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Taylor Force Lubbock Texas

Taylor Force of Lubbock, Texas

May He Rest in Peace and His Memory Be a Blessing

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28 years old, Husband, Graduate of West Point, Officer of the U.S. Army, Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, Graduate Student at Vanderbilt in Business Management

Murdered in Haifa, Israel on March 8, 2016 by a filthy, evil, barbaric Islamic Terrorist identified as 22-year-old Bashar Massalha from the West Bank Palestinian refugee camp in Qalqiliya.

Force’s wife was also stabbed and was reported in critical condition. Pray for her.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So sad, prayers to the family.

  2. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Weather men must be disappointed. Armageddon didn’t happen last night.

  3. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    What a dismal OC thread story. Prayers for the family.

  4. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    In other news: TexMo reporting into work despite the tornadoes, flash floods, copious amounts of rain, hurricane force winds, sleet, snow, hail, global warming, etc. I’m here to support a laundry list of assorted government programs.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dueling Hump-Day threads? My wake-up call is gone.
    Well, this little guy rolled into our Lab yesterday, we’ll shake the dickens out of him for a couple of days before he goes off looking for water on the moon.

  6. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Jenner responded to the criticism, saying people “think that now that I’ve transitioned that everything has to change. You can’t be conservative anymore. You have to be a liberal. No, I don’t believe that. I think I can keep all of my views the same ’cause I feel in my heart that’s the best way to go.”

    LGBT activists aren’t tolerating that (but I thought conservatives were the intolerant ones!). They’ll support Jenner and anyone else who believes in their hearts that their sex needs to change, but watch out if your heart tells you conservatism is what’s best. That can’t be stomached. If you cling to the delusion of conservatism, you must a lunatic! The hypocrisy dripping from the pens of these people is astounding.

    Jenner supports Cruz.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From Chemical & Engineering News:

    Just one of countless examples, small and large, of how federal regulation stifles progress, business and the advancement of our quality of life.

    As summer approaches, bringing time in the sun, people in the U.S. are no closer to benefiting from advanced sunscreen active ingredients than they were a decade ago.

    European outdoors lovers, meanwhile, can bask in the sun knowing they have access to new and highly effective sunscreens. These products protect them from ultraviolet (UV) rays that cause sunburn and contribute to wrinkling and increasing rates of skin cancer.

  8. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Absolutely horrible what happened to Force and his wife. May he rest in peace and thoughts and prayers go out for the wife and loved ones.

  9. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Zika may meet its match. The Sambo.

    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia-based non-profit Operation Blessing helped avert an outbreak of the West Nile virus in New Orleans by supplying abandoned swimming pools full of water – ideal breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitos – with fish that feast on mosquito larva.

    Now the group hopes to halt the spread of the Zika virus in Central America by breeding and distributing fish that can eat mosquitos’ larva before the insects mature and carry the disease, which has been linked to an epidemic of birth defects in Brazil and spread quickly throughout Latin America.

    Based out of Mexico’s Acapulco area, Operation Blessing is working in El Salvador to supply a mosquito-eating fish called Sambo—one native to the area—that families can place in sinks and containers where drinking water is stored, CBN reports.

    El Salvador’s Vice Minister of Health, Eduardo Espinoza, has hailed the Sambo fish as a successful method in reducing the virus, and multiple groups have distributed it nationwide.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/03/08/mosquito-eating-fish-could-halt-zika-virus-latin-america/81484784/

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Super Dave

    From the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics:

    PDF of a 2012 issue about Ring Wing Waveriders. Very Cool.

  11. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Why would you go lie in the sun and slather yourself in sunscreen to protect you from the sun in the first place? Why would the federal government have an interest in this matter in the first place? If it comes from Europe, it must be better, right? We should all strive to become more like the Europeans; I know that because John Kerry told me so. Get government out of our faces, out of our businesses, out of our lives. Protect us from foreign invaders, provide a stable currency, fill the potholes in the road, and get out of the way. We don’t even need a post office any more, so there’s a place to save some money – but government is about spending money, not saving it.

  12. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #9. THAT’S RACIST!!!!

  13. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Not much rain here yesterday or over night, but some pretty active storms went to the east of us with their only passage shown by distant lightning flashes. Mugly to the max and 68 at 5:30 and only 0.2″ on the gauge. More stuff forecast for later today into tonight, but where it will go is uncertain.

  14. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #12 Hamous

    If’n you don’t explain the nursery story to all the snowflakes and just plain flakes out there, nobody will think a thing of it. You have to be of a certain vintage to be aware of the story behind the name. Shhhh, let sleeping dogs sleep. 🙂

  15. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Nuff said:

    2. Date: 01/30/2016
    3. FEC Committee ID #: C00431171 This committee is a Principal Campaign Committee. Candidate: MITT ROMNEY / PAUL D. RYAN
    Party: Republican Party
    Office Sought: President
    State is in District:

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    15 Squawk

    Apparently, Romney has used the Red Curve Solutions LLC firm to handle previous campaign compliance and finance issues.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #2 Hammy

    Armageddon didn’t happen last night.

    Well, I can see out the back window that I got one board blown down outa my fence pickets.

  18. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #5 SD
    Who is going to launch the “little guy” to the moon? Bangladesh? USA under Obammy can’t even launch to the ISS these days.

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Yup….. more interesting to me is that Romney said he was not going to run for resident yet the filing remains in effect. Kaysick and Rubmytoe are hoping for a brokered convention. I think Romnuts has prepared the foundation for the same run at the convention. We know the implications if a brokered convention occurs and the winner is not Trump or Cruz 2016. I would not put it past the Rpowers that be to place someone who won nothing at the polls.

  20. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Radar shows a massive thunderstorm moving north through Houston. Should be in my zip code in less than an hour.

  21. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Bold mine:

    “The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s outrageous terrorist attacks in Jaffa, Petah Tikvah, and Jerusalem, which tragically claimed the life of U.S. citizen Taylor Allen Force and left many others severely injured. We offer our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Taylor and all those affected by these senseless attacks, and we wish a speedy recovery for the injured,” State Department Press Secretary John Kirby As we have said many times, there is absolutely no justification for terrorism. We continue to encourage all parties to take affirmative steps to reduce tensions and restore calm.”

    WOW!!! 😡

    State Department Gives Cover to Palestinians After Terrorist Murders American in Israel

  22. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Adee #14;

    Personal experience does play a role in our thinking. To me Sambo is a Russian mixed martial art known in part to thrust one’s legs around and opponent’s head while standing to take him/her down. Crazy stuff. Don’t try it at home. 🙂

  23. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    As soon as I get enough funds from Go Fund Me I’ll get Hamous his Christmas present this year.

  24. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Smart woman. I knew there was something special about her that I liked. 🙂

    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/03/09/carly-fiorina-endorses-ted-cruz-n2130748

  25. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    NATIONAL MEATBALL DAY – MARCH 9

    Who knew?

  26. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    You can’t have a Constitution without a nation to go with it

    And then came the third wave of immigration to America.

    This wave has featured, and continues to feature, huge numbers of immigrants who have absolutely no connection to limited government, no understanding of constitutional restrains on government, and no concern for natural rights and individual liberties. Indeed, in many cases, these immigrants come from places completely outside of any definition of Western civilization, and cannot be expected in any way, shape, or form to understand what American culture and society are really all about.

    http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dunkin/160309

  27. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #22 Darren

    Age differences make a difference. 😉

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Prayers to the family, and all those who suffer at the hands of evil.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Tile guys are here, installing tile that Hubby originally was going to do himself. I’m glad we have professionals, partly because this is supposed to be our final house and it needs to be done correctly, partly because we don’t have but a handful of 90 degree angles anywhere in this house, and also because it hurts Hubby to do the physical labor.

    Also, because this has been years needing to be done, and we won’t meet our inspection deadline, much less have it completed any time soon, if I wait on Hubby. It’s a matter of having time and money at the same time, as well as healthy backs to do the work.

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The older we get, the harder it is to meet deadlines. And just “keep up”, in general. And that’s even if you don’t have 4-wk-old kittens that Mama has decided to wean a bit early.

    Yikes.

    Glad I’m not laying a tile floor this month.
    :mrgreen:

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #10 TexPat, Very neat.

    #5 SD
    Who is going to launch the “little guy” to the moon? Bangladesh? USA under Obammy can’t even launch to the ISS these days.

    Falcon 9 by Space X.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Social justice warriors scored another victory last week, convincing an evangelical university that Jesus favors a microaggression reporting system.

    Seattle Pacific University’s administration folded to many of the demands of the SPU Justice Coalition – apparently composed of fewer than 20 students – for a diversity czar, “justice and cultural credibility” leadership requirements, and race-focused faculty hiring, among others.

    Well, I’m glad that question was cleared up.

    The petition said the university’s structure “suppresses minority cultures and identities by perpetuating the notion that Western white evangelical culture is socially and theologically normative, thereby inhibiting the personal and communal development of minority students.”

    Who knew ?

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, this isn’t the floor – yet! This is the shower (upstairs & downstairs) and other bathroom wall tile.

    The floor – that’s a whole ‘nother project. We have yet to lay the sleepers and run the radiant tubing, then another subfloor layer on top of which we will put either tile (bathrooms) or wood floor (original from our old house, which will have to be fit and refinished).

    Yeppers, lotsa work to do.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It gets worse. Cannibalizing their own with Fascist hatred.

    In 2016, intersectionality continues the fight for a more tolerant country by exposing the white privilege of the interracial. The first target was Zoe Saldana, a black actress with Dominican, Haitian and Puerto Rican roots, who was accused of “blackface” for playing Nina Simone without the requisite racial purity. A petition condemns having “light-complexioned actors” playing “the roles of dark-complexioned historical figures”. Saldana was accused of having a “Eurocentric” face that meets “European standards of beauty”, instead of an “Afrocentric” face. She was told to check her “light-skinned black woman privilege”.

    Yes, black people can also have white privilege as long as their skin isn’t the right shade of black and their features aren’t “Afrocentric” enough. Intersectionality is just legitimized racism. And racism is a pathological obsession with racial purity that can never stop on its own. The reverse version of the one drop rule is that even one drop of “white blood” is enough to transmit the disease of “white privilege”.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    For my Roku buddies – private channel selections.

    Lately, I’ve been watching “Property Brothers” on Netflix and “Almost Human” on CW Seed. Maybe I’ll check out that tropical island channel when I get all stressed out over family stuff.

  36. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #35

    Hey I see you can finally get Al Jazeera!

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve never “gotten” Al Jazeera. Just like I’ve never “gotten” Islam.

  38. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    GJT the description said that channel was not available if you were physically located in the U.S.

  39. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tedtam, good for you to hire an installer. I had the same thoughts when we remodeled our master bathroom a year ago. I could eventually figure it all out, however, it would have taken alot of time and alot of mistakes.

  40. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The new season of House of Cards is up on Netflix. I’ve been holding off on watching it until I’m holed up for a couple of days so that I can binge watch the whole thing, so don’t you all be talking about it and giving it away. If it weren’t for my Roku, I would not have any TV reception at all – no cable, no satellite, no local coverage.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BTW – I had to go to the local box store to get a soap dish to be installed with the tile. I got there just as some of the worst rain was passing over. There were several large lightning bolts just as I was parking, so I decided to get wet rather than raise an umbrella. Just as I was getting under cover at the store entrance, a huge and close strike occurred, and the accompanying thunder set off several car alarms.

    Made me smile, because I felt safe. Otherwise, there’d be some clothing change to be made.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #40

    The new season of House of Cards is up on Netflix. I’ve been holding off on watching it until I’m holed up for a couple of days so that I can binge watch the whole thing

    Yeah, me too!

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    We got a little rain but the thunderstorms passed us by, nothing close enough to rattle the nerves. Well, not my nerves anyway. The old resident cats are all huddled under furniture.

  44. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Unless this is a normal routine from all campaigns, Cruz campaign workers really do need to stop sending out rumors about other candidates.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/08/rubio-camp-blasts-cruz-for-spreading-false-rumors/

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A former couch member would be very interested in this beekeeper and his product.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oops! Kids’ drawings.

  47. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s an interesting take on Trump’s campaign, expressed by an unexpected “former conservative”.
    http://www.vdare.com/posts/john-c-kluge-in-the-ny-post-why-i-support-trump-and-resent-the-elites-trying-to-destroy-him

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, this is an education for me as well!

    Tony Soprano! heh heh heh

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I think Peter Brimelow is a nasty, vile racist and anti-Semite, but then everyone is entitled to their opinion, I guess.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Why does this remind me of our government and spending levels?

  51. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Texpat, I understand you don’t like Brimelow, but Brimelow is not even mentioned in the article in #47.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Don’t you have to have a minimally quick internet connection to do all this streaming TV?
    And how is that San Saba has that decent internet availability.

  53. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    DANG!!!

    Whoa: Israeli Stabbed by Palestinian Terrorist Pulls Knife Out of Neck And Kills Attacker With It

    I’m sure the State department would want Jonatan to calm down just as much as the Palestinian who stabbed him in the neck with a knife.

  54. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #44 Darren:

    It wasn’t a rumor. They simply forwarded a CNN report that noted that a Rubio staffer had said that several of his staff had recommended that he drop out of the race before the Florida Primary. It was a frikken CNN News report! If Rubio wants to whine he should start by getting control of his staff’s mouths!!!

  55. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    And how is that San Saba has that decent internet availability.

    We should thank Al Gore for inventing the internet and ensuring the good citizens of San Saba have broadband.

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Light rain here now, but some really ugly stuff inside a big severe TS box is just crossing the coast due south of us. It does not look like it’s getting weaker. So far we’ve pretty much escaped any heavy downpours.

  57. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The local telephone co-op discovered that they could force people to keep their land lines if they tied it to internet service. Then they installed underground fiber optic throughout their system – I’ve still not been able to find out how they got the money to pay for that, but somehow they did. There is also internet service available from the local cable TV company – cable TV came here years before it became popular in the urban areas because there are no local over the air channels without a mile high antenna. They even have cell phone service out here too, but only 3G. Both Fed Ex and UPS deliver Amazon packages out here too. Everything is almost up to date here in the hinterlands. Even the city employees are trained to act just like their urban counterpoints even though they are mostly white (don’t get me started on those lazy…). .

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    51 mharper42

    I realize that Brimelow was not mentioned, but I cringe every time I see that notorious vdare.com name in a link. Brimelow and Steve Sailer both have critics I abhor, like Media Matters and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and yet I find them both to be disgusting.

  59. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texmo

    And how is that San Saba has that decent internet availability.

    How decent as in how fast? My scumbag telco refuses to upgrade ours. Something about being at the last mile and being grateful I get what I got.

  60. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #30 mharper42

    Has Gypsy kicked the kittens out of the box or is she just moving away when they want to nurse? Are they beyond needing bottle feeding? Dish feeding would be easier for sure.

    Sigh. At least the medications schedule here for Cameo is reduced considerably from when she came home from the clinic: three of the meds are once a day and the last one is only twice a day. Stopped the thrice a day one last week. A couple of them will continue til about the end of the month.

  61. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’ve been searching the city code book to see if there is an ordinance against dancing naked on top of the cab of an 18 wheeler in the middle of the freeway, and I can’t find one anywhere. Maybe that’s why they took that lady to the nut ward because they couldn’t find any other way to charge her. I think it’s time to start a petition to outlaw nude dancing on top of 18 wheeler cabs in the middle of the freeway at rush hour. We can’t allow this kind of thing to go on without government intervention – or at least requiring a license and a permit or something.

  62. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I think it’s time to start a petition to outlaw nude dancing on top of 18 wheeler cabs in the middle of the freeway at rush hour.

    Or at least outlaw it for anyone over 300 lbs.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    62 Hamous

    I was thinking the people who make the wind deflector for the cab of that tractor could turn that video into a great ad for incredible product durability and strength.

    Squawk would’ve bought a dozen back in the day.

  64. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    😀

  65. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    My class for tonight has been canceled. It seems my DRE is afraid that flooding rain and lightning wouldn’t be conducive to good parishioner relations or class attendance.

    Buncha wimps.

  66. phil Avatar
    phil

    You should’ve asked what would’ve happened if Noah had had that attitude.

  67. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    😀

  68. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I got four inches!

  69. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    And here’s a little reminder about Daylight Saving Time…

  70. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #57
    EG

    We got white privileged garbage men out here, does that count?

  71. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #69 wahoo!
    MHarp

    That could cause a messy situation, never thought about it. 😀

  72. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I decided to leave my newly bucket planted tomatoes out to get rain water, against the warnings of my Sweetie. They are floating. Moved them under the patio table.

    /note to self, drill more drain holes in the bucket

  73. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #69 mharper42

    LOL, and guess who is the star of the show who now lives back where his folks moved from.

  74. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #68

    I got four inches!

    The exclamation point indicates that you’re proud/excited/bragging about this?

  75. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    74 Tedtam

    Donald Trump.

  76. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The fallout from the fake Mizzou protests continues to destablize the University of Missouri. Today the interim chancellor of the university emailed students that the university will enroll 1500 less students than projected and faces a budget shortfall of $32 million this year.

    While the 1500 fewer students aren’t broken out by year, the vast majority of them will come from the entering freshman class. How substantial is the decline in enrollment? Based on Mizzou admission data from past years we’re talking about a potential 20% drop in enrolled freshmen.

    That’s staggering.

    Glenn Reynold’s response:

    Good. We need an example, to encourage the others.

    And to spell things out for administrators: These were never “student demands.” Most students didn’t care or were actively hostile, but were browbeaten into silence — with some assistance from you. So now it’s “Irish Democracy” as people passively withdraw their support. If I were a Missouri legislator, I’d take that $32 million entirely out of administration, and lay administrators off en masse.

  77. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT says:

    March 9, 2016 at 6:34 pm
    I got four inches!

    Braggart!……Ducks and hauls it outta’ here, running that zig-zag pattern that ST learn’t me. 😀

  78. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #68

    I got four inches!

    The exclamation point indicates that you’re proud/excited/bragging about this?

    Well, Astronaut Scott Kelly was making a big deal about gaining two inches in a year….

  79. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Hmmm, here seem to be some wandering minds out there tonight.

  80. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    😳 Sorry Ms Adee, didn’t know you were here. 😳

  81. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    They’re just going stir crazy from all this sloppy weather.

    Oh and Adee, you asked a question earlier about weaning status. Well, I’m an amateur so I can’t tell what to expect. Gypsy is still doing some nursing, and I’m doing a little hand feeding by syringe, just to be sure every kitten gets some fluid every day. They do like the milk replacer I bought at PetSmart but don’t love the application. I mix them some milky mush every day but so far only Gypsy seems to like it. And she is off her fine little gravy-laden Feast meals; not sure why.

    They all seem happy, healthy and active so I’m just tapping my way with curb feelers.

  82. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Don’t worry mh, they’ll have you whipped into shape in no time.

  83. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #80 GJT

    No offense intended I’m sure and none taken. 🙂

  84. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    How come you boys never apologize to me??
    :mrgreen:

  85. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    On to the really important news of the day. The Texans have hired Peyton Manning’s backup at great expense. They also hired at significant expense an especially talented young running back from the Dolphins who ran circles around the Texan’s defense last season.

    Both were on the wish list, and the wishes were granted.

    And let me add, I hope they stay healthy.

  86. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    84

    Call Squawk. According to B-Sue, he’s had a lot of practice.

  87. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Micro Rudio had a rally today at a football stadium in Florida. The turnout was just amazing:
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/devastating-rubio-rallies-to-empty-stadium-at-hialeah/

  88. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pretty sick and damned tired of gazing at that old hangdog, depressing face of Angela Merkel.

    I don’t know anything about this woman and I don’t really trust the Germans, although they say she’s a “conservative” (whatever that means in Germany today). But she’s bucking for the top job in Deutschland and easier on the eyeballs anyway.

    Julia Klockner

  89. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    How come you boys never apologize to me??

    Cause we know you’re tuff! Err….not to say Ms Adee isn’t…errr ..I mean..

    /c’mon GJT, you’ve practiced this stuff!

  90. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #88

    Hubba hubba

  91. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    From stammering to drooling in 1 minute flat.

    Not that that’s a record.
    :mrgreen:

  92. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #87 El Gordo

    Maybe the rest were all at the racetrack instead.

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    74
    I was wondering when you were going to say that.

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