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Happy Saturday folks!
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It’s the weekend.
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So Hamous, in your #93 picture, Linda is on the lower right?
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Richard Vedder at Forbes:
Diversity And Other Administrative Monstrosities: The Case Of The University Of Michigan
Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan at Flint and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, recently calculated that his university has nearly 100 diversity administrators, more than 25 of them earning over $100,000 a year (see chart below). Collectively, they cost the University of Michigan, with fringe benefits, about $11 million annually. Adding in other costs such as travel and office space expenses, the total cost rises to perhaps $14 million, or $300 for every enrolled student at the U of M in the fall semester 2017.
See the payroll chart here for the 93 employees. Just reading the job titles for these useless bureaucrats gives me a headache.
The head of this department is making $396,550 per year. The next 25 employees down the list are making over $100,000.
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Fauxahantas. What’s scary about her is not just the phony resume and the lie that she’s lived her entire life. The scary part is that enough people in her state, even being armed with the facts, see fit to elect her to public office. It makes a mockery of all of us and violates Superman’s creed – Truth, Justice, and the American Way. The courts have decreed that black people have got to be represented by voodoo princesses and palm readers, and other minority groups got to have their cultural behavior accepted, muzzies got to have their own system of justice and kill their kin if they dishonor the family by going out with a white boy or something. And then we wonder why they don’t assimilate. Fauxahauntous may be as evil as hiliary, but in a different light. Just another sociopath sitting in public office.
Oh, morning gang. Weather forecast for today out here – hot and dry. BTW, I hear that the blue water is in. When the blue water is in, you are supposed to drop whatever you are working on and go fishing – state law. So I guess there won’t be many comments today.
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Raising four boys, Mom is inspired to rewrite a song.
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Watching those boys in #7 brings back memories.
We were the original latchkey kids. Left to our own devices, we would move furniture, then roll up the braided rug to expose the waxed hardwood floor. With socks on, a running start from the kitchen would afford you the ability to slide the entire length of the den, crashing into a wall of stacked throw pillows.
For hours.
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RE: #8
When, in 1959, I entered the second grade at Bendwood Elementary School out on the lone, empty prairie that would become Town & Country Village, on the east side of West Belt Road, there were three second grade classrooms. Of all those kids, only one other student in that grade beside me had a mother who worked outside the home. There was a third student whose mother was a teacher, but she was already there when her sons came home from school each day.
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So Hamous, in your #93 picture, Linda is on the lower right?
Linda is in the prom picture. Lesa is lower left in 93. Holding hands with the studly dude sporting the CPO jacket.
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Out of the seven guys, at least four of ’em have died. Two I don’t know their status.
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And we all saw this in the headlines, right ?
The DC Metro area is infested with people claiming to be journalists. Where were they when all this went down ? There were public records. The Daily Mail had to file a FOIA request to this data from the DC police.
Surveillance footage exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com shows one of President Obama’s senior officials following a woman around a DC Metro station and taking a picture up her skirt with his cell phone.
William Mendoza was caught on security cameras carrying out the vile act while he was executive director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education.
As a result of his actions, the married father pleaded guilty to attempted voyeurism and resigned from his $140,000-a-year Department of Education post in Obama’s White House.
His arrest and conviction were never made public until DailyMail.com acquired the report of the investigation and the footage through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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You wouldn’t believe how much she looks like the preacher’s red headed daughter whom I have talked about before. -
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The 3:18 PM entry has me intrigued. I want to know … the rest of the story.
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#92 last night
That pic of young Hammy and Linda, dressed for the Prom, looks like it was taken in the 19th Century! -
Feels like it too.
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1975
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#10 Hamous, OK, I saw you and Lesa on the left but I thought that the blonde, lower right looked a lot like Linda and being a small school and all, it might be her.
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If you missed it, you need to go back a read Hamous’ #75, Paul Krugman, has never, ever been right on anything and he won the Noble Prize? BTW; on what date did the Nobel and/or Pulitzer become a joke?
Oh, and Hamous’ #76DJIA on November 8, 2016 – 18,332.43
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I looked back at my 401K/IRA November 2016 and as of yesterday it is up 37%,….think about that.
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Well for the second time in a few weeks, we have a Gun Show at Pasadena and the Brown.
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Back in those days, normal boys had one mission in life – fort building. One of the memorable ones was out of dozens of used Christmas trees in the neighbor kid’s back yard.
Talk about a fire hazard.
And playing with matches was pastime, too!!
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#19 – The nobel prize was nominated to become a joke in 2008 when Krugman was named as a winner. It then became an official joke when Obama won it in 2009.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/
Bob Dylan was the first named winner to acknowledge what joke the nobel prize is and refused to show up to collect his. Who would have ever thought that Dylan was the smarted one of the bunch?
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I have promised my children that this will not happen at my house.
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Has anyone seen Squawk lately. I want to know if he’s come out of truck driving retirement.
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Fauxahauntous may be as evil as hiliary, but in a different light. Just another sociopath sitting in public office.
Putin did it.
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This millenial may be on to something.
We could give this new paradigm a name. Something like “Farming” or “Ranching”, or maybe “Carpentry” or “Cabinet Making”.
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But Putin
BP
But Putin
BP
But Putin
BPSee the Collusion?
It’s near the solution
in ShooFly’s calloused palmSands of illusion
Implanted breasts
spontaneous inversion
screech titular diversion1984
You know the score
Potato Heads on TV
Mika the blind not seeBut Putin
BP
But Putin
BP
But Putin
BPSee the Collusion?
The necessary illusion
Ferris flanked Nancy
& subpoenaed her fancyJerky and wine
Skull face shucks and jives
Stinking of gin
and tailor made skinsBut Putin
BP
But Putin
BP
But Putin
BPSee the Collusion?
A fractured contusionPutin did it.
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#10 Hamous, OK, I saw you and Lesa on the left but I thought that the blonde, lower right looked a lot like Linda and being a small school and all, it might be her.
Her name is Virginia. She was/is the quintessential hippie chick. I climbed the Archer water tower with her late one night after partying. Crazy days. When we were in high school her mother lived on a small island only accessible by boat off of Cedar Key.
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Her name is Virginia. She was/is the quintessential hippie chick. I climbed the Archer water tower with her late one night after partying. Crazy days. When we were in high school her mother lived on a small island only accessible by boat off of Cedar Key.
Sitting on the porch playing Townes Van Zandt play guitar to burn off the hours
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We actually had a lemonade stand up and running on my street yesterday! 50 cents a cup. I missed it yesterday, but the mom promises it will be set up again this afternoon. I gotta walk over with my camera because that will make the perfect human interest filler for a little bare spot in next month’s newsletter.
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We were smart enough not to paint our names on the water tower.
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Better get there before the HOA Nazi shows up 😉
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I received a couple of “504 Gateway errors.”
You guessed it.
Putin Did It.
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I jogged 4 1/2 miles this morning before the real heat set in.
but really….Putin Did It.
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We’ve had a kid selling slushes this week. Doing a pretty good business.
I can recommend a cherry/banana.
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#25 Sarge
The safety topic at a meeting I attended a couple of weeks ago pertained to that very issue. A subcontractor inside a refinery dumped a load of gravel and drove off without fully lowering the bed. He obviously didn’t get permission from his spotter to drive off. The spotter and others blew whistles but the driver couldn’t hear them over the ambient noise inside the plant. The driver ended up damaging a pipe rack that crossed a road. Fortunately it was a small rack with a couple of small bore pipes and cable trays. VERY fortunately there was no hydrocarbon release nor any upsets due to data cables being “moved”.
Now the spotters and others will have air horns instead of whistles.
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MHarper HOA newsletters are fine, but do not send those photos to the Chronicle. Otherwise city inspectors will come in and shut it down.
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Obviously I’m not following along with Phil. Scratch the city inspectors… Putin will be the one to close it down.
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Who’s winning the Straw War?
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Who’s winning the Straw War?
Putin.
#PutinDidIt
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Why that poops me right off my tempered back bacon and corn pone and chitlins!!…says Skull Face.
#PutinDidIt
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Well, I made it back from the Gun Show with my wallet intact. It was kinda’ small since all the heavy hitters were at the George Brown, I did talk to a couple of interesting individuals though, one Ex-Marine selling a numbers matching, Luger artillery pistol complete with the wood stock, in a presentation case, with the tools/cleaner/oils. I also talked with a young man from Conroe that was a Blacksmith and made tomahawks, hatchets and small axes out of soft iron with steel blades. This is exactly the way Samurai Swords have been made for hundreds of years. He also was an expert tomahawk thrower and had a video on his phone to prove it.
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So daughter-in-law calls me at the show because her battery is dead and the boy is at work. He told her to hook up the battery charger and after an hour or so, switch it to 50 amps and hope that it would start, she of course, didn’t really want to hook up the charger since she wasn’t sure how to do it, so I went down and charged it up, checked the alternator and she went to get a new battery. Oh, and the battery read 9.26 VDC when I got there so it was “Graveyard Dead”, when we started it, it was at 12.56 so it fired right up.
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My #45, I have an absolutely great daughter-in-law and she is also a fine mom, we do love her.
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So daughter-in-law calls me at the show because her battery is dead
#PutinDidIt
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Putin and Russia are meddling in our weather thus no rain in sight.
#PutinDidIt
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Her daddy lives closer to her than I do so why do you suppose she called me?
Cuz you’re a big teddie bear?
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Cuz you’re a big teddie bear?
Mmm, “Could Be”
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If you don’t know who Faith Goldy is, you probably should. She’s decided to run for mayor of Toronto after the terrorist shooting there. Faith swerves pretty hard on the right, maybe a little too close to the alt-Right for my taste, but she would definitely be the hottest mayor Toronto ever had.
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As seen over yonder; you decide.
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Russia will meddle in Canada’s election and help get the hot babe elected.
#PutinDidIt
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Faith Goldy is forthright in her Tweets.
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Where Putin is going next to meddle.
#PutinDidIt
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Putin never forgets how to meddle.
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Fuxed up Faux News Alert:
Newspeak Media can’t stop falling in love with Putin Paranoia Mania.
#PutinDidit
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The Lefties really, really hate having to live by the rules they make.
Get woke, go trans…save $1,100 a year on your auto insurance.
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#51 – Hubba HUBBA!
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I’m not ratting out those kids to CoH. Unless they sold lemonade at a different location today, I didn’t see ’em on my street. The pic Mom put on FB Group yesterday was in front of their house. I was out and about in the ‘hood today. We have been jawing for 10 months about starting a Children’s Lending Library system here. HISD gave us 3 periodical stands that are suitable for storing books out in the open. I designed a sign for them, but our resident printer is busy on a project, so I printed 3 paper signs and went out with spray cleaner to clean the pull-down door, then put a sign on each of them.
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If anyone wants a guitar repaired or modified, I can vouch for this guy. Found him on a Craigslist add, he lives in Greatwood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le1eRMQVEz8&feature=youtu.be
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Life gave Putin lemons so he made lemonade.
The ShooFly Pie-Hole drank it.#PutinDidit
#PutinDidIt
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Just returned from Longview and The Great Balloon Race – Balloon glow. My phone charging port went kaput before we left, so I haven’t even talked to LD yet about. When I get the pics uploaded I’m going to send them to her to show to the girls. I’m advising them to take the little ones next year – not only are there beautiful balloons that glow in the dark (when fired up, of course), but they had a whole area for kids with a petting zoo, pony rides, carnival rides and games, and whole lane of bouncy houses.
For some reason, I took walkie talkies with us, as I did on our trip to Big Bend. Glad I did. Since my phone was dead, it was how we communicated as I wandered in and out around the balloons getting pics and Hubby sat in his chair. Since there were so many changes with crowd and the landmarks between the time I went wandering and when I wanted to sit down with him again, the w-t was the only way I found him again. They came in handy again today. He wasn’t sure if he was coming with me to visit my cousin and aunt in Henderson (near Lufkin); he decided to come after all, but we were able communicate on the way there.
I also had my Garmin, so I still was able to use it for navigation.
Having multiple devices instead of relying on one sure made the weekend easier.
I got some great pics and video of the balloons. Hoping to make them a post soon.
Right now, I’m pretty darn tired. I had a GREAT time visiting with cousin and aunt. Oh, the stories they told me about my momma!
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Speaking of bourbon. I hadn’t had any in a year or so, so yesterday when I was buying wine I bought one of those mini airline size bottles of Jack Black. I nursed that shot with two ice cubes for about two hours.
Recommended.
🙂
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That’s an unusual pattern y’all have of traveling around the state in two vehicles.
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He tends to go one direction, I go another. He thought he was going to go straight home after breakfast and then changed his mind. In Big Bend, I went to El Paso to check out the inherited properties while Hubby went back home for work.
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I can get four phone charges out of this thing. It stays in the truck mostly. And definitely if I travel out of town. Or will be sitting in a hospital for extended periods. Or other similar situations where I might have no other charging options.
https://www.easyacc.com/en/615-easyacc-2nd-gen-brilliant-10000mah-power-bank.html
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If that’s a reference to my phone, it’s the charging port itself that has broken loose. It was actually charging when I knocked it off the nightstand.
I was already having problems with it charging, but I think the yank on the cord when it fell was that proverbial last straw.
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My aunt shared with me that when I was toddler young’un, my aunt and my mother (we lived on the same street back then) would go to a Mexican friend’s house and make tamales together for some holiday celebration, I believe New Year’s Day. All the while they’d drink Mexican butter, which I’ve been informed is tequila and lemonade. Aunt assured me that mom was QUITE partial to them and was thoroughly enjoying them. After they finished tamales, they went to the party at the Knights of Columbus Hall, at which there were more drinks.
Okay, in all my years, I never ever ever say my momma with anything stronger than a tea in her hand. My aunt assured me the story was true.
Scandalized, I am.
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I was already having problems with it charging, but I think the yank on the cord when it fell was that proverbial last straw.
#PutinDidit
#PutinDidIt
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BTW – the crowd of over 5,000 people at the balloon glow all stood in honor of the national anthem.
Made me proud.
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Now here’s a school recommended reading list for ya.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3674651/postsHOME SCHOOL!
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Did I kill the blog?
PutinDidIt
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If you’re interested in astronomy, here is an interesting NASA project going up in August, headed to our nearest star.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-parker-solar-probe-and-the-curious-case-of-the-hot-corona -
Did I kill the blog?
Heh you’re learning.
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I don’t know who is winning right now, but Katie Pavlich is doing her part in the Straw War.
The combined writing staffs of The Simpsons and Monty Python could never come up with something as stupid and absurd as banning plastic straws.
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Fixxin to be eastbound for more new HEROs………..
Yall enJOY you Sunday!
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#74, What they didn’t tell you about the solar probe, was that it an Aggie designed it. In the first meeting someone asked, “what about the intense heat?” He said, “oh, we’re landing at night….
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The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades
By Frank Hawkins
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The New York Times is agitated that New Hampshire is 96% white.
New Hampshire, like its neighbors Vermont and Maine, is nearly all white. This has posed an array of problems for new arrivals, who often find themselves isolated and alone, without the comfort and support of a built-in community.
It has also posed problems for employers in these states, who find that their homogeneity can be a barrier to recruiting and retaining workers of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.
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New Hampshire’s neighbors, Vermont and Maine, are 95 percent white, making northern New England collectively the whitest region in a nation where white residents make up just over 60 percent of the population, according to the census.
Here’s the New York Times editorial staff in Manhattan.
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An Amazing Journey.
California waterfowler bags pintail banded in Japan.It was only after his friend returned with the banded bird that Heidman discovered its unusual origins. He returned home and reported the band recovery to the Division of Avian Conservation in Konoyama, Japan. He soon learned that the pintail was at least 14 years old and was banded the day after Christmas 2001 at the Saitama Duck Refuge in Obayashi, more than 5,000 miles from Delevan. Heidman’s pintail is only the 16th duck banded in Japan that has been recovered in California since 1977.
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I missed this little development:
Known as both the “father of Texas” and the namesake of the state’s capital, Stephen F. Austin carved out the early outlines of Texas among his many accomplishments.
He also opposed an attempt by Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said if slaves were freed, they would turn into “vagabonds, a nuisance and a menace.”
For that reason, the city of Austin’s Equity Office suggested renaming the city in a report about existing Confederate monuments that was published this week.
Also on the list of locales to possibly be renamed: Pease Park, the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, Barton Springs and 10 streets named for William Barton, the “Daniel Boone of Texas,” who was a slave owner.
Equity Office? Sounds a lot like, dare I say, a sort of Cultural Revolution. The Purge continues. We’re all just waiting for The Great Leap Forward.
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A new “thing” is millennials quitting 6-figure jobs because they feel stressed out and oppressed.
“It was definitely New York glamourous — the black dress, leather pants and high heels, and an hour putting on my makeup,” says Solomon. “Anyone would think I had a really fun life, meeting cool people and celebrities.”
But she yearned for something more and resented only having two weeks of vacation a year. So, last August, she quit her seemingly great job at a plum downtown p.r. firm.
“I wanted to travel more — I didn’t want to have to ask for time off and grovel for extra days, you know?” says Solomon, now 25 and living in a rental house in Kauai, Hawaii, overlooking the beach.
Over the past 10 months, she’s scaled volcanoes in Guatemala, soaked up the waterfalls of Bali, Indonesia, and basked on glorious beaches halfway around the world. She gets by doing freelance p.r. work on the road, so long as she can get decent Wi-Fi in paradise.
These young, self-centered dumbasses better never whine again about being broke and having to live in their parents’ basements or about how the Baby Boomers ruined the world and there are no jobs.
I remember my parents taking 2 one week vacations when we were growing up and they felt guilty about that. Other than a few days at the beach, my grandparents never took vacations.
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Once you name a department and man it, they gotta find stuff to do. Kinda like a Safety Department, or HR.
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LOL No cup holders!
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I just stumbled across this, who remembers the Suzuki RE5 Winkle, motorcycle?
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LOL No cup holders!
And, no roll bars.
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#87
I do remember them. Bet they were smooth.
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Morning gang. Forecast for today – hot and dry – surprise. No other news to report today. You all have a great one.
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Forecast for today – hot and dry
Putin did it.
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This is for Phil:
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This is for Phil:
Heh that’s pretty good.
Putin did it.
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#79 SD
What a list! The Hall of Infamy. Glad to see Val Jarrett on the list. I could almost see Obummer left off the list, as all the slimeballs responsible for him ARE on the list — Ayers, Jarrett, Soros, et al. If Bronco wasn’t actually on the list, that would underscore him as an empty suit, or an empty chair (per Clint Eastwood). -
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@ the Carwash, it’s not too busy yet.
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I watched a little of Meet the Depressed this morning and thought that Tim Russert is probably spinning in his grave. He was the last true journalist in Washington. He was liberal but tried to be fair to both sides…….SIGH
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Ninety Eight!!!
Teeing her up, Iron Mary,TimTom?
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I am WATERING the yard today. Had 2 water-throwers aimed at crunchy grass in the front yard since 9 a.m. so far. I’ve done the Sudoku and finishing my oat cereal, then I plug in my hedge trimmer and shape up the boxwood hedge. Somehow it has grown like gangbusters during this drought. Everything has had some watering this month, but nothing else has grown so dramatically.
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Here I am for Tim, Tom, and Harry!
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You guys didn’t really think Super Dave goes to the car wash every other day because his truck is dirty, did you ?
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#101 Texpat, 😀
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I watched a little of Meet the Depressed
Putin did it.
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My shoelace came a little loose while putting in my 4 this morning.
Guess what!
PDI!
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NASA is 60 years old today.
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NASA is 60 years old today.
Putin did it.
#NitupDidIt
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This is behind the paywall at Financial Times, but Glenn Reynolds has a long excerpt.
Donald Trump is leading a double life. In the west, most foreign policy experts see him as reckless, unpredictable and self-defeating. But though many in Asia dislike him as much as the Europeans do, they see him as a more substantial figure. I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician. . . .
Few Chinese think that Mr Trump’s primary concern is to rebalance the bilateral trade deficit. If it were, they say, he would have aligned with the EU, Japan and Canada against China rather than scooping up America’s allies in his tariff dragnet. They think the US president’s goal is nothing less than remaking the global order.
They think Mr Trump feels he is presiding over the relative decline of his great nation. It is not that the current order does not benefit the US. The problem is that it benefits others more in relative terms. To make things worse the US is investing billions of dollars and a fair amount of blood in supporting the very alliances and international institutions that are constraining America and facilitating China’s rise.
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I wasn’t quite sure what PDI means, but google found it for me:
Urban Dictionary: PDI
acronym – public display of intercourse. usually occurs at school, during a movie, when the teacher has the lights turned off and the students are allowed to lie …I dunno phil, I thought Putin was an adult…
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I wasn’t quite sure what PDI means, but google found it for me:
Urban Dictionary: PDI
acronym – Putin did it.#TinPudidIt
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I thought the Simpsons did it.
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We’ve discussed the annoying habit of Millennials and younger and their gratuitous use of “like”. Another annoying habit is starting sentences off with “So” whenever they’re asked a question. Drives me crazy.
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NASA is 60 years old today.
Yup, I posted that over yonder, this morning.
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I thought the Simpsons did it.
Putin did it.
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I decided to try making some fish tacos today. I just put the fish in the Marinade to sit in the fridge and started the 4 pieces of bacon that I had left over from BLT’s in the oven. I’ll use the bacon in my world famous Charro beans. FWIW; I’ve never fixed fish tacos, and it has been only a few years ago that I had them for the first time but, lately I’ve had the hankering for them. Back in March of 2017, I stopped off at a hole-in-the -wall place in Waco and had some of the finest ones that I’ve ever had.
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Back in March of 2017, I stopped off at a hole-in-the -wall place in Waco and had some of the finest ones that I’ve ever had.
Putin made it.
Putin did it.#PutinDidIt
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Super Dave says:
JULY 29, 2018 AT 8:56 AM
I just stumbled across this, who remembers the Suzuki RE5 Winkle, motorcycle?Winkle????? Or, uh, Wankle?
I never knew there was a rotary engine motorcycle.
But, from the west side I was delivered to the Harris County Courthouse for my first wedding in a Mazda with a Wankle engine.
At 110 mph.
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That was 1972.
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Must’ve been an RX-2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Capella#/media/File%3AMazda_Capella_001.JPG
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I can remember building specific forts in the early 60s but for the life of me I can’t remember if I even had a honeymoon or what we did after we got hitched in 1972.
We probably went to Ingram.https://i.pinimg.com/736x/94/43/9e/94439e0ff0676a514a10b0619c5eda3c.jpg
I need to call that woman and ask her.
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Winkle????? Or, uh, Wankle?,..OK, ya’ got me there,….Spell check; I’m getting tired of this shirt!!
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The Suzuki wasn’t the only one with a Wankel engine, the Hercules W-2000, is actually more well known in the motorcycle world.
All the Wankel motors, including the Mazda’s were ahead of their time, but they all suffered from compression leakage around the rotors due to the rapid wear of the carbon tips. You could only get about 30K miles out of the Mazda’s, before they started burning oil like a tar kiln. Of course they were a little like a two stroke, in that they normally used about a quart of oil every 1000 miles to lubricate the rotors. -
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Another one of those great ideas that didn’t work. 🙂
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Was wondering where these fresh mustard greens could possibly have come from.
Brighton, CO. 5000’
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But man they would sho nuff wind up fast.Yup, back when I worked at Hobby, early 80’s I knew an aircraft mechanic that bought a 73 Mazda station wagon with a run out engine. He paid little to nothing for it for the sole purpose of playing with it. He went to the library and learned all he could about the Wankle and he found out it is an awful lot like a two stroke motor, neither one of them have a cam and use the piston or rotor to pull in air into the engine. So, they both responded to porting and polishing. He had a book written my a Frenchman that tried to use the motors in La mans and it describe how to get the maximum amount of power out of the tiny two bank engine. Remember the Mazda’s only had 97 CID displacement but ran like a 2.4 liter 4 stroke. Oh and 2400 CC = about 140 CID. Anyway, another buddy of mine had a new 84 Dodge FWD, turbo charged car and it was fairly fast for the day. They lined them up and that old Mazda blew the new dodge into the weeds, no contest. The guy was hoping to find an old RX 7 to put the motor in, I don’t know if he ever did do that since that was about the time I got a job at the Rocket Ranch.
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Mazda is bringing back the Wankel. Sort of.
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You crazy crackers on the right are getting a little too uppity. Bout time we put you back in your place.
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We had another successful Bonecrusher family reunion this weekend. There were close to 40 people and 4 generations under 1 roof. My parents are truly blessed to be able to enjoy great grandchildren, 9 I think, and still have full mental and physical faculties. YUP, LIFE IS GOOD.
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#129: That anyone could consider that it was anything but self defense is evidence of collective insanity.
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WAYCISS!
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I took my phone to a U Break I Fix shop. The last few times I needed phone repairs I took it to the location at FM 518 @ Hwy 288 in Pearland. For those who don’t know, that’s a very popular area and traffic is a PITA. But the UBIF folks do good work and very reasonable prices.
Hubby looked up their hours on his phone at breakfast and I was delighted to find that they have expanded their locations and there is one much closer to my home. I made it there this afternoon and explained (and they verified) that the charging port needs replacing.
The usual charge is just under $80, but I noticed that they advertised a business discount. I got a call just before I jumped into the gym pool today (where I did a full mile, yay me!) that told that with my discount, it’s going to be under $50, and did I want to move forward so they could place the parts order?
You bet your sweet bippy, I do!
Then I told them I have grandma duty this weekend and did they think it would be ready by Friday morning or would I plan on using my backup phone until next week?
They put those notes in the order and will do what they can to have my phone done before I go out of town.
I took my digital camera in some months back, thinking there was something wrong with the focus. The guy pointed out there was a little bitty dial that I’d never noticed before that fixed the problem. He could have taken it in back and “fixed” it and I never would’ve known. No charge for pointing out my ignorance of my own equipment, but he didn’t make feel so.
If y’all need repairs, I highly, highly recommend those folks.
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That anyone could consider that it was anything but self defense is evidence of collective insanity.
Putin did it.
#pUTINdidit
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He be daid, so it don’t much matter. #Dindonutin
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#135
I usually see that spelled as Dindu Nuttin.I read a bit of the Trayvon M article, but realizing I don’t even like Jay-Z, I soon moved on.
BTW, I think I’m going to see Dinesh D’s new film Death of a Nation. I can see an 11 a.m. matinee close to home.
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I was having a drink with Prince Charles and the Queen
When Winston Churchill stepped into my dream
His head it was heavy, his voice was shakin’
He said, “Look what they’ve done.
It’s the death of a nation.” -
137 Hamous
And that was in 2001. They’re expecting riots across the UK now that the politicians have totally screwed up the Brexit deal.
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