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Back to the Salt Mine.
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Monty Python, early Saturday Night Live, Second City could never get on TV today. The cultural tyrants would never allow it.
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Well, I made it back, I snuck in here yesterday but didn’t have time to converse.
I missed the pocket knife discussion. I’ve not been without a pocket knife or a watch since I was 6 years old. My first knife was a Barlow that I got for my sixth birthday, my second and third were hand-me-down, Boker Tree Brand stock knifes from my dad. He always kept his knife razor sharp and when he bought a new one, he’d give me the old one with the main blade worn down to about 3/8″ deep. As an adult I always carried a Schrade stockman. Today, I have a really nice Puma that my mom’s brother gave me before he passed away. I like it because it is so thin, of course it is a single blade. -
Goat mentioned West Marine yesterday and this dropped into my mail box this morning.
As a side bar, I won a hand held, VHF radio from the League City store on it’s opening day. They had a drawing every hour, I got there about 30 minutes after they opened and started filling out entry cards. I put about 250 in the box and the second drawing was for the radio. They had a kid draw the card and as soon as he pulled it out, I knew it was mine because of the butterfly fold. -
I have a Gerber single blade pocket knife I’ve had for about 40 years. I quit carrying it daily because I travel by air so much. I was afraid I’d forget I had it and get stuck at the airport.
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Hillary’s African Slave Auctions
Black Africans are being sold in open-air slave markets, and it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault. But you won’t hear much about that from the news media or the foreign-policy pundits, so let me explain.
Footage from Libya, released recently by CNN, showed young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned off as farm workers in slave markets.
And how did we get to this point? As the BBC reported back in May, “Libya has been beset by chaos since NATO-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col. Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011.”
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1957 GMC 250 dually Panel Truck
Custom ordered by Orange County with dual wheels on a ’57 panel, now restored and owned by the California Fire Museum.
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Just sit and think awhile.
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Sarge, something to try out for your camping gear: turn your lighter into a small torch
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I stayed up to work on my first cap last night. Made two rows already.
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I usually carry a small Swiss Army Knife. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve surrendered to security people at airports around the world or even how many have been swallowed up by couch cushions. Those typically run about $20. I once figured I would do better by trying one of those fancy knives with a clip… I managed to lose it too. That one cost close to $80 so I went back to my $20 knife.
This is the same reason I wear sunglasses that only cost $5 – $15. If I ever bought one of those $100 plus pair of sunglasses, I am positive I would damage or lose them within a month.
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#9 Tedtam, I picked up one of those at Home Depot a couple of years ago.
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I have carried one of these for over a year now and it is by far the best knife I have ever carried.
A dear friend gave me one of these a few years ago and I carry it every day as well.
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Just sit and think awhile.
I have a timeshare at one of the toilet rooms at the Bucees on 362 and 290 in Waller, maybe I’ll go by and visit.
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I started carrying a Letherman, 20 or 30 years ago, when they were the only utility tool around unless you count the Swiss Army Knife as one. A couple of years ago I replaced the original with a Letherman Wave and I do like it, as it is much more versatile than the other one.
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This would be hilarious for its irony were the whole thing not so stupid.
TIJUANA, Mexico—A crowd of demonstrators clashed with anti-riot police near an emergency shelter where thousands of migrants from Central America have taken refuge in recent days.
Waving Mexican flags and singing Mexico’s national anthem, a bristling crowd of a hundred or more descended on a municipal sports complex the city government has converted to a shelter to accommodate the surge of migrants who arrived here as part of the famous caravan from the south. Their ultimate destination is the United States where many plan to apply for asylum.
Young men in the crowd overturned concrete barriers set in the road for crowd control and threw plastic bottles and trash at a line of helmeted police with riot shields. Some got close and hurled insults and profanities at the police, calling them anti-patriotic for protecting the migrants, whom they variously referred to as drug addicts, thieves, gang members—even rapists and murderers. It’s the same rhetoric used by President Trump about the caravan during the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections.
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Super Dave – have carried the Stockman for years and have always carried a pocket knife. I don’t travel like Hamous; but have had to walk all the way back the car going to an Astros game because I forgot to take it out. Feels odd to not have one in my pocket.
1957 GMC Panel truck, while not a dually; that was the first vehicle I ever drove – about 10 yrs. old and had to pull start the old Farmall tractor for my dad to mow pasture.
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…the Progressive movement works and it wins in all districts…If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress– three chambers of government… — AO-C
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Let me cast my knife vote for Uncle Henry Stockman. Been carrying that thing for over a bunch of years of my life. I did carry my Dad’s Case half Whittler that he had for 50 years I think. I was afraid I would lose it so it got put away.
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Calling Alexandria Occasionally Coherent an idiot does dis-service to idiots everywhere.
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Joel Kotkin articulates what I have been mulling over since Bezos decided to locate a second Amazon HQ in NYC. Strategically, I think it’s a disastrous decision.
It turns out that tech oligarchs aren’t much better than old dogs at learning new tricks. By splitting his much coveted supposed second headquarters between New York City and greater Washington D.C., Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is repeating what worked for him in Seattle while saying “yes, sir” to power.
Technology firms were once seen as outsiders, mostly located far from the traditional East Coast power centers. Now, as they gradually take control of every industry once coveted by the old establishment—media, finance and retail—firms like Amazon are handing out consolation prices to their new subjects.
and,
I worked with Richard Florida on Kansas City’s bid for HQ2. We made a case, as finalists Indianapolis, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Columbus could make as well, that Amazon’s white-collar workforce, half of whom make under $100,000 annually, could thrive best in less expensive, family-friendly and lower-tax locales. After all, one apparent motivation for opening a second headquarters—if that’s wasn’t a contradiction before the decision to split it between New York and Virginia—was the high housing prices in Seattle, which weren’t an issue when Bezos launched Amazon in 1994.
If Amazon had moved to a heartland city, Bezos would have made a statement not only to his employees but to the middle of the country, where the tech industry is often seen as another enforcer of the progressive groupthink. Instead, he genuflected to the preferred locations and conventional wisdom of the overclass.
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Our mother loved pocket knives and carried one in her purse most of her years.
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#18
I saw that yesterday. What a freakin’ dufus.
I see images that make fun of our opponents’ faces, either comparing them to barn arnimals or distorting the facial image to make fun of their appearance.
I find that practice highly distasteful and not productive. I’ve called it sophomoric humor and gotten blowback. “Using the tactics of the left” it’s been called. Really? We want to be like them?
With this NY Idiot spouting idiocy like that, I think we have plenty of material to work with without resorting to bully tactics like making fun of how someone looks. AOC will be a fount of stupidity and ignorance for years to come, and we can certainly poke holes in her logic (or lack thereof) and thereby prove why conservatism is a better choice than liberalism.
But making fun of appearances just reduces the perceived collective IQ level of conservatives and distracts from the real issues by opening up the “but you’re so mean” argument instead.
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#18 Hammy
Wonder what she considers to be the “third chamber” of Congress or government? Is it House of Reps, Senate, and White House? Or House, Senate, and SCOTUS? -
We bought Leatherman multi tools for Christmas gifts a few years back. Even small ones for the ladies.
I stupidly bought the large one for me (the Surge). It lives in my toolbag because at 12.5 oz it is too heavy to wear. My pants need no further assistance in falling down.
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My pants need no further assistance in falling down.
There’s a joke in there somewhere…..
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Best straight man on the blog.
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I was trying to figure out a crochet problem on aforementioned cap, and was watching episodes of “Live PD”. For those who don’t know, it’s live cam video of actual cops on patrol, and bounces around the country. It’s a good crochet show because, since there’s no plot or characters to track, I can allow my focus to be on my work and not miss anything important. There are cities in Texas that participate, including El Paso.
So here I am, working on some ribbing and trying to figure out a sizing issue, and an El Paso stop involving a young man catches my attention. The cops have him handcuffed and are patting him down. Suddenly there’s some tittering and the cop asks him about the bulge in his pants. It’s a SOCK! The kid actually admits he’s put a rolled up sock in his pants “for the ladies, y’know”. They extract said footwear and begin unrolling it — and find two plastic baggies of heroin in the toe.
Yeah, the ladies like to get high, too. I had to stop crocheting for a moment to LOL.
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Oh, and the kid’s trying to hid his face from the camera, and he’s telling the cop “don’t embarrass me, man” over and over. While cop #1 calls over to cop #2 and they both start laughing.
How many dates does he get now? I mean, besides in prison.
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I find that practice highly distasteful and not productive.
Except for her eyes. I have no problem drawing attention to her eyes because crazy eyes never lie.
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Wonder what she considers to be the “third chamber” of Congress or government? Is it House of Reps, Senate, and White House? Or House, Senate, and SCOTUS?
She “clarified” that she meant the White House is the third chamber of Congress or er um something. I think what she was trying to get at was the three branches of government. Obviously that fails as well.
I’ve long advocated for a civics test for voters. I think we should demand it of our representatives.
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Morning gang. Clear and chilly here in Big D this morning. Finally got a good night’s sleep after a couple of fitful nights on the road. Nothing on the schedule for the rest of the week, so will just enjoy peace and quiet and reflect upon how thankful we can be for our bounty. You all have a great day.
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The “share” function over yonder isn’t working today. Or perhaps I’m sharing things they don’t want shared.
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The power of Hamous.org – it’s working now.
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I can’t imagine what a voter civics test would look like once the final version was “negotiated”.
*Which political party hates minorities?
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Sarah Sanders and some really bad lip reading: the saga continues.
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We bought Leatherman multi tools for Christmas gifts a few years back. Even small ones for the ladies.
I did that a couple of Christmas’ ago, I even got a pink one for daughter-in-law.
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“Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive”
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he’s got an answer: “536.” Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, “It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year,” says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. “For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year,” wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record “a failure of bread from the years 536–539.” Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says.
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On this day in 1836
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Shannon – he still needs an enema
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#38
“Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive”
Imagine the gubment programs we’d need for all that today.
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I thought Life of Brian was funny when I first saw it in the 80s.
It was very controversial in its time. My parents thought it was blasphemous though they never saw it.
And in this debate,, I believe “it’s Da Bishop” and Malcom got the best of The Cheese Shop Kings of comedy.
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Numerology meaning of 536:
Number 536 is a blend of the energies and attributes of number 5 and number 3, and the vibrations of number 6.. Angel Number 536 is a message to trust that the changes you may be going through are happening for your highest good.
I don’t know what they were whining about. It all happened for their highest good.
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It was close but I’d have to say Da Bishop and Malcolm 17-14.
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A Kershaw “snap open / folding” +
the neckwear dagger that comes with that as a setan ancient folding Old Timer that I literally picked up off the pavement while waiting for a red light to change in Whitney TX over 30 years ago
and a much larger fixed blade “shop made” knife that my dearly departed Pop’s shop colleagues at Baroid fabricated for him back in the 50s
those are all my every day carry blades when I’m in my riding gear
w my street clothes / home work wear only one of the Kershaw’s
**no comment** regarding the accompanying firearms
(since they all were lost in the terrible bass boat accident)🙂
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Just some kid (mebbe 10 yo) jamming on the uke in the car. Gotta figure that music is going to be big in his future.
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I never was a comic book fiend. The neighbor kid was and I was exposed to them that way.
Boring. Like Star Trek.
Stan Lee was such a big figure in the industry I can understand his passing being notable, but if people are mourning and slamming chains against their backs, I’m with the guy who needs an enema.
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I only looked at them to see Betty and Veronica, dude.
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Boring. Like Star Trek.
Illogical comment.
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Oh yeah, baby.
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Roy Rogers and George Reeves were the only super heroes I paid attention to.
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And maybe Johnny Weissmuller.
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I remember The Green Hornet television series (66-67).
Only notable because Bruce Lee was in in.
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Before cartoons crowded out the entire Saturday morning viewing, there must have been hundreds of safari type movies set in Africa. Tarzan spinoffs I suppose.
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Pretty cute little kid. And I’m impressed with the parents, too, that they stick with the “mass” like they do.
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I stepped out front to check the weather and both sets of twins and their moms were in the front yard. Feeding after the rain.
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The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex.
The official version of chili con carne can only be made by people from Texas. It’s literally the law: In 1977, the 65th Texas Legislature enshrined the stew of beef and chile peppers as the official state dish, but also an official version of the dish, declaring that “the only real ‘bowl of red’ is that prepared by Texans.” Defending chili from non-Texan contamination was at least a half-century too late, but now those offenders slapping ground beef and chili powder on French fries and hot dogs and spaghetti and — despite repeated warnings — adding godforsaken beans would know they were wrong.
But the zeal for defending Texas chili has dwindled considerably in the 21st century; there is a new national sensation to claim and protect. In 2013, Texas Monthly barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn, in solidarity with longtime writer for the magazine and proud chili-hater, Paul Burka, launched a campaign to depose chili as the state dish in favor of brisket — specifically, the Texas-style barbecue brisket in the process of taking over the world, its cult rooting down in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Paris.
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Paul Burka needs to find something else to do and leave well enough alone.
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#61 –
Paul Burka needs to find something else to do and leave well enough alone.
As do a plethora of numb nuts out there!!
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Those Rice boys always stirring up trouble.
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#45 Katfish
(since they all were lost in the terrible bass boat accident)
My sincerest condolences. I’ve noticed that you talk about your motorcycle accident way more frequently than your bass boat accident. I can only imagine the trauma.
The others on the couch cautioned me to not ask why your bass boat was in the middle of the ocean during a Cat 5 hurricane…
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#64 – *innocent lQQk* LMAO
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Active shooter at a hospital in Chicago.
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Active shooter at a hospital in Chicago.
You must have misheard. Chicago has some of the strongest gun laws in the country.
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#54
I bet that Texpat has porn-ish images for Snow White, Cinderella, and maybe even Little Bo Peep.
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Well most had the cleavage. Little Bo Peep maybe not.
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The aritist Vargas of Playboy fame, did one of Betty and Veronica in the shower. I think it was Vargas anyway.
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68 mharper42
Um…that’s not porn or pornish. It’s Maureen O’Sullivan, the famous actress with a 58 year career in movies, stage and television.
The photo is from a Tarzan movie in the early 1930s. I probably saw it at a Saturday matinee when I was a little boy with a theater full of other kids. If the film had not passed muster with the Hays Office it would never have made it out of the studio.
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Mayor of Tijuana knows how to run a campaign and make friends.
https://i2.wp.com/sandiegofreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TJ-Mayor.jpg?w=510&ssl=1
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Nice, brisk 50 this morning, today is the last work day this week.
Mornin’ Gang
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