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How seaweed eating super cows will save the world

Past studies found that around 90 percent of methane from cows actually stems from their burps, rather than gaseous emissions from the other end, and the UN report confirms this. Because of that tidy little tidbit, scientists have been working for years to fidget with cows’ digestive systems in an effort to reduce those toxic burps. In 2014, experiments found that adding garlic to cows’ diets could reduce their methane emissions by 40 percent but, at the time, they hadn’t yet determined how to keep the garlic from transferring to the flavor of the cows’ milk. A study the following year tinkered with the use of a controversial hormone treatment to speed up conception in young cows, translating into more milk production per cow without the need for additional land, thereby having the effect of reducing methane emissions for small farms. That technique has so far only been used in computer modeling, and is not expected to be introduced to living cows for quite some time, if ever.

Quit messing with my meat.

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    First!
    Hump Day!
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’ve only been lurking around these parts the past couple of months when I can grab a spare minute or two to pop in and check out the couch. I have been a little too busy at work, however, I am happy for a billable charge number at work. Speaking of work… they had the nerve to send me to Mumbai! Not exactly a touristy place. I would recommend points further in the interior for tourist type activities.
    As far as the election goes, I still do not know who I am voting for president and I still have some research to do on some of the down ballot candidates.
    Ya’ll take care.

  3. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. We have significant ground fog and 61 at 6:30, mostly dark as Dawn is still asleep, and it’s really quite pleasant out. Since spouse treks into the office today we are up earlier than usual.
    I had an opportunity to meet the lady who delivers the Chron; she drove up just as I walked to the end of the driveway. The Fort Bend Herald delivery lady and I sometimes meet at the end of the driveway in the middle of the afternoon. Nice to know who makes them appear in the newspaper tubes. It’s still a small delight to have the Chron parked in the Houston Post tube. 🙂
    As for the “research” in the OC intro, well we know it all revolves around grant money and little else these days no matter where you live.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Happy Hump-Day, Hamsters.
    The info graphic detailing the “true cost” of a steak on the OC post must have been written by a militant vegan-hole.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This really pizzes me off.

    HEADLINE: Urine is eroding the world’s tallest church tower

    The solution is really simple: Put up a few banks of port-a-potties in such a fashion that the honey dippers can service them quickly and easily. If they are available, they will be used.

  6. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    All OK this morning as I report in from Dallas. Driving Texas shows what a beautiful state it is.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    #5
    http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/25/us/san-francisco-pee-proof-paint/index.html

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fun in Texpat’s neighborhood…
    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Protesters-Closer-Upper-Level-of-George-Washington-Bridge-398665691.html

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #8: Those law breakers need to be rehabilitated with a baseball bat.
    #7: The paint simply moves the problem elsewhere. The solution is to provide places of relief where they are needed and service them regularly.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is my prediction of the outcome of the election.
    Let’s see how close each of our individual predictions comes to fruition.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #5

    HEADLINE: Urine is eroding the world’s tallest church tower
    The solution is really simple: Put up a few banks of port-a-potties in such a fashion that the honey dippers can service them quickly and easily. If they are available, they will be used.

    When Lovely Daughter and I were visiting Italy, I was shocked to find out that Muslims were encamped near the madre duomo in Florence. The baptistry there is as large or larger than most Catholic churches here in America, and by far more majestic and beautiful.
    The Muslims were peeing on the building. That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw that headline yesterday.
    I couldn’t believe they were getting away with it. Even if you despise the Catholic faith, as these Muslims obviously do, to deface and destroy something of such great beauty shows exactly how big that hole in their soul is. It’s huge. Mac truck drive-through size.
    I’m torn between being angry at them for their brazen rudeness, or pity for where they are going to spend eternity.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #10 Bone
    I’m not even going to try to predict. This is such a wacky election, I have no idea where it’ll go. I’m hoping for a surprise landslide for Trump, just to shut Clinton down for good.
    But both of them have such large negatives. Hillary scares the bejesus out of me, and Trump does that for the other side. We’re all wishing we had better candidates.
    The fact that Trump has such large turnouts for his rallies is hopeful. There’s been some punditry as to whether these turnouts turn into votes. As one guy on the radio said, “I went to one of his rallies. I’m not going to take off work or my personal time, stand in line for hours, then spend several hours inside, and dare possible attacks by anti-Trump protestors – and then not vote.”
    I don’t like Trump, but he’s a better candidate than the alternative. And I hear his Supreme Court justice picks are pretty good. I trust that he hasn’t gotten where he is without having qualified advisors around him, and that’s a habit I look for in a president, as well.
    I don’t expect him to know everything about everything. I just hope he has qualified people advising him. And that should include at least one “no man” to offset all the “yes men”. That’s where I think he might be weak.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Did Y’all see Newt eviscerate Megyn Kelly on the Leggs Show? I just happened to catch it last night. She refused to answer Newt’s question on whether the Bill Clinton was a sexual predator.”
    It’s no wonder Madcow now beats her in the ratings.
    SPITS~

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Michelle Obama’s Promotion of Misogyny and Date Rape.

    Michelle Obama laid into Donald Trump for his lewd locker room remarks about women as follows: “I can’t stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way I could not have predicted” — whereupon the White House warned Trump to not retaliate against the First Lady.
    “And the White House on Thursday advised that Trump continue to steer clear of the president’s wife, suggesting that an unprecedented attack on the first lady is a surefire way for the GOP nominee’s standing to plummet further.”
    Well, Eric Schultz (and presumably Barack Obama), here is what you can do with your warning. Donald Trump’s statements, which were probably empty boasts in contrast to Bill Clinton’s well-known behavior, were indeed lewd and unacceptable. While two wrongs do not make a right, Michelle and Barack Obama have openly promoted rap artists who glorify misogyny, sexual objectification of women, and even date rape. That’s right; I am indeed calling out our country’s sorry excuse for a First Lady for her and her husband’s deplorable legitimization of the most despicable misogynistic language on earth.
    In April 2016, the Obamas invited numerous rap artists to the White House to discuss Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative while recognizing them for their “artistic” contributions to minority communities. The rappers whom the Obamas promoted with these invitations include:
      Rick Ross’, “U.O.N.E.O.” glorifies date rape with the lyrics, “Put molly all in her champagne/ She ain’t even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain’t even know it.” While Ross denies that this was his intended meaning, “molly” is slang for Ecstasy, a well-known date rape drug, and the context of “molly” in his lyrics shows clearly that a man put it into a woman’s drink without her knowledge or consent so he could have sex with her. Ross’ “Same Hoes” is meanwhile not about agricultural implements as shown by its lyrics, which consist primarily of the F word, a variant of the N word, and “hoes.”
    Common, whose “Go!” includes, “And a ooh baby she liked it raw and like rain when she came it poured” along with a variant of the N word and even more sexually explicit lyrics.
    Jay Z, who proclaims, “I’ve got 99 problems and a b***h ain’t one.”
    Michelle Obama called out Trump’s remarks with the words, “What message are our little girls hearing about who they should look like, how they should act?” Nicki Minaj, another rapper whom she and her husband brought to the White House, answers that question in “Hay Mama” “Make sure mama crawls on her knees keep him pleased rub him down be a lady and a freak” and also “Yes I do the cooking/ Yes I do the cleaning/ Yes I keep the nana real sweet for your eating/ Yes you be the (boss) yes I be respecting.” It doesn’t take a feminist to dismiss these words as belonging in a fundamentalist “Islamic” country, assuming that they ever belonged anywhere at all.
    Lifezette.com adds, “And of course, who could forget about the Obamas’ cozy relationship with Jay Z and Beyoncé, who have been guests of the president and first lady on multiple occasions?” Jay Z joined Beyonce’ in “Drunk in Love”. The lyrics include, “Slid the panties right to the side/ Ain`t got the time to take drawers off” and “We sex again in the morning, your breasteses [sic] is my breakfast.”
    Beyoncé’s “Partition” includes far cruder and more explicit language, whose sole redeeming virtue is to remind everybody that Hillary’s husband actually did what Donald Trump talked about. “He popped all my buttons and he ripped my blouse/
    He monica-lewinski’d all on my gown,” to which she adds, “Hand prints and good grips all on my ass.” Beyoncé is certainly No Angel as shown by this line: “First, both of my legs go back on your head/ And whatever you want, yeah baby I’ll bet it comes true.”

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I just stumbled across this special Texas issue of City Journal titled Texas Rising. It’s an issue devoted to Texas.

  16. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #14: Your post is item number 4billion and 12 on the list of examples of how the Ds are lying sacks of crap.

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If it’s a heavy turnout nationwide you would think that favors the Dems.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    17 But we could be seeing a “Reagan Democrats” type movement. But are there enough of them to overcome the women’s vote?

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    /removes ElGordo beenie hat.

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    CAUGHT ON TAPE: Bill Clinton Tells Alleged Mistress to Deny He Got Her State Job.

    NEW YORK – Speaking in a series of recorded phone conversations in 1991 with his alleged mistress Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton can be heard telling Flowers to deny that he aided her in obtaining a state job.
    “If they ever asked if you’d talked to me about it, you can say no,” Clinton can be heard saying in the audio.

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon, I heard Michael Berry say that more people voted yesterday than Monday, over 200,000 in two days.

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Canadian pilots are no longer obligated to fly an aircraft or helicopter in order to maintain a valid licence after Ottawa changed the rules to require only flight-simulator testing, a move aviation experts say threatens public safety.

    and,

    Transport Canada issued a statement to The Globe saying the move will make pilot training more “cost effective and efficient” and will “also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” It argued public safety was not at risk.

    and unsurprisingly,

    Transport Minister Marc Garneau did not appear to know about the rule change, signed off on by Transport Canada on Aug. 23, when approached by The Globe on Friday, but said he was confident his department would not do anything to jeopardize air safety.

    These idiots are going to get us all killed in the name of climate change.

  23. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #22 Texpat
    Another great reason to avoid the Toronto Airport. Been there twice as the intermediate stop between Houston and Copenhagen going and coming back.
    That place is an organizational disaster.

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hey, I looked in here earlier than usual for me this morning, but doesn’t look like I had anything to say. Had some breakfast then went out for some shopping.
    I’m feeling subservient today so I think I’ll make some sammiches for lunch.
    :mrgreen:

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    After reading an article on ageism in the tech industry, this guy set up a jobs board that connects over-35 job seekers with tech companies who don’t discriminate based on age.
    He made $1500 the first month with $19 in overhead.
    I thought Tedtam might need it if she ever decides to tear herself away from the plumbing business.
    Old Geek Jobs
    https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/old-geek-jobs

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Or if Harper gets tired of fixing that old car and comes out of retirement.

  27. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I betcha that big evil international oil services company would take me back on contract. They’ve probably discovered by now that they can’t get competent realtime software testing done by their employees in Beijing.
    :mrgreen:

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Noted scum-bag, Large Intestine Powell, says he will vote for Hillary.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mharper

    I’m feeling subservient today so I think I’ll make some sammiches for lunch.

    Just don’t go makin’ any GCSs in the toaster or – please NO – in the microwave!

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m getting much better at driving a standard transmission. My braking is getting a lot smoother, too, although I launched my purse out of the passenger seat when a flatbed truck suddenly cut in front of me as I was entering a left turn lane. The Corolla has GOOD brakes.
    Backing out of the driveway is way harder now. With the old pickup, I just turned my head a bit and I could see everything. Now, I can see nothing. I’m using the driver side rearview mirror slanted a bit low to try to keep the tires from jamming up on some landscaping timbers that line about 20 ft of the driveway on that side. If I’m too far to the other side, I will ruffle some billowy hollywood juniper bushes.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Walter E. Williams has a good article on education:

    HEADLINE: Dumb American Youth

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I made a big ham and cheddar cheese sammich on wheat bread. Jalapeno flavored mustard, a big curly piece of leaf lettuce. Cut in half for 2. We are eating light these days, or trying to. Washed down with green tea. I’m having a cold orange-flavored fruit gel snack cup for “dessert”.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    31
    Were they capable of it, the education bureaucrats would be embarrassed and find another line of work.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #33: What really amazes me is the super rich donors who keep on contributing to these cesspools of indoctrination which can only lead to the destruction of the country. Didn’t most of these people make their money via Capitalism; why then do they promote socialism which is proven to fail every time it is tried? There is a huge disconnect from reality in that dept.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #28 Bonecrusher
    Apparently General Powell’s oath to preserve, protect, and defend the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic had an expiration date. Pffffftttthhhhh.

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Just got home from early voting at Bowie Middle School in Pecan Grove, spending about 30 minutes from home to vote to back home. Middle of the afternoon was a good time since most of those waiting were retirees/seniors or moms with small kids. I waited outside in the sun about 10 minutes before getting into the building.
    A steady stream of folks came and left the polling place that was in a closed off end of a hallway facing the doors to the teachers’ parking lot. It conveniently had the entrances to boys and girls restrooms available, which I’m sure the poll worker volunteers surely appreciated as well as those in line. Nobody working the polls was bored today or yesterday and likely won’t be until November 8 about midnight.
    And then that won’t be boredom, just simple exhaustion.
    Skipped the vote straight ticket option and went one by one down the line to the end. The review button produced every selection I had made; checked that for accuracy. Still recommend doing that rather than straight ticket. You have to pay attention.

  37. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    So since Powell endorsed Obama in ’08 and in ’12, why is anyone surprised that he would now endorse Clinton? And further, why should I care who he endorses?

  38. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Squawk’s team is destined to win!
    http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/1993-High-School-Yearbook-Quote-Predicted-Cubs-World-Series-Win-for-2016-398397051.html

  39. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Dooood says:
    OCTOBER 26, 2016 AT 3:47 PM
    So since Powell endorsed Obama in ’08 and in ’12, why is anyone surprised that he would now endorse Clinton? And further, why should I care who he endorses?

    And why is this Hero being called a scumbag?

  40. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    But we could be seeing a “Reagan Democrats” type movement. But are there enough of them to overcome the women’s vote?

    Conventional wisdom says it’s gonna be a drubbing but, it’s entirely possible there are a substantial number of closet Trump voters, ones who would never admit they’re voting for him. Pennsylvania just moved back into the toss-up column. I’m not making ANY predictions.

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    40. Me neither.

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And why is this Hero being called a scumbag?

    Because even a hero can be a scumbag. Powell endorsed Obama while claiming to be a “R”. Now he is endorsing Hillary. He is a scumbag. I can discuss many other misgivings I have with that scumbag if you would like.

  43. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And just because someone is a”hero” that is not a get out of jail free card when they do things scumbags do that make them scumbags.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I read two articles recently about the FLA citrus industry in decline because orange juice demand has dropped precipitously as Americans change their taste/habits.
    Now it is being reported that NINETY PERCENT!! of the citrus trees are terminally diseased, infected by some imported insect carrier.
    I guess land prices in FLA are going to go through the floor soon.
    I’ve never heard of a FLA wine industry that might replace it, Hammie.
    Is there one???

  45. phil Avatar
    phil

    Was Benedict Arnold a hero before he became a scumbag traitor?

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We could be on the verge of buying a new refrigerator.
    I fully intend to exercise my white privileged patriarchal authority and buy a bottom freezer model.
    There will be no discussion.
    Period.
    End of story.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    History is rife with scumbag heroes.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    44 Shannon
    Like other domesticated plants, when they are crossbred to the nth degree to increase production the first (and second and third) genetic casualty is disease resistance. Of course, introducing a foreign predator could also mean there never was a natural resistance to the intruder in the first place.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Courage or heroics maketh not an angel.
    John McCain comes to mind.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Ed Driscoll from PJMedia and Instapundit made the huge Arlington Guitar Show in the DFW Metroplex.
    Lots of photos.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    46
    Tonight I will dream of not having to stand on my head and wrench my back just to reach something on the bottom shelf, in the back.

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Leaked email when Hillary was trying to justify her using non-secure email by blaming Powell.
    Colin Powell to Jeffrey Leeds / July 26, 2014

    I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70 year old person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d***ing bimbos at home (according to the NYP).

    Now that’s a man of substance and integrity.

  53. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    52 cont’d.
    It just occurred to me what a great billboard that would make fro a busy thoroughfare in a spot where there was lots of heavy slow traffic during rush hour.
    (Large Photo of Colin Powell in Uniform)
    I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70 year old person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d***ing bimbos at home…

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    How many people do any of you know fitting the description of Hillary above that you would call “a friend I respect” ?

  55. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I guess land prices in FLA are going to go through the floor soon.

    When I was a kid Florida was solid orange groves from just south of Ocala, down the peninsula. Driving down I-75 or the Turnpike during the bloom was quite overpowering after 100 miles. A few years of hard freezes in the ’80s killed a lot of them off. After the third or fourth freeze the growers started planting timber or palm trees for landscaping to fuel the invasion of Yankees. One of my uncles worked for a big grower Dr. Phillips. They converted all of their groves to giant subdivisions to house the invaders. The process is very similar to what happened in California in the ’60s. The remaining groves are now concentrated in small areas like along the Indian River.

    I’ve never heard of a FLA wine industry that might replace it, Hammie.
    Is there one???

    Yeah, it’s about like the Texas wine industry. I don’t think it’ll amount to much.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanks to wikileaks we now know why brother Phil hasn’t been around much lately. He’s been decorating his new restaurant bar and designing the menu…”.

    “We made the menu huge so it makes the customers feel like they have small hands,” bar manager Mike Haigis tells IJR.”

    http://ijr.com/2016/10/720556-inside-the-secret-trump-themed-bar-on-capitol-hill/

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yeah, it’s about like the Texas wine industry. I don’t think it’ll amount to much.

    Must have been mixing in too much Meth, in FLA.
    🙂

  58. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Saw an interesting movie on an old Western channel. Something for a Lonely Man, Dan Blocker, 1968. Steam engine falls off a train 22 miles away, one guy dreams it could revitalize their railroad by-passed town, capitalism works and explained at the end. The gal is pretty cute and a bit racy for TV of the day.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Not much rolling hill country over there, either.
    Gators, snakes, swamps.
    New Yorkers.
    Old burnt out Meth labs.

  60. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Sarge, I recall you posted something about Luci lanterns. What were, if any, the alternates?

  61. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    It just occurred to me what a great billboard that would make fro a busy thoroughfare in a spot where there was lots of heavy slow traffic during rush hour.
    (Large Photo of Colin Powell in Uniform)
    I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70 year old person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d***ing bimbos at home…

    I would donate a portion of my hard-earned money towards just such a billboard, and I haven’t given any of my hard-earned money to a political cause in years. Great thought!

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An Otto self-driving truck has just hauled 51,744 cans of Budweiser from Fort Collins, Colo., to Colorado Springs—a nearly 200-kilometer (120-mile) ride—without any human intervention,
    “Once you’re on the Interstate, one switch and it’s driving itself down the road,” says backup driver Walter Martin, in this video clip supplied by Otto, which is based in San Francisco. For most of the trip, he monitored the self-driving system from a sleeper berth in the back.

    What’s the Mafia going to do now that the Teamsters are on the way out ?

  63. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I think all the meth labs have moved to Mexico or Indiana.

  64. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    46 51
    Aha, I knew it. The woman must stoop to get the items for supper, but the master need not bend to reach a beer.
    :mrgreen

  65. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    BTW, our fridge is logically organized so the things the Tall One wants are in the middle, my stuff is on the bottom shelf and in the bottom crispers. The freezer compartment, naturally, is at the top.

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #54 Texpat says:

    How many people do any of you know fitting the description of Hillary above that you would call “a friend I respect” ?

    None. No one.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So who’s going to unload the beer truck, take the product to the cooler, rotate the stock, front & stock the shelves, identify and pick up the soon-to-be-out-of-date-product?

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The freezer compartment is naturally at the top.

    I grew up with a bottom freezer refrigerator. Quite naturally common in the old days.

  69. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The Fort Bend County Elections Administrator, John Oldham, has an exhaustive explanation for erroneous votes using the eSlate machines, almost all of which are owing to user error. In essence, many times users are in too much of a hurry and don’t wait for the machines to catch up with them, thus errors. And the biggest mishmash with the machine lagging behind the user comes with the straight party ticket voting button.
    “The way the electronic system is designed, a wheel is to be used to navigate up and down a page of candidates. Each click of the wheel highlights the next candidate.
    “There is a next button to change pages.
    ” However, if you keep turning the wheel, it will take you to the next page, or all the way to the review screen,” Oldham said.
    “Once voters navigate to the candidate they like, they touch a ‘select’ button to make their selection, or deselect a candidate.
    “However, if a voter selects a straight party contest and hits the select button more than once because the vote doesn’t appear to register immediately—they may be navigating to the first contest on the second page before the page actually loads,” he said.
    “If they have touched the select button a second time, it may deselect the candidate of the party for which they voted, or change to the candidate of the other party, depending upon which straight party they chose,” he said.
    “It is not an individual machine problem, but a shortcoming of the system.
    “The voter can easily correct it if they pay attention to what they are doing.”
    “I was able to replicate this (voting problem) several times when continuing to move the wheel while striking the select button,” he said.
    These are the salient excerpts from tonight’s edition of the Fort Bend Herald newspaper in Rosenberg, p. 1A. I have attempted to manage corrections of their incorrect usage of quotation marks in what are clearly direct quotations, never mind use of single quotation marks within quoted material. J-schools ain’t what they used to be in such fine points, and obviously English departments aren’t either these days.
    Hope this helps.

  70. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    BTW, our fridge is logically organized so the things the Tall One wants are in the middle, my stuff is on the bottom shelf and the bottom crispers.

    That is pretty interesting.
    In ours, item placement is driven by space limitatations (tall/short enough to fit available space?), how often you need to access the item, and other such factors. We don’t really have “her stuff/his stuff” or “tall person/short person” factors.
    Texpat and Her Majesty probably have the greatest height difference of any couple I know. Surely she has a step ladder in front of the fridge.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And he hasn’t ever seen the bottom shelf.

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    71 Shannon
    I’m constantly cleaning out and reorganizing the refrigerators here. HH walks in from the store and starts shoving things into the refrigerator haphazardly. Same thing with the pantry cabinets. No organization. She also never throws anything away or gets rid of expired date containers.
    Her Highness was in Florida last week taking the grandson to Disney and I really cleaned house.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    72
    How the fridge is organized is often driven by the preferences of the main chef also.

  74. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I have a bottom freezer. Wouldn’t have any other kind. It replaced a 25 year old Montgomery Wards side-by-side (still running, it’s second life is a keggerator). Almost useless freezer.

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    HH walks in from the store and starts shoving things into the refrigerator haphazardly. Same thing with the pantry cabinets. No organization. She also never throws anything away…

    Considering your story about the shape of the basement you encountered ten years ago, I believe it. Tell me, after all your work down there and the ensuing years since, how does the basement look now?
    🙂

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Five bucks says Phil cannot come up with a hair band / refrigerator connection.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We’ve determined fridge is dead. Freezer is still working. Yea!!!
    Headed to town to buy lotsa ice.
    Have a nice night. Tah tah.
    🙂

  78. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    squawkbox says:
    OCTOBER 26, 2016 AT 5:29 PM
    And just because someone is a”hero” that is not a get out of jail free card when they do things scumbags do that make them scumbags.

    I just have a problem when the only definition one has for “scumbag” is a disagreement about politics—especially when it cancels out any of the good a person has done.
    Powell is not a scumbag. If he’s a scumbag because he disagrees with me politically, then so is my sister.

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Colin Powell is a bottom feeding scumbag now and forever more.
    His political positions are selfish, self-serving and petty and I don’t really care about them.
    When special prosecutor investigated and filed charges against Scooter LIbby in the Valerie Plame case, Colin Powell never said a word. He knew Libby was innocent and he lied by omission to protect Richard Armitage and himself.
    He is a scumbag.

  80. phil Avatar
    phil

    76
    Where do I collect?

  81. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #70 Shannonigans
    Our 10-y.o. Kenmore came extremely convertible. Every part of the fridge interior configures to exactly how you want it. I can fit anything inside it except a whole watermelon — which I don’t buy for 2 people. It also has a humidity rheostat on every crisper/compartment. I must have saved thousands of greenback dollahs during the last 10 years by how long vegetables, bread, deli items and cheeses last in those compartments.

  82. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Freezer is still working, bottom freezer. Found the one we have has a defrost drain. The thing leaks air during the defrost cycle, the coils start to build up frost to a point where air no longer circulates, and no more cold beer. Open up the freezer, defrost with a fan and it works for quite a while. Looking on youtube dismantling the freezer and getting the parts is a bit of a task.

  83. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #78 Sarge

    Powell is not a scumbag. If he’s a scumbag because he disagrees with me politically, then so is my sister.

    Bones calls everything and everybody a scumbag. It’s his all-purpose put-down.
    To me, Powell is a big phony. If he had any real Republican leanings, he wouldn’t have caved to Obama for racial solidarity.

  84. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh, but I see Squawk and Texpat are calling Powell a scumbag. So I guess he is.
    :mrgreen:

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, a quick “Drive By” I really, really like the bottom freezer/fridge, I don’t have one since the last time I looked they were upwards of $1K! so I got something that I said I’d NEVER own, a side-by-side, but it has cold water and Ice out the door and I paid $759 for it, about 22 cubic feet. Also the damn thing has an Ice bucket that will fill a 36 Qt ice chest!…FWIW: my next one will have a bottom freezer.
    Now for the facts about refrigerators, when they were first made, they put the small freezer in the top of the machine because cold air sinks and the freezer could be 20 degrees and the very bottom of the fridge would be maybe 40. All refrigerators were made this way. Then they decided it would be more efficient to use a small fan to direct the air from the freezer to the fridge so It really didn’t matter were you put the freezer and as Shannon noted, they were doing this as early as the late 50’s,…..BUTT, only the rich folks could afford one of those,….Ducks and hauls A$$, running that Zig-Zag pattern that Southern Tragedy Learn’t me!….. You’re welcome.

  86. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sarge

    I just have a problem when the only definition one has for “scumbag” is a disagreement about politics—especially when it cancels out any of the good a person has done.
    Powell is not a scumbag. If he’s a scumbag because he disagrees with me politically, then so is my sister.

    I understand your position. However, Powell, just as McCain, has spent his hero capital a long time ago as far as I am concerned. I am in no mood to play list this nor am I going to insult you by sending you on a link following trip across the internet. I will simply say that Powell lifted himself up to a political level that he has turned his back on and it has damaged this country. He is a one world government type of person and has sided with the UN when he was BUSHCOs Secretary. I have no respect for him.
    As for your sister, I would never ever bring my family members into this discussion. Your sister has her beliefs and I respect her for them whether I may or may not agree with her politics. A scumbag she is not. Powell is a public figure and he has done and said what has turned me against him. I do not trust him.
    BTW I do not play hero worship or respect a person simply because hero status has been pinned on them. Ira Hayes had that dubious honor pinned to him and it proved to be his undoing and down fall.

  87. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well my bride just lit a shuck and headed off to Alabama about 8 PM and I’m already missing my Lil’ Bit.

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Okay.
    All the food is on ice.
    We’re ready for the hurricane.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    mharper42 says:
    OCTOBER 26, 2016 AT 9:28 PM EDIT
    #70 Shannonigans
    Our 10-y.o. Kenmore came extremely convertible. Every part of the fridge interior configures to exactly how you want it. I can fit anything inside it except a whole watermelon — which I don’t buy for 2 people. It also has a humidity rheostat on every crisper/compartment. I must have saved thousands of greenback dollahs during the last 10 years by how long vegetables, bread, deli items and cheeses last in those compartments.

    Congratulations. Our 8 year old Kenmore is dead. 🙂

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    80 Phil
    Well, you noticed I only bet five, right? 🙂
    At least run me a tab up to the price of a nice Cab, eh?

  91. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yeow.
    Now they’ve pushed back ANY CHANCE of rain until seven days from this Saturday.

  92. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #s 80 & 90 – WHOA there!
    Alice Cooper a HAIR BAND?!?!?!
    No WAY Jose! (not even the right decade)

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well my bride just lit a shuck and headed off…

    Damn, wagonburner. Even you wouldn’t say sumpin’ like that.

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    i guess I’ll defer to Katfish, Phil.
    I’ll bring you a fine Cab of your choice anyway and we can argue about it.

  95. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Now it appears you gotta look out for those smart fridges that might get caught up in a war on the internet along with other internet-connected small appliances by the millions.
    As for our household, dumb appliances that can’t reach across the miles are fine. Seems as though the market tells us we should be mesmerized by smart this and that items so lots of us do blindly go buy them just to stay up with the Jonses.
    Somewhere in the mix there’s bound to be a HAL 9000 or two on the brink of a breakdown into madness, unconstrained by Asimov’s Laws of Robotics.

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    95 Adee
    First smart fridge I encounter will die.
    I don’t have a 12ga, I only have a 9mm so it’s going to take a while.
    Y’all have been warned.

  97. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hmmm, I can just see my Hal 9000 fridge telling me I can’t have ice cubes. “I’m sorry, lady, I can’t let you do that.”

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