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My Kind of Gun Control

In 1964, Groucho went to East Berlin with a group that included his radio show director Robert Dwan and his 16-year-old daughter Judith Dwan Hallet. They visited the village of Dornum, where his mother Minnie had been born. and discovered that all the Jewish graves there had been obliterated by the Nazis. Groucho hired a car with a chauffeur, and told the driver to take the group to the bunker where Adolf Hitler was said to have committed suicide. Wearing his trademark beret he climbed the debris and then launched himself, unsmiling, into a frenetic Charleston dance routine. The dance on Hitler’s supposed grave lasted a couple of minutes. “Nobody applauded,” Hallet recalled. “Nobody laughed.“

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57 responses to “Thursday Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    One more day to go. Dang, these 5 day, work weeks are tough. 😉
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s time to pitch in so we can buy this for Hamous’ next birthday.

    It could go right on his dashboard.

    …comes with: a detachable surrealist heart; an attachable parrot; a monkey on her back; four artworks inspired by…

    He would be the envy of all the northside hipsters.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #2 Texpat, comes with: a detachable surrealist heart; an attachable parrot; a monkey on her back; 😀

  4. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m still looking for an Obama doll to stick on the dash. Plastic Jesus, hula girl, and now a presumed feminist are readily available, but Obama doll is hard to find. I think that NY Times lady was really carrying an Obama sex toy, but I don’t want one of those. A little warmer here this morning. Everything has been looking nice and green, all spring like, but it’s time for some more rain; but that does not appear to be anywhere on the immediate horizon. Here’s hoping you all have a great day.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TT: From last night:

    It looks like the antique bed is coming back. They overextended on space available.

    /sigh

    They were going to take a big armoire, too.

    Would you happen to have pictures of said items?

  6. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Ides of March morning Hamsters. Delightful 45 at 6, so perhaps we can squeeze another nice day out of the weather before the humidity dominates and we’ve got rain coming. Our ground is soft enough already.

    I see in the Chron that virtue signaling in the guise of yesterday’s school walkouts to protest the massacre in Florida or more likely to push gun control was a big success at least as seen by the NYT. What else is new from that failing newspaper/propaganda machine? Presume the small detail that this week is within spring break for many school districts, and so for them participants in the “walkout” were not in school yesterday.

  7. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    For far too long, teachers have had a warm spot in the voters’ hearts. When it comes to voting pay raises for teachers, it always passes. But, it’s time for that scam to come to an end. The teachers are one of the largest Dem political organizations out there, and they operate with impunity to indoctrinate kids. The only way to stop it is to cut off the money supply, which is virtually impossible to do. Texas’ property tax increases virtually all go to the schools for lavish facilities and teacher perks. I don’t see an end to it, but when the schools are promoting political activities using students to promote them, things are out of control.

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #5 Bone

    Absolutely I can get you pictures. You can take the tour of what’s left.

    Bring a truck. Please.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And I can make you a heckuva deal.

    Oh, and bring some strong arms, too. My back has just about had it.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TT: Can you post/link to those items and perhaps some of the other treasures here? Por Favor?

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t remember the last time I so enjoyed seeing someone dragged off to Federal prison.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-pharma-bro-is-a-cautionary-tale/article/2651249

  12. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, everyone. The guest cat woke me up early, whining for his breakfast. That’s Ok, fit in with my plan for today. Last predicted dry day for awhile, to try to complete the removal of mold, mildew, algae, and whatever else grows on the siding in shady areas.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #11 Shannon, I got this from your link; 7 enduring lessons from It’s a Wonderful Life.
    Pretty good,…

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Page Six reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio’s enviro-wacko foundation auctioned off dates with Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.

    Now that’s funny.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    For the Americans — specifically the US Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment — it meant learning how to fight in tunnels, something marines haven’t had to do since the Vietnam War, said battalion commander Lt. Col. Marcuz Mainz.

    “It’s a lost art for us,” he said.

    For the Israelis — the Paratroopers’ Brigade’s Reconnaissance Battalion — it meant seeing how the marines use light armored vehicles in combat, according to Lt. Ron Semel, the battalion’s training officer.

    and,

    “We’re holding a force-against-force drill, during [which] the Marines will encounter underground tunnels and they will have to deal with that threat. To do so, they’ll have to work with us and use our knowledge of how to do it,” the Israeli lieutenant said.

    The urban training took place at the army’s Tze’elim army base in the Negev desert, which includes a mock Arab town.

    “It’s one of the best training facilities I’ve ever seen,” Mainz said.

  16. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Another dog blunder from United. Fou d under Hot Air’s oops post.

    They went to a cargo facility to pick up 10-year-old Irgo, a German shepherd, but were instead given a Great Dane.

    “At this point, all I can do is be hopeful that my dog is going to return safely,” Swindle said. “I don’t know what else to do at this point. I can’t cry anymore. I’ve cried too much.”

    Swindle, of Wichita, Kansas, learned Irgo had been put on a flight to Japan, where the Great Dane was supposed to go.

    Airline officials in Japan put Irgo on a flight back to Kansas City. It isn’t clear when the dog will arrive.

    😯

    http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/03/14/united-flies-dog-japan/

  17. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I wunner hwhy they can’t just seal the end of a tunnel up with a bunch of sandbags, pump propane & oxygen into it, then light it.

    Seems you’d hit a couple goals with that approach:
    Minimal good guy casualties
    Clears bad guys out of the tunnel
    You could likely see where the other end is pretty easily if you use enough propane from the flames, debris, and bad guys shooting out.

  18. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    If you are running out of things to do, log on to the falcon cam at the UT tower and watch the bird’s nest. For real.
    https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/resources/falcon-cam

  19. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Seems to me that Groucho’s actions were the best possible choice. We ought to do more of this with all these nutters who go and kill lots of people. Have a dance-a-thon on their graves.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    First big patch of bluebonnets this year:
    Just outside of Industry, TX. Towards La Grange.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In Syria, the woman’s doctor performed an ultrasound and told her a normal birth would be impossible and that a C-section would be too risky because it could lead to her death or the baby’s. Due to previous cesarean deliveries, the baby’s placenta had become entangled in the mother’s uterine muscles.

    She was given a few options. The first being that she could travel north to a Damascus hospital, which had more modern facilities, or travel to Israel. She originally chose to go to Damascus, but she was blocked by the heavy fighting in the Syrian civil war.

    Facing an impossible situation if she stayed in her village, the woman left her husband and children to travel to Israel for treatment.

    A few days after her arrival, she was admitted to the maternity ward and to the care of Prof. Ido Solt, who praised the Syrian doctor’s diagnosis. Solt is an expert in high-risk-pregnancies and is the head of the maternal-fetal medicine division in the obstetrics/gynecology department at Rambam Medical Center.

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Britain’s ‘worst ever’ child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even KILLED

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-worst-ever-child-grooming-12165527

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, I got my siding warsh done, preceded by a good trimming on the 20′ high crepe myrtle on that side of the house. The hose-end sprayer didn’t seem to be working quite right, but I eventually discovered the little aspirating tube had fallen off of the screw-on lid, while I was priming it with diluted bleach. I had gotten down from the ladder to assess how that wall looked from further back. Wondered what that little plastic tube was, lying on the grass next to the bleach jug. /Forehead slap/ It went a lot faster after I fixed that.

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Headline: UniParty At Work – Paul Ryan SuperPac Campaigned to Elect Democrat Conor Lamb…

  25. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Drudge has a link to this story about child sex robots.
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/congressman-child-sex-dolls-are-comingand-were-not-ready/article/2011945
    Repulsive as pedophilia is, could this not be a solution, instead of a new problem? If a pedophile could be happy with his — are there any significant number of female pedophiles? — sex doll, could that not keep him/her/it away from real children?

  26. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Well, we could look at how effective methadone is in combating heroin addiction

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    24 BC

    Wow. That’s pretty incredible dirt there.

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Robot dolls would not fulfill the danger, taboo that these animals crave.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This bridge that fell in Florida is just an incomprehensible disaster. People should be charged criminally.

    The design is cable supported and it originates in Venice in the late 1500s. One of the earliest cable stayed bridges in America still stands up in Erath County. Here is a photo.

    This is a link from Saturday of video showing them lifting the horizontal platform into place. No visible provision for temporary supports I can see.

    This design requires towers on each end with cables extending down to the bridge platform. In Florida, they lifted the entire platform structure into place, with no temporary center support, and apparently were intending to erect the towers and install the cables later.

    There are no words for this monumental stupidity.

  30. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #29 – Can you spell Democrat county. How about corruption. Or even diversity. Someone promised to build a bridge and someone promised a bunch of money to a minority contractor… How far do you want to dig. And once again, we will never uncover the truth.

    PS – I watched the video, and they didn’t say diversity, but they did say “inclusive” – close enough.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Roughly 9,000 California companies moved their headquarters or diverted projects to out-of-state locations in the last seven years, and Dallas-Fort Worth has been a prime beneficiary of the Golden State’s “hostile” business environment.

    That’s the conclusion of study by Joseph Vranich, a site selection consultant and president of Irvine, California-based Spectrum Location Solutions.

    Of the 9,000 businesses that he estimates disinvested in California, some relocated completely while others kept their headquarters in California but targeted out-of-state locations for expansions, Vranich found. The report did not count instances of companies opening a new out-of-state facility to tap a growing market, an act unrelated to California’s business environment.

    Japanese automaker Toyota, which is consolidating its North American headquarters in Plano over the next couple of years, is one of those companies. The company is leaving Torrance, California, and two other locations to set up shop in Plano, where it will employ 4,000.

  32. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The contractor web site and most of the FIGG Group web sites are down now following the collapse of one of their masterpiece public works projects. FIGG still had this video up when I checked: https://www.roadsbridges.com/fiu-pedestrian-bridge-florida

    The bad news – FIGG is also the designer on the bridge over the ship channel. I think it’s the tollway bridge widening project.

  33. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    On her trip to India, hiliary almost fell staggering down some steps. Now she seems to have broken her wrist while drunk bathing in the bath tub. I’m thinking she desperately needs an intervention.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5506823/Hillary-Clinton-fractures-wrist-slipping-bathtub.html

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m thinking she desperately needs an intervention.

    I’m thinking more along the lines of an injection, of the lethal variety.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Astronaut Scott Kelly had an identical twin brother when he ventured into space and set the record for most consecutive days spent in orbit, but not anymore.

    In a groundbreaking new study, NASA scientists found that Kelly’s DNA had been altered upon his return to earth — with 7 percent of his genes experiencing an “unexpected change,” according to the agency.

    https://nypost.com/2018/03/14/astronauts-dna-no-longer-matches-his-identical-twin/

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #32 El Gordo

    The link to FIGG still works showing the architect’s brochure for bridge that just fell.

    Yes, it sure looks similar to the Hartman Bridge here, ‘ cept that’s for vehicular traffic instead of foot traffic.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Looks promising.

    The film opens with Saint Luke ( Jim Caviezel ) slipping into Rome to visit Paul ( James Faulkner ), who is held captive in Nero’s Mamertine Prison.

    ABOUT THE FILM

    PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST is the story of two men. Luke, as a friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into the city of Rome to visit Paul, who is held captive in Nero’s darkest, bleakest prison cell. But Nero is determined to rid Rome of Christians, and does not flinch from executing them in the grisliest ways possible. Before Paul’s death sentence can be enacted, Luke resolves to write another book, one that details the beginnings of “The Way” and the birth of what will come to be known as the church.

    Bound in chains, Paul’s struggle is internal. He has survived so much—floggings, shipwreck, starvation, stoning, hunger and thirst, cold and exposure—yet as he waits for his appointment with death, he is haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds. Alone in the dark, he wonders if he has been forgotten . . . and if he has the strength to finish well.

    Two men struggle against a determined emperor and the frailties of the human spirit in order to live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ and spread their message to the world.

    Coming March 23.

    http://www.paulmovie.com/site/

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    35

    I guess AncestryDNA doesn’t have much future on the colonized Mars paradise.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    For somebody who is an anti-NSAID guy, I took 1600 mgs of Ibuprofen today. That should tell you how bad my back is right now. I’m pretty sure I’ve blown out the fourth of my five lumbar discs. I’m living on one now – bone to bone on four vertebrae. I went to bathe my 28 lb. dog in the sink a while ago and when I set her down on the floor to dry her hair, I went into a spasm, got paralyzed on the floor and couldn’t get up. My dog was freaked out and thought I’d been shot by a crazed anti-Trump Leftist.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    39
    Nah. It was probably an anti-Trump Conservative with the wrong address.

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    40 Shannon

    You might be right up here.

  42. phil Avatar
    phil

    24

    Paul Ryan GOOPs, which encompass most of the elected GOOPs, are born losers.

    Always have been, always will be. They may win some elections but at their core they’re losers with no fight or fire.

    I rarely listen to Hush Limbo anymore but in the car today I tuned in and heard a couple of so called GOOPee strategists already throwing in the towel for the 2018 midterms.

    A dazzling display of loserdom just spewing out of their pie-holes and off their mayo stained tongues.

    See if this PA GOOPee demands a recount. My bet is he puts his hands in his pockets and says

    aw shucks

    the Demonics won fair and square.

    Lets move along to get along.

    GOOPs play tiddlywinks and Demonics wage war.
    GOOPs are Trojan horses while Demonics are united on all fronts.
    GOOPs quiver and lose while Demonics fight to win.

    If Trump goes down in 2020, or before because of them, I’ll never vote for a GOOP again.

    Guck the FOOPees,
    Ive had enough of them.
    Period.

  43. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Come on Phil, spit it out. Tell us what’s really on your mind. You speak for a lot of us, you know.

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    About the only public voice I listen to in the media anymore is Mark Levin.

    I read many other writers, but I don’t watch TV/radio news or commentary at all. I have tried to catch Levin on Sunday night though.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Goopers will lose any close race.
    And then some.

    Because a certain percentage of Trump loyalists won’t vote for them. And a
    certain percentage of real Conservatives won’t either.

    They’re toast.

    Then Mitch and Paul can go back to doing what they do best.

  46. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think that as, hopefully, more people read how Eddie Munster sold us down the river yet again, the drum beat will sound. GOPestablisment terds need to be flushed down the $#!thole of history, like the Whigs.

  47. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If you are running out of things to do, log on to the falcon cam at the UT tower and watch the bird’s nest. For real.

    Nothing can top the eagle cam a few years ago with mama eagle feeding baby eagles a cat.

  48. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #47
    Nature red in tooth and claw.

  49. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Heh. Detachable surrealistic heart. That’s pretty funny.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    49 Hamous

    It’s you, man. I can see it. It’s got your name all over it.

  51. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Stupid hipsters are taking over Independence Heights now. Drove down Yale coming from an eye exam and saw they’re building a Whole Foods on the NE corner of Yale and 610.

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Staggering, breaking news.

    Somebody in Hollywood really is moving out of the country. Maybe they’ll all leave.

    Matt Damon is moving his family to Australia — in part because the liberal star’s fed up with President Trump.

    Damon, 47, reportedly has purchased a property in Byron Bay, New South Wales, according to Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph. The home’s next door to a place owned by Chris Hemsworth — with whom Damon recently appeared in “Thor: Ragnarok.”

    A source exclusively tells Page Six: “Matt’s telling friends and colleagues in Hollywood that he’s moving the family to Australia” because the activist actor disagrees with Trump’s policies.

  53. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #52
    I saw a tweet where someone asked Matt Damon “Why not Haiti???”

  54. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Friday???

  55. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Dave, it says Friday on my calendar too!

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Day Before St. Patrick’s Day morning Hamsters. Balmy 67 and breezy, rain chances small in today’s forecast, but that all depends on where you are.

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Dave.

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