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Wednesday Parrot and Mary Open Comments
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First!
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I stumbled across this guy on YouTube yesterday who plays the violin. I’m not sure if he does anything original as it looks as if he does primarily covers for contemporary songs. In any case, he has an interesting looking violin.
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Hump day, not that it matters much when you are retired. Little yearling buck who visits every evening is sprouting knobs on top of his head, Rocky Racoon showed up at dusk for dinner outside with the neighbor’s cats, a bunch of blue jays were investigating the trees for suitable housing – and instigating a cuss fight and near riot with the local mockingbirds and cardinals; and that’s just the stuff I could see. Animals are fun to watch, except for those chimpping in the hood.
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A sergeant and an officer fired a total of nine rounds at 46-year-old Garry Conrad on Wednesday, with one of the shots killing the depressed Broadway stagehand who refused to drop the blade at West 49th Street and Eighth Avenue.
Four of the bullets got lodged in Conrad’s Carhartt jacket, sources said, adding that he was not wearing a bulletproof vest.
Another shot grazed the wrist of bystander Lauran Code, a 46-year-old lingerie designer from California.
Setting aside the controversy over bulletproof jackets for a moment . . .
The way I read it, New York’s Finest landed five shots on Mr. Conrad — no doubt at point blank range — four of which didn’t make it though his jacket. That’s a little over a 55 percent hit rate on the intended target. (Note: we’re not counting the injured bystander as a hit unless her lawyer cuts us in.)
That’s outstanding! You know, for the NYPD, whose “normal” hit rate is 18 percent. As for the hollow-point rounds not making it through Mr. Conrad’s jacket, you’ll be pleased to know that the cops reckon the cops GLOCKs didn’t malfunction.
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Oh, heck, this is too funny!
Girl identifies as Indian chief and sues for her native American rights.
I doubt the story is true, but it did make me smile….
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Okay, I’m a woman and I’m flinching. Could this be titled “Snake bites snake?“?
I think I’ve heard it referred to with that name before…
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I just showed the OC video to Office Help. She thought it was great. I sent it to my DRE and the instructor for the Confirmation II class as well.
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Survivors of the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado are suing Planned Parenthood for making their clinics Gun Free Zones.
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OK who stepped on the power cord ????
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I had a good look at the fire and I thought there was a sporting chance of reaching it by getting out through the astro-dome, then down the side of the fuselage and out on to the wing.
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A rendering of the aircraft in the story above. The astro-dome of which he speaks is that little bubble on top of the fuselage.
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#8 Sarge
As I recall, that shooting was the tail-end of a bank robbery or some such crime that started out a block away and ended up in the Planned Parenthood building. Had nothing to do with PP, pro or con. -
Hey, no comment on the runoff? I was pretty pleased with the result. I had 5 races to vote in, and 4 of my tie-breakers won. I liked the outcome in several other precincts, too, especially Briscoe Cain’s win.
http://www.empowertexans.com/features/texas-conservatives-end-careers-of-democrat-enablers/ -
mharper42 says:
MAY 25, 2016 AT 4:12 PM
#8 Sarge
As I recall, that shooting was the tail-end of a bank robbery or some such crime that started out a block away and ended up in the Planned Parenthood building. Had nothing to do with PP, pro or con.Not so.
The perp was a screaming nutcase who targeted PP. The point of the suit is that PP should have anticipated such an event, and is therefore liable for not allowing patrons to carry firearms.
PP is going to have a very hard time trying to convince people that they couldn’t anticipate such an event, given all of the claims they’ve made that Pro Lifers are dangerous nutcases.
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OK who stepped on the power cord ????
I don’t know but it was off for several hours.
Withdrawal sucks.
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14 Sarge
Hell, it’s right there in black and white in the article. Good grief.
On Nov. 27, Robert Lewis Dear Jr. started shooting people in the parking lot of the Colorado Springs clinic before storming into the building with multiple guns. Before the five-hour standoff was over, three people were dead and nine others were transported to a hospital with gunshot wounds.
Ke’Arre Stewart, 29, Jennifer Markovsky, 35, and University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police Officer Garrett Swasey were killed.
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Yes. He started shooting in the parking lot, not as part of a bank robbery elsewhere.
He was targeting PP, and his subsequent statements have shown that he not only intended it to be his target, but also that he is batschizzle crazy.
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“I’m guilty. There’s no trial. I’m a warrior for the babies,” Robert Lewis Dear yelled, according to reporters in the room. “Let it all come out. The truth!”
Dear, 57, made the comments during a hearing for prosecutors to announce charges against him for the shooting, in which three people were killed and nine were injured. Dear has been charged with 179 counts, including first-degree murder. He has not yet entered a formal plea.
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#9
OK who stepped on the power cord ????
#15
OK who stepped on the power cord ????
I don’t know but it was off for several hours.
Withdrawal sucks.
OK, that was my question, off and on from 12 until 2,…Dead as a Doornail!
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Which means that Planned Parenthood is going to be hoisted on its own petard. They can’t deny that they’ve been calling Pro-Lifers dangerous and violent fanatics for about the last 40 years or so.
Which means that a price tag will be put on doing it.
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I wonder if Cankles Pantsuit is starting to get worried?
HEADLINE: Hacker who claims he breached Clinton server pleads guilty, strikes deal with feds.
The Romanian hacker who claimed he easily breached Hillary Clinton’s email server pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to two counts of computer hacking charges, as part of a deal with the Justice Department.In exchange for a reduced sentence, Marcel Lehel Lazar – also known as Guccifer — has agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in the future.
Lazar pleaded guilty to the unauthorized access of a protected computer and aggravated identity theft, counts tied to his illegal intrusion into systems belonging to former U.S. government officials, including former Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Under the deal, Lazar faces seven years in prison and up to $500,000 in fines.
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The document states: “The defendant agrees to testify truthfully and completely at any grand juries, trials or other proceedings.”Additionally, Lazar has agreed to provide all documents, writings, and recordings within his custody to the U.S. government that may be relevant to investigations or inquiries.
If this guy produces damning evidence that Cankles and Co. chose to delete and deem not relevant, I would imagine that the minimum term for her would be 20 years which is the same as life in prison. Wouldn’t it be interesting if some of those emails directly implicates the Foundation?
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The schadenfreude is deep with this one.
They either have to admit that they knowingly took steps that ultimately ended up putting their customers in danger.
Or they have to admit that’s they’ve been overblowing the “threat” all these years.
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I’m not lying.
KHOU has another alligator story tonight.
No sign of the hottie wrangler.
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Wait. It wasn’t even in Houston.
It was Dallas.
And it was within 15000 yards of a school.
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I’d love to be a fly on the wall at these news production meetings, probly more silly than the sitcoms portraying news departments.
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Man I should have sent them a video of the COPPERHEAD IN THE MOP story.
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Prime time Price Is Right Nekkid Girls tonight.
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More naked than usual?
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I knew Adee was close to the breaking point.
Passenger freaks out, throws tantrum and strips naked on plane.
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I just saw an alligator story on KHOU about the name Florida Gators being offensive and bigoted towards alligators and an online petition has been started to have the name of their sports teams changed to The Florida Transgendered Safe Spaced Tater-Tots.
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25 GJT
There’s a sitcom just waiting to be made by some conservative production company.
KHOU in Houston as WKRP in Cincinnati.
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We’re all just government mules, Phil.
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Well, I didn’t know if I’d make it to Wednesday, the CRAP at work is soo deep that you need hip-waders, BUTT! I MADE IT! I’m loading up the old Pick-Um-Up and heading over to the old home place, then on Saturday, down to Panama City Beach for the annual beach trip. YAHOO!! Monday is Memorial day so there will be lots of young folks acting up and maybe Jesse Watters might show up? Every time he broadcasts his show from PC Beach, it’s right next our little place, since the fancy Holiday Inn is next door. FWIW; It looks just like the San Luis in Galveston. I should add that he is sometimes at Sharky’s.
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I’ve discovered a way around the Oklahoma 3.2 beer dilemma. Apparently you can buy full strength beer if you buy single 16 oz. cans. As an added bonus local microbrews have 16 oz cans at the Kum & Go 2 fer tree fitty. The downside is this guy frequents the Broken Arrow Kum & Go. Still haven’t figured out how to get away from the tornadoes.
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Do you really believe that the beer companies go out of their way to produce a 3.2 beer just for Oklahoma? Trust me, it’s all the same, whether you buy it hot or cold, 16 oz or 12 oz, on draft or in the bottle. They might change the label, but they don’t change the beer.
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I didn’t know beer came in anything other than 16oz.
🙂 🙂 🙂
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ElGordo clearly has never drank near beer.
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Katfish. Tell ElGordo about near beer.
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37 Shannon
ElGordo clearly has never drank near beer.
…or been in and had to drink the swill in a 3.2 joint in Colorado or Oklahoma.
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Clarification
…or been in and had to drink the swill in a 3.2 joint in Colorado or Oklahoma.
3.2 joints are around college campuses and there was a time, back in the olden days, when I was interested in and trying to romance college girls so there were times I had to resign myself to hanging around those places. It was tough work, but somebody had to do it.
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Whoever came up with the term, “Near Beer”, had a mighty poor judgement of distance!
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Oh.
Now I understand.
Hammie is somewhere in Oklahoma sneaking around a coed dorm with a six pack of 3.2 beer. -
#34 hamous
If you want actual beer, you gotta go to a liquor store.If you need a bottle opener for said beer, you gotta go someplace else.
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FWIW; Kansas is worse, you can’t buy a drink at a restaurant UNLESS you’re a member of their club,…BUTT, one membership of any “club” gets you into all the other places?!?!
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And if you need condoms you have to drive across the Texas state line.
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And if you need condoms you have to drive across the Texas state line.
WHUT?!?!
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#34 Hammy
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My cousin, that I saw @ the reunion a few years ago, the one that I’d not seen since we were kids is, @ PC Beach now and posted a sunset,….SO, not to be outdone, I posted the picture that I took last year. The Gulf Coast @ it’s best! 😀
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“A bad habit or two is good for a man or a beast. Did you ever know a man who didn’t have any bad habits? I have, and I always hated the son of a bitch.” — Elmer Kelton
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That’s a great photo, sir.
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And if you need condoms you have to drive across the Texas state line.
I found a condom in Oklahoma once. Cost me twenny bux.
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Believe me, in the good old days when I worked for Treasury, I spent a week in every little town in Texas and Oklahoma, as well as several other states. I lived in Amarillo and when working in the Oklahoma panhandle, we would have to go to Kansas for accommodations. And yes, on occasion, between the hours of 5PM and 8AM, and on weekends, I did have occasion to sip a cool one. Of course, in Oklahoma, if the beer isn’t red, it really doesn’t count.
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A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by. He gets into the taxi,and the cabbie says, “Perfect timing. You’re just like Frank.”
Passenger: “Who?”
Cabbie: “Frank Feldman. He’s a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank Feldman every single time.”
Passenger: “There are always a few clouds over everybody.”
Cabbie: “Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy.”
Passenger: “Sounds like he was something really special.”
Cabbie: “There’s more… He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody’s birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman, he could do everything right.”
Passenger: “Wow, some guy then.”
Cabbie: “He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank Feldman.”
Passenger: “An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?”
Cabbie: “Well, I never actually met Frank. He died . . . I’m married to his bleepin’ widow.”
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Just letting you guys know….Wondercide is awesome. Without going into details, we had to tackle a problem that the regular “pro level” pesticides couldn’t handle. I swear, I saw one the pests yawn when I sprayed him, then he looked at me like “Is this your best shot? Bring it!” This stuff – those bugs were GONE in seconds. I had bought it out of curiosity after I saw it on Shark Tank. I’m not much of a tree hugger type, but I do like some of the “natural” elements to it. I thought it might work, so I bought a bottle.
According to their blog:
Cedar oil kills pests in various ways. While the cedar oil in Wondercide’s natural indoor pest control and flea & tick indoor spray is formulated to kill on contact once it’s delivered with a suffocating blow to pests via the carrier ingredient, hydrated silica, our outdoor pest control and flea & tick outdoor spray are water-based and plant-safe, and they rely on the versatile properties of cedar oil alone to wipe out creepy crawlers like fleas, ticks, ants, roaches, and more. Here are the six ways that cedar oil kills pests:
1. IT SUCKS THE WATER OUT OF THEM
Cedar oil acts to leach moisture from insects’ bodies in a process called osmotic dehydration. They basically dry out and die from the lack of water.2. IT DEACIDIFIES THEIR BODIES
Bugs, like people, have particular pH levels their bodies must maintain to carry out normal bodily functions and stay healthy. Cedar oil alkalizes the insects’ body serums so they can no longer function and are destroyed.3. IT EMULSIFIES THEIR BODY FATS
Insects need body fat to stay alive, and cedar oil acts to emulsify their body fats (breaking fat globules up into much smaller emulsion), eventually killing the pests.4. IT CAUSES EXTREME RESPIRATORY IRRITATION
By interfering with bugs’ normal respiratory functions and causing them great discomfort, cedar oil forces insects to avoid breathing altogether, and they die of suffocation.5. IT CREATES PHEROMONAL INTERFERENCE
This is the most commonly discussed method of elimination using cedar oil for pest control. Scent-driven bugs, which excludes beneficial insects like bees and butterflies, rely on the compound octopamine for normal bodily functions like breathing, metabolism, reproduction, and movement. Cedar oil blocks their octopamine receptors, and the pests die as a result of the interference.6. IT DISSOLVES PESTS’ EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE, AND EXOSKELETON
Cedar oil is able to dissolve pests in their early life cycle stages like eggs, larvae, and pupae, and it can disintegrate the exoskeletons of adult pests, too. This induces rapid metamorphosis by elevating enzymatic levels and kills the adults pests.What I really like is what I saw somewhere else in their information pages: this kills through a process that doesn’t allow them to develop a resistance to it – no more insolent yawning from the little buggers. It’s also food grade materials, and I can use it on my vegetables (outdoor versions). It seems to hit just about every critter we might run into in our apartments. I actually went back to the place I bought the pro stuff and suggested they start carrying it. You know, in case a tenant decides to leave behind a colony of fleas or roaches or sumpin’ again. I HATE fleas. Little bloodsucking parasites. They remind me of Democrats.
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We got home about 9 pm, dead tired from getting up at 5:30 am Paris France time to fly to Chicago and then to Houston. I can’t type right now, too tired and also sick with a nasty cold that Spouse is coming down with. Fingers keep hitting the wrong keys.
Northern Europe has not had its usual lovely spring—is cold and wet, holding back the usual bountiful flowers. Was 55 F this morning.More tomorrow when I am reasonably alert.
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Welcome back Ms Adee!!
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Adee, get lots of rest, you have a lot to catch us up on!
Is that a grammatically correct sentence?
Adee, get lots of rest, you have a lot to tell us!
There, that’s better. /channeling my grammar nazi
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I sometimes see Adee flying without a plane, wearing sort of a Superwoman outfit with a red cape.
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It’s about time, Adee.
This blog has gone to hell while you were out traipsing around, documenting the death of Europe.
Sheesh.
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Thursday?………………
Hey, Adee is back, I figured that you were on a trip, I can’t wait to hear the details.
I’m loading the last of the stuff in the truck for my trip to Alabama/Florida, YES! Ole Dave is full vacation mode.
Y’all be good, I’ll check in later.
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Be careful out there SD. Enjoy.
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