they’re a good thing?!?! They want neighborhood roads/streets to become thoroughfares so everyone can mow down children? GOOD GRIEF!! My little neighborhood of 1000 houses has exactly two streets in/out, both running parallel, north to south for a mile, they dead end one block from the next main drag and I love it, helps keep traffic down. I live at the very back of the subdivision and when I see several unfamiliar cars back my way, I know that the freeway is backed up, I’ve even had people stop and ask me how to get over to the next road and I tell them “well get a running start and head through the barricade and the hedges, turn left through the old folks home parking lot and you’ve Got R Done”. 😉
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Texpat check your email.
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85 Squawk
There’s nothing there. It’s the same old gmail address.
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86 Squawk
Checked all possible places. ???
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Texpat
Resent with my consolidated email addy. You might use that from now on.
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#84 Super Dave
No, regrettably, it ain’t The Onion. But it’s a minor example of how dangerously insane the radical left pushers are.
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In spite of outright repeated lies, breaking of rules, refusal to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and protests of death to America, this admin still absurdly thinks that a)a deal can be reached and b) Iran will hold up their end of the bargain! ?!?!
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I’m offended by Che Guevara and Charles Manson t-shirts. Can we get those banned post haste?
I think Amazon still sells them.
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Things you can’t find on Amazon. Did you know that Napoleon’s penis is in New Jersey?
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#92 Well Rasputin had more, well was,…..You know.
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Speaking of Che and Fidel
Fidel Castro talks about homosexuality in a 1965 interview with Lee Lockwood featured in the book Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel:
“We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true Revolutionary, a true Communist militant. A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant Communist must be… Homosexuals should not be allowed in positions where they are able to exert influence upon young people.”
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#95 C’mon. We have a president who has, by all measures, committed high crimes and misdemeanors and should have been impeached, instead he was reelected. We have a presidential candidate (likely to become the next president) who is a proven liar many times over, and has also committed crimes. If we have learned anything the last couple of years it’s that history and truth cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the totalitarian “progressive” cause.
In case you haven’t noticed (and I’m sure you have) we are the counterculture.
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#96
But but but there is hope. Fidel is on our side.
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#65, It was a link to a youtube video. What Bonecrusher said. Being a jerk you cannot help yourself it seems.
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Maybe Fidi has “evolved” on the issue?
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Oops he’s doing it again.
Oops tRick is talking tough again but we all know he’s stuffed fuller of shinola than a Christmas turkey.
Speaking of Christmas–If the 100% certain to lose Jebbuh the Bush is really leading in the polls, then I’m Santa Claus.
And the stockings were hung on the chimney with care,
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In fairness to Jimmy Dick, he proposed legislation banning sanctuary cites back in 2011. I think he even called a special session with that as one of the items.
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The season premier of Ray Donovan comes on at 2000hrs tonight.
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Yes but he was unable to get it done. IMO just Oops showmanship.
I don’t trust him one bit and probably never will.
But I’m kind of cynical when It comes to Oops.
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Now they say the Jersey Jelly Roll is polling third.
Pollsters must’ve been at a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop.
Geez!
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Tried a couple of new recipes tonight. Cuban Chicken and Italian Beef Covelli, from my low-carb cookbook. The chicken was a hit, but as much as I would love to honor my Italian ancestors, we’ll eat this batch and then not turn to that page again. Not horrible, but not a flavor we like.
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Jimmy Dick is not to be trusted to do anything but stab sound principals in the back.
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Upon further review, it was our old friend Smokin’ Joe in the House what killed the bill.
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Brother Phil
Now they say the Jersey Jelly Roll is polling third.
Pollsters must’ve been at a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop.
Geez!
Dude take it easy. We have 16 more months of this insanity. Polls don’t mean a thing until about April of next year.
I miss the days when the silly season began about November of the year prior to the election. Now it almost non friggin stop.
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Oops tRick should have donned his Clark Kent/Superman glasses and gone to Joe Strauss the louse, used his office of Governor as a bully pulpit and stared and wrangled, wrestled and calf-roped him into submission.
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No sweat Brother Squawk. I am.
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Brother Phil
When it comes to politics I am
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Good tune Bro Squawk.
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Bother Phil
I have about all I can stand with politics. Cripes I can’t get away from it. I use tried and true trucker mind tricks to ignore it. 🙂
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Here ya Brother Phil. Ya might like this.
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I always liked the Oak Ridge Boys cover of a White Stripes song.
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