Can you tell me what’s wrong with each of these pictures?
I found this in the store. /facepalm
And this is how I found my mother’s new wheelchair on my porch.
Weekend “One Job” Open Comments
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One Day Soon
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Up early after spending the past 3 days in bed. Feeling much better, but after being up for about an hour, it’s apparent to me that I’m not completely over this crud just yet. Still cold and rainy outdoors, so looks like another good day to stay inside.
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Those two weeks out of the year in SE Texas where you don’t need AC or heating is nice but I believe I’m gonna hafta turn on the furnace this morning. I can handle cool. Cool and wet, not so much.
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Hamous, fired up the furnace this morning also, first time this year.
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First time for me, also.
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OC Test: I see the problem with the delivery, but on the rosary kit, is there a problem with the red beads? Contents list shows 2 sizes but the finished necklace seems to have all the same size. And are those stickpins in the upper left corner?
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Why does a wheelchair have to stay upright?
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#8 GJT, my thoughts exactly? Maybe it has a wet cell battery? Naw, they couldn’t ship that.
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Good chilly, miserable morning Hamsters. Started at 53 and have sunk to 51 on the front porch that gets the north wind. Wet and windy, nasty weather is wrapped in flash flood watches until tomorrow night. Ugh. Not fit for man nor beast outside, but our odd newish neighbors next door have both their horses out in it, with a comfy barn not a few feet away. These folks have not spoken to us since we took them to dinner at the Swinging Door over a year ago after they settled in. We just leave things be.
Back a bit early yesterday afternoon from a couple of days in Fredericksburg. We left about 10 am and arrived home a little before 2 to get here before the rains started. We always enjoy that place and the Nimitz and War in the Pacific Museums. The last visit was about two years ago, and has that area changed since then. There are so many more wineries along 290 from Stonewall on in, some side by side for a stretch and many more on side roads. The host at a new winery’s tasting store said the Hill Country area around Fredericksburg is now second only to the Napa Valley in number of wineries, with many significant prize winning vintages.
Today is going to require extra energy to get things accomplished since the natural influence of this nasty weather is to nap inside. Could not see the rain gauge well because of the large puddle in front of it on the way back from fetching the Chron, but it looked like at least an inch overnight. More in there by now. There’s Christmas decorating to be done inside and some outside under cover. Got the heat on today. -
As for the wheelchair, the package clearly says do not drop or lay on side. Hmmm.
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Fay would always get so testy when I let the wheelchair fall over from upright.
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One would think that they would have learned after the fall-out from Bridge-
gate”??HEADLINE: The real reason for New York City’s traffic nightmare
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“The traffic is being engineered,” a former top NYPD official told The Post, explaining a long-term plan that began under Mayor Mike Bloomberg and hasn’t slowed with Mayor de Blasio.
“The city streets are being engineered to create traffic congestion, to slow traffic down, to favor bikers and pedestrians,” the former official said.
“There’s a reduction in capacity through the introduction of bike lanes and streets and lanes being closed down.”This is another reason why it is never a good idea to allow Leftists, Socialists, Marxists and thier ilk anywhere near the levers of power, including something like HOAs, and especially like city council or in any office of federal power.
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This is sad and infuriating at the same time.
HEADLINE: Cook County judge who let clerk hear cases is deemed ‘mentally unable’ to do job
The Cook County judge who let a law clerk wear her robe and hear traffic cases this summer was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and can no longer perform her duties, the state board that oversees judges said in documents Friday.
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Turner [the judge in question], 59, had been reassigned to administrative duties following the Aug. 11 incident in Markham. She went on medical leave 10 days later, and she continues to be paid her $190,758 annual salary, according to officials.Alzheimer’s so bad at only 59, that she would make such a blunder as this is tragic. What is really inexcusable is the clerk who went along with it.
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There does appear to be lots of reasonable doubt in this case, based on this article:
HEADLINE: Exclusive: What If the Convicted “Serial Rapist Cop” Is Innocent?
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RE: OC test
Yep, you’re right on the wheelchair.
As far as the “rosary,” you are correct when you use that term. A rosary is NOT a “single loop necklace,” nor is a rosary worn as a necklace. I’ve threatened to skin any of my students I find treating a sacramental as jewelry.
I also don’t think a rosary should be hung from a rearview mirror, either.
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OK, who wants THIS under their tree this year?…….
Ducks and hauls Azzz, running that zig-zag pattern that Southern Tragedy Learn’t me. 😀 -
#16, I’d not have guessed that but it does make sense. So, could you buy the kit and make a Rosary? If so, what exactly is a rosary, beads and cross, St Christopher? I see beads with a cross hanging on rearview mirrors all the time. Oh and are the beads always red? Hey, I’m from the bible belt, southern Baptists don’t you know. And if they don’t sour you on religion, I don’t know what would.
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#17 SD: It might make a nice target to shoot at or something. . .
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Michael Banerian, one of Michigan’s 16 electors, told CNN: “Obviously, this election cycle was pretty divisive. Unfortunately it’s bled over into the weeks following the election and I have been inundated with death threats, death wishes, generally angry messages trying to get me to change my vote to Hillary Clinton or another person, and unfortunately, it’s gotten a little out of control.”
A little out of control? What an understatement. Let me put it to you straight and personal, Jim. Identifying electors and then attempting to intimidate them into switching their votes is an ipso facto effort to overturn a national election. Which leads to a question a competent FBI Director would already have his agents asking: Is this elector threat scheme a coordinated operation?
Why, electors live in different states. A mind with a talent for the obvious would see a federal interest. Federal as in Federal Bureau of Investigation. That’s the outfit you head, Mr. Comey—at least until the Obama Administration expires.
Which takes us back to the violent protests and political thuggery. Let me introduce you to two vicious Democratic Party operatives FBI agents should have quizzed and collared two months ago: Robert Creamer and The Hideous Scott Foval. These two creeps starred in Project Veritas’ video investigation of violent incitement during the political campaign.
Note this column called Creamer a political terrorist. The charge is legitimate. “Bottles and baseball bats are not Al Qaeda’s high explosives—but they incite fear and when they crack heads they cause casualties. People bleed. Street thuggery as an arm of politics is violent, criminalized politics on an ugly downward slope to much worse, the worse including lynchings and pogroms. If you don’t think street thuggery is terror then consider Kristalnacht.”
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Red Guards of Austin (Texas) didn’t get a lot of national news attention, in part because mainstream media outlets have coddled and excused the demonstrators the same way they coddle and excuse violence by Black Lives Matter. Did an FBI Texas office pass you a report on the Communist street action in Austin, Director Comey?
The Texas Department of Public Safety says it arrested 6 members of a local communist group, Red Guards Austin, for assaulting pro-Trump members in Sunday’s protest. DPS troopers arrested Jarred Roark, 34, after he allegedly assaulted an individual on South Congress and 11th Street adjacent to the State Capitol… Troopers also arrested five other suspects related to the initial incident:http://observer.com/2016/12/comeys-fbi-needs-to-investigate-violent-democratic-tantrums/
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I also don’t think a rosary should be hung from a rearview mirror, either.
Uh oh.
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Fay would always get so testy when I let the wheelchair fall over from upright.
Particularly when she was innit.
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Question for all you outdoorsy people:
Is there a good place around here for bass fishing that:
Is within about 30-40 miles of the greater Cypress area
Is open to the public and easy to access
Does not require a boat
Has pretty open banks?
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#18 SuperD
I’d not have guessed that but it does make sense. So, could you buy the kit and make a Rosary?
Oh, yeah, make the rosary! Just call it a rosary, not a “single loop necklace”.
If so, what exactly is a rosary, beads and cross, St Christopher?
A rosary is a specific grouping of small beads, large beads (or same size bead but set off by more space), and a crucifix. (The difference between the cross and crucifix is the corpus on the crucifix. We Catholics like to keep the sacrifice before us.) I have made rosaries with just a cross, but I prefer the crucifix. St. Christopher has no place in the rosary, which focuses on Jesus’ and Mary’s life events.
The Apostle’s Creed is said on the crucifix, the small beads indicate the Hail Mary prayers, and the larger (or set apart) beads are where we pray the Our Father. There are some introductory prayers (Sign of the Cross, Creed, Our Father, 3 Hail Mary), but then the cycle of one Our Father and ten Hail Mary starts. Each set of ten is called a “decade,” and each decade has assigned to it a mystery, or life event, of Mary and/or Jesus that we contemplate during that decade. When I’m deep into the rosary, one level of my mind is saying the words, while at a deeper level I’m into the scene being meditated upon and I never fail to uncover some part of my spirituality. Pretty cool.
I see beads with a cross hanging on rearview mirrors all the time.
Yeah, but it doesn’t mean I like it.
Oh and are the beads always red?
No, there’s no set color for the beads at all. I’ve made ’em in all kind of color and size variations, from a rustic look to one made with teardrop polished quartz beads (LD and I sold that one for $40, didn’t make any money on it). I have floating around my house somewhere a rosary ring, which has ten raised dots and a raised cross on it; I count out my prayers as I rotate the ring around my finger with each prayer said. It was handy in the car. As a matter of fact, as long as you have ten fingers or ten rocks, beads, etc., you can pray the rosary!
Hey, I’m from the bible belt, southern Baptists don’t you know. And if they don’t sour you on religion, I don’t know what would.
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Fay would always get so testy when I let the wheelchair fall over from upright.
Particularly when she was innit.
I was grinning before you put this up, just knowing it was coming! 😀
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#16 TT
Terminology aside, do you think the “ingredients” shown will indeed produce the finished pieces as illustrated? Or is it like the picture on a TV dinner box, where they always say “Serving suggestion”? To get around the fact that the heated contents don’t really match the delicious looking illustration… -
#26 – Ummmmmmm Lake Conroe comes to mind
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The rosary displayed is accurate. It’s just not a necklace. Probably nothing wrong with the saint bracelet. It just doesn’t really have any significance in relation to the rosary.
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Wagonburner – Stubblefield Lake on the northwest end of Lake Conroe might be a good place. It’s been years since I’ve been up there but I’m sure there’s still fish in it.
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A jewish guy walks into a synagogue and goes straight over to the rabbi. He says: “Rabbi, I need help. I have a big problem with my son. I did all that I could to raise him in the faith. I took him to Sabbath services every Saturday, and sent him to Hebrew school after regular school every Wednesday. He had a bar mitzvah. I sent him on a trip to Israel. I even sent him to seminary college for Jews. Yesterday, he came to me and said that he wanted to convert and become a Christian!”
The rabbi replies: “You know, it’s funny that you should come to me about this! I also have a son that I did all I could to raise as a Jew. I brought him to temple every Saturday. He went to Hebrew school after regular school too. He had a bar mitzvah, visited Israel, and went to seminary college as well. He too came to me and said that he wanted to convert and become a Christian!”
The jewish inquires: “Well, what did you do about it?”
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“Well, what did God say?” asks the guy.
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I’ve seen rosary bracelets before. They’re usually made on “memory wire” to hold their bracelet shape and are beaded on a coil, like the picture. I can’t tell if this kit makes a rosary bracelet, or just a beaded bracelet with the medal on it.
Feeling like I might be coming down with the crud OH5 had this week. I went to the store this morning and got some embroidery floss I need for my sister’s Christmas gift, some Zicam (hoping to nip this crud in the bud), some girlie scented moisturing Epsom soak stuff, and some groceries.
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as for the Rosary kit – what I think was missing was any sort of clasp?
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#33 – HEH 🙂
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as for the Rosary kit – what I think was missing was any sort of clasp?
Why would it need a clasp?
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Leaving the Vatican
About a century or two ago, the Pope decided that all the Jews had to leave the Vatican. Naturally there was a big uproar from the Jewish community. So the Pope made a deal. He would have a religious debate with a member of the Jewish community. If the Jew won, the Jews could stay. If the Pope won, the Jews would leave.
The Jews realized that they had no choice. So they picked a middle aged man named Moishe to represent them. Moishe asked for one addition to the debate. To make it more interesting, neither side would be allowed to talk. The pope agreed. The day of the great debate came. Moishe and the Pope sat opposite each other for a full minute before the Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers. Moishe looked back at him and raised one finger. The Pope waved his fingers in a circle around his head. Moishe pointed to the ground where he sat. The Pope pulled out a wafer and a glass of wine. Moishe pulled out an apple. The Pope stood up and said, “I give up. This man is too good. The Jews can stay.”
An hour later, the cardinals were all around the Pope asking him what happened. The Pope said: “First I held up three fingers to represent the Trinity. He responded by holding up one finger to remind me that there was still one God common to both our religions. Then I waved my finger around me to show him that God was all around us. He responded by pointing to the ground and showing that God was also right here with us. I pulled out the wine and the wafer to show that God absolves us from our sins. He pulled out an apple to remind me of original sin. He had an answer for everything. What could I do?”
Meanwhile, the Jewish community had crowded around Moishe. “What happened?” they asked. “Well,” said Moishe, “First he said to me that the Jews had three days to get out of here. I told him that not one of us was leaving. Then he told me that this whole city would be cleared of Jews. I let him know that we were staying right here.” “And then?” asked a woman. “I don’t know,” said Moishe. “He took out his lunch and I took out mine.” -
This article goes a long way to describe the gulf between the Rs and Ds.
HEADLINE: There’s not enough ‘care’ in Tom Price’s Obamacare alternative
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Price didn’t have a fully articulated alternative back then, but he knew what he didn’t like about Obamacare. “What you all are planning is to increase drastically the intrusion of the federal government into the practice of medicine and the care of patients,” he said.
Of course Price was right. But we needed that “intrusion” of the federal government due to the crisis precipitated by the failures of medical professionals, the health care industry and the insurance industry to get the job done for tens of millions of Americans who had no access to care. Individual clinicians and hospitals may not be public utilities, but the system as a whole requires oversight to make sure it serves that function.Health care is a private function, there has been no private function that has ever been helped by federal intrusion in the last 100 years or so to my knowledge. There are other items in the article that illustrate the lefty brainwashing.
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Go Gators
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I’ve never had a buffalo wing. Seriously.
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no idea why anyone would want to.
Because they are delicious.
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Katfish, the rosary is long enough to slide over the head, does not need a closure at all.
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Anyone here heard from Brother Squawk?
Don’t think I’ve seen a post from him since right after the election.
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And now for something completely different:
Robin Williams, G-D rest him, speaks of Golf and Tiger Woods.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4
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He posted this afternoon… Over Yonder! Eeeeks!
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I’m not big on Buffalo Wings, but the thigh and the wing are my favorite pieces of a chicken..
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Speaking of, my Sweetie’s got some chicken n dumplings go’in on. Mmm.
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GEORGEVILLE, OH—Redeemer Reformed Church unintentionally executed a perfect “mannequin challenge,” a recent viral phenomenon in which participants attempt to remain completely still for the duration of a video, sources confirmed Thursday.
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If you know about the Buzzfeed.com faux scandal regarding Chip & Joanna Gaines’ Christianity, you will love this Twitter thread started by Iowahawk:
David Burge
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I would pay good money to watch the staff of Buzzfeed renovate a house. Somebody else’s house, anyway.
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If you go to the link and read the many Twitter responses, you might just agree with this guy.llmcl @llmcl 7h7 hours ago
@iowahawkblog Best. Twitter. Thread. Ever.To clue you in: Kate is the writer who wrote the “horrified” post about the fact the Gaines’ pastor in Waco doesn’t actually approve of homosexuality or same sex marriage. Shocking, I know.
Ben is Ben Smith, formerly of Politico, and the editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed.
Here’s a couple.David Burge @iowahawkblog 10h10 hours ago
Episode 101: Kate is traumatized when she is told to use the stud finder>>>>>
HiCaliberLi’lGal @HiCaliberLilGal 10h10 hours ago
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Roll Tide!
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Hey, I’m from the bible belt, southern Baptists don’t you know. And if they don’t sour you on religion, I don’t know what would.
Heh–My dad once told me that thanks to his preacher in some small Okie church, he was 30 years old before he found out there were more sins than just dancing, drinking and smoking.
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The 6 pm news pictures of flash flooding down Highway 6 toward the coast are horrendous. The coastal areas are really being pounded with heavy rains, and though we had a break for several hours this afternoon it started up again around 4:30 with just mist turning to light rain and getting harder through news time. We’ve had several good downpours so that 1.2″ in the gauge this morning has a lot of company tonight, just too dark to see it. Tomorrow’s forecast is for more of the same, just not necessarily in the same places. So is Monday’s.
Plans with good friends to go to Taste of Texas to see the marvelous Christmas decorations tomorrow afternoon would seem to totally depend on the weather at the time of travel. Certainly don’t mind a postponement for something like nasty weather. The decorations will be around a few more weeks. We’ve sunk to 52 out here at the moment. -
News you can use. Big Jolly has announced that his colleague Yvonne Larsen has started her own blog, with a tribute name:
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I enjoyed reading this:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-charm-of-not-being-obama-1480723697But Mr. Trump, our new dealmaker-in-chief, also has a pragmatic streak as big as Manhattan’s Trump Tower. He will make mistakes but here’s betting they won’t be Mr. Obama’s mistakes of smug obliviousness.
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Oh great, just what we’ve been needing. A blog for local politics from a woman’s point of view. This ought to be fantastic.
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I found this to be a generally well-written piece on the decline of football, aside from there being not even a whiff of a hint of a notion that Colon PaperNeck has really sped up the decline.
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I’ll approach her with an open mind, based on your recommendation. I dislike petty graft and corruption as much as the next person. With some of these politicians you would expect them to have a little pride and go for bigger takes rather than settling for the crumbs.
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Don’t think I’ve seen a post from him since right after the election.
I think that’s my fault. I seem to excel at pissing people off.
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Good rainy, cold, windy morning Hamsters. Three deer were having breakfast in our front yard but scooted off when I tapped on the living room window. It’s all of 51 right now and merely miserable if you’re inside, major miserable if you’ve got to be outside.
The mares welcomed me about 6:20 this morning with appreciative glances and greetings when the umbrella and I came through the barn doors. Got them fed breakfast, filled their buckets, and gave them some hay. For that I received their looks that said, “We aren’t going out today, are we?” Correct.
Yesterday afternoon it was ok to let them out in the paddock while we had a couple of hours of no rain or mist or drizzle. Today not so much, as we’re over 1.7″ since this began and soggy everywhere.
Looks like the newspaper arrived a few minutes ago so I shall slog out to fetch it.
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Jill Stein is an annoying harpy who needs to just plug up her pie-hole.
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I see where UT is planning to acquire a new 300 acre tract on the west side of Houston for a new campus. TPTB at UH are concerned about the competition for students, faculty, but mostly funding and are opposing the move by UT. As you all know, all student loans are now funded by the government, so obviously there is an open money spigot just sitting there waiting to be mopped up. I think we’ve witnessed something similar with the hospital entities around Houston where the big fish have swallowed up all the smaller fish that surround Houston in the suburbs. UH wants to retain it’s own identity for some reason, but most likely it should be eaten by UT and go on about its business. Of course, Tilman want to operate his own private football program, but I’m pretty sure he could be bought out at some price.
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#69 Yup, she’s on Mike Wallace boy’s show. Jill Stein is wasting a lot of our air, what a Blow-Hard!!!
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I was awakened at dawn by thunder, and once my eyes were open, saw lightning flashes. My bedroom window faces south, and that seems to be the direction from which the storm is advancing on Houston — according to weather radar. Then why is it this cold?? The high for my zip code today is predicted to be 56.
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Well, the Badgers had a very good year but did not pull off a win last night against Penn State. Unless they did in the few seconds after we gave up watching before time ran out. A bowl game is a consolation prize of sorts, whichever one asks them.
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Some of the Greenies are sick of Jill as well and want her to stop the insanity before she damages their party further. She’s tripping over her inflated ego every step of the way now.
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Best Christmas Yard Decoration Ever!
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If I were the newly elected next President of the USA, I would have done the same thing.
Donald Trump appears to have sent a message to Beijing: the First Island Chain will be held. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines will remain the Westernmost bulwark in the Pacific. The Hill writes: “Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Taiwan President Tsai Ying-wen, a conversation that breaks decades of U.S. protocol and risks a clash with China. … The phone call will almost certainly infuriate Beijing, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province.”
The First Island Chain, for those unfamiliar with the term, refers to a network of peninsulas and archipelagos which mirror the China coast, and whose possession blocks Beijing from direct access to the broad Pacific. Japan considers denying the First Island chain to a foe as essential to her defense. For many years the same string of islanders served as America’s strategic frontier in the West.So Trump invites the hostile China-leaning Filipino President Duterte to the WH for a visit, then meets with the Japanese PM, after receiving a call from the President of Taiwan on the phone.
Chima is putting on an apoplectic act.
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Well that old dead white woman is on Face The Nation.
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Donald Trump released a list of potential SCOTUS nominees and nobody seemed to notice Meg Ryan was on it.
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I heard it was a list of 20 names. There won’t be 20 openings during Trump’s 4 or 8 year tenure. Remember the fuss when GW tried to nominate Harriet Myers (sp?) for SCOTUS? If Trump nominates a dud, there will be a fuss.
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Meg Ryan appears to me to be well qualified for the job:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_A._Ryan
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All the condescension and clucking among the foreign policy teleliterati crowd in DC has reached max nausea levels.
Hear, hear.
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3.7″ and relentless.
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Speaking of women in positions of responsibility, the awful warehouse fire in Oakland may turn out to be a spectacular case of negligence, followed by incompetence, in an estrogen fueled perfect storm resulting in the deaths of several (they can’t even get a head count on that yet). A black woman wearing an oversized white fireman’s hat with “FC” plastered across the front gives the appearance of a clown act, except that she really is the fire chief. The batillion commander, another woman, tells of how difficult the situation is. The police spokeswoman explains why it’s not the fault of the police. And it goes on and on. The fire started with a band setting off its pyrotechnic display, but TPTB still has no idea of the cause of the blaze. Overall, the property is completely destroyed and everyone is dead, but we should praise the heroics of our first responders. This is a tragic but true case of liberialmania rule.
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Green Bay in December. Lovely, just lovely.
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I think one of the reasons people get so concerned about the tweets is it is sort of a way around the press. He doesn’t have to rely upon, uh, rely upon — this is the modern era, modern technology. He’s at the point where we don’t need you guys anymore.
I wish he had been president for eight years with Shrub as VP.
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Regarding Jill Bride of Clintonstein and the proglibdyte oppressors movement.
Having been one who’s read all the James Bond novels, I’d have to say the proglibdytes remind me very much of SPECTRE.
Soros as Blofeld– perfect fit.
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What’s to discuss. Looks to me like the Tide scored every way possible, ran them up one side of the field and back down the other, and made them regret even getting that close to the championship. It’s not often that you see an azx whipping like that handed to a championship contender.
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Currently 32 at Green Bay and snowing a blizzard. Their weather guess has about 3″ this afternoon. Ice skating weather for sure. This is typical December weather up there. Everybody will be skidding and slipping no matter which side or what the footwear is. -
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#87 – You misspelled prolibdykes.
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I saw a snippet of Jill Clinton-Stein on the Chris Wallace Show–Wallace asked why not a New Hampshire recount where the She-Beast only won by 3000 votes?
Clinton-Stein said “We didn’t go into New Hampshire because the deadline for filing a recount had already passed”
Well, so has Pennsylvania’s deadline, passed on Nov.21, but that ain’t stopping you from pursuing a recount there and now in a Federal Court you weaselly, lying, hypocritical proglibdyte.
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Finally got out to the rain gauge, but found only 2.0 inches. I thought it would be twice that amount, just based on how long it rained yesterday and up to noonish today. Glad to have it!
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…and made them regret even getting that close to the championship.
I doubt that. They may have lost but they still went to the championship game. They lost in epic fashion but one thing’s for sure – you can’t win the championship if you don’t go to the championship. Why don’t you poll any of the other seven SEC East teams. Ask them if they were playing Alabama in the SEC Championship game would they still want to go. Florida’s done it nine times and won four of ’em. I’m pretty sure they’ll wanna go again next year.
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I can tell you didn’t go to the link and read the article.
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With his helmet on, Ben Roethlisberger really looks a lot like Will Ferrell.
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Who does he look like with his helmet off?
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Luckily, the worst beat down still belongs to the 2010 game: Auburn 56 – South Carolina 17
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Who does he look like with his helmet off?
Ben Roethlisberger?
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This one is for phil.
I can’t really properly describe this site. Wayne Sasser is the original founder and there’s a bunch of contributors.
I present Intellectual Froglegs and their newest podcast video, No Rules for Radicals. Hilarious stuff. -
Someone suggested Dennis Miller for Press Secretary.
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Someone here already knows, how does Roku work? I thought it was some sort of hard wired system. I bought a TV that happens to be capable of this service. I use it for over the air TV at the bay, which got a LOT of rain Saturday. Do you just subscribe and get a usb stick? Does the remote need what looks like an sd card sticking out of it?
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I can tell you didn’t go to the link and read the article.
I did go to the link, but only to see who the hell Meg Ryan is. Never heard of her, I’m afraid.
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Thanks. That’s some great stuff. That Joe Gorman dude is great.
Loved it when he said how progs are always labeling us with some kind of phobia when we disagree with them and then he says ‘how about you can Kiss my A$$ phobia’
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#106 – I’m a self-proclaimed Roku expert since that’s my only source of TV here in the hinterlands. Do you have a “smart” TV that connects to the internet? Roku is either built in to the smart TV, or you purchase a Roku stick which plugs into an HDMI port on your TV. The Roku receives all it’s channels wireless from your router – they (Roku) no longer make hard wired versions. After that, you can check the Roku available channels on the internet (which there are 3 or 4 thousand) which are all free to download. Many provide content that is free to watch (CBSN is an example, several weather channels, cartoons, etc.) In order to get Netflix or Amazon Prime, you must be a subscriber – just to to their sites and sign up with you credit card. Other sites like MLB and NFL (and new ones coming on line all the time) are premium subscription channels. Direct TV just launched a “cable” like service for $35.00 monthly. The Roku remote operates like any other remote and is easily deciphered. If you need more info, let me know.
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Thanks for asking, gto. I, too, would be interested in an explanation for “dummie’s” .
I bought a year’s worth of crtv, only to discover it is a streaming program – for which I do not have a set up. This has forced me to actually do the research on streaming TV. The research has gotten a little bit complicated.
Bottom line is you buy a box from someone like Roku. This is a one time expense that allows you to stream from your existing Wifi into your TV.
Then you go to someone like Netflix or CRTV and purchase their programming, usually on a monthly basis.
Roku has competition from Amazon and several others.
That’s the extent of my knowledge after hours of research.
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#109, I don’t have internet. That would be the hard wired part, no cable or wires to the RV. The wife has an usb AT&T card she uses to connect while there. I wondered if Roku worked in a similar way.
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I don’t have a clue what it is that your TV has to contribute to this process.
Sound and screen
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For instance Amazon will sell you a stick or a box. All the reviews I have read indicate the box is much faster than the stick and includes other pluses.
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For Roku, no wifi, no TV. Your wife could most likely create a “hot spot” with her wireless phone which would give you internet access, but it would probably be too slow to be effective and terribly expensive phone wise. You might also sniff out a neighbor who has wifi, but again the signal required to run TV is robust, and a connection from next door might not be a strong enough signal.
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Roku seems to be the best thing going. But I’m already an Amazon Prime member.
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#114, Thanks. That answers that.
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#115 – My suggestion. Try the 30 day free trial on Netflix. Netflix is doing a bang up job on some of the material it produces such as House of Cards, etc. Then decide. Or, for $9.00 monthly, you can continue Netflix and still cancel at any time – no contracts, etc. and no penalty for dropping and then resubscribing. It’s almost like magic it’s so easy, and you only risk $9 – maybe it’s up to $10 now. But you are not on any 1 or 2 year deals, it’s all month to month.
I went back and read what you wrote. I guess you are watching Amazon Prime on your computer rather than on your TV, so you don’t need a Roku. BTW, I have Roku on one TV and an Amazon stick on the other and they both work just alike. Go with whichever one is cheaper – I actually prefer the Amazon Fire Stick because I think it throws off a better picture. -
#110 Shanon
I don’t have a clue what it is that your TV has to contribute to this process.
Pixels. Colored pixels.
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I went back and read what you wrote. I guess you are watching Amazon Prime on your computer rather than on your TV, so you don’t need a Roku.
No, sir. The only thing feeding my TV is an antenna on a twenty five foot pole. Never had streaming and am still basically clueless about it.
I have had Amazon Prime for years simply for the two day delivery on everything I buy. It’s only recently that Amazon added to Prime an inventory of free movies for streaming. -
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You both misunderstood.
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I spent my afternoon cleaning/clearing all of my kitchen cabinets. Took everything out, vacuumed/dusted, culled certain items, reorganized and put back. Found some things I forgot I had, natch.
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I access Amazon prime movies through my Roku. My remote actually has four designated buttons: Netflix, Amazon, Sling, and I believe Hulu. I’ve loaded those and several dozen other channels into my device. I have a #2 Roku device, which is a box that has an HDMI corded connection which plugs into the TV, and a power cord to the outlet; plus the remote. I can run Roku from my phone if I wish, but I usually use the remote.
You must have wifi for the device to work.
When my sister and I were in a hotel room together on our gals weekend out, I brought my Roku along with my hotspot device that we have as a backup in our office for when the cable goes out. She’d never seen a Roku before, and so I was demonstrating it for her. We played “Roku Roulette,” where I went to the search screen and just started typing the first word that came to my mind – her first name. There was a movie listed, “Mary and Martha,” and when I clicked on it, it told me if was free through Amazon Prime. Since I’m a member, I chose it and we watched a pretty good movie about an American mother and English mother who both lost their sons to malaria on trips to Africa. They then became activists to acquire more mosquito netting, when saved millions of lives, many of them children.
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BTW – there are Roku TVs out there. We had one at the condo at that weekend I spoke of. Since I have a Roku account, I tried to log in but got caught up in some kind of loop and had to have maintenance come and take a look. He ended up rebooting to factory defaults. They’d just gotten the new TV sets and were also learning how to make ’em work.
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Learned more from Tedtam in two comments than hours of research.
How frustrating is that?
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My BFF nephew from Rosenberg plays center field for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, so I subscribe to the MLB network to provide live streaming of all the major league baseball games every day so that I can watch him play. I get them on both the Amazon Fire Stick and the Roku device. That MLB network is expensive ($100 or so for the year) but it is pretty nifty to tune in to any game live at any time, and watch replays of any game you want that has been played in the current season. They have more high tech measuring devices and other BS going on with MLB than any of the traditional broadcasters. Best site of its kind out there. That’s my one luxury expenditure each year.
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As I understand it, CRTV is going to be Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, and Mark Steyn each doing an hour, five nights a week. With more to come. $89 year.
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Shannon –
Glad to be of help!
BTW, there are websites out there dedicated to Roku. There are thousands of public and private channels for Roku, and a huge community of users. I went and perused the list of “free channels,” which means usually there are commercials which fund the channel. I found several relaxation channels; I’ve used the “Ocean waves” one several times. I had to deal with the blaring commercials every 15 minutes. That’s what the mute button on the remote is for. There are also relaxation channels for: Italy, dogs, cats, rivers, thunderstorms….I found that interesting. If you have a dog with separation anxiety disorder and have no problem running the TV all day, I guess you could put it on before you go to work.
I pulled up a retro technology channel which I had loaded but not explored yet on Saturday. It was discussing something about early telegraph, but for some reason I just wasn’t into it much. Usually anything science can hold my attention, but I was in an unusual TV mood that day. Maybe I’ll go back to it some day… -
I could could start my own relaxation channel.
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I tried to get some help on this a couple weeks ago, but noooooo, it took GTO to ask the question.
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I like the Log Burning in the Fireplace channel around Christmastime when guests are about. I don’t have a real fireplace. Some say it is the busiest of their channels on Christmas Day.
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I couldn’t find an image for it, but there was a cute scene decades ago on Northern Exposure, where the Indian youth Ed Kubiak was chatting with someone in his room. In the background was a roaring fireplace. Until the camera pulled back and we saw it was just a video.
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Levi commercials
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Well, Matt Musil on Channel 11 wrapped up the Texans/Packers snowy game in his sports segment tonight at 10:30, standing in an empty Lambeau Field in the still going snowstorm. For his sake I hope it was recorded late this afternoon when it would have been dark anyhow and could pass for tonight. Not a wonderful day for any fancy plays, just whatever would work for hanging onto the ball.
Nowhere near the Ice Bowl, which could be seen in the Packer’s Museum inside Lambeau. There was a wonderful TV view from the top floor of the stadium behind one goalpost looking out over the field and Green Bay farther on. We stood there in late September taking in the same view from an open area near the lovely private box for large groups. It was as windy then and misting rather than snowing and blowing a gale off Lake Michigan that chilled you to the bone.
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