Worked late.
Got a phone call from the nursing home early.
Way tired.
Y’all just carry on.
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FIRSTICUS!
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How many are gonna watch the lying witch at the hearing today?
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#2 – not for all the tea in China!
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“I have worn it with some humble pretensions in defense of my country; and should the danger of my country again call for my services, I expect to resume it, and respond to that call, if needful, with my blood and life.” – Sam Houston
October 22, 1836
Closing sentence of his inaugural address, surrendering his sword as General of the Army -
GJT says:
OCTOBER 22, 2015 AT 7:39 AM
Are paperboys still American?American boys, in my neighborhood anyway, do not have part-time jobs. One exception: Some Mexican boys are available to mow your lawn as young as age 10. My lawn-care neighbors across the street (with the 7 or 8 cars and trucks) had their grandson mowing their own yard when he must have been maybe 6 y.o. He had to reach up over his head to get his hands on the handle.
I only take the HouChron on Sunday and Wednesday now — for the grocery ads and coupons. It has been delivered for the past 20 yrs by Mexican women with children in their cars. I assume the older ones are dropped off at school after the paper route.
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Adee, University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken the grand prize for self-parody !
The phrase “politically correct” is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The university’s “Just Words” campaign is the work of UWM’s “Inclusive Excellence Center” and aims to “raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact”—microaggressions like “politically correct” or “PC.”
Meanwhile, the director of the UWM Inclusive Excellence Center has been delightfully creative in his Twitter comments about Republican candidates…to Mike Huckabee: “f*ck every fiber of your being”.
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#6 TP: The director of the IEC is certainly a genteel mother f#&#er ain’t he?
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#5 mharper42
I’ve been harping about this for a long time. I’ve watched this unfold over the last 30 years and it is not a healthy cultural phenomena. Kids, particularly boys, do not work at anything anymore. Children arrive at college without the most basic working skills, such as how to use a mop and, even worse, never having drawn a paycheck in exchange for their labor. American teenagers have no first hand real concept of employment or fundamental understanding of how the economy of a capitalistic democratic republic functions.
This vast ignorance makes them all the more vulnerable to the ideological codswallop engulfing the campuses across the country.
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THANK GAWWWDDDUUUHHHH
Our long national nightmare is over.
UWM says ‘politically correct’ is no longer politically correct
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#8 Texpat:
As an addendum: (FYI: I teach vocational film production at a community college) I have college students who have never used a hammer or screwdriver. Many of my students – with High School diplomas – cannot conjugate a simple verb, identify the noun and verb in a sentence, or divide by 100 without using a calculator.
Last year, more than 30% of the enrollees at our “college” (High School graduates all) tested at or below 7th grade math and English skills.
The issues you mention are absolutely problems – but I suspect that a bigger problem is that we are raising a generation (possibly the 2nd generation) of functional illiterates.
I wonder how much of our economic malaise is due to the fact that there is a growing lack of qualified workers for employers to draw upon.
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#4 Shannon
Iowahawk posted this Tuesday on Twitter in honor of his one year anniversary of moving to Texas.
I’m re-posting in honor of Sam Houston.
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10 FA
It’s the total package: Illiterate, without basic skills, no knowledge of pride of work, ignorant of history, clueless about political philosophy, hostile toward religion, ethically ungrounded and morally adrift.
Untether them from their families, condone mindless sex and drugs, march them into classrooms and lecture halls and have their undeveloped minds and character “educated” by the ideological children of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Che Guevara. What could go wrong on college campuses today ?
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David Burge @iowahawkblog 23h23 hours ago
I always respected Joe Biden for being too stupid to be corrupt.
Yes.
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#6 Texpat
That’s UW-Milwaukee’s lunatic, not Madison’s. 😉 Gee, some faculty (Doesn’t say he is in the link to his availability as a speaker, nor does it give any academic qualifications. But he is a community organizer.) are getting testy about Scott Walker’s move to limit tenure. Madison has its share of nut cases, but not this one.
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14 Adee
I stand corrected.
It’s ironic, though, that Milwaukee has been noted as the most racially segregated major city in America.
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I was teaching my college class about Congress, specifically on the ways America’s political parties confounded the Founder’s intent. The expectation was that the Congress would be filled by people responding to the petty concerns of their districts and that these would largely deadlock. But within two decades, Congress was responding to the not-at-all petty concerns of the parties. By Jackson, an activist Congress was simply accepted reality.
For most of our republic’s history, what kept the parties in line was their inherent corruption, in the best possible sense of the word. Wanting to be reelected and maintain the perks of power, congressmen avoided ideological crusading. Even Lyndon Johnson needed Republican votes to ensure the long term survival of the Great Society.
Indeed, as our politics has become more honest it has become more dysfunctional. A less honest politics would not have forced through Obamacare, nor ended earmarking. I’m not saying a more honest politics is better or worse than the alternative, only that the rancor currently going on in Congress is the direct result of moving from the old system of vote-trading corruption to one of ideologically honesty.
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Earlier posts make me recall my two cashiers who couldn’t muliply $.29 x 10 to get $2.90, nor $.19 x 10 to get $1.90.
I had to stop facepalming in order to give them the total needed so I could depart the store.
My kids were washing clothes around 3 or 4 years old. They washed dishes, helped with yard work, etc. from a young age. We had many discussions about why, especially when discussing certain “princesses” at their schools. They understood that not only did they need to learn how to do their chores, but that these chores were an ongoing responsibility and that is what it took to maintain a household.
Lovely actually found an error in her savings account statement when she was in the first grade. On her next half day, I took her to the bank with me and she was the one who pointed out that she was charged a service charge that she wasn’t supposed to get, since she was a minor. We were banking at a small local bank at the time, and the “vice president” (because darn near everyone at a bank is a vp) sat down with her and treated her just like an adult. It was so cute, Lovely acting like and being treated like an adult at such a tender age. We had to go and do it again the next month, but both times the service charge was taken off her account. How many kids are being taught how to manage their money these days, other than to make sure they have enough for the latest “must have” shoes or cell phones?
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On the American boys work topic: I know that young girls — tweens and teens — in my neighborhood do have some earnings from baby sitting and pet sitting. The only boy jobs I know of are the increasing number of hispanic families where their sons are available for lawn mowing, usually short term while the homeowner is on vacation or some such.
It used to drive me nuts during my HOA Nazi days that we would have a work day in the spring to spiff up the playground and pool area for the heavy summer use. Board members who had teenage sons virtually NEVER brought their kids to help out. Their boys were always occupied with Scouting or some class or activity. Something that would apparently look better on their college applications than manual labor day in the neighborhood.
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Ms. Adee: Who shovels out your horse stalls? Do you hire a local kid to do it?
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This thug won’t be making death threats to women anymore.
The woman “bit his tongue as hard as she could until she heard it snap,” according to the police report. Miller then began screaming and climbed off of her.
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We had to start with ‘here is how to not break the shovel handle’. Handling a shovel was pretty traumatic for most of them. They couldn’t seem to face one again and didn’t come back. Now, mostly only one group even shows up.
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#19 – I’m certainly NOT volunteering 🙂 ……………..that being said – even while substantially more ‘aromatic’ – I’d prefer shoveling road apples over cleaning black clay out of a bulldozers tracks with a sharpshooter ANY day!
Thankfully I’m too old for either task! 🙂
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25 years ago I charged $20 to mow a lawn. Today I pay $25. The influx of cheap labor has definitely applied downward pressure on manual wage jobs. However, I will still encourage my children to get a summer job when they are old enough. My daughter has volunteered enough time at a local church run summer day camp to where I wish she were being paid. Fortunately the director is very pleased and says that she will hire her next summer.
Today if your child is not in an honors / AP program, I think they are wasting their time attending school. It is extremely sad to see what is “taught” in the basic classes. Another problem is the notion that little Johnny and Susie are predestined for college. They need to stop that. Every child is unique and many would be quite capable of pursuing a trade. Unfortunately we push them towards college when they might not be capable and / or force them into a degree program that causes them to graduate with mountains of debt.
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Someone please explain to me how using the word rape is now a form of “microaggression”. Or is rape not PC anymore? I’m confused!
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I understand it more better when Squawk says it.
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Do not send your DNA samples off to any organization.
Now, five years later, when 23andMe and Ancestry both have over a million customers, those warnings are looking prescient. “Your relative’s DNA could turn you into a suspect,” warns Wired, writing about a case from earlier this year, in which New Orleans filmmaker Michael Usry became a suspect in an unsolved murder case after cops did a familial genetic search using semen collected in 1996. The cops searched an Ancestry.com database and got a familial match to a saliva sample Usry’s father had given years earlier. Usry was ultimately determined to be innocent and the Electronic Frontier Foundation called it a “wild goose chase” that demonstrated “the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases.”
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#19 Bonecrusher
From 1980 when we moved out to the moors of the Brazos and so had the horses with us until about 5 years ago we took care of the stalls ourselves and swapped horse sitting duties including stall cleaning with neighbors when either of us went out of town. At one time way back when our barn had equine 9 residents, and I took care of that during the weekdays and spouse did on weekends.
For the last 5 years or so we have barn help 5 days a week from our current horse sitter and his several employees in his landscape/lawn care business. Spouse takes care of the barn on weekends for exercise. They also pick up and deliver and store in the barn hay and stall bedding we get at the local feed store. Our sitter has about 10 regular clients with horses in the area for whom he does similar things. He worked with a local horse vet when in high school and is very knowledgeable about caring for horses, most importantly when to call the vet and what first aid to give until the vet arrives. Can you say a jewel of great price?
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Trey Gowdy for Attorney General. Rush relayed some of Trey’s questioning of Hildebeast that set her into the Nurse Ratchet mode by asking her about her private employee Sidney Bloomenthals’s e-mails on national security items. Apparently the Dems on the committee panel were stunned speechless for a while and then started sputtering in her defense. And Trey made mincemeat of them—and her.
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Both of my kids worked, the boy started out helping a guy install cedar fences, then went to work at Fertittaville’s boardwalk in Kemah. When Hurricane Ike paid us a visit in 2008, he really helped me out a lot replacing the fence, he knew how to level and plumb out the boards and posts. Daughter started at Chili’s, then a short stint at the Flying Dutchman (she was there when the boy was at the boardwalk) and on the Cheddars in College Station. She finished up there as a bar keep. Oh,and when in high school, she not only worked at Chili’s she raised pigs for FFA and shoveled pig manure on Saturday mornings. 😉
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Has anyone else seen (in person I mean) a man with long hair up in a bun? I saw it at a civic meeting this week. A young man with light brown hair up in a bun and tucked in with metal hair clips. Also a fluffy full beard. The hair bun resembled this but the guy I saw was not ethnic.
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FWIW; Both of my kids are involved in the hiring process, daughter as a Human Resources Mgr and the boy as a manager and they are appalled at a lot of applicants that they get.
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Well, we finished up the Manned testing just in time. It seems that they only made one pilot seat for the Orion and we have been using it, when we finished up, they hauled it off to Ellington to fly on the “Vomit Comet”. I know that it is the prototype but wouldn’t you have thought that they’d made several of them?
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#32 SD: Wuzzit a govt contract? Reasonable efficiency and sanity are not required if so.
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A thought on the OC pic Tedtam found for conversation.
The dogs are out for a walk, and the snakes are out for a slither. -
#15 Texpat
Milwaukee has had that dubious distinction for quite a few years, and I haven’t come across info that Republicans have made a big point of it in campaigns. Maybe they have, and of course the lefty Milwaukee Journal Sentinel would not emphasize that distinction.
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$ 1.67 gal Murphy’s in Tomball.
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So far only about an hour of light rain around 9:30 this morning out here but enough to make some mud for Contessa to roll in. Currently mostly cloudy with occasional sunlight poking through and 82 on he front porch. The lawn care folks are busily doing the weed eating and raking up leaves again to beat the rain coming tonight—or sooner. Amazing how many more leaves have come down in a couple of weeks. The leaf pile in the side pasture is growing, but with the dryness there’s no opportunity to burn them before they get soaked.
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Our cemetery annual clean up is an all volunteer effort. We are getting several young people to show up but as the volunteers end up becoming permanent residents of the cemetery the replacement rate isn’t keeping up.
I fear that someday Texpat will show up to pay his respects and find his mother and me covered with briars, dewberry vines and Chinese tallow. -
The Dept of the Interior says that the EPA is directly responsible for the river pollution in Colorado.
So one arm of the govt has blamed another arm of the govt. Will the river ever be the same, will it ever be safe to fish and drink from again? Who is going to compensate those who suffered direct loss and who will be made to suffer consequences at the EPA? -
HEADLINE: Love Ranch owner Dennis Hof says Odom and Kardashian better pay up $75G brothel tab as Lamar’s family reaches out to Khloe
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GJT
It is a shame you did away with your FB account. I mean if you were to resurrect it or something you could see my pictures I took at Gettysburg. 🙂
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I think he said “$75,000 brothel tab”.
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$75K in a brothel? Sheesh wouldn’t be cheaper to marry it first and then divorce it?
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42 Shannon
I’ve had some good times in my life, but I think Lamar somehow is a victim of overcharging. Good luck to the man. I hope he survives his demons.
Most of the time, you end up like this for all those supposed good times…
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but I think Lamar somehow is a victim of overcharging.
Either that or he is not a very good negotiator.
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And i am just now getting caught up on the news of the past two weeks. I have only one question.
How in the hell does a man whose car broke down end up shot dead by a cop? Why do I have this really bad feeling that the cop turned into Super Johnny Law and decided to arrest the young man for some bull crap and when the young fellow questioned super cop he got shot?
/Okay that was two questions
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I can’t speak for Lamar, but a man can’t be in a negotiating mood when he’s carried the torch for a woman like this like I did many moons ago…
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Ryan as Speaker:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/10/ryans-words-show-why-hell-be-a-bad-speaker.php
Like the man said, if you are not ready to take their money, eat their food, drink their whiskey, bonk their women, and then vote against them, you’re just not ready for politics yet. -
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Why I do believe I can drag up that old account. I’d love to see the pics, we keep planning every year to go to DC and some of the Civil War sites.. Won’t be this year neither.
Just don’t mention I popped in on FB, the fans you know, they just don’t understand a mans need for solitude.
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If I had Texpat’s money I might spend 75K on a women too.
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OK, we have one of those “Nextdoor” website thingy’s here in the hood, I only know about it because they often, bother or implicate my wife “the Neighborhood Nazi” in their posts. Here is an actual post that dropped into my mail box;
Hi! Do those of you living next to the Hwy 3 find the train noise disruptive? Mostly curious about day time hours.
If you had to guess, how many times a week does it roll through?
Thanks,
Local Nextdoor, IDIOTOh and I edited the name to protect the,…well,…..you know,…..IDIOT.
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50 GJT
Texpat does not spend 75K on skanky girls in desert shacks of ill repute. He is a man of discriminating taste in his choice of dissipated adventures.
Or used to be anyway…
…when he was younger.
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Texpat does not spend 75K on skanky girls in desert shacks of ill repute. He is a man of discriminating taste in his choice of dissipated adventures.
Lot lizards!!! Yeah that is the ticket. 🙂
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Just for the record, lot lizards never got into my cab.
A little video primer on lot lizards. (A little loud so turn down the speakers and safe for work.)
BTW the married ones were the scariest. -
GJT
Your secret is safe with me. I did think about sharing on your timeline but I was afraid the masses would overwhelm you AND me. -
Texpat says:
OCTOBER 22, 2015 AT 7:03 PM
I can’t speak for Lamar, but a man can’t be in a negotiating mood when he’s carried the torch for a woman like this like I did many moons ago…So—
You spent $75K on a hooker many moons ago?
Shoot, with inflation that has to be a pretty big chinck of change in the current economy
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56 Sarge
That’s the conclusion you drew from my post ? Really ? Are you drunk ?
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RE: #47
Just for the record, when I was a young rake and a rounder, if I ever decided to spend seventy-five thousand dollars on a woman, Rita Coolidge would have been right there at the top of the list.
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Lovely sent me a video to prove that LD2 has achieved another milestone important to infants.
Raspberries.
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Damn it at least you had the choice
if I ever decided to spend seventy-five thousand dollars on a woman,
The only time I did that was in a real nasty divorce.
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I spent twenny bux a coupla times—
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Just like the lot lizards, you couldn’t get a nights sleep in a motel room in South Louisiana during the boom years with the hookers knocking on the door. Yuck.
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if I ever decided to spend seventy-five thousand dollars on a woman,
The only time I did that was in a real nasty divorce.
All I can say is,
thank God for amicable deevorces and no-alimony-Texas! -
I’m surprised that any thinking man would ever choose to live in an alimony state. It sounds a whole lot like slavery to me.
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Good morning Hamsters. Lots of lightning to our NW that I presume is what got Shannon awake by thunder around 3:50 this am. So far only very light rain overnight here, just enough to make the driveway damp. Owing to the capricious nature of this storm system, we have the sprinklers going. Will be more than happy to shut the system off when real rain drops in.
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I’m going to guess that the snakes are anacondas and they are in Venezuela.
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#67 Bonecrusher
Anywhere but here. 🙂
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I have kilt 6 and 7 foot rattlers, and seen indigo snakes a bit bigger than that. Those snakes in the pic look to be at least 15 feet. Fortunately anacondas are not venomous.
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New thread is up.
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How pizzed and dangerous do you think Trump will be if the GOPe decides to get really dirty to force him out? T signed a loyalty pledge with the Rs, yet failed to get one in return. Even if the GOPe are successful in derailing T, it will kill the party because the bulk of the R voters will not tolerate that kind of deceit, unfaithfulness, dirty dealing and all around crappyness.
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