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Back to the salt mine.
Mornin’ Gang -
Gotta get up pretty early in the morning to beat Brother Dave to the punch.
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This is fantastic news.
Turks went to the polls today in parliamentary elections, and the era of single-party Islamist rule appears to be over.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been counting on the continued rule of his AKP party to change the country’s constitution after these elections, consolidating his already increasingly authoritarian rule into something even more dastardly.
But a 2/3 majority of AKP in parliament is needed to change the constitution.
Today, the Islamist party walked away with only 41 percent of seats.
That’s an eight percent drop from 2011.
In a country where the Islamists have garnered the animosity of all manner of opposition groups, from nationalists to Kurds, good luck forming a coalition.
And to add insult to Erdogan’s injury, the Kurds will have a party in parliament for the first time.
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You’re more optimistic than I. I look at it like the difference between the Palestinian Authority or Hamas winning.
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I looks like the water has finally receded from the Masters course at Bear Creek. There are several holes that are gonna take a lot of work and time to get back up to par.
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http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58472404-78/taylor-cruz-hands-gill.html.csp
The above story looks like suicide by cop. The drunken twit (bac .18%) had ear buds in and refused to comply with cops orders. This is even with eye contact and the cops gun drawn.
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Howzabout a hint on the OC cartoon? I am clueless.
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#4 Hamous
If there is sufficient support, and this indicates there might be, to restore the Turkish military to its former strong role ensuring a quasi-secular government, then it could be excellent news. Turkey was always the unique, independent Middle Eastern nation whose military kept its radical crazies at bay with a watchful eye in the tradition of patriarch Ataturk. He never trusted the salafists and other kooks.
The US State Department under Clinton and Bush managed to totally screw up our arrangement, with no small assistance from the Euroidiots, with the Western sympathizing factions of Turkey. Even though the civilian Turkish administrations would make noises to please their Arab neighbors, their intelligence and military agencies were always solidly behind the US and Israel and were invaluable, for instance, after 9/11. The Turks also jammed Syrian radar defenses when Israeli aircraft bombed the North Korean nuclear plant there in March of 2007.
And then Erdogan.
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Healthy people who choose not to eat meat simply don’t eat meat. Psychotics who choose not to eat meat insist that no one else eat it either.
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7 mh42
No hints needed.
It’s just one more step in the long slow descent of Wagonburner into the Abyss.
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Shot her mom???
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I’m off soon to chase grandbabies and cuddle them to sleep.
So today, it doesn’t suck so much to be me.
I’m sure you’re all jealous. You should be.
But that’s just Noona talk! 😉
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From fb:
Only weeks after leaving office on January 20, 2017, former
President Barack Obama discovers a leak under his sink, so he calls Troy the Plumber to come out and fix it.
Troy drives to President Obama’s new house, which is located in a very exclusive, gated community near Chicago where all the residents have a net income of way more than $250,000 per year.
Troy arrives and takes his tools into the house. He is led to the guest bathroom that contains the leaky pipe under the sink. Troy assesses the problem and tells President Obama that it’s an easy repair that will take less than 10 minutes. President Obama asks Troy how much it will cost. Troy checks his rate chart and says, “$9,500.”
“What?! $9,500?!” Obama asks, stunned, “But you said it’s an easy repair. Michelle will whip me if I pay a plumber that much!”
Troy says, “Yes, but what I do is charge those who make more than $250,000 per year a much higher amount so I can fix the plumbing of poorer people for free. This has always been my philosophy. As a matter of fact, I lobbied the Democrat Congress, who passed this philosophy into law. Now all plumbers must do business this way. It’s known as the ‘Affordable Plumbing Act of 2014’. I’m surprised you haven’t heard of it.”
In spite of that, Obama tells Troy there’s no way he’s paying that much for a small plumbing repair, so Troy leaves. Obama spends the next hour flipping through the phone book calling for another plumber, but he finds that all other plumbing businesses in the area have gone out of business. Not wanting to pay Troy ‘s price, Obama does nothing and the leak goes un-repaired for several more days. A week later the leak is so bad President Obama has had to put a bucket under the sink. Michelle is not happy as she has Oprah and guests arriving the next morning. The bucket fills up quickly and has to be emptied every hour, and there’s a risk the room will flood, so Obama calls Troy and pleads with him to return.
Troy goes back to President Obama’s house, looks at the leaky pipe, checks his new rate chart and says, “Let’s see, this will now cost you $21,000.”
President Obama quickly fires back, “What? A few days ago you told me it would cost $9,500!”
Troy explains, “Well, because of the ‘Affordable Plumbing Act,’ a lot of wealthier people are learning how to maintain and take care of their own plumbing, so there are fewer payers in the plumbing exchanges. As a result, the price I have to charge wealthy people like you keeps rising. Not only that, but for some reason the demand for plumbing work by those who get it for free has skyrocketed! There’s a long waiting list of those who need repairs, but the amount we get doesn’t cover our costs, especially paperwork and record-keeping. This unfortunately has put a lot of my fellow plumbers out of business, they’re not being replaced, and nobody is going into the plumbing business because they know they can’t make any money at it. I’m hurting too, all thanks to greedy rich people like you who won’t pay their ‘fair share’. On the other hand, why didn’t you buy plumbing insurance last December? If you had bought plumbing insurance available under the ‘Affordable Plumbing Act,’ all this would have been covered by your policy.”
“You mean I wouldn’t have to pay anything to have you fix my plumbing problem?” asks Obama.
“Well, not exactly,” replies Troy . “You would have had to buy the insurance before the deadline, which has passed now. And, because you’re rich, you would have had to pay $34,000 in premiums, which would have given you a ‘silver’ plan, and then, since this would have been your first repair, you would have to pay up to the $21,000 deductible, and anything over that would have a $7,500 co-pay, and then there’s the mandatory maintenance program, which is covered up to 17.5%, so there are some costs involved. Nothing is for free.”
“WHAT?!” exclaims Obama. “Why so much for a puny sink leak?!”
With a bland look, Troy replies, “Well, paperwork, mostly, like I said. And the internal cost of the program itself. You don’t think a program of this complexity and scope can run itself, do you? Besides, there are millions of folks with lower incomes than you, even many in the ‘middle class’, who qualify for subsidies that people like you must support. That’s why they call it the ‘Affordable Plumbing Act’! Only people who don’t make much money can afford it. If you want affordable plumbing, you’ll have to give away most of what you have accumulated and cut your and Michelle’s income by about 90%. Then you can qualify to GET your ‘Fair Share’ instead of GIVING it.”
“But who would pass a crazy act like the ‘Affordable Plumbing Act’?!” exclaims the exasperated Obama.
After a sigh, Troy replies, “Congress… because they didn’t read it.”
This will help you understand Obamacare….Why didn’t this guy fight like this during the campaign, why didn’t he fight JugEars as hard as he did the Rs?
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From the US Environmental Protection Agency:
Instead, the report — which took four years and likely cost millions of dollars to complete — blandly concludes that “we did not find evidence that [hydraulic fracturing has] led to widespread, systematic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.” In fact, the study never definitively identifies a single case where the fracking process itself — as opposed to mishaps or negligence — resulted in water contamination.
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President Reagan at Normandy in 1984.
This speech was one of his finest hours and I never tire of reading it again.
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Lib nut bag Jack Lew expresses his undying faith in RFUs and the Easter bunny.
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One more sign in the moral decline of this country. The Devil gets his own TV show on Fox this fall.
LUCIFER is the story of the original fallen angel. Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR (Tom Ellis, “Merlin”) has abandoned his throne and retired to L.A., where he owns Lux, an upscale nightclub. –
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Just add that to the vampire shows and witchcraft shows, driving people out of business who will not bow to the homonazis – it is almost like a full fledged assault on the core of our existence.
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Super Dave – got a trip question. We’re heading
to Durham, NC next week to go to a wedding. I was thinking
of going 1-10 to Mobile, then hit 65 up thru Atlanta.
Trying to figure time of when/where we’ll stop, etc.
What’s your thoughts on drive time from here to Mobile
(with all the slow downs/construction/traffic you discussed).
Course I may decide to hit 59/69 to Hattiesburg, etc. depending
on what the thought is. Want to get there as quickly as possible
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My aren’t we a bunch of Chatty Cathies today?
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CFree, Mobile is about 7 hours, that is from Clear Lake. They’re rebuilding the rest stop at the LA/MS border, about 4 miles west of the Pearl River and I got caught there going both ways. You may want to get off on Airport/Northshore Blvd (exit 80) and head south to US 190 then over to US 90 and cross over onto Mississippi there. I think I 65 would be a little faster than I 59 but I can’t be for certain. In any case, you need to stop at the Stennis exit (2) MS 607 and get some Bessie’s boiled P-Nuts, the Cajun ones are to die for.
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Gracias Senor, not sure when we’ll go by Bessies’, but I’ll make a note to find it if
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#15 President Clinton… same venue.
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From the Drudge story about the concert in NJ:
“Barbaric — the way they treat our people is like animals. If there was another concert this would’ve never happened,” said one concertgoer.My observation is that they are animals.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Spouse is telecommuting as usual, and I’ve been feeding the washing machine and dryer this morning, both of which are nicely mature but still functioning well. Also swept leaves and grass off the driveway midmorning before it got too warm. Had another lovely 69 at 6 and a coolish start until about 11. Still not bad for June 8th. The skeeter hawks are still AWOL.
The ground is at last dry and firm, just in time for more rain later this week that will be welcome if it’s not a gully washer. Plenty of water still stands in the low spots around Richmond, and some folks still can’t get back to their homes. The scenes of homes flanking Braes Bayou and several blocks back is still heartbreaking, as are others elsewhere. It is of particular interest because we lived near the Fondren/Braeswood intersection about three blocks back from the south side of the bayou from 1970-1980. While we lived there storm water never got deeper than a bit over the sidewalk and went down quickly once the rain stopped. But that was when Braeswood ended at Gessner and beyond that was mostly open land.
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I got some limbering up with my pole saw and other sharp tools. Trimmed some deadwood off the redbud and one pine tree. Took a few low branches off the magnolia tree that were drooping over the old lamp-post that serves as a trellis for a Carolina jessamine vine. A few whorls of the vine had snared the tree branches overhead – that is cheating and it was corrected. Great exercise, moving the stepladder around, climbing, snipping small branches, sawing on larger ones. Raking up the clippings, carrying to the limb storage area. My kind of morning.
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I’m still working on my land reclamation project, a 30′ X 120′ strip just behind my back fence that had gone to fallow, with turkey pear, prickly pear, and bee brush so thick and tall that it was impassible, except for a few deer trails. The cats and raccoons seem to like it. Mother had not been able to keep up her yard, so it was encroaching there too. Anyway, it needs scraping with a Bobcat, but I can’t afford that, so I’ve just attacked it with a shovel and a chain saw. Looks like it will provide an exercise yard for as much as I want as long as I want. MH is pretty brave to get up on that ladder – I’m afraid that I would do damage to those plastic inserts, and they are too expensive to replace. It’s going to be summer here before we know it.
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#27 EG: The bee brush doesn’t look so bad. The prickly pear I am familiar with and the turkey pear looks like it comes from the choya family – nasty stuff. The thorns on both the pear species are rubber tire shredders.
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The bee brush is about 10′ tall and has thorns that like to grab anything that gets close to it. Both the prickly pear and the turkey pear have sharp spines, but they are relatively easy to avoid – just pick them up gently. However, they both have a secret weapon which are hair fine, short thorns with little tiny barbs that make them hard to find (except for the pain) and even harder to remove (I use a desk lamp with a magnifying glass in the center to help find them). My secret weapon is a blowtorch that connects directly to a propane bottle that I use to burn the spines off the cactus and also to burn the undergrowth around the bee brush so that I can see where to make the cuts. Looking forward to a big bonfire soon.
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I have a little strip on the west side of my house that I can’t get anything but weeds to grow in. When I planted some prickly pear, the problem was solved. That cacti absolutely loves that spot.
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I’m planting bluebonnets as soon as I get the area cleared well enough.
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Propane brush burner = fun.
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The mailman delivered a copy of Scott Walker’s book Unintimidated, A Governor’s Story and a Nations Challenge that came as a result of a donation to his campaign about 6 weeks ago. That was followed about 2 weeks later with an apology on delay of sending the book, as it seems they ran out of signed copies and had to order more. 🙂 That tells me there have been many donations already.
It is not a light book: 255 pages of text followed by a notes section and an index for a total of 278 pages. Expect it will make fascinating reading.
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Bessie’s Boiled Peanuts Bay Saint Louis Mississippi.
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…and more in a minute, after this commercial break, about that raging wildfire fueled by hot, dry western winds out of the Chihuahua Mountains. The inferno started in San Saba by a crazed Rice Institute graduate is now threatening the infamous Twin Peaks restaurant on the outskirts of Waco.
Back in a moment…
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Not far off at all TP.
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No biggie, Texas has the water to fight wildfires this year.
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Way to go M42, ya blog kilter.
I keed, l keed
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Hmm, you didn’t exactly fire it back up, either.
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Redundancy: “crazed Rice Institute grad.” They are all crazy over there at Rice.
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40 El Gordo
🙂
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Walp, I’ll be hornswoggled. 42???
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