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Second!………It’s in the timing I tell ya’. 😀
Mornin’ Gang! -
DOA
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I’m here! Now. Anyway. Not DOA.
Morning, Couch.
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I’ve got several chores to take care of today. Think I’ll start by reordering my list a few times over coffee, and hopefully by the time I’m done it will start raining. Otherwise, I’ll be pretty busy it looks like.
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…………….Michael Berry is claiming that Guy Clark has passed away – I do not see any web / news indications of this…………….
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#5 – Good intel for sure Brother.
I’m a member of this outfit – Texas Law Shield is very diligent about ongoing and continuing education of their customers. They offer regular seminars to keep us “Armed and Educated”
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I used to enjoy Berry’s political analysis, particularly on matters of local interest, but he’s gone over the edge I think. Between promoting his club by playing obscure music from obscure artists, reading their histories off Wikipedia, and spewing Trump hatred, I’ve about given up. I think he wants to get fired so that he can move over to the internet or something; but after the election, I guess he’ll just go full time RCC promotion.
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A sad day, indeed.
An incomparable songwriter.
My favorite.That old time feeling goes sneaking down the hall, like an old grey cat in winter, keepin’ close to the wall.
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And I hope those kids are put with a family that will teach them values. Maybe a “scared straight” program, before they are a total loss to society.
Makes me sick.
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#14 – that scumbag faux Daddy oughtta be CANED!~!!!!
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Did I hear Berry say that he is not going to vote for Trump or Hillary? I thought I heard him say something to the effect that if Trump was going to stoop so low to say Cruz’s daddy was pictured with Castro he could not vote for someone that despicable.
IF THAT IS TRUE
Berry is here by awarded the Squawkboxnoise prestiges GITZIT award.
If I misunderthehoodstood……….. never mind.
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Let’s not forget Cruz’s daddy helped Oswald kill Kennedy.
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That too.
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#16 – That’s what he’s been saying all along. Of course, he’s making an irrational decision based on personal feelings since he claims to be a long time Cruzer. Given his association with Tilman, lawyer wife, and numerous other hints, I would not be surprised if he’s not really a closet Dem sympathizer anyway. I’ve really begun to question his sanity lately, what with the self-promotion and anti-Trump screeching. I personally wish Cruz was the nominee, but he’s not. I haven’t gone off the deep end with Obama as Prez (even though I’ve gotten close a few times) and I suspect I can survive Hillary if it comes to that. I won’t be happy, but I will accept the will of the voters. We get the government we deserve.
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Who’d a thunk that Cliff Clavin was actually pretty smart?
“There are close to a million jobs available right now in small businesses around the country that rely on people with mechanical commonsense skills that we’ve stopped offering in our public schools three generations ago,” Ratzenberger wrote in a testimony for the House of Representatives Small Business Committee that was provided to TheBlaze.
Hundreds of thousands of those jobs could pay employees at least $80,000 per year, but workers are just not equipped with the essential skills — including reading fractions from a simple ruler, Ratzenberger told TheBlaze in an interview Wednesday night.
Ratzenberger noted that many successful men rose in their careers because of their backgrounds in manufacturing work.
“Steve Jobs became Steve Jobs because he helped his father repair car engines. Thomas Edison only had three months of formal schooling, and then what he did was tinker on boatyards near his house,” Ratzenberger said. “Leonardo da Vinci was an illegitimate child who grew up on a farm; he had no formal schooling.”
“So the fallacy is: We send our kids to college where they learn all this theory with no practical hands-on experience,” he continued. “That’s what will end up destroying us at the end of the day, because we have a lot of people who are basically food processors. They can’t build anything or do anything; they can talk about things, but practically speaking, they can’t build anything.”
I had no idea what happened to him after he left “Cheers,” but my respect for him just went up.
$80K/year – isn’t that more than $15/hour?
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$80K/year – isn’t that more than $15/hour?
Let’s see… by my old school math $80,000/yr / 2080 hr/yr = $38.46/hr.
$38.46/hr > $15/hr.Yep, Tedtam is correct!
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I actually attended a Texas Law Shield seminar at the Redneck Country Club last week. The ambiance was nice. I’ve never been while it is in full swing on a Fri/Sat night though. The service was very terrible. I believe they were short staffed because either someone(s) called in or there was some very short shortsightedness on the part of the manager on duty that night. I sat on the “backside” of the bar towards the wall. Most people walked up to the “front” of the bar to order drinks and place food orders. I talked to one guy who is a member and he said it was pretty bad and much worse than normal.
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El Gordo
That’s what he’s been saying all along. Of course, he’s making an irrational decision based on personal feelings since he claims to be a long time Cruzer.
What is irrational? I have been making the same argument for years. The electorate jumps my bones (and now his) because we stand on personal principles. Every election for far too long you folks demand that I throw out my principles to vote for the lesser of two really bad evils. EVIL IS EVIL. I hear it every four years how people hate voting for someone that they loathe. WELL DON’T. There exist in this country a dumb really dumb thought that we have to support some perceived “winner” as outlined by the mediots (KARL ROVE). The electorate by now should have told Hannity and Foxnews to pound sand and throw Rove out.
I fight like hell for men like Cruz. It is not my problem that stupidity reigns in this country. Just like you said, I will survive, me and my family, based on the Grace of God no matter who is in office. I have proven that faith for at least 6 residential election cycles. I refuse to shake hands with a snake and I think Berry just might share that sentiment. I will vote down ballot but I am skipping the top box. It is not my fault that the mass of the electorate are trained like monkeys to pull the “R” lever and move along cause most of the stay homers are those type of voters anyway.
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I actually attended a Texas Law Shield seminar at the Redneck Country Club last week.
Based on testimony given above, the only conclusion we can come to is that you are a secret Democrat.
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After twin brothers, 12, were told to stop climbing the trees in a field near their middle school, a frustrated mother wrote and signed her own permission slip giving them authority to be kids and play outdoors.
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Well, this is interesting from Powerline.
The Clinton Foundation finds itself under new scrutiny, this time pertaining to its financial disclosures. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel is uploading a series of reports showing what he alleges is fraudulent activities by the Foundation.
Ortel says he has the documentation to demonstrate Clinton entities have broken state and federal law and have never undergone outside audits, as is required. Ortel’s conclusions are based on what he describes as “reams of public filings and comments made by the Clinton Foundation as well as related parties.”
And in case you don’t know who Charles Ortel is or whether his findings might get people’s attention:
Ortel will come under scrutiny as a result of his work. He’s a graduate of Harvard Business School who worked at the prominent mergers and acquisition firm Dillon Read and then at several boutique outfits. He went on to establish his own financial advisory firm.
In 2008, Ortel correctly identified problems with General Electric’s financial statements in 2008. He also blew the whistle on AIG. Based on his work detailing problems at AIG, the Sunday Times of London described Ortel as “one of the finest analysts of financial statements on the planet.”
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#19 EG:
So, let me get this straight – friendship with anybody who’s not a staunch conservative (i.e. Tillman) means you’re a closet liberal? Then your head must be spinning about Trump’s previous friendship with the Clintons.
And his wife’s a lawyer!!!! He’s obviously not to be trusted. . . .
Not to mention that he’s a media figure and self promotes. . . . oh the horror.
You sir have succumbed to Trump Infatuation Syndrome – which includes major symptoms like: a complete inability to recognize intellectual inconsistencies and contradictions; blindness to irony; and an irrational anger at any perceived disagreement.
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#16 –
Did I hear Berry say that he is not going to vote for Trump or Hillary?
I heard the SAME thing Squawkster
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Paul Beston, managing editor of the excellent City Journal at the Manhattan Institute, has an eloquent piece on what he describes as the best documentary on the most important event in modern world history, WWII.
The World at War is 26 one hour episodes and now comes with 12 bonus hours of material.
Documentary may prove to be the most likely form in which younger generations first learn about the war. If so, the place to look for the definitive treatment isn’t forward but backward, to The World at War, a 23-hour opus that debuted in Britain and the United States in fall 1973 and is said to be showing, somewhere, as we speak. The film was lauded as “the best war documentary ever shown on television”—faint praise when it appeared, given slim competition. Over 40 years later, though, the film remains vital, even as subsequent scholarship has made its omissions more apparent. In an age in which every impetus pushes us toward screens, rather than pages, The World at War can help us understand something, at least, about the deadliest conflict in history.
The series’ prevailing feature is comprehensiveness. Consisting of 26 episodes, each 52 minutes in length, it covers the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the outbreak of war in Europe, the fall of France and the Battle of Britain, and the German invasion of the Soviet Union; Japanese expansionism in the Pacific, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the early Pacific war against the United States; the U-boat war in the Atlantic and the North African, Italian, and Burmese campaigns; life on the home fronts in Nazi Germany, Britain, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States; the fighting on the Eastern Front, the greatest land battle in history; the Allies’ invasion of France and push eastward to Berlin, as well as the collapse of the Third Reich; the sanguinary battles on the Pacific islands; and the Holocaust, the Bomb, and the aftermath. Though most illuminating when seen together, the episodes are freestanding and can be watched in any order.
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Whether to vote or not, and who to vote for should you choose to do so, is entirely every individual’s right, and that’s really no concern of mine. I skipped Cornyn’s and box last time around, and McCain’s before that; and I usually do not vote down ballot unless I know something about the candidates. My point is, make your choice based on analysis and logic, and not just an emotional reaction. Berry, IMO, is making an emotional argument rather than a rational one. Who cares whether he votes or not, or who for? But to sit up there for weeks on end ranting about something over which he has no control seems somewhat irrational to me (insert Serenity Prayer here). I have no solution for the dilemma. And to make things worse, the old saw of run right (or left) in the primary and the opposite in the general will probably come to light before the general – and the Reps will all be howling about what a mistake they made, etc…..But, if Trump can successfully blow up the Republican Party or create a new coalition of some kind that squeezes out the squishes, then more power to him. If, as a conservative, I ever get to have a voice, the status quo must go – but it probably won’t.
#27 – Wow, did I really come across that way. I never said I am a Trumpster, and in fact, I’m not. But I can tolerate him without going insane. -
El Gordo
Berry, IMO, is making an emotional argument rather than a rational one.
I don’t think so, but that is okay that we do not agree. Your perception of Berry is far different than mine. i would only suggest you might listen a little closer and look at his past. He ain’t no closet democrat.
Which does beg a question feel free to ignore if you wish.
I have democrat friends in high places and we get together frequently (well frequently for me) and I ain’t no democrat. BTW Berry’s wife is a lawyer but she also holds a pretty high office in Austin under Abbot’s admin. Why does one assume a person is a closet anything just because of their associations? Berry was a politician for a period of time and had access to so rich “D” muckety mucks like Tillman. It does not surprise me that he and Tillman are friends. One of my best friends in the trucking industry owns a trucking line, was a raging teamster and Democrat. He and I shut down many bars together back in the day. Would you think I was a closet Teamster or Democrat because my association with him?
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It’s complicated, but generally I would say “no.” But when studying and weighing the entire body of work, I’m beginning to develop questions – that’s all. BTW, I’ve given up the idea of calling myself a Republican even though I vote with them every time I vote. I remember back when Texas was a Democrat state, and as my Dad told me, the D Party left him, not the other way around. All the local politicos (John the Con, etc.) jumped ship and became Reps. I think the Rep part has now left me, so perhaps that one reason I cannot get too upset if they want to self-destruct.
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El Gordo
Heh, i gave up calling myself a “R” a long time ago. i am officially a RINO. I only vote “R” so when people insist on labeling me I let them know I am Republican In Name Only. Back in the day when I felt forced to vote for someone well it was a person with an “R” after their name.
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I don’t about Berry. He likes the trannies 😉
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If anything Berry has a librarian streak down his back. He has always defended teh happy gey folks.
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#30 EG:
But to sit up there for weeks on end ranting about something over which he has no control seems somewhat irrational to me
Not to put too fine a point, but. . . that’s his JOB. It’s why the radio station pays him money. If it wasn’t effective his ratings would go down and he’d have to change or get fired, but in fact, his ratings are consistently high. To complain because a talk show host rants is like complaining because JJ Watts tackles quarterbacks.
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Let’s change subjects a bit. Now, it’s generally acknowledged that gambling and college sports don’t mix. Yet, a major Division 1-A university has the area’s richest gaming interests owner as it’s Chairman – whose job it is to oversee everything the university does. How does that work?
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I was pleasantly surprised that six different local news sources (radio & TV) have been leading with the Guy Clark news. Now it’s competing with the death of the big Tejano guy.
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To complain because a talk show host rants is like complaining because JJ Watts tackles quarterbacks.
WHAT!! JJ WATT TACKLES QUARTERBACKS?? . I thought he just did HEB commercials and put on charity softball games. This tackling of quarterbacks has got to stop.
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Spotted @ The Rocket Ranch, too many gadgets plugged into the Lap-Top, Card Reader, Memory Stick, Smart Card and Camera. 😉
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Why would anyone care so much what Michael Berry says, thinks, or likes? I don’t get it.
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Being that I’m a slightly untrained one I’m going to vote for Trump.
Who knew, right?
The way I see it is the elected Conservatives of the last 25 years values have been and are indistinguishable from democrat values and for the last 8 from Hussen the Destroyer’s values.
And if Hildebeast gets elected, they”l’ll be afraid to stand up to the first he-woman president so their values will morph into hers including her Supreme picks.
Now let me get back to my vine swinging:-).
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41 – Without him to tell us what to think and what to do we would all be just little lost sheep.
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I almost wish I’d gone just to see the freak show:
Dallas — The scene on the sidewalks in the fantastically scuzzy corner of downtown Dallas surrounding the Kay Bailey Hutchison (really!) Convention Center is kind of weird, because there are a few different things going on here, two of which — the Texas state Republican convention and a gathering of lady bodybuilders — produce what would be on its own a pretty strange mix of people, the sometimes pachydermal hindquarters of the old politicos lumbering around from the Texas Right To Life booth to that guy with the clipboard quizzing people about Texas secession contrasting strangely with the linebacker-ish shoulders and canned-ham thighs of the buffed-up young women, but that already-goofy human stew is peppered with a considerable army of Walking Dead–type homeless psychotics muttering to themselves — one of them is shouting at the McDonalds for selling dollar-menu poison, says that she is sure the NSA is listening, turns to me and shouts, “If you see something, say something!” and then breaking (seriously, this happened, right there on Griffin Street) into a medley of “Hard Knock Life” and “Rockin’ in the Free World” — an entire free-range mental ward zombie-marching around in the brilliant Texas sunshine on a glorious May afternoon.
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Hammy, Fishie (who was there) posted Williamson’s piece Over Yonder. Some commenters who were also there took exception to his description of Dallas.
I had read his article & wondered if he was even at the same Convention? Scuzzy area of town? Woman peering through the planters for miscreants? Psychotic walking dead? Good grief, definitely not the same Convention I went to. If he thinks where our convention center was located was a scuzzy area of town, he must not venture out much.
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All of Dallas is pretty scuzzy if you ask me.
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^^^^ 😀
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I will say that when I was being led about by my disembodied voice in a box, just a few blocks away were plenty of bag ladies and saggy pants homeless folk.
I just kept a-drivin’ until they were in my rearview mirror.
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And the Crossfit convention wasn’t populated only by bodybuilder women. There were some pretty good-lookin’ men, there, too.
And it looked like some of the crossfitting women were just starting out.
If you know what I mean.
And their activities in the arena provided enough bass that our meeting rooms could have hosted a dance party.
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Regarding someone who commented about M. Berry’s wife Nandita — I remembered hearing she was not the Texas Sec of State now. It was Rick Perry who hired her, and Abbott has replaced her.
Berry was the eighth and final person to hold the secretary of state’s position in the Perry administration. Governor Greg Abbott announced on November 11, 2014, that he is replacing Berry with Carlos Cascos, the Republican county judge of Cameron County in Brownsville in far South Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandita_Berry
I think maybe I heard Michael himself say that his wife was going to be a stay-at-home mom for a while.
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While yall were up there trying to pick up the remaining pieces of the Republican Party, Texpat posted the Williamson piece two days ago.
Just say’n.I figured when he talked about the freak show, he had seen GJT up there.
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KHOU never misses an alligator story. Tonight they’ve shown one of several recent ducklings stories.
WTH is going on over there?
They’re buying out all the old guys with big salaries, so I hear.
The new owners are turning it into another 13 or 2, I suppose.
/retch
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