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MONDAY FIRSTICUS!
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THIS IS OUR DEMO-NAZI LEAD STATE DEPT AT WORK.
August 14, 2016
Surrounded by increasing violence and instability, U.S. contractors left behind in Afghanistan are raising alarm about the potential for another Benghazi tragedy, saying the State Department isn’t sharing with them a plan to evacuate if insurgents launch a debilitating attack.This bunch refuses to learn the lessons of history, both decades old and more recent.
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Interesting story about toddlers:
HEADLINE: Toddlers don’t forget a debt, research reveals
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Love Ava, but. This weekend I watched Along Came Jones starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young.
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This one is pretty cute and stayed that way for a long time.
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Woke up to some overcast this morning and a little misty rain from time to time. Radar shows large area of green to the south, so hopefully it will stay gloomy all day and bless us with a little more moisture. I was planning to mow this morning, but I can always put that off until it dries out. These fall like temps don’t hurt either.
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This may qualify as the obituary of the year.
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#8
Now that’s the way to go out! 😀 -
The reason Mayberry was so peaceful and quiet was because nobody was married. Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober, Gomer, Sam, Earnest T Bass, Helen, Thelma Lou, Clara and, of course, Opie were all single. The only married person was Otis, and he stayed drunk.
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American contractors in Afghanistan will probably be sitting ducks, if the Taliban get much stronger over there. While this headline says “hasn’t shared”, those speaking out make it clear there is no escape plan. Lurch Kerry isn’t going to be one whit better than Cankles Clinton, when TSHTF.
http://circa.com/world/contractors-in-afghanistan-say-us-hasnt-shared-escape-plan-in-case-of-major-attack -
Campaign finance lawyer, Paul H. Jossey, in Politico:
How We Killed the Tea Party
The lede:Greedy super PACs drained the movement with endless pleas for money to support “conservative” candidates—while instead using the money to enrich themselves. I should know. I worked for one of them…
and,
What began as an organic, policy-driven grass-roots movement was drained of its vitality and resources by national political action committees that dunned the movement’s true believers endlessly for money to support its candidates and causes. The PACs used that money first to enrich themselves and their vendors and then deployed most of the rest to search for more “prospects.” In Tea Party world, that meant mostly older, technologically unsavvy people willing to divulge personal information through “petitions”—which only made them prey to further attempts to lighten their wallets for what they believed was a good cause. While the solicitations continue, the audience has greatly diminished because of a lack of policy results and changing political winds.
example given,
The PACs found anger at the Republican Party sells very well. The campaigns they ran would be headlined “Boot John Boehner,” or “Drop a Truth Bomb on Kevin McCarthy.” And after Boehner was in fact booted and McCarthy bombed in his bid to succeed him, it was naturally time to “Fire Paul Ryan.” The selling is always urgent: “Stop what you’re doing” “This can’t wait.” One active solicitor is the Tea Party Leadership Fund, which received $6.7 million from 2013 to mid-2015, overwhelmingly from small donors. A typical solicitation from the TPLF read: “Your immediate contribution could be the most important financial investment you will make to help return America to greatness.” But, according to an investigation by POLITICO, 87 percent of that “investment” went to overhead; only $910,000 of the $6.7 million raised was used to support political candidates.
HT: Walter Hudson at PJMedia
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#13 TP: That confirms my suspicions. I am glad that I never wasted the money. The petition thing is also something that I have almost always avoided. Something about both of those just did not sit right with me.
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The 2016 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winners have been announced.
The winner of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, the XXXIVth Lyttoniad, is William “Barry” Brockett of Tallahassee, Florida, a 55-year-old building contractor who has specialized in additions, home makeovers, and bathroom/kitchen remodels for about twenty years. His particular enjoyment is reading, with true crime and the “hardboiled” genre being his favorites, hence his winning entry.
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Mornin’ Gang,….again. -
Sending thirteen kids to college. Debt free. Retiring early.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/13-kids-13-college-educations-not-rich-retiring-early/2016/08/08/3abe7cec-38b4-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html -
Texpat
“The organic, policy-driven grass-roots movement” is still alive. The individuals and their beliefs are still around and active. The little fiefdoms and clubs are dead. Besides that the “Tea Party” movement is nothing more the disenfranchised conservatives/Republican base voters that have decided to stop supporting the “R” party. They were not/are not some new block of voters, they have always been there, they just decided to divorce themselves form the establishment. -
#15 TexPat
I do love the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest!
My Favorite was in 2005.As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual. — Dan McKay, Fargo, ND
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The PACs found anger at the Republican Party sells very well. The campaigns they ran would be headlined “Boot John Boehner,” or “Drop a Truth Bomb on Kevin McCarthy.” And after Boehner was in fact booted and McCarthy bombed in his bid to succeed him, it was naturally time to “Fire Paul Ryan.” The selling is always urgent: “Stop what you’re doing” “This can’t wait.” One active solicitor is the Tea Party Leadership Fund, which received $6.7 million from 2013 to mid-2015, overwhelmingly from small donors. A typical solicitation from the TPLF read: “Your immediate contribution could be the most important financial investment you will make to help return America to greatness.” But, according to an investigation by POLITICO, 87 percent of that “investment” went to overhead; only $910,000 of the $6.7 million raised was used to support political candidates.
Pretty much confirms my suspicion that Trump is using their mailing list and market research, and plans to deliver the same knock ’em dead service.
Sean Hannity is the poster boy for this kind of self serving hucksterism. He’s always been more interested in his ratings than anything else. I stopped listening to him when he started saying “I’m dedicating my efforts to making John Boehner Speaker of the House and won’t rest until that happens.
Now he’s desperately trying to avoid being blamed for one of those responsible for making Hillary President.
The “Conservative Media” has become a scam, a joke, an impediment to Conservatism. -
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Some of those are absolutely outstanding. -
Question: Can I file a mechanic’s lien for work done at a house, even if we did not improve the property or install materials?
We have a customer that had us do some investigative digging to locate a sewer line, but we have not installed or removed anything. We have not “improved the property” as the standard lien letter forms say. We just dug a hole and looked inside. -
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I’m riding with a guy that says no (on a standard lien). But I wouldn’t take that as gospel. -
Winner
#Even from the hall, the overpowering stench told me the dingy caramel glow in his office would be from a ten-thousand-cigarette layer of nicotine baked on a naked bulb hanging from a frayed wire in the center of a likely cracked and water-stained ceiling, but I was broke, he was cheap, and I had to find her. —
William “Barry” Brockett, Tallahassee, FLThe man is obviously a big Chandler fan.
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Ana’s that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
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Tedtam
Small claims court for that one -
Call Richard Alderman. 🙂
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I think I found the answer. A legal website on liens says “for labor done or material furnished,” so I guess I just have to change the lien affidavit thusly.
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I think I’d rather file in small claims court, actually. /calling Hubby
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22 Tedtam
Texas statutes on contractor liens:CHAPTER 53. MECHANIC’S, CONTRACTOR’S, OR MATERIALMAN’S LIEN
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONSThis is surprisingly clear and well-written and free of legalese. It appears to me you are well within the law in filing a lien on this property. Photos, witness affidavits, documentation are things you should also have.
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Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks.
I swear I’ve seen that one before.
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Call the Texas Hammer. Call him rat nayow.
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Ive seen some places where a hole might be considered an improvement.
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Once you put the spade in the ground, it was labor and it was an improvement – even if you found nothing, you eliminated that as the trouble spot. Travel to and fro and time are also labor and related expense. Do not adjust the form – make the defendant claim that whatever it says is not true. Always be on the offensive. File the lien first, then to small claims court.
From El Gordo’s free, unlicensed, uncertified legal clinic. -
Shannon says:
AUGUST 15, 2016 AT 12:24 PM
Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks.
I swear I’ve seen that one before.Chandler had a way with words—
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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I’m loving this. Tippy Talk – maybe for one of my nephew’s kids.
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I talked to the customer this morning, and he swears he’s getting funded on Wednesday. I’m sending a demand letter, that I’ll pick up the check in person if necessary, by Friday, else we go to small claims.
It’s been our experience that the judge will then add late payment penalties as per our proposal, then we can file a lien using that judgment.
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Those Germans are so smart.
OFFICIALS in the German port of Hamburg are monitoring reports that Muslims posing as ‘Sharia Police’ are carrying out patrols in the city.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing three people wearing burkas and black gloves driving around Hamburg’s Wandsbek district in a black VW.
They said a sticker with an Islamic logo and the words Sharia Police was fastened to the car’s bonnet. -
How come I can’t read a Chandler line without hearing Dick Powell in my head?
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Hamous says:
AUGUST 15, 2016 AT 2:41 PM
How come I can’t read a Chandler line without hearing Dick Powell in my head?I have the same problem, except its Bogart, and occasionally Elliot Gould.
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Ol’ Ace is a pretty smart cookie…..
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Funny lady.
Just a little cheerful detour for the afternoon. -
After 2.25 cigarette-free years I must be approaching confirmed non-smoker status. It must have been a couple of Marlboro Light (which I’ve always found raunchy) smokers I walked downwind of at a store…I almost retched.
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Tedtam
Do you r e a l l y want to do a mechanics lien. Do it yourself forms cost upwards of $150.00. Then you have filing fees. and then you have to wait for the property to be sold to collect.
Small claims court is cheaper to file and you get your money quicker.
The real question you should ask is
How much am I owed and what are the costs to file a lien, sue in court or whatever. Can I recover my filing fees in the settlements etc.
Seems to me small claims court is your best bet. Your milage may vary. -
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I’m more than willing to be corrected, but just exactly what does a small-claims/JP judgement get you? A piece of paper?
Give me an instance where you have successfully collected a judgement from a JP Court from someone fully determined to avoid payment or fully judgement-proof.
Whereas I can promise you, when a pending land sale is tied up with a lien, people will do anything to free it up. Even if is your heirs that end up collecting. -
Good late afternoon Hamsters. Spouse was monopolizing the computer I use for his telecommuting today so I’m checking in late.
We’ve managed to attract 1.3″ into our rain gauge since the monster system rolled into our area yesterday. Yea. Would be nice if more shows up in like manner, steady rain minus lightning bolts, no gusty winds, staying around hours at a time, stuff like that for a couple of days. Oh and most important, keeping the temp in the 70s, preferably the low 70s. 🙂
The Tea Party Movement is not dead at all, but of course Politico would dearly love to believe it and so welcomed that expose article on opportunist PAC runners. We know the GOPe publishes their stuff with Politico, so the conservative bona fides of Paul H. Jossey as author could raise some suspicions. Is he a plant?
Not only is the movement not dead, it is now mainstream and populated with many more and much more knowledgeable folk than when it began in 2009. If it was dead, how come Dinesh D’Sousa’s Hillary’s America is drawing large crowds countrywide?
So the charlatans raising funds for themselves are having a harder time, good. The petition game is useless and likely ends up in File 13 as soon as it reaches a government inbox. Individual letters and emails are much more effective. Direct donations to candidate campaigns are smart moves.
Now we breathlessly await Politico’s expose of the Clinton Foundation, don’t we? -
Riots in Milwaukee?
I thought basketball season was over. -
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I couldn’t figure out Ole Ace’s position on immigration and amnesty. I oppose any form of amnesty, and I support a 5-year moratorium on legal immigration. Give us a chance to figure out where we are. -
Somebody’s gotta rebuild all those buildings the BLM goons are burning down.
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The Clinstones continue to deal with the opposition one person at a time:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3459852/posts
How many is that now?
BTW, Fitty.
#49 – You can bet it won’t be the muzzies or the knee grows. -
Or the honkies.
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Shannon
I have been through small claims 3 times and 3 times I got my money and court costs back. The other guys fought like crazy. I paper worked them to death. Preparation my friend. Preparation. -
I have never believed the Tea Party ideals have died or faded away. And because I post an article never means I completely agree with every point proffered.
I do believe there is quite a bit of truth and lessons to be learned in Jossey’s article. There were many charlatans leaping on the righteous outrage gravy train. Does anybody remember the Tea Party Express from the early days ? It was a couple of old Republican fundraisers who saw an opportunity so they bought a big expensive RV and began touring the country organizing rallies, collecting names and personal info at events they organized. Pure crap from day one. They collected millions and paid their own direct mail company millions to keep cranking out the cards and letters.
The truth in Jossey’s writing is many PACs and other organizations got many people’s hopes up that something would be done when, in fact, they were siphoning off the money and dreams of countless sincere, dedicated Americans. I wish every area and region of the country was as strong and devoted to the Tea Party initiative as the folks in Fort Bend County, but I think the momentum did fizzle out in a number of the more marginally conservative areas of the country. -
TT: This one made me think of you. It contains one of the best trombone solos I have ever heard.
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Sweetie is live streaming the candle light stuff at Graceland. Memphis BLM has been very active for several weeks and of course a bunch of old white women gathering up in one spot is just too inviting to leave alone so they got a protest up.
Memphis PD is geared for it and has a section for them cordoned off, way off. They doing they chants they been handed out but every once in a while they holler they can’t see Elvis from here or they just came to see Elvis. Pretty funny actually. 😀 -
There were lots of Tea Party groups co-opted by the GOP, and way too many of those groups thought they were in the tent finally. Many like Fishy saw it for what it was. The people are still there with the same agenda but the group didn’t work out.
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Re: lien
It’s a new house nearing completion. This would be an awkward time for the builder to face a lien. -
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If the house is being built on an interim construction loan pending completion for permanent financing and you get your lien in before the mortgage closing, they would have to pay you to get the closing done with title insurance. -
#57 TT: Break it off in thier hoo-ha! Sue for triple damages plus court and filing costs plus attorneys fees plus mental anguish plus punitive damages all for negotiating in bad faith.
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I remember back in the 90s, Shannon had an elderly contractor friend who had filed a lien on a major renovation in a swanky Houston neighborhood because the homeowner refused to pay the final bill.
One day, so many years later the contractor had forgotten about it, he gets a call out of blue from some title company saying they have a check for 20 or 25 grand waiting at their office and they need him to come down and sign a release of lien because the customer was trying close on a sale of the home.
So he went out and bought a new truck. Almost found money. -
When the builder is still drawing on an interim construction loan, he is most able to take care of this. File the lien. Everyone on that job will know about it in short order, and if there are other unpaid creditors/suppliers, they will jump in there and do the same, knowing that their position in line may determine their recovery potential. You should be take care of pretty quickly.
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Another example of why women should not be serving in positions of responsibility.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160816_Jury__A_G__Kane_guilty_of_perjury__obstruction__all_other_charges.html -
#62 EG: What a story! Great find and a real expose on corrupt D wimminzes like Cankles.
This tidbit at the end is telling:In the spring, though, Kane finally bowed to the political realities – a depleted campaign fund, $1.6 million owed from the last race to her husband (whom she is divorcing), and negatives in polling.
There are more contained and well worth reading the entire article.
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Getting another hard rain right now.
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Nytall. It is way past my bedtime, 0415hrs comes awful damned early.
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Texpat says:
I have never believed the Tea Party ideals have died or faded away. And because I post an article never means I completely agree with every point proffered.
And my point is the people are there. In a sense the Tea Party is alive and well. It has just returned to its original incarnation.
Speaking of carpet bagging politicians D_n Patrick was one of the worst. That sorry dog dissed the movement till he found a way to usurp it for himself. And boy did he hitch his wagon and jump into the drivers seat. He set up two or three web pages which you can no longer find calling for “R”s to sign on to his “mandate”. -
One of the goofiest stories I’ve heard in a long time. Seems the NYC architect son of Dominique De Menil is building a small artist colony in Acres Homes. Unless the “enclave” has an electrified fence around those 18 homes, I don’t see how it will be feasible.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/De-Menil-plans-artist-enclave-in-Acres-Homes-9140080.php -
Getting ready to turn in for the night. Forecast at 10 pm indicates things will rumble before dawn and likely bring some heavy downpours here and there until late morning. It appears the storm making machine is recharging so the flash flood watch is still on.
Sweet dreams y’all.
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