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Wednesday Beautiful Open Comments

I don’t know if I’ve shared this song before, but I’ll tell ya’ – during my dark days, this was the message I needed to hear. Even now, even on my good days, this message still brings me to tears.

It applies to everyone on the Couch, too.


The days will come when you don’t have the strength
When all you hear is you’re not worth anything / Wondering if you ever could be loved
And if they truly saw your heart they’d see too much

You’re beautiful / You’re beautiful / You are made for so much more than all of this
You’re beautiful / You’re beautiful / When all you hear is you’re not worth anything

Wondering if you ever could be loved / And if they truly saw your heart they’d see too much

You’re beautiful / You’re beautiful / You are made for so much more than all of this
You’re beautiful / You’re beautiful / You are treasured, you are sacred, you are His
You’re beautiful

And praying that you have the heart to find
Cause you are more than what is hurting you tonight
For all the lies you’ve held inside so long
And they are nothing in the shadow of the cross
You are treasured, you are sacred, you are His
You’re beautiful

And praying that you have the heart to find
Cause you are more than what is hurting you tonight
For all the lies you’ve held inside so long
And they are nothing in the shadow of the cross

I love the group MercyMe. The lead singer has a daughter with some kind of serious health issue, and his song “Even If” also brings tears to my eyes, because it sprung out of his feelings for his daughter. He has an incredible story as well, and you can find it in the movie “Imagine”.

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95 responses to “Wednesday Beautiful Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s Hump Day!
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I think that the rain is over for now. We got 1¾” total, with 1½” falling in 9 hours of slow, soaking rain. A blessing for sure, to get some moisture back in the ground. I’m not sure where the front is right now because it is still 70 degrees but should get down to 47 tonight!?

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    1954 GMC Havana Taxi

    There’s a lot of customization going on in this 1 ton GMC that lives in Havana Cuba and is still working daily as a taxi. Most American vintage vehicle enthusiasts know that Cuba has kept a lot of old iron going by swapping parts from one vehicle to make another one keep going. This has a tilt hood, six lug hubs in front and the original HO-7x rear axle with 8 lugs. I am guessing this was originally a 1 ton panel but the addition of sliding side windows and a door on the passenger’s side is so well done it looks like it came from the factory that way. Give a lot of credit to the Cubans that do whatever they have to in order to keep the old iron going after the embargoes in ’58, 60, and ’62 when all goods from the US were ceased from export to Cuba.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I had planned to watch some of the debates last night but I just couldn’t get myself to do it, I didn’t see any of it but this morning on Drudge, they had a viewer poll, that I found interesting. Gabbard winning and that nutty Chinaman second, the gay Mayor third, then Warren? Biden #6, Sanders #7. I know that a lot of polls are set up to show what the pollster wants to see, but could this mean anything? I hate to say it but Gabbard might be the most only sane person running.
    Having said that, it was Drudge viewers that were polled.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just curious, did any of you watch the Clown Show?

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nope. No clown show.
    NCIS, FBI, NCIS was on.

    The Commie showcase doesn’t interest me.

  7. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good drizzly morning Hamsters. Bleak as all getout before the front ambles in and brings us back to more seasonable temps. Wonder how much longer this roller coaster weather change pattern will last until serious Fall weather takes control.

    #6 Shannon
    Excellent taste in Tuesday night viewing.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    3 Super Dave

    Once the communist dictatorship collapses in Cuba, the island will be completely overrun by classic car collectors and brokers.  It’s like a vehicle culture frozen in time.

    Back in ’90s I was trying to put together a deal to go down to Argentina and buy up all the old, classic Harleys, Indians, BSA, Triumph, etc motorcycles.  The country was full of them from the 1940s and 50s when, at the end of WWII, Argentina was the richest nation on earth from selling grains and beef to all the armies in the world for years.

    Just when I thought I had everything in place, a wealthy German guy and his two sons went through Argentina buying up container loads of bikes.  They also paid outrageously high prices and the Argentines were happy to rip them off.  Anyway, they killed the whole market for everybody else.

  9. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Part of my plan for living is that you need to know what the opposition is up to in order to be able to combat it – ie, you need to gather intelligence on the other side.  So, I made an effort to watch some of the “debate” last night, but it was just hopeless.  I didn’t even make it for 5 minutes.  Even the Dems are aware of how awful this group is as is evidenced by their ongoing threats to bring out Bloomberg, hiliary, or even Wookie.  Can Oprah be far behind?  Unfortunately, I’m not certain and any of those would be a positive move for this crowd.  At least Tulsie is easy on the eyes and does now appear to be a screaming maniac, but we all know they have managers who carefully craft their images and choreograph their moves,   so I’m not even certain that can be trusted.  And we all know or at least should know that the Dems can never afford to divulge their true intentions because they would never be elected to anything- they must lie about everything to even stand a chance.  So, I couldn’t handle the debate.  Watching the Nats destroy the Cards was much more refreshing.  Have a great day you all.

  10. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Didn’t watch the clown show. But picking up and paraphrasing someone’s comment last night, I would probably agree that Tulsi Gabbard is the cool kid on the short bus.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Lovely Daughter called me last night to give me some information about LD2 before I saw anything over yonder that would freak me out.

    LD2 is four years old. She had a playground accident and broke her tibia. Because they don’t make crutches ‘n stuff that small, and she can’t put weight on her leg for a while, they have to carry her everywhere. I told LD that I could just see her on the couch like a princess, giving orders. “Yeah, we shut that down pretty quick,” I was told.

    She’s wearing a boot instead of a cast, which means she can still scratch her leg when absolutely necessary. A full recovery is expected.

    However, Mom and Dad had a rough weekend, especially since Sunshine started throwing up….

  12. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Another impeachable offense? Trump makes black women fat

  13. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If they had any sense at all they would nominate Gabbard.
    But they don’t.
    And that’s good.

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The next front has arrived, here.

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #8 Texpat, just curious what did you do for capital, did you have a bunch of $$$ stashed away, or did you seek out investors?
    The Cuban automobiles have always fascinated me. I amazed at how well they’ve kept the old things going, often making their own parts. I read an article once about an old Chevy Taxicab that had a Mercedes Diesel in it. I guess that after they got tired of rebuilding the old 3 main bearing, 6, they dropped the diesel into it. I’m guessing that you could get a half a million miles out of a Mercedes Diesel

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #3, most of those old panel trucks didn’t have doors behind the cab and if they did it was only one, on the drivers side. Someone had to weld a door/frame from a standard cab on the passenger side of the truck. And damn they did a fine job.

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh, I forgot, driving through town on Sunday, I saw Texpat’s Bronco, dang that thing was nice, like new!
    I think that Texpat ought to drive out to Arizona and find a rust free, non-molested one and take it back to Jersey. 😉

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think in politics, simplicity is king. Understanding this reality, the best way to carve into the Ds most loyal stronghold, blacks, is this:
    Democrats=Socialism
    Socialism=slavery
    therefore:
    Democrats=slavery

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Old faery tale time. (Dated news story)

    It is not Trumps fault, it is all Bush’s fault.  How soon we forget.  Let’s give credit where credit is due.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Almost took out a heavy eight-pointer at 60mph on FM529, just now.

  21. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    It wasn’t Trump that made you fat.

  22. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Hammy – mea culpa for my thoughtless prognosticating – It never occurred to me the ‘Stros might SWEEP!

  23. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    #12 link

    “We are living in the Trump era,” she said, “and look, those policies kill our people. You can’t get access to good health care, good insurance.

    What she means is since black unemployment is at its all time lowest in the history of the USA there’s now so much extra food on the table that she can’t stop her stupid pie hole from inserting and ingesting it.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    15 SD

    Texpat, just curious what did you do for capital, did you have a bunch of $$$ stashed away, or did you seek out investors?

    I had two investors sitting on a lot of cash and they knew the collectible bike market.  I had the contacts, experience and shipping expertise in Argentina already.  I would have made money front and/or back.

    Besides,  I was a single guy and having an all expense paid trip to wander all over Argentina (the Disney World of beautiful women) was very attractive.

  25. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    Besides,  I was a single guy and having an all expense paid trip to wander all over Argentina (the Disney World of beautiful women) was very attractive.

    Probably makes hobnobbing and day sailing with the Hoi Polloi of the Hamptons pale in comparison.

  26. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, everyone. We are awaiting a call from contract plumbers to come and install faucets we bought yesterday. Could be in for a gully washer at Chez Harp.

     

  27. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    Corrupt Elijah Cummings can’t account for the 15 billion ( lets see his tax returns and offshore bank accounts) given to his district yet he sits on the impeachment hoax committee with Liar Schiff and Suckerfish Pelosi.

    rƎgressivecrat corruption is always good corruption.

  28. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    A bunch of child porn traffickers found out that Bitcoin is not as anonymous as they thought.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Meanwhile, over at the usually respected Texas A&M University:

    COLLEGE STATION — Last fall, employees in a Texas A&M University System office space were alerted that three parakeets had been placed in the building’s light-filled atrium, and that more were on the way.

    They were to be greeted warmly: “The first word we would like to teach them is ‘HOWDY!’” an employee for Chancellor John Sharp wrote in an October 2018 email. “Please help them learn by addressing them this way when you see them.”

    And:

    “Four birds landed on Cliff’s computer last night. Lona chased them out with a baby gate, while Wanda waved her hands like a crazy person so the bird would not fly down towards our area,” an employee wrote in an October 2018 email. “I hear 2 more birds will be arriving soon. Trying to hold it together over here… are we really spending time on birds?”

    And:

    The birds were the brainchild of [Chancellor] Sharp, who thought they might provide a relaxing distraction for employees, similar to how some companies host bring-your-dog-to-work days. He returned from lunch one day with several parakeets he’d picked up at a pet store, according to Copelin, and let them loose.

    (That batch of birds escaped but was replaced with others.)

    And:

    “Be careful if you make your way up here,” an employee warned in a January email. One person made a joking entreaty for a “personal cage” so that the birds “can be free and I’ll be protected in my cage.”

    Much, much more, here:

    https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/14/texas-m-system-chancellor-john-sharp-got-parakeets-his-office/

  30. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I don’t remember which candidate it was that ran the creepy slo mo ad of John Sharp looking like a serial killer but that was funny as heck.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s great to get to work in the Big House when you’re on the slave plantation !!!

    I never could stand LeBron James.  He’s always struck me as being all in, and only in, for LeBron.  Now instead of being just another arrogant pro athlete, he has elevated to consigliere for slavemaster and Chairman Xi Jinping.

    NBA superstar LeBron James may not have limited himself to odd public comments about the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, he may have actually pressured league commissioner Adam Silver to punish the Houston Rockets GM who tweeted his support for demonstrators over fears James and the NBA could lose Chinese business.

  32. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Besides, I was a single guy and having an all expense paid trip to wander all over Argentina (the Disney World of beautiful women) was very attractive.

    I can certainly understand that and you would get to seek out all those neat old bikes, that would be a win-win for sure.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Check this out.  It’s too funny.

    According to Capitol Hill members, via Politico, House Democrat leadership has taken a climate assessment of democrat House members and Speaker Pelosi announced they will not hold a House impeachment authorization vote.   As a direct and specific consequence all committee subpoenas do not carry a penalty for non-compliance.

    A judicial penalty can only be created if the House votes to authorize an impeachment inquiry.  Absent a vote, the Legislative Branch has not established compulsion authority (aka judicial enforcement authority), as they attempt to work through their quasi-constitutional “impeachment inquiry” process.

    Instead of subpoenas, Adam Schiff (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence); Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (Committee on White House Oversight; and Chairman Eliot L. Engel (House Committee on Foreign Affairs) can only send out request letters.  The compliance is discretionary based on the ideology of the recipient.

    There are no words…

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    And this is pretty incredible news.  Keep your eye on Sidney Powell.

    Inside an otherwise innocuous court filing (full pdf below), General Mike Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, files a motion to compel (MTC) in an effort to gain discovery of the content from two cell phones belonging to Joseph Mifsud.   [Hat Tip Techno Fog]

    Apparently, according to the information within the filing, the DOJ has somehow gained custody of two cell phones belonging to Mr. Mifsud…

    The filing notes that “western intelligence” likely tasked Mr. Mifsud against General Flynn as early as 2014 in order to set up “connections with certain Russians” for later use against him.  Essentially, an intelligence entrapment scheme.

    Comey, Strzok, Page, Rosenstein, et al all had a huge vendetta against Flynn years before Trump was elected because he A) defended a senior female analyst in their office who sued them for discrimination, etc and offered to testify under oath against them in court; B) he was running the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency at the time and was at war with the FBI over access to intel and other things.

    These people were out to get Flynn for years and ran a long con game on him.  Trump was just collateral damage.

  35. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hammie

    A Dewhurst ad about my favorite politician D_n _atrick.  Pretty funny


     

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t think LeBron got very much World History in high school.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well imagine that.

    Thousands of farmers shut down highways in a go-slow protest converging on the Dutch capital Monday, as they protested being victimised by a government trying to meet European Union emissions laws by cracking down on agriculture.

    Protesters driving thousands of tractors and other pieces of farm machinery in enormous convoys heading to the Hague carried banners and signs reminding Dutch lawmakers of the importance of agriculture, including ‘#NoFarmersNoFood’. Hundreds of miles of highways were blocked by an estimated 3,000 tractors Wednesday morning.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/10/16/incredible-pictures-thousands-of-tractors-shut-down-highways-in-farmers-anti-green-madness-protest/

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #31

    Texpat

    Maybe there is some voice of reason in the NBA

    On Monday night, Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter, who was born and raised in Turkey, laid into Los Angeles Laker LeBron James for his widely-criticized comments regarding Communist China and censorship.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/turkish-born-celtics-player-rips-lebron-over-china-comments-freedom-is-not-free

     

     

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I found myself wondering if Tulsi Gabbard, who I know is a service veteran, has any artificial limbs. I was remembering there was a candidate, sometime recently, who had lost a leg in combat.

     

  40. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    39

    You may be thinking of Tammy Duckworth.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    39

    Tulsi looks okay to me.

    https://us.hola.com/imagenes/moda/tendencias/2015052678876/primer-bano-celebs/0-321-822/padma_lakshmi_1-a.jpg

  42. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The evildem leadership is holding a righteous indignation news conference that is freaking hilarious. Apparently Trump, you know the duly elected president they’ve been trying to overthrow for three years, has offended the saintly Nancy Pelosi.

  43. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Chuckie and Steny are chivalrously defending the honor of St. Nancy, who is in the background clutching her smelling salts while exclaiming “Well! I never!!!”

  44. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Tulsi could probably run as an eRep if she was from some place other than Hawaii.   The problem with the female vets is that you have to remember that they are Obama vets – not the serious warrior type vets.  And of course, we’ve gotten fooled by Dan Crenshaw, the one eyed vet who comes across as the Marlboro man, only to get up there and start acting like a Dem.  Don’t let appearances fool you, and even the normally honored “vet” tag is no longer a measure of a person’s honor or valor.

  45. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    41 Shannon

    That’s Padma Lakshmi, not Gabbard.

    Tulsi Gabbard is here on a board.

  46. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Heh heh heh.

    “The president called the speaker a third-rate politician!”

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The vet tag means very little anymore.
    I would just rather spend the next campaign looking at her. Plus, she can put together at least three sentences before going all bug-eyed Commie.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    38 GJT

    Yeah, I saw that.  Enes Kanter’s family lives under near house arrest in Turkey and Erdogan has threatened to throw his father in prison.

    I’m still waiting for the LeBron James family story about them being harassed and tortured by the Trump administration.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That’s Padma Lakshmi, not Gabbard.

    Obviously picked the wrong photo.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    25 phil

    Probably makes hobnobbing and day sailing with the Hoi Polloi of the Hamptons pale in comparison.

    Everyone who knows me up here knows I hate Long Island and will go to any lengths to avoid going there.  About the only way I might agree to go is on a boat – to a marina with a nice restaurant and bar – and then leave after only walking a few yards inland.

    After 17 years, I’ve never been to the Hamptons.

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    37 Shannon

    I looked up this “nitrogen crisis” in the Netherlands.  What the hell ?  I can’t keep up and I thought everybody was hysterical over carbon.

    It turns out the globalist Dutch Grand Poobah commissioned a report from some of his buddies who came out and said we have a nitrogen crisis.  Who knew and what will the crisis be next week ?  This guy is trying to stir the Dutch people into a frenzy over all this and strike while the hysteria is hot.

    The standard maximum speed on Holland’s freeways and highways is 130 kph or 80.773 mph.

    He wants to immediately reduce, by diktat, the speed limit for the entire nation to 70 kph or 43.496 mph.

    That’s right !  Bang ! Overnight top speed goes from 81 miles per hour to 43.5 miles per hour. 

    Full speed ahead to the medieval dark ages !

  52. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If the duplicitous Dems and neocons want us to stay in endless, centuries-old conflicts they are the only ones who have the power – they should declare war. Not sure who they’d declare against. Turkey? Declare war or STFU.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I just assumed the nitrogen issue had to do with fertilizer runoff. Which is probably the only legitimate ag pollution concern, 1st worldwide.

    And cow farts. (Including bovine ones.)

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    52 Hamous

    Congress, especially the Democrats, like things just the way they are.  Decades ago, Congress ceded their power to the White House on foreign  military engagement.  This way they don’t have to take responsibility when things go wrong or not as we expected them to and can lean back in DC, hold useless hearings and blame the President for doing it wrong or, in case it’s a Democrat in the WH, they can blame the Defense Department.

    Notice how the Pentagon and the military get blamed for all sorts of bad stuff over the years and yet, you never hear a Democrat and very few Republicans ever utter a critical word about the Deep Intelligence State.  They’re terrified of them.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    53 Shannon

    No, they say there’s too much nitrogen in the air in Holland.

    It constitutes nearly 80% of the earth’s atmosphere, for crying out loud.

  56. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #40

    Thanks, Hammy, that was it!

     

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Sounds like Holland needs to plant clover or some other common nitrogen-fixing plant, so they won’t be bothered by all that “excess” nitrogen in their air. OMG.

     

  58. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I do hope that Texpat got the memo. According to ABC News, northern New Jersey is in a deadly Cyclone, with 80 MPH wind gusts and a possibility of 4 inches of rain! Apparently everyone will be killed! I hope that he battened down the hatches and wrapped up the dawgs and his pipe! 😉

  59. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    They really shouldn’t call it a “nitrogen” crisis. The problem is nitrogen containing compounds, not nitrogen gas. Nitric oxides, nitrates, and ammonium compounds are the problem. And yes, they are essentially fertilizers in the environment. Runoff from animal farms can be a problem. In Florida back in the 70s and 80s many of the lakes were giant slime reservoirs because of runoff from orange grove fertilization. All those big algae blooms of late are from fertilizer runoff from Big Sugar.

    Not sure why they’re focusing on autos. Catalytic converters reduce nitrogen oxides to nitrogen gas. Unless they don’t have catalytic converters in the Netherlands?

  60. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Sounds like Holland needs to plant clover or some other common nitrogen-fixing plant, so they won’t be bothered by all that “excess” nitrogen in their air. OMG.

    That’s exactly the opposite of what needs to happen. Nitrogen fixing plants make their own fertilizer.

  61. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    He wants to immediately reduce, by diktat, the speed limit for the entire nation to 70 kph or 43.496 mph.

    Sounds like everyone’s fave preezy of united steezy, Peanuts, when he lowered the speed limit to 55.

    I drove from Norman to N. Cal. and back a few times back then. Difference between 55 & 75 is staggering at that distance. A 25 road-hour trip became a 38 road-hour trip. Each way.

  62. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    58 dave
    He’s gotta wrap the dogs and bring the pipes inside.

    And throw the patio furniture into the pool.

    On a related topic, when’s the Astros game gonna be?

  63. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    All those orange groves in central Florida disappeared in the 80s. Global warming caused historical and prolonged cold winters that wiped out the groves. They were replaced by lumber pines and large palm farms for landscaping.

  64. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    The Newspeak Media and r3gr3ssiv3crats that hated the Vietnam War now love war.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s those damn nitrites and nitrates in bacon that’s going to kill us all.

    In fact, the study that originally connected nitrates with cancer risk and caused the scare in the first place has since been discredited after being subjected to a peer review. There have been major reviews of the scientific literature that found no link between nitrates or nitrites and human cancers, or even evidence to suggest that they may be carcinogenic. Further, recent research suggests that nitrates and nitrites may not only be harmless, they may be beneficial, especially for immunity and heart health. Confused yet? Let’s explore this issue further.

    In fact, nitrites are produced by your own body in greater amounts than can be obtained from food, and salivary nitrite accounts for 70-90% of our total nitrite exposure. In other words, your spit contains far more nitrites than anything you could ever eat.
    When it comes to food, vegetables are the primary source of nitrites. On average, about 93% of nitrites we get from food come from vegetables. It may shock you to learn that one serving of arugula, two servings of butter lettuce, and four servings of celery or beets all have more nitrite than 467 hot dogs. (2) And your own saliva has more nitrites than all of them! So before you eliminate cured meats from your diet, you might want to address your celery intake. And try not to swallow so frequently.

    https://chriskresser.com/the-nitrate-and-nitrite-myth-another-reason-not-to-fear-bacon/

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    On a related topic, when’s the Astros game gonna be?

    Due to climate change, the ALCS has been cancelled.

    The Gnats are World Series champs.

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Courtesy of Townhall:

    Back when Biden was running against Obama in 2008, the Democrats could not have cared less about running interference for the Gaffing Blunder Boy.  Brokaw hammered him on national TV about Hunter back then.

    Tom Brokaw grilled Joe Biden about Hunter being hired by MBNA, a credit card company based in Delaware, right out of law school. Biden had received campaign contributions from the company before and was even working on a bill MBNA backed.

    “That’s a reference to your son being hired right out of law school by a big company here in Delaware that is in the credit card business, MBNA. He got about $100,000 a year, as I recall. You received $214,000 in campaign contributions from the company and from its employees,” Brokaw said. “At the same time, you were fighting for a bankruptcy bill that MBNA really wanted to get passed through the Senate, making it much tougher for everyone to file bankruptcy.”

    Shameless hypocrites.

    Video Here.

  68. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    After 17 years, I’ve never been to the Hamptons.

    I see.

    Does Starr Boggs now deliver lobster bisque and baked North Shore clams to the doorstep?

    And Grey Poupon and butter for the bread along with a free rental of Splash starring Daryl Hannah?

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    67
    Great catch.

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    58 Super Dave

    Yeah, we’re having a pretty good little frog strangler here.  It’s been raining hard for about 4 hours.  Where I live we don’t flood, but there are plenty of low places around here that do.  Winds aren’t due until around midnight.  It will be dry tomorrow although winds are supposed to be steady at 25 mph.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Super Dave
    We’re sending you a disturbance from the Gulf.
    All the rain you want.

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    68 phil

    Does Starr Boggs now deliver lobster bisque and baked North Shore clams to the doorstep?

    Since they’re not on the water and don’t have a boat dock, I’ll never know.  And the fact I don’t eat shellfish is a problem since that’s most of what they do.

    Let me tell you something.  I’ve seen photos of homeless people in LA that look better than Neil and Darryl and if you hadn’t mentioned her I would’ve never known those two got married.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    72
    Oh I don’t know. They look pretty good for people in their 90’s.

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Neil Young was never going to win a beauty contest, but the boy really has gone to seed.

  75. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #51 – That madness is tantamount to doubling the cost of E V E R Y T H I N G by just flipping a switch!

  76. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mr. James is being reminded of this tweet back a couple years ago.

    LeBron James

    @KingJames

    -Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere- Our Lives Begin To End The Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter- #ThankYouMLK50

  77. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I always feel more edumacated after spending even a few minutes here on The Couch!

     

  78. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Who could possibly give a rat’s behind about what some rich knee grow who doesn’t even have a high school edumacation says or thinks or feels about anything?  I just don’t understand why anyone gives these people the time of day – like they knew what the time of day means or something.  Who’s stupider – the people who say it or the people who listen to it?  Just bringing those jungle wars out in the open solves nothing.

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Good grief.  A 26 year old woman from Israel (born American) has a tiny bit of pot in her luggage and gets busted in Moscow on a layover from India.  Now an international incident ensues from this clusterf*ck.

    Na’ama, 26, was returning to Israel from India in April of this year, but when she changed planes in Moscow, a dog detected a small amount (less than 10 grams) of marijuana in her luggage. She was arrested, and at first charged with possession, a crime that normally draws a sentence of about a month in jail and a fine, if it is prosecuted at all. But at some point, the Russians decided to change the charge to drug smuggling, and last Friday she was sentenced to 7-1/2 years in prison.

    The charge is ridiculous. Na’ama did not even have access to her luggage as she waited in the airport’s transit zone. She did not pass the border control. Can you convict someone of “smuggling” when they have not entered your country? Apparently the Russians can.

    In a cute touch, the Russians scheduled court hearings for her case on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

    and now this,

    Russia is more like a combination of a medieval kingdom and the Cosa Nostra than an actual country, and Burkov apparently has powerful friends who do not want to see him spend the next 20 or 30 years in an American federal penitentiary. They would like Israel to “extradite” him to Russia instead of the US, and they have let it be known that if that happens, maybe Na’ama will have her sentence reduced. Since she is both Israeli and American, she is the perfect hostage.

    PM Netanyahu will raise the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin. That will put Putin in an interesting position. The government of Israel doesn’t want to irritate the Americans, so maybe they will find something else that Israel can give Russia in return for Na’ama. Or maybe not, in which case a way will be found to send Burkov to Russia.

    I really hate the Russians.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    ALERT

    Must see TV.

    https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-commies-hilarious/

  81. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Super Dave
    We’re sending you a disturbance from the Gulf.
    All the rain you want.

    I saw that this morning, I say bring it on, we could use more rain, still down about 17″ for the year. And that includes the very wet, early spring and slightly wet summer.

  82. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’m glad our resident chemist cleared up that the Dutch do not have a problem with our atmosphere containing close to 80% N2.

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I went to a Flower Auction in Amsterdam.
    They sell backwards…high to low.

  84. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    FALL OF CIVILIZATION DAILY “All the News that Fits We Print”
    by VANDERLEUN on OCTOBER 16, 2019
    Commenter John the River requests, Some more pictures of cute puppies interwoven between the stories of the ‘Fall of Civilization’ would be appreciated.

    Challenge Accepted!

  85. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If you’re not Dutch, you don’t know much.

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oops

    http://americandigest.org/wp/fall-of-civilization-daily-all-the-news-that-fits-we-print/

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    They’re a pushy bunch.

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I questioned the testicular volume of a Dutchman once.

    Crooked third party inspection outfit.

  89. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    88 Shannon

    Yes, you did. I’d forgotten about that bastard who ran off to China and left us hanging.

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Christmas was coming. Payroll – including massive overtime – had to be made throughout this large project.
    Except for the principals.

    We worked some twenty hour days.

    I was one tired, broke, and angry hombre.

  91. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Wooden shoes, wooden head, wouldn’t listen.

  92. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    https://youtu.be/N0QVi8mipoE

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Wonderful.
    Into the Favorites in record time.

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    90
    An employee decided my shiny new wedding ring needed a new home.

    Oh yeah, good times.

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That ring was kinda gauche, anyway.
    Too thick, heavy, pierce carved James Avery yellow gold. Extremely uncomfortable.

    It’s successor was (is) much better.

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