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The bagpiper suffered for seven years with symptoms of dry cough, shortness of breath and weakness. The illness left him able to walk no more than about 65 feet, according to the study, although he had previously been able to walk more than six miles, according to the report, published Monday in Thorax.
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Three years ago, an English bagpiper named John Shone came close to death from lung disease linked to his bagpipe. Researchers also have reported respiratory problems in trombone and saxophone players who failed to properly disinfect their instruments.
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The betrayal of liberty by Barack Obama by Eli Lake, one of the finest reporters working today.
But Obama wasn’t just reluctant to show solidarity in 2009, he feared the demonstrations would sabotage his secret outreach to Iran. In his new book, “The Iran Wars,” Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon uncovers new details on how far Obama went to avoid helping Iran’s green movement. Behind the scenes, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done at similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and signal America’s support.
Solomon reports that Obama ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the green movement’s supporters. “The Agency has contingency plans for supporting democratic uprisings anywhere in the world. This includes providing dissidents with communications, money, and in extreme cases even arms,” Solomon writes. “But in this case the White House ordered it to stand down.” -
One of the leading liberal lights of American law now says the “IRS is engaged in unconstitutional discrimination against conservative groups and must be halted.”
To be clear, Harvard prof Laurence Tribe is a convert: Early in the week, he sent out a tweet dismissing the idea of an IRS scandal as long-debunked. -
#2 TP: It is clear to me, based on the last 7 years, that JugEars wants to help usher in an Iranian centered caliphate. He is OK with any muzzy caliphate but would prefer an Iranian one. JugEars is a vile, treasonous, POS and needs to have his neck stretched.
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The conclusion of the investigative panel was stunningly straightforward: Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch did not earn a master’s degree in business administration from West Virginia University and officials had no basis for awarding it.
But the panel’s blistering report, released two weeks ago, also offers a detailed, inside look at how far officials were willing to go for the governor’s daughter, inventing explanations, falsifying her records and repeatedly misleading the public.
Investigators unanimously concluded the decision to award the degree last fall, nearly a decade after Ms. Bresch left the program, was rife with favoritism. -
Ann Coulter’s column is worth the 10 minute read today.
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This is one of many revelations found in a new investigative report titled “The Militarization of America: Non-Military Federal Agencies Purchases of Guns, Ammo, and Military-style Equipment” published by American Transparency, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), chairman of the organization, points out that, “In the nine years until 2014, we found 67 agencies unaffiliated with the Defense Department bought $1.48 billion in weapons and ammunition. Of this total, $335.1 million was spent by agencies traditionally viewed as regulatory or administrative, such as the Smithsonian Institution and the US Mint.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs — which is responsible for a number of fatalities due to medical care incompetence — has acquired nearly $11.7 million in defensive weaponry. The report also notes that, “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spent $3.1 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment. The EPA has spent $715 million on its ‘Criminal Enforcement Division’ from FY2005 to present even as the agency has come under fire for failing to perform its basic functions.” -
A 72 year old veteran kills himself in the parking lot of the VA because he could not get into the emergency room.
The Northport hospital has been under scrutiny for mismanagement and poor care since The New York Times reported in May that it had closed all five of its operating rooms for months after sand-size black particles began falling from air ducts.
This is what nationalized healthcare will be if Cankles is allowed to park her fat azz in the White House.
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Y’all throw up some prayers for me around noon today. Mom has a care meeting, and I’ve invited the sisters to join me, as appropriate. One declined, and we are sending cooperative messages back and forth as we work on transferring Mom’s care to them. The other one, I haven’t heard from.
I have no idea what I’m in for at this meeting. -
Catfight!
Clipped from: http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/25/great-ann-coulter-immigration-bamboozle/At the time, due to my longtime understanding that Coulter is 85 percent ratings-and-book-sales-related shtick and 15 percent the amalgamated ghosts of old cigarettes, I shrugged and rolled my eyes.
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One is touchy-feeley and the other is law and order, which one works?
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Coulter is a joke.
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Walter Williams’s latest article: College Campus Lunacy.
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Coulter is a joke.
She’s a man, baby!
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Yesterday, had a 60 foot juniper that was planted too close to the house about 50 years ago taken out. The guys had to cut their way up to the top of the tree to top it so that it wouldn’t hit utility wires, then they just started cutting limbs and the trunk downward. The base has about a 4 foot diameter, and apparently at some time it had been split by a lightening strike as about 10 feet of the trunk was virtually hollow. The stump has not yet been removed, and about 1/3 of the interior is rotten mulch. The exterior is solid and alive, and needless to say, the roots are monstrous, so getting rid of it will be a project in and of itself. One project after another. Any time I feel playing with the chain saw I can just go out there and whittle away on that stump for a while until I get tired of it and still won’t be done for quite a while. Fun stuff in the country.
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She’s a man, baby!
She was degendered before degendering was cool.
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650 lb. fish caught and released.
McCabe’s coworkers at River Monster Adventures have dubbed him “the sturgeon whisperer,” because he can catch pretty much any fish he puts his mind to. To get Pig Nose, the 19-year-old took a group of clients downstream from town. It took the group two hours to pull him in.
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According to today’s Financial Times, Proxima Centauri has an Earthlike planet in the Goldilocks Zone. The full story is scheduled to appear in the journal Nature tomorrow. If we hurry, we may could get there in a hundred years or so.
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Good late morning Hamsters. Checked in on yesterday’s edition early this am.
The pleasant 73 is long gone, the breeze is essentially absent, and the muglies rule. Yuk. -
But I don’t want to catch a fish that weighs more than I do.
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Ole Timer Lin posted this rare lithograph of rowdy brothers Texpat and Shannon over yonder. Recently discovered in an old chest purchased at an estate sale in Oak Forest.
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#21: The shirts have the seam on the top of shoulders and down the arms – interesting construction.
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Either Trump is a totally inept loser, not really trying to win, or actively trying to lose.
Tuesday was the deadline for non-major party candidates for President and Vice President to file the necessary paperwork to be on the ballot in Minnesota. There is no filing fee for presidential candidates, but non-major party candidates must submit a 2,000-signature petition.
According to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website, these are the candidates who have filed to be on the ballot…The list doesn’t include Donald Trump or Mike Pence.
The deadline for major party candidates to file isn’t until August 29, but there’s a hitch.
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mharper42 says:
AUGUST 25, 2016 AT 11:50 AM
Ole Timer Lin posted this rare lithograph of rowdy brothers Texpat and Shannon over yonder. Recently discovered in an old chest purchased at an estate sale in Oak Forest.I’m assuming the one on the right is Shannon.
Texpat would know that’s not the best holster in the world, and shows us how it should be done. -
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I have it on good authority that the Johnson boys’ Mom made all their clothes. Including their neckerchiefs. I think those ruffles running along the sleeves are purely decorative. -
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I agree, Texpat on the left, shown in the confidant stance of the older brother. -
mharper42 says:
AUGUST 25, 2016 AT 12:35 PM
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I agree, Texpat on the left, shown in the confidant stance of the older brother.And he’s heeled such that he won’t shoot his pee pee off if’n he draws in a hurry—
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Today’s badazz of the week is Jack Lucas.
After the war, Lucas went home and fulfilled his promise to his mother to finish school, attending his first day of Ninth Grade with his Medal of Honor around his neck. He finished college, went on a USO speaking tour, was married three times, survived his second wife’s attempt to hire a hitman to murder him (she hadn’t got the message from the Japanese that this guy was impervious to conventional weapons), and then, at age 40, decided to get over his fear of heights by enlisting in the 82nd Airborne as a paratrooper. On his first training jump, both parachutes failed to open. As his team leader astutely pointed out, “Jack was the last one out of the plane and the first one on the ground.”
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Heh.
Another glorious day commenting on my ex-wife’s sister in law’s Facebook page.
She posts this meme (she just loves memes). Whereupon I post 7 articles debunking the “Sweden is successful because they are a Socialist country” myth. I won’t bore you with those, just the final three comments:Kent A. Vining Actual reading will help you understand the true nature of things more than over simplifying them using memes.
Anne Schanz I will not tolerate condescension. I’ve told you before, don’t look at my page.
Kent A. Vining Have you tried not posting inaccurate over simplified memes that don’t invite condescension? -
Ah.
Her response was devastating, though.Anne Schanz Goodbye, Kent A. Vining. Blaming me for your behavior is not ok.
I am now blocked from seeing the meme factory.
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Why bother? I don’t get it.
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And they’re both left-handed. -
“They”??? I think you meant to say “we”, right?
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Here’s what OTL actually posted along with that pic.
Young Thomas Short confesses to cattle theft
August 25th, 1849
On this day in 1849, Thomas Short ostensibly admitted his role in a cattle theft operation in a confession printed in the /Texas State Gazette./ His confession was surprisingly imaginative and vivid given the fact that he was only sixteen at the time. The Short family, headed by patriarch John Short (1790-1847), had settled near La Grange in Fayette County, where they engaged in agriculture, milling, speculation, trading, and controversy. They supported an underground railroad for runaway slaves. By repeatedly reselling the slaves at intervals along the way north and thereafter assisting with their escapes, they profited from their altruism. A similar cattle theft operation and counterfeiting ring with principals in five states, according to the Huntsville /Texas Banner,/ resulted in the public hanging of John’s son William Short and the incarceration of John’s son-in-law William Greenbury Sansom as the first inmate of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. Other members of the family were implicated but not tried and convicted; young Thomas had been one of these, and was acquitted because of his youth after his confession appeared in print. -
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Shannon has always been in charge of counterfeiting and what we call cattle sifting. I specialize in controversy and speculation. -
Joel Kotkin’s new report, Geographies of Inequality.
There’s little argument that inequality, and the depressed prospects for the middle class, will be a dominant issue in this year’s election, and beyond. Yet the class divide is not monolithic in its nature, causes, or geography. To paraphrase George Orwell’s Animal Farm, some places are more unequal than others.
Housing represents a central, if not dominant, factor in the rise of inequality. Although the cost of food, fuel, electricity, and tax burdens vary, the largest variation tends to be in terms of housing prices. Even adjusted for income, the price differentials for houses in places like the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles are commonly two to three times as much as in most of the country, including the prosperous cities of Texas, the mid-south and the Intermountain West.
These housing differences also apply to rents, which follow the trajectory of home prices. In many markets, particularly along the coast, upwards of 40% of renters and new buyers spend close to half their income on housing. This has a particularly powerful impact on the poor, the working class, younger people, and middle class families, all of whom find their upward trajectory blocked by steadily rising housing costs.
In response to higher prices, many Americans, now including educated Millennials, are heading to parts of the country where housing is more affordable. Jobs too have been moving to such places, particularly in Texas, the southeast and the Intermountain West. As middle income people head for more affordable places, the high-priced coastal areas are becoming ever more sharply bifurcated, between a well-educated, older, and affluent population and a growing rank of people with little chance to ever buy a house or move solidly into the middle class.If the Fed and other central banks would quit pumping up the money supply to finance government debt, there would not be so much fiat money chasing real estate and inflating the values.
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Things that can’t continue indefinitely won’t.
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Spouse has been hurrying to mow all the pastures before the rains move in for several days. Thanks to recent rains and hot weather we have knee-high stalks on the pesky dallis grass with their sticky seeds. In some areas it’s knee high on us and almost knee high on the horses, and their legs and faces have the sticky stuff and some seeds all over them.
There’s some crackling on the radio now and views of quite spectacular billowing clouds over Houston, though radar shows not much anywhere near us. Finally a breeze has arrived, and we’ve graduated to filtered sunlight. Spouse is taking a rest in his recliner to get out of the heat and drink something to cool off. Not much left to mow in the last pasture so if it doesn’t get done that’s ok. -
Hey those slaves were in on the deal. We always split 50/50 every time we helped them escape.
And that guy on the right ain’t purty enough to be me. Must be one of Texpat’s reprobate friends. -
Well, BCS decided to forego Mom’s care meeting today. Relief. I sent an email about some good news regarding Mom and her physical therapy, and all she could reply was essentially to slam the nursing home and pat herself on the back.
Man, is Mom ever going to be so screwed. -
I’m not a fan of Chicago, but I do like what their university told the incoming students: no snowflake protection here!
The University of Chicago, one of America’s most prestigious and selective universities, is warning incoming students starting this fall not to expect safe spaces and a trigger-free existence during their four-year journey through academia.
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The warning from Chicago stands in sharp contrast to many other American universities that have gone out of their way to coddle students by protecting them from ideas they may find offensive or disturbing.I read this next bit and thought WTH?
Safe spaces, where students can shelter from ideas or expression they find discomforting, are the other trend du jour on some campuses. Brown University last year turned a room on campus into a safe space by outfitting it with cookies, coloring books, soft music, pillows and a video of frolicking puppies, along with trauma counselors, after students complained that a speaker invited to campus would be too upsetting.
Man, are those man- and woman-children in for a rude awakening.
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28 Sarge
He fell 3,500 feet through the air without a parachute. He attempted a badass commando roll just as he was about to splat on the earth Wile E. Coyote style.
He not only lived, he walked away unscathed.
Two weeks later, he was back in the plane on his second training jump. That one went better. Four years later he finished his tour as a Captain in the 82nd Airborne Division.Good God Almighty. Holy sh*t.
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#40 Shannon
And that guy on the right ain’t purty enough to be me.
Well, there was a shot of a third family member, but I wasn’t clear who he was in the text. Frankly, I thought maybe he looked a little slow-witted. This one isn’t you, is it?
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Good God Almighty. Holy sh*t.
Yep. **I** was speechless. 🙂
I thought that was going to be the end of the story. -
What the heck is ‘alt-right’? Is this a newly minted term or has it been around?
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Alt-right translated:
Alternatively demented, alternately misguided or ignorant. Alt…fill in the blank. -
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Most commonly found among those whose craniums are inserted into the rectal regions of Trump or Paul. -
Alt-right (ahlt-rite) noun
(1) media inspired word to describe conservative media that promotes exposure and discussion of topics that make the mainstream media and Hillary promoters/sheeple uncomfortable;
(2) a near-synomym of the word “bigot,” designed to shut down non-liberal news sources;
(3) liberal dog whistle to encourage the Democrat party supporters, including but not limited to the major broadcast networks, CNN, and related media sources, to direct media attacks to attempt to discourage traffic to, ruin the reputation of, or financially injure, those competing media outlets described as “alt-right” -
Just for grins, I thought I’d check the latest on the liberal hopeful. I use Duck Duck Go as my search engine, and I typed in “HIL”.
At that point, the search list showed as its first option “Hillary Clinton illness”.
Obviously, this is a big story. I saw something new today – it seems there’s a visible lump of something on her thigh that can be seen through her pantsuit when her left leg strides forward. Speculation is that it’s a urinary capture tube and pouch. Hillary wears a catheter. -
I guess catheters breed crickets.
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The so-called Alt-right is what I refer to as StormTrumpers. They bear a striking resemblance to the StormFront chuckleheads who used to infest LST whenever we posted a story critical of Luap Nor.
The ones hanging around the innerwebs are particularly vile and there are many many more of them. So much so that I’m not so sure they aren’t Democrat sock puppets. -
I ain’t ever heard of alt right either. I get the description and i immediately knew it was the Paulbots and Trumpets but is there a memo that goes out for the term of the day?? I always find it fascinating.
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#37 Texpat
This is a great read, and that includes the entire report you can link on. Kotkin instinctively knows how to read the tea leaves on the urban density proposals all the intellectuals are pushing these days. We who know that it is totally against the instincts of the vast majority of Americans and roll our eyes at the urban density crowd in Houston when they pontificate on what we should accept as gospel come ever closer to cease regarding them as eggheads and instead decide they are airheads to be summarily rejected. 🙂 -
Well, there was a shot of a third family member, but I wasn’t clear who he was in the text. Frankly, I thought maybe he looked a little slow-witted. This one isn’t you, is it?
Must be. He has a giant doobie in his hand.
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I’ve never heard the term ‘alt right’ until today. It is all over the news tonight. I can guess the purpose, this is spreading faster than the term ‘gravitas’ a while back.
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I was getting curious about the clinton death pool, and here’s the hillary list:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Clinton_Death_List%E2%80%99%3A_33_Most_Intriguing_Cases_Of_%E2%80%98Coincidental,_Accidental%E2%80%99_And_%E2%80%98Suicidal%E2%80%99_Deaths/53662/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Apparently there is another list for Bill. Seems that is a pending list as well, but no one can find it or the email is redacted. Wait and see who’s next. -
There may still be a few sane people at UT. Or not.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/08/pro-gun-group-approves-of-cocksforglocks-protest/#more-181801 -
There was another surprisingly forgotten flooding event during this administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tennessee_floods
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Alt-right has been a semi notable story for about five weeks. They’re just another splinter group of an ever disintegrating conservative movement.
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I don’t think alt-right exists. It is a made term up to to demonize anything to the right of center. Another cheap phrase sold by the left. Evidently successfully.
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Oh they exist.
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The alt-right does exist.
The term “alt” is short for alternative.
Yes, there is an alt-left. Its the Black Lives Matter and Occupy Sumpinorother loons.
And Yes, they do support Hillary.
We used to call them loons, left and right, now we’re going to be all hip n stuff and talk like them crazy college kids do.
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Even more sinister and racist than the Alt-right is the Alt+PrtScn.
Someone call INGSOCNN so they can be the first to report on it and improve their already stellar credibility as an actual news channel. -
You think THAT’s bad, Unca phil? What about the Ctrl-Alt-Del???
First they try to control you, then they alter you (and we know what THAT is a euphemism for) — and finally they are all done and they just delete you.
Game over.
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Game, set, match.
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Texans second round rookie center (who was going to start) is out for the season. And Duane Brown’s quad isn’t healing.
Arrrrrgh!!!
Hope that pretty boy quarterback is mobile.
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