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FIRSTICUS!
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Second!
The pic is BAAD, but Davey likes it!
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How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election
Google has the ability to drive millions of votes to a candidate with no one the wiser.
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So the Legacy Media takes one in the nuts again.
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I’ve been sharing my time between my building and another building on the opposite end of the JSC campus. We have one little Bambi at my old place and a new set of twins down here. When I first saw the twins, I knew that it was unlikely from the same doe as last year since they tend to stay in a fairly small area. Later after seeing their mom I knew it wasn’t the same one. Monday I saw the twins between a couple of buildings that open up to the mall/duck pond and this morning the mom, twins and a young 6 pointer were waiting for me at the front door. The buck was more than likely the doe’s boy from last year since he was hanging around with them.
Yup, Life is Good! -
Y’all still use Google as a search engine? Why not try one of the alternatives? This one is good (it’s actually set as my homepage on all of my machines). There are many alternatives out there. Stop feeding the beast.
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FOXNEWS on tv and Chris Salcedo on the radio both reported this morning that a side deal that Iran made with the IAEA allowed Iran to inspect the Iranian Nuke facilities. So much for honest and open inspections.
This makes as much sense as letting AL Capone own and operate all the armored trucks for all the banks in the country AND letting him be in charge of all the accounting – what could possibly go wrong?
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Isn’t destroying information under subpoena called obstruction of justice?
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Jebbuh the Booosh and combover guy had competing events in the same town at the same time, a 20 minute drive apart. Booosh managed to draw 150 while T drew 2500; that’s probably gonna leave mark.
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http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2015-08-19.html#read_more
I don’t recall anyone posting Ann Coulter’s column yet; this week’s edition is worth the read.
She takes the whole anchor baby scam to task. -
People trying to explain Trumpmania should look at this new poll:
Trump trails all other candidates if Jeb is taken out of the mix.
IOW, as long as Jeb is in the race, Trump leads.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, it’s moderates, not conservatives, who are making Trump competitive against the more right-wing candidates in the race — even though “very conservative” voters give Trump a higher favorable rating (51/35) than moderates do (49/40). Conservatives like him. They just don’t like him as much as they like an actual conservative, at least in North Carolina. That’s a bad omen for Trump when The Winnowing begins to happen next spring.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-19/bison-is-the-new-beef-as-more-diners-choose-it-over-steak
Perhaps bison could help increase the small rancher’s bottom line over beef.
A long time ago I ate a bison burger at Barnaby’s here in Houston and it was delicious. -
#12: I still think T is very good for getting Cruz elected in the long run.
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Back in the office today. I spent yesterday babysitting the girls while Lovely Daughter did some studying and business stuff. I think I set my recovery back (a 2 year old doesn’t understand why Noona would really prefer her to walk down the stairs instead of being carried with her baby sister), but it was soooooo worth it.
Sunshine and I had a blast playing together. She’s learning how to use her pout, though it didn’t really make any difference in getting her way. Fortunately, her mother and grandmother are pretty good at the maternal thing, and understand that while the smallest of things to a toddler constitute the world ending, it doesn’t really mean it is so.
Lil Darling was more of a challenge. She tends to start crying about 10 minutes after Mommy leaves for some reason. The last time, she cried for an hour and half straight before finally falling asleep. Then she woke up crying about 10 minutes later, then fell asleep right before her parents returned from their date night. Yesterday, LD left to finish some business errands, and shore ’nuff, LD2 began crying about ten minutes later. I tried holding her, dancing with her, singing to her, feeding her, changed her diaper, walked her around to see different scenery – nothing worked.
Until the motorcycle! There’s a play motorcycle in the corner of their living room, which had been given to Sunshine but she didn’t play on it. It has music that plays via movement activation. LD2 sat on that thing and started slapping at buttons, and when she started kicking against the floor, the music started. Her little face just lit up like Christmas! She had a blast on that thing. So sweet!
So, I left with a sore back and thigh (from where I tried to compensate for my back), and a bitten nose (LD2 is into nose eating right now, and she’s serious with those two bottom teeth!). I still have my hair (LD2 is also into hair grabbing). I was able to spend some time with my Lovely Daughter. But best of all, I have lots of great memories.
Sooooooo worth it.
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Y’all may remember me writing about one of my clients that fell and hurt his back about 3 weeks ago. Yesterday I went back out to Hempstead and for the first time since the event I was able to work on him.
He felt so much better after the treatment that he started dancing, literally. It is moments like that which keep me motivated. -
The TranStar roadway map looks grim this morning. Hope everyone who had to drive somewhere got there Ok.
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High water several places around the Loop where it intersects with major freeways, and a couple of spots in downtown. Feast or famine, drought or flood. Take your pick.
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Good deal, Bonecrusher!
That’s gotta be a great feeling.
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Regarding the constitutionality of alien birthright, this is a much better source than Ann Coulter’s rant.
Edward J. Erler is a fellow at the Claremont Institute and a scholar on the unique and original concept of American citizenship.
In the Summary View of the rights of British America (1774), Thomas Jefferson argued that it was a natural right possessed by all men to leave the country where “chance and not choice” had placed them. The notion of a natural right to expatriation has no place in the scheme of an indefeasible birthright citizenship. Furthermore, the natural right to revolution is the perfect antithesis of “perpetual allegiance.” In 1868, the Reconstruction Congress passed an Expatriation Act. The act provided, in pertinent part, that “the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Senator Howard was an enthusiastic supporter of the bill, describing the right of expatriation as the necessary counterpart of citizenship based on consent. During debate, commentators frequently described Blackstone’s view of birthright citizenship as an “indefensible feudal doctrine of indefeasible allegiance” that was incompatible with republican government.
Erler’s column in the National Review yesterday:
Nor was this the only legislation concerning birthright citizenship that Congress passed following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. As mentioned above, there was almost unanimous agreement among its framers that the amendment did not extend citizenship to Indians. Although born in the U.S., they were not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Beginning in 1870, however, Congress began to pass legislation offering citizenship to Indians on a tribe-by-tribe basis. Finally, in 1923, there was a universal offer to all tribes. Any Indian who consented could become a citizen. Thus Congress used its legislative authority under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to determine who was within the jurisdiction of the U.S. It could make a similar determination today, based on this legislative precedent, that children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. A constitutional amendment is no more required today than it was in 1923.
A video interview of Edward J. Erler on birthright, the history and the Constitution.
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Texpat, you might as well call Kevin and tell him it’s hopeless to try and convince the populists that American manufacturing has been humming along quite nicely for the last thirty years.
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21 Shannon
It’s seems futile, unfortunately. Populists across the political spectrum maintain an immune system highly resistant to facts. It’s a very broad subject and every populist has a pocketful of anecdotes they claim to prove their point.
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Hello? Republican Establishment? Yes. Reality called and left this message:
Trump or Cruz.
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#23 – at least for now – I’m aligned with THIS HotAir commenter (from your linky):
I’ll say right now, that the one way I wouldn’t vote for Cruz in the general election would be if he had Bush as his running mate.
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Best Korea issues ultimatum to Running Dog Lackey Korea.
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Note to squack over his “European shoulder bag”.
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Once the politicians, commentators, and activists that profess to care so much about immigrants have thrown a few more punches at the terrible Trump and his evil immigration plan, they should go on to beat up those really to blame for this plan: themselves. The current potency of the “stop immigration at all costs” sentiment is the direct result of thirty years of immigration policy failure. And if something isn’t done to change that soon, the American public may demand truly decisive action to shut off immigration. It’s happened before.
The last time American immigration levels stood as high as they do right now was during 1880–1924, the years of the so-called “Great Wave.” American immigration laws had always been liberal—in fact, during our nation’s first century, the phrase “immigration acts” usually referred to a set of laws designed to attract foreigners. From 1880 on, however, new technology (the steel-hulled, steam-powered ocean liner, which made crossing the Atlantic much quicker and cheaper), the growing allure of a more settled, more prosperous America, oppression abroad (particularly that aimed the Jews of czarist Russia and Eastern Europe), and economic malaise elsewhere (notably in Italy and Greece) combined to drive an unprecedented number of immigrants to these shores. It was a migration like nothing the country had seen, as 27 million new immigrants joined a nation that in 1880 had only 50 million citizens.It was a migration like nothing the country had seen, as 27 million new immigrants joined a nation that in 1880 had only 50 million citizens.
Current legal immigrants in medicine, biologies, physics, economics and other scientific fields have made enormous contributions in America over the last 40 years, but we aren’t getting this kind of return below from a grateful, assimilating wave of new immigrants. Partly, because it’s not expected of them and primarily because newly arrived immigrants are encouraged to buy straight into the race, class, gender paradigm of the American Left.
The Great Wave gave us many enduring American institutions. Broadway musicals were the brain-children of displaced Eastern European Jews. The city of Chicago and the entire midwest were transformed and developed by the newcomers. Chinese immigrants altered the life and culture of the West Coast.
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Animal rights activist beaten with duck
I’m sorry. It’s funny.
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#28 You have a link for that? 😀
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Sort of reminds me of the cat drop story that Neal Boortz used to tell. Seems the local parachute enthusiast would round up the neighborhood strays and take them up with the jumpers. At jump time, the cats were tossed out of the airplane, then the jumpers followed. The one who landed with the most cats attached was declared the winner.
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Woo hoo, 2.4″ so far today! The farm is saved, Paw!
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Cable and internet knocked out in the barrio.
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Here’s a funny story about Serena Williams being so disadvantaged by her race. Actually, the funniest thing, to me, is reference to her and her sister Venus being referred to as the Williams brothers in Russia. Surely the Russians have a lot of history with female athletes on steroids. And I’m convinced that Serena is.
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#28
Guess he should have ducked.
/stolen
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#35 – rimshot
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Arthur Ashe had it a lot worse than Serena.
I’ve never heard of Serena whining about her plight, but I don’t follow that closely. -
Apparently, from the article, she is getting a reputation for thinking the lines checkers are against her because she’s black. She has cussed out a few.
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Are these wimminz arms?
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I just dumped 2.6 ” from the rain tube.
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This could be real interesting.
HEADLINE: Saudi MERS infections soar ahead of hajj pilgrimage
The disease could mutate and kill thousands. The perfect incubator is all those millions of people crammed in a very small space.
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3 1/2″ here in Clear Lake, rained most of the day, poured from about 7 to 11, piddled till 5. YES!
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Please send a little of that rain out here. It hasn’t rained since May, and the temp has exceeded 100 every day since June 1 – except today.
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Sorry, EG, dunno how to send the rain up there. Our temps were down 15 degrees today too. Would have been a good day for some yard work except for all the rain.
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…Anyone who is offended by something you have said or written can make a complaint to the Human Rights Commissions and Tribunals. In Canada, these organizations police speech, penalizing citizens for any expression deemed in opposition to particular sexual behaviors or protected groups identified under “sexual orientation.” It takes only one complaint against a person to be brought before the tribunal, costing the defendant tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. The commissions have the power to enter private residences and remove all items pertinent to their investigations, checking for hate speech.
The plaintiff making the complaint has his legal fees completely paid for by the government. Not so the defendant. Even if the defendant is found innocent, he cannot recover his legal costs. If he is found guilty, he must pay fines to the person(s) who brought forth the complaint.
If your beliefs, values, and political opinions are different from the state’s, you risk losing your professional license, job, or business, and even your children. Look no further than the Lev Tahor Sect, an Orthodox Jewish sect. Many members, who had been involved in a bitter custody battle with child protection services, began leaving Chatham, Ontario, for Guatemala in March 2014, to escape prosecution for their religious faith, which conflicted with the Province’s guidelines for religious education. Of the two hundred sect members, only half a dozen families remain in Chatham.
Parents can expect state interference when it comes to moral values, parenting, and education—and not just in school. The state has access into your home to supervise you as the parent, to judge your suitability. And if the state doesn’t like what you are teaching your children, the state will attempt to remove them from your home…
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Oh Canada, indeed. 🙁
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I forgot to ask, but just how many of you hamsters’ names showed up on the Ashley-Madison hack dump. Just too lazy to go check the list for myself, so go ahead and fess up here to save me the trouble.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205189/Hackers-dump-SECOND-bigger-batch-Ashley-Madison-records-taunting-message-millionaire-founder-cheating-dirtbag-site.html
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