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Now that looks like Friday!
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I slept late, but I’ve been peeking in since about 6 and I figured that the new Word Press format is just too dang confusing, so the keeper of the keys just gave up.
Brother-in-Law just turned 70, yes 70! His daughter posted a picture of him, over yonder, on Diamond, his Tennessee Walker, is that not a neat picture? -
More girls shuffling with Elvis, some were in the other video. Not hard to spot, one of them has a hat on this time and doesn’t look like cousin It.
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SD: Am I just seeing things or is something “amiss” with Diamond’s left front hoof?
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So far it appears that we have somehow survived the blizzard of 2018. The temp is about 38 and never got below freezing, so all the frozen precip did not stick. Winds are back to normal as well. It’s still cloudy out there, and radar indicates some ice to the north, but overall I think we are out of the woods with this one. Good thing too, because it’s football Friday. The Armadillos are headed north to Abilene for a neutral site to play New Deal. New Deal unbeknownst to me, has a history of being a pretty good football team, and has replaced Mason as the number 1 ranked team by Max Preps. They may prove to be a little more than the Armadillos can handle, but as they say, “that’s why they play the game.” Usually in an evenly matched contest, the team that makes the fewest mistakes will win, but looks to me like it may not be an evenly matched contest – New Deal is that much better. But, if you are coming to SS this afternoon planning to do some business or to meet some locals, forget it. They are all going to Abilene. I’m staying in because I’m too dam old. OK, you all have a great one, and I’ll send a deer report if I see any today.
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#4 Bones, that was the first thing that I noticed, way past due for a pedicure, as far as I know, he’s never done that himself and a good Farrier has become hard to find. I’ll have to ask him about it.
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I wonder what Ms. Adee thinks about it, seeing as she is a horse expert?
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Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd that’s WHY they call it CHRISTmas!!
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Oscar Nominee Sondra Locke Dies at 74.
I first remember seeing her in “The Gauntlet”, one of Clint Eastwood’s last Dirty Harry movies, then later in โEvery Which Way But Loose,โ โAny Which Way You Can,โ โBronco Billyโ and โSudden Impact”. I didn’t remember her in “Outlaw Josey Wales” or “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”. I do remember the very skinny girl, that looked about 13 in the movie, but didn’t know it was her. I read somewhere that she was 20 when they made that movie and she taped down her breasts so she’d look 15. -
#7 Bones, well the cracks are dangerously close to the quick. I always used a rasp to score a line above the crack to keep it from growing.
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Itโs a matter of time before some crazed Lutherans strap a bomb to one of those and try to actually take out a passenger airplane.
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My #75 from late last night…
#58 phil
I donโt knowโฆRustling Oaks subdivision. Memorial in the 60s.:)โSeems Hoi Polloi-ish to me.
Sorry, old chap, but you seem to be misusing โhoi polloiโ. Yes, it sounds like it must mean high class, but in fact it means the opposite: the common people.
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I’ll see your Hoi Polloi and raise you a chicken fried steak.
hoi polloi plural noun
hoi polยทโloi | \หhศฏi-pษ-หlศฏi \
Definition of hoi polloi
: people of distinction or wealth or elevated social status : ELITE
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SDThe truthers are out in the comments. ๐
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Lol, but must refer to the MH dictionary. ๐
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Uh oh, the look up thingy says MH is correct.
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I believe it can be used in both instances.
From Merriam
Definition of hoi polloi
1 : the general populace : MASSES
2 : people of distinction or wealth or elevated social status : ELITE
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I always thought they were a strange match.
It turned out even Clint Eastwood can get tangled up with a Crazy. -
But I still want my chicken fried steak.
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And a bottle of this.
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So I can give it to unca Shanny for Christmas along with a copy of Kiss Alive!
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Fay cooked up some chicken fried last week. It was okay.
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Itโs all in the gravy.
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phil, you need to use the “look up thingy” like GJT did.Don’t look it up in Synonyms & Antonyms cause that will just confuse you.
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Ouch!
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From Merriam
hoi polloi
1 : the general populace : MASSES
2 : people of distinction or wealth or elevated social status : ELITEI’m sticking with door number 2.
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There are many words or phrases with multiple meanings, but totally opposite meanings?
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OOOOO GOODY A CONTROVERSY
Let’s hit the nail with a jack hammer.hoi polยทโloi | หhศฏi-pษ-หlศฏi
Definition of hoi polloi
1 : the general populace : MASSES
2 : people of distinction or wealth or elevated social status : ELITEUsage and Meanings of Hoi Polloi
Since hoi polloi is a transliteration of the Greek for “the many,” some critics have asserted that the phrase should not be preceded by the. They find “the hoi polloi” to be redundant, equivalent to “the the many”โan opinion that fails to recognize that hoi means nothing at all in English. Nonetheless, the opinion has influenced the omission of the in the usage of some writers. Family-owned businesses that select their CEOs from all family members fare no worse than companies that select talent from hoi polloi. โ The Wilson Quarterly But most writers use the, which is normal English grammar. A third, more readily acceptable innovation, was the new taste for whiskey as a drink, first for the hoi polloi and ultimately for the gentry. โ Jacques Barzun โฆ rented mainly to corporations to allow their VIPs air-conditioned splendor high above the hoi polloi. โ James B. Twitchell . A number of critics also warn against the use of hoi polloi in sense 2, a sense that directly contradicts its original meaning. The sense is not commonly covered in dictionaries, but it does appearโalbeit rarelyโin published, edited text, as it has since the mid-20th century. โฆ I could fly over to Europe and join the rich hoi polloi, at Monte Carlo. โ Westwood Pegler Most of the hoi polloi and VIPs who move and shake New York went first to a book party for Time’s former headman, Henry Grunwald, in the New York Public Library. โ Liz Smith . We first heard of this sense in the early 1950s, when it was reported to be well established in spoken use in such diverse locales as central New Jersey, southern California, Cleveland, Ohio, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Several members of our editorial staff at that time also testified to its common occurrence, and evidence in the years since strongly suggests that this sense of hoi polloi continues to be frequently used in speech. We do not know for certain how this new sense originated, but one possibility is that it developed out of the inherent snobbery of hoi polloi. In its original and primary sense, hoi polloi is a term used by snobs orโmore oftenโin mocking imitation of snobs. Even its sound has a quality of haughtiness and condescension (much like that of hoity-toity, a term that underwent a similar extension of meaning in the 20th century, from its former sense, “frivolous,” to its current sense, “marked by an air of superiority”). It may be that people unfamiliar with the meaning of hoi polloi, but conscious of its strong associations with snobbery, misunderstood it as an arrogant term for the haves rather than a contemptuous term for the have-nots, thus giving rise to its newer, contradictory sense.
Did You Know?
In Greek, hoi polloi means simply “the many”. (Even though hoi itself means “the”, in English we almost always say “the hoi polloi”.) It comes originally from the famous Funeral Oration by Pericles, where it was actually used in a positive way. Today it’s generally used by people who think of themselves as superiorโthough it’s also sometimes used in Pericles’ democratic spirit. By the way, it has no relation to hoity-toity, meaning “stuck-up”, which starts with the same sound but has nothing to do with Greek.
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There are many words or phrases with multiple meanings, but totally opposite meanings?
Or, two words that are opposite but mean the same thing;
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Is inflammable actually a word?
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1911 GMC Model H with engine powered dump body.
Looking more like a wagon than a truck, GMC’s first truck was a “SOE”: Seat over engine! โ in Pontiac, Michigan.
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You tell โem, Phil.
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If you read on Merriam the uses of hou polloi the word had an evolution, so to speak in the 1950s.
Read the quotes in Brudda Squawks 29
Hence both definitions.
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#31 Tedtam, absolutely. Flammable vs. Inflammable
Both words mean the same thing, but one of them is bound to confuse most people.
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phil, you need to use the โlook up thingyโ like GJT did.
Donโt look it up in Synonyms & Antonyms cause that will just confuse you.
Apology accepted.
Now go and sin no more and for your penance make 52 pimento cheese sandwiches and add relish on 1/3 of them.-p -
and add relish on 1/3 of them.-p
That would be 17.33 for you hoi polloi-ish types.)
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the law that unintentionally allows “perjury entrapment” by the DOJ and FBI.
That New York Sun editorial said:
a liberal Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg… in a concurring opinion in the 1996 Supreme Court case Brogan v. United States, warned of “the sweeping generality” of Section 1001’s language.
Justice Ginsburg wrote: “The prospect remains that an overzealous prosecutor or investigator โ aware that a person has committed some suspicious acts, but unable to make a criminal case โ will create a crime by surprising the suspect, asking about those acts, and receiving a false denial.”…
Justice Ginsburg wrote, “the Department of Justice has long noted its reluctance to approve ยง1001 indictments for simple false denials made to investigators.”
RELATED:
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is due to sentence General Michael Flynn next Tuesday, has thrown a wild card on the table, raising the possibility that a miscarriage of justice may finally be called out and the guilty plea coerced by Team Mueller thrown out.
Thanks to the sentencing memorandum filed by counsel for General Michael Flynn, we now see that the FBI used deception to ensnare him in a perjury trap. The Wall Street Journal summarizes the deception employed by or at the behest of James Comey and Peter Strzok, both now fired and revealed as fanatical Trump-haters…
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I have nothing to apologize for, gentle Couch Brother phil. There are many degraded word usages that make me cringe, but I shan’t join in. My least favorite is saying reticent when what is meant is reluctant. So let’s say I am reluctant to accept hoi polloi meaning our uber-masters.
What sort of relish would be put on pimento cheese sammiches?
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#31 Tedtam, absolutely. Flammable vs. Inflammable
Both words mean the same thing, but one of them is bound to confuse most people.
What really drives my inner grammar nazi nuts is the phrase “I could care less…” People who say this are saying the exact opposite of what they think they are saying.
Is that little apostrophe-“nt” at the end so hard to say? Really?
That, and the loss of adverbs, are cause for despair. Our language is devolving due to lazy speakers.
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Is phil famous or infamous? Only The Manhattans know.
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Michael Yon has a fab post Over Yonder:
Michael YonUS Must Stand with Canada: China appears to be attacking Canada for arresting Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou
Since that time, two Canadians have been taken in China apparently in retaliation. If we can confirm the detentions of Canadians are retaliation, we should treat this as if China is holding hostage two Americans.
If China did this in reprisal, this is hostage taking, and the Canadians are hostages.
Kill two birds with one stone: Begin deporting 2,000 Chinese students per week until the hostages are released. 1,000 for each hostage.
With any luck, China will take ten more hostages and we can unload the lot of them while playing our sad-song violins.
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What sort of relish would be put on pimento cheese sammiches?
But of course.
It can only be Grey Poupon Deli Mustard with Raddish.
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Read the quotes in Brudda Squawks 29
Hence both definitions.
Yes yes that is what I am here for. Maintaining the peace through the spreading of knowledge.
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Lol.
Excellent photo Bruddah Squawk.
Blessed are the photoshop makers for they shall inherit this blog.
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What sort of relish would be put on pimento cheese sammiches?
Broccoli & Brussel Sprout Relish
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On a different note:
Florida woman arrested after swinging bag filled with Chihuahuas at bar
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But of course.
It can only be
Grey Poupon Deli Mustard with RaddishKoop’s Deli Mustard w Horseradish. Anything else would be uncivilized.Insert dreaded acronym here.
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What sort of relish would be put on pimento cheese sammiches?
Broccoli & Brussel Sprout Relish
And nutmeg!!!
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Media lawyer and prof, Charles Glasser, posted this photo of Amy Schumer over at Instapundit and has over 220 comments.
Warning, but then there’s always a warning with Amy Schumer.
After you click on that link, you will need an emergency delivery of the Johnson Brothers’ new mystical, curative elixir. Just send $99.95 via PayPal to us and Shannon will personally deliver it to your door !
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#51 Well, you DID warn us. ๐
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Hmmmmmmm is there such a thing as ‘Bread n Butter’ relish?
……………….asking for a friend ๐
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Hey if you guys decided against getting me a FK BRNO 7.5 pistol for Christmas, I’ve found something a little cheaper.
AMERICA!!! 12,500 rounds of fun for only $3400 after mail in rebate! Not the best deal, but that barrel though. -
#54 – oboyoboyoboyoboyoboyoboyoboyoboy
those are the ‘black tips’ IIRC
hubba HUBBA!
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Amyโs never figured out that being a dumbass disqualifies her from the category. -
Relief:
That moment when you finally find the sharp plastic fork tine which broke off in your salad and it didnโt go down your gullet after all. -
Yall I do my best not to whine or complain about most fairly trivial matters of life……………..I would like to VENT briefly and inquire if Yall have any ideas?
The last times I ever read the Houston Chronicle was back in late 60s / early 70s when I actually had a paper route. I have NO desire to read that rag now and I especially do NOT want to find random copies in MY YARD.
Whomever the local neighborhood carrier is these days must think it’s a dandy idea to toss random ‘extra papers’ in my front yard – this has been ongoing in unpredictable and random fashion for several YEARS in spite of my multiple (and quite polite) calls to the circulation department.
I have considered laying in wait for that person with hopes of shooting out his or her tires (not a good idea but the notion is entertaining).
I have considered accumulating a dump truck load and paying some trucker to go DUMP ’em on the Comical’s front sidewalk (also not feasible and would likely result in the need for BAIL ๐ )
My calls have been to “regular” circulation department workers AND to next 2 tiers up supervisors.
I have even jokingly suggested that we establish a “vacation stop” until the year 2050!! (doesn’t work as I’m NOT a subscriber in the first place!)
THANKS for listening and ANY ideas?????
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Texpat
#51PFFFFTTTTT She has been doing that crap for some time now. The woman is such a slime bag.
Your local 24 emergency room does specialize in stomach pumps if need be.
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#58 – Easy. If you can snap a photo of the perp tossing papers in your yard, or have security video or such, simply call the police and charge them with littering. At first the police will laugh at you, but after a few calls and a couple of letters to your local elected official about the lack of police response to your calls, you may get the ball rolling. Don’t expect a response at first, but the perps are persistent, so you have to be persistent as well. And it doesn’t hurt to get the neighbors involved. There’s no greater environmental crime than intentionally littering the neighborhood – just ask Robert Durst who hacked up his boyfriend and scattered him around Galveston Bay. This won’t be an easy task, but it can be done if you are willing to persevere.
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Might be an unsafe link. -
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#59 – I was hoping that link would be ball gags for sale! ๐
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I took note that Amy would prolly like ball gags.
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#58: EG has the right idea: find out who (what) is tossing the paper in your yard, then call the cops and file a litter complaint against the perp AND THE CHRONICLE. If you could lay in wait, a brick through the window may get the terd to be a bit more selective.
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OK, thats about enough of this foolishness. It’s time to start getting your game faces on. The Armadillo entourage of buses, police escorts, fire truck escorts, and other assorted vehicles just passed by my house enroute to their state semi-final football game tonight against number 1 rated New Deal, to be played in Abilene. I think game time is around 7PM, and the trip is a little over 2 hours as I understand it. My realistic prediction is that this will be SS last game of the season and the New Deal will move on, but we’ll see how that prediction plays out. Weather is pretty cool with a brisk north wind which may die down a bit after dark, so it might be what most people used to call football weather. As usual, the game will be available on pay TV (no thanks), San Saba radio.com, or the blog feed at Max Preps.
Win or lose, I’ll not be disappointed. These guys have gone further into the playoff bracket than any SS team ever, and a few of the key players are juniors. So, presuming they have now gotten a taste of success, know the work required to succeed at this level, and love the publicity associated with it, they will be ready to try again. Of course, if they win and move on to the state final, you folks will probably get even more tired of listening to me go on and on about it than you already are.
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Dig โem up, Dillos!!
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#4 bonecrusher
Looks as though Diamond might be missing a shoe on the left front hoof. Hard to tell from this picture, but that’s my best guess at this distance. ๐
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Well, here is some interesting astronomical trivia,…… ๐
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Just found out my wife’s Zodiac sign is Hoi Polloi.
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#69 – Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa hahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I been looking all over to find you all. Someone’s hacked this blog and is posting all kinds of stuff out there. Now I don’t know where to talk football all night, or at least until the other team leads by 3 touchdowns, which could come early. If that happens, I’m off to bed early and will get the final score in the morning.
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I’m so disappointed in El Gordo for not being loyal enough to the San Saba Armadillos to get off his you know what and drive to Abilene for the game. It’s only a 2 hour drive, for crying out loud. That’s like “just down the road” in West Texas. He could be posting the game here live tonight from the stands.
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Well Tp, I hate to tell you, but I’m the same when it comes to actually getting out and going to the game. Keep checking back and I’ll post some scores, at least as long as it’s interesting. BTW, kickoff is less than an hour now.
Live broadcast here: http://sansabaradio.com/index.htmlBTW, Mason and San Augustine, the teams in the opposite bracket, were supposed to play last night in Waco but postponed until tonight due to weather. I’ll probably have to switch back and forth a little there too.
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The tension is building.
These gigantic Armadillos are all taped up and headed out for a final warm up.
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They have a small Lone Star Beer logo on their helmets.
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Look closely and you can see the armadillo lying on his back sucking on the LSB long neck.
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#69 SD
Heh. I saw one recently where the guy had a slat fall out of his vertical blind, but he did a repair with a CVS receipt.Me, after I pick up my scrip, I always sit down in the waiting area and look through my receipt to see if it printed me any of those Turkey Bucks.
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Been working trying to learn the ropes on my new Instant Pot electric pressure cooker and multifunction other stuff cooker. Tonight was my world famous home made vegetable soup. The biggest trick is to not over cook, and this turned out OK but just a little too mushy. First, I sliced beef chuck roast about 1″ squares and cooked under pressure with a diced onion for about 20 minutes. I like the meat tenderized, and it is. Cook a few minutes less if you want it more chewy. Released pressure, added canned veges along with carrots and potatoes, added a little water, and pressured it up again for about 10 minutes. Could probably have done it in 8 minutes. (Remember, the cooking minutes does not include the time to reach top temp, so actual time was probably about 25 minutes). Made cornbread while this stuff was brewing. No problems, but will reduce cooking time slightly next time.
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OK, New Deal 7 SS 0 End of first quarter.
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Following a quick score by New Deal, the two defenses are giving the punters something to do.
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Now 14 to 0. New Deal is powering over SS and wearing them down. SS has not had this happen to them this year and is struggling to figure out what to do. I doubt they will figure it out.
Halftime Score:
New Deal 14 SS 6
It ain’t over yet, but New Deal clearly won the first half, more than just the score. They are pounding our guys and wearing them out. Could be worse though. See if we can make some half time adjustments. -
Meanwhile, a Federal Judge tosses Obamacare. This could actually be something big.
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Another Christmas tune, tis Friday.
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Re the #3 I posted earlier, never heard that before. His Latest Flame was one of the few Elvis songs I liked, now working this one out.
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21-6 as New Deal continues to grind the Armadillos into small pieces. They are just overpowering, and there’s nothing that can be done about it.
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That New Deal offense must be something to see.
ND 28-6.
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Final 35-6. SS goes home and New Deal faces Mason next week for the state final. I’m putting my money on New Deal. SS has a pretty good young team, and ND ground them into a fine powder. SS has got nothing to be ashamed of as it’s the longest run in SS history, has a young team, and has gotten a taste of success. Hopefully they enjoyed it enough to keep it up. OK, thanks for putting up with this and supporting the home team. Wait ’til next year.
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Now here’s a funny little story about an unusual home decor item, available online for $42. What it is, is a bundle of sticks, “for a rustic look.”
https://www.revelist.com/weird/anthropologie-twigs/14109/how-much-would-you-pay-for-this-bundle-of-sticks/1 -
More on Obamacare. I’ll probably bring this forward in the morning, but for the early risers, it’s worth taking a look at. I’m not a lawyer, but I know one, and you don’t have to be a lawyer to get the gist of this ruling after the first few pages. Basically, this Federal Judge in Ft. Worth is telling Chief Justice Roberts and the other libs on SCOTUS to take their Obamacare ruling and stick it where the sun don’t shine. It’s actually funny to think of it in context to see how those people are going to wiggle out of their own words and rulings.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5629711-Texas-v-US-Partial-Summary-Judgment.html
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